The Massachusetts Spy, 1832-12-26

and chuckies, in a state of tumultuous up uproar - roar uproar and confusion that baffles description. The unfortunate colley had crept under the bed with his tailpiece, whence he literally sent forth shrieks of agony and tenor. Having pulled him out by the neck, the gudewife's shears were put in requisition, and the poor dog was soon freed from his truly unwilling persecutor; yet notwith notwithstanding - standing notwithstanding all the bumping and thumping which the latter had undergone tn its awk awkwaid - waid awkwaid career to the cottage, our friend as assures - sures assures us that the voracious animal actually snapped at and sunk its teeth into the por porridge-slick - ridge-slick porridge-slick which was employed to force open its jaws ! After resting himself a little, and giving the gratified shepherd, in addi addition - tion addition to the fish, a caulker from bis flask, our friend resumed his pilgrimage, highly di diverted - verted diverted with lite strange and unexpected sport he had met with. From the Louisville Herald. THE PARABLE OF JOTIIAM. The infatuation of the people of the Unit United - ed United States, in adhering to Andrew Jackson, notwithstanding his hypocrisy and misrule, reminds us of this ancient parable; in which the folly and ingratitude of the Shech Shechemites, - emites, Shechemites, in making Abimeleck, the basest of Gideon's sons, their king, is happily exposed. The Israelites becoming tired of freedom, offered their kingdom to Gideon, their re renowned - nowned renowned judge ; but this virtuous man, as astonished - tonished astonished at their fatuity, declined the honor. No sooner had he done so, than Abimeleck, the son of his concubine, conceived the idea ol usurping it himself. The life of Abimeleck had been devoted to vicious pleasures, and no one knew better than he, how to operate upon the hopes and fears of the giddy mul multitude. - titude. multitude. He was not wise, but cunning. In order to succee t in this daring scheme of ambition, he affected great humility, while he artfully accused his brethren, the legiti legitimate - mate legitimate sons of his father, of a corrupt combi combination - nation combination to seize upon the government them themselves; - selves; themselves; and boldly assuming this as a fact, he plausibly insisted that they had better be governed by one Prince, than so many petty tyrants. By appealing to the sympa sympathies - thies sympathies and prejudices of the people, he in induced - duced induced them to believe that he had been cruelly neglected by his father, and reviled by his brethren, an account of his ignoble birth. These wiles soon drew around him a band of desperate adventurers - bankrupts in fame and fortune - fit for stratagem and since they had al) to gain, and nothing to lose. Aided by such unprinci unprincipled - pled unprincipled instruments, he succeeded tn hunting down all who stood in his way to the thtone. Thus this base born, and base spirited man, without either merit or capacity, for so ex exalted - alted exalted a situation, became king in Israel I the first that ever bore that title amongst the descendents of Israel. When Jotham heard of it he went and stood in the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and said, hearken unto me ye men of Sl.echem, "The trees went forth on a time, to anoint n king over them - and they said unto the Olive tree, reign thou over ns ; but the Olive tree said unto them, should I leave my fatness wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the Fig tree, come thou and reig-n over us - but the Fig tree said unto thifm, should I for forsake - sake forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and go lo be promoted over the trees? Then said the trees unto the l ine, come thou and reign over us; and the Vine said unto them, should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man. and go to be promoted over ihe trees ? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, come thou and reign over us; and the bramble said unto the trees, if in truth ye will anoint me king over you, then come and pul your trust in my shadow ; and it not let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon." In this beautiful parable, the presumption and arrogance of Abimeleck, in aspiring to the kingdom, and the arts which he employ employed, - ed, employed, nre emblematically represented, with great ingenuity and simplicity. Had the trees indeed wanted a monarch, the Olive tree, the Fig tree, and Vine, had excellen excellency - cy excellency and usefulness : the one dropped fatness ; the other sweetness ; and the third, was gushing with wine. So Gideon, and his other sons, were worthy of Israel's suffrage, if she had needed a king to rule over her: yet they, actuated by benevolence and gen ume pliilanthrophy, meekly and wisely de declined - clined declined the offer. But Abimeleck, the son of a concubine, of a temperament, violent and cruel, and perplexing as a bramble. being told by his mother, that " he was born to soon convinced his unsuspect unsuspecting - ing unsuspecting countrymen, they were born to obey. Beguiled by promises which be intended to violate ; by pledges which he never intend intended - ed intended to redeem, they put their trust in his shadow. Being a mere fire brand, he soon threw every thing into confusion; set them at variance ; and by trampling upon their ancient ordinances and statutes, confound confounded - ed confounded them in a common ruin : he caused, as he hail threatened, the fire to come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Leb Lebanon. - anon. Lebanon. Job. From the Youth's Companion. THE SCRIPTURES. It is not the learned alone who have found out that the sacred writings contain a well-spring of immortal life, as well as the first principles of eloquence and taste. { Suited by their noble simplicity, as well as the high import o f their subject, to every one . who feels within himself Hie cravings of nn immortal nature, the writings given by tho i finger of God commend themselves to all. The high and noble must learn humility , from their precepts, and the degraded must , learn an elevation of character suited to ' the kingly and priestly offices in the King Kingdom - dom Kingdom of Heaven. It lias been found that the humble goat goatherd - herd goatherd of the mountains, over whose early nays no sun of science rose to illuminate Ins intellect, hns yet gained an education Irom the book of God that allies him closely to the celestial regions. His words nre prompted by feelings which have been i kindled and chastened at the alt ,r of devo devoi - i devoi tion. They are of course purer than the i mountain prospect of stars, and the dark i blue heavens around him, when night throws hei mantle over the world. What a precious gift to poor mortality is this sweet transcript of the divine will! Il is immeasurably the richest bequest that . immortal love could have bequeathed to tniin, with the exception of that of gifts the dear one whose blood had sealed the holy testament. With ttembling delight let every man, woman, and youth, and child, press the Bible to their hearts. It is the votes of the holy spirit. It is the tender voice ofChtist, speaking to us of that heav heavens - ens heavens to which he rose from Olivet.

Sim e he first had the command of n ship, he has critically surveyed the eastern coast of Patagonia, from Cape Corrientes to Cape Horn; and all the western coast of Ameri America, - ca, America, from the Strait of Magellan to the Co Columliin - lumliin Columliin river, with the exception of the Isthmus of Darien. He has been six times through the Strait of Magellan, and is the j first Amencun who ever piloted a ship j through the same. He is the first Ameri- | can ship-master who has advanced towards ' the South Pole beyond the .Antarctic circle, I within which lie Ims penetrated beyond the 70th degree of latitude; for which achieve achievement - ment achievement the last vessel committed to his charge wao nnme.l the Antarctic. He lias survey surveyed - ed surveyed the sooth western coast of Africa, from the 10th degree of south latitude to the Cape of Good Hope, and made several jour journeys - neys journeys fur into the interior. He has visited ; most of all the ports of China nnd the East) Indies, and touched at numerous islands in those seas. In short he has been almost eveiy where. In addition to all this, he nus, at different times, nnd on different occasions, faced death in u'most every possible shape and i form; encountered the most appalling per- ils without ever experiencing that disagree- , able sensation which is known by the name i of fear. His vessel has, more than once, i been wedged between mountains of ice,: which threatened lo crush her to atoms. He has been becalmed under a volcanic isl island, - and, island, the internal fires of which, after slum slumbering - bering slumbering for years, suddenly burst forth, and poured rivers of melted lava into the boil-1 ing waters of the bay, while the suffocat- j ing heat melted the pitch in the seams of his ; vessel. He has found himself in the mid-1 die of the wide Atlantic, with a pestilence I raging among his officers and crew, with so much violence that he was almost left alone to navigate his vessel single handed, while the wife of his bosom, in the cabin, was ev-1 ety moment expected to fall a martyr to its malignancy, and while the groans of the sick and dying, and the shrieks of the de delirious, - lirious, delirious, resounded through the gloomy si- j leuce of midnight. He has encountered, i face to face, the gigantic natives of Pata Patagonia, - gonia, Patagonia, the blood-thirsty savages of Cahfor- nia, the treacherous demi-barbarians of Su Sumatra, - matra, Sumatra, mid the ferocious Cannibals of the Massacre Islands. He has crossed every! meridian of longitude, and one hundred and twenty degrees of latitude. In short, he has achieved almost every conceivable ad adventure, - venture, adventure, except that of " fighting wild beasts at Ephesus," and discovering the concentric spheres of the lamented Colonel Symmes. In his last eventful and disastrous voyage, Capt. M. was aecotnpained by bis wife, whose Journal, we understand, is also to be shortly published. Thia was tho voyage of sickness, nnd death, and massacre, anil hor horrible - rible horrible cannibalism ! They sailed from New York, in September, 1829, on a voyage lo the South Sea - for the purpose of collect collecting - ing collecting a cargo of furs from the amphibia of the South Sen Islands. After touching at the Cape de Verds, they shaped their course for the Cape of Good Hope; but had scarce scarcely - ly scarcely crossed the equator when eight of the crew were taken sick, and in a few days after, most of the ship's company, together with Mrs. M. were lying apparently at the point of death. Man after man was committed to the deep - and sixty lingering days elapsed be before - fore before nny of the survivors were fit for duty. At the lovely island which bears the name of Lord Aukland, (lying south east of Van Dieinan's hind, and south of New Zealand,) Mrs. M. was first able to leave her couch, after a vonfinernent of nine weeks. Here they obtained repose and refreshments. They then coasted the eastern side of New Zealand ; but being disappointed in procur procuring - ing procuring the cargo they sought in Uns route, Capt. M. determined on altering hie voyage, and accordingly shaped his course for Ma Manilla. - nilla. Manilla. During her passage from New Zealand lo the I'hillipine Islands, the Antarctic fell in with several benuttful groups of islands, ouch cluster surrounded by a reef of enrol, and neither of them laid down on any chart, or mentioned in any epitome of navigation. He describes till these islands minutely, with the tipuemance, elmracter, manners, habits, end cnstotns of the natives who in inhalal - halal inhalal them, and with whom he hail much and frequent intercourse.

The self-possession of Captain Morrell sustained hint in that trying hour. After I exhorting his men to firmness and obedi-1 Bnce, ami giving them the requisite instrue- I tions, he threw his musket upon the ground, | drew one of his pistols with his right hand, I and his cutlass with his led, ordering two! of his men to follow his example. Hethen ! surveyed the ring of warriors in search of j the king, whom he soon discovered on the! opposite side. With a coolness and nudaci-1 ty which rendered these savages motion-1 less and powerless with amazement, he ad advanced - vanced advanced to their astounded monarch, with his pistol presented to the royal breast; while the Captain's two trusty followers, took their stations on each side of his maj majesty, - esty, majesty, holding their glittering sabres sus suspended - pended suspended over his head, with strict orders to sever it from his body, the moment an ar arrow - row arrow was discharged at any one of his parly., In adopting this plan, the Captain imped . that during the confusion that would neces-! sarily follow the death of the king, some of his own little party might escape to the vessel, j The savages beheld the danger of their I king, and every bended bow instinctively j dropped with its arrow to the ground ! The ' moment that Captain Morrell saw the hap- j py effect of his hasty measures, and while confusion reigned in their ranks, he walked around the circle with his drawn cutlass, and compelled every one to lay down his war club, or whatever weapon he might have, and then sent his remaining four men to collect them into one heap. This being done, he took the king and six of the prin principal - cipal principal chiefs on board of the schooner and detained them until next morning, treating them with the greatest kindness, and then dismissed them on their solemn promises of making restitution for the past, and con conducting - ducting conducting honorably for the future. In four hours afterwards, they attacked that por portion - tion portion of the Antarctic's crew which was sta stationed - tioned stationed on shore, and butchered thirteen out of eighteen. The rest escaped with their lives, four by taking to the water, and one by concealing himself in the woods. The natives now made n general attack upon the Antarctic, but met with such a warm reception that they were compelled to retreat with great loss. They then re-, newed the attack with overpowering force, and in two divisions; upon which Captain Morrell found himself compelled to slip his cable, and put to sea. He returned to Ma-1 nilla, reinforced his crew, and again visited I the scene of massneie. No sooner, howev- I er, was Ihs Antarctic anchored in her for former - mer former position, than she was again attacked ; by the Cannibals, who bad feasted on the mangled bodies of their comrades. A brisk ' fire from the schooner soon dispersed them, j and the captain then turned his big guns upon the town, which quickly brought them to terms: and Leonard Shaw, one of the' missing in the massacre, who had beensav*! ed from death for n state of the most hor- J rid slavery, was sent off to the schooner as an ambassador ot peace. A detailed I account of these thrilling incidents is fol- i lowed by a most interesting and heart-rend heart-rending - ing heart-rending description of the unparalleled suffer- , ings of Shaw during his tedious captivity. . During the two months that the Antarc- i tic now lay at the Massacre Islands, Cupt. j Morrell had several desperate engagements - with the natives, for a description of which we refer our renders to the book which will soon appear. There will be seen how Cap Captain - tain Captain Morrell caused a castle to be built in the island, well garrisoned and provisioned ; how it was assailed by the savages in im immense - mense immense numbers ; bow it was defended with desperate bravery ; how the savages were totally defeated with the loss of their chief; , how they were driven from the Island of Blood, and how Captain Morrell and his crew went on shoie und buried the bonenl of the unhappy men who hud fallen mar martyrs - tyrs martyrs to savage treachery and ferocity. Mrs. Muriel! herself was a witness of! most of these soul-sttning incidents; and i we shall wait with great impatience the ap appearance - pearance appearance of her narrative, which will soon! follow that of the Captain

From the Dumfries Journal. STORY OF A PIKE. The desperate voracity of the Pike is not more remarkable than the extraordinary re- ( tention of life it possesses after being re- I moved from its native element. The follow following - ing following is a remarkable and rather ludicrous instance of its possession of both character- j istics, for the truth of which we can safely I pledge our veracity. An acquaintance, who is a perfect enthusiast in the science of angling, sometime ago strapped the creel 1 over bis shoulder, took the rod in his hand,; and with a plentiful and select assortment I I of books, bait, and fly, in his pocket, set off, ' !on a piscatory pilgrimage, to the banks of, the Clyde. Theie he casually encountered , a shepherd, with his Colley at his foot, and i whilst exchanging news and a pinch of rap rappee - pee rappee with the pastoral patriarch, our acquain acquainl - l acquainl tance observed a frog spring out of the j i grass in the water - which it had no sooner ; done than an immense pike shot with the | speed of lightning from beneath the bank, and the next moment poor Monsieur Freg ! became an inmate of the monster's insatia insatiamaw. - maw. insatiamaw. In an instant, the five piece hickoty | j lod was screwed together, the hooks fixed j I to the line, and another unfortunate 'pad- i dock,' as the shepherd termed it, being soon J found and transfixed, our friend retreated I back to a proper distance ami threw in the , bait. No sooner had it dropped into the I water than it was in the jaws of the pike, ' when the barbs were forthwith struck into his gums, and after about an hour's desper desperate - ate desperate tussle, a huge 121 b. fish was laid on the i green sward. Whilst our friend was un undoing - doing undoing Ills rod and tackle, having made Ilie shephetd a gift of the prize, the colley that had watched the sport seemingly with much attention, was going snuffling and smelling round the captive, and wagging his tail ev evidently - idently evidently with great satirfaction. Tired at last with scrutinizing the unsuspicious quadruped sal down with Jiis rump towards I the fish, and the bushy tuft of his tail lying temptingly near the jaws of the latter, it i snapped at and caught hold of it. No words I can paint the terror and surprise of the poor colley nt this unwonted assault on his per person - son person ! First he bolted straight out for a bund- ' red yards or so, lixe an arrow - then wheel-1 ed round with the circular rapidity of a mill stone - and finally sprung into the water, thinking, no doubt, that Ins assailant would prefer emancipation and safety in his native element, to the gratification of a malicious revenge; and so no doubt it would; but ' the wishes of both were fated to be baulked - the hair having got so warped round the pike's jaws and grinders, that the lattei was totally unable to disengage itself. - Away swam the dog across the river, the pike lugging and testing with might and main - now pulling poor colley the one mo moment - ment moment fniily below the water by sheer weight and strength; the next, lifting his hurdies " high in uir," aa it sprung aloft in its strug struggles - gles struggles to get free - at every pull the terrified quadruped bellowing forth his alarm; whilst; the two spectators, completely overcome by the ludicrous novelty of the spectacle, ab absolutely - solutely absolutely roared with laughter till "the tears coursed one another down their noses" with downright mirth. Having landed on the opposite l»ank, the colley took direct for Ins muster's cottage (which was n gunshot or two off the river) at full speed - the pike throwing incessant pirouettes in the nir, to each of which a lengthened howl was re responded. - sponded. responded. Anxious to see the termination ' of this laughable affair, our friend accompa accompanied - nied accompanied the shepherd acioss a neighbouring ford, and on arriving at the domicile, found I the whale family, wife, weans, dogs, cats,

At length, however, my uncle's habits did undergo a change - but by degrees only. He became less active - day after day passed without any longer walk being taken by him, than from his dwelling to his counting house and home again. He in indulged - dulged indulged himself more too in the morning, than he bad been wont to do; the State Statehouse - house Statehouse clock often sounded eight, and even nine, before he was abroad ; at the same time the pleasures of the table began to be a matterof more serious importance than he had considered them formerly - he became more difficult to please than formerly both in the nature and preparation of his food, and often, worst change of all, he would con consume - sume consume the greater part of the afternoon in discussing by himself a bottle of rare wine, and I know uet, and doubt whether he did himself, bow many cigars. Very quickly he became so much the slave of his stomach, that besides his domestic meal, rich in va variety, - riety, variety, and indulged into satiety, the night also was spent in feasting. Little parties of his friends and countrymen were formed, to meet at some favorite eating house, for the only apparent purpose of devouring plate-full after plate-full of fried oysters, stewed terrapins or boiled lobsters with et ceteras, and to drink large draughts of wine or whiskey punch. Although my un uncle - cle uncle was never known to drink to such an excess as to produce a state of absolute in intoxication, - toxication, intoxication, yet the mode of life we have just described produced a very marked change in his appearance. At his forty-fifth year, liis body had nearly doubled in bulk - bulkhe he bulkhe lost nearly all the vivacity he displayed in former years - bis eyes exhibited a dull, sleepy look, and his nights were sleepless or disturbed. Although from his portly exterior and dark rosy complexion, be was often complimented on his robust health, yet he frequently complained of being troubled with certain uneasy but scarcely definable sensations in his head, stomach and limbs. For these the doctor was often consulted, though his prescriptions were ! seldom followed more than one day. My uncle had little faith in the virtues of medi medi-1 - -1 medi-1 cities. In this manner lie went on until his forty-eighth year, when he was suddenly attacked one day, immediately after dinner I with a severe fit of appoplexy ; from which, j however, he was happily recovered by the prompt and efficicm treatment of his medi medical - cal medical attendants. Sorely against Ins will, however, he was restricted for upwards of three months to a very spare diet, was de debarred - barred debarred the use of wine, and forced to exer exerj - j exerj vise daily in various ways. At the end of . this period ho was pronounced entirely 1 well. Never in fact, as he himself confes - sed, had he felt himself in better health. Gradually, however, he fell into his former mode of living, and in his fiftieth yeai he was confined to his bed with a severe at attack - tack attack of the gout; the first he had experi experienced. - enced. experienced. His physician now very plainly ex explained - plained explained to him his danger, and pointed out the only condition upon which he could hope to enjoy life without intense suffering, and postpone fur many months n fatal in inroad - road inroad upon his stomach or his brain. After much persuasion, ho wns induced to adopt to a certain extent, the plan of living which had been laid down for him. That is to s.iy : his wife succeeded in reducing hie daily bottle of wine to one or two small . glasses, mid in confining him to food of n lighter and more simple character than he I quite relished. Frequent walks in her I company, or occasional excursions, with his

From the Journal of Health. MY UNCLE'S EXPERIENCE. "Pooh ! Pooh ! all nonsense perfect non nonsense - sense nonsense !" exclaimed my uncle the oih>r evening, after having read through atten attentively. - tively. attentively. one of the most celebrated papers on hygiene: "Behold me now sixty years of age, hale and hearty - lo attain to this con condition - dition condition at a period when other men sink beneath their years, did I diet and starve, nnd worry, and fuss? no, no - l drained my bottle of vgine daily, besides, on occa occasions, - sions, occasions, an additional one or two, to keep my friends in countenance; I have eaten hot suppers, and cold suppers without number; I have gone to bed at twelve o'clock, night after night, and didn't rise next morn'ing, ns you may suppose, much before nine o'clock ;' and I can assure you, all this nevercaused me a moment's uneasy feelings, much less j of sickness." So spake my uncle, and in the honesty of his heart he verily believed that he was uttering the actual result of his oivn expe experience. - rience. experience. The truth of his declarations he would have maintained before Emperors and Councils, Judges and Juries. And yet l a very slight retrospect of his own life,! could he have divested himself for a moment of certain prejudices, the result of opinions and habits to which he had for so many years been addicted, would have shown him that, in nearly every particular, the I real facts of the case were the very re-; verse of what, his statements would lead us to suppose. That in truth he was himself a living commentary of the reality and im- j portance of hygienic rules. My unde was by birth a Saxon. At an early age he left his native land, and arriv- ! ed in Philadelphia, with no other capital i than a light heart, an intimate acquaintance I with every thing relating to the practical 1 details of commerce, and ample certificates ! of his industry, his sobriety and his probity. With these slender means, nnd in the midst ) of strangers, he succeeded so well in " get- I ing on in the world" that his thirtieth year | found him a flourishing wholesale and re- I tail merchant with a capital of ten thousand ' dollars. With the exception of the ordinary nil- ments of childhood, and a cold upon the | chest, that had very nearly consigned him to his final abode, and which he caught i while serenading the lady who subsequent- ly became his wife, one stormy night in the i fall of the year, he had lived to the age just mentioned in a state of uninterrupted health. Full of spirits, with just that much devo devotion - tion devotion to business which prudence dictates an necessary to ensure success, plain and | simple in his diet, contented in his mind, his only amusements were a walk, of length sufficient, however, to cripple a modern dandy, an occasional excursion on horse horseback, - back, horseback, and once a week a private concert, and a game at nine pins or nt tennis. At thirty my uncle married, and soon after, he exchanged his store for a counting house - confining business entirely to that of a shipp ng merchant. For some time, no alteration whatever took place in his ordi ordinary - nary ordinary habits. He of course had a greater amount of leisure than when he was tied down to the counter for the greater part of the day, and this leisure was chiefly spent in domestic cares or in the houses of his own friends, or these of his wifi's numer numerous - ous numerous relatives. His manner of living was still as plain, regular and simple as hereto heretofore. - fore. heretofore. His health too was as good, and hie mind ns cheerful.

i children, into the surrounding country, when the season was favorable, together with many a call of duty and of charily,; supplied him with that constant exercise of which he stood so much in need. He was I taught, too, by the same kind spirit, to seek ! his lied at a regular and enrly period of the evening, and to forego his accustomed heavy suppers, while she contrived to wile i him from his couch, each morn, at an early , hour, which he peevishly declared to be un- usually early. This life of privations, as he , termed it, was nt first irksome enough, but i a short time sufficed lo reconcile him lo it,. and in the end, it became even pleasant,! and up to the present period he has persist-. j ed i» it - rather becoming, in fact, more rigid in his habits than in nny degree re-1 laxing. My uncle has now numbered upwards of] sixty summers, and never did there exist a more hale, robust and active old gentleman. A little notional and self-opiniated, it is I true, in regard to many things, but never- I theless, always sufficiently cheerful, good goodnalured - nalured goodnalured ami desirous of pleasing, to attract around him the company of the young. ! His own children, hie grand-children, his nephews and his neices, in particular, sel seldotn - dotn seldotn enjoy an hour, so much as when it is spent in his company. He has useful sug- . gestions, practical hints anil stores of infor information - mation information for those who have already entered upon the active duties of life - he has sound advice and sage counsel, always de delivered - livered delivered in an amiable unpretending manner, for such as are yet in their minority; and for the still more youthful, some playful story - some plaintive ballad, or many a pretty toy. Fiom this short sketch of my uncle's life, we perceive how completely his own experience contradiets the declaration with which this narrative commences. So long as he lived a life of temperance and active industry, so long as his habits were simple and regular, so long he enjoyed I their invariable fruits, health, cheerfulness and comfort. The moment he deviated from this plan of living, and fell into habits I of luxury and indolence, he experienced a corresponding decline of the health of his i body and the cheerfulness of his mind, until, by a continuance in error, serious disease was finally induced - and it was j only by returning to his former sobriety : ' nnd activity that his life was preserved - | the health and vigor of his frame were re repaired, - paired, repaired, and the cheerfulness and serenity of | Ins mind regained. These facts, however, my unde cannot be brought to acknowledge. It is true he ; 1 has experienced an attack of apoplexy and i ; of gout, but these he insists, were merely I , accidental and might have happened to any I man of his particular form of body, whatev- i were his habits. Eating and drinking j ! had nothing to do with them I And then, las to his renewed health, and vigor, when . Ins habits became more regular, active, and temperate - why, what connection he would ask, has the one with the other ? Was it not the same with all his ancestors ? It is a family peculiarity, this return of youth in | the evening of life ! So does my uncle - so do thousands of mankind, obstinately shut their eyes upon ] the evidence of their own experience, and ! overlook the useful lesson that it teaches.

Worcester Social Library So Society. - ciety. Society. FMpHE Members of the "Worcester Social S Library hereby notified, that tlie stated Annual Meeting of said Society will be holden at the Probate Oilice, in Worcester, on Wednesday, the 2d day of January next, at 3 o'clock, afternoon, to act on the following articles, viz : Ist. To choose a Moderator to preside al said Meeting. 2d. To choose all necessary Officers for the year ensuing. 3d. To hear nnd act upon the Reports of the Directors, Treasurer, and Librarian 4th. To see if the Proprietors will raise any money for the purchase ol Books, and lo def ray the necessary expenses for the then current year and to order the appropriation thereof. sth. To see if the Society will allow com compensation - pensation compensation lo the Librarian for services the past year. 6th. To see if the Proprietors will dissolve the association and divide the property, nr make any other appropriation of the same ; and act on any other subject which may legally come before them. Bv order of the Directors. WILLIAM D. WHEELER, Clerk. Worcester Dec 12. 1832. DAVIS'S LECTURES On School Teaching. MERRIAM & CO., have just publish published - ed published Lectures on School Teaching, by Emerson Davis, A. M., Principal of the Acad Academy - emy Academy in Westfield, Mass From the long expe experience - rience experience and high repulatinn of the Writer as a Teacher, and from the opinion expressed by literary gentlemen, the Publishers are induced to believe this little work will form an exceed exceedingly - ingly exceedingly valuable manual for Teachers. For sale, by DORR <fc HOWLAND, Wor Worcester, - cester, Worcester, and by the principal Booksellers in the United States. Dec. 19. NOTICE. THE Proprietors of Worcester Turnpike Corporation are hereby notified, that the annual meeting for the choice of Officers, and for such other business as may legally come be befpre - fpre befpre them, wiß be holden at the Exchange CoL House in Boston, on Wednesday, at 11 o'clock, A. M. By order of the Directors. SIMON E. GREENE, Prop's. Clerk. Dec. 19. 2w Blackstone Canal Company. FWIHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders E in the Blackstone Canal Company. will be holden at Thomas's Coffee House in Worces Worcester. - ter. Worcester. on Wednesday, lltf 2d of January next, al 6 o'clock, P. M. GEO. CURT'S, Scc'y Dec. 19.