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THE FREE PHESS.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9.
MARYLAND ELECTIONS.
The annual election for Delegates to
ic Assembly took place on the 1st inst.
he election for Sheriffs of the different
ninties (who serve for three years) also
iok place on the same day. Returns
om tne following counties have been re
lived :
in n.ucgauy county, Messrs, Spngg,
.,Ioffman, Greenwell, and Pratt,were elect
'd delegates, and Andrew Bruce sheriff.
In Washington, Messrs. Bowles, Gab
•y, Weaver, and Kershner, were elected
delegates, and John V. Swearingen she
riff.
8 In Frederick, Messrs. Kemp, Pigman,
"3ruce, and Culler, were elected delegates,
,tnd Thomas W. Morgan sheriff.
• In Baltimore City, Messrs. Barney and
Kennedy were elected delegates.
! In Baltimore county, Messrs. Stansbu
ry, Orriek, Showers, and Snowden, were
sleeted delegates. Sheppard C. Leakin
was elected sheriff of Baltimore city and
county.
In Harford, Messrs. Allen, Forward,
Norris, and Whitefcrd, were elected de
legates, and Samuel Bradford sheriff.
In the city of Annapolis, Messrs. Car
roll and Hughes were elected delegates.
In Kent county, Messrs. Connell, Har
ris, Hall, and Brook, were elected dele
gates, and Edward Brown sheriff.
In Caroline county, Messrs. Douglass,
Whiteley, Hardcastle, and Saulsbury,
were elected delegates, and Frederick
Holbrook sheriff.
rs. Craig, Muffitt, Ar
were elected dele
Dorsey, Mil
, were elect
ea Hayden, sheriff,
srs. Frazier, Sulli
e7'se, were elected J
Kinvan sheriff.
Weems, Smith,
vere elected de
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Gen. William Carroll has been elected
go ernor of Tennessee, by the overw helm
ing majority of 30,000 votes.
Walter Leake, Esq. late an U. States’
sen ator, has been elected governor of Mis
sissippi.
Israel Pickens, Esq. formerly a repre
sentative in Congress from North Caro
lina, has been elected governor of Ala
bama.
Albion K. Parris, Esq. late a judge of
the U. S. Court, has been elected gover
nor of Maine, by a majority of 629 votes
over all other candidates.
FOR THE FREE PRESS.
It appears, that the Grecian Insurrec
tion is at length brought to a close. The
latest and most authentic accounts go to
prove, mat whilst tne unsuspecting mma
of Theodore permitted the duplicity of
Ypsilanti to gain and maintain an undue
influence over him, the Turkish govern
ment, ever on the alert, took advantage
of this golden opportunity, and “ sent a
well appointed army, under the command
of one of its most experienced” officers,
into the provinces of Wallachia and Mol
davia, which, by acting in perfect concert>
'contrary to the course pursued by Ypsi
lanti and Theodore) secured to them the
cquiet possession of Bucharest and Jas
sy.” If the accounts which have been
'eceived, can be relied on, (and, it is be
ieved, not a doubt is entertained of their
luthenticity) it is next to impossible that
my attempt will shortly, if ever, again be
na.de at insurrection in those provinces.
Much good, however, might, have been
effected, had Ypsilanti pursued the proper
course—and every heart, true to the prin
ciples of virtuous liberty, would have re
joiced in his successes—sympathized in
vis misfortunes ! But when it comes to
oe remembered, that he deserted his army,
md fled to the Adriatic for an asylum,
mcl at a time too, when his presence -was
-ndispensably necessary to secure unlimi
ted confidence, what man wiM be found to
espouse his conduct? Who that will not
■evolt at reading a proclamation, part of
vhic’ ' ’ mguage of the most
pointed acrimony, ag'amst those officers.
and soldiers who were no less true to the
cause they had engaged to support than
Ypsilanti himself ? Surely none. Indeed,
comparatively speaking, they were more
true ! For on him, as avowed command
er in chief, were turned perhaps the eyes
of millions. All his actions were viewed,
by those who enjoy the many privileges
secured by freedom, with the most anx
ious solicitude—his proclamations sought
and read with an intemperate avidity.
Yet in the midst of all this anxiety—in
the most interesting stage of our fond an
ticipations, we find our eager hopes frus
trated by his desertion, leaving his men
to shift for themselves ! Innumerable
years shall pass away unheeded, when the
odious name of Ypsilanti, and his still
more disgraceful actions, will be borne in
remembrance only to render him the
more despicable ! For his sun has ceased
to shine—every ray of its former bril
liancy is forever eclipsed by his inglorious
desertion.
The following proclamation contains ;
the effusions rather of a disordered mind,
and an already expiring conscience, than
the plain, unvarnished tale of never-fad
ing rectitude and valor. In this fetch, it
will be seen, that be has fiarticularized
such as he supposes to have abandoned
him, but does not think it worthy the con
sumption of his useful and necessary
time, to transmit to an admiring posteri
ty the names of those who stedfastly
maintained “the honor of their wives and
children.” He, however, supposes that
“ monuments” will be erected for that
purpose. Disgust renders it necessary
that this something, called a proclama
tion, should speedily be given for perusal,
st follows:
“ Soldiers. No ! I shall sully that ho
norable and sacred name by applying it
,to beings like you. Ye herd" of dastardly
and cruel men, your treachery, your per
jury, force me to abandon you. In fil
ature, every tie is broken between us ; but
I shall always deeply feel the shame of
having been your chief. You have tram
pled under your feet your oaths-—you have
betrayed God and your country. You be
trayed me at a time when I hoped to con
quer, or die gloriously atyour head. We
are now separated forever. Go and join
the Turks, who are alone worthy of your
friendship. Steal out of the >. where
you have concealed yourselves—-descend
irom me mountains wmcn you nave cno
sen as the retreat of your cowardice.
Hasten to join the Turks ; kiss those hands
which still reek with the blood of the
heads of your church, your patriarch,
your -arch-priests, and your innocent
brethren, whom they have so inhumanly
butchered. Yes—run to purchase slave
ry with the price of blood—with the sa
crifice of the honor of your wives and
children. But you, images of the true
Greeks, of the sacred battalion, who have
been betrayed and sacrificed for the deli
verance of your country, receive from me
the thanks of your people. Monuments
will soon render your names immortal.
The names of those friends who have re
mained faithful ever to me, are engraved
on my heart in characters of fire. Their
memory shall be the only consolation of
my soul. I abandon to the contempt of
men, the justice of Providence, and the
maledictions of their countrymen, those
perjured traitors, Kammari, Sabas, Du
kas, Constantinos Bassilius, Barlas, Gior
gius Manos, who have deserted from the
army, and who have been the first au
thors of its dissolution; the Phanariote,
Gregorius, Sutto, the Phanariote and
scoundrel Nicolaus Skufe. I also erase
from the list of my companions in arms,
Bassilius Karebics, on account of his in
discipline and improper conduct.”
In the Morea, the Greeks, although
without a proper leader, are carrying on
their cause with renovated ardor. Unsuc
cessful attempts have been made uto re
duce the fortresses into which the Turks
have thrown themselves, on being pressed
by the Greeks.” Their determination,
however, continues undiminished, and
what they cannot effect by the sword, they
will endeavor to secure by adopting the
only alternative left them—that of starv
ing out their enemies. This end, it is
highly probable, they will be enabled
to attain—having perfect command of the
sea. But, it is to be regretted, that the
deficiency of their numbers, added to the
want of skilful officers, and proper disci
pline, will not warrant the hope that any
permanent good will thereby result to
them. N.
Died, at Philadelphia, on Friday eve
ning the 28th ult. Mr. George Helmbold,
editor of the ‘ Independent Balance,’ in
the 43d year of his age.
COM MU NIC'A'l ED.
TV hen the aged and infirm arc remov
ed by death, we consider it as an event
quite in the common order of things, and
we feel it accordingly; but when the shaft
is aimed at one in the bloom of existence;
one who has not yet attained to the per
fection of manly prowess, or vigor of
mind, and he who Counted on length of
years suddenly sinks into the tomb—it is
then we must stop and listen to
u The voice of friends by death removed.”
The grave speaks, and we must hear !
These reflections were suggested, and
those which follow were brought'mourn
fully to recollection, by the late sudden
death of a highly beloved young friend,
ere he had attained the 21st year of his
age.
This excellent young man possessed
every quality essential to form the cha
racter of a useful member in society. By
persevering industry, he was rapidly
emerging from the lowly station in which
fortune had placed him. His f iends'can
now only testify regret by emulating his
virtues: they were truth, temperance,
With love, to find. And honovobvii'A tr»
ward man. These were adorned with
that amiableness of disposition by which
lie was endeared to all who knew him.
u For earth too good, to heaven tie’s Jlovjn,
“And left his friends in tears*’
“ The associate in the gay and crowded
city is soon forgotten ; the hurrying suc
cession ol new intimates and new plea
sures efface him from our minds, and the
very scenes and circles in which he mov
ed are incessantly fluctuating. But fune
rals in the counfry'are-alw.ays impressive.
The stroke of death makes a wider--s-pacer
in the village circle, and is an awful event
in the tranquil uniformity of rural life.
The death bell tolls its knell in every car ;
it steals with its pervading melancholy
over every hill and vale, and saddens all
the landscape.
“ The fixed and unchanging features of
the country also perpetuate the memory
of the friend with whom we once enjoyed
them, avho yvas the companion of our most
retired walks, and gave animation to eve
ry scene. His idea is associated Avith
every charm of nature; we hear his voice
in the echo which he once delighted to
awaken; his spirit haunts every grove
which he once frequented; Ave think of
him in the wild upland solitude, or amidst
the pensive beauty of the valley. In the
freshness of joyous morning, Ave remem
ber his beaming smiles and bounding gai
ty ; and Avhen sober evening returns Avith
its gathering shadows and subduing qui
et, we call to mind many a twilight hour
of gentle talk and sweet-sou led melan
choly.'' -—’
‘Fuck lonely place shall him restore,
t For him the tear be duly shed,
‘ Belov’d till life can charm no more,
( And mourn’d till pity’s self be dead.’
“The sorrow for the dead is the only
sorrow from which we refuse to be di
vorced. Every other grief we seek to
heal—every other affliction to forget; but
this wound we consider it a duty to keep
open—this affliction we cherish and brood
over in solitude. Where is the mother
that would willingly forget the infant that
perished like a blossom from her arms,
though every recollection is a pang ?
Where is the child that would willingly
forget the most tender of parents, though
to remember be but to lament ? Who,
even in the hour of agony, would forget
the friend over whom he mourns ? Who,
even when the tomb is closing upon the
remains of her he most loved, and he
feels his heart, as it were, crushed in the
closing of its portal, would accept conso
lation that was to be bought by forgetful
ness ? No—the love which survives the
tomb is one of the noblest attributes of
the soul. If it has its woes, it has like
wise its delights; and when the over
whelming burst of grief is calmed into
the gentle tear of recollection ; when the
sudden anguish, and the convulsive ago
ny over the present ruins of all that we
most loved, is softened away into pensive
meditation on ail that it was in the days
of its loveliness, who would root out such
a sorrow from the heart? Though it
may sometimes throw a passing cloud
even over the brightest hour of gaiety, or
spread a deeper sadness over the hour of
gloom, yet who would exchange it even
for the song of pleasure, or the burst of
revelry? No, there is a voice from the
tomb sweeter than song. There is a re
collection of the dead to -which we turn
even from the charms of the living. Oh,
the grave i the grave!-—it buries every
error—covers every defect—extinguishes
every resentment. From its peaceful bo
som flow none but fond regrets and tender
recollections. Who can look down upon
the grave, even of an enemy, and not feel a
compunctious throb, that ever he should,
have warred with the poor handful of
earth that lies mouldering before him !
“ But the grave of those we loved—
what a place for meditation ! There it is,
; that we call up in long review the whole
history of virtue and gentleness, and the
i thousand endearments lavished upon us
almost unheeded in the daily intercourse
of intimacy*—there it is, that we dwell
upon the tender, the solemn, awful
- scene—the bed of deatlp with all its sti
1K-U gluts, its nois-tess mi.ndaiUe, it's
mute Wgtch tut assiduities— f.,- ;USl tost:_
monies of expiring Jove—-tht feeble "but
tering, thrilling, oh 1 how thriving i’pirsI
sure of the hand—the la§t i\md Took of
the glazing eye, turning'' upon 'us, even
from the threshold of existenU—the faint
faltering accents struggling in death to
give one more assurance of affection b
“ Aye, go to the grave of buried love,
and meditate ! There settle the account
with thy conscience for every past en
dearment unregarded of that being who
can ' never—never-never return, to be
soothed by thy contrition 1”
irvine’s sketch book.
“ Pass but a few short years, or days, or
hours,
a And happier seasons may their dawn
unfold,,
“ And all your sacred fellowship restore;
“ When freed from earth, unlimited its
powers,
ii Mind shall with mind direct commu
nion hold,
“ And kindred spirits meet to part no
more.” roscoe.
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Classical £5 English School Books
G DAVIS, Bridge street, Georgetown,
0 has on hand the following School
Books, which are offered for sale on the
most reasonal terms, viz :
CLASSICAL.
Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary
Caesar Delphini—Cicero do.—Horace do.
Hutchinson’s Xenophon
Greek Lexicon—Longinus
Ovid Delphini—Stoughton’s Virgil
Sallust—-Juvenal Delphini—Virgil do. "
Clarke’s Erasmus—do. Nepos—C order!
Greek Vocabulary
Entick’s Latin Dictionary
Greek Grammar—Greek Testament
Ross’ Latin Grammar
Mair’s Introduction—Veri Romas
Murphy’s Lucian—Titii Livii
Ashley’s Xenophon—Clarke’s Homer
Selectse Veterie—ffisop’s Fables
Historic Sacra—Adams’ Latin Grammar
Ruddiman’s Rudiments—Greek Minora
Cicero de Oratore
ENGLISH.
Ferguson’s Astronomy
Murray’s Grammar
Bonnycastle's Arithmetic
Goldsmith’s Geography and Atlas
Cowley’s, Webster’s, and Pickett’s Spel
ling Books—Fenning’s Universal do.
Jess’s Arithmetic—Adams on the Globes
Gibson’s Surveying—Jess’s Surveying
Ramsay’s Washington
Simpson’s Algebra—Walker’sDictionary
American Speaker—American Orator
Jackson’s Book Keeping
Tytler’s Elements of General History
Morse’s Geography—Adams’ do.
•American Class Book
Adams’ Arithmetic
Brackenridge’s Late War
Bonnycastle’s Algebra
Courley’s Grammar
Cummings’ Geography
Dilworth’s Spelling Book
Goldsmith’s England"—do. Greece
Do. Rome—-Judson’s Arithmetic
Joyce’s Arithmetic
Murray’s Spelling Book, Key, Sequel,
English Reader, Exercises, Introduction
O’Neal’s Geography—Robinson Crusoe
Snowdon’s America
Walsh’s Arithmetic
October 9
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scriber. F. BECKHAM.
October 9-.