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SOtimPORT
BY (’. C. SHOLES.
From the Brother Jonalhan.
Mill’ POLAND, BURNED AT SEA.
The packet ship Poland, Captain Antho
♦, from this port (N. A .) for Havre, was
alien it) with by the ship Clifton, on the
lUh of May, in latitude 41 12, longitude
SG, on fire. The passengers and crew,
and a portion of the cargo were saved. 7 he
jl’olan I had oil board 21 cabin, ajid 11 stcer
pge passengers. The cargo of the Po
, ind consisted of 279 bales of cotton, 2700
Ibrls. of flour, 80 hhds. of bark, 22 barls.
pot ashes, and $70,000 in speoie.
We were gratified by early assurance
of the safety of all on board, by our friend
J. II Buckingham, Esq., of Boston, frorfl
vhom in a right hearty grip of ’he hand
we had proof that he was not onljP tflifle,
but as good as new, despite of all the dis
asters which had befallen him. The Ship
i’olan I was struck by lightning on Satur-
I day, the 16th May, five days out, in lat. 41
35, long. 58 30. Mr. B. states that with
r'apt. Anthony and others, during a heavy
I pall, at three o’clock, on the afternoon
I >f that day, he saw the lightning descend
I 'idee a single bail of fire, and strike tl.c
•i rhourd fore royal yar I arm, —that it
1 >nce dropped to the fore yard, and there
lining in to the mast, seemed to vanish
d s-parato. During the whole storm
■re was but one clap of thunder, and but
one stroke of lightning. Tho concentra
t jd fury of the clouds s cmed spent in that
~ ie b it, which struck as above described,
’i'i: sublimity of the spectacle will forever
Ibe i theme of conversation to those who
witn.'s'sed it; and while in the Providence
of a good God c/7 tho souls on board have
esc/ip •<! to tell of it, they cannot regret the
d in'.; - and privations which they have
endured, which have enabled them to speak
of a sublime and ferritic spectacle, such as
few have witness'd, and survived to des
cribe. Il - who holds the waters in the
hoi! »w of bis hands, knows only to how
rnnnv gallant ships and gallant mJn, a sig
nal like tl. it of the descent of the lightning
upon the Poland has been tho precursor
of a torribl > death—leaving no testimony
to suiviving friend) of its manner or its
time.
It was at first thought by the deeply in
ter sted spectators that of) the fore yard,
th* fluid spent it.-; -If and separated. Ex-
I cumati >n destroyed this hope, and it was
. liscoven I that the tight ring had passed
(down th : mad into the forward hold, .and
iii-<1 th ' e itton stowed th ire. Immediate
-1 iv iff; • tii - lightning had struck the ship,
Cant. ,\ :!h >nv went between decks and
«, >ll .i •(1 throwing over cotton and flour
t > tatth ■ hold. On taking up the low-
I . r he • i th 1 ' sin >‘<e burst out to such a dc
|g-'o t it th y were compelled to shut down
lull the a itch s. The cabin was immedi-
*I, i i with smoke, so much so that
' ■ha .is could not remain long enough to
t ( ■ ;■ i t;u The men were, however
<’ iv i fiom th' ir work by tho smoke, and
th ■ st, ; sulphurous smell. At eight o’
ici i f ■ hatch 's were closed, ,and the
|. iit; w ■ ■ clear'd and got out nt about ten
: I’. M. the females .and children, with as
I 1.1 t :v m a as was thought proper, making
< in i]', were [a.it into the long boat and
dropped astern, where they remained all
th u h i*, ami the next day and night, un
j til M >nd i\ morning —the ship being hove
to, in order to be easy; and in hopes of be
ing (I; severed bv some passing vessel.
I'c rs were entertained that if sail were
mad ', the masts burnt oil' below the deck
would g > by tho board, and the Hames rush
Ujj, I aiding all hope out ol the question.
- ’.u Monday morning, the wind having
irw-n .<ed, the passengers were taken on
board, and sail was made for the N. E.
'The tire seem 'd rather to have abated than
I increased, and 'he glass bull s eyes, and
Blie deck’s planks did not seem so hot as
ion the day previous. About one o’clock a
sail was discovered, and the Poland was
p it b fore the w ind to speak her. —By nine
I’. M. not a soul was left in jeopardy on
K-lunJ: all being tvanslci vvd on
board the Clifton, without, to i sc the cm*
emphatic language of Mr Buckingham,
without so much injury as a scratch.
Whim wo state that <hC wind blew a gale
at tho time of this trans-shipment, wO C?n
i;O< too much admire the skdl and care of
» aids. J. B. Ingersoll of the Chiton, and
Anthony of the Poland, and their officers;
nor can we too highly praise the coolness
and presence of mind of the crew and some
of the passengers, and tho obedience of all
to direction; exposed as they were, to an
untried and terrible danger.
In this condition they remained until
Monday, at 2 P. M., when they were taken
off by the Glifton. During this time they
were in a most horrid state of suspense,
! the fire below constantly increasing, so
I nuch so.that the docks were momentarily
becoming hotter. Iler sides were so hot,
that when the ship rolled, the planks out
of water would instantly bccorne dry and
»kc. The weather, from Saturday, tho
ume. she was struck, tii! Mon ay, 1 • M,,
was fortunately tine. During these two
.a\s the boats (one long and two small.)
Mere along side, and ready at a moment s
. ("apt. Anthony behaved wi’h n
courage and coolness which entitle him to
higher praise than language can corfvey,
and after it was found impossible to reach
and quench the fire, the passengers and
crew were employed under his direction,
in stopping ail vents possible, through
which the smoke escaped. To this cool
ness, under God, is the present safety of
the passengers to be attributed.
The persons on board the Poland could
not have survived till 12 at night, without
assistance. Tho long boat would accom
• mo late thirty-five persons, the other boats
ten to twelve, leaving a large number of
the sixty lour, wholly unprovided for.
That under these circumstances and with
this view before them, they behaved so ra
tionally, is matter of special
When tha passengers and crew left the
Poland, the deck had ITecome too hot to
stand upon, the fire been increased
by the motion of the ship. It was the opi
nion that in an hour the flames burst forth.
The Clifton could not‘stay by to watch
the event on account of the storm; but we
can imagine the feelings of those who es
caped, reverting back in their minds,
though they could not look with their eyes,
to the burning grave which they had just
escape I. We can imagine their greeting
of each other, and their thanks to their
Heavenly preserver, and then to the men,
his instruments, when the company were
told, and all found safe.
From the Globe.
The Asiatic Ship of War. at New-
York.— Among the novel events of the day,
is the late arrival at New York, of a vessel
and cargo from Muscat on the Persian
Gukf. This vessel called the ''lSullanee”
or “ Royal” is a sloop of war under the
command of Reis Achmed Ben Hamed,
and belongs to the navy of the Iman of
Muscat, the Seid Said ben Sultan. Cap
tain Achmed is the bearer of a letter and
complimentary expressions, according to
Asiatic usage, from Sultan Said to the Pre
sident of the United States.
The extension of our commerce with Asi
atic nations, and its security by treaty sti
pulations has been the subject of anxious
and successful interest to the Administra
tion. One of the happy results of this care
of our commercial interest, was a treaty of
navigation and commerce with the Iman of
Muscat, which relieved ourcommerce from
discriminating duties. Another advanta
geous treaty has been concluded with the
kingdom of Siam,* tuid approaches have
been made with the desirable object, to the
empires of Cochin China, Japan, and Chi
na. Nor has our extensive and valuable
trade to the Red Sea been neglected, the
countries of which, both African and Ara
bian, are underthe government of Moham
med Ali, Pacha of Egypt
'Phe value of our trade to the dominions
of the Sultan of Muscat, is greater than
may be supposed. Official returns lor
eighteen months of vessels that visited Zan
zibar, show the number to be forty-one, of
w hich thirty-two were American. Twen
ty of these were from Salem, three from
Boston, and three from New York. Zan
zibar is an island on the east coast of Afri
ca, and is the depot for the trade of that
coast, and of the Red Sea and i’ersian gulf.
'l'hc United States arc represented there by
a consul.
Sultan Said possesses large territory on
the east cov.st of Africa, extending from
Cape Delgado to Cape Gardafur. His na
vy consists of seventy-five vessels of war,
of which several are line-of-battle ships,
which is a larger naval force than that of
all the Asiatic princes combined, ontheln
dian ocean.
The presence ofone of the Sultan's ships
in our harbor affords us extreme gratifica
tion; and we hope that the “ Sultanec’s,”
voyage to the United States will result in
frequent visits of Sultan Said’s vessels to
our ports.
Jiuffa2o and it« IJy roCo-
renee to our market report to-day, it will
be seen that 64,600 barrels of flour and 50,
000 bushels of wheat have arrived at the
port of Buffalo within the last ten days.—
This is an average of 6;460 a day, and
270 barrels an hour, night and day, for
that length of time. Allowing the flour to
have paid a storage tax of only sixpence
on the barrel and the wheat two cents per
Dj<hel, and the owners of warehouses have
received io the short period of ten
davs on these two items oi business.
The freight on this quantity of flour and
wheat will amount to someßls,ooo. a good
portion of which goes into the pockets of
our ship owners.
Few men have duly estimated the value
of our 1500 miles uninterrupted lake navi
gation. A coast of 3000 miles connecting
with numberless canals and rail-roads,
whose aggregate length, when they shall
be completed, will greatly exceed the length
of our inland seas, must create an amount
of commerce far greater than has ever yet
been witnessed on the waters of the Medi
terranean. Our vast western world is still
almost entirely an unbroken forest or open
prairie. But there is no people on the
SOUTHPORT, W. T., TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1840.
globe more enterprising and industrious
than ours, nor U there any country where
labor is equally rewarded. The new state
oi Michigan produced three millions of
bushels of wheat last season, and her crop
this, is said to be increased 20 per cent.—
Wisconsin is a large territory, and equal
ly, if not better adapted to the growth of
this important staple. The fertility of
northern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois is well known. The early com
pletion of the Wabash and Erie, and the
Illinois and Michigan canals, is now re
duced to a certainty. This will create a
new era in the amount of goods to be sent
west, and of agricultural products to lie
sent east through this great nothern’cha
nel of trade.
Our municipal authorities should lose no
time in enlarging our harbor room. 'Phe
state will soon extend the western terminus
el the Erie canal sufficiently to enable us
to have one of the most spacious, conve
nient and safe harbors on our western wa
ters, —Buffalo must grow up with giant
strides, and giant strength, to be a great
commercial city. The large reservation
in her immediate neighborhood will soon
be cultivated like a garden, and the hy
draulic power within a few miles of her
borders is sufficient to perform the labour
of a million of men.
Buffalo Com. Adv. Muy 19.
From the Peoria Register.
Wonderful escape from death.— Three
or four weeks ago, a Mr. Ladd who was
travelling on foot in lowa territory, near
Fort Madison, was fallen in with by three
other men, to whom, in the course of con
versation, he imparted the knowledge of
his having four or five hundred dollars
about him, which he was going to pay in
at the land office. The three strangers in
stantly determined to obtain the money,
and on their reaching a broken part of the
country, attacked Mr. L. with clubs and
knives, killed him as they thought, robbed
him, threw him into a ravine, covered him
with brush, and then continued on their
journey.
A rivulet of water flowed down the ra
vine in which Mr. Ladd lay buried, and the
cooling and refreshing element coming in
contact with his wounded head, had the ef
fect ol cleansing the wounds and restoring
him to animation. Knowing the route ol
the lobbers he instantly set out in pursuit
of them—reached Fort Madison, where he
hear 1 they had descended the river—pro
cured a skisf —reached St. Louis, and in
an hour or two apprehended two of the ruf
fians. The third had not yet reached the
city, and was arrested on landing a short
time afterwards. The villians were the
next day taken back to lowa, and the court
being in session, were instantly tried am l
convicted. Their names are James Guy,
Jacob Abdon, and James McGubbin.
Jarnos Guy was first tried, and the fol
lowing is the verdict of the jury: “ We,
the jury, find the prisoner guilty on the
first count in the indictment, and assers the
punishment at twenty-three years confine
ment in the penitentiary at hard labor am!
a fine of $200.” The sentence of the
court was in accordance with tho finding
of the jury.
Jacob Abdcn was found guilty and sen
tenced by the Court to eleven years impri
sonment at hard labor in the penitentiary,
and fincd*s3o.
JameS MeCabbin was found guilty and
sentenced to five years imprisonment in the
penitentiary. There were many palliating
circumstances in the case of M’Cabbin,
both before and after (he commission of
the robbery, which materially lightened his
punishment. He made a full confession
and manifested much penitence.
Truly, the community cannot complain
at the “ law’s delay” in this instance, for
we have seldom heard of more prompt and
summary justice being done in any coun
try. — Madison Enq.
Br. Dyott.— The Philadelphia Chronicle
says: “We learn from the best authority
that, in respect to the frauds practiced by
this individual, disclosures have been re
cently made, by the means of his sons,
which so far implicate a somewhat singu
lar and notorious gentlemen of this city—
a man of note —that the court will find it
advisable to assent to the application of
counsel for a new trial.
From Africa. —Captain Clark, of the
brig Robert, arrived Saturday from Gam
bia, brings intelligence that serious diffi
culties had occurred between the natives
and the colonis's, who had been obliged to
send to Sierre Leone for the assistance of
troops and ships of war. Two of the na
tive chiefs had already been killed. Me
Cartie’s Island had been fortified in expec
tation of an attack from the natives.
The slaves in the Canadas, who have
run away from the southern States, have
petitioned Parliament for a naturalization
law, by which they may become citizens,
as in the event of a war they may be recap
tured, and again held as slaves.
From ibe American Mechanic.
THE MECHANIC’S MORNING.
"Fa'aely luxurious, will not mm arise,
And leaping from the bed of sloth, enj >y
The cool, the fragrant, and the silent morn,
To meditation due, and sacred song.” 'Thompson.
It was Franklin, if I mistake not, who
uttered the adage, ‘lf a man lie in bed lute
he may trot after his business all day, and
not overtake it.” There is no class of
men concerning whom this is more true
than mechanics. Indeed, it is so general
ly received as a maxim, that any working
man’s character is gone if he is not an ear
ly riser. In regard to mere enjoyment, it
is something to add an hour or two of con
scious existence to every day of life. It
matters not whether we make our days
longer, our years longer, or the sum total
of days and years longer; in each case life
is so much prolonged. By making this ad
dition at the better end of every day, we
gain much in the quality of what is redeem
ed. An hour before breakfast is common
ly worth two afterwards. 'I he whole day
is apt to take the color of the morning.
There are certain things which if not done
early in the morning are likely to be left
undone altogether. Late risers are usual
ly indolent. ‘Love not sleep lest thou come
to poverty.’ Late rising is also conjoined
with sloveliness in every kind of perfor
mance.
The luxury of early rising is a mystery
to the uninitiated. People of quality deny
themselves the very choicest portion of a
summer day.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charms of earliest birds
What cun be lovelier than the aspect of
nature at sunrise, during the season of flow
ers? No man knows any thing about the
music of birds who has not heard their per
formance between dawn and sunrise. No
man appreciates the unbought odorsof the
vegetable world, who has not quaffed them
at this hour Let any one who has Leon
so unfortunate as to keep his bed at this
enchanting season of the day, henceforth
amend his habits. He will find himself iu
i new world. The current of his thoughts
will flow more healthfully and purely. Af
ter rising early, I have often thought that
1 was in a better humor with myself and
md others all the succeeding day. Tliis
is th. suitable time for planning out the
day’s work. No thriving man can live
without method and foresight; and these
ire but names where indolence robs us of
he day’s prime. Every man of business
knows how idle it is for a master to in
lulge in sleep in the expectation that his
subordinates will at the same time be dili
gently employed.
The duty of making tho most of every
lay should be inculcated on children. Let
the habit be well fixed, and it will never
Icavethcm. Whatever may be the change
in their circumstances, and however they
may affect more delicate fashions, they
will never be able to forget the elasticity
and fragrance of their boyish mornings;
nor ever prefer the sickly damps of a hot
bed to the refreshing breezes of the dawn.
Under another head 1 will give an instance
of two surprising attainments iu learning,
made in early hours redeemed from sleep
by laboring men. In every thingthat con
cerns the mind, the morning is invaluable.
After the repose and corroboration of sleep
the spirits arc new made and the faculties
act with alacrity. Hence the ancient pro
verb: Aurora is a friend, to the muses.
On tl»?*; account I would venture to recom
mend to mechanics the practice of getting
all their pecuniary accounts into proper or
-1 der before breakfast. It is well known
that many industrious and sober men get
behindhand in their affairs, simply because
their books become deranged. This de
rangenient frequently arises from the groat
hurry of business during the day. which
prevents a leisurely settlement. \\ here a
man is not much versed in arithmetic and
book-keeping, these settlements arc some
what serious afluirs, and cannot bo duly
performed at a counter among customers,
or in the hum ofa busy shop. Let the mas
ter mechanic rise an hour earlier than is
usual, for this very purpose. lle will then
have unbroken time for his accounts, and
will be able with great satisfaction to enter
on the day’s work, with the feeling that bis
papers and books are in a good state. A
little of this every morning will soon make
itself felt; constant dropping wears away
the rock—This practice is immensely bet
ter than that of leaving this ugly job until
night, when there is an urgent temptation
to neglect it altogether. I need nol say
that the practice of posting one’s books on
Sunday is at once profane and injurious.
Let me quote Milton, for it is part of my
creed that the great master pieces of human
genius are a part of the working man's in
heritance. Some one had spoken of the
poets morning haunts: he replies with just
indignation: these morning haunts are
where they should be, at home; not sleep
ing or concocting the surfeits of an irregu
lar feast, but up and stirring, in winter of
ten ere the sound of any bell to awaken men
to labor or devotion; in summer as oft
with the bird that first rouses, or not tar-
TBWCItAPII.
dier to read good authors or cause them to
be read, till the attention be weary, or me
mory have its full fraught.'’ For the same
or other purposes, such as our business may
render important, let us shake oft'slumber
and enjoy the happiest hours of the twenty
four.
The influence of early rising upon health
may have been overrated by zealots, jet
none can deny the great salubrity of the
practice. Too much.sleep is relaxing to
the animal fibre, and instead of rendering
one less drowsy through the day, is often
observed to induce a lethargic state of mind
and body. Early rising pre-supposes good
hours al night: and these afford a good se
curity to health as well as morals. It is
too often the case, that young mechanics,
after a day of hard work, give themselves
the license of passing many hours of the
night in sweet walking, carousing, or ta
vern hunting.
There is one class of duties still to be
mentioned, which demands the proper use
of the morning hours: I mean the exer
cise of devotion. The cry echoes every
morning from the turrets of Mahommedan
mosques, Prayer is belter than sleep! Pra
er is belter than sleep! The man, wheth
er rich or poor, who never communes with
God or with his own heart, lives like a
brute. Natural religion may suffice to
teach us that our first thoughts are due to
God. In this connexion, one cannot but
be reminded of the brilliant passage of the
Shakespeare of preachers; “ When the
sun approaches towards tho gates of the
morning, he first opeqs a little of heaven,
and sends away the spirits of darkness,
and gives light to a cock, and calls up the
lark to matins, and by and by gilds the
fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the east
ern hills, thrusting out his golden horns
like those which decked the brow of Mo
ses, when ho was forced to wear a veil,
because he himself had seen the face of
God; and still, while a man tells the story,
the sun gets higher and higher, till he
shows a fair face and a full light, and then
he shines one whole day.”*
Amidst the fragrance and sabbath quiet
of morning, all nature allures us to serious
and thankful consideration. When the
beautiful face of the world, refreshed by
the moisture.and coolness of night, bursts
once more upon our view, it is a dictate of
every good feeling within us, to elevate
our hearts to our Creator and Redeemer.
The devout and rational soul will say :
“Witness if I lie silent, morn or even,
To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade,
Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Hail! universal I.ord! be bounteous still
To give us only good, and if the night
Have gathered ought of evil, or concealed,
Disperse it, ns now light dispels tho dark”
*Jcremy Taylor.
Migratory expedition of ants. — The ant
cities, as they ought to be called, of Bra
zil, are of such amazing size,that they have
more the character of structures reared by
human hands, than that of monuments of
human industry and skill. They are co
nical mounds of clay, which their tiny ar
chitects rear to the heigl.th of ten or twelve
feet; thcircircumfercnce is nine or ten feet.
A hard yellow clay forms the external coat;
the inside is divided by a number of hori
zontal floors or stories of hard black earth
in thin plates, which sometimes shine like
Japan ware. These habitations are peo
pled by myriads of ants of a large size, and
a brown color. They have the power of
exuding from their bodies a viscid fluid, by
which they moisten the clay to a consisten
cy fit for baling floors. Some species form
covered ways in this manner, and tunnels
or avenues of this description have been
found stretching for a considerable distance
from one settlement to another, and through
which these ants arc enabled to make pret
ty lung journeys unseen. They sometimes
migrate, and their expeditions are attended
with truly remarkable circumstances. In
fuel, they resemble, on n small scale, the
inroads of Attila and his million of mount
ed barbarians, into the fruitful and glowing
plains of Italy—leaving a parched desert
in their wake. When these insect'Huns
set out on such enterprises, they proceed
right forward in a straight line, just as the
laden bee flies to its hive, and they devour
every thing in their way which is eatable,
like a cloud of locusts “warping on the
wind.”
It once happened during one of these
expeditions, which was undertaken near
the city of Rio de Janeiro, that a garden
obstructed their line of march —a deep ditch
of water in particular, seemed an insur
mountable obstacle; however, a stick hap
pened accidentally, to be lying across it;
this the ants used as a bridge, and over it
they poured by myriads, so that in a few
hours the garden was swarming full of
them, and every thing of a vegetable kind
disappeared. From this they proceeded on
till they came to the house of the Swedish
Consul, through which they actually made
their way. The gentleman who inhabited
it was sucdenly awakened during the night
by a horrid sensation, ami starting from
his couch, he found himself covered with
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these insects, whose crawling and bitmg
had awoke him. The house was full of
them; there was neither recess nor apart
ment nor closet exempt from their pre
sence. Impelled by heir instinctive ten
dency to advance, they pursued their on
ward course until the whole body passed
through, and next morning not a single one
of them was to be seen. Strange to say,
the ants devoured every other insect in
their progress, so that the singular visita
tion was not without its use. Spiders,
cockroaches, and every thing of the kind
which infested the house, became the prey
of these nocturnal visiters; and when they
disappeared, it was found that every other
species of insect had di- ippenred along
w ith them. Connecticut Couranl.
Late Illness of the Recorder. — The Re
corder of this city, (New-York.) Robert
IL .Morris, Esq. has recovered from his
late illness, so far as to be able to attend to
his official business again. His illness,
which has been serious, and commenced
on Sunday afternoon last, wrvs owing to the
following circumstances. He, with his la
dy, father and mother, brother, Ac., were
at the house of Mr. Ludlow’, brother-in-law
to the Recorder, in West Chester county,
and some snngarce was prepared out of
some Moselle wine that Mr. Ludlow had
himself bottled some six years ago. All
the company (eight in number) drank of
the wine sangaree and soon after drinking
some of it, Mrs. Ludlow, the Recorder’s
sister, became sick and vomited —the Re
corder was next attacked, and operated up
on in the same way, and ere long the whole
of the company suffered from nausea, and
vomited freely. Doctor Horatio Gates was
sent for, and administered emetics, and
gave such other remedies as the symptoms
of the case required—it being his opinion
that they were all poisoned, but what the
poison was received in, did not appear. —
Suspicion at last fell upon the wine, and a
portion of the bottle of the Moselle was
subjected to a chemical analysis, which re
sulted in the discovery of oxalic acid in
considerable quantity in a state of diffusion
through and of solution in the wine, and
which when tested by the analysis, pro
duced something like a grain of the oxalic,
acid iu a concentrated state from three
ounces of the liquid. How this poisonous
substance came to be in the wine was the
next subject of inquiry, and was resolved
as follows, viz: that when collecting the
empty wine bottles to fill them, one was ac
cidently taken that had contained the oxa
lic acid, which the servant at that period
(six years ago) had used for the purposes
of cleaning the brass ware of the house,
but which had not been sufficiently exami
ned, thi' fact of its having contained tho
poisonous article not then being k/zown to
the bottlers of the wine. This act of care
lessness, committed some six years ago,
camo near causing the death of eight high
ly respectable and worthy individuals, all
of whom, we arc happy to state, after se
veral days of severe and painful illness,
aie now recovered from the effects of tho
poison.
The following paragraph from a late
London paper, may interest some of our
fair r< aders. 'l’hc general adoption of the
system might save many a bashfu^ lover
a bungling or awkwaid cclaircissement:
“ Isa gentlemen wants a wife, he wears
a ring on his first finger of the left hand;
it’ he is engaged he wears it on the second
finger; if married, on the third; and on the
fourth if he never intende to get married.
When a lady is not engaged, she wears
a hoop or diamond on her first flinger; if
engaged, on the second; if married on tho
third; and on the fourth if she intends to be
a maid. When a gentleman presents a
fan, a flower or trinkets to a lady, with
the loft hand, this, on his part, is an over
ture of regard; should she receive it with
her left hand, it is considered as an accept
ance of his esteem; but if with the right
hand, it is a refusal of the offer. 7 bus by
a few simple tokens, explained by rule, tho
passion of love is expressed.
Paying for News. — On returning to his
family, after an absence of some weeks,
Capt. Johnson had been driven from Kings
town to Dublin by a carman, who, looking
discontentedly at the fare paid him, said,
“ Shore your honor will give a trifle more
than this?” “Not a rap,” said the Cap
tain. “ Bazl luck to me but you would,”
persisted I’audge, “ if you knew all, then.’’
“ What do you mean?” asked Johnson,
anxiously. “ Faix, dat’s tell ins, any way;
and it is only for my fare I’m to tell my
news?” “JI ell, well,” said the captain,
here’s another shilling; now what has hap
pened?” “Sorra the harm at all, only I
thought you'd not begrudge a little extra
som’at to know that I drive ye the last three
miles without a lynch-pin.” Playing
About, by Bensou Hill.
Tomb. — A house built for a skeleton; a
dwelling of sculptured marble, provided for
dust and corruption: a monument to perpe
tuate the memory of the forgotten,
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