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P0H5ET. INDIAN DEATH SONG. ' “ The moss is on thy four gray stouts. The mourn ful wind is there. The battle shall be fought without thee.”—Ossian. The warrioi is gone, but ho died not with glory, He fell not in battle, by arm of thO foo; Dark, dark i3 the deed, and ensanginned the story, The murd’rers at midnight laSwT Sflntosh low. * The moon-beam shone bright on the dogwootUtree blossom,' * His wigwam was still as the dove in'her nest; Suspicion ne’re lurked in the brave Warrior’s bosom, The (rieod of his nation, peace reign’d in his breast. Had the mQrning-stwudawDed on the Wauior Far, his home had he gone, F">r the vision Qf hope on his fancy was breaking, That told him ofHonourapd Glory to come. But n-> V wHl tfm Hero Wake asrain! never! Cold ■ is the. heart of the Warrior so brave; is w Uoop i» hushed, ’tis now silenced for ever, An • nought hut the death-song is heard at his : grave. his Father he’s gone! hut he fell not with glory, He died not in battle by arm of the foe; Dark, dark is the deed, and ensannnin’d the story, The murd’rers at midnight laid M’Intosh low. v>n his gfeer. sward the wild rose and spring fiow’rs will blossom, . Tke Jiaxpof the minstrel his death will deplore. And i c hunter will pause as he sighs from his bosom „ There.quicin’s sou swell for the Warrior no more. The o' jcers of the steerage invited the Ladies and Gentiemra of Pensacola to a Ball on hoard the U. S. Frigatp t f istellation, on tlie evening of May 2-1.— The ntjAing appropriate lines have been politely furnished ty a correspondent.— Beauty -nd gaiety were there, And n.rth and music loud resounded, And ever’,breast seemed free from rare, And eve v heart with pleasure bounded. The myrthtakes t he laurel’s place— The stefn command now yields to pleading, The glitten t arms their racks now grace— And l.ovj s the only foe they’re heeding. Oh! howjilike the scenes this deck lias W'lcssed, when the tempest lowered; Or when u Insurgent lay a wreck, Beneathhe broadsides which she showered. Emblem of nr own fickle state— Now ben<\-r ’neath the gale’s rude roarings; Yet may we f ro distant date, In pleaeure.barbour, at safe moorings. German, she evidently appeared, confused, the emotion, was too great to be suppressed as she"attempted also to be without knowledge. Various conjectures w£re-tnstantty for- goons were ordered to dislodge the French from ;i house in which they had a party, anti which was necessary to the security of our position : for from this house they used V ^UlljVVIUl H CIG lUaiUliirj' IUI- • ayt iivui wjw iiv/uot IlltJ USCU med, but wliat seemed passing strange, was j to sally upon our pickets in a most annoy- her acceptance of no food, except bread j ing manner. The French, not more than and milk, and that only from the hands of a female! " about fifty in number, made a considerable . On the men she looked with an- resistance * they received the English with gerand disdain, but Sweetly smiled as she a volley from (he windows, and immediately accepted any present from the other sex.— retreated to a high bank behind the house : The neighboring ladies remonstrated with from this point they continued to fire until nnr nn UiO nnnrror nf nvnAun/l n oi4ii'iii/\n• timif flnnlr iroc M1 raainnon nir ahv /Ivu/vnAno her on the danger of so exposed a situation but in vain, for neither prayers nor mena ces would induce her to sleep in a house. As she soon discovered evident marks of insan ity, she was at length confined in a mad house, under the care • of Dr. Banandet, a physician to the Hatwells. On the first op portunity she escaped, and repaired to her beloved hay-stack. Her rapture was inex- * , i / - —Z . pressible on finding herself at liberty, and melancholy ; but all kept up their flagging TI p^R MANIAS. History jj,- t vqry striking in stances oft* effect of mr-.'st,' n^itaifiohv in disturbingo^ the understanding.’ A gTeat h'eanty and ac- married n* Hessian \ ordered .to America, and g aWe |o. obtain any tidings of him u her ownfwihflyf came over to England. JJ^to’fehe Cquld only learn the destiny of Mfer hVisnArid from those ships which had either transported troops to the continent, or were bringing back the wounded.—Day after day, she wandered on the beach at Portsmouth, and hour after hour she weari ed her eyes bedewed with tears, in the vain expectation of seeing him. She was ob served at the same spot ere it was light And watched each motion of the waves until the setting of the sun. Then her haunted imagination presented him mangled with wounds, and the smallest gust of wind seemed to threaten her with an eternal sep aration.—Did a ship enter into port, her eager steps led her to the spot, and many an inquiry was repaid with an insolpnt rebuff After eight months spent in this anxious manner, a ship arrived, bringing her the melancholy tidings, “ that some Hessian officers, who were wounded, were on their passage.” Her impatience increased dai ly. A vessel at length arrived, reported to have Hessian troops on hoard. She kept at some distance, for fear of giving too great a shock to her husband’s feelings, should ho be among them. He was landed with others : she fainted, and he was conveyed she knew jiot where. Having recovered, and going to the different inns, she found, at last, her husband- The master of the inn informed her “ho was very bad,” and she begged he* being in England might be gradually broken to him. When she entered the room he burst into tears. A lady was sup port ing him in her arms. What words or pointer could represent the tragedy that fol lowed! He had married in America, and this person was also his wife. He intreated pardon, but was past reproach, for a few minutes after he sank into the arms ofdeath. v. The lady, whose history we are recording, rushed from the room, and leaving her clothes and money at her lodgings, she wandered she knew not whither, vowing “ that she would never enter house, or trust toman.!’ She stopped at last, near Bris tol and begged the refreshment of a little milk. There was something so attractive in'her whole appearance, as soon produced once more safe beneath this miserable re fuge. Beneath the hay-stack, Louisa’s dwelling rose, Hero the fair maniac bore four winter’s snows; Here long she shivered stiffening in the blast,. A nd lightnings round her head their horrors cast, Dishevell’d lo! her beauteous trusses fly, And the wild glance now fills thp staring eye, The balls fierce glaring in their orbits move ; Bright spheres, where beamed the sparkling fires of love. * lU-starr’c! Louisa ! It was near four years that this forlorn creature devoted herself to tins desolate life, since she knew the comfort of a bed, or the protection of a roof. Hardships, sickness, intense cold, and extreme misery, have gradually impaired he beauty, but she is still a most interesting figure, and there re mains uncommon sweetness and delicacy in her air and manner, and her answers are always pertinent enough, except when she suspects the questions are meant to affront or ensnare her, when she seems sullen or nng;y. Some Quaker Ladies at this time interposed, and Louisa, as she w T ns called, was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where she at present is, and sjill. maintains her indig nation against the men. The person with whom she lodged, upon her death l>cd, divulged the secret of the flight of this stranger from Portsmouth, which corresponds nearly with ^he, time of her arrival near Brisjfp!, and subsequent in quiries have discovered that she is “ the daughter of Francis, Emperor of (Germany.* From the Military SI etch Book of a British Officer. \ J THE BISCUIT. , ! ' ’Twould disarm The: spectre death, bad he the substantial power •to arm. . ~ ; ^ - Byron. pern graceful and elegant, and her counte nance interesting to the last degree. She f . P . P : * pr>ort breeches, and half gaiters. None of aowever, when she was accos.ed in the were more than.five fset three incheshirh. their flank was threatened oy our dragoons, when they retreated in double quick disor der leaving about fifteen killed and wound ed?—-Our men were then starving. The poor fellows although they had forgotten tHeir animal wants in the execution of their dity, plainly displayed in their faces the weakness of their bodies. Every hum of tie crowded encampment, lpoked wan and spirits by resolution and patience. - Many a manly fellow felt, in silence, the bitterness of hs situation, and many a forced Hiber nian joke was passed from a suffering heart to lighteq a, comrade’s cares. There was no upbraiding, for all were sufferers alike; and, with the exception of a few pardonable, curses on the commissary, there was no turbulence—-all was manly patience. In about anfoour after the taking of the old house in front, I went out frp® our hut in a wood, to see the place of action. I met four or five oi our men wounded, led and carried by their comrades. The officer commanding the party now joioed me, and walked back to the house, to give farther directions about wounded men not yet re moved. \\ hen we had gone about fifty yards, we met a wounded soldier carried very slowly-in a blanket by four men. As soon as he saw the officer who was along with me, he cried out in a feeble but forced voice, “ Stop! stop!—lay me down:—let me speak to the captain.” The surgeon, who was along with him, had no objection, for, ii> my opinion, he thought the man be yond the power of his skill, arid the sufferer was laid gently down upon the turf, under the shade of a projecting rock. 1 knew the w ounded man’s face in a moment, for I had often remarked him as being a steady well- concjuctcd soldier: his age was about forty- one or two, and he had a wife and two chil dren in England. I saw death in the poor fellow’s face. He was shot in the throat— or -rather between the shoulder and the throat: the ball passed apparently down wards, probably from having been fired from the little hill on which the French posted themselves when they left the house. The blood gurgled from the.wound at every ex ertion lie made to speak. I asked the sur ge- n what he thought of the man, and that gentleman whispered, “ It is all over with him.” He said he had done every thing he they cannot, witliout laughter, odvert to the ? ter suqset, her little boy of about four years notion of one person being inferior • to* an- old. How long he had been gone could other.- j not be told, for the woman had been hard at The Islanders in the neighbourhood ofthe ■ work all the afternoon, and all others were Philippines lay hold of the *tiand or foot ofi too busy to care, for her or her child. Her the person whom they accost, and rub their first search was silent and alone—hoping to faces with it. j find him, and disliking to communicate a ^The Laplanders press the nose strongly: mother’s apprehensions to the other males against that ot the individual they are salu- j and females of the cotton factory.—The j night grew very dark, .and the search very In new Guinea they place leaves on the ! hopeless, and resort was finally had to all head ot (lie person saluted. the men, women, and children of the esta- In Straights of Sunda the foot of the per- ! blishment, to help her find her boy. * Tho son saluted is raised, and passed gently along} buildings, with all their stories and cellars, the right leg, and over the body. - j their sluices, wheels, bands, and buckles, The inhabitants of the Philippine Isles • were searched with an awful apprehension bend very low, with their hands on their j on the part of the mother, and on the part cheeks, and with one of the feet raised in the of her assistants a yet more horrible, though air, and the knee bent. j undefinable hope, (we will out with the ’ ^ j r * \ , v vw an vui tl«v The E.thiopean takes his friend’s garment word, though it shame human nature.) ofi and binds it round himself in such, a way as finding a leg, or an arm among some part of to leave the former naked. j the machinery. Nothing, not even a curl In saluting the Japanese take off one shoe J of hair, was to be found on the well-examin* and the people of Aracon their sandles when [ ed cogs, Lanthorns were in vain carried in Our Advanced guard had been skirnfish- inc with the enemy for five days—and with empty stomachs. The commissary of the division had either missed us in his march with the provisions, for which He had been I """j,, eMJT thto* h. despatched to tho rear, or else he had no. uii„ 1 °a*V•""" * h ° been successful in procuring a supply: but ^^ nnposst- whatever might hate been the cause, the T F. m Sol * er i on be ’ consequence was unpleasant to us: for the (Voxwt ,! 0 ,.°. u lis I’and to my men. officers and all' were wholly without *•■*«“- ' vh,ch n .°‘ “'V cor- provision for three days. At^he time the: fendemeasb^that ofltoT 'si vou lm"e commissary went to the rear, two pound of , /r- . . you rave biscuit, one pound of meat, and apint of v eversmeelentercdthe wine were served opt to each individual; • %, ^ ou ,a V e ^ ee n every man strrend and upon this quantity we were forced to^ j . vnII 1”?^» a pd a.i°od : officer. God exist for five days, for nothing was Jo'be l •V hougl.t: if we had been loaded wifti gold w,„eh you all knew afterwards that we c ould not have purchased a morsel of ‘ U JV US y sentenced to. God bless food. /J t . "TV. Most of the men, from having been ac customed to disappointment in supplies of rations, managed their little stock of provi sions so economically, that it lasted nearly three days ; and some were so gastronomi- cally ingenious and heroic, as to have ex tended it to four. But, on the other : 4i«nd. the greatest number were men of great ap petite and little prudence, who saw and tasted the end of their rations on the second day after possession. Indeed, the active life in which all were then engaged, left few without that piquant relish for their food, which the rich citizen, _in the midst of his luxury, might gladly exchange half his wealth for; the greatest of them all, in taste as well as in purse, can never enjoy his epulation with so enviable a zest, as these campaigned did their coarse dry beef and flinty biscuit. As the men grew weaker, the.work grew heavier: and as hunger increased, so did the necessity for physical exertion. The enemy were constantly annoying us, and every hour of the day, brought a skirmish, either with their little squads of cavalry, their riflemen, or their voltigeurs.* The rifles would advahee by the cover of a hedge, or hill, perhaps, while the voltigeurs would suddenly dart out from a ditch into which they had crept under cover of the weeds, and fall upon our pickets with the ^ WeDt i:f a ferocitv of hull .W, • an A ta » w ept like a child. ferocity of bull dogs ; and when they were mastered, would, (if not killed, wounded, or held fast,) scamper off like kangaroos. In like manner, the cavalry would try to sur prise us; or, if they could not steal upon her whatever she requested. She was * . ', ■ ~7 ~ **v ^V “' yoyng, and extremely beautiful; her roan- . ’.1 U fireUiem pistols, and, if r * —* . — well opposed, gallop off again, particularly if any of our cavalry were near: for they never liked close quarters with the British was alone—a stranger, and in extreme dis- J"; ‘ "T" tress; she uslted only for e little milk, but r ’u° h ® S “^ n0r ottered no complaint, and used no art to ° ■ \ s excite compassion. as regards mere skirmtshmg. Tho,French Her dress and accent bore visible marks I" r ? cS® *r,t & search ofa^lace to lay her" trouble" hLd" lb f S y J““ ld . re "^’ loild - adv “ ,c '> ^ e - a ” d she scooped towards night, a lodging for ^ they VeI ^ r P rude,l ^.* 8 ^ ke ^ herself in an old hay-stack. Multitudes nou • n .u soon flocked abound her ih.this'new habita- 1C h J 1 ® corar 01® 8 ^ tion, attracted by the «ove i t y ofthe circum- Z ^ f t™ thc , ratl( ? ns ^oye mention- stance, her singular beauty, hut above all, l ' d ’ we . hatf . a ver )'brush with the ene- hy the suddenness of her arrival. French and Italian we|e spoken to her, but she ap peared not to/understand these languages 7 — J - y ****** itlV V«Uf my. A company ofinfantry and a few dra- + Troops of veiy short stature and strong make, were much esteemed by Napoleon. They wore - ort breeches, and half gaiters. None of the men you !” Here the tears came from his eyes, and neither the captain nor any one around could conceal their kiudred sensation. All wept silently. The poor sufferer resumed : “ I have only to beg, Hr, you will take care that my dear wife and little ones shall have my back pay as soon as possible : I am not many hours, for this world.” The captain pressed hlsi hand, but could not speak. He hid his face in his handkerchief. % T “ I have done my duty, captain—have I not, Sir?” “ You have. Tom, you have—and nobly done it,” replied the captain, with great emotion. “ God bless you!—I have only one thing more to say.” Then addressing one of his comrades, he jtsked for his haversack, which was immediately handed to him. “ I have only one thing to say, captain,” said he: “ I have not Been very well this week, Sir, and did not eat all my rations. I have one biscuit—it is 'all I possess. You, as well as others, Sir, are without bread; take it for the sake of q poor grateful soldier—take it—take it, Sir; and God be with you—God Almighty be with you !” The poor good natured creature was tof tally exhausted as he concluded; he leaned back—his eyes grew a dull glassy color— his face still paler, and he expired in about ten minutes after, on the spot. The cap- in the street: in the house they take off their breeches. Black Kings of the coast of Africa salute each other by squeezing three several times each others middle finger. The inhabitants of Caramania, in testifi- ing peculiar attachment open a vein, and pre sent to their friend the blood that springs forth to drink. When the Chinese meet their acquaintan ces after a lone separation, they cast them selves on their knees, incline their heads towards the ground two or three times, and put in practice, besides, a great many marks of affection. They have, besides, a kind of a ritual, or academy of compliments, where a number of reverences and genuflec tions, and the word suitable to each, are re gularly laid down. Ambassadors repeat these ceremonies forty days before appear ing at Court. The Otaheitans cock their noses at each other. The Dutch, who are great eaters, have a morning salutation, common to all ranks. Smaakely eeten ? Do you eat appetising[y They ask one another, Hoe vaart awe. 7 How do you voyage ? The latter form is de rived, undoubtedly from early times of the Republic, when every one was a navigator and a fisher. At Cairo the question is “ Do you per spire ?” because dry skin is looked on as an indication of a deadly ephemeral fever. In comparing the haughty Spaniard with the fickle Frenchman, some authors have discovered the pride and lofty bearing, and infl xjble importance of the former, in his Usual salute, “ Como esta ?” “ How do you hold up 1” Whilst the Comment vous por~ teg vous V* “ How do you cany yourself?” of the second is equally expressive of their joyous humour and careless activity. let the Southern provinces of Chile the s location is y a fan 1 Have you ate your rice. Leaning Tower of Pisa.—In ten minutes after our arrival^ we were upon the top of the Leaning Thvver, at the height of 190 feet from the ground. The ascent by means of spiral flighty *>f steps winding up in the interior, iq feaiuarduqus and fatiguing than might be su$p^»|j^L This tower was to us a perfect noye|E«jth in design *and con struction. cJt is2nL belfry {campanile) to the Cathedral, tho'ugff standing, several rods from it,'and erected at a subsequent period. Its form is circular, per naps thirty feet in diameter at the base, slightly tapering to- nice and minute search round all the pre mises. Wordsworth, who so truly to ture describes the loss of Lucy Gray, The sweetest tin g that ever grew Beside a human door,” could tell of the agony of the parent, and the more useful, because less agitated, exer tions of her fellow labourers. But we will leave him and return to the factory. Some one, when all other aid seemed to fail, pro- po. ed to ring the factory hell. “ It might,” he said, “ get more help, and it might awake the child, who might be sleeping some where, and rni^ht be wakened up—at any rate it could do no harm, and besides thero was nothing else they could do.” Tho lanthorns and the factory b‘H in the night, aroused all the bells in the neighbourhood, and all the inhabitants of the contiguous c ty. The cry of “ fire,” and of “ where is it ?” was raised at once. Down came the engines—down came the people, and, best ot all, down came the Fire wardens. Joab Stark, a hard working man in the day time, anda proportionally hard sleeping man in the night, had heard nothin;; of all this disturbance, though he lodged in the factory buildings, and though they had been ransacked from ridgepole to foundation, un til he was aroused by the voice of. an en ergetic Firewarden, who for once did not exactly know what he was about, with the plain and intelligible command, “ form a line !” at which he awoke and inquired what was the mhtter. The warden could’nt tell him, but the mother could.—“ She had lost her child,” she said, “her little Jim that he used lo play with, and she could’nt find him, and the Engines had’nt,.nothing to do with it.” “ All firelock,” said Joab,. 1 went out t on an arrand this afternoon to the paper mills, and I see Jim at Squire Tim Han cock’s—he’d run aw 7 ay and he was too tired to walk back and I tho’t he’d better stay there, and I’d come hack and tell the folks where he was—and then wheir I come back I forgot all about it” Sweepers in hi shiife, as well as in low A certain poor gentleman not twenty miles from Pittsfield, whose scantv property was proof against the law, owned a hog, whicl he had taken much pains to fat—a certaii rich character w ould fain have satisfied his demand by sending one of those saucy gen- tlemen, who are always greeting the pom man, to destroy his hopes* But the Jaw, which leaves the poor man one hog, forbade diameter at the base, sligtitiy tai ermg to-! !"Tn f° m ^ exceeding coino ission n wards the top, eight .stories high, and built j * .. a e ®°?J® ver 7 chart able, an offtkhite marble. The style of architecture ! • .• 1 >3 debtor^with kindness—h • • 1' « * . -. - of ?'. ve s him a small pig. The poor man thank him a thousand times, and departs wondei Few words were spoken. The body was b£me along with us to the wood, where the division was bivouacked, and the whole of tl e company to which the man belonged at tended his interment, which took place in about two hours after. He was wrapped infiis blanket, just as he was, and laid in the earth. The captain himself read a prayer over his grave, and pronounced a short but mpressive eulogy on the merits of the departed. He showed the men the biscu t, as he related to them the manner m which it had been given to him, and he de clared he would never taste it, but keep the token in remembrance of the good sold'er, even though he starved.—The commissary, however, arrived that night, and prevented the necessity of ! trial to the captain’s ami able resolution. At the same time, I do be lieve that nothing would have made him eat the biscuit—This is no tale of fiction : the fact occurred betore the author’s eygs. - - \ ft ' Different inodes of SalutaticfL.—The Greenlanders^ never salute one another ; is mixed, and scarcely reducible to any the entitled, orders. All the stories except the uppermost are girt with open galleries, composed of pillars and arches, presenting the most light, airy, and fanciful piece of net-work imaginable. The seventh story contains a chime of bells; and the eighth is left open, guarded by an iron balustrade. But the greatest curiosity about this tower is its inclination. It . nods towards the south-east by a variation from a perpen dicular at top of about fourteen foot; and another slight jog would throw it without the centre of gravity. To the spectator, as the clouds swim by, it really appears in the attitude of falling, it has, however, stood in this position for six centuries, and may perhaps, stand as many more ; though a moderate shock of an earthquakejgould ap parently rock it from its base, and prostrate its enormous load of marbles upon a block of houses directly under it. Its inclination has given rise to various speculations. Some have supposed it was originally constructed in this way as an architectural curiosity. Others believe that while it was in progress, the ground gave way, causing the inclina tion ; and that another story, leaning in a contrary direction was subsequently added, by way of a balance to keep it from falling. But what kind of a philosopher must the architect have been, to place a heavy weight in any position, upon the top of a structure, to prevent it from tumbling ? In my opinion the subject does not admit of a doubt. On ing at the miser’s unaccustomed generosity He has hardly time to carry home thin new member of his family, when in comes w th- out knocking (for good breeding is out oj the question with these gentry) the man o: the law, and told him the law allowed bui one hog, and as he had now two, he shouk take the fat one away. Chagrined, th< poor man now saw the length and depth ol his creditors generosity, he told the sherif his family depended on the hog for a sup. port, and if he would wait in the house a few minutes he would go and get security, th< sheriff consented, he went therefore an< took the poor pig, cut his throat, and thei called out the sheriff and told him the secu rity lay before the door .—Pittsfield £r^us fl Divorcc.~--A short time since, in an ad joining town, a happy pair were regular!' joined in wedlock by a facetious townshij Squire, whose fees totally exhausted th! funds ofthe bridegroom. Not many days it appears, had eiapsed before the parties who had been joined “ till death should then part.” became mutually dissatisfied will their lot, and returned to the squire will many tales ot woe, beseeching hipi with, a! their eloquence to tin marry them, which In a seed to do, provided he was previously j paid the sum of three dollars, double the fee 1 of the last ceremony.—This sum the bride groom paid by a w eek’s labour on the .squire’s farm. Then came the ceremony of “ part- examining the base, the lower tier of stones! • „ mu • V ; , f'"i ”* r- was found above ground on one side, and • 1?^’ ^ g® ® { l uire placed a hlock upon t * • • • - * — ’ floor, on which was put a live cat: one pu sunk into the earth on the other. Now, un less the whole was intended as a curious deception, the foundations would not have been thus planted.—Cartels Letters. From the Connecticut Mirror. Why should pot a tale of nature, of truth, and in itself of interest, be as attentively read, and as deeply considered, when it happens within a few miles, and is t»l<p in ed the head and the other the ta 1. while tl squire, with an axe, severed the cat in twaij at the same time exclaiming, “ Death !■; now parted you!” The couple departs with a firm belief that the performance \\i strictly legal, and have not lived togetln since.—Painsville, Ohio, Gazette. A candidate for office in Vermont, wl offered as evidence ofb is ability plaiu language, as one whose scene is laid evidence oflus ab£ ^ afar off, and whose incidents dre described M ts duties, that he had been “ following* t, in a Scotch or an Irish dialect?—This last jseveral years 7 *" was answered by week, a married woman in the neighbouring wa f’ * » ^ut at such a distance that y< town of—~ who had been working in a i wA* never overtake it!” cotton factory, missed, some hour or so at-! ■« m*