Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 120, Richmond, Wayne County, 12 August 1826 — Page 4

crTrr.nCTED FOBY.

THE SUNBEAM. by mrs. hesi.5s. Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall; A joy thou art, and a wealth to all A bearer of hope unto land and sea; Sunbeam! what gift has the world like thee? Thou art walking the billows, and ocean smiles: Thou hast touchM with qlorj his thousand isles! Thou hast lit up the ships and the featherj foam, And sladdeu'd the sailor, like wort?s from home. To the solemn depths of tne forest shades, Thou art .treamin; on through th.r grern arcades. And the qui wine leaves that have caught thy glow, Like fire-fl.es dance to the pools below. I looked on themountains-a vapour lay, FWin5 their lights in it, dark array; Thou br..kwt forth, and the mist became A crown and a mantle u( living flame. I lookM on the r1"1'8 lowlj cot Somtthiiu of sadnes hail wrapt the spot; Cut sK-.un ol 'thee on its casviurnt fell, And it "laughed into bt ;iuty at th.it bright spell. Tj the earth's wild places a gut ft thou art, Fiu-hins tin wate like the rim heart; Am thou scornest not. front thj j omp,to shcu A tender luhl on tin ruin's head. Thou t-ikt through thr dun r hurch-aisles thy way. And it pillars from twihght tlah l.Tth to the day, And its huh p ile tomb, r'h their trophies old, Are bathed in a flood as of tturninf gold. And thou turnest not from the humhh ft grnve, Where a tl ov r to the iiii wind wave; Thou . atttrt't it? chipm like the dream of rot, Thou leepe-t in loe on it crassy breast. Snnhcaro of dimmer! oh, what i like thee! Hope of ihe wildenie, joy of the ?ea One f Niij i like thee, to n.ort ! s.ivt n, Thf fdik touching all things with the tut of Heaven.

TUB NATURAL BRIDGE, OR A SCEXt IN VIRGINIA. On n lovely morning towards the cloe

of spring. I ioniul myself in a verv beauti J filptrtof the great valley of Virginia, j Spurred onward by impatience, I beheld th; sun ri-ai t insplend r, and changing the blur tints on the tops of the lofty Alleghanv mountains into streams ol the purist ! gold, .ind nature seemed to smile in the i frehne- of he tutv. A ride . f about fif

teen miles arid a pleasant woodbind ranible of ah. nit two. brought myself and companion to the threat A'.tttral lirifgt. j Although I had anxiou-ly looked for- j ward to thi time, and my mind had been j cnnsiderahlv excited h expectation, yet

fromeither view docs not appear more than four or live inches in height. As tve stood under the beautiful arch, we saw the place where visiters have often taken the pains to engrave their names upon the rock. , Here Washington climbed up twenty five leet, and carved his own name, where it still remains. Some wish ing to immortalize their names, have engraved them deep and large, while others have tried to climb upand insert them high in the book of lame. A' few years since, a young man being ambitious to place his name above all others came very near looking his life in the attempt. After much fatigue, he climbed up as high as possible, but found the person that had before occupied his place was taller than himself, and consequently bad placed his name above his reach. But he was not thus to be discouraged. He opened a large jack- knife, ami in the soft lime-stone, began to tut places for his hands and feet. With much patience and difficulty he

worked his way upwards, and succeeded j in carving his name higher than the most ambitious had done before him. He could triumph, yet his triumph wasshoit, for he was placed in such a situation that it was impossible to descend, unless he fell upon ragged rocks beneath him. There was no house near from which his companions could getassistance. He could not remain in that condition, and what was worse his friends wi re to much frightened to do any tiling for his relief. Thev looked upon him as already dead, expecting every moment to see him precipitated upon the to k below, and dashed to pieces. Not so with himself. He determined to ascend. Accoidmgly he plied himself with hi-knife, cutting places for his hands and feet, and gradually ascended withineredihle labor. He exerted every musele. I lis life w.is a stake, and all the terror? of death roe bef re him. He dated not look downwards, lest his head should become dtzzv; and perhaps on this circumstance hi life depended. I lis companion stood

tain a complete harvest of the product of bees, without causing them the least preiudicc When the bee in its wild state selects a retreat, In the hollow of a tree or cleft ota rock, which affords room, it always fixes on the highest part of that hollow, or clelt, to build and suspend its combs. T hese ed.fi

! c A,ct,.,.nrl and mnendcd the one to me

; other, alwavs executed from the top down

ward, and never irom ui t I arc continued downward, as long as the bee finds room below his first constructions, i In thus descending in their labors, con gtai tlv and invariably, the bees abandon ; their first constructed combs above,-and ! begin a second tier below , in which the j queen mother, having also descended, makes her new deposit of larv ue. under the fo.tn .r f thi trhole familv. 'I bus

! there are no more bees in the upper combs, j I and in the second year they are char, not j ;onlv of bees, but of eggs, and entirely filled with honey. !

Such is the habit ol bees in their wiiu j i state, and Midi is it alo in their domestic . state; bv their instinct, they build from! ; the top downward, always descends g from j I the upper to the lower combs; precisely, in thi manner should we learn to plunder them, without smoking, oi drivinu, j I If we intend to rob bees w hich are lodg- ; ed in a hollow tree, or a cleft of rock, it ;

can be done without dilih ultv, and in per

Aius? and Persia:; s.- Tb

ltreen tne iree Araos and ik :

"C 1 ( Persians, and the natural cot.seq their different conditions, nmke 'al picture. Even the outward nr.d 'j signs of slavery and degradation !' i

side, and of freedom and equality 0ll(t '

to Fraser, or to any other traveler lr f , sia, and hear the description of the i and his court, the prostrations ai1(j tions, the fawning and cringing ) who rise from being trampled tipon'tj and set their foot in like manner o5l j necks of all beneath them; and to the Arabs, and see, as I h ue s(.er, !l chief, in the midst of his people, rf,c ')

them with a patriarchal embrace, ting down among them without oihtr tinction than the voluntary nar"a n

pect which the affection and esterr?, 0) subjects may prompt. One 0f lt t

striking peculiarities of Arab mail the footing of equalit) upon wl, ranks and conditions seem to nrV

gcther. sovereign, at.d scbj c t B and servant sit together, and fat

converge togetl er, on terms f tif t

perfect coruialitv ; and vet uoi d (dtr subordination seem a well estabb..iitl

j if thev were guarded with all the eW j which i elsewhere thought npnsstrJ 1 their preservation. On board an 1 j ship, ttiis national characteristic i J

cially remarkaide. from the for traj

C.t ..j'.Ii. It I il.iixf llu nnrter eofiios.

r- i i ft i i . v i iiiiiet. v - - ii

while the swarm which has abandoned j sent to I he marine uages o! Ktin yp, them, are engaged in continuing their la- j stead of the rtequette of a ) bors below. "The bees do not even per- rruiz-r. all is equal, and all thii.fr. j. j reive the robberv, nor do thev suffer bv it, jj mon. nfiireis and mot. eat and because the uppT combs, with their store !j and pray together; and)et in ti.r ofhonev, have become a superlluity, on ac which 1 have been 1 never saw h: count of the new provisions which they jj of prompt obedience, or breac h efi continue to accumulate in the stores which ij ry discipline; a'.d it is a renv.rkat J We -1.. 11 1.1

their instinct incline- them to build, uc- ; (and one mat to an jv.gnii ruva; ;

ccssivelv descending without interruption. In the same manner as wild l ees work, in hollow trees, or rocks, alwavs downward, so do the domestic bees, in the hives

or cases which enche them, alwavs com

at the top of the rocks, exhorting and en- j, rm.licin,r tieir labors at the -(; of the hive, I'll.. i Ia!

I i iuiiit;iM nun. up nil c mi;iii i lis . 1 1 1 1 n -i i .11. i i t .

exfiauieu; uui a nare posit)thi ol saving hi life still remained ; a d hope, the last friend of the distressed, had not yet forsaken him. His course upwards was rather obltipielv than perpendicular. His most crithnt moment had mw anived. He had acended more than two hundred feet, and had still further to rise, when he felt hitnelf fast growing weak. He thought

thrse awiui io Kr.anu ioiiow, in imagination, this bold ) outh as he thus saved hi life. His name stands far above all the

to which they suspend their combs and ; i work downward. ; j Here is the whole secret of nature tin j veiled for the robbery of bees w ithout in- i jm iiig them. It is easy to employ the art j ! (which w e have already noticed) of rob- j

hing wild bees, to the trick of using three j stories, or three cases, placed each succeeding spring, one under the other, to form the pyramidal hive, of which the ; highest slorv or upper case, without young bees or larva?, will be every succeeding

vear at the disposal of the proprietor; be- j

cause the bees have abandoned the upper j toi y, continuing their industry and labors , bv dec nding into the .wer cases or box j es, where the queen mother will always be ; found fixed with her living family and egg-. ! This secret, snatched as it were from nature, bv the first exertion of M. de La I) airdonnav e, whose step 1 have onlv followed to complete hi plan, is within the reach of cverv class of cultivators. It s onlv necessary eacli spring, to put a box

rest, a monument of hardihood, of rashness.;? r case under the imple hive, that after

ikim me rocKS beneath, as if tei i ilied at I the rocks above. The stream i called 1 Cedar Creels. The v isiter here sees trees under the arch, w!ios. tu igltt U seventv feet, anil yet to look down upon them, they ! appear like small buhe of perhaps two or ! thriM feet in height. 1 H ivv several birds tv under thearch Aithev lookes like inset ts. i I t!irew down a stone, and counted thirty-' foot before it reached the w ater. All hear ', of heights, but they here fr what is high,; and they tremble, and fff 11 ,l ' deep.'. Tiio awful r )( k present their ever las'ing abutrrient, the water mm mors and loams.

atid of tolly . I; We stooil around this scat of grandeur , about four hours, but from my ownfeel-j, ings, I should have supposed it not vet !j half an hour. There is a little cottage;; near, lately built; here we wereth sited top write our names as visiters to the biiilge,'! in a large book for that purpose. Two large volumes weieneailv filled already.'; Having immortalized our names bv enn l-i ling them in this book, we silently return-;! ed to our horses, wondering at this great H work of nature, and we could not but be i filled with astonishment at the amazing i

the bees have filled the first box thev mav

descend into the second, to continue their labors. In the second spring von will put a third case or box under the before-mentioned two, and in the autumn take offlhe upper i e. You will then have a perpetual routine of putting a new case each spring under the two which remained during the autumn and winter on the bench, and taking oil the upper one in autumn. This method, drawn from nature, is infallible; the upper is always filled with wax and honey, without young bees or eggs, and without filth of anv kind. The

PYRAMIDAL III VI!. Tr:in -lateil from the French hy Col. I)it:sri.orc, of AlaSaiun. The pyramidal hive, or the hive La Rourdonnaye, improved by a third pannier or box. From the earliest antiquity, the ama-

teuisof bee raising have formed different system for the management of these .in

jects; but. as vet. no one has fond . thf

and murm-Tsan l foams fir below, and the , mode f plundering their annual TndiKts. two mountain rear their proud heads on ;j without destiov ho' them, in whole or ii

each fide, separated h a channel of soh-i;purt. To thi dav, in fa"t, no

limit v. I hose vvho view Hie sun.the moon, found out the means of annually i . . i 1 1 . i . i.i- .i .

an I the iar, ano auow m il none nut ' ing these picciotis insect. wtl.:ntt

f7y could m ike thern, will here be im- pledeteili.iuation of a total or t .rt'.l

pressed, that none -on an rimightv Uod ,! strm lion; sucfi are the expedients If tv.:

could build a hridge like thi. j! MHkc ol siilpher, of wet burnt r.HN and

The view of the bri Ige from In lovv, is .j driving, all of which destroy at least threepleasing a the top i awful. The an h h fourths and often the whole, not onlv ol

the living bees, hut their young. Taiallv,

lrt n htie-ath woull sj-ein to he about tvvo feet in thiekners. Saaie idea of the dis tine, from the top to the bottom, may be form mI, from the fact, that when I sto.nl on toe Bridge, and m companion h'vcuth,

neither ol u could speak with sulli- lent

loudness to be heard by the other. A man jj of nature, by which I can cverv vear cb-!

power of Him -who can clothe himself in! whole family has gone down from the first wonder and terror, to throw around his box or case into the second. The queen works a mantle of sublimity. j; mother, her familv, and all her eggs, or

larva, are in the second hoxorstorv," and, if the season be very favorable, it often happens that they begin to work in the lowest box. The upper case, which is taken off, generally contains pure virgin honey, formed in the spring of the same year in which it was taken, for the bees commonly consume, in autumn and winter, the honey of the preceding year. Every cultivator can easily convert this I 'ZVV into a sug.f,, equal to white Havana c:!'yir, and it is as easily n-lincd as the su C "mid of cane, and will become a new r.: leof commerce, w ith which the maiof r "us w ill soon be supplied. Th"n4 j sugar of ,air ancestors be fore the ..vi v of Anieiica; and under our first dynasties, the pmaict of hires for rr.ed the most roi.siderablo branch of the rev enues of the State. The grand Miperinfenrb nf of bees in ; France, that i, the minister set over the police and general receipt of the consider- i a'dc produi ( of tliis rich pait of rural e-' conomv, was always oi e of the most jm. :

j- portant peisona'vs of the government.

err ha? plunder-

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would appear incredible,) that !

beard ofa punishment. While I am on the subjrrt of Atues, I think I may add those of i; ness arid kind heartedness. A -particular, I have lived much ui: and have often been left aloi - them; and in all situations at d stances, I never experienced any ! . the greatest civility and kit di e-, member once going upon deck i;s ' frigate during the bustle occafiei , sudden squall, and 1 still rcrr!i-t: kindly and grateful leelings, tliatn, noise and hurry and hurricane, 1 passed one sai!or who did not tur :r me with some wort! of encourage; consolation. In harbor I Used conversazioni of the Arab clT'ccr?. lighted exceedingly in tea. Tin !: witchcraft were. I think, the nM!!r : topic. Sevd Salvmeen, w!io cv,:'

the ship, was a great friend of n:;

upon my leaving the frigate, ve;.

j with much affectionate cereir. ! said he should place me in hi? r and that when he should give Uo 1 omo of the excellent medinre:' j lic(ric') which I had given b.iir. ; alwavs talk about mc. He c:-.U

compliments ny saving, mar i v...powerful in knowledge than t't'tM He was a good tempered chefriuic' j alway s talking in the Mabonr. Jin ? j

iaie ana prcuesiiuaimn, ar i y neglecting to let out an additi'-.l when it blew fresh. On one ol t

rations, he said to me !). not I'f -M

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; I" uni I mil , 1 liil'l I

Ichors.' He was very lord oi

l.is father, whose memory he ror hold in high veneration. lie s'.uJ ther always made a point cl k

:stablihment of four wives, ;ir.J l vertheless, dissension w as ui knc' household. The secret, be i'y harmony was, the even handed y--his father's behaviour to them. I ,!

pects he was careful to treat ll),m

alike: and if he bought so much as of shoes for one, he bought them I others also, and exactly at the s He added, that his father, bv

vorces and otherwise, bad, inl' ',' . . . . ,t ir 1 i'

hadyory wives. Im!j .Miry

altera careful observation on the irstita t and architecture of these inserts, aid fol I )vving. inethodically , the directiot s i f M. de La IJourdoniiaye, in the inatiagenient

oi ois into, i uis( oveieil the whole i-et ret

Toiciiks or TFRRiPr.r. si flphI" Cihawha I'ress of Alalim t says.!"' chetors are so numerous and voi i Indian Ke , an island oil'the coast id. i, that they keep the In iT "' 'j, dogs barking, and the fowls flight. Why, really, this description 4wiiiged menstei,' al:na?t tt'J"

given by Dr. Huestis, in bis top-'1

Louisiana. In his remark le says, "blood is tlieircry;

blood can quench their thirst' their sanguinary appctihs. l with them, the moschetoes ell';'; , States are gintf. naiI d like iron, thev perforate the b u- ' ad drink the crimson stream o

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