Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 10, Richmond, Wayne County, 15 May 1824 — Page 4

"Jlltatc'er the mead or Jloiceru fidd, T.Ue grotto, grove , or garden iaVM, Of usrfuL fragrant, choice, and rare, H'e still s'i?rt. t'run t.'.t V tr Hampshire Gastttt. DOMESTIC LOVE. I've pluncrenl in evtry wjM extreme Th.it outh and Youthful folk knows; I've tatet! tieeplv of the tn-;un That round the shrine of pleasure flows; Ant! like the hee from flower to flower, Sipping each sweet, I've wandered free. Yet nev r found I earthly power. Domestic Love' compared to thee! Sweeter than pas-ion's tVvered fic:h, Dearer thnn ph a'ure's f iirv dream, Before thee all life's arrow's fly, Likv mist before the mon.inc beam'. Thou only can'st the rvics Ibnc, That make lib - r-isred pathway blest, And scatter from thy dow ny wine That peace which heals the wounded breast. It H not in the renel loud. At mirth r fa-hion' shrine, Where rival beautie'thro!:in crowd, Thnt l)ve a;3ert a power divine; 'Ti? when the tortured frame i-torn By all the pan;5 disease can give ; 'Mid ancui-h srarcelv to he home, Its ?nai!e can bid the suiIYre-r live. Domestic Love! thy h ind can -hed Svift opntes o'er the burning brow; And round the couh of sickms -preaci Tho-p ?oothm' hope that cheer me now! Ye-! let the libertine deride A? nrit-rnft, vvrdlock ilken chain Ect tell me, hae he ever tried It power, in sorrow, or in pain? And thou who in lif. '-s summer hour T iuht rnv vonn; ho-am to believe Marriare an arbitrary power, Invented or !v to-h-reive: Wh- i I'-t, At -i.ht of human tie?, M ide f r the h i-- cid -bmsh mnul, Th- r..y ! oTnchV fli-, .N'.ir h- ivr5 one riv of !!i" bfhn d!M Oh : di Ut th'-u know- hmr f i!-e. hove vain, T1 i d.'. fine ef thv heart will s r-ve : Th'V; !'t w-!, that l n.-ii' fancied chain,

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(From the bVj Int. llijer.rer.) Man cannot live L:t pjilvw nor die with the prospect of future felicity, without religion. It mu-t be that r-liLri n too, which is pure in the sight of God, which controlthe heart and regulates the actions of lib; which the hurrv of business cannot -till. :

which the scenes of mirth cannot drown. That religion, which torture in all it horrid lornis. cannot ronqu-r. If we cannot li v j nor die happily with ut religion, whv not ! Search for it a-? forborne ludtlen treasure: IN know we live, and as certainly know we die. And who will sav happiness E Hot his primary object, in all the laborious ! and persevering pursuits of life ? and who Cao lav his hand upon hi- heart and solemh i ctlfinn in the presenee of God, that he does ! Hot d'?ir to he h-ippv in d ath, and in, that world which i never to hrive an end?: Why then do we not seek that happines- i xvhnli i ifi reality deserving the name?! Who, let 'me ask, has found this on the hed ! death, or in the varied and -widen c.hani:'of lif". wit.hout religion? Riches, honor, or ; wealt'i cannot eive perrnament jov in this; world ; and at death all of them for-ake us. ! Wealth cannot bribe, honour cannot flatter, I

health cannot re-i-t the kine; of terror-. If in youth our health in tirrn and our pro p.'Cts pronii-iritr, tliev rnav -non he bias-! t'-d. Youth and loveline-.-, mav fall, in-i dee d tfiev will all before the corrodinu' ' hand of time, like the tender llower before ! thechillifiu lilasts of. autumn. But if w arrive to rnarihood or even to old ae we are only the more rapidlv approachin: the goal we cannot pa-?, and if we are still without religion, our condition is more haz-nrdou-than in eailv life, hecau-o experience ha- clearlv shewn, that in manhood! the care- and toils of life which croud up-j on us in constant succes-ion, ennro-s the ' mind and harden the heart, and hrinL' the! whoh into subjection, to the world, that if religious impressions are made at all, :

they too frequently are like the morning; dew which soon paeth awav. And there ! cannot he any t h i i nr more absurd than to! to put off religion to old age and who that' is now in youth, or in the meridian of life, that ha- the a-siiranc e of living to old aeb? But, suppo-inkr tliis were the fact, 'who knows that he should then have a heart to seek God. We are told, that the sinner a hundred years old shall h' accursed meaning, undoubtedly, that tiie man, old in sin, is less likely to repent of his, -in-, believe on the Lord Je-u- ( h i-t, and he saved, than at any other peii l of life. If delaying to sek"(;,( eaily js ha.ardou-, how vastly tnu-t that hazard be increased hy puttinir oil ndiuion to the latent hour of t!ie loosest limit allowed to human life. It is wisdom to 4 seek the Lord while he is near.' For hehold the day cometh, that shall hum as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall he as

stubble, and the day that cometh shall hum ! them up, saith the Lord of hosts that it!

fihaii leave them neither root nor branch.1 1

Avarice. Avarice is a passion full of (

paradox a madness full cf method; for although the miser is the most mercenary of all beings, yet he serves the worst master more faithfully than some Christains do the best, and will take nothing for it. He fills down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps its vanities, nor its pleasures, for his trouble. He begins to accumulate treasure as a mean to happiness, and hy a common hut morbid association he continues to accumulate it as an end. He lives poor, to die rich, and is the mere jailor of his house, and the turnkey of hisvealth. Impoverished by his cold, he slaves harder to im

prison "it in his chest, than his brother slave to liberate it from the mine. The avarice of the miser may he termed the

srand sepulchre of all his other passions, as thev successively decay. But unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by repletion, and strengthened hyc. Wisdom and Folly. A. wise man (says Mason) hath his foibles as well as a fool: but the ditference between them is, that tne foibles of the one are known to himself, and concealed from the world; the foibles of the other are know to the world, and concealed from himself. The wise man sees those frailties in himself, w hich others cannot; hut the fool is blind to those blemishes in his character, which are conspicuous to everv bodv else. Whence it appears, that

belt Knowledge 1 that w inch makes the main ditVerence between a wise man and a fool, in the moral sense of that word. The petition of the Old Buihilors oi Richmond to the Ladies, humbly heweth : That we your petitioner-, having long viewed with deep regret, the decided preference which you manifest towards our more youthful rivals; have come to a determination of hiving our separate claims once more before vuu. Your petitioners are truly sorry that all their etiuits to idea.-e vou have nroved unavailing and

i m i ' that the candour and fervour by which j they have always been actuated, in addressing you, should have been in i fort uj nat ly lost sight of amidst the incense ol j tlattery which is daily otlered at your

shrines by the conceited gallants ofthe pre

sent day. borne ot u. in our matrimonial I, er changes -t

pursuits, may have been governed by mercenary motive;, vet have we not sacrificed them at the altar of affect ion ? Conscious

There is some respect even in the title of an "Old Maid.7' Her utility has been developed, and her praises have been sung, by Haley. She is the nurse of the sick; the friend ofthe unfortunate; she is at least woman; ever kind, ever considerate ; except to "Old Bachelors."' Sin; shares the affecting eulogies which have been uttered by Ledyard in favour ofthe female sex. But what poet has ever sung our praises? What author has thought it worth his while to write a defence of Old Bachelors? We entreat vou to favour us with one ray of hope, and not to abandon us to unutterable despair. And as in duty bound your petitioners shall ever pray, c. Lc. Timothv Thornly, Barnaby Bonitace, cum muitis aliis. Bachelor's Hall, Bissextile year.

(From the Nati.-nal Advorate. A PKKP INTO THE KITCHEN. Mv great uncle, one of the early settlers

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i m iew lorn, amuses nimseu in ins uic-cu iold age, by walking leisurely through the

streets of the city to observe its great and growing importance, and to trace ii possi-

hie, amidst splendid houses and elegant ; squares, the spots on which his lavourite i cherry trees; once stood, or the ponds of 1 fresh water in which he angled lor trout. He is an acute observer of manners, habits ; and customs and the strength of his m mo1 rv enables him to estimate every thing ol the present dav, by coinpan-on with lor- ! mer times. uilans,"' said he tome the j other day, u do you see )cur eld Aunty j there setting the green arm-chair knit- ! ting? She has not altered in fifty years ! she was once younger to be sine, and so ! was I, hut we have observed no alteration j in each other; as we began life.bo we have 1 proceeded, and so we hope to end it, ; uniform, industi ious and economical; but ! Hans, people change very much with the : times would Mai believe it, last night I was in a pa--in ; no; -aid I; in a passion? imno-sible. You shall hear." sa s he.

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j The ether day I acciderdly e- ; - j the chamber of my g'(l-daiitii(!r'?; ,! j j lena, and before the gla-s stood Yh.

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gusta Caroline 31atilda Willie 'j to examine her movements iln(.f-, :V ; 1

emptied a considerable porting ( '

I daughter's honey water ii;h: rh t- i

i she rubbed through her line H

111 - ilWH .Uin;; j. j time. After disposing ofthe; cijr;; '! most tasty style, she arrange. i,,-' catchers, )Cau killers, and d r.p, f attractive manner; then :iz'i:, "., .j! she w iped her cheeks w ith c.i;i; I olence, to give them a col ur. v f.,j na, you know Hans, is ik t fa.i ;,-.'(; nough to keep a pot of paint or, ; X.

While these ceremonies were .(-.. I was shielded from obst r uticr. b ofthe festoons and dnipviv c f th-

idood in mute 'ist oni-hme.d. 1, 1 chin upon my silver headed cr:-;-, a countenance "more in sorrow ;

jger.' Having accomodated h.r; I cheeks, the voting wench bc-vi t I her rullies. Gadzook1 savs I to t hope she is not going to undre? h: I for, as old as I am, Hans, I sh u,J liked any one to have popped j Mammy there would have bvr; 'jealous, ho ho. Well. Hans. t!.j. de chamltre proceeded to makei:; 'lette, and drew from her h. . i : wide misshapen piece of blarkw

i ;i new uiverit on to nvilre w met i r - i

heads up, and quite in chara tt-r; ?r i 1 ...!. l-l

and m stress. Just at that nj..:r.': ; my's lap-dog began to baik, v.: soffly down into the parlour. 0; I O the maids O the mariM-p."

old gentleman rapped his silver? ,'

! pretty hard, and with a grim v;:;.; j ered his nose arid lips with rapp-. ' " long ago, Hans" said he, UI pui. i hat and made a low bow to n v -j friend, Mr. Rose-in-Bloom, ir; Lb J hut alas, it was only to her hat;.;.: j- ' which covered the slender ! : 'J, j maid Margery. The other i.igK: -fe r.

1 the Theatre, to see C-;-jorc

Last r.igtit about ten o'clock, as 1 was sit- j! visitet

ting with my spec-on, reading the Evening j C'onwav. I f und mvs.df comf-Tli art I'o-t ; I alwav s read the I' -t out ol cc ni-jj , ( u ihe dre?s boxes, be tw ei - ?o L;

pliment to mv dd frieiid ( 'oleinan, who no-

or polmr-; .Mammy sai now sits, ( ( inbing C he-lan-dog, w hen 1 heard a

rat-tat-tat-too at the door. Gemini,

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ofthe degrading epithet of Old Bachelor, j: I, there's bad new-; Stot k-have lalbn. t,e which is undeservedly applied to u-, we !; Tai ill bill has pa-s 1 in its present shape-, approach vou with more timidity and em- (,r there's to be no Cain n at asbii gttn.

barras-ment, than ever we experienced in 1 rose, took the ear, die, went through the j jt)Ii. hav the v coidrive to mi

the nrst s-allies ol our youth. v nen wc : nan anei opened the door, when a laeiy le-

enter vour presence-, it is-with a tear and j gantly diessed entere d. Good ea.i: g. 1 . I 1 ! 1 1 III 1 I.

land a maid of one of ur llouii! ; Jcczi

ing house -. Now, Hai:s, I am : nd 1 ciatical: and w e 11 behav ed p r- ! ie C titled to re-sp-ct, w habver n. 'iv : ur t condition in life; hut look at ti.v Jriti: anii!e ofmaivls and waiter- re . lotu or te n dollars per rno: t'n, dri sri . ie C

agantlv, and da-hing li!;e p

diffidence, of which we can give you no ad-

eepiate des ription and the woreis w e w e)uld utter become frozen within our lips. If perchance a more youthful gallant hands vou the- piano, the incessant garrulity of his tongue deprive us ofthe faculty of our speech, and we are compelled to withdraw and ooncealour ehragrin in some se-cie-t corner ofthe hou-e. The many parlie s at which vou have shone forth, in all brilliancy of vour charms during the past winte r, have? be en another soiiree of great alarm. On these oc casions we were the victims of that mortification and jealousy, which our deplorable situation was c alculated to produce. At these heel and toe excursions, the youthful candidate for your hand was sure to he preferred and the ominous words- would ever and anon ring in our ears "Sir I am preengaged." Your petitioners appeal to all vour sensibilities, and ask you, whether it i not truly mortifying that we should be stvled Old Bachelors, when we use every effort

to change our situation? Might we not

; madam, said I. bow ing to the ground; will

you do me the hoiur to walk in the par-, lour, it is cjtiite c oinfoi table, no one is there- 1 but my wife, and I shall be happ.v to attendto any hu-iness. cm mav have- with me. To my dismay and astoni-i.me: t, she ir -term pud me w ith a loin! and v ulgar laugh, and an ejae ulat ion of "dont eu know in .' " 1 lilted the candle under a huge bi n k hon- i net, with a scoop as large a- the rim ot a; butter tul, with a plume ed hi. a k nodding leathers- dangling on top, and i -und that it was l'olly Watt- mv iok. Why IVlh.j say s, 1, win re have u ! een we man ? ' O " j says she, pushing hv me with an air, and j making for the; kite hen door. Ive been at : a party!" A pai t , pr -eiigiou-. In turn-j

ed to the parlour, tot k mv se at near thei

so slender an income, is to met v rv ; thev must have iuna'-a'. ;i

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a c e rtain voung man in li u ' c Ve st rda I 11 W'att. b :- r i calletl upon rne, as a n mm. It kite bed. to it in t strate uo n b sory piece-- of u-i.ag liav.tia I loaf sugar in th ir tea; a:;d tiay ly be-gge tl h ave to pre-ei t a ! c stabji-hnient ed'a hcme de l ail::

kite hen, to draw similar turpi. o r

priale d for the pai lour.' 'J'here vas . much tiuth i:". t1 tleman's observations ai i ca i. ' this s stem or raira us ii.:itto.i i .

ingot a liog to nimble tbcj ol the oY. i-;n.. re: U i i r r t

it runs ti ia ugh all c lasses of tf ; f f--tv. Creatures of habit, and air - Ittiie...,.. n. . .nrti..r . . t- t I " ' f

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commoner the courtier; the n..

lire and fell muring. Ah Hars, what a

change in men and womtm al-o. In my ! trt-ss. the scullion, the rook: to'-- ' time, the maids were a eiidere nt order of ij to overcome the obstacles ol 1 ib ,!? nobilitv than they are now. When 1 lived j! Hers of fortune, and cor.siderirg c Jrp.

in lVail street, near the old Elv market, b least worthy of imitation, h' fc"

how ever, attempts to run a rata1 o to dress, rith, move, sit, and t;a more wealthy neighbours d '"'g mind unat customeel to rcfcb: .

at war with prudence, at u ci.. riance w ith common sense.

the water c ame up to mv door;, I could

seethe Batterv and f.'oikeis llotk to the 1 right and left. The first maid I hired cane-!

step forward and interrupt the minister,; fiom Sopu-, her name I remember well when performing the marriage ceremony, I was Hannah Snidiker. You r member her' he pronounces "if any know why these too Mammy, she was a stout Hutc h gill of two should not be joined together, let them j 0, with brawny arms, tlesh firm as fresh j

say so now, or forever after hold their peace?"' Might wc not tell him that we had a prior claim on her affections? Ah! unfortunates that we are! we have often knelt in humble supplic ation at the altar of beauty. and pined away in solitude

lor tne objected our adoration; but all m vain ! ()nr situation is deplorable, and the hoary hand ed' time threatens us with the; horrors of perpetual celibacy. W e appeal to v our sympathies. We appeal to your interests. Consider what would be vour own feedings, if the terrible epithet of Old Maid-" should ever connto salute youreais. Asyou won hi pray to esc ape from that state ed' -single hh s-t dness"' as you would llv from it with all your hearts; as you would invoke every

; streaked bass, and cheeks as broad and as ; red as pulpit cushions. She wore a striped linscy-wtM h-y petticoat whic h reached gracefully a iittie bt low the knee, exiiibitcnl a stout .and we ll turned log and ancle, and a loot sufficiently expansive to sustain her portly figure, blie had on black leath- ! 'r shoes., thick soles, high hccE, and cover

ed with a thumping pair of bra- hue k E ' which looked like burnished gold. She j wa- the girl to wa-h. scrub, scour, and

work. W e gave her t pounds a tear w a- ! gs, and she laid itneailv ;ill hv. The!

mer of a

E EM ALE CI1AKACTFK.J! The lamented Dr. Wore si r, ' Q most judicious and ac curate (lilv human nature, has the lellowi's upon the influence off ina!'-. empire- of fashion, as it re lah?t,u ; paitment of life, the intluei c e ! J almost alisehite; and it n-t-i'!! '( very great degree, to give 11 chaiae te r to the -onvc rsatn i'U l the manners and uioraE ol ;l " 'zz. their combined inline nc e wc rv ,N - -:-

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in-iiK , .urn u uiey n ati, 11 was a page or twe) in Thoma-Aejuinas, the Pilgrim's lVo-

grc s-, or 1 oor IJicliard's Almanac , with a

power ol mercy to remedy your lorlornsit- l chapter in the Bible cm Sunday. Thev al-

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nation II you snouiti ever arrive at it, we conjure you to feed for us; to listen with mercy to our prayers; and if you cannot give us your affectioiis,at least give us vour compassion. Forbear the use of an epithet which cuts us to the quick; and do not byword or manner taunt us with our situation. Save us at least from the cruel name of " Old Bachelor."

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ltvve-(l no man te get the advantage of the in il le-si-tance could preve nt it, and we were never at a loss in those' time to distinguish the maid from the mi-tress; but now, Hans, said the old gentleman, rai-ing his hands and eves, what a change Polly atts, my cook, w ho is up to her elbow s in grease all day, dresses herself like a lady of fashion and hops off to a party at night.

Iv to banish luofanitv and n '((

! clal and frivolity fiom m;e ti - ' '' !! but te le-ntb-r tf nic s of the 'i: ' ! 1 . . . 1 , 1 1";" a ing, impiovmg and erleU', j! sible and fashionable in thep '

i-oioiuy 10 iitwii iiio'' " all amusements and prac t'( l" ' ' ', ing and irre ligious tender') ' mibeii ieent:i!ib .-Oil polite'. 1

social intere tairse. in a uaaH( ctuuforinahle to the- sacred r--