. : asit tir v.* A VOL. X.--AO. 7.] ADvER risE MI'S o the Y cat era of A alto), s County. IFMLLOW CITIZKNA : ir offer omen in vow consideration an a AL candidate f.)r the offices of. Re ristee. and Recorder (under such comtiiiistion as me% be a& ood by the Legislature) at the ensu• ing election. Under a knowledge arrinired from attend ing to scveral or the Mote* annerlantlott to maid offices, nod practical -k 11 a. a convey. sneer, I hop- (if n .minl(ect and elected) to b•• able to ex-cure the dutierrthereof person ally, in a prompt and correct manner. Your*: reopectiully, JOIN L. GUU.ERNATOR. March 12. !SU 11=b(► To tlie. Voters of atlatos County. FIELLOW CITIZENN: Offhr 'ayse•lf to vim,. eginaidervion 1113 ■ AL candidate for the ' , thee++ fir Re Eißfer, Re corder and Clerk of the Orphans: Court, a the Ainsiiing eleetnin. Ittving, from pracOcal experience acqui red a perfect knowledge of the of thniie oflicea, I hope Of nominated and elect ed) to be able do the bu4ineaa promptly, cor rectly and in person The Public%l Humble Servant, %V11,1,14%1 KIN(;. Gettysburg, Feb. 26. 1.-39. tv-40;) To the looeprode . ot Voteri of Adams County. FELLOW-CITIZENS I iiffor envoelf to vioir enosiderntson, et tho ensuing General Election, as a ran didntr fir the officeit of Register, Record er, and Clerk of the Orphans' Court: And pledge myself, elected, in iliaeltarge the duties of those offiees with fidelity end promptitude. JACOB LEFEVER. te-51 March 19, 1°39. SIIVARILIFIF %VIM. To the Free and Independen Voters or %dams County. FELLOW CITIZENS: 'Through kind persuasions from 'many of my frien.ls, I hove been induced to totrar myself as a candidate f ur tho 0/lice fir Miscall'', it the ensuing" Election, and respectfully our vuirs. Arid alinuld Ibe a, 14- innate as to pbeeive vinir emitidence, by be ing elected to that (Wive. I pledge myself to discharge the du , nai of the tiffice with fideli ty and impartiality. FR EDERICIt DI EH L. Franklin town4bip, March 19, 1199. SIIIARIEF t LTV. To the Voters of Adiuns County. FELLOW CITIZENS: Through the encouragement of many of my friende, I offer myself ea a can didaie for the Office of Sheriff: for amid County at the ensuing Llection should I receive the nomination of the Con. vention to veitle a county ticket, and b. , elected, I pledge rity.elf to iterliArin the dut• tea of that Office promptly and impartially. JACOB KELLER. Moutujoy town.hip, April 23, 10.39. SitIEARIFIE ,kILATIE. GEORGE W. M't LELLAN, Ridurns his idneeie thanks to his friends and the public in general, for placing him on the re 111.114 with th- present end former Sheriff, and again offers himself once inure as a candidate fur the Of ice of Sheriff, at the ensuing Election. Should he be honored with their confidence , in plaring him in thst officio, no exertion on his part shall he wantiog to a faithful discharge of the ditties of th,it important trust. • lttrch 19, 1. 1 39. te—fil rif 11 R rra z, Tlr . To the free and Independant voters of Adams County. FELLOW CITIZENS : I offer myself again to your con sideration as a Candidate for the 011 ice of Sheila; at the ensuing Election, (If I receive the lioiniri s tion of our next General County Delegation) I would . then.. warmly solicit your suffrages. And should I be so fin - innate ati to Is-come the Honored Candidate of your choice, I would evince my gratitude to you all, by a faithful &charge of the duties of said Office. end by adhering to punciuelity, and to impartial,humane, and social feeling. The Public's H ble Servant, W; 1 /1. ALBRIGHT. Conowago Township. April 23. 're - elle. Vuters of Atlmus l.`,ounty. 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Anti, as the breeze hears forth each plaintive tone Will out my •htrit 1144.111 to hover near, Thy cherished voice to hear Yet must I leave thee, tho' thy altddened hrov* Grows puler than its wont, and each fond anvil• mots from thy lip awhile.; Still would ice thy soul km+ troubled now l.aat mine be won from loftier feelings back Unto ita earthward tracks Fein would t watch the lonely couch beeide When eivitnee• h•th o'erereud thy pallid cheek, Wttli te•.-e's fearful streak t Oft hare I rayed, /mt good or ill betide, That 1 'night lice to catch cad!' breath sod vene, In joy or it ief, thins orn4 Yet hant thou deemed my warmest love gm* cold When all my sours fond hope. to thee were sly. 0 Too much estrvinged front heaven; But there are thoughts and feehrgs still untold, Tura flow like burled streams. for ewer on, Unchanging mud uakaorrn. I had not ■aid much in by•gon• hours, But now my awl ' , eat. feebly, •nd each breath event. to we fraught with death ; And if to call thee mine, when Burrow Iwn Can brighten once again thy sunkew eye. Then can I calmly die Calmly could leave this fair and glowing 'eerie. Of twe's soft shadows and of morning's beam.-- The bliss of earthly dream,--. If less of sorrow ou thy brow ware germ. And hope of future hours could chase the gloom That shrouds the loud) tomb. Methinks the night grows Wily, and the breeze Meows not to pour its wonted fragrance round ; Still fainter grows the sound Of night•birds warbling iii the moonlit trees While on my soul fon.l hopes rind yearning swell Mine own is death, farewell t 8. C. WILDA illidU).)Wiltt 91.11 V• Frew the Knickerbocker I'llKlt I.; 11 li 0 V I I ; R S Dr. 8 , of Coot !land, Alabama, a waive et' Vironia, lamed a company et eighty )(wog men who were called the •• Red Rove,.." Iruin the color of the blank et great coats which they wore. In this company were a sun and nephew of the captain Dr. 8---, with his "Red void," wee with 1111 l lig when he surrend ered, and is, c 1111 l mou with the other otfi cars he strongly opposed the surrender, having nu confidence in the Mexican With. But Fanning was resolti.d ; and when he 'mule known the decieum, the captain and one or two other effieeis shed tears. "heir late is well knows,. hey were marched out from a fort, where they wefts ciifite.d, under various pietexis ; now that they w, re "to be taken to Copan°, a ueighbortnu sea pull, to be shipped beck Mono to itie.thilied States ;" end agent they were "sent out 1,. drive in cattle to the Hirt." They had not proceeded tur f ' however, before the) were ordered to halt, and next to w heel to the right about, so ad to stand With their backs to the Mermen line. he toilers *ere giv en in Spairish. Ihe nuilibor of the Texan vulunteois wore about four hundred, and of the Mexicana about the dense. tie two Imes ittoud about three feet apart, there be nig only e brush fence between them. Nearly all the pristine' a were mussaered—a ow made their et.eape. Among the vic tons of title slaughter, were the Red Rip verir ; and among them the sun of the com mander, who wire hiniaell soared, probably ..or the bake of Ills piuteemiumil set ; end AA nephew owed Ma escape to sickiieas, .shieb prevented his marching, although lie .1;i1dall%10US to accompany them, Imp i mising :lie% were about to returns heine. Fat 1111 l ig, ,) u.r Il Ilow 1 teceiyed the isielaticleity dis auction, ati CullittilltlAtr i ul butts x hut alube. .4 ft I, s.'S .1 • IA Flt . RODER r reixfo.r, EDITOR ..s.vn pnornicToil. t.!2LAik 212 (the fi'V224.D.LIX aztax j. :JO 'Da Ile was H binve vane, and died like a si,P her, tnerell rcqae,ting Wit to have his • bandaged, and d'siiris his watch and min= idture to hr given to his mother. Ile was a graduate id Pe iricet(in Collooe. Th e re was a jeah•usy nig between Fannin": earl Ilon.ton, and a want of conrert.;' litinston frelnently sent word to hint tnj in him; but he refits , d, declaring that w i s h e d t o fi g ht "on his own h k." This! was the grand fttax pas in Texas The scattered parties ought to have ciweentra-, 'eft under II uston ; they did not, and were / colt "singul.t.ion " . • 1 was walking the streets of Tuscumbin: shortly all• r Ihr roasaaere of 'Nutt.° whert I oaw a those crowd of p. nide around young wan, ooe the —Red Rovers," whti h.►d escaped. Ile had had a brother in !he ssaerr, arid min.ke with great elf the !klekientl9. HP 11aVe 3 'me account,: of hay adventures, nod answered d icer:;. questions lbw were propounded to him:. FL• owed his safety to the tiler, that he be Itim,erl to th.• vanguard ..f ranningen corps, consisting of sonie !went) . or Hotly who %%Pie separated 4r. tit the main body, at the the •urre u der I met, to the some oceiu,ion, another Texan volunteer, who had. also belmiged the adVatiCP zdaril,w hom I recognized as a former arquaintance. Was a native of South Car.riam ; but at the :itne the Texan rev , •r was at its height. be quitted school, In•n_ht a rift., nod marched with the "Heil Rovers," in search of hind mid glory . , Ma brother, who went °tat with !sun, h.-0111150 era'aitfal.willi two wounilo.' Ile *4304 nosing flit, massacred, only slightly wounded, ran; he was purse -d hi, a Vluxicini soldier, who was fast gait(• in 2 mum lion, when lie threw down his ;,hold watch, which the Mexican, with char• g„idgrwdine~s,.lopped in pa ll up, and fie eurreedod in (talking his way lo th,. tall gritss,t bat r (Fetnally concealed him.' A fter enduring mato/ hardslups, he at leng•lt elfected his return to the United Stales. I subsequently saw Dr. --- at Tut; curtain', on his ;morn. He had a hard limo' of it. lie looked lath. and einatiated, here the marks of the railing fetters he had, worn on his ankles. The people of the town flocked mound to shrike hands with him, and weaNinie hie riots. It wasdeent ed certain that he had shared the fate r:fhis. 0 patrons in arms, and he was regarded 'is rile arisen from the dead. lie was spa. rd ern acet.unt of liar being a surgeon aide by a little fineness on hie part. ' , He wasi travelling tai To-xiis," he bard, "merely to I, hark to the counts v, when he was pressed into the servivemi the capacit!, t 4 surgeon!" The %lexica,' commander, at tilt fish whi,r;:„. he wait 'confined. moods-et, to discharge knit* parole I Inn when appliod to liir a pusir• nor!, tall him fa; horn time to time. At trtigill ht.) 8P(11 the e ttttt mender words von will not grant the passport you profit sod, then let me be taken tout and allot hid rather you would Mt this, tharidetnin no, here any longer in suspense. You are welcome to all the credit you may gain by e 'her Coat ;H. " This prodiseed it favorable etrect on the ofliver, who at once agreed to fanjet, him with a passport to some town in the interior; one, lomever, which it was impossible to reach, without great tisk from the Indians on the en). At this coojimentre, suddenly came flaws if the murk Sno incisuo. 'Render. you have 'wen a 'whale hurled bye um taisehe vlinpr otrehavl•laty, ahli) the teistre lir a lair or•t's nest dependent from the h..o g h snow In II pine? Such wino the panic among ihe wounded and pi honor's. Our captain then formed, with a fellow physician and prison• er, a plan of escape. They armed them selves •'cep a pie," pith arms belongin g to -trivets of the fort, each hearing a rifle, it brace of !moots. and a howie.knite. Thee borrowed two fine Norses, ready caparisoned, from tha stables, meowed them and fled. They lay concealed in the woods, or in the tall gran. of the prairie, during the day, travelling in the night ; and thus, alter suf faring many privations end danger,' they at lard entered the happy himis of their own emintry shortly after his arrival n 'Tit+•' eirnois, ilia iJ;niii wee heard, mid ;,1 party ..f the milieu v assembled to accompany him tonne. A cannon was ))))) tinted on a ear, and fired every mile to his residence, twenty-two mileg dietatit. hen he arri• % , ed. the whole population rattle nui to nwet him, and among them his ,if nod children. lie bare the whole 'eerie with cornpiNure. until a little son came up an.! urapppd him by the knee. At t his he shed team Pain- furl return I Of his ••Itert Rovers," few Nur. vise& Nenrlt all, arid nosing them his soil, were snerifieed They had not died nmid the "shi.utn iif battle, nod the shock of arms;" they were slaughtered I•ke cattle; immolated in a Mexican hecatomb 11 OLUTIONA RY A :1r iccoove. --qr. B. merchant of Providence. It Nate Island. and Pl man quite celebrated afterwards for his liberality and public spirit, was the owner of a most fortunate privateer Hhich Hailed nut of the port of Providence. Ori one or. casino, when she bad just inn.hipped a cargo ' , cougar. taken from a. very rich prize, in rolling it inio,the yard, one of the hogsheads clove. Mild fl , Ovitity of sugar fell out. A iiUnrvonitirt !tithe neighborhood, seeing the tforaster, run and filled her apron. !11i. B. (rem the aloft of the store, called out. i4Vliat are you doing titers t' The poor won an looking up answered, "Privateer. mg. sir." A PRIRI: FOR TUB LAMM—TIM gown NMWS 'II% tlio tr,chplur►► ol Du liu4. will izive a premiun► of a ht,Aband to the ,Nei* who tiro' nu ikPs her ippearnuc►• that 'dace dressed US silk U/: t►er VIVU wuuuiuctu►e• J 111 0 4 S BIIt IL .:And his mangled corpse lies buried On lake Erie's distant shore." Few individuals, perhaps, have received a greater share ..r v uhlir my input Iry than lie whose name heads this article; and none have acquired a greater share I,f postliettoins Ctii.r. ()II account of the wanner of hia death than, J•rnres Had. To the . peaple of the valley of Wyoming everything cornier:led with the lustary 1.1 this omit ba, heroine doubly interestsml. from the flirt that the harsh and sanguinary di-cipline the navy seems to have been administered, in his case without a due re Bard to the dictates of mercy. Tl.O writer or this article Rgllllo years since. silent a summer in the neighborhood of Er se, mid while oink rig a visit to the graye 14 Hi d, on a :Sunday morning, met an old marine, who gave Min the particular of the last days of psis Bird. It would ii-ern that Bird owed his death mare to the pet ft 'mil Nl:allay of Illy hi' IliediUlt , C. 111111 l loading riffi..er, than to may v.reut . erere-silv, existing at that time, of eidare . _ the strict diseiplitte of the navv• Ho had conceived a strong desire in visit fits native idare, and Ire quently salicitrd illrilfl.l9l ha 1111111 , p119511,e, ahich was uni family telbsed ; and, la tlni-e who were ac goau with his ii it ing nod reckless char actor, it will n o t he PM' prising that he shemal have sub r' d this desire to avercome sense id duly as a ist•ldit.r. • lie was mini a 111(111 lit Ix. 6011104 i in his purlm4es ; and, In the absrawe of 112iiid to', iii crow pai.y with arother Ina r me. deserted from the ling Niagara. then lying in the harbur of Este. Ile ass pursued iuid token with in laity -eight hulls, ('oust Nlllllllll was detailed, by a lieuteinini of marines, who laud iuthttsd a silting antipathy to Bird. He and his campainoti were tried, condemned, and, it is believed, exi cuted, byline the tetuiti of the commun. ding officer of the squadron. Stion after the execution of (Ltd, lilt lieutenant of marines showed evident sympt tus of derangement nod lint untie titteritly fflifllShed the atiatinel stationed et his quintets. fit," permitting find to enter ilia room ; lets health let In and it was apparent that he was lab, lug wide) some strong menial ii-xcileinent, which pub lie opinion attributed to remoter. Oar the acme parr he lead taken in the trial and execution til Bird. In a lew weeks from the death of . his vietiiii. the crew oh the Niagara writ, alarmed in the night by the report of a pistol, and the idlirer on duty, on eitteling the beaten:int)) its pi, liwud hum roipse; he had Jill:141113 billl%/11.41 laid uwt Inane+ n! Bird lies hurled, rear the lower cud of the bitchier 01 . Bee, a fru rods fresiii flip mitre:. edge, nod frothing but a rude storm 1117116 1010 Mace Iff ht. rt'll..tit's di eg, however, [dace corwitlet able interest to eve' y pet sun vistiii.g Erie, who has ever re ud the healthful bailee front which the coupktt at the head of thwarted*. he extracted. I well remember the day what, the liiriga ton Volunteers took up their line tit . march for the west, and in aUerhmea , when I have Upllll the. 'leek of the berg Ning ire; and within sigh , of poor Bud's grave, I could riot but re-flert upon the oral' earthly pritsperts. Bird lets h id ft/ tilt' Ai leitu-e to meet the enenues of his contain . . his hope for fame and (118111K:1.1M atdenl , Mid los patriotism pr ((((( piing bun tit deeds ii noble daring. Ile subsequently ti.uutst side by side will, the Verry, nod shirred in the glorious victory of the lOUs of September. The wounds which he received im that day bore ample testimony of his bravery, mid when gentle peace bad once unite shed het influni.re over his coon. try, it was luau al Mut lees heart should yearn letwaids his native vale, where deve Is Ilse friends end companies of his boy hoi , d ; het. alas 1 hie home. his parents, sod hib friends lie vies to see no mote: tins W.I. des tiny had fixed the te►n►mulion of his la' career : nh the wild shores at lake Erie, slime and unblended. he met his death with the same fiiihness that had molted has life. C.— Wslit?sbarre Advocate. Penn•lLtveil, April 9, :839. The following is from "A history of a Sirird Pig," written by L. Sergeant, re• erritiN publialird to 1/11.11111 411 i 41, 1 Lod ono of his lin)a to tho Dea con, •1 had a tunny dry ital hist 'tight.' •Wrii Tu y, what wad )our tunny drrnn► ?' • Why I dreamed that the Deed came in to veer ahire.' 'The Dtvul I' *Yee pa, the devil, and that he found you drawing a glit,sid gin tor poor Airibo Jamey, .who has fitscand mho broke liar It de baby'. arm the IlitlUr day. because she cried w hen he came home drunk. And 1 thought the devil cause tip'to !be counter. and laid the end ..f his long tail down on a chair, and !rimed over ttiaarde the barrel of gin where ,nu writ , %lionising to draw it out. awl asked, van ais'tit a deacon. And 1 thought you dltrtit os.dt up but maid you wail, and then he gent ti'd and shook hie tail like it cut that has a mouse, and said i That 'ere's the diucon for me !' and rats out of the whop laughing, so loud that 1 put ruy fingers in nay ears and woke up. Cutztova RELATunssurit..r-According to the Datibliq ( %lass) Times, there is a ho) that town Ishii*. tidither is his cousin, whose is his niece, whose wide is hi end w illilk" 1411111d.rditlEar is I , i. utiele. There is one qt1(1111in wt* should like to ask. if the boy hus gut muck a 'Mug as all KU..I lauw I/ 'Liu uuw. POR TR AIT PA INT INti. Goverritir I 'antion of 'rennet-see. and the Into Sraker Polk. are opp9stiag candidates th.. next Gubernatorial term in that 4 tate ; and, as is the custom of that region, they are stuoitp speaking, in the diffiaent coin ties. At Nlurfrf eaborn, Mr. Polk made a 4pere•h, and the G6vernor replied ; frmn thts reply we ex , met the f'ollt.ing pot.- Itaiture of the mint who never forgave.— Pigs. Goz. uhAerve, fellow countrymen, tie my ti,nrtittir appeais to take pleasure eielei ring you to lielleral Jack:el:l ' s initial y achievements—to his hit viol; foinelit the Indians surcesrlulh, and to the Man ter which he 'vended that long signifi calif ft Igor, at %% asttingtem, whenever he wished tee make it understand that his wed was to tee eiteeved 1 tell, gehtlettelle said the Governor, I atol some eel viol had something to do in filifetint , with the Indi ans also. As you well know, I never have been n fevorite with tny oppement's high ly euloutz-d "Old Chief. " His peeled/lei Iv never bore me ideate to smiles and for tune. I never flung to the skirts et his - oat, or when danger apprauched, jumped 1111 11 his pocket. I h eve know!' him long, nad met his die pleasure before now. If my competiteet ran beast of having rode smoothly upon the billows of the. Old Chive's popularity, I vim ..tiv with truth that I have hod to 1411 . 111 the . 1)1111;1111V ril kW wrath. Fellow citizens. -(1(110 10511'11611er the time when nut ertiey was repiesitog on tins side or the Coast—that General Jiteksim deputed my t . euiment anal amether to cross that ho bulent stream and attack the /inertly iii !um strong holds—Alai we anal as we were ordered, while (ssn Jackson my ren this side in se . curtly—that we safr real nmeli from hiiigu and hunger—that we bound the enemy stimig and powerful, hut heat hint triumph iiiitiv—and returned conquerors I Hui sup 'Jose we hail been henna), teed nil; shim, lii iv tong would it have be. u. before Getittral .lack-tin would have been found on this side of the Tentieisee I I may be arineteekers. but I have always 01444;1 t there was !waive which vertivd the s Ivetioei ut loose who COos* the Coosa on th ocedsion. I have been opposed to the Old Chief nn imi y occastima. I remember the t HIP !hat t•tripliiitlc finger, oiy ciantiefitin loves .I) well to describe, was first pointed at me. w,14 oil the Jury to try, iii old Mr. Magnus, on charge at Patton Anderson, (Geti• Jarksim's friend 11 e were sweiti in nil„ in a true verdict ‘Ve did i, according In our judgments, when I Ilatilled the terdici in. General dfack• sin, warred - that '•leng, significant finger" at ore aid pi Culinr manner,— mink you yobng man P l ' And, said he thoverrinr, I behove lie has kept his pronlise ['roily faithfully to this 'thy. Ito used tit dank that Geheial Jar ksuii wan of It runt by nature and rducatilin. Ile had witnessed his asaternents (111 wilily eirrilbl(ll! area his varrous plans of (operations when ho laid his clans about hint—sird ho• always would have bis clans, hut no umn iu them In hallow it,,,,, who would not be his nail and his slate." STRENG'rII or F.:%oLAND.—Englnind CAD bear mote inismarnigenient, toxin y, and rm . 'option, thathilny nation tinder heave' ; and prolitirei s of ;hose pithy ',obi whin,: who have built `heir preiliele , ns of he lowplilll horn analogies taken from other tuitions have all fortunately failed, beeatew Great Britain Ila,. hour points of st reii4th mid revivesrence. not Common to there ex :triples (nun which them analogies ldne been drawn. Two of these soureeti of Airtight are physical ; her coal and her Iwo: and two of them moral; lli fieetliiiii of Ilia press—which constitute* her Fourth Emtute—a d the trial bs jury ; and they are ',nimbly and iiiii witty.. co ...sell other, I. Pliiiuld any attempts be made -o,e care not by » hum !bey mil be per pa flitted—to del.t oy the last two, the liter two are admirably adapted to defend them.— English Pll per. A TOUCH OF . 'I HE SUBLIME. 1 r. Presidect to argue the case I I the I ICII nano, and the pour mom ; and h,lieve that before I *hull have cbucluded pa t will chow that it admin. of no alga mem. .1 he neh man Mr. Prepident, .tle elines lus emaciated foists en at nothivati) yofr cut down, hewed out, ea, ved, Anti outouliictured f he tall (viten§ of Leh anon, which grown upon the bat V and cloud eapt suwnla of the ever memorable mouti• 11(11) of Jeho , opliai. Then Mr. President, he hits to hie cadaverous lip the go ld", rhino cup—iiiiinufaci used, as is well known. Presidetit, in eriot. Mid other un known and urinhabitable parts of Illt• ijulytisse. W title tin the other hand, Nit . . President, the poor 1111111 declines hi* expec tenons in It )•ottnge, 1111111 %Inch he retires to the shade of some uttibragveus there to contemplate the nicomprehriistbilit „r the vast conbielation and ether fixed nuil immoveable canines that devolve around the celestial emeirre of (hie kql)1411CIU11 tir• nutmeat on MO.—Then, Mr. President, atter ceiling wound him bit sale, and the rest or his little children, hn leeches them to per•pire to 0 1'Nflemlut 111111101 tali!) bey anal the grave.—. Now (Meting .dun. 'I meant to have told you of that hole, said an Irishman to a !item', who tiros walking with lam In hie golden, at,d truutblt•d ni a ► a pit full ot water. 6•No flintier," baud Pat, blowing the mud and water t►W td i k we►yt4, 'L'vQ fuuud this [WHOLE NO: 475. NEC DOTE. The following chnraeteristic anecdote of a Bettish sailor will be read with feeling Of deep interest. Übe subject of it was the father of Sir T. Trowbridgo, now one of the Lords i.f Admiralty , "A curious scene occurred I'll board the .`bans ['Oreille on the morning id the Ist of June (Lord Howe'a action ;) Capt. Trowbridge, who had been recently falcon in the Cuitier, with Ids Con %ov hound tic Newfoundland, was a prisoner on bland the French ship just named, where Re ,r Admiral Neuilly held his 11 ter After Lord I !owe had obtained his position, and had drawn his fl-et in a lion paralled to shirt of the enemy, be brought to, and made the signal to go to breakfast. Trowloidgo lisiew the pus port of the signal. end telling it to the Ft cools Admiral, they took the advantage of the time allowed them (lir the sante repast. Trowblidge (whose appetite never forsook him on these occasions ) was helping himself to a large slice from the brown look when the French captain ob serveti to him by an interpreter, (for 'Frew. bridge would n.•ver learn their language) that the English Admiral showed no dispo. ..ition to fight, and lie was certain did not in. 'end it. ‘• tt . hat !"said the En. 4 lish hero, saipping his loaf, and laving his hand ahnost too ecaphoPeall% on the Frenchman's ler, while he looked him furiously in the , •iiet fight ! stop till they have had 'heir bielikfast ; I know John Bull well. 'i;:d when Isis belly is full you will get it." In a few minutes after this the.fleet bore 11 ro eie:age. Trowbridge was sent into the boatswain's sthreroom, where for a length •if sine! he Ironed ngainst the lot emast, and ionised himself in pouring out every itnee. live Hu:till-I the French, and the man op. I nsults -it to gun! d him. Suddenly be felt the vas t . thin 1-1 this must, and heard it fall liver the side ; when, grasping the astonish. with both his liands,he began ran joiop and caper, with all the gestures of 3 maniac. The Sans Pareille soon after ,it, rei dered, and Trowbridge assisted in :siting her to rights and taking her into port.--Brertou's Naval History. Tees, lay wok, Andrew Class, .Esq. de livered n lerline on atmospheric electricity, tt Tnunten, i lust sated by a number of beau nful experiments. He illuminated 900 feet id ilia' chain, hung in festoons about the neap the whole extent being brtllihmtly iglited at the same instant by the passage through it el the spark nom a battery, and melted several feet of wire. Mr. C. after wards detailed the results of ninny exper intents on thunder clouds and ini-ts. fly means ~I a wire apparatus suspended in his patk, he had discovered that a driving fog sweeps in masses. alterontely negatively mai positively electrified; and once the tic. eutmilin ion of the eft curie fluid in a fog was so great, that there was an incessant stream from Lis eenduetor of spailts, each one of which would have struck an elephant dead wan iebtant. Ponca OF Baum.— A toper in Neat 011.41n4 ttikitie n check to n bank to be ensiled, wing ou.ked by the teller, .11nty he would hnve it 7' he answered instantly 'emit] if uu plume, and without sugar.' AtnoNE all the rhymes perpetrated ogrutort shrug I bia - Eerrami, the editor of the 'uu•nuiati Nett line poured forth hie •üblttns conceptions in this tide of song And now the merry ploughboy Wbibtles his morning song Along the dale. aml through the vale "I is echoed bud end long . ; The farmer's docks are rovii.g , free, Auden thu budding shrubbery His spouse's Cowses Brovrzes, And the martins have returned, and found A welcome at our houses ; And the little nigg. re run around Dileitted of their truwaers I Tar FISHERIES —The Alexandria Ga. zelle.lf Tat tidily says:— .‘The weather has imply la ell %ety fine for the Pohlman Fish. ei ierottrl great quantities (limbed um her. rip): have, we uuderstand, been caught, es pecially in the Mary land shore. Shad have been selling at the Fish wiled; in Al kvando ia. (the greet Fish depot,) at from s`.'.so to $lO per hundred, and herrting at from $2.25 lo rer thewand . The de. naiad has not yet been supplied." Mr. Bennett, a feeble old man, one of the few rerna'ning survivors of the Wyoming marariete, by the British and Indians, was lately turned out of n leek at ‘t ilkosbarra, by. Gov. Porier's ennabofficere, tu give olaco somebody else; whose only recommit dation was that ho voted tor Porter. There is a woman now living in Ohio lan•lv einigranteti Iriqn Conneetient, who is 'hp Int that her husband WOO obliged to go hack twice after her. • A dandy, who was strutting around a bar room in lidrito., with his pantaloons strap ped down so tightly that they threatened to burst At the km e, rudely jostled 'member ref that anomalous dams known as '•runners." .Take rare "said the runner, turning upon him i "or Pt! cut your straps and let you up." THIINDUR AND LICILITNIN4 —"Thin). •fer," oliberves Sir I.lm Hershel', 4 1 / 4 4E1 -eareely ever be beard MOM than 20 or 811 miles from the flash which prekluces it‘ Lei:Janine, on fhb other befit', may be . wen ••••-f4 at haw ifs nrfleCtion in the cloud; at*: inieg what is called sheet field/levet dile diatmuceod 141.1 ur pilaw
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