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THE DELAWARE REGISTER:
OR,
FARMERS', MANUFACTURERS* & MECHANICS' ADVOCATE.
Our Public Journal» as they ought to be—"The vehicles of Intelligence, not the common sewers of Scandal."
WILMINGTON, Del., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1829.
No. 34.
' Vol. I.
The Delawahi Register is published every Saturday
morning, by A. Sf H. Wilson, No. 105, Market Street, at
Two Dollars per annum, if paidin advance ; otherwise, Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents.
Handbills, Cards, Blanks, Pamphlets, and Job Printing in
general, executed with neatness and despatch, and at mode
rate prices, at the Office of the Register.
|)iy- Advertisements inserted on reasonable terms.
FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
•To ELLEN, OF Clermont Cottage, Brandywine.
'Tis not the beauty of thy face,
Or nymph-like form, that I admire;
But charms that give more brilliant grace
Awake my long neglected lyre.
Thy highly cultivated mind,
Thy sparkling wit so well controlled,
Thy virtuous heart, and taste refined,
I prize beyond the miser's gold.
But more I prize thy trust in God,
That bore thee o'er the waves of wo;
That made thee bless the chast'ning rod
That laid, thy earthly comforts low.
And when I mark, from day to day.
Thy ceaseless efforts to beguile
The tedious hours of slow decay.
And kindle un enliv'ning smile
Upon thy mother's faded face,
And make her pain and anguish flee,
I deem thee loveliest of thy race
And would all daughters were like thee. A. T.
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FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
TO MISS M. P. .
0n teeing her weep over the bed of a Sick Parent.
Hast thou not seen a blighted rose,
Slow wending into time's decay;
Whose brilliant cup did once disclose
The brightness of luxuriant May,
And gave unto the passing air
The fragrance that it cherish'd there ?
And hast thou not, around its stem
(As, sick'ning thus with nature's gloom,)
Beheld full many a budding gem
Spring quickly into life and bloom,
That wielded all their infant power
To save their feeble parent flower i
And hast thou not, while gazing on
The aged flowret's languid breast.
Been urged to 6x thy eyes upon
, One bud more feeling than the rest.;
And ken'd the offspring's dewy tear
Flow silent for its matron dear ?
If such a scene should meet thy view.
Say, would not retroepect control.
And memory's pencil picture true
The feelings of thy own pure souk?
And that fond, tender rose bud be
A bright similitude to thee ?
Yes, Mary— That wan, aged rose
That freely doth its sweets impart.
In its rioh fragrance would disclose <
An emblem of thy mother's heart.
Which though by time and care opprest,
Still keeps sweet sympathy a guest.
And, dear one! in that lovely gem
That weeps the dew-drop tears so fret
• round its withering parent's stem,
I trace the filial love of thee.
As lately o'er thy mother's bed
Those drops of holy grief were shed.
. A WANDERING MINSTREL.
nmfoiivtUe, Jane 77, 1829.
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FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
Written near the Brandywine.
Once all alive to pleasure's thrill,
My heart at scenes like this would glow,
The flowery vale, the grass-green hill,
The winding water's gentle flow;
Those rude rocks, here above the flood
With crags projecting steep and high.
The foaming stream, the nodding wood
Was charming all, when she was by.
Though I can see those beauties yet,
'Tis dimly 'neath a gloomy sky,
The sun that gilded them has set,
That beamed in Laura's sparkling eye:
How changed to me all nature
From what it was in life's gay morn.
Ere yet bright Hope's enchanting dreams
Had fled and left my heart forlorn ;
E'en eve's mild breezes seem to sigh.
Those willows sadly seem to
And yon dim star with dewy eye
Weeps o'er my Laura's early grave.
seems
wave,
Theodore.
FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
PUZZLE.
There is a word containing eleven letters in the
English language, from which letters the following
words may be spelt. Can any of your readers tell
me what word it is ? I have not used more letters of
one kind in any of the following words than
tained in the word from which they are formed. Had
I done so the number of words that could te
pounded from it would have been greatly multiplied ;
and on the plan I have pursued, some other words
might be made.
Lest
Lament
Least
Latin
Lame
Let
Lean
Lent
Lave
Line
Lien
Last
Latest
Live
Lime
List
Listen
Lie
Lint
Lain
Men
Mint
Mean
Meat
Meet
are con
com
Q.
Ail
Mete
Met
Mental
Mantel
Mist
Malt
Mien
Mite
Mast
Mittens
Meant
Metal
Mail
Male
Mile
Meal
Mek
Mane
Main
Mat
Neat
Nail
Nave
Native
Sieve
Salve
Slave
Slate
Stale
Stave
Save
Seven
Seal
Smalt
Smelt
Smite
Smile
Snail
Snite
Seen
Site
Stamel
Taste
Tan
Tea
Talents
Aim
Ale
A.
Am
Tit
Ate
Sin
Tilt
Tale
Tail
Tent
Title
Teens
Vestal
Vain
Vane
Vein
Venal
Vest
Vent
Vale
Veil
Vail
Valet
Veal
Vestment
Vine
At
Sent
Amen
Aisle
Aliment
Eaves
East
Eels
Eat
Even
Eve
Set
Iy
Stain
Sat
Salt
Sit
State
Sail
Sale
Seem
Seam
Steam
Steal*
Salem
Seat
Stean
Steel
Stele
Stem
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Evil
Item
Silt
Time
Ten
Teat
Teem
Team
Tame
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In
Mate
It
Nil
Late
Lane
Latent
Nile
Nest
FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
•The season of Summer has arrived and thrills the
heart with the most pleasing sensations. Its genial
airs have roused from their dormancy ten thousand
charms of Nature, and the soul of man, catching a
life and buoyancy from a contemplation of developed
beauties, is vivified and invigorated. Renovated Na
ture calls up a long and varied train of bright reali
ties. We see the fertile beds bringing forth in abun
it
dance the useful culinary plants—the flowery parterre
studded with all the variety of richly colored orna
mental plants, arranged and classed with scientific
taste—the orchards teem with odorous blossoms, or
luscious fruits—the lofty hills and shady valleys, rob
ed in rich verdure, burst upon the eye with imposing
grandeur—and the feathered harmonists, mingling
their numerous notes in sweet concert, fill the heart
with ecstacy.
Either from suggestions of nature, or early associa
tions, or other causes, the inhabitants of populous ci
ties are disposed for recreative travelling. The law
yer, the doctor, the merchant, the clerk, the artizan,
all pant to share the gladsome emancipation which
Nature now enjoys. They begin to revolve in their
minds where they shall pass
few Summer days,
snatched from the turmoil of business. In all their
ponderings they cannot rest upon a more eligible place
than W ilmington, and its vicinity,
accommodations, and variety and beauty of scenery,
it has few equals. A market well stocked with an
endless variety of the choicest vegetables, and crowd- '
cd with the best of meats—a goodly number of well
furnished, commodious, tidy and well attended inns,
all emulous to excel each other in attention and cour
tesy to their visitors—social citizens, ever willing to
treat with hospitality the stranger who visits their Bo
rough, and to cheerfully answer the interrogatories of
the inquisitive traveller—such are the characteristics
of Wilmington.
The natural scenery around the Borough is of the
most surpassing beauty. The westward view is boun
ded by verdant hills, rising gradually from a flowery
and irrigated valley. On the summits of these hills
stadd conspicuous edifices commanding extensive and
picturesque views of the surrounding country,
elegant neatness of architecture, their air of comfort
and competency, their substantial appearance, and the
flourishing condition of the gardens, orchards, tillage
fields and meadows, all combine to make them truly
attractive.
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For comfort in
Their
Looking eastward you behold the majestic river
Delaware, receiving the tribute of the meandering
Christiana. The eye, passing over a large tract of
highly improved savanna, views it at the distance of
two miles, bearing on its flowing tide numerous
sels laden with a great variety of cargoes :
** — . the threaden sails,
Borne with invisible and creeping winds,
Draw the huge bottoms thro* the furrow'd deep.' 1
This scene is bounded by the dense and lofty woods
of New Jersey, which give a most pleasing and land
scape effect.
But the indescribable attraction of Wilmington is
the renowned and lovely stream Brandywine.
Iy decked
ves
Rich
" With fragrant turf, and flowers as wild and fair,
As ever dress'd a bank, or scented summer air,'
pours its delightful odors on the well-pleased
The harmony of numerous birds, their bright and
riegated plumage, the lofty trees, and their dense
brage, rugged rocks and sloping hills, the gurgling of
rivulets, the whirling of eddies, the dashing of falls, all
rush on the eye and the ear and fill the mind with
admiration, love, and gladness. The numerous and
it
sense.
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