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MfiifiirafaMTi I FOR THE FREE PRESS. To Miss C.H.D. who kindly request eel my Son, to remain at her Fa thers during Court week. Oh! what is so beautiful half to behold, As the smile which hure Friendship bestows? It is sweeter than incense, and brighter than gold, And soft, as the breath of a rose. Oh ! it sheds round the heart, in it's happiest hour, A halo of rapture and love; And divinely it glows, 'neath the magical power, As a gem 'neath the light from above. If so enchanting her smile, what would be her tear? But ne'er may it flow but in JOY; 'Tis the prayer of a Father toHeavcn for her, Who was kind to his motherless boy. But both arc most exquisite! blest is the smile, . Which beams in the season of eladness; And blcss'd is the tear, which can sorrow beguile, Qr soften one moment of sadness. MARMION. TOR THE FREE TRESS. Home. Yes! home is home, where'er it be: 'Tis there we feel our liberty, 'Tis there we taste the sweets of life, 'Tis there we strangle foolish strife There like the monarch on his throne, We 'bey no mandate but our own; And, though no royalty have we, Our heart's as proud, our soul's as frec! Then where I go, where'er I roam, I'll proudly say, that home is home. W 'Reclaimed Land. -Mr. David j Justice, Jr. of this county, made the present season, seventeen bar rpls nf Horn, two wagon loads of Pumpkins and a large quantity of Peas, from one acre ana ten poies of ground, and he has now the prospect of a fine crop of Turnips from the same soil. This land was marshy and usually covered with water, but having been drain ed and cleared, was cultivated for the first time, this season. We hope yet to sec the passage ofalawby our Legislature, di recting the draining of the im mense body of Swamp land in the eastern section of our State, which J being now constantly covered with water, is the fruitful source of dis ease in that auarter. but which if reclaimed, would give the State thousands of acres of the most fer tile land, and would greatly in crease the funds of the State. Raleigh. Reg. FOR THE FREE PRESS. The unfortiuiatc Man, and sympa thising Friends. What sympathies are often felt, And how men's hearts appear to melt What mutual feelings they express, For ev'ry brother in distress! But modern times afford a story, Which strips them of their boasted glory, And shows their sorrow oft a sound, Where scarce one spark of feeling's found! A certain man, no matter who, Had suffer'd loss, and sorelv too; His friends, around him all" collected, With faces long, and looks dejected, 3reathed forth their sighs in such a host, 'Twas hard to tell which sigh'd the most. Says one, I'm sorry, Sir, to hear, That you sustain such loss this year! Another says, I'm sorry, too! I feel right sorry, that I do! A third, who seems, in earnest, sad, Declares such luck is mighty bad! A fourth observes, in strains high-flown, He's sorry fortune seems to frown! Thus round and round their sorrow went, 'Till sorrow all in breath was spent. An honest swain was standing by. Regarding with attentive eye, The man reduced to want, and grieved, Which all condoled but none relieved. This honest swain with cheerful look, Five dollars from his pocket took, And thus accosts the pitying crew: So much I sorry how much you? Then rcach'd it to the man in want, 'Twas all the sorrow he could vaunt. J RENE VOLE NT. Selected for the Free Frets. CONUNDRUM. I am a word of letters five, In sparkling wine I always thrive; Jn serpent's eye. and woman's smile, And lyiaccoboy-fdwell awhile. !My two first letters then remove, A good appendage I shall prove ' To a man's body then transpose My second, third and fifth, and to the nose Of Jew or Turk I give offence, And nauseate their every sense. Instead of that transpose my whole, And by militia captains bold You'll hear me often bawl'd aloud, To all the lazy listening crowd. My three last letters well arranged, Into a sheep will then be changed; ' My four first letters treated civil, Will be what Milton calls the Devil. Now gentles all, if you can tell Who I can be then you can spell. Q. Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor: Wh ves tp fancy never can be rich, Post of last evening remarks, mat pray uiui n may uuU n nt .lnmnrwns raised "pure- immediate operation, ueiore t 11 ClVUb v""- ' . I' ll l ly for electioneering purposes, a- . r i ainst Gov. 1 Clinton, lor not snow- mff more aiacmy aim .t-ui n. occasion, for not issuing his proc lamation earlier and offering a lar ger reward for the discovery of the villains who carried off this unfor tunate individual. This clamor had its effect. Mr. Clinton lost a great many votes by it; and nowr, after the election is over, we dis covered the mysterious retreat to which the ill-starred Captain Mor gan has been conveyed ."rTimcs. Race against a Coach. A groom, of the name of Edwards, was matched to run, on Saturday morning, Nov. 8, eighteen miles in less time than the Bath Regula tor coach. The coach performed the eighteen miles, changing twice, in two hours and 8 minutes. The pedestrian did his task w ith great ease, in 5 minutes less than (wo hours. An. of Sporting. Danville, Va. Nov. 18. Roanoke Company. The an nual meeting of the Stockholders Women. There has been a pc of the Roanoke Navigation Com- ' riod when women were not only pany, took place in the town of deemed an inferior race, but when Clarksvillc, during the present doubts were entertained wnetner week. We understand the Stock- they belonged to the human spe- holders were well pleased with the cies. Holeroft, in his travels thro reports made of the state of the Holland, France, Reintroduces Company. The works have pro- the tollowing passages: "fet grossed to the anticipations of the Foix quotes Gregory of Tours to most sanguine friends. prove that at the council of Macon rromthc report it appears that the questions whether women were the cash in hand amounts to $15- or were not human beings, was 000, and that 8JG,000 are due, hotly disputed, and after much di which is amply sufficient we pre- vision of sentiment, it was at last sume for the further improvements solemnly decreed in the council necessary to be made at this time; that women did not constitute but in addition to this, there is the part of the human race." further sum of 4 per cent, upon ...... Mrs. Coh'vi, each share which the President; and Directors may require, at any Bachelors. The witty editor o time, leaving out of view, the the Boston Lounger makes the landsome sum of 850,000 which following satirical remarks on the the State of North Carolina has, at project for laying an additional tax any moment a right to subscribe, upon bachelors: which right she has hitherto re-1 "Bachelors must be taxed doubt fused to yield, which bears us out less, but the deuce of it is, have in a belief that she will at some fu- the wretches got sufficient cash crippled and meagre race of Ben' edicts shall have had time to cr;m! off to a more congenial climate;' John Randolph. The follow, ng paragraphs arc contained h, he infamous sp-cech, delivered ip the U. S. Senate by Mr. Raxdolph which led to the altercation !n.' tween him and Mr. Clay. Ku man on earth, save John Randolph could embody so much real bitter ness and sarcasm in the same space. y e record u as a curiosi ty, and as a specimen of the bit terness of John Randolph, of Roanoke. Literary. Cadet. This man (mankind I crave your pardon) this worm (little animals torgive me insuitj was spit out of the womb of madness was raised to higher life than he wras born to for he was raised to the society of blackguards. Some lUiiiiiie Kiuu iu mm eiuei lO US has tossed him into the Secre taryship of State. "Contempt, has the property of descending, but she stops far short of him. She would die before she could reach him. lie dwells be low her fall. "I would hate him if I did not despise him, It is not what lie is, but ichcre he is, that puts my thols inaction. That Alphabet which writes the names of Thcrsilcs, of Blackguard, of Squalidiiy, refu ses her letters for him. -. r 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 T " 1 nat mind w hich tmiiKs on what it cannot express, can, scarce ly think of him. An hyperbole for meanness would be an elipsisfor Clay, ture day take up the stock. Tel. Puffing. There was much ex citement at Boston and its neinh-1 borhood because Mr. Cushing, a candidate for a seat in Congress, was supposed, (as it appears er roneously,) guilty of sending to one of the newspapers an article puffing himself. There is no rar ity (says Mr. Niles) in such things with us and to the south! Persons get upon stumps, carts, &c. and praise themselves in the face of the people, without the least cer emony boasting of what they have (lone, and saying what they will do, as though all power were vested in their precious selves to promote the welfare of the state. Ca.pt. Morgan. This individ ual concerning whose abduction so much has been said and written, and who was supposed to have been murdered, or immured in some solitary and secret cell, is, it seems, quietly and comfortably performing the duties of tapster, in a grocery, at Fort George, Up per Canada. The Rensselaer Ga zette states, that the persons who took him from goal, paid the debt for which ho was confined, and that he is now snugly engaged in a comfortable employment.0 The credit or friends, to pay the exac lion! The whole vagabond race of them are eternally whining a bout poverty, until people are worn to death with their querulousncss Would it not be better to have them publicly whipped and bran ded! Or, (as they continue to burn up widows in India,) suppose we have an annual bonhrc of bacl elqrsl This last project would be agreeable to ancient single ladies . "Since the last 29th of Februa ry, the increase of bachelors in this city has been so considerable as to excite the most lively appro hensions in the bosoms of the fair The number of. those infatuated young men, in proportion to those actually married or mortgaged was ascertained at the time of ta king the census, to be something like a quantity of rotten lemons in a fresh box which is much more than enough to affect the comfor of society. If bachelors will be so intolerably wilful as to shrink from entering into the married state maugre the goodness pfthe times and the encouragement cf the fair it is but reasonable they should be numbered and taxed like dos Mr. Slocum's plan pf filling the public treasury by picking the pockets of the pennyless, strikes us as peculiarly ingenious;. We From the Albany Daily Advertiser. The legal value of an EngWh wife. Our readers need not be informed that an Englishman ac cording to the usage of his coun try, may sell his wife at public ven due to the highest bidder, and that instances frequently occur in Eng land' of that very ungallant prac tice, But we little expected that we should hear of such a practice in this country; and still less, that the value of a wife thus sold, should become the subject of discussion in a court of justice. Yet so it is. and it becomes our duty to record it. On the 21st of Nov., 1820, Robert Bctham, an inhabitant of this city, but an Englishman by birth, sued John Butterfield, also an Englishman,before Squire Hal laday, and declared "for breach of contract in not delivering his, But terficld's wife to him, Bethani, which wife he, Betham, had for the sum of six cents, bought of him, Butterfield, to Plaintiffs da mage 850." The defendant plead the general issue; and a trial by ju ry was had between the parties. Several witnesses were examined and the contract of sale was full' proved. The jury gravely found a verdict of six cents in favor oi the plaintiff, and thus established the legal value of an Englishman's wife. This lady is not unknown to our courts of justice. Not long since, she was indicted for bigamy? in having married a second hus band, the first being still alive On the trial her Counsel proved that she had in fact married thrkk husbands, all being still alive and Hie jury of course 'acquitted her.
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