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II I O. Y. ZIOF/MAN
Raise the heart—raise the hand,
Swear ye for the glorious cause,
Swear by Nature's holy laws,
To defend your Fatherland.
By the glory ye tnher!t—
By the name 'mid men you bear--
By your country's freedom swear it—
By the Eternal—this day swear
Raise the heart—raise the hand,
Fling abroad the starry banner,
Ever live our country's honor,
Ever bloom our native land.
Raise the heart—raise the hand,
Lot tho earth and heaven hear it,
While the sacred oath, we swear it.
Swear to uphold our Fatherland I
Wave thou loft ensign glorious,
Floating foremost in the field,
While thy spirit hover,, o'er us
None shall tremble—none shall 'yield
Raise the heart—raise the hand,
Fling abroad the starry banner,
Ever live our country's honor,
Ever bloom our native land.
Reis• the heart—raise the hand,
Raise it to the Father spirit,
To thu Lord of Heaven rear it,
Lot tho soul 'bovo earth expand,
Truth unwavering—Faith ur.shaken,
Sway each action. word and will,
That which man bath undertaken,
Heaven can alone fulfil.
Reim) the heart—raise the hand,
Fling abroad the starry banner,
Ever live our country's honor
Ever bloom our native land.
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"Sit down, Adeline,' said her mother; I
have something very particular to say to
you.'
Adeline obeyed with the air ofa martyr.
Her presentiment, had evidently been too
true.
"My dear child,' continued Madame La
Roche, 'you are now of an age e hen you
should begin to think of being settled in
life. Nature has given you beauty and
In a pretty little cottage at Richmond,
talents; I have, to the utmost el my ability,
commanding a delighttul view of the
given you good education; and I may say,
Thames, lived Madame La Roche and her
without flattery, that you are capable of
only child Adeline.
Al an early age, the parents of Madame making any man happy. Why, then, re
main single if you meet with one for whom
La Roche had taken her from her native
you can feel au affection?'country,
country, England, to France, in order that
Ad, liee offered an observaliou, and Ma
her education might he completed. Here
dame La Roche continued.
a certain Monsieur La Roche, a man nisch
'There is a gentleman, who I am certain,
richer, than herself, bad solicited her hand.
loves you, I have seen enough of him to he
In obedience to the commands of her Pa" us certain that he deserves 3 our love in re
rents, and in spite of her strongly expressed
turn, and it will give me pleasure if you tell
aversion, the match was concluded, and the
ekerly husband and the young wife took me that he P"" e '' aes it '
'My dear mamma,' said Adeline, with
op their t,bode in Paris. Three years of
firmness, ' it is better to he candid at once;
terwards Mons:eur La Roche died, leaving
I knew whom you mean, and all you ate
one child, a daughter. Since that event
going to say; hut it is in vain. I do not
Madame La Roche had resided in Swart.-
love him, 1 never shall love him, and 1 can
erland first, and subsequently in Germany. 1
she
re- , not many him."
At length tired of the continent) 'AdiAine, Adeline!' cried .her mother,
turned to England, where she bad now lived
laughing, 'you are too quick by tar for me.
two years, and where she firmly intended
, Do Non not love, will you never love, and
tospend the remainder of her days cannot
you arr)—George Trevor?'
As woman is placed in our social system, c :i l G e ) n mge Trevor?' exclaimed Adeline,her
perhaps the most independent and life en- teeth nearly taken away 1111 astonishment.
joying of the sex is a N 011 fig and attractive
1.0)..1 , 'Av. George T. CV4.1 . ,' said her mother •
widow. Madame La Roche was 11 So yeu blush now, and I was not mistaken,
BIZARRE FABLES.
ST TIM ♦UTUOB OVI , JIDT •Tf D RAIIIILST."
quits, aad sentences, and these paper
bullets of the brain, awe a mau from the career o
bis humort.
THE MOTHER AND THE DAUGHTER
young and attractive—and sensible too, or 1 fi nd, in suppo,ing that you loved eadi nth
' ehe would have been-vtivious of her sweet er; I am glad of it, denrcl ild,- and give my
ditughler, Adeline. As it ms, she treated most willing ern:loll to your union.
her with the warmth of a mother, and the '1 feared you would not listen to him, or
confidence of an elder sister. I would have confided in you.' said A de.
On a certain summer day Adeline, La line, half laughing and half cry ing at this
Roche was seated in a room opening on sudden and unexpected realization of hopes
a lawn which sloped to the river. By her she had scarcely dared to entertain
side, nod close by her side, was a man 'And that merely ber;.use to present he
youthful nod handsome. He held one of happens to be poor!' said Madame La
her hands clasped in his, and was looking Roche. 'All, lIIN Adeline! it is love, not
with a most impassionate air into her face. wealth, that should ho considered', and if
her eyes were casi down, and the sliehtesi (..:i orge Trevor be poor, are we not, rich
suspicion of a 6111.411 was upon her check.— ()trough? But.'eontinued she, holding down
Ti,:. blush would have been deeper—but it her Load nod speaking falteringly, 'now
was a situation she wamornewhat used to.
They loved each other.
'And you fear, George. that mamma
would never consent?' said Adeline, con
tinuing a colloquy that hnd been proceed
ing, heaven knows how long; for in such
cases (Pin told) hours are like minutes.
'1 fi ar it much, said George Trevor;
'What pretensions have 1? A man of
wealth and consideration like Mr- Crofton
may hope—but 1 can hope for nothing.'
'lla! ha! you are jealous,' said Adeline
looking up arid smiling archly. 'Do you
distrust me then?'
'No, dear Adeline, indeed,' replied
George; 'I do believe that your heart is
mine, and mine only; but say if I have not
cause for suspecting that Mr. Crofton is
my rival, and that your mamma favors
him?'
'Now \ mention it,' said Adeline,
will ciinli!ss to you that 1 am very misern
ble On this account. Ever since we first
met Mr. Crofton at that horrid ball he has
been eternally at the house. He must
perceive how coldly I receive him."
'And how does Madame La Roche re
coive him?' suid Trevor.
'Ah, too well" replied Adeline. often
see them sitting together in a corner talk
Mg in a low tone, nod every now and the::
[nuking Inwards me, as di were the sub
jest of their conversation. He is trying
to pin mamma over to his interest, I
know. It will beef no use if he does' I
would sooner die than marry him.'
'So having experienced the misery of a
forced match herself, she would doom you
to the same fate?' suid George Trevor,,
with vehemence.
'1 hardly know what to think,' said Ade
line, gently; when I remember how affec
tionately she always treats rne, it seems
impossible; but when I see her encourage
so evidently the visits of Mr. Crofton, 1
am compelled to dread every thing.'
'%Ye may be mistriken, after all, Ade
line" said Trevor. These visits are pro.
bahly intended for Madame La Roche.
Remember, Mademoiselle, yeti are not the l i
:only young and pretty iehabitant of Vine
Cottage.'
'Oh, I am sure that is not the case,'.
said Adeline. 'Mamma has told ire, often
and often, that no consideration on earth
should induce her to marry again, and that
all her care now was to see me happily
settled. Mr. Crofton and rwimmit ar'
now viewing the conservatory together.—
Georae, I feel a strange presentiment that
he will propose formally for me during that
opportunity, and that I shall be called up
on to give him his answer et once.'
'You will reject him, then, dear Adeline?'
quid Trevor anxiously.
'Can yuu ask me?, exclaimed Adeline
—1 will never bestow my hand where I
cannot bestow my heart. 7hul, George,
is yours—past praying for?'
'Ten thousand thanks for this one more
proof of constancy,' said Trevor. 'To
doubt your truth new would indeed be t o
thir{ you unworthy of love. But 1 hear
fieesteps approaching; they are returning
from the conservatory. Adieu, dear Ade
line, for a time. 1 will not meet Mr. Crof
ton—but I am net jealous mend!'
Scarcely had George Trevor lett the
apartment when Madame La Roche and
Mr. Crofton entered from the lawn. Mi.
Crofien rather precipitately took his leave.
and Madame La Roche and Adeline were
alone.
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that I have wished you all happiness and
consented to Sour marriage, will you, dear
little friend, wish me the same and consent
to my marriage?'
'You!) ou marry again!' exclaimed Ade
line.
'And have, you been so blind as to sus
pect nothing?' said Madame La Roche, rai
sing her head and smiling: '1 will conceal
it from you no longer. You now that I
was married in France at a very early age,
but you do not know that before that I bad
Liven my heart in Englund to a youth
whose (poly fault was poverty. My parents
had forbidden him the house, and on twat--
mg of my engagement on the Continent,
ho went out in despair to India. Some two
months ago, you may remember, we were
at a large ball. How can 1 describe to
you my sensations when I saw there the
roan whom I had loved in my early vouch
—whom I still loved! I recognized him
even before I heard his name.'
`And that name was—Crol ton,' said Ado
line, much affected.
'lt was,' replied Madame La Roche; he
had remained single, though he had grown
rich enough to buy, if he had willed it,
some poor girl, as l mys:rlf had been bought.
Adeline, he has prevailed on me to change
my resolution of never marrying again.—
Do you wish me jO)?'
The mother and the daughter fell into
each other's arms and mingled their tears;
hut assuredly they were nut the tears of
orrow.
On the same morning the two weddings
were celebrated, and opinions were divided
whether the matrotily or the youthful bride
looked more charming.
The generous from having experienced
lain, are less prone to inflict it on others;
he ungenerous, from the same cause, are
more prone to inflict it.
Among the earliest settlers in the wilds
of Salmon river, was a Vermonter of the
name of Dobson—a large, res,,hite mmi .—
Returnmg one uveniog ftem a 11 unless hum
i&er his ve;:reot cows, which, according to
the custom in new countries, had been turn
ed into the woods, to procure their own
subsistence from the rank herbage of the
early summer, just before emerging from
the forest upon the clearing of his neigh
bar, the lute worthy Joseph Sleeper, he
saw a large bear descending from a lohy
sycamMe: - WhOre he had been, probably in
quest of honey.
A bear ascends a tree much more expert
Iv than he descends it, being obliged to
come down hindforemost. My friend Doh
son did not like to be joined in this evening
walk by such a companion; a•id, without
reflecting what. he should do with the 'vas
merit' afterwards, be run to the tree, on the
opposite side from the animal's body, and
just before he reached the ground. he seiz
ed him by the fore paws Brunt growled
and gnashed his tusks; but he soon Liner
tained that his paws were in the grasp of
iron paws, eqhally ironstrong with his own,
nor could he use his hinder paws to disem•
bowel his antagonist, as the mariner of the
bear i.., inasmuch as the trunk of the tree
was between them. But Dobson's predt
camera, as ho was endowed with rat her
the most reason, was worse yet. He could
no more assail the bear, than the bear
could assail hire; nor could he venture to
let him go—a very gracious return for thus
uncert moniously taking him by the hand.
The twilight was fast descending into dark
ness, and his po,it ion was Fir less comforta
blo than it otherwise would have been at
the same hour, ourrouhded by his wife and
children, ut the supper table, to say nothing
of the gloomy prospect for the night.—
Still, as Joe Sleeper's house was not fur
distant, he hoped to he able to call him to
his assistance, but his lungs, although none
of the weakest were unequal to the task,
a nd although he hollowed arid bawled the
livelong night, making the woods and eel
kin ring again, ho succeeded no better
than old Gleodower of old, in calling spirits
front the vasty deep.
It was a wearisome night for I7tilaion,
such a game of li,-Id fast he had never been
engaged in before. Brutu s t
was Soria'
what worried, although he could not de
scribe his sensations in English, -nlbeit he
to”lt the regular John Bull method of ma
king known his dissatisfaction—that is to
say, he growled incessantly. But then
was 110 let go in the case, and Dobson was
therefore under the necessity necessity of holding
lust, until it seemed to his clenched and
aching fingers as though the bear's paws
and his had grown t .igether.
As day light returned. and the smoke
front Mr. Sleeper's chimney began to curl
up gracefully though rather dimly in the
distance,—Dobson again repeated his cries
for succor, and his heart was soon gladden
d by the appearance of his worthy but in
active neighbor, who had at last been at
tracted by the , nice of the impatient suf
ferer, bearing an axe on his shoulder.—
Dubson had never been so m.tvh rejoiced
at seeing Mr. Sleeper before. albeit lie was
a very kind and estimable neighbor.
Why don't you make haste, Mr. Slec.
per, and not be lounging at that rate when
you see a fellow Christian in such a kettle
of fish as thes7'
vow ! is that vou, Mr. Dibsou, up, a
tree there? Arid vas it you I heard hal
[wink; so last night? I guess you ought to
NOR AL
A WESTERN BEAR STORY
ruol "LITZ IN TIM WOODS."
have your lodging for nothing, if you've
stood up ngin' the tree all night.'
'lt's no joke, though 1 can tell you, Mr.
Sleeper; if you'd had hold the paws of a
black varmint all night, it strikes me you'd
think you'd paid dear enough for it. But
if you heard me calling for help in the night
why didn't you come and see what was the
trouble?'
'Oh I was going tired to bed, after lay
ing up log fence all day, and I thought I'd
wait till morning, and come bright and air
ly. But if I'd known it waa you—,
•Known 't was me!' replied Dobson bit
terly, 'you know 'twos somebody who had
flesh and blood too good for these plaguey
varmints though, and you knew there's been
a smart sprinkle of bears about the settle•
went all the spring!'
'Well, don't be in a huff, Tommy—ft's
never too late to do good. So hold tight
now, and don't let the laurel critter get
loose, while I split his head open.'
'No, no,' said Dobson. 'After holding
the beast here all night, I think I ought to
have the pleasure of killing him. So yeti
just take hold of his paws here, and I will'
take the axe and let a streak of daylight into
his skull about the quickest.'
The propos.tion being a fair one, Mr.
Sleeper was too reasonable a man to oh
ject. Ho was no coward either; and 'he
therefore stepped op to the tree, and eau.
tivierly taking the bear with both hands,
relieved honest Dobson from his p•edica
merit. The hands of the latter, though
sadly stifF•ned by the tenacity with which
they had been clenched for so many hours,
were soon brandishing the axe; and he rip.
parently made all preparation for giving
the deadly blow—and deadly it would have
been had he struck. But, to the surprise
of Sleeper, ho did not strike, and to his
further consternation, Dobson swung the
axe upon his• shoulder, and marched away,
ns he went, with as much appa
rent indifference as the other had shown
when coming to his relief.
It was now Sleeper's turn to make the
forest vocal with his cries. In vain he
raved, and called and threatened. Dob
son walked on arid disapperved, leaving his
f7-end as sad a prospect for hid breakfast us
he himself had for his supper.
ro relieve the suspense of the renders,
it isright to add that Dobson returned and
killed the hear in the coot se of the after
noon.
MURIC OP TIM FIAMMEII.—The Spright
ly an;. l . clever New Orleans paper called the
Crescent City has an article on sounds,
trent which we ext reef the following
paragraph. I t evinces gond sense and good
feeling, as wall as philosophical observation.
After enntnerating all the sounds, natural
and artificial; which are apt to greet a
man's ears in this world, the w 'ter pro
seeds;
But, after all, were we to seek out one
only sound in the whole world as a repre
sentative of expression, of life, business,
health, vigor, and improvement, we should
certainly name the 'sound of the hammer.'
What is there on earth more cheering
It is the very note of preparation for busi
ness, and gives a thrill peculiar to midi to
all which lies inert around it.
w h a t b r i ng s the morning so flesh and
vivid to the mold of the sluggard as the
hammer which sounds limn neighboring
roofs? It is the veriest reproach that an
indolent man can have, and speaks straight
to the heart in those quick, manly, sudden
tones, which only the sincerest friendship
employs• And then how much is in that
sound beside! What a tatige can fancy
take when such a sound conies fitrthl This
is the workmen on the roof of a new bail-
ding, or in the shop of the mechanic, or the
store or the merchant. It is the hammer of
the carcenter, the blacksmith, the tinman,
the cordwainer, the jeweller, or the worker
in marble—all industrious, all busy, all
well to do. The 'sound of the hammer' is
a note which forwurns the world of the
whereabouts of the hard-working man.—
About it there is no concealment. The
man he owes hears it, and waits contented
—who owed him listens, and straightway
goes to his daily labor. There is a spirit
in the sound of a hammer which effects
inure or loss nearly all the world. Some peo
ple go through life without noting ono
mad from another, in the multitude of
noises around them, but will answer for
the sound of a hammer, that no one ever
heard that without being conscious of an im•
pi oilskin either positively pleasant or certain
ly painful. Mechanics should stick to 'heti
harmers, for they are sentinels of industry
and bestowers of praise."
.
THE x onr:9 BUTCHER.—In one of the
markets in New York citv - vas a young
butcher wle , by Ii industry and energy
bud established for himself au excellent
reputation, and had acqu , rtd borneproper
ty. lie had also a lovely wife, and two
small children. His busine-s went well;
tie Was respected and esteemed it. the mar
km, at home he was beloved and happy.—
Ho had arrived at such a point in his of
fairs tmit he begun to feel that he might
relax himself eccuSionally from so severe
an epithelium) 'fi.iln husiriess. He there.
fore indulged himself more in sociability
with his acquaintance, drank with them.
and smoked cigars. Before 'he was aware
of being in danger, the prosperous and Ito p
py young butcher hid become a drunkard.
The happinemr of his family was SIMI turn
ed sorrow, Mid in his business'one discs
ter followed another until he was out 01
busineas, out of money, out of credit, and
of everything which on honorable man
could desire. In a few monkfis he was a
filthy, worthless loafer. The remonstran
ces of his friends had been of no avail—
down he would go, to the bottom. of infra
my. When he was fairly at the bottom,
another butcher, who had witnessed with
great regret, the ruin of his young friend,
thought there was hope, even from the
desperateness of the case. With a feeling
of brotherly kindness which distinguishes
many of that occupation, ho collected to
get her a hubscription of filly dollars, to be
offered as a capital to the fallen man on
condition that he would reform. He then
spoke to the young man, and with encour
agement roused him a little from his stu
pidity, took him to his own house until he
had become sober, and then invited him to
the Washington Temperance meeting,
where, after understanding the matter fully.
the young man signed the temperance
pledge, and abjured intoxicating drinks
forever. With the fifty dollars he bought
a stall and recommenced his business,
which lie follows with all his former oner
gy• Prosperity is with him, and all is well
again. His family are lifted from poverty
to plenty, and his happy wife does not cease
to pray that the blessing of Heaven may
rest on the man who restored the young
butcher and made him a husband and father
again.—/V. Y. Jour. of Cotn.
Tue HONEY Moom.— A fellow 'down
east' recently married a lady old enough
to ho his grandmother, for her money.—
The citizens immediately turned out and
caught him, end not willing to lynch . him,
covered him all over with molasses, which
they thickened on him with a hundred
weight of limn The fellow aptly re
marked, that ho had often rend of the
sweets of the honey moon, but never knew
before that they consisted.of molasses end
four• doins!
NEVE STATES A DAY.—Some gentlemen
en board the steamer Diamond the other
day, wore conversing about the wonderful
powers of steam, the facilities it had given
to travelling, iSic. One gentleman remark
ed that a man might leave New York in
the morning, and arrive the same night in
Baltimore, thus being in five states in one
day. "Daly five is at ye say?" said an I
rishman present, "and its meeseif who was
in nine states on Monday last." '('he coin•
pane were incredulous, and called on Pad
dy to explain how such a thing could be
possible, which he did as follows: "Well
ye see gentlemen, I was married in New
York lust Monday morning at 6 o'clock;
and went with my dear Bridget to Belle
more the same day, and sure before I got
there, I was after gotten drunk as a baste,
sn ye persave I was in the State of New
York, the state of Sobriety, the state of
Single Blessedness, the State of New Jer•
sey, the state of Connubial Felicityi (that's
what ye call matrimony) the State of Penn
sylvania, the State of Delewaro, the State
of Maryland, nod the state of Intoxication,
all in one day, and the whole of which was
owing to the power of stame."—New Yen k
Evening Mail.
CENTHIFUGAL GUN.— A riving the arts.
des exhibited at the Fuir of the American
Institute, says the New York Express, the
Ce.drifugal Gun is well deserving of atten
tion, as en inpoi tont invention calculated to
produce eexiraordivary results. On the
simple principle of the common sling. a
machine constriicted according to the de
sigr. of the inventor, will,by hand nr other
power adapted to the weight of the shot,
throw with destructive effect a vast number
ofshot in a minute. A few engines of that
description propelled by steam irifleating
batteries of a suitable form, would protect
our harbors and rivers against the com•
blued fleets of Euroje; and on land a hun
dred men in a fort or in the field, could by
hand power defend themselves when oppo
sed by as many thousunds. It peace will
be promoted by improving and multiplying
the engines of destruction and defence,
this invention must be nu important one.
A MISER.—One Robert Smith, a black
smith, recently died at the Seven Dials.
London, worth £400,000, and was so penu
rious in his habits as almost to deprive
himself of the means of existence.
ROYAL EXPENDITURES. — In looking over
the repor.s as to the expenditures of the
Lord Stewurd of the Royal Household for
1840, we find that there is a charge of
about 811,000 for bread, and about 852,
000 for wine—about the same proportion
that was prepared us tar back as the time
of Henry the Fourth, when that distinguish
ed Knight, Sir John Falstaff, took a
pen'wurth of bread and a shilling's worth
of sack. The washing bill was $16,250,
perhaps a little augmented by the contribli
thins iron) the nursery. The rest of the
items are as I illows: —Butter, bacon, cheese
and egv, 825.750; butcher's meat. 8 50 ,-
000, good roast beef, without doubt; poultry,
82E300; fish, 810.040, rather lumen en
tettamment that; groceries, $50,000;
86.7:0; fruit and confectionary. $9,900;
vegetables, 82,6t111, rather n small uniotiet
of vegetables tor 8 7 1,:160 of beef and pail
try; ale and beer, 815,000, that is patron
izing the brewers very well; wax candles,
.8 0,795; tallow candles. 83,750; stationa
ry, 84,350; lmps, 829.750; fuel, 8:14 900;
turnings, 32,000; bt mini , . $4 750; china.
glass, &v. , 87,880, linen, $59,975—the
Queen must be clothed in ficto Itni•o; phi to,
81,27.1 tuaktug a total 0ri1a49,825.
1i.P.21(f)a.0 CIVU 4
JOUN QUINCY ADAMS CHI rettliaB hie
wive! and physical energy unimpaired.—
At one period we find him startling the
country by his eloquence, or by some cc-
centric exhibition of his splendid talents.—
Again, ho appears in a remote public jour
nal, as the author of some touching produc
tion in prose or poetry. Before admire.
tion ceases, ho ret-appPare_ in another por
tion of the Union as a lecturer before some
village lycou n. lie is an extraordinary
man. &mule and unpreten:fing in private
life, but a Hercules in his public capacity.
His whole career is full of great incident,
and interesting historical remembrances.—
Recurring to these details, we find he has
occupied more public stations than any oth
,er citizen in . this country. He has been
sent o ffi cially to the Courts of England,
Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Prussia,
and also one of the three Envoys Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for
negotiating the treaty of Ghent. , In addi
tion to these diplomatic missions; Mr. Ad
ams has also been a member of Congress,
Secretary of State, and President of the
United States; besides being Professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard Universi
ty. His life, of which he has always kept
a copious diary, will furnish the world one
of the most useful and instructive lessons
on record, when he dies.—N. Amer.
THE RULING PASISION sTnorro IN SLEZP.
—On Sunday law, a man who hnd adj tuned
from a public house to his usual place of
worship, 101 l asleep, and imagination re
turning to the scene he had so recently left,
he called out, greatly to the astonishment
of the preacher and the congregation,
"Here, landlord, 611 Vother pot.—North
ampton Mercury.
Tun ;VMEcuatvrc•—The following beauti
ful article is from " The Carpenter or Rou
en," a popular play:
The mechanic, sir, is one . of God's noble
men. What have mechanics not donel
Have they not opened the secret chambers
of the mighty deep, and extracted its treas
ures, and made the raging- billows their
highway, on which they ride as on a tame
steed? Are not the elements of fire and
water chained to the crank, and at the me
chanics' bidding compelled to turn it?
Have not mechanics opened the bowels of
the earth, and made its products contribute
to his wants? The forked lightning is
their play thing; and they ride triumphant
on the wings of the mighty winds. To the
wise they are the flood gates of knowledge,
and kings and queens are decorated with
their handiworks. He, who made the Uni
verse, was a great mechanic.
NATIONAL AUMORY•—The President has
appoinled Brig. Gen. W. K. Armistead,
Lieut. Col. S. H. Long, Topographical
Engineer, Surgeon General T. Lawson, a
Board of Commissioners for the purpose of
"selecting a suitable site on the Western
waters fur the establishment of a National
Armory." The first named officer to be
President of the Board.
A man named Clark, was on Monday
brought before the Court of General
Sessions of Philadelphia on a charge
of stealing a dog. The bill of indict
ment was laid before the jury by the
prosecuting officer, with the request
that they would ' tender a verdict of
acquittal, In as maa as no man had any
property in a dog, and there was,in law no
larceny of finch an animal. This is very
wrangel If there is no such law there
should be.
Taa EASIEST CURE 'Vol INTEMPER
ANCE —W . S have seldom 'met with a more
striking instance of the union of simplicity
and vviadom, for which Quabers are re
markable, than the following. A man ad
dicted to habits of intoxication, was outfitt
ing the usual miserable consequences, and
in a moment of repentance, said he would
give any thing to cute himself. "it is as
easy as to open thine hand," said a Quaker.
"Convince me of that," replied the inebri
ate, "and t will persevere in the experi
ment." '•When thou takest the tempting
glass into thine hand," replied the Friend,
"before thou liftest the liquor to thy lips,
open Shine hand, and keep it open, and
thou wilt be cured." A complete reforma
tion ensued. flow simple, easy, and ef
fectual a rule ! Try it.—N. Y. Com. Ads.
CABTIRON ClllOlll.-St. George's Church
Evertor), Liverpool, is nn object of consid
erable interest for its taste, and as having
boon nearly , the first iron church
erected in Great Britain. The whole of
the finale work of the windows, doors,
groins, roofs, pulpit, ornamented enrich
ments, are of cast iron. The loath is one
hundred and nineteen feet, tho breadth is
forty-sever). It is nrnaviented by a cast iron
window of stained glass. It is not, perhaps,
generally known. that a great proportion of
the larger manufactories erected within the
last ten• years, are all iron except the walls.
And within two years past, several cotta
g's and country villas have been put up
near London, which are exclusively cast
iron—walls, doors, steps, rook chimneys,
sash, &c. W hen once finished, such buil
thugs require no repairs; and the most fine
ly carved oinaniento cost little more than
plain castings-
AN ODD CABINET --Oat of eix gentle.
men whocompotie thr. Preindonre Cabinet,
only two are married, Mews. Web for and
Sponcor.