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I \ POETRY. . DIRGE, ON A FRIEND WHO DIE*; AfeROAP. By Jllaric A. Watts. “He loft Ills home w'th a -bounding heart, For the world was all before him, And felt it scarce a pain to part, Such sun-bright beams came o er lmn He turned to visions of future years, The rainbow’s hues were round them And a mother’s boding*, a mother s fears. Might not weigh the hopes that crowned them. He left his home with a swelling sail, Of fame and fortune dreaming. With a spirit as free as the vernal „ale, Of the pennon above him streaming. He reached his goal—by a distant ware, ’N-ath a sultry sun they’ve 'aid him. And stranger forms bent o er hiS grave, When the last sad rites were paid him* He should have died in his own loved land, With friends and kindred near him, Not have perished thus on a foreign strand, With no thought save of heaven to cheer But whatrecks it now ? Is his sleep less sound, - . , , [n the port where the wild winds swept him, „ , . , , Than if home’s green turf his grave had bound, A ,. > Or the hearts he laved had wept him. Then why repine?. Can he feel the rays That pestilent sun sheds o’er him: Or share the grief that may cloud the days Of the friends who, now deplore him t No! his bark’s at anchor—its sails are lim it hath ’scaped the storm’s deep chiding; And safe from the buffeting waves of the world . ... ,, In a heaven of peace is riding. SONNET. Av, thou art welcome—heaven’s delicious breath!— Wfien woods begin to wear the enmson leaf, And suns grow meek, and the meek suns , grow brief, Ajid the j r ear smiles as it draws near its death. Wind of the suny South ?—Oh long delay In the gay woods andin the golden air, Like to a good old age, released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright late quiet, would that 1 Might wear out life, like thee, ’mid bow ers and brooks, . And, dearer yet, tte sunshine of kind looks, And music afkind voices ever nigh; And, when my last sand twmklcs in the glass, Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass. Bkvaiit. From the ArieL FEMALE DELICACY. Female delicacy is a subject upon U’hiclrmy thoughts delight to rumi nate, and upon which I shall now at tempt to form a speculation. Altho I am conscious of being unequal to the task, which requires so delicate a hand, such refinement of sentiment and such parity of thought, as well as such elegance of language, yet my fair readers will forgive the attempt, when I assure them that I wish ior no higher satisfaction than to notice their advancement in mental and moral, *vs well as external perfection; and to share in that happiness which such perfection will ensure to themselves and to the rest of the world. It ill becomes him.who is born of a woman to speak degradingly of the sex. It less becomes him. who is not only born of a woman, but is indebted, in a considerable degree, to female ' attention and assiduity, to female con versation and example, and to female tenderness and delicacy; that his mind was early opened to intelligence, and his appetites and passions have been inured to cont rol; that his sentiments have been refined, his manners polish ed, his steps withheld from danger, and directed to safety and wisdom; his bosom relieved of its cares, and his life illumined with pleasures. And least of all does it become^him to dis parage the sex, who, to his personal obligations, can add his philanthropy; who professes to be a friend of man kind; who knows the influence which woman has upon man, and the hand she has, or might have, in promoting the virtue and happiness of families, of larger communities^ and of the world. Our omnipotent Creator, whose wisdom and benignity shine eonspicu ous in all his works, has formed the female sex, if I may be indulged the expi*ession, with a delicate hand. The slender texture of their bodies, the softness of their features, the tuneful ness of their voices, the general nla- eidness of their tempers, and tender ness of their hearts ^together with a similar niceness in-Their intellectual powers, denote a characterestic de licacy, with which their education ami employment, their sentiments and vieivs, their conversation and beha viour, and ours with and towards them, should exactly correspond. So that my idea of female delicacy is complex and comprehensive. It includes what ever is delicate in the structure of their frames, in the faculties of their minds in the disposition of their hearts, in their sentiments, in their tastes, in their words, in their actions. But while it excludes not that delicacy in their bodies or minds which is merely natural, it regards principally that which is acquired; which is the ef fect of culture and education; which results from an early and assiduous care to preserve and establish the na tive innocence and purity of the heart, to correct and govern the passions, to refine and elevate the sentimqpls, and to render the conversation and man ners more and more engaging. In short, the delicacy which I mean, and which I wish to recommend is an in ward sense of propriety which regu lates and beautifies the whole conduct; and a settled, unsullied, and inflexible virtue and sweetness of temper, beam ing forth in every thing that is done.— This will highten the delicacy of the features and air—for it is loveliness itself. Every moral writer and thinker knows, and every moral liver feels, that thero is something so deformed and ugly in vice, as to excite aversion in every ^rightly tempered breast. It argues, therefore, an indelicacy of mind to cherish perverse humors and give way to faulty- propensities. The more delicate the taste of the soul is. the greater is its abhorcnce of every thing that borders on vice, or savors of impiety. The heart which is attun ed to the refined exercises of virtue, of devotion, and religion, and which cannot consent to any deficiency in its gratitude and obedience to God, or in justice and benevolence to man, dis covers a delicacy superior to the most exquisite taste in economy, rookery, and embroidery, and in music, paint ing, and poetry. The mind that does not wish to possess and exercise all the virtues and graces which are pre scribed for the adorning of human na ture, ami for the attainment of per fection and felieity, is as deficient in taste and delicacy as it is in goodness. Such are my ideas of female deli cacy: And though they may be tlio’t by some to be too refined or diffuse, yet it must be owned that a behaviour in the sex corresponding with such i- de?s, a course of conduct formed upon such maxims, will exalt their charac ters, add a lustre to all other charms and secure their hearts from seduc tion, their lives from blemish, and their bosoms from remorse. And it is ea sier to conceive than to describe the happy alterations which such senti ments gild manners would produce in the other sex, both as to exalted mor als and rational enjoyment. Vice and misery would be greatly diminished, virtue and happiness proportionally advanced. It is the wish of my heart that wives, mothers, and daughters would pursue with candor and docili ty the hints here offered, and by re ducing them to practice, try the ex periment, liovv amiable and happy they will render them. VIATOR, hearts of youih fbr mofe solid read ings, as they go on to maturity. In truth, they are the great engine that moves the moral and political world, and are infinitely powerful to establish the character of a people, as well as to preserve their liberties; and cannot be so easily dispensed with as some persous believe—unless, indeed, we think the trouble of self-government is too great, and agree to transfer the power of the State to the few that are ready to use it for their own ad vantage. But this cannot be the will of the people of the United States; yet observing, howeVer, the top gen eral repugnance tl reading, that, (though it prevails liss with us than in any other country,) it is the duty of those who feel the pleasure and profit of it, to smooth the my to it, and af ford every facility, Jthat light and knowledge may he diffused. “An ar med people and an unarmed magistra cy,” said Dickenson, “ s the best guar antee of freedom.” l\nd while the body of the people reaL reason, and rellect—while the pr^ss is frfee and liberally supported, the sword of the magistracy is pointless^ except it is directed to execute t^e will of the people. How important, then, is it (hat that will should result from an en lightened mind.—Niles's Register. THOUGHTS ON NEWSPAPERS. Newspapers are things that can he dispensed with—as costing money that might be saved. So is the school ing of our children—so, indeed, are nine tenths of what it costs us to live. Almost any man may lay up every year, if he would live on bread and water, and clothe himself in the cheapest manner he could; but what of that? Who would live like a brute, and die like a beggar, for the mere pleasure of saving money, which he cannot carry hence with him— though, like a dead weight, it may hang* upon his soul at the last moment of his mortal existence! There are few such—five or ten in a million; and what wretched creatures are they! Most men, sensible that they must die, are disposed to enjoy a little of the fruits of their toils: and nothing is, perhaps, more necessary to the enjoy ment of society, or self-satisfaction in retirement, than a well-informed and virtuous mind. It gives a zest to all tilings in prosperity, and is the best re source in adversity. Newspapers, though not always conducted with tal ents and respectability, are the best possible channels for obtaining an ac quaintance with the affairs of the world, and to implant desires in the “MISSISSIPPI GUARDS.” The traveller and historian, as far a6 I am informed, have passed by un noticed, one of the most useful of all the various tribes of insects—The Mississippi Guards. In Mississippi, and the States in the same parallel, there are large tracts of country which abound with such numerous swarms of flies, that the herds of cat tle would be compelled entirely to desert their pasture grounds were it not for the kind protection they re ceive from the Mississippi Guards. The Guards inhabit the driest and the hottest sand knowls. They live on the various species of flies which infest the stock. They resemble ve ry much the yellow jacket, both in size and appearance; there are, how ever, larger and smaller guards, adap ted to the different kinds of flies on which they prey. The earth for some distance around the sand hill that constitutes their barracks, is troddeh firmly by the neighboring cattle, form ing what the herdsman calls a stomp. Hither the cattle repair with wild and headlong fury wlifinever they are beset beyond further endurance with the large horse flies & other tribes of in sect that infest their pasture grounds. At the sound of their approach, the guards turn out of theirsuhteraneous barracks & parade over their sand hill, moving to and fro,, resembling swarms of bees. So soon as the infuriated herd of cattle arrive, they arrange themselves around the sand hill, and become almost as still as statues, though literally covered with flies, which are drawing blood from every pore, not a cow is seen even to switch her tail. At this moment the guards sally .forth on the flies which cover the cattle. Each guard seizes a fly, clips off his wings in the first place, jerks out the proboscis, though buried in the skin of the beasts, and bears off the fly, a struggling wingless prisoner, to the sand hills, and there scratches a hole in the sand, drags in the crim inal, and by means of a peculiar shuf fle of the hind feet, covers up the hole as lie descends, & in an instant the guard mounts up through the sand in a different place, leaving the poor fly hurried alive.. He again proceeds to the cattle in quest of another, fyi a short time, not a fly of any descrip tion can be seen. The cattle, under the vigilant protection of their guards at length lie down and chew the cud in peace. A gentleman who has a large stock Of horses and cattle, has been so fortunate as to have his pound selected by a company of guards for th.-ir place of abode. He is never under the necessity of having his cat tle or horses driven op to the pound, they always come of their own accord, to rid themselves of the large horse flies with w'hicli that whole vicinity a- bournls. The guards are always found at their post, ready to seize the blood-thirsty tormenters of the cattle, and to inflict on them a punishment, the same with that which Numa Pom pilius first instituted for the vestal Virgins who should break their vtiW Galaxy. ation? Who docs not rfemember those seasons of retirement, when the calculations of eternity had gotten a momentary command over the heart; and time with all its vexations had dwindled into insignificance before them? And Who does not remember how upon his actual engagement with the objects of time, they resumed a control as great, and omnipotent as if all the importance of eternity adhered to them—how they emitted from them such an impression upon his feelings, as to fix and to fascinate the whole man into a subserviency to their in fluence? Oh! how comes it, that in the face of all his experience; the whole eleva tion of purpose conceived in this hour of his better understanding'should be dissipated and forgotten? Whence the night, and whence the mystery of the spell, \Vnich so blinds and so in fatuates us to the world? what prompts us to embark the whole strength of our eagerness and our desires in pursuit of interests which we know a few years will bring to utter annihilation? Who is it that imparts to them all the colour of an unfading durability? who is it that throws such an air of subtil ity over these earthly tabernacles, or makes them look to the fascinated eye of ran like resting places for e- ternity? Who is it that so pictures out the objects of sense, and so magni fies the range of their future enjoy ment, and so dazzles the fond deceiv ed imagination, that in looking onward through our earthly career, it appears like the vista, or the prospective of innumerable ages? He who can dress the idleness of its waking dreams in the garb of reality. He who can pour a seducing brilliancy over the panorma of its fleeting pleasures and vain anticipations. He who can turn it into an instrument of deceitfulness, and tnake it wield such an absolute ascendency over all the affections that man becomes the pooj> slave of its idolatries and its charms—put the au thority of conscience and the warning of the word of God, and the offered instigations of the Spirit of God, and all the wisdom of his own sound and sober experience away from him. But this wondrous contest will come to a close. Some will return to (heir loyalty, and others will keep by their rebellion: and in the day of winding up the drama of this world’s history, there will be made manifest to the myriads of the various orders of crea tion, both the mercy and the vindica ted majesty of the Eternals-Chalmers Wonderfui Ingenuity.—A fctv day$ since we had the gratification of wit- ncssing a striking instance of what ha- man ingenuity, in conjunction with in defatigable perseverance, is capable of accomplishing. A young gentle man, a native of this place, has print ed several copies—-one of which we have perused—of an 18mo. work, ex tending to nearly seventy pages. Our readers, we believe, will be scarcely able to credit the fact, that this inge nious youth made the whole p( the types, consisting of various sizes, with his own hand, and with the assistance of no other implement than a penknife. He also constructed the press with which the work was printed and man ufactured his own ink. What is as sin gular, is, that he composed, corre«ted, 1 & printed the whole impression with his own hand without having the slight est direction from any individual, or a- ny idea of a printing establishment, or any thing belonging to it. The quali ty of the type, & the manner in which the whole work is executed, are real ly, under all the circumstances of the case, calculated to excrite the highest astonishment.—Elgin Courier. Writing.--Among all the produc tions and inventions of hnman wit, none more admirable and useful than Writing, by means whereof a man can copy out his thoughts, utter his mind without opening his mouth, and signi fy his pleasure at a thousand miles! distance, and by the help of twenty- four letters, by various joining and in finite combinations of which all words that are attainable and imaginable may be framed; and the several ways of joinining, altering, and transposing these letters, do amount (as Calvin, the Jesuit, has taken pains to com pute) to 52,635,738,665,000 ways, so that all things that are in heaven and earth may he expressed by this won derful alphabet, which may be com prised in the compass of a farthing. Palmer's aphorisms. EXTRACT. Who has not felt the workings of a rivalry within him between the power of conscience and the power of tempt The Capitol.—This edifice, which has been building thirty-six years (though burnt and repaired during that time,) begins to approach com pletion. The hill it stands on, formed into terraces, supported by massive arched stonework, faced with sod, and ascended by successive flights of steps. The approaches are thro’ six great portals, and the grounds in eluded within the area will soon he entirely levelled and planted. Seen at a distance from the west, this large and gorgeous building, of a bril liant white, rising from the green hill and the young plantations of American forest trees a»d shrubs, is, with all its faults, a very splendid spectacle.-Tho quantity of work in the substruction (so to speak) ami in the approaches of the building, is in itself very great and ostly. The sculpture of the tympa num of the east portico, is not ytet fi nished; the sculptor’s house is still perched like the nest of some great bird, among the splended capitals of the columns. The design includes only three human figures, with an ea gle so that the effect will not be lost and frittered away to the eye, by too minute a division of parts. The huge frames for the remaining paintings which are to adorn the great, rotundo under the dome, are lying there, .rea dy to he placed. The sculptures of the same apartments are finished, w believe. Several improvements have been made in the edifice since our last visit. We wish something could bed one to bring the heavy dome more into ac cordance with the light portico be neath it, which it seems ready to crush; and fifty shapes might certain ly be selected, handsomer than the lanterns which now surmount the less er domes of the wings. Freestone has been used for some of the flights of steps. This material is too liable to be broken and worn; one more costly in the first instance, would be much less so in the one. Baltimore American. Captain Basil Hall has finished his “walk” in the United States—ha* travelled in all 16,000 miles in fifteen months—and is now hard at Work “making hook.” HOUSE BUILDER, AND CABL NET MAKER. J. S! W. WHITE, from the city of New York, respectfully informs the citizens of the Cherokee Nation, that he intends carryingon the business of HOUSE BUILDING AND CABINET MAK ING in a manner superior to any that has been done, &. in the most fashionable man ner, equal to that of N, York or Baltimore, and Superior to any work of the kind in this part of the Country. He will work as cheap as any workman, and in a better manner than can be done. He has got Ma hogany and materials of the best quality. N. B. He will take apprentices in the above business. Any native who will come with good recommendation, and of steady habits will be received and taught in the above business. Persons wishing to build can be supplied with a plan and elevation of any house that may he wanting. For furllmr information please apply to Messrs. David Vann and John Ridge. Nov. 12, 1828. 37 tf. $8 REWARD. S TRAYED OR STOLEN out of a lot in this Town, a small light brown mare, with two scars in her forehead, hav- ingtlie upper part of her left: ear bent.— Not one of her legs is white—her main and tail are dark. I do not know her age, as I had just got her from a white man. Any person who will deliver the mare to me, at Turkey’s Town, shall receive the abovw reward. CRYING SNAKE. Nov. 12, 1723. 37 ft JAW DS-a DXJB.I. nil tk.i d*bt Dy/tr4-a, D«r nyz<»iA. R*r Dhp Dyt ojiv o»K-aAr». wx» SA-SoP DEOI-h. D»<w>8hZ 81N1 0P66W B> wj low. iC*sao-t°©K. o^i^E^yr* Dtf SAF..5 F.Si-T. . 066V AD ♦VP y© VQ- <V£vlZ?-a JAW DVA lrtSJBRA I-4dOJr. Tea* dbs. NOTICE. I DO hereby forewarn all persons from trading for two notes of hand, both pay able to Josjiua Holden, and signed by my self, and dated the sixth day of August 1827. One of said notes was due the 25th of De cember 1827,'for one hundred yards of home spun. -The other is due the’ 25th «f December 1828, for one hundred and fifty yards of homespun, I am determined not tp pay them, -unless compelled by law, as this consideration for which they were giver* has failed. JONATHAN BLYTHE. Nov. 12, 1828. 37 tf.