FOR THE FREE TRESS.
To Miss E. J. II. oNh.
If e'er thy gen'rous heart should ache,
Or thy bright eyes should weep;
Oh! then for kind remembrance sake,
This fond memorial keep.
If e'er thy tender heart should pipe,
And -care disturb thy rest;
Believe this precious gift's divine,
And place it near thy breast.
If e'er you bend the humble knee,
In holy, fervent prayer;
That GOD in peace may answer thee,
Then place this offering there.
But should your head, and eyes, and heart,
Ne'er ache, nor weep, nor pine;
Remember that where'er thou art,
I've pray'd for thee and thine.
'Twill soothe the anguish of my brow,
And dry the tearful eye;
'Twill soften ev'ry heart-felt pain,
And hush each poignant sigh.
MARMION.
Nash, 14th Oct. 1826.
For the Free Pre&.
ACROSTIC.
Mild are those eyes I oft have seen,
At morning's dawn or tranquil even;
"Replete alcne with magnet's spark,
Transcending the bright stars at darkj
Her charms of youth and every grace
Adored by me nor car. efface.
Enraptur'd e'er with those bright orbs,
Love girds his bow and thither wards;
I sigh alone with rapturous cries,
Zounds! how piercing those lovely blue eyes.
Awhile my breast a sigh will heave,
But to charms of youth and grace I'll cleave.
E'er blessed my destiny would be,
T' unite with her should it agree,
How pure the bliss I then should sec.
How need one care should fortune frown,
Ejecting him and one to crown;
A ray of hope his path must guide,
Remote from her some more reside,
Not supreme, may success betide.
AMANTER.
3 tits growth, ail inch every year, and
is at present lour menus m
and as thick as one's little finger.
It is not attached to the bone, but
is evidently an affection of the cu
ticle; commencing with a granular
hour-glass shaped tumor of three
eights of an inch in length, from
which the horn abruptly rises.-Alter
srrowinsr straight for one inch
and three quarters, it takesa spi
ml di motion, and has completed
nearly a circular turn and a half
horizontally, ot adorn tne uiamu
ter of a quarter dollar piece. In
appearance it so closelyresembles
the horn of a buck sheep, that was
it placed near a real sheep s horn,
it would be difficult to distinguish
between them. It is of the same
colour, a dingy yellow; it is as
perfectly hard, and has all the
rings natural to a horn of that ani
mal, tapering also, as it does, to
the end. As it occasions no pain,
except when a blow compresses
its fleshy base between the horn
and the bone; -as it is perfectly
concealed by her head dress, and
on account of what is ot lar more
moment with her, a superstitious
belief that it is a judgment from
above for some of her manifold sins
she resists all persuasions to have
it removed.
-By other letters we. regret to
learn that the expensive, and very
important bridge (Gholson s) over
MUwin vlunr lias been swept a-
iTXCHW " M.W- -
: tlm' stnrrn teams 01
way. ouu ui uiv, , ,
Maj. Gholson was drifted down
the stream in attempting to cross
Great Creek, in Va. on Wednes
day night. One horse drowned.
Tim rlriwr and the other three
horses were saved with much diffi
miltv. The mail lay covered sev
eral feet under water for 18 or 20
hours, but was finally got out and
forwarded. Nat. Int.
DiabolicalAttcmjH.Apioyvtis
brought to the bake-house of Mr.
Presser of Philadelphia, to be ba
ked on Sunday morning the 1st
inst. by a little girl, who was un
known to any one employed in the
bake-house. It remained there
until Tuesday night without being
claimed.
seauV curing Drunkards, 8tot
"We know a man in this coujjj
WTliO IS pcTium cut i if uureu by
wife, as often as about once inSlv
With sentiments of gratitude. I
am yours, &c.
Geo. Jl. Morton.
Dr. B. Rush Huecs.
TOR THE FREE PRESS.
To Snuff.
Sweet as honeycomb thou must
Surely be, tobacco dust;
Else how upen those pigmy mops,
Can the fan receive thee in their chops?
The rustic maids, and strange to tell,
Every city-polish'd belle,
Nay, almost every matron grave,
Whether teeth or no teeth they have,
Loves thee, and I wish to know,
How it is they loVe thee so?
How so sweet didst thou become!
What good you do the toothless gum?
Tobacco it seems maids do detest,
But you are nothing more, at best;
Then why not use the very stuff,
'T would cheaper come than thou, O snuff.
The Tobacco Seller.
Tobacco.
4-
John Randolph. The Liver
pool papers, in speaking of Mr.
Randolph, describe. him as being
'in person rather above the middle
stature, extremely thin visage, ex
cessively wrinkled, and without
beard; and the features, when in
repose, which was rarely the case
during Ins excursion, presenting
the appearance of a man near 70
years of age, although we arc told
that he was but 55. Ills eye is
quick, lively, and penetrating; his
conversation animated, correct,
and delivered with perfect ease;
ns observations forcible and im
pressive; his whole countenance
dndling with expression; his man
ners tree, but unassuming", with an
lir of playful gayety, and the mi
spressed vivacity ot a very young
man wc had almost said of a
weeks- When the fits come
she puts an emetic into his
WHICH UUWIO CKslAlK, IUI uiu uiuj
and in order to remove temptation
out of his way, she drinks up
rum herself"
The woman long at men of drink Cl
"claim u,
And what impairM both sense and
virtue blam'd;
At length to rescue man, the gentr.
ous lass,
Stole from her consort the perniciouj
glass.
tCfThe following is published
verbatim, et literatim, by the par!
ticular request of a "Subscriber;'
Salisbury Carolinian.
Notice
Arlnm Pnviie a travclino- nrpnrftn.
V mouse having bored rjas ciiSC0Vered the true char.ir.tPr
into, and brought out a potatoe,j0f jing s0iom(m read 1st Chron
the baker.was induced to cxamine!iKcs 28th chapter & 9th vcrcc
the pie, and it was found to con-i (iayicj ciargCd his son to not dc.
tarn about two pounds ot gnnjpow- p.lrt from God 1st Kings 11
der immediately touching the bot- fMinntPr nlnmnn TVnnriod fm
uin 01 muu.ui,i uaH . lft 1 .lyiiifr irna wnicn linn nnnoar.
the whole neatly covered with a ed unto hirn' twice and caused, the
crust of wheat flour, which gave it Iseraiitest0 forsaKc God, the then
the appearance ot a peacn pie. caused theer childred to pass
Ai,v, uujv.viw. t , i inrougn ino lire unio moiecn oy
ently to'destroy the baker and his the jnflllence of Solomon, When
lamny, ana pernaps 10 invoivu mo he was your)g hc truly gervcd God
neighborhood in a conflagration. nnri vlf,n hn wns 0i,i iin Commit.
. . ! ted the unpardonable sin accord
Duelling. An Association to tn swjntnro. EzoKcl the Ifitli
suppress or lessen the frequency &28th VCrcchebrues the Gth chap,
of this barbarous practice, has been-tcr Q rcturn ticm to Repentance
iormea in vnariesiqii, . again is impossible
meeiiii" lor mo piirpo&u uu-; N. B Publish this throutouta
cd by a Circular signed by fourteen mcrica Friends farewell
clergymen, ot various uenomma-
tt 'j-tiw wrwrif i ipwi
From the Am. Medical Review.
CASK OF A HORNED WOMAN,
Marlborough, Pcnn. July 10...
Dear Sir I take the liberty to
forward for your perusal the fol
lowing case of a horned woman,
hoping from its rare occurrence,
it may not prove unacceptable.
The account may be relied on, as
many others besides myself have
seen her, as she resides but five
miles distant from this place.
Mr3. B , aged about 70 years,
Hhe wife of a farmer of Bucks
county, of a' robust constitution
was affected four-years ago with
a very troublesome itching over
the centre of the parietal bone o
the left side; In a short time she
perceived a hard tumor of a hor
ny structure o.ccupyjnir the place
thus affected, which continued to
increase, so that by the end of 12
months, it had attained the lentl
of one inch. Without any consi
Lerablc pain, it has progressed in
bov.
The floods in the South. We
ire sorry to learn by letters from
the South, that the late heavy rains
lave done much damage to bridg-
es, crops, stacks, &c. in parts of
Virginia and j. Carolina. The
following extracts have been han
ded to us:
Extract of a letter from Louisburg, (N.
U.J dated the 13th.
"On the 10th, we had atremen
dous rain and gust of wind; the
water courses were higher than
they have been for five years. The
mail for the North was nearly lost
between this place & Warrcnton.
Ihe ford at Shocco Creek being
impassable, the driver of the stage
went below where there was a
bridge. As soon as the stacre rrnt
on the bridge, it floated off witl
the stage passengers, horses anc
all, but by the great exertions o
the driver they were all saved
He swam to shore, and having ob
tained help, returned and carried
the passengers one at a time to
Hand on his back,"
11th
om
tions, at the head of whom we no
tice Bishop Bowen, of the Epis
copal Church, and Bishop Eng-
and, of the Catholic Church. A
Constitution was adgpted, and of
ficers chosen.
A correspondent of the Milton Ga
zette, gives the following as a true copy
cf an original prescription of a physician
in Randolph county:
Fust giv the small papers oust
eyry 2 or 3 Owers in the ncxtgif
'Adulter?. At the superior! m- Jecttions oust ady or twist-next
court, now in session in Hartford,! gv the Barks or the tihker-And
Connecticut, there was a caseiffivtheBiters-Andifiiecdcdtwcp
which excited considerable inter-i the Body open with the Cuihick
est. It was a nrosecution for a-; mixture or Cas tur Oil-and Bah
dultery against Julia Ami Burr, a
young woman of interesting ap
pearance, fche was found guilty
upon circumstantial testimony but
of the most conclusive and satis
factory nature. This is the first
prosecution of a woman for this of
fence which has occurred in that
county for a number qf years. Her
paramour who had deluded her
from the path of duty to her de
struction, has been bound over, &
whilst in jail had obtained bail, and
made his escape, leaving the bail
jn the lurch.
Harem. In the course of the
late insurrection at Constantino
ple, the Janissaries had at one time
so far prevailed as to break into a
part of the Seraglio, where some
of the females of the Harem were
seen by them. .When the intru
ders were repelled, the women,
guilty of being visible, were tied
up in sacks and thrown into the
sea. This is not altogether un
like the justice of more civilized
societies. ...only it is fair to the sul
tan to say, that the Janissaries ajsp
were punished.
Drunkenness. The Newport
(for bath) bur onst ady Small do
ses of Niter at Eony time.
JLiJe.. ..The following singular pars-
graph appears in a letter, published in
the Warrcnton Reporter, from a person
who lately emigrated to the west:
"I have been through a great
many ups and downs in the course
of my insignificant life, and expe
rienced the 'Whims and cannccs ot
many sorts of people, and I fad
wherever I go it is the same; but
the greatest hell I ever experienc
ed, was living amongst my rela
tions in indigent circumstance?:
and moreover you must need?
know J have lived a great many
kinds pf lives I have lived a ser
vant's life a negro's life a poof
man's life a middling life a .far
mer's,, life a merchant's life
gentleman's lifea playful li&"a
lazy life--an industrious life
hog's life a dog's life and above
all, a dependant's life-and find all
the lives, take them upon an ave
rage, nearly the same, but the fo&
-and damn that life, I say, above
all the lives I ever lived."
He cot married since he removed
and the lady whom he selected as a com-
spectator in referring to Mr. Loi-1 panion was a widow with nine children