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FOR THK CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Mu. Bunoe,
THE times being hard amt
very dull, there is much leisure on our hands
.nd to " beguile Ute heavy hours” vve have
resorted to scribbling verses, a sample of
which is enclosed. If they find favour in
your sight, you may be furnished with others
of like quality, from the Counting-Room of
QUIP. CRANK & CO,
1
The Summer Sunl arc beaming bright
O’er verlnnl hill aud pU : n;
The moon shines sweetly when ’tis night
The whippoorwills complain ;
The Kilty did its cheerful l»y
Chants from the China Tree—-
And llu re is music all the d.«y
In Cheshire’s " Balcony. 0
* ii
The >wallow in (lie evening dipt.
Beneath the Bridge his wing ;
llfliiiily at the Rjlund 1 si, •»
Ice-jcream—nnd cool Mint Hlmg
at Jack's the younp and gay—
Bright sous f Liberty !
And there is music nil the dny
At Cheshire’s " Balcony. 1 *
in
Th» wearied Cit to Summerville
At full of night repair ■,
lnliaL‘B the breezes of the hill.
Forgetful of hit enres
Forgetful of the ch nk to p iy—•
To morrow’s misery !
Oh there is mus e ni„ht and day
At Cheshire’s •• Balcony.**
iv
At nine o’clock the market bell
The City Marshall rings
And fur and wide i!« dcaf’ning kn*'ll
A *• Doubled horror*’ flings;
For Constables have then a POWER
Which few will dure defy
Yet music h eathes at this r.td hour
From Cheshire's “ Balcony.**
v
At rnfAniglil fronTSav tumuli** wave
The mellow com h notes sound ;
And careless snores the tired slave
Mosquitoeg buzzing round.
At midnight spreads llv misty spruy
The FALLS roar like the sea
And stninsof music die away,
From Cheshire’s '• Balcony.'*
N. U. The above was written some weeks
! nce. when (he moon was in full lustre, and
e who has sauntered along Green-Street,
bout that time, will be able to unriddle the
.ist line of eacli stanza.
Q C. & CO.
From the Jierkshire American.
THE METHODIST.
The Methodist is indefatigable in what
c considers the duty of his Christian call
ig ; he is zealous in his endeavors to bring
niters to Hie throne of grace ; he is bold in
•proving wickedness wl* Tcver he Roils it,
high or low ; he is earnest and affection
e in his efforts to draw erring mortals from
he abyss of ruin, and place them on the
<rm ground of Christian hope. ; he sets be
ore them the law in all its terrors, that
they may with the more certainty flee to
the gospel as a place of refuge ; he de
prives (hem of all hope in themselves, they
may fix their dependence solely on the
Rock of Ages. He leaves no stone unturn
ed to advance what he considers the cause
of the gospel ; lie is a lion to the hardened
sinner, and a lamb to the humble penitent ;
he travels every w here and preaches “ the
gospel to every creature wherever “ two
or three are gathered together, M he consid
ers that place a fit temple for the worship
of God, whether it he in a dwelling house,
a barn or school house,in the shade of the
forest, or under the bare canopy of heaven ;
he is not confined to temples made and ex
pressly dedicated t<> the worship of Jehovah,
but considers every place sufficiently dedi
cated to that purpose which offers an occa
siou ot doing good ; he preaches the gos
pel where it was never preached before ;
lie pervades every part of the country, and
carries the glad tidings of salvation to those
places where but for him tlicv had never
come ; lie considers no distance too great,
no way too rough, and no place too obscure
for Ids exertions ; cold and heat, wind and
itorms, hunger and thrift, do not appal him ;
colling and insult have no effect upon him,
hut to make him if possible more zealous in
the duties of his calling ; if the mad po
pulace hurl firebrand, he “ reasons with
them of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to c mu* “he heaps coals of
fire on their hea Is madness gives place
to admiration, insult to penitence, and
jy
- *' those who come to scoff remain to pray,”
Ihe methodist cannot be accused of
preaching the gospel from worldly motives ;
and no man would think, like Simon, the
magician, ot bribing his exertions in favor
of the Holy Spirit. No man, not even his
enemies, can say that he considers himself
' called to go, only where -j rich living in
r vires him. The society of which he is a
member have no rich livings to bestow, no
gold to tempt him, no filthy lucre Incorrupt
him, no easy and luxurious life to allure
i him. It he Heeded any other motive than
the satisfaction of doing good.it is a motive
which hr,3 , )0 connexion with this world,
• it is *' a crown of glory which fideth not
ijiiw'ay,” M idi Ids eyes fixed on that crown,
''and, like Stephen, looking stedfastly uplo
f heaven, he perseveres in the steep and nar
row way, and neither briars nor thorns ob
struct his progress.
* The methodist preacher, generally speak
ing, owes but little to human learning. He is
eloquent indeed, but bis eloquence cfoes not
depend on studying the great models of
1 Greece and Rome ; it is not formed in the
i Porch, nor polished in the Academy; it is
, not made up of rounded periods nor regular
climaxes ; and owes little or nothing to the
(Study of rhetoric. But the want ot human
is more than made up by a thorough
i knowledge of the volume of everlasting life:
f and Peter and Paul more than supply the
place of Cicero and Demosthenes. Urged
by the force of truth and the importance of
Ins mission, he speaks boldly what he f- els
deeply, and needs not the polish of rhetoric
to carry conviction to the hearts of his hear
ers. Warm, zealous, undaunted, ho addres
ses the passions of his audience ; he arouses
their fears ; he wakens their sorrow ; he ex
cites their gratitude, and encourages their
hope. He is emphatically the fi nnd of the
poor and needy, (lie sick, the profligate, and
the abandoned ; of th ise who have no vir
tue to boast, no character to support, and
jno friends to guide them. Those who are
{well, need not a physician, and those who
j think they are well, will not apply to one ;
lienee very few of the great ones of the earth
far e immediately benelitted by (he preaching
of the Methodists. It is not those who sit
on velvet cushions, and sleep under tiie
sound of the gospel every Sunday ; it is not
to those who fare sumptuously every day,
that the preaching and affectionate exertions
of the methodist, are peculiarly profitable
and welcome ; but to those who have seldom
an opportunity id hearing (he gospel—who
have no hope in this life—and feel assured
they have none in (he life to come, it is to
such, the methodist bears the glad tidings
of salvation—checks the career of the sin
ner—guides him back to the path of virtue—
gives him now ideas of the dignity of his
nature and (he value of his immortal part—
and finally out of the most unpromising ma
terials, produces the honest man—and the
underfilling Christian. He is unwearied mi
big attention ♦#» ik«.u.l, i in ou|i|funing, co* i* I
10l ling and leading them to the Rock of Ages;
in directing (hem to the great physician of
the soul,when remedies cease to avail fur the
benefit of the body. The Consolation given
by a kind affectionate preacher, is so well
described by Goldsmith (hat I need no
apology for quoting the following lines:
Resides th« bel, where parting Rfc was 1 id.
And sorrow, guilt, nnd pnin’ ny turns dismay’d,
'■l'll* reverend champion stood. At his control
Despair and anguish fled Hie struggling soul ;
Comfort nunc down Hie trembling wretch to raise.
And his lust falt’ring accents Whispered praise.
Spanish Discoveries. — The Paris Jour
nal des Dobs is gives the following notice
of a work which has already been announ
ced.
“ Don Fernandez de Navarretc, former
ly an officer in (he navy ; a director of the
Royal Historical Academy of Madrid, di
rector of (he hydrographic depot, and of
maritime geography, etc. etc. has been em
ployed by his Catholic Majesty, to collect,
classify, and publish, at the expense of the
state, the narratives of the voyages and dis
coveries undertaken by the Spaniards since
the end of the fifteenth century,that is to Na
ven ete say, since die discovery of America,
M. has drawn from the secret archives a
number of documents, nnd among others, the
inedited letters of the immortal Christopher'
Columbus. All the deposits have been ac
cesssible to him. The government con
siders this collection as an enterprise cal
culated to raise the honour of Spain, and
to recall to mind the rights of the crown.
I bus circumstances have brought about the
publication of these documents, which the
world lias called for so many ages. De
sirous that his labours may be known in
France, M. Navarretc has caused to be pre
pared under Ids own direction a French
translation. This is making by the Clieva
linr Verneuil, an officer of the University’
el France, and member of the Royal Span
ish Academy, and that of History, now re
siding at Madrid, and by M. Requeue, one
1 td the edit os of the new annals of voyages'
and universal Biography, This translation
is put to press, and will appear soon, with
an itinerary map of the four voyages of Co
| lumbus.
,1 Good Girt. A young lady looking in
’| to the Family Bible, and observing the date
’jofher birth, took her pencil and wrote—
-1 '* Above the age of twenty-one and not yet
' I married.” T ds induced her father to write
' beneath—“He who giveth in marriage doeth
, well, but be who giveth not in marriage
doeth better.” To which she made tiie
-1 following reply —“ Dear father, I love to
ido well—let those do better who can.”
FROM THE COLUMBIA TELESCOPE
f
; COMMON LAW.
s Mr. Editor. —Three or four years ago,
Mr. Sampson of New-York, in an address
» to a society there, threw out imitations of
t the great complexity, the absurdity, incon
■ venience and expence of the forms, and in
i many cases the injustice of the principles of
> the common law as it is called, but which in
t fact ought to be called the statute law of the
t judiciary bench, being too often in England
i any thing that a time serving judge may
• choose to make it: an epithrt, that however
, harsh, is fully justified 5y 1200 contradic
tory cases, and particularly by the revolting
, fluctuations in the law of libel, and the game
> laws of that country. Mr. Ensorhad taken
up this questiup a few years before Mr.
Sampson, and his coadjutor Dr. Cooper.
Within about four years, the proposal of re
• ducing the criminal and civil law to a code
i of intelligible principles, has received a
■ great accession of strength from the follow
ing circumstances and publications tending
i the same way.
i The committee of the house of commons
in England, have reported the necessity of
' revising and condensing the criminal law of
that country, and Mr. Peel, one of the min- 1
i isters of that government (secretary of state) |
; is now at work upon it. The number of
: acts he proposes to condense and abolish, is
1 such, that Mr. Hume of the house of com
f mons said he should be called,.not Peel, but
i Re-peal. The principles of this digest have
; already been published by the committee a
foresaid, and by counsellor Hammond, who
was employed to draw out a plan for this
i purpose.
The codification or some similar great
’ amendment of the civil code of England,
■ has been treated with much good sense by
1 Mr. Miller in his-observations the de
fects oj iiu> >/rw as it now exists.
This scheme is gaining continually fresh
adherents in England. 1 see this last week
i advertised by Mr. Nicklin, of Philadelphia,
“ Twigs’ enquiry into the means of consoli
i dating and digesting the laws of England.”
; Evident proofs that the arc alive to
it. The same subject has been taken up in
New-York, where the legislature have ap
pointed a committee of gentlemen of the bar, j
to digest and condense the statute law of
that state. The report of Mr. Livingston, (
and the ample intentions of the state .4
Louisiana on tlv6 same subject, have receiv- (
cd the applause of the learned world through- (
out Europe. ,
On (lie 7th of January 1813, the counsel |
of state in France employed Mr. Dupin to .
draw up a collection des Lois par ordres des ,
melieres. The king in 1824 ordered a digest
or code to be drawn up of all the ordotl- '
nances. I find by tht Revue Encyclopedi- .
quo, p. 372 for 1825, that Mr. Dupin has (
finished his labours. All this is only follow- .
ing the example of the grand duke of 1 us- ■
cany, and the emperor of Russia, about 50
. y ears ago, and of Bonaparte in his admirable
codes. In fact, thinking people are every
where alive to the dreadful evil of an unin- (
telligible, unascertuinable, incongruous, and
frequently iniquitous set of laws, full of,
quibbling distinctions, jargon, and mystery; (
of which, the expence and the delay amount
in a great proportion of cases, to an absolute j
denial ofjustice. Why they should not be
corrected, digested, and systematized by '
legislative authority three times in a cen- (
tury, no good reason can be assigned. What (
we want, however, first and chiefly, is, riot
a digest of the law in all its details for the
practitioner, so much as a system or code of
principles to serve as a foundation for the
enacted laws—an intelligible system of legal \
Ethics that may instruct us in those detail- ]
ed principles of right and wrong, on which |
all laws ought tu be founded, and which \
might be put into the hands of our youth }
Why not? Is it impossible to draw out in ,
plain language without tautology, the moral 1
principles that ought to govern the relative |
rights and duties of .
ihifthaiit) nd wife 4 i
Parent and child,
Guardian and ward. *
Trustees and those whose rights they represent, <
Con'rnct* and assumpsits of whatever kind,
Bargains and sales, &c &c. i
I do not say these questions will involve I
no difficulty, or that the task is easy, but
assuredly it can be done, and done well, ifH
competent persons are appointed, and well
paid for doing it. Is there any appropriation 1
,of money in any state in the union likely to 1
be advantageous? What is regarded as prac- j
ticable in England, what has been done in '
France, what will certainly be done in 1
Louisi ma can surely be done elsewhere. At *
any rate, let us hear the formidable objec- 1
lions to such a plan, and see if they cannot 1
be obviated. C. ■
-000- I
LUVE OF JUSTICE.
In (lie town of Galway, in Ireland, there
is a very ancient stone house, over the door
of which is coarsely carved a Death’s head
i!and cross-bones. The circumstance which
i caused this emblem is curious. About the ,
i time of Henry VII. or perhaps earlier, (he
town was in itself a palatinate, and all the
law proceedings ran in the name of the *
mayor, who had also the power of pardon
ing or condemning criminals. John de
• Burgh, then mayor, was a very opulent
■ merchant, and traded largely especially
I with Cadiz, in Spain. On some occasion
• he sent over his only son with a cargo to a
i correspondent there, who received young
■ de Burgh with the greatest hospitality ; and
; on his departure he sent with him on a visit
• his own son, together with a very large sum
in specie, to purchase merchandize. Tempt
ed by the wealth, the young de Burgh, with
the assistance of two or three of the crew,
the vessel being his father’s threw the
, young Spaniard overboard, and on his re
> turn seemed greatly distressed by the loss
F of his friend, who lie pretended had died at
sea of a fever, for some time this succeed
i ed, but at length, on a quarrel between two
F «f the sailors concerned in the murder, the
i whole business transpired, the men were
seized, and instantly accused young de
Burgh. The wretched father was obliged
to mount the tribunal to sit in judgment on
his only son, and with his own lips to pro
nounce that sentence which at once left him
; childless, and blasted forever the honour of
an ancient and noble family. His fellow
citizens, who revered his virtues and pitied
his misfortunes, saw with astonishment the
fortitude with which he yielded to this cruel
necessity, and heard him doom his son to a
public and ignominious death on the follow
ing morning. Their compassion for the fa
ther, the affection for the man, every nobler
; feeling was aroused, and they privately de
termined to rescue the young man from pris
on that night, under tlie conviction that de
I Burgh, having already paid the tribute due
to justice and his honor, would secretly re-
Ijoice at the preservation of the life of his
'son. But they little knew the heart of this
noble magistrate. By some accident their
determination reached his ear ; he instantly
removed his son to his own house, and al
ter partaking with him the office of the holy
communion, after giving and receiving a mu
tual forgiveness, he caused him to be hang
ed at his own door ; a dreadful monument
of the vengeance of heaven, and an immor
tal proof of a justice that leaves every thing
of the kind in story at an immeasureable
distance.
The father immediately resigned his of
fice, and after his death, which speedily
followed that of his son, the citizens fixed
°ver the door of the house a skull and bones,
which remain there to this day.
A SIXTH CONTINENT.
An extraordinary phenomenon presented
in (he southern ocean may render our set
tlements in New South Wales of still more
eminent importance.—A sixth continent is
in the very act of growth before our eyes !
The Pacific is spotted with islands through
the immense space of nearly fifty degrees of
longitude, and as many of latitude. Every
one of these islands seems to be merely a
central spot for the formation of coral banks,
which, by a perpetual progress, are rising
from the unfathomable depths of the sea.—
The union of a few of these masses of rock
shapes itself into an island ; the seeds of
plants are carried to it by birds or by the
waves, and from the moment that it over
tops the waters, it is covered with vegeta
tion. The new island constitutes in its
turn a centre of growth to another circle,—
The great powers of nature appear to be
Still ill peculiar activity in lids rigion ; and
to her tardier recess she sometimes takes
the assistance of the volcano and the earth
quake. From the south of New Zealand to
the north of the Sandwich islands the wa
ters absolutely teem with those future seats
of civilization. Still the coral insect, the
diminutive builder of all these mighty piles,
is at work : (lie ocean is intersected with
myriads of those lines ol foundation ; and
when the rocky structure shall have exclu
ded the sea, then will come the dominion of
man. [ Monthly Register,
-«o»-
LORD CHANCELLOR YORKE.
The manner of his death. —Having al
luded to the short life of the much regretted
Mr. Yorke, after he was Lord Chancellor,
1 think it incumbent on me to contradict
the reported manner of his death, on the
authority of one of his own family. He
certainly was much agitated, after some
hasty reproaches that he had received on
his return from having accepted the seals,
and he hastily took some strong liquor
which was accidentally placed near the
sideboard, and, by its occasioning great j
sickness, he broke a blood vessel.— Cra-'
dock's Memoirs. [[The delicacy of ex
pression discovered in this passage, may
vie with Froissart’s tenderness in descri
bing the death of the Count of Foix’s son,
who had enraged his father by refusing to
eat his dinner:—“ And so in great dilem
ma he thrust his hand into his son’s throat;
and the point of the knife a little entered 1
into his throat, into a certain vein ; and the)
Earl said, * Ah, - traitor, why dost thou eat;
thy meat ?’ and therewith the Earl depar-j
ted without any more doing or saying, and!
went into his own chamber. The child
abashed, and afraid of the coming of his
father, and also was feeble from fasting ;
and (he point of the knife a little entered
into the vein of his throat; so he fell down
suddenly, and died.”]
TO MAKE VINEGAR.
J. S. SKINNER, May 18, 1826.
Sir —As the proper season for making
Vinegar is now at hand, I send you a re
ceipt which I know from experience to be
a cheap and very easy way of making it for
those who have no orchards and perhaps may
prove useful to some one of your numerous!
subscribers, it you think it deserving a place
in the colums of the American Farmer. To
every ten gallons of rain water add one
gallon of molasses, and one of brandy mix
them well together, and place the cask in
the garret or some dry place, and occasion
ally shaking it in a few months it will be fit
for use. Yours. &c. ROBT. STEPTOE.
‘ CONSTITUTIONALIST.
k
' AUGUSTA.
\ FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1826.
> - _ • ~
i THE Fiftieth Anniversary of our Inde*
s pendence, was celebrated in this City, with
| more than the usual demonstrations of joy.
( The firing of cannon announced the dawn*
, ing of the day, and the inspiring notes of
i martial music, soon summoned the several
* volunteer companies to the parade. The
| Reverend Clergy and other pious persons
. were engaged at an early hour in divine
1 worship. At ten o’clock, the Mayor enter
ed the City Hall, accompanied by many res
■ pectable citizens, and a meeting was held
upon the subject of Mr. Jefferson’s em
barrassments. Mr. R. H. Wilde offered
. resolutions, which he prefaced by an elo
! quent speech, Major G. W. Crawford, in
! supporting them, addressed the meeting in
; a very impressive manner. The Resolu
tions were adopted nem. con. and Commit*
■ tees appointed to receive subscriptions. At
eleven o’clock, or soon after, a Civil and
■ Military Procession, marched to Christ
Church, where, after a prayer by the Rever
end Mr. Shannon, the Declaration of In
dependence was read by Beverly Wal
ker, Esq. and an Oration was delivered by
Josiah S. Walker, Esq. The Declara
tion was accompanied by some pertinent
. and striking remarks, and the Oration was
received with the applause it merited, and
gave general satisfaction. The public Din
-1 ners at the several Hotels were numerous! v
attended, and the Sun went down upon as
much happiness and hilarity, as perhaps ever
attended the celebration of the Fourth of
July in this place.
' At a Public Dinner given in Richmond,
to Mr. Munhoe •' W M . H. Crawford,”
. was toasted by f. JV. Mcholcfs, Esq.—
We hope the Ex-President drank the toast
with pleasure, and that after a due conside
ration of the administration of his late Sec
i retaiy of State, as far as it has gone, he
feels some “ compunctious visitings” for the
pai t he took, and the machinations he coun
tenanced against Mr. Crawford, during
“ the electioneering campaign.”
No doubt can now of the
existence of the Sea The follow
ing letter proves it beyond question. The
writer is well known to many persons in this
City, who place the most entire confidence
in his statements t—»
To the Ed/lore of the Mercantile Advertiser.
nEAR SlßS_|f you should deem the following statement
worthy of insertion in your valuable journal, the veracity of it
can be attested by the Undersigned.
Ship Sitae Richards, 7/A June, 1820. »
...... ~ Lai. 41; 30. long. 1,7, 32. j
While standing by the starboard bow, looking al the unruffled
surface of the ocean, about 7 o’clock, P M. 1 perceived a sudden
perturbation ot the water, ami immediately on Iftofan object ore
sented itself with its head above the w.tcr about lour feel re
sembling the above figure, which position it retained (U neLrlv
a minute, when be returned it to the surface and kept approach
ing abreast of the vessel at a distance of about fifty y ards. 1 im
mediately called t the passengers on deck, several of whom ob
served It for the spice of eight minutes as it glided alon- slowly
and undauntedly past the ship at the rate of about three°mile, an
hour. Its color was a dark dingy black, with protuberances
similar to the above sketch, its visible length appeared about sis
ty feet, and Us circumference ten feet. From former accounts
which have been given of such a monster, and which have uev -r
been credited, this exactly corresponds, and 1 have no doubt but
It is one of those species called the Sea Serpentt it made con
siderable wake in the water in its progress.
I remain your o dt servant,
r HKNRT HOLnHDKGF„Cfl f fam <
The foregoing is attested by the following gentlemen, nassen
gars: Wm. VVarbrloo, of Peiitonville. England, Ducan Kennedy
I homes Austin, of Clinton. England, Lovell, Purdy Thos. Silvos
ter, and James Magee, of New-\ oik.
It is said that to all the Spanish American
i Republics French Envoys have been sent
.for the purpose of persuading these govern
ments to pay a handsome price for the re
cognition of their Independence, by (he
mother country. France in this manner
expects to be indemnified for the treasure
she has lavished upon Spain ; but it is not
probable that the Republics will nay any
'thing. They are not overburthened with
j money, and can but little afford to offer a
| gratuity to Spain. It is very certain that
j Ferdinand must soon be driven by the ex
ample of the other European Powers, to an
acknowledgement, upon which perhaps, hangs
the colonial dependence of Cuba—now “ the
brightest jewel in his crown.”
'"•tM"’
From the Jackson Democrat.— •* We have
received information of a conspiracy in
Pennsylvania, to prevmi the election of any
individual friendly to General Jackson as
the President, to the State Legislature or
; Congress; our information comes through
different sources, equally respectable and
creditable.”
To give our readers some, idea of the
: travel between this city and Troy, we have
' been politely furnished with the following
' account of vehicles which passed the inn
of Mr. David Nash on Thursday last, com
: ing to and going from Albany, viz : 51
i stages, 25 hacks, 51 gigs, 53 double wa•*-
• ons, 90 single wagons—total 250 in one
day, besides 2 7 saddle horses.
[Albany Adv.