lh? Wm! nh.v. Yrt!. M!"U! iMjrrt'1,' Mvil tjie tuu hi train Ln';rt i,...m jT. , A1 u :' A- VT " lniiiiit'iLm(Mi " ' rmxcTiii rnftun jotLiiu TW 8WKF.T IN SKCLUSrON. TTAwcct ifttfffcTfcMiM t1VVn' tlic' parti T r . In the jrray d lf's twilight recall the "Kiylre am, To uirHUc iuuUYfcuil.U4.ftiKl. kie ovrctwl 71oU clu-qncrM our coureu a wc mov'd dovn the atrvam. lor f there a eharw ir retracing- the mrm, ; '-When the star of our pleasure beam'd lastly 1TThl!(?l And the tear Uiut in infanry rater'd the thorn, Jty the magic of mciii'rj' in chang'd to i nn'.! Howiaint i the touch 110 pn.pj&cUve lHikU-i.igv Our ceaery in Natun-'a true color amM . How clutrste it the bwiilimipc how ivUlly g! why;, Where the warm tint of Lncv are im-llou d lv sUndc. "With chcerfulncCTthen, rrt rosprct-1! I'll grcitthce, Though the niglituJuxU-lc iwinM bouquet of aweels, tn tike twilight of fancy tliij bosom u ill r;r( t the', While to the dear vision of rliildhcod . J" tv And the hrart that in confidence si'cks its. rir..-, And find the rslm iruprrs. of innocenre the.'.', IVith rapture anticipates happiness ncv , Ir hope yet to conic it jveb'e- a 'It.ir?. Then away uitli fordjoiling, that parent cf m:tcw, Korthc ill of futurity Ion liuth no fur, Hy tlte glimpse of t!.; p;it will i skutch tin- g:t morro', Give sighs to the wind ami ollhion I .'Cr. S. A DAV TJliM.H ikom Tiir. ArHF.x.r.i.M. Site must be fair whom I could low, fltit more in mind tlian form'; Slic must he pure wliom 1 could love, And yet her la-art be warm. She must lit jit( ons, soft, and kii: !, A sufferer with the sad; ? could not love a maiden' mind, Forever idly gl.ul. She may h wild, she must be g:iy, In hours of youthful glee, "When calmer thought gives welcome wy To mirth and melody. And she muHt nurse, with loftier zeal, That pure and deep delight "Which warro ami softens -all who fell Fbr nature's works aright. She may have foibles nay, she must ; From such w hat maid is free ? rerfection, if comhin'd with dust, Were sure no mate for me. Vet she must nurse no bittemcis, Nor aught imagine meanly ; Hut err through venial fond excess Of feelings edged too keenly. Such foibles, like the dewy sleep That shuts the Rower at n'glit, With renovating shade will keep Her bloom of feeling bright. The form of such a maid would blend With every thought of mini- ; F.ach wish would own her for its end, Each hope on her recline. To me she would be such, as spring To wintry field or wood ; A glowing influence, prompt to bring Luxuriancy of good. Ovcu. " FOR fUE WKSTKHV CAIIOLIMAX. Messrs. Printers: In my fofmer essay, I. endeavored to maintain .that any attempt to -"relieve the -present prcgures by legislative provision, allhough . it might not violate the constitution, .has no recommendation from its expediency. It ts.a very important inouirv whether any thine, and if any thimr, what can be done to relieve the country . from the distresses every where visible. Before I enter upon the consideration of thos"e remedies, whatever they may be, that present themselves to my mind, it may be proper to inquire a little into the causes that - hawletl us TO -tfu'r ji esent "situation I ; an as . Providence Has cast my lot in a Wain, not in a cottongrowipg section of the country; and ; f as my views are mostly the result fef absent? , mie. in my. own Vicinity, you will . not j ne surprisea to una my remarks mostly ot a local complexion, though some qf tliem, per haps, may be extended a little. A honry veteran has remarked, that the close of every war in which America has been engaged, has produced extraordinary . convulsions and distresses in pecuniary mat ters. Admittinfc; the truth of his experience " and .observation, one is naturaiiv led to con- dlude that such Uniform consequences jrefeuitJ irom causes bottomed on the character of the is.i: orc:!;cr discover Cu: ; .rtjc al.xr tt.nt of )iir national cliaracter which produces t!is result. A backwoodsman mutt be co;;tvnt in inivc at his conclutl(jn8 bynome iivhIc ol reabntng more adapted to his comprchr.jon. At'lhs conclusion of the war, tobnreo and cotton were sought with avidity, and friers vere mlir.ed for them by the planters exetc dingtheirmQstwngttinccipectaltons. While this continued, the culture of those articles more jmmJdialely connected with lubsittcnce, was greatly neglected tn those districts which produced 'the fovbrite exports: Hence the horses, the beeves the p rk, and the spirits, "oducetl iTThyTiclglibiirho'otlr found sure and a profit ible market in Virginia, S;njth Cii?olin:r ntfdGcorgla.ft liwith "muctrhe itancy that I venture a conjecture on what it was that occasioned the high prices of pro dure at the period alluded to. I nuppose ime articles and that it was some years before the quan tity sent to market was suflicicnt for the con Mimption. In, addition, a Bills of KxcKan'ge. on Kngland could not be purchased without a high premium, and as the precious metals were mostly in the banks, so that considera ble Quantities of them could not be obtained, I suppose that merchants, intending to make remittances, were induced to make them in produce whenever there wai any hope of re alizing their cost and charges : even a small loss sustained in that way, onldbcno worse than in either of the other, lint the markets in Kuroj)c Incoming overstocked, in process f time, cotton and tobacco fell . and horses, beef and pork fell with them. Now whether this were foreseen by the wise ones or not, I am not able to say. It is certain that but fr were actuated by thci guarded" conduct 6Uch a foresight ought to have suggested. In this period, the banks appeared every where willing to .ircommodatc, and the spec ulations in European goods and various other things, seemed to invite men of business, whether they lnd capU.il or not, to wealth and to hr.ppiness. Ai d perhaps the most sa gaJous could not perceive their danger Lit tle did they suspect, that by the time they could well open their gosds, hosts of pedlers, .V.mishcu from the vendue stores in New York and Philadelphia, would visit every house and every hamlet, however obscure, and. furnish the persons to whom they expec ted to sell, at prices below what their goods had cost them at the regular houses. There was but one way to counterbalance this un expected blow ; it was to sell their goods on n credit, which the pedlers,'in", general, could not do. The consequence is obvious : those uho had purchased their goods by the assis tance of the banks, found it difficult to make navment of the customary instalments. In the meantime1the United States Bank going into operation, sat like an incubus on the lo cal banks, and paralized their operations, com pelling them to curtail their business, or re deem their notes : The effect has been truly distressing. I have thus attempted to trace the progress of the disease ; let us now, for a few moments, consider the remedy. And here this ques tion meets us at every turn : Will the banks relieve the country? We had better ask, Can the banks extend any further assistance, except in the way of indulgence to their debt ors ? I have no knowledge of the banking business, except what is sometimes published ; Dut I should think, if circumstances permit ted, that the interest of the banks would in cline them to put out their notes w henever they could do it with safety. ; . and -as they have made no loans for a long time, we must believe that imperious circumstances prevent them. What; then, is to be done ? Let ev ery man answer the question by adopting a plan the reverse 61 that which has brought us to the present crisis. Let retrenchment Uellle order of the day. -We live in a coun Kerry until thh Is d ine. Tir rh jnm, should sign all orders tHat arc no: delivered to the clerk verbally. IV necessity of such a rcjj-datio t was tatelyVggestcd tj tytymind in cortscqusnce-cf h.tving some business (to Jo in court. An order lor a useful purpose was granted at my request, which order wai signed by a member of the court as Chair-, man i I concluded, as every. ratioQit man would do, that I had nothing more to do than to transact the business in pursuance to said ordef ) for which purpose, alter the adjourn ment of th'ecourt,"rl called at the clerk's of. lice for a copy of the sid order, when, to my surprisepl-found-that a-counter order had been made by another Justice, who iigned his name u Ciathnan trl thun rrmde inquiry of the clerk, who informed me that every Jus tice in the couray, provided he attended court, signed his name as Chairman at the sime teTrar Hy this tvay of-proceedings an order may undergo twenty or thirty mutations in one day! The absurdity and impropriety of such a course of conduct must Hpp-ar obvi ous to every man, whose mind is capable, of receiving one sensible idea. &0LON. call examined by a number of wcir.cn, in nr, (Kr to diuoycr if she has any bodily defeel tnd, if inyv to remedy it' if. possible.'. -The JiriJci'on hcr.wedding-dav; is'crowned with a. garland of wormwood, implying the bitter, ncss of the married statc.-Whcn the priest has tied the nuptial knot at the altar, the cletk or sexton sprinkles on her head a handful of hnpv wishing she may be as fruitful as that plant. Ghc isjrtufiled up end led home by certain number of bid vromen, the priest car rying the cross before, 'while one of hit ml, litems, clad in a rough goat skin, pray all the way'tlint she may. have as many children as there are luir-on-his -garment. TheneJ married couple, being seated at table, are pre lehted with bread and latCTVhilsf Fchof iiFof boys smd girls sing the epithalamium, which' is always grossly obscene." try yielding all the substantial necessaries oi life ; both food and clothing are produced in abundance, and improved methods of fann ing will make it yield a large overplus. Lt the hanks extend to their debtors. all. the. in dulgence in their power, and occasionally re ii ev e e xtre m e case's. - A few years, on th is plan, wtil remedy the errors we have com mitted, and restore us to independence. In the meantime many, and some of them the ilntost deserving nven among us. must pay the torleit ot.:the4reindiscretions. jj, . . . ,; A FARMER. ix. l on the w eut En x caaousiix, 'Messrs, Editors: Not long since I made some remarks respecting our y Squires ; since then I have discovered ajclefectjn their man ner ot transacting business which demands a remedy, and to which I wish f with due rev erence) to call thei r attention t I Hs the want of. a regular Chairman in our cotihtv courts tuary xwuuuvcisicj nave ansen on tnis very JWPTIAL FOXnXESS. raoM a late nci.mh rvBUCATioy. 14 The English love their wives with much pacsion ; the Hollanders with much prudence. The English, when they give tlirir hands, fre quently give their hearts ; the Dutch, give the hand but keep the heart wisely in their pos session. The English love with violence and expect lov in return ; the Dutch are sat isfied with the slightest acknowledgments, tor they give little away. The English expend many of the matrimonial comforts in the first year; the Dutch frugally husband out their pleasures, and are always constant, because they are always indifferent. " There seems verv little difference between 0 a Dutch bridegroom and a Dutch husband : both are equally possessed of the same cool unexpecting serenity ; they sec neither elysi um nor paradise behind the curtain ; and ifijf row is not more a goddess on the wedding night, than after twenty years matrimonial ac quaintance. On the other hand, many of the English marry in order to keep one happy month in their lives ; they seem incapable of looking beyond that period ; they unite in hopes of finding rapture, and, disappointed in that, disdain even to accept of happiness. From hence wc see open hatred ensue ; or, what is worse, concealed disgust, under the appearance of fulsome endearment. Much formality, great civility, and studied compli ments exhibited in public, cross looks, sullen silence, or open recrimination, fill up their hours of private entertainment. 44 Hence I am taught, whenever I see n new married couple more than ordinarily fond before faces, to consider them as attempting to impose upon the company or themselves ; either hating each other heartily, or consum ing that stock of love in the beginning of their course, which should serve them through the whole journey. Neither side, should expect those instances of kindness, which are incon sistent with true freedom or happiness to be stow. Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sal lies of fondness ; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion, only argues little understanding, or great insincerity. 44 Of all nations the Russians behave the most wisely in the circumstance of jealousy. The wife promises her husband never to let him see her transgressions Ind he as ptinc: tuaTlypromises, whenever sheiis. detected, without the least anger, to beat her without mercy; so they both know what each has to expect. - The lady transgresses, is beaten, ta ken again into favour, and all goes on TaT be fore. When a Russian young lady is to be married heriather with a cudgelin his hand, asks the bridegroom, whether he chuses this virgin for his bride? to whiclt.the other re plies in, the affirmative. Upon which the fa ther, turning the ady three times round; and giving her three strokes with the cudgef, on the back mjrdear cries he, 4 these are the last blowsf you afci ever to receive from your tendecfatlier.; I. resign rny authority and my J cudgel to your husband f he knows better than I the use .of either. The bridegroom knows decorum too Veil to accept of the cudgel stu pidly:; he ; tlier e fbreasiufes the fa th e r, that th e lad will never want it, and that he would hoi for ihe world make. any iise of it. But the father, who knows what the lady might want better thanhe docs, insists upon his acceptance. Upon this" there follows a scene of Hussian politeness, while one offers and the other re fuses the cudgel. The whole, however, ends with the bridegroom's taking it, upon which the lady, drops a courtesy in token of obe dience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual. "The nuptial ceremonies , of. the Russians are yery singular. " When the parents liaye -UTEUAUV. . It stated To UieTorTftiVthat Sir Robert Kf Vr7' in- is preparing for publication his Travel for tlte pact four year., through that extent of country embraced un ij r thr .B.nrirnt ,Hyri4n,Jhby Ionian and I'cnian tropimi -from lite hank of the Dlark 8ea to the Eupliratca, and Horn the latter to the mouth of the Tertian Gulf. 1 :ic ItiTan Jonnuli mention that a' young lady, only t-wsh yeri of agf, named Maria Catharine CheraJi, a riMivc of Srpolo, ha maintained in public a teries of philosophical them's tlie I tin language. It it not Mr. Add'uon who aav, tlut argumcnti arc irreiirtible, when tl-y flw from a pretty mouth i , . ...... ' Kiihilwohth, a new novel hy the author of Warerly, Ivaulioc, u.c. is announced as being ia the prcu at Pliil a h 'phia. Ptt. Intel. lVt!c08. raoM tue cnaiiTiAH vimtaxt. , The (blowing Extract from 4L7Xe Uhcrty qf , Prifihreytngf by Bishop Taylor, displays the Chiisi'.an candour and liberality which ever ap pear in the writings of that eminent prelate. The beautiful story with which it concludes, or something very like it, has been incorrectly Htlrihuted by some injudicious friend, to Dr. Frahklin ; whose fame, most certainly, does not require the aid of such a borrowed plume. " Men are now a-daya, nnd indeed always have been, since the expiration of the first blessed rtges of Christianity, to in love with their own fjneies and opinions, as to think f.utl, and all . Christendom, are concerned in their support and maintenance ; whoever is not so lop,. and, does not dandle themf like, thenuelves, it grovrsjup . to a quarrel ; which; because it is in Diilhity, is made a quarrel in religion, and God is entitled to it ; and then, if you are once thought an ene- v my to God, it is our duty to persecute you even J, to death ; we do God good, service in it. : When, u. ifwc should examine the matter rightly, the question either is not revealed, or not so clearly, but that wise and honest men may be of differ" ent minds, or else it is not of the foundation of faith, but a remold superstructure, or else of mere speculation ; or, perhaps, when all comes to alb it is a false opinion, or a matter, of hu nun interest, that we have so zealously conten ded for ; for to one of these heads most of the disputes of Christendom may be reduced ; so that I believe the present factions (for the most) are from the same cause which St. Paul observ ed in the Corinthian schism, when there are divi kiott among are ye not carnal It is not the xliffering opinions that are the cause of the present ruptuies, but want of charity ; his not the va riety of understandings, but the disunion of wills and nffections ; it is not the several principles, but the several ends that cause our miseries , our opinions commence, and are upheld, accord ing as our turns a reserved and our interest pre- -served ; and there is'o cure for us but flirty and charity. A holy life will make our belief holy ; if wc consult not humanity, and its imperfec on8v Ml .the choice-o for . the - trtitb-without wMgns, save only of at -quiring heaven, and nften be as careful to pre scrveTcbirity as we were to get. a point of faith ; I am much persuaded we shall find out more truth by this means : orv:howcver (which is the -main of all) we shall be secured, though vi e mis? ' them, and then we are well enough 44 1 end with a story, which I find in the Jews' - b6oksTWhcnAbraham sat in his tent door, 4 according to his custom, waiting to entertain 4 strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and ' leaning on Tis staffj weary with age and tra ' vail, coming towards him, who was an hundred 4 years of age. . He received him kindly? washed 4 his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit ' down ; but observing that the old man ate, and Ipruyed not, nor beggccl for a blessing; on hjs inieMr jjie asked lum 4 the God of heaven ? The old man told him 4 that he worshipped-the fire only, and acknow 4 .-ledgcd no other Godv At whkh answer A bra Uialn grew so zealously angry, , that he (hriist u 4 the old man out of his tent, and exposed hirn 4 to ujl the eyiis of the night, and an unguarded 4 condition. When the old man was gone, God ' Called to Abraham, and asked him where the l -st ranger w as JUi He repficdtthrusUum..ay. 4 because he did not worship thee. God answer i twl Itiin. IW cim.iv.fl him ihftse hundred i ... ...i. .iiA.r,...! mp and . years, uiiiiuogii pic uisuunuui tw - could 4 he give thee ho trouble I Upon this, sm 4 stovy, Abraham'- fetched him hack again hen th the and gave him liim hospitable eotertainmentyand wse Jn" ipn,L Mo thou and; do likewisci and

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