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. jl x M i MMHW "HMlSW'IOBI MlBflam .flHBaV "M11 Mh SISSIFPI CREOLE SOME THINKS CAN JU: DONE " Sam Patch. 4.HHIIIIIM . i um.o ' tt- i tmm-i i . - m a .. ... ' Mb. (I lilt- - Mkw -aw T .Hm Tkltla ...... e JMIf SATCBDAl vni, -, y CJHfTOBl, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, H 29, 1841. b!e. After the intense study or many years, we have noticed t he whole science of tin pathetic into certain rules, by a ri gid adherence to which will guarantee it i r i ...... 7V ' drt mronoAfy in advanrr. that any gentleman oi moderate abilities !-!un; to ihsc(ntmuc win picnue m e will he enabled nuer six lessons pav- . t 1 I ui trillitiiT. .......I r. I.-. ..-., I.i in 'ili-nimo. r fie " i i . muni iu uu iiniui. u i cmuviu gubScn.tu.n rece.vcu ,u. a ...... (..om ()(, hofut q- ft gfonc , rtfid at tlir rate of Oir Pathos is di anguished iVom Bathos bv flcmth. til 1 - L. pCr square, (ten lines or lew,) fur tin-; the difference of its initial consonant. nd fttu mt$ a Metre far each tJ rtkiof ;a t v,.;i .,..; o. i. .. i ...;... .iiirtir.4 Willi 'I "" ., ....... ,r ,11 Tint ils 'i I IU il I'llli'ti i iuggiuuD)iii '", ' unil ordered out, and charged imitr.l on tin- compassion, icnuerness, or regret. An other of its objects is to present the author before the eve of his reader as a inau of 7 i ' r f . -.' I- - l .r 1 I 1 1 "iw.m i i i ' i . i anu sustT mint: lt":iliJ'JS, forevrrv ton lm -s lor earn insertion. n-.iuu, auove ail things, melancholy and j nrcuiiii.- im w.vo -- I gtrui icmaniiKC. Our first rule therefore is that the author shall, as proliininarv step fei- nDOunringC'niciidatrsforofRco will be Ten ther in the preface or in the very first fteKvery ?naPlr; R'vo public a sort of insight tears. But then Which, Without thee, fl.inrih in vln r.n mrm is anotlier almost rartai ivc, r - . . n v uul u.us. l w ill- . n Imuuiui 1110 pronmuiiy 01 sorrow,and that ; dor an ot is it? extravagance. ast from the ernv li.Tiin? fff hi )M?ir Peoplo in despair ! men a sh:ii-r nni in ti; ..r. ...i ' . 1 . . . 1 . -Tin me 1 1 lit!"', auu 'in .u ""J 11 men mees, anu pun : not in urjoys a wasted, handfuls of their hair up bv theroots. Thi is a known fact, as may be seen by ob serving the action ; of Bolvidera the next time you see the character represented by a lady of stronger feelings than Miss O'wieU. Your hero must, therefore, be friendless, sad, distrest, st and miserable man! The following nur-i rative, the incidents of which occurred not mmy years airo. ba? lo-n mvni.- solace tjrou;;:i manp y-ar ; of - itn ; a:i i despau. 11 it imparts to one human be-1 countable pro Oil: I ni individual pviowmb ui tuin 'hum "ill l .1 .a fiiki rfiseiiii lits. nnd nt trie same Job tfork must Dr paid tor on letters must e paid, or they will fed to. frnml'ie Elinhurg Magazine. HINTS TO At TIIOKS. GBTEfl whether long and loud. has we s.. i cor. vu. sing the rihs 01 a into his own character and appearance. 11 adds greatly to the pleasure we derive from any work to have an idea of the au thor. A chivalrous or heroic lamenta tion, which would be pathetic from an author of twenty-five, six feet high, wj h dark flowing ringiots. would be ridicu lous comina IVm r lotto C,cr rJA f..l f . 1 fcl win it 1. IN.llT ri lui ntrvfjuire wmm romi.ug oue 01 me lW of firtv.,vpni ,;., h- icachievcmentsot his youth, or s!xrt r.a .a.V 1 u.. ui. 1 . "'- ww.v.tn uy a 1 1 " : j l mown wi". low like the giggle of a young mat- ,,,,Tu v..,.:. . . w - .,uiuir; is uupi leiij.is in i nose matters, and sometimes lodges a mighty soul in a very contemptible looking bo dy, that is no reason why the author him flf should be restricted in his choice of appearance. In print ii' not in reality t is possible for all men to be Apdfos; iow line uic giggie 01 a y who dues not know, what else to do (titer oi all sorts anu kinds, except ipstlic hysterical, "betrays the va min.', Iu' we go even farther .1 i ! 1 .1.11.. . 1 - l.. WW IHJti, tlliu uuiui v fiu IUCC on 1 ui:- .l.i 1 Li ... : 1 ! r bear ;t bishop in the ecstasies of a juf- flai'y of laughter has the soriovsne; indze past into a proverb: i he hv- i : :j 1 i 1 .1. . 1. . . id animal of the most unchristian dis- . r .t . 1I..1 I ... I UI !. C IIV7U1 .'I .111. .. ' . " 1. i III' L .1 . - e 1 u 11 t 1 1 .1 IIJI.lv .....ji.utw w ..... .I'.V1 'I...UIU I. . f . . I.I. o t . wr . . .a n 1 . . - r n Itirnnn . t ! ' L' ,1 . 1 lifc 1J -..! . a -I U IJ..4 1.1 l. ..v..-. 1 j .11 j v- v-. ..... ... v . .t ' ( .1 1. T . A " I , 0 O - . . I I . many similar nrnumecis we nave i;ue- 1 1 . 1 : 1 a -P l : at. if t.' IVxHilr. nfn cnriniic turn run.-' - O w ....... . 1 " - - i"rv in tw. '..it ...I ..... nmecd bevond a amile. and that more '1 t 1 . , uavu ueeu in ins vouih, or remain at r.re- rrowt!.an m gladne.-vs. Hovabsurd sent Dre-eminentlv hindanm tJm. cond rule, therefore, we would lay down is be handsome. Tho hero, you wid understand, is gmif rail y considered an ad in nbra 1 ion of yourself, and you are a waro that npbedy cares a aingljp halfpen ny for an ugly hero. If .St. Leon .and Cy ril Thornton had beeuacoupld of squab, Patch-built, flat-Roed, wide-mouthed, common-place looking individuals, who the deuce would bo interested in the sligh test tlcgree by th seemly scars? T say again and ag most strictly prohibited from showing the ing tho eastacy of grief which it has be- cc slightest regard to the probable. Both stowedoa myse!f,:i,v labors, my pa-.-, to incdent and behaviour, the more im-j my suBorui . , my agonies, and my .ms-the probable you are the better. Wo see fortune, vol be amply and enchantiM-l" how little effect the most appalling misc- ly repaiiT' ma ncs produce the moment they are authen ticated. As long as wo ourselves consid ered the history ol'tlte Black-hole of Cal cutja a fiction, wm used to weep over it with the highest-satisfaction; but, when we discovered that it was an actual re ality, we-experienced a sort of revulsion of feeling on the subject, and lost all com- - mounted w er th n a ta ti i j k t In one of those unbraeous valleys en$emli which stretch their perennial wratched- tractive ness in lingering expanse on the sandy Deep shores of the vast Atlantic, where hu'e Uo the si forests shake their leafy honors over the ' er rote barren and shrubless wilderness, iuhab- Uears."1 1 ad - miseraUon for the hundred or two who were stilled, squeezed, -.and tTampled to! Wd only by the jaguar, and the paroqu death. This, we suspect, is an almost u-j and lhe tiger, in longitude fifty-seve fliversal feelinir. a we can prove from ' UII latitude fortv-two the conduct of certain political philan thropists, who seem very properly to ex haust all their powers of sympathy up on cases of very problematical suffering at the antipodes, and have not hitherto, se far as we have heard, subscribed a shil- H I MH - oeVdwan ling of their 'rints'" to relieve the multi 1112 mi rv it lSfnr obp-ct on the present occasion show the infamous and contemptible tnrp rw' I i re 1 i rinsa t n nl ! ita lirnnehp; fti nil . . .1 ... o f.iri T . I .r vt. i r t . 1 1 I i u w . ... i .... j . , . . . i I . . . 1' I . II II I U I. " . L . hi ii i r 1 1 i i : i i ''ill ..... ii r inn vi: M't: M tUnaoioulr m;u!e to set the tabic in a r, for wo uniformly perceive that a UVUin mf nnr hn v tiiipppt M NT o. 1 r f ! I - J .... . r i HMtaVO U (P IK lUliill V o M I I 1 I w I v v I 1 I' il men is near iv a Kin to despair, in lift II f O ! f t l . 1 1 r- n (Kin lrt t 0 C3iWYrXir- -- . v ' I IMU UIV IIVHI v tTm v ' ' Mad the sonl is justly punished for the V'lf.'"1 V . . - - - - ftT I . XX nAMtlll f-'tiVUI II t I U J lMJ JIlVOO V I IIIV w W i HH- illlliUn. V'Wi iiuiiimivinu i . 'Kwi.iu ,i v j ii linn a,i n.iiiijv i vj. P unrmti gable contempt and hatred . j-. i . . i . i . n . . . . ll l,WIIUULl J iiui.iiiii As it has been agreed upon by at! phi losophers tht man is an imitative ani mal, and, according to the proverb, is more easily led by example than precept, our third rule is, "be melancholy your self."" This rs perhapathe mdst indispen sable of all the accessories to the pathet ic. If a fellow with a great round laugh ing face begins telling a talc of wo, the thing appears ridiculous at once. You might as well expect a book on cookery from the living skeleton. And her -we have again an unspeakable advantage o ver Naturel inasmuch a . we have it in our power to paint ourselves in as sombre colors as wo like. There should be no want on the anther's part of the drops of sympathetic emotion, and you, may de fend Uoon it. when ren.bo-s spr a mnn uu-ju i. uc uDiuu.w u.. , ana acre it wilt he uselul to describe tudes who are starving at their doors, ft will, therefore, be advisable, in addition to the mct exaggerated incidents, to place the scene of them a good way otf. A slight recapitulation will be useful" in impressing these rules and regulation a on the reader's mind, and we will after wards illustrate them in a little tale, which shall exemplify the leading points of our system. Th u re are two rules applicable almost eoally to the author and the hero, be handsome an 1 be melancholy. The others, which apply more to the person:. Lr an 1 ; . LetUoiYn -ry, nr" avoid simplicity and naturalness, it' 10 such a word is allowable. He lugubrious l- in season and out of season. Be ns cx i travagant as you can, both in the adven 'cjtures you narrate, and the conduct of the 1- actors place your scene at a distance, r-j use higJi-flown words, or, as it Is called, .pjijje tn ..'. iiiiiiriand tits heart must IV f luman who seriously meditate jocu- m print, who set forth their face- "sness in tvpes. and affect to be witty, u L. 1 1 i ; ii i . . i i .7 -v ss - n lint n tint n Dkk' Tk -i . i ' ill' r l Tiiiiifiwi ii ii i i i a wr Deijt : am vt wnnrn lnrw to con- Matlmf i Ur, , . " . rrr: K t.t 4P rt.i.-A-.l... .1 -. .1 XT 11 g-j-vomucn u inai many iumuois Ifthii very Magazine contain stories which 0 mo-s fiii .a lo ii rr U iv Until - will or no and that there seem" a DOWino i4;Q-v- u .i . I ----. i -i.,.-. ii or rifii'iit'iii- iii:, i i i :s entiment and sorrow which were the Weetwtand purest delights of our youn fer nay,, riut perhaps we blame the au 7 ol'ur own time unjustly. It is not er- ne ho can weep over a dead ass, g it seems easy enough for any one laugh overall ving one. The science tfte Pathetic has never hitherto been "uuica a.s it niirrin r. ii, j wjiUl, Il.j 1 U I TJ lltt T U 11V i ZY0 Ulod--in-totloja person wholived j.f0 !"''' 'heal literature had reached h? , I';ill,iy state, and, therefore, tut CU a'vhtages for forming his e or judgment, laid down certain rules . the noetic so also did a Roman yourself as a veteran of a hundred fights when the reader, we say, sees a gal lant officer continually crying, he will in time suspect that there must be aston ishing pathos in the narrative, and in all probability will "weep with thee tear for tear." These regulations, ' it will be seen, re fer only to the author, and not to the sub ject or conduct of his composition. What has been said, however, of the personal requisites ofthe writer, applies with e qual force, in some styles of the pathet ic, to the hero ofthe story. There arc certain classes of melancholy composi- irideed be hai i 1 against the noblest feelins of our na'ure who does not trem ble with sympathetic enthusiasm over the miseries and the agonies of suffering humanity. Who, for instance, will re fuse his deepest sighs to the following, which we have called The Fatal Tears? INTRODUCTION. A life spent in tho din of battle, where tho ceaseless cannonade of flashing ar tillery reverberated from the mountain ous recesses, to which freedom, patriot ism, and the Guerilla chieftains of the south of Spain retired for a season, HJce An'; us, to be reinvigor ited by the very Leffort which was made to strangle them, like tlje hydra, on the hour of their birth, has left me worn in person, indeed, with the marks of military distinction on my brow and the breast of my surtout, but fresji and vigorous in mind, and tender in feeling, as when in the hours of my ear ly boyhood my young heart palpitated to the tale of suffering, and my bright eyes furnished a torrent of tears to eve ry tale of wo. Yes! I am thankful to heaven, which leaves me as ready to weep as ever; and, oh! is there a happi ness left to console us, like Pandora's box, which contained Hope, at the bot tom of it, greater or more delightful, or worthier of a lender and manly spirit, . ian the power of bending the bead un der the weight of allliction, and soothing it was once my fortune to find myself i ha r benighted, unaccompanied and alone! ant how my soul gloried in the awful majes- ere ty of those hitherto impenetrated soli- bra tudes! looked'dowa upon he earth-! coli but, as it was pitch dark, I could see re. bitt ry little of the soil upon which I trod; on casting my eyes up to the infinitude of dec space, nothing met my aching vision but a pall, of thick, dark, impenetrable hai gloom. All around me objects were in-1 ntt visible. I therefore spread my cloak t-jthe neath the branches of a wide-spreading, din blossom-covered magnolia, and after a sigh over the memories of the unhappi- sur ness of my young days. I laid ii to sleep.- (!i not to sleep! q, tl out the watches of that dreary and tior tentous night, my proud breast heave beneath the appal i n g weight of agon i z i n; recollection. From the cradle. thro the sufferings of long clothes shor clothes, school, drill, parade, battle, am advance through tho territories of a boa tile foe, up to that hour when t rnad myself a com;. at,;. m;" th t :i:it - iv age of the-untrodden wilds, my life ha been but a" s'. cces uon of melancholy ad nek any m id taaj sm tiae aavnawt aWda ea avasataodL er t batdaaaaaWiTj anae4Ma4-aurtT eaaaaMatsk aV at aat tteeaaaV Baaa v daafi avdbvav " own ! patby, for ! not vour hoaa aer areU t aflat fianav mmi I In rec th in t tion that requiee quite another Apecies of the wounded spirit with a briny flood 1 ofthe name of Horace; but the ' yet their labors is proved from ""en. P,, which their canons have JCGU'-non devoted h is at ten- hero such as thesirnaie the humble or the natural. In this style, the more gentle, unassuming, and meek you make your hero, or still better, your heroine, the greater chance you have of success. This, however, is too .dangerous a t,.v ie to venture on, as you must trust to the workings of nature, and not to tho dic tates of art. With this, therefore, we shah have nothing to do just now, farth er than to say, that Sterne's Maria and Lc Fevre Margaret Lindsay the Man O Feeling Paul and irginia rnd sim ilar works, do not con. ; with'u oureate- III U r'lon devoieu nis aueu-i .rv n th. pathetic, a . e m as if they PPf ra i ' ''ect ranslation, and na(j been v ritten in direct contradiction hp!0 lhroctlo,,s on thc art ?! critl- to our rules. One of tho great criteri- oei we are unacquainted with any0nsof tho reality of grief is its not wait " 1,10 art and mystery of the Pa-; ing for the fittest places for display. rs) for many hundred years our au-; True sorrow, we know, is irrepressible, iwhi K f."eo" lKnant he means and incapable of being hid. It is. thero hk an i Sr(a,,jst triumphs of the fore, proper to introduce tho mostdistree Scidn r lK!e" ach,cved' trusting' sing thoughts or incidents at all times ferv I; k ' ? ca!'in? forth of ",Vf,-:nd seasons. ,AVhen your heroine goes tf "gns, and unconscios ofa power I to a christenihtr. 1p h..r 0;h tU SL, "S doess, which, we flatter our- miseries of life, and the gayest company oftl nolo"gr be denied to wn-y0ucan imagine, let. hrr get into a etr Mhe 7 Ve,'y flMmb,est opacity. Af- nef of the dimly lighted hall whore ev lkrrUSal of thl dls,l"lsition wo cry now and then she hears the -well of 's-,aithful pubiects may ofSv ' r ,,e pleases - the xacrcd source vtlf?Palhetic tears." No one after this a&d ! accuse the literature of En- ve nil every iticHvot to mv b.ibyaood, child mtcb . hood, boy hood, one n ing dawn of manhood.! landlord u first flush of military glory, down to the sorrow, b lat and darkest hour, whan on the ser- roof to re. rated mountains of heroic Spain. Idas,:- repaired! ed to my bosom in an agony of tears the j low ne, 1 j young, the bright, the beautiful but of, bor. and this no mure. My eyes were red when; lodgings I on the morrow I opened them to a sense' choly and of ,;iy situation. Dark piles of rock rose j Try it in unapproachable magnificence to h i with halo-covered summits the advent of your eojo; the irod of day. I never saw Sol look so would b pretty! .. Stooping down to lave my burning fore-; ble." hr ad in the cooling waves of a secret j -Hut wl spring which welled its delicious way in-; v to the upper air through the constipated -roan;.,. b ...els of the dark and humid earth. I was Qrprised, deop within its placid waters j to perceive the reflection of a human fig ure another, and not my own ! In such a place, remote from the haunts of men, b,l:jh. at such an hour, wncn toe parting wing qf darkness was still fringed with the first Smiles of the approaching god. in such an attitude, for I was stooping in nearly a sti to of pristine nuditv. my surprise may be imactned on seeing the figure of a tall and reverend-looking individual standing' f.i-ehooil ofa iiilon I j quietly with his arms folded acrross his kiencs Vl(J ave not to kreast, and a pipe oi me very amrieai y tiat are these! what g dimensions protruded placidly from the nv thing compared to th right-haul corner of his mouth! The ! andunfatbomabia d aromatic smell of the Virginian leaf sa- jiag l)Cen mmo ,-or UKUJ, luting mv olfactory nerves at the same e;ujUl time, assured me by the evidence of a second sense ofthe realijy of thevision. ! dried ny bo . h the sleeve of my innermost garment, and on returning round, said to !iim "Hail, father! I am happy to have en countered so rcqnctrble-looking a gen tleman 'm. the hVartof tbi trcmendt. s folitude." "Solit 'de!" replied the stranger, in a deep sep 'Lhral tone. It is .populous crowded cruehed squesczad with a re dundance of population." 4Oh, stranger, your, words arc marvel- I pray thee, where are r piwMitod ay mm aeon. "Mj of mmmxy - lawii.m W m oaatoitoaW all aw aaaiialr aam I a 1 1 on au ccd in the !os in A I aatcx 99 vaaw'al . ii - na kt i araardhe J Often have 1 mourned over the miseries of war often, w& my bed with the excre tions of the lachrymatory duct, to think what misery existed in the v 'rld, and I vitho. a chance of being a .spectator of The tender-hearted reader will enter into my feelings I know that his manly eyes will be suffused me-thinks I hear the sobs of anguish bursting from his hs roic breast mcthinks 1 see the trickling drops coursing each other down his fur rowed face and fancy pictures tome his handkerchief surcharged with its pre cious carizo, till, to the eves of vu'uar to lnvf: Inns. Tell me, .UIHCUI 'I'"'"") li- liugui i"' v.- . i i ! -i rt i .,.!.,,.,! r..... ..,r o lir ,Tfrinfr 1 t i is cou u tie ss multitude you describe: UUt 11 DUUllii-i iiuiii limi.J n ! - , - , - .l- ' . i .i.u ....i. lh'- ri m i "llorft " sail the old man, takiujr the i . hour U'.meuiu uie sail uuiows ui j1" ! " U rU. and ever resoundinrr sea. Blest bv . pipe from his m oath, am pointing with nature ith a face and c rsu,l such as few I thc stalk of it to his breast men have the happiness to boast of with cheeks that alternately reddened and pa lec beneath tin fluctuating influences of 1 confi. . fresh myselfthis Mate torrent of tears. "Tears'."' exclaimed tin ; Lug many f et uiijj. . rac .L ! m ondert to my paipitaiiag bosom my misery ! bo: ; dier. for, from your nobfc cekve you must h ive baw tenant, if not evcu a cau m tac Ux rv .'"i!d. Pj wiiat a pc:. y-.j have an artfully v that shot a pie-mg ray of sympathy and condolence tin l,,gh the darkest clouds thtt Enveloped in their shady folds the sons.and daughters of misery and dis tress a form elastic and graceful in a.l its movement! and a r.iind replete with duced.aia! to pov of having seen ving spread it o readv when he r fiaiIUPl!0 y that any on of hia iovous music from the dsmcin-room an.; i all the tenderness of the softast nature, il(pe ' : there let her look oUl ()i the window up to i yet furnished with ail the thunder and "Ay, here; in this vtthcrcu neari bio thoughts that would populate a universe with their beatins creations,- -memories. larrativc and eyes! hopes, feelings, agonies, woe, disasters, to all, all are nere m mn n it , walking, writing hideousness, nonui, tali' v, and despair." "bather," said I, "let me take th- -; by the hand: at last I have found a spirit nmgeniai With my ' wu. Let us retire; ' . n.- .rotrd to the muse .T " Cllll ! !' UIl'J UVJII-' ' I . . c . ... .i ,u. !,...' L lrisiai tlIlU iiv;i'- ivu.-: and r'g frivolous or amusing. r,hrihc ' h roo vr.i groans will resound from one e other; and novels omances in five, P the starless skv.'and weep a much as she can. We have known this to have a very powerful iffect, and w can an swer for it that not one reader in. ten will ever think of asking the cause of her melancholy. Their sympathies are a- wanened at onl&e. and it seem-; a sort of 1 oven niTf ' omances in hv9, warned at onfce. and it seem-; a sort of -,vt imL DIOBraP' s n one, will be unfeeling impertiirtrnce to mako auv itv r-movmrr ti credies iniurrina-! ... ,n ............... .r -. , i.ii lightning ol a tierce, a wild, a nery ais- position 1 lOOiV Uil'-'IV. Willi logici I" H"' in hr to ti ias rareiy been my nn rsT teufli-r.'St lanientativa have delicious day of sobbing and sigh ing ... . . .i - . . '. i .lino nrliifVi I wnr'ed in sookin? the bub-j "A-reed,1 ndincauiin. u n,,, I Iron .ntion even in the cannon's mouth., and having w.ped Irom pur eyes theurops hie renu'atlon even in the cannon's i Oh, that I couid recall these days, alas!) for ever vanished, a d that thou, my ev er adored ever lamented ever beauti ful Annn-Marin-M.atilda! haclst. been left to me by euviou a ......... . i II... n. . T IT.'!. ofsytnpa hy, WC wauuv.w '""-r1 . T the'forrest. . .1 As I followed my mysterious guide, lj could not avoid taking more particular slate to share the.kurcls notice of his personal appearance, ne countn A too, wa: in a worl with alt Mali re pr- M :.- m v own. w mat . r, ''II II'.' U9 VI