"There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found; And while the mouldering ashes sleep, Low in the ground; His voice such music could impart Even ere his soothing strains began, There rose his chimney, dimly seen, Him hair'd the son, with cordial Him sooth'd the daughter's smile serene; And him caress'd the playful boy (Delight of all, the common joy !); He to the grandsire's charmed ear Oft breath'd his little lisped prayer; God's glorious image, free'd from And oft the hair of silv'ry hue "The soul, of origin divine, clay, With wily urchin finger drew; The transports of a kindred breast. In all around, beneath, above, Thou gracious form, that from this heart, While life remains, shall ne'er depart, How did this prescient bosom swell, What time I breath'd the sad fare well! His hand with firmer grasp I prest, Whose placid current, deep and Till lost in lowly shades unseen, Such is the hapless maiden's lot, The quivering alders wave. Shall bless the vestal's grave. M. smiling face, And spreading boughs thy bosom skreen From summer's fervent skies; Here may the spring her flow'rets strew, And morning shed her pearly dew, May health infuse her balm; And some soft virtue in thee flow, To mitigate the pangs of woe, And bid the heart be calm. O! may thy salutary streams, Like those of Lethe's spring, That bathe the silent land of dreams, Some drops oblivious bring. With that blest opiate in my bowl, Far shall I from my wounded soul The thorns of spleen remove, Forget how there at first they grew, And, once again, with man renew The cordial ties of love. For what avails the wretch to bear The lessons of distrust and fear, Her looks, her similes, her blushes He sees the gathʼring tempest lour, tell me why! The bursting cloud impend, Towards the wild west he turns his But if those gleams fallacious prove That paint the world so fair; If heav'n has plac'd for gen'rous love Bent on the crooked paths that guide MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. MARRIED, At PHILADELPHIA, on Thursday evening, July 30, by the Rev. Dr. Pilmore, Mr. Isaac G. Hannum, printer, to miss Lydia Eyres, both of Philadelphia. Same evening, by the Rev. J. Janeway, Mr. David Lyndall, of Philadelphia, to miss Priscilla Brown, of the Northern Liberties. Same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Smith, Mr. John S. Soast, to miss Elizabeth Sink, of the Northern Liberties. On Monday evening, August 3, by the right Rev. Dr. White, Mr. John Andrews, merchant, to miss Margaret Abercrombie, daughter of the Rev. James Abercrombie, D. D., one of the assistant ministers of Christ Church and St. Peter's. On Thursday evening, August 27, by the Rev. bishop White, Mr. John J. Wheeler, merchant, to miss Henrietta Maria Howell, daughter of Reading Howell, Esq., all of Philadelphia. Same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie, Mr. Peter Watters, to miss Ann M'Kincy, both of Southwark. At NEW YORK, on Wednesday, July 29, by the right Rev. bishop Moore, Peter Augustus Jay, Esq., son of governor Jay, to miss Mary Rutherford Clarkson, daughter of general Clarkson. On Wednesday morning, August 13, at St. John's Church, by the right Rev.bishop Moore, John Okill, Esq., to miss Jay, daughter of sir James Jay, Kt., of that city. At BALTIMORE, on Wednesday evening, August 26, by the Rev. Mr. Inglis, Mr. Jesse L. Keene, of Phila delphia, late of the United States' navy, to miss Jennet Bryden, second daughter of Mr. James Bryden, Fountain inn. DIED, At PHILADELPHIA, on the 4th of August, of a short but painful illness, in the thirtieth year of her age, Sarah Allen, wife of Charles Allen, of Philadelphia, druggist. On Sunday evening, August 9, of a tedious illness, which he bore with. suitable fortitude, Mr. John Hurley, painter, of Philadelphia. On Friday, August 14, after a very long and painful illness, Mrs. Maria Carrell, wife of Mr. Edward Carrell. On Monday, August 24, the venerable Hugh M'Cullough, of Philadelphia, aged eighty-eight years and two months. It is remarkable, that, during his long life, he was scarcely ever visited with sickness or pain. He closed the scene at length after a very short illness, occasioned probably by a touch of the prevailing influenza, though a gradual decay was visible some time before to those about him. On Sunday evening, August 30, Daniel Dupuy, sen., in the eightyninth year of his age, long a respectable inhabitant of Philadelphia. On the 23d of August, at his country-seat, near Philadelphia, after a short but severe illness, Mr. Richard Hopkins, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. At ALLENTOWN, Northampton county, on the 1st of July, Thomas Mewhorter, Esq., late a represen tative from that county in the senate of Pennsylvania. At GERMANTOWN, on Thursday |