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Tin: PILOT'S SONG.
O'er (lit* ocean silently
I cfcrruL tl*** gentle sVm*f nfoven;
The no>m has ri‘>( ,, i from 1 *• -■’a >
ii:(• i tin* brut t! and deep Llnc heaven ;
Ami from her airy wandering,
] • kr* n failin': flaked snow,
The sea hint tests her weary wing
Oil the Inllov. “s quiet How.
Vet ere the da v-beam left the shies,
Aml twilight veil'd the ocean o'yr,
AN e saw from yon him* bnlow lire,
Far, far and faint, our native shore ;
How throhb'd earli bosom nt the sound,
Tlie exulting sea bov *> shout above,
As far, upon the wide waves bound,
Burst into sight the land we love !
Athwart (he wave, the beacon light,
Shoots brightly forth its twinkling ray,
And sweetly onward thro’ the night,
Its star-like” lustre lights our way :
The heavens are light, the wave is low.
And mild winds gently bear uso or
The azure waste, with morning's glow,
AYe tread again our native shore !
From c London Vnpcv.
TIIM M AIUXKK'S SONG.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows last,
And fills the .white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast, my boy
“While like the eagle free,
Away the good ship Hies, und leaves
Old England on the lee.
0 for a soft and gentle wind I
I heard a fair one cry ;
Hut give tome the snoring’ breeze,
And white waves heaving high !
And white wave hcavinghigh, tnyboys
The good ship tight and tree,
The world ol watcis i.- our home,
And merry men are we.
Tl lore's tempest in yon horned moon,
And lightning in yon cloud;
And hark the music, mariners,
The wind is piping loud ;
The wind is j iping loud, my boys,
The lightning Hashes free,
While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.
FROM THE LONDON LIIF.HARY GAZETTE
THE TREAD MILL.
Reflections Metaphysical, Rliysiologi
cal, ami Moral, excited during a pro
tracted commitment to the labour
,)’ the Tread Mill.
In order to introduce myself with
due formality to the humane reader, I
have to observe that 1 was found guil
ty of the crime for v huh I was at -
laigued—in the emphatic language of
the Recorder, “ after a patient and im
partial trial, by the testimony (and re -
spectable ami unvarying witnesses, by
a mild and intelligent Judge, and by a
merciful arid considerate Jury; anil
nns sentenced to six months hard la
bour in the Tread Mill. My first ap
penrance on those boards was in Mjivli
last. On the evening previously to
inv dehut, the keepoi came to me and
said that on the fob >\viug morning, at
l,a!f-| ast seven, ir.y attendance would
be required in company with toner
performers. There is a!way s consid
erable interrst produced by new situ
ations and modes <d employment; anil
on that occasion the interest partook
more of alarm than ol cutiositv. M\
inquiries were directed to asc rtain it
there required any particular talent to!
< ompi elicnd, or dexterity o! iunn to
i .ecute the task that had been assign
ed. The keeper iis-iwvd me that the
r h formance was i.daptjM to the mean
est capacities: “Sir, it only consists
in putting the best foot lorcniAs* : you
have onlv to consider vourselt n a
inarching regiment it nquiics no
previous study ; adding, that in one
particular it might be compared to
f witmniiigi which is liev ei Jot goth u :
.Mild that the latter result was the ob
ject of the contriver. At the appoint-
Vd hour in the morning 1 aseftuled a
few steps which conducted me to my
appointed station on the Mill. Dor
society was select, and tlad in the
same uniform ; and it gave me sincere
pleasure to find that neither competi
tion nor jealousy existed, although we
all wore the yellow stocking. A pro
found silencewas maintained for the
first three hours, when the person who
v.-orhed < n inv right band said, they in
tend to convert this into a con.-mui.
‘t he person on ivy left, ove beating
him, replied, it is a cursed contri
vance tor coins, my feet are blisteitd
vlri'adv. ‘1 lirouglmut the toilsome tra
nd of the day, 1 observed, with saiis
bu tion, that no man made a false
step. At half past tour m the after
noon the day’s performance concluded.
}l\ degrees l became better acquain
ted with n.v associates, the majority
ot whom concurred in reprobating the
invention ; they considered it impossi
ble to t fleet a moral reformation by
teaching a man to be a foot pad. hut
theic were some so physically callous
/e.” I “orally :!'iivl''"t(ing l < ia‘ the dis
( i’,li;.i si vino:! to make not. t iO -light*
cst impression on {iieirhndie.- or minds.
\ follow, v!to was a bimp-lighter,
iautlied at 11 it* labor; lie said it was
iviic!i easier than bis own trade, non
no should consider the period of his
commitment os an Holliday. A short
t'.mk sit lad, who was a pot-bov, de
clared that drawing bver all day and
fho part of the right was much
mure fatiguing. A chimney sweeper
said, it was a clean and genteel profes
sion ; and a Radical alluded to admire
the invention, because it proceeded on
revolutionary principles. A humor
ous chap, who was clasically educa
ted, and had a poetical turn, called
the nil! the gracilis ud Fuvnassnw, and
die labor, scanning. Suffice it to say,
lll,it the same unvarying and monoto
nous rotation continued during the pe
riod of my commitment.
It now remains to communicate the
reflections Unit occurred while I was a
working bee in this hive ot lelorm.
For the first week the treading v as
distressing, and accompanied, with
considerable pain and stillness in the
calves of the legs and muscles of the
thighs ; this, however, gradually dimin
ished, and in the course of a month, 1
performed the labor with alacrity, and
imly view ed if as a species of training.
The appetite was much increased : but
for this salutary symptom there was
no extra provision, the means <i satis
fving the increase being denied. As
the toil proceeded, the thread <>i ule,
vvr.9 spun from a staple progressively,
finer-; and when the six months had
expired, a very delicate filament ap
peared to connect together the body
ami the soul. I liis labor, w ith restrii -
ted diet, w ould be a certain remedy in
cases of obesity ; and the millwright
be safely recommended to the Court |
of Aldermen aid their deputies, mas- 1
ti is and wardens, overseers and sides- j
men, butchers’ wi'is, and landladies
in the districts of W sprung.
That the Tread Mill, under proper
regulations, may become a valuable
agent in the cute ol chronic disorders,
there is every reason to expect; and
it is tube hoped that valetudinarians
may lie accommodated with some es
tablishments ior this purpose. In wet
weather, under proper shelter, sufii
eieiit exercise might be taken in the
open air without the chance ot catch
ing cold ; and as the circular wheel re
sembles the cylinder of a hand organ,
a trilling expense would tarnish a set
of delightful tunes, commencing with
solemn adagios and progressively ad
vancing to the gayer movements of ;;
v.alt/.. Time, and the rapid match ot j
intellect, will at some future period
dev elope the improvements ol win h
this salutary engine is susceptible.—
The effects produced on the mind by
tln’ operation ot the 1 read Mill are
highly interesting, and deserve to be
accurately communicated. Although
it may be described as the dull unva
ried toil that excruti. es the spirit and
lenders the passing moments tiresome
and disgusting, yet. it has very peculi
ar effects on the intellectual powenk
As perceptions in a great degree qui
escent, there are abundant opportuni
ties for reflection. The eye dwells
only in the boards that form a paling
to intercept the v iew ; conversation is
prohibited, so (hat the. ear is unoccupi
ed except bv exclamations, shoit sen
tences or curses.
Independently of the strict injunc
tion to preserve silence, there is a phy
siological lcason for the stillness that
prevails. In all states ot exertion,
where the labour exhausts the strength,
ait; hi is the order ot the day —the res
piration is too actively employed to
permit a sufficient supply ol breath lor
continued articulation. That faculty
of the mind which is termed attention
becomes wonderfully improved, and
in consequence the memory is enabled
to revert to the former i.n dents of
life with the greatest accuracy, and
I eep the immediate subject of thought
steadily in contemplation. One ot my
comrades, who was a strolling player,
rehearsed maiiv parts while in the act
of treading, and, by his own account,
with greater facility than he had ever
done before ; and this he explained, by
ascribing it to the relict he experienc
ed while “ plodding” round about
“ his weary way,”*in fixing his atten
tion on those dramatic scenes with
which he had heretofore his memory.
He pleasantly called it learning by
rote.
JAterc.ru Rhysicians.— it is remarkable
that of ail men of letters who pursue
anv profession, none so willingly quit
their avocations, to write on other
matters as Physicians. Ficinnius has
given a latin version of Plato, and ex
plained his system. Julius bcaliger,
who was a doctor in physic, has writ
ten much criticism. Renault, the an
tagonist of Koihau, translated A itru
\ins, and gave public lectures on
geometry and architecture. Akensidc
and Armstrong are celebrated lor their
poetrv; and Doctor Smollett had more
frequently his pen, than the pulse of a
patient iu his hand.
The 7’. cl u fMv'jr l r.lh of J-*Yi •••.’ ./ca
in IJohtiuiit’- Ihe village of Adersbach,
in Bohemia, is situatv and io a valley, at
(lie foot ol the Giant Mountains, at
the extraordinary groups ol rocks
which rise in its environs, and extend,
though with frequent interruptions, as
fir as Heuschener. The village hor
des on a most beautiful mead, water
ed bv a small rivulet, which has its
source in the midst ol lids rocky laby
rinth. It is bounded on the south by
large masses ol rock, which stand up
right, contiguous to each other, ami
separated only by crevices ol different
widths. A great number of them are
one hundred feet or upwards, and {'re
sent forms which are singularly diver
sified. dome of them resemble works
of irf, as columns, walls, towers ; some
are bounded nt the top by irregular
move lines, though their sides are as
perpendicular as if they had been cut
by a lev l l. Others are bent in all di
rections, and their craggy summits,
which hang in the air, threaten to <!c
frei and every moment lroiu their peril
ous abode. Some of them stand upon
an inn icnse base, and diminish as they
rise, while others retain the same uni
forni dimensions from their bases to
their s. 1 mmits. The bases of many ol
them r e rounded by the action oi the
waters. Tie most remarkable of these
rocks is ‘that commonly called “ The
inverted Sngarloaf,” an appellation
which sufficiently designates itssingu
lar form; arid many Notated pillars
which, though, only a few feet in dia
meter at the base, elevate themselves
amid their compeers, like a range of
cliint.v s.
‘1 he moment we enter this labyrinth,
wc pcoeived on all sides groups of
rocks which surprise us the more be
cause we are not in a situation to exa
mine their height am! extent. They
encircle a beautiful mead, which muv
be* considered the vestibule of the
labyrinth.
An old honest forester generally
serves as guide to those whose curiosi
ty leads them to explore this romantic
labyrinth. Thrv follow a path which
is covered in many places, with sand
and rubbish from fragments of the
lock. This path, which is sometimes
twenty feet wide, and sometimes not
more than two, continues its course
through innumerable windings be
tween me perpendicular groups and
those masses which,like walls, enclose
them on the right and left. A person
is frequently oldiged to crawl across
the intervals, above which the rocks
lean one avainst the oilier. The ima
gination of the old conductor has dis
r jvert > in :he most irregular masses
resemblances to a palace, a church, a
t: nasti rv, a pulp.it, and uu infinity of
other objectn. By this happy disco
very he hopes to render them more
worthy the observation of the carious.
In this labyrinth,;! pers.m is obliged
to go continually’ zigzag ; one time lie
walks on the naked sand, a! another
on the moss and flowery turf; at one
time he passes under low saplings, at
another lie pursues the course of little
rivulets, whose smooth and limpid wa
ters follow the multiplied sinuosities
of their course. These little streams
are, i:i many places, provided with lil
tle h idges or crossed bv planks, for
the convenience of those who explore
this little mysterious world. After j
jouiiieviug about a league and a half, |
the travel;cram*es ataplace extreme-1
t v cool and agreeable, ornamented’
with sapplingy, hung with all sorts of
mosses and plants, and closed up on
all sides by tremendous rocks. The
loud murmuring of a rivulet, which
precipitates from a sort of basin, adds
an inexpressible charm to the delights
of solitude, l.'uderneath two lofty
saplings, near a fountain as cool and
transparent as imagination can con
ceive, stands a table, a bench, and
some seats formed out of the rock.—
This place is frequently rendered the
scene of fie tive happiness, and is fre
quently greeted by morning visitants,
who come to breakfast there. The re
past is rendered delicious by the a
grceable coolness of the place, which
invigorates the animal faculties in a
surprising manner.
From tins resting place there is an
ascent bv a narrow opening. The
wav is difficult, as it leads over heaps
of sand produced by the w recks con
tinually falling from the rocks, and
which are as friable as the ashes near
the crater of a volcano, tor at every
step the tr.ivelfcr loses his feet, and
sinks in the uncertain sand ; but when
be arrives at the top he is more than re
compensed by tiie sight of a cascade
which precipitates from till* summit of
the rocks. The water falls, in its first
descent, from a height of £0 feet, on a
rock which impedes its perpendicular
course,, glides afterwards down a gen
tle descent, and completes its course
bv flinging itself into the lower basin.
Near this stream the rocks have form
ed a dirk, and lofty vault, which pre
sents a most majestic and terrible
aspect.
It is a work of many days to tra
verse all the different paths which
cress this labyrinth; but next to the
natural beauties which wc natC a* t *-a*
dv described, is an ancient castle it’
ruins, situated in the midst ol those
masses of rock, and which, in ail prob
ability, served as an asylum for rob
bers. The guide, before he takes leave
of his company, generally lu es a pistol
near the nanow opening by which it
is entered. Ihe sound which is rever
berated and increased by the oistatii
echoes, resembles the rumbling sound
o r thunder.
The learned are generally agreed
as to the origin of the singular forms
of these rocks. They imagine that
the whole space which they cover was
formerly a mountain of .sand, and that
a violent irruption of water, forcing a
passage through the parts which were
less compact, carried them aw'ay, and
left, consequently deep spaces be
tween the solid masses. Such is the
general opinion,but it is still doubtful
whether the effect has proceeded from
a sudden irruption, arid whether it
may not more naturally he traced to
that slow but unremitting action of
i .Bure, which metamorphoses every
thing after a certain lapse of time,
though its immediate agency excites
no attention.
‘Phe mountain known by the name
of Meuscheur, or Heuschaar, forming
the southern extremity of this chain,
is in Silesia, in the county ol'Giatz.,
about two mdes and a halt north east
of the little town of Reinet/.. In ap
proaching the mountain in this direc
tion, a most delightful meadow opens
at his feet. It is difficult to reach if on
this side, though considerable efforts
were made in 176a to facilitate the
access. The traveller passes con
stantly over ledges ot rocks, which are
detached mid laid one over another in
all directions. Some of them are as
large as houses ; others equal churches
in magnitude; nor can imagination
give its creations a greater diversity
of form than these rocks present. The
grea er p u t of the rocks are naked,
bin at a considerable height we meet a
space which has been called “ The
Garden,” and which contains trees
anil plants of various kinds, flic
locks lift, themselves all around, piled
one over another. Un the summit of
‘i afelstein, which is one of the most
elevated, there is a most interesting
and romantic prospect.
The rock on which it is fixed is cut
perpendicular, like a wal. at a depth of
many bundled feet, and extends
Through various windings along the
frontiers of Bohemia. A balustrade
has been erected there, in consequence
of its being honored with a visit by the
Prince of i'russia. T!a.-t ualosuade
leads to the veiy extremity, of the
rack, where the spectator may con
template with security the de ightful
prospect which opens before him in all
directions. Under his feet he beholds
the lofty mountains extending south
and west, and presenting summits
which are sometimes rounded, and
sometimes terminated in a point.—
The extensive prospect carries the eye
of the spectator over the distant Brau
nau, Nuchod, and a great r.umber of
other places in Bohemia, immortalized
by the annals of die thirty, arid of the
seven years’ war. The traveller has
some difficulty, however, in believing
that lie lias Bohemia actually before
him, for at this immense height the
mountains which separate the towns,
castles, villages and convents, disap
pear from the sight, so that he imagines
he perceives nothing but a level and
extensive plain.
E.vtract from Jlajor Long's Expe
dition to the Rocky .Mountains. —Mr.
Munroe.a resident of Franklin, related
to us that being on a hunting excursion
in the year 1810, he remained some
time on a branch of the Le Moine river
where he found the relics of the en
campments of a large party of men,
but whether of white troops or Indian
warriors he could not determine. Not
far from this encampment, he observed
a recent mound ol earth, about eight
feet in height, which he was induced to
believe must be a cache, or place of de
posit for the spoils, which the party,
occupying the encampment, had taken
from an enemy, and which they could
not remove with them on their depar
ture. lie accordingly opened the
mound, and was surprised to find in it
the body of a white officer, apparently
a man of rank, which had been interred
with extraordinary care.
The body was placed in a sitting
posture upon an Indian rush mat, with
its bat k resting against some logs, pla
ced around it in the manner of a log
house, enclosing a space of about three
by five feet, and about four feet high,
covered at top with a mat similar to
that beneath. ’I he clothing was still
in sufficient preservation to enable him
to distinguish a red coat trimmed with
gold lace, golden epauletts, a spotted
buff waist-coat, finished also with gold
lace, and pantaloons of white nankeen.
On the head was a round beaver hat,
and a bamboo walking stick, with the
initials J. M. C. engraved upon a gol
den head, reclined against the arm,
but was somewhat decayed where it
came in contact with the nuis-u’tf
part of the leg. On raising the i, .Wj
it was found the deceased had Hg
hastily scalped.
To What nation this officer belong H
Mr. Munroe could not determine. |p H
observed however, tiiat the button
ken from the shoulder, bail the word
Philadelphia moulded upon it. T h t H
cane still remains in the possession ~f H
the narrator, but the button was taken H
by another of bis party. H
In relation to this story, Gen. Smith B
observed, that when he commanded B
the United States’ troops in this de. B
partment, lit* was informed of an action B
that had taken place near the* Le Moine S
in the autumn of 1815, between some B
Spanish dragoons, aided by a lew K
Pawnees, and a war party of Sanko B
and Foxes: In the course of this action I
a Spanish officer had pursued an Indian I
bov, who was endeavouring to escape, I
with a musket on his shoulder, but who I
finding himself nearly overtaken, hail If
discharged the musket behind him at I
random and had killed the officer on B
tlie spot. The skirmish continuing, ■
the body was captured and recaptured ■
several times, but at last remained B
with the Spanish party. This mav B
possibly have been the body discovered fl
by Mr. Munroe, but by whom it was I
buried, in a manner so singular, is I
unknown. 3
In the prairies of Illinois, opposite I
St. Louis are numbers of large mounds. ■
We counted seventy-five in the course 1
of a walk about live miles, which I
brought us to the hill, a few years since I
occupied by the monks of La Trappe. I
This enormous mound lies nearly from I
north to south, but it is so overgrown !
with bushes and weeds, interlaced I
with briars anil vines, that vve were 1
unable to obtain an accurate account I
of its dimensions. I
The survey of these productions of I
human industry, these monuments I
without inscription, commemorating I
the existence of a people once mime- I
rous and powerful,but no longer known I
or remembered, never fails, though I
often repeated, to produce an impres
sion of sadness. As we stand on these
mouldering piles, many of them now
nearly obliterated, we cannot but
compare their aspect of decay with
the freshness of the wide field of na
ture, which we see reviving around
us: their insignificance, with tlie ma
jestic and imperishable features of tlie
landscape. AVe feel the insignificance
and tlie want of permanence in every
tiling human, we are reminded of what
has been so often said of the pyramids
of Egypt, and may with equal propnV
efv be applied to all tlio vuuks o.” wen;
“ these monuments must perish, but
the grass that grows between their dis
jointed fragments, shall be renewed
iYom year to year.”
From the Trenton Emporium.
Retrospection. —There is something
inexpressibly sweet in the retrospect
of days gone by. \N hen memory, ever
active, carries us back to the scent s
in which we passsd our boyhood, and
places us once more in the midst ot
the gay circle of our earliest friends,
and c; Its around us a thousand circum
stances, in all their minutia, which
crowded on our youthful hours, we feci
new born upon the lap of time, and al
most fancy ourselves once more sport
ing in the spring time of our being.- —
Fancy, fora moment, strips us ol our
grey hairs, and crow ns our brows with
garlands, and invigorates our enerva
ted limbs, and pours new life and elas
ticity into our flagging spirits. And
though this retrospect be blended with
some shades of sorrow , and though re
collection recalls many and still deep
er shades of melancholy to tinge the
skies of late summers, we gaze to that
one bright spot on the area of our exis
tence, with still livelier emotions—as
one who on a desert coast, where all
around is barren and joyless, turns liis
weary eye to where, in.the far off hea
vens, one little star twinkles through
the gathered clouds. Have you ever
met an associate of your juvenile days,
after years of separation, without feel
ing these sensations ? Have you ever
gazed on the grass grown grave of one
w hom in youth you loved, without feel
ing your own kindred to the tomb, and
half rejoicing that all who have gone
before you to its silent mansions are
not strangers —that friends whose
countenance you remember and whose
affections you once shared are there ?
These are the sensations awakened by
retrospection in minds feelingly alive
loathe tenderest connexions ot life, and
sensible of itsnariow and uncertain
limits.
•Attendance at Church. —A French
constitutional priest, who had usually
a very small audience, was one day
preaching at the church in his \illnge,
when the doors being open, a gander
and several geese came stalking up the
middle aisle. ’lhe preacher availing
himself of the circumstance, observed,
“ that he could no longer find fault w ith
his district for non attendance, because
though they did not conn < wmselves
they sent their representatives.”