THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. SAILOR, on the trackless deep Vain thy hopes, tho' bright they seem, Life is but a restless sea, On this side eternity! Bright the path which youth surveys, Sweet in prospect seems the view, But when Time his sombre shade, Angry clouds come flying o'er, Break, and vanish into air, Dread Reality appears, Cloth'd in sorrow, bath'd in tears. But 'mid rolling waves afar, What, and where the certain star, Shining with refulgent ray, From the realms of purity, Guides to happiness and rest, Scenes thro' endless ages blest. There, from storms and whirlwinds free, Seraphs of eternity, Tune their harps, and sweetly sing, Hail! Religion! tow'ring star! While no rays of sacred light, Let the storm and tempest blow, When e'en Religion cannot teach, No art can minister a balm, To one whose wound is in the mind- In vain the languid pulse you feel, 'Tis kindness only that can heal, The wounds they make, we dearly love. X. Y. Z. SONG. SOLDIER rest-the fight is over- All the deeds that thou hast done! Soldier rest-thy mistress dreaming Soldier rest and let to-morrow, Tell of comrades lost in fight; Soldier rest-the fight is over, All the deeds that thou hast done! ORLANDO THE DREAM. Dear vision stay-- Oh let me press thee yet again: Why start away--- MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS. THE Dutch have large funds appropriated for the support of public worship, education, and the arts and sciences, for dykes, and canals and publick works and also for commerce and colonies. The ways and means to provide for this expenditure, are the land tax, the tax on persons and moveables, on doors and windows, direct tax on consumption and on imports and exports. The calculation of the minister of finance was that the income of the state from these sources would amount to 73,700,000 florins, which would fully cover the expenditures. The French budget. The report of count Beugnót, estimates the expenses of the year 1817, at sixteen millions less than the ministerial estimates, as follows. which is about equal to 498,000,000 of dollars. Of this sum it is proposed to raise 759,000,000 by taxes and imports of different funds, and the deficiency of 298,000,000 by a loan, from a company through which it was expected that the aid of foreign capitalists might be obtained. To enable the government to effect this loan, it was proposed to appropriate, from certain revenues the annual sum of 30,000,000. New Coach-Considerable curiosity has been excited in Leeds, by the appearance of a patent coach. It has somewhat the appearance of a boat, the outside work being entirely of Seaton iron; the luggage is stored as it were, in the hold: the outside passengers sit most comfortably in the first half of the vehicle, greatly sheltered from the weather, with convenient benches: the inside passengers occupy behind them, a compact out-inside-coachThe wheels are so closely and aptly fixed, and the luggage so tightly stowed in the very heart of the carriage, as to render an overthrow very improbable. Steam Boat Chancellor Livingston.-An experiment of the speed of this new and very elegant vessel was made lately between New-York and Newburg, a distance of 65 miles, which was accomplished in a few minutes less than 9 hours, of which the tide was in favour only three. In returning, the same distance was run in 8 hours 15 minutes, the greater part of the time against a flood and south wind. The result of the experiment has proved highly satisfactory-and it is probable the average time of going from hence to Albany will be 20 hours; making about 8 miles an hour. Western Commerce. CINCINNATI, OHIO, MARCH 7th.-Came to anchor off this place the fine brig Cincinnatus, 170 tons burthen, from the ship yard at Columbia, where she was built. This beautiful vessel, in the elegance of her model and workmanship, probably surpasses any vessel heretofore built on the Ohio; she is pronounced by seafaring men of whom, by the by, we are not destitute, although our port is situated some sixteen hundred miles from the sea, a handsome specimen of the art of ship-building. She is now receiving her cargo and will sail in all next week, wind and tide permitting, for Boston. The Emigration to some parts of the western country has been so numerous the present season that some of the present settlers have been obliged to return, in consequence of a scarcity of provisions created by such an excess of population. An extraordinary fact.-A large mushroom was found growing in the middle of a fire-place, in the blacksmith's shop of Mr. Banning, of Collingbour Dacis, Wilts. It measured ten inches long in the stalk, and 5 1-2 diameter; it was proved by the root of the plant, that it had grown there since 8 o'clock the preceding evening, at which time Mr. B. left work. A Doctor Green, of Berks county, Pennsylvania, has discovered a method of curing deaf persons, the principle of which he says is to invigorate the whole system by which the weakened part will have an opportunity to recover. |