Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 143, Richmond, Wayne County, 24 February 1827 — Page 4

SL3CTD POETRY.

From fhf Mol.tMy Diroptan Magazine. THE ADOPTED CHILD. "Why word 1st timu leaxe mi", oh! gontlr child? Tltv home on the mountain is hhak ami wilil, A trw roaVd caiun, with lowly wall: Mim- i a lair am? -ill end hall, Whom m ui an iairrcc or at arble gleam, And the buuhit:c of picture lonxt r streams." Oh! srren h the turf whrc tux brothe rs play, Thr the Ion: ricl.t liet:r f the sou.uk r ilaj ; They h i the r. (i rap tno'S uh re thev rhmb, Am. i the rha.vthe hep oirnnttn! thxnu-; Aa.Ithe r.K-'i xv'.erc the h-ath-tljwa r blooms they K Ti ; I.a'y, kiiit'. huh, on! ltta.e ao!"' ''Content tht e.K.y . m my hnwrr to dwell! lft.r.. ar,. MTri i t uhi h thou loxest well; l'i e n th ur in the stilly noon,

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the we -Irrinc bre z tnne;

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n .!:.-.i h-t t.i.! t i Mi t mien- h ;

Au ! the-i!vrry vc " ' i;tc ot "many a ml, U-ir ! w i-iit'tr m thy mountains heard.' M v i;.in. r si'i: at t wili-. !.t fall, A -t,i if the la la i r M.je uei-t than all ; it en n ii: t..va vr a tie

L.c kra! I 1:. ! t in. n i h i ;.)!!( from In f rare t rct, , i, ips t tk n ! r h tti- n ! eni I n a-t; '' :.. i xv !.! ss iii' t h( i to t-n )., n ho , no mure, N r 1. .r In r -at at t ! i e :n ! or. Com ' v ' ! u.f to tlo ; ' x ar! "i-h. An i ua 'il ; : t! -r tyv- ol the rirlic-l h". " d- nu i;,.rl r cr: e from ! it hoa.e away ? 1. ;: I kr! w no ! r.sttar- art- ;tt s hi ! 1 k tbo art' c tth-no tin- fov-chvs aril. An 1 t'.e h.ac f ra h -,v. - l th.e ;-.trk!ia- well. Or th v 1 lutu ii ti t ir hoat uh. rt the blue strt. tin

s, I do now remembpr the namo, and wc must inquire for a sriNxiNG wheel.' 20th of December. Three and twcnl) years willliavc clupsed b noon, this da), since the royal banners of Spain, and the tri coloured tlatr of France, uavc place in this city to the "Stars and Stripes' of the only Republic then on the Continent. W'lilst the inhabitants of Louisiana arc in full career of prosperity under the change thus etH cfed, it cannot be atniss to take a retrospective glance at the oal from which they sprung. At present, this notice will

I 'c rontint d to New-Orleans, i When the Commissioners of the United States, (Mi'srs. Wilkinson and Claiborne,) ! received the government of the country , from Mr. L'tnstat. Nw Orleans contain d I 3,000 soul, and about 1.000 houses. None lot its numerous Mihnrhs were then traced

jout, except th -t of St. Mary,'whcre very

tew houses could be seen. In the city rope

! walks and giave-vards, and large gardens,

: oeruoied spoNnow covered with handsome

of punishment, for the miner oflenres of jofTthr ma.i;, the rMer was 'dhcovrpM stealing a piece of money, or a horse. jhe no other than the confessor, to

ii a 41... i ta t i nr ill t mi u iii.i l m in will fu.n

It is believeu inai iiju umc ' " p - - ,i ?( re t.

hand or that it has already arrived, when jj postillion imrneu:at.dy procerdd lo the advances of improving society, and j Mayor s, and gave Inm-eH up ir tjj ! the accumulated wisdom and knowledge ( fair can be investigated. We w,Uf t'.

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of man will give a resistless call for such a digest, code or whatever else it may please others to denominate it, as w ill bring laws

I into such a form, that contradictions, he tionsand many unnecessary and unintelli 'gible technicalities may be superceded by ! rules of written reason and plain common sense, that they may be more easily understood and b more happily adapted to the essentially varied condition of human society at the present day.

Many of the laws now in force as well in this country as in England, owe their birth to ages, when the human mind was yet in

fiirr n.irlirn ir; w f w , ' 'i

' . V ' piper, a, name the conte.or, and tbe .;u:c . 0 this terrible drama va- acted "'"rc What U it that freez s t0

of the feeling--that strikes U,,. f..lf,r;,:

i x .it

the soul as with a bii-ht f hat ".

and mtvtilat.-? every hope ii;it rrri..;.j ,'s cry prospect !a;k, gloomy and dtU that make- vir frientls a dire nlni! ir x f enemies nial d. -trovt r- that iii ik. s t a burden et.ii!ty atlread? Wi,.lt thai converts tiie-t'-.tdy bellow iu; tj( ' .' the fair he - if eaitli, Iruju ar;; the clear blue -ky, -un, moon. a. id sif;r?

the dark, and which proceeding in their

operation w-.!i succes?ivc mounicaitons j neauties tv-i;tial a?nl terr-tiial, j;.!.. S through semi-barbarous ages and through.-- mt-iI uil ferncss of (icsuLlic;-" 1 the lights of half expanded reason, have "lines alloi) come down to the present age, with all their

tmildinc To,, noi t of Orleans rontained unsuitahlencss and .incumncrances unoiu

jf'w hips, and its trade parsed through still j them, burying truth and desirable legal I fewer hands. Now the population of this i certainty in darkness and doubt, and en- 1 I eitv cannot be less than lift) thousand souls, ji tangling principles, and the spirit ot law s j, , , ... m t ( 0 .,: ia I there are nearly six thousand houses, j( in etn!b'?s intrit:a cy. : blood orero-s breed, or any oth r a?, i 0 ! in t!ie town and suburbs. Our exports du- j If this book-making age continues long !: hup roving the rue of horsey v.-i il,. i viux ti- approaching season will be some'- 'tothiow oil' on the world, countless rnulti- j foal is sulj.vted to cold ami 'thing like three bil l ire 1 thousand bale ! tudes of volumes, all human knowledge i ami hampeied with eontriv ir.eos ('.. j r .

.of cotton, one hundred thousand barrel- ot generally, a-' well as ;ill human law-par- i a tine, horse, (or the sak

. dour, frtv thou-atul bin I-. of -u-'ar, twenty !.tieularl will have necessarily to be redu- j por.se and trtuble of putti

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"r.nr- hi:'i,th I r-.t!, r are watohrer nov, Th t --rt no more on the n,oar tain'- I r- w. Tt e h ; bMt thi I', rti in the re uro. t i 'e, An.i :!.i- -tr. in ? ! re tin f,;ir b irk- uui tit i. Y i .u ;ct i a e in t: J n. !a r lot,

J'o: t' v c.thin h t:.o l- a I'lii-'h , ot.

i thou-aod of tobacco, tour millions potiods ct.' l more to their essences. j imsI on one s fence. 1 he -u!j-'i t dej;

i ofle ,d, ami many other articles of great j All the elements of rno-al and natural: t!:e consideration of the f uti.- i . ' v die, aitd in large ipiantitb . ! history are to he found in bo ks . i 1 iw; but : ;,,'v( fllti:l :f,r r(p,irt f,f lt, T rough cab illation will speak as ;; they are diffused through a thousand gbo- j Jf.jr al tin lad Cutlh: ft ( ; v oluines in confirmation of ' freedom liber- my ai.d ur nianageaMe volumes. There; .f.

1 tv, not in name, hut in fact sec-un-d to the i- light, but it is hid n d irkness. ; iuha?itaats of L-eii-iaaa a d their desren- Wlietiier the L gi-lature of S tith CarI tit-, hv the coainart fullill.-d on the '20!h olina is prepared or whether it is willing

j, I tv of l).o-em',..r. With these recollec- I attempt to intnduce a digested bod) td s rv,,,j .,rc ;is ;is ... ; tios, a -id tlii- convi- tioo, we could not pas u t it ten laws in which every thing shall ( simmer c:iou ut him i: to i : ..... t . . i . i t i i i i. ... i i .... i ... :i l,.l ..,,,1 r.i, . . 1

-J' " a i i over in snence ; aiai wo. eo:a rao , innii ct. mnin it- a ui?t-i uv.i'i, .mu .- ,,.. ,. ,.nr,. nr ,.,, . i

If ou iiave a colt, whir h vou a dis(r(iei l . tint ai! . p or, meai..

ed horse, tfie loilowii-g dire ti.-:

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'v exortsiir.g a hpe t!i it its rete.rn may !jauMidl fin. I evrv L nii-iat.iaii in tu!l hj i oym-'.-it of peace and eti'V. i' Men uxlili, ..; ,-li-r.

o pa--. t!i" !f a? of hru-h wiiir o !

of truth, and of know bilge freed from anti- ,,,.,,, n-t.,., l.r ...,,'.'..

V"V to the human mind, the light ot reason

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b. ( . f M .r , o r:i the p!a:.o--h) gi .jfi)othu. hil-:,.'. 1 , 'U-ed ti pia) J

on a 'ouc'i bettei la-truoe ;.t tS a;, fbtoe.

i .. d, s -id Ar i'o H,!, 'how could ill

.j.nt-.l torms real ob-cu: itie-, and to give, t ,U v ,fll( j. ratl ltcitjirl. u;lu; , tle-m tle'Hmpl , but admirable til e--n tm- j Thtort of treatment uillte.f h

. prt)Ved rea-ot. - that not onh the Judges e; . a

l.-itrrr!inz fid. The following itdetes- w ho aio the expounders of the law-, and . pItiV,. ( M womb rfn !! . t i, ;

trig t i; t ,. a oung ludiati Chiel ot the : th- liar, w ho a-o the disciples and agents j ,.XIH.f ;.., .,,! ..,.. :i tu' ,.,i7 t(

1'iwm-,. i, ition, at the foot of the R.-chy j. of them, ma) undtr-tand and agiee with ; ri,jt. if , atobb-s, "paces or cante:-. ,v M m -itaius, who was on a i.-it to Washing- !' regard to their meaning; but that it may j prn( a.,J Vul, rrav or.i;H,(.. ( , ;", ' ; in the w intor of I 2 is extracted from ' le made po-silde for the citizens also, to ! !,(0 u j( ,-i,, hul,rs, and etb ctiiallv a ! -tl.-r of the R v. Richard Re s to the know by what tenu re they hold their lives, j r-r i irIr: him in7vor l'.- am' i,M-t iii'.P-

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ta i. ! ft 'or ? v .a: le i: triune

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that I- .:. t'Utig.

ei.i..r of the L'.mlon We-lean 3b tlii ds:!

Al gnzi:ie. j "'i'bis ourg warrior, of fine si;v. figure j an I eiiiatenan. e. is ; o about 2o years old. i

; Al toe age of Jl his btrroie deetls had ar paired for him in his natir'n the rank til .4... ..... t ..'!... i. - ti...

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lice of torturing and hurt log to death fieir prison r- ei-ted in thi- i atitai. Ae

Used by t t- j n otortin.of. f. mi de liheni!. w-.r of tlio

V idu a nation, w a de?;i cd to this hor-

u kt:-w it i- the inol

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Iieertie.s and nronertv: it is not lor me

1 - but for ou to determane. li lt is not generally the case, it is very ofie.i so, that the Judges ami the Bar are divided in opinion, and theie is no certain arid invariable sta; third, to which reference can be had, in order to determine what are realU the laws of the bind. Should this continue to be long the case, in an age in which there are approximations to ( crtaintv and truth constant! ma-

i ii graiatm ther w a -cn.t tiing, et j ihb; death. The lalal hour had arrived,; king in every tdher department of science.

In the other sciences, each age has built

upon firmer improvements, and its own

-ee ; o, i .-iw ;t pialiu tot !e.' Ibi! w lint u the nan e of in- i .' i. . i it ; '.. g-. or w a it

Vou mu-t gio rr.e time tt recollect ll

the trembling t ictim, far from her home

e m-iru- amt ,.r i'riend-. was l istened to the stake:

phtyt-d by wi.ole liibe was a-semhb il on the -ur ' rouj di g plain to witness, the awful -( ie-.

I , -3 I i Just when the fir. was abt ut to he kind-

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iei mm s0 unin rmh lame, t'nat to a n-v-ice he will appear like a nain hor-e. n the season of the winter -in-uld he -af-h-red to run at large, in the highway - a d fn commoiis; o that he may lean), as the say log i-, to sliirk for him-eif. pluiidering his living from waggons and sleigh--. V this roiirse of life la soon bi COU!' - Iimilliar with cfubs, pitrhfoiks, and i nli deg, and forms a general nrajuain' ince with travellers who tarrv cats, torn, cr salt. At thr e years of ag be shr.u!d ' c broken and tutored hv a hop ful wuth of

Hie

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rre nui , age-, have heeh so modiiieu ;

a,'d -combi: ed under progressive improvement-, a to suit them to tbe present -tale of tiaiigs, and to throw idf.dl ehe as useless

Ry tia- h.md iii-ce? II. w ulgar; but: (-otnpos-d l aino'ng the chief-, haing bt - anil ucpuditable materials.

V V" . , , , i. sixteen; who will inihate him into all the h-eovei.es and the principles dev. oped , lmv mvorj , r;Kin t

D tlli' : it w a- liaie

but was piaxed hv the bai d.

1 .i .-t: ii god ii ti u .-d. aod the spectattirs on the tiptoe of ex

pert tion, this eiig warrior, who ?.t

I pr 'test -iiru! 1 l.k.-to -t.-OM ...i d papa, j..p;,,,. lwo jb et boi-es. with the all huv me one w hei. I letnrn ti I .oi.do.n. ( nocev-an pn.vi-iojis. -j rting horn bis seat. i . , i t I . i t t , . f v i. . in Ii , i f ' ... l . 1 . i I . . 1 I . I . 1 .. ..

I'.i-ueti miotia joe ri"ij, r n-eo ine n

Ar Irish Soldier passing through n rountry vill ige. a large inastitfran at him' and

tim, d her in his arms, placed her en a 'e stabbed ,,m with a spear he had in hi- !; ti . . . ni , ilf , ;s

one of ifie hor-e-. niountetl the other bun ' bar:.. I lie master ol the dog earned the. t . , t- -.i . 1 tMin.i oiio j, - dn;at and perspiration tie htm, without caso,; and made the utmost .peed toward -lcr delore a Justice of the I eac;-, who ,. t,rj (he nor(Jl.w.st conit.r ofa ,W,, thenationatd frier ds cf tla t npliu. j a-ked um why he did not rather strike the , p (;ur w.lofc he shouJ rin:ii:l multitude, dumb ami nerveb-s with a-!' dog xvith the but end of bis we.ipoti. 4Ar.U ,r .i r r r i o .. iieiMinoe, inmi.f i!fitn. tuu , r . ,, . . ' . . . for the s pace of Ion r or live hours without mo inent at tn daii-ir then, inatle no id -'l riouI:I, an n ease your honor, said tbe 1 i i- i -i . t i i iinm.ii ut w.iii i m 1 1., ii .u.i i ; , .. eating or til inking, whilst his accomplished

L) . j i tie i k t ! i a t w e an ohpc u om :

'N ,ou wi!) jet pro ally kid one in Lot d n, ! ui n ubtje-- tl.ex n n be ft ui d ill S (lie ed the ( u i tl X toxxi.-. j Tb xx inaiix -trii g- l ad it? Must one plax xxith b. th bat d-? and could one play t! edouble b s-'

know not whether it would play dou- f(lo, lo resr tie their vit tim lr ui la r ib liv f -'d lier, "had the biiste r;in at me with his

erer. Thex viewed it a- an act of lie !i tail foremost.

(ireat Spirit, nbmitt'd ;-C ithout a muri mur, and quit tly returiu d to the vilhigi .i The r leased captive was accompanied j through the wilderncs- towards her home i till she xvas out of danger. He then gave

O.i. tb:strii g weie very lei-jr, or e a- ' lf.r w lorSe on w hich she rode, with the t.i.u, fourteen feet, nrd tbe other might be n,.crart pni-ions for the remaii der .fjj l'.ngthi al at pleasure even to 50 01 more (iu j,Hm"ev, a, d they parted. On l is re-ti 'What a ptodigiou deal of room it rnu-t : tnril to tie village, Mit h was the n sim t

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i.iuo up. .mi. no ui.Miei. i " hi i:.t e iihiu- , rMl t ert siiiied lor linn, that no enqtiiry x as ij po-uii ion xvuo n;iu lore ' uvea xx nu in .r ol I hall, and papa max haxr an ad- ' ma,r i,,(0 his conduit; no cn sine xuf h"r, to sleep in her hu5e. .ihout 1 1 o'-

dition built 1 it, f.r I esays I -hall never j )is,n oll it, and since the transaction, noil 'dock at night someone knocked loudlv at

; cmg. pawn g and biting. i bus educator, ; the horse is fit lor service I mean the sei ; vice of his owner, and no one else. He is well (jMidifted to carry his master to trainings, grog shops, and taverns. In order to ; inure him t hardships, t he owner of su h a horse mast lide, or rather gallon him. at

the rate of eight miles an hour on a cold

Id" ha--, as x e;,I i t : il xxas played by Lt th hand-, and had txvo stin gs. Two-;iing, ojdx ? Mir ly you aio jest ing; how could good mu-ie be produced by -m h an instrument, w hen the piano has txx o ..r three hundred V

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A late B-udeaux paper relatefi tb lowing singular occurrence ir; . '!.::"-' briiood T that city. Ar -err. .

had'Ormerly kept il h. lt. r.'

confessor that she had ...r r a large sum of money which tdie ke . i lier houe. Soon after this confession mwe at the tri

bnnal of penitence ; she p" 'tted an old

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vi.nl lor any tt.mg.aml so dot mamma. human s;tci ifn e has been offen d in this or

W.re the strings stiutk with little mallets am olWT 0fthe I'awnee tribes. Of what like the piano, or were they capped like i jnilc,lCc is one hold act in a good cause!"

a n arp-n horn :

I'k" neither o( tlie.se insti umt nt, as 1

ree. . II-1 1, but it iirtalmed a soft kind of i

humming rr.u-ic,und wa- prculiaily agree able to th" husband and relations of the por farmer.' ()! as to pleading one's husband or relations, that is all Do la , in the Ilaut-ton, you know; hut lam determined to have one at anx rate. VV a- it easily learnt, and tv a- it taught by French or Italian mas ter-r I? xvas easily learnt, but Frenchmen and Italians scarcely dared to show their heads in our country in those times.' Can ou not po-sihly rt collect the name ? How hhall wc know what to in

quire for?'

Kttrmt from tin Jib's furr of Clove rnor JJan-

I; Ming the. Lrnjynture of South Carolina.

Mvnnhrr 1 32C. j F.vei ution by burning, which we derive ! from our Kuropean ancestors, which was 'only suited to ages ol barbarity and force, should he abolished as repugn:. nt to the j -pirit of an age of humanity ami xx i-dom.

Our criminal laws are not so improved as to fix the just proportions between punishments and crime?. Those laxvs against which public sentiment revolts, are and must be vutuallx repealed ; they will never be enforced. Few criminals w ill be branded for petty offences, and scarcely any

will be executed, the highest possible grade j

j her door and a-ked in a pitiful voice to bt

i admitted to her hospitality for the night. ! B liexing her.-elf safe by having the postillion in tbe house, the woman opened the

door when m rushed a man hidden hv a mask and armed with pistols, .who said deliver me your money, or I xvill inslanth kill you?' The poor woman at find was alino-t frightened to death but gaining it little courage conducted the robber into the chamber w here the postillion was sleeping: he having heard them coming in, bid behind the curtain My money is in that closet1 said the woman at the same time shexving an old piece of furniture nlmorl hidden by a pile ol linen. The robber laying his pistols on the table, prepared It take possession ofher riches, but the no-til-e i... ...

lion, wno liad obs rvetl bis inovt inert-., with great sang froid, took one of the pislo!.and bhot him dead on the spot- On taking j

ipli

joxvneris within,-regaling himself over a i comfortable (ire, "xvith reaming swats that

drank divinely," disputing politic ks, chewing tob" co and smoking cigars While I. w;py man is thus engaged in moisv !ng his clay, and settling the atfaiis ol ( ?. nation or some disputed points in religion, should his horse, from the charts of cold or hunger, presume by neighing, to interrupt the sublime harangue of his m ister, he should get out oecsionally ?xveat at him kick him, and give him the discipline of the whip. By such kind of nvdi punishments, and by feeding hi:n plentifully upon meadow bay and rye straw the horse, in time xvill learn patience under adversity, and grow so orderly and tame, th't the oxvnermav even skin him without hi rnr ni fo.f i tor tln heicf re ;e 1 1 1 mellt OT rt'I"

j lessiiess. About this time al-o, the owner j xv ill be prepared to be skinned by bis 'ni"

patient creditors, who have been wan ine for years and watching the progress and motions of the rider and bis horse.

The day originally set apart for Theatrical exhibitions .appears ta have l'cn Sunday probably because tbe first d-1" matie pieces were ofa religious cast. During a great part of Queen K-:7r betirs reign, the Flay houses ucre "'lv u'

censed to be opened on that day. ' '

BLANK DFKUS row .-ALL AT THIS OKT1CK.