Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 80, Richmond, Wayne County, 22 October 1825 — Page 4

SBIiHCTBD POETRY

From the .New-York Statcsiuatf. -

The following lines from the pensive j miis of our former correspondent, the J? ? j ton Bard, copied from the Westcl i ! Herald, hreathe the same strain of p.tu nt resignation to the ills of life which charac-1 terize.? the greater portion of his poetry. WYe regret to learn, from one d(' his friends,; that they were prompted by his present j situation, and cc me freshly from a feeling;

heart: CONSUMPTION. Thou lurnM paK' of death aud fate, Cad ivt mus ami cold, Whit imm'Mu p. tins tin presence wait, vx hat mortal noi' uutoM! Chill flow tlir Harm and genial blood, I'., n- ith th artery nod ; And bri. il v u reti m th tuul The I on t u-.irki of (!o I. Releutlt ty rant of our race ! t )cci i r ot the w i;f ! Death phnws hi ins ice in the'faee, And t.e th.u look-t on tli- ! Ayt, wither iloiit, s:vi and pale,1 ho' $ow his doom, t Hire , Th breath empoisons every sale, Thy victim to secure. To-! i v thy flatter) lulls our fear: And tiealth trij joennd by ; To-.uorrow all our hopes are sear. And o'er thf wreck we -uh; Our mu -ink. ilepre?-l ;uii went, Th orb ol w-ioti close, Death -t U hi eal upon the h e k, We -iik (h iu alti imrwot ?. Vet bail ! tbou y r tut kll and i!read ! Tbj. it y visage -how; So oft tbl-bt irt before h ltl) b!vd, It bir no future bljw. Cu;ne fTey upon Jlii wasting lorin,---Tln torture-all eoniSmt. I'uur oti tluhfad thy fi'.r -t -tori;). Till I, O Death! din thin.-. nosrois hard.

sweep a elded not ali ttlc to the din and upronr without. ' Mrs." Mosely, previous to going to hed, had gone up stairs to see that the children were all safe, and finding every tiling right, just as in descending the stairs, her head came on a level with the floor, her eve caught a glimpse of some white object in the suspicious corner, and to add to her distress, a sudden gust of wind which made the old house rork, extinguish ed her light, ami left her in total darkness. Sufficiently triglitei ed, she hastened to where the little lire she had left made the darkness and gloom around, visible, and without daring to look behind her, crept into hed. Scarce!) had she been able to draw the bedclothes over her bend, when the noise which had given io ininh alarm at previous times, again commenced; it crossed the chamber, descended the stairs and all was silent, except the storm which was raging without; Mrs. Mosely trembled even joint, and the bed shook as though site had been seized with a tit ol the ague. At that moment another blast swept b the old maiiion,and Mich a rolling rumbling, doleful noise, as the Breton peasant heals before his door when he is warned that hi-final hnui is come, Commenced at the. southern extremitv of a long, low shed back to the kitchen door. Instantly a I Hid and struggling noise, with a heavv

cra-b, w a- heard in the kitchen, which last'I. , i

ut a moment, wnen a slow, neuvv.ap-

lis head, and beran hislj enn chimney, but cmrSovsac'i "

least. At that moment ine mrce 01 me i per, who nas no nhi,., tion ln ,, ' . ? wet

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ty be introduced his feast. At that mon

wind drove the large brass-kfttle from its i; because it is his trade.

r.dl.l it tlio whole lenrtli of tie!1 He it rafhor i ,.

shed; and brought it up with violence a-i! yourself well ii. vour proper ,. ..: arT,5t

gainst the kitchen door. Trightoned in j to rise ;ibove it. ' his turn. Grimalkin attempted to extricate l)espi-e not small honest i;;,irs r his head, but it was impos.-ible, and in the j- what ou have on the dehi-ive j ro strugule, be came to the lbor, where the! gaining sudden riches. If y0f, mil ""was still lessened in its dimensions by 'comfortable thriving way. keen i' '! 'a

'falliiiL' on tlie edie of a chair. J lalf sullo- abide in your own calling r:tb.r tb-"

cated in the milk, he endeavored to make the chance of another. his retreat hut was unable, and as fortune ;j . would have it, found hU way thumping the : A rich id "cntleman constantly r lr, pewter mug upon the floor at every tep, lated the state of his health ! t!. ri

tottie annai tmeni occunieu u jus. .uustn i.m oi me mercenary auent'oi ,,f b;

i i i .i,f,.r- i leruKoi irifiui; ...i i

To conclude the whole, the c ak lim

i tended friend and relative?. ST-,eV'-b was time before be died, his phv;in:u's v ' '!

t- . I 1 I . . i n . . t- I r-1 1 1 :i I I ! li:il'n ri r; n - A iA I tl. t I ''I

(l i-meinoe reu uu i" " vji...vv. huh uiiii in; w.-nb't . i- i : ii . i i i i . '''T:

.,,,1 (t v i, :m.)1 aonarilioio lor ever ban

jished the neigldiorhood.

Till-: PRINT VAi. AN KXTBVCT.

it would not do; he had j i (lir(u. j that he had -ix fatal MinnUm it, ; .i... i" i . . r,,o

iiik'c pree;.ts aiai mrcf vi.; .

day Irorn hi? dear fiend Mr. H.

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j palli.'g tbump thump thump thump j! was heard -proceeding from the kitchen

i towards tiie room in which Mrs. Moseh

arid her d.iugoter were in bed. They I i ' i r I I , i fk . 1 I 1 I t I'kfifui It i . llnlioL '

j the tire had gone out, and it was n dark in I a out doors ; the sweat i an in strcam tiom

j their bodie,and if during their lies the j bad never bcfoie praed, the begged i

heartily now, hut in vain ; the noise advanced; it passed the threshold, thump I

1 have seen th" mast vio!."a f-;-. , cramp in the stomach immediateK . t

Perhaps il mav not be amis to remem-

;bcr the printer in my discourse. i- m a verv difficult and disagreeable situati

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II Uu?i5 i i n inn( in hill'" - hoi " ") " j ' 1 1 1 1 ' v i y "t iiuiiii n.iH!, jhis monc) is scattered ever) where he ened with molas-es or coarse hru, ,y ! hardlv know s w here to look for it. His pa- when opium, or i!s various pre;nr i'i i per. his ink. presses and his i pes. Iiis labor nor am thing rl.-e woultl give n Ii, j ,,

; and i'is !iing, all mu-t be punctuallx paid path lf.r. YOu Mr. ,aod Mr. , M. . , ahv

i and a bin. tired others that 1 could name, have taken his newspaper a great whib jouand otir wive-, and )our children,

and your neighbors have been amu-ed and informed, and I hope, imj.Toved by it-it you mis.- one paper ou think ver b.aid ot the printer, or post, lor ou had rather go without our best ui'-al than without utii paper. Have you ever complied with the conditions of subscription J Have you taken as much pains to furnish the printer with his mone, a he has to tuini-h you with vour paper? Have y nu contributed

t. R lieving that this hint m.i j r.ita e the means of relief to s in- i .

m re afllicted with the above nun: pi tint, I think it tn duf to make tbi-c.j, municat ion. . Vr. Co-r;( r.

A WARM Kfct tl'TIo. Ru-ticu wrote .i It tit r t hi joo, A 'i n!it d it full f h ana .uul kt n d 'in , Tit Ii ; ' i to r Hi .1 F1.AME---U1I 1 -o lit- did, Tti'j lady j.ut hii tiiiii'triee in the I.re.

tiar.u (M On Lu-, Ann"i f.irr, ali ;i -toi i-bc-d nny hud I I r ro- s dt'pp bio-, ui and tb- biK c'lrduti'il.

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nis types, tils prc.--e-. las hand work hi- head work? Il you have not, go him otf, and .-in no more'

aid pay

thump thump; it turned to the bed ; Mr, ovour mite to pay him tor his paper, ink,

Most ly screatiK it aloud, but the r le. th ss apparition -topped not till it was fairly at the hed side, strangling, sti uggling, gioan ing and thumping. Mrs. M 'Sely was frightened to desperation; she called abunl lor men , and help.

and, springing tnan the bed.

But t

k l r t r- ft i i f r . i 'o.a, pi ,'i ir. t . . . r ? i,ll r

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tor rol'i.e tau-sf- ui.c---;iu1 io.numi'Ul.n tbotber. m Kroin tbt ufjr-i, .NVw-YorU, Fr F'r -s. TIIK 11 AUNT Kl) HOUM:. a fact. A'id t lh aid re - w it bout ari-r', i h it tb ', irt hftrf na.-t.t sbor k .

Reasor , like the moon, a conolation if i dark'ne-. can guide u- with its faint lays.'

raised the through the du-k night. I he. mornii g !

w indow, and ailing on her daughter to bd i daw n of hu.-l le, show s the real world, w hen

-w, leaped in the street, and rnhl-l the ; the light of the sun breaks througii out ; nellings nt the stoi rn made her way a quar- j tw ilight. j

fer ot a mile to lai un r Hodge s, where slie , Ke.nbng nothing hut novel-, is like leed-1

ing upon cake--and sweetmeat-; which vi tiate the appetite and make it unable to digest more solid food.

arrived abno-t dead with tright, cold and j rain. A- soon a -ae n covered sufficient 1 breath h.e gave her astonished neighbors! the reason ol -o unusual a i-it, and en- J treated Hulge to save it pos-ible. the chil j dreu she nad lett at home, from she j knew not wb at. Hodge was an honest j

I How. not pos-es-ed on such fccasnuis ol i

An ! a dt if' mi..- rn inm Ou r a ut tMi t l in r k.

bkt a c it ir ft pnnrirn Sot;THtv.

Tiio wind bb-w a terrible southeaster; the rain drit'ted fearfulh along, and tell in ru-hing torre t- again-t the shatteied case nio ,ts a".l r ittli ig w "nalow of" the old tone met't occupied fiy tbt Mo-ely s. The night ttto. wa- a- dark and gloomv as clo?nU a; d

j losses

oi exuberant degree ot courage, and the 1 -tnrm .is so violent, and so many tright- J lul storie- crowded at once on his recollcc- J lion, that Hodge scratched his head, ami j

would willingly have declined a concern, ; faults ; hut their beauties, good judgment i

Piea-ure, a !)r. Johnson, i stddom

fiii'd v hen it is sought. Our brightest ; hloz - td gladness are commonly kindled hv unexpected sparks. The flower- vv hit h scatter their odours from time to time, in , the path of lift-, grow up, without culture ! from seeds scattered by chance. I Women are like hooks: m;. bee and envv will ea-ii lead vou to a detection d their I

whit h would have tested the prowess of

II kei himself. It was but for a moment

i iwever, and his humanity, and pity for '!

Moselv slept, when the first thing that sa

luted theirears was thump thump-thump, accompanied by the frightful, strangling noi-e which had given so muchalatm, appearing to come from imder the bed w hich they had ju-t quilted, tlodge involuntarily shrunk back, but opening his lantern,

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" mi i j'o i jm in 1 1 1 1 in 1 1, i. n i ii 1 1.- i i u j in .i 1 1 1 1 1 ii ii 1 1 -1 v !- ii iu goiiii as wen as

the bed, and cautiously raised the coverlet Ji Almighty Reing, and prize his favor above which hung nearly to the floor, and peep- ii all things.

st-Tin-could make it : frightful sounds w --re -I tin good woman s di-lress prevailed: he

beard how lii.o along the hla-f. and the w ail of the tree to. h) from the roof, seemed omin t- of - an lr tgiek catastrophe --Mn-rlv liirn-elf bad gone from borne, leaving hi-; wife aod ebb -t daughter, a girl of f urteen, to manage allair- in hi- absence. When night came on, the V ounger children, to the number of three or four w ere put to bed in the chamber and Mr-. Mor-elv. notwithst a; ding her fear-, which had increased to, such a degree that she hardly dared to breathe, after securing all the doors retired to tier bed with her eldest daughter. Mr-. Moselv was a devout believer in up-: parition- and supernatural appearances, and her imagination readilv supplied her' with nnmherles- instances,in whit h v i -it ants from tbt. other world had ( Imsen to make tln ir appearances in the midst of preci-elv such -torm- and tempests. The hoti-e,too, bad the reputation of being haunted

strange sights had been seen hv the nei rh-bor-flitting about the man-ion during a time it was uninhabited, and numberless were the limes in which a rumbiing noise, similar to drawing a heavy body over the chamber floor, bad commenced at the southwest corner of the kitchen chamber, and with a he-itating movement, advanced to the top of the stairs, and sometimes even descended them. As these noises were always heard in the night, and a profound sib-nee invariably followed, except that sometimes a liiilit step was heard in the kitchen, it was generally believed that some unfortunate person had been murdered in that corner of the house where the noises commenced, and bad then been dragged across the chamber, and down the stair-; how it was afterwards disposed of. Do one knew. The storm continued to increase, and the oak which stood it: the yard, and had braved the storm of centuries, groaned to its verv centre, w hile the ends o! some of the branches which were lea ing on the house as if for support, by their rattling

onlv can discover, and good nature relish. Compliment is the varnish of a complete j man. j Bone volepce is the light and joy of a;

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eiz d his lantern, aun wienung in one ; good mind : lt is better to give than to re-;

hand a sound walnut cudgel, width had ceive.'1

formerly so rv ed tor a hand-stall, acompan- A t offer without a lock show s that it con- ' ietl by Mrs. Mosely who hail put on some ! tains no treasure; as a mouth always open f Mrs. Hodge's clothes, arid whom no en- j denotes an cmptv brain. treaties could prevail upon to remain, he ;j No man, sav - Seneca, is nobler horn than sallied forth ready to meet w hatever might j another, unless he is horn w ith better abil- j dare him to the encounter. ' itie-, and a more amiable disposition. ! They reached the bouse; it remained jj Thev who make such a parade with their; as they had b-ft it. They cautiou-ly and i! famih pictures and pedigree are, proper-:

tremblingly entered the room where Mrs. !, speaking, rather to be called noted, or

notorious, than noble persons.

advici:

Despise not the meanest of mankind: a wasp may sting a giant. 4 Use so-day ; to-morrow mav never come. Live constantlv in the unshaken belief

ed under, when, merciful Heaven! what

a scene presented itself to his horror strut k vision ! There was no ghost, no apparition no spectre from the murderous grave, no

Accustom yourself to temperance, and he master of your passions. H- not tot much out of humor with the woild; hut remember it is a world of God's

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-naggier Horn lhc'kvasiy tiet p; nut a real i creating, ami however sadly tt is marred i w hile, huge, bloody ,and ferocious tom-cat ! j by wickedness and folly, vet vou have 1 with hi- head wedged into Mrs. Moody's ; found in it more comforts than calamities 1

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large pewter, tpiarl cup, wnit h had been left half full of milk, standing on the kitchen table! Honest Hodge relieved the cat in the same way that "Paddy from Cork"' did Ins dog, w hen caught in similar circumstant es cut off his head to extricate it from the mug. The fright having subsided, the whole

mystery was developed, and a worthv (am

more civilities than atlronts, more instances of kindness to vou than cruelty. a Try to spend your time usefully, both to yourself and others. Never make an enemy, or lose a friend, unnecessarily. Cultivate such an habitual cheerfulness of mind, and evenness of temper, as not to he runlet! hv trivial ioeme. 1 m. t.t 4 :,

ih delivered from their fears of hobgoblins, i' crosses.

-pooks, ami apparitions. It w asfennd thntjj Me ready to heal breaches in friendshio, a branch of the oak had displaced a t lap-:: rind to make tip tlilfereut i s, ;,nd shun li inboard, and made a hole (hi -..ugh w hu b the !j alion yourself as much as pn.-dhh for cat a wild prowler of the woods, had for a ;l he i- an ill tabulator who does not per

iling time b 'I' d its wav into the h..ue. j ceive that our amir able settlement is bet-

in two law-suit.

OU cannot avoid a nnairol with a

Hie mug had been left in the man-' blacki-aiai d. let vour l.-.u v e, ; ,,,-, it r?.

0,t that ny:!d he enleretl in the u-ual man- j ter th. ner.tcfnnlirig all stil!,dcscended to the kilt h- i! If

en.

ner stated, that with considerable diilkul-ii tin:r than votirielf.

No man sweeps his.

nOOIyS. PAMPHI-KTS, CL--"'"

HORSR l'.ILhS, C.MU)b,

LABKLS, &lc. &c.

Neatly ex-Tuted at this oliice

o: rr.i5 a "

term?, and on li.o shoiU -.i r-.e-m

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