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POETRY. FROM THE POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU. ■ TEE INDIAN STUDENT ,* OR, THE FORCE OF NATURE. from Susquehanna’s farthest spring; Where savage tribes pursue their game, (His blanket tied with yellow strings,) A shepherd of the forest came. Not long before, a wandering priest Express’d his wish, with visage sad— “ Ah, why, (he cried,) in Satan’s waste, “ Ah, why detain so fine a lad ? “ In white man’s land there stands a town Where learning may be purchased low : “ Exchange his blanket for a gown, “ And let the lad to college go.” From long debate the council rose, And viewing Sh alum’s tricks with joy, To Cambridge Hail, o’er wastes of snows, They sent the copper-colored boy. One generous chief a bow supplied, This gave a shaft, and that a skin ; The feathers in Vermillion died, Himself did from a turkey win. Thus dress’d so gay, he took his way O’er barren hills,- alone, alone, His guide a star, he wandered far, Elis pillow, every night, a stone. At last he came, with foot so lame, Where learned men talk heathen Greek, An.'Hebrew lore is gabbled o’er, To please the Muses—twice a week. Awhile he wrote—awhile he read— Awhile he conn’d their grammar rules— An Indian savage so well bred, Great credit promised to their schools. Some thought he would in law excel, Some said he would in physic shine. And one that knew him passing well, Beheld, in hint, a sound Divine. But those of more discerning eye Even then could other prospects show, And saw him lay his Virgil by1 To wander with his dearer how. The tedious hours of study spent, The heavy moulded lecture done, He to the woods a hunting went, Through lonely wastes he walked, he run. No mystic wonders fired his mind, He sought to gain no learned degree, But only sense enough to find The squirrel in the hollow tree. The shady bank, the purling stream, The woody wild his heart possest, The dewy lawn, his morning dream In fancy’s gayest colors drest. “ And why, he cried, did I forsake “ My native wood for gloomy walls; “ The silver stream, the limpid lake, “ Tor musty books and college halls. “ A little could my wants supply— “Can wealth,and honor give me more; “ Or will the sylvan god deny “ The humble treat he gave before ? “ Let seraphs gain the bright abode, “ And heaven’s sublimest mansions see— “ I only bow to Nature’s God— “ The land of shades will do for me. “ These dreadful secrets of the sky, “ Alarm my soul with chilling fear— “Do planets in their orbits fly, “ And is the earth, indeed, a sphere ? “ Let planets still their course pursue, “ And comets to the centre run— “ In him my faithful friend I view., “ The image of my God—the sun. ‘‘ Where Nature’s ancient forests grow, “ And mingled laurel never fades, “ My heart is fixed—and I must go “ To die among my native shades.” He spoke, and to the western springs, (His gown discharged, his money spent, Bis blanket tied with yellow strings,) The shepherd of the forest went. FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER. I will go to the grave, where my child has gone, And strew its turf with flowers; He was my lov’d and only one, The charm of my lonely hours; 0 1 he was life in its freshest hloom, He cheer’d me many a day ; His smile and his beauty lit my gloom. And chas’d its night away. Day after day, like an opening flower, His mother’s pride he grew; He seem’d like an infant germ of power, So bright he met my view ; 1 saw, in his gay exulting face, The future greatness glow; And I thought his light infantine grace To manhood strength would grow. I read, in every word and smile, The father’s look and tone; And I hung on those dear eves the while. As when first our hearts were one; So bright a vision could not last, That dear illusion fled; Like a rainbow-cloud away it pass’d To the cold and voiceless dead. But there is a home, where dear ones meet, And blend their innocent love; Where hours of happiness never fleet, In the peaceful world above; Where the links that bind our souls, by death Shall never be broken more. But abetter life,with its quick’ning breath, Shall every charm restore: A Then Tease, ye bitter tears, to fall: My heart its grief shall bear, Till I hear, from heaven the tender call Of love invite me there. P. THE SUN. Arise thou splendid child of day, Gild all the world with smiling ray ; I greet thee, orb of heav’nly birth, Regent alike of heav’n and earth. Light is the robe that nature wears, Splendor is thine that heav’n prepares; Come shew us all thy lustre here, O sun with visage calm and clear, Come and I ever will admire, Kind orb, thy face so full of fire. u My wife’s so very bad,” cried Phill, “ I fear she’ll never hold it, “ She keeps her bed.” “ Mine’s worse,” says Will, “The jade this morning sold it.” MISCELLANY. THE ODD FAMILY. In the reign of King William III. there resided at Ipswich a family, which, from the number of peculiarities belonging to it, was distinguished by the name of the odd family. Every event remarkably good or bad, happened to this family on an odd day of the month, and every member had something odd in his or her person, man ner, and behaviour—the very letters in their Christian names always happened to be an odd number. The husband’s name was Peter, and his wife’s Rabah ; they had seven children, all boys, viz: Solomon, Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas, David, and Ezekiel. The husband bad but one leg, his wife but one arm, Solomon was born blind of the left eye, and Roger lost his sight by accident. James had his left \ ear bit off by a boy in a quarrel, and Mat- I thew was born with only three fingers on j his right hand. Jonas had a stump foot, and David was humpbacked. All these, except David, were remarkably short, while Ezekiel was six feet one inch high . at the age of 19. The stumpfooted Jonas, and the humpbacked David, got wives of fortune, but no girls in the borough would listen to the addresses of their brothers. The husband’s hair was as black as jet, and the wife’s remarkably white, yet the children’s hair was red. The husband was killed by accidentally falling into a deep pit in the year 1710; and his wife, refusing all kind of sustenance, died live days after him. In the year 1703, Ezekiel • enlisted as a grenadier, and although he , was afterwards wounded in 23 places, he recovered. Roger, James, Matthew, Jo nas, and David, it appears by the Church Register, died in different places, and were buried on the same day, in the year 1713; and Solomon and Ezekiel were drowned together, in crossing- the Thames, in the year 1763. ANECDOTE OF THE REGICIDE JUDGES. President Stiles in his “ history of the three judges of king Charles I. maj. gen. Walley, maj. gen. Coffe, and col, John Dixwell, who, at all the restoration, 1660, fled to America, and were secreted and concealed in Massachusetts and Connec ticut for nearly thirty years,” relates the following humorous anecdote, “ to shew the dexterity of the judges at fencing”: “ That while at Boston there appeared a person that appeared to be a fencing master, who walked on a stage erected for that purpose several days, challenging and defying any to play with him at swords : At length one of the judges, dis guised in a rustic dress, holding in one hand a cheese wrapped in a napkin, for a shield, with a broomstick, whose mop he besmeared with dirty puddle water as he passed along. Thus equipped, he mount ed the stage—the fencing master railed at him for his impudence, asked him what business he had there, and bid him be gone. The judge stood his ground—up on which the gladiator made a pass at at him with his sword to drive him off'—a rencontre ensued-—the judge received the sword into the cheese and" held it till he drew the mop of the broom over his mouth and gave the gentleman a pair of whis kers—the gentleman made another pass, and plunging his sword a second time, it was caught and held in the cheese, till the broom was drawn over his eyes. A third pass, the sword was caught again, till the mop of the broom was rubbed gently all over his face. Upon this, the gentle man let fall, or laid aside his small sword, and took up the broad sword, and came to him with that. Upon which the judge said, stop sir, hitherto you see I have only played with you, and not attempted to hurt you; but if you come at me with your broad sword, know that I will cer tainly take your life. His firm and de termined manner awed the challenger, who desisting, exclaimed, who can you be? You are either Coffe, Walley, or the Devil, for there was no other man in Eng land that could beat me. The disguised judge retired into obscurity, leaving the spectators to enjoy the diversion of the scene, and the vanquishment of the boast ing champion.” A Counsellor of Necessity.-—The kite Dr. De la Cour, of Cork, having once oc casion to reprove a counsellor rather un learned in the law—told him he was a ^counsellor of necessity. “ Necessity,” ex claimed the briefless barrister,u how so ?” “ Because,” replied the Doctor, “ Neces sity knows no law.” Original Ariecclote.—-Soon after the pas | sage of the pension act by Congress, I granting relief to revolutionary soldiers, a lawyer in the village of B-, thinking it a politic measure to volunteer his ser vices in aiding applicants to obtain their pensions, as there was but little proba bility of many claims being presented, advertised that on a certain day he should be in readiness at his office to act gratui tously as agent for all claimants that might then present themselves. The ap pointed day arrived-—and to the lawyer’s sore dismay, before noon his office was thronged with invalids and veterans, who apprized him of his promise in terms of sufficient gratitude. How to proceed in this exigency, staggered the wits of Sir Mittimus himself. To go on was expen sive, and to recede was certain death to his popularity. But present interest out weighed all scruples; and summoning up resolution, and putting on the air of a mad-man, the lawyer roared out to his trembling audience—■“ Avaunt! thou pha lanx of ghosts and goblins ! how dare you thus leave the grave in broad dav-ligbt to rattle your bones in my presence ? Away, I say—I attended some of your lime (ais * twenty years ago.—Avaunt! You are the van-guard of the resurrection— Clear out, I say.” The stratagem had its effect.—The af frighted veterans scampered out of Mr. —-’s office, a'nd have not since annoy ed him.—[Detroit Gazette. Lord Kairnes was “ not very witty him self, but the cause of wit in other men.” Mr. Andrew Balfour, the Scottish advo cate, a man of considerable humor, ac companied by a great formality of man ners, happened to be one of a convivial party when his lordship was at the head mf.the table; after dinner he was asked to •sing, but absolutely refused to comply with the pressing solicitation of the com pany. At length lord Kairnes told him he should not escape, he must either sing a song, tell a story, or drink a pint bum per. Mr. Balfour, being an abstemious man, chose rather to tell the story than incur the forfeit. “ One day,” said he in his pompous manner, “ a thief, in the course of his rounds, saw the door of a church invitingly open, he walked in, thinking that even there he might lay hold of something useful. Having se - cured the pulpit cloth, he was retreating, when lo ! he found the door shut. After . some consideration, he adopted the only means of escape left, namely, to let him self down by the bell rope; the bell of course rang, the people were alarmed, and the thief was taken just as he had reached the ground. When they were dragging him away, he looked up, and emphatically addressed the bell, as I now address your lordship : “Had it not been,” said he, “for your long tongue and your empty head, I had made my escape.” A pedantic gentleman who was travel ling, and above common language, stop ped at an inn to get his horse and himself refreshment. Seeing some boys when he alighted, ordered one to circumambulate his horse two or three times about the mansion, then permit him to inhale a mo derate quantity of aqueous particles, after which to give him proper vegetable nutri ment, and he would make him pecuniary satisfaction. The boy not accustomed to such language, ran into the house and told his father that a prince was out doors, who spoke French. The father comes out, andMiearing the man scold, asked him what was the matter. Sir, says the gentleman, I invoke all the genii as testes that your offspring rejected me and refus ed to put in practice my desires. Now, sir, you I implore to enforce the obedi ence upon them, by correction; and then immediately to provide some nutricious substance to strengthen nature, cured over vegetable fuel, as I abhor the sulphurous tincture of minerals-—remember to get me some stimulus with it. The innkeeper, without much hesitation, concluded him to be a madman, and with his lusty wife seized an'd tied him hands and feet to a ring in a barn floor, then sent for a doc tor, who put a large blister on his back, which, in three days, brought him his wandering senses. pedantry Reproved.—A young* man who was a student in an English college, embraced every opportunity that offered, of uttering short sentences in Latin, be fore his more illiterate.companions. An uncle of his, who was a sea-faring man, having just arrived from a long voyage, invited his nephew to visit him on board his ship. The young gentleman went on board, and was highly pleased with every thing he saw. Wishing to give his uncle an idea of his superior knowledge, he tap ped him on the shonlder, and pointing to the windlass, asked “ Quid est hoc ?’• His uncle being* a man who despised such vanity, took a chew of tobacco from his mouth, and throwing it in his nephew’s face, replied, “ Hoc est quid Mrs. Foot and her daughters, on going to a grand party, an English servant in hearing the name, and thinking to shew his critical correctness, announced them as a Mrs. Foot, and -the Misses Feet. An old continental soldier arrived at {,$< inn, and asked for refreshment. The hostess sat before him a bone of ham, and a crust of bread. Her son, who had been an officer, gave the poor fellow a shilling, and when he had done picking, bade him inarch off. Soon after, the old woman came in to look for her pay. “ Mother,” says the officer, “ what might the picking of that bone be worth r” “ Why, about one and sixpence, these hard times.” 41 Well,” said the humane son, I have made a line bargain, and made sixpence, for I gave him but a shilling to pick the whole.” * I-Ie won't be told.—-A mtleman riding near' the forest of WTiichwood, in Oxford-* shire, asked a poor man what that wood was called: he said Whichwood, your ho nor. Why, that wood, cried the gentle man. flhich'Vjood, your honor. Why that wood, I tell you again : the poor man still replied VVhichwood. Ouns 1 cried the gen tleman, you are as senseless as the wood itself. It may be so, answered the 5001’ man, but you do not know Whichwood. A LIST OF LETTERS 'REMAINING in the Post Office at Harpers-Ferry, on the 31st March, 1822 : A. Adamson Fred’k % Allison John. B. Brady James, Burns Dennis, Burns Michael, Beden John, , Beall Eliza, Beltz John, Butterfield Beaj. 2 C. Claspey John, Chunn William, Conard John, Cushim Robert. D. Dellager William, Dougherty Conn, Duvall Benjamin. F. Fitzgerald Maurice French Harriot Y. G. Grim Alexandcr&S Gooding James, Green Johnson, Gorney Joseph, Graham William. H. Halley Eveline, Humphreys Roger Handy John C. Hall John H. J. Jamison John, Jett Rawlin. K. Kellem James, Kemp Ama, Kalb John, Keyes Thomas. L. Lafferty Thomas, Lowstetter John, Leopold Valentine. M. M‘Pherson Sc Brien iVL, Moore Francis, Moore Henry G. -2 Melvin Thomas, MlCoy Jane, Mires David, Mahony John, M.oross Edmond. N. {rine, Nisewanger Catha Nicholds Jacob. O. Ott John, Ogleton Samuel. P. Pearce John. R. Rokenbaugh Miss Mariah L. Richard George, Rite John, , Ramer John, Ruse Michael. S. . Stride® John, 2 Strider Philip, 2 Strider William, Smith Basil, Staley Peter, Staley Malachi, Smith Mary, Snyder Philip, Sappington Edm’d, Spencer Joseph, Spalding John, Stevens Daniel, Swearengen Mrs. S. H. V. T. Terry Christian, £ Trego Eliza. ■ U. Upperman John. W. Wean Abraham, White Samuel, Weaver Mrs. Jane 0. , Williamson Robt. H. April 3. F. BECKHAM, P. M. E. C. BREEDIN, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, I PRACTISES in the superior and in ferior Courts of Jefferson and Lou doun counties. He will also attend regu larly the high court of chancery for the Winchester district. Harpers-Ferry, Dec. IS. HABMEiS f mm* VA MESPECTFULLY informs his friends j and the public generally, that he continues to carry on business at his old stand near the ferry, where any of the fol lowing- articles can be had at the shortest notice, viz: High and low priced gentlemen’s and ladies’ saddles; high and low priced coach, gigg, carryall, and wagon harnes ses ; trunks of every description ; saddle bags, valises, bridles, martingals, whips, and spurs ; also, plated and common bri dle-bits and stirrups. He has just receiv ed a quantity of New England Hog Skins, of a very superior quality, and a few Alli gator Skins. Any of the above articles will be furnished as low for cash as they can be purchased in the county. 1 Jan. 29.