Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 92, Richmond, Wayne County, 14 January 1826 — Page 4
SELECTED POETRY.
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.
BY MRS HEMAN3. Why do I ircep? to lca?ethc vine, Whose clusters o'er me bend? The myrtle yet, oh! call it mine I The flowers I lovl to tend 1 A thousand thoughts of all things dear, Like shadows o'er me sweep. Heave mj sunny childhood here. Oh' therefore, let me weep! 1 leave thee, sister! we have playM Throuh many a jojous hour, Where the silvery green of the olive shade Huri dim o'er the fount and bower! Yes! thou and I, by stream, by shore, In sonc, in prayer, in sleep, Hve been a we may be no more Kind sister! let me weep! I leave thee, father! Eve's bright moon "Must now lisiht other feet, With the gather'd grapes, and the lyre in tune, Thy homeward steps to jjreet! Thou in whose voice, to bless thy child, Lay tones of love so deep. Whose eye o'er al! my youth hath smil'd I leave thee! let me weep! Mother! I leave thee! On thy breast Ponrmz out jty and wo, I h-w found that holy place of rest Still chanceles yet I go! Lip that h;tve lull'd me with your strain, Eyes that hnve wiitrhM my leep! Will e:irth pive love like yours again? tweet mother! let me weep!
From thr Truth TYlIer. D!5 DV A.N T AGES OF UK INC. TALL. Mr. Editor A wretche d being, whom the wi:d of Hrarcn have not vi-itcd by dai, tor these three months, ave through the window of his attic, whom thr fi, ger of mm pointed at as a monster among G d's creatures, whom the tvorld mork ai d jeers, and idiot laughter, u rut d wherever he went, as if thr stamp ofCain h;d been impress d upon hi? fortdit adDow address ou; and, in the absence of all other friends ncik ? ion the confident ot his i.rmws From what I have said, yea w ill doubtless ii.lVr that some rnor.il feeling, some conscientious motive, actuated rm persecutors in tormenting nit that some presumptive, if not positive, proof of guilt attached to me; or, that some injury done to my fellow creatures made me the object of their malevolence: hut.no! with nothing of this kind have tht y been able to reproach me. I followed the stnight-fnrunrd path of honest) in all mv dealings and intercourse w ith them: this should have insured me respect. I
w uuiioi M uie, ann undorved dirace: for this I have been par- d at a a huge liliel on the human form; as a creature hith :jllj litth- in common w ith the test of mankind, and for tr Iik h mankind entertained no s mpathirs ; as an ii dcliahh blot on the fair page of Jife a curse personified 'A t-:r u iiature' univ ral iniile." Atone time a creasy -jacketed fell.MY, bearing a ladder and torch, ask me, a a particular favor, ii save him the trouble of a ending the latter, by taking otfthe tops of hi lamps and apphii-ti the lighted torch to the wicks: nddii.c. hih-he screws bis mouth up to an impudent assuDipiioi ol
gravity, "your Iionorwont have to stretch jimHkinK n blunder. It is imagmcu im
: lilt? iriSII I ill! 1 cmw I ft is forgotten, or rather in most instances
much you necd'nt stand on tip toe, sir no need of stilts, your worship Yy &c. At another time, a witling, whose eyes happen to be some inches neater his mother earth than my own a coxcomb, clad in white corded small clothes, with drab traitors, and a piece of very doubtful apparel on his hack a something:, which is not long enough to constitute a benjamin, and too long for a dress coat or a spencer stops me in Broadway, and w ith an affected drawl and vacant stare, tells me, he should feel particular) obliged, material ly honored, extremely gratified, if I would let him know the hour by St. Paul's clock; as he is so far removed from it, that curse him, if he can distinguish one hand from the other. One, with pretended earnestness, accuses me of having stolen flowerpots from his garret window. Another charges me with the murder of his wife, who, he avers, caught cold and died, in consequence of the rain having penetrated through the roof of his house upon her bed; all of which, he sat s, was occasioned by my taking away the tiles: while a litth? sneering fellow, in a suit of rusty black, wishes to be informed, whether it is true that the atmosphere becomes colder in proportion as we ascend. But I am getting tired of recounting the multifarious insults I have experienced ; the unmerited sufferings I have undergone. Yet, one thing 1 must not omit the women, those teeming angels, from whom I thought we
received the better portion of ur nature, 1 to whom I considered man to be indebted 'for half his divinity ; the women whose j ee are suns, whose words are muic, whose looks are love treated me as unceremoniously, and as coldlv and unfeelJ ii gl, as those of my own sex. I was tiever phlegmatic enough to contemplate j beauty without a feeling of admiration, ! nor, occasionally without love. 1 offt red
my hand, at various periods of m life, to al least a dozen. Clarissa excused herself by saying, that she was very chilly riming winter, and therefore particulnU partial
j to a small and low room, which would, if she married me, deprive her of hei husband's society till the sprir g. Rosa affirmed she was remarkably fond of walking, and as she should not be able to react, my j arm, begged to dec line m polite t fltr.' j Jane said, that looking up at me hurt hrr neck: and, what was worse than all, a seri ! 1 I . ft
vani gin, n) wnosr nenuiy I was loot e rmugh to be captivated, made me a lo curtesy, and, w - it It a malicious affectation of humility, dec lared she was hut a mean body, a poor serxant, and could not think of looking so high! Enough of these examples of contempt and injustice. What Malvolia unjustly says to Olivia, I might with perfect proiftiety apply to mankind in general "Yon have iloue me wrong netorion wroup."
But I have no time for reproaches: it is now rny hour to go out. for "The iron tongue of rnii!:uM La to! ! twe'te." I am, sir,your nlllirtcd servant, W. P. S. Kven tilings inanimate arc m en
emies bedsteads, fashioned for gentler purposes, "murder sleep, the innocent sleep;'' and stage roaches, intended for ! tiie relief of travellers, appear to be set up j to run against every thing like relief and j comfort tome. On a journey of business , or of pleasure, ran? is the inn in which I can find a bed to repoe my weary limbs J on, for while my trunk is at rest, my legs : are always takin: the air; and on a w in ! ter's night it is ktill worse, for while my body, by the aid of well warmed sheets, is in Calcutta, my feet are in Lapland. The chaise, the mail, the stage-coach, or, as the Quaker calls it, "the . leathern conveni
ence," is any thing hut a convenience to me, unless it be convenient to suffer all the horrors of torture in the shape of cramp. To endure it with patience, or to seek relief without some scurrile jest, is equally imposnblc. It was but the other day, when, on the coachman stopping to change horses, I said, "well, I'll ju-t get out and tretf h my legs," an old lady opposite exclaimed, with a malicious grin, "mi, sir. pray don't thr re s no tired don't ilrihh 'cm, for heaven's sake!" I have been told that this is an old joke , but I found it none: indeed, there's no fun in this world for me. Your little fellows have complete monopoly of the article; that's the long and the short of it.
it i nnt L'lif.wrn. that in the DroviilCC Ot Ul
jsters alone, nearly two millions of people, 'at least 1-lth of the population of the whole island, are neither one or the other. ; The characteristics of the immense population of Ulster seem, indeed, by some I strange oversight, never to be taken into I account by either orators, historians, or traveller-, when speaking of Irishmen. The world is scarcely even informed that an industrious, prosperous, and intelligent ! race of men, equal in number to the whole population of Scotland, inhabit the North- ' ern province of Ireland, who possess scarcely a single trait of character resembling j that compound of turbulence, rudeness, igj norance, superstition, servility and awkj wardness, which in conception of foreigners, constitutes the half-civilized being calj led an Irishman. The Teagues, the Pats, the Larry s, and the Dennises of a tribe of romance writers who have endeavored to ; amuse their readers with the pictures of Irish buffoonery, have undoubtedly contributed much to spread this false notion of ; the Irish character, which has gone abroad ! through the world. That these writers in (general knew extremely little of the peo- ! pie they undertook to describe, is evident ; from the unvarying sameness of their delineations, in which there is none of that individuality tf feature and freshness of color ! ing, which always distinguished drawing jfrom real life. The pictures appear to be mere copies of copies, the original of j which was drawn centuries ago; for it is a fact that they convey the very same idea 'of an Irishman that was entertained in the days of Tudors. Indeed, this stale representation of the Irish character has so re ¬
peatedly gone the rounds of publication,
that any author who never had his foot mi Irih ground, may drawn it as accurately as Miss Edge worth herself, by collecting
i bis materials from books.
The truth w ith respect to the Irish people, however, is, that instead of exhibiting this unvarying sameness, so constant!) attributed to them, there are perhaps, no people in Christondom,inhabitii.g the same
limited portion of country, more diversified j
jin every thing that tends to form and inouifv character. There is onlv one trait Ithat may he said to be, in measure, com mon to them all, namely, warmth of temperament; to which ma be traced every peculiarity that distinguishes them as a jnntion. But even this warmth varies extremely, not only in degree, hut in mode j of operation, in different districts, among 'different classes. On the whole, the inveteratc habit into which charac ter drawers have fallen, of holding up the unvarying picture of a blundering clown, as a representation of so diversified a people as the Irish, is as absurd as it would be to exhih-
, it an oyster as a specimen of all the fishes 'in the sea, or to quote the story of Cock Robin as a sample of English literature.
(rines: they do rot objtxt to iake :( dinary oath in courts of justice. On
babUatSi that I spent ai I oik, uiey ucr?t0 hold a "Love Feast," and many were tat
to be present. It is not like the LrVt Feast of the Moravians and Methodic in which bread and water only are made use of, but they partake of the best tllc country affords.
A COUNTING-HOUSE
FOR THE YEAH 2S0.
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January,
February,
March,
April,
Mav,
Si.vouLAR si;ct. The New York Com mercial Advertiser contains a letter from a gentleman travelling in Canada, in which we find the following account of a singular sect of people, called Daviditcs,
j or the Children o! Pence, who are located
about 36 miles from Y'ork. The founder and present leader is Da
vid WiNon. He was formerly a member
of the society of Friends; as were many of his followers. They emigrated from the stale of Pennsvlvania about 25 years aijo.
and they have now a society of from 1 CO j to 200. They reside in families and close I to each other, forming a community some-! thing like the Shakers. Although called !
the liiuireii ot IVace, Uavid has fifty of them completely armed, and I understand a part of their worship consists in military
.'display. They have recently commenced
June,
July,
August,
1 2 3 4 5 C 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 10 20 22 23 24 25 2C 27 ' 29 30 31 , 12 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 20 29 30 31 " 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 13 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 13 19 21 22 23 21 25 26 28 29 30 31 1 2 '1 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 1C 13 19 20 21 22 23 25 2C 27 28 29 30 - 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 23 30 31 12 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31
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4 11 18 4 11 18 25
September,
October,
t 10 17 24 1 0 15 22 29
November,
12 19 26
December,
THE IRISH CHARACTER. Prom the llcarli ul Sit .-!, an boh Hnioiic.il Talc, jnt uI.IuIimI The degree of ignorance w hich Irishmen find to exist abroad, in relation to the character and condition oflheir country, and its inhabitants, often surprics them; and to such as have never travelled from their native land, is sc arcely credible. It would seem as if no other idea could be ei tertaincd of an Irishman than that of a rash, supeistitious, although s mctimcs si. lewd igi oramus, who can i t ither speak vwthcut making a bull. t:ct cct without
3 10 17 21
4 1 1 18 25 n 9 1C 23 30 6 13 20 27 m 4 1 1 13 25
5 12 19 26 3 10 17 21 31 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27 4 1 1 18 25 1 8 15 29 6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28 5 12 19 20 r 9 16 23 SO
4 14 21 23
1 8 15 o 29 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24
1 o 15 22 29
15 29
6 13 20 27 3 10 17 n 4't
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5 12 13 2C
o 9 16 23 30 7 14 21 no 4 11 13 25
9 In 23 30
N. R. The above calender would have been published last week, hut an unavoidable circumstance obliged us to delay it.
JOS3PH P. PZ,TCIL23R, H AS ju-t rrcrivt d from Philadelphia, iu addition, to his formt-r Itock of Coo ls, STRWV FLTS & G1PS1EB,
llm hnildirinf :i Ti-mnl,. .vl.Iol. .1... " '
- - - iiii.ui iihc uiai r m,
oi ooiomon, is io ne seven years in building. The frame is sixty feet square, and was prepared at a distance, and brought and put together without "the sound of an hammer or an axe being heard." It is to be ornamented within and without it
will he: costly, but the treasury of David
angled Bengals Bombuzin ty Bumhazetts
A variety of Morocco snor.s Sc rt'MPS, Laventine Sz changeable satinet silks. Large white and colored Casmere SiiawK " hlack siik UUC. Super blue Casinetts fc Broad cloth 6-4 COTTON niAPF.R. White sill; :ifwl cills l,..,:.i
displayed by Solomon, 'i'he building is to b three stories high, with a steeple.From the bas(? ti the top of the first story is 70 feet, and when that was completed, twenty-four females ascended and sung an evening anthem, just as the sun was sinking iu the west. They have a small place of worshin. in which thtn ia.'i tr.wwi
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G RE EX SPECTACLES.
ALSO, SAD1.ERV &l CUTLER V. ALL of whirl, ,r off.Ti,n rrn.anabluti.riM. jli'-hmoi).l, I Jihuio. 17,
They-o in procesion to their jhee of:' m rre- n, , v V AlJC11 AX, wotship, the females taking the lead, being jl litx ,u. ti , '""b" fn.-u.U, .ul tk, Preredcl by banners, and two of their j! number playing or, the llute. They have '! r "'BMC? P.N IT UTA t N M KN 'l Hi 1 1 two nunneries for female; one for the n't ! Llin'riw rn,"'rl ''cu,.ir.l by K. I.; v. Ui, u ofCan.1 under 10, and the other fur thote i rruuiarlnir .l-nh Ih' l ht' i,u' V 11 U: above 1,. m,e singular people occupy ' l;;:;;: tUr'iU a rich tract of country, about live miles in - 2 xl I f! n" ,I,S uM cur. uru nutcd tc ength by two in breadth. They use the iL IC,; plain language; but I have not bee,, al io1 m ?y y ,rVr to ascertain what arc their rt cuP ir ,',r ,1 -a1v 1 r.r.ho