- TKRN9 or Tim AMERICAN." HENRY B. MASS EH,? Pcblisskb as JOSEPH EtSELY. f Pmwhwm. UNBUKY AMERICAN. AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL. rntcifr or MvKftttaiKta 1 tq uars Insertion, ff) flrt 1 do 4 dd k . 0 7A 1 do 3 dj 1 or) RTeVy ubiileTitmislinh, 0 is Yearly A'iVerUcemenls t ohe evsmnrti. IIS l half ortrca t mbit itmtr, tttt. THE" AMERICAN' is published attty Satur day at TWO IfOl.l.ARS per annum to lie tiJ haTfye.rVly "in advance. PUf apet drecoTttfn jed till ut arrearages ftre paid. No subscription received for lesa period thiin mx mouths. All communications or letter on lousiness Mating to the office, U innYlYe attontion, 'ium be TOST PAID. column,! H, three aqnaret, $15 twofrpiare, f9 one quare, $.1. Half-yearly 1 vrt column, 1 8 half column, fit! thre squares, H two square, f 5j nrre trfnaVe, f ib. Advertisements left without directions at to th lenath of time they ars to be published, will ba continued tmtrl ordered and thstgvd: rcor. inftry. Absolute Scuresrenca In the decision of the majority, the tftal principle of Republic, from which (here l no aop.a.1 hut to force, ths Vital principle and Immedi' parent of ileap.itiam. JarttMO. 5untMry KortliumbcrluHfl Co. 1N. SMUttliaj, IVov. ft, tj1e Vtl UXh Whole !"o llK SWxtWn Brrts WiaVs k fyuaY. t. JL i 'I 'J' From Ihe United Slates Cuiette. Death ttt Children, R T JOIIS 0.. 4TMMA, iSore, to (he nn4on of the Meat, Whn Wfanl TnTiTi iice acrn 'a, 5$ome wpl brighter than the rent The spittle spirit's Sight attend. On win(t of etcy they Beyond where world material roll. Till mine fair iter of the Air Hcceive the unpolluted souk There, atke Alaaphty F;.thei' hand, Nearest the throne of I Wins licht. The choir of infant si-raphs aland, And dazzling shine, where oU are bright. That unexl'mguiKhaUr1 Warn, . With dust united at our dirth, Shed a mine dim. discolored gleam, The nioie it lingrra upon earth. Clostd in thi datk abode nf el y. The trem of elory faintly hurna, Nor unobscured the lucid tay To ita own native fount return. But when the I.nrd of mortal breath l)rrr hi bounty to resume, And points tho ilent hnft nf death. Which (peed an infant to the lunik, No pain fieiee, no low dcaire Has quenched the radiani-c of the flame; Dark to it (iod the living fire Return, unsullied, a it came. The Rich Olil lluftrr. A M11IIKS URIC. Urtse me no more I must not wed One who i poor ; an hold your prattle, My lip on love have ne'er hern nil, Wi h poverty I cannot battle; My choii-e i made I know I'm rcht, Who wed for love, tiHrvati"n uller, So will atudy day and nieht. To plraae and wed a rich olii Bcrrta. Romance i veiy fine, I own, Reality ia vnnllv teller. I'm twenty pusl romance ia Down To Cupid I'm no longer tVhtor. Wealth, power, and r ink, I ; ak no mora, Let the world frown, with Ihrae 1,11 rough her Jive me an equipiee and four. Ulood bay a, a pane, and r.ch olo nrrr.Fn. My opi'ra-box ahall be my c ni t. Myself the ov'rri(!n of the w men ; Thr-re monstachrd lounger liall rcort. While Elssler o'er the st.ige ia skimminfr. If any rival dare dispute The palm of ton, my soil ahall hnlTher; I'll reisn supreme, make envy mire. When once I wed a rich tun Hrrrr.n. "The hcari" "the fi eliiiR" pshaw ! for nought They ro. I grant, though quite enchanting In valentine by school-girl vt mucin. Ni.niien.-! by me they re not wauling, A "note, and. a I livp, a iiii1 I'iiy the ead suspense I suffer !" All" nuht. 1 knew to b ok I'd bring Old brown. I've caught i mi ii oi. ni rrta. From the .Vor'A Amrrirun. Mkssks. KnrroRs. Annexed you will find mi extract wliicli I have made from an oriiniil ItMter, written on the 1st of August, lTftf, by Dtliuruli Franklin, in Philadelphia to her husband, Ilenjainin Franklin, tliwi iu Iaiiic'oii. This extract may merit a place ia your pa per, informing na it does of the slate of afliiirs, in our then small town, in 17r, and exhibiting as it does a remarkable instance of female culmneitf aud iutrepidity on a trying occasion. Yours, &c, Head. Kilracti I am eo poor a writer that I do not under take toeny any thing about the discord in this part of the world ; but to me it teems that we are very wicked, and so are the people of Ixtn don, and otlier place on your side of the water, and I pray God to mend them all. You will see by the papers what hat hap pened in other places, and something has bet-n said relative to raisin" a mob in this place. I was for nine days kept in one continued hurry by poople to remove, and our daughter was persuaded to go to Durlington for safety ; but on Monday la, wc bad great rejoicings on account of the change of the ministry, and pre paration for bonftroa at night, mid several itousea wre threatened to be. pulled down. Crmsin Davenport came and told me, that more than twenty people had told him it was his duty to bo with me. I said I was pleased to receive civility from any one, so be stayed with tne some lime. Towards night I said he should brin" gun or two, as we bad none. I sent to ask my brother to come and bring his gun also ,So we made one room into a magazine. (.rdcred sorrtfl sort of defence up stairs, such as I -....l.l ..n.re nivsclf- 1 aid, w hen I waa ad- ..i,rd to remove. Uiat I was sure you had done .-t,io,r to hurt any body, nor had I given of fence U any person at all, nor would I shew the least uneasinee, but if any one caT.e tq dis turb nie I would shew a proper resentment. A bead properly constructed can accommo date itself o whatever pil'owa the icissitudcs of fortune may plate undt r it. From Ihe V. S. Gaettt i tLL LATER FROM TKX A 9, We are indebted to the Picayune end Tro pic of New Orleans for th following interest ing news from Texas, received in thai city on the 17th itist. The schooner Henrietta ceplain IturJ. arri ed on Saturday evening from Galveston brought dates from that city to the rHh and from Houston to the 3d. The rumor of the btirningof Austin by the Mexicans is, as we an ticipated, rTTonewis. Tire last accounts from the UP?t represent General Wall as retreating from tnn Anton'm, but report farther stated that he fell back to meet a reinforcement of fifteen hundred men. General Burleson, (vice president) had issu ed an order calling on volunteers to join him on the lines. Captain Caldwell in his official ac count of the buttle already reported, confirms his singular success, and says he is able to maintain his position until a reinforcement shall come to bis aid. The Texan citizens taken prisoners at San Antonio, numbering one hundred or therea bouts have published an address to the people of Texas, saying that I hey have !een treated with greet leniency by General Wall indeed as prisonats of war. Two men were shot at the time of the cap ture; but contrary to report young Van Ness was not among them, nor does it even appear that he was among that number of prisoners The Texan spies report having seen several nl prisoneis taken out to bo shot, but were at too grat a distance to distinguish persons, but think that Mr. Sinithers and John W. Smith were among tho number. Galveston is fully prepared for ar.y emergen cy that may happen. Col. Hockley is iu com mand, and he is assiduously engaged iu making preperations to give the enemy a warm recev turn should they visit the coast. Six hundred men are now underarms there, and if the war cry is but heard, two thousand men will, w ith in thirty six hours, rush to the defence of their country. A gentleman arrived in town, says the Hous ton Star of the 4ih itist., yesterday from the west, bringing the mortilying intelligence that General Wall has effected his retreat in ftife t v. to tho Rio Grande, and that Col. Caldwell has disbanded his forces and returned home. Only one hundred men are left near San An tonio, who are waiting in the hope thnt a party would he raised to march to the Rio Grande l ol. l aidweii overlook the Mexican army on the Medina, on thej;ld ult. and captain liny with his company attacked the rear cunrd and took possession of the Mexican cannon and held them lor ten minutes, hut not being well supported by the forces under Caldwell and May field, was comK'lled to retreat He made a second attack and killed six Mexicans, but having five of his men wounded and not being joined by the main army, he was again com pclled to retreat. He noticed ten Indians with the Mexicansand number of Mexicans of San Antonio, lie thinks his men arc wounded by the Indians. The Mexicans retreated on the road to Matamoras. Gen. Burleson has issued a proclamation de daring that if five hundred men will join him within thirty days, he will march to the Rio Grande, and many of the western troops have returned to Iheir homes for the purpose ot ma kitiir preparations to join the expedition. Ma ny of the planters of Washington and othe counties arc going out to join Hurleston, and it is thought he will be prepared to start w ithin the time prescribed, with a thousand men This news is also confirmed by a Utter received vesterdav inornins from Washing ton. The late hour at which we received our pa pers last night, precludes our giving any fur ther detailsof the taking of San Antonio, and the two or three engagement that preceded the retreat of the Mexicans. We have just room for one more extract, from the Houston Star, written before the letreat of the Mexicans was known : "The number of Mexicans alreaoy killed by cur forces is estimated tit 4fHI or TrlrO. The Mexicans packed ofl' their dead that fell at distance from camp, but many werelelt on the field so near the Texan camp that they dared not venture to then. Col. Moore counted l"j dead bodies of the Fayette band lying near where they fell. There were no de.j bodies ot the Mexicans near, but the pruijie w as all covered with blood arouti''. wVi'hin riflle shot distance, and showed Uiat. a very large number of w ounded or dead Viexicans must have been packed ofl. Provisions had become so scarce in Ci'Mwr''g camp that thesoldiers couiuiewwil eat iir horses, but they still are t high spirits and confident of victory. 1 hey delight in be- ing so near the enemy and join in the frequent skirmishcaa cheerfully as they would run out to a ball or play." N. H. Walrous, representative elect of Tra vis county, died at Aulm on Monday the l'Jtli ult., of congcBtive fever. Wm. Qarlick,one of the aldermen of Gal Veston, died on the 30th lilt. The French barque tStand Conde arrived Galveston with a large number of emi grants, from a jAtndnn Virfv final ttkptnatnit f th liilUt ComitlHnl I In ItttcmMl'tt antl Plight t Hobnrt Owen. Socialism is at last, by the confession of its dupes, declared to be impracticable. The whole scheme in Hamshire has foiled, and after having spent 37.000 in the half-formation of their Grand New Moral World establishment that during the present year was to astonish us II, they are at length compelled to admit that the whole matter was founded in folly. The workmen have been discharged Ro!ert has fled and the parties sent down to wind up the affair, announce that Robert Owen is "childish nd ttnrtt for the ofiicc of New Moral World manufacturer. He left the New World on Sunday, the 10th July, driving himself off in the fine carriage presented to him by two silly women, named Fierce, whom we have before referred to, and whom he has left minus JC7,- 000. They make the most biller lamentations, and declare themselves completely ruined by the loss. Owen, it is believed, has taken him self nil to America, from which place he is not ikely to return to F.ngland. We sincerely pruy it may be ss and that even yet, although with him the harve.t is past and the summer ended that now, in the eleventh hour, he may lie led by God's grace tosce his awful condition. r.nd like the 'thref on the cross,' seek the Sr. vtotir s intercession Y e also learn that, alter all their boast of jiossessing land and estate, they have not even paid the deposit money for Roselull! A fanning gentleman living in the same parish writes in reference to the bad state of their crops. 'To those who may have observed the man ner in which they dressed and behaved to their and, it must be evident that some extraordina ry power must have been exerted to prevent their prosperous or, at least, that His blessing, without which nothing propers, has been with held in the present instance. No expense was spared in cultivation, and all that human labor and human skill could do was done, yet arc the crops singularly bad. They, like the fig tree, bear no good fruit; there arc they dried up and withered. They are now so com pletely destitute of funds that they cannot even employ laborers on the necessary farming operations. Thus have all their prospects been nipped in the bud. They have not been per mitted so much as to enter upon the new ar rangements, but they have been permitted to waste all their strengh in erecting what they never can enjoy." Verily "There is that which muketh rich, but it tended to poverty." 'Oh, thut they were wise, that they understand this, and would consider their latter end." Cioirn as life rKERi.ltviR8. The Phila delphia Sentinel states that as a Mr Johnson, who had just returned from sea, was going home in the evening he was assaulted by a man who demanded his money. Mr. J. being too old to he caught, pulled a large regalia ci gar from his breast pocket: and making a noise with his mouth like the cocking of a pistol the man wheeled about and took to his heels. So in Havana, an American gentleman, was stopped by another cigar-smoker at midnight, and asked tor a IigliU 1 lie Jiabanero was long in lighting his principe, and inhaled his breath till the two cigar ends gleamed fierce ly, while by the ruddy light each surveyed the other's face. "Fsfs on," said the Ilabauero, " Your cigar hat saved your life you're not the man 1 took you for." -V. O. Com. Built- tin. A student of tho hospital Necker of Faris, died lately of glanders, contracted from a ps.. tient, who caught the disease from ahorse. It is thus proved incontestibly, that this fatal djs ease can be transmitted from the brutvj to man and from man to man. A horse v.nich was in occulited with the matter ilisc'nar(fp,l tVoin the tumors of the student, died, exhibiting every appearance of glanders in it most acute form. The parisian physicians think that tho disease is transui:.ttei by a musmatic infecting, simi lar to t'.,at of scarlatina or variola. They re- co.nniend, therefore, tlrat every horse attacked by the disease, should be at once uesuoyea. Temperance is a sober reality. If men are temperate they will be industrious if industri ous they will be economical ifecnnomal they will save money if they save money they Will UhVc a wherewithal on a rainy day and if they have a wherewithal on a rainy day, economy industry and temperanevj the export will al waya regulate themselves, whatever tho reve line laws are. The idea of mermaid standing over a kettle of boiling water, cooking her own tail, ia ra ther incongruous In such a case we think he must It reduced to the last extremity. Cnnnttloni-lia CaunnS Its ttara. yrhe Victim-The thousands Who perish are nually by consumption not only Vt his, but in most other countries) form a largerlkxly of vic tims from year to year, than perish by any r ther disease except perhaps epidemics. The annals of consumplitm abound With the must hrart-louehtng cases. Who cannot point to youth and beauty seized by this relentless dis ease, and hurried away to the tomb in course of a few months or a. lew years. The weak and the fveble constitutionally ate not the only victims. We have known cares of strong men, with mine of the symptom about them, sciod sudden ly a it were, prostrated in a few weeks, and weakened from hour to hour, until they became mere skeletons, and death wa a relief. Ibil a few days since we ssed in the streets, a fe male of eighteen, who two years before was in the bloom of youth and beauty, in the enjoyment of high health, and with a long and apparently bright career before her. She is now pale and thin, and will soon be lost to friends and rela tives on this earth. In a climate like ours it seems almost impossible to gaurl against this insatiate disrafr. It conceals it.ic'f in a damp atmosphere, and sometimes is to lie found even in the gayest circles of pleasure on sleigh rides, in ball-rooms, or along our fashionable promenades. A slight cold, an ujjly eourrh, a pain in the chest and then follow all the terrible and heart-touching symptoms. The victim, if young and sanguine, nurses a thousand delusive hopes in the mind, indulges many a vague and unsub stantial expectation, fancies tho atlht tioiiofony disease but the real one, and only yields to the dreadful conviction, as physicians abandon all hope, and life ebbs rapidly away. In 77 deaths which occurred in our city last week, II were hy consumption. In New York 33 perished by consumption in 179 deaths. We believe th' proportion in New England cities is still great er. According to a statistical paper which was recently read at Manchester, one death by con- sumptionoccurs in that town, out of 34 families in Liverpool 2 deaths out of 40 families in Ri rmingliam, 1 death out of every 30, and in Iindon, 2 deaths out of every 10"). In the ag ricultural districts of F.ngland, the propottion of consumptive cases to deaths is 4 in every 21 at.d in Ihe Factory Districts, 3 in every 19. The victims hy this disease in every year must form quite an army of martyrs many we fear, martys to fashion, others to poverty, ex posure, occupation or climate. It seems to u, that when we consider the immense mortality and the few cases of resto ration, little attention, comparatively speaking, is paid to this disease, its causes and cure, by the medical profession generally. Doubtless many have abandoned the possibility of cure, except in the early stages. But when victim ia addd to victim every hour when all sex et, ages, conditions of life, are swept, away by thousands each year, more than ordinary atten tion bhould in our view he bestowed upon the subject, not only by physicians individually, but by our Medical Colleges and Universi ties. I'hila. Inquirer. We were, a day or two since, very much a mused in a hotel with n joke which Wynian, the ventriloquist, played on a countryman who had called for a julep. He had no sooner raid ed the glass to his lips than he thought he heard a dog al his heels ho turned atMund to look, but discovered nothing the second at tempt with the glass had the same effect, ex cept that thesupprwej duar prowled more savapre ly the coimryinan sturted more w, Idly than before, exclaiming, "What's that 1" A voice was heard from the glass, saying "I'm rum, and rum is the devil." Down dropped tha glass of rum, the countryman crying onr, '""By hoky, I'll not take rum again. We think that Wynian deserves a premium for his aid in tins temperance cause. IMt. Clip. Some years ago, a chap arrived ut Augnstn, with one of those great curiosities, an t'g'Jl- tian Mutntnu. which he desired to cxh.bit. It was requisite then, that before the exhibition permission should be obtained from the Judge of some of the inferior Courts. Accordingly, the showman procucdiHl to the Court H ius, where a Court was in session, and applied to the Jin'ge for a license, stating t' .at al infi nite tronMe and expense, to sav nothing of danger, he had hern fortunate enough to pro cure the grepcst curiosity ever seen in t'te I' ll ited Ste tp. "What Is it !" ssked the Judge. "An Fgyptian Mummy, may it please the Court, more than three thousand .years old," said the showman. M7nrre thousand yeoraold ! exclaimed the Judge, jumping to his feet "and ii the darned critter ofi've !" Dr. Johnson in his Rambler says man anticipate uncertain profits," ' Ut no V tvotired a short time since, a dating but sueressujl leap made by lids fortuncathieVing and dauntless young American from the lamp post on Sunderland Bridge Knglamk From our papers by the RrAannia, we perceive that he had tnken another leap from the same place which came near brnlnir him his lilfe, The height from which he jumped, it will be re mombercd, is 110 feet. A correspondent of the Noithern Times, gives the following aTtci: lars of the result ! "When Smith arrived at the surface of the water, the theY'k was tremendous It appear ed that his riclit lower extremities fiM touch ed tire wator. He disappeared for about two orthtoe r?eeonds, and theft comf.iencedlo sWim most gallantly. I ordered the boat to make for him with all speedy but arrothet Vjoat being nearer ohiin, dragged him into it. 1 then saw that ho lay against one of the boatmen in a state of inaction. The Hri boats approached side by side, and 1 observed that he was in sensible ; that the blood had left his lips. 1 ordered them to change his position to the an gle of 45 degrees, and opened the Collar of his shirt, which was firmly buttoned. There was no sinof respiration, atid pulsation at the wrist had ceased. I opened his hands, and struck them with my own open hands several times, when he appeared to return to animation, and in a few seconds he spoke to rf.e. 1 asked him if he wan hurl in any pari of the body, when he told me faintly, "upon the right thigh and leg, and to a certain extent upOfi the breast." He stated, also, that the current of wind which was much greater than he expected, "slewed" him round in his descent, and that tho wind was taken out of him. 1 begged thHt he would go as quietly to his quarters as he could, and that every rare would he taken of him. I returned lo his quarters, at Winter's Hotel near the bridge, and fofind him hanngoing the people who were assembled in the street in front of the house. This I did not approve of. and withsoine entreaty he walked into an ad joining room, i hr.d mm stripped, and found much extravasion on the riyht thigh. My friend, Ir. Ogdcn, was with me in Ihe boat, and spared no pains at the moment of danger. About an hour and a half alter this tremendous leap, i. e. at the moment ef Writing this hurried report, his pulse mounted to 130, though all hia faculties appeared to be restored to him. and he was in high spirits, which 1 restrain- ed, ami told him that he should be kept quiet, 1 and no curious friends should be permitted to J interfere with the needful tranquility. 1 ex pressed to Smith an earnest wish that he would never again make such a fearful experi- ; ment ; but I am afraid that this is net to be the last," More pernicious even than such fiwl-hardy courage, is the force nf the bad example it pro duces. We read in the Tyre Mercury, that John Thompson, a tailor, of Sunderland, de clared that he would that night rival Smith, the diver, by jumping off Sunderland bridge, which rash act he performed. He Was followed by a person whohad heard him boast of his intention who strove to persnade him not to do so, at the same time considering that Thompson waa not sincere, and that he wortld not attempt it. In this, however, he Was mistaken, as Thompson pulled off his Coat, and ascended the railing on the bridge, while his companion and adviser was a short distance behind him. Assignee was called for, but before it rou'd l o cflVctivo he jnniped down 'rr rn the ;:e ,nto the rher upwards of 1(H) t'f -t. !I? ivas p;;kril up Vy tiv? police boat and tnken to a neighboring puldio liuoae, and a surgeon sent for. HedJedthe same hight. lioston TraH'srript. Unnflrta In Ilia Ntlg hbOrlirtd of ftdtxiburf. Arming tiro n'unierous modea by which the Scottish nation testified their loya'ty and affec tion to their behwed "SoVereigp, none were so grand and magnicen't, or nn such an exfen iiYfi svate, as the large f.res on the sumfi'iits nl the mountain. Th'se fires were H 'precon CCrled throtiehoi't Scotland, and o judiciously arranged, as to Uktt place simultaneously tkst Wedned'.y night, by which trtfe it Lad been eoiifideui'y behoved thit Hot Majesty would hi'vo'oeeii lauded in her Scottish eVVffiinlbns. From ihe state lil'tht- wind, tf.rt Went rould not take place ontfl fiirly oh Thursday morn- intr. Hut the iiiroe firm m the hi'ls had a most sphmdld effect rhirii'.' t'lienicht of the roy al 'wpiadnni heating ".p thr fri'l". of l'Vrth.aii.l illnnuua'e;! hr wr.tr i rim !'.' r.ifit, si! tie tii-' b.'int' viaitfe by tin. .;i:i: !: u fir alout fif ty miles around. Tlo-ir rif. . t i; stated tolnvc been magnificent, as bjnrire alter UiiiMi bla zed forth in streams of light, to cheer mid o. el come the Sovereign during th" niht. and ser ved to lighten up the Forth aiw pilot the royal squadron to their moorings near Inehkeith. Ti.cse lra fire, therefore, served both lo wel come Her Majesty during the night alon? the Scottish shot mi and illuminate and guide n-r course up the Frith of Fofh. Is effect ofwhich was most imposing from the ocean. Trfo nt.tne'Vo'us "bctron fires tin Wednesday flight vvere lighted tip as testimonials tit joy, af Wcttori. ad loyVlity. That 'ori the tagged and craggy tep of ArtHnr's seat, which is eight 1on dtrd feet above the level of the sea was 'beau tiful arid sftblime anoTVoTnH1te,datVrfes rJrthd nights shed a flood of light riVO tree whore stir toflnfeihg romantrc afrrl fjit'tftresquc fcehriTy'of Salisbury CrafpMTid aso to a Very great tanjfc. Arthur's Seat berfSefi '.asATp !by Ihe Karl of Hnddl'ngnth Kb the Keeper of 'the Wtil?! 'Park. The noble car'l fcatised 'to 1)4 prepared the trl vit splendid ffre "We have e'ver seen rlaV'trirth on that tflmantic peak. This Tire was e;ectp ?n a circular area or bs"e, 'of which Tho diameter was forty fbet, and tho height of the pile varied from eight to ten fbetw It wss composed of about one hundred and eighty tarbairels, besides tliose bf 'ldTberitifie Iwciily-fivc tons of coals, about forty cart 'loads of wood, besides tarr&d canvass, yarn, ropes, &'b., and Wns WEI abtHrt fifty miles dhtttint. His lordship's beacon was the signal 'to 'ftte whole mountains within sight, which in 'iheir turn'telcgraphcdto'rrtorctlistau"l hills, Mft'd'tmis the bescon fires were simultaneously 'kindled throtiffhout Scotland. From Arthur's Seat and the Calton Hill about 'fifty "beacons Vereseen lighted Op all arotind, taking their igrials si mnltnneously from the romnritlb 'fiea'k 'of tho Scottish metropolis. To enumerate aJl theso Would be impossible. We may 'veritrre to as sert that an equal number of Vacons, and of such shsn and such an extended scale, nevef occurred simultaneously 'in Her Majesty's Scot tish dominions. Exchange. Potly Ptnhloaaont'a AVrrtilfng. Under this tit'e tho Georgia 'Family Ormi panion' relates a sinr- which has 'by this lime caftised the'los of several 'buttons. Jtistoo lonjr for our paper, but we give the cluing scene. The justice cf the peace called tr mar ry the parties, was long on his Way got lost stalled, and what not, and wns"s6 taken up" after he arrived, in rela'tifg his Impediments that hcfirtgol the marringe Ceremony as pre sCTrhed by 'the'Chorch. He thought over every thing ho hi evef lesrnt 'by heart,' even ""Thirty days hath the month of ffpfember, The sime may be said ofAprR June, and November." but all in vain he Could TocoRcct nothing that sti ited such an eccasion. A suppressed titter all over the roomy admonished him that he must proceed with something, and in the go ny ot desperation, he began : 'Know all fnen by these presents, that F here he paused and looked up to the teilingy while an andible voice in a coVrieY'of tne room was heard to say, 'He's draWfng . 'deed to a, tract of land,' an they ainatighed. 'In the name, of rtorl AmcnV he began a second timi, only to hear a Voice in a loud whisper say, He's making his Will now ; i thought he couldn't live cng he looks so potr crful bad. Now fay tne down to leep, 1 pray the Lord?' wss the fre-Xt eay vvhen some ertldUe gen tleniah tefrtaVkcd, 'lie's not dead, bnt seepeth.' t)h ycsl yes !' continued the squire. Bnt'thfe squire was an Indenttlgable many ami fsetpt trying. His next effort was' To all and singular, the herN I.et'a tun 1 He's tr1 -ing to few on Uss tald two ot three ut one". Hre a glearn of light flashed acreffl Ihe facd of Squire Toirpkins. That dignitary looked a round all at once, with self satisfaction and S grave and dignified manner, Mr. Hodgkins hold up yourtirrht hand.' Gedrg. Washington obeyed and held up his hand. 'Miss Folly hold tip yours Polly in her confusion held up her left "hand. Tue ether hand Miss PttabW som.' and the Sqtire proceeded, in a loud ant composed manner, to qualify them, fj" 'Volt a'nd'cach oTyou, do solemnly swear, tn the pre sence of Almighty Gotl, ahd the present torn jHiny.'that you Will perlorm all and singular tlie fancllbna of husband cr Wife, as the case may bo, to the best of your ltnowledge and ability so help you God l" 'Good as wheat, M'd Cpt reablossohi Folly, my gV, come Viss your old father, I never fell so hapy since the day I Was dm charged from the army and set out fof bom to see your mother A Mr. Joseph (Ve Was tecently marnn! i ' , lll.nois, tea Mis Susan Snarl. FoorJo! ' ' i i p,:y that po Jo-Cv.' e a fellow should be caut:M I bv a Snail. It ia bet'or. eijon the w Hole, to rr.iau rr. to ir.iiid ! own ct m ems, than to bn concerned cjiicc- concerns th.it concern others. Fools it ia said are the greatest tViieVes wf rob yon out of your time and tern pen The nohWt Homan of them all,' as wli Joim Tjler, leoking al his nose, in the glaa
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