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ihuj0 jg :ik tho seed time of - - JSvich ;> pleasure is not _ »d by a consciousness that ;ear.d'perseverance have heen com- i effectually resisting the temptations .of idleness Which might have sapped a foundation laid with industry and anxiety. Looking back .upon days which we past and gone, we find our minds almost involun tarily recurring to the moments which have been devoted to different employments. While patiently pondering.on such as were added as an accelerating force to the course wo are this day endeavouring to pursue our bosoms throb with emotions of grati tude towards those Venerable sages who have gone before and set up beacons to • guide us. , . The arrival of this day has called us to gether.' and as its sun rose in splendour, dispelling the dark gloom which brooded over the eastern horizon, so has it driven from our minds dim conjecture about its coming, and lights up in our memories fresh recollection of the first dawn of our union. The car of time, on its ponderous rollers, has this day completed for us an other annual revolution, and gives us the opportunity of looking back on the mixed variety of occurrences that have charac terized the past JTCUT. - I3a.-c.ll slmiloi in volving period brings to recollection events some pleasant others unpleasant We have met, and are again suffered to strike the harp of joy and gladness upon the return of our (twenty-sixth) anniversary,and to banquet upon the bounteous favours of, an indulgent Heaven. Yet in viewing the past, though we have few reasons for sighing, our mirth has been mingled with some little pain. Some who once held our stations are cut off from sublunary existence, never more to rise amongst us! They have left us for awhile in sadness. While the broad-bladed grass is waving in the.air over their tombs, we are sporting in pursuit of what they once ob tained. Having already derived a moral lesson from their sad destiny, let us turn our attention to the prospects which lie be- f fore us. \ It is an instinctive principle m all ani mated nature to endeavour to anticipate -what is to come. The smallest worm, while it disembogues from the obscure and en tangling crevices near tl& trunk tra verses the verdant foliage w the rose-bush, exerts all its powers of perception (mea suring in every direction) in order to ascer tain what is to be .the ne*t incident in ephemeral exisjgncf^ weaving^he^ver ~ e * Wiuturi '• 3990 paid to lake tht^ersight of their public-in-j and poverty of resources forbids the idea; orconcdrSl* . .. i3es, it WQtiftl be unjust to lay a pen al (yupon Bachelors, promiscuously, merely because they are- unmarried. ,It ought to be ascertained, before the punishment is in flicted, what is the ‘cause why each indivi dual is found in tb^d'-scription of persons One,‘may have loathe object of his early and should,those of the latter class be driven into wedlockj it would be the death of many of thein. Resolved, In the opinion of this meeting, the measure now before the Legislature has, been introduced through the influence of those whose daughters' have become old maids, and are now withering and blighting FobV T&hGEORGIAN. Love, the night time is nigh* Cerulean and fair Looks-the moon and the sky, And the stars sitting there: Look' out and behold me, Tho moment’s at hand When, blushing, you told mc, v You’d fly from this land. Love, the night time has come! And the green forest trees, Which encircle thy home, Are at sport with the breeze: My harp is unbroken, List! list! to its cry; This, this, was the token, To tell I was nigh. . ’Tis the time when my love Did fondly declare, From her home to remove, And my fortune's to share; The perils of ocean Were nothing to me, My bosom’s devotion, Defied them for thee.. Then wake from thy slumbers, Fondly fly to me, dear! The softly breathed numbers, Which I pour to thy ear, Are, love, from a warm heart, Fond, faithful and true, Deeply anxious to start Over ocean with you. fAom the new monthly magazine. THE PAST. his leg which the splints squeezed,’and wish ed to rise from the chair; his friends, how ever, held him fast, crying out, “ Unfortu nate man! stir not—you have received a dangerous contusion. We had scarcely ^ __ ^ fhllen asleep, when, attempting to go down affections, and found it impossible to ovter-1 upon Jheir hands, after hairing played the | stairs, you fell, broke your leg, and fainted, come the feelings whi<' event has occasioned. fractured. They then sprinkled w_. his face, and gave a fearful thunderic The sleeper started up—seized ins Another may Have used every effort in lira power to extricate himself from, the solicitude of single life, but has found ft impossible to accomplish this object, ft is well' known that it re quires the united exertions of at least two individuals to bring such a desirable event to pass, and lie may never yet have been a- 1 ble to secure the aid of more than one in the jenterprize. A third may have been for years endeavouring to find an object wor- [thy of his Entire devotion of feeling and attention through lifot but*hitherto without [ success^ . Jtnd a fourth may labour under the embarrassment of invincible modesty 1 and diffidence, and with every wish to quit I the community with which he seems doom ed to associate, his courage fails him at ev ery attempt, and he is now as far, and in- farther removed from his purpose, than he was fifteen w twenty years ago. i suc-h a melancholy j coquette for ten' or fifleenjears, and refused J We awakened, raised you up, andjeaused ten or twenty excellent offers. Resolved, That the bill removing the tax upon Dogs, and laying it upon Bachelors, in the opinion of tbis meeting gives a de cided preference to the former, and is de rogatory to the high standing of men, as in tellectual beings, and meets with the indig nation and contempt of this meeting. Resolved, As the opinion of thi$ meeting, that if the Legislature has any particular aversion to having Dogs taxed, they might with propriety levy a moderate tax on Cats, the fund arising from which would enable the State to raise sufficient revenue to sup port the poor, and thereby rendfer a resort to Bachelors unnecessary. you to be'tlressed. In Heaven’s name, stir not for your life! We have ordered a litter, and it will be here immediately to carry you home.” Bonnard was delirio.is—rliis fancy mag nified the pressure of the splints to the pain of a real broken limb, and never once im agining that he was deceived,' permitted himself to be borne home lamenting. There, his family received him, as was concerted, with' tears and wailings. For four Weeks he continued to be visited by the surgeon, who kept his leg squeezed into, a case, so that he could not move himself, and did not doubt the reality of the alleged Oc cident. So long an imprisonment was Resolved, That the members from , this J tolerable—he cursed wine as the tity in the Legislature, and particularly Jthe Bachelors, not only from this city but the State generally, be requested to use.their best his misfortunes, and made a solemn never to get drunk in future. At the expiration of a month, the s It is not improlable that theHonorable nio- laying a tax on Bachelors! fexertioris to prevent the passage of the Bill informed him the cure was comple A resolution was passed unanimously, i went as if upon eggs, to save Afis?Vrol,ei leg, and his first walk was to the house of I that a committee be appointed to draft a his sweetheart, whom he anxiously entreat- memorial to the Honorable (he Legislature, j ed to forget the past, and once more to re- « T„c Vi,.,, of*. 1 - S son when honest men are - asleep, and de fend their dwellings against the midnight ver of this measi^e in the Assembly, was | actuated by sarctstip feeling, when he se lected the animal from which- the tax is to I be transferred toi the Bachelors. That it Ion the subject of the bill introduced by j instate him in her affections. She, may have been linjust, at first, to lay a tax J Gen. McClure to remove the tax frpm Dogs | both, on condition of a temperate year’s upon so faithful and affectionate an animal ' * as a Dog, is probably true. They watch ] Than joys the present hour can give, than present ; .objects are— I love to dwell among their shades, unfolding to my view The dreams of perish’d men and years, and by-gone glory too— robber, and the dark incendiary, who fires the peaceful abodes of the innocent, and leaves them in the dead hour of night, per- and lay the same on Bachelors, The following gemlemen compose the committee, viz: J. L. Dickinson, Abraham LeFoy, G.W. Betts, M. M. Noah, J. G. j Bennett, J. W. Walker. A committee, consisting of thirteen gen tlemen, Was also appointed as a committee probation. He kept, it manfully, and thes became the husband of His Laura, and con tinued during the rest of his life, an orderly respectablo man, who never, at any one time, drank more than he couldearry. After several years, Bonnard, for the first time,-discovered the trick that had bbtA! its The fates are'fast eb of our destinations behind uturity, but we are none the less For though such retrospect i3 sad, it is a sadness haps in an inclement season, no canopy but Bachelors generally. -In--if—>— — J no home but the wide n ~ w — of vigilance, to watch over the interests of I played upon- him; he thanked his frie the v . , ... boun^Tfor individual and combined exertion application. Our way is made plain by ose who have gone before us; it is render ed pleasant .by the sanction and encourage ment of surrounding experience; whether it is to be profitable, is a problem left to be solved by the' use of our own energies and faculties. That virtud is an indispensible requi site to tail human pursuits, is a principle which has been verified within the limits of our own observations. It is unchangea ble and immutable in its nature, exhibit ing the same moral beautyjand excellence wherever it is found, tt) npeds not any preconcerted preparations or Requirements to give it a more nqble Appearance.— It is self-based, and is the main material in the ground, work of all extensive and successful (human) operations.' With out it, did Babel quake to its base, and crumble into dust. Without it. have nations sunk under the ruthless arm of the assailing enemy. But with genuine moral virtue, in dustry and assiduity never fail to be re warded.. JThen must it also attend the ac quirement 1 ! of useful science. Man may give play to the fires of his imagination, and suffer his Hopes and anxieties to be wrought to the highest expectations about, future ac complishments; but unsupported by virtue, he has o£ly fancied an airy structure which must soon come down. Like the Eagle despoiled of its wing-feathers in the storm, thenceforward not being able to strike, the air below with a force equal to its weight, but only drifted in (he clouds by the wind, be at length inevitably descends to the surface of the earth. With a firm assurance that a fair allow ance is always made by a generous com munity for the foibles and instability in separable from youth, we may proceed in cur career in honest confidence that our exertions will meet the approbation and be rewarded by the applause and encourage' ment of the aged, the experienced, and the wise. Yon are in a station of great respon sibility. The care and indulgence of pa rents are to be remunerated, and the calls of your country on yonr services will be loud Those who have long and faithfully wielded the helm of government must ere long be come enfeebled, and of course obliged to give up their posts. Where then are suc cessors to be found, unless among those who have profited by pursuits like yours ? Shall they be called from the wilderness? Shall they be selected from those who have grown old in the corrupt principles, and fled from the usages of other countries ? Shall they be chosen from those who are now turning the curoberous clod, and bedewing eirbrow? No! sweet, The forms of those whom we revere in memory to greet, .. Since nothing in this changing world is constant but decay, , And early flowers but bloom tho first, to pass the first away. The waves of the present are mingling fast With the hopes of the future, the light of the past; And the joy-breathing moments, ere yet they are ours, Give place to the weary and sorrowful hours 1 But time, the destroyer, yet kindly shall bring A charm for each suffering, or balm for each sting; And the tear drop of anguish While yet in its flow, Is dried by the warmth of Hope’s heavenly glow. And our joys and our sorrows still blend as they fade In the rainbow of life to one mellowing shade; For the sunshine that glistens on Grief’s sullen streams, Atones for the darkness it girds with its beams, | the Heavens, arid world. Bachelors. In their solitude, they frequent- J the -National Hotel, fo- the use of his su ly have ao other companion thatt the*'trusty I perb rooms. heartily for it, and began once more to tread r. i.. i .1.- • • _ _£■ On motion, Resolved, That the thanks]firmly on his right leg, the straining of But even-this tax falls heavily upon [of this meeting be given to the proprietor of] which hie had always, until then, most care fully avoided J- P AULDING, Chairman. mastiff, and for him they cheerfully pay the exaction required by the government. But they cannot patiently ig are you ?” Fan. 26th, 1&27 MEETING OF BACHELORS. A highly numerous and respectable meet ing of the Bachelors of the city of^New- York, convened last evening, at the Ex I onsidmtioil wouldonly Mi to the Resent I ner, and in the erening he not always I Legislature of this state by Gen. Meclte. ~ > fact > he “ * so “ of l * chairman and secretary were appointed. b 1 0ard “W “■*“ thereby support a large 7 - J class of worthy persons who, hut for us, submit to take the io the chair, enclosing a l Dog’s place, and be loadod with the tax J log the following insc ^ which is now laid upon him, whilst they are J McClure’s Dog; whose necessarily subjected to many burdens from | Neiv-York, which married men are exempt. To enu merate them cannot be necessary; and it would be a laborious task, as every man I enclosed pattern Collar£ which can be af-1 them has his own calamities; and that which burdensome to one, 'might be a pleasure to another. When we take into view the grfeat distress which now prevails in the World, we cannot but consider the present as/ a most unpropi- tious moment to compel men to increase their expences. Legislators rimst be fully aware that it is a very costly matter to main tain a wife in the city in times like these, and that such a measure as the bill under LibrUi'y of the Kin* of India.—Dabshc ■ The following letter was handed I Urn, Ring of India, had so numerous a libra- her collar, bear-j ry, that a hundred Brachmins were scarce- I am Gen. j ty sufficient to keep it in order, and it re quired a thousand dromedaries to transport . r -,t~ 7 . it fram one place to another. As he was , t Sir—By 1 exhibiting to\the meeting over not able to read all these books, he proposed A which you have the honour to Reside, the to the Brachmins to make extracts from Jj id pattern Collar- which can be af- them of the best and most useful of cheap and in any quantities at the I their content^ These learned personages/ shortest notice, by orders being left at the set themselves so heartily w<qk/ (fiat iri Bar, you wilt confer a favour on a brother Iessihan twentj%ear^ they comped of all ntl 1 Respectfully, I these extracts alllWlqencyclopediayf twelijej^ --^ ^ rv ' CT ’ 7 * 1 ^ thousand volumes, widqh thirty cametppftulct Bachelor in dull times, yours; THIRTY AND OYER. P. S. They can be made of gilt leather if | carry with ease. 1, & the inscription to fancy and taste. The Broken Leg.—Bonnard appeared at all times, and every where before mid-day, I thirty camel loads of a prudent and amiable man; but after din the mowing bowl”—and of emptying out a flask of good old Hock, as an accompahi ment. Had he been satisfied with one From the thousands assembled it was! 0 woruiy persons wuq, nui tor us, urummg, diiu Knew no gr defined necessary to kdfonmtottnNation- ^ 1^^ * al Hotel, when aifer some pertinent re. , ” J ° 7 , c . , *v v t n • j this fact, and our own conviction of the gen- tlwsjfcharm of life”—“With laurel crown maAsfromseeerd^nflemen.thefonow.ng r ehelers, is one ofih. preamble and resolohone were offered to the riBci al , ' 0 meeting, and passed unammously. ^ a ,^ ^ frosts be)ow 2er0 THIS meeting have seen not merely with and to subimt to many privations and corn- surprise, but with 1 indignation, a proposition I forts winch are enjoyed by married men. in the Legislature of this State, to take off Therefore Resolved, That in the opinioh the Tax upon Dogs, and to lay it upon Bach- 0 f this meeting the tax proposed to be laid elors. It is a principle recognized in the I upon Bachelors is' erroneous in its charac- great charter of the Independence of this j ter, and in direct violation of the great nation, that “ all men are bom free.” If this I charter of our liberties, which declares man bo true, it is of necessity equally frue I to be born freehand leaves him In free exer- thatthey all have a right to remain so ; cise of Iris own inclinations, and every attempt, on the part of a legisla- Resolved, That as Bachelors are best five body to. restrain or, circumscribe (his I acquainted with their own circumstances inherent privilege, bythoifoposition of taxes [and abilities, and consequently with the or any other extraordinary political burden, proper time to marry, the tax proposed will is an unconstitutional, and of course an op- if it becomes a law have a mbst pernicious pressive. and tyrannical interference with effect upon Society by hurrying Bachelors the rights of those more immediately affect-1 into wedlock, and thereby producing many the ancient Germans so often reproached for a love of drinking, and knew no greater edn- , They had the hqtiour to present it to the King. ] But howgrqftt was their amazement, on hs giving them an swer, that it was impossible for him to > »ks.i They there fore reduced their extracl| to fifteen, after wards to ten, then to four.Ahen to two dro medaries, and at last there remained only so much as to load a mule* of Ordinary stature. Unfortnnately, Debsh^llim, during this pro cess of melting dowr^his library, was grown old, and saw no Divisibility of living to ex-- haust its quintess«S^») to the last volume* Illustrious Sultan, said the Vizier, the sage Pilpay, though I have but a very imperfect', knowledge of your royal library, yet I will flask, nobody would have had a right to say I undertake to deliver you a very brief and sa aught against him, especially as his income tisfaCtory abstract of it. You shall read it permitted it; but one flask was sure to call through in one minute, and yet you will find for another, even to a sixth or seventh. matter in it for reflecting; upon throughout The mother, sisters, and brothers with the rest of your life. Having said this, Pil- whom he resided, had the mortification of paj r took a palm leaf, and wrote upon it with seeing him retuVn home, Six evenings In the a golden style the four following sentences 1 week, perfectly intoxicated. Their most 1. The greater part of the sciences com- urgent^emonstances were fruitless, and I prise brit one single woTd. perkaps; and the they begarf to think that his drimkepness was | whole history of mankind contains no more incurable. Laura, his Sweetheart, thought that three, they are bom, suffer, die. so too, for, after innumerable quarrels, a 2. Love nothing but what is good, and do breach was at leftgth made between the all thou lovest to 'do; think nothing but lovers, who indeed, were almost as rtiuch as j what is true, and speak not all thou thinkest. betrothed. K‘ v ' i ed by it. Taxes, to be just, must be gene- hasty and unhappy matches; of which there ral. They may, with propriety, be laid up on luxuries. But it does not require the labour of an argument to prove, that taxes upon Bachelors, if laid at all, will not be imposed, under the idea, that Batchelors are luxuries. It is to be presumed that the Honorable mover of the measure in the ate already a sufficient number for the good of society. Resolved, As the opinion of this tneet- ing, should the bill pass, it will have the ef fect of instantly causing a very large num-. her of the Bachelors of this State to migrate to other places, riany of whom are men of House of Assembly, did not himself view extensive wealth! and Influence, long dla-. them in that light, as his proposition goes to tinguished for tliiir benevolent acts to the relieve a different species of animal, and I widow, maid, and orphan, and who hpve to ^ansfer the burden to those, who in the J abstained from uniting themselves to one, common opinion of others, are already a I on the very ground that they could be free burden to society, ifJiot to themselves. To I to exerejse their charity and benevolence to increase the calamities of those who are pon- the manj sidered (however mistakenly) by others, as Resol the subjects of the greatest misfortunes, is ] that Bac both inhuman and unjust. fellow members. will recei survey -Crec Xhiqfo \ ^ ' also appe them in i| of our beloved turned towards ised in stor- tical know- disappointed, our nature be reiving on the HlwiMne Voice on-3 of future utility try, and the world. WM J If it is considered immoral for men to re main single till they are thjrty years old, and upwards, and the tax is. tobe laid as a penalty upon vice, it is difficult to discern d, In the opinion of this meeting, dors are a highly useful class of society, and So acknowledged by all except a few sou^and crabbed old maids:—And that by living in “ single blessedness,” they are frequently enabled to accumulate great weafth,' and being known for their liberality, with what propriety-1hip fmiing is singled I m times \|whW femilies find themselves out for punishment, among the vast variety straightened in their circumstances, never whiph Rre wellkoown to exist among men^ I fail to step forwaril tb relieve their necessi- Gaming, drinking, *%. J^re confessedly H* | ties; but who, ; fromrthe noble spirit which ces ; but there has never to lay an extra tax upci in them. Indeed, it is b< either ofthese vices shoul among the Honoi gislature, that it would or constitutional to subject those individu als to any exactions of this kind different from those imposed on the rest of tho com munity. If the people of any district choose to be represented in the Legislature by a gamester, or a drunkard, who . would have any right to dispute their taste, or to inflict any extraordinary penalty upon the object an attempt J actuates them, * although ready at all times Is for defence,” wfll 1 a Cent for tribute.” o indulge I to contribute l‘tho__ d, that if never conseritVo pdy Resolved, That we consider the law un just, as there are many in this community r between the ages of 30 and'45, whose busi ness lias led them to spend a large portion of their time abroad, or whose misfortdnes have confined theifrnf home in situations which placn it beyond their power to marry ;| that there are others who are postponing the happy union until their circumstances will enable them to maintain a wife; others Who have parents that call for all’their of their choice, or the delegate whom * they incans; and other^, whose physical strength Romantic Adventure: or the Doctor out done—-Some three or four sleigh loads of 3. Q Kings, tame your passions, govern Hitherto, he had, from a respect to Laura, I yourselves, and it will be only child’s play maintained at least the outward appearance] to you to govern the world. , w, of good mariners,:'but now he became a I 4. O Kings, O people, it can never blfc shameless and notorious drunkard. Al- often enough repeated to you, what the half most every night he either had a scuffle with wittedonly venture to doubt, that there is no watchmen, or slept off his intoxication in a happiaqss without virtue, and no virtue with- round house. His health thereby began] out therear of Gojl.—from the Arabic. visibly to be injured and his fortune to melt away. In fshort, he Was upon the brink of ’ <1 Two of his friends, who although they I tads and lasses halted at one of our Hotels, " ' * * “* on the first instant—among the number was a loving couple who were about to com- Weie much grieved' at hi9 conduct, and re- j mence the new year by a matrimonial con- sblved to reclaim the drinker by a method nexion ; the rest were to witness the cere- not the most common in the world. ’With mony. A worthy divine was sent for— this view they one evening accompanied | ushered into the room among the company* Bonnard to a public wine cellar, and ap- and the groom and bride pointed out to him. perired in particularly high spirits. Old Somewhat surprised to see them atopposito Hock was called for, and they encouraged sides of the apartment, the minister asked him to quaff as much of it as he liked, and the man if he wished to be married ? “No V* that was no small dose. He drank himself| was the reply, in a gruff and determined tone irito-the clouds. At this the bride fainted—the girls screara- Aborit midnight, the two friends began to | ed—-the young men were confounded—the yawn, shut their eyes, seemed to fall asleep, holy man withdrew, and all prospect of joy Bonriard was delighted, for he could now and merriment vanished. Convulsipns suc- drink another flask Without being reproved ceeded the faintingfit, & adoctor was sent for by them. Before, however, he had finished --he was of the Thompsonian, school—he it, intoxication reached its highest pitch,] tried his never failing prescriptions, steaming arid heat length fell, deprived of reason, ] and hot drops—good remedies, in their way, into a Sriund and deathlike sleep. for bodily complaints, but of HtBe benefit to* His friends instantly started up from their] “ a ra i n d diseased”—ap would uriT46.*‘and pretended slumber, shook and jogged him, the poor girl was evidently growing worse, and, to their great joy, found that he ex- j At this juncture a sage magistrate 6four hibited no symptoms of wakefulness. By I village entered—he knew something' ofhu- a sign which was previously agreed upon, j nian nature, and had no faith in steam doc- they now called in a surgeon, who was wait- tors, especially in such cases—assuming ing in the adjoining apartments. He im- authority he cleared the room of all save th% mediately entered, bringing with him splints ] love sick damsel and her quondam lover— arid other implements lor a broken leg, arid gave them a little friendly advice, and soon laced.up the right limb of the sleeper, retired—foe knot was tied, and so as tightly as if it had bmttmcwf dangerously ladvettture.—Johnstown Herald.