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FUKTS’ lUuNi.it.
From Moore’s Sacred Melodies.
THIS world is tH a fleeting show,
For man's illusion veil 5
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deeei.fui shine, deeeitfnl flow',
There’s nothing true hut Heaven.
And fnlse the li-ht on Glory’s plume,
As fading hues of even,
And Love * or| Hope, and Beauty’s bloom,
A’ 6!ns*>ms from the tomh—•
There’s nothing bright iui Heaven.
Poor wanderers of a stormy day,
Fn>tn wav? to wave we’re driven,
And F try’s fl sh and Reason’s ray,
Serve but o M„ht {hr troubled w*y—
There’s nothing cahn ‘<a r Heaven I
From a No them p iper.
The English papers contain
short accounts of trials which
take place in their Courts both of
civil and criminal jurisdiction,
which are very amusing to a tna
jority of readers, In our Courts
here many trials occur, reports of
which would be equally amuse
ing, and in some instances fur
nish useful information. The
following is given as a specimen
of what might be done, if we
could induce some of the gentle
men of the bar who are known to
possess the ability, to turn their
an ntion to the subject when a
ny case of sufficient interest is
V ied.
THE ST VTE vs L \NM \N.
On Saturday last Jaws alias
Jenny Lanmvn, Spinster, was
tried m the court of Oyer and
Terminer for Baltimore County
tinon an indictment for being
4b (.ommuuis Rixatrix” a com
mon scold and turbulent brawl r
The Attorney General op ned
the prosecution with a brief state
ment of the facts he expected to
prove against the Travers* rand
observed that the gentlemen of
the jury must be perfectly aware
that the public might be
more noisily disturbed and the
dignity of the good people of the
?tae of Maryland more loudly in
suited by the shrill clamour of a
woman’s tongue than by the bois
terous quarrels oi men; that as
vaults h Batteries were quicker o
v u\ and the mischief usually con*
fined to the parties, but the rattle
of a common scold was incessant
and annoyed the whole neigh
borhood—-that aithu'Ui’ h this of
fence was strictly of the fawn
in? gender and to the honor of
our sex the law had no term to
fix ’his re pro ich upon men —yet
inasmuch as we were the princi
pal stiff, rers hie policy of trie law
had vested men with the sole pre
rogative oi tri-tl and punishment.
That he trusted lie need not re
mind them on this occasion that
the tranquility of society mainly
depended upon a saluraty re
straint of its restless and tingov
nable members.
The first witness called was
th? Clerk of the narket, who tes
tafied that he had known the tra
verser about four years during
‘riiich the * ‘less had charge of
tile mar be hat on market and ays
icuiculy noisy and
ellowingbt scream
marke t people within
her to;i> ue—that ex
ceptinglier tongue, be knew no
harm of her she was at times in
dustrtous and submissive—ln
deed he must confess he had now
m 9
become so used to her tongue in
did not annoy him a great deal,
though he could not tell how her
scolding sat upon other people’s
ears—that he believed however
she was affraid of no man or wo
man upon earth except himself .
Two Constables were then cal
led, one of whom declared that
he considered Jenny the traverser
one of the most turbulentest crea
tures he had ever saw in the
whole course of his life—that she
was miserably abusive to every
body, black & white, gentle & sim
ple—that wimes hadfiogged her
over and over again, with a very
good cow hide, to see it he could
not quiet her tongue, but all to
no purpose, for the more he had
whipped the louder she had screa
med,so that he absolutely despair
ed of a cure.
Hi-re the jury begged to have
the traverser produced that they
might see her, and upon this , with
out leaving the box they found
“ guilty ”
We understand the punish
ment is not yet fixed, though the
law still authorizes the Court to
indict tiie ancient punishment of
Ducking till the offender will
hold her tongue.
From the New York Courier.
Letter from JVallawashecah an
Indian Chief to his people.
In my last letter i gave an am !
count of my journey, from our ;
happy and favored country, to
this land of barbarians I found
the whites in a most deplorable
state of ignorance Very few
knew any thing about the art of
hunting, and none pursue it for
a livelihood! —Strange, as it may
seem, it is a fact that the white
men are almost entirely ignorant
oi the use of the bow ! I expect
to establish a school for the pur
pose of instructing them in arche
ry. This ignorance of the civili
zed arts. I presume, is owing to
their devoting their attention to
such useless labors as building
•
fine houses ; making fine clothes;
and laboring perpetually upon
the earth, making books, &c. all
which, is labor and time spent for
unnecessary purposes —They
trunk nothing of spending whole
weeks in making a soft bed to lie
on, instead of using a bearskin.
I intend to make an engagement
to supply these destitute and un
fortunate creatures with several
thousand bear and buffalovv skins.
They will often spend the wealth
it has cost them 30 years to accu
mulate, merely to make a fine
house to live in ; The reason of
this folly is totally unaccountable,
and still more astonishing, be
cause they do not seem ignorant
of the art of making tents or even
wig warns. Their mode of living
is very extravagant in every res
pect. Their tables are loaded with
i great variety of meats and herbs
but they are either bad of them
selves or spoiled in cooking.—
They have obtained the art of
nmkinghoming from some of ou
•<2>-
people, but they are destitute of
ail the other luxuries of our na
tion. They all seem to be very
sickly, and for that reason take
! physic during and after dinner;
; when they drink the phy sick they
i bow to one another and say 4 your
health sir,’ which means,- may
your phy sick make you well—
-1 believe it operates as a puke
! generally, and thereby. I suppose
cleans their stomachs. The inter
course of the whites with the In
| dians has been of great advan
tage to therm—They have cop
ied several of out arts,-and in sev
j era! particulars adopted our man
ners, especially the ladies. Our
i mode of dress.is adopted by the
women, with some little alteration
like us, they go partly naked, but
not so much so as ourselves, ow
ing, I suppose, to the rage for sur
rounding themselves with fantas
tic finery. They also paint in im
itation of us, but with less taste.
We put a greater quantity of co
lours on our faces than the white
women, who use only red and
I white.
The women have also imitated
our practice of wearing feathers
| in.their caps; trinkets on their
| armes and necks; and rings in
their ears What is very curious,
is that they ware none in their
nose, where they can be most ea
sily worn, and where they appear
most conspicuously. This, no •
j doubt, is owing to a practice they
I have of taking snuff, cr tobacco I
| powder. A ring in the nose’
‘would be very much in the way
of these snuff-takers. It may al
so be, partly owing to another
practice which prevails among
the whites, viz, the practice of
kissing, or joining mouths to
gether A ring in the nose would
be somewhat in the way of that
operation ; besides, the white wo
men, unlike our squaws, are in
cessant talkers, and a ring in the
nose might, in some degree, ob
struct the motion of the upper lip,
and probably blister it by perpe
tual rubbing. You will scarcely
believe me when I assure you that
the men are in a state of the most
abject and pitiable slavery to the
women. They make the men
work like brutes for them, while
they are perfectly idle, or only
engaged in some frivolous and ex
pensive amusement. The men
wait on the women like slaves ;
help them at table; support them
as they walk die streets; tan them
like a servant boy ; fetch them
water ; help them in an out of a
carriage; and it is said that they
have gone so far as to lay then
coats in a puddle for a lady to
walkover on. In short, they
perform every menial service
which the women require of them
i will do every thing in my pow
er to ameliorate the condition of
these wretched barbarians, and
have a strong notion to have some
of my warriors sent on to learn
them the use of the bow and in
: struct them in the art of hunting;
| making the wig-vvams, mockasons
breech clouts, he. We have
great reason, my children, to re
joice at our situation when we
compare it with the state of these
barbarians. Let us be thankful
to the great spirit who has cast
our lots in a land oi civilization,
happiness and freedom. The
great spirit bless you.
WALLA WABHEC AH.
Philadelphia, Sept. 11.
Love at first sight.
on Sunday evening
last, by the Rev. Dr. Abercrom
bie, Mr. William Wallace, Mer
chant, to the sweet and amiable
Miss Kitty Leegy, both of this
city. Delays are dangerous,”
to prevent which the happy pair
went through the whole cerem >
lay of courtship, consent and mar
iriage, in the short space of thirty
minutes.
The wound was deep. Vivas death to tarry ;
To heal each wound , at once they marry.
A” LIST™
OF LETTERS, in the Post Of
fice at Louisville, on the Ist.
day of October 1816.
William W. Abbett, James O.
Abbett, 2 Eliza Boyd, Olive Be lb
George R Brown, Gabriel R.
Barcley, Cierk Superior Court,
George R.Clayton, Howell Cobb,
Simon Caldwell, John R. Cook,
Georgeann Cook, xArthur Clarke,
Rev. Thomas Darley, Nancy Da
niels, George L. or John Earnest,
Mary'Flournoy, John Forsyth,
Josiah Fakes, Alexander Good
game, Hezekiah Gates, John P-
Harvey, Abner Hammond, Lew
is Hales, Eliza 3. Hargrove, Sa
rah Jones, Lovina Juner, William.
Knight, Mathew Lane, Rev. Jo
seph Lowery, 2 Aquiila Lowe,
John Lane, Joseph Marshall Sen,
John Marsh, Thomas M’Wattey.
Morris Murphey, 2 John T.
Pressly, Martin Quiney, Mary
Ann Roach, Abraham Robinson,
2 Jacob Robinson, Isaac Robm
son, 2 Mary A. Schweighoffer,
James Spivey, Jonathan T.
Simms, Samuel Scarborough*
William Spires, John M Smith,
George Stapleton 2, Taylor
Esq John Tompkins, Josiah
Telfair, William H. Thompson,
Ulicious Tarven, Jacob West,
Isaac Woods, Jane Woods, T.
F Williams, James Warner, John
Welch, Edward Wingate, John
W. Woods, James Young 2.
A WTIGHT, a. v. m.
i ‘ ‘ FOR SALE OR RENT
| The place on which Mr. Wm.
Hargrove now lives, eight or ten
miles from Waynesborough.
j There is about sixty acres clear
!ed and in cultivation. The un
cleared land is prime for cotton
and corn. The above place will
be sold subject to certain claims
that will be made known to the
purchaser, or rented for one or
more years.
I LEWIS KENNON.
Louisville, Sep. 22.
“ NOTH'EI
Nine months after date appli
cation will be made to the honor
able Inferior Court of Jefferson
county, for leave to sell all the re
al estate of Francis M’ Murrey,
dec. for the of the heirs St
creditors of said dec.
L. li. MARKS, Adm’r.
October 3.