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"7" JOB PUIiVM3Vv Having a general assortment of Jarge, elegant, plain and oina ' mental Type, we are prepared to execute every . ? description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Kcceipls, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. Trinted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT "THE OFFIGE OF THE Jeffcrsonian Republican Advcrliseincnt of a ILosi Day. BY MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNE.Y. Lost! lost! lost! , A gem of countless price, Cut from the living rock, And graved in Paradise. Set round with three times eight Large diamonds, clear and bright," And each with sixty smaller ones,.. '. ;- All changeful as the light. , , ,-, Lost where the thoughtless throng : f u - In' fashion's mazes wind," Where trillelh folly's song, - U - Leaving a 3ting behind ! -i tn Yet to my hand 'twas given ,' -A golden harp to buy, , , , .j;i. Such as the white-robed choiratlune , To deathless minstrelsy. Lost ! lost ! lost I ' I feel all search.in vajh .; That gem of countless cost Can ne'er be mine again,; I offer no reward, For till these heart-strings' severj I know that heaven entrusted gift Is reft away forever. But when the sea and land r Like burning scroll have .fled, , I'll see it in his Hand -..ft - -1 Who judgeth quick and dead,' i t it.-, "And when of scathe and loss That man can ne'er repair, Tiie dead inquiry meets my.,soul, What shall it answer there;.7 tt Sir rr,. r . . , . r. , , . '' The following is ajjill of items, lately-introduced in the trial of a breach of promise case before a court in New Hampshire, by the fair plaintiff: Mr. Eliphalct To Miss Jchila , Dr. To dancing three cotillions on first acquain tance, S 15 00 To value of three sighs and one dream that night, ' 250 00 To thinkjng of the color of his eyes one day ' at church, : 466 00 To going to the races, after refusing six other beaux, . 525 00 To cutting three fineellows to please him, 93 00 To making a watch chain, " " 120 00 To cost of material for ditto 6 bits, ... . 75 To five rpmps and two flirtations,. 144 00 To tearing a gown and bursting a stocking in said romps, 7 31 To oho Mss stolen, . . 125 00 To allowing him ,to kiss my. cheek ten times without flinching Sll, each', , 110 00 'To a long walk by moonlight, Including sen timent lost, . 270 00 To thirty blushes when he popped the ques tion., ' GOO 00 'To mv heart alas ! . 1 94 The .following capitahanecdote is.lold-by.lhc Young-'Un-,'-in the last -N.-Yt. Spirit of the limes: . .. . On a fish-woman's stall in front of J3oylston "Market, (Boston,) last season, a few five lob . stersavere exposed for sale. A stranger urrac- quainted wjth jtchyology, came along, "arid turn ing over, tlie dormant 'animals," asked the price; at the same time raising orie;of ih'em lo a close proximity with his nose. J17ctosaid the fellow, 'I'll hevyou prose cuted, rnum it, smells f, At this jnstant, the lobster's claw closing with a 'whack!' fastened jtseJf Jirmly upon the gen- 'ilemkh's nosee! . - . : The "old woman 'placcd-herafms.arkimbo, inj triumph ami simply asked lheerillemanK.with a chuckle who shmctls now, mister?' . - A 'Sndke.Mson of Erin thus decsribes &ss.nake: "He is a venomous baste-; he has.e'nej their hind fore legs norTorehmd legs; he lias neither hair,; '-feathers, noV wool .6n him ; hehas affeye.like a, chicken4, andgoes crawling: through .the,f 'grass wha-sling." 9CK,Q(X.f0t:. i '."A , ' Educate Uiq People. Men of wealth, men of learning, pour in structions uponjhe heads of the people you owu them ihai.baptism. Look at ihe boy in iheguuer! hatless, shoeless, and almost na ked, he is a pari olour king; a p'art ofoursov creigniy. Should ho not receive a sovereign's education 1 Should he not be prepared for ihe ihroue our institutions hare given him ? There is a gem in every lluman form ; let the diamond be polished, and it will shine in truth and beauty. There is still in the most debased 'a beam ethetial, though unsullied and dishon ored, still divine.' And our motto should be Teach and habituate the people to make a right use of the faculties which God has given them, and then trust them fearless-Iy to them selves. Give democracies education, and free dom of action, and then 1 lei them alone." ' Uneducated mind, .'is educated vice,' for God made man to know. He is the creature of instruction ; for in a right education there is a divine alchymy which turns all i he baser parts of man's nature into gold. We are told by the ancients that as soon as the first rays of the morning sun fell upon the first statutes of Mem iion, it sent tip tnusic. It is after the first rays of knowledge to fall upon man that his nature discourses harmony all before is the dark ness of barbarism. ' All can see that wickedness leads to misery, l- yet very few find out that winch Is equall' cer tain that ignorance leads to misery, and mise ry to wickedness. Dr. Johnson was once ask- ed': " Who is the most miserable man ?" and the reply of the sage was : 1 lhat man who can not read on a rainy day." The writer was once passing through a park, and saw nailed to ono of these trees this warning : " All dogs found in this park will be shot." A friend who was with us, remarking, unless dogs can read j they are pretty badly off here." Now God t has not only written his laws upon the trees, but in the stars and in" the flowers : his laws are above us and beneath us, on our right and on our left, and if a man is not able to read, he Js pretty badly ofi here worse, off than the dog, for the dog has n master to. reiad for him ; but man has no master between him and his God. A maxim, of more truth and force than any I remember ever to have seen, was thrown off b' a Br,Ush statesman-by a man who was in learning, vivid, varied, and philosophical, and who in conversation threw out more gems, sparkling and brilliant as they come, than any other man of his age. His profound apothegm was that " Education is the cheap defence of na tions? And if I might put.a truism by the; side of this, I would, say, it - is cheaper to educate the infant mind, than to support the aged crim inal. Yes, bestow theeiceon common schools, and save the pounds on prisons. Man was not made to be sent to prison, but to be educated : and " the very worst use you can put a man to is to hang him." Neither is a man a Human! Poor Box into whose mouth wc are to drop . . 1 few cents daily. " The ignorant chil$ left to grow up darkening into the deeper ignorance of manhood with all its jealousies, and its nar row mii.dedness and its huperstitions, and il penury of enjoyments : poor amid the intellect ual and:rnoral riches of the universe ; blind in this splendid temple which God has-lighted up, and famishing among the profusion of omnipo tence." " O wo for those w ho trample on the mind, That fearful thing!they know, not what they do Nor what ihey depj with To lay rude hands upooGod's mysteries there." Tiie Ten Cummasidmextts Versified. The Decalogue has been thus tersely and quaintly Tendered into rhyme,, and would in this shape be a good exercise for the memories of young children. 1- 1 am the Lord thy God serve only me 2- Before no idols bow thy impious knee.; 3-Use not my name" in trifles or in jest; !i - 4- Dare not profanemiy. sacred day of rest; 5- Ever to parents duc obedience pay;- . 5 6- Thy fellow-creature., man, thou shalt.not slay; TVIn uq adulterous commerce bear a pait; i S-Fr.om stealing with. care keep thy hand k& heart; 0 All false reports against thy neighbor hate; 10-A'nd ne'er indulge a wish for his estate. A poet asked a gentleman what he thought of his last.productipn " An ode to sleep." The latter r.ppljcd, You ha;edpne s much justice to the'iv'jatlja.it. is. impos,sible.jo?.,read ii Gen. Winficld Scott. The following fine anecdote of the brave and honored officer is related of him in a biog raphy recently published by Prof. E. E.' Mans field of Cincinnati : There is a striking instance of Gen. Scoii's courage and prowess recorded in this book. When he with about three hundred prisoners had been taken to Quebec, exchanged and em barked on board a vessel bound to Boston, some English naval officers stationed at Que bec resolved to! detain every one of the prison ers with an Irish accent, as British suImVcis. For this purpose they boarded the cartel just as sne was getttno; unuer way. bcoli was in the cabin." lie heard a bustle and great excite ment on deck, "nd hastened up to learn the cause. Here he saw a party of ' British 'offi cers in the act Of mustering the three hundred prisoners and separating from their companion such as either confessed they were Irishmen, or by their accent betrayed the land 6'f their birth. They were in great distress and confu sion. Twenty three of ihe poor fellows, many of whom had families in NeW Yorkand other places, had already been marched to the other side of the deck as British subjects.' There they stood trembling, but' when they saw Scott appear, hope brightened up m their counte nance. What means this gentlemen V demanded Colonel Scott, (for he was then only, a Col onel) looking sternly1 around upon the Brit ish officers, and drawing his'tall form up to' its tallest height. We have orders sir' was the answer Mo weed out the-British Subjects from the prison ers who are to leave, and send them'iri the fri . ' . . '. ... 1 i i . i i .1 . i gate alongside to be tried-and executed for the crime of treason.' m ' " Have you selected' any' for ihis purpose?'' de manded Scott.' 'Yes tu'cntvihrce,' answereil the British of ficer, pointing' to 'the 'group of 'Irish oh the oth er side of the d&c'k"; Scott knew that there'were among the Amer icans at least Corty more brave Irishmen; and he resolved if lie "could nbl save the twenty three he would protect the remainder: 'They are all you will get, sir,' was his in dignant response to the 'British Captain. Then turning to his own men; he' said to them in an authorative voice, '1 enmrnand every-one of you to remain absolutely silent, and on no ac - cuuih ?peutid vun. ui icapui u iu d..y u. questions put to you. ; - The command was' strictly obeyed. Not a man moved a lip ! Glad were they to .obey, al least the forty adopted Irishmen, this com? mand of the Colonel. In vain the British officers threatened, swore and foamed'with rage. Col. Scott was repeat edly commanded by them to go below : but he stood firm and unblenching. before his armed foes, himself totally, unarmed. High words fMistipd. anrl'fnr n fpiv mnmnnts thnxfi fnr ivhnm ai. j r i i it i , he stood up so fearlessly and humanely, ex- pecied to see him attacked with the weapons of the infuriated Engli.ihmen. At length find ing that he. would not yield, and the men. would not open their mouths, they gave it up. Scott then addressed. the twenty, three, men who had been selected, and assurpoV them that the U. States would not fail to avenge them. He end ed his address in these words : " Finally, I pledge myself to you in the most solemn manner, that I will not, rest until, I have achieved your liberation oravenged your deaths! And I say to 'you,' he added turning to the British ollicers, that retaliation and a refusal to give quarter in battle, shall follow the death of one of these gallant and faithful fellpws.' The British officer tried to interrupt him and prevent Jiis wordsf from being heard, but with out success. The Irishmen were put in' irons and sent to England. Wncn Scott' landed jn Boston, he proceeded at once jo!Ya.shingioh.apd laid the subject before the Government. At-length his eflorjs were crowned with suc cess. The United States interfered. The English dared not .touch one of the party, and at the close of the war twenty one of ihe twen iy three reached New, York, tw:o having died on tho nassafre. . , . , , . Scoti chanced to be in Brooklyn when, the ship containing them came to t ie. wharf. Not if suspecting who was on board, as he was watch ing ii he was atiractcd, by loud cheers and great bustle on her deck. Unconscious of his being the object of it, he approached thescenej when great was his delight to find that it was his old Irish friend.", in whose behalf he had so nobly interfered at Quebec, and who had that moment touched the. shore which but for him they would never placed foot upon again. They recognized his tall and commanding form at a distance, and unable to restrain their grat itude and joy, they gave vent toil in cheers. They hailed him as "their deliverer, and nearly overwhelmed him with their warm-hearted em braces. . IVIcorisli .Ladies. Maj. Noah gives the following reminiscence of his residence in Algiers : When in Tunis, I found myself in love with a handsome in.ussulman lady, who lived on the opposite side of .a street scarcely ten feet wide, ajsd who would draw aside the silken curtains from the iron bars of her windows, when un- observed, to converse with me in Limnta Fran ca. I talked of low-like all young fellows of twenty-five :wjt.h an jrrepressable ardor. ' No ! no ! Sidi,' said she, if we were de tected, it would be noihing for you you would only lose.iyour head, but I should hive my face unveiled, be made, to ride backwards on a mule, tied on a sack,(and thrown into the sea.' My ardor fell like a barometer, in a squall and the little value she bestowed upon my head contrasted with her disgrace did not in crease my affection. She said what was true. It is the inevitable punishment of being detect ed in an intrigue with the barbarians. It is rather dangerous, therefore, to inquire of a man after his wifes health. This wretched life, how ever,, of the females of .Barbary, creates, a feeling- of-melancholy, and makes her prone to the lender passions. This melancholy never leaves her she seldom smiles. Her husband takes her lo his country house, has music, dan cing and, festivities to enliven her she is the same taciturn and melancholy creature.. We sometimes pity an otherwise handsome woman, who has unwieldly proportions, and give way-to her in ihe omnibus with obvious reluctance ; but . in Barbary she would carry off the palm, . The hipre fatness tho greater ; beau4y as a wifean(i lheir lender mothers jbegin al &n parJy age ,0 fallen heir daughters, , :Fhey aow lhem little exercise compel , , . . verv,r;c l substances in e naste J I I balls dipped in oil and every kind of food caj culated to procure obesity. The result is, the lady w ho, requires a camel to carry hor is the first on ihe list. Lei a Pacha with three tails walk down through a line of Christian and Mussleman beauties, he will pass by tho light, graqeful, and sylph-like forms, which to us are so attractive and. stop with admiration in front of a lady weighing some three hundred pounds, smack his lips and exclaim, ' Mcekchi csscri ' A Prophecy-TIsc Potato Crop. A correspondent of the London Economist has furnished the following: " Last evening, I met, al dinner, a Roman Catholic priest, a. Doc tor Smith, from Qonnemara' county, Galway, who related the following conversation he had with that extraordinary man, Cobbett, 1826. While speaking of Ireland, Cobbett said that ihe dirty weed-(alluding to the potato) would be. the curse of Ireland. " How so!" replied. Dr. Smith, "what must the people do without it? they live upon it. They have had it in culti vation 180 years' Cobbett answered, "they must go back to the samejfood they were ac customed to live upon pretiously to the general cultivation ofthe dirty weed; and thai is to grain, as wheat, rye, &c. You hav.e four millions of souls in Ireland, and eight millions of acres of uncultivated ground. This ground must be drained, and brought into cultivation, and you must again grow wheat, oats, rye, &c. The potato will not last more than twenty years, when it will work itself out, and then you will See what aistatelrclaridwill. be reduced You must re turn to grain-crops,; and Ireland, instead ofbeing the most degraded,;. will become one-of ihe finest countries in the world. iYou may live to. seo mywords prove mie, butT neer shall " , , Among' the passengers in the Cambria, was General To 7n Thumb, whose receipts in Eu rope have been upwards of $75O?00Q, h liife's Pond si I ai lit. At every swing of the pendulum a 'spirit1 goo into' eternity". The measure of otfr life isH hahiibreadth; iris a taie ifiai ia tohh itsfrafidhV is like ihe swift shuttle or the flying arrow; it is brief as the fading flower,' or the transitory rainbow, or tho dazzling meteor; ii is a bubhlH it is a breath. At ovory swing of the pendu lum a4 spirit goes into eternity. Between the rising and sorting sun, 42;000 souls are surri moh'ed befdro'iheir Creator. Death is ever busv night and day, at all seasons'' ami in all cimeS True, as well as beautiful, ate those lifres Hi Mrs. Hemaris : , : ' " tr Leaves have their time to full, . . , And rlbwers to wither at the north Wind's brerflh, . And stars to set but all, , . . Thou hast all seasons for thy own, 0, .dcailr"l He is supplied with a boundless variety of darts and arrows, with which he acfcoinplishe his work. Could all the forms in which death comes to mail bo written together, what a long; and fearful catalogue would it make ! Think, of the innumerable number of diseases, all at. the command of death. And as though' these were no1 icient, see how man is expU3c;d.i, faial accident on every hand and at fcvery mo ment. It was a saying of Flavcl,. that " h smallest poic in the body is a door largo enough to let in death." . " The leanest gnat. in the air," says the same writer; "may choke ouej as if did Adrian, a Pope of Rome. A little hair itmilk may strangle one, as it did a counsellor in Rome. A litlle skin of a raisin may stop, one's breath, as it did the lyric poet, Anacreon." Even the food we eat to nourish us, a.ud the air we breathe may introduce death into our sys tems. And though every thing else should fail to harm us, we might fall beneath oiir own hands should God permit a cloud to pass over our reason. 0,-how insecure is life! how near is death ! What has been said of the mariner in respect to his ship, that ." ha always-sails within four inches of death,' may be said of the soul in relation to the body.- If the ship p!ii, then the sailor "sinks ; if our earthen vessel break, the soul, is plunged forever into the shoreless ocean of eternity. Were our senses not benumbed, and deadened, we' should be';con stantly reminded of this danger. We should read a warning ip every sear leaf, and hear an admonition in every wind that sighs., Even sleep, " nature's sweeT restorer," would-be a mighty mohifolTof dcalhran ever, present em blem of mortality. . ,M?S- Plant Trees. Plant1 trees every where, wo say : let -them shade our streets, and grow wherever 'there is room for them. Especially plant them" in the country, where open fields will admit, and 'bo sure that in the end they will surprise the plan ter by their growth whilst he and his chiidre.: are sleeping ! In evidence of this, let us qunto an anecdote td the purpose. " It. is related, of a farmer in Long Island, that he planted.aa ordi nary field of fourteen acres, with suckers from the locust (a native of this country) in. the:year of his marriage, as a portion 'for his children. His eldest son married at twenty-two. On this occasion the farmer cut aboul fifteen hundred dollars worth of timber out of his locust wood, which he gave lo his son to-buy a settlement in Lancastercounty. Three years after he did as much for his daughter. And thus he provi ded for Jiis whole family; ihe wood in the mean time repairing by suckers all ihe losses it suf fered. .Boston Transcript. Good. A young Lawyer, living not a thou sand miles from Lycoming county, received the following Valentine from his sweet-heart, ac companied with a proper emblematical figure: "A LAWYER." i - t . 'As toughas your parchment, as blacUtts your heart, Made up ol lies that will fill an ix chrt,' A face full of impudence, as mad as.a-.bull, A soul far more black than a negro sheepJs wool To wed with all these I am not such,a duncej I'd prefer the old devil, your daddy, at once , Tho latest curiosity added to the fancy museum is "a tooth from the mouth of a backbiter. ' Itris a hideous old snajr. . Who says' women' do not 'usually wXifive the robuste'r sex V "We see if stated that'an inhab itant of Corfu; who lately returned from Spiiz Vergen, after an absence of 28 years, (obnd hia wife in very good health, bin ihe widow of ihrea
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