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THE PE \( r.l l i, \ A 1.1.1 T
How hallow'd and ‘till is this lonely spot,
V\ nh these lolly trees its shade surround
ing,
And uirny a cave and mo-gi*own grot
lrrthe vaulted rocks its shelter bounding.
Here often with careless*foot 1 stray,
tVhen the tranquil summer-eve is closing,
And watch the light, of the bun's last ray,
On tiie calm blue depth ot the lake repos
ing.
. No whisper the breathless silence breaks,
Hut the turtle-dove ever her moan repeat
ing :
Ur her mate, as his homeward fligtit he takes,
The air with his downy pinion beating.
And still as in.radence wild and deep,
Her gentle coucs on tire breeze are swell
ing ;
Hale lie ho starts frow her tranced sleep,
A ml sings it again in her lonely dwelling.
t here are hearts as dark as the shady grove,
Alike by pleasure and hope forsaken ;
A\ it li thoughts as sad as the Turtle’s wail,
T'ond Memory’s echoing notes to waken.
From the. European Magazine.
When w e speak of simplicity, it w ere injustice
to the names of the unknown bard nut to in
troduce to notice a piece of former time*,the
author of which has slided into the current
of oblivion, hut which it w ill be a merit in
nny publication to be the medium of resto
riiig
THE ORPHAN BOV.
Alas ! I am an Orphan Boy,
\\ ith nought on earth to cheer my heart ;
No lather’s love, no mother’s joy,
Nor kin nor kind to take my part.
My lodgfng is the cold, cold ground,
I eat the bread of charity ;
And when the kiss of love goes round,
There is no kiss,ulas, forme.
Vet once I bad a father dear,
A mother too, I wont to prizo ;
VVitii ready hand to wipe the tear,
If chanc'd the transient tear to rise
But cuuse of tears was rarely found,
For all my heart was youthful glee,
And when the kiss of love went round,
How sweet a kiss there was for me.
But ah I there came a w ar they say;
VV hat is a war ?—1 cannot tell ;
But drums and fifes did sweetly play,
And loudly rang our villuge bell,
fn truth it was a pretty sound
1 thought,—nor could I thence foresee,
That when the kiss of love went round,
There soon should-be no kiss for me.
A scarlet coat my father took,
And sword as bright as bright could be,
ttid feathers that so gaily look,
All in u shining cap had he.
if hen how my little heart did bound,
Alas, I thought it flue to see—
Nor dreamt, that when the kiss w ent round,
1 here soon should be no kiss for me,
At length the-lied again did ring,—
_ 1 here was a victory they said ;
1 w as w hat my hither said he'd bring,
But, ah ! it brought my father dead.
*•*>• mother shriek’d, her heart was woe,
She clasp and me to her trembling knee ;
0 God ! that you may never know,
How wild a kiss she gave to me !
But once again,—but once again,
These lips a mother's kisses felt;
•That once again,—that once again,
The tale a heart of stone would melt.
“I'was when upon her death-bed laid,
(O God ! OGod! that sight to see,)
“ My child, my child,” she feebly said,
And gave a parting kiss to me.’
So now I mn an Orphan Boy,
H ith nought below my heart to cheer;
No mother’s love, no father’s joy,
Nor kin nor kind to wipe the tear.
My lodging is the cold, cold ground,
I eat the bread of charity
And when the kiss ot love goes round,
‘i here is no kiss, alas, forme.
It is on the last four lines of the fifth
verse endiii£
O God ! that you may never know,
How wild a kiss she gave to me,
that we will repose our judgment,'wil
ling here to take our stand, and to
rest on this our reputation for critical
discernment. We maintain this to
be as wtriple, natural, pathetic, and
touching a sentiment, and clothed in
as unaffected diction as any tube found
m the elegies of the most admired po
ets. I'he speaker expatiates not on
the particular feeling excited in his
mother or himself, when the kiss was
imprinted, but breaks out into an ex
clamation which, while it'deprecates
cur knowledge of the reality, implies
the impossibility of description. As
hu- the mother's*feelings, His nterelv
“ her heart was woe;” not the seat olf
woe, nor distracted by a thousand
woes. It is these bursts of nature,
these unlabored starts.ol genuine sen
timent, that constitute the attraction
of tlte simple e!e ,r y.
j[¥<ujrcilanj).
the lor cabin.
‘ M<>rcv on us ! who is (hat fcrop.le sr loud
Uiioii ur r.gl,t ?—Of a surety she must he the
‘ v,M,,a who hired -he devil to teach
her how to outscold ull her neighbors.”
. . liurl. Fair.
My tale is not so much üboutthe ca
hiti as aUm.t its though every
one who has travelled from Alesbury
to Hurling Ford, must remember the
ilnee cornered pine-log hut, at the
•°9t ni the fled llidge, roofed with
lo.ise slabs with a mud and straw
chimney, and a large hole cut out of
one side for the double purpose of a
door and wiud/v. And if there was
not such another cabin in the country,
neither was just such another pair aJ
the honest couple who inhabited it.—
The land on which it stood belonged to
a distant proprietor,and as such lauds
w'ere considered “ free,” the pres
ent tenant Peter Tseltzcr, had put up
the dwelling himse’rf with such assis
tance as two quarts of whiskey com
manded on the rising day, and lived,
as one would readily imagine from his
manner of living, entirely unincumber- 1
ed with ground tent.
Peter had scarcely troubled him
self to cut away the bushes that grew
by his door. He minded neither the
grubbing hoe nor the pruning knife,
his only implement of husbandry, if I
may call it so, was a rough bored ri
fle which he kept in admirable order,
and with which he never failed to do
excellent service whenever necessity
or whim drove him to scour the for
ests, and climb the ragged mountains,
or trace up the winding streams, in
pursuit of game,—and, in truth, ne
cessity or whim kept the poor man
pretty constantly on the scout, for
whed the venison was not out, Ma
dame Keltzer's temper always was,
and the failure of the one or the other
was an equal misfortune for Peter.
DameKeltzer was a thin, sharp-vis
aged lady, about five feet two ; with a
black piercing eye, and hut three teeth;
the others, as Peter afiirmed, having
been utterly worn out of her mouth
by the constant concussions of her
tongues, which, also, were three in
number, if his word might pass for
value—indeed he gravely asserted
that it was in consequence of these
remarkable and coinciding anomalies,
that the Dame had compelled him, af
ter a year's fire, to build a three-cor
nered house, she having fallen upon
the resolution, since her husband
had conceived a mortal antipatiiy to
the number three on her account, to
oblige him to tolerate another trio, in
the cabin of his misfortunes. Peter
himself though he possessed but a
comparatively small portion of his
mate’s volubility, was a man of much
courage, and while in the frequent
rencontres between himself and Ma
dame Keltzer, to which he was sub
jected, he was uniformly obliged to
beat the retreat, he turned his back
with an air of lordly defiance, and his
visage showed evident signs of threat
ened retaliation.
Between parties so often beliger
ent, it was hardly to be expected that
every contest should end in smoke.
Peter complained to all his neighbours
of his wife’s treasonable war upon his
liberty, and accused her with a de
sign of reducing him to downright
slavery ; while she was not less prompt
in charging him with an idle rambling
disposition, an entire neglect of all
home affairs, and even with being guil
ty of amours with some of her good
neighbour’s wives, whom he had oc
casionally furnished with a saddle of
venison or a string of squirrels. As
the Dame’s suspicions seemed foun
ded on this, the last charge was pro
bable untrue, but the others were
doubtlsss substantial,and incontrover
tible on either side.
No one who has seen any thing of
die world need be told what kind f
advice the friends of our honest couple
gave them on these occasions, or that
its tendency not hi the smallest degree
of a conciliatory kind ; instead of
growing better, things grew evidently
worse and from oft repeated threats
on both sides, plans of execution were
revolted in the minds of both Fe ter
and his wife. The Dame in one par
ticular, acquitted herself with honor ;
she improved the humble dwelling
mightily in the course of a few years,
and instead of a ground floor she in
troduced one of boards, and finally
had a kind of trap door cut in the
middle, directly under which she
commenced hullowingout something
like a cellar, and made such progress
during one of Peters long,rambles,that
on hisretnrn, he began to suspect the
object of so much secrecy and des
patch had some reference to himself.
He seriously believed Dame Keltzer
designed preparing a dungeon in
which to immerse him, soul ami body,
and thereby execute a long standing
threat that she would break up his
rambling. In the confidence of his
strength therefore, he determined to
assist her, and on the slightest symp
tom of the outbreaking of the conspi
racy, to turn the punishment upon
her.
We have now the worthy couple
each in the others absence, alternately
embracing the opportunity of hollow
ing out a deep cavern under the floor
of a Log Cabin ; and it was persisted
in,until it was actually, as found by
subsequent measurement, nine feet
deep. A ladder was now thrust into
it, and the Dame made use of it as a
temporary collar, using great precau
tion however never to enter it while
Peter was about home, and at the
same time seizing occasional oppor
tunities of persuading Inin to go down
himself, under one pretence or another
for all of which she found him too
wisely cautious. At length weary
with hope deferred, and Peter becom
ingin no wise reformed from his old
inveterate habits, on his return to the
Cabin one dull damp evening she
took care to have the door open and
the ladder drawn upiu readiness. 1 lie
moment he set his foot upon the
threshold, she seized his arms, anu
made a desperate attempt to accom
plish by force what she despaired ever
being able to do by strategem. A
doubtful struggle ensued and Peter
partly disengaged himself so that as
he teil he seized and dragged tin? good
woman after him, and she, catching at
the door to stay herself, precipitated
it down over them both. The fall
did no injury. The Dame, in tender
ness for her husband had deposited
a quantity ofilax which she had taken
to spin, so that it receiyed them both
and when they fairly recovered them
selves on their feet, they found neither
had sustained damage, and bath were
fairly vanquished.
At first they took separate corners
of the cell avowing themselves quite
contented and comfortable. Then the
Dame began a commentary on Peter’s
evil life which lasted until noon next
day; though noon brought small
change from night to them. Hunger
began its work; nothing to cat or
drink was to be had. The business of
mutual punishment went on apace,
and a long time was borne with un
acknowledgeing obstinacy finally,
however, neither could stand it longer
a truce was agreed upon—mutual ac
knowledgements passed ; and at last
the parties, thoroughly reconciled,
agreed to assist each other out of this
dreary confinement. This was no ea
sy task, and had they not abandoned
all their jealousies and ill-will and
labored in the closet concert, it would
never have been accomplished. Fin
ally, by gathering a considerable pile
of gravel below ; Peter took his wife
upon his shoulders, and succeeded
from thence in climbing out. The
ladder was then put down, and Peter
himseifobtained deliverance. What
all the argument in the world could
never have effected, this single inci
dent did effect; a thorough reform;
and whenever, afterwards, Peter was
about doing amiss or Dame Keltzer's
voice exceed a common key, the rec
ollection of the nine foot cellar, and
the three days and nights passed there
in, set all matters right.
Peter told me the storv himself—
and since, whenever I see a man and
wife pulling different ways or com
plaining of one another to strangers,
or quarreiling at home, or forever
straying abroad, I think whata pity it
is they cannot have the use of Dame
Keltzer’s cellar for a short time.—
When I see an indolent husband or a
spendthrift wife, who have nothing
but industry and economy to depend
upon—neglecting business or running
in debt; 1 calculate that to a certain
ty, they will wind up their affairs in
Dame Keltzer’s celler, or one of their
own digging, very much like it. At
the end of every evil and improvident
course there is a corresponding pun
ishment, and they are comparatively
happy, who, like Peter and Polly Kelt
zer, are made wise by misfortune
while there is yet time to profit Uv re
pentance.
SuwarrouPs Laconism. —His move
ments were quick a9 lightning: yet
his motto was—” Haste is necessary,
hurry injurious.”—Prince Coburg on
the Rumintli, in a French letter, ur
gently requests his assistance ; he
sends it back with the llnssian super
scription : ‘ 1 am coming, Suwarrow
and in a few hours be arrives with
16,000 men. The vizier with 60,000
men is beaten. He scarcely approach
es Ismael, when the mighty fortress
falls into his hands, and he writes—
‘ The Russian standard Hies on the
walls of Ismael!’ After the total de
feat of the Polish army near Brest
Litowsk, he wrote to Rumjanzow—
“ Sirakowsky’s corps is no more /” A
short time after he writes, “Huzza!
Warsaw is ours!” and receives the
equally memorable reply—“ Huzza!
Field-Marshall Suwarrow! Catha
rine.” He never walked, he always
ran, and never rode but in a gallop.—
lie often repeated—“ Money is neces
sary in war, but time is still more pre
cious. I act by minutes, and not by
hours.” His words were as concise
us bis letters. Pressed by the enemy
on all sides, the Austrian General Me
las asks him whither to retire. With
a pencil he writes in reply—“to Pla
centia, i. e. forward.” Melas obeys.
Macdonald is beaten on the plains of
Hannibal, and Suwarrow received the
victorious Melas in Placentia.
Baron Thugut wished to draw from
him his plans for the war. Suwarrow
gave him a blank sheet of paper, and
hurrying away, he said, “ These are
my plans !” But when it was propo
posed to him to act in the defensive,
he said, with indignation to the fo
reign aid-de-camp—“ Tell your prince
he is a young man, hut I am an old
soldier, the words retreat and defen
sive are not iu my vocabulary. I have
overthrown the theory yf tactic} hith-
c,to employed, and nrfile mv own:
adieu!” He had been the first to
leave blockaded fortresses m the back
of his army. He disliked ambiguity
in speech, as much as he loved short
and decisive replies. 01 ? e day
an Austrian General—'“ Wby did not
Hannibal go to Rome after the buttle
of Canna* ?” who immediately replied
of war at Carthage he instantly un
derstood, and embraced him affection
ately: When this same council wish
ed to prescribe to him his warlike
movements, he had not even the pa
tience to read their instructions thro,
and wrote underneath, “ lull power
to the commander-in-chief- —ivporting
on'y to the Emperor in person, such
are my orders.” His sayings were
often very pithy, ami he did not even
disdain a pun. ‘ Hearing some persons
extolling the cunning of Dumouricz,
he said,°“ He is not cunning who is
considered as such.” He delighted
to repeat and explain his militar y
tactics to his soldiers on the paiade ..
and they were such as every one of
them could understand them. He used
to sav, “ the bullet is silly, hut the
bayonet is dextrous ! ’ And “ huzza
to the bayonet!” was for his army
the signal for victory.
Literary Museum,
Thera is something in (lie history of every
love affair which the uctors deem never had
its equal. From the honey and mustard con
tained in the following letter, we think this
must have been such to some honest couple. —
Os its history, or effect, we have not been in
formed,but,as the lady does not appear to have
been too late in saying “ Return Jonathan ,”
(provided die did not “ lase him to scorn ) it
is probable they “ kissed with hearts as true as
doves,” and (were shortly after married. We
publish it from the original. As a literary curi
osity, it is perhaps worth—laughing at.
August 16th, 1822.
Dier Miss 1 receiv’d your Lcter you
left on record Concerning your Love
and respects but it Seams to me that
it is a litle lye for you have Slited me
not long since an il thaught that you
was en constant and falce and fickld
as the wind and I,de think no more a
pun you but vanish you from my mind
but as you Seerne to write that you
wag not desireous to inSult me I will
think nothing of what lias bean oast if
you re affections are founded on me 1
beg parden fur accusing you of it but
I wish to kno the sentements of your
mind whether you will marry me in
realety or whether you are a trying
my hart to in snare and then lase to
scorn or whether I mey put my depen
dence on you if your Love is true to
me and me a lone as l”ve all ways
said you are the one you are the girl
that first did my hart in snare and I’ll
be troo to you and you alone if you do
say that I,in tire man
My dier little'l y send me an
answer whether my depend on you or
not for I intend To Marry you and no
other if I can injoy the hapy imbraces
of your affectionate Love So no more
but remains yours with respects.
We understand,says the National
Advocate that the friends ofLieut.
Kenan intend publishing the pro
ceedings of the Late Court Martial
which the Secretary of the Navy
has rufused to give to the public.
[Commodore Porter, by whom Lt.
Kenan was arrested was the author
of an anonymous attack upon the
lieutenant in the Savannah Geor
gian, which he repelled.] We re
gret this sincerely ; the power and
influence of a commanding officer
are suffleien t without crushing a
subordinate through the press, and
then bringing him to a court mar
tial for defending himself. Lt.
Kenan was acquitted, and imme
diately ordered on foreign service.
In the libel cause in England of the
King against the publisher of Lord
Byron’s Vision of Judgment, the
counsel for the Crown remarked of
Lord Byron—
“ rile individual to whom it was
ascribed was an author of distinguish
ed talents, whose name might stand
high in the literature of his country ;
he might have stood first in the litera
ture of any ; but it was to be lamen
ted that he should have fallen so low
—that he should have so degraded his
fine talents—that he should have so
tarnished his laurels, as to have des
cended So the level of the mean and
odious reptiles of the day, and with
them indulged in levity, scurrility,
anil impiety.”
Mr. Scarlett made a very ingenions
defence for the publisher of the Vis
ion of Judgment, and referring to
this passage respecting George 3d,
He died, his death made no grout stir on
earth,
“Ilis burial made some pomp; there wus
profusion
“Os velvet, gilding, brass, and no great
dearth,
“Os aught but tears, save those shed by col
lution.”
Mr. Scarlet observed—
It is not lor me to say whether
those who attended the funeral of his
Majesty were affected to tears ; if
History is to be believed, there are not
so many found to lament the death ,,
a King, as to compliment his Bucr 0 .!
sor. 1 remember that when minister;
were summoned to attend the f anp .
al of his late Majesty, the uniters;,
opinion was, that they would not co
tinne in office four and twenty fc oar .
If it wax their opinion, I hafc b .[
doubt but they set out with lieaw
hearts—that they considered the event
i truly melancholy , ar.il shed abundi)i t
tears over the grave of their form?,,
■ Jlastfr.
’ Splendid Church. —TheCatholV
of Montreal are preparing to ere,,
a magnificient Cathedral, surpass
ing in splendor and magnitude ar,,-
ecclesiastic edifice on the coatin',
ent of North-America. It will be
strictly and purely gothic, after fie
best models extant, will hold leu
thousand worshippers, and cost
four hundred thousand dolluri.
Its length is to be 253 feet—breadth
132, with two towers in front,each
200 feet in height and it is to havt
seven altars, the high altar at fie
east, behind which is to be a great
window, 32 feet by 45.
The total of the black and mui
lattti population in all the West In.
dia islands, is one million six hun
dred thousand—The total of whites
in the same, is four hundred andjf.
ty thousand.
A man in England wishing to
know if an old gun was loaded,as
ked his friend to hold a lighted
candle to the touch-hole, while he
blew down the muzzle. He did
so, and while he was blowing down,
the load was discharged, and blew
out his brains—[of which he must
have possessed a “ plentiful lack.”]
The Marquis of Hastings, Gov
ernor General of India, has beta
charged with embezzle ing nearly
half a million sterling of the com
pany’s funds.
At a boxing match in Worces
ter, (Eng.) January 7th, there were
present more than 30,000 persons,
to witness two men w naked as from
the earth” bruise each other up
wards of two hours. “ For the
accommodation of those who could
afford to pay, (sajs the Sunday
Times,) galleries were erected to
contain 4000 spectators. But long
before the fight was ended, they
fell, and lamentable to add, two
were killed, and seventeen are it
the infirmary, with broken legs,
aims, Ike. Lord Deerhurst, mem
ber of Parliament, kept the titnq
and Col. Berckley acted as umpire.
The victor was borne off in tri
umph, iu the coach and fourofan
English Nobleman !!” “Is thi
(continues the editor of the Times)
a fitting employment for British
noblemen ? but we are well asvart
that any thing we can say on this
subject, will be as little regarded
as a whisper amidst a storm.
Revolutionary Pensioners.
These gratuities have decreased
more than one half, in five years-
In 1820 the appropriation was
§2,766,440. The following ap
propriations mark the state oftheir
decrease the last two years :
For year ending Sept. 4, I*B2l, 1,673.-*’
Fordo. 1822, 1,663,£
For do. 1823, 1,291,726
The Philadelphia Gazette stated
that Lieut. Guion, of the army ot
the United States, a most promis
ing young officer, was shot through
the heart in a duel at Natchei
about the 1 Gth of last month.
The Hon. Do Witt Clinton has beenrewo'”
oil by (ho Legislature of New York, frt m 1
ollice of Canal Commissioner, this cj r(Mlll | >
stance has produced great excitement i ll
city, and a meeting has been called ottn cl ’
hpiis, to be held in Hit Park, to eM ,rCf ’
public sentiment [indignation] at such “P
tending. The meeting was called at
place, in consequence of its being supP 0 *
that no room could be found sufficiently‘ J -
to hold the numbers who would wish to a:,t
hie on the occusion.
Chesapeake and Delate nre Card-
We understand that all the contra “
offered last week for this import ßo
work, were immediately taken, n tlie
most favorable terms for the comp ß1 “’
The applicants were nearly all P tr .
sons of great respectability, “j lO .
been engaged in similar operation 10
this state and the State of New-l° r j
*1 heir number, too, greatly t*xc e£ c
that which the work required.
Under these favorable circumrt
ces, and under the superintend' 110 *’
of the distinguished Engineer “y 1
the Directors have selected, ‘ vc
no doubt that this work will p iOCfC
with a rapidity, ami he executed m 3
manner, which will increase alike <
reputation and resources of our cH
* Xnt,