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happy tears over it, because 1 looked
up lo heaven anil thought lie might
see me. 1 have sometimes, though
not often, met with small insults;
but if ever they threatened to grow
greater, I hogged the people to de
sist in the kindest way I could, even
smiling, and saying 1 would please
them if 1 had the heart; which might
be wrong, but it seemed as if deep
thoughts told me to say so; and they
used to look astonished, and left oh;
which made me the more hope that
St. Mark and the holy Virgin did not
think ill of my endeavors. So play
ing and giving alms in this manner,
1 arrived in the neighborhood of your
beloved village, where I fell sick for
a while and was very kindly treated
in an outhouse; though the people, 1
thought, seemed too look strange and
afraid on this crucifix—though your
son never did, —though lie taught me
to think kindly of every body, and
hope the best, and leave every thing
except our own endeavors to heaven
1 fell .sick, madam, because I found
for certain that the Signor Montagu*
was dead, albeit I had no hope that
he was alive. She stopped ftwhih
lor breath, for she was growing
weaker and weaker; and her hostess
would fain have had her keep silent e;
but she pressed her hand as well as
she might, and prayed with such a
patient panting of voico tube allow
ed to go on, that she was permitted.
She smiled beautifully and resumed:
—So wheu—so when 1 got my
strength a little again, I walked tin,
and came to the village; and I saw
the beautiful white church spire in
the trees; anti then 1 knew where
his body slept; and I thought some
kind person would help me to die
with my face looking towards the
church as it now does~and death is
upon me* even now; but lift me a lit
tle higher on the pillows, dear lady,
that I may see the green ground of the
bill.
She was raised up as she wished,
and after looking a while w ith a pi a
cid feebleness at the hill, said in a
very low voice—Say one. prayer for
me. dear lady, and If it be not too
proud in me, call ine In it your daugli
ter. The mother of her beloved sum
moned, a grave and earnbst voice, as
well as she might, and knelt, and
said, 0 heavenly Father of us all,
who in the midst of thy manitold and
merciful bounties bringest us into
strong passes of anguish, winch nev
ertheless thou cnublest us to go
through, look down, we beseech thee,
upon this thy young and innocent
servant, the daughter that might
have been, of my heart,—and enable,
her spirit to pass through the strug
gling bonds of mortality, and be
gathered into thy rest w ith those we
love;—do dear and great God, of thy
infinite mercy; for we are poor woak
Creatures, both young and old. Here
her voice melted away into a breath
ing tearfulness; and after remaining
on her knees a moment, she rose, and
1 oked upon the bed and saw that the
weary smilim? one was no
CABINET, -
WARR EATON, JUNE 7, 1828.
CONGRESS.
Both houses adjourned about 8 o
clock on the 26th u\t, after having
passed 162 acts and six joint resolu
tions. The resolution of thanks to
Mr. Speaker Stevenson, after an ex
hibition of a good deal of want of
magnanimity and modesty on the
part of Mr. Wright of Ohio, and o
thers, was passed by a vote of 111 to
28 —a joint resolution extending the
franking privilege to Charles Carroll
of Carrollton, the only surviving sign
er of the Declaration of Independence,
passed both houses. They passed an
art making provision for the surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution.
It provides, that every officer of the
Revolutionary army, in the Conti
nental line, wlm was entitled to half
pay by the resolve of Congress pass
ed Oct. 31st. 1780, shall receive full
pay in said line, to begiu March 3d.
1826, and to continue during his life
provided that tho whole amount ho
not more than the full pay of a captain
in the said line.
Fvery pensioner under the act of
1826, shall have the kino tit it he has re
ceived deducted froth what he is to re
ceive; and all pensions for him are for
the future to cease.
livery surviving hhn-commissioned
ofticcr, musician and private of said
army, who enlisted for the war, and
continued in the army until its termi
nation, and thereby became entitled
to 880 by the resolve t?f May 15, 1778,
shall receive his full monthly pay in
that service, to begin March 3. 1820,
lor life—provided that none now on
the pension list shall be entitled to it;
and that the applicant be not a fo
reigner.
The money due sha.ll not be trans
ferable, or liable to attachment, levy
•r seizure, by any legal process w hat
ever, but accrue wholly to Ids benefit,
and bo paid to those to whom it is due,
or their authorized attornies: that
which is now due, and that which shall
be due, semi-annually. Amongst the
appointments made near the termina
tion of the. session, were the following.
James Barbour of Virginia, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Great Britain,
William llenry Harrison of Ohio, to
be. Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary to the Republic of
Colombia. Peter B, Porter of New
York to he Secretary of War.
Col. Gamble and Henry G. Latrtiar,
says the Courier, have been With
drawn from the list of candidates for
Congress for some time past. The
last Georgian says, it is authorised
to erase also the name ol Edward
F. Tattnall.
FOREIGN. |
If is said that a declaration of neu
trality from the Courts of London,
Paris, Vienna, und Berlin, is expect-1
ed to be published ass bn as war
breaks out between Russia add the
Porte.
Advices from Lisbon to April 12th,
state, that although DOll Miguel ex
ercised all the power of an absolute
Monarch, lie had not yet proceeded
to the length of declaring himselfj
King.
Orders liavb been givfcn by the;
British government to complete the!
evacuation of Portugal by withdraw
ing tho marines occupying the forts
in the Tagus.
The Prussian Envoy at Constanti
nople has been recalled, for having,
it is said suffered the Porte to believe
that it would receive support from
other powers in case of hostilities with
Russia.
We hare news from Constantino
ple to March 26. There is nothing
of importance. The Divan, which
considered war with Russia as in
evitable, was continuing defensive
preparations with great activity.
For the RURAL CABINET.
Mn. Editor— The pledge l gave you
of contributing my mite to toe general
stock of miscellaneous matter, which shall
fill the columns of the Rural Cabinet , 1
shall attempt, in pai t, to redeem, as I
have of late, been very little, and never
in my life, much ac u?loined to writing,
especially in your department. I hope,
therefore, you and your readers, will make
all necessary allowances, should I fail to
interest you. Os one thing, lam cer
tain, that if i do not amuse, or instruct
you, I will not olfend, by any thing ei
ther personal, indelicate, or vulgar;
I shall begin my series, with some re*
marks upon domestic economy. The
pressure of the times, which is seen and
heard and felt in every thing around us—
seems to me to point out this as a Very
suitable topic. I have no doubt, that
you will conclude before I finish iny ob
servations upon this subject, that my the
ory, as is very common with the rest of
the world, is far better than my practice.
This I shall not deny; yet some good may
result to mvself and others bv an exami
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! nation Into the tendehey of some of those
habits, which are th<s**ources ol so much
misery to the liufivlfb fa uily* , .
The uames of Lycurgus and Fabricius
have adorned the pages of ancient histo
ry on account of their contempt ol riches
anJ luxury; ard in modern tunes, our
Franklin gathered for himself, never
fading laurels for the many useful lessons
lie gave to his countrymen in relation to
industry and frugality. That inan whose
tame has eclipsed that of all others, for
whatever was truly great and valuable,
while he filled the first office in the go
vernment, was equally distinguished lor
| private as for public economy; and the
good man, Washington, was as exempla
! ry in his life as he was pure in his morals.
| “He prefered to be, rather than seem to
be good.’’ He ccituioly i9 a benefactor of
mankind, who teaches the best art of
living well and happy, for, as we live, j
so we are apt to die.
Wp complain unjustly of hard times. ]
This is a monitor of our own creation,j
and he may be destroyed far more easi
ly than the infant Hercules subdued
those serpents which the jeuluusy of -Ju
no* sent to work out his destruction.
The Devil himself is very often impro
perly charged with our own voluntary
misdeeds.
Have you any correct data of the vast
sums of money—which are daily spent
in pampering unnatural and artificial ap
petites? Would you believe that the peo
ple of our state, expend annually more
money in the consuptian of ardent sjiiKts
than they pay towards the euppoitof go
vernment? Yet I fear, figures ami sums
would convict ns this folly. In the
purchase of tobacco , another article of
luxury, simply, we pay quite as much
as our annual tax, of the high rates, of
hi ch ,we so ollen complain. The use of
this weed has a deleterious effect upon
nine constitutions where it benefits one.
Ami by exciting the system so much with
this powerful stimulant, it gradually loses
its excitable capacity; nr.d this too often
leads to the use of ardent spiiits—as a
more effectual means of stimulation.
Thus the list of drunkards may be, and l
verily believe is increased by the injudi
cious and unnatural consumption of an
article-, which seems to have been intend-1
etl by the Author of our Being, tor valu
able medicinal purposes only, and not as i
a luxury.
Nmv this propensity to indulge either
in the U9e of sp'r ts nr tobacco, is not na
tural—and nothing but continued prac
tice overcomes that repugnance of tSie
palate, which is manifested and felt by
every person, until custom confirms the
habit. Intemperance kills twenty per
sons—yes, 1 think fifty, where old age
destroys one. This enemy of the human
race, outstrips the sword, famine and pes
tilence. We see its baneful effects in
the rags, which cover the shivering child
of poverty—the paleness that shrouds the
bloom of health, and in the rank weeds
which cluster around the premature grave
of that suicide, who sought a resting place,
but alas! found a bell by plunging the
dagger into his distracted care-worn and
bleeding heart!
Let any nun these hard limes, only
keep ajournd of one months unnecessa
ry expences, and he will probably find it
the most certain check upon his prodi
gality:
We are, as a State, by means of our
misplaced economy, paying a tribute of
millions, every year, to the support of
our nothern manufactories. I have little
doubt that our staple production, cotton,
would be more advantageously manufac
tured among ourselves and necessity will
soon require this of us in self-defence.
It is the only anti-tariff* policy we can
pursue. The machinery necessary for
domestic purposes is not costly; anil one
machine and a good hand to manage it
would spin ‘ertpugh to supply a family of
fifty slave?: And if one valuable cotton
factory were put in successful operation
in each of the large and populous coun
ties—-they wGuld command as regular
a patronage as our mills.
We must be clothed as well ns fed.
The raw material would be exchanged
for the manufactured article; and thus a
barter and exchange would be carried on
mutually beneficial. Moreover, the far
mer should find a market for all his sur
plus produce Vvhich could be given for
the cotton clothes, inaile at the factory.
A proposition was made by one* of our
skilful and enterprising citizens to ne
gotiate a loan with the legislature for the
*John Schley.
• i purpose of setting us an example In this
1 useful branch of manufacture- Fro m
some cause or other, the application did
not succeed. Its failure must have re
sulted from its not being distinctly un
derstood—lt should have enlisted tha
warm and patiiotic support of all parties
and every philanthropist. Labor can
be had cheaper here than at the North,
land the raw’ material being at hand? can
Ibe procured upon better terms. Gur
| black population, with a little practice,
! would be quite competent to- the man
| agemcqt cf the machinery.. We asst e
qually impolitic ar.d unwise in (he large
sums of money wo annually pay toother
; States for pork, hoises, mu’es flour amt
I corn. Stock of every kind might be
raised in the greatest abundance by en
closing the waste pasture and tfieitdcw
V lands, sowing barley lots, peas, potatoes
j and turnips in suitable quantities. But.
i poor and dependant and tributary we
! shall be. while cotton, like Aaron’s rod
! swallows up, the rest. Cotton kills our
stock with famine—washes away otir
lands—keeps our negroes exposed arwt
sickly—inflates bur own vanity—involves’
our people in speculations —i3 the
source of many failures and much bank
ruptcy —k*eps our roads impassable by
tearing them iin with its transportation
and imparts <0 our institutions an insta
bility and uncertainty extremely prejudi
cial to our inprovement and happiness.
This subject might be profitably pur
sued through every department of indu*
try and labor; but time and prudence
seem to suggest that enough has been said
for the present.
There is a great difference LeUveen
‘a splendid and a happy laud’ These
hard-times call uj on ns to be -ober mind
ed, frugal and enterprising. Let us
study use and convenience rather tha nr
ostentation and show; and it is hoped
the period is not far distant, when ‘the
impress good sense’ will be seen in
all wft do and think.
qUINTILLIAN
For tho CABINET.
SCRAP MONGER, No. 11.
When we look at a field of corn, \vc
find that those stalks which raise their
i heads highest, are the emptiest. The
sattic is the case with men : those who
assume the greatest consoqrnwn-rr,
have generally the least share of judg
ment and ability.
There is no vice more insupporta
ble and more univers fly hated than
pride ; it is a kind of poison, which,
corrupts all the good qualities of a
man, and whatever merit he may
otherwise possess, this single Fault is
sufficient to render him odious and
contemptible,so that hy pleasing him
self too much, lie displeases every one,
else. Pride is the first vice which
takes possession of tho heart, because
it derives its source from self love,
and it is the last that remains, what
ever efforts may ba made to expel it.
If we examine our own thought?,
we shall find that they arc principal
ly employed on the past or the future ;
we seldom ever think of the present,
and if we do, it is only to enable us to
Say plans for the future. Hence it
happens, that \vc never live, we al
ways hope to live, and are preparing
ourselves fur beingSiappy: butitisrer
tain, that we never can be so, until wo
fix our attention upon something so
lid and lasting.
KJ
It is not abundance and riches that
can make us happy, but the use we
make of them. Horace, therefore, is
not contented with wishing wealth
from Use gods, he begs also, that they
would teach him the art of enjoying
them, opes, artemque puendi.
A man who is skilful in style,
knows from the reading of the first
two or three sentences, at most, the
calibre of the writer's intellect and
acquirements. If he secs words
which convey no precise idea, or have
no business in that place, if he sees
a starved thought puffed out like a
dropsical carcase on spindle legs,
ora bladder puffed with wind, he,
at once; discerns the radical, incura
ble fee bib h ess of the writer; if he r .
laborious attempt to raise ix trivial or
ordinary object hey. nut its natm-.d
level, by overstrr.ir.od, r.wkard eff v 3
cr quaint thought, and dispror-vr*