Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 48, Richmond, Wayne County, 29 January 1825 — Page 4

THE GAMBLER An extract And I have seen a wife at dead of night, Watching the dy ing embers on her hearth, Ami fancying every blast that swept along Her poor deserted cottage on the moor, A drunken husband's footstepr and again, When it has died away, and left her heart, E.is'd by her disappointment she has looked Upon her sleeping babes ami pray'd, with tears, They ne'er may know the agony she feels. And when at last, he comes with tottering steps, And vile abuse to greet her faithful arms, Oh I have mark'd her bosom's thiobbing swell, A with a resignation worthy heaven She -oothM his pillow, and with tones as sweet As ever mercy faulter'el, sooth'd his soul; And 1 have seen, her on a wintry eve, Set -kin ; her husband 'mid the gambling throng, And with a prayer that would have drawn a saint From Paradise tc hear beggM him full oft To spare her starving babes the means of life.

THE PRINTER. Says Thomas, our neighbors have wrote to the Printer, To stop sending newspapers during the winter, For living is hard, and provisions are dear, And tht re's seldom much news at this time of tho year, But in umnit-r the papers more news will contain, And then, r in spring we may take them again. Say John, neighbor Thomas, your scheme makes me smile ; But how is the Printer to live the mean while If times are so hard as you do not deny, Th Printer unless he's supported must die; The unin r or spring he ran never survive, Urde thro the winter you keep him alive, And ifonre you tarve him, it will be in vain; To expect that he ever will serve you again. Says Thomas indeed we did not one of u think, That Printers could feel, or could want meat or drnk. Or like other people would clothing require, Or wood for the warminc tlx -nielve, with a fire. Ail if none of those wants any trouble could cause, They ruuht live a bears do, by uclfing- their p ivrs. THINGS I HAVE NEVER SEEN. fKrom the Metropolitan.) f have never seen an editor that n rived payment from half of hi? u'!crihers. I have never seen such hard times as the jm-ent, in all my life. I have neer 5" en more hejrgars than now beset emr dwe llings. I have never seen an old maid decidedlv

opposed to matrimony.

with his own bend above the water, drowns him without any mercy. FIELD SPORTS OP NEW S. WALES. The country abounds in game. All the opossum tribe are night animals, and the settlers hunt them in the moonlight evening, when they come out to feed. The dogs chase them until they run up a tree, at the foot of which they stand and bark, when the hunter either knocks them down with sticks, shoots them or cuts down the tree. You may in this way, often in a few hours of a fine evening, kill a dozen handi coots, opossums, squirrels, and native cats, if the country around has not been much hunted. You usually hunt tire kangaroo with cross bred greyhounds, which are

I named "kangaroo dogs. The best time is the morning early before they retire (from feeding, and when once you lav the 'dogs on, you must follow at a full gallop, in order lo keep sight, and secure the carlease. The large kangaroos are dangerous to attack, from their hugging the dogs like a bear, and tea ri tip; their bowels out ! with their hind claws. They will gut a dog with these as clean a if done with a knife, from the sharping- of the daw, and great power they have in their hir-d legs. Wounds from these and the emus are ?o common as to he nothing thought of. the old hunters usually earning a needle and thread to sew them up. The old kangarooi will often hop off with a half a .dozen dogs hanging about them; and; I was told of one at Van JDierne tfs Land, ; which carried a man belonging to Mr. Cunning, for a considerable distance, ai d was nearly tumbling- him over a precipice. The cunning old dogs, usually select a small kangaroo out of a (lock, know ing the large ones ore so diflicult to kill. The kangaroos bound along at the olF-et with ; amazing rapiditv ; they almost appear to tlv from "the immense springs they take, ftnd in leaping' make no other ue of their tail than merely as a balance houndirg oil their hind legsonlv. The dogs usuallv s iz.Mhem by the throat; but if a single dog runs down a larue kangaroo, the latter will often turn arnu:.d aid give battle.

j when if the dog is afraid to engage, he

runs harking round his victim till other?

tion, amid the conflict of opinion, famed on either side to extiemcs, and could claim the merit of having steered a temperate and middle course, uninfluenced by the violence of the moment and directed by free conceived opinion, M. La Fayette was that

man.

THE PROSPECTUS

OF A l-AI'ER TO RE I'UBLISHED v RICHMOND, hNj)jAx;JNT WITH THE A frELi.AT Iov'i

This paper, though it will bo

intended lor the juvenile pnrtof ocie'i' 1 ly receive the trxpericTiccufeWera-'M1' truths, whose talei.ts are nnW keV w 'lj ' M stives, may be the raean, of ia,.,,,,,!,-... U

ninth, by unfuleiuie their ahil.ti.e iJ5 l,tl

lions lor the Medlev. Tin- .." .

otherwise vmb unimproved, runv i;n!j VQ

lor one, ami cring entertainment arl jr, aanother. A innu ofkuowlcdcc ar.ri . ""' 'r'n:-:'

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i nave never seen young doctors tree

from pedantry in the use of technical nhra- come to his assistance. When a kangaroo

i iia-to preyed, it ahvayi. makes lor a pool ot ater. where, by rea.on of its long legs it can stand firmly upright, while the dog? are obliged to swim. A battle ii. the water between dogs and a large kangaroo, is a m,st amusing spectacle. The kangaroo , iwtd'ri! jr,iir rr l.iw tVr.- ,pnn c first doc, sh'.ves him ui der water with the greatest adroitness, holds Um.there until : drowned, unless others arrive to his rescue, when he releases his half-drowned, adversary who makes for the shore in great haste, and endeavor to dispose of his other antagonist in the same way, I have seen a kangaroo tire out six dogs in this man!ncr, and if the hunter is not at hand, it is ten to one hut he will drown several.

ses. I have never seen a pretty girl, that did not k:ow it. I nave never seen a lawyer refuse a fee on account of his client's poverH. , I '.ave never seen greater men than Ad m?. Jackson and L-Mf:yettr. I have never seen a woman who was to cue-tied. I have never seen a girl that would sing without being asked at least forty times. I have never ee;i the nccessitv of ladies wearirtg hip splits. I have never seen a man that could explain the Apo alypse. I hav never seen rich men prefer marrying poor girh. I have never seen but one lady use a bed wrench ai d pin to tighten her eorsetts. I have never een a tax-gatherer or sheritfst.me. 1 have never seen more candidates than at present for all vacant offices. I h:ve never seen provisions cheaper and money scarcer than at this time. I have never seen a ladv who learned music to catch a husband, ever play after m -image for his gratification. I have never seen the nec ssityof young, ladies, whoare not bald, wearing false hair. I have never seen the great Sea Serpent, or Tom Thumb, or Cleven Symmes, or the man in the moon I w uld have? travelled to ee oil these things but my guardial; poked straws in my eyes. Pur-blind.

THE KANGAROO. The Kangaroo, is as great a curiosty as anv to he f.'iind in the pages of natural history. His bodv is shaped like a sugar loaf, with a head somewhat resembling a wolf. His hinder leg :re twenty-eight incites in length and extremely vigorous; his fore legs only eight. He sits in an crect position like a dog in the attitude of begging for hi meals. If we attach to this s'n.gular animal a long tail, we shall have the figure of the Kangaroo.' When attacked, he throws himself on his bark, w ith his lo"g legs gathered in front, grasps lusei.emv with Ins fore feet, and with his hi der, t pis the entrails from the b dy ! Incapable of walking, he moves in a erect pesin.ii, with long and vigorous hounds tow rds his object (somewhat resembling thse of a grass-hopper. But the writer of the Field Sports, presents us, below, with a new feature in the character ot this singular ai.im 1. When assailed by the Iviiiiuls, it seems that he sometimes retreats to toe watery element, and standing erect, with his head and fore feet above liis fortification, awaits the attack of his oiu rriv. As the dog is compelled to swim. Ik f're be ai. come within his reach, this nv.:d roils juftiai grasps his ai tagonist with liU (ore paw, aijd sinking a little,

SYNOPSIS OF A DEBATE In the English Parliament, in the y ear 1 791, on a motion to petition his majesty to intercede w ith his ;,ll , the king of Prussia, in behalf of La Fayette. Gen. Fitipatrick rose and said, that whatever may be the present a Hairs of France,

j and the system now followed there, he ; would venture to ak what was the gene- ; ral feeling of the people of this country, ;(England) on hearing of the destruction of jthe Bastile in Paris. To this destruction Ja Favette had contributed ; ai d although

Kit was attended with some popular exces

ses, he did all he could to prevent them; Ufld for so doing he was now confined i w.Jof the Bastile? of the king of Prussia. could hardly suppose (said Gen. Fitz-

! p;urh k) that the conduet of La Fayette, in Anwrica, could be nn objec tion to this mo- ! tion. In entering into it, he had only done ibis duty to his king and his country. A I generous and brave enemy ought to forgive i and forget enemies when the contest was i over. The illustrious president of the U. : States of America had, he understood, designed to make an application in favor of I his unhappy fellow citizen. That illustrious character saw with regret the fate of j his companion in arms, into whose mind he jhad instilled his principles! but it was to j be feared that his (Washington's) interfe

rence would have no great weight with the king of Prussia. Col. Tarleton seconded the motion. The rigor, the severity, the cruelty, that has been exercised towards that unfortunate person, were such as might well be said to draw the tear of pity down Pluto's iron cheek ! He hoped (said the col,) that his majesty's ministers would lose no time to wipe away this stain which blurs the ermine of royalty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer objected to the motion, on the simple ground of the impropriety of adopting a measure so unusual and so extraordinary! Mr. F xsaid, that if there ever existed a man rtbo, in a great and arduous situa-

Mr. Burke said, that be believed La

Fayette to be the cause of all their misfortunes, and of all the misfortunes that had befallen France! And therefore, however much other gentlemen might pity him, he was not the object of his compassion. Did France claim La Fayette? Yes as a traitor whom the rabble, that he had been

K , inctrnmAnf In e 1 V.i 1 1 1) T tO DO WC T. WO TP . 1 , .c r ncn if . o 1; : , - l .

ocSirous oi sacriucing: huiwiiuh i, m ....v.. uirt : u,at nj -'it,' him. His conJur,. in our contest with the ? -X:' Americans, we were required to forget; (,ru,ant properties of tx; .cru-nce and he was very much disposed to do SO, The female world maj faulthe .Voj,.. . as on a contrary principle, wars would be j1 cle for their expni.din talent, n. . , ., , 7 . . ti , w Inch iiiHV lurrnsli lur hot j tf,,' eternal. Out his behaviour in entering as ant, :wilU4,,Il4eut. tt sU,, n volunteer to the American service, should j Though my nnier mav he nn rim ...

! not entitle him to anv extraordinary favor; ; v a,'l anon, a tuatter trratedVi, m.' ' i a i r i y c ir-. ! not be coiunnnc:letJ with th-n.ixtun Ku and as to his fondness tor military glory, crtiareto 0 fil:lltral HI,ol , V:';

; wnai could ne saui, oui m;u nv wow i:ncs uientoiour itasi. c;oaio,unirati( us t,lH . to live by the sword, mtl-t likewise run j ! injury of an particular j rs.-n, W1:l U '"

i the risk of dvinr v the sword. He trusted ? "T.." .aL r.

his downfafl would be a lesson to mankind how thev attempted to overturn the fabric

I; of civilized society? I would not (concluded Mr. LJ.) debauch my humanity by supj porting an application like the present for f' sue!) an horrid rulhan!

j Mr. Grey said that he never heard a speech with a greater degree of pain, than that of the honorable gentleman who hail just set down. This adding insult to inju-

j rv was too distressing; and he was the last : man, whom he could have supposed eapai! hie of such conduct. He had said that if

La Fayette returned to France lit: would

; be treated as a traitor. 'Most sincerely did ! i. ; t r- ii . i. ii . i : . .,'..... !

! ne :ir. vi.) iumik, inai it u.is,io ui-'iuui : upon his character, instead of a stigma. j Mr. Courtney said that ti e French revolution, which La Fayette was charged ! with having brought about, was a circumstance that afforded universal pleasure and that at the taking of the I3astile,he ai d an honorable gentloman near him, (Mr. ; Ihirke) were then in Faris, and his henora- . ble friend declared he was highly phrased with that event! It wns now the fashion to reprobate every thing that sounaYu liberty; while every thing done by despots was admired and extolled just a if kings alone had an exclusive privilege to commit crimes. He (Mr. C.) declared , that he would rather he tossed about in ! F ;i,l,. .1 . , ; cy , than breathe for an hour the still and I pestilential breath of depotism.

! The Hnufrc then divided. For the mo-1

tion -1G Against it 153. Majoiity 107.

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j Sometimes 1 may throw int U.r rl;hrc diont ofcotui!er;ihlt' gravity, t-.jt not so .,vl' ;' to draw tin sun from its station, i,or rt..! moon from its singularly sinculdr orb. Nn-

ijiv -n.ii.il jwuiijudiivc in j '"pairnftic tu,f ( pot-tic an:! rnclliducnt won-, nor this f. ,ri . ; meoniau mret its shell with laul.tr at V.iv j hut, the virtuous may find I'ditiht iii n,,v!. i

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: rci, ui- gi'-uiui tomui rt-ttivt intrnctio:i ,- ! 'ont rtainruPiits of s-nsev,anl tl,- wivton. ',' . plfatir- from virions ourr houinltd U anU stiaiulaUn lrr,iu tht whole. I JNO. QUIIMM. cor.nmoNs. j I. THE MF.DLLY -nil ronton .t!t-.f and will be printed on fine medium raptr. i e;tcii month . i 2. It will he delivered to suh ribcr? in t.w . llfty r-nts p r vfrir. To uh-ri,jer5 Mar;"., i it fill if trzu);.U) tr;innu(t by m.-n). j 3. No ulscri,.tion ill he n-ctm ' f. r ,', j oiu vnir, and nil tu ctJ trs :re to p,iv ii: a :Vs The lirU No w ill hf i'Hi (1 a ioi ri ai c.:;,.f . ! tnonu'h hall tr rectim! lojs'ii'v ih n- j i (jO $ulscripti7is rt i t nc' at this --,,,

j Thf New Ytrv. On Saturday last, j being the first of the year, the doors of the '. President's House were thrown open, in conformity with long established cut m, ; for the reception of all i lasses of persons who desired to avail themselves of the op- ; portunity ol offering their compliment to our venerable and most excellent Chief Majzistiate. On no similar occasion have we witiu :ssed such an eager prefca of citiZens and distinguished strangers, all anxi- ! ous to get a last shake of tiic hand, or a last look at the furrowed and care-worn cheeks of our last Revolutionary President. The visitors began to assemble at twclw

clock, and from that hour until alter

! three, notwithstanding the inclement v ot

J m the weather, the rain descending during r the w hole time in torrents, there, was a contant succession of new arrivals. The display of beauty 'and fashion, of the wit and Nvisdom of theuation, the mixture of plain ; republican simplicity, with the courtly elegant eofroy al and imperial representatives, j formed altogether one of the most interest- ; ing exhibitions we have ever witnessed.

The President, we rejoice to say, seems to be in excellent health and spirits, which we fervently pray may he long continued to him. Jal, Journal,

j n:ors ai.s ry j WILLIAM I). M. WI. KHAM. 1 ur I 'll iohouT bv ul--criptu:j, j OK THE ! STATi: OF J.DL,.. ; CofitntM'U' a lU'J a Ini eoiu, rcl i ii-iu ' , j coutitu-s, ton n,ii .igC'virit: oor--n;h-, a, j her ol their totiji ita'.tls, thi. ir.::.e i ! r---j eTuvks, ith ti.eir s-ourc .11. d th' j.m rt r j of country wHteri d by tlit-in 'tr. . ri u: 1 : lit-st fcttlcm nt el' nrh phi'.', nd " ! 1 r ; I name: togt thcr with a stuti-ticnl v w ii t: x j euMllTIO.N?. The 'CJn7.rttr-rM w,i he prii.if.l in ,L : form, ant uili rcniam b tween i" irt v ?r.:'t

liu;n octavo pae-;. The woik will'hf ;mi,,V, i-u't ribers at tu ent v e ct-nts pt r ro,--ti suO'cnbirs the rice will be thu t v-ci-t :'r ! a

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The work will be - lit to pre hi ,)t r:c i ( int number ul'Mibscribt-r-i ar- obtnino! t-j ' the utidertakiic:.

CCrSuhscriptions to the Gazctutr re ceived at this office.

Stubenville Cloth. U'e have had 5tn opportunity of examining a piece of domestic broad cloth, made, at the factory of Messrs. Wells and Co., of Steubenvilie, Ohio, and now at the shop of Messrs. Tucker and Thompson of this city, Washington which surpasses any American cloth we have seen, not only in the softness of its texture, but in the richness and elegance of its finish. It is an additional merit in the manufactures, that tli is cloth, is made entirely of American wool, and can supplied to purchasers at the same price w ith foreign cloth of the same quantity. jYat. Journal. A wordy blustering lawy er in one of the courts of Indiana, rose toansucr the speech of a brother on the other side, and verv pompously commenced as follows: If the court please? I have a ear for learned sense, for legal sense, and common sense; hut I have no car for nonsense." "You can't pav the ?n me compliment to your mouthy replied his witty antagonist

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cine f. the poor, ii will be supplied. Tim medicine i ct!ttratd lor the rurt ei tl t "

jj h)in-tliseais; scrofula or kitiu' eii, v m:.

, or putrid !,oio throat, lonu "tandiei: rh'.i.!"j feetion-, cntm on lii a- s, v lutt rvvcJoi ' j a-ea of the bone and all ca( . irei.e r;t.! 1 "; '

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