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PROSPECTIS
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jgjUMJST JUSVSITOIBSI#
Agricultural and Mercantile Intelligencer.
MY recent relinquishment of a participation
in the editorial labors of an old and well
"ctahlished journal, would seem to require Imt
fl v nreliimnary remarks, in the proposed under
*aHn<r were it that ,h( T arr ; USUilll 7 dTan
r, u £J public expectation, and sanctioned by
tnm there is no good reason why this
honored observance” should be disregard
„ tiie present instance, I shall submit an epit
iVfmy principles, and the course which shall
he observed in conducting anew journal. Ihe
rMeet*!' the proposed publication being purely
"4t its title implies, supercedes the necessity
of that political commentary which the doctrines
, t tiie day have usually demanded; yet, as my
former professions are held with unabated at
tachment, and there being no neutral ground, in
the conflicting and varied sentiments, which dai
iv arise as to both menand measures—it follows,
that I should not only make an exposition of my
nolitical tenets, hut also, that they should be
boldly set forth, and fearlessly defended. I have
ever indulged an ardent devotion to Republican
ism as the term was understood by its advocates
j n >9g_ a sacred regard to the letter and spirit of
the Constitution, and a determined and fixed hos
tility to every tiling like constructive or implied
powers— an extension of equal justice to all par
ties—that all power is inherent in and derived
from the people, as the original source and ulti
mate tribunal—the independence and distinct so
veroignty of the States, and their confederacy as
a Union, under a government limited and actual
v defined in its powers. These are the promi
nent articles of my political faith, and believing
in their correctness, shall abide by them in every
trial.
Among tiie many topics of deep interest that
agitate the people of all classes, is the exercise
o? unwarrantable governmental influence on the
industry and resources of the country, and the
unconstitutional expenditure of the public treas
ure to objects of Internal Improvement —measures
too frequently destitute of general benefit, and of
tentimes marked by a spirit of partiality, selfish
ness and injustice. It would be criminal for one
“seated on the watch-tower,” and in the exercise
of the duties which belong to the Press, to ob
serve, with callous indifference, the causes which
have produced, and the effects which have re
sulted from the latitudinary construction of the
Constitution, ’flip dangerous consequences which
may ensue, are already indicated by the excited
feelings of the country. lam deeply impressed
that wrong has been done, and evil tolerated—
yet, with a spirit of forbearance, it would be bet
ter forthe oppressed to boar their evils whilst
they are tolerable, than “fly to those they know
not of.”
The present is an era in the ldztory of our gov
ernment, distinguished for improvement." The
lover of his country beholds it on its “return
march” to its original purity and principles.—
Already has the distinguished head of the gov
ernment, said—“ The successful operation of the
federal system can only be preserved bv cotifin
i'\i h to the few and simple, but yet important
objects fur which it was designed.” This is a
guarantee, that the purpose ot the present Kxe
cutive of the Union anil his supporters, is an ef
fort to restore the Constitution to its original
healthy and unimpaired condition. lam happy
to accord with the Administration and its friends
m tiie wise and well directed course which is
pursued by them.
1 he time was, when to dissent from the inea
suns of any of the prominent parties of our State,
t)> an attachment to any of the others, or to their
then distinguished organs, implied an hostility
am acrimony which frequently had no bounds,
and rendered "Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation
an empty and absurd profession. The times and
circumstances have now become more congenial
t’ liettor feelings: the perplexing difficulties
, , have surrounded us—those emanating
miroai, and fostered at home, have subsided,
vwui the acknowledgment of our rights, and the
sun csstul accomplishment of nearly all the ends
111 1 "e have contended for. 1 can review my
f* s ( ’ ours '' in relation to State affairs, with cheor
‘‘ y. a l’P ro bation; my future efforts will be inti
„ ;'!, e )’ fio 'i e eted with the past; and it is hoped,
! oa o .^ < t a ’ f ‘ tu an adverse party. The writer
does not believe in the infallibility of man, nor
:;‘ ' w perfection as a party; it will therefore be
, : *f 1 , ea ' r ° r support worthy men, and ap-
U „ su '’. or| hodox measures as may emanate
i'iil,lij’ emilne T atr i°tism and unadulterated re
re. pp a i mSn T" SUch . mcasure s as will best answer
s , 01 our tree government, and of our
no-his nf o tfSt: r s "? h men as "HI “defend the
Si lies . t i le , I the Sovereignty of the
Fiiini,’™ - th e Constitutional authority of the
It \ 7, a f nst '‘ll encroachments.”
Intel/:mi, 16 m y studious endeavor to render the
an Agricultural and Mercantile ve
jju.if ‘f ( ',f *t> I shall hasten to possess my
aan,® ® * 11,0 accessary materials which these
of iht. m-T e,S ' ir . nis h, to unfold every species
to atlou "hieh will be thought to instruct,
tli C an< ! t 0 please. It is believed, that
Mea•li-mt C nr Uon cf interest, between the
centaUc , an/ lanter, cannot fail to render ac-
Mv t iiret Ai’ n< i! "'hatever may benefit the other,
and m,,., J 1 ’?! )e use( i to procure the earliest
it |„,f tiseful mercantile information, and lay
Ko into [i, 1 ’ all| i it " ill he my desire to
best oflci-i fa ; VlT;ur:; ’ ail| i ff ar, ier the choicest and
• uffcnngg tor my Agricultural readers.
Mirnv t MARMADUKE J. SLADE.
January 1, iß3j.
*f.. ‘ llr< a y a Pocket Hook, containing
Dec HM| teoll ';', mar & Co s• far S3OO, due 25th
Kii,, ’ Payabio to Seaborn Jones, Adm’r and
Cet“ Ullock ’ Mm’* of <’• Bullock, dcc’d.
ly to m,. i ?' u>ra other papers in the book, use-
CX: ! F lsc : The finder will please
♦ litortii’fi ,H \i M>o i subscriber, or the
beiriv,.,, ;c" V a ' " a Advertiser, and a reward will
Ulll required.
.Tunc 7 u * J- BULLOCK.
iJji.r i;, ‘‘““'‘““H Candidate for the She
i,n n , J, 0 , D>bb County, at the ensuing elec-
t fi'' o ts Dimself to bis fiiends that he is
"-vivciA 08 °, mow from an earnest desire to
'Vn |’rm,i' t i° Ino uni,:Jlts arising from the office
htes (u r Vr son aßß *!?netl by most eandi
- (tow U) the importunity nf Inends.
vouxb JOHNSTON.
*' *• U-tde
For July
I pson Salt's.
Will be sold at the Court-house in the town of Tho
inaston, on the first Tuesday in July next ,
f OT of land, No. 28 in the 15th district o’fori
finally Monroe now Upson, levied on as the
property oi Joseph ti. Arvin, to satisfy sundry li
Lot of land No. 52, in the lGtli district of for
merly Houston now Upson, also, a negro fellow
bythename of Abb, taken as the property of Hen
ry Kendall and Elizabeth P. Kendall, y ex‘i of
Henry lvendall, dec. to satisfy Eaton Bass.
L. G. DAWSON, D. Sh’ff.
86 ebb silled
" ill be sold at the Court-house in the town of Ma
e*>n, on the first Tuesday in July next,
WATER lot No. IC, and improvements, occu
pied by Day & Butts, and negro boy Ed
mund, all levied on as ti e property of Nathaniel
f ornwell, cr his in tore in sain property, to sa
tisfy a fi fa from Mclntosh Superior Court.
2 negroes, Simon a boy and Missouri a oirl,
sold as the property ofEliud Harris, to satisfy a fi
la in favor of Francis Bacon.
AVHI be sold ns above,
negro girls, Missouri about 3 years old
A and Loretto about 3 years old, tala us the
property of W illiam P. Harris, one ; evro girl
named Mary about 10 years old, 2024 acres of
Land No. 141 in the third district originally
Houston now Bibb county—levied on as the prep
ay of Joshua Jordan, to satisfy sundry fieri fa
cias m tavor of John .S. Hunter bearer vs. said
Haras and Jordau— properly pointed out by the
defendants—levy returned to me bv Bur well M’-
Lendon constable.
Abner Cherry’s interest in ten acres of Land
and improvements, whereon said Cherry now
lives, known by No. 2 —levied on to satisfy one
fieri facias in favor of Kimberly & Chisholm vs.
G. W . Jackson, and Abner Cherry and others—
levy returned to me by John Smith constable.
H. 11. HOWARD, Dtp. Sh'ff.
At the same place, on the first Tuesday in July,
1 liree negroes, Simon a boy about ten years
old, Missouri a girl about 8 years old; sold as
the property of W illiam P. Harris to satisfy a
mortgage fieri facias from the Inferior Court of
Bibb County in favor of Kimberly & Chisholm
vs said Harris.
WM. B. CONE, Sheriff.
Houston Salr*.
Jl ill be sold ai the Court-House in the toion of Perry
vn the first Tuesday in July.
?7 a nfi one half Lots Pine Land in the tenth dist.
“ °f Houston county, well improved, whereon
John Billips now’ lives, on Moss Creek, adjoin
ing Tull,Jimerson and ot'nejs—all levied on as
property of Abner Wimberly and William Ham
ilton, executors of Richard Smith, dec. to sarisfy
a fieri facias in favor of Zaehliariali Lamar.
Also, will be sold as above.
4 ■ (5) acres of Land, more or less,known
*■’* 1-cV by Lot No. ltl in the first district
formerly Henry now Butts county-levied on as
the property of Hugh Hamil, to satisfy a fieri fa
cias issued from the superior court of said county
in l'avor of Elijah Padget vs. Hugh Hamil and
Simeon Hamil and Bryant V. Hamil.
202 j acres of land, more or less, known by Lot
No. 150 in the third district of formerly Monroe
now Butts county —levied on as the property of
\\ illiam Bennet to satisfy a fieri facias issued
from a justices court of Newton county in favor of
James Howard vs. 1,. B. Hargroves ad’mr. & c.
ot William Bennet, deceased—property pointed
out by plaintiff's attorney.
H. Yv. HARKNESS, Dtp. Sheriff.
Slat is Sales.
Jl ill be sold at the Court-house in the town of Jack
son, on the first Tuesday in July next,
4 negro girl about six or seven years old by the
A name ol lvisiah, one yoke oxen and a cart, one
cow and calf, 2 heifers about two or three years
old, one steer yearling, two sows and twelve pigs
and seven shouts, one patent clock, one folding
table, four sitting chairs, one silver watch, one
plank box, one mahogany dressing table, one pine
chest—all levied on as the property of Palmer A.
1 liggins, to satisfy a fieri facias issued from Butts
Inferior Court in favor of Simpson Bobo vs said
Higgins— property pointed out by plaintiff’s attor
ney and defendant.
Lot No 1 in square No. 19, whereon is a dwell
ing house, and Lot No. 4 in square No. 19 in the
town of Jackson, each being2os feet square more
or less; levied on as the property of Daniel M.
Jackson to satisfy sundry fieri facias issued from
Butts superior court, one in favor of Elisha W.
Chester and two in favor of the officers of Butts
Superior court by vs. Daniel M. Jackson.
JOSEPH SUMMERLIN, Sheriff.
One hundred acres Pine Land is the fourteenth
district of Houston county, with a good gristmill
known now as Dykes’ mill; levied on as the
property of Jordan Dykes and Edward Welch,
his security, to satisfy two fieri facias in favor of
Benjamin Kent: levy made and returned to me
by a constable.
One smail part, of a Lot in the town of Perry,
known in the plan of said town by No. 4 in square
letter I), being 210 feet in length and 30 in bredth
with a store house thereon, fronting Broad street;
levied on as the property of Keeland Tyner, to
satisfy a fieri facias in favor of Isaiah Chapman.
Smart, a negro hoy, ten or twelve years old; lev
ied on as the property of James Finley principal,
Solomon Simpson and E. K. Hodges his secu
rities, to satisfy two fieri facias vs. James Finley
—levy made and returned to ineby a constable.
One featherbed—levied on as the property of
John Tyner, tax-collector of Houston county, to
satisfy two fieri facias, one in tavor oftlie Justices
of the Inferior Court lor the use of the county ol
Houston.
HENRY W. RALEY, Sheriff.
rpilE subscribers have united themselves in
A the practice of Medicine. Their shop is next
door to the Repertorv Office.
AMBROSE BABER.
JAMES T. PERSONS.
Macon, May 3, 1831. 6
PRINTING
Of every description.
f/ie cAt/wrfou Gfur.
MACON: FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1831.
Cotton ISffffffinfj.
The subscriber has now in store,
13 PIECES HEMP
0 'afl Fw it.iuai.wi,
Of good quality, and will have a full supply
during the season, which wtll be sold ou ac-'
coinmodating terms.
WM. P. HUNTER,
Macon, June 10. 16-3 t
T~ For Saif, or Kent,
HE Property recently owned by Col. Joel
Baley, and known as (lie
tfloantain Spout Retreat,
In Bulls Count v
This Property is too well known to require de
scription.
J. T. ROWLAND.
April 23 3
Cotton tiofioincj.
F|Xli E Subscribers are receiving Two thousand
pieces hemp, flax and tow BAGGING, which
they offer for sale at very low prices on an
extensive credit for approved paper.
june, 17. 18 DAY a BUTTS.
JYbtiee.
npilE copartnership heretofore existing between
-* the subscribers under the firm of
Cr. Champlain *V Cos.
was dissolved on the tith inst. by mutual consent.
G. CHAMPLAIN is fully authorised to settle
the affairs of the concern,
JOHN T. ROWLAND.
L. ATRISON,
CL CHAMPLAIN.
Macon, June 7, 1831. 13-8 t
The business will be continued by
G. CHAMPLAIN.
June 7, 1831. 15-8
Hook Store .
MIL LIS, SHOm'EIjL A' (o .
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
HISTORICAL.
Life of Marion,
“ Washington,
Marshalls do
Robertsons America,
Modern Europe
Grimshaw’s England,
Grimshaw’s Rome,
Gibbon’s do
Scott’s Life of Napoleon
Rollins History
Plutarch’s Lives,
Josephus
Goldsmith's Works
Grimshaw’s U. States.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
Smileys Geography and
Atlas,
Morses do do
Pocket Maps,
POLITICAL.
Says Political Economy
Junius’ Lctteis,
Fergusons Civil Society
MEDICAL, Idc.
Bells Anatomy,
Manual of general Anat
omy,
Cooper’s Surgery
Eberle’s Practice
Cox’s Dispenstory
Ewell’s Medical Com
panion,
Gregory’s Practice
Taverneirs Surgery
Pharmacopia
Manual of Obstetrics
Rush on the Mind,
Dewe’s Practice
Thomas Practice,
Francis’ Denman
Pof.trv, Novels, Mis
cellanies, ac.
Pope’s Works,
Scott’s do
Moore’s do
Burn’s do
Hannah Moore’s do
Arabian Nights
Galt’s Byron
Milton’s Works
Paley’s Philosophy
Lafayette in America
Cowper’s Poems
Don Quixotte,
Gil Bias
Humphrey Clinker
Tom Jones
Peregrine Pickle
Roderick Random
Hndibrass
Syntax’s Tour
Beauties of Shakspeare
“ “ Waverly
Unique
Moral Tale
Course of Time
British Spy
Thompsons Seasons
Vicar of Wakefield
Old Bachelor
Tavern Anecdotes
Events in Paris
Riley’s Narrative
Paul and Virginia
Cooper’s Novels
Heiress of Bruges
Saparation
Oconians
Tho Baroney
Lost Heir,
GRAiM srvnii s.
A FEW Grass Scythes, with snaths com
-IX. plete. For sale by
ELLIS, SHOTWELL, A Cos.
May 3, 1831. 4-tf.
Wok s.ij jL
V SUPERIOR and well tuned PIANO, near
ly new—enquire of J. T. LAMAR.
June 21, 1831. 19—3 w
IS a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bibb
county, at the ensuing election.
May 19 19-tf
Devereux
Disowned
Darnly
Denounced
Clowdesly
Breckenbridge Hall
Record of Woman
Rivals.
Divinity, Theology ac.
i Bibles and Testaments of
sizes and qualities.
Family do. plain, extra
and superfine
Bible Questions
. Moral Instructor
Pilgrim’s Progress
1 Songs of Zion
Saints Rest
> Rise and Progress
Magee on Atonement
Davies’ Sermons
; Bucks Dictionary
Baxters Calls
- Testament History
Christian Pattern
Devotion of the Heart
. Confessions of Faith.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
English and Clasiical.
Murray’s Grammar
“ Exercises
“ Reader
New York Revder, No.
1,2, and 3.
Carculators,
Juvenile Books,
New York Primers
Pikes Arithmetic
Walkers Dictionary
Hoopers do
Johnson’s do
- Enticks do
Blairs Rhetoric
Jomeson’s Logic,
Day’s Algebra
Crabb’s Synonymes
ffimpson’s Euclid
Adam’s Latin Grammar
Virgil Delphini
Horace do
Ovid do
Schriveli’s Lexicon,
PLAIN AND FANCY
Stationary.
Foolscap and Letter
paper,
Green Medium Paper
Pen Knives
Silver Pencil Cases
Ink, Pounce, India
Rubber, Slates,
Ready made Pens,
s Quills —a large assort
ment,
Bank Note Paper—me
dium size,
Ledgers, Journals, and
Day Books, all sizes,
Copy Books,
Crayons
Pocket Books,
Patent Lithographic bills
of Exchange
Fancy Snuff Boxes,
A variety of Prints and
Albums, elegantly and
beautifully executed.
Paper Hangings of vari
ous patterns.
Segar Boxes, a. ac.
“A poet’s hand and prophet’s fire,
•'Struck the wild warblings of his lyre.”
THE LOVE-WATCHER.
“Ah, Love and—Hope should ever go together.”
A lady sat on a lofty hill,
And she looked toward the sea;
And I marvelled as I gazed on her,
Who could the Lady be.
Her robe was snowy white, her veil
Was like the rainbow’s hue ;
There was a blush on her gentle cheek,
And a tear in her eye of blue.
Her hair was braided from her brow,
And an opal set in pearls,
Still varying all its trembling light.
Was in her auburn curls.
She sat and watched a bright bark gjj#
Towards the farther shore ;
And I saw that she was beautiful,
But I knew nothing more.
’Ttvas neon, and the jLady sung—
“lie must havecrossed the sea;
Even now the waves are ebbing back
And they’ll bring him back to me.”
And shading her eyes with ivory hand
She gazed most earnestly
But there was not a speck to break
The line of sea and sky.
’Twas eve—the red sun in the west
Was resting on the wave,
And a sigh, that almost breathed of fear,
The gentle Lady gave.
But still she watched, and tried to sing,
Though in a saddened strain,
“Oh, 1 remember all he swore,
1 kuow he’ll come again.’,
Tvvaa twilight—one red lingering streak
Alone still told of day,
One trembling star was glimmering
Above the watery way.
The Lady looked—oh, such a look—
So strained to pierce the dark—
Till she trusted that it was for tears
She could not see his bark.
Twas midnight, countless stars were out,
The Heavens were calm and fair,
The moon showed all the dancing sea,
But ah ! no sail was there 1
The Lady gave one lingering look
Across the flashing tide,
Then failed the light in her blue eyes,
And she laid her down and died !
They told me who the Lady was—
Alas ! ’tis ever so,
She lingers to the very last,
Then dies away for woe.
I marvel not the Lady died
Thus like a wearied dove ;
For they told me that her name Was Hope,
And that she watched for Love.
M. A. BROWN.
CHILDREN PLAYING.
Laugh on —while yet the rosy blush
Of childhood’s morning tints your skies,
Laugh on—while yet the kindling flush
Is on your cheeks and in your eyes ;
I would not tell, to make you grieve,
How soon that wish shall pass away—
That morning fade and only leavo
The broad dull light of common day.
It makes my very spirit glad
To see yodr glee and oareless joys—
And may ye never be more sad
Than ye are now r my bright-eyed boys !
But lean read on every face,
A something upon very brow,
Which will not pass without a trace
Of things ye are not dreaming uow.
First, passions wild and dark and stroug,
And hopes and powers and feelings high ;
Then, manhood’s cares, a rushing throng,
Shall sink the cheek and dim the eye j..
And brows shall grow all pale with care,
And lips shall writhe in scom or pain.
And age come on with hoary hair,
And sadly tend to earth again:
And cherish’d fancies, one by one,
Shall slowly fade, from day to day,—
And then, from weary sun to sun,
Ye will not have the heart to play i
Bitoft amidsttbe slufung scene
Xe’il smile on childhood’s thoughtless joy
And wish you had forever been
The careless, laughing, happy boy.
From the New York American.
A SONG.
Why should the tears unbidden start
To those dark eyes of thine,
While thus I press thy throbbing heart
la fervent love to wine 7
M hat sudden thought of doubt or fear
O’ereastg thy smiling brow!
If memory wakes the silent tear,
Oh bid it slumber now !
No thorns shall strew the rosy chain
That links us thus in bliss,
The world has hours enough for pain,
\\ e will not yield it this.
Then wipe those falling gems away,
And dream no mote of sorrow,
. W e’Ll give to joy this fleeting day,
Though storms may cloud the morrow.
Whtn years have furrowed deep with Care
This thoughtless brow of mine—
Have silver’d o’er thy flowing hair,
And paled that check of thine
If ruthless age, in pain or woe,
Thy cup of life should steep—
When every hope has fled below,
’Twill then be time to weep. A. P.
A HUSBAND SUNG TO SLEEP BV HIS WIFE.
She bids you,
Upon the wanton rushes lay you down,
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth yob,
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness:
Making such difference ’twixt wake and sleep,
As 13 the difference ’twixt day and night,
The hour before the heavenly-hamess’d team
Begins his golden progress in the cast.
MR. HALLECfc.
The following spirited, graceful, and harmoni
ous effusion, is freton the pen of our countryman,
Ilalleck. We have not of late, seen it in print
anywhere; and we regret to find that it was not
included in the compilation, lately published, en
titled “Specimens of American Poetry,”
Lines written at Alnwick Castle , the seat of Uie
Lake yf Northumberland, October, 1822.
Home of the Percies’ high-born race,
Home of their beautiful and brave-,
Alike their birth and burial place,
Their cradle, and their grave !
Still sternly o’er the Castle gate
Their house’s Lion stands in state,
As in his proud departed hours ;
And warriors frown in stone on high,
And feudal banners “ flout the sky”
Above his princely towers.
A gentle hill its side inclines,
Lovely in England’s fadeless green,
To meet the quiet stream which winds
Through this romantic Beene
As silently and sweetly still,
As when, at evening, on that hill,
While summer’s wind blew soft and low (
Seated by gallant Hotspur’s side,
His Katharine was a happy bride,
A thousand years ago.
Gaze on the Abbey’s ruined pile,—
Does not the succoring ivy keeping
Her watch aronnd it seem to smile
As o'er a loved one sleeping 1—
One solitary turret grey
Still tells, in melancholy glory,
The legend of the Cheviot day,
The Percy’s proudest border story.
That day its roof was triumph’s arch,
Then rang, from aisle to pictured dome,
The light step of the soldier’s march,
The music of the trump and drum,
And babe and sire, the old, the young,
And the Monk’s hymn, and Minstrel’s song,
And woman’s pure kiss, sweet and long,
Welcom’d her warrior home.
Wild roses by the Abbey towers,
Are gay in their young bud and bloom,
They were born on abed of funeral flowers
That garlanded, in long-gone hours,
A Templar’s knightly tomb.
He died, the sword in his mailed hand,
On the Holiest spot of the. Blessed Land,
Where the cross was damp’d with iris dying
breath*
When blood ran free as festal wine,
And the sainted air of Palestine
Was thick with the darts of death.
Wise with the love of centuries,
W hat tales, if there be “ tongues in trees,”
Those giant oaks could tell,
Of beings born and buried here,
Tales of the peasant and the peer,
Tales of the bridal and the bier,
The welcome and farewell,
Since, on their boughs, the startled bled,
First in her twilight slumbers, heard
The Norman’s curfew hell.
I wandered through the lofty halls,
Trod by the Percies of old fame.
And trac’d upon the Chapel walla
Each high, heroic name.
From him* who Once his standard set
Where now o’er mosque and minaret.
Glitter the Sultan’s crescent moous ;
To him who, when a young son, f
Fought for King George at Lexington,
A major of Dragoons. I
•••*•*, j
The last half stanza—it has dashed
From my warm lip the sparkling cup,
Th? light that o’er my cyo beam flash'd,
The power that bore my spirit up,
Above this bank-note world—is gone ;
And Alnwick’s but a market town,
And this, alas, its market day,
NO. 20.
And beasts and borderers through the way,
Oxen, and beating lambs in lots,
Northumbrian boors, and plaided Scott?,
Men in the coal and cattle lice,
From Teviut’s hard and hero land,
From royal Berwick’s beach of sand,
From Woolcr, Morpeth Hoxam, and
New-castle upon Tyne. 1
These are not the romantic times
So beautiful in Spencer’s rhyme?,
So dazzling to the dreaming boy ;
Ours are the days of fact, not fable,
Of knights, but not of the Round Table,
Of Bailie Jarvie, uot Bob Roy—
Tis what <k uur President” Monroe,
Has call’d thcera of good feeling;”
The Highland,—the bitterest foe
To modern laws, has felt their blow,
Consented to be tax’d and vote,
And put on pantaloons and coat,
And leavo off cat tie stealing;—
Lord Strafford mines for coal and salt?
The Duko of Norfolk deals in malt,
The Douglas in red herrings;
And noble name, and cultured land,
Palace, and Park, and vassal band
Are powerless to the notes of hand
Ot Uoscluld, or the Barings.
The age of bargaining, said Burke,
Has come—to day the turban’d Turk,
(Sleep, Richard of the lion heart,
Sleep on, nor from your cearments start,}
Is England’s friend and fast ally,
The Moslem tramples on the Greek,
And on the Gross, and Altar stone,
And Christendom looks tamely on,
And hears the Christian maiden shriek,
And sees the Christian father die,
And not a sabre blow is given
For Gretire and fame, for faith and heaven,
By Europe’s craven chivalry.
\ ou’ll ask if yet the Percy lives
In the arm’d pomp of feudal State 1—
The present representative*
Of Hotspur and his “gentle Kate”
Are some half-dozen serving then,
In the drab coat of William Penn,
A chambermaid, whose lip and eye,
And cheek, ami brown hair bright and eurlin-r.
Spoke Nature’s aristocracy:
And one, half groom, half Seneschal,
Who bow’d me through court, bower and hull,
r roni donjon keep to turront wail,
For ten and sixpence sterling. C.
‘One of the ancestors of the Terry family was
Emperor of Constantinople.
jTho late Duka.
WHO WOULD NOT BE A DOLLAR?
Mr. Editor,— Passing by the Branch Bank
of this city one tiny last week, I observed its
inmates tumbling out of doors a goodly num
ber of kegs of white boys— by my troth, they
knocked them about with as little grace as
the grave digger in Hamlet does the skull,
and appeared to think they were worth po
more. I thought the horses seemed to feel the
true dignity of their situation more than the
drivers or employers. There was one whose
carriage was particularly noble; be was a
bright bay, and whether it was a span new
harness which finely fitted his well turned
limbs, or the consciousness of the weight of
responsibility thrown upon him, 1 knew not,
but as each successive keg struck the dray to
which he was attached, he threw his head
high in the air, stretched himself out., and ev
or and anon pawed the earth with his hoofs,
and seined anxious to depart.
llow unlike new-reasoning, intelligent
man, is that horse thought I; day after day,
year after year, the former frets and worrio.
in the dray of business, and to the last mo
ments of his existence, neighs at the world
for not placing on more weight fo*- him to
'|rng to the brink of the grave. As I wended
'T 'V >*P Wall street, my wise head was.
cO with such crude ideas as the above, hfe
did not prevent me from concluding, after
much deliberation, and carefully weighing
the pros and cons—that if “I was not Job a--'
than, I should wish to be a dollar.” A pap.s
or silver dollar, there is tho rub. I like the
looks of the double X’s, so I do these that
have one straight mark, and two or three lit
tle <?• rolling after them ; but still I should
prefer to be a bright silver dollar—not o.
Spanish dollar, with the head of a king on it.
No I I am too much of the true nlue for that:
but a U. S. dollar, with the eagle on one side,
and liberty and the stars on the other. With
such a fine expression of countenance, who
could wag his way through the world better
than your humble subscriber.
From him,
“Who knows no music but the dollar's clink,”
would I remove far away, I would have no
dealings with him ; my fine person should
never be immured for years perhaps merely
to gratify the cupidity of so great a churl—
To the profligate anil vicious my acquaint
ance should he equally limited. Neither
would I lend my aid to support the female
lost to virtue and honor. The pockets of tho
idle spendthrift tvho knows my value only as
it contributes to his pleasures, should never
be garnished by me. No! bettor deeds I
1 would accomplish. In the asylum of the
ipoor and needy would I reside, to dry the
tear of the w idow, and make glad the heart?
of the fatherless—should be my peculiar pro
vince. Melancholy should retreat at my ap
proach.jmd joy light up the face of the mourn
er. For this !;e all; among the news-paper
printers I would be a second Robin Rough
head; it should be one long play-day with
you; that is what I would da if I was a dol-
Hr, an i nqjt JONATHAN.