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M.LBOD, "os.We will cling toethe p 144 t4inple or our liberties, and if it must fall we wiiidst the ruins." LIRED WEEKLY. VOL UME 30 EDGEPRELD 0. l. er 6, g83* - NO.4AA The Edgeteld Adverthier, 1S PUnLISHIED EVERY TIHUltSD-%Y MORNING. TERM :4.-Three Dollars per annum ifpaid an advance.-Three Dollari and Filly Cents ir paid before the expiration of Six Ilonths from the date or Subscrption.-and Four Dollars if not paid within Six Months. Subscribers ontor the State are required to pay in advance. No subscription received to less than one year, and no paper discontinued n.atil all arrearages _re paid. except at the option of the Editor. All subscriptionis will be continued -nnleas otherwise orderef, at the end of the year. Any person. proctiring five Subscribers and becoming responsible for the-same. shall receive 3he sixth copy gratis. ADvCRTISKMENTS conspicuously inserted at 1% 024 cents per square; for the first insertion. and 431 cents for each continanuce. At vertiRenents not having the number of insertions imarked on them, will be continued until oi dered out, and charged accordingly. aif Adv,-rtisements intended row publication , this palver, must be deposited in the O flice by nesday evening. All connmumcations addressed to the Fditor. (PoST PAID) will be promptly and strictly at tended to. NEW GOODS. T HE Subscribers are receiving and opening their fall and winter supply or goods which have been selected with great care front. the latest inmportnions. to which they. respectfully invite the attention of their cuatomers and the public generally. Their stock embraces a large and gener al asaortment of British and Anericnn sin ple and fancy good-4, suited to the Season. Groceries, itardware, Crockery. Shoe. H ats. Saddles, and a general assort 111*1 41f Books and Stationary, all of which they will sell on the most reasionable terms, for cash, or on credit to punctuni eustomers. G. L. & E. PENN. & Co. Oct. 22, 1838 - t38 Clotbis, Casslimeires, Vestis. H ATS, STOCKs AND GL OVES. H E Subscribers have received a splen did assortment of the above articles. of the latest'stylsa, to which they invite she at. tention of thsi- cSmoimers. They are pre pared to execute all orders for clothing in =he bet style aand on the most reasonable terms. 0. L. & E. PENN. & Co. Oct. 22, 1838 1: 38 1agging and BaI Rope. III E Sidscribers have rcceivell ;$ -.1) -1.ply or H-e!#i0hn'd'hw Bagging ani G. L. & E P &NN,&Co. Oct. 22, 1838 - it' 3:i NEGRO CLOTHS, ATINETS AND FLANNELS. Just re ceived by the Subscribers. G. L. & E. PENN & Co. Oct 31, 1838 tf)39 CHEEIE. RB Subscribers have received a supply of CHEESE of st prior quality tor familv Use. G. . & E. PENN & Co. Oct 31, 1838 tr 39 VIRGINIA TOBACCOO SHE"tiubaecriter, have received 40 fi;) I es of Virgnia Tobacco, ol* :he iost appro ved brands, which they will sell at wholesale or retad on the ii, reasonable terms. L4. & E. PENN & CO. -Nov 14. 1*3, tf 41 FRESH RICE. 'HE subscribers have received two Tierces of the above arfice. of very excel. lent quality. 'G. L. & E. PENN & Co. Nov 14,1838 tf 41 Sugar House 1OLAWES. t Hll PS of first quaditv Sugar Houst Alas. ses, just received by the siesribers. G. L. & E. PENN & Co. Nov 14, 1828 . tf 4i Bleached Winter Qtrained LwI.JFII 01L. jH1 EStubscribecs have receives: a .nppai of 6eabove arti~le ye rqiornty. Oct3I,J1838 tf 39 New-oods: New Goods! !UHEubacriberisanow re*ern mng cc. ci spe. Uing a general arnd comaplete asortment of F~ALL ANI) WIN'I i IC .PIE RCJHJsJDIZE, Consisting of Fnc, 8lap l nd ciry Goods, Groceries, Crockery. Hard and Hoclloaw Ware, Tin Ware, Saddlery, &c. e.Cc. which will he sold vey clheap. His frietnds acid encstotmers are resaee tfuly mnvited to call and examitne for themselves. C. A. JOW D. Oct. 30. 1838- tf 39 BOORiM & T A T ONA RY. AGood assornmenct of Sc/wol, Classical an.. Blank Books, also. Cap and Letter Plape:t Quills Writing and indelible Irnk, &c. &c. Just reecivedy C. A. DOW 1). Nov 12, 18 tf 41 BOOTS and sHON5. lUST received, a gecod candc comnaplete assort 0 ment of Ladies, Gentleanen and Children's Boots and Shoes, manufactured ex pressly for this market, and warantedl good. For sale lay Nov 12, 1838 tf 41 C. A. DOWD. Best Apple VINEGAR. .3.' C. A. DOWD. Noav 13, 1828 tr 41. 'Notice. A LL lpersonms inebltedn to the Estate of~ .C.Franocis M. Yonugm, aire requiested tta make immediate pr.vmretnt; nn.d all p)ersons haaving demieanda naninst the Estate are re~ rtnested to present them dumly arttestedl. EDMUND PENN, Adna'r. Oct 19th 1838 ' (f 88 THE WORTH OF WOMAN. FROM THF. OE0MAN flonored be Wom-nn! she beams n the sight, Graceful ind fair as a beans of light; Scatters around her, wherever she stays, Ities of bliss o'er our thorn-covered ways Roses of Paradise, sent from above, To be gathered and twisted in a garland of love. Man, on Passion's stormy ocean. Tossed by surges smountain high, .Courts the hurricane's commotion, Spurns at Iteason's feeble cry; Loud tie tempests roar around him, Louder still it roars within; Fluslihig lights of hopie cot.found him, Stutis him li'e's incessant din. Woman invites him with bliss in her smile, To cease rom Isis toil and be hnppy awhile Whispering wooinglv, " Come to my bower! Go not in semcl of tie phantom power: Honor find wealth nre illusry-Come ! Lappiness dwells in the temple of home." Man, with firy, stern amid savage, lersecutes his biotier uan; Reckless if he bless or ravuge Action, uctiom, still his p:ant; Now creating. ijov destroyiig, Ceaseless wishes tear his breast; Ever seeking, ne'er enjoy mg, Still to be, but never blest. Woman, conteoited, in silent repose, Eiijoys in its beauty. life's flower as it blows, And waters and tends it with innocent heart Far richer than inatn with his treasmes of art; And wiser by far ou her circle confined, Than he with his science a. d lights of the mind. The frllowin- heautifi lines, written b% 11. W. Heamt, soi of Mrs He.iais, we d mm t remember maerto have seems in prinlf. They wil, be iund to contain mu. -h ol, that beaty and pathos,which have thrown such a wilchery They ask tne why I do not weep? rhey ,-ay my love is still, Oh! think not sor ow is not deep Because its voice is stilt; The secret pang-the smothered sigh, Corrode the heart, but .hun the eye. It was ior beauty's power that moved This fond heart to adore! I loved her not ua others loved, And yet I loved her more; For though her outward form was fair, Within was beuitty still more rare. And yet,.I scarcely ought to mourn The spirit early flown, Ere the soilt heart, by ant uish torn, Afiiction's blight had k mown; For I'm in tears, and she at rest, The sufferer cannot weep the blest. Sise sleeps where, in the balmy air Trhe pieriunmed %% id flowers wave; And violets .-pring in garland hair Around her hailowed grate, And wall their sweet, tseir litunitg breath, Arousd the silent couch of deuth. And oen at the evening's close i seek. that lonely tomb, To tend a slitar3 rose V iaich blossoms o'er her bloom: A graucefuml embmllem of thme dead, As pusre stnd barighat, as swiftly fled! ILNIt-Y WV ILMANS. Shrewsbtury, Linglad. A INT TO THuSi-. #' hIO'LL TAKE IT, Finos rus~ PiasrEnt. l'to sent msy paper amiany a~ year, T1" imanay readers., liar anmd neuar; Th'ley like it n ell-bst, amy good miasters, They've senst no(cash.i nior e'enm sha-plasters. Tme editor of thme Lotisvilhle .nqjuirer says lie hsas tried huith states om lifet-sas carefully we'ighied asl the evidlenmce that hsas tbeenm adduced beols for amid againast mnatromny anid eclibacey ansd hsas arrived am tale conaclusionm that a sisigle life, is smore easy. amaaa a simarriedl oae immre happy. aJ:mppiness, thiere'fire', dises not 'onasist altogeth-. er ini caiss, which smsay be msere apathye, bmut tihe u5etion5 is, how rain is mats be easy wvithiout a wife ? Amdam, oumr illustrious grniiilthser, oueght to be 'otnsitdered as pIretty gonod auithority ons this qutestion). yet evenm lie leaive's it rathier douebtijd. lie wrote tIhe fisllowinig. shsorely befosre his deabh, sand wve tsranslite it, as literally as possible, froam thme pirimeval diakeLt of' the IIebrew. Adlami alone .ouild not ha' easy, So bem must hasite a ife to leas'e he: limt hmow dlid lie obltains a wvife T'u chmeer his solitasri liiie 1 Wh'ly frosum a rib thent from his side, Was feorim'ed thsis nsecessary bride; But how did he the psainm begusile 1 Poh! hei slept sweetly all the while ! A nd whenm the rib wvas re-ailpplied, In wonmn's formi to Adlam's sidle, Ilow thsu'. I prnay yout, didl it aanswer? lIk ncru'rstie .0 .w.,, ......:. Sm. Njimcellaneou. A POWERFUL MAoLET.-Anlisterest. tug ieseriptisn was g% en ot long since in un Enghsh scemnalie penuodical oR i natural wmagiset (i woud,riul power, and sone circunmsances connected with it, susm make at pariscularly interesting to the American render. It seeus that u- early as -1772, when Beiijamsian Franklin was - m ilipsgow, he hac matia conversation viis Prolssor Ass derboni oi tihe- subject oi electritny and iSg Ueiism, ad irmaimsg ti scud tle eroless or from Amersu a speelluell Ol sun;e tile ,oatisiones n hicih n ere touia ain abundamoce In suame places tin Var inan. 1. raukltu aus as goid as his word , ad mI 17i6 Profes su Anderson received tile prnisied miner al, and put the immi prousing portioun o tle ulair-s auits tile hauds tl Mr. Urichlo, aul ingetious titechame, who %n as skiil~ul an the manuaclure Oi'citeutific'npparatus. It was armied in t most approved man ner*, Ius its power wa% in no way reioarka ble. Several sasuller posrtions of the mass were s'utilarly filled upi; but they, like tihe pritsipai, provimg aimium valueless, the Proles,sor decellied mlihsg ally Iurther a.als, aid fatally lad nside all thoughts of tie matter. Se% eial years passed away: but in 1781 or lieU, Mr. Grichton,-casuaily runitma ging a lumuber box which stood beneath hib work benen. discovered soume sal fr.agnieuts of the alisusi lrgo'ten load, stonje, surrounoed ly irote tiliags said otlh er ferrogiuus dust; and otserving that one of ilhese Cragments curride a longer heard ui filings.thnist tle others, ie was in duced to bestow, -it his leisure, what lie, at [fsat Mime, COUsidered a lttle hopeless latior, su grintllg the fraguieut into a pro per aampe, wits regard to its poles. A fter n ulch smmmiut.os, iron arss w ere attach ed In a tempor.amy anainer, by lmeas of at thread, n hci,so . 1: gredt surprise, is first load, Lhougli taastily applied, and sulposed to be n excers, ruclusred wusderable lurce to etleC is asu Ai. mr. Urichitui nu thought that the frag nen was woris) of addtional labor,' htf ground it n stho 6reut care its its proper forii, with regard its pmlaroy, and when tinliiid, tile little slo0 With its a1rsusg, was enlined in i iano casef Wgold, liavisag it ring at ltes tp for suspendiug it. A loud was attauIsed, ,tiuling Of a pyra iiiidu-sk.iied patecedal soiros,4sa We9lit jutiged ti se mhtilor -auder il oixidumt precisely two und a haf gMaS. eurrv yiug thii-rure, thtrti tsio aret and thirteeni iimes its own wtigh. tis t niy-seven years since this lit tle pra at te usimme was first enclosed. I he cu.ew us opened about tirty years ago to examane the arms., but, tie old oaes uppearnig isulebss, the whole was iume ',14ely put together ass its original slate. Time same mass of' iron lias been used as ts loiad lrom the begaimug, and is placed ii.erely in coitact with its arms. I'hle power tif tadnesion uppears to be as great as i iss ever liean, amid at is supposed that, b3 careful alipleation, the load could bie icreased to considerably uore thanU eight hundred grams; bul lest the trial mignt prove inijuriaus, it has never been made. "ostun Mer. Jour Tihe Days of It itchcraft Revived. Our readers will recollect tie case of a umulalta iamed I ates, receittly shot and killed in Virgnina by a white mats Marsh, ou the plea of tle limter that tle negro used spells and charas upon hias and his dimil -eriters." In referene- to this al fair tile Abmadon Stotesman says that re giou is hemaited with gnorance and su poersImm, am thei goes oni to relate tie lollon sg, w iuch w%ould have almosit been dvesied nredible in the days of Cotton h.hhher: - "Onea of the i)alls with which Vates was shot a ais praslured 51n cour, antd boure upons its ,ansLace cerimu cross arsks, whlichs we piresumea were insdspsenssablle in order to miake thesm take eti-cm anud break ihaat pow er oi eniclhantmienit withs n hiebs lie was aill la"msted io lie invesmets. unsd which hie uiseda wni. nut msere) , diealinag out bothi 'spells' ansd *-eams,' mnot only uipons humaun be lngs, hbut Uponif 'dumb critters.' it was provedl toot, thsut Malirsh, aiccordinig tao his owns story, Isad, uptnt ne or miore aocca siasms, drawn the iikenetss of Yames wvith chsickens's bloodt, amid havig psreparedl hisselr ni ihshullets, into whic-h a smasll quant mm: of siiver was psum, hads Inmkeni it'to t emoad atnd us-red am it. undaer tIhe iimpres siin mlsai ii lie eaui strike st with a silver bisllem. lie abould forthswth knock sill of I are 'cumjurinsg' powers ito al oms, mad relieve Imuniself iromiathe charm unster which lie laburedm, .md1( whsih was developed in mime Iarins of scrnifula. Suach humniliating facts dao, as the edlitor sinys, spetak ms-lmpet tongu~ted for thme intro ductanm cf com mn s-chmool emicnenm imu that state, whose pridle ons this poinit does nt seemi tam have goine hanad in hsand with hser liheral p)rolessios-Star, ExtraordinaryeLasesof. A bsence of MindI. -A genmilesman puitii hisead into asnother t.anaa'i por ket, asnd ock iot his pocket hook. ihiniking~ it was his own. Another gentlemian atok lodgings at an inin, amid wemmi ofr very early in the mnorn ing, fairgetmig to pay his Iill. The last ad miost wonderful Case of ablsence or miind: is this:-A hsandsotme younmg lad.y walked oumt or chusrch one night, andI took the arm of a gentiemnu, suppaosing him to lbe her hausbanid. She has not since been beard of. ron the Boston Time., . A -" STt;Ls1as-.- V e casually men Stit day ur two ago, that the newly ,eleul fayor olianiiore was a sihrit .tame usce a journaeymtian printer. The inat ei are nut rare ids'%hi-h those bred .to tI. -prolessnu of printing, have become dati 'ushed ana honored. To say noth -ig~ Frankiiii, the beacon light of the cra, "-e have lit our day nore than one Il. Of tilis honorable distinctino,. iaa fiall, the Governor of ?n Hanip atr7 -'.as once a journeyman printer; Sds il '. Armstrong, late Mayor of this eity, was once a journey mani printur, Air. .Uipp, ihe ecretary of State in Vermsont, was printer. And what is of more con etiule- its the editorial profession, souse or 'If taot'lliaaguislel were regularly ba,ed u the crtit- Out neighbor Greene tMe .iopulareditor of the Morning Post, was once a ragged little roller boy. Air. Humer at the .azettv was brought up, on pica and brevier. We recollect, many years siuce, of veeig a tow-headed over grown boy it an obscure iriuting oflice su Vruont. The boy is now M r. Greely, 1ie plented editorol the New-Yorker. Oj equ lly obscure origin was the editor of thti, ew York Spirit of the Titnes, Air. WauL . Porter. Abe narst we ever saw of Deacon W e!d, the ditor of thu LNew York Stun, and a elever writet fur various magazines. &c.. Wa in a printisig oflice at Lowell, whent he4as no higiter ln grau than '-priunbr's d -v 'The truth -is, uf a boy has genius, ibe rt of prautiug Aill draw it out an . set lti4ork. Priusers%viththejsiianeanount of timiural talent always inake the most lioular e(llors, because they inbibe the lac i the profission. Schooled among ';4 and shadow," they have every op nity fi studying pubie tasie, and of div slyiug their meadti sot as s inec the N us .wants of their various readers - ' itsaplue of their minds may not be vere abd rigid as that required for et once in tbe legal profession; but this p.4 vcultarnay which the great mass of r" rs care notitong about, and it is not ui voralble to a free interchaige ol' mind w jnind. Tct-give us editorial tact. 11 r prttssion it is every thing. UCUMATIsm.-A correspondent of the P burg Advocate, who describes hnim inedical practitioner of twenv years i sg, furnialeb itic Itlloiijg vluable, I hounded, ianfoinnu? h 4ge :uf atmon -, venteen. I wa .et itfthe ltllamonatory iRhea o .nuof lhe lmneeg,Cat arlies, blisters, and diaphor - at*. A. W'iestored. From that period sin t l,about twenty years ago, I had six or seveu simnil er attacks, generally requirmg venesecton, plrgations, blasters, aid dia* paunretics, before I could recover. In t hese attacks uty extremities became so inflaimat i that fcould scIrcely bea- to ie touched. About the year 118, I had suggested to mei the use-of cetion, instead of the woollen which i had worn next to tle skin in formn of shirt and drawers. I immediately conforimed to the sugges tion, abandoned the woollen, have ever sitee worn cotton. and now for about 2) years have never been confined onti day witla rheumatism. Aly observttions al'o in an extensive practice, have furnished unequivocal confirmatiorv of the facts, that woollen worn next the skin is nuerly in coui patible with a rhenuiatic onstwit itn, an I that cotion is most decidedly advanta genus. A lady who I attended during a very severe attack of rhieutnatism, found while in a state of convales-ence, that tier fingers were becoming riuidly coistracled. I recoiiended to her tla use of colIn, and now for many years she has been free from the cotiplaint. Having had occasionl, while purquinsu any prolitssional ;vocatipn in P,hiladelpliba, to p)rotec' mty hands wheo driving mny gig againsi the cold. that would have rendered liet hio unpleasant to myself and u - suited toa the wvrists or a platient, I plroeniredl the fur liid gloaves, butt these 1eItiolel not endure by reason of returnling rheuinti smn, amid had my gloves lined with Canaton flatnnel. As to the therapeut ic princ-iples ona which to accounIt for the saiisary efreet ofrthie cottons dress, we are p)erhlaps nlot prepared teo give ihe enatire rationiale; but one cir e-nmtance deserves part icualar notice. When woollen is worn next to the skin. the plerspirartion not beiing absorbed lby the flannel beecomes insspis4atedl, anad of course obstructs boath sensible andl insenisilhe per spairation. This oh'leerion, it is knowna, does no; lie agaimst the coattonl dress, as it absorbs the perspiration, leaving the skin clean and the pore, free. AUTUMIN ON TIlE AtssissiPHn.-The stained foliage during some of t he last days of Oet. began to show in baroad shtaetes of yellow ,lrown. andl tinder, alonag the end less woods that skirt the great rather of waters, hletokening the rail of' the leaf. Such a change variegate. the green of time forest, and, for a while pleases the eye with the new pnasernas or the fancy colored drapery. The soft repseof the autumalg atmosphere; its dreamy haze; the glory of the setting ann, going down into the hil IIIIs of zodiacal cohoring, :tad the serene race or thn moion coming uap froim the dlark azure of the east in a clniess sky.-have all conspaired to rendler stame of the later Octobher evensings pictutres or enachantitag beauty. a4tanding upomn thle crnmbling walls of the oldl Fort Panamire, on thte heights of Natchaez, andl gazing across the riv-er:to the west during the half hour that succeeds sunset,-the scene that met the eye could have few parallels. At first, the orange and light crimson of flhe zodincal light, next the gold and the light hrown,-then the purple, spreading away like a mighty sea of unbered blood, mingled with dark flume, as far as the eve conld reach from rig;ht to left,-were the sttccessive shining o. the pictured west. There slept the ainut river, now shrunk of half its width, reflecting every change of tint shown in the vast belting of the westero heavens. Ihe upward spires of shooting rays of the reflection,gradually contracted until the col oring lay like a hank of smuoky red, ming hng with the dnrknesR or tie forest and the obscurity of tie evening, as if it were ihe tar tall 'reflection tbrown up frro the emtlers of a great conflagration,--a dark qucienching fire. smnothering itself in the bo som u! gloomy clouds. The reflections of a river of lava, flow ing at night from the crater of \ esuvius, c.uld not be more imposing than'sorne of the radiations of our autumnal sunset-,. 'hen tn see the river grow black, refleclin no longer on its stygian waves the now sombre west, while the white fog curls a long its surface-and then to turn round, and seo the pure blue (i' tie eab, liathed in moonlight, with its thick-sown radiant s ars.--hy contrast prolucing another class of emotions, a -hane 1rom the sublime to the ieautailul; all con-titute the bcenery of ;I clear Octobler evening on the Banks of the lower Mississippi.-Natches F.Trader. Died at Paris, August 2d, 18:38, Jean Baptiste Petry, honorary Consul General of' f'rance, and officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Petry was borjn at Vaucouleurs De partnent of the Meuse, on the 25th July 1737, 'md had already numbered manv years ofservice in the adminisiration of his province, when, in 1780 in consequence of the friendship with which Mr. de Barihe Marhois, honsired him, he was called to the head of the; Btreau of the Major General of fine Frenc army, vWhich under the con inand ofiie 31arquis de Rochiatjlmault,con tributed so powerfully to establinsh the in dependlence of the United States. After I- are- %, as signed, the Department of For eign Affairs readily adopted him. and he snccessik-ely occupied the Vice -Consulate of Wilmington, the Consulate of Charles to, and that of Philadelphia. The ahili ties lisplayed bly hiat in these ofitTerent of fice-4. amide the diffien k-vrrnostances in which he was soon placell hy the events of tle French Revolution,snUsequently point ed himh out to the notice of the' Consular Government. by which ie a ;s sent back to Ie U. Sisoes in 18l2, am f'r-zt Secretary of the Legntion. a mationt,l i filled until 1810. at leength in 1815, when it was leen ed expedient to renew the close and ann cient ties of friendship between France and the United States, which so many agi tatona vents had disturbed. It was to the oetive zeal and consnumate experiece of Mr. Petry, tha' on app-al was made, and to which his patriotism fully responded, al thouighi he could have claimed funeiions more elevated than ihose of Consul at New Orleans, with which he was initrused; or e% en those (if Conisul General which he fulfilled, at first ad interim. and nftcrwards as titulary, until he was admitted on the Pension List. Mr. Petry, like hisillnstrious friend, Mr. de Barbe-Marhois. preserved to an ad vanced age a degree of hodily strength and menial vigor, which seemed to promise him still many vears: therefore his death im- not less surprised than afflicted his fanily atid numerous friends--Philadel phia Gazette. To PARNTs.-The right education of your childreii iS learer it) you th.n any earohly objecl; Cor- a good etlucation is a yonnng mn's bhest capital. To educate your children well. is to give then a fair sairt in thne world-it is ton give them an~e qunal chamnce for the privileges and honors ofC mamnhood. Hint: to keep them from schnool tine most of tine time-to firnish themn with a miser able, useless teacher--to deny ihem tihe necessary and the most itpproved school hooks-to bie unwillitng to spend a little to procunre papers amnd hooks for general innfor mnatiotn and reading is to (10 your children an incalcumlale injury. Yun wish your children to be compan-. ions of the virnuotna and tine intelient them, make thenm virtnnous andt intelligent; unle'ss you do this. your childlreni will be tutfit for sumch society as you wish thnem to keep. You wish your ofl'sprimne respected andl influential-moralimy aund intellect are talways respmected, amnd these qualities are always influnential too. Youi do not wvish others to trample uapon thne rights of your chnildren-oum do not wish others to le-nd thenm, to tink for theta, or to make them mere tools for atmbitious ends. Thnen give them an edlucation-a mind, that they may knmw and keep their rights-that they tmay make for themselves, and mave the p)rivile ges of' freemn. Itmnorance is always the vassal, tine slave of intelligence. The ed - ucated man always has hadl and alwvays will have, the advantange of ignorance; and if you let your children grow uip tnne-lica ted, you let them grow up to lie the tools anid the slaves of othmers. You cannot do yourchldren a greater injury thanm to let them step into mamnhood mneducated; and in no other wray can you do these free in stitmutions a greater evil. Yout ouight to punt into your children 's hands every thing that assies or encoura ges thnem in their studnies. lDnyoun hesitate at the espeonse ? If you can strengthen one moral feelin,x, or one intelctual niculty in your child, you are well paid for almost tiny expense. Wealth will neot make your offspring great or. happy-happiness and greatness consists in virtue and know ledge. Let the educatior of your children, then, be your first care.-Common School.dme. nac. WOMAN -What can be more admira ble i han the tone of the subjoined note from Napoleon? - have recei,ed your letter, in which you blame me h. speaking ungallantly of women. It is true that I hate intriguing women above all things I have been ac customed to amiable, gentle, and concilia 11ng womei, those are the women i love. If they have spoiled me, it is not my fault, lit yours. You will see that I have been very kind to one who proved herself amia ble and alifctionate--i mean Madame Hatmfield. When I shewed herhusband4p letter she wept, and exclaimed with deep feeling and sympathy, 'Ah! it is indeed bis writing!" Whenl she read it. the tones of her voice went to the heart. I was moved and I said to her, ,Well Madame, throw the letter in-o the fire, and I shall have no r %er to jiumdsh your husband.' She urned the letter and was happy. Her husband is now safe; two hours later, and lie would have been shot. You see I love women who are gentle and unaffected, be cause theN alone resemble you. Adieu, my beloved Josephine, I asm well. NAPOLEON! MAJOR NoAn--Ax EX-SHERIFF's RE misiscascEs.-Called out by allusion to tricks resorted to in Massachuseus, the editor of the Star relates some amusing re miniseences respecting the period of his public services as Sheriff'. When Sheriffor this city the limits were oniv one hiwdred and fifty acres. Houses ou the limits commanded a higher rent for those who could pay, and for those who could not pay, their sufferings were intol erable. To mechanics it was peculiarly distressilig, and the whole system worked bad ror debtor and creditor. Enticing per sous off the limits confined for heavy qums and with good hail, was an organized sys tem. Watchers were specially employed, and large sum- promised ifthey could find the debtor offhis guard aid over the lines, or could decoy him in any manner over the bounds. I have known women eugage4 to stp a debtut and interest him in her story by a modest address, a tale of woe, and lead him step by step until uncon sci lusly he had passed the fatal boundary .m sighaita-scout who lodged informa, tionagainst him. Again all theartsbof6bi. ty and fascination were employed and bountitully paid for to lure the debtor be youd the line and thus entrap him. Girls. have pretended to fall in fits on one side of the pavement that the unfortunate debtor's hu,m,anity might be aroused, audate cros from the other side to aid them. In short the abuses were so numerous, and the benefits so doubtful by this 150 acre limit system, that I went to work to make this manifest to the Legislature, and they made the whole city the limits. Under the new system many amusing things occurred. The ex-Sheriff was ac customed never to lock up a debtor "if he could procure any animal in the shape of bail." One man used to go hail for all his countrymen, attiong the Sheriff's"particu lar and valued political friends. the Irish.'" They had a Connaught man amongst them-a bod man, a tall, handsome, gan teei fellow, full of fun and' impudence w:ienever they wanted security they would dress him up in a neat black coat and ruf flied shirt, give hita a gold watch, a cane, an"' i pair of gloves. and thus disguised he would strut into the office with the air of an Alderman. "I come to bail Terrance O'Flynn, sir." "What is the amount?" -*-Onlv twenty dollars sir-a trifle, your honor; but we must not let our countrymen suffer you know." So saying he would pull out the gold watch, which lhe would look at long enought for all the deputies in the office to see the article: adjust his ruf fles, take a pinch otut of Old [lays' snuff box, sign the bond and strut out. This fellow was hail for the w'hole Five Points, which was in the limits, and as often as I saw him clanking his iron heeled bo~ots over the marble pavement of the City [Hall twirling his canie, and imitating, and very cleverly too, the air of a man of wealth anid imsportance, I used to say to him, "Well. Rory, who are you gowng to bai1 now" Ilut the last of the Star stories is the beste One day I threw open the jail for pub lie inspection. I had cleared out all the dlebtur, some by compromise, some by bail, atid a very few by consent of credit-. 'irs-it was the old Provost during the rev olutionary war-a terrible looking p lace, now transformed into the beautiful H:all of' Records, but as the djevil would have it, before night an officer burou,ht in a wild youngFrenehmnn,ar.reqted for a small sum. liis mother, well known and respected in the city calledl at my house, full of grief and politeness, and smiling through her tears, having by the hand a handsome, mnodest looking girl, scarcely sixteen-..A b mon cher Monsieur Scherif, you ave lock edl up my son in do prisom-here is his beautiful wif'e-vill you let her sleeps by herself all alone to night?"-There was no resistimg such a pathetic appeal, and the wife carried ths release to jai. and old Mr Roomne let him out to roam about and be again caught by Baron Nabem. Timothy Dexter.-Timoihy Dexter, of' Newbury port, ad vertised for a house-keep. er, willinig to serve by nehAt or day, as l& was venn' ervUnte