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The lonely silence of the unfathomed main, And filled the meanest worm that crawls in dust With spirit, thought, and love." 11. Shelly. Heaven's earliest born and still unsullied child, Whose smile is morning and whose frown is nig! Around whose brow Earth's earliest roses smiled THINE wet the glow of beauty—THlNE the light That beamed o'er Paradise, tyhezi WOMAN there Fresh from her Maker's hand—a faultless thiug— With dove-like eyes, and shadowy golden hair, From grovelling beast, or bird on tireless wing, Won homage as she passed I "THINE too the glow That ltush'd her cheek,orbeamed from herwhite brow Beauty is thine in all her changing dyes— Color, and light, and shade, and sound, and song, Morn's purple hues, and Evening's golden skies— The whispering summer breeze—the whirldwind strong; • Night with her starry train, a shining band,— Each wandering meteor of you trackless deep-- italia's greenest spot—Zahara's burning sand— The thunder's roll—the lightning's livid leap— The lark's light note—the murmur of the bee— All speak of 'leaven, of Order and of Thee: The Seasons arc thy handmaids, and the flowers Fair emblems of thy heauty.—bending grain Made golden by the sunshine's magic power,— The howling tempest—and the gentle rain Of Summer's softer mood,—blossom and fruit— The bending willow and the creeping vine— The rattling hyl-starin, and the snow-flake mute— The time•worn'oak, the cedar and the pine— Niagara's roaring Fall—the noiseless rill Were Nature'. at the dawn—are Nature'. still. Mighty or gentle as may suit thy mood The whirlwind and the earthquake tell thy power Thy hand scoop'd out old Ocean—Etna pil'd ; Bent the first rainbosvpainted the first flower; But loveliest is thy face in Spring's glad hour— .Tbe meadows green, the waters leaping free— The earth yet wet with, morning's dewy shower— The sunlight.bcaming'o'er the distant sea— When new-born wind. their freshness first disclose, And Wanton with, tho violet and the rose. • The temples are epon the lofty steeps Of Andes and the Appeniries—and where The coral iriseertoifslreneath the deep. 'Or the lean Arab po uts bin soul in prayer, The meanest intelleet--the mightiest mind— Master and slavp,alike admit thy power— Monarch and nation—htl r o, prince and bind, Must yield at. Natures - iiibatary- hour— Before Thee, forests tremble, mountains nod; Bow feeble Art to Thee— ; "a worm, a god!" Oh.'Natun, ! it it strange the forest child, The tawny tenant of the boundless West— ' Wtih lead his mind beyond the wild, On point his thoughts to regiOns of the blest— Should deem Thy glories od like..and fall down A savage , . worshipper? Should see in Thee The spirit of.the leaping cataract— The power aide, and Death, and Destiny— Should, as the,liilkkaliiinashes through the sky **eve . ifiltviAkln'so*e Immortal eye ? No—rather Mariel that the letter'dfool— The worm whom Heaven has given the power of Seeing thy glories, and the magic rule That governs all Thy works—should set at naught The lessons that they teach—should mock the Power That call'd from chaos all that mingles here— The loftiest mouiltaln and the lowliest flower Earth; Air, mild Ocean—each celestial sphere— Should look from sea to sky—from dust to man— And sae no God in all the wond'roui plan ! MUER al ES IP••• Eg 'a 01372 o Tile Widower's Wooing. • BY TUOMA6 HAYNTS DAILY. wao a bright spring rimming, when . the air was-what the poets call genial, that in high spirits, and half-mourning, I.set'outfrona the metropolis, to leek in the !aloof VVight,the young lady to whom I had been somewhat prematurely engaged in the life time of my lamented BeckY. That unfortif- Hato impediment to our union was now removed, and though she had been gone many 'months I clung to my semblance; because, in my singular case, I thought that on my again beholding Anna Maria and her mother, my black gloves and the Grape round my white hat, would speak volumes of love, hope, and constancy, and serve as signals for rejoicing, • . As the Southampton coach, on the top of which I was seated, flew rapidly along, I gave myself up to.blissful anticipations, and though it did,occur to me that upwards of two years and a half hiiiielap- Bed since I had heard of Mrs. : Millingert and her daughter,tuld that such a lapse of time briegitlnani changes, still the , small cloud turned to m - e ..its sit. ver lining," and the anxipos flurry of, my feelings made me think my•conveyance, tho Ugh it went at iho' rate of nine miles an hour, a slow coach. The Cowes steam packet vividly revived BCOIIO. that were past, aod I sat upon the deck recalling one by one the events of my fuit union with Becky, my imaginary widowhood, our reunion,and my second bereavernent,about which there could keno mistake: saw her as she sat for her picture--I saw her sea sick on board tho sinking Duck,and then,dreadful Xetrospection! , I saw her private box! But from Ithe private box which she now occupied,she could never again come forth to elide / me, so l lightly ..etepped l upon terra firma, and looktarabout me at ,Conses,witli the air of a single man without ineutn krances. , . My first walk was to the post office to ascertain the iiihh•e.ss of Mrs. Millington; I then returned to 'the hotel, dressed myself with great care, and in; cast a glance at the long . nurror the coffee., Mom, I draw on my black gloves, and with &palpi tating heirt proceeded to the house to which I had been directed. It was a very Small habitation,quim in the cottage style, standing in an bit Ofgarden--ene of those slim dwelling which indicate the slender means of the proprietor. I had I been aware that Ann M4ria was dependent on her Mother, and that her mother was not rich ? „ when I had been so nearly united to her two years and a half ago. But on very long voyages, when two peo ple are thrown together as we were, they are apt to forget earth and its dross, while fully engrossed by amolous anticipations. Besides, though I should certainly have liked my wife, just for the look of the thing, to have hadgelittle independence of her own, still I could afford to marry whom I - pleased —and though I stood for a moment at the dsw of the exceedingly small cottage, with the kn'tcker in my hand, before I gave the signal which . was to summon the servant,[ cannot allow it to be suppos ed that the idea of withdrawing from the pursuit of Anna Maria, on account of her humble abode, entered my imagination. After twice repeating my kneel:, a foot woman opened the door and apologized for delay, saying that she was an-washing;" to the truth of which statement her red hands and arms, lathered and sloppy up to the elbows, bore ample testimony. "Is Mrs. Millington at homer I falteringly quired. aNn, Sir—not at homer replied the maid. within!" "Both gone out, Sir." i4'shoultl be sorry to disturb them if they are engaged, but I am so old and int,imatea friend,that if they are at home, and visible to any one, Jam sure they would see me." "Oh, they're not inwisablo no where to-day to no one here," said the maid shaking her head. “Pray take my card," said I; and she looked at her wet finger and thumb with some compunction as she took it. "And hero's half a crown for yourself," Io•lded and sho.took that without hesitation or compunc tion, for half-crowns are not the worse far wetting. "Thank ye kindly, Sir; Missis shall have your card when she do come back from Lunetun," • "What!" I exclaimed; •'gone!" "Went this morning to meet Missis's maiden sister, Miss Chumps, what is just come from the Injies." 'This morning! and how long will they stay'!" 'AA week, Missis said, or ten days at longest." "Oh, well, it can't be helped," said I; 411 shall remain at Cowes till they return. Are they quite well!" "Why, tollable. Mrs. Millington has had the flenzy, and was so bad Sunday come se'nnight, that Mr. Morbid the potecary gave her epidemic in ber gruel; but she be better and stronger now, and means to insult somebody in Lunnun." "And your young mistress, how is she?" • "Oh! she'd a touch of the flenzy, too." "Not serious, I hope?" • "Oh, no! young folks don't so much mind, Mr. Morbid said her's was little more than a• common guitar; but then ho told her a - cold an't a thing to play with." "And is she looking as lovely as ever?" "Oh, charming! such a face! and then her fig ure's 'perfect scymitar! Yoit heard of her luck, I suppose?" "No, what luck?—unless you mean—my arrival." "I thought twety body knew. My Missis's mai den sister, Miss Chumps, brought home the news from the Injios." "I've heard nothing." "Only to think! and an old Mend, too! and Ito have the telling on't? Why Miss Anny Murices father's only brother that surwived, had died at some queer place in those parts; and he's left all his fortune to she!" "To Miss Millington?" "Oh, yes!.—no end to it!" "You don't say so! have you their address in London. ""Oh, yes. The British Hotel,Cockspur street." "Very well,' said I; "and now, can you tell me where I can find furnished lodgings?" . "How luckily things do turn out!" replied my nteresting friend. aThere's Mr. Morbid has jus the apartments to suit you; there, up the street, he's Mistis's potecary, and you see blue and red bottles in his shop-window," I thanked her, and proceeded to Mr. Morbid, a pale thin, meek little man,who having walked me about his rouse, agreed as the leggings suited me, to lot me have them with cooking and attendance for three guineas a week. I dined - at the hotel,and had my luggage moved , to my apartment, where I drank tea, and then wrote a letter to Mrs. Milling ton expressive of my regret at not finding her at Cowes, and my anxiety for their return. Not a word did I say about that which was uppermost in my thoughts Anna Maria's accession of fortune; but with en assurance of my disinterested attach ment for her daughter, I brought my epistle to a close, and directed it to Mrs. Millington, British Hotel, Cockspur street. The next morning I ordered a dinner, plain,but good, and then went forth to enjoy the beauty of the scenery. At my dinner hour I returned with a very excellent appetite, and ordered up my roast fowl, oyster sauce and potatoes. Up they flew, or rather I should say that I wonder my fowl did not fly into the apartmcnt,for it hod never been trussed but had been simply suspended by its head before the fire, in a state of unsophistication,with its legs and wings hanging loose; and now it lay sprawl ing on the dish more like an expiring frog than a barn-door fowl; the potatoes,though heated,certain ly were not boiled and the oysters, plunged in mel ted butter, gave evidence that the individual who called herself cook (if there really was such a pre tender in the house) had no intention of giving me nay of her sauce. This won't do, thought T, aol, walked down to Mr. Morbid's back parlour, and requested to speak with him. He entered the apartment, stroking doWn his hair on his forehead in the folorn manner. J began to explain my culinary distresses, and Mr. Morbid listened with a patient countenance, when the door opened and in camas lady taller by a head and shoulders than Mr. Morbid, whom he falteringly introduced to me as his wife. I bowed and then continued my complaint; and Mr. Mor bid, perhaps struck with th'e hungry , look which I involuntarily wore, began an apologetic reply, but Mrs. Morbid stopped him with a vehement excla mation. A But expostulation was vain; and Mrs. Morbid, in the absence of the real cook, who, believe had the flenzy, was to perform the part as an amateur. Alas! day after day, grumbled eller an ill-dressed dinner. -On inquiry,' found that the kitchen grate had been unfairly diminiahed, by the insertion of iron' plates on either side. The fire, in fact,looked as if it had been laced into a tight psiir'of stays,the ribs seemed compressed, and the vital spark almost extinct. ' I needed no moralist to remind me of the littleness of the grate. I ascertained that, at the all•••••PMEIMEN r . "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, . NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR PROM CORRUPTION.' -SHAKE aceaciaqtazinferazeziti e .7•4() zataztbztzr urxne sae . avolc• uoh, yes, certainly; any thing advantageous to one so near and dear as an aunt, must of course gratify me; not that I have any selfish reason to rejoice, for though aunt Chumps is not young, she will of course marry." 4 beg your pardon," said I; "it seems to me that I do not clearly comprehend this mutter; and now I remember it was but an ignorant girl that spoke to me on the subject." "If she told you that my aunt,, Miss Chumps had unexpectedly come into a large fortune, she told you the truth." "Your aunts" "Yes; was that what you heard! "No—yes—that is—l really—l forget." "Oh, of course, you were thinking of other things. But do you know I never was so surpris ed as when I heard you had recollected me after such a lapse of time. You must not forgot the disparity in our ages, I am many years younger than yourself, and you may by-and-by think me gay and giddy. \Visit us, if you please, but think no more of love until, you have seriously reconsid ered the matter." . I retired to my lodgings, startled, disappointed, disorganized; and as prevention is better than cure, I sent down to Mr. Morbid for a antibillimus but notwithstanding my precaution my slumbers that night wore feverish and disturbed. The next day I was introduced to Miss Chumps, and I really thought her a very interesting wo man. A long residence in a tropical climate had tinged her with deep yellow, and the lines under her eyes and round her mouth wore peculiarly dark. Her form, tall and erect, was perhaps what critical people would have called meagre, but still there was a certain something about her, far from disagreeable. She had beeni sent out to Indbi to seek a husband when she was very young (which must have been a , long time ago,) and the search having been: fruitless i she now came back again, possibly to establish a similar look-out in hor na tive land. I don't know how it happened, but I saw very little of Anna Maria or her mother during my daily visits to Pigmy Villa. Miss Chumps always received me, and now and then we strolled togeth• er by the sea-shore. She had left England so ear'. ly in life, that her notions were all oriental—she certainly must have been little bit vulgar before she sot out; and I am inclined to think that a long . residence in India, unless the individual . is natu• rally elegant, and has been early associated in England with persona of refinement, is 'not par- apothecary's lodgings, I had no chance of a dinner unless I could make up my mind to live upon rhu ' barb tart. . But what are all these minor anxieties to one. who daily looked for a letter from his soul's idoll Could I expect to relish food? At length it came, not precisely the reply I had expected, but still nothing actually to damp my ar dor. We had parted suddenly, and in circumstan ces most painful to all parties. Nearly three years had since elapsed; and it was something to find her still unmarried; still disengaged, still willing to meet me at her mother's house. In fact,what more could I expect? I read the letter a second time, kissed it, and sat down to a medicated mutton pie with a very tolerable appetite. Mrs. and Miss Millington, accompanied by Miss * Chumps, in duo time arrived from London; and I was summoned to their temporary residence,Piginy Villa. Again I stood in the very little garden; again knocked at the door of the very small house; and again it was opened by the handmaid, who had al ready indulged me with an interview. I was ad mitted, and shown into the smallest parlour I ever saw in my life. I sat there in great agitation for some time; and then the aoor opened, and Mise Anna Maria, my_ r: , -ckrant betrothed, stood before me.' I.was very much agitated, and for the Aret ten minuteg I could talk of nothing but the weather and the Vlenzll;" but she had more courage than myself, and she soon came to the point. "•It is some time since we met, Mr. Daffodil," said she. "Nearly three years," I replied sighing-deeply. • "You have experienced strange vicissitudes." "True," I onswared:"wonderfuimps-and-downs. But she I once thought down, and who suddenly, rose up, is now, as I suppose your mamma inform ed you, at rest." "Poor thing!" "Yes; and so I come to you for consolation." Wlicni first knew you, sir," said Anita Maria, with provoking coolness, "you seemed , to require little consolation; you thought proper to pay me marked attention during the voyage,and being very young,and very inexperienced,l complied with my mother's wishes, and accepted you." "I now am free to claim your plighted hand." "Since that period," she added, "I have become three years older, I have therefore more experience, and, I hope, more sense; you, Sir, are also three years older, and you look it." "Ma'ma; Miss Millington: Anna Maria—" "Do not interrupt me. I certainly promised to marry you, when you proposed for me, you were not aware of an impediment to our unlon;therefore, if your attachment was, real, the circumstances which separated us must have given you pain.— As no ' obstacle now exists,. and as you have again sought me, I do not think I should be justi fied in 'retracting the consent which I formerly gave; that is, if you presist in your determination to wed a portionless girl." "When I came to see you heroonvoet idol of my beating heart,"l replied, "I might have been in_the smallest degree in the world startled at the very little house in which I found your very small es• taldishment." °That is candid: then, adieu." "Nay, /said not that ; and you are endeavour ing to conceal from me a circumstance which (though nothing could render you more dear) is still, in a worldly point of view, highly gratify ing to any individual about to be—that is, I don's mean to say, that—in fact, I'm aware of the acces• sion of fortune." "Oh, you are! Well, isn't she lucky'!" "Who?" "My aunt." "What aunt!" • “Miss Chumps." • • "Oh! ycnir mother's maiden sister, who br9ught the news! Yea, yes, she and indeed all in any way connected with you, must rejoice in yoUr good fortune." ' 4..Mitze!" “Yes, yours.” titularly calculated to give ladies what we aro in the habit of considering ladylike ways and notions. The Q1111111)603, were persons of low origin.— • n early marriage with a most gentlemanlike man had made Mrs. Millington presentable in any so.. ciety; but her spinister-sister, Miss Chumps, look ed so Odd, and had such odd manners, that one would not have been anxious to incur the responsi bility of presenting her any where. Still .what Anna Maria had told . me about accession of for tune rendered her somewhat interesting in my eyes, and being, as I thought, rather neglected by the niece, I was glad to avail myself of the excuse to try and get into the good graces of the aunt. have been in India myself," said I to her one "So they tell me," she replied. "(Th, the place for us women! I remeniber at R tin-and pore the ball that Lord Polling gave Us. He was &based us a Rajah, and I and five other ladies (the handsomest they could pick out)- were his six wives! I win you could have seen Me withy Shawls, and my tissue-turban, and my beetle wings!" .:13ut you like England, I hope'?" "Oh, London's pretty well, if they would but wash it clean. I arrived some days before I was expected, and stayed by myself at the Vroldon Cross,until sister Millington and my neicejoined • . • "Thipleasant for a single lady." Yep, especially for one accustomed to the man n* of the East. But I recollected that I had a cousin Chumps in trade, one my sister don't wish to hear talked about, and looking in the. Directo ry I found him out and wrote him a note, and ho came and called with his wife, and they asked mo to tea, which was civil and obliging; they lodg ed at a pork-shop in the strtuid, called Devonshire House." "I've not the pleasure ofAtiowing it," slid I; but I've seen the advertisement." "Well," proceeded Miss Chumps, I was not sor ry to have an opportunity of seeing a little of London society; so I put on a beautiful bright yel low China-crape dress, with a handsome scarlet India shawl, my beetle-wing turban, and my ban gles,:ind ordering a hackney-coach at 8 o'clock in the evening, I desired the man to drive to Devon shire House." "Pray go on," said I, beginning to take an inter est in the adventure. away . NVO went and arrived at some gates which were thrown open; there seemed to be some demur about 'admitting the vehicle; but the mo ment my beetle wings glittered at the window, the porter allowed us to proceed. We drove up to a niagnifficient mansion,frozn every window of which lights were beaming, and we stopped at a splen did pram); the folding doors were open, crowds of livered menials stood ready to receive me, and thu interior of the ball blazed with magnificence. Am lin a dream? thought I. People approached; the door of the coach was opened; the steps let down; aild. I 4.k:remitted. I thought I heard the words 'hackney-coach' whispered by a gentlemen in full dress, and another also in a whisper replied. 'Oh, a foreigner of distinction. a stranger no doubt;'and with much ceremony I was escorted to the door of a saloon, and I immediately found myself in a dr. ek of distinguished individuals ono of whom— really the most gentlemanlike man I never behold forward to receive me, but started back after he had advanced a few steps, as if overcome by the orientekaphlndor of my appearance. I could not quite understand all this; I looked round in vain for cousin Chunips. and instead of seeing preparations for tea and smelling buttered toast, I thought I heard 'dinner' mentioned by a gentleman in powder,who walked in at another door and made a graceful bow!" "Good gracious!" said I, "what a sad mistake!" "So it appeared," replied the spinster; "for the gentlemanlike man spoke to the man in powder, and he spoke to me, and enquired whom ho had the honor of addressing; I certainly was agitated, but distinctly articulated 'Miss Chumps, from In dia,' when a tall handsome man in regimentals said something about deranged intellect, and some of the young people laughed, while others looked on me with an eye of compassion. I fainted dead away, and knew very little what happened until I found myself in my bedchamber at tho golden Cross." It was evident from Miss Cliumps's story that she had appeared in the first circles in London; yet it was with difficulty I could resist laughing at her adventure. To change the conversation, however, I touched on a tender theme; and ere a quarter of an hour had elapsed, false to the fair neice; I had breathed vows of unalterable love) to the more of aunt. She seemed much aston— jailed at my offer. • "You must make my peace with Anna Maria," said I. . , "\Vhy, to toll the truth," she replied, «I do not think she will regret your desertion; I believe, after whaffassed between yoU three years ago, she considered herself bound. in honor to accept your hand if you presisted in your suit; though,between ourselves, I think she has been rather attached to a very handsome officer, of her own ago, quarter ed at Now port." • "So much the better," I replied. _••But I must do you the justice to say that your giving her up now is a proof of disinterested hon. orablo feeling, which does you credit. You court ed her when she was comparatively poor,and there are few who would have voluntarily withdrawn their claims at the very moment when she become rich, and bestowed those affections on one portion. less as myself." • , I stood aghast. Had the•servant-girl then told me the truth, and had Anna Maria merely misled me to try the disinterestedness of my motives! .So it proved. I had been engaged to dine with Mrs. Millington that day, and at dinner I was placed by Miss Chumps, the antiquated possessor of forty pounds a-year unencumbered property, while An na Maria,who now possessed five thousand a-year, sat radient with smiles and beauty by the side of Captain Beaumont of the Dragoons. , So much for a widower's Wooing. There was now no Becky to come forth and claim me, and voliintary apostacy was likely to be rewarded with an action for breach of promise of marriage. Do. prised of the smiles of Miss Millington I found small consolation in the ogles of Miss Chumps; and perhaps I may hereafter make publics some more of the miss adventures of a Widower. Mny Temptation never ccmquer.Virtne. wamaav7i. LAZY unit arnmi.--The editor of the Orion, says—..lazy rich girls make rich men, poor, and industrious poor girls make poor men rich.'!. He does not mean by flattery to sacrifice truth. "Have you any good plates?" said a woman, stepping.into store a few.days since. "Yes ma'am; we have every thing-;—which will you have Madam? Put you,tip some of the gilt, Ma'am?" "No," said the lady,A want some that wont show dirt:. Locr.—The editor of the Methuen Gazette makes the following sweeping assertion: ' , Whitt, a man! and never love! Pshave Such a man must have a heart of ;70, a soul as lifeless as a corn cob; the gizzard of a goose, and a head as sappy as a cocoa nut." Something Curious.--Fishs Story! On Saturday last, Mr. David .Lupfer, who had gone to Clark's Ferry for shad,returned in the evening, bringing with hinua -rock fish, which weighed nearly 11 pounds, and measured 2 feet 4 inches in length, and 16 inchest round the thickest part of the body: The size of the fish was not very remarktv blems larger rock fish than this are frequent. ly caught at that place. There was [loth. ' ing in its appearance indicating'that it had shared any other than the lot common •to its kirid. As soon as it was, brought home it was cleaned, and, on opening it, thero were found in it three pebbles or Itones; one weighing 7i ounces, the other two weighing 2 ounces each. The stones are nearly ob. long, rather resembling a potato() in shape, and very smooth; each stone Was enclosed in a separate bag or stick, which was drawn perfectly tight around the stones, and this envelope appeared to be much thicker,'firtn• er, and stronger than thy intestines. How are we to account for these stones being found in a. rock fish? Is ttcOmmonSOT fish of this kind to swallow stones, or were they swallowed by accident'! The thickness of the skin; composing the sack or bag, being thicker and stronger than the intestines ) would lead us to the conclusion that They had not only been swallowed at different times, but that they had been in the fish a considerable time before it was caught.— Nature, no doubt, covered each stone sepa- rately in order to, prevent abrasion, and to confine each to its particular place. If they were'not .swttllowed by accident, but by de. sign, can any of our learned friends give us the why and wheretbrel. If by design, was the poor rock fish driven to it by sheer ne cessity, arising from the calamitous pressure which is now so extensively : ,felt through the country, or were they only taken in for ballast. . Phis remindsus pfthe 'Extraordinary Case,' mentioned in ihe Pickwick Papers, where the child swallowed a necklacevbut it was not followed by the like tragical circum stances; inasmuch" as the stones were each enveloped in a separate bag, which prevent. ed their rattling. — Perry Forester. - A lady named Sykes was recently turned Olt of Church in Vermont for kissing a gen tleman. It was certainly a pressure which any honest woman ought not to regret. \ l' - ' - ", -1- 4 ,-- . : .....,. - . _ . t.. ...A., Pr.fr 7: ---' ' ' ' . 7 ' . '"r • ....... , -....................... • Constitutional Convtn lion. Remarks of Mr. Stevens, On the 12th instant, in Committee of the Whole, on the 2d Art., thee o question being upon an a mendmentlitegut the advice and consent of the Senate relatiN upg to appointments by the Go., vernor. • Mr. STEVENS said: Hnving reluctantly but inevitably' come to the mournful cOnclu- sion, that all the vital parts of this venerable and hitherto venerated Constitutjon of ours, aro given over to immolation, as a sacrifice to the restless spirit of change which has taken possession of this Convention, I do not address you on this occasion - with the hope of slaying the hand of destruction which is raised against it; but simply to offer the rea sons which, to my mind, are all-powerful for resisting the depredations which are making upon this article of the great charter of our sights. The amendment proposes two things; to take away from the Governor al/ agency in the appointment of all officers, except the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the judicial officers; and secondly, to curb and restrain hissaction, by the supervi- , sum of the Senate, in the appointment of those which remain to him. lam opposed to both of these amendments to the extent proposed. • I am willing and desirous of tak ing the appointment of all the county officers —Registers, Recorders, Prothonotaries,and Clerks of the courts from the Governor,and giving their election to the people. I would not object to putting the just iceb of the peace into the same hands, if this would slake the burning thirst of the reformers. But I can not, and my constituents will not, consent to go much further in mutilating and destroy. ing a Constitution,under which we and they have found a full and perfect protection of all their 'civil and religious rights—of their lives, their persons, and the titles to their property. Experiments in governments are dangerous things, when the land's and the houses, • and the personal estate of a whole penple,depend'upon the result. lam opens ed to this amendment, not only because it proposes too great and radical a ehange, but because,we can hardly perceive;and•the pee ple-will scarcely know, the full extent or its operation. By the present Constitution,the Governor heti the appointment of all officers under it, which are not expresily taken from him. The present amendment proposes to [VOL. Fh-pi r +r,„.• - , - , i ~ 1 , 3 ;. ;--; take from him all thar-are tiOV i rift _.'--, granted. - What',will be the•rOlia';'lloY,-;• mnny,officersnow'existing and linciniiiititl k 'ji led in the amendmeet;. will . thersbei