z--- -- tpitt. Si It.tostitt*att ...-13-astittt VOL. 5--NO. 47.] TILE GARLAND. ..v j , ~.., 7 •50 ..,v--4.,,- . ..c) 3 76,-.)-. 6 .„ it, ‘1 :: --i . ci, ~27? ~, C:,, . _ ~. 7 (/' .P., 7 . . / (I. ...,- 4 -- 1. 1,... J.Z...,..,,........1.‘40,6“..., -"With sweetest flowers enrich% From various gardens cull'd with care." SOLID JOYS. I quit the world's fantastic joys, Her honors are but idle toys, Her bliss an empty shade; Like meteors in the midnight sky, That glitter for a while and die, Her glories flash and fade. Let fools for riches strive and foil, Let greedy minds divide the spoil, Tie all too mean for me; Above the earth, above the skies, My bold aspiring wishes rise, My God, to heaven and thee ! O sourer, of glory, life, and love! When to thy courts I mount above, On contemplation's wings, I look with pity arid disdain On all the pleasures of the vain, On all the pomp of kings. Thy beauties, rising in my sight, Divinely sweet, divinely bright, With raptures fill my breast ; Though robbed of all my earthly store With thee I never can be poor, But must be ever blest. POPULAR TALE. [SELECTED FOR THE STAR AND DANNER.] The Proselyte from ghtelttism. [coscLunEn.] The alteration in her countenance, since the time he had seen her, was indeed fully calculated to awaken sl foliar feelings in one whose recollections were not half so warm as his own. The exquisite symmetry of her features hail given way to lines of care and anguish, and the roseate tinge of beauty on her cheek, once delicate and fair, as if im pressed with an angel's pencil, was turned into a snow-like paleness, faintly streaked with carmine,as if the pride of woman's love liness was unwilling to leave its favorite throne. Yet still there was a hush of sweet. ness in the very composure ofthose softened features, that wakened a finer and more touching thrill within the heart, than could the full bloom and radiance of her charms. Kaunitz saw that the burning blush on his own cheek, gamd up an answering suffusion an the wasted features of the lady, but it was of the purely intellectual emotion with which earth and its feelings have no community whatever, and the embarrassed young man felt himself greatly relieved, when the lady requested rum to lie seated, and addressed him in tones which, though weak and feeble, were of t he sweetest courtesy--"I know not, sir,under what circumstances you have been brought here; perhaps they were violent; but:there never was any human being I de sired so ardently to see." Kaunitz answer her withi some confusion, that he would for give any violence which would make him the means of rendering her a service. "Ah," said she, taking his hand, and fixing her large dark eyes upon him, with an expres sion that touched his soul, "you little know the 'service you shall have to tender me, or the relationship in which we stand to each other." The young minister colored again, and his heart almost stopped within hire, as he felt a scalding tear drop upon his hand. She continued, "You do not know me, but still I venerate you as my deliverer, my in structor, as my father." Kaunitz, with new sympathy, deeply 11- wtikened, begged of her to explain. "You will not think it strange that I shell) I use such language when you hear my st or y ; though you may have, perhaps, seen me in your church; yet— , start not—l am a Jew. ish maiden, and was educated in the deepest abhorence of that Jesus of whom I have of ten heard von speak in the most delightful terms. I might have remained so forever, and been like thousands of my sex and per. suasion, happy and admired in my ignor ance. But I had a young and beautiful friend, to whom, though proscribed by my relatives as a christian, I was passionately attached. But in the very pride of her young beauty, she was stricken by disease —alas! destined to be mortal. As 1 watch. ed by her bedside one evening she took' my hand, and said to me, in a tone which sunk into my heart, for it was such as I had never heard her use before, "Zora, will you pro mise me one thing, and I will die happy?" I promised her solemnly, for I would have promised her any thing. "Zora, then," said she, "dearest Zorn, will you only en gage to love my Savior?" The tears gushed from her eyes as she spoke, and they gus - hed from mine too; for I was horrified at her request. But she continued, "Oh, 1 am too weak to tell you of the happiness, and do. light von would f'el. But will you go a' nil hear the minister of whom you have of. ten heard me speak? He can tell you of the power of the religion or Jesus better than a dying girl. Oh, Zora, do tell me, that You will go?" She looked at the with such nn earnestness of a g ony in her countenance, that 1 ,assured her I would do all she asked; and M`didight she pressed my hand close to her bosom, for she was ton exhausted to speak. Ina short time 1 felt her g rasp be come weak and clammy, and, oh, mercy! she died even while holding my - hand." lime the Pars of the beautiful girl choked her utterance, and Kaumtz, who well Mcr 1. lected the lamented young lady of whom she spoke, freely mingled his own, at this affecting narrative of her last moments.— The lady seemed deeply touched by his emo• Lion, and in a short time continued a Larra live, to . Kennitz now become intensely in leresting—"That request s'o' earnestly en treated—and so solemnly registered to the dead, you may be sure was kept, though it cost me many a pang of strange and shud dering reluctance. At length, deeply dis guised, I lured a close carriage and went alone, fiat I dared n o t trust another with my secret to the place she had mentioned. It was to your chapel. You cannot appreciate the conflict of my feelings when, alone and unprotected, I found inys.!lf in a place and among a people I had always looked upon w ith abh o r r e nc e and detestation. But I had not listened to you long before i forgot eve ry other feeling in a glow of awakened ten derness. It was of my own and ever dear ))aria you were speaking; and you describ ed her loveliness, her purity, her resigna. Lion, in a manner which filled my soul with the most exquisite emotion; but when you came to speak other death, and to dilate on the efficacy of faith in the Redeemer, in the a wful moments of dissolution, my soul was touched with Wonder. "And is this" said I, "the Jesus I have heard reviled?" My very heart sunk within me at the reflection, and I thought God himself must forever condemn Me for my impiety. I was ill liict wretched in my mind, until as it were you opened the portals of heaven, and pointed out my de parted friend, robed as an angel, singing the praises of her Sc vier in an eternal paradise; and declared, that transcendent bliss would be the lot of all, who, like her, would take that Savior for their portion; then, oh, then —my soul seemed to have changed its resi 41enee—so new, so delicious were the hopes and the feelings awakened in me; and I vow ed that night, if I were not too great an out cast for mercy, I would live so as to join my lost and loved companion in her bright a bode. That evening I purchased a New 'Testament, and words would be insufficient to tell the delight, the rapture with which I perused the wondrous story of Redeeming :love. In a short time I found my chief de light consisted in attending your ministry, land in reading over the precious record of salvation. In spite of doubt and darkness I soon experienced the sweet serenity of being reconciled with God; and I sometimes fan cied my beloved Muria was hovering near me on her wings of light, to cheer me in my path and to assure me of reward. Alas! my hopes were early overcast. Hitherto conscious of the irreconcileable enmity of' my friends, I had kept to my own bosom the fearful secret of my altered opinions. But whether from observation or suspicion, they soon viewed me with a jealous eye; and great was my horror one night on leaving y‘uir chapel, to find that ttoa ,E• arrua go which had hitherto conveyed me was gone. In the midst of my embarrassment, my father and my brother drove up, and I was con veyed home more dead than alive between terror and alarm. Since that time, oh, could you know what I have suffered; . every comfort was removed, and the roost syste matic and relentless persecution adopted.— Once discovered, I well knew the iron op position of my friends never could he soften ed; and I besought of the Jesus I had dared to love, to give me strength for the terrible conflict. Oh, my dear sir, how glad would I have often been, in the -gloomy hours of solitude and privation I had to encounter, to have seerryou—to have heard your lips ex, plain once more those delicious truths tit once my comfort and my bane. My re- . peated solicitations to that effect, were, how ever of no avail; and it was at last only when in the tremor of weakness, they ha i l extor ted from me a terrible promise, that niy re latives consented you should be brought. I cannot express the joy your presence has inspired. Oh, do tell me," she continued, while she clasped her hands, and her coun tenance assumed an'expression of the deep est earnestness, "is there any hope of hea ven for one so long an unbeliever? Can an outcast such as 1 am, enjoy any portion of' that Savior's love, so long but unconscious. ly despised?" As she . was speaking, her beautiful but wasted features,would at times light up with an expression that seemed to the intensely interested minister, to glow like the prophets of old, with a halo of inspiration; and again be veiled in an imploring dejection, as if her very heart was withering within. When she finished a narration that melted the softened minister to tears, the exertion seemed too much for a frame so debili tated, and she sank back exhausted upon the sofa. Kaunitz, with unreflecting impulse, caught her in his arms. All consciousness seemed to be suspended—her thrilling eyes were veiled in their long dark lashes—and as her motionless and yielding form was pressed to his, the gentle pulses of her bosom seemed to be at rest, and life itself to have fled. Yet there was a holiness in the saint like composure of that reposing form, he felt it would be protitnation to disturb, and the deep silence' of the place, broken only by the audible throbbings of his own heart, had something en snored in its very stillness,that he felt his existence could have resolved in, to the kindred state of the lovely inanition in his arms, before his slightest breath would have recalled to life, by invoking infidel as sistance, a spirit so purely and unequivocal. ly destined for the skies. The warm tears, however , in which his agonized feelings had found vent, gushing unrestrained upon her features, brought back her hovering soul once more to earth. She opened .her eves, and her glance on the speaking tenderness Of Kaunitz's gaze, beamed with an instant and joyous recognition. Her first words were of her melancholy but ever constant theme. "Oh, toll me,"said she, "can I hope foe pardon?" • . . . The overpowered clergyman relinquish ed his hold, ahl aftcted with inexpressible SY ROBERT WRITE IZMDIAMTON, EDITOR, PtrIBLICIZER AND PROPRIETOR. "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER., OP MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM GORRUPTION."-SHARE. ekewereaznome 9 tnnemoGazie autaialtrzatze so. ans. ' emotion, knelt down beside her, and in an eloquence of soul he had never felt betme, besought the throne of Mercy to pour the full assurance of pardon in her heart. As he grew more fervid in the power of his God,he called upon the present Jesus to fin ish the redemption of a spirit so ripe for heaven—to remove the awful obduracy of her relations, and to strengthen that gentle mind with more than creature firtnness in thi3 ordeal of (Negev she would have to en counter. When he had finished, the lovely convert still remained in an attitude of in tense devotion ; her fair white hands were clasped upon her bosom ; her countenance was upturned to heaven, but the agony of doubt had departed. Her soul seemed en tranced in rapture, and her exquisite fea tures were lit up with a beaming satisfac ' Lion, that partook of the radiance of antici. pitted immortality. Every trace of anguish and despair had left her features, for a joy ous flush of resplendent satisfaction; and the unutterable charms of the heart's deep and unearthly delight, shining through the most perfect lineaments of mortal beauty, gave,in that exquisite moment, siich an angelic lus tre to her person, that the first impulse of the impassioned clergyman was to adore what seemed to be a revelation of heaven's own sinless and immortal loveliness. In that holy time, too, lie felt in the kindred glow °fills own excited spirit, all those ar dent feelings of sympathy and admiratior. with which the casual sight of that fair crea ture had first inspired him,explained and re suscitated, but so refined by the redeeming mug influence of her stateless purity,that not a tinge of earthly love orgiassion mingled in his thoughts. In a short time the lady rose from her knees,and the celestial animation of her face was clouded, but only deepened by the tone ofsolemn and emphatic seriousness in which she said, while she clasped her hands con vulsively,"Oh, my God, I feel, I feel now that thy religion is worth all which I will have to suffer. Yes, my dear Maria, the blessed knowledge of thy Jesus,and the cer tainty of thy glorious eternity,is worth—" —a cold damp came on her brow—"is worth, I feel, is worth dying for." As she spoke the word to which her lips almost refused to give utterance, Kaunitz felt a shivering thrill of instinctive dread steal over his frame—the horrible myste ries with which his visit was accompanied, the "terrible promise" she had mentioned, and her words now—all rushed, with num berless dark nasne.intinna. into hia frop7in g mind. He seized her hand,and gazed at her pale damp features with an unconscious ago ny. "Lady—, what suffering?--Worth dying for? Zora, dear Zora, what is it you mean?" She returned his look with cold and chill ing earnestness for an instant. but another smile of inborn happiness again lit up her Gist sinking features with all their former beauty. "Yes," said she, "it is not for me to know the pleasures ofyour religion and live. Oh, God, support me! This very night. ---Your arrival is the only mercy I could obtain. This very night—even in a few shirt minutes, unless I abjure the reli gion of Jesus, / will be put to death! By my own dear father! By my own relatives, in the presence of the full Sanhe drin], and with the great solemnities of our religion, will Ibe stoned to death!" Kau nitz's eyes grew dim; he stirred not—spoke not, but every word fell with a dark and withering distinctness on his heart. "Look hero," continued the Naples maiden, sum moning strength to rise, and walking to the side of the apartment, "look here, and you will be convinced of my fate!" She drew aside a curtain. Kaunitz,with a chill as if his heart was turned to ice, saw a large heap of stones collected in the re cess. He had not the power to move. The room was still as ever. But that ominous silence and its smothered noises now spake fearful volumes. The full extent of the ap palling tragedy flashed in instant compre hension on his mind. Then, too, he recol lected, in crowding horror, many a dim tale of the relentless tortures with which Jews were said to martyr any of the converted sect who ever fell into their power; and when, in the same instantaneous act of mind, he thought of the spotless innocence and ex quisite beauty of the delicate victim they had doomed before him, and, as it were, made him a very party to the atrocious deed—his energies seemed.to melt and dis solve in the weakness of intensest agony.— But the reaction to that paralysis of terror was instant. He already fancied he heard the tread of the murderers—the fearful pre parations for the sacrifice—the unavailing shriek of the lovely victim. His blood seemed turned to fire at the thought, and his frame to iron. He stepped back, and he felt his body, as it were, swell beyond the stature of humanity, as he said, in a tone that echoed like thunder throughout the midnight stillness of the vast apartment, "By the God 1 serve, in whose power, and whose minister 1 am, this shall never be !" Instant and gathering noises collected like an answer on every side. Distinct and dread commotion was in the house. But this was no time for the infuriated man to parley with his fears or his recollections. Maddened with superhuman excitement, he dashed a gainst the door witha giant's might. In an instant crash, like the explosion of artillery, the whole partition went thundering to the ground, and a burst of daizling light, from unnumbered lamps, streamed_like the blaze of meridian ddy into the room. The very arcane of their mysteries- 7 -the HOly of Ho- lies of the Jewish faith, in all its splendour, was before him, with itaSeraphim and Cho rithim, and Ark of gold; its curtains of rich est' purple, its net-work of silver, .and its Icountless lamps burning with frankincense, and, glittering with costly gems. The glo -1 ries of their revealed religion—the enchant ment of the scene, stopped him not a mo ment, for in a simultaneous fury, host after host ofarmed and shouting wretches in their I national costume, rushed into the room.— Nerved for the occasion with more than mortal power—to dash the intervening myr midons to the earth, and to clasp the intend ed martyr in his arm, was, with Knunitz, but the work of a moment. Ere they had (line to overmaster his roused,,ttnd terrific energies, he had snatched a dagger which an assailant had already at his throat, and na he sprang over his shrinking and shriek. 1 ing foes every brandish of the weapon was bathed in blood. A huge window, stream ing with painted story, was before him— with a tiger's bound he reached the case ment; the glass shivered with the shock; the iron network behind yielded like !v - Cobweb to his Herculean strength. Allfitiffs dark Ind deep below. Without a thought of consequences, or quiver as to danger he clasped his rescued charge, in exultation, closer to his breast, and sprang into the vacuum. it becomes painful to even trace the nar rative. There is no heart so cold that would not cntch a • • -,delight in the success of that tr.: i irt• nor is it in hu inanity .-• ..tory and not feel the glow or "1". -t feelings, interested in the preserite tn of that innocent and lovely martyr. The gallant attempt of the gener ous young minister was not, however, at tended with the success which its reckless heroism deserved; and the terrible mansion was too securely adapted for its deeds of darkness to admit of an escape so easily-- Himself and his charge escaped unscathed indeed from that host of fiends, hut it was only to fall again into their meshes with more certain fatality. A crowd of infuria ted enemies was soon around him; egress seemed impracticable; and, weakened by his vast exertions, the heroic young man soon fell bleeding and insensible beneath their blows. Awful as was the scene and excitement through which Kaunitz passed, there was a deeper terror on his mind—a blacker Cloud upon his feelings—when he recovered his senses and found himself in his own room, surrounded by anxious and inquiring friends. T 6 mysterious messengers had kept their oath. His wounds were not dangerous, nor even severe; but his instant perception of the absence of the lady, left a withering feeling in his heart, that darkened the future and extinguished hope. His harrowing narrative caused an imme diate and vivid commotion throughout Vien na. By the orders of administration—the officers of Justice, commenced a vigorous and extensive scrutiny—public opinion was fearfully excited—a cloud of accumulating suspicion seemed to gather over one of the richest banking houses in the city. One of the wealthiest Jews was arrested on the un- equivocal testimony of the minister; but the financial embarrassment of the government, after the'protracted war in which the empire had been involved, afforded the ample solu tion of state policy to the termination of the proceedings. Further official inquiry was dropped—the contractor was released— and, in a short time, the terrible narrative of the Proselyte ceased to be The topic , of conversation. Kaunitz, however, was nev er after seen to smile. His pulpit was de serted, and he at length totally disappeared. Whether the threat consequent upon dis closure was fulfilled—or whether to hide the anguish of his spirit, he had removed to a foreign country, could not be ascertained. Let us drop the curtain on this tragic story. The mind cannot presume to pene trate the undeveloped mystery of that un fortunate's fate, without recoiling on itself, and it is fitter for the honor of humanity,that that black transaction should repose forever in the darkness which all the authorities of the time could not remove, than that curiosi ty or research should throw the light of cer tainty upon awful doings, of which the bare surmise gives a shudder to the heart, and which the fine.,t sympathies of our nature would prefer shrouding in appropriate and impenetrable obscurity. ORCATIUS. MISCELLANEOUS. SUNDAY 90800 LS. It is strange that any one should be op posed to Sunday schools. It is strange that any parent should neglect to send all his children to such schools. We know that idle objections are solemnly adduced against them, and political fears are felt or affected at their extent. Nonsense! Will our coun try ever suffer because her sons are intelli gent? Will she ever have reason to regret that they are pious? These unostentatious schools may be the instruments of her sal vation. Give us light—and liberty is safe. A nation of men ignorant, vicious and in temperate—cannot long be otherwise than a nation of slaves. The influence of Sunday schools are not appreciated. The river which rolls majes. finally through the land may excite the greatest admiration—but it is the humble rivulet stealing through the meadow—its course only shown by the greenness of the vegetation —that does the most good: Sun day schools are doing incalculable benefit to this country. They are dispensing from ten thousand points the savidg influence of truth and virtue. Let them be cherished. TED MOTHER'S Hopm. Is there, when the winds arc singing In the happy summer time— When the raptured air is ringing With Earth's music heavenward springing, Forest chirp, and village chime? Is there, of the sounds that float Minglingly, a single note Hulf - so sweet, and clear, and wild, As the laughter of a child? Listen! and be now delighted; Morn bath touched her golden strings, Earth and sky their vows have plighted; Life and light are re-united, Amid countless carollings: Yet, delicious as they are, There's a sound that's atveeter far— Onc that makes the heart rejoice More than all,—the human voice. Organ finer, deeper; clearer, Though it be a stranger's tone, Than the winds or waters dearer, More enchanting to the hearer, For it answereth his own. Rut, of all its witching words, Sweeter than the songs of birds, Those are sweetest, bubbling wild Through the laughter of the child. Harmonics from time touched towers, Haunted strains from rivulets, Hum of bees amongst the flowers, Rustling leaves, and silver showers— These, ere long., the car forgets, Rut in mine there is a sound, Ringing 'on the whole year round— Heart-deep laughter that I heard Ere my child could speak a word. Ah 'twits heard by ear far purer, Fondlier formed to catch the strain— Ear of one whose love is surer— Hers, the mother, the endurer Of the deepest share of pain; Hers the deepest bliss, to treasure Memories of that cry of pleasure ; Hers to hoard, a lifetime atter, Echoes of that infant laughter. Yes—a mother's large affection Hears with a mysterious sense— Breathings that evade detection, Whisper faint, and fine inflexion, Thrill in her with power intense. Childhood's honied tones untaught Liveth she in loving thought— Tones that never thence depart, • For she listens—with her heart. LIVING PEACEABLY. Better is a dry morsel and quietness there with than a house full ofsacrifices with strife. How delicious that 'conversation is,which is accompanied with mutual confidence, free dom, courtesy and complacency; how calm the mind, how composed the affe•tions, how serene the countenance, how melodious th• voice, how sweet the sleep, how contentful the whole life is of him that neither devises mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself; and contrari wise, how ungrateful and loathsome a thing it is, to abide in a state of enmity, wrath and dissension; having the thoughts distracted with solicitous care, anxious suspicion, envi ous regret; the heart boiling with dholer,the face overclouded with discontent, the tongue 1 jarring and out of tune, the ears filled with discordant noises of contradiction, clamor, and reproach, the whole frame of body 'and soul distempered and disturbed with the worst of passions. How much more. com fortable it is to walk in smooth and even paths, than to wander in rugged ways over grown with briars, obstructed with-shrubs, and beset with snares; to sail steadily in a quiet, than to be tossed in a tempestuous sea; to behold the lovely face of heaven smiling with a cheerful serenity, than to see it frown ing with clouds or raging with storms; to hear harmonious concerts, than dissonant janglings, to • see objects corrissponding in graceful symmetry, than lying disorderly in confused heaps; to be in health, and have the natural humors constant and moderate, than (as it happens in diseases) agitated with tu multuous commotions. How all the senses and faculties of man unanimously rejoice in these emblems of peace, order; harmony and proportion; yea, how nature universally de lights in a quiet stability, or undisturbed progress of motion; the beauty strength and vigor of every thing requires a concurrence of force, cooperation and contribution of health; all things thrive and flourish by com municating reciprocal aid, and the world subsists by a friendly conspiracy of its parts; and especially that political society of man, chiefly aims at peace as its end, depends on it as its cause, relies on it as its support. How like a paradise the world would be, flourishing in joy and rest, if men would cheerfully conspire in affection,and helpfully contribute to each other's content, and how like a savage wilderness now It is, when like wild beasts, they vex and persecute, worry and devour, each other. Not only philoso phy has placed the supreme pitch of happi ness in a calmness of mind and tranquility of life, void of care and trouble, of irregular passions and perturbations, but. holy Scrip ture itself, in that one term of peace, most usually comprehends all joy and content, all felicity and prosperity so that the heavenly consort of angels, when they agree most kindly to bless, and to Wish the greatest hap piness•to mankindi could not better express their sense, than by saying—"Be on earth peace and good will among men." VARIOUS MATTERS. Laivrence, the maniac assassin, still con tinues in his cell, and refuses to have any intercourse with the world. He says that he is "a king, every inch a king," and de mands the reins of the government of the United States. The poor fellow is as mud as any madman need be. • On the sth.inst. two fires occurred about the some time, in the City of New York, which destroyed property to the amount of about $lOO,OOO. C. A. Harris; Esq. of Tennessee, has been appointed Chief Clerk of the War Depart. ment. The Philadelphia Sentinel: rebukes the Globe for its vile insinuations; that the late insane attempt on the life of the Pr i`iiat [WHOLE NO. 255. was to be attributed to the conduct. of any public man or political party. The Senti. nel is a Jackson paper, and its honorablii course is a credit to its party. A GRACELESS SET.—The present Lees: laturo of Now York, have dispensed with the custornartt services of a chaplain. There has not been an Assembly in that State for twenty years which has needed to be prayed for as much as this very Legislature! It is understood that the Postmaster Gen.: eral has appointed Dr. RICHARD C. MAsoN; of Virginia, the Troastsrer and Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department, in the rootti of the Rev. 0. B. Brown, resigned:—Globe4 New York has succeeded in reeking fief Penitentiaries productive. The income of the two State' Prisons at Auburn and at Mount Pleasint, over their ordinary expen ses, exclusive of the support of the female convicts, was $28,892 42, for the last fiscal year, and over all expenses, six thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars. At a large and respectable meeting of the Anti-Masens of Mercer county, held at the Court House, on the 22d ult. John McLean, of Ohio, was recommended as a suitable candidate for the Presidency. A number of re9ectable prints in this State, Jackson Whig and Anti.Masonic,advocate the claims of Judge McLean. A resolution was adopted on the 21st Sari. in the House of Representatives of Ohio, for the appointment of a joint ccirnmittee to in.; quiro into the expediency of eflecting a pur , chase by the State of-Ohio from the United States of all the lands belonging" to the U.l States Within the boundary of that state. 16 , The bill to-arnend the act to incorporate the Pennsylriaaia and Ohio Canal COnspa n , ny has passed through the House of Rspre. sentatives of Ohio, by a decided majority. tit The Baltimore Athemeum waa insured td the amount 0fe20,000. It cost about 840,- 000. Mr. Crockett said, we wore now withirt three weeks of the close of the session, and what had we done? Nothing. A great nurn ber of bill 9 had been made special orders; and among them one of great interest to his constituents, but they could not be reached on account of the long speeches. Last ses sion seven months were spent in talking,and two months more this session. He had therefore come to the conclusion that this was a better place to manufacture orators than to despatch buisiness; A white man named Godfrey —,aged 40, walked into the porter house 205 South street, in the city of New York, on Satur- day night, and after drinking to eitessi unz dertook, for a waget, to drink off a pint of_ brandy at a draught. Ho accomplished the object—won the wager—and dropped dead on the spot. Verdict Infetaperance!!! WHO SAYS THAT WOODEN bioCH% WONT co?—A man residing at Cincinnati has ac. cuniulatedone hundred and twenty thousand dollars in three years, by the peddling of wooden clocks throughout the southwestera country. STONE PAlNT:—Professor Hitchcock In his "Geology," speaking of the useful and ornamental minerals in this state, mentiond the sulphate of baryta as a valuable paint: It is found in immense quantities, and'of a superior quality, at Hatfield, about two roiled west of the village, with lead ore imbedded. It is white, son, and may be ground likd plaster of Paris.[ Northampton (Mass.) Gat: The widow of Napoleon is having con.; etructed at London a most beautiful and splendid state coach. There is already confined in the jail of this_c,ounty, for trial at the next April Court, a white man charged with having stabbed another man to death; a colored man for at tdmping to shoot another colored man; and two young men detected in drawing money . on forged memorandums of the delivery of Straw, at the Straw Papet Mill in this place; Franklin Repository. tOIINTERFEIT GOLD.—Large quantities of five dollar gold pieces are in circulation: A friend of ours took two yesterday, neither of which would be observed from their gen. eral appearance. To us they had every ap pearance of the real gold coin.[N. Y. Adti: The New York Transcript, somewhat given to jocoseness, relates the following: A CURLY-TAILED Doo, AND A CURLY. HAIRED MAN.—In a mixed company of gentlemen and ladies, at a boarding-hedge table the other day, one of the former relit.; ted a very large story of a very little dog he had seen, whose tail he represented as curl.: ing so Very strenuously as absolutely. to Itfi his hind legs from the ground. A frixt.led haired young man, who sat so far off that he merely heard something said about curling, and supposing of course that it related to, hair, exclaimed, "That's just the way mine always does." The ladies tittered and the gentlemen laughed, at hearing which the curly-haired young man looked very much out of countenance, though he could not vine the cause of it, nor so much as sorput that he had compared his own head tort dog's tail.
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