Northern Spectator from Poultney, Vermont • 1

Vol. HI. No. 51. Whole No.

217. From the New-York Mirror. ZAMIRE. a final parting? Oh, no! Zamire felt they could not! She felt too all the longing for life, that her young breast yet cherished, but she repined not, she was aware how little it would avail. Northern spectator, StfBlISliED BV MAI.LARY, HOSFORD CO.

TpoiN.tiK,VT. JNSEL W.1UREN, Printer: 'How many strings had "it? Must headless before him. If the French one play with both hands? and could I people had possessed but one neck, he one play the double bass would have been its Caligula. There I know not whether it would play was a time when she might have feared double bass, as you call it, but it was he would be left the last rhau in Paris, played both hands, and had two The guillotine spared hinr only because Beautiful is the Palm on the banks of the Cannes, and sweet are the china It is a cruel custom that consigns to mon groves that spread their fragrance on ttje water; dear is the crystal that strings." 1 he was a part ol it. Yet his conscience 1 w6 'strincs only surely you are i was at "ease.

He went to the opera re glides beneath their odour, and the briuht beams of Hesperus shed snlen eternity the uniortunate widows of the Hindoos, who are thus cut off in their prime, for the sole object 6f parade and ostentation a circumstance consequent on their barbarous belief, that women jecting: how could good music be pro-' gularly, qnd slept each night well. dour oVer the landscape but desolate Enq, ftrrma. Price Two Dollar 'a year. Subscriber! who lire une mile or wore from tho post route will be charged but $1,75. i'ayablo in grain, delivered hero, or ut specirieil depositories, before the close M'tlio subscription yeur; if not delivered before tho close of the subscription year, nothing will hi! received in payment but CWi.

UjFor every three months lelay of payment after it becomes due, 25 cents will be added. tfu pmiers discontinued until all arrearages ire paid, except at thn dincrntion of the publinhrrs. duced by such an instrument, when the piano has two or three hundred is, the heart of the widow, as she weeps over the body ot her young barendai. have no souls. Rich in nature's fairest Ue nam "one forth on the morning to gifts, teeming with luxury and magnili cencc yet how debased is the mind the chase, strong as the forest's monarch, and "blithe as the young stag that strays over the hills of Aranaut; and that would deprive another of what Two Faults.

A gentleman once" bought a horse of a country Now, my friend," said he, I have bought your' horse because I liked his appearance. 1 asked you no questions. Tell me now his faults, you know I have paid you therefore you have nothing to fear." Faults," replied the Oh, the strings were very long, one of them about 14 feet, and the other might be lengthened at pleasure, even to fifty or What a prodigious deal of room it must take op, but no matter, I will have mine in thts old hall, and papa irmy have an addition built to it, for he says I shall lievrr want fnr nnv thino- anil ui lnrc ciiiuy. The priests were gathered round the bter, and lofty chaunting proclaimed CHR18TMA3 TIMES. FaOV THE CHARLESTON UERCCBT.

Accoun tufa visit from St. Mcholcu, or Sante Clam. that the moment for placm; the body man, 11 1 know of no faults except two." on the pile had arrived. Iu solemn si lence it was raised on the 'tomb 5 Zami hy, sir, he's mama. Were the strings Btruck with "What are they little mallets like the piano, or wtre cat.c,1? not mind that," re too was there she looked in her now iikc uie stag too nad tne unwearied hunter met him, the envenomed shaft had touched his heart, and the young Zamire was weeping.

Sarendal and Zamire had been married about a year. One morning he prepared. himself together with a company of friends for hunting the object of their chase was particular a ferocious boar had infested the neighborhood for some time, and they sallied forth to extirpate him. The wild boar lost Sarendal's face for the last time they snapped like a harpsichord said he, if he be the devil. But what is the other fault rejoined he, with iict inotiiimAha Like neither of I IPO nnifnnf fC iv.ittjva ws 'i was tne uigtit Deiore Christinas, when all thro' the house.

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse The stocliiugs were hung by the chimney with care, In hope that St. Nicholas sonn would be there. The children were netted all mag in their bed, While visionsof su'gar-pluius daue'd lit their beads, And Mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a loug winter's and wept Iheu she dried her tears and was calm. The multitude that stood in anxious gazing over the scene, began first to wave and totter, then loud shouts iiiucu mail UllJViUj as I recollect, but it produced a soft kind of humming music, and was peculiarly agreeable to the husband and relations of the Oh, as to pleasing one's husband or relations, that is all Dicky in the Haut- and the clear trumpet's call were heard mixing their clamorous fury through the hunt is always attended with much difficulty, and great danger hence the ardour ith which the young men en- air. Zamire was forgotten amid the rush of soldiers, and the clamr of arms Arungzebe had come, his troops had ton, you know but I am determined lo have one at any rate.

Was it easily learnt, and was it taught by French or Italian masters forced the walls, and rushed in madden gage in W. Sarendal and his party had succeeded in forcing the boar from his retreat the chase was a long one, and there were but few whose ardour could some impatience." Ah sir," replied Hodge, scratching his pate, he is good for nothing when you have catched him!" JVonde'rful. There was exhibited, a few weeks ago, in a boat at the market-street lauding place, Steubenville, the bones of a nondescript animal, one of which is 20 feet in 3 in widta, and weighs upwards of twelve hundred pounds. The back bone is 16 inches in diameter, and the rib's are 9 feet in length; It is calculated from the size of the bones that the animal, when living, must have been about fifty feet in length, 20 to 25 feet in width, and a-bout 20 feet bright, and that it must have weighed at least 20 tons. These ing anger through the town; neithe It was easily learnt, but Frenchmen age nor condition could save all was one scene of blood and carnaire.

Omar keep pace with that of the young hunt nup When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, 1 sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. A way to the window 1 flow like a flash, Tore open the shutters, and throw up the sash. The moon on the breust of tho new fallen snow, Gave the lustre of to objects below When, what to my woudering eyes should appear, But a immature sleigh, and eight tiny reio-ilccr, With a littia old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must he St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came.

And he whist'ed, and shouted, and called them by name "Now, Dasher now, Dancer! now, Piaucer! and Vixen. 41 On Comet, on Cupid, on Duodt ontl Blixen; "To the top of the porch (6 the top of the wall! "Now dnshliway! dash away! dash uwiiy'all As dry leaves before the wild huiTicabe fly. and Italians scarcely dared to show cr he soon found himself foremost, and goading his horse to his might, came their heads in our country iu those times." Ali, the son of the conquering chief, had led his division to the quarters where within reach of his object; he launched Can you possibly remember the the pile ol barendai now stood, desert ft lavclirr at him, which pierced the am ed by all but his nearest kindred, who name How shall we know what to inquire remained to watch around it; affriiiht mal, but not effectually the inlunatcd beast seeing himself debarred from all les, 1 now remember the name, ed at the approach of the enemy, they escape, turned upon Sarendal, who was and you must inquire for a spi.vm.ng would have hYd, C3rrvuig Zamire wttl jet alone. The intrepid youth sprang wheel them, having hrst set fire to the pile but they were, pursued and overtaken i profligate Pig. On Tuesday, a per The beautiful young captive was re lea scd from one fate, to meet, as she ex irotn hi3 horse, which the boar had goaded, and maintained his ground with his sword, hoping the arrival of his Triends vet they came not.

Exhausted and faint from bis constant efforts, son living in Maidstone, left home with his family, to pick hops. Being afraid that the pig, in the sty, might be stolen, more dreadful. Brought into the1 presence of Omar, the oung chief flushed with victory, felt his heart swell with ecstasy at the sight of his he sunk to the ground, and became the they transferred him to the cellar. At ler some time, piggy contrived to as prey of the ferocious brute. When they meet with an lo the sky; So up to the house-top the coursers they flew.

With the sleigh full of toys and St. Nicholas loo. And then, in a twinkling, heard cm the roof, The prancing and pawing of each little hoof As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St.Nicholascame with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head lo his foot. Ami his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and out A bundle of toys was flung an his buck, And hs lookM like A ped'iir juft opening his pack; IJis eyes how they tw.nk;cd: his diuipliis' how merry, His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry His droll little mouth was drawu up like a bow.

And the beard of his chin ws as white as the snow; Tin stump of a pipe he held light iu his teeth. Arid the smok it ncirclfd his head a wreath, lie had a broad face, and a little round belly. bones were found near the Mississippi river, in (we believe,) Louisiana, and form the greatest natural curiosity that wc ever beheld. This animal must have as far transcended the mammoth in size, as the mammoth a common sized bull-dog. Herald.

The following is related as a Chinese jest A woman, surprised by her hus-band, had just time to hide her gallant in a sack, and set him up against the wall. The man, coming in, asks, What is there in this sack The woman, takcu suddenly, is hesitates moment (or an answer. The L'allant afraid she would blunder. In the mean timfe, his friends who had missed him, and taken another route, prize he gave directions for her safe ty, and prepared to visit her the mo cend into the kitchen, and inspected the Cupboard in that he found about two pounds of bacon, which, in a most ment Hint the commotion had subsrded were searching the forest in every direction their endeavours were lor a cannibal-like manner, he devoured. Benares was now subject to the long time unsuccessful at length his His repast soon making him thirsty, our haughty Arungzebe.

The stately paco iero, it is supposed, sought about for das were levelled to make room for the something to allay his thirst, and, in more graceful, but les magnificent the course of his researches, he smelt structures of Moslem worship. The something savory in the upper regions ancient sent of Brahmin literature be calls out from the inside of the sack, Nothing but rice." mangled body was found. Itswcre impossible to describe their horror on seeing the boar, which was yet alive, but Unable to move from his wounds, gazing on the dead Sarendal tit ice flashes darted from his eyes on seeing the intruders on his deadly least they, however, quickly despatched him, and bearing the body on a palanquin of branches Accordingly he scrambled up stairs into came the capital of a Mahomedan but a bed-room, there he found where That shook, whoa he laughed, like a bowl lull of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf. And I laush'd when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread lie spoke not a word.but went straight lo his work, And iill'd ull the stockings then turned, with a with to wash down the bacon, for on The World.

The world is like a vast there was one advantage resulting from his sway the severest penalties were inflicted on those who burned the wives the floor stood Several bottles of elder sea mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. Our prudence berry wine. Draw ing of corks" he of the departed. Thus arresting in its did not understand but, in cracking headlong career the horrid practice of And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, ill) the chimney he rore. a bottle," he proved himself to be as numan incarceration.

Ha sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, dexterous as any bonviranl in the pa Lve is of so singular a nature, that And aWay they ail flew like the down of a thistle: selves us for sails the sciences for oars. Good and bad fortune are the favorable orKlontiary winds, aud judgment is the rudder. Without this last, the vessel is tossed by every billow, and will find shipwreck in every breeze. risn. is ut ms ireaK now drew to a But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight although we may adore an object while in our possession, the moment it is lost and leaves, entered the city in mourning and silence.

Who will attempt to describe the distraction of the fond and loving Zamire, On seeing the object of her tendcrest affection snntched suddenly from her bosom 1 Who, that has not felt an affliction as severe, can even conceive her emotions? and then the dreadful cl osc poor piticy uot as drunk as Da- vid's sow;" he capered about, threw our lecltngs will seek out some new be ing, lor the exercise of their recinroci down the chairs, upset a certain utensil, broke the wash Uisin, aild swallow A pretty kiddle." will consent to ty. So was it with Zamire the young ed tho soap. The last performance and noble Dinar, her generous preserv all you desire," said a young female to her lover, on coudition thiit you give proved the cause of great alarm to the er, had renewed in her breast the pas sion which had Ueforc existed for Sa me what you have not, what you never neighborhood for, in the gaiety of his certainty that she too must die must die to-morrow on her husband's funeral pile were to be burned all her sorrows, aye, and all her joys for Zamire can have, and yet what you can give." irart, he got up on his hind legs, and, rcndal. He olleted her her freedom, hat did she ask him tor husband. with his snout all Over soap suds, and and with it his hand still forcing her us masters night-cap on his head, look in uothing, he left all to her choice- ABStRlCT OF ThC RETORT OF THE SECRt- ed out of the window, for the benefit of Mow could she hesitate Should she was passing young, and beautiluf as (lie new rose-leaf just bursting from the bud; still it was the law of Drahniah; her mother had abided it, and the ap the air; Being dbserved, a great out OF THE NAVY.

By the acts of Congress of 2nd June, "Happy Christmas lo all. and to allaguud night. Frtm the Monthly and European Magazine. TIME'S CHANCES. There was a child, a helpless child, Full of.

vain fears and faocies wild, That often wept, and sometimes suiil'J, Upon its mother's breast Feebly its meanings stammered out. And tottered tremblingly about. And knew no wider world Without Its little home of rest. There was a boy, a light-heart boy, One whom no troubles could annoy, Save some lost sport, or shattered toy Forgotten in an hour No dark remembrance troubled bint, No future four his path could liut joy before his eyes ould swim, And hope rise like a tower. There was a youth, an ardent youth, Full of high promise, courage, truth, He felt no scathe, he knew no ruth.

Save love's sweet wounds alone lie thought but of two soft blue eyer, He sought no gain but beauty's prize, And sweeter held love's saddest sighs I'hnn mn.t.lf. fi 1 cry was raised, and it was quickly ru leave him, she had no place of refuge, no friends to cherish hsr, for they would loathe the sidit of her who had 1813, and April 29, 1816, twelve ships mored that there was a hiaa pig, ocm- were ordered to be built of not less than 74 chilis each, and fifteen ship of 44. feared to die. ing at the motith, looking out of a chamber window in Carey-street and the tipsy porker, by all accounts, certainly had a very aueer look. It was propo Of the former, seven have been launched, and five are at different stages of construc Omar and Zamire were married and in the bliss of their lives proved, that tion.

UI the 44 8, one was burnt cu tho sed to shoot him, to prevent further stocks at Washington in 1814, four have happiness is not alone 111 wealth and Splendour, but in the union of hearts that feel each other's pleasure, and palling infliction must be undergone. There was no hope for Zamire as well might the rainbow kiss her cheek as she dream of deliverance. Cruel fate! to be thus snatched from life in its bud, and torn from its felicities at the mere tasting; Benares was at this time besieged by the proud Moslem Arungzebe. It was already reduced to the last extremity repeated attacks had weakened its Walls, and the imperious Juggernaut mischief but, alter much pro and con. resolute man went up, and by a little sympathize with their woes kilful manoeuvcring popped poor fuggy into a poke, broujht him safely down.

nd he was deposited in his sty, with ihuw wiuumuai win. A FRAGMENT. FOR TIIK LAPIKS. Thy grandmother," said thy uncle Toby, addressing himself to young Arabella, just from Loudon, and who was out other damage to himself than being tottered in his sumptuous pagoda. The little the Worse fur Unuor.lbngLsk day, however, for the burning of Saren pdptr.

dal's body, and the incarceration of his playing the battle of Marengo, on the beautiful widow was at hand friends piano tiiy grandmother, child," said Jos. Smsoiri, the celebrated French been launched, seven are on the stocks, and the frames of the other three have been contracted for. Ten millions and a half have been at different periods appropriated, to defray the expense and $000,000 remain on hand, no ncsf appropriation will be requi- red this year. VVhen all the ships ordered shall be completed, the navy will con-tairt 12 Ships of.be line, (beside Son Lake Ontario,) 17 frigates of the first class, 3 of the second, t.c steam -frigate Fulton, 16 sloop's of war, 4 schooners of 1 2 fcuns, and 3 receiving ships. Since the report of last year, four of the sloopr of war have been laurtheil, three of which are at sea.

The rest have been retarded by the contractors, but will all be launched next year. Kurch 9th, 1814, $500,000 were appropriated to build one or more Floating Balteries, which was partly arVphed to the executioner before and during the re volution, died last month at ans. It and relations were gathered around her, he, used to play on a much better in-but she heeded them not she thought strument than thine." of her first love, of the blue Ganges, 4 said Arabella, how could and the bright lamp decorated with jas- it have been better you know it is the mine and orange flowers, that floated most fashionable instrument, and is u-dowo the stream, to tell him of his hones scd bv everv bod that is anv was he wh6 guillotined Louis Marie Antoinette, and by a singular rctri- butiveness, Conthon, Brissot, Robespi erre, and other chicls ot the revolution. Marcicr once Called him the President and cheer him in his solitude but Sa- Your grandmother was something, rendal was gone, and the lamp was ex-1 yet she never saw a piano forte." tinguished and the flowers were faded 1 But What was the name of the in- of the Grand Bulchtry of the Human Race. For the last twenty-five years There was a man, a wary man, Whose bosom nurs'd full many a plan For making life's contracted span A lath of gain and gold And how to sow, and how to reap, And how to swell his shining heap, And how tho wealth acquired to keep Sector within its fold.

There was an old, old, grey-haired one. On had fourscore winter done Their work appointed, and had spun His thread of life so fine. That scarce its thin line could be soA, And with the slightest touch, I Ween, Twoold as it had never been. And leave behind no sign. And who were they, those five, whom late Seemed as strange cnotraa to create.

That each might in hu different state The other's pathwavs shun I tell thee that that infant rain. That boy, that youth, that nao of gain, That grey-hcanl, who did roads attain ho variuus tfirg tctrt ane. II. 3 Ejigraa on a Lmy srAe beat her Husband. Come hither, Sir John, my picture here V'iai think you my lore, don't it strike you? I an't say it lw, jusl at present, any dear, Sal think it toon trill, it's te like 700.

'twas her heart only was left to feel strument? Had it strings, and was tt the agony or separation no wailings played by keys 7' did she utter, neither shed she a tear, You must give me time to recollect but with hands clasped, and eyes rivet-' the name it was indeed a stringed in-ted, she stared in vacancy and abcrra-' strument but was plaved by the hand." he enjoyed a periston from government, and led a very exemplary hfe. He wa4 sixty years old when he died. The character and conduct of this man is a fit subject for reflection. He spilt more aristocratic blood than any other human being. Like Death prime minister he was, all ranks and a- Fulton.

The law of April, 1816, also authorized the purchase of steam engines, inc. lo equip three steam batteries for tho ports and harbours. Three frames have been procured, wittt two engines and a part of a third but as maoy improvements have eince been made in steam en tion over the scene. By the hand alone How vulgar; The hour was come. Hizh reared but I protest I should like to sec one, its head the grand funeral pile cinna- and papa shall buy me one when I re' think thjtines were alike to him.

The king aud mon ana myrrn, me ivmon tree and the i turn to Lrf)ncon. uo you gines, it may be thought proper to obtain the beggar, the coward and the other. Tfca Secretary speaks hurhlv of we can obtain one citron spread their fragrance around it 1 No, you will not probably find one were alike to him. Youth, beauty, vir- a vtem of defence by steam vessels, for but can all these ease a heart that is sad? can they take from the soul that in London, but doubtless they may be jtue, talents, as well as age, vice, ugli- which he considered the form of our coast for the last time see them, the agony of found in some of the country tons," 'ncfs and stupidity, fell prostrate aad as pvcnliariy fitted by nature..