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From voriousgardenecoll'd with care:"
From the Athenteum Visiter.
CONFESSION OF A COQUETTE.
'l've smiled to see the writhing pain,
Evinced by captive hearts;
I've sought the love:of all to gain
By falae tedueing arta,.
I've revell . d the groans of those
s Who once have thought me theirs;
I havo•rejoiced to see their woes,.
And ridiculed their prayers.
I've steeled my heart against their sighs,
Yet lured them to advance;
By kindness bid their hopes, arise,
Then entitled them by a glance.
And now, Alt arc my feelings now!
MY 'days of Triumph fled—
Lovers no more before me bow,
Lone, hapless, and unwed.
In vain I sock a nmilo from those,
Whoso vows I bncu hove spurned,
Pity, contompt, and coldness show
Where once afTection burned.
I'm bated, shunned, despised by all,
My youth and charms are gone;
At home, abroad, at play or ball,
I walk, sit, ride, alone.
No joy from outward source supplied,
WiMin an aching v : iid,
OLT muidcns shun tho fatal pride
That bath my hopes destroy'd.
muoaalaaarauea.
From tho New York Mirror.
ONE OF LOVE'S STRATAGEMS.
♦ BOM•NCE IN BEAL LIVE.
In the month of December 18—, a young
man arrived from Paris at Dieppe, and
took up his residence at 1' Hotel de 1' Eu.
' rope. lie was idle, had been fortunate, and
the sole object of his stay was some little
adventure, some ball•roum conquest where
with to be employed, and whereof to be
vhf.. %Yell, in the hotel, there lodged a
ho,y, young, beautiful, and enveloped in all
the undefinable attraction of mystery. No
ono knew her ; she went neither to the
baths nor to the bulls ; and she had not e
van a servant with her to be bribed. All
in , the hotel were raving about her beauty,
her grace, and her dignified manner. At
night they would steal up stairs to catch
the tones of her voice, for she sang equisite
'ly. Our young Parisian's head was com
pletely turned. To have such a neighbor,
with the face, he doubted not of an angel—
he knew she had the voice of one ; and yet
neither to be able to see her nor to speak to
her ; it was enough to drive him mad. He
bought a guitar, and composed songs, where
the word neighbor (voisine) served ns a
rhyme to the word unknown (inconnue.)
It was quite in vain, song and guitar wore
equally wasted. At length he resolved on
writing : a world of cupids , grapes, vases
and roses adorned the border of the paper:
the seal was of azure blue wax, and bole a
dove ready for flight. The whole staircase
was perfumed as he bore the scented epis
tle to the servant he had paid to convey it.
But the letter, and its half dozen successors,
brought no reply. Our Parisian was seupi•
%fled with astonishment : what ! had he, the
utterly irresistable remained a fortnight um
der the same roof with a young and beauti
ful woman, and only learnt that she went
by the name' of Madame Paul ; a name,
too, which was not supposed to be her own!
Love has many stages, end the young
Frenchman had arrived at one very unusu•
al with him, namely, melancholy.
One day he was aroused from a discom
gelato reverie by one of the servants, whom
he had bribed to observe the motions of
Madame Paul, running in to inform him
that she was just gone down to the quay, to
see a packet a hich was endeavoring to en
ter the harbor in the teeth of a contrary
wind. In en instant he was on his way to
the quay. The sea was writhing under the
influence of the stormy wind The whelk)
town was gathered on the heights which
commanded the coast, watching the vessel,
which seemed in sheer madness, forcing its
way despite the furious wind and the falling
tide. The gale blew so strop , that the
collossal erusifix of Notre Dade bon Se
cours bent like a hazel wand; 'Twas a
thrilling sight : the noble ship,'" inted with
divers colors lighted up by ) ' d one of those
chance raybi which stray o'er darkest seas,
while the background wasformed by bar
riers of immense black &buds, Now, the
vessel, seemed lost in ,air, as it rode the
ridge of some enormous; wave ; and then,
again seemed lost in the abyss of waters.
" It is the Northumberland, an American
vessel," said an officer. "By our lady !
she carries the stars and stripes aloft with
a gallant bearing. , Yonder is her captain
disputing with a 'tall - man in naval uniform.
Faith ! but)ho captain's right ; it is mad.
nese to thibk - of entering the harbour in this
weather. Still,, his tall companion insists;
how can they risk such a noble vessel !"
In advance of the oinwd, her feet on the
wet and slippery,reAs, stood a female, im
moveable, with her eye fixed on the naval
officer, whot!n she could distinctly see by
means of n•small telescope. Her graceful
form told the Parisian it was his unknown.
To catch sight of her face, he went knee
deep into the water : he stood directly be
fore her; but, so intent was her gaze upon
the vessel, she saw him not. Seddenly a
dark shadow fell over him ; the spectators
warned him of his danger; the next moment
a gigantic wave burst over hie head. He
sank, struggled, rose, and, dizzy and drip
ping, scrambled to tho shore, amid the
laughter which his solely ensured. The
first thing he saw was the beautiful un
known laughing too. He cast upon her a
supplicating look of reproach. She exten
ded her hand to him. ~ Ah, how I blame
myself," said she to him, in a low sweet
voice : " it is for my sake you came; is it
not so ?do forgive me." Our young Paris
tan was now fairly out of his senses. At
this moment a general shout announced
that the ship had tacked : away she boun
ded from the shore like a sea-bird over the
waters.
" Ah !" said Madame Paul, with a deep- 1
drawn breath and a peculiar expression of
countenance, "so much the better. Ido
not (turning to lier companion) ask if you
love me, I know you do; I am sure of it
Come at five o'clock to my room: I will
order dinner for two. Do not fail; I must
speak to you; to•morrow it may be too
late."
'llrom that time till five o'clock he was
it his toilet. Five struck ; he felt he was,
as ever., irresistuble, and he hurried to his
appointment. She was singing a wild
sweet song when he entered ; and her back
turned to the door, gave him an opportunity
of observing, as she leaned over her guitar,
the most exqusite shoulders, and the pret
tiest shaped neck and head in the world.
She rose with graceful confusion, and her
long eyelashes fell over black eyes-black
as Gulnare's when their light wakened
slumbers of the pirate. She was now dres
sed in white, her rich dad( hair wasgether
ed up by combs of gold, her girdle was of
gold also, and so were the massive brace
lots on her arm, whose symmetry a scull).
for might have modelled. They sat down
To • dinner, -- and." all -rostraint floated away
with the champagne : coffee, liquefy, and
confidence come together.
" My name is Allegro," said the beauti
ful stranger. "I was born at Naples, and
the revolution which deprived Murat of his
crown, deprived my father, also of his collo
try. He fled to America, carrying with
bun, however, the best part of his wealth,
' which, from his solitary habits, accumula
ted from year to year.—As my evil fate
would have it, when I was on the verge of
womanhood, he formed an acquaintance
with a young Englishman, Sir George
Walsingham, who soon acquired unbounded
influence over him. My father died. God
forgive my suspicions, if unjust, but his
death was strange and sudden. On open
ing his will, it was found that all his wealth
was left to me, but on condition that I mar
ried Sir George Walsingliam, who other
wise inherited to my exclusion. I implored
his mercy ; told him I never could return
his affection ; and, at last, finding refusals
and reproaches in vain, I fled hither with
what money and jewels I had. Alas! ev
en here he has pursued me I Sir George
Walsingliam was the officer who urged
the Northumberland to the dangerous trial
of to-day ;in a few hours he will be here ;
he will claim me as his wife; and what
resource have I I Will you save me from
a fate more horrible than death?
With my life ! only tell me what to
do," said Eugene, gazing on a face lovely
as a dream.
" You must stay here ; 1 will go to meet
him, and be the first to propose a reconeil
at ion. We will send fur the priest who will
marry tie."
" Marry you and Sir George 1"
Yes ; you will follow us to church, and
as we coma out, you will kill him."
Kill bim
" %Veil l''
' But it will be an absolute murder, an
assassination."
Murder, and him ! it is a justice—a
duty ; are you a coward 1"
She rose from the table, the veins der-,
kened on her white, brow, her cheeks col:
oring crimson, and her eyes flashing, as
if she, at least, knew not the meaning of
fear.
" But," said Eugene; pale with con
tending passions, " what needs this mar.
EMU
0 What ! let him reirql in my father's
wealth, which I can only inherit as his
Ho caught tho earnest gazo of her large
k I I t dk ka ast Lz - • = • * me . -•- •
The liberty to know, to titter, and to argue, freely, is above all other liberties."—Mu:nu
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black eyes, the pleading of her beautiful
lips; he caught her small white hands, and
swore upon them to do her will.
•'You must leave me now," said she, it
is late ;" sho led him to the door, and, as
it closed, he again niet those radient eyes,
and surely love was in their long and lin
gering. look.
That night the hotel was disturbed by
an arrival. The wind had changed, and
the packet entered the harbor. Next
morning Eugene learnt that Sir George
ii'aisingham had come; he learnt, too, that
orders had been sent to prepare the chapel
fur a marriage. In vain he sought another
interview with Allegra. A carriage at
length drove to the door. Supported by a
tall, dark, stern-looking man, Allegra was
borne to the vehicle; Eugene followed it,
and arrited just us the ceremony was con
clueing. Sir George held his victim by
the arm, and fixed his keen eye upon her
with a cold and cruel expression ; she was
almost hidden by her veil; but she wits
trembling, and the little of her face that
could be seen was white as the marble of
the monuments around the chapel•
The ceremony was at an end, and they
were departing. Instantly the young Par•
isian sprang forward and struck the
groom on the face.
"Liar, murderer and coward ! do you
dare follow fuel"
The Englishman started, and struck him
n return !
‘• For life or for death—yo Ors or mine !'
cried Eugene, ifferiog, him one of two pA.3
tols.
They retreated a few paces, fired, and
both fell; Sir George was killed, the Pa
risian dangerously wounded. He was car
ried to his hotel, where he remained some
hours insensible. At length he was able
to s peak. His last recollection was see
mg Allegra faint in the arms of the atten:
dents.
" Where is she 1" he _exclaimed eagerly
looking round the room.
•' Who, s►r?"
" Allegra—Lady Walsiugham—•Madam
Paul—where is she ?"
' She left town some hours since."
" Gone !" and he sank back on his pil
No message had been left, and no trace
of her could be diseevered ; but one of the
servants brought him a locket he well IT
membered seeing jier wear round her neck
that fatal evening. It opened a tth a spring,
and contained the miniature of a singularly
handsome young man ; but it was neither
Sir George's Itheness nor Lis own I
A SEVERE BILLIOUS ArrAcal.—One life
certain and perhaps two; saved by Brand.
rah's pills.—Every body knows i+ho has
ever come down the Mississippi river, that
there are spots where the bottom is either
too near the top, or t he keels of the steam
boats extend too far down to admit of easy
navigation, or to use a more common mode
of expression the boats draw too much wat
er or the river is too lots.—This has been
the case for some time pactdr a ug h t,atid was
fait Case WWI.° the, staunch light
running, cabin all.in.state•rooms; wire•till
er- rope, double engine, and passenger steam
boat Rusher, Capt. Go it, left a small vil
loge high lip on ono of the western rivers
for this city. She was full of passengers
and every thing went on smoothly, the boat
only occasionally kissing the bed of the
river, until arriving at a treacherous sand •
bar, where " three feet scant" brought her
up as motionless as the oldest snug in the
Mississippi.
Every method was used to get her off
that the ingenuity of the captain and ' hands'
had knowledge of. They tried to " jump"
the Rusher, over, but the distance was too
far; they tried to drag her over, but she
would'nt be dragged, and several days were
thus passed in fruitless endeavors to get the
boat off. The passengers, in the mean
time, began PI grow fretful, uneasy and
bi:ious, as all passengers will when confined
on board a stationary steamboat ; but among
them all no one appeared so restless as Col.
Bluster, a man with Falstafr's size and with
much of Falstaff's love of swaggering and
antipathy to fighting.
Sitting one day in the social hall, among
a group of passengers, the colont , l commen
ced railing at their ill•success in general
and the carelessness of the pilot in running
them ashore in particular. "If I was the
captain of this boat," said he, " I'd flog the
pilot the first thing, and I- did kick him a
shore the next."
' You would, would you 7" said the exas
perated pilot. "It takes a man to do that
small job."
I'd—l'd swallow you alive—l'd toma
hawk you," said the colonel, apparently boi
ng over with rage.
"You bed—d," retorted the pilot,
cool as a cucumber."
I'd kill you—l'd throw you overboard,"
inued the enraged colonel.
" You'd kill me 7" said the pilot, thrust
:ng his hand significantly into his vest.
" Yes, yes-1 mean with my fists," acid
:ho colonel, throwing bin-it - golf into an atti
ude a la Tom Crib or Jim Sanford..
" You'd better put it off," ejaculated the
ulot, who now begun to look Bowie knives
and pistols. It was now evident the hitter
was not the 'least filehtened at cho smig•
":ig of the former, hut the way lie firm
abqut his pockets was interestina In
ruadoes, able t.t.!h not pat tioularly so to
e colonel, wheso valor was on a leave of
aVsence, or i:1.0 like Bob Acres' had oozed
out of Li, flew cods- "If you want soy
it, artir , •t * 11,e," cc !"i:. , 1,1 110.
t% by at
800 who's afraid ?" at the same time aqua
ring off.
"You dirty rascal," said the colonel,
who now 131. sin to haul in a little You
dirty rascal, I'd annihilate you on the spot
if I wasn't sick and bilious : I took a dou
ble dose of Brandret li's pills this morning—
they're saved your Nei"
Thus was the life of the worthy pilot sa
ved through tho instrumentality of a dose of
pill.; taken by another man. If proof is
wanting of their exceeding efficiency this
fact is suflicient.—N. 0. Pecayune
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HINTS TO FARMERS-APRIL
(This article may appear out of season
to some—but others will remember that it
is well to think on these matters before.
hand.)
During the present month, farmers should
endeavor as much as possible to get their
land into the best condition for planting, for
on this will depend in a great measure the
SUCCe93 the crop.
No pains should be spared to apply ma
nure copiously to corn and potato° crops—
the product,will abundantly repay the labor.
TO the smaller grain crops, as for instance,
oats and barley, manure should nut com
monly be applied, as the benefits in such
cases may not overbalance the injury.
Wheat, which has been injured by the
heaving of the frost, has in some cases been
greatly hanefitted by passing a roller over
it, thus pressing the roots again into the
earth.
New meadows should be rolled in the
spring to render the surface smooth for
MEM
Plaster, to be beneficial to the greatest
extent, should be sown on meadows early
MEE
Green sward, in order to be turned over
neatly, should have the furrow slices shut in.
Seed barley, by being limed and rolled in
plaster has produced crors freer, from smut,
in consequence of this operation, and yield
ed larger products.
The planting of locusts trees for timber
ehould be more attended to. The seeds
when should be previously scaled by
pouring hot water on them and suinririg it
to stand several hours—the swollen oresl
should then be planted, and the others re-
scalded
:73mcks of peach and other fruit trees,
should now be cut 111 Id trimmed. Every
bud should b removed except the one in
tended to grow.
The soil round fruit trees which do not
stand in cultivated ground should be spaded
tv oOr three test on each side. This is
absolutely necessary for young trees.. :
The roots of peach trees should be exam-
fined for the purpose of removing all the
worms which may have eaten in the bark,
and all the holes which appear should be
searched to their termination..
Nye wish agflin to urge .upon farmers,the
great benefit to • be derived from the culture
of root crops—the amount of cattle food thus
obtained is too much overloohed. fly good
culture, many hundred bushels may be safe•
ly calculated on exceeding, many times in
value a good crop of hay from the Same
quantity of laud. Drilling, instead of sow
ing the seed, greatly lessens the labor of
hoetng.
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AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
Of a truth we are the strongest people!
e know every thing by intuition; do eve
n• thing without care, study or forethought.
If we get into a scrape—well, what then?
Who suffers? Ask your nett door neigh
bor.
Let a man appear to prosper in a particu•
lar kind of business—no matter what—and
our lives on it, in a twelvemonth he will
have enterprising rieighb6ts l all around him,
rushing head over heels iritti the same busi
ness, at the rate of one failure a month. No
matter what his pursuit was or theirs. Ile
might be a bookseller, a confectioner, a
hatter, a parson, or a distiller—any thing
or every thing, and they might hare been
tailors, or shop keepers, in the dry goods or
grocery line, carpenters, or attorneys—it's
all the same to them. Ifthere's money to be
made, why shouldn't they make it as well
as another? And into it they rush, head•
long, like bulls into a china shop; and when
the smash comes, as come it certainly will,
e moment they are found out—then,what
havo they to say fur themselves? Why,
just nothing at aill "The times were so
hard, and they wore so unlucky! How
could they help it? Would you discourage
enterprise?" The fools! They aught to
be set in the stocks.
"Every things by turns and nothing
ong!" and this they call enterprise! This
they arc blockheads to mistake for that
far-seeing healthy and generous determine•
tion to be something and do something in
this world out of winch great mon proceed,
like the stars at midnight, in a continued
birth. Hence the waywardness and fickle
ness of our people. Hence the fact that a
son seldom or never follows the occupation
of his father. Hence not one man in fifty
continues for five years in the same kind of
business, in the same partnership or the
same shop. And hence the
among other things of unprincipled and
worthless newspapers—the heaviest too ev•
er imposed upon n free people. Enterpri
ses, forsoodd and literary enterprises!
whereby all who have any thing to do with
them, whether editors, proprietors, printers
or paper-makers, ere ruined, nineteen times
cut (.1 twenty. before they are wise enough
t•, give up tr. despair and g o hang themselves
hi a quiet ut:o:3leutatious
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.—EDUCATION.
We utterly repudiate, as unworthy, not
of freemen only, but of men, the narrow
notion that there is to be no education for
the poor, as such. Has God provided for
the poor a coarser earth, a thinner air, a
paler sky Does not the glorious sun
pour down his golden flood as cheerfully
upon the poor man's cottage as upon the
rich . man's palace ? Have not the cotta•
ger'is children as keen a sense of all the
freshness, verdure, fragrance, melody and
beauty of luxuriant nature, es the pale sons
of kings ? Or is nin the mind that° God
has stamped tho Imprint of a base birth, so
that the poor man's child Atiiiows with an
unborn certainty, that his lot is to crawl, not
climb.
It is not so. God has not done it. Man
cannot do it. Mind is immortal. It bears
high or low—rich or poor. It heeds no
bound of time, or place, or rank, or circuin•
o-tarces. It asks but freedom. It requires
but light. It is heaven born, and it aspires
to heaven. Weakness dues not enfeeble
—poverty cannot repress it. Difficulties
do but stimulate its vigor: And the poor
tallow•chandler's son, that site up all night
to read the book which an apprentice lends
him, lest the master's eye shall miss it in
the morning-, shall bind the lightning with
a hempen cord, and bring it harmless from
the skies. • The common school is common,
not an inferior, not as the school for poor
men's children, but as the light and air is
common. It ought to be the best school ;
and in all works the beginning is one-half:
Who does not know the value to the com•
munity of the . plentiful supply of the pure
element of water? And infinitely more
than this is the common school, for it Is the
fountain at which the mind drinks, end •it
is refreshed and strengthened for its career
of usefulness and glory.—Bishop Doane.
ADVICE TO MEN IN DEDT.—Ascertain
the whole state of your affairs. Learn ex
actly how much you owe. Be not guilty
of deceiving yourself. You may thus arm
! ken suspicions of dishonesty, when youY
ih
tentions were far otherwise. Deliberately
and fully make up your mind, that come
what will, you will prac.tice no concealment,
or trick, which might have the appearance
of fraud. Openness and candor bcinuntiriti
respect among all good men. Remember
that no man is completely. ruined among
men, until his character is gone. Never
consent to hold, as your own, one farthing
which rightly belongs to others. Beware
of feelings of despondency. Give not place
for an hour to useless and enervating mel
ancholy. Be a man. Reduce your ex
penditures to the lowest possible amount.
Care not to figure as others around you.
Industriously pursue such lawful and haneet
arts of industry as are left to you. An
hour's industry will do more to beget cheei
fulness, suppress evil rumors, and retrieve
your affairs, then a rzionth'n moaning. If
you must stop business, do it. soon enough
to avoid the just charge of nn attempt to
involve your unsuspecting friends. Learn
from your present difficulties, the utter van
ity of all earthly.things.
SiNour,An CASE.--The following mitre
tive of a most remarkable and distressing
disease, is taken from the Tranacript, a pa
per published at Amesbury, Mass.
"Miss Lucy Harrington, formerly a red
ident in Amesbury, recently, died in Cor
nish, N. 11. She was sick thtee years and
a half. and confined to her bed two years
and five months. Several months previous
to her death, her right hip was dislocated
:by a contraction of the muscles, while she
was sleeping quietly in her bed. Immedi
atcly after this event, her bones began to
break, and before her death they had bro
ken nineteen times or more, in different
parts of her body. At first, her ribs, then
her collar bones, then her lower limbs, her
under jaw, and the bones of her hand and
feet. Their breaking was some times at
tended with a noise, and at others not, and
always preceded and followed by the most
acute pain. The ends of the broken bones
would sometimes for a day or two, grate
together on being moved. Upon a post
mortem examination, not a sound bone was
foond. All was so softened as to be easily
cut with a knife. When her bones began
to break, the muscles of her lower limbs so
contracted that they lay directly across her
stomach and bowels. In this position, she
remained until her death. Her body was
so contracted that at one time she measured
as she lay in bed only two feet and four in
ches. She gradually install strength in her
limbs, until she could only move slightly the
ends of her fingers. She was forty-three
years of age.
Mac°Nsus.—Resolutions have been pas•
sed in the legislature of this territory, pro
viding for the holding a convention at Mad
ison, on the first Monday in November, for
the purpose of furthering "the adjustment
of the southern boundary, and admission
into the Union ol,the state Wisconsin on
an equal footing with the original states in
all respects whatever."
ANOTHER BOUNDARY QUESTION.-A
difficulty is likely to occur between Illinois,
and the terriMry of Wisconsin, concerning
the boundary. We observe a call in the
Galena papers, for a meeting of the citizens
of Jo Daviess county, to take the subject In
to consideration.— Wheeling Gazette. .
I ,believe that it was not a rib which God
btirrowed from Adam to form Eve but his
tongue, and that it is not our fault if we
speak too much.' So says a pretty woman.
N • Y. ,Signal.
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IROLITI:STA THE GAMBLEIIO.-A Vicksburg
paper of the 15th ult. says: There was a
great hubbub tha night before last Millis
icily. Our city authorities resolved to drive
i out the gainblers,biought up one P.. 1 Hearn,
i before the mayor. He had been keeping
In faro table in a room at the Southern
[louse for two weeks, and Marshal Genrgo_
found him out. Ho was brought, , up and
ordered to jail, in default of security for
3000 dollars, when he made his escape by
giving "leg bail." Officer Shorkney fired
tiller him twice,when be fell, and was caught
and lodged in jail. The Southrons turned
out to project the city from a mob; all was
soon restored to peace and quietness. A
warning is given to those not arrested to
"nuzzle."
GENERAL LAND Orrxcr.--• Prom the
Annual Report of the C, ‘ 'orn . missioner of the
General Land Ciffice,•it'atipeara that during
the year ending Decelither 31, 1839, the
quantity of Public Land sold amounted to
3,314,907 acres, the purchase money of
which was $4,305,564. During the first
and second quarters of the year 1839, the
number of acres sold was 3,771,994, and
the purchase money for the same amounted
t 0.54,768,852.
It will thus be seen that the sales for one
half of the year 1839, exceeded those of the
whole preceedlng year. This is the more
remarkable from the consideration of the
general scarcity of money in the country
for the last twelve months. The year 1830
was distinguished for the large amount of
sales of public lands. The entire pi oceede
for that year from this source, amounted to
more than twenty five millions of dollars,
being about six times ns great as the amount
received in IP3B, and probably five times as
great as that received rn 1839.
The quantity of land to be surveyed and
brought into the market in 1840 and '4l,ia
nearly fifteen million nine hundred thousand
acres.
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Tin BOUNDARY , DISPUTE.—Hear
Sides.—LThe Fredericton, N. B. ,Sentinel,
..
of
,the 20th ult. in noticing t h e' reports of
warlike preparations, remarks : -,• '•
We cannot vouch for the truth of thine
reports ; but there can be, little doubt that
Her Majesty's Government is' determined
to:exercise a becoming firmnese, with ref
erente to the question of boundary ; and
that'the recent examination of the territory
H dispute, has satisfied it that the claims
of Mains are founded in injustice' and must
be proniptly and enetgeticalli'
course the most likely to produce permit
.nent peace between the two nations."
The St. Johns Courier of the 22d, after
noticing the charge ofdpplicity breug,ht by
the Maine papers against Mr. Fort, says,:
" We learn, 'verbally, that the
' Legista~
future of Maine, aware of the advantages
of making •goOd . the charge of duplicity 11.•
gninet the (Mash Minister at Washington,
have deputed two of their number 'to pro
ceed to the points in que'4tion, and examine
into the facts, under oath, land make report
immediately: •
While the 4mericans ate taking so much
pains to prove that Warlike preparations are
making by the British, they must bo aware
that the slate of affairs on their part calls
for active and decided demonstrations en
ours
Not only have they kept un armed
'orce upon the territory, contrary 'to agree.
ment, and opened roads through it,.but up
to this time they have been continually
strengthening their positions at Fort Fair
field and Fish River, and have been convoy.
ing cannon thither on sleds the present
winter. With these facts in view, does it
behovo the British to be idle? A week or
two will bring us something more decisive
on the subject than wo possess at present."
LAZE:VI:M.—One fiery hot day a farmer
went ito his mowing lot where he had hired
a half dozen men to cut down the grass.
Ho came upon them suddenly, and found
them all laying down under an apple tree.
Well,' said the indignant farmer, '
give art extra half dollar to the laziest fel
low among you.' All jumped upon their
feet to claim the reward, but one man, who
laid still. Ah !' said the farmer, ' that
fellow has won the money.' To which in.
defence replied, ' Won't you put it in my
pocket 1'
Job was a patient man s though his temper
was afflicted with divers ingenious tor•
ments, But there were no newspapers
published in the land of Uz, and Job was
never stifled upon to perform the duties of
an editor.
Snrirame.—An Advertiser in a Provi•
deuce paper, in describing a country seat,
which he offers for sale, says—•' Amongst
the other delights of scenery, the canal me
andars through its banks, in lofty and ma.
jostle splendor." Oh hush 1•
It waa a saying of the Jewish Rabbi,tbat
if tho sea were ink, the trees pen*, and the
earth parchment, it would not be soirmient
to write down all the praise duet() Golf for
!Ebony.
The Louisville Journal, in describing the
death of an inobrrata by suicide ear bet
"staggered into eternity!" —Wherre ertnAct
be found words more awfully expreettVe of
the drunkard?
Thn N. 0. Picayune calls Santa Fe athei
little mud built city that stands between eV. ,
ilization and the jumping airplane,' and rays
that 'a kiss is n delicious dish, eaten tir tilk
scutlet spoons.