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THE FOUNT.
FOR THE CHRONICLE.
Messrs. Kkak & Chabltos, will confer
\ singular favor upon one of their readers,
by giving the following lines a place in
the Caßotncts.
To 11. H. of Augusta.
Though triwtcJ, thou didst not disclaim me;
Though pencil, it was not to fly;
Though i*atchfl»l,'t»asnot to-Urfame me.
Nor nrntr. that the world night belie.
BYRON.
From the gloom, of my heart and thai
datlmess of feeling.
That would hale. If it could, all it loved here
below, ,
' ItttrQ to thee Henry, and thy image ap
-1 pealing
To affection and friendship, revive their
last glow.
The-wstavay thus, with a desert around
Mm,
Fetls as reckless of life on Its desolate
shore,
-'XiJlthe shade of some pure gushing foun
„ tain he’s found him.
To slake his parched bosom, and dream his
woes o’er. '
f And rAatrarl the fountain that lives in my
heart,
Unchilled by the drearinfeM gathering
! o’er it.
So deep, ’twould have frozen K’s better
most part.
Did not the warm gush Vs that fountain
• restore it.
When falshood had injured, and doubts
had bereft me
Os hearts that Had trusted, 'till rank ones
betrayed me:— ■.
In doubts and in dangers thy heart never
left me, \
But wanned to my prongs, and to right
them bestay’d me.
You taw thro’ the falsehood—youlcnrw rhe
much more,
Then hearts that were warped by the
skillful deciever;
You stood up to defend me, and that fame
to restore,
Os which you were the witness—supporter
.—believer!
Then—alas!— ih those regions alone— far
alone!
.. From the ties and the blisses that dung
round (ny youth;
Where-ah! were would the innocent stran
ger have flown,
Were it not for thy manly, affection and
truth?
Then still blest be that bosom with Hea
ven’s best peace.
That gave its pure refuge to friendship
and me;
And every bliss, yet not lost by me,
cease,
When my heart shall forget all that binds
it to thee.
Sparta, MaySO 1821. ENAOL3.
MIDNIGHT.
T —Nos tineflat
cdi.m orpetn.—Horace-
Midnight—and the world is still,
Tb wind hatfhushed its clam’roua swell;
The morn-beam sleeps upon the hill.
And flickers o’er the mead and dell.
Midnight—and the lowly beast
Has found repose on humble lair;
And thought his lot is toil, at least
When night comet on, repose is there.
Midnight—and the feather’d kind.
Whose throats to song were, tuned by
day,
Hare ceased their cards; glad to And
The sleep that wiles the night away.
Midnight—and man is gone to bed,
Regardless of the day’s affairs;
And rests secure his weary head
To find a respite to his cares.
Ambition has forgot its night;
And Avarice thinks no more of gold;
E’en Revelry, in wretched plight.
Has ceased hisfav’rite bowl to drain.
And why, when moonlight seals the eye
Os men, and beast, and bird in sleep,
Should misery that boon deny
To me—and make me wake and weep.
During the Am.-ricka war sir Charles
Grey ordered his msn to take the flints
from their guns, on a midnight expedition
.. to suprise a party of Americans asleep in
a barn in Pennsylvania. The centi
nels were bayoneted, and mast of the
Americans sun red in like manner, although
„■ they cried out fop quarter The children
call him no-flint-Grey to this day in Arne
vYica. Gen. W*yd», often called mad
Anthony,jfromthe impetuosity of his at
tacks after the above transaction, surprised
Stony ooint, on the North River in the
- same manner, crying out “rem.mber the
barn.” The British fell on their knees
imploring quarter.' After terrifying i >
sulficienUy,, he showed a merciful
retaliation, for not a life Was sacrificed to
thfe demon of war and revenge . *
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From a late British Magazine.
THE BACHELOR’S THERMOMETER.
JEtatia *3o—Looked back through *
: vista ten years; remember that, at twen
• ty, | looked on a man. of thirty as a mid
dle-aged man: wondered atmy error, and
: protracted the middle age to forty.
Said to myself, “Forty is the age of wis
dom.” Reflected generally upon past
life; wished myself twenty agam, and
exclaimed, “If I were but twenty, what
a scholar I would be by thirty ! but it s
too late now. Looked m the glassu still
youthful, but getting rather fat. Young
says, “ a fool at forty is a fool indeed .
, forty therefore must be the age of wis
-d°3l. Read in the Morning Chronicle
that a watchmaker in Fans, aged thir y
= one, had shot himself for love. More
fool the watchmaker 1 Agreed that no
body fell in love after twenty. Quoted
- Sterne. “ The expression of fall in love,
evidently shows love to be beneath a
man,” Went to Drury Lane; saw Miss
r Crotch in Rosetta, and fell in love with
i, her. Received her ultimatum none but
n matrimonions need, apply- _ Was three
months making up my mind, (a long
time making up such a little parcel;
when Kitty Crotch eloped with Lari Bus
kon; pretended to be very glad Toot
three turns up and down- library, ant
looked in the glass. Getting rather fai
and florid. Met a friend in Gray’s Inn
who said, I wasevidsntty in rude health
Thought the compliment ruder than the
it health.
32. Passion for dancing rather on the
e decline. Voted sitting outplay and farce,
one of the impossibilities. Still in stage
i- box three nights per week- Sympathiz
ed with the public in vexation, occasion
r ed by non-attendance the other three i
can’t please every body. Began to won
der at the pleasure of kicking one’s heels
d on a chalked floor till four in the morn
ing. Sold bay mare, who reared at three
e carriages, and shook me out of the sad
dle. Thought saddle-mating rather
i- worse than formerly. Hair growing thin.
Bought a,bottle of Tricesion fluid. Mem.
s “ a flattering unction.”
33. Hairtbinner. Serious thoughts of a
wig Met Colonel Buckhopse, who wears
f one. Devil in a bush. Serious thoughts
of-letting it alone. Met a fellow Etonian
r in, the Green park, who told me I wore
well; wondered what he could mean
■ gave up cricket club, on account of the
air about Paddington; could not run it,
i without being out of breath.'
34. Measured for a new coat. Tailor
proposed fresh measure, hinting some
; thing about bulk. Old measure too short;
parchment shrinks- Shortened by morn
ing ride to Hampstead and Highgate, and
wondered what people could see at Hen
don. Determined not to marry; means
expensive and dubious. Counted eigli
teen bald heads in the pit at the Opera.
So much the better; th« more -the mer
rier.
35; Tried on an old great coat, and
fouhd it an old.little one ; cloth shrinks as
well as parchment. Red face in patting ’
on shoes.—Bought a shoe horn. Remem
ber-quizzing my uncle George for using
one ; then young and fuolish. Hunting
belts for gentlemen hung up in glover’s
windows. Longed .to buy one, but two
women in shop cheapening mittens.—
Three grey hairs in left eye-brow
36. Several grey hairs in whiskers; all
ovting to carelessness in manufac’ory of
shaving soap. Remember thinking my
father an old man at thirty-six. Settled
the point! Men grew old sooner in for
mer days. Laid blame upon dapped
waistcoat, and tie wigs. Skaited on the
Serpentine. Gout. Very foolish exercise,
only fit for boys. Gave skaits to Chai-le’
eldest son.
39. Fell in love again. Rather pleased
to find myself not too old for the passion.
Emma only nineteen. What then ? Wo
men require protectors -, day settled ; de
vilishly frightened; too late to get off.
Luckily jilted. Emma married George
Parker one day before the. Again deter
mined never to marry. Turned off’ old
tailor and took to new one in Bond st.—
Some of these fellows make a man look
ten years younger. 1 Not that that was the
reason.
38. Stuck rather more to dinner par
ties.—Gave up country dancing. Mo
ney-must Certainly be more fatiguing tlian
formerly. Fiddlers play it too quick.—
Quadrilles stealing hither over the chan
nel. Thought of adding to a number of
grave gentleman who learn to dance.—
Dick Dapper dubbed me one of the over
grown. Very impertinent and untrue.
‘39. Quadrilles rising. aVunderfill so
ber mistresses of families would allow
their carpets to be beat after that fashion.
Dinner parties increasing. Found my
self gradually Tontinetlne it towards top
of table Dreaded Ultima Thule of host
essses elbow. Good places for cutting Tur
kies; bad for cutting jokes. Wonderful
why 1 was always desired to walk up
Met two school fellows at Pimlico, both
fat and red faced. Used to say at school
that they were both my age ; wliat lies
boys tell!
40 Look back ten years. Remem
ber at thirty, thinking forty a middle
aged man.—Must have meant fifty. Fif
ty certainly, the age of wisdom. Deter
mined to be wise in ten years. Wished
to learn music and Italian. Tried Lo
giem 'Twould not do. No defect of ca
pacity, but those things should be learn
ed in childhood.
41. New furnished chambers. Look
ed in ne w glasses; one chin too much
Looked in other new glass; chin still dou
ble. Art of glass-making on the decline.
Sold my horse, and wondered people
could find any pleasure in being bumped.
What were legs made for ?
42. Goat again: that disease certainly
attacks young people more, than former
ly —Caught myself at a rubber of whist,
and blushed. Tried my hand at ori-'
ginal composition, and found a hankering
after epigram and satire. Wondered i
could ever write love sonnets. Imitated
Horace’s Ode, “Ne ait anceUa.”— Did
not mean any thing serious; thought Su- i
san certainly civil and attentive.
43. Bought a hunting belt. Braced I
myself up till ready to burst. Intestines
not to be trifled with; threw it aside.
Young men, now a days, much too small i
in the waist, “.Pills to prevent Corpu- i
lency,” bought a box. Never the slim- i
mer, though much the sicker. i
44. Met Fanny Stapleton, now Mrs. I
Meadows, at Bullock’s Museum. Twen- I
ty-five years sgo wanted to marry her.— I
Whit in escaped Women certainly M?e
much sooner than men. Charles’s eldest
boy began to think himself a man.-
Starched cm at and a cane. What pre
sumption! At his age I was a child.
45. A few wrinkles about the eyes,
commonly called crones feet Must have
• caught cold. Began to talk.politicks, and
1 shun the drawing-room. Eulogised Gar
. rick, saw nothing to Kean. Talked ot
■ Lord North/ Wondered at the licentious
. nes of the modern press. Why can’t peo
l pie be civil, like Jutriusand John Wilkes
t in the good old times Si
i 45. Rather on the decline, but atill
I handsome and interesting. Growing
' dislike 1 to the company of young men: all
’ of them talk too much or. too little, Began
- to calf chambermaids at |nns VHy dear.
Thought the money expended ou Wa
e terlou bridge might be better employed. —
■- Listened to a howl from Captain Qneru
e lous, about family expences, price of
i- bread and butchers fneat. Did not care
d , a jot if bread was a shilling, a toll, and
!, butcher’s meat fifty pounds a call. Hug
a ged myself in “ single blessedness,” and
e wished him a good morning,
h 47. Top of head quite bald. Ph»dcd
it Lord Grey in justification. 'Shook it, on
e reflecting that I vas but three years re
g moved from the “Age of _ Wisdom.” —
iV Teeth sound, but not -so white as hereto
5. fore. Something the matter with the den
t trrfice. Began to be cautious in chrono
d logy. Bad thing to remember too far
Lt ' back. Had serious thoughts of not re
, memboring Miss Famn.
,! 49, Resolved never to marry but for
e money or rank. <
50. Age of wisdom. Married my cook
e Grimm's Ghost. v
e’ Puffing. —The art if puffing has* no
>. doubt reached a great height in the Unit
i- ed States, but in this ve stand outrivaled
j by the puffers of the British metropolis,
n One man, in order to -ecommend a stove
!s far which he had obtained the “Kipg’s
i. Patent,” says that it has a “large Oven and
e Boiler, which, in addition to cooking,
1. heats the largest half or staircase, boils
r water in washing tubs, and dries linen in a
i. laundry at the distance of sixty feet, with
as much rapidity as two women can wash,
and heat a Bath, &c he ; all of which is
a effected with half the usual quantity of
s fuel. , "
i Another of these empiric* who had ob
i tained a similar patent for a Lamp, thus
r blazensits extraordinary qualities; “Two;
of these Lamps, which add elegance to
utility, have been proved, by mifny. expe
riments made by a respectable Florist in
his own Green-house, to have kept tjie
thermometer at 40 to 41 degreesfor twelve,
hours, during a severe frost, at the small
expence in spermatic oil of two pence,
each; and what adds to its singular advan-’.
tage is, that its heat can be increased or.
otherwise at pleasure. The Night or
Chamber Lamp gives an invariable light
for twelve hours or more-p-ready at the
moment it is wanted—bearing any motion
perfectly safe—and in expense not half,
that of a rush-light.”
But the most unqualified puff direct
which we have read for a long time, is that
■ of a Ur. Duflef, who pretends to have dis
covered a new and infallible method of ac
quiring languages; with unparaleled rapi
dity,and so very economical, that a libera!
education can be procured even by the
purest of mankind ; thus furnishing the great;
desideratum of enabling nations to arrive
at (he highest degree qf mmtnlperfection.”
And, byway of recommending this “Kbe
raj” system to the “Holy Alliance,” and
other despots, he -tills them, that his me
thod of teaching would, in a short time,
“suplant the native language, by render-,
iog the Former more nateural and familiar
A conqueror might even, by this means,
extinguish the language pi the conquered,
and substitute any other suited to his poli
tical views.”
This modest advocate of “liberal educa
tion,” and “the progress of science,” pro
duces innumerabletestlraomab.from “the
most respectable societies,” and from in-,
dividuais of the “first rank,” infavor ot bis
“ True British System of Educations” and,
to show his own confidence In its superi
ority, he closes a jong address upon the
subject with the following flourish:
Literary Challenge.—l am now so tho
roughly convinced that this system con
tains all the original elements of tuition,
which are grounded on the very nature of
the understanding itselfi elements which
have for the greatestpart escaped attenti«m,
that, animated with the same spirit which
made the mathematicians of the sixteenth
century challenge one another in the so
lution of difficult Problems, a spirit of love
amlenthusiasm for the progress of science,
I do hereby CHALLENGE the Quarterly
and Edinburgh Reviews, and all the in
strutters ofyouth in the United Kingdom,
to point out what elementary principle
of education has been omitted or over
looked; and in what respect this system
can be at variance with itself: for I have
asserted that this method “ renovates or
strengthens the faculties of the mind, by
bringing into action every menial anil l
.physical organ engaged in the learning
of language, and directing the wholes
with' 1 , simultaneous energy, towards one
and the same end. N. G. DUFIEF,
Dnfief was formerly of Philadelphia,
and is the author of “Nature Displayed.” 1
National Advocate *
Tlr
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
Kent, C EnglandJ Assizes, (
March 24, 1821. ,
Cowax vs. Baker. s
This was an action of trespass, for •
pulling down and demolishing, without '
leave or licence, two lease-hold houses •
of the plaintiff, situate in the parish of •
Chatham. The case excited considerable s
interest t
Mr Sergeant Onslow (with whom were ;
Mr. Serjeant Taddy and Mr. Cotnyn) I
stated tire plaintiff’s ease. In the month 8
of March, last year, a dreadful fire hav- *
ing broken out hi Chatham, which des- t
troyed a great number of houses, and e- 1
ven threatened the destruction of that I
and the adjoining towiis, the defendant, 8
a respectable builder pf Chatham, in or- 1
der to prevent the progress of the flames, i
directed a body of sappers and miners, 1
belonging to the royal artillery corps, to f
pull down the two houses in question, 8
which were built of lath and plaister, and a
situate close to a distillery, to which if c
the flames had reached, destruction to i
the whole town and to the city of Roches- r
ter was inevitable. The plaintiff’s houses *
had been insured in the Eagle Fire Office f
for 1.400 but the directors of the institution, v
being applied to for the indemnification r
for the plaintiff’s low, refused to pay, be
cause U was not & loss within the terms ol
the policy. In consequence of tins relu
gal, the plaintiff was compelled tobnng
his action against the defendant, by whose
express order, in the hour of universal
alarm, the houses were demolished.
Tue pontiff's evidence was confined to
two heads; First, to show that the de
fendant had, in fact, give the orders m
question ; and, second, /that the houses
were pulled <lown at a tune when there
was no absolute necessity to do so, the
progress of the flames having been stop
ped and the wind being in a country di
rection to that in which the house were
situated.—The sum sought to {be recov
ered w*s 3001 the estimate for rebuild
ing them, and the mense and
tenements, which were let to foe plaintiff
and for which he was over liable to hm
' superioi landlord
Mr. Marryat, (with whom were Mr.
Gurney and Mr. Chilty, for the defen
dant,) called a great number of witnes
ses, to show —first, that, in point of fact,
foe defendant had not given foe order
imputed to him, though it must be admit
ted that the house*, were pulled down by
i his advice, in concurrence with that of the
commandant of tlse garrison, foe magis
tracy, and several most respectable inha
bitants, all of whom thought it was the
only measure calculated to stop the pre
■ gress of the flames, and preserve the
■ town from general conflagration:; and
second, that the progress of the flames
being so rapid, and the wind blowing in
the direction of the houses, which iraine
, diately adjoined a large distillery, the de
struction of them, in the com
plained of, was so.necessary asto justify
foe defendant, in point of law, in the act
done, supposing it tp have been commit
ted by his order, as a measure essential
for the safty of their lives and the proper
ty of the whole enmmunity.
The jury deliberated a few minutes and
found a verdict for the plantiff. .Dama-,
ges 3201.—cost 40s. i
It appears that a very 'formidable op-,
position, is about to be made, in the
House of Lords, to the (Catholic Bill,
which has lately -passed the House of
Commons. Petitions from the Mayor and
Corporation of the City of Dublin, from.
the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely,
from the Royal Burgh of Dunfermline,
(Scotland) and from Dover, in the Coun
ty of Kent, have'been presented by the’
Duke of Wellington, the Bishop of Ely,
Lord I>e iJtmstairville, and the Earl of
Liverpool. There are also remonstrances
and* letters I •on the subject,’from many
other places; so that, what may be the
ultimate fate of the bill, is very uncer
tain. Indeed - notwithstanding some reso
lutions which have been passed in Lon
don, approbatory .of the Bill of the oath
of supremacy; and of the conduct of Mr.
Plunket, in the support which he affor
ded it: yet it appears that many Catho
lics in Ireland, entirely disapprove of it,
in its present form. 'I bis hostility is said
not to be manifested by the ignorant
alone. An aggregate meeting of the
Catholics of Cork, lately held at Carey’s
Lane Chapel, passed the following -re
solution ;—“ We do for ourselves ami
cur children, protest against the Bill
‘ assinginto a Law, as it would be more
oppressive, penal, and afflictive to con
science and religion, than any statutes in
’force in Ireland, during the blackest
lays of peisecution and bigotry ” — Char.
City. Gaz- - ,
The State vs. Lorenzo Dow
Yesterday the defendant .came into
Court, to receive the sentence of the lav:
in the case of of a libel (of which he had
been convicted this term) against the Ist -
Rev. Mr. llammet. Previous to the
charge, or sentence of the Judge, Mr.
Dow, read, (by permission of the Court,)
a very interesting document, explanatory
of hismotrves,Rud justificatory of the ob
jecls he had In view, by the publication
ol the book, from which the libellous
matter was extracted. Ills Honor Judge
Joussox, then gave one. of the most
eloquent, and appropriate charges, we
have ever heard pronounced in a court of
justice. In fact, we think it has seldom
been equalled in this Slate, except per
haps, in the case of the State vs. Slater,
ponounced some years ago, by that great
A’muchlamented Judge (Wilds) since de
ceased. The sentence of Mr, Dow, was
very mild,being only an imprisonment of
24 hours, jand a fine of,one dollar, with the
cost. We would, with great pleasure,
publish the able charge of the Judge, but
we forbear to do so at this time, in conse
quence of having understood that the
trial will be shortly issued, in a pamphlet
form, when the whole case will be fully
stated as it took place in Court.
We are informed that the officers of the
Court, have given up the costs which
they were entitled to receive from Mr.
Dow in the case-
P. S. Since the above was in type, we
have been informed, that Hi* Excellency
foe Governor, has remitted the imprison
ment of Mr. Dow.
Charleston City Gazette , May 24.
Female Heroism— On New-Yew’s day,
Troger, a miller, whose mill is situated
near the village of Robersdorf, not f>r
from Bamberg, had gone to church with
every one of the family except Nannette
Ghan, his daughter-in-law 4 19 years of
uge, one of the handsomest girls in the
Canton.'*At 9'o’clock in the morning,
she heard a knocking at the window, and
saw four suspicious looking men, who ask
ed her to let them into warm themselves.
She told them there was no one at home
besides herself, and that they had better;
therefore, go the next village. They in
sisteil; she repeated her refusal; one of
them threw a stone against the casement,
and, to open the window, introduced his
hand through the broken glass. Nannette
seized an iron, used to sharpen the mill
stones, and pierced the hand of the in
truder, who retired with curses. One qf
his comrades replaced him; she pierced
his fore arm. A third presented himself;
she wounded him severely also; but he
had succeded to open the window. Al
most petrified by fear, the iron escaped
from the trembling hands of the young
girl, and the fourth brigand had time to
enter. She at once recovered her cour
age, and, plunging a jar into the kettle
of boiling water on the stove, she pitched
it all over the assailaht, who recoiled, \u
miting a hundred imprecations. Nannette
again tilled foe jar, and stood prepared
for another attack; but they were satisfied
with their first reception, and left her
mistress of the field.—.V, X. Nu. A<h.
jProm the VILLAGE SECOBDEM.
The article “ On Newapaners,”
selected from the Long fstand Star,
is so full of goodsen.se, that we beg
of our subscribers, if they have a
neighbor who is aide to take a paper
& does hot, to lend it to him to read.
We have no doubt but the perusal
will add fifty to our list, ahd “ the
more the merrier,” as the old saying
goes.
Some will pretend to say,perhaps,
that “the times are hard, and they
can’t afford.it.” Now this, to nine
tenths who mske the excuse will be
• without any just foundation. Can’t
afford it P Why what a trifle it is.
A small glass of gin, or a pint of
beer, which, as Corporal Trim said,
“isgone in a moment,” will cost more
by thirty per cent, than a Newspa
per, which after being read by the
father,of the .family, will impart
pleasure and instruction to the wife,
the children, five servants: and then,
remember it i-s worth hall its cqjt as
wrapping paper, it it is not thought
best to preserve it.
A newspaper is a school in a fami-
ly of children worth ’len DeHart.
[ a Year. Even the most barren pa
. perbrings something new,.- Children
■ read or hear tlve contents, become
■ intelligent of the affairs of the
; world and acquire a store of useful
1 knowledge of more importance to
1 thorn in life than a present o< fifty
, acres of land. Parents arc not
aware of the vast, we may say with
1 confidence, the vast importance of a
newspaper in a family of children.
] We have made the remark before,
. and we repeat it, that take two fami
lies of children, equally smart, and
boll) going to the sitne school let the
other he deprived of the use of it
and it would excite astonishment to
mark the difference between them.
Full one hal£ and an important half
of education, as ijt respects the bu
siness of the world, and the phi 11 ty to
; rise ami make one’s self respecta
ble in it, is derived from newspapers.
What parent would , not *»jsh hip
children to be respectable ? Who
would be willing to have his neigh
hors children more intelligent, (ban
his own?-—and yet how trifling is
the sum a paper costs?—it is fcven in
these hard tides absolutely con
temptible in amount, and no man
ever felt it, except in ifs" beneficial
consequence, who paid the subscrip
tion regularly once a year.
Truly we should suppose that if a
young man goes a courting, and his
sweetheart finds out that he reads no
newspaper, she should if she tho’t
much of herself, send him away, as
one uninformed of his political rights;
ignorant of a thousand things which
eiery young American ought to
know, and therefore unfit to be the
husband of an intelligent girl.
“ But the price of newspapers has
not fallen as every thing else has
done—let us see how the printers
will get along with that,” iam
glad you mention it reader, It is
true. But recollect that the price
of every thing was as low. as at this
time, except wheat and corn, and
from particular circumstances, are
below their pepper y|lue, and will
certainly rise. Besides, (He faews
papersare now enlarged in size, and
contain nearly double the nrattoi
they did formerly, without any in
crease in price. We have this
week put dow’h six new subscribers,
and it has put us quite in the notion
of adding a hundred or two more to
our list.
As the conclusion of the whole
matter, we should be glad to receive
orders for our paper.
The charms of isewspapers read
ing to the intelligent farmer who va
lues the instruction of himself ant
his family, constitute the relish o
the week and furnish abundance for
profitable reflection and conversa
tion. If he is a patriot, he cannot
be insensible to the welfare of his
country. If he is a philanthropist,
he feels a concern for his fellow men,
however distant. If he is a lather,
he loses no opportunity to instruct
his children, and cannot but view
“ the passing tidings of the times,”
as a most essential part of their edu
cation. Though distant from., the
metropolis—though secluded from
society, he can know all that is ne
cessary to he known of the pomp and
bustle of city life.
By a dose attention to the diver
sified columns ot newspapers, we
are enabled to “catch the manner
living as they rise.” in one column
may be seen the march of armies
and the fate of nations—and in ano
other, the humble advertisement of
the humblest dealer. ■ All may find
instruction, amusement or interest,
from (he hoary sage to the lisping
school boy.
Every subscriber to a newspaper
should carefully preserve them in
regular files for the benefit of his
posterity. After the lapse of 40 or
50 years, to look over these and ex
mine the important occurrences ol
former days, will give a clearer view
than can be found to any history.-
Ihe best account of our revolution
ary war mayjbe obtained in thia way;
and oo doubt, the riain* I
, will in future time,
to newspapers sot-the S?;
' the recent wan whirU u ‘*'
‘ men. - gur conn
It. is crroneoua to
newspapers are ies« vaIJT? Se '
1 jKiee. thm in u TO , ‘
true, those who delioM •
i
will find less to mtifv fk .V
’ ous appetite; bo?
' improvement, or delight:"' 8
; ment, will find an S^l'
; frt,m the attention paid J*
1 “ft •**•«•■«. »
•• raht,
> The nun <« whoc,a’u tJ .
' t 0 r '» a
week must be truly a slave tn
I a nceorpoyerty. The truth j
t ever, that it is a„ excuse for
’ ® nc * and P ar s>mony, and thus
’ families are deprived of- inform
M on those points which afford on
1 the conversation of society "
are content to borrow Jl
- rnA-e intelligent or more 'm
b neighbors, thus-existing i n tk
a rf ’ the
I Wl* hoped however, that sue
e few. Our political welfare so,
(.ally depends on a general di
0 of intelligence, and we haveso
1 examples in the oW world,ofb
t people being the slaves of sun
“ tian tyranny, that our y Oll ,
a public should lose no opertuni
f* establish itself on the only n
:> nent foundation. ; 1
j Long Island
£5 Proof the JUISSOUIi
* THE WORM.
: “Outv'nom, allik, wll
- -SHilSfi
Who have not heard of the,
» snake or copperhead? Ah one
L ted sight of cither of those re
(• will make even the Morels of th
b ation’ recoil; but there is a si
» of worm, found in various pa
this state, which conveysapoi
1 a nature so deadly, that, com
s with it, even venom of the rattle
1 is harmless.
To guard our readers j gains
i ‘foe to human kind,’ is the oto
■ the present communication
* worm varies much in size; it
fluently an inch through-buta
* rarely seren except when coil
s length cart hardly be conjectu
» it isof a dull lead color, and
t rally lives near a spring or
* stream of water, and bites tli
8 fortunate people who are in the
h of going there to drink. The
9 creation it never molests; they
9 it with the same instinct thatte
the animals of Peru* to she
8 deadlyCoya.
s Several of these reptiles
9 long infested our settlement,
9 misery and destruction of mi
8 onr citizens. I have, therefon
i frequent opportunities of beii
8 melancholy spectator ot the e
J produced by the subtile poison
9 this worth infuses.
1- The-symptoms of its bite at
* rible. The eyes of the pntiei
1 come red and fiery, tris tongei
> to an immoderate size and ob?
* his utterance, and delirium «
8 most horrid character quick!
> lows. Sometimes in his ma
i he attempts the destruction
* dearest friends. If the suffer*
a family, ids weeping wife and
i less infants are not unfrequent
: objects of his frantic fury—
word, he exhibits to the life,a
detestable passions that rankle i
bosom of a savage, and such
“spell” in which his senses are
ed, that no sonner has the unt
patient recovered from the par
of insanity occasioned by on*
r than he seeks out this tied
‘ for the sule purpose of bejn|!
(again,
* I have seen a good old fathf
’ locks white as snow, his step
’ and trembling, beg^in vain ofii
’ ly son to quit the lurking pin
the worm. My heart bled wh
\ turned awaw for 1 knewth#
hope that this son would le the'
' of his declining years,” bad
ported him through manya*" 1
Youths of Missouri, woul*
know the name of this reptile?
called the Worm of theSt'^
From'the London Tlines>
On the 4ib ot April the frie°
parliamentary reform dined a
city of London Tavern. Aft* l
cloth was removed, the hea tb
known and tried friend id ret
who would have been present"
not been for % verdict obtain*
gainst him for writing a letter If
constituents, in th«
which the great majority
pie cordially concurred.
ceiyed a letter from Sir F. bar
which the secretary would an*
The following letter***
read, and received withgr"
plausp, mingled with freq ueD
« K;»p’s Bekcb April A lB
“Mg Lord, j.
“Yoti will not, k am tWi “
i