Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 129, Richmond, Wayne County, 28 October 1826 — Page 4

SSLSCTr D POETRY.

THE WORLD TO COME.-bv bwrig. II all our lu e and all our fe.nrs, VVri ;risoniil in !ios narrow bound: If, trutellers through thisyale of tfars, W saw ni world bryond; Oh ! w '.at cimM clu ck tin riinjr a?h, What orth! flung couM lraure give? Oh! who would venture thru to die Oil ! who would venture then to live! Were life a dark nnl desert ni'T, Where iuits and cion 'Is eternal spiead Their clooinj veil b taut, b -o, nd tenip t thunder ov r head: Where i:.t a sun beam br ak- the clooin, And not a do ret smiles beneath Whocouhl exist in uch a tomb Who dwell iu ilarknts and in death ? And such were life, without the ray Fro iii enr divine religion given ; ?Ti thi tli tt in ike our darknr day 'Pi thi that muktfciir earth n heaven. Bright i the colden mm above, And beauti:ul the 'lower that b'ooua : And all l- , , and all i love, lit rlected from the world to come.

I .iw en the top of a mountain hish, A - in that sl.cnr like a tire t.j nicht: It st on d like a star, that h id h it the dy. Ami droj pi d to sh ep on the lorn U height. I rlimb'il the peak and found it soon A lump of ire in a char cold moon. Can ou it hidden use impart ? Twa a cheerful look and a broken heart. Ml'T VhllJTY. Surh is the mntahiliU of all u.ortal hope; S Ii ki i- tie state of t arthl tl ince, That ere the c.in' into t iT aiated scope. Ti t fall o short of cur (rail r km;n. And t ris u !e and bittt r virnm In-tt ad til c.nid rf w I ich w e should embrace ; Thi i- the stat of ( a irs and '"kings. Lt t rioi.e tt r- fro that i in me tier place, To .re tti tr: e rit af la n i.! ic k t. r;i ..

flcmers. This brnuf iful tower rests upon I square basement. The wall of the tower itse lf is twenty fee t at least in thickness, and the interior is built entirely cf briek lis solidity ai d i ircular form have resisted the attack? of lime, and of barbarian violence. The sepulchral vault was below the present level of the earth, and it was .ot till the time of Paul III. that it was pened, when the beautiful marble sarcophagus of Cecilia Meiella was f und in it. A golden urn. containing the allies, discovered at the same lime, has long since dis appeared. Tuat Cecilia M tolla, for whose dust this magnificent monument was raised, was the daughter of .Motcllus and tin wile of Ctassus, is all we know. Time and the devout i ;g tomh have swab owed all the rest. UV pursued our course along the deserted and grass grown lit c of the Appian Way. The immense number of mouldering sepulchres whic h ai r sed our g z as we parsed along, ail ex epting the few whose frames I have now noticed, are unknown. Il is impossible to con template unmoved these forgotten t unbs of magnificence. They speak that awful lesson from dust ve came, and to dust you hall return. Near the IWto Sin P isto, stands the gray pyramid of ('aius Cestius. Who or what he was is unknown. The monument

that commemorates his death, alone tells

alive health and we learnt, on mwe strict has bedn much praised. r0 . . Inquiry, that the population of Ostia at valiiantly in several cnu"; present nominally consisted of 12 men, 4 ;i several times sever- ly woUii(j, . l:i

women, no children, and two priesis. A bod v of convicts, whose lives it is. convenient to shorten, are also kept here; hut they, with the few soldiers who constitute the guard, were out at labor when we arrived. Their principal work is at the

salt marshes, where by natural

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i nu limbing is Co can, . graph of Mr. S;ntgues Ku!' and .1 -ff-rson: ; Jii "Oircoun.ry !ns boor, g0rn;v' proached for nit erertin r ... k ' ' ! ? . i i. ' r r"i,"n-;..

Stagno or salt marshes, wnere oy nniur.u nimw iu ier ueparted v.'.:,?, evaporation the salt is made that is used what avails the n)oin!lt4t ()f'b; i in Rome The men were roaming about K stone ! . Sink iU found alio:, ' d , ' 'v

the marshes, shooting bi'ds and hufTiloes, ij it as high as htiman kn: iVu.n ,1'"

and the woman whom we saw, was literally the only parson in this deserted town.. O-dia was built at the mouth of the Ti-

iher, by Aucus Martins grandson ofNuma, i cold and lifehs Time c!.. ,T ; fiOO ear before Christ." It was so d light- j b romes du-t in Ins hand. 'lj .P !

fully situated, that the Komans generally ;triois, sratesavn ami philap.thr,

; years pres on it fall.

j it, and bvave not t trace of i( ,r . ''x

utu:r. rreci ir.e st.i ue nf ..... ;1

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I soent a nart of the year there, as a country j those whom we this dav

! resid nee, or for the pleasure of sea bath- who have been the instruments

j ing and air. The coast had changed so j, deuce in adding to the nunia. r, t. , ' i I i' kT a I A T OX t rv !T tiimj:; nf Inn li'irti t ' "i

. far in me time oi oiraoo, n. lj. o t'o' . . m. ( jui ui i.u 1( n

I separate the port from the town; and the pled and gl.idderied tie,, rm . J, islands, which at first secured ships in the memorials are every where! '!v7

iharbor, had been so mnrh enlarged by de- j tue are tna.; hving, fctln ? j,.. i

posits trom the I iner, tnat Doin naroor anu mooring man; tearing th; j

j town had been left by tlie retreating wa- Mtker; havi-fg the impress tie

liters, so as to he quite at a distance from the. j: These shall endure, hy constant .

sea. O'tia is now in the wtldeme-s. through countless ages, vig

rosjc

T ie sea is two miles from the ancient p:,rt. i; emhrac? of time, becoming more a i

'rT,l .i.iiiu t, In tlllf I lll k II I 11 -1 t l t I l iili r... .. . . .

; II atiies ol the land not allowing llie 1 iner f; eriasttni' tull u tut h they ;atK,

ti9 that he lived. The pyramid, oi more jj to carry off the immense quantity of earth i' with v rdure Their nr-.i- s ;tre ; than a hundred feet in height, is entirely j and mud its turbid waters bring down, re- !: of health ' m.d joy, in v all-) ? v. i j, . built of marble, but time has changed its i vales the shores, causes the river to ll-.w ! have made fruit ml To tnern ire

t olor aiul tlei'aced its p.!ih. Tn gray

j lichen has crept over if, and wild tver!j creens lianu fi n its crevice-. Hut what

'j it ha lost iti splendor it has gained in pic !

! 'nr xii- beauty; ami there are few re

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more ami more siugisuiv, ami uni tne sea recedes, and tne marshes are continually extending. We intesided to cr)s to the sacred i-4 and in the middle of the stream, and Irom

j m i ins in the eternal Citv that tlie eye rests i the.u e to Fiumit ino

"e other side.

!ipoo wi;h such unwearied admiration as

!' i- gray v r.irniti.

where there are

.till

) he

some re

" ' " "inn Ul liai'.;i;t wh'i h tle y h-ive spread w'nii f,:1;.'

i:r cities pro laim their ei-r'.r

gHiiis m-1'.Moii- sj.f.,k lieir nrj Ha ir n,irn aie in-.eriln d on uie

hatnt tfloi - of men; a; U on th,

temple- o( Go !, who-e -pi r.-- e p 0 ...

main-of the ancient P u j But a storm the heaven wntch, we trust h

ij Fv miles from R mi is tin tomb of !; suddenly came on with s.uch tremendous i th-in.

Ovid. On whichever ide vou leave Htne lie fe hnt- dftTtion -tnl; - vou with

V- f;jriti:i thr JVint tt nth Cti'rv." j oms.

ratige anil fearful urprie. Fr.)m n gteaf j

tro:oli lie beat of tbe in -si

ned

furv. trial it wa with the utmost difiuultv

w- coal,! keep .e.ir feet, and our plan of rioting t!, wide mouth ol the Tiber in a cr.izv boil w h entirely frustrated. The

T. inb- f.'tm- d a t..t more impor tant tea- '! " t. v ou plut.ge at ont- into i deert n remains ,,f Mb! ()-tia are on higher uroi:,-d. tare H at.i i nt ommuiuties tlian in air- j V u know you are -Joe to a large am! j -r ittei ed over a tureen plain, purpled w ith T e w.re tot tr wded into oIxum j popul-aj-. city , yet you see no h..u. s, no j vi'rnal nvers. loolien i .dumn- " grar ite.

Cluiti by ard, nor hidden to n.y i-,bb vault- j ;epie, no cuSJiv ttion, to signs o Ji.V; you r; s,ah- ol martd , a.iu Iragun.-.uS ot itifcrip-

but vwre cdubiUK -pread abroad in lh in i !,. i. UolJ- pla. and by (be idc I

Ct the pubhe I' y(ubl S masj( tb -e -t ntitlVltt". of Ue: I . 1 1 1 w re tu.t S j patnfu'. tsor fn add on l'. to a-j.ms as tc I Ctiii- :ati; ai d that death w h n b-li vt d i

Tl'N'is. An Arm nran ot rr. w! o !. ! vs-iU-d Tuni. slater, rn t ;,,,. - a lady foident there, tfsat tia ic an ; . eit; in the rc.Mise of tin c irnr.j , ..;. ene hurdf'-d apestatic-. In rn tJ.e Cf i-' tilth. K eraioes, ul.o pr.i ? ; ent. are immediat y taken it to ia-.i,; loaded with in lies ;.r.d li. i f ;.. j .1 I . ... r'i

w note niiin.HT i v nn.-inms n manently ;il Tur.i is 1500. Ti;( chuichcs and a convent.

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meet m in-wng-r on the road, or it you i Hons without nu n )er, wen strewed abmi

it h a glimpse f a hutr..n beii jj. he w ar- the grasj. All over it the turf w-as beav the g irb at d a-pect ot a s ivage. He i j:t d in ttr issy moirnls and bill k, the i lad in baggy -kins, hi- h s and tVet ar j! gravi of ruined paint sand temples. We are, and hi evt s elare wildly on y u ;.nv the line Koman brick walls of an antie cross s the-waste. Toe iucorgi uity oi h cient building, but we looked in vain for

to t-e ti a) di-olu ioti, w a-not so awful an ' votir own figun1 antl tpiipage, it, a i.e j; anv traees ot the camp of .Fncas which

revol t. tt ;i w n a. know n tti be tlie pa-rat !, ke tin stai ties v on. 1 ou oinetimt-s tt:t ;; mut liave been near here, this tieitt the i; it is in a state of dilanidntioi a: d '

to iiiHiiMrialin. I it, that in the fret it i ' a it left alone in tin -w t h!. ; branch ol t ie river w here he entered it j -.uutrv around i miera! !v 1 1 , r

j l-tr;irt of a lettrr dat. ,1 n?Tco!;i, r,:.Z, ; This c ity b lUbort of mv exi t a .

bean of man, the rtill small voit e of Con i OSTIA. sroree bid him to tr mble, rather tb t: j Our hst x iir-;on from Kerne was to r i 'O in a iudgrmMtt ti come. ro di-'at c i O-'.ia. Nothing can be m re diearv than

i - i - - e i ..j t

i m tin: of antiquity at ( )tia. w a, howevT. jj people kiml ami hospitable. JinJMr ' !r

ihrupth termiuatetl. U di' d to y n hl to . appearant es. I -hutihi not x-rrt I1

y a' ? . ur. d, a state f future ei-t n -I t he ride to this onee maenificent a pelt, tithe increasing violeiieeot the storm. We j b,v fever to ori'i'-ate I

sn oiti iv ui. vein (l: 1 e threatera (1 tt r- l-ven neiore vou n ave the itaic ol iv u. ro - oi lutunty may ofien be preib min.n i j vou liod yourself in a di -ert. You i-m ov r i' promised j v-; i Ve itna., there- j out ttiroui'h the Porto S-m Pa, la, pars the for-. mav have thrown over the vail y e ! L'rave of your countr men. the pr ud set!.e -h -dow ot death a deeper jr!o.-rn llj u. imh hr l p ramid f (,'aiu- Certiu. the tiea t.rt'.ojtt r radianer. j t'd f otivent d an P.iol a, and proceed T e lombt .f the Horn ins ty err charm - I through a continued .i ciic of dirm-d and t' ' 7. d by the m,-t .,ih rro 'lamlt nr ! heart rending deflation; no fields, m

J ..o-- v. hi ba e tin. ed the long hn" ot t e ' dw eJliat-s, n( ire-?. nt bind marks, no -ij-j,-

e ant i i I Kom.tn-. did not permit it - j tiie altered .eet s ttiat have vvitheretl a A mkhic a ns in f i ickkck. Fv an." Ia?t v iev - ts within th- unll- ot 'h- rilv. be nninl him. Tw o thousand year ago, hi ; of (ii.ete f.-ntams rome ix dices ol the

Ap;o ii- way, between it- m irgin- ot rue ! f tl and blat kei ing -epul hr. oi sTootl I , the street of tomb-, th-'t (;Hb to (!: gat. '. ct P. rnpeii. ami g z d on h scnlpltir' d j in g ill' e e of the-, (p tf tde dwelling ot j th.r o'ead, mu-t have f f iheir sndtmuity.!

while h.- ad anted their -p.!ei dor.

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t' rnii

I .miufd i v.as born-d on the Palatine hill, and tb Vestal Virgins, who died spotless, ref i ed ! he in liotior.thb-tomb. K nun s, pub hrrs wre either -quare, : cir ol at, or pwamidtl buildii gs. wilimut wiidows, irai x':d, ltUQ im. trance only, lot h as i la' ly on the sub- fuith s from ft. e p-jUht lead. They usually nS ste.i ..( a v.iill i;-. w ho Ii the urt aul sai c p awi vee depo&it-d, ami a chamber nb..y.in w bo h (he statues or (Tidies ,d the de.i I were plae d, and 'he li .ation-1 .'nut o!. (jdie- p.-i f .lined. Tne entrant e ; to tin s,- j u, ,rl etir.nibet, w.. geoer- : ally at the h.p, to which the Itinera! train, .-ani g li.:h;s. a-. ef! , d ty an xtemal , St .ir. o .l h - i nd d by an int. rnai om-;i a u. i.h aleui ti , ti gtr g: ,.at etf 'Ct to tin p - f e--ioi. ' 'i ' n t u- to ot carry u g toirhes at fune ral- h ot v. iv r n.de a.. i. n.. T ( 'aih- ; taif s derive d it ft Ml th r'ii.s, tie in-'.' ft i lie (J. . . k-, a..w ta

ot cultivation, except a few rt aidv patches d corn thinly s(atteral over the w-'sste. and huts like wigwams, to shelter tit

were driven back to the wreteln d oteria

we had left. lit its large black kitchen, hall, and common apartment, the only habitable plate in it, we found oir.e wild rui ti in looking men, who had sought shelter like out Iv e- fmnithe gab-; two of tit m were tdaytngat the game of Marra, ttieir i oatdenaiu es ii.l.ana d with parsjoj a thev told the game. Put no hloodv cin.tlict eoued. 'i'bey Soon resigetai to ti the dirty table d "boards, ami the 'vvoodt c fwra hes. which, except a few cr..zv -tools

ere. T. -d -.b

de-datetl the plat e v IT.;:, ;Tir;, the account of the i bain tan! . u ,i ; ; ced by a caigo of tb.m tg- i t li! . water tiaxii springs i aha: dant at; : lord and our vn i i i v to N v. (hi : ahles us to get almost any tnit-u id to buy , in a f'- v davs. The I. i

IS-2-2 kil

U v

I'i'M' t rces j,

w retched and half savage people, t ti. it are :. and empt y casks, formed the oiilv lurni-

dootned to live on this tV Id of death

The Tiber rellis g turbidlv along in hi solitary aurse, M-em- ftlllet.lv. to behold

tuie ot the pi it e, and here we ate the cold inner we had hrotig t front Kon.e.

chores were blooming in beauty , and crow- ij prominent (iucian and Au eiican characfled vy ith the proml palates of the great and;! ter-, w ho are engagt d in tb cause el j gay. A f-w mile from O-tia we entt red j; Greece. The Aim lirans are Howe. Jar- :

tipon a wil:ernesi indeetl. A dreary jj vis, Miller, H ashinglou and Allen. Howe swamp x-emb d all around, intermit ghd jj is a Po-tonian, d" small taiure, hu! of with thickets, thr. aigh yvhit !i roamed wild middling height,1' ami po-ser . s talents .n d

1 d It ab( (he only inhahi ants ol the waste i resolution. He is tist toil v enudoy t 1 in

4ometimes een breaking through the)

brake or treading down reeds higher than themselves sometimes swimming acns the stagnant w aters in their habits, grown amphibious like the. sceii"s they tenanted. The m Mlern foi I ifications ot O'tia ap

peared before us long be fort we re.u hi d jl

Greece, and ilr. hvans )te-uuies he will meet yvith much success. His print ipal ohjia ts in going to Greece were the n sto- ; ration of his health and the improvement of his know ledge of surgerv. Jaivis is a '. native of this country , but had been a r s- ! ident o! Germany. He is of t ommon tat-

them; at length nc entered its gates, jj ure, ami about thirt y y ears of age rather guarded by noceutinel; on its bastions, ap-j! ordinary in his appearance a man of nupeareil no s-d li rs rlu children ran can of;; live shr. wdness, and in his habits truly a its houses to g. . at the rafe splendor of a I! Greek. lie has been in Greece about five ;i

carnage; m woman stood'with her mu k ; years, and his given proofs of his toui age.

an I spindle at her cottage door; no pas s otger was sfen in the gras grown rect. It pie-elded the stratige spectacle of ;. town wittiout inhabitants. After stn

j Washington i. a V irginian, and about 2

years of age .i t il and elegant man, and p.ss. brilliant tabuds. Fvans -ays.j

is unnecessary to speak of him Aii tSn r.'

1; m the Lgp:,ii'; f.-r the iun.ng f i b ating and hallooing tu the part o! the l Miller is from Verm. uit. frem thirty to .'

iig .:s het.ii. in. d at w.t. ut!.Ml.r. ( hy j t at Inn an and I uajuey at the shut updoortjtv y ears .f age, rather In low the

ma and We-d I'ioiida, but tbry ;si tieg up again h an the t"ot, v. lu xt year. 'F e hg is pr-!ikt 1 1; pern-die. n. i'!a' viee makt-s b.:: l.t tire, bat it will, no chord, ! vv.ib S;; ania rd pay no attention t. i:r

m "ins, a; d the t:r-t sty arm ei .it. : . ilfer the transjer. -h,i i parsed i v ' iiv f the h.Mis, s that hiouubt i:( per uiontn reu, t an now n. ; 1 ; ' I k'-ow of s,-y cia! tliat are t ' ti.; c i -tree.

Tin g.;rden? imulured yvu:-i,:

' i their looks. There is hub v : ! . . . : .I. . .. ..,.ai,.i. ti

teuoiag oui wane sanu, tne in.i yy' icliis tlisagree.ibli' and burhult '

eye-. Ijalhing in the bay is nan n I '

tied, and is a luxury within tm1 r nu. all. 'J'iie good 1 ir:d in the ferritin is ' ted at onh CoO.OOO ov 300 000 if

1 hat around 1 all ihasse, the e n 11 -erninet.t, i a sai.-tlv loam, and pn

e, .

corn, cdtoii, and sugar cane a;u, i. A fine tract ol' United States' land-n ' sob! ia xt w inter, on the Chipnl.i :i -; .il.

The best uncleared lands will ud

more than ton ibdiats p r acre, been mm h ;r' uol ith the ac

i airney liom Si. A ti ' ii -1 i i e Jo

on bor-eliat k ab.ait 600 n ib-. x gentleracn cars that be weitM u ' turn to the Uoited States by tla- u .l 1

a t i

the men-id at pa-'ag

.is i s..,,t.i, to (,.- i -i. , or of the .!. p i,t spirit.

I Fi e ..e rnii o ; h (,'..um iriurn w e p" . d abng the I" I an Way. . (he t . t Geeiha M h 1!,, which is g. neral i ly . -o t 1 g i . m i ? mosi leautilul t-ejiU oral m o.i i , ,t ni he vort . I( ..nsi .1 a j : i . r totm ' .1 uivmoi bl k- ol 'I', ur -: ! (, Iix d t. g t!o i v. h a' .n. .t, a- ! ml a n u . ati IJ a a inat i ti z , oo win ii ar'i -.i ul,: . d, hcada ol uX.-n, fcituooL'd with gai lands ol 1

ol one dtfie hoties, a woman, ilia bs e the shutter of an upper window, present etj her glastl fate, and having his( t are tul ret oniD.iten l lis. vnu y and rebut anllv admittetl tis into herwietchetl hovel. here are all t peo, b iii the lowo " we impiiied. Dead!" was the brief re b'V, : The fever of the Malaria annually car t ie? off dm st all w ! ...in i t cesn ro., fleeto i d pe-iib .uial region. But tl is yv.?,

ommon

( 'hii a. than eo hack the same rtMia'.

stature, and ot ordinary pei-onal appear ! This is tb.e land oj " ilewers--i ' ' ant e. e has native talents, but they j! j,...,(Iliju. abundatd, but the m have nol been extenivt v imp.a-d. , j lhll! yUruU ,VV((. lW -. te(. ,,- ge ?. well regulated. Wore he ia miliiary ,m, tr and smal y ou some -id hvans thinks he might tli-plav ome .,Ur- !' Vy ion ripe. go, hul a yet has ex' .'ihited nothing id i t tit L'i-ttl wortliv ede.ai.-i. All....: M

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! - VV Verk' iillll U:iC ..imorl. . ..:.) ( '. . . ii

. - - - - i"i I." Vfl II lliltli I 1 IT

I ... i m . i r ii . t.. fs I.' ' ' ;

! ! Ild.:t-fl..d hi iti till I h- : ll Ull "'' ' '

-a tolerable g-.od lookieg man.'1 He has ! " 1 Kl "'lV,'l t; u !,r tva' ..

A oi. seveial ciois. s n.,d..i ti-.t.i,. a fjet and a hull as Su 1 iiO!Ja

- - v ji liiiin-

; man i. our n.ivv is 21 yeais oi'

the iiiuuth of April; the bcason of tumpar-jj and the Greek commanders, oy yVliom lt jj