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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 NATIONAL Ok BUSHED in the Citv of WVj,:, ton by Gales Seaton tional Intelligencer is ?n oD Journal, at the seat of the eeneiaiGi-i r ' The NL H establish^ r . ill . .o -ieiai(j(i\» r p It publishes, originally, recr„i„ ■ j ami rally, the procK.iin^ anil .1.1, a | ( oneress; aUo all tlis stale .>*, P _ ® j .'mtiments ol'puhli.r intPtrst la',1 i mem. years!—Air. Combe conceives licit: Congress, or originating in that ho! .° n , 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: which !« fr. I was garnered, his youthful acquisitions ; in ils c „i uim , s eomu-rir.! 00 **•« 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} later—was overpowered and oblitera- > *'*. ‘^ l }ar ^ r ;.together w th the <harae- ted by the force of his mother tongue. , | ias M.suine!u,n,^Ht pa| ’ M 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. horizontal line 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 EDITED T 1I1E AMERICAN MONTHLY magazine is intended io resen.ble, nearly as possible, the London New Month ly, edited by Thomas Campbell, it will be devoted to ite* lews oi new Boohs, Es says upon matters oi taste, tancy or iecling | Sketches oi Scenei*, Journals through interesting portions of country, Amusing Tales, Poetry, a»ni Miscellaneous Writing of every tie cnpUon, calculated to be inter esting. There will a.so be a tlepartmrnt de\ oted to a liberal discu.—ion of me trad ing Political l opics oi the das. and a Sum mary, comprising notices of Current Lit erature and the principal Events ot ihe tunes. As far as can be discovered, there is but one (ipuiAon respectiug the iitne>s ot such a wor.v to uie pceseni period. ichi tmo i>ju=a mining,, and every thing relating to iiie ciiaracicr oi the coming au- miiiistration will be in tne highest degree interesting, 'mere is a can, loo, lor a magazine of the htciaiy chaiacler pi o- poseu. L he t*\o Leading Reviews ol tins eounliy are published but seldom, and are coiiuned to tne heavier Lnancl.es ol lileia- tuie and science; a.id ihough ihe»e are hghier periodicals ol very considerable mer, it, there is a w nie iuier\ai between the two, winch may be advantageously idled walii- out deninient to either. The Ethtor is a young man, l)ut he trusts that with the promised assistance oiseveralabie \* liters, and an entire deyotion to it on his own part, the Month!} will be iound worthy of l lie patronage it solicits. dj w hat its title denotes,*a National paper. 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Payment in advance is required for the following reasons.-—'The expenses of a new establishment make it desirable and prop er. Some risk is incurred by the publish ers; and it is but reasonable that patrons should afford accommodation of paying so small a sum, at the commencement of the year. In Europe, periodical works are paid for, either in advance, or when each number is taken. This practice is fast gaining in the United States, and it is hoped may become universal. In that case, the lit tlo debts, which are often so troublesome to subscribers, ami so discour aging, and sometimes ruinous to publishers are *mt tendered to «vi--t. JI »/ PROPOSALS ■7OR publishing, in the town of Nash* ® vilir, a paper under ihe title ol the JUVENILE MUSEUM—to be edited by U tlhins F. Tamiehill and William f Berry. Periodical publications have be come so numerous, that proposals for i^su- ingthem are, h\' no means, novel or un« common. ^ e, with pleasure, witness the literary taste of our country increasing* and, therefore, cherish the hope that our humble undertaking will meet with suc cess. Another circumstance which raises our expectations is, that no publication ot precisely* a similar kind has ever been at tempted in the AVestern country. It may be deemed the height of arro gance for us—without the endowment ol talents or the advantages of experience"' to attempt to otfer lo the rising generator any thing like a source of amusement.-" But we hope our endeavors, however un successful, will not be mistaken for vanity or presumption. Young ourselves, (I ,av * ing but little more than centred our let ns) we intend to devote our exertions to the entertainment, if not instruction, of the Youthful part of the community; aud al though we have no pretensions to literalf eminence, we may occasionally oiler some thing not entirely unworthy the acceptance of more advanced age. We will not promise too much, lest should fail; we, therefore, only add, that we will endeavor so to conduct our paper as to meet the approbation of its patrons and that w hilst it is a source of pleasure o them, ii may be a means of improvemen to us. * iCJ** Communication^ will he rerP ’\^, with gratitude, and attended to " 1 promptness. Conditions.—The Juvenile Museum he published once a week, on a hai s 1 of medium paper, at #1, 50 per annl * j payable in advance. To be commen^ as soon as a sufficient number ot sti her* are obtained.