Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 27, Richmond, Wayne County, 11 September 1824 — Page 4

fFrom the New York Stateman. LA FAYETTE. HAIL, patriot, statesman, hero, sape ! Hail, Freedom's friend! hail, Gallia'j son Whose laurels greener prow in age, PluckM by the side of Washington 1 Hail, champion in a holy cause, When hostile bands our shores beset; Whose valor bade th oppressar pause Hail, hoary warrior La Fayette! Forever welcome to the shores, A youthful chief, thy footsteps pressed ; And dauntless, want and peril bore, Till "vem vici," decked thy crest! Forever welcome, great and zood! Till freeeom's 6un on earth shall eet: The Ftill sainll voice of gratitude Shall bless the name of La FayETRE. What monarch of despotic power. Who fain would crush the freeborn brave. Whose clory gilds a tottering towtr, Himself a subject and a slave; Would not, to view a nation's eyes With joous drops unbidden wet, The pageantry r( pride despise. And grasp the hand of La Fayette, Whene'er the lips of youth enquire The path to virtue, honor, fame To clory'? temple prom! aspire, While warmly glows the ardent flame; The voice of age shall fearless tell What peril oft its path beset, And prompt them onward by a spell That urged the soul of La Fayette. And v hen the shades of death shall close Forever round the hallowed head, We'll sttk the place of thy repose, By filial love and duty led ; And hearts that beat in bosoms free, (Gems by ururrinc: wisdom set,) The livinc monument shall be Of freedom's champion La Fayette. ,. Boston Bard.

came and conquered

From the United States Literary Gazette. TT OLD MAN'S FUNERAL. r saw an aered man upon his bier; His hair was thin and white, and on his brow A record of the cares of many a year; Care9, that were ended and forgotten now. And there was sudne round, and faces bowed, And woman's tears fell fast k chilJren wailed alcmd. Then roe another hoary man and sail!, lu faltering accents, to that weeping train, Whv mourn ye that our aed friend is dead ? Ye are not "sad to see the gathered grain, Nor when iheir mellow fruits the orchards cat; or when the jtllow woods shake down the ripened mat. Te sigh not when the sun, his course fulfilled, Hn glorious course rejoicing eartk and sky, In the soft evening when the wind are stilled, Sinks where his islands of refreshment lie, And learns the smile of his departure spread O'er the warm colored heaven and ruddy mountain head. Why wrep ye then for him, who having run The bounds of man's appointed years at last, Life's ble?incs nil enjoyed, life's labours done, Serenely to his final rest has past ; While the soft memory of hn virtues, yet Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is eet?

From the New York Mirror. MOSQUITOS. l,Radit iter liquidnaa cckres nequc cc mmoTetala.,, Virg. I w:is very tired and went to bed about eleven. It "was a hot summer night, and so light was my room with the soft yellow beams of the moon, that it was long before I could win "nature's sweet restorer7 to mine eyelids. As I am a gentleman of exceedingly thoughtful disposition, ( was not at a loss for amusement. I began to run over the events of the day that was gone; and after some little preamble, my meditations gathered around the pretty form of a certain lady of our city, and I lulled myself into a gentle slumber by thinking of her. I lay for some time in that most luxurous state between sleeeping and waking just on the boundary line of mortality with half my senses yet clinging to this earth arid the restalready begirmingto rove in the lightness of freedom through the realmof fancy. I wasindeed ina most delightful tate of mind, and scarcely felt the couch that gave ret to my weary frame. Fairy 'i-ions, beautiful a? the hues of the r.iinbow, floating in mine imagination.

The conceptions of fancy embodied thorns'. Ives the' very wishes ofmv waking moments were half accomplished ; and I became ai it were the mighty ruler of a world of mine own. Sometimes I thought I was falling through the immensity of space, and passed by planets in my way; hut it was pleasant to me, and 1 seemed to be wheeling in graceful circles in the air, as in my younger days I have seen the eagle do, far away iathc calm sky. Some

times I thought I wa3 sporting in the green meadow, romping and racing with the most lovely maidens I had ever beheld: and in a "proh pudor" I dreamed I was actually

kissing Mrs. Lr m snort, gentie reader, some kind spirit had lifted me far above the scenes of earthly degradation, and I was revelling in the gay pleasures of aother world. At length my fancy began to cut terrible capers. The pretty girls the green meanows and Mrs. L 's rosy lips passed away; and methought I beheld a battle. I stood upon the brow of a rugged mountain. The sea dashed and foamed on one side, and the crash of war arose on the other. The wind blew in roaring whirlwinds, and bore the white foam of the ocean in snowy wreaths along the air. The sky was blackening with huge clouds, that rolled like a troubled ocean immediately over our heads. The lightening burst through the gloom in bright sheets of fire, or quivered in terrible lustre along the dark sky as though its mighty vault had been rent in twain. The thunder crashed along the heavens with a noise as if ten thousand worlds had tumbled together and shivered into ruins. I turned my eye from the stormy clouds to gaze upon the fight. I saw warriors bestriding fiery horses they rushed over the shrinking bodies of the dying, and mingled their might in one terrible thunder of ruin. Sabries flashed the thunder and the cannon shook the earth with their mingled tumult. Shrieks, shouts, and the clashing of arms, sounded in mine ear, and I was about to fly away from the scene, when 1 saw, in the very midst of the battle, the form of a beautiful woman: her raven ringlets were streaming in the wind, and her white hands uplifted in terror at the desolation around. I was rushing to her relief, when I saw a huge ruffian approach to her side he seized her silken ringlets he tore them from her head and dared, in the insolence of his triumph, to grasp her throat; and the shriek, that arose above the storm of war, was answered by a laugh. Another and another, roughly seized the beautiful being: until I shouted revenge, and rushed to her rescue. Many a bright blade flashed around me, many a swift bullet whizzed by mine car; but 1 tore the falchion from the clinched hand of a dying wretch, and mingled in the battle. The lofty figures of my enemies bore back at my "approach. 1 cut my way to the terrified girl: and when she saw her brutal insultcrs gnashing their teeth at my feet she sprang to my side, and clung to my bosom. A giant monster struck at her white forehead. I turned my wrath on him his blade shivered into a thousand atoms I cleaved his coward skull to the jaw, and he fell shrieking from his horse. Dreadful were my struggles terrible was my ievenge. I bore her back amidst the maddened fury of all around sprang with my lovely burden upon a fleet steed; the noble animal fled like the wind; the clouds disappeared as we rode the sun shone again in bright cheerfulness the birds sung music to our way and in a few moments methough't we w ere in one of the most beautiful countries I ever saw, and heard the clang of war only a? some gentle breeze bore it at intervals to our ear. Header, reader, who shall tell the happiness of my bosom, when I bore my pretty maden from the saddle, and felt that we were free! Roses clustered in blushing wreaths around us, and perfumed breezes kissed away the drops that exertion had gathered to my brow. I looked upon the being I had rescued; and looking I loved. She smiled upon me her lips parted she was beginning to speak when the voice of a distant trumpet broke upon our ears. Nearer, and more near came the fatal sound: sometimes breathing soft

music, but as it approached it gave a long loud thundering twang, and I awoke. The fairy scene vanished; but the sound

of the trumpet continued, I nueu my sen in my couch and gracious fathers! it was a musquito! a little vile rascally musquito! was flourishing in all the glory of long legs and sharp sting, around the very pinnacle of mine unhappy nose! Now was ever such a misfortune ? To be dragged down from the fairv realms of imagination from blushing cheeks and blushing ioses from fame and victory and love to be torn away from these pleasures by the humming of a musquito! at whose approach the enchanted spell was broken, and every vestige of my happy vision melted aw ay it w as too bad it was miserable. 1 lay upon my couch in a state of most pitiful melancholy,mourning over the sad certainty that 1 was only my poor humble self that I had not been the wonder of the world that 1 had not even seen a battle. I had not rescued lovely innocence from ruin; and instead of cleaving the brutal ruflian from hi- steed, I had been, in all human probability, flourishing away at my poor unolfcnding bed-post, or beating, mayhap, the meek

it is dangerous to stand upon its sH,,.

that those who stop midway are morV to reach the base of the mountain tlV '

the same difficulty, they prove too'sJ for their capacity of the aspirants , i

IrrvreiO vn Ilie 1ULI ti- ... f ,i a. I At '-"'l ff

fe'V' " i ntmvf-ifp nowsa inc him to coniess mai nis talents and " cent humming about my lace now 0 unecuallv matched ,i M1;npS,r-thcn cutting a few flout- Hon aie unequally m.ucncd.

The most elevated situations ere not 1 ways the most happy; and it is very 'm?! to be doubted whether those who K spent the best years of their lives in i"

uonng unci iMJii.u viiueu ior Cini;xri(( would not gladly resign their hard oanJ grandure, on condition of enjoyinn

! the tranquility of earlier and humbler rV1

lit is on record that tiic third i'opc AdnV i after having passed through so many v Isitudes of fortune as to have been rcf. j ja menial office in one of the' ICnglish vents, and having gained the highest in the ladder of human ambition

and unresisting form of mine own pillo . Pity me, indulgent reader; but do not laugh when I assure ypu,upon mine honor, I exceedingly indignant; and what increased my passions to a most ahrmm crea.cu i .. r:l6Cal

rWree. was the laci uiuu ; .

kent In

ishes about my nose and some imes, the most perfect sangfroid, alighting upon very my cheek. I struck my face with all my might, in hopes of chrushing the intruder to death, but he escaped from the blows, and all their fury fell upon rnyscli. I began to be outrageous, and had already fretted myself into a copious persipation, when tomyineXpressibledelight,thefuryof

the beseiger abated l ncaru ms nun. ingaway hi the distance feebly, and more feeble, it just reached mine ear and I could distinguish it no more. I flung myself upon my pillow, and after a few moments repose, a gentle slumber began again to steal over my senses mine eyes closed ; the miseries of mankind were again passing rapidly from my recollection ; my spirit again began to float through the realms of fancy, and mingle with the visionary wonders of the dreaming world. I was just forgetting myself and all my sorrows,when "terribile didu," the approaching music of my long-legged friend was audible away off in the farthest corner of the room; and to my utter consternation, I could distinguish the varied hum of several of his companions. The persecuted Frenchman, when he beheld, for the fifth time, the everlasting phiz of his waggish pursuer, and exclaimed in the miserable consternation of his half-broken heart, "Begar! here's Monsier Tonson come again," did not feel half the vexation 1 experienced from my nocturnal visiter. In the name of comfort, thought I, when will my misfortunes end? Gently and playfully sported the little fellows, before they thought fit in their wisdom to sit down to supper. They sailed round and round; now rctireing, so as to flatter my mind with the vain hope that they were leaving me forever; and then coming boldly within an inch of my nose. Unhappy man, thought I, upon what trifles does your peace depend. I called my stoicism to my aid, and determined to sleep in spite of them. Yes thought I, without opening mine eyes, for I was, very sleepy with all my vexation, I will notiet so small a trouble cause a single sorowfuP I was interrupted in my soliloquy by a sharp sting on my forehead, upon which my philosophy and equanimity vanished, and I .was compelled to act on the defensive. I tried to catch some of them as they flew by me. I whirled around the clothes in the hopes of burying them in its folds. Alas! alas! I had no sooner composed myself to rest again.under the foolish supposition that I had driven them away, than the same everlasting hum came whizzing about mine ears, and sailing in the most provoking composure around every feature of my face. At length I sprang out of bed in despair opened the w indow s and doors of my room, and paced the floor in angry sleeplessness. A gentle breeze came murmuring into the chamber and bore away my tormentors. I looked out upon the silent world. The beautiful streaks of morning were just stretching along the eastern sky. I felt a little soothed by the beauty of the scene; my irritation gradually subsided I flung myself againon my couch, and the bright beams of the morning sun awoke me from a refreshing slumber. When I arose, I happened to cast my eyes upon the white washed ceiling, and there I beheld a mosquito reposing his delicate frame, after the fatigues of the night. I mounted a table and two chairs softly and carefully raised my extended palm, and gave a most terrible slap. There was blood on the place when I got down, and happening to look in the glass, I found my teeth set together in a most revengeful manner.

heard to say that St. Peters chair was tre most uneasay scat he had ever satupoii.H that the papal crown was like a bur;.i;iron bound round his head. ' Since ambition in diflerent degrp(;3 seems to be adherent in the human tr, it is much to he Wmented that the

which it points.is so otten unworthy. exaltation appears to be the governing tivcsofnll ranks: and employments ajc sought after, and offices petitioned for,;,; from the noble ambition of rendering these offices and employments the vehicle of u f. fulness to their country and their fel!w men, but from the paltry pride of standi upon high places, and like the Pharij of old, taking the uppermost scats in the synagogues. To the mind whose narr: ambition would urge to no higher flir'than this, it would be no want of charily to wish the fate of the "hindmost wheel.

Trriai the Alhior.d MR. BROUGHAM. Brougham rise;-? amidst the deep silrrct

'of the House, and the muttered curses cf

the Reporters, whose pens must now k worn to the stumps. His air and his manner, at first, put you very much in mind of those of a field preacher! He is tall aid

j(hent,and pliant in his appearance; andth;'

his tones he iull and melodious, he ro

tates, as if be were either at a loss what to

sav, or ashamed to sav it.-

He sta

From the Cincinnati literary Gaztltc AMBITION. "Thon like the hindmost chnrriot wliccl art curst, Still to be near, but noVr to be the liret." How many in toiling up the steep ascent on which are placed the cflices, and employments of dignity, to which their ambition, or their vanity hasted them to aspire, feel this curse treading on their footsteps, and making even comparative success little better than bitter disappointment; since to be first is the supreme desire of small, as well as great ambition. Authors, whose chase is after fame, as Ucll as tlu.se who toil after more earthly and substantial goods, are often fated to the misery of seeing their talents lagging in the rear gf their ambition, and compelled by public opinion to occupy the second place, w hen self-love w ould lain urge them to the belief that tlieir merit entitled them to the first. Parnassus is of so steep and difficult an ascent, that few have had mental strength to reach its summit, and of the myriads who have attempted it ; many have proved that

crouched together, pulls up his shculrlas

hangs his head, and there is a trtmuto motion in his upper lip and nostril, .c? makes you fancy that he is trembling thro' fear. His first sentence fr an epoi;.: sentence with him is a ten minutes marc: at least comes forth cold, hesitating ar.i ambiguous, so that, for the soul ofyou.yos cannot perceive the drift of them. Kc!i is, indeed, a clear and satisfactory pro; Lotion in itself, but the whole seem bci.tn one direction by a moving force, which is vet viewless as the wind. When, however, a sufficient number of these have hT drawn out in line,the whole march soh::r ly and steadily to one conclusion, and t position meant to be carried, is carried completely and as irresistibly as by a bay onet charire of the most powerful Briti troops. One point being thus won, the orator rises upon it, both in body and niir!, and wins a second by a more held and l ri f attack. Then he vaults upon the spiked basis, rises in figure and intone till it

overtops the staring members and slKiWi

the astonished House: and when he Irs gained what you imagine to be the very summit of powerful speaking, and has kep: beating time upon the table and lockir: towards every corner of the House. ;isiit see and sneer at the admiration which he has called forth, his voice and his fi?sink again to dimensions lower than ever. You would imagine that he was terrified at the echo of his own voice, but no such thing: it is like the bending of the wrestler in order that he may twist his antagonist in his grasp, or like'the draw ing back i the tiger, in order that he may sprir.g tlrf more terribly on his prey. Vv oe be to t man upon whom his eye glare? from that terrible concealment. Woe b'e to th wight, towhom those. half-w hispered worus arc a prelude to the storm which is on l!i? wing. You are of course a stranger, r.ru know not what is to happen: you mere!; see a man putting on an air of inren'I'rt" hensible mildness and simplicity , and :- a man speaking in subdued whhpcrs.wbic astonish you by their being audible to tnf very smallest sy liable. The words which w ere at first cold and congealing, lu ccirx hurried and hot, and while the speaker solutely drowns the cheering of his c1 party, and binds the whole 'Collective a fetter w hich they dare not break, ':C peeling some poor devil to the boi:C, atossing his mangled limbs into ail the tions of mental agonv through thek'1 figures of rhetoric; nor is it till his own dy has been vanquished and beaten by the energy of his own mind, that drops upon his seat, giving the House h"y totheer.Sc leaving viu utterly ceidburt.e-