.bout to exhibit the canvass bags containing spe-
t’
mom THE POUGHKEEPSNIE: ri_w.rt.u.o.
THE .sE.rr.so.vs.
'VVliat’s that which comes in vestments gay’,
And clothes the earth in green array ;
'W'hich bids the gentle zepltyrs blow,
And makes the useful herbage grow .7
’Tz's S/rri/lg.
'iVliat’s that which comes in splendor drest,
‘With golden sheaves upon _her crest ;
VVhich bids the sun shed down his ray,
‘While swaiiis secure the new-made hay ?
’7'z's Summer.
‘v-Vhat’s that which bids the swains prepare,
To gather in the crops with care ;
T’timprove the season while it lasts,
And thus prepare for winter’s blasts ?
’IIi-9 ./.’z1.'utIm.
\Vhat’s that which with her whit’ncd robe,
Clorlii.-s and enshrouds near half the globe ;
Forbids the clirystal streams to flow,
And covers them with chilling snow.
’Ii.s U':'71!(’7'.
‘While thus the seasons pass their round,
And peace and rosy health abotind ;
Let sweet content our mititls possess,
Nor wish their frequent changes less.
__...._
ritori THE CATSKILI. RECORDER.
5'1 ANZ.'\S.
I’ve seen old Hudsori’s swelling pride,
As on he rush’d to meet the ocean ;
No storms then lash’d his solemn title;
No da.-hing waves made wild commotion 2
\Vhile towering cliffs and tall trees wav_ing
green, ' '
I"rown’d o’er the flood,tlie guardians ofthe scene.
l‘ve heard, when wandering o’er his bank,
The tidi;’s low nice while onward creeping;
\Vlrilc many a bird the proud stream drank,
Or sooth’d itith songs the seam-.in sleeping ;
VVliile. far as eye could see, the gilt waves lay,
Bright as a virtuous life to memory’s ray.
I've seen Connecticut's fair wave,
Still as he went through rich fields smiling;
V-Vhile the tall corn its dark green gztie,
The river’s brighter hue beg‘!-llisig.
Fair are thy ficl(l<, thy skies orever shine,
‘ Nor drinks the sea a luvclier wave than thine.’
But still ‘there is a dearer stream;
Though oti its breast. no white sails bearing ;
Though rotigh its rock, and cold rs l)t.'2‘.lTl,
And dark the leates its trees aw hear ing-—
For in that stream’:-i white foam when life was
young,
I tliouglitlcss play ’d, nor dreamt of future
wrong. '1‘RAVELI.F.R.
,IIE.l\“IiI’ WOOD VILLEH
A TAI.E——-BY runs. urn-3.
[CONTINUED-J
AT length the day of the projected dinner ac-
tually arrived ; and every one who ,had stlifried
in the slightest degree by the b..nkr:ipicy of M.-.
VVoodville, repaired to his house at the appoint-
ed hour, little suspecting what was to await them
there. .
An imitation to dine where for some time pas!
no dinners had been given, might perhaps excite
surprise in all; and as a spiteful and detracting
spirit is only too common, some of the invited
began to fear that the VVood\illes were going to
live a-“way again, and had forgotton they had only
paid fifteen shillings in the potrnd.
To strch I am sure that the cause of that din-
ner would give at least as much mortilication to
their feelings as gratification to their pecuniary
interest ; and perhaps the sorrow ofthe \-Voncl.
villes, which trod so closely on the heels of their
proud btit virtuous triumph, was not as unwel-
come to such persons as Clrristian bcttevolerice
required that it should be.
The guests vrere assembled and the dinner
served ; while an ill-siippr-essecl sob of strong
a‘i'1d_ plt-asnrable emotion nizrasionally proved the
deep interest which Mr. \Vo-.-dulle tilt in tire an-'
ticipation of what was to come: and while he.
looked at one or two of his guests, to whom he
know an unexpected sum of money would then
be particularly welcome, his benevolent breast
glowed with plea5‘;tl2'c, at the thought that he was
about to gladden the hearts of those, who in his
adversity had done all in their power to gladden
his. -
One gentleman whom he had invited did not
come till the dessert was on the table, and just be-
fore Mr. VVoodville, with a beating heart. was a-
cie, and, where the sum was lar'ge,a draft on his
banker to the amount of each individual debt ;—-
and when this gentleman did arrive, his check
was so pale, and his manner so agitated Se strange,
that he excited considerable alarm in the rest of
the company.
But Mr. \/Voodrille was less alive to his singu-
larity than his guests, as he and his wife and
his daughter also were too full of their own agita-
tionjto be aware of his.
At length in an unsteady voice Mr. VVoodville
addressed his guests; and'has'ing made known
to them the purpose of his invitation, he gave to
each the bag containing the sum, Wltl] ir|te-rgst,
which for his sake they had been so willing to re-
Illlqlllsll. But thouglr all seemed affected as well
as gratified by this unexpected and welcome cir-
cumstance, the gentleman who had last entered,
whose name was Adderly, was so mncli over-
come, that he rose from table and turned_ to the
window,to hide his emotion which was ungovern-
ble, when \Vnodiille declared that this was the
happiest day of his life!
He then with a fail:-ring voice and a shaking
hand filled out a bumper for himself, "and-hoped
aTatliei~’s par-ti-ality might be excused, if he gave
as 2-. toast lli’S‘50fl—~HCn"Y VVoodville---who had
dCHl‘3(l himself‘ the present gratifications his in-
come a{l'oi'derl him, in order that he might enable
some his own usual mode cit‘ living. ‘ ‘ And allow
me to add,’ he said, ‘ to my toast, my earnest
wishes that you may all be blest with such a son
as mine 1’ . ‘ -
Mr. Adderly now took his glass in his hand,
struggling evidently for composure. But he
had no sooner put the wine to his lips, than he
set it down. and bursting into tears, said, ‘ I can-
nht swallow it—-it would choke me-it would in-
deed.’ Then leaning his head on the table he
so’obed aloud. '
Mrs. \Voodvilc’s mot/rer’s heart now took the
alarm ; and rising from her seat, she conjured
him with clasped hands to explain the cause of
this singular emotion, and to tell them if arty
harm had befallen their precious child Henry.
Mr. Ad»tlerly did notimmediately reply, for he
could not : but taking a newspaper from his pock-
et, which he ll'd(lVl'('-CCl‘€El just as he was coming
to the dinner, he gate it into the hand of young
Harcourt, the lover of Elizabeth; who having
read it, with a check pale as death begged to
speak to Mr. 'tVood‘-ille alone. ‘ Nay,’cried the
mother and sister wildly, ‘ we will go too.’ And
in sorrowful suspense they followed him. -
The paper contained a narrative ofthe whole
distressing affair. And that family who lraileii
the dawn of that day with thankfirlness, pride
and joy, now saw itclose in agony, terror and al-
most despair. It was indeed some little comfort
to them. to hear from their guests the strongest
assui-a~.~.ces that no oneconid believe Henry guil-
ty. And when the unhappy father get off, as he
lll$i€tlllly did, on the road to his son, he was sur-
r-..unde.rl as he entered the chaise, by crowds of
kind and anxious friends, some offering services,
all expressing sympathy, and vociferating earnest
wishes for Ht-nry’s ultimate triumph.
Bin. still the way was long and moiirnful to the
anxious parent, though accompanied by a neigh-
bor andfriend ;—and heazily indeed did the mo-
ments pass to that tender mother and affection-
ate sister, who, though forbidd. n by VVoodvillt:
to accompany him", and consigned by him to the
care of Harcourt, murmured for the first time at
the will ofthis kindest of fathers and of husbands
and lancicd they sliould feel less if allowed to be
at the scene of trial itself.
But to return to Ht-nrv.——Nothing now but this
sad etent was talked of in the houses, the courts
of justice, am! the streets of Abiogdon. The
causes then pending, however interesting. inte-
rested no longer ; but the public mind was whol-
ly fixed on this, which was to come on at the end
of the week. and with which the assizcs were to
conclude ; and. as is only too usualoii such occa-
sions, the unhappy Henry was prejudged, and
pronounced cerrainlyguzlty before the merits of
- the case had been heard in a court of justice.
Even those gentlemen who had witnessed the‘
brutal conduct of Bradford, and had admired the
mild but manly forbearance of Henry, were now
so melted to pity by the wretched fate of the for-
met, that they were disposed to consider Henry’s
conduct as consurfrmate art: and as one of them
now remembered that Bradford expressed him-
self with great bitterness against ‘ canting, plati-
side of shallow men, and dept-ived honest unsi'it:~
pecting young fellows of their rights and thei‘
bread ;' this gentleman now concluded that Brad-
ford was speaking at Henry. In short, in pro
portion as they had thought well of him. they
noiv thought ill, and attribtitt-cl Bradford’s brutal
C0l](ltlf‘.l to the excessive ill-usage which he' had
received from the specious Henry.
The most material evidence against him was
Tomms, the waiter who came to call‘lli'adfoi~d ;—-
but Everett also had been examined by lll6_C0l'(r~
her, and having fortified himself by a very lciig-:
dose of brandy, he was able to bear witness with
others to a quarrel at table between Bradford and
Henry; and he did it with a degree of firmness
which astonished himself: but it did not please
him to find that he could not be allowed to leave.
the place, till he had repeated his evidence in at
court of justice.
- \Vhen Henry awoke the next day, and remem-
bered that he had as yet no friend to advise with,
he felt it a duty which he owed his owti inno-
cence and his family, to do all he could for hitn-
self; and he desired to see, as soon as possible.
the first attorney in the -oivn,and the first lawyer
on the circuit. This gentlemen was unfortunate-
ly already engaged by the attorney employed for
the prosecirtion. However, the second in pub--
lic esteem was at liberty, and he caine to Hen-~
ry’s cell before he went into court. ,
There was something so open and so captiva-
ting in Hem-y’s manner ; his countenance was so
btauiiftil and so prepossessrng. and his voice so
persuasive, that, as soon as he saiv him, Sergeant
.vlui-ray could not believe he beheld a man capa-
ble of murder ; and he thought. that if "he had
kill-.d Bradford, it was in self-defence.
Nor was his prepossession in H enry’s favor at
all diminished when he heard his simple irarra-
tive oi his past life; of his circumstances ; of
his father’s situation ; of those of his family ; and
his oivn habits and prospects down to the fatal‘
night in question ; nor when he witnessed those
bursts of agonizing tenderness which were wrung
from him, not by his-own sufferings, but by the
consciousness of those which his situation and
drin-ger would inflict on his parents and family.
t 1 know not how to think you guilty for a mo-
merit,’ said the sergeant; ‘ still I must own the
circumstantial evidence against you is unusually
strong ; and could the by-standers prove that you
were as drunk as Br‘adfoi‘d when yoti went to
bed, or could they prove that you had liquor af-
ter you were in your_room, I should really ima
glue that you killed this unhappy man in the de-
lirium of drunkenness, and have forgotten the
circunistance entirely.’_ ,
‘ But these facts of my drinking and of being
drunk.no one can prove,’ replied Henry, ‘because
they never took place. I walked tip to bed as
usual, and took nothing after I got into my own
room: but I"sh-all ever bitterly lamentyto the
close Of my now, perhaps, short existence, that
through the whole of the evening, I was persua-
his father sooner to discharge his debts, and re-
de_d to drink more than temperance aird‘my own
sibltj, lrypv-critical boys, who got on the -V4‘-€!lT4.
“ _ Mr. Courtnay arrived the next day early in the
.abhorrence of guilt, but merely by cwiasity and
feet on every one present, that indignation a-
ideas of tight warra:ited,and tliat.I drank so mtich
ale before I "went up to bed; for had I been as
temperate as usual, I could not have slept sound
enough to admit of any one’s entering the room,
and removing my sword from my bedside.-
'l'here is no doubt but thathe who murdered
Bradford meant to steal my pin. but dropped it
in the bloody scuffle : I conclude that he was dis-
turbed belore he could take the money, and for-
ced to retreat suddenly. I remember too, that
some one seemed to me to open my door at a-
bout threeiii the morning, and on my calling out
‘ who is there ?’ retreated again ; now I suspect
that this intruder was the mllPd€l'cl‘ coming back
for his spoil ;-—-but then who was /he .9’
. The sergeant agreed with Henry in this opin-
ion, but to the who ‘was /re ? it was impossible to
I‘t':ply satisfactorily. It might be the landlord,
or it might be, one of the waiters. However, I
‘"33’ $3)‘: the suspicious both of Henry and the
5L"'3%‘_¢3_nY. fell on Toinms, who first declared his
°U5l’1_*31U“5 Of Henry : and these suspicions de-
termined the sergeant to watch and cross-exa-
mine this man on the trial with the most lauda-
ble and minute exactness and-ability.
W bile Henry's manners and conversation were
thus prejudicirrg Sergeant Murray in his favour,
and convincing him of his entire innocence, a
very different impression was making on the
mrrid of Sergeant Rickwood, the counsel against
lhtfima by the brother and wretched father of the
murdered Bradford.
Bradford had in many instances been a trial,
and any thing but a comfort, to his father: still
when he saw him cut off in the prime of his
days and the fulness of his errors, and lying a
murdered victim on his bed of dcath—-the unhap-
py parent remembered only that he was his
child, and that the wretched youth could offend,
and he forgive, no more! His other son, John
Bradford, felt little grief for his brothei’s loss,
but great indignation againsrliis murderer; and
firmly believing the hated anti envied llenrt was
that murderer‘, (hated and envied by the Brad-
fords, because more beloved and more prosper-
ous in life than they) he resolied to leave no
means untried to convict Henry of the murder,
and to bring the sentence of the law upon him.
No wonder then that Sergeant Rickwood’:-i
mind was poisoned -by ltis clients against both
Henry and his family ; aird that he believed. for
such was the representation of the Bradfurds,
that Mr. Cotirtnay was a weak man. who had
been led on by the artifices of tire \’\'oodvilles
to think ill of his unhappy victim, and to take
Henry into partnership to his prejudice.
Poor Henry was mtich disappointed at receiv-
ing no visit, nor et en an answer, from Mr. Couri-
nay till the fourth day after he had written to
him ; bttt then he was repaid for his anxious sus-
pense by the contents of the letter which then
reached him Mr. Courmay wrote that he was
ter, and that he had set off for town on the re-
ceipt of it as soon as he possibly could ; that he
could as soon doubt of his innocence as of -his
own, and that he would be.v_vith him the next day.
He added, ‘ I sent off an express directly to your l
,'a,j,e,., wk“ Wm, [M doubt, be with you soon after i
150 miles“ from -London when he received his let- ,
me ;—in the meanwhile keep up your spirits.’
morning, having travelled all night. The meet-
ing between Henry and him.can easily be ima-
gined. But the hope-of a favorable issue, with
which Courinay had entered the pI'is0_n, xv‘-is soon
dumped by an interview which he hadxwith Hen-
ry’s counsel and attorney, who not‘on y felt the
evidence to be of a very undeniable nature, but
also knew that the minds of every one were pre-
judiced against the innocent -accused.‘ Fain
would they therefore have put otf the trial, but
it Wfas impossible: and the awful day, big with
the fate of Henry VVoodville, at length arrived.
The court wascrowded at an early hour; and
even ladies were led, (as they believed) by indig-
nation against the crime, to bear to listen to the
trial, and perhaps to the condemnation of the
criminal: not once, perchatrce, did it come a-
cross their minds, as they sat expecting the ap-
pearance of the prisoner, to suspect that they
were-not led thither in reality by any virtuous
the love of strong excitement.
But all this boasted indignation (which was on-‘
ly too generally amongst the persons present and
in the town of A.) subsided almost unconscious-
ly, when Henry, accompanied by his friend Mr.
Courtney, appearedin court, and took his seat at
the bar.
His youthful appearance, his uncommon beau-
ty botli of face and person, the sweetness of his
coun_tenance, which not even his trying situation
could obscure ; and the calm yet manly resigna-
tion of his maniier, had such an instantaneous ef-
gainst the crime was forgotten in adiriinitioti of
the supposed criminal’; and when he replied ‘ Not
,;irilty,’ according to the usual form, he uttered
the words in a voice so touching, and in a man-
ner so assured, yet so unpresuinintz, that many a
bosom heaved with pity and alarm for him, which
had before beaten with anger at his name ; and
many a one wished him to be proved innocent,
who entered the court earnestly desiring to hear
him pronounced guilty.
The wise and eloquent man who had to pleaflk
against him, soon discovered the favorable rm’-=
pression which the appearance of the prrson_er
had made on the court, and he drew from this ctr-
cumstance fresh fuel for the fire of his eloguence,
as it enabled him to warn the jury against being
deceived by those uncommon fascinations of tea-
ture, countenance and manner, which the prison-
er certainly possessed, and which he was con-
scious would have impressed him only too pow-
erfully in his favor, had not facts, too stubbotp
not to be all powerful with his lawyer's experi-
ence, strengthened him unassailably against the
prepossessing appearance which he beheld, and
acknowledged himself. '
( 'lfo be continued.)
I.-LI
The following order (says the Boston Gazette‘!
passeclby the Great and General C0-lift’ in lhtf
early settlement of this Province,’ Sepi, 1539
shows that a ridiculous costume is not peculiar:
to the present time. '
‘ Wlrereas there is much complaintbf the ex.
Cesslvc wearing of lace and other superfluities,
““'“‘ll“l-’.‘ 10 little use; but to» the nourishing; of
P"fde “Nd exhausting of men’s estates, and also an
evil example to others: it is th_ereforc ordered,
that herealier no person whatever shall presume
if’ bu)’ OP Sell any manner of. lace in this jurisdic-
non. And that hereafter no gar-men, 51,,” be
n-‘.‘;t(l(’. with short sleeves, whereby the nakedness
ofthe arms may be discovered : and such as1,,,,,e
stwmcnts ah'cad_v made with short sleeves, shall
not hereafter wear the same, unlgsg they Cover
their arms to the wrists ‘with linen--Andthat:
hereafter no person shall make any garment for
women with sleeves more than hall an ell wi<‘.es~..
at‘-dfol‘ present reformation of immoc/crcztc gr,-4:’
s-leaves, and some other st.pi-rlluities, as inzmadgr.
ale great brccclzes, grcatru_17.'s, E51‘. this court hath‘
ihoiightfit to suspt-Dd all proceedings, respecting
them, in expectation that the oflicers and mem:‘
bers uill spcetlily proceed against all such offen-'
ces.’
——-act--:2:--b-——
From (/23 JV'eru-17'¢2- en Herald, qfflug. 10,-
./Vrble flct.-—As the Htrntress Packet, Captain‘
B¢‘=‘ClN-‘T, Was returning from N. York last week,
a child of Mr. Hoyle,* by some unlucky accident,
fell overboard. The wind blew fresh, and the‘
unhappy ‘parents beheld in agony their only son
on the brink of eternity, without one ray of hope
that he could be rescued.
Tent’, while the vessel was passing rapidly thro’
yr): \\ ater, the helms-man, Jose/2./1 tS‘tz-:m=m,sprang
m the_qnarter deck, committing himscll to the
W‘-*V*=$a “'1th_ the noble resolution of saving the iri-
fant oi- perrsliiip in the atttmpt. Ijle sg-ized the
child as it was sihkintr, and held him above wa-
ter tOI.C()nVlllt:('. the wretched j.,-,»,,»¢,,,s that he was
still alive. '1 he packet by :his time had left them
about half a mile, aid was viiih much difficulty
rounded to. C.-pt-. lleccher immediately manned
his boat and pushed to their assistance. Just as
he reached them. poor .lce’s strength was cxhaus.
ted, and he sunk, leaving the child to its fate.-—
(‘aPl- Bt'€f‘-h_H', With great presence of mind, as
he S€lZt'(l the child with one hand, plunged the
other biider water to the arm pit, and luckily suc-l
ceedcd in raising the sailor. Both Joe and-the
child were apparently dead. Alter rolling them
in Salt: h0W6\‘er, and applying all the l‘CSltfZ',a'tl'i't:S
which are ustially employed do such occasions,
they both reiivctl, and tie a,r-euhappy to state, are
doing well. The rich may boast of their charity,
and princes of their nobility; but never did any
rich man perform a more disinterested act; of be-
nevolci.ce—ne\‘er did a prince achieve-a mgr:
honorable one, than did this poor sailor, in re-
storing to the aims of its parents their only child,
by snatching it from the grasp of death, at the
risk of_his own life. I
*‘ Jl/Ir. Hoyle 7s reccmly from .7\"otlz'ng/‘ram, 135g.
1
dz ct Court Q/",Pro[:are lzo.’drn at fvbruralk, .-Iugztrt
' 20', i8l9.
iHIS Court limits and appoints six months
from this date. il)Pllltf‘Cl‘C(lll0lS to the esn -
tate of P tir James, late of VVilton, deceased, to
exhibit Iltclr claims '-agiiirist said estate, and the
executor is hereby ortlercd to give public notice
«thereof according to law.
Pier oidi-r, ‘.‘,’M. G. Bl-‘.'l"{‘S, (‘lei-k.
Public notice is hereby given that unless the
creditors to the estate of Peter‘ Janus, late of
VVilton.dcceased,exliibit their claims agairist said
estate within the time above llmllctl they will ev-
er after he debar-red a legal recovery. ,
M A'l‘THl3;V'V' MARVJN, l-‘,xe'c‘i*.
ll-’ilton, August 2, 1819. 66
Stock Replenished.
HE subscribers have -just received a new
and choice selection of GROC'1;‘RI1£S—.
The following are a part, viz.
JamaicaSPIRITS, § Hyson and TE,
St. Croix RUM, § Hyson skin ’ '
Cogniac BRANDY,§ COFFEE,
Holland GIN,‘ § RICE,
MULASSES, § ALLSPICE,
Brown SUGAR, § PEPPER, '
Loaf & lump do. § GINGER.
BURRALL <3‘ HUBBELL.
Norwalk, May 4. 53
New Establishment.
HE subscriber informs his friends and the
public that he has commenced the
Sctddlmg Business,-
In Stamford, in the new btiilding of Mr. -EMSH.-\
H.tw1.1g:v, opposite the store of Messrs. line-
BARD 8: (11,051-:, where he intends to keep a goo-it
assortment in his line, viz. ‘
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s SADDLES ; Mil-
iary and plain BRIDLES ;‘ HARNESS’
of all kinds; TRUNKS; CAPS; HOL-
STERS ; VALICES 5 Portmanteatis, &c.
All repairing done in the best" mart.-ici', and all
clers correctly executed on the shortest notice.
' SMITH SC(}'1‘;Il',
' 54- It .
";"'Stanifortl, Mtay 11. I
50 Bundles wmaiiteii SI-IINGLES,
5000 ft. seasoned & clear white Pine Boards,
5000 feet Mcrclrantable Plank and Boards,
Also—SALT., CODFI SH'antl -RICE,
Just received and for sale by
/ W. & B. ST. JOHN...
. Norwalk, June 1, . '
J2tstrece'i~ved and for sale by the sabre-riber,
50,000 SHIN-GLES,
Of the first quality. Those wishing to purchase,_
will do well by calling‘ 1, B Br\,NE,l,T
///
Party is the madness of many for the gain of few. _
Norwalk, May 24,
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