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<Mciirtm<ynicL6 otsizr. u And the Lord said, it U not good thai the man should be alone, I will make ?him a help-meet for h?nu"? G<??. //, THE stupendous fapric of the universe Was reared out (A nothing by Ihe word of the Lord, and the mighty woik of creation ] was. finialiejl. Hut in the great pW-.n there , Was one deficiency- For Adam there was . not found an help-meet for him. The earth with its grandeur, and its productions, Che Heavens with their glories and their influences, ministered to the service and 'to the pleasure of man ; but all this avail ed him little, while there was no creature of his own species to whom he could communicate U*s thoughts, and with whom he could share his happmess. The gracious^ Creator of the World; ?and of Adam, quickly perceived that the ? .happiness of his Creature was impcrfect, and supplied the defect. " And the Lord Go4 i* i* not good thannan shonld be alone ; i will make him an help-mate for him." And the Lord God caused a deep sleep, to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of. his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; and ?the iil>> whioh Uie 'Lor3 Cod had taken from man* made he a woman, and brought her to man. And Adam said, u this is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh : She shall be called woman, because *he was taken out of man Therefore shall ft man leave hjs fathef and his mother^nd shall^cleave unto his wife ; And they shall be one flesh." Hence we ma} infer, that the tingle man is only partially blessed ; and that he who findeth a good wife findeth a good thing. 1 say a good wife ? such a wife as Eve was, when God brought her 1 to Adam. With this Yit\f of the subject, the man, Who lives the life of a bachelor, is fnistrat tng the plan designed by the Great Creat or of the universe for his happiness. -In hopes that we may be enabled to res cue one of that unfortunate class of beings ?from the gloomy state that constantly awaits {hem ;*let us consider some of the advantages which a man derives from a good wife. 1st. She ibiil hclfx to augment his joy ft, Th^ Hermit, the Solitary, the single vnan, is only half blessed. M Nature, in i t al toF human amity, . 'Denies or damps all undivided joy* Joy flies monopolists .* it calls for Rich fruit I Heav'n planted ; never pluck'd by bn?. Needful auxiliaries are our to give ; *7b social man true rvush of hir..sclf,M or any thing in the universe. . Alone, man feeU a double' weight in all the aftlic- j lions, 41 he'is destined to eadure whilst tra veling through this vale of tears-" There intone truly to cheer away his griefs, with J the gentle note of sympathy anfl affection* There is no kind voice to .dissipate the* despondency that he must jometimes ; *feel ; and when pale disease ihall asfafl * :him. where is the "friend to watch beside his bed, whowill apply the cordial to hic? ? lips ; administer to his every want, and smooth the pillow of affliction. Should blessings sotY.etimts cheer his, path} they are only half enjoyed.* To enjoy the coVnforts of life with a 'full re lish* man must have a companion, a friend, a vtije. Her company, her conversation,, her affectton, will add to the flavour of the most delicious viands ; improve the J>eauty of the most delightful prospects ; g'ufe vivacity to the social circle ; tranquillity to solitude ; music to groves'; fragrance to flowers ; brightness to the Brmaoent ; and apendour to the^unl Social happiness,, true and essential social hwppines presides only in tht bosom of love, and in the arms of friendship. Affectionate intercourse, 'products an inexhaustibleTfund of delight : If is the perennial sunshine of the fnind. . With *bat anxiety then should we alt en* deavout to fmd an amiabfa^betog, with' whom Vre may form a tender tie and close attachment, who may enspire ua with un fading bliis, and receive increase of hap piness from our endearments apd atten tion 1 How greatly do Auch connections increase the kind and benevolent affections of the heart ! And .how grtfatly Ca such dispositions, while they lead the mind to the enjoyments of domestic happiness, ; awaken all the virtues, and call forth all the best and Strongest energio* of the soul ! Deprived of, the chaste ami endearing sympathies of Iwe *the species sink into | *gross Sensuality or mute indifference ; ne ?g leet ?he improvement of their faculties ; and loose all anxiety to please. But , incited by love, the sexes cultivate their talents ; call every intellectual energy into action ; and by endeisvouring to .promote . each other's happinevs, mutually secure ,i their own* 3d. She %?i/l helfi to alleviate Ai? affliction* I It is pleasant to have a companion io ?Ofctude, an assistant in labour, a fellow- I partaker in jot ; but human life contains varities, painful, an well as pleasant. Sor row, and pa'.n, and solicitude, and disap pointment enier i|(to ' he hislory of man ; and he is but half provided for ihe journey of life, v ho has tound an associate for his happier days o ly t w^tle for hi>> day*. ui daikntss and distress, no sympathizing partner, no help-meet is prepared. But the provident care ot the Almighty meets every lawful wish, every real want of man .? ?And in beslowtng uj>on him a companion for youth, a sharer in felicity, a partner in prosperity, he was securing for hirrt, at a distance, a friend in age* a solace in afflic tion, a partner in want, a fricnchHtat ltd heteih closer than a btother, is he per secuted ? Does he incur censure wheit; he hoped for applause? Provoke opposition where he expected co-operation ? Is his good, evil spoken of I Does envy shoot at him her 6rery darts ? cakimny spread over him her monster-figured mantle, and malice scar him fluth her insidious bolt? Wheie shall he mid a friend ? To wTioVn shall he flee for lepotie ? Let him letiie to the sanctuary of his dwelling ; let him flee to the bosom of his wife. ? Though the ?world should be shut agaii.st him, she will receive him, with open aims ; though the* world frown upon him, she will receive hix with a smile. With affectionate assi duity she will remove every object from his eye, every sound from his ear, every im pression from his memory, which 'is cal-" culated to kicrease the painful sensibilities of his heart. ?She will strive by her con versation to divert, by her smiles to cheer, by her caresses to sooth him. She will re mind Turn of the 1 'at her ot Mercieu^ and" the God of Consolation, and by the influ-< ence ot her example he will be drawn to a Throne of Grace. Is he afflicted in body ? Wasting with pining sickness, or groaning Under excruciating pain ? His affectionate partner will at once attend him in the double capacity of nuise and physician. With what patience wiil she sit by him from the evening till the morning I With what sympathy will she endeavor to allevi ate the acuteness ot his. pain! With what tenderness will she strive to sootfi him to beneficial repose ! How easy the bed which she softens!. How revising the cordial, which bhe^uogiea !. How potent the me dicine which the Administers ! And how sweet the return * of health, after sickness, when tl.e affectionate wile hat been the in strument of its restoration I OLD BAClliiLOKS. Old bachelor* are hat ef?T things, Which ong'.t to be dtspW'd, With hearts like bfokcn fiddle strinsg, And jubt as little piix'd. Untun'd to love's soft thrilling touch* No pleasure do they know ; t<j They feeVnot, and they taste not much Of happiness below. The 'toys of ^wedlock, Which th ef 9purn, ') With all Us num'rout cares ? E'en lor a year, should love's lamp butn, Are wotlh an age of theirs. ? * * Was't but for them* the human raae Would soon be swept away 1 And even earth, to their disgrace, Would tumble to decay. 4 The social bond? that bond so sweet, _ Where heart ami soul unite ; Where friendship, love and union meet# Would sink in endless night. But 'tis in vain for me to pre*.e, I cannot make them clcver ; Old bachelors 1 always hate, And must and shall forever. The univevsarji of the -birth *f Wash ington never paiites unnoticed by those who venerate the charafcfe^ of the -man who united all hearts. ' Tn the ciiy of E dinburg, an elegant entertainment was given, In celebration ot that event, to the Americana pursuing their studies at the * university , by the venerable Earl cf Buch un, the intimate friend and distant relative of ourpolitical father. On this occasion the -noble host Wore a mantle which had covcred General Washington, and mink an elegant ami impressive address. The entertainment is annual" ?Earl.feuchan was bom ?#i 174t, and is of the same age with the' King of Eng land, witty whom he was a .play- fallow 1 He in said never -to have known a day's illness, and by preserving remarkable re* gularities in his habits, retains that cheer > fail serenity ^ehioh gives a grace to conver sation' equally amusing ahd instructive. He has be?*i in constant habits c/f corres pondence with many erf the literary char acters of our country, and is tinwttried in his courtesies to those who resort to the celebrated schools of the capital of Scot land. Jiotion Paper* Aristotle being asked what hope was : It is the dream, said he, of a man that ia awake. From the Parii Moniitur of April. ] DKEADFC1, MXJUDER | In France mi* aculously dijcoverd. Two females (sifters) were ex ecuted on the 7th i:lt. at Stras burgh, by the guillotine, as the participators in a shocking murder, perpetrated not far from that place last year. The circumstances hav ing been slightly and inaccurately mentioned in the fofeigrv Journals, the following particulars of the horrid transaction are published, a^ if by authority, in the Moniteur of last week. . The singular circum stance of the dead body of the victim being cast up by the river near the ;>pot where the a^assins were -carousing, adds another to the myriads of instances, that Pro vidence has decreed that murder, though it hath no tongue, yet shall it speak with most miraculous or gans. Madame de Reaumont de la Coste, a Frcnch lady of rank and | fortune, had quitted France during the Revolution, and had retired to Brodjk in Gallicia, where she I was -4 resident nearly 20 years. The return of the King having 1 made it safe for her to revisit her native country, she left Pirociy, and I reached Strasburgh on the 15th of I July, last year. ? It appeared, that the next day she wrote a most'affec- ,1 tionate letter to her sister, Madame Dervieux, at Marseilles, informing her that she was to set out next I morning on her way "to visit her, I having hired a carriage, the con ductor or driver of which was named Gollet, and who she described as a mah so jealotis, that he took his I wife with him every w^here. This I pretended wife turned out to be*?a- I tharine Gdujoo, a concubine, and I one of those tf/ho was executed. I Catharine was allowed on this oe- j casion to cake with her her sister 1 Josaphine, not more than 17 years I of age, -W ho performed the I office ?f waiting -maid 10 Madame J Beaumont, so faithfully, that the I latter promised to retain her when I she arrived at Marseilles. On the I ? route between Strasburgh and Bes- j sancon, and -s# leagues from the I latter place, the three miscreants I above named, conceived andexe- j cuted the horrid project of assas- I sinating the unfortunate lady, who 1 had reposed so much confidence in I chem. They strangled her in the j carriage, stripped her naked, and 1 after nearly severing her head from J the body, threw the mangled re- J mains into the river Doubs. Co- I vered with the blood of their vie- I tim, they pursued their journey, as J if nothing 4iad happened. At Bes- I sancon thty spent a few days in ex- I travagance and debauchery, but J the sharing; of the spoils of their I I victim having finally occasioned dis- I union, Collet, the driver, turned out I of doors the two sisters Goujon. | In the mean time, the dead body j of Madame de Beaumont was I thrown on the banks of the Doub, I close to Besancon, as if by miracle, I having been driven by the stream J nearly as fa*t as the murderers travel- I Fed themselves. Gollet, struck with I | remorse and horror, instantly quit- I ; ted the place ; thfc two Goujons re- I mained two days longer. At Coi mar, Gollet exchanged the Aus- I trian ducats, of which Madame de | Beaumont had beeu possessed, for I French money, and heie he met I with a former concubine named J j Roesch, with whom he returned to I I Strasburgh, in order to get a con- I j Teyarvce to Paris, in the diligence. I I Arrived in the French capital, Gol- I let and his mistress gave themselves I up to all sorts of extravagancies, J and made an excursion to Brussels, j merely to yary the scene of dieir debaucheries. By this time Ma dame Drrvicux, of Marseilles, hav ing be come alarn/d for her sister, wrote to the minister of Police at Paris, detailing all she knew from her sister's letter. In an instant Col let and his mUtress were arreted and thrown into prison at Paris ,and almost at the same moment the two Goujons were arrested at Str as burgh, in consequence of a telegraphic communication. Collet, having lulled the suspicions- of his keeper was enabled to cut His throat with a razor, but his mistress was scncto Bcsancon, to be tried aion^v with ? C? the Goujons. The fuimcr was, however, acquitted, there being no evidence of tier participation in the robbery or murJcr ; but the two latter were condemned to die. The Prevotal Court of the Department of the Doubi did not finally decide on their unhappy fate until the 7th ult. on which day, as we -have al ready mentioned, the two sisters were executed. T.? y wept bitter ly at the | lace of execution, and seemed deeply penitent : they were attended by the niini-tcis of reli gion. % IMPORTANCE, OF CHEMISTRY. A ease of tnuvder supposed to havt. been ?perpetrated, as lord Bacon says, by ern fiouoiu* cnty has bten tried it) England*' ? 1 he prisoner, UoimalU was the sod in-law | of the deceased Mrs. l)vwm(:g. Tl?is la dy, while drinkit tea at the lioune of her son-in-law, v .ce afllicted with a vio lent complaint, *iich at the la^l lime put an e rid to her existence. '1 he pii&onei* was a physician, and handed the cup anp? po*ed to contain the the poison i^Jus 1110 live lo the pet petration of such an iwro ciotis |ict, would have been the tor tune thai lie would have enjoyed by the I death i?f his mother in law. The body was opened, and the contents of the sto mach subjected to chemical analysis. 1 he I phytnenm who purloruicd Urts operation aecuicd upoivoaih that Tic had detected arsenic. ' The tests which he bad applied* he staled to be these-? first, sulphate of copper, with a small quantify of cmbon*ie oi pot aMi, which wlun applied to the aio math of ihe dtceaaed, the precipitate w*s green ; be had next used niter of silver, in the fttme way, and the prtc pitate wa? yellow ; both of^hich he itecU cd indi cated U?e presence of aisenic. Another physician ' declared upon oaih that these proof* of tne appeal ance of arsenic* were not conclusive ; that the only infalib!^ mode of detecting aistnic by sublima tion. iie had tued the Mint tc?t made by the other physician, on a tl cocljon of onions.. nn<l fi.und both that green and yel low. precip\ ate, supposed hy the other physician to denote the appearance of ar senic. Several other physician? testified to ihe same fat t,ynd the prisoner was ac quitled,, l>eC'(U?t: precipitates of g ecn ynd yell?>w were discovered in a solution of on ions. for the deceased hail eaten oniuiib on the day wlven she died. ? [l'ctrgr fifth, 4 At the representation of a Pefce the capture ol the Chesapeake. which w;it pei formed in an English Theatre, ti e following anecdote took place. " The (j^iesapeak was paraded in tti umph upon the stnge, and jnst .is the l;cad% of the Cocknies were ir.fVthd w**h the spectacle, their vanity was turned into ? shame by an unexpected incident. An. , Amtiican seamen was in the pit, and not liking to see his country's flag struck even in a show, he rose amPaddi essed the au dience 10 the following effect: " yes, snid he, and where are the ships you have lost f Where is your Cuerriere, your Java, your fleet on lake Erie and Champlaine f W h y don't you show them ? O n your eyes* there is one good reason why you can't* many of them are sunk to the bottjom of ;he sea." ? The effect wa* electrical, find at opce ashamed and enraged the Cocknie* ? and had not the manager interfared, they would have beaten the fiery American tar. In a trial that lately took place in t>ot)~ don, the Attorney General chiuged Mr. Eiskine with travelling out of his way fn conducting bis client's case. Mr. Krskine in answer Mid) Kit learned friend had talk ed of the irrelevancy of certain questiohe which he had put / this reminded him of the celebrated D r. Whitefield, wb<J haU been accused* by his audience t of ram* bling in his discourse ; to which he rejtiied, ?* If you will ramble to the dcvilf I mutt r ramble a/t$r you /'? , >