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All Letters and Communications addressed to tho Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to TUE GARLAND. —"With sweetest flowers enrich'd, From various gardens cull'd with care." 111011 TUE ALBANY DAILY ArIyZAT/5131. The Bible. Ain.—.. Woodman spare that tree." Sceptic, spare, that book f Touch not a single leaf, Nor on its pages look With eye of unbelief; 'Twas my forefather's stay In the boor of agony; Sceptic, go thy way, And let that old book be. That good old book of life, For centuries his stood, Unharmed amid the strife, When the earth was drunk with blood And would'st thou harm it now, And have its truth forgot I Sceptic, forbear thy blow, Thy band shall harm it not. Its very name recalls The happy hours of youth, When, in my grandsire's halls, I heard its tales of truth: I've seen his white hair flow O'er that volume as he reach--; But that was long ago, And the good old man is dead. My dear grandmother, too, When I was but a boy, I've seen her eye of blue Weep o'er it tears of jay; Their traces linger still, And dear they are to me: Sceptic, forego thy will, Go, let that old book be. Remember Me• I bring no chain of rarest worth— No corgi from tho &tip sea-cave— No gcm long hid within the earth, To shine where now those tresses wave; A gift more precious, far, is mine, Then sparkling gem from earth to sear This treasury of thought--'tia thine; ne boon it aska--"lternember me." I may not, here, usurp the page To court the breath of !looting fame; Enough for me, in after ago, If in thy memory lives my name In ot:fer years or distant climes— Whateer my future fate may be, A spell to call back bygone times Still derelloth hare—• Remember me." ''Remember mer—how few, how short Those touching words—that little spell! What thoughts uprise—what visions throng In wakened fancy's holiest cell! They tell of many a chance to come; May every chance bring joy to thte! In pleasure's light, or eorr.ow's gloom— In weal—in woe—" Remember me." 91031i1 131211Q)PtIVC)E3.ro The lllad .Mercer. A TRUE TALE. Those who declaim with the greatest ve hemence against the superiority of woman's talents and understandings, generally con clude their argument by an appeal to expe rience, which they think establishes their opinion, that when woman falls from virtue, atm exceeds man in flagrance of her crime. But if this (should we even indulge them by granting what they might find it difficult to demonstrateo proves any thing, it is the reverse of what they allege it in support of, as it certainly requires superior abilities to excel in both., An elegantly drosXed woman of propos erssing appearance, called upon a physician rioted for his, skill in curing the maladies of tee wind, ut.d related a long and ciicurnstun- . hal story of her hushand,heing lately attack. ed by madness of an uncommon kind, dur ing the paroxysms of which he lest his .themory, as utterly to forget his nearest re lations and disown even its wife and child- Yen and persist with the strongest obstina cy, in some extravagant notion or oilier, though in every other respect, to all ap pearances, in his perfect senses. A recent loss . in business by a matt whom he had trusted to a large amount is silks, had most particularly effected him, so that he was constantly laving about silksand demanded payment from every one he met. &re con eluded her account with a &radiot tears,and sharpened the &ctos's mutation by a liberal fee. Ue promised to considel fib thy PRINTED BY GEORGE I3ERGNER, FOR ROBERT S. PAXTON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. greatest care bUt told her it would be im possible for him to forth a proper judgment without seeing the patient. To this her tender regard made her make many objections, particularly because the very mention of a doctor always heightened his madness, and to have recourse to any violent method in his own house would ex , pose him to his servants ) which she could not bear to do, and hp would never forgive should they even prove successful, but these difficulties were all removed by a proposal which she insensibly led the doctor to make of bringing the patient to his house, where no notice would be taken of any noise he might make, and all things were in rea diness for whatever might appear necessary to be done. To this proposal the lady consented With seeming reluctancy ) and promised to decoy him under some pretence tocome next morh ing,as soon as she had teaser: to apprehend that the fit was come upon him. The doctor promised to be at home at the time appointed and the lady at her departureisecured the res pect and attendance of his servants by her liberality. Matters being thus far settled, she went next morning, to the shop of a noted silk mercer ) the natural complacency of whose temper, with other circumstances, marked him out as a proper subject for her design. The morning being fine she walked, attend ed by a footman in a genteel livery. She told the mercer that she was recommended to him by a person of distinction, one of his best customers ) whom she named, to pur chase wedding clothes for a young lady of fortune, in the country together with what else might be necessary for the other ladies of the family on the occasioh ) and pulling a letter of direction out of her pocket, chose a vast number of articles with evident fancy and judgment to a very considerable amount, and then, while the mercer was making the bill, ordered a footman to call a coach. When it came, she bid the Shoprnan to put the things into it, and turning to the mercer, told hire she was the wife of such a gentleman, naming the doctor on whom she called the day before, and requested that he would please to come wiih her in the coach where her husband would pay bins. He accordingly waited without hesitation ) as, although he was personally unacquaint ed with the doctor and the circumstances of his famiiy, he knew him by reputation to be a man of respectability and property, When the coach stopped at the door the lady's footman knocked with authority and it was opened by another in exactly the same lively, who remembering her liberal ity the day before received her with the most obsequious respect. She went in without asking any questions, and showing the mercer into an outer parlor, with the easy air of mistress of the house, told him she would wait upon him directly. She then went to the doctor with tears in her eyes, told him that she had brought her luisbad, who had never been so bad as that very morning, having disowned all knowl. edge of her, and every person in his family, and raised a great disturbance in the house of one of his neighbors, from whom ho pre tended to demand money for silks he had sold him. She entreated him to try all possible means for his recovery, advising him to take care to have proper assistance at band, as he was apt to be very outrageous; she could not bear to be in hearing of him, much less see him, in these unhappy circum stances, and would therefore now retire. She then departed in the coach, carrying with her of course the silks. The doctor then waited on the patient whom he found sitting very composedly, and, after some general chat, asked liim how he found himself this morning, and de sired to feel his pulse. Though the mercer thought this was something odd,.he had ac customed himself to so much compliance with his ready money customers, that he answered him sivily and let him feel his pulse : nor had resolution or presence of mind, perhaps, in, his surprise, to contradic the doctor, when he told him that it was ab solutely necessary for him to luxe his blood, and submitted quietly to the operation. Thinking, however, that 1 e had no fur ther occasion for the doctor's advice, he thanked him very politely , and said that, as he had a good deal of business to do that morning, he should be very much obliged to him to despatch him as soon as he could, adding that he presumed his lady had given him the bill for silks and other goods, she had brought home, which he should be very happy to receive, and have the honor of his future custom. 'My desire air,' said the doctor, 'don't talk about the silks, it will only make you worse. Let us talk on general subjects. What do you think cf the late change in the administration? Accustomed to compla cency in his intercourse with all who dealt with him, the mercer, though sorely against his will, talked politics with the doctor,very coherently and rationally, but at length a. gain urged.the payment of the bill for silks, and adding that, though his- lady said she would pay cash for them, if he had not the money in the house, a check on his banker would be quite as well. 'Poor man,' said the doctor, 'll see, though he is not quite so bad as I expected, that his malady is coming upon him; and then, without giving the other any time to object, he called to his man to bring ihe cupping glasses, and apply them to the gentleman's head. To my head, Did' exclaimed the mercer, in a fright, •cupping glasses to my head 1 I do not want any more of your advice or preperiptiona, sad bag you will. pay me for 4ilks r and Cot tro, go about my busing% .0. ;_ oor E entturnar!. imgr gentleman sttid Jr E1.;.6 IRE ES S or 11 , FRE E. ,c3l eamiwzrazetaPme. teunsarbaae aztaalwal ato, awn). the doctor but, it must be done : come, John go on don't be alarmed sir, though the op• oration is a little painful, it Will soon be over. Go on John and call Thomas and William. 11 you struggle sir, it will only add to your pain. You shall see, sir, I will despatch you directly.' 'llespatth me sir,' replied the poor mer cer, almost frightened ()UM his life indeed. at the sight of three or four great ill looking fellows, with the instrument of torture rea dy. 'Despatch met pray do air, and pay me for my silks; here is my bill, and give me leave to tell you, I am not accustomed to such usage.' 'lt is all tor your good my dear sir, said the physician, 'let me beg of you don't think ofsilks talk of any thing else, sir,hut about silks, or it will make you worse I assure you,' it will make me mad—' said the patient 'that's the very thing,' interrnp led the professor, know it will. Aye, poor man, it is just so—just as she told me. And go sir, you want your money 7—Make haste Thomas. And pray, sir, will you tell ice how much, and for what I am indebted to you?' For what sir I for the silks your Wife had from me this morning, here is the bill, sir,'' Poor mar. it is just so—my wife! sir,"—William fetch the strait waistcoat— ! don't like his looks. Pray, sir, who is my wife? 'Why, sir, that's a strange ques tion ; —the lady who brought me here, sir.' 'My wife, is she I 'Pray, sir, is she not your own wire 1"illy wife I don't under• stand you, my wife is neither so tall, nor so handsome, nor so well dressed.' Ah I said the doctor, to himself, who had been much taken with the prepossessing person and ele gant attire of the lady, if he were to see my wife he would find her a dowdy, to his. 'No, sir, she is no wile of mine,' continued the mercer, 'and if she is not yours she must be your kept mistress; but I don't care for that it you do but pay for the silks she got.' Not a word about Silks, sir, any thing but silks.' But I will talk of my silks, and of the money for them too. I don't understand you at all.' 1 suppose,not sir at present, but you will remember better by and by. How exactly she described his case! don't %lender at her saying he was very had.' By this time the doctors people had laid hold of the poor inercer, and inspite of his roaring and his struggling clapped half a dozen cups upon his head. The pain of this made him mad indeed, so that making desperate'effort, as ho was a strong than, he burst from his persecutors and rushed into the street with the cups sticking on his heath Such b sight instantly atew a mob about him, whom he entreated in vain to protect him, and assist him to escape, asserting his sanity, and exclaiming against the usage he had received; but they only laughed at the rediculous figure he made, and, as the doctor's house, and the peculiar practice were well knowri, they helped his man to sem° him, and dragged him back to his place of torrr.ent. Here, though still ratting about his silks, his money, and his ill usage, he was forced to submit, and a strait waistcoat was put on him. He became at length perforce quiet ; and conceiving there must be some strange delusion or mistake which lie could not fathom. conducted himself so gently, in. deed being much exhausted by the phlebo. malice' operations ho had undergone; that the doctor towards the afternoon of theday recommended him very kindly to take some refreshment; and addeci,thitt if he attended to his regimen he had no doubt he should soon restore him to perfect health. At this the patient again started, but, recollecting the treatment he had experienced, only eaid that he would be glad., if the doctor would allow him to go to a neighboring coffee house, which he mentioned, where he knew he could get a most excellent dinner and (though he gulp down his vexation,) actual ly invited the doctor to dine with him there promised to say nothing about the silks till a more convenient opportunity. "Say you so, my siderar," said the l hysician, '1 am heartily glad to see you so rational. But, it you will take dinner with me, you will find that the doctors know how to cook as well as to prescribe." In tact a most excellent dinner soon made its appearance, and the doctor's lady was introduced to their compulsory guest. A little, fat, old ugly woman deeply pockmark• ed, though exceedingly well behaved, form- ed such a contrast to the handsome and ac complished by whom he had been decoyed away, that the mercer could not help ex claiming to himself, well if you keep a miss, doctor, you have some excuse for it, coneid- ering the two—but it is damned hard 1 can't get pay for my silks. This last was uttered in a kind of mutter, and the hissing sound of the last word caught the ears of the doctor, who samiediately said, "my dear sir, you forget,—not a word about the silks —any thing else that you like—shall I help you to some of this turpot Thus corrected,tho mercer ate his dinner, in silence ; and even the exhileration of a ew glasses of wine, which the doctor said, would restore the equilibrium of the animal economy after the exhaustion of the morn ing, produced but one single exclamation about his silks, which was instantly quelled by the invariable retort—"nut a word about the silks—auy thing but silks—come, take onu glass more , " To cat the story short, the poor mercer was thus kept, as it were its purgatory all that evening and night, and although he had requested and obtained leave of the doctor to write notes to some of hits' friends, efforts of his disordered imagination, not one was eent off', until the next morning, after being very comfortably lodged, with however two mon to Omer in his departuunt.he bethought 'biettetti of Writing a note to a physicten of his acquaintance to Come and see him where he was. This geritleman happened to bd well known to the doctor, tho note was des patched lie arrived soon alter, an explana tion took place, the lady and the silks re mained unrecoverable and the doctor had to pay a sum to the totmeuted mercer, to pre vent a prosecution. From the Harrisburg Telegraph: To the memory of J. Campbell. "John Campbell of Pique in the State o Ohio, one of the few remaining veterans of the Revolution, had been lyintr ° for several days previous to the Could' of July danger. ously ill. "It was plainly perceived - that he was fast wasting, and each hour added an additional shade ofdeath to his relaxing features. Judg ing from appearances it was supposed he would die upon the first or second of the month: the old soldier however negatived the idea. Ile ealmly assured those around him, that.he had but one wish and that un der the providence of Odd he believed would be granted. This wish was that ho might look upon the cloudless sun of theapproach mg anniversary—that he mighty field up his spirit upon the fourth, the birth day of free ciom—a day made sacred to the greatness of his country,t he happiness ofmankind,and the destinies of the world. "The spirit of the dyingpatriotoas if mov ed by the glorious recollections of the past, hesitated to leave its tenement of clay--its broken residence—clinging with the fond ness of old associations to its ruined home. The light of the dawn commemorative of freedom's natal day broke forth in all its beauty upon the patrlot'sspirit, still domicil ed in its ancient residence, The King of Terrors,as if sensible of the purity and beau = ty of the patriots piety,or awed by the exal ted aspirations of his spi rit,stood a powerless spectator of the invincible majesty of a free man's mind. "The fourth ofJuly cause,and still the old man lived; between his desire and the im mortality to which he was fast hastening, there appeared to be a spiritual communica tion. The morn which was ushered in by the roar of cannon and martial strains of military music, found the old man better than lie had been for many days, his heart beat more freely; the light of hie was rellec ; ted more brightly from his eyes, and his whole countenance gave manifestation of sublime triumph, achieved by the purity of an honorable and patriotic mind over the dim and eartlilike struggle of decayed mat ter. Hour after hour passed on, and still he lived. Repeatedly, when the loud huzzas of the people pierced the soldier's chamber s he raised himself, and with fervor breathed a prayer to heaven. At length the procession reached the old man's dwelling—it was about to pass—the spirit-stirring air of -'Wail Columbia" wailed on the brerze, and joyful sounds of happy people entered the open case ment--,-the light of other days beamed in the veterans face; he raised himself in his bed and made his dying request. It was that the flag of his once bleeding but now happy country might be placed before his eyes,thut he might look once more on freedom's ban- tier. His wish was gratified—the proces sion stopped—the star spangled banner was displayed; he gazed upon It a moment, turn ed his eyes in peaceful gratitude to heaven, tell back and expired. Thus died the Revo• lutionary patriot, and soldier, the-aged and brave John Campbell."— Western paper. No •storied Urn," reared to Cho skies, Or Mausoleum lifts its head; To point the spot where mould'ring lies, The honor'd dead. No breathing bust revives that name, Or gilded page thy virtues state; But ••fadeless memories" keep thy fume Perpetuate. No panegyric strain reminds, The freeborn sons of patriot race, Where freeman soldiers ashes find A resting place. No pompous volume speak's thy fame, Or measured dirge is sung to thee; But patriot hearts echo thy 1111131101- Proud eulogy Ah ! no, the monument of thine, Surpasses e'en the sculptors arts; 111 that which memory grateful twines Hound freemens hearts. Thou saw'st thy country in her youth, A haughty tyrants mandates brave; You sought, and haply fill, forsooth/ A freemans grave. Thy country once oppressed in chains, Now to the world example gives; Her Lxssary and LAW still reigns ; The Goddess lives, Thine was the joyous boon to see, Columbia's sons their rights reprieve, Itise disenthrsllet4 rest happy, trio, Nor shackl'd And then, when death stole on thy frame, Rejoicings burst from happy mem— :Sound. that from proap'rous freemen came, Like inceLse then, yes, 'twas freedom's natal Jay, patient spirit flew to rest; country n.,w reveres the clay She would have blest. In the last look you cast around,. The °stars and strio3s" arrests thy gaze;; And music stirs; tin:tiller sound Of other days, Thy patriot spirit 's -borne to.God r . On aspirations of the free; Thy ashes rests beneath.the Our hearts with thee. The myrtle tree where yOu repose,. shall wave its solemn boughs to thee And happy. millions, weeping, abet': Thy obsequy, SINGULAR CONTEST--BATTLE WITH AN I EAGLl::—'Tuesday a week last was a very 1 disagreeable day. The wind blew a hurri cane, the driving snow filled the air and the weather was intensely cold. A young man saw an eagle alight near the barn in which ho was at work, at the corner of Pine and South Division streets, apparently fatigued and seeking shelter from the storm. He threw a little stick at the royal bint,and as that (lid nut startle him, conceived the bold idea of taking him alive. With no other arms than those with which nature had pro vided him he advanced toward the eagle, which immediately attacked him,striking at him with its beak, Wings awl talons. The young man defended himself with his fists, and the battle lasted ten or fifteen tninittes. when the eagle flow off ashen distance and alighted. Again the youth advanced, and again the eagle attacked him,with the same result as before, and this was repeated seve ral times. The contest lasted three hours and a hal and the eagle was finally secured without injury and brought to the city. It was a bald eagle of large site, measuring nine feet from the tip of the wing to that of the .other. The young man was wounded in several places by the claws of the eagle, and recoiv ed many severe blows from its beak Ynd wings. A number of tunes during the con• test the eagle rose in the nir to a consider able height, and then made a rapid descent eager to "get the better of him." When lie succeeded in capturing him they were nearly a mile and a half from the place where the contest commenced, and he was nearly eXhnusted from protracted exertion. He says he would not willingly risk a simi lar battle.—Buffalo Mercury. BRAvo!—The wife of Captain Samuel Chas 3, of South Denis, Who was a soldier under Lafayette in the revolution, and who is a pensioner, and now in his eightieth year, presented him with a fine son and daughter, twins, one day last week—tho first fruits of their marriage, which transpired the last year. Verily, we think the old hero's pen• sion ought to be doubled. TUE JEWS 3forlivo FOE PALEBTINEe—Ma Jor Noah says--" Within a few years great numbers have gone thither—they amount now to above 40,000, and are increasing in Multitude by large annual additions. In the first days of this month a large number of Israelites from the States of Morocco, arri ved at Marseilles, in order to embar k for the coast of Syria, and proceed thence on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Bates, the murderer recently hanged at Burlington, Vt. appears to have been the idol of his family, as is evidenced by the fact that among those who signed a remonstrance to the Governor against granting him a pardon, were his father mother and sister! Aiis'uf , ftt OF MIND.-A loafer walked off yesterday from one our principal hotels with a gentleman's over coat. When taken, ho expressed his thanks to his captors, stated that, from youth, he had been liable to fits of absence of mind, and begged that if they should in future see him take any thing not his own they would instantly inform him of his mistake. A doctor was found for him in a .ttonc building on Sixth street.[Lou.Gaz4 Love.—The editor of the Methuen Ga set(e makes the following, sweeping asser4 tion:—Whiit a man! and never hive ! l'shaW such a man must hail() a heart of ice, a soul as lifeless as a corncob—the giz: zard of a goose, and a head us sappy us a cocoanut I" RATutat Ormer.—A loafer went into one of tor groceries the other day, and wished to be trusted for u glass of liquor. The grocery keeper not believing in the "credit system," flatly refused, and the loafer would have been under the necessity of going a way sober, if he bad not seen a bag sitting behind him, which, froM its shape lie knew contained A JUG. Hope flashed across lne. mind. IV Iten the bar keeper's buck was turned, he seized it and made" off He was su eager to taste the 'crater,' that he never stopped to untie the bag—it was cut, and the jug was instantly ut his mouth. He took long 'pull' a strong 'pull' and a 'pull' alto gether ; and removed it not from his face Until he was perfectly saturated, when, lo and behold it was lamp oil!! Infoimant thinks he well not need any of Brandreth's Pills some—Newark Gme. An American lady now residing in Paris writes to her friends by the last packet,that Swartivout and Price had reached Paris, and on the 7th of January, both of them were living at Maiirices celebrated Res taurant. .'What are we coming to - in our country 1" asks the lady. why, dear .Mad. am, such ta us as are sub-treasurers, are pretty likely to "come" over to see you in Paris.—LN. Y. Gazette. • WELLERIB3I3.—''Bad company is better ban uone'—aa the bed bug said to the sleepy raveller. "It makes we sick at the stomach," as. the hog said when he nosed the drunkard 'iu the gutter. .-qiere's into you l' as Jonah- said- when he went down into the whale's belly.- 'Step lightly over the - bodies of the dead' —as the lox said when he hung in a pile 'of dry prickly pears. 'We excel in head work'—as the rain said when he met the school boy, nod. lard him sprawling in the read: "gWe,live for each• other'—aa the wolf said to thalami). [WHOLE NO: 467 _ vosaTmawoo DEB2raauyininmi, Fiona the Illinois Temperonce Herald. "Father hadn't von letter take a Sheep t410.', Another valued !Mend and an able farm= er, about (ho time that the teinnerameo re hab was beginning- to exert a healthful in; fluenco in that country, said to his newly hired man, • •"Jonathan, I did not think to nientinn to you, when I hired you, tliat I think allying to do my work this year without rum; how much more must I givo you to do without." "Oh," said Jonathan, "I don't care much about it, you may give me what you please." "Well" said the Farmer, "I will give you a sheep :n the fall, if you 'wish to du without." "Agreed," said Jonathan. The oldest win then said, "Father, will you give me a sheep if I will do without run) 9" "Yea, Marshall, you shall•havo a sheep, if you will du without." The youngest son, a stripling; then said, "Pettier, will you givo me a sheep if 1 do without ?" "Yes, Chandler, you shall have, a sheep also, if you do without rum. l '• Presently Chandler speaks againa— "Father, had'nt you better take a sheep too r' This was a poser.; he hardly thought that ho could give up the Wood creature * yet. But the appeal was from a source not to be easily disregarded 1 tho result was, the demon rum was thenceforth banished from the premises ) to the great joy and the ultimate happiness of all concerned. A Scene. We cut the following froin unAlbatly paper. Perhaps it may eucourage some faltering conscience smitten ram-seller to hold on his Way, doing good to the , souls and bodies of his fellow.men, and blditsing in such a peculiar manner, the fainihee :of the earth.—Jackson Sentinel. • '• Mr. Editor,—l Was passing through State street, Albany, the other day, abd met a well clad respectable woman, 'with mortification and agony strongly marked on her countenance ; she had a firm hold or the arm of a man who .1 'took , to 'bia • her husband, making powerful effortsto sustain his tottering footsteps. He was drunk. 'lake it all in all, it was a sight most dis tressing; my heart bled for this poor wo men—who would not have made any sac rifice to have brought healing to her wound ed spirit 1 But with her, in all probability, this life is to be one of bitter sorrow: •The poison-seller with his commission in his pocket, to destroy his neighbors, will con tinue to tempt this poor drunkard on to de struction, so long as he can rob his starving family of a single cent. The cause of tom penance' is ono that should commend itself, with overwhelming force, to the hearts of females; it is a cause to save them from be ing fastened for life, to a being worse thon a brute. And still how many females yet hold back from motives of delicacy. To such we would say, in all kindness, may you never have cause to weep bitter tears for your infatuation, by being cursed with a drunkard for a brother or a husband. Diary of a "Free Driniteias l . Monday Illorning.—ReallY, believe - 'I was drunk yesterday; although it was Sun day. Wife asked me to accompany her to church. —I declined. weather . too' fine' for one to be housed up. Walked out, every thing dull. SundaY always dell' in St. Louts. No literary circle here ; all is business, drinking or churchgoing. Met some ac , quaintances; who invited me into a Irina .to take something." Four of tle. Hod to drink lour times round of cants°, or it would have looked illiberal. 'Gni quite talkative, and said some 'Very foolish things that I thoughtvery witty. .New coat Soiled at a snack table, through the efrorts'Of a gentlemen•loafer, to convey to his mouth e reeking piece of fried catfish I Really be lieve few of these gentry have boarding houses or "meal" mote than once ri 'Their veracity is almost inconceivable! Went home muzzr,; liquor could not have+ been good. Wife lookedirieved, - bat deavored to conceal her feelings—had rath er been scolded at once—but she never will scold l Couldn't eat any dinner appetite gone. Got up in the morning with head ache, and parched mouth; walked down to the --coffee house, and wes soon in araic . way of feeling better. Went borne 'dire; dont know exactly what time, or b o y got there. Hat must have been in trieget ter ; muddy; evidently gutter mud.. Wife brushed it, and sighed. Don't think I'll get drunk today ; . beastfy practice. Always hate to see Men drunk. Had bet ter, went to church with wife yesterday v Would have saved my credit and her feeP logs. Hand trembles--niust ge out anti take something to steady it. • Tuesday Alorning.--Alae ! how vairt . . • arc the resolutions Of those who have the' whit/sof the fiend upon them I Is there any, escape? I know - not ! Tried to keep -. 00.-.. her all yesterday, hut did not succeed; have been "cut", by several respectable eons, who do not care to be seen in..corepany with a drunkard. - 4uarrelled last night et ---- house;. but it was not my fault, * was insulted.. the aasuratic* to refuse drinking with *me. on the. &tam. that I had already drank too much. Weeps, drunk then, I know, liettrat drink nom. than twenty times Icfuring the who!. clay, , Went to ----billiardroorn, saw two.pciot players betting five huittkat a side, . _
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