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Trying to Please Everybody Ono reader cries, your strain's too grave, Too much morality you havo, Too much about religion ; Give us aline witch and wizard tales, Okslip shod ghosts with fins and scales, And feathers like a pigeon. love to read, another cries, Those monstrous, fashionablo lies— In other words, those novels, Composed of kings,and priests, and lords, Of border nitre; and Gothic hordes, That used to live in hovels. No, no, cries one, we've had enough Of such confounded love-sick stuff To craze the fair crontinn ; Give us some recrnt ((within news Of Russians, Turlia, the. Poles or Jews, Or any other nation. The man of dull scolnritie lore Would like to see a little more Of first-r( e: scraps of Latin : The grocer fail/ would lonrn the price Of trll and sugar, fruit and r ler ; The draptr, sills and sattiu. Another erica. I roam more furl, A witty anecdote or pun, A rebus nr a riddle : some wish for Parliamentary news, And same perhaps of wiser views, Would rather hear the fiddle. The critic, too, or chissio skill, Must dip in gall his quill, And scrawl against the paper : Of all our literary fools, Bred in cur colleges and schools, He cute the greatest caper. Another cries, I want to see A jumbled up variety— Veriety in all things ; A miscellaneous hodge-podge print, Composed, (I only give the hint,) Of multifarious small things. I want some marriage news, says Miss, It constitutes my highest bliss To hear of weddings plenty ; For in a time of general min, None suffer fpm a drought, 'ti. plain, At least, not ono in twenty. I went to hear of deaths, says one, Of people totally undone, By losses, tire, or favor ; Another answers, full as wise, I'd rather have the fall and rise Of racoon skins and beaver. some signify a secret wish For now and then a favorite dish Of politics to suit them. Dut hero we rest at perfect ease, For, should they swear the moon was cheese, We never should confute them. Or grave or hum'roue, wild or tame, Lofty or low, 'tie all the same, Too haughty or too humble ; 80, brother editors, pursue The path that seems the best to you, And let the gaumblere grumble. ial22@a4C:)Enfo Battle of the Brandywine. In AN OFFICER. iVe had been in the saddle about an hour, under the intrepid Pulaski, who, with his own hands, examined our swords, pistols, and other equipments, ns if assured that the etrugglo would be a deadly and long con ' tinned one. The day was one of the most beautiful that ever broke over the earth. W e were about hell a mile from the mom body, ranged along a green slope, facing the west, our horses, about four hundred in number, standing aspatiently as so manv marble statues; until just as the eastern sky began to redden and undulate: and cloud titter cloud to roll up, and heave lihe a great curtain upon the wind ; and the whole heaven seemed discharging all its beauty and brightness upon one spot. I happened to two about, and s aw the tall Pole (Pulaski) bare headed, tilting his horse, like some warlike presence come up out of the solid earth to worship upon the very summit of the hill behind us; it might be, (for the noble carriage of the man, the t 3" FE.fiR I. ENS al 1) FREE• .L7ll ROBERT N. P.IXTO2r, EDITOR .1.14 D PROPRIETOR. VLEVUtwlraxwzavs, tpvz - 4,2a2),a1r atax sa g zi.w.3q)Q martial hearing of the soldier, would permit either interpretation.) it might be in the awful employment of devotion, or in a more earthly ono, of martini observation. But suddenly he reigned up his charger, shook the heavy dew from his horseman's cap, re• placed it and leaped headlong down the hill, jest es a bright flash passed away on the horizon, followed by a loud report; end the next instant a part of our ranks were covered with dust and turf, thrown up by a cannon ball that struck near the spot he bud just left. Our horses pricked up thoir ears at the sound and all at once, as if a hundred trum pets were playing in the wind, came the enemy in his advance. Pulaski unsheathed his sword, called out a select body, and set offal full gallop, to a more distant elevation, where we saw the enemy advancing in two columns ; one under Knyphausen, which moved with tremendous steadiness, in a dark solid mass, towards the spot occupied by Gen. Maxwell; the other under Cornwallis, which seemed to threaten the right bilk of our main body. Intelligence was imme diately sent to Washington, and reinforce ments relicd in, from the spot we had left. We kept our position, awaiting for whole hour, the sound of conflict ; at last a heavy volley rattled along the sky, n few moments passed, and then another followed like a storm of iron upon drum beads. The whole air rung with it ; another, and ano ther followed ; then gradually increasing, came peal after peal, till it resembled a con tinual clap of thunder, rolling about under an illuminated vapor. But Pulaski, witir all his impetuosity, was a general, and know his duty top well, to hazard any movement till he should be able to see with certainty the operations of the enemy in the vapor below. Meanwhile,'several little parties which had been bent out, came in, one after the tither, with the intelligence that Knyphau• sen had broken down upon Maxwell in magnificent style—been beaten back a g ain; but that ho had finally prevailed, and that Maxwell had retreated across the river. A thin vapor had risen from the green earth below us and completely covered the enemy from our view. It was no longer possible to billow him, except by the sounds of his tread, whU-h we could feel in the selid earth, j it leg ourselves and our horses ; and now and then, a (find{ glimmering in the mist, as some standard raised above it ; some weapon flourished, or sonic musket shot thymeb it like a rocket. Aboet an hour after, a horsemen dashed 'tootl e * the smoke on the very verge or the horizon, and after seourioe the fields, for whole mile in view, communicated with two or three others, who set off in different di 'echoes; one to us, with orders to hurry &pen to the ford, where the ememeeder-in• chief was deeerinihed to tell oe 4 1:r) phao ,, 'n with all his power before Cornwallis could come to his aid. ft was a mild° but hazer. dries game. And Pulaski, whose war horse literally thundered end helm:lied along the broken and stony precipice by which we descended, kept his eye warily to the right, as if not quite certain that the order would not be countermanded. We soon fell in with General Greene,who was posting, all on fire to give Knyphuiezen battle and the next moment saw Sullivan in full march over a distant hill towards the eu emy'e flank. This arrangement would, doubtless, have proved fatal to Knyphausitn, had not our operations been unfortunately arrested, at the very moment we were pro wired to fall upon him, man and horse, by the intelligence that Cornwallis had moved off to another quarter. It was a moment of irresolution—doubt. It was the death blow to our brilliant hopes of victory. Greene was recalled, and Sullivan com manded to halt. Hardly had this happened, oar horses be mg covered with sweat, and foam, fretting in the bit, like chained tieere, and ourselves covered with dust, it being an excessively hot and sultry day, when a heavy cannonade was heard on our right flank, and Greene, to whose division we had been attached, was put into motion to support Sullivan whom we had loft some hours before. Tho truth now broke upon us like a thunderclap. The enemy had passed, concentrated, we supposed, and fallen on our right. I shall never forget Greene's countenance, when the news came; ho wee ou tho road side upon an almost perpendicular bank, but he wheeled where he was, dashed down the bank, his face white us the bleached marble, and called to us to gallop tiirwaid, with such a tremendous impulse, that we marched lour miles in forty 'minutes. We held on our wayin a cloud of dust and met Sullivan all in disorder, nearly a mile from the ground, retreating step by seep, at the heed of his men, and bhouting himself hoarse, covered with blood and sweat, and striving in vain to bring them to stand, while Cornwallis was pouring in upon them an incessant volley. Pulaski dashed out to the right, over the broken fences, and there stood awhile up. right"in his stirrups, reconnoitering, while the enemy, whn appeared, by the smoke and the dust that rolled before them in the wind, to be much nearer than they really, were, redoubled theneefforts ; but at last, Pulaski saw a favorable opportunity. The column wheeled ; the wind swept across their van, revealing them like is battalion of spirits, brehated fire and emoke - He gave the signal; Archibald repeated it, then Arthur; then myself. In three minutes, we ware ready for the word. When Pulaski, shouting in a voice that thrilled through and tbreugh us. struck spurs into bis c hairier, it was a half Minute, so fierce and terrible was his charge, before we were able to come up with him What dould ho mean ! Gracious heaven! My hand convulsively, like that of a drowning man, reigned up fitr a moment when I saw we wero galloping straight forward into a field of baronets; yet ho was the first man and who would not have followed? We did follow hint, and with such a bur• ricano of fire and steel, that when we wheeled, our whole path lay broad before uS. with a wall of tiro on the right hand qnd on the left ; but not a bayonet or a blade in front except what were under the hoofs of our horses. My blond rughes now, like a flash of fire through my forehead, when I recall the devastation that we then made, almost to the very heart of the enemy's column. Rut Pulaski, he who afterwards rode into their retrenchments on horseback, sword M hand, was accustomed to it ; and having broken over them once, aware of his peril if he should give them time to nwake from their consternation, he wheeled in a blaze of fire, with the intention of returning through a wall of death, more perilous than that which shut in the children ref Israel, upon the Iced Sea. But nn ! the wall had rolled in upon us; and we were left no alternative, but in continue as we had began. The undaunted Pole rioted in the excess of his joy I I remember well how he passed me covered with sweat and dust, riding ab solutely upon the very points of their bayo nets. But, at last, they prebsud upon him, and horseman . after horseman tell from our saddles; when we were all faint and feeble and even Archibald was fighting on fact over his beautiful horse, with Arthur bat, thing over his head, we heard the cry of "Succor! Succor I" Immediately we felt the enemy give way, heaving this way then that, and filially concentrated beyond us. "One more!" "Once morn !" cried Pu• laski, and away he went, breaking in upon thorn as they were forming, and trampling down whole platoons, in the charge, before a man could plant his bayonet or bring his gun to an aim; our aspect as we came thundering round them was sufficient ; the enemy fled and we brought off ourcom• panione Unhurt. I have been in many a batik; many an ono that made my hair anent:or& stand ‘s hen I dreamed of it :—but never in one IA here the catrhtge was so dreadful, a•d firing NO incessant, 119 that which followed the arrival of Greene. But the enemy had an utPcually secured his expoiied points by ranks of men kneeling with planted bay°. nets, that we could make no impression upon, a Ithouell wn rode upon them again and again, diocharging our piatula in their races. nr vrtr.—Joseph Din‘re, n Portagerve IV3 :tilled on the 15111 inst. in ntimpting in j~tmh from the tender attached to one of 0:e locomotives white under full headway. The driving wheel having been thrown off the track, it is supposed that jose over %On:lined with consternation, attempted to leap off, but was thrown on hie head, and had his rrck broke.— (N. C.) Advertiser. From the Gentleman's sfsgszine The ivory flouter of Ceylon. At the time I resided in Candy, 1 frequent. ly used to rove _about the bases of the neighboring mountains, with my English mmket slung over my shoulder, and lose myself in the mighty forests and pathless wastes which skirt that ancient kingpam. I have slept soundly in the heart of a clump of ebony shrubs, wrapped in a leaf of the talipot tree, which encircled my body with as much amplitude as the largest blanket. I have cooled my tired body in the salt lagoons in the quiet of the eternal hills, and quenched my thirst with the rare fruits which grow in luxuriant wildness on the sunny spots upon the mountain side. I hate the confinement in cities as the lreo air of heaven seems shut out from their close and crowded streets. "I was pondering one bright and glorious morning, in the shade of some venerable • and gigantic rhododendra trees, when my attention was arodsed by the flight of sev eral huge vultures, which all bent their way to une point, and that point very evidently not far from the place whore I was thee standing. I knew that the keen scent of these foul things discovered the place of carcases almost before tho . vital breath had quitted the body ; and I hastened with rapid steps to their point of destination, im nging that it was not unlikely but I might save the remains of some follow-wanderer from violation by these unclean and reven• cue birds. The ground became swampy and difficult to pass, I had to wade through a path of wild rlso—to squeeze between the thick growing and deep-rooted hangings of the banyan tree and its thousand branching sprouts—to clear my sandals from the lux uriant vines of the piper betel, and keen my musket on the full cock. in case of n sudden encounter with a leopard ore boar, the fre quent Inhabitants of our jungles. "CautiOusly creeping up n small gnus, leading to a terrace or piece of Wile rock beside the end of a huge lagoon, I spied several of the vultures psrched on the bare limbs of ti varied and withered palm. Scarcely kid I attained the level of the stagnant pool, ore I discovered the carcass of a hugs elephant ly inn on its left side. flow the animal came to its death in that place, I never could ascertain ; although, from the discovery of its broken leg, which I afterwards made, I suppese that it had es caped, wounded, front the hunter of the plain, and crawle i to this desolate spot to die in quiet. Tho whiteness of its huge ; tusks attracted mv s eye ; 'they were of the soundest ivory, and I resolved to appropriate tho prize which fortuno had thus thrown ir, my way. "An enormous vulture, with terrific talons and hooked beak, was seated on the elephant's head, and busily engaged in tearing the flesh from the animal's eye and ear. Suddenly the waters of the lagoon became agitated, and a crocodile rose from its slimy bed, and crawling over the ino mouse mass of carrion, drove the bird from its prey. He was the largest and most hideous of the species that 1 had ever seen; and knowing the vindictive nature of the monster when medled with wliile feeding, I cowered down behind a small mound of aarth, and watched the scene with lively curiosity. The disappointed vultures scream ed with sneer, and the scaly beast roared' es ho repelled their attacks, and clawed at rho tough hide of the carrion bulk with vain endeavors to detach a portion of the flesh. The erica of the combatantS seemed to call the savage inhabitard from their various hiding places ; jackals rushed down the opposite hill; and the dull lake swarmed with crocodile s . A fierce combat ensued between the original leviathan and one of the fiercest of the new corners. I had never conceived it possib!o fur such awkward and slow turning quadiiipels to come so swift ly, or deal such terrific blows. Their gi gantic claws and • friglitfid looking mouthi worked with awful rapidity; The snapoings of their jaws exceeded in sound the report of a musket—and their''ponderous tails flapped violently with irriseitiblo and dam onrous force. Presently the smallest of the crocodiles was knocked on his back by a blow from the first possessor of the carrion; before her could recover his feet, he was rip• pod down tlic middle by a dash of his rivals claw and his entrails were dragged forth and cast upon the neighboring rocks. The herd of crocodiles who had stood aloof from the contest between the chiefs or potentates of the lake, now rushed upon the wounded one, and devoured with frightful voracity the panting entrails of the yet living brute. So tenacious of life is the crocodile tribe, that although several hours elapsed before I finally quitted the spot, the half eaten wretch was yet alive, and when I approached him, menaced me with his open jaws. "The conqueror disdained to touch his filler) enemy, and turned to his nobler prey, the dead elephant, whose huge carcass he mounted, and surveyed with a careful and steadfast gaze. As his frightful head was bent in downward look upon the prirbocis, as if he meditated commencing his feast, I slowly raised my musket to my shoulder, and taking steady aim.sent the hall plashing through tho socket of his eye. The report of the RIM in those dreary solitudes, drove the reel of the.crocodiles to the wnterN of the lagoon, the timid jecke is scampered to the woods, and the vultures sought the highest branches of the surrounding trees. The wounded beast yelled hideously with rage and paw ; he rolled from the top of the carcass, aud lashed the groand with his rurale-bound tail. Ono of his blows took effect upon the head of the dead elephant, and knocked the tusks asunder from the jaw. He suddenly seemed to think of his essailtint, for with a roar of thunder, he darted towards the little mound behind from which I had delivered my fire. Ex. I pectin his attack , I had quickly relouded; 'hut blind and med,he dashed straight at me, and I had scarcely time to place the muzzle of my musket between his jaws, and sent the ball to his heart. 'Had my piece m:s sod fire, I had not now boon here ; as it -was he crunched the barrel of my gun between his teeth, and springing forward, rolled over me, down the steep gout, into the woody fastnesses of the deep and gloomy gorge. raised my tusks of the dead elephant on my shoulders, and made my shortest way home." Sudden Teets of the mind upon the body.—Plato used to say that all the dis eases of the body proceed from the soul, says Mr. Weld in his famous report. The expression of the countenance is mind in• visible. Bad news weakens the action of the heart, destroys the appetite, oppresses the lungs, stops digestion, and partially sus. pends all the functions of the system. An emotion' of shame flushes the face, fear blanches it, joy illuminates ; an instant thrill electrifies a million of nerves.. Sur. prso spurs the pulse into a gallop. Do. lirtum infuses giant energy : volition cem• mond, and hundreds of muscles spring to execute. Powerful emotion often kills the body at ft single stroke. Tho news of a de• feat killed Philip V. One of the Popes died of an emotion on seeing his pet monkey robed in pontificals and oceupyit,g the chair of State. 111 ulity Moloch was carried upon the field of battle, in the lust stages ofan in ourable disease—upon utieirg his army give way, he leaped from the litter, rallied his panic striken troops, rolled• back the tie& of battle, shouted victory and died. The door keeper of the Congress of the United States expired upon hearing the surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent public speakers have often died either in the midst ofan itm possiomd burst of eloquence, or when the deep emotion 'to produce it bad suddenly subsided.—The recent case of Hills in this city, is fresh in the memory of all. He Wag ailprehended of stealing goods from his employer, and token InJt - nre the police, and though in' perfect health, mental agony forced the blood from his nostrils —he was carried out and died.—N. Y. Star. A PATRON.—h has Ions• been a question in dispute whether suhseribers to newspap ers are or are nt.t patrons. Our friend of the N. Y. Spirit at the Titne,s, however, has a bulscriber who may be set down as a [WHOLE NO: 476 patron and no dispute. (Jailing at the offtew of the Times ono morning the following dialogue took place : "Mr. lam something in your debt, am I not !" "A trifle, air-85." "Make out my bill then ; and to save trouble, as hate to he dunned, give me credit for a hundred years in advance I" whereupon, be laid a foe hundred dollar bell upon the dock and vaniolted, leaving the publisher in such a state of blissful petrifaction that he was unablo to thank him. WMal23al,lUa3 D&.P.6IM-VigzSUe From the Phila. Saturday Courier The broken-hearied Wife. A BOENE FROU REAL JIVE. Visiting the Pawn Broker's shop for the purpose of redeeming some articles left by nn Unfortunate. friend, the fillowing circum stances attracted my attention. A middle aged man entered with a bundle en which he rivked a small advance, and which on being opened, was found to con tain a shawl, and two or three other articles of female animal. Tho man was stout and sturdy, and as I judged from his ap pearance a mechanic, but the mark of the. destroyer was on his bloated • countenance• and his heavy stupid eyes. Intemperance had marked him for her own. The pawn broker was yet examining the offered pledge,- when a women, whose pale face and attenuated from bespoke a long and timato acquaintance with sorrow, came into the shop, and with the single exclamation, 'Oh Robert l' darted rather then run to that part of the counter where the man was standing.—Words were not wanted to explain her story—her miserable hueband, not satisfied with w -ming his own earn ings, and leaving her to starve with her children, had decended to the meanness- of plundering even her scanty wardrobe, and the pittance, for obtaining of which this robbery would furnish means, was destined to be squandered at the tippling house. A blush of shame arose even upon his de• graded face—but it quickly passed away.— The brunt] appetite prevailed, and tbe bet ter feeling that had apparently-stirred with , in him for the moment, soan gave way be fore its debased and insatiated cravings. 'Go home,'. was his harsh and angry ex clamation. 'What brings you here, run ning utter me with your everlasting scold ing. Go home, and mind your own busi ness. '0 Robert, dear Robert,' answered the unhappy wile, don't pawn my shawl. Our children are crying for bread, and I have none to give them.-013 let me have the money ;" it is hard to part with that ehawl, for at was my mother' s gift ; but I will lit it go rather than to see my children starve. Give me the money, Robert, and don't leave us to perish. I watched the face of the pawn broker, to see what effect this appeal would haVeli upon him, hut I watched in vain. tie was hardened to distress and had no sympathy to throw away. Twelvo shillings on these,'' he said tossing them hack to the drunkard, with a perfect ,ndifferenco. 'Only twelve shilling!' murmured the heart broken wile, in a tone of despair. 'Oh, Robert, don't let them go for twelve Let me try somewhere else.' 'Nonsense,' answered the brute. 'lt irs as much as they're worth, I suppose. Here, Mr. Crimp give us the change.' They money was placed before him, end the bundle consigned to a drawer. The women reached forth her hand towards the silver, but the movement was anticipated by ner husband. 'There, Mary,' be . said, giving her half a dollar, 'there, goliome and don't make a fuss. I'm going - 01;1Mb" way up the street, and perhaps may bring yen something from the market when I come home. • The hopeless look of the poor women, as she meekly turnod to the door, told plain enough how little she trusted to his ambigious promise. They went on their way—she to her famishing children and he to squander the dollar he had retain ed. Habit of Intemperance. Intoxication, that most disgusting and fruitful source of crime and miser), is generally the consequence of coarse habit. too long indulged, and becomes itself an habit of tncurable malignity. What crime may not the *tameless, infuriated drunkard commit 7 Was the habit of inebriety ever cured ? The answers of those two ques-; tions moat, more powerful than. any logic, urge every rational mind to shut thosmallest hazard of encouraging the inculcation and growth of this guilt and pain dispensing vice. Whilst practice confirms into habit (wit proponoitils and debssing manners, it ought to be remembered that amiable die• positions, and correct deportMent may also by repetition be strengthened into habit. Thus it is n matter of free election, whether the lips shall be accustomed to utter the language of courtesy and truth, and whether the taste shall he led to prefer innocent pleasures and virtuous society ; or whether• habits of rudeness and deception shall be courted, and criminal indulgence and vicious associates selected. But on the momentous decision be it recollected, mueb of the dignity of character, and happiness of life, depend. It never can reasonalliy•be usscrted, that it is not a matter of choice to which sprvico the Lencficial power of linbit shall he directed. Surely it depends upon ourselves whether we practice errors end rolls until we acquire the habit of al most uncuticiously practising them, or ‘s limiter we repeat graceful and meritorious at:lintel until by repetition they become easy and natural to us.