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'"A : 7 : . J 1 of raTOM A:' TNTT a - ail iff. pz.xjr.irs a no, "Vox populi, vox Dei."-, PusiiaiiEp every Friday Morning MURFREESBORCT; JV. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 23; .1827! : Price $2 50 v advance. r- - v. lit i'i Y ITi'ittl'irlit ; ; 77W7C. '' 7r&'7f-:- ' Jegedorders of-be ices who ma v biiib';faaj1 ' f ; :WaTi J3s J her forth nvitation-and wit h the; ;attcpVIunt jdeasurer-;bf ; ? bppert.abity ;1 rit s( and J;iro m;.t heslhefet . r.Je rianV may be formed of t h e I ? v ? o a rri naf rn i in; t heiruadfess- : a 'Uf-Ji li X hel0dy I I one ; ' fi t ; 1 1 ) p si?4 f d okI i c il r y v Is it s f w a yU; fcacmtjutiateXondon journal tti ;t h faniiijr circfe, vhilsti they ; '? tveemploycxf iri riee(iiey6rki I ; camp to thi otthoiic question r j V, OieVeiv hiiiid t hecat hoi ic que s- jl ion ; ' ;eit cl ;i i inVcfJ ; pre 1 1 y J i yply j thprgshlonsi:!'iA 0 tlopedthe Uali. oi" cotton to slip , : frurrj he? fiugers. ' It roiled to niy '."feet, p7h5 rose,'Mstopcdf the ball ot irbuiid the leg of the chair.' t ;V-a!lecHt tfje wrong way again it 1 ; roiled, rand became ; so entangled that we Were obliged to snap the -thread." ; Ve look-jn each other's fce, and smiled. .Vas it your f.iult or mine 1" saiJ I 44 O it was i the Tault of the catholic quqs r . .tion'VepIred theprightly girl, at i J)$e .samevtime giving an arch look ' ttnvards hr aunt. f And like the ' rUiiolic question; the longer if ran the more'complicated became , tG i entanglement rejoined I ' a rrilft." -aid shV nnrl-'I tvkK 1 " t - ' 7 V r ' v ' " ' " Uhey may pumas' pleasinsr an end ao'tle "baiter by taking up 'the , pail quietlyf jand by throwing the reveilejd thread avvay.' " Is there ..-eny thing more; aboit Kean or I.ji?s Foot e 1". inquired a demure f; looking widow of about forty, and y.ho. deems'; a "theatre c-Satan's 7- me at irig-house; glanced oyer V the columns.'and my eye met Miss Foqtes 'engagement -tothe.Brigh - ion theatre at fifty pounds a night. sJh'nstr(m$V! exclaimed the wi ; do.v. What sl demoralized agel" eaid the unt. AltXst as bad as fk a king and iriarry with his TJirderer,'' rejoined the. playful ' brunette..' Kill 'a king 1 what ""iug: oaiu. me gwu oia grana irther who' had been quietly v co u fit n g t he: :i I it c h e s of a &t ock in Vshe-. was 4 knitting I was thinking" oJv my aunt's favourite, ' lilary, queen - of. Scots,"said. the . 1 .."ughing girl " V; "Pshaw ! non v et rise you have made me lose my com'.t just as I vas. setting the vtell." -" I am surprised that Mad " aje has not sent home my iy'c cap," said the widow, iu a half whisper. Suppose we, take a wniii io nur, , repueu tne aunt. yes," .cried the bruptttTid C they all; rose, and iwir presently quipped lor walk.g. 1 was ner? bitted to accorrpany them. It was tobne of tht most fashionable - millincfsinPhiln'ioIphia, a French , :Woinau,f v' - j personal attrac- ; ti-ns an lylish dress were a goQd "rr.tro non to, . her millinery i ace the hitter indicated a perfect knowledge of the art "of showing the iorraer to the best advantage. A slight tinge " of rbugje gave ad ditional lustre to a pair of spark Vmg black . eyes, i the eyebrows . were neatly pencilled, and the lips vermilled ; with' pate Vosar, pearl powder gave to her neck an ala baster whiteness, ' the - delicate hands were graced with rings, and two pretty icet peeped Irom be Heath the furhelovTed petticoat, in silken sr.ndals'. - I had leisure to ooservu- a;i mis as Juadums ;was displaying her turban a la Fayette &,c; with the ;air debonaire . d mie. veritaule Parisiemie.'- An hour nearly elapsed in trying on .caps and ronnet3all which Mad erne assured T the ladies became them a merveilte !v After escort the party home, 1 went to dine withmy Ifrien'dJlVrjandKB i proposed we should go to the play in ; the evening,; Between the firsthand second ; act, as ;.I was looking round the Kbu se , I sa w ii lady ia aniuppexJb;owoe seemed familiar to' me.- By; the helpof my opera-glass I discover ed her;Xt() be Madame tbetrvilhn er, Seated by a. very gentlemanly looking. man. I whispered to my friend A) ' that lsaw a newly made, acquaintance in 'the house,, and directed his eyes;to the box. He immediately named : Mad tirne ,ahd said she" was under t he pfctection of tjie person who sat beside her, that he wa a man of la rge for tune , and" w as (he jfa's srry to add) a married mani ' Im possible Vr -exclaimed Ii Wiiy ? asked my friend; I told him the circumstance of my hiving accom panied ladies to t bat milliner in the morningv who certainly would not have shown any countenance to woman of: that 'description " It ia weU knbwu fact," replied my friend, ' and yet that . woman has; more public patronage than any milliner; th the ciryf, ' It was but. Jast week that Mrs. took my daughter there, anowVen her mother learnt ithat she liad pur cbased a hat of Madame, sheent it as a pattern to an amiable, but very indigent young woman who has recently - opened a milliner's store, declaring, that our daugh ter should not owe her fashionable appearance to the taste of a prof ligate. 1 sat ponderipg in amaze ment, and resolved that myr fe male friends,, should be i informed of- the .character,'; or-rather, the want of character, m their favour ite millinerji AccoraHhgly'the next morning X called at an early hour on them. The breakfast things were still on the table, two or three-band boxes were on the sofa,- and, as i entered the room, the demure widow was adjusting a black hat and feathers before the pier; glass, -nodding, as if in pleased complacency "at the wa ving plume. i V It is verv irraceful- ly disposed, is it not 1"V Verf re plied 1. She turned hastily round, witn an exclamatiou ol " Bless me 1 who would ' have' thousht" to have had an intruder at so early an hour', said I; " but I come ?as a friend." Ifou are al ways welcome," said the sood old grandmother', come.sit down, and take your conee." ; 1 had breakfasted but willingly accept ed the oner ; lor l began. to feel a little awkward;- and what over night presented itself to me as an indispensable : act of friendshifSTT now thought might be deemed an omcious interference. , I :nped my coffee , glanced at thCwidow, raised mvves tf-Sio noddinw plunCour c cs met she blush ed. I felt confused. At Ipntrth I spoke of the play. She looked grave. " 1 amjsorry you frequent such places." said she, in a tone ot iriendly reproof.-". You object to theevil company we may meet there,. I presume," She replied, 1 object to the tmmorality of the drama." ''The play. was a good one and well; performed,11 1 con tinued," but lhocoWplmy(I mean the audience); wercnotall select persons. I saw Madame , the milliner, seated in a box with a gentleman whom I am told said the maiden annt tr the pretty brunette4 go and feed your canary Dirus, and then it will be time to : practise vonr ham " Fanny looked as if she had rather stay, but she left the roomgiving mc a good humoured smile, and a familiar ? good morning." " Pwas C If I n ' vJ-t.MM. 1 X mm A ' m " ouJJ"6 icamueu i . ; mai " O yes,,? said the maiden aunt e Know what you were going to say. it is certainly a great pity that so excellent.a milliner should be a little remiss in morals; but then, you know; we do not ex pect perfection m those Ecrt ofmyr cutrce. I wallicd aaoc people, and they are exposed td so v much tftemptation Hand in short, they are not our acquaint ances.1' 4 And yet," said I, !' Ma damei seemed to be on very fami liar .fool ing with? u all yesterday morning;''. Only; in; thef iyayr-of business,,'saidthewidoWiTrue," said I; but surely the same feel ing; llfat would prompt us to dis cou nt enanceX : a 7jaUen actrtss, should; lead us to withdraw our support froiii a milliner of aban1 doned character. When we take our wives or daughters to the playhouse, it is not to visit" Mr. Kean as an acquaintance, but to see his Othello, his Hamlet or his Richard It . is not; to hiifi ; we pay our mbneyfwe pay the man agers for our entertainment; We pay our tribute of applause to the actor for his individual ability in performing his allot ed part. .The, managers engages to furnish a good and moral entertainment to the public; every piece that W re presented may be by the audience approved or condemned. It; therefore, an . immoral piece be acted, it Is the fault of the public. The managers engages his actors and actresses for their talents. It was to show the public a Hamlet, a Portiaj and a Rosalind, that a Kemble, a Farren, and a Jordan, exerted their, dramatic powers not to present themselves to the public, 0ut to lay theif talents be fore their tribunal, and to receive from the m their just applause of cbhdemnatibn 7- It is talent alone that the public rewards in the ac tor, . and the manager .. enriches himself by a iudicious selection of isach taleuts.i .Would philanthto- py ; luau iuej jmouc 10 'suppotr a theatre where very ood - ' men and 4 worheja were engasred vto uiuss iiiuiusuivua as Mtmgs i ana queens "and to talk Shakespearo in modest virtue? - The same spirit; that leads you to Mad ame ' , leads the public to see Miss Foote the -ohe gets iip a bonnet the ;other.gets up a cha racter a merveille. The" same moral spirit that Would demand the public, to. sacrifice their own gratincat ion, to punish a defalca tion of virtue, must hold good in both cases; .and I' am of opinion, since. a milliner is supported by females, that more delidacv and attention! to the moral conduct of those whom they employ, might be looked for than in 'the &elec- tion of actors and actresses whose talents are required fo be so far a- bovjtiSeconuhou level, and coriseauentlv rarely to be found: ut surely many hundred virtuous . . i ... . , individuals 1 may everV where be found, sufficiently gifted to make caps and bonnets, fctrong indeed must that love of dress be that can iuduce discreet' moralists to meet face to faceto hold con verse with and to' pay vast sums of money to a woman who lives in open I abandonment of religious ami civii iaw. ior is it consistent with the pride of modesty to stoop to receive persbnal embelishment trom the .hands of vice, when it would shrink from listeninrr?to mo- ral truths from the lips of a frail actor." ( . ' Such are the opinions of the . Hermit in America Correspondence of a youth in Eu ..:: rope -V - WESTMINSTER ABBEY. : A stranger's first visit after he arrives in. London, is to Westmins ter Abbey, that monument to the dead, that sad memento to the Jiv ing, and the wonder and admira tion of the world. But whether it was that 1 was at th stupid than others, ' accounts had raise greater than it wat alize, I kcow not 'ne more rormer tions to rc- -n"it is, that all tho poetry which had in spired me belorehand, left me ,at tbe tombs of royalty and loyalty ; trod upon the graves of valor and ui uuuuur; pauseu as i yasseu me monuments to philosophers.states- men, and poets, but could not feel iue eitnemeni ioai i aniicipaiea. InJfactsb bfrnrularlv unconcfiriifed and ao imjiist did I think' myself to be for not enjoying the scene as J ought, that a second time I spent a whole day in the aisles ariddha- pelsot the Abbey. .' .Entering at the PbeVs cbf her' where the records, to literary fame are numerous and elegant, I took off my, hat at the request of t he door-keeper, and was obliged to remain, during my - visit; uncover ed. .The attendant explained the monuments, and described the particulars relating to those who Were mouldering in the dust be neath them. . But I took; little in terest vLhamey. It was the anci ent, and in many places; defaced marble, the weD-cut statue, the finely' wrought figure, that drew my attention, and I passed the mo numents of departed , greatness, the symbols of ancient heraldry, without a.tear of regret. I dwelt for a few, moments at the tomb of Elizabeth, :the. proudest and the greatest of England's queens, and possioly i oeavco a sign as l stopp ed at the grave ol the accomplish ed Alary, queen of Scots. Two block of jnarble'. representing the princes killed in the tower by order of Richard the third, brought to my recollection the. poWer and ge nius of Shakespeare. The splen did monument erected by govern ment to the memory of the elder Pitt ,vis j worthy of ; the individual, and hohorablclo bis country. ; At another 'end of the Abbey is anbf ther monument , to his son who Was cut off in the prime of life. and flower of his age. The gay, the profligate Charles the, second, was there; sleeping under' the cold stone, with ho one to bless his me mory, or bourn his loss'. 'The light hearted, and careless Rochester, with a long list of ; J3 uckinghams, not forgetting ihe haughty liber tine, George rYilliers, were there reposing calmly in the grodnd, al most ' . - V Unwept,-unhonored, and unsung' The monuments were objects of curiosity, and f shall long remem ber the ibpressiod made by some pfjhem. One, represented Death breaking from a charnel-bbuse, andSgiving lusKfinal watnmgto a Tiic, vvuum iiur iiUoO'ucu was vaia ly endeavoring to protect from his darf. The fieures of this scene were as large as life and the kinsr. of terrors was. eyeo in the marble, with his hollow skull and flesh'Iess bones, an object of dread There was a sickly looking mother nurs ing: her infant, and the silent grief depicted in her countenance,- as she appeared about-to leave all that made this world a comfort to her,.would bake the lightest heart feel sorrow. There wa3 nearly opposite tp this, another and a happier scene It represented a husband, seated in the heavens, and. angels were bearing his just deceased wife in her shroud, to a vacant seat beside him. The swift winged destroyer of all joys, and the calmer of. all sorrows, Time, who levels "all distinctions and makes all ranks equal, " who forever will Ipjica 'But enough for the past for the fu- y. ture to grieve,; ... ; "O'er that which hath been and o'er that which must be " was represented, with his hour glass nd scythe, in every eorner "Leaving the Abbey,-1 could not help contrasting what I had then sccu, wuu ine silliness and qmef of a village graveyard seenin some parts of New-England, with its timiu, nuuc cuurcn sianomg sojginia. mostentatiously, yet so beautifully among the trees b front. In such a spot as that, "we have loved to walf; end coaiauns with oiirsclfl" i There, was found no pride and nd power to disturb meditation. The simple daisy; blooming over tho tomb o" innocence and bea uty the- sweet-scented clover which bad accidentally found root in tho soq -wnicn covered the last mor tat remains of; a father, or a mo ther; the' iyiid bfier 'growing with- out molestation above the head of a once careless, giddy child, are so many incitements to thought and contemplation,. that no one can resist the feelings of melancho- ly, yet pleasurable; sadness they infuse intohe soul.1 But. in that prouile, where no . one but thd gffeat and powerful is allowed td lje; where there , is distinction, e ven in death, enthusiasm and re flection, were both beyond my reach. ,,-It js a sad story to tell, of such pride as. will induce a man to rear.a mbnument for himself and first wife; leaving a vacant pla'Ce on the" barbie slabj on which to place the name of his second, when she should be numbered also, with the. dead; but it is stranger, and sadder still, to tell that that second refused the place because it wai 7 on the left side. .Yet such a sto ry and such a monument bf thd pride ofthe tyorld, does the walb of Westmins'ter Abbey enclose. Under that proud dome, too, wai . a few years. smce exhibited, tho paraphernalia' and 'mockery of a cbfonatioo';. sdbn again to be fol ' lowed, perhaps, by. another; At : the shrine of -Edward the Confess sor are the chairs on which tho" ' kings and queens of England havd been crowned for. upwards of five hundred years,, standing among the dead, as, if tbbbek the shorts lived greatness of .each one who was, "ot wbp mayhereafter be per" roitted to occupy theta. ; 4Reribantsof thirigs that have bafesV - ed away," ' : ' v , ' "Remnants f sfdne; reared by crea tures of olay!" . . CROSS READIGr. ; f 7. Lost,'a lady's reticule Contam: bg a hew dry good store, with a complete' assortment of iron mbngery. v v " : A sweepstake will bertih fbf o" ver thd Washington race course betWeen the members of thd Pennsylvania ' . delegation for the 19th congress. J, V x : s The - Creek nation are" said id be much dissatisfied With - -a 7 journeyman shoerna!;cr who cad " wing ood fl'commcr.liofls byfIying at the black-smitL shop, no. 2 Church-street. We understand that the ele phant lately exhibited in this ci ty, devoured; at one meal -a new grocery store, with an exten , sive assortment of-glassware. i he- child ot Mr. Coldea Wa3 made Very sick by swallowing- twelve dozen bottles of Warren's liquid, blacking just received. - XT ; T . t : .. .. . i'ur ew. lorn, 10 sail Wlin the first wind ' a two horse ': cart. with harness complete. - : JMr. , fll Cready ;appeared last night in the character of Hamlet, find recommended to the deal ers in VVest India produce tq stop' purcnasmg. - , . . Dr. J. T. professor of anatomy will deliver a lecture next Monday on the )" most approved me thod of planting potatoes . - r or sale, twenty thousand best white oak staves one to bo taken every morning before break-1 fast ; a certab remedy - for the heartache. - Late French writers state that drunkards may be cured by eating lourteen thousand pounds of Taw silk just imported.. - Inordef tocomnlv with the. m . K J " . IW gulationsof the Post office thirteen hundred hogs passed thro' ' this place on their way to Yir A two year old milch cow- , . has been unanimously elected cc lonel of the regiment of flying ai tiilery. 0; 1; tl . 1
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