Man wants but little here below, Yet does he not betray strong symptoms of his nature, when he declares "Friendship's but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; Now we have experienced in time of necessity that it was not a name. Pope too, who is represented as envious and malicious to a degree, yet how does he bend his mind to his Creator in his Uni SELECTED. THE HARVEST EVENING. A Rural Sketch. AT length the crimson West proclaims the end of day; the sun sinks down behind the hill, and leaves the jaded peasantry to seek their homes. The atmosphere is hush'd! Behold the happy tribe! their sultry day completed, issuing from their hospitable master's door; each takes his road, and, warm in heart, How still around! versal Prayer, or where can the give each the kind good night.* most devout christian conceive more rational or benevolent senti ments than are there expressed. Besides, has not bitter experience taught me that nothing is more Aluctuating than the mind of man, and though you, in the conclusion, boast of a calm equanimity of mind, founded on a thorough contemplation of the virtues and vices of mankind, yet with all due respect to your self-discernment permit me to think in the words of the Scottish Bard, O was there but the gifty gaen us, Burns. You would be found an erring votary of fancy as has been LAURETTA. Zeal. Be eloquent by Zeal, instead of being a mere declamer through vanity. Abbe Maury. Ah! who knows how soon the last 'good night' may come !-One youth, the kindest of the throng, bids the farewell; and, with his little dog, hastens his steps toward his father's cot. But hark! what rattling in the trees! Louder and rattling in the trees! Louder and At louder is the sound! The wind still rises, and sable clouds precede the impending storm. once the whole horizon is a dismal scene! The tempest comes; the dreadful lightning darts its fatal blaze, and thunder shakes the earth! Alas! the moment fraught with direst woe is now at handA burning flash strikes the poor youth, and lays him prostrate on the ground! The faithful dog, close to his master's fleet, howls out and feels the blow. The dog comes to him; but ah! in vain he expects his master's kind caress ; no more he feels his soothing hand. The peasant falls to rise no more! Virtue and filial af fection inscribe these lines upon "Beneath this humble sod is laid; His aged parents ease he sought; Was by his daily labour bought. No task to him was e'er too hard Which gave his aged mother rest ; And oft the happy dame's regard She warmly to the youth express'd. But ah! the mother now is lost Her life, her sole support, is gone! The fatal stroke her reason cost, Distraction does her loss bemoan. ::*:: For the Lady's Miscellany. VARIETY. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED: "Variety is Charming, so Mr. S, the judge's clerk, told Faults not to be Forgiven. When Hopkins, the Drury lane prompter, once recommended a man to be engaged as mechanist in preparing the scenery of a new pantomime, Garrick made the following objections to employing him : Southampton-street, Thursday morning. "I tell you, Hopkins, the man will never answer the purpose of the theatre. In the first place, he cannot make a moon. I would not give him three-pence a dozen for such moons as he shewed me this day. His suns are, if possible, worse; besides, I gave him directions about the clouds, and such dd clouds were never seen since the flood. Desire the carpenter to knock rainbow to pieces, 'tis execrable; his stars were the only things tolerable. I make no A learned judge was about to doubt of his honesty, but until he try a prisoner for a rape, and ob- can make a good sun, moon and 'served the Ladies seemed very un-rainbow, I must dispense with his willing to leave the court, upon future services. which he acquainted them of the impropriety of their presence; some of them had, indeed, the de cency to retire, others staid. He again expostulated with them on the indecency of staying, but without effect; when the facetious | ready? A Hint to Ladies. D. Garrick." A sharper having observed that there was no knowing one's friends till they were tried, was asked, if most of his had not been tried al LADY'S MISCELLANY. NEW-YORK, September 29, 1810. To our Readers and Correspondents. A Communication having made its appearance in this paper, on Saturday last, under the signature of "Galimau fry," the insertion of which was permitted on our part, without due consideration; we deem it proper to state, as an apology to our Readers, and, in par. ticular, to the Gentleman whose feelings it is calculated to injure, that, upon a review of the piece, we consider it a base unwarrantable attack on private reputa tion, and disgraceful to the author in every point of view. FATAL FIRE. On Friday evening the 14th inst. the inn at which the mail coach stops,in Castlebaney, kept by Mr. Faughey, was burn. ed to the ground, and Mrs. Faughey, her two children, two maids, and two dragoons, perished in the flames. About 2 o'clock Mr. Faughey was awakened by a suffocating smell proceeding from the apartment below, and he instantly got up to explore the cause. On coming to the room which had excited his suspicion, he found it all in a blaze; at that moment the door burst open, and a body of flame forced its way up the stairs, which rendered all access to the apartments which he had just quitted impossible, and their lay his wife and infant children, he immediately gave the alarm and endeavored to procure assistance; a ladder was brought with as little loss of time as possible; his wife and his children were his first care, and he placed the ladder to the Having traced the motives of the writer, we consider it necessary to add, that we believe him to have been actuated by the most villinous and malicious inten-front of their bed room, the flames raged tions, and that, while he has aimed at a display of scholastic refinement and wit, he has betrayed no less the poverty of his genius, than the wickedness and depravity of his heart. Our press is open to correspondents of liberal and generous minds, whose object is either to amuse or improve themselves, or their readers; but, we take this opportunity to declare, that it will forever be closed against the malig. nant Slanderer, whose aim is at once more cruel and certain than the midnight assassin. The name of the writer of the offensive article in question will be given up to the gentleman whom he has wantonly aspersed, and into whose hands we shall cheerfuly commit him. Editors. The City Inspector reports the death of 31 persons in this city and suburbs dur. ing the last week. with unabated fury, but the tender mother was seen to approach the window, bearing a child under each arm, a gleam of hope took possession of every countenance, but alas! it was only for a moment, the floor gave way under her feet, and the parent with her helpless offspring sunk together into eternity. The feelings of the by-standers particularly the distracted husband and father, may be imagined but not described. Three of five dragoons quartered in the house, were rescued from the flames, and a third,a servant maid after suffering severely, precipitn ted herself from a window, and was shockingly mangled on the pavement ; there is no hope of her surviving, nor indeed is it desirable that she should recover, as besides other disabilities, she is deprived of both her eyes. The cause of the conflagration has not yet been discovered. Some think it was effected by a detected having in their possession a par. gang of villians whom Faughey lately cel of bank notes, lost by one of our fellow citizens; but this is toe horrid a conjec. ture to be indulged in on slight grounds. Derry Journal. WANTED Immediately, an accomplished Tayloress. Enquire at No. 212 Greenwich Street. N. B. Wanted Two female apprentices, to the abave business.—Enquire as above. Punning-It must have been foreseen that the Turks would be worsted in the battle of the 16th June, for their principal commander was Kallimanchi! On Tuesday evening, by the rev. Mr. How, Mr. Eliphalet Straton, Esq. of Flushing. to Mrs. Lucretia Traser, of this city. On Sunday evening the 16th inst. by the rev. Mr. Moore, Mr. Samuel Martin, Esq. to the amiable || Miss Hannah Heartell both of this city. On Saturday evening last, by the rev. Mr. Moore, Mr. William Patten, Esq. to the amiable, Miss Mary Decamp, of N. Jersey. On Thursday the 13th inst. by the rev. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Isaac Ireland, one of the firm of Le Roy, Bayard and M'Evers, merchants, || to Miss Emily Roulet, daughter of Mr. John S. Roulet, all of this city. Aa Boston, the Hon. Wm. Eustis, Secretary at War, to Miss Caroline Langdon, daughter of the late Judge Langdon. On the 20th inst. at Friends Meeting House in Burlington, N. J. Mr. Richard M. Smith, to Miss Susan Collins, daughter of Isaac Collins, formerly of this city. At Babylon, L. I. on Friday the 14th inst. by the rev. Mr. Youngs. Mr. Thomas Smith, merchant of Newburgh, to Miss Charlotte S. Cole, of Saghar hor. At Hudson, by the rev. Mr. Sears, Cornelius Miller, Esq. attorney at law, to Miss Beulae Hathaway, daughter of John Hathaway, Esq. all of that city. DIED, At Plattsburgh, (N. Y.) on the the 18th inst. Mrs. Cornelia Smith, wife of Melancton Smith, Esq, and ́ daughter of Dr. Gardner Jones, of this city. On Monday morning last, of a consump. tion, at the house of Mrs. Barry, Mr. John Mackay, a native of Scotland, but lately of Trinidad, from whence he came foe the benefit of his health. At Sandy Hook, on the 18th inst. Miss Sarah Friskney, late of this city. On Saturday afternoon last, in the 20th year of her age, Mrs. Ann Pyke, wife of William H. Pyke, merchant. At Philadelphia, Mr. Henry Fries, son of John Fries, merchant. At Chillicothe (Ohio) 25th ult. in the 73d year of his age, Col. Moses M'Clean, formerly of Aiams County, (Penn.) He entered the army at an early period of the revolution, as Captain. On Wednesday morning, in the 21st. year of his age, Mn. Daniel Hirley. |