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before he is generous. Besalc, my two young est children have just had tr.e wl.oopmg-coeg i. and they must have a little country air: uli these things arc expensive. I appeal to your feelings, sir, whether you would drive a bard bargain with a man in my situation ? “ I leave it entirely to yourself.” replied May nard, despondinglv. ‘•Sir, I will run the risk of publishing your volume. Paper and printing are tcrribic tilings: 1 wish books could do without them : hut 1 will venture. I beard you highly spoken of yesterday: wo will share what profits there are, and your list ot subscribers wili insure us against loss.” It did far more, by-the-by, to say nothing of Sir Jasper Meredith’s secret guarantee. “ And now business being over, said Lintot, “will you dine wit i me? lam a plain man, only a joint anda pudding, w lich is just ready : I like to encourage young men in being j u ac tual.” Walter declined the invitation, precisely be cause he wanted a dinner, ile was, also, con ciousth'i? he had made ave y bad bargain : but how couid lie chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages, which were the very outpourings of Ins heart? There were recorded dreams glorious with the future, and feelings soft and musical with the past. He fancied Ethel Churchill’s soft, blue eyes, title i with tears, as she turned the haunt ed leaves of which sue had been tiie inspiration, and he was console 1 for every mortification, fie walked along those crowded streets, alive but to one delicious hope; and, amid poverty. 1 ibour and discouragement, still steoj ed to the 1 p in poetry. Tno fanciful fables of fairy-land are but al legories of the young poet’s mind, when the sweet spell is upon him. Some slight tiling Ca'l ; up tle visionary world, and all the outward and actual is, for the time, forgo ten. It is ethereal and lovely ; but. like all other fevers, leaving behind weakness and exhaustion. I believe there is nothing that causes so strong a sensaton of physical fitigne, as the exercise o' the imagination. The pulses heat too rapidly; fvmU Wcvr tuvw depressed, is the reaction ! I —Ethel Churchill. THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. Three plants, at this moment, connect three different quarters of the world, which forages would have known but little of each other Without them. China is connected with Eng la id by scarcely any other link than her tea ; for three hundred year; tobacco was the so'e Irak between England and the Western world ; and Arabia is to this hour scarcely bound to us but by ber coffee. Such arc the slender b t powerful sources of uatomJ connexi >n. Tie discovery of coffee was not made until the 1 tUor part of the thirteenth (eutury, and, like many another great discovery, it was the re mit of chance, adopted by necesity. An Arab, t' e Shcykli Umar, tell under persecution in his own country; he and his deeinles fled to a mountain in the province of the Yemen, where, in the desert, all usual food failed him ; a eof f.e berry there grew wild, and the distressed refugee, as it was too hard for him to masti cate, tried its effect in boiling; he drank the liq-our, found himself revived, and made it im mortal. Yet, recommended as it was by its refreshing properties, its spontaneous growth, and still more, such is the absurdity of mankind, by the example of a fool or knave, who called himself a saint, coffee took upwards of' two centuries to make its way into the world.— Even in its country it was as dishonored as a prophet among his kindred ; and as near as Egypt was, it was not till the to;; 1 century from its discovery that it insinuate 1 itself into tec sober potations of Egypt. It is seldom that the world is indebted to superstition for any thing except carnivals and cardinals, but t! e follies of the Arab devo’ees in the land of the Piiaroahs, who win golden opinions of men by extravagances that would degrade the mules t ey ride on, were the first parentage of Egyt-1 tun coffee-drinking. Those wretched people, spending half their nights in watching, and half their existence in mortifying the withered flesh on their tawny bodies, found coffee es- j rential to keep tliclr ho lies and souls together, j The Turk next adopted it. It suited his lazi- 1 ness, his lassitude, Ids sedentariness, and his ! stupidity. The showy barbarian wanted noth- 1 mg but tobacco to complete the curse which, to the slave and the sensualist, turns all the en joyments of the senses into evil. Tobacco c une to add perpetual intoxication to bis cata logue of waif,il calamities. It is a remarkable instance of the perversity of the human will, vvoen left to itself, that while coffee, with all its j singular powers of cheering the mind and re-1 f esh;ng the i erves, took nearly four hundred years to make itself known in Europe, and while the potato is scarcely more than coming ;uto use in a large portion of the Continent, to bacco took little more than half-a-dozen years to be known as fir as shins could carry it: that it is now the favorite filth of every savage lip within the circumference of the globe : that it fills the atmosphere of the Continent with a perpetual stench ; that the Spaniard sucks it. as hesavs, for the heat—the Dutchman for the cold—foe Frenchman because he has nothing c ; e *o do—the German because be will do not ting else—the London apprentice because “<t makes him look 1 lie a an,” and all • becam e it is in ts own nature the filthle t most foolish, dullest, and mo: t disgusting prac tice on the face of the earth. Anew “Family Cookery Book” is about to appear. We give a capital receipt for a •• Dish for two,” called “ Marriage.” Catch a young gentleman and lady. Tnc young gen tleman will be best raw, and the young lady quite tender ; set the gentleman at the dinner table; take a bottle of wine, claret is good, port is better, a little dash of champagne will give it a briskness ; let him soak in this mix ture for a couple of hours ; if no sign of boiling, try another bottle. Y /lien getting red in the gills, take him into the drawing-room; if in j winter, set him at the fire-side by the lady, throw in a dash of green tea, of about three ; cups to each, and let them simmer together; if ! in the summer time, place them in a current of air, as near the window, and as much out 1 of sight as you can ; stick the lady all over with flowers, and place them ne ir the piano, and keep stirring them tiii the lady sings. When you hear ti e gentleman sigh, it is a good sign ; as, whet or winter or summer, they are sure to be growing warm. Then take them off, and put them in a corner of the room on a sofa nc ar a clean table, if possible ; leave them to | getl cr simmering for ti e rest of the evening. 1 iiepc.it this for three or tour times, taking care i to keep them hs elo e t > each other nr you can. G cit care must betaken about the degree of heat ; if too great, they will explode and fly ofT: if ipo little, they will turn into a jelly, or per haps an ice. The best heat is the moderate, regular, and constant. The length oftime du ring which it is applied must be accordingly to circumstances. For a gentleman and lady under five-und-tvventy. three months, three weeks?, or three days, sometimes are sufficient; but. in every instance, there must he great pre. caution to avoid a broil. A certain quantity of the King’s con put n during the cooking ! will have great effect in keeping in the heat ; the dish w.ll look remarkably well if garnished round with bank paper; it mav t'on be served up at t.ib'e, and make an excellent me and for two. Care should be taken that no vinegar is used, ns the dish is remarkably apt to turn t Blackwood. EXCERPTS FROM CONFUCIUS. 1. Labor to purify thy thoughts. If thy thoughts arc not vicious, neither will thy actions be so. 2. Ext not for the pleasure that thou mnyst find therein; cat to increase thy strength ; cat to preserve the life which thou hast received from I leaven. Some mo 'em writer has altered, and per haps improved the above thus : “ Eat to live, instead of living to eat.” 3. Take heed that toy promises are just; f having once promised it is not lawful to re tract. We ought always to keep our promis es. 4. Fie that applies himself to virtue and strongly addicts himself thereto, never com- j in its anything unbecoming a man, or contrary to right reason. 5. Do unto another as thou would’st be dealt with thyself. Thou needst this law alone. It is the foundation and principle of all the rest. 6. A long experience is required to know the heart of man. I imagined when I was young that all men were sincere : that they al ways practised what they said. At present I hear what man says, but I never rely thereon. 1 will examine wt.ether their words are agreea ble to their actions. 7. It is not enough to know Virtue : thou should’st love it. It is not enough to love Vir tue : thou sliould’st possess it. 8. lie that persecutes a good man, makes war against Heaven. Heaven created virtue, and protects it. He that persecutes it, perse cutes Heaven. 9. Tue defects of parents ought not to be imputed to their children. If a father shall by his crimes render himself unworthy of being promoted, the son ought not to be excluded if he renders not himself unworthy. If a son be of an obscure birth, his birth ought not to be his crime ; he ought to be called to great em ployments as well as the sons of the nobles, if he has the qualifications necessary. Think you that the Deity would reject a red bull be cause it came from a spotted cow of another color ? 10. Never contract friendship with a man that is no hotter than thyself. 11. To sin and not to repent, is really to sin. 12. Wherever you may live, associate with the best, correspond with the wisest. 13. He tiiat is arrived at the fortieth year of his age and has hitherto been a slave to Yomc criminal habit, is not in a condition to subdue it. I hold his malady incurable ; lie will per severe in his crime till his death. 14. Afflict not thyself at the death of thy brother. Death and life are in the power of Heaven, to which the wise man is bound to submit. Moreover, all the men of the earth are thy brethren ; why then shouid’st thou weep for one at a time when so many other men re main alive ? 15. Contract friendship with a man whose heart is upright and sincere ; with a man that loves to learn and who can teach thee some thing in his turn. Other men are unworthy of thy 7 friendship. 10. When thy country’s safety is concern ed, stand not to consult, hut expose thyself. 17. He that has faults and strives rot to amend them, errs: but at least let him strive to conceal them. The wise man’.- defects are like eclipses of the sun : they come to every ones knowledge. The wise man, therefore, should cover himself with a cloud. 18. Butter is gold in the morning, silver£t noon, lead at night. Every man is cither i fool or phys cian after forty years of age, anc. he who would be young when lie is old, must be old when he is young. 19. See that moth width flies incessantly round the candle—it is consumed! Man oi pleasure bcliold thine own image. Temper ance is the last medicine. 20. When a f .mily rises early in the morn ing. conclude the house to be well governed. One hour’s sleep before midnight is w orth two hours after. People’s Press. WOMAN IIER SPHERE. A beautiful woman and ber husband were once lost in a wood, in the middle of a very dark night. On all sides they heard nothing but the shrill whistle of robbers, or the loud cries of wolves ; the sky, too, was tempestuous. The female became at once motionless through fe r. * What will become of us ?” cried she, cling ing to her husband. *• Let us continue our journey, my love,” he re] i ed. “ But, good heavens! the robbers! ” “ Well then let us return.” “Oh, that’s worse ! the wild beasts !” “ What would you have, then V* “ Leave this place.” “ We ciu only do that my love, by going forward or returning—choose which.” The female then shut her eyes, stopped her ears, and suffered herself to be conducted by her husband. Sucii is the lot of woman. Nature has poin ted out our respective distinctions, and the difference of our employments by the differ. e..ee of our conformation. A taller stature, a mo e soli 1 and a less flexible organization, indicate t.,c honorable duties of man. Here the laws of nature and society accord. “ Woman and man,” says llousreau, “ are made for each other, hut their mutual depend ence is not equal. Men depend upon woman by the r desires; woman upon men by their dcsiresand their wants. Woman was created to be the companion of man; to please him, to solace him in his miseries, to comfort him in his sorrows and not to partake with him the fatigues of war of the sciences. Warlike women, learned wo men who are politicians, equally abandon the circle which nature and institutions have traced around their sex : they convert themselves in to men ; they renounce the empire which they inevitably exercised by their weakness, to run vainly after the more equivocal empire of force. We hear of women who have fought, written, and governed, with success. What docs these prove? The exception does not destroy the rule. And, besides, where is the feeling and amiable woman, who would exchange the inef fable happiness of being loved, for the unsub stantial pleasure of fame ?—where is the man, wiiu would have preferred Joan of Are, to the mild and timid Agnes Sorel ? We admire the masculine mind of Elizabeth ; but we love Mary Queen of Scots. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. A JAIL. It is a horrid place—and many a time, when through the grates of my prison window, I have watched the rays of the setting sun as they gilded some neighboring spire, I have wondered that any man could find it in his heart to put a fellow-being in jail for debt. I have at last given up the hopes of Liberty —blessed Liberty! I can hardly write the word without dropping a tear at the recollec tion of the joyous days of Liberty which are gone forever. 1 am sad when I think how they have fled away like a dream, and that neither I, nor my creditors can ever recall them. When I entered the walls of this terrible jail, in which, amid the rattling of chains, I am writing this little story of my life, I was young, in good health, blessed with a wife whom I adored, and as fine a hoy as ever smiled in the face of a father. The boy is dead—and my wife is no more. She was indeed, a most ex cellent woman, but she was wounded to the soul by the horrors of our situation. Her spirit was broken down, and she, with the in lunt that caused her sickness, died in jail, short ly after my imprisonment. A necfhte of the late Sir Edmund Nagle. — When a young man travelling in a post chaise up Shooters hill, a highway-man rode up, pre sented his pistol into the window, and deman ded his money or his life. Sir Edmund, then a very athletic man, seized the arm of tue ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged him through the window, and placing him beside keep him quiet, ordered the post boy to drive on. The humble supplications of the highwayman were answered with “Be easy boy, be easy, wont hurt ye.” Still the con \ science stricken robber kept pleading, till at length the chaise reached theCuptains lodgings, when lie handed the fellow out of the coach, walked him up to a garret, and locked them selves in. He then took off his coat and said, < Now sir, I neither mean to hang you, nor hurt you, but I’ll just give you a broth of a bating,’ which having accomplished, lie opened the door, bade the robber lie off, and the next time he stopped a coach, to rap at tho window and ask if Pat Nagle was inside, before be ventured to poke his pistol into it. Wanted,. —A lady down east advertises for a “ divine, jovial, serious, bold, majestic, innof fensive, scientific, nimble, husband.” LETTER OF LXFAYETTE. To Mr. T. W. White. Washington, January 18/// 1838. Sir, —I send you a copy of a letter, address ed during the Revolutionary War by General Lafayette to General Morgan, which I made in July last, from the original in the National Mu seum of the city of Mexico, flow this letter found its way 7 to Mexico, 1 could not learn ; but I was induced to suppose that it may have been carried thither by General Wilkinson, who died in that city about ten or twelve years ago. The letter contains nothing of manifest im portance ; yet as it was written just after the rctiYiat of Cornwallis to Portsmouth, and just before his occupation of Yorktown, it may per haps serve to throw some additional light on the proceedings of that most interesing period of our history. I am, your obed’t serv’nt, R. G. Brig’r gen. Morgan —Goode’s Bridge. Malvan Hi/I , 2-1 th July, 1781. Dr. Sir,—l am very 7 sensible of the pecu liar circumstances of the gentleman from Maryland, and how much they sacrifice by 7 remaining with the army. I said to you that I wished to dismiss them as soon as possible ; and for this purpose, I am making up a corps, which I expect to have complete in a few days, and will send it to you, when they will he able to go home. I beg you to present my com pliments to them, and am, Dr. sir, your ob. sen t. LAFAYETTE. Brig. Gen. Morgan. Southern Literary Messenger. Sunday Schools —Unde r this head we find the following paragraph in the U. S. (Phil.) Gazette : The first person that introduced the brewery of porter on a large scale in the eitv of Phila delphia, was Mr. Robert Hare, about 1790. Avoid arguments with ladies ; in spinning a yarn among silks and satins, a man is sure to be worsted. The following piece was selected hy the judges as being the best, and most deserving of the premium offered by us some time since, for the best written po em on the delightful season to which it is addressed :] For the Southern Post. TO SPRING. BY E. M. F. Ob, beauteous wanderer of the verdant brow ! Where hast thou strayed, nor hither come ’till now; O’er what tall mountains flown, through what green vales, Displaying all thy sweetness on the gales—• And filling hearts who sadly pined before, With richest treasures from thy fairy shore ? But, long hast thou been coming—long been gone— And left thy little flowers here forlorn. To Jreiish by the rude Autumnal wind, Or sink ’neath dreary Winter’s snows, consigned. Oh, knowest thou not that while so far away All that ihou lovedst was destined to decay; As well the mighty oaks and forest trees, As the meek rose that blushes in the breeze. Those rich saloons of Nature dressed so gay, From the first dawn of March to end of May— With their ten thousand flowers spreading wide O’er all tho mead, where like an early bride, Thou, lovely Spring, in maiden form v ast seen To hymn sweet songs, and softly tread the green, Where richly spread in verdant foliage lies, Nature’s green covering’neath her auzre skies. All these, yea, more than poet’s tongue might sing, Have perished since thy visit here last Spring : Have scattered to the winds, been broken—torn— Or ’neath the Autumn blast, or Winter’s storms. And those gay chirpers, too, with tiny wing, And lofty crest, have flown and cease to sing ; The chattering black-bird and discordant jay, Or dulce! mock-bird with harmonious lay; And e’en the silver butterfly has flown, Nor more is heard the gentle turtle’s moan. Soon as the torrents swept from mountain sides, And ocean seemed to heave her swelling tides Baek on the frozen North, than fearful came Those fierce Borean blasts with deadly aim, To drop in quiet frosts each winter night— Ashamed to do such deeds by morning light. Oh, cruel goddess, wither didst thou go, To leave these flowery vales submerged in snow ; And all the curious works thy hands had made Freeze like the ice-drop in the mountain shade ? Sure wast thou weary, and to some lone isle In sunny seas, didst hie thee from thy toil; Where all around thee, fairy beings play Like spirits mingling wiih the ocean’s spray. Perhaps someone among that fairy band Hath wooed and won thee in that sunny land ; And thou, with heart distrustful, lingers yet Around those climes, or leaves them with regret ? Docs Phoebus’ brightness play around thy dreams, And dost thou love the magic of his beams ; Or if too high, of too celestial birth, Who is the favored one ’mong those on earth ? Methinks some god of the Eolin race, In the far South, enjoys thy fond embrace ; And while Zephyrus of the gentle wing, Enchains thee to his cells, nor lets thee bring Sweet buds and flowers upon the vernal breeze, To scatter o’er our fields and forest trees ; Dread Boreas jealous of his gentler foe, Destroys our fairest flowers by wintry snow. Come,- then, thou mistress of his stormy breast, And hush his raging passions all to rest; Wc hail thee gladly to our land once more, And pray the blessings of thy bounteous store, In rich effusion on these desert fields, ’Till fruits and flowers a copious harvest yields ; And when the storm of death shall come at last, A nd thou be driven from us by the blast, O, inay we meet on Heaven’s shore again, Where thou in matchless youth shall ever reign ! FRINTERS DEVILS. In our collection ot literary antiquities w have preserved two accounts of the origin c their title. One of them says there wtS ot e Monsieur Deviile or De Ville who came over with William the Conquerer, in company with De Laun, De Vic, De Vul, D’Ashwood f)’ Ulfie, D’lTmpling, etc. A descendant of this Monsieur Deviile in the direct line, being son: e . what reduced, one of his sons was taken in bv the famous Caxton in 1471 ; who, provii k very expert, became afterwards his apprentice and in time, an eminent printer : from him tl e order of printer’s devils took their name. The other accounts say, if they took it from infer, nal devils, it was not because they were mes sengers frequently sent in darkness, and ap. pearing very black, as scoffers would suggest • but upon a very equitable account, for" John Faust or Faust us, of Mentz, in Germany, fi rsl inventor of the art of printing, which art sd surprised the world that they thought him a conjuror, and called him Doctor Fustus, and his art the black art. As he kept a constant succession of boys to run on errands, who were always very black, these were called devils • some of whom being raised to be his apprenl tices and afterwards rising themselves in the world, he was very properly said to have rais ed many a devil. A professor of Latin in the University of Ed inburgh, now no more, having desired the stu. dents to give in a list of their names in Latin, was greatly surprised at seeing written on a slip of paper the name “Joannes Ovum No vum. After in vain seeking for a translation of this he at last became convinced that it was either one ofthosc dark Latin passages, to de cypher which even the skill of a Bentley would have failed, or that it was a hoax. He there fore next day, in the class, read out the three dark w ords, and desired the writer of them to stand. One of his pupils immedialely rose.— What are you ?” said the Professor. " “A poor scholar, Sir,” was the answer. “ Avery poor scholar indeed, Sir, or you would never have written such stuff as ‘Joannes Ovum Novum.’ That can’t be your name, sir.” « 1 don’t see,” said the student", “ where you could find better Latin ; my name is John Agnew.— ‘ Ovum,’ for egg (Ag) ‘Novum,’ for new; —Ovum No vum—Eggnew.” The professor, seeing that he had rather the worst of it, immediately laid his fingure upon his own forhead, and looking at his hopeful pupil, who was standing somewhat in the attitude of a drill sergeant, exclaimed, in a pitiful voice, “Alas! alas ! —something wrong here, I doubt,” “ May he so,” shouted “ Ovum Novum,” “something may be wrong there ; but (striking h;s hand upon his forehead) there is nothing wrong here /” INDIAN ANECDOTE. A son of the Emerald Isle travelling in the Cherokee country, met a native : “ Good mor ning,” said tho traveller. “ O see-u,” replied the Indian, (meaning good morning.) “ You see me,” replied the Irishmrn, “ by Jasus, I see you too,” “ Skene unake,” (meaning mean White man) said the Indian, somewhat offended at the rough language of his fellow traveller. “ Skin my neck," cried the Iriscman in a burst of pa--ion. “By the height of the hill of Ilouth, I’ll skin your neck first,” and he forthwith began to pummel the unfortunate native most unmercifully. “ Nok-ica ,” (meaning quit) yelled the In dian. “ Yes,” said Irishman, “ I’ll knock you till your heart’s contented with the bating I’ll give ye.” Asa barrister was going down Palace Yard, he was bespattered by a mud-cart. One of his brethren said to him, “ that is an action of damages.” “No doubt,” was the answer, “but 1 should like to see the Jury that would give me costs of suit." A Punctilious Negro. —A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun mentions that a member of Congress lately got perfectly drunk and wished to fight a negro that he met on the street.— The darkey contended that “de bominable representationer had descended beneaf de lebel ob a gemman by drinking to inspiration, and darfo he war not bound to ’sept him challenge."’ Influence of the Moon on Tiinlcr. —A very intelligent gentleman named Edmndstone, who was for nearly thirty years engaged in cutting timber in Demerara, and who made a number of observations on trees during that period, says that the moon’s influence on trees is very great. So observable is this, that if a tree he cut down at full moon, it will immediately split as if torn asunder by the influence ofgrcat external force. They are likewise attached much earlier by the rot than if allowed to remain to another period of the moon’s age. Trees, therefore, which arc intended to he applied to durable purpos es. are cut only during first and last quarters of the moon ; for the sap rises to thetopofthe tree at full moon, and fall in proportion to the moon’s decrease. “ Will you have me ?” said a young man <0 a moderate little girl. “No John,” said she, “ but you may have me if you will.” A theatre for blacks is about to be opened in New Orleans, where the Ethiopian dranm wilj be sustained in its original purity.