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FOE T K Y. FROM THE NEW-YORK K VENING-POST. Sir Philip Sidiosysaid, as Addison tells us, that he never*fimlc! read the old ballad of Chevy Chase, without teeling his heart beat within him, as at the sound ol a trum pet. The following lines, which are tc. be ranked among the highest itispii atkmv of the Muse, will surest similar associa tions in the breast of the gallant American officer. THE AMERICAN FLAG. When Freedom, from her mountain height, UnfurPd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars o' glory there ! She mingled wiih its gorgeous dies .The milky bladrick of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white Wit ) strepkings of the morning light; Then, from his n^ngion in the sun, . She call'd her eagle Bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of the cloud ! Who rear'si aloft thy regai form, To hear the tempest, trumping loud, And see the lightning-lances driven, When stride the warriors of the storm, . And rolls the^thunder-drum of heaven I Child of the'Sun 1 to thee 'tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, j To ward away the baitle stroke, ? And bid its bendings shine alar, .Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers ol victory ! Flag of the brave ! thy fields shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high 1 When speaks the signal trumpet-tone, And the long line comes gleaming on, (Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, H?> Uimm'd the glist'ning bayonet ) Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy meteor-glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengence from the glance ! And when the cannon-mouthings loud, Heave in wild breaths the battle-shroud, And gory sabers rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall! There shall thy victor-glances glow, And oowering,foes shall sink beneath, Each gallant arm that strikes below, That lofty messenger of death. Ylag of the seas! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When Death* careering 011 the gale, Sweeps darkly round the belied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back, Before the broad-side reeling rack, The clving wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendrous fly, In triumDh, o'er*hii closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By Angel hands to valor given! Thy stars tave lit the welkin dome, * And all thy hugea were bom in Heaven! For ever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before usi \Vith freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banners streaming o'er * CRb.AKER & CO. THE ATHEIST. ^oi.B is thq wretch) and blasphemous the man* Who being finite, will attempt to scan The works of H|m that's infinitely wise, And those he cannot comprehend, denies; Our reason is too weak a guide to show, How God Almighty governs all below. SHORTNESS OF LIFE. An! few and full of sorrow are the d?ys Of miserable man; his life decays Like the frail flower which with the Sun's uprise, Her bud unfolds, and with the evening dies; He like an empty shadow glides away, And all his life is but winter's day. DEXTEROUS PUMYfyV The followih? anecdote was sent by a young lady to her lover, whose name was " NO IT," a few weeks before their marriage. The nuptial knot was fasten* cd soon aftef the discerning lover dccy phered its import. Why urge, dear sir, a bashful maid To change her single lot ? "When welt you know I've often said In truth I love you, NOTT. For all your pain, I do NOTT, care,' And trust me, on my life, - Though you had millions, I declare, 1 would, NOTT, bo your wife. An epigram should be, if right, Short, simple, pointed, keen and bright, A lively little thing , I .ike wasp with taper body?bourd By linev? not many', neat and round, All ending in a . M ISC ELL. LYE O US. From ihe Suvurinuh Afuxeum. #THK(JL1ZH ON ON I)K1 A, UV FUDGE Pl'FFENDOKF, ESv^. In thisnumber squire Puflcndorf spcakcth of ihe feelings ot mankind, arid makeib known that ihey art; changed by mone\ ?which t<i shov\ the extent of his learn inn, he calleth Plums' finger, and like wise maketh mention of Erebus, for the some purpose. After which lie pro cecdeth tn retate an Ynecdott?and tn the intent that all, exctpting those con cerned should remain entirely in the dark, he hath made u-?e of feigned names, .. which he suppos?eth will aUo have the effect of exciting curiosity, and raisin* himself higher in public estimation? which to be sure, " is a consummation devoutly to be wished."?Tobias, j The feelings and affections of man kind, often change with their cir cumstances. I have known the bo som that swelled with philanthropy ? was warm with humanity w hen in poverty?become cold and unfeel ing in wealth. 1 have se^n the hand that was open to relieve distress, be come closed in prosperity. I have seen the finger of Plutus transform the heart of benevolencQ itself into stone; and make the brow that once beamed nothing but love and friend ship, scowl darker than Erebus. I have been led into these remarks by a conversation which I accident ally fell into the other day, with an unfortunate emigrant. " 1 was bred,*' said he, in the town of M , and my father occupjing the same tene ment with Mr. Marktiine, an intima cy from my earliest years, was form ed with his son, Jonathan Mark time, a lad of^ my own age.?As we grew up this intimacy ripened into what 1 thought a mutual and disin terested friendship. For nearly fif teen years were our sports and pur suits the same; we ate,= drank and sleftf together. Our parents though above wairt, were always poor, and at the age of seventeen, I was svm from home as an apprentice to a re spectable mechanic, and Jonathan went into a counting-house as clerk to a neighboring merchant. He was soon after sent to America on some mercantile speculation, and that was the last I heard of him. Though not forgotten, 1 almost looked upon him as dead, and the' memory of him seemed like the image of a dream. The late distress in Europe ex tended to the neighborhood 1 lived in. My business proYed unproductive; and following the tide of emigration, chose rather an uncertain subsist Pin e in this country, to certain star vation at homo* , But he who is doom J! ed to enternal poverty, on whom the fates scowl with maliguanj aspect, and whose evil genius bears liim down like a night mare, might as well remain > at home, and brood patiently over his own destinv, as go farther, and fare worse. Yotfr climate proved uncongenial to constitution, and 1 sunk under it.? 1 was just recovering from a severe attac k of the fever, when a newspa per was put into my hands, and glancing over a list of consignees of goods per the ??, my eye rested on the name of my old friend. 1 im mediately enquired lot his counting room, and debilitated as 1 was, walked over. I found him at his desk; and though ten or twelve years had wrought some change in his ap peuratice, yet I could at once see the i'tieud of uty youth, and accosted him familiarly, *va? about to grasp his hand. Claflprh^ his pen behind his right ear, and looking round at me over his shoulder, his phii.squur ei with a mercantile exactness, and lis eye cocked, to take a sample of my appearance?(which, to confess he truth, was none of the best) Truly sir," Said he, " the balance is greatly in your favor, 1 can't turn directly to that paiA^of my journal, w hereon we h tveRad any transac tions together. Perhaps, however, you may be famished with vouchers y w hich may rectify any mistake oti ay ledge).99 Indeed, said 1, you cannot ha\ e forgotten your old friends it M . " Ali truly," JL had near y ottoflookcd some out-standivg uc cvunltktoith that place; but time had almost closed tire transactions. MV correspondent was always rather de* ticient in returns: ami indeed Ills paper was protested (luring; the latei ami*. I am very idad, however, to ? - ? n 7 7 >ee you well, Mr. Humphry Dobson,| and if you have any drifts you want cashed, I shall he extremely happy to oblige you, at a reasonable dis count. although my business with i hat place, has been pretty much losed" 1 have no bills for your ac ceptance, said 1, and only be-; of you to draw upon your own memory, for ihe recollection of maifV circuuistan * ft>s, which most certainly cannot be forgotten. " I have no deposit, in that bank" said he " and so must bid you a good morning. 1 shall always he glad to her of vour health, Mr. Hu mphry Dohson, and hope you w ill not fail to call upon jiu4, w henever you have, any business in my way. So taking his pen from his ear, re sumptions desk again, with the utmost composure. - Mi*. Dobson left me, and I could not help exclaiming, "This is a vile aud villianous world, we live in." There is no bearing with the unfeel ing insolence of a puise-proud man. W hen his belly is tilled with cognac, md his pocket with dollars?Zounds! if he doesn't walk over (*od's earth, as though it were his own plantation : and scorn, and trample upon the tiumbie sons of poverty, though (hey were grasshoppers under his feet! Hcowl and frown upon them, as though they were monstere of un holy birth, sent into the world by the devil, and not God! whose touch would be pollution, and whose neat approach, disgrace ! From the Cumberland Herald. We regret to find that the public* lion of the " Monongalia Spectator," at Morgantown, Virginia, lias been discontinued. The lollowing is the concluding paragraph of the .Editor's farewell address :? "To iny friends I wish every joy ind comfort this life can afford; ?eace and plenty, health and long life; ma v their decliug years br frowned with roses divested of even thorn. To my enemies (if 1 have any) I wish better hearts and better [judgment, repentance before death, and a happy Eternity. To my credit ors I \> isi? patience, and to my debtors full purses and willingness to pay me. To young Indies 1 wish judg ments to choose, affections unaltera ble, and husbauds of their own choos ng. To young men 1 w ish fortitude o bear disappointments, friends to support their pretentious, and, when they wish to get married, no opposi tion but the hearts of the fernals thev [wish to espouse. To farmers 1 wish good crops and good prices; to the merchants 1 wish quick sales and good money , and to bankers better credit. To politicians a reftil pe rusal of the Constitution, the Laws, {and Marshall's Life of Washington Lo mechanics plenty of custom and Ithe money down. And finally, to |the world 1 wish peace ; and to [PRINTERS, good friends, a plen ty of money"?and this they will most probably luve, if subscilders do their iutu! Beauty in EngUnd, France, Italy. BY If. STANDI IA I.. AN CON A, (ITALY) MAY *7. I met, at 8t Cirac, a Russian general, a friend of Krfuth, who had just come from Paris. A physicial peculiarity of tlie French shocked my Russian friend very much?the dreadful leanness of the most of Ike dauseuses at the] Opera. In fact, it seems to me, on reflection, that many of our fashion able women who are extremely slen der, have caused this circumstance to enter in^to the idea of beauty.? Leanness is iu France considered ne cessary to ati elpgant air. In lUkly, tropic think Very rationally, that the first condition of it is the air of health, without which tht're is no w}(fytut!snes8. ' \ The Russian is of opinion that i>eauty is very rare among the French iacfics. lie maintains that the linest ht? saw at Paris. were Eng lish women. If \Nt* take the trouble to count ii -the Hois de l>ulogne, out of HK French women; eighty are agreea I> 1 e, and hardly one beautiful. Out of one hundred English women: thirty are grotesque, forty are deci dedly ugly, twenty tolerably well, though tulus^2d^sy <and ten divinities on this earth, from the freshuess and innocence of their beauty. Out of one huudred Italian women, 'thirty are carricatures, with face and neck besmeared with rogue and pow der, iiftv are l>eautiful. but with no other attraction than an air of volup tuousness?the twenty others arc of antigue beauty, the most overpow - ering, and, in our opiniou, surpass even the most beautiful English wo men. English beauty seems avari cious, without soil and life, beside i he divine eyes which Heaven has given to Italy. The form of the bones in the hand is ugly at Paris; it approximates to that of the monkey, and it prevents the women from resisting the attacks of age. The three most beautiful women of JKonie are certaiuly^more than 45. Paris is farther north? and \et such a miracle was never yet observed there. I observed to the Russian general, that Paris aud~ Champagne were the jmrts of France w here the configuration of the head partakes least of beauty. The wo men of Pays tie Xaux, (in Norman dy) and of Aries (in ProVThre) ap proximate more to the beautiful forms of Italy. Here and there is always some grand feature, even in the. heads of- the most de?idedly ugly. Some idea may be formed of this, from the heads of old women of Leonardo da Vinci, and of Raphael. As to male beauty, after the Ita lians, we give the preference to young Englishmen, when ihey es cape clumsiness. A young Italian peasant that hap pens to he ugly, is frightful; the French peaaant is silly; and the English is vulgar. Literary Shot-maker.?The frater nity ' of Shoemaker** have, unques tionably, given rise to gome charac ters of great worth and genius* The late Mr. Hblcraft was originally a shoemaker. .His dramatic pieces must rank among the hest of those on the English stage. Itobert Bloom - field wrote his iH>em of The Far men's Hoy," while employed at his business, and Dr. William Corey. Professor of Sanscrit and Bengalee, at the College of Fort William, Calcutta, and the able and indefati gable translator,of the scriptures into many of the eastern languages, was in early life a shoemaker in North amptonshire. The present Mr. Clif ford, the translator of the Juvenal, and the supposed editor of Ok1 Quar terly Review, spent some of his early days in learning the " craft and mystery" of a shoemaker, as he tells us in one of the most interesting pieces of autobiography ever penned, and prefixed to his nervous and ele gant version of the Great liomon Satirist. A late New-Hampshire Sentinel contains an Indian Treaty, in which a.e a great number of Indian narnes, with tlreir respective significations an nexed ; w hich gives occasion to the following paragraph in that paper:? Indian names.?Those of oyr readers who may undertake a pet e Igrination through the terrible jaw cracker in our preceding columns, tmust not be afraid if they sliQiild see 4 the Devil Standing,' i Between the lops'4 Pick up k Club' to 4 Split the Iliver.' 'I hey must not tremjile if tbey see ' Old Foot,'4 Clouding up,' 'Khake the ground'?for a ' Whirl wind,' '* Full moon,' and 4 Clearing up' will soon follow* They may lie diverted at the sight of the 6 Widow of the Crane' and 4 King George' ' Holding "his hands about,' * His neck down,' ' l>ooking at her' and [the 'Man without a tail;' 'Flat i belly.' ' telippery nose,' 4 Mark on J hi s hip' and * Bunch on his forehead,' Crying after,' * Give it to he^!' If r ? *. the trader is fatijnied he ttviy sfor> ivt * the ? Coflee House,' ? Uound the Point,' where 'Civil John* w ill make his 4 Conge,' and furnish, a 4 Razor,' 4 W ilit Duck,'* Black Kacoon,'4 .Mo lasses/ Fwentv NN ives/ and ?11 enj> of any thing/ He will thereabout meet 4 Isaac Hill/ * Running about' 4 Carrying the news.' He may see < Rig lie.lt' 4 Hold the Sky/ anil 4 Hiue Jacket,' a * Matiinan.' with '?Silver heels,' 4Carrying the Basket* to catch a 4 Fa ling Star' at 4 Sun Kise.' Finally reader, if you are not a * R> solute Man,' ^lVlien tfju are tired sit duini.' The following curious adverfejj tueiit, is copied trom a New-York paper of the 4th instant:? ByfCflKLOK'S CLUB. " Oh ! Matrimony, thou art like To JercniiahS ; ~i The good were very ^oodeesthe bad Too sour to give the pigs." The first anniversary of the Club will be celebrated This Da\, the 4th inst. The members will i\ieet ill front of the City Ilall, at 12 i>Yk>< k. They will form iu procession precise ly a quarter before oue, and printed down Murray-slreet, and crosh the ferry to Hobo ken, where a Turtle Repast will be prepared for the oc casion. On this, your Club's great natal day, ConifiJlatlh-yft crooked, blind and grey* Doff your old s\kckb, your eriitc 1 u a 1 lidc,? Dismount your wigs?yourcock'd hais lay aside. By Order. A. A. Sccrctary. Curious Advertisement. The following advertisement ap peared in Granwuy's Daily Adverti ser printed in Calcutta on the 6th of September 1818:?""Be it known, that six fair and pretty j'oung Ladies with two sweet and engaging children, lately imported from Europe, Imvin^ the roses of health blooming on their cheeks, and joy sparkling in their eyes, possessing amaible tempers, and highly accomplished, yielding tacitly to all necessary wishes, whom the. most indifferent cannot behold without expressions of rapture, arc to he liaffled for next door to tho British Gallery.?Scheme, 20 Tick ets, at 13 Unpees each. The high est of three throws, doubtless, takes the most fasciuating, &c.?/ A Mathematical Toast. The follow ing toast Is said to have been drank at an association of school masters^ " i he fair daughters of Columbia. ?May tb*y add virtue to beauty, subtract envy from friendship, mul tiply amiable accomplishments by sweetness of temper, divide time by sociability, ? and economy, and reduce scandal to its low est denomin ation," A-J as! A-Ias!?A person he moaning the uncomfortable piospect of celibacy, and comparing the res pective happiness of the married and single states*, exclaimed, " What can make the bitter cup of a batch elor go down." A wit in the com pany assuming the tone and manner of the complaint, exclaimed, " a lass! a lass 1" Clerical Wit The facetious Watty Morrison, he was commonly called, was en treating tin1, commanding officer of ft regiment at Fort George to pardon iv poor fellow sent to the halberds. Tbo officer granted his.petition on condi tion. that Mr. Morrison should ac jcord with the first favor he asked. The favor was to perform the cere mony oi baptism fw a young puppy. A merry party of gentlemen were in-, vited to the christiniug. iVtr. Morri son desired Major to hold up the dog. " As I am a minister of the Kirk of Scotland," said Mr. Morrison, " I must proceed accordingly," Major said he asked no iqorc. " W ell, then Major, 1 begin with the usna| question : You acknowledge yourself the father of iVis puppy ?" [ ; The Major understood the joke, and threw way the animal. Thus Mr. Morrison tinned the laugh against the ensnarer, who intended to deride a saered ordinance.