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I'rvm Ihc Emporium.
Where's the man who seeks for hunt r
Haste'—the laurel give him —
Unfold the scroll and-write bis name,
’Tis all the grave will leave him.
Where is he that toils for (iold?
t;is e ! —let nought alloy it—
When a few brief days nr* told,
No more can he enjoy it.
\\ here’s the bosom swelled with Frith “
Spare ! I would not wound it—•
For Death will twine at eventide,
His mean scant garment rottyd it
Where’s the heart on Plenum bent ?
Four—a double measure —
Health and life to-morrow spent,
Gone will be the treasure
Where’s the soul that looks abort!
Pleasure, gold, and glory—
Such as earthly passions move* —
Such as lives in story —
Fake each cup of joy away —
To other’s fill’d and given—
Oh, what are all these baubles—say—
To him whose home is beat en
MARIAN
-000--
A NIGHT ON THE ALPS.
Come, golden Evening! in the west
Enthrone the storm dispelling sun,
•\nd let the triple rainbow rest
O'er all the mountain tops ; —’tis done ;
The tempest ceased ; hold and bright
The rainbow shoots from hill to hill;
Down sinks the sun ; on presses night;
Alont Elaoc is lovely still !
There take thy stand, my spirit;—spread
The world ol shadows at thy feet;
\pd mark, bow calmly over head,
The stars, like saints in glory meet ;
While hid in solitude sublime,
Methinks I muse on Nature's tomb,
And hear the passing foot of Time
Step through the silent gloom.
All in a moment—crash on crash,
From precipice to precipice,
An Avalanche s ruins dash
Dow n to the nethermost abyss,
Invisible ; the ear alone .
Pursues the uproar till it dies,
Echo to echo, groan for groan,
From deep to deep replies
Silence again the darkness seals,
Darkness thut may be felt; but soon
The sMver-clouded east reveals
The midnight sceptre of the. nioon ;
In half eclipse she lifts her horn,
l'et o'er the host of heaven supreme;
Brings the taint semblance of a morn,
V\ ith her awakening beam.
\h I at ft.e touch, the Alpine heights,
Unreal mockeries appear ;
With blacker shadow s, ghastlier lights,
Emerging as she climbs Ihe sphere;
A crowd of apparitions pale !
1 hold my breath in chill suspense,
They seem so exquisitely trail—
Lest they should vanish hence.
1 breathe again, I freely breathe ;.
Then Leman’s Lake once more i trace;
Like Diun’s crescent, far beneath,
As beautiful as Diun’s fare ;
Pride ol the land that gave me birth,
All that thy ways reflect 1 love,
W hen heaven itself brought down to earth,
Looks fairer than above.
Safe on thy banks again I stray;
The trance of poesy is o’er,
And ! uni here at dawn of day,
Gazing on mountains as before ;
W here all the strange mutations w rought
Where magic feats of my own mind ;
For in that fairy land of thought,
W hate’er I seek, 1 find.
Vet, (> ye everlasting hills !
Temples of God, not made with bands,
Whose word |>erforms w hate’er he wills,
Whose word, tho’ ye shall perish stands!
Can there be eyes that look on you,
Till tears of inpture make them dim,
Vet, in such works, no Maker view :
Nor loose the works in Him ?
By me, when 1 behold him not.
Or love him not when I behold,
lie nil that e’er I knew, forgot;
.My pulse stand still, my heart grow coid ;
Iransfornr’d to ire, ’twixt earth and sky,
On yonder dill my shape be seen,
Unit all may ask, thou eh none reply,
W hat my offence hath been /
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st. ,i:lians W ELL.
Sometime within the last two
years there still existed in Denbig
shire, a well called St. aElian’s and
super-named, the Cursing Well.
I his well affords perhaps, os strong
un example as can be adduced of
. lerce and inveteracy with
wldc-li a’popular superstition is ca
pable of influencing the human
mind, even in our enlightened and
incredulous age. It was, together
“’ith a few fields, the property* of
a woman who held it by inheritance
and who, thanks tojnan’s weakness
and u itkedner,s, fouud the patrimo
ny, so small in appearance, an es
tatnot no inconsiderable value.—
I he well of St. jfclian lies in a
cl near the high road, leading
from I Jan AJinn to {'.roes in Iriast
u was surrounded by a wall six feet
high, and embosomed in a grove •
the trees have been felled, and
the wall thrown down. The cere
mony was performed by an old
woman m the following’ manner :
Alter having received her k e , the
name of the victim was marked on I
R piece ol le..d, ibis she dropped
into tTie water atul muttered her
imprecations, whilst taking from
and returning into the well, a cer
tain portion of the water.’ Mr.
Pennant says, that he w-as threaten -
ed by a person whom he had of
fended, with a journey to this well
to curse hint tcifh ‘effect. It seems
the patron of this fatalffount was one
/F.lian Giamiad, who lived about
the close of the fifth century, to
whom there is a; church dedicated
in Arvan, and another in Mona.
and ime out of mind lias this well been
celebrated for its very baneful and ma
lignant property of securing the effect
of a curse ; that it. possessed such a
power, is not only implicitly credited
among the vulgar ol our days as it
would have been by all ranks, in more
barbarous ages; but what is lar more
to be lamented, ami Scarcely to be be
lieved, hundreds ol pilgrims annually
visited it for the horrible purpose of
fixing its withering influence on some
neighbor who had excited their re
vengeful feelings.
The man whose heart is set on curs
ing his fellow creature, thinks a walk
of twenty, thirty, or even 40 miles, a
trifling exertion, compared with the
gratification of seeing a hated neigh
bor pine gradually away, till he ex
pires under the effect ol his deliberate
malediction. It is difficult to believe
that so fie ml-like a spirit can inhab
it a human bosom, or polute a Christian
land ; but it is a fact, that numbers of
111-tempered, implacable “Welchmen
walk many miles every year, for the
purpose of cursing him whom t hirst
commanded us to forgive, though he
should offend us, not seven times only
but seventy times seven. Let the
following recent and well authentica
ted instance, serve as illustration,
There were two farmers living in
Flintshire, whom we will call, it you
please, Jones and Lloyd- Jones was
a surly,gloomy, envious fellow, who
spent his time in grumbling, and con
trasting his lot with that ol his more
prosperous neighbor, instead ot em
ulating his active, industrious habits,
envy soon becomes hatred, and Lloyd
happening to be the fortunate com
petitor in some little purchase of cat
tle or land, which each was desirous
to make, the wicked ami malignant
spirit of Jones was exasperated to the
height, and vowed revenge on his un
conscious neighbor, who was employ
ing his hours in cheerful labor, and
had no time to waste in brooding oyer
schemes of hatred, or even lor caring
or perceiving what was going on in
the unquiet mind of Jones. Ihe lat
ter meanwhile, felt his own wretched
ness i.i some degree, appeased, by the
soothing thought that he might, by a
few words bring death & ruinjinti the
family ofhis neighbor,nor was lie slow
in executing his project, lie set oft
one morning with as much secrecy as
his exultation would permit to St.
.Elian’s Well, a journey ot thirty
four miles, but the anticipation ofhis
beloved revenge shortened the way
and put fatigue out of the question.—
He made his application to the pro
prietress, or ‘ cursing hag of the
well,’ a denomination which her perse
verance in this abominable trafic well
merited. Having received the cus
tomary offering, without which the
rurse would have been powerless, she
led him to the well, where he uttered
his malediction, in the terms she pres
cribed, wishing, with some accompa
nying imprecations, that bis neigh
bor Llovd, might be seized by a con
suming malady, which, should ere
long, terminate in death, and that
he might die standing. Having ligh
tened himself of this curse, which had
been for some time sticking at his
heart, he returned home. I never
heard Vw he slept, that night. He
had now one subiect'ofanxiety remain
ing, which was that Lloyd might not
discover what had happened, till he
was within the grasp of the charm ;
because if a man discovered that
some adversary had “ put him into the
well,” within a given period he might
by means of a counter offering buy
himself out.
Jones however, was too full of dia
bolical exultation always to restrain
it; especially when any one remarked
the thriving fortunes of Lloyd, he
could not forbear muttering some
hint that it would not last long, till a
suspicion of the fact became prevalent
ami some good natured foolish friend
thought he could do no better than
warn the victim of his situation, Poor
Lloyd shared, in common with his
neighbors, un implicit, faith in the
baneful properties of the well ; and
extremely terrified, he made ali possi
ble despatch to counteract the curse ;
but on arriving at St. -Elian’s foun
tain, he found the period was expired ;
his offering was positively rejected,
and he must needs summon whatever
of fortitude ami resignation lie could
command, ami waif'tUe slow opera
tion of the curse. He returned de
jectedly home convinced that his /loom
was irreversably sealed ; ami so po
tently did this superstitious belief
work on his iutegjhiatitin, that h.s
spirits sunk.totally beneath the shock,
hope entirely forsook him, his appe
tite and rest were gone, and lie w asted
rapidly and visibly.
Towards the close of this melan
choly scene, he became subject to
long - fits of delirium ; during his last
short interval, he inquired earnestly
after his revengeful neighbor, express
ed a hope that his (wrath against him
was appeased, and declared that lie
forgave from his heart, the man who
had persecuted him unto death. Hav
ing thus, by the last effort ot his rea
son proved, himself a Christian, he
relapsed into derangement, am! short
ly alter died, leaving a wile and fami
ly to deplore the loss of so good a
man.
How fared it, meanwhile, with the
human fiend who wrought this mis
chief? Kvery crcuture regarded him
with mistrust and abhorrence ;* and
in proportion as his victim had been
beloved and pitied, lie was execrated.
There is something intolerable, even
to the most unsocial being, iu the
consciousness of being universally
odious, and Jones walked about with
Cain’s mark on his forehead ; lie was
looked at as a visible demon j and il
anyone ministered to him, it was the
effect of fear and not ot good will;
these manifestations of dislike, com
bining with science, were, as the first
murderer expresses himself, with re
gard to his own punishment,more than
lie could bear. He,in his turn,drooped,
anil sickened, and was leit to his fe
verish miserable bed, and to his own
embittered, remorseless feelings, lor
no man had any pity for him—no
one prayed for his recovery. Mere
I inventing a tale, its catastrophe
would probably be the deatli ot Jones;
but. as 1 am relating a fact which lias
positively happened, I must not wrap
nor modify, according to :ny own fan
cy, any of the circumstances atten
ding it. Jones recovered ,his health,
and is, I believe, now living. This
story is true ; the names of Jones and
Llovd are fictions. This example is
selected, in preference to many others
from my own knowledge ol its authen
ticity, and that I am well acquainted
with the minute particulars attending
it.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman of N'eiv-
York, now in Russia, dated St. l’etersbuigh,
November 20,18-23.
Although this is a very magnifi
cent place, it is to a stranger, unac
quainted with the language, exces
sively dull at this season. The
nights are tediously long—the sun
rises about 9 o’clock, or a little af
ter, makes a short stay, and is off.—
We dine by candle light after which
is an evening of six or seven hours
which it is hard work to dispose
of since my eyes will rvot permit
me to read much, —which is not so
very unlucky, since l have very
little to read: such a thing as a
newspaper, I hardly ever see. I
have just now quite a treat on hand
having borrowed from a gentle
man here a few English newspa
pers, between two and three years
old. English and American pa
pers are prohibited here, and no
thing is published but by leave of
the Government, so that the people
in general know very little of what
is really going on in the world.—
A friend lent me a few papers late
ly, upon my promising that they
should not be seen,even in my room.
No prudent man here dares express
his political opinions ; and indeed
we rarely sit down to dinner with
out one or more spies at the table
even the very servautsare in the
pay of the police. A few weeks
since, a gentlemam in our house
was sitting in his room, writing at
a table upon which lay his letters
and papers, when in marched two
officers of police, who said they
came by order of the military go
vernor, to take possession ofhis
papers : without further ceremony
they swept every table and drawer
of every thing in the shape of a pa
per —examined the room, and even
went so far as to try the seats of the
chairs, to 6ee if there was not
something concealed in the stuffing;
—this they did by crooked shaped
iron rods. This man was actually
serving the Government, and had
c6me from England here to give
them a secret, which Government
would have given them fifty thou
sand pounds sterling not todivulge.
It was a most fortunate circum
stance for me that I brought a let
ter of introduction to our Minister
here, it may save me much trou
ble, in case of accident.
BLUE LAWS OF VIRGINIA.
September 17,1630. —Hugh Davis
to be soundly whipped before an as
sembly of negroes, and others, for abu
sing liimself to the dishonor of God,
and shame f>{ Christians, by defiling]
liis body in lying with a negio, which
fault he is to acknowledge next Sab
bath day. .
Stephen Reekes put in pi.lory tvio
hours with a paper on head ex
pressing his offence, fined 50 pounds
sterling, and imprisoned during plea
sure, for saying his majesty was at
confession witii tho Lord ol ( unter
burv. ‘
December 1, 1631*—Because Ed
ward Grymes lay with Allice West,
he gives security not to marry any wo
man till further older from the Gover
nor and Council.
1633 ’4.—That whosoever shall ab
sent himself from divine service any
Sunday without an allowable excuse,
shall forfeit one pound of tobacco, and
he that absentetli himself a month,
shall forfeit fifty pounds of tobacco.
That no man dispose of any of his
tobacco before the minister he satis
fied, upon pain of forfeiting double his
part of the minister’s means, and one
man of ewery plantation to collect his
means out of the first and best tobac
co anil corn.
W hereas Solomon Martin hath scan
ilouslv objected against Col. W illiatn
Rcrnaril, a councillor ot state, that he
could make his servants swear what he
would.—The House hath committed
; the said Martin to prison until Mon
day morning for his offence,
Ordered that none of the transactions
of the last Assembly be at all disputed
of this session.
.March, i G6l.—Ordered that the or
der of th e Quarter Court of the 27th
March, 1661, prohibiting Roger Fat
ridges and Elizabeth his wife to keep
any maid servant for the term of three
years, be by this assembly ratified and
confirmed.
Whereas many scismatical persons
out of their averseness to the orthodox
established religion, or out of their
new fangled conceits of their ow n he
retical inventions, refuse to have their
children baptised, Re it therefore
that all persons that in con
tempt of the divine Sacrement of bap
tisme, shall refuse when they may car
ry their cliild to a lawful minister in
that county, to have them baptised,
shall be amerced two thousand pounds
of tobacco ; halfe to the informer halfe
to the publique.
Whereas oftentimes many brab
bling women often slander and scan
dalize their neighbours, for which
their poor husbands are often brought
into chargeable and vexatious suits,
and caste in great damages, Re it en
acted, &e. That in actions of slander
occasioned by the wife aforesaid, after
judgment passed for the damages, the
woman shall be punished by diking ;
and if the slander be soe enormous as
to be adjudged at a greater damage
than fiye hundred pounds pt tobacco,
then the woman to suffer a ducking
for each five hundred pounds of tobac
co, adjudged against the husband if
lie refuse to pay the tobacco.
“ That there be an uniformity in our
church, as near as may be to the ca
nons in England, both in substance
and circumstance, and that all persons
yield ready obedience unto them, un
der pain of censure.
“ That the 2*2d of March be yearly
solemnized a6 holiday, and all other
holidays, except when they fall two
together, betwixt the feast of the an
nunciation of the blessed \ irgin, and
St. Michael, the Archangle, then only
the first to be observed by reason ol
our necessities.
“jThat whosoever shall discharge a
minister, without bringing sufficient
proof to justify his report, whereby
the minds of his parishioners may be
alienated from him, and his ministry
prove the less effectual by their pro
judication, shall not only pay 500
weight of tobacco but also ask the mi
nister 6o wronged,for forgiveness,pub
licly, in the congregation.”
From the Augusta Chronicle
Receipt for Manufacturing Poetry.
A certain worthy provost of the
ancient town of Dundee, in Scot
land, having u departed this life”
at ” a good old age,” leaving be
hind him sundry “ moveables,”
which (according to the old Eng
lish ncception of the phrase) im
plies, that the defunct had 44 died
well ” —there was found attached to
his “ last will and testament” a
codicil, providing, that five pounds
sterling should be paid, by the
heir at law, to the person or per
sons who should write a poetical
epitaph to be inscribed on the
tombstone of the deceased. The
executors (of whom there were
three) conceiving that they might
with credit to themselves and ad
vantage to others, retain the 44 pe
cuniary consideration” in their
own hands, agreed to meet on a
certain day to compose the said ep
itaph. At the time appointed
they met when the first wrote down
without much consideration,
“ llcrc lies Dick ion, provost of Dundee ’’
Hi: strand, A a „. Ai
IT* !md
uown 1
IL-ee li.'-Dicks6n, here lies he-
Ihe third after struggling f 0 „
full hour in the noble effort l 0
tain to preeminence
compeers, and having- scratched
head at least one hundred times
last vociferated with all the en
siasm of an Archimedes;
“ Hallelujah, Ilallelujee !”
r l lie worthy trio then re tin
amid the overpowering apph lUst
self-congratulation, and duly
scious of their lawful claimto t
well earned reward of transcends
genius ; and superlative merit,
On brother poets I would fain bestnn
A hint,
The tale's not new, I saw it ton;; n (;o *
In print.
A ew method of teaching Music.— l
highlander having a scholar to teac’
disdained to crack his brain with tli
names of semibreves,minims,crotchet’
atnl quavers.
Here, Donald, said lie, take tow
pipes, lad, and gi’ us a blast. Solve,
ry will mown indeed, but what is a
sound, Donald, without sense; voq
may blow forever without making i
tune ot it, if I don’t tell you how the
queer things on the paper must help
you. You see that big fellow with a
iound face, (pointing to a semibreve
between the. two lines of a bar) h e
moves slowly from that line to tins,
while you beat one with your foot,ami
gi’ a long blast; if now you put a ieg
to him, lie will move twice as fast;if
vou blacken his face he will run four
times faster than the fellow with the
white face ; but, if after blackenini;
his face you bend his knee or tie hit
leg, he will hop eight times faster
than the white face fellow I shewed
you first.
Now whene’er you blow your pipe}
Donald, remember this, the tighter
these fellows legs are tied, the faster
they run, and the quicker they are
sure to dance.
Gas Lights. —Professor Olmstodot
the University of North-Carolina,hu
ascertained that a fiue il 1 u
gas may be obtained from cotton seed.
The product of gas from a bushelot
seed, is more than double the avenge
product of the same quantity ot Net
Castle Coal, and greatly exceeds that
in illuminating power. Itpartakesof
the purity and splendour ot gas from
oil, witli which substance, indeed, this
seed is known to abound.
The experiments already made, in
duce the belief, that among all substan
ces hitherto tried for gas illumination,
this article will be found the most eli
gible, especially for *our southern ci
ties, w here cotton seed can be obtain
ed at a very trifling expense ; and the
idea is suggested that this article flMf
possibly become of considerable valw
for exportation. The vast quantity ot
seed, amounting to many millions ot
pounds, that annually accumulated
our cotton districts, forming a pile al
most useless and sometimes noxious,
would, it is thought, afford material*
for illuminating every city in the Uni
ted States.
It is expected, that Mr. Olmsted
will shortly make public his experi
ments and scientific results on tin*
subject.— Raleigh Re g.
Beautiful comparison. —Mr. ClaS
in his great Speech on the Tariff, i n ’
traduced the following illustration.*-
It is a striking picture, sketched W
the hand of a master.* The see l " 1 ’
and the genius which has thus des
cribed it, are alike American.
object to one word only, which is h”
and at best technical.
“ ‘the difference between a na -t l ° n
with and without the arts, may be con
ceived, by the difference between*
keel-boat and a steam -boat, combating
the rapid torrent of the Missisipp'-'J’
How slowly does the former *Bcen >
hugging, the sinuosities of the B<’° rC ’
pushed on by her hardy and expose
crew, now throwing themselves m vl
gorous conceit on their oars, and t. nn
seizing the pendant boughs ot
hanging trees ; she seems hard v
move; and'her scanty cargo is scame
ly worth the transportation ! 1
what ease is she not passed b>
steam-bout, laden with the rumes
all queers of the world, with a cm
of gay cheerful, and protected J* Ss
get s, now dasliing into the mo *
the current, or gliding througi
eddies near the shore ! . Nature
self seems to survey, with * 9 ? g - |#
ment, the passage wonder,and, >
lent submission, reluctantly to
the magnificent triumph*. ,n ." ir
vast dominion of Fulton s ltnni
genius ! ,? — Missionary-
Men may honestly pursue fi‘
for self interest is a great delu re .
of judgement, and habit is ap ct s
coiu ile the liumSn mind to a fl
(ff injustice.— Somerville-