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If subscribers remove to oilier places with- '' infortiHitif he pulilishers and their piper is cm to the former direction', ihey are held re- Mitsl'iIe. 5. The conr's have decided that refusinc to :ea newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ra forie" evidence of intentional fraud. Sti miner. BV WILLIS GAYLOUD CLARK. The spring's gay promise melted into thee, Fair Summer! and thy gentle reign is here; Tiip emerald robes are on each leafy tree; In the blue sky thy voice is rich and clear, AtJ the free brooks have songs to bless thv reign They leap in music midst thy bright domain. TV gales, that wander from the clouded west, Are burdened whh the breath of countless fields ; Thevteem with incense from the green earth's breast That up to heaven its grateful oder yields; iWring sweet hymns of praise from manya bird, L'y nature's aspect into rapture stirr'd. In such a scene the sun-illumined heart Bounds like a prisoner in his narrow cell, Uhen through its bars the morning glories dart, And forest anthems in his hearing swell At'J, like the heaving of the voiceful sea, H.s panting bosom labors to be free. Otitis gazing on thy void and sapphire sky.j 0, Summer! in my inmost soul arise "ttifl oil l lwii j' I ait It 7- tT-in ifrinrla rrirt! And the bland air with its mejodies; mi udSKiii" in some vision s giuriuus iav, ' long for eagle's plumes to flee away. rll t.. i . .... I liong io cast this cumbrous clay aside, t. . And the impure, unholy though'ts that, cling To ihe sad bosom, torn wiih care and pride; I would soar upward, on unfettered wing, far through the chambers of the peaceful skies, here the hich fount of Summer's brinlitness -- o - o lies ! Evonias Kymu for a. Good Boy. .IIuw sweet to lay my weary head,. I'pon my quiet little bed, And feel assured, that all day ton'g y 1 have not knowingly done wrong. How sweet to hear my mother say, "You have been very good to-day!" , : How sweet to see my father's joy, , , When he can say, " My clear good boyj" How sweet it is my thoughts to send To manva dear-Iove'd distant friend, And think if they my heart could sec, . How very happy they would be ! How sweet to think that He whose love; Made all the ehining'worlda above',' My pure and happy heart can see, And loves a little boy like me ! I' is not customary at. the present day to sa', '"te's ihe deviljo pay and no pitch hot," the unable phrase being "there's a certain lia- due to the- "old gerrlemail in black," and r biiiimiuoiis'm.'iftpr'oT -d elevated iemperaiure tn liund to liquidate the obligatioh. ' R'ys sho.uld remember;! hat, itre(juires- spnie e, more than adyng. 'aipa'yjalojliiiiq, J bragadocia, to make men. From the St. Louis rtcvcillc. A FricK!ty Game off Polccr. BV SOL SMITH. On the evening of our second day out from New-Orleans, I found myself sealed at a table, with three of my fellow passengers, playing at ihe interesting game of "Poker." Card play ing was a very common amusement lhen,1835) and it, was not unusual to seo half a dozen ta bles occupied at the same time in the gentle man's cabin of a Mississippi boat. I had sat down at the game for amusement, but on rising at ten o'clock, 1 found my amusement had coat me about sixty dollars ! 'This won't do at all,' s-aid I, thinking aloud, 4 1 must try it aain 10-morrow-.' 'Of course you must,' replied one of the players, who happened lobe an old acquain tance of mine from Montgomery, Alabama, where he had been a jailor for several years, and where he was considered a very respecta ble -citizen, 4 You must not give it up so,' he continued, following me out on the guaid to morrow you'll get even.' I entered into con versation with my old acquaintance whose name was Hubbell or Hubbard, I don't remember which we'll call him Hubbard and he advised me by all means to try another sitting on the morrow. I suggested to him that a slight sus picion had crossed my mind that some of our card party might possibly be black-legs 'in other words, gamblers. He answered that the same thought had struck Mm at one lime, but he had come to the conclusion that all had been fair. Beforo leaving mo, my guardian friend informed me that he hud become a sporting man Jie felt it to be his duty to inform me of it but he assured me, upon his honor, (!) ho would not see me wronged. Of course I be lieved him, and it was agreed that we should try our luck again. Next morning, soon as the breakfast things had cleared away, I found Hubbard and a friend oj his waiting for me at one of the card tables, and I took my seat with-the hope of getting even a nope wnicn has leu many a man into irretrievable ruin. I felt quite confident of win ning.back my losings over night, and my play mates cave me every encouragement that I should be successful. At it we went, playing with varying hick for about two hours. At about ll o'clock Hubbard's friend -left' us a few minutes to ' gel a drink,' and the jailor and my self were left playing single handed. When the third hand left, we were using the 'small cards,' as they're called that is sixes and un der ; but Hubbard immediately proposed we should lake the ' large cards,' (tens and over,) which I agreed to as a mailer of course. One thing I here observed my friend, the jailor dealt the cards without shuffling. This made me resolve to wAtch him closely. Taking up my cards I was agreeably burprise.d to find I had an excellent hand 4 Now,' think I io my self, ' now is the, lime, if ever, to gel even ; if my adversary only happens to have a decent hand I shall do well enough.' The reader who does not understand the game of' bluff,' or poker,' as it is generally called, may as well leave off here I commenced the game by bragging a dollar. My adversary went ihe dollar, and five belter. 1 went that and ten. He immediately put up the tori, and laid down a twenty,' keeping his 1 pocket book out, as much as to say ,' I am wil- ling to go any thing you choose io bet.' Afier a momeni's reflection (all acting!) I said ' I go that awl fifty.'' 4 All right,' replied the jailor, 4 there ll is I go that and a hundred !' I here looked at my .cards, again, and aflo led to have great doubt whether 1 should go ihe hundred. Take back your last bet I urged 4 n is too much for either, of us to lose ; I begin io think I have been rah take it back, and let us show our hands for lh6 money already-down.' 4 No!' said Hubbard if -you mean sponin;;, put up jhjvhutldred,or back out and give up the'tnoney.' i Can't do thal.M replii d ; I don't eonte from a backing out 'country -I tnusi have a showing for the money that's down so ihere's ihe hun dred and as my pocket book's out, " and my liand'l in, there's another C. This new bei seeinVd'io please my friend Hubbard. 'mightily. He answered it without a motiieni's- pause, and vveni two 'hundred more ! Luow; r-qoPio.d my qrjpojietii. to p.ermil me. io -show : my. . cards to somtMif lhe: Inlanders,? klm vero- crowding around the table .to sye; J'un-nllf.cijjisiderjiig 'rite uioal undoubtedly 'picked up.' Hubbard would not agree that 1 should show my hand to, or iakeadi-e from any otiej 4 Play your own cards,' said he, reaching over, and gently com pelling mo io lay my cards on the lablc before me. 4 Then said 1--' you, tell me if . three aces and two other cards can, be beat?' 'Oh yes,' he replied, smiling wiih.self satisfied air,' and using the spit box 'they can be beal, cer tainly, but not easy.' T0t easy, I- think my self,' replied 1 4 therefore, inasmuch as I be lieve you are only trying to bluff me ofi", I go the two hundred.' 'You do!' 'Yes. I do, there'a the money.' 4 Anything better V enqui red my adversary, insinuatingly, and leaning over to make use of the spil box again all the time keeping his grey eyes fixed Upon niy coun-' tenance. ' Why yes,' I answered ' since you've got me excited, I will go' something betr ter 1 go two hundred better than you.' Look ing me steadily in ihe face, he said ' Well, you're a bold fellow, any how, for a novice- it takes all I've got, by hokey, but I go it and if you'll lei me bet on a credit, I should like to go back at you.' (Spit-box j Feeling confident of winning, I consented that he might. go what he liked, on a credit, provided I should be al lowed the same privilege. ' Well, then,' said Hubbard, a little spitefully, I go you fire hundred better on a credit.' (Spit-box again.) ' The devil you do !' exclaimed I 'this looks like gambling ; but since we're in for it so deep ly, I go you the five hundred and a .thousand better on a credit.' At this stage of the game the third hand returned, and seeing at a glance how mailers stood, requested io look at Hub bard's cards. 'No sir!' interposed I 'you must play your own hand '--at the same lime motioning my opponent to lay down his cards as L had laid down mine. The carpet began to suffer about this time-the spit-box was dis- J 'p :. .t. I i ugciiueu. i iiu cxuiiuuitMii uinung uiu passen gers was great, and niy ears received many a whisper thai I was 4 licked.' Hubbard look a long anu earnes.ijooK .inio my eyes, aim sam slowly but conliuen.ly, 1 oo it. and-call vou. 1 suppose l m neat, saia-i, hypocrite that 1 was' I man t itwnK.any thing ol ihe litnu.j but .turn overt.your papers and, let us see what; you've got." With one hand he gracefully turned over four Kings and a Jack, and with, the other trem blingly "raked down" the pilo of bank notes, gold and silver., .whijc a groan burst, from the spectators, who all seemed, to regret ,my bad luck. ' You are as lucky. as a jailor,' I remark ed as my friend began to smooth down the V's, X's, L's and C's. By the- by,' he enquired, again, resorting to the spit-box, and looking over patronizingly at me, ' I forgot io ask what you had V 1 Well,' 1 replied calmly, 4 1 think you might as well see my. cards.' 4 Ha ! ha ! Oh, I reckon you're bcai, my friend,' he answered, 4 but let's see your hand at all events.' ' Here are the documents, replied I there's my hand!' and I itirncd over my cards, one by, one there's .an. Ace and the're's another!' 1 A pretty good. hand,, young man,' remarked Efub baid ' three, Aces ! What else ? have you?' ' What else?' asked every body. Another Ace! FOUR ACES ! ! !' I looked over the table, and discovered the face of tny .lately elated frikn'd had lost all color the tobacco juice xvis running out of the. corner of his mouth the V's, X's, and C's, wore dropped, and amazement and stupefaction. were strongly im printed on his feal tires. A shout wenl up from th.e bystanders, and ait hands were invited to take champagne at my expense It is tcarce'ly necessary to say, that the mo ney b.et on cre'ditjwas .never paid-.-jior was :il ever expected io be paid. My friend.:, Hubbard recollected he had urgent btjsiness at Vicks burg, and left the boa!. It so huppcnr.d ihat the stranger .u.ho.h.id played with u, also disem barked nt the .saiueJ)urgh where ihey met with a t-tngnlar ac.cid.enj being hung a few, days af terwards by-a inob! Hubbard died game and spat upon the excited populace. ' . . . About a month after the adventure above re laied, I met a gentleman in Cincinnati, whom I nstanily recognized as1 one of my fellow pass'en-gnrs-on ihe " Warrcn" After enquiring the Mate of each 'other's hoalih, ho asked mc if 1 had-played at;theigame'of pokerlalely-? 'Not sinee ih'e .great game you witnessed 'on board the :' Varren?';I rcpliod. ''.'Div nouiplay. any more,'' taid he, assuming a seriou air" you are liable to be fleeced ; 1 saw you were in "life hands of swindlers," he continued-44 and vheri one of the feljows left the table,' 1 noticed that he laid a pack of cards he had been shuffling, near your adversary's, elbow. As an experi ment, (passing by' at tlie riiomehi,) I took the top card from 'flic pack and shoved if under the bot tom, by .which ineans, you got the four aees in tended for his.pariner, while he got the four kings intended for you ; and thus the sporting gentlemen were c.angjii in iheir oywi trap.!" Moral., Poker is decidedly a dangerous game io play at particularly with strangers ; but when you find yourself in possession of four aces, GO IT WITH A PERFECT rush ! From the Lowell Courier. A Retc2a of 3ToIaaa Qaiancy AtfaiESS. John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Mass., on Saturday, July 11th, 17G9 Towards the close of the year 1777, John Adams, his father, was appointed Joint Commissioner, with Benjamin Franklin and Arihur Lee, to the Court of Versailles. John Adams sailed from Boston for France in February, 1778, and took, wjth him his son, John Quincy Adams, then in his 9th year.- During their stay in France, about 18 months, young Adams was kept in a French school studying the language and the classics. The diplomatic arrangements having been bro'i to a fortunate close, the father and son returned to America. They arrived in Boston on the 1st of August, 17791 Three mouths afterwards John Adams was despatched t'o Europe again by Congress, and he look his son, John Quin cy, with him. The frigate they sailed in was commanded by Commodore Tucker. When on the voyage it was pursued by a Biitish man-of- war. All hands were piped for. aciion. It was on this occasion that John Adams, casting aside hig dipiorna,ic character, stationed himself with : the sailors by ihq side of a cannon, resolved to fight to the last rather than suffer th8 ship to be taken. The American vessel escaped: and having sprunjr a ieaki ,hey -were forced to put imo a t in g jn ail,i. from tnence- john Ad , amg and hig son pursued ,heir journey by land Q paris FrQm paris ,h wenl JO Holland Th vm...ner A(lams vvas Dlaced in a .school in . j B - - , Parisjtafier wards in Amsterdam,-and finally in the University of-Leyden. In July, 17S1, Francis Dana, (father to the poet R. H. Dana,) who was Secretary to the Embassy of John Adams, was. commissioned as Plenipotentiary to Russia, and he took with him John Quincy Adams, then only 14 years of age, as his private secretary. His letters, thus early, displayed a marked inielligcuce and pow er of observation. He remained in Russia till 1782, when, he left St. Peleraburgh and returned alone through Sweden and Denmark to Holland, spending the winter on the route and stopping some lime in Stockholm, poperihagen and Ham burg. In Holland lie stopped some mouths and left with' his" father for Paris, where he was present at the signing of the treaty of peace in 1783, and from that time till 1785 he was with his father in England, Holland, as well as in France. While in England -he had; frequent opportu nities of being present in the British Parliament, and of listening to' the eloquence of Burke, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, and other British orators of that day, whose wonderful talents adorned" the Bri tish nation. In his 18ilv year he returned to his native land, and entered Harvard Universi ty, and graduated in 1787 with distinguished honor. He then entered the office of Theoph ilus Parsons, at Newburyport. After compi ling his profession, he. commenced the practice of law in Buslon, and remained there four years. In the summer of 1791 ho wrote a series of ar ticles which appeared in the Ceniinel, under the signature, of Publicola, containing remarks upon, the lirsi pari of Paine's Rights of Man. These pieces were reprinted in England. In April, 1798; before Washington had published his proclamation of Neutrality, or it was known he coutemplaied doing so, Mr. Adams published three articles under-ihe signaiure of Mareellus, taking .strong ground that the U: States ought io assume thai ground. His motio was, "Un ion among ourselves and Jndependenoe of all enianglmg alliance with foreign powers." In Ihe winter of 1793r-4 he published another se ries of. papers.Mviudicating the course of Pros idem Washington in referencuHto'thcEronch Minister, Genet. Iir 1794 he was appointed by WahirigU)ji . Minister to the Netherlands,' Tins washrcp without the knowledge of his father, ll l ?Ul that Mr. Jefferson was one who reeoimnendeil the appointment. From 1794 to I 01 lbs w-jt in Europe, in diplomatic missions m Holland, England and Prussia, and concluded an impor tant treaty with ihejalier power. At tbe-cUSH of his father's administration he returned home. landing in Philadelphia in September, Ioi., In 1802 he was elected from BoM n, a mem ber of ihe Massachusetts Senate, and sounjil- ter was elected by the Legislature a U. S-.Sen ator from the 4th of March, 1805. While a. Senator of Congress he was appointed profes sor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard Univer sity. His lectures were published in 2 voh.t They were delivered during the recess f Con gress. He resigned his seat In the Sena'e 1:1 1808. In 180U Madison sent him M:nistet t. Russia. While in Russia he wrote a series of letters, which were published in ihe Port Folio, entitled "Journal of a Tour through Silesia." They were republished in England, re iewiiil in the leading journals of ihe day, and -affe-r-terwards translated into French and German. By his instrumentality ihe Emperor of 'Rus sia was induced to mediate for peace between Great Britain and America. President Madi son named him at the head of ihe Commission ers to negotiate ihe treaty which brought the war of 1812 to a close. This celebrated trans action look place at Ghent in December, 1 8 14. His colleagues were Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin. Mr. Adams was then appointed Min ister to England. In 1817 he was called home by President Monroe lo be in his Cabinet as Secretary of Slate. This was the close of Mr. Adam's career as a Foreign Minister It was perhaps the mot brilliant, as it was the most varied portion of his life. No Representative; of our Government has al all 'approached him in the length and variety of services, or tho importance of those services to his country. The Department of Slate was held, by Mr Adams the whole 'of Mr. Monroe's Presiden tial life, eight years. Mr. Adams was one of ihe four candidates for President in IS24. -There was no choice in ihe Electoral College. General Jackson had 99 voles, Mr. Adams 81, Win. Crawford 41, and Henry Clay 37. Thp election devolved upon the House of Represen tatives. They were to select from the three highest candidates. Although General Jackson had received more electoral votes than Mr. Ad ams, yet Mr. Adams had received as large a popular vote as Jackson. Thirteen states were necessary. to a choice by the House. The bal lots were thrown, and Mr. Adams was elected President of the United Slates. He received the voles of the six New England States, with New York, Maryland, Ohio Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Louisiana thirteen in all. Mr. Adams was President 4 years. He re tired from ihe While Ploiise in 1829 10 make room for the hero of New Oilcans. For tho first time in 36 years, he retired to private life. In 1831, he was elected by nearly a unanimous vote, a member of Congress, by the voters of his'native district; which post he has continued to hold and adorn unto this day. We have thus briefly sketched, from an arti cle in the American Review, a few of the prom inent points in the career of this illustrious -statesman and patriot. Mr. Adams is the most wonderful man of the age. His career as a statesman, commenced'wiih the Revolution, and has continued with but a short period of repose, until now. What stores of knowledge he must have garnered up in the vast treasure-house of his mind ! Ho has been great fronv the" begin ning of his career. Great in tho, period in which ho lived; grpa.l in the services he has rendered to his country; great in, his youth, hm manhood, and his old ago; greal as an orator and statesman, and great in the purity of hiss private characteri"" 'Massachusetts has given birth to a race of great and good men; hut to hone greater or better than John Q. Adams. " I anVtaking down'Vne census of a densely populated neighborhood," as the follow said, when he swallowod the skippery cheese.- ; t 1 We object to calling 'corn bread Kentucky confe'ciionary; It is unconstitutional to grant lilies' of nobility,' though: ibe" subjttji bVa de serving one,
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