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POETRY.
. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD.
I saw beside the grassy tomb,
A little coffin fair;
And many gazed, as if the bloom
Of Eden wither’d there.
The little vessel, short and wide,
Received a sigh from all;
For two sweet infants, side by side,
Were shrouded in one pall.
And now the mother at their head
Like marble stood with grief;
.But every pearly tear she shed,
Then seemed to give relief.
She raised the napkin o’er them spread,
Which hid them from her view ;
Then bending o’er the coffin’s head,
She gazed a last adieu.
And on their face so cold and fair,
Impressed the last fond kiss;
And often would she then declare—
“ No grief was e’er like this 1”
u What have I done to anger God?
Oh ! tell me now pray ;—
Why must I bear his heavy rod,
Or see my infant’s clay?”
I saw the aged pastor weep,
When closely standing by:
And long shall mem’ry safely keep
His answer in reply.
A shepherd long had sought in vain,
To call a wandering sheep ;
He strove to make its pathway plain,
Through dangers thick and deep.
But still the wanderer stood aloof—
And still refused to come;
Nor would she ever hear reproof—
Or turn to seek her home.
At last the gentle shepherd took
Her little lambs from view !
The mother turned with anguish’d look—*
She turned-—and followed too !
ANIMATED NATURE.
There’s not on earth—there’s not in air,
A creature by the Almighty made,
That feels not—owns not—sees not there,
His bright beneficence display’d ;
Creative wisdom—mercy—power—
Glow in the-skies*—fall in the shower.
MISCELLANY.
The article which follows was published
some time since in the Petersburg Re
publican : it will be applicable, how
ever, io other places, and will be found
exemplified in every quarter. In truth,
Pope’s celebrated remark will not stand
the test of modern refinement, for now
it is
“Money makes the man, and want of it
the fellow.”
MONEY.—-There is nothing in this
world gives a man so much importance,
motiving which hides so many faults, and
nothing which will pass so current for so
many virtues as money.—Without money
an honest rnan is despised, and, with it,
the greatest rascal, or meanest scoundrel,
is respected. You shall see a being with
out a single pretension to humanity; a
mere walking lump of grossness and de
pravity ; one of the vilest of the vile, pro
vided he possesses the one thing needful,
accompanied and almost worshipped by
half a score of lick-spitters and syco
phants, bowing and grinning applause at
every thing he utters ; while a poor man,
of talents, of feeling, and sensibility, and
an independent soul, shall wander alone
and unfriended, through a world which
cares not for his sorrows. To be poor is
the lot of many, from the commencement
of their existence; but misfortune is ap
parently considered as a crime, and there
is nothing more galling to a poor man of
liberal mind than that kind of haughty
arrogance which the rich and affluent as
sume towards him ; more especially if he
has once been in better circumstances, he
feels it keenly—-it sinks deep. But to be
reduced from affluence to misery and want
—not by any faults of his own, but by a
concurrence of unfortunate events, not in
the power of man to foresee or to prevent,
ana, in consequence 01 oeing poor, to be
treated with coolness and contempt, by
those with whom in days of prosperity
we have been intimate and called friends,
embitters a man’s feelings,'makes him
miserable and misanthropic, and causes
him to despise human nature. There is
nothing which produces so much hatred
to a former friend, as the belief that he
avoidsiyou because you have not*as much
filthy lucre, or because you have been un
fortunate in business—and yet if a man
has failed, no matter what may have been
the cause, friendship soon changes into
pity, and sorrow for misfortunes quickly
degenerates into contempt, and the poor
bankrupt generally not only loses his
friends and credit, but also becomes, at
least for a time, “ an object for scorn to
point his slow unmoving finger at.”—
1 here is, it is true, a certain class in so
ciety, whose opinions, whose good or ill
will, has no.more effect on an honest
man than the idle wind-—I mean those
flat, lazy, and stupid beings, whom you
find in all places, and tr.Teet at every*cor
tier jof the streets, whose money is res
pectec^^iil who have no personal char
acter. Yet this class of beings—these
purse-proud puppies—these substitutes
for men, who have neither capacity to
conceive, ambition to attempt, nor abili
ty to execute any thing good or bad,
tens of thousands of whose little souls
might inhabit the shell of a tobacco seed,
and yet have room to let, are suffered by
common consent of society, in a manner
to look down upon, and tyrannize over
honest industrious men, and whose ta
lents ought to entitle-them to the first
rank. It therefore becomes necessary
for every man, whether knavish or ho
nest—whether stupid or eminent, to get
it. For if he is as wise as Solomon, as
strong as Sampson, and as brave and as
eloquent as Caesar, unless he possesses
the wealth of Cresus, he will be disre
garded and despised. OBSERVER.
FROM THE NANTUCKET ENQUIRER.
Embargo.—Admiral Frost, with a hea
vy squadron from the Arctic Regions,
consisting of the Boreas, the JEolus, etc.
has arrived on the coast, and laid our
harbor, bay, and the adjacent waters, un
der strict blockade. We have, in conse
quence, had no communication with the
continent since the 5th inst. We are anx
iously expecting the appearance of a coun
teracting farce from the south and the
west, viz. the steam ketch Sirocco, the
Zephyr, See. under the command of com
modore Thaw, whose influence, we ar
dently hope, will be exerted in such a
degree as to detach the enemy from his
strong hold, and z-estore us again to free
trade and whaler’s rights.
According to the calculation of M. Gi
bers, of Bremen, after a lapse of 83,000
years a Comet will approach to the Earth
in the same proximity as the Moon ; after
4,000,000 years, it will approach to the
distance of 7,700 geographical miles ; and
then, if its attraction equals that of the
earth, the waters of the ocean will be ele
vated 13,000 feet, and cause a second de
luge. After 200,000,000 years it will
clash with the earth ! [dreadful forebod
ing for those who live to see-it. j
A man who wished to pass one of the
barriers of Paris in 1793, was required to
give his name, &x. to the persons on du
ty. “ I am Monsieur le Marquis de St.
Cyr.” “ Citizen, there are no Monsieurs
now.” “ Very well, then le Marquis de
St. Cyr.” “ You ought to know, citizen,
that there are neither nobles, titles, nor
marquisats.” “ In that case, de St. Cyr,
if you please.” “ De is not used now.”
“Then say simply Saint Cyr.” “Ah!
but all saints, you know, have been abol
ished.” “Well, if it must be so, write
Cyr.” “ No, citizen, there arc no longer
any Sires” (the pronunciation is the
same.) Thus, piece by piece, the unfor
tunate Marquis was stripped by the Re
volution, till he found himself at the bar
rier of Paris without a name.
It is said the celebrated Dr. SanrI L.
Mitchell, travelling in the stage, and
happening to be the only passenger, was
very sociable with the driver, asking
him many questions, some of which the
driver considered rather philosophical,
and not a little puzzling. The ‘ knight
of the whip,’ in turn, put the following
question to, the learned Doctor:—‘Why,
sir, do white sheep eat more than black
sheep?’ ‘Indeed,’ said the Doctor, ‘I
was not aware that they did.’ The Doc
tor was proceeding in a very phiiosphi
cal manner to account for the difference
by supposing the white sheep had less oil
in their fleeces than the black sheep.—
‘ You are not right, sir,’ said Jehu. ‘ Pray,
my friend,’ said the Doctor, after a few
moments reflection, ‘can you tell V I can,
sir, there are more of them.’
A gentleman passing through one of
the public offices was affronted by some
clerks, and was advised to complain to
the principal, which he did thus:—“I
have been abused here by some of the
rascals of this place, and I come to ac
| quaint you of it, as I understood you are
; principal.”—[English Paper.
Tobacco was first brought into repute
in England by Sir Walter Raleigh. By
! the caution he took in smoking it private
I ly, he did not intend it should be copied.
| But sitting one.day, in deep meditation,
with a pipe in his mouth, he inadvertent
ly called to his man to bring him a tan
kard of small beer. The fellow coming
into the rooma threw all the liquor into
his master’s face, and running down stairs
bawled out, * Fire ! Help ! Sir Walter has
studied till his head is on fire, and the
smoke bursts out of his mouth and nose i’
Combination.«—At the time when the
price of corn was very high in England,
Dr. Byrom, of Manchester, wrote the fol
lowing epigram on two millers, named
Bone and Skin, who were said to have
combined to raise the price still higher :
“ Bone and Skin,
Two millers thin,
Would starve the town, or near it,
But be it known
To Skin and Bone,
That Flesh and Blood wont bear it.”
PETTING- ASIDE THE qUAKEU.
Some years since, a Quaker, travelling
through Maryland, towards the close oi
the day stopped at a public house on the
Eastern Shore, wfiere he intended to put
up for the night. After delivering his
saddle bags to the landlord, and seeing
his horse taken care of, the evening being
warm, he was about seating himself on
the portico, which was elevated about
three feet above the ground, when a per
son who was drinking, came up to him,
and asked him to take a drink of grog.
“Iam obliged to thee,” said the Qua
ker, “I would rather not.” The other
'repeated his request several times; the
Quaker still making the same reply. The
other at last told him, if he would not
drink with him, he should give him the
contents of the glass in his face. “Friend,”
returned the Quaker, “I have told thee
several times, that I would rather not
drink, and as for thy threat, thou hadst
better not put it into execution ;” where
upon, the other immediately emptied the
glass in his face; the Quaker instantly
arose, coolly pulled off his coat, and
while laying it over the railing of the
portico, said, “lie thou there Quaker,
while I chastise the blackguard.” He
then, being a stout, athletic man, seized
the aggressor by the collar, and waist
band of his pantaloons, and threw him
over the railing on the ground; observ
ing, if he was not satisfied with that, he
should be under the necessity of horse
whipping him well, in order to teach him
good manners.
A man who was capitally convicted at
the Old Baiiev, was, as usual, asked what
he had to say why judgment of death
should not -be pronounced against him.
“ Say !” replied he, “ why I think the joke
has been carried far enough already, and
the less that is said about it the better—1
if you please, we’ll drop the subject.”
No Credit.—A drunken fellow offering
to pawn his Bible for liquor in a public
house, the landlord refused to take it.——
What ! (said the roan) will neither my
own word, nor the word of God, pass for
a pot of beer ?
Love is a blind emotion, which does not
always suppose merit in its object; yet it
is far more flattering to a handsome wo
man to be beloved by a man of merit than
to be adored by a fool.
A 'LL the property belonging to the
Jestate of John Wager, dec’d. Per*-'
sons who now occupy the tenements, and
who wish to continue in them, will db
well to make application in time. The
property is to be. rented from the 1st day
of April next. The renting will take
place on the 31st inst.
As I am desirous of closing my account
as Guardian for the heirs of the above
named estate, it is hoped that all persons
indebted will come forward and*make
payment; and those having claims will
present them properly- authenticated, on
or before the 30th dky of April next.
CATHARINE WAGER.
March 12, 1823.
O Yes ! 0 Yes ! O Y^es !
I OFFER my services to my friends
and the public generally, as an
•Auctioneer of Jefferson County,
and flatter myself, from the experience I
have had in the business, that I can sell
property to as; good, if notJ>Gtter, advan
tage than any other person in the county.
Those who have property to dispose of,
will promote their own interest by em
ploying me. I can be had at almost any
moment, timely notice being- given me,
or left at my house at Harpers-Ferry.
JOHN DALGARN,
Jan. I, 1823. Constable.
LOAN WANTED..
A LOAN of three or four hundred dol
lars is wanted, to promote an object
of public utility, for which a lien on pro
perty to double the amount will be given,
with interest, as security. The Printer
is authorised to give information on the
subject to those, and those only, who have
money and are willing to lend it.
Feb. 26, 1823.
Fresh Garden Seeds,
JUST received and for sale at the store
of Dr. G. WEISE. March 5.
BEST WHITING PAPER.
LETTER and common writing paper
for sale at the ofiice of the Free Press.
Feb. 19, 1823.V
Clean Linen and Cotton Rags,
Bought at this, office.
TORSE 4
L
BILLS,
And almost every other description of
Printing-, executed at this Office on rea
sonable terras? and in a neat manner,
Offic
For Sale at thise
FEW BLANK BOOKS of aide
ent pattern's; some Note, Orde
and Receipt Books; a few copies of the
SERAPH, a new selection of Psalm
runes, Hymns, and Anthems, by John
Cole: and a few copies of Webster’s
Spelling Book.
March 5, 1823.
Mason’s Remains.
Subscribers to the above work, re
siding at or near Harpers-Ferry, are
requested to call for the same at the office
of the Free Press, where a few copies are
for sale. J. A. BINGHAM.
March 5, 1823.
Fresh Groceries.
AN hand, a fresh supply of Sugar,
Coffee, Tea, Cheese, See.
F. BECKHAM.
Feb. 26, 1823.
Sugar, Coffee, £5 Scotch Herrings,
UST received, and for sale at the
store of WEED & WARING.
Feb. 26, 1823.
Clock for Sale.
THE undersigned has for sale, a first
rate Eight-Day CLOCK, which he
wjill dispose of on reasonable terms to a
punctual purchaser, or exchange for good
paper.
F. BECKHAM,
Harpers-Ferry, March 5, 1823._
WEAVING COTTON, %c.
JOS. 7, 8, 9, and 10, Cotton Warp and
k Filling, Candle-Wick,
Coffee, Fine Salt, &c. at
WEED & WARING’s.
Feb. 12, 1823.
PETER CONLAN
IJTAS received a supply of low-priced
I Flannels, Russia Sheeting, Bur
lasses, Men’s, Women’s, and Boys’ LEA*
TH'ER SHOES.
Feb. 5, 1823.
Messrs. Roger Perry and others,
TAKE NOTICE.
F¥1HAT, on Monday the 24th day of
_!_ March inst. between the hours of
10 a. m. and 2 p. m. I shall proceed to
take, at the Court-House in Charlestown,
Jefferson county, the deposition of John
Sellars, which deposition, so taken, I
shall offer as evidence in a suit now pend
ing in the Court of Chancery of said
County, in which I am the plaintiff and
you are the defendants.
PHILIP STRIDER.
March 5, I 822.
For Sale by Dr. Wfcise, .
Dr. Win. Judkin’s and Nathan Shepherd'$
Specific Ointment.
THE above ointment is offered to the
public as a safe and certain remedy
for obstinate diseases, some’ of which
have long baffled the skill of medical sci .
• ence : ,
1st. White Swellings of every descrip
tion. .
2d. Sore Legs and Ulcers of long stand
ing.
3d. Scirrus or Glandular Tumors, par
ticularly those hardened tumors in wo?
men’s breasts which ofttimes terminate in
ulcerated cancers.
4th. Felons, or what some people know
by the name of Catarrhs, of every des
cription.
5th. *■ Rheumatic Pains, of the joints.
6th. Sprains and Bruises of every des
cription, or in whatever part situate. m
7th. Tetters of all kinds. In this com
plaint the patient, in applying the oint
ment, must keep the part out of water.
8th. Chilblains,or parts affected by frost.
9th. New Cut Wounds.
It is also one of the best remedies for
Burns and Scalds. It eases the pain and
draws the lire out in a short time.
For Women’s Inflamed Breasts if Glan
dular Swellings, it is superior to any me
dicine yet known to the medical faculty.
It is much safer than mercurial applica
tions, (as it does not contain the smallest
atom of any preparations of that mineral,)
because it does not lay the patient liable
to injury from exposure to cold.
This ointment has cured sores of many
years standing. When it is impossible
or imprudent to heal the external sore,
in consequence of bones becoming carious
or rotten, it will stop the progress of the
caries, increase the quantity of the dis
charge, remove the offensive smell, Sc ease
the pain.
It cures the worst Felons or Whitlows
on an application of 48 hours.
Rheumatfsms which have stood so long
as to become systematic disorder, require
medicine to be taken inwardly to remove
them entirely. But in most common ca
ses, by applying this ointment externally,
as directed, will give relief. And ev'en in
old people, whose pains have been of long
er standing, it will often ease pain.
[Many certificates of extraordinary
cures accompany the medicine.!
Flax Seed and Roll Rutter. ,
I HAVE the above articles for sale.
PETER CONLAN :
Feb. 5;