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A PASTORAL.—by a., l. barbacld.
Gtoilfl pilgrim, tell me why
DmI thou tbli) thine arms and sigh,
A H wistful cast thin* eves around?—
Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound?
‘'The road to Zion's fates I seek;
If thou const inform me, speak."
K>ep yon right hancl path with care,
Though crag* obstruct, &, brambles tear;
You just discern a narrow track—
Enter there, and turn not back.
“Say, where that pleasant pathway leads,
Winding down through flowery ,Heads?
Hong or dance the way beguiles,
Every face is dresl in smiles.”
Shun with care that flowery wav;
'Twill lead thee, pilgrim, far astray.
“Guide or counsel do I need?"
Pilgrim, he who runs may read.
“Jr this the way that I must keen.
Crossed by waters wide and deep1"
Did it lead through flood or fire,
Thou mult not stop—thou must not tire,
“Till my journey I have past,
Tell me will the daylight last?
Will the sky be bright and clear
Till the evening shades appear 7"
Though the sun now rides so high,
Clouds may veil the evening sky;
Fast sinks the sun, fast wears the day,
Thou must not stop—thou must not stay:
God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way!
From the Remember Me.
IDLE WORDS.
I fcave a high sense of the virtue and dig
nity of the female character; and would
not, by any means, be thought to attribute
to the ladies emphatically, the fault here
Spoken of. But I have remarked it in
some of ray friends, who were among the
loveliest of their sex. In such the blemish
is more distinct and striking, because so
strongly contrasted with the superior deli
cacy and loveliness of their natures.
“Mv God!” the beauty oft exclaimed,
With deep impassioned tone—
But not in humble prayer she named
The High and Holy One!
•Twas not upon the bended knee,
With soul upraised to heaven,
Pleading with heartfelt agony,
That she might be forgiven.
’Twas not in heavenly strains to raise
To the great source of good,
Her daily offering of praise,
Her song of gratitude.
But in the gay and thoughtless crowd,
And in the Wttive hall,
*M> 1st scenes of mirth 8c mockery proud,
She named the Lord of All!
She called upon that awful name,
When laughter loudest rang—
Or when the flush of triumph came,—
• Or disappointment’s pang!'
The idlest thing that flattery knew,
The most unmeaning jest,
From those sweet lips profanely drew
Names of the Holiest!
I thought how sweet that voice would be,
Breathing a prayer to heaven—
**My God! I worship onlv thee,
Oh be my sins forgiven!”
MISCELLANEOUS.
SKETCHES OF MR. BERRIEN
AND MR. VAN BUREN.
There is a very brief, but, we think,
correct sketch of the character of the
present Attorney General, Mr. Ber
rien, in a work published in this city
about a year ago, which we hsve ex
tracted.
■ It is Senator Berrien, of Georgia,
whom you will perhaps have an op
portunity of hearing before the ses
sion closes. His person, you per
ceive, is remarkably line, his count
enance mild and prepossessing, and
his whole department courtly and dig
nified. As an orator he stands deserv
edly high in the body to which he be-
ongs. His manner is graceful and
elegant—handling his subject with the
skill of a logician, and strewing his
course with the choicest flowers of
rhetoric. He seldom employs the
shafts of satire against his antagonist;
a id when he does, he wreathes around
|hem so many roses that the wound is
seldom felt, and never rankles. His
address is so bland and gentlemanly
that we may apply to him with pro
priety, the
Dulce ridenteme—dulce loquentem,
of Horace. His voice is fullof melo
dy and.sweetness, and every motion
of his body is influenced by a natural
land irresistible grace. His reason
ing is subtle and ingenious; but wants
condensation. He gives to what he
s ivs m peculiar charm, not only by
his manners, but by the sweetness and
b trmony of bis style, and the fine cur
rent of thought he pours out. He
does not indeed throw ofl* any striking
c* pplendiij (©ages, or present any
highly colored and beautiful pictures
of imagination to the hearei; but he
contrives to keep the mind delightful
ly employed, by an agreeable succes
sion of ideas, and a' pleasing exhibi
tion of practical logic, the anima Itgis
of Coke.”
We take also the author’s sketch of
Mr. Van Buren.
“Mr. Van Buren tock a seat on the
sofa between Marion and myself, and
entered into conversation with a great
deal of freedom and ease. He was
small in stature, had light colored
hair, and a fair complexion. There
was great neatness in his person, and
briskness in his motion.
“This gentleman,” said Marion, “is
a pleasing and graceful speaker. His
urbanity in debate is unequalled; he
opposes with reJuctnncef and always
with the most perfect apparent good
nature; laboriug to please and concili
ate his antagonist, while he endeavors
to overthrow his arguments. He is
ingenious, and sometimes forcible in.
attack, and subtle and acute in de
fence; never detracting from the mer
it of his opponent, and always com
bating his positions with the most per
fect courtesy and politeness. His
elocution possesses ease and graceful
ness, and his style neatness and some
times elegance. There are few that
excel him in fluency, or that surpass
him in the power of persuasion, 6r in
politeness of address. But his mind
wants vigor; it possesses more beauty
than energy—more neatness than
strength. As a politician, he main
tains an elevated standing; fertile in
expedients, deep in his designs, and
persevering and vigilant in their exe
cution. Nature seems to have in
tended him for a sphere in which the
passions and prejudices of party pre
vail, and endowed him with a power,
like a master spirit, to call them into
action, or to put them in play, by the
subilty and energy he employs.”
Washington Chron.
Translated from a work published in
1815.
EARTHQUAKES.
The terrible phenomenon of earth
quakes most frequently occurs in the
latter part of Spring, and the begin
ning of summer. If it happens at any
other period of the year, it is gener
ally in Autumn. Earthquakes usual
ly take place in the night, two or
three hours after sunset, or about day
break. Their couise is from North
to South, in the Directien of the An
des. Fatal experience has shown,
that the most violent concessions re
turn at intervals ofhalf a century each,
within the space which lies between
the equator and the tropic of Capri
corn, and that they follow each other
with a kind of regularity from the
tropic to the equator. This remark
is confirmed by the subsequent table
of the earthquakes which have been
felt in Quito, Arequipa, and Lima,
since the conquest of the country:
Arequipa.
Lima.
Quito.
1582
1586
1587
1604
1630
1745
1687
1686
1698
1715
1746
1757
1784
1806
1797
On the return of the disastrous pe
riod about the close of the last centu
ry, the city of Arequipa, and the prov
inces of Quito were ruined. Lima
has hitherto escaped. How shall we
obtain from Heaven exemption from
this dire calamity? The gloomy re
flection that we must found the Cap
ital anew every fifty years, and that
it may be reduced to a heap of rub
bish, just at the moment when a finish
ing hand has been put to its greatness
and splendor, fills us with terror and
dismay. Elderly and pious persons
affirm,that earthquakes nave been less
common and violent in Lima, since it:»
churches have resounded with the sa-
sacred hymn to the Trinity. Surely,
a religious people ought to enkindle
their faith, and to nourish the senti
ments of adoration in their hearts;
since he alone, to whom this sublime
hymn is consecrated, has power to
shake to its centre, to uphold it in
repose.
• Variable days are most exposed tq
earthquakes; and hence they occur be
tween Spring and Summer, and du
ring the Indian Summer of Autumn.—
They are preceded by copious rains,
which moisten the earth, and pene
trate and fill Up its cavities. The
hot weather following these rfclfis,
forms a mass of subterraneous vapor,,
which, finding no outlet, are I lamb
be exploded by the electric spat#
volcanic fire. About the time of
An
earthquake, dark exhalations often
cover the Heavens, ana give melan
choly aspect to the stars.
Vegetation is apt to suffer much at
these fatal periods. The earthquake
of 1687 rendered our lands unfit for
the cultivation of wheat. The stalks
grew luxuriantly until the ear appear*
ed; but the grain was totally blasted
and the harvest lost. Twenty years
afterwards, the soil began to resume
its former fertility; but a mortal blow
had been inflicted upon our agricul
ture. D.-rin^ the scarcity, resort
Was had to Chili for supplies; and this
country, to which our ancestors ex
ported bread stuffs, has beooaie our
granary; and the most valuable branch
of agriculture has been ruined for
want of consumers.
On the 1st of December, 1806, a
greater earthquake occurred at Lima
than has been known since the de
structive earthquake ofl746. It be
gan at six in the evening, and shook
the city terribly for a minute and a
half. At 8 o’clock the tide rose 18
feet in the port of Callao, at half past
nine it was still higher; but, by ten o’
clock the sea became tranquil. The
course of this earthquake was from
North to South; and its motion was
perceptibly undulatory and exceeding-
py rapid. 1 consider it as an accom
plishment of the semi-centurial peri
od of earthquakes in Peru..
THE PROFESSION OF ARMS
An 8vo. vol. of 286 pages is pub
lished in London, entiled, “An Apolo
gy for withdrawing from the Profes
sion of Arms.” It contains a letter
addressed to the King, and a series of
letters to a friend, on the causes, e-
vils, and unlawfulness of war. No
author’s name appears in the title-
page, but the letters bear the signa
ture of ‘Thomas Thrush;’ and that ad
dressed to his Majesty, we find, has
passed through four editions. There
is nothing; fictitious in these epistles.
They evince, in every part, the sin
cerity of the writer, who, convinced
of the evils of war, and its inconsist
ency with the Christian character, re
nounces the profession of arms, re
signs his commission, and openly a-
vows his conviction before the world.
The London Imperial Magazine for
January, 1829, thus remarks on this
work:
“The letter addressed to his Ma
jesty is couched in plain, expressive,
but respectful language; and no man
who reads it with attention can doubt
that the writer has been actuated by
pure aud conscientious motives. The
tide of public opinion may very nat
urally be expected to set in strongly
against his sentiment, but those by
whom he may be calumniated and
ridiculed, will find it much easier to
pionounce a sentence of condemna
tion on the man, than to refute what
he has advanced.
War, he considers to have originat
ed in the pride and wickedness of the
human heart, and while iniquity pre
dominates, his hopes are not very san
guine of finding many advocates to
embrace, or even to defend, his en
deavors to drive the monster from the
bosoms and practices of mankind.
We have perused these letters
with a more than common, interest,
anting from the nature of the subject,
and the obloquy which has been pour
ed on the writer inmost of our pub
lic journals, in which they have been
noticed, and fear not to participate in
the common censure awarded t6 all
those, who assert that war is incon
sistent with genuine Christianity.—
On the enthusiasm and madness at
tributed to the author, we have kept
a steady eye, but have discovered
.nothing to sanction the reproach.—
For the moral and political condition
of the world, he seems to have been
born a few ages too soon, unless we
admit, what warriors will hardly con
cede, that the world is unfortunately
a few ages behind what it ought to
have been Let this question, how
ever, be decided as it mar, it will not
alter the truth of the following lines,
with which we shall conclude:
“What are ye, monarchy laurelled he
roes, say,
But j&tnts of the suffering world ye
< sway?
Sweet nature, stripped of her embroid
ered robe,
Deplores the wasted regions of hsr globe:
> Ana stands a witness at truth’s awful
bar,
To prove you there, destroyer* as ye
are.” [CowVta.
From the Philadelphia Souvenir.
THE FATE OF GFNTUS.
Hoiper was a beggar; Plautus turn
ed a mill. Teroxeewadaslave; fife
tiiius died in a jail; Paul Borgheee bad
fourteen trades, and yet starved with
them all; Tasso was often distressed
for a few shillings; Bentivoglio was
refused admittance into an hospital
he had himself erected; Cervantes
died of hunger; Commas, the cele
brated writer of the Lusiad ended his
days, it is said, in an almshouse; and
at any rate, was supported by a faith
ful black servant, who begged in the
streets of Lisbon for the only man in
Portugal on whom God had bestowed
those talents whiclihave a tendency to
erect the spirit of downward age; and
Vangelasleft his body to the surgeons,
to' pay his debts as far as it would go.
In England, Bacon lived a life of mean
ness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh
died on a scaffold; Spencer—the
charming Spencer, died forsaken and
in want; the death of Collins came
through neglect, first causing mental
derangement: ^
Each lovely scene shall thee restore,
For thee the tear be duly shed,
Beloved till life can' charm no more,
And mourned though pity’s self be dead.
Milton sold his copy right of Paradise
lost for fifteen pounds, at threff pay
ments, and finished his life in obscuri
ty; Dryden lived in poverty and died
in distress; Otway died prematurely,
and through hunger: Lee died in the
street; Steel lived a life of perfect
warfare with the bailiffs. Goldsmith’s
Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a tri
fle, to save him from the gripe of the
law; the same is reported of John
son’s Rasselas: Fielding lies in the
bury ground of the English factory at
Lisbon, without a stone to mark the
spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol,
where he was confined for a debt of
eight pounds; Butler, the author of
Hudibras, lived in penury, and died
poor; Chatterton, the child of genius
and misfortune, destroyed himself!
“TAi Bottomless Pit of Specie.”—
The Salem Courier says that “the
East Indies is a bottomless pit for spe
cie,” and that “all that goes there,
goes never to return.”
There may indeed be an inconven
ience in this. A reasonable supply of
the precious metals, as the accredited
representation of other property, and
for purpose of manufacture, is doubt
less needful. But they are neither
food nor raiment. In the absence of
these, they would be useless. And
their presence, beyond a certain a-
mount, would add nothing in reality,
either to wealth or happiness. Our
imports from India and China consist,
in general, of articles which add to
our comfort, and though some articles
may be classed with luxuries, they
are not the direct means of moral ru
in; which is more than can be said in
favor of some branches ot our com
merce.
If the Courier wishes to point out a
t: a bottomless pit for specie,” for all that
specie represents, and for treasures
which were n$ver purchased by silver
or gold, let it turn its attention from
the trade in nankins, silks, crapes,
porcelain, and the beverage of the
cups “that cheer, but not inebriate,”
to the trade in Jamaica Rum, Cogniac
Brandy, and Holland Gin. Let it take
a peep at the distilleries. Here may
be seen .“the bottomless pit,” not
merely of specie, but of houses and
lands, and food and raiment. The bot
tomless pit of domestic happiness and
national prosperity, of individual worth
and of public freedom.—-National Phi
lanthropist and Investigator.
GRAFTING AND INOCULATION
It is not unreasonable to suppose
the benefits to be derived from engraft
ing and inoculation of fruit trees,
are far from being * fuliy re
alized. Aside from the neglect of
improving orchards, where there is
nothing to prevent but the disposition
to procrastinate and delay—so preva
lent with all—we believe that the
process is of much more extensive ap
plication than is generally known, and
that it may be the means of introduc
ing the cultivation of fruits, now im
ported from abroad at a great expense.
It has been ascertained that the shag-
bark walnut may be successfully en
grafted, and that the engrafted trees
are much the surest bearers. Where
this is not the case, the difference in
the quality of these nuts would make
it an object to engraft most of the
walnut frees. Some have a very thin
shell, and a thick large meat—while
others have a thick shell and but lit.
rfieat: It is probable that the hicko.
ry, or shag-bark, would do well, en_
-€ I . > - . ’i l
grafted on the ffig-nuL If it should,
the quantity raised might be greatly
increased, aud the quality ffipcli im
proved. The madeira nut, which >a
usually sold at the shops under the
name of the English walnut, at 12 1-2
to 16 cents per pound, may be culti
vated here without difficulty," and in
very productive. In the vidjuity of
New-York, there is a tree wKich has
produced, in a single year, as many as
sold in the market for txeo hundred
dollars. We have no doubt that it
.might be engrafted on the butter-nut,
or the walnut with perfect success. It
is a tree of the Same genus, and in it?
character bears & nearer resemblance
to the butter-nut than many other trees
do to those on which they ate success
fully engraftedi The experiment is
worth trying, and* if successful, it
would soon mrnish us, at a cheap rate,
with a good supply of that excellent
nut without waiting the. more tardy
process of reariug the tree.—Jlfa*s+
Spy. —•—
The Pleasures of Dissipation.—“I
wish” says one of the sons of pleasure
as he rose late iff the morning, after •
season of revelry—“I wish I coul£
exchange* my feelings for those I for*’
merly enjoyed.”—“As for my part,’ r
says one of his companions, “I never
felt so much like committing suicide.”
These remarks were made at a public
house during the late special seasotf
of gambling and dissipation in this cily ;
and tvere overheard by a person of'
strict veracity, who lodged in an ad
joining apartment. Comment is un
necessary.—pAarfesfon Observer.
On the day of Lord Eldon’s resign
nation of the Great Seal,, a certain
little lawyer, after expatiating, at a
dinner party, on the public merits of
that Noble and Learned Person, pro
ceeded to speak of his kindness and
condescension towards the barristers
of his Court. “To me,” added he,
“the loss is irreparable, for Lord El*
don always behaved to me quite like
a father.” “Yes,’ said Brougham,
who was one of the company, “I un
derstand that he always treated you
quite like a child.”—Literary G!<►
4 • ■ ——
SIR WILLIAM GOUCH. '
Nothing is unworthy of nnhlicatioft
which may convey a useful lesson to
mankind.—When Sir Wiliam Gouch
was governor of Virginia, being iff
conversation with a. gentleman in n
street in the city of WUliamsburgh,
he returned the salute of a poor negro*
who was passing by about his ronf-
ter’s business. “SiV,” said the gen
tleman, “does your honor descend se
far as to salute a slave?” “Why,
yes,” replied the Governor,“I cannot
suffer a man of his enndition to exceed
me in good manners.'* ,
CHEROKEE PHCENIX,
find Indians' Advocate.
T HE SUBSCRIBER commenced the
duties of his station, as editor of this
paper, with a trembling hand and s reluct
ant heart. He had no experience to aid
him, and but limited information to recom
mend him to the public. He has however
progressed so far, generally, to the satisfac
tion of his leaders, for which he is thankful.
As the first volume of the Phoenix is on the
e» - of closing, the edffor.has thought best
to apprize the public tbgt a new' volume
will be commenced next month, and
that the great object of its founders, the
benefit of the Cherokee*, will still he assid
uously pursued. It is unnecessary to re
peat and particularize the principles under
which.the future nun^ers of the Phoenix
will be conduc’—*h* orinciples will her
similar to those wnlvL a« : r vented, the
past numbers. The paper is sacred to the
cause of Indians, ana the editor will feel
himself especially hound as far as his time,
talents and information will permit, to ren
der it as instructive and entertaining as
possible to his brethren, and endeavor ter
enlist the friendly feelings and sympathies
of his subscribers abroad, in favor of thw
aborigines. .
As the present poliev of the Generaf
Government, the removal of all the Indian#'
beyond the limits of organized States or'
Territories, is assuming an important a**’
pect, the editor will feel himself boijjnd to ,'
lay before his readers all that may be said
on this subject, particularly the objection*
against this measure of the QovernffienjL •
Particular attention will be given to ju
dicious miscellany. Choice pieces'on re
ligion and morals, domestic economy &e*
will find a ready admittance in the Phoenix*'
The original part of the paper will be,
rendered as interesting as the mentis of the
editor will allow. Owing to the w'aht of an
assistant, it is impossible to devote a largo
portionof the paper to the Cherokee l&iW
guage, as the whole must he Original—The
editor will however 1 do what he ean.
The friends of Indians aye particularly^
called upon to assist in this undertaking by
their subscriptions. Thus fair, the Phccniff 1
has been a dead expense' to the proprie !
tors. It is highly desirable that tnereT
should be sufficient patronage to seteurt if
from the like pecuniary embarrassment g#
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