9* THE NEW ERA. What i' it but ,i Map of hiMy Life ?— C'atoper. NORFOLK VM) PORTSMOUTH^ J' KIIHY, AlTUI.rNT '2i), 1H 15. OUR FLAG! FREE TRADE LOW DUTIES NO DEKT-SE PARATION’ FROM RANKS W'ONiJMY RE TRENCH MKNT VNI» STRICT ADHERENCE I (> TIIE CONSTITUTION. TO OUR DRI5TOKS. We dislike to dun our patrons through the columns of the newspaper, and do nut mean to do it now. We desire only to inform those who have been repeatedly called on, and who have been waited upon until the debt has been doubly earned, that unless speedy and prompt payment is made, we shall put our accounts in the hands of an officer to enforce settlement. We cannot and will not wait any longer. Rvery one. when he reads this notice, will know whether it applies to hint or not—it it does—let him come forward and settle. Ours is a eash business and cash we must have when it is due us. A. F. CUNNINGHAM. STR A M110 AT ACC IDRNT. Owinsr t<> the breaking of the shaft of Hie stea mer Herald, on her upward trip on Tuesday last, • we had no mail front the North yesterday. By the occurring of this accident, not beinjr pressed with news we are enabled to present this able and interesting New Rra to our readers to day. inKUK IS HEAL I Ux And delight at the Ladies’ Feast, now Ijold i°— at l*'« Masonic Hill, and notwithstanding nor indisposition, on W ednesdny evening we went there, and in the blaze of beauty that surrounded us we forgot our misery, and as “ Betsey and the Babies” staid at home, we forgot them ton, for a little while, till an arch little witch, with spark ling eye, and coral lip. asked us to pay f,r peep ing at the “Gentlemen’s Horror.” We were somewhat dubious at first, but ns it was enclosed in a very neat little box and held in a lady’s hand, we knew it was not very large, and therefore, we did not feel much afraid. We looked, and oh! horror of horrot . there it lay, solitary and alone, in the bottom of the hox—what, only one of them, we exclaimed. Hush, says the ladv, yon most not tell what it is, and we were mum— although we shivered. We also looked into an other box at the «• Ladies’ Delight.” There it lay, cozily curled up. with its curtain of sky biuo silk, more like a model Hum for use. “ Well, what was it?” What was it—we are bound to secresy here too, and can’t tell. You must go thete and see for yourself. The ladies are charm ing— the refreshments cool and delightful, the music enchanting, the viands substantial and pa lateahle. We wonder if the Courier man was there—we did not see him—he no doubt is too bashful to be caught in such company. Some bad, overgrown boys were detected peeping into the windows from the tops of some barrels in the yard. We Impe he was not one of ihtpn. Cap tain David, pot this in conspicuously, and tell Mr. Shields there is r.o “ Sulphur Water” at the Feast. MENTAL ACTION—ITS IMPORTANCE. The first great habit that must lie at the foun dation of ail others of a useful character, is that of action. Like tins three requisites of the Grecian orator, who when asked whut were the Constituents of true eloquence, answered that the fiat was action, the second, action, and the third, action ; so the mind of man, that it may retain a healthful state, and thus he capable of usefulness must he active. Else like the stag nant pool filled with putrefaction, exhaling only disease and death, so the inert mind, replete only with putrid faculties, diffuses the poison ef fluvia of its own rottenness, contaminating all .. |” J»nicimui miiufiK'e. I here arc many reasons which may ho urged to show the necessity of mental activity. Anil first, it is the only source? of menial improvement, and mental improvement it is God’s will we should all make. Why. is it asked ? What is the proof? Because, if we look through the whole length and breadth of nature, we find no one useless part, appendage or power anywhere bestowed upon any creature, or in any way intro duced throughout the whole of nature’s vast ma chinery. Are we then to suppose that mao con stitutes an exception t<, the general ruin? And though the myriad of worlds of which the sys tem of the univere is composed, the myriads of myriads of atoms, of which each world or planet is composed, has each its appropriate part allotted it to perform, and whatever properties or powers are possessed by any, are in accordance with the whole great design, to he brought into active ex orcise; though attraction hinds together worlds and systems of worlds, though lical animates and expands, though waters flnv, worlds revolve, flowers bloom, harvests ripen, winds blow, light nings flash, and thunders roll, yet, God’s last great work was made in part without design ? Will it he supposed that the being whom the Creator made “in his own image,” on whom alone of all he created on earilt, he conferred his own high and holy attribute of immarfaliti/, has powers of intellect given him to no purpose 1 ■That God, in fact, when lie placed man as the head of all he had created, made a sad mistake in allotment? That instead of placing the no blest and best of all to have dominion ove>r the others. He, in fact, selected the weakest and the worst ? Yet this is the rase, unless the mental powers are to he improved. For of all animals, man is, at birth, most feeble and impotent. While oilier creatures, by instinctive powers, arrive as it were at once, at the perfection of their being, se curing to themselves with unerring certainty, each their proper quantum of enjoyment, man alone, by constant culture and an infinitude of de gress, arrives at a comparative state of advance m**»t and enjoyment beyond which. however, lie i regions unexplored, which after unnumbered ages ot deep research must still leave fields yet tin surveyed, replete with truths, to furnish sweetest aliment to that God like part i f man which finds delight in the acquisition of new stores of know l edge. But the ability to acquire that knowledge which is absolutely necessary to human life, and , the enjoyment of life, and that highest IV licily of ; continued increase in knowledge is :t faculty ol mind bestowed on man for wlial ? [Evidently to j he employed, to he brought into active and con tinned exercise. \\ ithottt mental activity the condition of human society cannot he improved so ; as to secure to all its memhers the greatest pussi ! amount of comforts and enjoyments. 'I'lte discoveries of science have done much and are | destined to do much more, for bettering the condi tion ol all classes. ^ <-t those discoveries are only to he sought where mind is active. Is it ob jected, that the /cm usually seize upon the advan tages secured by tin* development of new princi I I pies of science, or new applications of those al ready known, and that people are often deceived by counterfeits ? Wo answer: this is lint an ad ditional argument in favor of mental activity, of universal mental activity. Were the minds of all well improved, did the pore beams of iutclli genee every where radiate with unbeclmided light, who then, would he found laboring to de ceive his fellows that he might profit by the de ception, when the only reward of hist chicanery would be detection, exposure and disgrace? In every department ol life, the only reason why so! many seek to deceive, is because so many are in a condition to he deceived. It is mental activity ■ alone can secure ns against danger from political apostates, from parlizin demagogues, from religi ous fanatics, professedly religious hypocrites, and anti-religious atheistial desperadoes. II Bhockesbroi'oii, one of the j must brilliant young men in the South, is the de- j mncratie. candidate lor Congress in Florida. Jf| elected he will rank with Hunter, Seddon, and other master intellects that old Virginia has con tributed to the Union. MON. ROBERT J. WALKER. The New Orleans Republican, edited by the Mon. J. F. 11. Claiborne, gives us the following item in the history of Mr. Walker’s political life. 'Flint this is true, tlipre can be no doubt; for Mr. Claiborne was then in Congress, a member of the lower house, from Mississippi, and the confiden tial friend ol Mr. Walker. I lad his advice then been taken, how much heart burning and jealousy would have been saved to tlip country—ere this. Texas and California would have been peaceably and quietly settled, under the laws of the United ! Stales, and the only ports on the Pacific of any \ value to us would have been ours. But other I counsels prevailed, and now millions of treasure, and, perhaps, oceans of blood may have to be ex pended to secure them—for they will most as suredly be annexed. “Secret History.—In 183G there was a surplus of over thirty millions of dollars in the treasury, after G<*n. Jackson had paid off the Na tional Debt. Mr. Walker proposed (in an inoi- ! dental debate, when the Senate was sitting with : closed doors, on some nomination or treaty, from I which the injunction of secrecy has since been re- ■ moved.) that Texas nnd California be purchased from Me\ico, and the thirty surplus millions be uspiI for that purpose. Mexico, oppressed with a bankrupt treasury, a rebellious army and starving population, would, doubtless, have accepted the proposition. We should have added several States, to the Confederacy, secured the integrity ot our territory, extended the great interests ol commerce, and extinguished forever all danger of abolition. But the Federal and anti-Annexation influence prevailed, the advances of the Taxon patriots were scorned, and the surplus millions were deposited (as they fraudulently terinpd n) with the Slates to be sunk in stocks, or gambled away by banks and speculators, and arc irretreiva bly lost to the national treasury.” MR. ANTON IK. liicii of our readers do not recollect tlie plea sant, facetious old Quaker friend, who lectured some time ago in these two town on the subject of 1 eiupcranee ? Well, lie has penetrated the Southern settlements of Georgia and the “ Little Georgian.” an excellent paper hy-the-hy, publish ed in P orsyth, gives tlx; following account of him : — “ "*c were much pleased with a temperance i address delivered in the Baptist Church at this) place, on Wednesday evening, hy Mr. Antoine, ' an itinerant lecturer Irotn P-mitsvIvania, who is making an extensive tour in the Southern Stales. Being an aged gentleman of the "old school,” his pronunciation is singular, and a portion of his discourse was unintelligible to us. His mind is good, and he seems to have read and thought much. Some ol his arguments were forcible and logic il, and his ‘hits and anecdotes pertinent and decidedly pleasant. The citizens of Forsyth will have an opportunity of hearing him speak again on his chosen (and fruitful) theme, next Wetlnes I day evening.” Oi.o Baciiklohs.—A Western editor, who is • an old bachelor, says: " We never cared afar : | tiling about getting married until w,. attended n ! | bachelor’s funeral. G >d grant that our.Jatter end 1 i may not he like his.”—Exchange.. W hat was the matter with Ins latter end ? says the Reveille. ]>ul the poor fellow get married just before lie died? If so, the thing’s under stood . NAVAL SCHOOL AT ANNAPOLIS. I his School goes into operation, on the first of October next. I he following gentlemen have been appointed officers:—Com. Franklin Buch anan, superintendent ; Professor Chaubert; Lieu- I tenants Lock wood. Ward, and Passed Midship man Marry, teachers in mathematics, nautical philosophy, use of nautical instruments and navi gation; Hr. Dobarry, surgeon and teacher of chemistry. Important to the •• Sporting” Gentry.— Oil cake, regularly fed to calves, is found to prc. *ent th. malignant difMscIcaPed th* b’ackUg t VC niwgrmrr^.m. ■ ■ ... .. I.EECH STORIES. Singular. — A gentleman recently took into thp diligence, between Marseilles ami Toulon.a vessel of leeches which were not well soon rod at the tup. Tim creatures s-mn sillied forth in quest of blood! Suddenly. piercing cties were heard from a you no lady. who. unaware ot the blood thirst)' passemrers "hit'll had been placed in Hip carriage. declared that slip was seized w ith acute pains. as if punc 1'ired with lances. Though she continued her cries, delicacy prevented her from permitting any •*f the passengers to ascertain the cause of her uneasiness. A detachment of the leeches, how ever. had worn* further to fare worse, for they had (i\ed on the lens of a smut elderly gentleman, who. less fastidious than the fair one, at once nn covered and ascertained the cause. The dili oence was stopped, and the young lady taken to the nearest house, where she was relieved from tu-r unpleasant companions. Hetween fifteen and twenty of the vagrant leeches had made their wav tip her petticoats and fastened on her.— (jaliunnni, ,Juli/ Is/. StNGur.Alt Death.—A novel ease of death (nun a leech is mentioned in one of the English files, as occurring at Guy’s Hospital. A young man serving in the capacity of a groom aa-.-is en gaged in dressing a horse, when the animal kick ed him on the right arm. Medical assistance Avas procured, and leeches Avere ordered, four of which vrere applied to the wound. In a short time three only ot them could he sppii, hut it avhs sup posed that the fourth had fallen off, and had got away- The deceased was the follow ing day con veyed to the hospital. The Avottnd arnfarm soon began tn swell in a most unaccountable manner, "'hen the honsc-sergcon observed there avhs a slight discharge ot matter oozing from the orifice, lie deemed it prudent, in consequence, to open the arm. when, to his surprise, he found the miss ing leech enclosed in the flesh, and quite dead._ The leech must have crawled into the orifice of a very small Avoond in the arm, and it could not be seen. After the leech had been extracted from the arm. deceased went on very A\e|| f..r a Aveek. w hen symptoms id inflammation of the A’eins en sued, Avhieli terminated with death. It is the opinion of the medical attendant that he died from the effects of the wound, having hern poisoned fry the long presence of the lepch within it. THE WASTED FLOWERS. On tile velvet hank of a rivulet sat a rosy chili!. I lor lap was filled with (Ewers, and a garland of rose buds was twined around her neck. Her lace was as radiant as the sunshine that fell upon it: and her voice was as clear as that of the bird which warlded at her side. The little stream w ent sinirin et in Orchard-street, the Discipline not allowing marriages to he ‘ accomplished’ in any other place. To accommodate the parties and pp.tre the blushing bride the necessity of facing a large congregation, a special meeting was in this instance appointed, which was attended only by a small circle of relatives and acquain tances ol the bride and bridegroom, a few elderly h rtends and small number of youth whose inter cst to matrimonial scenes would not allow them to he absent. About 3 o'clock, P. M , the Senior portion ol the audience took their places one after another on the ‘high seat?,’ while the Juniors were scattered in different parts of the house._ The father looked so grave that a stranger would have been likely to suspect that they had assem bled for a funeral rather than a wedding. Soon, however, the bride and bridegroom came in with their friends and took a seat facing the assembly. The mother ol the bride sat beside her daughter, w hile the bridegroom w as supported by a member of the matrimonial committee. After a silpricc ! which lasted some 20 minutes, the awed Friend at the lipad of the meeting arose and said :_“ | would not inlerfere improperly in the matter for which we have come together, but I apprehend ! this be a suitable time for our young friends to I proceed.” The bridegroom and bride now drew their white kids and taking each other by the1 land, stood up before the audience. The bride groom ’hen said in a calm voice, hut with evident1 emotion, “ In the presence of the Lord and these witnesses I take-lobe my wife, promising nv Divine assistance to ho unto her a faitliful and jiliectionato husband until separated by death.’' I In* bride, in tones that bespoke the deep nflee lion of her heart, then made the same declaration • n respect to him upon whom she had bestowed her band. The twain having thus been made one. resumed their seats. The marriage convenant was then placed before them, when they proceed ed to ratify their union by affixing their signa Mires. I he friends of the newly married pair appended their names to the document as witnes ses. and thus ended the nuaker Weddim*- _,y V. Tribune. THE best joke op the season. The Philadelphia Gazette contains this hit at j *he poor Virginians: 1 In? heroes o| Parkenshurg. Va., who re » c*n11 y invaded Ohio, and captured three citizens, have again entered that Stale, and seized an in dividual ihat they suspected to lie a Colored slave, tnmiali ho protested he was a white man. On examination, their prisoner proved to be Ex Gu , vernor Corwin of Ohio.” Mere we an* informed for tlie first time, that “ " agonor Tom Corwin,*’ the big gun of Ohio, who has been spoken of as a candidate for the I residency, is so highly coloured as to he taken lor a negro. This will recommend him strnnoly m the Abolitionists, who have such a fondness lor every thing dark. Cut the Gazette has shown a Greenness which litilo expected Irom so keen a hunter after jokes upon others. The whole story is a Rnnr l>a<‘k humbug—invented by some paper in Cin cinnati. with the intention, doubtless, of ascer taining how far the papers could he hoaxed._ 'Vo do not know the real color of Corwin, though lie is deeply dyed in Federalism—hut we will say for “ ihe heroes of Parkersburg,” that they am not quite ambitions enough to arrest an F,v (inventor of a sovereign Stale. We hope that tlte journals in the free States will not “ pile the agony” too high upon the “ heroes of Parkers burg. — Richmond finquirer. TO OKSTROY INSECTS ON TREES. J\Iesst x. Ril i tors,—Will you please request V,l,,r agricultural readers to try the f«d lowing’ cheap and simple experiment for the pre servation of trees, shrubs and vines, from the ravages of any insects Mint subsist upon their fnli ege. fruit or sap, and, give the public the result jof ""’ir experiment? My professional engage i ments have prevented me from giving it s(> j'rre an experiment as I wished. Drive carefully well home, so that the hark I 'vi*1 ,w;al "v,'r, a few headless cast iron nails, say I some 6 or 8, size and number according to the l size of the tree, in a ring around its body, a foot ; or two above the ground. The oxidation of the i iron by the sap, will evolve ammonia, which will, i ot course, with the rising sap, impregnate every j part of the foliage, and prove to the delicate palate ot the patient, a nostrum, which will snort be come, as in many eases of larger animals, the real ; panacea for the ills of life, via Tomb. I think it the ladies should drive some small iron hrads into some limbs of any plants infested with any insert, they would find it a good and safe reniedy and I imagine in any case, instead of injury the : ammonia will he found particularly invigorating. Lf»t it he tried upon n limb of any tree where Mierc is a vigorous nest of caterpillars, and watch it for a week or ten days, and | think the result will pay for the nails. JOHN R. CROSS. Lincoln street, Boston. July 14, 1815. HOW TO BECOME A WIDOWER. We find in the N. (). Picayune this extract from a translation of Lyunnilrhic, a French work just out of press, and without expressing any opin ion as to the right or wrong of the husband, lay it before our readers: A worthy gentieman. who had the misfortune to marry a termagant, resolved to become a wid ower. and in such a manner that he would not be exposed to the penalties of the law. He owned a beautiful country scat, situated on the bank of a delightful river, to which his lady t was much attracted, and which she visited rectti larly every Sunday morning. She had for this j purpose a charming little mule, with splendid trappings, and ol which great care was taken. for three days previous to the lady’s accus tomed visit, tbe husband had deprived the poor j animal of drink, so that it was almost famished. Sunday morning canie;_ihe lady set out on her mole, accompanied by her husband, who was anxious to see the sport. The poor bpast sought water on all sides, and had no sooner discovered j r*Vf>r 'ban, with the rapidity of lightning, he ^started off and stopped not until he had plunged ; himself head and ears into the river. The hank I was steep and the stream both rapid and deep at j this place, and lady and mule wern soon buried \ '’enpalh the. waves. The husband regretted his loss ol—the mule, but reasoned like a philoso pher, that to accomplish one’s purposes sacrifices j must he made. DANDIES. I he. following is from tlie “ Patent Sermons’’ of Dow. .1 r : ** I hey are mere walking sticks for female flirts, ornamented with bras-? heads and barely louelied with the varnish of etiquette. Brass heads, did ( say? Nay their caputs are only half ripe rnnsh rnellons. with monstrous thick rinds, and hollow inside, containing (he seeds of foolishness, swim minrr about with a vast quantity of sap. Their moral garments are a double breasted coal of vani ty. padded with prii|e and lined with the silk of ; eumplaeeney ; their other apparel is all in keep* ! ing ami imported fresh from the devil’s wholesale and retail ready made clothing establishment. Tinkered up with broad cloth, finger rings,safety ' ehains, soft sodder, vanity and impudence ; they i are no more silver than plated silver. I detest a dandy, as a cat does a wet floor. There are some vain fools in this world ; who after n long incuba tion, will hatch out from the hot-tied of pride a siekly brood of fnrzy ideas, and then go strutting along in the path of pomposity. with all the self importance of a speckled hen with a black chick en. F have an antipathy to such people. A Parrot Story-.—We have from a reliable source the following illustration of parrot cunning. ■ A certain wise parrot undertook to amuse himself by a walk in the garden. A certain hungry cat | espying him, crept softly behind him ; poll was j evidently disturbed by puss’s presence; and as ' he quickened his step lie cast frequent glances behind to watch her movements, ami as he saw • hr cal following him he thus soliloquized : “ | believe the beast will catch me, on my life I be lieve the creature will have me.” The cat at length crouched for a spring, when the parrot j mustering all his courage, faced suddenly about, l and shouted at t! e top of h s voice—■* scat you , beast, seal you beast !”and away went puss in the I greatest consternation, leaving poll to finish his stroll unmolested .—-Boston Traveller. Sons or Temperance—'This new order is spreading with almost incredible rapidity throuah. :» which to winter their cows. A gentleman from Hear Columbus also came into Aurora and con tracted to keep 500 cows through the winter at the rale one dollar per month. ' Another gentle man was allowed to go into the yard of an exten sive dairymrn and select cows ai §0 per head.— I wo years old steers are selling at from §3 t0 45 per head. Charity of Jit humf.nt.— I have erred my sell like the rest; have found reason to love and and honor men of every side. Many of my own most decided opinions, I have lived to change; to think my own best weighed and most dis interested actions mistaken. How then shall I judge others, who have need myself of «o can did and indulgent a judge ? To Quikt Cross Babies.—The New York M,rror has hit upon a way to stop the squalling of •• the young brats.” The only requisite to qmet tlm squalling, sqncalliug, miserable little wretch of a baby, is that it shall posses* a nose. In the m.dst of it screaming, press your finger gently and repeatedly across the carlillage of that usefo organ, and in less than two minutes will be asleep. 1 he eastern paper from w hence this important discovery is derived, says in one min ute, but we allow two, to prevent any disappoint