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POETICAL SELECTIONS.
TILE ORPHANS.
MY chaise the village inn did gain,
Just as the setting sun’s last ray,
Tipt with refulgent gold the vane,
Os the old church across the way.
Across the way I silent sped.
The time till supper to beguile
In moralizing o’er the dead,
That moulder’d round the ancient pile.
There many a humlde green grave shew’d
Where want and pain and toil did rest;
And many a flatt'ring stone I view’d,
O’er those who once had wealth possess’d.
A faded beach its shadow brown
Threw o’er a grave where sorrow slept:
On which, though scarce with grass o’ergrown,
Two ragged children sat and wept.
A piece of bread between them lay,
Which neither seem’d inclin’d to take ;
And yet they look’d so much a prey
To want, it made my hear: to ache.
Mi little children, let me kin tv
Why you in such distress appear;
And why you wasteful from you throw
That bread which many a heart would cheer.
The little boy, in accents sweet,
Replied, whilst tears each other chas'd,
“ Lady, we've not enough to ear,
“ And if we had, we would not waste.
“ Rut sister Mary’s naughty grown,
“ And will not eat whate’r 1 say,
“ Tho’ sure I am, the bread’s her own,
“ And she has tasted none to-day.”
” Indeed (the nan starv’d Mary said,)
“ Till Henry eats i’ll eat no more;
*• For yesterday I got some bread;
“ He’s had none since the day before.”
My heart did swell, my bosom heave;
I felt as tho’ deprived of speech—
I silent sat upon the grave.
And press’d a clay-cold hand of each.
With looks that told a tale of woe,
With looks that spoke a grateful heart,
The shivering boy did nearer draw,
And thus a tale of woe impart....
“ Before my father went away,
“ Entic’d by bad men o’er tire sea,
‘ Sister and l did nought but play....
“ We liv’d beside yon great ash tree.
“ A ltd then poor mother did so cry,
“ And look’d so chang’d, I cannot tell;
“ She told us that she soon should die,
“ And bade us love each other well.
'* She said that when the war is o’er,
'* Perhaps we might our father see;
“ But if we never saw him more,
“ That God our father then would be.
“ She kiss’d us both, and then she died,
“ And we no more a mother have....
” Here many a day we sat and cried
“ Together on poor mother’s grave.
“ But when our father came not here,
“ I thought if we could find the sea,
"We should be sure to meet him there,
“ And once again might happy he.
“ We hand in hand went many a mile,
“ And ask’d our way of all we met,
“ And some did sigh, and some did smile,
“ And we of some did victuals get.
“ But when we reach’d the sea, and found,
“ ’Twas one great water round us spread,
“ We thought that father must be drown’d,
“ And cried and wish’d us both were dead
•• So we return’d to mother’s grave,
“ And only wish with her to be !
For Goody, when this bread she gave,
“ Said father died beyond the sea.
<• Then since no parents have we here,
“ We’ll go and seek for God around;
•• Lady, pray can you tell us where
“ That God, our father, may be found?
“ He lives in Heaven, mother said,
“ And Goody says that mother’s there;
“ So if she thinks we want his aid,
*• 1 think, perhaps, she’ll send him here.”
I clasp’d the prattlers to my breas%
And cried, come both and live with me*...
I’ll clothe ye, feed ye, give ye rest,
And will a second mother be.
And God will be yonr father still;
’Twas he in mercy sent me here,
To teach you to obey his will,
Your steps to guide, your hearts to chear.
CAPTMNS < LEWIS & CLARK.
ST. LOUIS, SEPT. 30.
On Monday evening the news leach
ed this place, that captains Lewis and
Clark had arrived at the cantonment,
near the mouth of liie Missouri; and
tlie great concourse of people that lin
ed the bank of the river at the time of
their landing at this place toe next day,
must be considered as a strong evidence
of the respect entertained of those gen
tlemen, for the danger and difficulties
they must have encountered in their
expedition of discovery. But the citi
zens of St. Louis, anxious to evince ful
ly their joy at tiiis event, (which can
not but be considered as very interest
ing to every American) united in cele
brating their arrival by a splendid din-
ner, on the 25th inst. which was suc
ceeded by a Ball in the evening. The
respectable number of persons who at
tended both the dinner and the ball, to
gether with the unanimity which pre
vailed throughout the company, cannot
but be esteemed an honorable testimo
ny of the respect entertained for those
characters who are willing to encoun
ter fatigue and hunger for the benefit
of their fellow-citizens: but what is net
due to those who penetrate the gloom
of unexplored regions, to expel the
mists of ignorance which envelope sci
ence, and overshadow their country ?
• •••
LEXINGTON, OCT. 8.
Extract of a letter from Captain Clark ,
to his brother , Gen. Clark , dated
St. Louis, 23d Sept. 180 G.
1 Dear Jlrother,
We arrived at this place about 12
o’clock this clay, from the Pacific Ocean,
where we remained during the last win
ter, near the entrance of the Columbia
river. This station we left on the 27th
of March last, and should have readi
ed St. Louis early in August, had we
not been detained by the snow which
barred our passage across the Rocky
Mountains, until the 24th of June. In
returning through those mountains, we
divided ourselves into several parties,
disgressing from the route by which
we went out, in order the more effec
tually to explore the country, and dis
cover the most practicable route which
does exist across the continent, by the
way of the Missouri and Columbia ri
vers; in this we were completely suc
cessful, and have therefore no hesita
tion in declaring, that such as nature
has permitted, we have discovered the
best route which does exist across the
Continent of North-America, in that di
rection. Such is that byway of the
Missouri to the foot of the Rapids, be
low the great falls of that river, a dis
tance of 2575 miles; thence by land
passing by the Rocky Mountains, to a
navigable part of the Kooskooske, 340
miles; and with the Kooskooske, 73
miles; Lewis’s river 151 miles, and
the Columbia 413 miles, to the Pacific
Ocean, making the total distance from
the confluence of the Missouri and
Missisippi, to the discharge of the Co
lumbia into the Pacific Ocean, 3555
miles. The navigation of the Missou
ri may be deemed good....its difficulties
arise from its falling banks, timber em
beded in the mouth ol its channel, its
sand-bars and steady rapidity of its cur
rent, all which may be overcome with
a great degree of certainity, by using
the necessary precautions. The pas
sage by land of 340 miles, from the
fulls ot the Missouri to the Kooskooske,
is the most formidable part of the tract
proposed across the Continent. Os
tins distance, 200 miles is along a good
road, and 140 miles over tremendous
mountains, which for 60 miles are cov
ered with eternal snows. A passage
over these mountains, is, however,
practicable from the latter part of June
to the last of September; and the cheap
rate at which horses are to be obtained
Irani the Indians of'the Rocky Moun
tains, and west of them, reduce the ex
penses of transportation over this por
tage, to a mere trifle. The navigation
oi the Kooskooske, Lewis’s river, and
the Columbia, is safe and good, from
the Ist of April to the middle of Au
gust, by making three portages on the
latter river. The first of which, in
descending, is 1200 paces, at the falls
ot Columbia, 260 miles up that river,
the second of two miles, at the long
narrows, 6 miles below the falls; and
a third, also of two miles, at the great
rapids, 65 miles still lower down. The
tide flows up the Columbia 183 miles,
and within 7 miles of the great rapids.
Large sloops inay with safety ascend
as high as tide water, and vessels of 300
tons burthen, reach the entrance of the
Multnomah river, a large southern
bnnch ol the Columbia, which takes
its rise on the confines of New-Mexico, I
with the Callerado and Apostles’ ri-j
vers, discharging itself into the Colum-i
bia, 125 miles from its entrance into!
the Pacific Ocean. I consider this
tract across the Continent, of immense
advantage to the fur trade, as all the
furs collected in nine-tenths of the most
valuable fur country in America, may
be conveyed to the mouth of the Co
lumbia, and shipped from thence to the
East-Indies, by the first of August in
every year ; and will of course reach j
Canton earlier than the furs which are
annually exported from Great-Britain,
and arrive in England.
In our outward bound voyage, we as
cended to the foot of the rapids, below
the great falls of the Missouri, where
we arrived on the 14th of June, 1805.
Not having met with any of the natives
of the Rocky Mountains, we were of
course ignorant of the passes by land,
I which existed, through those moun- i
i tains to the Columbia l iver ; and had
we even known the route, we were des
titute of horses, which would have been
indispensibly necessary to enable us to
trunsport the requisite quantity of am
munition and other stores to insure the
remaining part of our voyage down the
Columbia, we therefore determined to
navigate,the Missori as far as it was prac
ticable, or unless we met some of the na
tives, fromwhom we could obtain horses
and information of the country. Accord
ingly we undertook a most laborious
portage at the hills of the Missouri, of
18 miles, which we effected with out
canoes and baggage, by the 3d of Ju
ly. From hence ascending the Mis
souri, we penetrated the Rocky Moun
tains, at the distance of 71 miles above
the upper part of the portage, and pen
etrated as far as the three forks of that
river, a distance of 180 miles further:
Here the Missouri divides into three
nearly equal branches, at the same
point. The two largest branches are
so nearly of the same dignity, that we
did not conceive that either of them
could, with propriety, retain the name j
of the Missouri; and therefore called j
these streams Jefferson’s, Madison’s,
and Gallatin’s rivers. The confluence
of those rivers is 2848 miles from the
mouth of the Missouri, by the mean
ders of that river. \\ e arrived at the i
three forks of the Missouri on the 27th i
of July. Not having yet been so for- j
tunate as to meet with the natives, al- |
though I had previously made several <
exertions for that purpose, we were I
compelled still to continue our route by
water.
The most northernly of the three
forks, that to which we had given the
name of Jefferson's river, was deemed
the moist proper for our purpose, and
we accordingly ascended it 248 miles,
to the upper forks, and its extreme na
vigable point; making the total dis
tance to which we had navigated the
waters of the Missouri, 3096 miles, of
! which 429 lay within the Rocky Mcun
j tains. On the morning of the 17th of
August, 180 5, I arrived at the folks of
Jefferson’s river, where I met captain
Lewis, who had previously penetrated
with a party of three men, to the wa
ters of the Columbia, discovered a band
of the Shoshone nation, and had found
: means to induce 35 of their chiefs and
warriors to accompany him to that
place. From these people we learned,
that the river on which they resided
was not navigable, and that a passage
through the mountains in that direc
tion, was impracticable ; being unwill
ing to confide in this unfavorable ac
count of the natives, it was concerted
between capt. Lewis and myself, that
one of us should go forward immediate
ly, with a small party, and explore the
liver; while the other in the interim
would lay up the canoes at that place,
and engage the natives with their hor
ses, to assist in transporting our stores
and baggage to their camp. Accord
ingly 1 set out the next day, passed the
dividing mountains between the waters
of the Missouri and Columbia, and des
cended the river, which I since call the
East Fork of Lewis’s river, about 70
miles. Finding that the Indians ac
count of the country in the direction of
this river was correct, I returned and
joined captain Lewis on the 29th of Au
gust, at the Shoshone camp, excessive
ly fatigued, as you may suppose....hav
ing passed mountains almost inaccessi
ble, and compelled to subsist on ber
ries during the greater part of my route.
We now purchased 27 horses of these
Indians, and hired a guide, who assur
ed us that he could, in 15 days, take
us to a large river in an open country,
west of these mountains, by a route
some distance to the north of the river
on which they lived; and that by which
the natives west of the mountains, visit
the plains of the Missouri, for the pur
pose of hunting the buflfuloe. Every
! preparation being made, we set for
j ward with our guide on the 3 1st of Au
j gust, through those tremendous tncun-
I tains, in which we continued until the
22d day of September, before we reach
ed the lower country which lay beyond
them....on our way we met with the
Olelachsboot, a band of the Tucha
paks, from whom we obtained an ac
cession of seven horses, and exchang
ed eight or ten others: this proved of
infinite service to us, as we were com- j
! pelled to subsist on horse beef eight!
j days before we reached the Kooskoos-!
ke. During our passage over those |
mountains, we suffered every thing '
which hunger, cold, and fatigue could *
impose ; nor did our difficulties, with ■ j
respect to provision, cease on our arri- '
val at Kooskooske; for although the i
Pallotepallers, a numerous nation in- <
habiting that country, were extremely
hospitable, and for a few trifling things
; furnished us with an abundance of root *
and dried salmon, the food to which
they were accustomed : we found that
we could not subsist on these articles,
and almost all oi us grew sick on eat
ing them we were obliged, there
fore, to have recourse to the flesh of
horses and clogs, as food to supply the
deficiency of our guns, which produc
ed but little meat, as game was scarce
in the vicinity of our camp on Kcos
kooske, where we were obliged to re
main in order to construct our pe
rougues to descend the liver. At this
season, the salmon are meagre and
form but indifferent food. W hile we
remained, I was myself sick for sever
al clays; and my friend captain Lewis
suffered a severe indisposition.
Having completed four perougues
and a small canoe, we gave our horses
in charge to the Palotepallors until wu
returned, and on the 7th. of October rt
embarked for the Pacific ocean, We
descended by the route I have already
mentioned. The water of the river Ic
ing low at this season, we experienced
much difficulty in descending, we found
j it obstructed by great numbers of diffi
cult and dangerous rapids in passing
of which our perougues several times
filled, and the men escaped narrowly
with their lives. However, this cliffL
culty does not exist in high water, which
! happens within the period which I have
: previously mentioned. We found the
j natives extremely numerous, and gtn
| erally friendly, though we have on se
, veral occasions owed our lives and the
j fate of the expedition to our number,
which consisted of 31 men. On the
17th November, we reached the ocean,
where various considerations induced
us to spend the winter; we therefore
searched for an eligible situation for that
purpose, and selected a spot on the
south side of a little river, called by the
natives Netul, which discharges itself
on the south side of the Columbia, 8c 11
miles within point Adams. Here we
! constructed some log houses, and de
fended thetn with a common stockade
work ; this place we called Fort Clat
sop, after a nation of that name who
were our nearest neighbors. In this
country we found an abundance of elk*
on which we subsisted principally dur
ing the last winter ; we left Fort Clatsop
on the 27th of March. On our home
ward bound voyage, being much better
acquainted with the country, we were
enabled to take such precautions as in a
great measure secured us from tin want
of provisions at any time, and greatly
lessened our fatigues, when compared
with those to which we were compelled
to submit in our outward bound jour
ney. We have not lost a man since
we left the Mandians, a circumstance
which I assure you is a pleasing con
sideration to me. As I shall shortly he
with you, and the post is now Availing,
I deem it unnecessary here to attempt
minutely to detail the occurrences of
the last eighteen months.
I am, See.
kour affectionate brother.
WILLIAM CLARK.
FOR SALE,
A valuable plantation
IN ihc upper part of Warren
county, about six miles above Poivelton,
on Ogechee, containing five hundred
acres of the first quality up-land, about
eighty acres of which is cleared, and in
cultivation—lmmediate possession of
which may be had and the terms known
by applying to the subscriber residing
on the premises.
NOAH KELCEY.
November 1, 1806. ts. 15
Will be Sold at the house of Col. Jesse"
Sanders , on Thurday the 11 th of De
cember next ,
ALL the personal property of Ed-
Avard Sanders, dec. consisting of
Horses, one Rideing Chair, Household
Furniture, See. Terms of sale made
knoivn on the day of sale ; also, all per
sons indebted to said deceased,are desir
ed to come forward and make payment;
those having any demands, will bring
them in properly attested, Avithin the
time prescribed bv Lav.
JESSE SANDERS, jun. > ~ ,
EDMUND BLUNT, s hx rs ‘
November 1, 1805. 4t 15
NOTICE. '
NINE months from the date hereof
application iviil be made to the
honorable the inferior court of Greene
county, for leave to sell one hundred and
fifty acres of land, be the same more
or less, lying on Town creek, to he sold
for the benefit of the heirs and credit
ors of Elias Cozart, deceased.
Robert Wattzon , Adm'r .
March 29, 1806. 40