Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 79, Richmond, Wayne County, 15 October 1825 — Page 4

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From the Baltimore Saturday Herald. The following lines were produced by hearing a colored woman, a few days since, raving inthe 9treet, apparently under the influence of a strong delirium, and lamenting the loss of her child, which she said, bad just been sold to Georgia. "Oh tell it not in the streets of Gatb, Hide it in Askelon; Ijest ven devils shew their wrath. And make their anger known!" Alas! poor negro, dteply must thou mourn Tby tender offspring, from thy bosom torn; And weep and rave m sad delirium wild. And mourn the loss of thy beloved child. Oh! thatjcoulil in sympathy impart Peace to ihy soul, and soothe thy bleeding heart; Oh! that I could thy tender babe restore, That anguish thus should rack thy soul no more. Unhappy wretch' if thou should'st seek repose, Or some small respite from thy daily woes; The imaereof thy child shall haunt thy sight, Erert before thee phantom of the night. Thy child shall call thy name, and on thee smile, In vision soothe thy soul a little while ; Thou'lt reach thy hand to catch the fleeting prize; Elusive of thy touch, the phantem llies. Awaking then to dread reality Of prostrate hope?, and potent misery. 31eanwhilc- thy child's conveyed todistant climes, A subject there (or cruelty and crimes. In vain it calls thy name no mother's near, To ease its pain , or dry a dropping tear! Ofo ! tell me not that thieves y our goods despoil, That slander's lips your character revile; Oh i tell me not of nicht assassins drear. Who kill their hrothrrs or their fathers dear; Of furies, demons, not the tiger's den ; IVor all the spirits that fright the walks of men Not ail of those my indignation move, Like him that breaks the ties of filial love ! J J.F. I

Ifs and opinions of Dr. .Monroe. If a man would bt-a-dry, let him drink,!nuk, drink, If a man would be wise, he must think, think, think. If a man would he rich, he mut wrk, work, work, And if he would be fat, eat pork, pork, pork, VBul if A mm, with eae would study, he must rat, rat, cat, Cut little ;it hi' dinner, of hi meat, meat, meat: A youth to he distinguished in his art, art, art, Must keep the giris away from his heart, heart, heart.

tokens of freedom ought to be introduced, such as occasional borrowing of a little change,garden tools, or household articles. As to the latter, they were kindly retained till called for under the plea that my visits were agreeable. The former seemed in the warmth of neighborly friendship wholly forgotten, I entertained personally a mortal antipathy to borrowing, and consequently seldom returned the numerous compliments paid me; and when I did make the attempt, received an excuse for noncompliance with a sincere expression or two of 6orrow that it happened so. My neighbor had another distinguished trait for which the world had never to my knowledge given htm any credit. True it was said in the general that he was remarkable prudent; but I did not know precisely the meaning of this term until now. As th"re was no regular market in the village, farmersand others supplied those of the villagers who were not themselves agricultu

ralists with such articles as they needed tit

I lion too sordid to permit their use or appli

cation. But though this character may appear the most vile and despicable that can he imagined, and is considered by all rncn as a fair object of satire and reproach, it is by no means the most atrocious or guilty form in which avarice presents itself; for its very arpect is so devoid of disguise, its de

formity so obvious to every eye, tuat it ap

and fertilizing soil. fn addition ( productiveness of soil, minerals arid m I''! of the most general use, and of th, est value, are found in great and rich v cties. Within its confines, since the A' rican revolution, settlements h;iVc K effected, states and territories have b

se which centuries nave contribute. ablUh, have, in the space of hve,.?

those

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pears rather as a beacon to warn mankind jj years have been built where nothing ni

love of money, than to excite it. , wilderness then surrounded their

acainst the love of money

Avarice is dangerous only in a far differ

lent and more common form; for few, inde- ! pendent of those who are or conceive themselves to be injured, suppose it their duty to contemn its votaries, if their behaviour lis courteous, their coat good, and their cquipage decent, or their purse heavy: in

tact, there appears no art so flimsy as to be

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New-Orleans, the sixth city in siz i United States, contains norv near 40 000 inhabitants; Cincinnati, in 1C0:, haj population of oidv 500, but in lC20cor!l tained 9,r00; Lexington, in Kentucky c! numerated at the last census a popuhtirn of 5,300, Nashville, (Tenn.) 3.000, a, (s? Louis, (Missouri,) 4,200. The whole ,

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i nra ii.i iiir; n 11 irniii lis mis uci'iii- ui.iumi im mis i rn nirv ivi n n

, . r.. ... ii m- VI lr. ding passion; for though a lamentable stig- : giiany mountains, exclusive of the Indite

ma upon the human character, it is true, ij fell short of i,o00,000, which was a tr;

that the man who wrongs his neighbor, dis-

at their doors. lie was always on the !: regards the claims of justice and right prinlook out, and never failed to cover entirely ciples, oppresses the orphan and the helpi ever good bargain that came in his way; less, starves his household and considers j always wanted the whole of a cheap and j every means of amassing wealth laudable, j good article. I thought this a little selfish ; 'though he cannot be respected, yet escapes

I but was assured it was perfectly consistent I with good neighborhood to look to one's

EPIC RAM Appearance may deceive thee understand, A pure white glove may hide a filthy hand. From the Trenton Kmponum. MY NEIGHBOR. Every one who knows the value ofa good neighbor.or the evil of a bad one .knows too that his situation i a remarkably happy one, who lias not two of the latter to one of the former stamp. Among these, w ho, upon the whole, are entitled to the first appellation, we are not to lock for perfection, seeing that we live in a world where evil preponderate?, and the bad passions so generally run loose and unbridled. In neighborhood, as well as in matrimony , perhaps a great deal depends upon the example wc- set, aid an to be a good husband is of all tilings the most likelv to make a good wife, so it is in the little community around us; a good pattern seldom fails to be copied in a greater or less degree. When I came to settle down in our village, ("naturally made the matter of neighborhood a consideration, and as what ws

termed the village, covered a considerable! space, and as like all other villages, it had j its own variety of characters, a tolerable; opportunity, for exercise of a judicious.

chouc in the matter, existed. I fixed on a situation that every one recommended, and sat myself to business by the side of a family reputed for extraordinary prudence and good nature. The people all spoke in their favor the old esteemed them, and the young lovedthem they were perfect paragons, at least at a distance. But it ha been written, that no man was ever without faults in the opinion of his valet, and so an intimate association always discovers some weak parts in the best of mortals, 'fn short, I found myself, in due process of time, somewhat disappointed, a common thing, to be sure, but not unpleasant for being common. My neighbor was fond of talking, and was equally fond of his particular opinion. In this he was like most others, and 1 had no great reason to complain. But then to be drawn into a constant attitude of defence; to be obliged to argue every inch of my wa ; to be met with opposition in almost every position I took, and to find that once wrong it was eternally in vain to at

tempt to set my friend right, was no very pleasant situation for a man of few words like nn self. A contradictory spirit having once fairly t'.Acn root, grew up, I believe, on both sides, for I was probably as often in the wrong as he was, and overshadowed all ouraftcr intercourse. I could nottomplain for every body praised the complacency and goodness of my neighbor. 'We remained, notwithstanding, entirely friendly, and our intimacy was great, m neighbor seemed to think that some little

iown interest, steadily and singlv demur

! red a little, but was overruled. One day he j borrowed money of me to buy a heavy lot of flour I wanted some at the same time, i but it was a bargain, and went into his chest. Some months after I was induced to purchase a part of it; he charged me a third in advance of the price he gave, and placed the amount as a set ofTagainst the cash he borrowed. It was all honest rat Iea-t legal. j A spirit of universal sympathy and kSul-

ness was ever perceptible in my neighbor's

conduct too, insomuch that my servants were always asked, whenopportunitv offer

ed, how they were freated, whether scolded J! joyed without appearance of compunction.

contumely.

j Mankind, too generally culpable, treat ! avarice with extreme lenity, when they Jfind it in possession of its object and elated by power; yet nothing surely can be more ruinous to youth, than such conduct, or ;anv tiling (save the vice itself) more criminal in parents, than by mild phrases to gloss over such enormities to style a knave, a liar, a hypocricite, and a wretch I devoid of feeling or of principle, a smart 'or a good sort ofa man, Scv. A moment's ! reflection will convince them, that by so I doing, they lessen the attachment of their .; children to virtue, obviate the natural horj ror felt for vice, and place before them a

picture of wealth gained by villainy, en-

much, obliged to work hard, had as good

e ting and drinking as their master, and slept in as good chambers, and on as soft beds and the kind ejaculation of por ; creature" was alway applied to them, when they found themselves disposed to 'complain of any matter. If .any of them j were sick, hints were sure to be thrown out that they pos-iblv were not attended so well as they might be; and if they were well, were affectionately desired to keep

out of the wet, not to do errands after night, and not by any means to overdo themselves. All this I thought must be very humane and neighborly, coming from the quarter it did : though I doubted the .necessity of it; and was quite sure it did ' not produce any extraordinary gt'od effects. I The last prevailing trait my neighbor wa distinguished for, was in perfect consistency with the rest. He professed to every one the most unbounded compassion towards my self. He pitied me for this, ;and that, and the other, hoped I would turn out in the world wi ll; and though he much doubted whether I would live many j years yet I had his bet wihes for it. From my heart I believed him. He cm ' tainly had no occasion to wish otherwise. ! But singular notions sometimes get into : people's heads. At the close of my first ; year's residence. I gave up mv lease purchased and anchored my self at the lower . end of the village, exactly between a most I notorious drunkard and an intolerable ; scold, and have, strange as it may appear, lived,comparatively. peaceably and happily ever since. In the first place, I had now the privilege of beingjust as intimate with

my neighbors as I pleased; and in the second place enjoy cd the blessed privilege of

being allowed to complain of their conduct when 1 thought it deserved complaint.

aim respect. i ucv must men ne conciou, that they are exciting an immoderate de--ire for riches, and occomingthe great and principal, though remote cause of this immoral and ignoble v ice.

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i iion moil: toan iw nun vniuals to rali square mile, as the vale of Mi-sissippi ,Itl. i braces 1,000,000 square miles, or one i of the ! and within the jurisdiction of tl10 American State?. When the population of this almost unlimited region arnoui tiu ; 3 1.000.000, it will be just equal to the aj mount of inhabitants which the state rf" ; New-York had on each square mile at the la?t census. Scarcely has the dawn o im. ! provetnent commenced in this mo?t roductive and fertile portion of the Amoia ;.n j continent; the little that ha been du j-is I unnoticed in the infinity of U r resovinn. j and the measure of prompt ritv uhicht ::, i be attained, must be a work for milli,! in after ages to accomplish. Am-umtv : like this must and will, when hei mu, " jand treasure shall be unfolded, hate -- l tablishcd in her bounds some of the i i i .:

land most populous stales and cities ; world.

NEW AM KB 10 AN Sl'j LLLNT; ;0(h.

As Mr. Kin f.u's Seellu

1 OouKTsmr. Louisa was the only child ofa gentleman, who,b!essed with nllluence. had spared no pains to improve by a liberal ; education the graces which nature had lavi ished upon his daughter. In short. Louisa j was an heiress; and, like other heiresses, ; had a numerous train of suitors.

"Anions the n 't voune VVilliui bow'J, !ut nevt r tilkM of "J.v ." He was a younu man of inestimable

worth and talent", which Louisa was not the last to discover; but be possessed no small 'share of that diffidence usually attendant true merit. Their eyes had long pio- ; fessed a mutual flame before he could muster the courage to disclose his passion.

Chance threw m his way a golden oppor-

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j ward silence of some minutes, he advanced, itook her hand: kLouisa"'! his voice fauljtered he could not utter another word. but his ehxjuent countenance spoke the 1 rest. Louisa understood him: and over'whelmed with confusion, stammered out.

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AVARICE. "Of all the plapues of man's imperial race. There' none like Avarice, so grovelling and so base." Among all the degrading passions to which mankind are subject, there is perhaps none more contemptible or mischievous in its effects upon society, than avarice; and yet tho"' mankind have always appeared conscious of its baleful influence, they do not appear to be alike aware of its remote cause; but have only seen and noticed it in the form in which is concentrated every thing that is mean, absurd and detestable to name it properly only when they have seen it personified by a monsfer, whom it would be honoring too much to term a man. A monster deaf to the cries and lamentations of distress and misery, who is insensible to the calls of pity , or the dictates of affection ; whose biains are of no further use to him than for planning means for accumulating vile dro-s, which will never benefit him nor society, and whose heart is insensible; to every" other feeling than a money getting avidity. A poor, wan, emaciated, squalid, diseased wretch, who possesses the means of allev iating misery, but is cursed with a disposi-

VALLKY OF THK MISSISSIPPI. The valley of the Mississippi and its tributary rivers exceeds in extent of surface the limits of any other country whose waters are accumulated and flow through the channel of one river to the ocean. The United States are separated from north to south info nearly equal eastern and western divisions by the river Mississippi, the valley of which b, therefore, situated in the central part of the American Republic. It extends east to the Alleghany mountains, which divide the Union into the Atlantic and Western States,and west to the Rockv

; mountains, which separates the territories

and states west of the Mississippi river from the country bordering on the shores of the Pacific, and passes through nineteen degrees of northern latitude, and thirty-two degrees of longitude, embracing an' area of more than one million of square miles. The rivers which beautifully intersect this extensive region, uniting their waters with the Mississippi, are every where numerous and of unparalle led length: those whfchi fall into the Mississippi on the west, are !

the Arkansas, 2000 miles long, which is navigable 1000 miles Missouri. 4,400 miles in length, and navigable LCC0 miles Red river is navigable 500 miles, Des Moins COO, and St. Peters 200: those emptying their waters on the eastern margin of the river, are the Yazoo, navigable 100 miles, the Ohio, 91.r miles long, and navigable the whole distat.ee, Illinois, navigable 200 miles, and Ouisconsin, lloO miles long, and navigable ICO miles. Almost every staple production' of commerce, such as the sugar cane of India, the rice of Kfhiopia, the spices of Malacca, the grape of France, and the cotton of the South Sea

liianas, arc the natural growth ol its lieb!

hi.U il K. As the of jert an I ai'vantac- f tt.i . in! v r'.i, arr clearly ej rcw.l m the j fare. r a!! ! n Mihhh it. hnj in,; it wili he t( n.-iu 1) rt ..! 1 v t:. ' teachers of jouth. PRKF.UK. fn mot of the in iver-iti and roi'ci ' i't t! r fni(el States well a- in llnrt-iU'', yi p'k. r i- r the standanl of KrijlMi ortho-r;e i and ; -ivnui i.ition. His sve'riii i; everv ilay hc ini t r tnor utar, and it i noty p ro rallv .'imtted li. it ;' ' i I contine to prevail. Ail dietionanc ol il.el'i: ' '

latiuace, cvept tho-e tf Walker am! .'.i r i... hy utmost univer-a! conenf, IhuI a-i!f. ;:n il-.it Johnson, in it late edition, h i Walker's !.;i pronunciation iucorjiorated witli it. A? we have now a popular and pf t tnnne-.t :" nrd of our lanuaL'e, all r 1 1 i u c hooU- ant ' tarjf works of the kind, outht to be a. la,.'., d t. ! principles. So far an thi fails t he cfiV ft rf'.k' will be erronecii'-ly taught, and iminv '1" "ddi to l)e correct sctiolar tvili find lunch tinie a id la! ur necessary torepairthe defects of their ear eiinrition. Thi is a misfortune irivartahly ;itte:nlinp tl:c ue of Webster and several other clemerstan w. rk3 now extant. Thousand whoe first yearf f '''i'1)' were spent principally in learninj: to read a ro! wriic their native lnnicnacr, have found wi:h n cret, when entering upon liiher t, ranches of ohicntn1::, that Ihey had many thine to unlearn, aid ?o.i.eel their former studies to repeat. Others, hs; ran I'd about correctness, though perhaps in inanj rr ' eood scliolars are continually in the prat t:oe el I' tl1 spcllins: "d bad pronuuehtioii. To furni'h the rising irenerations of cur ro'vr.' try with the means of avoiding the-e iliadr.n h'i' and to render the rudiments of a complete r-'ui at ion more a, the present work i elfered to t! ' f '1'1 ' In preparing it, the author hn studiously 1 -Vt : odtoaoid whatever i unnecessary , and fill if I es with matter suitable for the" improvi w h youn minds. Most of the words in (he s Hi: c sons, with the exception of proper names 1 at e I ' ,! take,, from Walker's Critical IVononncin;: Ih' t;":i ary, with strict aMention to tin ir ortt'orni'l ) ;,r ccntu ition, and the sound of the vowel-. '1 1 '' " son? in readinj: have been run -fully selected.

are such as will not only facilitate the pT.'r"-" the nut i!s hut excite them to study, and !.'ive 1,1

a taste for this si iene s. The table of Srri firojer nanus al hahetirally arranged, r''1' :" eenteil according to Walker's Kcv. uill 5"T.-rd :ia

important advantage not to he fun ml in :oiv o!':r

work of the kind now in use. Should H i; answer the purpoM rontemptated, by niakitsjr t-'e

path or the learner more easy, ;md preparmuy 1 minds for a correct and ronplete education, it i-' v fiected that tho friends and patrons of learnifu' 'j

give it their support. ll j The above work is sold at the ofTko of the TirJ

e-nnati Cazette. and u av be had of the authcr.

1'iice 2 l-'J cent' sinh , and one dollar per dcrvRj

Cuicmuati, August-. U''i5.