Oil 111==:=EI Terms ; : if PubWatio'n.' Tivo DoLt.aits per annuna, paYable sempannual In advance.'if not pard'avithin the year. 10 50 will be charged. L• .141 , ".. , 'Apere delivered bythiPost..Rider will be charg. gd 25 cents extra. ' Adirz.rtiaeltielita not exceeding !twelve lines will be charged tin for three insertions—arid 50.centerf,or one jam:wane. Largerones ie propna4ion. 1 - All advertisements will j balinaerted until or d ered out the time for which; they are to be continued is specified. and will be charged , accerdinglY• • - Yearly a Ivertisers will heal charged 812 Per. annum. 'neluding subscription to the paper—With the privilege' Stficepin2 rane,ai vertisetnamt net esceeding two squires standing daringihe year. andithe.insereion or a smaller eq. in each paueffor threb sacceesive Ileac!. , letters addre4scd to ahei editiar must be post paid Vtletraise no attentiorf will be,. paid to them. noticealer na e eii &c.an cl other ncitices whieh hiii - herctuforwbeen inserted, gratis. Will be charged 25 npnra each. etcept blarrialy'ea and Deaths. , - P znoilets.'Theeka,l 18dieof Ladtng and iti4, 3 4htlle of every teterijdidn, ne'atly printed al this O_Her at the lotoestensh nrieei Fri.= -the Kflickerh l peker for March. THE WA 1 - 1 Ann Tin MANNER OP ar:rtiraitt—BY sr. CHAIM. Irov. , —1 Maiden or the bhoun• 'z age, O'er whose pathlths sunlight lingers, O'er whoa/. brow dean& and raze Ne',or halm swept with loathsome fingers! Virgin ! pure in heart and mind, Shun the spit where Unve reposes : Oh. beware! or thOu ilt find. Sharpest thorns am ngst I-ie rows D3TReI thou whim Sliehtfy on thy iiiiiiiOf coral, By the charms 'hilt thou hest missed, Learn. oh: learn the simple moral : - Time may seem ft) thieo unkini— i Love a briehterj fa e discloses; Oh, beware !or thou ilt find . Sharpest thorns, a °nest hie roma. • : . Warrior, from Melba% le field. With thy laurel' wreath around thee, ~,t Arm thyself withlsw rd and shield, Fly, ere vet the , fo bath liouita thee! Love, for thee, a slnell hail, twined, Where the eyeint entity closes; -Oh. beware ! or thol wilt find • Sharpest thorns areonest his roses, I • Father ! thou whn.el l ttering gate . Tells ot leng.linet -years and sorrows— Tells what soon :wil be ihylfrite., s• Ere the-^. aim brine many morrows f . Love will seek e.en bee to bind, , . Ere death's portal o'er the closes; Oh. beware! or ipoo wilt find .. Sharpest thorn urng his roses. Maiden. dam=el. iwn Shmr,Olu.suelli of Conic -rod.near his h .. Ve not Fir , igiicitle, fats? tin' th e . o,,urcepf a Oh. beware ! or you; Sharpest ihorris a From the ‘ll4‘on , EDEN IS IT jOliN NEW Oh. I have roltnrct4hrougn many lands, A stranger to doligth Not f: rend.hii hod entild make inv . pal Tdl nn the Vkv a s 1 And lit night'g.abh Oh, steer tni,birk t Fur Eden is Oijr hoL of rest, ;bore, tiles`from, my breast, no more: y spirit flies crne— - i'er - Jordan's waves, I me. • Oh. Eden is ipv[Pla I long to reachios To shake thetieltro And weep and . lEh To that fair hito, in And site'. bi 4 • Oh, weer my (Irk' For Edvn naS h • Oh, take me O i nir To my sweet h nm Where teats or q !Ilia scald of above, row never flow Awl' all the ri.r ii ove; My sister spir/ts viatt for me, And Jesus bid, me t enme. Oh, steer . my bark to' that bright land, FOr Eden is my home. Foreir,,n - Items. , The English paper brought by the Caledrinia, which arrived at Boston list week from Liverpool, are literally barred of intelligence. Wecan scarcely chpie up aware of int resting items. /The Liverpool pppeta are filled with accounts of the less of the s h ip Covernor Fenner,, a notice of which appeared in lastoleek's pafOr. Capt. And rows 'of th- G. F.. we u'ntleretantl; is'about instituting a suit at Liverpool aglinst the owners of the Not tingham steamer for t.te da nage sustained by the lose of his 4ssel. ' The Penny Postage, which it was prophesied would not pay its expenses, has' yielded £ 441,000 net revenue in the tirt y ear of its experiment. So • that; judging from the revenue returns of Post office expenses already vuhikhed. and ;Inking an allow ance for increased expenditures occasioned by the extended use of raile4ys, the first annual gross re ceipts under the new !system have been more than half 'the annual receil ts under the old. Daniel O'Connnell has presented, to hie parish church a magnificent painting representing the mur der of Thothas A. Berket. The state of tradelin the manufacturing districts of England is rather More depressed than--=by the ad -vices received by the eteamer President. In the.cot ton and woolen tradee, piece goods and yarn were difficult of sale, and Price had a downward tendency. Such of the merc l ents of Liverpool as ate enga ged in what is lane thei .i Atherican Trade, " have strongly recommend d the British Government to modify the_ duties oq certain articles imported into Great Britain from t e United Stales. This recom mendatiomowea its origin, doubtless . -to the one re cently made in this cituntry in relation to our tariff. The London TIE ; announces the failure of the extensive house of ontefiore it: Brothers. Their liabilities are estimated at £ 100,000 sterling. The statement i generally discredited that Sir John Harvey has brien ecallo, and will be succeed ed by Su William folehroke.. The Notts Revievir says that the apiiit for emigsa tion seems to be upon the increase, owing, no tbiubti to the want of erripOiment and low rates of wages. The lateldies Ecizabeth Kibble of Paisley, Scot land, directed in' he' will that the sum of .t.: 7.500 be'applied it: foundi x an institution in Paisley for the reclaiming of Ju enile delinquents. 1 Major GeneralSiY - Neil Douglaes has been offerred and accepted the cimmand of the forces in Nova ,I T Scotia and.New' Br nswick. ". • , The Earl of Ho th was recently thrown front his home, while knitting, and severely thjured. An extensive fail re is announced at Liverpool. The liabilities of tht house, which was engaged in the drysaltery and t rpentincl distilling business. are variously stated int 1 . 0,0001. and 80,000/. Upwards of 40,0001. am iweihg to different houses in Liver , POol• ' . -, f , No less than tw hive been burned hundred and fortyBve children o death during the past year in , , ate and eastern division of Mid• tae city ofWestm dlesex.f The Queen hos been pleased to appoint Robert Leate, Esq., to be, serjeant-surgeon in ordinary to her, majesty, in!thei . room of Sir Astley Pastor Coop. er, Bart., dectairdl The English! p4ers now ire less rabid wheri they chance to apeali, of the arrest of McLeod by the:Ail:ler ' leant. ; itne Kolb kissed rinr, sire his enchanter: dden fire, le banter : . bl onr wnee is: w,tll find png his roses. -a ii livening Argue. V 1110 ME. LAND 11AFFITT I na, nor Inim's sweet smiles, way ',right': a r erase 1 dame, y that sweet star— ne. / `I - '.. ME =I "I will teach you to piereat. e bowels of the Eanh, and bring out from the Cavern" or Mountains. Bletals!wbieh will giirestrength toast Bands andinibiectall Sitarist° oaten* and pleasure.m—Da • Jontwor." VOL. xvti. The following leapital story appeared in did,* wood's tnitgaiine several years ego. Unlike :uati+ old stories, it will be read with great interest : • TILE:FIRST AND LAST DINNER. • • . Twelve friends.; much snout the same age, and fixed, by their puranits, their fatnily connexions, and other local interesis,:as permanent inhaintants of the metropolif, agreed', one day when they were drinking their wine;at 'the tar and Garter at Richmond, to institute sit annual dinner among themselves, under the following ;regulations That, they should di9e alternately afreactt others houses on the first and last day of 'the year; that the first bottle of wine uncork ed at this first diriner, should be recorked and put away, to_ be drank by tim who should be the last of their number , ; that they should never admit a new member, that when one died, eleven should meet, end when' another died, ten should meet, and so on : and that when only one remained, he should, on those two days,-t ine by himself, and sit the usual hours at his solitary table; dint the first time be so dined alone, lest it should be the only one, he should then un cork the first bottle, and in the first glass, drink to the memory of all who were gone. There wai'something original and whimsical in the idea, it was 'eagerly embraced. They were all in the prime of life closely attached by reciprocal friendship, fond of social enjoyments, and looked for ward to their-future meetings with unalloyed antici pations of pleasure. The only thought, indeed, that could have darkened those anticipations was one not likely to intrude itself at this moment, that of the hapless vight actin was destined to uncork the first Willi at his lonely repast. It was high surnmer when this frolic compact was entered into; and as their pleasure yacht skimmed along the dark bosom of the Thames, on their return to London, they talked of nothing hut their first and last fe l asts of ensiling years.---Their imaginations ran_ out with a thousand gay .predicttoini of festive merri ment. They wantoned in conjectures of what chan gee time , would Create. As for you, George,' exclaimed oneof the twelve, addressing his brother-in-law, t I expect I' shall see you as dry, withered, and shrunken as an uld eel skin, your mere : outside • of a man!' and be accompa nied the words coith a hearty slap on the shoulder. George Forteacue was leaning carelessly over the aide of the yacht, laughing the loudest of any at the conversation which had been carried on. The sud den manual salutation of his brother-in-law threw him off his balance, and in a moment he was over. board. They. heard the heavy splash of his fall, be foie they could be said to have been him fall. The yacht was proceeding swifty along; but it was in stantly stopped. • The utmost Consternation now prevailed. It was nearly dark, but Fortescue was known to be tm ex cellent swimmer, and 'startling as the accident was, they felt:certain. he would regain the yew!. They could not see him. .1 bey listened. They heard the sound of his hands and feet. They hailed him. An answer was returned, but in a faint guggling voice, and the exclamation Oh God !' struck upon their ears. In in instant,two or three, who were expert swimmers, plungedi into the liver, and swam towards the sprit whence the exclamation bad pro needed. One of them was within an arm's length of Fortescue ; lw saw him c before he could be iiaelied, he went down, and his distracted friend beheld the eddying eireles-of the wave just over the spot where he had sunk. Re dived after him, and touched the bottom ; but the tide must have drifted the body on wards, for it could not be found ! They proceeded to• one of the nearest stations where drags were kept, and having procured the ne cessary apparatus, they returned to the fatal sprit. After the lapse of above an hour, they succeeded io raising the lifeless body of their lost friend. All the usual remedies , were employed for restoring suspend ed animation but in vain; they now pursued the re mainder of their course to London, in mournful si lence. with the corpse of him who had commenced the day of pleasure with them in the, rulings of health, of spirits, and , of life! Ant' , in their severe grief, they could not but reflect how soon one of the joy ous twelve had slipped out of the little festive circle. - The month's rolled on, and cold December came with all its cheering round of kindly greettngs" and merry hospitalities; and with it tame a softened recollection of the fate of the, poor Fortescue. elev,en of 1 1 . e twelve assembled an the last day of the year, and it was impossible tiotto feel their loss as they sat down to (linker. The'very irregularity of the ta• ble, five on one gide and itia on the other, forced the melancholy event upon their Memory. A decorous sight or two; a few beaming ejaculii 7 lions, and an instructive nbseivation upon the uncer tainty of life, made up ( the sum of tender posthumous offering to the name s of poor George Fortescue; as they proceeded to dis j harge the more important du ties for which they h ad met. By the time the third glass of charripaigne had gone round, in additiOn to Potations of fine old hock, and capital matleira; they haCceased to discover any thing so very pathetic in the inequality of the two sides of the table, or so mel ancholy in their crippled number of eleven. Several Fears had elt;psed, and our eleven friends kept up their, double anniversaries, as they might ern ly enough he called, with !scarcely any perceptible change. Bat, alas! there tame one dinner at last, which was darkened by a 'calamity they never petted to witness; for on that very day, their friend, companion, brother almost, was hanged ! Yes, Ste phen Rowland, the wit, the oracle, the life of their circle, had, an the morning; of that day, forfeited his life upon a public scaffold, for having made one sin gle stroke of his pen in a wrong place. In other /Nerds a bill of exchange whichpaised into his hands for 700• passed out of it for £l7OO. It would be injustice to the ten to say, that even wine, friendship and a merry season, could dispel th ey gloom which pervaded this' dinner. It was agreed beforehand, that they should 114 allude to the dis tressing and melancholy theme ; Ind having thus in terdicted the only things which featly occupied all their thoughts, the natural conserence was, thatst lent contemplation took the place of dismal discourse; and they separated long before midnight. Some fifteen years had now glided away since the fate of Rowland, and the tewremamed ; but the steak log hand of time hid written sundrychanges in most legible characters. Ravenllocks had beeomegriztJed„ two or three heads had not as miny locks altrigether as maybe 'reckoned in a Walk of half a mile along the. R egen t s Catial-oneiwas actually covered with a brown Wig, the crow's f l eet were visible in-the cor ner of thieye---tmod oldrtandwarm madeirs car ried it against hock, cl ans, end red burgundy, end champaigne, stews, hashes , and ragouts, grew into faver--cnists were rarely called for to relish the cheese after dinner—ctintiersetion grew less bolster" 0 c-t AND I'l - • , Weekly by Batman" Potts Ville, Countyl.PennsYlvaikia. =I ono, and it turned chiefly on politics and the state of the funds, qv the value of landed property—.apologies Were made, for coming in thick shoes - and warm stockings—the doors and windows were most care fully provided with list and sand bags—the fire more in request...and a quiet game of whiil filled up the hours that were wont to be devoted to drinking, Sing ing, and riotous merriment. The rubbers, a cup of coffee, and at home by II o'clock, was the usual cry, when the fifth or sixth glass had gone round after the removal of the cloth.—At parting, too, there was a long ceremony in the hall, built:Ming up great coats, trying ,on , woolen comforters, fixing silk handker chiefs over the mouth and up to the ears, grasping leturily walking canes to support unsteady feet. - Their fifteenth anniversary. came, and death had indeed been busy. ' Four little old men of withered appearance and : decrepid walk, with cracked voices and dim, rayless 'eyes, sat down ,by the mercy of Hemen, (as they I themselves trerhulously declared,) to celebrate, for' the fiftieth time, the first day of the year; to observe the frolic compact, which, belle century before, they, had entered into at the Star and Garter at Richmond. Eight were in their graves ! The four that remain ed stood upon its confines. Yet they chirped cheer ily over their glass, thOugh they coulakacarcely carry it to their lips, if more than half full; and cracked their jokes, though they articulated their words with difficulty and heard each other with still greater diffi culty. They mumbled, they chattered, they ed, if a sort of strangled wheezing might be called a laugh; and when the wines sent their icy blood in warmer pulse through their veins, they talked of their past as if it were but a yesterday that had slip ped by them,—and of their future as if it were a bu sy century that ley before them. They were just the number for a quiet rubber of whist; and for three successive years they sat down to one. The fourth came, and then their lubber was played with an open dummy; a fifth, and whist was no longer practicable; two could play . nnly'at cribbage, and cribbage was the game. But it was " little more than the mockery of play. Their palsied hands could hardly hold, or their fading sight distin guish the cards, while their torpid faculties made them doze between each deal. At length came the lass dinner; and the survivor of the twelve, upon whose head four score and ten winters had showered their snow,-ate his solitary meal. It so chanced that it was in his house and ut his table, they had celebrated the first. In hie cel lar too, had remained, for eight and fifty years, the bottle they had uncorked re-corked, and which he was that day to uncork again. It stood beside him ; with a feeble and reluctant grasp, he took the 'frail memo rial' of a youthful vow, and for a moment memory was faithful .to her office. She threw open her long vista of buried years ; and his heart travelled through them all. Their lusty and blithsome spring, their bright and fervid stimmer,—their ripe and temperate autumn,—their chill, but not too frozen winter. He saw, as in a mirror, how one by one, the laughing companions of the merry hour, at Richmond, had dropped into eternity. He felt all the loneliness of , his condition, (for he had eschewed marriage, and in the veins of no living creature ran a drop of blood whose source was in his own ;) and as he drained a glass which he Lad filled, 'to the memory of those who were gone,' the tears slowly trickled down the deep furrows of his aged face. He had thus fulfilled one part of his vow, and he prepared himself to discharge the other, by sitting the usual number of hours at his desolate table. With a heavy heart he resigned himself to the gloom of his own thoughts—a lethargic sleep stole over him —his head fell upon his bosom-confused images crowded into his mind—he babbled to himself—was silent—and when his servant entered the room,alarm ed by a noise which he heard, he found his master stretched upon the carpet of the foot of the easy chair, out of which he had slipped in an apoplectic fit. He riever spoke again, nor once opened his eyes though the vital spark was not still extinct till the following day. And this was the LAST DINNER. The Lowell Journal of Weilnemlity, contains an interesting sketch of this flourishing city, occupying a space of five columns.—We hare made below an abstract of it, and regret that we cannot find room for the whole of it. The town of Lowell was incorporated March, 1825. On the spot now occupied by the city, the population at the time the first purchases were made for manufacturing purposes, did not exceed 200 souls. In 1828, it reached 3,532 ; in. 1830, it was 6,477 ; in 1833, it was 12,363; in 1836, it was 17.633 ; and by the census of 1890, it was 20,981. It is how only 20. years siEce the project of using the waters of the Pawtucket Falls originated with several enterprising gentlemen of Boston 'arid vicin ity. The increase of population has; therefore, ex ceeded a thousand a year, for 20 years. Probably it will continue to increase at the same:rapid rate, for ten years to come. The city charter was obtain ed to 1'835. Lowell is connected with Boston by the Middle sex Canal and the Boston and Lowell Rail road.— Distance, 26 miles. It is connected - with :Nashua, N. H. by a railroad 15 miles in length, which wilt soon he continued to Concord N. H. about 30 miles further. M Ell SATURDAY MORNING. APRIG3:. I'B4l. From the Troy (N. Y.) Daily Whig. LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS. The great corporations of the city are 11 in num. ber, and the capital invested by them; 10,600,000 dollars. The Lock end Canal• . Company, are the pmpnetors of the water power. Its capital is 600,- 000 dollars. 'The dam across the Merrimack, and the various canals in the city, by which its waters are conveyed to the Mills, were made by it: With two exceptions, it built all the,mills, boarding ban ns and machinery of the other corporations. It bah two shops. a smithy and foundry, and gives constant employment to 500 men, and when building mills and boarding houses for new corporations, to 1200. Its principle building is called, es The Machine Shop. " It turns out manufactured articles to the amount of 250.000 dollars per annum. The stock in this corporation has been, if it is not ficriv, proba bly the best in the world. !resides selling a vast amount of land, on which the principal pert of the city now stands, at prices varying fiorn one eighth of a dollar to one dollar per square foot, which was purchased atone or two hundred dollars the acre, the, profits on all the miljaand boarding houses it bar built on good contracts forthe other corporations. and, the profts_on• the immense manufacture's of its, shops, consisting principally of full sets of machine ry for cotton• and woolen• milts, lbcomotive engines, tt cam it reserves and receives an annual rent for the water power disposed t'll° r each mill,. • The aggregate capital of the remaining corpora dons is of come 10,000,000 dollars. Besides these MEM VANA DYERTISEsc. •stahliehrnents, there are the Louiell Heathery; tho ixtensive Powder Works of 0. 11. Whipple, Esq ; .the Flannel Mills; the Whitney Mills, where bleu ketsof tho very best . quality and finish are made; a Bating Mill; Card and Whip Factory of White & `Co. ; an extensive Bobbin Factory of the Messrs. Douglass; Planing Machinea of Brooks and Picker. tag; extensive Carnage and Harness Manufactory of Day, Converse & Whittredge ; Sash anti Door Factory of J. H. Band—employing together a capi tal of about $ 400,000 and 400 operatives. The Whole number of males employed in all the manu facturing establishments in the city is about 2500, and of females 7000. Very few children are eia ployed. It is provided by the laws of the Common wealth that all youths employed in the mills, under 14 years of age, shall attend the schools three months out of twelve, every year. The average wages of ;females is 2 dollars per week, clear of board; and of males, common hands 80 cerits per day, clear of board. All are paid monthly. The total amount of average monthly wages, out of which cloud bills roust be paid, is about 170,000 dollars, making a yearly ag• gregate, paid to operatives, by all the corporations, of 2,000,008 dollars. The weekly produce of the mills 2,265,560 yards of cotton cloth, of which 70,000 are of the Coarsest kind, called negro ,cloth. The rest is mostly com mon, coarse, and fine sheetings, shirtings, drillings, and cotter' flannels. A large portion of the finer goods is manufactured in calicoes at the Merrimack print works, and a small portion of the coarser fabric is printed at the Hamilton print works; 1,800 yards of broadcloth and 9,000 yards of cassimere are pro• duced per week, by the Middlesex Company; and 2,500 yards of carpeting' and 150 rugs, measuring one yard and three fourths each, by the Lowell Company, making a iveek:y aggregate of 1,265,560, and a yearly,of 65,609,120 yards: Thus it will be seen that this city manufactures a fraction over 4i yards. of cloth per year, for every man, woman and child in the 'United Staten, allowing the population to be 15,000,000. 27,000 yards of cloth are dyed and printed per week.—The consumption of cotton, per week, to all the mills, is 1,025 bales, or 412,- 000 pounds. The yearly consumption of wool is, in the Middlesex Mills, 600,000, and in the Carpet 439,536 pounds, making together 1,039,536 pounds. The Middlesex Company conbumes, per annum 3,- 000,000 teasels. All the Companies consume, per annum, 11,660 tons of anthracite coal, 3410 colds of wood, 500,000 bushels of charcoal, 65,289 gal lons of oil, 600,000 pounds of starch, and 3000 bar rels of fiour,for starch. There are two Banks in the city, besides a Sa vings Institution. The Lowell Bank has a capital of 400,000 dollars, and the Railroad Bank of 800,- 000 dollars. In the Savings Institution are deposit ed 386,000 dollars, of which 250,000 dellara belong to operatives in the factories, mostly females. There ate in Lowell 18 religious societies, vii: two Episcopalian, two Methodist, two Freewill Bap list, two Christian, two Universalist, three Orthodox, three Baptist, one Catholic, and one Unitarian. Fourteen of these societies worship in elegant chur dies, viz: three Orthodox, two Baptist, two Metho dist, two Universalist, one Episcopal, one Freewill Baptist, one Christian, the Roman Catholic, and the Unitarian. The others occupy convenient halls. The fourteen churches or meet-houses, wt )11 their furniture and dressings, cost not less thaiftso,ooo dollars. The eighteen societies raise, and expend forparochial and charitable purposes, at lesst 0,- 000 dollars per annum. There are thirty free public schools in the city, kept the year round. One new grammar school, and soy mai Primary schools will be put in operation during the present year. There are now twenty-two Pri mary schools, and seven Gram Mar schools ; one High school ;—in the latter young men are fitted for the Untyksity, and instructed in the higher branches of education. There was expended in 1840. for the support of free schools in Lowell, the sum cf 21,439 dollars. The Catholics form one-eight of the whole popu lation of Lowell. Five of the Primary school teach ers, and three in the Grammar schools are Catholics. In consequence of the just'and libaral policy of em ploying a fair proportion of their nomination to the public schools, the Catholic Priests and parents take ti'deep interest in them; and their children conse. quently all attend, but mostly where Catholic teach ers are employed, though there are' no regulations on the subject, According to the report of the Auditor for the year ending Dec, 31, 1840, the city debt is 143,450 dollars and 10 cents. The real estate owned by the city, cost and is worth 166,503 dollars and 98 cents. The whole amount of debts due the city, is 26,208 dollars and 04 cents. The amount of personal prop 'rry held by the city, is 9,803 dollars and 67 cents. The appropriations, for all purposes, during the year were 98,340 dollars and 46 cents. Of this sum, 47,198 dollars and 98 cents were for the support of the public schools, and the building of new school houses. In 1820, the valuation of the property nn the spot were the city now stands Alril not exceed 1000 doll es; in 1 . 840, the assessors' books shoW it to he 12,4065300 dollars, The Middlesex Mechanic Association owc a build ing 'and library' worth 25,000. The City Hall cost 20,000 dollars. The Markel house 46,000 dollars. The Alms House, 18,000. There are seven printing establishments in the' city. The following is a list of the publications. viz- The Lowell Courier. tri-weekly, and the Lowell Journal, weekly. Whig—the Lowell Adveniser, tri weekly, and the Lowell Patriot, weekly, Democrat ic—the Literary Souvenir,, neutral—the e Banner, Freewill Baptist—the Star, Universalist—the New England Christian Advocate, Methodist Anti-Slairery —the Lowell Offering•& , -the Ladies' Pearl, literary monthly Megazine—the Young People's Library. Lowell supporta 24 lawyers, and 28 physicians and surgeons. Of the literary character of the factory girls, some inference may be drawn from the following statement irr the Lowell Journal: It would doubtless surprise the agricultural and commercial communities of the South and West, to know that a monthly magazine, printed on &Tampa vial sheet, Bvo.. that in literary merit would corOpare well with the average literary journals of thedouri tTy, is published irr this city of spindles. looms. ham. 'OW, and anvils, every article being •origind and written by'aractOry Girls." Yet such is the sober truth.' It is called ' , the_ Lowell offering."! This stork was started se an experiment-3200 eopies of No. l'were printed; 9800 of No. 2 ; and 4300 - of No: 3; The first edition of No. 1 was soon iixhaus. tedi and a second , edition of 2000 has been publish , s 4, and' will soon be taken up: The account' given, in the work itself, of it's origin, object; die : . may be' fully relied on. The editors are two respectable dergY alert of the city, and pastors of large and flour ishing societies, whose statements are entitled to im pliett credence. The editors and publishers of this work have opened no subscription list, but it may be considered as permanently established. The senior editor of the Offering will publish, ,in due season; an Annual, entitled, • The Garland of the Mills; every article of which will be written by r iFactory Girls.' A large number of the arti cles are already in his hoods. From what I know of them; and the writers, who will furnish all that may be wanted. I have no doubt the work will rank. in literary merit, with the average of the Annuals, as 4 will also in its beauty of type. paper, and bind ing.i Such a work will be no less Pfronge thin true. It will probably be placed in the hands of the Prin ter July. It n ill be of the common size of those beautiful and interesting publications." Ili rouis to IRKLAND.—The following extract (mai a letter dated Dublin, January 2. and received by the editors of the Knickerbocker, from Mr. Wil son, the eminent vocalist, whose concerts in our At. !antic cities must be fresh in the recollection of ma ny, will.be read with interest: tt is some four or five years since I was in this quaker of the wOldr and the change which is now perceptible on the face of men and things is aston; ishidg. You of course have heard of Father Math ew, end his tetotal pledges, perhaps thought of it as I did, that it was all humbug; that the Father must be a fanatic, and that it was such a thing as would soon blow over. But it is not so. It is ascertained that upwards of three millions of souls in Ireland have taken the pledge : the consequence of which is, that instead of the hundreds and thousands of beg bars that were wont to infest the streets, some of them with scarcely any clothing upon them, you scarcely now see one. It used to he difficult to dis cover what was, or had been, the original color or texture of a poor 'lrishman's coat ; in fact, it was a thing to baffle all research. It is now far different. The , lower orders are comparatively well clad and clean. The distilleries are oil turned into flour mills, and,the public houses have vanished. On last St. Patrick's day, although the streets were covered with dense crowds of people, there was not a tipsy man to be seen. In former times, on Irishn-an would have considered himself disgracing his saint. his country, and himself if he did not get beastly drunk on that day. All this reformation has arisen out of the exertions of Father Mathew, who I hear is an excellent fellow, and anything Lot a bigot. He is now electing a chapel 'sit Cork, out of the proceeds of the sale of shilling tetotal pledge medals. that will cost nearly eighty thousand pounds, and which, when finished, will rival iinmagnificence of design and beauty of architect, any other building in• Europe. The taking of the pledge is not confin ed to the lower orders. Many who move In the first circles of society have taken it ; and what as tonishes me most of all is. that many of the carmen have taken it, who used to be • screamers' in the drinking way." TAVEAN LICENCES.—The following is the bill re' lutive to Tavern Licences as it passed both Muses of the Legislature : AN ACT supplementary to the various acts relating to tavern licences Sim-rims 1. Be it enacted. by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That every person intending to apply for a tavern license in any city or county of this commonwealth, from and after the first day of A ptil next, shall vice public notice of the same by at least three publications in two newspapers where the application is made in any of the cities, and in one where the application is made in any of the eni.nties of this 'common. wealth, (it so many there be in said city or county, or if .there be no newspaper published, then by prin. ted handbills, to be posted throughout the township in six of the most public places, of which fact an al. fidavit, together with a copy of the printed notice, shall be attached to the application) which publica tion shall be made nearest the place where such tav ern is intended to be kept, and shall embrace the certificate required by the fourth section of the act passed the eleventh day of March, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty.feur, entitled an act rota Ling to inns and taverns and so forth, the last of which publications shall be at least ten days before the first day of the term of the court to which the application shall be made. Se.ca.tort 2. That the price of a license to keep an inn or tavern shall be as follows, via : ten dollars for one year in all cases where the adjusted val. uation of the yearly rental of the house and the pro perty occupied or to be occupied for that purpose, shall not exceed one hundred dollars and not above two hundred dollars, fifteen dollars: in all ether ea ses, the sum of fifteen dollars and the addii lanai sum of lour per cent on the rental abuse one hundred dollars. and so much of the tenth section of act of March eleventh, one thonsnr.d, eight hundred and thirty-four as is supplied by thin act, is hereby re pealed. Sicr. 3. No house of entertainment shall be con .strained to be an inn or tavern iinchr the provisions of :he laws of this commonwealth. except such as retail vinona, spiritous or other strong drinks, 'and the twelfth section of the act of March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.four, to which this is a supplement, be and the same is 'hereby repealed. Serviorr 4. If any person shall be convicted un der the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is a supplement, of selling vinous, spiritous or other strong liquors by less measure than one quart with out license, such person shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty nor more than One hundred dol lars. SWAPPING WITES.-A late N. Hampshire paper gives the particulars of a case of swapping wives which lately occurred in that State. Two men mar ried sisters, and after a lapse of a short period of time one of them proposed to the other an exchange of wives, provided. the interested ladies made no object lions. They made none, so one brave husband gave the other a valuable horse, carriage and harness "to boot," as the expression is. Matters pasced on swimmingly for a few days during which time he who received the boot' disposed of his horses, for the round snm of nearly one hundred dollars In ready cash. 19 a short time after the disposal of his prop= erty his newly received wife fell in with a person whom she loved - more than her own husband, and believing it now her torn to exercise the glorious right of 'free trade' she quit iher bed and board,' and ran away with her paramour. Havana Riarza.—On the day of the Inaugura tion, among the multitude who called to pay their respectato President Harrison, was a junior caper of the Navy who was quite inebriate. The President, with a picking eye, saw his situation, and sed— .Sir. I am very sorry to see you or any Wier pekon in your condition here' It is needless - to Fay that the officer retired apparently cut to the quick. This circa WO krt4W tR 4a roza—lg T: rarres. EMI FIVER R0D121503 CostrlcTsnrWe learn (ten the 14. Y. Courier end Enquirer that the Jury tu 'Robiton't case returneda verdict late on Wedneb• day evening, the 24th nit., of murder in the fiat die gree. The prisoner evinced no emotion whatever. when the 'verdict was returned, although unattended by either of his counsel. or a single being whom hi might call a friend ; but maintained the same eingn lee and morbid composure for which he has beta re. marked throughout rho whole trial. He is evident. ly a man of eccentric habit and constitution. upon whom nu healthy and correct impression can U. • made. NO. 14. The sentence of the Court was delivered on Thursday min:og, the Roth ult., within a few snip. utes of which time the prisoner was brought to the bar of the Court, and was 13sked if he had any thing to say why the judgment of the law should not be pronounced upon him. Upon his eply in the neg. ative, Chief Justice Bomblower, in a brief but feel. ing address, reminded him of the awful crime he stood covicted, exhorting him to prepare to meet that God whose precepts he had violated, but whose meiry might yet be purchased by a sincere repentance, and finally proceeded to pass the sentence, a hich that the prisoner be executed in the jail of the , enur, l : ty, according to the laws of the State, between the boors of 10 o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon, on F.iLlay the 16th day of April next. The prisoner manifested the same etoicel conipls. cency dating the sentence which he had hitherto shown. The Chief Justice seemed to be deeply 'if• fected, and kept his face concealed for some mpe ments after he had concluded his solemn and painful dutieA. The New Brunswick Times of Mach 250 says: This morning Robinson is said to have math, come confessions—saying, that after he had given Mr Euydain his death wounds, and had dragged him do wn into the fr, nt basement, his victim requested a little time to prepare himself for his fate, but that he only answered him by a blow open the heats with a spade, which fully despatched him. Ma. VA 13CREN AND Ti YEo3liltitY.— ° The N. Y. New Era speaking of the reception &c., of Ex-President Van Buren in that city, says that the Locofocos well deserved the compliment which Mr. Van Boren paid them at Tammany Hall, as the virtuous and independent yeomanry by whom he had been intrepidly sustained in the hour of ditticulty." This is not the first time that Mr. Van Buren has addressed his political friends under the style and ti tle of e independent vomanry "—it appears to he a pet phraze with the Ex.president. To us o inde pendent yeomanry" sounds rather paradoxical. According to Vt ulker, a yeoman is a freeh rider; • gentleman farmer, a court officer, one who holds lands and tenements by acknowledgment of superi. orily to a higher lord; In great Britain the title of yeoman may be an honorable or an enviable one; but in this country we would be better satisfied in being called plain 4. democrats "—it is in keeping . with our form of government and the spirit of our republican institutions. "yeomanry " we ever heard of in Ibis country was Mr. Van Buren's army of office holders. They were emphatically " couri.OffiCerB, " and the tenwre oft .•:r office was, acknowledgment of Eupetiority in Si higher lord. JOHN BANKS AND THE T.:RlM—Read the fol• lowing extract from a speech of JOHN BANKS in Congrre::—l occupy my place here as an avow. ed friend of nomEsTic and Ainanic.arg INDUSTRY, I am prepared to go, in legislation, every just and reasonable length to protect the labor- of our citizen. against the labor of foreign governments. Nam stri.vAnlA, the state tram which I come, and which I have the honor to represent, in part, on this floor, has at all times been the firm and steady friend - 0f,,- this PUOT}CTING POLICY. That state looks upon this policy as being essential to her prosperity:and welfare. It is to that policy that she Is mainly in debted for her present highly 'improved condition. That policy has contributed largely to bestow upon the people of that State the many blessings and vir tuous habits of the people of that State. Hot !odd advantages are great; her agricultural resources aro inexhaustible; her mineral wealth is not inferior t* that of any State in this Union. That policy brings into requisition all the energies of her industrious people. It draws largely upon all her advantages and resources; insomuch that they cannot fail- to impart to the people comforts, wealth, and independ ence, in a very high degree." try The N. 0. Picayune, of the Bth ult., Is fitted with accounts of sbe first night's recoption at the Bt. Charles theatre in that city, of Fanny Eissier, the danseuse. The Elasler fever appears 4o rage with the same virulence in New 'Orleans as it did in the Havanna. The box and pit tickets Isere disposed of by auction, and brought from $3 to $5 apiece. The last Sunbury American confound! the Red Back Banks of New York with the Safety Fund Institutions of that State. The mistake is a most ridiculous one, and shows an ignorance of the insti. tuitions of a sister stale that is quite unpardonable in the conductor of a publi c press. 0:7. It is said that Nichols, a rim writ and triCist eccentric genius. to the author of the Niagara _Falls Hoax. He was connected with the N. Y. Herald some rays since, but is better known as the editor of the Buff'lonian. We believe he is now engaged in blowing forth in his best style in the N. Y. Trumo pet. 0:7 The Governor of Maryland has issued his prat: , lamation for a special election of members of Con gress to represent the State of MarylJnd at the extra Session. The election is to take place on the 17th May next. cc,. Henry Johnson has been nominated as the' democratic whig candidate for the Governor of Lon tsiana. A better selection could not have been made. He will be elected by an overwhelmingmajority. (3.Tho Baltimore American says that the water is expected to be let into the Tide Water Canal on Monday next, the sth inst. 0: 7 McLeod's trial cannot take place until the first Monday in October next, unless a special Court is directed for the purpose. Edward Kent has been unanimously re-nomi• nated as the Democratic Whig candidate fur Gooete► nor of Maine. - 1 11. The Hon. Henry Clay, lam Week, left Befit+ more for home, in company' with his 0311Caltle. Morehead. ;•:0 •ie vi e. The Martiosburg, (Ara.) Gazette ens thitt work on the Baltimore end Ohio Railroad is advan cing rapidly to completion. , , IP,OTTSVILLE. Saturday *Morning, alfprU In canclugion we Would observe that the only We learn from the tre Gizette that the Susquehanna river is now in , good order for rafting. Mr. Attorney Genend Critteadon bat UAW!' ed to the seat of ciorenatoent. El
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