Georgia times and state right's advocate. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1833-1834, September 11, 1833, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOeorgia. Times, & State mints’ Advocate.* BY ROCKWELt A R tIFORB vmSS A.M> STATE KKiHTS’ ADVOCATE, /> published Werklg in the Turn nf Mlll-.dgtrUle, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANN I'M, PAVAM.E IS ADVANCE* (rj" Advertisements inserted at the usual rates; those sent without a specified number of inser tions, will l-e published until ordered out, am! charged accordingly. Sales of Laud, by Administrators, Ex Tutors, or Guardians, are required, hy law, to he held on the. first Tuesday in the, month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the court-house in the county in which the property is situate. Notice of these sales must he given in a public gazette sixty days previous to tlicdav es sale. Sales of negroes must he at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of : ale. at the, place of pub lic sales in the county where the letters Testamentary, of Vliuinistrati >u or Guardian ship, may liave been granted, first giving st.vty davs notice thereof, in otic of the public ga zettes es this State, and at the door of the court-house, where such sales are to he held. Notice for the sale es Personal Property must he wiven in like manner, forty days previous to the. day of sale. Notice to the fletters and Creditors of an Es tate must he published for forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary for leave i» sell Land, must he published four months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for four months before any order ab solute shall he made thereon hy the Court I'OE'A'SiV. t;»!i country dance. BY T. H. SAVI.Y. I flood amid the glittering throng— I heard a voice, its tones were sweet, f turned to see from whence they cunie, And gazed on all I longed to meet. She w as a fair and gentle girl: Her bright eye greeted mine by eiiancc J whispered low— I took her hand, I led her forth to dance. There was but little space to move, So closely all wore drawn ; Yet she was light of heart and step, And graceful as a fawn. A virgin flowret gemmed her hair, Her beauty to enhance ; She was the star of all who tood In tint close cottage dance. I’ve moved filice then iri stately ha! la, I tread them ei cn now ; I hold in mine the hand of one \Y itii coroneted brow ; m .And I may seem to court her ?inile, And seem to heed her glance ; But my heart end thoughts still wander horn*, To that sweet country dance. Oft when I sleep, a melody Conu s rushing on niv brain ; And the light music of that sight Is greeting me again { I take her still small hand in mine. Amid my blissful trance ; And once more, vision* «.*»rrh niy life, I lead her forth to danoc. Wandering to s!ie W«st It was a day for a painter to have gone! rrazv about when 1 sprang into tlie stage j at Utica, and ordered the curtains up all; round. There was a sky overhead worth going a pilgrimage to see, of a deep blue,' with here and there the thin wool’ of a cloud lapsing over the sun, and then min ing into the depths of the heavens in invisi ble vapor. The whole atmosphere seem ed moving to she eastward with an equa ble motion, and as we passed through the streets, children were standing here and there, unconsciously subject to ail the posi tive delieiousness of the mingled currents from the lakes and from the south.—and now and then a beautiful face was seen at a window or door, with the unbonnetted hair blowing freely in the sunshine. The grass had sprung up anew between the paving-stones, and here and there a vine clinging to the house side was swinging its green buds in the warmth which was ra pidly developing its leaves ; and, added to all this, we were told that the road would he for some distance good. And this, as sure yourself, was no small consolation to us,who had been dragged some sixty miles through roads almost impassable—who had ridden the whole distance with eight in the stage had been forced to drag the coach out of a mud-hole tit midnight, and after all, had obtained but some four hours’ sleep. In consequence of which, to my shame he it said, I was caught once or twice “ developing the mood of ancient Nox,” hy getting into a kind of slumbrous dream —even in the midst of beautiful scenery. — Some time passed pleasantly by, however, and not fur from U tica we took in two new companions. The otic was a middle nged, stout man, with a face of the most implacable acidity; which acidity, too, "as manifestly of the Scottish species.— Ilis nose approximated fiercely towards his chin, his eves were small, eyebrows shaggy, and his voice like the brattling of 8 tin trumpet. In short, lie was the very man to put to shame all sentiment, and to 858 a cause for every burstof laughter.—- h there is any being who is to be prayed against and avoided in a coach; this were the man. Your best story hath no point ,0 him, and he lights up his little optics "nth a twinkle of savage amazement at every hearty symptom of existence which develop*# itself in a cacliinnation. Your finest pun cannot unlock the wrinkles into "Inch lie purses up Ins mouth. Your most brilliant sally cannot separate his eyebrows—nay, not even the stout* .-t jolt ' 'die stage ‘-an extract a groan tor that ‘'cn would cheer the solitude. To sum jup all in otic word, such a being is a fire- I damp to die hilarious atmosphere of a coach. His companion was a collegian from i New-York—one who knew the localities 1 and the ladies, and the on dits of the city t — w hat more need I say of him ! He was ' the antithesis of our l’olyphemus—the ! very antipodes of him—having store ol i jests oi which he was not niggardly, and I some acquirements of which he was not proud—so that we soon were intimate— i and in spite of the visage just opposite wc contrived to amuse ourselves. Theworsl i of the matter was, that old November, who seemed to delight in interrupting us, wouldjust in the middle of some story pour ; torth such a torrent of coughing that you could hardly hoar yourself— tiii at length we determined to revenge ourselves. ‘‘ Have you heard of the bank robbers?” ; inquired my collegian of me—then con : tinned addressing the cross passenger ; •* I take it sir, that you are one of the con stables, or perhaps a deputy-sheriff sent | out with a search-warrant”— then added, ias if soliloquizing—“ I know lie is not a : high-sheriff hy his looks.’* Jove ! how our friend looked. Astonish ment kept him motionless for an instant or two, when he entered—“ Ia sheriff—l’d let”—and swallowed his anger with an inhaling of the breath like a wild High lander. We stopped again ere long, and found a new passenger w aiting for .us. It was a chattering Irishwoman, with a child. I'ind j ing that she was going with us, we inform ;od her privately that our old tormentor ; was an Irishman—at which she opened j her eyes widely, and ejaculating, “ and why won’t I talk to him thin, sureshe | rushed to the coach and seated herself another person who had waited for a stage also, getting in, took the front seal, and my fellow-traveller, the collegian, and my self occupying the other part of the front and all the middle seat, our crabbed gen tleman, when he sot down his glass, empti ed of its brandy and water, and advanced to the coach, found no seat for himself ex cept that by the Irishwoman. This was a hitler pill for him, but there was no al ternative, so he made the best disposition ol himself possible—drew down his eye brows, contracted the space between his chin and nose, and wc drove on. The first crack of the whip was hardly over, when his self-styled countrywoman began upon him, and well did she perform her part. Blie recounted her voyage from j Ireland—her husband’s departure to the I west—her troubles and her joys. 1 know not how it is,those who have little in their heads are ever the most prodigal of it. — I cannot explain how it is that the igno rant are always the fastest talkers-—but so it is—the fact is established and stands firm, and that is, and then was. enough tv. uur J~tn prre | onri it ultroTO vetll l»v*. . Directly the child opened her throat and commenced a solo; and this was in truth enough to try the patience of any being, not to mention one with a disposition as crooked as was our friend’s ; and to say the truth, had it not been so tormenting to him, I mvsclf should have withered under it. 1 never could be in favor twenty-four hours where a cross child was, in the course of mv life. Add to this, there was all the silly affectation of a mother talking with her child—and that mother an Irish one. Wo were amply revenged—but if I had been called upon to insure the bodily safety of the squalling infant, I should have uttered a decided negative after a private look or two which the crabbed gentleman shot at it. Did you ever sec tiic grin that a tiger puts on when his keejicr urges him with his iron rod or wooden bar to show his points to the gaping rustics about him ? That’s it for all the world. It is the cx ' act look of old Verjuice. I verily believe that he wished he had the infant’s neck be tween bis fingers. Did you ever observe the crying of an infant philosophically ! I have tried sometimes to subject it to j rule—but it always defies me; it is more ; irregular titan the data of comets. .\uu there shoots out a long yell, till the little imp turns black in the face—then a scatter ing fire of short, sharp screeches, with ‘ dead silence between—then a low, con stant moaning, like that <>f a sick panther ■ then sobs at intervals ; and all these va riations tortured into as many combina tions as any sum in the rule of permutation lias shown live numbers to be susceptible <>f. .No wonder Calvin thought that chil dren were totally depraved. They are vorv demons when they take to crying in earnest. Wc rode in this way through a tract oi poorly settled country, and about ten in the evening arrived at .Manchester; and here I fell asleep, and hardly woke, except ■at the stopping-places, till morning. 1 heard that same dinning chatter till 1 tell asleep, and as soon as J awoke, till ! began to believe that our companion, the Insli -1 woman, talked without effort, as other people breathe. Towards sunrise I was waked by a ; loud noise. The'old gentleman had given the child of Madame la lrclandoise, a I sound cuff in the midst of a symphony, which operated finely in stopping it, but raised a tempest between him and the mother. She had scolded till she was hoarse, and just as I waked, in the midst of j | ICI - gesticulation, she had Jet her child roll to the bottom oi the stage. Lxaspcratcd at this, she attacked our old friend rt rt armis. lie. however, wr/uig her by the i lined*, removed her ftofn him—picked up lhe squalling rapparec, and then told her if •lllljSjllll (i M'j Y'IIjMsH, 15 Vrlwr ~#/✓/</, September 11, I SILL she was not quiet he would tie her hands up. She was beaten at her own weapons, we thought; not so. She accused him of striking her, and called upon us as wit nesses. We gave our evidence in her f*a j vor — a!| d “ Now,” said she, “ J'll he giving you an illigaut bit of the law when we get to Auburn- I have always had a good opinion ol that law about strikihg a woman —•ifniii the time when I saw a tailor five leet in his boots—fined and imprisoned for not lotting his eyes be torn out by a vira go—standing six feet two in her stockings. Uur old friend was like a chained bear till j noon, when we arrived at Auburn; and I he only pacified her at last, by taking the I ititant upon bis knee, and showing the little j wretch some attentions ; and the look of J piteous agony, mingled with rage, with | which he did it, would have warmed the I heart ol a Cruickshnnk—and the look with I which he left us at Auburn was worthy of j Shylock— vV. l r . .Mirror. -IScjs am! Women of Fashion. I.ADV LAli'llA IIMI.ISLK. I.ady I.aura Dchsle (we are sorry to say any tiling disparaging of so pretty a woman, but it lias been said of her so often, ;as to leave its no choice of epithet) is “an ; angel I”—Many people profess an opinion | angels arc very indefinite, others that j ’ llc .V a| c very insipid things; and wc Would : w ilhngly have defined our favourite as a ; “ charming woman,” or even as an “amia- I b!e creature.” Such epithets have, how ; ever, been adjudged unworthy of her im maculate excellence. An “angel,” her ladyship, or her ladyship's friends have chosen that she should be ; and an angel she must remain. It is true that, as a child, the f.adv Lau i\Vs nurses, and as a girl, the Ladyl.au ra’s governesses,were changedoftener than | those of any other little angel in the parish ol St. George’s, Hanover-squarc. But how could it be otherwise, when such high qualifications were indispensable to culti vate she high qualities incipient in the fu ture divinity ; and if on her presentation j and debut in society, she appeared desti | *hte of all intimate association with girls of her own age and degree, it is nowhere written in the reveries of .Madame Guvot or Monsieur Pascal, chief naturalists of the angelic tribes, that thev partake of a gregarious nature. Lady I .aura fluttered and warbled as a solitary bird; and the Countess, her mother, naturally attributed her insolation to the envy, hatred, and malice of the fail contemporaries, jealous. of her manifold attractions. The. imputation did »ui uiucfl signify ; i The accomplished and beautiful Laura w as. mated at eighteen; nor was one dissentient 1 voice heard among the two thousand which; constitute the world, when Humour pro claimed through the columns of our own 1 Court Journal; that Harry Delisle was to “an aiureJL” The Countess, her mother, shook her head, and hop. it to Heaven he might prove w orthy of her daughter; but, in process of time, it was proved that Harry's head began to shake ' in ifs turn. He was a fellow of too much feeling and delicacy to entertain flic world with a recital of his domestic happiness.— 13ut his club now began to notice, aside, ! that he grew thin, and bilious, and frac tious ; —fie was eithef out ol health or out ol temper; either his angel did not agree with him, or lie did not agree with his angel! It was very well lor the world t<> sur mise; for positive information on the sub ject was never fated to transpire. During tne debates which ensued, the Countess made a point of looking as racked by emo tion as .Medea, in her chapter of agony ; while Lady J.aura let grow her ringlets, attenuated her waist, left off her rouge, and, for a time, set up for a victim ! A martyr is a degree more cthcrial in the scale of beatitudes than an angel. But scarcely were the deeds of separation made out (deeds grounded on some myste rious accusation of injury, and endowing her with the freedom and privileges of widowhood without the disfigurement of its weeds.) when she once more limited her ambition to her original vocation. While a suffering angel, and subjected to the tyran ny of her good-humoured, open-hearted, } husband, Lady Laura had verged towards j evangelism, frequented the Lock Chapel, ' and stitched con amore f< >r the benefit of 1 various well advertised charitable institu tions. Now that she was a free agent, and canonized by the applause <>l her commis erating sex, she exchanged her pretensions to sanctity for an affectation of wisdom : | and, instead ol a Saint,became a skv-bluc, an angelic bel-esprit. Her first virtue was patience,—lier second, resignation ;—Ladv I .aura Dclislc now piques herself'upon her philosophy. Nhe has, in truth, especial occasion for magnanimity. The dealing mother, her support during her domestic afflictions, ! has of late become herself a jicrsccutrcss; ■ and hard indeed i.-> the fate w hich lias con demned Lady Laura Dclislc. all angel as ; she is, to be tormented by her nearest rcla- I fives, —her friends to be all faithless,_her : servants to be ali cheats. Were she not one of the prettiest women in London, with the voice of a dove and the timid ges ture ot a gazelle, it might be. suspected that her angelic nature admitted the adul teration of a pinch or two of human clay. But the tears come so persuasively into her blue eyes, when she talks of the inju- I t ies she has sustained, and she throws her j self so humbly upon the championship of ! every new friend, that every new season j* uates partisans lor a woman martyrized *■ !bv the despotism of Her husband, and j abandoned by the caprices of her family. One year, tlie Royal Family took up her j quarrels, the next some youthful hero pro j vokes a duel in her cause. Nay, a wo . man ol less etherial virtue might, perhaps, , incur disparagement from she warmth with which her defence is successively assumed by all the gallant gay dehuiers of Lrockford’s and the Travellers. But the very name of angel suffices l<> close the mouth of scandal. Lady I .aura Delisle may flirt on undisturbed: she has man aged to sanctify her cause, like the Maid of Orleans, against all enemies, past, present, or to come. She is asserted to be a woman of a wonderful nature; — she is unquestionably a woman of very w onderful art! — Mbion. A Lent from a “ Reefer's Loj;.” Iff were asked what name I would | give to a schooner that is a real long, low, black, Yankee, privateer-looking craft, j with a standing foreroyal-yard, and a long coach-whip stick ol a main-topmast, appearing to be about as thick at the top as one of my grandmother's knitting nee ! dies, 1 should say, call her Savoy Sal: ; and for good reason* ; in the first place, jit would be just the name a real sailor would fight i’or ; and in the next, —if there | is any thing on earth more impudent than ' a highwayman's horse—always sticking 1 1 1 is head into a gentleman’* carriage win dow,—it is one of those little, dodging, j dandy-looking craft. The little black devil is under water; and if there is any go-to-the-dovil job on hand, she is the only craft in die squadron can do it: moreover, having a young commander, and young officers, who ask nothing better than being sent into a scrape she is always kept in excellent order for such trifles I once had a salt-water bath ol a year’s duration in just such a craft, with as prime a set of officers as ever cracked hard jokes, and harder biscuit, in one of Uncle Nam’s regular promotion-ma king schooners. It was a long time ago, and officers wcTe not quite so particular then in bending a clean shirt every day; andtheair of small vessels not being quile as fashionable to wearing apparel, as Dominic Nampson found that of Kipplc tringaii, we did not cut any great swell in personal rig ; hut at spinning a long yarn or at the lee of a can of the right stuff her officers were as much at home as a mon key in the mizzen rigging. And then our cratt, —every thing about her as neat and trim as a pretty girl at her first party,- Willie •* 1 IV.VIII 1 lO »l« sure we had not much trouble about that, only make sail on her, and slic’d washed decks herself and all bauds into the bar gain. Nlie was decidedly the most showy craft under canvass, 1 have ever seen eith er before or since ; and as she hounded ovi-r t4vo wuvco, nt one mtffticnt just touch ing the top of the sea with the ease of the sportive dolphin along side, at the next, dashing from her hows a shower of* spray that showed its thousand rainbows in the glad sunshine, she reminded _>•<>... -atLu>i- ui\ the light hounding of the airy gazelle, than of a little black terrier female dog, whose sole duty was lo hunt, bark at, and bite too, (when it got within reach of her teeth) all pirate, smugglers, and other vigrom men. Little, however, did we on board the Saucy Nautilus care what wc were sent lor ; we did our duty, and corrected our Navy i.ists whenever any one happened to die over us, with sonic such expression as “one ratline higher;” or, “he was a clever fellow, but here goes the black mark ;” w e ate and drank our allowance, and if wc ever found fault with our orders, it was after they were executed, and then well out of car-shot of our superior offi cers. On the llHli of December, I- —, after wc had been shipmates for about eight months, and were of course well broke into rules'and regulations, we look our i departure from flic Capes of Virginia for a last cruise in the West Indies. Light breezes from the southward and pleasant. It was Saturday night, and of course wc took our can to sweatlicarts and wives, and drank “Farewell to America ! r and then had it sung by little Tom Mark, she only one in tlie mess that could turn a tunc, and the prime favorite from the forecastle to the cabin, although the youngest on board. 'Tom was not quite fifteen, light, active, fearless, and with a cast of counte nance that at first struck you as rather feminine, but upon looking at him atten tively you could at once discern the strong j lineaments of manliness, that only wanted a little more of the embrowning sun of the West Indies to give him as manly and officer-like a face as you would wish to ‘ see in a squall or calm. That night we had the wind pretty much up and down : there wasn’t as much slant in ii as there was rake to our spars. On the next day about ten, a light breeze from the north ward brought with it a heavy sea and cold air ; there was some looking for pea jackets and tarpaulins, and as the place we inhabited wasn’t very magnificent in its dimensions, they were pretty soon found. The wind was directly fair, and kept steadily increasing ; it became pret ty evident wc were going to have enough ;of it before next morning, and one after a nothcr, the rags were taken off her, till she didn’t show much more white than there is in the wing of a gull. Yards and spars came down, and everything was A-curcd lor a screamer, when we were piped down to enjoy a good supper. Wc had some fresh grub left and lots of sttifll "I shall turn in all standing to-night, like n trooper's horse, storm staysail and all? said Tom, as he sat down to tile mess kid, (it was rolling too heavy to use our apology for a table), “for I heard the skip per fell the first dickey he’d heave her to before 12 if the wind kept rising and the sea gettingup this no-man’s fashion, and old Franklin says we're going to have a real savage norther and he stowed a way the sapper us it he had been on short allowance for a twelvemonth. The rest ot us living more or less wet, got oft* some of our damage, but had our hard-weathers all ready. About half past eleven all hands were called, and w hen wc got on deck it was what long shoremen call a grand s|<.ctaele ; the little craft was dash ing over and into seas, I can't say they were mountains high, but they were as high as 1 want lo mount ever after. Wc waited, holdingat onrstations, every now and then getting a swallow of pure salt water, until the captain found a smooth time to bring her to. Nlie was handsome ly brought up, every thing got snug, and Mo boatswain ordered to splice the main brace. Down wc all tumbled into our little hole, to get our salt water mixed, as it was evident we were in for a Dutch dog watch, or an aii-nightcr, when someone inquired for Tom. The boy was sent to look for him, but he was nowhere to be found. The alarm was instantly given, and were were ali immediately ordered to quarters. The captain had lost his aid, and the service as promising an officer as ever was sacrificed in these beautiful and necessary, but dangerous little craft. [St iiiulurd' A Bystander** power of Regulating l>i earns. Dreams can be produced by whisper ing into the cars, when a person is asleep. One ol the most curious, as well as au thentic examples of this kind, has been re ferred to by several writers ; I find the particulars in a paper by Dr. Gregory, and they were related to him by a gentle man who witnessed them. The subject of it was an officer in the expedition to Lonirburg, in 1758, w ho had tlnspcoiffiar ily in so remarkable a degree, that his companions in the transport were in she constant habit of amusing themselves at his expense. They could produce in him any kind of dream, by whisjjering into His i car, especially if this was done by a friend! with whose voice lie was familiar, j.ti one lime lliev condiir-fiHi !•*••■ ?J.,..|..— *- «1... I whole jirogrcss of a quarrel, winch ended in a duel; and when the parties were sup posed to be met, a pistol was put into lus! hand, which he fired, and was awaked by ' flic* report. On another occasion they! found him asleep on tlie top of a locker, or bunker, in the cabin, w hen they made j him believe he had fallen overboard, and' exhorted him to save himself by swim ming. They then told him that a shark was pursuing him, and entreated him to dive lor his life. He instantly did so, with such force as to instantly throw him-) r-rrO cirtfrcfy from Me foeker upon the cab in floor, by which he was much bruised,' and awakened of course. After the land-j ingot tlie army at I.ouisburg,lds friends' found him asleep in his tent, and evidently) much annoyed by the cannonading. They I hen made him believe that he was enga ged, when lie expressed great fear, and showed an evident disposition to run away j —Against this they remonstrated, but at] the same time, increased his tears by im-; baling the groans of the wounded and the dying; and when he asked,as he often did, who was down, they named his par ticular friends. At last they told him that the man next himself in the line had fal len, when lie instautly sprung from his bed, rushed out of tlie tent, and was roused j from his danger and his dream together) by fallingover the tent ropes. A remark-1 aide circumstance in this case was that,! after these experiments, he had no distinct 1 recollection of Lis dreams, hut only a con fused feeling of oppression or fatigue; and; used to tell his friend lliul ho was sure that iic was playing some trick upon him. A case entirely similar, is related in Nmol-' lie’s Natuial history, Me subject of which] was a Medical student at the University] of Edinburgh. A singular fact has often been observed iu dreams which arc excited by a noise,] namely, that the same sound awakens the] person, and produces a dream, which ap pears to him to occupy a considerable time. The following example of this has been related to me : A gentleman dreamt ] that he enlisted as a soldier, joined his re giment, deserted, was apprehended, car ried back, tried, condetned to be shot, and. at last, led out f'oi execution! After all the usual prepajations, a gun was fired : he awoke with the report, and found that a noise in an adjoining room had both produced the dieam and awaked him.] The same want of Me notion of time is ; observed iu dreams from other causes.! Dr. Gregory mentions a gentleman who,! alter sleeping in a damp place, was fora long time liable to a feeling of suffocation whenever fie slept in a lying posture, and! this was always accompanied by a dream j of a skeleton, which grasped him violent-1 ly by the throat, lie could sleep in a sit-, ting* posture without any uneasy leeiing : ana, alter trying various experiments, lie at last had a sentinel placed beside him. with orders to awak*: him whenever lie sunk down. On one occasion lie was at tacked by the skeleton, and a severe and long struggle ensued before be awoke VOLI.UE 7ilSI lt 33. On finding Guilt with his alter,d;int lor al lowing him to lie S" long in such a state of suffering, lit: was ussuii <1 that |,o ! ail in t lain an instant, but lad Inn avvyhen* cl the moment ho be-.j.ii to sfiik. The v.< u tlenan, stjicr a i. i.; I !,• time, iccov ereil from tlie title.- ion. , ' I »:t. Aberckoxbh;. "•"■y-aw- s*c«.\**n Trerwi anecdote. i lie llostim tStan:sriian relates the follow ing ain cdote of Mr. j\ar;dcrlin the distin guished American painter: " hen Aaron Durr was in his zenith,lie Imp ound in he traveling in the western parts of Ncw-Aork, and stopping one day at a tavern, lie saw w hat he took to be a fine engraving of uncommon vigor, lie spoko of it to the land lord, and was not a little amazed when he was told that it was a drawing made with a pen, hy a stupid boy of bis, an apprentice to the blacksmith’* trade of whom lie feared ho should never lit able to make tiny tiling. Durr sent lor tin: boy and was so much pleased with him that lie tried to obtain him, but tho master suspecting some secret value in Ids apprentice, would not nart with him at last on anv terms. * Take a shirt with you,’ said Durr in passing the boy, come to Ncw-York when you can get a chance, and ask for Aaron Durr—lie will take care of you. Some time had passed away and Durr had forgot the inci dent, when one morning at breakfast, in came the strangi -lookirig boy, anil as lie approach ed, he plm ketl out a bundle from his pocket and gave it to Inin. The Colonel ivas not a little amused to find it a slrirt. Here began till-acquaintance, here flic eminence of Van derlin ; and Heaven so ordered it, that when Aaron Burr, the .lulius Cmsarof our country, was in the wane, V anderhn, who had just lelt Paris, warm with favor and rich with nil that makes life comfortable encountered him in his late desolation and in his turn administered to the necessity of his benefactor. A\i:tnoTEs or a.ai 'iai.s. A si.MJt LAit i>vvicju, —\ singular cir cumstance, exhibiting in a remarkable de gree the reflecting faculties of a wolf, is related as having taken place at Signv le Petit, a small town on the borders of (’li.nnpitgne. A limner, one day, looking through the hedge of his garden, observed a wolf walking round his mule, but unable to get at him, on account of the mule’s ntclk fug VrillJ ins mi'..! legs. As the tanner perceived that his beast was so well able to defend itself lie consider ed it unnecessary to rentier him any as sistance. Alter the attack and defence had lasted fully a quarter of an hour, the wotf ranoff to a ncighbovin/r '•;« he several times plunged h\ , ° 'he water. T 1 - c ■ tic did this to re fresh himself alter tnc lattguc nr nail sus tained, and had no doubt that his mule hadgained a complete victory, but in u few minutes the wolf returned to the charge, and approaching as near as he could to the head of the mule, shook him self, and spurted a quantity of water into the mule's eyes, which caused him imme diately to shut them. That moment the wolf leaped upon him, and killed the poor nude before the farmer could come to his assistance. A mistake in Csnrttlifp. Personal resemblances are no doubt very frequently so strong as to be coti lounded easily. I knew an instance of a person paying his addresses to one sister, and offering to the other by mistake, was accepted and married ; and he did not discover the blunder until he found his spouse eared not for the charms of music, an accomplishment which the original ob ject of bis affections possessed. 1 also knew of an instance in which a person ran away with a young lady, where he thought lie had made a sudden conquest; but it turned out that she mistook him lor his brother. .Since, however, the ancients personated love as blind, such little mis takes are not to wondered at; although to the cool observant eye of the natural ist, perhaps, the trilling discrepancies over looked occasionally, will always" be mani fest.—[Metropolitan. There arc seasons, often m the most dark or turbulent periods ofour life, when, why we know not, \vc are suddenly called from ourselves, by the remembrances ot early childhood : sometiling touches the electric chain, and, Jo In host of shadovv y and sweet recollections steal upon us. The whcci rests—the oar is suspended, we arc snatched from the labor and travail of present life; we arc born again, and live anew. As the secret page in which the characters once written seem for ever effaced, but which, if breathed upon, gives them again into view, so the memory cau revive the images invisible for years ; but while we gaze, the breath recedes from the surface, and all one moment so vivid, with the next moment has become once more a blank. —/iugcnc .3 ram. There is Something in those bitter feel ings which arc the offspring of disappoint ed love, something in the intolerable an guish of well-founded jealousy, that when the first shock is ovei*. often hardens, and perhaps elevates the character. The sterner powers that wc arouse within us tocombat a passion that can no longer be worthily indulged, are never afterwards wholly Slaved. Like the allies which u nation summons to its nostn to defend it. from its fir s, they ex[<*l the enemy only to find a settlement for themselves. The mind <»j tv■t , v' tiiiui w ho cmuptcru an un fortunate iittuefiiHont becomes stronger than before ; it ma v be for evil, it may be for good. Imt flic capacities for either aru mote vigorous and colkrled.™ J&.