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THE GARLAND.
With sweetest flowers enrich'd
Prom various gardens cull'd with care."
THE FIRST LEAF OF AUTUMN
I 800 thee fall, thou quivering leaf
Of faint and yellow hue,
The first to feel the Autumn winds,
That blighting o'er thee blew—
slow parting from the rocking branch,
I seta thee floating by,
To brave all desolate end lone,
The black autumnal sky.
Alas ! the first, the yellow loaf—
' Hon , Sadly falls it there,
'l'o rustle'on the crisped grass,
With every chilly air !
It tells' of those that 50011 must drop,
All wit h er d, from the tree,
And it hath wak'd a saddon'd chord
hi deathless memory.
Thou eddying loaf, away, away
There's sorrow in thy hue;
Thou sound's& the knell of sunny hours,
Of both and liquid dew—
Ant) thou goat tell how "from ttra.lteart
The blooms of hope decay;
How each ono lingers, loth to part,
'Till they are swept away.
03.20aWItab.aislab00o
T.A.LE OF LIFE.
LT NIBS BEDCIW/4:12
"I nrn going round by Broad Qt reel to en
quire of Rose, the glover, about little Luny
IVendall "
"Lucy Woodall! %V ho's she?".
"She is a pretty little „Dutch girl, who
lives opposite to 1110 . 1 a that bit . Of. a awe+
jipg
,10 . 114 S like a crack or a seam be
iWCUil the two houses on each side of it.—
She lived . wiih her graud . patents, natives
Of this city, and mice, proprietors of many a
lot within but they had been outburgaiti,
od and outwitted, till .they were reduced to
this little tenement, some twenty feet by
fifteen. Their only surviving descendant
was little friend Lucy, a pretty fair- skinned,
fair-hairedi.blue•oyed girl,.ofa most mod
eat;iiiiiet;'eogaging demeanor. ; ,Foemany
pendia, after we moved ,to
knew nothing of the lanailyijap fimn 6 . 111:11
i'ibiervations as my . eye could take, neatness
.was the ruling passion of the household.
Their, only ser v a nt, Minerva — the goddess
of tviadorn should have known hatter—used
in scrub the house 'iveekly from garret to
Collatilheir Only corpet was shook. every
SattirdaY, the sib pa, werii'sepured daily, nd
lineitr to my, life saw the old womenwitli.
data dostink_eloth in her hood. ; ; Such a
War'of 'extertitiqion did she '•currry. !on ,
gunist the intruding particles, that my
friend L. used to say, "it must be hard for
her to think of turning• to . dost."
"Lucy had,no,visiters, no • companions;
and the Only indalgence of the old people,
which was sitting on the stoop every pleas.
ant 'afternoon, , according .
,to
,the ancient
Dutch custom, She never partook. She
never went out excepting on Sunday to
church, and than she reminded ate of those
bright pretty flowers that hang on the
crabbed bare stem of the cactus. I pittied
bitt• her spring, of life soomed passing away
so drearily. My pity %YRS misapplied anti
I felt it to be so whet, I looked into her 'se-,
retie and sweet 'countenance, and saw'there
the intnet;ssi' of that happiness which cur
.
tanily flows from duties religiously,perform .
utl. It is a great matter, Grace, to have
y our desires leidi'.: l 4l within? ) our station;
to ho satisfied with the quiet,_ unnoticed
performance cf iho duties Providence has
allotted to us, and nut to waste vitur cfroits
Ufteremlth in seeking tti do good, or tbtitiii
pleasures bey cud yipar sphere. This
true wisdom; and this was Lucy Wendall'-•
At last there come to this obscure
what vetoes to all—death, and its changes:
Ths.old tuau and his mile died within a
few days • ofeuch other, of the influctizs
thst then raged in the city. The hope of
serving dm piett) orphan, induced me to
go to the house. She received me grate.
fully, and us an old friend; fur though we
had never changed a word there had been
an interchange of kind looks and friendly
nods those Utile humanities that hind even
strangeis together On inquiry into her
affairs, i 'omit] that she was left almost
penniless, but that a discreet and kind fe
male fi lend bud procured a place fur her in
Ross's glove factory. Lucy was skilled in
all the art and handicraft of the needle.—
Russ, it seems is a very thriving tradesman;
and on the warm recommendation of Lu
cy's friend, he had promised to board her
in his family and allow her sufficient cum
pensation for her labor.
In a few dus she removed to her new
home. It is nuw fifteen months since she
left our street. She came once to tell me
she was perfectly salibtied with her place,
and since then I hare heard nothing Of
her. Do not look so reproving, my Judy
Mentor. I have been intending for some
time to call at Ross's to make imp:ries a
bout her. My story has brought us almost
to the shop. John boss, gl.via morainic
iurer." This must be the place. Stop one
moment, Grace, and look through the win.
dow; that man, no doubt, is Rose himself.
What a hoe head! you might know a
man would succeed in ihe world let his lot
be cast where it %%ould. flu would have
been a resolute general, 'a sale staiesiran;
but here he is an honest, thriving glover,
and that perhaps is just us well; nothing,
truer then the trito old couplet,
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Art well your part, there all tiro lionor lies
The. old man looks us though he might
be a little tyrannical though. [leaven grunt
that poor Lucy may nut have suffered from
that trait in bis physiognomy."
"The ouly costumer is come out. Now
we have a clear field, let us go in."
"Mr. Ross, I believe."
"The same, ma'am."
"1 called, Alr. Ross, to enquire after a
young woman who came to live with you
last Christmas."
"I have had a great many young wo
men living with me, ma'am."
"The old man's humor requires me to
be explicit. Her name, Mr. Rose, was
Lucy Wendell."
"Ay Lucy Wendell did come into the
factory about that tiine."
Titers was an expression in Ross's face
at the mention of her name, that I did not
clearly comprehend. It might betide
good and it might betide evil of Lucy. "1
merely wished to know,Mr. Ross, whether
Lucy had given satisfaction, and whether
she still remains with ) ou."
"Wu!) you a film! of Lucy Wandall,
ma'am."
"I should think it an honor to cull myself
so, but I could hardly claim th.►t name
She was my neighbor, and interested me
by her correct deportment, and uncommon
dutifulness to her old parents." Ross
made , no reply, but fumbled over some
gloves that were lyiwr on the counter; then
tied up the bundle, and laid it on the shelf
"You seem, Mr. Ross, not disposed to un
tiWer my inquiries. 1 am afraid some
misfortune has happened to the poor
girl."
Would you like to know, ma'am what
has happened to hell' Ile leaned his el
bow on his dusk and seemed about begiuing
a story.
)
"tie' tainly I Would."
:• "Well, you know when Lucy Wendell
came to nic. she was a little demure thing
7 -not a beauty, but-so comely and Aidy, that
She was a pretty resting place for the eye
of the young or old. She was us great a
contralt . to the otter girls in the wit kshop
us white is . to black. She just sat quiet in
one corner, and winded her work and took
no part in their gabbling. You must know
what a parcel of girls is, ma'am, dinging
frept morning till night like forty thousand
Chiinney swallows. Lucy was very ditlZ:r
ent. She made herself neat and trim in the
morning, and did not lose half an hour at
noon when the 'prentice boys were coming
to dinner, twitching out curl papers and
lurbelowing her hair. The boys and
. girls
Used to have their jukes about her, and cull
111. the little,parson; but she only preached
in . her . actionti, mid this . is what I call prac,
tical ,preaching, ma'am. She was a little
master Workman with her needle. I never
had a match for her since I first began bu
siness; but (you knoW ma'am there is al
waYs a but in this life,) she gave me great
offence She crossed me where I could
least bear to be crossed."
"Not intentionally, 1 am sure, Mr
Ross."
You shall hear, ma'am. I have an
oply.son. John Roir!—a fine, fresh looking,
;rood, natured, induStrious lad. I set my
heats ou his marrying his cousin, Amy
Ifunixi. She is the daughter of rev young
'eSt sister, and had a pretty fortune in hand,
enough to set John up in, any business he
!awned. There was nu reason in the world
why he should not like Amy. I had kept
my wishes to myself because I knew. that
young toles love is like an unbroken colt,
that will never mind spur.not , bit. I never
mistrusted that any thing was going wrong,
tilt one day I heard the girls making
great wonderment about a canary bud that
they hound when :heY went in the morning
into the workshop, in a cage banging over
Lucy's; and then I remembered that JOhn
asked me fin five dollars the day befiire;
mid woen I asked him what be wanted the
t.,r. he : looked sheepish anti made nil
answer. I thought it prudent before twit
ters went any tardier, to tell Juhn my
wishes about his cousin Amy. 51y wishes,
G. 9 71.13ZINGTON M077=11, Mni e :o47 - . & PR0.7.7.1ET0.7..
"The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all other liberties:l—MlLTON
c0.:a.2w:rara4421t,.0. ,244./Q0 wrzuazoe,..Azr e , OVWCOMIVZ2 XO 9 31a6a.
ma'am, 1 have always made a law to my
children. To be sure, 1 have taken care
fur the most part that they should be rea
sonable. lam a little wilful, 1 own it; but
it's young folk's business to mind; and
'Children obey your parents,' is the law
both of Scripture and of nature. So I told
John. I did not hint any suspidion about
Lucy, but I told him ibis marriage with
his c..usin was what he could have no rea
sonable objection, to what I long fixed my
heart upon and what he must set about
without delay, on peril of my displeasure.
He was silent, and Ineked cost down—but
he saw 1 was determined, and 1 believed
would not disobey me. A few evenings
after, I saw a :ight in the workshop after
the u,ual tune, and I went to inquire into
it. I had my slippers, and my steps
made little or no sound. The upper part
of the door is set with glass. I saw Lucy
was finishing off a pair of gloves—my son
was standing by her. It appeared that
they were f.r him, and he insisted en her
trying them on his baud. Hr's, poor
thing, seemed to tremble. The glove
would NW go on, but it came oft; and their
hands met without gluvi s, and a nice fit
they were. 1 burst ut upon them. I asked
John if this was obedience to ma, and 1 toll
Lucy to quit my services immediately.— /
Now the whole matter is psi, 1 must do
John the justice to say he stood by her like
a oian. lie said this was a matter it,
which he could not obey me.
lie had given his beau t, and promised his
hand to Lucy, and she owned hon—him who
was not worthy of her love. tie sued, too,
something of my having hitherto been a
kind father and a kind man; and hu would
not believe that the lust ease of my doing
wrung wuuld be to the of pilau girl, wham
Provide:lee had placed under our roof.—
Ma'am, you will wonder . that I hardened my
heart to all this, but you know that anger
is said to b • a short madness, and so it IS;
and besides, there is nothing makes us so
deaf to reason and true feeling us the sUug
nig sense we are wilfully doing wrong
1 was harsh, and John lust his temper; and
poor Lucy cried, and was tau flighted to
speak: and it ended with my telling Lucy
she shou:d not stay another day in my house,
and John, that if he did not obey we, my
curse should he upon hem
The nest morning, they had both cleared
out and every body thought they had gone
off to be married; and so 1 believed. till
night, when John cattle in like a distracted
man and said lie had sought Lucy in vain
—that the only fricud she, had in the city
knew nothing of her, and when I answered,
"so much the better," he accused me of
cruelty and then followed high words, such
us never should pass between father and
son; and it ended in my turning him from
my door. Ido not wonder you turn away,
but hear .me out. Saturday night, three
days after, John came home an altered
man. He was as humble as it he only had
been wrong. 1-18 Lei4geti my pardon, and
promised to obey tee in all !Mega but mar
rying Amy Bunco. "1 give up Lucy fa
(her," he said, "but L cannot marry any
body else." I forgave him—from the but.
min of mylieurt 1 furgee leei—trod 1 long
ed to ask loin to forgive me; but 1 had not
come to that yet. I ushed him what had
brought Min back to dutv— Ile put into
my hands,a letter he received.ltion Lucy.
She had persevered . in not seeing Min—but
such a lever, ladies! if innosteis could
speak so to heart, thew would be no sin
left in the world. She said they had, de•
served to suffer for, carrying matters so Mr
without my knowledge. S:lie spoke of we
at; the kindest of fathers and the kindest of
masters. Then she spoke a the duty. a
child owed a parent —said she should never
huvo any peace of mind till she heard we
were recunciled, and told loin tl would be in
vain for him to. seek her, for she had
solemnly resolved never to see him again.
The paper was blistered with tears bum
tip to bottom; but saving and excepting
that ma'am, there Wild potting front which
you could : guess what It coat her to wri:o
the letter.
~
"I could not stand it, my heart melted
within me. 1 found her that very night,
P.ed,without loss of time, brought her back
to my, house; and then," he added, walking
hastily on the farther extremity of the shop,
and throwing open a door that led into a
hack parlor, "there ma'am is the long and
short of it."
"And there was one of the most touching
scenes of Lumen life. Nry pretty, dutiful
friend become a wife and mother, her ut•
Cult in het arms and her husband sitting
beside her, watching the first intimations of
intolligence and love in its bright little face.
Such should be the scanner of happiness
When the spring is consecrated to virtue."
Claret is extensively manufactured ►n.
this country of vinegar, molasses, logwoud
and alcohol. This drink is much wore
wholesome, pleasent and economical, when
the two lattet ingredients are omitted.
There is one blessing of which people
never know the value until they have lost
t(—arid that is health. Health seldom
goes without temper accompanying it; and
that fled, we become a harthen on the pa
tienee of
,those around us, until dislike re•
places pity and forbearance
RED RARBERBY LEAVE,J3.---A correepon
dent of the Bangor Whig stake that the
fine green leaves of the red raspberrygath
rred on a fair day, and cured in un 'open,
airy iconm, are nut inferior to the ordinary
China tens.
JOHN C. CULT.—The New York pa
pers give many items of the history of this
young maii, some-of theta perverted state
intuits of facts, but mostly mere lubrications
to meet the craving demands of excited
curiosity. It may be, a question .how far
public curiosity should be gratified in such
a case. We are disposed to inquire wheth
er this morbid taste for the details of crime,
may not help to provide materials for its
own gratification; told whether the New
gate literature of our own day has not in it
the elements of sell perpetuation. We do
not ask fur apathy or indifference to crime;
its frequent occur retice,in such horrid forms,
calls for the most vigilant interest; but not
that facinated interest, that shuddering ad
miration, with which we have suffitre.d our
selves to be drawn into sympathy with
vice, under the maiterly delineations of
perverted genius, until we have conic to
look apt' great w•icttedness as great ro•
atrium
The simple facts in thn history of John
C. Colt, us they have been made known to
us, by those who WHIV familiar with him
from childhood, would need but little adorn
mien) w prescoi a tale us attractive us aoy
of its CLS.i. ‘‘'e could not ask for better
materials limo which to furnish forth- a he
ro, than toe fine person, the I : Tenerous on•
pulses, and the unbounded mental energy
which we e,,uld vouch fur in him. Ile
has shOWli it self reliance, and a stern reso
, lution, iu overcoming the difficulties of a
devious courw that, to it: to rest would need
little help limn fictitious surroundlngs, and
an eagerness God perseverance in intellec
tual cult .re that would command sympathy
and just admiration.
We wish we could transfer to the minds
of the thousands who. so eagerly read all
that was said of hun, the one impressive
lesson we are taught, as we undo the evil
in this case back ,to its germ. That germ
whose growth has been so bitter, was iesuh.
ordiyatzon from his childhood cowards.—
ass winde course has been marked by sell
breakifigi through all the common re•
stramts of the family. of the- school-room,
the countine house, of social life, and of
the law of God. John C. Coll, has been fur
fourteen years a voluntary exile troin the
parental roof. Let the child who will net
submit to i.e checked and guided, -tremble
for the end of his own. career; and let the
parent tremble for the child who cannot be
made to yield tojost.authority, and lot him
never dare to hope that the youth
whom, he cannot control, -will learn to
control himself and curb his own- wild pits
(GO Courier.- •
Fora LIVES LosT. l ,---The schooner Gov
ernor Francis, (of Rubbinston,) Shaw, from
Eastport, fur Baltimore, with plaster and
indstencs, watt ashore at South Well
fleet, about 6 o'clock, P. M. on the 4th
instant, and immediately went to pieces.—
Capt. Sim w . iind his three sons were drown
ed. John Spates, drifted ashore on the
bowsprit about midnight. He was nearly
unconscious, but gained some pine woods,
and there post the rest of the night.
THE RIIVOLVT/ON IN MESlCo.—Dates
from Vora Crier. to the lest inst. confirm the
luau - us ut a new insurrection w Mexico,
satisfactorily exptains the rumors of
trees collected "Lo invade Texas," It ap
peals to be thu plan with malcontents 1111
MOcICO, whim they wish to get up an in•
surrectionary movement, to pretend inva
sion ul Texat.i. Saute Anun. is now en the
high road to a new assumption of the su
preme puwer, and with every prospect of
success.
There aro fuur things that , look very
awkward in u woman, viz: to.see her under
taking to whistle—to tt►row a stone at a
smoke a cigar —and to clunb a gar
den fetice.
A negro man was hung at: Norfolk, Va.,
on Friday last, for a recent attempt to
murder Iwo white women on:a. public road
near tht-,t place. The fellow acknowledged
the justice ul his sentence, and said that
atm and the yawn prompted him to the
act for which his.lifelhad to pay the pen•
ally..
CIIILDR liN are inquisitive bodies; for
instance: 'What does cleave mean, PO'
'lt means to unite together.' 'Does John
unite wood, when he cleaves it.' 'Hem,
well it means to separate." Well, Pa,
does a.men separate from his wife when lie
cleaves to heti' Item, hem! bend don't
ask au many foolish questions, child.'
LATENT CASE OP ABSENCE: OF
A young belle of Boston, in dressing her
self the other day, put on a bishop in front,
and didn't discover her mistake until she
had lost her reputation
"
ANL..XCITING SCENE AT THE APLEOD
TRIAL. — " An able correspondent of the Al•
briny Evening Journal, condenses into an
interesting letter the most important pas.
sages in the speech for the defence, re
cently delicreil by Mr. Spencer. It is
stated that "he unravelled the contradic
lions arid discrepancies of the witnesses
on the part of ;the prosecution in a most
1/ masterly manner. He charged direct and.
preitriediy on them the commission of "the
blacksst perjury that ever disgraced a tri
al, since the sun shone upon Christendom."
He declured that lie knew the testimony
had been all got up for thu occusion. • The
Jearned counsel, who were conducting
the peosucution. were, but d corporal's
gu erd, compared with the mighty host
who wero the getters up and conductors
of this prosecution. Witnesses were. raked
together from all creation, and drilled in
this city, in what he must denominate
"Committee Rooms," us to what they must
swear. Again, he said that the men .who
had banded themselves together to getup
evidence to convict itilreed and. involve
this country in a war with England, were
sunk deep enough in depravity to collect
any number of deliberate and wilful perju•
rers, who would swear to anything which
would be required to make out their case.
"1," said Mr. Spencer, "make uo excep l i
-
ii“ne when 1 make this charge." Here
thickeozie, who sat directly in front of the
cnuosel, commenced laughing.. "Yes, sir,"
said the speaker, fixing his eagle eye upon
tom, "I wish it to Le clearly understood,
that I make no exception whatever when
I make this charge• Sonic of these men
now hear me, and I desire them to • hear
me repeat, that I firmly believe every one
of them is wicked enough to stop at noth
ing which will in any degree tend to bring
about their darling obj!let." Mackenzie
nodded his compliments to Mr. Spencer,.
and immediately commenced writing down•
Cos withering remark of the counsel.---
The whole audience understood to whom
allusion was made; and every eye was turn
ed upon Maekebzw."
CullitECT °riming rut AN. ENEMY."'-
" VV here their national honor is concerned,"
says the Mootreal Times, ''the America' •
have always acted- with promptness de.
eision and elieruy, as tins proved in their
war with Englund in 1812. The fear of
such another encounter ut a period when
the mother country is in a formidable state
of preparation, will doubtless be the means
of uniting those two parties throughout the
country, which for twelve years,• or more,
have been on terms of political animosity.
It has always been a characteristic of the
Americans, that however much they may
squabble and fight-among themselves,-their
animosities towards each •other are always
subsided, and they stand ready to make
common cause, whenever their common
country's threatened from abroad. It is
then that the North and the South, the
East and the %%Teat vie with each other in
their efforts to maintain,mospotted, the in
tegrity and the valor of their Republic."
A colored man was recently killed at St.
Catherine, 11. C. It seems that a friend
of his was ohout to marry a white girl.—
The object of the mob' was to lynch the tn•
tended bridegroom, but he .made his , escape
—when they assaulted another man, with
clubs, atones, &c. and• killed hint shawl
instantly. . .
KENTUCKY WHEIAT.—The•
Journal states that the Kentucky wheat
has boon deteriorating for years; and that
the crops in that vicinity, this year, have
proved altnost, an er.tire failure.: The
cause is attributed to the farmers using as
seed wheat year after year, that %vas raised
front their own farms and off the same field.
Prentice advises the obtaining, for planting
purposes, wheat from the northern :sec
tions 'dun') country, and• undoubtedly the
advice is a: good one. Deterioration . will
always ensue where a prac:ice is followed.
such as the . . above; and to succeed world
contravene one of u»turc's • gtaeral laws.
NuTMECIN.—A correspondent of the Port
end Advertiser, cautions the public against
be delete: mum effect. uf a too free use of nut
neg. Ho says: .
"Having recently purchased the article,
I took s bioken, one and put ,it in my puck.
et t and in the course of six hoursi hit&criten.
about half of one,, ,Sonnoilter I felt. -a diz
ziness, and an unaccountable, derangement
of intellect; transient loss of mummy but a'
perfect consciousness of all thatA said .or
did. 1 became remarkably loquacious and
seemed to be neither.,in this world nor the
otho felt hapPy and free from anlbilain• — •
I was truly in an indescribable . I
felt riel haveaupposed ono might . fuel that
had been magnetized. My friends, were
greatly, alarrned,-,and the doctor --was sent
for post : baste. Bleeding was proposed,'
but, as I thought, I knew at least as much'
as any one, I was not willing to be bled,—
After keepir,g them crying ,and laughing
till about' , . o'clock at night I retired:to
bed withont, any thing. being done forme.
I awoke in the morning, was as ,well as
usual, having never been sick a day, in .my
life. Since this occurrence, several. cases
have comet() my knowledge in which nee
si 4l6 l,lieving.eaten of nutmegs, were Rine,
ed the same as I have been. Had I e aten
a very, little more, I have no doubt it would
have proved fatal to me, as I learn. it has
done in other cases."
General Jackson says, in the last letter
extorted front hirri by the Locaecns, that
he luels that his life is nearly spent. . It is
wrong and cruel and sharneful in,the Loco
locos to be squeeing growl after growl out
~e time pour utd halt - dead hon.—Louisville
Jour.
THE ROCK RIVE , R TRAGEDY. — A letter
from Judge Ford, dated Oregon. city, Illi
nois, September .27th, to the editor of the
Peoria Register. savF,— 'rho persons who
had a hand in the Drkcall murder last sum.
rater, have been indicted end tried at the
recent term of the circuit court of • Ogb•
county. One hundred and twenty person:
wero indicted and all acquitted by the
jury."
APM W.r211 exPaa, cmaci
RALMODE AND 01110 RAIL ROAD. --
From the annu report of this Company
it appears that the revenue of the .main
siem, for the . past year, fur the transportation
Of passengerr and merchandise a.
mounted to
And there were paid for expanses,
rapairii and intorest
Shtheini the earnihge of the Itiatl
to be
There were also roceivskfrom the
Washington Branch G 1,256 00
And paid fur lutenist on Wen -
to purchase stuck in cold
Branch • 511,320 00 ---
Dilrerendi
Nct revenue of main atom $1:JE,458 86
Th , ! city of Baltimore claimed in bee stock
holder, entitled to participate in the div idend
--which has consequently been declared up
on 6,500.000 instead of 4,000 000, the a
mount actually employed, at the rate of 2
'per cent. of which die city's proportion Will
!1w $60,000., Upon the atock!of the Wash
ington Branch 6 per cent. is divided.—
1 li r he .State's 511 i Girth(' receipts from ['lesson
' gers on this Munch amounts to $43,407,
and her dividend upon siuck h, 33,000.•
A detailed .accouot of the provcss of the
load front tlerper's Ferry to Cuunberland
is given which it is confidently •anticipated
will be completed to the latter point du
ring the summer and euttinva of 1842.--
The stock orders,.or railroad notes, put in
circulation by • the, company, amount to
51,44006; a pledge is given that the a
mount shall not be increased beyond $l,
500,000, and that the company will con
tinue to receive them; at any depreciation
they may reach, end %ill conceit • with the
city tor a reduotien of the armunt, should
it be- deemed .too large for circulation. But
as the receipts of the .radroad amount to
$l5OO. daily, or $600,000 per. annum, •and
as the
: city , receives annualiv,•.4ooo,ooo
for taxes it is argued that The !amount now
issued ought easily to , be sustained in circu•
Ja;ion nearly:at , Patriot.. .
iNCODIIIIISTIBLR WAsn.--Slack stone
lime in a large tub or barrel, with boiling
water 'covering the'tub or , barrel b keep 'in
all the steam. When slacked, pate; 6 quarts
through a fine seive. 'lt will then .. bo,,in;. a
state or fine flour. Now to st; quarts of
thiS lime, add one quart of rock or 'twit's
!Amid salt, and oue gallon uf,
,Water, then
boil the mixture and skim it clean. .To
every five gallons of this skimmed :inixtute j
add one pound tit aluni, half pound of cop
peras by slow degrees, and add three-fourths
el • poiniel of potash, and'fun r;quaris of fine
sand or hickory ashes riffled. -We sup.
pose any hard wend„ ashes will answer as
well as hickoiy this ipixtUre will admit
of any coloring mutter yet; idoitie, and
,may
be applied with a brush. It; looks batter
than paibt, and it iN a s dnrable usslate., :It
will stop small leaks in the roof, and 'pm,.
vents the WON from growing over and, rot,
tine; the 'wood, and rundering it locombus.
tible from sparks falling; upon it. , ,WhOn
laid'on brick work, it renders the bricklm•
,
pervious to rain or wet. . ,
The editor of tits Newberryport (N. H.)
Argus tells a story of a fellow, who having
been drawn int.) the meshes of hive with
one f.iir ono named "Nabhy," afterwards
“took'a 'ehinn" to 'another. Thinkiug to
cast off the "flame," indit ed a new et
['lade, of which the following is a copy:
i•Dearlsltibby these ore to inform you
as I am fast aiming to my latter cud with
tho feller . jandors—from your dying
Birk:"
"Nola Berra— ' l open this to . let you
know as I am departed this life about two
hours ego, in great agony,. Your gout..
Ebek." .
, _ ,
A, Dublin paper • reCocfsr tha following
trdordufary circumstance:
"An hirtuble but industrious man,' name
, .
Gallagher, who resided in Fade s treet, was
on Saturday last Seized. With a u pain
in` Mie of his legs 'wheit lie fell: dOwn, and .
and expired ! ' Ati inquest was held on the
body, when ltie following facts were slid
ted:—The man, it appears, wits over .fifty
years of age, and ever since he was a child,
he was continually annoyed and : perplexed
with the thought or presentiment that he
would die with a pain in the log; Or, of
ten told Ilia friends how much' he suffered
on 'this' account,' as the idea hardly over
left hie mind. In his sleep . he dreamt of
it; in his waking Moments 'it :Was hake,
him, the notion haunted hini from
,the
green Spring time of life into the ripe Sum•
titer of Manhood, and (Ilene° followed him
into the mature autumn of his days; and'
when, at last, the worst anticipations of
hie mind were fulfilled, and ho was Seized
with the pain, he exe:aimett, "it is come,
it is come! all is now over. q ! He fell ind
denly down arid died."' •
RFiDDR . IsLANo.--The new Constitution.:
adopted by the Rhode !eland SO(Rage Con
vention, proposes to extend,tlie - rCght of
suffrage to every white inaile . eilizewoi
ful nge, who may have resided hi the State"
one yenr, and in the townshin where he,
offeru to vote, three months. But in'ant
question of ratting a•tex, cr appropriating
the proceeds of a tux- the voter must prop:
arty, either real or personal, of the
of 8160. The Senate to be composed of
12 members; elected by diStrictri, and the -
Mrie of 140 members. of whom Providence'
is to send 12. The Governor to have' the
veto power, subject to 'be reoersict 'by the'
decitton of a majority of bath HOLISM'
$391.069 81
201,230 01
139,830'86
5,628 00