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Poetry.
.u POPULAR SONG.
RXJBSJKBER THE POOR.
Now'Wjnter has come with his cold chill
ing breath,
And the .verdure has dropp'd from the
trees;
ill nature seems touch'd with the finger of
r ' dea'tli,
VAneUhe streams ate beginning to freeze;
.When wautqn young lada o'er the river can
alide,
And Flora attends ui no mora;
When in plenty you sit by a good fireside,
"0 That's the tijie to-remember the poor.
When th cold feathered scow shall in
plenty descend,
And whiten the prospect around;
Whijr the keen cutting winda from the
v north shall attend,
Hard chillinr and freeiing the gnund;
ifryiien te kills and the .dales are all candi-
r .eu wiui wniie,
' 'Andlhe rivers congealed to the shore;
When the bright twinkling stars shall pro
claim a cold nigbt,
, .That's the time, xosemtmbtr the poor.
'hen'the poof im'rous hare can be traced
to the wood,
fc1Jy her footsteps" in'deated in snow;
When tl:e lips and the fingere are starling
with blood ;
"When the raarkesmen acocftehooling go;
When the poor robin redbreast approaches
the cot,
t And icicles hang at the doer;
W.hn.bcfwls emoke with aomothing reviv
ing andt hot , . . ; ,
.Thai's tlie time to remember tkepoor.
When a thaw shall ensuo and the waters
increase,
. .1 . i
aqane rivers cn.insoiuin jruw,
a re
'Uase;
Whan in danger the-travellers go
When the meadows are hid by the
proud
swelling flood,
And the bridges are useful no more;
Wlien in health you enjoy every thing that
is good -
That's the time to remember tfie poor,
Soon the day wil be here when a Sayiour
was, born;
blithe world shall agree as one voice;
'All nations, unite to salute the blest mom;
All the ends of the earth shall rejoice;
Grim death ia . deprived of hie all killing
atinir,
And the grave is triumphant no more,
'Sainw;?angels, and men, hallelujahs shall
sing; v
if Andfllie richishall .rtwwmfierMe poor.
THE RETORT.
"i r .! .!.-
v,0d Birch, wheutaught the village school,
Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
Us was slubboru as a mule,
And she was playful as a rabbit.
"Poo'r Kate had scarce become a wife,
sIBefgreiher husband sought to make her
Qik ptnk,of country polished ife,
WBii formal sai s quaker..
One" day the tutor went abroad,
And simple Kitty sadly miss'd him;
3Yfien he returned, behind her lord
. She slyly stole, and fondly kissed him!
The husband's anger rose and red,
And white his face alternate grew !
'.ess freedom, ma'ami'-Kate sighed Acsaid
'Ob, dear, I didn't know 'twaa youl'
Friendship. Friendship is a dangerous
word forvy6'ung' ladies'; it is love full aedged
andjyiiflng J(r a day o!JW
From,tlie;N. Y. Flag o. tho Unidn(
Letter from aJPriendin Ireland.
Dudlin, Sept, I812i '
My dear sir Perhaps a line i fronAtie
Irish metropolis may possess some inter
est coming from an eld acquaintance, who
is happy to see you once more, a. member
of the Press-gang.
1 have been over a great part df Ireland
during the last two months. Nothing can
exceed the abundance of the, harvest and
excellence, of thepqtato crop the latter pf
infinite' importance here, inasmuch as po
tatoes form the principal iliet 6f the poorer
classes of the Irish' throughout the year;
And this reminds me' of an anecdote
which I have heard Dr. MacKenzie tell
with so much quiet humor that I know I
shall. spoil it by writing jt down. Fancy
the docter with a friend or two at his (able,
and' a few glasses of whiskey punch
under his waistcoat, one at his elbow,- rea
dy, for, immediate libation, and the shout of
laughter at his last pun or, anecdote settling
down into a general smile fancy kim, I
say, looking quietly at his friends, as
f he wondered what they could have
been laughing at, fiddling with his spoon,
or perhaps with his glasses in his hands,
carefully rubbing them, as hia theory is,
that unless they be clear,- he cannot get out
three sentences to his own content. And
now.
MacKenzie Loquitur. Just touch the
bell will you? (Dell rung, enter a servant)
Ann, mmu inai you crisp me potatoes tor
supper, and the fowl better browned than
they were last rigTrt bo sure about thq
potatoes, for Mr. likes them done that
way (hxil Jinn.) By the way, apropos
of potatoes, did yoa ever hear the story
about Lady Middleton and the lodge kee
pers wile? Nol well then, here it is,
and an undoubted fact or ought to be.
which is all the same!
'Lord and Ladv Middleton are absentees,
as every one knows. Some five and twen
ty yeais ago, they determined to visit their
Irish estates. Accordingly, over, they
came, wow, hve and twenty vears ago,
Lady Middleton was younger and hand
somer than Time nas ten ner now. To
look at her.t would think her just the wo
man to have a tremendous large family a
famous person to send out (o anew Colony,
where the increase of population was an
object. Some how or other, her Ladyship
has no children, and greatly lamented the
same. She was passionately fond of chil
dren, and never easy when she saw a group
of rosy cheeked little ones until she had
confidentially aked their mother how it
happended that the had such a family!
It happened, as luck would have it, that
the wife of the man who lived in the por
ter's Udte at the entrance of Lord Middle
ton's Diincipal estate in the county of
Jork, wis a remarkably delicate looKing
woman' who had achieved a very particu
lar reputation in her neighborhood by pre
senting her husband with seven linle ones
in about three years. This is a fact, I as
sure you. There were twins twice, and
three at the third birth, When Lady Mid
dleton drove up to the nark gate, this 'mo
therofthe Gracchi' came to the door of
the lodge with her three young (twins I
sunbose we may call ihemJ in her arms,
and her ladyship immediately beckoned her
to the catriage.
Whoso children are these, my good
woman!' 'All mv own.mylady.' 'What,
three infants of the same age !'
'Yes.my lady, I had three the last time,'
'How long are you marnedl' 'Three years
voui ladyship.' 'And how manv children
have vout 'Seven, mr lady,' But
here the colloauy was broken in by Lord
M. des ring the postillion to go, on, as u
thev delayed there, the dinner would be
snoiled. So the carriage rolled on, contain
iosf Ladv Middleton wrapped up in a fur
cloak, in a brown study.
Her ladyship talked ol nothing that
whole evenine, but the 7 children in the
vears. and the butler assured ber that the
mother had told nothing more than the truth
The next day, as soon as breakfast was
over, Lady Middleton walked down to the
porter's lodge, and eurprised the woman
in the act of washing seven children. As
her ladyahip entered, a youny, eturdy,
handsome countryman, quitted the house,
and took off his hat to salute the lady as he
nasBed her.
Thai's Pat. my lady,' aiid -the wo
man.
And who mav Pat bet
On.' pat'e ay husband, your lady
shin.'
Lady Middleton, who, aa I told you, was
very fond of children, caressed the seven
little ones, and made their mother a hand
some present of money; to provide clothes
fur thorn far if the truth be told; I fear
they weie alio! in a lUta of audit
Then followed on a set of matrimonial In
quiries, as to whether.When in the slratv,
ho fruiiful mother had usually a'good time,'
or a 'bad lime,' and a" Variety of other
question, too numcrotisias tho auctionesis
say, to be enumerated in, the present ad
vertisement. At last came the question of questions
how she cameito have children! The poor
woman, not wejl knowing what this cate
cl)i8m mea.it, and not knowing how to wrap
up in delicate' Words, her idea of caimo and
effect, blushed, and grow confused, and at
last, for waiit of something better to ray
replied, 'I, thinking it must be, the. potatoes,
ray ladyl 'This unfolded a theory of popu-
lation quite, new to Lady Middleton, who
eagerly demanded, 'the potatoes!' do yoti
eat much of them!' 'Ofi! yes, my lady, we
very, seldom have bread, and Hike potatoes
all the year tound.' Greatly agitated with
her new information, the lady futhcr asked,
and, w"here do you gel the potatoes! 'We
grow them in our little garden, my1 ladv,
sure, Pal tills it.' Well, said Lady
Middleton, 'send roe up a cart-load of these
potatoes, and the stewaid shall pay you
wen lor tnenv
Shortly afler.lier ladyship rose to leave
.the house, and indeed, had left it, when the
matron ran after her, and blushing as she
put the .question, asked; 'ah. then, my lady
it iB to have children, that you want the
load of potatoes!' It was the lady's turn
to blush, as she confested thai it was
'Because, I'm thinking my lady, in that
case, that Pat had belter take the potatoes
to you himself.' Jloml the potatoes
without Pat, would not have the desired
effeci.
Peril. ps you may smile at this .anecdote,
but if you had heard it. with Mackenzie's
imitations of the tilled lady's English, twang
avd the Irish peasant a palpable brogue. 1
thing you would have lauglied, as we did,
at the archness of the wifa's concluding
quest, on with reference to the redoubtable
'Pair
DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
The following vivid and touching sketch
of the last moments of Ihe Father ;of Jiis
Country is from a letter in the New York
American:
Passing the great hall ornamented with
pictures otlSnglish hunting scenes, we as
cended Ihe oaken staircase, with its carved
nd antique balustrade. We stood at the
door we ptessed the handle the room
and the bed Where he died were before us.
Nothing in the lofty drama of his existence
surpassed tho grandeur of that final scene.
1 Jip cold, winch he had taken trnm expo
sure in overseeiog.some parls of his grounds
and whion restated the earliest domestic
remedies that were applied, advanced, in
the course of two short days, into that
frightful form of the disease of the throat
laryngitis. His valued friend, Dr. Craik,
was instantly summoned, and, assisted by
the best medics! skill of the surrnunding
countrvv exhausted all tho means of his arts
but without affording him relief. He.
patiently submitted, though in great distress
lo the various remedies proposed; but it
became evident, from the gloom settling
upon the countenances of the medical gen'
tleinen. that the case was hopeless!' Ad
vancing insidiously, the disease had. fasten
ed itself with deadly certainly. Looking
with perfect calmness on the sobbing1 group
around him, he uaid : "Grieve not, mv
friends, it is as I anticipated from the first;
the debt which we all owe is now about to
be paid: I am resigned to the event."
Requesting Mrs; Washington to bring him
two wills from his escritoir, he directed one
to be burnt, and placed the other in her
hands, aa his last will and testament; and
then cave some final instructions to Mr,
Lear, his secietary and relation, as to the
adjustment of his business affairs. He
Boon after became greatly distressed; and
as, in the paroxyisins, which became more
freauent and violent. Mr. Lear, who was
extended on the bed by his side, assisted
him lo turn, he, with kindness, but with
difficulty, articulated: "I fear I give you
great trouble sir; but perhaps it is a duty
we all owe. one to another! 1 trust you
will receive the same attention, when you
shall require it."
As the night waned, the latai eyrnptons
became more imminent, ti is breath oe
came more labored and suffocating, and hi
voice soon aftet failed him. l'eceivine ni
end approaching, he straightened himself to
his lull leneth; he toiueu ins owu nanus in
the neeessarv attitude upon his chest: nlac
cine his fineer upon the pulse of his left
wrist, and thus calmly prepared and watch
iue his own dissolution, he awaited the
summons of.his Maker. The last faint hope
of his friends had disappeared. Mrs. Wash
ington, stupified with grief,, sat at the foot
or the bed, her eyes nxea steauiasny upon
him; Dr. Craik, in deep gloom, stood with
hia faoo buried, iij bU tuudi tlie iroj bii
faithful black' servant Christopher, the (cars
uncontrolled irihkling tlbwn his, face) '6n
one sidetook the last look of his dyfng
hiasler, while Mr. Lear, in speechless grief,
with folded hands,' bent over his pillow on
the other. Nought broke the stillness of
his last moments, but (ho suppresscd sobs'
of the affectionate servants collected on the
staircase; the tick of the large clock in the
hall, as it measured' off) with painful dis
tinctness, the las fleeting momeuls of' his
existence; and tint low moan of the winter
wind, as1 it swept through the leafless snow
Covered trees; the laboring and iweared
spirit drew nearer and nearer to its ' goal
tile blood languidly 'coursed slower and
more slowly through its channels the no-'
ble heart .stopped struggled stopped
fluttered-the right hand slowly slid from
the wrist, upon which' its finger had been'
placed it fell at the side and the manly
effigy of Washington was all that remained
extended upon the death couch.
EFFEOfsOF EXPANSION.
A cannon ball when heated, cannot be
made lo enter an opening through which,
when cold, it pasaes tapitily. A glass stop
per sticking fast in the neck of a buttle, may
be released by surrounding the rlecV, with
cloth taken out o,r warm water, or by im
mersing, the bottle in the vater up to the
neck. The binding rinc is thus healed and
xpanueu sooner man the stopper, and so
becomes slack or loose upon it. Pines for
conveying hot water, sleaoi, hoi air, Sic. if
of considerable length, must have joinings
mat allow a uegree ul shortening and length
ening, otherwise a change of temperature
may aesiroy inem. An incompetent per
son undertook to warm a large manufactory
by steam from one boiler. He laid a rigid
main pipe along a passage, and opened.
lateral .urancnes tiuougn holes into the sev
eral apartments; but, on his first admitting
the sieam, the expansion ot the mam pipe
iron railing, a gate which, during a cold day
may be, loose, and easily shut or opened,- in
a warm day may , stick, owing to their being
greater expansion of it, and.pl. the neighbor
inc railnm. than ol the earth on which thev
are placed. Thus, also, the centre of Ihe.
arch of an iron bridge is higher in warm
than in cojd weather, while, on the con)ra
ry, tit a suspension or chain bridge, the
centre is lowered. The iron pillars now aa
much used to .support the iront walls, of
houses, of which the ground stories serve,
-as shops with spacious windows, in warm
weather. .really lilt up. the wall which rests
upon them, and in cold weather allow j
again lo sink or subside in a degree consid
erally greater than if Ihe wall .were brjck
from to-j to bottom. The pilch of a piano
loric is lowered in a warm day, or in
warm room, owing, to the expansion of the
strings being greater than the wooden
frame woik; and in cold the reverse will
happen. A harp or piano, which is well
toned in a morning drawingroom, cannot be
perfectly in tuue when Ihe crowded evening
parly has heated ihe room, uellwirea, loo
slack in summer, may be of the proper
length in winter. 1 here exists a most ex
traordinary exception-, already mentioned, to
the law of expansion by heat and .contrac
tion by cold, producing unspeakable bene
fits in nature namely, in the case of water,
Water contracts, according to the law', only
down to the temperature of forty i degrees
while, horn that to lliirly-two degrees
which is its freezing point, it again dilates
A very curious consequence ol this peculi
arity is exhibited in the wells of the glaciers
of Switzerland and elsewhere, that when
once a pool or shallow well on the ice
commences, it gocon quickly deepening
Hccir.until it penetrates lo the earth beneath
Supposing the surface of the water origin
ally to have nearly the temperature of the
inelline ice, or Ihiny-two degress, but to be
afterwards heated by the heat Sc sun, instead
of the water being thereby dilated, or spe
cifically higher and detained at the surface,
it becomes heavier the more neatly it is
heated to forty degrees, and therefore sinks
down lo the bottom or the pit, or well, but
there, by dissolving some of the ice; and
being consequently cooled, it is again ren
dered lighter, and rises, to be heated as be
fore, again to descend, and this circulation
and digging cannot cease until the water has
bored its way quite through. Arnott,
An F-nslish iudcre being asked what
contributed most to auccess at the bar, re
plied, 'Some succeed by ereat talent, some
by high connexions, some by a miracle,
but the majority by commencing without a
shilling.'
U yod want to hud out a way to give
the ladiea the reins of government, eo that
they will not dare lo take them, pass
law that every woman forty years old shall
vote. Not one would confess that ahe w
so old, ;,-v
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT,
Go. out beneajh tie arched heaven iri
nigh"t,s ptofouridgloom, and say If yod can,
'There is no God.' Pohounce that; dread
mvs'lerv. and each afar above will Vop'rovcf
you for your Unbroken da'riines'9,pf inleUMt?-j
every' voice Ihit floats upon ihV night
winus win UEwau your uuer nopeesaucon
and despair, h there no grfd' Who
then, unrolled that blue scroll; and
threw upon Its liirfH frontispiece We"
eeible. cleaning of immortality! ..Who
fashioned tWs greed errlh.withlls peetual;
rolling waters, and itg.W.ide expanso of
Island and main! Who paved me heay.epf
with clouds, atlunes am ill "banKers" of
storms the voice of thunders, and unchains
the lightnings that linger; end lurk,, and
flash in, tli? gloom Who gave to theiBaglo't
the eyrie, where the, 'tempests dwell" and
beat strongest, and to the drove a' tranquil
aliode amid the forest that eVei; ccudea, tb
the mihslresly of Jier. moanf Who made
thee, oh man, with thy perfect elegance or
intellect! Who made the light pleasant (6..
thee, and the darkness a. covering' and ,4'
herald to the first beautiful flashes of tlie
morning?, Who gave thee matchless syrn-
raelry of sinews and limbsf the regular flow-'
ing.of blood! tfie irrepressible and daring,
..r i in - t' t -'J '..'
passions oi aiiiuiiiun ami iotci aiiu'oi
the thunders of heaven and the waters of
earth are chained. T.hey remain, but tho.
bow of reconcilitfon hangs above and . ben
eath them, and it were better that the im-'
itless waters and the mountains, were eon-'
vujseu anu commingieu logcinei n worot
better lhal those very stars were eonfla.
gration by fire, or shrouded in eternal gloom,
than one single, soul should be lost, whiis
mercy kneels and, pleads for it beneath tho
altar of intercession
PERSONAL! APPEARANCE OF, JEF
FERSON. , . - -
yraie since published an interesting-voiumo
of 'Familiar Letters on Public Characters'.
The work was prepared with great care,"
and. the sketches were faithful, as they were
beautiful. r In. remarking on the Declaration
of independence, and the author of that
memorable document, he thus describes us
author. 'When Mr. Jeffersdri came to'
Philadelphia, in March, 1797, -hVwae aall'
man, over six feet in stature; neither luir
nor thin in body,. Ills limbs were long,?
and loosely jointed. His hair" Vas' 'of a
reddish tinge combed loosely over the fore-1
head, and at the sides', and ti'eil behind'
His' complexion was light or sandy. Hie
forehead, rather high and broad; His 'eye
brows long and straight; his eyes blue, his
cheekbones high, his face broad beneath hia
eyesf his chin long, and his jnouth latge?
His dress was a black coal,aud light under
clothes. He" had 'no polish of manricrs.but'
a simplicity afcd sobriely of tlepdrjme'nt.i-;
He was quiet and unobstriisivey and yet
sitsnger; would prreeive, that he was in the
presence of one' wfio1 was' not a common1
man. Hia manners of conversing was
calm1 aiid deliberate, and from all gesticula
tion'; but lie sp'oVeiike one who codifldered
himself entitled to.defereyice; and.'as Ih'ough
he metsured WhatlfiVsatd'hy some etand
ard'or self compliqerlcy. The expression
of his faYe' wa's ihaiof a tfioughlfulness and",
observation; arijl, cerlainlyjnot'th'at x ripen-1
ness and'frankn'ees; When speaking-, he
did hot look at his auditor) but cast his eyes
towards tlie ceiling, or' any' where btit at
the eve of his auditor. He had alieady
become a personage of some distinction,
and an object of curiosity;4 oven to a very
young mart.
A, VALUABLE BOY.
What can you do!' skeda traveller of
country urchin, whom he saw by the mad
ams tickling a toaa wnn a long etraw. -u.
I can do morn'u ronsider'ble : I rides the
turkeys tu water, ralks the geese, cards
down tne old roosters, put up the pigs' tails
in papers to make emcur, keeps tally fof
dad and marra when they scold at a mark,
and cuts the buttons off dad's coal when.
ho's at prayer in the morning!
He who reads',, converses and meditates
will certainly improve ir. knowledge. By
the first he converses with the dead; by the
second, with the living; and by the third,
-.11- , !
wiiu iiimicu.
Our frail bodies are tottering habitsliomi
every beat of the heart is a rap al the door.
to ten us ol our dancer.
Dr. Franklin said that 'seven hours sleep
is enough for a scholar, and uine for a Aoa'
tin i i -
wiiion are yeui
A man in New Jersey has been tunted t
lajoul of Affice in a Temperance Souivty, for
4 jjj bwng.iadkigii pirive , - .
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