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© o e t r p THE WEDDING. Tw o bright beings I Saw, in unsovrowing youth, Pledge their holiest vowS in the language of trial), And declare that while life’s bounding pulses should roll— Thus lastingly—soul should be blended with soul. He stood in th e pride o f his you th — a fan- form, His spirit y et nonle—his feelings yet warm— An Eagle to shelter the Dove with Ins wmg— An Elm—where the light twining tendrils might cling. Some dark curling tresses—a beautiful braid, Interwoven with flowers, on her forehead was laid ; A pure golden chain o’er her white neck was thrown, And a pale azure, girdle encircled hel' zone. Her robe was as white as the ocean wave’s foam, Or as snow when it rests in its far-away home, Ere it leaves the high heavenly place of its birth To melt and be lost on our desolate earth. And I thought too, while silently gazing on them, That their bosoms were brighen’d with love’s peerless gem , And that Hope had thrown o’er life’s thoi n planted way Her lovliest bloom and her sunniest ray— •Thaflaughing-eyed Joy had just routed old Care, And, crown’d with new roses, was revelling there ; He smil’d, and declar’d that his day should not end W h ile Music would soothe him, or Beauty would tend. I sigh’d to think, and I trembled to fear. T h a t L o v e m igh t b e j o g g i n g in on e little yea r : T h a t H o p e ’s m o u n tain rose m ig h t s o o n w ith e r and f a d e , And Joy in the cold grave of Sorrow be laid. Hut I pray’d-and I hop’d that it might not be so, That still they should love both in weal and in wo, And the chain they have link’d inlife’s sorrowless prime, Alight not be corroded nor weaken’d by time. hands to cling to a plank that floated near him. The sea rolling outwards carried him with velo city from the shore, where he was seen by a ship of war passing at the time. At first they perceiv ed something floating on the surface of the wa ter at a distance ; but as they came nearer, one of the saiiors, who had a glass, cried out with as tonishment, u It is a child !” Some of the sea men, regardless of the danger, instantly leaped into the sea and brought him safe to the ship. The poor child could only tell them his name was Jack, and from that time he received the name of Poor Jack. The humanity of the crew led them to take care of him. The boy was stea dy and grew in favour with the officers as well as men ; he behaved well in many engagements, and was appointed to the office of taking care of the sick and wounded. In an action of the late war, when he was per forming his office, an aged and infirm seaman came under his care ; but all Poor Jacks’s attention could not preserve the old man from his approach ing dissolution, which he saw was drawing very near. At that very moment the dying man thus addressed him : 5 For the great attention you have shown me, I give you the only treasure I am possessed of, which was given me b> a lady (presenting him with a Bible, with the market’ the British and Foreign Bible Society on it.) which has been the means of my conversion, and a great comfort to me in my hour of adversity. Take it, and with it my dying blessing. Read it ;— it will lead you in the paths in winch you should go. But you know not what a wretch 1 am ; I feel difiident to teil you ; but it will allevi ate my sorrows and ease my conscience. For- T L E A T H E R STORE. HE subscribers have removed their LEATHER STORE, from the upper end o t ^tate-Street, to No. 5, Van Guysling's R o v j , Ferry_street, two doors north of Mr, James Bai lee’s Store, where they offer for sale of their own A Waning, Upper , Harness V Bridle Leather ’C a lf Skins <£• Horse Leather. They have also on hand Sole Leather ; of the first quality. A l s o , a few Seal Skiiis, Morocco, <£•<?,* They solicit a share of public patronage. N. B T h e subscribers take Hides and Skins to Tan on shares. Those'who are dispos ed to have Hides tanned by them on shares, may, hy leaving them any timethis fall, have their Leather tanned and curried ready for use in Aprilp as their establishment enables them to tan in win ter as well as in summer. They pledge them selves to give as good satisfaction to those that fa vour them with their custom, as any establishment in this part of the state. fV. V J. A N D E R S O N . BELLO W S L E A T H E R finished in tbe best m inner. Cash p a id f o r H ID E S a n d SKINS. Sclienectudv. Sept. 8, 1821. 16 W AN P E l ) IMMEDIATELY, N a p p r e n t i c e to t h e T a n n i n g and C u r rying Business, about sixteen years of age. Enquire of IV. f J. A N D E R S O N . Schenectady, November 17, 10*4. 22 O n t h e U n e q u a l p r o d u c t i o n of H e a i in t h e P r i s m a t i c S p e c t r u m . — By M. Seohcck. Read 13th March 18.9, and inserted in the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Science of Berlin for 1818-19, p-305. The labours of several natural philosophers have been directed towards this curious subject, According to Landriani, the highest degree of temperature is produced in the yellow. Rochon finds the place between yellow and red the wann est, which he cal's orange and jaune-orange. Senebier states it as the result of many observa tions, that the red is always warmer than violet, but yellow sometimes warmer than red. Her- schel found the warmest point beyond the co loured spectrum produced by the prism. Leslie could not discover any difference of temperature either above or below the spectrum, but found the warmest place in the red. Englefield soon afterwards arrived at the same results as Herschel, and maintained that the highest degree of tem perature was always found beyond the outer limit of the red. The discrepancy in the results of so many accurate observers led Mr. Seebeck to ex amine whether the apparatus or the mode of observation might not account for this difference in the result. The observations which form the substance of this paper were instituted in the course of the years 1806— 1808. Mr. Seebeck soon abandoned the use of a quicksilver ther mometer, with a single ball, which he found far to surpass his expectations. The greatest dif ficulty in the employment of the instrument arose from its oscillations, produced by sudden changes in the atmosphere, clouds, however faint, or moist collecting before the sun, as very often happens even in apparently serene weather. The observations, therefore, were frequently repea ted with the same prisms on different days, ap parently most clear and devoid of damp, and they were found to correspond best with one another after a thunder storm, or during the first serene days after a continued rainy period. Mr. Seebeck proceeds to enter into the detail of a great number of observations, frorn which he draws the follow ing results : 1 . There is always heat produced in the prismatic spectrum, which is the ieast in the lim its of the violet. 2 . The heat increases thro’ blue and green ; and, 3. Reaches its maximum in the yellow for cer tain kinds of prisms, particularly of water; and according to Mr. Wunsch, also of alcohol and oil of turpentine. 4. The solution of sal ammoniac, and of corro sive sublimate and concentrated colourless sul phuric acid, produce the highest degree of tem perature between the yellow and the red in the orange. 5. Crown glass, or common white glass, has the warmest point in the middle of red. 6 . Flint glas moves the warmest point beyond the well defined spectrum. (Mr. Seebeck adopts here the limits as given by Newton ) 7. Beyond the red the degrees of temperature diminish ; but a slight action is perceptible in all the prism 6 » SU R R O G A T E ’S SALE. Y virtue and authority of an order of the Surrogate of the county of Schenectady, the merly *1 was a profligate man, and a very great ' subscriber will expose for sal® at public auction, sinner ; and one day as I was walking on the on the 30th day of December next, at 2 o’clock beach intoxicated even to madness, my child re- P. M* at \. A. Vedder’s Schenectady Coffee- peatedly asked for bread ; I had none to give him, ! House, all that certain piece of low or intervale and in that very hour, prompted by something , land, whereof John Walton, late of (he town of. worse than bad, 1 perpetrated a deed which rends Glenville, in said county, deceased, died seized ; every fibre of my heart even to relate.— I rnur- situate in the to-.vn aforesaid, and bounded on the j Daniel Campbell and partly by the heirs of Adam dered my child ; 1 dashed him headlong among north by the Mohawk turnpike, on the east by j S. Vrooman, deceased, and by the lands of John the merciless waves.” u What yourson ?” “ Yes, lands in possession of Simon Swart and Adam I B. Vrooman, and on the north by lands the pro- I left him to the mercy of the devouring ele- Swart, on the south by lands of Harmanus Swart, < perty of the heirs of the said Daniel Campbell. ceased, one chain and seventy-seven links, thence north forty degrees east two chains and twenty- three links, thence north six degrees east two chains and thirty links to said road, thence along said road south twenty-five degrees and fifteen minutes, east seven chains and thirty-four links to the northeast corner of said tract of land sur veyed for Gerret S. Veeder, thence along the northerly bounds thereof south sixty-five degrees west four chains and twenty-four links to the place of beginning, containing two morgans and nearly one eighth part of a morgan of land.— Also all that certain dwelling house and lot of ground situate, lying and being in the said city of Schenectady, and bounded as follows, to wit, on the north by a lot formerly belonging to Henry- Brown, deceased, now owned by James Rosa and Jacob Groesbeeck, on the east by Ferrv- street, on the south by a lot of Walter Swits, a lot formerly belonging to Abraham Yates, deceased, and now owned bjT Jonas Holland, and (hehon.se and lot formerly belonging to Alexander Mercer, deceased, now occupied by the Mohawk Bank, [ and on the west by Church-street, just as the same was possessed by Dirk Van Ingen in his life time.” A n d w h e r e a s a l s o Alexander Kelly, of the' city of Schenectady, to secure to the said people (he payment of the sum of one thousand dollars, with the interest thereon, did, by indenture o f mortgage, bearing date the fifth day of May, 1809,. mortgage to the saul people, All those certains pieces or parcels of land described in said mort gage as follows, viz. “ All those certain two and an half morgans of land situate and beiug in the. said city of Schenectady, being part of three morgans of land formerly conveyed to James Wilson by Melmes Veeder, and is bounded on the east by lands belonging to the heirs of Abraham Groot, deceased, on the south by’ lands belonging to the heirs of Daniel Campbell, deceased; on the west partly by lands belonging to the heirs of — Also, all that certain pasture or wood land, si tuate. ly ing and being in the third ward of the city of Schenectady, about four miles south west from merits.” ‘4 Where mid how long ago ?” He (hen and on the west by lands of John Barhydt and related the circumstance above referred to, and . Simon Swart, containing about three acres. Jack recognized in the dying sailor, his own fath- | The subscriber will give hi^ personal attend- er. It is needless to attempt, as it is impossible ance at the place and hour of sale, and make the Dutch church, betwixt the pasture of the to descrinc, the scene of mutual joy, affection and known the conditions and terms of payment.— heirs of Ryer Veeder, deceases, and the pasture gratitude to Heaven, which now took place. , November ISfh, i824. or hay land of the said Alexander Kelly, begin- The father had found his son, and the son his ‘ 22 w 6 CHRISTIAN IIAVERLY, Admin)r. ning about twelve links frorn a white oak tree, father, who expired in his arms. After the death i S U RR( )G A 'EE’S S A L E . j which stands on the northwest corner of a pas- impressive words— “ I, sir, am Poor Jack.” [From the Boston Telegraph.] . . . , S U R R O G A T E ’S S A L E . of his father. Jack returned to land : left the nau- j l^T O T IC E is hereby given, that pursuant to an tical profession, and in the course of a few years order of the Surrogate of Montgomery coun- becamc a minister. Every feeling heart sym- ^ j will, as executrix of the last will and tesfa- pathized with the stranger at the narration ; when, ^ en{ of Jost A# Snelij seI1 at pubjic auction or ' to the astonnishment of every one present the ■ veilduej the following pieces or parcels of land narrator closed, bowing to the chair, in these [ desCribed as followS— .All that certain lot or piece of land, situate, lying and being in the second ward of the city of Schenectady, northerly of a piece of land, or lot, now owned by and in the J o h n R a n d o l p h a n d t h e Q u a k e r . — A friend 1 occupation of John Baudcr, and on the north side communicates the following anecdote. A Qua- | 0f a street or lane leading from the corner of the ker, being on a passage to New York in the same ' house of said John Baucler to the vale, being a steamboat with John Randolph, took occasion to j piece of land lately owned by James Bailey, Jy- form an acquaintance with him. “ I understand,” * jng also east of a new street laid out by Abraham said he, “ thou art John Randolph.” Yes, sir, he I Swits, in his life time ; hounded on the west by replied. “ I have heard many things concerning j said new street, on the south by a lot of Jacob thee, and have a high esteem for thy character, } Swits, on the east by a lot of George McGowan, save in one particular.” And what is that ? j and on the north by a lot of Walter Swits— Be- il While thou art a valiant defender of the rights jj ginning by the northwesterly corner of Jacob of freemen, I am told thou dost retain thy ft 1- j Swits’s lot along said new street leading to John low-men in bondage !” Your charge is true, | Quackenbush’s, thence south fifty-three degrees said Mr. Randolph,— but what shall bo done ? u Thou must set them free .1 Well, I will make a proposition to you. I have a hundred slaves,— I wish them to be happy. Now, if you will take them off my hands, and bind yourself to pay me their worth, only in case you do not place them in so good circumstances as they now are, they shall be yours. The Quaker did not expect this,— he hesitated. Mir. Ransdolph then oflered to give him ten days to consider the subject. After a briefseason, however, the Quaker declined the propsal.— Now there are two or three inferences to be deduced from this narration. I. We at the north are too apt to condemn, indiscriminately, our southern bielhern for holding slaves, when to set' them free at home would be certain insurrection, and when there are not meaus for sending them abroad. 2. Are there not many liberal minded men in the southern slates, who like John Ran dolph, would give freedom to their slaves, were they sure of their being suitably provided for in a foreign country ? 3. How important that the colony in Africa should be speedily taken under the patronage of government, or otherwise so | sustained, as to give confidence to all our cit izens and lo the blacks themselves. east to the lands of George McGowan ; thence northerly two chains and twenty-four links to the lands of Walter Swits ; thence along the same westerly to the new street; thence southerly along \ ture or hay land of the said Alexander Kelly, and runs thence south thirty-seven degrees west nine chains and thirty-eight links to the pasture of the j heirs of the said Ryer Veeder, thence along the said pasture south fifty-nine degrees east six chains and fifty-one links, thence north eighty- two degrees cast one chain, thirty-six links, thence north sixty-fit e degrees thirty minutes east two chains, to a white oak tree by the corner of the land of the heirs of John Vedder, deceased,— thence north forty-one degrees thirty minutes east six chains twenty-eight links, thence along the pasture or hay land of the said Alexander Kelly, north sixty degrees west eight chains eigh ty-six links to the place of beginning, containing seven acres, three roods and twenty-nine perches, be the same more or less.— Also, all that certain piece of land situate, lying and being about four miles from Union College, in the said* city of Schenectady, southwesterly, beginning at a stake and heap of stones standing on the southwest side of the road leading past the grist mill of the heirs of John Vedder to Curry’s Bush, or Princetown, at the distance of one chain from the southwes terly bounds of the heirs of Simon Schermerhorn’s new street two chains and twenty-four links to • meadow, and inns thence fifty-tvvo degrees and the place of beginning— the boundaries, courses, | thirty minutes west, sixteen chains and eighty and situation, except the buildings, as they were : *bre.e nnks, thence north sixty degrees west nint A . . . . _ / . . . » - e h o m c n n n c i v f v tflinr lin lrc I a nn/vt nm n r r ci r o r t o i r first of April, 1818, (the executrix not knowing j cha,ns aacl s,xt^ w hn cs, to and alon§ a ccf * ,n the changes, if an y , of the adjacent owners or oc- j Piece o f P « t n r e ground formerly conveyed by cupntioi.s)— on the 8 th day of January next, at j tbe trf tees of Schenectady to Hendrick S. Vee- 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house | er’. lienee north forty-four degiees cast five on the premises. There are on a part of the pre- I cbains the aforesaid road, thence along the i same north eicrhfv-sPA en neo-ree.s east : three chains. mises, a large frame dwelling house, barn, stables and sheds, calculated for a public house ; these buildings, with a part of the described premises, will be sold in one parcel, and the residue of the real estate will be sold in another parcel. The house is now occupied by William Bridges. Dat ed this 1 st day of December, 1824. 24w6 CHRISTINA SNELL, Executrix . Attorney Generals Sales. W HEREAS Abraham Van Ingen, and Eli zabeth his wife, to secure to the people same north eighty-se\ en degrees east three chains, thence north seventy-five degrees and twenty mi nutes, cast seven chains, thence north eighty'-one degrees, east one chain and forty-links, thence south eighty-seven degrees and thirty minutes,east spven chains to the place of beginning, contain ing ten acres, three roods and twenty perches.” And whereas default has been made in the pay ment of the principal and interest secured to be paid by said morgages respectively— N otice is therefore hereby given that by virtue of a power contained in each of the said mortgages, and in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the said several mortgaged premises will be exposed for sale at public vendue, at the capitol, in the city of Albany, on the eighth day o f June next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day. The terms of which sale will be, the ANECDOTE, * R e l a t e d b y t h e R e v . L e i g h R ich m o m d . —At a meeting in the south, of the British Foreign Bible (society, a stranger arose and addressed the chairman. Sir, in a seaport town there lived a drunken and profligate man ; and one day as he was walking near the sea in a state of inebriation, his son, a boy about three years of age, came to him, and frequently asked him for something to ea t ; but, having spent all that he had earned, he had nothing to give him ; and in a fit of despair he threw him into the sea, and there 1 'ft him to perish, staggering home, scarcely knowing what he had done. But that God who presides over the waters as well as the dry land, led his infant of the state of New-York, the payment of the ? sum of one thousand dollars, with the interest j thereon, did, on the thirty-first day of Mlay, one j , thousand eight hundred and fourteen, morLao-e I F r a c a s E x t r a o r d i n a r y . — Yesterday a nup- to the said people, all that certain tract of lo°w ‘ tial was assembled at the house of a most respec- j arable land, described in said mortgage as fol- > table gentleman in Upper street, when a s>cene j }OWSi viz. u situate, lying and being in the city of ’ PaJment p* the whole of the interest then due, of rather an extraordinary nature occurred, wher- j Schenectady, on the west side of a road that leads i the ° ne e,&hth of the principal, and the costs of by the nuptials of the happy pair,” have been j from the highway over Jeffrouw’s land to the ? sa,e>-“ 1the remainder of the principal to be se- postponcd ad libitum. Carriages were in atten- 1 mills and dwelling house formerly belonging to i cured mortgage upon unincumbered real es- dauee to convey the bridal pair and company to | Ryer Schermerhorn, and is bnttecl and bounded tat° ° f d.oubj e the va,ue mortgage money, the church, when an altercation took place be- ■ on the east by the said road, on the south bv a ' Pa/ ablein six equal yearly instalments, with law- tween the bride elect, and the bridegroom that ‘ tract of land surveyed for Gerret S. Veeder Esq. ^ * nteresL Dated Albany, November 23d, 1824. waste he. which ended in hie mnb-imr his escane k„. 1 ..L 1 h ___ : j r* ^ , 1 * SAMlUEL A. TALCOTT, AlVy. Gerdl. M r . R it c h i e — All my interest in the proper- was to be, which ended in his making his escaoc 0n the west by land of the said Ryer Sche’rmer through the window, and over the rails in front of [10m an(1 the jieirs ofNicholas Art. De Graff de the house, halloed and pursued by a crowd which ceased, and on the north by the land of the heirs the uproar had collected We understand that Qf Nicholas Art. De Graff, deceased and begins • ^ mortgaged ky me to the state, and mentioned the young lady has / 10,000 tor her fortune. i at the northwest corner of said tract of land su r -' *-n ^R°rne} ‘General’s advertisement, pub- Dublinpaper. veyed for said Gerrt S. Veeder, and runs from ' bsbed y°ur paper, has long since been trans- thence north twenty-seven decrees west along the i ^erred b7 me *° Mf* Jonathan Walton, subject to land of said Ryer Schermerhorn and the land of I Paymen* *be money due to the state, and Wanted immediately, A JOURNEYMAN, at the Wagon making business, to whom liberal wages will be given. A N D R E W B E A R U P . Scheneetady, December 2, 1824. 24 the heirs of Nicholas Art. De Graff, deceased, nine chains and one link thence north eighty*- three degrees east along the south bounds of the land of said heirs of Nicholas Art. De Graff, de- Mlr. Walton has given me an indemnity against the mortgage and the bond accompanying it. I will thank you to add this note to your future publications of the said advertisement. Decem ber 3, 1824. ABM. VAN INGEN.
