ti:iois op Tim ".oicuicax." ? Pt'RttnnEns asd $ pROrRIKTORS. JOSEPH ElSBI.Y. 7. It. ,n.1S.SKIt, Editor. Office in Centre Alley, in the rear of If. U. Mas ter's Store.) THE AM K I! IC .N ' ia puliliHhe J every Satur day nt TWO DOLLARS per annum lo be paid half yearly in advance. No paper discontin ued till all arrearages aro paid. IVo subscriptions received for a less period than nit months. All cornniunicatiiins or letters on business relating to tho office, to insure attention, mum l.c POST PAID. T 11 K II H It 1 T A O K tiY .VMV T.1 -t:t.l. l.ovvM.r.. The rich man's son inherits lands. And pil ol' Id irk, tind stone, tind cold, A lid lie inherits soft white hands. And t 'lidi r lb sh that l'.-.ti. Ihe old. N'oi dares lo wear ii garment old : A heritage it s 'ems to nif. One would not cafe to hold in lee. Tin' rirh man's son inherits raves ; Th" hank may break, the lartorv burn. Nvn breath may hurst his bubble share? .And suit white bands would baldly earn A liviiis that would suit his tin u ; A her-tau ', it s-'oms to me. I ne Would not rare to hold ill fee. What doth the poor man's son inherit ? Mont muscles ,nd a sinew v leail, A haidi.'i I'i.imi". a haulier spii it ; K i n LI of two hands, lie dors hi pal t 111 every lisi-l'nl t i i wild alt; A h"i it. it seems to me. A kim: minht wish to hold in fee. l li.it doth the pour man's son inherit Wishes o'eljoyed with humble thiues. A lank ai'ju ! by toil-worn merit ("out lit that from coiidoymctit .-pi hi;s. heart that to his labor sings ; A herilair". it seems to me. A kine iireh w ish to bold in lee. 'What do the pom man's sou iuheiit '. A p-M ieiice leal ii 'd by heinjj poor. foiilaee. ifsoriow rome. to bear it. A f-llow-f.-elll-j: t! at is sine. To iiiake the oulea-1 bless his i'ooi ; A h 'l it.e.'e. it .-.ins to me, A king HI III 1 1 wish to hold in fee. O' rich min's son, there is a toil That with all others level stamls. Large r li.i lit y doth never soil. Jlut only whitens, soft white hands; Thi is the best crop from thy lauds ; A heritage, it seems to me. Wol I h being rirh to hold in fee. O! pir m ill's sou scorn not thy st.it", Tliere i ,.s . - aviues- than thine. 1 h III ! le hI er-at ; o,l II o :.lr the oil ! to sllill'-. Au 1 m.ik s r-X A hel it.e.' , it S AVoith beiiiL' pi fu- 'III ..I t lii'.it and b to llie, . hold ill e,' in::n : lioll, hi ii s t"1" so n si I 'et of .-od. Are r,;ua! to the .-...I at last ; I'.oth rhildien ol the same dear l'loe title to your heiiship vast J'.y i -.-oid ot a -.1 .-II till 1 Pa -I ; A hel .t,i;e. il m i 11 1 St to llie. Well woil'n a l.le to hold ill lee. 'J lit- I ei'Ki si Dliiinoml. No di nnot rl is kno-.vn to exist as lnr'e ns that of the King of l'urtiiyul, found in the nv-r A. site, i.U lit niintj two leagues to N. V. of.Serrodi! Trio. The kit lory ot its dis covery is romantic : Three liri'Zilian--, Antoni-i de Souz'i, J se IVI.K !nu:es, nnd Tlfuias de Sou.i, were m ti tenced to perpet jul haiii;-!nnent in the wildest pirtoftiie interior. Their senteuee was u cru el one; hut the rejioii of the.r ex !e vvus the richest in llie wnrl-l ; ei ry river rolled over a bed of gold, eicry valiey contained inexhtiusti Lle initiesot diamonds. An impression ot this kind enabled these men to support the horrors of their fate ; they w ere constantly t-u-tiined by the hope o( li.-eovering some rich mine. They wandered uboul tor nearly fix years in V'iin, but fortune was at hist propitious. An excessive draught hud hid dry the bed of the river Ahaite, nnd here, whde working lor gold, they discovered n diioiond of near'y tin ounce in weight. Overwhelmed with joy, lliey re solved to proceed at all In irds, to Villa Kica, and trust lo the merry of tin; crown. The (I j vernor on be!mh!i.:g t!ie ui ignitude of the gem, coul 1 scarcely credit the evidence ol his senses, lie immediately appointed u commission of the idlkers ol the Juuioii'l district to report onus nature; and on their pronouncing il a reul dia mond, it w as despatched lo Lisbon. The sen tence of the ihreo "condamnados" was iminctli ntelv reversed. The value of this celebrated U UII I U lino ut-ril i:dhiiihh.u ' iiu.nu . v ion- i i i I . .1 ... gure of the Preacher, Ins blindness, constantly at the enormous sum of three hundred millions " ' .... . .. recalling to your recollection old Homer, Ussi etcr ing. It is, uncut, but the late King of 1 or- i " .. t I I Ida mssion for uccious stones anu ''lon Blu' associating Willi his pcr luga , 10 in a passion or tccu is s n s, formance t1(J nielanehuly grandeur of their gc Closed a hole to be bored through it, in order . .f . i i - i a nius; you are to imagine that yo j bear his slow, to wear it suspended about Ins neck on gain .. , . ... ... ' 1 Boleinn, will accented enunciation, and Ins . . voice affecting melody; you are to remember ... . . ,, . . j....,. ,t i the pitch of passion and enthubiasm to which ft is said that a lazy woman is always a tie- , v i 3 . ... .....I U r.t ll.t. C... ..... J! I I I I I.,... frA 11. I?nr.in .1 a I'llr. .fMtfni nop. I nni is imp. for i lie deceives ner- self, if the expects to get along in that way. The eirth is our work-house, but Hriven ia store-house. Our chief business her' our thould be to lay up ttetuurc there. BUNBUKY AMERICAN. AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL: Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the y Masscr & i:iscly. THE BLIND PnEACIIH It. PY WII.HAM WIRT. Ft was Sunday, as f travcl'ed through the J county ofOrnnge, that my eye wns rntipl.t by n cluster of horses tied near a rn nous old wooden house, in the forest, not far from the road-side. Having frequently seen such ob jects before, in travelling throtiirli the Stales, I had tin difficulty in understanding that this whs n place of religious worship. Devotion alone should have stopped me i join in the du'iesof the congregation ; hut I must ennfo-s, that curiosity to henr what the j Preacher ot such a wilderness could say, was . nut the least of tny motives. ; n.ient.Ting.l was tlruck with his prrtertn-! tnril appearnnee. He was a tall and spare old man : ls head, which wns covered with , u bite ! linen cap, his shrivelled hands, nnd his voice, were nil .makin.M.nder the inlhienee of nnlsy, and in a few i..ou.c..ts I ascertained that he , w ns h ind. The first emotions, which touched the breast were those of tnirghd pity nnd veneration, i Hut ah! sacred f -cl ! how soon were nil my feelings changed ! the lips of l'iatnwcrc never i more, worthy of a prognostic twiiriu of bets, I than were the lips of this holy man! It was i the day of the ininnnislrat ion of the sncrniuent; and the suhju't, ot course, was Iho passion .f ' our Saviour. 1 hud henrd Ihesuljei't hand'ed a ! thiiisntid ti.Jies, I hail thought it exhausted long ago. I.ittledid I stippoicthat in the wild woods of America, I wns to niott with a man ' w ho-e eloquence would give this topic new and more sublime pathos, than I had ever before witnessed. i ; As he descended fiom the pulpit, to distribute I lie mystic symbols, tliere wns a peculiar, a I more than human solemnity in his air and j manner, which made in bleul run cold and tny j frnnie t-hivcr. lie then diew n picture of the Fttflerings of our Saviour ; his trial before I'date; his a.-i ent , up Calvary ; his erucitixion ; mil his death. I .' knew the whole history ; but never until then, had 1 heard the circumstances so selected; so arranged; so colored it was all new ; nnd I seemed to have heard it for the lirt time in my life. His vo ce trembled on every syllable; , and every heart in the assembly trembled in u ti's'in. His peculiar phrase had that force of description t.'iut the original scene appeared to bo nt the moment acting before- our eyes. We s'iw the f iov of the Jew? ; the starting, fright ful distortions of intilire nn.l raje, with n flame of indignation; ami my bands involuntarily clencheil. Hut when he came to t ir.eh on the patience, the forgiving meekness uf our Saviour; when , he drew to the life, his blessed eyes strenmino to I havt n, his voice brenthing to Coda Soft and gentle prayer of pardon on his enemies. 'Father, for ve them, for they know not what they do." The voice of the preacher had nil a long faltered, and erew laie.ter tind fainter, un til his utterance Lcirg entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handker chief to his eyes, nnd burst into a loud and ir repressible Hood ofgrief. The fleet is ineoi'.ceiviihle. The who'c house n si an. did with the mingled groans, and subs, and shrieks of the congregation. It wns a long time before the tumult had subsided, so far as to permit him to proceed. lndi ed, jud.Mlig by stantierd of my ow n li e Usual but fallacious weakness, 1 began lo be very uneasy loi the situation of the Freucher. Fur I Could not conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the bright to which he had wound them, without imp airing the solemnity and dignity of bis subject or per haps shocking then by the abruptions of the fall. But oh, llie d. .-cent wns as beiiiit.tul anil sublime as ihe elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with which he broke the r. w ful silence was a quotation from Fosseau : Socrates died like a philosopher, bul Jems Christ like u God:" i I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short si'iilcnco unless you could perfectly conceive tho whole maimer if the man, at-well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Jever belbre did 1 understand what Deuioahenci meatd by luyingeuoh btrebS on delivery. You are to bring before you the venerable fi- b HUtes of protentious, death-like silence which reigned through tho bouse ; the Preacher re- moved the white handkerchief from his aged ' face, (even yet wet from ihe recent torrent of tear,) anJ slowly ttntchinj forth the palsied majority, the vital principle of Republics, fiom which fiiimbiiry, Kortlitimbci land to. hand which holds it, begins tho sentence "Socrates died like n philosopher" then paus ing, rnising his other hand, pressing them belli clasped together, with warmth mid energy, In his brrnst, lifting- his sightless balls to H.aVvcn, and pouring liis whole soul into his tremulous voice "hut Jems Christ like a God!" If he hud been indeed nnd in truth an angle of light, the effect could scarcely have been more di vine. Whntrvrr I had been able to conceive of the uibliinity of Massillion, or the force of Bonurda- lotic, had fit lien far t hort of the power w hich j""1 before rushed in a hurricane upon my brain, the violence and agony of my feelings, had held my whole system in espouse, now ran bnck in, ,n-v lll'B, wi,h witi.in 1 Ca",1"t k,fCri, 'f rhuddering iM,cmM ,,orr,,r ' l,,c V"! l''-'"''-' I"- ty nnd indignation to which 1 had been trans- I ..i. ,.i...i . . ie. i. . i l'"""lu -mu our,, seu-auauiem, nu- " ' -"" J""1""' ed and d;.-i-okcd by sympaliiy for our Kavioiir I as a f'Jlow rreuture; but now w ith loar and trembling, 1 adored him as "a (Jod !" A Voii(t l Tut M iisU Ihik Willi in his hsl letier to the Intelligencer, has this pisnge : '-We are indebted tor ma ny beautiful things not so much to accident, as to the quickness of genius to nppreciatennd ap. piopriate accident. I was-pleasi d with an in stance that came to my knowledge last night. Wallace (the omni-dexterous) was playing the j piano in my room, and among others of hisow n ! inimitable walt.os, he played one called llie J Muhiif-ht Wall;, in which twelve strokes ol i i... ..i. ...i. .. ,i. .1 ... . i i im: t mi r hum triiM a u uj wn.i no utlir. ill tmsAcrto an impiiry of mine, lie told me be was playing one night to some Indies in Lima, when a loud silvery-toned clock in the room struck twelve. lie insensibly stopped, nnd beat the twelve strokes on nu accoid.ini note in the piano, ami in reporting the passage, stop ped at the same place and feat twelve again. The (Hi ( t was particularly impressive and sweet, and he nilerwarils composed ti waltz ex pressly to introduce it one ot the most chn rul ing compositions I ever heard. Wallace is the most prodigal of geniuses, nnd inst prodigally of the Colonies from the Farent Country." On endowed, lie has lived a life ofndventure in May Hist, 177- he writes: '! have remain the Fust Indies, South America, New South led in town tdl this day much against uy in Wahs nnd Furope, that would fill satislactorily j elinntioii. Most ol the ministers being gone, I the life-cups of a dozen men ; and how he has I have been prevailed with to lurry to officiate to found time to be what he probably is, as great I those inhabitants vv ho nre still left. But my a pianist ns the grouted masters on those in- i situation is uueomtortable to the last degree, stutuents, is certainly a wonder. But this is I Friends perpetually coining to bid me adieu, not nil. I Ie was rehearsing fl.r a concert not i Much the greater part of the inhabitants gone hug since in New Vork, when the clarionet out of the tow n ; the nvt following ns fast as p'nyer, in reply to some correction, s.ii.l that : th General will give them leive, pni ;-r.vv-'if Mr. Wallace wish''. I it played liettcr, he ! iug in the public walks and streets of this once might play it him-elf.' Wallace took the cla- ! populous mid flourishing place; shops nnd ware rionet from the hands of the refractory musi-I houses shut up; Irisinc-s tit tin end ; everyone ei in nnd clayed the passage so eiptisi1e!y ns ' in anxiety and distress. The provincial army quite to ch ctri'v the orchestra. He i the most ' at our doors. The I Mops actually confined in modest of men, am! how many more instruments , this town, which is almost mi island and snr he is muster of (besides the human voice, which j rounded by shins of war, w Inch is its greatest he plays on in conversttion very attractively) ( f;ci.urily. There h tv e been Iw o or three little it would he wild to guess. By the way, it J skirmishes, in w Inch have been verified what 1 would be worth the while of a music, publisher ' wrote some time ago ; that our people, would to fend lor the music be has literally noiru the certainly fight. The alvanlage hath hiiheilo tmrl,l uith for he has written over three lain- j been on the side of the l'roviueiuls, and it is not drei! w altzes, of most of which hi? hns no copy, , improbable to me, that if they attempt the town though they have been published nnd loll in ! they will carry it, for Ihey are numerous and the cities lie has v isited. IU romitoFcx many 1 very determined. These things you will easily hours of every day. I think Wallace one of the most remarkable men 1 ever saw." A I'lieud ha since told nvthiit Wallace play all ilit iimlrtum ' ''.v ol tin- oii hrstia. and ino-t ol tji.'ln like a luastel . Sivi.iMii Fiiwu The Philadelphia Sun states that a man named Ziniu.ei man. I 1 1 1 1 1 J in llniil ;in;iloii l'.i . having an ai bit rat ion wilh his neighbor, made au all'n mat ion in r latum to his iii-i oiiiit , and said, "if n hut I lav mat lie mil I' uf, I hupr tir Alini.t; ic7 Km! me hi lb II '!" Th'" words were scarcely utten-d v hen he fell i over and r.rjj nil .' The above I'.iet was show u to the editor" in u lett.-r from Huntingdon, directed to a highly respectable gentleman in l'ii.la L I A BrMVHKvtu :Ciiil.n. Wc copi-d n para- j graph from the Iloikville (Md.) Journal, seve ral ilnys ago, giving un account of a remarkn hie child With v.hi-kers. The Journal of Fri day la.-t, ulter stating that its truth had been ipiestioned, says : Although we have not seen this wonderful prodigy, we can vouch for the truth ot our state ment Iromthe facts we have gathered from re. spectablo gentlemen who have seen it, as well ns tho attending physician. Instead of exag geration in the description given us, we fell far short of the real truth. The child, which is now four weeks old, healthy and likely to live, bus nut only whiskers on both sides id' its face, nearly meeting under the chin, and as long and as thick as any dandy would 'ao proud ot having, but its forehead, buck, shoulders and breast are completely coated with hair as thick as lamb1 wool. As remarkable us this may seem, the facts are as we have stuled them. The child is to be duuUiieJ tu Bjbhrod. there i no appral but to force, the vital primiplo and Pa. Saturday, Vvh. l?, IS 11. noilon nrfnre unit After llie Battle of 1 tluiikrr Illll. On the 'Jotli of April, 17?", Dr. Flint writes: 'This town, which by the late cruel and op pressive measures pone into by the liriii-h Par liament, is now almost depopulated, or w ill be in a few days. Filled with the troops of ltrilaiu, and surrounded by a l'rovincial army, nil com munication with the country is cut off, and wr wholly deprived of the necessaries of life; and this principal mart of America, is become a poor gnrrison town. The inhabitants have been confined to the city more than a week, nnd no nerson is suffered to enter. At length the (Jeil er.il hath consented that if the inhabitants would deliver their arms, they should be suf fered to dep-irt. This proposal, humiliating n it is, hath been complied with. In eonseipieiice of this agreement, alninM all arn leaving their pleasant habitations, and gotnjj they know not whither. The most are obliged to leave their furniture nnd effects of every kind, am! indeed their nil, to the uncertain chance of war, or rather certain ruin and destruction. The last i. t . i i . ... ..... wcck i nioug'U uiysen in coniloilalile circum stances, had a convenient dwelling will fur nished, a fine library, intended by a large, aff. c tioi.ate and generous coigregalion. .Vow lam by a cruel necessity turned out of my lioi.-c must leave my books and ail I possess, per haps to be destroyed by a licentious soMiciy ; in) beloved congregation dispersed, my dear wife rt treating to a distant nan of tiie country, ,y children wandering not knowing whither to i;,,, perhaps left to perish from want. Myself ,.,, l(, t.BVe Ibis devoted capital, happy , I can find some obscure comer which wiilallord me n hire riihsistence. I ui-h to God the authors of our misery could be witnesses of it. They must have hearts harder than adamant if tin y d:d not relent nnd pity us. Great Britain mny ruin the colonic', but she will not subjugate thctu. They will holdout to the last grasp. They make it a common c.in.-r, and they vv ill ci lit nine to do so. In this coiiftisio. I the college is broken up; nothing is bilked of but war. Where these scenes vvi'l end God only knows, but if 1 may venture to predict, they will terminate in a total separation believe keep us in perpetual alarm." On A I pril tlth, 1771, Dr. F.liot writes us follows : ! When 1 wrote you last I did not dare to write ; with any kind uf freedom, lest vvhnt I wrote j you should lull into the hands of our then ni ls j tors, which Would have exposed me lo their re. sentineiit, which I greatly feared, for their w inth was emel. I cannot repent iny hav ing tarried in town, il seemed ncccssery to pre-ervc the very face of Religion. But nothing would induce me sg.aiu to spend eleven months in n j garrison town. We have been ufraid to speak, ' to v.rae, aliiKitt lo think. We are now rcliev ' ed, vvondetfuily relieved. Tile town hulli been ev unrated by the British Troops, so suddenly, - that they have left aniaz ng stores behind them, j Vast ijuint.tios of rial which the inhabitant haV e In en cruelly itemed through the winter, I cannon and warl.ke stores in abundance. Iret numbers of ihe fueti.ls of government, as they are called, nre gone to Halifax, crowded in vessels which will scarce contain I hem. What w ill become of llieni therotiod knows, the place is full already. This inglorious re treat bus raised the spirits of the Colonists to ihe highest pitch. They look upon it ns a complete vietoty. I dare now to snyt vihal I did not dare lo say be fore this I have long thought it thul (treat Britain cannot subjugate the Colonies. Inde pendence a year ago could not have been pub licly mentioned with impunity. Nothing ilso is now talked of, and I know not what can bo done by Great Britain to prevent ;l. 1 did :,0i cure in my last to mention the contemn thrown upon our place of worship. T'ue old N0i t, pulled down. Dr. Sewell's made a nding sciuwi lor itie i.igm Worse, the '.nkidc Milly destroy eJ. Di. Cuopcj't, Mr. I 'ward's and Dr. immediate parent of dcpilMiii. JcrrfcRs j. Vol. 4 2Vo. 21 Whole Xo, 1?. Bvle's turned into barrack without any appear ance of necessity. Mr. Moorehead's filled with hny, Mr. Siillinnn's tnndc a Hospital. Such conduct would disgrace barbarians. I am quite sick of armies, and am determined, if possi ble, never to live in the same place with any considerable body of forcei. I find a commit tee of the Overseers appointed at tho motion of the (iencral Court to examine the political principles of those who govern Ihe College. The President is in bnste to move the stu dents to Cambridge. The buildings are in a shocking condition, having been improved for barrar ks. The Library and apparatus are safe at An dover. The soldiers are all gone from Cam bridge to the southward, where they expect the sent of action will be. Dr. Warren's bo dy hath been brought fromBunker's Hill, and was buried yesterday with all military honors and thnso of masonry. It was carried from the Representatives' Chamber to the King's Chapel, and Dr. Cooper prayed. Mr. Morton delivered a spiritual oration, when be publicly urged an entire disconnection with Great Bri tain. This is a fashionable doctrine, and I a- gain say that I do not sec thnt Crent Britain can prevent it. When sho rejected the last petition of Congress, it was all over with her. I attended last week a meeting of tho Over seers and Corporation at Watertown, for the first lime since our enlargement. We voted General Washington a degree of L. L. D. He is a fine gentleman, and bath charmed every body since he hath had the command." "No Cnvr.eii witiiott a Buhop." The ce lt brated controv ersy between Dr. Foils and Dr. W.imwrighl, through the columns of tho New York Advertiser, is likely to terminate before the parlies have began to touch the question. Dr. Fotts, nfter exhausting all his ingenuity to draw out his opponent and make him assume the affirmative, has nt last lost patience, and deviates his purpose to discuss the question vv ithout Dr. Wainvvright replies. His last let ter does not commence with '"Rev. and Dear Sir," as usual, but is in the form of a communi cation, ns though lie considered the controver sy at an end. lu the Memoirs of Cerald Griffin, tlio author of that admirable novel. "The Collegians," the fo'lowing passage occurs relative to the prin ters, who have the powers ot Champo'ilion in the decyphering of hieroglyphics : DFCIPI1KUIXG POWER OF PRINTERS: You lax me with my illegible writing; bul I tear I cannot amend it, for I must not sty to shape my letters ; and I have, 1 believe, got a bail habit from the fjcility with which tho prin ters make it out. I verily believe, if I shut my eyes, or flung the pen at the paper so as to make any kind of mark, the printers would know what I intended to say. They always send me back my manuscript, with printed proofs for correcti in ; and I actually have repea tedly lieen unable to make out what I had writ ten, until 1 had referred to Ihe same article in print. The Boston Transcript, in speaking of the Theological controversy now going on in New York, says, with justice: "In sober verily, however, we do not believe that '.he 'pith and marrow' of the whole controversy can more for cibly illustrate a true orthodox doctrine, than does the following neat epigram, which we have just received from a valued correspon dent : lClilgrant. "A church without a bishop" seem. I o Doctor TnM, a thmgot dream ; While Doctor That, his reverend brother, Counts it as good as any other. But while each shepherd, wnxingboM On merits of his several fold. Deals out decisive blows and knocks, The icolj enti up their sevctaljlorks. F.i icjt'KTTE. The following is decidedly the best joke of the season ! I A lady entered a dry good store the other ! , I., o.n. iii-iMiniiy mi a .i o-iy ui in in ics, see requested tne clerk to bliow lier some cam bric ol a hay color. The clerk iiiipiiret'i'with some surprise, what she meant by that Color, "Why," replied the lady, "cambric the color "f your drawers." .... 1 don't ,rlr ,n ' on trinr ntiy. Audit was some tune bcer0 the ' ftdy could iiiuhu iimi luiucroiaiiu ui at she illuded lo some store fixtures. Every Chines iami)y keeps in his house a tUct on vv'ici, 8re w ritten the names of his i fating orandfuther, and great grandfather, be- .v ' ? . .. i :..i. :,, .. :., l.. ..i .. ...i il... ...u...i... luro vv bit h incense is burnt, and tho members ot the family occasionally prostrate themselves When the lather of the family dies, his name is inserted en the tablet, and tlt.it ol tho great eranJlalhcr ie taken tt-va. PIIM'I'.MOP 4lVHHTISlj. I square 1 insertion, . f 0 fifl 1 do S do . . . 0 75 1 do 3 do . . 1 CO Every mibivqurnt insertion, . 0 2.1 Yearly Adtcrtisemrnts t one column, f 25 half column, f IS, thrrimqunrca, f 13 ; two squares, f 9 one square, $ 5. Half-yearly i onn column, $18 ( half column, f 12 ; three square, f 8 ; two qure, f5; one square, f3 50. Advertisements left without directions a to the length of time they are lo be published, will ha continued until ordered out, and charged accord inply. CShtcrn lines make square. A Vnnkee's Idea of a Conveyance Office. About 1 o'clock yesterday, when the rain came thickest and heaviest, an individual wear ing a very high-crowned, narrow-leafed hat, a short skirted, faded, sky-blue colored coat, a stri ped vest, pants to match, that reached to tho calves of his legs, and a pair horse skin boo's, entered the Conveyancer's Office in St. Phil p street. His hair hung down his neck in their clotted locks, and he seemed any thing at a'l but pleased with Southern scenery, as then pie tented itself to his view. He was a genu im Down East Yankee, who came out from Wia thersfiehl, Connecticut, with an adventure, rt speculation of ingnns (onions.) He wandercil down into the lower part of the city, and as i -very one he met was a "parleyvoo," nnd hi said he thought he would never get out of th "cussed foreign country," and it was with tha idea of mnkinj his exit in the quickest possible manner, that be entered at the door over which "Conveyance Office" was written. Jonathan seeing the man of "deeds" at bis desk, thus ad dressed him. "How d'ye du !" Conveymicer "Your most obedient." Jonathan "Thnt ere'a considerah'e of a shower, 1 guess, Squire." Conveyancer "Yes, it rains rather freely.' Jonathan "No wonder you haint got no inguns here ; this rain would make them so saft that they'd run right Fpang up to seed." Conveyancer "I dare say." Jonathan "But 'ed rat the inguns, I wisli I'd never brought any here. I wish Fd took Aunt Prudence's advice ; 'Jonathan,' said shor 'you take my advice and never go to I.uzyau ner. It you aint killed ofl by the yaller fever, you'll be swallered whole by the alligators it's an orful country,' says she, and eo it is. But that aint nothin, no way. Let us come to tha pint, as the fellers said that were a going to fight with small swords." Conveyancer "I shall be happy you would,' sir." Jonathan "Then you be a conveyancer- you keep this conveyance office !" Conveyancer "l do." Jonathan "Then how'll you trade for con veying tuc up to where my sloop lies, opposita Julia street ! Jest hitch on a good horse to & cab, and convey me right alongside of the May flower, and I'll give you two stun of as gooJ inguns as ever drew a tear from a widder'seyc. The conveyancer, thinking bis Down East visiter was trifling with him, ordered him tr leave his office instantly. Jonathan, sccinj determination in his eye, took the hint, ami maile his exit in very long and rapid paces, swearing that "these Luzyanner folks were tho most darned conscriptious creatures in all crea tion." .V. O- Picayune. Du. Watts. It was so natural fur Dr. Watt, when a child, to speak in rhyme, that even when be wished to avoid it, he could not. His father was displeased at ibis propensity, and threatened lo whip him if he did not lcavo off making verses. One day, when he was a liout to put his threat into execution, the chill burst out into tears, and en bis his knees, suid : "Prny father, do some pity take, And 1 will no more verses make." Some caution is requisite in pissing our opiri ion upon strangers a caution, however, w'iicl few of us ad. ipt. At the public levee of th' Court of St. James, a gentleman said to Lord Chesterfield. "Pray, my lord, who ia thai tall, awkward woman yonder V "That lady, sir," replied Ixrd Chesterfield, "ia my sister." The gentleman reddened with confusion, an I stammered out. "No, no, my lord I beg your pnrdon-1 mean that ugly woman who stands next to th j Queen " "That lady, sir," answered lord Chesterfield calmly, "that lady, sir, is my wife" The Insolvent Neoho. A nero of one t f the kingdoms on tho Africa ncw.st, who bad be come insolvent, surrendered 'nimselfto his era- ditor, who, according-to 'Jne established custom . 0 ins country, so'.d ln in t0 lne puncs. This af. i.-cteil his so', so i'.lUch, that he came and re proached "ms fs.,er for not rather selling u4 "'"ile ren to pay his debts ; and after much eu '-fcaty, ne prevailed on tha captain to accept I l"'.i and liberate his father. Tho son wns put , in chaiiii, and on the point of sailing to the Wert , 111 LII4I.IJ U.IM VII till. esIIH VI O..IIII! ,"'I'CS ; W,ICn '0 circumstances coining to th-1 know ledge of the Governor, through the meaiu UfMr. Inert, he sent for the owner of the slaves, paid the money thnt he had given for the O'J man, and restoicd the sun to his father. Percy Anecdotes, ThCDahk Auks. ''"The boy at the li-a I of the class will state w hat were the dark tltt of the world." Boy hesitates. "Next Mai ' ler Jones, can'l you tell us what the daik agesj were y Boy I guess they were the ages lie' fore tptetuchi were invented. "Go to your stat."
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