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“ Poor Violante,” the subject of (lie
follow ing piece, is none, other than the
celebratedactress, Mrs. Jordan, Early
in life her extraordinary charms at
tracted (lie licentious eye of the Duke
of Clarence, aon of George lll,—and
she being enarmoured by the attrac
tions of royalty, became his mistress.
She lived w ith him about twenty ytsars,
and bore him eleven children.—All
this time she continued to tread the
stage, the admiration of ‘ millions.’ —
The immense proceeds commanded
bv her splendid talents, were resorted
to by the Duke in the embarrassed
-fctate of his fortunes, occasioned by
gambling and extravagance. She was
received in the first circles, and pie
sided at the table of the Duke on pub
lic occasions. Alter the death ol C hai
lolto, when an heir to the throne was a
subject of solicitude among the royal
family, Ik* resolved to take a wife, and
she was ungratefully abandoned with
no other resource than those talents
•which had so largely contributed to
his support. Disgusted, and with
wounded pride, she retired to France.
In an obscure village, near Paris, she
pined in solitude —the time had now
come when the forsaken lever, and the
heart-rending sigh were no longer a
fiction —and no audience was there to
applaud the tears and distress of re
ality. In a few months the only ‘ bene
fit’’ she had to ask was a shroud and a
grave —those were provided at the ex
pense of the parish. The following
tribute is from the pen of an English
traveller who lately visited the spot —
a spot, which to him, who had seen her
on the stage, could not but associate
at once the ideas of loveliness, and
splendid talents, with those of ingrati
tude, distress, and desolation. R.
1 could not close tliis desultory lay
Nor speak of Violante ! she was not
Sunk into disrepute, yet stole away
From the world’s honours —lost but
un forgot.
’Tis sweet her sad and simple tale to
tell,
While the full bosom at her mention
warms;
And thoughts, like magic,'on the me
mory swell,
As fancy calls her back drest in her
thousand charms.
She died in a strange land —heart-bro-
ken died —
Left in her worse than widowhood—
the tie
Os twenty summers snapt, for a young
bride—
Younger than her young daughter ‘.
None was nigh
To smooth the desolate couch, where
on she lay
Withering; but like the tempest
stricken leaf,
That waits for nature’s summon to de
cay—
She shrank before the fury of her
grief.
I stood beside her grate : her grave—
whose tone
Was melody to millions —and I wept:
Remembering tiiat even that was not
her own,
Rut there, by casual charity, she slept!
For she died destitute, nor leit withal
To buy the rites of sepulture —yes,
she—
Whose life was one rich bounty—-lack
ed a pall,
While he that should have mourned
kept bridal revelry.
Poor Violante ! there she at last
With all the Perditas: but one
strange hand,
To twine a coronal tor all the past,
And one chance pilgrim at her stone
to stand !
His conscience be his curse, who left
her so—-
I name him not, his name would
stain my page;
Swept down oblivion’s gulf 1 let him
go,
Mi\t with the meaner base who scan
dalize the age.
THF. RUSSIAN UKASE.
A poetical friend, on reading; Alex
ander's claim to lour thousand miles
of ocean, hastily furnished us with the
following pasquinade. Halt. Citron.
Old Neptune one morning was seen on
the rocks,
Shedding tears by the pail-full, and
tearing his locks.
He cried, * a land lubber has stole on
this day
Full four thousand miles of my ocean
away ;
He swallowed the earth (he exclaim’d)
with emotion,
And then to quench appetite slap goes
the ocean,
Brother Jove must look out for his skies
let me tell ye,
Or the Russian will bury them all in
his belly.
VISIT TO COLONEI. BOON.
The writer was induced by curirtsi
ty to visit this extraordinary person
the summer before his death, lie
then lived with his sons on the banks
of the Missouri river, 40 miles from
its mouth. W c had, on out journey,
heard much of his shunning society,
and fleeing to the woods upon the ap
proach of company ; but this our ex
perience soon proved the mere inven
tion of travellers. We had an intro
duction to his son, a substantial and
respectable planter, who soon made
us acquainted with his father He was
then old and feeble, yet in his every
gesture and sentence, you were im
pressed with his former energy and
decision < f character. He was cheer
ful and talkative, and prevailed upon
us to dine with him. After dinner we
entered into familiar conversation with
the old patriarch, and from the gar
rulity incident to old age, he related,
much of the history of his mist life.
VYe observed, that we were wippv to j
find that the report of his death while)
aiming his rifle at a deer, was without j
foundation. He smiled and sjid “ iNii-
ny heroic exploits and chivalrous ad-1
ventures are related of me which ex
ist onl v in the regions of fancy. With
■ me the* world has taken great liberties,
land yet I have been but a common
ma ..* It is true that I have suffered
many hardships and miraculously es
caped many perils ; but others of my
companions have experienced the
samu. When 1 was young (in Virgi
nia) I heard much from the surveyors
of the fertility of the soil beyond the
mountains, and the abundance of!
game in that quarter. Naturally ro
mantic and fond of the chase, I indu
ced a few families to go and settle be
yond the Allegames. We soon form
ed a small and enterprising company ;
but on our way thither suffered many
privations, and on one occasion a part
of our company were killed by the In
dians. This cooled, but did not ex
tinguish, the ardor of my companions.
We proceeded and settled a few miles
from Lexington. Here we built a log
fort, and at first were undisturbed by
the Indians. I afterwards was inform
ed by the savages, that at first they
knew not of our settlement, for they
were all west of the Ohio. Kentucky
was never inhabited by the Indians,
but was always, by a compact, from
time immemorial, kept as a general
hunting ground ; the land was called
Kentucky, and its name imports, land
of blortl, from the many wars occa
sioned by ihe violation ot this com
pact. Soon however, our fort was con
tinually surrounded by the red men,
and their continued cries in the vicin
ity threw a gloom over the most cou
rageous. Pressed with hunger within
the fort, hundreds of miles from a
white settlement, and threatened with
instant death if we left our residence,
we were certainly in a very perilous
situation, f r provisions, we depend
ed on the game of the forest, and left
our fort over night, hunted the suc
ceeding day, and returned the next
night.
Once our party were attacked in
returning, and 1 with others sallied
out to their assistance ; a few were
killed, and I, in a personal encounter
with an Indian, received many severe
wounds. At another time our fort
was stormed and well nigh carried, but
a fortunate thought struck me ; the In
dians and backwoodsmen arc much
afraid of big guns ,• and to impress
them with the idea that we had these,
I ordered some large logs bored and
the holes filled with powder; the ex
plosion frightened away our enemy.
However, after many struggles w r e
subdued the country and the Indians ;
and our fields were waving with corn,
and our friends settling around us, and
we then expected to pass together ma
ny happy clays ; but alas ! it was then
my misery began. New claimants
successfully contested our land titles,
and once again we were thrown into
poverty and despair. I determined to
quit my native land, and seek refuge
with my deadliest foes, anil trust to
to their magnanimity. \N ilh my nu
merous family 1 came to this place,
and for a horse bought a large Spanish
patent, then surrounded by ravenous
beasts and savages, who considered
me the instrument by which they had
lost their hunting ground (Kentucky.)
They pitied my helpless and wretch
ed situation, and were too high-mind
ed to crush a fallen foe. They were
kind and generous in their intercourse
with me, and never hut once stole my
property, which the chiefs soon resto
red. Rut within a few years, since the
cession of Louisiana, the country has
much improved. JM y descendants and
others are comfortably settled around
me, and nothing embitters my old age,
hut the circulation of the absurd and
ridiculous stories, that 1 retire as civ
ilization advances ; that 1 shun the
white men ami seek the Indians ; ami
that now, even when obi, I wish to re
tire beyond the second Allegames.
(Rocky* Mountains.) You know all
this is false. Poverty and enterprise
excited me to quit, my native state,
and poverty and despair my native
land.”
On parting, he desired us again to
visit him, but soon after lie died at a
very advanced age. A I’iuvF.LLttn.
[vY* Vork Statesman.
HOW TO FORM A LAWYER.
A young barister who looks to em
inence from his own sheer unaided
merits, must have a mind and frame
| prepared by nature for endurance
of unremiting toil. He must cram
his memory with the arbitrary prin
cipals of a complex and incongru
ous code and be equally prepared,
as occasions serves, to apply or
misapply them. He must not only
surpass his competitors in the art
of reasoning right from right prin
cipals —the legick of common life ;
but he must be equally an adept in
reasoning right from wrong prin
ciples, and wrong from light ones,
lie must learn to glorv in a perplex
ing sophistry, as in the discovery
of an immortal truth. He mustmake
up his mind and his far e to demon
strate in open court with all imagi
nable gravity, that nonsense is re
plete with meaning, and that the
clearest meaning is manifestly non-j
sense by construction. This is]
what is meant by “ legal habits of I
thinking;” and to acquire them he
must not only prepare his faculties
by a course of assiduous cultivation,
but he must absolutely foreswear j
all other studies and speculations
that may interfere with their perfec
tion. There must be no dallying
with literature ; no hankering after
comprehensive theories for the
good of men , away must he wiped
all such “ trival found records.” He
must see nothing in mankind hut a
great collection of plaintiffs and de
fendants, and consider no revolu
tion in their affairs as comparable ;
in intrest to the last term report ol I
points of practice decided in banco j
regis, [king's bench.') As he walks i
the streets, he must give way to no ,
“ commercing with the skies;” no!
idle dreams of love, and rainbows, j
and poetic forms, and all the bright j
illusions upon which the “fancyj
free” can feast. If a thought of.
love intrudes, it must be connected
with ths law of marriage settle
ments, and articles of seperation i
from heel and board. So of the
other passions ; and of every, the
most interesting incident and situa
tion in human life—he must view
them all with reference to their
“legal effect and operation.”
He has no choice ot cases ; he
must throw himself heart and soul
into the most unpromising that is
confind to him. He must fight
pitched battles with obstreperous
witness. He must have lungs to
out clamour the most clamorous.
He must keep battering for hours
at a jurv that he sees to be impreg
nable. Finalv, he must appear to
be sanguine, even after a defeat and
be prepared to tell a knavish client
that has been beaten out of the
courts of common law, that his “ is
a clear case for relief in equity.”
RUSSIAN MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
The wife promises her husband
never to let him see her transgres
sions ; and he as punctually promis
es when she is detected, without
the least anger, to beat her without
mercy; so they both know what each
has to expect; the lady transgresses
is beaten, taken again into favor and
all goes on as before.
When a Russian young lady there
fore, is to be married, her father
with a cudgel in his hand, asks the
bridegroom whether he chooses
this virgin for his bride ? to which
the other replies in the affirmative.
Upon which, the father turning the
lady three times round, and
her three strokes with his cudgel on
the back, “ My dear, cries he, these
are the last blows you are to receive
from your tender father ; I resign
my authority and my cudgel to your
husband; he knows better than I
the use of either.” The bridegroom
knows decorum too well to accept
of the cudgel abruptly ; he assures
the father that the lady will never
want it, and that he would not for
the world make any use of it. Rut
the father who knows what the lady
may want better than he, insists
upon his acceptance. Upon this
there follows a scene ol Russian
politeness, while one refuses and
the other oilers the cudgel. The
whole however ends with thebiicle
groom's taking it, upon which lilt
lady drops a courtesy in token of
obedience and the ceremony pro
ceeds as usual.
TO PRESERVE BACON
At all seasons, and in all places.
A correspondent ol the Ncw-En
gland Farmer, says :—Much expe
rience has enabled me to ofler you
a prescription, on this subject, that
never has, and never will fail of
answering the purpose, viz preset v
ing those meats safe from ravages
of all small animals, and pure and
sound for any length ol time, and in
any climate. It is the use ol Char
coal. The nature of this material
is well understood by Chemists,
and its properties and effects fully
explained. My mode ot putting
down any kind of smoked meats, is
thus : Take a tierce or box and co
ver the bottom with charcoal redu
ced to small pieces, hut not to dust;
cover the legs or pieces ol meat
with stout brown paper sewed a
round so as to exclude all dust; lay
them down on the coal in compact
order, then cover the layer with coal,
and so on until your business is
done, and cover the top with a good
thickness of coal.
The use of charcoal, properly
prepared in boxes, is of great bene
fit in preserving fresh provisions,
j butter and fruits in warm weather;
; also in recovering meats ot any
kind, when partially damaged, by
covering the same a lew hours in
the coal. Let those wiiose situation
i requires it, make the experiment, on
any article of food subject to decay,
and they will more than realize their
expectation.
The following authentic military
anecdote, exhibits a trait of milita
ry virtue, that ought to be declared
in honor ol the enemy ; Col. Har
vey, who commanded the 14th
light dragoons in most of the seri
ous engagements on the Peninsula,
having formerly lost an arm in ac
tion, was attended by an orderly
man, who held a guiding rein to the
bridle of the colonel’s charger ; this
■ attendant being slain by his side,
just as the enemy’s cavalry had
: broken the line of the 14th, by a
I heavy charge of superior numbers,
! great slaughter ensued on both
sides, when a French officer, imme
diately opposed in front of Col.
I Harvey, lifted his sabre, and was
in the act of cutting him down, but,
observing the loss of his arm, he
instantly dropped his point on the
Colonel’s shoulder, and bowing
his head, passed on. The 14th ral
lied soon after, and gallantly reco
vered their ground.
A Yankee pedler, on his way to
the west with a two horse load of
notions, put up at the house of an
honest Dutchman between Harris
burg and Wheeling, and as it hap
pened was detained there three or
four davs by a heavy rain which
made the roads and streams impas
sible. At last the sky brightened
up and he hitched too, but when
the reconing came to be paid which
was 10 dollars, Jonathan requested
the host to score it until he returned
from his voyage, promised very
honestly to discharge it then. This
did not suit the Dutchman however,
who insisted on the cash, which
was at last reluctantly
was then the custom, as it is now,
to treat a traveller, upon payment of
his bill, ton glass, and the tavern
keeper was never backward in fol
lowing the custom. But on hand
ing out a mug of clear cider, Jona
than remarked shrewdly that it
would make fine wine, and said he
had a secret by which, through a
short process, he could convert
cider into the best of wine. This
put Mynheer on the nettles; pos
sess it he must, so finally took the
Yankee up on his oflfer'of putting the
cider into the process of wine ma
king for ten dollars down, and fifty
more when he returned, if it suc
ceeded to the landlord’s mind.
Jonathan was accordingly conduct
ed into the cellar, and having pro
cured a half inch auger bored a hole
in one end of a hogshead of cider,
and directed Mynheer to apply his
thumb to it while he bored a like
hole in the other end, and ordered
him to stretch his other arm so as
to cover that also—having thus got
the unsuspecting Dutchman into bu
siness he directed him to remain so
until he cut two'spiggots for the
holes; and walking out to his wag
gon, jumped in and was off, leaving
his credulous friend to make wine
of his cider the best wav he coulj/l
and to get hack the ten dollars wh ta I
he caught him. |
PRATING FOll OUR ENEMIES, E
The parson of a corporate town | !a . I
ving been affronted by the mayor, win, I
was a butcher, determined on* the f„|. f
lowing way of professionally resenting I
it. Vhen preaching before the corpo” I
ration, he introduced the follovvinu I
sentence in his occasional prayers? I
“ And since, O Lord ! thou hast com. I
manded us to pray for our enemies I
we beseech thee tor the right worship. I
fill, the mayor : give him the strength I
of a Sampson, that he may knock I
down sin like an ox, and sacrifice ini. I
quity like a lamb, and may Lis ho<l
be exalted above his brethren. 4
TIIE MAN OF PLEASURE. |
The man of pleasure, alas ! vvLt
shall we say of him ? He is sunk to
the lowest step of degradation in the
moral scale ; he has robbed himself of
the ordinary consolations resorted to
by ordinary men. He has no stay on
which to lay hold, no twig at which to
catch, no pretence by which to flatter
himself into a false peace—no recol
lections of past usefulness: He has
neither served his country, nor benefi
ted society 7 .
NATURE AND RELIGION.
After all, I am convinced that na
ture is not to be fully enjoyed with
out Nature is but the
handmaid to devotion ; and where
piety is unknown her offices are but
little understood. Men may pur
sue nature scientifically to Iced then
curiosity and pant for splendid dis
coveries, as the road to fame; but
no one I believe, ever had a true
and exalted relish for her enjoy
ments, hut the child of devotion.—•
It was not until I became the sub
ject of religious influence, that I
saw nature as she should be seen
and enjoyed her as she should be
enjoyed. It was then I could re
cognize a present God in all her
works; when I saw his wisdom
composing the harmonies of nature,
his finger directing the movements
beneficial to man ; when I saw the
sun filled with his glory—the moon
walking in his brightness—the lily
clothed in his beauty—the water
held in his hand—and every thing
animated by 7 his life—when, in a
word, I could look round on the
whole heaven and earth, and adop
ting the divine sentiments of a fa
vorite poet, say, “ My Father made
them all!” Then it was that na
ture first appeared to me the most
interesting—most sublime ! All
that was filial and tender—all that
was exalted and religious now strug
gled within me. I felt that reli
gion had united me, to the Author
of all things; and I surveyed the
beauties of nature as a son surveys
a paternal inheritance ; frequently
ascending from the wonders of cre
ation to the more sublime wonders
of redemption.”
Notice.
AN Election will be held at the
house ofMuj.John Keener, (Ma
con,) on Monday the 23d day of June
next, for a Justice of the Inferior
Court, to fill the vacancy of Davenport
Lawson, resigned.
Tarply Holt, J. I. C. R. C.
C. YV. Rains, J. I. C. R. C.
May 24, 1823. 11
SU’lYNed
II ROM the subscriber, a yoke of
OXEN, both red and white pied,
one rather darker than the other.—
Each of them lias a small bell on—-
marked with a swallow fork in one
ear, and a smooth crop on the other.
Any information of them will be
thankfully received, or if stopped so
that I can get them, the trouble and
expense of doing so will be liberally
rewarded.
Claiborn M. Jackson.
May 31. Swll
KT T *Ve are authorised to announce
Dr. S. M. INCERSOLL, a candidate
for a seat in the representative branch
of the next legislature, for Ribb county.
’ 1 * “MB!
JCT* We are authorised to announce
C. W. RAINS, Esq. a candidate for a
seat in the Representative branch ol
the next legislature, for Ribb county.
We ave authorised to
announce Timothy Matthews
esq. a candidate to represent this
county in the Senatorial branch ol
the next Legislature of this State.
Stephen WWVuims is a
candidate to represent tliis county in
the next Legislature of this State.