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MISCELLANEOUS.
ORIGINAL POKTKY.
THE StORJf.
‘tow's the rc ign of wild disorder,
Hark! the |ielting waters pour!
From Ike tro:d.'.-d ocean's border,
Listen to the dreadful roar.
Hear Hie north wind loudly screaming',
Scouring with resisting force,
■ ■ the rain through valli-s streaming,
In a wild, irriguous course.
This is black confusion’s hour,
Now lie rules the briny main;
And, extending wide his power,
Scatters ruin o’er the plain.
r - •<: uprooted is the willow,
Pine* and cedars scatter’d lie;
Mark liow every white capt billow,
Foaming swells toward the sky.
Now the peasant quitting labor,
When lie gains his little cot,
Sighing wonders if his neighbor
Safely shelter'd is, or not.
Faster still the water’s pouring,
Gloom terrific shades the sky,
Save before the thunder’s roaring,
When the vivid lightnings fly.
Now upon the foaming ocean,
Listen to desponding cries;
Ships with quid: alternate motion,
IWmwird plunge, again to rise.
Long beaten, now the brine they drink,
Now meet more dangerous waves ;
And in a moment down they sink,
And find them watery graves !
How many a soul that instant fled,
Torn by some ruthless billow ;
llow many a lifeless mortal’s head
Lies on a coral pillow.
Ah ! hence the seamen views that powV
With su] plkating eye,
Which rules the iieav’m., where'er tl.aylow’ri
Portending storms are nigh.
TO AMANDA,
Wit!, EMMA CORBETT.
AM ANDA, view the soft pathetic lines,
Where tender love and glowing genius shines,
When Lmr.iu weeps j—where hapless Henry
draws
The heart-felt tear, in lave and virtue’s cause.
Ves, Emma weeps, behold her sorrow s rise,
View the dear dew-droops trembling h her
civs.
Set! round her Henry’s course the mourner
moves,
She dies—the r.iar'yv of unhappy loves.
So the poor turtle, desolate ard lone,
Breathes to the winds his melancholy moan ;
M< ‘tuns his lost low, with many a plaintive
coo,
Aml sighs his soul out with the fond adieu.
An anda say, bv such sad scenes ir press’d,
What gloom parades the sorrow-teeming
breast.’
How weeps the soul, what sighs the besom
swell ;
Speak i rig:! softness, for thou bt at const tell.
Ha e oft thy AvotiH’s manly bosom glows,
And the soft tear all sympathetic flows :
Full est for Emma, lovely maid, distress’d,
His tender heart-strings vibrate in his breast.
For Henry^oft.the bursting sighs give place,
And tin; soul melts on his impassion’d fact.
r.ut while embosom'd in this vale of tears,
F.iStreaaing wee on every side appears ;
If right the hard Amanda, can divine,
Fair happiness shall be forever thine.
Th’ indulgent care of Providence shall bless
Thy lovely m ind, and w ard off keen distress i
Joy sltr.ll beam on thee with her sun-shine
ray,
And peace eternal gihl thy happy day.
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
‘TIS an empty fleeting shade,
By imagine: ion in. de :
‘Tis a bubble, straw, or worse ;
’Tis a baby’s hobby-hr rva :
’Tis a little living, clear;
’Tis ten thousand pounds a year:
’Tis a title, tis a name;
’Tis a puff of empty fame,
Fickle as the breezes blow:
. ‘Til a I atlv’s t-rs or no !
- Ami when the description’s crown’d,
’Tis just no where to be found.
from the Failed Staten Gazette.
WASHINGTON’S JiiRTH DAY.
FROM Helicon's embowering shades,
Descend,each muse on rapture’s wings,
Apollo, join the inspiring ma and;.
And sweep the loud it sounding strings !
While answering echos* hail the morn,
When thou, great llathiugt-m \v; s ban!
Thy martial deads id', tongues employ,
From Georgia, to Hantoniu’a bound,
While shouts of universal joy',
Th* extended continent resounds !
“ This day, (re-echoing skies return)
“ Illustrious IVutt.ington was bom !”
He leaves the sweet aliodes of peace,
And mounts Bellona’t iron car,
Ensured bv destiny success,
He rules the thundering t idv of wsr!
Till vanquished vet’rans curse the morn,
Victorious IVutlUngltm was horn!
His country freed, lie sheathes the sword,
Untainted by Ambition’s fires,
And joy’d to see her rights restor’d,
In silent majesty retires—
His brows eternal wreathes adorn !
This dav, great Washington was born!
Oar’phrioui conn til vt ion owes
To him its beauty, strength and grace,
Who with compatriot peers arose,
And Freedom built on law’s firm base!
Then bail the Patriot, by whose aid,
The glorious corner-stone was laid.’
While the warm blood bedews our veins,
This annual tribute will we pay,
And in full chorus, swell the strains,
To hail our hero’s natal day !
Forever sacred be the morn,
When thou, great IFaehington , was bom !
ANECDOTE
From the Speech of Mr Clay, in the House ol
Representatives of the United States, on
the Navy Bill.
To illustrate tire commercial habits
ami enterprise of the American peo
ple, lie would relate an anecdote of a
vessel built and cleared out at Pitts
burg for Leghorn. When she arrived
at her place of destination, the master
presented his papers to the custom
house officer at Leghorn, who would
not credit them, and who said to the
master, “ Sir. your papers are forged
—there is no such place as Pittsburg
,in the world!” The trembling captain
’jhiid before the officer a map of the
fruited States; directed him to the
Uulpli of Mexico; pointed out the
mouth of the Mississippi; led him a
thousand miles up it to the mouth of
the Ohio, ami thence another thousand
up to Pittsburg. “There, sir, is the
port whence my vessel cleared out.”
The astonished officer, before he saw
the map, would as soon have believed
that this ship had been navigated
from (he moon!
A butcher of considerable eminence
was lately in company with some la
dies at the game of quadrille, where
unfortunately he did not exhibit him
self as a clever fellow . After having
lost two or three pools,one of the la
dies addressing him ashed, ‘ Pray sir,
what are stakes now?’ To which he
immediately replied, “ Madam, the
best rump 1 cannot sell lower than ten
pence a pound.”
The grabbers of “ smuggled” goods
are not always unaccommodating; as
w e observe [in a Canandaigua paper]
that ten barrels [marked “ sugar”]
were lately seized at Biack Rock, and
taken, by a deputy collector, up to
Buffalo, that on opening his prize bar
rels, they only contained sail, the
ow ner of which being rather poor, had
long been waiting for the assistance of
some friend to get it to Buffalo, [his
home] and of course felt very grateful
to the disappointed deputy.
In a late London paper we met with
a paragraph, stating that Air. John
Kemble had sold out his interest in Co
vent Garden Theatre with a view of
investing his money in that of Drury
Lane, now erecting. We have this day
learnt from a source of undoubted au
thenticity, that Mr. Kemble has real!’
done so, and that he means to fill up
f!ie interval between quitting the one
ami the completion of (he other theatre.
by a tour through the United States.
He may he daily expected. We con
gratulate the amateurs of the legiti
mate drama, and of rational amuse
,:u‘Uf upon t ..is early opportunity of
beholding the performance of this migh
ty monarch of ti e stage. Bureau.
Short sayings on small subjects.
AT the commencement of the
French Revolution, it was quite com
mon for obscure persons in Paris, to
give themselves consequence by aban
doning their old names, and assuming
those more agreeable to the populace.
One called himself Citizen f.l'g.rty,
another Citizen Equality, aiA Ci
tizen Rights of Mar. —and the publish
er of a violent little paper, called die
Jacobin, dubbed himself Citizen Guil
lotine Gidav.ec! In this country, no
name causes greater sivay than Repub
lican: we have therefore, a paper cal
led the Albany Republican published by
Samuel Republican Brown.
Mr. Republican hopes that nobody
will envy him—there's no danger. Ile
may lie pitied, but certainly can never
be envied.
A Yankee being asked, if he ever
knew of such a tiling as a prorogue in
New-England, gravely replied—No—
among all the Rogues there, 1 never
heard of a pro-rogue.
General Root, the senator,sometimes
attempts to be witty. “Do you think,
said he, addressing himself to a gen
tleman in the senate chamber—“ Do
you think I shall be able to Root out
this noxious weed r”— 4i You are hog
enough to root out almost any thing,”
retorted the gentleman.— Albany Reg.
[Remo.]
from, the Msc-¥ork Com. Advertiser.
City of Washington, April 13th.
Mr. Lewis,
1 have observed, in the public pa
pers of New-York, that a detachment
of the militia of that state is ordered to
the defence of the frontier by the gov
ernor of the state, in the pursuance of in
structionsfrom the president of the C
nited States. Upon w hat constitutional
ground this measure is adopted, it is
impossible for nie to conreiie ; certain
lam. that it highly imports the state
of Ncw-York, to keep a vigilant eye on
this proceeding, to canvass i! as involv
ing the most important constitutional
question. The rights and privileges of
the militia are of the first moment to
the respective states ; and let them
look well to it,how tiiey art; made use
of by the president of the United States
for any other purpose than those speci
fied in tin’ constitution.
By the constitution, the militia can
he called forth in three cases only ; to
execute the laws of the Union —to sup
press inmrrectiom —and to repeal inva
sions. Neither of the two first cases
are pretending to exist; but the last, in
vation, is the alledged ground of the
President's requisition on the Governor
of Ncw-York.
The U. States invaded by the Canadi
ans!! ! —Strange passing strange ! ! —1
would not ask for the evidence of inva
sion from Canada, hut 1 put the ques
tion to every man in the United States,
if this pretence is not fase on the falce of
it, and the reverse literally true. Have
r.ot the United States upon the floor of
Congress, [During the whole course of
the present session,] threatening to in
vade the Canadas ? Have they not voted
armies for this avowed purpose ? On
the other side, have we not seen the go
vernment of Canada intent only on de
fence against the. threatened invasion ?
Does not the comparative weakness of
Canada evince that she never will pro
voke hostilities; that while she must
always fear invasion from us, the first
strains her from setting a hostile foot
upon our soil ? If there he a man who
fears invasion from Canada, it is in
vain to reason with them.
There is then neither the * Invasion
specified in the constitution, nor the
‘'imminent danger of invasion, ” pro
vided for by the act of the ;otli of Feb.
ID.>3; and let the governor and citi
zens of Neo-York look well to it, how
they lent themselves to the views of
the president of the United States, and
sanction a measure in the very teeth of
the constitution.
What arc their view s r—l answer.
Agression, meditated hostilities upon the
Canadas, to be brought about by the
militia; and it must he confessed, that
the means are happily adapted to the
end. As soon as cur militia detach
ments take their station on the frontier
of the United States, the Canadians,
having witnessed the deliberations in
Congress for invading that country,
and conscious of their having had r.o
intention of invading the U. States,
will consider our movement as in exe
cution of the threat to invade Canada,
and will of course collect an opposing
military force for defence. Hostile
passions will be excited, and disputes
collisions and bloodshed inevitably fol
low'.—Here the threatened war begins,
and through the agency of the militia. —
After rivers of blood shall have been
shed, the United States may possess
themselves of all the Canadas and N o
va-Scotia; when Great-Britain may
say: Retrace your steps and restore alt
to the former owners, or you shall never
sail a vessel upon the ocean. The orders
in council are unjust, iiut how are they
conquered by invading Canada ? But
i.atevercoursc government may adopt,
I't not the militia, the sacred bulwark
of the individual stales, he made by the
executive of the United States the in
struiuc.K, of their own destruction;
let nut the citizen soldiers of the state,
woic ii tiie Coi:A. mtion appoints only
to repel invasions, he converted into
instruments of aggression—to .. tide
others.
Ueges de'irant, plectuntur arhivi,
Tiie people arc sacrificed io the policy of
Rulers.
———sti iwmiii■■mu
Savannah, May Ist, tsi2.
Dissolution oi’ Copartnership.
rg AHE copat t ersbip of the firm of
I D. KJ. DOUGLASS, is this
day dissolved by mutual consent.
DA * to : OF GLASS.
JOHN IKIUGLUS.S.
The business in It -e will be
carried on by- .!ohn Dougeass, who
duly authorises David bough.. his
lawful agent and attorney, to conduct
the business, at the old stand in \\ hi
taker street, where lie has a large and
general supply of Philadelphia made
Boots, ladies and gentlemens Shoes
and Slippers, childrens Morocco and
Leather Buskins, &c. which will be
said cheap for cash only.
JOHN DOUGLASS.
ffT ALL Persons indebted to
the late firm of D. & J. DOUGLASS,
is required to call and settle their ac
counts within ten days from the date
above, or they will be placed in the
hands of an attornev. for collection.
DAY ID DGUGLASB,
Agent for John D ol cljss.
May 3 7
At Private Sale,
10 Hhds. Fairview Gin,
13 do. and 20 bids. Whiskey,
3 Pipes India Point Gin,
2 do. Spanish Brandy.
1 Pipe and 2 bbls. French do.
1 llhds. high flavored 4th proof
U ii ni,
4 do. and 3 bbls. X. E. liuni.
20 Bbls. Philadelphia Beer [fresh]
10 do. Shrub,
2 Pipes Madeira Wine,
10 Finds, and 5 bbls. Muscovado
Sugar,
12 Chests Hyson Tea,
20 Bags Coffee,
23 do. Black Pepper,
30 Boxes Soap and Candles,
10 do. Chocolate,
10 Bills, prime Beef,
23 Kegs Manufactured Tobacco,
3 Hhds. Glass Ware,
3 Boxes Cotton Cards, No. 8,
too Pieces Hunihuins,
20 Pieces Cotton Bagging,
30 do. Tow Cloth,
10 do. Ticklenburgs,
30 Reams Writing Paper,
25 Coils W hite Rope,
3 Boxes Cotton Cards,
30 M. white Chapel Needles,
l Small Trunk Cutlery,
Cassimere, Calico, India Bed-
Sprcads, Handkerchiefs, &e. ike.
1). YYILLIFORD.
Slav 1. 6
Rum and Salt.
Just received by the ship Winifred, from
Rhode Island,
20 hogsheads N. E. Rnni
2SO bushels Liverpool ground Salt
ON HAND.
An extensive assortment of American
manufactured Goods
Bedtiek. Chambrays, Stripes
Plaids. Cotton Balls, &e.
12 reams Whiting Paper.
P. H. & T. CRAPON.
April 21 5t 3
SHOES k BOOTS,
Selling cff at E MBA RC 0 pr j ! t
HP HE SUBSCRIBERS, into,!,
£ to relinquish their present li ne
business, offi r for SALE t vent
ed prices their W HOLESALE.yj ( <
L\ TRADE, eonprising a general
very extensive assortment of
Bdols and Shoes,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Purchasers for the country trade
respectfully invited to call. Greit
bargains will he offered, as the eonceq
must be closed by the 13th of Junenej
and until that time, SHOES &e,
be sold at retail much less than t!
usual priees. They have received laiJ
additions to their former stock, by r
cent arrivals from New-York and Bos
ton—among which are the following
3000 pair Ladies MORROCCO SLIP.
PERS, all colors and qualities
1500 do do Leather do
2300 Mens SHOES different qualities,
Gentlemen’s fine Morrocco and LeatL,
Pumps [with and without buckles] L a .
dies Kid Slips, do. Morocco Boon,
Nankeen Boots, Grecian Sandies, Sli -
-i sand Childs Morocco and Leal).
Bootees and Slippers, Boys fine Shoe,
and Pumps, Morocco and Leather
-3 trunks New-York BOOTS, and tv®
do. Boston do—A quantity of Negro
Shoes.
ALSO.
2 eases Straw Bonnets, Ilumhur.i
India Cheeks,Gilla Htikf’s. too Rear •
Writing Paper, Plank Books, pkyi. ;
Can’s. Morocco Skins, loco yart’s
low Cloth, Morrocco. Travelling ar.i
house Trunks. &e. &r.
BARNS A EVELETR.
’ April ll fiw—t Gibbons* Ihiildig
Carriage k Horses.
TIIE SUR SCR IB EH,
OFFERS fin sale his CARRIAGE
and HORSES, which are ir.fe
rior to none in the city. To save un,
necessary trouble, the lowest price wii!
he fifteen hundred dollar?,
GEORGE HARRAI
April 2'i. t j
Mrs. RAMSAY?
A few Copies, for sale by
HARRAL <s• COPPER, Boßon*
Centre Building, and at this Office.
(TT this work comes particularly
recommended to the piou.-,. ft lU* ‘ss
interesting materials, adorned bv <!■*
elegant pen of the celebrated’ Dr
Ramsay.
April 11 i
Administrator’s Sale.
YL&7TLL he sold, before my store
Y * on F RIDAY, the 13th day n
May, at the usual hour, ail the person
al property of Thoteas Harrison, dei
consisting of V. earing Apparel,lions;
bald and Kitchen Furniture. By oi
der of the administrator.
D. WILLIFORD, Aucl'r.
May 1
Notice.
THE SUBSCRIBER
I.IIYDS it necessary to bring all the
_ debts due him up to the first ol
January last, to a final settlement ; he
has therefore appointed George Y
M-Intosh, Esq. his Attorney, to make
collections for him ; ami all Notes am
Accompta the first day •!
June next, will he put in suit.
GEORGE HAURAL.
April 2t St a
OFFICE FOR THE SALE Os
.YEGROES.
ripilE SUBSCRIBER having loua
M been in the habit of disposing of
.NEGROES, and being well acquaint
with those persons most likely to pur
chase in (lie states of South Carolina
and Georgia : Hatters himself that li*
can obtain fair prices and speedily ef
fect sales. His services are tendered
with an assurance, that candor will in
all eases be observed as to any enquiry
made regarding the character aud qual
ifications of Negroes in his possession,
and care will be taken to investigate
tittle as far as in his power, that impo
sitions may he avoided and as be h -
made it a business will inform i ,n.s.“a
of the true situation of that species ■ a
property. HD attention will al-o V
directed to the sale of lands, |* c es
and lots and every article of merchan
dize and produce.
]>. POLOCK.
N. 15. A con:;’, rtable horse, and a
person to take charge ox Negroes is
provided at IS] cents per day till *'<!.
Have now for sole several vale-ri i”
house servants, and field Lands, singly
and frumilies.
Ainili 7 law lm