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POETliY.
From the Spirit ami Manners of theAge.
THINGS UNSEEN.
() f u'liat sights hath the eye not seen!
Spring abroad in her robes ol green.
And her thousand, thousand tlowore that
In the forest shade, by the fountain s How ,
Ocean at rest when its wrath is o’er;
W'ith the mooif’s soil rainbow shimn 0
And the host of ministering; stars that
Each with his song; at Heaven’s gate.
Sounds of delight on every breeze!
The music, at midnight, ot waving trees,
The song of the lark in the car ot morn;
The far olf blast of the hunter’s horn;
E man harpings on summers’* eve,
I,ike angel whispers, to souls that grieve;
The hymns of joy that trom }ou»g "I s
flow, ... r
And the voice cf friendship m nour c el
wo.
W ho can tell ail that hath w rapped the
thoughts
Iji holy times.when the heart is liaugl.t
With a gusli of sacred joy that brings
Into the bo om all lovely things?
Glimpses of Heaven on the Poet’s eye,
Visions of glory that cannot die,
Hallowing each scene ot beauty here
As the promise and type ot a happier
sphere:
But the eve hath not seen, nor the cai hath
h'ard,
Nor the Imait in its inmost depths been
stirred
"With the thoughts ot those wonders by an-
gels told
In the temple on high to their harps ot
gold. . ,
The spirit * e’en here o.tmi cowers .tei
wings
At the mightv shadow of future things,
Or rejoice-, in glimpses ot hope to dcs-
c rv
The dawn of immortal light from on
high.
Bother noblest visions are shaded here.
And her happiest dreams have a taint ot
fear.
And the lyre of thought’s most trancing
tone
fs woke by the wilderness w»nd alone:
It hangs o*«*r tlm grave; but Earth's spell
shall break
Ami the soul of all-glorious sounds a-
wa ke,
Touch’d into birth by Him whose love
Shall win its eternal song above.
Her neighbor’s fame she wantonly de
stroys;
No cruel treatment seems to her severe,
Vile defamation all her time employs.
How base the bosom whence vile sland
ers How,
MIS CISLLiJtBOr S.
SLANDER.
Slander is a propensity of the
mind to think ill of all men, and after
wards to utter such sentiments in
scandalous expressions. Slanderers
are a species of creatures, so great a
scandal to human nature, as scarcely
to deserve the name of men. They
are in general, a composition of the
m st detestable vices,'-—pride, envy,
hatred, lying, cheating, uucharituble-
ness, &e. and yet it is a lamentable
truth, that these wretches swarm in
every town, and lurk in every village;
and actuated by these base print i-
ples, are ever busy in attacking the
character of mankind; none are to*>
great or too good to escape the level
of their envenomed darts. If in high
life they find the greatest worth, or
a man in a middling station, sober,
honest, industrious, and aspiring, it is
odds that ti s merit alone immediately
excites them to exercise their malig
nant tongue, and their souls rest not
till their hags of poison are quite ex
hausted. However shocking to the
well cultivated mind this assertion
may appear, the truth is tou flagrant,
and of loo easy investigation to admit
m the least doubt. What account
such unhappy creatures w ill be able
to render hereafter, for so great an
abuse rd their time and talents, so un
pardonable an injury to their neighbor,
and s*» black a violation of the com
mand of the gospel, * 1 2 3 4 lo\e one anoth
er, it is not difficult to guess, nor
agreeable to think on.
No virtue, no prude nce, no cant ion,
tin generosity can preserve us from
misrepresentation. Our conduct must
be misunderstood by weak intellects,
au I by those who otdv sre a part of it.
a id hastily form a judgment of the
whole, Every man ot eminence has
those in his vicinity, who bate, who
envy, and afforl to despise him.—
I tc*sf» will see hi* actions with a
jaundiced eye, and wilt represent
them to other* in the colour* m which
they t be inset* rs b* bold them V
go ntitle «n in *n or woman t$ the
iiitittc ti tew • f of their trotyl. But.
quarter of the globe. There may be
no piles of barbarian architecture,
each a wilderness ol turrets, tow ers
and battlements, rocking to the sea
breeze, or overshadowing the high
.iw.., | places of power in America; no hall-
Thcre sweet content and downy peace j ^ U| .j e j c j t y j|j <e t { 10 pillared and
ne ei dwell, _ : q.mlntured treasuries ot art which
But all the pangs ol misery surprise, 1 i i i tlm
Of torments ami remorse the dreadful j encumber the earth and choke up the
cell. rivers of the old w orld, or come and
j go with the lido—appear or disappear,
To the Ladies.—The following • day after day, along the sea shore; ot
is not a tale of fictitious wo.—Do j states that have perished forever, ci-
read it, if you never read any thing j ties buried by the volcano or the earth
else, in this paper. Read it, and j quake, overthrown by the savage,
then say whether you will withhold swept over by the sea, or swallowed
your countenance and support from the by the sand of the desert, yet crowd
ed with strange beauty and full ot
glorious wreck; no prodigies of the
mist of that beautiful dim vapor, the
twilight of another world, the atmos
phere of tradition, through which the
bannered palaces, the rock fortresses,
and the haughty piles of Europe,
loom with a most unearthly grandeur.
But if there are not such things in A-
merica, there arc things which are to
be found no where else on earth now
—the live wreck of a prodigious
empire that has departed from be
fore our face w ithin the memory ot
man; the last of a people who have no
historif, and who but the other day
’*rere in possession ol a quarter of the
w hole earth.— Y’/ic Iankce.
cause of entire abstinence.
Mr. Editor.—Sir, the following
facts came under my notice, and I re
late them merely to exhibit the bru-
tifying effects of ardent spirits.—
Mr. B. was a man of respectable
connexions, w'ell educated and intelli
gent—be became a temperate drink
er, and finally, almost as a matter of
course, a drunkard. He married a
wife in bis better days, and might,
but for the fell destroyer, have lived
in easy circumstances; but be now
lived in a miserable house, and his
family were destitute of every thing
that constitutes the comforts, or
even the necessaries of life.—One
winter’s morning, when this w retched
family awoke from their slumbers, a
tremendous ^now storm was raging
without, and there was not a stick ol
w'ood, or any kind of fuel in the house.
“Wile!” says the brute of a husband,
"‘get up and build a tire.''—“Why,
my dear,” says she, “there is nothing
to make one of.” “But get up,” says
he, “make a lire, and get some wood
where you can find it." The poor
woman remonstrated, but the reply
was, “II you don't get out of bed, l 11
kick you out.'’ The woman got up,
and after w rapping herself up ns well
as she was able, went out in the pur
suit of wood. The storm r as violent,
and the snow had already fallen to the
depth of nearly a foot. She howev
er made her way, a quarter of a mile,
to a wood-lot, where she fortunately
found a large dry limb, which with the
greatest exertion, she succeeded in
dragging to the house. She then took
her axe and cut it up. and made a
lire. ‘Now,’ says her better half,
“get us some breakfast."—“There
is.not,'’ said the wife, “the least tiling
in the bouse which I can get for break
fast.” “Then go to the neighbors and
borrow' something.” There was no
alternative; the imperious order of her
savage husband was not to be diso
beyed, and besides, she had four lit
tle children who needed something to
cat. She accordingly prepared her- _
self to encounter the pit ilcss storm, j but merely borrowed their cyphers,
and went off, nearly a mile, across j The Egyptians w rote as we tlo, 1, 2,
the fields, which were almost totally 3. No. Even their fractions resem-
imoassable, from the great quantity j life ours; their fractional figures be
ing wi it ten above and below' a small
sensedess for several days, and una
ble to speak. At lengtn he became
something better, and began no talk
to the nurses, but in such terms that
no one could understand him, till it
was discovered that be had forgotten
bis English, and was talking W elsh—
a language he had not spoken foi 18
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the blow having hit the storehouse in j : *d the arts passed In them r n ;A an<
his bead w here the Welsh language
pas*n<t by them, qq,;
commendations, in addition to the V:
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were ponied 01M—whilst the English
of other information
linns, cor,no
interests of our own country, with}
re-
UlPty
language, which he iiad learned much j turn ami Sei-.-ncc, ami the affair*oft}
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Shrewsbury Chronicle. many years, make the National I nt Hli’ !° r
L ; er , useful, and even valuable, to a !Ui'
_ . feel interest in the concerns of this n -
Cabbage and Ditto.—We have just j thcr countries. 1 otol °-
now heard a cabbage story, which we \ Tl>* National Intolli-p„,. P . r is not
will cook up for our laughter-loving j t v paper, but censures or approves, Ml’ ar
readers. “Oh! I loves ye like any ! rensnro or approbation seems to be due ll
tmnn In ! P ,l{, b<* measures. ft supported
supported the last
ration ot the general government
uiirn the measures ofthal nt ’
i administration
of t !,at admini s i rat | 0} !
on. if
opposed
.Indent Egyptian Cyphering.—
The p»ofessor Saytlaith, who has
been lately engaged in examining the
precious collection ot papyri and o-
t liter Egyptian antiquities in the royal
museum of Turin, among oilier im
portant discoveries, asserts that he
has found a great number of papyri
with both Greek and Egyptian wri
ting, in which the figures in texts cor
respond with each other. He bad
also seen papyri with calculation, in
which the figures are all written in
red, and partly ranged according to
their order.—The most important
document <>t this kind iound by the
professor is a large account, in which
the total sums arc marked between
each column of figures. This has
placid him in possession ot the Egyp
tian system of cyphering, trom one to
a million, in thedeimdic as well as in
llie hieroglyphic characters. Among
other things are discovered, that the
Egyptians employed the decimal sys
tem, and that they used one sort ot
figures toi common calculations or
accounts, another for denoting the
months, ami a third lor numbering
days.—Another circumstance, still
more curious, is, that the Arabic
figures arc found among those of the
Egyptians, which renders it proba
ble that the Arabic ns did not invent,
thing,” said a young countryman to
his sweetheart, warmly pressing her
hand. “Ditto,” said she, gently re- | were such as to meet n*approba;?
turning the pressure. The ardent • avows a determination, though it (w>, Pr
lover, not happening to he over and j j 1 ; e rctiou of Gen. Jackson, tosupn or
above learned, was sorely puzzled to 1 lmt c ™S"; s t "
understand the meaning ol ditto, but j th«* proscriptive. It will be in°\
was ashamed to expose lus ignorance opposed to any administration of the Go^
by asking the girl. He went home; ! eminent., whose measures shall show it to
and the next day being at work in the j * a 'li a 1,artv a{ heart, rath-
cabbage yard\vith°his father, he | "*"*•«*,countrv
spoke out—‘Daddy, what s tlie mean-
ditto?’ ‘Why,” said the old
ere's one cabbage-head,
an t it/' yes, daddy.’ Well, that
are’s ditio.’ ‘Hot that good for noth
in’ gal! ejaculated the indignant son,
v -she called me cabbage head- and 1 11
be darned to darnation i! 1 ever go to
see her again.”—nevksltire *hnerieun
O
in o
man, ‘this
?>
The longest lawsuit.—The longest
law suit ever heard ol in England was
between the heirs of Sir i bourns \
Talbot, \ iscount Lisle, on the one I
part, cvi the heirs ot Lord Berkley on j
ihe other, respecting certain posses- j
sions not far from H ot ten-under-Edge,
in the county oi Gloucester. It i uin-
menccd at the end of the reign of
Edward IV. and was depending till
the reign of Janies 1. when a com
promise took place, having lasted a-
bove 120 years.
THE AMERICAN
MfW'TlUA M.liU/AXi:.
r. tv
BY
I.L1S.
oi sir w, which lay in drifts, to the j
house of a neighbor, who kindly let
her have a peek of potatoes with j
which she hastened borne. 'These,
boiled, and used with a little salt,
made the breakfast of the wretched
family; after which, the father start
ed off for the tavern!!—Philanthropist.
O. k.
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RUINS OF AMERICA.
There may be no such ruins in
America as are found in Europe, or
Hurt! Js- '^ing anft » » /feuding.—
! Not lot - si*i e a ( a; tain ot a sleain-
1) at cl CeJutubof.. started Ids boat
dfjw'ii the Ciintt; hoot hie R*ver, and,
i ha* in'g S"!ii«‘ business in R;«ndolj»h
Cpunty. Georgia, gave up the. helm
lo bis mate, and concluded to take a
land passage by way ol a tramp, and
i join in with the boat at some particu
lar place, where he had been in the
i habit of taking in wood. However,
by sonic means he lost his way, and
in Asia, or in Africa; hut other ruins
there are, of a prodigious magnitude ..... —
—the ruins of a mighty people, catnie to a wolf-pen, or wolf-fall. He,
There may be no places of pilgrim- j supposing it to he a hog-pen, thought
age in Amerea, unless it be some ' tliat he would crawl in at the hole
lonely battle ground, already forgot 1 underneath the pen, to rest himself
ten by tlie neighborliood, overgrow n j the remainder of the night, and save
w ith a forest, and overshadowed with himself from the attack of panthers
a perpetual deep darkness, or cover- j and other devouring beasts of the
wood. But, unfortunate Captain B
—:—! what was his surprise, when
in the very act of getting in, the log
or dead-fall fell upon his back, and
held him as fast as if he had been pin
ned to the ground! And in that sad
predicament he was compelled, not
from choice, but actual necessity, to
remain until 12 o’clock the next day:
when the builder or owner of the trap
came to see what luck he had in the
trapping of a wolf. Lo! to the ut-
ed, far and wide, with a sea of wel
tering herbage—the frightful vegeta- i
tion of death; no places that have j
been sanctified by song and storv, ages i
: after ages, with beautiful tradition i
| or tierce poetry, save here and
i there a small spot of earth shut in by
I the great hills, or fortified by the
j everlasting rocks, where the red
| man withstood the w hite man, while
■ the noise and the flash of the terrible
weapons wtih which the latter shot trapping ui a nun. i^u: iu me ui-
; lire into the heart of the former, np- ter astonishment, he had caught the
j pea red to the savage to he that very "Captain of a Steamboat!! The Cap-
• noise and brightness which he had seen .......
set lire to the woods about bis path,
t*‘»r up the earth under his feet, and
tkr the very sky over his head; or
adowy quiet place or
where the men of the
u » h* war upon their f »-
1 yj»R!| fno«t
3 '■ .«* « >*!’», t, \s
- - t »*• iw * #*kd her -if -
S'M
s - n * otkor
ttn »• »th b*M t
^ *4 ttl i** : r
t I t
tain was immediately lelieved, and
Ins situation deplored by the humane
and benevolent rescuer.
Curious Case.—In Combe's “Ulus-
hat ions ot Phrenology,” a ease is re
lated ot a W eMi milkman in London,
who kinppruieg to fall down two pair
i* Muir*, received a
■Pi
irvcrf contusion
h# G »*' ojhI a* carried to St.
-« i H • t^k «* ber«' he lav
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T 1I1E AMERICAN MONTHLY
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