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MISCELLANEOUS. TIIE PJIBBIONB. AN ODE TO Mt'SIC. WHEN Munic, heavenly maid, was young While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft to hear her shell, l'i.roug’d around her muffc cell, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Posscst beyond the Muse’s painting : Hy turns they felt the glowing mind Disturb’d, delighted, rais’d, refin’d : rill (Hire, ’ti* said, when all where fir’d, Pill’d with fury, rapt, inspir’d, From the supporting myrtles round They snatch’d her instruments of sound : And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each) for Madness rul’d the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Pear his hand, its shill to try, Amidst the chords bewildcrc’d laid, And hack recoil’d lie knew not why, Ev’n a', the sound himself hud made. Next Anger rush’d: his eyes on fire, In lightnings, own’d his secret stings : In one rude clash lie struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings With woful measures wan Despair Low, sullen sounds his grief beguil’d ; A solemn, strange, ami mingled air : ’Twaj sad bv fits, by starts ’twas wild. Hut thou, 0 Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whisper’d promis’d pleasure, And bade the lovely scene at distance hail! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, 3he call’d on Echo still, through all the song . And, where her sweetest theme she chose A most responsive voice was heard at evi ry clus- ; And hope enchanted smil'd and wav’d her gol den hair. And longer had she sung;—but with a frown, Re venge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stain'd sword, in thunder, down; And, with a with’ring look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne’er prophetic sounds so full of wo! And ever and anon, be beat Tiie doubling drum, with furious beat; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected I’itv, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Vet still lie kept his wild unalter’d mice, While each strain’d ball of sight seem’d bur sting from his head. Thy numbers, Jealousy to nought were fix’d ; Sad proof of thy distressful state ! Ofdilf ‘ring themes the veering song was mix’d; And now it courted Love, now raving call'd on Hate, With eyes up-vais’d. as one inspir’d, Pale Melancholy sat retir’d; And, from her wild sequester’d seat, In not -s by distance made more sweet, Tour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around, Babbling runnels join'd the sound : Through glades and glooms the mingled mea sures stole, Or o’er some haunted stream, with tend delay, Hound an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away. But 0! how alter’d was its spvightlier tone, AVh.cn Cheerfulness, a r.vrnph of healthiest lute, Her bow across her shoulder slung, Her buskins gemm’d with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter’s call, to Faun and Dryad known. The oak-crownM Sisters, and their chaste ey’d Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan hoys were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green ■ llrown Exercise rejoic’d Ur hear: And Sport leapt up, and seiz’d his beechen sjieavi Last came Joy’s ecstatic trial: lie, with vinv crown advancing, First to the lively pipe his hand addrest; Tbit soon hs saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov’d the best ? Fliey would hare thought who heard the strain They saw, in Tcmpe's r ale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades. To some unwearied minstrel dancing, While, as his flying fingers kiss’d the strings. Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round: Loose were her tresses seen, her zone un bound, And lie, amidst his frolic plav, As if'uc would the charming air repay, Shook, thousand odors from hisdtwv wings. O Ma*ic ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom’s aid! W hy, goddess I why, to us denied/ Lay’st thou thy ancient lyre abide .’ As, in that lov’d Athenian bower, You learn’d un all-coinirunding power, Thy mimic sold, O Nymph endear’d, Cun well recall what then it heard, Where is thy native simple heart, DevMe to Virtue, Fancy, Art ‘ Arise, as in that elder time, Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime ’ Thy wonders in that godlike gc, Fill thy recording sister’s page— ’ ’Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Hail more of strength, diviner rage. Than all which charms this laggard agr; Ev’n all at once together found, Ceciliu’s mingled world of sound— O bid our vain endeavors cease ; Revive the just designs of Greece ; Return in all thy simple state ! Confirm the talcs her sons relate I NORTHERN MAILS 4 Soliloquy. These Northern Mails — O how they vex me, And now bv day and night perplex me ; But I’ll not fret—show no dejection About die late New York election— Not I—no sigh, or tear, or groan, Shall come from me—but the New l/ian— I’ll come up soon—prey go to ski p Mv deur, don’t let it make you weep— You know, you know, yes, you do know, And 1 do too—know, isn’t it so— Canada—Florida—Loan—Election— I’m coming dear—l’ve no objection— Oh ! northern mails 1 my heart don’t flutter, I’m not the one to stul—stut—stutter— On Northern Mails ! llefle dions on War! [Extracted from a Sermon delivered in the Baptist Meeting-House, in Cambridge, Eng” land.] By the Rev. Robert Hale. “ We have heard of the ravages ol‘ armies, and the depopulation of coun tries, but they have merely supplied a topic of discourse, and have occasioned no serious alarm. The military sys tem as far as it has appeared in this country of late, has been seen only on the side of its gaiety and pomp, a pleasing show, without imparting any idea of its horrors; and the rumors of battles and slaughter, conveyed from afar, has rather amused our leisure, than disturbed our repose. While we cannot be too thankful for our security it has placed us under a disadvantage in one respect; which is, that we have learned to contemplate war with too much indifference, and to feel for the unhappy countries immediately involv ed in it too little compassion. Heal war, my brethren, is a very different thing from that painted image of it, which you see on a parade, or at a review; it is the most awful scourge that Providence employs for the chas tisement of man. It is the garment of vengeance with which the Deity arrays himself, when he comes forth to punish the inhabitants of the earth. It is the day of the Lord, cruel both with wrath and fierce artger. M War may he considered in two views, as it affects the happiness, and as it affects the virtue of mankind ; as a source of misery, and as a source of crimes. *• Though we must nil die, as the wo man of Tekoa said, and are as water spilt upon the ground which cannot he gathered up ; yet it is impossible for a human mind to contemplate the rapid extinction of innumerable lives without concent. To perish in a moment, to be hurried instantaneously, withont preparation and without warning, into the presence of the Supreme Judge, has something in it inexpressibly awful and affecting. “ Though the whole rate of man is doomed to dissolution, and we are aP hastening to our long home; yet at each successive moment, life and death seem to divide betwixt them the domi nion of mankind, and life to have the larger share. It is otherwise in war: death reigns there, without a rival, and without control, War is the work, the element, or rather the sport and tri umph of death, who glories, not only in the extent of his conquest, but in the richness of his spoil. In the other me thods of attack, iti the other forms which death assume*, the feeble and the aged, who at the best can live but a short time, are usually the victims; here it is the vigorous and the strong, ll i* remarked ly the most ancient of poets, that in peace children bury their parent*, in war parents bury their chil dren ; nor is the difference small.— Children lament their parents, sincere ly, indeed, but with that moderate and tranquil sorrow, which it is natural fur those to feel who are conscious of re. turning many tender ties, many animat ing prospects. Parents mourn fur their children in the bitterness of despair ; the aged parent, the widowed loses, when she is deprived of her chil dren, every thing hut the capacity of suffering; her heart, withered and de solate, admits no other object, cherish es no other hope. It is Rachel weep ing for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. “ But to confine our attention to the number of the slain, would give us a very inadequate idea of the ravages of the sword. The lot of (hose who pe rish instantaneously may he consider ed, apart from religious prospects, as comparatively happy, since (hey are exempt from those lingering diseases and slow torments to which others are liable. We cannot see an individual expire, though a stranger or an enemy, without being sensibly moved, and prompted by compassion to lend him every assistance in our power. livery trace of resentment vanishes in a mo ment ; every other emotion gives way to pity and terror. In these last ex tremities w e rememher nothing but the respect and tenderness due to our com mon nature. What a scene then must a field of battle present, where thou sands are left without assistance, and J .. without pity, w ith their wounds expos ed to the piercing air, while the blood freezing as it flows, hinds them to the earth, amidst the trampling of horses, ami the insults of ah enraged foe ! —lf they arc spared by the humanity of the enemy, and carried from the field, it is but a prolongation of torment. Con veyed in uneasy vehicles, often to a re mote distance, through roads almost impassible, they are lodged in ill-pre pared resceptaclcs, for the wounded and the sick, where the variety of dis tresses baffles all the efforts of huma nity and skill- and renders it impossi ble to give to each the attention he de mands. Far from their native home, to tender assiduities of friendship, no well-known voice, no wife, or mother, or sister, is near to soothe their sor rows, relieve their thirst,or close their eyes in death!—Unhappy man! and must you he swept into the grave un noticed and unnumbered,and no friend ly tear be shed for your sufferings, or mingled w ith your dust ? “ We must remember, however, that as a very small proportion of a mili tary life is spent in actual combat, so it is a very small part of its miseries which must be ascribed to this source. More arc consumed by the rust of inac tivity than hy the edge of the sword— confined to a scanty or unwholscme di. et, exposed in sickly climates, harras sed with tiresome and perpetual a larms; their life is a continual scene of hardships and dangers. They grow familiar with hunger, cold and watch fulness. Crowded into hospitals and prisons, contagion spreads among their ranks, till the ravages of disease ex- ceed those of the enemy. ” We have hitherto adverted only to the sufferings of those who are engag ed in the profession of arms, without taking into our account the situation of the countries tvhieh are the scene of hostilities. How dreadful to hold eve ry thing ut the mercy of an enemy, aud to receive 1 iitsell as a boon depen dant on the sword. How boundless the feus which such a situation must inspire, where the issues of life and death are determined by no kimvn laws, principles or customs, and no conjecture can be formed of our desti ny, except as far as it is dimly dcry phered in characters cf blood, in the dictates of revenge aud the caprices o! power. “ Conceive but for a moment the con stera&t'.cu which the approach of an invading army would impress on tue peaceful villages in this neighborhood. When you have placed yourselves for an instant in that .situation, yon will learn to sympathise with those unhap py countries which have sustained the ravages of arms. But how is it possi ble to give you an idea of these horrors.” Here you behold rich harvests, the bounty of heaven and the reward of in dustry, consumed in a moment, or trampled under foot, w hile famine and pestilence follow the steps of desola tion. There the cottages of peasants given up to the Haines, mothers expir ing through fear, not for themselves but their infants; the inhabitants fly ing with their helpless babes in all di rections, miserable fugitives on their native soil! In another part you wit ness opulent cities taken hy storm ; the streets where no sounds were heard but those of peaceful industry, filled on a sudden w ith slaughter and blood, re sounding with the cries of the pursuing and the pursued ; the palaces of the nobles demolished, the houses of the rich pillaged, the chastity of virgins and of matrons violated, and every age. sex and rank, mingled in promiscuous massacre and ruin. The contempla tion of such scenes as tl ese forces on us this awful reflection; that neither Ihc fury of wild beasts, the concussions of the earth,'nor the violence of tem pests, are to he compared to the rava ges of arms; and that nature in her ut most extent, or more properly, divine justice in its utmost severity, lias sup plied no enemy to man so terrible as man. “ Still however it would be happy fur mankind if the effects of national hostility terminated here; hut the fact is, that they w ho are farthest removed from its immediate desolation, share largely in the calamity. They are drained of the most precious pail of their population, their youth, to repair the waste made hy the sword. They are drained of their wealth, hy the pro digious expense incurred iu the equip ment of fleets, and the subsistence cf armies in remote parts. The accumu lation of debts and taxes diminishes the public strength, and depresses private industry. An augmentation in (he ne cessaries of life, inconvenient to alj classes, full with peculiar weight on the laboring poor, who must carry their industry to market every day, and therefore cannot wait for that advance of price which gradually attaches to every other article. “ In commercial states whatever in terrupts their intercourse is a fatal blow to national prosperity. Such states having a mutual dependance on each other, the effects of their hostility ex tend far beyond the parties engaged in the contest. -• The plague of a w idely extended war, possesses in fact a sort of omni presence, by which it makes itself eve. ry where felt; for while it gives up myriads to slaughter in one part of the globe, it is busily employed in scatter ing over countries, exempt from its im mediate desolations, the seeds of fa mine, pestilence and death. “ If Statesmen, if Christian statesmen at least, had a proper feeling on this subject, and would open (heir hearts to the reflections which such scenes must inspire, instead of rushing eagerly to arms, from the thirst of conquest or the thirst of gain, w ould they not hesitate long—w ould they not try every expedi ent. every lenient art, consistent with national honor, before they Ventured on this desperate remedy, or rather, be. fore they plunged into this gulph of horror.” r * mm miMiit jpiwmi in.nrmumiM nui.so ICP* One Hundred BAGS cl COTTON wanted to fill up the ship william HENBr, for Liverpool, to proceed to Boston, and wait the remo val of the Embargo ; also FIFTY Bags ean be taken on deck, and a few cabin passengers, if early application is made to capt Hudson cn board, or to JOHN CARNOCHAN. May 12 6t £ Blanks of every de scription executed with neatness and dispatch, at the office of the American Patriot. Just Received. JO Hhds 4thproof Rum 2 Pipes Cogniac Brandy 6 Do. Spanish do. 13 Pipes Gin 30 Barrels do. 7 Hhds. N. E. Rum JO Barrels Apple Brandy 40 Barrels Muscovado Sugar 0 Chests Hyson Tea jo do. Hvsou Skin do. 20 Barrel’s Crackers 20 Coils Cordage 30 Pieces Russia Duck 200 Boxes Soup and Candles so Bags Coffee Pepper, Pimento, &e. 100 Pieces Flag Handkerchiefs ALSO, 4 Patent Time Pieces HOW E & DEMON. May 8 3t 9 Nankeens. tooo Pieces long Yellow NAN KEENS, for sale hy J. Caig 8c R. Mitchell. May tJ jo At Private Sale, JO Hhds. Fair view Gin, 1J do. and 20 bills. Whiskey, 3 Pipes India Point Gin, 2 do. Spanish Brandy, 1 Pipe and 2 this. French do. 4 lihds. high flavored 4th proof R um, 4 do. and 3 bids. N. E. Rum. 20 Bills. Philadelphia Beer [fresh] 10 do. Shrub. 2 Pipes Madeira Wine, 10 Hhds. and 5 bids. Mustovad# Sugar, 12 ( bests Hyson Tea, 20 Bags Coffee. 23 do. Black Pepper. 50 Boxes Soap and Candles, 10 do. Chocolate, to BI.E. prime Beef, 23 Kegs Manufactured Tobacco, 0 Hiiils. Glass Ware, 0 Boxes Cotton Cuius, No- 8- 100 Pieces Humhums, ~o Pieces Cotton Bagging, 3o do. Tow Cloth, lo do. Ticklenburgs. Do Reams Writing Paper, 23 Coils White Rope, 3 Boxes (’ottc.ii Cards, 30 M. white Chapel Needles, \ Small Trunk Cutlery, Cassinere, Calico, India Bed- Spreads, Handkerchiefs, &,f. &c. I). WILLIFORD. May t. o At Private Sale. 10,000 lbs Cordage; 2 Hawsers 20 Id: k Molasses code.!. ugar 30 do. N. E. Rum, 20 do. Whiskey 10 pipes Brandy ; 30 bids Brandy 50 Ids. .Apple Brandy 15 hhds \\ est-India Rein too Lags and 20 Kiris. CoSes 80 pipes Gin 4'J bids. Flour 20 chests Hvson Tea 30 bids. Loaf Korar 30 boxes Candles 10 pipes Brandi Alto,trill he c. dwgcdur Cciton. H pipes Madeira Yvh e 200 kegs Gunpowder G clie sis Ik skin Tea 4 elegant stick bodied Giggs. DUNNING & CLAY, may 8 3t J t “the subscribers, P A\ ING entered into partnership, iLfl. for the practice of Law in the eastern district in the state of Georgia. tender their services to tbe public. I'heir office is opened on the corner of Broughton and Lull streets. RICH!). W. IIABKRSH V‘l WM. HABERSHAM. May 15. 10 Pews in Christ Church. SOME persons inclined to purchase Pews at the late sales haring been unavoidably absent, the subsc ribci s arc authorised to sell, at private sale, anv Pews not exceeding t lie number often For terms, application to be made ts. James Johnston, ) W(trd^ J. Lawson* $ May 15 it ii RED-LION HOTEL. JVV 200, Jlfin‘/:et- Street , -within Jour d'bvs'J Sixth Street, on the South side* end in ti t centre of the Principal Tmf tor tern, &c. GEORGE YOKE, HAA ING considerably enlarged this concern, to which, by an addition to the building, lie has added a number of Chambers, a large Dining, room and extensive Stabling —lnforms Merchants and Travellers,that he has it in his power to accommodate them with a well served up table, good whits liquors. —moderate charges, and the most unremitting attention; in short, w ith every convenience, which no. nat ters himself, will give satisfaction to his Friends and the Public. Philadelphia, Nov. 2. 1811- t