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POETRY.
MORAL REFLECTION,
BY BISHOP HORNE.
me sentiment by the Divine Herbert.
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
Bridal of earth and sky ;
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night,
For thou, alas ! must die.
Sweet Rose, in air whose odours wave,
And color charms the eye;
Thy root is ever in its grave—
And thou, alas ! must die.
Sweet Spring, of days and roses made,
Whose charms for beauty vie ;
Thy days depart—thy roses fade,
Thou too, alas 1 must die.
Be wise then mortal while you may,
For time does swiftly fly ;
The thoughtless soul that laughs to-day
To-morrow too may die.
TO THE MEMORY OE AFFECTION.
There is a grief that sheds no tear,
A sorrow to the world unknown;
The voice of friendship cannot cheer—
’Tis sacred, noiseless, an4 alone :
And yet it breathes in agony,
And lifts to Heaven the suppliant eye !
Nor festal scene—nor social mirth,
Nor the great crowd’s unheeding ken,
Can rouse the soul that weeps for worth,
And mourns among the sons of men :
For memory casts a lingering gaze
At the fond scenes of former days !
Lamented loss!—the harp may dwell
In vain on life’s enchanting power,
When thou wert here ! Ah who can tell
Thy angel care in childhood’s hour:
Accomplished, elegant and true ;
Beloved by .all—-resembling few.
No voice can waken ever more
Those strains she sweetly sung at even ;
'Mute are the chords her hand run o’er,
That seem’d to echo sounds from heav’n!
Lorn the piano stands of late,
Each key is still and desolate !
A here now shall those sad orphans roam?
On what kind bosom find relief?
Gloom shades their once loved happy
home ;
And they are young to drink of grief:
Ah ! when the widowed bird hath fled,
What woes'th’ unfledg’d dove may dread!
What sorrow will that lone one feel,
Who dwells on India’s distant shore;
W hen the sad news shall slowly steal
That this fond parent is no more :
And they will mourn on England’s Isle,
A ho felt her long lost parting smile 1
Go, saint-like sp’Lr 7.0 thy rest.
Where widowed virtue'knows no tear;
While thou with kindred souls art blest,
This bliss will be a solace here :
Tho’ light that cheer’d a happier day,
O’er sorrow’s urn now sheds its ray !
Lines from Lord Byron to his wife on the
sixth anniversary of their marriage.
This day of all hath surely done
Its worst for me and you ;
’Tis now sis years since we were one,
And five since we were. two.
MISCELLANY.
VENTRILOQUISM.
From.the Albany Daily Advertiser.
Mr. Nichols, the ventriloquist, (a young
American', now in this city) gave a hu
morous specimen of his art last evening,
in Market street. Walking with a friend
between 9 and 10 o’clock, past the cor
ner of Church and Market streets, where
a well was sinking, the surface being
slightly covered with loose boards, his
companion suggested to him that it of
fered a good opportunity to exert his
powers of speech. Two or three persons
happened to be near the spot, when Mr.
Nichols raised one of the boards, and
asked who was down there ? No answer
was returned. He again asked, did I not
hear some one down here calling for help ?
A voice answered from the bottom of the
well, yes sir 1 Mr. N.-—How came you
down there ? Voice—-The workmen left
me here and shut the well; O, my friend,
put down a ladder or rope and help me
out. By this time 30 or 40 persons had
assembled, uttering curses on the work
men for leaving the man in the well. One
man recognized in the voice old Tony
Schuyler, a black man, said he knew him ;
he now called out to him, “ Tony is that
you?” Voice—Yes, sir; help me out, I
am almost frozen and drowned. The man
asked how long he had been there ? Two
hours ; O put down a ladder ! By this
time there had arrived a number of lan
tliorns, ropes, ladders, 8cc. Mr. N. now
waided off, and left the deceived multi
tude preparing to draw Tony up frorti
the well. Their lights, however, soon
convinced them that Tony was not there.
Now a warm dispute arose among those
who said it was all a hoax, and those
who swore they heard Tony. The wri
ter left them in the height of their dis
pute, and went home.
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^ ice stings us, even in our pleasures;
%it virtue consoles us, even in our pains.
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CRIM. COX.
Court of Common Pleas—City and County
of JVew- York.
John Ferguson,
vs.
Thomas Thompson,
sion to grant the freedom of elective
franchise to people of colour, is a dash
at the higher walks in life, and attempts
to imitate their fashionable neighbors.
This was an action brought by Ferguson,
a black gentleman of respectability, to
recover damages against Thompson, a
very decent colored man and a stage dri
ver, for seducing plaintiff’s wife and des
troying his comfort and peace of mind.
It is true, that in this case there were
no proofs of settlements—pin money
splendid equipage—elopements—duels,
and doctors commons, and all those regu
lar gradations which accompany an esta
blished case of English crim con; yet
the plaintiff was an honest black citizen,
a little “ declining in the vale of years”
as Othello says, who had married a young
and handsome mulatto, but who, it ap
pears, was not in court.
Thompson, the defendant, was also an
old beau, and had an excellent character,
and was, withal, a man of property. It
appeared by the testimony, that Thomp
son brought sundry packages to plain
tiff’s wife, and by these little gratuitous
attentions won her affections and carried
her off; and it also appeared in evidence
that in the midst of these miscellaneous
proceedings, a child was born, which nei
ther party owned. Witnesses were exa
mined to prove that Ferguson had ill
treated his wife, and frequently turned her
out of doors ; and the court charged the
jury that exemplary damages should be
awarded where the peace of mind and
happiness of the husband had been in
jured ; but if it appeared he had used his
wife ill without cause, and had turned
her out of doors, he himself created a
barrier to any compensation.
The jury retired for some time, and
brought in a verdict of two hundred and
fifty-two dollars and the costs.
A number of black ladies and gentle
men attended this interesting trial; they
were neatly and fashionably dressed ; and
the ladies blushed a little when examined
on the delicate investigation.—\Advo.
From the Baltimore Telegraph.
Electioneering Candour.—We copy the
following curious address from the 44 Ohio
Interior Recorder” of the 6th ult:
Xenia, August 30, 1821
, Fellow-Citizens—Without counsel with
' any man, or set of men, I offer myself to
your consideration as a candidate for a
seat in the house of representatives of
.this state. I deem it inexpedient to make
you any promises of what I can, or will
do for you, if elected, as patriotism has
almost departed this life. Suffice it to
•say, that it is your Three Dollars per day
I am principally in pursuit of.
Yours, with esteem,
THOMAS GILLESPIE,
PATENT SAW MILL.
Messrs. Eastman and Houghton, from
the state of Maine, have lately erected at
Cogswell’s gun factory, near Troy, one
of their patent saAv mills, for cutting si
ding or weather boards, hogshead and
barrel heading, &c. On Saturday after
noon, Ave had the satisfaction of examin
ing this mill, and of seeing it in opera
tion. Highly as we had heard it spoken
of by others, it far exceeded our expecta
tions ; and we believe it will prove one of
the most useful, as it is certainly one of
the most ingenious inventions which our
country can boast. The construction of
it is entirely original, and the merit of
the invention belongs to Mr. Robt. East
man, an ingenious mechanic of Bruns
Avick, Maine, who secured the patent
about two years since.
Were we competent to the task, a des
cription of the machinery Avould exceed
the limits of a newspaper paragraph.
Suffice it to say, that the saw consists of
a circular plate of sheet iron, of about 18
inches in diameter, and with 8 teeth in
the circumference. It is moved by a band,
and revolves 12 or 1500 times in a mi
nute, cutting the hardest timber without
the least difficulty. The log is sawed half
j through, or from the sap to the heart at
: a cutting, and may be graduated to suit
j timber of any dimensions. The maclnne
! ry is so constructed, that the mill tends
itself, the log being rolled, and gauged by
an apparatus which goes by water. The
advantages of this mill are numerous and
important. In the first place, the boards
sawed in this mill are far superior to
those manufactured in the ordinary Avay,
being much truer and more durable. Se
j condly, it is a great saving in lumber,
| since all kinds of timber, whether fissile
S or not, may be wrought into boards and
i heading without Avaste. Thirdly, there
1 is a great saving of time and labour.
J On the Avhole, we are clearly of the
; opinion, that this will prove to be a valu
able invention. Mills of this construc
| tion are hoav in operation in most of the
; eastern states, and are found, after a fair
experiment, to exceed the benefits Avhich
i had been anticipated.—[/fiT. Statesman,
■ VALUABLE BOOKS.
GIDEON DAVIS, Bridge St. George
town, has on hand the following
BOOKS, which he offers for sale on t’ k
most reasonable terms, viz :
Travels of Anacharsis
Milton’s Paradise Lost—Lalla Rookh
Rollin’s Ancient History, 8 vols.
Beloe’s Herodotus—Murphey’s Tacitus
Plutarch’s Lives—Paley’s Philosophy
Works of Alexander Hamilton
Ferguson’s Rome—Gibson’s do.
Ramsay’s Universal History
History of England, by Flume and Bisselt
Woodfall’s Junius—Bozman’s Maryland
History of Chili
Edwards’s History of the West Indies
History of the French Revolution, and
the wars growing out of it, by Stephens
Gillies’ Greece
Marshall’s Life of Washington
Life of General Eaton
I Life of General Green
j Steward’s Philosophy—Reid’s Works
| Virginia Debates on the Constitution of
I the United States
i Blunt’s Coast Pilot
| M‘Mahon on Gardening
i Hutton’s Mathematics
Edwards on the Will
Ferguson on Civil Society
Johnson’s Lives of the Poets
Say’s Political Economy
; Ganalth’s do.—Tracy’s do.
Burgh’s Dignity of Man
I.ocke’s Essay on the Understanding
Ancient Geography, by D’Anville
American Eloquence, being a selection of
American speeches
Adams’ Antiquities
Lectures on Rhetoric, by the hon. John
j Q. Adams
Burke’s Woi’ks
Black’s Lectures on Chemistry
Barlow’s Columbiad, elegant
Campbell’s Rhetoric
C1 eveland’s Mineralogy
Cuvier’s Theory of the Earth
Dobson’s Petrarch
Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz
Emporium of the Arts and Sciences ' i
Europe after the Congress of Aix-Ia
Chapelle
Erskine’s Speeches
Gleanings on Husbandry '
Grattan’s Speeches
History of Quadrupeds
Harrup’s Irish Rebellion 1
Johnson’s Travels in Russia, Poland, &<;.
Ireland Vindicated, by M. Carey
Elements of Criticism, by Lord Kaimes
Lady Morgan’s France
Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary
Orations of Demosthenes, translated by
Lelard
Langdroft’s Voyages
Mifrray ’ s 'Cliemis try
Russell’s Modern Europe
’ Malthus on Population
O’Reiley’s Greenland
Portraiture of Quakerism, by Clarkson
Peters’ Letters to his Kinsfolk
Roscoe’s Lorenzo de Medici
Robinson’s Charles the Fifth
Riley’s Narrative—Select Reviews
Schoolcraft’s View of the Lead Mines in
Missou-ri, &c.
Sully’s Memoirs—Thucydides
Tuckey’s Expedition to the North Pole
U. States and G. Britain, by R. Walsh
Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry
Watts on the Mind
Warren’s American Revolution
LAW BOOKS.
Coke’s Reports, 7 vols.
Chitty’s Pleadings, 3 vols.
Do. on Bills—Do. Criminal Law
Taunton’s Reports—East’s Reports
American Digest, 2 vols.
Harrison’s Chancery, 2 vols.
Bosanquet and Puller’s Reports, 5 vols.
Schoals and Lefroy’s Reports, 2 vols.
Burrows’ Reports, 5 vols.
Massachusetts Reports, 14 vols.
Coke’s Littleton, 3 vols.
Maule and Selivyn’s Reports, 3 vols,
Crauck’s Reports, 9 vols.
Blake’s Chancery Practice
Blackstone’s Commentaries
Campbell’s Reports
Dernford and East’s Reports, 8 vols,
Day’s Reports, 4 vols,
Harris and M‘Henry’s Reports, 4 vols,
Henning and Munford Reports
Jacob’s Law Dictionary
Munford’s Reports
Magistrate’s Guide
Montague’s Spirit of Law
Sheppard’s Touchstone
Vattel’s Lav/ of Nations
All of which are to be had as above on
the most reasonable terms.
October 2
ENOCH C. BREEDIN,
Attorney at Law,
RACT1SES in the superior and in
ferior Courts of Jefferson and Lou
doun counties.
For the information of persons residing
at a distance, he would remark, that
Charlestown, Shepherdstown, Smithfield,
- - and this place, are in Jefferson; and Lees
burg, Middleburg, and Hillsborough, are
in Loudoun,
Harper-Ferry, June 23, 1821.
BLANK WARRANTS
For Sale at thF Office..
A LIST OF LETTERS <
Remaining in the Post-Office at Harpc re
Ferry, on the Is? of October, 1821. **
A.
David Adam, 2
Frederick Adamson
./antes Allen
John Allison
B.
Milly Butler
Fanny Butler
Marb. Buckles
JVathan Benton
Dorothy Brown
J. C. Buckles
Mr. Baughman
Henry Buckles
R. C. Brcedin
Braden id Conard
c.
Elizabeth Lurrens
James Calbert
Peter Curley
Oliver Calamo
John Cow gill
Thomas Coulter
Ruth Crawford
John Casiour
_ D.
j-’etcr uilLO'-iD
Ascl Davis
James uuicn
Elizabeth Evans, 2 Susannah Ever soli
F.
Jacob Foreman
John Foreman
J. G. Funson
Isaac Fouke
William Fletcher
Mary Ann Fisher
G.
John Garrett
John A. Gore
Robert Gallaner
H.
Joseph Houigrave
William Hickman
Frederick Hendshay
John Henkle, 2
Catharine Henkle
Daniel Henkle, 2
Samuel Hobbs
John Hoeueland
J.
Christian Jacobs
k.
Mary Kenney Thomas Keyes
John Kalb
L.
KsUt* OULl/Li JLjLI V till
Lotiisa H. Lavall
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Joseph Lancaster
M.
John P. Mi Guire
Charles Mills
Jacob M^ Barren
Dennis MlPhele?mj
Eliza Miller
George Malleary
Patrick Munford
George Miller
Thomas MiKnight
Morgan & Shult
Uriah A. Arorris
Peter Areff
Hugh Quinn
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George Richards
\
William Sfiencer |
Amos Sigler, 2
John Scheaffer
W?n. Stidman, Sen.
Cornelius Seaman
Chris. Stonebraker
John Smith
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navies lay lot
John S. Tyson
Jacob R. Thomas
j^eonara 1 nomas
Margaret 7'ho max
Catharine omfison
vv .
Charles F. Wilstach James Walton
Jacob Wart
Y.
Conrad Yeager
F. BECKHAM, P. M.
October 2
TAXES. ' ~
ALL persons owing Taxes and Public
Dues are informed that the same are
now due. Those owing at Harpers-Ferry
are requested to call on me and settle
them, as prompt payment will be requir
ed. S. W. LACKLAND, D. S.
For D. Morgan.
August 14, 1821.
FOR SALE,
A Valuable Female House Servant.
FOR further particulars, inquire of
Thomas S. Bennett, of Shepherds
town, or William Graham, of Harpers
Ferry.
August 7, 182L—tf.
WANTED TO HIRE,
A NEGRO BOY, who is capable of
taking care of a horse; also, a Fe
male Servant, who understands all kinds
of house work.. Inquire of the
PRINTERS,
August 14, 1821.
Shaving, Hair-Dressing, £jc,
WILLIAM PRIMM
Shaves /or six cents exceeding well?
None in this town can him excel;
His soa/i is good, his razors keen?
Walk in? kind Sirs? he’ll shave you clean.
SHOULD any gentleman doubt the
truth of the above, he is respect
fully invited to make an experiment.—
W. P. assures the public, that, though he
does not shave quite so deep as many of
the modern Grand Shavers? yet he flat
ters himself that he will leave a sensation
far more pleasurable. Therefore, those
who are fond of smooth chins and agree
able feelings will promote their own com- *
fort and add not a little to his interest, by
giving him a call.
N. B. Hair-dressing performed in the
most elegant style.; and, still further to
evince a disposition to please his custom
ers, gentlemen are informed that he will
have Blacking done for them in the neat
' est manner, by which means, if they are >
not already distinguished for solid ac
quirements, they will at least become conv
spicuous for shining /arts.
1 August 14, 1821.