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poetry. FROM THE BALANCE. When Freedom on the battle storm Her weary head reclined When round her fair, majestic form The serpent slavery twined ? Amid the din? above the cloud Great Washington appeaed ? His daring hand rolled back the shroud, And thus the sufferer cheered ; Burst* burst thy chains ? be great, be free, ?? In giant strength arise | Stretch, stretch thy pinions, Liberty I Thy flag nail to ihe skien; - Clothe, clothe thyself in glory's robe, Let stars thy banner gem ; llule. rule the sea. possess the globe, VVfcar victory's diadem 1 Tell, tell the wbrld, a world is born, Another 01 b-gives light ; Another sun illumes the morn, Another star the night ' * Be just, be brave, and let thy name Hencelorth ? olumbi* be \ Wear, wear the oaken wreath of Came, The wreath of Liberty. He said ; and lo, the stars of night Forth to her banker flew ; And morn, with pencil dipped in light, \ Her blushes on iv drew ; Columbia's chiefiain seized the prize, By angel hands unfurled, Flew with it to his native skies, And waved ii o'er tne world. B. B. Miscellaneous . \ iA CURE FOR HARD TIMES. Sxtract from the Charge qf Judge Ron, to the Grand Jury qf * Montgomery M ?' Counry, Pennsylvania.' -v. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury |? ?I shall lake ibe liberty of saying J* a few words 011 a subject w hich may - Dot seem to come properly under my notice at this time. Rut, it is bo , general?^ topic of conversation, and lias bwn ?o frequently handled in the newspapers, and in pamphlets,1 that I tli ink it will not be amiss to . introduce it in this place. The suh-j ject to which I allude, is the har?i j; times. You are here, gentlemen, from the remote parts of yonr coun ty, and you have doubtless heard a: " variety of causes assigned for these ? ?tiard times. Our legislature have had the subject under consideration y ? tjbey have talked of a loan office, of fetop laws, of a law f6r great in ternal improvements; and a great I; \ar ety of projects have been agita Hed by them; all- to obviate those ^haud, times. But their projects are _ 1*11 visionary ; none of them calcula ted to do the smallest good to the community. Congress too have hern engaged on this subject ; they have thought that some great change in tite tariff, or some important measure fof th*> encouragement of domestic man ufactures, would help us out of the difficulty. But &11 this b perfectly idle. The projects dooi strike at the root of the matter. 1 irfay be singular in tny views, gentlemen, but, really, i haver thought so much On the subject, that I Can't avoid ex , pressing my jentiiueots, whatever , you may think of them. 1 have no tityections to great improvements? 1 am, by no means, unfriendly to our own manufactures hot then, 1 think ? that, in order io cure the evil, w<: must all act individually. Let tlie work of reformation begin at home, . and I confidently believe we shall ?oon get rid of the hard times, that are so much complained of. . To lie calling out for legislative aid, while we ourselves are deli. is acting like the man in the fable, who, when his ' wheel was fast in the ditch, cried for Hercules to help him, in stead of putting his own shoulder to the wheel. W * must help ourselves, gentlemen, and if that will not an swer, why then we may call for Hercules to assist us. We are too fond of allowing out in our families ; and in this way our expenses far eJtoeed our incomes. Our daughters must be dressed off in their silks and crapes, instead of their linsey woolsey. Our young 2 ' folks ate too proud to be seeD in a' (oarse dress, aud their extravagance is bringing ruia on our families. ? When you can induce your sons to prefer young women for then real worth, rather than for their show ; wheu you can get them to choose a wife who cau make a good loaf of bread, and a good pound of butter, iu preference to a girl who does nothing but dauce about in her silks and her laces, then, gentlemen, you may expect to see a change for the better. We must get back to the good old simplicity of former times, if we ex|>ect to see more prosperous days. The time was, even since memory, when a simple note was good for any amount of money, but now, bonds and mortgage* are thought almost no security; and, this far owing to the want of confidence. And 'what has caused this want of confidence? Why, it is occasion ed by the extravagant manner of liv-i ing ; by your families going in debt beyond your ability to pay. Ex amine this matter, gentlemen, and you will find this to be the real cause, reach your sons to be too proud to ride in a hackney coach which their father cannot pay for. Let them be above being eeen sporting in a gig or a carriage which their father is in debt for. Let them have this sort of independent pride, and 1 venture to say, that you will st)on perceive a reformation. But, until the changt commences this way in our families ; until we begin the work ourselves, it is vain to expect better times. Now, gentlemen, if you think as 1 do on this subject, there is a way of showing that you do think so. and but one way $-?- Wheu you re turn to your homes, have indepen dence enough to put these principles in practice; and I am sure you will not be disappointed. j The Pearl-Fishery of Panama. I The isthmus which forms the {boundary between North ami South I America might, in the possession of hin enterprising nation, be rendered a I fertile source of |>roeperity. It would |only be necessary to cut a canal to [connect the two seas, and to build a {ciiy at each of its mouths, which I might become the central point of ex pensive trade. . At the extremity of the bay of I Panama is an Archipelago, consist ling of forty-three islands; between li he islands of El Key and Tobago, Jibe sea is perfectly calm, and near jiiie coast lies a considerable bank tof nearly oysters. / ] These oysters produce pearls of a {large size, though in point of regu larity and beauty, they are inferior I to those of India, \ , ) I All the inhabitants of Panama and I its vicinity Who are in easy circum {stances, keep negroes, who dive to {procure penrls for their master**; ? I They are dispatched to tike islands, I where tents and boats are kept ip | readiness. Eighteen or twenty <*f {those poor nfgroes, who are excel | lent swimmers, and who posseses jibe power of holding in their breath {tor a considerable time, are under lihe controle of tn overseer. They {swim about under the water until {they fin<1~it\bai>k of oysters, where {the sea is not wore than 10, 12, or { 15 fathoms deep. The negroes tl?*n {ascend to the boat and cast anchor. {They tie around their waists a rope, {tnife end of which is fastened to the boat, and jump into the sea, taking a small weight to enable them to de cern], the more 'expeditiously. On reaching the bottom, the diver seizes an oyster, which he places uuder his left arm, another id his left hand, a third under his right arm, a fourth in his mouth. He then ascends to Stake breath, and to dejiosit the oys ters in a little bag in the boat. As soon as he lias recovered himself, he dives a second time, and so on until he is tired, or has fished a sufficient v number of oysters. . , Each of these negro divers mnst supply his master with a certain uuin ber of pearls daily. When the ne i^ro has fished as many oysters as h? 'liinks sufficient, he opens them in the presence of the overseer, and ilelivers to liim the pearls, whether small or large, perfect or imperfect, until be lias completed the numbei due his master; the .remainder are the property of the negro who usual -j ly sells them to bis master. Besides tlte labour and fatigue j which the negroes experience in de 1 taching the oysters from ihe bottom of the sea where they are frequently fixed between rocks and stones, thev | encounter great danger from the tam borunes, or tintoresos, a monsterous fish by which they are sometimes [devoured, and likewise, from the montas, huge rays, which seize the divers 60 forcibly, they stifle them, or hy falling upon them with all their weight, crush them at the bottom of the sea. " i ror this reason the diver is usual ly armed with a pointed knife. - If w hen it is clear, the negro overseer, who remains in the boat, should per ceive any cf these fish, he warns the diver, and sometimes goes to his assistance. Notwithstanding these precau tions, the divtj? Sometimes lose their lives, and frequently return with the loss of an arm or a leg. THE TURKS. Moos, Touruefort, and other judi cious and candid travellers, who lived some time among the Turks, and were diligent to inquire into tin reli^iou, customs, and manners of tnose people, speak of them ver> I'avorabh. They Mttiow ledge thai the Turks perform ?r the duties of their religion with a scrupulous ex actness, and particularly are so chari table, that they are always ready to relieve any person who will maki his necessities known, Mons, Tour nefort says, that he never saw a beg gar in Turkey, In truth, if we compare his account of the Turks with the character which he and some later travellers give us of the Greeks, we have no reasou to be surprised that so few of the former are proselyted to the faith of Christ; and yet these men are better Chris dans Jhan are perhaps to be found in 4^ parts of Christendom*, As I have* observed before, they are not only eminent for their charities, but upon all occasions they are easy and ready to forgive one another. They have no duels in that countjy, nor is any man assassinated in" Turkey from a false principle of honor or re venge. They retain a greatful sense of any favors t hey ^ have received. ? ? A r Turk of some distinction, who had been a slave at Leghorn, and during his captivity in that city had been often relieved J>y an English merchant, and by whose means he was at last enabled tp recover his liberty met Vr, Kandolph (whose iravels we have) some years after pt Sfcgropont, arid knowing him to be an Englishman, treated him with the greatest kindness and generosity $ and having prooyiwdL him a passage on hoard a TurkfiMBiip, he recotn* j mended him lo thejOaptain in these Words f # When you see tills man, you see me ; what you do to htm, Wtt do to me ; and I will answer it, be it good or ill," What a simplici ty and goodness of heart appears in this recommendation! For the rest, the l urks are very temperate both in eating and drinking, and the luxury of a table is unknown even in the palace of their Emperor, They persecute no one on account of his religion ; and the inquisitions of Bpain and Portugal they would ab hor, as the temples of Baal or the altars of Bu&iris. AMUSING FACTS RESPECTING SOUTH AMERICA. From ? A Statistical, Commercial, and Political Description 6f Venezuela, Trinidad. Margaritta, and Tobago," published |o London. ^ . ? Wild Horges and Jtm*.?-' Then are thousand* of burse* which an wild in tlie forests and do not be long to any one. I was enabled to isctrtain a fact, known to all wh< iiave travelled in thia country. Th? hones live there in societies, gero-r *lly (o the .number of five or *i> hundred, and even one thousand : thejr occupy immense savanos^ where it is dangerous to disturb or try to catch them, lu the dry season the\ are sometimes obliged to go two or iluee leagues and even more to find water. They set out in regular rank* four abreast, and thus form a proces sion of an extent of a quarter of a league. There are rlwa\s five or i * six scouts, who precede the troops by about fifty paces, If they per ceive a mau or jaquar (the American tiger,) they neigh, and the troop stops: it avoided, they continue their march ; but, if an attempt be made to pass by their squadron, they leap on the imprudent traveller, and crush him under their feet. The best way is always to avoid them, and let them continue their route : they have also a chief, who marches between the scouts and the squadron, awl five or six other horses march on each side of the band ? -a kind of adjutants, whose duty consists in hindering any individual from quit ting the rank. If any one attempts to straggle either Jfrora hunger or fatigue, he is bitten till he lesunus his place, and the culprit obeys with his bead hanging dow n. Three or four chiefs march as the rear guard, at five or six paces from the iroop. I had often heart), at Trinidad* of this discipline among the wild horses, and confess that I could scarcely believe it; but what I have just stated is a fact which I witnessed twice on the banks of the Ouaripiche, where i encamped five days for the express purpose of seeing those or ganized troops pass, 1 have met pn the shores of the Oronoco, herds of fifty to a hundred w ild oxen \ a chief always marched at the head, and another at the rear. The |>eople of the country have assured me, that the wild asses, when they travel,! observe (he same discipline as the horses ; but the mules, though they also live in troops, are continually fighting with each other, and it has not been observed that they have any chief. Tliey however unite, at the appearance of a common enemy, and display still more trick and ad dress than the horses, in avoiding the snares which are laid for catching them, and also for escaping when taken. Character of the* English People* BY F. HOPK1NS0N. The general character of the Ens;* lish is certainly the most fantastic^ anil ahsured, that ever fell to the lot of any known nation. As they are made up of contradictions, it would be unjust to give them any uniform designation* There is scarce a vir tue that adorns the mind* or a vice that disgraces humtin nature, hut fpay be astribed* to them, as a part of iheir national character. But the former are often render#.] ineffectual hy misapplication, ami the latter qualified by a levity of manners, which shovN s thejn not to be constitu tionally prevalent ' An Englishman will treat his enemy with great gen erosity, and his friend with ingrati tude and inhumanity. He will lie lavish of his wealth when he has hut little of it, and* become a miser* ly wretch when fortune pours her fa* vors ipto his purse. He will bfcve the utmost hardships,, and encounter the severest trials with heroic forti tude and will drown or hang him self because the wind is in the east. He will lend large sums to a stran ger on the slightest security, and refuse his nearest relation the means of subsistence. To-day, his heart expands with social benevolence; to-morrow, he is cold, sullen and morose. To-day, he possesses the. wealth , of a nabob; to-morrow, he refuses a sixpence to a beggar, lest he should be himself reduced to a want of that sixpence. In a word, contradiction and absurdity makfi an Englishman. The extreme ignorance of the; common people of this civilized coun try, can . scarce be credited.? In general, they know nothing be yond the particular branch of busi j ness which their parents or the par >$h happened to choose for them.? < This, indeed, they practice, witi unremitting diligence ; but iievei think of extending their knowledge further. A manulnciuier has been brought up a maker ot pm-heads : He has been r.t thU business -HJ n tars, and of course makes pin-heads with yrreat dexleriiv-? but he caiuul make 0 % a whole pin for his life, lie thinks it is the perfection of human nature to make pin-heads, lie leaNC* oilier matters to inferior abilities, li is enough for him that he belie>es in the Idtkanasian Cie*d> resevruces the splendor of the court and makes pin-beads. This lie conceives will be the suni-totai of religion, polices and trade. He is sure dial London is the tiuest city in the world ; Black fritr's Bridge the most superb of all oridges? and the river Thames the largest river in the universe. It is in vaiu to tell him that there ate uiany rivers in America, iticompaii* son of which (he Thames is bin a ditch ; that there are single provinces there larger than all Kngland, and that the colonies formerly belonging to Great Biitain, but now indeptn* dent States, are vastly more exten sive than Eugland, Yv'ales, Hcot-s. land and Ireland, all taken togetku, tie cannot conceive this, lie gucs into his best parlor, and looks on a map of j Hnglund, 4ftet squ .r , and on the other side of tlie room, he sees a map of J\Turth and lica9 not more than two feet square, and, exclaims ? How can these things possibly be [?it is altogether quite impossible J^^He has read lie Arabian Mights Entertainment, and he hears this wonderful account of America-*fae believes the one as much asthe utheiv?-that a giant shokl rise out of the sea, or tliat the Del aware should 'be larger than tne Thames, are equally incredible to him* Talk to him of the British Constitution, he. will tell you 44 it i&~ a glorious j^onstitution /" Ask him what it is, and he is ignorant oj its first principles/ 1 But lie is sure that he can make and sell pijr-beads und?r it. Mention the freedom of elections, and he will tell you> that he does not meddle in these inatteis ; that lie lives in a borough ; and Lh"t it is impossible but that Inquire iwoose Cap must represent that borough in Parliament ? because squire Cvoos& Cap is accfUahited with the Frame Minister ? ami bis Lady comes e\ y Hunday to the p&rMi church in a brocaded gown, and sits^in a pew lined with green cloth. Jiow then can it be otherwise? But these aro 'things in which he is not concerned* ! He believes in the J&thanusian Vreed9 jhonors the King? and makes pin 1 heads? awrf what wore can he expect - ed of a man ? ? ?? Topical remedy foi the Hydropho* bia.*? feig. A, M. Salvatoii of i e~ tersburgh, in a lettter to professor Moriic hini of Rome, gives the fol lowing remedy for this dreadful ma lady, ? - ?: "The inhabitants of Cadici, but when or how I Know not, have made the important discovery, that near the ligament of the tongue of thfr' man or animal bitten by a rabid aqir mal, and becoming rabid, pustules of n whitish hue make their pppeaf&nre, which open snofitaneifosly about the 13th day after the bite; and at this time, they say, the first symp toms of true hydrophobia make their appeavance. Their method of cure ' consists in opening these pustules I with a suitable instrument, and mak ing the patient spit out the icljpr an<J ; fluid which rati from them, often washing tlie mouth with salt wa^r* This joperation should be pert'o^tued the ninth day after the bite, 'fk re medy is so effectual, that witb these people this hitherto incurpbVe disease has lost its terror ItaL xhr. 428# " ;Lm USEFUL RECEIPT. Cure for that terrifUe dig order in the mquth, commonly cmlte/l SCjiJSTDKl" Take of good nature , i o*.? -of an herb, called hy the Indians, " mind your j>wn business/' 1 QZ.?~* mix (Iris Willi a little " cliatity for inilings," and add two or three , ? i?rigs of " keep y our tongue betwe?a * our teeth,'1 Himmr.r (Item together 11 a vessel made of a kiudtol clay, ailed circuyntjjectiov, for^ a shcit. unie^ and it wiU bf; fit focu^e..