Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 52, Richmond, Wayne County, 26 February 1825 — Page 4

The following lines were found in the communication box, one day this week. 1 they are original, more from the lame pen will he thankfully received, ' , ADDRKSS TO AN INFANT. Welcome little helpless stranger, Welcome to the light of 1;j j, 'f ' biutle upon thy happy mother, Smile and chae hr paius awa. Lift thj eje and lok around thee, Various objects court thy Mht, IS tir. epreatli her verdant carpet, E;irth waimade for thy rirlkht. Welcome to a mother' bosom Welcome to a father's arms Htr, to all thy fathers virtue? H-ir. to all th mother's ch rmi. J ;t thoti brmc'st but mixM with trercbiiraj, Aiiua joy s and tender fears, I'lea-UiS hope -md rainelel sorrow, Jmiles of transport dash'd with tear. A FR1F.ND. FHM THE EWTork AMERICAN. Ih r tongue is the bew of kmh e.M Whether or not a woman is subservient to the w ill of her husband, and under obligation bv nature and by lawtoohey what tver he enjoin, is a question whirb, after all that has been said about it, is still entiro: ed with controversy, atid forms in married life a sort of frontier, whose untitled hoiindarv is a fruitful source of jeabij dispute and ill-disguised hostility. I all not proy rm self so extremely ungal

and hir tvife, notwithstanding these recrimination?, were refined enough for this world, and truly loved each other; and what is better, they had a fair portion of good sense, and the longer such people live together, the happier they are apt to be for it. They finally dispensed with a fruitless controversy, and came at last to the simple plan of consulting together and asking each other's advice--and thus it was, that condescension carried the day: for where mutual affection fill two hearts,

an almost certain way of obtaining a wish

fOh the d ischarge of her gtin, Kotri fell"; the j one in the convulsions of death, the other j

! by exhaustion! the one was restored to nis imother earth the other to the arms of an

affectionate and truly heroic w ite

THE MASON AND HIS SOtf. The following fact occurred at Clagem

furt, in Carinthia, when the French army i occupied that town. The thunder had much injured the point of the very high steeole of the principal church ; and a ma

son and his son were employed to repair it.

I f inhabitant assembled at that

jtion; while an opinion or demand, urged j place to witness the perilous operation. with extreme assurance, will more than j The father, a man of fifty years of age, jfikely awaken opposition, and produce dis- still vigorous and active, ascended first ; hju-t. I his son followed him; thev almost reached

f have always admired that receipt for the summit; the spectators tremblingly ukingagood husband, which enjoins that! cou ,ted their steps when they saw the son

the wife should always erect him at his suddenly loose hold of the ladder and la own door, with smiles. These smiles are to the ground. A cry of terror aroc. All cheap things; but they spring from a be- 1 crowded toward the unfortunate man who tiii'n temncr. and an affectionate heart.thev lav shattered upon the pavement w ithout

I penetrate all the hidden and prim try a "sign of life. In the mean time the father sources of action. Women think they also continued to ascend, performed hi? task, ;are entitled to the greeting of kindness, descended with sang froid, and appeared l and they are. But females hold the keys w ith a melancholy hut composed air before

of the affections, and they art- said to be j the spectators who immediately surrounuconstituted of them. It is" a woman' chief ' ed him. All endeavored to console; hut business to look alter her heart; for within thevsaon learned with horror, that the fall

thecircle of the passions which it nourishes, of his son was not accidental, for that he jare enshrined not only her own enjoy menti himself had precipitated him from the h p land her character, hut those of her bus-: of the steeple. "Ueawn?!" evel timed band and her household : thi is her high- the, 4M it nrsiMe. What f.irv! what

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e;t honor and her praise.' Khnus.

ffroiiia have pre-eminence in point ot auV rity.or to use a term which between

In Tied people is the same thing, and

FKMALK 1 1 KKOISM.

In the year 1750, Henry and I'u.ilv, a newly married pair, and the (bihireri of wealthy and respectable parent in Boston, left their paternal abode, determined to etf-cta permanent settlement at a place , called D , M ts. Kmily had been brought I up in the mid?t of aflluerice, and was ac-

qu. tinted with distress and poverty only in

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woich sounds better influence. The ! - iiai.uir yasnext is, I have observed that those women !j N'1" l,P .,,f aM xho"v V which we

c,..nwl ;,h,H tr l.mu.r th. ri;,""l """'' ner sex, ye. no one woum

husbands and acknowledge their authori tv. uniformly make their families happy

and do prett much as thev have a mind

rc 1,,tUI h,ve known unhand who -"u ,l,,u P" mro ut- ,i p

eatnt J arid comiort; and t x ept hem;

sometimes startled irum the s umter of

I madiio-!' "Listen to me,- rcjdicd the father, without emotion: I !. our trade there arc certain ruls

,'v cuMorns. The oldet and ni-t experienced ventures into dang-.r fir?t; t!e wunger i'.'lhiivs. Accordingly -ne ladder i- secured In cords until another is raised, which is at first fastened at the bottom to thr top part of the oth r. Then the eldest ascends this ladder w hieh is only steadied at the bottom ; and assisted by his com panie.n, wha c'.:pp!i s hini with cord, tie proceeds to u.-ien if at the top. Ti',? ithe work of greatest dancer. As 1 wms

it rt i,i - .-.x , I ofcupie.l at toe ingacst extrcnatv ol tne have -upect'd the preef.ce of those, which t . . ' . , 7 , i " tllll. ... ij.! i i ladder, I smlderd heard m son extlaim M tier subsequent Jne so abune.ai.tl e meed. , , , - , . , , "ir k. i r t; ' below n:e, "J-ather, latr.er, there a ( K)Ud j II Alter the lap-" ol (:e vears, tf.eir fiouse . . . ' . , 1 1 ... .1 . i ' . tore rr.v rtes, ki ow r. t where 1 am. ! and t arm pn sented the a rearai.ee ol , , . , . . . . ! . . i t i I instant'v raised nv light lt.r,t and gave eatnts arid comiort: atal t x ent hemir . . ... . . . . . .

were sut'Sen iet t to their wives, and tock

lwir orr!r Aum tlim. while irnneill '

and energv prevail, din all their concerns, jj "''''i; h thf.Vl ol" t!l;' t the R..t ti,u i.;,,!....,,! ; .,w b b:,a ho,., bowl of the wadl, thev had therr.M les Mit-

him a kick, which tru k liim in the fore-

head, and he foil without uttering a word. ' Infamous wretcii! fe.ov-ster! what de-

... ...a c c.,,h. t ....... tvrvt no molestation. The pro: ct froti. ! rnonrf uid have urged y,,u to such a crime?

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ft! d etf nd":H v, w hile the w ife has obtain

ed er little renow n in those families t w o re the hrtei hes ;are worn by their legiti-; mate owners. !

In m opinion more than half the diili-j

cultie which arie between married peo ! pie. are chargeable to this "unchastet ed j am ition' to rule The husband expect j

th wives to be subject; arid the wives, re-er-i.g the rule of St. Paul, require of husba ds. to ube in suhjeetifn to their own' w'tes ai d tlnis it is "men would be an-

rests, except in one direction, where there j l-iU'-d; but i am lar t.-om Relieving mys( Jt wa a deep valley, from which the wood I jdty. In our trade it is well known that had been cleared to open ut ommunicalion : if the head turns giddy in a dangerous ptw ith an adioining tow n. The rasof the j-sition, where there i- no means : j'a-'ting

netting sun, shooting almost hori7.ont.1iU in-one's self, and of takie..: time ta re cover. ' to this valley, enabb il the eye to reach lo ; lnat man is irretrievably 1 ,.t. Now vjch a great distance, and formed a striking con-1 un''be cose of mv son. From the rnomcni 1 trast to tile deep gloom that bounded both i that his sight was gone, there was no hope sides of the way . It was through, this open- , for liim: in two or thre seconds moie he ing that Henry might be frequtmtlv seen u T't necessarily have fallen; but before:

1 at the close of the dav returning fi t m ia- ', t,;at and m Uu last ngome-, he won. 121 -;:

bor in a distant fi Id. ' It was here too, that j' doubtediy lave -grasped at the tottering, the eye of affection and hone first caught bidder on winch I was placed; he would .; a tiew of its beloved .bject. ' have dragged it away, and we should have j One evening about "the end of June. 1 ,,r,th l15t'"- Il infant I foresaw ihi ' Henry was seen about half wav up the ! n Vtnr'!e r('sn!t and 1 prevented it hv valley on t is way home. At this instant, a j ''xhu' 1-n fjie blow which precipitated tall, stout h dian leaped from the adjoining j m'aiul "fiich- saved me a you ee. wcmkJ seized upon the unprotected and I ' fl'lv '''H nie, y 011 who call me a mo t,i-r.

i unsuspicious Henrv, and appeared to he ! 11 J iia(1 k',,M'd mself at the same lime, who I in the act of taking his scalp. The forest j v,H,bl have upported his unfortunate ife .

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and as for frowning upon each other, or h around rung with savage veils; and four ! , . who nenceiorwara Dave no-

1 Indians were seen hounduig over the fields ! U,,,,S l" -r nur my lanorf J o die j towards the house. In an instant the ten- j for I'j"1 wouW Pprps have been the duller and dependent F.milv was transfumed tv. ol a to die along with him. j into the bold the intrepid heroine. She i w,thout utility, is I ludieve. what nei-

deliherately fastened the doors r moved l,,or ,,,,, orjustice require. ' her two sleeping children into the cellar, ; During some moments a profound silence i and with her husband's rifle, stationed her- reigned throughout the assembled crow d ; self before the window, facing the Indian?, 'but the clamors re-commenced, the mason The foremost Indian had just then dhap- was arrested and delivered over to th tri-

i peared behind a small hillock; but as he 1 bunal. He there display ed the same firm- I

ness lie fiad shown before the people. The judges, like the multitude, could not resist a first impulse of horror; but upon : reflecting on the situation in which he w:i 1

gel angel would be gods.1 I had a young trie! d who married a ladi "verv wav fitted to make him happy, and they both thought before they were mat t ied, that they would suffer nothing to impair the haimony and bliss of their blended being. They were to think Mike, have the same attachments and av rsions. eat of the s.imc meats, drii k of the same cup, a-d sleep on the samp pillow ofc ourse; and as for frowning upon each other, or fp-'aking a cross word, hh ssmy soul! their hearts were to hurst sooner. Ai d to own the tiuth, they made very fair and rational estimates, and u ly failed of arriving at all the perfection of human enjoy merit, from not having settb d before marriage, the point of precedence a to authority, for the Verv first thh g they disagreed about, was, whether woman is the "weaker vessel.'' K xt it came into dispute, whether she

ought to obev her husband, until finally ,!; rose to view, he fell in the grasp of death.

the fur one, so mild and yielding before j She hastily re-loaded, and anxiously awaitm.trimoi , made it a point to disagree i ed the approach of the three remaining Inwith her husband a. d insist upon her owiiijdians, who appeared to be exhausted by pinion and her own way , more out of j running. Two of them met w ith a fate a spirit of contradir tion and the fear of , similar to that of their compatdon: but the being thought under authority, than any!' third succeeded in reaching the door, and

ir ing eisc. 1 ney nveu in tins manner commenced cutting it down w un ins hatch

the Minister, w hen u -dis-MUg bis r,!,. it having (alien in a rem.kai rn.i! (.r a part of his cl 'thes Tmi ister wh.. lighted at the discover. Jiral rarh next morning MMit for til officer, t wlt

he gave a hearty wclc'ie. U Id l.ini ti manner in which the bd h-id beer, ftf; . cred.and begged him to : plain his for ioi suffering himse'tf) be s ini,., "As w e are alone," said ' f fho r. "I

no hesitation in makir nu yvith the reason, hut :terd:i, ?V:tr , shame induced m rathf t -ajq nr(-:, et than poor: when failed r.;

could not supjn.se that 'h'.ul 1 l.avr : honor to he invited to yur f abb , a' ! 1 j purthaseil a sausage U di' ncr. v,! -i was in rnt pocket : haj ri 1 mh i 1 1 J Ij v 4

to examination. I shoii ir c ryvH. distressed situation, ail u i r tr d mo j to the ridicule of tin c meaiy . ar J' i sforv would have goi filiri .nl to na er a annoyance." The Yni-b-r kvull thizing with his yvoub'd iVelirrgs ; 1 : rr ed that he would b( iis tr;. ; d. v r shortly aftt r inv itnl i e s n v. ibviiiuwho had been preset on the orra-kr; p

terred to; when thv assen t Un, tc vi the eflicer bv the laid aid e-b red t reojii; every persi was astni .m.vii. the minister .how i g the Si utf I n.ia the in x'. I.ii ii t had been K ''. -' informed the erupt; v. that hc.r.cvcr r.' feiiotj the coiidict of the ri-ec.- rr . f!.-ye appeared, the motive by w'.ifi. vvs th.o, t., 1 h:wl b.eer s;it:s!ui'l-'l

explained. i he begged to 'c-'r'ue j as .! mar: , f i.e.;,, -.r yvhom the ki:gKa-,,:!

-b"i to ft w rd.''

S veral years nelore ttiev found out the

true way to be happy; and they now as-i

sure me they have not had the recurrence of a single argument or curtain lec ture on

et. Our heroine, w ith admirable presence of mind, recollected that she had a kettle of boiling water above stairs, took it and

poured it down on this son of the forest;

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! piaceu, ana uie motive he had assigned for I his conduct, thev acknow ledged that his j resoning, however horrific, was just, and j exhibited a presence of mind t which, j though with shuddering, thev could not'

reiuse uieir admiration. !

thf nature and xtei.t of those marriage j who, that instant looking up, received the

Vows, wherein the woman pledges herself

to obry her husband, for a long time. It was not that the husband had any occasion 01 inclination to command his w ife or she him. They were only discussing the abstract question of right, natural or vested, and they became jealous of each other's U'ttmnte views in their intemperate warmth, Ti'-itil the husband thought the wife ungentle, and the wife declared that no well bred

whole contents, hot as thev were, into his

face and eyes. Blinded and scalded by the water, and rendered desperate by being outwitted by a woman, (which of all things a savage most abhors.) he ran furiously around the corner of the house, and stumbled into a deep well. Freed from immediate personal danger, she became dec-ply anxious to know the fate of her husband. On looking towards

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p, nleman now-a-days, thought of insisting the spot, where he had been first seized

upon sentiments so monstrous, and so de-nupon by the Indian, she beheld him not grading to the female character: at d it is, tj only alive, but struggling with fearful odds as we all know, extremely unfortunate and against his foe, both covered w ith blood, dangerous, to have it get about among the , She immediately hastened to his relief; Indies, that a man is ill-bred. He I ad bet- and, unperceived, deliberately despatched

er be unfcuhivnuUc b) half. My inciid 'a ball through the head of his adeisarj.

The following circunistam e ii relit

as nav.ng occurred at Paris at the cumlu sionofthc war: .Vc." "On the reduction of the army, an officer of considerable merit having" received his d.scharge.and being possessed of no private fortune, became exceedingly distressed in h.s pecuniary affairs: he determined to maKe application to one of the Ministers! State, with whom he had a slight acquaintance, for ti.e purpose of s.h, ifmg some employment. The Minister beha ved w ith much kindness, promised to think of lum.and politely invited him to stay and take his dinner, which the nfu.r.. .1;

the table the Minister took fr.

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