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fOETft Y. f&OM Tfcfe SUBfclOiUff HAOAIWI. THE HUNTED DOE. ? ^By a Lady. ? The horns now sound,, and ail resort. The cruel caust to know; When, lo I to make the barb'rous sport* Is loos'd the favorite doc* - A -> ? y. ? / * : V / " ^ r**' Alas! poor deer, I pity thee, And moan ttyr hapless fate; A lavoritc from annoyance X bear thou wert oi late. * She bean thejiunterscries ; And to prevent her lite, in vain , ??ai_ ;';r^R fse does bendy b sweet G*yba?*UBg, no friend." 7 n fainting with fatigue and fear, ? Liffej's Bank she rood; tfe ofidespair. m"" ?- ?* ? ? '? x ? k* 1 > ' f- 3 ?fh! when y< ? Lie meek I t? take its harmieaa IMpr) ?;*. ? - ? ?jsl ? ? i ?.?? i . . ?? IWhire toalHter partM^p'd, _ To thee, poor dpe,w? gav? J Swiftness i but yet, alas ; "we find ,, '< Thy Ufe it <&uldnot Save. "by life it Wild' *Tia for the giffthat nature gave, "thy life is doom 'd a prey? That which was surely meant to savfc Doih take thy life away. ' !# jrf' i> ? 1 At. ? Can buriian minds such scenes delight? "t ?? A brute that n?v4r dld??ffend> J-adt^nrtoMBt and gay, f * V3ta easy life did careless spend, Until that fatal da)r< jjjtow all 4?y Wjseries are o'er, HH ' i And ended is thy race ? ^ ?,*? t. w-u No cruel hunters fright theejtfpTe, M.W. 1 'j\M 1 from Score**?'* Accaimt the Arctic IjjsS ' [ SplttbefgenJ extend*' farthest to S iU, ' or Grtsenlnwl seaj and ough tjtt occasional resort of per Ikaw, drawn thither for purposes of burning and fishing, Jgfe|jM?t a| to trtWll^ir^en % b?t?W ]&. but i ?ndi i&H . - - ? ? ? -j i 80 deg. W and still farter towards the east than the main land of Spits bergen* The western part of this country was discovered by Bavente, Jieemskerke and Typ, in two Vessels fitted out of Amsterdam, on the lyth of June 16i)6, who from the riomer ous peals and acuta mountains ob served on the Cteet, gave" it the ap propriate oatne of Spitsbergen, signi fy ins sharp mountains. It was after wards named Newland, and ' then! Greenland, being aupposed to be a t continuation tow ards the east of the Country so called by the Icelanders. It was re-discovered by Henry Mud-. aut?> an English navigator, in 1007 J and fourytars afterwards became the resort or lite knglish, for the pl? poiMot Diking v> hates, since wntch period, its shores have annually been visited by one or oiWr of (be nation* of Kurojie, wilb ti*e snmt ol>jec^ tu] thf |wfeeut uuic. And Utou^h (be eotl of the whofoof Ibis rea ote coun try does not produce vegetables suit? able or sufficient for the sourubiueBl nf a single human (mug, yet its coasts and adjacent seas l*jp afforded rkh m and indejjeodence to (hooulud^ J The climate of SpiizbergM is, nc doubt, more disagreeable, to human feeling, (ban (hat of any country je( discovered. "Extending to within tea degrees of the pole^it is aefceraHy intensely cold, and even in the three warmest months, the temperature not averaging more than 34 t-2fc degrees, it is then subject to a cold occasion ally of three, four, or more degrees below-the freezing point. It has the advantage, however, of being vicited liy the son for an uninterrupted peri od of four months in eaclryear ; Uius having a sa miner's day> ff Bolong an interval between the rising and set ting ofJbe sun may be so denomina ? ted,c0M?ting?f one third part of the year. Bnt its winter is proportion ally desolate ; the son in the north ern part of 4he coafttry, remaining perpetually below the borisoq, from ?boat the SSd of October to tm S9d of February. This great winter night though sufficiently dreary, Hi by no means so dark Is might be ex peeled, as the sun, even during Its (greatest south declination, approach es Within 18 t-S degrees of the bori son, and affords a faint twilight foi j bout one fourth part of^very twenty (iM^.boufs. Added :to this{uilight, 'lie aurora Ifhrealis, w hich sometimes exhibits ? brilliancy approacbing tn a Idaze of fee, the stars, Which sfiim; with an uncommon degree of brigthJ ness?j-anJ the moon, which in nutih declination, "appears for twelwnwi fourteen days together, without set-: ting ? altogether have an effect which when heightened bytbe reflection u%i constant surface of sbow, gerMnllQ give sufficient light for going abroad, but with tho light afforded by the heavens, when thimoon is beloW the horizon it is seldom possible -to read. Moderate Wishes the trvte sourc&of 1 Mi Soppiness. Iff manlrind, " tbe N. T. I Commercial Jidixitlser,J ipstead of koutinually grasping for ft?re than [they can obtain, would set1 reasona Ibie bounds to tfiStr desires. There ItnusjSiecessarily be misfortune and [distress in thewoflP'but the com ports of life* tint always be made greatly to apuilterbalanf* those cala.| ami tbeir attendant evils. Contenment renders a mess of pot tage more aaVory to the palate of the (cottage, than the richest viands are to those who are rolling in wealth ;j [but whose insatiable thirst for gain will not Allow tbt& to think they e enough. Our countrymen are stantly murmuring. Turn which ay wfe will, ye are sure to have ears saluted with the cry of Hard He*. And many paragraphs in kmr country newspa|>e?, particularly [those from the western Ktates, are of puch a desponding and gloomy na Iture^ that if they shoqfu chance to id their way to Europe, they would' ilieve us to be little if any better off, lli the peasantry of the Emerald le, or the half-starred manufac tures of Manchester. Jf And what cause have we thus to "murmtfr and complain P? It is our happy lot to live tinder an excellent government, id* ministered by men of our own choice. We have a fruitful country, with a Varied, yet healthful climate, that enables ue to produce of the necesss ries, and many of the , luxuries of life. True, our country, ha^ suffer ed for two or three years past, from S change in the commercial world, and in consequence of our own ex travagance. But have Wc not enough to cat, to drink end to wear? Out with luxuriant bui into yield a r ich v nut*.. AudifA, alter geueratid? bave labor td^fiud. The follofing beautiful illustration of wh; here ad vanced Theyoui herd. Mpnalcus, being ia 1 stray lamb from his flock, i is the recesses of the fore*! ter, stretched at the fool exhausted with fatigue Alas! shepherd, he exc cane liere yesterday io game; and have titen un trace tlie path by Which l ie frightful solitude, or diacovi of a human footstepMniin ger ? give tnfr'reiief, or 1 di (^supomtiaglbestrangeri fed him with bread from and afterwards conducted hi tfie intricate mares of th? safety. I^Menalctis : about me to the city, er dwell in a inhabit a sup* with lofty colu LaefcT.ul Jibe alx*le of lis Cott?.*LC ~ ?i, aiiu adversity <mly when bowed dowu !jy I lie ??ad. Like (be lily W nut' remain timed bjrijiae our heads us do our dut? 4s# en! I.P.. ' A: Domestic: once entering jn 1* fright the study of bis master, who was in ft deep thought nn?l contem plation, told hint tbal (lie hotwe was on firt? Well, said lie, irtfbrM trig* wife of it} lib not interfere, in iht) household nffitirft ? ? V ? Self /y.rc.? He (bat abuses bis own profcmhvti, will not patiently bear with ftny one else win) does so. And tbis is one of litis most subtle ope-< rations of self love. For when w? abuse our own profession we tacitly except ourselves; but when another aebuss it, we are very far from being certain that this is the case. yi' -~ $ y# '/ | | |^| A A. 1 4 -/V . . . J , ?f "v '? 1< fS]H Superstition.- A philosopher wise ly observed, that superstition is Jo religion, what astrology' ft to mifa nomy ? the very foolish daughter M a very wise mother. 4. ;? . ? . ?\2'