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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 . %/ 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.