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Asu has been requested to attend and instruct tho Company in the sword ex ercise. JOSEPH WALKER, Capt. April 24, 1838. Petersburg luvineibles: ifiTOU will parade at your usual place, on - 41 - Monday the 7th of May next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. in summer uniform—with arms and accoutrements in complete order. At which tiny ,t heti) will be an Election hold for First Lieutenant. By Order, A. A. AIeCOSII, 0. S. tp-4 April 24, 18:18. GETTY'S BURG G &lien S ATTENTION! VOU will,parade in front of the Court. -AL house on Monday the7lh of May neat, at 10 o'clock precisely, in summer uniform for drill. By Order, JOHN ZIEGLER, 0. S. April 24, 1838. BATTALION. f hUE American Union Battalion of Vol. -m- unteers will parade in New Oxford, precisely nt 10 o'clock A. M. on Saturday the 12th day of May next, for inspection. By order of the Major, • JOHN SCOTT, Adjutant. April 24, 18:18. "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD,NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION. .....SHAHS szeeto/razar,Eiia2u o ,reacb tvwzaarDart o g.wczkrf acnoo manners. On being introduced to our her oine and her party, Miss Do Vincy glided at once into conversation with a frankness and simplicity which put every one perfect ly at their ease; and to which her clear and musical voice gave an additional charm. With regard to the friends whom Miss De Vincy had accompanied to Rockaway,— M rs. Edmunds was her second cousin by the mother's side, and at an early age had mar ried a gentleman who was then a tutor in a private family. They soon after removed into Connecticut, where Mr. Edmunds took a select school, which had made the fortune of its former principal. But Mr. Edmunds conducted it on a plan too liberal to be pro• fitable; and he gave such close attention to its duties, and to the employment of his pen as an additional source of income, that he eventually impaired his health. On her return from Europe, Miss De Vincy hear ing of their situation, made a visit to her relations in Connecticut, and it being vaca tion time in the school,she prevailed on Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds to accompany her with all their children,on a little tour into the state of New York: insisting that they should con sider themselves, during this excursion, as her guests. And they had been too much accustomed to the generosity of their weal thy young cousin,to wound het kind feelings by persisting in the scruples they at first advanced, with regard to accepting her pro• posal. Among Miss De Vincy's numerous sources of happiness, not the least was her delight in doing good to those less abundantly supplied with the gifts of fortune. Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds being amiable and intelligent people, she took pleasure in presenting them to all who were capable ofappreciating them as they deserved; she was fond of children, and every thing promised well for all the members of her little party. Their first intention was to pass a week in the city of New York, but finding it very warm thitre, and the best .hotels. and boarding-houses be ing crowded to excess, they concluded to proceed at once to the sea-shore. There had been no wilful concealment of her name on the part of Miss De Vincy. but as she al ways travelled without any'display of wealth or consequence, it frequently happened that her identity was not reeogn►zed till reveal-. ed by accident. Having finished this explanatory digres filen, we will return to the saloon at the Rockaway hotel. In a few minutes after her presentation to the Dimsdale party, the name of Miss De THE GARLAND. —"With sweetest flower' cnrich'd, From various gardens cull'd with care." THE WORTH OF WOMAN FROM THE GERMAN Honored be Woman! she beams on the sight G r iaceful and fair as a being of light, ' tkalters around her, wherever she strays Roses of bliss o'er our thorn covered ways— : Roses of Paradise sent from above, To be gathered and twined in a garland of love. Man, on Passion's stormy ocean, Tossed by surges mountain high, Courts the hurricane's commotion, Spurns at Reason's feeble cry; Loud the tempests roar around him, Louder still it roars within; Flashing lights of hope confound him, Stuns him life's incessant din. Woman invites him, with bliss in her smile, Toenail° from his toil and be happy awhile— Whispering weoingly '.Come to my bower! Co not in search of the phantom Power; Honor and wealth arc illusory—Come! Iloppines• dwells In the temple of home." Min, with fury, stern and savage, Persecutes his fellow man; Reckless if he bless ravage— Action, action, still his plan; Now creating, now destroying, • Ceaseless wishes tear his breast; Ever seeking, neer enjoying, Still to be, but never blest. Woman, contented, in silent repose, Enjoys in its beauty life's flower as it blown, And waters and tends it with innocent heart— Far richer than man with his treasures of art; And wiser by far in her circle confined, Than he with his science and lights of the mind (d'LLOB F 12031 TIIE LADY'S 11001 C. ALTHEA VERNON; OR THE EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEF [CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.] CIIAPTER X. THE surprise of our heroine put her quite into a flutter, from which she had scarcely time to recover,whilo Selfridge was extend. ing the introduction to the Dimsdale family, and to Lansing, who just then came up.— At once, Althea began to discover in Miss De Vincy, beauty and elegance that she had not perceived in Cousin AltIly: though somewhat su rprised at an heiress and a belle, appearing in a large company, at evening, in so simple a guise. But she soon discover. ed that, though a close gown, tt was of real linen cambric,edged with fine lace; and that the gold brooch which fastened the collar, was ofexquisite workmanship,such ao would not have disgraced Benvenuto Cellini. The dark glossy hair of Miss Do Vincy, was as usual, without ornament, being simply fas tened at the back of her head with a plain tortoise shell comb, and palled on a high and expanded forehead that denoted a mind. of no common order. Her eyes, of that deep blue which at night looks nearly black, beamed with intellect; and her lips had a sweetness of expression which at once invi ted confidence. Her figure, owing nothing to art but much to nature, possessed that in describable graco,which is never seen when the motions of the human form are fettered by conventional restraints and conventional Vincy had ran through the room—and nu merous wq,ro the applications for an intro duction to her. Althea Vernon felt that Sel fridge could not have, paid her a higher com pliment, than in presenting her to the ac. quaintanco of this young lady; whom,as sho afterwards lnarnt,ho had known from child• hood, but did not see when ho visited.— Boston on his return from India, as she was then on her homeward passage across the Atlantic. On finding that her new friend was likely to be engrossed by strangers during there muinder of the evening, Althea accepted Se!fridge's invitation to promenade with bun. "Tel! me," said she—after they bad passed a group where Miss De Vincy was the cen tre of attraction, "how is it that your fair townswoman makes so favourable an impres sion,without the least effort at what is termed affikbility, and without any attempt at say ing agreeable things to all that are introduc ed to her?" "Cie milla Vincy," replied Selfi idge— "is always perfectly natural; and being at ease herself, she makes every one else so. With good sense, good taste, and good feel. ing (and the union of these three qualifica tions forms the basis of that which is gener ally called tact,) there is no safer course than the laissez alien Mrs. Jordan, one of the most popular actresses that graced the high and palmy days of the British theatre, on being asked by what process of study she always succeeded in delighting her audience, replied that she constantly acted without rule, and without any previous preparation, except that of learning the words of her part. But that, when once on the stage,she gave herself up to chance: trusting for tones, and-looks, and gestures, to whatever feel ingti or impulses might accompany her as she went along—and she found that the twill. once always went with her. This is the laissez aller of genius—and it was thus that the immortal author of Marmion and Waverley, gave to the world his most glor ious inspirations." CIIAPTER XI Mrs. Conroy, on finding that Miss De Vincy had been at Rockaway twenty four hours without her knowing it, was, as the sailors say, taken all a-back. She was also perplexed between her desire of getting In. troduced to the heiress, and the dislike she felt already towards a woman in whom she saw a most formidable rival to her daughter, she wus also mortified to find the symptoms of a growing intimacy between this "obser• ver," and , Althea Vernon. At length the thou At struck her, that it would be most politic to pretend to those about her,that she already knew Miss De Vincy. "Leap me," said Mrs. Vandunder, "what a fuss they're all making about this young I lady from Boston. Only see—every body's introducing every body.to her. Who but she, indeed! Mrs. Conroy, you.know one may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Suppose we wore to go up, and get somebody to introduce us." "Oh! marl" exclaimed Wilhelmina, "not to that groat young lady." "Why, who's afraid!" pursued Mrs. Van dunder—"People as has property enough to set them above the world, need not be a- fraid of nobody. She has plenty, and we have plenty—so we'll just suit." "Very true," said M rs. Conioy, "no doubt you'l: suit exactly. But still one would not wish to show too much eagerness. Besides, it is understood in society, that all persons of our closs, that is, all persons in a certain style, are necesssarily acquainted with each other, and must have met in the natural course of things, no matter to what part of the Union they belong. For instance, it follows that I am certainly no stranger to %3iss De Vincy." The Miss Conroys turned round, and o pened their eyes at this assertion of their mother; though not altogether unaccus tomed to her practice of falsifying facts ac• cording to her purpose. "Well then," said Mrs. Vandunder,rising, "take me and Wilhelmina up to her now, and introduce us." "No," replied Mrs. Conroy—unblushing ly—"l have so much to say to Miss De Vin cy; after her long absence in Europe, that 1 would rather defer any conversation with her till the general rush is over, to-morrow will be time enough —besides,allow me just to hint, that there may be something a lit tle undignified in ladies of a certain age making advances to a young girl." "And she in a plain white coat-dress too," spoke Wilhelmina, glancing first at her,own finery, and then at her mother's. Phebe Maria now found much difficulty in enioging the attention of the patroon of Schoppenburgh, who, since ho had heard the name of Miss De Vincy, seemed all un easiness to run away from her, and procure• an introduction to the heiress. She, there fore, complained wofully of the heat of the room, and proposed a walk to the piazza. Before Vandunder could reply,she had plac ed her arm within his, and was almost for cibly drawing him away with her. "I am led like a lamb to slaughter," said Billy, turning his head to whisper Sir Tiddering, whom they passed as he entered the saloon, after having "finished his feed," as he called it. On getting within the door, Sir Tidder ing soon discovered that Miss De Vincy was there in person: and recollecting that she had been in England, and might be aware of the real customs of genteel society in that ill-represented country, he felt some reluc tance to be seen by her in his present cos• tume. With the intention of changing his dress to something better suited to evening,- he invtituted a search for his valet, who, however, could not, or would not be found-- and Sir Tiddering not perceiving any possi bility of dressing without him, was obliged to give up his design, and betake himself to his usual resource, the portico. Mrs. Con• roy saw him from the window, near which she wassittinfro& whispered to Abby Louisa; and the mother and daughter contrived to steal out, and give the slip to Mrs. Vanden der and Willie!mina, who, when they disco, vered the desertion, were highly indignant. "If they haven't gone and left us, without saying why or wherefore!" said Mrs. Van dunder—looking out of the windo.v. "And there,thoy'ro making up to the Englishman, and I see plain enough they're trying to get him to walk with Abbv Loisar—and he won't. I've often heard that Englishmen won't do nothing but what's agreeable to themselves—that's not the way with our pea ple,for you see Billy is walking with Phebe illariar. However, she's fashionable, and that's a great deal. Let's go out, and join them—there's no use in our setting here for nothing." "Every thing I have on hurts me so," said poor Wilhelmina, "that I'd a great deal rather go up to my room, and get out of my misery." "Nonsense!" replied her unrelenting mo ther. "Would you mope away your whole life in your room. I should like to know what chance you'd have then As to the tightness of your things, you must bear it t;11 you get used to it. People needn't ex pect to bu fashionable, without all sorts ofi suffering. No—no,when e very body's mar rying all round, I'm hot a going to let you live and die an old maid,afier all the money that's been spent upon you. It shall never be said that my daughter couldn't get a hus band as well as, other girls. I was married to your poor father before I was fifteen." So saying,she drew Wilhelmina after her, and they went out into the piazza, where Mrs. Vandunder accosted Mrs. Conroy, with. "I've a crow to pick with you, Mrs. Conroy—why did you give us the slip?" Mrs. Conroy could not say why—and re mained 'silent, thinking of an answer. Sir Tiddering then whispered to Abby Louisa— "l'll walk with you to-morrow, if you'll in troduce me now to this Dutch girl. I want to trot Ler." The introduction was given, and Sir Tiddering immediately held out his arm to Wilhelmina, saying, "Well, let's start, as you Yankees saw"— "Start where?"—askeil Wilhelmina,look mg frightened. "Oh! only on a jaunt, up and down the piazza. See if we can't catwalk my friend Billy, and his partner." Wilhelmina hesitated—but her mother whispered. "Go—it's an honour to be no ticed by this Sir Tiddering Tattering, or whatever his name is—be very polite, and see if you can't outdo the Conroys--when you speak to him,mind you say, 'my lord"'— The poor girl obuyeil, and Sir Tiddenng, much diverted,mischievously kept her going up and down the piazza in double quick time, mystifying her all the while with the jargon of the race-course-and the horse-market. "Well," said Mrs. Vandunder, whose good humour was now restored. "Alter setting so long in that there drawing-room, I should have no objection to a little walk myself. What do you say, Mrs. Conroy, suppose we beau each other, and we can take Miss Abby Louisar between us; no more gentlemen seem to be forthcoming." From this arrangement, Abby Louisa drew back, with - a look of disgust; and Mrs. Conroy, seeing that not much was to be effected this evening,concluded to withdraw her forces for the present—and reminding the young ladies, that there was to be a grand ball at the hotel on the following night, which would 'keep them up very !ate, she advised that they should all retire—a pro position to which neither of the g entlemen offered any objection. "What did Sir Tattering say to you Wil helmina?"—asked Mrs. Vandunder--eager ly followine her daughter to her room. "I don't know," replied the poor girl, trying to force off her shoes. "My feet hurt me so when he made me go so fast, and my cor sets put me out of breath. I could not under stand what he wns talking about. He men tioned a Crowcatcher, and a Sky-scraper, and Whalebone, and Snap—and then there was something about White Stockings, and a Wash ball. Sometimes it seemed to me, that all these things were horses." W hen Althea Vernon retired toher room, she was so much delighted with the events of the evening, that feeling no inclination to sleep, she sat down and wrote a long letter to her mother, and bad filled her paper to the utmost, without saying half enough of Miss De Vincy. Along the margin of the last page,she managed to get in these lines. "I forgot to say, that I was introduced to Miss De Vincy by a 31r. Selfridge." Early next morning, Mr. Dimsdale, Sel fridge, Lansing, and most of the other gen tlemen, went up to the city, purposii.g to re turn towards evening, in time for the ball.— Mrs. Conroy went also,to get some addition al articles of decoration for her daughters. She was accompanied for a similar purpose by Mrs. Vaudunder—Billy escurting them. IVhen about to set oft - , they found that Sir Tiddering Tattersall was going: and Mrs. ' Conroy now regretted that she had not ar ranged for her daughters to be of the party- Miss De Vincy, Althea, and Mr. and Mo. Edmunds, with the children, took an early walk on the beach, the day promising to-be very warm as it advanced. It was a soft, calm morning, such as Collins delights in pai Tit i ()got nd renders so delightful when pain ted, to the lovers both of nature and art.— The tide was low, and the surf was playing lightly along the sands. The smooth, but undulating MI rt u ce ofthe ever-heaving ocean. coloured with prismatic hues of purple and green and gold, lay glittering and dimpling in the sun light, which shone through the mist that its beams were slowly dispelling. while the fa r• off boats of the fishermen seem ed sleeping on the mirrored water. Althea was charmed with the rnernine sea-view: [VOL• and still more charmed with hor accomplish ed companion, who told her many interest ing things, connected with the shores of the classic binditerranean, and the romantic. "I, too," said Miss De Vincy, "have stood at Venice, on the 'Bridge of Sighs,' and have felt with Byron, that 'the beings of the mind are not of clay'—and that,to all Those native accents are English,the sea-born city has indeed 'a spell beyond hername in story.' To us,the Rialto is not merely a lofty bridge, spanning with its arch the grand canal; it is the place where the Venetian merchant re viled and scoffed at the ill-used and unfor giving Jew; it is the midnight rendezvous of Pierre and Jaffier, when they met to 'talk of precious mischief.' To us, the council. hall of the ducal palace,is the room in which tho Moor Othello, in presence of 'the rever end, grave and potent signiors,' made his eloquent defence for winning the heart and hand of 'the daughter of a senator of Ven ice.' We, who are versed in the enchant ing delineations of Mrs. Radcliffe, can float in the gondola with Emily St. Aubert, on the moonlight waters of the lagune, and lis ten to the charm of'music on Venetian wait.' And more—the genius of Byron himself, has added new links to the electric chain, which draws us in fancy and feeling, to the city of the senate and the doges. He has conduc ted us into the gloomy prison, which the young Foscari preferred to the dreariness of perpetual exile; and he has startled us with the sound of St. Mark's bell, when its toll was the death-stroke of the deposed and heart-broken father. He has led us to the foot of the Giant's Stairs and showed us at their summit, the ill-fated Marino Faliero, addressing his executioner in the thrilling words, Slave, do thine office; Strike as I struck the foe! Strike as I would • Have struck those tyrants!—Strike—and but once. "Oh! noble, indeed, is the literature of England—and fortunate for America,iB our identity of language." [To BE CONTINUED.] ' A STUMP SPEECH;.—The grand eloquence of some of the stump orators passeth show. The last flourish we have heard of, ran thus: "Fellow citizens! I am standing here on a throne prouder than any in Europe—in the face of the Universe,and in the sublime pre sence of the people; and I stand here as the lineal descendent of the goddess of Liberty! Yes I was raised at the breast of that glori ous individual! Her arm has sustained me, her shield has guarded me in every political fight I ever bad—and the Lord knows 1 have had a good many; her voice has buzzed in my ear; and many, a time ? when I have been partly defeated by my foes, she has raised me from the dust in the thickest of the conflict— "Ilan laid my languid bend npoo her knee And bathed my bloody brow with TAMMY TEA!" . .ITALIAN RYE GRASS.-A kink of grass with this name has been lately introduced into England, were it is be„ainning to be much esteemed. Cattle prefer it to other sorts; it vegetates earliest in spring; it sends forth shoots rapidly after being mowed or grazed, and may be advantageously sowed with clover. LOVE OP MARRIED LIFE.—The Emotion that links together man and wife, is a far hoherand more enduring passion than young love. It may want its gorgeousness—it may want its imaginative character, but it is far richer in holy and trusting attributes. Talk not to us of the absence of love in wedded life. What! because a man has ceased to "sigh like a furnace," we are to believe that the fire is extinct, it burns with a steady and • brilliant flameshedding a benign influence upon existence a million times more precious and delightful than the cold dreams of phi losophy. INDIA 1 R ELICS.-A mound in this city has been partially opened this week; and our citizens are picking up beads, arrow points, stone knives, and various other instruments and ornaments. One skeleton has been dis covered entire, and portions of others. Oa counting the grains of the stump of a tree that stands upon the top of the mound, It appears that this tree must have been about one hundred and fifty years old. It has been cut down about sixteen years. We suppose that this ancient receptacle Odle dead must have been formed about one hudred years ago.--Ohio City Argus. lIIIIIOVEIIENTS IN POTTSVILLE (Pa.). The Journal says, that notwithstanding the depression in the coal business this season, greater number of buildings are being ereo "led in that borough, than at any former pe riod for several years past. HOURIBLE•—The. editor of the CoUrier and Inquirer, of Hagerbtown, Maryland, in his paper of the 18th ult., publishes an ac. count of an unprovoked attack upon him by one Charles McGill in which the assailant gouged out his right eye!! I t would be dif ficult to conceive of such horrid barbarities in a country professing to be civilized, did not almost every southern paper contain some account of outrages upon humanity, equally ferocious and equally disgusting.— We konw not what punishment awaits this miscreant under the laws of Maryland; but we hesitate not to say that for willfully put. ting out an eye, the punishment of &alb should be unrelentingly inflicted. A wretch capable of this outrage is unfit to live among human beings. —Ledger. LITIGATION IN N. ORLEAllll.—Sinee the 4th of March 1837, two thousands two hue• dred suits have been commenced is the Die. trict Court. The Expenses of thew Mai it estimated at 83 3 0,000. - •
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