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N,v ■ ST ANZ AS— fiv ca m o ens. I saw the virtuous man contend \\ ilh life's unnumber'il woes ; Ami he was poor, without a triend Press’d by a thousand foes. I saw the passion’s pliant slave In gallant trim, ami gay ; II is course was pleasure s placid wave, I its life a summer's day. And I was caught in folly’s snare And join’d the giddy train: Put found her soon the nurse of care And punishment and pain. There surely is some guiding power Which rightly sutlers wrong— Gives vice to bloom its little hour, Put virtue, late and long. VANITY OF DRINKING. A PARODY. Teach me the measure of the gin, ‘I hou dealer of the dram, 1 would survey the glass within And learn how drunk I am. A gill is all that we can boast, A dram or two in time Alan is a drunken dog at most, In all his flower and prime. See the vain race of drunkards reel, Like Indians o’er the plain ; They rage, they light, they cneat and steal,. But all their noise is vain. Some walk a crack to make a show, Some roll upon the floor. Some pay the bill, —fiicy know not how Anil straight they see no more. What should I wish, or wait for then, From brandy, gin, or ruin ? They make our expectations vain, And plague the folks at home. Now I forbid mv foolish hope, My love of grog recal ; 1 give my drunken frolics up, And make my home my all. look over the oration of Bossuet, at the funeral of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. ; that most elo quent expression of sympathy for the sufferings of the crowned and the canonized. We are ready to give all praise to its high qualities, a• a rhetorical effort; hut this can not subdue our feelings ol indigna tion and contempt, at the deformi ty and weakness of the false doc trines which are scattered over it. We have made the following selec tions as illustrative of what we have just said of it. u 1 he hand of Cod has been in cessantly employed for ten years, without any human consolation, in teaching this unhappy queen its hard but useful lessons. At last, yielding to her vow sand her hum ble patience, lie has restored the royal family. Charles 11. is ac knowledged as sovereign, and the lnjuiiesof Kings have been aveng ed. \\ e need not say how much the queen was consoled by this wonderful event; but she had learnt In her misfortunes not to change with so great a change, in her af fairs : the world once banished, could never return to her heart.—- She saw with astonishment, that Cod, who had rendered so many efforts and so many enterprises use less, because the destined hour had not yet arrived,—at last, took the king her son by the hand, and led him to his throne !!!” 1 his was the language of a lfish op of the Catholic Church, about a King wlio was a disgrace told:; age and nation, the most lascivious and debauched ot men, the most un principled and dastardly ot mon archs, who wasted the subsidies ol his people on his extravagancies, and sold his nation to France for a pension. And yet, in the language of Bossuet, it was this wretched creature, whom the Almighty took hv the hand and led to his throne !! How far is this from blasphemy, sanctioned as it is by the consecra ted lips from which it issued ? How much is it like those greet ings of the Ultras, when they saw the hosts of heaven marshalling the Bourbon family to the palace of their ancestors,and cried out,“these are the rulers whom Providence has set over us !” How much like the portraits of Napoleon, which his enemies have taken the pains to sketch for us, is the following character of Crom well. “ A man appeared of an incredi ble depth of understanding, a refi ned hypocrite, as well as a skilful politician, capable of undertaking every tiling, and of concealing eve ry thing; equally active and inde fatigable in peace and war who left nothing to fortune, which he could anticipate by management and fore sight, but at the same time so vigi lant and so ready for every thing, that lie was never wanting on any occasion which presented itself ; finally, one of those restless and da ring spirits, who seem born only to change the world. But how hazar dous is the destiny of such spirits, and how fatal their daring ! How boundless their ambition and their fortune, when it pleases God to employ them for his purposes !” \V r e have here the same forced acknowledgement of great talents qualified by the strong- relief of v i ces, and the utter absence of all principle; the same talk about the directing hand of Providence, em ployed in chastising the transgres sions of Kings by the stiong arm of usurpation ; and then, when its pur poses are fulfilled, in leading back those kings to the throne. We would not he understood as ques tioning the superintending agency of Providence, that acts by gener al, not by partial laws, but we would protest against this profane I declamation about the sanctity of i kings, and the high interest which ■hey and their affairs awaken above Hll others, in the councils of hca- Hen. ■ The following extract may cause ■ smile at the self-complacent big- Htry of the Orator: H “ I do not undertake to tell you Hie destiny of the heresies of the Hresent day, nor to mark the fatal Hmits within which God has resol- Hed to confine their course ; but if Ham not deceived in comparing Hie events of ihe past with the pre- H-nt, I can believe, and I see the Hise concurring in this opinion,, Hat the days of blindness have passed away, and that, hence forth the light shall return.” That is, the Catholic religion shall he established in its full au thority. We need not say how wretchedly Bossuet was deceived in his expectations ; and we may he well assured, that all the fond dreams of bigotry, of whatever de nomination, will meet with an equal disappointment. IIONEST LABOR IS HONORABLE. Among the encouraging pros pects, that one nation is destined to lasting prosperity, and to the perpetual enjoyment of iibertv and independence, is the increasing ho nor attached to domestic industry. Comparatively few men are asha med to be found occupied in any necessary labor; and he is rather an object of scorn, who is seen dis dainfully directing others in the accomplishment of his labors, than he whose hands are employed in it. 1 hat imaginary exaltation, which scorns honest industry, has redu ced many families to bankruptcy and degradation, and a train of evils which are calculated to un dermine the basis of our govern ment and spread discord and mise ry in every neighborhood and eve ry family. He who feels above honest labor, ought to be considered bcloxv an honorable station in society ; nor ought bis misfortunes to bring him within the circle of effectual com misseration until they have brought him to honest and preserving indus try. No man has a right, or title to comfort and respectability, with out the sweat of his brow; nor ought I to lift a finger for raising a man from the troubles of an over whelming poverty, while he is afraid of staining his fingers with honest labor. When I see a lady exulting in her freedom from domestic cares and labors, and always ready to run at the bidding of some idle pleasure seeker, thus, glorying in her shame, I know that her home is a wretched dwelling—that al though her tongue is smoother than oil, her heart is full of thorns—in her parlor, she is amiable as a god dess, hut in her domestic relations, she is f actious as a demon—it would be better todweil in the cor ner of a house top, than with her. A lady whose home is pleasant loves to he there : and whoever says, that she has nothing to engage her attention at home, most assuredly leaves something undone there, which ought to be done. That child which is not trained to indus try, is trained to guilt and wretch edness. In the abodes of fashion able idleness are found the most refined and the most destructive vices. Happy then, for America, is that gale which begins to blow away the airy notion of exalted idle ness. A WOULD-BE BIGAMIST. Mr. Lawson, formerly minis ter of Kirkmanhoe, (adjoining to Dumfries,) was a most worthy and respectable character, and very much beloved by all the country round, but more particularly by his own parishioners. Once, about a Martinmas term, a farmer’s servant in the parish, a foolish young fellow, called osi him, and told him he hacl a very great wish to lie married. ‘ Very well John,’ said he, ‘ there is nothing wrong in that,’ who is the happy woman you are going to make your wife ?’ ‘ Oh! sir,’ said the 1.u1,‘1 am rather at a loss just now, and called upon you to give me your advice in pay pre sent difficulty, lucre are two young women whom I love nearly alike , one of them I would prefer a little, and only a very little, to the other : now, what I would ask of you, sir is this, * might I not marry them both?’ ‘That,’ said Mr. Lawson, according to the laws of this country, is not allowable; but do you think both of them are willing to take vou for a husband ?’ ‘ O yes, sir, said he ‘ I think I am pretty sure of that.’ ‘ Very well,’ said the minister ‘ marry the one vou like best as soon is convenient and in two or three months after you may come to me, and I will see what can be done about getting you the other also.’ This was done accordingly—for a long time afterwards there was no word from John. At last it happened one beautiful (lav in the month of April following, that Mr. Lawson metl is old acquaintance in a nar row lane, driving a cart loaded with hay. The lad barely touched his hat, and wished to push on.— ‘ Stop, stop, John,’ said the minister” I wish to speak with you.’ What do you want, sir?’ said John, very hastily. ‘ O,’ said the good man, ‘you were to speak about taking another wife.’ ‘ Another wife, sir!’ cried he ‘ O sad ! I wish you would rather loose me from the one you have tied me to : will you just stop a moment, and see what shins she has made me with kicking,’ and with this began to loosen down his stockings in great haste.—‘Hout, hout, John, 4 cried the minister, we’ll see ‘these another time;’and so rode off, fully satisfied that John thought one wife was enough, and rather too much for him. Judge Bundle's charge to the Grand J ur y- All laws are laws, and every law is law ; and laws are things made by the lawyers, to make men live according to the law, without re spect to die gospel—for this is ano ther affair, and to be considered at another opportunity, and by anoth er sort of men, and in another man ner. But to the law. Now there are some men that are good men, and some men that are bad men ; and the bad men are not the bad men, but the bad men and good men, are two different sorts of men —this we gather from'Magna Char ta, an old man that lived in the reign of King John the Great N*ow, if alt ivere good men, there would he no need of laws, there fore, ctg9, the laws were made lor bad men, and the good men have no business therewith, nor any ad vantage to receive therefrom, con sequently those who receive advan tage from the last, must be bad men; and so gemmen, call up the prisoners and despatch them as soon as possible, for 1 must go out of town to-morrow. “ Two pence for my cresses,” cried a little boy in the streets of Phila. delphia one day—he is now an emi nent merchant and is worth millions of pence—“ I.a ! pa, how mean it looks to see that little boy crying cresses for two pence,” said a little gentleman whom lie passed one day—that person died a poor crea ture in a goal. Learn this lesson. Twopence is hut the beginning ol shillings—shillings of fortune—for tune of ease and luxury. Look well to your two pence sand fear not. But neglect them and they will neg lect vou—they come not like the m * l physician in the hour of adversity, but w hen the sun is up and the day of health lasts. IIOXOR. W hen men of ordinary minds and of low standing in society, are guilty of violating our laws, it is not (infrequently the case that their ignorance may he pleaded in pallia tion of their offences.—But when men of talents and respectability willingly set at defiance, and violate both the laws of God and of man, we areata loss to find even the shadow of an apology for their mis doings. If persons of this descrip tion quarrel, in consequence of an occurrence which men of their at tainments should pass over with silent contempt, is it proper, is it consistent with real honor, that they should appoint a place where they meet with a fixed determina tion to kill each other ? This, however, according to a false and wicked application of the world is called honorable !—anu vwien a misguided man thus falls, it is said that he was killed in an affair of honor !” But it is never ad ded that his honorable intentions, at the very moment he recievedthe mortal wound from his antagonist, were to murder his opponent ! Very honorable indeed to die with a bo som filled with “ malice afore thought,” and with the black and unpardonable motive and desire to murder a fellow creature in cold blood! Is it honorable to sanction, hv example a murderons practice which originated in barbarity and stands condemned ajicl abhorred by the laws of all civilized nations,and bv the unanimous execration of all good and virtuous men? But why need w T e ask these ques tions on a subject so plain and self evident ?—The practice of duelling is unchristian—ungodly—and mur derous—it is against the laws of God—it is contrarv to human laws, is unmanlv and ahhorent ; it is il legal.—lt is therefore plain and the conclusion is incontrovertible, that so far from being honorable it is an act as dishonorable as it is wicked and abominable. The above remarks are general, They are written under the full and firm conviction, that it is the bounden duty of all good men, to aid by their contempt, and the expressions of their detestation, in abolishing a practice which is too vile to he en dured ina country that lays any claims to civilization. Baltimore Fed. Rep. Nothing is more terrible than war, more precious than gold, more desira ble than friendship, more detestable than slander. Nothing is without be ginning or end— nothing is perfectly happy—nothing is more agreeable to the eve than light— nothing is more beautiful than spring nothing is brighter than the sun— nothing is milder than the zephyrs. JSothing is sacred in war, is just in peace, is se rene in a treaty. The man who pos sesses nothing is happy, for lie fears neither fire nor foot pad, thief nor bai liff. Nothing, without place or mo tion, wanders through interminable space— nothin g is victorious over death —nothing is more estimable than vir tue, nothing is more powerful than God. THE WORLD. What is the world, even to those who love it, who are intoxicated with its pleasures, and who can live without it ? The world ! it. is a perpt tual ser vitude; where no one live-* for himself alone. aul V. acre, !l we s’iiyc (■ happy, we must ki--s its fetters iovc its bondage. The v, t!<1! p•’ a daily root a ton f events, create iu succession, in the miiuls ,■ its p:ufizaiis, the most vieleid j i;l , s’. oiks hitter hatreds, odious pup!,.. ties devouring jealou-ies, and grievo'j. chagrins. The world! it is a place i malediction, where pleasures then selves carry with them their troubl,,, and afflictions. In the world therei nothing lasting ; nor fortunes tlu* n 1() , affluent—■nor friendships most sincei, —nor characters the most exalted-, nor favours the most enviable. >] e| pass all their lives in agitations, jects and schemes, always ready deceive, or trying to avoid deception always eager and active to profit k the retirement, disgrace or death their competitors ; always occupied with their fears or their hopes ; fi j. ways discontented with the present and anxious about the future ; neve tranquil, doing every thing for repj>, and removing still further front it,-., Vanity, ambition, vengeance, fuxat avarice—these are the virtues whir the world knows and esteems. In th, world, integrity passes fur simplicity; duplicity and dissimulation are men torious. Interest the most vile, ann* brother against brother, friend againsi friend—and breaks all the ties of blood and friendship: and it is this base mo live which produces our hatreds and attachments! The wants and misfor tunes of a neighbour find only indif ference and insensibility, when we can neglect him without loss, or cannot be, recompensed for our assistance. It we could look into two different parts ot the world—if ve could enter into the secret detail of anxieties and in quietudes—it we could pierce the outward appearance which offers to our eyes only joy, pleasure, pomp ami. magnificence; how different should we find it from what it appears ! We should see it destitute of happiness— the father at variance with his child ; i the husband with his wife ; and the i antipathies, the jealousies, the mur ! murs, and the eternal dissention of fa milies. We should see friendship ship broken by suspicions, bv inter ests, by caprices; unions the most endearing dissolved bv inconsistency, relations the most tender, destroyed, by hatred and perfulv; fortunes tho most affluent producing more vexation than happiness ; [daces the most hon orable not giving satisfaction, Lv.i cre ating desires for higher advancement; each one complaining of his lot, and the most elevated not die most happy. King James I. of England, went: out of his way to hear a noted preacher. The clergyman seeing the king enter, left his text to de claim against swearing for which the king was notorious. When done, James thanked him for hi; sermon ; but asked him what con nexion swearing hacl with his text, lie answered, “ siwee your innjestv cair.e out of your way through curi osity, i could not, in compliance do less than go out of mine to meet: you.” AN AMERICAN BULL. An American newspaper editor, in giving an account ol a person who was shot by another, in carelessly discharging a gun, says that he was “ killed dead, 11 Sic. This beats the Hibernian, who, on being charged with using a club in a riot, declared that the only thing he had in his hand was his Jist, and that was in his pocket at the time. Querry.— How far is a man from being dec) when he is only killed. Alexandria Herald. In a mixed company, a gentleman thought proper to make some remarks on the lady next him, (who happened to he drinking toast and water) as to induce the affronted damsel to take out the toast and throw it in his face. very coolly took it up and threw it in the face of the person the other side<'i him, desiring that Miss—, toa d wig't go round. Advertisement. —The following sin* gulitr advertisement appears in tj 1 ’ Lancaster Free Press—“ A Jlridlej r ‘ Devils,"’ being an evangelical curb to muzzle these, w ho, having been bitten byUlie Old Serpent, or groan under the internal quinsey, by a lover of whole bones, has been left at his office f ,,r sale—price cents. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than voursc't* No man sweep's his own chimney, but employs a chimney sweeper, u ho has nn objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. T imon, the Athenian, being asked why he hated all mankind, sullei answered, “ I hate the bad ; the r es for not hating them.” I