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" We Paseo& la %nisei.
We parted in silence, we parted by night
On the banks of that lonely river,
Where the fragrant limes their boughs !mite,
We met, and we parted forever.
The night bird sang, sad the stars above,
Tqld many a touching story,
Of Mends long passed to the Kingdom of Love
Where the soul wears its mantle of glory.
1 We parted in silence—our cheeks were wet
With the tears Mat were put controlling;
l ed
We vowed we wo _never, no never forget,
And those vows the time were consoling;
But the lips that ei the vows of mine,
Are as cold as the lonely river;
And that sparkling eye, the spirit's shrine,
Has shrouded its fires forever. • ".
, And now on the mitonlight sky look, •
And nay heart grows full to weeping;
Each star to me is s-sealed book,
• Some tale of that loved one keeping!' •
We parted in silence, we parted in tears,
• On the banks of that lonely river,
Dot the color and blooko of thcre by-gone years,
Shall hang o'er its waters forever.
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Illitory of the Seat of tiretantest.
llt is becoming so common kw every per tart who travels at
att. to visit the city of Washington, that the fetlowing analysis
el a paper recently read 'before the New Yovb Historical 80-1
tidy. by Mr. fossil' B. *saint. Ja_, on the Illibstory of the
Federal sent of Government," and which appears in a report of
their ploceedings, will be read with interest-) \
BEFORE the establishment of the i ' .! •.• of Co
lumbia, Congress occasionally met, •• .. it
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exigencies of the case, or theconvenience !
ben; at 'Philadelphia,' Baltimore, Lancaster
town, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and Ne
The different States, in the meantime, covet
honor of the national city. New York* offs .
town uf Kingston ; Rhode Island, Newport ; M •
land, Annapolis; and 'Virginia, Williamsburg.
1/n the 21st Cctober, 1783, Congress, insulted t
Philadelphia by a band of mutineers whom the\
state authorities were unable tn qUell, adjourned to
princeton, to Abe halls Of thei college ; a eive*v
stance which doubtless led .to the agitation ofiNe
que:tion of a permanent seat of government, whitCh
was taken up at this tithe, and continued to be dis
, cus.:ed till the formation of the Constitution. A? res
olutioh of Mr. Gerry, 7th.Ckrtober, 1783, was adopt
ed. that a district be chosen on the banks of the De
laware' or the Potomac, near Georgetown ; which
iulderweut various modifications (one of which was
that both sires be selected), till it was repealed in
the Wowing year. On the 30th October, 1784, the
subject was again taken up at Trenton and commis
sioners appointed with powers to lay otit a district
on the Delaware, within eight miles above or be
loW the falls. , retake the necessary purchases, erect
public buildings, reserve exclusive jurisdiction, &c.
The question as to place :was revived in Congress . 1
in 1759':'90, with a view of rcuring ncentral. po
sition. A site on the Susquehanna was talked of,, i
arid finally the present district determined on, which
Wan commonly referred to as Conogocheague, the
name of the stream between which and the eastern
branch the' aet provided the site shOuld be selected.
- ' The friends of the new site numbered the names
of Washington, Madison, Lee and Carroll, andtheir 1
choice was governed by - these considerations:
• Ist It was not desirable that ths_political capital,
• should be in a commercial metropolis. It was ne
cessary forum independence of the government,
and its proper security, that its jurisdiction should
be exclusive, and that its officers.shonld not, be um.,
der the influence of the citizens: hence the elective ,
franchise was to' be given . up, which no large city
would yield. Party!
feeling, which then ran highs
vrasi,to be avoided-4e natural influences of wealth
.on the spat was feared, and the examples bfiLon
don and Westminster in the imPortance of their'six.
members in parliament was quoted. Experience'
Iliad shown the danger to be apprehended from the
mob in times of stagnation in business, orpolitical
excitement. The expenditures in a commercial
city, with the direct influence its wealthy men mien'
exercise over the government would give it an un
due advantage over other cities, and make it an ob
jectJof jealousy; while its Varied interests would
call for much more local legislatiOn than Congress
could attend to, without neglect ot the public, busi
ness. It was desirable that the simplicity of the
members of. government in their style of living
should not be enntraste'd with the luxury of a large
eity, or be compelled, to submit to' its costlier char
l'es•
rd. As this would be the only city under the ex
elumrn control oldie nation, one should be laid out
expressly with a 4iew to all possible Mute wants
of the pvemment, which could not be so well an
ticipated in a city already built.
3d. With respectio the position, while a central
point was certainly desirable, it oughhto be remem
bered that there is no common centre. The centre
of population is variable, and to establish the capi
tal on that basis for this ge.nergion, might' place it
in a very inconvenient.position for the next. Tbe
F'a)ne remark might be made here with regard to
territory; for, with the rapid increase of states, the
sear of government would have to be removed eve
ry fifty ;ears to keep it in a centre( position.
• Mr. Madison then said, that " If it were possible
t° Promulgate our laws by some instantaneous ope
ration, it would be of less consequence where the
government mightbe placed ! '--acontingency which
SOW seems to be Implied by the a magic wires" of
b loom, Which y,ominmlicah3s intelligence hot Mere-
I Y:taith the swiftness of lightning, but by lightning
ell;'
The centre of a sea -coast line with easy Inman
en with the western country, was rotusideS4
i b° most worthy of regard, being more yethent
1Y accessible, possessed of more w arid-more
People, than an; equal array of inland eo try. Be
trig More liable to invasion in that quarter, govern
bleat shoal& tie near to protect it.
It is the interest of the back conntri to haver
l'emmeut near the sea, to inspect and encourage
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ethanieee, lqy which their abundant produce will
fit@ in export. The growth of the western country
;was anticipatedrathat day, and depicted in ecrw
int colors in the . speechei of some of the members
which Mr: Vat:aunt potud. It wan alleged, that
when the central line „between the northern mai
anthem extremities was fixed, no person in the
western territory had ever wished anything farther!,
than that Congress ishduhl establish their seat as far
back on thin line as convenience of maratnnecom
vTw
mace would 6w. This centre of a sewcoast line
fails between rivers Potomac and Susquehanna.
The place be een • the Potomac and the Eastqm
branch would admit of a navy yard, and yet waiso
far inland aa to be protected from sudden attack,
The Potomac., by means of Kill creek and other
streams, could, by kick and canal naVigation, be
connected to the Ohio river. (A project which the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal was designed to sworn.
plish.) Those advantages would give a healthy
trade to the Then flourishing downs of Georgetown
and Alexandria, Which would operate to the ad•squi-
tage of the federal city, without the inconveniences
referred to as attendant upon sea-ports, . .
Such were some of the considerations which led
to the passage in 1.7.90,,,by a vote of thimptwo to
twenty-nine, of the act to , establish the permanent
seat of govemnient of the United States: The de.
.ision was hastened by another impression, grow.
ing out of the funding of the public ,debt, which was
then contemplated. It was thought "as the seat of
government would concentrate - the public paper,
the eolith would be benefitted by having it in their
- rather than at the nortkwhere was the, capi
tal ;" and conseqUentlythe Southern members unit
ed on the subject, end succeeded by constant exer
tions in effecting a compromise with a sufficient
number of the opposition to carry the vote.
Attention was called by Mr. Varmint to the-fact
that by .-a mathematical corn on of Dr. Patterson
6f the United States mint; H e predictions of Mr.
Madison on this occasion, relativelo the progress of
the centre of population have been singularly veri
fied. By this table it appears - ffiat the average pm
i.gress westward has been thirty-fonr miles every ten
. • -. I. 1840, . : :,:,-.. : .f r... ..t ~, - ~. ~,
arrison county, Virginia, and if we consider the
p . •:. as being at the rate of fifty miles every ten
ye . ,it will take one hundred years to carrylit five
hunt ad miles, or as far .as Nashville, Tennessee.
In • lation to the site selected, a letter of General
Washi mon to Mr. Jefferson describes the terms
upon . • ich he had succeeded in securing a cession'
from the • roprietoot of the land. These wen!, that
the, prep". • .rs gave the government all the proper
ty requi • • for streets and avenues; for lots taken
for public • , rposes, they were to be paid at the rate
of .£25 per .. • .
The first • .•• er stone in the District of Columbia
was laid at J. , es' Point, near. Alexandria, 15th of
April, 1791, w' ,‘ the imposing Masonic ceremonies
of the time, an a quainteddress by Rev. James
.. bluir. By the re • • scion of Alexandria, the stone
is no longer within. • e limits of the District.
it more beautiful .-..te for a city could hardly be
obtained: From a ••• • t where the Potomac, at a
distance of 295 miles i ... the ecean, and flowing
from north-west to son • as*, eltroands to the width
of; a mile, extending .- an almost level plain,
• hemmed in by a series o, gradua ll y sloping hills,
terminating with the • of Georgetown,; the
plain being nearly three miles in length from east
to west, and varying from anarter of a mile to
two miles in breadth; boun d on the east by the
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eastern branch of the Potomac, here are now the
navy yard and Congressional etry, and on the
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west bythe Rock creek, which parates it from
Georgetown. The small stream m the north,
over which the milmad bridge now on en
tering the city, emptied into a. bay or inlet of the
Potomac about font hundred feet wide, hich jutted
in from the west to within 'a quarter of a ile of the
Capitol Hill, and nearly divided the plain Not far
from the head of this, and south of the Ca • 'tol Hill,
a:imall stream took , its rise in a tarp , n • - • ber of 1
springs, and emptied into the river at apl • ,-, now
called Greenlear's point, formed by the into . , .'on
(dam Eastern branch with the Potomac, and , ..
known as James' creek. There is a stream : •.. • e
Georgetown, which has always been called ' . •. :.
creek ; but from a certificate of survey now presen
ed in the mayor's office at IVashington, dated 1663,
it appears that the inlet from the Potomac was then
known by the name .of Tiber, and ' probably the
stream fromnorth erriptying into it, bore the
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same name ; . that Moore did injustice to the his
tory of the plc ,
and confounded streams, when
he wrote thew kupwn line,
" And what was O,ose Creek ones. IR Tiber naw."
By, die same survey it appears that the land corn
prisinglhe Capitol Hill was called Rome or Room,
two names which' seem to have foreshadowed the
destiny of the place. Mr. Force of Washington
suggests that they probably originated in the fact
that the name of the owner of the estate was _Pope,
and in selecting a name for his plantation;` he tan
cied the tide of " Pope of Rome,"
It is said that Washington's attention had been
called to,the advantages which this place presented
for a city, as long previous as when he had been a
youthful surveyor of the country around. Its,judg
ment was confirmed by the fact that two towns
were afterwards planned on the spot, and the first
maps of the city represent it as laid out over the
plains of liatebuigli and Carrollsville.
The first public communication on record in re
lation to . arrangements - for laying out qv's I pity is
from the pen of General Washington; and bears
date 11th liturit , Mt • in a sobsennent lett e r :
the 30th April, he calls it the Federal City. Four
months later, in a letter by the original Commis*
storteris, Messrs. Ichntauti Staid, Mid Cana, tfided
Georgetosnt, Sept. 9, 1891, addressed, to the arclig
tem, Major Meant, he is hiatus:zed to entitle tlke
district-on his map, a the. Territory of Columbiako
and the city , "City of Wealthy:om,', • 91
On the 18th Septemb er , 1792, the southoiasteoF
net ;
W ee tithe north. whig of- the ' , Pip** writ ,
by Gen. Washington.
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Moch disenision'tdoit Rlad2l relaive - la the plan,
which. was drii - m7lt;Y l kiini
wine. itpreserata,aeine fine features, has many de-
facts, and in •itis • execution s has greatly detracted
from the
,beauty of ibe site. ' coinmenceci . by
t_aying down ;streets, which crossed each other at
right motes, as at Philadelphia, at irre,,..7nlai Inter
vale,, however, and which were numbered or tat
ted. In order to give the city its diatintive ime
timed features, great avenues from 100 to 100 feet
wide were made to radiate from particular centres,
'such as the Capitol and President's house, so as to
bring all the buildings to 'view from e'wry quarter,
a grand idea ; but it cut the building lots into ugly
Wangles, and made more streets titan were need-
ed. The avenues should hate been laid down first,
and made bum lines for the other sleets. The
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Isreets too are wider than was necessary, though
members Of Congress from the country like to have
plenty of breathing' room.
It was remarked of L'Enfant, that he was not
only a child ki.nara4 buten eilucatioa ; as from the
names ho pre the streets, he appeared to know
little else than A, B, C, one, two, three. It ap.
pears, however, by a letter of the commissioners,
that they gave :hese names to the streets at the
same time with that to the city for convenience,
a good arrangement, since the Streets could more
easily be found by a stranger under such designa-
Hotta.
The die:lames at which the üblie :buildings are
separated from each other have been frequently re
marked. But letters from Washington. and the
commis' sioners show the reasons of this.
Ist. As a measure of security, so that only one
conk! burn at a time. If enemies. should enter the
place, they would, in the first onset, destroy every
thing ; but as they progressed, their fury would
cool down. This proved true in the infamous at
tack on the public buildings by the British diving
the last war ;,they having spared the Patent and
Post Office building, which would have met the
fate of the .Capitol had they been under the same
root 1.
2d. It had been remarked at Philadelphia, that
the vicinity of the executive to the legislative de
partments, exposed the former to constant interrup
tions from the latter. General Washington said,
that some of his secretaries had found 'themselves
and their clerks so much annoyed by the intru
sions of i4mbers of,ongress, dosing office hours,
that they bad been obliged to retire to their homes
and lock themselves in, in order to attend to their
ordinary duties. It was, therefore, desirable that
the executive officers should be sufficiently far
from the capitol to exempt them from visits, ex
cept at •
patcul ar. hours, when_Congrws were not
in session .
It isinot generally known, that the plan contem
plates h complete connection between the gardens
of the Capitol , and those of the President's house by
means of the mall, a plan which could have been
carried out 20 years ago at a comparatively small .
expense, by setting out trees and levelling where
necessary. The Smithsonian Insfinition is to be
placed thereon. and there is a prospect that the be
quest of an enlightened foreiner will supply what
Compete has neglected.
Some of the magnificent intentions with regaxd,
to the embellishment of the city were enumerated.
Most of them might have been carried out at a tri
fling expense to the nation ; and in all, it is to be
observed how admirably Gen. Washingtop's ideas
combined utility with liesuty,_ especialAy
for furnishing to all Coreign - ;:ttillomentiv lots of
ground whereon tovrect houses fur ifieir: ministers
in which it is to be wished he hail sueedeil, as
Well t s ts in that of furnishing each Secreduy with a
house, a thing that seems to be so muchk-alled for,
since most of our Secretaries are obliOd by their
position, to receive almost as much company as the
President, and the Jurnimre and rent of a house is
with their uncertain mourn of othce;a serious burden
upon many.
Another plan was to give each state a square of
ground, to ornament in such a manner as they
chose, eithet by houses for members, or obelisks to
its representatives who should die at the seat of go-
VCITIITIeIIj.
The State of Virginia made, a Adoration of one
handled and twenty thoutetnd dollars towards the
public buildings, and Maryland seventy-two thou
.. d dollars. This was soon exhausted.
Iris a fact not generally known, and evidence of
ill, intense anxiety Washington felt in the matter,
when all other resources failed, he made a per
son • application to the legislature of Maryland for
al.- ; and the fetter written on this occasion is re
mark* e for its terseness and propriety, and dime,
gard of 'ere etiquette ; for it seems that the Attor
ney Gene . advised against its being sent, on the.
ground i •it was not usual for the Presinent to
correspond, xcept through certain officers.
The legislature of Maryland granted the loan of
$l,OOOOO on the strength ol.this letter and the per.
tonal security of the Commissioners, a fact showing
at how low an ebb the credit of the government
had arrived, since they were not willing to trust
nation alone. Washington was not destined to see
Congress seated in the capital, which in one dills
letterslie tpeaks of as one of the events he most
earnestly prayed for. He died on the 1-Ith ofDec.
.1799 ; Congress assembled there in 1800. All the
speeches at the opening of the- session, -alluded.to
the city that bears his name as one.of his monu
ments which it should be the duty raid r idensare of
Congress to embellish are irnpnrre according to
his wishes. - '
. With regard to the pagro the eit3asinee that I
drne, it must be confeeed, that the city has not
'regamed in the-tapid Mao 'which its fonnilerleo
inagehtelmedieted.'AlthotOtheyinay,nptha
anticipntel any thing to compare with thn . reun[ge - 1-
&ewe and balmy swhichin many dem Ett4ean
come have alinost sauced to build up a city; Yet
theyrolaah!y overrated.thenttmetiona, of th,o go-
Teltknen„, coPgre4 •
Tie "Fastest drawback upon:thaprospaity of the
ithee, has been the enormous debt contracted in
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Quiet to may out the plan of its founders for con
necting, the -Potomac and -Ohio rivers.' The main
burden bars howertr, been vemoved, and with the
completion of the canal as far as the'coal regions,
it ishdped . that a new element of prosperity will be
introduced. I
• With regard to the .gmithsonian Institution just
organized,;it was remar*ed that if half the plans are
fulfilled, the effPct must - be, Toner or later, to con
ccntrate at Washington one of the largest and best
collections in the conntry; of books, apparatus and,
other &Citifies for the'prosectition of investigations
in science and art, givingeta interest .to the place
thrordibut the year for Other attractions besides
Ih6se of a mere political metropolis, and attracting
thither as citizens a class of men who will give
more of permanence and tone to its shifting so
ciety.
In all other points of view, in relation . to health,
expense and habits of Dying, and accessibility, the
judgement of its founders has been fully confirmed.,
It can never become a great city in the ordinary
sense of the term, that is to say, it can never be the
seat ota very heavy commerce, and consequently
of long rows of ware-houses and striking contrasts
between the extremes of wealth and poverty : but
it may become "a place forkthe cultivation of that
political union, and that social intercourse wltish
morethan any thing else unbends the sterner feelings
of Our nature and dispels all sectional , r trejndices.—
Its prosperity Will , be no attfit embte of the pro
gress of our republic ; for it is now occupied in
about the same proportion with our extended terri
tory, and every sensible increase to the population
of the union, adds a mite to that of this city, since
it augments the Machinery of government."
[From the Newark Daily Myer User.)
A Itle inunculus.
I trust there is no act of the Legislature against
young men, students or pmfea-ional, rigging early,
and cutting wood, or taking some other vigorotts
exercise before breaklicu. The very common prac
tice of getting up only to a late breakfast, is a great
waste of timetrid strength. It is hardly compati
ble with the el ticity and_vigor of either mind or
body, necessary tes a •successful prosecution of any
great work in life. The histances are rare, if any.
9f men who are slothful in the morning, and yet
-cient in the great duties of mankind.
Even in respect to comG.M. your late-to-bed and
late-to-rise is a great loser. See him languidly en
ter the breakfast room, with his eyes half open, and
wits half afidt. Is he theman yon envy? The ghost
of murdered heart and Ando° of abortive pare rates
not being up in um: to hew, the cockcrow, as other
less terrillie and less pertinacious apparitions do,
haunt him through the whole day. I hare known
a homitneulus of this sort. Ile always rose before
breakfast, it is eve, for they did not serve it up till
her required: Between breakfast and dinner, he -
"commonly went to the Time office, and heard or read
the last news of a fire or a cock-fight After din
nerhis dreams were such stall as Prof. says
spirits are made of; mid always broken off before
tea: for this he must have before he would sally
out for the evening gossip of a hotel. Such a man
might consume half-pay, but he would hardly do
more in his country); service. In sober earnest, is
this the way for a man to pass his days ? flow
much is it above the life of a dog? flaw muck ) let
me rather say, beneath that of any bat e that does
the service of his place!
And again, ori-hono? Is it present comfort ? Ne
ver foetidly this way. It belongs to /Jute another
latitude. *di awake by day and half asleep by.,
Bight, is not the mode of attaining comfort.
As to profit, in any lower, or in any highersense.
of the term, it is not much thought of by those here
rebuked ; and usefulness is a word not to be found
in their vocabulary. I repeat then, on 'bona All
this indulgence in mere sloop—ls it really the best
you can do 7 If not, can you do no better? Is
reform possible ? Please not answer, till you have
thought of it; for you might then have to think of
the German-proverb, " Done first, and thought of afi
teneard. has brought many a one into great trouble."
I ,trust, Mr. Editor, that none of these, who in va
rious degrees deserve these rebukes, and need these
erlaintations, and for whose good, (not for the wri
ter's) they are chinacy.:lntended, will be displeased
with my, freedone II their tinkle of fife is, upon
the whole, best, they may put this aside, as not
coming home to himselvea but if they ought to do
any of the reforming here indicated, limy Must be
grateful for this appeal. It is meant for their true
good ; to put them in the way of more enjoyment,
and more usefulness, than their wonted habits allow.
Very truly yours and theirs, C. S. A.
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a wire trap and keep him till night. Then procure
preparation of phosphorus in oil. Apply it all oref
the rat, except his bead, and turn him loose into
his•hole. Such scampering and genie:o44W the
house-as occurs, as his phosphorescent majesty
pursues his alarmed then& whom he is anxious to
o*ertake,,airortl certainly a ft-runty agaiust the re
tum of the depredators for a long season. So says
the Washington.Pountain,
THE NEW Tirscr.—The present distance of the
new planet, expressed in common measures, is
abort 3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun,
and about 3,100,000,000 miles from the. earth. Its
distance from Uranus—;los° motion it disturbs--
is about 150,000,000 miles. Its diameter is about
50,000 miles. That oI Uranus is. about 32,00;0f
Jupiter, 85,000 ; of Saturn 79,000, date earth, 8,006:
Its cubic bulk is to tlatt,of the earth as 250 104,
The new planet is the largest in our system except
Jupiter audAtttru : ,.,
-tf
Goon ilifaxtmS.—Nertebe cast down or irritated
by triffes." If a Spider breaks his thiea4i, twenty
timps,,lie will mend it twenty titues, without the
least iniialtility or impatience. What a lemon of
reprooflo poorhumarenature.
C.menzan lathe tat a.mon , liayeth to the pubrie
for being eminent.
tre nl / 4 ,•,,,
'“ Not to myttelf alone.
The tittle opening Sower transported cries—
Net to myself alone 1 bpd and bloom
With fragrant breath the breezes f perfume;
And gladdest all things with my rainbow dyes;
The bee comes sipping, every eventide.
His dainty fill;
The butterfly with my cup doth hide
From .thceatening ill."
"Not to myseltalone,"
The circling star with honest pride doth boast—
s," Not to myself alone I rise and set;
I write upon night's coronet of itt
His-power and skillitrho formed oar myriad host
A friendly beacon at heaven's open gate,
gem the sky,
That man might neer forget, in every fate,'
His home on high."
Not . to myself alone,"
The heavy-laden bee cloth murmuring hum—
.
Not to myself alone from flower to flower
I rove the wook the gardetrand the bower
And, to the hive at evening weary come:
For man, for man, the luscious food I pile
With busy care,
Content if this repay my ceaseless toil=
A scanty share."
• " Not to myself alone."
The soaring bird with lusty pinions sings—
' Not to myself alone I raise-the song .
I cheer the dropping with my warbling tongue,
'And bear the mourner on my viewless wings:
I bid the hymnless churl my anthem learn,
And God adore;
I call the worlding from hi s dross to turn, .
And sing and soar.
The streamlet whispers on its pebbly way—
" Not to myself I sparkling glide;
I scatter life and health an every side,
And strew the fields with herb and flow'ret gay
I sing unto the common blank and bare,
• My gladsome tune ;
I sweeten and refresh the languid air
In droughty June."
•
"Not to myself alone"— •
Oh man, forget thou not; earth's honored prieit !
Its tongue, its soul, its life, its poise, its heart
In earth's great chorus to sustain thy part.
Chiefest of guest at love's ungruding feast.
Play not the niggard, spurn thy native clod,
And self disown; •
Live to thy neighbor, live unto thy Opd,
Not to thyself alone.
(From Iteadi 's ushintoTi and his Generals "I
Arnold - at Bemis' heights. •
Gates took Arnold's division away from him,- and
gave it to Gen. Lincon, so that when the . second
Wide of the 7th of October occured, he, the bra
vest, and most successful General in the army was
without a ernmnaniL This outrage was enough to
madden a less stormy nature thap his; and heina
mediately demanded a passport to Washington.—
It was granted ; but on
,a second thought be con
cluded it weal have an igly look to leave the ar
my on the eve of an important engagement, and,
resolved to remain. lie was in the camp when the
comminuting of the 7th of October commenced, and
listened', one may guess with what feelings, to the .
roar of battle, which teas ever music to:his,stormy,
nature. M the thunder of 'artillery shook the
ground on which be stood, followed by the sharp
rattle of musketry, his impatience and excitement
could be no longer restrained. He walked about
in thegreatest agitation—now pausing to listen to the
din of war, and now watching the fierceirascend
ing +returns of smoke - that told where the fight was
raging. Ah ! who can tell what gloomy : thoughts
and fierce purposes of revenge were then there
born in the maddened soul—it is terrible to drive,
the brevet° despair. The hero of Quebec, Cham
plain, and Ridgefield to whom the headtcfng charge
and perilous march were a 'defied, Who panted
like a war horse for the conflict, was here doomed
by an inefficient commander to remain inactive.
His brave followers were rushing on to death with
out him, and sudden resolves and overwhelming
emotions kept up such a tumult in his bosom, that
its exeittiment at length amounted almost to Mad
ECM
Unable longer to restrain his impulses, he called.
like the helpless Augereau for his horse. Vaulting
to the saddle, he rode for a while around the camp
in a tempest of passion. At length a heavy explo
sion of artillery, making the earth tremble beneath .
him, burst upon his ear He paused a moment
and leaned over his saddle-bow, then plunging his
rowels up to the gaffs in his horse, launched like a
thunderbolt away. He was mounted on a beauti
ful-dark Spanish mare, named Warren, after the
here of Bunker gill. Worthrof such a rider, and
whieh bore him like the windinto the battle.
It was told to Gates that Arnold had gone to the
field, and he immediately sent Colonel Amiturong
after him. But Arnold expecting th ) ls and deter
mining not to be called back as he a l been done
before, spurred furiously amid the ranks, and as
the former approached him, galloped into the val-
lies, and thus the chase kept upfin half an hour,'
until at length Armstrong ,galve it uto, and the fierce
chiejlain had it all his own way. Goaded by rage
and disappointment almost to insanity, he evident
ly was resolve,' to threw away his Weiland end at
once his troubles and his career. Wli re the shot ,
fell thickest, there that black steed was een plung
ing through the smoke, and where d h reaped
down the brave f.i.stest. there his shoal 'was heard
ringing over the din and tumult. He, was no 'con
ger the cool and skilful officer, but the headlong
warrior, reckless of life. His splendid horse wait
flecked with fimm, and it seemed impossible that
his rider could long survive amid the lire through
which he so wildly gaUeped. Some of the officers
thought him in:exit-wed, so furious and -vehement
were his movements, and thrilling his sheik as
with his strcml sweeping in - fiery circles o). out Ithi
head, le summoned his fellowersto the charge.—
Nee, wishing to go from one extremity of the line
to the other, instead of passing behind his troops,lie•
wheeled in hunt and galloped the whole Aistince
'thbough the cross-fire oh the combatants, while a
long- hurza, followed him. Holding the highest
tank ie. the field, his orders were obeyed, 'esompt
when too-desperate ter the 'bravest to fidfill—and
receiving no orders himself he conducted the whole
OEM
IMEIIIIIIEN3
Not to Myself Alone.
"Not to myself alone,"
4 - ,
WEISZ
lIMMEMIIES
=I
k;RP Nib freiixidir}i hnLr
■
k;arful daring info WOW slit,
and they charged after him, 5h9
So perfectly , beside himself*.
went. tlha-he dashed toan o
on his men as he wished', and
with hisjsweLl. lie was every . .
Dashed the ftrA line of the ea •
that it at length gave away. B.
his right wing to cover its retre
regiments with each terrible 1,
• i
that it also broke and fled:- N
leers were.making desperate • iii
..Of the field to stay.the reye = -
pressed cm after Burgoyne- 7 5t.. ,
ies,and clearing every obstacle,
ced him and his whole army •
Not satisfied with tine, he
camp also. But once behind 4 . entriptOments,
the British 'rallied and fought • •", , tbei foxy draft
strugling for life. The grape - 4 4 and balls swept
every inch•of the ground, and itiained an iron tem
pest on the American ranknbu lilting could re.
1
sist their fiery ardor. On, on they Swept in the,
track of their leader, carry • everything, before
them. The sun had now s in the West, and
night was drawing its mantle • -er the sce fi e, Ar-
field, enraged at the obstinacy of th e enemy, and
resolvd to 'Flake one more de pe e effort for a..
complete victory, rallied a few of bravest troops
about him, and Arising them by hiS nthasiastic arp-1
peals, led them to a last charre cau he camp itself.
" You," said he to one, " wals 11-' nse.a Que
bec, you in the wilderness, and yo on Champlain
Follow me 1' His sword was] se gl -i ncing like
a beam of light along the serried erraytthe next
moment he galloped in front, and 'riding right _ gal;
lantly at their head through e devourirg: die,
broke with a clatter and a c 'into the very sally
port of the enemy, where, he and rider stink to- .
gether to the earth—the good eed deaf), and Ar
nold beneath him, with his le•4 shattered to pieces,
the s a me leg that was broken) at the Storming oaf ,
Quebec.
Thus ended the fight, and the wounded hero
was borne pale and bleeding rm the field of his
fame, only to awaken to chagrin and disappoint
ment. There is but lade doult, that when he vi a l
hued his orders and lioped ,to the field, he ha
made up his mind to bitty his sorrows and
lidisap
pointment in a bloody gmye.: Would that he had
lumse f
succeeded, and saved • front the curses of
his countrymen and=the sco rn of the world !
: _,I
,
FARM" Boutin. —lt cannot by denied that early
rising is colducive both to the,health of the body
and the improvement of the. : It was an
4u.lob
servation of Swift ;That he n ver knew any man
come to.greaumAs and emine who lay in bed of
a morning."'
The great and good Dr. Dlirunt
that the prodUction of Family Exi
of his writing, was owing to 1 -
stead of seven o'clock in lb
ceeds . to compute, and cone
difference in the of using ma
years, would, reckoning gig
years of time for study to a_
precious amount ! ' Can the .
to his ;elf-indulgence I is. iti
will haiten to redeem so rol
think of eight lours a day fo
with books and devotion. :"
things might he do in gull L
hours redeemed from sleep
of God, make an iinpressien
affect the latest ages of time,
glory that. ill never fade a%
Wssixy, iu one of his se
ty years before he began to
seven, or after, and that he
ever since. Thus, on the p 'nuiple of reckoning
above alluded to, he redeen ed twenty two years
and ten months, which, dun g those sixty yi
and with hiE former habits, vould have been
and worse than lost to him. i
1 .
VALUE . OP A CITILVS T1M£1...-.11 is sometimes
that ' ( a child's time is notwrlrtli much some
say they send their childreuto school tit get
out* the way. But parent often find that
War p, some things very young,. Children' "le.
go Istray as soon as they art.; born, speaking, l
than is they learn to deceive, and utter falsehe
a very early period in. their childhood.-
their joy too they sometimes find. that when very
young children have the opportunity - afforded Them
they lay a broad foundation for such a supennruc
turn as Makes men hold up their heads and wonder.
The 111 other of Baron Cuvier, I remember to have
heard, would have, et son Irecite his Latin to her
every morning, before going scliaull, although
she dJI not understand a w rd -of it because she
had an iMpression That on The 'whole, spring) was
the time to cast in seed. • schoolmaster and his
teacher wondered how e. that the little Baron
always had' so good a k and. France has still
wonder how Cuvier canto be so _rent a man :the
secret .was, he was salt lion his motherts lap:
FISH-KATING FtijAl... s will occasionally
prey on fish. A ilietia _.ac ouce• saw a - riiilo ::
take a fish out of the pim..e . of water in Kensington
Gardens, and devour it on he hank. H o told me
he had seen jackdaws dot
Thames. Mr. Ultima 1
don crow also devotes fist s
pursuit of which it wades 1
rivers and brooks that lion
gravel ; ',link; the obje
bill, and conveying it to till
at leisure."
T gik , 'Tarta colonists in Rtlfiga are
said to makd great use of ea t which is made .into
cakes composed .of the co rkter parts of Aho- fragrant
herb. Of this they make kindorsoup: adding to
it salt, pepper and milk. • orty thousand chests of
this brick ten, as it is calls , ardimpOrted yearly in
to Russia from' China, be des immense
of the superior kinds of te,
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t into the freer's,
he wilik,exeile-
who-did not lead
opened inainad
ere piano!, and
yo vigorously,
offrile. moving uP
, he hurled three
petnosity upon , it,
e the ,Brities offi
-other- ~ Sms
yule. Of Ingle, ha
aver batter
. leigt.
theit camp.
e,atann the
informs• us
. -itoi, and most
ing at five, in.
m. ruing, and pro
11.y 00, that such a
P . nta'.ed during foriy
ho ' a day, add ten
a rs
,'s ife. Great .and
.re her sacrifice all
'posslble but that he
,y i years. Let him
ten ifong years spent
ow many) excellent •
.6. 1 In those *cry
e may, by the grace •
on the woad that will -- - - t
and ;gather forliiinself
,ay.
on; tolls us that - 10-
8e at four, instead , of
ad continued to do so
;the same , thing on the
as otwrviAl that the ear
•
-6 partivularly eele, iit
i nto the s h a llow water of
nvor beils of stone and
of its search with the
tend, whore it is eaten
ass,
ost,
said
ran
em
they
,rn to
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at