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 quantities of food into his smouth.--Affer din,

 ner, We walked into the garden he was

 merchant and in the course of our waIkI said to him, Pray. Sir, what would you think of 1 a man, who from nothing had raised a small

 capital and who might, if he chose, go on. in.

 crease that to an immense fortune, but, who did not choose to go on, but squandered that capital away: what would think of him Why said he.' I would say he was d-d

 foot ; them said l. what one may think of wealth, another may think of health, and thou art the man. say health is like wealth extremely difficult to get a little of; hut when you have got it, if you take care of it, it will increase too, with compound interest but it is the nature Ofman that he will not do well unless he is compelled; and I believe you'll find this to be the lesson of human life: if people will not take care of health, and do

 well from inclination, they will be obliged to

 do so from compulsion :; but there are those, who will even defy necessity & those go to the devil, of course.

 The Automaton Chess Player.-The recent discovery made in Baltimore, that this ma. ! chine, which has excited SO much wonder 8c fastonishment in this country, is put in opera :ion by human agent concealed within if. forcibly illustrates the truth of the remark. " that there is nothing new which has not been forgotten.''

 This machine was constructed more than

 half century ago, by Kempelen, for some time all over Europe, it was at length (178s)

 discovered by Freyhere, at Dresden, that the agent employed was ,ceN taught d,carc who

 was concealed ina drawer under the chess

 board. The discovery was published at the

 time, and the machine fell into dis,se, and

 was no more heard of until within year or

 two past, when it was purchased at low price by the present proprietor, and brought

 over to this country for exhibition. The fol- lowing extract from Rees' Cyclopedia, Art. Automaton, shows the Baltimore discovery was made at least thirty y-seven years ago: "From a aaetter addressed by Thos. Col linson, to Dr. Hutton, we learn that the chess playing figure, exhibited in various places by MT. Kempelen, tBaron KempelD was discov- cred by gentleman named Joseph Frederic Freyhere, who published at Dresden in 178s atreatise explaining it's principles. we'll taught boy, very thin and small of his age, SO that he might be concealed in drawer im-

 mediately under the chess board, agitated the

 whole machine!''-[ Charleston Mercury. - -.,eH - Be,care cf assGssins !! IA couple of despe- | radoes are now traversing the United States,

 and are making dreadful havoc of the proper 1 ty and lives of the old and the young. They

 have already slain more of the inhabitants

 than were slain in the battles, and perished in

 prison ship, during the American War; and 1 at the same time, they would have wasted l more substance than would pay the whole na. 1 tional debt. t"s Their strength is invincible. Their meth-

 od ofattack is to strike people on the head, 1 till they have quite beat out, their brains.

 Though they infest pHblic houses chiefly,

 they are also found lurking in the closets of

 private houses, in the workshops of mechan-

 ics and the fields of offarmers. In some instan-

 ces, whole families have fallen victims to the

 murderers 1; nay, whole towns have been ru-

 ined by them. One poor man, hereabout,

 that had formerly been an industrious thriv-

 ing mechanic, has very lately been murdered by thcmin in manner two shocking to relate

 & there are several others in the vicinity,who have been attacked by them, robbed of their

 money, smitten on the brain pan, knocked dOwn,and in all respects so violently handled

 that an alarming stupor has succeeded, and they are already brought to death s door. In

 a word the country is in danger from coup le of outlandsh mscreants, who mock at req

 son, trample upon the precious rights of man and equally bid defiance both to law and gospel. f. at4f The names of those ruffians are. WH1skEr

 and BRANDr!!!

 The following facts respecting Tardy, ti,e

 leader of the villains concerned in the late

 murder and piracy on board the Crawford,

 is copied from the Philadelphia Gazette. TARDY-TIIE PIRATE.

 This man. it appears, has at last been his

 own executiOner, after having been many years on our coast, aad in our cities, plan

 ming and executing his black and hellish deeds with all the c0Olnes of demon, and after having been suffered, by the mildness of our laws. to escape the gallows and repeat his

 murders, when in many other Christian coun- tries he would long since have hung in gib-

 bets, and not only have been solemn warn ing to others but, for any thing we know. his

 early execution would have saved hundred of lives, and ceytaiuly the eight lives on board

 the brig Cra,cford. ~,,A There is very little doubt that this same Tardy was on board schooner commanded by Captain Latham, bound from New York to Charleston about the year 1915, and after poisoning the passengers. had the hardhood and address to have the deed charged to the cook, who had always before bore an excel lent characfor hat vyh0 xuae ,rrnrfad af