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POESIiY.
FROM THE ST. T. EVENING POST.
THE GREEK WOMEN’S APPEAL TO THE
LADIES OF AMERICA.
Daughter of that happy land
O’er the far Atlantic wave,
Where no despot dare command,
Where oppression finds a grave;
Listen to the Grecian’s talc—
Listen to the Grecian’3 woes,
' Till thy blooming cheek i3 pale,
Till thy sparkling eye o’erflows!
By the love you bear your sires—
By the love your husbands claim—
By the love your sons inspire—„
By your beauteous daughters’ names—
By all the charities that rise
Round your sacred household fires—
Listen to the orphan’s cries,
Listen to tire widow’s prayers.
Speak not of the horrid past—
Husbands, fathers, sons were slain;
And now, ’mid winter’s driving blasts,
Encamped on Attic’s barren plain,
We perish by pale famine’s hand;
We die, the feeble and the old;—
We arc not warriors who dchiand—
We are the hungry and the cold.
Our star of freedom still is bright;
On high our Christian banners wave;
Alone, unaided in the fight,
Still the Turkish power we brave,
Unyielding is the Grecian heart,
Unshaken yet by heathen foe;
But tins alone has power to daunt—
His hapless wife and children’s woe.
See, on yonder rocky height,
Our famish’d shivering, aged, stand;
Thev can but raise the feeble prayer,
They can but lift imploring hand;—
There white locks float on every blast,
There trembling forms arc bending o’er;
On you their weeping eyes are cast,
’Tis you the voice of age implores.
Long wc crouched to tyrants’ power,
Long wc bent the suppliant knee,
Arose at length the fated hour,
Hope lit the torch of Liberty. ,
May eardt patriot’s heart be cold,
’Ere 'S quench’d the sacred fire,
’Ere ,’mid Turkish sWls enrolled *
W# will mount tiW^meral/pyre 1
Blood in oup.veins,
Coijfifcw^'uve in Moslem chains?
Fui/Tof Christians in our hearts,
mould we act the apostate’s part ?
Daughters of the brave and free,
yr Daughters off the holy creed,
Have pity on our misery,
Our naked, helpless infants feed.
j wife’s cards go, the very day they were left,
I with the coal ashes, to the street. The
cards of her unfashionable or uneducated
cousins are to be immediately consigned to
the flames. Those of her old friends and
companions of her youth, because they are
ira moderate circumstances, q^’the bottom of
| the bas.ket.
A lady of fashion has not only her card
I rack, but she generally makes a display of
her most distinguished acquaintance, in the
edges of a* gilt frame of a prodigious mirror
fastened over the marble mantlepiece : ‘ she
thus can see herself daily surrounded by the
personages, and can assign to each his true
and proper station. Now your ambassa
dors’ and governors’ ladies cards are^fine
keeping for years ; although the acquain
tance has ceased long since. The names
of persons who move in the circle of the
beaumonde, arc always at the top of lherack,
[as if the visit was but yesterday—when I
the place of horror. You look down a gulf
of five and in one place seven hundred feet
descent, at the bottom of which rolls the fu
rious Mendoza, 8 miles an hour, bearing on
its top, trees, leaves, grass, and mud, and in
its bed, stones and rocks, continually rum
bling, like distapt thunder.—So steep is the
descent, that little stones, josted from the
path, are almost instantly in the river, and
by one stumble, one slip of the mule, he
falls headlong, and none bat He who made
the mountains, could save you, If there is
a plqce on this ragged earth which deserves
to called sublime, it is that seen by him
who passes the laderas, in the Andes of
South America.
But while I pronounce the places de
scribed to be sublime, and even awful to
him who beholds them, I must dissent from
the opinion of those, who think there is, with
proper caution, any serious danger in pass
ing them. What proves that there is not
have known the friend and benefactor of the is the fact, that no one whom I have seen,
family, because his daughters were a little I knows of any human life having been here
rusty, throw n behind a dashing speculator of lost, although this road has been travelled
the last week.—Those who ride in their for more than two centuries and a half,
own carriages, are placed in rank and file, [Mules are often lost here; not one year
according to seniority'; whilst those whol passes, in which several are not hurried
pay visits in hacks, are pushed in the rear ofi down these gulfs, and cargoes lost—But
richer friends; and my sister has frequently this is owing to the fact, that they carry
denied herself to one, and not to the other, boxes or sacks, of such magnitude as to
I remember on one occasion, a splendid | strike against the mountain above the path
carriage drove to the door, with flaming and force the poor animal headlong off the
heraldry—the mistress was not at home, other side, into the toirent below. That
merely because she wanted to grace her this might not occur with our mules and
mirror with an emblazoned card of some baggage, we ordered lasos to be put around
distinguished person, when, it turned out to the necks of those which had the large and
be a new and insignificant acquaintance, valuable cargoes, and that they should be
who had hired a hack, which pnee was the I led across the laderas.< But this precau-
property of a foreign would-be Baron, who j tion cannot be taken where a troop of seve
had for several years figured in high life, ral hundreds pass, as is often done.; conse
turned the heads of the girls, and imposed quently sometimes by touching the upper
on the multitude. ^ J bank, and sometimes by mules crowding
The cards of your professors o»id minis- each other, cargoes are lost. It is but. a
ters of the gospel, are, allowed to be half short time since one went down the gulf
seen in the sfi*de of some foreign consul or with a load of $7000 in silver and gold. It
secretary'6t legation, although the man of j were in vain to look for the lost articles here
science and of the holy order, would be the as the river sweeps every thing along its
recent visitors, and entitled to the prece- course, and one can scarcely get to its wa-
dence.—Those diplomatic cards are held in ters with any safety, until it enters theMen-
high veneration, as they generally arc large, doza plains, 13 miles below,
gilt, and printed on the best hot press, and j In passing the first ladera, we were great-
carry on their very face an official stamp, ly alarmed for a short time, by a circum-
I have known the ladies of your backwoods s tance which grew out of carelessness. Not
members of Congress and of the Legisla- sending one forward on foot as we ought;
ture, consider those cards as high marks to see if the way was clear, six of us ad-
of distinction—carry them home as trophies vanced so far that we could not return when
—and place them over the farm house man- we saw, entering the west end of the ladera
tlfrshelf, to the astonishment and admiration a drove of mules, which must soon meet
of their neighbours. I should advise bache- us. What was to be done?—For either
prom the N. Y. American. I lors to attend to the card ; “ its very form party to return was impossible; to pass each
JMen’s Fortune.—I have often thought we and pressure” is of great consequence, and I other, no less so. I would almost have sa-
could read the history of most people’s for- J know more than one claimant that have re- crificed a limb to have been free from the
tune, if we pay the least attention to the or-1 ceivcd an adverse report, because, though danger which threatened.—As good Provi
dinary objects that daily meet our view, and j petitioners, they never would undergo the dence ordered it, however, our guide recol
to a man of observation some of the most discipline of card visiting. A friend of mine lected that in the centre of the ladera, then
trivial circumstances of life will give a com- lost the affection of a young lady of fortune, out of sight, there was a small ravine, or
plete index to the mind. j because he never would have his name prin- break in the mountain, where a brook de
If we see a man in haste to build a fine ted on a piece of gilt paper. scended, and where, if we could leach be
house, set up a splendid equipage, and his I am confident I can read the fortune ofl fore the loose mules met us, we could pro
wife passionately enters into all the etiquette some of my friends, graduated in the scale I bably halt in safety.—We reached the wish
of giving and receiving visits of ceremony, of my sister’s card rack; and if people j ed for spot, and crowded our six mules into
her mantle-shelf loaded with cards, and her would pay a little more attention, they need a small excavation, which a cascade, when
dress profuse and costly, it requires no not ask for explanation why they have not the brook was high had made, and here
witchcraft to set him down as one who has been invited to this or that lady’s party ; waited until 390 mules and 4 men had pass-
made a very sudden and rapid fortune—a I for I do contend, that a person of ordinary ed. We then came out of 6ur den, and
speculation in stocks—in real estate: a observation can know his own consequence] passed the other part ©f the ladera, and
lucky shipment from India, or to South or merit by the station allotted to his card, reached in safety another wide and good
America, has given him unbounded confi- My sister thinks it very vulgar to write | road.
dence, and it would be high treason to ques- one’s own name on the card, and many wor-1 Just before night we passed the second
tion the soundness of his judgment in every thy names have-been thrown aside, or at the {ladera, called Ladera de last Rocas, the
future undertaking.—Men of this character bottom of the rack, merely for the want of worst of them all, but which, with caution
seethe image of the future in the past, and the assistance of a lithographic or copper- we passed in perfect safety. Over this I
think themselves fitted to plan and execute plate printer.—And why not ? Surely Mr. ventured myself to walk, and let the mule
the most complicated system of finance, Editor the men have their fashion, and the follow, but would never do it again. One’s
and a vivid imagination sees wealth rolling cut and colour of their garment is of some head is liable to swim, and then his feet to
upon his house, until the mind becomes consideration ; and the ladies’ cards are an stumble, whereas a mule’s head is always
giddy in the future anticipations of its own affair of their own ; and they have a right] clear, and his feet secure,
infallibility. to lay down its rules and regulations, as The sagacity of this animal in travelling
If on the contrary, we see a man living much so as a merchant has to direct the over these rough and dangerous roads is
in a moderate habitation, at his business clerks in his counting house, or I the culti-] truly remarkable. When he steps on a
late and early, whose wife is frugal, indus- ] vation of my fields. {stone that rolls, or finds his feet likely to
trious, and economical, without any disposi- | give way, instead of springing to recover
tion to shine, or display embossed and gilt Passage over the Andes.—Mr. Brighma, himself like the horse, he lifts his feet,' and
cards; who minds her family affairs more the American Missionary to South America, places them with increased slowness and
than her neighbours, we can safely conclude gives the following description of the lade- caution until the danger is passed. When
her husband will pay all his debts, grow gra- ras, or the awful precipices in the passes ] carrying baggage he soon learns to keep at
dually rich, and that his good sense will in- over the Andes, through which he was j such distance from loaded mules and other
duce him to invest his money in productive ] obliged to go in the journey from Mendoza {objects which he may meet, as that his car-
real estate, or in safe and sound monied in- to Chili. {go sjeldom strikes any thing around him
stitutions. \ “ Leaving our place of encampment, we In crossing these narrow laderas I observed
Those different characters show them- travelled for four hours along banks of a that the older baggage mules, to avoid a
selves by many outward signs—the first looks river on a gradually ascending, but yet wide contact with the mountain above, would
big, talks loud, feels himself of morp con- and beautiful road. But now we reached walk almost to the extreme lower edge of
sequence than his neighbours, whilst the the first laderas, qf which I had heard the path. The caution of course arises
man of real worth is silently pursuing the much, dreaded more, and yet long wished to not from any design to preserve the load in
“ even tenor of his life.” My father was see. To conceive the nature of these lade- charge, but to save themselves from the se-
unfortunately one of the infallible gentlemen ras, it must be understood that the road up vere jar, which every such contact gives
—made his fortune by his own wit and fore- this mountain, is a long, narrow, deep cut them.
sight, and lost it, like most men, for the I valley, down which descends, a large, swift In the worst and most dangerous places
want of a little common sense. But the river. The road is on the north side of the they are perfectly composed, and if let alone
misfortunes of M our house,” I must defer stream, and generally tire space-be^Veen it I and Buffered to pick their own way, will
to a more serious hour; my present busi- and the parallel lofty mountains, is 10 or 12 cany you through them in safety, but, as the
ness is to,analyze that small affair—a lady’s rods wide, sufficiently so for a good road peanes say, “ it is dangerous to force one of
cardrack. even for carriages. It occurs, however, in I those animals where he, on mature delibera
tion can weigh the esteem of his fellow several instances, that a spur of this parallel tion, thinks it not best to go.”
man, by the ordmary salutation that passes mountain projects and extends to the very
between them, and so may we learn our brink of the river, leaving you the alternative The art of printing is surely as wonderful
rank or station in a lady’s favour, by the either to pass over its snow-capt summit, or an art as ever attracted the attention of man,
place-assigned to our names in our card- crawl along the precipice by the side of the and which is now performing wonders in
rack.* Whenever I have leisure, I love to river, at the elevation of the common road, nearly every part of the habitable globe,
dive into the bottom of a lady’s card basket This last course, by the ladera precipice, is In the old world it is bid to toil as the
and bring to her recollection some old and sometimes the only one where the spar can {slave of state, in the support of Divine rights
forgotten friend. Now I have a half-sister, be passed. How this road along the lade- {and exclusive privileges. In the new world,
the child of my father’s old age by a third ras, or rather tins narrow path, was first it is frequently bought and sold, and in the
marriage, who is wonlerfully clever in fash-{formed, it is nqt easy to see. . The precipice {hands of the vilest of the vile, used to the
ionalde life and manners ; and, ns her hus- or slope of the mountain, towards the river, {worst of purposed, yet under all disadvan-
band made his fortune by a lucky turn of the though not pOrpeiwBOular, is nearly so, at anjtages, truth,' undaunted truth,; as the -friend
wheel, or rather By the ability and good j angle of 75 if not 80 degreqswith the h6ri- {of man, is seen to wing its Widening way—
management of an ffjitive partner, she is zon. The length of the laderas is from g5 J bodily presenting to the diflm&y of tyrants
disposed to enjoy it, as' long as it will last, to 30 rods, and the path along the sides j the trophies of its. power,
like a woman of true spirit and fashion* She from 1 to-2 feet in width, just sufficient, for Accident it is paid, gave it to-the world.—-
now thinks I am rich, and of course 1 the mule to pass. The mountain on the An okl German, when atUfrnpting to trace
and my family are put on the most intimate I right hand is so ebse, that, sitting on the J letters on blocks of wood, blundered on a
footing, and our cards have a respectable mule, you often touch it with your knee, mine, of greater value to thfe human race,
station assigned in her rack. Once or twice your hand, and can sometiineaif with your than all the gold and silver in the Universe,
however, fortune, “ kpered on our house,” head; and looking up, its top is in the clouds. This rude and simple attempt promised to
„ jjte and I am credibly informed, she let my | But on the left hand, the precipice below is [ the projector little move than present
amusement, or temporary convenience; for
he saw not the great results, which would
naturally flow as the effects from a single
impulse.—Those widely extended scenes of
intellectual grandeur were not within the
compass of his humble contemplations;
much less could he have seen that he was
drafting the out line of an engine, unparal
leled in capacity and efficiency whose ex
pansive power (as the vehicle' of truth)
should not only shake Kingdoms, crush
Thrones and principalities, but in the con
summation of its useful labors, overturn, and
uproot, all the antiquated errors, and grave
prejudices, of past, present, and future ages.
A Correspondent of the National Intelli
gencer says “ I have long expected that
some invention would ultimately take pre
cedence of the present tedious and expen
sive mode of surveying, and it has been
somewtiat astonishing that the inventive
genius of our brethren at the North, has not
before this time, made an improvement in
that branch of Mathematics, especially ta
king into view the large field which has
been gradually opening for the survey of
Roads, Canals, Public Lands,~&c. These
remarks are elicited from some observations
in your paper of the 23d instant, respecting
an instrument termed the Mensurator,”
invented by H. L. Barnum, Esq., and giv
ing a description of its advantages over the
usual method of measuring distances,
must confess it excited my curiosity, and
induced me to call on the gentleman, not,
however, without some doubts of itb utility.
But, after an impartial investigation, and a
full and clear explanation of its properties
my scruples were overcome, and I conceive
it richly deserving public notice and patron
age. There is no doubt that many useful im
provements and valuable inventive talents
lie dormant for want of astimulus to arouse
them to action. But in a country like ours
genius may acquire (at least) fame, through
the channel of our public Journals. Such
reward, at least, is due to the skill and in
genuity of Mr. Barnum.
best made shirts, with not a single seam in it!
The only parts about it that are not woven,
are the buttons, which are made of linen
thread but are woven to the garment. This-
specimen of laudable ingenuity and industry
is the production of Miss Elitha Sherrill
who resides on the Lincoln side of the Ca
tawba, above Beatie’s Ford. It is the se
cond or third she has woven ; and we un
derstand she has it in view to attempt the
weaving of some other garment.—Western
Carolinian. - • f
Origin of the City of London.—London
is first mentioned as a Roman settlement
in the reign of Nero A. D. 91, when it was
the residence of a great many merchants and
dealers. Long before their taking possession
of it, it was a village of the Belgic Britons,
who were a mixed race of Gauls and Ger
mans, but more German than Gaelic. It
was built in a wood, fortified with ramparts
and ditches, and thence its name, Lund, or
the Wood, and Lundduyn, the fortified wood
or hill. It is indebted to no splendid origin
or adventitious government, but has risen to
its present grandeur and opulence by its in
trinsic merits, the advantages of its situation,
and the industry and commercial spirit of its
inhabitants. The Romans soon discovered
its convenient situation for a military station
and established a magazine of stores and
provisions there, A. D. 51.
Singular J\Tarriage.—-A gentleman aged
17, courted a lady aged 13, and it was fully
believed that ho continued his visits regular
ly once a fortnight, for 35 years, and that
the time was appointed for the marriage five
or six times during this period, but from
some'eause, unknown to any person except
themselves, they were not married. The
time was again appointed to be on the 15th
December last; the gentleman attended ac
cordingly, but the lady sent him off as he
went; she, however, in a few days changed
her notion ard, wrote him a note to that effect;
he went to her house, taking the Parson with
him, and they were finally married on the
21st December, without the knowledge of
any part of the family, who were astonished
on coming in the house at night, finding the
couple married and an elegant supper on the
table. This shows in part, the uncertainty
of things ; but he that is faithful to the end
shall be saved.—Petersburg Republican.
Napoleon frequently manifested such an
acquaintance with legal knowledge as to as
tonish his ministers. At length Frieldhard
took the liberty of asking the Emperor how .
he became so familiar with law, considering
that his whole life had been passed in camps?
The reply was, that when Bonaparte w r as a
lieutenant he had been put under arrest and
confined in a room where there was no fur
niture but an old chair, an old bed, and a
cupboard ; in the cupboard was a ponder
ous folio volume, older and more worm-
eaten than all the rest. It was a digest, and
as he had no paper, pens, nor pencils, he
considered the book as a valuable prise.
* It was so voluminous,’ said he, ‘ and so
covered with marginal notes in manuscript,
that had I been confined a hundred years I
could never have been idle. I was only
ten days deprived of my liberty.; TfutTwoje-
covering it, I was saturated with Justinie
and the decisions of the Roman Legislator
Thus I picked up my knowledge of civij
law, with which I so often trouble you.
Trial for Witchcraft.—I am no friend
to superstition, yet I cannot help revering
some of the good old steady habits of our
ancestors.—Much has been said against
the ancient New Englanders for hanging
people on the charge of witchcraft. Per
haps there were some things wrong in their
conduct; but had they been regulated by
the same principles which governed the pro
ceedings at a late trial for witchcraft, where
l was present, I know not that much could
be said against them. In this case the pri
soner, (who was a corpulent, redfaced, smi
ling sort of a woman,) plead “ not guilty.”
She was well assisted by able counsel who
proffered their services gratuitously. Why
they did so, I know not; unless it was ,be-
cause she had bewitched them. After hear
ing the evidence, the jury brought in a ver
dict of “ guilty. ” The presiding judge,
whose name was Truth, immediately pro
ceeded to pass sentence according to law.
I will give you his words as near as I can
recollect them. Addressing the prisoner,
be said, “ You have been tried according to
law and evidence, and not by the obsolete
ordeal of casting into the water. You have
been found guilty of the most atrocious
crime of witchcraft. You have broken the
bands that united parents and children, and
placed the destructive weapons in the hands
of a son, and impelled him to take the life
of an affectionate father. You have pros
trated many of your neighbours in the mire
of the streets, and one of them was, through
your means, thrown into the fire and burnt
to death.—Others have been slowly, yet
mortally poisoned by your pretended medi
cines, while you professed to be one of
their warmest friends. You have bewitch
ed some into R partial state of derangement,
in which they have committed the basest
crimes. You have snatched the bread
from the mouths ,of innocent children, and,
by magic power, changed it into liquid fire to
consume the vitals of their parents. You
have thrown some of your neighbors into
prison; hung up others on the gallows, and
drowned many in the lake that bumeth with
fire and brimstone. The sentence of the
court is that you be immediately taken to
some convenient place of execution and
hanged by the neck until you are* dead,
dead, dead, and may you die to live no
more forever. I am informed that the name
of the criminal was Intemperance. I re
main yours with much respect.—Zion’s
Herald,
Extract from Mr. Bother’em’s Speech in
the Peep at the Forum, or School for
Orators; just published.' The question
under discussion was, “ Does Riches or
Poverty tend most to the Exaltation of
the Human
“ Cannot the man possessed of poverty,
Mr. President, precipitate in all the varied
beauties of nature, from the most loftiest
mountains, down to the most loioest valleys,
as well as the man possessed of luxury ? and
does not the glittering sun visit his lonely
cottage with rays as congenial and vilifying
as those which bespangle the lofty dooms of
the man possessed of luxury? The poor
man, Sir, (if I may borrow the elegant phisi-
>fogy of Blackwood’s Magazine,) can en
joy his humble cottage, dipping its feet in
the shallow murmur.” Cannot he, Sir,
preamble the fields, empannelled and embla
zoned more gaudry than the rich Turkey
carpet of the man possessed of luxury?
And do not the chromatic flowers breathe as
pure a jlagrance to his refractory nerves, as
all the artificial smells of the man possessed
of.luxury ? Yes, Mr. President! the poor
man can walk forth, with limbs strong and
astmatic, enervated and braced by labour ;
whilst those of the rich man are numbered
by vertigy, spleen, indigestion, and many
other diseases too tedious to capitulate at
present. r
******
“^Sometimes, I say, Mr. President, seat
ed beqeatb the shady shadow of an umbrage
ous tree; at whose venal foot flows a limping
brook, he calls about him his wife and the
rest o f his children, (which, I dare say, Mr.
President, the rich man never had any;)
here, Sir, he takes a retrospective view into
futurity.”
Pemahtingmuity.-—Wu wpre, a few days
since, shown a u garment mthout a seam.” It
was a cotton shirt, woven complete in all its
parts with a well-formed double collar, re
gular gathering about the neck and wrist
bands, -with an appearance of gussetts un
der the arms, straps on the shoulders, &c.;
and, in fine, as complete, in all parts, as the
/
A gentleman at Bow street having char
ged a man with picking his pocket, stated,
on oath, in support of the charge, that
when he was robbed, he “ felt a curious
sensation in the tail of hfa coat.” The crime
was not established by this curious piece^cf
testimony, and the thief was allowed to
at large.
Original Anecdote.—A school master in
one of the neighbouring towns, while upon
his morning’s walk, passed by the door of
a neighbour, who was excavating* a log for a
pig’s trough. ‘ Why,’ said the school mas
ter, ‘ Mr. — have you not furniture enough
yet V ‘Yes,’ said the man ‘enough for my
oivti family, but I expect to board the mas
ter this winter, and am making prepara
tions.”—Worcester Spy. J
An aged pair in the highlands of Scot
land, ofthe name of Grant, were sitting one
morning in their cottage. The gude°man
cooning a portion of Scripture in the good,
old, singsong way, to the auld wife, who pat
perched upon her stool, an attentive auditor.
He came to the passage in Genesis, ^hi4»
runs—-* 1 There were giants in the earth in
those days**—and his dim eye mistaking the
i for an r, he read “ There were 1Grants in
those days!” He paused in complacency at
1 this testimonial of family antiquity, while the
auld woman e xelaimed.—“ Ah s> was* there"
Grants so-far B&ck as that?” “Oh, yes,”
replied he, “ wer’e pn auld race.** ‘ ■
JhH!