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POETRY. From the Troy Budget. ATTIC MELODIES, No. 9. From My Garret "Avalanche Home," Ma.

Eritor As I cannot afford to have myself carried about for exhibition, like some other great mon I might mention; I thought it no more than fair, to publish us correct a description of my person as possible in order, that people knowing me when they see mo, may pay mo the respect duo my elovatod station in lifo. 1 am aware, sir, that in bringing myseii so oiten before the nublic. I lav myself open to the charge of egotism but, to be the subject of envy, and slander is one oi mo inconveniences of greatness, which I trust I shall be able to boar with becoming fortitude. MYSELF. I'm five feet six with shoulders square, ,4 EyeB grey, and rather staring My coat is Wuck, the worso for wear, Tho cuffs need some repairing.

My forehead's high, and rather broad My mouth, too large for ben uty. Perhaps you'll say my gait is odd, And 1 will not disputo ye. My vest's liko that worn by Old Grimes (No doubt you recollect it,) They say I wear a frown sometimes, But I cannot detect it. My brows are bhngy, and project My nose, tliomju siiort is striking I never wear nt cks, rucnlleot They are nut to my liking. Like most old men, I'm fund of nows A foe to strife creating 'Tis true I sometimes have tho bluof, But not from dissipating.

I can't eat fish as some folks do, Tho bones are so provoking I tie my hair back in a queue, I'm very fond of smoking. My hose are black, tny breeches blue, My legs are neat, tho' slender, I have to wear a buck-skin shoe, My feet have grown so tender. I'm weak, and troubled with a cough-But think I'm getting stronger, The fur of my hut's all brushed off, I've worn it ten years or longer. I have on ivory headed cane, Varnished, anil polished neatly, Largo watch, with silver key and chain, Which rigs me out completely. I think to take it all in all, Mine's not so bud a figure, Yet I would not object at all, To being something bigger.

MISCELLANEOUS. From Benlley's Miscellany for July. THE DUEL. I was educated, said, a Frenchman whom I met in quarantine, at 1 oitiers. though Lusignan is my native town.

Poitiers is well known to the antiquarian as hiving possessed a Roman amphitheatre, of which however, when 1 was at that university, only a vault, supposed to have bnen a cage for wild beast remain ed. This cage lrom the solidity ot the masonary, and the enormous size ot the blocks, seemed indestructible out was not so when 1 visiteu i oiucrs, and asked for the key of the cavern, 1 found it no longer existed, and that on the site had been constructed the inn ol Trois It is a stone's throw from the Salle cTArmes, a place which I had been better acquainted than with the schools. 10 revive my ancient recollections, I enter ed the salle, and tound mere an innaDii- ant ot the town whom I had known at tho r.ollftrfi. He Dronosed that we should dine torether at the Tt ois Pele rins and after drinking as good a bottle ot wine as it allorded, he related to me what a few days before, in the very room where we was sitting, had happened at a dinner of the collegians. It was ordered for twelve but one of the par-tv havinr invited a friend, the number swelled to thirteen.

It is said that superstition supplies the nlace of relieion. I have observed that to be the case with the most sceptical of my acquaintance, and thus this number thirteen occasioned some remarks, and the stranger was looked upon. with no favorable eye, and considered as a su-Dernumerary who brought with him ill luck. One of tho set at length sunv moned resolution enough to say I do not dine thirteen." Nor F' said anothe Nor was repeated on all sides. The guest, embarrassed at this rudeness, got up and was about to retire, when Alfonso, to whom he came as an umbra, proposed an ingenious expedient for doing away wun me evii augury and said- "There is one way of annulling the nrnvei that threatens death in the nnnrsfi of a vear to one of a party of thirteen the way is to decide which of us shall fight a duel this evening or tomorrow morning." Done 1" cried all the students at a breath.

"Shall it be one among ourselveal said one of them. MAUMEE CITY, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1837. No." replied the author of the prop osition, for then two of us would have to fight, whereas it ought to be the thir teenth." Right," said all tho young men. let it be one of the officers of tho garrison. lie it so, said Aiionsc wo win make a pool as usual, at the cafe' all thirteen ol us.

and The first said a student interrupted Alfonse, 'that would be a bad omen it shall be the winner replied all and they sat down to the table with as much gaiety and insouciance as it nothing had been said. The stranger, just as the soup was be. ing put on the table, got up, and with mysterious tone of voice, addressed the assembly: "Gentlemen," said ho I feel suddenly inspired with a sublime idea. We are nlinnt to eat and drink in tho ruins of Roman greatness, (alluding to the amphitheatre.) Let us imitate that people in every thing that is great. Nothing could bo more splendid than tho games of (he irladiators which were celebrated over tho tombs of the michty dead nothing more sumptuous than the festival held at their funerals.

This probably also a funeral etrt with this difference that it held before not after death. Let Poitiers, therefore rival Rome in her magnificence; let this cena be in honor of the mighty remains over which we I 1 arc sating let it uo moruaro sacreu io him who is about to perish. Bravo I exclaimed the trucsis one and .11 a splendid idea by jovc a splendid cena bo it. Open the windows cried Alfonso. The windows were opened.

As soon the soup was served, smash went all the plates into the yard, and shivered acainst the pavement. So durinjr the rest of the dinner, every plate as fast as it was cleared every bottle as soon as was cmtied lollowed us lellow. One micht preceive by tho practiced dexterity ot this feat that it was not the first time they had played the same game. During the first course nothing particu ar occurred to disturb their harmony but it so happened that the rati, which as you know in ranee al ways served last was burnt. I hen there was a general burst of indignation.

Send tor the exclaimed they all to tho waiters. Order up the cook I Here, cook but the said, cook was tho universal cry chef was not forthcoming. Alfonse, the president then must I go and fetch him 1" This menace had its desired effect the pauvre chef, pale as death, and with cotton cap in hand, crawled into the room. He was greeted with the deaf-nig shouts. "Come here!" said Alfonse.

"Do you take us for the officers What do you mean by serving us in this manner, eh The man of tho spit stammered out an apology. Alfonse looked at him askance. If I served you right," said he, should make you eat this detestable roll of yours; but as it is the first time of hap pening, my chastising shall be a parental one. Hold your cotton cap." Tho cnefobeyed, and Alfonse turned out of a dish into it an enormous clouted cream, (pmelet souffle',) and said come now, on with tho cap, and see you don first spill a He was forced to comply, and the un happy udes, his face and white jacket streaming with the contents of the plat, was lollowed out ot the room with his ses and burst of laughter. Thus went on the dinner, with all its contents of broken plates, dishes, glasses and bottles, accompanied by noises ot all sorts, which rose to fortissimo as the wine, ol which they dranK to excess got into their heads.

The desert, which succeeded the se cond course, was ended by what they called a sallade. This sallade was thus mixed they turned up the four corners of the table cloth, and rolled therein all the- fragments that were left. At this juncture the waiters disappeared, con- lectonng shrewedly thatil they staid any longer, the least might oe too grana ior them. In short, when alt that remained of the desert was bundled well up, the collegians got on the table, and at the great TisTt of cutting their feet with the tragments of the crockery and the splinters of the class, danced thereon, till every thing was pounded, smashed and broken. Then tho table-cloth with all it contained, (the sallade) was thrown out of the window after it the table-then the chairs then the rest of the fur niture, aiid when there was nothing more to destroy, the frienzied they could do no better than throw themselves out and all thirteen followed the Alfonse, and jumped from the first floor into tht court.

1 There is a saving, that 'ovet drunk- I ards watche an especial Providence- But there are, it seems, two for the students, on this occasion, tound one of their own, which, douhtless, befriended them in this mad leap. Certain it is, that none of the party met with the slightest accident and gloriously drunk, they rushed out into the street, after the most remarkable orgie that had taken place for some time at Poitiers. They made a brilliant enlre'e into the cafe' a genoral place of rendez-vous for the students and officers when they were not at daggers drawn. Two of the latter were playing at billiards when they entered; but Alfonse, without waiting Jill the game was ended, asked, or rather demanded in an authoritative tone, that the table should be given up for a single pool to tho thirteen. Thinking that the object was, as usual, to decide who should pay for the dinner, or the demi tasse et chaises, the playeis did not seem inchned to comploy with this requisition but when they learned that a more momentous affair a duel was on foot, they hastened to lay down their cues.

A duel I every thing must yield to that. There were but few military men pre sent, for that very day there was a oi re'e nt the general commandant's of the garrison and those few consisted of veterans, who preferred passing the evening at the cafe' to putting on silk stockings and shoes, or of chenapans, who in the regiment went by the name of crane or lourreaux des cranes. The old gro-guenards, however, did not quit the room. The chenapans interchanged glances with each other; and one or two of the sub-lieutenants, who had come to take their demi tasse before they went to the ball, also remained. They had 1 more or ess formed a shrewed nuoss of what was to happen, and for the hon or of the service, wanted the quarrel to break out.

In our schools and cirrisons at Paris, wc are totally unacquainted with the ts-vril du corps which engages a whole regiment, and an entire body of young men in a duel, when two are only concerned nor can we form any notion how slight a tiling a duel is considered, when it is the custom to decide all ques tions sword in hand. Habit is all in all mid neonlo soon learn to think no more of 1'iTlitinff than to breakfast. It a general endemic and a per son who. lost in the. world of Pans where be is unknown, miffht hesitate about demanding satisfaction for an ia suit, however irfoss, would in that at mospherc, be ready any day, or hour of the day, to call a man out ior mereiy looking at him.

The pool was besun. Never did a party when a large sum of money de-ponded on the issuo of the game, play with more care or caution than those thirteen, to decide which of them was to fight. By degrees the players lost their chances, and their number was at last reduced to two; these two were the stranger guest and Alfonse. Tho looker-on watched anxiously every stroke. Those balls, that, as they rolled, carried with them the fate of a man.

were fol lowed with cai nest looks. 1 he officers came nearer and nearer, and ranged themselves round the billiard, hey were not a little interested to know whether they, or rather one of them which they knew not was to enter the lists with a fresh man, no uouot unprucuueu in fencing, or with the most adroit and terrible duelist of the University. The chances were against them. The stranger lost. A singular excitement was occasion ed by the disappearance of the last ball in the pocket.

Some faces grew pale, but no one stired irom me spot wnero nu had been standing as a spectator. Al-fnnso looked steadily around him, and made two or three times the circuit of tho room, as though he were in search, but in vain, of some one worth quarrel ling with. At last he perceived a sort of sub-lieutenant. originally drum-major and maitre d'armes, and who boasted of having killed his thirty pequins, sitting nuintlv in a corner. Alfonse walked straight un to him, and saluting with a politeness that electrified tho company, said in his cooi way Monsieur, I am exceedingly distres' sed at the situation in which I find my self placed but my honor is concerned, and you will allow me to engage yours." Without further preliminaries he gave him a nit in the lace.

The officer little expected so abrupt and unanswerable mode of provocation, sprang like a madman from his chair and had not Alfonse, with the activity and nimbleness of a leap with one bound on the table, the ex-drum-major would probably have strangled him on the spot. He was quickly at his aggressor's heels, his own comrades stopped him ot their own accord, savins-- Come, come no child's play or box ing tho tmtix is too senout 1 est un combat a la iorlI" Number 2C. Where shall 1 find you to-morrow said one of the officers, addressing Alfonse. Fix your ground was the reply. No to-morrow said the officer who had received the blow this instant This instant be it, if you please," replied Alfonso with the utmost indifference.

I shall not sleep to-night until the blow is avenged 1" said the other, foaming with rage. I too, want to un-numb my hand. 1 have hurt my- knuckles against your cheek-bones," said Alfonse. Where would they fight at such a time of night as this observed some of the officers. In the garden, behind the cafe', cried the ancient maUn d'armes a sword in one hand and a billiard lamp in the other." "But." said Alfonse, I am tired.

I know your style of fighting men. Crane you want to make me break ground, and drive mo step by step round the garden. Don't think it, my lad. Besides the lamp may go out. But if you have no objections, the billiard tablo will be a good arena.

We shall be well lighted, and there will be no means oi drawing back a foot." Be it so," said the other. The doors were closed, and they laid hand on the waiters and the proprietor of the cafe', who were a going to 'lie police. The swords were then brought. The two adversaries cast lots for them, and then pulled offthcir coats and waist-coals, and unbuttoned their shirts to show that there was nothing under. Both then took their swords.

The officer wrapped round his hand a handkerchief, leaving both ends dang ling. Alfonse neglected this practice, the obieet of which was to distract the attention of the adversary by the perpe tual flutter of their two white points thus to turn away his attention from the sword. But Allonsc had a manner ol fighting of his own, and cared little for those pretty proceedings. He ncvci looked at the steel but fixing his eye on that of his antagonist, anticipated every motion that he made. The two wrestlers, or gladiators, 1 might say, got on tho table together, and according to the terms or conditions a- arced on between the students uuu tnc officers, wrostod tlioir swords on the toes of their boots.

A traveller from a commercial house who happened to be present, and could have no interest in the scene, other than what its novelty excited, was fixed on to clap his hands three tunes, and tnc nurd mo sworua wuiu upraised in the air, and the two combat ants came to cuard. A terrible silence reigned inrougnoiu the room, and for some seconds it was only broken by the clashing of the steel for both parties, as tney siurmisiieu, were well aware that a single faux pas was death. The slighest stepping back, shrinking of the body, or leaping on one side, must inevitably prove fatal. The officer was a head and shoulder mllnr than Alfonse, and looked as thougl ho could crush him but he little heed ed this advantage, it advantage it was, fnr ho hv rleo-rces owered his body tin lin wn rifht under the sword of his foe, and almost bent himself down upon the bed of the table. No other change in his attitude then took place.

AH at once the officer, this pos ture for the effect of fear, made a furious lnno-i which was named with the great pat sang- froid and skill, and Alfonse al lowed the otneer to return to ins gi uunu without nttemntinff to return. His ad. versary was deceived by this sort of ti mid defence, and become more adven tniw.ia. Hacked him aeain with increas ed fury so much so, that, thrown off his guard, his foot quitted the cushion of the table, against wnicn imu utcu Thnn it was that Allonse maae i rapid lunge at the officer's lace, "een-deavorcd to regain the ground he had lost, to resume his position. The student would not give him time, and charged with impetuosity his disconcerted nnPmv.

who could only avoid his thrust by keeping his bony oeni uuwaiuS. Alfnnsfi forced him to the edge of the table, when his foot tripped, and at that moment drove the sword up to the hilt in his heart. The unhappy officer cried out" Hit 1 hit then he raised himself to his full height, and fell backwards from the top of the table to tho floor, Awful was the sound the weight of that body made upon the boards ot me room 1 There was mixed up with it a feeling-a dread lest the dead man should hurl himself in falling. Never did I see, for I wag present'; "so dreadful a contest Never lid I experience any thing so frightful as the silence of those two men as the flashing of their swords by the light of tho lamps-s the fall of the i van-quished, who, disappearing behind the table, seemed at once to have been en-jrulfed in a tomb that opened from behind to receivo him I A Fox Stouy-No Hoax. On Tuesday morning last, Mr.

John McPherson, residing in tho vicinity of this Tillage, was greeted by tho barking of a fox a short step in the woods. After-calling his dog, he proceeded with him to the spot When within a short distance, he espied a red fox barking up a tree, in the open woods- and hissing his dog, thought to enjoy tome sport The dog ran at full speed to the root of the tree, the fox in the mean time making much a-do by barking up it. But the dog instead of attacking the fox, fell in with him, and he too barked up the tree. The master of the dog having in vain tried to set him on the fox, and his curiosity at length being drawn to the discovery of what kinds of game was up the tree soon found it to be a house cat which had taken refuge there from the fox, and that cunning animal, the fox, (by its native instinct nd doubt) had completely succeeded in rir-iting the dog's attention to tt.e cat on the tree, as the only means of saving hi hide, as an of tho dog in such a place would leave him but little chance to escape. Soon however, the cat leaped from the tree, when it was seized by the dog, tho operation of dispatching it was witnessed by the fox, although not per-, mitted to take part, on account of the dexterity with which Mr.

McP. handled a huge club. Reynard, however, did not wait to see the last of the cat; he knew a thing worth two of that, for he gave himself sufficient time to make a safe re- treat while tho with grimalkin. ocrat. dog was "till engaged Clearfield (Pa.) Dem- A busy Day.

A profligate youtlg fellow, tho son of a lawyer of some eminence, in Rhode Island, on a certain mimtf-r H.iv nurr.liasod a horSO of 8D i innocent larmer. Engaged to pay- tor it the next inspection ony, gave a note but instead of inspection lie inserted resurrection, making it payable on tho resurrection day 1 When the next inspection day had and the farmer unsuspicious of the trick, sup posed tho note to be due, ho cauea on the young man for payment. The latter expressed great astonishment that ho should call upon him before the note was out. tui it is out you prumisui to pay the next inspection day the time has come, I want my money." If you look at the note again," said the young man coolly, 'you will find that it i mi vnf flip fnrmpr was sure that the note was due, or ought to be but on spelling it over careful ly, he found to his astonishment that it was not due until the rosurrcction uay. He remonstrated with tho young scape, i.

i r. 1 grace, but all to no purpose mm hum- ly laid tho case bciore nis lamer ine inv-yor. Tho lawyer took his nn aside and told him he had better settle the affair at onco 'for' said he, though the pay day is fur off, you bid fair to have business enough on your hands that day without having notes to settle." The advice was taken. Plough lioy. From the Albany Cultivator, Miy, 1830; J.

Duel, Esq. Sir. I send you inclo sed, a small sample ot Italian apnng Wheat. This Bample is taken irotn a few vcars since and r11 r.r.- is part or tho four years crops since the introduction of tho original importation. The seed was brought to thi country in 1832, by Signor J.

B. J. Cax-bonai, from the city of Florence, in Italy. Tho cask was sold lor charges; i bought it, finding it a heavy and beauty ful grain, prevailed with several oi our farmers to sow it. The result Was most gratifying.

Sowed side and side.with our country spring wheat, it exceeded it two feet in height, standing on ther "round, and yielded double the quantity weighing 03 lbs. to the bushel. It haa succeeded well every year since, producing from 25 to 35 bushels to the acre, gro'ws well on every variety of soil on which it has been sown. Very few of our farmers will now sow winter wheat, finding this wheat a sure crop. Your obedient servant, Jay IIatuawas.

Rome, N. Y. 24th March, 1836. A letter from tho same place, dated Juno 9, says, the Italian spring wheat looks finely-, it is a heavy grain, often weighing G3 lbs. to the bushel; makes handsome and good flour, is a white chaff bearded wheat, standing three feet on tlie ground, four feet.

From 20 to 30 bushels per acre was ob-' taincd last year, according to soil and sufficient in heart to UUl LUlVl. bring good oats, will bring a tine crop oi. this wheat. The millers speak well of it, and it makes sweet and good bread. Mr.

Buel, tho editor of tho Cultivator', inanswerto various inquiries, says The .1 in ft.a.l ranllfA Italian spring wucuna 6,.. in Oneida county. It is in great demand, and has been purchased up at three dollars per bushel. Thorburn, the seedsman, has obtained a few bushels at an expense of about 84 50, and sells it al $5-. Mr.

Pierce, the "gentleman wlto com- municates these facts, is in Philadelphia wtih samples of the wheat for sale Ship Europe, of Bath, from Liverpool, with 217 passengers, put into, Amboy last weeic, out was reiuseu i land them there, and hud to proceed to Now York. 1.