Miscellaneous
FOR THE FREE TRESS.
To a Child ai play
How like the fresh but fading flow'r.
Are all thy joys of tender years;
You have no thought there comes the hour,
That ends thy joys in gloomy cares.
And swiftly comes the hour shall spread, iL.
O'er all thy noon her raven night;
And hope and fear unmingl'd sled,
A darkling ray where all was bright.
Thou hast no wants and hast no fears,
Thy heart dilates with ev'ry bliss;
If thou art sad, a mother cheers,
And ev'ry tear meets mother's kiss.
But soon thy wants unheeded go,
And earth may claim her kindred clay;
No mother then to soothe thy wo,
And kiss each scalding tear away
For thy mother, for her alone,
Thy heart has love that's pure as heav'n;
For thine thou ever hast her own,
And it is return d, pure as giv'n.
But soon thy soul, tho all is love,
In vain shall breathe her tender sighs;
Disdain be all thy love can mov e,
For thee no mother's heart replies.
Then, dear child, tho' the world may smile,
And promis'J joy each smile aitend;
Let this sad truth, no dream beguile,
Thy mother is thy only friend. A.B.C.
to fail: fceivedthe benehtsot ancuucuuuu,
FOR THE FREE TRESS.
Written by moonlight at Major ? 's,
about! o'clock, Jl.Af.l3th Aou. 1S2G.
Where is that beauteous fiowrct gone,
That once inspir'd my muse;
Which I delighted gazed upon,
Refreshed with morning dews?
Tis wither'd! but the verdant vine,
With other flowers may bloom;
When he who all thy. charms resign,
Shall dwell within the tomb!
But yet there is a time to come,
When nought that's bright must fade;
Tis when yon glorious'shining moon,
Shall sink in endless shade.
Then in a more refulgent sphere,
Will Virtue's flowers bloom;
And though they4b.ll have perish'd here,
They'll glow beyond the tomb.
MARMION.
For the Free Press.
-A SERIOUS THOUGHT.
Ifay, do not ask; I cannot, no,
I ne'er will quit thy side;
Where'er thou goest, I will go,
Where thou abides:, I'll abide.
Jnlife, in death, my soul tq thine,
Shall cleave, as first it fondly clave;
Thy home, thy fieoile, shall be mine,
Thy God, my God thy grave, my grave.
MARMIOX.
Sunday, 22d Oct. 1826.
; And let mc in the vale below, ,
With all the lowly safely go,
In harmony and concord with them all. -.
No envy in my heart be found,
Nor baleful malice hover round,
"No black suspicions haunt my hour of rest.
. Let prejudice forgotten lie, . '
Contention's biting rabble die;
Be thy sweet joys by thy kind looks express d
Let me in absence not defame,
Nnr liehtlv use my neighbor's name,
To say what ! would not that he should hear;
His virtues praise wiui lenipermc .cai,
His smallest fault with care conceal;
And thus his love secure, and shun his fear.
When provocation's torrent pour,
And anger's darken'd tempest roar,
May thy soft magic influence be display'd j
Smooth tKou the torrent to a rill, .
, The tempest's raging fury still, .
And bid me smile again, the storm is laid.
We'll note no names that gender strife,
In civil or religious life;
But make our mortal course in mutual Jove;
.With men, we'll each on each depend;
And know no man but as a friend,
And when our toil is done find rest above.
PHILA3rrUR0PfST.
For the Free Press.
Man! unhappy creature, frail and vain,
Must die, must surely die
Every one must follow in his trais,
A king and you, a lord and I.
He must bid farewell to earthly joys,
For here he cannot stay;
Death his visionary hopes destroys,
And bids him come away.
He's born to-day, and dies to-morrow,
His life is but a span;
His days are nought but pain and sorrow,
Such alas! is creature Man! SOLON.
FOR THE FREE PRESS.
FOR THE FREE PRESS.
To Benevolent.
The amorous Marmion seems to rouse thy
muse,
Then why not, Benevolent, lash him more
profuse?
He deserves it much, and all who reads him
must
At once agree, that what thou sayest is just.
That Marmion has talents no one will deny,
Yet, hackney'd subjects w-ll become too dry;
And such is the fate of Mannion's darling
theme,
That e'en the Belles all wish for something
new I deem.
Then say to Marmion, thou Benevolent so
mild,
Too old thou art, to be so romantic wild;
Loved are thy talents, and that by not a few,
Then do forsake the old," and sing us some
thing new '
The Bard at the Corner.
FOR THE FREE PRESS.
Ode to Friendship.
Come, Friendship ! heaven-born compeer,
For ever make thy dwelling here,
Since thou celestial, wast design'd to bless;
Come, gentle, far withdrawn from strife;
Come sweeten all the toils of life,
And calm each rising tumult in my breast.
Expel all pride, a foe to good,
Who on the mountain top has stood,
LOVE.
Mr. Editor: I have frequently
heard people say that they were
in love that a certain gentleman
was in love with a certain lady, &c
and have often asked the question
wiiai is loves uui nave never re
ceived a satisfactory answer. In
deed, it appears that they are in
capable of conveying the least
dea of the operations of that pas
sion on themselves. 1 have hcan
some assert that the passion o
love is involuntary; and others, on
the contrary, say. that it is entirely
dependent on the will. And the
advocates, of these two very op
posite opinions, plead experience
in support of their dpctrine. J ow
Mr. Editor, when opinions, saex
actly opposite are advanced, and
the arguments brought forward by
both parties in support of them
ultimately result in what they term
experience, how are we, who are
inexperienced, to decide as to the
validity of either! The one find?
himself involved in a peculiar sit
uation, which he is unable to des
cnbe, occasioned either by the
sight of a beautiful female, by her
superior qualities of ...mind, or by
1 c . tJ
uer mscinauriff manners: wnicn
he says, he is incapable of volun
tanly resisting. Such being the
case, he is forced to yield to that
i i ii ,i
impulse, wmcn tnrows jam com
plctely in the power of his flame
The other, although smiled at by
tne most lovely and beautiful of her
sex; although he may receive th
side-long-glances of, the most bril
liant and penetrating eyes, whos
looks carry with them force ant
energy; although his ears may be
saluted with the delightful tone of
her voice, accompanied 'with the
sounding keys of her piano de
clares that he can voluntarily re
sist all the powers and fascinations,
of which Cupid is master that
he can love whenever and whom
soever he pleases. . The absurdi
ty of this doctrjne is clearly shewn:
caii testify that he knows how to
make his mark."
and whose manners have been on-
v &lislitlv touched with the poiisii-
ing. brush of female society, can,
with tnitli. affirm, that he is capa
ble of voluntarily resisting all tne
charms of female beauty and ac
complishments.
It is true, we do not receive the
samo impressions from every lady
we behold, or with whom we are
acquainted we do not love all a-
ke tfod forbid! rms may pro
bably be urged by the advocates of
voluntary love in support ot tneir
doctrine; but we beg leave to siaie
to them, that different causes pro
duce different effects; that the laws
of human nature are different in
different individuals; that Aye 'do
not bear the same relation to each
other with regard to our stations
in life. &c: therefore a man who
walks in the first circle of society
will not deign to look upon a fe
male of low order;" nor will a lady
of high , rank suffer herself to be
wooed by a harlequin.
From what, has been said, Mr.
Editor, you will have anticipated
my opinion in respect to the. sub
ject of voluntary love: I will, how
ever, briefly observe that 1 do not
subscribe to either doctrine exclu
sively. :
I must confess I am not much
experienced in the alfairs of love,
but think I am sufficiently expen-
enccuto be entitled to tne privil
ege of venturing an opinion on the
subject. I am of opinion, Sir, that
the first impression, and conse
quent re-action of the passion of
Female Education. A corres
pondent of the New-York Ameri.
can complains that his daughter
has been to a "iashionable board
ing school" three years, and is
solving problems in algebra, and
yet she cannot solve a sum in the
rule of three lie says she knows
something about ancient history,
but has not "got to modern history
yet"-r-shc can neither speak nor
write'English, but then she is stu
dying French and Italian and she
cannot go to school in the after
noon in the same dress t she wore
in the. morning.
Horrible discovery. X discov
ery of the most painful and revolt
ing description was made on Mon
day last, on board the ship Lato-
na, which had just been freighted,
and was about to sail from Liver
pool to. Leith. When the vessel
wa3 on the point of leaving the for
mer port, a most disagreeable efflu
via was perceived by the persons
on board, but without the cause
being immediately known. The
smell, lipweyer, became more and
more offensive, and, on endeavou
ring to trace whence it proceeded
some of the crew suspected it to
issue frpm. three casks which were
on boarcl, and .had been shipped
for Leith. A hole was immedi
ately bored into one of them, and
no doubt then existed as to the
cause; but such was the nature of
the stertch it emitted, that it exci
ted the most painful suspicions.
The casks were instantlv opened,
love are altogether irresistable, & when the. horrible discovery was
of course involuntary. But if the made, that they contained several
person loving, from a desire to (human bodies, some of them per
fect, others mutilated, and all m
the most shocking state of decom
position. No time was lost in en
quiring frpm whence the casks had
come, and upon that circumstance
being learned information was
instantly given to the Police, who
despatched several Officers to the
premises. On their arrival they
made strict search, and after brea
king open the doors of an under
ground cellar, a place well calcu
lated for concealment, they suc
ceeded in finding 11 other casks
of a similar description to those
on board the Latona, all of w hich
on being broken open, were found
to contain human bodies in a state
top painful to describe; some w ere
perfect, others dissected, aiid some
we shudder at the recital, were
put into pickle! On extending
their search several sacks were
discovered, containing also the vi
olated remains of the dead. The
whoje number of bodies that were
found to have been taken from the
silent tomb is no less than 35.
The distressing sensation which
this most extraordinary affair has
occasioned to the inhabitants of
Liverpool cannot be described.
The agitation of those who have
lately lost either a relative or friend
is extreme, from the dreadful ap
prehension that the corpse they
had so recently consigned to the
grave might be among the number
of those which have been so sacri
legiously torn from it. We are
not yet aware of what proceedings
are to follow this most strange c-
v rigid lii-
immediate
please his parents, or from some
other motive, wishes to love some
other lady, he can voluntarily ab
sent himself from the first, and, by
his jcill, become attached to the
second with equal ardour.
I will remark, by the way, that
there are various causes which act
in first exciting the passions of
love: among these, riches are con
sidered, in this our day, as the pri
ma causa of the lirst movement.
This, then is voluntary, but in my
opinion, it cannqt produce that
' . r , ,
pure genuine aiiectionwincn is pro
perly denominated LOVE, with
out the co-operation of other caus
es not of a pecuniary nature.
Narcissus.
Colonel Tarleton. The haugh
ty Tarleton, vaunting his feats of
gallantry to the great disparage
ment of officers of the Continent
al cavalry, said to a lady at Wil
mington, (N. C.) "I have a very
earnest desire to see your far fam
ed hero, Colonel Ayashington."
"Your wish, Colonel,' might have
been fully gratified," she prompt
ly replied, "had you ventured to
look behind you, after the battle of
the Cowpens." It was in that bat
tle that Washington had wounded
Tarleton, which gave rise to a still
more pointed retort. Conversing
with Mrs. Wiley Jones, at Hal
fax, (N. C.) Oof. Tarleton obser
ved, "You appear to think very
highly of Col. Washington, and
yet I have been told that he is so
ignorant a fellow, that he can hard
ly write his own name." "It may! vent, but certhinlv n vr
be the case," she replied, "but uojvestigation will be in
man better than
yourself, Colonelcommenced...i,wWfs paper.