him in performing his marketing, or to carry home his meat. THE PENSIONER. An aged pensioner, who was attending our county court for the purpose of making oath to his poverty, according to the late act of congress, hearing it announced that the court would require four dollars and seventy-five cents from every pensioner, drew from his pocket-book an old continental bill of sixty dollars, remarking that was all he had ever received for his services in the revolutionary war; and that if the court insisted upon any compensation from him, they must take their pay out of that bill, for he had no other property or means of payment. A gentleman present prevented its being handed to the court, but it is needless to add that it would not have been received.-Connecticut Journal. INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE DYSENTERY. Simmer together one quart of strong vinegar, and one and a half pounds of best quality loaf sugar, for twenty minutes, in a pewter dish, with a pewter cover, and no other will answer. If the patient be an adult, it will be necessary first to cleanse the bowels with one ounce of glauber salts, united with two grains of torterisia antimony; and a less quantity for a child. One table spoonful of the syrup is then to be given every hour, night and day, for 24, 36, or 48 hours, till the cure is effected. The writer never knew it to fail in effecting a cure of this fatal disease within the limits of 48 hours, even in the worst cases of camp dysentery during the late war. A STUDENT OF MEDICINE. LONDON FASHIONS. I know of no greater waste of paper, than the room occupied in our newspaper columns by the monthly account of English fashions. And this is the less useful, because it is of course always out of season; as the mode in May, for instance, can never arrive here till June; so that it merely gratifies the curiosity to know what was the fashion, or enables us to come into it a year after. How can the pride of our fair country women submit to this? It might be some comfort, to be sure, for a blooming American girl to know, that on the morning of this blessed 20th of June, 1820, she had on a morning dress like that of the Dutchess of A, or the Countess of D, in England, at the same time. But to think of this being a cast-off fashion of the preceding month, or preceding year, already supplanted by a new one-Oh fie! It is too much like picking the bones of the gay world! Have we not ladies of talents, of taste and general accomplishments, as capable of inventing fashions, as those of England? I believe so. But if not, are we destitute of milliners and mantua makers, of sufficient ingenuity, whose interest would lead them to change the mode as often as the most all, what is this fashion but a mere extravagant belle could desire. After illusive meteor, that is gone as soon as found? I'll engage for it, that any pretty girl, or even one not pretty, who will cultivate the talents allotted to her, cherish the virtues of the heart, lose nothing by adapting the colour, and walk decorously in society, will proportion and quality of her dress to stances, at least in the estimation of her complexion, figure and circumthe judicious of either sex. As for the dress, and very little with it, it is worse mere dandy, who is nothing without than lost time to dress for him. RECIPE FOR A LADY'S DRESS. Let your ear-rings be attention encircled by the pearls of refinement ; the diamonds of your necklace be truth, and the chain christianity; your bosom-pin charity, ornamented with the pearls of gentleness; your finger-rings be affection, set round with the dia monds of industry; your girdle be simplicity, with the tassels of good humour: let your thicker garb be virtue, and your drapery politeness; let your shoes be wisdom, secured by the buckles of perseverance. FOR THE MASONIC REGISTER. that bane of all virtue, a populous city? Surely the studious man cannot enjoy his dear loved meditations amidst scenes of anxious business, or unphilosophic pleasure; or humanity continue its generons feelings uncontaminated, where every object around him affords the gloomy evidence of triumphant vice, or suffering virtue; where the noisy mirth of the hymenial banquet, and the heart-pier invited Theophilus, at an early hourcing cries of funeral sorrow, strike the to rise from his bed, to taste the sweet refreshing breeze, (in company with his venerable tutor ;) the sun, just emerging from the horizon, began to shed his reviving light and heat around our hemisphere, while all nature seemed to greet his appearance with gratitude and joy. The variegated carpet of nature seemed more bright, the effluvia from the trees, now in blossom, more delicious, and the feathered songsters of the woods to chant their matin lays with more animation than he had ever observed before: he felt like a philosopher who had studied, all his life, in the deserts of Siberia, and had read often, but, for the first time, tasted the pleasures of a more indulgent clime. ear at the same time: and where the gay or gloomy cavalcade meet us at every turn. I have been much in large cities, have studied the views and dispositions of their inhabitants, and the result has been, a fixed dislike to their low cunning and mercenary pursuits. Often have I wished that my destiny had placed me as a resident of some more benign planet, whose happy inhabitants have no occasion to blush for the vices, or weep for the miseries of their fellow-creatures." "If you ever attain to such a happiness," replied his tutor, "it must indeed be in some other planet; the rural retreat has, with the busy city, its peculiar temptations, and human nature has the bias and propensity to cherish them; there are likewise some temptations that are natural to both. Biblus is as much a drunkard, and a knave, in one as in the other, for he carries with him the same inclinations and views; and while these are his ruling passions, they will tyrannize over him when opportunity offers. To a mind contaminated by avarice, it is the same, whether he empties the purse of the affluent, or grinds the face of the poor. He seizes with avidity, similar in its principle, the earthen vessel, or straw bed of the cottager, as the silver utensils, or down couches of the luxurious; and is as much the tyrant of the plain as he would be of the city, if heaven had cursed them with his residence." "What pleasure, respected AcAsTON," cries he, "can be equal to that I now enjoy. The glare of midnight assemblies, the parade of the rich, or the grandeur of the most elegant mansions or cities, are trifling in comparison with those charms that are found in nature. Could art contrive a sight more noble than the rising sun, beyond those lofty hills, whose tops are already illumined by his vivifying rays? Can the most expert gardener plan a more elegant retreat from its perpendicular rays, than what can be derived from those trees, that have spontaneously risen in elegant disorder, or can the best orchestra afford such soft and enchanting music, as that which arises from every surrounding bush? Why do men desert the simple cot, the cul- "Are there then no pleasures to be tivated farm, or the umbrageous shel-derived from the shady groves and ter of softly melancholy groves, for sweet retirement of rural life ?" AN EVENING VISIT TO A SISTER'S GRAVE. Beneath this turf that form reclines Which late had youth and beauty too, And the cold grave that heart confines, Where every plant of virtue grew. But ab, the kindred spirit 's fled, And wither'd leaves bestrow thy grave; Save where the wild flow'rs lift their head, And o'er thy lonely mansion wave. Say, if thy spirit hovers near, And listens to my plaintive lay? Thy children too, no more shall claim But ah! no mother answer'd there! And flies to meet the coming storm. "Charlotte !"-thy voice is silent still, Tho' fancy seem'd to catch the sound :Twas but the noise of yonder rill That faintly murmurs o'er the ground. Imagination painted gay Thy pleasing image to my sight, Yet quick the vision speeds away, Dissolving in the shades of night. But soon I'll leave this dreary clime, Whose shores are wash'd by sorrow's wave, Launch from the crumbling banks of time, And land with thee, beyond the grave. FROM THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Sweet to the soul the parting ray, The Sabbath's peaceful hours begin; I love the blush of vernal bloom, Of Autumn-Sabbath of the year, Hush'd is the tumult of the day, To hymn the glad return of peace; The loveliest forms in nature fade, O raise my thoughts from earthly things, And bear them to my heavenly home, On living faith's immortal wings- FROM THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL. There is a land of calm delight, There rapturous scenes enchant the sight, Sweet is their rest-in Heaven. There glory beams on all the plains; And joy, for hope, is given; There music swells in sweetest strains, There is a stream that ever flows, To passing pilgrims given; Amid the fields of Heaven. There is a great, a glorious prize, For those with sin who've striven: "Tis bright as star of evening skies, And, far above, it glittering lies; A golden crown-in Heaven. FROM THE FRENCH OF LADY GUION. In unison with mine; Oh Thou! whose sacred charms AMERICAN MASONIC REGISTER, AND Ladies and Gentlemen's Magazine. T BY LUTHER PRATT. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. And now abideth FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, these three; but the greatest of these is CHA RITY. St. Paul. [No. III.] FOR NOVEMBER, A. D. 1820. A. L. 5820. [VOL. I.] MASONIC. OF FORMING A NEW LODGE. Any number of master Masons, not under seven, resolved to form a new lodge, must apply, by petition, to the grand Master; stating that they are regular Masons, and are, or have been, members of some regularly constituted lodge or lodges; that feeling anxious for the prosperity of the fraternity, they are willing to exert their best endeavours to promote, and diffuse the genuine principles of Masonry: that, for the conveniency of their respective dwellings, and other substantial reasons, they are desirous to form a new lodge, to be named ,and have nominated and do recommend A. B. to be the first master, C. D. senior, and E. F. junior wardens: that, in consequence of this resolution, they pray for a warrant of constitution, to empower them to assemble as a regular lodge, on the of every month, at , and then and there to discharge the duties of Masonry, in a regular and constitutional manner, according to the original forms of the order, and the laws of the grand lodge; that, the prayer of the petition being granted, they promise a strict conform L ity to all the regulations and commands of the grand master, and to all the constitutional laws of the grand lodge." This application being properly signed, and recommended by brethren of approved reputation, who are acquainted with the petitioners, is to be laid before the grand lodge; and, if it meets their approbation, a warrant* is granted, in form similar to the following. FORM OF A WARRANT. S. GRAND WARDEN. GRAND MASTER. WE, The grand lodge of the most ancient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted Masons, of the state of in ample form assembled, according to the old constitutions regularly and solemnly established under the auspices of prince EDWIN, at the city of York, in Great * A dispensation, authorizing the petitioners to assemble as a legal lodge, for a specified term of time is generally issued previous to the granting of a warrant. In some jurisdictions, the grand and deputy grand masters, respectively have power of granting such dispensations, during the reander dispensations, are considered cess of the grand lodge. Lodges working merely agents of the grand lodge, in which their officers have neither vote nor voice. as |