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Tbe following are the officers elect of the two Societies for
the ensuing year.
HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.
George B. Gumming , President.
Robert H. Griffin , Vice President.
John J. Kelly , Treasurer.
Lawrence J. Guilmartin , Secretary.
frauds Shells, Standard Bearer.
Standing Committee on Charity. —Rev. J. F, O’Neill, M.
prendergast, John Cass, Francis Slieils, James Meldrim.
IRISH UNION SOCIETY.
John Murphy, President.
Philip Kean, Vice President.
Martin Duggan, Secretary.
John Everard , Treasurer.
Thomas Ford, Standard Bearer.
THE NEEDLEWOMAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Among the various institutions of benevolence, whose origin
trace to the untiring efforts of the Ladies, not the least in
our opinion is the Society just organized for the Relief of the
Distressed Needlewomen, in truth we deem it a most praise
worthy enterprise, and that they may be rewarded by far
brighter results than imagination ever pictured, or their high
est anticipations aspired to, is our sincere desire. We feel it
a privilege to express our approbation of the prudence and
judgment evinced by the Ladies, in their various laudable
efforts, which we can always accord or attribute to the excel
lence of their objects and the purity of their motives, and it is
still more grateful to our feelings to see their generous sym
pathies exerted in a direction so unquestionably legitimate and
useful. Such we believe is the case with regard to the at
tempts that this Society are now making to rescue the objects
of their benevolent commiseration from destitution and suffer
ing. We need add no word of encouragement, hold out no
inducement for further effort, it is evident that all are interested
nnd that those to whom wealth, station, or intelligence has
given powers of any kind, will do their utmost to prevent the
masses of our race from a perpetual endurance of the miseries
of want.
OSIQSIAft POcfif,
[For A Friend of the Family.]
DIRGE ON A FAVORITE PIPE-BROKEN.
Farewell!
O loved companion of full many an hour
Os social mirth and converse—fare thee well!
No more from thy “deep concave” now shall pour
The fragrant fumes, which did so graceful swell
In curling festoons, lovely pipe, farewell!
Alas, my Pipe!
Farewell!
Now thy white bowl is broken, not indeed
A golden one, like that the world-wise king
Ycleped Solomon once spoke of, read
Ecclesiastics 12th, verse Gth. Poor thing!
Thou wast but porcelain, thou whose dirge I sing.
Alas, my Pipe!
Farewell!
For all thy puffs, no puffer puffs thee now ;
Thou that so cheered me with thy Blucher face*
Depaintedf there because he oft did blow
The sulphurious war clouds in his simoon trace
From iron tubes, thou wast of gentler race—
Alas, my Pipe !
Farewell!
No more shall I half dreamily behold
I he odorous cloud-wreaths circling from thy urn,
V hich many a form fantastic did unfold,
No more shall see thy cut tobacco burn
So sparkling bright; thy copy’s now externe,|
Alas, my Pipe!
Farewell!
No more shall I draw to thy leaves the fire;
Peace to thy ashes! which I oft have broken
Stirring the damp ashes with my wire ;
et peace be with thee, ah ! what words I’vo spoken,
Thou’rt now all pieces, of frail clay the token.
Alas, my Pipe!
Farewell!
Another Pipe succeds thee now in favor;
I I faithless world, how oft we may not tell
I lessed to my lips I’ve pressed thy pleasant savor,
1 hou like thy smoke hast vanished, fare thee well.
Alas, my Pipe !
NAPOLEON SNOOKS.
A head of Blucher was painted on it.
t Spencer.
♦ But in him Nature’s copy not externe. —Macbeth
communicated.
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Mr. Editor.—lt is perhaps not generally known, that the
a * )ove narf ied society are making preparations to send another
v< sse * tl om this port, on the Ist of May next, with emigrants
f°r Liberia.
‘ m formation received from those who went out in the
Wfu <l, in May last, is exceedingly interesting and en
ra^ man y °f the friends and relatives of those who
\ ent rom here last year, intend going this spring. The offer
tu sociitv is very liberal; it is understood that they send
ree persons of color, of good moral character, to the land
forefathers, free of all expense, support them six
‘t is, and give them lands to cultivate, There they have
8 churches, with all the privileges of republicans, as
ia is now a Republic. There never was a greater in
in nt oft* red to the free people of color, to settle them
s w lore they will be “free indeed.” It is understood,
aCCOm^'s h the great object the society has in view T , of
** lee P eo ple of color in the United States, to Libe-
R nd , Rre e P en dent upon the free-will offering of the good
drpriJ 1 ' 11 the land, but as there are many, nay hun
•ociet
v 'ill a hl© to send them all by these free-will offer-
ings. Indeed, unless they are aided by the United States
Government or the State Governments, they must utterly fail
to accomplish this great work ; a work of vast magnitude, and
and one which commends itself to all good men, A work
which looks not merely to the elevation of the free people of
color, but to the civilization and salvation of all Africa. I un
derstand there are over one hundred from Charleston, near
that number from this place, and some fifty from Augusta,
Hamburg, and Burke county Georgia, who propose going in
the vessel to sail from this place for Liberia, on the Ist of May
next.
A Friend to Liberia.
illiilis W OIIIT.
From the Knickerbocker.
KNICKERBOCKER GOSSIP
The ensuing lines are quite in the style of Thackeray’s “Peg
of Limavady;” yet they are perfectly original, and do not
even verge upon parody. The reader will observe how com
pletely the measure chimes with Rail Road motion.
Singing through the forests,
Rattling under ridges,
Shooting over arches,
Rumbling over bridges;
Whizzing through the mountains,
Buzzing o’er the vale—
Blessing me! this is pleasant,
Riding on a rail!
Men of different “ stations”
In the eye of Fame,
Here are very quickly
Coming to the same !
High and lowly people,
Birds of every feather,
On a common level
Travelling together.
Gentlemen in shorts
Looming very i all; •
Gentlemen at large
Talking vc ry siiu 1 ;
Gentlemen in tights
With a loose-ish mein
Gentlemen in grey
Looking rather green:
• Gentlemen quite old
Asking for the news ;
Gentlemen in black
In a fit of “ blues
Gentlemen in claret
Sober as a vicar ;
Gentlemen in snuff
Dreadfully in liquor;
Stranger on the right
Looking very sunny;
Obviously reading
Something very funny ;
Now the smiles are thicker;
Wonder what they mean ?
Faith, he’s got the Knicker
bocker Magazine!
Stranger on the left,
Closing up his peepers ;
Now he snores amain,
Like the Seven Sleepers !
At his feet the volume
Gives the explanation
How the man grew stupid
From “ Association.”
Market woman careful
Os the precious casket,
Knowing “ eggs are eggs,”
Tightly holds her basket;
Feeling that a “ smash,”
If it came, would surely
Send her eggs to pot
Rather prematurely !
Ancient maiden lady
Anxiously remarks,
That there must he peril
’Mong so many sparks :
Roguish looking fellow T ANARUS,
Turning to the stranger,
Says it’s his opinion
She is out of danger.
Woman with her baby
Sitting vis-a-vis ;
Baby keeps a squalling,
Woman looks at me ;
Asks about the distance,
Says it’s tiresome talking,
Noises of the cars
Are so veiy shocking !
Singing through the forests,
Rattling over ridges,
Shooting under arches,
Rumbling over bridges ;
Whizzing through the mountains,
Buzzing o’er the vale—
Bless me this is pleasant,
Riding on a rail!
A spirited woman. —The aversion of Lady Anne
Clifford to Cromwell appears not to have origina
ted only from party, lor, being pressed by her
friends to appear at court, after the restoration,
she testified an unqualified dislike to the spirit of
the government of Charles. “By no means will
Igo to court,” replied she, “unless I may be al
lowed to wear blinkers. ’ Another instance of
her independent spirit is worthy of being recorded:
—Sir J. Williamson, when secretary of state to
Charles 11., named to the countess, in a letter, aj
candidate for the borough of Appleby. Disdaining
to be dictated to, she replied : “I have been bullied
by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court,
but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your
man shan’t stand. Anne Dorset Pembroke and
Montgomery.”
Contentment. —Content converts everything near
it to the highest perfection it is capable of. It
irradiates every metal, and enriches lead with all
the properties of gold. It hightens smoke into
flame, flame into light, and light into glory: a
single ray of it dissipates pain, care and melan
choly from the person on whom it falls. In short,
its presence naturally changes every place into a
kind of heaven.
A PROBLEM FOR SENTIMENTAL YOUNG LADIES.
Perhaps some of the “ sentimental young la
dies” of this city, can solve the problem fur
nished b} r the Christian Citizen :
It is said that there are 20,628 stitches in a sin
gle shirt. While you are moving down the giddy
dance to the voluptuous strain of music, and light
of diamonds is flashing from your brows, and light
of lovelier sheen from your laughing eyes, there
are thousands of your sex and sisters who are ma
king shirts at nine pence apiece. And the nights
are cold and long, and there is such a thing as
frost in the hovels of the poor, and hunger that
eats through stone walls, and preys upon the
heart of woman. Believe it, though an unroman
tic incident in the human condition—there are
thousands of delicate females with womanly
hearts in them, full of womanly affections, now
plying their benumbed fingers at the rate of sis
mills for a thousand stitches , to buy coarse black
bread to keep them alive, to hire a pillow on
which to lay their heads and obtaid a few hours
of merciful oblivion of their pitiful destiny.—
And these, but for circumstances bevond their
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control or accountability, would have vied with
you for grace and beauty in the parlor or in the
hall, and have shown like jewels of the first wa
ter in the dradem of human society. Now sup
pose you take an inventory of all your enjoyments,
of all the articles of your dress, furniture, food,
fuel, &c., and see how many of them you could
buy with the money paid to a seamstress for ta
king twenty thousand stitches on a shirt. Begin,
if you please, with your boa, mufti bonnet or
shawl, and find how long it would take to pay for
one of these at the rate at which thousands of
your sisters are compelled to labor. Especially
when you are out shopping, with papa’s purse in
your hand, remember this calculation. Have you
purchased a boa for $lB, and returned delighted
with your glossy treasure ; take } r our pencil and
solve this problem : if a seamstress take 3000
stitches in a seam of one yard in length for two
cents, what would be the length of the seam she
would have to sew to buy a boa at $18? Pro
blems of this kind would cultivate a lovelier sen
timentality in the hearts of susceptible young la
dies, than all the tearful novels in the world.
sa m jlm& q sisi,
There is no rose without a thorn. Yes there is
—there’s the prim- rose.
It is not good for man to be alone. Yes, it is—
when he has only dinner enough for one.
Con. by a, Counsellor. —When is a point not a
point? When it is a point of law, for that is al
ways knotty.
Why are buckwheat cakes like catterpillars ?
Because they make the butter-fly.
Why is a gunsmiths shop like a chicken pie?
Because it con tain $ fowl-in-pieces.
If a mans wife were to fall overboard, in what
letter of the alphabet would he express his sense
of the occurrence? Letter B (let her be.)
The good man feels no injustice so strongfy as
that done to others; that committed against him
self he sees not so clearly; the bad man feels only
injury to himself.— Jean Paul ,
Doctors will differ. No they will not always—
in the propriety of bleeding (as applied to the
pockets of their patients) “ ’fore George their
unanimity is wonderful.”
A dry rejoinder. —“ How Louis Napolcan seems
to thirst for notoriety.” “Ah, and you’d thirst, too,
friend Stubbs, if you had been as long confined to
Ham as he was.”
Let no one suppose that by acting a good part
through life he will escape slander. There will
be those who hate him for the very qualities that
ought to procure esteem. There are some folks
in the world who are not willing that others should
be better than themselves.
Long credit. —Some time since, a person at
Chelmsford, more ingenious than scrupulous,
paid a tradesman for some goods by a bill at two
months; but on presenting it at the expiration or
that period, the owner found it was pa} r able two
months after death, instead of after date.
The Cork Examiner says: “Well might we cry
with Richard the Usurper, ‘Now by St. Paul, the
work goes bravely on?’ Sixty additional poor-law
unions to be created in this prosperous and well-gov
erned land! Sixty work-houses to be erected, at
an average cost of <£lo,ooo each, and <£600,000
for the whole!”
Art versus Upholstery. —We have money enough
to spend on cumbrous furniture, which another
generation will throw into the garret, as antiqua
ted and absurd; but we cannot afford to adorn
our walls with the productions of genius, which
delineate the unchanging beauties of nature or the
grandeur of man, and to which the lapse of time
will impart only new value.
Weeds in gravel walks. —For more than ten
years past, I have used salt (but not in solution),
for destroying and keeping down weeds in my
gravel walks, with perfect success, and without
perceiving that the application acted as a stimu
lant to reproduction. I sow the salt by hand in
dry weather, and sweep it about thin and as reg
ularly as possible. I have seldom occasion to do
this more than once in twelve months.
Look at Home. — A clergyman had two daugh
ters, who were much too fond of dress, which was
a great grief to him. He had often reproved them
in vain ; and, preaching one sabbath day on the
sin of pride, lie took occasion to notice, among
other things, pride in dress. After speaking some
considerable time on this subject, Jie suddenly
stopped short, and said with much feeling and
expression, “But you will say, ‘look at home.*
My good friends, I look at home till my heart
aches.”
The thunder-cloud and the drw-drop. — We tremble
when the thunder-cloud bursts in fury above our
heads: the poet seizes on the terrors of the storm
to add to the interest of his verse. Fancy paints
a storm-king, and the genius of romance clothes
his demons in lightnings, and they are heralded
by thunders. These wild imagining have been
the delight of mankind—there is subject for won
de rin them. But is there anything less wonder
ful in the well-authenticated fact, that the dew
drop which glistens on the flower—that the tear
which trembles on the eyelid—holds locked, in
its transparent cells, an amount of elertric fire
equal to that which is discharged during a storm
from a thunder-cloud? — Hunt's Poetry of Science.
Facts in Physiology. —Elephants live for two,
three, and even four, hundred years. A healthy,
full-grown, elephant consumes thirty pounds of
grain per day. Bats, in India, are called flving
foxes, and measure six feet from tip to tip. Sheep,
in wild pastures, practice self-defence by an ar
ray in which rams stand foremost, in concert
wi th ewes and lambs, in the centre of a hollow
square. Three Hudson’s-Bay dogs draw a sledge,
loaded with 300 lbs., fifteen miles a day. One
pair of pigs will increase in six years to 119,160,
taking the increase at fourteen times per annum.
A pair of sheep, in the same time, would be but
04. A single female house-fly produces in one
season 20,080,320 eggs. The flea, grasshopper,
and locust jump 200 times their own length,
equal to a quarter of a mile for a man.
There, John, that’s twice yu’ve come home and
forgotten that lard !” “Really, mother, it was so
greasy that it slipt my mind.”
The philosopher Bate being asked what ani
mal is most hurtful? replied. Os wild beasts, a
tyrant; of tame, a flatterer.
DEPOT OF FOKEHiX FRUITS.
DE MARTIN,
CORNER OF BAY AND WHITAKER STS.
T r EEPS constantly on hand a supply of Fresh
IV Fruits, with a complete assortment of Preserves. Bran
dy Fruits, Pickles, Sauces, finest quality of Segars, Tobacco
and choice Wines.
Orders from the country most respectfully solicited, and will
be supplied on the most accommodating terms.
March 22.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, GLAZING, &. C.
THE subscriber having taken the store No. 121, Brough
ton street, has re-commenced in the above business, and
will be happy, to receive orders for work. He will also keep
for sale all kinds of mixed paints, window glass, putty, oil,
turpentine, Ac.
March 22, ’49. 3m. JOHN OLIVER.
ItPRIItG GOODS.
THE Subscriber has just received, by late arri
vals from New York and Philadelphia, a handsome assort
ment of every kind of BOOTS AND SHOES, for gentlemen,
ladies, youths, misses and children, all of which he oilers for
sale on reasonable terms. SAM. A. WOOD,
March 21. 105 & 106 Bryan-st.
IIOIJSif III:*! SIII*G STOR E.
pOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. 108 Bryan-st.,
\J would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers to
their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Waie,
and House Furnishing Goods, consisting in part of Flowing
Blue, Mulberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; China and W. G.
‘lea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw
berry Wines, Ashburton Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades,
Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Stono
Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, Ac.
LAMPS AND TIN WARE.
Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan
terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Tea
Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big
gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate covers,
Cake Boxes, Ac.
FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn and com
mon Cutlery, Razors and Pocket Knives, Cofifee Mills, Sauce
and Stew Pans, Soup Digesters, Ovens, Pots, Skillets, Spiders,
Gridirons, Wafer and Waffle Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel
and Tongs, Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissors,
Paste Jaggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screws, Mouse Traps, Ac.
WILLOW AND WOOD WARE.
Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Piggins, Churns, Beef
Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Sjxhhis, Butter
Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll
ers, Faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons,
Hobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting and
Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and
Frames, Thermometers, Spool stands, Swifts for windingsilk, Ice
Cream Churns, Knife Cleaners, Nut Picks and
Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers and
Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, of Soap Stone, Table
Mats, also Door Mats of different qualities, together with a
great variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and
Burning Fluid of the best quality.
Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call as
their prices are as low as elsewhere.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Os all kinds, executed at this Office, with nraineu aid
despatch.
HAVING lately put our Office in complete order
and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex
tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to
execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING,
with neatness and despatch, and on the most accomodating
terms. Office 102 Bryan-street, entrance on Bay Lane.
Savannah, March 22d, 1819. EDWARD J.‘ TERSE.
