The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1833 — Page 1

BY X. HOWLING.

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THE

*. TO A CHILD.

I AV JOAKNA

SAiLtie. 5 7'

Whose imp art thou, with dimpled cheek And early pnte, and merry eye,

And arm and shoulders round and sleek, And soft and fair, thou urchin sly .*

What boots it, who, with sweet oaresies, JFirt called thee his—or 'Squire or hind? For thou in erory wight that passes,

Dost now altiendly playmate findUf

Thy downcast glan'c^,*grave but cunulrtg, As fringed eyelids rise and fall Thy shyness swiftly running 'Tu infantine coquetry all! ft: &»•'

But far a-field thou hast not flown, f. With mocks and threats, halMisped, half spoken,

I feel thoe pulling at my gown— Of right good will thy simple token.

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|rJi When thou shalt sit in cheerless nook, The wearjr spell of

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And thou must laugh and wrestle too^ A mimic warfare with me waging! To make a* wiley lovers do! r*M

Thy after lunduesi more engaging -IT?*, C.. Tha wilding rose—-sweet as thyself—*^

And now cropt daisies are thy treasure I'd gladly part with wordly pelf, •To taste again thy youthful pleasured

But yet, for all thy merry look,^ Thy frisks and wiles, the time is com-

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pg Well, let 11 bo! through weal and woe, z'r Thou knnws't not now thy future range Life is a motley shilling show—

And thou a thing of hope and change.

DOMESTIC SCENE*

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priest-like father reads the sacred

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'Twas early day—and tun-light stream'd Soft through a quiet room, That hush'd, but not forsaken seem'd-**

Silent, with nought of gloom: For there secure in happy age, -1 Wh^se hope is from above, .• A father communes with tho page

Of Heaven's recorded lore.

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Pure fell the beam, and meekly bright, On his grey holy hsur, j^And touched the book with teadereet light

As if its shrino was there Bat oh! that patriarch's aspect shone

With something lovelier fkr— A radiance all the spirit's own, Caegbt act from sun or star.

Some word, of life e'en than hadjawt^ His oalm benignant eye *r Some ancient

Of Immortality

Some heart'* deep language, when the

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Of qaenchlees faith arrives: For every feature said—"I know That my Redeemer lives."

silent stood hit children by,

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1 Hushing their wry breath Before the solemn sanctity Of thoughts o'ersweeping death 1

Silent—yet did not each yonng brwi^ With low and rererence melt? Oh! blest be &ot* fair jcirb-MiiMl blest

That home where God it felt! 4.,^-

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tctlo* lerlML (who ksowe all the signs

'V iCrled Ri §k• of tha air,) I ^Here's a thonder ttarm coauag as sure as

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»'How to," said hit &m«3{ "whea the sky is so fair?**

I «Q,tk»ew I wm light, ejr, jo«d«r»» mj

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•UCELUHESIS.

J. JFMOM T«K LONDON COO*T IPCLN/U ABfUfTBRTlBW WITHTHRMOTHER or MAPOLW)^

News having jtpt arrived in town, of the death of the above celebrated lady, we are moat happy in haying it in our power to furnish our readers With a personal sketch of her, from the pen of ah .English 'lady of high rank and literary distinction.

I saw this remarkable atid interesting person, for the first time, in the beginmg of May, 1828, in the gardens of the Vigna Palatini, on the Monte Palatina, the beautiful **illa of Mr. Mills. She had come, attended by her son Jerome*, ex-King of Westpha lia, his wife, the Princess Catharine, daughter of the King of Wirtemburg, and her Chaplain, Dame de Campagnie, and their other attendants.— Having heard that Madame Mere disliked meeting strangers, we retired to a distant part of the garden, but Jerome having seen my carriage in the court yard, sent to request that we should join them, and he presented us to his mother and wife. JVladame Letitia Bonaparte* is tall and slight, with a most dignified and graceful carriage her face is even still remarkably handsome, bearing proof of the accuracy of the resemblance of Canova's admi rable statue of her*, and a finer persopificatidn of a Roman matron could qot be found, tlian this Hecuba of the Imperial Dynasty* She is pale, and the expression of her countenance is of a subdued and pensive cast, unless when lighted up occasionally, whenherdark eye sheas for a moment agleam of animation but even when animated, her manner retains its dignified composure, and she seems born to represent the mother of Kings. Jerome and his excellent wife treat her with .a watchful and respectful tenderness each supported her, and suited their pace to ner feeble steps, listening with attention to her observations. She was dressed in a robe of rich dark grey satin, a bonnet of the same materials, worn over a lace cap, with a black blonde veil falling over it and her hair a Madonna (her own white hair,) finished one of the most interesting pictures I ever saw. A superb Cashmere shawl, that looked like a tribute from some barbaric Sovereign fell gracefully over her shoulders her feet are small and finely formed, and her two hands admirable. On presenting us, Jerome said something flattering abont the liberal politics of my husband, and this insured us a gracious reception from Madame Mere, who looks on liberal members of the House of Parliament, as having been kindly disposed towards Napoleon, who is still the idol of her thoughts.— She expressed this in a few words: and when I told ht that Napoleon had many admirers in England, who did justice to his great genius and talents, she pressed my hami, and a tear glistened in her eye. Why did youi nation let my brave son die on a rockt' said she CouH no less terrific prison be found? But pardon me, bear with the feeling* of a mother bereaved of such a som I know it was not the fault of your nation, and I am grateful for their sympathy." Jerome and his amiable wife led the conversation to other subjects, tn which Madame Mere joined but by monosyllables though her manner was gracious and gentle, with much of that affectionate earnestness which distinguishes the manners of Italian ladies, and particularly those of advanced years and high rank.— When we haa made the tour of the garden, walking very slowly, not to ratigue her, she entered her carriage, into which she was assisted by Jerome and my hasband Jerome and his wife kissed her hand, the Princess

performing the ceremony as if a diadem circled the brows of Letitia, and that she herself had not worn one.— Madame Mere invited us to visit her, and at parting touched my forehead with her lips, and shook hands with my husband, saying kind and amiable things to us both. The gentlemen, including Jerome, all remained uncovered until her carriage had driven 0$, when her family ami suite entered their'* apd followed her.

There was something highly scenic in the whole of our meeting with this remarkable, woman. Here was the mother of aCtsar, walking amid the ruins of the Palate of the Casars la** mealing a son whose feme had filled the four quarters

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ed at) epoch in the history of Europe her tottering st&ps supported by

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another son from whose brow the diadem had been torn, and who, now shorn of bis splendour, reminded one of the Poet's description of a dethroned Sov

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When less than King** is leas than other men— -ife'

fallen star extinguished leaving b)anli» Its place in beaten."

The other supported of Madame Mere added much to the effect of the picture. The daughter of Kings of the old legitimate stock, and allied to half tlrc reigning Sovereigns of our day, she has nobly, femininely, and wisely, adhered to the fallen fortune of her husband, resisted the brilliant "offers of her family, and shares the present obscure destiny of him on whose throne she shed a lustre. There is something touchingly beautiful in the respectful tenderness of this admirable Princess towards the aged mother of her husband and her affectionate attention to him and her children, with the unaffected sweetness of her manners, inspired us with a deep reverence for her than the possession of the most brilliant Crown could have excited in our minds.

Colonel Tiburee Sebastiani, brother to the general of that name, a Corsican by birth, and connected with the Bonaparte family, told me that Madame Mere's accouchement of Napoleon took place in a salon, on a carpet, on which was represented a scene in the Iliad. She had been at church where she was taken ill, and had only time to be brought into a salon, when she gave birth to a hero, who was^to create as much wonder in modern days as did any of those of Homer in ancient times. It might serve as cu-

With Napoleon's quick perception and haughty mind, it was peculiarly fortunate that his mother's appearance was so calculated to support the dignity to which she was called) her till and slight person, graceful carriage, distinguished features and cold but polite manners, seemed formed to cast a lustre over the part she had to fill. It is recorded of her, that one day, at the Palace of the Tuileries, Napoleon, walking up and down in one of the galleries, was approached by different high personages, who had the entree and who came to kiss his hand, some of the different members of the Imperial family were among the number, and Madame Mere entered when the circle was reduced to only a few individuals of the family when she approached, Napolean, with a gracious smile, offered her his hand, as he had done to his aistere and brothers, but she pushed it gently aside, and holding out hers to be kitfed. said in Italian, 'you are the emperor, the sovereign of all the others, but you are my son.'—Napoleon took the haod, and kissed it affectionately and respectfully, {ind probably felt at the moment that this reproof proved his mother was worthy of the high station which die filled.— The eminence to which Napoleon was raised might have danteda less strong mind,aoa rendered giddy a less sturdy head, than that of Letitia hot she was

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rious matter for speculation, ists, how far thi3 natal contact-with imaged herqgs desl

might have influenced

the,future destiny of Napoleon and there are not wanting persons who would maintain that it had some effect —so prone are mankind to superstition* Great as all must allow him to have been, not even his talents would have raised Napoleon to the eminence he reached, had not circumstances, over which he had no control, rendered his ascent practicable. Colonel Sebastiani told us, that while her children were yet in infancy, Letitia had been remarkable for the dignity and self possession of her character and conduct. With a large family and a small income, she practised the most rigid system of economy, without ever condescending to any meanness and this prudence seemed in her much more the result of a laudable pride than of avarice. In latter years, when she saw her son not only a king himself, but the dictator of kings, with all Europe looking to him as the arbiter of her destiny, the nation of shopkeepers only excepted from his worshippers, neither the palace, nor income of a million of francs, that he assigned her, could blind her to the insecurity of his power, which she saw was based upon sand, while all others looked Upon it as built on a rock. The econoiry urged by foresight, and practised by Letitia at that period, has enabled her to support *her station with decent dignity, and renders her old'age free from the cares of pecuniary considera

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neither to be elated by prosperity, nor depressed by advefsity. In Napoleon's most prosperous days, she has been heard to doubt the constancy of fortune and since he has fallen from a height that few but him could have attained, it is evident that she mourns the

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Emperor of her pride the reverses of the latter she could bear* but the captivity and exile of the former has bowed her to the earth. The Due de Reichstadt occupies much of her thoughts and, fei»ce Napoleon's death, they revert continually to thi3 interesting youth there is so little display or flippancy in the marihers of Letitiaj that conclusions are drawn more from the expression of her countenance, shakes of the head, or sighs, than from her words. Though gracious and kind, &he is not communicative or demonstrative, and there is a natural dignity about her that must ever check the incursions of curiosity. She may well be called the Niobe of mothers for if her offspring have not been physically destroyed before her eyes, they have been, one by one, hunted from the (hrone3 where they had been seated— exiled from the scenes of their greatness, and shorn of the splendour with which she had seen them surrounded, with nothing left them but the remembrance of past happiness to render the present change more insupportable. In religion Letitia finds her only source of consolation she had stood by this prop when greatness courted her, and it has not failed her, when all else has. Her brother, the Cardinal Fesh, devotes mnch of his time to her he leads a life of great privacy, and is much respected by all who know him.

HARD FIGHTING IW POTUGAL.

The following is an extract of a letter dated Oporto, Oct. 20, written by a Portuguese officer in the army of the Queen.

I pass over the circumstances common in every cpmbat, but I must inform you that, Bince our bloody and unfortunate assault of the castlc oi at Burgos, 1812,1 never saw, not even Toulous, an assault so fierce and obstinate as the stormingof the Miguelites against the redoubt of the Convent -de Sarra, the 14th of the month. Six thousand Miguelites, commanded by the Generals Jordao and Abren—the fitst an ignorant but a brave soldier the second an intelligent officer, a great favorite of Lord Beresford in the Peninsular war—were repulsed with the greatest gallantry by Maler Brave, a young man commanding th$ fortress.

Col. Piexote4 leadinghis column, was killed by a cannon bail near the first palisade. Abreau is wounded, and about 1,000 Miguelites fell on the spot. The enemy fought bravely but ignorantly, for out batteries were not silenced, nor our breast works damaged, when he marched against us. Our loss Is less than a hundred men. This would have been the moment for crossing the Dodro, and crushing the Miuelites at Villa Nova but while the eneral-in-Chief consults the Emperor, the opportunity is no more.^ This is our fate since our landing,

We are preparing to receive the enemy on the 26th, Don Miguel's birth day his troops are two days hence, re-concentrating themselves at Vallongo on the right, and at Fiera on the left of the Douro. I am confident, that though Don Miguel be present, as the Miguelites expect, we will repulse them, but without a reinforcement of 4,000, and a General accustomed to manoeuvre boldly, I fear we will not be able to take the field—and Portugal is at Lisbon. The two brothers Sarroen fell at the same time, in the same'battery, fighting generously for Donna Maria, while the other brother is on the opposite side fighting for Don Miguel.

We know now the intelligence from IJsbon, upon which the ministers of Don Pedro, had put their confidence, was a mystification, like the delusion they had been under aboutthe Miguelite squadron* Sartorious has fought like a brave sailor, but he is now satisfied that John VI. is not so rotten as some correspondents at Lisbon affirmed. I beg to explain that the only cavalry which fought on the 29th of last month consisted of 00officers, who are serving as soldiers under Colonel Nepamoceno. Lieatenaift Colonel Camcllo was killet^in the ranks." 1 -5

MHACCTAW#.—It

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ty of the N. H. Spectator, that one of the famotrr Rarel faafly take* hie own-teg his sboakletaad waJks off with it' We don't believe it.

NEW JERSST and KEW YORK. The Trenton Union, publishes statement of the controversy, now pending in the Supreme Court of the united States, between New York and New Jersey, in relation to the respective claims of jurisdiction, over the waters of tho Hudson, adjacent the shores of each State. On this subject, the editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser. gives the following remarks:

New Jersey traces her title back lit the Royal Grant of Charles tbft cbnd, who granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the region now fornving New England, New York, and New Jersey, for the purpose of enar bling him to plant colonies: The Duke of York, retaining to himself New York, conveyed, in 1661, to Lord Berkely and Sir George Carteret, New Jersey, by the following description: All that part of land adjacent to New England, and Iving and being on the westward of Long Island and Manhattan: Island, and bounded on the east by the main sea and Hudson's river, and lieth upon the west Delaware bay and river," &c* Now, as it is a settled rule of law, that conveyances of landembrace all lands included in them, although covered with water, and that water, as such, is never specifically conveyed, the terms of the deed to^ Carteret and Berkely would pass to New Jersey all the territory westward of Long and Manhattan Islands, and consequently would embrace the soil covered by the river Hudson but it is insisted, by New Yorkj that as -the Hudson river is assigned in the description as the eastern boundary, New Jersey extends merely to the river, and does not include any part of it. But that distinguished civilian, Chancellor Kent, had declared it as a just and settled doctrine," in the construction of conveyances, that a grant of land bounded upon a. highway or river, carries the fee in the highway orriver to the centre of it."

Thus it will be perceived,, that, by either construction, the right of New Jersey to exercise juripdiction over the Hudson opposite fo its shores, to the middle of the river, is "clear and established and every principle of the law of nations, as regulating the right of property and dominion between sovereign and independent States as to all lakes and rivers which form their Common boundary, establishes the middlu as the limit of jurisdiction and ownership to each, and comes in aid .of the claims of New Jersey.

That part of the description Conveying "all that part of land adjacent 'to New England, and lying ana, being to the westward of Long Island," has been considered by some of our most eminent jurists as extending our right so as to include Staten Island and 'the several Islands in the New Bay. This claim is not, how ever,-involved in the present controversy. Jersey claiming in the pending ?uit aright of jurisdiction at least to the centre of the Hudson. Wehayelittie apprehension as to the decision of the Supreme Court, but we must confess we have more as to the execution of its judgment if the precepts of that tribunal art: to bed regarded, it is 5f little c^nsequcnce whether the cause be righteous and the judgment just it will be merely the decision ol an abstract principle of right, without any practical benefits resulting from it.

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from South Carolina, those already jtablilhed?

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Emigrating Indians.—About 400 Indians, being the remnant of Col. Rector's party, who oome through the Mississippi swamp, we understand are to leave White river to-day, in charge of Dr. Fulton, for Fort Smith.—• Their detention has been occasioned by the almost impassable state of the swamp.

We also understand,that^hcre are between two and three hundred dboctaws in the swamp, between Memphis &nd White river,( who had ovidertaken to emigrate on their own resources, and to receive the commutation of $ 10 per heafl on their arrival',in their new country but whr» have found the difficulties too great for them to encounter with-, otft the aid of (Jovormnent. They have here--tmfefe solicited'aid from Col. Hector, who,' we understand, has sent agents to conduct them through the swamp, and to take charge of and provision them, until thcr reach tfm end of theff journey.

The adraaee of CW. Rectoi^ ^arty, in charge of Capt. Psfe( ?. 8. A. cfoued the Arkansas, at Dardanelles* on Frid«jlast*oo tbcif journey Fort Smith.

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SOOTH CARoklA.f

Letters from Columbia give &etdhi& xf the proceedingdW'the legislature, wfcich is bufcfly tjngnged In maturing the bfHs for enforcing the Nullifying Ordinance of the Convention. Various amendments have been proposed, increasing, in two-fold degtte, the paibrand penalties of the bills.

On the gfctethe iplHiwy committee reported if hill to protect and securelWe" citadel and* magazine of Charleston.1d

A letter from Columbia of the 8th. announces the second reading of a bill "to suspend the election of members of Congress from that State, and to prescribe the time of holding the next' election."

The bill for thesecurity and protection of the State of §outh Carolina, with the strong amendments noted above, as haviqg been proposed on the 7th, passed the House orRepresentatives on the 8th, by a vote of 88 to 22, and was sent to the Sedate for concurrence.

An address to the citizens of Charleston, published in the Courier of the 11th, says, the pfeopie, (are in all parte of the Stale revolting, against the nigh ha.ided and tyrannical measures of the revolutionists: they sat they have beeh deceived, wbfully deceived, and will be so no longer* They are joining the Union ranks every where, and will speedily put down our would-be masters*

A letter from Columbia, written

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A lady, who miide pretensions to the' most- refined feelings, went to her butcher to remonstrate with him on hk cruel practice.

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"can you he so barbarous as to pot, innocent tittle lambs to death f—' Why not,madamP caid (he butcher "you would noLeai them alive, would 4

the morning of the 9th, states that "Dr. Cooper was last* Wight acquitted of all the charges brought against him." $

ANECDOTE.

Of all the vices Incident to the ibo-* riginals of this country, that of lying is not the least. Some years since* one Tom Hyee, an Indian famous for his cunning, came into a tavern at Brookfield,and after a little talk, told the landlord he had been hunting, and had killed a fine fat deer, and that if he would give him a quart of rum, lie woul tell him where it was., The landlord did not wish to let slip so good an opportunity to obtain bis venison, and immediately measured the Indian his rum. Well, says Tom, do you know

where the great meadow is?—Yes— Well, do you know the £reat marked/ maple-tree, that stands ip it?—Yes— Well, says Torn, there lies the deer,-~. Away posted the taverner, with ms team, in quest of hispurchase—he found tfic meadoft, and the tree, it is true but bis seaj-chings after the deer were jnvaim* and he returned no heavier, bu^ in chngiin., than Iie^vcnt. Some days after, he meets, the Indian, and violently accusc&him of the deception —Tom heard him out—and, with tb# coolness of a philosopher, replied— Did you find the meqdow, as I said?— Yes—And the trees ?t Ycs—And th$ deer? No. Vejy good, cpntinues her you found twd truths to one lie, which ^as very well for an Indian. ..

description of Sir Walter gcott. person Sir Walter Scott was nearly sfll feet-high, well formed, strongly knit, and compactiy built his arms were long and sinewy bis looks stately and commanding, and his face, as he related an heroic story, flushed up as a crystal cup, when one fiils it with *inf. Hi* eyes were deep seated under hii somewhat shaggy brows their color was A bluei«h grey they laughed mora than his lips did at a humorous story bis tower-like head and thin white hair, marked him odt amongfet a thousand while any one might swear to his voice again who heard it once, for it had both a touch of the Visp aad the burrj yct,a» the minstrel said o! Douglas, "jfl bccamc him wonder well," and gave a softness to a sorrowful story indeed, I imagined that he kept the fttfrr part of the tone for matters of a facetious or humorovs kind, and brought out the lisp part in those of tendernettanriwoc. When I add tt^at, in a meeting Jf a hundred men, his hat was sure to be the least, and would fit no one's bead but bis own, I have said at! that 1 have to say ahoqt hit a ppearanctf*—Uan Cunningham,

What heart is there tbpt has not beat highwt Henry the IV. 's excJa mation tow soldiers on the field of Ivirt Soldiers! if you ever )oos$. your standard, rally round my white plume!" Yet how sinks this eneit-* ing ffiTnmoa* into the shade,-when .we rccolleet that of Marco Bozarri*, ready to hurl detraction op Use oppressors of his co^try, and moving with his patriots, under the shade of night to surprise the Turkish camp, lie railed aloud to bis followers

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was struck "My friend«,if you loose trace of me in the fray, seek me in the Pasha's tent, and you will find me And it wag«o but they fouod him mortally wounded and stretched apon a heap of hostile corpses. ..

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