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- I V!- VOL. r: ISA 1 K rI KTf 17f KK i iTliTT TJrP V " TV fT ,VA T'TTT? I? IT T YT A 1V 1 O B t OOO r .1 - -r V x ': ' It TEKSIS-Oxe! Dotf-i.lt and TirTT Cksts pj!f anrim, pa -f able vihli'in three, months froth the date of iiie firl nuii per rccive,irTvo Poll a us will be invariably exacted immediately after the expiration thai period. ADVEUTIsk.MENT not weedin twenty linesj neat y inserted, ihrotimtH ilr onaCottariad twcuty-i- - loreacii succeeding mscrliou. T ; : i i j All letters on busmen must be tost paiij, or they ll not be a) tended to. " 1 Xo paper id ill be discontinued until all arrearages au jiaidt unless a Ctfic Edittjrs option. T discontinuance at the closeof each AfaXU re to utility a:- i- a subscriber's term, will IjcrfffuidiTtd g neio tngageniKnt, r n ' i . M-fu POETRY. V V A On the Picture ofa CAj'i tree o n. - .Tired of ftlav i ired of nii vM i y ic k una I'lte'bird 3vhst hal thou done Mil ltvelonday;? are silent and so is trie b e : r TJissim is creepiual u; stet ple and treef . V 1 , The doves are flown to the sheltering care. And t!e noju are dirk with thtdroawipjjl leaves, r - m . -1 - ii i f i wuiui raincrs, ana aay isaone -' 4iow hast thou spent it rettUss one ! " Playing"? but what: hast thou done besiua ' . i o toil Uiy iiiolhcTj at eventide i r i ' ..Wfi.it promise at morn jg left unbroken 'What kind word tq thy playmate spoken I Whom hast thoa pliied, and whan; foritveii? now wiia my isuus nas auiy striven What hast thou learned by field and hi I ' B greenwood pthVand by singino-rill 'There will come an'eve'lo a. lonrar That will find ihe. tired but not of play f - With drooping'-lining and an aching br?i-, . ' And wish the shadows would faster creep, : And long to so to thy quiet sleeo. 1 v, Well were it then if thy. aching brow j WIV $re &t free fmoi Ha and shame as now I " . Well for thee, if Uiy Iip,could tell f , A tale like this of a. day spent well. j 'lf thine open hand. Had relieved distress If thy pity hath sprun'to wretchedness . If thou hast forgiven the sore offence, , And humbled thy heart with penitence 1 ; Jf Nature's voice ltare spoken U thoe ; j With its holy uieahins cloq Liilly- f ' y If eyery cruaturo liiLth won thy iove, ! From the crccpiujp'jvoai to the brooding dove, If never a sad, low-spoken word J Uath pleatl with thy buman heart unhoaru Then when the might steals vj as row, li will bring relieljto thine aefiing brow, And, with joy aodi poabe ul the thouil( of rest Thou wilt lall asfeep on thy motherV breast J 'Wbv is the letter e like a tailor ! Because it triakes clotk. into clothes. - ! ;'-'Vhy i n TjOcomctirc Engine like the lading of a vessel? -Bectiuse it! rnakes rx car-go. I 'I j, : H I' . i-fCIHEF JUSTICE MARSHALL. ; ' Joiin MAnitALi.was born in Fiiucpih r; Virginia, pit the 24th of September, 1755, the eldest child of Col. Thomas Marshall, a pJanlei of small fortuibr who had riftecn children. From his intelligent la ther the future chief justice of the IJnited tats e jeeived "the tirst cuUjments of cduealiou. By li m he. was introduceil m'o the study of hi'siory and po etrv. From his father tuiiion he passed, between his fourteenth and; eighteenth year?! successively tlitough the hands of pnveral teachers,! one of yhm carried him as tar as Horace and Livy in the Lalin classics. Upon this foundation he afierwaids made lit mself a good Latin scholar. - I ; In his eighteenth yearta !jiIcst.U(!yiog law, he en gaged enthusiastically in i!ie4 growing coutroveisy between Great Britiin and her Aniencan colonies, devoting much lima to military" exercise inja volun teer corps, to training a inilitarj cujnpany fuj tlie "iicighborhood, and to reading the political essavls of khc da v. - ' ' ;i. - f- . - 1 '' , ::- t In tlie summer, of 1775, being tn his Itrenjieth year, he was appointed first lieutenant inja compa ny of minute men enrolled for aqtua) service, and Avas soon afterwards engaged, withj h) coujiany in t'no battle of Great Bridge, where the Ritlsh troops under Lord Duumore xvere-rfpulscH'jvjth great gal Ian try. In July 1770," he was transferred fs L first " lieutenant ,to the eleventh Viriuialregiment on 'the :con0nental estaldishment. The followiog winter he qiarched to the north, and in 1777 was promo 'ted to the rank of captain J He was in the iatilcs of Brand vwinej Germantown and Molitnouth'. : In J7S0 he rettirned ' home and resUmed 'the siiidy of the;iawf while watting forortk-i-s Jrpm the state leg jslature. tn th6 autumn of the same year he, oh tt ined license to practicej and rejoined the army,in which he continued till 1781, wheii, there beii:ga vrcuundaucv oX oinocrs lu Hit. irginra hue, he r -t-;--" " ".izyr 'r fcmr- signed his commi.sioa. lie was distinguished in service foe. courage and activity, unrl such was the estimation in wjticii hv. t wos held by $ broiler ! ptiicers, that quarrels ajid points of dinerence among them svere diten submit ted tu his arbitration 1 Ttiua early was he noted for.' that uni.un of sound judrncnt and integrity, vbich hasisirice given to hi$ decisici; a value and wejht unsurpassed by those of any other judicial tribunal mite worUl. . ' -i - i- . j' iie soon rar lo eminence at the bar. :In the spring cf 17i2 he was fleeted ft inember of the state legtslatiip, : and in the autumn of the same yrar a member of the exacutive council.- The following January lie 'married Saiss Afiibler. In .1764 he resigned.his .seat jn the ijuuncil in order to return to the bar : and he was i m rned i a t ely afterwards rp-e-!ect4 to the legislature from Fjiuquicr couiity. j In jl787 he was elected mehiber fprthc couiiiy.o.f E'en ricrf of which' Kichmtd is llie shiretowu. , lie en gaged warmly in the animated discusious of hat excited period, and was a(te('rads a rjicmber of the convention called in Virginia, to ratify the constitu tionj ; ItrJ783i the legislature having passed apiact kdlovving a .representative; to tjie city of Richmond, he wxs Lju itetl to become a candidate and .was) se. lected. He continued in the legislature tili 1791, Iw hen he r tired, jui ogling however, actively in the politics of-tbe.'dav. z?'r. ' v'i: ' f ' ! Que of t he earliest mcct'uig Parted to expresi ynib-J lie sentiment, as to the conduct on citizen ue.i'et, was at Rieiimond, and Mr. Marshall drew up tric resol ut ions ';t here.'" pitssedy expressing strong di;ap prohation of Genet's course, and a deep sense of the danger; of foreign influence. "In 1795 he was again elected ,to-the legislature. ' ; ; j About this .pefiod iie yas Invited by presirent Washington to accept the oflice of attorney generaf, but declined U on uccqimt hi' its interfering w ith; hi lucralivc practice, Upon; tbei recall of Alr Aldni roe, a?s intnistec;frornrFrahce,,Tside ton solicited htm to accept the' appointment as Mr. Monroe's successor : this otTer he likewise lilecliried. jA, year, afiervardshe was appointed 'by (president Adams one qf the three commissioners to be senj: to France in pla,ce of one minister. The qrisis was1 a larming, and Jrom a sense 4xf public duty,! he relu-C- tahtlyi- asc p:ted lkvpoiMiBdptiXCJ&e tihedji.iM -la 1799, a,t.ihe earnest olicitatioa of gin- Vash I ngion, who ibviteii him Mtmnt Vern ;n for. "'the nirpose of discussing the subject, hs became !a can tiiilate fijr Congress', ! and v.ss elected. The distiii guished part he played in the memorable session il 17991800 is well knoivi In IbUO, w thuut the slightest 'perstinal commun-ication, he was nomina ted by the president secretary of war, and iiiimedi ately afterwards, ;secfetary of state. Ch'vS Justice Ellsworth dying about this .time, Mr. ila shall was rnade on the 3ist January,1 1801, "chief jusi icq of the jplted States, which post one of the nibstr eievd ed ajul important' kiiown in -the historv of govern ment, --he has., occupied for veaj;s, ';jtli1scha'rgin t.3iarduous and resjwm3ib!e functious .'ilhltbei high-1 est credit to'uiitiseilj and the greatest beneht to h iS country . -L j lie calmly departed this life on the Oth of July last, jn til.; citv ol rhiiadomhiai surrounded h'YLt'hree of his children and many valuable Jriendsi , A few 'clays' before'-' his death he penned anjinscription for hi:; tombstone, and ws fully prepared fir the event: j j Biography; can furnish, the li ies oi few men, if a nf , who have; had a longer, lofiier and purer" career. His biograplfer eloquently observes What indeed strikes us as the tnost remarkable in his whole char acter, ever; owe thn his splendid tt?JcntSi is the en- tire consistency oi his public life find pri.uc.ipl.es. There is nothing in either which c Is for apology br conccainient. AnjibMion, never from his principles' pojular1cl!arnor him from the strict prrfonri-af;ce of sedticed him jever deterred his dutV. A- nud. the extravagancies of party spiri7 he stood with a cahnjand steady, inflexibility,-! neit icr bending to the omssurs of adveisitv, nor bound i! -:- - . J ', i ;g-with the e- histictty if success. He lived such live, by and with his principle ! If ss man ''should i ...... ., . we were teinp- ted to kay in one. word in what he excelled all "-'other men, should say, in wisdom; in Ihc union cf that 'virtue, winch ripened under t plino of principle, with that of knowledge, which constantly sifted and refined its old treasures, and as constantly gathered new. I The; Constitution, fsince its adoption, owes more to him than to any o ther single mind, for is'true inierpretatiori and vin ilicatidiK -Whether it lives or jperislies, his exposi tion of itf principles will be anjenduring monument' to his jfame, so long as solid reasoning, profound a jnalysi, and soler views til government shall invite the leisure, or command tup attention, pf statesmen atd jurists.', -'; 5-: . iYetr Ychr's Anecdote. A little girl' was des- jlcbed by her mother one New Year's oy to wish a grocer a J Happy New Year with1 directions, to "tell him that .she ..would take the gift in molasses." Accordingly -she'took: a jug and went to the store and did her errand as follows :i-41 'dann told me to coine and wish you a happy new ycBr and here'? a ut it lit.' v ,1 , 1A BEAUTIFUL LETTfiRv The;followiog letter wriueiv voujg lajhr. fpmuig with the cjfisu motion, to a1 ypujig geneman: to w,hqhi she was engaged in ban'taiir : she! lived in and was tflg-a iviuter; jzr.tr- leans, hopet ul tiat Its tii!der cntnate:wouldresl her hcitlth. Uutislte jntdually $.unk undir ' tor gradually Mink under the dreadful diir-aicand &td emtishc return exlf hornet It breathes t? fpirit ortinpissiorted "ocAotfofcsjratid tj:e perusal jvjl! awaken the liveliest-Sad bct setA sibilities of tlie hcurt. The sweet halloweoj ecnti inent which pervades it 1 he spirit of uiK;ltntiug attachment -uhicti ulistance cahlioti weaken, nar the? prospect of 5KTiirixtiniiish, is.u comes overfthe soul.iikc4he mellow and subduing influence of, the'so'ttiri.iun.V. ' f"1 ' fIen-s vqws arc brittle things but the ardor of intQlligcrit,, virtaous 'high' pooled woman, is unquenchable-sooncr than iLe j l) prot e forgetful of her plighted promise - j The flowers sjia 1 1 cease to feel the futtriug brreqzc . And'natnre change ht:r laws-r- i! i . . - ' i. ' ' jThe'unpracli.Atd heart cifsucha heinff.Is in-ird bev Valued than the brightest pearls of India, or th.iich- cst gems ot -olcocfia,. . , , v I' t Ni:w Okieaxs, Jniiary,2Gj lSii. My Dear William: h f iljhjft broken inv promise. ; But your too kinddisnosilion willforL'ive me even without a!causc.? I -It was, as I know you fear, uiy poor heahli, that prevented my 'riling. Alas ! 1 had little hopls that a change ojair ivould rrg:ore m.y ..hcjtltlvor leshen my vyithejed cheeks. :it my. t&ar. friends thought so, andjbr their isake,-! am here. Oh ! I w'ih: for. .took- SAKsi . I' could j-av tluit southern :i";r were streristheniug my .constitution and feeble b.odyl My morning rides bring in e moment a.ry Jreshness and ease', and the ;frajjrance of t he 'orange! tree, il ver v. grateful j the deep green groves lookloveivjlbut 1 only vievV their beauty in contrast with my oHn fee ble perishing heahh. Tl:eiirs are .loo damp and. heavy. - Perpetual fogs frown upon us here mS.rning, and cveuing. Mid-day is warm and pleasant, and) bring -us refreshing breezes'. -Oh, do not ihink" I write thus to give ni fresh wound to your too gener cU3 ar? d bCecjliiig sy tfl'pa t h i ii s. B u you4- k hthi me too well and too true to think thiLp. Arid whvhould I telf vou of hopps that have long since fled from my a hnost pulseless heart, Why. should, I deCeif e by nattering worus, ne that is, next to my near oiesseu mother, dearest to me on earth ! No, thoigh a kind Providence: will soon separate us hcre y; t hi; will permit us Ao rncet ;again in a brighter andjie:ter homeJ Oil 1 jWilli'yri, do not hoje.' Eich getting sun sinks paler 'uptyi mv vision, ami warns ni that I shall see but few more fide bejund the westJl But a prospect more brjglvt and beautiful iitrevvs ilpwcrs in my pathway to tlie graved j . I am full of joy and Clwistian cheer f You-j Her yey's Med.itaf ion's is a sweet comforter. ; my ilfow componion.; Your letter I have read again aridjagaiiK Iv strengthens me nmr than all the -kind ofliixs'ol my good frieiyjs.. DoN"'t part with that irierit that you have taken jo your bosom. It is worj i the world and uioe. I wotdd not part with Jests to find my cheeks flushed .with ru?y health, end mv fce- iilfi botlv boumung in stri ngtli. Oh how I wi$i yon ! oijee mere speak tGgjfthk'r ; wt e here 1 hat we ruigiit bur mv suKKcn cneeKS. w'omu qisir.e&a..v-ou, i-iui 1 slioul ild he teji times liioro iierable f We it 1 re returning next month. PBuf'il fjarl!sha!i ne!r turn. Come down A'hed van reeeive;t!bin. an d ! a ring little Jane yith you. K ips d e a r lit 1 1 e 'iM ar v a n d fJol u; for their sister, and give mv warmest love to all the family arid mv kind friedds. 1 fiiid lm y strength is weakening,! and I must again bid yo;i a loud a;d af- feetiouaie farewell. CJ vTHAltIiE. DOX'T BE )ISCOURAGr.D. 2)61 1 bt jhcowrrW, 'iS'injihe ouiscff life lings do not go on smoothly, ;: It wddom happens iii: the hopes we Cieris!i of the future are t-esfclizpd. f Tbe patj) of life in tlie prospect, af)pears smooth' an'ijovr! enoij'ih. but when wc conic to travel it, we hlwl it all up hiil, and generally rough enough. 'i'li(qiir- nev is a labonoti-s oneanu whether poor or WcjuUlhy. hi'.li or loWj we shah hnd it so, uo ourctisappoir. irnt, it we nave built on any otuer calculation.- i a en. dure what is to be end.-red with as nivch cheif Ail neis as osime- anu uiioow our y. ay aseafi wcian through the creikt:i?rovd, hoping -fori' I v r.s l yci striving for much, is, perhaps, the true; nan. But - '?.- - :r .1 Don't be discourage;?, if occafioriallv ton slip jou too ions Srr- down by the way, and your jneighbors tjeal ova a little ; in other words, chirrt let a failure dishearten you aocidcttts happen ; miscaicula will s metimcsi be uwl?f things Will turn ont.o ctitly tVom our cxpectrjtiotis, ad wcjmny be iilier ers. it is worm wr.ue to remcmiieriin-:i lunu iC IS me- like the skMiri April, sometimes, cloudy and s times clear agd favorable ; and as it! would be foliy to despair of cgain seeing the sun, because to-cjay is stormy, so it is unwise to sinK inlo despontfency when fortune frowns, siucr. in the common. course oft!. lings she Q-ay.bc surely expected to 2ii!eaaii I agairj' . i j, f And ! Do.iU be discour nsidif you arc deceived in the people 'of. the worjd, lbey are very cotton at tho-corc. From sources ntch as ihrr vmi rnav be must uncx- f pcctetlly-deceivctf ntl jou will naturally feel soro unucrsuch c ccption but to these Tnu must bo come : tisod ; -if yaii fare as most pcdplc do, Ucy wilL , lose tlcir novelty before you grow grey, and you will-, learp 4rustvn-u!:rj cautiouilv. and examine their cbaracte r closely before you.aUow thcta great op-r poftijnUic to4fjuro.yoi.- ' ' Go steadily forward. "Ralher consult your own con- , science, than the opinioos of men, tliough the last is not to fietiisgrded. Seindistrious.; tie frugal ;. be honest ; deal ijffpcrfect Js illness -with all. who come ti your w,iy, ext rcisihg ;aNaeicliborly and r b) igtug spirjl in viHir w hole I utcrcourse.; and if you do not prosper as rapidly as any; of yuur4)cighbori depend upon Jt vouUv ill Was happu - - . -1 - . i , TuxUe rules for , jncKiotin" Jfannonrf: among ' )Ghu?ch Members - j . j : 1 ' 1. To remember that we a-e ail Fubjrct to fail vji and infirniieyief one kniilfor anotjler. i i 2. 'io lear with and uoC, magnify each other's inrmities- Ga.& L . i 'i . . :. To pray for r ne another in! our "social fnccU ings, vid -particularly in priyatc.-r-James o,16. j 4. To avoid going from! housi to house, forthe "piirpie of.hearingKC.W; alid, interfering with otlw ' er people's .business. jj - - . . : . ;'"k'- 5. Always to turn .a deaf ear tq, any slanderous repiirt, and to lay no charge brought against an; person until wejl fo mded, j - ill G. If a m;t:ib'er be in Cnult to tc.ll ftici ofit in pri vate before Jl is hieritionctijio others. : 7. To watch against a shyness of each o her, and put fare best consi ruction on any actiixi that has tho jpc4r: nice of opposjtic lion or resentment. I o observe the. uist rule of bolomonJ that is, . jo leave otf contctit Ou before it Ue.meddlvd vitb-- s Prnv. 1 7,-11. - - ' h i '' U iH: 9. If a memhrr has offended, to consider hosV glo rious, how God-like it is to lor give, and hbvv unlike a Christian it is to ievenge; Eph. 4, 21 , . 10. To remember that it is always a grant! arti fice of the deil to promotc distance and airuawiJ ain4HtjrobV;0 forf? , watqh against evt ry'tlnng that furthers his'end.", - i: . To consider bow miich more good we can do in tl;c world aj large, and to the church in particu lar, vhec wo are a I united in love, tharf we could do when acting doiie, and indulging! a contrary V spirit. ;'--; 1 . "'; ; .; '- . . . " '-.-. '.'-j.rj- j. ' ' IS--Lastly, to cruucUIer the ejpress injunction -of Scripture, and the beautiful cxamjde of ChbX, a to these important things. bph. 4. i'Z. 1 ret. John 35. Ttcmcdvfor the Ixrh Jair. We are informed by a fritiid, th.il a sure preventive r. gainst this tcrriblo ikseijseiJ, to '.take some tjuong soR Au.jp4 "and mix it with !jl5eient quantity -of pulverized- chalko as t to make if of the consistency of buck wheat hatter; keep tLe chalk moistened 'with a fresh supply of soap until the wound begins to discharge, and the patient 5 (imi.s! relief. - Our friend stated to us, and implicit a or; lid ewe may be placed in what he sayg, that he has kinVwo several caos where tins remedy has been sncccsfolty applied. So simple and valuable a rem- edy,"wili.i"iu the reach jriiet,pry person, ongui to uo universally known. :N; It htitniag Post,-.. 'I he icon they court down East. rSally, the house maid, p:ring-app es in trie corner. t . - -- . Enter ObadiahVwbo seats himself in the rorncr, opposite to Sclly, without paying a word for fifteen minutes, but finally, scratching his head, breaks si lencc with J 'jj 4 Tl lore's con si 1 c r able 'imperceptible allerin of the weathef since last week." j - , Sally Taint so injudicious and indubitibls culd as 'twas ; the thernoniieoil has lowered up to four htijnirlred degrees higher thin zenith. itjhadiahi Uunkfr likelv, lor birds ot that spc. cib fly a great quantity hig ie in warmcr.dayst thai cohl one. . ' 1 i-'i -':'-..- ' !' -' : IBih parties assume a grave and knowing look. and a long jcuse ensde3.. j Finally Oljadiah gives his pale another ijarrowiug tcratch, and again breaks t '.-It ! tirenee. i Yf ell Sally wo ctiajis are going to raise a sleigh ' I".' ! - I ' I ft I M ! .. rine. u -MCh inimical gooi k'couin, u-morrow. Saliy 5ou I. Cur folks arc suspecting company all day iio-uiorrow. .'. :,-r '". ';.' :;'f "''V; jcjibadjaljtspoetheyMljhavtiinsatiatc times ont. I shottld lc 'indefinitely happy if you would disgrace ii:e.ivith yotir com;any : I jhould take it as a derog atory honor , besides we're calculating to treat the galsl copious well with rasor.s and black strap..; Sa!ly1 should be supcnaiurnl glad to disgrace you but our flks inspect Company I can't p. (ihadiah sits iratching ji;s head awhile, and at length starts lip a3 though a new idea had come up. ori him. -' . j i. " Weil now, I know wliat I'll do; Fll go home and thrash them arc: beans what have been lying cJocn there in the barn fic'h- a daro while. lUit , Qbyliah. Dost, Morn f f'ffj'. 1. .- - i ' -m n '.i . "1 ,i. t 5!: 8 4 S 1; y
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