Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 85, Richmond, Wayne County, 26 November 1825 — Page 4

S3LCTBD FOETHY.

PENN S TREATY ELM,

BY JUDGE PETERS Let each take a relic from that hallowed tree. Which, like Pexk whoa it sbaded,inamortal should be. A the pride of our forests, let Elms be renownM, For the justly prizM virtues with which thej abound. CHORl'S. AH h ul to thee, hiehlv f?ored tree, A'!vinsr oir our hind, the home of the free! Mit worthy was he Wtv. firt hinorM thee, A'ft thou like him, iinmornil a t 'e. Whilst the. natives our forests in freedom shall roam,

thouefct the t7orld of himnd-he took fa tin- the Wtot foety can ttarce y th.: first fair opportunity of cl.rat.np me be calculated. U hat a ficM w 1 tlu moit H will not sav the word, but opened to the rrn of mence, the arhs , i was k little staggered.' ' the popular ?ritsryho address a huudAsr-.- .C?r-.- iL. i r,.l millions of educated persons! What a

Affairs, moie "particularly of the heart,

make up always a good many pages in the history of early life, 1 took it into my head that a little girl who lived in the neighborho d, was absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, an angel that she had no equal in the world was the most beautiful, bewitching, elegant, etherial minded being

; that ever was sent below the clouds 1 was ! sincere, and coufident of this I took every ! opportunity of seeing her, and. if by dint of

I courage and ingenuity I succeeded, it af-

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Tho' sorrow thrir bosoms snoni.i on oTer...-., With delight they'll reflect on good Omt's ElmAll bail,&r. For that Pa tron of Justice and Peace there display d

Ilis mot welcome good tidings, beneath its fair t

hadc;

An.l furnished examples to all future times, Th U Justice and Peace may inhabit all climes. All hai), Arc. The Oak miv be fun'd for it uses in war. Or wifiine wealth' idol to regions afar : But the Kim bears no p irt in such objects as these, Its employment i$ redely in fabrics of peace. All hail kc. tTbrn nAPn-st, 'tis fabled, lluied Aroi.ro, An ' h- found it Tain her footsteps to follow; II-- fiVd the coy nymph to avrnsre a love quarrel In th' ererirt?en form of the bright shining Laurel. All hail, tc. Bot herchaidets b deck the erim warrior? helm, Wl,id more worthily hine in the haie of the Flm. At d there caue all warsand their horrors to cease. And .'ike Ptf, pread the blessings of safety and peare All hail. kc. Of .Wo the Bard, and his Mulbnry tree, Ii. wa; hive lonclivM with the tarirt of cleat Hi tune of hi tree ha proband the renown; Ojr tot? otb PttVg fame, will to ages go down. AM bail, kc. Lt the Bard bo encircled with hiirelseVr preen, A- the rhKfin the choir h- r- of Fax y's th- Queen. Y-' truth ai'd rtt hn ill fiction o'eru hf lm; Aud ih-e Ytzy -eriirM in the ha leof the Elm. All hail.&r. Let nurTocts till sing for Dat wreaths, without scar, And the Lackel hide woands of the rhanpions in war: Dut the branch of the Omte its office hould cease, Ami the hrnfheof T.i.m bv the emblems of Peace. All hail. fcc. Tli Oi.ive abounds where tern derot bear rule, And thir -lares pluck its products in Poverty's

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. mi K.rih thro ares to !i lorat u m a weeK s napninos mcse weir Thy nmvmbrance they'll chensn, mro ages o . u

J , Mill '.ill II ' k'l IIUIJ ll(k-ll I people look us well and talk as prettily as

possible. At fast an extra opportunity of seeing

i the fair creature occurred I was to go over to the farm on an errand. An ambassador on his first introduction to the pres- ! ence of a sovereign could not have made a ! better display of hi wardn.be than I did of mine; every hair was exactly adjusted, ! my hat put carefully on, a pair of c leat shoes under mv arm which were to be 1 j

carried to the farmer's Skits, and, in short, I went as every love-su k blockhead goes . I i A a' A

ii ine nrsi time to see nis mistress mH

partic ularly fine, and feeling most particularlv foolish. I gained the awful bar? that brought me

; in view of the more awful pressure of my ; angel stuck my old shoes carefully under a log, put on my new ores, ai.d w r.t forward, after having practised a bow or tw . Walking leisurely down the lane as ir

; the fence as possible, I met a drove .!. - and a girl dressed in a dirt? linsey fr -k. barefoot, and with her mouth and bos--in j besmeared with muh atd molasses, driv t ing them forward with slicks and sIhms-s. 1 I met the company '-ivms! ll - dri r ' was m Sunday flame bat what a: anucl ! !l threw my hat down ii the road, rumplfd j my hair, stuck both of m shot s in lh mud. jand thought 1 wa going cr-z . I was nc- ! ver afterwards a very erdhui.itir 1 oyer. ! There i i idain, straitrht forward wa I of tr uduing through thi- wrld: and v ma as well accustom ouis Ives to it, liM as last.- Kxpecting nothing, we shall not i be disappointed ; a little sceptical on mai j matters of appearance, we shall reach the I reality without surprise; and the sootier ! we arrive at the age of reason, perhaps

the better it will be for u. Tren. hwp.

j whom I presumed to fee your coM I i his tonversatioa. He appeared tf I been upon a short rrllnn: 10 "at )

was engaged in reuorlin tu ur' :u,J

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dered by subscribers for the non r' '" of their dues, hut the li?t was ip l3rnoi t I fell asleep while he was in the his harangue, and when awoke" If sundry faces around ii.: inM

. . "Kir:C .

red millions of educated perse

stimulus given to mental energy and social improvement, when every new idea, and every useful discovery, will be communirted instniitaneocsl Y to a great mass ol in-

telliiient beings, by the electric agency ofj much like "patience on a monumf U'7

the post and press! Imagination is lost inji ing at grief," at least their Kti 4 altempling to estimate the effects of suebjj shapes brought the figure to my mH accumulated means and powers. One re-jj mediately. lU lv

suit, however, may be anticipated. Amer-jj Having received my rncssaco T

lea will then Decline me itiaic ui iwtledge, civiliration, and power."

From the National Gazette.

One of the Signers of the Declarat ion of

Independence. Francis Levis, horn in Wales was a merchant in New-York about

. .. ... 177 flno of In first shinments n youngsters, witli such an nniw.- i

iiu fun v,..w--..-- - i ' ! I l,'ll;t"r

to jAiUrone consiMfu oi u vinm xr.iw un-ui u me doi.r i

dandled off in black and white, Zl

j ing thrown into an entry, hall a d: i n n j den made at me in ;.n instant, and -J smart scuffle, the largest bore m, .

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lit' of

; triumph, with the loss'of one of mv

the parlor, lollowed by tlie whulj tr

gave the first that entered a heart v

i i in- i-ii . nil i iii.iniiii4 iinortiip i i

, ...nritu, u(l'ir,.J j her children should not be thus m m:, .!

wheat; and he frequently remarked, that, from its novelty, it was fit that time the suhiect of much conversation. The port

ofN "w-York being then inadequate to the i bout, and that if I did not make 1

supply of a full freight for the vessel, he I should not come into the house; ai d t! was compelled to sei.d her round to Phila pretty little dear who had suffered jA

I lather s harshness wa consoled

I 'u, I cake and a lump of sugar, the ( ; which I calculated was about equal -,t , price you got, or will get, for int. 1 , i ,,s

But the Ei.m delights most in the moontains and Wher Man i ne'er shackled, and Liberty dwells. All bail. kc. Tho' time has deioted our tree to decay, Tt e 4t- b iiit witn s'd survive to our day. Way our trut worthy statesman, when call'd to the heini. JJeVr forget the wise Treatt brld nndcr our Ei.M. llhail.4c.

THK WORLD. Fron the sublime to the ridiculous thrre is bnt a 2lei . BoNrARTX.

A there are two seasons in life, contra-

diti' j ut shed in every re

From the National Journal. Tt is very probable that man of our readers may have read the foil wir g extract

from the Supplement to the Kik v clopedia : Britannica, written by Mr. Maclaren: invertheless, as there ma he mat.) other ii whose way il has nev er fallen, we shall, 'possibly, gratify more readers than shall displease, by transferring it into our

j: columns. It displays something hkeacorH I - t r if 1 C rtt m i i 1 1 -1 i I rvt..t-il

i HI l iiiu w ii ut;s. 't will jf'iiiii Mii ur 'i ii i advantage great beyond all precedei t, ! and only requiring the united process ot time and industry to developc them. It ! evinces also a degree of candor in the de-

delnhia to complete her loading: the av

erage price of wheat was -three shillings and fur pence currei c. 44 1-2 cents, per bushel. There is much to interest the reader in the rutline of his life furnished in the sixth volume of the Biography of the Signets &c. The large property that he had acquired, was nearly all sacrificed o i the altar of patrioti-m. during the Revolutionary war. He died in 1C03, in the .ii etieth w ar of hi- age.

; In the ame volume, the memory of the ! Tits-Judge James Wilson, U fully vindica

ted from the charge of hostility to General Washington, which is prefened in Johnson's life 'of General Greene. Richard Ifenn L-is also involved in tliis charge, i.i Judge lohnsor.'s hook, but most ui.junstIv as his grandson has proved in the Me moir of hi ancestor. Judge W ihon ni.d Judge M'Kean, proclaimed oui Federal Constitution to be the "best form of government ever suffered. ti the world' John Morton, another of the Signers, hearing, w hen on his death bed, ar d in the verx pangs of dbaolution. (in 1777.) that some of nis old friends reprobated the casting vote which he had given in favor of the I)e laration of Ii depi i dence, said, energe.ti all, 'Tell them that thev will live to see the hour, when they shall acknowledge it to have been the no-t glorious service that 1 ever rendered to m country .v Governor Hopkins, another of the Signers left the following sound lesson for vo teis: 4il et every freeman carefully consider tho particular duty allotted to him as Mich by the Constitution; let him give his -uffrage with candor, for the person he sinerely thinks best qualified ; let him des pise the man who offers him an fiiie, and -pun. the sordid wretch that would give

him a hrihe; let him think it his obligation to bestew his vote accordit g to his own conscience, and not depend on others to discharge his duty for him."

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some consolation from the eagcrr.'?

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wnicii I suouia nc read, and tin ji; is .( sliould have. Yet in this I wn(ii. ), ,,

in d th. ei a ' T th, at tni cv

spect, the morning ! location of these advantages, and in tie

e fveiiig vouth and old a:e so tracing ol tiicm to tneir tn al results wind. ' tn two distinct stages in it progres-1; entitles it to our notice and cornmendaWiUuh each of which the mind hasl,on: iii .r I' d a dith i ct t train of feelings, j: The people of the United States find

iifsi stage is the reign of enthusiasm; t d t.'iat of reason. In vouth we

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tucmseivcs in a conaitioti to uevoie tn n whole energies to the cultivation of their

-. Minei talit-i if age, sometimes, l; vast natural resource; undisturbed b

i1, i. f.c Ii lh lirf sf.'itnti n spp I w.-iro. urihii rdettcd hi otmr':.iv ' !:. 't

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eo ; lor me biuie auoui me siui ontir :,i if a . . i i

1 1 wk seni awn) into ioe Kiicnen wit., tof tiic servants, and laid carelessly ul

j shelf. ! Here I read some lessons, which, if j$ j were possible for me ever to bt com a i housekeeper, would tearh me t.'ie art ci 'saving a hundred or two a year m.re tan the master of that house does, out i f f uc come. All the domestic concerns , ':;lC

,family were managed by servants, n

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t rin, ttie f r nti-n Emporium. ADVKNTURKSOF A NEWSPAPER. We ri t eived, the other dav , the followimj tvntr epistle through the medium of

air h tier-h-x and a we are ut w illing to

lavished away the nutter and lard. the dinners through inattention, and wr.t- : ed at least, a third of nil the provisions ti st came into the house; beside- lei (lii jf;,i i

giving away whatever they pleased. S tk ofmv situation,! was soon sent iidol e

I store, and here, for the first time &iu I

left you, became of importance, fcr tlietii j j individual who laid hands on mc, -sf:tr

eyeing me closely for a few Riirutts, diliberately stuffed me into his pocket ai d w, Iked off. As soon as I recovered fn v. n x

! fright, I found myself beside a lank lobg ! pea green pocket book, and immcdiat !v accosted it 'friend,1' said I, uhotv ha j py you must be ia your employment, vrhirli is i to carry about that precious ticasuie vthwh, whenever, it appears, create- hippii (and smiles. v "You are the first," rcnl d jtlie pocket hook, "that ever uspeclM rr.e ! of having treasure, I believe my ins's j have seen nothing these nine months, s-or 'now and then a love letter wiitten by my I master to himself; a riddle, or some wii thinr given him to stinh out. a locket iit-d

chain, or fuiger ring, stolen from a )C'::ilady for amusement: or a l k el his cm

hair, kept to show at a party with a rry?tiw rious air; these are my w-ual and -:..y treasures, if I except now and then a si.n mons or a dun, for you mud knew rr.y master is one of those beings laib-J D-w tlif. mid' h uns tiriif ei.di'f.W I'.i'i' I vT 'S

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ciioniiiv iirtiivn ni f mv r t v n "

take upin ourselves the responsibility ofjj room full of merry young lolk,

r: i pes. l iiu nrsi season v e see wars, unnuroeneu ny opprcsiv

v t u' v superficially, atid through tlie fettered Uy old preiudiet s ,t! d t runtioos. it (

li) ilium ol a warm and active immagn.a- i hnjoy ing t?e tr iteil advantages of an n -tioo, heated with the fire of passion, cherish j fant and mature society, they are able to hope where there is no foundation, see !j apply the highly refn ed s ience and art ol b'-auties where tin re are none, and excel-! Europe to the improvement of the virgin h e e in imperfectioe but grown wiser by i'soil, and unotcupied natural riches of Aex - rience, and ai led hv the triumph of ?. merica. They start. U'e!cnm'ered by a reason over the llick'-ring and dv ing lights ;: thousand evils, politic, il and moral, which of the imagination, we sometimes go as far! weigh down the energies of the world. into the la-t a w e went into the first x Tlie volume of our history lies before treme. This pr"ce. is a steady and pro-them; they m v adopt our improvements, gn-sive one, Injt generally certain and jj avoid our errors, take warning from our similar i: it- eo sequences and results. j suff-i iinjs ; and with tho combined lights of I am now w riting from my own experi-j! our experience, and their own, build up a erne. The lirs: distim t idea I had of the jl more perfect form of society. Kven alreade eptive nature of appearances, was in ; dy, they have given some momentous and the vo w of a distant landscape it was some salutary truths to the world. It is t)e;oin(iil av r paradise made up of ; their rapid growth which has first develolcv. I iid xu is vo rnead .vvs, sprinkled o-jipedthe astonishing results of the producer viO) chi li is ,.ftrees,a wit dingstream !; tive powers of population. We can now i;- the m'nhJ. I approached it, and its ! calculate with considerable certainly, that r'. rrn vanis; a I tbniain was rougli and jl Arn;rica, which yet presents to the eve,

j generally, the aspect of an untrodden for;est, will, in the short space of one century,

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U von, we':-, j.mj Miars lined lue neuges, t'n t. rices i" riide and decay ing, the gtiearn muddy a"d slug'jish. and the trees, th' ire con toon ores, just such as grow

deny it g its authenticity, we conclude to give it to the public as a specimen of the

urious h av i ? g them to make their com

nv nts. And in the mean time we shall

look out for further epistles from the sume source. LETTER I. Messrs. Editors:

j Not knowing how soon the fate of poor ; John Rogers may be my own, I seize the

first leisure hour I have had, since vou

sent me forth into the wilde world to see and to be seen, to give you a brief sketch of my adventures; not doubling but that y ou will be glad to hear from one of your old acquaintances, and believing that my little history may possibly be beneficial to some one or other and probably amusing to yourselves. I do not like to meddle with family affairs, and shall therefore pass over the early part of my adventures, with but n remark or two. My father, a papci maker, about the time I was born, was persuaded to fix a higher price upon my head

than he intended, in consequence of home commotions among the fraternity which

came very nigh throw ing me upon the sea

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cured here, and mv further projr?

be the subject of another letter. Ton e present I am yours with great cot sid n-' tion. AX OLD EKTORIU.

JUST PUBLISHED. And for sale at the office of the Publi Leger, by tlie gross dozen, or Fill 3 1 IDS' AtsMAHAw FOIl TUT. YEAR Or OUR LORD

I l w i ' SI

surpass Europe in the number of its inhah

itanls. We even hazard little in predict-

fv,-r, where, r r a moment, then. I had Jj ing, that helore the tide of population has j of speculation; escaped from this, how ever, a ' .u t whether ttu world, as it presented i! rolled back to its original seats, Asy ria, i and having arrived in your familv, I was if-. -It tfi a v Mii-iz tni'id, was "ot altogether Ii Persia, and Palestine,an intelligent popu H speedilv s if d, and with a merciless h:o,d

j lation of two or three hundred millions jj din ked in cold water, and sauce g, d almost

will have overspread the new world, and j; totleath, with a whole lot of niv brethren, have extended the empire of knowledge &, t I lay senseless in a corner, and neither of the arts, from Cape H orn to Alska. A-t heard nor saw until publication morning mong the vast mass of civilized men, there i' came; then, having been hoisted up and will he hut two languages spoken. The !j opened to tho warmth, I hcvn to look a-

effects of this single circuniitancc in acccl-il bout mc, and soca rtcchiiwd a littiu cwuJj

fl' litive. I d a fro nd who wound himself deep into inv confidence. and I believed him al to.''her vottiiv - he professed to be defoird to toe. .'hi me things to please me, en d rna:.v t i , l itter rue, w is always d ay cun.a.;; wuwuldiuroalioryed ik 1

Containing, besides tho ufu il .stron g cal calculations, the times of luddifg Quarterly and Moutfdv Meeting wit-m tlie bounds of Philadelphia and Ohio lv Meetings and the Quarterly, M'';-''f and Weekly Mpetimr within the

of the Indiana Yearly Meeting ,ld a a . f . . . .

nety or other useful matter, Richmond, Sept. 17, 1823. WARNER & MORRISSON HAVE just opemd, und intend keri M u' "' u ' n brie rnd irttsrst ieoiliuHt ol DRUGS, MEDICINES, OILS, PAINTS, DVE STLH , PATENT MEDICINES, cVAll of wbi-h hvy will dipoc of b """" r Retail ut tbe lowest riei-s. Uiclaiiond, Sept. 5, 111 i5. . ROOKS, PAMPHLETS, BU-w HORSE BIIXS, CARDS, LABELS, &c. sfec. ,K Neatly executed at tliis office on reason--tcrcjjiuid ca the shcxtest tv)ticc