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POETRY.
. DIRGE,
ON A FRIEND WHO DIE*; AfeROAP.
By Jllaric A. Watts.
“He loft Ills home w'th a -bounding heart,
For the world was all before him,
And felt it scarce a pain to part,
Such sun-bright beams came o er lmn
He turned to visions of future years,
The rainbow’s hues were round them
And a mother’s boding*, a mother s fears.
Might not weigh the hopes that crowned
them.
He left his home with a swelling sail,
Of fame and fortune dreaming.
With a spirit as free as the vernal „ale,
Of the pennon above him streaming.
He reached his goal—by a distant ware,
’N-ath a sultry sun they’ve 'aid him.
And stranger forms bent o er hiS grave,
When the last sad rites were paid him*
He should have died in his own loved land,
With friends and kindred near him,
Not have perished thus on a foreign strand,
With no thought save of heaven to cheer
But whatrecks it now ? Is his sleep less
sound, - . , ,
[n the port where the wild winds swept
him, „ , . , ,
Than if home’s green turf his grave had
bound, A ,. >
Or the hearts he laved had wept him.
Then why repine?. Can he feel the rays
That pestilent sun sheds o’er him:
Or share the grief that may cloud the days
Of the friends who, now deplore him t
No! his bark’s at anchor—its sails are lim
it hath ’scaped the storm’s deep chiding;
And safe from the buffeting waves of the
world . ... ,,
In a heaven of peace is riding.
SONNET.
Av, thou art welcome—heaven’s delicious
breath!—
Wfien woods begin to wear the enmson
leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns
, grow brief,
Ajid the j r ear smiles as it draws near its
death.
Wind of the suny South ?—Oh long delay
In the gay woods andin the golden air,
Like to a good old age, released from
care,
Journeying, in long serenity, away.
In such a bright late quiet, would that 1
Might wear out life, like thee, ’mid bow
ers and brooks, .
And, dearer yet, tte sunshine of kind
looks,
And music afkind voices ever nigh;
And, when my last sand twmklcs in the
glass,
Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.
Bkvaiit.
From the ArieL
FEMALE DELICACY.
Female delicacy is a subject upon
U’hiclrmy thoughts delight to rumi
nate, and upon which I shall now at
tempt to form a speculation. Altho
I am conscious of being unequal to the
task, which requires so delicate a
hand, such refinement of sentiment and
such parity of thought, as well as
such elegance of language, yet my
fair readers will forgive the attempt,
when I assure them that I wish ior no
higher satisfaction than to notice their
advancement in mental and moral, *vs
well as external perfection; and to
share in that happiness which such
perfection will ensure to themselves
and to the rest of the world.
It ill becomes him.who is born of a
woman to speak degradingly of the
sex. It less becomes him. who is not
only born of a woman, but is indebted,
in a considerable degree, to female
' attention and assiduity, to female con
versation and example, and to female
tenderness and delicacy; that his mind
was early opened to intelligence, and
his appetites and passions have been
inured to cont rol; that his sentiments
have been refined, his manners polish
ed, his steps withheld from danger,
and directed to safety and wisdom;
his bosom relieved of its cares, and
his life illumined with pleasures. And
least of all does it become^him to dis
parage the sex, who, to his personal
obligations, can add his philanthropy;
who professes to be a friend of man
kind; who knows the influence which
woman has upon man, and the hand
she has, or might have, in promoting
the virtue and happiness of families,
of larger communities^ and of the
world.
Our omnipotent Creator, whose
wisdom and benignity shine eonspicu
ous in all his works, has formed the
female sex, if I may be indulged the
expi*ession, with a delicate hand. The
slender texture of their bodies, the
softness of their features, the tuneful
ness of their voices, the general nla-
eidness of their tempers, and tender
ness of their hearts ^together with a
similar niceness in-Their intellectual
powers, denote a characterestic de
licacy, with which their education
ami employment, their sentiments and
vieivs, their conversation and beha
viour, and ours with and towards them,
should exactly correspond. So that
my idea of female delicacy is complex
and comprehensive. It includes what
ever is delicate in the structure of
their frames, in the faculties of their
minds in the disposition of their hearts,
in their sentiments, in their tastes, in
their words, in their actions. But
while it excludes not that delicacy in
their bodies or minds which is merely
natural, it regards principally that
which is acquired; which is the ef
fect of culture and education; which
results from an early and assiduous
care to preserve and establish the na
tive innocence and purity of the heart,
to correct and govern the passions, to
refine and elevate the sentimqpls, and
to render the conversation and man
ners more and more engaging. In
short, the delicacy which I mean, and
which I wish to recommend is an in
ward sense of propriety which regu
lates and beautifies the whole conduct;
and a settled, unsullied, and inflexible
virtue and sweetness of temper, beam
ing forth in every thing that is done.—
This will highten the delicacy of the
features and air—for it is loveliness
itself.
Every moral writer and thinker
knows, and every moral liver feels,
that thero is something so deformed
and ugly in vice, as to excite aversion
in every ^rightly tempered breast.
It argues, therefore, an indelicacy of
mind to cherish perverse humors and
give way to faulty- propensities. The
more delicate the taste of the soul is.
the greater is its abhorcnce of every
thing that borders on vice, or savors
of impiety. The heart which is attun
ed to the refined exercises of virtue,
of devotion, and religion, and which
cannot consent to any deficiency in its
gratitude and obedience to God, or in
justice and benevolence to man, dis
covers a delicacy superior to the most
exquisite taste in economy, rookery,
and embroidery, and in music, paint
ing, and poetry. The mind that does
not wish to possess and exercise all
the virtues and graces which are pre
scribed for the adorning of human na
ture, ami for the attainment of per
fection and felieity, is as deficient in
taste and delicacy as it is in goodness.
Such are my ideas of female deli
cacy: And though they may be tlio’t
by some to be too refined or diffuse,
yet it must be owned that a behaviour
in the sex corresponding with such i-
de?s, a course of conduct formed upon
such maxims, will exalt their charac
ters, add a lustre to all other charms
and secure their hearts from seduc
tion, their lives from blemish, and their
bosoms from remorse. And it is ea
sier to conceive than to describe the
happy alterations which such senti
ments gild manners would produce in
the other sex, both as to exalted mor
als and rational enjoyment. Vice and
misery would be greatly diminished,
virtue and happiness proportionally
advanced. It is the wish of my heart
that wives, mothers, and daughters
would pursue with candor and docili
ty the hints here offered, and by re
ducing them to practice, try the ex
periment, liovv amiable and happy they
will render them.
VIATOR,
hearts of youih fbr mofe solid read
ings, as they go on to maturity. In
truth, they are the great engine that
moves the moral and political world,
and are infinitely powerful to establish
the character of a people, as well as
to preserve their liberties; and cannot
be so easily dispensed with as some
persous believe—unless, indeed, we
think the trouble of self-government is
too great, and agree to transfer the
power of the State to the few that
are ready to use it for their own ad
vantage. But this cannot be the will
of the people of the United States;
yet observing, howeVer, the top gen
eral repugnance tl reading, that,
(though it prevails liss with us than
in any other country,) it is the duty of
those who feel the pleasure and profit
of it, to smooth the my to it, and af
ford every facility, Jthat light and
knowledge may he diffused. “An ar
med people and an unarmed magistra
cy,” said Dickenson, “ s the best guar
antee of freedom.” l\nd while the
body of the people reaL reason, and
rellect—while the pr^ss is frfee and
liberally supported, the sword of the
magistracy is pointless^ except it is
directed to execute t^e will of the
people. How important, then, is it
(hat that will should result from an en
lightened mind.—Niles's Register.
THOUGHTS ON NEWSPAPERS.
Newspapers are things that can he
dispensed with—as costing money
that might be saved. So is the school
ing of our children—so, indeed, are
nine tenths of what it costs us to live.
Almost any man may lay up every
year, if he would live on bread and
water, and clothe himself in the
cheapest manner he could; but what
of that? Who would live like a
brute, and die like a beggar, for the
mere pleasure of saving money, which
he cannot carry hence with him—
though, like a dead weight, it may
hang* upon his soul at the last moment
of his mortal existence! There are
few such—five or ten in a million; and
what wretched creatures are they!
Most men, sensible that they must die,
are disposed to enjoy a little of the
fruits of their toils: and nothing is,
perhaps, more necessary to the enjoy
ment of society, or self-satisfaction in
retirement, than a well-informed and
virtuous mind. It gives a zest to all
tilings in prosperity, and is the best re
source in adversity. Newspapers,
though not always conducted with tal
ents and respectability, are the best
possible channels for obtaining an ac
quaintance with the affairs of the
world, and to implant desires in the
“MISSISSIPPI GUARDS.”
The traveller and historian, as far
a6 I am informed, have passed by un
noticed, one of the most useful of all
the various tribes of insects—The
Mississippi Guards. In Mississippi,
and the States in the same parallel,
there are large tracts of country
which abound with such numerous
swarms of flies, that the herds of cat
tle would be compelled entirely to
desert their pasture grounds were it
not for the kind protection they re
ceive from the Mississippi Guards.
The Guards inhabit the driest and
the hottest sand knowls. They live
on the various species of flies which
infest the stock. They resemble ve
ry much the yellow jacket, both in
size and appearance; there are, how
ever, larger and smaller guards, adap
ted to the different kinds of flies on
which they prey. The earth for
some distance around the sand hill that
constitutes their barracks, is troddeh
firmly by the neighboring cattle, form
ing what the herdsman calls a stomp.
Hither the cattle repair with wild
and headlong fury wlifinever they are
beset beyond further endurance with
the large horse flies & other tribes of in
sect that infest their pasture grounds.
At the sound of their approach, the
guards turn out of theirsuhteraneous
barracks & parade over their sand hill,
moving to and fro,, resembling swarms
of bees. So soon as the infuriated
herd of cattle arrive, they arrange
themselves around the sand hill, and
become almost as still as statues,
though literally covered with flies,
which are drawing blood from every
pore, not a cow is seen even to switch
her tail. At this moment the guards
sally .forth on the flies which cover the
cattle. Each guard seizes a fly,
clips off his wings in the first place,
jerks out the proboscis, though buried
in the skin of the beasts, and bears off
the fly, a struggling wingless prisoner,
to the sand hills, and there scratches
a hole in the sand, drags in the crim
inal, and by means of a peculiar shuf
fle of the hind feet, covers up the
hole as lie descends, & in an instant the
guard mounts up through the sand in
a different place, leaving the poor fly
hurried alive.. He again proceeds to
the cattle in quest of another, fyi
a short time, not a fly of any descrip
tion can be seen. The cattle, under
the vigilant protection of their guards
at length lie down and chew the cud
in peace. A gentleman who has a
large stock Of horses and cattle, has
been so fortunate as to have his pound
selected by a company of guards for
th.-ir place of abode. He is never
under the necessity of having his cat
tle or horses driven op to the pound,
they always come of their own accord,
to rid themselves of the large horse
flies with w'hicli that whole vicinity a-
bournls. The guards are always
found at their post, ready to seize the
blood-thirsty tormenters of the cattle,
and to inflict on them a punishment,
the same with that which Numa Pom
pilius first instituted for the vestal
Virgins who should break their vtiW
Galaxy.
ation? Who docs not rfemember
those seasons of retirement, when the
calculations of eternity had gotten a
momentary command over the heart;
and time with all its vexations had
dwindled into insignificance before
them? And Who does not remember
how upon his actual engagement with
the objects of time, they resumed a
control as great, and omnipotent as if
all the importance of eternity adhered
to them—how they emitted from them
such an impression upon his feelings,
as to fix and to fascinate the whole
man into a subserviency to their in
fluence?
Oh! how comes it, that in the face
of all his experience; the whole eleva
tion of purpose conceived in this hour
of his better understanding'should be
dissipated and forgotten? Whence
the night, and whence the mystery of
the spell, \Vnich so blinds and so in
fatuates us to the world? what prompts
us to embark the whole strength of our
eagerness and our desires in pursuit
of interests which we know a few
years will bring to utter annihilation?
Who is it that imparts to them all the
colour of an unfading durability? who
is it that throws such an air of subtil
ity over these earthly tabernacles, or
makes them look to the fascinated
eye of ran like resting places for e-
ternity? Who is it that so pictures
out the objects of sense, and so magni
fies the range of their future enjoy
ment, and so dazzles the fond deceiv
ed imagination, that in looking onward
through our earthly career, it appears
like the vista, or the prospective of
innumerable ages? He who can
dress the idleness of its waking dreams
in the garb of reality. He who can
pour a seducing brilliancy over the
panorma of its fleeting pleasures and
vain anticipations. He who can turn
it into an instrument of deceitfulness,
and tnake it wield such an absolute
ascendency over all the affections that
man becomes the pooj> slave of its
idolatries and its charms—put the au
thority of conscience and the warning
of the word of God, and the offered
instigations of the Spirit of God, and
all the wisdom of his own sound and
sober experience away from him.
But this wondrous contest will come
to a close. Some will return to (heir
loyalty, and others will keep by their
rebellion: and in the day of winding up
the drama of this world’s history,
there will be made manifest to the
myriads of the various orders of crea
tion, both the mercy and the vindica
ted majesty of the Eternals-Chalmers
Wonderfui Ingenuity.—A fctv day$
since we had the gratification of wit-
ncssing a striking instance of what ha-
man ingenuity, in conjunction with in
defatigable perseverance, is capable
of accomplishing. A young gentle
man, a native of this place, has print
ed several copies—-one of which we
have perused—of an 18mo. work, ex
tending to nearly seventy pages. Our
readers, we believe, will be scarcely
able to credit the fact, that this inge
nious youth made the whole p( the
types, consisting of various sizes, with
his own hand, and with the assistance
of no other implement than a penknife.
He also constructed the press with
which the work was printed and man
ufactured his own ink. What is as sin
gular, is, that he composed, corre«ted, 1
& printed the whole impression with
his own hand without having the slight
est direction from any individual, or a-
ny idea of a printing establishment, or
any thing belonging to it. The quali
ty of the type, & the manner in which
the whole work is executed, are real
ly, under all the circumstances of the
case, calculated to excrite the highest
astonishment.—Elgin Courier.
Writing.--Among all the produc
tions and inventions of hnman wit, none
more admirable and useful than
Writing, by means whereof a man can
copy out his thoughts, utter his mind
without opening his mouth, and signi
fy his pleasure at a thousand miles!
distance, and by the help of twenty-
four letters, by various joining and in
finite combinations of which all words
that are attainable and imaginable may
be framed; and the several ways of
joinining, altering, and transposing
these letters, do amount (as Calvin,
the Jesuit, has taken pains to com
pute) to 52,635,738,665,000 ways, so
that all things that are in heaven and
earth may he expressed by this won
derful alphabet, which may be com
prised in the compass of a farthing.
Palmer's aphorisms.
EXTRACT.
Who has not felt the workings of a
rivalry within him between the power
of conscience and the power of tempt
The Capitol.—This edifice, which
has been building thirty-six years
(though burnt and repaired during
that time,) begins to approach com
pletion. The hill it stands on,
formed into terraces, supported by
massive arched stonework, faced with
sod, and ascended by successive flights
of steps. The approaches are thro’
six great portals, and the grounds in
eluded within the area will soon he
entirely levelled and planted. Seen
at a distance from the west, this
large and gorgeous building, of a bril
liant white, rising from the green hill
and the young plantations of American
forest trees a»d shrubs, is, with all its
faults, a very splendid spectacle.-Tho
quantity of work in the substruction
(so to speak) ami in the approaches of
the building, is in itself very great and
ostly. The sculpture of the tympa
num of the east portico, is not ytet fi
nished; the sculptor’s house is still
perched like the nest of some great
bird, among the splended capitals of
the columns. The design includes
only three human figures, with an ea
gle so that the effect will not be lost
and frittered away to the eye, by too
minute a division of parts. The huge
frames for the remaining paintings
which are to adorn the great, rotundo
under the dome, are lying there, .rea
dy to he placed. The sculptures of
the same apartments are finished, w
believe. Several improvements have
been made in the edifice since our last
visit. We wish something could bed one
to bring the heavy dome more into ac
cordance with the light portico be
neath it, which it seems ready to
crush; and fifty shapes might certain
ly be selected, handsomer than the
lanterns which now surmount the less
er domes of the wings.
Freestone has been used for some
of the flights of steps. This material
is too liable to be broken and worn;
one more costly in the first instance,
would be much less so in the one.
Baltimore American.
Captain Basil Hall has finished his
“walk” in the United States—ha*
travelled in all 16,000 miles in fifteen
months—and is now hard at Work
“making hook.”
HOUSE BUILDER, AND CABL
NET MAKER.
J.
S! W. WHITE, from the city of
New York, respectfully informs the
citizens of the Cherokee Nation, that he
intends carryingon the business of HOUSE
BUILDING AND CABINET MAK
ING in a manner superior to any that has
been done, &. in the most fashionable man
ner, equal to that of N, York or Baltimore,
and Superior to any work of the kind in
this part of the Country. He will work as
cheap as any workman, and in a better
manner than can be done. He has got Ma
hogany and materials of the best quality.
N. B. He will take apprentices in the
above business. Any native who will
come with good recommendation, and of
steady habits will be received and taught
in the above business.
Persons wishing to build can be supplied
with a plan and elevation of any house that
may he wanting.
For furllmr information please apply
to Messrs. David Vann and John Ridge.
Nov. 12, 1828. 37 tf.
$8 REWARD.
S TRAYED OR STOLEN out of a lot
in this Town, a small light brown
mare, with two scars in her forehead, hav-
ingtlie upper part of her left: ear bent.—
Not one of her legs is white—her main and
tail are dark. I do not know her age, as I
had just got her from a white man. Any
person who will deliver the mare to me, at
Turkey’s Town, shall receive the abovw
reward.
CRYING SNAKE.
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NOTICE.
I DO hereby forewarn all persons from
trading for two notes of hand, both pay
able to Josjiua Holden, and signed by my
self, and dated the sixth day of August 1827.
One of said notes was due the 25th of De
cember 1827,'for one hundred yards of
home spun. -The other is due the’ 25th «f
December 1828, for one hundred and fifty
yards of homespun, I am determined not tp
pay them, -unless compelled by law, as this
consideration for which they were giver*
has failed.
JONATHAN BLYTHE.
Nov. 12, 1828. 37 tf.
