Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 126, Richmond, Wayne County, 30 September 1826 — Page 4

SSZaBCTED gODTZlg. THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OP THE MLS.

In sunset's light, o'er Afric thrown, A wanderer proudly stood Beside the well-spring, deep and lone, Of Egypt's awful flood ; The cradle of that mighty birth, So long a hidden thing to earth! He heard its life's first murmuring sound, A low mysterious tunei A music sought but never found, By kings and warriors gone; He listened and his heart beat high . That was the song of victory ! The rapture of a conquerors mood Rush'd burning through his frame,The depth of that green solitude Its torrents could not tame; Though stillness lay, with eve's last scailc Rcund those far fountains of the N ile. fticht ciime with stars: across his soul There swept a sudden change, E'et at (he pilgrim's glorious goal A shadow dark and strange Breathed from ti e thought, so swift to fall O'er triumph's hour and is that all I IV o more than this! what seeni'd Unoic First by that spring to stand ? A thousaud streams of lovelier flow Bathed his own mountain land! Whence far o'er waste and ocean track, Their wild sweet voices called him back. They called him hack to many a glade, His childhood's h-iuntof play, Whi re brightly through the beechen shade The waters glanced away; They called hnnith the Mounding wavc, Back to his fathers' hills and graves. But darkly mingling with the thought Of each familiar scene. Rose up a fearful vision, fraught With all that lay between; The Arab's Inner, the desert's gloom, The whirling sands, the red simoon ! Where was the clow of power and pride! The prit born to roam? His altered hrart within him died With yearning for his home! All vainly strugclin to repress Thatguh of painful tenderness. He wept the stars of Afnc's heaven Behold hi turning tear, E'en on that spot where fate had enen The n.ef d oftoilmcyears! Oh, happims! l.ov. far we :Ue Thine own sweet path in s-.ar.h of thee!

of wine, so much esteemed at Rome in its most luxurious days, for its cost and exquisite flavor. "We tasted seme of it," says Dalla way, "which did not disparage its ancient fame." It has a flavor similar to that of Monte Fiascone, and is called, by way of excellence, the wine of Homer. The honor of giving birth to that divine bard is claimed by the Chians with honorable avidity, and they are allowed to have urged a greater number of circumstances than their competitors, in suppoit of their claim. A family of his descendants were called llomcrida; and, as if the art of poesy were hereditary, they produced Parthe niu?, of no trivial name among poets. Leo Allatius cites many authors to prove Homer a native of this island, and upon more accumulated evidence, decides on that cir

cumstance as a fact. But his own confession may be more satisfactory in his hymn to Apollo; for his inhabiting Chios may convey a certain decree of proof that he was born there. Ion, an elegiac and tragic poet of the age of Eschylus and Sophocles, was also a native of Chios. Venus was the divinity to whom the highest honors were paid in this island;

her temple was uncommonly splendid, and the female devoted to her service not less beautiful than numerous. The education of the sex was equally hardy with that of

the young mrn, and, in the public gymnas-l

tic exercises, they contended with each other unincumbered by dres?. Notwithstanding tins exhibition of rigid dicipline, the natives were addicted to the mo?t ef

feminate luxuries; and it is said, to their j eternal reproach, that they were the fnt I in Greece who used slaves. The Kpicu- ! rian philosophy was very successfully re-!

commended by 'Metrodus, and enforced by ; the example of his practice. His dctini-! tion of happiness is succinct and plausible:' ka sound constitution, and a security oi ib continuance."

Whatever might have been the remains of ancient architecture, no traces are now ; to be discovered; all have yielded to time, j or more probably, to the more etlt cttial ! destruction of misguided Zeal. j The city of Chio appears to have been I at the most distant period of considerable j

extent :ifift he.-intv. aI,wln Scin. :i; it u !

proportion, nor should ve wonder that if the superiority of beauty be unimpaired, the art of adorning the person be almost lost." As a proof of the salubrity of the climate, longevity is common. Among other instances, Dallaway mentions his being accosted at a fountain, by a venerable old man, who said that he was 120 years old. He acknowledged that there were many older men in Scio; but none like himself, who had been preferred, as he could boast to have lately been, by a girl of 20, to a rival of her own age! From the Vew-York Literary Gazette. MISERIES OF AN EDITOR.

"The duties of an editor are multifarica and perplexing; he has to contend with a thousand reasonable, and ten thousand unreasonable people: he has to select from various publications matters where with all to please the taste of the gay and

grave, the happy and the melancholy, the philanthropist, the male and the female. Again he has to torment his eyes in decypheringthe cramped and almost illegible chirography of those who aspire to appear in print, and after all his pains, it is ten to one that he finds the essay fitter for the fire than for his columns; with many other grievances which prudence forbears to mention. Another 6orc, and one that is often a most provoking thing, he must have an editorial paragraph or two in every paper, and brains or no brains, sense or nonsense, he must write, else his ''patrons'1 are dissatisfied. Thi is no easy m.-.tier, u r

mid the grievances above enumerated, he has to attend to the financial departments of his paper which are too often, troublesome enough. Moreover, when he has made up his mind to write, he has another thing to do: he must find a subject; and in this monopolizing world, where can he

Ii id any thing novel? lol in inc water; I Dr. Mitchel has explained every thing in the fc,mu!titudinous sea;" not in the earth,

Capt. S mines ha discovered all. Not in the air, for the numberless authors in Ornithology and Entimologv have found out all the sec rets of every bird that wings along and of every insect that flirts in the sunbeam, or sports in t he evening air. Not among men, for even man that has anv

in person, entered ths strongest f ing miracuously, and ei,r0Ur t5': men to follow her example days the English lost S00 men ' t French lost only 100. These' were crowned with the deMrV The English were so dispirited 4 ? position of an agency above nat employed against them, that til " doned the seize of Orleans, at ,j '

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This young woman after

burnt, on a charge of witchcraft.

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now called, is esteemed the handsomest ! 1 u"" w orui Knon m vt n ,l lw ' '

town in the Arrhineln-o. and from it. llal- u,ai m m'lv ""I"1"1' l" V"""" "

ian masters has derived much of the Eti

THE ISLAND OF SCIO.' I Wr all recollect with what r un ful runtn n. we ' prrned the iletnil ot the min of thi beautiful 11 end, two or three year ico, hy the men ilefs Turk-. : The following ecripticii e m to have tern writ- 1 ttn previous to thnt melancholy t-tent: j The ancient Chios, or brio, letains more 1 of its firmer prosperity than anv Mud in! the .Ege in se t. The fertility and beauty j which they discovered, invited the Ionian I states to establish a colony more than a! thou-aiid years before Chlist, which soon , attained to a degrer of political co;se-; ijuence a the allie- or subjects of the con tinental cities of (ireece. A lleet constant-d lv prepared for artn.n. :.,.,! il rrri r lim n

g iiiti of the people, gave them the com mand of the .Eg' an sea. Ili-torians le cord very frequent charges in li eir miU jertion t.ralli itices, the result ometiine 'l lierosoitv. but more frequently of ehoice. Tneir niot ancient frn-i.ds were the Spartar.. nhnm they deserted for the Athenian-, but during the I Vb ponneSMan war, they again revolted to the Lacedemonians. After a failure in the tirM attac k by Chares, the Athenians indulged the resetitnvnt of conquerors and levelled the new; Wall-of their cifv with the ground. The kings of IVrgamo, Eumenes, and Attain-, appear to hue become possessed' ot Chios either bv cor uuest or hv t e.sim

ropean accommodation. In heating t i

windward, we -tood within half a mile of it, from which distance it presented a fine appearance, more particularly the southern part of the tow n, in which are several Turkish mosques, whose circular domes and slender minerrts, just disccrnable ahove the deep vvood with which they were surrounded, gave an air of novelty to the scent. The port is extensive, but has neither deep water nor good shelter, be-

ing formed h alow mole ai.tl a reck, n i which are two light. The population of (Ireek- is computed ; at above 1 50.000, w bile that of the Turk- j

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patent to immortalize his name,and secure the exelusive right to himself, and heirs: then among women? No: that is fiir and unfair subject, and he thrives best who has Icht to do with it. "Now in the name of

The Military force in Europe jed at 2.500,000 men, including

of land and sea service. Tnpse( 'Governments annually, 2fror!!

( ii. tots, miiit; me emire territorial ! of Europe does not amount to tilrj 1,800,000.000 francs. About ti j eth part of the population of Europe ; ; under arms; and each inhabitant fu'.V es upwards of nine shillings stf rl , year, for thesupport of this of armV

mpii m hi let F itrnno m m rfr i

... f ....... m.m, 1 111 p UlUUIIQ pJ-. Weevils. Accident has discover a French Farmer a very implf n, destroying weevils in corn w;irc.J Happening to lay in the corier lf granary, in which there was a lanv . tity of corn, some sheep skin w ;;. fleece on, he was not a little ?uqr find them, a few das after, covered H dead weevils. He repeated ti e (Ir. ment several times, and alwas n;!h'; cess. At last he ordered bis ccrn t stirred up, and not a sir gle wccul r ?: ed in it. It appears therefore, uli the cause ha not vet been aMcitniMr. greasy wotd, when in the neighta-il..:.; weevils attracts and destrovs thtro.

5TfHF Director? of the NKWl'Olir LlLRij believing it to be rxpedifnt that thur -- j H).'ks be ;i!i-utentfil pr KtH to tK- ccLir..- tr 1 i iiihts of the erisume wititt r i Mrt it, uiycri:titf.s nj .ife to said i nt it u( jen Mi-, the 3d day of tith in .tilth lat. bv ; ! uuo : of the Trea-un r, hy the !td;ij ofnrxt xur. . Ordered by a b'al meeiin of ,tid Dircit r-.-r and held in Xewj.nrt, the 9ih d;tv of 9th n -. c 125-3 frOLOMOX THO.M S, l.ihr, , '

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AUMLVISTKATOirS SALK.

ILL be offered at pufdic verniu". a it - '

nt Col. Alexander Lwinc, m ti,f t.,

editor write a paragraph? On any thinx.

avs a friend at my elbow. That has an ejtiivocal sense. v Any thing? 'Ves, write on any thitig, no matter what and if you trespars on any man's patent, let him take the law, and he will soon find

' out that he w ill lose more bv litigation than

he gains as many a poor devil has done before him.

'If you write any thing that an author

run lie, ii.diaici, on Saiurila) , Ua JSt: i October next, the undivided inttrest of hue h llCtt, dee ;(. ed, f(i TWELVE SEC7I0XS OF LLXD. ir fijf i.ij if' it 1. .,.1. t...f . - ......... i W

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noe. tin-other 'is section situated oi, sii V b;uh river, at the mouth of Flint rier; t.1 e ... . divided interest being one-'ixth art, or T. !?L(.'TION? of I, Hid, beiistf the pam urai 'd! I said l-aar, iri hi lite tiu,e, hy Treaty of St M of ICI8. Nine months credit w ill be riv n m

ceiiu juod security. Hy order .f she ii Court and Curt for settleu"rnt of iiste-td in the county of Randolph, at the Au n t 15-'. sAMUn, II A.N , i'ort Wayne, Sej t 5. l!;'.Jf. I.V, "

does not complete a 10th patt

is their wa. t of vigor and uirmimi

their habitual terror of the TurUi-h mirpc, that they patiently bear their I tiidtn, whilr the CI reeks of the otlier i'dand- -vinceso strong a desire to avenge their i rong on their oppi es-or?. It is true that the vieinit ofScio to the Turkish territory, and the presence of a Turkish ganison, may make it prudent to conceal desires which, for want of a leader, the cannot safely accomplish. This numerous population is maintained by the produce of the soil, and by the manufacture of frilk and cotton stull-. Almost the whole of those parts of the island, in which "cultivation is at all practicable, is said to be like

a garden. Among the chief of their pro

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t . i iiii umji lieu upon im'iom, in in. tun: inn I t sflf hi . ' ... . , . .

i : one la twenty will Know am thincr anoul

j it. vv rte satire, or descend to scandal, i j and if any man, woman or child, finds an) j I thing in it pi rsonal, swear, with the pro- j

i verb, that "if the shoe tils htm he may wear j

if." "Write on friendship and love, is there ! ami thing more novel than these now adays?

On h pocrisy or deceit, is there any thing more abundant in market? Write on liber

ality, honesty, or plain dealing, where can jj voti find any thing that sounds better in jj theory and is less pactised." jj

nn-1 upon the extinction of the Attaliau ductions are those of corn, wine and fruits.

kings they were att.u bed to the Ivoman j territory, and when the empire was divi- ' ded. the) remained subject until the reign j of Manuel C'orrt'if us In the partition of j the Ivitern Kmpirc, in 1J0 I, hy the j French and Venetians, Chios was allotted ; to the IJvzmtit.e throne. at:d afterwards i praiited to the fjenoese, in remuneration j

gum-mastic, silk, and honey, which last is found in great ijuantities in the rocks on the south side of the island. hi recounting those bounties of nature, the singular beauty of the female inhabitants must not be omitted. "As we walked through the town," says Dallaway, "on a Sunday evening, the streets were tilled

with women,

dancing, or silling at the

of at-iUnce against the Latins. In

It was trearheioudy taken hy Piali P.t-ha, i door in groups, dressed in the fashion of alter having bei ti held by the Genoese 'J the island, which is scrupulously confined' nearlv two renlurie and a half. After a :! to the natives. The girls have most biil calamitoui hoigc in 1G9 I, the city and isl i. liant complexion, with features regular; and wer regained by the Venetians, who! and delicate; but one style of countenance i

were tietrayed hy the C eks during the j prevail. When without a veil, the head'

inveterate quarre l uith those of the Latin j is covered by a close coif, confining the C hun h; hut t-''ir poe&Hoo was of short hair, exi pting a lew locks round their1 duration; for, in lGDU, M 7.zmorto, the j fare, which are curled and bathed in per-!

Airiran renegauo, a celebrated Admiral, invented the island with success, and it

was again added to the Ottoman Empire, with wh.m it at present remains. Toe island i computed, as nearlv as the extreme irregularity of tlu- coast w'ill ad rnit of ascertaining, to be about 130 miles in circumference. It is intersected by mountains of volcanic shape and stru. tun", ditinguislied by the ancients as the Tha IKe i and lMlar a ui; the latter is in the district ct Arrisid, lamed for the produce

fumed oil. The ringlets, w hich are so el

egantly disposed round the sweet counte-l nances of these fair Chiotes, are such as! Milton describes by "hyacinthine locks,"; crisped and curled like the blossorni of that llower; arid although no dress more; unbecoming than that which envelopes1 their shapes could have been imagined, yet their faces make ample amends, with eye varying with infinite expression fronr softness to vivacity. All the aits of an-; cient Greece hac declined in an extreme!

Joan nf.lrC) or commonly called the maid of

Orleans. This damsel dealt in divination, in the

reign of Charles VII. of France, during the j

seige of Orleans by Henry V 1 ol hngland. Success certainly had attended the arms of several successive monarchs of Albion for a long scries of years. As certain it is, that affairs took quite a different turn on the appearance ofthis maiden, who being introduced to Charles, declared that she had been favored with a supernatural revelation in a vision, of his ovn restoralh n lv her means. I am the virgin," said Joan, "decreed by heaven to replace the crown upon thy head, after relieving Orleans' Although the king paid but little ref ird to a tale of that sort, by the persua sion of the person who introduced her, he gave her a troop of an hundred men; on which the heroine, in habiliments of the other sex, valiantly marched to the relict of the city, supplied the besieged with food, and inspired them with a spirit of courage unknown before to Frenchmen. At the same time, a spirit of dejection prevailed amidst the English, who imbibed a notion that the maid was actually sent to war against them by the Almighty.

She a second time relieved the place

with plenty of fresh provisions and the ene- j my beheld her at the head of fifteen bun j dred men eager for victory. The virgin, !

LOST, O N ;'fnr.'.!v. the fth if.t. a P.L.U K '; CO l'i)f KK'I LOOK, ei i.t.ui.u . cien hy Ut rry Lnn , f,i C."0 ua!hn.; ut vl . due in f !,ni try la-t hi..! t r . m.te iu u ; J Coleman, i!e 1111. t, lu'-O. fi r e:ia ul';ir-. j t 11 a ,

itjire i.itiuri p.ua c:i if and v. r;d rtcti,f-, u?e to any person hut the own r. JOliy SNAVFiV. Septrn.hrr L, ICJo. TllV. u? rribrr h.i jut n re iv d, nnd u . ! tinie to rer ive from the city of 1! ti'J i ' a svi Knu SKI.ECTIOI ( f FOKKKjN AM) DO.MLSTIC Dry Goods,

i; Comprising FANCY as well as ST.AI'U

articles. AL50, HARDWARE, QUEEXSIVARE, end GROCERIES, Which ho will ell on the most moderate trrrrJ ::' Cash or approved Produce. SAMUEL W. SMITH. Richmond, June 2J, H'-i J UST f'UBLISllKl) And for sale at the office of the Public I . THE INDIANA CAIiEIiDAH. AM' FA RMERST REGIS TER, FOR HIE YE VK OK i'1'R LoRU

Which will hp sold by the Gro, Dozen or n:';-1-at the Ciiiciiitutti price. -ALSO In Pres., nnd will be enhlihod ,D a few 1';1.v"l THE FRIEHBS' ALLIAKAC, KR Tlir SAME l'KAIl ; ... Which cont.nri, beide tl- ii-tronoii'i'"3' n other matter, the titnrs of hultlmz the i'i:,r"',';! rt in tie Iri'l" i,M

Yearly Meeting :i u 1 ii arranged 111 a

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more approorivte th in last tear. It will re '

the wros, l)oi'ii orHtlt. lie !,.on I, .S ptenda r 2, y. - nlw "aSTkkican smkiXing 10(,K' FOR SALK at this office, by the !; 'n or siti'le, Ri'tcr.s .Va? American Sjtt Em':. i7LTKl)LrTl)S Fun S-vI.K AT TIJI5 OFFICE.