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THE MADISONIAN.
VOL. V.-NO. 3ft.] WASHINGTON CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBHK 23, 1841. [WHOLE NO. 7\7
THE MAOISONIAN.
THOMAS ALLEN,
F,4lto* Mul Prayrtotoi.
AGENTS
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? U-tpbia.
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C. W. J?mk?, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Ocomo? W. Bull, Buffalo, N. York.
Bvlvanu* Stkvknb, New Haven, Ct.
fcl. It. Fo.tkh, Beaton, Max. <*
Wcmton P. Kirch, Fayette, Miaaouri.
ioaitn Snow, Detroit, Michigan.
'oWZKR A WaODWiKD, St. Uouii, Mo.
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the year.
JJr Subscriber* may remit by mail, ia billa of aol
venl bank*, postage paid, at our riak; provided it ahull
appear by a poatmaster'a certificate, that auch remit
tance haa been duly mailed.
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agi nta, will be entitled to receive a copy of the |>aper
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till.'d.
Letteia and eommunicationa intended forth* eatah
iahmem will not be received unleaa the pottage it
pu id.
NAVY SUPPLIES KOK IMS.
Navy Commissioner'!! Opnci, )
September 2i>, 1H41. i
PROPOSALS, H?-a 1?-<1 ami endorsed, will be re
ceived at thin office until 3 o'clock, P. M. of
Monday, the 1st November next, for furnishing and
delivering at the Navy Yard* at Portsmouth, N. H.,
i'harlestown, Mars., Brooklyn, N. Y., Philadelphia,
Washington, D. C., GosimM, Va., and the Baltimore
Naval Station, respectively, such quantities of the fol
lowing articles, of the liest quality, that may be order
ed or required fiom the contractors by the iesi>eclive
Commanders or Commanding Officers at said Navy
Yards and Naval Station, or by the Navy Agenta, re
spectively, during the year 18452, for the use of the
Navy of the United States, viz.
No. I. Bolt and Sheet Copper (hot rolled)
No. 2. Bound, flat, and square Iron
No. 3 Superfine Flour
No. 4. Ship Biscuit (made from superfine flour of
ihe manufacture of the years 1841 or 184*)
No. 5. Whiskey
No. t!. Butter
No. 7. Sperm Candles
No. H. Sperm Oil
No. 'J. Linseed Oil (in in raw state)
No. 10. Paints (the several articles named in the
minted offers)
No. 11. Molasses, Vinegar, Rice, and White
Beans.
It is distinctly understood, however, that per
sons who may offer are not to have any claim or privi
lege to furnish any greater quantity of any article
than may be expiessly ordered.
It is also to be understood that, when [iersonn reside
at other places than those near which they engage to
furnish articles, they will be required to appoint and
duly authorize some person, resident at or near the
place of delivery, to receive and act upon the requisi
tions or orders which may be made.
And it is also to be understood, that in case the (ar
son who contracts, or his agent, shall neglect or fail
to comply with the requisitions or orders he may re
ceive for articles under his contract, in pro|>ertime and
of proper quality, the officers or agents of the Navy
shall be authorized to purchase the same, and the con
tractor shall be liable for any exc< ss of Cost over the
contract price.
Separate proposals must be made for each class of
articles for each Navy Yatd and for the Baltimore
Naval Station. 'I'ht blank offers furnished to indi
viduals must hare all the blanks carefully filed up,
and must be subscribed as directed in the note on the
face of each form, and the offers must be unqualified
and unconditional.
Bonds, with two apprDved sureties, in one-third the
estimated amounts of the respective contiacts, will be
required, and 10 per centum in addition will be withheld
from the amount of each payment to be made, as col
lateral security for the due and faithful performance of
the res| ective contracts; which will, on no account,
be paid until the contracts are complied with in all re
spects, unless socially authorized by the Board of Na
vy Commissioners. After deducting ten per centum,
payment will be made by the United States within
thirty days after the said articles shall have been in
spected and received, and bills for the same presented
to the Navy Agent, approved by the Commanders or
Commanding Officers of the res|>ective Navy Yards
and Naval Station aforesaid, according to the terms of
the contracts.
The Board of Navy Commissioners reserve to them
selves the right to reject all offers from persona who
have heretofore failed to fulfil their contracts.
Blank forms of offers for each denomination of arti
cles will be furnished by the respective Navy Agents
or Commanding Officers, to persons applying forlhem,
and upon which all offers should be made strictly con
'orming to Ihe directions which they contain. Sam
ples of the biscuit will be lodged with the Command
ing Officers of the respective Navy Yards and Naval
Station. oct ii?did
To be published in the National Intelligencer,
Madisonian, Arinydt Navy Chronicle, Alexandria
Gazette, and Globe, in the District of Columbia; Ports
nittuth Journal, New Hampshire; Vermont Watch
man anil Stale Journal, and the People's Press; in
Vermont; Boston Oailv Advertiser, Boston Atlas,
Boston Courier, and E?sex Register, in Massachu
setts; New Yoik Express, and New York Commer
cial Advertiser, in the Siat? of New York; North
American and Daily Advertiser, in Pennsylvania;
Baltimore Patriot, and Baltimore American, in Mary
land; Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald, Richmond
W lug, and Fredeiicksburg Arena, in the Slate of Vir
ginia.
POTOMAC BRIDGE?The subscriber will re
ceive proposals until the 25th of October next,f r
the supply ol -1411,700 feet of pine timber, the growth
of Virginia or Maryland, 121,000 fret to be delivered
tins fall. The dimensions of the timber will vary
from 14 by 14 to 12 by 14, and of vurious lengths,
particular lulls of which will be fprnished ihe con
tractor ; it must be of the best qualny, hewn or sawed
square, and delivered at the bridge, or at such places
in its vicinity as the Engineer may direct, and be sub
ject to his inspection.
Twenty pel cent, will be retained of the value of
such portion of the timber as shall have been d<li>er
ed, which per ccniage shall be paid on the fulfilment
ol the contract, or forfeited on a failure of the con
tractors.
Persons offering for the above will address the un
dersigned, endoise their bids ''Proposals for Pine Tim
ber," and enclose tliein to Colonel J. J. Abcrt, Topo
graphical Bureau, Washington.
Persons desiring to bid lor the above Timber will
be furnished with a particular bill of lengths &c. upon
application to the subscriber in person or by letter
(pO*l paid) at Georgetown, D. C.
WM TURNBULL,
Major Topographical Engineers.
sept 18?tOct.25
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UNIVERSITY OF' PENNSYLVANIA.
MEDICAL department.
Session 1841-'42.
'IMIE Lectures will commence on Monday, the 1st
1 dI November, and be continued, under the fol
lowing ariangement, to the middle of March ensuing :
Practice and t heory of Medicine," by Nathaniel
Chapman, M. D.
Chemistry, by Robert Hare, M.D.
Surgery, by VVilliAin Gibson, M D.
Anatomy, by William E Horner, M. D.
Institutes of Me,heme, by Samuel Jackson, M. D.
Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Chil
dren, by Hugh L. Hodge, M. D.
Clinical Lectures on Medicine, by W. W. Ger
hard, M I) , and
Clinical lectures on Surgery, by Drs. Gibson and
Horner, will l>e delivered at the Philadelphia Hospital
(Hlockley.) Students are also admitted to the Clini
cal Instruction at the Pennsylvania Hospital, in the
City.
W. E HORNER,
ftcan <f the yitdical faculty,
aug '2l,-3awfNov 15 2t<3 Chesnut Street, I'hil.
HjUD-Ul!?KTKR S, MlRlNK CORPS, i \
Waging ton City, Oct. 4th, 1841. I
SEP ARATE l'ri>|H?HaU will bo received at the office
of the Quartermaster of the Marine Corps, in
this dtr, until IS o'clock, on Wednesday, the 10th
day of November ne??, for furnishing rations to the
United States Marines at the following stations, for
the year 184$:
Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Charlestons, Massachusetts ;
Brooklyn, Long Island, New York ;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Gosport, near Norfolk, Virginia;
Pensacola, Florida; and
Washington City, District of Columbia.
The rations to con- ist of one pound and a quarter
of fresh beef, or throe quarters of a pound of mess
pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, at the option
of the Government; and at the rale of six pounds of
good clean coffee, twelve pound* of good New Orleans
sugar, eight quarts of beans, four quarts of vinegar,
two quarts of salt, four pounds of soap, and one and
a half pound* of good dipped candle* to each hundred
rations.
It is understood that the full aide of beef (neck and
shins excluded) be delivered, if required ; if such
quantity be not required, that the fore and hind quar
ters be delivered alternately. And the bread or flour
shall be of superfine quality. All the articles to be
unexceptionable, and to lie issued to the troops with
out expense to the United State*.
Proposals to be endorsed "Proposals for Rations
for 184a."
AUG. A. NICHOLSON,
Quartermaster.
oct 5?StawtlOthNojr.
The American Sentinel, and Pennsylvanlan, Phil
adelphia; the Portsmouih Gazette, New Hampshire;
the New York Evening Post, the New York Herald,
and the New York Enquirer; the Baltimore Republi
can; the Norfolk Beacon; the Norfolk tier&ld; the
Richmond Enquirer, and Richmond Whig; the Al
exandria Gazette, Alexandria, D. C.; and the Pensa
cola Gazette, will wive the above three insertions each
per week, and send one copy of the advertisement to
accompnny the account w hen forwarded to this office
for payment.
Library op CoNURtsa,
October 11th, 1841.
NOTICE i? hereby given, that the Library of Con
gress will be closed on Tuesday, the 19th instant,
for the purpose of cleaning and arranging the books,
ami will not again be opened until Tuesday, the '23d
of November,
JOHN S. MEEHAN, Librarian.
Oct. 12 eolm.
CIRCULAR.?The partnership heretofore exit
ing between Messr.. POPE & GIBBS, as At
torneys and Councilor, at Law, and Solicitor, in
Chancery, 10 dissolved by consent.
TI.ey continue to practice individually in the Coun
iy courts of Coosa ahd Autauga Counties?in the
Circuit Court* of Autauga, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Mont
gomery, Dallas, Bibb, Shelby, St. Clair and Tall.de
ga Counties io the CHANCERY Court, held for
At i'oZ ?SuntirT.'n supK^ME Court of
ALABAMA?and the District Court of the United
otatea at 1 u*caloosa.
[The above Circuit embraces the citiesof Wetuinp
ka and Montgomery, the town, ot Seliua and Cahaw
ba, and many other .mall towns and villages 1
B. T. POPE, Wetmupka, Ala.
C. R. GIBBS, Columbians, Ala.
Messrs. I . & G. renew the tender of their profes
sional services (individually) to those who have here
tofore entrusted business to their joint management
and io Ihe public generally. '
Their fees for collecting will be, as heretofore in
common case-, vix:
For bringing suit on all liquidated demands
(ss Notes, Bills, &c.) under $200. 310 00
For bringing suit on all liquidated demands
exceeu.ng #200, - - - 5 per cent,
r or bringing suit on unliquidated demands
(as accounts, &c.) SI0 dollars added to
above fees.
For taking Interrogatories, Depositions, &c.
if not more than two pages, - - 5 00
If more than two pages,, for every additional
two pages, or less, - - 5 00
In all cases sued to judgment, and execution return
ed " no property," half the above fees. If there is un
usual litigation and difficulty, or a resort to extraordi
nary measures is necessary to secuie a debt, an addi
tional fee, in proportion to the services required will be
charged.
I ersons sending business from abroad requiring
proof, (as accounts, &c.) to prevent delay, should sent^
at the same time, the names and residences of wit
nesses, and Ihe names ol two or three ies|>ectable citi
zens in the neighborhood o| Ihe witnesses, to act as
Commissioners to take their testimony.
Partners sending business should also send the in
dividual, as well as joint names of the firm.
Htftrtnct*. Jas. O. Proudfit, E>q Wall st. Now
c ' ^Fhhra' Gillilund, Son & Harwell, Charleston
S. C ; Messrs. T. Goddanl & Co., Macon, Ga ; Wrn
Dearing, Esq., Athens, Ga.; Messrs. 1 It'll &, R?r,.
and Hon. E S. Dargan, Mobile Ala ; Hon H. W.
Milliard, Montgomery, Ala.; Messrs. (Crenshaw &
Bryan A. Ready, Esq., Messrs. H. B. Bailey & Co.
and Mesits James Trimble & Brothers, Wetumpka, I
Alabama. _ net D?lf
Phii.adki.piiia, Oct. II, IH41.
Thomas R. Hampton is the only authorized agent
for my works for the District of Columbia. His
receipt only will be vulid.
ADAM WALDIE,
Per WALTER S. WALDIE,
Attorney.
WA?L?DIE'S SELKCT CIRCULATING LI
1 IUD H DUNGLISONS MEDICA L
LIBRARY and INTELLIGENCER are the works
alluded lo in the foregoing, in which the iieople of the
District of Columbia are interested Mr. Hampton
I. Kute agent lor many others which may be hud by
calling on his son during ihe day, or himself in the
evening, al the Periodical Agency Heine, n Gadsby's
and the Rail Road Office. Among these sole ii?en
cii s are ihe New York Mirror, so long ami fuvoruh v
known, but never before so good. The Brother Jona
than. with extra copies of Barnaby Rudge, and Dol
lar Magazine, edited by N. P. Willi, and Weld ; Gra
ham * Ladies and Gen 11 email's Magazine, Ladie* Com
panion, Ladie.Garland, Hunt's Merchant's Magazine,
the American Magazine, Bosion Medical and Sorgi
c*l Journal, the Guardian of Hci.th, the Mother's
iVIajf sine, Sailors Ala^azine, Millennial Harbinger,
Bultniiore Literary and Religious Magazine, Farmer's
Monthly Visiter, &c , while he is general agent for
'd? ^"'c'"'r'"K'ker. Ludy's Book, Saturday Evening
Post, Lu'lieran Observer, Toler's edition of foreign
ri publications, Blackwood's Magazine, North Ameri
can Review, Robert's Monthly Magazine and
Boston Notion (back numbers on hand from com
mencement of James'new nntel,) the New World
edited by Park Benjamin (of winch a few copies ate
on hand from commencement of the year, and copies
I v v'""* O'Malley,) Ba.tiinorn Saturday Visiter
New Y ork Churchman New York Observer Luthe
ran observer, Baptist Advoc.de, Stockton's Chris
tian World, Houiocopaihic Examiner, Ac., and ran
get any thing his patrons may desire, generally fur
nishing any thing heavy free of postage. Most of
the New York papers may be had by ihe number,
oct 16?fit.
/CABINET AND CHAIR FACTORY, 4 door*
Vy westol I 12 sireet. J Williams has re
J'V lhogch',<"",' Allyne, a lot of high and low
back Nurse and Arm Rocking Chairs and Cabinet
r lirniture.
Has on hand, and continues to manufacture, by
experienced workmen, all kinds of Cabinet Furnitine
and Cain and Winsor Chairs, Hair and Shuck Mat
trasses, China, Glass, and Liverpool wnre.
Old lurnilure taken in exchange for new.
Old furniture repaired ard repainted.
Which wd| be sold low for cash, or on time for good
|M|?r
(>n hand, a good assortment of Mahogany, which
will lie sold low for cash. oci5 ?.iw3w. '
I 1111'-. A I' I'A PERS.?Fine Satin Surface TjeMer
J I'aper, ruled on three sides, at #0 ?J!> per ream
Also Folio Post, Foolscap, Double Cap, and Envcl
ope I'a pets at reduced prices.
Russia and other low priced Uuills, suitable for
schools, for sale by WM. F BAYLY,
( A/rent for J. K. lUrriek.)
^ 1 ennsylvinia Avenue, bet. 12th ami Kith sis.
T)Ui|N AP S LEC I'URES to young men, on the
XJ mind, lormaiion of character and the conduct id
life, I volume.
< ?n the sphere and dutie., of women Ac 1 vol
Jus- receive,! by FRANCK TAYLOR immedi
atrly Ut of Gadshy s. 0),( jj;
Poet (cat.
THE B rTdE~OF AN LULL A.
PROM LOCKHART'H SPANISH RALLAUH.
The following ballad has been often imitated by
modern poeta, l.uth in Spain and in Germany :
" Pon te a Ian rejaa asulea, dexa la magna que labraa,
Melancholia Xarifa, vera* al galan Anddla," Ac.
1.
" Hiae up, riae up, Xarifa, lay the golden cuahion
down;
Riae up, come to the window, and gas* with all the
Town.
From gay guitar and violin the ailver notea are flow
ing,
And the lovely lute doth apeak between the trumpet'*
lordly blowing,
And bannera bright from lattice light are waving every
wheie,
And the tall plume of our couain'a bridegroom floats
proudly in ihe air;
Riae up, riae up, Xarifa, lay the golden cuahion down;
Riae up, coin* to the window, and gaze with all the
Town.
II.
" Ariae, ariae, Xarifa, 1 aee Andilla'a face,
lie bends him to the people with a calm and princely
grace,
Through all the land of Xerea, and bank* ofGuadal
quiver,
Rode forth Bridegroom ao brave aa he, ao brave and
lordly, never.
Yon tall plume waving o'er hia brow of asure mixed
with white,
I gut-aa, *t waa wreathed by Zara, whom he will wed
tonight;
Riae up, riae up, Xarifa, lay the golden cuahion down;
Riae up, come to the window, and ga/.e with all the
Town.
III.
" Whataileth thee, Xarifa, what makea Ihine eyea
look down,
Why ktav ye from the window far, nor gate with all
the Town 1
I've heard you nay on many a day, and aura you aaid
the truth,
Andilla rides without a peer, among all Granada'a
youth.
Without a peer he rideth, and yon milk-white horse
doth go
Beneath tun atately maater, with a atately atep and
alow;
Then riao, oh riae, Xarifa, lay the golden cuahion
down;
Unaeen here through the lattice, you may gaze with
all the Town.
IV.
The Zegri Lady roae not, nor laid I'er cuahion down,
Nor raine ahe to the window to gaze with all the
Town;
But though her eyea dwelt on hei knee, in vain her
fingers atrove,
And though her needle preaaed the silk, no (lower
Xarila Wove;
One lionny roae-bud ahe had traced, before the noiae
drew nigh?
That bonny bud a tear effaced, alow dropping from
her eye.
"No, no, ' she sighs, "bid me not riae, nor lay'my
cuahion down,
To gaze U|?on Andilla with all the gazing Town."
V.
" Why riae ye not, Xarifa, nor lay your cuahion down!
Why gaze ye not, Xarifa, with all the gazing Town 1
Hear, hear the trumpet how it awella, and how tho
people cry.
He stop* at Zara'a palace gate?why ait yc atill?oh
why 1"
" At Zara'a gate atopa Zara's mate) in him aliall 1
d mover
The dark-eyed youth pledged me hia tiuth with tears,
and waa my lover 1
1 will not riae, w ith weary eyea, nor lay my cuahion
down,
To gaze on falae Andilla with all the gazing Town."
miscellaneous.
THE SENATOR OF BREMEN.
A POPULAR TRADI 1'fON.
One summer evening, in the year 1749, the
family of Mr. Sebaldus Beerlein, senator of the
free imperial city of Bremen, were seated to
gether, whiling away , the hour between eight
and nine in conversation, and the juniors anvi
sing themselves with various innocent games.
The apartment which they were in was spa
cious, panelled, according to the custom of that
time, with carved wood-work, and decorated
with oil-paintings of some value, which Mr. Se
haldus had picked up in his travels in Holland.
His aged grandmother was seated at the win
dow, in a chair covered with leather, embossed
with Uowers of gold, lookms, as usual, at the
steeples of the distant churches, tinged with the
radiance of sunset. She hummed at the same
time to herself an old hymn of Paul Gerherd's,
which treats of the repose of the godly after
death, and the happiness of those who have
fought the good fight, and are delivered from all
the trials and tribulations of this mortal life.?
She numbered full eighty years, and so she had
good reason to hum such a hymn. Catherine,
the senator's wife, a still young and comely wo
man, of ihe most respectable family of Ruhberg
of Hildesheim, sat not far from the window at
a small table, playing agame at lansquenet with
her nephew Ruhberg, copying clerk to the sen?
ate, an almost boyi>h-looking young man. She
mistook the cards in the twilight ; the youth
took advantage of this, and purposely cheated
his aunt, and she reproved him with good
humored severity for his knavish tricks. A
group of children were sitting together in the
middle of the room, and Stgisinunda, the eldest
daughter, twelve year- old, was telling her bro
thers nd sisters, in a low tone, a long story,
to which they listened in silent attention. Theo
bald Aplevert, an old and faithful servant of the
family, was standing at the corner of the stove,
calculating the last week's receipts from a little
shop which his wife kept, and, as he had reason
to apprehend, not to the best account. Thus
each of the members of the family was engaged
his own way, and not attending to what the
others were about.
Mr. Sebaldus Beerlein hiiflself was sitting
on the sofa, with a hand in his waistcoat pock
et, and his head propped by the other, he looked
straight before him, listening with pleasure to
the playful tones of his wife, and the soft whis
pering voice of his daughter, and now and then
casting a glance at the dark form of his grand
mother, whose shaking hi ad and sharply-formed,
noble features were defined upon the evening
sky. Such moments are of great value to the
father of a family. He takes a survey of his
past life. He thinks of all the comforts and bles
sings that Providence has bestowed on him, and
he forms plans for the further improvement of
his circumstances, for the sake of those who are
dearest to lus heart.
The clock of the neighboring church now
struck nine. As the sound of the last stroke
died away, the Senator ruse, took his hat and
cane, and hastily left the room.
?' Sebald," cried his wife, "art thou going to
the counting-house? Shall a light be brought
down to thee?"
The Senator gave no answer. They heard
him going down stairs, and presently the house
door shutting heavily after him.
" Where can lie be going to?" a?ked the
grandmother.
" Indeed 1 don't know," replied his wife ; "he
meant to spend the evening with us. Some
thing must have suddenly occurred to him."
The old lady shook her head ; a light w'as
brought, and the f.tmily sat down at the round
table to their simple supper. A place was left
for the master of the house, as everybody felt
thoroughly convinced that he would presently
return. The quarter chimed, then the half hour,
then three-quarters, and at last the clock 8truc*
ten, and still he had not come back. Theobald
was sent to the vintner's over the way, to in
quire whether the Senator might not have
ed in there, and met with friends who had de
tained him; but he cauie back, naying that the
vintner had assured him he had not seen his
master. Catharine joked about this sudden dis
appearance of her husband, but nobody joined
in her mirth, especially as the venerable grand
mother assumed so serious a look. For some
days past she had felt unwell.
"It is not right for htm to go just now,' said
she; "I am liable tQ be called from oue moment
to another; and it would grieve me much not to
see him once more."
Catharine scoled the grandmother for this ex
pression, Bud told her that she ought not to talk
in (hat manner. The old lady said her prayers,
and Catherine led her to her chamber.
The children were put to bed, too ; young
Ruhberg retired, and Catherine was left by her
self. She took upaome work, and sealed tier
self near the candle, resolving not to go U) bed
till her husband came in.
It struck eleven, it struck twelve, and not a
foot-fall was heard out of doors. The streets
were deserted and silent: the watchman's horn
was heard at a great distance ; and from a cur
tained back-window of a neighboring house
sounded the low mournful tonea of women sing
ing .while the* watched with a corpse. 1 he
sky was overcast and here and there a few soli
tary stars, so few, that Catherine could count
them, peeped forth from between the clouds -
She stoorf at the window,and she made sure that
every ?hadow which gliued along either side of
the s.*reet was her husband coming home at last;
but still l>e came not. When the returned to
her work at lite table, she was seized with des
pondency and alarm. She now bethought her
that it was not Sebald's way to go out so sud
denly without saying a word, and to stay out so
late. If he had changed his mind, and been
obliged to go out that evening, he would surely
have said a word to that effect to his wife who
was sitting not far from him. Never did he go
out for a single hour without acquainting her
and desiring her to save his supper for him ; and
now he was away the whole night! She turn
ed over in her miudhisbehaviorduring the day :
uneasy as she was she fancied that it had not
been altogether as usual; but on closer reflec
tion, she could not adduce any particular circum
stance. The anxious wife tried to recollect
whether any petty jar had arisen between them,
but she soon said to herself, "How could I for
get a quarrel so surious as to drive a husband
away from his wife! Beside.it was not Se
bald's disposition U> bear such a violent grudge.
Catherine's thoqghts then turned to his cir
cumstances ; but, as far as she knew, these were
prosperous: indeeJ, had they been ever so de
ranged, the senatot, a man universally beloved
and esteemed, would have no need to abscond
by night on that account, lor he had friends and
wealthy relations vho took an interest ^n his
welfare.
Amid these musings, day dawned, and t a
therine extinguished her lamp. Weary as she
was, sleep kept aloof from her eyes. By de
grees the family began to stir, doors opened,
and the short dry cough of the grandmother gave
notice that she wasawake. The children came,
and Catherine said not a word to them or to the
old lady about the absence of her husband. But
she could not long conceal it. People came up
on business: the messenger of the senate want
ed him ; friends askeJ to see him ; and at last
she was obliged to confess that she knew not
where her husband was. A day was suffered
to pass, and then it was publicly reported in the
city that Senator Beerlein had disappeared^ and
nobody knew what had become of him. Some
now pretended that a man's hat and stick had
been found on the bank of the river; others de
clared that a report of fire-arins had been heard
at night in u neighboring wood, and it was whis
pered that the corpse of the suicide had been
carried very early in the morning to the city by
charcoal-burners, secretly hired for the purpose.
Still more extraordinary rumors were circulated:
it was alleged that Mr. Beerlein had been con
ducted by an escort over the frontiers, to be
punished for some crime suddenly discovered 111
a neighboring country. It is easy to conceive
what Catherine and her family must have suf
fered when they heard these reports. Thepoor
forlorn woman still believed her husband would
come back daily, hourly?but she was disap
pointed. A mouth passed away, two months,
three months, and not a trace of the Senator was
to be discovered. Advertisements in the news
papers proved fruitless ; and private inquiries
indefatigably prosecuted were equally unavail
ing. The man was as completely lost as if he
had sunk into the earth. Nobody had seen him
go out at the door, nobody had observed him in
the street; minutely as his dress, f.ice, and
figure were described, nowhere had such a per
son been seen in any of the neighboring places.
Three years had elapsed, and the lost senator
had ceased to be talked of, when, late one eve- j
mug. likewise in the middle of summer, a man [
knocked at the door of Beerlein's house. He
looked pale and fatigued. He was asked what
he wanted. The stranger was evidently asto
nished at the question.
"Who are you ?" said he to the young man
who opened the door. "What brings you into
my house ?" ....
"Your house!' exclaimed the youth, scri ti
nizing the interrogator from head to foot. "This
house belong* to" Mr. Van Peters, the wine
merchant, and I am his clerk."
" Van Pet. rs I" exclaimed the stranger.?
" What a silly oaf you must be to crack such a
stupid joke! As if I di?l not know where the
wine merchant lives, and where my own house
is!"
With these words he pushed the young fel
low roughly aside, and ascended the well-known
staircase. He went along the passage ; here he
saw furniture and pictures that were strange to
him. He was about to open the door of the sit
ting room, when butsts of obstreperous laughter,
the clung ol glasses, of men in loud disputation
met his ear.
"Is it possible?" said he to himself; "Has
Catherine company 7 and especially such noisy
company as this ?"
He opened the door gently, and was filled
with horror on seeing a number of drunken faces
around a public house table. The apartment,
which used to be kept so neat, so clean, so com
fortable, looked dirty, and was filled with tobac
co-smoke. The wainscot was damaged, and
here and there gone from the wall. The chair
at the window, where his grand-mother was ac
customed to sit, was occupied by a sleeping
"mountain of flesh." But the evening sun
shone, as it did when he was there last, through
the windows, and its returned radiance cut the
returned senator to the heart like a dagger. He
stood upon the threshold of h.s own room ; lie
sought the dear objects whom he had left there
but an hour'before, as he thought, and how was
all so frightfully changed, as in the wild vaga
ries of an extravagant dreain ! The poor man
rubbed his forehead, he shut his eyes and open
ed them again, io convince himself that he was
not mistaken, and tottered like one who is on the
point of swooning. The noisy revellers, on per
reiving him, laughed aloud at the pale stranger
for coming into a public house when he seemed
to be already intoxicated.
"Good Heavens!" all at once exclaimed the
landlord ; " why it is the lost senator!"
At thiv exclamation the guests were seized
with a panic, set down their glasses, and stared
at the door, as though they hud seen a spectre.
The stranger advanced ana seated hin\self at the
end of one of ihe benches. Those who occu
pied it moved as far from him as they could.?
The landlord alone had the courage to go up to
hun.
"Mr. Senator," cried he, "where have you
been 7 Kor these three years search has beeo
made for you to no purpose."
"Three years!" repeated Beerlein, staring at
the landlord.
"This house," continued the other, "is no
longer yours. Your widow, your wife, I would
say?sold it to nte iu the second year, as you did
not come back, and now lives in a small town in
the neighborhood."
"And my grandmother?" asked Beerlein.
"She died a few weeks after your disappear
ance."
"And my children ?"
"Dead too. A disease which made great ha
voc in our good city carried them off."
At these answers, the head of the unfortunate
senator dropped lower and lower; no tone of
horror or of grief escaped him ; but his whole
frame denoted heart-bieaking and unutterable
anguish. He left the room a< quietly as he had
entered it. The landlord followed him, stopped
him on the stairs, and atiked in aloud and sliarp
voice, "But where have you been all the time,
neighbor V'
"Ask me not," replied the wretched man ;
God has been pleased to try me in a wonderful
way. I feel that I shall die."
With these words he fell into a deep swoon.
Care was taken to convey him to his wife, and
one may conceive the fright and joy of Cathe
. .ne wnen she saw her long lost husband return.
She received him in her widow's weeds, which
she put off immediately, but only to resume them
in a few weeks, and this time with sufficient oc
casion, for Mr. Sebaldus Beerlein departed this
life, as he had foretold, with pious resignation :
but before he died he communicated to the cler
gyman who attended him the extraordinary cir
cumstances of his absence, and this document
is still preserved by the family. It is attested
an'd signed by several witnesses living at the
time, who were well acquainted with the sena
tor before his disappearance, and who saw him
return, and the seal of the city authorities was
affiled to it. The narrative was, in substance,
as follows :
On Trinity Sunday, in the year 1749, relates
the senator, between eight and nine in the eve
ning, I was sitting quietly, and occupied with
the most pleasing thoughts about my family,
which was collected around me, when I dis
tinctly heard a rap at the door. 1 took no notice
of it, concluding that Ahlevert, my servant, who
was close to the door, would see who was there,
or that the person who had knocked would come
in, when he found his signal disregarded. In
stead of that, however, the knocking was thrice
repeated, and very loud. I was surprised that
not a creature in the room seemed lo hear it: all
quietly kept their seats. All at once it was as
if a voice said to me, "Bise, take thy hat and
cane and go."
1 strove to silence this extraordinary inward
injunction, but was seized with such an anxiety,
oppression, and faintness of heart, as if I had
been ever so ill. The painful sensation became
at la*t so unbearable, that I was forced to take up
my hat and stick and go to the door.
When I was in the passage, I there found a
man who eyed ine with a steadfast look, and
again the words sounded in my ears, " Come,
follow me."
I knew not the man, neither did I know what
he wanted with me: but I felt that from the mo
ment I had crossed the threshold of my room he
had power over me, and I followed him.
We descended the back-stairs and went thro'
a | assage in the next house, of the existence of
which I had never before been aware. It was
vaulted, 'and as tar as I can recollect, casks and
empty chests were piled against its dark walls.
It became lower and lower, so that at last I was
obliged to advance stooping after my guide, who
went just before me. We came toa daik water,
which I look to be a covered canal: the water
looked black and unnatural. A couple of crazy
planks which served for a bridge, swayed mucii
as I was passing over them ; but my guide
moved light as a feather and without the slight
est noise, over this dangerous crossing.
We got at last into the open air, and I saw
the starry firmament above us. The evening
red still glowed iu the west, and I recollect that,
on looking back, I distinctly saw the steeple of
our principal church ; everything else seemed to
be enveloped, as it were, in mist. We now
came to a plain, extending farther than the eye
could reach, and which appeared absolutely
strange to me. Not a tree, not a hut, not a road
was to be seen. The ground was coveied with
dried or singed grass, as if a vast fire lately raged
mere.
1 made this remark to my guide, asking at the
same time whither he was leading me. With
out answering, he signified by a silent gesture,
that we must proceed. Accordingly, without
exchanging a word, we pursued our course to
gether over the dead level of the heath. The
last tinge ol the evening red di>appeared ;
a fog shrouded the face of heaven, so that larth
and sky seemed to be covered with one uniform
lead-colored veil. I cannot describe to you the
awful and soul depressing effect of this solitude.
Mow grateful to my ear would have been the
slightest sound of life ! we heard not even our
own footfalls on the soft ground. Prom lime to
time a cool breeze blew over the plain, but it re
freshed me not, for it wafted with it an intolera
ble smell of mould.
Having proceeded in this manner for about
half an hour, 1 perceived a house standing quiet
alone upon the plain, and the windows of which
were brilliantly lighted up. It was in that sort
of style in which palaces are built; pillars sup
ported the roof, and the edifice was decorated
with magnificent (lights of steps, rich coats of
arms, and gilt statues. My companion beck
oned me to enter. | represented to him that I
knew not either the house or its owner.
"Thou wilt learn to know him," he replied ;
"but beware of putting a single question either
to him or to those about hiin concerning w hat
thou shalt there see. Silent as thou earnest
must thou go again, and impress upon thy me
mory what thou seest."
With these words he opened the door of a
large magnificent saloon, along the sides of
which 1 saw by the light of a thousand tapers, a
large company sitting in full dress. .. hen I en
tered, every eye was turned upon me. The
company consisted of gentlemen of quality, and
ladies of extraordinary beauty j but I knew none
of them. They were faces which I had never
seen in all my life. My companion, who stop- j
ped in a respectful atti'ude at the door, motioned
nie to approach the company. I did so, though
I felt abashed, and they replied to my salutation
with a formal but not unfriendly obeisance; for
every one seemed to be wholly occupied with
himself or his neighbor, and to take no further I
notice of me. I had time for observation, and I
I soon remarked that all these beautiful women !
had red cords round their necks, which were
white as alabaster, and that the gentlemen wore
the same mark over their cravats. Finding that
I was permitted to walk about where I pleased,
I went up to a card-table at the window, about
which four grave gentlemen were assembled.'
They looked cold and indifferent; sleep seemed
to weigh down their eves: their clothes were
most splendidly embroidered with gold, and
broad ribbons of orders crossed their bosoms.
They, too, had the distinctive red band round
their neck; but what startled me more was, to
?ee thai ilit-curds with which they w?Tf pla> lug
were stained with blond.
I turned suddenly away, and went into an ad
joining apartment. It was fitted up still more
superbly than the saloon, and hung with red vel
vet. On a sofa I saw a man who was talcing
a nap; his head drooped upon his bosom; but
he, too, had the red band round his neck. Cant
ing my eyes upon the ground, t perceived with
horror a track of blood, which led to the neit
room. I followed it, and found a second a pari
mi nt, but not a creature in it. The lights burn
ed dimly, and a number of musical instruments
huddled together in one corner, indicated that
(hey had been, or were to be, used to play to
dancing ; but not a musician was to be seen, and
the profoundest silence prevailed. A door of
immense magnitude occupied the further side of
this apartment. It was shut and surrounded
with costly guilding. The traces of blood led
to this door, but in spite of all my efToits to open
it, 1 could not stir the lack. Apprehensive lest
the noise which 1 made might bring the compa
ny to me, I desisted trom further attempts. Over
the door was inscribed in large black figures
" 1789." This number has deeply impressed
itself upon my mind, as well a< the track of
blood which led to the mysterious apartment.
I know that I fell into a reverie about these
things, and a kind of atupor came over me, and
made me sit down in a chair in a Corner ol
the saloon. How long I might have sat there 1
cannot tell. When I woke up from my musing,
I heard a clock strike one, and at the same time
a great bustle in the saloon. I rose immediate
ly and hastened through the apartments, to look
lor my guide. He was still standing there,
waiting tor me. We quitted the saloon and tin
house forthwith. 1 was again upon the solitary
heath, and my companion walking mutely by
tny side. In this manner we arrived at the
skirts of the city, where he took leave of me with
a silent bow. I felt faint and ready to die. I
had scarcely strength to reach the city, and I re
joiced to find myself again iu the well known
streets. When I once more heard the noisu
usual in them, and human voices, my hi art
seemed to revive. The recollection of the
ghostlike company, with its fearful mark, gradu
ally became less vivid, but that prophetic num
ber was constantly befoie my eyes, and will
continue to haunt them as long as 1 live ; for it
is but too certain that the Lord hath caused me
to see a wonderful vision.
Need we say that the import of this vision, or
whatever it may be called, was fully explained
by the French revolution which broke out just
40 years afterward? About that time appeared a
tract in German, with this title, "Wonderful
and True History of the lost Senator of Bremen
?how by the special permission of God he fore
saw future Times and their Doings." Upon
that publication the above tradition is founded
STEAMBOAT BUILDING AT CINCIN
NATI.
The numbei of steamboats built or building
here and at other points, this year, is extraor
dinary, and shows how rapidly the resource** of
the West are being developed, and how great
(he demand for boats to carry passengers and
produce from point to point. The following is
a list of steamboats, and their tonnage, which
have been registered and built here this year:
Sttambuatt. Tons.
John Marshall, 202
Ben Franklin, 311
Oceana, 190
Oregon, 282
Goddess of Liberty, 248
Osage Vallev, 166
Express Mail, 244
Carrier, 132
Phamix, 42
Little Ben, 182
U. S. Mail, 139
Shoal VVater, 244
Gov. Yell, 144
Uttacapas, 246.
Osage, 129
Yazoo Planter, 82
Brazil, 166
- Waverly, 127
Walnut Hills, 190
Victress, 190
T ?H?. 245
Arkansas, 25U
Juniata, 134
Crescent, 115
Total, 4,400
In addition to these, we learn that there will
be out, before the close of the season, over
eleven more. This list speaks in a way not to
be misunderstood, of the business and prosper
ity of our city, of the skill of our mechanics,
and what those who are building boats and look
ing to their own interests, think of boats built
at Cincinnati.?Cut. Gazette.
VERMONT.
The official vote of Vermont for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor an revived by the Canvaaning
Committee of the Legialnture, in ai follow*
For Ooctrnor.
Charlra Paine (Whip) ... 23.353
Nathan Sinilie (Opposition) ? - 21.30?2
Tilua Huichinaon (Abolition) - - 3,03'J
Scattering, .... '248
Whole number of votf? - - - 47 942
For Lieutenant Governor.
Waitstill R Ran nay ... 23,776
I Edwaid D Barber ... 2!,331
I Alvah Sunin - 2,801
) Scattering - - . - 06
I Whole number of votes - * - 47,974
[The returns of Johnson, Mansfield, Sterling, and
Weatford wire not admitted, the votes not being en
closed in the retur . No vote* were returned from
Mt Tabor, Hanaock and Ripton ]
This result having been announced, the two Houses
on Friday, 15th mutant, went into joint ballot 'anil
proceeded to the choice of Governor, Lt Governor,
and Treasurer, agreeably to the Constitution. The
result wiia as follows:
For
Charles Paine
Nathan Smilie
Titus Hutchinson -
Wni A. Griswold -
A*a G Ilewea
Blanks
For Lieut. Governor.
Waitstill R. Ranney,
Edward D. Barber ?
Alvah Sabin
W. Ramney
Blank,
For Treasurer
John Spalding - ? ? 155 elected.
Daniel Baldwin ? ? ? 95
Harry Hale - ? - -3
The vote of the lower House on the election of
Speaker stood thus :
Carlos Coolulge, ( Whig) - - 129
Mr Vila*, (Opp.) ? ? -85
O. P Chandler ... 2
Sewall Fullsm, jr. ? - - 3
Samuel Swift .... 1
William Hebard 1
John Pierpont * ? 1
For Clerk.
Ferrand F Merrill, (Whig) - ? 136
O. H. Smith, (Opp,) - - 85
THE STAGE.
The world is a stage , men anil women are the play
ers; clisnee composes the piece ; fortune (blind jade)
distributes the parts ; the fools shift the scenery , the
philosophers are the spectators, the rich occupy tli?
lioies, the (lowerful the pit, and the poor the gallery
The f rsaken of Lady Fortune stiufl* the cardie*,
Folly mi-ke* the concert, and Time drop* the curtain '
Hentley'i Mitctllany.
A Tieer thot in the Street*(if Lonitrille ? A splen
did 'iger, In longing to the manage* is of Tim* June,
Angewne A ('o. exhibiting on Green street, Louis
ville, escaped from hi* keepers on Friday. He was
sliot by rnr Joseph Potter, pisno forte manutn'turer.
lie inflicted a slight injury u|?n the srm of a man
who was endeavoring to ' head him," by a blow froru
hia paw."
Governor.
- 146 electcd.
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? 151 olecled
? 95
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