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m ”1 * Prices for Advertising. _ For one squaic-of 20 Tires or less, 5U cents forthe first, and 25 vents for every subsequent insertion; Jf contiuned. for Jess than three months, . For 'three ° months, $37 for six anonths #5. . Longer advertises. ments in the same proportion. ..' \ it Yearly advertisers will be: charged for one square; including the paper, $10) for two rquares, §15, with the privfiege of renewing their advertisements quar- terly, ; . . pule Business cords will be inserted gratumously for yearly advertisers; for others, $8 a year. ik Legnl advertisements will be myerted at the prescribed by law, - Sled WIIR REFLRGTOR Is pnblislied on Friday Morminga, ut No. 110 State- abreet, (second J | - A: trv deore wost of the Ununt ABRAHAM &A KEYSEI, Proprietor, D. C Same ant A, A. Revsen, Writnme=To subsectors Or the city, 'I'wo Dollars a your, payable sombannuatly, \Fo gubserifers our of tho city, Two Dollars a year, it pant within stk months from: the commence» mont of the subscription year; othorwige 'I' wo Dots tury and twonly Ave conc will bo charged. SBubscrfprions for less than a your; In nlvance. hos 1 comers un at irom n nemen men ooo mene o oom anv aun one vyOL. VIL] FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1841. mones mres: r \[NO. 26, moradcmnint oo it \ sone : irprmee BUSINESS Drthorouy. -_- 4TPoryays g counsunnons,. ABRAHAM VAN INCLN & JAMES B. YAN VOULST, No. 4 Washington Hall, State St. JAMBS FULLER, No. 130 Stato st. SAMEY M. BOUCK, No, 160 Stato st. RL&ATC BOTTEL, No.7 Untoncst, COCHRLAN & RATHBUN, No. 110 State at. DAVID: GADY SMITEL, No, 30 Sate at. .o on stmt DRY @oons. WM, CUNNINGHAM, No. 93 State st, - SIDNEY B. POTTER, No. 43. State st. C, Li LINDLEY & Go., No 105 State st. CROGRRIRS, drc, CASE & BRIGGS, comer of State and Canalsis. D. LL POWELL, comer of State and Forry sts. ORANE & DAVIS; 181 State st. 4OO0KS q TX, B. BTRYCEN, No, 97 Stato stroot. . ROBBIE MILLER-and Circulating Zibrary- Nou TL Statost. HARDWARE, STOVES, &c. 0, 6. OLUTE &Uo., No. 112 Stato street, ABM. A VAN VORST, No. 61 State st. + BMITEH & OASH, 182 Stato Stroct, JOHN S. BONNY, No. 60 State street. J. B. & M. B. BONNY, No. 074 Statestreets WM. VAN VRANKEN, No, 83 Stute street. JOHN P. BECKLY, Colonnade Row, 126 State. MURBHY & BATTLE, 89 State street, CABINBD Wark, Bi & B. BROWN, No. 68 Stato st. I’IIYSIGIANSJY- Dbavagists, Dr. ANDREW TRUAK, 117 Stato street, Br, 0. SQUIRE, Itotterdam. J. GHANDLER, Dontist, &c. corner of Forry and Liburly 58, INSURAN CB COMPANIES, mosene Mutual funarance rene nit Squire, Agont, Retierdaina Insurnneo CGompany-Poter Rowe, Agout, VALN RAEgAETS. BY RDWwant citron, Would I could fre! ns Lonee felt, Whou, frosh in heart and pare in mind. I buokfod on my bayish belt, And froli¢hed frovly us the wind , Thad no arre to cloud my brow, Nor grief my litte heart to molt; How altorud nre my feelings now- L cannot fuel as once I folt 1 Would I could dream as once I dreamed, When, like n glory from above, Around my dawning heart there beamod The bosom: bliss of youth-first love t When: Hope grow bold within my breast, And fancy with gay visions teemeod :- Abd flad'are all thoso moments. blest- I cunnot dream as once I dreamed } Would'E could think, as once I thought,, This wide and beautful greon: carth A paradiso of Joy, whore naught But pure and holy things had birth; Whore avery seono with perce and trutly And frlendehip firm, and love was fraught: Alit quickly undecaived ft youth- Tcannot thiuk as once T thought! + I cannot fool, or droum or thinly As L was wont in days long past; ._ Andias the awfal brink O'or which we cuch must lean at last, 1 think that all will soon: be orer, And give the world a parting sigh; E feel its shows can cheat no. more, Aud. drsum of foys that canmot die ! THE BANKRUE'T. Bass: Why dost tho whet thy knifo so earnestly ? Shy. To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt. ° Merchant of Venice. It was .ott the fifteenth of May,a day well known 'in the mercantile world, that Afr. Pernon, a man upproaching the wintor of life, retiring from the society of his wife and daughtor, shut himself up 'in his cabinet, nnd desired to be left undisturbed, For a time hoe gave himself up to the most dis- trosging reftections, for a succession of adverse cir- cumstances had brought him to a state of insolven- oy, und hiis namo, probably, miglit in a few days be Joined to that of bankrupt. | Hope, however, did not desort him, and ho began to consider arranga» monts which might be effected, and open ngain to him the: way of fortuno, - His bills might still bo nogotinted ; his vessels still travoreo tho seas, and roturh to port safo and prosperous. - From this re- varie ho was rousod by a high toned voico, und all ALBANY Insurance Company-J, Brodoriek, ag't Nu. Shand 187 State Ht. MBRCELANTS Insurmnes Company, | John I, DeGralt, agent. u h vin stv erim dUSCHLLANEKOUS, anes WM, F. BOLLES;, Bookbinder, No. 7G State. V. SAMTE, Surgoon Dentist; 91 State, J. J, FONDA,-Gonerat Nawspoper Agency, and Collecting D. W, VAN IAtG #L, C. G. oLUTB Machine and B78 ofllee, No, 19 State Street, AERNAM;, Unt, Capand Fur Store, & C. F. HOAG, Plank Plancing. Plaster Milly Fonda strazts, VAN GPPS & VAN OLINDA, Root and Shoe store, No, HS State street, Tr BERTRAND; Funey store, 112 Stato street Ch /. «alien. Joawolry, | Dealer in Clocks, Wat« Bpostaatus, Silver Ware, &. No. Stite St JOHN BRODERICK, Urokow &a 90 State street, | HENRY G. YATES, Feed and Wlome store, No 150 Stata st. JAMES WGH-Umbrellas nad Parnsols repaired ant corner of State and White sts. Bactot GOORKE, No. 3 Norton st. Albany. BDostor ¥. D. Old Clalon's Look Dis» pensury; No. 6G Beaver st Albany Dostor BEANDRETECS PILLS, for sale by J, Bextrand, Nos MQ State st, fore exo e a cp eno noes este ne t cn a avunrim NHBWSPAPLER AND COLLBcting VEHE subscribor has beon appolate® AGENT far tho nmorous which will by popular journals of the day, revolved by the anrliont conveynnees. Thoy teo conthatally on hand or ordered, and do- liverad: In slugle numbers or waekly nt the Towest cuslt prices, slrgoly #p by [ammo Ii soltoitad, ibseriptions regelved at No, 19 State * o AMES J. TOND A. Whose having Accousers to collect can have them: on favorable torms hy. applying as rum?) + March 19, 1841, p NiONS.- 16 quality, for eto by Suttonectady; March 10; 1841. ) [Milli-“T: Onion; af s‘upérior CASH & BRIGGS, corner of Canal and Stato utrcoiul. and Hudson Hail Road, SPRING ARRANGEMENT, mt aftoe April 18¢h,and untif:further notice, Nan 0 the departures ort this road: will bo- as: follows, ¥ lk t PIOMLOCIRNECTa DY, A03! olslook A, M. P b AtTkoclook It do 51“; do - P; M\, do. do oton attlval from do P.M. do Utica, BIEOME ALDANT, Au M dor Urie: > Saratoga, Utica. «M. 'do. All baggage rocolvad at Albany, and not necompna» nlad by the owner, must be rlagy of dosttintfon lug charge thoroof I soutd. murked distinetly for Its and deposited by the porions have n tho wagon dosignmied for that are requoatad to attond: personally «to: the ocolpt and: dottwary of thoir baggage to provent Iataleuns m The t(Al’Jozwlum Baggage Wagoos, sto rnd front Ball and Profght C irs atomaind Saritogy aro run through withoutchomge or dotention at Rehionectady. tkhgflh 14 “an“ and Schonectady Railroad. APIRIL Ist I844.-=Qna Dally Ldnoench way, Allbaggage posltively nt tho risk of the owner JOHN GOSTIGAN, Supt. ver seemnc Cure leave ut 0: o'clock A. M. ¥ip A second daily and night Hno will bo rum; to soom aw tho Mail Bouts on the Hudson: River run a Day Lbng, . , liar This toad In oporated frr connaction with tho Rull road Hnos to Albany, Syracuso, &uburn and dutatogit No charge for baggage; anc none carried with» aut bomg accompanied is)\ ‘m ownor, NM. C. YOUNG, | Auporintendont and Rngineer Holyencctadn, und Huaurntoga Railroad. Oi tat April, and antl Furthor noteo, Care will Teave, dally; as followa ; - . ' Fm“ Saratoga at 7 o'clock A. M. (0 Sghonactady at fr o'clock A. M. s¢ dos n 944 PM Stages. In connoction with the raft road leave Sa- alogty Spdrige, dally, for Glon's Euils, Sandy HHH, Whituhnll; &o. to. + his vistona of renewed crodit, and prosperity va- nished ut the sound. * L tell you ho lo at home ; I know ha is and I must sea him, therefore announce ms, or 1 will .onter without introduction,\ | Phe frightened do- moestl¢ opened the door with a trembling hand, and rundilng tho card given him, annouticed © Mr. Vor. niond. Mr, Pernon was seated with his back to the door, and thotafore did not see his unceremonious visitor; hg rose, however, from his chair, his blgod feeling chilled ; but he seemed to want the power of turning his head, and Mr. Vermond was obli- ged to make the half cireuit of the table in order [to face lis debror. < This porson To corer of Pine aud F Pornon that he dured not raise his eyes towards him, had none of the harslr features of a creditor. Ho was not more than twonty-six years of age, tall, well made, and with a face: that would have 'been deemed handsome when free from the ox- | pression: it now boro, of contempt, hatred, und re- vouge. - Ho was dresaod in mourning, but with so much ologaneo that if might lve been supposed ho, had gome ofr a visit of ceremony to the white man who stood: before him. - Whon Mr. Pernon did ut longth glance furtively ut the young man; ho saw at once that no hopo rommined for him with this infurtated greditor, and that ho was doomed to nt Interview which ho would have given more than. a wifle to avo d. ls placed a chair wembling incvery Joint, and the young nian throw himeo'f into it. . © 80,\ said he, after an interval of silence, * you have not honored your bills I' *+ no !' faltered out the old man, * but-in- deed-on my houor, Sir---* ©Yes, yos; oaths aro fine things,\ said the young iman, steruly intorrupting Peron. t Ah, abr! T know that the day of vengernce would arrive, though Edi not think it would come 80. 8000.\ < Revenge !' said Pernon, trombling at the word, + Oh Sirl can you-so young, so rich, so fortu» wite, talk of vengeance to an old man, whom the chances of commerce have made your dobtor ? +1 thank the chances? said Vormond, clench» ing hig tecth. «Bight days since,\ continued the merchant, (I thought mysoff a rich man. (Phe sea had not awallowed a portion of my wealth, nor had my confidence beon abused ; at loast L knew not that [ bud trusted fn tho unworthy. I was ignorant that that paper bad fallen into your hands, ond 1 night have been informed of it without boing thus touhlud.! + Yog,\ anid tho young man; his anger appearitig to Incranso- as ho surveyed the apartment. _+ Yes,\ your paper is in my hands, for this is not the only ;bilt I hold of yours. 'This, as you know, falls dug to-day, but I havo others, one for the last of this month, and two to be taken up in the next : anonlh. In fact, I am the bankrupt's greatest cre- itor.\ At the word bankrupt, Pernon raised his eyes, which kindled in a moment, to his visitor ; but the flash passed away, lis hoad dropped, and he sigh» ed heavily as ho observed, © Few persons, porhups, will pity my mistortung, but no one will doubt my honor or my probity. & , |__ Tho probity ond honor of a bankrupt,' said Vermond with a sneer, ' Happily for moy' said the old merchant; my probity rs well known, my transactions havo been public'ry' made; tho expenses of my house have beou moderato; iny books have been regularly kept and--' *It is: falso,' cried the young man, rudely in- torrupting iim, +some of your dealings hive been ' transacted in open day the botter to conceal those 'of a rather mysterious nature. Your affecting economy in your houso has been a species of hy- to Invite confidence, and your regular Look-keeping a sort of knavish precaution. air' exclaimed the old man, as he sunk | back on his sout- , . +Abh havo L touched you}? said Vermond, ri- sing, your hoart smites you, doos it not ? Well, then, romamber your own words some 10 years ago; 1 was then a boy, and my poor father was in sumilar clreumstances to what nre now your own. You wont to him as I now come to you ; he ox- plained his affairs to you; showed you his hooks and humbled himsolf before you, entreating you to boe murcifal, and requiring only a little time. But you sin tot the. abject porson you appear to-day, auswered. him, in a high tone, and in language far | more harsh than that I have addressed to you.- Your sareasms on a bankrupt wore bitter and un- | charitable; and not coutont with your own cruel- ty you instignted the other creditors to refuse ail arrangeinents, and we drunk the cup of mitory to ite droge, - Do you remember the implacability of your hatred ? I, young us I was, did not escape your unkindness. | One day, in the midst of our distress, my mother took mo by the hand, and led ma to your house-to this house, even into this freight vith dispatch, reight funvrflr‘dcl'il' 13514}! i ij‘lNT, Supt. very room; L romember it well, . find bitter words-tmpour torthy There is the sume lurge chest; the sume book- caso. My mother threw herself at your feet, Sho praped in tears; *If there be some secret cause for your prosecution of my lmusband,' said she, 'a least have pity on my toy, my poot Charles. Do not deprive us of everything I conjure you ; fallow us the means to continue his education' +And I recollect,\ continued the young man, still more ir- ritated by the faithfuiness or his memory; * that, as a boy thinking no harm, I took a book from the bookease-J see. the saine book atill thero-und opened it, holding it towards you in support of my dear mother's pleadingy and joined her in begging that I might have an education. And you, sir, anatched the book from my hand, saying, Cicero -the son of a bankrupt has no need of Cigero,' * You gave orders that we should be driven from your house, and you succeeded in preventing me,' continued Vermond, as he again took the book from its depository, and looking into it, dashed it on the ground, t my education never has been com- pleted ; I cannot read Cicero, I quitted France to seek my fortune among strangers, and you, air, were a fortunate and happy man ; ou the day that you were so unpitylig to us, a daughter was horn to you. \Phere are characters that are hardened by good fortune. - From that momont I lived but for one end; and you know whether 1 have succeeded. It is long since we have liquidated our debts to you. But the wealth which I was fortunate enough to procure, and the re-establishment of my father in his former respectability were not sufficient. - What had now happened could alone satisfy me. Yes, Teonfess that I have watched you with the eye of a falcon. - Itis now my turn, and you have neither favor hor pity to expect from me. - L will blind you to tlie stake as you once bound my th- ther P + My poor wife' sobbed forth the merchant, + my dear child, my sweet Cecile-Oh, Cecile, my child 1 * When my mother was on ker knees before you her child found no mercy at your hands! **I shall die? ened Pernun, +I cannot bear the shame and humiliation prepared for me.' + My father said so to you, but you replied, that knaves und cowards knew not how to die,' - While the old man was wringing his Lands in agony, his young daughter appeared, who was evi- dently, ignoraut or hor father's embarrassments. She had entered smiling, with her arms raised; as if intending to place her pretty hands on the old man's cyes, leaving him to guess who had surpris ed him. Ashamed of appeoring thus before a stranger, she paused and blushed. | It might havo heen supposed that ghe would fave instantly with- drawn, but whether through astonishment, or fear of being reproved by her fathor, whom sho ox- pected to find nlone, she continued for a few se« conds motionless und confused, while the ayes of the young man wore rivetted upon hor. - But find. ing her Inther continued unconscious of fer pre- sonee, she smiled again, and patting one preity finger on her rosy mouth, to enjoin silence to Vermond, she stole silently out of the room, clos- ing the door gently after her. - A spirit from hen» ven ; an nugel with blue eyes and fair hair, had appeared 'to soften the anger of the merciless creditor and open his heart to new and kindlier sensations. . His hatred seemed to depart, and his desire of vengeance satisfied. In vain he tried to resume his invectiveness ; he could no Jopger on the hipless mer- chant; and he remained gazing on the. door whence the vision had departed, half expecting to see nguin the sylph-like figore and sweet counto- nance which had smiled on him so invocently,- He passed his hand over his brow, as though to amooth its contracted expression ; he then mised the unfortunate Cicero from the ground, and re- pluced it in the book ease. When he had done this he reseated himselfoppositq Penon; und look» ed at the unfortunate man, but it was no longer with the eyo of disduin or threatening. + Bit! enid the old man, not nware of tho pow- erful auxiliary which had been sent him, + hatred and vengeance are bad passions, and nre not no- twrul at your ago. | Believe me, I have long re- pented the conduct wherewith you have loug ro- proached ime; and do you not think that your fa. ther has forgiven me. Could his voice now be heard he would sry that you were not honoring his memory by imitating the harshness of my pro. ceedings, | Tt is true that I punished Mr. Vermond, in extending my unkindness even to his child, but I knew not then how dear a child might become, for ny child had scarce entered the world. But now I tremble for my dear Cecile! the honor of her father is in your hands. Ah! sir, have pity on her !' * +Sin' said Charles Vermond, rising, and half inclined to bow before 'his debtor, ® you will, por- haps find friends,\ and with a mingled sensation of self-blame, and newly awakened emotion, he ap> proached the door, not knowing what else to say, or how to conclide the interview. - Mfr. Pernon, too much distressed to find any consolation or hope in the young man's last words, offered no reply that would ~ ro-ussure Vermond, and placing his hand ungloved, on the handle of the door, which had been touched last by the fuir hand of the beautiful girl, he opened it and withdrew, Mr. Pernon, exhausted by the violence of Ver- mond and his own suffering, passed to the clinmber of his wife, and threw himself upon a couch.- + We are lost ! he exclaimed, 'lost irretrievably, for not only do we owo more than we can pay, but our principal creditor is the son of that Vermond, who sixten years ago-but you remember. - Ah! 1 am bitterly retaliated upon ! - 'The yourg man has been here declaring his intention to revenge the wrong he had suffered. Ah! happy 1 am that neither you, nor our dear Cecile were present ; hia reproaches would have overwhelmed you.- Yet I am nt a loss to imagine how he became so suddenly calm. | What caprice, or strange altera- tion of sentiment could have checked his anger I know not, but after having treated ime more like a criminal than an unfortunate merchant, he left the room with quite an altered bearing, and even some approach to politencss,\ His wife still endeavored to console har husband, while Cecile throw herself into her tither's arms; and hid her blushing face upon his shoulder, + Do not despair, my good friend; said his wife, tall may be amicably arranged, porhups. | Let us hope better things ; our dear Cecile may find a rich and kind husband.' His wile was indeed right; her husband found no more difficulty in meeting his poywments, and a few months after that awful fifteenth of Muy, Charles Vermond deputed the manugement of his business to the all merchant. while ho indulgod in the happiness of a wodding tour with the media- ting angel-the fair Cecilo, an __ , Harp to Caro- Will you pay ne my bill, siz ?\ said a tailor in Cliatres street, to a waggish fellow who had got into him about a foot. ~* + Do you owe any body anything ?\ asked the wag. - * No sit' said the tailor. fl“ 'Then you can afford to wait' -and he walked off. A day or two afterward the trailor ealled ogain. + Are you in debt to anybody 7 asked the was. + Yes sity' replied the tailor, * Well: why the devil don't you pay I' + Because I cannot get the money.' *'Phat's just my case, sir! Iam glad to see you can appreciate my condition-givo us your hand,\ f own nn A writer in postcript hoped his correspond. ent would excuse fiults of spelling. if any, us he had no knife to mend his pen. JOHN RANDQLPH's OPINION OF MAT. RIMONY, You know my opinion of Female Society ; withont it we should degonerato; into brutes. 'This observation applies with ten-fold foree to young men, sod those who are in the prime of manhood. - For after a certain time of fife, the literary man males a shift, {a peor ove, I grant,) to do without the society of ladies. 'To a young mun, nothing is so inpurtant as a spirit of devo- tion (next to his Creator,) to some virtuous and amiable woman, whose image may occupy his Beart, and guard it hom the pulfution which be- sets. it on all sides. Nevertheless, I trust that your fondness for the company of ladies may not reb you of the time which ought to be devoted to reading and meditation on your profession; end above all, that it may not nequire for you the rep- ulation of a dangler-in itself borderiag on the contemptible, and seriously detrimental to your professional character. - A cautious old Square- toes, who night have no objection to employing such an one at the bar, would perhaps be shy of Introducing him ns a practioner in his fimily; in case lie should hnve a pretty daughter or nicco, or sister; although all oxportence shows that, ofall male inhabitants, tho dangler is the ningt harmless to the ladies, who quickly learn, with the intuitive sagnoity of the sex, to make r con- venience. of tim | while he serves forn butt also, Rely upon it, that to love a woman as a mis- tress, although a delicious delirium, an intoxien- tion far surpassnig that of Champaigne, | is alto- gether uncssential, nay pernicious, in the choice ofa wife ;. which a man ought to setabout in his sober senses-choosing hei as Mrs. Primrose did her wedding gown, for qualities that © wear well.\ Iam well persuaded, that few love matches are happy ones. One thing at least is troe, thet if matrimony has its cares, celibacy has no- pleas- ures, A Newton, ora mere scholar, may find employment in study ; a man of literary taste can receive in books a powerful auxiliary ; but a man must have a bosom friend and childien around hitn, to cherish and support the dreariness of old ago. Do you remember A. V.? He could neither read nor thivk; any wife, even a scolding one, would have been a blessing to that poor old tan. After all, ** suitability\ is the true foundation lor marriage, | If the paitics be suited to one anoth- er, in ago, situation in life; (a man: fndeed may descend, where all else: is fitting,) temper and constitution, these are the ingredionts of a happy marrisge-or at least n convienient ono-which is all that people of experience expect. | [Letieis of Jubhn Randoipl to young relation.] Ne woman ine row PunavaiNas.-We object to this one-sided game--this finding a double flmond, sharing it with a ledy, and then having to pay a forfeit when next sho encounters you. lt's worse than rob» bery-no footpad ever ered, \stand and deliver\ with so much nonchalance as do tlic girls about philipooma | _ If you say it first, the angels have such fonny ways to get rid of paying ; sometimes they will give you a kiss-that's something ; sometimes they will let you beau them to a ball or concert; and sometimes they will pay up \like men-very unwillingly. | But the most audacious picce of swindling we ever knew, heard or con- ceived of, was perpetrated on us. 'We philipocned a htile daik-egyed «ylph, she acknowledged lier. self caught, and promised (us an Anmral. 'The next day she sent us an Almanac for 1841. Loxpox.-Lndon in length is cight miles, in breadih three, and in circumference 26. -It con- rains 8 000 streets, Janes, and alleys, and courts, and G5 squa- os, | It has 240 churches and clap for foreigners, and 0 synagogues for Jews-mak ing 502 pluces of public worship. 'The number of during the siting uf Purlisment,fs es- timnted at 2,250,000. - In this vast city there are 4,000 seminaries for education, 10 melitutions (or promoting the wts and eciguees, 122 nsylums for the indivent, 17 for the sick acd lame, 12 dispen- suries, 704 charitable institutions, 58 courts of justice, 4,040 professional mon connected with the law. | 'Phere are 18,800 vessels trading on the river Thames in the year, add 40,008 wag- ons going and returning to the metropolis in the same period. 'The exports and imports to and from the Thames is estimated at £66,811,222 an- nually, and the: property floating in the vast city every year is £170,000,000, Farmeu Corpiats asp Rum Brreeas.-The use of these two articles have been the means uf leading more persons to intemperance, espe- cially females, than any other stimulants in exist- enee, the former from their extreme pleasantness and seductive sweetness, and the latter under the plausible pretext of securing or benefiving their health. 'The uso of tontes or bitters in many con- stitutions, especially at ceriain seasons, are un questionable; itis the menstrumn, therefore, and not the medicine; which we are disposed to com bat. - [t is an erroncous impression that the cipal ingredients used as bitters yiold their virtues more fully in alcobol or wing than in water ; every physician and chemist knows that the latter is by far the best vehicle for this purpose, - This faci being conceded, we therefore; as the firm and un- flinching friends of temperance, as well as for the other reasons suggested, do most sincerely re- commend the ** 'Peinperance Bitters,\ prepared by J. P. Whitwell, and advertised in our columns, in preference to any other preparation where alco. hol or wine alone are employed. | Surely, no fe- male at least, who values her health, and means to maintain her-good habits, will hesitate to follow the advice thus gratuitously given for her benefit, and use this simple decoction in preference to more stimulating but less salutary sedatives, - All men, especially those of the public press who wish well to their fellow man by giving notoriety and currency to these facts, will thereby essentially serve the great cause for which we are contending. Mercantile Journal. Suren Supmrnative-A wagoner the other day drova his team to the door of -n ware huuse in this village, and thus hailed the merchant : 'Doint you want some fine kegs P ©No,' answered the merchant. + But doin't you want some first rate kega ? 'No? + 'They're confounded first rate.\ + Don't want any 'But they're dammed ctermal first rate.\ +1 tell you I don't want any.* f «But, mister, they ute supgrogatory first rate.? i No.1 Bach keg is equal to a hogshead.' © Dou't want any. * Well, ding ny buttons if 1'd sell to such a scrimpton as you, any how.'-IFuyne Standard. Bus, mus wasp or tus Wonax.- Orientin} philologists tell us, that Eve, Hevah Chevah, the name 'of the first woman, signified in several of tho oriental languages, a serpent.- It also signifies life, or to cause to live ; and so Moses himself fnterprets it: \ And he called her name Live because she wus the mother of all living.\ Hence the Mosaic allegory ofthe fall. - 'The ser- peut became the symbol of the tempter, or eno- my. Tt lind before been considered as the em- blein of life, But Moses, in order to countoract such idolalry, represented it as the introducer or author of death. So it seems, that such is the confusion of terms, that in the oriental lun- guages it is somtimes difficult to make out the tempter. ols, 207 meeting-houses for dissenters, 43 chapels ' HABERDASHERS. The haberdashers, who were. more anciently called millivers, or millainers, on account of their dealing in articles imported from Milan, were in- corporated into a company in the year 1447 ; but it is probable that their number was not grea, since in the reign of Hemy the Sixth there were not more than a dozen habefdishers' shops in the whole city. - How much they must have increas. ed during the reign of B izaberh may be inferred fiom the complaints made against them; that the whole street from Westminister. was crowded with thein, and that their shops made so gay an appearance as to seduce persons to extavagant expenditures. - 'The business of the haberdashors, was not, however, confined to the lighter. articles of a lady's wardrobe, as at present, but exiended to the sale of daggrers, swords, knives, Spurs, glass- es, dials tables, balls, cards, puppets, | fukhorns, toothpicks, finecarthen pois, salr-cellars, spoons, tin dishes, and even mouse-traps, bird-cagres, shoe. ing-horns, lanterns, and jews'trompe, contribu- ted in that gay appearance which the babecdush- ers' shops are said to have made in the relen of the maiden queen, Amoug the pensioners on the books of the habordashors' company is ono Wil- liam Pullen, who was 50 yoars the tenant of the same house, 50 years tho husband of the same wife, and 5o yours in the employ \of the same master. | So singular u-concurrence is woithy of record. <-- AstuskstENT3.-A corsespondent of one of the. Western papers, writing from the seut of Government of one of the Btates, gives the following recount of the manner in which le- gisluture sometimes umuse themselves : * Ounce this winters Senator suggested some mode of doing Business rnther rudely to the spau- ker, who answered him that he knew his busi- ness. - 'The Senator replied, ho was very happy to hear it,for it was a piece of information of which he was before eotirely' uninformed. > Auother grave Senator a faw days since, when io commit- tee uf the whole, Mr. Bil in the chair; took n newspaper, made a sort of foolseap of it,and placed it upon the head of another. - 'Phe other, taking in of placed it upon the head of a third, who rose fnd undded nbout to attract the attention of the Chair- man. - Mr. Sill kept his countermnce; asd would not notice the Merry Andrew. During the time a fourth Senator slipped behind the capped honor» able, and took lis chair away. - You may well imagine the mirth whew the dignitary and his cap sprawled upon the floor like Dr. Slop in the cow yard. . Bull Mr. Sill preserved his gruvily, till another Senutor facetiously esfled out, Mr. Chairman, the Senator from-- lis the foor, whereupon tho Committoe rose rand reported pro- gI‘OaS.’ orem term meo Destruction of Life in Ancient Wars. Accustomed as we nro to the effvcts of War in civilized times, when the most bloody contests are followed by an increase. in the number of the people, it is difficult to form a conception of the desolation which it produced in barbarous: ages when the void produced by the gword is not sup- plied by the: impulse of subsequent tranguility .- A few facts will show its prodigious influence in former ages. | fris ascertained by an exact com- putation, that when three groat capitals of Kho- J .russen were destroyed by Timour, 4,847,000 per. xons were put to the sword.. . At the same time 709,000 people were slain in the city of Mousu, which had risen in the neighborhood of the an- cient Nineveh; and the desolation produced a century and a half before, by the sack of Gen- ghi Clian, had been at least as greats Such were the ravages of this mighty conquerer and his Mo- gul followers in the couniry between the Caspian and the Indies, that five gu seqent conturies have been unable to repair the ravagee of four yours, An urmy of 500,000 Moguia undor the sons of Genghis so completely aid waste tha provineos to the north of the Diunube, that they never gineo regnined their former numbers ; and in the fim» inc consequent upin the interruption of the same barbarians into. the Chinese empire, 12,000,000 nre computed to have perished. During the in- vasion of 'Timour, 12 of the most flourishing cit. ies of Asif, including Delic, Isdaham, Bugiad and Damascus, wore utterly desiroyed, and pyra- mids of human hends,one of which contained 90,- 000 skulls, erected on their ruins. 'During thirty {wo years of the reign of Tustinian,the barbarians made an incursion into the Grecian empire, and they carried off or destroyed at an average on each occasion: 200,000 persons. Not was the depopulation of: the southern and western prov- inces less during the same disastious period. -In the wars of Helisarious in Africa, 5;000,000 of its inhabitants are computed by a contemporary wri. ter to have perished, and during the contest be. that HHustrious warrior and hiis successors, Noises and the barbarian armics in Italy, the whole Gothic nation and nearly 15,000,000 of the natives of Iimly disappeared. 'Phe plagne which followed those sangumary contests carried off still greater numbers than the sword ; and dming the fifty two years that it desolated the Roman ein. pire it is said to have destroyed a hundied mill- ions of inhabitauts.-«@ffson's Principle of Populu- tion, - e__ Invenmstine -The standing . ar- mies of Burope hear a proportion to the population of their respective Kingdoms and Stites as fol. lows, abstracted from at lato work on the subject: England 1 soldier to every 140 ofits population. Frunce ido to do 11 do Austria 1 do to _ do do Russia 1 do to * do do Bavaria 1 do to . do do Prussia 1 do to _ do do Poland 1 do to _ do do Wirtemburg 1 do to - do do Sweden 1 do to do do ; Denmark 1 do to _ do do The Roman Slates 1 do to _ do 890 do Tuscany 1 do to _ do ©8300 do It may be well to add that the propartion. of the United Stutes army to its population is 1 to 1800. In China, according to. the latest and most ac- entate nécounts; the population exceeds 860 mill: ion, and the ary is rated at 700,000, muking a ratio of L soldier to every 514 persons. om omen nne o;, ** Ma-what 'does cousinJolnm hug sistor Bridge so for 1\ : \La Simon, you have such eyes-ho's only a courting her, my child.\ . \ Colly gracious, ma-dont he court her hard though ?\ ® La, Simon, do hash t\ . Speaking . of hogs-we saw one of these ani- mals lying in the guiter the other day, and in the opposite one was a well dressed mani The first bad a ring in his nose-and the latter had one up- on his finger, - 'The man was drunk, the hog was wober. (A hog is known by the company he keeps? thought we-and go thought Mr. Porker, and off he went, Ax Opp Cancunvrion.-An English paper states that the owner of an ambulating menngeric Intely calculated that, if all the ferocious: animals which nre now confined in Hurope were let loose in an immense forest, it would contain 225 lions, 239 tigors, $02 leopards; 270 panthers, G7 cle phants, 10 rhinoceroses, 2,700 wolves, 78 rattle- snakes, 216 boa constrictors, 1,040 hyonas,and 96 crocodiles. 100 90 69 68 60 59 58 57 By the by, speaking of tales, we alwfly's' like separate indentity of Eve and the serpent of those that end well, - Hogg's for instange. ur s o > _- FOREIGN, a Bight days later from Europe.. The Bri. tish in possession :of Canton. , , \ [By, the Steamship Columibia ut Boston.Jj . The Columbia: left, Liverpool on 'the afternoon of the 4th inst, and fgg, therefore necomplished her passige in n fittle over twelve days, incliding her detention al Halifax, having made the beat passoge without exception, that hss\ beeu nddo actress the Atlantic, aud having . Decter the\ Grcat) Western two athole days t- © /.\ >_... , , We liave received our files of Liverpool papers 10 the morning of the 4th; und London to - ning of the 8d of June, both inclusive. Cotton: was flat. _ Plout remained the some. ~'Ped had ad.. vanced 3d. per Jb. Money continued easy, though. - net abundant. 'The news by the Colomntiais of great iInlerbst:- 'The political condition of Great Briinin is nearly the same as when the Great Western. left. ''The whole Empire was in s-state of intenscexcitement,. such ag hus not been equalled . since the 'timeof. tho Reform Bill, eight years since. . 'The try still held posscssion of their sorts ; Parlin mont had not been dissolvad, nor was the probu=: bility so grent that it woald bo. at the: lust us» counts,. - Bir Robert Peel appears to hivs mat with loss suecess in his sttempt to overthrow the: Whigs than his friends antioipated;~ No action bad been had on:the Corn Lows. That was to have- commenced on the 4th. 'The intelligence from China is highly interesting. . Ple Liverpool papers of the 4th aunounce that the Buglish ate in. possession or- Cantons 0C be vis loc China.: - We are indelfted to the Morning the following brief but important announcement i- \The arrival of the Overland India Mail at Mar- scilles. on the 80th uit. has brought important news from China.. 'The Bombay dates are to the: 1st of May. On Feb. 25th the Bogue forn were - taken by the Bitish who marched on Canton.. Keshen has been sent in disgrace to Pekin. Pho Reinforcements had: Emperor will not yield, been sent from Calcutta,\ sn From the BombAy®Gazeite, April It appears that Keshen, the pdncipal commis» sioner, though #pparenily invested: with full pow® ers to treat with us, delayed. the execution of the ° treaty which he had concluded with:Capt. Ellicit until he could obtain the Emperor's confirmation: of ite. The Imperial Cabimet, superficially© ac- - quainted with the emergency of citonmsiances,. . has rejected the treaty and . determined: on war, Four imperial edicts have been breath- ing hostility and deffance to. the English, der- ing tht +*wince the rebellious disposition of the foreigners has thus became manifests nothing in leftsbut, to exterminate them.\ Lustead of yielding un inch hy paying down the price of the ophufly. or granting them a- Janding place, the Emperor describes the Englishas having rebelled against: Heaven and opposed reation; . Capt. Elliott, finding that the negosiations had\ thus been broken off.scenis to. have roused him- self from his lethargy. . © 200). - On the 25:h, the Bagno - forts were attacked; and taken wrhout the loss of a sihigle man' killed 23; ams J or wounded on our side. ~The: ensualues among. the Chinese, though not asceriained, aie. believ- ed to be very great. -A thousand prisoners were taken, who were immediately: fiberared. - <> /- f According to the last accounts, which the first of March, Capt. Elliott intended imme- diately to proceed to Canton, and. 11 is said that Reshen had invited\ the consuls to mediate be- ween hiiin and the English: . © Mosely An American gentleman, dately from Canton, tells us the city is doomed to the flamesif we spare it. Ho auys thero me 200,000 Chinese star- ving in the neighborhood for want of employment who are as ready to suck the placo'ns our sail ots are. aL From tha Liverpool Standard, Furie 4, The President, We aro still without fluff intelligence of the Jong-mixsing President.. Bhe sailed on the 10th - of Murch, so that 85 days have elapsed since she left New York £ Ls © On Wednesday a great was created in the: business part of information, furnished to the: Underwriters and | Exchange News Rooms, by Capt. Arbuthnot, of -- -~ the brig Fortitude, which arrived morning from Buenos Ayres :- sars = A very large- steamer, withou furinel, crippled .. - foremast, large paddle boxes painted a dark color, ~ .with a large equare topsail . set -on .the aih. top- mast ; topgallant-sail on- the fore. top:mast, and - with fore and alt sails, was seen bythe Rortitude - about ten mileg-distant, on the 27th Miy;at & atithis port that. §.0% > elocit A, M., in lat. 49-N., long. 24.90 Wrétrer» ing northenst, and making but slow progress,\ This was enleulated to cheer the drooping hopes - of many of those who felt an interest in the fite . of the President, though others cautionsly abstain- od from forming \hasty. conclusions oft premisca cettainly somewhat 'vague and uncertain, 'The vessel which Capt: Arbuthnot saw (and with whose report the Mufl liberty which it does not warrant, in stating that'it.conveyed an . exact description of tle President,) has since arrived in this port, and turns out to be the- Lon» don, from < Yarmouth, Novia Seotia, which had been crippled in her foremast, and had some thin« ber piled on -her decks, that; atthe distance of ten miles, might be mistaken for-paddleshoxes. This is placed. beyond & _ doubt by u lititudo and long. itaded'of that vessel on the day and at the hour mentioned precisely corresponding with Capt. Ar- buthnoi's account, <0 0 00. > xn nls LapiEs too mucit ron Lawrsas.-An intelli~ .~ gent female witness having been much perplexed by. a barrister in a long Cross-exaimination; hap- pened in replyhig-to use theterin\ . « Madame said the man of law, you must not talk unintelligibly ; what is the court and jury to understand by the: word humbug? 'The, lady hesitated. . «1 must insist, madaine,' sild the bas- anticipating victory,\ 'thut you proceed 10] further until you state plainly and openly what you mean by achumbug. .+ Why < then, - turned the Jady--4 doin't know how batter to ex- plain my incuning than by saying; il L met a come pany of persons who 'were strungets 10 you, an- should tell thein that when they saw you they might prepure to meet n. remarkably handsome, genteol, agreeable looking iman-tliut wobld 'be 'a - lumbug. mols B _-_ __ li} 'There is some objection to the following anee. dote, bit the wit of it is so excellent, that wa cannot resist the temptation to print it t= «* Who 'dar?'-Gumbo was a wicked negro who had witnessed the ravages 'of the cholérn in' 1832 with stoic indifference, but.in {shoeing his best friends dropping off by dozens in Negro Al., ley, Buffalo, began io have some fears of giving the last\ kick himself, in pretty much the style he was wont (o # fro' dat next brickbat\ in @ row,. - Gombo then, for the first time, thought of praying, ° to use his own phrase, \\to 'de 'Angel ob de Lord,\ declaring that if he could only - by spared - # dis time,\ he would be ready the next year to be taken up and \lib forebber in' Massa: Abra- ham's bossom.\. Some wage, having fetess to _. an adjoming room, seperated by a board paitition, - bearing him at his devotions, knocked, 2.09 ~' EW ho dar #1 02cm m oS \ De Angel: ob de Lord.\ « What he . want ?\ ** Want Gumbo !\ Blowing out his candle with a v é whew, \* No such niggur here. . Datnigger been dead 4 is two tree week-dat. bo de trute-de. fue !\. .~. . the town by the following »:
