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, “THE VISION.”
Thousands i‘ .years beneath thy sway
!ia ■ c .;rGaacd,
Uuw a ieJ Death! how many more shall
bear
T i burden of the hoarse, no human tongue
Cat. tel), ior they are chronicled in heaven;
Though oftitnes numbered by a guilty
m ,
When thunders, like dread oracles, awake
The w ti!. Yet, come it will, howeVei
late,
T!iat glorious day, when Death himsell
hall lie!
Woenth' far sounds of bursting tombs
will awe
The 'uling earth—when with an angel
shout ..
The Mess’d will spring into a second birth.
And vet, though life enchant, and Death
appal
H - w gently do the weaning years unclose
The many links that chain us to the w»lu!
Tim passions which in spirit youthful
hearts,
And spread a beauty o’er the spring of
life,
A d hid the hopes of young ambition
bQUiid,
D i / and cool, as further down the vale
O darkling years we wen.l, until, at
length,
The time-worn spirit muses on the tomb
Wth "levating sadness, ami the shades
Of l»ath dissolve amid those cheering
rays
Which revelation sheds from heaven.
How pure
T’i<* g-ace, t!m gentleness of virtuous age!
Th uigh sol",mi, not austere; though dea l
To ission, and the wildering dreams of
hope,
N <t unalive to tenderness and truth—
The good old man is honored and revered,
And breathes upon the young limb’d race
around,
Th» gi- and venerable charm of years.
N n--glory to the power that tunes the
h»art
tT it»the spirit of the tune—are all
The fancy and the Hush of youth forgot:
The meditative walk by wood or mead,
The lull of streams, the language of the
Hea-d in’the heart alone—the bosom life
Call that beautified or graced h s youth,
If still to be enjoyed, and hallow’d with
The feelings flowing from a better world.
I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance,
may be
A 'wilier in the tomb. But twenty years
Hav • withered since my pilgrimage bc-
And I look back upon my boyish days
W<th mournful joy; as musing wand’rcrs
/Jq
With eye reverted, from some lofty hill,
U mn the bright and peaceful vale below.
O ,' let me live until the fires that feed
M ■ sou , have work’d themselves away,
and then
p.t-rnal Spirit, take me to thy home!
F„r when a child, I shaped inspiring
dreams, .
A 1 nourish’d aspirations that awoke
R -xutiful feelings from the face
0 Mure- from a child I learn’d to reap
A harvest of sweet thoughts for future
years.
How oft—be witnesg, Guardian of our
1 ,ms\>f young delight, while o’er the
•Humming like bees, my happy play-mates
roam’d, «
I hived on high anddioary crag to muse.
An I round the landscape with delighted
T'i- sky besprinkled o’er with rainbow
i'angelic wings had wanton’d there;
T , > distant citv capo’ with hazy towers,
Th river, shyly roaming by its banks
O repose—t• ^ether With the pl&y
0 elfin music on the fresh winged air -
Entranc’d with these, how often have l
glow’d
W th 1 houghts that panted to be eloquent,
Yet only ventured forth in tears.
And now;
Though haply mellow’d by correcting
1 thaivi'thec, Heaven! that the bereaving
Hath mt diminished the subliming hopes
O. youth, in manhoo ds more imposing
ca res. .. ,
Nor titled pomp, nor princely mansions
The c'oud of envy o’er mv heart; for there
One oft delusive, though adored. But
Tin* spirit speaks—or beauty from the
sWv
D semi 1> into mv being—when I hear
Th- storm hymns of the mighty ocean roll,
On thunder sound—the champion of the
Storm— .
Then I feel envy for immortal words,
• The ruih of living thought; oh! then 1
To AasKmv feelings into deathless verse,
That inav a lminister to unborn time,
And t"U some loftv soul how I have lived
A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!
• Montgomery.
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WOMAN.
Gov. Metcalfe, of Kentucky, in
his late Message to the Mate Legis
lature, recommends that public pro
vision should be made in that Slate
for the education of females.
“In every age, and in every clime,
^lie remarks) man in the exercise of
ins dominion over his ompanion, has
untde it eftremely difficult for her to
rise with hiiuseif in the scale of intel
ligence. Among the barbarous & un
civilized, how cheerless is her condi
tion! How degraded by the decree
of the Mussulman! In every quarter
oi the world, how hopeless are her
prospects, except it be under the au
spices, and in the bosom of a Chris-
iiun community! It may, to bis hon
or, be said of the Chnsiian, that he
iias done much for the improvement
ami amelioration of her condition —
And m doing so, he has contributed
but liltli? less to his own, than to ker
happiness. It is true that she acts
her part in the shade of domestic re
tirement. She is not often an active
agent in the perils of war. Her
voice is not heard in our Senates.—
But this detracts nothing from the im
portance of her station, her place is
one of high, if not awful, responsibili
ty. We are indebted to her for our
lirst, and frequently for our best im
pressions. In susceptible childhood,
wuiie we are looking up to her as the
most pure and the most perfect, as
sue is sure to be the most beloved of
created beings, she imparts to us our
liisi lessons of morality and religion.
The wild and irregular passions of
fantastic infancy are subjected to her
soft and endearing control. In riper
years she exercises no small degree of
influence over us; and m the dreary
winter of our days, she sustains us by
her fortitude, whilst from her kind
ness and lidelity vve draw the last and
greatest of all our consolations.—
Surely her mind should be cultivated
and adorned by the instruction and the
grace of systematic education. Will
Hot the Legislature of Kentucky con
fer upon their State the honor of hav
ing taken the jh'st step for the promo
tion of this desirable object? The act
lam persuaded, will be hailed’with
delight by the present and succeeding
generations.”
GOLDEN RULES,
To render Men Honest, Respectable, and
Happy.
BY SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.
Wealth, ambition, learning, are
phanioms of the mind, similar, as to
actual contact, to the will-o'-the-wisp,
or the rainbow of nature. The avari
cious are never rich enough—the am
bitious desire to rise higher and high
er—and the cyclopaedia is too bulky
for the grasp of one life. Neverthe
less, all are energies of healthy minds
if temperately exerted, and it is ex
cess, like that in wine, which consti
tutes their vice and disease. As prac
tical rules, a man ought to be con
tent, who, from indigence, has secur
ed comfortable independence for his
old age, or who has doubled his patri
mony; who has advanced two or three
social steps over Ins former equals;
and who is wise enough to guard him
self against superstition and impos
ture; able to discover and assert truth;
and competent to till up Ins hours of
leisure by reading the best authors,
with good intelligence and discrimin
ation.
In society, character is the first,
the second, and the ultimate quality.
A man is never ruined who has not
lost his character, while he who
has lost his character, whatever be his
portion, is ruined, as to all moral and
iseful purposes. Envy and calumny
will follow a man's success like his
shadow, but they will be powerless
if he is true to himself, and relies on
Sis native energies to beat or live
hem down. Virtues may be mis ep-
* resented, but they are virtues still;
and in vain will an industrious ntan
oc caiiou an iiuer; a scusroio man, a
loci; a p rue out man, a spendthrift;
a persevering man, a changeling; or
an iiuuest man, a knave. Tile qual
ities are inherent, and cannot be re
moved by word except a mau s own
consent. At tbc same time, ail cal
umniators thrice detected, ought to be
banished, as criminals, tin worthy of
the benenis of the society, of w'bich,
however powerless, they endeavor to
be the post and bane.
Do no act which you feel any rep-
gunauce to have seen or known by
others; for me necessity ol being secret
implies some vice in the act, or some
error in me reasoning which leaus to
its self-justification.
To live and let live, applies to all
social and physical relatiun: for the
w orld is the common property of all
the beings wuo have been evolved by
the progress of creative power, and
all are necessary pai ls of a great and
huiinonious scheme, to which it is our
duty to submit; while the happiness
of all ought, as far as possible, to be
rendered accordant with our own.
Advertisement Extraordinary .—The
following is a verbatim copy of an
advertisement, which is to be iounu
in a new paper entitled -‘The Indian
Juuii Bull,’ published at Calcutta,
ior the edification of many millions ol
idolaters, who are subject to the
Crown of Great Britain.
‘I, Ac hen, Chinaman, native of
Pekin, returns his thunks to Ue relig
tons and most worships in Bengal,
since his first begin business, lie
now have to acquaint de worshippers
ol idols, that Ins son, Aloo Ac hen,
have arrive after his study oi sculp
ture in llaiy and London. He had
brought nid him many blocks of that
beautiful stellated granite, from Kel-
kerny; he have also brought out a Mr.
Baron s Tentagraph, by which we am
now able to reduce to de smallest
size any lavoiite idol, ior domestic
worship and in portable compass (ex
actly resembling de original,) lor re
ligious travellers by sea or land. VYc
have one blocks of disunperishable
marble weig ing three tons, bea^i-
luily veriegated; dis I propose as de
basis ol a durable idol, to supersede
tbc perishable wooden figure of Jug-
gernauth; i with my son have neany
completed de idol, we have leit one
opening behind in de body, to contain
lac dust oi ihe lust inventor, and tie
bones ol Ue carver in wood; we have,
at ue lower extremity ol de body,
leaved room to introduce ^iiom luo
oval reservoirs oi mercuryy tubes up
to ue corner of each eye, dose to
de nose, cklsely idled wut water; tie
mercury below, pressed by ue warm
nanus oi de priest, will cause d< itloi
to shed Lems at any time, uTinany
vesuval, like Peter de Great s Vir
gin on uood Friday. W'e have leu a
cavity in tie mouth, between de tt eth,
ior pliospboi uus light, also in each eye
oi de idol, to .illuminate the enamel
and glass pupils m lront. We mane
figures oi incarnations;—bulls lor
Lgyptiau worship, of ue same beauti
ful Irish marble; boars, tortoses,
hawks, shpynx, lions. Any pious per
son inclined to employ me and sou,
will by sending a plan or likeness
of de favourite deity, bt* certain of
having exactly executed according to
order. (should de wood, cark, or
clay of any favorite family idol be ra
pidly in decay, vve engage to restore
de deity to Ins original form, in imper
ishable materials (and if required)
improved ,n de most graceful and na
tural propotion. Ordtns directed to
Adieu and Son, sculptors, Penang,
will be thankfully recetv d and prompt
ly attended to.” >
Lion Anecdote.—Deidcric and his
brother Christian, generally hunt in
company, and have (between them;
killed upwards of thirty lions
1'hey have not achieved this, how
ever, without many hair-breadth es
capes, and have more than once saved
each other’s lives. On one of these
accasions, a lion sprang suddenly upon
Deidcric, from behind a stenc, bore
man anJ horse to the ground, and was
proceeding to finish hisccareer, when
Christian gallopped up and shot the
savage through the heart. In this en
counter Deideric was so roughly
handled, that he lost his hearing in
one ear, the lion having dug his talons
deeply into it.
The Buchanan Chief, old Tcysho
conversing with me, while in Cape
Town, about the wild animals in Afri
ca made some remarks on the lion,
which perfectly correspond with the
accounts I have obtained from the
jl>oois and lioUeutois. ifie non, he
said seldom attacks man il unpi evoked
but lie will uequenlly approach with
in a lew paces, and survey him steadi
ly, and sometimes fie wni utlefupt to
get beliiud In in, as it he could not
stand his took; hut was yet desirous
oi springing upon him unawares. It a
person m such circumstances, at
tempts either to tight or liy, he in
curs the most eminent peril; but if
he has suthcieul picsence ot mind
cooky to confront him, tne animal vuli,
in almost every instance, alter a little
space, retire. But, he added, when
a lion has once conquered man, he be
comes ten times more fierce and v du
bious than he was before, and wilt
even come into the kraals in search ol
him in preference to other prey. This
epicurean partiality to human liesh in
these knowing lions, dues not, in Tey-
sho’s opinion, spring either from ne
cessity or appetite, so much as from
the native wickedness ol their heart.
Travels in jijrica.
SPOTS ON THE SUN, &c.
An ingenious individual in Provid
ence has very lecently succeeded, by
means of a seven feet telescope, cen-
stiucted by himself, on a new princi
ple, in bringing the entire image ol the
sun into a darkened room, upon .
w liile screen, to the size of eight teet
in diameter. Pie writes us that his
astonishment was great when he pe -
reived that every spot now upon the
face of the sun, nine in number, rvus
distinctly 11ansfened to the screen,
and was so plain that he could see ev
ery movement of them in their various
ami sudden changes. He says he c ould
plainly discover those spots weir im
mense bodies of smoke, apparently is
suing from volcanoes; and as they
seem occasionally lore vd up iroin the
orators, non forming dense clouds and
now dispersing, he considers these
phenomena as accounting for the rap
id changes of these spots. The es
cape o! such a vast quantity of gas
from the interior oi the body of tne
sun, would, he observes, as n sur
rounds (jiat luminary, produce that
bright and dazzling appearance, w iiich
is the atmosphere oi the sun. 'tins
theory may not accoid vvi h the o-
pinions of others who have made ob
servations on the subject; but the
writer at any rate, entertains the
strongest belief of its truth.
\t ith the same instrument, which
is just fiuisued, tie lias aiso examined
lire moon, and states his conviction
that that body is covered with perpet
ual snow and ice, the dark spots uis-
coverable on its surface being frozen
seas, and the lighter spaces land cov
ered with snow. Those circular
places which have a rising cone in the
centre, he thinks are extinguished vol
canoes, as no clouds are perceptible
over the moon s face, which, being
covered with snow and ite, accounts,
as he imagines, for its clear atmos
phere, or for the absence of an-ultuos-
phere. This vast accumulation olice
and snow upon the moons surface
may be explained, the writer conjec
tures, by the nature of the moon’s
revolutions. He offers to construct
instruments of the above description,
by which these phenomena may be
observed, at prices from $30 to $100;
and at the same rate to furnish solar
microscopes, on a new principle, with
a magnifying power at twelve leet
distance of 5,184,000.—Boa bulleton.
THE WHALE.
The greatest supply of oil yielded by
a single whale was the enormous quan
tity of 117 butts, or about 43 tons; it
was struck by a person of the name of
Bash by, who was harpooner to the
Fanny whaler of Hull; and as the
blubber is supposed to weigh about one
third of the whole, this animal did
not weigh less than 129 tons. Such
are the dimensions of the Greenland
whale, that jaw bones of this animal
have been seen measuring more than
twenty feet in length. The tongue
on a large whale weighs two tons, and
yields 126 gallons of oil; and of so en
ormous a size are its lips, and so
much do they abound in blubber, that
one alone has afforded sufficient of the
latter to yield two tons of pure oil.
The substance constituting the sur
face of, and surrounding the cavity
which encloses the crystalline humour
in the eye of this animal, is so corn
pact and strong, that it is difficult to
cut it with the sharpest knife. Bu ;
for this solidity it would he unable 0
sustain the enormous pressure to wbicl
l it is subjected at great depths iu the
ocean. Supposing the part ofthe eye
nail exposeu to me w aier to contain
o square niches superficial, the pres
sure upon it at tne ueptli ol Slut) feet
ito which whales have been known to
dive) is equal to twenty-three thousand
one aunareapounds weight.
MOTION OF ANIMALS.
Animal motion is wonderlui, though
from us perpetually meeting the eye t
vve lake lillie account of it. 'ifie
Thoias shell hsh) lias the power of
perforating the hardest marble by
means ol a tlesiiy substance, apparent
ly no way suited to so laborious an
employment. It increases its cell as
it increases in size; and constitutes a
period example ofthe first rudiments
of animal motion. The only impulse
an oyster possesses arises out ot its
power of opening and shutting its shell.
The muscle moves by means ol a
muscular substance resembling a
tongue. The crab moves sideways,
and the water-fly swims upon its back.
The serpent unuulates, and the lion-
ant moves backwards, it has no power
to make the smallest inclination
forward. Marine birds can walk, run,
lly, and swim, home animals can
only w alk, others only run, and others
only gallop; the horse performs all
these motions. The liiger and the
crocodile dart; the rein-deer runs, but
never gallops; the armadillo walks
swiftly, but can neither run nor leap;
while the great ant-eater climbs much
better than it can walk. The slot'll is
a large animal, and yet can travel only
filly paces in a day; andk will run a
mile and a half in seven minutes; an
antelope a mile in a minute; the wild
mule of Tartary has a speed even
greater than that. Au eagle can fly 18
leagues in an hour; and a Canary fal
con can even reach 253 leagues in the
short space of 16 hours. Man lias
the power of imitating almost every
motion but that oi flight. To ell' ct
these, lie has in maturity and health
6d bone§ iu his legs thighs, 02 in his
arms and hands, 60 in his liead,and t>7
in his trunk. He lias also 434 muscles
in the structure of his body, and his
heart has 3.840 pulsations in an hour.
hucke s Harmonies ej JSTaturc.
LAPLAND.
Lapland, a spa.e of 150,000 squaro
miles, oi about the extent of France or
Germany has a population perhaps the
thinnest in the world—one to every
lour square miles—Laj land lias at
present thirteen principle and tea
iilial churches. Three translations
ol' the Bible have been printed. TI:o
Swedish Bible Society of Stockholm
has directed its attention to this des
olate kingdom and twelve young men
are constantly educated at the king's
expense, for preachers among the
Laplanders. The Russian Bible So
cieties are also exerting themselves.!
in this direction; and, so early as 1815,
had distributed 7000 Bibles.
Watchman«■
PERSEVERANCE.
When Dr. Franklin walked into
Philadelphia with a roll of bread.iri his
hand, little did he think what a con
trast his after life would exhibit, and
yet, by perseverance and industry, he
placed himself at the table of princes,
and became the chief pillar in ihe
councils of his country. The simple
journeyman, eating his roll in the
street, lived to become a great phi
losopher and statesman, and to com
mand the respect ,of his- country and
mankind. What a lesson to youth.
Worth in base minds, begets envy,
in great souls, emulation.
Envy shoots at others, and wounds
herself.
Vows made in sterms, are forgotten
in calms.
The noblest remedy of injuries ir
oblivion.
I S hereby given that sonic time in the lat
ter part of October last a black man
came to my house, who says his name is
B'jANUEL,
and that he belongs to a man on Duck riw.
er, in Tennessee, by the. name ot Josepst
M’Connel. This negro is, I should judge,
between forty and fifty years old, and up
wards of six feet high, square built. The
owner is desired to prove his property, pay
charges and take him away.
ICT” The Editor ofthe Phrenix, and oth*
er Editors in the adjoining states may con
fer a favour on the owner by giving pub
licity to the above advertisement.
JOSEPH WAFFORD.
Hightower, C. N. Jan. 6th. 47 4
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