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am Vil improvement at school makes j
college fXcre.ee difficult, a. el ms rank hs
a ge*vie:aa:i eorn uouer t xcusea huu from
them ; his gown gives him the privilege oi
coatinuing a dunce. By idleness and bad
comp t ty he forgets she little learning he
had, gets a taste for drinking ami de
b iueh rv ; and having conversed with
m i iv intended lor holy orders, almost as
ignorant as himself, this confirms him in
n glecting, and leads him to entertain a
man opinion of the things of religion.— j
Being settled in the country, the business
of h*s life is hunting, shooting, and drink
ing, with some little variety, now and then
by horse-races and cock-fighting. His
polities consist in abusing all bis govern
o.s u. a o iek of rogues, condemning every
o .i. r m ig ns foolish, imputing every
success of the fleet or army to chance,
al l eve.rv disappointment to ill-raanage
ni mt. With respect to religion, he knows
bat one principle; which is, “to do what
he his a mind to doTins is Ins reli
gi ‘i of nature. As for sms, he knows
but one so great as not to be borne with ;
winch is, “for an unqualified person to
keep a gun, or kill a hare or patridge:
Against this his zeal burns furiously, and
h “ sw-.i irs t!»e game act is the only good
o )!• made tliese forty years. Fornication,
profaaeuess, drunKenucss, 9<dbba*li-break*
ing, and keeping poor men out of tln-ir
inoaev, are very gentleman-like things.
He can make a shift to pass every day
except Sunday; when, for want of com
pany to countenance him in diversions
abroad, he lias nothing to do but lie a-bed
till noon, and after dinner dose himself
wall punch and strong beer. If he goes
to church at any time in the morning, it
is to he out of humour with the long ser
um . He is seldom there in the after
noon, and then he sleeps. As lie ad
v.r ces in years, he gleans up a little
smattering of infidelity from conversation,
winch helps to stifle conscience, and har
den him in his sinful ways. If the parson of
the parish be a jolly fellow , he is his man
on all occasions; but if he be sober and
serious, be and bis words are bated as
damned cant. But, whether sober or
not, he is sent for when the ’squ're falls
sick; Prayers are read, the sacrament is
administered ; the poor thing endeavors
to conceal his tears: Pride and shame
Will not suffer him to repent; lie dies,
and goes to.
ANECDOTE.—- A Mi jor of militia, some
where in Pennsylvania, who had recently
been elected, and who was not overbur
dened with brains, took it into his head,
on tiie morning of parade, to “go out and
exercise a little by himself." The “field”
selected for this purpose was his own
stoop. Placing himself in a military at
titude, with sword drawn} he exclaimed—
“ Ittention the whole! —Rear rank, three
paces bach!" He immediately retreated
“‘“'v' and tumbled down cellar!—
H s wire, hearing tne noise uc _.i
in falling, came running out, and asked.
“My dear’ have you killed yourself? “Go
into the house, woman,” said the Major.
“What do you unow about war."
“Sarah,” said an innocent Abigail to
her sister gossip, who had like herself and
tl, r crony, joined the Temperance Soci
ety—“Sarah—Sarah, s.nys she, don’t you
think our Suze keeps a bottle! I found it
yesterday behind the flour barrel in the
pantry, with brandy in it.” “Law, soul!
you don’t sav so! Well that beats all!
Suze and I found yours the day before,
ami had a good swig!" “Well—don’t
tell any body.” Law, no. We have a
right to do as we please by ourselves , but
it is wrong to set a bad example.
Affecting Anecdote. —A heart rending
storv is told of a young Scottish plougb
bov, who being disapointed in a love af
fair, was driven so near to the verge of
despair, that, he with a rope in his hand,
entered his master’s barn, and -tied
all the cows’ tails together!
Anecdote. A gentleman from Car
olina recently giving us descriptions
of the state of military tactics at the
south said that a captain one day ex
ercised his men on a point of land,
at the junction of two rivers. Instead
of the usual direction to front, he said,
‘Soldiers, stand with your faces to
the Cos 'garee, and your backs to the
Saluda!’ Another captain, ordered his
men to ‘ob-li-que to the left.’ ‘That
isn’t right, Captain,’ cried a man in
the ranks, ’ it is obliyue,.* ‘I)o you
think I don’t know;’ replied the officer,
‘I tell you it is ob-li-que in my book.’
la/nnI a/nn Mirror.
Chief Justice Marshall. —lt is quite a
musing to hear, small beer’ politicans
discuss the constitutionality ot the late
proceeding of the Chief Justice of
the supreme court. Individuals who
never looked into a law book, unless
to see how far they might proceed
in slanderous imputations with impuni
ty, pronounce upon the legality of the
measure, as calmlv as if clad in er
ne oe; and it would he as difficult to
induce them to believe they mi adit he
ni’staken, as to propel a steamboat
wth the tails o f light ningbugs.—Prtd
erirffown Herald.
The Seed op I. vztvfss. —Never check
industry in the young, even when it is
uiorofitable, if it is without bad motives;
for iodnst-v is habit, and if you get youth
to calculating the value of exertion, von
no* o dv and *strov that natural disposition
in us to “he adpbig,” hut the growing
hah t will quickly exclude the prVform
anoe nf ever-occurring and oft-important
duties, as not wor’b the *?oi»iwhich n
mounts to laziness, “the root of all evil."
:iq \ :aric.
BIST OF ACTS OF CONGRESS.
Passed at the Second session o f the t.ren- j
ty-first Congress, which terminated on j
the 3d day of March, 1831.
AN ACT lor the relief of the citizens
of Shawneetown.
For the relief of James Monroe.
To incorporate an Insurance compa
ny in Georgetown, in the District of Co
lumbia.
For the punishment of crimes in the
District of Columbia.
To regulate the foreign and coasting
trade of the Northern and Northwestern
frontiers of the U. States, and for other
purposes.
For the relief of Win. Clover.
To ascertain and mark the line be
tween the State of Alabama and the
Territory of Florida, and for other pur
poses.
To authorize the extension, construc
tion, and use, of a lateral branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road into and
within the District of Columbia.
For making appropriations for the
support of Government for the year
1831*
For making appropriations for the Na
val service of the U. States for the year
1831.
For making appropriations for the mil
itary service for the year 1831.
To authorize the Secretary of War
to purchase an additional quantity of land
for the fortifications at fort Washington
on the Potomac.
Making appropriations for certain for
tifications during the year 1831.
Making additional appropriations for
the improvement of certain harbors, and
removing obstructions in the mouths of
certain rivers.
For the relief of Clarissa B. Harrison.
For the relief of Ch. Bectler.
For the relief of certain importers of
foreign merchandise.
Making appropriations for the public
buildings.
Making appropriations for carrying on
certain roads and works of internal im
provement, and providing for surveys.
For the relief of Richard Smith and
Wm. Pearse the 2d, of Bristol Rhode-Is
land.
For the relief of Daniel Jackson and
Lucius M. Higgins, of Newbern, N. Car
olina.
Making provisions for a subscription
to a compilation of Congressional Docu
ments.
To provide for the punishment of offen
ces in cutting, destroying, or removing
live oak, and other timber or trees, reser
ved for Naval purposes.
Allowing the duties on foreign mer
chandise imported into Pittsburg, Cincin
nati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville and
Natchez, to be secured and paid at those
places. r
For carrying into effect certain trea
ties.
Declaratory of the law concerning con
tempts of Courts.
Making appropriation for the Indian
Department for the year 1831.
To establish a Land Office in the Ter
ritory of Michigan, and for other purpo
ses.
For the relief of Wm. T. Carroll,
Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Making appropriations for the comple
tion and support of the Penitentiary in the'
District of Columbia.
For closing certain accounts and ma
king appropriations for arrearages in the
Indian Department.
To provide hereafter for the payment of
S6OO0 annually tothe Senuca Indians,and
for other purposes.
To change the time of holding the rule
term of the Circuit Court for the District
of West Tennessee.
To authorize the construction of three
Schooners for the Naval service of the U
nited States.
For the relief of the legal representa
tives of Edward Moore, dec’d.
To extend the act, entitled “An act for
further extending the powers of the
Judges of the Superior Court of the Ter
ritory of Arkansas, under the act of the
26th ot May 1824,” and for other purpo
ses.
To alter the time of holding the Dis
trict Courts of the U. S. for the Districts
of Maine and Illinois, and the Northern
Districts of Alabama.
To authorize the Secretary of State to
issue a patent to John Powell.
To provide for the adjustment of claims
of persons entitled to indemnification, un
der the Convention between the United
States, and his Majesty the King of Den
mark, of the 28th of March, h‘lo, and ;
for the distribution of the sums to he paid j
by the Danish Government to that of the
United States, according tothe stipula
tion of such Convention.
For the relief of Matthias Roll.
To extend the time for entering certain
donation claims to land in the Territory
of Arkansas.
To amend an act for taking the fifth
Census. .
Making preparations for revolutionary
and invalid pensioners.
For the sale of lands in the St *te of
Illinois, reserved for the use of Sail
Springs on the Vermillion river, in that
Stme.
To repeal the charges imposed on pass
ports and clearances.
To amend and consolidate the acts con
cerning copy rights.
'liking npnro'iriations for building
light houses, light boats, lieacous and
monuments and placing huovs.
For the relief of Percis Lomely.
For the further compensation (.“the!
Marshal of the District of Rhode-Island.
For the relief of Simeon C. Whittier.
For the relief of Lucien Harper.
For the relief of George Johnson.
For the relief of Joseph E. Sprague.
For the relief of Ebenezer Robbins.
For the relief of Beverly Chew, the
heirs of William Emerson, deceased,
and the hens of Edward Lorraine, de
ceased.
To authorize the State of Illinois to
surrender a township of land, granted to
said State, for a Seminary of Learning, j
and to locate other lands in lieu thereof
For the relief of Henry Becker.
For the relief of Samuel Nowell.
To rectify the mistake in the name
of William Turney, an invalid Pension
er.
For the relief of Jonathan Crocker.
For the relief of Jacob N. Cardozen.
For the relief of Woodson Wren, of
Mississippi.
Granting a pension to Martha Miller.
For the relief of certain holders of cer
tificates, issued in lieu lands injured by
earthquakes in Missouri.
Fir the relief of Hugh B irnes.
To authorize the Territory of Florida
to open a Canal through the Public
Lands, between Chipola river and St. An
drew’ Bay, in West Florida.
For the relief ofPeters and Pond.
for the relief of J no. Daly, late of
Canada.
Tor the relief of Antonio Dequindre,
anj the legal representatives of Louis De
qilndre.
For the relief of William B. Matthews,
Tnstee.
For the relief of the legal representa
tions of Daniel M’lntire.
For the relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, of
Ahliama.
For the relief af Duval and Carnes.
For the relief of Brevet Major Riley,
and Lieutenant Brook and Seawright.
To extend the patent of Samuel Crow
ning for a furtiier period of fourteen
years.
For the relief of Nathaniel Cheever and
others.
For the relief of William Delzell of
Ohio.
For the relief of James Belger.
To extend the patent of John Adam
son for a further period of fourteen years.
Concerning vessels employed in the
whale fishery.
For the relief of John Culbertson, and
to provide an Interpreter for the District
Court of the U S. for the Eastern District
ofjiouisiana.
Confirming the claim of John II Toul
min to a lot in the city of Mobile.
Confirming the selections of heretofore
made of lands for the construction of
the Michigan Road, in the State of Indi
ana.
To authorise the executor of Stephen
Tippet, to locate a tract of" land in tho
For the relief of Peter Cleer, of Mary
land.
For the relief of John Nicholson.
For the continuation of tiie Cumberland
Road, in the States of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
To establish Ports of Delivery at Port
Ponchartrain and Delaware city.
For the relief of the legal representa
tives of P. C. Walker, and J. P. Walker,
deceased, and of Joseph Walker of the
State of Mississippi.
Making appropriations for carrying in
to effect certain Indian treaties (an annual
bill for 1830.)
Granting a quantity of land to the ter
ritory of Arkansas, for the erection of a
puolic building at the seat of Government
of said Territory.
To repeal the act to establish the Dis
trict of Blakely.
Declaring the assent of Congress to an
act of the General Assembly of Ohio,
hereafter recited, (being “an act for the
preservation and repair of the U. States
Road.”)
For the relief of Thomas Porter of In
diana.
For the relief of James Sprague.
For the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.
Authorizing the sale of a tract of land
therein mentioned, (in the Cincinnati dis
trict.)
For the relief of Thos. Fitzgerald.
Making appropriations for carrying in
to effect certain Indian Treaties (an an
nual bill for 1831.)
To amend an act, entitled “an act to
provide for paying to the State of Illinois
three per cent of the nett proceeds arising
from the sale of public land within the
same.”
For the benefit of the Sebonds in Law
rence.
To authorise the transportation of mer
chandize hv land, or by water, with the
benefit of Debenture.
Concerning the town and village com
mons in Missouri.
Supplemental to an act passed on the
61st March, 1836, entitled “an act for
the relief of purchasers of public Lands,
and for the suppression of fraudulent prac
tices at the public sales of Lands of the
U. States.”
To amend the act, entitled “an act to
quiet the titles of certain purchasers lauds
between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts,
i*i the State of Ohio,” approved 26th Mav
1830.
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy
to make compensation to the heirs of Ta
liafero Livingston, and Francis W. Arm
strong, for the maintenance of fifteen Af
ricans, illegally imported into the United
States.
To amend an act, Entitled “an act to
provide for paying to the States of Mis
souri Mississippi, and Alabama, three per
centum orthe nett proceeds arising from
the s ile of the public lauds, within the
same.”
To incorporate St. Vincent Asylum,
within the District of Columbia.
To alter and amend “an act to set apart
and disposeof certain public lands for the
encouragement of the cultivation of the
Vine and Olive.”
Jinking provision for the compensation
of witnesses and payment of other expen
ses attending the trial of the impeachment
of Jas. ii. Peck.
For the relief of Wm. Burris, of Missis
si PP‘-
To amend the act “granting certain re
linquished and unappropriated lands to
the State of Alabama, for the purpose of
improving the navigation of the Tennes
see, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior
Rivers,” approved the 23d day of
1828.
For the relief of William Smith, admin
istrator of John Taylor deceased.
To authorize the appointment of a sub
agent to the Winnebago Indians on Rock
River.
Respecting the jurisdiction ox certain
District Courts (extending the jurisdiction
of the Courts of the Northern District of
New-York, Western District of Pennsyl
vania, Districts of Indiana, Illinois, 31 is
souri, Mississippi. Louisiana and Ala
bama—so as to be the same with that
of the Circuit Courts of the United States
in all cases, except appeals and writs of
] error.)
For the relief of th*vlegal Representa
tives of Gen. Moses Dozen.
For the relief of James Thomas, late
Quartermaster General of the Army of the
U. 8.
For the relief of Joseph 8. Cannon.
For the relief of Samuel Coburn; of tne
State of Mississippi.
For the relief of George B. Dameron
and Wm. Houze, of Mississippi.
For the relief of James Hogland.
For the relief of John Gough, and oth
er Canadian refugees.
For the relief of John Nicks,
Resolution directing a subscription so
seventy copies of Peter’s Condensed Re
ports of Decisions in the Supreme Court
of the U. 8.
Authorizing the transmission of papers
by mail, relating to the sth census
From the N. V. Journal of Commerce.
NEW YORK, March 4.
FROM COLOMBIA.
By the brig Athenian, Capt. Chapman,
we hava received Bogota papers to Jan.
15th, Carthagena to 23d and letters to
February Ist.
Carthagena, Feb. 1.
The South has receded from Flores,
and lias proclaimed the integrity of the
Republic, on condition that the Constitu
tion of 1834 shall be observed.
Venezuela is on the eve of doing the
same. We have letters which leave no
doubt on tbe subject. Gen. Urdaneta,
as soon as he learned the death of Bolivar,
there being no longer any necessity for
the law to remain suspended, declared
the extraordinary faculties of the Govern
ment revoked, and the Constitution to be
in full force.
An exposition to the Executive by the
Council of Ministers, dated Jan. 12th,
recommends the calling of a Convention,
in accordance with the decree of the
Constituent Congress, 5f h May. 183!), and
the sending of Commissioners to Vene
zuela and the South with a view to the
re-union of the whole country. In the
mean time they recommend that orders
be immediately dispatched to the forces
on the frontiers, directing them to keep
themselves strictly on the defensive.
On the following day, January 13th, a
decree was issued by’ Gen. Urdaneta,
the acting President, calling a Conven
tion of Deputies from the Departments
of Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Cauca, An
tioquia, and Magdalena, (and from any
other Department of the Republic, as
formily constituted, which may choose to
unite in the object,) for the purpose of re
vising the Constitution, and adopting such
measures as may he deemed expedient,
for the future regulation and government
of the country. Said convention is to be
held at Leiva on loth June next.
By another decree of January 13th,
Gen. Urdaneta resigns his extraordinary
powers, and declares the Constitution to
be in full force.
A decree of the government dated Jan.
10th, prohibits for the term of one month,
on account of the death of Bolivar, all
kinds of diversion, public or private, in
the capitals of the provinces.
One of the papers contains a Treaty of
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation,
between the Republic of Columbia and
the King of *he Netherlands.
The Department of Panama has passed
an Act, reuniting itself to the government
ot Bogota. The news of Bolivar’s death
was received there with every demousta
tion of sorrow. The bells were rung for
four hours, and cannon fired at intervals
of fifteen minutes.
Carthage;*a, Jan. 23. —0n the 17th
inst. the funeral obsequies of Ilis Rxcel
lency the Liberator were celebrated in the
Holy Church Cathedral, with the great
est pomp an<|. magnificent which cir
cumstances would permit. Preparatory
to this solemnity, the church was adorn
ed with tapestry and black festoons, and
in its centre was placed a magnificent
cenotaph, 46 feet high, composed from
a base 21 feet wide, a pedestal 7 feet'
high, with relief pilisters, and an obolisk
adorned with military trophies.' On the
front of the base, uas inscribed in sha
ded lexers of gold on a ground of jasper,
the follwine words: (
GENEROUS CARTHAGENA
in 1812
Received BOLIVAR as a
Attt) COXTRIBUTEO TO HIS GLORY,
BV OFFERING HIM WITH A LIBERAL 11AKO
The elements of
LIBERTY AND VICTORY’!
in 1830
She afforded him a refuge from ingrati- ,
tude and envy.
NOW INCONSOLABLE FOR HIS LOSS,
She renders this homage
TO HIS PRECIOUS AND VENERABLE REMAINS'
On the reverse of the fame base was inscribed
the following:
When impartial and grateful posterity shall
erect altars to the Benefactors of hum
anity, '.hey will give a distin
guished place to that of the
FOUNDER OF THREE REPUBLICS
ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.
On the right side was this inscription:
To the augu 't Mates
OF THE GREAT BOLIVAR.
Carthagena just and grateful.
A GOOD CITIZEN, A JUDICIOUS MAGISTRATE,
A DISTINGUISHED LEGISLATOR,
lie served, commanded, and ennobled
HIS COUNTRY.
On the left was llie following:
BOLIVAR,
Though favored by fortune, renounced its of.
tractions, and consecrated his repose, yea
his whole life to the good ofliis country.
AN INTREPID SOLDIER, A SKILFUL COMMANDER
Victorious in a hundred ba'ties,
HE GAVE LIBERTY AND LAWS TO HIS
COUNTRY,
And himself, oneyrd them.
On each of the four angles of the base
was a tripod which sustained a sepulchral
lamp, and between the base and the ped
estal was a space containing 700 jnvisi*
hie lamps, which diffused splendor that
illuminated the monument, without any
other lights than these placed here and
there on the floor, those of the chande
liers, and those standing on the altars.
On this base rested the pedestal, at the
centre of which in front, was the portrait
of the Liberator, supported by Liberty
and Independence with the broken
chains, crown, sceptre, and lion qf Bpain
beneath their feet. The portrait rested
upon the map of America and the Co
lombian faces, and ever it was tbe torch
of immortality. On the extreme, right of
the pedestal was placed American in the
garb of a native, reclining on the trank
of a tree, and on the left Religion, r st
ing ***** on a column, and holding
a Cross in its hand, both inclining tow
ards the portrait in an attitude of mourn
ing. On the reverse of the pedestal was
placed, in the centre, the emblem of
death with the wings of time, and at its
1 sides right and left, were represented
i Mars, depositing his sword and Minerva
i presenting her Olive branch.
On the right side of the pedestal was
represented the anchor of Hope, between
horns of plenty, and on the left, (between
the same emblems,) the balance and oth
er insignia of Justice. Around the four
figures, were displayed with much taste
i and symmetry, the flags of England, the
United States, France, Holland, and
the South American States.
From the N Y. Com nercial Advertiser, March 3
FROM ENGLAND.
This morning the packet ship Britan
nia, Capt. Marshall, was announced as
below. At a late hour the editors of the
Commercial Advertiser received by this
arrival, their files of London papers to
the first of February, and Liverpool to
the 2d, both inclusive, together with
Prices Current, Shipping List, &c.
IRELAND.
In the Court of King’s Bench on Fri
day week the Attorney General said, that
in case of the King against O’Connell,
he had to move for an attachment against
M. P. L avelle, proprietor of the Free
man's Journal. On the 18th of January
the traversers were arrested; and on the
22d an article appeared in the Freeman's
Journal, which was a gross contempt of the
authority of the Court, and was a letter
signed by Mr. o‘Comiell. It might be
divided into three heads—lst, it traduced
and villified the motives ofthc persons
advising the prosecutions. 2d!y, it at
tempted to over-awe the Court lie had
the honor to address. 3dly, it sought to
prejudice the public, mind. The Hon,
Gentleman concluded by calling upon
the Court for a conditional order, which
the Court immediately granted.
A correspondent of the London
Courier says that “the Government
are determined to crush O,Connell,
and upon the present prosecution hangs
the peace of the country.”
The Marquis of Anglesey's IjCvcc.—*
Never, since the levee en masse which
George IV received at the Castle of Dub
lin, has there been so imposing and so
honorable a display of public feeling as we
had the satisfaction of witnessing on
Thursday. Upwards of six hundred
persons attended to do honor to the no
bleman, not merely as the representative
of a generous and ’popular monarch—
not merely -as a member of a reforming
administration, ami the high officer who
will have the honor (and, to such a man
as he is, the heartfelt happiness) of car
rying the reforms necessary into execu
tion—hut to the man, t 6 William, Mar
quis of Anglesey the genuinely popular,
the disinterested, the devoted friend to all
classes,of the Irish people. This display
of public approbation, for bis private