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MISCELLANEOUS. ORIGINAL POKTKY. THE StORJf. ‘tow's the rc ign of wild disorder, Hark! the |ielting waters pour! From Ike tro:d.'.-d ocean's border, Listen to the dreadful roar. Hear Hie north wind loudly screaming', Scouring with resisting force, ■ ■ the rain through valli-s streaming, In a wild, irriguous course. This is black confusion’s hour, Now lie rules the briny main; And, extending wide his power, Scatters ruin o’er the plain. r - •<: uprooted is the willow, Pine* and cedars scatter’d lie; Mark liow every white capt billow, Foaming swells toward the sky. Now the peasant quitting labor, When lie gains his little cot, Sighing wonders if his neighbor Safely shelter'd is, or not. Faster still the water’s pouring, Gloom terrific shades the sky, Save before the thunder’s roaring, When the vivid lightnings fly. Now upon the foaming ocean, Listen to desponding cries; Ships with quid: alternate motion, IWmwird plunge, again to rise. Long beaten, now the brine they drink, Now meet more dangerous waves ; And in a moment down they sink, And find them watery graves ! How many a soul that instant fled, Torn by some ruthless billow ; llow many a lifeless mortal’s head Lies on a coral pillow. Ah ! hence the seamen views that powV With su] plkating eye, Which rules the iieav’m., where'er tl.aylow’ri Portending storms are nigh. TO AMANDA, Wit!, EMMA CORBETT. AM ANDA, view the soft pathetic lines, Where tender love and glowing genius shines, When Lmr.iu weeps j—where hapless Henry draws The heart-felt tear, in lave and virtue’s cause. Ves, Emma weeps, behold her sorrow s rise, View the dear dew-droops trembling h her civs. Set! round her Henry’s course the mourner moves, She dies—the r.iar'yv of unhappy loves. So the poor turtle, desolate ard lone, Breathes to the winds his melancholy moan ; M< ‘tuns his lost low, with many a plaintive coo, Aml sighs his soul out with the fond adieu. An anda say, bv such sad scenes ir press’d, What gloom parades the sorrow-teeming breast.’ How weeps the soul, what sighs the besom swell ; Speak i rig:! softness, for thou bt at const tell. Ha e oft thy AvotiH’s manly bosom glows, And the soft tear all sympathetic flows : Full est for Emma, lovely maid, distress’d, His tender heart-strings vibrate in his breast. For Henry^oft.the bursting sighs give place, And tin; soul melts on his impassion’d fact. r.ut while embosom'd in this vale of tears, F.iStreaaing wee on every side appears ; If right the hard Amanda, can divine, Fair happiness shall be forever thine. Th’ indulgent care of Providence shall bless Thy lovely m ind, and w ard off keen distress i Joy sltr.ll beam on thee with her sun-shine ray, And peace eternal gihl thy happy day. WHAT IS HAPPINESS? ‘TIS an empty fleeting shade, By imagine: ion in. de : ‘Tis a bubble, straw, or worse ; ’Tis a baby’s hobby-hr rva : ’Tis a little living, clear; ’Tis ten thousand pounds a year: ’Tis a title, tis a name; ’Tis a puff of empty fame, Fickle as the breezes blow: . ‘Til a I atlv’s t-rs or no ! - Ami when the description’s crown’d, ’Tis just no where to be found. from the Failed Staten Gazette. WASHINGTON’S JiiRTH DAY. FROM Helicon's embowering shades, Descend,each muse on rapture’s wings, Apollo, join the inspiring ma and;. And sweep the loud it sounding strings ! While answering echos* hail the morn, When thou, great llathiugt-m \v; s ban! Thy martial deads id', tongues employ, From Georgia, to Hantoniu’a bound, While shouts of universal joy', Th* extended continent resounds ! “ This day, (re-echoing skies return) “ Illustrious IVutt.ington was bom !” He leaves the sweet aliodes of peace, And mounts Bellona’t iron car, Ensured bv destiny success, He rules the thundering t idv of wsr! Till vanquished vet’rans curse the morn, Victorious IVutlUngltm was horn! His country freed, lie sheathes the sword, Untainted by Ambition’s fires, And joy’d to see her rights restor’d, In silent majesty retires— His brows eternal wreathes adorn ! This dav, great Washington was born! Oar’phrioui conn til vt ion owes To him its beauty, strength and grace, Who with compatriot peers arose, And Freedom built on law’s firm base! Then bail the Patriot, by whose aid, The glorious corner-stone was laid.’ While the warm blood bedews our veins, This annual tribute will we pay, And in full chorus, swell the strains, To hail our hero’s natal day ! Forever sacred be the morn, When thou, great IFaehington , was bom ! ANECDOTE From the Speech of Mr Clay, in the House ol Representatives of the United States, on the Navy Bill. To illustrate tire commercial habits ami enterprise of the American peo ple, lie would relate an anecdote of a vessel built and cleared out at Pitts burg for Leghorn. When she arrived at her place of destination, the master presented his papers to the custom house officer at Leghorn, who would not credit them, and who said to the master, “ Sir. your papers are forged —there is no such place as Pittsburg ,in the world!” The trembling captain ’jhiid before the officer a map of the fruited States; directed him to the Uulpli of Mexico; pointed out the mouth of the Mississippi; led him a thousand miles up it to the mouth of the Ohio, ami thence another thousand up to Pittsburg. “There, sir, is the port whence my vessel cleared out.” The astonished officer, before he saw the map, would as soon have believed that this ship had been navigated from (he moon! A butcher of considerable eminence was lately in company with some la dies at the game of quadrille, where unfortunately he did not exhibit him self as a clever fellow . After having lost two or three pools,one of the la dies addressing him ashed, ‘ Pray sir, what are stakes now?’ To which he immediately replied, “ Madam, the best rump 1 cannot sell lower than ten pence a pound.” The grabbers of “ smuggled” goods are not always unaccommodating; as w e observe [in a Canandaigua paper] that ten barrels [marked “ sugar”] were lately seized at Biack Rock, and taken, by a deputy collector, up to Buffalo, that on opening his prize bar rels, they only contained sail, the ow ner of which being rather poor, had long been waiting for the assistance of some friend to get it to Buffalo, [his home] and of course felt very grateful to the disappointed deputy. In a late London paper we met with a paragraph, stating that Air. John Kemble had sold out his interest in Co vent Garden Theatre with a view of investing his money in that of Drury Lane, now erecting. We have this day learnt from a source of undoubted au thenticity, that Mr. Kemble has real!’ done so, and that he means to fill up f!ie interval between quitting the one ami the completion of (he other theatre. by a tour through the United States. He may he daily expected. We con gratulate the amateurs of the legiti mate drama, and of rational amuse ,:u‘Uf upon t ..is early opportunity of beholding the performance of this migh ty monarch of ti e stage. Bureau. Short sayings on small subjects. AT the commencement of the French Revolution, it was quite com mon for obscure persons in Paris, to give themselves consequence by aban doning their old names, and assuming those more agreeable to the populace. One called himself Citizen f.l'g.rty, another Citizen Equality, aiA Ci tizen Rights of Mar. —and the publish er of a violent little paper, called die Jacobin, dubbed himself Citizen Guil lotine Gidav.ec! In this country, no name causes greater sivay than Repub lican: we have therefore, a paper cal led the Albany Republican published by Samuel Republican Brown. Mr. Republican hopes that nobody will envy him—there's no danger. Ile may lie pitied, but certainly can never be envied. A Yankee being asked, if he ever knew of such a tiling as a prorogue in New-England, gravely replied—No— among all the Rogues there, 1 never heard of a pro-rogue. General Root, the senator,sometimes attempts to be witty. “Do you think, said he, addressing himself to a gen tleman in the senate chamber—“ Do you think I shall be able to Root out this noxious weed r”— 4i You are hog enough to root out almost any thing,” retorted the gentleman.— Albany Reg. [Remo.] from, the Msc-¥ork Com. Advertiser. City of Washington, April 13th. Mr. Lewis, 1 have observed, in the public pa pers of New-York, that a detachment of the militia of that state is ordered to the defence of the frontier by the gov ernor of the state, in the pursuance of in structionsfrom the president of the C nited States. Upon w hat constitutional ground this measure is adopted, it is impossible for nie to conreiie ; certain lam. that it highly imports the state of Ncw-York, to keep a vigilant eye on this proceeding, to canvass i! as involv ing the most important constitutional question. The rights and privileges of the militia are of the first moment to the respective states ; and let them look well to it,how tiiey art; made use of by the president of the United States for any other purpose than those speci fied in tin’ constitution. By the constitution, the militia can he called forth in three cases only ; to execute the laws of the Union —to sup press inmrrectiom —and to repeal inva sions. Neither of the two first cases are pretending to exist; but the last, in vation, is the alledged ground of the President's requisition on the Governor of Ncw-York. The U. States invaded by the Canadi ans!! ! —Strange passing strange ! ! —1 would not ask for the evidence of inva sion from Canada, hut 1 put the ques tion to every man in the United States, if this pretence is not fase on the falce of it, and the reverse literally true. Have r.ot the United States upon the floor of Congress, [During the whole course of the present session,] threatening to in vade the Canadas ? Have they not voted armies for this avowed purpose ? On the other side, have we not seen the go vernment of Canada intent only on de fence against the. threatened invasion ? Does not the comparative weakness of Canada evince that she never will pro voke hostilities; that while she must always fear invasion from us, the first strains her from setting a hostile foot upon our soil ? If there he a man who fears invasion from Canada, it is in vain to reason with them. There is then neither the * Invasion specified in the constitution, nor the ‘'imminent danger of invasion, ” pro vided for by the act of the ;otli of Feb. ID.>3; and let the governor and citi zens of Neo-York look well to it, how they lent themselves to the views of the president of the United States, and sanction a measure in the very teeth of the constitution. What arc their view s r—l answer. Agression, meditated hostilities upon the Canadas, to be brought about by the militia; and it must he confessed, that the means are happily adapted to the end. As soon as cur militia detach ments take their station on the frontier of the United States, the Canadians, having witnessed the deliberations in Congress for invading that country, and conscious of their having had r.o intention of invading the U. States, will consider our movement as in exe cution of the threat to invade Canada, and will of course collect an opposing military force for defence. Hostile passions will be excited, and disputes collisions and bloodshed inevitably fol low'.—Here the threatened war begins, and through the agency of the militia. — After rivers of blood shall have been shed, the United States may possess themselves of all the Canadas and N o va-Scotia; when Great-Britain may say: Retrace your steps and restore alt to the former owners, or you shall never sail a vessel upon the ocean. The orders in council are unjust, iiut how are they conquered by invading Canada ? But i.atevercoursc government may adopt, I't not the militia, the sacred bulwark of the individual stales, he made by the executive of the United States the in struiuc.K, of their own destruction; let nut the citizen soldiers of the state, woic ii tiie Coi:A. mtion appoints only to repel invasions, he converted into instruments of aggression—to .. tide others. Ueges de'irant, plectuntur arhivi, Tiie people arc sacrificed io the policy of Rulers. ———sti iwmiii■■mu Savannah, May Ist, tsi2. Dissolution oi’ Copartnership. rg AHE copat t ersbip of the firm of I D. KJ. DOUGLASS, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. DA * to : OF GLASS. JOHN IKIUGLUS.S. The business in It -e will be carried on by- .!ohn Dougeass, who duly authorises David bough.. his lawful agent and attorney, to conduct the business, at the old stand in \\ hi taker street, where lie has a large and general supply of Philadelphia made Boots, ladies and gentlemens Shoes and Slippers, childrens Morocco and Leather Buskins, &c. which will be said cheap for cash only. JOHN DOUGLASS. ffT ALL Persons indebted to the late firm of D. & J. DOUGLASS, is required to call and settle their ac counts within ten days from the date above, or they will be placed in the hands of an attornev. for collection. DAY ID DGUGLASB, Agent for John D ol cljss. May 3 7 At Private Sale, 10 Hhds. Fairview Gin, 13 do. and 20 bids. Whiskey, 3 Pipes India Point Gin, 2 do. Spanish Brandy. 1 Pipe and 2 bbls. French do. 1 llhds. high flavored 4th proof U ii ni, 4 do. and 3 bbls. X. E. liuni. 20 Bbls. Philadelphia Beer [fresh] 10 do. Shrub, 2 Pipes Madeira Wine, 10 Finds, and 5 bbls. Muscovado Sugar, 12 Chests Hyson Tea, 20 Bags Coffee, 23 do. Black Pepper, 30 Boxes Soap and Candles, 10 do. Chocolate, 10 Bills, prime Beef, 23 Kegs Manufactured Tobacco, 3 Hhds. Glass Ware, 3 Boxes Cotton Cards, No. 8, too Pieces Hunihuins, 20 Pieces Cotton Bagging, 30 do. Tow Cloth, 10 do. Ticklenburgs, 30 Reams Writing Paper, 25 Coils W hite Rope, 3 Boxes Cotton Cards, 30 M. white Chapel Needles, l Small Trunk Cutlery, Cassimere, Calico, India Bed- Sprcads, Handkerchiefs, &e. ike. 1). YYILLIFORD. Slav 1. 6 Rum and Salt. Just received by the ship Winifred, from Rhode Island, 20 hogsheads N. E. Rnni 2SO bushels Liverpool ground Salt ON HAND. An extensive assortment of American manufactured Goods Bedtiek. Chambrays, Stripes Plaids. Cotton Balls, &e. 12 reams Whiting Paper. P. H. & T. CRAPON. April 21 5t 3 SHOES k BOOTS, Selling cff at E MBA RC 0 pr j ! t HP HE SUBSCRIBERS, into,!, £ to relinquish their present li ne business, offi r for SALE t vent ed prices their W HOLESALE.yj ( < L\ TRADE, eonprising a general very extensive assortment of Bdols and Shoes, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Purchasers for the country trade respectfully invited to call. Greit bargains will he offered, as the eonceq must be closed by the 13th of Junenej and until that time, SHOES &e, be sold at retail much less than t! usual priees. They have received laiJ additions to their former stock, by r cent arrivals from New-York and Bos ton—among which are the following 3000 pair Ladies MORROCCO SLIP. PERS, all colors and qualities 1500 do do Leather do 2300 Mens SHOES different qualities, Gentlemen’s fine Morrocco and LeatL, Pumps [with and without buckles] L a . dies Kid Slips, do. Morocco Boon, Nankeen Boots, Grecian Sandies, Sli - -i sand Childs Morocco and Leal). Bootees and Slippers, Boys fine Shoe, and Pumps, Morocco and Leather -3 trunks New-York BOOTS, and tv® do. Boston do—A quantity of Negro Shoes. ALSO. 2 eases Straw Bonnets, Ilumhur.i India Cheeks,Gilla Htikf’s. too Rear • Writing Paper, Plank Books, pkyi. ; Can’s. Morocco Skins, loco yart’s low Cloth, Morrocco. Travelling ar.i house Trunks. &e. &r. BARNS A EVELETR. ’ April ll fiw—t Gibbons* Ihiildig Carriage k Horses. TIIE SUR SCR IB EH, OFFERS fin sale his CARRIAGE and HORSES, which are ir.fe rior to none in the city. To save un, necessary trouble, the lowest price wii! he fifteen hundred dollar?, GEORGE HARRAI April 2'i. t j Mrs. RAMSAY? A few Copies, for sale by HARRAL <s• COPPER, Boßon* Centre Building, and at this Office. (TT this work comes particularly recommended to the piou.-,. ft lU* ‘ss interesting materials, adorned bv <!■* elegant pen of the celebrated’ Dr Ramsay. April 11 i Administrator’s Sale. YL&7TLL he sold, before my store Y * on F RIDAY, the 13th day n May, at the usual hour, ail the person al property of Thoteas Harrison, dei consisting of V. earing Apparel,lions; bald and Kitchen Furniture. By oi der of the administrator. D. WILLIFORD, Aucl'r. May 1 Notice. THE SUBSCRIBER I.IIYDS it necessary to bring all the _ debts due him up to the first ol January last, to a final settlement ; he has therefore appointed George Y M-Intosh, Esq. his Attorney, to make collections for him ; ami all Notes am Accompta the first day •! June next, will he put in suit. GEORGE HAURAL. April 2t St a OFFICE FOR THE SALE Os .YEGROES. ripilE SUBSCRIBER having loua M been in the habit of disposing of .NEGROES, and being well acquaint with those persons most likely to pur chase in (lie states of South Carolina and Georgia : Hatters himself that li* can obtain fair prices and speedily ef fect sales. His services are tendered with an assurance, that candor will in all eases be observed as to any enquiry made regarding the character aud qual ifications of Negroes in his possession, and care will be taken to investigate tittle as far as in his power, that impo sitions may he avoided and as be h - made it a business will inform i ,n.s.“a of the true situation of that species ■ a property. HD attention will al-o V directed to the sale of lands, |* c es and lots and every article of merchan dize and produce. ]>. POLOCK. N. 15. A con:;’, rtable horse, and a person to take charge ox Negroes is provided at IS] cents per day till *'<!. Have now for sole several vale-ri i” house servants, and field Lands, singly and frumilies. Ainili 7 law lm