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POETICAL SELECTION’S.
Southey represents the British Constitu
tion under the following allegory of the l!ri
tisli Oak, and the patriotic Englishman must
lament the melancholy fidelity of the picture—
Sooner or later the ivy must cat up all its vigor,
unless th® axe of France should abruptly cleave
it to its roo.s.
Richmond Enquirer.
THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS.
Alas for the Oak of our Fathers that stood
In beauty, the glory and pride of the wood!
It grew and it flourished for many an age,
And many a tempest wreck’d on its rage:
But when its strong branches were bent with
the blast,
If struck its root deeper and flourish’d more
fast.
Its head tower’d high and its branches
spread round,
For its roots were struck deep and its heart it
was sou d,
The bees o'er its honey dew’d foilage play’d,
And the beasts of the forest fed under its
shade.
The Oak of our Fathers to freedom was
dear,
Its leaves were her crown, and its wood v. a s
her spear.
Alas for the Oak of our Father that stood
In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood •
There crept up in ivy and clung round the trunk,
It stuck deep its mouth, and its juices it drunk i
The branches grew sickly, depriv’d of thei r
food.
And the Oak was no longer the pride of the
wood.
The foresters saw, and they gather’d around-
Its roots still were fast, and its heart still was
sound j
They lopt ofl the boughs that so beautiful
spread,
Bu the ivy they spar’d on its vitals that fed.
N longer the bees o’er its honey dews play’d,
Nor the beasts of the forests fed under it s
shade ?
Lopt and mangled the trunk in its ruin is seen,
A monument now what its beauty has been
The Oak has received its incurable wound,
They have loosen’d the roots tho’ the heart
may be sound ;
What the travellers at a distance green flour
ishing see,
Are the leaves of the ivy that poisoned the tree.
Alas for the Oak of our Fathers that stood
In >ts beauty, the glory and pride of the wood ,
A Shoe-maker once, who liv'd in Dublin
Town,
Os Boots and Shoes did make a wond’rous
sh ow
Patrick O'Flynn —his name was painted down
On sign board line—that every one might
know:
For length of time Pat flourish’d in his
trade,
And some folks say, a deal of monev
made.
fortune at length grown tired cf her favor
Deserted Pat and left him in the lurch:
Put-ick was quite alarm’d at this behavior—
For now his shop was empty as a church;
I ho’ 1 ite so lull of boots and shoes and
well dress’d leather,
But his insatiate Duns took all together:
Save two old boots—belonging to a lord,
Sent to Pat s shop in order to he mended;
To whose fooiman Patrick gave his word.
The old boot-soles should be well befriend
ed—
But on the day that liis good shot) was
sack’d,
The servant call d to know if boots were
tack’d.
‘ Go tcll you* - master, Sir,’ said Pat, • I’m
broke,’
* ® r °ke. cried the man, • whv what is that
to him ?
But Mi. E :t :ck, dear, I guess you joke.’
Then gave a horse-laugh and look’d migh
ty grim—
And s ood awhile as waiting for reply—
W hen thus Pat answer’d with a heavinr
sigh.
* Friend, l believe, that in a dav or bo,
Ten shillings in the pound I well can pay
So -P-' a . v S°°d Sir, do let your master know,’
Then gave one boot, and sent the man away.
M ould that the roguish world were truly
honest,
But you know well, good reader that &c
non cst.
Prom the Rvtlasd Herald,
A gentleman handed us the following
letter, at out- disposal. We thought
it might afford a subject of enquiry
to the philosopher and the curious,
and therefore present it in print.
No. 144, Water-street,
Avxv-York, Jan. \Oth, 1807.
Mv Dear Sir,
Agreeably to your request, I have
stated a phenomenon, which was man
ifested to me at Ilebron, in th? Colony
of Connecticut, in the yc«r 17 70.
The C'co-tf ua here fallows:
A rock, nearly '.lO feet square on its
superfices, and about ten feet thick, j
lay in the high road opposite to my i
house, and, as report said, had been
growing higher for 150 years, whereby
it had become a nuisance to carriages
and travellers.
To remove the inconvenience, I or- j
dered my servants to dig a ditch around
the rock, 3 feet wide, and to go down
with the ditch to its bottom. This be
ing done, I engaged a miner to perfo
rate the rock with an auger, near the
middle of the surface. The auger was
two inches wide, and with it he made
a hole live feet deep. He then charg
ed the rock with half a pound of gun
powder, and tired it off w ith a match,
while the spectators stood nt a proper
distance, to shun the danger and to see
the effect.
The explosion was very great; the
rock was rent into eight or ten large
pieces, besides many fractional ones;
we soon hoisted up the fragments ; at
last we came to the two centre and
largest pieces, between which the au
ger had passed.
Having taken up the smallest, the
largest piece stood edgewise. I then
went down and viewed the path of the
auger, which had passed by a cavity as
large as a goose egg, in which lay a
FROG, which completely filled the ca
vity. His thigh was bleeding by rea
son of a wound. The orifice was too
small to pull him out; the miner soon
| enlarged the orifice, and I took out the
Frog, bound up the wound, and placed
him on some mud near a puddle of
water, which I enclosed with a broad
fence. The Frog was alive, and strug
i gling for deliverance, when I first dis
covered him in his bed, which was as
smooth as the inside of a glass tumbler.
He appeared in perfect and high spi
rits, although he had no visible means
of living in his hole, four feet and an
half down from the top of the rock to
his bed, (all around him was firm and
hard as flint stone,) excepting by what
water, air and heat that reached him
through a small crevise not so large as
a knitting needle, and that crevise was
filled w ith fine dust from the top of the
rock down to the bed in which he lay,
in so close a manner that with difficul
ty I dug it out with a steel pointer. I
kept the Frog imprisoned many weeks
for the inspection of the curious.
1. How the Frog got into the centre
of the rock, is a question not yet an
swered.
2. How the Frog could live in that
dark recess, so far from heat, air and
water is a question not yet answered.
I submit this phenomenon to you
and the Social Society of Pittsford, in
the state of Vermont, in confidence
that your philosophic wisdom, and man
ly researches into physical causes, are
competent to explain this phenomenon
and answer the two questions above.
Vv ith profound respect,
I am, Gentlemen,
lour obedient servant,
SAMUEL PETERS.
Samuel Harrison , Esq. President l
of the Social Society of Pitts- L
ford, Vermont. J
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Prom Billcvge's Liver fuel Advertiser.
traveller's anecdote.
To prove the coxcombish garrulity of
some of our modern juvenile travellers,
w-e are enabled to state the following
fact:—A young man, some short time
back, arrived at a certain inn, and after
alighting from his horse, went into the
traveller’s room, where he walked back
wards and forwards for a lew minutes,
displaying the utmost self importance.
At length he rang the bell, and, upon
the waiter’s appearance gave him an or
der nearly as follows :—“ Waiter !” the
waiter replied, “ Sir ” 44 I am a man of
few words, and don’t like to be continu
ally ringing the bel! and disturbing the
house: I’ll thank you to pay attention
to what l say.’’ The waiter again re
plied, “ Yes Sir”—“ in the first place,
biing me in a glass ol brandy and wa
ter, cold, with a little sugar and also a
tea-spoon ; wipe down this table, throw
some coals on the lire, and sweep up the
hearth ; bring me in a couple of candles,
pen, ink, and paper, some wafers, a lit
tle sealing wax; and let me know what
time the post goes out.—Tell the hos
tler to take care of my horse, dress
lum well, stop his feet, and let me
know when he is ready to feed. Order
the chamber-maid to prepare me a good
bed, take care that the sheets is well
aired, a clean night cap, and a glass of
water m the room—Send the boots
with a pair of slippers that I can walk
to the stable in ; tell him I must have
my boots clean’d and brought into this
room to night, and that 1 shall want to
be call’d at five in the mojr.ing. Ask
j yenr Mistress wht t I canjtave f,r sup
per ; tell her I should like a roast duck,
jor something of that sort; desire your ;
i Master to step in ; I want to ask him a j
few questions about the drapers of this ;
town.”—The waiter answered, 4 * Yes'
Sir,” and then went to the Landlord, and i
told him a gentleman in the parlour \
j wanted a great many things and j
amongst the rest he wanted him; and
that was ail he could i-ceoiiect.
Mr. Billinge,
The Travellers Anecdote, which ap-1
peared in one of your former j vipers,
brought to my recollection the following
occurrence, which may be relied cn as
a fact, having frequently heard it related
by one of the party, the late Mr. H. of
Bolton. —A Constant Reader.
“ A few years ago, a traveller arriv
ed at an inn in Liverpool, late in the
evening. Being shewn into the room
appropriated for gentlemen of the road,
he, with great pomposity, inquired,
whether the travellers were all gone to
bed ? ‘ Yes Sir,’ says the waiter, ‘ ex
cept that gentleman,’ pointing to one
at the other end of the room, apparent
ly preparing to retire. 4 Waiter,’ says
the newly arrived gentleman, 4 be quick,
and let me have a cold fowl for my sup
per.’ The cloth was immediately laid,
the fowl brought in, and the gentleman
lounged into his chair, 4 Waiter, I say,
cut up that there fowl.’ He did so.
i ‘ Put the two wings and the breast on
my plate.’—He did so. 4 Put some
salt on my plate/ He did so. Cut the
fowl on my plate into pieces/ This
f he did also.
“ The solitary being, before alluded
to, having observed the proceeding of
the gemman , now said, 4 John, let me
, have a cold fowl for my supper,’ imi
tating the manner of the lounger. The
fowl was brought. John, being re
quested to cut it up, helped him to the
breast and wings, salt, See. and cut it
into pieces fur him. 4 John,’ said he,
1 put a piece into my mouth/ John,
| did so. 4 John, wag my jaws for me/ '
John (being aware of the joke) com
i plied with his request.—The gemman
; immediately left the loom, and was no
; more seen at the inn.’’
! A MODERN BEAU
SPEAKING OF HIMSELF.
I am an adept in all the delightful
follies of fashion : I lead the mode and
make those dear whims, which are ridic
ulous in others, graceful and captivating
in me. lam in debt with all the town,
in love with all the women envied by all
the men, stared at by all the world,
laughed at by the little, imitated by the
great, hated by the awkward, and hooted
by the mob.—Have ruined fifty trades
men and five Jews. Nay, I have been
ruined myself these tluee years, St I live
in a high style ever—Sitting, standing,
or walking I do every thing with grace.
See me take out my handkerchief, put
on my gloves, pick up a fan, present a
boquet, dangle in my chariot: the most
trifling actions are made interesting by
my manner. Nay, I even sleep like a
gentleman.
Women think me irresistible. I
have a smile for one, a nod for another,
a wink for a third, a hem and how do
you do for a fourth, and she who gets a
squeeze of the hand from me thinks
herself in Heaven.
AXECDOTE
OF COUNT DE VIRY,
Minister to the King of Sardinia ,
1 his man carried his reserve and se
crecy to an extravagant length. The
most trifling message delivered to one
ol his domestics was a profound mys
tery to all the others; and if he hap
pened to be indisposed, it was a state
stcret. He one day called a surgeon
to dress an ulcer on his leg, and when
a similar sore broke out on the other,
he sent for a different surgeon that nei
ther might know the entire state of his
disorder ; and the surgeons having dif
fered most essentially in the manner of
cure, the count lost his life by the cir
cumstance. One of his friends having
come to enquire lor him, was answer
ed by bis Secretary—“He is dead, but
lie does not wish it to be known.”
V and W. The habit which some |
have of sounding v as to and iv as v, is
hit oft’ in the following dialogue be
tween a London citizen and his ser
vant —
Citizen. Villiam, I vant my vig.
Servant. Vitch vig sir ?
Citizen. Yy, the vite vig in the vool- j
en vig-box, vilch I vote last Vedncsdav !
at the westrv.
4
Servant. Wcry vel, sir.
BLANK SHERIFFS TITLES j
For Sale at this Office.
T/:e CMj-\itea Imported Horse,
;WH i P
V/liO never lost a race v here
! there were heats, alibi.ui he ran a
• gainst tne best liorses of Ida cav, which
’ performances may be sjxu in the rac
j ing calendars tiiat are with him, toge
ther with the general studbook, which
shews the blood of all horses bred in
England, up to 1S03; they :dso con
tain the season prices of the noted hor
j ses, and W hip stood three guineas 1.h.1:-
| er than the noted Diomed and others.
\\ HIP will stand the whole of his
time in the town of Washington, Geor
gia, at FORTY DOLLARS the sea
son, payable by note the first day of
January 1808, but THIRTY DOL
LARS each mare, provided one or
two becomes responsible for the sea
son of six marts—TWENTY DOL
LARS the leap—and SIXTY to in
sure a mare to be in foal—with one
dollar to the groom in every instance,
at the stable door. Excellent wheat,
rye, barley, and Egyptian oat lots for
the reception of mares, with seperate
stalls for each mare to be fed safe from
being disturbed by each other, and wilF
feed twice a day for twenty-five cents,
and otherwise if directed at the market
price ol grain, ihe season to com
mence the first day of Marfch, and ex
pire the first of July next. The strict
est attention will he paid but not liable
for accidents of any kin d.
WHIP is a bcautitul mohogany bay,
of great size and strength, being fifteen
hands, three inches and three quarters
high. Let it suffice to say, it is gen
erally thought by all that have seen
him, his equal for beauty has been sel
dom if ever seen in America; he fasci
nates, in spite of prejudice, every be
holder that moment lie is brought into
view ; nothing can excel him in move
ment, action and gaiety, as the strictest
observer has not been able to discover
a single defect in him.
\V HI P was got by Soltram; Ins dam
by KING HEROD, which was the
dam of Mr. Galway’s Ariel, Mr. Wil
son’s Dutchess, and Mr. Durand’s Kit
ty Cut-a-dash, all very speedy marcs—.
his grand dam by Oroonoko— his great
grand dam by Cartouch, out of an Ava*.
bian mare—-Oroonoko was got by Ciab,
out of Miss Salmakin by True Blue, lord
Oxford’s dun Arabian, D’Arcey’s Black
legged royal marc. Oroonoko is the
sire of the grand dam of Potoooooooo’s,
and full brother to Black-and-all-Blnck,
sire of Tuting’s Polly, who was the dam
of King Fergus, and several others;
Cartouch by Bald Galloway, Cripple
Barb at Hampton court, Wakeless,
Place’s White Turk, Dadwcrth’s Lay
ton Barb. Cartouch is the sire of the
grand dam of Flymnap and Florizel.
SALT RAM by Eclipse ; his dam Vi
rago, by Snap; his grand dam by Regu
lous,out of a sister of Black-fc-all-Black.
Saltram was formerly the property of
his royal highness the prince of Wales,
who purchased him from bird Bovring
ton at 2500 guineas, was thought to be
the best runner of his time; he won
several large stakes, amongst which
j was the Derby, 1783, beating Duogan
j non, the sire of Bedford, Volunteer the
sire of Sterling and Spread Eagle, Phe
nomenon, Gonzales, and several others.
He is the sire of Whisky, who won at
threee years old 4650 guineas ; also of
Oscar,St. Paul, Royalist, Peeping Tom,
General Coiner, Sylph, Septan, Caro
line, Taffany, Laurustina, St. David,
Sprightly, Queen of Sheba, Spankawav,
Rose, Sweeper, Clylus, Cole-merchant,
Pick-pocket, and a number of others, all
first rate runners; also of'Carolina who
challenged Florizel, the best son of Di
omed. which was not accepted. \\ hip
was the favorite for the Derby in 1797,
and no doubt would have won it, had he
been well enough to have slartedv-he
was found to have so much speed as to
be able to give many colts, of the same
year, from twenty to thirty pounds.—
The first time he started lie won the
sweepstake of 20 guineas each ut As
cot, for three year olds, and afterwards
the three year old plate at Reading ; at
four years old he won the four year old
plate at Ascot, a plate at Brighton,beat
ingCombalantjWho won the sweepstake
the day before, & gave him 22 pounds;
Whip ran the week before for the cup
at Oxford against Diamond, Stickler,
Johney and C/utlands, and was suppost
ed to he winning easy, when he ran ou,
of the i«. ’irse ; also Won the sweepstake
at Canterbcrry, which was the last time
be started. At four years old Whip
j S aVt; Coiner 2 1 pounds and beat him
easy in his trial. We have certificates
from gentlemen who have bred from
the best horses in Virginia, and that
Whip’s far excel any they ever bad.
EDWARD JORDAN,
! _ JOSEPH BARNETT.
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