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P O E T R Y. T*iE FLOWER OF LOVE. 'Tis said the rose is Love's own flower, Its blush so briglu, its thorns so many ; And winter on its bloom has power, But has not on ks sweetness any. ? For tKo* young Love's etlwreal rose Will droop on Ag"Vs wintry bosom, Yet still its tided leaves disclose 1 he fragrance of theu* earlier blosom. / 'But ah ! the fragtance lingering there, H Is like the sweets that mournful -duty Bestows, with sadly-soothing cfcTe, To deck the grave of Bloom and Beauty; For, when its leaves are shrunk and dry, Jt? blush extinct to kindle never, That fragrance is but Memory's sigh, . That breathes of pleasure past forever. Why did not Love the amaranth choose, That bears no thorns, and cannot perish ? Alas 1 no sweets its flowers diffuse, And only sweets Love's life can cherish, iutbe the rose and amaranth twin'd, And Lov?, their mingled powers assitm . inKi Sh?dl round his brows a chapletbind, Forfever iweet, ftjrever blooming. - I , From the Illinois Gazette. " What'* the new6," said a Quidnunc to ''Taddy^M'Shanc, -JlXiimivJsirjign relations? and what about I u Oixy for eignre lotions !M cried Pat, with; a tear, * Och ! they're hanging Xhem up by the dozen, my dear I v Miscellaneous . from the Wilmington *( Del.) Gazette. BRIEF VIEWS. * can't just now. - ? . 'Thin is the common expression of persons who seldom do tilings when they should. No matter to such per sons., of what i. -portance the busi Hf?s to which they are advised or requested to attend, ft is sufficient for " them that they ate, for the moment, engaged; and, however strong the; advice, or urgent the necessity to at tend immediately -to the matter pro posed, tht;r reply 4s, "2 can't just now." Thus, if a person rides by the . dwelling of a friend, and notices a hole, in his garden fence, lie may ? *dvise .the owner to stop it, hut the - <; reply is, ** 1 can't just now." And ? what 49 the consequence! Why per ? baps On his return, he will g?e the pigs in thd garden, and (teas des Iroyed. There now Js a uice spot ?of work.! What then is to be done? f All hands are assembled, the dogs .called, and all go to work, with "hammer and tongs," and a hue *?d iiy is raised to drive out the V pigs : but before this is accomplished, there is, 'probably, as much trodden flow n as the pigs have destroyed.? And what is worse, the pigs are al ways after trying to make another hole in the same place*. All this r#>v arises from not attending to bus}* neas in time, ainl from using the foolish expression, "/ can't just r .-The wise man says, ? what your hknd finds to do, do it with your! might ? the proverb says, " never' put off till to-morrow, what you can: do to day"? and we say, put not till .'another time, what may, audi should be done now. The propriety and necessity of at- J twiding .to things at the moment, W lien it appears requisite that it r should be done, is perhaps obnoxious] ' . 1? every one. i here is no one, pro ? bfthly, who cannot advert to some in , cident which has forced the observa tion of their mind, that "what is necessary to be dune, should be done immediately ?nd who have not, at one time ur other, ex|>erien ced the hitter consequences of saving, '? I can't juat now." If it is necessary to do a thing at all, why may it not be done just now?" It will take no longer at one time than another; and die present when you have, a proper view of the subject, is the time when it should i be attended to; if n is deferred till1 nother lime, u may be forgot teu, ?s circumstances may occur which \ill render it impossible for you to attend- tu* it, or some disadvantage nay result from the neglect ; !>u t if it w done immediately, ?? it will not have to be done again," and you will be sure that no mischief will result from your negligence. There are many persons who ne-i ver will do a thing "just now." ? 1 Chough they have every thing pre pared, have a full view of the busi ness in hand, have the instructions which are necessary to etiable them to do right, still ibey say, " I can' I just noicf all are laid by, perhaps, m some sqft> voider, w here they will not be readily found again, and the business is postponed until absolute necessity compels tli^m to attend to it, and then they have nothiug ready. Preparations must then be made 5 implements are to be looked after; one and another is asked if they had seen them; all hands mu*t be em ployed in looking for them, and per haps as much time is thus spent in these preparatory arrangements, as would havfe been necessary in the first instance to have finished the business. But with the persons who alvyays reply, " I can't just now," it is well: if business is attended to at all; fot iu nine cases out of ten, perhaps, it is altogether passed by. If they can't do it just now, the tame reason will probably be given ogam, and they wiH go on from time to time, with, 6i 1 ca* U just 3101c" until ill can't lie done at all, gr it is altoge-j tlier lost siglrt of, and perhaps material advantage is lpsi bv the neg lect. Bat I 4? not presume my Es say will ;tmve much effect upon them ; for if persons are in tire habit of put ting tilings off, by saying, " 7 can't just now" 1 cannot expect hut that, with regard to my advice^ they will think they " can't just now" attend to it. TOM THIMBLE, BONES oy COLUMBUS, 1 This illustrious navigator died n(< Valadolid in Spain, May SO, 4506, and was buried in the Cathedral of Seville, with the insertion cm his tomb, 4 <l A Castillo y a Leon , 44 Nucvo Muuds dio Coiorr/* So say the narratives of lik life.' Other accounts say that it was in av Carthusian Convent of Seville that he v> as deposited, "along with the chains with which he had been load-; ed at Cuba." In this there seems to be a slight inaccuracy, as it was wluje he was at St. Douiingo thai he was seized and sent lrome to Spain in irons. On his arrival at I3ad& Jhe k'ipg and queen ordered him to be released, and apologized for the treatment he had received. But Ccrtumbia could not forget the, ignominy. He preserved the fetters; hung them up in his apartment, ajnei ordered them to be buried in his! grave, In compliance with an jn-j junction in his will, his body was; removed from Seville to ttispfuiiohi, ami debited with his chains, in ^ brass coffin, on the right of the high alter of the Cathedral of Kt.Domin go. There they reposed until after the cession of the Spanish part o( the island of St. Domingo to the rep'ihlic pf France, by the treaty of peace of July ?3, 1793. In corise atience of tliis cession, the descen aritH of Columbus ordered that his remains should tie transferred to the island of Culm, pn the 19th of January, 1799* the brass coffiu which contained tlie ashes of this great man, together with the chain which served as a memorial of his sovereign's! weakness, was carried do\vn tlie harbor in pioceession, under the fire of the fori*, and put on board a brig of war, to be removed to Haviina, On the passage from oni* island to the other, it is said I ho brig iell in with and captured a British merchant ship, amongst the cargo of which was some choice Madeira wine. The brig and her prize entered the harbor of Havana, and the remains of the discoverer of the nr\^ world were received with great pump and Wremony, and buried with all the honors that could be bestowed oi them. In tire mean lime, it is said, the wine in the prize ship, which at tracted little attention amidst the hus tle and parade of the occasion, was Sjrchased by some merchant getule eu from this town, and brought to llostou, where a bottle of it is occa sionally recognized, at some of our hospitable tables, uuder the nameol the Columbus wine, to this day. It has been repeatedly asserted thai the remains of Columbus were de jjosited at Havana without any monu ment, but from the following para graph, which we find in the New York papers, it would seem this i> an error, B. 1). Adv. Columbus. ? Perhaps it is not gen erally known, that the bones of this great man repose in the new Cathe dral of the Virgin Marjyat Havana ; wlyprc the following inscription i* placed: ? " The highly ^^Jinguished here Chuitofhek Cqjajmbls, by his sin gular skill in na tical science, open ed to all a way that had, before, been shut against all. ? He added a region of the greatest wealth to Cas tile and her Kings. To tire three parls of the globe, lie subjected f fourth, Hispaniola. But alas! aftei having explored almi>st all the Lucayos and Antilies Islands, and returned a fourth time to Hprin, Ik died at V.vllndolid, worn out b> 2?ief, gout and toil, on the 18th. oj May, 1506, His body was deliver ed for keeping to the Carthufeians oj the Seville, that it might be convey ed, at a convjwffent time, to (he vie iropolitan Church of Hispaniola; for he had so willed, and it was si done. But now, that his bo?eema;v no longer lie in ground which w noi Spanish, they have been retaoved alter a lapse of nearly two centuries, to this new Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, of emaculate coocaption, ?g<l duly buried, on the 17th day oi January, 1796. The city of Hav ana, mindful of th^Jgnerits of sc great a mau, iu lelatiou to herself and cherishing, at this expected lime, his precious remains, has erect ed this fnonument, and conducted the whole funeral at her 0H11 -ex pence ; under the civil administration of Philip Transplace, and Verdirja^ and during the military command oi Ludovico de las Casas." THE PRAlRIfcS OF THE WEST. ' FROM fenXlltAN's JOURNAL. To the traveller who for several day 8 traverses the .prairies ami bar rens, their appeftrafice is quite unin viting and even disagreeable. He m \y travel frvm morning until night, and make good speed, but looking around him, ho fancies Jiiinself at the very spot whence he^rted'^ JSTo pleasant variety fcf^hiU" and dale, no rapidly rni?uingut?it)(>k delights the rye, and no sound of woodland music strikes the ear, hut, in their steadf a dull uniformity of prospect "spread out immense/' excepting here and (here a tree, or dead leavel. covered with tall weeds and course grass, The sluggish rivulets x>f a reddish color, scarcely move per ceptible aod their appearance is as uninviting to the eye, a? their taste is disgusting to Uie palate, ttuch are the prairtes and barrens of tWe west; hut, in order to ma fee ample ameoik) for tiny deficiency;, nature has made them exuberantly fertile. The farmer who settles upon by raising cattle, becomes rich with little labor. He ditches those which are too moist for grain, lie ploughs and fences them, and raise* from; seventy to one hundred bushels of maifte, or Indian com, to ihfe acre, without ever hoeing it. The United States owns thonsafafeiitu! thousands of acres of #wch land in the westettr States rtivd Territories, which, for prompt payment, may be pbrclwed for one dollar and sixty-two jn*l ? half cents an acre. One objection to these lands is the want of trmbei for fuel and other purposes; and another is, that they are unhealthy : but in many places there is an abuu* dance of peat in the wet prairies, aw* estivation will every year render tlem mote and more hcolihy. Soroej *1 i he in 1 1 it \ e lit'cn cultivated for] 'ifleen or twenty years past, with :nun, and are as fertile as they ever were. As M. Yolnev savs, Tiiev are the r landers of \mevican." Revolutionary l\'ur-~ Anecdote *? General Marion was a native of South-Carolina, and the immediate threat re of his exploits was a large section of uiaritiuie district of that ^tate. -The peculiar hardihood of his constitution, and liis being adapt ed to a warm climate, and a low marshy country, qualified him to en dure hardships and submit to ex posure, which in that sickly legion, few other ?ueu would have been competent to sustain. With the small force lie was enabled to em body, he was continually annoying the enemy, cautious never to ris.\ an engagement, till he could make victory certain. General Marion's person was uncommonly light, and lie rode, when in service, one o; the fleetest and most powerful charters (lie South could produce: -?when in fair pursuit nothing could esca|>e, and when retreating nothing could overtake hhn. Being once nearly surrounded by a party of British dragoons, lie was compelled for safety to pass into a cornfield, by leaping the fence ? this field, marked with considerable descent of sur face, had been in part a marsh : Marion entered it at the upper side, the dragoons in chare, leaped the fence also, and were but a short dis tance behind him. 80 completely was he now in their power, that his only mode of escape was tq pass over the fence at tlie lower side. To drain the field of its superfluous water, a tr.eucb had been cut around this part of the field, four feet wide, and of the same* depth; of the mud and cla> removed in cutting it, a bank had been formed ori4ts inner side, ancl ou the top of thi& was erected the fence, the elevation amounting to nearly eight- feet per pendicular height? a ditch four feet in width runuing parallel with it the outer side, a foot or more inter* vening, between the fence aud ditch. The dragoons, acquainted with ihe nature and extent of this obsta cle, and considering it imposslblfe for their enemj to pass it, pushed to wardsliim with loud slu.uts of ex ultation and insult, ami summoning him to surrender or pefrfct} by the sword 4 regardless of their rudeness and empty clamour, and inflexibly 'determined not io become 4 heir pri soner, Marion spurred his horse to the charge, the noble animal, as if conscious that his master's life was to danger, Ami thai KM) his efcertions de pended his safety, approached tjie harrigiv ih lus linefet style, and with a bound that was altaost supernatur al, -cleaved)ihe fence and ditch com-, pletely, and recovered himself with out loss of time on the opposite side ? Marion instantly wheeled about and saw his pursuers unable to puss the ditch, discharged his pistol at them without eftect, and then wheels inghis horse. and bidding them good morning, <lt*parted. Thi dragoons, a^tmished at what they had witnes sed^ .and scarcely believing their foe to be mortal, gave up the chase, > ? tim ? , * ? ?*>i?iii 1 "From the pailjr Adfertjteet*, ; Burnt Cfrtrk.~r~' Fhe season has re*, turned when bilious complaints, tin) disoiders arising from debility# (which always iffffect the stomach) periodically make their ravages on irom?ft life. Let parents especially; tfem*$>ber the simple remedy first pnhltah In your paper, a year ago, and make a timely application of carbon of Calk : there is nothing: more Imrtnkfes ; it may fie given to an infant, only observing flmt it 1>e thoroughly burnt: pour a teaspoon full of jmandy on a cork thus repair ed, and mash it w?l) with loaf ?ugar and a iittle nnttiM^, or peppermint essence, ami water. The pobBca* :tion of this recipe has already salved many lives in case of Cholera Mor bus and bilious cholic, and for the ?' summer complaint," in children, it js aapecifg.it' taken in time; the quantify may be encreaseil at pleasure without the least danger. Kvery family should he provided with a supply, ready for the moment, f<n it often happens that a person is sud denly and violently attacked, per haps in the night, when it is extreme ly inconvenient, if not impossible, to prepare it. MED1CUS. It happened, no matter when, that a proclamation was made to the prisoners in the goal of Algiers, that the public executioner was dead, and that any one under sentence dexter* ous at cutting off heads, should bo pardoned upon accepting that office. 5io strong is the love of life, thai three candidates presented themselves* for Unlawful and bloody office, each boasting of his hkill in the art of de, capitation ? a Frenchman, a Hpniu iard, and an Englishman. The day of election was fixed, when a num ber of an happy victims were brought up for slaughter, and an atoiple-sup j|>ly of swords was provided for tlie experiment. The Frenchman made the first attempt, aftd at one blow off went the prisoners head : Monsieur's exaltation was visible to all the spec- A tutors, when the Spaniard intimated, that ii a narrow ribbon could be fix ed round 'the throat of his victim, us a mark, he would prove his su perior dexterity by cutting exactly through its centre, which he did with superior facility. When the Englishman, not at all dismayed at the success of (lie Spaniard selected a sharp and fine sabre, and made a blow with the velocity of lightning at the neck of his unfortunate prison er?' Ah !' said the prisoner, * you have missed me.'?' Have I,' replied John Built < Spit'? When to the astonishment of all, so dexteriously had the feat been performed, that when the sufferer inclined his bead, for the |Mirpose of spitting,, it fell to the ground, and the Englisbmau was immediately declared most dex terious, and long continued execu tioner to the jQey of Algiers. WmderfuLirf-I'lie, seven wonders of the werhl ware exhibited at Wash ington City, in a new museum of natural curiosities : < 1st. A widow that at the age of sixty refused ah pffitr of marriage. 24. A dandy with only five era-" vats on his neck. 3d. A cqntented old maid. 4th. A Lawyer of integrity. 5 th. A moderate doctor's MH. 6th. A tailor that was never known cabbage. 71b, A Congressman that wished to adjourn, the session, when there was motoey in the treasury. " Description qf a party of pleasure. ?We wept out clean ? we oame home dirty. We wentout sober ? we came home drunk-- We wept out well -- we came borne sick. W e went out laughing? we came home cwing. We went put sound'? -we came home broken. We went out with cash ? we came h?.me moneyless. We went out for air? we came home full of dust, ./ ? is/porting Anecdote.? Borne eager sportsmen in Cumberland (he o.ther day, having coming to that part the chase which is called a check, in quired of a country lad if he had seen the hafe go that way? After grinning aiid scratching his head, he ?sked, " had hur a brown bqok 1" " Ves, (eager)y) "Hail hut long legs" jes,r (patiently,) ? Hod hur a hit o' white under her tail?" " Yes ? have you seen her? "No, sur, I banna seen hur." ? Gkftgaw paper. The, Lady's Choice.-? A. lady, see ing the sheriff of a country, who was p very bapdsome young genfte man, attending tjie judge, who was an old man, a gpnftotnan landing askec| lfcerf wliicli she lved the heat, the jud&e w the Bbotiff? *rhe iady told him the ahcifF. 4 Why $0 V ?mid the gentleman. * Because/ an Hwercd she, ' tlwugh 1 love judgment well, 1 love execution liettir.'*