Fayette Observer, Volume 1, Number 48, Connersville, Fayette County, 12 May 1827 — Page 1

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I CONTENTS 01" No. 3. ? S'tetchof the Life of J. C. Calhoun, Vicef resident of the Fnitcd States with ;i correct Xikenes The Sea Voyage, a Fri.e Essay, ly liicharl Fenn Smith," Tx. The Fatal Prediction The Masted Tree Home Tooke The Contented M m The F tttle of 'l'renton --Baron de Kilo Fraternal Magnanimity The Volu aleer, a Tale of the Revolution round Swell in the Fol.tr llegions Charlotte Crly S'vtcht of Character Canthari-

.-T.'if r.tir inkers The Chrvstal An

Jnsh Tim litio.i U Story Singular Custom fThe C.itskill M. i ilaia'll -i,e? at the Fine Orhanl, with an engraved view The Hu

Invirut The Mi-'ei hviist The school ot flora with cut- Til V. The Boston

Larl To a Leaders Tree Fine Fattle

AiTectior. A dream of Ileaen To Caroline

10 a wnaie i o my i(umi -"ng 10

Jetnale Friend .My Native Yale What is

.ave Like ?--Lines The Savage and White

Man 'Fiie TreaMii es ot' the Deej Lines Xo(p Libour Lo-t "To dav .dearest, is curs

.t II ill.ul, hy Thomas .Moore, Fsp et to 3Iu-

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lis arival in the island. It is a very sweet foot

when contrasted with the surrounding honors of the place, and owes much of its attraction to

i water tall, which invites to musing and med

itation, hut the haunts of the living were not

the objects of my expedition, and 1 at length

trained the tomh.

lie who looks for the loftv and sublime in

the mansion of the dead, will be wholly disappointed, not a trophy, not a wreath, no broken

trumpet, nor fallen spear, no glave nor helmet

a plain slab, lormed oFthree Portland tlag-

tones, taken, for the purpose, trom the fire

place of the Ex-Emperors kitchen, in his new-

house, is the only covering on his grave, on

tins not a line cither descriptive or commemo

rative, is written; no name, no date, as if he had

gone

"And, like the hacless fabric of i vision, Lett not a. wreck belaud."' Around the secluJed spot, the romantic and picturesque pieail in a high degree. It is situated in a green valley, well planted with urn brageous treesic beautiful shrubs. Five w illows droop oer the blank tablet, and, waving in the breeze, throw alternate light and shade on

this unlettered mMiumeut, rustling, at the same

approached it the prospect before them was

copy in order to shew the impressions of an

advocate of the Catholics.

'Sir Francis Burdetfs Motion has been lost

tremendous ; the ice, having burst loose from the

rocks, was tossed to and fro, and broken in a

thousand pieces against the precipices, with a;by a majority of 4. The numbers were for dreadful noise; which added to the raging oflthc Motion, against it, 27G.

the ea, the roaring of the wind and the drivingofthc snow, so completely overpowered

them as almost to deprive them of the use of both their eyes and ears. To make the land was now the only resource that remained ; but it was with the utmost didiculty that the frightened dogs could be driven forward, and as the whole bod' of ice frequently sunk below the

"For this result we were prepared. Those

who have attended to the signs of the times, must have observed, at all events, enough to prevent the vote of last night from talking them by surprise. "We regret deeply the vote, because we fear the consequences of it. We may be said

to have entered on a new policy with regard

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CONTENTS OF No. 4

A descriptive view of LaUejKrie, from tiie Port

"3''dloe, with an en.rra in-J On the Infinite Yat..fti .... 'i i ir. i i ... i . i i

W i.' ' ' i I in. i . .i in- , I'.um I o iti in i-Tis

jKefc' ctlons upon the h.nuctcr of Uiivcr Cnjin-

!;-- l'ii ustri.ui Asiasin--I atern.U A llectiai

rt ..av brook bhore Itutaili- Lord livteti

i r.e Ci.oit e of u W iie i l.o Condemned Cell 3 he Flm Tree, at Kensii prton, where Peiin's

1 Treaty was formed, with an enjrnivin friin a

ci-tantview of Pwil.t delpiii.i 1 IVnn's Treat) Charles II. And Willi.un I nr V.ih et of rMjrht

ijoa a person torn Biind The ittuudofa Vomij;

La iy I he Mise: ii.itn-t The 1 1 .nnoni it Keeif t for Lemon Mim e Fie To prevent sntok-

oi a I.imp An L.-ay i; Ih.i.iru The ehool

cf Flora Lvrerpts POL i KV 'I he Suicide (a T'me Form; t he Dude ui tho hie The Indian

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nine tu a tiiouriiiui cam nee. v;n me leu suie

of the grac are peach trees, which bear fruit;

and a spnng. as bright as crv

outnle ot the railing which is about :he tomb.

and itself encompassed by a hedge of gerani

ums. A se meant and

summits of the rocks arul then rose above to tlic Catholics. it seems uetermmea trial them, the only iime for landing was at the mo- they shall no longer feed themselves even meat it gained the level of the coast, a circum- with the hope of entering within the pale of

stance that rendered the attempt extremely uie vonsiiiuwon. mury uciuiununiui men

nice and hazardous; both sledges however sue

ceeded in gaining the shore, and were drawn

situation as hereditary bundsmen,toie a phrase

in a favourite quotation of Mr. O Connell, well

upon the beach, though not without great dif- and good; but they must never be allowed to

li ultv. scarcely had they reached it when the bold up their neat:s in our presence, part of the iceVrom which thev had just esca- '"The speeches of Mr. Plunked Mr. Broughpefi burst aMim!er,and the water rushing from -i last night, were peculiarly happy. The beneath instantly precipitated it into the o- cause, at all events, has not been lost for want cean; in a moment as if bv a signal, the whole jof able advocates, for, it was nevermore powmassoficefor several miles along the coast, erfully argued, and never was the argument and extending as far as the eye could reach, I '"ore decidedly in' favor of the supporters of

beiran to break and trtbonvprwhr.linr.il with. the motion.

waves; the spectacle was awfully grand the immense tields of ice rising out of the ocean.

. 'flashing against one another, and then plungt lie i . i . l i i

ing nun me ueep wim a violence wnicu no language can desciibe, and a noise like ten

thou-and cam. oris, was a sicht which must have

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the stone ,but"the thing was imposMble. My a!-jl',r t,,tMI" 'ld,veretempt Was resisted, and I had some didicultv I , in obtaining a Moall piece of one of the trees;) From the Alabama Patriot. but was Ireely allowtd to gather some of the ll.i traonlinnry Case. A few days since, our peai.hesand the geranium, the hue of w hich attenm n was c tiled In one of the mt striking

r minded me ot the riband of the Legion of n-tances ! ju emle magnanimity, we have ev-

l ionor, lounded by the tleceased. and t lei nted ; er nu t w uh. A vouni' man. about 15 or 1G

Giri"t alure- to t!

in The Pa-aic

; Fills The ft pi ril of !). - ilaUon Teoronta Hay

T'i!.y Lyte Lmes to t!ie Memory of an only Ci.;ld 'I lie New Year's Nijrl.t A Tale A Mo-

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by the blood of so many a battle-field. I now

pieparedto depait, when an incident of some intere?t arrested my steps for a while. A

ml 1 ------ )Oung and pietty Fiench lady appioachcd, and

ears el age, entered our olhce, with a small knapsack on his shoulders, garments very

much tatteied,and the other usual indications

ol a poof pedestrian traveller. Alter accotin

Kit'ATi: -j i'.AL WAL'.h diruol. 1 1 F sal-ei i'.ci s liae reet-nll) taken mil Let te;v J'eiliiir;itary on the la-t W ill and 1 es t:i,-Mil oft'z.d Ward, front the Frohate CoMrtu1 I ;.: :i County. Ail p:rons h.i;nj- demands aCH,st ti.e estate of said deceased, will present l al!y auliK nlnated, withm one ear; and t . in, h;., ted tu the sai:i' will make immediate.

wits seen leaning in a pensi e attitude o cr the:l! xv !'h a great deal of politeness,and remaining

railing letoie described, w llh her eyes m tears '"r a moment silent, he irirpnred whether there bent on the grae which it enclosed. She waspvas',nV chance of his obtaining employment as one of a party of naties of Fiance, ho U;ux journeyman j-rinter, From his great youth, larded fiom a ship in the bay to visit this mem-jVNL eouhl not felp ct r.jecturing at first that he orable aepuh hte. llt.r t ouipar.ioos sjieedily j ;i 1 uu.iw ay ajn ntice ; but upon close exai ri ed, and, after a look or i o. persuaded hen animation, he answered with so much promptilo piit the spot to w hich she seemed almost im ttide and apparent sincerity to all the quesmoeably attached. The only male in thejl',,n pot to him, we could not refuse our assent party evinced that tri ial di-i egai d u hich si'- to hi-own account ot himself, nali-es the chai a ter id' his country men. lie' HL' stated that lie was born and raised in the Snugged up his shoulders, and, as they fell a-' State of Kentucky, wa bound to the Printing gain, uttered something illustrative of the sho:t business for the term of three years, upon the

ness and uncei taint v ot human glory. Then expiration o which time, being poor and Iriend-

(peakmgot the idand h? said. Ma J'oi, cit un b,!ik. he had et rut alone, and on foot, for the evaroii .T('-';'yc. The young lady remained 'Mul hern country, in quest of fortune. He aid

without speaking all the time, and in a few miu he: had applied at several printing offices on his utes 1 lost sight of her. 1 now regained my journey for work, but had not succeeded in olship, and nnide sail for Kncland; but the bar- taming any. Not having any employment for

len lock, lone grave, and weeping girl, have him at this time, we directed him to Tuscaev er since been in my thoughts. 'hosa, where we thought it certain he would

be engaged.

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(i found sxell in the Polar Ilerionj.

A gentium m who rhancrd to be present when this conversation occurred, who was

Fho. ice in the Polar regions accommodates stiurk with the interesting countenance and

iUelf to the surfiee by bending, but w hen se v-1 demeanor r?f IS- jouth, and whose svmpha-

tttai yards tit thickness, it retuses to yield he-, tides has been deeply excited by his pathetic

)0!iaa certain extent, ami i hroKcn m pictes tale; v entuied to rnqnii e into the state of his

with dreadtul explos,os. The best at t otinisl purse. 11c seemed at first, somewhat unwil-

that we know oi me apj.earances presentt l on ling, to dis, lose h:3 extreme poverty; but at

sncli occasions is given by a p.tity ot vloravian length acknowledged that he was acttsally so

missionaries, who are engaged in a coasting Marce of money, as barely to be able f defrav

H'lsh county Letters Testament a rv, on tho Last ! P'd it ion on the iie along the tioi tliertt shores his expenses to TWaloosa. Upon this confes

ill and '1 esUmeiit of Fdwrd Pattison, laie of ; ot L ibradore, with sledges tlrawn by dog. ' mou. a small sum of money was tendered to him.

1 hey narrowly escaped destruction Irom one whi ii he declined accepting, remarking, that ofthose occurrences, and were near enough to hoeouldnot receive any money, except what

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NOTICE "TTFlvF.nY is i?iven,that we, the undersigned,

--h a v 1 1 1 2: taken out ol the t louale t onrt ot

Iv.ivti rotinty, deceased, do herehy rive rtutice

tN':r;of. All persons having claim uaireT said estate art: repies1ed to present tin in legally au-

'We fear the supposed safety of the Protestant church in Ireland has been preferred to the safety of the nation. If Catholicism be dangerous, the vote of last night will not ren

der it less so; antl it certainly will have the et-

fect of estran:rinr the Catholics from the I rotestants. "Wc trust, at all event?, that the vote will be tollowcd up by vigorous measures for the improvement of the country, in order that the

dissatisfaction nvvf have as little atd as possible from the noxious laws and institutions." With regard to the Corn Laws, the scheme tendered by the ministry, which we insert,

Iocs i)ot seem to have pleased either ol the

chief adverse parties in that question, we mean

the tenacious landholders, and the principled liiendsof free trade. The Liverpool Mercury cf tlie 9th ult., remarks 'The propositions of the ministers will dig-

,s appoint the public mind, generally. I11 P".ncivile thev are infinitely preferable to the exiti-

ting corn laws; the absurdity and evi1 work

ing ot which 31 r. Canning very ably and veO properly exposed, to the great dispnragenent of the "wisdom of the collective" in 1815; their probable tendency to give steadincts to price is an important consideration in their favor; and their certain, though probably remote, effect, in preventing, at any time, a very high range of prices, renders the theory of them still more acceptable. But they are cal culated upon a scale too high to meet the necessities, or to fulfil the reasonable wishes ot the people at large, who have been loudly beseeching the legislature to adopt such measures as would permit a trade with the foreign coun

tries, some portion of whose cheap corn might

e obtained lor a portion ot our calicoes. 1 his trayer has met with a negative, in all such

circumstances as arc likely to atTect the coun-

ry during the existence of a narrowed or a,

arrovvuitr circulating medium. So complete-

y has the mere promulgation of the scale of

uties precluded, tor the present, all expecta

ion of an import of foreign wheat, that the

price of FnrMi.h crain has considerably advan

ced, to that the poor man will have a somewhat

learer loaf than before the proposal ot the al

teration in those law 8 which were the subject cf his complainings; and that scale will, rela

tively, be higher and higher long as our em

ulating medium shall be in progrcis ol dimin

ution.

i':.oiit delay. -iv; ,it.

It it believed that the

Apr,! ft, 1027

ISAAC PATT1SON, )

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FoNAFAirnrs cuiavi:.

ing from the ah ss. As the motion of the sea under the ice bad grown more perceptible,

they became ahumed, and began to thing it

prudent to keep close to the slime; the ice also

had fissures in many places, ome ol which

n 1 formed chains of one or two feet; hutas these

Dr. Frown, on the history of the propagation mrm m the warmest terms for hi- oiler of aid.

ol Christianity. 1 he missionaries met a sledge but still most resolutely refused to profit bv it

with Fsipiimanx, who hinted that theie w as a1 What an instance of noble mindedness in a boy

ground s en unoer me ice ; u w;ts men rcarce-o 1, or Hi ears ot ne was this! He

ly preemptible, except on lying down and :p-; poor almot to starvation,aloue,antl in a strange

plying theeir close to the ne, when a holloa land ; but still heroically determined to live or

dis f'teealde irratinir nm-e was heant ast taut-,,lie tmon his own exertions-

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itromine .tournai oi a gentleman pisi relriifd from India.) Our touching at Sj. Heifna would hav e been an incident devoid of interest to me, had it not bet n for the opportunity H viewing the tomb of him whose devastating arm spread terror over the face of Kuropr. t Helena appeared to be in itself a frightful

i'i tud a rock ot desolation an emblem lor

tie seat of exile an in-ul.tteu prison a scene "I all others the most likely to hicak the. heart

'f orie banished to its abrupt and rugged strand. It c )t me a world of trouble and fatigue

;viin.ti, hut tor the ohjeet I nai in view. lv )il i have been ill repaid), to mount up the

itvp terpentine windings and constant twjst-

i'n and turnings vvhLh relieve the traveller hilljnoises, too,were tlistinctly beard in many tion of the Corn Laws. The former was fu

o a certain degree in the almo-t perpendicu- directions, like the reports of cam

From the Xatlonal Ciaiittt. F.y the packet ship Alexander, armed a

this port trom Liverpool, we have receivct

our lib; of the Loudon Morning Chronicle to

thctUh tilt, inclusive; and have made a num

are not uncommon even in its best stale, and the, her of extracts more or less interesting. It ap .l.i.v ... .1 .. l . i.... ..... i i'..t 1 ....... i. . . -vf- - : ii i

r.i-uj i no i iin in, mi .in- iiil;oiioi peats utai jir cauuiug iiiio recovered irom

only tostrangers: as the wind rose to a storm, his illness; that Lord Liverpool was better t . t t I 1 ill. . . . .

the swell hai now increased so much that its lmt not likely to be ever able to resume his po

cltects on me ice were extraordinary and re-ilmral lunc.tions; and .Mr. JIukison, the ne x

ally alarming. The sledges, instead of gliding'in importance and ability, among the ministers smoothly along on an even surface, sometimes so sick as to be forbidden any attention to

ran with violence after the dogs, and some-j business. The two principal British topics

times seemed with diilicuity to ascend a rismjrlare Catholic emancipation, and the modihoa

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Fr ascent. On my way, 1 passed by the country-house called the Friam, which was

tirt habitation of

Napoleon

ports ol cannon, trom the: ly and ahly discussed on the oth anil uth o

bursting of the ire ;t a distance; alarmed at. March id the House ofCommons, with the re

theie frightful phenertu na, cur travellers drove'sult stated in the following editorial article of

with all Waste towards the. shore, and as tl

LOWEK CANADA. Ii will be seen by the following document,

that the long existing ditllcultiesi between the executive and legislative departments of Lower

Canada, have broken out atresh.

I'ltOVINCIALPARLUMEST OF LOWER CAN AD A. Legislative council ) Quebec, lVcdntsdaj,7lh March, 1827. This day, at three o'clock, his excellency.

the governor in chief, came down in state to the legislative council chamber, and being sea

ted on the throne, the gentleman usherotth black rod, was sent to command the presence of the assembly, which being come up, his ex

cellency was pleased to prorogue the legisla

ture and delivered the lollowing

SPEECH, "Gent.'cmtn of the legislative council "(initletun of the assembly: "1 come to close this session of the'provinciai parliament, convinced, by the state of your proceedings, that nothing likely to promote the public interest can be now expected from your deliberations.

'To you, gentlemen of the legislative council, who have attended your duties in this session, I offer my thanki on the part of his maiea

ucjsult stated m the following editorial article of ty,as an acknowledgement of the regard which iey I (he London Morning Chronicle, which wc' by your presence, you have ihewn to the w1