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•UJ» r cfsteKOKKE PHOKlfix ajtd' rai»A»S’ IfiroCA^; XU”*"*i *.**!■ 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.” « 1 a I ' t ■ 1 [ .-1 M r*, . , ,1 A .1 f. . 1 _ .. ^ ..1 . 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 -FOR SALE HERE*.