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‘£b'3T&?* “ Poor Violante,” the subject of (lie follow ing piece, is none, other than the celebratedactress, Mrs. Jordan, Early in life her extraordinary charms at tracted (lie licentious eye of the Duke of Clarence, aon of George lll,—and she being enarmoured by the attrac tions of royalty, became his mistress. She lived w ith him about twenty ytsars, and bore him eleven children.—All this time she continued to tread the stage, the admiration of ‘ millions.’ — The immense proceeds commanded bv her splendid talents, were resorted to by the Duke in the embarrassed -fctate of his fortunes, occasioned by gambling and extravagance. She was received in the first circles, and pie sided at the table of the Duke on pub lic occasions. Alter the death ol C hai lolto, when an heir to the throne was a subject of solicitude among the royal family, Ik* resolved to take a wife, and she was ungratefully abandoned with no other resource than those talents •which had so largely contributed to his support. Disgusted, and with wounded pride, she retired to France. In an obscure village, near Paris, she pined in solitude —the time had now come when the forsaken lever, and the heart-rending sigh were no longer a fiction —and no audience was there to applaud the tears and distress of re ality. In a few months the only ‘ bene fit’’ she had to ask was a shroud and a grave —those were provided at the ex pense of the parish. The following tribute is from the pen of an English traveller who lately visited the spot — a spot, which to him, who had seen her on the stage, could not but associate at once the ideas of loveliness, and splendid talents, with those of ingrati tude, distress, and desolation. R. 1 could not close tliis desultory lay Nor speak of Violante ! she was not Sunk into disrepute, yet stole away From the world’s honours —lost but un forgot. ’Tis sweet her sad and simple tale to tell, While the full bosom at her mention warms; And thoughts, like magic,'on the me mory swell, As fancy calls her back drest in her thousand charms. She died in a strange land —heart-bro- ken died — Left in her worse than widowhood— the tie Os twenty summers snapt, for a young bride— Younger than her young daughter ‘. None was nigh To smooth the desolate couch, where on she lay Withering; but like the tempest stricken leaf, That waits for nature’s summon to de cay— She shrank before the fury of her grief. I stood beside her grate : her grave— whose tone Was melody to millions —and I wept: Remembering tiiat even that was not her own, Rut there, by casual charity, she slept! For she died destitute, nor leit withal To buy the rites of sepulture —yes, she— Whose life was one rich bounty—-lack ed a pall, While he that should have mourned kept bridal revelry. Poor Violante ! there she at last With all the Perditas: but one strange hand, To twine a coronal tor all the past, And one chance pilgrim at her stone to stand ! His conscience be his curse, who left her so—- I name him not, his name would stain my page; Swept down oblivion’s gulf 1 let him go, Mi\t with the meaner base who scan dalize the age. THF. RUSSIAN UKASE. A poetical friend, on reading; Alex ander's claim to lour thousand miles of ocean, hastily furnished us with the following pasquinade. Halt. Citron. Old Neptune one morning was seen on the rocks, Shedding tears by the pail-full, and tearing his locks. He cried, * a land lubber has stole on this day Full four thousand miles of my ocean away ; He swallowed the earth (he exclaim’d) with emotion, And then to quench appetite slap goes the ocean, Brother Jove must look out for his skies let me tell ye, Or the Russian will bury them all in his belly. VISIT TO COLONEI. BOON. The writer was induced by curirtsi ty to visit this extraordinary person the summer before his death, lie then lived with his sons on the banks of the Missouri river, 40 miles from its mouth. W c had, on out journey, heard much of his shunning society, and fleeing to the woods upon the ap proach of company ; but this our ex perience soon proved the mere inven tion of travellers. We had an intro duction to his son, a substantial and respectable planter, who soon made us acquainted with his father He was then old and feeble, yet in his every gesture and sentence, you were im pressed with his former energy and decision < f character. He was cheer ful and talkative, and prevailed upon us to dine with him. After dinner we entered into familiar conversation with the old patriarch, and from the gar rulity incident to old age, he related, much of the history of his mist life. VYe observed, that we were wippv to j find that the report of his death while) aiming his rifle at a deer, was without j foundation. He smiled and sjid “ iNii- ny heroic exploits and chivalrous ad-1 ventures are related of me which ex ist onl v in the regions of fancy. With ■ me the* world has taken great liberties, land yet I have been but a common ma ..* It is true that I have suffered many hardships and miraculously es caped many perils ; but others of my companions have experienced the samu. When 1 was young (in Virgi nia) I heard much from the surveyors of the fertility of the soil beyond the mountains, and the abundance of! game in that quarter. Naturally ro mantic and fond of the chase, I indu ced a few families to go and settle be yond the Allegames. We soon form ed a small and enterprising company ; but on our way thither suffered many privations, and on one occasion a part of our company were killed by the In dians. This cooled, but did not ex tinguish, the ardor of my companions. We proceeded and settled a few miles from Lexington. Here we built a log fort, and at first were undisturbed by the Indians. I afterwards was inform ed by the savages, that at first they knew not of our settlement, for they were all west of the Ohio. Kentucky was never inhabited by the Indians, but was always, by a compact, from time immemorial, kept as a general hunting ground ; the land was called Kentucky, and its name imports, land of blortl, from the many wars occa sioned by ihe violation ot this com pact. Soon however, our fort was con tinually surrounded by the red men, and their continued cries in the vicin ity threw a gloom over the most cou rageous. Pressed with hunger within the fort, hundreds of miles from a white settlement, and threatened with instant death if we left our residence, we were certainly in a very perilous situation, f r provisions, we depend ed on the game of the forest, and left our fort over night, hunted the suc ceeding day, and returned the next night. Once our party were attacked in returning, and 1 with others sallied out to their assistance ; a few were killed, and I, in a personal encounter with an Indian, received many severe wounds. At another time our fort was stormed and well nigh carried, but a fortunate thought struck me ; the In dians and backwoodsmen arc much afraid of big guns ,• and to impress them with the idea that we had these, I ordered some large logs bored and the holes filled with powder; the ex plosion frightened away our enemy. However, after many struggles w r e subdued the country and the Indians ; and our fields were waving with corn, and our friends settling around us, and we then expected to pass together ma ny happy clays ; but alas ! it was then my misery began. New claimants successfully contested our land titles, and once again we were thrown into poverty and despair. I determined to quit my native land, and seek refuge with my deadliest foes, anil trust to to their magnanimity. \N ilh my nu merous family 1 came to this place, and for a horse bought a large Spanish patent, then surrounded by ravenous beasts and savages, who considered me the instrument by which they had lost their hunting ground (Kentucky.) They pitied my helpless and wretch ed situation, and were too high-mind ed to crush a fallen foe. They were kind and generous in their intercourse with me, and never hut once stole my property, which the chiefs soon resto red. Rut within a few years, since the cession of Louisiana, the country has much improved. JM y descendants and others are comfortably settled around me, and nothing embitters my old age, hut the circulation of the absurd and ridiculous stories, that 1 retire as civ ilization advances ; that 1 shun the white men ami seek the Indians ; ami that now, even when obi, I wish to re tire beyond the second Allegames. (Rocky* Mountains.) You know all this is false. Poverty and enterprise excited me to quit, my native state, and poverty and despair my native land.” On parting, he desired us again to visit him, but soon after lie died at a very advanced age. A I’iuvF.LLttn. [vY* Vork Statesman. HOW TO FORM A LAWYER. A young barister who looks to em inence from his own sheer unaided merits, must have a mind and frame | prepared by nature for endurance of unremiting toil. He must cram his memory with the arbitrary prin cipals of a complex and incongru ous code and be equally prepared, as occasions serves, to apply or misapply them. He must not only surpass his competitors in the art of reasoning right from right prin cipals —the legick of common life ; but he must be equally an adept in reasoning right from wrong prin ciples, and wrong from light ones, lie must learn to glorv in a perplex ing sophistry, as in the discovery of an immortal truth. He mustmake up his mind and his far e to demon strate in open court with all imagi nable gravity, that nonsense is re plete with meaning, and that the clearest meaning is manifestly non-j sense by construction. This is] what is meant by “ legal habits of I thinking;” and to acquire them he must not only prepare his faculties by a course of assiduous cultivation, but he must absolutely foreswear j all other studies and speculations that may interfere with their perfec tion. There must be no dallying with literature ; no hankering after comprehensive theories for the good of men , away must he wiped all such “ trival found records.” He must see nothing in mankind hut a great collection of plaintiffs and de fendants, and consider no revolu tion in their affairs as comparable ; in intrest to the last term report ol I points of practice decided in banco j regis, [king's bench.') As he walks i the streets, he must give way to no , “ commercing with the skies;” no! idle dreams of love, and rainbows, j and poetic forms, and all the bright j illusions upon which the “fancyj free” can feast. If a thought of. love intrudes, it must be connected with ths law of marriage settle ments, and articles of seperation i from heel and board. So of the other passions ; and of every, the most interesting incident and situa tion in human life—he must view them all with reference to their “legal effect and operation.” He has no choice ot cases ; he must throw himself heart and soul into the most unpromising that is confind to him. He must fight pitched battles with obstreperous witness. He must have lungs to out clamour the most clamorous. He must keep battering for hours at a jurv that he sees to be impreg nable. Finalv, he must appear to be sanguine, even after a defeat and be prepared to tell a knavish client that has been beaten out of the courts of common law, that his “ is a clear case for relief in equity.” RUSSIAN MARRIAGE CEREMONY. The wife promises her husband never to let him see her transgres sions ; and he as punctually promis es when she is detected, without the least anger, to beat her without mercy; so they both know what each has to expect; the lady transgresses is beaten, taken again into favor and all goes on as before. When a Russian young lady there fore, is to be married, her father with a cudgel in his hand, asks the bridegroom whether he chooses this virgin for his bride ? to which the other replies in the affirmative. Upon which, the father turning the lady three times round, and her three strokes with his cudgel on the back, “ My dear, cries he, these are the last blows you are to receive from your tender father ; I resign my authority and my cudgel to your husband; he knows better than I the use of either.” The bridegroom knows decorum too well to accept of the cudgel abruptly ; he assures the father that the lady will never want it, and that he would not for the world make any use of it. Rut the father who knows what the lady may want better than he, insists upon his acceptance. Upon this there follows a scene ol Russian politeness, while one refuses and the other oilers the cudgel. The whole however ends with thebiicle groom's taking it, upon which lilt lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience and the ceremony pro ceeds as usual. TO PRESERVE BACON At all seasons, and in all places. A correspondent ol the Ncw-En gland Farmer, says :—Much expe rience has enabled me to ofler you a prescription, on this subject, that never has, and never will fail of answering the purpose, viz preset v ing those meats safe from ravages of all small animals, and pure and sound for any length ol time, and in any climate. It is the use ol Char coal. The nature of this material is well understood by Chemists, and its properties and effects fully explained. My mode ot putting down any kind of smoked meats, is thus : Take a tierce or box and co ver the bottom with charcoal redu ced to small pieces, hut not to dust; cover the legs or pieces ol meat with stout brown paper sewed a round so as to exclude all dust; lay them down on the coal in compact order, then cover the layer with coal, and so on until your business is done, and cover the top with a good thickness of coal. The use of charcoal, properly prepared in boxes, is of great bene fit in preserving fresh provisions, j butter and fruits in warm weather; ; also in recovering meats ot any kind, when partially damaged, by covering the same a lew hours in the coal. Let those wiiose situation i requires it, make the experiment, on any article of food subject to decay, and they will more than realize their expectation. The following authentic military anecdote, exhibits a trait of milita ry virtue, that ought to be declared in honor ol the enemy ; Col. Har vey, who commanded the 14th light dragoons in most of the seri ous engagements on the Peninsula, having formerly lost an arm in ac tion, was attended by an orderly man, who held a guiding rein to the bridle of the colonel’s charger ; this ■ attendant being slain by his side, just as the enemy’s cavalry had : broken the line of the 14th, by a I heavy charge of superior numbers, ! great slaughter ensued on both sides, when a French officer, imme diately opposed in front of Col. I Harvey, lifted his sabre, and was in the act of cutting him down, but, observing the loss of his arm, he instantly dropped his point on the Colonel’s shoulder, and bowing his head, passed on. The 14th ral lied soon after, and gallantly reco vered their ground. A Yankee pedler, on his way to the west with a two horse load of notions, put up at the house of an honest Dutchman between Harris burg and Wheeling, and as it hap pened was detained there three or four davs by a heavy rain which made the roads and streams impas sible. At last the sky brightened up and he hitched too, but when the reconing came to be paid which was 10 dollars, Jonathan requested the host to score it until he returned from his voyage, promised very honestly to discharge it then. This did not suit the Dutchman however, who insisted on the cash, which was at last reluctantly was then the custom, as it is now, to treat a traveller, upon payment of his bill, ton glass, and the tavern keeper was never backward in fol lowing the custom. But on hand ing out a mug of clear cider, Jona than remarked shrewdly that it would make fine wine, and said he had a secret by which, through a short process, he could convert cider into the best of wine. This put Mynheer on the nettles; pos sess it he must, so finally took the Yankee up on his oflfer'of putting the cider into the process of wine ma king for ten dollars down, and fifty more when he returned, if it suc ceeded to the landlord’s mind. Jonathan was accordingly conduct ed into the cellar, and having pro cured a half inch auger bored a hole in one end of a hogshead of cider, and directed Mynheer to apply his thumb to it while he bored a like hole in the other end, and ordered him to stretch his other arm so as to cover that also—having thus got the unsuspecting Dutchman into bu siness he directed him to remain so until he cut two'spiggots for the holes; and walking out to his wag gon, jumped in and was off, leaving his credulous friend to make wine of his cider the best wav he coulj/l and to get hack the ten dollars wh ta I he caught him. | PRATING FOll OUR ENEMIES, E The parson of a corporate town | !a . I ving been affronted by the mayor, win, I was a butcher, determined on* the f„|. f lowing way of professionally resenting I it. Vhen preaching before the corpo” I ration, he introduced the follovvinu I sentence in his occasional prayers? I “ And since, O Lord ! thou hast com. I manded us to pray for our enemies I we beseech thee tor the right worship. I fill, the mayor : give him the strength I of a Sampson, that he may knock I down sin like an ox, and sacrifice ini. I quity like a lamb, and may Lis ho<l be exalted above his brethren. 4 TIIE MAN OF PLEASURE. | The man of pleasure, alas ! vvLt shall we say of him ? He is sunk to the lowest step of degradation in the moral scale ; he has robbed himself of the ordinary consolations resorted to by ordinary men. He has no stay on which to lay hold, no twig at which to catch, no pretence by which to flatter himself into a false peace—no recol lections of past usefulness: He has neither served his country, nor benefi ted society 7 . NATURE AND RELIGION. After all, I am convinced that na ture is not to be fully enjoyed with out Nature is but the handmaid to devotion ; and where piety is unknown her offices are but little understood. Men may pur sue nature scientifically to Iced then curiosity and pant for splendid dis coveries, as the road to fame; but no one I believe, ever had a true and exalted relish for her enjoy ments, hut the child of devotion.—• It was not until I became the sub ject of religious influence, that I saw nature as she should be seen and enjoyed her as she should be enjoyed. It was then I could re cognize a present God in all her works; when I saw his wisdom composing the harmonies of nature, his finger directing the movements beneficial to man ; when I saw the sun filled with his glory—the moon walking in his brightness—the lily clothed in his beauty—the water held in his hand—and every thing animated by 7 his life—when, in a word, I could look round on the whole heaven and earth, and adop ting the divine sentiments of a fa vorite poet, say, “ My Father made them all!” Then it was that na ture first appeared to me the most interesting—most sublime ! All that was filial and tender—all that was exalted and religious now strug gled within me. I felt that reli gion had united me, to the Author of all things; and I surveyed the beauties of nature as a son surveys a paternal inheritance ; frequently ascending from the wonders of cre ation to the more sublime wonders of redemption.” Notice. AN Election will be held at the house ofMuj.John Keener, (Ma con,) on Monday the 23d day of June next, for a Justice of the Inferior Court, to fill the vacancy of Davenport Lawson, resigned. Tarply Holt, J. I. C. R. C. C. YV. Rains, J. I. C. R. C. May 24, 1823. 11 SU’lYNed II ROM the subscriber, a yoke of OXEN, both red and white pied, one rather darker than the other.— Each of them lias a small bell on—- marked with a swallow fork in one ear, and a smooth crop on the other. Any information of them will be thankfully received, or if stopped so that I can get them, the trouble and expense of doing so will be liberally rewarded. Claiborn M. Jackson. May 31. Swll KT T *Ve are authorised to announce Dr. S. M. INCERSOLL, a candidate for a seat in the representative branch of the next legislature, for Ribb county. ’ 1 * “MB! JCT* We are authorised to announce C. W. RAINS, Esq. a candidate for a seat in the Representative branch ol the next legislature, for Ribb county. We ave authorised to announce Timothy Matthews esq. a candidate to represent this county in the Senatorial branch ol the next Legislature of this State. Stephen WWVuims is a candidate to represent tliis county in the next Legislature of this State.