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POETRY. From the -Baltimore Morning Chronicle. THE SOLDIER'S VOW. .When the "clarion's shrill blast thro' the a*r, And the cannon's loud ecKo shall rattle ; O then will I think, on the fair, And laugh at the dangers of battle. -'Remember ye not when at eve, 1 gazed on thy pearly blue eye ; When softly ye whisper'd, deceive, And chid the rude word with a sigh ? O then, by the moon's silver beam, Eternal attachment 1 swore ; While life thro' the death shade should . gleam, > - And the heart beat the bo scorn no more. '? "? * ?' i ' -Then doubt not thjr soldier's sincere, * And dear to hi* heart are thy charms ?? K o form but (hy own can endear, Nor receive the embrace of his arms. * SOLDIER. Miscellaneous* _ . TtOM TH? KtWKtT MIICVM. ' ' 8ELFES11M A1TON. However it maybe decried by Awning flatterers, and cringing ?y 'Cophsiils^ is not an idle and supercilious topick for declamation*? It is attendant on / virtue, and stanch m a guard and oentinel on the conduct.? A man must l>o lost to all sense of shame and re proacb, before he can prostitute to popularity, to ambition, to self-in terest, or to any of the sordid Fas hions, tbe dignity and majesty of Ms own mind. Ben. Johnson has said, with some truth and propriety, that ; " IV Uarned fiatcy ft Duck* to tho golden fooL * 111 otlier words, literature is often > prostituted to public affluence ; and * the mtn of genius often humbles himself in tbe dust, before the splen ? Jar of momentary greatness.-? " These tbiugs ought not so to be.* ?It may be said* without any exag geration, that we commit an oftence against the majesty of Heaven, and fling the Meetings in the face of our ^Creator, \v lieu we make our reason subservient to our interest. No man ii pon earth has a right to ooerpe opin ion, or to enforce on the meanest particle of humanity, sentiments ab~ torrent to the convictions of his con ' ?"m7: \ # ' . science. Such a character, whether ""decorated with riches, power, or popularity, is, ought to be, andeter n&Hy. wHl be an object of the most fariidiotts contempt. \ tie may receive Hie crouching adu lation of the day ; lie may be flatter ed and courted? but this is aH; mockery and grimace. GrtatnessJ built on the unsubstantial basis of hypocritical adulation, will vanish | into nothing when the hour of trial; ia at hand. When the worthless body moulders in the coffin, many M indignant flatterer will walk care lessly over the grave, and wilt ex claim?here liea the remains of a Tyrant.? Dot these sovereign bene* factor* of mankind, these proud can didates for public applause, have an infallible way te perpetuate their numee to posterit v ; and tlmt is, by having their ideal excellencies caned on their grave-atones.? Often and ofien have 1 'passed, with a kind of indignant pity, the tombs of those, who abounding in riches or power, never perpetuated their names to pos terity, but by the pitiful falsehood of a grave-stone inscription. Often are ?nch characters displayed to the world as patrons and benefactors nf man kind, when their lives have been a continual and incessant lihel on the nsseitinvu? The orphan, the beggar, and the * poor in heart,1 99 pass bv with a glance of Hie most transcend ant contempt 4 while spaniel Ant- 1 terers and sycophants applaud ? 1 btu*h, 1 could shed t ears over (lie depiavity of our common nature.-? Never should I with a prouder epitaph than this : ? Here lies a man, who, though dispised T?y the world, ??'ill had the fortitude to respect him ^}f. Principles, formed on I he matures! conviction, should always be hu? Z*>i\ to the heart ? If they are popu lar, rise with them; if unpopular. *ink with them. ? -"Whether the down of a palace, or the straw of a dun geon, are your portion, let it !>e en graved (not on a tomb-stone.) hut in the hearts of posterity, that in the struggle, between fi*tuue and virtue,1 virtue was triumphant. Without self-respect I pee nothing that there i9 to prevent the pride and arrogauce of wealth from trampling the humble son of poverty to atoms. This is equally a guard and a man ly guard against the austerities of fortune. It is in fact the only pro tection that genius cau have, frum the tyranny of insolent riches.? lCow it is possible for genius and integrity to debase themselves for a moment, so far as to crouch to lie insolence of wealth or the grandure of ambition is difficult to conceive and indeed wonld be incredible, did not-' every day's experience convince us of the fiict ? Genius ought to look with m unblenched majesty to the son and should declare, that nothing below it, will ever satisfy tor aspirings for permanent {lory -*nd renown ? S he claims, not merely tlje admiration of tta present age? posterity will have its snare of applause. It is a tribute not to genius -only, but 4o ourselves, to applaud.? If wealth is to be con sidered as paramount, let us give up all pretentions to pre-eminence >l ?; Reflect, and retire with (he solitar satisfaction, that riches and respect and poverty and contempt, are terms altogether synonimous. Let us then firmly resolve, that with a decent respect for the opinion of others, we will never lease to reverence our own. Q. From the New- York National Advocate, Extracts from the Port Folio of m Man of Letters.? JVo. i. In the 40th age, Pope Silvester II, was considered a Magician be cause he understood Geometry and Natural Philosophy ; and the cele brated Apoleius, long before him, labored under tlie same suspicion. ? It is not much above 4 century since a learned Judge? Sir Matthew Hale, then at the head of the profession in England, actually condemned sever* al old women to be burnt alive 611 an accusation of witchcraft, ami 'what renders this case the more re markable- is, that the learned Hir Thomas Brown, author of ja work written purposely to expose " Vul gar Errors," being present in court, and asked his opinion by the judge, declared his belief in witches. i&mpedocles' ami Plato asserted that trees and plants possesses ijot only a vegetative soul, but affirmed thai they were animals. The Mau chees went farther, and attributed so much of the rational soul to them, that tliey Considered it homicide tcV gather either thier flowers or fruits. This reminds us of the Irish jury, who brought in a verdict of man daughter against a person who had the misfortune to kill a cow . Strabo was of opinion thai ih* combustion of Hodora, and the for mation of the lake, was occasioned by hot bituminous water*, which burnt out flamitig from the earth at the time of an earthquake. Tacitus entertainecta more orthordox opinion. The ancients believed the world first began with Spring, but the Doctors of the Church have aiace greatly differed on this subject. Ad* cient historians record accounts of particular and extensive deluges hap pening, and that of JDeucation is spoke* of by several of them to have been universal. Lucia n ex* pressly says that Deueailioo, for his piety, was |?re*erved in an ark, witlf bib wives Mid children, and that all njankiud sprung from him. PIJH larch makes particular mention of tlie dove sent out of the ark by Deucal lion. These are all evidently tradi tions from Noah's flood. Tlie famous Library of Alexan dria; containing 700,000 volumes, and afterward* burnt by Julius Osar, was founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus* and by the assistance of Demetrius Pbalerius, the rhetor: - cian, it was furnished with all the valuable books that could be collect ed. ? Having beard of the fame of the laws of the Jews (who had been made captives by his predecessor) he procured a copy from Eleazar the high priest, which ? be- appointed seventy two interpreters to translate into Greek. Tina waa the origin of the Septna^^jpHnonr of (he bible. Zoroaster was aalsdiau philoso pher, and reputed of great antiquity ; he is said to have lived 5000 years before the Tiojan war. The Chal dean and Egyptian books are held to be very ancient, and to have car* ried up their history and astronomiv cal calculations into an incredible length of time; some of them are held to have been considerably older than Moses. . The pretensions of the Chinese in this respect go still farther back. * J Enoch's PiUars . ? The tradition respecting these monuments mention ed by Josephus, w as that Enoch or his father Hetli, having been inform ed by Adam that the world "w as to perish once by water, and a sccond time by fire, caused two pillars to be erected, the oue of stone and the other of brick, and that upou these pillars was engraven an account of all the learning and inventions of mankind. Hence this was not lost to the world ; for although the flood overthrew one of them, the other remained entire, and was seen tty Joeephus evenTstv late as his days. The art of printing, the matuJ .c 1 ture of gunpowder, f?nd the mven-i tion of clocks, are all ascribed to Germans. The first is said to have lieen the discovery of a soldier, and the second that of a monk ; profes sions very opposite to their inventions, but which would have been exactly suitable had they been reversed.? Printing, and making gunpowder were practised by the Chinese 1500 years before tliey were known in ? m it? * ,.-i , .i?. _ i . j W ere a geiusrai estimate made -of all the heroes mentioned. in ancient and modern history, tfiere would be found little reason to depart from the judgment of Pope, that Heroes' are much the same, the points agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole, strange purpose of their lives to find* Or rouke an enemy of all mankind, Several of the ancient fathers scrupled not to consider Socrates a martyr approved of by God. His principles and practice wight put the best of us at this day to thtf blush. In the 7th century, Virgil, bishop of 8altzburgh, was invoked in great difficulties, liecaose ho avowed bis belief in the anti|>odes. He was treated m. impious by Boniface, archbishop of Mentc, who censured him from the pulpit. Virgil com plained to the Pope, on which Boni face represented him in such a light, that Virgil's faith was suspected, anil he was ordered to l*e degraded from the priesthood, and sent to Rome to answer for Ids conduct* N ot withstand ing Hie infallibility of the Pope, no one runs any rink in these day* for believiug that there me other men be: low ns, or that there is another world, or another planetary system. . Prom Crawford'* Hiitory of the Indian jWtltta- Archipelago. v SPORTS WITH ANIMALS. Among t!ie . Javanese, the inmt interesting <f three ie (he combat of I be tiger era buffalo. The Imiblo of the Indun Islands ie an animal nf greet axe and strength, ami of no contemptible courage j for he ie an over tjiatcb for the rojitl tiger, hardly ?*r failing to cMte off vicio rione in tfw fight Witlt, him. Neither an pos seated of much active c<*rage ; the tiger, indeed, is a cowarty and fights only perfidious ly, or tjfoogh necessity. On this account, It ia necessary to confine them wi^in very narrow limits, and fsrtlier, to. goad them by ? various contrivar-je.. A strong cage, of a circular torn, about 10 fceiindiame ter, and 15 feet high, partly covered u (be top, ?* for litis purpose too struted, by. driving stakes into the ground, which are secured by being Inter woven with bamboo. The buf falo is first introduced, and the tiger in afterwards from an aperture. The first rencounter is usually tremendous; the buffalo is the assailant, and his attempt is to crush his antagonist to death against the strong walls of the cage, in which he frequently succeeds. The tiger, Foon convinced of the superior strength of his antagonist, endeavours to avoid him, - aud when he cannot do so, springs insidiously upon his head and neck. In the first combat of this nature to which 1 was witness, the buffalo, at the very* first effort, broke his antagonists* ribs against the cage, and he drop-! ped down dead. The buffalo is not always so fortunate. I have seen a powerful tiger hold him down, thrown upon hi6 knees, for many seconds; aud iu a fe w instances, he is so torn with wounds that he must be with drawn, and a fresh one introduced, j :n nineteen cases out of twenty, how ever, the buffalo is the victor. After the first onset, tiiere is liltle satisfac tion in the combat ; for the animals, having experienced each other's strength aud ferocity, are reluctant, to engage, and the practices used to goad them to a renewal of the fight are abominable. . The tiger is rous ed by fire-brands and boiling water, and the buffalo, by pouring upon his hide a potent infusion of capsi aims, and by (he application of a| most pcisouous nettle, ( ktrmady ) a| single touch of which/ throws the strongest human frame into a fever. FROM THE V7LLAG& KECORD. Dear Mr. Printer ? ? I now sit down to write to you, to lei you knotv that I am well, and hope these few lines will find yoti enjoying the same blessing. Jtyy good man is in a quandary; arid says I, Richard, says I, let roe write to the printer about it, for I have more learning than Richard.- ? 80 the matter is this, Richard laid a wager on the election, that Governor Findlay would get it, for 'Squire odling told Win he would get the wager <0 a certainty ; and on the strength of it, Dick bought me a, new gown, and himself a new coat; for the wager was twenty dollars.-? Now 1 want to know if 'Houire Tod ling can't be made to pay Uie bet for Richard. It's bard enough not to country ? and we used to live right] clever, and keep the children tidy. Then at crowing of the cock, you would hear his hammer ring upon the anvil, and all day long the hammer and sledge went, " Ga penny, come pound ? go penny, come and how happy we alt .were!? we had enough, and enough, to eat, and lud ! how cheerful get the twenty dollars ; but to pay 'era out, and pay for the gown and coal, ft is too bad ? it never can be justice ; and my man swears he will protest the electiou. Dear Mr Print* er times are hard enough with us this fall. Richard works at smithing, and can shoe a horse with any lad that wears an apron in the whole <lrink and werejTrnnd free from con stable or duo. But 'Squire Todling used to come along, and filled lys head with politics and notions; and told biro, that if Fiiullaj got it, he should Jtie a Justice of the Peace, So my good man neglected his shop, twisted up his apron, stood at the corner, and talked and disputed about Governor, like any lawyer; and when 1 told him it would never m, " Deary," said he, (for lie had Vpays a funny way with liim,) "deary, wouldn't you like to be a 'Hquire's wife ?" 80 I couldn't say another word ? but it made me sad to4bink how he would set up till midnight, swigging beer, and talk ing politics : then in (he morning he would lie till bud up an hour, go into bis shop half asleep, the hammer ami sledge going, " Go pound, come penny ? gci pound, come penny." O it is too much ! for mjr little ones look like singed cats, that have iainj all the live-luug wiulcr, half starved,! Matilda Anvil. N. B. ? Let my wife say what she will, I care not a cinder ? I wouldn't give a brad for your ad vice. * It. A. [In reply, we have to advise Ma tilda not to make her husband angrj ? to complain as little as possible, and to endeavour by kindness to lure Richard back to life shop ? A few months of the same tune, " Go pen ny, come pound" will put all to rights again. We would jrivise him to pay his bets this time*; out for the nitare, to go to the election and vote as he pleases, but never to lay another wager* We. have sent l>y the post* boy some picture hooks for the children.] Ed. Rec . in the aslies ? without a hook to learn them leMiims, in ? then tcx) along comes the constable, and makes mmI work. Now what shall we do? my mau io a democrat ; l?ut I am a federal, and don't like his carryiu^s on ? So T told him 1 wouldn't write to you, for you were a federal too, and would liel|i out of the scra|>o the un fortunate Richard Anvil and his faith ful wife, and your friend. RELIGION. The following sentiments of an able divine deserve attention. u It k an error to believe that de votion nourishes a spirit of severity, in judging of mannera and characters of others. Under this reproach, in deed it haa so long euffered in the world, that with too many, the ap pellation, of devout, suggests no other character, but that of a sour, recluse bigot, who delights in cen sure. But the reproach b unjust ; for such a spirit is entirely opposite to the nature of true devotion. The very first traces it imprints on the mind, are candour and humility.? Its principles are liberal. Its geniua is unassuming and mild. Severe only te itself, it makes every allow ance to others wbich humanity can suggest It claims no privilege of looking into their hearts or of de ciding with respect to their eternal state.? If your supposed devotion prodcce contrary effects ; if it infuse harshness into your setftiments, and acrimony into your speech, you may conclude* that under a serious ap pearance carnal paasiona hiri And^ if ever it stall so far lift you up with self conceit, as to make you eatablisli your own opinions as an infallible standard for the whole christian A brace of lieutenants, one val, the other a military hem; ing and firing their squibs brain at each other, ttiered tleman, taking <mt his pock* said, ? I will shew you what have not seen since the conclusion the war," and immediately prodi ^ _ a hank note of SO/. ? Very good," said the otHer $ " but look, here is such a sight as yon never saw In your life (taking a paper from his side pocket) here's a taylor's bill with a t eceipt to it.,f ' , i. .'i Freight or Postage. ? An illij " I rise, sir, far information >v adfeflj a very grave mfmlnr of a legisll* tive body, who then made no gre^t figure in tne liusiness in tvbich to wte engaged, but bat since far outgrown io |H>litical im|>ortaace both his owti and his neighbors' expectations, ? I am very glad to hear it, raid * by* sUuder, " Jbr ny man wants it mare.* i ^ shop-keeper, having an empty M which he wished to dispose of pffl it before his door, and with m Jj of clmlk wrote upon it 4 tor oH A waggish Bailor passing that w*p shortly after, and perceiving the mistake of the < Vf nder of wares/ immediately wrote underneath, ' For frieight or passfcge* apply at tfifc bung-hole/ (world, and lead yon *o perdition, all who differ either in some doctrinal ' in the mode of exoi ypn may rest assured pride yoQ have joined too uorance of both the natui tion and of tlie Gospel of