POETRY.
WOMAN'S SMILE!
Oh! what a dreary waste would be
This joyous world of ours,
If happy hearts, the gay, the free,
Had lost their witching powers;
Or what the charm, however bright,
That could our souls beguile,
With half so sweet, so soft, a light,
As that of Woman's smile!
Oh! Life would be one joyless dream
Of hopelessness and wo,
If 'twere not for the sunny beam
Of beauteous eyes below;
And all earth's flowers so fair, so sweet,
Would flourish but awhile,
If in return they con Id not meet
The light of Woman' smile !
Then if our hopes of bliss depend
On such bright forms of love,
Which softly with our spirits blend
Dear thoughts of bliss above;
Who on this earth could love to test,
(E'en in this flowery isle)
If that existence be unhlest
With audit of Woman's smile !
STRATHNAVER, a Scottish Legend.
CHAPTER VIII.
I am not
Minded, to such dev'lish sport-
Oldriay.
One out of sorts with fortune. SJiakspeare.
We parted from our heroine under no
enviable circumstance, if we take regard to
the feelings, by which we roust naturally
suppose her to be agitated. But the mel
ancholy and gloom, which succeed to the
incidents by which they are excited, faij
iu the relation, to afford the interest attach
ed to more active distress; and it is partly
for this reason, and partly that we have
other business on hand, that wc resign her
for a time to her own meditation?, or the
lady Isabella's conversation, whichever she
may best like, or otherwise decide for,
vrhile we turn to Sinclair, who with his
followers, accompanied by the Lairds Mo.
ray & Dunrobin with their retainers, were
Mow, though the hour was rather late for a
friendly departure, preparing to set out for
their own homes. The horsemen once
mounted and equipped, crossed the draw
bridge, and galloped off at full speed. Nei
ther did they for a considerable distance,
alack their pace; excepting now and then to
a hard trot, which was soon changed again
to the brisker motion. The silence which
had been maintained during this time with
unbroken pertinacity, was first, and at
length disturbed by the laird of Dunrobin,
wbo jogging up to the Moray, said, while
the steed of the latter assumed something
of the same pace "In good truth ! it's
to my thinking of the strangest not to
say aught harsher , that gentlemen should
show sic slight courtesy as to be
take them from a friend's roof and a friend's
board, at this unseemly hour what say
ye laird is it not strange?"
A pause of some length, evinced that
the one addressed was true to the theory
he inculcated, for he merely said; "It's not
good neither at all times safe to judge
rashly"
"But of a surety laird," again insinuated
the other; "you need not be reminded, that
we did but delay our journey in compli
ment to the laird Sinclair, and now for
sooth ! and without one word, to shew, for
the why or the wherefore, he sounds to
horse 1 and away ! and we to rids the live
long night shelterless and a puir chance
but wc go breakfastlesd, as we came off
supperless !"
"I've oft heard," returneJ the Moray,
something mischievously; "that love is a
dainty and all-sufficient provender for
myself, it is true, I'm something "o'er
old, as the auld song says, for such like,
but for you, who play the lover sae braw
ly, I'd just commend ye think on pretty
Mistress Agnes, and see how that will
stand in stead of supper ! and as for the
breakfast, ye can even try a cast for that
after !"
"Love and wad ye talk of love to a
man whose empty stomach sings cupboard
at every jog?" asked the first, almost pa
thetically, and apparently quite uncon
cious of any approach in ridicule in what
his generally taciturn companion had just
spoken; "It's true," he added, after a little;
I do betimes, when nothing better offers
amuse myself with sich fas h and foole
Ty and the puir weak things expect it of
us, they do 1 but then it's mere pastime,
only to fill up the idle hours ye see
laird, hu I hu ! Not" he resumed again
after another pause ,only broken by a
slight echo of his own self-grstulary laugh
from his companiou, with what of sympa,
thy, we leave others to guess, "not, but
what the lassie is well favored forbye
he s the sole heir to many broad lands
ye may mind laird, and as ye say, under
this aspect of things, there's nae idling
what may happen no; no; there's no tell
ing, as ye well say!'
"I'm not minded, that I have at any
lime said the like,' returned Moray quiet
ly; "Tho' I'm free to opine should the
lassie wye say, bespeak your mercy, ye'd i
not doom her to the willow!" .
"Moray," said the flattered lover with a
good deal of assumed importance; "3'e're a
man of sense and sound judgment; and, I
may as well just confess to ye, that I have
e'n in some measure committed myself for
a formal proffer of my hand and fortune
but I'd not for a little, speak openly
for you ken laird, I might peradventure
rue and then. I'm not quite well pleas
ed, with the clash about the noble bequest
some tell of, promised by the earl to the
church abroad! So after all," he conclu
ded with a pompous flourish, and a patron
ising air: "It's at best, just doubtful, whe
ther the lady Agnes may e'er be the lady
o' Dunrobin!"
"Aye ! I'd suppose bo," said Moray dri-
iy.
"Not that I'd have you left to think me,
altogether unmindful of her feelings either
puir lassie," again said the considerate
Jover, speaking most deliberately and slow
ly, as if in this manner, the more fully to
impress upon his hearer the sense of his
own importance, and the advantage at
which he held the lady.
Farther we are left to conjecture, what
might have been the rejoinder to this
precious morcel of self-complacency in
one, so ill calculated to bespeak, not to say
favor, but even tolerance from the fair sex;
for the laird was with all his pretensions,
as ungainly in person as he was self-conceited
and disgusting in manner by the
way and may we be pardoned so awk
ward a parenthesis, no uncommon anomaly
with our male brotherhood, who often
claim most, where and when they deserve
least: for the party had now arrived at that
point in their journey, where the road they
travelled, branched out into several differ
ent ditections, and as the two were "now
joined by Sinclair, who had for the time
past, as if purposely kept himself apart,
probably to enjoy his own thoughts, the
conversation was of course brought to a
speedy conclusion. Nor was it again re
sumed. For Sinclair, in order to pursue
his way into Caithness, here tured off to
the east, while his kinsman, the Moray,
still continued strait onward, leaving the
laird of Dunrobin, to make good his way,
as they imagined, for his own castle, which
now lay but some score of miles to the
west. This latter, had however made but
a few paces in that direction, when he ab
ruptly stopped; and calling to his esquire,
who rode at a short distance behind, he
desired to know, as nearly as might be,
how far they had, according to that gen
tleman's calculation, gained on the fore
most of the clan.
We've come, passing guid speed," re
turned the man; "an' they canna' be near
han yet, I'm think in."
U'eel weel, and so I was thinkin'
m'ysel Robert," said the master; "and
since tbis is the case forbye, tnat tr.y
hnngry stomach is unco fashous this raw
morning it's the day dawn, I see yonder
is'nt it Robert? and I've no need o go
boaming the' lane a-most over this bit it's
o'er near lhede'il Sirathnaver men, to be
quite canny, to the like o' us any way '
just creep along a leetle to the left han'
o the broad road, and tell me, ennna' ye
glint to some show o a lodgment, for an
I'm not far wrong, there's a wee bit hostel,
hereabout, an' mayhap we might get a bit
bite to stay our hunger withal so, so, ride
on, and" I'll just wait ye here see
beside this bittock."
The man rode off, but in the next mo
ment, as if but then recollecting himself
turned full round, and told the laird, that
he remembered some mile or so he sup
posed then onward, and only a 6hort dis
tance from their direct road, of a small
house, kept by the widow of a horse troop
er, where he thought they might perhaps
get something in the way of breakfast.
'But is it far away yet?" asked the other;
for I swear to ye more, that my stomach
wreezes like any old bagpipe vi' very
emptiness !"
"I canna just be free to say I know the
exact distance to the lackies," replied the
man; "but this I can well tell we'll not
gang the gait the sooner, by standing here
shilly shall' neither like the sooner, to
get that to fill our empty bellies wiihal !"
"Weel weel ye're right man nae
doubt ye're right, bo lead the way an' I'll
keep the gait after ye," concluded the laird,
again putting his steed in motion. "Tho'
it al! but makes my mouth water, to think
o' all the dainty bits left behind us at the
castle and then the lassie puir thing!
she'll be waesome the mom "
Tse wannan' ye, an she will !" ex
claimed Robert, "for the lady Agne6,
whatreck betroibed to that dark favored
chief now dead the saints rest him ! had
aye. they tay mair favor for the bonny
blue e'e, and bright face of the Sinclair."
"Ye're dolt roon ! that say it !" in his
urn exclaimed the laird; "do ye think, af
ter all the brave speeches I made till her
forbye, comparing her to Venus and
talking to her of Cupid an Appollo an
a thrap mair gentles ye'll no ken of that
that" lie repealed, several times but
whether that he was at loss how to con
clude his sentence, or whether," that the
signs of something like a habitation before
the riders, called his attention lo the more
important matter of breakfast, we are una
ble to determine.
The inn to which we are about to intro
duce our travellers, was designated as such,
by a stake, surmounted by a board upon
which was traced in uncouth characters a
promise of cheer both to man and beast:
Which in fact, excepting the less doubtful
purport of the dangling board upon which
it appeared, was nearly as likely to afford
the information to the one as to the other.
The building itself was not of sufficient
height, save at the centre, whence it de
scended in no .gradual slope on each side,
to admit even a man of ordinary stature to
enter without stooping; while from the an
gle, farmed by the conjoining sides of the
roof which they served likewise to support,
descended several posts, that were main
tained in their hold at bottom, by stones,
piled around them, to some considerable
height. These posts formed too, the
groundwork of a partition, that divided the
edifice into two apartments. The outer
one of which was unoccupied when ihe
laird and his man Robert, dismounted from
their horses, and prepared to take pos
session of it. But notwithstanding, that
ihe laird entered the hovel nearly as a for
lorn hope and though he could not but re
mark how very small was the prospect of
good cheer, he seemed disposed to make
the best of the alternative , and sagely re
marked in a wise old saw, "that half pro
vender were better than no meat, and that
even a dry farl would fill, an eaipty stom
ach !"
An' will ye be there ay'in jinking?"
asked a voice, as the laiid finished his ob
servations. Tbe interrogation issued from
the room, which we have alluded to as be
ing divided from that upon uhich the laird
had entered, and of course this latter and
the speaker were concealed for the time,
from each other's view. Will ye be there
ay in, I speir at ye, ye lazy loun?" repeat
ed the person in the shrill and elevated lone
of impatience and irritated feeling.
"Nae good mother nae," said the laird
in his most deprecatory tone and manner,
and as no doubt befitted the sex he impu
ted to the querist, "ye'll be mistaken, and
will ye but come here ava, ye'll no repent
the fash' (Here the squire, apparently
thinking the debate of somewhat issue, in
terposed his counsel, that the "guile wife,
shou'.d forthwith be let to know, the con
ditions upon which they had invaded her
territory, and as she probably caught the
words implying one part of the contract
without fully appreciating the other, she as
promptly gave them warning "that they'd
get nothing there the day."
'How say ye Jackie! sure ye've tie sign
a' the dure !" remonstrated ihe man. An'
ye'll get the siller in the hand gudewife
urged ihe master following up the advan
tage. There was a short moment of sus
pense, which the laird occupied by placing
himself so that ue could avail himself of
the advantage which the imperfect and
slight partition offered for a gener2l re
connoitre, and in the next instant the wo"
man, either moved by th'ese inducements,
or aware that she had been at fault in the
characters and intentions of her visiters
commenced removing the barricade, fr it
could not be called a door, which impe
ded a free communication between the two
divisions of her dwelling. The appear
ance of the hostess, as she now stood re
vealed to full view, was not such as to
tempt to any long description. It was in
fact, and in few words, as unprepossess
ing, as suspicion, ill temper, and filth
could render it. In one hand, she held
the battered remains of a pewter mug; and
the other supported a trencher, upon which
was heaped, what looked not like one, but
ihe disjointed remnants of several meals
As she commenced placing these on a shat.
tered table, which was only supported in
anything of usable order, by the aid of two
boards, the one placed in an erect position,
the other attached to it at top, and running
transversely to the legs which the opposite
side of the table still maintained, she said
in a sort of grumbling tone, which gave the
half apology, her words appeared to im
ply, but a poor grace, "that it was na i'
their limes safe, to let ilky a landlouper a'
the house o'a lane body."
These it must be allowed were no strong
inducements for protracted stay, and a very
short time, considering the keen appetite
which under the circumstances Mre are pre
pared to infer for the guests, was sufficient
for them to profess themselves satisfied,
and they again took t'leir departure. ' Lit
tle however, as the hostess had up to this
period seemed disposed lo accord the rites
of hospitality or entertainment, she now,
when those were no longer called for, vol
untarily proferred and even pressed her ad
vice as to the route which it behooved them
to pursue homeward. She insisted, that
by endeavoring to cut into the broad road
by the way Robert pointed out, that they
would encounter almost insurmountable
difficulties from several deep sloughs, even
could they at all cross the ford, swollen as
it then was, which iu that direction lay be
tween them; while on the other hand, she
assured, them, by turning off towards the
Lake, though it was true, something out of
the direct progress, they would avoid all
these impediments to a free travel. And
in the end, make the journey both in less
time and more pleasantly, not to say safe
ly, than by following the more travelled
rout. The laird condescendingly thanked
ihe good woman for her counsel, and ac
cordingly, though altogether against the
declared views and wishes of the esquire,
determined for the road by the Lake. For
someway, the path promised well; it had
the appearance of being tolerably well trav
eled, and the laird, (notwithstanding, that
Robert still maintained his ground, 'that he
did not like the road,' for which too he had
sundry arguments, such as that the horse
shoes, were turned in the wrong direction
for leading to any place of consequence
seemed as usual, much disposed to con
gratulate himself upon his superior discrim
ination, when all these thoughts were $(id
denly put to flight, by the wild fury of ihe
demon-looking figure, that here darted from
a near thicket and now stood between
him and all further progress.
The countenance of the hag, who had
thus forced herself upon the laird, was the
very picture of depravity; nor was there
one single trace or lineament, that bespoke
aught human. Her thick and matted
black locks, hurgover her face and shoul
ders like surpents; and it was only when
she tossed these backwards, that her eyes,
red as burning coals, became visible, as
they glared and protruded from their dark
and swollen sockets. Her frantic gestures,
as she threw herself in her frenzy into eve
ry possible contortion, displayed at once
the unbridled rage, and brutal force of a
maniac. And her garments, which, hung
almost in shreds around her, well corrobor
ated the idea, which she otherwise display
rd of insanity. "Thank ycawa, ye base
lawlan doers of the devil's own bidding !
She 6rreeched and screamed as she leaped
hither and thither before him, and wildly-
sawed the air with her sinew)- and muscu
lar arm. "Thank ye awa' ye base law
lan tyke 1"
"Mist! now guid woman hist!" remon
strated the laird; "ye'll no ken as for what
we are "
"Hech now! ye pfoud workers of them,
do the bidding of Satan!" interrupted the
hag, as she laughed in derision and scorn;
cm' ye think 77 no ken ye ha? she as
ked, as for a moment she 6lood back in
in perfect quietude.
"Ijind mistress kind mistress! again
said the laird in his most conciliating
accent, and in most apparent pertu
batton; "and I mistake not, ye bid us
onward, and as we have no wish to oppose
ourselve to your most reasonable demand,
an ye'll just stand a wee small matter a
side, we'll say ye farewell outright And
wad ye accept a compliment, for bye our
very good wishes it's your3 just for the
asking," he subjoined, as he made some
intimation of a search for iiis purse.
It was neither a laugh nor a yell, that
the maniac here uttered; it was a sound be
tween both. And the laird unvoluntarily
reined his horse several paces backwards,
as with redoubled fury she again broke
out, "Och ! ye dei! bucky Sutherland; an'
ye'd tempt the poor; soul blasted wrefeh
wi' Que words and braw siller ! But I tell
ye, now, base man," she said after a pause
and, as if in something of returning reason,
for she had foldedher arms torn &; scratch
ed by her laie contact with briers and
brambles, upon her naked bosom, and
now stood quietly confronting him she ad
dressed; "that it's all loo late too late.
Ye canna 3tay the blood ye've run moun
tain deep upon our own home heather ;
ye cannae stay the fire and the brand, that
like the death beacon hne flickered from
every shealing o the Sirathnaver ye can
na restore the life to my own braw sons
ye canna recal the fearful sin of their
crazed mother ye canna' make tie only
breathing tiling that owns her for kith or
kin other than a base traitor a scorn a
shame both al home and abroad. ye can
na recal ihe false treasons, ye've ay' in
& ay' in put upon those, wad bae scorned
to win bread or life in other than fair con
test and wad I, be the pitiful wretch ye'd
ihink me, to tak one morsel bought al such
a price, ilka drops o'the free, bold, blood
o the Sirathnaver, that still warms at my
hearts core would turn to deadly poison,
and cry for vengeance ?"
But surely guid wife;' here again in
terposed the laird, acquiring somewhat
of assurance from her more reasona
ble dealing : and taking advantage of
the first stop she made, to bespeak her bet
ter purpose, than that she seemed at all
events to entertain of holding him a prison
er al her own pleasure ; "Ye're greatly at
fault in your thinking, for it's the least part
of all ye now tell of, that I can even mind
o' and gin ve'll stand by a little and let
me to the clansmen "
"And ve'd threat me, wi' the clansmen,
wad ye, brave chief ? interrupted the wo
man, again aroused to her wilder humour.
and speaking in evident contempt, though
it was easy to see, that the moment, in
which an approach to reason and reflection
held temporary sway had again given way
to those unaccountable impulses, which
suggest themselves as it were at random
within the bewildered mind, and over
which no extraneous influence seems to
maintain any control. Her deeper feelings
too, appeared for the time, to have been
replaced by the spirit of ridicule and mock
ery; and as she suddenly seized the bridle
of the laird's horse, and hnrried him for
ward to the very margin of the lake,
which then descended by a deep and suf
ficiently precipitous cliff to the water's
edge, she still told hi m in a jeering manner
'An' ye'll bit ihe auld ballad o'
Ilka Sutherlan 'ihe de'il dow tak.
He'll gar o' thir hoole a nine tail'd cat!
An' no' be routing it here ava! an'ca'ing
out for your white livered, stall fed gal
lant to come help ye (in explanation we
must here premise, that the laird in the
'extremity of his fear had called Robert to
the rescue what marvel? I'll let ye
o your clan Come lilt it now! and see!"
she said, as she forced the horse to the
verge of ihe precipice even; "the proud nag
springs it gleesomely come lilt it lilt ii!"
Some might have thought, as the hag
now screeched and laughed and jumped,
and clapped her hands, that a thousand furies
were celebrating their horrid rites. But by
degrees, the excess of her frenzied joy ap
peared to subside again into contempt, as
she witnessed the extreme dismay and irre
solution of him she thus held at bay, and
who danced bark wards and forwaid, now
approaching her as if determined by one
desperate effort to pass, and then retreating
again to the extreme edge of ihe precipice,
whicjl rose over the waters of tfie loch.
"Stick and stow," she said at length,
"might I send both ye and your craven
clansman frae the heugii, but even as I
now am look at me man and look well,
for I have been praised even to my o n
soul's cost, both for bright eye, and dim
pled cheek ! and I have been that to those
' gentle bl ood, that would not well beseem
me to even myself with ihe base born and
the low, nor wad I go t!i9 last travel with
such, 1 have been, all that a woman might
be of sinful, miserable crazed ! But"
she continued, ami she pressed her hand
upon her forehead, as if to be herself se
cure of the assurance she gave; "I'm not
mad now far I feel, that I've sinued.tdl I'm
past sinning! For years, when no other
bope was left for the wretched outcast, but
to breathe out curses, these sustained me
withal, and kept me a breathing taberna
cle of all that's dark and evil in this sin
wrought world and now, my doom and
my hour have come, will I yet have ven
geance now now now " And she
struggled with the force of returning mad
ness with the animal, that even on the
brink of destruction had still maintained his
footing.
It was a moment of fearful suspense to
the man, who at a short distance watched
lhe doubtful issue of the contest- The woman
had, when he once seemed ready to an
swer his master's signal for ' aid, warned
him, that his interference would but lias
ten what he dreaded; and as she seemed
jndeed, but loo well disposed for any ex
tremity, moreover that this cautious policy
perhaps suited his own ideas of personal
security quite as well as any more-active
measures, he remained silently, though as
we cannot but suppose anxiously looking
for what might be ihe catastrophe.
"In the name of God ! why stand ye
there? "asked one, as he now hastily
brushed past, the almost immoveab!e man
at arms. "Come now," he continued, as
he strode rapidly forward; "and give help to
the rescue, ere it be too late come!"
Nor indeed did the exortation to spee
seem in any thing misplaced or uncalled
for. The noble animal, with only his own
powerful & ever ready instincts to oppose to
the determination of the maniac who had
already thrown herself over the precipice,
still tenaciously maintaining her bold of tho
bridle, as she seemed resolved lo force both
horse and rider to her own dread plunge,
stood near, on the very verge of the, cliff,
with scarce one step, between him and
eternity. The unfortunate laird, was no
longer able to make even one effort lo es
cape the doom, which he thought now too
sorely impended overhim. He was wound
up to the last feeling of horror and despair.
No longer could he utter even one prayer
for succour or merry: a thick damp mist
swam over his half closed eyes, and the
objects which seemed to dance before him
were as things in which he had no longer
any interest,
"The'proud beast soulless tho. he be,
struggles bravely for existence, said Lang
Syne, for he it was, who had so oppor
tunely presented himself;" "while yon,
poor, miserable, fearwruught dastard, can
not even try one stake for the life, he needs
must prize so highly.' Pity! Ptlv! that
the bright image of the Almighty, should
be thus put to shame by the brute -bpast,
that most perish away, e'en like the grass
t.o foed on! Pity! Pity!' Ha srmke
with a scornful, and almost loathing sneer;
yet even while he uttered the sentiment so
little manifesting interest, he had laid his
powerful grasp upon lite shoulder of the
object of his contempt and with one single
effort cleared him of the saddle, and threw
him a dead weight upon the ground. But
what though Robert at the bidding of tho
old man, had also hurried forward, and
grappled furiously with the wretched wo
man; all his strength was insufficient to
unloose her clenched fis't, and she adhered
with the'resistless force of excited frenzy
t, the bridle of ihe animal; which, as she
at length fell from lhe dreadful height shared
iu her self-sought fate, and whose moans
and loud cries, mingled with her wild and
almost unnutural raving, as she tumbled
from craig to craig, till at last with the
gallant steed, she splashed into the waters
of the deep loch! Exulting, -with her last
breath in the doom of him, who she thought
had accompanied her. For as she once
rose above the bubbling waters, 6he said,
"Oh! it was a fearful fearful gait! but
Mag o' the blue mist, and the Sutherlan
traitor can lilt it topethei!"
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the two Bank bills.
That the Daily Madisonian may merit the sup
port of the community indiscriminately, the under
signed is resolved lo bring to his assistance in the
editorial department the lcst political and literary
talent that can be secured. In aid of this purpose,
an able and experienced European correspondent
(situated at Bremen) has been engaged to transmit
to u? by the tteamer every fortnight, the most
comprehensive accounts of the Etate and progress
of things in the old world of which he is capable.
This enterprise, we trust, will be duly appreciated
by our subscribe.
An efficient corps of stenographers will be em
ployed to report lhe proceedings and debates of each
house of Congress, which will he put in type the
eveningof the cay they transpire, and be transmitted
promptly to our subscribers through the mails.
As the only Administratis Journal in the Dis
trict of Columbia, publishing, officially, Ihe pro
ceedings of the Government, and cherishing and
defending honestly and earnestly the principles
upon which the public acts of President Tyler have
thus far been founded, we may, we (rust, justly
calculate upon nor considerable share at least of
the support of thaaevery comprehensive body of ou
fellow-citizens whot in the friends of good and
faithful Government.
TERMS.
Daily per annum, (in advance,)
For the approaching session, (probably
seven months,) - (in advance)
The tri-wccklv per annum, . . u
For six mcr.ihs, - - . . . .
Weekly, . .
For six months, .... . . u
510 0
5 00,
5 0O
3 00
2 00
(O AH letters must be addressed (free of post
age) to the editor.
Postmasters throughout the Union are requested
to act as our agents. Those who may particularly
exert thcmselvea in eitenJing the circulation of tho
paper, will not only be allowed liberal com
mission on sums rend Jed, but receive our warmest
thanks.
Papers (whether Administration, Opposition, or
.Neutral,) copying this prospectus (including this
paragraph,) and s-nd,og us numbers containing
it marked, will he entitled loan exchange.
J. B. JONES.
W hington City, Nor. 6, 18-11.
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