erences in the margin; and will, moreover, ask you whether you have studied that modern art of book-keeping' which has superseded the Italian Method,' namely, of never returning the books you borrow.

He has a very ingenious mode of putting names and significations on what he calls the brain rack, and dislocating their joints into words: thus tortured and broken into pieces, Themistocles loses his quality, but increases quantity, and becomes the Miss Tokeleys; the Cyclades, by the same disorder, become sick ladies; a delectable enjoyment' is a deal-legged table pleasure, &c. &c., pun without end. These are what he denominates punlings.

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humor, or goodness of any kind, the same silent conclusion to a noiseless life, I shake his and their hands; and, while the journey lasts may they have May for their weather, and as many flowers for the roadside as Flora can afford to those who will stoop for them; and inns of plenteousness and joy, at which to sojourn, &c, &c. Posthumous Papers.

MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED.
Greenwood.

It is a sad thing to feel that we must die away from home. Tell not the invalid who is yearing after his distant country, that the atmosphere around him is soft; that the gales are filled with balm, and the flowers are spring

For his puns, they fall as thick from him as leaves from autumn bowers. Indeed, he talked, some time since, of petitioning for the officeing from the green earth; he knows that the of pun-purveyor to his Majesty; but ere he had written and your petitioner shall ever' pun, it was bestowed on the yeoman of the guard. He still, however, talks of opening business as pun-wright in general to his Majesty's subjects, for the diffusion of that pleasant small ware of wit; and intends to advertise puns wholesale, retail, and for exportation.

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His wit is what he describes the true wit to be it is brilliant and playful as a fencing foil; it is as pointed too, and yet it hurts not; it is as quick at a parry, and as harmless at a thrust. But it were a vanity in me to attempt to portray my humorous friend, so that all who run may know him. His likeness cannot be taken you might as well hope to paint the chamelion of yesterday by the chamelion of today; or ask it as a particular favor of a flash of lightning to sit for half an hour for a whole length portrait; or Proteus to stand while you chisselled out a personification of Immutability. He is even-changing, and yet never changed. I cannot reflect back, by my dim mirror, the flashings and out-breakings of his fiery mind,' when he is in what he terms' excellent fooling' (but it is, to my thinking, true wisdom;) sparkle follows sparkle, as spark followed spark from the well-be-thumped anvil of patten-footed Vulcan. I give up the attempt.

This is the humorous, and therefore happy man. Dost envy him, thou with the rugged brow, and pale, dejected cheek? When fortune frowns at thee, do thou laugh at her: it is like laughing at the threatenings of a bully, it makes her think less of her power over thee. Wouldst thou be such a man, singlehearted selfishness, who hast no sympathy with the suffering, no smile with the happy? Feel less for thyself, and more for others, and the happiness of others shall make thee happy.

As he has walked up the hill of life with an equal pace, and without any breathless impatience for, or fear of, the prospect beyond, and the journey has been gentle and serene, so, I have no doubt will be the end of it.Wishing him, and all who contribute to the happiness of their fellow-men, either by good

softest air to his heart would be the air of his native land; that more greatful than all the gales of the south, would breathe the low whispers of anxious affection; that the very icicles clinging to his own eaves, and the snow beating against his own windows, would be far more pleasant to his eyes, than the bloom and verdure which only more forcibly remind him how far he is from that one spot which is dearer to him than all the world beside. He may indeed, find estimable friends, who will do all in their power to promote his comfort and assuage his pains; but they cannot supply the place of the long known and long loved; they cannot read as in a book the mute language of his face; they have not learned to wait upon his habits, and anticipate his wants, and he has not learned to communicate, without hesitation, all his wishes, impressions,and thoughts to them. He feels that he is a stranger; and a more desolate feeling than that could not visit his soul; how much is expressed by that form of oriental benediction, May we die among our kindred.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

CHARLES CARROLL, The only remaining signer of the Declaration of Independence.

CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrolton, was born at Annapolis, Maryland,on the 20th of September, 1737, almost ninety one years since. In 1745, then eight years old, he was taken to the college of English Jesuits at St. Omer's to be educated. Here he remained for six years, and left it to pursue his studies at a college of French Jesuits, at Rheims. After staying one year at Rheims, he was sent to the college of Louis Le Grand. After two years he went to Bourges to study the civil law, and after remaining there one year, returned to college at Paris, where he continued two years, when he went to London, and took apartments, and commenced the study of the law in the temple. He returned to America in 1764. In 1768, he was married to Mary Darnell. He soon took a part in defence of the colonies against the

claims of the mother country, with his pen.-
In 1770 and '71 he wrote several articles un-
der the signature of "The First Citizen," a-
gainst the right of the Governor to regulate
fees by proclamation, which gained him the
applause and thanks of his fellow citizens. In
1771 or 72 in conversation with Judge Chase,
the latter remarked, "Carroll, we have the
better of our opponents-we have completely
written them down." "And do you think,"
Carroll replied, "that writing will settle the
question between us?" "To be sure," repli-
ed Chase," what else can we resort to?"
"The bayonet," was the answer.
"Our ar.
guments only will raise the feelings of the
people to that pitch when open war will be
looked to as the arbiter of the dispute."

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pointed a Commissioner, with Dr. Franklin and Judge Chase, to proceed to Canada and induce the inhabitants of that country to unite with us. His brother, the venerable Catholic Archbishop, accompanied them on this impor tant service. He returned from Canada in June, 1776, and on the 12th presented their report. He found the Declaration of Independence under discussion, and the delegate of his state shackled by instructions (given the December previous, and against which he had then contended) "to disavow, in the most solemn manner, all design in the Colonies of Independence." On his return he hastened to Annapolis, to resume his seat, and procure, if possible, a withdrawal of these instructions. He and Judge Chase labored with so much success, that, on the 28th of June, the instructions were withdrawn and the delegates authorized to join in a Declaration of Independence.

On the 4th of July, 1776, he was appointed a delegate to Congress, and on the 2d of Aug. when this instrument was first signed, he was one of the earliest signers. No one was more willing to sign, and when he subscribed, a member standing by, said; "There go a few millions." No one risked more property, if so much, as Mr. Carroll, as he was, probably, the richest man in the United States. Mr. Carroll took his seat on the 18th of July, and was soon placed on the board of War. In the latter part of 1776, he was one of the committee to draft the constitution of Maryland. In December, 1776, he was chosen to the Senate under the constitution of the State. In 1777, he was re-appointed a delegate to Congress.-In 1781 and in 1782 he was re-elected to the Senate of Maryland, and in 1783 a Senator to the United States. In 1797 he was again e

Some years hefore the commencement of hostilities, Mr. Graves, Member of Parliament, and brother of the Admiral, wrote to Mr. Carroll on the subject of our difficulties, ridiculed the idea of our resistance, and said that six thousand English troops would march from one end of the continent to the other. "So they may," said Carroll in his reply, "but they will be masters of the spot only on which they encamp. They will find naught but enemies before them. If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to our mountains, and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until tired of combatting in vain,against a spirit which victory after victory, connot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. No, Sir, we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilt, we have no doubt of our ultimate success." When the tea was imported into Annapolis,||lected to the Senate of Maryland, and in 1799 great excitement prevailed, and Mr. Stewart, the owner, was threatened with personal violence; his friends called on Mr. Carroll to use his influence to protect him. Mr. Carroll said to them, "it will not do, gentlemen, to export the tea to Europe or the West Indies. Its importation, contrary to the known regulations of the Convention, is an offence for which the people will not be so easily satisfied; and whatever may be my personal esteem for Mr. Stewart, and my wish to prevent violence, it will not be in my power to protect him, unless he consents to pursue a more decisive course of conduct. My advice is, that he set fire to the vessel and burn her, together with the tea she contains, to the water's edge." Stewart then appeared and assented to the proposition, and in a few hours the brigantine Peggy, with her sails set and her colors flying, was enveloped in flames, and the immense crowd, then collected, was perfectly satisfied. In 1775 he was chosen a member of the first committee of Observation, that was established at Annapolis; and the same year he was elected a delegate in the Provincial Convention. In February, 1776, he was ap

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he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Carroll's Grandfather emigrated from Ireland; and in 1825 his granddaughter was married to the Marquis of Wel-lesley, then Viceroy of Ireland. And it is a singular circumstance, that one hundred and forty years after the first emigration of her ancestors to America, this lady should become vice queen of the country from which they had fled, at the summit of a system, which a more immediate ancestor had risked every thing to destroy; or, in the energetic and poetical language of the Bishop of England, "That in the land from which his father's father fled in fear, his daughter's daughter now reigns a queen.”

HUMOUROUS.

Two NEGATIVES MAKE A POSITIVE.-Mr. Pitt was remarkable for giving his opinions with great positiveness. At a Cabinet dinner he was expatiating on the beauty of the Latin language, and, as an argument in favor of the superiority which he affirmed it had over the English, he said two negatives made a thing

more positive than one affirmative possibly || es, lumber &c. Nine head of dead cat could do. "Ah, then," said Lord Thurlow, 66 your father and mother must have been two

Orleans, of the 13th ult. states, "One of our A most horrid murder has been committed finest Tow Boats, the Grampus, was rendered in Giles County, (Tenn.) Two young ladies a complete wreck yesterday morning, by the bursting of her boilers. She was towing up were the victims. "It seems the murderer and four vessels, one of which lost her topmasts the father of the ill fated girls were engaged and spars, and another was much injured.—in a law suit-they were the most material Not a vestige of either of her six boilers was to be found after the accident. Seven men were killed, five missing, (supposed to have been knocked overboard,) and four wounded. The commander, Captain Morrison, was not injured."

The tower of Babel, says a recent traveller in the east, now presents the appearance of a large mound or hill, with a castle on the top, in mounting to which, the traveller now and then discovers, through the light sandy soil, that he is treading on a vast heap of bricks.— The total circumference of the ruin is 2236 feet though the building itself was only 2000, allowing 500 to the stadia, which Herodotus assigns as the side of a square. The elevation

of the west side is 198 feet. What seems to be a castle at a distance, when examined, proves to be a solid mass of kiln burnt bricks, 37 feet high and 28 broad.

witnesses in the case, and the monster, to get rid of their testimony, formed in the absence of their father, the diabolical resolution, in which he succeeded but too well, of depriving them of life. A new Post Office has been established in the west part of Millbury, in this County, called "Grass Hill Post Office," and Ephraim Goulding, Jr. is appointed Post Master. The Jamaica papers of July, complain of the renewal of piratical depredations in the West Indies, and the neglect of the powerful British force in that sea to put a stop to them. Dr. Howe has recently published a history of the Greek Revolution, illustrated by a map of Greece, and the Islands.Com. Porter is about visiting the United States for the recovery of his health, which is somewhat impaired from so long an exposure to an unhealthy climate. Extract of a letter from Gen. Lafayette, dated June 14th, 1828. "My health is now perfectly restored. The session of the French Chamber will be at an end by the 1st of August, when my family will be reunited in our country abode-much preferable to the city, as I can there better enjoy the company of my children and friends, and attend to my agricultural pursuits." The title of the new novel, which our countryman, Cooper, is writing, is, the Child of the Wishton-Wish. The Russian army is making a slow and steady advance into the Turkish dominions. Greece-Colocotroni and twenty five other chiefs,have been arrested for a conspiracy against the President, Count Capo d' | Istria. It is stated that a large expedition is fitting out at Toulon intended for the Morea, and that an English fleet will cooperate with A quarry of Oil Stone has been discoverin Perry County, Ohio, said to be superior to the best Turkey Oil Stones for sharpening razors. A shock of an earthquake was felt at Portland, (Me.) on the evening of the 14th inst. An expedition of scientific men has been fitted out at Paris, to go to Egypt.

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DETRACTION DISPLAYED.-Mrs. Opie, who recently published the "Illustrations of Ly-ed ing," has given to the public another work, entitled "Detraction Displayed." The vigorous mind of this lady seems now to have ascertained the channel through which it can flow with the greatest advantage. She is decidedly a great moralist.

"Bot, I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's dream because it hath no bottom."

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POETRY.

FOR THE TALISMAN.

The living man is blest,

Eccl. 11: 7. Truly the light is sweet and a The remarks of the Editor of "The Moral-pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the ist" upon our paper, are too contemptibly scurrilous to be answered, or noticed in any other terms than those of his ass-eared namesake and prototype, than whom in point of intellect and gentlemanly courtesy a more perfect personification could not be found.

We can bear with decent recriminations and severe retorts, from those with whom we come in collision, but when an Editor descends to such scurrilous abuse as is too indecent to be repeated, we have but one course to pursue, to suffer him to grovel on in the filth of his own polluted imagination, laugh at your rage, despise your scurrility, and pity your dulness.

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In this town, on the 4th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Bancroft, Edward J. Vose, Esq. Attorney at Law, to Miss Frances Sophia Burling, daughter of the late Walter Burling, Esq. both of Worcester.

In Conway, Capt. John Ware, to Miss Sarah B. Dickinson, both of Conway.

In Deerfield, by the Rev. Dr. Willard, Mr. Stephen Allen, to Miss Malissa A. Arms.

In Shrewsbury, Sept. 16, by Rev. George Allen, William Workman, M. D. to Miss Sarah P. Hemenway, all of that place.

Died,

In this town, Mrs. Sally Butman, wife of Mr. Benjamin Butman, aged 35.

In West Boylston, on the 7th inst. Mrs. Mary S. Davis, wife of Francis Davis, aged 33. In Oxford, on the 29th ult. Capt. David Stone, aged 52.

In Grafton, August 27, of the dysentery, Susan Augusta, aged 2 years 7 months and 7 days. September 10, Josiah, aged 1 year and 27 days, only children of Mr. Charles and Mrs. Susan Goddard.

EVIDENCE OF THE DEITY.
'The Sun that walks his airy way,
To light the world, and give the day;
The moon that shines with borrow'd light,
The stars that gild the gloomy night;
The seas that roll unnumbered waves;
The field whose ears conceal the grain,
The yellow treasure of the plain;
All of these and all I see,
Should be sung, and sung by me;
They speak their Maker as they can,
But want and ask the tongue of man.
PARNELL.

And he has much to thank his Maker for,
And he is happy if he is but good;
(" But none are happy else"-'tis Heaven's
first law)

And yet there are who wrest
Their blessings from life's web and make them
sorrow's food.