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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.