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-_ THB REFLECTOR To published on Priday Mornings, at No. 116 State- alroel, (xecond story, A. fow doors: wost of the: Canale AB RAWAM A. KEYSER, Proprictor D. 0, Survie and A. A. Kayser, Editors, Tansts=T'o subscribers {n the a year, payable sembannualiy. 'Tosubseribers out of the city, Two Dollars a yene IC paid within six months from the commence« city, 'I wo. Dollars ~> Schenectady Rellector mont of the subscription year; othorwisg Two Dol- lufg tid twonty: Ava comnts wilt be charged. Bubserfptions for less than a year, in advance. BUSINESS ompncoronry. Attorneys q couysecrnonrs,. mome AE N INGEN & JAMES B. YAN Alaléfig/fih/kcy f alasmflglontflnll, Stato st. JAMES FULLER, No, 130 Sinto st. JAMES M. DOUGK, No, 150 State st, PLATT POTIER, No 7 Umonist GOOIHRAN & RATHBUN, No, 110 State at. DAVID GADY SMIT ET, No, 30 State st. DRY goons, WM, CUNNINGHAM, Mo. 93 Stato st, KIDNEY 8. POTTER, No. 43 Btate st, VOL. VIL] B HE NEVER DID Propose. He told his luve at vesper honr, When bells would sweetly ring ; Hesuaid I was tho fairest flower Thut blossom'd in the spring : And of his consancy he'd preach, And coll me-his aweet rose I I thought ftatrange with auch fing speech He never did propose. Atav'ry plage of gay resort Ho linger'd by my side, And though ha tril'd with my heart, L lov'd, und could not chides Another whigporing in my ear, FRIDAY MORNING, AP prevailed to nn alarming extent; there are now many men, having great pretensions to respectn- bility, and possessed of property, tou, who do not hesitate to pocket some $10 and even ©20, for their votes. - Unless this increasing evil is sup- pressed, our elections will become a mere furce. The party that usos the most money; will 8rirly succeed. - How are we to root out this abomna- ble practice? | Joseph replied, the men who give, and the men who take bribes for voting, nre not desorving the privileges of freemen; every voter, if challenged, should be required to take an onthi, that he had not given,; offered. accepted, or ox- RIL 30, 1841. a pathetic story, [ think by Grenville Mellen, of the death of a naval officer in the Mediterranean of the yellow fever,ind the misery of Ing wite here. It was a story evidently from a houti familiar with every noble and tender feeling. Phe nflectionate young girl looked up in her sister's face as she come near the conclusion, and was s‘lu‘prwerl to find tenrs bursting from her eyes.- She had never seen her so nffected, ind she heard ber exeininy with a tremulous voice, © My heart is broken, deng Julin; you will never rend to mie tgrin\ A faw days afterwards o sad procession wound over the field to the little country church» yard, nnd paid the last ceremonies to one of the gentlest and loveliest of human beings. -V. ¥. Mirror, [NO. 18. ing them earlier than heretofore ; but the evil,ttie sanctioned, authorised, incentive to every crime, exists under the pnitern of the best of all ethical fuvernments; 'The elite house is well, to well known to mapy of your fashionable readers, who have paid dear for their dinners at the grand sa- lon. | 'The second best honge is more famed for its Iucriferons Torg than er. Are there admirtod ; rum of the establishment, not the pricty is permitted within its dozzling precinets. Indeed; the presence of these frir and frail sor- ceresses often checks the despernte oul-bnrstings of the disappointed gamester, who is shamed to all the rest of houses togeth» Lndies of the first glass, of a certain order, but such is the strict deeo- impro« display his intense throms of suspense and agony Prices fox-{Advertising bd For ong square- of 20 lines or less, 50 cents for 1} - first, and 25 cents for every. subsequent insertion, f continued for less than three months.: For tht months, $3; for six months $5, Longer advertis monts in the same proportion, - _.; ;. . .~; , Yearly advertisers wilt be charged for one squar: |_ including the paper, $10, for two rquares, $15, witi - lthel privilege of renewing theiradvertisements qua 1 erly, . ce Business cards will be inserted gratuitously fo) yearly advertisers; for others, #3 a year. </ Legal advertisements will be inserted at the rater prescribed by law. Dols hei THOMAS JEFFERSON. Thomas Jefferson was born in Albemarle county within a | few miles of Moaticello,\ in Virginia, Aptil 2. 1748. \In 1760, be went to Wilom and Mary College; where he remained two years. He afterwards. gtudied low nt Williamsburg, undeg the charge of George Wytlic, - In 1769 he beenme a member of the state legislarure, In. May, 1769, ho wos a member of the llouse of Burgesses,-= He took his seat in Congress June 21, 1775, in the place of Peyton Randolph, who lind been reculled to the General Assembly. 'of Virginia. | In Jime, 1778, ho drew up tho immortal Decloration of In. ilependence . . Of the thirteen states all but one: voted for the measure. - Phe delegates from New York were in favor, but were restrained from vo- His brow would! discampose ; Ani yet with all his Jealous fear Hs never did propuse, in the presence of the luvely decayers. | The Pal- ais Royal contains four H a; the first of which is 154; and ranks next 10 Frascati, nfier which, in due degrading descension, are the spn- cious receptacles of Nos. 129-118, and last, and most horrible ofall, No.9 ; where, in truth, ' vice to be hated, needs but be seen.' Let the unfledg- ed novice, who is headstrong enough to expose himself to temptation, ** just to see the tables,\ if he will indulge his dangerons curiosity, first gn to No. 9, on a Sunday. ~If niter that ordeal he ever agnin exposes himself to the infecting atinos- phere of a maison de jen ; if afier the demoninc play of the passions, and unnatural deformity of the varying physiognomies he there witnesses, his curiosity is not stifled, why then he must be n ting . in consequence of former insiructions, In 1779, Mr. Jefleison was appointed - Govetnor- of Virginia, us successor to Patrick Henry. In 1784, he proposed the money system-the dollar as the unit, and the decimal divisions. In May 1784, he was ppointed, \ with Adums and Frank. lin, a minister to negotiate treaties of commerce with foreign nations, - While in Paris; lie prepar» ed \ Notes on Virginia.\ . He returned by his own request in 1781. . In the- same year, he was . mppointed by Washington Secratary of State.- He resigned in December, 1798. 'He was oppo- sed to the funding system, and other obnoxious measures of the Hamiltonian policy, and became the head of the republican party. - In 1798 he was chosen Vice President of the United States, and predestined gambler. My advice is, oever to | President in 1801. (In this office he continued cross the threshold al such places,but such advice | eight years. He then retired to Montigello, where is seldom taken ; 1 therefore repeat, if you must | he passed the remainder of his days, devoting his go to a gaming-house, if you-are determined to | lime to. the establishment 'of the University of beard the master~monster in his den, invert the Virginia at Charloitsvilie about four miles from nsual practice, and instead of starting at tif salon | his residence. - He died at the age of 88, July 4, Frascati, or 154, proceed at once to No. 9. and | 1828, nl 10 stclock, P. M., just fifty . years from® if you are not naturally depraved, you will there | the date of the Declaration of Independence.. .A§ begin and finish your coreer of curiosity. If, on | @ statesman, he left not his equal behind him. the contrary, you commence with the highest, you | Boston Post. «25 will corre down to the lowest, and after No. 9, I know of nothing lower in the spectacle of hinman degredation. 'This pandering administration to the lurking passions of mankind is organized as follows :-the farmer general of all the metropo- fitan houses of play, is Monsieur Berezet, Colo - nel of the Garde Nationale of Neuilly, within a mile of the capital, where the delightful; embosomed, - fimily chaieau of the King of the French is situated. Mr. Benezet, since the late revolution has been decornted with the cross of the Legion d'honneur, for lis loyalty to the new order of things ! _ Vader his direction, in due gra. dutfon, are placed, one inspector-generaly twelve inspectors, twenty secret inspectors, six chefs de parties in the grandes maisons, three chefs de pare ties for the rouletie-tables, twelve supplemeniary anpervisois, thirty eight doctore at trente thirty croupiers) eighty dealors a biribé and crois ten groom porters it Branch hazard,and ong Jins dred niwl forty gnreons da salles, Bosides the known offeiale onwnorated, thero ta n borde of at- tached epies, providers, pickers«gp, und hnngorgs on, pord for doing the \ dirty worl\ of the hou« ses, both in and out of doors. 'The home, Yank in life, presumed lortune, Jhnbitation, und habits of each gaming house guesl, is registered ; and, if they become regular customers; a subriquet, or nickname is given to each. By this meins the constant players are, in a certain degies, progcri- bed to the police, and let the British, who visit, or reside in Paris, remember that, in case of need such insertions are by no means \ lelters of re- commendation.\ 'The salaried satellites of the maisons de jeu, when they enter upon office, are peremptorily told that © it is their duty to regard every man who plays at the tables as an enemy,\ This article is already too long ; hereafter I may \ furnish you with some intensely Affroyantes anec- | dotes of the gambling-sepairs of tins most moral of all moral metropolises. A Looxsr-os, pected to accept ny money, goods, chaitels, or any thing wlintever, to influence his own, or any other person's vote. If guilty, his vate should be rejected ; so also should every drunken man be debarred. | 'Then, and not till then, will our elec- tions become, what they once were, the independ- ent, and unbiassed voice of freemen. It is to be feared, if reports speak true, that some of our pledged temperance men have been very indiscreet. If they, themselves have not doled out liquor to obtain votes, they have fur- nished the means, and encouraged those, who fresh from the dram-shops, have openly: and un- blushingly, marched to the polis, under the stand- ard of \ rum or no rum,\ raised by a number of Bacchantes ; and staggering, swaggering and yell- ing, they make a mock parade of putting in votes, which they had bartered away, at the expense of principle, of decency, and of sobriety. - Such conduct inflicts wounds on the moral sense of community, which years of contrition will not cicatrize. It is difficult to give a man credit for sincerity, who signs a temperance pledge, while he counte. nances the purchase or votes for rum ; encourages his partizans to bring inebriates to the poll ; con- tributes his money for that purpose; and even joins in the huzzas for success obtained by such unworthy incans, Let the good men of all parties unite in putting down these evils, und demoralizing practices ; we shall then witness, less idle citizens ; less in the poor-house; less asking alms; less forlorn mo- there ; less destitute children ; less ruined fathers ; less wretched families ; loss tenants of the prison house ; loss broils, and less murders. We shall witness more orderly eloctions ; mata good citi» zone; more happy futhore ; moro Joyous mothers ; more choerful children, and a more industrious, thriving, und contented population, C, L. LINDLISY & o, No, 105 State st. doc. CASH & BRIGGS, corner of State and Canal sts. D. L POWELL, comer of State and Forty sts. ORANGE & BAVIS, 104 Stateat BOOKS ¢ STATIONERY, H. B. STRYRER, No. 07 Stato street ROBERT MILLER-and Circulating Library» No. Th Stato-st, 100K BINDERS, DANIBL LAKE, No, 203 State street. WM. F. BOLLES, Now 76 Stato street, HARDIVARE, STOVES, &c. O. C. CLUTE & (o., Nn, 142 State street. ABM, A. VAN VORST, No. 61 State st, MERCHANT TaILORING. JON S. BONNY; No, 60 State atroet. J. B. & H. B. BONNY, No. 97 State street. WM. YAN VRANKEN, No. T2 State JOHN P. BECKLY, Colonnado Row, 126 State. CABINET WARE, A+ & Bs BROWN, No. 58 Stato st« PHYSICIANS g DRUGGISTS, Dr, ANDREW TRUAK, 117 State streot. Dr. O0. SQUIRE, Rotterdam. J, CHANDLER, Dentist, &e. corner of Fotry and “110!in Allt INSURANCE COMPANIES ARATOGA Mutunt Firo Insurance Company 8 Mallard Freeman, Agont, No, 16 Union stroot, BARATOGC A Mont Inswronce Company-Orea« mun Squire, Agont, Rousrdant MAKE-MEN'S Insurance Company-Poter Rowe, #olit ALBANY Insurance Company--J. Nu, 28 and 137 Sinto sto MERCHANTS Insurance Company, John I.] DeGeatt, agent. MISCELLANEOUS, J. J. FONDA,~-General Newspaper Agency, | and Cullucllné office, No. 19 SturgcpSuemf 7 D, W, VAN AERNAM, Hat, Capand Fur Store, 87 Stu at 0. G. CLUTE & C. F. HOAG, Plank Planeing, Machine and Plasies Mill, comer of Pine and Fonda strakis, VAN RPPS & VAN OLINDA, Boot and Shoe store, Colonnade, No, 118 State stroot, I. BGLTRAND, Piney store, 118 State strout, C, J. BWORTRIGUER, Doser in Clocks, Wate cles, Jawalry, Spumucle’s, Bilver Ware, &e. No. 91 State st f JOELN BRODERICK, Broker &o. 28: State street, IGNQY G, YATES, Feed and Flourstore, No 100 Staite at. JAMBS WISE~--Umbrellas and Parnsols repaired andaovered, corner of State and White sig. Daatot COOKE, No. 3 Notton st. Albany, Doctot V. B, LOCKROW, Old Clalun's Lock Dis- peosurys No. 6G, Beaver st, Albany. Dogiast BRANDRETE'S PLLLS, for Bertrand, No. MQ Staite st. FANCY STORE, BERTRAND, No. 119 Stato-strect, would in. « form the citizens of Schonectady; that He has Just received an extonsive assortment of Fancy Goods canalsting In {nu-Lot ladies drousing cases ; silver pon- alle; elvor thimblos; spy glasses; baitled ores; plaire and ragged coral neeklnces; straw und leather \ reti« gules; portfollon; silk and bead purses; mine nsear- astor's,. antique and, bears oll; Gillot's and ather atoal noow; compound shaving soup; violins, , accor« duote, flutes, Afus and Augeoteta,with\ Instructions for the sume; olatn and rafted bosoms , collars ; Wil lators Indelible [nly brughownndeombsof all des | 25% TONE SWBEDRS DAI urd in! auhuummuaarled altes, For eale wholesple whit retill by 0. C. CLUTE £00, Apl 1%. No. 149 State st. RA LL THE GAMING Houses in THE FRENCH METROPOLIS. R Hefify IV. and Louis XIV., the two most dis- tinguished monarchs of the Bourbon race, were the first patrons, and promoters of the baneful vice of gaming in France. - Their successors have not. failed regularly to follow their time-honoured example, In 1775 the celebrated lieatenaut of police; Sartines, authorized the maisins de jur, and gave them an administrative consistence, which they had not before. 'Po diminish the odium. of these hurrgble financial, wholesale man-traps, Sar- tines ordained that their profits. should be appro- priated to the foundation of hospitals ; a very pretty considerable proportion, however, of the virtuous products were always found missing ere they arrived at the destined goal of philan- thropy. \ 'Phe same ethical apology is still made use of under the most moral and domestic reign of our citizen majesty. | The first favourite game was called la belle, Select or selected portions of\ the beau sere had permission to preside at the 12 framing tables of Paris twice a week. The ban- kers gave these attractive sorceresses six louis at each sitting, and paid all other expenses. A third ay in the seven was annexed as a benefit forthe police, who, on that periodical occasion,ungallant- ly pocketed the six golden pieces of each of the presiding goddesses-gratis per restraint. | The prominent candidates for these posts of horror and profit. were found principally amongst battered baronesses, and ruined marchionesses, who peti- tioned for the distinctive preference of obtaining Lhnse'tripols, at which they enacted by subaltern deputies of the dear sex. to whan they allowed a fur share of the wages of iniquity, | 'The diree- trons of those repairs of vice and folly were most. ly the valets of grand seigneurs, having for their chief, a certain Gombnud, the cashier general,.- Amongst the privileged Circean Calypsus, de- serving of infernal immortality, me handed down to us the nomes of Madame de 'Thoveners, la ronne de Ganciert, and la Marquise de Simms Danbouvilte, The suceess of the thous sos\ led to the establishment of rival and ting receptacles, which the playory baptized by un appelintion discordant to curs polite; bu which Pmay ventaro to I6. out in French -Pen- fer; theso private pandemoninms wore kept by Madu nede Selle, rue Montmartre; In Compters Climpeiron. rue de Clery ; Madame ds Pontene- ille, mama-elm]. doe. &e. It was at the lust vamed that Surtines, incog., narrowly es- caped the blow of a poinard, in being recognised by a ruined gambler, - Crimes und distress of the direst desciption daily emanited from the houses of play, rill at length, io 1781, after the ruin of many families, suicides, and bankropts innumera- ble, they were temporarily proiubited ; not from compunction of the powers that were, nor from \deference to the deep, if not loud maledictions uf the public, but because the brother of a favorite inistress of at court, after ruining bun- self, and robbing a friend for one stake more, put an end to fis existence, by blowing out his brains if a gnmester can be supposed to have braims,be- fore all the assembled fortune-seekers at the ta- ble de jus of Madame de la Serre, place des Vie- toires. - The demon of gaming took refuge at the court, where bankers and well Cressed scoundrels carried on a very lucrative traffic, not uniler the rose, but almost under the nose of his most chris- tian inajesty, | The privileged fiotelsof the am- bassadors, where the police had no control, be- came also the sanctuin sanctorum of the vam- pyres of that period,. Not long after, the original Goulgothas were relicenced, aud the game called biribi bore off Ja belle, or rather, superseded the | game so ealled,and was the fashionabie road to ruin of that day, In '81, the multiphcation of domestic horrors, and public crimes, owing to those demon- dens, caused them to be denounced to parliament, which cited the redoubtable lieutenant of police, Sartines, to its bar, Aiter some sublime and moral exhibitions ot gesture and oratory, and in- dignant outpourings of declamation trom those members of the partiament who themselves kept privileged receptacles of gnming, it was decided thai the high court of peers should be convoked, to have the handling of the minor ruffians, who in contravention of the laws, carried on clandestine play. | 'Pho putricinn imoralists shortly ofier issus ed a dleevrao, aingtioned by ropalry, that the bunk» ers of annuthorised gaming houses stroold he ha- ble to the caream (pitlory;) and the fout, {flog. ging.) 'The licensed enfers now carried on their gol- den commerce in full security, but not entirely without comperition,in spite of the aforesaid pains and penalties, which were in several cases enfor- ced, and in pillory cases, branding with a hot wor was annexed ; a barbarous and demoralizing mode nf precluding the criminal ever again from enter- ing into the pale of honest snciety. - En passant, 1 may observe that in several instances, previous to the revolution of July, I have known,and once accidentally seen it practiced in the Place dn Pa~ lais de Justice. Strange to tell, the wreiched sut ferer, thus made an outcast from hope, homanity, and repentance, was the hired domestic of a di- rector of a public gaming-table. | He had robbed his master of some silver spoone, and was punish» ed by the pillory ; his inaster, who froin two o' clock in the afternoon, till iwo o'clock after mid. night, superintended an open system of public roubery, played the virtuous role of an indignant prosecutor. | Tire domestic thief was sent to the gallies of Toulon; the avenger of public murals went to preside, and haply still presides, at rou- lette, in the detestable regions of the Palais Roy- al. Amongst the convicted infractors of the laws of gaming, and without a police patent, several per- sone, of no nfean rank in society, were (shut op by lettres de cachet; one of the said bastilled vic, tims of oppression wae named Genlis, a gentle- man by birth, and a gaming-house,keepex: by the vicissitudes of fate. | 'Phe unlawlul contagion,no'- withstanding, still spread, and new establishments sprung up in the limits of the Palais Royal, under the titl s of clubs and salons, in consequence of which, a police ordonnance, of March 1785, inter- dicted play in sncieties, | In 1786, fresh disorders grew out of those hotbeds of immorality; and fresh prohibitory measures were applied, , In 1785. the licensed pandemoniwins of Paris produced to the police-in the Inst six months Of 1785, the sum of 47 761 francs, During the entire year of 1786 103,961 \# In 1787 108.980 © In 1788 86.714 ® Doring the first revolution they were frequent- ly and rigorously prosecuted ; however, they bra- ved the storm, R , From 1818, up to the present day, nine legali- zed maisons dejen have been, and still are, in con- stant activity, It is true that a sort of juste inil- feu compromise has been made with morality, by opening the lower dons at a later hour, and clos- Ho went abroad, and gained a name On India'a butning strand ; Then home he came, with wealth and fame, And nobly sought my hand. Ho whisper'd love-yes, as of yore, And call'd me his sweet rose ; 'Cause ho was poor he said before, He never did propose. We met again at eventide, When daw-drops sparkling shine ;- He ask'd nis then to be his bride, And say, could I decline ? No-L was born to be his fate- His own-till lifs shall close ; Ete worth and talent made him great Henover did propose ! Ebe Vows of $Wen. T. IL. BAYLEY, Write on the safid when the tide is low, Seek the spot when the waters flow ; Whisper a name when the storm is heard; Panse, that echo may catch the word t If what you wrote on the sand should last, If ocho is heard mid the tempest's blast; Then bolieve, and not tll then, Thore is truth in the vows of ment UsEuessnEss or Armor.-Philip de Comines has recorded that at the battle of Fournoue, under Charles the Eighth, a number of Italian knights, who were overthrown and unable to Tise on: ac- count ofthe weight of their armor, could not be killed until they were broken up like huge Job. sters, with woodentters' axes, by the servafits and followers of the army, which fully justified the obs servation 'of James the First who speaking in praise of nrmor, suid that it not only protected the wemer, but prevented him from doing any in« Jury to others.\ - In fact, we find in severel bat Hles about the time referred to that not: single knight. was slain. An anecdote in puint is also related of Goorge the Fouith. After the brittle of Waterloo, it was proposed to make some change In the-dress of the Life Guards,. The King or- «dered one of the enldiers tn be sent for, who 'had ° groully distinguished himself, and was maid to hava alnin Six or sevyon Frouch OCuirtesiors In a single combats | Ho wis osked a vailety of (Ilunt'lullam. to each of which'he nasonted, until tholging. per- eciviog that his opinion was binssed by the prog. ence Of ropalty ant} his own officers, said to him, * Well,. if you were going to have such another day's work as you hud at Waterloo, how would you like to be dressed ?\ 'Please your Majesty, \\ he replied, * in that case I 'had rather be iu my shirt sleeves.\-Engines of Wary by Willtinson, FUTUREMCONTINENL—A writer in one of the Foreign Encyclopedias, cal- culates that if the natural rescources ofthe Amer. ican continent were fully developed, it would: - afford sustenance to 8600 millions af inhabitants, a number five times as great as the entire popue hymn of the globe. 'This writer,'afier advaccing this proposition, goes on as follows s > 5 And what is more surprising, there 1s every probability that this prodigious population will be in existence within three or four centuries. - The imagination is lost in contemplating a state of things which will make eo. great and rund a change hir the condition of the world. . We ahnost fancy it / as a dream, and yet the rekult is placed on principles quite as certain as those which gove arn the conduct of men in their ardinany pursuits, Nearly all soctal improvements spring from. the reciprocal influence of 'oundensed numbers .and diffused intelligence, - What will then be the state of society in America two centuries hence, when a thousand or two thousand millions of civilized men are crowded into a space comparatively. ao narrow, and speaking only two lan uages, as will doubtless bethe case ? History shows that wealth power, science,. ferature, all follow in the train of numbers, generally intelligence and freedom,-- The same-causes which transferred the sceptre of ciethzation and the weight of influence from the banks of the Euphrates and tle Nile to Western Europe, must, in the course: of no: long period, carry them from the-latter to the plains of the Mississipni, and the Amazon, ' What a picture is and who will dare to skeich-of the nent 7 Throw a rose on the stream at morn, Watch at ove for the fluwer's return'; Drop in the ocean a guldengruin, Hopo 'will shing on the ghore again : If the rose you again beliold, If you gore on your grain of gold, Then believo, ind not till then, Thore is truth in the vows of men, w ‘ Por the Reflector, A No. V. Strolling sovarat aveninge since, nlong the out« shirts of this city, my attention was attracted by the cries of a litle girl, hurryhig atong the street. I enquired the cause of her griet'; she replied, \1 can't find father.\ On further conversation with here 1 learned that she bad been sent by her mo- ther in search of him; be having té(t home the forepart of the day, for the ostensible purpose of buying a loaf of bread for the family. - As I found the artless child quite communicative ; I interro- gated her more particularly about the family ; and | walking along with her, I gathered from her story that she had several little brothers and sisters at home; one of whom, was very sick: that they had a scanty breakfast; ond were out of bread. | Her futher promised to procure a loaf for dinuer, fromr the baker ; but the family having waited for him; in vain till almost night, she was commis- sloned to find him, but was returning from her fruitless search, when I came up with her. In- ving accompanied. her home, and being so much interested: in the sccount she gave me of her fa- mily, I ventured to go in. On entering, L found the mother nursing a child about three months old, and at the same time attending on a sick boy about four years old. | It was rather dark, and the | mother mistaking me for her husband, exciaimed, «Oh, how could you etay so long; we are all half-starved, ahd the poor hoy, you know, is so very sick; he has been calling for father all day ; but hand me the bread.\ 'The little gid now in- terrupted her, saying, this is not father, for I [could not find him.\ 'The mother, perceiving her mistake; and disappointed in her expectations, sunk back into hor chnir, unable to restrain her fealings; aho covered her fiea with her npron, and buret into a flood of tears. By this time a light was procured, and- found myself in a small room, containing a bed) a table, ind a few old clinirs. I saw nothing having the nppentance of comfort, or any food, save & crust of bread, at soak in a dish, which was reserved for the sick boy. The children were regred and squalid, and the whole presented a sad picture indeed. Now what was to be done? I had volunteered my presence, and could not re- traat, - So T mado my apology for intruding, al- leging, that I was fearful so small a child would meet with some necident, alone in the dark. I was thus proceeding, when all of a sudden, in bounced tha husband ; the children - scampered away like affrighted quails, while the father floun« dering, hiccupping, aud upsetting two or three | chairs, made for the bed, and fell thereon, like a log. He had returned from the charter elaction, where he was ao liberally treated for his vote, he was mada beastly drunk. 'There he lay senseless; here was his heart-stricken wife, nursing a black» eyed urchin, unconscious of the anguish of its mother :-there was a poor sick boy, restleas and uneasy ; and here were others, begging for some. thing to eat. - Reader, what was to be done ? feed tham, say you ; well, to relieve your anxiety, they did not go:to bed supperiess, tlnt night, for the little rogues had been keoping lent so long, that the most rigid disciple of St. Peter at Rome, | would have readily granted thein an indulgence, and proclaimed a feast on that occasion, On returning to my lodgings, I found my friend | Josoph, anxiously waiting for my arrival ; he lis- tened: with great interest at the recital of that evening's adventure, and, made the following com» ments. Lam, you well know, not quite a fee-to. taller yet; but such a scene would go far to muke we ong. - If the candidates were made sensible of | the sorrow and misery they inflicted, they would hesitate long, before they sanctioned the practice of treating at elections.. | 'Po bribery in this odious form, is added, the cruelty of robbing the helpless | child of food; of breaking a wife and mother's heart ; and of hurrying to a premature grave a husband and father! 'The custom of dealing out money, and ardent apirite, to purchase votes, has Broderick, agt LOUISE, My guardian was fond of company, and seldom a month passed without finding some agreeable sojourner at our house, and this taste of his was so exceedingly in unison with the disposition of his excellent wife, that between them both I saw more noble and elegant men and delightful women there than I met abroad. Home was always the very pleasantest place in the world for all of.ne.- Among our visitérs was once a young creature, a favorite with every body. Tlie old lady was per- fectly fascinated with her, and could not therefore blame her husband for sometimes expressing his own admiration,. Louise was only sixteen. My guardian wos fitty, and be was in truth famously tond of pinching her full Hebe checks, and I ro- collect one afternoon he presented her with such a hearty smack on her lips, that I came to the con- clusion that he know what was what as well as most people,. - She was beautiful. Indeed, I used to look on her as a curiosity, and in faith she wasa pretty little wonder. Iwas fourteen, and she could see over my hend. I should as soon have thought of making love to the evening star, be- sides (an awkward discovery to love at first sight) she was already engaged to be married, I percei« ved it in a short time without the aid of a conjurbr, My. Frank Berkley did not come fixed upso finely for nothing. Leave boys alone. They are de- vils for finding out such things. Well, I was glad of it. Frank was a noble fellow, - Nuture and fortune buth smiled on him. Many a ball, many a pair of skaits, many a ride on horseback, and other kinduesses I had owed to him. 1 was glad of his happiness and of hers, for she was hap- py-irrepressibly and perpetually so. - 'There was no cessation to her spirits, - She could not sit still five minutes at a time to gave one of her perfect set of teeth. - She never walked. Sho danced and darted every where liko a bird. I once dared her to lool: agrious with ma far n minute, by the watch. - | was just old enough to into the full heauty of her fico as she protendec to compagn her fonturcs, pressed her lips together with furced ! gravity; and Hifed those superb bl uo ayes directly | to tine. | She stoud it for three secomis like n statue, when the mouth fand eyes betrayed the lurking joy, and we laughed together for nothing under heaven but because we were the two hap- piest creatures it shone on. One week from that day she was struck blind. A sudden disease, unskilfully managed by the physicians, fell into ker eyes, and quenched their light forever. She bore the awinl calamity with patience ; and the wonderful gentleness and firm benuty of cliaracter which it disclosed, touched every bosom with the tenderest Sympathy and compassion, _ Yet no one ever after siw the slightest trace of that exuberant spirit which had before made her the charin of the house. She would smile sometimes, but it was a smile that used to bring tears into my eyes, | Her vigorous health, too, had departed; bat her beauty, if possible, was yet more striking. She abandoned every thing like ornament. Her rich soft hair was parted meekly upon her forehead, and her garments were marked by the chastest ty ; but her endearing helplessness, the low tones of her plaintive voice, the subdued sadness of her pale sweet face; und the right of those once ra- dinnt and Imughing eyes, now forever closed and dark, affected me with deeper teelings of commis- eration, respect, and love than I ever experienced for any other, | She firmly refused the nddresses of Frank Berkley, and retired to the house of her pments, some distance in the country. - Frank turned put a dissipated worthless tellow, partly from his inherent wildness, but principally, it was allowed by all, from keen anguish and disappoint» ment in this unhappy girl. Although no murmurs ever escaped herdips, and indeed superffciai. ob» servers deeined her quite reconciled to her lot, softened us it was by every thing that affection and affluence could invent or purchase; her health gradually failed. | She grew thin and silent, Even the flowers which her sisters used to bring ber were received with apathy and neglected. ~ She went no more to the window in the summer morn- ings, to breathe the scented air. Stic turned away from the book, which some beloved and lo- ving voice was ever ready to read to her; and even music, of which she had been passionately fond, seemed to falt on her ear as if she were in- deed a marble statue, which in appearance she so closely resembled. One evening, contrary to her usual wont, she suffered her young sister, a bright, light-hearted,. amiable giri, and just such a creature as she herealf had been, to read aloud Tus Drar Anp Dumm.-We have received the send annual report of the Director® of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, to the Legislature of the State of New York, for the year 1840. The number of pupils returned to the last Lo- » gislarure was one hundred and sixty-nine. Du- ring the year thirty five have been admitted, ond fily-two have left, - The whole number remainin in the Institution; embraced in the catalogue of the present year, is one hundied and fifty-two. The recepts froin the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December eighteen hundred and forty, inclusive, amount to thirty-one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-eight cents, and the drafts upon «the treasury for the same period, to twenty-five thousand one hun- dred and eighteen dollars and sixty-four cents- leaving a balance in the treasury of six thousand fifty-one dollars and sixty-four cents. Pupils are ® provided for' by the institution cloth» ing and travelling expenses excepted, at the raie of $130 each per annum, is required semi-annually in advance. | Phe selection of pupila to be supported at the public expenge, is nde hy the Secretary of State at Albong, to whow nil communications on the subject must be addressed, Sintionary and necessary achuol boolks,ato fur» nished by the lnstitution und no charge is made in ease of sickness for medical attentiance, medicines, or ather necessury provisions. The report paysa well- merited compliment to Dr. Hawes, of No. 8 Park place, whose gratui- lous operations upon the teeth, are said to have given great relief to many of the pupils. -N. ¥. Times. sale. by J, presented to us in the above, say that it is not an . future destiny of this great conti« 4 Thomag-thero » Where, Pat\ #I moan there is too much noise-you must stop i1. @ Is a noise a bustle; Pa 1\ Yes, child.\ j \* Golly gracious !-then sister Sally does wear 218 biggest noise you ever saw, Pa.\-Rickmond tar. ( WrurEnisi.-®*I shull drop the subject}; as the doctor said when he was caught robbing a grave. - is too much bustle here !\ Mobawic and Hudson Rail Road SPRING ARKL&ANGEMENT, ONflml after April Int nndJlntlI‘fun-tlwx notice, ' tho dopartures on this road will ba as follows, To Coreee Drtnxe®rs. -The imposition prac- ticed in the munufac:uring of ground coftee is lit» tle known to the consumers of this article, and for their benefit we give the following informa- tion which we hope will prove beneficial-to them. It is from the Phil. Ledger : We advise families | to burn their own coffee ; just as the \ Man of Nerve,\ so funnily repre- seated by -Power, advises his hostess to lay her own eggs,. Coffee rousters, who sell coffee al- ready prepared for boiling, are found in all the greut cities; and according to New York papers, those of Gotham cut some queer cupers. As we are far in advance of Gotham in banking, for Go- tham sticks t0 the old practice of paying on de- mand, who knows but we may be in advance o! her in coffee roasting! If we do bearthem in that, we really do a tall business; and we there- tore advise our coffe drinkers to louk out, lest they be compelied, when they least expect ity to cast up thir accounts. In Gotham the roasters buy up ail the damaged coffee, mix it with two or three hundred per cent. of pers, beans, baked potatoes, and othor proxies, roost and grind the compound, and sell it for old Java, best: Brazil, prime St. Domingo, and even Mocha, - In all cof- fee countries, the refuse, consisting of what is broken by the hulling mills, or what is defective in growth, eaten by insects, or otherwise dama- ged, is separated frum the merchantable qualities, and solo under the name of triage. | 'Phis trash, whenever brought into our ports, is bought by the coffee roosters. Besides this, they buy all the cuffve damaged by salt water or otherwise. - Let cuflee drinkers imagine what prime Mocha: they have from Brazil triage, damaged Havana, peas, beans, and dried potuioes. Buy your own coffee and roast it at hone. Besides, coffee is best when made immediately alter roosting. A great many anecdotes are related of personal bravery, | We should like-to see that man who would deliberately allow a wonian to- catch him ~. making mouths at her ehild. vik FROM ALBANY, Atp o'slook: A. M. tor Uticw 223i do «M. - Surntogay P.M. do. BOM At 6 o'clock A, M. , 9 - do- do aron arrival from Saratoga. do _ P. M. _ do Utica. All baggage received at Albany, and not accompa- nfed by tha owner, must bo marked distinctly for its lace: of destination, and deposited by the persons have {nuflchnr a theroof In the. wagon: designated for that route. Passongors are requested. to- attend personally ml the: recelpt and delwory oftheir baggage to provent miataliogs 'The Coaches, Baggage Wagons, and Freight C irs to and fem: Ballaton mnd Satntogay aro run thro igh without change or detention:at ® chonectady, - All buggago positivaly at the risk of the owner mertob JOUR GOSTIGAN, Supt. Utica and Schenectady Railroad., APRIL Ist, 1641,.--On0 Daily Line cach way, A Cn‘ra'lleiufla at (l) g’tilac‘fc Jl'liMl‘) sccond dilly and aight imo wily be run; as mafia the Mail 13on Otk th’é Eludson: River run n Day Ling. Wr- This road Is sparated in: copnoction with the gn tror‘ad‘ lines to Albany, Syracuso, Auburn and urbtoga. No gimme for homage] out boing accompanlad by‘ Vt 4G Arrectionatk.-®My dear, you are not the women I took you to be,\ , \Bul my dear, you are the man I took you to be. Go and nurse that child this minutey or I'll P uppine.-Take eight ounces of boiled. potatoes, 1wo ounces of butter, the yolks and whites of two ege a quarter of a pint. of cream, one spaonful of white wine, a little sult, the juice ond rind of froth; and sugar to taste. We learn from the National: Rigis; that the selectmen of Worcester have resolved officially, that the public: good does not require spirituous liquors to be sold in that town. | Thisis awise and - we doubt not a logical conclusion. We hope it will not be long before the city muthorities here come to a similar result.-Mer. Jour. a lemon; beat all to Brazilian Introduction. -The warmest mane ner in which one Brazilian can introduce another to a family is: ©'DPhis is my friend, {f he sfeals any thing I um accountable for it,\ A great fire occuried at Dundeo in December last. The venerable Cathedral which weathered the storm of T00 years, and two of the other churchoe, were entirely consumed. Server Bern.-The proportions are ten goll ~- ons of water, three quarts of molasses, a tea enp - full of ginger, the same of allapice, tliree ounceg ~ of hops, three ounces and half 'of -the essence of spruce, and a half a pint of good yeast, 'The hops,. ~ ginger and allépice must be boiled together till the ~ hops fall to the bottom, the molasses and spruce are then to be dissolved in a- bucket full of the I;. quor, the whole strained into acask, and the yeast well- stirred | in; when the fermentation ceases the cask is to be bunged up. and none carried with« # owner, M. C, YOUNG, Supertutandent and Engineer Bchonectada, and Suratoga Railroad. On Ist April, and until farthor notice, Cars will feavo, daily, as follows From Suratoga at ? o'clock A., M. it - Buhonestady at 4 o'ctock P. M. Stagos: fn connootion: with the rail road leave Sa- WK nhslvrkngswdnlly, for Gton's Falls, Sandy Hill, tohail; doo. CC. N\ G. - Proight forwarded: with dispatch, 16 L. R: SARC NT, Supt, The branch bank of the State of Georgia, loca- ted at Macon, failed on the 25th ult., on a demand made for ©1500 only. By the failure of this branch it is feared that the parent at Savaunah, must also go. | Exchange on New York at Macon was as high as 17 percent premium,
