Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 63, Richmond, Wayne County, 4 June 1825 — Page 2

and lives for many years, patriarchal like, in the bosom of retirement, when we again after the battle of Waterloo, hear his well known voice in the tribune, endeavoring to rally his bleeding countrymen around the ancient tri-coloured standard of '89. In fine, we behold him in his old ne, in the bosom of the republic whose Eagles he defended in his youth, the "guest of the nation,'' and hear as he passes through it, the united voices of millions of freemen saluting him in the accents ofGratitude, Welcome, welcome La Fayette!! When we behold thee, General, after an absence of near 40 years, mingling affectionately among us. we involuntarily look around with an asking eye for others who are absent, the compeers of your toils and glory. Where are Green and Wayne, Washington and Hamilton? or where is Franklin the sage Their names are familiar amongst us; their actions are engraven upon our hearts. But "honor's voice cannot provoke the silent dust;'' in you we behold the only surviving officer of the General Staff, while your companions44' est in peace and in Glory in the bosom of the soil they redeemed: A tombi? thi ir's on evrry page, uAn epitaph on every tongue." On your former visit to-this youradopted country, they were alive to welcome you. You now find yourself in the midst of a new generation. But they are not aliens; they are kindred spirits. They occupy the same country, shaded by the same vine and fig tree. They speak the same language, ai d are characterized by the same simple manners and customs. They support the same good government, feel the same devotion to liberty, and worship the game God. Who can unveil the future glories of this rising Republic. -When these divine institutions, which now unite us in the

bond of fraternity, shall have received

their fullest expansion. What political astronomer can "cast the horoscope in the

national skv" and count the starsth.it shall

rise to emblazon the banner of our coun

try. Calculating the future by the past.

the imagination is overpowered, when we

look down the vista of time and contem

plate the "growing millions" which in a

few vears will fill the bosom of the west,

united in one common brotherhood, by the

same law and government, language and

consanguinity. Only fancy them, congre

gating, on the same national jubilee, com

memorating the same battles, and recount

ing the deeds of the same heroes. Methinks 1 hear the vallies of the Rocky Mountain echoing the names of Washington and La

Favette.

Less than 40 vears ago this beautiful and

fertile country, stretching from the foot of

the Alleghany westwardly, now tilled with intelligence and blossoming like the rose,

was a "howling wilderness. " Our rich vallies and green hills, which now reward the toil of the husbandman, so unbroken was the forest, had never felt the genial influence of the Sun. Annually as he rolls on in his course, the circ le of our free in

stitutions is widening, and will continue to

expand until the shoies of the Pacific, feel its cheeringinfluence. Yes, this luxuriant "tree of liberty'1 will continue to put forth

new branches, until this vast continent,

from the shores of the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific, is sheltered by its foliage. Then, and not till then, can we

say to the heroes and sages who planted it,

"fruiter Jama.

Reception of Lafayette. On Thursday 22d inst. according to previous arrangements, General Lafayette was received at J ffersonville by the Acting Governor and

a large number of respectable citizens of

the state of Indiana. W bile the General

was crossing the river three companies of

artillery, stationed on its banks were employed in firing salutes. On his landing he was escorted by them and a large concourse of citizens to the house of the late Gov. Posey, where he was welcomed to the state in an appropriate addresss by the Acting Governor; to which he replied in a very impressive manner, expressing his gratitude for the affection so universally exhibited tnwttrds hint, and his satisfaction at the flourishing state of this country so lately a wilderness. After spending three or four hours in conversation with those who were presented to him, the company sat down, at 3 o'clock, 1. M. to an excellent dinner, prepared by Maj. Fuller. A spirit of union and harmony prevailed till the company separated, when the General was efcorted across the river to Louisville a litti?. before evening. Among the invited guests on the occasion weie Governor Carroll,of Tennessee, and Mcrs. Barry , Rowan, and Wirklitfe, of Ky. The only thing to he regretted was the state of the weather, which was very inclement. lad. Journal.

Nevei employ yourself to discern the faults of others, but be4careful to mend and prevent your own.

POIlBIGn AFFAIRS Selected from Eastern Papers. By the arrival at New-York, which we announce to-day, we learn that the prevalent opinion at St. Petersburg!) confirms

1 the conjecture we threw out some time ! since, on the subject of Mr. Canning's mission, and the course which the emperor i Alexander has prescribed for himself. One of the objects of Mr. Canning, at least, had

reference to the cause of Greece; and his propositions in favor of the country are said to have been met by the emperor with a declaration that he would not consent to the separation of Greece from the Ottoman Empire, unless she would consent to receive a Prince, to be selected by the Holy Alliance. Another king in Athens? Did not ancient Athens resolve that no king should reign after Codru ? And will not modern Greece hold the resolution sacred? What would her mighty struggle.

the blood of her sons which has been shed, and the privations which she has so brave-

ly endured, profit .her, it she should only throw off one yoke, to receive another? Would the Holy Alliance hold her in chains less galling than those of the Turk?

No: Greece will not consent to such a degradation. Even if aH the confederate members of the Holy Alliance should march theirlegionsto her bordersto enforce compliance, we trust tl vre is virtue enough in Greece to defeat the effort. Thermopy lai has yet her straights, and Greece maystill possess a Leonidas! JVat Jour. Constantinople, Feb. 1. to 1 2. Turkey. The Sultan has left to the Miri, for the service of the state, 19,000 purses, that is, nine and half milion of piasters, the Pacha of Egy pt has sent to the Sultan five millions. Abdallalu Pacha of Ac re,whose pardon has been negociated fi r 15 millions, has sent 200,000 piasters.

! Each continent is to furnish thirteen mil I lions. It is said the Sultan has ordered I for the whole y ear 72.000 purses, to be I collected by a tax. The distress in Asia I is so great, that a father, prosecuted for

debt, has been obliged (a tiling unheard of among Musselmen) to give his daughter in pawn. A poor peasant has been forced to sell the tiles off the rooffof his house to pay his creditors. Feb. 10. Since the 1st, upwards of one hundred persons of distinction, including forty persons belonging to different corporations in the city, suspected of being concerned in the plans of the Jannisaries, have been strangled. The great people and resnectable citizens have been enioined

to keep themselves armed, and to have their people ready for whatever may happen. Fed. 1 1. The chief of the Market at Malta has been seized in the night in his house, and put on board a boat, which it is supposed did not carry him far. Twelve Oustas are spoken of, said to be suspected by the Government. Tliough the Aga of the Jannissaries has shown the greatest activity in his duty, he was depoed this morning at 3 o'clock. There are persons who pretend that all this agitation is only a trick of the persons holding the reins of Government,- to alarm the Sultan, who dreads nothing so mnch as a revolution, and to attribute these troubles toGhalib Pacha. The same persons add, that the arrest at Pera of some young Europeans of the first distinction by some drunken blackguards, has been contrived on purpose that the report of this disorder might the more certainly reach the ears

of the Sultan. Others maintain that the conspiracy is real, and that its object tends to a complete catastrophe. Europe in 1825. A forcible intelligent French writer in what he sty les "A political review of Europe in 1C25," briefly sums up his reflections as follows: "Vflnce, without any fixed position, placed between her ancient and new regime, yielding to her old prejudices; Italy waiting

impatiently for the moment of throwing off

hers; the civilized portion ol tpam reduced to silence and despair by that portion which remains in barbarism; Austria preserving the model of a happy stale of servitude; Prussia ignorant how to reconcile her political existence with her civil state; the Polanesc spirit surviving Polam ; Germany forever busy with the rights of the people and the rights of kings, discussing every thing and determining nothing; Russia instructing Europe in an Asiatic obedience; 7 urkey crouching, at length, to the acclamations of a civilized people; Greece rising from her ruins, and resuming her rank among the noblest nations; Suedm marching, with a wise and steady step, towards her new destinies; Denmark unmoved amidst the general turmoil and confusion ; Belgium within a single step of being the happiest state in Europe; Switzerland somewhat disturbed in her liberties by her Catholic population; Ireland still more fanatic than she is unhappy ; Portugal escaping from the yoke of sovereigns; Rome persecuting philosophy wherever she finds

it and enveloping Europe with her secret armies; in fine, proud Eng7an, leaning upon America, whose destiny she sanctions, t l nnrn linmn of irr I-

glancing irom uer oicoh iivm. mv L:n. CC-ntxa. rntpmnlntin in safe-

IUIIUIIS , I ljUIU'vt 1 Ii ty, the storms which rage around her, and

noiaing in uer iiuuu m.'""v. wtILh direction to these agitations, which ' . c l r

must be fatal to tyranny oucn is Europe at the beginning of the year 1825; she will be no longer the same when the y ear

shall have revolved."

From the African Repository. THE AFRICAN CHIEFTAIN. Some years ago, the brother of Yaradee, the kingof the Solima nation, was captured in war, and brought in chains for sale to the Rio-Pangas. His noble figure, awful front, and daring eye, bespoke a mind which could know but one alternative - freedom or ruin. He was exhibited like a beast in the market place, still adorned with massy rings of gold around his ankles, as in the days of his glory. The tyrant who bound him, demanded for him an enormous price, and though the warrior offered immense sums for his redemption, refused to listen a moment to his proposals. Distracted by the thought of his degradation the tear stole from his eye, which never wept before, when he entreated them to cut his hair, that had been long permitted to grow, and was platted with peculiar care. --- Large wedges of gold which had been concealed in it were now laid at the feet of his master, to obtain his ransom. All was in vain. The wretch who held him was inexorable. Supplication might as well have been made to the winds of heaven, or to the cliffs and deserts of his country. Hope was now dead darkness deep and interminable settled upon his soul. "Then burst his mighty heart." His faculties were shattered as by a stroke from on high he became a maniac, and that robust

frame which never trembled on fields of

blood and death, could not sustain the workings of his wounded spirit, but withered and perished under the weight of his chains. Ye, who under the best government in

the world, range at will in the gardens of

pleasure, or in the halls of wealth listen to sweet music; at one time improving the intellect, at another delighting the fancy; now tasting the sweets of friendship, now grasping the meed of honour, having none to molest or to make you afraid; could the miseries produced by the slave trade be presented to you in their truth in their immensity, you would not refuse your offerings to remove a curse which has consigned, and is now consigning, ten thousand manly forms to fetters, and ten thousand noble souls to despair. Motion or the Electric Fluid. It has long been received as a fact, that an electrical discharge was capable of being transmitted through a very considerable distance (say three or four miles) instantaneously, and without any sensible diminution of its intensity. Mr. Barlow, however, by employing wires of various lengths

up to 840 feet measureing the energy of

electric action by the reflection produced in a magnetic needle, has found that the intensity diminishes very rapidly , and very neatly as the inverse square of the distance. Hence the idea of constructing electrical telegraphs isquite chimerical. He found, also, that the effect was greater with a wire of a certain size, than with one smaller, yet that nothing was gained by increasing the diameter of the wire beyond a given limit.

Great Invention Mr. Jos. Bell is building in this town, a Boat which he intends to propel by Lever power. It is now nearly completed, and he expects to put it in operation in the course of the ensuing week. The machinery is very simple, and the manual force required to work

it, will not exceed four persons. Mr. Bell is perfectly confident that this attempt of his to apply the lever power to boats with great advantage will be successful, and that he can propel them with much greafer rapidi

ty than is done by steam. No person has ever yet succeeded in making this applica

tion, although there can he no doubt of

the correctness of the principle. Should Mr. Bell effect this object, it will be one of the greatest achievements of the present age, and will entirely explode the use of steam boats, as the labor and expense to put boats on his plan into operation arc infinitely less, and the advantages derived from the powcrand lightnessof the machinery, much greater. Mr. Bell is a plain, unlearned, but by no means visionary man, and those persons' who have examined his machinery, and are capable of judging, think highly of it. Wc presume we shall hereafter have occasion to recur to this subject. Cherato (S. C.) Int. True Greatness. During their late session, of about three months, the public

spirited Legislature of New-Yori 326 laws ; by which nearly seven thousand dollars wero

Public Improvements, independent n, ' snma crt vtn to sustain f ho ?rv . . '''fDr

-....wj.. - uiic'i i'5$ f)i- r ing, Religion, Charity and the ur i The objects of this "public snirit'Ul

opening oi a vanai netween th c 1

and Erie lakes; exploring and ! seventeen other canals, many 0f W,f ?lr'? of a magnitude which would frighten f even the contemplation of them, rrthe states calling themselves great,' (' and libera), and acknowledged to !je ' ' draining large marshes; and oiw.rh,!;

oi.ue ixoau nomine Hudson to Lake , Such deeds constitute a State; ;,r;d ;i islature, which has the spirit to u: dtrt.r' great objects, can always create the and command the resources to c f; ( t Jj ' s They do indeed cast their bread up.y,.?' waters, and find it again after a few From-the Raleish Register. How many avenues thcte are to tv grave! And yet so mercifully is the l. man frame constructed, that the siriro' 't life can frequently sustain the nu.st vHti"i disease, and survive the most ;ior.iz;.V disasters still, in one moment, ai d b rjj most unexpected means, life hcronit'?fj. tinct.and the secret arrow of the Almi, tyunfclt and unseen, until the monici.fjt is on the wing, hurries the ut simper tii -victim to the tomb, these remarks mtur.i ly rise from the following instances of sudden death: Lately,, in Durham county, England. a tiliifr frt pi ft.' ic i;iH i nrr I,i44i. ... 1

U'U'if; pinKianiiiiij; " "K, " "I'd a fi.j. panion approached her, and strikii hr on the back occasioned her to bend forward, by which sudden movemei t, oi.e other needles ran up her nose, and wound;- a mortal part, she instantly rijnnd! A ladays ago, the son of the editor of ti e England Gazette, fell upon the point, fa stick which he held in his mouth. ;ti d pur. lured an artery of the throat. Thf hUd flowed so rapidly that he died in hvuly minute! 4lDanirer st.irnl thick oVr all the ground, uTo push ut to the tomb.'1 On Friday last, says the BridepnrtlTfrald, a little irl about one car ai d a la!f old, daughter of .Mr. Albert Lewis ol F,irfield was so dreadfulh scaldrd hvovt r;urn

j ing a kettle of boiling water, a to occa

sion its death in about thirty hours nft'-r. This exc ites no surpriz- in a population exceeding ten millioi s Mich an arridrr.t might have occurred without espetial notice. But let the intemperate parei t n .d on. "What adds to this melancholy Uuih is, as we are informed, thi? little yet p rying child, came to its death tlirruffi tl-t-carclessiies-s occasioned by that hcllis!) practice, intemperance."1

In our Journal of yesterday, we anronsced the inforrr ation receucd. via Ky West, of the anivalat Havana, of a Fr nh frigate and brig of war, convert g p;jn' ish troops; and of the mow inert wl "1 this circumstance was expected tocnax amone the British men of war en ti c Jamaica station. There certaii ly fH':'rs to be something not altogether txpl ' l in this co-operation of the Frt! (I ai d nUh :nif hfiritifxs ar.H riiriosit i aMIU'

find out the ultimate destination it tU?f

troop

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tile

CO

.ops. The conjecture of a Baltiir. r is, that they may be intei (led J ' T s operatioi g against Colcinhia or J jj . m.rl on miMlU tti lilt l'''1

States and Gn at Britain are urged ton. -a formal remonstrance on the suty Whatever may be the destination ol t troops, we have t on the san e ;iul, 0!at as that which communicates the ,:itt' the British squadron in ihe W1' seas "is in possession of the lart, ' J ' " I fill U

the alert. Should any sunsetim -merits render it propcr'for the govern -of Great Britain and the United Ssta interfere, there is no reason to dou rt both vigi lance and energy will he scd. A'at. Journal.

The following novel advertisement appeared in a Vermont paper: p.rra Take Notice Whereas my eon, l ; has Russel.a boy in his seventeentl" , appears de termined to take to ,l,n'V wife, without mv consent or appn'1 3lf.b and he bring destitute of the u icai -f porting a family, I hereby forM ''i necting himself in mairiage; "J'4' y r; forbicf the civil and ecclesiastic j'l n0";

ties, both in this state and Ncw-Y c hm joining him in marriage with any pl ever. 1 further forbid all pi t 1 ing or trusting him on my accoui i j... ploying him without notifu JV 'arnc. JONATHAN HtiCastletcn, April 21, There is art odious spirit in n'Jr sons, who are better pleased to -fault, thau commend a virtue