Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 117, Richmond, Wayne County, 22 July 1826 — Page 4

Vomf Ac Charleston Courier. The "Last Song" of a ftTOriteCanry-addred fcj the author to hi daughter. THE SPIRIT CIXID. "Little Cherry oon caust 1eae thee, Swiftly wing'd the moraents fly, ?Tis the parting sons, believe cae, Hark! the Spirit Binl is nigh. "Gentle a the youthful bosoo Is to roe thy tender care ; Still for thee may flowrets fclosiora, And thy heart be light as air. "See! perennial proves appearing, Little Cherry now roust fiee; All I ask is one endearing IYnsite ?h, and tear from thee." Cherry's sonc had scarcely ended AVith the voice and note of love, When he fl.itter'd nnd ascended To the Spirit Bird above.

ery imposes cntaany men to become inscl

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r.Ucf us to chccco the right way ; the choice requires simply, the exercise of reason p!ain common sense, wherever it is perrr.it ted to- preponderate over the passions, will be a sufficient guide for, the reason why we see so many enigmas in the conduct of men is, that they control reason, instead of suffering reason to control them. OAKWOOD.

crciscd no authoriy, but merely Stated What he considered was for their tr.utcr.l advantace, toc:: ialicst cf even , ;irl rontrcl.tor;.: an cp?ortc:Uy to ct.l

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From "Lines written in early Spring.

BY WORDSWORTH. To her fair works dil Nature link The human soul that throuch me ran; An1 muh it tjrieved my heart to think, frhat man has made of man. Throuch primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And Mis m faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around roe hopped and played; Their thoughts I cannot measure; But the least motion which Ihey made. It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twies spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I rout think, do all I can, That there was p!eaure there.

i nnA Uft him cn the island

After being thus entirely abandoned, he .pent the time in preparing oihe frouj the skin of the seal, and in collating food for winter. Once or twice n day he used to ascend a hill, from which there was a wide prospect of the ocean, to see iT any ,.,1 nnrnnrrri. but alwaNs retired dis

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ticn of t:.-t tiir.e, our globe standi I?" ! in the way cf the comet, w ill recti shock severe enough to insure its nu' H 1

tructioa. This is really very alarms

From the Trenton Emporium. THE RIGHT WAY.

There is one rijrht w.iv and a preat many

irrnng ways of li vine, acting and speaking;

of doing every thing, and the riht is al

ways the best, because it is the easiest, the safest, the most profitable, and the most pleasant. And it i much easier to show that the creat mass of mankind mistake this way. than to uive the reason why they do so. It is a plain road there are pointers up at every corner and he who runs rnav read. And yet compared with the scattered crowd, but a few solitary travellers are to he found j iurne) ing on through life in the ivright icny. M -t people who go wrong, know very Wfll what they are about and where they are. The prodigal, the drunkard, the grossly criminal, do not generally pretend that they are in the right way they can give you many excuses for leaving it, and such perh ip9 as seem reasonable to themselves I don't say satisfactory for he who mioses the way, never misses the forfeit and all who travel the wronj; road must pay the toll gatherer however plausible

th3 reason that brought them there may be. !

Among these excuses one of the formost and most frequent is, that the first wander ing were unintentional and to them imperceptible and that they have now gone so far estray that the force of habit prevents their return. This is just as reasonable as it would be for a man whose business la) in Boston, to persist in travelling to New

Orleans, because by a mistake he had gone j

a day s journey south instead of east. The truth is the the wrong way has a! Itrange fascination about it, the force audi operation of which wese without being able to account for it it is the same nameless & j mysterious charm with which the serpent ' enchains the powerless bird and full as it is of disappointments, and sorros,few who have gone tar in it ever return. There i are a series of progressive steps from bad; to worse, each of which when taken ren-! ders the task of getting back more difli-j cult. i A grat many men have a spire of vile-' tirst in their composition, that often tempts: th'mtoindiilgcnoMhoe who are idlefwant to tlrcss a little better than othcis the; must keep company like themselves; and thse vices, must all be al the receipt of the i utoms every one who has

to do with them must piy his quota of thej

It oiten happens too, that something! it'ty , --tr

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From the New-York American. We have read with a good deal of interest, Capt. WeddelPs Narrative of a voyage towards the South Pole. He succeeded in rca ching a considerably higher latitude than Capt. Cook, or any precceding navigator; and when he put hack, had before him a clear sea without land or ice in view, to obstruct an onward course. Beincr ImwKvor nn a mercantile vovaee, and

in a very small and, for the purpose of discovery, unprovided vessel, he was compelled to forego the honor of penetrating furth er. The infoimation be has imparted will we doubt not lead to some better organized undertaking for discovery in that regiou. Captain Weddell visited the Falkland islands, the South the Shctlands and Terra del Fuego: of the inhabitants of the latter place, and their quiet and inoffensive manners, lie gives in interesting account. We have made some extracts from the work, which will, we think, be found interesting among them the following story, which

is new to us, in all its parts. New Island is remarkable for having been, for two years the solitary residence of a Capt. J. Barnard, an American, whose vessel was run away with in the year 1814, by the crew of an Knglish ship, which on her passage from Port Jackson, bad been

wrecked on the south side of these islands. I met with Captain Barnard in 1C21, at the place of his exile, and his conversat ion naturally turned to that subject, which being interesting,"! greedily devoured' A particular account of his residence on an uninhabited island, would not fail being considered almost as wonderful as the celebrated fiction of Robinson Crusoe, since there was a great similarity in their situations. The principal incidents attendant upon this event were as follow: Capt. Barnard was at New Island with his vessel in the per formancc of a voagc for al furs, and when on the south side of the island, he met with the crew of the wrecked Knglish ship. Their number might he about 30. including several passengers, ccme of whom were ladies. He kindly took them to his vessel, and treated them with all the hospitality which their destitute situation required. Captain Barnard was from America, with which England was then at war, and this circumstance created doubts as to sincerity of their friendly intentions to one another, though he had promised to land them on his passage home at srane port in the Brazils. Owing to the additional number of people, hunting parties were frequently sent out to procure supplies: and when the captain, with four of his people, were on an excursion of this kind, the wrecked crew cut the cable, and, in defiance of the Americans who were on board, ran away with the ship tollio Janeiro; whence they proceeed to North America. On Capt. Barnard's relur i toNcw Island, he was struck with astonishment at finding his ship carried otTas he had never suspected any design of the kind. On reflection, however, he soon guessed the cause, as it was quite apparent, that the fear of being taken to America, where they would become prisoners of war, had been the motive to the commission of this action, which was a had return for the asylum Capt. Barnard had afford -d the perpetrators of itHis conduct towards them, certainly, did not justify their entertaining such a suspicion: but it seems they chose rather to act dishonorably than trust to his protestations, that lie would land them in the Brazils. Nothing in the way of supplies having been left for Barnard and bis companions, of which even the captors of his ship ought

to have thought, he was forced to consider !

how tocy were to subsist; and recollect ing that he had planted a few potatoes,they directed their attention to them, and in the course of the second season, obtained a serviceable supply. They had a dog which now and then caught a pig; and the eggs of the albatross, which were stored at the proper season, with potatoes, formed a substitute for bread; and the skins of the seals for clothes. They built a house of stone, still remaining on the island, which was strong enough to withstand the storms of winter, and they might

have been comparatively happy, that they

nnnointedand forlorn no ship was

obseived. The four sailors, in the meanwhile, having experienced their own inability to provide properly for themselves, returned to him after an absence of some months. He still found much difiiculy in preserving peace among his companions; indeed omTof them had planed his death, but fortunately it was discovered in time to be prevented. He placed thisman alone with some provisions on a small island in QuaI ker harbor,and in the course of three weeks, ! sa rreat a change was made on his mind,

ithat when Captain Barnard took him otT,

he was worn down with reflection on r.is crimes, and truly penitent. They were now attentive to the advice nf lhrtr rnmm.itiflpr. nnn the above men-

; tinned offender became truly religious and exemplary in his behaviour, tn this way ! they continued to live, occasionally visiting i the neighboring island in search of provis- ; ions till the end of two years, when they 1 were taken olF in December, 1815, hy an English whaler, bound for the Paci- ! tic. Captain Bernard informed cie, that j a British man of war had been sent ex pressiv from Rio Janeiro to take thm off", hut by some accident the vessel, though at ! the islands, did not fall in with them."

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j A sixth Coxtixent. An extraordinary phenomenon presented in the southern ! ocean may render our settlements in New South Wales of still more eminent importance. A sixth continent is in the very act I of growth before our eyes! The Pacific is spotted with islands through the immense .'space of nearly fifty degrees of longitude, land as many of latitude. Kvery one f 5 these inlands seems to he merely a central spot for the formation of coral banks, j which, by a perpetual progress, areiising 1 from the unfathomable depths of the sea. The union of a few of these masses of rock, i shapes itself into an island; the seeds of ; plants are carried to it by birds or by the i waves; a:.d, from the moment that it overtops the '.vater?. it is covered with vegetation. The new island constitutes, in its turn, a centre of growth to another circle, i The great powers of nature appeal to be still in peculiar activity in this region, and ; to her tardier process she sometimes takes the assistance of the volcano and the earthquake. From the south of New Zealand J to the north of the Sandwich islands, the waters absolutely teem with those future j seats of civilization. Still the coral insect, j the diminutive builder of all these mighty piles, is at work; the ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of foundation;

and, when the rocky superstructure shall have excluded the sea, then will come the dominion of man. Lon. Monthly licvicic A correspondent of a Brooklyn (N. Y.) paper say s, '! observed in vour paper, that

! flour is used in Philadelphia lor horse food, on account of the low price. Will you be !so good as to inform our brethren of that : brotherly city, that a baker in this village i keeps my horse at 12 dollars per month, and feeds him on light wheat bread, made from the same flour that he serves his biped customers with, when made into excell l 1. Wt 1

lent nrcau. ne says it is less expensive than oats for feed."

THE RIVER NILE,

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I he Kiver IS lie uses within a few (e(t nf th omiafnr nnrl Kfpndi ho, i

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ic. us course is t&cn, mat it is Sp its head when it is Winter at iu

The fertility of the country depend

arise from the rains that fait in Ethi ; 1 and carry inundation over the level of Egypt. So important this annJ'S

undation generally deemed, ihat nj the water rises to ths height which y eatcs a productive season, the rat Z knowing the consequence, rejoire in Spring as many nations in harvest, 'jy inhabitants of lower Egypt send bonis to the head of the Nile. There it is SrV'

each boat being loaded with Bee fi !

; regularly placed and numbered, the fie, i are set at Liberty, and gather honey l

j every iiower. every nee returns at ni-f instinctively toits own, as if it knew t J ' number. When the spring season b ! to change, and the quantity of flowers Q

; tenallv decrease, the manners cl thi?., I navigation move lower down, gradual! the night, when the bees are housed r, i

day and allowing the active traveller; take their busy range and collect t, honey from myriads of tlowers.for thefi in an Egyptian Spring wear the crcwh '

I beauty, and the whole atmosphere is

i with fragrance. The water d

S and the flowers diminish, and aain

j manners move on and halt again,.Kid j i they move on till they arrive to grret i Spring, in the Delta, amidt the mouths I j a river which during so long a course, f:J i very little flower, and sweet herb, ar.d J j very poisonous beauty, and every w)

plant, has rendered them nothing but '.L

sweetness of honey and the honcy-conA The boatmen return the hivcs,asnun.c-

ed, to their respective owners, receiv :;'

! from each a small piece of money, whi:; amply rewards in the aggregate theirs' ! and toil. j This account was once related to a nr I her of interesting young persons,)) afr;ei ! of youth. They hung on his lips, -md wr delighted from the expectation which i ; unprefaced introduction had excited, r attent::n was raised onlv to conttirr' '

indust., and be rewarded with itsinstr.j tive lessons. But the inference draw; v.. relater was likely to leave a latir. : r: sion. Thus, says he: "my dear) ;j ftu ;ids, you arc now in the spring (i i

i"m viiiti yjr in nun it n:uudelights; seek that serenity which rcL alone can give. Thus as you move Jthrough life, y ou will gradually ace; -ite in mental good, the sweotneis !

havo been c ontemplating amidst i: . j pleasures. You will from even aovi

circumstance, fromeverv poisonous, L

I or pleasant flower gather as vou gc,-

lncrease in strength, knowledge, piety." Solemnity closed a serene summer veiling, and the juvenile parly retime rest as if the honey dew of i leaver, distilled upon them, in aflT ction and i ship. The true "feast of reason and soul"1 is The soul's caln un?lnne, And the hcnrt-lVlt joy, true virtuc,! pr;.v. Fill KM) DK

Comets. It is now certain that the same coun t has appeared in our planetary sys tern in tV years 1735, 1794, 1001, 1805, 1813, and 1025. It appears now certain that in its course it never passes the orbit of Jupiter. The period of its revolution (which is the shortest known) very little exceeds three years and a quarter; and its mean distance from the sun is not more than twice that of the earth. It seems to be especially connected with the system in which our globe is placed, and crosses our orbit more than sixty times a century. M. Olbcrs, the celebrated astronomer of Bremen, who has bestowed much attention to this comet, has been lately occupied in calculatingthe possibility of its influence on the destinies of our globe. He finds that in 35.000 years, this cornet will approach the earth a nearly as the Moon, and that iu 4.000.000 of years it will come to within a a distance of 7,700 geograpieal miles: the

consequence of which wilt be (if its attraca' I 1 ..... . '

were cut oil from their lelationsand fnenus, ' tion be equal to that of the earth) the ele

.vithout any immediate pro-pect of bei: g;

rmoved tiom the island. To add to the misfortunes of Capt. Barnaul in being sepi rated fir m his wife aid children, his companions over whom he cx-

anouoi ine waters ot the ocean 13,000 feet, that it to say, above the tops of all the European mountains, rxeept Mount Blanr. The inhabitants of (he Andes and the Kimlaya mountains alone v. i!l escape this sec-

LIST OF LETTERS, MAIMNG in the TuH Offire at Rl

hi!i:ina, on the I t d;iv vi Jul v. i-.

il iiot taken out bt-fort- the t iUy oi Oc tti "'1 will be cnt to the Gcnrrul Tost Ctlicc as artels.

1. Jninep Tlannoii, John Hentb y, Joi n C. Jhi IJ. Chapmuu, Willinm M. C!rkJ , Cook, !$ -thuel CoiTu), Anca.la Clavdn. ? Chnrles Jnrob Craia; ton. Pct r Cs, :!'

uuorn, John t;n. D. Ilirhnrd Dan.ron, Kliznhrtli Party Ci. Al.ivm.l.,. . :. . r ! ' j

ii. iiorten lliuvurd, Jot'ph IIpkn s -urs j mnn, Jolm or Willium Hunter. 1 J. Wcitlcj Jackion, Samuel Jumiif' Jsop. M. lienjnrain U. Moore, Svirlb M H'r' V Monre, John McCatcr. 8:innu'l M : k l' j

dick, ilas Moore, Je$J?e II. MurUcU, Min-f, IMtvard Mathenf, John Mauii. N Willin in Nrwbf . P. William rarKn, Morri rit-aco. It. IVT.'irv n:l ... a .... k. r

S. Samuel W. Stuart, Nathan xaitb, - Stephrnvin. David Sutln Hand. u ; T. Walter Thornhnrirh. ru rce Tboni3' ' ;

Thrrpvit. W. n.zokiah Williams. M oMiru' U'ii:!1?' Y. lluth Younc f5 h ttcrs, 1 , ROBERT MOKH1S0NJ 3 Hirhmn!i I Iilt I 1 1.r

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NEW A MElViCAN" SPELLING l'! t,

l' OR SALE at this ollire, by or single, llutcrs JIt Jlmcruzfl 7 Book, t i3LA.Njri)i:i:i)s Ton SALE AT THIS OFFf f'