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Nor is it any apology that'these writers draw from Ife. This li been urged in tiicir favor, with a tone of great assumption; but as Dr. John* sou has well observed, there are cha racters and scenes in life, whicc ought never to be drawn. What is unneces sary and improper for us to see, or hear, or know, it is improper for the novelist to describe. Who would be a voluntary listener to the Icwducss, the curses and imprecations of a bac ch&nnnlian orgies? Who would think of allowing himself to behold the a hominations committed in the resorts of debauchery? Yea, who would choose to witness those innocent ex pressions of love and tenderness which can never be proper in the presence of a third person? And yet it is not tho’t improper to make the novel reader present to all these by description! Thus it is that the hearts of many are pollut ed in the retirement of a chamber, and characters, and scenes are made familiar to the mind, which if at all known ought never to have been dwelt upon. TIIE WANDERED ft EA.Y. A singular and interesting occur rence took place in Queen-street last week. A respectable woman, who resides there, having left her * child, an infant two years of age, to play a bout the door (ill she attended to some house-hold duties, went when she was disengaged to look for her charge. The urchin could barely crawl, and she expected to find him at the door cheek. There, however, it was not, and the mother, in considerable a larin, called on several neighbors, to i* quire if they had seen her child. No one had seen it; and, as a consider able time had now elapsed in making fruitless enquiries, the anxiety and f ars of the poor woman became pep portionably augmented. Parents can only judge of her feelings when no trace of her child could be found. The neighbors kindly assisted in muk iftg strict inquisition in every well, pig stye, hen-roost, or out of the way corner, for the wandered wean. He was, however, no where to be found, and, as a last resource they then re solved that the bell should be sent through the town. In the mean time the mother, in a state bordering on destruction, went into her own house to rummage again every hole and bunker, bed and cupboard. While thus employed one of In r sympathiz ing friends happened to cast her eyes to the gable of a neighboring house, and there with surprise and horror, discovered the lost child perch* and on a ladder, and within a few steps of its very top, apparently quite delighted with its state of exaltation. A lady] endeavoured to induce the ambitious mite to comedown, but no, it shook its head, and sat fast. She then tried to go up the ladder, but half up her head grew giddy, and she was obliged to descend without accomplishing her object. The mother by this time was informed that her child was found, but her feelings may be more easily guessed than des ribed when she saw its danger. The ladder was long o nough to reach the eaves of a three story house, and w ithin four steps of it was her child, holding firmly by one of the bars, and looking quite com placently on the faces below. With trembling steps the agitated mother cautiously ascended the ladder, but when within arm’s length of her in fant, and on the point of lading hold ot him, he as if to mock the agony of his parent, clambered up the remain ing steps, and straddling across the top most bar, held out Ids little hands and smiled, as if proud of his daring f ati The mother at last folded the object of her fears and affections to her fond bosom, and descended with her precious burthen in safety, shed ding tears of gratitude and breathing a heartfelt prayer to that providence which had so miraculously preserved her dear little pet. Paisley Advertiser. The following strange and incredible story appears in the York Herald: —‘Last week a man passed through York, who is subsisting upon precarious charity, and who calls hionselt Win. Leek, and des cribes lumself as having formerly been at sea, and who is laboi ing under the follow ing very remarkable affliction. There 19 every external evidence of a living crea ture, apparently the size of a rat, being in his stomach. It is incessantly in mo tion except when the poor fellow eats and diinks, and the moment the act of swallowing commences, it may be ob served to rise towards the throat, and* from the form the man’s stomach as sumes, it seems to he busily engaged in devouring the food he is taking When he drinks, on applying the ear to his s-o ----rnach, a sound lesemuling that made by a dog or cat when lapping water, may be distinctly hea.d. Once a non.h (his uu seen reptile, or whatever i: is, secretes the food it has taken, and tie effects up on the man are melancholy in the ex treme. The anguish he suffers throws him into fits, in hie paroxisms of which he used to tear his 11 sh to such a degree, that his teeth have been foiced out b. the gags which it has been found necessa ry to put into his mouth—tie marks ot the hues are still visible on his 1* ft, or a* lie termed it, Ins larboard arrn. He has been laboring under this singular malady three years, and the only aicount he can give of its origin, is the drinking, about that time, ot some water out of a stagnate pond in the fens of Lincolnshire. He says he has been in the London hospitals and minutely examined by Sir Astly Cooper, who pronounced his case a very singular one, but lor which he could pre scribe no remedy. He informed us .hat he had poison adrninisiered to him to the greatest ex ent the fucu ty durst prescribe hut it hud produced no effect upon the st.ange tenant ofhis stomach. He spoke with much resolution upon his hopes, that after his death*, the opening of his body might unravel the mytery, and per haps be of service, should any other in dividual fall into a similar misfortune. He is obliged to take meat with him when he retires to rest, for though while he sleeps the motions in his stomach ceases, yet lie is not allowed to repose long be fore he is awakened by a craving for food, which he is obliged to administer. The case is certainly a mo-t extraordinary one, and there is, from the frank manner of the man, no reason to suspect any de ception—indeed the nature of the exter nal evidence is such as, in our opinion, to prevent its possibility. He left York on Thursday last, and said he iutended to go to Motion. Saturday Evening Post. We placed upon our bulletin of yes terday a report of the dismission of i Major General Scott from the U. S. service, by co uinaud of the President. This rumor came to us from the lips of a gallant officer, who was liimst If distinguished by bis valor in the late war, and now occupies an important station in the army. It seems that ! Gen. Scott has acted with deliberation in this matter, and as lie thinks com ports with his own rights and charac ter, and the integrity and honor of the army; It is well known that on the lamented death of Maj Gen. Brown, Gen. Scott claimed as matter of right, precedence over General Macomb as candidate for the office of Comman der in Chief of the Army. On the appointment of his rival, Gen. Scott tendered his resignation, with the in tention of embarking for Europe, hut the President, instead of receiving it, appointed him to a remote station, on a separate command. Scott, believ ing that he was the senior officer, de clared he could not yield obedience to the orders of Gen. Macomb, and we learned that every order, that has been transmitted to him has been sent direct from the President, as com* mander in chief ex officio. He has personally told the President that he cannot submit to Gen. Macomb’s or ders, and has earnestly entreated that the matter might he submitted to a court of inquiry. Our informant states that the officers generally de ny the right of the President to dis miss any officer from the army unless under a sentence of a Court Martial, and that although Gen. Scott is not popular, this affair will increase the number ofhis friends, and it will de prive ti. service of one of its ablest officers. It is well known that Gen eral Jackson had a sharp corresp.ni - dence with Gen. Scott, which ended in personal enmity, but we have heard that the President elect has a vowed his determination to repress his resentment and to cause ample justice to be done to Gen. Scott, if on due inquiry it is found that i jus f lice has been done to him. This; course of conduct will give the new President increased popularity in the! army, and afford a gratifying presage , of an elevated course of action. It reminds one of the magnanimity of Louis XII of France, on being solit i j ted to do something that would be in judicious to one who had shown-him self to be one of his sharpest enemies before he came to the throne.—‘The King of France doth not concern him self with the injuries of the Duke of Orleans,’ which was his title before lie came to the crown. JV. Y. Journal of Commerce. Captain Jones, of the bark of Cath- ] line states that on Monday night, a decent dressed man came on his deck, vociferating ‘Hurrah for Jackson,’ leliberately took off his coat, saying he iutended to die for Jackson, ami threw himself into the river. The Bystanders threw him a rope, which be took crying ‘Hurrah for Ja< kson.’ But as the boat approched to take him in, he swore he would *Die for Jack son,’let go his hold and was actually drowned I — Neiv-Orleans paper. WEALTH OF THE SEA . Under the New-Bedtocd head, [see Marine Lis;] in this morning’s Chron icle, we have published the names of the vessels which touched at Oahu, au island in the S. Pacific Ocean, since the first of last January., Our object in so doing is not so much to give the information, (which would he uninter esting here,) that such vessels h and called there, as it is to state the rutin ber of the vessels, and the great wealth wlii’ li their enterprising commanders and crews have drawn from the ocean, and will soon empty into their own cotters, and those of their owners. The number of vessels which tom lied at one island only, is fifty four, in: hid ing the one that brings toe report twenty one of which belonged to the little island of Nantucket, (which has a population of only about 8000 souls,) 1G to New Bedford, (another am at; seaport) and the remainder (except ten which were English,) to neigh boring ports of the two first named places. The number of oil with which they were laden, was 49 130; which, supposing 30 gallons to each :barrel, amount to 147,390 gallons; this quantity, on au average of 50 cents per gallon gives seven hundred and thirty six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars! There are no duties on oil thus brought into the U. S., it is to he observed; and wlh the exrep tion of some little time, in which, how ever, they are acquiring nautical knowledge, and a species of fatigm and labor which inures them to hard ships, makes them reckless of danger and keeps them hearty, the earnings of the men are almost a nett gain. Unit. Chron. Remarkable sagacity of Dogs. A short time hark, a gentleman re siding in the upper part of Carnar vonshire, re< eived an invitation from a gentleman residing in Middlewieh, to spend a month with him. The gen tleman accepted the invitation'and took with him a favorite greyhound. The next day after arrival, a mastiff, belonging to tne inviter attacked t!;e greyhound and give him a good drub bing,—The hound immediately took to his heels and fled home to Carnar vonshire, a distance of about ninety miles, and the family there were sur prised to see the dog return without his master. Next day the grey hound and a remarkably small bull dog, be longing to the same gentleman, ilisap peart and, and no trf.ee could be found of tilher of them until a few days n fur wards, when a letter was received fro in the Welsh gentleman saying, that his bull dog and gu y hound had arrived at Cheshire, and both had at tacked the mastiff belonging to l.is friend, and destroyed him before they could be separated. ■■■ ■ SJVJjVDLLVG. A female belonging to the lobbies ] of our Theatres, has recently resorted to a mode of ‘raising tlie wind,’ which it is right the public should know, not only to guard individuals against such extortions in future, but to enable any one on whom it may be attempted to be practised to cause this ‘lady fair’ to answer fur her conduct before a Magistrate. The following is the mode to which she usually resold,: she is alway s elegantly and somewhat fashionably attired, and generally contrives at a late hour, to meet or o vertake a gentleman, to whom some unmeaning observation about the weather, or the play, is introduced, | or some question asked as the way to, or distance from a certain place. \ man of common politeness will not unfrequently take pains to direct the ‘wandering’ dame. She will not, however, go far, before a demand io made for money preceded generally by a loud call of rnuder, or for the watch, and perhaps by a blow.—Ei ther of these coming unexpectedly, produces no less surprise than alarm; an attempt to escape by running a way, would seem to give currency to die accusation which the lady spares not by vociferating muider, thief &r. Generally, however, the individual chooses rathar to part with a St or 2, to get rid of this noisy companion: who receives it, nothing loth, though she is not lavish in her expressions of gratitude. She is tall, about thirty years of age, was once handsome, dresses well lias rather a sharp pierc ing rye, and a countenance bespeak ing viraguisin. Philadelphia Press. GEQUGIA LEGISLATURE. IN SENATE^ Friday, I>ec. 5. The bill to extend the jurisdiction f the Jus!ins of the Peace in civil ca rs, to increase their fees, and to com })- 1 them to give security, was ordered to lie on the table the balance of the session. BILLS P ISSED. For the relief of purchasers of frar- Jmn, lots and islands in the late fraction sales. To amend an act, entitled an act, for the better protection of orphans mil their estates. To alter and amend t.lie 4tli section of an act passed the 27th of Dec. 1826, to np|K>iut Trustees for the Poor Schools Fund in the county of Lowndes. A hill to amend an act, entitled an act, to incorporate the Bank of Da rien, passed Dec. 15, 1818, and to hango tiie name and remove the -mine, was ordered to lie on the table the balance of the session. A bill was n ported to augment tho Ifax1 fax on licenses to pedicis and retailers | f-spirituous liquors. Saturday Dec. 6. i BILLS REPORTED. L> provide, fin* the better distribu* ‘nmol the Poor School Fund of the several counties, and to point out the j mode of accounting for the disburse -1 ineiit of the Academy and Poor School Fund, and for other purposes. 1 o define the military powers of | '.he Governor, and to authorize the appointment of a staff to the comman der in chief. To amend the militia and patrol laws. MOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES. Thursday, Dec. 4. A Uiil was reported to enable feme coverts who drew land in the late j land lottery, on account of the absence fro ii the State to s‘!l and convey the