Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 38, Richmond, Wayne County, 27 November 1824 — Page 4

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Wtate'er the mead orjlmccryjfalay f The grotto, grove, or garden yield, Ofiisrful. fragrant, choice, and rare f i t still select."

From the Hudson Whig. TIME. I taw him ba?tinjr, ou his way, And marked hi lightening: flight, Where'er he movd, there sum decay Spread its destructive liht. Rapid the fcloomj phantom t ied, E velop'd in the storm Hi eyes shone out in sullen pride, And (earful was hi form. I saw him grap the Warrior's wreath, Won in the gory fray The laurel withering sunk in death, Its beauty fled awaj, That wreath ;ti stainM with bToodj dew, Unhallowed was its bloom It met the phantom's shilling iew, And bow'd beneath it gloom. I saw him pass bv Bauty' bower, And lite n to he r 1 ay, ground tl e spot wa oianj a fiowef Bl..tiftr c in 'i!nm,rr day ; Vt' icy heat the ?pectrt cars; Her i. tly form compressM, h- m t hi lurid i ye ol fl ui.e The tombstone Oils the rt st. On youth's warm brow his hand he pr? it I win -oitl at mould riiis clay He 1 lid hi hand on monhood's breast, Tte life pul-e ce.iwi lo play, fli eirc overNattne paM-d, And low he drooled he r bead Xltr blooni with red iit the blast. And all bt r verdure tied.

THE DRUNKARDS MIRROR. THE JI G OF RI M. Within thce eartttn walls confined "I lit ruin lurks of human kind, More njichi i ht re united dwell, And more dieae h. unit this cell, Th ui evrr placurd the Kcyptiiu flock, Or r, r cursed Pandora's box. Within thee pnon wall repose, Th seeds of my a blood ne, Th ehattrnnc t.-nue, the horrid oath, Thf fi-,t for tihtm:, nothing loth. The j a-iin quick, no words can tan.f, 7 hit burt like sulphur into ui,e, Thf nos, with diamond glowing red, Th Moated ey e, the broken bt ad. Fr-er fastened le- this door CVi.rh d within a th.tns.njd more Petrnctive fie? ds f batt ;ul sha; , F.ven roH are plotting an ttcapt. tl r- only b a cork controlled, And '-nder ali of tart tan n.ocM, Ir nil tt -ir poriip iif denth r pit, RtrEvor. that l.c'i t w as satisfied, 7 r that be. r that deadly fruit. Of mur'er, maiming and dispute, A s,.itjlt, that mr.orenci aai! Tt iu..tze of jrloomj jails. TSo -i 'dv thought on vrcHitr ber. Tl midr, ijht bourn- om.y ; :.t. Ad thes within tl a nz a;; ear, An '. ) KCi the hangm in the rt ar! 1 hrue bappv he, who, tar! taught fv ii.r-. fVr l i r oison u ht, Th .licit fnenj to his own rtjose, Tr- ds under i.vt this wort of f.-et. H- with the pijrlin - tre;.m oritf i:t, The t ev r.igp (jnaffi that nature meant; It. r a Mi a hi artn r. h ruhtd, f 1 ; int w mt iio A rt icti ai l. . T1 nfdl'd tio hich, it r 'i.i k too low, FLo i ' his nj n.itiit 1 f. . I. or Ji". i his, ir. uor ; a"ed, F-itt nre, nrlroiiie to the lat, A '- r h - that nv r t crew taIeSu h irtj !ie in At!ani ate.

and destroyed, and the littte endearment? of youth are felt no more. Age at length gains upon him, and he finds himself in a calm serene region; hut his hopes unsatisfied, his powers weakened, and his energies destroyed. Its tranquil atmosphere destroys every illusion, and teaches him to see through the dark clouds that had put on a deceiving garb; to discern the rocks and shoals in which he had been tossed, and all the gay aerial nothing! which had milled him. He feels the end ofall things ; that joys and pleasures are but glittering shadows, fame a deceiving bauble, and the possession of human content an idle dream, and like the wearied traveller among the shadows of mountains, prepares for a journey to that land that yields less clitterinc:, but more true and substantial blessings.

MATERIALISM. To think a cross hodv mavhe trround

and pounded into rationality, a slow body 1 may be thumped and driven into passion, a rough body may be filed and polished into a faculty of discerning and resenting things; that a cluster ofpretty, thin, round atoms, (as Democritus forsooth conceited,) that a well mixed combination of elements, (an Empcdoc les fancied,) that a harmonii ous contemplation (or crasis) of humors, i (as Galen, dreaming it seems upon his drug- and his potions, would persuade us,) that an implement made up of I know not what tine springs, and wheels, and such I mechanic knacks (as some of our modern wizard have been busied in divining.) ! should, without more to do, become the i subject of so rare capacities and endowments, the author of actions so worthy, and , works so wonderful ; capable of wisdom 'and virtue; of knew lede so vat, and of

, desires so lofty ; apt to contemplate truth.

and efb'Ct good; able to collect tilings past

! and to foresee things future; to search so I deep into the causes of things, and disc lose

so many mysteries of nature; to invent so

many arts and sciences; to contrive such ' projects of policy, and achieve such feats of

prowess: brietly, should become capable

I to design, undertake and perform all thoc

admirable ellects ot human wit ana indus

try, which we daily see and hear of; how

can we, without great indignation and rc- . cret, entertain such suppositions? No, no;

tis both ridiculous fondness, and monstrou? baseness for us to own any parentage from, er any alliance to thing- so mean, so very much below us. Barrow,

Frcm the tnr!a Kveitb ar Pot. THE. PILGRIMAGE OF MAN. Y tit ft the ft asin when every thing is n .u d bright be tore him, when pleasures a d i'.v fche d their umpiring ii faience: h !e ;n.d feeling are sanguine and en-

From the aratoci Sentinet. Oct. 1 J. Singular and intfresting Fhinomcnon. "The Ethiopian" has ;hanvrd siW I had the peculiar gratification of seeing and eiamining the truly interesting subject of this notice, but a few das since, as he passed through this village, on his wav, as he said, to Ronton. The following is the substance of the account which he gives of himself: His name is Tom Clinton; lie was born at a place called Hobl Hole. Essex county, in the state of Virginia. He was formerly the property of one- James Edmonson, who, some years since, gave him Ins free dom. His patents were both from Africa hi fat!t r a Guineman, and his mother a Mandi: go. He is, as near as he can ascertain, about sixt ears of age, ai d was always of a glosy black color,uutil about fifteen years since-, when he discovered a white speck, "no larger than a mustard seed,'' at the root ef the nail en the third finger of the left hand. This spot spread "lowly, but steadilv, over the hand, the other fingers and

thu-iastic, and the imagination is deceived lv its own fair gilding. Every thing apk rs unclouded and blooming before hirn. Rut the real jo s of his condition are flighted for the gay antie ipations of a fickle nature, he: nc ib ct to prize what he al-

rradv pose?se pure and unalloed. for the b the arms, and at the end of 15 months the I ur-uit of that which dajzh s at a distance i whole of the hand and arm had become thi. .ugh the beam of fa be glory. The perfectly white, excepting a few small path is mossv. the kv unruliled, but he patches, which, howeve r, contii ned to Vip;do:.g unrof rious of the softness of (i grow lighter. At this period, several othtUe one- or the mildness of the other. i r white spots appeared on different parts F.ini" outfU her treacherous notes to bear of the body, thighs, legs, and on the other Inn. oiiW.trd, and he leaves bis Youthful I arm and hand; these, continued to enlarge fit.iir- to hn-aththe colder air of manhood. 'i the same gradual manner as tboso on tlie: I . tin:, he fitids ardour and enthusiasm left har d ; and, at the present time, more d i 1 1 ' iting, objects appt-arti-g b's inviting : than nine-tenths of the whole suiface of his at d piea-itig. He e.-ncounler- diflicul-h body and xtrtmities are pcrfectl) white, tie?, vexations, and trials; the light-heart- J ad as smooth and clear as that of any cde of youtli is departing, and he finds Is white man of his )ears; and should the ail it f'iry iio? e illusive ai d dece iving: 1; same process continue for 2 years longer,

ligenf. For the last three or four years he has been travelling, with a view of profit

ing bv the curiosity which the singularity of his case excited; but he does not appear to have been very successful. About the commencement of his travels, he exhibited himself to Dr. Mitchell, and se yernl other distinguished naturalists of New

j York and Philadelphia, who all agreed in pronouncing his case one of the most singI ularanu interesting,which the age affords. Dr. Mitchell, I believe, published a history of the case, but I do not recollect of ever having seen it. It is probable that it has not had a ereneral circulation. There are

several instances on record, of the color of nenroes being partially changed, from the

! oneration cf causes which have not vet

j been explained; and, if 1 am not mistaken, ! two or three of those instances have occurj red in the state of Virginia; but no case is related where the process has operated so generally over the whole surface of the bo- ' dv,as in the one above tioticed. Travellers in Africa speak ofk4pie-baId negroes," 1 and Winterbottom says, ait is not uncoin- ! mon to see persons whose skins have un- ' denrone a change from black to white, the

'appearance being confined to only a smnll 1 mrtof the hodv." These changes of color

j are sometimes imputed to a specie of lep-

S rosv, peculiar to the couutry, and always ! to tiie effects of disease, j It is to be hoped, that the scientific gen-tb-men of Boston will make this case a subject of particular enquiry, should he ! show himself there. An occurrence so S singular should certainly find a place in

the distinguished journals olthe day. From the Saturday T!rrniic Pot. SPIDER AND BLACK SNAKE. We found the other day, the following remarkable account of the feats of a spieler, which though it was not vouched for by any signature and though the hand writing was not known, we conclude to insert it. If it he true, it is certainly worth notice. A spider is the most ingenious rope-maker, the most adventurous sailor, the boldest tighter, and the most independent proprietor of his own possessions, that we ever saw or heard of. Such mischievous industry and such venomous perseverance is hardly to be- matched by any animal from a mammoth to a bedbug. One dav lat week, the workman in Mr. Peck's machine factory, m Southtngtoi:, discovered under one of the bent In s a black snake, of the white t! r. at spe-cii-s. and about six inches I -i g. susrei de-d h the web of a ppide-r. The spider va of the common hoti-e sen, and not uncommonlv large. When first discovered, the little insect had laiseel his vie tim about half a foot from the tloor, and had him hung by a sinuh- thread. The irnenuitv and power of the spider weie trulv powerful. Passing rapidly down upon his line, he would fasten his ordage around j

the neck of the snake, pass back to his own nest on the unde r sui face of thebench, then going again down, "cast a hitch"' arout d the tail, and returning to his nest he would avail himself of the contortioi s of the snake, alternately hauling up his lines so as to bring his game nearer home. In this manner he continued his labor until evening, leaving the snake alive, hut so completely exhausted and secured as to fe safe tor the night; in the morning he was dead.

j employment which brir ne.r ! wealth to those whh h n . , c' k

( legacy of national di?mrritlf M I debt. War, with its chivalric'? "

soumustlv connected o, r.

light on glory's plume, slinuu'i J'e 1; bv Americans, as flint ;r,n:

ide.that fatal trial of nation:, l n ' I

principle, where success and rev1' to be equally dreaded. Never .1' resources of ourcountrv Kp r V'

collision with half the woild toffee-1 tional prejudice, or dictate tLe j!;1 arrangement of foreign govcrnmo7 ' if like England, it be nominally f:. portant a cause of a twenty vcarV v the opening of the SchehhV'

IIOW TO CATCH AND HOW TO ctT.E Cj After this time of the vcar c ;-.

ly caught, and dillicult to cur-. 1 lowing will be found effectual: quick walk in the evening, sit ia ti.",V. to cool; the consequence will be a m". cold, attended with cough; the r.ext i

Hoarseness, snort breath, ami much ?y toration: in the evening, at 7, go to a J frequented tavern, and drink three or f C glasses of strong punch, or stiff rn ,"'

water; stay till eleven, walk homec, and go to bed; you need not get upr, . day, but send for the apothecary; thV'

" 7 .v. '.' I .'H IIIMl Ullll I IIP Til-.1

day vour friends will send for the u rJ(.j

taker, ouwiii never ieel the crlcc;, an autumnal cold afterwards.

PROPOSALS, For publishing by subscription, in th C1TV OF BALTIMORE, ilD. A mouthl,) iVriodical er, ehUtled Till

GENIUS OF UNlVKIisVL EMAXCIPAU:;

BV lit N JAM IN LU.NDV.

V t f rtu ie, with her wild capriciou? hand, alters otne brilliant favors upon him, n'ai the1 gay triumphs renew and renovate hi- nature:; hone at d .ambition are again

he w ill iiave no other vestige of his parentage about him but his w ool, which retains its usual appearance, bece ming gray with njj.e. He has, from his infancy, enjoyed

in m dioo, and revive hi powe-rs and e ne r-j good health, has a good appetite, and his gi'; iav schemes pres hitn t action and : f(d alwavssits well; his evacuations are 'xerti"ti. He struggle through perpbx- j all perfectly natural ai d fre e; he sweats it"--and dangers, and imagines he wears , easy, and, what is very rematkable, his t! armur to shiebl him from the blasts ! perspiration has lost all that rancid odour of 'oi-fortune and repel the attacks of vio-j si peculiar to colore d people. He has ! e. But vtars steal over him and still j! never had an eruption on his body, of any f: ' him labouring, toiling, and helping, kind, at d his skin is peifectly Iree frcm

and Mill dispossessed o! what he fancied ' blotches, pimpb s or roughness, lmd is, it

alreaelv within his crasp; life and all its

llu. tu itions are crowding upon him; he b' r.rtlie tte)ise of warfare continually a. l out him; faculties and powers are disturbed and wearied ; a few of his strongest

a d most hardv feclinc are still e ndurit g;

i realitv, as soft, smooth ai d clear as that of

a delicate lemale. He is inarrifd, i d is the father of twelve children, all healthy? stout negroes. He appears to be a sober, we 11 disposed man; is ve ry cennmunicalive, m 1 for a

the blrife; but the alUcliunsaie cut (iowuj uerson in his bpberc of life, tolerably inlcl-

Exttrct from an oration delivered on the 5lh of July last, in Bo&ton, by John Everett. Esj. 'The permanence of our republican institutions, in their beauty and purity , must depend greatly oti a om-ct estimate- formed by cur citizens of the- military character. There seems to appear, in the history of all free goven ments, a elisposition to waste their enerrv on (he arts of elestruclion, and to found an epii ion of their resources and strength on the injuries they can inflict on others. It belongs te eve rv Americ an who would doire the name of republican, to rellect, that ofall kinds of distinction, of all forms in which the love of f;me can present itse lf, military glory, sintpiy as sweA, apart from the cause in which it is gaine-d, is the most w orthless, calculable, and mercenary. Build well modelled ships, offer large: bounties for recruits, and you may attain as much military glory as the treasury cansupport. So farissuccess in contest between regular forces a cause of national pride, that the proudest victories that have been gaine d in the last war in Europe have been wem by chained consciipts on land.ai i impressed felons at sea; and Russia, whose gigantic military force is now the terror of Southern Europe-, owes this supremacy te the barbarous state of its empire, winch makes it easy at any time to call her Tartars from the Don and the Caspian, to plant their tents in the Ely sian fields. The noblest ancient and foreign empires have been lost by the love of conquest, by the strai ge desire to divert their resources frora the

We hold those truths to be self-cv ident : tlajjll

men are create! equal, and endowed l y U.tir (..-.

tor with certain unalienable remits, thai uji ir.iht

arenie, JiDertj, nmtic pursuit m i.arjatti.,

This work has been i ntdished, upwards rf

.years in the state of 1 cnncsSc-c. To t o:e !.o h ive bad an opportunity ol exaraic it, r-jl.,,j ;i.ed be Bajd respectiiikr the 'leij.-!! ct tta o'iU, ,f the plan ujHin u bich the j aj er i i.ainiintoi. t'.t lor the iiiloriijaln-ti ol t h r-", r. ii. i v bt pf cr u , st a t , bru ily what is the object in i w, a;,.l "o .ae

: mii h Xjdai:;tiom as iija- t-nable tbe;u lu j i cf

: ttie proprietv 1 patrofiii: 5 it.

j I he- "Gt.MUS (r UMVLKSAL KMeSCiPAT! V , i exclii-ivelv demote d to the hj! aect ul i,y,k.c.'iJ

l ( r;MuaJ SLevKKI', ii it i operates ur-u t.;

man p.ecn ana particularly thoM- ct the A ri: 4 f

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in.', in .Minucri. it iiiimmt iet 11, aiia , tinne to !-, the object ol the editor tc ru'!t ?r ilK liTe itnil t ilu ient nisiruuiellt, tfsl, HitX, I utlic v i u the naket eelorn.ity, and 01 u ; , liantit sot that soul-de ba'inc Fytttuiot iin ;i .4 , oj predion which i-ytt tolerated in the t. M i, and adhered lob many of our cititi i,i ' 0 t j uin leldine fx rtinarity , r.otu abstain!. llt sr ! pretentions to Christian virtue ami republic iti eeti ;putency. and,, t eondly hy pointing out the t o-' n ; tional inenn, Mitluu our reach, nhcre i'v th.it- - i

may be couiplett ly annihilated. A ihe tit t 1 h ; pnjer iniport?, ultiiiiatw aim 1 to j roiraip t.x u lC of "U.MVERSAL EMANe 1HAT10M ' Tit! t . I! r il writ an are that thi". uiut be aliectc i ciaihaH-.-

but he will not for a moment, suffer himself to lose sight of it, as the primary object of his pursuit--Believing that a dark portentious cloud of political and moral evil, containing within its bosom the very elements of national destruction, is gathering in the horizon, and unless it be dissipated by the exertions of philanthropists in the present age, will probably burst with tremendous violence, at least, on the head of succeeding generations, he conceived it to be his duty to stand forth as the advocate of ,justice in a ease where the rights of thousands and millions of his fellow-creatnres are at stake and ! ev n the peace nnd safety ol his friend i, la5 tr-i! tor his children are-f laced in jeopardy, With ihi ! view he determines to act the part of a f e.tl .-'u!cf! tinelon therutmnal watch-tower: to r.am hc ruutry men of the steady approach of dantrr l,tl- ! quarter; and, in a political capacity, to "Mow tfc trumpet in Zi;,'' for the purpose" of aw aKefiinp ! and iiromniir thoe w ha are at ea-ein tl eirtd ts' ! while th awful tornado and overwhclmm? dclug

i of retribution is rollinp towards the 11,. j The paper now circulate in ninri rv ry st.itfit ! the Union, nnd some little abroad. It hns been .1 ' 'orally patronized hy some amen; the tir.-t ttohti-al I and n Inriou? character in the nation: and 10 M.tIseription lit has preatly incrrcased, of late, in tt ( South ami the West. In return for this theolihn determined to spare no pain to make it vidiiidl he sole inducement for removing the stabb'hn.er.t to one of the Atlantic citirs,is the hope Uuifrom the many im portant ndvantaces of the- lecai situation, he will be enabled tn render the more worthy the patronage of the Ann r;caa pco- i

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