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POETRT.
From the Ciricitiati Republican.
ABDJtESS TO SPUING.
I BY E. A. m’IaCGHLIN.
Queen of the verdent hill and flowery vale, ■
The leaf-clap forest, and the balmy gale,
Where dost thou stay so long 7
Queen of the sylvan power, where jasmine j
twines,
When rosy morn in soft-eyed splendor shines, 1
Where is thy Pan—and hark ! where is his |
song’ .
Oh, ’twas not heard within this forest glade;
He tunes his rural pipe beneath the shade,
Where woodbine wreathes along
Where branching boughs with graceful foliage
bend,
And plumed choirs in varied chorus blend
Strains ot Wild melody, to mock his song. j
Hope whispers wistfully—“no far away”— j
Yet trembles, fearful of a long delay,
Or e’er thy train is seen;
For frowning winter shows him loth to go,
And ever and anon, with sleety snow,
Obscures thy favorite carpet’s teeming green.
Zfaste, gentle Queen, in Eden’s pristine bloom, |
Sweet harbinger of love and beauty, come,
On the mild west winds borne :
’Tis time the early lark essays his wings,
And from his yellow plumes the dew-drop flings,
To mount the azure sky and wake the morn.
’Tis time the embryo blossom deck’d the trees
With honeyed cups that tempt the humble bees
Forth to the fragrant vale.
Languish the humming-bird®, at early hour |
To sip the dewy sweet from flower to flower,
And sport thier tuneful pinions on the gale.
O’er hill and dale, from morn till noon I stay.
From noon till eve still wend the mazy way,
The leafless trees between:
No purple violet meets my searching eye,
And where the moss-croivn’d rivulet murmurs
by,
The cowslip, fairy flower, is not seen.
Nature, for shame ; is naked charming Queen;
She blushes for her robe of velvet green,
And tints of heavenly hue ;
Then cast thy mantis round the fair forlorn,
: Let vernal blossoms the trembling nymph-adorn,
i And wreathe her bosom with the pearly dew.
Lgk.-ltiacjul Pah the sylvan boys advance,
Graces and the Hours in danse;”
Queen’s bright way—
| Again the halcyon days ol’joy shall be,
/•oved rural walks, and rural minstrelsy,
And blooming Spring reward her poet’s lay.
l : Yom the Knickerbocker of March.
The Clerk’s I'nrn.
iN authentic talk of the SEA : IN two farts,
part I.
Eight bells riing iherrily out along the docks
of a noble corvette, as she d ashed gracefully on
her way through the long seas and sparkling
waves of the Trudes, in her course towards
the Virgin Islands, whither she was bound on
a cruise. A bright sky and a glcriotts moon
were above her; while h r white canvass, as
it pose pile upon pile, and bellied to the soft,
but constant breeze, looked like wreaths of un
trodden snow on a mountain’s side, in the pale
and mellow light.
‘ My watch On deck I’ exclaimed the mas
ter’s mate of the forecastle—a tall, raw-boned
Virginian; of the old school of midshipmen—
as he arose, when the first warning stroke of
of the bell fell on his car, from three camp
stools, alutfg wliiph ho had l e.-n stretching
himself: ‘it’s my watch on deck. Hand me
my pea-coat, Collins, and pass a chaw o’ to.
hacco; none ufyour purser’s allowance, ’idler.
I must relieve the ‘old sold er’ who Ins b en
on post all the dog-watch and, suiting the !
action to the word, he ejected a quid from his 1
mouth; that would havq shamed in size the
largest paper of Lorillafd’s fine-cut chewing
tobacco, and supplied its place with another of
i < qua! dimensions. The master’s mate adjusted
I carefully his peacoat, and his quid, cast a v ist
' fill eye on the pile cf hammocks which lay at
the foot of the steerage-]adder, waiting to be
I slung for Ute night, and, raising a foot, was ;
j about to mount to the deck, when the form of j
i the captajas's clerk, v. bo sa‘ quietly in a corner, !
i perusing the last page of a Fieuch novel, i I
I his eye. 7 JBlkl
‘Come, Mr. Quills,’said he, ‘corrie bn
I and spend an hour or two with me. You, who >'
i get half as much sleep again as one of our j
ground-tier berths, can easily afford the loss,
! tin's glorious night, without any very great, sa-
I crificc, ’ither, By-the-by, you premised to re-
Hate to me some strange a ;venture you met |
' with in a merchant-man, and I am now ready I
ito listen to it. I should it 4be surprised, how- I
i ever, if it contains no more serious incident j
I than the capsizii g of theeoffee-pot, some m r- |
j nirg, and the loss of a breakfast thereby ; for 1 i
I never knew a person who had crossed the At- j
| lantic in a packet.ship, but Ind seen in a watch j
I a'l the f wonders oft he deep,’ the Psalmist tells I
j us about—such us mountain waves;lfnd the like, i
i with an agreeable mermaids,’
: watr r-spouts, at id wc poor
devils, who spend ‘ ~xat sea are
perfectly content iWw y. ' ' 'Ws high as ;
mv old t - . a won
der in its wny. Comßi-- ■ , .uv ho1v; t
you’ll find me ’ Nfa, .
‘ At vour old post, under the long, j
bow-ch.-.ser,’ squeaked out a sucking mid., of;
some three month’s standing, from the inner |
edge of the mess-table, where he was engaged j
j in scrawling what he termed ‘letter’ to his mo- 1
i ther, yvhich, although but half completed, was '
| already graced with sundry and divers charts t
I ofihe Black Sen, done in ink.
I ‘Clap a stopper on your red rope, yoting
| ster,’ retorted the first speaker, ‘pr I’ll flatten
;ia your head-sheets tor you. Uncle Sam must
! be d—lv troubled with his surplus revenue, to
| waste it upon such hard bargains as you arc—
' who, though yotf nave a finger hi every one’s
; mess, muster in mtHody’s walclf. Ah! I see
i you are wri ing to V.Gnr mamma : mind and tell
! her, while you think of it, that the cook of the
I larboatd mess has Used for pudding-bags all
j the night-caps the stowed aWav So barefidly
; in her dear boy’s trunk, to keep its head from
i die cold ' am! that the nasty reefers have
’ docked the' tail cf the flannel night-gown she
' madu to keep it waim in tH : AVc.’t II udic.q to
“WHERE POWERS ARE ASSUMED WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DELEGATED, A NULLIFICATION OF THE ACT IS THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY.” Jefferson.
make a new suit of rigging for the captain’s
monkey.’
‘lorn inn watch,’pouted the youngster;
‘ I’m in Mr. Brace’s watch ; and mother thought
it would be could here, in winter ; and ’t was
| sister who put in the night-gown.’
■ ‘ One ofher own, perhaps,’ rejoined the mate,
I laughing . ‘ if so ’
I ‘I won’t allow you to talk so of my mother
j and sister,’ said the middy, bristling up: ‘l’ll
I demand gentlemanly satisfaction of you, Sir—
I I will ’
I ‘Oh ! pray do n’tj pet : but since the wind
sets so, I’m off- —only blessings on the dear old
i lady’s geographical acquirements, any how.
i Come, Quills.’
| ‘l’ll follow in a morrient,’ said the clerk :
■ ‘ where shall I find you 1’
‘On the top-gallant forecastle, by the fore
mast. ’ So saying, he mounted the ladder, and
disappeared an deck. The clerk soon stowed
away the book in his locker, and followed-the
I midshipman.
I The night was indeed a lovoly one. The
seas were sparkling gloriously in the beams of ,
I a tropical moon, whose bright rays, streaming
; through the rigging and spars, chequered the
deck in a thousand fantastic forms of light and
shade, and glancing upward from the black and
polished guns, made her iron battery appear as
if cast in molten silver. The constant and
I fresh breeze of the I'niaes had lulled every sail
to sleep, and towered aloft against the
deep blue sky, till they looked scarcely the
size of a pocket-hankerehief, and heaved and
struggled, like the bosom of some fair girl, as
though they would burst the envious bonds
that restrained their freer play. A few soft
and fleecy clouds, such as are only seen in these
bright regions, were chasing each other along
the fields of ether, and while they had nothing
threatening in their aspect, assumed a thou
sand ever-varying shapes, which delighted the
eye L and rendered the scene less monotonous.
Ever and anon, clouds of flying fish, startled
by the passing ship, would rise from the bo
som of the deep, and flutter away far over the j
waves, with all the gayety of land-birds. And
at intervals, a dolphin might be marked, trac
ing his way through the liquid element, with
the speed of an arrow, by the lang rocket-like
train of phosphorescent light which followed in
his wake.
‘You arc sentimental to-night, Mr Tackle,’
said the clerk to the master’s mate, who had
not perceived his approach, and was ’eaning
against the forward-swifter ofthe fore-rigging,
1 gazing ahead, apparently wrapped in deep
thought.
‘ Devilish little sentiment in me, Mr. Quills;
though my subject was tasty enough, for that
matter: I was thinking if that d—d monkey, j
sitting out there on the spirit-sail yard, which |
plaved such a cursed trick with my best jacket
t’ other day, was only a roast goose, well
•tufled with potatoes he and I would soon be
on better terms than we are at pres nt. We
had pea-soup, you know, for dinner to day, and
it’s only slops at best; and though I swallowed
the standing part of a gallon of it; I feel as
empty now as a sailor’s purse after a week’s
cruise ashore.’
‘ Why, Tackle, in case such a metamorphose
should befall the poor monkey, I mysolf-yould
not object to join your mess, as I do n’t relish
pea-soup, and made but a slight dinner on it.
But I think f heard you give the girls at C
a touch of sentiment when we lay there, fitting
for sea.’
‘ Ay. ay, one’s force 1 to that now and then.
Why, they expect it, as a matter of course ;
and after a cruise in the Tropics, if one could
not. tell them of spicy breezes, and orange
groves, they’d set him down for a green-horn.
Xow, for mv part, though I spun them a yarn,
as long as a rmin-top bowline, about orange
groves, full oflovely nymphs, and such bolther
dash, I never saw but one grove of the kind,
during all my cruising in the West Indies; ']
and the fair damsel it contained was none |
other than a nigger wench, baking cassaba)
i bread on an old rusty griddle. She, too, was j
such a blasted fright, that the first luff s dog; i
which I had along with me, barked himself j
into a fit ofthe croup, at the mere sight ofher.
1 have always thought, however, that the little
blue-eyed girl we both admired so much, was ;
quizzing me; for when I found myself hove
; short, mid so tailed on a quotation, she setup I
a giggle at it.’
‘ What was it, pray 1’
‘ Why,’ said I, ‘as the poet says of the ar
lived of Columbus in the West Indies,
‘ when woods of palm.
And orange groves, and fields of balm,
Blew o’er the Hnytien seas.’ 1
‘ The devil you did ! How the dunce could ;
i grows and trees blow over the satts l’
j ‘So thought I, unless it might be in a bur- |
j ricane. ; so I corrected myself, and said. ‘I
! mean the leaves from the trees, of course,M issj
J but she smiled at that, too; and as there was j
nothing else to give her but the roots, I stop. ,
] pored at that, and hauhd in forth? supper la- '
! b ’ e -’- . . I
i ‘ W hen the land wind from woods of palm,
‘ And orange groves, and fields of balm,
Blew o’er the Haytien seas,’
‘ Well, well, ‘land wind,’ or ‘sea brooz" , ,’it
! you ev-.-r catch me prating sentirnennt or poe- i
try to a worn >n again, slacken up all my lan-
I yards in a gale of wind, and clap a rocky lee
■ shore close aboard of me. I’ve no notion of
! being laughed at every time I foul u;y b twse,
’or shiver a little in the wind. But now for the ’
' yarn. Who has the look-out ?—ah ! I see it
!:s you. Smith. Run down, my gqed fellow.
i into the stce’fqge', and bring tip a couple cl';
! camp-stools. We cun sit here, Quills, in the |
I wake-ofthe fore-mast, out of sight of the <>fil ‘
! cer of ti.e deck. Keep a bright, look-out. Smith,’ '
| said the nia'c, when the stools were brought, I
> and the companions seated, • and ifyou sec the ’
| officer coming forward, let me know it.’
i 1 Ay, ay, Sir,’ was the rejoindei ; ‘l’ll keep
i an eye on him, at?! a bright look-out ahead
: too.’ I
I ‘Now, Quills, commence your yarn.’
i ‘1 had been,’ began the clerk, Hor some '
three or four years id a counting-house, in i
; New-Aork, when, one morning, 1 was ca'le'd I
■ into my employer’s private ollice, by the senior
partner of the house, and informed that they '
wetc about loading a vessel with arms and mil-
j nitions of war for tin; patriots of South Aineri
-1 ca ; and as the seiwice required a trustworthy
' anfl eVpci'ienceci riianager, they had concluded
; .to appoint me supercargo, in ct.se I was wil-
| ling to accept the berth. I Siad ofteti listened,
with the greatest attention and delight, to ro
; mantic stories of the sea, which the masters
1 and m ites in my employer’s service were in
the. habit of rccoffiitmg, and bad long anxiously 1
i looked forward to the period when my lucky !
: I stars would present stieh an opportunity for (
; ' griitifyi. g my ardent desire to see the world. '
. ! \s y.m may i nagme, I embraced the ofi'er with- ■
ATHH2VS, GEOR&SA, SATURDAY, MAY 183 T.
out hesitation, and set about preparing myself
for the voyage.
‘The vessel destined for the business, was a
whacking brig, that had been built during the
war, for a privateer, and pierced originally for
eighteen guns. With great length and breadth
of b am, she was remarkably sharp ; had long
raking masts, and it low hull; and sailed so
fast, that, to use an expression of her captain,
‘it was necessary to heave her to, now and
then, to cool the rudder irons.’ In those dav’s
the West Indies swarmed with pirates ; and
as our cargo was valuable, we were armed
with six guns, and carried a crow of eighteen
men, tq meet any attack those desnerate ma
rauders might nuke upon ug. Oiir destina
tion was the island ot Cnracoa, where the pat
riot privateers were in the habit of rendez
vousing, to replenish their stores and sell their
prizes. In tho course of a week, we were
loaded, and had sailed. Although miserably
sea-sick, for the first two or three days, I shall
never forget the emotions of awe and delight
wi'.h which I was filled by the tumbling, bound
] less, and lonely sea. ‘ Here,’ thought 1, ‘man
is indeed free. Here are no bounds, no Avails,
no enclosures, to restrain him. No lords of the
soil are here, to claim territory and to exclude
his neighbors—no roads, no paths, to-mark the
route. No one is in the way ofanother; there
is ample room an J spacs for all.’
‘ We were running rapidly on our course,
and had entered far into the latitude of the
West India islands, when early One morning,
the cry of ‘ Wreck, ho ! : from a man who hid
been sent aloft, on the top-gallant yard, to over
haul some of the steering sail gear, attracted
the attention of every one, fore and aft, even
to the old black cook, who issued from the gal
ley, with a pan of ham and eggs in his hand,
and became so absorbed in the interest of ths
scene, that some of the tars, possessed of more
appetite than curiosity, lightened the dish of its
savory contents, and afforded us a hearty laugh
at poor Cuflee’s expense, who had not per
ceived the act, and expressed the most unfeign
ed astonishment at the unaccountable disup- j
pear nice ofthe skipper’s breakfast.
‘My interest became painfully wrought up, /
as we drew nearer (he shorn hulk, which lay j
helpless, and apparently tenantless,in the trough I
of the sea ; for ofyll objects of desolation and. I
distress, none can present a more forlorn spec- I
taele to my eye, or induce so sad a train of I
reflection, as a wreck at sea—unguided, and
alone. She was a large ship, her masts gone j
by the board, and remnants of rigging hanging ]
over the side, here and there in such a care- j
less manner, as seemed to indicate that no at- .
tempt had been made to repair the damages j
I done her. The bulwark planking was torn off.
in several places from the staunchions ; and '
! her stern-boat, staved, hung from the davitts I
by but one fall.
“ The pirates have been here at tfrork, and
be d—d to ’em,’ said the captain, who had !
been for some minutes intently reconnoitering '
her. ‘Man the boat,’ he added,turning to the i
chief male ; ‘perhaps soma poor fellow still
survives on board. I have known men to cs- |
cape, by concealing themselves until the incar- ■
nate devils had left their prey.’
‘’Fhe jolly boat was instantly lowered, and ?
I, with the chief mate, jumped into her, while
the brig was hove io, a little to windward.
In a few moments we were alongside the ship,
and by the aid ofthe remnants of rigging, clam
bered easily u ’on deck, which was hardly
reached, when a dog rushed out of the hurri
cane-house, with a fierce bark at first, and then
with a piteous whine, came cringing and wag
ging his tail, up to me. But oh, Tackle! ]
what a dreadful spectacle that deck presented ! ;
Gouts and dried puddles of blood almost cov- [
erad it, and lay 1’ s'ering and putrefying in the |
sun and wind, sending forth a most intolerable !
odor. A death-like chill came over me. as I ;
gazed around with horror; and I thought, the I
j very fountains of life would have curdled within
| me, as my mind glanced hastily at the rctros- ;
I pcct. Pieces of human flesh, and hair matted
! i i gore, were sticking to many places; and .
j fragments of torn garments; some of them fe- i
[ male, fluttered here and there. The hatches '
' were all off, while broken boxes, torn and |
| opened letters, and pieces of rich goods, thick- !
I Iv scattered around, certified, that the vessel ;
j had been thoroughly ransacked, and plundered !
i of every thing valuable.
‘ As tht dog, by his motions,seemed to beck- !
on us toward the hurricane-house, we entered
together, while some of the boat’s crew les- i
cended into the hold, to see if’ any. one was j
concealed there. As I steppedin,! perceived j
j a man seated in a chair, with his face partial- j
| ly turned from me, k aumg over a cot which |
j swung from the beatns over head, and which |
1 appeared to contain a human form. Before ;
j .idvaneiug farther in, I called to him, but re- ■
i ceived i;o answer: I called again, yet louder; j
I still no reply, nor was any motion of any kind I
! elicited. I'liinking that he might bn dead, al- i
I though his position did not warrant the con- |
! elusion, I advanced to the opposite side of the j
I cot, and faced him. As I approached, he rnis- )
| ed his head, and gr.zmg wildly in my face, I
1 cried:
‘‘Ay! ay 1 murder me now,-and I willthaak i
you for (he blow >’
‘ ‘ I come not to n;nribr, but to save you. my 1
I friend,’ said I ; ‘but who have you here?’ I
‘ I glanced my eye toward the figure on the j
cot. It was the form of a fair and exceeding- I
ly delicate girl, apparently scarce out of her I
tears; but the eyes were scaled in death, and !
, gleamed from the unclosed lids with a glazed !
, and waxy glare, The face was not strikingly I
. handsome, for tli& lukfer lip pouted, am! would (
j haVe given a cross expression to the comite- ;
( nance, had net the d feet been redeemed by a ;
milder turn rn the test ofthe features, which ,
wore that earnest, undent ing look, which alone ■
j renders some women attractive. Her chesnut j
i tresses were tangled about her face, and fell in j
'i loose ringlets over her snowy shoulders and !
j bosom, and stains of blood were on the pillow, j
. She .seemed wasted, like one far gone in the :
| consumption ; and when 1 became cooler, ami <
I my senses more acute, I perceived that ‘de-!
j cay’s effacing tinge’s’ were already nt work !
■ upon her. j
! “My friend,’ sniff I, nffffressing her corn-|
panion, who haff assumed his former besotted ■
j expression, ‘ who are you ?—-wfiat ship is this ? !
1 -—ana how catrc you in thissad plight?’
‘To these qiiestio is he made no reply, but I
buried his face in his hands, and groaned !
deeply.
“Gome, come/ said trie mate—who, though
a rough, was a kind-hearted man—laying a
hand on his shoulder, ‘troubles that can’t be
cured must ba endured ; rind \yo who go to sea,
God knows, have oi:r share of’em. Ourskip
i pef has got seme prime, old New-Euglaiid
I aboard; ’twill raise yotir spirits. You shall
i have some cf it.’
i ‘The mate’s rough attempt at consolation!
j failed in i‘s effect. lijnevir; and I thereupon ‘
jroposed calling some of the crew into the ca
bin, to sew up the deceased in her cot, and bu
ry her, before removing the survivor to our
brig. The mate called two of the sailors, and
set them at work to lash her up. So soon as
they commenced, the stranger threw himself
upon the body, and with tears streaming down
his wan cheeks, cried out, in a voice of agony:
“Oh don’t, take her away from me !—do n’t
hurt her ! —she can he of no use to you now—
she’s dead ! —her patents are dead I—she1 —she said
she’d be mine!’ And then suddenly raising
himself, he added, with' a furious look : “Hands
off’, villain !’and aimed a blow at the mate,
which weak as lie was, would inevitably have
felled him to the deck, had not one of the sai
lors observed the intention, and arrested his
arm in time to avert the strake.
“ Take him out,’said the mate; ‘there is
no use in keeping him here any longer. The
man’s mad.’
“No, no !do n’t take me out 1 I will not go
hence ! Dearest Ann stop ’’ he said, pass-
ing his hand across his forehead, and seeming
to collect his faculties; ‘let me give her but
one kiss, and then take me where you will.’
‘ He approached the corpse, bent down, and
impressed one long impassioned kiss on the
shrivelled lips, and turning wildly around, left
the cabin,
•The preparations were soon completed;
and having taken the precaution to cut off a
lock* ofher hair, wb were about passing her
out of the cabin, to launch heroverboard, when
one of the sailors suggested that it might be as
well to leave her where she was, and to set the
hull on fire ; for some vessel might be injured,
or sunk, by running into her in the night, and
she could not be got into port without the great
est trouble; while, it the corpse were threwn
into the sea, the sharks would get it before ten
minutes had elapsed.
•The advice appeared judicious; and after
hailing the brig, to obtain the captain’s per
mission, we hastily collected a few articles,
and having fired the hulk in two or three places,
I returned on board with the dog, and the unfor
j tunate survivor, who allowed himself to be
/ placed in the boat without -saying a word, or
| making the slightest resistance, Heavy co
| lumns of smoke rising, for the greater part of
[ i he day, far astern of us, indicated the position
ofthe burning ship; and painfully sad and
I acute were my feelings, when my mind revert
! ed to the deserted girl, and her gleaming,ocean-
I rocked funeral pile;
) ‘ The remainder of our voyage was prospe-
I rous, and marked by the occurrence of no new
. adventure. The captain, mate, and myself
j endeavored, by all the means in our power,
! and by every show of kindness, to restore the
! spirits of our new passenger : and we were at
I fast successful enough to remove in a great de
i gree the abstraction of mind in which he was
at first wrapped ; though a deep melancholy
! still hung over him, which all our efforts were
fin vai.i exerted to dispel. He spoke but sei
! dem, and then only in reply to questions put
j to him by one or other of us ; and as he never
| adverted to his former history, delicacy for
j bade our hinting at the subject, although our
' curiosity was wound up to the highest pitch.
' ‘We were delayed for some weeks in Cu-
racon, in disposing of our cargo, and obtaining
a new one, during which time, by unremitted
attention and constant association, I had in a
great measure won the stranger’s confidence.
As he became more communicative, he dis
played in mind and manners all the polish of
the gentleman. We were again at sea, and
nearly in the same place where a few weeks
; before we haff fallen in with the plundered ship,
i when the sti anger suddenly broke the thread
; of some desultory discourse which he had been
! maintaining with me, as we sat together on
! the sky-light, by remarking:
f “It was hereabout, my kind friend, that we
‘ first met. Here you found me in an awful
situation indeedand his brow darkened as
i he spoko ; ‘ you saved my life, too ; but I now
■ set so little value upon it, that I know not
; whether to thank you er not for the deed.’
j “I deserve not your thanks,’ said I, ‘for I
: risked nothing in your behalf.’
i “That may be true,’ he interposed, ‘that
may be true; but few however, Mould have
; borne with my wayward humors, and exerted
! themselves to restore me to myself, as you hiivo
) done, and 1 only regret that it does not lie in
!my power to make you a suitable return.’ ‘I
have observed,’ he continued, ‘ your curiosity
I to li’urn my siflventures, and would have grati
j tied it long since, but my mind shrank from (
I the mere contemplation ; and I felt how hard
j a task it would prove to relate them.’ (
| “In case you had done it,’ said I, ‘ you should j
j at any rate, have had my sympathies in your
; misfortunes, and such consolation as I was !
! able Io offer.’
, “Some minds,’ lie replied, ‘ derive more
: plerstlre from the play oftheirowu sympathies,
’ th tn (rem those of their friends, which are apt
i to be mingled with too great a spice of idle curi
i osit; ; and perhaps such is the case with my
' own. You shall hear my misfortunes, how
| ever, and then you will be better qfile to judge,
! whether, as they arose in part from ffiy own
1 indiscretions, they do or do not merit vour '
I •jvmpathy.’
i’ ’ ,
from the INew York Herald.
j TC A BACMIJEtOB-.-B'l’ MISS A. V.
Qb, why will yon say,
In the eye there's a ray
That is charming, bewitching, divine 1
Ami yet will disown
That your heart is but stone,
Ami you seek not for bliss but m wine ’
You’ll say there’s a smile
That the heart can beguile,
I And that Cupids are sweetly there playing;
And still you will swear,
That ’tis harder topair,
Than be left on the friendless earth straying.
You say that eve heat
A voice from a tear,
j Speaking softly ami sweet from the heart:}
That there is in a kiss
( Such an exquisite bliss,
That it’s wrong the lipi ever should part. ■
Yet older arid older,
I And never the bolder,
| You’ll live on—poor es!
Despised by the pretty,
The young, gay, and witty,
A torment to all but yourself.
Go on, old creature,
Since it ne’er will be better,
Yet beware lest, yoilr mind never alter;
For I fear I would prove
You so despera'e in love,
That you’d die in a pond or a halter.
VISIT OF BARON GEORGE VON MAL-
I ITZ TO MEH EMET ALL
At six o’clock on the morning appointed for
i my presentation to the Pacha, I mounted my
horse, and rode to the Seraglio, accompanied
by the Prussian Consul. After we had ascen
ded the marble staircase of the palace, (upon
which 1 may mention, by the way, fruits and
other refreshments are offered for sale,) we en
tered a spacious saloon, lighted by several
windows, and containing a number of divans.
In this apartment there were several officers
of the palace, some sitting cross-legged, some
on the floor, others on the cushions, some smo
king, others sleeping; they Wore different
kinds of dresses, and were almost all (proba
bly on account of the great heat) without stock
ings. We passed through this saloon, nd one
of the persons in it taking the slightest notice
of us, and we entered a second chamber.
Here a similar scene presented itself, with the
exception that there were posted here and
there a few sentinels, who ushered us to the
entrance of the grand audience chamber.
The apartment was of imposing size, and
well proportioned. The decorations, painting
and guilding, were unique, and quite in the
Oriental ftiste. The windows, which were
numerous, commanded a view of the fleet
in the harbor; they admitted the cool sea
breeze, and afforded an almost dazzling light.
In the middle of the audience chamber was
suspended a splendid chandelier, a present to
the Pacha from the King of the French.
Along one side cf the chamber was placed a
green silk divan, on which was seated a little
stout and elderly man, attired in a black Turk
ish dress. This was the Pacha. Mehemet Ali.
His white beard hung down to his girdle, and
his countenance was of a cheerful, good-hu
mored bon vivant: yet his keen expressive eye
denoted the energetic mind which animated his
vulgar, I may almost say, mean looking, ex
terior. He was surrounded by officers and
slaves, who, standing, awaited his commands.
They all had stockings, for Oriental etiquette
forbids the wearing of shoes in the presence
of princes. Within this circle we, a-'compa
nied by oiir interpreter, unceremoniously ad
vanced. We were desired by the Pacha to sit
down, and, as a foreigner, I had the place of
honor next to his Highness assigned to me.
The attendants retired, leaving only the inter
preter and some black slaves, wh° were inces
santly engaged in fanning off the Sys.
The Pacha opened the conversation by a
welcome, accompanied by a motion of his
hand. The interpreter stood with his arms
across, and translated the Turkish spoken bv
the Pacha into French, and vice versa. The !
constant practice and readiness of the inter- !
prefer completely removed the difficulties of I
this mode of conversation, and the dialogue j
was scarcely at all interrupted. As tq set '
phrases of etiquette, titles, &c . they were of
course dispensed with ; but being aware that
Mehemet Ali loved the incense of flattery, I
gave him a plentiful sprinkling of it. The Pa
cha is very partial to ths French, and he feels
the greatest pleasure in conversing with them.
But in his conversation with foreigners he does
not confine himself to inquiries; he readily
enters into explanations, which at once indi
cate the correctness of his judgment and the
soundness of his views, and prove him to be a
man of extraordinary intelligence and infor
mation. His favorite topics of conversation
are his own army and navy ; the satisfaction
he derives from answering questions on these
subjects is evinced by the expression which
lights up his countenance.
Trusting to a tolerably good memory, I will
endeavor to repeat, as far at least as regaids
the principal features, the conversation I had
with Mehemet Ali. As soon as we were seat
ed, the Pacha began the discourse, as 1 have
already stated, with a greeting, or welcome,
which was followed by the question "How do
you do?”
r answered, “Quite well;” adding, that Ij
found the Egiptian climate agreed very well I
with my health.
“But it is very cc-ld In your country,” ob
served the Pacha,
“In summer,” I replied, “we have sometimes
Egyptian heat; in winter, on the contrary, we
have so much show, that whole kouees are im
bedded >’n it.”
“You wish to go to Uppnr Egypt. I ad- (
vise you not to do so; the heat and the Cham
zin are so oppressive. You hud better stay in
. Cv.iros There you will become better ac
! quainted with Egypt than here.”
I “I have already, during my short stay in
| Alexandria, seen many wonders; and since I
i enjoy the honor of seeing and personally ad-
I miring the creator of all those wonders, 1
think I should prefer staying here.”
“No! forthat very reason you must go to
Cairo. You must judge me by my works, and I
chiefly by rny works, ai;d chiefly by my works !
of peace. All that you see here has cost ine ;
a large outlay of money. What you will see j
at Cairo, on the contrary,yields me a large re- j
venue. I enjoy but little rest, A Pacha must :
not devote much tune to sleep.” Here he ,
smi'ed With an air of self-satisfaction.
“A Pacha, like your Highness, who has >
such guards as those, may rest securely.” As i
I said this I pointed to the fleet which lav be- i
neath the window at which we were aeuted. ■
The Pacha smiled again. A beautiful pipe,
set with diamonds, was now brought and pre
sented to the Pacha ; coffee merely was hand
ed to me and the others present.
“Your Highness,” resumed I, “has the
largest mcn-of-war in the world.”
“ Yes. but the worst sailors. France and
England possess an extensive mercantile navy,
which serves as a school for their fleets.
Egypt has not one merchant ship, because the
Arabs only cruise along the coast, and do not
venture on the high seas. The Arabs are pol- |
troons. (The Pacha, in token of contempt. !
shut his eyes and breathed forcibly, in a man
ner somewhat approximating to a whistle.) I I
owe every thing to (he Franks.” ;
When the dragoman had finished his transla
tion of these last words, Mehemet Ali, as if he
wished to speak directly with me, repeated ve.
ry emphatically “Out, oui, les Francs! les!
Francs!”
“ Tile arsenal,” observed I, “ ;>nd the fleet,
which I have inspected in detail, interested me
in the highest degree.” ,
“Bravo! bravo! But I have been unable,
!as yet, to < ast naval guns ; though I have in I
Cairo three manufactories of arms, which
supply me 200 muskets daily. They are not
bad; but certainly not so good as yours. You!
are in the military service of the King of Trus- i
sia. I n wkat corps ?”
“The Uhlans.” |
“ Masbalhih I (a favorite exclamation ofthe
Pacha,) I also have a corps of Uhlans.” i
The Pacha here entered into some particn-“
iars concerning his army; and it appeared to, <
me that there wae some degree of boasting in ! ■
Vol. V—So. I.
• j what he had said on the as well as hid
manufactories of muskets. He had the high
est opinion ot the Prussian army, about which
■ he made very mi nite inquiries ; fio; iUs &uuw
’ ledge of it was very imperfect. He inform,
ed nee; with much self-satisfaction, that he had
raised a regiment nt Balbac, near Damascus.
“As you wish to go to Syria,” continued
he, “ I will give you a firman. Some distur
bances have broken out there ; but I have sent
2,00(5 men thither, and Ibrahim Pabha
soon quell them,”
He smiled complacently, and tiirned to a
Bey, who at that moment entered. The Bey
returned his smile. A letter was brought in—
the Pacha ordered P to be read to him, and he
listened to its contents with intense interest;
His eyes sparkled, and he moVed his lips like
one speaking to himself. The movement of
his head seemed to indicate that he did not
hear distinctly, though his sense of hearing is
peculiarly acute.) He afterwards turned to
me, and said “I am writing the history of my
life, but it will not contain much about milita
ry. I intend to describe, minutely, all the
plans I have put into practice for the phttho.
tion of trade and manufactures. I shall finish
it in about two months.”
“Your Highness’s life certainly affords the
most interesting materials for writing about.”
“My materials are here,” (pointing to his
forehead.) (
“Your Highness is a living book.”
“Yes,” said the Pacha, smiling, “hut I wish
it were less bulky.”
Here there was a short pause; and tha
H a consul, who sat upon the divan With
us, took the opportunity to mention that he had
recently been appointed Consul General.
Mehemet. Ali made no reply to this observation,
and continuing to address me, said—
“l was lately nominated a member of a
learned society in Europe.”
The H 1 Consul, “of Frankfott-oH-the-
Maine.—Your Highness, I, too, have the hon
or to be a member of that society. His Ma
jesty the Kiug appointed me.”
The Pacha, (again addressing me.) “Has
the King of Prussia any cannon foundries in
his dominions?”
I replied, (as a cotinterpoise th the story of
the two hundred muskets,) “There are about
two hundred cannon cast annually in the coun
try itself, but Prussia has one million besides.”
The Pacha “Masallahi Gu is afe the most
important objects in a state, if they be employ,
ed only for the purpose of maintaining peace,
and shooting rebels. A country without can.
non is worse than a Country without ploughs.
The trade of Egypt is at present very flourish-
I 1 3 8-’’
i “That-makes the people happy,” replied I.
I (I was, nevertheless, fully convinced ofthe un
| truth of these two last remarks of his highness.)
] Ihe K n Consul. “The trade of
his flourished, particularly since the glorious
conquest of Syria. His Majesty has Lou
pleased to”
The Pacha, (turning to me.) “When you
travel in Syria yoi must wear a sword, forth®
peop’e are very disorderly; but Ibrah.un pacha
will soon put all things to rights.”
The H n Consul, (smilieg, by w:>y of
complaisance.) ‘ Your Highness has shown
that you knew how to act with energy. Hia
Majesty the King has been pleased” - r.
The Puctia, (tome.) “I am glad to hava
miid your acquaintance, and, if you retnaiti
longer in Alexari Iria, I hopo I shall «a e yod
again.”
Having s.iid this, ha took tip a latter which
was lying near him, and b g m to read, and wd
withdrew, making a profound obeisance. In
the ante-chamber the H n Consul at length
divested himself of his weighty diplomatic
burden, and, after wa had strode over a num.
ber of slippers, many of them none ofthe clean,
est, with which the floor was covereid, wa
reached, not without difficulty, the great mar
ble staircase, at the foot of which we found
( our horses. 1 say, not wuhbut difficulty, for
an army ot idle attendants and palace officers
performed the part ol mendicant® with such
a furious earnestness for the usual Oriental
bakshish, or drink-money, that we bad no
slight labor in forcing our way through the
compact multitude. We had scarcely satisfied
their rapacity by a considerable present, when
the external palace guard surrounded us, and
! made a similar demand. We now lost all pa
tience, and, amidst cries of “hetnshi kelb!”
(come back, you dog,) we sot off at full gallop,
and escaped these inendicant warriors.
The impression which Mehemit Ali produ
ces on foreigners had bv no means any thing
in common wt‘,h that feeing which the pres
once of a European monarch excites., We
expect a proud and imperious Oriental, and
find, at least in appearance, a kind, friendly,
old gentleman, of mild and cardial aspect. But
j the expression of his eve betrays what Me.
f hemet Ali. perhaps, would very willingly con.
[ ceal—an impenetrable character, and e igma
i lie depth of soul, in which time, M-hicfi cou.'fi
! not destroy the passions, has petrified them.
! JlTen in the Moon.— lt appears from the. oh
( snrvatious of Professor Gi uithniisen, of Miu
| nich, that there are nniny plain indications < f
I inhabitants in the moon. That the latitude in.
i dicati g vegetation on the surface of that planet,
! extends to fifty-five deg. south, and sixty-five
deg. north; many hundred observations show,
in the different colors and monthly changes,
three kinds of phenomena M-hich Cannot possi
bly be explained, except by the process of veg.
etation. It should seem, also, from lhetSO ob
servations, that indications of living lieinga il
inferred, from fifty degrees of north latitude,
to thirty-seVen and perhaps forty-seven, south
latitude. The places on the moon’s surfacd
are also pointed out in M'hich are appearances
ot artificial causes altering the surface. The
author examines the appearances that induce
him to infer that there are artificial roads in va
rious directions ; ami he describes a colossal
edifice, resembling our cities, on the moMfef.
tile part near ,he moon’s equator, standing «c.
curately according to (he four cardinal points.
The main cities are in angles of forty-five de
grees aud ninety degrees. A building resem
bling what is called a tar-redoubt, the professor
presumes to be dedicated to religious purposes,
aud as they can see no stars in the day time,
(their atmosphere being so pure) he thinks that
they worship the stars.and consider the eartli
as a. natural clock. His essay is accompanied
by plates.— jPoufson’l Afficr. Daily Advertiser*
LrgAfntng—iVas looked upon as sacred both
by the Greeks and Romans, and was,Supposed
to be sent to execute vengeance on the earth,
hence persons killed with lightning,, being
thought hateful to the gods, Were Wried apart
by th<j|Dselves, lest the ashes of other men
should receive pol.’ption fr>m them. All pin
eqs struck with lightning were carcfullv
ed and fenced round, from an opinion that
Jupiter had cither t .ken offeuco at them; (iud