Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 78, Richmond, Wayne County, 1 October 1825 — Page 4

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SSLECT.CD POETRY. , THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Bt Motgomer. This place is holy ground, World, with thy cares away! Silence und darkness reign around, But lo! the break of day; What bright and sudden dawn appear, To shine upon thjs scene of tears? Tis not the morning lig;ht, That wakes the lark to sinj, fTi not a meteor of the night, Nor track of angel's wing; It is an uncreated beam, Like that which shone on Jacob's dream. Eternity and Time Met for a moment heres From earth to heaven a sale sublime Rested on either sphere, TVhoe steps a saintly figure trod, By death's cold hand led home to God. He landed in our view, Midst duaiing host? above; Whoe ranks stood silent while he drew Nigh to the throne of love, And meeklv took the lowest seat. Yet nearest his Redeemer's feet. Thrill'd with ecstatic awe, Entranced our spirits feel, And saw vet wist not what they saw ; And heard no tongue can tell What omuls the ear of rapture caught, What glory filled the eye of thought. Thus far above the pole, On wing of mountain fire, Faith mat pursue the enfranchise soul; But soon her pinions lire; It i not given to mortal man Eternal mysteries to scan. BehoH the bed of death; T hi pale and lovely clay; ? Heard ye the sob of parting breath; Mark'd ye the eye's lat ray! No! Life so sweetly ceased to be, It laos'd in immortality. Could tear? revive the dead. River" should swell ourees; Could sigh recal the spirit fled, We won hi not quench our sight. Till love return'd thin altered mein, And the embodied oul were seen. li i r th d ad, and weep In stillness o'er the loss. Bun the dead; in Christ they sleep, Who love on earth hi cross. And from the crave their du-t shall rise In his own image to the shies.

FROM THE GREEK. Ere the Is -t struggle with ar cents mild, A d v iug parent thus addressed his child : 'Fair i- thy f.riu my daughter! keep wjth care Thy name as eputles as thy form is fair. Wh iteVrthy lot unit be, from I leaven t;s sent ; Be a- tive, mmlest, frugal and content ; And it some youth in fond affection' lour Should woo, and win thee to the nuti il bower, Be all thv mother was: then oft spill he Ble- through hi life the hour t hi t cave him thee And thmk in 3 outh, and feel inuTe's decline, A wife's best portion ia hearrke thiiie,"

FPtnn.y--Be?ttr to it in Freedom, 'ill, With a cold damp floor nd mouldering wall, Than to bernl the neck and how the knee, In the proud Palace o "l ivery.

44 mother's sorrow cannot be cone ii'd, "But by a mother." Hannah More. I marked ;i m'other at the tmh of her 1011. Her sable garment coincided with

the deep gloom that hung heaily art.uul her heart. Her det tiding hrad, her rl -c

I lapcd haiid, her fixed i i 1 it n her tear

bedewed check bespoke the iiiUnsit of

her soul. i he scene struck the strne of

smpath, and a cor lepondent tear, tlowi ri JT from the impulse of a similar feeling,

I tric kled down my c heek. Fane) lent her j creative power to mv mind, and mcthought

I heard the grief inspiring siloquy of the heart broken mother as sUe revolted in

; her depressed mind the following thoughts.

'Ah yes my child thou art numbered with the dead! The curtain of my hopes las suddenly dropped, and the thick cloud of

soul-rending despondency shuts the life of joy and tranquility from mv mind. Whei feeble infancy was thine, with what rapture I watched the pleasurable smile, playing on their health flushed check; it was then that my heart bounded with ecstacy, md antedated the joys of youth and the happiness of manhood. I thought thou .vouldst have been the pillow of my old age; I thought thou wouldst have supported my tottering, declining life; when the extin

guished hand of Time, bad quenched the fervor of its vitality, liut ah! those love built hopes are gone forever; they are buried in the humid earth with thee. No more f hear thy voice, no more I maftf thy sprightly eye; thy voice is silent as the crave, and thy eye fixed by the rigid power of death. Scarce more than eighteen years bad rolled around thy bead, before the grim monster came and snatched thee from the world. Thou wert stricken as the tender sapling, scathed by the lightning's fiery bolt. Oli Death! thou art the destroyer of a mother's bliss! but till amid all my sorrow I will say, "Worms may banquet on that frame, And ruin feed on what was fair; Back to the skies from whence it came, The soul recalled shall flourish there." VVithth ese words she ended, and taking her little daughter by the hand she slowly

reiireu.

Affecting Storv. Some time ago, a young man took up bis residence in a Scottish village, much celebrated for its delightful situation and mineral waters. During his stay he succeeded in gamin" the affections of a very amiable young, irl, daughter of the person with whom h'e lodged. He told her he was a younger

branch of a most respectable family in (he j

north of Scotland, and that owing lo some domestic misfortunes, he was then in kind of exile from his fathers house. By this representation, he had the address to draw money, to a considerable amount, from the affectionate and trusting girl. At length, pretending business, he took leave, solemnly pledging o return in a few weeks, and to make her his wile. About three months

after his departure, a 1c ter was delivered to her, dated from a jail in the south of Scotland. It proved to be from her lover, and stated that a short time after leaving her, he had from necessity, contracted a trifling debt, and had been thrown irTto prison: at the same time entreating he , ! as she valued his regard, to relieve him i from a situation so unworthv. The faithI ful girl, listening only to the dictates of her I love, set oir immediately, with all the money she could procure, to give him liberty. In an inclement season through a country with which she was unacquainted she at length reached the place of her destination. J With slow and feeble step she proceeded I upwards in the principal sjtrect, but found I it Wii impossible to advance, owing to an ' immense crowd of people to witness the ! punishment of a criminal. She stepped on j , the stairs leading to a shop, involuntarily j ; turning her eyes upon the poor wretch,! writhing under the lash of the xecutioner, j beheld the tender object of her solicitude, j : A large placard was placed upon his breast, ( intimating that the punishment was for the j I crime of theft. In a state of insensibility 1

,' she sunk into the arms of one of the bystanders. Reason never again dawned on j her dark mind: and, at this moment, she 1 is to be seen wandering in her native village, an affecting instance of the basest villany triumphing over unsuspecting innocence. Edinburg Observer.

Tf.mpora Mutantur. During the Americai, Revolutioi .Lafa vette was emphatically called "the Marquis." lie was however, not the onlv foreigner of this grade inournrmv; besides the Marquis of Chatl lleux. w ho was Quarter Master General of -the army of Ro hambeau, Col. Armand, a most inretpid officer in the same army, was also a Marquis, although from a pe uliar eccentricity that di-dii guished the whole life of this sir. gtilar being, he seldom took his title. In the case of Lafayette, the name of the title became merged in he title itself; he was called The Mar quis, par excellence, and finally, by the soldiers of his division, he was known 01.lv as "General Marquis" Many tli-

cers spoke ol him in the same way . I nave 1

in my possession the voluminous corre spondence of a distinguished General othYer ; the letter from Lafayette are all filed

and endorsed ""from General Marquis" ! tempora mutantur ; forty vears have clap j sed, and the term Marquis if not viewed a- ' I one of reproach, appears to be abandoned j with di-gust by the illustrious -individual; ! whose conduct surrounded it with such : 1

splendour. I am, to he sure, a most de id 1 ed Republican; but I cannot help retros-; pceting with feelings of gratitude, to the i period when the word Marquis," was not j

so terrible lo the ear. The arch and wittv Judge Peters, of Philadelphia, certaiulv

gave the best toast which has been record

ed during the whole triumphant career of

Lafayette through the United States; a career as unexampled in history, as it was merited on the part of the General. Tin Judge gave "The memory of the Marquis de Lafayette," and accompanied it w ith a comment, that contained an interesting reminiscence of the magic effect produced on our cause, as soon as it was known that one of the first noblemen in Europe had joined our standard. The fact is, if Lafay

ette had not held exalted rank, and been I worth 200.000 francs, of income; and if! Louis IGth had not been, in the words of! our Old Congress, "our great, good, and i glorious ally," things might have been I

worse with us. Cm. Literary Gazctle.

The soul that was made no happiness but in Gn. :'0(l ci

God, and can never be Llj

turning o Inm again, and 7:. V'J

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nite wisdom to direct you hr ei edge to teach you, infnf.teov knc and comfort von. no,l 0 Cfirr?

tectand keep you. If God ,e v ,0 1 ? 1 1 "C r.Mi.

ins aimouirs are your?; f,- M alibis works of Providence Za?M

good, as you have need of ilf m

eternal, full satisfactory portion, n :in rvor livinrr 'm-rr. 1... :. ' U;

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. , .. (,u;ire. in every condition, and all tliii.-s-i n

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tention, he becomes a triller, a and a sponge; sometimes ho mm-,..'

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ces where lie is not wanted, and rf1(.,' unteers opinions that are treated with'fi tempt: lie salutes the ignorant tlo, the accomplished gentleman it, tlt ' coarse and boisterous manner; .ud. dr the wine of the clergy with as murl. ,'.

and biutal indifference, as be would

l'W a glass of brandy and water at ti1( pense of a kindred spirit in a .o'or,. Finally , he is a curse to himself, a .1;. r

cent and generous citizen.

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