s7..glraal & alri- !',..11:10(0.. A.-la tF•briu, 33z:1—ova,. eso Office of the Star ik Banner iIUONTY HUILDENO, &1101.14 THE OFFICY 46,F TUE 'MOISTER AND RE.CGIIDER. 1. The Sr•is & ith:PtlitLICAN B is published at 'I WO DOLLARS per annum (or 'Volume of 52 nu nbers,) payable half- yearly in advance: or TWO DOLLARS & FIFTY CENTS, if not paid until after the expiralivaz *if the year. 11. No subscription will be received for ass' m:, et period than six months; nor will the paper he iiscontinued until all erreara;eis are paid, un less at the option of the Editor. A failure trkaolify a discontinuance will be considered a new en gagement and the paper forwarded accordingly. 111. Aiy. slur isms elers not exceeding a Nome will be inserted Tllll me times for 1. 1 . 1 ., end 25 'mote for o ich subsequent insertion:—the number of its sertion to be inarked,or they will be published till f...tbid and Charged accordingly; longer ones in the same proportion. A reasonablededactionwal be roads to those who advertise by the year. IV. All Lettersand Commuraicationeaddiresseil to the Editor by oral Ins/gibe poet-paid, or they, will not be attended to. Tll E GARLAND. • ..i.,..._..z..„.....5..,,_,.,... _ ... , ~... e ..,„, ~. • , *MI .. t • 7 .:• .7;,-.4 ....»10,' ~.. ,OriarMft ' i: . - ' .... - , • Z' /: "...e.....•:, • With sweetest flowers emriteb'd From various gardens cull'al witti care." WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS TO GETUER. ibz aus. aaSTILL These touching lines refer to Ws. :Verson 's **potation from her husband. We have been friends together. In sunshine and in abode; Since first beneath the cheanut uses • In infancy we played. But coldness dwells within thy Loam A cloud is on thy brow; We have been friend* together 611ell a light word pan us now? We have been gay together; Wo have laughed at little Jean . For the fount of hope was gushing Warm and joyous in our breasts. But laughter now bath flat thy lip, And sullen gloom, thy brow; We have been gay together— * light word part ua gaol We have been sad together; We livte wept with totter teem O'er the grass grown grave, ware etinotered The hope of early years. The voices which are silent there Would bid thee clear thy brawl, We have been eau together— Oh, what shall part u• nowt ma3@o , lLtaluarbtoac. MARIA, ♦ METCII FROM lIKAL LIM , r 1 saw her in the morn of hove, lif• - • •!•lisiossa spring, A radiant creature of the earth lost huratistig ins the wing; rialto and joyous is the lark, whim Brat it masa on high, Without • shedder in its path—a 6:0 sem its sky. Tears came and went—ore met 'again, t.tdi what. a change was there! 'the glassy calmness of the eye, that or "Livened! of despair: The fitful flushing of the cheek,ih• liricampored and thin, The clench of the attenuate ham's, preclaiMaril strife within I" Maria was in possession of all that birth . toad not meet her father's eye,—she could and fortune could center; she was the out) ' not bear the gentle tones ()flier mother's daughter of affectionate parents. by whom I voice—on, no, her heart was breaking, she her every wish Was anticipated. and ewer, • was perishing—she could not now hear the delight bestowed; through the first eighteens . meeting latter parents! years of her existence she had passed with- What had Maria left then—but to die? out a single care, without experierreieg a She was abandoned—was forlorn—"she single regret. Amiable as she was gerud. could not work—to beg she was ashamed." every one loved her—and Maria loved all In this stale, she sought my house; in this that partook of that divine eseence et sleep-. aitaLs' •of wretcheciness she wandered through from whose fountain her one heart had the sleet and snow ut a winter's night chit been snpplied. Th en she w as happy— ty. homeless. without a friend in the wide then she sus innocent—hut alas! the scene arced to whom she dared apply f ir succour. changed—a serpent nestled among the It is impessible to describe her rippeurance flowers of hor path, and its poison vitiated—it was evideet that her spirit was fast nll that was so lovely—destroyed farever I nriegneseing to its last home and that ere the happiness of poor Maria! laws she weuld he mingled only with these I was (resent the very first night Msria l that had mice been. "Mario! . " exclaimed sae Captain Sydrnbarn; ho had teturreelll I, in esiouishirrent. The tamed girl from thu Peninsula full of glary and thaeor; shrieked at the mention ocher name, and his mime rendered him welcome to every fell, iiiian agony et grief, upon the ground; euciety. and his bland arid moments e• tears peer-teed her utterance; she le essed nieauor soon established him a favorite sat hand with fescred emotion—stove to with all men, he was the fellow saber. expires her surrow—but her words were too, of Maria's brother—had experienced ate.-erbed in her agony—her aspir a tions with him the perils of warfare, tied with tarried in her shame! She was menediate him returned to his native land to enjoy h cecreved to a chamber, arid every essis the'reward of his dangers and his toile. I tainet—. pr eared that was conceived tihe. saw him on that eventful night, when he needed. Imagiceng the fearful truth, I first entered the &slily circle at —, that sect an express to her parents--they lir fitelle whose happiness he waedestined In ricrd but to receive the lust words of the &Ist roy—whese fairest object was lobe the chive eirl—to award to her their forgive- 1 victim of his artifices, and to sink from her- areve--to press her once more in their aged exultation down to the very lowest orate er ariese—to kiss ence more that pale cheek misery. Never looked Illariasio eminently which bad once bloomed so brielitly—tn beautifuhas upon that ei g h t . s h e h ome d to south her, civil:tort her, pray for her! If the pertly of the warrior, and the tear p ear l e , the penitence of the guilty is of avail—it S ire lieu faun tier eyelids, evinced the inter- . the liras era of the righteous can absolve reit shefelt in the narration, and more farce ; the errors ef their suffering child-- the spir ble s-t off , he natural l'ecti•vecest el her r ein - l i aof ;.oar Maria has been received to that plexime What I' east finil.l have Leaser- oh-e.ed sphere, where neither care nor ed leeliega of evil never& het? what lie ne e.rrew is kinown--where the spirit cif inno could leiveca I orished thoughts ilea,p e - In irelite. ;verified Item . its earthly Will t, re the purity and holinees of that spiratarlech Juices suit 1.:1 all its blighlue"—where perinaded her fragile frame? Sydenhant `was that masa. I marked the attention that was paid her—the gallantries which Sydenham ex ertril—they were respectful, and the hall blushing girl. welcoming even while re jectina the incense that Wii9 offi•red at her Anne. evinced that her young heart was not indsfiZsesat to her admirer. On the night I parted with Maria; the next flier mug I quitted —, and returned to the me:impalas. the recollection of what had trans Fired ILe prec.,,ding night haunted me as I proceeded on my journey; the innocence of Cie blushing girl, and, what to nie ap peared, the honorable admiration of Syden. ham. served to excitea train of the most pleasurable p Lirctiorm I beheld in antici pation, enjoying the love of tier etreetatdiate husband, and imparting that pure fehrity to her own circle in alter sears. of which she was now a principle instrument in her father's. In this manlier I peewit away the time—but other thoughts snon erased the incident from my memory , and Mana and her lover were thought of GO inure- Three years had elapsed since thnt when one wintirr's evening, as I was slating altiee iu any drawing mine, my -errant announced that a strange look ing ftimialle desired particularly to see me; she seas repirweilted as a being in a hint() of complete destitution, and so feeble as scarce Mare to raise her foot upon the thresh. hold of the door. Unable to conceive who the strenw.r could he, I descended to the hall, but in what terms can I express my feelings ashen 1 discovered in the person of the wretched wanderer—Mortal Marin, she whom I had once beheld enjoying the balipus of life—Maria, the innocent, the beautiful Maris.ktiowing no guile herself and dreaming not of guile in others—unac quainted with aught but good, believing no evil could exist in the feelings or imagina tiuns oh those with whom she was connect ed. Poor mistaken girl, she learned the bitter troth by sad experience—her pure spirit hicame vitiated—too truly she he lieted—too early- was a victim! The tale of Maria is Bonn told. Sydon• ham, the gallant Sydenhaa•, was a villinii —be won the heart of the guileless girl— he hole her way from her home of innocence --of happiness—and for a time she enjove d the dream of felicity, but that dream stem vanislitd. and the dreadful reality of her situation became apparent. .Too late she awakeitud to the delusion—too late she eriinind her ersor —that she had been betray ed when site thought her happiness most at cure; *ha her hopes had been placed upon a fragile reed, which, now that the storm sod tempest of suffering bust upon it,broke, and all her! sys were dispersed, and scat tered awry to the winds of heaven—per ished, as though they bad never beer.! ...Thu% (hue too oft the traitor, man, repays font' as' Gaumis ix uth ; I'LL 4 blighting in his mild caprice, the blobsom of Ler youth; • And era it L, in griefe like these, o'er ~ idiuns lov tofu, Thst eft trawl and the tenderest hearts tnusr al• 63-.9 *the' r must!" Svdeuhant was a gatneiter, and ho ex pe r;enced li t k,art.er leer h. , win- ruin( d has: hot co:, mission, and became a beggar, and Maria was forsaken;—she had once drunk only of the bright cup of life, was now de-trued to pay the forlett of her error. and to drag on her weary existence en shame, in penury ! The home of her hither would even then have receiv ed her— e drooping mother even then would have welcomed Lick the wanderer—and her penitence have partially redeemed her crime. But the distracted girl dared not rt.—visit the scene,' of her innocence—she G. WILEJEINGTON 130177311, EDITOR & PROP:7.'I=OZ.. •• The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above ail other liberties.”—Mu.ToN 1r aZe o ciO, o tIP I cillr aeno7 4 TB caL2LI 112 azdac. the beautiful and the good commune togeth er—where the wicked troubleth not, and the wanderer is at rest. Maria is heaven "His genius uas vnst, but it mos after the manner of the Orientals, rather than the Europeans; he tollowed neither the dictates of truth nor the lessons of experi. ence, but the vivid pictures and vehement suggestions of his ov% n fervent imagination. Such was the intensity of these impres sions, that they made hint entirely forget wally; he reasoned and acted upon them alter the manner of iu.oue pers.)ns, as if they had been actual v:isteneee. *ens with him inbtantly led to desire; his inept eat thought was already a passion; and his chief endeavors afterwards were direocd to conquering the diffioulties or overcoming the olaitaeles Nlnch opposed itd execution. Thence the complaint, no commonly made against him, especially in his latter years, that he had au instinctive aversion to truth, and that no one could secure his laver but by anticipating and confirming his pre• conceived opinions. It was not that he had a rei.ognitneo m truth in the abstract, but that ht, resisted every thing %Illicit derang ed or wiseitled the current of Ins ideas. From the same cause, he was never known to change his opinion on any subjt,ci; nor did he ever admit, except in one or two flagrant inanteces, FUCK es the attack on Spain, that lie had done wrong or commit ted a mistake in his lite. His ideas were conceived in the vivtd imagination of the East, and much mote frequently founded on abstract conceptiuns dam practical oh aervetiona: but they were developed with the strictness of geometrical detnonstrations and engraven on his mind iu characters more durable and unalterable than the sculptures on Egyptian granite." tApoleon'a Eye in CAndutton.—By long experience, joined to.great mitered quickness and precision of eye, he had ac quired the power of judging with extraor dinary accuracy both tit the amount of the euetn) 'a force uppored to hint in the field, itisd ul the proLable result of muvemcnte, even the most comilcat , tl, gotty. 1,1 writ d m the oppoteae a. roil s The !oar of ar• tiller), the smoke aft' rattle of irtmleity, even the iallieg of bulls arcuad hint, %sets alike unable to divert his steady gaze, or disteA - b hat accurate judgment. Never was he Lime n to he tinstakto u, the esti mate which he termed on the dleteuce or approach of the file of the *rimy. Even m the fart hobt ex.remity of the horizon, i his telescope could reach the hostile col- MIMS, he observed every movement anti cipated every occessit , and final the slightest indications drew correct conclu sions MI to the designs which wet u in coo templution. No sootier I tid he acutided a livi ; :ht from which a whole 11.1 d of battle could be vurycytl, than ha looked mound foralota few Uilnlfteb Kalihis telebcope, and immediately lorihed a clear conception orthe position, forces and intention of the whole hostile array. 111 this we) he could, with surprising accurac>, calculate in a few minutes, ucco:ding to what he could see of their fount/thin and the t xietit of ground which they occupiod, the numerical force of armies of GU or t. 0,000 mei.; oral if their troops nClu all scattered, he knew at once how long at would mite them to concentrate, and how many hours must elapse before they could make Oieir attnek. On one occasion, in the auitioin of It-13, some of .siapoleen's Generals expressed un opinion that he might exocei an attack on the side of Butieinia "r►un► what I can see,"said be, C11.111:y closing his telescope, "the enemy hale there two corps of sixty thousand men, they will requi►e more than one day to concentrate and be ready to attack; we may pursue our march." Napoleon's Habitaduring a Campaign. —lf in the course of a campaign he wet a courier on tho road, be generally stopped, gut out of his carriage, and called Bet Oder or Caulaincourt,who eat down on the ground to write what the Emperor dictated. Fre quelitly then the officers wound him were sent in different directions, so that hardly any remained in attendance on his person ? When he expected some intelligence from his Generals, and it was supposed that a battle, was in contemplation, he was getter. ally. in the most anxious state of disquietude; and not [infrequently in the middle of the night called out aloud—" Call D'Albe, (his principal Secretary,) let every one isle." lie then began to work at one or two in the morning; having gone to bed the night be lure, according to his invariable custom, at it o'clock as soon us he had dined. Throe or four hours sleep was all that he either allowed hiniself or required; during the campaign of 1813, there was, only one night—that when he rested at Gorlitz, after the conclusion of the armistice, that he slept ten Lours without wakening. Often Cuulaincourt or Duroc were up with him hard at work all night. On such occasions his favorite, dliomeluke Rustan, brought him frequently strong coffee, and he walk ed about from dark till sunrise, speaking and dictatiug without intermission in his tpartinent, which wt tilWalitl we:l lighted, vrapped up in hie nightgown, with a adk andkorchipt tip d like aturban round his head. But these stretches wore only made under the pressure of necessity: generally he tetired to rest at eight or tuna and slept till two; then rose and dictated for a couple of hours;, then tested, or more fro• quently tneditat , d, for two hours alone; after which ha dressed, sad a twat bath From Allison's Allison's History of Europe. NAPOLEON'S CHARACTER. prepared him for the labors of the succeed ing day. His travelling carriage was a perfect curiosity, and singular characteristic of the prevailing temper of his disposition. It was divided into two unequal c:ompart• meats, separated by- a small low partition, on which the elbow could rest, while it prevented either from encroaching on the other; the smaller was for Berthier, the larger, the lion's share, for himself. The emperor could recline in a dortneuse in front of his sent; but no such accommoda tion was afforded to hi• companion. In the interior of the carriage were a number of drawers, of which Napoleon had the key, in which were placed despatches not yet read, end a small library of boobs. A large lamp behind him 'brew a bright light in the interior, so that ho could rend eilhout intermission all night. Ile paid great at, tention to his portable library. and had pre pared a list of duodecimo editions of about five hundred volumes, which he intended to be his constant travelling componions;but the disasters of the latter years of his reign prevented this design Item being carried into cetepiete execution. ENCRLLE?iT ADv tcE. —Set a value on the Smallest alorael of Knowledge —These fragments are the dust of diamonds. 'Of these fragments the MINS of learning is composed. "It is true," us poor Richard says, '.there is notch to be done, and per haps you are woakhauded, but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stone, and by diligence and patience the mouse ate into the cable; arid little strokes roll great oaks." A MOD may kern in two minutes, what may be valuable to hint all his life.— Even if you see no use in the thing learned, do DM despise it. Learn all you can and you will live to see its value. Never let slip an opportunity of gainiug a new idea. And remember that the beginning of the m.rt sublime sciences are often so simple as to seem worthless. Redeem lime for Study ---The busiest workmen can eparesome momenta. If you i . mean to get wisdom, you must learn the I value" of moments. Great attainment.. . have been made in these little switches %t Nether you work or play, do it in earn• lest; but never be unemployed an instant.— : Unstable and indolent people lose mach of j hie in thinking what they shall do next.— Always have a book within reach, which you rutty catch-op at - your odd minutes It jis iecredibleruntil trial is made, how much real knowledge may be acquired in these broken scraps of time. Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a sen tence. The man who pursues this method. will infallibly become learned. Take a little time from each end of your night's rest. II you can gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself telt at the end Of a year. I have sometimes thought that the mind sets with double vigor when forced into these brief perioda of application. Regulate your Thoughts when not at Study.— A man is thinking even while at work; why way he not be thinking about what is useful? Study is intended to due ciplme the mind: let your mind be kepi under cheek and rein, while your halide are employed. Revolve in your mind what you have been last reading. Commit use Int things to sour memory, and turn these over in 3 our thoughts, while you ply the hummer or the a heel. Remember that most of the matchless effusions of Robert Burns were conceived while he was tolling after his plough. Moreover there is such a thing us study without books. Keep your mind in an ir:quiling pitied, and you cannot be in any situation where you may nut be lemming —Newark Ado. Ironnarnxri DLICOV Eny—An Extensive Cavern in Coancclicvs.— The Norwich Aurora contains a communication descri bing an "ex.eesive cavern," recently dis covered in the town of Celebrook, Connec ticut. It teas first discovered by anew boys. The writer thinks when the loose rocks are removed the nitwit' will be about filly feet wide and thirty feet high. In company with several others, on the 27th ult., he entered and partially explored the cavern. Ile•ettys: .-The air, on entering, has a peculiar smell, which I can compare to nothing. I imagined the candle burning less brilliantly than in the open air. For the first three or four rods the way is a good deal obstucted by sharp rocks; then comes a smooth, gray• elle(' floor, as hard as a McAdamizd road. Yen rods from the entrance we measured and found the width to be eighty-three feet; end again at thirty rods, we found it sixty-seven feet. The sides are quite even, especially the east side, which is as smooth us if it had been chistsoled. The roof is broken and craggy—in some parts rising vet . ), high, at others it descends within ten feet of the fluor. The flooring for the most part is level and smooth. consisting of stone and hard gravel. WO met deep ,pits, into one of which we wt re near falling. Two of them resembled wells. We sounded one to the depth of nine fathoms, and totted water, and another to the depth of five and a half fathoms, which appeared to be dry. The main part of tt:e cave is remarkably straight and uniform within, for the .muse part. In runs a north and nerthest dilec tion for a quarter of a mile. where it ends abrut'tly• We met with numerous open ings at the right and left. Home laree enough. to admit a horse and carriage, and otht re scarcely a man. We only mai ked them with chalk and passed on to the end of what seemed to be the main part of the cavern. Here we stopped for a few moments. All stood without speaking, gazing about with admiration and wonder. The silence. was painful. Nn dropping of water or creaking of insects, not a sound could be heard but the low, suppressed breathing of the com pany. It seemed as if I could hear their hearts beat. I looked at my barometer, it had risen several degrees The thermom eter stood at sixty and a half. As we pre• pared to retrace our steps, we discovered an opooing un the west side, a few rods from the termindtion of the part of the cavern we were in. Wo drew near and listened. There was a low murmuring sound as of a distant waterfall, and the air which issued from it Was colder and damp er. This led us to suppose it inuo,be to a very great extent, but we were too cold and weary to prosecute our researches any fur. thur at this time.' Putr.osornicAL FAcrs.—Sound travels at the rate of 1,141 feet per second in the air 4,000 in water, II 000 in cion iron, 17',400 in steel, 18,000 in glass, and from 4,658 to 17,000 in wood. Mercury fraezen at SR degrees Fahren hest, and he cornea a guild mats, malleable under the hammer. Th e greatest height id which the visible deeds e:•er cater does' not exceed ten miles. ✓iir is about 816 times ligh:er than The pressure of the atmosphere upon every square furor of the earth amounts to 1,160 lb.. An ordinary sized man. sup posing his surface to be 14 square feet. sustains the enornmus pressure of 30,240 pounds. Heat rarifiee air to •uch an extent that it may be made to cccupy 5 or ROO times . the space it did before. The violence of thelexpansi on of Wale's when freezing is sufficient to cleave a globe of copper ofsurh thickness as to require a force of 28,000 lbs. to produce the same effect D uring the convernon of ki into water, 1 40 degrees of heat are - absorbed. Wilier when converted into steam. in• creases in built 1,4/0 times. One hundred pounds of the water of the Dead Sea contain 45 pounds of salt. i. The mean annual depth of Ruin that tells at the Eq'tator is 9(i Inches. Assuming the temperature of the inte rior of the earth to increase uniformly as we descend, at the rate of one degree in 46 feet, at the depth of et) miles it will amount to 480,00( degrees Fahrenheit, a degree ul heat sufficient to luso all known sub stances. The explosive lo►ce of closely confined Gunpowder is six and a hall tons to the square inch. Hailstones sow:times fall with a veloci ty 011 . 13 feet in a second—Raul 34 feet in in a scctn►d. The greatest artificial Cold ever produc ed is 91 degrees Fahrenheit. Electricity moves with a greater veloci ty than light, which traverses 200,000 miles of space in a second of time. Thunder can be heard at a distance. of 30 miles. Lightning can be sten by reflection a be distance of 200 mules. EXTENT OF THE LONDON POST OFFICE. —The extent of the operations in this office may be conjectured, from the number of men employed. There are 524 letter re• ceivers, and 724 letter carriers. including Clerks and others directly employed; ,not less than 1903 persons are connected.: ith the London Post Office. The letter 're ceivers pass about certain, districts of the city, and receive letters in a bog, through an opening similar to the one at the Post Office. For each letter, the receiver gets a penny, and the bag cannot be opened, except by those authorized by the Govern. went. The postage on a letter. .weighing half an ounce, is one penny. Every addi tional hall an ounce, is charged with an additional half penny. This is the rate of postage to every part of great Britian.— Newspapers are not subject to postage, provided they are mailed within eight days after they are printed. The franking pri vilege is entirely abolished. as it should be in this country, or n►aterially restricted The average number of letters daily posted Lunde►., F 0,370 The same of oewopa pars is 55,510. The number of Punt Otte. era in the United Kingdom,. is MS. The mails for every part of the country leave the General Poet office in London daily, Sun day excepted, at R P. Dl. and all are expect ed to arrive ut 6 A. M. LARGE CROP OF CORN;---It is stated in the Louisville Journal that Nlajor al Bourbon county, is 1,011 pursuing his ex periment in regard to the cultivation of corn. His plan is to plant, in ' rows two feat apart, the stalks one foot apart in the rows; cultivated with the hoe. Last year, a rainy season, the produce was more than 160 bushels to the acre. This year, a dry one, the produce, it is said, will be about one hundred bushels to the nets. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—The Phila delphia Ledger publi,hes extras every at n•ruoon, ermainin. , the preredtmf day 's pro gress in M'Leod's trial.. The distance from Utica to Philadelphia is about three hundred and sixty miles. end to pub jab the nf•zt day in in et city, the report of what took place the day previous in Utica. is an in stance of newspaper entorteose aad despatch never excelled.—Var. Tile. 79 4 4.7102.iat eViek. CsLea A ROBBER Lovell.—Mr. Walsh turnish• es, ain4og oilier agreeable millers fur 1:10 Notional totalligesicer, the following story of a somewhat romantic love match, kW its awkward termination. "Madame Bretot. a thriving blancliiseeu- Ise atlas Rue de Bievre, had a fair daugl.:- er, who like all her sex of the same age. whi c h w as tempting 1 6 1. wail *cry lend of halls and other gaieties. '1 he good (matt er was indulgent bat prudent, and while she permitted liar livel% damsel to attend thesk. scenes of amusement. always took care to accompany her. At a Sunday's dance, about a month ago, at the Quatre Sairrins, Mile. Eugenie met with a partner tro gen tool and willant that he won the harts of both mother and daughter, and the favor. d youth was received into their &meow ci r cle a4a suitor. The prelimioariew were at I , •tigth so far arranged for a marriage be tweet) the lovers, that Mme. Bretot drew 1,000 francs from the Savings Bank to pur. chase a suitable outfit for the young couple. Aide! for the unsertainty of human pro jects!' Two evenings 800, when the ex pecting bride and her weber rearmed home after a day spent on their knees—not at church but at their washing barge, near the Pont de l'Archevehe—they found that their dwelling had been broken open. their locks forced, and not only the 1,000 fr. but every other articlir of value carried ofl' This was indeed a dire disaster, but the severest cut ofell was a sheet el paper conspicuously affixed to the chimney glass, on which was written in too legible charac ters, "1 might have taken both your daugh ter and her dower, but I content myaalf with one and leave you the other." A Osmium WOMAN usTren.—dPray, sir, will you never martyr raid-a fair girl to a brown old bachelor. 'Ahern! why, I dim% know—yes, madam—l might get married, perhaps, if it were possible to gm married to any thing but a woman." Fanner Lawsittx.—A farmer cut down a tree which stood ao near the boundary line able farm, that it was doubtful admits • er it belonged to him or his neighber.- - That neighbor claimed the tree and prose. cuted the man for damage. The case was continued from court to Clain. Time was wasted, temper soured, and friendship lost, but the cause was gained by the prosecutor. The last we knew of the transaction wee, that the men who 'gut the case' came to the lawyer's (Ace to execute a deed !I:sr.-Isis whole farm, which he isad been obliged to sell to pay coats. Then houseless end homeless, he could thrust his hands into hie empty pockets and triumphantly exclaim, beat him.' Mortax.--Elow mach trouble would ba saved tithe following maxims were univer sally carried owl 'A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.' 'The be ginnipg uf at rife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave ofTcontention before it be meddled with. REMEDY FOR THE RHEIIMATISH.-..-A correspondent of the U• 8. Gazette give. the following as ■n infallible remedy for the rheumatism. He says thnt he, as well as hundreds of others, has used it with per fect relief: Recipe—One gill of gynison seed (now ripening) put in a pint bottle, fill the bottle with the shavings of a rich tur pentine yellow pine board or knot, then fill up with strong alcohol. In three days, the turpentine,and the virtue from the gynipgon seed will be extracted by the alcohol, turn ing the liquid of a greenish color. It is then fit for use Bathe the part afflicted with this preparation a few times, and it will drive away all pain. A CAPITAL STORT.—Tbe Hawkoye and lowa Patriot fulls a capital temperance A farmer belonging some where in lowa bought a keg of whiskey and carried it . home. Well knowing that his better halt occasionally took a drop or so it it came na her way, sad now and then would have:si drop at all events, be endeavored tuft:lll:MAl the keg Irons her by suspending it ir. the bare somewhere near the ridgepole. The eagle eyed or rather 'hawk eyed' wife got eight ofit, howover, and resolved on oh *lin ing a taste. It was impossible for her to roach it. At length elle hit upon the fol. lowing expedient. which - worked toe charm. Taking down her husbanc's rifle, she put in R charge wish a gond ball, and taking de. liberate aim at the keg. Copped it with the ball, and brought dowo the whiskey at the first shot. Having a tub previou-ly prepa red, she was thus enabled to catch it all, without loosing a drop, and left her poor '- husband to weep over and wonder at the loss of his whiskey. LIBERAL Bei:Lugar/ --The Rev. Jesse Mercer, ofGeorgin, has, in his will, be• quenthed to the Baptist Foreign Mission Board $5OOO, to the Baptist Home Mitoinn Society for theit operations in Texas 82,. 500, to the American end Foreign Bible Society $2500, to the Bantist Publication Society $2500, to the American tract So clef% $2500, and to the Columbia College 82200—(if the College is out of debt to six months after his decease. if tout this legacy is to be paid to the Foreign Missiot. Board) to, the Literary department of Mercer University 812,500, and to the The 'logical department a re,.iduary legse, supposed to t,ri worth. 830,V00. The whole amount is about sixty thowiand dot lars.
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