yet Mr. Yates persisted in his resignation. A new election was ordered a few days afterward, at which his constituents of the first ward evinced their unabated confidence in his patriotism by reëlecting him to the same station. Wounded pride probably deterred him from again taking a seat in the board, and his ardor in 'the cause of liberty appears to have abated. His name, however, subsequently appears among the representatives in the state legislature, by which body he was also several times appointed member of congress.

ODD

LEAVES.

TORN FROM AN OLD BACHELOR'S PORT-FOLIO.

HOW то CURE GRIEF.

READER, has your heart made shipwreck on the barren, rock-bound insensibility of some worthless wight of a girl? I am enabled from sad experience to appreciate the full extent of your calamity, and I have a deep fellow-feeling for you in your distresses. Pray then let me advise you. Do not resort to drinking. Eating, EATING, is the remedy! Shun the bottle. It has never been a cure for sorrow. Trouble has never been to the drinker but the lame apology of a thirsty stomach. The well-filled plate is your sure resource. Do not drink, but eat, to desperation. Drinking quickens the movement of the brain into delirium; it stimulates the sensibilities, until they cease to act only from over-action and exhaustion: eating it is, that at once lulls and stupifies. The penitent who wishes to indulge in grief, fasts; the friend who wishes to assuage it, always advises you to eat. I have known one dissolved in grief before dinner, assume by degrees great moderation, on blunting the edge of his appetite, and become at length, on the conclusion of the meal, so evidently calm, that his conscious placidity of countenance, in comparison with his recent sorrows, evidently shocked and pained his inward sense of consistency. Then if grieved, try eating. As it is proverbially omnipotent over the temper, so it operates like a delightful narcotic, an opiate, upon the sensibilities; and beware, above all other things, when oppressed with a sense of calamity, an empty stomach. It is fertile of suicides.

COURTSHIPS.

'Militia species amor est.' - Ovid.

'LOVE is a kind of warfare,' says Ovid; and he might have added, there are the same number of ways to win the heart of a lady, as to take a walled town from the enemy; viz., by storm, by siege, and by blockade.

A gallant assailant, with an army in high spirits, halts a few hours for refreshment, and gives orders for an assault. His forces advance with alacrity to the charge, place their ladders on the walls, and in a moment are in the heart of the city. The enemy, seized with consternation, make a brief and animated, but ineffectual resistance, and soon find their only resource in the mercy of the conqueror. So a gallant cavalier, armed in Cupid's panoply, with manners tempered in the school of the world, a heart full of confidence, and words full of flattery and fire, advances to one of Love's soft encounters; he penetrates at once into the citadel of the heart, and has it already garrisoned with his forces, before his opponent has fairly suspected his designs. In three days, he is engaged; in three weeks, is married. He has carried a heart by storm.

Another proceeds more regularly, according to all the recognized

rules and well-established usages of ancient warfare. He makes love in form. He asks the lady whether or no his visits will be agreeable, and begs to know, from the mother, whether they will be permitted. He sits down before the place, draws around his lines of circumvallation, and gradually narrows his approaches, according to all the slow and cautious methods laid down by the most safe and experienced generals. This is much more sure than the former method, in attempting which a party may be repulsed with severe loss; but it takes time, and requires patience. The garrison at first, alarmed by this hostile show, but disposed to make a vigorous and gallant resistance; resolved, if possible, not to be conquered at all, but if overcome by superior force, at least to secure all the honors of war, and not to surrender at discretion; begins to find its supplies falling short. One or two occasional sallies are made, but at a great expense: the place must surrender, unless relieved; no relief comes from without, and it capitulates, after an honorable and protracted resistance, but not without making excellent terms. A lady so taken, is taken by siege. Another general, finding all these means fail, converts the siege into a blockade. The lady laughs at his show of force. Strong in her own resources, she makes fun of every demonstration. But the assailant is animated by a strong principle of faith. On his flag is written, 'Perseverentia omnia vincit;' and if perseverance or obstinacy can conquer, he is determined that he will. He is a veteran in warfare; or, if young, Nature has endowed him with nerves of steel. He makes light of obstacles. If the lady laugh at his preparations, he does not or will not see the magnitude of his difficulties. Much time consumed, at length the lady accepts him, to get rid of his importunities; as the desperate suicide embraces death to get rid of trouble. The assailant triumphs. The foe surrenders at discretion. The place is starved into a surrender.

SECRETS.

NEVER tell your secrets. If you cannot keep them, you have no right to expect from others what you will not do for yourself. I consider that the utmost a friend who so betrays himself can reasonably demand of me, is to use a suitable discretion in selecting the persons to whom I may impart his confidence, and not maliciously to aid in propagating the intelligence, by giving it the uneasy properties of a professed secret.

For, it must be remembered, a secret, however inconsiderable in itself, bears, from the simple fact of its being a secret, a monopoly price, and sells at a high premium in the social mart. The confidant has at once a motive for telling, and the busy-body a motive for listening. A secret has a kind of fermenting quality. The mind is uneasy in the possession of it. It swells and expands, and produces a bursting sensation. It seems necessary to set it free, to prevent the danger of explosion. In this instance, the tongue, which is always so admirable a ventilator of the thoughts, serves also the purpose of a safety-valve. Indeed, a conscientious man, intrusted with the important responsibility of a secret, finds that, as his only available resource, if he would avoid telling it to others, he must altogether forget it himself.

CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, whose ancestors came to America with WILLIAM PENN, resided in Philadelphia from the age of thirty until his death in 1797, at the age of eighty-seven. He was a member of the Society of Friends, but his devotion to the liberties and rights of the Colonies procured his excommunication from a body which denied the lawfulness of defensive warfare. In his sixty-fourth year he commenced a diary, from the Ms. of which the following interesting paper is taken. Mr. MARSHALL resided at this time in Lancaster.

FIRST MO. 1, 1778.- Fine clear sunshine morning, and pleasant for the season, and still continues to freeze hard. Wind but little at southwardly. Thus has the morning of our new year been ushered in. God grant that this serenity may be a happy presage of that longed-for peace and tranquillity which is promised in the Scriptures: that 'nation shall not rise against nation, neither shall they learn war any more!'

2ND. Our assembly, since they received the petition of the thirtyfirst, are busily employed, in conjunction with the Executive Council, in taking proper steps in order to grant the prayer of such petition. It's said that two committees are appointed, one to prepare a bill adequate to the prayer, the other to draw up a spirited remonstrance to send to Congress with the petition and their resolve; these to be sent by express. It's said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night. Tomorrow they proceed for our camp. It's further said that ten other wagons, loaded with the same commodity, are come in here, going for our camp, but I could not learn from what part they came. It's said