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POETRY. THE TWO HOMES, BY MRS. HEMAKS. Oh! if the soul immortal he, Is not its love immortal too? Seest thou my home? *Tis where yon ' woodsare waving k In their dark richness, to the sunny air, Wheare von blue stream a thousand flower . banks laving, Leads down the hilis a vein of light—"tis & there! : ‘ 4 Mid these green haunts, how many a spring lies gl~aming, .7 Fringed with tne violet, colored with the skies, My boyhood’s haunt, through days of sum mer dreaming. ; Under voung leaves that shook with melo s udies, . My home t—the spirit of its Jove is breath ing . In every Wind that plays across my track, From its white halls the very tendrils wreathing Seem with soft links to draw the wanderer back; There am I.loved—there prayed for—there i my mother Sits by the hearth with meekly thoughtfal eye s There my ;rmmg sisters watch to greet their brother; Soon thair glal footsteps down the path will fly ! ; There, in «wont sirains of kindred musie blending, All the home voices meet at day’s decline;® O:e are those tones, as from one heart as cending— There laughs my home: Sad stranger! _where is thine? - , b Ask k&;l of mine?—ln solemn peace ’tis lying : Far o’er the deserts and the tombs away; »I'is where I too am loved, with love undy ing, $ And fond hearts wait my step—but where are they? Ask where the earth’s departed have their - dwellings, Ask of the cloud the stars, the trackless air!— 1 know it noi—yet trust the whisiflr telling My lonely heart, that love unc anged is there. ’ | And what is home, and where, but with the 3 ~ loving? 7 I Happy thou art, that so can’st gaze on ¢ thinel My spirit feels, but in its weary roving, "That with the dead, where’er they be, is mine, : - Go to thy home, rez]']oicing son and brother! Bear in frash gladness to the household scene! ) For me, too, watch the sister and the moth . er, T will believe—but dark seas roll between. INTEMPERANCE. From the National Intelligencer. TO THE EDITORS A Few Facis.—When a man takes a vlass of ardent spirits and puts it to his lips, or wmvites his friends so to do, ‘that they may drink mutual -health, let him think of his reputation, his family, his business—Let him think of his debts, of a jail, a poor house.— Let him even think of the penitentia ry.~ One of these last mentioned places I recently visited—the poor house in W;xshhfi:(m. After making some inquires, which were very kind ly answered by the worthy Intendant, I came to the conclusion that prRINK ING AND POVERTY are pretty nearly allied; that the poor house was indebt ed in its existence and continuance, mainly to the unchecked and licensed sale of ARDENT spirlTs; and that, un less some energetic measures are a dopted to arrest the evil, 1t will not only continue, but wax worse and worse. It will triumph over the peace, order, and prosperify of the community. It will open many an ‘early grave, leave many a bereft wid ow with her hungry children to be cast on the uncertain mercy of a cold and unfeeling world. There is a double taxation in the case {o sup port intemperance. 1. Thousands of dellars are paid by those who drink.— 2. Othé&'{housahds are paid for the support of the drunkards, after they have %ank themselves into beggary aund disease: Then there 18'a vast a mount of time, (“Time -is money.” said Frankling) which is logt. The time of tipplers at fl\veri}‘f'tl other places to whichdrinking naturally leads them—the time spent at. the poor ‘house or elsewhere, aftér w%;is disahled by disease-—the time of at tending physicians, who get nothing from those who drank themselves out of money into. disease—the time of those valuable citizens who are of ficially gbarged withkind services to them——the time spert in rectifying mistakes committed by drinking men, in settling criminal cases at law, aad in jails &c. and various other losses of time, consequent on drinking, would in ten years amount Lo an enormous sum Thirty men, taken into the poor house as the vi.tims of intemperance, have been lately discharged. Before they left, the number of those shelter ed there, who were addicted to drun kenness constituted about three fourths of the whole! The number now at’ this refuge is about fifty. Of these, twenty two are decided cases of hab itual drunkenness. " The first case which occurred to my observation is a man fifty years of age, whose limbs are in a shockingly ‘ diseased state, the result of drinking. The Second is that of a man seven- { ty years old, with inflamatory sore eyes, one of these horrid signals ‘ which abused nature holds out in a nother form. The Third is a young man of thirty two, with an ulcerated leg, and im paired constitution. The very bloom of his life seems_to be blasted. Fourth case. A man of seventy— rained—his thirst for liquor inordin ate. s Fifth case. ~Fifty years old; a crip ple. His corstitution, originally strong, shattered by ardent spirits. Sizth case. Forty years old. In flammation of the lungs, &ec. c Seventh. Age thirty seven. This man was an excellent carpenter. He is partially cured from insanity in duced by drinking distilled spirits. Eighth. Sixty years old. Swol len limbs. A cripple. Ninth. Seventy three. Lame, from diseased leg. Has an inflamma tory cough. Tenth. Forty. Mentally derang ed. . Very nervous. Eleventh. Forty five. Ulcerated limbs. This man is pronounced in curable. ; Naturally strong constitutions, and the exercise of labor, have kept some of these men along to a considerable age, but they form exceptions.— Drunkards generally die.prematurely. The habitaal use of ardent spirits weakens the powers of animal life— draws deeply on the native strength of the human constitution—creates a predisposition to disease: it violently concentrates into a few hours that ex citement which kind Nature intend ed should be nearly equally diffused through the whole existence. ' The happiness of these men is de stroyed, as well as their health.— Their minds are embittered by the ‘ poison, their tempers soured. They all drank temperately once, and this is ‘ what they are brought to. If others would avoeid the same end, let them en tirely abstain from ardent spirits. i CIVIS REIPUBLICA. | MISCERLLANTEOUS. "I'ICE;NESE CHRONOLOGY. The Rev. W. H. Medhurst, a missionary of the London Society, who has paid much attention to the Chinese hieroglyphics, gives the following ac count of a work which he has lately prepared:— : “The work is a comparison be tweenthe Chinese system & our own, from the earliest period till the pre sent time. 'The page is divided into two parts, the top of which is occupied by a sketch of Chinese chronology, and the bottom by one of ours. The two .sysicms or made exactly to cor respond together, year for year; and the similarity between them, particu larly in the earlier periods, is remark able. According to both systems, the first man had three sons or suc cessors. Notices of intercourse be tween celestial and terrestrial beings, ~or good and bad persons, occur at the ‘same time; the accounts of the flood “agree nearly to a year; ten generations of men seem tohave passed away be tween the creation and the flood; and wine was discovered nearly’ at the same period. The seven years of famine in Egypt have seven years of famine in China exactly corresponding; and Sampson’s strength has its coun ‘!flgrpart in China, where a strong man ourished nearly at the same time, who was likewise deceived and ruin ed by a woman. Ifwe add to these, the well-known tradition among the Chinese, of a sage who was to arise out of the west, and the Emperor Ming-te’s actually sending. ambassa dors to search for him, about the pe riod of the christian era, we shall g’nd that all these circumstances exhibit a striking coincidence between their chronology and scripture facts, which seems to indicate that' the former is borrowed from the latter. In this work, I have not asserted that the events spoken of by eastern and west ern chronologists, are the same; but I have placed them in connexionwith each other in the same page, and at the same period, leaving the readers to form tlfgir own conclusions. I have "been led to «lraw up this work from the consideration of the practice of the Chinese, in boasting, so often as they do, of their high antiquity, look ing with contempt upon the appar ently modern dates of Europeans; and throwing out the hint that we have no records older than the christian era. I have, therefore, endeavoured, by a regular exhibition of dates, and by the production of incidents connected with every remarkable period, to show them that we have a system of chriio logy that can be depened on, more | ‘authentic and ancient than their own; 1 that the world has stood so long as the period assigned to it by that chronolo gy; that Moses, by divine inspiration, gave "an accurate account of t})e cre ation and of subsequent events, long before the Chinese had any writers of note and eminence; that those works which they had, were nearly all de stroyed about the time that the Pen tateuch was translated into Greek; and that' thus, while the authenticity of the one was more thap doubled, the genuineness and very existence of the other was brought into the greatest doubt and uncertainty.” SENSATIONS BEFORE AND DU RING A BATTLE From Shipp’s Memoirs. I have heard some men say, that they would as soon fight as eat their breakfasts, and others, that they ‘‘dearly loved fighting.” If this were true, what bleod-thirsty dogs must they be! But I should be almost il liberal enough to suspect these boast ers of not possessing ordinary courage. I will not, however, go suv far as pos itively to assert this, but will content myself by asking these terrific soldiers to account why, some hours previous ly to storming a fort, or fighting a bat tle, are men pensive, thoughtful, heavy, restless. weighed down ' with apparent solicitude and care? Why do men on these occasions more fer vently beseech the Divine protection and guidance to save them in the ap proaching conflict? Are not all these feelings the result of reflection, and of man’s regard for his dearest care— his life, which no moital will part - with if he can avoid? There are pe riods in war which put man’s courage to severe tests: if, for instance, as was my case, I knew I was to lead a for lorn hope on the following evening, in numerable ideas will rush in quick succession on the mind; such as ““for aught my poor and narrow comprehen sion can tell, T may to-morrow be summoned before my Maker.”— ‘“How have I spent the life he has been pleased to preserve to this peri od? Can I meet that just tribunal?” A man, sitnated as I have supposed. who did not, even among the cannon’s roar and the din of war, experience anxieties approaching to what I have described, may, by possibility, have the courage of a lion, but he cannot possess the feelings of a man. In ac tion, man is quite another being, the softer feelings of the roused heart are absorbed in the vortex of danger, and the necessity for self-preservation give place to others more adapted to the occasion. . In these moments, there is an in describable elation of spirits; the soul rises above its wonted serenity into a’ kind of phrenzied apathy to the scene before you, a heroism bordering on fe rocity; the nerves become tight and contracted: the eyes full and open,: moving quickly in the sockets, with almest maniac wildness; the head is in constant motion; the nostrils extend ed wide, and the mouth apparently gasping. “If anartist could truly ge. lineate the features of a so'dier in o battle’s heat, and com7are them with the lineaments of the game man in the peaceful calm of domestic life, they would be found to be two different portraits; but a sketch of this kind is not within the power of .art: for, in action, the countenance varies . with the battle; as the battle brightens, so ' does the countenance, as it vers, 0 the countenance becomes g oomy. :l have known some men drink” eno ~mous quantities of spirituous liquors ‘when going into action to drive away little intruding th‘ouihts,‘ and to cre - ‘j 1 v 3 ’ t ate false spirits; but they are short lived, as the ephemera struggles but for a moment on the chrystal stream, then dies. If a man has not natural courage, he may rest assured that li quor will deaden and destroy the lit tle he may possess. From the Providence evening Gazette. ECONOMY.IN A FAMILY. ~ There is nothing which goes'so,far towards placing young people beyond the reach of poverty, as economy in the management of their domestic af fairs. ITt is as much impossible to get a ship across the Atlantic with half a dozen butts started, or as many bolt ‘holes in her bottom. It matters not whether a man furnish little or much for his family, ifthere is a continual leakage in the kitchen, or in the par lour, it runs away, he knows not hoy, and that demon, waste, cries more like horse leech’s daughter, until he that provides has no more to give. It is the husband’s duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty of the wife to see that nothing goes wrongfully out of it, not the least article, however unimportant in itself, fop it establishes a precedent; nor under any pretence, for it opens the door for ruin to stalk iny and he seldom leaves an opportuni ty unimproved. A man gets = wife to look after his affairs; to assist him in his journey through life; to educate and.prepare hi%'*children for a proper station in life, and not to dissipate his property. The husband’s interest should be the wife’s care, and her togreatest ambition should carry her no further than his weltare & happiness, gether with .that of hér children. This should be her sole aim; and the theatre of her exploits is in the bo som of her family, where she may do -as much towards making a fortune as’ possibly can in the counting room or the workshop. Ttis not the money earn>d that makes a man wealthy; it is what is saved from his earnings. A good and prudent hushand makes a deposit of the fruits of his labour with this friend; and if that friend be not true to him, what has he to hope; if he dare not place confidence in ‘the companion of his bosom, where is he to place it. A wife acts not for her self only, but she is the agent of ma ny she loves, and'she is bound to act for their good, and not for her own gratification. Her hushand’s good is the end at which she should aim, his approbation is her reward. Self-grat ification in dress, or indulgence_in ap petite, or more company than his purse can well entertain, are equal ly pernicious. The first adds vanity to extravagance, the second fastens a doctor’s bill to a large butcher’s ac count, and the latter brings intemper ence, the worst of all evils in its train. - ¥ Beauty.—llt has heen said by some, and if not said, it shall be said now, that no woman is incapable of inspir (ing love, fixing affection, and making ~a man happy. We are further influ enced by outward loveliness than we imagine. Men speak with admiration, and write with rapture, of the beau ty which the artest loves, which, like ‘genius in the system of Gall, is as ~certained by scale and eompass; but in practice, see how they despise those splendid theories, and yield to a sense of beauty and loveliness, of which the standard is in their own hearts. It is not the elegance of form, i for that is often imperfect;it is not the loveliness of face, for there mnature has perhaps. been neglectful, nor is it in the charm of sentiment or sweet words, for even among women there is an occasional lack of that; ncither is it in the depth their of feeling, nor in the sincerify of their affection, thyy their whole power over man springs from. Yet every WOB%n, beautifu! or not, has thatpewer more - £ Y .- X or less; and, every 2% yields 10 its influence. tifi'}l}‘he ‘I":Om":“ of 2} nations are beai « Yemaly, beauty, in the limited sense of (he word, 1s that outward for';;, and proportion which corresponds l with the theories of poets and the ru les of artis{s—of which every nation has examples, and of which every woman has a share. But beauty, by a more natural definition of the word, is that indiscribable charm, that union of many quali ies of person, and mind, and heart, é:ich insures to man the greatest portion of happiness. ® I have looked much on man, and more on woman. The world presents a tistinct image of my own percepgion of beauty, and from the decisions of true love T could lay down the law of human affection, and the universal sense entertained respecting female loveliness. « There is no need to be profound; there is no occasion for re search; look on wedded society, it is visible to all. There a man very plain is linked to a woman very love ly; a creature as silent as marble, to one eloquent, fluent and talkative; a very tall man to a very little woman; a very portly lady to a man short, slender, and attenuated; the brown weds black, and the white the golden; personal deformities are not in the way of effection, love contradicts all of our thevries of loveliness, and hap piness has no more to do with beauty than a good crop of corn has with the personal looks of him who sowed the seed. o ’ EAST INDIA COMPANY. __Among the papers published in England a few years ago, respecting the renewal of the East-India Compa ny’s charter, there was a concise -his tory of this commercial body, from which we have taken the following sketch: “The stock is divided a mong about 2000 ladies and gentle men, who elect twenty-four direct ors, six of whom go out in annual +ro tation. These directors have under their immediate employ, a body of book-keepers, clerks, and porters, so numerous that they have formed three complete regiments of volunteers/— There are, in the company’s service, 115 ships of different burthens, which are navigated by about 10,000 sea men, and it is stated these vessels furnish employment to a population little short of 50.000, in London.—. The amount of their commereial cap ital, is estimated at 21.000,000{.— Suchiis their home establishment.— In India, the Company have under its control, a lerrilorywqf 380,000 square miles peopled by sixty millions & yield ing an annwal revenhue of. seventeen millions sterling. an army of ene - hun dred and fifty thousand men, and a numerous and splendid establishment of governors, judges, diplomatie resi dents, fmerchants;’l&c. PARENOLOGY Mr.. Abernethy, in his late course of Lectures, made the following re marks on this science:—*With respect to the supposed -possibility of ascer taining men’s dispositions and charac ters from the shape of their heads and faces, I will make one observa tion; that I have seen various skulls— here is one, for instance—in which you see several considerable elevations on the outside surface, without there being any corresponding depressions on the inside. T need not tell you, that where there is' no hollow in the “skull inside, there could have been no \ enlargement of the brain; and this was an argument used against the. ~phrenologists by Dr. Barlow. Now 1 don’t use it or any other argument a- Sainst them: I don’t let my mind thick of the subject at all. You may do as you like, but I don’t care about it; but as I said to Dr. Spurzheim at the' very outset, ‘“Why Doctor,” said La ““it may be all.very true what you say; - but I'll not enter into it; for I think it a very unhandsome thing, to judge'a man’s motives and intentions by his - outward appearance at all. Judge of a man by his actions; look to his conduct; see what that is, and you’ll nof go astray in your opinions. Ah, there is a wise piece of advice, “Judge not, lest yourselves be judged;” and for you to take it upon to infer the motives and disposition of any man, upon any less authdn'ity than the tenor of his actions, is a thing {het | am sure you have no right to do.”” ; 7 T WONDF SeUL CHILDREN, e two children, Susan & Deborai: who are now at the Museum, are the most wonderful beings “ever'seen in Albany, and exceeded by none, probably, inthe world. The oldest is 5 + ‘years and 8 months old, and weighs 203 Ibs. the other is 2 years and 10 months, and weighs 119 Ibs.—They are active, and their gate resembles the rockingofa 74 in a storm. Their. countenances indicates health, and there is no reason to be given for their remarkable size. The sight of them strikes the spectator with the great est astonishment, forno one can pre- - viously conceive a proper idea of their appearance.—They were born in the town of Freedom, Dutchess county.—- , Hb. daily Adv. ‘ CHEROKEE CONSTITUTION, _ , Printed in both languages in parallel columns, for sule at this fhice O,
