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POETRY.
ATHEISM.
Keen was the search, and various, and
wide,
For hardness. Take one example more—
Su stranga, that common 1'ools looked on a-
maze';
And Wise and sober men together drew,
AtiU trembhng stood; and angels in the
h* avens
G ew pale, and talked of vengeance as at
hand—
The sceptic’s route—the unbeliever’s, who,
Despising reason, revelation, God,
And kicking’gainstthe pricks of conscience,
rushed
Deliriously upon the bossy shield
Of the Omnipotent; and hi* heart
purposed to deify the idol chance.
And labored hard—oh, labor worse than
nought!
And toiled with dark and crooked reason-
ing,
to make the fair and lovely Earth which
dwelt
In sight of Heaven, a cold and fatherless,
FVsaiien thing, that wandered on, forlorn,
Un lestlned, uncompassioned, unuphcld;
A vapoV eddying in the whirl of chance,
And soon to vanish everlastingly.
H* travailed sorely, and made many a tack,
His sails oft shifting, to arrive—dread
thought!
Arrive at utter nothingness; and have
B ing no more—no feeling, memory,
N l-.ngering consciousness that e’er he was.
Ga.lt’s midnight wish! last, most abhorred
thoughi!
Most desperate effort of extremest sin!
Others preoccupied, ne’er saw true hope;
He -eeing, aimed to stab her to the heart,
And W:th infernal chemistly to wring
The last sweet drop from sorrow’s cup of
gall;
To quench the only ray that cheered the
earth,
And leave mankind in night which had no
star.
Others the streams of pleasure troubled, he
Toiled much to dry her very fountain head.
Unpardonable man! sold under sm!
He was the Devil’s pioneer, who cut
The fences down of virtue, sapped her
walls,
And opened a smooth and easy way to
death.
Traitor to all existence 1 to all li e!
Soul-suicide! determined foe ofbe.ng!
Intended murderer of God, Most High!
Strange road, most strange! to ^seeK for
happiness!
Hed’s mail-houses are full of such; too
tierce,
Too furiously insane, and desperate,
To rage unbound ’mong evil spirits damn
ed I [PoLLOK.
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From the Youth's Journal.
STOilV OF A LIVING FACT,
My nearest neighbor, when I resid
ed in Connecticut, was a man moving
in the ordinary walks of life, and was
a prudent, careful, honest, and indus
trious husbandman. He had a pret
ty numerous family, one only of which
remained in unmarried state. One
of his daughters was married to a man
Who was uy trade a tanner, currier,
and shoemaker, and lived more than
f/ur miles from her father's. The
old gentleman has often related to me
an incident which 1 thought worthy of
particular nonce, and calculated to
make a deep and lasting impression on
the mind. Being at a certain time
on some occasion at his son-in-law s,
one of the boys of the family wished
to go home with his grandfather: it
not being convenient at that time, the
grandfather told the boy that he could
.not very well carry him at that time,
b'at added, “Next time grandpa
comes he’ll carry you home with
bim.” The boy was pacified. The
old gentleman not thinking any more
(as, alas! many careless and faulty
parents do) of what he had said to
the boy, was several times to the
bouse and shop without fulfilling his
engagement; and, perhaps, without
once having it come again into his
mind. But the boy was not so for
getful; he recollected well the prom
ise of his grandpa. In process of
time the grandfather took the boy be
hind him on his horse, and was con
veying him to his paternal abode.—
On the way the boy began to remon
strate with his grandfather on the sub
ject, by saying, “When grandpa tvas
at our house one time he said next
time he came he would carry me
home-and giandpa did not.” “Why,”
says the old gentleman, “you don’t
think your grandpa would lie, do you?”
“I don’t know,” says the boy, li what
does grandpa call it?” This confound
ed the old gentleman, and he knew not
what reply to make. This anecdote
has convinced me more than almost
any thing I ever heard, of the irnpor;
tan^e of regarding strictly and consci
entiously what we say to children.—
Es lecially, it has shown me the evil of
trifling with children, and making
them unmeaning promises or declara
tions which have attached to them no
(futli or signification. And it is my
deliberate and fixed opinion,' that oft
parents, by disregarding, forgetting,
unu neglecting to iuliil what they de
clare unto children in promises or
threatenings, are chargeable with the
pernicious evil of teaching their chil
dren lo lie; and then perhaps inflict
ing punishment upon them for the
crime. This is hard, this is cruel,—
this is an evil of a monstrous size,
prevalent and triumphant to an alarm
ing degree, and which ought speedily
and effectually to be corrected.—
The mischiefs are incalculably great,
numerous, and destructive. O what
solemn responsibility rests upon heed
less and careless parents who regard
not what they say to children; and
though spoken in the plainest and most
positive terms, and with an air of fix
ed design and determination, never
theless unheeded and considered by
them of no more avail than “1/tc idle
wind which they regard not.” Such pa
rents do not consider that they are for
feiting their own character, doing es
sential injury to their children; weak
ening and well nigh annihilating their
family government; trespassing griev
ously on the rights of community, ex
posing themselves to the mortifying
griefs and depressing sorrows of neg
lected and insulted old age, and bring
ing on themselves and their posterity
all the mischiefs, and all the pining
agonies and tortures of undutifulness,
unkindness and filial barbarity. It
was an old and correct maxim among
the ancients, and even in heathen
lands, “Maxima reventia debetur pu-
eris;” i. e. that the utmost deference
is due to children and youth. Light,
vain, and trifling communications
ought not to be held with them, or
before them. “Evil communications
corrupt good manners;” and he who
sports unbecomingly and vainly with
children and youth, may, in the end
have something worse than children's
play in return. Watch then, and re
member—remember I say once and a-
gain—do not forget, and on no account
neglect, to make good what you say
to children. Do not threaten with
what you have no business to exe
cute; such as cutting off ears, taking-
off skin, &c. In this way you weak
en your own hands; render the truth
doubtful, and train up your child for
falsehood and crime. Whatever else
you neglect to teach them by precept
and example—have an inviolable re
gard t'jfi the t) nth.
PlllLALETIIES.
should never have a ship lage enough
to navigate a duck pond.
♦While residing in one of the large
cities of Europe, a family from a
neighboring town came to pass a lew
days in the metropolis, and took a
suite of rooms next to my own. They
inquired of the landlady who occupied
my rooms. She replied, a gentleman
from America. “From America, and
are you not afraid ol him/—No! lie
has done nothing yet to excite alarm.
“1 am almost atraid to slay here, are
you sure he is harmless? She ob
served that I had resided there some
weeks, and had behaved as well us
other travellers. As a door opened
from one of my rooms into the first of
theirs, they still thought there might
be danger, and requested her to fasten’
it. This, however, was not a suffi
cient defence. The trunks of the
whole party were piled against the
door, to prevent my entrance. Un
fortunately for the fears of this fami
ly, the chimney sweepers came at
early hour the next morning, and
commenced their sooty employment.
The party were suddenly awakened
by the strange and incomprehensible
noise of trowels and scrapers coming
in contact with dry brick. They
rose in great alarm, and called out to
the mistress of the house, begging her
to come to them. As she entered
their room they wished to know if
that American was not the cause of it,
mistaking, probably, the noise of the
scrapers, for a sharpening of the to
mahawk.—Dwight's Travels in Ger
many,
lei me pay you for your milk?”‘‘I
uever sen milk.” “But,”saiu I urg
ing him, “I would rather pay you, 1
have money enough.” “Well,’ said
he, “I have milk enough, so we're ev
en; 1 have as good a right to give you
milk as you have to give me money.”
-—Judge hall s Letters jrom the West.
European Ignorance of America.—
Many of the Germans appear as ig
norant of our country, as the Parisians
and Italians. Madame , the la
dy in whose house 1 have my rooms,
mentio/iied to me to day, that as she was
recently visiting one of the neighbors,
she observed to her that an American
gentleman was lodging in her house.
The good lady, who had always as
sociated the idea of cannibalism w ith
that of an American, asked her if she
did not fear to remain m the house
with me. She replied that l was
perfectly harmless, she had yet dis
covered nothing to excite her tears.
She then w ished to know if l was not
black. While at Cologne, a year
since, on entering one of the churches,
I discovered the statue of a black
saint near one of the altars, whose
name if my memory is accurate, was
Si. Gcoron. On inquiring of my
guide who he was, he replied that
he was an American St. Upon my
telling him that there were lew’
saints of that color there, he replied,
“you mistake, sir, the Americans are
all black.”* I have been very for
tunate since my landing in Eun pe, in
pitching my tent in very agreeable
quartets, and have found the families
who have furnished me with rooms,
often manifesting an interest in my
welfare, while suffering from ill health,
that at times has made ine almost
forget that I was in a land of stran
gers, This has resulted partly from
a desire to know something about
America, and still more from the
circumstance of my being so far re
moved from my native land, which
appeared to them as distant as the
moon does to one of our seamen.
The middling classes of Germany are
so unaccustomed to travel, that a
thousand miles appears to them as
far as China does to me, and when
they hear that I am four thousand
miles from home, they lift up their
hands, roll their eyes, and exclaim.
“Oh! that is terrible.” Those w r ho
live in the interior are as fearful of
the ocean as a hen is of having her
chickens approach the water. If
Yankees were made of such stuff we
PUNCTUALITY.
A mechanics promised to do a piece
of work for me at a certain time; I
called at the time—it was not done—
he had forgotten it, but promised to
do it by 10 o’clock the next day: I
called again—It was not done—“could
not possibly get it done.” 1 discharged
him, and left what he had done to-
vvaids it, on his hands. I engaged
another mechanick to do the same
piece of work at a certain time—
called at the time—it was not done—
I discharged him. These mechanicks
had violated their word, disappointed
me, (by which I sustained loss, in mo
ney, and in lime) and lost a customer.
So much for want of punctuality.
I went to another mechanick—he
promised to do the work at a certain
time—called for it at a certain time
—it w as ready for me. This me
chanick enjoyed the consciousness ol
having kept his word, performed his
contract, and done justice to Ins cus
tomer, by which he secured not only
my work in future but my good will,
which gained him many customeis.
So much for punctuality.
It is hut ten years since the occur
ence of these things, and during the
interval 1 have marked the progress
of those three mechanicks. A crisis
tow ards which the affairs ol all these
have been gradually approaching, has
just been reached: the two first have
lost their business, their little proper
ty has been squandered, they have
lost their characters and their lage
and helpless families are suffering
lor the necessaries of life—if you
would know their persons, seek them
in grog shop—their names, seek for
them in the reeoids of insolvency.
The last has retired with a comforta
ble independance to a large farm—
is Llessed by his family, admired by
his friends, and possesses the
w ill of all.—Baltimore Patriot.
good
American Rustich Hospitality. Re
turning from one oi my excursions, I
was overtaken by the night, and found
my path obstructed by a deep inlet
from the river; which being choaked
with logs and brush, could not be
crossed by swimming. Observing a
house on the opposite side, I called
for assistance. A hall naked, ill-look
ing fellow came down, and after
dragging a canoe round from the ri
ver, with some trouble, ferried me
over, and I followed him to his habi
tation, near to which our boat was
moored for the night. The cabin was
of the meanest kind, consisting of a sin
gle apartment, constructed of logs,
which contained a family of seven or
eight souls, and every thing seemed
to designate him as a new and thrifty.
After drinking a bowl of milk, which
I realy called for by way of excuse
for paying him a little more for his
trouble, I asked to know his charge
for ferrying me over the water, to
which lie good humouredly replied,
that he “never took money for help
ing a traveller on his way.”—“Then
INSPIRATION OF ASTRONOMY
There are several recorded instan
ces of the powerful effect, which the
study ol astronomy has produced upon
the human mind. Dr. RittenaousC
ol Pennsylvania, alter he had calcu
lated the transit of Venus, which was
to happen June 3d, 1769, was ap
pointed at Philadelphia, with others,
to repair to the township of
Norriton, and there to observe this
planet until its passage over the sun's
disk should verify the correctness of
his calculations This occurrence
had never been witnessed but tw ice
before by any inhabitant of our earth,
and was never again to be seen by any
person then living. A phenomenon
so rare, and so important in its bear
ings upon astronomical science, was,
indeed, well calculated to agitate
the soul of one so alive, as he was, lo
the great truths of nature. The day
arrived, & there was no cloud in the
horizon. The observers, in silence
and trembling anxiety, waited for the
predicted moment of observation,
it came—and in the inslant of contact,
an emotion of joy so powerful was ex
cited in the bosom of Mr. Rittenhouse,
that lie fainted. Sir Isaac Newton,
alter he had advanced so far in his
in thematical proof of one of his great
astronomical doctrines as to see that
the result was to be triumphant, was
so affected in view of the momentous
truth which he was about to demons
trate, that he was unable to proceed,
and begged one of his companions in
study to relieve him, and carry out
the calculation. The instructions
which the heavens give, are not con
fined to sholars; but they are impart
ed to the peasant and to the savage.
The pious shepherd often feels a sud
den expansion of mind, while attempt
ing to form an idea of that Pow r er,
which spread out and adorned the
heavens with so many worlds of light.
—Pres. Chapin's Inaugural Address.
Barbarian Magnificence.—In an ac
count of the funeral of the late king of
the Madagascar, we have the following
passage:
The tomb was constructed at a
small distance from the catafalque,
and, according to the custom of the
country, precious articles, such as
gold and silver vases, crystals, and
porcelains, valuable fowling pieces, a
golden powder flask, magnificent
arms, trinkets, lvatches, clocks,
and linen, and the portraits of Louis
XVI. Louis XVII, of Geoge IV. of
Bonaparte, of Frederick the great, in
oil colors were enclosed therein, as
well as several engravings of Napo
leon, of Kleber, of Massena, Marbot,
Dessaix, Bernadotte, Eugene, Beau-
harnois, Poniatowski, &c. and other
engravings, several of which were
colored, representing views in Eu
rope, and land and sea baUles gained
by France, from the begining of the
revolution, to the fall of the emperor
Napoleon. To these were added 150,
000 dollars in gold and silver coins
and ingots. Six of the finest horses
of the stables, and 20,000 oxen were
sacrificed to the manes of the king.
All these offerings were estimated at
a sum total of 350.000 dollars, includ
ing the coffin, made of 14,000 Span
ish dollars. This coffin w r as eight
feet long, and four and a half feet high
and nearly a line in thickness.”
Chinese Execution.—In January last,
seventeen men were executed in Chi
na, for the murder of 14 Frenchmen
in the Ladrone Islands. The culprits
were brought to the place of execu
tion in baskets, each having his name
and sentence written on a slip of wood
and fastened to the back. They
were then made to kneel about eight
feet apart, when their heads were
rapidly stricken off by six execution
ers, armed with long heavy svv6rds.
The decapitation was' effected by a
single blow, excepting in two instan
ces. One executioner boasted that
he had been 30 years in this employ
ment—that he had taken the lives of
of at least 10,000 criminals—and in
one year, during the time of the pi
rates, he executed 1000.
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