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BY A. S. JOHNSTON. NEC DEESSE, NEC SUpERESSE REIPUBLICjE PUBLISUE KJLY. TOL.-?S"NO; S. COIiUJflBIA, S. C. fANUARY 14, 188T $3 PER ANNUM. yjiiML " COLUMBIA. TSIi2SSOO?S - 18 PUBLISHED BY ?? C? Jt. S, JOHJfSTOS, Wrwy Saturday Morning-, i)A XTSlir WED5ESDAT AJD SATURDAY MORN 15 G JPTKIXG THE SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. ? TERMS: -/ Three dollars per annum, if paid m advance, or tjtair doflars at the end of the year. ;;ADTr*TisE**NTS conspicuously inserted at- 75 per sqoare for the first insertion, and 37i cents ' ^ AS advertisements ry publication-? or inserted to be charged as new for ments not having the on them will be con* oat, and charged accordingly. AH advertising, above $25 and tinder $50, cent, deduction? above *$5?, 40 per cent, de M?? *SSEM ACA?EI WK ^?EBST02?E SPBJXGS. F*flK15"*Subscriber will, on Monday the 9ih of ?: ML January next, open a boarding school at' the T jW arnpr *^pf i rip in Spartanburg. At ihia insti tution, it is intended to embrace a more extensive eetuae of studies, than has heretofore been taught in Aeademiesin this State. It. is a lamentable, yet a wtS. known fact, that in Grammar Schools oar bmjuririirilfed long and laboriously in the acquisi ot?T> of the Greek and Latin languages, to the utter Defect of their mother tongue, as weH as Natural Science, Mathematics, History, &c. Of the youth, 'yAo+r* taught in Academies, not more than one ?mrtk ever expect to receive a Collegiate education ; yet the coarse of studies is precisely the same for mow who do not, as for those who do intend to en ter College. The subscriber proposes, in our school ?tic it, to remedy this evil, and to adapt the edu cation of &is pupik to their views in after-life. : Wlukfcbe wait not neglect the preparation of young Ifantlemen far College, (the best security for which ' ? the uniform success which has attended theappli- ? eatkm of his scholars for admission there) he will in the instruction of others pay more especial attention , *e History, Natural History, Book-keeping, the more , practically useful parts of Mathematics as fully and i extensively as is now taught in our College, and to Elocution, by which is meant, not simply Oratory or ZfedbwtiSee, bdt especially good reading, which is j so essemialto every man. as weffas scooter. The f haakhfoinassaof the location, and its remoteness ftamafi temptations to vice or immorality of any ; kind combine advantages presented by few, perhaps no institution a the State. r The scholastic year will be divined into two { cquai sessions, cotamencina on the 1st of January slid ending on the 1st of Nov. The terms per session will be 100 dollars;" payable in advance, in ducing all the charges for board and tuition. The terms for day scholars will be 17 58-100 dol lacs per session, payable in advance. Books, Sta tkmary, Ac. wiBbe supplied to those, who iesire it, at the Columbia prices. Pupils will-be received at any period of the session and charged according ly; bat no deduction will be made to those who leave before the end of a session. . Passage can be had in the Spartanburg Stage from Columbia, to the Springs. All Esttersof application must be directed to the subscriber at.Coiumbia. uatil tke New Year? after that oroe, at the Spring*. I - J. M. DANIEL. Pac. 10 *? 52 Tha Charleston Mercury will give the above sk weekly insertions, and forward their account to this', ?ffice far payment. -- above ffsx dntie* of this Institution will be resumed on ? $rst Monday m January next, under the 'the JKmms Sims. The scholastic year will eacit 23 weeks. TBMSi ofbdging, washing, fire- wood, ~ session. . ?.i . ........ .$65 00 6 00 and Arithmetic. ... 8 00 and Geography 10 00 it Geography, Modern ry 12)0 Astronomy, Rhetoric, Logic, Natural Philosophy, <fcc. 16 T r _ ?' " 2Q 20 ' 4 00 16 00 5 00 50 7 00 ..ivedat any time and wifi be VfaMUGothe end of the session ; imade when they leave be SBSr t _ be under the charge ^together wKh tbe teachers will u?.ings of the Institution, and pupils will be constantly under their control. ateives to pay every attention to jralsof the young ladies commit care. , ' and tuition to be paid ia advance. "J BARKLEY, . i '^ni8tees appoint 7"^ by Mount Zion CB Q'HA^LOv; I Soeietv _ McCREI^a-r ?*] $? SO?iety ^?V'^.i3,T836. 57 .. J ?fu " ie emtowt.. r5 artwd ler of the French Language Wanted. competent to teach the French Langoa ge may obtain a desirable situ alioo in the fiooat Zion Academy, in Wtnns* MlV 8o?Ui Carolina. _ Satisfactory testimo ai*la as to character and competency will be ' '.Letters off the subject to be. addres HUDSON. 1 l^D^^ughtS. C. Dec. 26. 57 - , -Ic ' ' ~~ : _ -?v. ,? . - Drills and TI edicine. > Instruments fell kinds. Paints, Brashes <fcc.;a great variety ofPer Soaps, and a general assortment of _ ilioosfrom the most celebrated ousts, such as " Oil of Capivi, " " Cubebs, " w Vanilla, Citric Acid, Jujube JPaste, Aromatic Vinegar, Kreosote Tooth Wash, Chlorine do Electric Anodyne for the u***-, j Tooth and iSar Ache. mSCELLANRQUS ARTICLES. ?? Tr > _ r*- It anew and va Tonic, Tannin., Pure Veratrine - Extra Powdered r ftrusic Acid, Rhu Tonqoa Beams Grams t _ ' Pink Saucert, t JebsLmement, -i fresh lime Juke. Ginger Beer Powders, Sahs of Lemon -? Bragg' s Polishing Paste, , Cork Screws Large and Small, -?Cork pullers, [jf Floating Tapers, <:, Lucifer Matches, English and Hygeine Pills, Indian Specific, Macaboy, Scotch, Sappee Snuff, Cuppwg Cases, Hull's Trusses Thermemete-rs Hydrometer*, Ivory Nursing Tubes, Mahogany Medicine Chests for family use, Also, Common Chests for Plantations. ?Wakefield's CornPlaster, t The subscriber intending to decline the Drug busi ness on the first of January next, he will sell to Phy sicians and Merchants for Cask, at a very sm^ll ad vance over Cost and Charges. , ? S, PJSRCIYAL. Columbia 14 July, 1836 39 Wholesale Grocery. r*lHE Country Trade is invited to call at 189 JL East Bay, (South, of the City Hotel, ) where a general assortment of Groceries can be famish ed by WM. MARSH. Cash given for Beeswax. Charleston, S. C. Dec. 10 53 ? 6t Executive department, ) Dec. 30, 183&. $ WHEREAS, an Election was held on the 2nd Monday and Tuesday in October last for a member to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig nation of the Hon. James FT. ITamraond, and to rep . resent the Congressional District composed, of the I Districts of Richland, Lexington, Orangebnrgh and Barnwell, in the Congress of the United States ; aad | also, for a member tp fill the vacancy occasioned hy i the death of j?e Hon. RichartL-L Manning, to repte ; .seat the4?trti|ifressiooal District composed of the Dis 1 tricts of Kershaw, Sumter, Lancaster and Chester field, in the Congress of the United States : And whereas, it appears upon counting the votes returned . to thOrOffice of the Secretary of State by the mana gers of elections, that Franklin H. Elmore and John P. Richardson, Esquires, had the greatest number of votes in their .respective Districts: Now there fore, I, PIERCE M. BUTLER, Governor of the State of South Cafofina, do hereby declare and pro claim, that the said Franklin H. Elmore has been du ly elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig nation of the said James H. Hammond, and that ?he said John P. Richardson has been duly elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death ofttye said K. J. Manning Given under ray hand?and the Seal of the State, this 30th day of December, 1836. PIERCE M. BUTLER. By the Governor, B. H. Saxon* Secretary of State. State of South Carolina . Proclamation by PIERCE M. BUTLERj Esq % - Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State of South' Carolina. WHEREAS, in pursuance of the Act_ of the Legislature of this State, the votes for mem bers of the twenty-fifth Congress have been count ed in the presence of the Governor, by Commission ers appointed for that purpose, and it appears that Waddy Thompson, Jr. has been duly elected for the congressional district composed of Pendleton and Greenville ; Francis - W. Pickens, for the district composed of Abbeville and Edgefield; John K. Griffin, for the district composed of Laurens, New berry and Fairfield ; Franklin H. Elmore, for the district composed of Richland, Lexington, Orange burgh and Barnwell ; Wm. K. Clowney, for the dis trict composed of Union, York, Chester and Spartan burgh ; John Campbell, for the district composed of Geergetown, Marion. Horry, Marlborough and Dar lington ; John P. Richardson, for the district com posed of Karshaw. hunter, Lancaster and Chester field ; Robert B. Smith, for the district composed of i Beaufort and Colleton, and Hugh S. Legare, for the district ?.f Charleston. Now, therefore, 1 do issue this my Proclamation^ notifying and declaring, ac cording to the provisions of the said Act, that Wad dy Thompson, jr. F. W. Pickens, John K. Griffin, F. H. Elmore, Wm. K. Clowny, John Campbell, John P. Richardson, R. B. Smith and Hugh S. Legare, had a majsrity of the votes in their respective dis tricts aforesaid, and are duly elected Representatives in the Congress of the United States from this State. Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 29th dav of December, 1836. P. M. BUTLER. By the Governor. B. H. Saxon, Secretary of State. December 30, 1836. Bank of the State ot South Carolina , Cii rlestox, 29th Dec. 1836. AX election will be held at the Bank on Monday 16th January next, for a Cashier of the Br nch ' Bank at Co.umbia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Thomas Harrison to the office of Pre sident of that Branch. The Cashier will have a salary of Eighteen Hun | dred Dollars, and will be required to give bond with several good securities in the sum of Fifty Thousand* ' : 'v!'"";, ^aolicants will forward the names of their securities to the President of the Rank, before the day of election. eHAS. M. FL RM AN, 57 tf Cashier. Southern Stevie'v. j Encouraged by a belief, that the Southern Re- i view would receive a liberal patronage generally, and especially in the Southern and South Western States, the undersigned proposes to revive it, under auspices which promise fudly to sustain the reputa I tion, which the late Southern Review, during its brief existence, had earned. It will be publishedin Washington, and edited by a gentleman, whose hieti character and superior at tainments guarantee that, aided, as he will be, by the ablest writers and statesmen of the Union, the work will take rank at once among the ablest and best periodicals of the age The condition of the South, and the crisis pro duced by the Revolution in Texas demands that there should be some abler and more authoritative exponent of public opinion than "the newspa per press? that there should be some acknowledged organ of Southern sentiment, elevated above alllhe considerations of mere personal ambitition, in which patriots of every party may commune together, and labor for the preservation of ihe republic Some experience admonishes the undersigned, that to obtain a subscription which will remunerate his own labor and expenditure, will require an active co-operation on the part. <>f those who desire the accomplishment of this undertaking, and with this view, it has been suggested, and he begs leave to urge upon all such, and especially the young men, ; to organize committees, and by subdividing their : respective towns, cities, counties and districts, apply i to such individuals as may be induced to subscribe, j upon application.- Many persons have expressed a 1 willingness to Contribute a fund to be applied to I wards the Editor's salary, and in payment for com ! munications. h Is suggested that the subscription I of such, if any, should be taken and, when paid, j placed in the Bank of Charleston, to be applied to these objects by the President and Cashier of the j Bank and the publisher, as a committee for that purpose. i T he Southern Review will be published quarterly, | will contain 275 to 300 pages, at Jive dollars per an ? num, payable incdvance. Committees orindividu I als obtaining subscribers, will forward the names j and subscription to Washington. All contributions to the Editorial fund will be forwarded to the Cash ier of the Bank of Charleston, and placed to the credit of the Editorial fund of the Southern Review. DUFF GREEN. Resolution adopted by the South Carolina Society for the Advancement ot Learning. Resolved , That this Society approve of General Green's proposition to revive the Southern Rk vikw, under the Editorial charge of Judge Upsher, and, taking into consideration the claims which it will havo upon the public, and the duty of every one to assist in placing the work in a prosperous condition, would urge its friends, and especially the members of this Society, to aid in obtaining Sub scribers and contributions therefor. WM. HARPER, i Acting President of S. C. Society 1 for Advancement of Learning. 1 Dec. 24 ' ' 56 I , A Card. I The subscriber has re^opened his establish ment in Columbia S. C. and hopes to meet a share of that patronage which was extended to the late concern of ROCHE & KANE; but the benefits of which were altogether lost to him, from the misconduct ot Kane. It is net necessary, that the Subscriber should make a lengthened narration of the circumstances of this affeir. It is sufficient to say, that he has been made to lose a sum which may a* mount, according to a statement received from, ajjd acknowledged by Kane and the Clerk Uhamplais. to Ten Thousand Dollars. The citizens of Columbia, are already well informed of the secret departure of Kane from Columbia; it is only ^necessary for the Subscri ber to say, that this secret flight was attended with every thing calculated to render infam*. ous the name of Kane. 1 He has not only co?-^ i mlttgd an act, which ought under awyc citcuifi stances, to blacken the- character of the of fender, but he has also availed himself of a confidential relation, in which he stood to wards the Subscriber, to effect his object with all possible perfection. The Subscriber has appealed to the legal tribunals of his country, to restore to him a portion of the property of which he has been defrauded; and he trusts that in appealing to the citizens of Columbia, and in submitting to them this statement of facts, they may see in the fact of his great loss, the clearest proof of the absence of any participation in the actings and doings of Kanc. He warns all people to be aware of so , great a scoundrel, a better description of whom is given in hand-bills. E. L. ROCHE. Dec 31 57 tf To the Public. The Subscriber deems it a duty he owe* to himself and the public, to caution them against the impositions which may be prac tised upon them, by one JOHN P. KANE, formerly ot Columbia, S. G. The said John F. Kane, has defrauded the subscriber of a considerable amount of property, and has fled, it is believed, from the limits of the State of South Carolina. The said John F. Kane, has thus proved himself a man devoid of common honesty, and disposed to deceive and defraud all who may place the least confidence in him. E. L. ROCHE. Dec 31 . 57 tf Fire Insurance. INSURANCE may be effected, en Buildings and other property in this place, and in the vicinity, at a reasonable rate of pet centage, with the Augus ta Fire Insurance Company, on application in wri ting, to the Agent in this place. Applications, (post paid, in all cases,) must contain a minute description of th? property to be insured. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, Agent Columbia, Jan 24. tf 4 POETRY. X SONG. \ f _ BY D It. PERCY. * O NANCY ! wilt thou go with me, \ Nor sigh to leave the flaunting town T Can silent glens hare charms for thee, The lowly cot and russet gown ? No longer drest in silken sheen, No longer deck' d with jewels rare, Say, canst thou quit each eourtly scone, Where thou wert fairest of the fair ? O Nancy ! when thou'rt far away, Wilt thou not cast a wish behind ? Say, canst thou face the parching ray, Nor shrink before the wintry wind ? O can that soft and gentle mien Extremes of hardship learn to bear, Nor sad regret each courtly scene, Wnere thou wert fairest ofthe fair ? y </// < i O Nancy ! canst thou love so true, ? . Thro' perils keen with me to go ; Or, when thy swain mishap shall rue, , ' To share with him the pang of woe ? Say, should disease or pain befal, Wilt thou assume the nurse's care, Nor wistful those gay scenes recal Where thou w ert fairest of the fair ? And when at last thy love shall die, Wilt thou receive his parting breath ? I Wilt thou repress each struggling sigh, An?t cheer with smiles the bedof death ? And wilt thou o'er his breathless clay Strew flow'rs, and drop the tender tear 2 i Nor then regret those scenes so gay, Where thou wert fairest of the fairer SONG. BY THOMPSON'. FOR ever, Fortune ! wilt thoa prove An unrelenting foo to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away, Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the charms of love is gone ? But busy, busy still art thou, To bind the loveless, joyless vow, The heart from pleasure to delude, To join the gentle to the rude. For once, O Fortune! hear my pray'r, And I absolve thy fature care ; AH other wish#* 1 resign, j Make but the dear Amanda mino. From the Edinburgh Literary Journal. THE UNLUCKY PRESENT. The Rev. Mr. , minister of C , in Lanarkshire, (who died with the present cen^ tury,) was one of those unhappy persons who, to use the words of a well known Scottish adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels." He was extremely covetous and that not only of nice articles of food, but many other things which do not generally excite the cupidity of the human heart. The follow ing story is in corroboration of this assertion: ? Being on a visit one day at the house of one of his parishioners ? a poor, lonely widow liv ing in a moorland part of the parish ? Mr. became fascinated by the charms of a little cast iron pot, which happened at the time to be lying on the hearth, full of potatoes for the poor woman's dinner, and that of her children; He had never in his life seen such a nice little pot. It was a perfect conceit of a thing, it was a gem. No pot on earth could matbh it in symmetry. It was an object altogether j perfectly lovely. "Dear sakel minister,:' said I the widow, quite overpowered by the reverend I commendations of her pot : "if ye like the pot sa weel as a' that, I beg ye'll let me send it to the manse. It's a kind o' erra [superfluous] j pot wi' us ; for we've a bigger yen, that we ! use oftener, and that's mair convenient every way for us, Sue ye'll just tak a present on't. I'll s^nd it over the morn wi' Jamie, when he MISCELIiAI*EO?S. {gangs to the schule." "Oh !" said the minis j ter, ?'! can by no means permit you to be at j so mucfr trouble. Since you ore so good as to jgive me the pot, I'll just carry it home with *1 me in my hand. I'm so much taken with it, | mdeed, that J^would really prefer carrying- it i myself." Afifcr much altercation between the j minister anti the widow, oir this delicate .point j of politeness it was agreed that he shcmld car | ly home the pot himself. i.;., Off, then, he trudged, bearing this curious | littie culinary niticle alternately in his hand f andtrnder his arm, as seetnod incst convenient 1 to him. Unfortunate, the day was warm, the I way long, and the minister fat ; so that he be j c?me heartily tired of his burden before he i got half way home. Under these disi resting I circumstances it struct) him that if, instead of f carrying the pot awkwardly at one side of his |j>ersoo, he were to carry it on his head, the harden w^uld be crreatfyjigbtened ; the prin ciple? of natural philosophy, which he bad learned at college, informing him, that when a load presses directly and immediately upon any object, it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end of a lever. Accordingly, j doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry in his hand, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow, he clapped tne pot in an inverted fashion on his head ; where, as the reader may suppose, it figured much like Marnbrino's heN met upon the crazed capital of Don Quixotte, only a great deal more magnificent in shape and dimension. Tiiere was at first much re lief and much comfort in this new mode of tarrying the pot ; but mark the result. The unfortunate minister having- taken a by path to escape observation, found himself when still a good way from home, under the j necessity of leaping over a ditch, which inter- i cepted him in passing from one fi:;ld to ano- ? ihcr. He jumped; but surely no jump ww ever taken so completely in, or, at least iri/o, the dark as this. The concussion given to his person in descending, caused the hyimet to become a hood ; the pot slipped dow-o over his face, and resting with its rim upon his neck stuck fast there ; enclosing his wlx>le head as completely as ever that ol new torn child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which nature, as an indication of future g *>d fortune, some, ?times invests the noddles ,of her favorate off Fpiiog. What was \vor*e of al!, the nose, which bad permitted the^ot to slip down over it, withstood every desperate attempt on the part of its proprieto.-, to make it slip back again, the contracted part of neck, or the paltra being of such a peculiar form as to cling fast to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever g minister in a worse plight 1 W$s there ever contretems so unlucky? Did ever any man ? did ever any minister, so effectually hocxfajnk himself, or so thoroughly shut bis ?yes to the plain light of nature? What was to toe done ? The place wa? lonely ; the way, difficult and dangerous ; human relief was re mote, almost beyond reach. ! It was impossible even to cry for h?lp. Or, cry could be uttered, it might "reach in j deafening reiferberation the ear of the utterer; bui it would not travel 12 inche& farther in any direction. To add to the distresses of t he case, the unhappy sufferer soon found great difficul ty in breathing. What, with the heat occa sioned by the beating of the sun on the metal, what with the frequent return of the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmosi danger of suffocation. Every thing consider ed, it seemed likely that if he did not chance to be releived by some accidental wayfarer there would soon be Death in the Pot. The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevaient ; and even very stupid people have been found, when put to the push by strong imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of preseuce of mind, and exert a degree of ener <gy, far above what might be expected from them, or what they were known to exhibit or exert under ordinary circumstances. So it was with the pot-ensconsed minister of C , Pressed by thn urgency of his distresses, he fortunately recollected that there was a smith's shop at a distance of about a mile across the fields, where, if he could reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possible find re^ lief. Deprived of hi6 eye-sight, he could act only as a man of feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in hand. Half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch and hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister travelled, with all possible speed as nearly as he could guess in the direction of the place of refuge. 1 leave it to the reader to conceive the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement of the smith, and the hangers-on of the smiddy, when, at length, torn and worn, faint and exhausted, blind and breathless, the unfortunate man arrived at the place, and let them know (rather by signs than words) the circumstances of his case, In the words of an old Scottish song. u Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted ; Out cam the gude wile and low she louted ; And a' the town-neighbors were gathered around it; And there was he, 1 trow 1" The taerrimont of the company, however, soon i gave way to Lhe consideration of humanity, j Ludicrous as was the minister, with such an j object whore his head should have been, and with the feet of the pot pointing upwards like the horns of the great enemy, it was, never^ theless, necessary that he should be speedily restored, to his ordinary condition, if it were for no other reason than that he might contin ue to live. He was accordingly, at his own j request, led into the smithy, multitudes flocking | around to tender him their kindest offices, or to witness the process of his release ; and having la'd down his head upon the anvil, the smith lost no time in seizing and poising his good !y fore hammer. 44 Will I come sair on, minister V' exclaimed the considerate man of iron in at the brink of the pot. "As sair as ye like," Wis the minister's answer ; "better a cha i' the chafts than dying for the want ot breath." ? Thus permitted, the man let fall a hard blow ; which fortunately broke the pot in in pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the cook maid breaks the shell of the lobster, without brushing the delicate food within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass from the gude wife's bottle restored the unfortunate man of prayer, but assuredly the incident is one which will long live in the memory of the parishioners of C . SKETCH OF A POLITIC AiNT. Talleyrand is certainly the most extraordina ry being of his kind the world has produced | since the first creation. Take him in his phy?* I ?teal conformation alone and think of his 1 J vino- outlived so long (lie is no?; < ?vljty-5vv*) jail the great and good of his turns. Taiieyrand : was born lame, and Ins limbs cup?, fo^umed io i his trunk by an iron apparatus; t^/which lie 'strikes ever and anon his giant ic cane* to the f great dismay of those i? ho see him lor the first j time- an awe not diminished by ih ; loo!: of his i piercing gray eyes, peering through his shaggy I eye- brows ; his unearthly lace, marked with i deep stains, covered partly hv ids stock of ex j traordmary hair, parted by his enormous cra vat, which supports a l-tr^o protruding hp, ' drawn over his upper irp with a cvn;c ?! oxpres sion no painting could render, Add to this apparatus of terror his desd silence, broken occasionally by the mast sepulchral guttural monosyllables. Talleyrand's pulse, Which ? rolls a stream of enormous volume, intermits and pauses at every sixth beat. This he constantly points out timmphautly ftS rt rest of, nature giving him a f oyet other melt. " latins tie efy*, 7 OT^w^ftfssinj^ pulsations are added to the sam total of thgdi of his life, and his longevity and strengthjjip pear to support this extraoidinary theoi?. ? He likewise asserts that it is this which ena bles him to do without sleep. *Nat\ire,*?ays he, 'sleeps and recruits herself at every inter mission of my pulse. ' And, indeed yoa sec him time after time rise at 3 o'clock in" th? morning, from the whist table ; the#?wiH he return home, and often wake up one or his secretariesto keep him company or talk of business. At four lie will go to bed sitting, | nearly bolt upright in his bed, with ienuniera ble nigbt caps 011 his head, to keepi- it warm as he says, and feed his intelecX with blood but, in fact, it is to prevent his injuring1 the scsti of knowledge if he tumble on<?the ground and he sits upright from his tewtcncy to ap-? i oplexy, which, would no doubt tfei^bim if he were perfectly recumbent. / m We may remember the ne wspa p ersi stating he was found a few years ago, his head having dropped from his pillow, so drowned ift^feicod that no feature was to be seen. Although he goes to bed so late, at six or seven atiSiteJBt he wakes, and sends for his attendants. yEacon- , stantly refers to the period when he wa^Alin^ ister of Foreign Affaire, and when this power to live witliout sleep enabled him to go out .und seek inform ation, as well as pleasured 60crety till twelve or one o'clock. At that hour bjgge turned to his office, read over all the lifers that had arrived in the day, put marginal medi cations of the answers to be returned, and jfeen on waking again ai six, read over all the let ters written in conscquenceof his orders.^; When Talleyrand was engaged in the .proto* coles here, he used to tire out all his younger* colleagues ; and fuil we know now by expe^ rience, that at the time of the Quadruple Trea ty, aud on many other occasions, his eyes were wide open whilst Lord Palinersion slept. ' To these physical peculiarities we could add, that he eats but one meal a day. After serving his guests which he always inp&t? on doing* he gulps down dish after dish, a volume alto gether that would satisfy & boa constrictor. Paris Correspondence of the 3farntng-'tfoslJ--i MORGAN JONES AND f II E DEVIL. Some twenty years ago, wheji in retired parts of Wales the communication between one place and another was much slower and legs frequent than it is now, there was a great deal of horsestealing carried on in the Eng lish counties on the borders of that country. Those counties were and are full of pretty little towns and villages, in one or another of which there were fairs for the sale of live stock almost every day in the year, and it was easy to steal a horse from one parish, and carry it away and sell it at some one of these fairs, almost before the rightful owner knew that he had lost it. Well, it so happened .about this time lived a lazy, careless, frolicking sort of man, by name of Morgan Jones, who contriv ed to make a living some how or other, but how it was, nobody well knew, though most peo ple suspectcd that it was not the most honest { livelihood a person might gain. In fact, every j body was sure that Morgan was deeply implh. cated in horsestealing and many a time had he been brought before the justice on suspicion, but do what they could nobody coulc#nd auffi^ cient evidence to convict bim. People won , dered and talked about it for a loug time, until j at last they came to the onl> nafural concla j sion, namely, thai Morgan Jones muit have ! dealings with the evil one. } Now it once chanced that Morgan and some j of his chosen cronies were making themselves ! jolly over sundry pots ofale and pipes of to bacco, at a round white deal table, in the clean ! parlour of a very neat little alc-hoose, a? ajl j village ale-houses aro in that part of thecoun ! try. And they began to get very happy and i comfortable together, and were telling one an j other their adventures, till at last one spoke plainly out, and told Morgan Jones that it was commonly reported that he had to do with the Devil. i ??Why, yes," answcrsd Morgan, ^there's some truth in that 6aying, sure enough,* I used to meet him now and then, but we felloHf, and I have not sren him these two months." I "Ay !" exclaimed each of the party, "howV that, Morgan !" "Why, then, be quiet, and I'll tell ye.it all." And thereupon Morgan emptied bis potr and ; end had it filled again, and took a puff of his pipe, and began his story. ?'Well then/' says he, "you must know that 1 had not seen his honor for a long- time,,and it was about two months a go from this that I went one evening along tlie arook shooting wild fowl, ond as I was going whistling along, whom should J spy coming up but the Devil himself? But you must know he was dressed mighty fine, like any grand gentleman, though I knew the old one well by the bit of his tail which hung out at the bottom of histrowsers. Well, he came up, and says he 'jrforgan how are yeV and, says I, touching my hat, 'pretty well, your honor, I thank ye.' And then says he 'Morgan, what are ye looking a'ter, and what's that long thing ye're carrying with ye V And says I, *l'm wnty walking out by the brook this fine eV filing, and carrying my baccay pipe with mc to smoke.' Well, you all know the old fallow is mighty foud of bac cy; so, says he, 'Morgan, let's have a smoke, and I'll thank ye.' And says I, you're mighty welcom.' fSo I gave him the gun, and be "put tho mu2zle in his mouth to smoke, and, thinks I, 4I have you, now, old boy,' cause yousee I wanted to quarrel with him; so i aujled the trigger, and off went the guw0W^^n^tos mouth. *Puff!' says he,; when he palled it out ofhis mouth, and he stoppe<iJa-IXunute to think about it, and says he, ?D ? ? d strong baccy, .Extract of a letter from a fricud to a member oPXJongrc^s from New York. ..%hoy. Momday Morniso, Jan. 2, IS37. *The lower part of cur city lias become a mtvWn Pompeii. Last evening, about seven ^ o'clock, the Iiill at the lower part of the cily slid d^WUv covering Up houses, bains, &c , 1 with^fSen, women and children in them. It ; hasfflVered up every thing' half way to (he ; lively passing over 6ixth, fifth, and* fourth J ttreets to third street. ? ^ ri Never was there greater consternation.? p&C whufc fidiYtv - ' j thousands from other -places, digging* out the j dead/ 'JPhey have found eight dead bodies, ,4 and 19 l?or?ee. It is impossible to say bow many lives ar&Jost. I have just come from ' the spot and I s&w. them dig out two little ! children, Iyi?? id a t^ndle bed, sleeping the j sleep of death, withobVA bruise upon them, *? I probably smothered. V | Where Fourth streets waff, the earth i? at least sixty feet hi^h. There vi\re not many houses near the spot, but what we*e, are bur ied. It is calculated that seven buiN^ngs,each occupied by two or. three families, arex^est ray ed. There was a house upon the hill which has not been discovered. \ . ? Morgan!'- Jfeu he gaye ine the gun, and !oo';cd littff^and walked off, and sure enough I've never seen him since. And that's tfao way I got shin of the old gentloiusn, my boys!4* Such ist'io ludicrous story of Morgan Jones* who had to do with a prooer VVr Ish devil, with out doubt. ? Quarterly Review. Poverty and Oystjsbs. ? |ta*^ery ~re? in&rkable circumstance, Sir, said Sam, "thai poverty and oysters always se .ms to go to* ^ether/' 4,I dop't underhand ypu, am, said Mr. Pickwick. '-What I mean, Sir," said Sam, "is, tbatlhe poorer a place is, the gfeaU j er call there^eeajs to be for ojstsni. Loot e j Sir; bore's a oyster stall to arerjr haif iioas-.'s? l!ie streets hoed vith 'oaa ? Biessed if I don't think that ven a man's werj ~ tieri^es <^^;hi%.io4gingf and eata ? in ?To feespce i i* .YVelJer senior, "and Its just the ie vitn DicKled.sstfm*$?* ? ? "--rT-.r-T-TTi ^ Pickwick ; ?tfi? i at,4'll make a tvfriftj Papers. \ place we j Tht Vic \ >v? . .. . _ Misanthropy a wd Teaspncr Tfttvrii|?? By this time they bad reached tho turnpike at Mile End; a profound silence prevailed, until they had got timjil IfilU illjlij iljiT when Mr/ Weilersenior, turning suddealyto Mr. Pickwick, said? "Wery queer life, it a pike-keeper's* Strr" "A what?" sa;d Mr. Pickwick. "A pike-keeper." r*Wbat do yon mean by a pike-keeper V inquired Mr.1 Peter Magnus. ? "Th? old 'un means -i atuhk^M keeper, ffcn'lm'ori obesnrved lV!n expianai ion. 'Oh^'said Mr. ? -J'* Yes; very curious life. 'They're ail on 'em men as hoa met fritfe a disappointment in iifc/said^Q^^l^jItfMRR^' '' or. *Ay, ay.7' said Mr. PickwK^I&Slfibjr *? . % Consequence of vicb, thejr r .world, and shuts themselves up iu , with the view of be'ng solitary, nnd ptiri^SST" rewenge themselves on mankindr toll 9.' 'Dear me,' said Mr. Pickwick, *1 never knew that before. * 'Fact, Sic, sauMlr. Wfelv ler; 'if they was gen'im'n you'd cs1I *0jiifi ?i*? anthropos, but as it is tbey only takes tctyikt* keepinY ? Ibid. r r ? ; iji \ . *. Dr. Caspar, a learned physician of BsrUo* has made some curious calculations, from ? which it appears that the changes of life ars highly in favor of maried over unmarried mea aud women. He asserts that the ?eaa dura ration of life for married women of25iMfcot!t 36 years, whilst for unmarried it it is* only thirty and half. At 30 there is a difference of four years in favor of the married, at 35 tiro years and so on. He says, that according to the Amsterdam and Dcparcieux tallies, the mortality tftnong unmarried men from 30 to 45 is twenty seven per cent, ami GIilf* tB for mailiau , uuu ???. .v. __ at 40, there aro 73 married men. As agead- : van ccs the difference is even mor^ strikinf ; at the age of 00 there are bat 2? unmarried men alive for 48 married at the age of 70, eleve^bachelora for twenty seven married men and 80 for three bac^dors who may ? chance to survive, there are nine iqarried men. For females the same proportion nearly holds good as seventy two wives Jive until the age of forty-five whilsfconJy fiifty two spiQ sters rcach the same'time of life. Now as longevity and marriage appeal* to go. .hand in hand we would advise as may desire tebe hap. py, and wish to live long, tobuckle to in matri mony, without loss of time, whilst to aoch as may not wish to be encumbered with-thismor tal coil loiter than be indespensable without the commission of suicide, to remain single, and wither as the leaves do that die in Octo* " bcr. It is true the prospect is a bad one for' such as may become paired and not match ed but that is a mere circumstance, and-^ will not cure itself in the long rue.?? Bok. American. . - ? f' New HmAN BEiifGS.*?Hote!s and publio house have a phraseology of their own. On an inquest held some years 'since on the body of a gentleman who aiod suddenly at a Loo* don hotel, one of the witnesses, Mr. Booto, deposed that the chambermaid desued him to run for a. doctor, as 44 Nufiober four- waaiij -a fi* ** And at one <Jf f lie suburban teagardsbs, married ; and that for 41 bachelors who arrive .1 was fitting in my hous*, and beard a runj bling noise, like distant thunder, and went to, the door, and saw a light in the South and e - cloud cotningpm the the city, aad 000a g rami fell like hail. Soon the bells commenced ringing, and I went to the apot unmedietely. The brick-kiln was carried a himdraifuie, and was on fire. It gave light enough to ?e* the horrible and novel scene. -j* >1,^. . --~y To add to the dreadful sublime* w$t?|r came foaming down the hill in a t is now evident that Ihe eajth about ^ canic, or that the water comes from the mottn- , tains east or us, The swamps that is not filled up with earth, is filled with \va?er..-..tt is a melancholy, day with us. -