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MISCELLANEOUS.
THE OLD CRIPPLE.

They have all been touched, and found base n"ini.
Shakespeare.
So This is my return to my native village !
This is my reception from relatives who me
much !" Thus thought, rather than said, n
poor looking old man, he stood leaning over
the gate of a newly cleaned whest field, ia the
bright, bustling, busy harvest time. Zone"
exclaimed he, as his musings took tone of pas
sion which broke unconscously into words:
" One-yonder portly landlady forsooth, sitting
in her bar, she is pleased to call it--her bar,
quotba! In my young days it was the little
boarded parlor opening from the tap room. A
bar in the old Red Lion What shall we hear of
next? One, bedecked and bedzened, with
gown like rainbow, her fringed apron, and her
cap stuck out with flowers, sitting in her bar, if
that be its style and title, amongst her glasses
and punch bowls, with bell upon her table and
net of lemons dangling above her head; she,
Mrs Ceilings, as she calls hersclf-she used to
answer to the name of Jenny Collins, twenty
years agone-refused point blank to acknowledge
me denied to my face that she had ever seen
me called me cheat and an impostor wondered
at my impudence in attempting to pass myself
for her dear uncle, Michael Norris threatened
me with the stocks and the round house, the
justice ard the jail. Precious mink She whom
/ rescued from drudgery and starvation, from liv-
ing half shop woman, half maid, with the stingy,
termagant olear-starcher, in Bedford Marsh
whom SET up in that very Red Lion !-perched
upon her throne, the armed chair in the bar !
ba thp fh.
will paid her first years rent, stocked the eel
lars, clapped hundred note in her hand and
now that come home, old and lame, sick and
ragged, she reviles me a vagabond an mpostor,
and tells to be thankful to her tender hearted
ness and compassion that she does not send for
the constable to carry me to jail Liar that she
is, base, ungrateful, perjured liar for she knew
me. | saw that she knew me,-ay, as well as |
knew her. She would be glad to be no more
altered in the years that have changed her from
slim girl of twenty-five, to bloated woman of
ive-and-forty, than l, in those same years, with
all my griefs
"Then her brother-faugh! 1t maddens me
to think of their baseness her brother, whom
| educated and apprentced, finding him money
afterwards to put him into partnership with old
Jones, the thriving linen-draper. He, indeed,
did not pretend to deny that might be his uncle !;
but grant that were, what claim had | upon his
charity more than any other starving wretch !?
He Pltied me, Heaven knew, but what could !
expect from him? Oh, the smooth-speaking,
soft-spoken knave with his pity and his charity.
Hypocrite in look and word. Ills tone was as
gentle as if he had been bidding me welcome to
bed and board for my whole life loog. What a
fawning parasite that would have been now, if |
had accosted him like a rich man. Well there
is some virtue in these rags, since they teach false
rogues to speak truth. Then came my cousin
Anthony, whose daughter portioned, whose
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POETRY.

THE TELEGRAPH.
CHOW LONG HAVE TO LIVE"
III Samuel, l9e-25r.
startling thought, " how long have l to live %
If some bright angel might an answer give,
The word would be from yonder blest abode
The time is short, prepare to meet thy God!
Procrastinate no more, to-day, is thine,-
Tomorrow's sun on thee may never shine!
The selfish wretch whose barns could not contain
The rich abundance of his waving grain,
Eullting said, I've goods for years in store
I'll take my ease and toll for bread no more
No grateful tribute rises from his heart,
Tho heaven its bounteolls blessings does impart-
But gorgeous visions float before his sight;
He builds his airy castles with delight
But bark Jehovah, can his mirth control!
Thou fool, this night will | require thy soul!
The proud and iordiy youth with stately air.
And noble bearing brave and manly fair
Whose high ambition and aspiring mind
Disdains to be to common rules confined,
Doubts the eternal being and his laws
Unless himself can comprehend the Cause:
Thirsting for knowledge-sure to win n name
Among the greatest on the list of fame -
Perhaps with not one moments warning given,
He stands before the Judge of earth and heaven.
Mortal this very hour may be thy last =
Stop in thy wild career review the past
The voice which says, 'sto-day give thy henrt,'
Tomorrow may pronounce the word ''depart ~
That still small voice more refuse to heed,
No longer spurn the love that stoops to plead
The Prophets ,,lrning may to you apply
The words are spoken, thou this year shalt die
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wards the injury of the moral character and in
terests of this country
30 Attendance on public worship will promote
in you tenderness of conscience IN regard to vice,
ofevery kind
81. 1t will Withdraw you from temptations
to violate the Sabbath by worldly business, or
reading, or thoughts, or by frequenting places of
idle and vicious resort.
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sa,neJ the ascendancy over Il At numerous peo-
Ole, who contemplated his looks with religious
| silence.
But the admonition was complete when that
man EXPOSED 10 the sight OF his spectators ihe
| terrible yellow serpent Of the coast OF orinoco.
He held the reptile by the back oil It's head IN
sncb a manner that il could not wound MIN,
mill he was convinced that the people had re-
coenized lis nature. He exposed his breast,
6rst swallowing some Of the leaves IN the port
manteau; he irritated the reptile, which pc
came furious. and bit him Immediately over has
heart.
a General shout OF horror resounded through
The slave smothered the serpent between his
hands. and TRANQUILITY went to seat himself upon
a stone.
The exhibition was concluded.
One hour passed-two houIs-and tie slave
lived.
They then asked him his secret, and he point
ed to the portmanteau; they wished TO know IN
what manner he made the discovery, and then
he opened the cask by the same side, and drew
out black serpent, and from the other side a
bird whose wings were shortened.
The people witnessed a combat which the poor
mulatto learned 10 explain at the risk Of his life,
in the savannahs of Guyana. The bird killed
the serpent and finished by consuming the
leaves in the portmanteau
America, from that time, has one scourge less
in its vast plains and interminable woods.
The Governor approached the slave, and de-
clared him free, in the name Of the people, con-
ceding the title of citizen, and assigning him an
annual rent Of 50, 900, and gave the shrub, whose
miraculous powers he had first witnessed, the
name of the bird which had revealed it to the
world-calling il Guaco.
The leaf Of the Guaco figures TO this day on
all the tables of that country.
Many naturalists inoculate themselves with
this marvellous antidote, the only means Of pre-
serving themselves from the bites Of the terrible
reptiles which infest that part Of America.-C Gin
cinnati Republican.
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merce, in the following ill.natured paragraph de-
scribes the manner in which the late Secretaries of
Dcpar tments retired from Office:
.'Mr Crittenden, think, withdrew like gentle
man. With coat and pantaoons buttoned up snug,
he makes formal bow to the President and walks of
in respectable and stately style MIR. Granger dances
about till he finds himself in the street, before he is
fully aware that the door is open. But Mr.. Ewing
appears TO have swced up SUCH huff, that he burst
all his buttons of--and starting away in furry,
he run off, splitting the secrets of the Cabinet as he
went-but holding on tightly to certain parts and
parcels Bell and Badger followed in similar plight,
let fall some rather important items Of Cabinet con-
versstion, which Ewing was in too much of hurry
10 recoect"
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QUAKER PRlNcIPLEs.-This is an era which
takes great credit TO itself for two things which
contribute chiefly to the happiness and well be-
ingof the human family the institution of tenn
perance and of peace societies. While we give
every credit to the present apostles of these great
causes, let us not forget the fact that two hun
dred years ago the Friends, or "people COM
monty called Qudkers," instituted as strict
and inviolabe part of their moral creed and
practice the technical temperance and peace of
this day. These great and glorious doctrines
have slumbered, except as carried out by the
friends, until lately when the enthusiasm guided
by benevolence, which mark this age and coun-
try, has awakened them in the minds of the null
titude, and led associations to be active in their
favor. While we applaud this spirit, we must
not forget the great Quaker pioneers in these in
stitutions. New England is never tired of sing
ing, in season and out of season, partially and
mpartially, the praises Of the Pilgrim fathers
while here, the deeds and memory of William
Penn and his associates are hardly ever alluded
to- Yet these are the men who felt and pur-
sued the great moral reforms of this the inc
teenth century, not emitting the greatest of all
Religious Liberty-which our eastern brethren
Of olden time allowed to no one but themselves.
OF truth were the old Quakers in adrance o.
the times.-Nat. Gaz.
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One of the Washngtonians tells the following good
story He served his time al the grocery business with
A deacon, who was In the habit of making his own
Port wine. from whom he often had orders TO Ego up
stairs and grind ioguood, as The Port wine was
mos, out" On Sunday the deacon was hard at work
over large cask with a pole in his hand stirring up
the home -made Port wine, when member Of the same
church entered unobservcd. After looking with
constituent for some minutes he exclaimed, "Hoo !
deacon, what are you doing The deacon jumped
round in great confusion, and after little hesitation
replied-Fwhy was afraid might get of in boat
some of these times, and rds learning hou TO
sctlUr
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SONG.

Anyway my gallant bark,
The waves are white and high,
And fast the long becalmed clouds
Are sailing in the sky;
The merry breeze which watts them on
And chafes the pillows spray,
Will guide thee in thy walery flight
Ny gallant bark, away
Now like the sea-bird's snowy plumes
Are spread thy winged sails,
To soar above the mountain waves,
And scoop their CLASSY vales
And, like the bird, you'll calmly rest,
Thy azure journey DER,
The shadow ofthy folded wings
Upon the sunny shore.
Away-away my gallant bark
Across the pillows foam;
leave awhile for oceans strife
The quiet haunts ofhome-
The green fields of my father land,
For many stormy bay
The blazing hearth for beacon light,
My gallant bark, away!
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HIspoo HussANDMAN.-The husbandman rise
with the earliest dawn washes and says prayer,
then sets out with his cattle to his distant field After
an hour or two he eats remnants of yesterday 8
fare for breakfast and goes with his labor till noon,
when his wife brings his no, dinner he eats it by
a brook or under tree, talks and sleeps till two o.
clock while his cattle also feed and repose From
two ill sunset he labors again; then drives his cattle
home feeds them, battles, eats some supper smokes,
and spends the rest of the evening in amusement with
his wife and children or his Ephnstones
India
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Mem Jsrsty.-The message of Governor Penning
ton docs not express opinion whether an immediate
resumption OF specie payments by the banks OF South
Jersey should be insisted on bu, refers the
the discretion OF the Legislature,
The State Prison contains Isl convicts being one
less than last year The profits Of the Prison during
the last eight months, have been about $4,000.
A considerable part of the message is devoted TO
questions relative to the amount of trar sit duties
which ought TO be paid to the State by the Camden
and Amboy Rail Road, and other internal improvement
Companies
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ruth, about us in his bushel Of rubbish DO
LEI US apply friction TO our organ of self-esteem
and make il grow. Indiscriminate carplng al
his criticisms only proves that we have never
been out of the United States or II we nave,
thai we did not leave our prejudices al home.
Yours. &c. MANHATTAN.
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gr THE Third annual Meeting Of the Female
Union Benevolent Society will be held THIS EVE
MING Nov. %, at half past : o'clock, in Rev DR.
Lauries Church, + street when the Report Of the
Society will be read, and several addresses made by
the clergymen and other distinguished orators Of the
city The public respectfully invited to attend.
BY order, G. A. WEBB, Secretary.
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U. s. TRoops,-The 9th Regiment Of United
States troops from the Jefferson Barracks passed here
yesterday in the steamboats, Sarah Anne Usage and
Mungo Park, with keels in tow, for Cleveland by
way of Portsmouth and the Canal thence To their re-
spec,ive stations the northern frontier ai
Ga< cite, 2ih ut
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TIME attention of those citizens or strangers in the
J. District of Columbia, wanting cheap and tasty
iron ratings, respectfully called TO fitted
up around the of DR.. Sewelrs house Corner Of
C and 4 l2 s,ree,s) in which beauty, durability and
economy are combined. The total cost of the railing
referred to, when up is only Sl44 6S or about SO
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Reference to DR.. Sewe Washington, d c.
Terms-cash. Orders, large or small quickly filled
by NJ. MURRAY
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oct 30-3t.
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BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT-Go out beneath the
arched heaven in nights profound gloom, and
say, if you can, "There is no God2" Pro-
nounce that dread blasrhemy and each star
above will reprove you for your unbroken dark
ness Of intellect-eyery voice that floats upon
the night winds will bewail your utter hopeless
ness and despair. Is there no God2 Who,
then, unrolled that blue scroll, and threw upon
its high frontispiece the legible gleamings of i'm
mortality2 Who fashioned this green earth,
with its perpetual rolling waters, and its expanse
Of island and main Who settled the founda-
ton of the mountains? Who paved the hea-
vens with clouds, and attuned amid banners OF
storms, the voice of thunders, and unclaimed
the ightnings that linger, and lurk, and fash in
their gloom2 Who gave to the eagle safe
eyre where the tempests dwell and beat strong
est, and to the dove tranquil abode amid the
forests that ever echo to the mnstrelsy OF her
moan2 Who made thee, oh man with thy
perfect elegance Of intellect and form? Who
made light pleasant 10 thee, and the darkness a
covering and herald to the first beautiful fash
es Of the morning? Who gave thee matchess
symmetry of sinews and limb? That regular
flowing Of blood The irrepressible and daring
passions of ambition and Of love2 And yet the
thunders Of heaven and the waters of earth are
chained Are there no floods, that the man is
not swept under a deluge2 They remain, but
the bow of reconciliation hangs out above and
beneath them. And it were better that the limit
less waters and thestrong mountains were con-
vused and commingled togetherit were better
that the very stars were confagrated by fire OF
shrouded in eternal gloom, than that one soul
should be lost, while mercy kneels and pleads
for il beneath the altar of intercession.
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Bugaoes. drove Of young bufIalocs, thirty three
in number, passed through this city Tuesday last,
on their way to New York Thirty-three buhaloes in
one gang H. no doubt be rare sight for most Of our
eastern friends = Quincy (M) Herald,
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INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE-The Etn
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hazards of fire on terms favorable any other Com
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utmost promPtltude. Application for insurance may
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Washingt d. A. HALL
oct 30-3t. Agent.
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DOCK OF THE INDIANS, being the Biogrs-
I'D ply and History of the Indians and Indian Tribes
Of North America from its first discovery up to the
year lS4l, by Samuel G. Drake, eighth edition with
large additions.
And many beautifully executed engravings. Jusl
published and this day received for sale by
nov2 F. TAYLOR
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but very few roots, and those are short and
hard, something like birds claw and this
agrees with the remarks Of Mons. Raspail, who
states that the most healthy plants in ordinary
vegetation have the least exuberance of roots
and fibres.
"Another important observation, also, is,
that weeds and parasitical vegetation are pre-
vented by this method, for the straw chokes
every other plant but that of its own seed
Many ether interesting observations might be
made on the experiments, but we refrain at pre-
sent from obtrudng on your readers; but il any
Of them wish for further information on this
subject, we shall willingly afford them every
facility. The importance Of the general result
will easily become apparent without further
comment, and a revolution In the present modes
Of agricultural labor is necessary consequence
Of this discovery. No tillage will now be re-
quired, nor any artificial stimuants in manure
and other more or less expensive combinations
with regard TO soil and culture In fact, II would
be tedious 10 enumerate the various advantages
that may result in practice from this casual ex-
pertinent, and therefore we proclaim it simply 10
the world that all may profit by it,"
As this experiment can be easily tried, we
hope some Of our farmers will put il 10 the test
and communicate the result. We shall certain
ly try il on small seven by nine LOT of ground,
which is the largest that is vouchsafed to a
dweller in the city.-Erening Post
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rHINA, Ancient and Modern, being a history
~ and general description ofthe Country, Govern
ment Laws, Religion, Productions, Manufacture,
Arts and Sciences, Literature, Commerce, Tea and
Opium Trade, &c, &c, lately published in London
few copies just imported by
nov 2 F. TAYLOR
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