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THE GARLAND.
—"With 'sweetest flowersenrich'd,
From various gardens cull'd with care."
"01Ie 11;e1 us die like Olen."
DI LIEUT. 12. W. PET'VY.N, 11. - 11. A.
Written previous to The Dank of Okachubbee
Roll out the banner on the sir,
And draw your swords of flame!
The forming squadrons fast prepare,
To take the field of Fame.
With measur'd step your columns duo
Close up along the glen,
If we must die ere set of sun,.
'Ohl lot us die like men.
Wo seek tho foe from night till morn,
A foowe do not see--
Go roll the drum, and wind the horn,
And tell him here are we.
In idle strength we watch a prey
That lurks by marsh or fen;
But should he stroke our lines today
Oh! let•us die like men.
'Tis not , to right a kinsman's wrong
With bristling ranks we come—
Our sisters sing their evening songs
far in a peaceful home.
We battle at our country's call
The savage in his den:
If insult struggle we must fall,
Oh! let us die like men. ,
Remember, boys, that ;ninny's dower
Is life to him who yields;
Remember, that the band of power
Is strongest when it shields.
Keep your honor like your sabres, bright;
Shame e.oward fear—and then,
If we steer perish in the fight,
• Oh!, let us die like men. •
TIIp . OIIINIPRESFACE OF GOD.
ir P•IIK asxJairtn.
The Lord, the high and holy One,
Is present every whew;
Go to the regiune of the sun,
And thou wilt find him there!
Go to the secret ocean caves,
• Where inan 'bath never trod,
And there, beneath the flashing waves,
Will be thy maker Gov!
Fly swiftly on the morning's wing,
To distant realms away,
Where birds, in jewell'd plumage, sing
The advent of the day.
And where the lion seeks his lair,
And reindeer bounds alone— -;
God's presence snakes the desert fair s
And cheers the frozen zone. -
All nature speaks of him who made
The land, and sea, and sky;
The fruits that fall, the leaves that fade,
The flowers that bloom to die.
The lOfty mount and lowly vale,
The looting forest trees,
The rocks that battle with the gals,
The ever rolling seas.
All tell the Omnipresent Lon],
• The God of boundless might;
In every age and clime inked,
Whose dwelling is the light.
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F r om the Church of England Magazine.
The Jew and his Daughter.
An 1 was going through the western part
of Virginia, (says an American - writer,) an
old clergyman gave me a short account of an
old Jew which greatly delighted me. He
had only lately become acquainted with
.hint . .He was preaching to his people,
when he saw a man enter having every
:'mark` of a Jew in his lace. He was well
dinitted, and his looks seemed to tell that he
'hatti . been in great sorrow. He took his
seat, and lisnened in a dovout manner, while
a tear was Wien seen to wet his manly
cheek. After the service the clergyman,
went up to him and said, "Sir, du.! not ad
dress myself to one of the children of Abra.
hain?'" You . do, 'he replied. ..But how
is it that 1 meet a Jew in a Christine
church?' The substance of his account
was us follows . ; —He had heron well etiura•
ted, had collie from London, and with his
books, hie riches, and a love ly daughter of.
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seventeen, had found a charming retreat on
the fruitful banks of Ohio. He had buried
his wife before he left Europe, and he knew
no pleasure but the company of his beloved
child. She was indeed worthy of a parent's
love. Her mind was well infi.rmed, her
disposi , ion amiable, she c'.uld read and
speak with ease various langunges, and her
manners pleased all who saw her. No won
der then, that a denting father whose In ad
had now become sprinkled with grey,should
place his whole afketions on this lovely
child. Being a strict Jew, he brought her
up in the strictest principles of his religion.
It was not long age that his daughter was
taken sick. The rose laded from her cheek;
her eye lost its fire, her strengtlrdetaye'd;
and it was soon too certain that death was
creeping upon her frame. The father hung
over her bed with a heart ready to burst'
with anguish. He often tried to talk with
her, but could seldom speak except by the
language of his tears. He spared no ex
pense or trouble in getting her medical Ind;
but no medical skill could extract the arrow
of death now fixed in her breast. The fa
ther was walking in a wood mar his house,
when ho was sent for by the dying daughter.
With a heavy heart he entered the door of
the chamber. He was now to take the last
farewell of his child, and his' religion gave
him but feeble hope of meeting her here
after,
The child grasped the hand of her parent
with a death cold hand. "Uy father do
you love ine 7" "My child you know I
love you; that you are more dear to me
than the world beside." "But my lathier
do you love me r " Why my child, will
you give me pain ? Have I never given you
any proof of my love." 'But my dearest
father, do you love me 7"f he father could
not answer. The child added, "I know,
my dear father, you have ever loved me;
you have been the kindest of parents,and I
tenderly !eve you;—will you grant me one
request 7 Ohl n.y father, it is the dvlng re.
quest of your daughter; will you grant it?"
"My dearest child, ask what you will—
though it take every farthing drily proper
ty; whatever it may be it shall be granted.
I will grant it." "My dear father, I beg
you never again to speak ageing Jesus of
Nazareth. The father was dumb with sur
prise. "I know," added the dying girl, "I
know but little about this Jesus, fur 1 was
never taught—but I knew that he is a SA
VIOIIB, for he has made himself known to me
since I have been sick ; even for the salv i a•
tion of my soul. I believe he will save me
—though I have never before loved him. I
feel that lam going to him. And now,my
dear father, do not deny me ; I beg that you
will never speak against Jesus of Nazareth.
I will entreat you to Ghia'', a Testament,that
will teach you to pray that you , may know
him; so that when 1 am no more, you may
bestow upon him that love which was form
eily bestowed upon me."
The labor of speaking here overcame
her feeble body. She stopped, and the fa.
ther's heart was too full even for a tear.
Ile left the room in greet horror of mind,
and ere he could recover his spirits, the soul
Of his daughter had taken its flight, as I
trustoo that Saviour whom she loved and
honored.
The first . thing he did, after he had bur
ied his child, was to procure a New Testa
ment. This he read, and taught by the
Spirit from above, is now numbered among
the meek and happy.followers - of Christ.
THE VALUE OF
.EDUCATION TO
FARMERS.
Our farmers should cultivate their minds
and their hearts,ae well as their fields. They
can gain as rich rewards in the mental, as
they can reap profitable harvests in the oat.
ural world. Without learning, a man can
not be a first rate farmer. Without intelli
gence, he cannotdischargo in a proper man
tier the duties of a citizen. Agriculture is
a science thit requires experience and study.
Men must be educated to be farmers, as well
as to be lawyers or doctors. And there are
thousands of young men who are in stores
and offices, who should go into agricultural
pursuits. It would be better fur them,beVer
for the country. And who would not rather
be an independent farmer, than a small shop
keeper, or a fourth rate lawyer or doctor?
:Who would not rather be first in a useful
emplo% ment, than to be 'limn in one which
the world calls honorable? Let young men
seek land, rather then situations "in the cot
ton trade and sugar line."
No avocation in life is more respectable
and useful than that of the farmer. The
time has gone by, when "contempt is cast
upon the husbandmau•" Agriculture as a
science is becoming more important, and
more honorable It is the noblest, for it is
"the natural employment of man."
Temperance anec4ote
One way of helping along a good rause.
—A friend of our relates the following
capital anecdote. A warm friend of the
temperance cause in the upper part of the
state, went sometime last spring, with a
paper to a neighbor rather prone to indulg
ing in a "peach and honey" before break
feast.und an occasional "something to take"
during the day for his signature. After
expatiating at some length on the absolute
necessity of joining the s , •ciety, the friend
of cold water handed the paper into the
other hands, saying, " 1 teally wish you
wnuld sign your name to it."
'l'll consider it over. It isn't best to be
rash you know, and to stop st!, suddenly —"
AND REPUBLICAN BANNER.
"11=7* E RI, E SS A D FfEE. ..~I
o,2?wirvialtbous s , tpwardazDaiir wazavwciaunr as. aaaua
4'But now is the very time, an& your
name will go so far and have so great an
_ •
"Well, now, the fact is, I can stand it
without liquor tolerably well during the'
summer, but in winter it's no use—l'm so
much in the habit of it. However, seeing
its you, and to help along•, you may put me
down for six months.—N. 0. Picyuue.
MATRIMONIAL CONSOLATION--A young
man who had eepoused an ill tempered wile,
but who was extremely rich, used to say,
"Whenever I find my temper giving way,
I retire to my closet, and console mytielf by
reading her marriage settlement."
The sun often rises without a cloud, and
pursues its way in splendor and beauty,gild
ing field tool forest with his light, and gligi
dening, as it were, the whole earth witliAtri
beams, until the vapors have been attacked
by its fires and gathered around him like a
shroud to enwrap his glory. So bus the sun
of life dawned in brightness over many a
head, around which the tempest has gather
ed, iSz it has gone down in gloom to the grave.
Use of dilligent: never be
unemployed. N ever t rifle any time: neither
upend any more time at any place than id
strictly nccesaar3N—John Wesley.
A person who cannot relsh absurdity and
wit, mid must, moreover,have a satisfi►ctory
reason for whatever is said or dom., is a
philosophical blockhead.
"1 wish l was a 1111,7,.)
Among the dry, quaint and philosophical
seenea with which Mr. Neat's recent
volume of Charcoal Sketches'. abounds, we
think this eolioquy of a loafer, who had
been sleigh-riding and got "split," is
inimitable.—"lt's man's nature, I believe,
and we can't help it, how ;as Ibr me, I
wish I was a pig ; there is some sense in
being a pig wut's fat ; pigs don't have to
specilate and burst; pigs never go a sleigh'
ing, quarrel with their daddies in law wot
was to be. get into sprees, and make tarnal
fools of themselves Pigs is decent behaVed
people, and goof citizens, though they'ai'tit
got no vote. And then they hav'ut got no
clothes to put on of cold mornings when
they get up they don't have to be ilarnin'
and patchin' their own' pants ; they dr,tn't
wear no old hat on their heads, nor have to
ask people for 'em ; cold wittles is plenty
for pigs. My eyes 1 if I was a jolly fat pig,
belonging to respectable people, it would be
tantamount to within' with me who was presi
dent. . Who ever seed one pig settin' on a
cold curbstone a rubbin' another pigs head
wot got chucked out of a sleigh 7 Pigs has
too much 'sense to go a ridin', if so be as
they can help it. I Nish I was one, and
out of this scrape. It's true, pigs has their
trouble as well as human ; constables ketch
es 'am, dogs bites 'ern, and pigs is done-over.
suckers as men, but pigs never runs- their
own nosus in scrapes, toxin' themselves to
believe it's fun, as we do. I never seen a
pig go the whole hog in my life, 'sept upon
rum cherries.'
I"an .Inaburghlana.
His first association,tin the same cuge,of
a lion and a tiger, presented remarkable
scenes. These two animals would fight
whole months and sometimes be would give
over one of them for dead. On such occa
sion Van Amburg, after they had exhausted
each other, would enter the cage, and be
gin his course of discipline to control both.
Gradually he added animal to animal till he
got as far as ten animals in one cage. On
many occasions he had severe conflicts,
with the tiger particularly, but nothing dan
gerous. W hen he talks of those animals,
he is highly interesting. "The tiger,"says
Van Auiburg, "is like a reckless, good.for
nothing, drunken rascal, who spends his
time carelessly at taverns, and fights in a
moment. Tigers have all bad spiteful tem
pers. The lion is not so irrascible ; he is
slower and cooler, but there is not the gen
erous feelings about him which he is crack
ed up for. The leopards are like cats—
playliit easily provoked."
Van Amburg has a novel and practical
theory to account for his power over them.
From the first moment of his intercourse
with then► he talked to them as hi would to
a human being. "They believe," says, he,
"that I have the power to tear every one
of them in pieces if they do . not act as I say.
1 tell them so, and have frequently enforced
it with a heavy crowbar." The personal
strength, the peculiar cast of his eye, the
rapidity of his movements, the tone of his
voice, all tend to present to these animals
an idea of a superior power, which in sud
den bursts of his passion makes them crouch
in the corner of the cage. Yoe A mburgh's
eyes are peculiar; one of them hits a re
markable cast which rather heightens the
effect of his expressive face, as' is said of
the 'terrible eye of Caliph Vatheck.' On
one occasion in New York the tiger became
ferocious. Van Amburg very cooly took
.his crowbar and gave him a tremendous
blow on the head. • He then said to him. in
good English, as if he were a human crea
ture, "You big scoundrel, if you show, me
any more of your pranks, Pp knock your
brains our," accompanying 'it with loud
menaces and stiong jesticulation. - After
this the tiger behaved liko a geutternaa for
a couple of months.
In coming over to this country, Van Am-
burg was separated from thaso amiatals for
several weeks. They arrived in London,he
in Liverpool. As soon us he reached Lon
don, he went to see them. On his appear.
once outside the cage, one of the strangest
scenes was presented that ever was beheld.
The lions, tigers, and till recognised him at
once. When he entered among the group,
they crouched, they crawled, they lashed
their tails with ever.. demonstration of de
light at beholding him again. He scratch-
ed the neck of the big lion, and his majesty
growled forth ho, pleasure in tones like the
sound of distant thunder.—London Times.
PRECIOUS GENIUs.—A boy at the age of
ten years, went to school for the hrst time.
The teacher to test his information, asked
Itina—" Who made you?" The boy could
not answer. And the teacher told him the
proper.umwer, and desired the boy to re
member it. some hours after the teacher
put the same question to him again. The
boy rubbed his head in great agony; and
at length answered, "I swowl—Pve forgot
,the gentlematee'name!"
".What ever made you marry that Bow
dy 1" said a mother to her eon. "Because
you always told me to pick a wife like my
mother," was the dutiful reply,
A WORLDLY Cnntsnii.N.—Deacon Tripe,
stepped from his parlor into his shop adjoin
ing, and he said to his boy, "Sam, have
you watered the rum yes sir; have you
sanded the brown sugar? yes, sir ; haws
you limed II e door ? yes, toir." Well then,
Sam, it is past 9 o'clock, and you may come
to prayers!
AN ARREST—A t AcT.—Some years
ago, in a county not a hundred miles from
'Adams, a small sized man went to the plan
tation of a gentleman, who was light in wit
but rather heavy in &eh, with a 'piece of
paper in his hand folded in a legal form, and
known by the abbreviation of "case." Hav
ing friend the owner of the plantation in the
held, he explained his business, when he
was requested to read the capias, which '
Commenced as usual—" You are hereby
Commanded without delay, to take the body
of &c.
"Humph!" says the prisoner stretching
himself upon bis back, "I am ready."
"O, but you don't expect - me 'to carry you
in my arms 1"
"Certainly you most take my body,' you
know. Ido not resist the process of the
understand, but submit with much
cheerfulness.
you wait bore until I bring a
cart 7"
"Can't proMise—l may recover from my
atigue in fhe mean time.
"Well what can 1 do'?
"You most do your duty."
And there he lay immoveable, until the
Sheriff'left.—.Nutchez Cour.
We learn that a large roll of butter,
weighing something like three hundred
pounds, is preparing somewhere in this state
to be sent to Martin Van Buren.—Cincxn•
anti News.
You may smother him in butter if you
ike, but you can never get him d•;wu the
brunt s of the people.—Prentiss.
A young A maroso at a political festival
offered the following toast: "The Ladies—
We admire them because of their beauty:
respect them because of their virtue; adore
them because of their intelligence; and
love them because we can't help It.'
MAN.—In the anatomical structure of man,
there is every thing . to attract our admiration
and excite our reverence for the Being whose
transcendent powers could speak into exist•
once an arrangement of organs so perfect
'and so beautiful. Galen, the great medical
philosopher, whose fame, occupies a high
place in the profession, was converted to
Christianity by an examination of the ar
rangement of the organs of the human Aye
tem. • Struck with the symmetry and adap
tation of part to part ,his mind was led to con
sider the Creator, and he bowed to worship
of the great Jehovah at whose command he
confessed they came into being.
FLIGHT OF FANCY.--We have heard and
seen .many rare specimens in this line; but
we believe that we have never met with any
thing to beat the *following. We think it
fairly 'takes the rag oil the bush.' It is the
language of unassistPdnature from the tongue
of the hero of a debating club in Connecticut:
'Yes, Mr. Chairman,l do not believe there
is a man, woman or child,in this house, who
has arrived at .the age of fifty years and up'•
wards, but what has felt this truth thunder.
iog through their brains for centuries.'
HOOSIER Posrex•—A writer in tho Lo•
gansport tlndialin) Telegraph, cot:eludes "a
foal battle," thus :
“she kicked my shins with her pretty foot,
And she likewise bunged my eye,
And she tore my heir by the handful eut,
And I thought it was time to die."
If a woman writes in a bold and manly band
depend upon it abe bas got a masculine mind, rind
in all probability wears the breeches. There is
much greater analogy between the hand-writing,
and the character of individuals than people are
aware 10 f.
NARROW EscAPa.—A sort ofJolinny raw
carne to tOWU them bar day, to snake twine
purchases. The first thing he deposited in
his saddlebag s was a box or loco-foco mat
ches, the'. a shawl and dress or two for his
wife, various articles for the little ones, and
a pound or two of powder for his own special
use. All ready ho threw his saddle-bags
' across his saddle,mounted his horse and made
for home. Ho had not proceeded far when
his seat appeared to be very warm, and rais
ing himself in his stirrups to•ascertain the
cause, to his surprise and terror,he observed
!his saddle bags emitting volumes of smoke
that would not discredit a considerable tar
kiln! He sprang off as quick as lightning,
and hie first thought was to brake for the
woods, but the burning ghost of his wife's
new dress stared him in the face, and he was
spell bound for a mornent,When he at length
mustered courage enough to snatch the
smoking cause of his terror from the saddle
and throw it into a muddy pool of water
which, fortunately, was close at hand,where
the fire was extinguished. His wife's new
dresses, shawl, &c. wore, to use his own ex
pression, gtetotatiously ruined.' Fortunate
ly fir him the powder' happened to be in the
other end of the saddle-bags. He declares
ho will never more have any thing to do with,
Loco Focos if he lives to be as old as Methu
selah.
NEGLECTING TILE ANTECEDENT.—The
Albany Journal gives the following as Dr.
Morse, the Geographer's, account of Alba
ny, as it was some thirty years ago:
It contains (says the Ductor) about three
hundred houses, and nine thousand inhabi
tants, all standing with their gable ends to
the street.
SrP.ECrt oP A PnosECUTING ATTORNEY
INDIANA.---'•Now,gentlemen of the ./nry,
this are a case. But I'll first tell you one
thing. Ever since I have been Prosecuting
Attorney, there is certain big-bugs of the
Lew that has tried to ride over me rough
shod; but, thank Heaven, {have risen trium
phantly over the rights and liberties of the
Law: yes, I rise indignantly above the juris
diction of civility, in a blaze of glory!" ,
CHANGING THE TUNE.
"Run and get one an armftil of wood,"
said a woman to her husband, one rainy
day, "as you are wet and lam dry." The
same plea was used for, a dozen more er
rands. At last it was, "Get me a bucket
of water, for you are wet and 1 am dry."
The bucket of water was brought and
thrown over her, the husband exclaiming,
"Now do your share, for you are wet too."
A certain lodging house was very much
infested by vermin. A gentleman who slept
there ono night told the landlady so in the
morning, when she said—"La I sir, we
have not u single bug in the house." "No,
ma'am," said he, " they are all married,
and huvo large families too.
~ M assa, one oh your oxOn's , dead—tod•
der too. 1 was 'fraid to toll you of 'em bof
.0 once 'fraid you could'nt' bore it."
The chap that wishes UR to advertise his
wife as having left his 'bed and hoard' is in.
firmed that we shall do no fetch thing, un
less he pays for his advertisement in ad
vance. We can't blame a woman for run•
ning away from a man that neglects to pay
the printer.— Go it "Phebe."—Newburg
/our.
Seven hundred women of Linn, 51assa
chusettr, calling themselves , Sisters' of
Charity, have petitioned the Legislature of
that State to repeui the law prohibiting the
intermarriage of whites and blacks I
We find in the Maumee Express one of
'he very best parodies ever written, eniitled
•'the leg•treadurers." It deserves to be set
to music and chanted by every man, Women
and child in the United Statos. It opens
thus :—Lou. Jour.
I see them on their winding way;
Look how they make their tro tiers play:
Their coat tails swinging backwards fly.
Filled with the spoils of victory.
A REAL CALEB QuoTEm.—The Balti
more e.uti says there is an editor down east
that goes a little ahead of all creation. He
is not only his own compositor, pressman
.ind devil, but keeps a tavern, is a village
schoolmaster, captain in the militia, mends
his own boots and shoat, makes counterfeit
Brandreth pill., ,peddles essence and tin
ware two days in the week, and always
reads sermons on the. Sabbath, when the
minister happens to be missing. In addi
tinn to all this, he has a wife and sixteen
children.
In the morning think what thou halt to
do; and at night, aek thyself what thou
hest done.
The cighlh of January was celebrated
at New Orleans with the usual demonstra.
lions of joy. The Courier, remarking upon
the event says:
The victory, whose annivorsagy was cele
brated yesterday, may be well termed or
of the most extraordinary to be found to the
annals of this or any other country. We do
not allude to the number of the combatants,
hut to the disparity of the loss on either side,
.111 d the consequences that might have attend
-nd defeat to us.
The English had 470 men stretched dead
on the held, and threo times ;hot number
[WHOLE NO: 462.
wounded while the Americans had about
thirty.
The number of Americans under arms on
the Bth, was 4600, only half of whom were
engaged.
The British force detailed for the assault
on this side was 8000, besides a reserve of
about 4000.
The Americans fired between 30,000 and
40,000 rounds with small arms, and about
500 from 12 or 13 pieces of cannon.
The British avowed their loss on the Bth.
to have amounted to 2100 men; but some
thought it still greater.
The British battery often 19, and four 32
pounders, was opposite and only 000 yards
distant from two 24 and two Is 3 pounders,
worked by sixty foreigners, most of them
Frenchmen; and in little more than an hour,
every gun in the English battery was die.
mounted and silenced.
The Tennesseans fired about 21 round,.
Among the British slain, aho covered the
plain opposite to them, most of the wounds
by small arms were in the head.
A morning paper has erroneously stated
that the victors of the Sth wanted discipline.
Could the editnt have witnessed, as we did.
the fire of ihe canon worked b}• French and
American gunners; could he have stood by
and marked the deliberation with which the
Tennesseans levelled their rifles from a
breastwork but half completed, he would
never have doubted of their disciplice, any
more than of theft courage.
From the Minor's Journal.
Phrenological Developments
1. Amitiveness.---An editor in Hartford
has sued a lady for breach of marriage
promise, and laid the &images at 830,000.
2. Philo-Progenitiveness.—The •sife of
a Mr.' Ream at Edenton, N. C. gave her
husband a new year's present in the shape
of four strapping boys at a birth—Mr.
Ream will soon have - his full number of
quires at this rate.
3. Adhesiveness.—The mail coach front
Catskill to Albany, travelling on the river,
broke through the ice, and the passengers
were found sticking in the muddy banks:
fortunately none were , hurt, only eery vet.
4. lnhabitiveness.—.4l humane society in
N. Y. reports, that in one two .tory house,
there were found thirteen families, number- -
ing seventy four individuals, most of them
in a state of entire destitution.
5. Concentrativeness.—A solar miser*.
scope, magnifying three million tunes, .is
exhibiting at New Orleans.
6. Combativeness.—Another horrible
tragedy with Bowie knifes and dirks, has
been enacted at LouissAlo r Judge Wilk
inson. of Vicksburg', his brother and a for
mer officer of the navy, quarrelled with a
tailor about a suit of clothes. Twci persons
were killed in the affray.
7. Destructiveness —At one pork house,
in Louisville, 19,900 hogs have been killed
and packed this season ; 624 were slaugh
tered and dressed in four hours and twenty
minutes.
8. Alimentivenew3.--Shad, the first of
tho season, have been selling at Savanoah,
for two dollars each.
9. Acquisi t iveness.—The Union Bank of
Charleston, has been robbed by a person,
who concealed himslf in a coal vault, on the
previous evening, anti bored auger 11,461
through to the upper story, large enough to
admit his body.
10. Socretiveness.--A lawyer named
Mandeville, in N. Y., accused of receiving
and concealing stolen goods. has-been ord
ered to a second trial, the jury not agreeing.
11. Cautiousness.—A• man in Jackson .
ville, (Ill,) sold some powder crackers to
some boys, and in showing them how to fire
thorn, he took one, 'fired and threw it over
his head, a spark from it falling into a part
of a keg of powder sitting on the floor be
hind him, open; the front of the bulid.
ing wes blown out, and all narrowly escap
ed with their lives!
12. A pprobativeness.—The Emperor
and Empress of Russia, were so ple a sed
with Taglioni's dancing that they made her
splendid presents; the Empress took off
her diamond bracelets, and his Majesty gave
a baguet of diamonds.
18. Self Esteom.—An amusing incident
occurred in the Senate a few days since,w hile
the land graduation bill was under consider
ation. At a particular stage of the bill, Mr.
Benton rose and said, that he approved of a
part of the amendment of the Senator from
Kentucky, (Mr. Clay,) which amendment
had been received. Be referred to that part
which allowed settlers to take up eighty a
cres of land, at fifteen per cents per acre, and
moved its adoption. Before he made the
motion, however, he remarked to a gentle
man—"now we'll ecach him," (menaingrilr.
Clay,) but Mr. Clay, contrary to Mr. Ben
ton's hopes, voted for the amendment, and it
was carried.
14• FIRMNEEI9.-A youngiady in Boston
a witness at Court, was commuted for con
tempt,because she would not answer a ques
tion put by one of the examining lawyers.
15. Conscientiousness.—James Watson
Webb Esq. of the New York Courier and
Enquirer, lately received by mail L,Lt r:: of
money, anonymously stating it was a ju,st
debt due several years ago.
16. Hope —Gen. Porter's term of ofsce
extends for three years from last Tuesday,
and then—any change we hope will be fur
the better.
17. NI arveleusness:— An old TlOnfo could
not be per. uaded that a fiell swallowed Jaaati
but ho argued thus; "gess tng Juntas