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1S9 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!