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POETRY. FROM THE EDINBURGH REKLECTOR. HEBREW MELODY. Why do you weep for Jutlah's fate ? Why do you mourn for David'* throne ? Why sigh for Israel's scatter'd state ? Why mourn for Zion*^gtory gone t Those briny tears can ne'er recall The day of,peace to Oram's line : In vain they start?in rain they fall; Still Salem's captive daughters pine ! Oh ! weep not-^weep not for their fate ; Tliose groans but rend my heart in twain: Thy sighs for Isiatl comes too late: Thy tears for Zion flow in vain ! I oncc could weep?I once could sigh? , 'Twas the rich boon Which sorrow gave ;| But now my brain is scorch'd and dry ; No hope is left me but?the grave ! BEN-ISRAEL. fBOM THE WIVTAW 1HTE L L1GBVC ? R. The following Parody is from a friend m Charleston, and presents r good Picture of the times. What's this dull town to me ? No cash is here ! Things that we used to see Now don't appear. Where's all the paper biljs ? Silver dollars, cents and mills ? Oh ! we must check our wills; No cash is here. What made the city shinei ? Money was here, What makes the lads repine ? No cash is here. What makes the planters sad. Factors crazy, merchants mad ? Oh 1 times are very bad ; No cash is here. Oh ! curse upon the Banks ; No credit's there. They issue naught but blanks, No cash is there. Hard times the men do cry, Hard times the women sigh, Hum and misery, No cash is here. ROBERT. MISCELLANEOUS. Ludicrous effects of the appearance cf a ^Cornet in 1712. In the year 1713> Mr. Whiston having calculated the return of a Comet, which was to make its ap pearance on Wednesday the 14th of Oct. at6 minutes after 0 in. the morn ing, gave notice to the public accord ingly, with this terrifying addition, that a total dissolution of the world by fire, was to take place on the Fri day following. The reputation Mr. Whiston had long maintained in England, both as a divine and a philosopher, left little or no doubt with the populace of the truth of Iris prediction. . Several ludicrous events now took place. A number of per sona in and al>out London, seized ill the barges and boats they could lay hands on in the Thames, very rationally concluding^ that wheu the conflagration took place, there would be the most safety on the water. A gen!U nan whtf llid neglected family }>rayer for belief than five years, in ormed his wife, that it was Jus de termination to resume that laudable practice, the same evening; but his wife having the same evening en gaged a bull at her house, persuad ed her husband Ur put it otf (ill (hey saw whether the comet appeared or not. . The South Hea stock imme diately fell 5 per cent, and the India to.11; and the captain of a D .tch ship threw all his. pqWder into the river, that the ship might not be en dangered '1 he Wlumoming, however, the comet appeared according to the pre diction, and before noon the belief was universal, (hat the day of judg ment was at hand. About this time 128 clergymen were ferried r>ver ai Lambeth, it was said, to petition that a short prayer might be penned and ordered, there bein? none in tin church service on that occasion. Three iflluds of honor burnt thfcr collections of novels and plays aim ?ent to a hook^eTWs to buy each of th^m a Bible, and Bishop Taylor's Holy Living and Dying. The run upon the hank was so prodigious that all hands were employed from mmumg4UUn^;ht in discounting note*. and handii g out specie. On Thurs day, considerably more than '/vXJO kept mistresses were legally married, in the face of several congregations. And to crown the whole farce, sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that time head director of the hank, issued orders to all the fire officers in London. re quiring them to keep a good look ?ut, and have a particular eye upon the BanR of England. The following piece of wit and humor, is copied from a late New Orleans^aper. With a trilling alter ation it will suit, just at this time, the meridian of many other places as well as >iew Orleans. Prices/Current at JVew Orleans* May 3ist9 1819, by Peter Quince ijC t ompany. . Cash-?3 or 4 pr. ct. p. mo. above; par?very scarce? in great demand ? and advancing in value. Credit.?Below par?still decline ing?very little iu market?much wanted. Confidence.?Nominal. Concubines?Plenty and dull; large supplies having arrived from New York and elsew here. Commission Merchants?Do. do. fluctuating. Dust?(fine)?very plenty; low at present; hut will rise the first fair wind. TWy-and dull. - ; Discount at Banks?Very scarce, and in demand; CuU be obtained only through favor. Disease and Filth?Plenty rt all seasons; witness the Hospital aud gutters. Flagrant Odours?Plenty, plenty, " you may note them" at every cor ner of the streets. Fleas? Plenty^ hut lively. Failures?A bad article; expect-1 ed to be plenty in August and Sep tember. Lovg faced gentry?(not Jack asses J plenty and dull?daily in creasing. Musquitoes?A great ? many in market; no sales; Louisiana per haps produces the finest in the world,} but although they make a great noise at bome, yettbey are never exported. JNotaries Public?plenty; brisk; and in demand. Promises?plenty; but good for nothing. Rate Hide?much used, but cheap. Religion? beginning to get in use; being a new article in this country; the prices nominal, and the demand limited; depends in a great measure on the prevalence of the Yellow Fever. . j c j Shaving?brisk; especially just before 8 o'clock p. m. Water?(frealij?plenty but ra ther muddy will increase in value a* the summer advances; at present, sales regular at 1 picaion per bucket full. Bills of Exchange?plenty, a mere drug in the market?would scarcely be excepted by any body. From the Dag Light. UAR1) TIMES AND WANTS, WHICH EVERY BODY FEELS. Virtue wants more admirers, Wis dom more suppliants, Truth more real friend*, and Honesty more prao tioners. The Trader wants more profit, or less envy of his more fortunate neigh bour. Religion wants less said about the theory, and more done in the way of practice. 1'hilanthrophy wants a residence, and Fidelity an asylum. l^ove, jUharity, and our Banks, wants to be in better credit. Pride wants to be discarded, and modest Diffidence introduced. ' Kvery old llaclielor wants a w ife ; md every girl of sixteen, a husband. Every Creditor ants his bill paid, and ^ver)i Delfior wants money U\ pay it. The following extract from a for eign Magaziue is applicable to alt countries: 1 ? One point is easily conceded to me, viz : tljat the only e;irl who ha*? a tol ?rablc chance of gi?ttin$ married, is. *he who has a tolerable fortune.. The most angelic beauty, may, as the world now goes, glitter in vain from seventeen till seven and twenty, with out receiving a single offer. A young gentleman of the modern cut would as soon think of proposing to, the moon.?The belle may be as enchant ing, and the moon as bright as you please, but both must dwindle awa\ rTo nothing, and be succeeded by new belles and new moons, doomed to go through the same career of dazzling, and being forgotten in their turn But no sooner does an heiress come out, than she is provided with a Ions; train of indefatigable danglers*. Sltf nakes her election.?The next rich miss accommodated with the same suit of wooers and you may alway* know an heiress by her danglers, ex ictlv as you do a commanding officer . ? ' * by his awl-de-camps, and his order lies.?-When two heiresses are at once in~the town, they become for the time partners, and have all their stpek of lovers in common ; as the Roman consuls had their faces, or as the colleague-ministers of Edinburgh have tlreir congregations. 1 observ ed before that two Reynards spoil the sport; but this does not hold in regard to the chase of heiresses. The scent of the pack is too ^ood to be destroyed by auy multiplicity of aVour. . besides, the pursued nni which are the best bag of foxes, commonly take the same course, and the w hole of the hounds follow like wild geese at their heels. They that have t(ie best speed keep their noses nearest the bushes, only now and then they will go off the track a little, and then give tongue with a ven geance, by way of misleading those that come after. What a snarling, and growling, and yelping amoug the puppies that are thrown out! w hat a snuffling, and worrying, and wagging of the tail, among the fortunate dogs that get in at the death. But to drop my smile, the two likeliest admirers marry the girls, and it is a mere toss up of a penny which marries which. The only thing the-lover cares for is.the fortune of his mistress, and all his sagacity is employed in discover ing the exact amount of cash pas able on the wedding day. This, ^o be sure, is a veiy necessary part of his maticevre, for there are at least twenty take-ins, (as they are called) for one true heiress. In exact proportion to his anxiety after proper information for his own use, is the anxiety of every dangler to impose false infor mation upon his fellow. A thousand false reports are in circulation; and he is a clever brother of the trade who can smell out tiie true state of affairs, in spite of all the contradictory, ex'; aggerations, and underrating rumors raised by. mothers, and aunts, and rival beaux, and rival belles, and theft* mothers and aunts. LAKE SUPERIOR. Prom Canter's & Mackenzie'a Travel*. Lake Superior is the largest and mast magnificent body of fresh water in the world. It may be called the Caspian sea in North- America; is 1600 miles in circumference, and re ceives the tribute of nearly forty ri vers. It has an outlet by the falls and streight of tit, Marie, eastward into the lower lakes and the St. fjAwrence, and westward with the Mississippi, by the St. Croix.? Boisbuel creek, and a portage of half a mile between them. The water of the lake is clear and trans parent, of great d*?pth, and appears to lie on a bed of rocks. W hen it was calm, and the sun shone bright, I could sit in my canoe and plaiuly see where the depth was upwards of thirty-six feet, huge piles of stone at the bottom," different shapes, and so fashioned that some of them ap peared to l>e hewn. The water at this time was as pure and transpar ent as airj and my canoe seemed as it it hung ^*|M>n<led in that element. It was impossible to look attentively! throng this limpid medium, at the rocks below, witliout finding, before, many minutes were elapsed, ^our head swim, and your eyes not able to behold the dazliug scene. The! lake almumU uitU a variety of fuh. of which the most, valuable is the white fish, a species of shad, but thicker and le*s honey, weighing from 4 to It) pounds, extremely de licious and found in such vast quau tities that they will iu future times form au article of commerce, and be a source of wealth to those who iu^ habit the borders of the lake. From the Baltimore American. .1 method of taking the J lone y, with out destroying the liets. The common practice of killing the Bees, iu order to obtain the Honey, few can witness without some little compunction; and as then* is a very simple method of effecting .he object, w ithout any injury to this nost interesting little auiuial, w liich, oil the score t?f interest, as Well as humanity, claims regard, 1 beg leave to communicate it through your pa l>er, should you deem it worthy a iilace in it. In the evening, when the Bees have retired, take the hive gently from its stand, spread a table cloth on the ground, set the hive on it. placing , something .under to raise it three or four inches-? then draw up the corners of the cloth and fasten them tight around the middle of the hive leaving it so loose belqw, tha the Bees will have sufficient room to remain between it and the hive? then ratse the lid of the hive a little and blow in the smoke from a segar, a few puffs of which, as it is very disagreeable, will drive them down; continue raising the lid gradually blowing in the smoke all around, and in a few minutes it w ill be found that they have all gone out of the hive. Yon may then take off the lid and cut away as much of the Honey, as you may think proper.? Jf the operation be |>erformed the begining of July, you may take nearly all, as there will be time enough to provide a sufficiency for their support during the winter* As soon as you have taken the Honey, put on the lid, loosen the cloth aud spread it out, and in au hour or two the Bees will have returned into the hive. It may then be replaced on the stand, ami on the following day ' u % theAr will be found at work as usual. This method is very simple, and preferable to that sometimes practised of driving the Bees into another hive, as you get all the Honey, and moreover the new comb which is still empty, and the young Bees, not yet out of the cells are preserved?there is also danger in driving, of their not liking their new habitation, and in that case sallying out and making war upon their neighbors. The above method has frequently been practiced by myself and others, and have always found it to do*well. AMATOR MELL1S. Waahington, June 8, 4819. A FAIR OFFER FOR A CURE FOR J lard Timw. Make a full estimate of all you own, and all that is owing to you. ftieduce the same to note. If you can't collect, renew your notes* every year, and' get the secnrity you can. Go to husincs* diligently and l>e in dustrious?be very prudent and eco nomical iff all thing*?discard all pride, hut the pride of acting justly and well?be faithful in your duty to God, by regular and hearty pray er, morningand night?attend church or meeting regularly every Hunday, and " do unto all men as you would they should do unto Jou." If you are really too needy in your own cir cumstances to give to the poor do whatever else you have in your pow er to do for them cheerfully, but if you can always help the worthy poor and unfortunate, rersue this course of life diligently and sincerely lor seven years, and if you are not hap py, comfortable, and independent in your circumstances, come to me, and 1 will pay all your debts. Hou>mon. ' Happy is that man whvsc I rc^^t ;is the seat of Piety ; whose every word ajid deed discover a life of im deviating rectitude. When corrod ing care disturbs, or sorrow oppresses him, I*elision adds a balm to wounded spirits; and, pointing to futurity, tells him where to look fa happiness that hath a sure and ing foundation. To the Religious heart, tiie sting of adversity is less poignant, and the sunshine of pros perity is more cheering; more a[>t to inspire feelings of gratitude, and cause them to rise, in unvaried suc cession, to the Author of our exist ence. Religion warms the heart with charity and benevolence towards others; teaches the right use of the good gifts of this life; and assures us that if we obey her precepts a happy immortality will be our re ward, At her approach, the. sullen frowns of anger disappear, and the strife of envy ceases to rage; dis content, the source of endless misery, becomes an entire stranger, and every unhallowed passion is sub dued. But this is not all:?When death is about closing the scene, what infinite happiness must she then afford! She can tell us of a better -world to come ; of purer aud suhli mer pleasures than we have experi enced here, and of felicity that can not fade away, but as lastiug as eter nity. 1 A cure for Cams without pain.~ Split a prickley pear (garden vcpo table) flat and about as large as a tea saucer, cut out a piece large enough to cover the corn, aud pick from its outside the thorns, and lay the in or mucous side next the com, hind it on with a cloth, change every night un til the excressence or corn is entirely extinct, which will tuke place in a week or less, The same process will cure warts. Experience has placed this remedy beyond doubt. New-York paper. c ? ? Grass Hopes.?There is a grass, he product of New-Zealand, which rom some experiments made at Ports mouth in England, appears to an swer all the purposes of hemp in the manufacture of ropes. It is strong, pliable, and soft; may be cut thricc a year; aud can be brought to Eng and at the price of eight pounds per on, or one seventh the price of hemp. JAnnen and thread from Nettles. The Irish have recentlv made some experiments upon the flos of nettles, for the manufacture of thread and lin nen; and the result is said to Jje, that both these articles are obtained equal, if not superior, to the thread and linnen from flax.?Phil. Union. . Extraordinary Fleece.?It is stat ed in the Poughkeepsie Journal that Col. John Htorm, of the town of Fishkill, has, this season, shear ed a full-blooded Merino Ewe, whose fleece weighed Eighteen and a half pounds. The Ewe was four years old, and had never l>efore been shorn. The wool is of a very fine staple, and from sixteen to eighteen inches in length. New Printing Establishment*.? The National Intelli gencer atr? tes, that between Thirty and Forty News paper Establishments hn*e been for med in different parts of the country, within the Ust eight months. No doubt exists that the Northern Canal will lie connected with the Hudson the present season. Original Anecd/>te.- A young Law yer in the county of Hampshire, w ho was almost discouraged of getting a living by his profession, entered in to the Tanning Business : a gentle man one day asked liirn, Why be tanned for his living? he answered, I have skinned long enough, and now think it time to be tanning. MIND WHO YOU KISH. Imw Intelligence.?A man was - I ? ? *4 ? lately tr ed as a criminal, in the vil lage of Auburn, N. Y and fined jive dollars for kissing a married woman once.