Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-02-17

count, nor has any Information been
subsequently obtained. From Albert,
himself. IL has been -ascertained tina,
the person IN whose company he first
appeared. was not = relative, but had
ra'iced him from his home. probably
with view 60 nid -Lim in imposing OF,
the charitable and benevolent.
Albert passed through regular
course Of cducation at the Pcnnsylva
MIA institution, and made respectable
progress in all the branches nf learning
Ia which his attention was directed.
The evidences he furnished &c natura,
talent Tor copying, attracted the notice
Of Mr.. Cbiids the eneraycr. who gene
rouslv offered Ia receive him as a pu.
pal. For more than two wears time he
has almost exclusively been devoted 10
drawing, under Mr.. Childs' direction.
With a success not merely extraorJina.
~ IN one So young, aud labouriny un.
der such serious disadvantages, bot
which entitle lss,n 10 high rank in the
art. \ considerable number of his
drawings have been purchased bv zen.
tlemcn of the greatest taste aud judr
mcnt both in Europe and this country.
lB"i'imore Sporting Neg.
Fhe United States Gazette gives the FOL
lowing humorous account Of tho effects Of the
late slice, in Philadelphia.
1T has rarely happened that the
Spanish salutatiun 'coino esfa.'-.bow
90 you siand:'-could be dccme,! more
appropriate to the time aud place, than
yesterday IN our goodiv ritv.
Shortly after midnight il com
menced raining. and the water chilled
IT once upon the pavemcn, Of the street
and sidewalk, making the whole as
slippery as a new frozen pond; and
during the morning it was marvellous
To behold the quaint devices into which
men and boys threw their legs and DO.
dies in order TO maintain their stand
ing. The torrents of rain had ONLY
served to give additional smoothhes IS
To the ice and wash off the coal ashes
that had here and there been stre~n
with parsimonious hand.
Men Tapped flannel about their boots,
and lifted their feet high. so as TO OBJ
tam firm stepping. Yet ever and
anon, some unlucky one was seen drag
ging his drcnched garment from a pud
die ia which he had been immersed BY
. fdur pas. Little girls who had gone
forth to visit the corner for milk. were
seen mourning over their broken pitch
ers and dropping tears upon the mil
KY way that marked the gutter cur
rent iur more than square. One poor
man had made shipwreck of his bottle;
aud as its blessed contents mingled with
the less ETHEREAL liquid. he looked down
upon the stream. like Branrin to the
Ganges, as IL IL was worthy alteration.
IAN honest soap fat collector help
cd up an old lady from the pavement.
aud with tone Of sympathy that did
honor TO his Hibcrnian heart, kindly
asked Faith ma'am, but how did you
stand that faH?'
1.-Two or three young females came
under our cognizancc. as they some
what ungracefuIly sprawled towards
The pavement,a and while we helped them
up. and cautioned them against future
slips, our heart smote us that there
was too much of the world IL the eau :
ton. How many Of US look out upon
the high way of life, and If, indeed, we
reach forth a hand to help up her that
has fallen, We only add en!d moni
ton to avoid another slip, and a,,ogc-
Their neglect The fact that the way in
which she is 60 tread is no safer than
that III which she fell; and her gar.
ments arc snile,l by her iirst miS-s,ep.
lie who would make his advice availa.
BILE, and show IL sincere. should lift the
unfortunate from the slippery places
/ upon which she now stands ard has
fallen; withdraw her from the leers 0l
those who witnessed the mis.stcp. clear
her garments from The stain they have
contracted, wArm her iato confidence
and when the danger that waited her
steps shall have passed away, and
those who witnessed her fall Shall hay G
gone onward, then, with a caution that
shali br lamp to the feet, bid her pa
and fall no more"
The farmer and fhe Deggnr.-A
strong. hearty. lazy fellow, who pre-.
ierred begging for precafious subsis
tencc to working for a sure one. called
at the house Of a blunt Massachusetts
FARMER, and ia the usual Language al
4 ms race, asked for 'cOid victuals and
old clothes You appear TO be a stou,
Gkearty looking man. said tho fatn,er
= what do YOU do for Ii,ingi' why.