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Sales of Land, by Administrators, Esmutnrs,
Guardians, are required, by law. to be held on
•Ia first Tuesdav in the month, between the houis
nf ten in the forenoon aud three in the afternoon.
th . cou n-hon3e in the county in which the
property is situate. Notice of these sales must
b« given in a public ga««e sixty days previous
to the day of sale.
Sales of motocs must ho at public auction,
on" the first Tuesday of the month, between
the usual hours of sale, at the place of pub
lic sa ics in the county where the letters
Testamentary, of Administration or Ouardian
shin, may have been granted, first giving sixty
s"™ notice thereof, in one of the public ga
" 7 teS of this State, and at tiuo door of the
nnurt-house, where such sales are to be held.
Notice for tho sale of Personal Property must
Ije given in like manner, forty days previous to
t!, *Nou'ce todie Debtors and Creditors of an Es
tate must he published for forty days.
Notice that application will he mane to
,) ie Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Rand,
nust be published four months.
' Notice for leave t<> sell Negroes, must be
published for four months before any order ab
sclute shall be made tlfrreon by the Court
PDETBV.
[For the Georgia Times.]
Vicissitudes.
I've looked on the sky when the first blush of
morning, , . ...
O'er spread iisfiir bosom with the onentuay.
The flush of the rose leaf was'hrightly adorning,
Tim light floccy clouds fast fleeing away.
But long ere the sun, in his zenith of glory,
ii.i l fljshol o'er the world his enlivening glare;
The gathering tempest tolJ the sad story,
Thai gone were the glories once centering there.
Cv'n so arc the dreams nfmir happiness clouded.
In the gathering shade of idversity’s gloom,
Our anticipations too soon are enshrouded,
In the darkness of death,aud sink to tuo tomb.
I've seen the tall ship her white saiis unfurling.
Like a spirit of light as she moved from the
shore
And the wild sportive waves round her lolly
prow curling.
As if joying like life, for the treasure they bore.
I earae-hnr till mast like the torrent crush'd
willow.
Lay riven and rent on her rock-shattered side;
Her pennon* ana streamers were drenched in the
billow, . . ... ~
That yawned to engulph her m its wild tide.
'Th thus with our barks upon life's stormy ocean.
Thus driven and tossed tnrougb its dark twav
fog wave,
When storms flout the skies with their dreadtu:
coin motion t
Tho skill of no pilot, sulTiCcs to save.
I've looked on the rose in the pride of its bloom-
More fair than the sun-beam that pencils the
west;
And the bud but half-opened uow beauty assum
ing, .
As the dew drop still lingered a gem on its
breast.
But the thoughtless one past and sue slack and this
lair flower.
Admired till it withered and drooped its young
head.
Then left it neglected, the child of an hour,
its leaflets all scattered lay -scentless ami.
•laud.” j
And thus 1 have thought is the innocent beauty, '
All lovely in youth and peerless in Inrm ,!
Whom the spoiler has ryft from the garden ci
duty, .
Then left to the frowns of adversity s storm.
Oh thus still to time, our blisses and pleasures.
Are yielded and nought of tho past can we
save, .
The dreams of oar manhood, life's earliest trea
sures, ,
Arc buried alike in his Lethean.wave. ” •
HI ISC ELLA .1 HOI S.
From the Mew E gland iloguzine.
SELECTIONS FROM THE PAPERS OF AN IDLER.
No. IV.
thoughts o> com vers ution.
There arc many persons who commit
ndiojs sins with the longue in the several
forms of profanity, indecency, deliberate
slimier, perjury, vfcc. Ot these 1 hare
nothing to say—these are offences, many
of them against the Jaw ol the land, and
ail of them against the law ot God I am
not writ ng as a Christian, a moralist, or a
legislator. lam speaking of man as a so
cial being, and of the pleasures which be
long to him as such. The cold blooded
an I malicious slanderer is, like a pirate,
'i t enemy of the human race, and de
serves to he treated with no more mercy
than a man would show a snake, which
had by some means or ot icr found its way
into his nurserv. The law, which should
order a to.igue thus otrending, to he pluck
ed out by the roots aadthowu to the dogs,
Muld not bo-too severe to those who esti
mate tho turpitude of crimes by the mo*
kves which load ha them, as well as the
[consequences which they produce. . i'ro
faao or tilthy conversation is seldom hoard
aow-a-davs, in a drawing-room or at a
dianor-tablc. An old debauchee somc
tiines grows obscene over a second bottle
especially if tii«re are any young trier
b'-ar him to be edified and instructed by
his abominations ; but in such a man—
wiws* mind, having lost tho vitality o
youthful passion, lias grown rotten to the
R 'ro —tiio loathsomeness of whose Vico is
* *'b, that the poison commonly bangs
"rib it its own antidote. When 1 wee
one of thcM gray-lieadcd mom* tor?
1 cannot holp wishing to be, like Abci
| Homo, a caliph for 2i hours that *
j might have the* pleasure of rending him
I a moral lecture—two stout slaves, m the
mean time, administering the bastinado, to
keep his attention from flagging.
Hut there are many men about in the
world, who break none of the command
ments and often J against no laws, human
or divine, and yet whom it requires a tru
ly L’l.rietian forbearance to put up with,in
the social intercourse oflifc;—men, whose
i tongues scent to be given them tor no oth
(or purpose than to make them disagreea
j hie,—wno ore not only dull tliemselvts.
but the cause of dullness in others. At
j t lie head of ail these, both on account ol
> their own high pretensions ami my own
special intoleran e and dislike,—let me
put tiio professed wits, including, under this,
denomination, all wags, droH fellows, sto
ry-tellers, practical jokers, &c.—from him
who earns the reputation of wit bv never
omitting an opportunity of saying a cru
el thing, to the humble genius, who neve;
lets a word go harmless, that can. by anv
torturing, lie made susceptible of two
meanings. These are a numerous and
thriving class ; they have a sleek, well-to
do-in-the-Wi>rld sort ot look, an expression
of self-complacency, a proneness to laugh
at their own jokes, and, by the time thc\
are respectably advanced i.i life, they ac
quire a rotundity of figure and a ros ness
of gill, from the number of good dinners
they ha e eaten, and bottles of wine thev
have swallowed. To me, these same
men of wit, these droll fellows, arc more
tiresome than good honest asinine stupidi
ty, that has no thoughts, and pretends to
none. Their conversation is ever on tin
same key. Their thoughts do not flow
from their minds by an unforced impulse,
nor are they presented in their na
tural shapes,.—but are tortured and
warped into strange and uncouth form .
All things ate looked upon with a view
to suggest ludicrous images and associa
tions, and a subject as grave ns Hamlet
will, in passing through tlieir minds, ac
quire the motly livery of a harlequin.
Now a joke does cry well to break the
even and monotonous How of life; but a
perpetual joke—a rattling shower of fri
volities, from morning till night—there is
something truly frightful,in the idea. A
dance is well enough, at the proper time,
but who would desire to jig it through
the streets on his daily concerns? An
occasional glass of soda-watc is very plea
sant, but who would wish to have tho .wi
borne acid bubbling up and taking him by
the nose every time lie drinks a draught
of cold water l Mirth should be the em
broidery of conversation, not the web; and
wit the garniture of the mind,not the fur
niture.
There arc certain moods of mind, in
which a joke *s as nauseous as a pill; bul
your professed wag, either does not heed
or does not care for. them, iic would
jest with vou by the tiOil-SldC OT VO ill it -
nig mother—would greet the sun-rise
from Mount Etna with a pun, and tell you
agood one on the Table-rock at Niagara:
The contemplation of moral or intellectu
al greatness never elevates him Into a mo
momentary self forgetfulness, nor
makes him forfeit his reputation for con
sistency. There can hardly a greater
misfortune happen to a young man, than
that he should be persuaded, cither by
himself or by his friends, that lie has a
talent for a vv.it, a turn for satire, and a
keen sense of the ludicrous. The notion,
I once cmbrsced, seems to effect a revolu
! tion in the whole man. The reputation
I thus acquired, justly or not, he feels bound
i to maintain ; and what toil and trouble
j does this necessity impose upon him! Ev
| cry body has learned to expect a laugh
| when ho opens his lips, and so he will not
I open them, unless he can create a laugh.
! If he venture upon a sober remark, a jest
is supposed to be liiddcn under its folds.
However many thoughts aud images may
come thronging to his tongue, he must
wait to speak till lie cun speak in his vo-
I catiou. l'lie natural grace of his conver
i sation vanishes, and,by degrees, the whole
’ mind becomes perverted and incapable ot
i serious action and manly exertion of so
j ber thought.
i A class analogous to these last, consists
j of those whose conversation is made up al
! together of anecdotes, and who are cum
j moiilv esteemed very pleasant men, and.
! as such, are in great demand at aii dinuer
' parties. My objection to these talkers.
I is, that they make that the staple of com
- vernation, which should only be an -orna
i ment and an append; ge; for where u mat;
1 has that peculiar gift, the power of rela
j ; UV - auocdotcs and telling stories well, he
l is apt to employ it exclusively. ’• here i;
I a want of continuity in a conversation
! ma de up of isolated narratives, which i:
unsatitnetory to the mind. There h.-omc
biting d,-agreeable in hearing constant
I lv “talkingof guns reminds me ol a story
: I used to hear my grandfather toll;” or
i * w Ucn I was in Europe i heard Lord A
t (story-tellers arc apt to *e vain.) relate a
I his tabic;” or, “my old Irietid Mr IS
| as od to toil a story. One goes away 1 ron
I s uch a conversation, as if ha had been at i
| least of scraps, and had come away lun
’ The mind craves some more sub*
"'siautia! Ibod. \'e want to have prinei
. 1 1 'lea diacusscd, j>ositions attacked and de
’-! lendea bv sound arguments, aud the very
! i web and woof ot the mind displayed. N<
’; one over recollects, loig, a conversatioi
'I made up wholly of detached narratives
,l 3 thread of connection is necessary u
1 ! have a vvid impression long survive tu
; -und Ot words. All this is upon tne sup
; on that the stories are now, C ooc
*7lll, iE I? i: VIS. LE, OCT9SJEK. EG, ES33.
• and well told ; but, unfortunately, mosi
; new stories are not good. anJ most good
| ones are not new, and it is very easy to
: spoil one that is both good and new, by
| the manner of narrating it.
There ;s another class of persons, with
I whom it is somewhat annoying to me to
ue present, and these are (to coin a word
! for myself) the Exatgeiiatoes. These
are they vvhoare always ready to dig. to
Uint, to expire at. the common occurrences
ot life; who are in the heights of rapture I
and tho depths of despair ; who an
ready to give the world—ail thev am
worth, for white might be purchased at a
very cheap rate. 1 cannot go along with
these people. I am a plain man, an )
have neither magnifying nor bcuvtifving
glasses for mv“mind’s eye.” To me n
whale is a fish, and a cloud is neither an
elephant nor a weasel. I can eat a fig
with none the loss relish because I know
that with a solar microscope I could see
turtles and crabs crawling over its sur
face. In the presence of such magnitii
cent talkers I am like a dwarf, standing by
the side ol a giant—an owl endeavoring
to follow an eagle in his flight. There is.
too,a singular improvidence in such con
versation. A man ought to be as chary
of his superlatives as of his Sunday suit’:
they are too precious to be worn ever,
day. for suppose something should ci- I
cur. which really c ill for very strong lair >
guago ; vvliat is’to be done’? We can j
say no more than we have already said. I
dozen times a day.— \V<: Kaye used un-j
common language on common occasions, j
and it has no peculgir significance now j
that tiie occasion is an uncommon one. I
j
Another class of disagreeables arc tlir. j
inquisitors, as they may be termed ; in-:
deed they have as little mercy as if they !
really belonged to the holy office. These <
a-e the men who pass their lives in asking !
questions. They have a penetrating a- !
pent, and their countenances acquire a;
peering, sharp expression, as if they were!
in the habit of peeping through key-holes!
into closets and drawers. Tiny have a i
ravenous curiosity about trifles—an itch to j
be acquainted with minute details and in
significant particulars. They arc indiffer
ent as to the mental qualities of a distin
guished man'; but they are anxious to
know how tall he is ; whether he is hand
some or not; wliethe lie chews tobacco
»>I- not 5 It.Att? mojlj* #•?* iI. livii* I \r» line A-.*
They a re scrupulous in exacting geograph
ical, chrono’ogical. and histo ical illustra
tions. They cannot enjoy an anecdote .
without knowing its exact date, the place
where it happened, and what became ol .
the parties alter it was all over. They
nave not the; power to enjoy a goo ■ thing
without any ils or huts; they cannot open
their mouths and shut their eyes with the
unsuspecting good faith of childhood ; they ;
on what tree the iiut~ grew. IOSC cXtv i
the blood-suckers of society ; they fasten
themselves toyou, but unfortunately there
is no such tiling as gorging them—they
generally have short memoiics, and have
consequently a never-failing resource in
asking the same questions over and ov< i
again. To have the full enjoyment of one
of them, it is necessary to travel with him
in a sta . rah:
treat, and your enemy has no mercy.—
You have the incessant battery opened up
on you. “Do you know who lives in that!
house T “ llow lar is it the next lav*.rn: I ',
“Who do you think will Sic out* next!
! President ?” *• How do cattle ssll down!
| youi- way ?” “ ho writes Major Down- j
! leg's letters Is business pretty b/isfc ;
j your way ?” “ Is there much doing in the j
! shoe line !" &c. &c. It is like a continual
j dropping of water, and will wear away
! the patience of dob, or a henpecked hus
i band. The wretch will take no hints—
! vou may growl at him, like a bear—you
may breathe hard, as if you were asleep—
it ail avails nothing—Tour doom is sealed,
and yon may as \ve;l make up.your mind ;
to submit to it, without a struggle and
with Christian resignation.
The last class oi social sinners I shall
mention is the most numerous one. These
are the CossirEits, whose whole talk is
about persons—tattlers. Acddling busy
Oodics, anxious to know what their neigh
bors have ior dinner, and how much they
paid lor it. '1 hey pass their lives m
watching and speculating on the conduct
ot others. They are pei jietuaily wonder
ing why ri quire ii. painted his house green
what Mrs. A.gave for her new I leghorn
bonnet—whether Miss C. refused Mr. D.
—whether the widow E. means to marry
: Air. TANARUS., a man ten Tears younger than she
is, 6ic. In all subjects pertaining to love
and marriage, they take a peculiar inter
est. ll a youi g man is seen walking twice
with the same young woman, especially i:
lie olier her his arm—whew, what a con
sternation is produced ! what shaking o;
| heads, what uplifting of the eyes and
: hands, v. hai hints, surmises, ajad inueudos.
; There is no more peace for either ot thi
. aioroaid young j<usont. They must, “run
into the dangt-r to ovoid the appreheu
, | sion,” and become actually engaged to
; escape the groundless imputation ol being
; so. Two or three oi tlieso bustling busy -
. bodies are euaugii to keep a whole villagt
! itt hot water, and to draw ns effectual
i line between the you.-g people of differ-
Tent sexes, a* if they lived in differem
; j hemisphere.
* i 1 have u jurfect antipathy to there per
* j sons. They are frequently as venuniotn
• is viper?, and thrive only on the carcass* ■
, • of slain reputations. At any i ate, the habi
of constant personal talk, indicates n.n in-1
curable emptiness ofthe mind, an l I know
of no infliction more intolerable than that
pl q mind which is at once restless and
vapid, v hsell deluges you with '“one weak, I
washy, everlasting flood” of gossip, scan- •
dal, petty details, and stale anecdotes.— j
;letter to live under the leaden, poppy-1
wreathed sceptre o r th Trass. Words-:
worth haapAvrilten four fine sonnets on
Personal taik,” which I recommend to!
every body to read —ih for nothin,; else, as j
a proof, how sensibly a great genius can
write. ’ * If-, f
Ais ATreatsare.
[TranslatGi from the French ]
The clock of Notre Dame was just toll
ing midnight. I was hastening borne to
my Hotel in the Suburb St. Germaine,
when I crossed the Poiut Xeuf, a horse,!
driven rapidly in a gig, stumbled and toll.;
■Sparks of fire flew in all directions, from J
die violence of the fall, and a scream o j
alarm in a-female voice issued from l!;c|
interior of the carriage. I hastened to j
yield my assistance, and arrived very sea- >
s itiably, for tlic driver rcckk-ss of every j
tiling else,had rushed to his horse’s head. I
and vainly endeavoured to get the animal, i
which was dangerously hurt, upon his legs j
again. J
The iadv had fainted. I took her out;
in my anus, ands xited her on tiie side
walk. As fear*had been the principal!
•ause of her swooning, siie soon opened j
her eyes ; her senses roturned, and in !
i. and trembling voice, she iltanked i
ii. ; tor the* kindness Iliad, shewn her.—
‘ You will -permit me Aladame,” said J i
•' to coin plate the good work begun by so:
happy a chance: you certainly wiil not
refute me the pleasure of seeing you safely
home.”
“I am sorry to give you so much trouble,
Sir, but 1 accept your invitation thankful
ly : my abode is nut far irom this; I shall
not detain you a moment-”
The driver received a five franc piece
from the lady's hand; she comforted him
as weii as -she could, and we directed our :
Course to Heine direct.
“ hal number Aiudame i”
“ Forty.”
We were there in a few minutes.
I was retiring. “Not y«Ji,”said tiie lady,
“you must riot refuse some slight reftesu-!
ment.”
rji| t , »rtij'Uv.''il.uv?l htiiUucoo f*s sirw. - - ,
,ew words that 1 coulu not retrain accept- 1
ing the invitation; more particularly ;e.|
Lite stranger was very beauttlul. t;
thcrc'bre entered; an old servant opening |
the door, ,
“ I shall treat you without ceremony
.Sir, and receive you in my bed-room, it is
absolute! v too cold in the parlor.
Now i never enter a bed-room, especial
ly a voting lady's, without dcngudul,
emotions, i always identify m\selt witn
metttvrrrtty when so near its altar; an I
consequently the sight ot a fine bed, li:e
mysteries ol which sSI my imagiuuuoii at
work, g'- c rislit to my heart.
lieircsn.neais \\ . i'c ?•■**■—th-.; la.lv
and invself s ate.l ourselves at a marble
1 1 bio. Tiie conversation of eouiye turned
upon the accident to w.iich she bad so
ueaily fallen a victim.
“ Do you feel any pa n, Madam ? ’ .ask
ed I.
“ Not the slightest Sir. Fright made
me faint, bull am now perfectly well.”
•• Then 1 shall always biess tiie occur
rence that procured me the happiness oi
your acquaintance.** •
“ There was really something romantic
in the adventure. Don’t you think so?”
This singular question, although very
simple in liseil,embarrassed me considera
bly. i know not wljat answer I made to
it ’; for a cold sweat had overspread m\
forehead.
According to my usual praise-worth;
custom, I had coursed oxer the lady's bcu
with my eyes, and upon the embroider*
!ed muslin that covered it, I had seen nu
merous drops of blood !
Stramre suspicions assailed me. Tho
hour;—the horse’s fall might have been ;*
trick ; the unceremonious conduct of my
entertainer; her invitation up stairs:—
. .flood ; all these taken In connexion mad*
! me extremely uneasy ; but judge my lecl
j lugs when a moment after 1 saw the hilt
161 a dagger peeping out from beneath the
pillow 1
1 started up. I was pale no doubt; for
the lady looked at me with alarm.
« What is the matter Sir (” asked she.
“ Nothing, Madame, nothing.’’
“ You a;q ar lobe violently affected,
are xou i.ii'.vcll ? '-bail 1 ring 1* r i nomas,
we can soon prepare \ou a bed.”
“ Nothing nils me, I assure you. Cut it
! : s getting late, and 1 tear my lriends wifi
j~c uneasy at my absence. I must Leg
I your peimission to retiie.’’
j' “I cannot allow you to go in such a
: state.” .
;he had seized the.bell-cord. I wouid
uot sufler her to ring.
« You must take a few drops of ether to
events,”
Saying this she ran to the door of hci
dressing-roomi the light penetrated inti
it; oil horrible ! a man’s head hauging nj
.ho hair met my gaze I My knees g;»'«
1 way,und i fell back upon my seat; llw
ady returned wiih a vial.
l’acsing suddenly lretn lethargy to i
state ol despair:
“ Let me fly,” cried 1 furiously.
“No I will receive nothing at yon
*! hands. lathis the reward of me set vie
111 tendered you
Those words produced a magic effect.
r *hc lady rang. Thdfhas appeared, but
no order was given him. *>e were al!
three mute with •mr-irise.
I’lio.n is at last imiiw silence. “ Difl
you rim; fir me, Madame?’
“ fihew iheg in out.”
I gave her ne time to repeat the or Ft.
in two jumps Iwa s out of the hau:.*: th**
o’d servant was a tiny hods, but mo keen
night -dr calmed my agitation.und 1 stup
ed a m meat to breathe freely.
“ retch! \vh itis vo.tr mistroas’ mine?”
‘-Mivs * ‘
‘•■t is well. I sliail now complain o.
her.”
“dir ?”
“ I sliail immediately go to the police
’o’liec.”
“ > hv so c fr r”
•“ To have her taken up for murder ; tits
proofs are ample. ’
“ I don’t understand you Sir.”
“ Os whnt profession is your mistress ?”
“ Sr.C is an actress ”
“Yx hat means the blood upon her
led 7 ”
•• Y*)'j are under a mistake Sir. Your
no doubt saw some tulip leaves that Miss
scatter;*.! there thin morning.”
“ A nd t/u dagger under her pillow ?”
“My misirc-s has several: she was Jo
have appeared wills oneto-dav*; she made
a selection, and the one you saw, she
probably had rejected.”
“ But the man’s head in the dressing
room t”
“It vv.is no doubt one of her wigs; you
, must hate recn iul’mm behind.”
I in effect, wailed on Miss' * * next day
at tiie green room. I told her of my ridi
culous terrors, and tliey made us both
laugh heartily and long. In short the
consequences of (be acquaintance were
xvortiiy of the rnaniu r in which it wa
formed, and Miss * =* * is now -i\’ wife.
T-> the. Edllars if the ,Y. i~. A- ’rcrti.wr :
’ Sir —I ctick'se you a letter lately re
ceived by a gentleiivin of this city from
hi-; friend Major Downing. I do this with
the gentiefnan’s consent; feeling a desire
that noire of the Major’s good tilings should
be lost to the world
\ ours, &c.
New-York, Sept, if, I&H3.
Washington, Kept. 4th, 1833.
. ru ~.I i U4„J Y-„... .1.:. I. r.— I
b igot tjek .se i Invent nt to vou before
now ; the reason is, I’m over head and
ears lately. The President s.vais lie
w.cU be outdun by that are John Quincy
Adams in nothing; he'sbizzy as a bee in
a tar-barrel, mornin, nooJi and .flgiit, writ
tin varscs, that he means to print alter
iic’s.done i ring [‘resident, and gone back
to the Hermitage, jest as Quincy Adams
had a book of varies printed drier lie got
a wa! jn ticket to go back to tiie bav
State. You’ve no ideer liovv bizzy the
fliu ral is—lie’s vvriun all the while—it's
a ibo'st to see him. Sumlimes be sets and
i writes ar, hard as a hoss would canter for
{halfan hour. Theirlie'll fetch uj) agin a
i xvirJj bis eyes ruled up to
! die xx ail stock slid fiir ten minutes on u
I siretch. Then he'll catch up the Dixonu
| ry, and tumble it ox*ta* Iron) one eeml to
I tutlier lbr halfan hour io find a rime, ft
i does one’s heart good to see him. I criitv
! size on all of his varses and polish cm tor
i the press, and that’s what keeps me so
| etarnally bizzy jest now. The Ginoral
j mcens to write one peece of varses two
j volloms long, and it is to be called “ The
I deform, or tiie Glcansing of the Angceo
j .Stable.” IveuJle give him the name for
it. What it ineens l don’t know, but 1
! know itmeens sumthing, bekase I’ve seen
! a gieat deel about it in tiie nowspajicrs.
| jiertickler them that’s on the Giiiend's
■ Mde. J liar is to print it at the Globe
! otfis. Tne Ginerui mcens to git a sub
scription paper out before he goes out oi
oiiis, and lie swars every to lv that
holds an oifis under trim shall take one
copy at least, and them that has got goo.l
fat unices, n u or a dozen, or he'll turn mm
out neck and heels, if your Coilectoi ami
Decstrict Aturncy dent have to save it to
; the tune o. txvemy-five or mirty copy** a
jieece, I loose my guess.
, Hut want's better than all, ,'flr. Van
j : u; :ii is written varses too to print when
iriseight years is up—fir the enter raijy
tlrinks In; shall be president. I3ut I know
| a thing worth two of that, lie’s forgot that
j I have been nominated—let me alone tor
! *tiat. Mr. Van 'Boren is going to call his
! •• Tammany Haul”—and says fie means to
! write it longer than Homer. What Ho
mer means 1 don't know, and the Gineral
, says he don't know, but he supposes its
! some of Van Buren's J utch gioberish.
1 spose you’ll be glad to hear that my
cousin Zobedce Downing lias got to
Washington,lie’s a rale bright feller, only
i...-t t.u ia;-x Ju.y. 1 exjH ct to git him
sum oflir tho’ i don’t knoxv what yet—
\m rum in hojies the Gineral will make
him Iris private Hcrretary, for lie’s a cap>-
tal penman, and writes a most as good a
letter as I do. Blau has engaged him to
, xvrite lor the Globe; this winter cummin.
He’s a cute feller and I shouldn’t vvondei
’ if you had a letter from him once in a
while. He’s got a great genus for milita
rv. lie entered trie Downingville Mili
tia as a drummer, and the very second
uHvhedid Iris duty tliey poiiited him re
i com! corporal, and the next choice of offi
sers they skipp'd the first corporal, bekasr
j lie was a Cl*y man, and pointed Z —-z«<
t ' fourth eargeut.
1 | I know you’ll be half crazy till you set
i r
VOSbU.TBE I -Afl'illßLlt
you a little piece he writ last week about
'.'uinbridge, whe-e c was made a doctor,
lie's got a copy printed on snttin. and j ut
iu a gloriots ir.imc, and is a g«-ing-io s* nd
it to the college to lie hung op there in one
) ’il;.; lector ryo os. its writ artcr the
t'tsliio.i of one An idcon, i thin they
call hi m,a feitef’ .hattna as c \ >l l vtrrceS,
and a furriner- -I don’t Know wnat cn'or.-
try he belongs to, and the Ginerul says
he don’t, hut l>-lieves iteY a I ortugee. I
tad to recollect Jji’spc'lhrniv! .-rammer a
tile. . . , a I
with it. Wnen lie fu st ti.i du., it, he read
'■ over and over a much us ten times ono
trier lather, and hnint sc. a him in siclt a
good yew ,eiin a [pug lime- tic reeds it
to at) his periitic.il iiionus that culls on
ii.tn; anJ they all praise it up to the nines.
Tho’ once in a while I can seehnc running
It s tung way out in his cheek, when he
dunks they aint nobody looking at him.
And one of tliese days, I won’t promis
you but what I’ll send you a little piece I
writ when I want only nineteen years old
—don't you think that’ll do?—only nine
teen years old—but I’ll jest tell you how it
vva-, for it makes me InfV to think on it
now—there’s Peggy Bouten the Town
lark's daughter at Downingvillc, you
know—a plaguy cute critter that, 1 tell
you. Siie sent me a vollentine one four
teenth day of F-'bby worry, and I sent Iter
a yard of green ribbin. and sum varses to
boot. She was tickled to death with ’em,
and shewd cm to every body, fur and neer,
and every body had ’em at their tongs
eend for a long time. I showd ’em to the
Uincral tulher day. and he larely roard.—
Says he. HI tell you what it is. Major, says
he, and ho gin' me a rousin slap on my
back, says he, you’re the boy for the gals;
Major says ho—says lie, l was young once
Major, rays he, and lie gin me a wink
would have made you snikker to see it.
You'll hear from me again as soon as I
can get time. Your friend to sarve,
JACK. DOWNING.
ODIC TO CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE.
Oil th<*u very celebrated Cambridge Colledgst
great rcposiio y of knowledge,
WheiMhe mind ofiUtiH,
By taking sufficient pains.
Learning Science and the Arts,
And true merit in rewardrd nccv 'ding to its dt*urtn
U iihiu tliy di.lingui ilio I walls,
And through thy suaarilc hills
The gratified spectator loves
And delighted moves,
( inni'iTic everlastingsight cTYuokJ
And appsra'os of every kind,
To enlighten llie mind,
riiy beautiful ll >wer* arid ths verdant green
grasses
And other scenes surpasses,
And the gnnlul gales
Wafidelicinus perfumes along thy embowering
value.
And the pretty turtledoves
Sets hilling in their groves'
I>iit- the happy students are reclined at ease.
Under the umbrageous shadow of thy delightful
frees.
t\ ith the leuderest sensibility imbued,
1 owe thee a debt -f gratitude ;
dv praise of thee shall never fail —
Oh thou very celebrated "Cambridge Colledge, all
hji ii
Cum,ns Atmospheric Pubn.imexow.—
I'm tunny years fsaysC.ipl. o.ven).tim Fly
i :g Diitciimaii has hm n a popular sup rsti
iiiuiuimJ a soijici-of terror to in iri.icrs. Fetv
iuvi often passed tile (Jape hilt can tell tliei r
■ nle uhal they saw or w njt Olliers hove told
ilietii of lies uiischn vuii- phantom-ship. Old
.e mien still nolle anay tile tedious nigfit
vaUth hi rep .itlng to tin ir young and 111 irv l
ooumg o. unities s' ones of tins water spirit ;
id litany a stout lie ,rt quailed, as anxiously
,ii y have lisle ed to the freak- of tins airy
terror. Tie following circumstance happen
■it to Us dim iX lies voyage, which cdled
for ii Hl.l.ty ao a! nn.t forgo feu record of the
••Flying Duichin u.” Ii *lt” ev mu/ ot t i
t ,oi April, a lie o.r Be,. >ogr. lb dir
icinitu was set Tis or :ur •■: mT *n* • « r e
;ru-k with tit s;u mI .rit. of In r h « -,g *>
o i ot r us. we „t f.r co e u •ii ■' l'-
ii. ot tie l : . ■ : • n li '
•lie y•• e-S elt ■ •IV _• W® 1
.r s out slii. .--After keeping 1 us tor some
in . we liecaiue sur nsn.l-thut site made no
net to jmi f hut r>:i lit- <■o stood'*-
in-. fi.it , ei-..; so* ir to ti” portin'
rcta.iud .vfi (I. (’apt. Own did not
i t lull tiruuli t up irta ice to lus proceeding,
and we accordin 'v co ition and our course.
At sun* t it was observed that she bove-to,
old sent a tmy away apparently for the pttr
oos nf picking up a min overboard.— Iho
n xt morning vve itneliored by Simon’s Bay,
where for a whole week, wc wete tit anxious
xpect.ition oi Iter arrival j hut it afterwards
ppearodtliat at this very period t te Birrcon
ta must have been about three hundred mrles
irom os, and no other vessel of the same class
was ever seen about the Cipr* Ih is is not
and in Old, r to aulh. -nticate tiic stories of
fear or fanev, or to add to the visionary ter
rors of superstition ; hut il is recorded as a
-trim-re and at present unaccountable fact,
doubtless attributable to natural and proba
bly simple causes. I line or accident may
-r ive them ; but until then, the imagination
of those who delight in unaccountable things
mil picture the phantom-ship as nn appari
tion of dreadful and supernatural mystery.
[O’ren's liarrative.
A Voixauxocs Betiakk. —A certain
legal wit, heating it stated that ft recent
Judge hud made a present of his library to
a relation, observed, - that it ejx>ko vol
umes for his Lordship’s liberal.ty.
Parliamentary Tho only
dilli rt ' ce le twei n Dot O’Coniietl and Gully
. m Parliment." said a wag, is. Guily ta a
Peel i'i*, and IMn * Rc Peeler.
