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portentous growth of hair, constitute the 11 resolved to remain, and my horse was has- outlirie of this paragon in dress. Hemea-jtily put up. Immediately after which the sures more about the waist than over the! stranger mounted a small sorrel, aS he said, shoulders, talks little, eats voraciously, and to get his note changed, travels alone. Our wags think his formida- I had not lift ble preparations betoken an assault upon er, before the woman the heart of some fair eastern damsel, who doubts as to my host I had not long been in the house, howev- excited anew my She inquired whe POBT3Y. FROM “the memorial.” YE coma to me with eyes of light— Fair creatures of my dreams ! Ye move around me calm and bright, Like sunset over streams, Where the last flush of dying day In liquid lustre glows, Then passes into night away, Like rain drops from a rose. Fair creatures, soft your voices are— I hear their tender tone; And all the twilight echoes bear Their melody alone: It fills the woods, the rock, the plain, With an all-pervading thrill; And listning to the unseen strain The breathless air is still. All innocent your beauty blows— ’Tis bright and purely fair; The rose—the young and virgin rose, Buds forth in sweetness there; And there are light and laughing eyes, That have never wept in pain; Hope beckons you on, as away she flies, And love, that must all be vain. 3ta y» fair creatures! I bid you stay, fyHi JBtov with you my dreams are heaven— t ' " oo soon the vision must fade away— s Not forever theso joys were given; r Benduvet me now that winning smile, ThgiEngeriag look of light—. Vbt&fle-i-^oause.—and charm awhile, l -re yon vanish away in night. i 7W* TIME'S CHANGES. I saw l er one ~—so freshly fair Thct, like a blossom just unfolding, She open’d to life’s cloudless air, Ana nature joy’d to view its moulding; Her smile ! it haunts my memory yet— Her check’s fine hue divinely glowing~ Hei*v>sc-bud mouth—her eyes of jet— Around, on all, their lights bestowing: Oh! who c.juld look on such a form, So, nobly "ree, and softly tender, And darkly dream that earthly storm Should aitn such sweet delicious splendor! For in her mien, and in her face, And in her young step’s fairy lightness, Nought coi,ld the raptured gazer trace Bqt beauty’s glow, and pleasure’s brightness. I saw her twice—an altered charm— But still of magjc richest, rarest, .1 Than girlhood's talismiih less warwr^ Though yet of earthly fights the fairest: Upon her breastWie held^kitu, The very image! of its/^ther, Which ever to hm^mhing smiled,— They seemed b live,but in each other:— But matron cs/es^'or lurking wo, Her thougtf less, sinless youth had banish’d, ad from hpWicheek the roseate glow rod’s balmyjnorn had vanish’d; srieyes, upon her brow, ^meihing softer, fonder, deeper, ‘dreams some visioned wo i 1 ad fejrake the Elysium v of the sleeper. I sawder thrice—Fate’s dark decree ^ ( widow’s garments had array’d her, Yet beautiful she seem’d to be, jAs ere my reveries portray’d her. The glow, the glance, had pass’d away, The sunshine, and the sparkling glitter; Still, though I noted pale decay, The retrospect was scarcely bitter: For in their place a calmness dwelt, . Serene, subdoing, soothing, holy; In feeling which, the bosom felt That every louder mirth was folly?— A pensiveness—which is not grief; A stillness—as of sunset streaming— A fairy flow on flower and leaf, Till earth looks like a landscape dreaming. A last time—and unmoved she lay, Beyond life’s dim uncertain river, A glorious mould of fading clay, From whence the spark had fled forever! I gazed—my breast was like to burst— And, as I thought of years departed, The years wherein I saw her first, When she, a girl, was lightsome hearted,— And when I mused on later days, As moved she in her matron duty, A happy mother, in the blaze , Of npened hope and sunny beauty,— f felt the chill—I turned aside— Bleak Desolation’s cloud came o’er me, And being seem’d a troubled tide, Whose wreclis in darkness swam before me. may be willing to abandon the luxuries of I tlierl was arinod—whether learned any mo- her home to encounter the hardships of the ney in my portmanteau—where I had been with a race of quadrupeds of a description entirely different from those which now in habit it. Most of the genera, and all the spbci.es known in fossil remains, have been annihilated. | wilderness, and “ all for love.” I in the neighbourhood—and a hundred simi- j Travellers from the south of Ohio have a 1 lar questions, to all of which I answered with strong resemblance to southerners, while | promptness, not choosing to betray any re- . those of the north retain the manners | their New England ancestry. Our Canadian neighbours afford more I amusement than any other class o^visiters. The Upper Canadian gentleman iates re- I publicans and Yankees with all his might, and considers the word “democrat” the most abusive epithet in the English lan guage. He conceives his individual loyal ty of the utmost importance to his king, to | whose interest he is immeasurably devoted, j —He rarely eats at a public table, through fear of lessening his dignity by tin indiscri- iminate intermixture with strangers. Per haps in the whole British, empire^ George the Fourth could not find a more loyal set of subjects than in this little propi»ee,- with of | serve, as that might make matters worse. 1 waited anxiously for the man’s return, de bating with myself whether I would not frame in excuse for going on, a3 soon as he returned—be was to have been on by nine in the evening, but eleven came; the family all appeared weary of sitting up, and I final ly gflve up the point, and yielded to the fre quent intimations that I could retire, and wai shown to my chamber. When left here to myself, I examined into my situation in regard to the means ofiny es cape, if an escape should he necessary. I found I was literally in prison. The win dows were firmly nailed down, .and the sash unusually strong—the only door was that by which I entered; it separated my room the existence of which he is probably unac-1 from tho chamber in which, it appeared to quainted. -The Canadian girls are pretty, and do not appear to have inherited the no tions of their fathers. The seem equally fond of the attentions of loyal and demo- | eratic dandies, and many of them, no doubt, [ may live to be good republicans. It has been before observed, that broad | national characteristics are easily discover ed. .The English, German and French, are I circumstances ! our principal visiters, and we distinguish great force 1 me, all the family slept. It was fastened Atrial Phenomena on the lop of the Pic du Midi.-—M. ; Ramond has lately read to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the con clusion of his memoir on the meteorology of the Pic du Midi. He has established the important fact, that while the wind at the foot of the mountain blows in all directions, at its summit it is constantly southerly; and this southerly current is that which the earth’s motion produces in the higher regions of the atmosphere, from the equator to the poles. One day M. Ramond was witness, on the Pic du Midi, of a singular spectacle: his own shadow, and the shadow of two persons who were with him, were thrown on a cloud a little distance above them, with a surprising exactness and sharpness of outline ; and, which was more extraordinary, these shad ows were surrounded by resplendant glories of the most brilliant hues. “ A beholder of this magnificent sight.” M. Ramond ob serves, “ might fancy himself present at his own apotheosis.” This effect has been ob served by Bouguer, Saussure’s sons, and others ; and Bouguer explains the glory by oven with a coat or a shoe. It is to'be married for your money, or have a wi#§jaL ways casting up the sum total of the dollars £ she brought. It is to have your son's stera surrounded hy “rtiantraps,” and your daugh ter made a target for the speculating and - selfish to aim at. It is to measure friend ship by the length of your purse, to buy flat tery and sell happiness. It is te have.debtore smile upon you, and knaves shake you by the hand. It is to have a dyspeptic wife and pale children. It is to have sons go to col- , lege to buy themes of wis6r heads, and daughters’ brains turned by the flattery of fools. It is to be invited to drink poor wine, that you may give better in return. It is to have your lady’s peace disturbed by a higher feather, or a brighter diamond. It is to buy green peas at nine shillings, and relish them not, because your neighbour gives two dollars. It is to have relations wish you a shert life and a long will. It is to have your widow mourn bitterly, provided her fortune depends on perpetual widow hood. It is to have more temptations in this world than other men ; and lastly, to find the entrance to a better more difficult than the rest of mankind.—Mass. Journal. by a wooden latch on the outside, and 1 no- the decomposition of light through frozen ticed that there was a string in the inside particles suspended in the cloud ; but M. Panther Hunt.—Not many days ago an elderly emigrant to the county of Washte naw, discovered, not far from his domicil, what he conceived to be the tracks of a pan- when I entered, by which the latch could be {Ramond rejects this explanation, because ther, and immediately came to the praise- raised. This the woman pulled through af- the slightly elevated cloud on which the sha- worthy resolution of destroying the feroci- 11 " dows appeared could not, he thinks, from J ous animal. Sixteen active and courageous ter her, when she shut the door and left me, leaving me no means of opening it, or in deed of getting out of the room under any without the application of down, and reflected a I sat them at a glance. English manners have I while on all these transactions—and my sus been much misrepresented; instead of the picions all came back. Presently I heard the temperature prevalent on the Pic hold in suspension any frozen particles. The extreme transparency of the air in these elevated regions, causes several ef fects different from those observable upon the surface of the earth. peevish and surly braggadocio usually de- the trampling of a horse; after as I thought the soil, which absorbs the solar rays, is fre ” * 1 ' *■’ " * *’ 1 ' 1 i-: • ■’ rr " quently, upon those heights, out of all pro portion to that of the atmosphere. Thus a- In-1 conversation was carried on in a low tone, I scribed, we have found the English gentle-1 the voices of two men in the yard. They I man, though sometimes cold and distant, entered the house, and a long and constant never troublesome or obtrusive. | stead of complaining of every thing Ameri-1 which I could not hear distinct enough to [can, we havi heard him speak with respect catch a single word, with one exception olgour institutions, and with gratitude of our when one pf^ihe men raising his voice a hospitality. An opinion of the English has little with emphasis, said, “ At all events, gain, the assembled rays at the focus of a lens have much greater power than if they had passed through a gross and less trans parent air. M. Ramond remarked, that a lens of a very small diameter was sufficient ous animal. young woodsmen were soon invited to hunt the animal, and when they assembled, with their rifles, &c. it was decided that the woods in which it had taken shelter should be sur rounded by the arty,who were to approach Thus the heat of | towards the centre. The manoeuvre suc ceeded—tho panther was driven to A tree, around the foot of which the party, elated with their success, soon gathered. The angry animal looked down upon his pur suers, his glaring eye-balls seeming to shoot a tremor into the stoutest Heart. In a mo ment several balls'entered his body—but he fell not—the death pang had fixed his ferri- been wrongly formed, by the attempts of we must majke sure of him in some way”— to set fire to a body, which another lens, of ble nails deep into the tree, and there he j many addle-headed fops of our own country a declaration that might have reference to double its size, could scarcely have heated hung as in mockery of the hunters and their * ’ '* •* ** * * ’ * ’ * ‘ 1 1 The extreme brilliancy of j rifles. At length a daring young man offer ed to climb the tree, and force the panther in low places. i to imitate their manner, as they have .been me or might not. represented in plays and caricatures—men whose only consequence is derived from j their tailors, and whose only ambition is. to receive from the fair sex that most con- j temptible of all epithets, “ a pretty fellow.” I hand grasping each, and my money between I ent rays of the solar spectrum. , This apish assumption of foreign manners the bolster and bed. In that situation, imagined that what prevents this from being has produced unfavorable impiessions, which so great was my fatigue, that l fell almost proved with facility in lower places is, that I was alamied ; I picked my pistol flints, colours on the summit of lofty mountains, j and examined the loading—threw off my induces M. Ramond to think, that it might coat only,' jand extinguished the light, laid perhaps be easy to prove there the elevation down with my pistols under my pillow, a of the temperature produced by the differ- It may be from his hold, tion, reached the Having, with much exer- fork of the tree in which the animal was lodged, he seized the tail, and, exerting himself to the utmost, tb© x panther was thrown to the earth, which he no sooner touched than the ,dogs went iii would not exist, were it known that the I immediately asleep, and did not awaken until the gross air which is found there is itself upon him, and having revenged themselves wouldrbe English bear as little resemblance to their models, as they do to the generality of their countrymen. The Adventure of a Night.—I was travel- I ling with a view to collect the outstanding accounts of several extensive mercantile es tablishments in Philadelphia, and bad in my possession notes to a large amount, when, in the prosecution of my journey homeward, I Was obliged to remain at a somewhat rude, disorderly public house, for several hours, in consequence of a violent storm, and when the weather allowed me again to travel, I found myself 39 miles from Harrisburgh, the point I had calculated on reaching that day, and that I had but an hour’s sun remaining. susceptible, in consequence of its want of | for the trouble which they transparency, of being heated in such a man ner as to make the difference of the rays in' appreciable.—Mechanics Register. something hard under my shoulder aroused me—one of my pistols had slipped down, and I was lying on it; I replaced it more c autiously. ' But at this moment whispering | m the next room alarmed me ; I listened and listened again; the wind was blowing without; and fifty times I fancied I heard the latch lifted, and grasped my pistols to fire. At last, however, it died away. The heat almost.suffocated me. I rose, undres-1 sed entirely, and again laid down ; an hour passed and I again fell asleep. When I a- woke it was by a gentle rapping at the door, j and talking is the expression of one’s ideas Ladies' Albums.—The Album is a very pretty book ; it catches many fine scraps of writing. The loving swain will some times select this mode to discover- his affec tion : but you may go further, and detect the character ,of all men who write in it: for been put to in the chase, they walked surlily aside, and permitted their masters to approach and view the prostrate, yet terrible foe. The son of the old gentleman who hid discover ed the track, first came near, and taking the panther by the tail, he raised it at arm’s length, and having examined it for a mo ment, he called to his'TatherDad,” said he, “ this is our old Cat!”—“ Poh,” said the old man, “ that can’t be—’tis twice writing is but talking with pen and ink, as large as our old cat.”—“ Look for your- •inrl tnllrinrr ic tVio Avnroocirm rtf* nnn^c i^ooa I oalT^ cnld iVia ann HPUa a! and a call, “ Sir, will you please to get-tip to breakfast V Never shall 1 forget my joy—it seemed like a resurrection from the dead: for had I preferred the hazard of the road, however, an attack been made upon me in the dark- to lodging at such a place, and accordingly set forward on my way. By inquiry, I dis covered before I set out, that a man who had formerly followed the sea, and against whom I had a small bill, resided a few miles I man paid me from the main road, and, by going that dis tance out of the way, I could see him. The ness of the night, I know I should have had a slim chance, armed as I was, against two fearless desperadoes. I hurried down ; eve ry face I met was cheerful and happy; the I will, therefore, give you an index to the character of those who^vvrrte for a lady’s album. If the author be of a phelgmatic, thinking turn of mind, admiring the operations of the laws of nature more than those of art, his piece will partake of utility ; if of a refined sensibility and goed education, his senti ments will ombine rhetorical elegance, as self,” said the son. The thing was* then subjected to the old gentleman’s examina tion, who was reluctantly forced to admit “ that it was our old cat.—Detroit Gazette. Magnus and Socin, two celebrated lawyers of Pisa in Italy, were frequently opposed to each other on points of law. Upon one oc casion, when the famous Lorenzo de Medi- ..... w . . „ , cis was present, Magnus, finding himself my money ; he had really | delicate compliment, and a hint for intellec-1 very hard pressed by his adversary, con ceived the idea of forging at the moment a law to serve his own particular case. Socin been deceived in the note, and had found tual improvement; if wanting refinement some difficulty in getting it exchanged, and a delicate sensibility, but would wish to bill had been reckoned a lost one, and I de-J which wasthe cause of his late detention appear to possess both, his piece will be saw through the trick, and being no less termined to see him if possible. I reached I the night b^forq. His oddest son had come bombast, and express so gros sly his love of J ning than his adversary, when it came tu ...» [his house at sun down and found him at home with him : the good woman told me, j learning and beauty, as to show his charac- turn to reply, he invented another law which home. He was a large, ferocious looking, j very kindly i that she feared I had been dis- j ter and want of each ; if a lady's man, his completely undid the effects of Magnus’s weather-beaten man, with a dark lowering j turbed, as the old man and his son had set piece will he accurate in grammar, show a I quotation. The latter immediately inter- FROM THE BUFFALO JOURNAL. Sketches of Character.—The term ‘South erner’ is applied indiscriminately to all our visitors from the southern States. They resemble each other too nearly to admit a distinction.-—The fine gentleman of the south, whatever may be said of his aristo cracy, has more suavity of manner and a more open and affable address than his northern neighbor. He is inactive and even indolent in his appearance, hut extremely irritable, and when excited invariably ex hibits thtit fierceness of passion and purpose which are the characteristic of his climate. He is always conversible, yet never inquisi tive ; rarely learned, but usually intelligent. He is detected at first sight by a rich though -neglected dress, and the indifference with which he notes surrounding objects. The brow, huge red whiskers, and a rough and forbidding address. He examined the bill a moment, acknowleged its correctness, and told me if I could change a $50 note he would discharge it I replied without hesitation, and he brought the note, but held it in his hand wai ting for his change. Then and not till then I recollected that to make up the sum, I should have to resort to my large pocket book, and expose all the money I had, not having a sufficiency in the small one I car ried, for the purpose of changing, in my vest pocket I paused a moment, hut consider ing that my horse was tolerably fleet, I de termined to run the hazard, whatever it might be, of tempting him by the exhibitidn of the cash 1 had by me. I unfolded roll after roll, and he looked on with an eye apparent curiosity. The change was coun ted down—he produced the note—I saw at up very late examining into and arranging some accounts which they had against a fel low who had recently become insolvent in the neighbourhood. southern fair have a naivette and simplicity the first glance it was a counterfeit, and told of manners which is really bewitching. They are frank, fearless, and unsuspecting, and have nothing studied or affected about them. They are not as knowing as our him so. He betrayed, I thought, a kind of forced surprise at this declaration—but soon rejoined that if I would sit down, he would immediately put off, return the note to the northern gentlewomen, but have more viva- person of whom he received it, and procure city and more wit—perhaps not as distinct ly beautiful, yet quite as interesting. Few of our fair visiters receive more attention or excite ' more admiration than the “ dark c ved” southern girl. We have seldom seen the “gouging, dirking, bragging” Kentuckian. When he docs appear, he invariably sustains the character of his native state, as the prince of bullies, and the pink of republicanism. He lays it down as an axiom, that one Kentuckian is more than a match for any three men of any other state or nation, and is sure not to be disputed,—boasts of the remarkable strength and beauty of his coun trywomen, but has never exhibited them here. The Illinois dandy is a novelty of his kind. A small narrow rimmed hat, suwar- row boots, a frill like a flying jib, and a half a shawl neckcloth, surmounted with a most In the Dictionaire Physique, of Father Paulian, is the following curious case jr The beginning of May, 1760, there was brought to Avignon, a true Lithopagus, or Stone I poses the characters of those who write in it, display in great and pretty words, without ideas, and all qpnfusion ; if a plain honest man, without affectation or any eccentrici ties, or strong points of character, his piece will be characterized with good sense, be | short and comprehensive. The Album is a j valuable part of a lady’s paraphernalia; it ] serves to relieve an hour’s ennui, and ex- rupted him, and called upon him to cite the place where the law he spoke of was to be found. “ It is to be found,” replied Socin, “ in the very next page to that you have just cited.” Eater, who had been found, about three years before that time, in a Northern island, j by the crew of a Dutch ship. He not only | swallowed flints of an inch and a half long, full inch broad, and half an inch thick; which to them is an interesting and impor tant kind of information ; and it affords the best and most delicate opportunity to be come acquainted with any favorite they may wish, without the risk of being charged with A gentleman lately riding over Salisbury plain, when it rained very hard, set up a gal- lop, and met with a traveller whose horse was standing still.—Somewhat surprized at the sight, he asked the reason of it. * Zounds!’ says the other, « who but a fool would ride in all this wet!’ Two Faults.—A clergyman, near Stirling but such stones as he could reduce to pow- too much delicacy or fondness. It is der, such as marbles, pebbles, &c., he made considered a compliment by the gentlemen I after a courtship of twelve years, having, at up into paste, which was to him a most to be asked to write in an Album. It ar- last married, was congratulated on the hap- agreeable a id wholesome food. I examin-1 gues a favorable opinion, and a desire to be- * * ‘ ’ ** the sum I wanted. My suspicions had already been awaken ed ; it seemed plain that this offer of pay ment was either made with the intent to pass on me a spurious note, or ascertain what money I had ; indeed the last presumption appeared the strongest from the circum stance that the note was so badly executed, that he could, 1 thought, have small hopes of its being taken. The question now was, however, should I run the venture and re main, or attempt to reach another lodging, which I knew I could not find in a shorter distance than nine miles, and lose entirely the amount of his debt. I looked at his wife and his children, and the situation of things around ; I remembered, too, that I had a pair of excellent pistols well prepared for service.: I was young, and persuaded myself that my suspicions were all childish. could. I found his gullet very large, his teeth exceedingly strong, his saliva very corrosive, and his stomach lower than ordi nary, which I imputed to the vast quantity of flints he had swallowed, being about five- and-twenty, one day with another. His keeper made him eat raw flesh with the stones, hut could never induce him to swal low bread; he would, however, drink water, wine, and brandy, which last liquor appear ed to afford him infinite pleasure. He usually slept twelve hours in the day, sit ting on the ground, with one knee over the young unmarried ladies Alb um.—Parthenon. _ _ . _ _,, . w . , py event, by one of his brethren, at the sy- ed this man with all the attention I possibly j come more acquainted. I would advise all I nod, by the following story. A country- to possess an j man having brought a mare to a fair, was asked by an intended purchaser, if she had any faults, to which he replied, “ She has MISERIES OF WEALTH. I nae faults but twa; and I’ll tell ye one of Suggested by reading Hazlitt’s ‘Miseries of Poverty.’ them before you pay me, and I’ll tell ye the It is to have a subscription paper handed t’ither after.” “ Well,” said the purchaser you every hour in the day, and be called a niggard, if you refuse your name. It is to eat turkey and drink wine at a dearer rate than your neighbors. It is to have every college, infirinary and asylum, make a run upon the bank of your benevolence, and then wonder at the smallness of the dividend, other, and his chin resting on it; and, when I It is to have sectarians contend for the keep not asleep, he passed the greater part of his time in smoking. It is a remarkable fact, that though so many skeletons of different animals have been foufld imbedded in rocks, no remains of the human species, or of the ourang- outang, ape, monkey, or baboon, have yet been discovered. Cuvier has shown that triplication of anxieties, there are strong grounds for believing, that mong spendthrift heirs human skeletons are as little perishable in interest of every one about you exceed their their nature as other animals. At an early principle. It is to make up to tho epoch, that part of the globe where the Con- chant ail the profit he loses by knavery or ing of your conscience, and lawyers strug gle for the keeping of your purse. It is to be remembered from Seguin to Talbot Island, whenever a dinner or a loan is wanted. It is to be taxed for more than yon are worth, and never to be believed when you say so. It is to have addition of dollars, subtraction of comforts, and mul- end in division a- It is to have the “ what is the first ?” « The first is, she is unco’ ill to tak.” “ Oh,” said the purchaser “there is no great ill in that;” and having paid the money, asked what was the other fault—“ Well,” said he, “ the tither fault is, that she is unco little worth, after she is ta ken.” ' tinent of Europe now extends, was peopled j frugality. It is never to be upoa cash terms, Montrose's Chaplain.—\t is reported of one of the chaplains to the famous Montrose that being condemned in Scotland to die, for attending his master in some of his glorious exploits; and being upon the ladder, and or dered to set out a psalm, he, expecting a re prieve, named the one hundred and nine teenth (with which the officers attending the execution complied, the Scotch presby- terians being great psalm-singers,) and it is well for him he did so ; for they had sung it three parts through before the reprieve came;- Any other psalm would have hanged him-