Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 31, Richmond, Wayne County, 9 October 1824 — Page 4

Whatever the mead or Jioicery field, The grotto, grove, or garden yield. Of useful, fragrant, choice, and rare, li e still select." From the Emporium. MUSINGS. BY 8. L. FAIRFIEO. THE youthful heart is heir to wealth That jrears can never tell : The youthful soul does deeds by 6tealth That might iu triumph swell The thought that tunes a generous mind Oft dies upon the wing;, And bosom feeline,fond, and kind, Writhe oft'neath torture's string. Gay hope, the night-fire of the brain, Allures the heart to woe. With beams, that pleasure lend to pain This faithless world to show; And we are sped on life's lone way By gilded, goading spears, While flitting fancy's meteor ray Emblazons misery's tears. The deepest woes we feel below. The wildest throes of pain, From our own fond illusions flow, When sanpuine passions reign; For guileful flattery 6oothes the heart That malice turns to stin?, And love, full oft, o'er ruin's dart Its vermeil veil will fling. Anticipations ever erlow In self-delusion's light, While sorrow's tear and misery' throe Sublime the heart's delight; As silver clouds in fleecy wreaths A summer sunbeam hade, When breezy music softly breathe Along the wavering glade. Undimm'd by time the jouthful eye; Sheds tearsunchilied by all Thoe wayward feuds, that burst the tie Of love when envies call, And in the rut'ely tiltin? world, Engender woe and strife, When fri ndship from his seat is hurled, And pride companions life. Dnrkness, disease, and doubt will blight The fairest dreams of bliss, And rapture plunge, in sorrow's night, To agony's abyss; The fairy frost-work of an hour Occayin misery's dame, And fale and vain are pomp and power, And flteticg as a name.

From the Gospel Herald. The flffting months, the rolling ear, But bear us to our doom; The nisrht advance the davs appear To call us to our home. The Rpring's bedeck'd with opening flowers; The Summer's candy pride; The richest fruit that autumn pours In all her plenteous tide, The shiv'ring blat of Winter's wind, The temnft, bail, and snow, Are lesons to the attentive mind, How decline's all below!

Fix'd then ori.'ms of brighter bliss, Let all ourO -hes rie; And w hile we tin ell in worlds like this, Seek those beyond the skies. W. S. L.

PROGRESS OF ERROR. 'Avoid the appearance of evil." Great crimes generally spring from small beginning, as well as great trees and great cities. The heart grows hard arid wicked by degree?, and probably the tvorst man that ever lived can recollect a time when he shuddered, and hesitated, at the idea of committing a small offence. This truth chntild ho cAtc n impressed unon

the voting say to them "avoid the appear- j ance of evil.' for everv time vnii deliher- I

ately do a wrong thing, you pour a dose of p, i?on into the heart, which will tend to des troy conscience, and break down the print "iples of virtue you ought to cherish. The traveller who put up at the old sign of (fie c"e'u avne m Alesbury, some 15 Or I8vea rs av' promise you, did not jeave "that ousc without shaking hands with,and pi sing somewhat, Montgomery Rosen, the in "keeper s son, as fine a little bov as ever hi 'essed a parent with the full bio-. mine of e arly promise. He was so obedient to his parents, so attentive and respectful to stra r. cere, so kind and invariably polite tocvci v one, and with all, he h urn. d so smart aY school that every one loved, and admired him. Few vouths ever lt'ft home with fairer prospects and with be tt cr c haracter than did Montgomery, when' at the age of fifteen, he was sent to Philadelphia, and put under the care of a business doing merchant, that be might get such an insight into the businesses would justify his father i, setting birn up in a store in Alesbury, for this was the destiny lie bad marked out for his favourite child. II Jrs'oiy is directly in point in establishing -hr- ' said at the beginning; and though ie may have pnod through as singular a complication of circumstances in their way, I am fully satisfied that his, in all its main and general features, is the history of thousands. I said lie was apprenticed to a merchant it was to one Mr. Markley; his master esteemed him highly and placed iu him unlimited confidence. For a little while he remembered the kind admonition of his faithful father, and bestowed great care on tlie matter of selecting company was concientious in the discharge of every duty and tried a well as he was able to "avoid the appearance of evil." One day, how

ever, he went to a neighbouring store a moment to see a young gentleman and return a borrowed book. His friend, very politely,!drew a glass of wine from one of the casks, and pressed him to drink he did so, and departed. The next day the same person stepped in to see him he happened to be alone and the strong desire not to be behind hand with his new neighbour, overcome the scruples of conscience ; and he treated him in return to a glass of wine. In the hurry of the moment he did not stop the licmor properly. His master came in saw the neglect, and enquired "Montgomery have you been at the wine cask!" It was an awful moment to him he dared not pause to think; he yielded to another temptation, and answered, tremblingly "No Sir, I have not." The old gentleman looked at him searching' then turned and stopped the liquor tight himself. The next morning the same young gen

ii tleman stepped into the store and asked

Mr. M. to sell him a cask ol such wine as Montgomery had given him the evening before. Mr. M. looked at Montgomery again, as if to say tell the truth next time. The exposure was too humiliating for the high spirited youth to bear. He saw his friend and entreated him to tell Mr. M. that he drew the wine himself. His friend

laughed and told him he would for an oyster supper. The bargain was struck; he acquitted Montgomery in Mr. Markley's eves; but the poor boy was destitute of money. He had already taken some long steps aside. He took another; and resorted to his master's drawer formonev to meet the expense of the supper he had promised. While they sat in the cellar to which they had repaired, a gaming board was produced; and he was asked to play for a small sum. The thought struck him that here was a chance to win the money he had taken from his master, and return it. He played and lost. He played again, and again; still he lost. His error was now of an alarming character. He became desperate he took further sums from the counter, which w ere necessary to pay what he borrowed and lost. It was missed he saw himself liable to be discovered and ruined, and resolved at a single effort to retrieve his character, by procuring the sum deficient, and depositing it somewhere where it might seem to have been overlooked. He rose, late at night entered the store, took 200, and went to a gambling house, where he w3 confident he could win the money. He lost it; every cent. The morning came Mr. M. I ppened not to examine the drawer which iiad contained the money himself; and at 10 o'clock told Montgomery to carry it to the old bank. Mr. Markley had a large deposit in another bank.and the infatuated youth drew a check, on that bank, for the ,$200; signed his master's name to it, presented it -and was detected. He confessed the whole aflair when it was too late; he had intended todeposite the money he thus attempted to draw in lieu of the money lost, and depend upon chance to conceal his crime yet a little while. Poor fellow, I saw him once afterwards, and with a tear in his eye, and grasping my band he said "I am going to the State Prison, for a six-penny glass of wine" alluding to the first error he committed, and which led to all the rest.

children? Canst thou smother the noblcj

aspirations of their youtn wim muv, and infamy. Contentment. Happy ; superlativley happy that man, and that man only who can say with the great apostle, "I have learned in whatever state I am, therewith .i.n,rt,Wont '' And the mind which is

thus composed and at peace within himselt satisfied with that portion of enjoyments, which a wise and good Providence appoints is no longer at the mercy of all changes of this sublunary world ; he has nobly mancipated himself from the general servitude to blind and capricious fortune. Equally "without a wish so mean as to be great, as unseard by the spectre of pale poverty," he is cool and tranquil enough to relish all the humble blessings of his own state of life. His bosom is at rest; not like the troubled sea, violent in it motions, and foul in its appearencc; but like a gentle rivulet all clear and serene, and exhibiting, as in a mirror, every beauty of the landscape around him, together with the splendor and magnificence of the heavens above. Coscn's Sermons. Life Is a fountain fed by a thousand streams that perishes if one be dried. It is a silver cord twisted with a thousand strings that parts asunder if one is broken. Frail and thoughtless mortals arc surround-1 cd by inumerablc dangers, which make it much more strange that they escape so long that they almost all perish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with accidents ever ready to crush the mouldering tenements that we inhabit. The seeds of disease are planted in our constitution by the hand of nature. The earth and atmosphere, whence we draw our life, are impregnated with death; health is made to operate lis own destruction; the feed that nourishes the body contains the elements of its decay; the soul that animates it by a vivifying fire tends to wear it out by its action; death lurks in ambush about all our paths. Notwithstanding this is a truthso palpable, and confirmed by daily examples before our eyes, how little do they lay it to heart! We see our friends and neighbours perishing around us, but how seldom does it occur to our thoughts that our own knell, perhaps shall, give the next fruitless warning to the world.

A Fragment. Among the various evils which stalk amid the haunts of man, there is one demon of destruction, whose march sure as time, impetuous as the cataract, and merciless as the grave desolates the fairest valley of the universe and lays prostrate the noblest structure of creation. At his approach the towering wings of genius is paralysed ; the torch of reason becomes extinct, the fire of ambition expires, the smile of philanthophy is lost in the cloud of conscious degradation,the rose of health is blasted, the lustre of the eyes is dimmed, and the (lowers of domestic love, and hope, and joy are whithered forever. His name is Intemperance. His followers are shame and remorse, poverty, disease, infamy and death. And does not man retreat with dismay from this dark malignant and unpitying enemy? Who would not avoid the exhalations of the Upas, or fly from the dreadful Samile of the Arabian desert; none, none in the universe! and yet, oh inconceivable madness! how many with dauntless confidence cmbrace this demon of intemperance; this distroyer of all that is fair and lovely in the soul, this pestilence that walketh in darkness and wastcth at noon day! Awake, oh man,fromthy dangerous lethargy ; thy senses are locked in a fearful, charm, and thou smilest in the slumber on the monster whose breath is consuming thee! Hast thou friends? Wilt thou doom them to mourn over thy faded form; thy blighted mind, thy decayed energies? Hatt thou

From the Now York Mirror. DISSIPATION. The clock struck eleven. The anxious terrified, lonely mother shuddered at the sound.&L with an unconscious energy pressed her poor babe to her heart while the large tear, not without cause, fell, unbidden, from her swollen sunken eye, and rested on the cheek of the slumbering innocent. Where then was he who had sworn to protect her, and by a vow registered in Heaven, had promised unalterable affection for her. He was an instance, I could wish without a parallel; for dissipation had bound him in her chains and in the thraldom of vice, he, could forget that

he had a bosom companion sighing in his

abscence for his return, and in his pres

ence overpowered by the conflicting cmo

tions, occasioned by the recollection of

former times, when he was virtue's friend.

Scshe the darling partner of his happiness.

Can man so far forget the dignity of

Ins nature, as to give up the government

of reason bestowed upon him by God, and

submit to be led by degraded passions,

participated with brutes? ell may it be

said that the hand which can write it, un

less its prossesser be void of sensibility must

feel the blood curdle in its veins, and the

tongue that can tell it to the world might stiffen in the act. Let us conclude our sad tale. The unfortunate man returned, something inebriated, at a late hour, and found his w ife senseless on the floor. The shock restored him to himself, though some half lost half-recollctced images flitted through his bewildered brain. She was declared to be in a raging fever, medical assistance was in vain, for the disease was one which baffles all skill, and in the short space of a fortnight, she died broken-hearted. No mur

mur escaped her lips against the author of

her misery, the distroyer of her happiness,

me cause oi ner untimely death. Then it

was that he fully awoke from his dream; then it was that every unkind w ord everv ungrateful look thronged back upon him

and harrowed up his soul; then it was

that he uttered the unheard groan, and poured the bitter tearmore deep, more

outer, uccausc unheard and unavailing. Is there one now who is iust be"inninv

the career of vice and folly, unawares of

me misery ne is bringing unon himself :.nd

all connected with him; let him read this

md pause; for it is only on the immni:M

basis of virtue, that we can found our ac

tions, if we wish them to vield ideas.. r. n

ourselves, to be pleasing in the sight of our fellow-men, or acceptable to our Creator.

concluded from rlnsT firm in vour own strpm-tn :c

. a1") 'I Yd J, your own virtue and love oflife,7 1 rights and liberties, antici;;''-;

iui .um it-ai. iiiu vices off made Philip and Cicsar, Crm , ?r

naparte. While you preserve tl Q ' of your fire-sides, the mon-l $

i vourinsttutions will ever ''.'.Utlu

ambition of your leaders. Ti ,. 'V

! may safely trust the defence of v.Wf; ties to the energies of 900,000 frel'''

j when private vice shall have

you, when public corruption stain based you, your vice ai d corri.J'': produce some Caesar or some V , and irrcsistably force ycu h.tohi

Such ever has been, such ever v iU i' rt o.-.i . I 1,1 LH

laic- ui iii;iJuiJiii&. cucn is tiif. frnak

; the history of republics present; u

consideration, 'rsewnrv t rn

w.. 1; iJ01 zens, beware that while guarding selves against danger from a man vhj not now exist among you, ycu do tf courage the growth of that vic at I.

corruption which will assuredly nr ;

nun. im;zciuu parallel Lt-tw.v;, ; examples offered by Iji-U ry aisd

but there is a strong a::c.tav Lftwf.-

case of your fathers in relation to Y7

ington, and your situation i.i r jVr(-

i icii. .saiivsuii. iu uiib v-'j respf eti ; desire yeur attention, and if vcn fir,'

t resemblance clear and (jislk:it, we i you to imitate the example. Earl. aw

: iu iiavi: ul-cii ciwicu imo acuon I v ti I ergencies which rendered their cx ri

i essential to their country s safety ardi ! 1 rri. .j ..r r

t J't IIUl 1IU IllliiU VI ViJCIl ScCPl j have been regulated, poised and matt

by the dangers and diflicultics, the i

ships and the vicisihides by which ii-

were surrounded. Lach, when ured duty, ever appear to have exhibited same manly heedlessness cf rcspcfiK,In both you have seen the n-.iv.c strict gard for justice, the same exreller.rf

judgment, firmness in danger ai d t.-H

m acton. Lach when co e red wiih Jargained in defence of his cctn.tr) 's ir.dfp der.ee, has retired from rnilitarv con m: to the shades of private life. Kadi tk the hearts of his cuuntrvmen.has been c.

cd from retirement to the councils tf : nation. Each was ever dktinuiiUd

the amenity of his manners, and enclli

ever been regarded with c a:d ra? once by all within his circle of actici ?. "Washington, the people's choice, his.. cvated to the Presidency by the reqkThe prosperity of the country, riovtv

wisdom oi ins administration. the people's candidate is now bcilr; j will you complete the parallel? As American-, as citizens of the w. republicans, and as men only actcattd' a sincere love of our common ccui.n. its glory, prosperitv ai d happine?.212

earnestly recommend to you kikHzens, to support the manof the ptc!' drew Jackson.

I'mm tr.e Maryland RejiiLlit an, ?(7f Steam Boat llection On Frig's the steam boat from Norfolk to Ealiinr was freighted with a number of pas."? from all parts of the Union. By introduction to rmivrrsnticn rurblN

- - - i , j proposal was made to elect a Frcsi-M -j the United States, which was cV-e t rivily

greed to; a president, secretary a'a u lers w ere appointed fur the cccSCrans of rrrnr-r dif rihiifrd fur thciUv

t - - i i - i . . i of w riting the ballots. The ii.tcri:J suhiect w as nuirklv mnnift in tlx I-

sj J J " - ties. When prepared to ascertain tr;

suit, the lust ballot drawn was foroe:-' Jackson; the person who voted jt with the prospect of the success of B vorite, clapped his hands, walked" tinglv, and offered round bets on the fr;

of Orleans, the next ballot was lor Q. Adams the second, third, fourth. ' ll Cnmo Tirl'CAr. ( i I fll 'IC thf! bi"v'

viaiMVt V IV3U1I Sll'lli Illl " one after another wore nroduccd.M

I . - . f A I

down to the very bottom of the nai When the votes were reported, it.'TI :a tlmt T,J. IV A.l l.4 ..1..,;r.rd CV'',

vote except the one for the General.

Such an accidental association a or sixtv nersons on iho threat n uc'r' "

south to north, assembled fren

the "old dt mamM itself, entire slr:u P(r

each other, aryl w ithout an intertw r opinion uponihe subject, to evidcrcc--i.. ' - Js r t.i iMi'1,

a conclusive rcsuir in invor i'j i and slntsm:in fnr tlm Drcsidei.iy

testimony of no slight w eight in tU" by which we are to judge cf the sciit'"1" of the people of the Union. fc II ! II Ankcdotf. It is said of tl.tf ,c' Mr rv..:i i i : Ji.vWttl hJ'-.

cards, he proposed to ask first, u-. , of God. The astonished gnir.csttf tatcd,andhe added, do nothing11 'j I cannot crave the benediction ol v Hope not to rean where ycu

sown.