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VOLUME V. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, la published in the Borough of AlleUtown,Lehigh county, Pcz.,evcry Thursday AUGILWICIUS L. RIME; At $t 50 per annum, payable in advance, and 00 1 if .not paid until the end of the year. No Ithper tiSCtitinued, unlit all arrearages are paid except at the °pilot. of the proprietor. AnvcartsnmesTs, not more than one Square, will be inserted three times for otie dollar and for every subsequent insertion txenty-five cents. Larger advertise:nents charged in. the same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines, will be charged seventy-five cents, • and those making six lines or less, three insertions for 50 cents. LV - A liberal deduction will be made,to• those who advertise by the year. t2i (*cc in. Hamilton St., one door East of the German Wormed Church. nearly opposite the "Friedenqmthe Oilier." BUILDERS! Look Here ! ! ! A NEW LOT OP H A it 1) W A 13, En! The undersigned announce. to the public, that they have just returned front Philadel phia and New York, with a very large lot of flardware, consistinon of t,, 4,-.20, House Furnishing .Irtic/cs. *.. l l'\'-‘ 2 .-'""zi_ Cullery, Couch Trimming.v. Saddlcry atni.Shor-!findings, all of which will be sold at extremely low: prices. Then . ask the puldic to give SA I;tIEICS I I ANDWARE . te Sroar., sign of the .... eille..leiritd, a call, in order to convince theins,dves of the fact, that a 'Tinnily saved is a penny made.' 0, & 3 SAD ;Ell. To .lioose..lle:cepers , A great- assactinvnt -of I louse furnishine articles, •tilt ;as ENA".II ELM and tinned inside. cook inc vessels, sauce and stew pans. preserve ket tles, fish and ham kettles, frying pans, grid irons. milli,. irons, &c. TEA TR AVS and Waiters, from coin• noon to -fine, in sets and dozens. - Aso, goth it form, in sets, and in variety of patterns. KNIVES and FORKS—in sets and doz ens; also knives only ; carvers. steels, cook and butcher knives, with a variety of other mann tnct ores. POCKET and PEN KNIVES . —Razors. scissors, shears, from the hest makers ; one, two, three. and 4 blade knives. SHOVELS, - Spades, hoes, chains, rakes, pick. axes, &c. SHOVELS and TONGS, Iron and brass polished steel lire sets and standards, coal hods, tailms' irons smoothing irons &e... and for sale by 0 & J SAEGER. I RON.—A lot of Ilain mered and Rolled Iron, Sheet Iron, American and English Band Iron, lloop Iron, Cast and Shear Steel. srpiare, fiat, and ionntl,:it;:t received with Anvils and Vices, and fur sale cheap at the store . of U & J SAEGER, GLASS.-150 Boxes Glit!F,S by It), 10 by 12, 10 by 11, 10 by 15, 12 by 10, and various other 'seizes, fur sale by 0 & J SAEGER. TO 111 EC EIA NlCS.—Tools of et cry de scription, such as Bench and Moulding Planes, Hand, Pannel, Emit Back Sam, Brace and Bitts, Auger Buts, Hatchets, &c., for sale by ^7O SHOENIAKERS.— received a ~., s oriment of Morocco.lust and Binding L e , adler, "; , lsts, Shoo-thread, Wooden Peg;.: French u nd numerous other !laic- ; ...!we i naking business les belonging to it, 0 &J SAEGER. NAILS,-4300 Kegs t , - . 1 the best Nails, Brads and. Spikes; just receiv,.'d lid for sale by 0 & J St:EC: 4ER. SCYTHES --20 doz. genuine Gr..'flii , j`' s . Grain Scythes, also a la:git assortmen.t of genuine Steiermark Grass Scythes, clical: and for sale by. 0 &J SAEUER. IDASIIII3 SWIIII2 7 3 Li t h e t 'jtrphan's Court of Lehigh county. In the matter of the Account ..,.t..114, .7,:ifpN. of J,2coli NI ushlitz, Executor, &c. .7c6t , i!".. o f J eoo li Dotterel . , deceased, late ..k .5. ....4a1 c , < :.• o f upp e c Saucon township, Le- I:el: ri li h ill h COM iliy . • . And now Sept. 0, ISSG, on motion of 11.3- bert E. Wright; Esq. the court appoint Ed mund L'Alehr, Esq., Auditor, to audit and re-settle said account, and matte distribution according to law, and report to the next sta ted Orphan's court. From the Records. TEsTE-3. D. LAWALL, tierk. - ------- ' the tindersigni'd will attend to the duties 'To Builders. i of his appointment on Friday. the 29th day A splendid assortment of Front and Parlor 1 of November, at the Eagle Hotel I •Abs with minertil knobs, . german. Locks, 1 in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh county, I - I , - Hinges, Screws, Paint Brush Pa., at 10 o'clock A. NI. of said day, at Lltches, 1 , , • I . „ ;idltisr Hard- which tilde and place all persons inn:reseed it's, and a variety of other ....... --"v attend if they think proper. f;vare just unpacking, and for sale - cheaper I ...., "" 1. NlOllll, Suditor. than ever by 0& J SAEGER. L. • il...—Alvy April IS. s --2w OILS & VARNISH.—OiIs of a low s, boiled and raw, Turpentine, Newark Var nish of all kinds, Glue &e.,—will be sold cheap by . 0& J SAEGER. • PLANES.—A full assortment . of Planes of John Beli's best mate, ako a large assort ment of Carpenter's Tools,& J S for AEGE sale cheap 0 R. • W HITE LEA 1).-2 tons of White Lead just received, Pure and Extra, and for sale by 0 & 3 SAEGER. . _ HOLLOW A 1tE.,500 Iron Pots and li:eitles, just received and for sale at very reduced prices at the store of 0 & 3 SAEGER. A FAMILY NEWSPAPE Facts for the People A Jenny Lind Song. By Sanisoeb,-Wagner*-Co!-: An appeal to the judgement, A candid appeal ; With fitcts on our side, An assurance we feel. •F act, fact, is our maxim, On facts we rely, • And to facts We appeal, In the Goons we stipply. 2. In this loan our Store, • Is seen to attract. A triumph in trade, And in truth a great Fact! And _•till it shall stand As it ever has dote, A glorious fact For the nitrite it has won. Readers.! We are not about to carry you may kith any false or unfounded asser tions. • We intend, in oppenling-to—your judgment to state facts :Ind oohs with out the sliiihtest I or of contradiction. One prominent fact 'is, that the articles of Samson, Vaguer ec. Coy - are - d istinguislied—by_um_cpialiel_s_hy le, in proof of which we woold call your attemion to our second purchase of Fall and \\inter Goods, which we have just recieved and Ulll , llCking. And the prominent lacy is, that at our•stor;i you will lied an extensive assortment of ev ery thing - which is usually kept in n coun try store. Mt the teL 01 an facts is. that Nrtimstin, li r. HIT t ti (ids cheerer than any rill•er Storeiu Lehi_ la lint docit nike etn word fur it. but come and Conic 01011 of all staiions, • liach rank awl deer e, • Come old maids and yettog maids, Who vet :use Sit fret., Conn Jt WS and 0011;1'Cliti:,tiani COML . (it•IIIIICS :Intl all. Coate I ;WI) and collie every one And give us a CALL SAMSON, WAUNER :;Co - , November I I. • rtyl II A N'lttl` T ri 4.1.1.0 4 .10 1 vema Po•-•.• L. liNtolmititocttult respectfully nonnon cos to t h e Ladies and Centlomen of A ;len town,that the evenin , elas:4os ha re commenc- ' od at t h e cithf Fellows' I lalhou Monday and Friday of each weok, front h to If), in the *veiling, whore all the most fashionable Locos will be totrtltt, ‘vhich aro :is follows: Pollia's, Mazourha's, Lancer's, .Cotillion's, Ifodowa,Schottisch, plain and other ‘Valz•ts. Persons dosirous of making themsol tts familiar with the innocent exercises of the cot fashionable circles, could not have a bolder °ppmtonitv,as 1 shall endeavor to Ow • best of lily abilities to give entire satisfact ion. Also private classes for children on Mon day and Friday of each week front to P. M. 'Petals moderate. Fir Apply to Mr. James M ichly, at Sam son and Wagner's Store. at \Vitt . Craig's lotel, or at the Odd Fellows' flall, on the evenings of practice November 7 vyt, , t - tiveiro r 14, ro Notice is hereby given, that the under signed are appointed Executors, in the lost and Testinneld of //cow Ebner. duc'd. late of th„e llorowdi 01 Allentown, county of Lehigh, therviore all iwr,ow. who in' yet iudelited to said estate, be it ill Notes, Ilmids or otherwise ‘vill make settloment within weeps from the date hereof. Al o who have legal claims against said estate, ‘vill present them well authenticated within the above specified time. MICHAEL I). EBERHARD. /..CCC/1/0/' 3011A:s;NA L. EBNER, EXCL . /aria! Nov;miber 7 0 & SA EGER _ - ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER_2B, 1850. TVNE - "SUI HAS COME i uni t) at t. Nowmber 7 Take el'oi ice Surveyor arid Scrivener. ThiF - uriderstg,efed 'begs leave - to - announce to his large circle of friends and the public in (Yellers', that he still continues the Sur veying and Scrivening business, in its vari ous branches, at his office, near Coopers burg, in Qppc.r Swami township, Lehigh county. He has lately purchased at a very great expence, a numberof the newest and most im proved Aluthmatical histru»ants, which will enable hint, with a practice o'2o years standing, to give general satisfaction. Ilis experience as a Scrivener is undoubt ed, as he has also followed the business for many years; Terms moderate. . . LV - Ile will always be ready to serve his friends, at any reasonable distance from borne, when called upon. ANDREW K. WITTMAN. 'Oct. PROCLAMATION. AVIIEIIIIIS, the Ilon. J. Prin7le Jones President of the several Courts of Coinuth Pleas of the Third Judicial District, coati o sed of the counties of NOrtlanapton and Be-_, hiTi - h - St atr—of—Pcn its-rieatiiii--attil-- , inst ice of the several Courts of ( iyer and Terminer and iieneral Jail delivery, and Peter Floss, and Joint F. Rulai, Ei4irs„ Judges of the is Courts of Rarer and Terminer and general Jail delivery, for the trial of all apital of fenders in the sitidcomity of Le tiol. By their precepts to me directed, have ordered the cilurt of Oyer mid Terminer and (lent.- nil Jail I leliverv, to be holden at A Ilentovot, county of Lehigh. on the First Monday in llecrialwr 1850, . which is the tliolday of said month, and will continue one week. ;Nurser. is therefore hereby given to the Justices of the Peace and Constables of the county, of I,eliii2ll, that they arc by the said precepts commanded tube there at lOo'clock in the forenoon, of said day, 1l ith their rolls, records, inquisitions, examinations, and all other renu•utbrances, to do these things. ‘'loch to their offices appertain to be done, and ail those who are bound by recognizan ces to pros.ecute against the prisoners that art , or then shall be in the jail of said coun ty of Lehigh, arc to b..• then and there to prosecute them as steal 1414 just. Given under my hand in Allentown, the ith day of November, in the year (.1 our Lord one thousand eight buudr d and fifty. God sore (he Cominm)wculth. JOSE PI 1 . NEWHARD, Shrriff. Sheriff's ('dice Allentown, November 1 th N. Magistratesare desired to forward their returns in crintinalcases to the Deputy A'ttorney lieuctal nt once. and to segues( prosecutors to call at his office before court, and thus anitril sutiicient tune to prepare the indictments, an;l other matters necessary for trial. The amount of unsettled bm.iness renders this at present absclutely necessary. November 7. Treat For December Term, - 1850. I Gem . 2e Kemmerer vs Charles and 'William E,I, I ma n. 2 13rrj. um, S. Levan vs Chris:ol)ller lienritze li-1w and others. 8 Tile 'Kahn. 4 N:oluoi Hex vs George Laneliner nod George S..ydcr. 5 1) 11 , 1 ,, , i vs:(l..dirry 11,011. G .I,u n t•s \Vii:te vs Eli Vii. lcl and Edn•ard :41;,•elder. • 7 Nall.nl)re , her vs The clam! Iron 1',,r17;);.hy :otil Sol. 13toz. 8 11.ivid SLeln aid °Owls vs John \Vagner and 9 William \Vain vs Stopinin I 1 illirt. 10 Jam. Piqur 1I Anna Bright vs A. I'. Nleltritle and others. 12 HA. 11 incratlcer Ind N. J. Ritz vs John G thininlie and iitlirrs. 13 Franklin Hiklebeilel vs Samuel Hartman and others. 11 Dech vs Enoch Schaller. • 15 Isaac 7a . liner vs Jacob Ochs. 11l John L. Twe use vs rry. 17 David and Daniel Moritz vs Chalks Moritz. Id Thomas 13. Wilson and others vs. Stephen Minim nod others. 10 William Ilittle vs Michael rhler. Edward Kern and others VS Peter Sieger. 21 Jacob DeLong vs William 11ohr. NATHAN \IILLEII, Prot h.• Novvuiber 7. • .§-1w T -6 w Notice is hereby given, that the under signed has taken out letters of Administra tion, of the Estate of Daniel "whelp:, de ceased, late of the Borough of Allentown, county of Lehigh. Therefore, all persons Who nre yet indebted to the estate of said .Aleccused, be it in Noter, Bonds, or oth erwise will please make settlement within 0 weeks from the date lwreotr Also those, who have legal claims against said estatti, will present them well authenticated with in the above specified time. SOLOMON WEAVER, .Idministrafor. 11-6,v Nov. 14. Vortical Dcpaitincnt i'rorn Holden's Dollar Magazine. L• Girls were made to Moura \Vim,: chill November's surly blast. Made every body shiver, One evening nsl wondered forth, Along the I.mitun river, I spy'd a ‘woman, past her prime, Yet with a youthful air, Iler lace was covered o'er with evlls, 01 well sacclrd !lair! Young woman, whither wandermt thou I Began the prim old maid; - - Are vi-ions of a Mime to he, In all thy dreams displayed ! Or haply wanting but a mate, Too soon thou htmll I.egrm, To warder forth with me to nwifn, The difference of man ! The sno thatovei hangs pin fiekbt, Out•>preadiug far and wide, Where :howands by their iiwn. hearth sit, Or in their carriage ride; I've seen yon weary winter sum, Just, forty times return ; et•cry lime had added proofs, That girls wcte made to mourn! MEER HOW prodigal briiine ! Misspending all your pgn i tious hours, Your glorious youthipritned 'fliitilting to wed jtt n you please. From beau to bean you rum, Which tenfold bdce give matute's law, That girls were made to mourn! Look not on them in yout:3rul prime! Ere life's best years are spent, Nlanwill he gallant to th tnt then, And giee encouragement ! Mit see them when they cease to speak Of each birth days reulrn ; Then want sod single blessedness, Show girl.; were made. to mourn ! A few seem fayoritesiirri'le, liy husband's hands. emressed, Hut think not all the monied folks Are likewise truly bless. For, oh! what crowds, whose lords arc not, That stay to patch and darn, Through weary life this lesson learn, 'chat girls were :wale to mourn ! Many and sharp andlium'rous Inworen with our frame ! Tore painted still we make ourselves, Regret, Remorse and shame ! And man, ‘N hose hr aven•erccted face, The smiles of love adorn, Man's cold indifferofice to us flakes countless thousands mourn If design ql to live alone— By natures law designed, Why was thiS nor:slant wish to wed E'er planted in ray s -mind ? ant, why am I sul , ject to Stan's cruelty or scorn 1 Or, why has he the will and power To make me for him mourn? See yonder young accomplished Whose words are smooth as oil, Who'd marry almost any one To keep her hands from toil ; But see the lordly gent l e man Iler favors don't return, thaugh a weeping ma, And bankrupt father mourn ! Yet :et nut this, my 1101)(4'10 girl, Disturb thy; youthful breast; This awful vicw of woman's fate, Is surely out the best ! TM.poiitespis'ib . plain old maid, !lever sure Men hot n, Uall 'here rut been some recompense To coin hurt those who mourn ! U death! die poor girl's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! Welcome the . hour my weary limbs Are laid with thee to rest! The young, the married, fear thy blow, From hope or husbands tuna ;. But oh ! a blest relief to those In single life who mourn ! 7 . 2ltiscellancont.3 t'jetcctiolv:i. The Bead Sea and the Jordan. We descended by a steep path into the plain, and ( passing a pool of stagnant water, surrounded by a mass of long dunk weeds, rode through a few low thorny bushes, and reached the margin of the lake. There was a hard pebbly strand, strewed here and there with drift wood ; bare trunks of trees,, withered and dry, covered with a coating of salt ; small lumps of some himininous sub :notice were scattered over the beach ; afterwards, found several other pieces floa ting on the water. The water itself was clear and limpid, and the suit was reflected from its surface with a dazzling glare; viewed from this point the Bahr Lutho, as the Arabs call it, i . t lost nothing of its gloo my aspect. Girt, on our left hand, by the dark Tango of Moab, a continuation of the craggy heights we had just quitted formed I Propriety, I think I said. compelled our the barrier on .the right,. the black bitumin, ! party to retire to a little distance from the ousclin rising abruptly from the lake, which 1 place Where the scene I have beeri endea stretched far before us into the distance, till ! voring to dercribe was enacted ; but propri its ' ca d e t ) h ue s were bleat with the hazy ety played one at least of her votaries an . bine of - - - - -araste, water, crig, moTTunvorthy -- trickT -- -1 -- was - frillowini-n.compa-,- notonous blue sky, the sole components of ! nion across the river ; he had gained the' the cheerless landscare. opposite side, when the current caught tile' Heated and fatigued, we prepared for suddenly, and giving up the glory of the general bathe; at least our private party, for' enterprise. flight and main I was obliged to the pilgrims dkermined to reserve their on- strike out for the hank I had jest left. flowx trains for the sacred Jordan—the Lake of ever, the river pod being unprapitious, I area! Sodom being held by them in horror and I hurried incontinently down the strenit, and abomination, utterly mitmdapted to . the ends finally deposited on a shingly bank, (I blush . of cleanliness or comfort, its we afterwards ! to record it.) . neatly at the feet oldie fair* ascertained to our cost. The had oder•ip pilgrim who represented the gentler sex which the lake was held did not, Itoivever;: - among, emir body, llere the -waterwas-tocv_ _ deter us. and having called a halt, we ; shallow to swim, rind the current tab rapid plunged like young ducks into the liquid to permit my coming to an anchor by any' element—Paulo cluckin. , like en old hen on ! cater expedient then that of holding on by' the bank. We plunged Disastrons was ! the bottom with both hands. !My let t were' the plunge. . Rapidly enough head ofte r pointed at the lady, and toy nether man' head lopped up from the psi mvicers bumpint , uneasily against the stony shelf —hair matted, eves smarting, and tongues' Os so deplorably stranded, ad- - burning- from the intense sulphurous bitter )led buddy torment to mental nii2-nish. What saltness of the detusiiiLle liyutd in which wo , was to be dune? Decency, of course, forbacle . weer: immersed ; water it was not, nor lam: any_pettinff_on my _leas and . retiring teen, nor sari, nOr sulphur, but a di;=g - nStinp, Clinstianliped,,whife necessity forced me I compound of all four —a hogshead of it to hold hard, as a meander downwards to the' would sem as aim emetic for all Asia Alinor, s, aof Sodom might lie attended with very i and leave FOWL' gtd:ollS to spare against the serious cons( quences, even ill escaped ship' I next epidetnie. You could neither sink in I wreck in my involuntary voyage. lit nor swim in it. Talk of a fly in mo!asses, So there I lay covered, as well as adverse' "id - rmo -- !, - circirmstances - would - ed it-of,-in-t he-tmud- - dy water, toy face scorched by a blazing sun, and my antipodes threatening; mememe lady to come asunder, from the incessant jerking of the iiMxorable stream. The fact is, I was iriAlme "centre of a hobble." And how did the riff lady take it t This was the unkindest cut of all. Oh ! for the proprie. - ay, the delicacy, nay, the sympathy of war man ! She, positively loujoil on as if nothing extraordinary was the Wetter ; I might as tvellfact) been a log of wood .t . she - ifetther* -- regarded my helps condition nor express sed commisseraticin for my perplexity ; per. haps she thought, poor simple woman, it was e way wo Europeans had, and that,- after the custom of toy country, I was ing, iny respects to the venerated object of our mutual pilgrimage. Bo that as it nm there lay unhappy I, martyr to my modest while she, for whose sake I suffered, ca ly contemplated my burning counten de; and. as fast as they were handed h inersed garment after.g,arment in the er, consecrating, I verily believe, the wet'. tabes' of every female•friend, kinswoman,:or.ae quaintance she . possessed hi the wide world' —and these, as I had reason to remember, were anything but few. At last her task was finished, and taking an extra duck rot her own especial benefit, time ruthless woe man betook her to the bushes, whilst I scorched, seffified, and parboiled, rose drip l" front the river, for swearing pilgrims and pilgrimazes•from that day forth.' au r_em I or a wasp in a more o tor— can porallcl fin• a bath in the Dead Sea. I brought home a bottle of it, and Sickened some scores of my acquaintance. But the sufrerings of my companions were a triflo to what I felt ; cut and maimed in conse quence of my superior horsemanship. t• jumped into the water its raw as a beefsteak. and jumped out of it as if I were played alive: however, let me be just to this abo minable-mixture :- if-I—smarted for it, my wounds were well cauterized and complete ly skinned over, the core was perfect to a miracle. We drested with the comfortable sensation of assn who had been well coated over with mutton suet—still. greas . Y, and extremely out of sorts, with a tingling, creep ing feel over the skin and remounting, tur ned our steps to the fords of the Jordon. Crossing the plains towards die right, we reached the banks of the river, which bur rows, in its sinuous course, far below the level of the plain—the dense thicket "of hushes, and trees that grow out of its waters in many places scarcelyout topping the bank. The stream is very rapid - and the water mud dy. Leaving the river to follow its wan derings, we arrived - by a shorter path at the celebrated fords, where tradition tells us the host of Israel trod dryshod through the depths, as the flood retired before the ark of God ; nor is it itn probable that here John the Baptist was baptising, and that here our I blessed Lord, as he came out of the waters. - received the public soul of his ministry, when the Holy Ghost in a bodily shape Ilike a dove came upon him, and a' vole , ' I from heaven which said, Thou art my be ! laved Son, in thee I am well pleased." At this part of the river the banks are low, and nearly on a level with the stream ; here, also, the river is comparatively broad. and shaded by trees Which grow in great abun dance along . its margin ; near the bank the water is shallow. but the current exceeding: ly rapid ; on both sides the stream is borde red by a dense thicket, with a few open intervals ; the Jordon willow is found in great luxuriance. The fords of the Jordan being the grand termination of our expedi tion, our pilgrims, who had . tNken only a de votional whet at Mar Saha, now prepared. with infinite gusto, for a soletnn ablution in the sacred river. The Arabs had driven our !torsos into the water, and were swim ming with them in great glee ; we, ton, got randy for a bath, anxious to %%ash nif the narrtiness of the Dead Sea. • Scarcely were we denuded of our scanty clothing. to our disma,., we found ourselves surroun ded by the body of pilgrims. who had un expectedly debouched front the bushes, uni formly arrayed in white. Not having imy idea that it was customary to . dress for the occasion, and propriety forbidding us to in trude in a state of nature on so worshipful a company, we retired. with no small pre ! cipitatien, to a more secluded, but less favor ! able sp ot , up the bank;. The'scene was highly amusing—horses floundering and snorting mid-way- in the stream ; Labs displaying their copper-colo red limbs as they disported thetnseires amongst the tiny waves; pilgrims, in bridal 'array, ducking nod diving, grubbing for snail shells and green pebbles in the , bottom of the stream ; handkerchiefs, caps and un linown articles of apparel, mule and ferrMle, were washed in the holy river, all consecra ted habiliments from that day forth. Some long-sighted devotees had brought beads and glass armlets from Jerusalem, , to be trans formed into amulets and relics, by immer sion in the Jordan ; more bottled the water in large tin flasks ; others plucked willows from the river side anti a few took substan tial logs, to 6e manufactured intorittkets of divers sorts, consecrated all by contact with the waters. In fact, pleasure, profit and de votion were curiously blended together—the maxim that "no man can serve two masters' being carefully kept out of siglit. NUMBER"B - :'1.....1 Capture of the Eagle. In the mouth of July, a fishing smacic w as sent by Commodore Lewis, of New York, for the purpose of capturing by stmt. agent the sloop Eagle, a tender orthdiVoic tiers, a British veszlel of 7-1 guns. T l he smack was borrowed of some fishernien. A calf, a sheep, and goose, Were pul board. Between thirty and forty men Well armed with muskets were secreted in the cabin, and fore peak of the smack. Thus Prepared she stood out to sea as if going on 'a fishing voyage to the banks. On'y three men appeared on dec!;, dressed as fisher- . men. The Eaele on perceiving the smack ;,give chase. After coming along side, and 'discr;vering live stock on hoard. she order.i ed the smaek down to the Commodore, then about five iniles Mr. The helmsman of the' smack answered, "Aye, aye, sir ;'• and rip: parently put up the helm for that purpose; which brought the smack along side of the Eagle, not more than three yards distant. The watch word Lawrence, was then . giv- Tit, and the armed men rushed on deck from below ; and poured a volley of musketry into the tender; which drove her crew be low with so much precipitancy, that they had not time to strike her colors. As soon . as sailing master Percival, who Command- . ed the smack, perceived the deck of the British vessel cleared, he ordered , his men to cease firing. Upon which' one of the' Eagle's crew appeared on deck; and struck her colors. The Eagle was safely taken. inti:rNew York. IT:r"There is nothing," said Plato, "as pleasant as the learning of speaking the truth. For this reason there is no conver sation so agreeable ns that of the man of in tegrity, who hears without nny, intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive." • Correct.—Those men are worthy to be remembered 40 have left this world better then they found it. L17(looti breeding is a; guard ,Upon the tongue. The misfortune is, that we put it on and off with our fine clothes and visiting faces, and do not wtar it where it is most' wanted—at home ? rr When eta' watetstoi) rt . tuing down' hill? When it gets to the bottom;
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