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A reasonable deductjon will bo made to those who advertise by the year. IV. MI Lettereand Communications addressed t.) the &liter by mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to. TUC GARLAND. With sweetest flowers enrich'd From various gardens cull'd with care." THE WIFE. TIT ELLANOR LOUISA. MONTAGUE. Oh. come, beloved: to yon grey wood, Where oft in childhood's hour we strayed, Ere yet with plighted hands we stood Beneath yon bending willow's shade; And I my early dream will tell, And blush not though thine rye behold me; I feel thy voice's soothing spell, Thy loved and loving arms enfold me. Ali! little Elitist thou dream how long I loved thee with a hidden heart, When even amid some touching song My sighs would breathe, my tears would start; Thou could'st'not deem that this weak breast, Which in thy joy stood mute before thee, Longed but to'share thy soul's unrest When sorrow's night was deepening o'er thee. Oh! then the sullen years drew on When thou must part, yet leave no token, And I must bear, unaltered, alone, A grief which yet might not be spoken, Oh. Love! it was a feairfut time, But all is past, forgotten now; Yet someihiog of its youthful prime Math fled from this devoted brow. This grieves me not, for well I know Thy spirit will not love me less, Though time upon thy hend should snow, Or on thy cheek too rudely press, I feel that thou wilt dearer be— If ought to me can make thee dearer— When the spring leaves of life's young tree Around thy brow era growing sealer. Years waned; end thou rememberest yet The hour which led thee back to me, 'When, sicken'd with the world, we met, And each was changed—yet both were free: riot changed in soul, but sadder grown, And touched as by the wand of sorrow; And doomed, like buds too early blown, To greet with wasted bloom their morrow. Then once again I dared to dream, But now no more a drCam of sadness, Tby preigence smoothed my life's rough stream And led ins jack to youth and gladness! And something did our hearts subdue. A yearning thought—• thought of home— As though our soul's more closely drew Ere yet the darker days should come. Now let tl cm come! I fear them not: For ert not thou, beloved, mine! And is not this time•hallowed spot The altar of a love divine! Oh, may the lamp which lights us now For ever on that altar .butn, And ne'or through life our spirits know One covered hour o'er which to mourn _ * ala.3o2llaaliTarOMo From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. THE BRIDESMAID: AN AMERICAN TALE. In a small parlor of a neat little cottage, in the beautiful village of Ashton, were seat ed en nged lady and a young girl. The former was engaged in needlewoi k, and the latter was listlessly turning over the leaves of a book. “Why have you not taken your usual walk this morning. Alice V . Bald the old lady. "Because," answered her companion, "I am weary of walking where there is nothin;,• to be seen. lam tired of living i n this dull place, and of associating with the vulgarp:•ople who inhabit it." The complaints of the young lady were interrupted by the 'entrance ()fa servant,who presented a letter, r;Who_broghl itt" said Mrs• Lee, "it wa4 brought by n gentleman, ma'am, who refused to came in, but said he would call in the eveMoz Alice examined the direction nithe let ter, and exclaimed joo.llly, i s f rom I sa b e l!" she gipPtitql it and rend ns Dearest Alice,—D, you remember that when at scl.ool toi2eilE.r, we made a pro- Witte to art Ha hriitemiaiil to each other,. tiCOUILICither of 1,19 ever require such a azawunrazavaztE, a)ztos ftW32ozDaxs, catzt;butzearza.Lß/11 t, aaatio service? I now claim the fulfilment of your nrornise This letter will be delivered by him who is the betrothed of your friend. He has some business in your neighborhood, and I have gladly availed myself of the opportunity of Writing to you, and of intro• diming him to your friendships I had al most forgoten to tell you his name: it is Edward Herbert, and his home is in New Orleans; of course it will in future be mine Herbert thinks his business in Ashton will be concluded in a week. He will then re turn to Franklin. and 1 hope you will ac company him. Your society, my beloved friend, is all that is wanting to complete the happiness of your affectionate "IsABEL GREY." The pleasure with which Alice perused this letter, was not umnixed ~with other sensations. "And so Isabel is to be mar ried so soonl It is scarcely a year since she left school, and she is not nt all pretty, (cast ing, as she spoke, a glance et the mirror, which reflected her own beautiful face,) but she is rich, and she has an opportunity of mingling in fashionable society!" And Alice retired to her chamber, to muse over the happy prospects of her friend, and to lament the poverty which compelled her to "waste her sweetness on the desert air." Alice Leo had 'been deprived by death of both her parents, while she was still n child. Since that time she had been under the protection of a maiden sister of her father's whose narrow circumstances corn pelted her to reside in the obscure village of Ashton. The old lady was exceedingly proud of her beautiful neice, and by her injudicious indulgence and undisguised ad miration, she increased that vanity which was the predominant feature in the charac ter of the latter. Herbert came in the evening, and with an almost unconcious coquetry Alice ar rayed herself most tastefully to receive the lover of her friend, and she was gratified to perceive that Herbert was struck with admiration of her really beautiful person. He was a fine looking young man, and his manners and conversation were so superi or to those of the rustic swains with whom she had been accustomed to•associate,'that Alice was completely fascinated. The ensuing morning brought Herbert again to the cottage, und, after a day passed in his society, Alice sighed as she remembered her engagements with her friend; and she could not help thinking, that had she met him while he was yet free, she might herself have been the object of his affection. His admiration of her evi• dently increased with every interview and the week appointed for his stay in the neigh harhoad had passed away. and yet no men tion had been made of his intention to return to Franklin. Meantime the affianced bride at Herbert passed the time of his absence in dreams of future happiness, somewhat chastened by regrets at her approaching separation from the friends of her youth and the scenes in which her happy childhood had passed. Isabel Grey was not beautiful,. but she had an open, intelligent c , lmtenance, a cheerful 'disposition, a most afiectionate heart, and a large fund of good sense, and correct principle. She was only seventeen, and Herbert had been her first lover. She loved w ith all the warmth of a young, un practised heart, nor did her inexperienced eye detect in her lover's character the ab sence of those strict principles by which her (iv conduct was governed Nor did it ever occur to her that her wealth had any influence in attracting his regard. She was impatiently expecting his return on the appointed day, and was much disappointed mien she received a letter from him, which informed her that circumstances had occurred which would detain him at Ashton till the very day appointed for their mar riage. 'he approach of that day caused the most cruel conflicts in the breast of Herbert. He had never really loved Isa bel, but he admired her character, and felt that he could rely Implicitly upon her principles; her cheerful good sense render ed het an agreeable companion, and her fortune Was a circumstance by no means to be disregarded by a man of his expen sive tastes and hubits. All these cor,sidera tions, however,vanished before the influence of the:passion which the beauty of Alice had awakened in.his bosom. He struggled against itfor awliile, but with no fixed prin. ciplee; and, without resolution to tear him self away. his ineffectual efforts seemed only to civil the chains which bound him. Alice loved him as well as she was capable of loving any one, end her regard for her friend opposed but a feeble barrier- to the gratification of ber wishes. She was inca pable of deep feeling, but her vanity was gratified by the evident devotion of Herbert, and her mind was dazzled by the prospect of emergiag from the obscurity in which her chorine had hitherto been buried. The morning appointed for the marriage of Isabel Grey had arrived, and she sat a• lone in herapartment, in' momentary ex pectation fal the arrival of her lover and her friend. They came not, however, and Isa bel was beginning to apprehend the occur rence olsoine necident, when her mother entered the room. She held a letter in her hand, and vas evidently in a state of exeit,menromusual to her gentle character ..lanbel," she said, "this letter is from M iss Lee." 'is Alice MP inquired Isobel, enviously ' No, she is not 111, I•ut she is unworthy ofyour hiendship. She has eloped with Herbert!" Isabl•I hetird no more, and with an ex clamation of horror and serprbe, she foil G. WILDZINGTON 80V71117, En:TOP. & P7.07,7-LIZITOn. gg The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, Se above all other liberties.”7-51u.iou senseless at the feet of her mother. . When animation returned, she insisted on seeing Miss Lee's letter, and her mother, know ing the strength of her character, thought it best to indulge her. The letter contain• ed only a brief account of the elopement, with a disclaimer on the part of the writer of any knowledge of or participation in the Isabel Grey did not sink under this se vere stroke. • She felt all the anguish, all the desolation ofspirit, natural to one whose dearest hopes had been prostrated by treach ery and ingratitude on the part of him to whom she had eiven her young heart with all its glowing feelings, and of her who had been the dear companion of her child• hood. Hut in her own bereavement, Isa• •bel did not forget that she was the sole stay and comfort of hor widowed motffer, and that her energies of heart and mind were given for nobler purposes than to be wasted in fruitless repinings for one, who had proved himself all unworthy of her pure and devoted love. She felt too,when the first shock was over, that she had rea son to be thankful that any circumstance, no matter how painful, had unveiled the real character of tier lover, before it be• come her duly to close her eyes to his faults, to conceal, even from himself, if possible, his want of honorable principle. Years rolled by. Isabel Grey had be• come the wife of one who had loved her from childhood, and who, if inferior to the one of her early choice in . external graces, was infinitely his superior in all those men tal and moral qualities which give dignity to man, nod which render a woman's mar ried life balmy. And Isabel loved him; if not with the impassioned fervor of other days, at least with a deep and sincere afli!e. lion, and with that reliance on his faithful ness and truth, - which grew out of her per fect conviction of the integrity of his char acter• She continued to reside with her mother, whose increasing age rendered her more then ever dependent open tho affec tionate attentions of her daughu r. One very stormy evening, the whole family were collected round their cheerful fireside Dr. Dillingham, the husband ofd Isabel, hod just returned from a long nni! , fatiguing ride, and was seated in a large arm chair, holding on his knee a beautiful infant of a year old. Isabel was seated near him,also caressing the chtld, and Mrs. Grey reclined on n soft, nod surveyed the happy group with affectionate delight. Suddenly there was a knocking at the hall dour, which was immediately. followed by the entrance of a female, completely enveloped in a clock, the hood of winch concealed her face entirely. She carried a child in her arms, and, pushing aside the chair which the Doctor offered her, she sunk at the feet of Isabel, and throwing off her cloak, revealed the "'features of Alice Herbert. In utter amazement, Isabel stooped to !rase the prostrate farm of her former friend. She took the child from her arms, and with her husband's assistance she laid her on a sofa, and waited with breathless anxiety au explanation of her sad appear ance. In a few minutes Alice raised her head. "Po you not wonder at me, Isabel,. that I hove dated to approach you—that I pre sume to raise my eyes to the face of her whom I have su basely injuredr “You have not injured me, Alice. All that is passed is long since forgiven, for it is to you I owe toy present happiness." And Isabel smiled through the tears which had gathered in he: eyi sas she looked at her husband and tier lovely child. "But where, Alice, is your husband, and why are you here alone at this hour?" "He is gone," said Al ce solemnly, "to render his account at the bar of Eternal Justice, and I have begged my way hither to claim your protection fur my innocent babe, and then to close my weary eyes in peace." Convulsive sobs here choked the utter• anco ofthe wretched woman, and she was conveyed in a elate of insensibility to the bed from which she never rose again. Alice's story was soon told. Immedi ately oiler their marriage, she and Hebert had proceeded to New Orleans, and enter• ed at once upon a course of the most reck less extravagance. A short time sufficed to dissipate the small fortune which Herbert possessed, and he soon began to tire of a wife whose personallharms had been her sole altracticn, and 'Aids° vanity and love of display completely unfitted her far do mestic life. After some months' strug gling with pecuniary difficulties, aggrava ted by the complainings of his wife and by hie own impatient disposition. Herbert in a moment of despair terminated his own ex istence, • leaving his wife and child in a state of utter destitution- Thus helpless and forlorn, Alice could think of no resource in her misery, (her, Aunt being dead,)but the friend whom she had betrayed, and some charitable persons, pitying her con dition, supplied her with means to reach the•town in which Isabel resided. She lived but a few weeks after her arrival at the hospitable mansion of Dr. Dillingham, but her death-bed woe soothed by the kind ness of her friend, rind by her assurances of continued pfotection to her orphan daugh ter. This promise Isabel most Willfully per formed, and when, in after days', a group of smiling children gatherod round he knee, no one could have told thitt one of those children was the daughter of those who had outraged and insulted the gentle being whose maternal tenderness was extended equally to all. THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE By Elllns Harrill—The Learned Blacksmith . . There are . new developernents of human character, which, like the light of distant stars, are yet to visit the eye of man and operate upon human society. Ever since the image of the God•head was first sketch ed in Eden, its great Author and -angel have been painting upon it; men have tried their hands upon it; influences like the in cessant breath of heaven, have left each its line upon the canvass; still the finisl.ins stroke of the pencil will not be accomplish• ed until the last, lingering survivor of ''the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" "is changed in the twinkling of an eye." The hemisphere of the present age is studded all over with such pearls "and pa tines of blight gold," as never shrine before in the heavens of the human soul. In these latter dayit, the waves of time have washed .up from &pills that angels never fathomed, "gems of purer light serene" than were ever worn before in the crown of man. = We are now hut half way advanced in a new cycle of human history. The race is but just emerging from the long-reaching shadows of an iron age, and coming out in to the starlight and•suidight of new influen• ces. lf, a's we are assured, scores of new stars have taken rank with the heavenly hosts, Eluting the last two centuries, stars brighter than they, have, in the same peri od, toadied up new lights in the moral fir mament. Among these new stars, ono a little lower than that of Bethlehem, had just appeared above the horizon It litho Star of WOMAN'S INFLUENCE. influential Woman is- a being of scarcely two centu ries; op to that period, and :.lmost hitherto, her inauences have fallen upon human character and society, like the feeble rays of a sising winter's sun upon polar fields of ice. But her sun is reaching upward.— There is a glorious meridian to which she shall as surely come ns to-morrow's rising sun shall reach his in our natural heaven. What estri will be, whence she shall shine upon lurn then and thence, we are nimble to divine; but we can found an anticipation froth the influences of her dawning rave Her morning light has gilded the visions of -human hope, amid silvered over the night shadows of human sorrow. There has been no depth of human misery beyond the roach of her ameliorating influesce,nor any height of human happiness which she has tini raised still higher. Whoever has touched at either of these extremities, or at any of their intesvening points, could attest that "neither freight nor depth, nor principaliti , s nor power, nor things pros ent or to come," could divert or vitiate the accents and anodynes of her love. W limb, er we trace the lineaments of her charac• ter in the mildlwilight of her miming- son, nr in the living beams of her risen silty, we find that she has touched human society like an angel. It would be• irreverent to her worth to say, in what walks of life she has walked most like on angel of light and love; in what vicissitudes, in what joys or sorrows, in what situations or circumstan ces, she has most signally discharged the heavenly ministrations of her mission;'What ordeals have best brought out the radiance of her hidden jewels; what fruit ions of earth ly bliss, or furnaces of affliction, have best declared the fineness of her gold. Still there is a scene, which has escaped "the vulture's eye," and almost every other eye, where she has cast forth her costliest pearls, and shown such qualities of her . native character as almost merit our adoration This scene has been allotted to the drun kard'a wife. How she has hlled this most desperate out post of humanity, will be re vealed when the secrets of human life shall be disclosed "to more worlds than thin."-- tit lien the history of hovels and (timer's% garrets shall be given in; when the career of the enslaved inebriate'shall be told,from the first to the lowest degree of his degra dation—there will be a memorial made of woman worthy of being told and heard . in heaven. From the first moment she gave up her young and hoping heart, and all its treasures, into the hands of him she loved, to the luckless hour when the .charrner, wine, fastened around that loved ose all the serpent spells of its sorcery—lown through all the crushing of her young born hopes,—sthrough years of estrangetneet and strange insanity —when harsh unkindness bit at her heartstrings with an adder's tooth --thence down through each successive depth of disgrace and misery; until she bent over the drunkard's grave; through all these deeds a Imbue(' divinity has gath ered around her, and stirred her to angel deeds of love. When the maddened - vic tim tried to cut himself adrift from the sympathy and society of God and man, she has clung to him and held him to her heart "with hooks of steel." And when he was cast out all defiled with his leprous pollution, when he was reduced to such a thing as the beasts of the field would bellow at, there was one who still kept him thron• ed in her heart of hearts; who could say over the fallen; drivelling creature: "Al though you are nothing to the world, you are all the world to me:" When that aw ful insanity of the drunkard set in upon him, with all its fiendish shapes of torture; while he lay writhing beneath the scorpion stings °rifle fiery phantasies and furies of de/intim tremens,—there was woman by his side, enslaved with all the attributes of her loveliness. There was her tearful, love•heaming eye, that never dimmed but with tears when the black spirits were at him. There sho stood alone and in lone hours of night. to . watch his breathings, with her heart 'braced up with the omnipo. tence of her love. No! brute as he was, not n tie whit h her young hitart had ihriiwit [moon; we nave• atso seeit too veciuto.te around him in his bright days, had ever : sent to him for examination. Tit ua•.thei; ,tiven away but had grown stronger as he appear to he animal matter, and the odor is approached the nadir of his degradation.— that of putrid flash. We do not pretend Ind if he sank into that dark, hopeless •to offar any theory to acount for , the phi irraver, she eniwathed him in her broken nomenon, we leave that to abler and more heart, and laid tt iu his coffin; or. some scientific heads. When the• specimens mi.:toy angel's arm or voice brought him have passed through' the crucibles of Dr. lip f ro m the grave of drunkenness the des ; Tronst, we shall furnish our readers with . pest ever dug for man he came forth La , the result: zarus-like, bound (list and forever within -• • , LEBANON,' August 8, 18411. the cetements of her deathless a ff ection. i Dr. G. Troost:—.l have sent you some Such is her sceptre; such are the cords' mutter, which appears from nn authentic which she throws around the way ward and source to have fallen from the clouthi.= wandering, and leads him back to virtue With me there can be no doubt of its being and to heaven, saying, as s he gives him in: animal matter, blood, • muscular fibre, adj. , .. Hem umland he whom thou gayest me." pose matter: Please account to us, if you I • can, (In philosophical principles,for the reuse of this phenomenon. • The particles • 1• . send you, 1 gathered with my own hand.' from the axtent ,of surface over which, it , has spread, and the regular mariner which it exhibited on some green tobacco leavers; leaves vary little 'or no doubt of its having. 1 fallen like a shower of rain; and it is stated 'on the authority of some negroes only,'lto • I have lallelifrom a small red cloud, no other clouds visible in the heavens at the time, It took place on Friday last, between 11 and 12 o'clock, about five miles N. E.'nf, Lebanon. I have sent what I think to be , a drop of blood, the other , particles, (mire posed of muscle and fat, although the tiro. portions. of the shower appeared to be a much larger quantity of blood. than of other` properties. ; • ' ' •' • • 1 ' .' 1 am, in haste, your most obedient, W. P. SAYLE. THE WAY THIZY ADMINIATER JUSTICE: tx TEXAS.—The following is the report of certain proceeding recently had before Jno. F. Jeffers, Esq a high Judicial OffirOP of the repnblia of Texas, who is thus de scribed: 'The above named indiviitial is from [slew Jersey, and might, if he had lived in the daYs of Hooarth, have been immortal. ized in oil colors. He is about four feet six inches high, and six feet in thickness, with nn abdomen worthy of- Paktum -- whanr dresAed out in his mud pumps, hunt ing shirt, and Mexican chapeau, he looks the lac simile of Jack of Clubs. llis nose resembles a virmillion pear halfway buried in a basket of strawberries. The follow ing is a report of the proceedings before him at the last court: Republic of Texas vs Jim Donegan for stealing a mule—The testimony was con. elusive against the accused, and the prose cuting attorney declined summing up. illagistrate— , You must speak on this case, or d—n me, l'll discharge the cri minal. You can't tome it over-old Jeffers, by laying low and playing dummy. My Judgment is that the prisoner stole the mu) , . , ; but as ho is a poor man, this entirely does away with the criminal intention, which constitutes a theft, as brother Bill used to say in the .larsies, in similar cases, and brother Bill was a first chop lawyer. Then, as there was no criminal intention, the mule will belong to the prisoner, the prisoner will be discharged by paving cost of prosecution, and the pro , ccuting attor ney will be sent offto the brig two days for contempt of court, in nut arguing the case and producing the law.' (By the bye, the brig is used for a jail, as there is no house or building erected for that purpose, and at present the old hulk which was driven a• ;hors in 1637, is used fora jail.)The court will now adjourn all cases on the dock et till more ice arrives from New 'Orleans, for the court prefers ice .in liquor this hot weather; and the parties must bring it in lideral when It arrives, or they will be e• raced from the.docket. Them's old Jeffeds sentiments; now elope!' YOUN(j MEN PERtiEVERE.-11 recolleCt, says Sir .1. Barrington, to have seen in Queen's - county, a Mr. Clark, who had been worLin7 carpenter; and when making a bench for the session justices at the Court House, was-laughed Al for taking such par ticular pains in smoothing the plank -lin the judges seat. The carpenter, nothing disconcerted, continued his work with spe cial attention; and as . a reason fbr being so very- nice in finishing the seat, jocosely ex pres,•ed his intention of one day occupyini that very seat himself. Tune passed on, and the Carpenter ever assiduous and atten live both to business and mental culture, was afterwards seen as presiding twig() on the very bench which he had a few years before been so nice in plaining- MARCH or REFINEMENT IN CANADA —Captain Sout herlionl, of the British awn mar Niagara, has been fined R. 5 at Kings ton, for en assault upon one Gallego, a'ne gro, whom he forced from the dinner table of the •Niegara.' The Toronto Patriot is horrified that such au occurience should take place under the British flag. in onti tier Majesty's Mail Packets, and culls it 'a miserable prejudice about color,' because ft party of ladies and gentlemen declined sitting at a dinner table with a negro. We also saw it stated in ono ofthe Montreal pa pers a fitw days ainee, - that the authorities had refused to license a Circus, unless the singing of 'nigger songs' was strie.tly pro hibited! This, as they say in Texas, is .cutting it a leetle too fat.' SHOWER of FLEAH AND BLOOD. -4t is only a few weeks since we had an . account from the East, of a fall of manna of the richest quality. . And now we give below an extract from the Nasnville Banner of the 20th ult. which mentions a fall of flesh and blood, not of quails we presume, but still animal flesh, Iht and lean, end a goodly quantity of blood.' This is really marvel lous, if true: • , On' Tuesday we heard from several per sons, that a shower, apparently of fiesb and blood, had fallen•in Wilson county, near Lebanon, in this State, and that the fields wert covered to a considerable extent.— The',..account staggered our belief; bnt strange , atit . may appear, it has. been con firmed by theitooment of several gentle men of high character;ibb haye personal ly examined the scene of this Phenomenon- They state that the space covered by this extraordinary .shower, is half a mile • in length, and about seventy-five yards in width. In addil ion to the information thus received, we have been favored by Dr. Troost, professor of Chemistry in the Uni vermity, N ashy tile, with the following lettec from a highly respectable physician of U,ALF:ttaiW 4)2(1,:, 0,1 Ten'STEAMSHIP PRRBIDENT.—Our cor-, respondent at Barbadoes, furnishes the f01..' lowing extract from the St: Thomas Times newspaper, giving an account of the kiss' of this vessel. 'We annex it, remarking that we place no faith in the statement which _limn the face of it is wholly impro. hable. The letter is said to have been fount') in a bottle, picked up in lat 53 20, '- long 47 33. ' , On Iceberg March 17th, 1841—'-To whomsoever these presents sfiall come, these are addressed, not in hope of obtain- , ing aid, but to apprise our friends of, our . awful and inevitable fate. We ,unhappy passengers and company _ of the President . . Steamer had rough weather from the heur of our departure from New York. .On the night of the 14th inst., it blew a hurricane,'. : with hail and " snow, and the lookout Wile , unable, to see a cable's length from. the. ship. At . abnut half past seven—P.. 111..ber; ing tken,under clese reefed topsails, the. • ship encountered an island of ice, so rapid-, Iv did she fill, that ,we _had barely, time to • e-cape to the ice before she. went Many of the passengers barely saved their , garments, among whom .Was the unfortu. nate Morris. who being in ,delicate health, • died on the second day, of cold and henger.. Thi.. is the only case of mortality as yet, hut as the ice is breaking up fast, we none if us expect to missive more than two or three days longeromless it should please. the Lord, evraurdinary to have mercy. We have no fault to hod wiik any one., The ship was strong and well found, the captain and crew skilful, prudent, and cow: regeous. 1 should . have mentioned before, that ou'r boats, were ell washed away the'. diiv preceding the disaster, and the long boat was stove by the concussion. .Even had this not been the case, no boat could have lived in such a sea. Our hearts are dead within us. Capt. Roberts, 'and :ho Rev. Mr Conkmin am the only ones that en d e avor to keep up the 'couraee of the rest. I leer that the tone in which we join this gentleman in prayer, indicates more the courage of despair than any other feeling. Nevertheless, God's will, not eur'a be done. Yesterday wewere so fortunate as to pick up the carcase of a small shark, which was dashed against our floating prison, by the violence of the waves. This, find a few bottles of wine, have been our only outlier:- ance. My hand freezes; and . 1 can write no more." Did you ever see a lady take her soar, who didn't nee again to fix her dress? "Maint I see you home from •meetin, Peggy." "No, you shan't do no such thing, I'M otherwise engage l." "I swann,', I guess you've miss'd tt this time, tor I've got my truweers pocket chuck full of gingerbread." "You may take my arm, Jonathan, 1 only said so." • '•••'"'''' An alderman in .Philadelphia, recently married a young couple, and received fir his trouble a five dollar bill, giving three dollars in exchange.. Out of the two dol. tars thus received, he paid half a, dollar, for publishing the marriage, and, on , attempt. log to pass the five, found it was a.counter. felt. .This villain made quite a speculation by getting married• AN TRIM DIA AT A SHINPLASTER. - TllO following which came to us bu the hack of a one dollar Canton Bank bill,, we consider too good to be lost; "A certain It ishman received for • labor, tt tine doltar.hill on one *litho ,Ohio. Banks,' on which he was obliged to lose ten cents discount. , nem day us hr, , was passing down main street, be saw a dePtiiF bill lying on tlie side :walk, an the -same bank, and gazing en it, he etelsiiveid,4lo4 i luck to the likes of vf.----tberP may -be: I , aavil a fiVar . ..will II put on ye, tor ,1 holt-tea i.cents art a bratherof youKs.,„yoloniolm Ohio Statestitani
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