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POETRY.
From the Village Record.
‘ If the reader takes half the pleasure we
have done, in pursuing Bob Fletcher, lie
If .’! than* lor hedging it for publication. ;
lt.is delightful to witness a strong miiul. ;
when it throws bv Bacon antl’Espinaw— )
the learning, lumber, ami technicalities of >
.a grave profession, to indulge in the spoils I
of fancy, and to revel on ilbWrv cliffs with
the muses. We wish the custom was more 1
common. In England and Scotland, the '
jaaost learned and laborious men arc often j
« layful as children, relieving the heavy J
oiirs of business by the lighter e(forts of j
the mind. The trifles of Swift, Sheriden, !
and Pope—are among the most agreeable :
of their works. j
£fo one of correct taste can rca ! the
4ines which follow, without feeling that a
•farming picture of rustic happiness and
bumble fife, is sketched in a manner which
©aldsmith or Burns would have been for
ward to praise, and proud to imitate.
Cooce knew a ploughman, Bob Fletcher
his name,
V he was'old, and was ugly, and so was
Insdauwy
jet they'lived quite contentrd, and free
from all strife,
Fletcher the ploughman, and Judy
* his wife,.
(As the morn streak’d the cast, and the
night fled away,
They would r i S e up to labor, refieshed for
the day; t
The song of the lark, as it rose on the
gale,
®ound Bob at the plough, and his wife at
the pail.
A neat little cottage in front of a grove,
VPlrwe in youth they first gave th-'-ir young
^2 hearts up to love,
^Va:s the solace of age, and to them doub.y
dear,
it called up the past with a smite or a
tear.
sEach treehad its thought, and the vow
could impart, . |
That mingled in youth the warm wish ol |
the heart;.
The thorn was still there, and the blossoms 1
it bdr',
"“knd the son" from its top seemed the same :
as before.
fVhcn the curtain of night over nature 1
was spread,
£r. l Bab had returned from his plough to
his shed,
X- Ti ih dove on her nest, he reposed from
' all care,
-4fhis wife and all his youngsters, content
ed were there.
j lull length into the air, lashing with
Ins ample (lake the foaming wave,
! and rending to atom every substance
! within his reach.
tents, ulid grinding its frame to splin
ters.
The won were all good swimmers,
bore respoetablo testimony io lim
publiccuriosity. It now c.imo on t..
.rain furiously, and Sam, who is move
and, save One, betook, themselves! of a wag Ilian most people take him
lu the month of
December, the i without further calculation, and with | f -to be, concluded (hot it was not pin
i oijok* of a saddlei oi\yi»a»ijig tress;.
•11 bicker,stetli u a spittle iy’ a bouse
sor^onaiui accoucheur in the family
of Til). Clifford; Mr. Gueniey's moth
er kept a, bookseller’s shop at llolr
> Not an instant bad been allowed him,
wherein be might have seized ihe bat
! and freed himself front so ungracious
i a predicament. lie felt bimsell
j drawn, by \n* irresistible power,
' down, down,\ amidst interniinablc
1 caverns, and bMtomles profundities,
i What greatly surprises him was his
summer of the Southern hemistietc, a
Nantuoket ship was cruising lor
whales on the coast ot Chili.—No
thing could exceed the placid smooth
ness of the seas, or the pcluoid azure
of the overhanging firmament. There
was just enough of motion in the at
mosphere to propel the vessel in her
course, and to invigorate her crew
with the spirit of enterprise. Every
sail was set, and every bosoin stftfellcd
with the hope of a speedy accom
plishment of the object ol their ex
pedition. The ccnlinent, and all
the usual abodes of mortals', were
far away. Horne, and its Sweet en
dearments, were remembered ns a , .
bygone vision; and considered in the : ability still to bry.athe and to see.
future, as saints think of Itea von. j Passing, with the rkpidity of I bought,
The occasional scream of an alba-J along immeasuroblc^clistaiicc, Tie bad
tros, circling in the blue expanse— l opportunities to sea a bu
the monotonous dash of the ship’s ’those vast■ gulfs.--Hfcta lay an exten
sion through the scarcely resisting ‘ sive forest of coral' inhabited by
waters, mingled with the varied i shakos indiseribablc there moved
tunes of a few human voices convors- i
ing familiarly on deck, were the only j
sounds which distinguished that, re ;
giun from the primeval realm j
of
“Silence coeval with ct -.i iiily.’ 1
Suddenly, u hollmv. hissing erne- j
tation, like the. iiiiiSt of a brazier’s j
furnace, or the sigh of a dying voi.-.a }
I no, broke upon the ready ears ol the !
| seamen. A cry from the mast head •
j announced the appearance of tlieir |
prey; ml, at the same instant, the [
crew found themselves surrounded on'
all sides, by -n extensive shoal of I
whales, frouncing, spouting <k "dewing, |
like so many English trumpeters at i
llie batlie of Waterloo.—Forthwith,
exemplary precipitancy, to (lie profit-; dent to jump in the rain, lest be should j horn; Mr. Campbell was a reporter
table wereise ol their amis and legs j get wet. Hut with the most good for a morning paper, as also was Mr.’
—-wherflby they scon reached the i'humoured patience the nudinee en- Serjeant Spankie before lie Went ‘ v e
boats (f their comrades, and w ere ! Mured the pellings of (be pitiless sloFm
out of I!anger. Not so with poof do- 1
nab. 1|> the tumult of the moment.
he had become entangled in the tor-1 now broke partially away, and Sam
for an hour—until they were all
wet as so many drowned ruts. It ■ by resisting’™ attempt to prevent tlio
India,’ and Mr. Stephen 'he Master;
in Chancery, who' did himself honour.
tuous coil attached to bis harpoon, j crawled out irom a cleft in a rock, • himself could never have gone to the
dressed in white, and quickly rise end
eti the ladder, amidst cheers of*so
ehet, or unsheathed his jack-knife, ) ’loud that they would hare been heard
far abroad, had it not been for the
roaring of the turbulent Niagara.—
At length be reached the pinnacle,
w here he sat for a moment like a sea
gull upon the corner of a cloud.—
Now he stretched himself to his full
length—bowed as gracefully' as he
could to the gentlemen—kissed his
hand to the softer sex. and made his
a few of j{ fearful leap. “What n fall was that,
my countrymen.” ?He sank down gen-
toely, and disappeared in the whirl
ing cauldrotn, which closed upon, and
boiled over him. “He lias made an
everlasting leap,” said an old man.
wiping away a (ear. “I wonder if
be was told to look for the bones of
Morgan,” inquired a little old man
who iooketf as though lie wanted to
j go to the Assembly. And some said
one thing and some another. Tut
call ol a reporter, avowing that lie
T .
an iinmi use. mass of gelatinous matter, I
encompassed by invi ir.de of sv.bma- j
line, prodigies, to piscivorous man
Tilt- sea devil,
led the tartnrean
of claws, each
tins ponderous
hitherto 'nknown.
with his emerald her
erab, with a tnillioi
a furlong in length
svmmesian oyster, whose sht
wide .nifueih'to Hunt a seventy-four; f'Snm heard none of them—ho being
the thonfaiVd cved dragon, whose head | 'Mull live fathom deep down below.”
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opens
lowered,
mannoil
‘ pat-
Jluve passed by his floor .when ihs even
ts gray,
ami landscape were* failing »-
ing was gray,
^ml the hill;
three boats wer
and supplied with all the usu;
api.arnaiia, harpoons, lances, tow-|
lines, waits, oars and paddles: with a j
sail, a bag of bread, a keg of wider |
to each. They had but a short dis j
tnnee to row , ere they cams in con- '
tact with their mighty enemy j
The boats were severally commanded |
by the shipmaster arid two of his j
mates,assisted by their respective boat ;
steerers, lowborn the part of strik- j
ing the whale is ordinary assigned j
The larboard waist boat, under the I
second mate's direction, contained in |
its boiv an active young man, who j
bad obtained the esteem o'i his ship- j
mates, and to whom we shsll.intro I
duce to our readers under the name j
studded' vfit It dazzling gems, and j
whose tery eye set in loudh’s- ifia
monos may in seen at the depth ol
five buidre.l fathoms; sea gorsr.ns.
hydras, ‘griffins. jiboeniv and all
manner of beaut if el reptiles, were
quietly (ceding of- froiieing without
any noise, in those unsearchable re
gions.
And likYc. * smite philosophers may
be . disposcu to obtrude, a doubt
touching honest Jonah's rapacity of
vision .aid of respiration the while —
But lei it be inquired whether so
inigh a bod-, darting through the sea
with such outrageous celerity, may
not have left behind a sort of vacuity
affording r. medium wherein the lit-
tl(- miim.-.i in his rear mi .lit exercise
these fatuities? And, regarding the
of Jonah Collin. Poising his har
poon, he firmly awaited tile orders of \ our almost exhausted hero found
of his superior, then seated in the j himself on the ascent. His wild j
boat’s stern. Before him, forcing it- j and tnbulent conductor was again}
-self furious onward, was a lutge ami ! surmounting to the upper work 1
uncouth mass, alternately emitting I
•from its glussy proluiIterance the j
sparkling cfl’ulenee of a meridian sun, i
or partially defending below the
temporary surge, forming little vorti
ces in its wake, and puffing from it.-; j
nostrils the encroaching brine. I.ong'j
and patiently the oarsmen tugged at ;
their stations. “Pull away, ’ said
the officer,-.encouragingly—while he I
drew towards him the handling of his j
steering oar. The very eve of the I
upper
Hmpraeing a moment of respite
while the whale was in the art of
turning on its side, he sought his
knife—-hut. in v bn—a new motion
disturbed him—he was waved to and
fro with an impetuous regularity—
his lungs labe.i'd, and his sight grew
indistinct, lbs breath went, and came
and went to rut urn, not wiiho*tit inha
ling also a draught of the s-dme fluid.
Ala*! (bought he, i am drowned!
Foggy images floated >n his brain,
i and graduMlv faded into utter snifo-
i cation. Hi awoke upon the quarter
j deck of his own ship, under the oper-
; ation of stimulative cordials and
j warm towels; having been east upon
j the surface during the whale’s dying
! struggle, and picked up near the
w ay,
^nd have heard from Hk cottage tv th j
grateful surprise,
Tic: voice, of thanksgiving, like incense u-
rise-.-
£.0. . I thought on tli" proud, who would j
look down with scorn, 1
Pa the neat little cottage, the gieve and
the thorn, ,
£nd felt that (he riches and foliEs of life !
ere dross, to contentment like B.*l> and!
his wife /
■yi I 11 i ■HI 11 Iifiwir «M»i*oa«4Cn«.rt cr
Jiis c b i lTan k o
From the Nantucket Inquirer.
' THE DROWNED HARPOON-
ER.
Many and strange are the necideots
^d adventures that attend those am
phibious beings who traverse tim
Outstretched world of waters in
quest, of Ocean’s unctuous monarch
Rul the* most perilous incidents ace |^monster was insight. “Non dart.”
encountered by those daring mari- j exclaimed the mate; and Jonah, with
tiers, who'ai’e.. 'engaged in' tbo cap- j d, P effort, of a Polyphemus, drove
Tur.3 .o,f that species ol whale ycleped ; (j lC f a tal weapon fust, into the body
Spei'maccti-—pursuing the greasy mini- j of his gigantic antagonist,
gte'r i.hi oughout allfliis favorite haunts | ii wtis an awful moment; and the
and ci-slant "retreats in the broad and j advent nrous fishers bad tnaile every
fath’otttless Pacific.. In general, the j customary preparation for its np- } place of lbs descent, by liisanxious
vnw.eldVy leviathan exhibits nusymp- i proaeh. But the object of tlieir toil, j conmules—-to whome he was shortly
toms oi a choleric, temperament, and ( iustead of dropping instantaneously } enabled to lend a hand in cutting in
apnea r» altogether unconscious of I iuto the depths beneath, thence n- | and trying out his ninety-barrel led
of the systematic warfare so zeal- ; gain to emerge, after some moments, ! tormentor,
ously waged upon hi* tribe, by the j for the sake ol'brealh-or instead of ——
insignificant occupan’s.of the superin- 1 starting off horizontally, ss i§ frequent- j Humorous dcscriptidn of Patch's leap
enmbent element. He knows nothing j |y the ease, with (lie Velocity oft at the Falls cj Niagara.
lightning, dragging lbs presumptuous j 1 have somewhere read of a senti-
pttrsuers through the dispartin^ wave, j mental tailor, who after the.first emo-
iviiich throws swiftly on citbei side
of their frail pinnance, a trausparant
sheet of spray surmounted by gor
geous rainbows—-rolled backward,
and with preternatural frenzy, made
for the boat—his enormous jaws dis
tended to their utmost limits, and his
jrnai aiong me ermug, in;.miq m tremcmloqs tuil now curving upwards,
|ts proA the athletic boat stcerer. and vibrating like a light-house in an
earthquake, and anon falling with hor
rid flap upon the level bosom of the
sounding deep. The astonished sai
lors were instinctively about to rush
overboard, when, with a convulsive
bound—it was the leap of a mountain
—the lacerated monster sprang entire
ly over the "boat, his unearthly di
mensions striking principally upon
the opnosiInside, arm partly upon tjie
■ fragile thing* itself* spilling its con
it was indeed a wonderful, r< prodi-
- j gious jump such os mortal man had
never made before; and the fishes
must have stared some, 1 reckon,
when lie popped in so suddenly upon
their unvisited kingdom—a province
which even Neptune himself, nor any
of his tritons, had ever yet dared to
visit. It was now time to look about
for the new messenger to the deep;
and the boat plied briskly round the
eddy, to seize him by the crown as
soon as he should rise to the surface.
But Sam did'nt choose to favor them
with his custom, as he continued to
scull himself ashore unpcrceiv&l by
any bony, and the next thot was seen
of him lu*. was discovered clambering
up the rocks dike a soaked muskrat!
He was received with hearty cheers,
and the people all scampered home to
dry tlieir clothes and talk grandilo
quently of the hero of the day. At
our house it was voted nem con. that
Sam Patch is hut a scurvy name for
accelerated progress of this monster
it may he aptly ae.connt.ed for on
purely philosophical principles;
every body fnows how fast a dog will
run with a tin kittle—* * * * * *
But lu our talc— let us liastu, to «l» tow «vh» «m ita •« lew Ike
the. caliislroplic. Aflci- b(.ii,g carried ' ci,sra,lc> l:,vo 11,0 ■>"*>“ ol
to sip h lengths, and in such a manner,
Niagara, and that henceforward he
shall be known by the more appropri
ate cognomen of Samuel O’Cata-
ract, Esq.
cl their long .and laborious crusades •
(n machines moved by wind; he dreams j
*jot of their egg-shell sKTplings, in j
xvhi ,- fi, l’ ent 011 death, and armed :
With the. piercing javelin, fastened to j
endless chords, they pull themselves j
Into hit immediate presence; nor j
does he often heed the slight skill, as j
it glides towards him like a tix legged j
rn*t along the ceibng, hearing in
(ts pro a the at.hlvti ■ boat stcerer.
vrv>se brawney hands uphold and aim
the glittering dart. Vet, when the
bached lance sting him in Uip should-
*er the horn of his enemy, (Ihe
Vvord fish,) perforates his rotuned
ai'.d oleaginous sides, no exasperated
demon could evince stronger indica
tions of wrath, tnge and madness.
At first he plunges incontinent inlo
the, deOp abyss—,thm« wheeling up-
TOrdt, ho nrgee hie immense hodv at.
t'ons on beholding these stupendous
tails were over, hjpke silence by the
eloquent and inemonohle exclamation
—“() what a fine place to sponge a
coal!” In like manner did Mr.
Fateh, after a solemn pause when he
first beheld this tremendous cataract,
exclaim in nu ccstacy of delight:
“what a domed fine place tb jump!/”
But l am digressing. Tin: friends of
bant—and he was the lion of the day
—declared he should not he disap
pointed; and if he would jump, he
shotdd. The hour jvas changed from
twelve to four; and (ho ladder was
mended, and erected before tha ap
pointed time. At four o’clock pre
cisely. lie was'thorc; and both shores
were sprii.kjed with people, whilo
the trees and cliffs of Goat Island
SELF-MADE MF.>f. •
Measures have been taken among
the'Benchers in London, to restrict
the admissability of members of the
bar. by requiring the candidates to
possess an income of 400/. per annum,
and by the, oilier severe regulations,
i’o show the injurious consequences,
which may result from these exclu
sive restrictions, one of the London
papers refers to the following list of
eminent men in the profession of the
Law, who rose from the depths of!
poverty, to the very highest honors,
and who would probably have remain
ed in obscurity had such obstacles
have been thrown in thoir way.
The lato Lord Chancellor, and his
brother, the greatest civilian of the
age. Lord Stowcll supported him
self at College, as a private tutor;
an-l Lord Eldon was originally bred
on attorney and was prompted by pri
vate reasons to enter himself for the
Bar. The Lord Chief Tusli’ce of the
Kiqg’s Bench is the son of a hair dress
er at Canterbury, ami was educated
at the Grammar School, which is a
charitable foundation. The present
Lord Chancellor, is the son yf Mr.
Copoly the painter. The Chief Jus
tice ol the Common Fleas, is the son
of a county aVtorney. The Solicitor
General, N also a hair dresser’s son,
and was clerk to Mr. Groom, the
late Lord Londonderry's Solicitor —
liis admission to the Bar, was oppos
ed on that very ground, hut. granted
by the exertions of Mr. Hargrave,
who supported - it w ith reference to
the talents Mr. Sugden had displayed
in a legal work, lie had published
while a student. Mr. S?ijc;mt AV^de
was an attorney ih the city, in part
nership with liis brother, who has had
90 long a contest with Mr. AVinolics-
fct\ for tho admiral’s gown of Vintiy
Ward. Of the King’s Counsel, Mr
John Williams, it 1110*8011 of an attor
ney iu Cheshire, and xMr. .Frederick
Bar, it he had not supported himself
i‘» that iimwfer. Five colonial Judgo?;'
have-been reporters, and some ol tW
most rising barristers at. present vvefol
engaged in the same occupation.
; lliesc arc the living instances ofr
the advantages of free admission; aiuk
there are abundant examples among;
those who are' departed. Lord KeiiF
yon was an attorney’s clerk; Lord
Hardwick first a peasant, and after
wards an attorney’s writer and office,
hoy; Lord Tliuriow used to boost of
Ids’ owiCself-elevation; Chief Justice
Saunders, famous for Ids reports,. wa»
actually a beggar boy, and was taken
from charity into an attorney’s offen;*
Lord Gifiord was the son of a arocer,
at Bristol, and owed his rise entirely
to having attracted the attention of*
Sir Vicary Gibbs, who used to lodge-
at his father’s house. Lord Erskine-
was uajl-pay officer w ithout a shill-'
ing o money when he came to the*
Bar; and Curran owned truly, at the
l’rihee of Wale's table, that ho
had been raised from tlm condition of*
a peasant, only by the Bar. All these',
great men must have been excluded
by the regulations now about to be,-
imposed, and doomed to inferior sta
tions in life, where their talents would'
kayo been useless. Two other stri
king instances oi the injustice of these
restrictions might lie afforded in the
cases ot Sir Janies Mackintosh, and
Sir Samuel Ilomily, both of whom ij
is known commenced tlieir profession-
id career with no fortune of four iuuv-
dred pounds a year,”
The ft futile I hart.—Tt.c female,
heart may be compared to a garden,
which when well cultivated, presents
a contiuuml succession of fruits and
flowers, to regale tho sen!, and de-
iignt the eye; But when ncghectodj
producing a crop of fne moat iioxioms
weeds; large and flourishing, because
tlieir growth is in proportion to the?
warmth’and richness of the soil from
which they spring. Then let the
ground be faithfully cultivated; let
the mind of the young and lovely t'c-
I male be stored with useful knowL-
j edge, and the influence of women,
j though unfrimini.shed in power, will he
like the “diamond of the desert, >f
sparkling and pure, whether surround
ed by the sands of desolation, forgot
ten and unkno.wn. or pouring its re
freshing streams through every avdit-
ue of the social and moral fabric.
blurring'..—Look, at l‘he great mas;;
ol maninges which take njaoe over
the whole world; tvinl poor contemp
tible commonplace affairs they aj’oj.
A few soft looks, a walk, a dance, a
squeeze of the hand, a popping of
the question, a purchasing of a cer
tain number of yorda of white snltio,
a ring, a clergyman, a,stage or two iu
a lured carriage, a night in a country,
inn, and the whole is over. For five
or six weeks two sheepish looking
persons arc seen dangling about on
each other’s arm looking at wafer
falls, or making morning calls, and
guzzling wine and cake; then every
thing falls into the most monotonous
routine—die tvif« sits op one side of
tin* hearth, the husband n't the other,
and little quarrels, little plea.sorfs,
little cares, and little children gradu
ally gather round them. This;ii
what ninety-nine out of. a hundred
find to be the delights of love and mn-
triiBony.— Edii\*burgh Lit. Joty'
a*T7*
NOV3T0S.
riT) nil wh. it mnv concern, that. tkr>.
. *1- iinfl*-r«i- -fl having been- appointed
A.dminiftrato. « on the estate of Shoe llccts
dfceascsd, \vo hereby notify all persons i r .
d<*ffe«l to the estate tn Vqme- fovwKM in-.l
make payment, and all persons hrwmg
claims Hgainrt tlm estate n, present thfni
for payment witliin-twelve raocthf, pt tho
expiration of which time thev will he dea
barred payment, on thcclaimV, if any thTrn.
he, as the law directs.
• THOS. WOODARD,,
RIDOF,
Oct. SsJth, lft20.
Aflminif-trators.
5!> 6*
OF THE CHEROKEE NATION
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