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voivrnv. IMOH IMS OlTU1 lt'l ll!, Tin: f.or 01' TUOl'SANDS. M'hen l.oj.c lies dead within the heart, I!y secret sorrow do: com -r;d'd, VYe shrink, let look or words impart What must not be reveal'd. ' ' ' "l is hard to smite, whe n one could weep To speak when one could silent be To wake, vln-n no would wiah to sleep, And vakt to a'my Vet such the lot ly, thousands cast, Who wander in tin world of care j And bcml beneath the bitter blurt, To save tlinn from despair. jBut nature w;uts lier pic-its to greet, Where disappointment cannot come ; And Time guide, with unerring feet, The wearied wand'rer's hortit. JO.VO -at Join cult. The morning hour the sun beguiles, Willi glories brightly blooming ; The flower and Summer meet in smiles, And so I've met with woman. But suns must set with dewy eve, And lrv tlitf scene deserted i i And llowrrs must with the summer leave, So I and Mary parted. 0 Mary, I did meet thy smile, W hen passion was discrectcst; And thou didst win my heart the while, .When woman seem'd the sweetest , TVhen joys were felt that cannot speak, And memory cannot smother, When love's first beauty flushed thy check, That never wann'd another. Those eyes that then my passion Ucst, That burn'd in love's expression ; That bosom where 1 then could rest, And now have no possession ; These waken still in memory Sad Ceaseless thoughts about thee, That say how blest I've been with thee, And how I am vitKunt thee. laox tat bostoh rcTianuo. SOXG. Is there a balm Can grief disarm, Civc to the soul her w onted peace Yes, there's a ray Illumes the w ay, And bids life's darkest tempest cease ! Mirth shall be still, And passion's thrill lb Sorrow's hour shall the away : Friendihip shall fade When carrs invade, Sut faithful love shall ne'er decay ! Is there a tear To virtue dear, TVhith e'en in beau') 's cj e may s ell Tis when the Lett Or sinks to part, Or meets the friend it loves so well ! Then, though the blaze Of prosp'rous dat s, My like a dream have passed away, 'Mid scenes of w o Ti sweet to know That f.iithful love will ne'er decay ! ON LEARNING: t rsA.xeis iiirai(su!i, is. " Ah, full of danger is the uphill road, That leads the youth to learning's high abode i II1 ay thick mists of vtibr error blind, And sneering satire follows close behind; Sour envy strews the fudged p;ah with thorn-i, And "-ry iji.oraucc his Lbor scon,." 1 , ttvrY' TiXvcs, &c. Variety' the er) ujce of htV, That pves it all its flavor. 110 THE TliVIO'ST 1 ITU lit (JK II. THE SUPERVISOR, no. IV. IT too much learning cracks her brains, 2fo remedy but death remains t Sum up the various ills of life, An all are sweet to such a wife ; Superior intellect she vaunts, And uiits her husband with his wanM; Her ragged fl'spriug all around, Like pigs lie wallowing on the grouud: Impatient ever of control. She Sctic'vs T?rUcr b-- cf .Wsre' Fublctfur tht Female Sts. To V.e Supervisor, Sir I 4m a farmer, in what is call ed middling circumstances ; and 'al though I get a living by the sweat of my brow, I do not consider myself as obliged to work over and above hard, except in hay time and harvest. I own a hundred acres of what is ctWulered pretty good land, more than half of it is under improvement have detent buildings, standing on my premises, keep generally five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, hi rse and about twenty sheep ; and am, in short, or might be if it was not for my wife, a pretty good liver.. My farm, stock, &c. came into rf y possession on the division cf the estate of my Lite rjnotcJ father, I5e-1 thud Blueberry, who died about six yean ago, whom, perhaps, you may have heard of, as he was one of the richest men in these parts, and owned a si ght of landed property. About four years ago last June, and when I was about four and twenty, I happened to come across my present wife, Mrs. Eliza Blueberry, whose maiden name was Betsy, alias Eliza beth, alias Eliza Uppish. She was then one of the scholars at a Ladies' Academy in this town kept by Miss Mirana Modish, a very elegant young lady (of forty or thereabouts) from Boston. I first saw my dearest at a quilting at Deacon Doughnut's, who lives lust a mile and a quarter Irom my house. She was as tall as a hay pole, as straight as a candle, as lively as a cricket, as fire as a peacock, could dance like a top, and sing like a whip poor-will. I must confess that as soon as I trot within eye-shot of her, my heart went pit-a-pat-pat, and I had no more peace than a toad under a har row, or a live eel in a frying pan, till 1 had popped the question which I did while waiting o'i her home that very night. Well, sir, as I am not sworn to tell the whole truth (though 1 mean to tell nothing but tht truth) I shall not say how e managed matters, only that we worked i'. so as to get married in h ss than three months from the time of our first acquaintance with the leave of tvery body coucerned, as well as, apparently, very much to our own mu tual satisfaction. Now, I had like to have forgotten to tell you about the learning, and polite accomplishments of my lady, Mrs. hli zt Blueberry, formerly Miss Betsy Uppish. She can tell the year and day of the month when our forefathers landed at Plymouth, knows the name of every capital town in the Union, can tell to an inch how far it is from here to the Antipod.i, I think she calls them. If you should bore a hole thro' the globe, and chuck a mill stone into it, she can say to a shaving what would become of the mill stone. She is like wise a monstrous pretty painter, and ca -paint-a puppv'so well that you would tike it for a lion, and a sheep that looks as big and as grand as an el ephant. She knows all about chemis try, :md says that water is composed of two kinds of gin, that is to say, ox-gin and hyder-gin ; and air is made of ox gin and nitre-gin, or (. hat is the same thing in English) salt-petre-gin. She says th.it burning a stick of wood in the fire is nothirg but a play of comical in finity ; and that not a particle of mat ter which belonged to the stick is lost, but "iik scattered about like chaff in a hurricane. She says that chemists will one of these days be able to save the heat and the snv-ke, and the light and the ashes of a pitch pine knot, that has has been burnt in the fire, and put them together again, so as to cause them to make exactly the same knot they did before burning ; then burn it over again and so on " to the end of the w orld and after-o," as the scng says, and thus make one armful of wood blaze frr ever and for aye, &c. &c. esc. And so she runs on with that kind of what I call lochram stuff at such a rate, that I should sav she is crazy, did not the Rev. Mr. Martcxt, the parson of our parish, declare that Mrs. Blueberry is a woman of wonderful parts, and own she can put him to his trumps and sometimes double and twist him in an argument. And between you and I, Mr. Supervisor, in a dispute between mv w iic ard the parion on the subject of predestination, or the difference of fore-knowing and lore-ordaining, I rec kon she sowed him up completely. That, how ever, is neither here nor there, as the saying is, but if yoi will only be patient, I shall by and by get to what I want to get at. Well, sir, when I first got my wife home to my house, I felt as spruce as a lord, and as grand as an emperor, in Kiayin nrh a J.ant'ifid, rrriniI'ibr1 , - , rich (I forgot totell you that she brought me a thousand dollars !) young lady, at my bed and board. I thought as how every day would be like 'lection dav, and every night like the first night af ter cur wedding. I had a wile who was acknowledged to be the .;' tip perarum of Miss Modish's academy, and the cap-sheaf ol our village. A nice little sprig of divinity for whom all the young gentlemen in this our vil lage had been ready to kick the buck et ; and for whom it is said t.nt Teter Punyman actually did hang himself. But alas ! and alack-a day ! 1 found my belnved spouse to be good for nothing I'rolmbly chemical (iTru'ri is here meant. but to look at, to wait on, and id ever ciae one's patience about Instead of dividing. my cares, and doubling my joytt, (which some lying rogue told me I might expect from matrimony) she ten-folds my cares, and nips every joy in the bud before it can blossom. In the morning she commonly opens her mouth before she does her eyes, and her tongue runs as steady as an eight day clock, and rattles as lounu as a bell ringing for fire every moment of the time except when !he is eating or ..... r.. . s drinking, till past ten o'clock at night. Sometimes, however, she begins the day with a book in her hand, sends Dorothy Doolittle, our maid help, I should say (now Doll always miufgcs along as if she had peas in her shoes, and a couple of four pounders hung to her heels) to buy an ounce of snuff at the shop of Timothy Trustall. And there she sits as if she was fastened to her chair, with carpenter's glue, as mute and as motionless as a mummy slip-shod, half drcss'd brats a scream, ing enjoying what she calls the u lux ury of literature !" while I must set things to rights, dress the children, cook my ovu breakfast, do all the house work that is done, and am glad if I can get off without a scolding bout into the bargain. When my sweet one happens to be in her very best humour, she entertains me by setting forth the sacrifice she made when she condescended to mar ry me. She says she might have had squire Slangwhanger, a notable lawyer, Dr. Killbooby, an eminent physician ; farmer Subsides, Prtsident of the Ag ricultural Society, and owner of a yard full of Merino sheep ; Sam Superdan gulus, a little pinched up beau, as dry as a dried eel-skin, but the last hope and heir of a grand Boston family, which has been dwindling for several generations, and is now reduced to a point in the person of Sam. She savs she might have had her pick out of all these, and twenty more great charac ten, if she had net been such a fool as to throw herself away upon me ! As I said before ,1 generally keep a horse, and a hired man, but either or both of these must always" be" at the service of my better half: who tells me " When a lady's in the esse, All other things, ymi know, give plar e." She will send the man five miles in the midst of having or a hailstorm for a little bergamot to sent her snuff, and often orders the horse to be taken from work in the plough field, to be tackled in the chaise to go a shopping to buy things, which she no more w ants than a toad wants a tail, or a whale in the middle cf the ocean wants water. II she is not accommodated in a, moment she is most cruelly treated it didn't use to be so w ith her before she. was married, and I am not only a trying to break her heart, but in a fair wav to succeed in the attempt. In thort, mv dear, with all her learning, is so head strong, so heedless, so proud, so lazy, so destitute of economy, that ! am ru ined as sure as a gun, unless I can get rid i her, or she turns on her heel, and effects a total revolution in her charac ter and conduct. Now, Mr. ,5"rrrtivcr,3ome folks tell me that you are a second Solomon, and know just about every thing; and I want you should tell me a thingortwo, and I will pay you in produce, if you ask any thinjr for your advice. If a man marries a w ife ever so pretty, and she proves a hangtr-on instead of a help-mate, is not one of the great ends, yes, even the butt end of mammon) frustrated, and has he rot a good right in law to a hill of divorce ? If my wife continues to cut such diJos r.s she has done, have I not a legal right to take a stick to her as big as my little finger ? Pray. Sir, what would you do if you was precisely in the situation of your very humble, and verv much afflicted, UF.NJ.MIIN IJMT'.lir.ItUY P. S. I am obliged to give my milk to the hogs, because my beloved won't have the plague, as she savs, of a dairy. n. i). If Mr. Blucbem's statement is cor rect, alt that the Supen-rscr can say to him, is, " Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil w ith good." With res pect to the ladr, the Supervisor would recommend to her to shew by her in dustry, sweetness of disposition, and attention to domestic econoni$" that she is not spoiled by her learning, as weak and vain people sometimes are. We do not request her to throw away her hooks, and forget all she has learned. but advise her not to let literature inter fere with those avocations, which can not properly be dispensed with by the mistress cf a family in her station of life. T. From the New-York Mechanics' Gazette. Enfeebled by dalliance, with luxury pumper ed, and softened with sluth, strength shall for sake thy limbs and health thy constitution. Thy days shall be few, and those inglorious, thy jrriefs shall be many, yet meet with no companions." EcnMmy of Ilumun ltfc. Till YGTNt; MECHANIC. Mr. Editor During the warm weather, for some time past, I felt so great a lassitude of body, that my nerves, generally weak for want of la bor and exercise, have become quite unstrung. For several days 1 hail la bored under a thousand apprehensions of evil which my disordered imagina tion conceived ; and, among oihers, Kit much agitated wim ne aia. ms o i ft. i i 1 I i" . yellow lever, wli.cn at tins season o:;cily ja ah(j said t() contain a,)Cm, & the year never 'fails to haunt the minds.,,,,;, anJ four churches, cf whic of thousands like myself, who have Tri -!v Wa, fjne ,Wribed as a trre. nothing else to do but listen to idle re- reports, and help to give them curren cy. Indeed, such an effect hud an idle report upon my mind, that 1 began to imagine I felt the symptoms of that dreadful pestilence, and had retired to my chamber to think on my melan choly situation ; and in all probability shuuld have sent for doctor , had not the following circumstance occur red : I had lain down but a few minutes before my ear caught the sound of a tune, and such was iti effects upon my spirits, that I immediately arose, and found it proceeded from a young man upon a ladder, who was painting the house in front, rnd now btood as high as the third story window. I approach ed as near to him as I thought prudent, keeping myself from his sibt, fearful, otherwise, he would stop his song. II 13 voice was far cbovc mediocrity, and though not cultivated with science, possessed a natural sweetness and sim plicity that delighted inc. He was singing the soldier's dream : " Our bugles sar true f-r the night cl-nri h.-i I low'rd. And the sentinel stars set their uatch in the sky, And thousands had sm.k on the ground over pow'rd. The weary to sleep and the wounded to die." t-c. Having finished his song, I ventur ed to approach him the sweat was running fast from his brow, whilst he handled his brush with great dexterity. His countenance bespoke full health, and his eyes beamed with intelligence. Anxious to say a few words with him, I addressed him as follows-" your work must be pretty hard, and I should think attended with some danger. If your ladder should break, the fall would kill you." Thai's prohably true, he replied, adding sarc.istic.illy, "If the sky should fall, we should catch plenty of laiks." Answer thru you do not labour under fears "No sir," he remarked, "that would te fob ly-we examine our ladder well before we mount it-we feci a pcrf,rt sect.- ri.y while enga5ed at our work, and although we sweat a little, that we are accustomed to we tarn our bread In die sweat of our brows, and eat it with greater relish because we honestly earn it." I reniaikcdto him that I almost envied him his plump red cheeks and sparkling eyes ; that he said I mast not do, for he had c-arncd them with much toil for whtn he was young, he was but a feeble stripling, but con stant labor and a contented muni had given him health, which he .said he .ould not exchange, taking in return my pale checks and spiritless eyes, for all the wealth of the Indies, unj; all the honors that rank could give. He could live comfortable by his business, and by avoiding dissipation and sloth, and living frugally, could lay up a lit tle besides, and with that he was con tented he envied not the rich and their luxurious living and gay lircles neither did he Want thtir sleepless nights, their disrascil appetites and te dious etiquette-he felt proud of being f?. Vhany appropriate signifca a voting mechanic, and of earning hi, t,0,! ,l ,s ,,rr;,usc X'K 15 .'. . . . .'. " lii-v . nm m .... tn .1 ...... r .K . ....... I,,,. living by his own industry. His words wercattended with muchspnghtlincs, his good sense cave me a lavorable opinion of his talents, whilst his ruddy cheeks and sparkling ryes of fire, made mc almost wish I had been brought iq a mechanic myself. Such was the d - o I feet of bis song, his pleasing manners, independence of mind, and ,catiiy looks, upon me, that he completely drove off the blur devils, and my imag ined illness. I left him, and walked down stairs with a cheerful mind, hum ming the tunt which a few minutes be fore I had heard this young mechanic sing. amicus. There is near as much ability requi site to know how to make use of good advice, as to know how to act for one's self. "Till-; OI.DLN TIME." Ill a (Icography printed iti 17C', Charleston, S. C. "is described as hav ing 13 or 14 good houses, and as manj miserable huts, packed into streets, sheltered 150 families. ' In Virgin Jamestown had 70 scattered building Williamsburg 30. In Maryland, A:: napolis had 40 houses, and Haltimor 'a parcel of scattered houses, not fi to be called a town.' In Pennsylvanii Bristol, the capital of the state, ha JO houses; Philadelphia, dignific with the title of city, 1200, built c j brick, two or three stories high, wit many warehouses and wharyes. Peri Amboy 48 families, 'called a city, b w hich it appears what small places the . .( . h gich iames, New.Yor cimrcn, lately uuiu (ji was uuiu i lf'J8.) The' county of Duchess lu 20 families, and, if we are allowed t erect a census from the assessmer. rolls, and take the city as a daty, th whole s ttte had a population less tha: L20.0OO. In Connecticut, 'there is no tow nc any note, all the country beyond tc mile back from the sea, is barre hills and morasses, and uninhabited here are bears, and wolves, deer, otter musk rat, he. and a strange creator called a Moose, 12 feet high, and th tip of his horns 12 feet asunder.' I; i s i i 1 . I. Massachusetts, ' Keruling is a good town, having one mill to grind com and another to nino timber Boston is the only place in all the British ds, minions in America w hich can be cal! ed a city, as well by reason of its or ulency as for the several handsom buildings in it, both public and private, as the court house, market house, Si William Phinp's house, several spa clous streets, and said to contain 10 1 1'iOO inhabitants -3 or 400 ships lo.i. hers in a year. ferment paper. not; stau and ixk; days. The ancient Egyptians, in th.-ir o! servations on the stars, had notice that when a certain star of consid-fi blc magnitude first appeared a'rac (he horizon in the morning, juslW fore dawn, the owrflowing of the i.l immediately followed. Being warm by this precursor, they retired to th highlands to escape the inundatioi carrying with them things neccssar lor their retreat. As this star per formed for them the services of tht house dog, by warning them of ap proarhing d inger, tbey called it th dog ttar, and supposing this was tht cause of the extraordinary heat which usually falls out in that season, the- gsv: the name of dog days to (j orfc j " ccus iac r , 1 1 V Fhf ' f.cr,bal an .raord.ran i!r'fll!cncc toll1"9 Star.' J ,to 'V1'' i . r .1 , . r -i - prognostics, what the season would I The Greeks and Homar.salsa held tr opinion that the dog star was the cati". of t!,e sultry heat usually felt abort this time. Its influence was estettr. cd jo great by the Roman, that they sacrtitced a brown dog to it every yc;. to app.-ase its rage. All these notions of the ancient and all similar opinions, that prevn at the present time, on this subjee are mere idle fancies. The dog sir has no more influence in producing heat or sultriness, than any other star that decks the sk), and the tiavs usu ally denominated dzgdaus, might wi:' as much propiicty be said to begin c thr 20th or l."th of July as on the 25t! The atmosphere suffers no create: change on the 24th and 25ih of ,Iuh, nor on the 5th and Cth of September, than it does cn other days preceding and Midst nm-nt to those If the tun; to denote 40 or 50 days of the mor.t he and rultrypaitof the j ear, but as ther days vary almost every year in th-i: commencement and termination, an; notice in the Almnac, or elsewhere pretending to define the time whet. t .1 .1 I : I r .! i !ur& UJ5 ,,cSm ;u,u cnu ? ui;i c an" ' n. more P'"ance t.ian the pre Jettons concerning the weather. When the Trench first settled on tl.r hanks of St. Lawienre, they were stinud by the intendant, Monsieur l'icarcl, to a tan of spruce beer a-clay. The people thought this measure cry scant, and ev ery moment articulated, Can-a dau. I would be ungenerous in any reader to de sire a more rational derivation of the wor Canada. To praise great actions with sinceri ty, may be said to be taking part in them, j
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