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Wanted,
9000 UUSHKLS CORN
i4'“' s '' b isvr?si°MS;r'-
ARE RECEIVING
PIECEItfIEMP AND TO IV
BAGGING,
• i ,hrv offer for sale at very low prices on an
oWrsdit for approved paper.
etsnecredJti n I)AV y BUTTS.
iune, 7. 10
JUST RECEIVED*
b'-ls. SUMMER STOCK ALE,
5 cases Lnpec Wine,
L do Claret, in pints.
SO kits MACKEREL,
5 casks PORTER,
bo qT. boxes Raisins,
-0 boxes do
30 whole do
10 doz. Congress \\ ater.
Tamarinds and Soda Crackers.
Ulso, a large and fresh supply of all kinds of
jfectionaries, for sale low—by FCKI
Jacon, July 29, 1831.
JUST RECEIVED,
(Per Boats Carroll and Vice President.)
HUSKEY, N. Rum, Hyson Tea, Coffee,
Sugar, Molasses, Muskatel Raisins,
Inverness Cotton Bagging,
■Best quality Dundee do
Powder, Shot, &c.
M. FELTON & Cos.
iacon, July 29, 1831 '2O
--vr. i
\S just received and for sale at his
ar-i'iTll SFJJAJiifI
Cherry Street, a general assortment of
Drugs, . Hcdiciiies,
’ ©AtmtSSa
paints, OILS, DYE STUFFS, &c.
yiiich will he sold on accommodating terms.
tscriptionn will be prepared bp Dr. Wood
i,who will superintend the sale of all Mcd
lies.
drugs and medicines.
im Hiera Picra
liinony linglass
natto Spanish .lory Black
lo Com apavs II
ies Laudanum
ohol Liquorice Ext. and re
bw Hoot Bermuda lined
(afoetida Mace
liuionial Wine Magnesia Calcined
l>er do Lump
ex refined Medicinal Herbs
b Cnule Manna
msiono Roll Mustard Eng.
samCopaiva Nux Vomica
rlcy Oil Peppermint
’k Peruvian “ Bergamot
wes “ Lemon
am Tartar “ Wormseed
stile Soap Opium
stor Oil, Ist and 2d Part goric
quality Pearl Ash
apess Water Quicksilver
trosive Sublimate Quinine
>• Rhubarb
m Red Precipitate
Miilc flowers Rochelle Salts
may seed Salt Peter
ntharides Sarsaparilla
inunon Sugar Lead
rituieal Sup. Carb Soda
1)61)8 Senna Alex
sences of all kinds do Eng.
|som Salts Sponge Fine
acts different kinds do Common
let ?,, , Spirits Turpentine
n i S Frt “ Nitre D„1
wr Sulphur “ Lavender Comp
T ~ . “ 1 lartsh*rne
tuber Salts Sweet Oil
„ Stoughton’s Bitters
J'° e Tamarinds
Tartar Emetic
'? Tartaric Acid.
~ t,. medicines.
i„ rc , , Bateman’s Drops
™ Godfrey’s Cordial
dfor.i a n° Balsam Honey
s j m Rar * £ Thompson’s Eyewater
p, “°" Durable Ink *
H**nry’B Magnesia
. ‘>wmm s Panacea
1. Peono™ Potters Catliolicon
( Oil ,
i. do , *•">. .
linotun, it., 7 Oalljy s Carminative
oIOP - 61 a ‘ snm James’ Powders.
, tn i PjlN’fs AND OILS .
K* lßtaad * “
L,. a j Smalts all colours
■kit Brown m Ms Hair Pencils
un ]> {1| | }em de. Sienna
'w Ochre Umber Turkey
e Pint ' ermilhon
nrJ Gold Leaf
* Lead Ra, ? nt Y ‘-Row
IP Black f , ' sln , e . ,
itinir Logwood Stick
y Black „ < !° P\ lre h rr <>'ind
en Stone l and brushes of all
Jigris t
lb Stone , ! nntß Turpentine
sstan Blue TrliTnil
onip v ii * rii it I
tilt Widil°' V Neats foot do
pL Lamp Oil Ist and 2d
leral Green „.T i: 1 ' li, y
ul Varni i Window Glass all sizes
# T Uh | Putty,
lm WE STUFFS.
Anneal Indigo
pperas Madder
‘Halls Turmeric
*ood Stick i 1 V’tviol
D , Aqua tortis
lotto ofcund Muriatic Acid.
' "' p Julv 10. IftSl. (M
Vrn for Sale.
A , House, which lias been weather
boarded, but not shingled, and which can be
easily removed from its location, will be sold, for
cash, it application be early made, at the
ADVERTISER OFFICE.
August 30. 38— tf
€ ommk&xioK business
IN DARIEN.
‘! E subscribers beg leave to inform their
l friends and the public in general that they
continue to attend to Business in the above line,
and will be thanktul for a continuance of thei.
favors. PH : ft. YONGE & SONS.
Darien August
ooffiißgsiw aisEuisg.
f.F'SV.
TUI 1 , subscribcirs have connfeCted them
selves under tiie firm of
PATTON k COKEN,
for the transaction ot a general Commission Busi
ness in Darien and respectfully solicit a share of
publie patronage, assuring those who favor them
with their Business, that every exertion on their
part shall be used for the advancement of their
interest.
they have taken the \Y barf add Store House
recently oacupied by Messrs. Ph. R. Yorm-e &
Sons, and owned by 15. E. Hand, Esq.
ROBERT S. PATTON,
J. COIIKN, Jr.
Darien, Aug. 22, 1831. 37-3 m
Darien miM .Ven Vork
TO SAIL THE IST, 10TH AND 20TII OF
EVERY MONTH.
S. hooner Mary Amt, Captain Fithian.
Schooner Hero, Captain Collier.
Schooner Martha Bcaston, Captain Petit.
Schooner Agenora, Captain Pierre.
fJMl E above are all vessels on which Insurance
A can be effected at the lowest rates, and ship
pers may rely that the greatest punctuality will
lie observed in their sailing, commencing the Ist
September.
For Freight or Passage, apply to the masters on
board, or to
E. H. COLLINS,
JSB South Street, New York, or
I*. R. YONGE A SONS,
* Darien.
July 1,1831 31-tf
COTTON BAGGING.
ONE thousand pieces HEMP BAGGING,
30 hhds. N. Orleans Sugar,
G Tierces Jamaica Sugar, suitable fur fam
ily use,
100 bags Prime Green Coffee,
50 bags Old Java Coffee,
lo boxes brown Havanna Sugar,
12 doz Madeira Wine,
12 doz" Port VVinp,
For sale by WM. P. HUNTER.
Macon August 22d, 1831. 3G-t4
llav and lintt*,
orrnrt ron sale on heason'able teems
i ds SUGAR,
j lUU 20 bbls Loaf and Lump Sugar,
35 hhds Molasses,
300 hags Prime Green Coffee,
200 bbls. high Proof Wliiskey,
100 do do do Gin,
100 do do do Rum,
50 casks Nails and Brads, 100 lbs. each.
50000 lbs. Swedes Iron
7000 bushels Salt,
2000 peices Cotton Bagging.
Macon August 12, 1831. . 33—tf
hi lliT sales:
Will be sold, at the Court-house in the town
of Macon, on the first Tuesday in September,
SOME household and kitchen furniture, one
black horse, 4 negroes, Philis, Mary, Tom,
and Mason, and the land and improvements, (num
ber of acres not known) all levied on as the pro
perty of James Tabor, to satisfy sundry executions.
4 negroes, Tom, Lucy, Simeon and Jourdan,
levied on as the property of Win. J. Danelly, to
satisfy sundry executions.
1 carriage and harness, levied on as the proper
ty of Elizabeth Coleman, to satisfy 2fi fas in fa
vor of Seymour & McKinley.
Sundry articles of furniture, levied on as the
property Littleton Atkison, and .Toll T. Rowland,
to satisfy a distress warrant for Rent, in favor of
Farish Carter.
The lot and improver.. onts, occupied by Robert
Birdsong, to satisfy a fi fa from the comptroller
General’s office, vs. Thomas Gardner, and Win.
Scott and Robert Birdsong, securities.
One negro boy named Ambrose, levied on as
the property of Alfred S. Bennett, to satisfy a fi
fa in favor of Nicholas Wagoner, vs John P. Bal
lard, and Win. A. Green and Alfred S. Bennett,
securities.
3 negroes, Sinas, Missouri, and Loretta, as the
property of VVm. P. Harris, to satisfy a mortgage
fi fa in faaor cf Kimberly & Chisholm.
W. B. CONE, Sheriff.
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, , TO IIIRS), t
\ C*HOD Cook for hire by the month. Apply i
-V at the ADVERTISER OFFICE.
August 30, 38—tf
SIIKIUFF’S SALES.
For October
Pike sales.
Jhll he sold at the Court-house in the town of Ze
buton, on the first Tuesday in August next,
ONE negro man by the name of Sam, about 15
years old, levied upon as the property of Ca
tharine Ragan, to satisfy a mortgage fi fain favor
of Sowel Woolfolk vs. said Catharine Ragan.
J. R. CULPEPPER, D.S.
For September.
JONE SCALES.
Will be sold nl the Court-house in the town of Clinton
on the first Tuesday in September next,
| acres of land; whereon Levin D. Sockwell
Ut * lives, taken as his property to satisfy fi fas
in favor of George W. Dillingham.
250 acres of land, whereon John Gunn lives, ta
ken as his property to satisfy a fi fa in favor of
•Shorter & Gordon.
Negro girl Ann, 14 years old, as the property of
Peter Gill, t o satisfy fi fas in favor of W. & G Pope
and John Toles.
101 1-4 acres of land, whereon John Dosset
lives, and the interest of John Wynins in the crop
growing thereon, levied on as Wynins property,
in favor of Janies Cowen and Eben Tompkins.
B. TRAPP, Sh’ff.
TWIGGS SALES;
11 ill be sold at the Court-House in the town of Ma
rion, Twiggs county,
volumes Law Books, levied on as the pro
r*D perty of Robert A Evans, to satisfy an exe
cution in favor of Ira Peck.
2-7ths of square of land, No 24, 23d district of
formerly Wilkinson now Twiggs, levied on as tiie
property of John Arnold, to satisiy a fi fa in favor
of Turner Coley. .
101 1-1 acres land, No. 25, in the 27th district
of originally Wilkinson now Twiggs, levied on
as the property of .John Ham, to satisfy a fi fain
favor of Win and John Ham.
202 1-2 acres of land, No. 7G in the 23d district,
levied on as the property of James H. Kidd to sa
tisfy a fi fa in favor of Samuel McJienkin, vs VVm
Nixon, and said Kidd, security.
Samuel M. Cranberry’s interest in the square
of land whereon he now f lives, and in the crop
growing thereon, *eviod on as his property to sa
tisfy a fi fa in favor of Judith Wilkes.
JAMES HARRISON, Sh’ff.
MONROE SALES.
j Will be sold at the Court-house in the Town of For
syth, on the first Tuesday in September,
V square of land, whereon Win Iluckahy lives,
. levied on as Iris property to satisfy ii fas in
favor of Bell & Itainev and others.
JOHN REDDING, Sh’ff.
Will be sold as above,
and her child, levied on as the proper
ty of VVm A. Moore, to satisfy sundry fi fas
in favor of Win Maxy and others.
Lot No. 40, in the 11th district, levied on as the
property of John Towns, to satisfy sundry fi fas
in lavor of Thomas Grant.
POSTPONED SALE.
60 acres of land, part of No. 70, in the 11th dis
trict. levied on as the property of Wiley J. Har
ris, to satisfy li fas in favor of VV. Biscow.
A. COCHRAN, D. Sh’ff. %
BUTTS SALES.
Will be sold at/he Court-house in the town of Jack
son, on the first Tuesday in September next,
IVTO 103, in the first district, formerly Henry,
IN now Butts —levied on as the property of JllO.
11. Malphus, to satisfy afi fa in favor of John Al
drige.
Lot No. 16, in the first district of formerly Hen
ry, now Butts, and south halfof No. 17, same dis
trict, and negro man Jack, GO or 70 years old, le
vied on as the property of Hugh Hamil to satisfy
executions in favor of Tlios. VV. Goode. E. R.
Goodrich and Keeland Tyuer.
R. VV. IIARKNESS, D. Shff.
On the first Tuesday in October next, will be sold at
the Court-House in Jackson, Butts county,
IOT, No 75, in the 18th district of originally
A Henry now Butts, levied on as the property
of John M. Davenport, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa
in favor of Ambrose Edwards.
JOSEPH SUMMERLIN, Shff.
~FAYETTE SALES.
Will be sold, at the Court-house, in Fayetteville, on
thefirst Tuesday in September next,
IOT No. 104, 4th district, originally Henry
J now Fayette, levied on as the property of
Wm. H. Walden, to satisfy 2 fi fas in favor of
Win. Askew.
WYA7 T HEFLlN,sheriff.
ALSO,
IOT No. 89, in Fayetteville, levied on as the
J property of I). & 11. Moses, tosatify an exe
cution in favor of Isaac Warren & M. N. Burch.
ANDREW McBRIDE, D. Sheriff.
CHAWFOIU) SALES.
Will be sold, at the Court-house in the town of Knox
ville, on the first Tuesday in September next,
IMIK property of VV. P. Glover, to satify an
. execution in favor of James I). Edwards, one
acre of ground whereon the Knoxville academy is,
to satisfy 2 small executions in favo of Jesse
Stone vs the Trustees.
JOHN WHITTINGTON, D. Sheriff.
HOUSTON SALES.
Will be sold, at the Court-house, in the town of Per
ry, on the first Tuesday in September next.
NO 209,4n the 12th district of Houston, levied
on as the property of James Wall, to satisfy
fi fa in favor of Win. E. Carswell.
No. G 5, in the Btli district, levied on as the pro
perty of David G. Hardy, to satisfy a fi fa in favor
of Stovall IS Lamar.
No. 55, in the 15th district, levied on as the
property of John Miller, to satisfy 2 executions in
favor of Griffin & Goodwin.
HENRY . RALEY Sheriff.
HENRY SALES.
1 Fill be sold at the Court-House in Meftnnough, on
the first Tuesday in September next,
O.IG in the 12th district, levied on by a mort
-iN gage fi fa in favor ol Win C. Thomas, and
No. 179 in the Glh district of said county, all le
vied on as the property of Win H. Kimbrotmh.
THOMAS J. JOHNSON, J>. Sh’ff. 1
“* “A poet’s hand and prophet’s fire,
Stuck the wild warhlings of his lyre.”
The iollowing was sung by the Senior Class
at Harvard College, at the close of the services
prior to Commencement:
A KIND FAREWELL TO ALL.
By Robert Habersham, of Savannah, Geo.
We part for aye;—no more we meet
W ithin this sacred hall;
Then should we not like friends repeat
One kind farewell to all ?
A long farewell, —a last farewell,
A kipd farewell to all;
Oh, let us give, ere yet we part,
One kiud farewell to all.
We leave this long familiar ground;—
These days of peace are o’er ;
No longer here ourvoice shall sound,
We worship here no more.
A long farewell, &c.
Oh! cold is he, whose soul can find
No memories when we part;
When mind so long has mixed with mind,
And heart has linked with heart;
A long farewell, &c.
Together have we spent these years,
These years that fly so fast;
Together felt the joys and cares,
That consecrate the past;
A long farewell, &c.
Our hearts are now ungalled with strife,
Our hearts are free and fair; #
But we can never meet in life
With hearts that we have here.
A long farewell, &c.
In life will many a sorrow keep
The warmth of feeling down ;
And many a mark and wrinkle deep
Record misfortune’s frown.
A long farewell, &c.
When grief shall rust the feeling heart,
When sorrow crush the soul,
These peaceful scenes from which we part
Will o’er the memory roll.
A long farewell, Ac.
We part for aye; —no more we meet,
Within this sacred hall;
Thon should we not like friends repeat,
A kind farewell to all I
A long farewell, a last farewell,
A kind farewell to all,
Oh! let us give, ere yet we part
One kind farewell to all.
Boston Courier,
MOORE, THE POET.
’Mr. Moore married a lady of the name of
Hamilton, daughter of the table decker to the
princesses. She had a poetical turn, and is said
to have assisted her husband in writing his plays.
The following specimen of her poetry was hand
ed about before her marriage. It is addressed to
the daughter ol'the famous Stephen Duck.
You will Aonder, my Duck at the fault I must
own,
Your Jenny oflate is quite covetous grown !
Her millions though tortune should lavishly
pour,
Yet still I Were wretched if I had not Moore.
As gay as I am, could I spent! half my days
In dances and op’ras, assemblies and plays ;
Her fate your poor Jenny with tears would de
plore,
For alas! my dear girl, \yhat are these without
Moore ?
’Tis the same tiling with matters, with money,
with men,
(And 1 think I shall never be happy again,)
I’ve danglers, I’ve prattlers, I’ve lovers full
score,
And yet like true woman. I sigh for one Moore,
Mamma, she cries “Jenny, why all this ado !
You may have a husband, you know, child
or two;
But I pouted, I whimper’d I fretted, I swore,
I would not have one, if I could not have
Moore.
The Baron (poor devil) has just now been
here,
And lias offer’d to settle eight hundred a year ;
But I answer’d the fellow, as I’ve answered a
score,
You know that won’t do, sir, for I must have
Moore,
Yet for all this bravado, I vow and protest,
That avrice ne’er yet had a seal in my breast;
For I swear I’d not envy the miser his store,
Sol had but enough for myself and one Moure,
Though the fools I despise, dare to censure my
fame,
Yet I think Fin as wise as some folks I could
name,
I but Worship that idol which others adore,
For they who have thousands, would gladly
have Moore,
You’ll wonder my girl, who this dear one
can be,
Whose merits have made such a conquest of
me:
You may guess at his name, for I told you be
fore;
It begins with an M, but I dare not say Moore.
From the N. V. Eve. Post.
THE FEMALE PILGRIM.
BV A LADY.
\Y hither goestthou, pilgrim strangCT,
Passing through this darksome vale ;
Ivnowest thou not ’tis full of danger,
And will not thy courage fail I
“Pilgrim thou dost justly call me,
Wandering o’er this waste so wide;
Yet no harm will e’er befall me,
While I'm blest with such a guide.’*
Such a guide! No guide attends thee,
Hence for the my fears arise ,
If a guardian power befriends thee,
’Tis unseen by mortal eyes.
“Yes unseen, but still believe* me,
, Such a guide my steps attends ;
He’ll in every strait relieve me,
He from every harm defend ”
Pilgrim, see that stream before thee,
Darkly winding through the vale;
Should its deadly wave roll o’er thee,
Would not then thy courage fail I
“No ! that stream has nothing frightful,
To its brink my steps I’ll bend ;
Thence to plunge will be delightful,
There my pilgrimage will end.”
W bile I gaz’d with speed surprising,
Down the stream she plunged from sight;
Gazing still, I saw her rising,
Like an angel cloth’d in light!
“Mirth, that wrinkled care derides,
“And Laughter, holding both his sides.”
i The hardest fend off, or the Bear and the AI
liaator.
St. Martinsville, May 4,1831.
On a scorching day in the middle of June,
1830, whilst I was seated under a venerable
live oak,on the ever green banks of the Teche,
waiting for the fish to bite, I was startled by
the roarings of some animal, m the cane brake
a short distance below me, apparently getting
ready for action. These notes of preparation
were quickly succeeded by the sound of feet,
tramping down the cane, and scattering the
shells. As soon as I recovered from lav sur
prise, I resolved to take a view, of what I
supposed to be two prairie bulls mixing im
petuously in battle, an occurrence so com
mon in this country and season, when, as
Thompson says,
“ Though all his lusty veins
The bull, deep-scorched,the raging passion feels.
When I readied the scene of action, how
groat was my astonishment, instead of bulls,
to behold a large black bear reared up on his
hind legs, with his fore paws raised aloft, as
if to ma ke a lunge. Ilis face was besmeared
with white foam sprinkled with red, which
dropping from his mouth, rolled down his
shaggy breast. Fnvtic from the smarting of
his wounds, be stood gnashing his teeth and
growling at his enemy.—•-A few paces in his
rear was the cane brake from which he had
issued. On a bank of snow-white shells spot
ted with blood, in battle array, stood bruin’s
foe, in shape an Alligator, fifteen feet long!
He looked as if he had jiist been dipped in
the Tcche, and had emerged like Achilles
from the Styx, with an invulnerable court of
mail. He was standing on tiptoe, bis back
curved upwards, and his tonguolcss thrown
open, displayed in his wide jaws, two large
tusks and rows of teeth. His tail, six feet
long, raised from the ground, was constantly
waving like a boxer’s arm, to gather force.—
Ilis big eyes starting from his head, glared
upon bruin, whilst sometimes uttering hissing
cries, then roaring like a bull.
The combatants were- a few paces apart
when 1 stole upon them, the “first round” be
ing over. They remained in the attitude
described about a minute, swelling them
selves as large as possible, but marking the
slightest motions with attention, and great
caution, as if each felt, confident be had met
his match. During this pause I unconceal
ed behind a tree, watching the mana’iivrc in
silence. I could scarcely believe my eye
sight. What, thought 1, can these two beasts
have lo light about. Some leaders may doubt
the talc on this account it, because every one
knows what they are fighting for.
'The same reasoning will not always apply
to a man fight. Men frequently fight when
they are sober, for no purpose, except to as
certain which is the better man. We must
then believe that beast will do the same, un
less we admit that the instinct of beasts is su
perior to the boasted reason of man. Wheth
er t!p v did fight upon the present occasion
without cause, 1 cannot say, as I was not pre
sent when the affray began. A bear and a
ram have been known to fight, and so did the
bear and alligator, whilst I prudently kept in
the back ground, preserving the strict neu
trality betwixt the billigercnts. And now,
if the reader is satisfied that such a battle as
this might have taken place, in the absence
of any known cause, I will go on to what I
saw of it, as a witness.
Bruin, though evidently baffled, had a firm
look, which shewed lie had not lost confidence
in himself. If the difficulty of the underta
king had once deceived him, he was prepa
ring to go at it again. Accordingly letting
himself down upon all fours, he ran furiously
at the alligator. The alligator was ready for
him, and throwing his head and body partly
around, to avoid the onset, met bruin half
way, with a blow of his tail, that rolled him
on tiie shells. Old Bruin was not to be put
off l>> one hint, three times in rapid succes
sion, he rushed at the alligator, and was as of
ten repulsed in the same lnanr. r, being
knocked back by each blow just far enough
to give the alligator time to recover the swing
of his tail before he returned. The tail of
of the alligator sounded like a flail against
the thick coat of hair on bruin’s hca 1 and
houlders, but he bore it without flinching,
still pushing on to come to close hoits with
his scaly foe. lie made his fourth ''barge,
with a degree of dexterity, which those who
have never seen this clumsy animal exercis
ing, would suppose him capable cf. This
time he got so close to the alligator before his
struck him, that the blow came with half its
usual effect. The alligatm was upset by the
charge, and before he could recover his feet,
bruin grasping him round the body, below
the fore legs, and holding him down on his
back, seized one of lus legs in bis mouth.—
The alligator was now a dreadful situation,
notwithstanding his coat of mail, which is sof
ter on his belly than his back, from which
“The darted steel, With idle shivers flies.”
Asa Kentuck would gay, ‘he was getting
used up fast.’ Her •if I had dared to speak,
and supposed he could understand English, I
should have uttered the encouraging exhor*
tation of the Poet,
“Now gallant knight, now liobl thy own,
No maiden’s arms are round thee thrown.”
The alligator tempted in vain ‘o bite, pres
sed down as he was he could not open his
month, the upper jaw of which only moves,
and his nock was so stiff, he could not turn
his head short round. The amphibious beast
fetched a scream in despair, but b- iug a war
rior “by flood and by field,” he was not en
tirely overcome. Wreathing his tail with
agony, he happened to strike it against a small
tree, that stood next the bayou, aided by this*
purchase, he- made a convulsive flounder*
which precipitated himself and bruin, locked
together, into the river.
The bank from which they fell was four
feet Ivgh, and the water below seven deep.—
The tranquil stream received the combat
ants with a loud splash, then closed over
them in silence. A volley of ascending bub
bles announced their arrival at the bottom*
whore the battle ended. Presently Bruit,
arose again, scrambled up the bank, cast a
hasty glance back at tin river, and made ofi‘,
dripping, to the cane brake. I never saw the
alligator afterwards, to know him, no doubt
lie escaped in the water, which 110 certainly
would not have done, if he had remained a
few minutes longer on land. Bruin was for
ced by nature to let go his grip Under water
to save his own life, I therefore think he is
entitled to the credit of the victory ; besides,
by implied consent, the parties were bound to
finish the fight on land, where it began, and
so bruin understood it. If this record should
be carried up to the Supreme Court of the U*
nited States, I think the judges would decide
in bruin’s favor, by this modern principle ef
law ; one thing is certain, viz : :they would
decide that they had jurisdiction by implica
tion ; per force of which, what is it that can
not be nullifcd !
Love of Dress. ‘Man is in no haste to he
Venerable. At present, it seems if there
were no occasion to become so. People die
as usual; but it is not the fashion to grow
old- Formerly, men subsided and settled
down into a respectable old age at forty, as
they did into bog-wig, and a brown coat and
waistcoat of a certain cut. The father of a
j family no longer pretended to pas3 for a gay
young fellow, after he had children grown up
1 and women dwindled by regular and willing
1 gradations, into mothers and grandmo^icr.;,
■ transferring their charms and pretensions to
j a blooming posterity; but. these things are
; ,10vc r thought of now-a-days. A matron of
! sixty flaunts it in “La Belle Assembler's
dresses for May!” and certainly Mr. Stulz
never inquires into the grand climacteric of
his customers. Dress levels all ages as well
as all ranks— Whitaker's Monthly Mage
TWILIGHT
‘Of all the myriad of enjoyment which na
ture unfolds to man, I know few equal to
those elicited by a balmy sunun* r sun
set. The idea is old, but tiie reflection, it
excites arc perpetually varying. There-is
something in tins hour, so tender, so holy, so
fraught with simple, yet sublime associations,
that it belongs rather to heaven than to earth.
I he curtain that drops down on the physical,
also descends on the moral world. Tliedav,
with its selfish interests, its common-place
distractions, has gone by, and the season of
intelligence—of imagination, of spirituality
is dawning. Yes, twilight unlocks the Blan
dusian fountain, of fancy: there, as in a mir
ror, /effecting all things in added loveliness,
the heart surveys the past,"the dead, the ab
sent, the estranged, come thronging back ort
memory; the Paradise ot inexperience, from
which the flaming sword of truth has long
since exiled us, rises again in a'l the pristine’
beauty of flowers and Vcndur ; the ver pot
where we breathed our first vows of the slen
der, girlish figure that, gliding like a sylph
beside us listened entranced to that avow al,
made in the face of heaven, beneath the lis
tening evening star; the home that witnessed
her decline; the church-yard that received her
ashes, the grave wherein she now sleeps,
dreatnless| and happy,! deaf alike to the syren
voice of praise, and the withering sneers ef
envy—such sweet hut solemn recollections
sweep, in shadowy pomp, across the mind,
conjured up by the spells of twilight, as he
waves his enchanted wand over the earth.
NO. 31).