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Miscellaneous. Kr§m She Berkshire American. A WRIT. The Chiefs of Demons below, In full Pandemonium met, At an extra session 1 trow, To add to the horror of debt. The house to outflowing wan hill'd And kiich weight of malice combin'd So mischievously skill'd And so thoroughly drill’d Never met for the plague of roan. Then a De’il more black than the rest A grim viaug’d wight, As dark as the night, Arose and the meeting add rest. “Mankind is too happy by far, 1 grieve, fellow Demons, In say : Our business, you know, is to mar > ‘The comfort of man, and to slay. But small are. my powers of invention, And little of malice hove I: Therefore be so good as to mention What best may till up A well mingled cup Brim lull of human misery. ** Then the Demons arose Each one to propose What the heart of a fiend cnulJ suggest; And having gone through, Each onn brought to view The thing he propos’d as the best. Disputes now began About the best plan, And each De’i! adher’d to hi* notion That what he had brought By every mean* ought To make a good share of tho portion. To end the debote, (For devils will prate Lik * Congress men out of all reason, And with vulgar abuse, Such as duellists use, Their AoMieaded speeches will season,) *Twas motion’d and carried nem. con. That all these intentions And De’ilikh inventions Should he skillfully mingled in one; And the ills, thus combin'd, From the bottomless pit Be sent up to mankind In the foi m of a WRIT. An English Man of War falling in with a Frenchman on a cruise, all hand** |r**|r<(l to OWgWgc. One more pious than his comrades, just when a broadside was expected, of fired np the following petition, i* being the only one he knew, fr what we are about to receive, the Lord make us thankful.* JIJSrCIENT I) VICE. S' Thoughts be divine, lawful, chaste. Conversation be brief, honest, true. Works be profitable, holy,charitable Manners be grave courteous cheeriul 4 Diet be temperate, convenient sober. Let your < Apparel be frugal, neat, comelv. I Will t>e constant, obedient, ready. / Steep be moderate, quiet, seasonable. S Travel’s Ik* short, frqcuent, fervent. \ UnC real ions lie lawful suitable seldom \ Memory be of death punishment glory Hear, \ f b* silent. Be silent, f , 1 understand, Untler*ltd, ( tll,( taril ° y remember, Remember, } ( do accordingly \ see, judge not. ... .. . _ f hear, believe not. All that J 0S know< tell nnt . 3 con do, do not. On every occasion, when you discourse, think first and.look narrowly what you •peak-—of whom you speak—to whom you apeak —bow you speak—and when you < •patt; and what you sneakt speak W iMy. pe;ik truly, lest you oring yourself iuto great trouble. EFFECTS OF GOOD KDUCJITIOX. The Boston. (Maryland) Gazette, treating of-the importance of Education, and the advantages, under a republican government, of close ap; lication to study, conc’udes with the following characteris tic allusions: Who was Mr. Wirt, the present At-! ©rney General of the United States? A poor boy of our state; of the village of Bladensburg. What has given him one of the first stations in the country, with a handsome income? Good education, la borious atudy and application, and conse quent knowledge. Who was William Pinknev? A poor ho/ of Annapolis, What has learning made him? The first lawyer; tho most celebrated advocate of our country. He is the effulgent centre of our orators; the streams of his eloquence,are floods ol light, rapid as thought, and irresistible as lightning, lie combines the attributes and the powers of the two greatest orators of antiquity; never rising, but he has either the impetuous and overwielining torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid confla giation of Tufty. Heie again follow the certain conse quences— learning/ accumulating around her station and public honours, and the power almost of minting money. Ibe net annual income of the exertions of this single bram is little, il any less than the net income of the laigest estate the Eastern Bhorc,where a real capital of up wards of three hundred thousand dollars is improved by the labour and sweat ot hundreds of slaves. Who was James Monroe? The son of a bricklayer in the town of Camebridgc in Dorset. Who is James Monroe? The President of <he*e U. Mates— and what has placed him above kings, and crowned heads, and principalities; u.ty, in the most exalted station on this /fall ot earthr Education is the solid granite pedestal of the column of his fame, supporting a shaft of the most towering altitude, whose Co rinthian capital is high above the cloud.-. How emphatically, in tins instance favs wisdom, founded on good education, arid matured by intense study and application, pioved herself to be power, wish station, :nd honors and wealth, following >n hei train. Why then should not a son of < neof our brick layers, m batters, or t.i lore, or cabinet makers become a future President of the U. State;? The same path i9 open to them; true it winds up the sides of a steep aid rugged mountain; and the elevated p nuatle i*. not to be gained without si (ling out aright, with tho earliest and best discfsine of good schools, and the severest and most intense mental labor. But the prize is w’cll worth the boldest, the highest exertion. Will it be said that nature rrtadcthese men ot her materials? no such thing —Providence *ms bountiful to them; but Nature left these diamond* as rough as many of the pebbles now in the streets.— Instruction mined them: and education gave the high pohsn and the point, which illumes and duzzl'is America, ad throws their radiance far into other countries. And have we not at this moment genius and talent* in eur Academy equal to Wilt’s, and Pinckney’s ansi Monroe's? Ve 4 , without doubt, and among the sons of our mechanics too—and would to H.*e ven I could fire their young besoms with the noblest ambition—w ithout which they can never reach what they aim at. With such singularly exalted examples full in our view, the native gr wtb of our soil; can we hesitate another moment to combine and unite uir bes* exertions to afford the blessings of good education, not only to every child in our town; but as to many more, as will please to see it among us. From lh* ‘’hnstian Acjvocit* wid .f<Jiral. Wo have before expressed .tir views respecting religions national institutions. The facility with which i they seem to ho multiplying in our j country, and the zeal with which their plans an* executing, convince us more and more of the propriety, if not the indispensable duty of opposing them. They are of dangerous ten dency. And w hatever may be said by ‘ their advocates to relieve these na tional institutions from the suspicion of sectarian influence, they are sec -! tarian. One denomination of Chris'- tians only has a preponderating influ ence in their room Us, ad e nough from among other derfotnina tions are introduced among the donii nant sect to save appearances, and to! fortn a zest f<r the song f union , and to give atoaetothc sound of catlmi cisrn. Already is the idea of polit ical power anti influence associated with (what ought, of all others, to be jthe farthest from it) Sunday schools- These little ignorant, and in some 9ense innocent beings, are to have their breasts inspired with the am bitious expectation of becoming our political rulers , magistrates , and even the chiej magistrate oj the nation. JMTIOJVJL SOCIETIES. I am a national man. and therefore cannot understand what you mean by complaing of nationul societies . Sir, it is the order ot the day to be nation- 1 al. We have our national theatres, national lottery offices, national ho tels, national steam boats, and na* tional grog shops. We have our U nited States* shoe blacks, U. S. corset makers, U. S. infirmaries, and V. S. manufactories of every kind, (roin, our match makers up to our carpet, factories. 1 sec no reason why we’ should not have national societies, since this character gives those soci eties a popularity and influence they could not otherwise sustain. Desides, sir, to be an officer in a national soci ety, sounds abroad like being an olli cer in a national government, and will, by and by, give those societies an influence with the national govern merit, and if this be a good thing the sooner the better. Wo have already our American Bible Society, Amer ican Tract Society, American Mis sionary Society, American 1 euiper ance Society, American Sunday Sc bool Union, Amcci- an Prison dis cipline Soc iety, AmeatcHii Jews So i fly, Kc, he, and we are in a fair way to have an American Sabbath Society, and I know not how many more. On ly let 8 alone, if you please, and we will accomplish great matters before long. The fact’ is, sir, it is lime diat some national effort was made to create some religion as the law <\ the land; and unless you Meth odists Income ‘national’ too, yui will stand a poor < hance &tnon£ ho many American !*io i’ tics, i Riw true, you number more thai J any of us now; but you hate not he< (those eirgit'Cs at work all the time, o j you might not have multiplied at this irate. But if the national B>cieti < I ever raise against you the nati on,; aim, you may rciy upon it it wi' ! grind you to powder. \ our founder felt the evils of dissenting from th* national religion, and dissenters here arc ed better than they are in England. So you had belter oi you will hear again from one who E to be a secretary and travelling ageii of another American society, and who is willing to art in this capacity for any -national society, for a suit able increase of salary, as lie is now limited to the trifling sum of twelve hundred dollars per year. Yeas. Field peas should generally be sowed as early in the spring as the ground can be got in proper order. The last week in April, or the first week in May will do very well, hut if the soil is a lignt sandy loam, which is recommended for that crop, they may usually be so ved still ear lier to good advantage. But when it is feared that they may be infested by bugs it will be safest to sow them as late as the 10th of June. Col. Worthington,’ of Rensalear County, N. York, sowed his j peas on the lUtli of June six years in [succession, and a bug has never been jseen since in his peas. Whereas, his neighbors, who have not adopted this ! practice, have scarcely a pea without a bug in it. lie supposes the season for d-positing the egg of the pea bug is passed before the peas are in flower. Col. Pickering likewise expressed an opinion that the bug may be avoided by late sow ing-, hut the hot sun in June will so pinch the laleroivn peas that the crop will be small unless the land be moist as well as rich. POSTS FOE FEJSTCKS. A correspondent of the N. R. Farmer has found, by a number of experiments, that posts for fences cut from full grown trees, will net decay so soon as those cut from young trees—and that posts ta* ken horn the butt cut of a tree will rot last more than half eo long as those made from the third and fourth cuts from the ground. He says posts made from the butts of young chesnuts generally last o ver twenty years. When the butts are are used, the top end should be set in the ground. j Political. Mr. JiDJiMS*s COJVVEIISIOJV I The conversion of John Q. Adams to republicanism, is one of the pret tiest subjects of speculation in the his tory of American politics. This con version, if it ever happened, occurred in December, 1807, when the embar go was laid, upon which he would not deliberate but would act. Now in the spring of 1808, in March, we find lift the chairman of a junto federal cus in Boston, recommending Cal*, : Strong for Governor. — The result ov ’ the spring election was, that Mr; Adams’s recommendation of Caleb ! Strong was disregarded, and James Sullivan, the republican candidate, was elected Governor; and the Re publican party, for the frst time after John Adams* downfall, became tri umphant in Massachusetts. John <# Adams’ term in the Senate of th- ‘y \ States was about expiring—there \>. therefore, a probability that the re publican party in Massachusetts would maintain its ascendancy, and that be would not be re-elected to the Senate, unless by some trimming ma noeuvre he could secure a re-election. If any man of candor and good sense will look baik to the posture of affairs at that time in Massachusetts, he will ace at a glance that J. Q. Adams’ solo object was, by some management to secure are-election to the Senate, and that lie had no more idea of becoming a democrat than—an elephant. He did not address his famous letter a bout the embargo to the republican Governor of Massachusetts to whom sir. Pickering sent his letter, —hot lie sent it to Harrison G. Otis, tho gentleman whom he recommended to .dice in the spring, as the chairman us the fedora! caucus. Even a your .tier, we find his father, in a let er to a friend dated in Dec. 1818. stat.. ing th -it it would not do for his son John Q. to be run for Governor by the republicans, because he (Q.) w a a fieri y averse to it, lor many reasons, one of which is “ because it would pro duce an eternal, separation between him and the federalist —at least that portion of them who constitute the ab solute oligarchy.'* Now do not these dates and facts , which are undeniable, prove that ail John Q. Adams was after, was, not to be converted to republicanism,. feuA to throw a Httle dost in the eyes <*? the Massachusetts democrats—secure a rc-elcctiou to the Senate—and thru laugh at the foolish democrats (as Mr* fFebster now docs !) and hold on to tho federalists—‘'at least that part of them who constitute the absolute oli garchy'! This we a his game, his whola game, and nothing but his game; but tbe cards did not run as he expect ed—Massachusetts the next year be came icderal, and lie lost, his seat in the Senate by tbe federalist. ‘There are some guns that so contrive it | ‘A oft to miss toe (nark they drive at; ‘‘And though well aim‘d at duck or plover,. ,‘llear wide, and kick their owner over.* He then, as a matter of necessitif, and not choice , became repuhlian from the teeth outwards, but in his heart was cherished nil the favourite ar bitrary notions of the. family ori ths subject of government. Me. Jeffer son understood maiucuverj for he never trusted John Q. Adaeas, —which produced a great deal of heart burning at Quincy, as appears by the letters of the elder A heirs, pouring out his griefs to his friend Mr. Cunningham. *Vr. Hamilton of Charleston • We lay bet >re our readers, says the Richmond Buquirer, Mr. Hamilton’s Speech upon the Tariff with the Addre-a in which lie announces to his constituents his intention to retire from the public service. It gives us pleasure to pay this mark of respect to a gentleman, whoso character as a man and whose accom plishments as a Statesman and an Orator, have commanded the respect of his country. We part with Mr. 11. with sincere regret. Charleston has been, particularly fortunate in her delegation!* Where is the City in the Union “whicto can boast of Representative* superior to Lowi des and Hamilton? THE CAIUJS'E T ‘ “ Is published every Saturday, by P. L* ___]lottJXSOJ\\ ICarrenton , Ge.a.