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'tt*?ARY GAZETTE.
Body of a Beautiful
ant.
There is g..,.u upon that cheek,
Those lipTwould seem almost to speak;
Calm is that lc ok, that brow is fair,
The flaxen ringlet wantons there.
And well those features sweet we trace
Which hover on that angel face ;
He seems enwrapt in slumber deep,
Ah ! Edwin, ’tis thy long, last sleep.
The chill of death is on that cheek,
Those lips shall never silence break:
No soul is in that cherub smile,
Elusive charm, and lovely guile.
The eye has snot its final spark,
The liquid, lustrous orb, is dark,
And swift must every feature fly
From the soft face of Infancy.
And now, the kiss of agony,
Whose touch thrills with mortality,
The parents give, but who shall tell
The anguish of that fond farewell ?
Yet from the grave’s mysterious night
That form again shall spring to light.
E’en now in yon eternal rest,
The unearthly mansion of the blest,
The unclothed spirit joins the hymn
Swelling from burning seraphim:
And were our passport to the skies
As his, then speed each hour that flies,
And earth, let each successive sun
Swift rise, swift set, be bright and done.
MISCELLANY.
AN ECCENTRIC ROBBER.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, (if. Y.) JUNE 5.
On Wednesday morning last, about 1
o’clock, a stranger was observed loitering
about Messrs. Sage ana Stratton’s shoe
shop in this village, under circumstances
which awakened suspicion; he was of
course closely watched, and directl; ob
served to be breaking through one of the
windows which was not fastened. V\ hen
lie was fairly in, the window was guarded
and the alarm given, finding it was un
safe to attempt to canape, he threw him
self on the floor and pretenaed to sleep.
On being brought before a magistrate,
he said his name was John Frederick Sny
der, and that he had lately deserted from
on board his Britannic Majesty’s ship the.
Tremendous, lying at Quebec ; that most
of the time since he had been “ on abort
allowance that on his way from Sandy
Hill, he was overtaken by the stage, and
a gentleman in it “ hailed him and invited
him on board i that he took a birth in the
hows with the steersman, and came into
the village, and was set down with a bare
sixpence, with which he soon contrived to
make merry,” and “ please your honor,”
said he, “ 1 had a bit of a row”
When the subject of his breaking into
the shop was adverted to, he became very
earnest, and, screwing a large cud of to
bacco from his cheek, which he slid into
his pocket, and then clearing his mouth
©f the juice, he squared himself before
the justice in true sailer style, and plac
ing one hand to his hat, observed, “well,
sir, may it please your honor, I can just
teil you all about that. You kn$w, sir,
that a sailor can t swing his hammock on
shore, and he don’t like to be on watch all
night, so I was just laying on and off there
when 1 saw a port open and *so turns in,
and had just got in a sound nap when
these lubbers here piped me up and that’s
the truth on’t.” On being reminded that
it was rather lubberly for a sailor to crawl
into a port hole, he drily observed “ but
may it please your honor, sir, there was
no gun in’tWhen he understood that
he could not be excused he again squared
himself before the justice, and raising his
hat a little from his head, demanded a
trial by “court martial,” observing that
he was not conscious of having done any
thing out of the way, and he hoped he
should have the privilege of a fair trial.
On being assured of that, he observed,
with great earnestness, “ and if your ho
nor w'ould just speak a good word to the
admiral, 1 think I might get off this time.”
He was committed, but a few hours af
ter the grand jurors of the June term were
discharged, so that poor Jack will have
to remain under hatches at least a twelve
month.
Death bed saying of Sir Isaac Newton.
—“ I do not know (said the great philo
sopher, a little before his death,) what I
may appear to the world ; but to myself
I seem to have been only like a boy play
ing on the sea-shore, and diverting my
self in now and then finding a smoother
pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all un
discovered before me.”
A crusty old bachelor, says the Satur
day Evening Post, sends us the following
by way of Compliment to the ladies.
We men have many faults;
The woman have but two—
Ther’s nothing good they say,
There’s nothing good they do.
HOTTENTOT BELLE.
Among these happy, dirty creatures,
was one who, by her airs and dress, show
ed that she had no mean opinion of her
personal accomplishments: she was, in
fact, the prettiest young Bush-girl I had
yet seen; but her vanity, and too evident
consciousness of her superiority, rendered
her less pleasing in my eyes, and her ex
travagance in dress made her perhaps a
less desirable wife in the eyes of her coun
men—for the immoderate quantity of
grease, red ochre, buku, and shining
powder, with which her hair was clotted,
would ruin any but a very rich husband :
herself and every part of her dress, was
so well greased, that she must have been,
in her nation, a girl of good family ; and.
the number of leather rings with which
her arms and legs were adorned, pro
claimed her to be evidently a person of
property; round her ancles she carried
about a dozen thick rings of this kind,
which, added to a pair of sandals, gave
her the appearance of wearing buskins.
But the most remarkable piece of af
fectation with which she adorned herself
was, three small bits of ivory, of the size
and shape of sparrows’s eggs, loosely
pendant from her hair ; one in front, as
low as the point of tne nose, and one on
the outer side of each cheek, all hanging
at the same length. These dangled from
side to side as she moved her head, and
doubtlessly, made full amends for their
inconvenience, by the piquancy they were
thought to add to the wearer’s beauty.
The upper part of her head was covered
with a small leather cap, fitted closely, but
quite unornamented,and I should have had
a pleasure in gratifying her with a pre
sent of a string of beads, to render this
part of her dress more smart, if I had not
been fearful that, by doing this I should
excite in her countrymen an inclination
to beg and importune for what I meant to
reserve only for the nations further in the
interior. Her vanity and affectation,
great as it was, did not, as one may some
times observe in both sexes, in either
countries, seem to choke her, or produce
any alteration in the tone of her voice,*
for the astonishing quantity of meat
which she swallowed down, and the rea
diness with which she callecf out to her
attendants for more, plainly shewed her
to be resolved that no . oiishness
should interfere on. t£ie o sion.
[Burchelf s Travels in Africa.
EXTRACTS FROM GOLDSMITH.
Adversity.—The greatest object in the
universe, says a certain philosopher, is a
good man struggling with adversity; yet
there is still a greater, which is the good
man that comes to relieve it.
Affliction.—When men arrive at a cer
tain situation of greatness, their regards
are dissipated on too great a number of ob
jects to feel parental affection : the lies of
nature are only strong with those who
have but few friends or few dependants.
Error.—For the first time the very
best may err: art may persuade, and no
velty spread out its charm. The first
fault is the child of Simplicity ; but every
other, the offspring of G
When Hopkins, the Drury Lane promp
ter, once recommended a man to be a
mechanist in preparing a new pantomime,
Garrick made the following objections to
employing him : “This man will never
answer the purpose of the theatre. In
the first place he cannot make a Moon ;
I would not give him three pence a dozen
for all the Moons he shewed me to day.
His Suns are, if possible, worse; besides,
I gave him directions about the clouds,
and such heavy clouds were never seen
since the food. Desire the carpenter to
knock the rainbow to pieces, and roll up
the blue sky, for we cannot hang it up in
our firmament.”
Chirac the celebrated physician, when
on his death bed, felt his own pulse, im
agining that he was on a visit to one of
his patients, and cried out, “I have call
ed too late, the patient has been blooded,
and he ought to have been purged ; he is
a dead man,” and a few minutes after
wards he expired.
A Dublin paper contains the following
paragraph :—Yesterday Mr. Kenny, re
turning to town feel down and broke his
neck, but happily received no other dam
age.
A barber, shaving a thin-faced man,
put his finger into his mouth, to push out
the hollow of his cheek and happening to
make a slip, cut through the poor fellow’s
face. “O curse your lantern jaws,” cries
the barber, “I’ve spoilt my finger.”
Duelling.—Readers of Newspapers of
ten find light amusement in what is term
ed cross-readings. The. following may
be called sign-reading; In front of two
adjoining houses in this city, we literally
read this brief history of a duel:
James Schott—and—Jonathan Fell.
'EPIGRAM.
‘ What’s fashionable, I’ll maintain,
Is always right,’ quoth sprightly Jane ;
‘Indeed I wish,’ said graver Sue.
‘What’s right were fashionable too.9
EPIGRAM,'
My Cloe’s as fickle and light as a feather,
Yet 1 love her to death ; prithee, Dick,
should I wed her?
That a feather should teaze you, quoth
Dick, is not strange,
T’other day as I happen’d to pass thro’
the grange,
I saw that thief Cupid, from doves and
from sparrows,
A pilfering feathers to stick in his arrows.
The urchin first shoots you, then pulls
out the dart,
And leaves you the feather to tickle your
heart.
As horse racing is the order of the day
in the fashionble world, we may draw a
similitude from the turf.'—Have you not
seen some fiery colts of more speed than
bottom, dashing forward in the race, at
tracting the shouts of the jockies who
started them, and of the unthinking who
imagined that because they were ahead at
starting, they must be so at coming out?
And have you not observed as the race
advanced some horse which united bot
tom to his speed, gaining upon the flashy
colts and at length bounding past—los
ing their adversaries in the dust of their
hind feet, and at length gallantly reaching
the goal amid the acclamation of the whole
assembly? Let not the Presidential Can
didates who are already straining for the
prize, calculate too confidently that if is
won. It is quite possible that the mod
erate party—the middling interest-—the
great body of the people, may have more
to say on this subject, than the violent
politicians of either side imagine.
[j Village Record.
Trust Sale.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, execut
ed to the subscriber by John Low
stetter, with a view to secure the payment
of a sum of money therein mentioned, to
the late firm of Morgan Sc Shutt; I will of
fer for sale to public bidders, on Saturday
the 29th inst. all the interest of said Low
stetter, in, to, and out of a certain
Dwelling
House,
Situate at the head of the Public Canal
The house and improvements are exten
sive, in a measure, and will afford con
venient and comfortable room for two
families ; besides, the situation is really
enviable, not only on account of its roman
tic and healthy scite, but because it is
completley sheltered in the winter season
from extraordinary squalls of wind, and in
the summer it has divers peculiar ad
vantages.
E. C. BREEDIN, Trustee.
June 19.
ADDITIONAL.
JUST received,
13 pieces Irish Linens—all qualities,
Broad Cloths and Satinetts,
Russia Sheeting and Duck,
Dowlas, Blue Nankins,
India Sarsnetts, figured Jaconet,
Leno Muslins, Cambric do.—some at 25
per yard,
English and domestic bleached and un
bleached Shirtings,
Cambric Pocket Handkerchiefs,
Ladies’ Slate and White Cotton Hose,
from 42 to 59 cts.
Do. Am. Sc'French Kid Gloves, Is 6d a 2s
Candle Wick,
Richmond Tobacco, and
10 small kegs Sounds Sc Tongues, in fine
order.
June 5. WEED Sc WARING.
Vests, Pantaloons, §c.
ECEIVED, and for sale low,
Ready-made Marseilles and other
Vests,
Nankeen Pantaloons,
Elegant Marseilles Vest Shapes,
Valentia Vestings,
Black Nankin and Canton Crapes,
Bme Broad Cloth,
6-4 Cambric Gingham,
9-8 and 3-4 Calicoes,
6-4 (large plaid) Furniture Check,
Parasols, Gentlemen’s Gloves,
Horse Whips, Sec. See.
Also, a full supply of
Crockery,
Together with a large assortment of
Drugs and Medicines,
which have been pjpehased of the first
druggists in New-York and Baltimore,
and will be sold on very low terms, by
WEED Sc WARING.
June 12.
TO THE PUBLIC.
PERSONS wishing to visit the Shan
nondale Springs can be furnished, on
a short notice, with a convenient carriage
and fine horses, and an attentive driver.
Those who may feel fatigued with travel
ing in the stage, will find this a very plea
sant mod of conveyance. Application
to be made ither to
JOEL NORMAN, or
CHARLES BUTTON.
H arpers-Ferry, May
BAHT tl rax W AMIS.
rpHE subscribers have received
1 the recent arrivals at this port
Liverpool, their spring supply, consist
ing of
477 Orates Earthenware,
comprising a very general and complete
assortment of every article in the line.-r
They will be sold to country merchants
and others on better terms than they have
been in the habit of buying. This ware
is of anchor stamp, and put up to our or
der in the celebrated manufactory o'
Messrs. John and James Davernport, ex
pressly for this market. 150 crates of
the above number are variously and hand
somely assorted, to suit every demand.
We have made arrangements to be re
gularly and constantly supplied with arti
cles of EARTHEN & QUEENS WARE,
and invite examination of prices and qua
lity of ware, at our Warehouse, No. ;39
North Charles-street, Baltimore.
GEORGE GRUNDY & SONS.
N. B. We expect, by the earliest fall
arrivals, 580 crates, which will be sold on
our usual terms.
Baltimore, June 3, 1822—3t.
Beware of Consequences.
HjjTMIE undersigned having purchased
I the fee-simple right to the soil, from
the line of the ferry lot on the Shenandoah,
(embracing a width of 15 poles up th>
mountain—thence on a line parallel with
the river, opposite Harpers-Ferry,) to a
cliff of rocks opposite the Shenandoah
works, hereby cautions ail persons against
trespassing on the said ground, by taking
away drift-wood or stone, as he is deter
mined to prosecute for any and every of
fence of the kind which fnay hereafter be
committed.
June 19.
WM. GRAHAM.
Last Notice.
ALL persohs indebted to the subscri
ber are requested to make payment
without delay, to Mr. Philip Hoffman;
and those having demands will present
them to him for settlement*
, C. F. WILSTACH.
June 19.
To Farmers.
E have on hand an assortment of
Patent ST&EL PITCH FORKS,
which are far superior to any that have
ever been in use. Also, Cut Nails, from
4 to 20d ; and cut and wrought Spikes of
different sizes*
WAGER & BECKHAM.
June 19.
PUBLia SALE. _
TLL be sold on Saturday the^
day of July, if fair, if not, the fc
fair day, sundry articles belonging toy
estate of Philip, Funk, dec’d, consist!
in part, of ^#1
Bedsteads, Beds, and Bedding.
Cupboard and contents, tables, chair
looking glass, ten plate stove, and a v;
riety of other articles of
Household and Kitchen Furniture\
One Cow, 7 Geese, 2 Fowling Pieces,
1 Rifle, 2 Watches, 1 Lot of Farming
Tools, some Shoemaker’s Tools, a few'
Joiner’s Tools, and a lot of Books;
ALSO,
ONE LOT AND IMPROVEMENTS.
The sale to take place at the late resi
dence of the dec’d, to commence at 10
o’clock, A. M. The terms will be, 8
months credit, for all sums above 85
bond being given, with approved security
Cash for all smaller sums.
SAMUEL O. OFFUTT, Adm'i j
MARGARET FUNK, Adm’x.
Also, Will be sold, at the same time and
place,
iQl\
Four Horses.
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BOO
THE undersi^^
known to the
Ferry and its vicinity,
on the above business, in*
site Mr. Garay’s store. Ha
cellent workmen, and a suppl^'
materials, ne ieeis enaoiea 10 execu .
orders with promptitude, in a substantial
and fashionable manner, and at very mo
derate prices. NATHAN WEBB.
June 12.
To Journeymen Tailors.
WANTED, immediately, a steady
Journeyman, who will be paid the
highest wages, and can have work as 101$
as he pleases. '
URIAH A. NORRU
Harpers-Terry, June 19,