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POETRY. " From Foul* on.'* Daily AdverUsei. To ft young friend, with ? J*ockit Tene ment. The C harter of a nation's weal* Is deaf to every patriot heart, And he that scorns its sacred zeal, in Freedom'* flame can share no part: a To young desire, how choice the deed That crowns the wishes of theheir I How eitfoeak is his anxious heed, That nougfct shall tfes bequest impair? , ,-V * ?**>?< But dearer than the chartered scroll, That stampa a rising nation free t Dearer than riches, to the soul. Is the bequest of Deity, This guidet-the weary wanderer's way, This tells of * Redeemer's name ; And hf , that on its Truths can stay, , , Shall smile when worlds are wr^pt in - flame. * ? v ^ **OM A LONPOM P4M% KCOJfQMY. ^ CAN frugal Ministers forbear , ^ gracious QueenJto^own, Who, for her suffering country's oare, JnC&vzaJifty thousand fiaunds a yeur^ And aA* but? Jtalf a crovm. ?? fin Miscellaneous. . , * ? i ?? ? GENERAL JAOKBON. The following Portrait is a vivid and ani-. mated Likeness of this Great Man. It is taken fronuth'e Philadelphia 4k Aurora.* and will be recognized a? a^rue and faith* ful delineation s a Jackson, in his ^public life and personal demeanor, is the perfect -image of a Republican General; ' losing sight of every thing hut the glory, honor, and safety, of bis Co.intry; daring resolute, and un tamed in action ; cool arid deliberate in council ; prompt and unhisitating ip anv emergency; always self col lected, he fa never to he led off from the first track, marked hy his sagaci ty. Of a hold and quick perception, lie perceives the most complicated re lation <ef things as if b\ intuition ; ; jMid forms his judgment with a ra - pidity that would seem to bid defi ance to con ectnesa while it in reality ensures the most unimpeachable equi ty of Trie decision. The prbcess of fait intellectual comparison is onala fgous to the trfc and energy of Ms ac tions. But he is never precipitates he never, from the force of his pas* ?ions, overleaps an immediate chain of reasoning, or an Interposing har tiei of facts, in order to attain a de sired conclusion, repopiani to tnUb, Hit?ly tecause congenial to hisheart. Sis mind appears have been form by a philosophical law, which re . quires only one <ause to account for ' a consequence, and looks for nothing extraneous. There is r loftiness in Iris temper, that eoars ahovcf any sa crifice of , truth to passion. , In rela . tion to himself, there h no liaste, no rapidity no forced marches of bis re flections, in order to come to a epee jif judgment. . ,.,T*j It is only in comparison with other* of a more slugs^h nature* that lie seems to outstrip (he lightning in ?peed, and the wind* in strength.? Careful always to he correct, when pnce determined, his judgment is Ir reversible, too firm ? to !** moved; too well sustained to be refuted.*** Once resolved on his plan, hit action is prompt, energetic, persevering, indefatigable. Obstacles only aug ment his vigor excite his invention and redouble his |>owers. He seems impetuous, when he is only resolute ; for he overlooks nothing ? he never allows himself to lie surprised ; he never, by placing hi* eje too fiyed ly on one object, loses sight of ano ( ther, or plunges into intervening dif ficulty* His perception is not mere ly quick but comprehensive. Kear never defeats his purposes, or makes a part of his calculations. He sec* nothing but his country ? $lory? ? or death ? and death or glory is the mot to that his genius has engraved upon fcus heart* In the field, the honor of his country is his supreme rule of ac tion. A sttra Republican, ikvuted in civil life to the laws aud constitu tion, he is too much a patriol in war, to suffer the scruples of a legal con* struction, or the doubts suggested by a coward conscience to snatch a vie tory out of his liands and encircle the brows of his euemy with the spoil* and honor of his country, A Ro man, a Fabius, woukl do no less, and no uign could do more, it is consulting the Laws of Nations, in an exigency, when no other law could lead to self preservation.-; Such a General could never fai* to be victorious, while he lived; an object of terror to our eneivies, an object of gratitude an4 applause to his country. Asa statesman, the pretention and merits of JFackson are more than res tiectable ? they are eminent, . He leld a station in the Senate many years ago, and in bad times ; he dis played the same simplicity and deci sion as in the field ? he was sternly opposed to bad measures, and con tented with an unostentatious support of those that were good. It was] said of him then?" In the hoar of] trial you know where to find Jack son.1' It was the observation of a friend, and a great man, and it was] verified in the field, as in the senate.] His knowledge is various enlarged,! and useful He possesses something! beyond the ordinary accomplishments! of the bar and the bench. As a| lawyer* he is distinguished for hav-| ing given the form of generalization 1 to a science in his own mind, whose] uniform tendency is to cramp the .in- 1 tellect, by its detail, disconnection,! and petty principles of construction,! termed quibbling. In this way hel has expanded, e*alted,and erabel-l lished his genius by a science that so] often obscures, confounds, and mis-] leads common understandings. The] creative powers of an intellect natur-| ally , capacious, vigorous and lofty,] could alone reverse this debasing.in-J fiuence of the art and practice of] chicaner} and deception. , lie is bp partisan, the slave of no] faction, A Republican, his princi-] pies are defined in the constitution ;| and the love of fidelity keeps peace] in his heart with the throbs ot life.] He owns up party? he is only an] American. Frank, ingenuous and honest,- he! is a total stranger to al} those vices] that constitute the courtier. No maul can despise more heartily than be] does, the flatterer, the dissembler,] the sycophant, the hypocrite. He] uniformly treats such creatures with] the contempt that b* always feels,] and never can dissemble, W e there- 1 fore seldom hear of General Jackeenl being at Washington, moving like! a satelite, or shinning at 'Cabinet] dinners.1 Not less honorable than sincere, be id open in bis enmities; and un disguised in bis resentments. ; In such a character, magnanimity is a natural trait. His detriment is the Mine towards .all men whether in or i>ut of office, potent or powerless ? he is still unaffected and unreserved to all??bUtid, polite and courteous too iiyUtyiendent in spirit to accept a favor, or to sue for it, he is equally hopeless of pajrpnage and fearless of power. But how could Jackson receive a favor ? A tarCn whose char acter and famfe are equally above the incumbents of offpe and out of the reach of thghr influence? It is for biih to confer favors on the adminis uatiors of the general government am) the people; always in submis sion to the laws and the constitution, to 'reverence the one, obey the other, and respect them all. As a writer (General Jackson does not fpde in comparison with any of his cotemporaries. Ilia coui|H>sition is replete v\jth energy, fire, and ex pression* Mi* meaning hums op bis page ? a flame calm lambent, and unbaring ? giving light, so t|?at no, man can luiscou&ive him, or fail (o feel what he writes. It is the un-| l imed eloquence of a spirit that des pise* the petty embellishments, tlia give mora objection to the meaning than they impart beauty to the style. It i m not the elaborate coiuposiliou of au author, culling phrase* from the depositories of language but the !>tyle of the soldier, the .ftatesman, *nd the gentleman, secves as a mir ror to reflect his civil avid military character, and conveying in hold diction impressive tilths. M AU beautious ctoquencc resigns her charms, To the grim aoldier, drcsiM in horrid arms." k It baa been alledged, that his tem per is fierce and impetuous ; but il might with more justice be said, that hie mind is powerful enthusiastic and commanding. Living up to that simplicity which should always char acterize a republican citizen lie is equally an enemy to expensive wealth gorgeous magnificence and courtly pomp. He has -borne his successes and his glory, with the moderation of a man too well read in the book of human life, to be misguided by applause, or presumptuous by pow er. In short? *To be, and not to teem, is this mans maxim ; His mind reposes its proper wisdom* And wants no other praiie." His courage and genius inspire* his enemies with dread, his virtues win the love of his friends, and his patriotism and worth secure the ad?* miration and applause of the people ; at once the envy of proudest Nation of Europe, and the second boast t of our own couutry, -* Antiquities of Tennetse*. The Nashville Whig has given quite an interesting account of anti quities discovered in Tennessee, from which we have made the fol lowing summary. On the fkrro of Turner Laije, Esq. five miles 8. EL of Sparta, aud on others adjacent, small graves have been found, from one foot to 18 inches below the surface.-? They are about ten inches broad and eighteen inches long, having a flag limestone rock at the ends and sides, and are covered with the same species of rock. ? They contain ^ skull bones, about three inches in diameter, nearly sound, and the other bones which are pro portionality . small. Between two and three hundred of these graven have been found. In every tomb that has been opened there was dis covered a small b(ack_ earthen pot, about a pint in capacity, containing a conck-shell of a gray colour exterior and red within? In the vicinity of these graves there are vestigies of large towns, with parallel streets,-^ The land is covered with large tim ber. At that distance of two miles and an half frqro Mr. Lane's farm similar tombe and ^skeletons have been discovered. In one of them the scull had all the teeth remaining and all tbe bones belonging to the body was in the tomb. Mr, J^ane considers tbe sculls belonging to adult persons, Tbe Contk-shells must have been brought from tbe border* of the ocean, as none : of the Hind are found in the states in the vicinity. The retrains of a gigantic race have been discovered not more than aey*l? miles from these little graves* ? After wading through a variety of conjectures, and calling to his aid history and fiction, the writer notices superstition of some vf the nations of antiquity, whose veneration for certain quadruped* induced to Jbnfy them in th* woods and desert places ?ha says; "The sculla and other bones described by Mr, Lane, may be tbe boqes of sacred animals, buried by a superstition not dissimi*! lar to that pf the Hindoo ?nd Egyp tian ; and being not more than 20 mi)es from the place where the three* faced image was found, both may haye beep deposited by the same rej ligious notion#. The poncfc*ahell left in the small water vessel indicates an intent to provide for the accommo* elation otfaome. animal who could use the ponck for dipping water out of the large ve*sel.--SboMld this con jecture be found worthy of adoptionf the evidence of Hindoo ance$tr%\ will bavo attained a degree <* strength almost too stable to suffer resistance. The animal^ wbethet i 'ape or monkey, and tl>e corKk-sb*]), '.may have come fiom the Gulf of Mexico, Cumana, or the waters of the Ovonoco a ml the adjacent countries, whither they came from ithe old world, wiih the superstition which deified them. The sedulous anxiety manifested for their preserva tion, the care taken in their burial, to provide a certain species of 6tone for their coffiu, atd for their future accommodation a water vessel and a dipper* are _ circumstances which must have proceeded from some in violable and indispenssiile religious injunction ; the very same perhaps which governed the conduct of the ancient Egyptians* and of tbeancient,| intermediate, and present Hindoos. Bathing in the Dead Sea. It is well knowu that the water of this sea is saturated with salt, chiefly muriate of magnesia, and common salt. Its specific gravity is 1,811. Mr. L^b, who bathed in it in l$i&, inf( r%C|8 that he saw several shell fish ii^7 not unlike periwinkles. ? TUe account which be gives of the effect of bathing is singu lar. ?<Our Arab guides bad en deavoured to alarm us as to tbe con sequences of bathing in these pestif erous waters; but we made the ex periment, and found that though two of our party were unable to swim, tbey were buoyed in a most extra ordinary manner. Tbe sensation perceived immediately upon dipping was, that -we bad lost our sigbt ; and any part of the IkxJv that happened to he excoriated suffered excessively. The taste of the* water was bitter and intolerably saline. From this experiment, some of ua suffered a good deal of inconvenience, an, oily incrustation being left upon the body, which no attempt at w ashing lould remove for some time ; and several of tbe party Continued to lose por tions of skin for many sucpettivp days" jFrom the Petersburgh Intelligencer. Agriculture qf Italy.? JVith the exception of China,' perhaps? there is no country so essentially agricul tural as Italy. This Kingdom is neither a manufacturing or commer cial state? yet she supports Jpore than 17 millions of inhabitant^, or about 1887 to a square league*?* population much more numerouVtbao that of either England or FramJe.-* |t is her agriojfure alone which d<toa this? and wfficfc has laid the founds* tiqn of those splendid pities which crowd her plains. Under a wijw and beneficent government, although the Apiculture of Italy might never raise her to the elevated rank she once possess?d~still it woul3 great ly advance her men iaMi"ppi ties* and prosperity, and contribute to her na tional Importance. The climate, the productions, the mode of cultivation in Italy, -all so nearly resemble those of Virginia, >and the other Southern States, as to make Italian husband ry * sulgect of interesting inquiry, ? The produCMfltos of the farm *re nearly similafCthe Italian Metayers bear a strong resemblaoceto oqr Ne gro Slaves-? the disagreements > lie chiefly in the ater fertility of the alluvial soil of Italy* and tbe supe riority of U?e Italian plaus at ftrm i?g. THB HUMAN BYE. The human frame ha# always heettfegatAri by the most sagacious a^ 11 pfoc* of mechan ism woTHWrully and fearfully con trived ; there is not a single member or vessel cf the humaq body that H*& not properties or peculiarities of the most interesting or ejqnisite descrip tion. Sceptics may sneer at religious formalities, at religious opinions, and at the numberless unessential professions and belief of finite creai lures, they may 4igh over the ab surdities of bigots, zealots an<J de* votees, and they may in the warmth of their aedicule laugh (as it were; God out of the world. - But sho them a human eya^dissect it befor* iiiem ? show them the trans|mreii iiorney sections, winch unlike th common outward integuments of tbi ? . ' i human frame is hard, vet pellucid as glass ; defending the eve from in* jury ? show them the lachrymal glands through which issues contiuu ally a limpid fluid that difiuses itself over the external surface of the eye to keep it from becoming dry or brit tle, and to wash off dust or any foreign substance ; show them the lid so exauisitely curtained up, so delicately liung that it drop# at the passing even of a breeze to hinder it from brushing its beauteous charge too roughly ; show them the aque ous humour perfectly clear, in which is placed the crystelline l*na, like a double convex glass to receive the images of objects and transmit them iu a diminished form on the retina or membrance at the back of the eye ; and prove to them that all our ideas of sight are received through this wonderful and exquisite organ e that pictures of every object we see are absolutely formed with all their na tural colors on this netted membrance, and thence transmitted by a bundle of nerves into which tlx*, membrane is collected to the brain ; prove these things to 9 sceptic of whatever coun* try, cast, (dents or opinions, and he will tremble at that abominable absurdity into which egotism, pride, and ignorance have betray eel him. Religion is exalted reason, re" fined from the grosser parts of it. It is both the foundation and crown of all virtues. It is morality raised and improved to its height by being car* ried nearer to heaven, tlie only place where perfection resideth. Moral Reflection . ? A firm trust in the assistance of an Almighty Being, naturally produces natience, hope, cheerfulness, and all other disposi tions of mind that alleviate those calamities which we are not able to remove, f WIND BROKEN. ?4 tqfk cure.? broken winded horse had been kern in * field where there was net any water, except in. the boitoni of an old lime kiln, and bad recovered hie wind ; the owner ordered a spade full of quick lime to be renewed every five or six days, and the water to be poured off and a bucket to be given every day to a broken winded coach horse, aged, eight years, which had almost a con slant cough, The horse was sup? plied with w^ter thus prepared for AboQt 0 Weeks, and kept In the sta ble, He is now perfectly Recovered in bis wind, and free from a cough. j Pointed Puna. ? The following ne^t and novel toasts were drank at Shawnee Town, iu Illinois, on the 4th of July last ; 1 The Fair sea?? Though partial to no particular state hut that of mutru mony, they are always ready to pro mote union and good feelings. Agriculture ? May the honest maq who pats bis hand tothepicmgA never have bis era} harrowed with care. Domestic Manufactures? While our men make good husbands ? our women good wives? our children Sood citizens? and our citi^e gooj) soldiers, we fear no foreign competi tion,^; ' ' . ' The tars of Columbia, who P*& all our debts to John Bull, by board ing him for nothing. Spanish needfe work ? His Ma jesty jquilteU petticoats, and the min isters mad s^\fis ? hut the people " put on righteousness, and it clothed The at^ss? Though herd limes are plenty? and hard money scarce, lei us not complain while we have whiskey for ?pr friends, and ?>m ;pQwder for ouf enemies. , Sold Cfifirge.T-^. twig at Jaw, an attorney, having entered into a vol unteer corps, fin , the first field .day be was ordered to charge--' when he instantly whipped otit bi? packet liook and put ? own H5. A conceit of knowledge W the greatest enemy to knowledge, and tbe ;re?(eHt argument of ign<*??|*ce. Be cheetfuJ, but not light ; solid, out wot Sfld. ^