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AtiOS B. CORWINE,
" LIBERTY AND UNIONNOW AND FOREVER-ONE, AND INSEPARABLE."
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1810.'
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POETRY.
As.' or
Woman's Love.
When all the world grows strange,
Still shall her charms enfold thee; .
When smiling fortunes change, ,. . . . "
Still shall her words uphold thee! " ;
"When all thine hopes shall fall, . .
And leave thee nought but care;
And when thy cheek grows pale,
Or wasted with despair!
When desolation meets thee, ,
Without an arm to save; .
When Death himself shall greet thee, -
A victim for the gravely '-
The woman shall caress thee,
With all that angel's care;
Then shall she swiftly bless thee, , , ,
With more than angel's prayer.
From the Cincinnati Chronicle -
Oh! Come to the South, Love.
A SONG, Bt TH.OII VERE.
Inscribed to Jliss Jf. E. of Virginia,,
Oh! come to the South love, Oh! come there
with me,
Where soft zephyrs sigh from a balmy blue
sea,
A land where the fair rose of spring never
dies,
And the deep azure brightness n'cr fades from
the skies'.
'Xi? a clime where love's thrilling rapture's
can tell
How pure and how lasting in the heart they
may dwell.
O'lors are wafted from ocean's bright isles, '";
As sweet as the light of thy own beaming
smiles;
The orange and laurel, and ivy's green bow'rs,
Perfumed by the breath of the still-blooming
flow'rs,
Infuse the charm'd soul with so calm a delight,
No visions but rapture e're dawn on th sight.
How faintly the gems from the wild glaciers
glow, """r .
And cold is the iris on mountains of snow,
BurfiKMrtfilfi if tbe bputh pnrniinT.imrifra
And e?s ?unny
there;
makes
beautiful
, the golden west,
INot tne Drignt icy regioi
la like the radient south the fan".6
;- the best.
Come then with me love, and the bram of thiae
eye
Will add a new lustre to the rich azure sky;
l'rom thy own joyous face the look and the
smile '
Will ev'ry fond hour of existence beguile;
Oh! come to the South, and our urdying love
Shall be nurtured through time, and le cher-
ish'd above.
ISCELLANEOUS.
Female Influence. . " "
The following striking and eloquent remarks
are from "suggestions on education,' by Cath
arine K. Beecher. i !
'Woman has been little aware of the high
incitements that should stimulate to the cul
tivation of her noblest powers. The world is
no longer to be governed by physical force but
by the influence which mird exerts over mind.
How are the great springs of action in the po
litical world put in motion. Often by the se
cret workings of a single mind, that- in re
tirement plans its schemes, and comes . forth
to execute them only by presenting motives of
prejudice, passion, self-interest or pride; to
operate on minds.' . ' , . J " " - "
Now the world is chiefly governed 'by mo
tives that men arc ashamed io own. Wben
do we find mankind ackowledging that" their
florts in political life are' the "offspring of
pride, and the ' desire of self-aggrandizement,
and yet who hesitates to believe this is true.
But there is a class of motives that men are
not only willing but proud to own. ' ' ' . "V-
Man does not willingly yield to. fprce; hels
ashamed to own he can yield to fear; he will
not acknowledge his motives, of pride, preju -and
passion. Bnt-nono are unwilling to
"own that' they can be governed by reason, the
worst xvill boast . of being regulated " by" con-
Bcience, and where is the person is ashamed
to own thd Influence of the kind and generous
emotions of the heart1 ' Here, then,; is the on
ly 1awful ambition of our "box. Womaii in all
her relations, is bouud to honor:and obey'
those uponwhom she -depends tor protection
and support, nor does the truly feminine mind
; desire to exceed this, limitation', oNIeavcri.
But where the dictates of. authority may nev
er control, the voice ofrea'son: and "a flection
may ever convince, and persuade;- aiid 'while
- others govern by .mctives that mankind are
: l Ashamed to own, the dominion of womari may
: lie hased. on influences that the heart is proud
to acknowledge. " - -:
if it is Jl deed the ' truth; ai at - rca n
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and conscience guide to the only path of hap
piness, and if affection will gain a hold oo
those powerful, principles, which can bov at
tained no other way, what high and holy mo
tives are presented to woman, for cultivating
her noblest powers. " ?w : '
The developement of the reasoning "facul
ties, the facination of the purified imagina
tion; the charms of cultivated taste, the quick
perceptions of an active mind, the power of
exhibiting truth and reason; by perspicuous
and animated conversation arid writing, all
these can be employed by woman as much as
by man. '' '.--v ' ' . " T .
And with those" attainable faculties for gain
ing influence, woman has already received from
the hand of her, maker those warm affections
and quick susceptibilities, which can '"Imost"
surely gain the emplre of the heart. ;
Woman has never waked to her highest des
tinies and holiest hopesi She has yet to learn
the purifying and blessed influence she may
yet gain an maintain over the intellect and af
fections of the human mind. Though she may
net teach from the portico, nor thundor from
the forum, in her secret retirements she may
form and send forth the sages that renovate the
world. ' ' " ;"
Though -she may not gird herself for the iimage been worshipped. Time, change, cir
bloody conflict, nor sound the trumpet of war, cumstance, place, ' all forgotten my spirit
she may enwrap herself in the panoply of dwelt with thee. I saw thee in all thy high
Heaven; and send the thrill of benevolence ; and fond aspirations for fam( and ?lory; thine
throughouta thousand youthful hearts. Though was the name that lingered to bring me de
she may not enter the lists iu legal collision light whenever it was uttered; instinctively it
nor sharpen her intellect amid the passions touched the chords of memory, and the sounds
and conflicts of men, she may teach the law -of melody they emitted, breathed a sweeter
nf kindness, and hush ud the discords and con-
flicts of life. .
Though she may not be clothed as the am
bassador of Heaven, nor minister at the altar
of God; as a secret angel of Mercy she may
teach its will and cause to ascend the humble
but most accepted sacrifice.
' : ' ... Woman and Wedlock.
Thus pleasantly and truly vvriteth our wor
thy editorial , brother, Joseph Etter, of the
Washington City Native American. But re
cently he has yielded himself unto the pleas
ing persuasions of matrimony, and here are
his opinions of the guardian spirit whose pres
ence mrkes life joyous. The truth of his tes
timony will.be endorsed by every reader. , ;
"Man has an understanding as -ell as a
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heart.
For the first he craves knowledge; tor
lIiesecoud, lie - Bcsinrp
source of so manyd"jsSiit9
sorrows, of so many pleasures and pains; and
hence too the foundation of friendships tonned
between persons of our own sex. Although
we are by no means disposed to contest the
truth of the adage,; that" love conquers all
things, yet we are, convinced, from our own
and observation, that friendship
founded upoi. vire and aVmilarity of taste
and disposition aflufds as rIch a liquet to the
p Yni-.
heart as can be found in a" world where fVC.r" '
rose has its thorn, and every pleasure its al
Ioy But we repeat that for friendship to have
this quality, it must be based upon virtue; and
the moment that either party swerves from the
principle of rectitude, the foundation is gone,
and the superstructure falls to the ground; for
friendship is not the mere feeling of the heart;
but it is also the sentiment , of the mind.
Thus we may admire a man on acctunt of his
qualities, natural or auired. -
We may be concerned by his eloquence and
instructed by his : wisdom. . We may honor.
him for his patriotism, and praise him for his
valor.- But in all these there may not he mix
ed one particle of esteem, and esteem is an es
sential -.ingredient in friendship; as without
it there is no attachment which saould be dijr
nified by this name. In thus speaking of our
own sex we would not be c understood in the
slightest -degree underrating the character of
woman. The lovliest being of existence, she
commands the homage of our Tove by the charms
of her person i'and deserves oar esteem by the
virtues which radorn her..? In: physical pow
er she. must also yield to lier superiority But
in modesty:-and virtue 'tenderness of feeling
and . corislnacy ::-!of love in "the; endurance
6T": suffering and patiences under the' most
torturing afflictions who, that does her jus-
tice, will place her below man! . We know
woman well; and ".this is our- testimony con
cerning her.- Iq all that adorns and sweeteqs
domestiCjUfe in all . that ; is soothing ; in : the
hourof adversity and sorrow in all that'stills
the ; throlbings of an: agonized heafty and,' .in
the-language of tha" eloquent ;.Burke;" "cheats
life :of its' burthcns',-womani the hbne of
man's bone and the flesh of man's flesh, stands
superior to 'this lord of creation. He io not
a wise man who would not assign to her a po
sitica Tor which-Providence does not intend
her; and he is not a goo'd;one who would place
her. below that for.which she - was desigued:
Such is v;oman, a beautiful flower in the waste
X)f human life a iovely'star by whose mild
andjsilvery' beams we may,be directed in r our
pilgrimage through, this world: .and- although
the causn of. 'vman3 first disobedience. and
fruit of our woes,' yet, by the dispensation of
merciful Providence; she has been the instru-
ment of their' ransom and the foundation of
tli3ir hopes-r-beingthe first at thp cross, and
the list at the grave." ' - ' ' -
From the Evening Post. : t ., ; .
, . A Fragment. " I
She was a bright and beautiful being; such
as we see in our breams of fairy land no cloud
dimmed the radiance of her eye or-shadowed
the lightness of, that brow where love eat en
throned, she seemed like the habitant of
some far off clime of sunny skies and - spark
ling fountains, where" song-birds sptrt atnid
the sweet air, 'and carol forth their music from
the invisible spirit of joyousness and I loved
her: How wildly I loved that girl. '
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We met again when I was in the dawn of ex
istence, When life was all spring-time and
flowers, and the stream of time went laughing
ingly on amid the violet banks' scarce airip
ple'disturbed the calmness of its waves, -or
rufflng the serenity of its flow. To me' the
past seemed a blank. I knew no happiness
that was not centred in the present, and that
present was Ida. She gave the colors to all
my bliss, and made each scene of beauty more
pleasing. I have gone forth when the moon
was riding high above, and each thought and
intent was made sacred by the holy stillness
of the hour and there, by the time-haunted
shrine of memory dedicated to thee has thy
charm than that which drew the - warrior to
the tented field to battle in the cause of 'Lady
Love. The chaim was Ida! Apart from
the sunlight of her influence, the world held
no pai t or share in my affections, they were all
treasured m thee. IS o u ream or my youth
that in thee was not personified. My wildest
hopes and wishes, my deepest draught of fan
cy, were all realized and fulfilled. In thee I
saw . the creature of my midnight visions, in
all the freshness and beauty of my waking
thoughts, the same When I saw thee iu the
! and of fancy-wrought delusion it ?vas reali
ty. I saw thee then in the realm cf dreams
a being born to be loved and worshipped, mov
ing amid that soulless throng as the, visitant
of some bright and purer"sphere,'nWuncloud
ed spirit of joy , but the spirit of blisjj and hap-
.
Years pas s cd -a 0 rcc,g??f ycs3t " tffe rude
hand of time had not dealt harshly with thee.
The brightness of that eye was still , there
undimmed and untainted, the virgin fresh
ness of that form was still untouched and sa
cred. As Ileberlike and young she seemed,
as in days when we roved .'neath suns of oth
er times, and other scenes in climes far away;
no tint of time's wing had darkened the radi
ance of that brow so pure and spirit-like,
no arc?1 of thy yoJtli but- had been lasted,
and the fragrance lingered the rose t1,e
stream of her life had passed on amid the per
fume of a thousand flowers, and the hues of
all were starlike and beautiful; all existence
to her seemed faultless and fashioned to min
ister ti her pleasure for her, the song of the
birds were warbled. The rivulet sent forth a
wilder melody when her feet trod its velvet
banks; and the viewless spirit of the winds
whispered but in sighs when the breezes kis
sed her cheeks. -
And Ida. mcved amid them all, f a being born
to command; no one but worshipped ihee. That
was the altar where a ; deep and ardent hom
age was paid, and mid them though not of
them,' I knelt, alone devotee at the shrine of
this Goddess of my own. , . .
Scenery on the Wisconsin;
A writer in the Wisconsin Inquirer, says
the name of the river Wisconsin, is '.'evident
ly a French' corruption" of the Indian " word,
Wah-hoo-se-rah :which signifies a place where
councils are held." He "gives the following
account ot : the scenery of its banks and channel:'-
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Along the Wisconsin, ' there. are - several
points' of most striking interest to the lover of
nature and the admirer oftho sublime. The
dells,Jtwenty miles obove the Portage, ore "a
natural grandeur, exceeded only, by the Niag
ara; here the whole volumb of the river (which
in time , ,of high water is immense,) - rushes
through a chasm in the rock, several miles'.ih
length,' and which in one point, is' only sixty
feet across and as crooked as a:serpent's track
anu through this dark ravine where the sun
seldom. sliines," the whirling and eddying of the
straitened strearn is terrific. Therocks on
either side, are high, bold' and projectingiand
their lower parts,' where exposed to the action
of the sweeping current, are - washed into fig
urcs.very much resembling the base mouldings
of the Ionic and Corinthian orders.' Fortifi
cation Rocks, too, opposite Sac Prairie, -present
a most noble picture. - Viewed at-a dis
tance, they resemble the embattled outline of
a stupendous Gothic Fortress, with its exten
tended javelins and heavy bastions. Further
down the river, jhere is another object of cu
riosity, About midway between the shot tow
er and Muglifeb Prairie, on the right bank of
the river, thcre'is a very fcte3; hillt of a1pra-
midal form, rising to the height of about two
hundred and fifty feet from the surfaco of the
river, 6Urmounted by a huge mass of rock,
with a bold, perpendicular front, full twenty
fett high; and. in this frownirig.forehead of tfie
rock, there is ah aperture, vhiclir from the riv
er, looks no larger, than the mouth of an oven;
but when you.ascend the hill, (which is ra
ther difficult;) you find it to be alpor. between
five and six .feet high, leading Jnto.a.most
beautiful cavern, about' forty feet- in .'circum
ference, and -high enough for the tallest man
to walk about with lus hat on. .The sides and
roof of this chamber are of a concave form
and as smooth as if they had been dressed off
by a mason's hammer; and from this principal
chamber, a re three dark,, narrow passages,
striking further into the rock, and as we sup
posed, leading to other cells iu the bowels of
the hill. v Froni the , outer, door of the cave,
there is a fine, commanding view of the coun"
try and the river, winding its serpentine
course in the valebelow.. The cave bears evi
dent marks of having once been inhabited; and
if this airy and picturesque vault had a tongue
to tell of what has been transacted there; there
is no doubt but that a curious tale might be
unfolded of the rites of the Metia and Mantou
worship in days of yore."
From the Louisville Journal.
To a foreigner, imperfectly acquainted
with the institutions of this country, the
whig triumphs, daily announced in our
paper, must appear little less than miracles.
These victories speak gloriously for our
country, and stamp republicanism with a
seal of perpetuity as cheering to the wor
shipper of freedom as it is blasting to the
hopes of the iron hearted tyrant. They
show a stem, inflexible, unconquerable
spirit of liberty in our countrymen; a spi
rit which power cannot awe, deceit betray,
or infatuation mislead. - They show that
despair should never benumb the energies
or chill the heart ot a patriot.
The power of money, that power which
a great philosopher lias called uuuversal,
was exerted against us to a degree almos!
incredible. Officers were subsidized; par
tisans were taxed; the treasury stretched
forward its immense arm to replace the
leader of a despotic faction in his abused
seatforgeries were perpetrated that would
havd; consigned their authors to the Peni-
tcntiary: all, all was done which the most.
est heart sanction, to crush the migniy
patriots, who had sworn to restorethe
Constitution to its early . glory, and re
build the temples of public morality on
the ruins of vice and pitiless corruption.
Nor must we forget the coalitions for
med between those who aimed to perpet
uate an abominable administration.. Old
and bitter animosities were buried; new
friendships were formed; the. most adverse
principles were merged in the great lead
iug desire; and those who had previously
borne irreproachable characters., were
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miHgilg witu the mostdetestable villains
that ever marred the fair earth of God bv
their hateful presence. A reverend pre
late is found battling side by side with one
who has denounced in the most unmeas
ured and blasphemous terms, the church
of the Most High one who hurls a de
moniac anathema against the holy altar,
and abuses like a . pick-pocket the minis
ter of our Saviour.
Such were a few of the means taken to
crash the patriotic army. Then is not its
success wonderful? And does it. not ap
pear still more wonderful when.; we re
member, that, twelve years : of - despotism
had wreathed a chaiu around the limbs
of the country which alike apallcd and
corroded the heart of - every Jrue-souled
American!
Such, such was the great opposition
witlf which we had to contend Look at
tho'' etnfoQ Vrrsim xirHloK - ro hoira1 vortoirrvl I
definite returns, and Ietvthe heart b eve-'
ry patriot dirill with tl.e enthusiasm -that
;.i:tij it.'. a. .-i . .t
1 1 1 ii ii-i mm i fKn r i fii rm rn m nrn ri o rT
pressor on ttieir glory crowned battle
fields! and letWiererrdespairtLetho
brie hericefdrtli ay", that 'republicanism is
impracticable,' that man cannot rule him
self.; ' - -" " ' . - v";.
. Truth crushed to earth-' will rise again, ' " '
' .The eternal years of God are hers.;
Dut Krrorwounded; writhes io pain,-, :y
-.- 'And dies amid her worsliipers!- ;
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; Singular origin of a new sort of Potato.
-The Slairie Cultivator gives an account
of a new kind of -potato, which 13 appar
ently chance production of natu. ?, not
springing from seedpr; tubers, but grcv.vn :
as an excresenee "from another: plant.
71ie origin of the, potato now in , general
usel' and a firidst important addition to the
food of man, is inrolycil hi doubt; but that
production is.be! ic ved to h cive. been origiri
ally an excrescence growing upon u.plant
in South America. ."-The attention of sci
entific minds to this new., production
might settle the question ; The following
is its history, as given in .the paper refer
red to,'. :r
... 'Can any of our naturalist contempora
ries inform us. whether the potato . is an
original tuber or whether it is the produc
tion of a freak of nature.1 We are led to
the inquiry from the following fact, which
is before us, and which we venture to lay
before the public: '
'Year before last, Mr. John Smiley, a
farmer in the northern part of Augusta,
noticed upon some of the stalks of the
gilliflower, which the female members of
his family had , cultivated in a flower pot,
some, protuberance or excrescence like
warts, about the size of peas. They ap
peared perfectly formed and living sub
stances, resembling the seed that project
from the stalk ot that bulbous flower,
known as the tiger lilly. Every body is
acquainted with the gillyflower, as a com-
mon annual plant, resemDimg tne pmic m
size and flower. '; Curiosity led me to pre.
serve these excrcsences they were the
natural seedsand plant '- them in the
toiioving spring, uno oi nis neignoors
also took a portion oi them and did the
same. : Two or three came up and attain
ed maturity; the product was over half a
peck of good sized and very handsome po
tatoes! These were preserved and plant
ed last spring; they grew vigorously and
lie result was ebout tnree Dusneis oi a
new sort of real potatoes. v The potato is
of oblong form, smooth face, mostly white,
mixed occasionally with purple.: Mr.
Ilutclimgs of the Augusta House, has
cooked some of them and pronounces them
superior. They may be a variety worth
cultivating; but the mystery in our niind
is, that they should have been the product
of the gillyflower. V Was that the way po-
tatocs lirst earner
- WINTER.
We said the other day, we loved the
winter and so we do, and where is the
man who does not? unless indeed, it be
one who is so immersed in his pursuits, as
to have no relish for the winter evening
and the calnmeditation it brings '
""JCow stir tho fire, and close the shutters
. " fast; v, - ' '' :
Let fa' 1 the curtain, wheel the sofa roui.d.
And, while the bubbling and lone hissing
'.urn . - i,.?,. - . '. .' .
Throws up the steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each.
So let us welcome winter evening in. ;
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VTis pleasant through the loopholes of V
- : retreat :-. - 3
To Deen out at the world.
Qr t0 meditate on the hours past, and ask
ourself wliatreport mey bear to heaver
wnd, floats on the evening
ear as it were the wail-
the autumn w. tombs ot departed
and falls upon tu "r u""
ings of nature overrule
fruits and flowers. , Tne OTeii .
'spring the garniture and beauty of sum
mer, have passed awaywand all that was
fair and lovely in their glorious creations,
4has " sought , the grave to sleep forever
there. When we cast our eyes around
upon scenes, where but a few months aga
spring sported in all her luxuriance, and
summer wove her choicest garlands, and '
poured forth her strains of sweetest melo
dy now desolate -voiceless forsaken
melancholly steals imperceptibly over, the -sensibility
; of the 'soul and - tinges .her
her brightest visions with the hue of sad- '
ness and pleasing melancholy reflection!
Alas l ihe voice of autumn .lingers hot
alone around the grave of inanimate lo ve
liness and beauty, v iler sijhs are heard,
in the rustling of the willow that waves
above the tomb of departed alfection y -they
linger in" the k mournful cadences
around the . lonely mound that rises above
t he last resting place of departed friend
ship ; they breathe a wild and melancho
ly, requiem over the long deep sleep of
youthful love and confiding tenderness..
: It is at such times, when "reflecting on -such
themes ; withdrawn Trom the world,
At a safe distance, 'where the dying sound
v. Falls soft;murranr on th uninjured ear,"
That the higher arid holier attributes of '
naTe assert: tlieir heavenly jDngin and
tiV1
f ea Inns must hft?tnehRnrt .tnntifppl! nn
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eloquence in the ydicejpf winter ' mourning.
oyer- the decay- and'death bf tliose brigh t "
and .beautiful creatioiis "that spring awoke .
to Ufe'arid summerdecked with maturer
smiles. : Unwort ,
is thenaturej that at such: a :time. would
nof pauseand tuniirignside irorri the
world,ilet memory waudej. back and drop
a tear over tlic grave;of forriier:syrnpatliies
and earlier recollections - : ;
. Thu$ sl'ttjngvandiurvoying thuVit ease,
r,.The globe- and its 'concerns, I seemcd ad-I
. V- vunced ";. '., : ; ' X ' '"
To some secure and more than mortal height,
' ."That liberat.e'svacd exempts me from them
; alh . - f Free Trader:
IMPpitTANTJDEqiSIONV'
We are informed that Judge iShatkry,
one of the Justices; of tlie Xlisrlx Court of
r Errors and 'Appeals, :has admitted Mr. JR. ,
iHaorau to bail. -'Mr. Iiasan had been re- .
fused -'bail by Judge Cage on .the ground ;
that it was not admissible niter finding an
indictment for murder. . .
. The case v;as carried up 011 writ of ha- ':
bcas corpus - nutl.thc opinion of the '.Cir
cuit Judge pverrukd "
Counsel tor ciefaidant, Messrs." lonU
gomiTy.fc Boyd: Thatcher & ISfCCJftftVi.' "
" - Free TraJtr.
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