HASZARD'S GAZETTE, APRIL 5.

GEIEEAI. INTELLIGENCE-

-- ’Th'o Israelites of Hartford have bought the meeting“

house, formerly occupied by the North Baptist Church, with $5000 given by thgap Judah Touro, and ave ﬁtted up the ediﬁce, an? ‘gamed it in honor of their benefactor, “ Touro Hal ‘,’ flius converting a Christian temple into a Jewish synagogue.

MOSQUITO Co.is'r.—It is stated, that the commander of the British navalforce on the Central American coast, has officially communicated to Commodore Patildiiig, commander of our home squadron, so much ofliis iii- structions as direct him to repel all lillibuster movements to Greytowii, coming to his knowledge, and that to this end he will prohibit the landing ofariiis and armed men. This, iftriie, is a direct assertion of the British protect- orate over the Mosquito Coast, and of it claim to juris- diction over the port of Sant .liian.—N. Y. Ia‘:-aminer.

GREAT Loss BY Ftoon IN ()iiio'—-'l‘he Licking, river opposite Ciiicinuati conimencetl risiiig rapidly Sunday morning, throwing immense quantities of ice into the Ohio. breaking tip the ice in the latter, and doing great daniage The steainboats Flag, Albertine, Bridge (/It)’, t-rapesliot, Madonna, Salem, and Yorktown, were all sinik. anti will provea total loss. Several other Slt*iillll)0tlIS were more or less injured and a iitiiiiberol tlztt brats mild barggs Sl(l:(l)li. The total loss tlitis far acertiiiiied is upwar s of $.00, U. The Ohio river had risen eight feet within twelve hours, and was still rising.

FEEJEB Isi.Aivos.—-'I‘he most important item of news from the Feejee lslaiids is that Commanler Boutwell, of the United States sloop, John Adams, had been teach- ing the canniblas to pay more respect to the United States flag. The report is, that the natives had plundered and otherwise abused many Americans who weredtlicﬁ: on trading business—to punish which, Comman er oiit- well burned five of their laigest towns, and, as we infer killed a large number ofoceupants. Having thus re-estab- lislied order (l) he had made a treaty with the King‘,thc particulars of which have not transpircd.—N. Y. L‘/iron.

AN HONOR ro His R/tcr..—Sainiicl Williams, a colored man. sold his farm near Clearspriiig, Md, last week, mn- taining near 200 acres, for $7000, ht~was a slave at ~10 years ofage, bought himself, has raised twenty-ﬁve chil- dren, fourof whom he bought and nianiiniitted. He is now in his 71st year, and a stout, tall and intelligent looking old man. He is now in independent circumstances. .Most ofhis children are iti theWest, and the rest ofthem all desire to go to the same country; so the old man has consented, altho fond of this country, to pull up stakes and follow them.”

TRANSATLANTIC Coivii\iUNicIirioN.———An advertisement in the Cork papers notiﬁes, that the steam ship Brenda, 200 horse power, will sail direct from that harbour for New York about the 3rd March next. The Brenda will start from London, and will call at Cork on her outward voyage to ship ﬁrst, second, and third-class passengeq

THE Cow or LAST WiNrEit.—'I‘lie Georgia C/zristian Index has the following:

“The range of cold is wider this year than in any year on record. They are putting np ice four inches thick formed in the river at Austin, ‘exas in about latittide 30}!-2, or only ﬁve degrees north of the tropics. The effect on vegetation, at the South particularly, is bad. In l-‘lo- rida, the orange trees, it is feared, are ruined. In the neighborhood of Louisville, Ky, the peach and other fruit trees have been killed by the frost. In North Caro- lina, thousands of dollars, it is said, have been lost by in- jury done to the pine trees of that region. In Virginia the apricots have been almost entirely destroyed. Boston, the cold weather was so severe, that the linden trees which adorn the sidewalks, split with the frost, as if a wedge had been driven into them.

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Minrrnv Iit'rsi.r.iosivcs.—lntelligence per Baltic, at New York, to the effect that the 18th (Royal Irish) , is under orders for Canada is a mistake.—'I‘he 18th form a part of the Eastern Arm . serving home is the3 of the Riﬂe Bri sde now at Alder- shott. under command of Lt. Col. . S. R. Forcott (“ old Billy, as the soldiers love to call him). The only corps of the line having their service companies in the United Kingdom are the 15th, 22nd, 25th, 61st, 80th, 90th, (reserve batt.) 99th, 98th, and 3rd batt. Riﬂe Bri-

ade.—All these, except the latter, have recently returned 3-om_India, Australasia, or the Cape of Good Hope.

A Coisiuaisoi~i.—A pleasant, cheerful wife is n rainbow set in the sky, when her husband's mind is tossed with storms and tempests; but a dissatisﬁed and fretful wife, in the hour of trouble, is like one of those fiends who like

_ to torture lost spirits.

The only battalion of Riﬂes,

“ HAVE vou Girl‘ 1‘ liter ?”—" Have you got a baby?” said a little girl.” No, he had no baby, yet he wuss man full fortylyears of age. He was a bachelor! So he had to answer,“No, my pretty miss,l have got no baby.” “Oh, la, haven’t you? we have a baby at our house!” This was not interesting to a bachelor. How different it would have been, if he had married Lucy Smith, as he intended a dozen years ago! How little he knew of the sweet music of the words “ have you got a baby ?” How her heart would have leaped up and choked her utterance, if she had now been riding by his side as his wife, instead of his “old flame," Lucy Suiitlil How many a mother's heart has leaped for joy at the question, when she could answer it, “Yes. I have got a baby!" H-ow usany a fi1t|ier’s heart will be touched with emotion when he thinks, as we do, ofa time when, returning from it long journey, he meets such a little cherub of a girl at his own gate, who does not stop to ask him how he does nor climb on his knee, for the accustomed kiss, so exuber- ant is her joy——so anxious is she to possess him with the secret that swells tip and ﬁlls her very existence to over- flowing, so that she uiust speak or burst, and hence she watches for papa and runs out to meet him at the gate with a smile—such ii joyous, gloiious smile, and cry of “ Oh, papa. we have got it baby !”

A SPINDLE-SHANKED old gentleman. having put on it new pair of boots, said to his friend, " What do you think of my boots P” who shrewdly replied, “ Sir, your boots look very well, but your legs appear in them much like a rope in a well.”

A LADY purchasing a second-hand waiter, asked the broker whether he thought it would answer. “ Yes, ma'am,” replied he,” without a question.”

A Dsnor on board a steamboat lately stood by and saw a young lady fall on the deck vvithotit offering to assist her. On being asked for an explanation, “ l was waiting," says Poodle, “for an introduction.”

LORI) CHESTERFIELD remarked of two persons dancing a minuet, that “they looked, as if they were hired to do it, and were doubtful of being paid.”

A GERRIAN writer coinprires the different stages in the lives of women to milk, butter, and cheese. “ A girl,” he says, °" is like milk, it womiin like butter, and an old woman like cheese——all three may be excellent in their

kind.”

Two Kiuos or rouse Mr:n.—Wise young men do not speak of love until they have convinced themselves that their] affections are worthily received, and would be sin- cerely returned. Men who constantly vow and protest, who quote poetry,and mangle sentiment, generally carry their iiearts on their lips; and unfortunately the latter sort are too often the favourites of the gentle sex.

AN advertisement lately appeared headed, " Iron bed- steads and beddin-v.” e suppose, according to the latter term, that the linen is of slieet-iroii.

Wnn letter changes it vessel to a bird ?—Letter L, makes an ark a Lark. ‘

WHY are twice eleven like twice ten ?—Because twice eleven are twenty-two, and twice ten are twenty too.

A neccnr philosopher discovers ii method to avoid being donned? “ How? how? how?” we hear every- body asking. Never run in debt.

A schoolmaster, after giving one of his scholars in sound drubbing for speaking bad grammar, sent him to the other end of the room to inform another boy that he wished to speak to him, at the same time promising to repeat the dose, if he spoke to him ungremmaticiilly. The youngster, quite satisﬁed with what he had got, determined to be ex- act, and thus addressed his fellow pupil :—" There is in common substantive, of tin masculine gender, singular number, nominative case, :1 nl in an angry mood, that is perched upon the emlllcn(‘.t' :;v the other side of the room, wishes to articulate a few s-..a:~i-.-nces to you in the present tense.”

When Lumqua, a celebrated Chinese artist, was asked his opinion of an English belle at Canton, his reply was characteristic of a Chinsman’s ideas of female beauty, “ Her face is too round ; she has colour in her cheeks,- her eyes are too blue, too large; she's too tall, yi yaw; her face talks (meaning her countenance was expressive); and she has feet so large, that she can walk upon them.

A poor scamp left his wife in it great strait, declaring she would never see his face ii_,:nin until he was rich enough to return in his carriage. He kept his word, for in two hours he was brought home drunk in a wheelbarrow.

Knownsnas is Powss.—The high value of men- tail cultivation is s weighty motive for giving attend- ance to reading. What is it that mainly distingui- shes a man from a brute? Knowledge. What makes the vast difference there is between savage and civi- lized nations? Knowledge. What forms the prin- cipal difference between men, as they appear in the same society ? Knowledge. What raised Frank- lin from the humble station of a printer’s boy to the first honors of his country ? Knowledge. What took Sherman from his shoemaker’s bench, gave him it sent in Congress, and there made his voice to be heard among the wisest and best of his compeers? Knowledge. What raised Simpson from the weav- cr’s loom to a place among the first of mathemati- cians; and Herschel, from being tt poor ﬁfer’s boy in the army to a station among the first of astronomers? Knowledge. Knowledge is power. ll is the philoso- pht.-r’s stone, the true Alchemy, thiit turns every- thing it touches into gold. It is the sceptre that gives our dominion over nature; the key that un- locks the storehouse of creation, and opens to us the treasures of the universe.——llawes’ Lectures to Young Men.

A rich old spinster who died at Newton. N. H., lately, left $t38,4l9. She was all her life getting ready to be married, and had stored tip 182 sheets, 63 coverlitls, 50 blankets, 27 beds with l,l'27 lbs. of feathers, 54 towels, '24 table-covers and 43 hand- keichiefs, while the whole amount of her wearing apparel did not exceed til; l0 in value.

Auecnores or Rocsas.

“ Dunning (afterwards Lord Ashburton) was ‘ stating the law’ to a jury at Guildhall, when Lord Mansﬁeld interupted him by saying, ‘ If that be law, l’|l go home and burn my books.’—‘ My lord,’ re- plied Dunning, ‘you had better go home and read them.’ Dunning was remarkably ugly. One night, while he was playing whist, at Nando’s, with Home 'l‘ooke and two oiliers, Lord Thurlow called at the door, and desired the waiter to give a note to Don- ning (with wliom, though their politics wero differ- ent, he was very intimate). The waiter did not know Dunning by sight. ‘ Take the note upstairs,’ said 'I‘liurlow, ‘ and deliver it to the ugliest man at the card-iiible—to him who most resenbles the knave of spades.’ The note immediately reached its destination.”

Wr.i.i.im:-roN.—“ Speaking to me of Buoneparte, the Duke of Wellington remarked, that in one res- pect he was superior to all the generals who had ever existed. ‘ Was it,’ I asked, ‘in the manage- ment of his troops?’ ‘ No,’ answered the Duke; ‘it was in his power of concentrating such vast mas- ses of men——a most important point in the art of war. I have found,’ said the Duke, ‘that raw troops, however inferior to the old ones in maneuv- ring, are far superior to them in downright hard ﬁghting with the enemy: at Waterloo, the young ensigns and lieutenants, who had never before seen a battle, rushed to the death, as if they had been playing at cricket.’ The Duke says that the Lord's Prayer alone is an evidence of the truth of Christi- anity—so admirable is that prayer accommodated to all our wants. I took the Sacrament with the Duke at Stratlifieldsaye; and nothing could be more stri- kingtlian his unaffected devotion.”

Walter Scott wrote :—“The - race of mankind would perish, did we cease to help each other. From the time that the mother binds the child's head, to the moment that some kind assistance wipes the death damp from the brow of the dying, we can- not exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need it, have a right to ask it of their fellow mortals, and no one who has it in his power to grant it, can re- fuse without incurring guilt.

A Frenchman, anxious to show a fellow-country- man the vigorous style of one of the old poets, trans- lated, “ Hail, horrors, hail,” as follows :—" How do you do, horrors; how do you do?”

“Father, it tells here about illuminated MSS. What were they lighted with?” The father hesi- tated, and H‘ hen the question was repeated, answer- ed d'e’sperntt:ly, “ With the light of other days, my son .’