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•POETKX.
From the Bellows Falls Intelligencer.
BE ITIFUL EXTRACT.
Mv mother’s voice! how often creep
Its cadence on mv lonelv hour*l
Like healing scent on w<ngs of sleep,
Or dew to th^ unconscious flowers.
I miglu forget her melting praver,
VVhile pleasrir’s pulses madly fly;
But in the still, unbroken air,
Her gentle tones come stea’mg hv,
And years of sin and manhood flee,
And leave me at my mother’s knee.
The book of nature and the print
Of beautv on th# whisering sea,
Give still to me some lineament
Of what I have been taught to be.
Mv heart is harder and perhaps
Mv manliness has drunk up tears,
And Ih^re’s mildew in the lapse
Of a few miserable years—
But nature’s book is even vet,
With all my mother’s lessons writ.
1 have been out at eventide,
Beneath a moonlight sky of spring.
When earth was garnished like a bride,
And night had on her silver wing;
When bur ding buds anl diamond grass
*■ And waters leaping to the light,
And all that ma^e the pulses pass,
Wdh wd 1 r fleet ness, thronged the night;
When all was beautv, then have I,
W ih frign is on whom my love is flung,
L'k 3 myrrh, on winds ofArahv,
Gaz’d uy where evening lamp is hung.
And When the beauteous spirit there
Flung over me its golden chain,
My mother’s voice came on the air
Like the light dropping ufthe rain;
An l resting >n some silver star.
The spirit of a bended knee,
I,ve pour’d her deep and fervent prayer,
That our eternity might be
To rise in Heaven like stars at night;
And tread a living path of light.
The following is probably the most per
fect pecimen of alliteration extent.
Whoe ver has at any time attempted to in
dite an acrostic merely, is aware of the era-
basrassment of being contined to particular
intinal letters. Here the whole alphabet
is fathomed, and each word, in each line,
'cla ms its own proper initial. It is worthy
the indefatigable perseverance of another
Dean S.vi t, [Boston Cent
An Austr'an army, awfully arrayed,
B.ddlv, bv battery, besieged Belgrade;
Ossae f commanders cannonading, come
D ai-ng des truction’s devastating doom;
Ei'-ow endeavour engineers essav,
Gen -rals ’against generals grapple—gra
cious God!
How honors heaven, heroic hardihood!
Infuriate, indiscriminate in ill,
Kinsmen kill kinsmen—kinsmen kindred'
kill!
Labor low levels l^tiest, longest lines—
Men inarch ’mid mound, ’mid moles, ’mid
murderous mines;
Now noisy noxious numbers notice nought
Of outward obstacles opposing ought:
Poor patriot’s, partly purchased, partly
press’d,
Quite quaking, quickly quarter ’quest:
Reason returns, religious right redounds,
Sutvarrow stops such sanguinary sounds,
Truce to thee, Turkey—triumph to thy
tram!
Unjust, unwise, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vah-sh vain victory, vanish victory vain!
Why wish we warfare? Wherefore wel-
com - were
Xerxes, Ximener.s, Xanthus, Xaviere!
Tie; ! v ’ youth ! ye yeomen, yield your
V p.;»
Zeno’s, Zarsater’s, Zoroaster’s zeal,
And au aclmg—arms against appeal.
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JL Vim .A £*$ wV . AMEOUS.
SEDUCTION.
Tt is this species of seduction of
the purity of female love, as I have
said, to which the name is usually at
tached.—But there are vieions sedtc
tious, of as many ki .ds, as there are
viciou’ objects to be obtained, by vicious
means. He who knowingly and wilful
ly iessens a single virtue in the he,:rt
of another, or introduces into it a sin
gle vice, or increases the power of
any guilty passion, is a seducer,—
guilty himself, to the extent at least,
or more than the extent, of the guilt
winch he occasions. The flatterer
is i seducer—and, in thinking of flat
tery, i\e are not to think only of the
courts of kings. There is a scale,
which comprehends in it all mankind,
—a scale of tike great who are great
to those beneath them, as they are lit
tie to those above them; and, every
where, there are flatterers, because,
at every point of the scale, there is
some little power or patronage, which
can gratify some little desire, that
corresponds with the gifts which the
flatterers of flatterers can offer to
those who pay to them a similar hom
age. As it would be difficult, to find
any one too great to be the subject of
adulation, it would be difficult also,
to find one too little to be the subject
of it, if only we could find one, still
meaner, who might look to him with
hope. Of the various corruptions
therefore, with which virtue may be
assailed, flattery is not merely one of
th* most powerful, 4 but the most gen-
mi of all; because it is at once the
mosi easy to be offered, and the sur
est to be received. “We believe
that we hate flattery,” says La Ri>-
chefouoault, “when all which we hate
is the awkwardness of the flatterer.’
It is the very nature of this species ol
blintlishment, as has been truly re
marked, to please, even when reject
ed; and however frequently refused
admission, to be admitted at last.
“Habenl hoc in se naturale blanditiae,
etiam cum rejiciuntur placent: soepe
exclusie, novissime recipiuntur.”
Flattery, then, the fosterer of van
ity, and often of affections more de
grading, implies, in whatever station
the flatterer and the flattered may be,
a disregard of the virtue of others,
which in itself is no slight vice. But
the sly bribery of praise, is not the on
ly bribery, with which human selfish
ness would strive to seduce human
selfishness. There are grosser bribes,
which those who count themselves
honourable men, and are aspiring to
stations of still higher honour, have ao
hesitation in employing, for the fur
therance of useful vice. A little per
jury, real or implied, is all which they
require; and they are content, to pay
for it its fair market price, or even to
raise a little the market price, if per
jury should have grown more reluct
ant than before, or more skilful in
the calculations of its own exact val-
It is painful to think, that an of
fence against public morals, of such
serious import, should be so lightly
estimated by those, who strive to for
get their own delinquency, in the e-
qual and familiar delinquency of
others? as if the very wideness of
guilt were not an additional reason,
for ceasing to contribute to that which
has been already so extensively bane
ful;' and that the first step to the leg
islation of the freest and most virtu
ous nation on the earth, to the noblest
of all the trusts which a nation can be
stow,—that of enacting the means
by which its own tendencies to guilt
may be lessened,—should, in so many
instances, he the purchase of a crime,
or many crimes.
If, however, the purchase even of a
few crimes, be an offence so worthy
of reprehension, not merely for the
encouragement which it gives to the
enal bauierers of their conscience,
but still more, for the corruption oi
moral principle, which it tends to dif
fuse through the whole community,
what deeper reprobation belongs to
those, to whom this general debase
ment of a people, is itselt an object
o[desire,—who can see millions sunk
in ignorance, and in all the vices of
ignorance, and know the means which
might have accelerated their moral
progress, and rejoice with a secret
triumph, that they have been instru
mental in withholding them. IIow
many nations are there on the earth,
in which nothing is so much feared by
those who have the miserable charge
of the general servitude, as that man
should become a little nobler, than it
is possible for him to be, when he
has to bow his head at the feet of the
oppressor;—and in which the diffu
sion of knowledge is dreaded, the dil-
fusion of that which the slave cannot
feel long, and continue to be a slave.
To withhold, for purposes of selfish
gain, the means by which the moral
condition of a state might be amelior
ated, is to be guilty of an injury to vir
tue, compared with the atrocity of
which, the guilt of seducing to vice a
single individual, is as insignificant as
would be the crime of a single assas
sination, compared with the butchery
of millions in the massecre of a whole
nation,— of which none were to sur
vive but the murderers themselves,
and those by whom the murder was
sanctioned and applauded.
The various species of seduction
which we have been considering, have
had some object of direct personal
gain in view. The betrayer of fe
male innocence, has prevsously yield
ed himself to the control of appitites
and passions, that are to him what
reason and morality are to the good;
and that must be gratified, though he
seek the gratification of them in mis
ery itself. The flatterer seeks the
favour of him whom he flatters, and
seeks it usually for interests, without
which, the mere favour would be of
little value to him. The briberies of
money, or place, or pension, present
or future, near or remote,—or what
ever else can be offered to the rapaci
ty of avarice or ambition, or of all the
passions which avarice and ambition
can gratify,—are not gifts or promises
that are gratuious, but expect a re-
tnjn of profit of some sort, to the pas
sions of the briber. Even those who
delight in keeping nations in ignorance
aid servility, and who care not how
many vices may accompany or flow
iroiii these, still see the connection
of servility as an effect, with ignorance
as a cause; and perhaps, would have
no great objection to allow a litle more
wisdom to a people, if they were to
become obsequious by their wisdom,
or to remain even as truly slaves in
heart as before. There is one spe
cies of corruption, however, which is
exercised from a love of the corrup
tion itself, or, at least, from tlie mere
pleasure of companion-ship in guilt,
—a spirit of malicious proselytism,
which forms the last dreadful stage of
vice; when the grey-headed veteran
of debaucheries, that began in youth,
and have been matural by a long life of
unceasing excess in all that is gross
and depraved, till he have acquired a
sort oi' ordcular gravity of profligacy,
among gayer profligates,—-collects a-
round him his band of youthful disci
ples, whom he has gathered wherever
his watchful eye could mark out an
other victim;—relates to them the
tales of merriment of other .years, as
an excitement to present passions.—
observes in each the few virtues which
will need, even yet, to be repressed,the
irresolute vices that will require to he
strengthened, and if, in some ingenu
ous cheek, a blush should still arise,
marks it with a.sort of joy, that almost
calculates the moment of triumph,
when that blush have been washed
away, to appear again no more. If
there be a being on this earth whom
il is permitted to us to bate, with
fjill and absolute detestation, it is sure
ty a human demon like this; and. if
we could trace through all its haunts,
the licentiousness of a single great
city,—from the splendid gaming-house
of the rich, to the obscure chamber of
vulgar riot, in which the dissolute of
another order, assemble to plan the
frauds or robberies of the night, or to
turn to the only uses, to which they
knowhow to turn them, ihe frauds or
robberies of the preceding day,—of
how many demons of this elrss should
ive trace the horrible power, in the
lessons which they are giving, and the
•esnlts of lessons which have been
given!—Brown’« Philosophy
and will ultimately receive the fe
lt aids of well doing. Proclaim a
war of extermination against ignor
ance and vice: and withered be that
arni which is raised for their de
fence.—President Wood's Inaugural
address.
RELIGION THE. SAFEGUARD
OF FREEDOM.
If the noble and dearbought herit
age of our freedom is to descend an
undiminished patrimony to our cbil
dren’s children, it must be by the a-
gency of principles which bang the re
tributions of a future work to bear up
on the destinies of the present. For my
self, I took to religion as the ark in
which our liberties are to'be preserved
not by an unholy alliance of Church &
State, but by the bland and reform
ing influence of this religion on the
manners and morals of the community
on the hearts & lives of our citizens
This religion which we regard as
the palladium of our freedom, is in its
genius republican. It teaches the doc
trine of equal rights & pi ivileges. Ill's
not limited like the ancient pagan re-
igions, to a few of the noble ami lear
ned who may be initiated into its mys
teries. It addresses its mandates a-
like to rulers and to people, to mas
ters and to servants; and carries its
consolations and hopes alike to the
cottage and the palace. It commands
its teachers to announce its glad tid
ings in the hearing of every rational
creature. It acknowledges no privi
leged aristocracy. The philosopher
ami the peasant, the man of letters
and the man of business, are equally
called to bow to the supremacy of its
authority.
Let this religion, which is thus fit
ted to our republican institutions,%end
its healing influences through all the
ramifications of society, and we will
never despair of the republic. There
will ever be found among us a re
deeming spirit, which will save us
from the misrue of tyranny, and the
pitfalls of anarchy. Let public opinion
be enlightened, and public morals be un
tainted, and we may bid defiance to
the underminings of internal corrup
tion, and io the incursions of the prou
dest foreign foe. Let me then adjure
you, who love your country, to see
that there be no ignorance, to mis
guide public opinion, which you can
instruct; and no vice to pollute the
fountains of morality, which you can
reform. Put forth your utmost ener
gies to render the irradiations of
knowledge and the renovating power
of religion universal: and, whatever
may become of our beloved couptry
you will merit a triumph at her hands,
PRUSSIC ACID.
Were we to consider the constitu
ent. parts arid properties of the most
common things v\e are in the habit of
daily using, and their poisonous and
destructive natures, we should recoil
at the deadly potion, and shrink from
the loathsome draught we are about
to take. That which we consider the
most delicious and exhilirating portion
of our common beverage, porter, con
tains carbonic acid gas, commonly
known by the ‘‘spirit,” and which the
poor miners dread with the utmost
horror, like the Arabian does the des
tructive blast of the simoon. Oxalic
acid, so much the fear of those accus
tomed to the medicine—Ej som salts
is made from that useful article,
sugar, by u»itin£with it a smaller por
tion, more than it has naturally of oxy
gen gas. The air we breathe contains
a most deadly poison, called by the
chemists azotic gas, which, by its be
ing mixed with what is called vital air,
(oxygen gas,) becomes necessary to
our existence, as much as the one
(vital air or oxygen gasl would be
prejudicial without the other; and
Prussic acid, the most violent of all
poisons, is contained in the common
bitter almond. But these most des
tructive substances are always found
combined with others, which render
them often perfectly harmless, and
can be separated only by the skill of
the chemist.
The Prussic acid (by some called
hydrocyanic acid; is a liquid, extract
ed from vegetables, and contains one
part of cyanogen and one part of hy
drogen. It is extracted from the bit
ter almond, (as has been stated,)
beach-blossom, and the leaves of the
laurocerasus. It may also be obtain
ed from animal substances, although a
vegetable acid, if lime lie added to
water distilled from these substances,
a Prus8iate o! lime is formed; when,
if an acid solution of iron be added to
this mixture, common Prussian blue,
(or Prussiate oi'iron; is precipitated
The acid may be obtained from Prus
siate of potash, by making a strong so
lution of this salt, and then adding as
much tartaric as will precipitate the
potash, when the acid will be left in
solution, which must be decanted and
distilled.
Its properties are a pungent odor
very much resembling that of bitter
almonds, with a hot but sweetish taste
and extremely volatile. it contains
azote, with which no other vegetable
acid is combined; it is largely used in
manufacture of Prussian blue. It
the most violent of all poisons, and de
stroys animals by being applied to the
skin only. It is stated by an able
chemist, that a single drop applied to
the tongue of a mastiff dog caused
death so instantaneously that it ap
pearetl to have been destroyed by
htning. One drop on the human
frame destroys life in two minutes
But when chemically combined
with other substances its power is in
a great measure neutralized, and it
becomes a valuable article, both to
the chemist as a test, and to the phy
sician as medicine. The Pfussiate of
potash and iron will enable the chem
ist to discover nearly the whole of the
stals when in solution^ by the color
its combination produces. Dr. Zol
lekoffer says, that in intermitent fe
vers, the Prussiate of iron is in its ef
fects superior to Cinchona bark, and
says it-never disagrees with the storn
ach, or creates nausea even in -the
most irritable state while bark is not
unfrequently rejected; a patient will
recover from the influence of intermit
ting and remitting fevers, in the gen
erality of cases in much less time than
is usual in those eases in which bark
is employed.—London Mirror.
clusters of grapes if era reprci enteg
in so natural a manner, that the bird 8
of the air camC flocking to par take
ol them. Parrhasius on his phrt b ro’t
a tablet, on which he had painted nc 'th
ing but a curtain: but so like reali. ty,
that Zeuxis, in exultation,, that tl
birds had given such proof of his pet i-
cil, exclaimad, -‘come, sir, awair
with your curtain, that we may se«
what goodly affair you have got be-*
neath it.” On being shown his er-
or, he felt much abashed, and yield
ing the victory, said, “Zeuxis bc-
guilded poor birds, but Parrhafiiui*
hath deceived Zeuxis.”
INGENUITY OF ARTIST8
Cicero ' records that the whole of'
the Iliad of Homer was written on a
piece of parchment, in so small a
character, that it might be enclosed
in the compass of a nut-shell-—se*
Pliny, lib. 7: but he does not say
what nut-shell: porhaps that of a co
coa-nut!——There was also one, in
Queen Elizabeth,s time who wrote
the Ten Commandments, the Creed,
the Pater-Noster, the Queen’s name,
and the year of our Lord, within the
compass of a penny; and gave her ma
jesty a pair of spctacles, of such an i
artificial make, that, by their help,
she plainly discerned every letter,—
(Hcylin's Life of Charles /.) An
other penman, in the miniature style,
one Francis Almonus, wrote the Creed
and the first fourteen verses of St.
John’s Gospel, in the compass of a
penny. In the library of St. John’s
College, Oxford, is a picture of
Charles I., done with a pen, the lines
of which Contain all the psalms, in a
legible hand.
Bonaparte said at St. Helena of the
Emperor Alexander. “All his tlio ts
are directed to the conquest of Tur
key. At first, I was-pleased with his
proposals, because l thought it would
enlighten the world to drive ,those
brutes, the Turks, out of Europe.—
But, when I reflected upon the conse
quences; When I saw what a tremen
dous weight of power it would give to
Russia, in consequence, of the number
of Greeks in the Turkish dominions,
who would naturally join the Russians,
I refused to consent to it, especially
as Alexander wanted to get Constanti
nople, which would have destroyed
the equilibrium of power in Europe.”
‘ Should there arise,” said he, oh a--
notlier occasion, “an Emperor of Rus
sia, valiant, impetuous and intelligent,
in a word, a Czar with a beard on hie
chin, Europe is his own.”
From “the arts and artists.”
ZEUXIS AND PARRHASIUS.
Apollodorus, one of the earlist of
Athenian painters, said of Zeuxis
“that he had stolen the cunning from
all the rest,” Zeuxis himself made
no difficulty of boasting of his pic
eminence. He painted a Wrestler
or Champion so much to his own mind
that he wrote below it: <,i Invisurus ali-
quis facilnisquam imitatarus.” “Soon
er envied than equalled.” Parrhasius,
of Ephesus had the boldness to chal
lenge Zeuxis to a trial of skill. Zeu
xis brought forth a picture, «a which
A queer Mistake.—When the late
Admiral Crosby was dining with Col.
Fitzgerald, at Merrian-squaro, Lon
don, he happened to lay his huge brown
fist upon the table; at that moment
Dr. Jenkins, who was very short sight
ed, casting his eyes around the table
in search of a loaf of bread: happened
to rest’them on the Admiral’s fist: and
mistaking it for a loaf, thrust his fork
plump into it. The Admiral smarting
with the wound, said in a race, “don’t
trouble yourself to reach—I’ll help
you,” and raised the same fist to de
molish the doctor. The doctor per
ceiving his mistake, cried out, “only
a slice, sir, it won’t go round.” This
disarmed the Admit al of his wrath,
and so convulsed the company with
laughter, that, all the dyspeptic case®
at table were discontinued. *
A Bull.—A gentleman from the
neighborhood of Falkirk, travelling
lately m Ireland, stopped at an Inn i*
Belfast. Being anxious to rise early
next morning, he requested the cham
bermaid, whose name ivas Jean, te
rouse him at half past six, which the
girl promised to do. Jean, however
did not appear in the morning, and th*
gentleman,when he awoke found it waft
eight o’clock. Having dressed, -h*
was proceeding down stairs, when he
met Jean and challenged her for not
performing her promise. “Why” re
plied Jean, “Sure Sir you might hare
rung the bell, and I would have come
up and awoke you.”
$<20 REWARD.
T AKEN out of mv lot, without myleave,,
on Ccctar Creek, Chattoogy District,
Cherokee Nation, pn the twenty eighth oi'
October last,* one cbesnut sorrel inare, a
bout twelve years old, ant! about fourteen
hands anil a half high, blaze face, and has
been cut on the weathers for the pistillo,
and has a large wart under her left ear. I
will give the above reward in good propeiy*
t.y to any person who will bring said inar^
to me at my residence, above named.
JOEL KEKBT.
8th Duo, 1828; 48. Iff