3; -(1. ..‘r;; ._;c: . _ :7.-3 -r '-av-.‘.,.,.,v_‘;«._,__::‘._-,._,,,' , ‘ ' . ' .V _;, , . .\ 4:”-as : w..~.L-.1.'.-a.,.. :‘ 3. .! Egfi .,mi..... .. A 1. GR.d'V1£ £31" THE _DUELI VVho sleeps beneath» this dreary mouuu I 'Wltose ashes here repose ? ‘Say not, ’ti_s holy, hallowed ground-‘--' '.l’here’s blood upon the rose l Does there a hero sleep beneath .7 Some ‘chief ‘of spotless fame? The flowcrets here no fragrance br<'5atlie'--1‘- No marble speaks his ‘name! ' is it t. e‘lover’s withered form, That‘-lies so dark and low ? I hearno requiem but the storm--=- No mournful sound of wo-: Is it Religion’s huinblc child, _ That sleeps in sile'nce-h'ere ? Around this spot, so dread and wild, I view no friendly tear. No-he whose dust is here enshrined. Possessed a ruff:-an’s heart, No wreath, by Beauty’s handentwinccl, Did fame to him impart. Religion wept not o’er his grave, No friend his loss did mourn ; He lived, of noxoun false, the sL.&vi:1-s"- He died his COUNT-RY_’S sconzv. BOSTON BARD. ,_ ' BEAUTY. The wind flame!/z over and is gone.- I saw a new drop, cool and—cle‘at'. Upon a myrtle spray ; Fair flowers deck’d the lucid tear, Like those which gleam and disappear When showers of sun-beams play. Sol cast athwart a glance severe, And scorch’d the pearl away. High on a slender polislfd stem, A fragrant lilly"grew ; On thepure petals many a gem Glitter’d a native dlaclein Of healthy morning dew; A blast of ling’ring winter came, And snap’d the stem in two; Fairer than morning’s early tear, Or lilly’s snowy bloom, Shines beauty in its vernal year, Gay, thoughtless of its doom: Death breathes a sudden poison near, And sweeps it to the tomb; Solution to the Enigma, in our last. ' Force first made conquest,and that conquest Low, "Fill superstition taught the tyrant awe. -..-..-.= ' ' Miscellzftiy. From the Camzccticzzt Harald. Mn’; PRINTER, . I am one of those unfortunate beings, who, hav- ing lived a certain number of years in what is called a state of single blessedness, are stigmati- zed with the epithet of Old Bar/zelore. Itis not my wish to inquire whether the imputations at- tached to our fraternity by a censorious world, are just or not; whether avarice, ill temper, or ti- rnidity, may be considered as the cause of ce- lebacy. Perhaps this sin may sometimes be tra- ced to one or all of these sources. VVhatever be our portion of the blame, however, I believe that any candid man will agree with me, in pla- cing some share of it to the credit of the other sex. There was a time, Mr. Herald, when an old Bachelor or an old Maid was regarded as a singular phenomenon in l.l1lS land of_ours. ['h_en, every man who could get hasty-pudding and milk, or pork and potatoes enough to fill three or four mouths, was in a condition to marry. Ladies could sit on three-legged stools, m'anufacture their own clothes, be content with a clean oak floor, and eat with a very good appetite from a bright pewter platter. Ah! these were halcyon days. Then, a wife was not only a comfort, but a /zel/2 to her husband. Rosy-checked health was the inmate of every house,- and contentment beamed in every eye. There were no notes to meet at the Bank; no lradesmen’s bill for kid shoes and spangles; no milliners’ bills for new head dres- ses; no items for cosmetics‘ to take the freckles out of Mrs. Das‘her’s face, or for thebest castile to whiten her dear little hands ; no doctor's bill for curing her of the corset-‘fever ; no hack hire for carrying her to the springs, Stc. 8<c. In such times, who would not have married ?' A man was‘ then almost certain, when he got a wife, to get a good thing. But bless my stars, sir 1 how times have altered !- VVhere shall we find the fair one" now, that can sit upon a three-legged stool; can relish pork and potatoes; can take up‘ with an oak floor; or prefer hasty-pudding and love to a plum-cake-E Ladies now-a-days must have their elegant parlours, their Turkey carpets, their su-" perb mirrors, their gilt" chairs, their crimson dam- ask curtains, mahogany tables and side-boards, ‘ Cashmeer shawIs,ttheir-Canton crape gowns, their = gold-tipped indispensables, their gold watches, their gold chains-, and their gold smell-bottles! In. short,.- sir, a» married woman‘, who would move in the first circles, even in this little metropolis, must have as mucfrin-lier parlour as would pur-' chase a cargoof rum ; and carry as many valua- ables about her person, as wouid load an Arabian camels." ’ — ' Such gewgaws‘ were once deemed superfiu-ities, but custom‘ has rend’;-re'tl them necessary to the happiness of the Ladies. The other evening I called to spend-a‘ few hours with my friend Capt. Bowline, a plain‘ honest jack tar. He appeared to be quite melancholy. As this was something new for Jack, after a few unsuc'cessful~ efforts to rouse him, I made hold to enquire the cause of his ennui. VVhy, to tell you the truth, man, said he, I am very unhappy. lvl-‘rs. Bowline last week attended a tea-party at Mrs. DCInl1l?Cl"S,‘-_ the law- yer’s lady. . She came home with her‘-head full of the finery and splendour she" had witnessed ;- and I have ever since been bothered to death with islands, oblisks, and tvhip-syllabtibs. .... poor woman has seen more than her husband is worth, and is ready to break her heart because she can’t dash "as well as Mrs. Dumurer. In vain ‘do I- plead my inability to gratify her. The an- swer is, run in debt, go to the bank‘, “ and do as other,p'eople do.” Oh Jeremy l shiver my tim- bers, old boy, ifl would not rather be keel-hauled than tied to a fashionable wife.‘ Don't, my dear fellow, don’t get marrie'd in these times, if you value your peace of mind. Now, M r. Herald, no one can admire the ladies more than your humble servant ; nor. can any mortal have higher ideas of the felicity which might be enjoyed in the marriage state. But, sir, who that has any reflection, and is not bless- ed with a large fortune, can have courage to run his head into the noose, with such examples be- fore him as Mrs. Demurer and Jack Bowline’s wife ? How can these evils be remedied 3 As it is idle to hope for n. formation in those who are pos- sessed with the fashionable mania, and as cash seems to be the great obstacle to matrimony, and dowers have vanished, I would beg leave to pro- pose a plan, which may prove beneficial to both sexes. It is not a new one; but it has been so long out of date, that it will at least possess the charms of novelty. A ' Let all the marriageable girls, (young and old,) be assembled at one place. Let them be put up by the Auctioneer, one after another. The rich will pay a high price for the handsomest. The money thus received, sltbuld be bestowed as a portion on the more homely, whom the Auction- eer should present in their turns, asking if any one would accept of such an one with such a sum. This plan was practised with great success among the Assyrians, and several other nations of anti- quity ; and it appears to me to be founded in good policy." The rich will be able to support their bargains of course; and the second-chop wives will bring something to support their own extrav- agance ; no one being obliged to accept of a damsel, unless she brings money with her. Jammy BROADCLOTH. “ W/ty do ye look one 21/zon anotlzm-.9” It was thus the venerable old Patriarch Jacob, spurred up his sons who stood yawning and irresolute in a dearth ofbread; and it fur- nishesa pretty good hint to us in our dearth of money. The way to get relief is hard to flesh and blood; but we must needs take it or rue our choice.- This thorny, but only effectual way, is described in seven words: Retrenc/zment of Ex,Izenses—In- crease of/zroductivc Labour.——Without this rad- ical reform, all our hopes will be--like the gods of the gentiles, “ vanity and alie.” A retrenchment of expenccs must of necessi- ty be come into by the farmers, by the mechan- ics, and by the people in general. VVC must prune away every superlluity. VVe must cut off the numerous shoots of pride that-have been fed as it were with our blood. We must be con- tent with plain fare, plain attire, and with a plain appearance at home and abroad. We must learn to live within ourincomes, by husbanding them with all care and prudence. In short, we must revert to the frugal living of other times, when frugality was the highway to esteem. Along with the necessary branch of reform, mentioned above, another one equally necessary is hard work. It is hard work that feeds and clothes. the human family.-—Of this coarse but precious commod'uy—-there is far too little amongst us and its quantitymust be very much increased. It is high time for those idlers (an innumera- ble swarm) who are now sailing gaily down the stream without putting a hand to the oar,or‘=>aying ought for their passage-'-It is high time for them to‘ set themselves to work, or to be set to work. The honey is consumed in the hive : there must be drones to eat up the rem‘ai'nder; all the com- monalty must be as working bees. Our men and boys must be in’dustriousin' some . way or other :- and not our men and boys only-— our Ladies, now “ eating the bread of Idleness,” . must be abundantly reduced, and the number of plain women and girls “laboring with their hands ‘ and working that which is good,” must be abun- dantly enlarged. I . . As extrvagance and Idleness have, at least in no inconsiderable degree, occasioned these hard times, so; otherwise, Frugality and industry will ' greatly meliorate them.-—Courant. Msssns. NICHOLS 8t Pnrcn, You willmuch oblige a friend by giving the following a place in your Norwalk Gazette. It may influence the mindg of some of the parents, masters, or guardians "oi the present generation, and thereby be a means of placing many of our fellow-creatures in this life in conditions suitable to their capacities and dispositions, which will greatly promote the cause of happiness and _ _ Hunt.t.-m1‘r.- EDUCATION. ---—-"T119 Education forms (/16 mind, tfust as the cvbig is am, the trec’s z'nclin’d. The manner of bringing up youth has, in all ages, been thought a matter of the highest impor- -tance, and no people are better convinced of this ‘than the English, nor do any parents take greater ‘pains to inculcate every virtue in the minds of 1their children ; yet there is_one great error com-' -mined by thcm,.- the continuing for too long a 9time to treat" them as mere chiildren.—‘*-This error is al-most general, yet experience shows that it is attended with the worst consequences ;- a severe restraint over youth, unless those in whom had tlispositions are apparent, is the surest method to make blockheaus of them ; for they are there- by prevented learning to think and by_ appearing to make little of their opinion, we smother every ray of genius, and almost every qualification they ~may possess, and give them such a diffidence of themselves as will make them appear, though possessedof the best understanding, unpohshed clowns. A young man who has always been under the eye of a severe parent, and by his rigour restra1n- the ditvof new carpets, newisidc-boards, new dread edt from enjoying.‘ those amusements to which on I. .i ’ ,[:2—_._-,‘p;‘,.'‘§|3.,’_';'‘.‘ youth are naturally addicted, and from which a little indulgence would wean him, no sooner be- comes his own master, than hurried on by the de- sire of those gratification which his imagination has rendered so delicious to him, he plunges into every excess, ‘which in a short time dissipates his fortune, ruins his health, and brings him an untimely martyr to his grave.-—Another ill con- sequence attending this conduct is, that it is im- possible to know their dispositions without allow- ing the liberty of acting as they cltuse, in things of no material consequence. I mean when they are arrived at the age of eighteen or twenty : for at this time of life their passions are just ripe- ning, wli'..‘n the bent and tom of their minds, their good and bad dispositions, will now all be" seen, and :::.':'-.y easily be brought to perfec- tion or extinguished. I am led into these reflec- tions by the melancholy consequences which an opposite conduct has been productive of -;-3 par- ticular friend of mine, a young man ev=,=::'y way deserving of a happier fate. Horatius, at the age of twelve years, was, by the death of his father, who held a consider.’-Able place in one of ihe public offices, left en rely de- pendant on hi: aunt, an old widow laclj.-, without children : he was soon placed in one of’ the uni- versities,whc‘:-e be quickly distinguished himself by a rapid prsgress in every branch cflitctaturc proper for tile qualification of a gentleman, and already displayed a taste and genius far above his age : his manners were engaging ;. while his modesty, generosity, and good nature, gained him universal esteem.—Such a character could not fall of introducing him to the best company of his college, to the worthy and ingenious, for such will always unite when they know each other. Here a large field was opened for the most ad- vantageous connections ; but the project was soon overcast by an event which blasted all his hopes, and prevented this Dccus /zumani geniris from being of service to mankind ; he was’ now when his aunt called him from college, in order to put the finishing hand to his education under her immedite inspection. From this time Horatius experienced nothing but the severest treatment; if he spoke upon a subject, the study of which gave a certainty to his opinion, he was called pre- sumptuous; was he at times .silent and grave, the constant attendant of a philosophic mind, it was imputed to sullenness; in short, those very manners that endeared him to his companions at college, appeared to his aunt as so many vices. This treatment in the end produced a dislike, that was productive of every mortification to Ho- ratius, which captions minds will inflict on those over whom they have absolute power. The a- miable Horatius being conscious of the obliga- tions he owed her, bore this behaviour with the greatest patience and humility, ’till being one day reproached with his poverty, and dependance up-‘ on her bounty. unable to support such cruel se- verity, he retired to the house of a friend, to whom be disclosed the treatment he had received, ,which so irritated his aunt that she excluded him from her will, where he was down for the greater part of her fortune ; and before his friends could procure a reconciliation with her, she was unfortunately carried off by an apoplexy. Thus was this amiable young man, whose soul was too ‘great to bear indignant reproach, reduced from the prospect of an affluent fortune to indigence, and comellcd to fly his country, to which he would one day have proved a shining ornament, to seek a precarious livelihood in the East I ndies. Should any person concerned in the education of youth, or the destruction or overthrow of riper years, read this story ;_ let them not throw it aside as the produce of an evil imagination, which strives to amuse itself with trifles. It is a fact, and as such, merits the attention of every serious, and candid person. ‘ V Souls only formed for servitude, and altogeth- ~er unlike Horatius, can bear the weight of ob- scure despots. SEnvtNGMAN._ _ Si. JonN’s', (N. F.) March 24-. . _ LAW INTELLIGENCE, Or a new -way qfGagz'rzg the fllilk Kettle. In the Court of Sessions, in this town, a, few days ago. an a'ction was brought by a servant a- gainst his master,for money due for wages. The facts were these, the man claimed ten pounds, and the master said that only eight were due,.al- leging that he had spoiled several kettles of milk, for which he must pay. It appeared in evidence, that two or th'ree kettleshad been spoiled by acci- I dent, without any fault on the part of the servant —‘-the Court therefore adjudged, that for these he was.not accountable, but that he must pay for one kettle which had been spoiled through care- lessness. A~ diiliculty now arose as to the quanti- ty of milk'cdntained in the kettle. The master (and his wife, who was in’ court,) declared it held two gallons ; while the servant insisted that it would not hold‘ more than 6 quarts. N ot having any evidence who could decide this point, the proceedings were at a stand for some minutes, when the master, looking significantly at his wife, said, “ Peg, suppose I was after telling the gentlemen the story about the kettle.” After; a little hesitation, Peg replied, “ Well, myselt -don’t care--out wid it.” The master being thus autliorized, began.-—‘* Plase your honors, last.fall some gentlemen came down. Our Way tI‘0\1tl§1g‘s and axed me if I could seii them some milk. . Myself said, Peg was out milking, and as soon as "she came in, they could have some. Presently Peg comes in wid the milk,- but it was blowing hard,-and some leaves blowed into milk ;' and when Peg was going to measure it, the 8‘§“.U9' men said it was ‘dirty, (saying your honors’ pres- ence)--Peg was vexed, and said it was nothing but clone la~oc‘s,_and' took some out ;- but they would not have it; but one of dem, (tr very fun- ny man, sure enough,}'-said if I would take Peg and put her head into the kettle, he would pay for the kettle of milk ;'- and so he put two dollars on the. table. Myself looked at the money, and so did Peg-.~...Says I. Peg, shall 13 and~_laughed.f- Myself don't care, said Peg ;- and fatx 1' up wid her in my arn_1_s,- and dipt her headm the kettle, and the gentleman gave us the money sure en- du"g'h. We qftcréuarais sold six" q'z‘z2zrt}9 all! of tfiél kg?!‘ " am] YOU!‘ h9fl0urs (saving your presence) RHOWS Peg’s head would be as much in the ket-3 ‘l3§\.S agallon of millgtbesides all.I spilt. d h °‘t‘§“h5‘.§“d1ng the master’s argument, and, .9 ‘t3 ld°“l't‘§hto Proof respecting the kettle, he was 0 , not as there was no one 1');-egem who sawtthe transactlonp what he hadnow said did not amohnt to proof. ‘ ‘ The servant, who had been listening to the tale, and just noticed the observation of the ma is-‘» trate, suddenly exclaimed, “ By my shoul itgijs. true, myself It was that saw it done; and 301,1 1),,- same mzllc aflcr-wards.” The quantity of milk being thus ascertained, there was no longer a dtlliculty in giving ‘judgment. I C ., Ftom a L’on.dan izaitcr, Iiim/t 20‘. f A 5?’ difys ago; a countryman on his way home‘ f‘:°m elfmhavfas greatly alarmed byaloud. report mm 3 P13t0b Immediately behind him-—and al-’ most at the same instant he fell from his 1,0,-,5 to the ground. Some of his neighbours, travcli ‘[113’ th_c same road, who saw him fall hastened t6 _ its assistance, and conveyed him in a state of in- §’”S‘b‘l“Ya t0 a public house at a short distance.-A fife Wllen he recovered his recollection, he rela-' te to them the circumstance _of the report, which some of them had heard, adding that he had dis; f§“°‘lY 39571 the flash of fire, arms at the same dlrge, pad that he believed himself mortally woun- lo 1,) or he had felt something like a ball enter £15 ack. His friends proceeded to examine him m °°“ld P°YC16_Ve, 110 bodily Injury he had receiv- ed, except a slight, contusion on the head, evi- dently the effect pf his fall. After some time spenttn vain surmises on the nature of the attack, a.bye_-stander observed, that he believed he had discovered the author of the alarm in a bottle of yeast, which he pointed to, then foaming over in the poor man’s pocket. ‘ Yeats‘ had f0I_‘Ced out the cork, with the explosion that had excited so much terror and speculation. Sea Fz'res.—-.5‘ In the year 1694, the country about Harlech m Mcrionetshire, was annoyzad a-‘ bout exglitmonths by a fiery exhalation, that was seen only in the night, and consisted of a vivid va- pour, which rose from the sea or seemed to come from Carnavonshwe, across a bay of the sea eight’ or 111116 ‘miles broad on the west side. It spread from this bay over the land, and set fire to all the barns, stacks _of,hay and corn in its way. It also tnfected the air and blasted the grass and herbage in such a manner that a great mortality of cattle, sheep, and horses ensued. It proceeded constant- ly to and from the same place, in stormy as well as In calm nights; but more frequently in the winter than in the following summer. It nev- er fired any thing but in the night, and the flames which were weak and of a bluish colour, did no injury to human creatures ; for the inhabitants did frequently rush into the middle of them unhurt, to save the hay and com. This vapour was at last cxtingished by ringing bells. firing 681111038» blowing horns, and otherwise putting the air into motion whenever it was seen to’ap- proach the shore.”—Be_lf2st /zajzer. . .E.t‘tract from the journal of a -voyage in tlie aliijz Enter/zrize, lately drjri-ued at P/ziladclplzzc. “ From Brister’s Island we proceeded near- tbe Snares; [asmall cluster of Islands in south latitude 48, VV. longitude 156.] here we found three men who had been on_ an island seven years. provisions, they chose to take their chance our’ shore. They took with‘ them from the vessel :3 quart of rice, an iron‘ pot and half a bushel of po- tatoes. The potatoes they planted, and when we were there, the whole side of the Island ‘seemed to be covered with them. They had built five houses and had 1300 dried skins. We took them and their skins on board, and brought- them away from the Island.” _ T-rc7'zton', JV. J. June 1 xllelanclxoly‘ accident.-‘—-On the 11th ult. as‘ Cor‘- nelius S. Van Artsdalen, son of J; tub C. Van~~" Artsdalen, Esq. was working in a marl-pit’, be- longing to C01. Smock,ofMiddletovv’n, the ground death in an instant. - Excc'utian.—On the 29th’ ult. pursuant to h_is__ sentence, Toncy, a black man, was hanged “at‘_ Monmouth Court-house, for the murder of ,_ Beagle. The concourse of spectators was very" numerous. _ flugztsta, Ilfay ‘.20. Infantz'cz'de.”-—A man‘ and woman have been recently committed to the jail of Jackson coun-' ty, for the murder of an illegitimate phild, about 5 or 6‘ years old. . The child, it is said, was the . offspring of another man, and in consideration of a promise of marriage’ from the. prisoner, was Cd.‘ ' A similar act of enormity was committed ii! Clarke county, on the‘ 26th‘ ult.- ‘ The child way a brother, who was bound as security for its ' maintenance. The unnatural wretch, to relieve himself from the obligation, dispatched‘ the child by. cutting its throat. .*..:~::-:;>¢_:-<';-<3-::::~';><><.><.:-< >-=:><.';:«G;*<.*;-c'.‘-‘-~'.f-‘«=:.J~1>~:>=IJ<.: —:<:s '/. PAMPHLETS, HANDBILLS, CARDS, TOWN- I ,<‘.'.1‘*-’.‘>-€.‘>t'~'.-‘C. >93? -.1‘--~’.>if.‘-'~ . . v x The fomentation of the . A schooner in which theyiwere, being short of _ ‘T suddenly caved in upon him‘, and crushed him to" a . taken to the woods and most inhumanlymurder-' also illegitimate, and was confided to the care of ~ as’ 93K >16. as oannns and RECORDS, aét and almost every description of , <3“ . 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