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VOL. X.--N O. 11.1
A DVEUTISEMENTS
STRIPA
GEORGE W. IVI'CLF.LLAN,
Returns his sincere thanks to his
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'inn on the 'returns with the present and
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March 19, 1839. to-51
F
To the Voters of Adams County
TELLOW CITIZENS
Through the encouragement of
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Mouutjoy township,.
April 23, 1839.
8.1113 RIFEaI T
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Franklin township,
March 19, 1839.
la the V otex s oY Slaams
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C ountl .
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—.With sweetest flowers enrich'd ,
From various gardens cull'd with care."
lE=CI7I
FAREWELL.
0 ! where 'mongat human tongues can there be found
A more depressing melancholy sound;
What can the throbing heart such anguish bring,
Or what the parting soul more deathlike sting,
Than when that solemn and reluctant groan,
Speaks in a doleful and impressing tone
The parting word, Farewell? perhaps no morn
That voice to hear en times eventful shore.
This passing mournful world its sorrows brings ;
And oft the bard its rapid changes sings.
Man's born, but like the glim'ring due of morn,
Shines but a fleeting moment, to adorn
Th ese earthly plains ; then called with pain to tell
His yet surviving friends a long farewell I
Yes, oft is mortal man compelled to part
With pleasures, scenes and friends, dear to the heart
Friendships of time, tho' formed with closest ties,
Cause many anxious tears and groans and sighs,
E'en oft.when called in distant climes to dwell,
We weep to bid'onr parting friends farewell.
But Oh ! when death, dread terror's king appears,
What anguish rends the heart The limpid tears
Indicative, of, grief and woe, now seek
Theii wonted course along the palid check,
Sec that fond ••nit:other, whose parental care
Was ever'ready to protect, and there,
Weeping O'er her pale infant's lifeless form,
Which scarcely yet had felt life's pelting storm.
No consolation can her grief impel.;
But all ! she sighs, and bids a last farewell
To her departed ono, and all earth's joys.
0 ! panic thought, this all my:hope destroys !
See that dejected youth,Who now appears
Frantic with grief, and:almost drowned with tears,
Sobbing around his parents lifeless form,
0 ! what am I, cries he, poor dying worm !
Farewell ! thou parent of my'infant days ;
Farewell I to all my earthly sports and plays.
No more will wonted mirth and sporting toys,
Around and o'er me blend their transient joys.
But when these streams of sorrow all unite,
And all the tender wife's fair prospects blight ;
Yes, she in whom the lover sheds a tear,
The wife laments, the mother too must bear
The afflicting hand ; yes, when her nearest friend
A lifelesscorpse,where now resort; on whom depend?
In deep distress her trembling lips must tell
Those once so bright, now lived cheeks, farewell
More anguish still this doleful sound will bring
To him just struggling with death's awful sting.
To leave his helpless orphans fatherless,
And dearest friends, awakens deep distress.
Yet if prepared with God in heaven to reign,
"For him to live is Christ, to die is gain,"
Farewell deur friends, adieu to earth, he cries,
I leave you all, to mount the lofty skies,
Amidst a world of cares he leaves behind
All earthly things, and seeks in heaven to find •
A rest where partit.g groans and sighs are o'er, ~
A home where friends and foes shall blend no more,
More awful yet must be that parting sigh,
Heaved from a wicked soul, when called to die—
To meet his awful and eternal doom,
And bid a last adieu to friends and home,
Ah ! undone soul I where now the joys of earth
Where now the comfort of thy parted mirth ?
'Tin gone ! and thou its faithful votary,
Art lost, yea lost through all eternity!
Now through the caverns of perdition swell
The awful mines, farewell, all hopes farewell!
Ah ! melancholy soul ! Now he surveys
Departed scenes, and friends and by-gone days.
And waiting his impending doom he sighs,
With mournful strains, his last adieu, and
MAY 1, 1839.. S. W. N.
VELIEB MESEPOOMY.,(bEaVo
rorn the Now York Mirror
General Harrison's Letter on
Duelling.
NOIiTII BEND, 7th of April, 1838.
DEAR Stn,--Y3u ask my opinion "of the
code of honor which decides controversies
by a resort to the duel." 1 comply with
your request, and would do so more readily,
if I could suppose that any thing that I
could say would have an influence in putting
an end to a practice which is the ceuso of
so much individual distress, and violate so
many obligations of the most sacred char
acter.
The arguments which may he used
against duelling are so obvious, and , have
been so often urged by persons much more
able to do thetn justice than! nm,that . l shall
content myself with,giving you what may
ho termed my experience in matters of this
kind. And as this certainly dues not ex
hibit the practice in a very fascinating light,
it inn pedlar; have a better etli!ct than any
other mode of treating the subject• that 1
could adopt.
1 believe there were .more duds in the
pr - • E I . e LESS PREE...-C4
ROBERT 8. P4XTO.I - , EDITOR :EVE, PROPRIETOR.
oz- dt euilyamt t p 2 a c o € , tevzoxaii.a . & 34 3 0e2 J. 1 19 ZUNJOce
North Western army, between the years
1791 end 1795, inclusive, than ever took
place in the same length of time, and
amongst su small a body of men as com
posed the commissioned officers of the
army, either in America or any other coaa
try, tit least in modern times. I became
un officer in the first mentioned year, at so
early an age, that it is not wonderful that
I implicity adopted the opinions of the
older officers, most of whom were veterans
of the Revolution, upon this as well as upon
other subjects connected with my conduct
and duty in the professions I had chosen.
1 believed therefore, in common with the
largest portion of the officers, that no brave
man would decline a challenge, nor refrain
from giving one, whenever he con.sidered
that his rights or feelings had been trespas
sed upon., I must confess, too, that I was
not altogether free from the opinion, that
oven honor might be acquired by a well
fought duel —Fortunately, however, before
I was engaged in a duel, either as princi
pal or second, which terminated fatally to
any one, I became convinced that all my
opinions on the subject were founded in
error, and none of them more so than that
which depicted the situation of the success.
tut duelliest, as either honorable or desirable.
It could not be honorable, because the
greater portion of that class of mankind
whose good opinion of an individual confers
honor upon him, wore opposed to it.. And
I had the best evidence to believe that, in
the grave of the fallen &wiliest, was fre
quently buried the peace and happiness of
the survivor ; the act which deprived the
one of existence, planting a thorn in the
bosom of the other, which would continue
to rankle and fester there to the end of his
days. The conviction that such was the
case with men of good feelings and prin
ciples, was produced by my witnessing the
mental sufferings of an intimate and valued
friend, by whose hand a worthy roan had
fiillen. Several years had elapsed from the
date of this affair, before 1 b same acquain
ted with him. We were soon after asso
ciated in the general staff of the army, and
for the greater part of two years, we shred
the same tent or barrack room, and often
the same pallet. I had therefore an op
portunity of .seeing the agony he often felt,
when his mind recurred to the event which
had deprived society of a worthy member,
and himself of an esteemed and cherished
acquaintance. Like the unhappy hermit
in the tragedy of Douglass, he appeared in
his sleep, to "hold diotogues" with the
ghost of the victim of his supperior skill
the use of arms, or 111010 perfect self -1 ass
session ; and a witness to them might have
adopted the opinion of the youthfut Norval,
that the happier lot was his who had fallen.
Taking tholules which govern such mat- ,
ters, as the criterion, my friend had nothing
wherewith to accuse himself. The quarrel
was indeed "fastened on him." Generous
as brave, he had done every thing in his
power to induce a withdrawal of the chal
lenge, and when, by a first fire, his adver
sary was wounded, he anxiossly desired
that the affair might there terminate. His
proposition rejected, his second shot was
fatal. What an instructive lesson does this
story present to him who would resort to
this mode of settling a personal' difficulty ;
and who possessescommon sensibility, and
the principles of humanity and honor.
The sad alternatives, his own death or a
subsequent hie of bitter regret and sorrow.
A short experience in the army convinced
me, also, that fighting a duel was not an
undoubted test of true courage. I had
known instances of duels, and desperate
duck, being fought by awn who would not
have been selected by the officers who
knew them, to lead a forlorn hope. Oa the
contrary, I possessed the most positive tes
timony to prove, that some of the bravest
of men would not be engaged in an af
fair of that kind under any circum.stan-
Comformably to my plan, as stated in the
commencement of my letter, to give you
facts rather than arguments, I present you
with another reminiscence of my early
military life. I introduce it only to sustain
my position, but for the respect I entertain
for the memory of a gallant brother officer,
long since called to receive, in another
world, his reward for having preferred 'the
praise of God to the praise of men. In
the summer of the year 1793, Lieut. Dra
ke, of the infantry of the 2d sub legion, re
ceived a marked insult from another pincer.
Manifesting no disposition to call bim to
account, some of those who wished him well.,
amongst whom I was one, spoke to him on
the subject, expressing our fears that his
reputation as an officer would gratly suf
fer, if he permitted such an insult to pass
unnoticed. The answer he gave me was,
that ho cared not what opinion the officers
might form of him ; he was determined to
pursue his own' course. That course was;
so novel in the army, that it lost him, as I
had supposed it would, the respect of near
ly
all the officers. The ensuing summer,!
however, gave Mr. Drake au opportunity
of vindicating roost triumphantly, his con-I
duct and principles. He had been stationed
in a small foitress which had been erected t:
by Gen. Wayne, during the winter, upon 1 . .
the spot which had been rendered remark-E
able by the defeat of Gen St. Clair's ari
my, three years before. The garrison con
sided of a single rifle company, and thirty .
infantry, and of the latter Drake was the .
immediate commander . In the beginning r
of July, 1794 a detachment of the army,t,
consisting of several hundred men, underi
the command of Major McMahen, being
encamped near the fort, in which they hail
the previous day deposited a quantity if.
provisier, , ..,'..it. :ii:...y i. ~' --,: , -rt, J from
I simile, -
C ealo":0,1
were attacked early in the morning, by up.
wards of three thousand Indians. The
troops made a gallant resistance ; but being
turned on both flanks, and in danger of
beingsurrounded, they retreated to the open
ffround around the fort. From this, too,
they were soon dislodged by the overpow
ering, force of the enemy : in the retreat
many wounded men were in danger of
being left, which neing observed from the
fort, the commandant:Capt. Gibson, direc
ted his own Lieutenant to take the infantry
(Drake's panic fir command) and a portion
of the riflemen,and sally out to their relief.
To this Drake objected, and claimed the
nght to command his own men, and, as
senior to tho other Lieutenant, his right also
to the whole command. "0, very well,
sir." said the captain, "if such is your wish I
take it." "It is my wish to do my duty,
and I will caideaver to du it, now and at all
gums," was the modest reply of Drake. ,
Ho accordingly sallied out ; skilfully inter
posed his detachment between the retreat
in., troops and the enemy ; opened upon
them r ' a hot fire ; arrested their advance,
and gave an opportunity to the Wounded
to effect their escape,and to the broken and
retreating companies of our troops,to reform
and again to face the enemy. Troughout
the whole affair, Drake's activity, skill, and
extraordinary self-possession, were most
conspicuous. The enemy of course obser
ved it, as well as his friends. The nume
rous trots directed at him, however, like
the arrows of Teucer, aimed at the heart of
Hector were turned aside by Providencial
interference, until he had accomplished all
that he had been sent to perform. He then
received a ball through his body and fell ;
a faithfulcorporal came to his assistance,
and with his aid he reached the fort ; and
those too were the last of the retreating
party that entered it, Drake making it a
point of honor that- it should be so. Mr.
Drake was rendered unfit for duty, for a
long time, by his wound. He had not in
deed, recovered from it in tho summer of
1796, when he was my guest, when in com
mand at Fort Washington, (Cincinnati) on
his way, on furlough , to visit his native
state C onnecticut. His friends, however,
enjoyed his presence but a short time ;
having, as I understood, taken the yellow
fever in passing through Philadelphia, he
died in a few days alter lie reached his
home.
1 have yet another reminiscence, the
relation of which may serve the cause you
have so much at heart.
An Officer of them my had so often and
tro untiecesnly wounded the feelings of
another of the same corps, the duties of
winch made their association indispensible,
that ho considered himself bound to demand
satisfaction in the usual way. I'hey met
and the injured man fell, receiving a mor
tal wound, as it was anticipated ho would,
from the superior skill of his antagonist in
the use of the weapons which they used.
Being possessad of a high grade of talents
and an amiable character, he had d h o um
paths of all the officers. With others I
visited him, after he had been removed to
his quarters. He expressed a desire to soo
the officer with whom he had fought, and I
sras present at ;the: interview. 1 wish
could decribs, as it merits, this interesting
scene. The circumstances attending it,
orere so deeply impressed upon my mind that
they can newer be effaced,as long as memory
holds its seat.
In the tent, were some half dozen offi
cers, the friends of the dying man, (for as I
have said, ho had, from his amiable quali
, ties, many and warm ones,) exhibiting une
quivocal evidences of this sorrow. Con
spicuous above the rest, and near the head
of the rude couch, was the manly form o
the Commandant of the Corps, to which
both theduelliest belonged, (the beau ideal
of chivalrous valor and the chevalier do
Bayard of the army,) endeavoring to stifle
as best he could, the feelings with agitated
his bosom. At a little distance, and in
full view of the victim of his passions, sat
the but I must re
strain the indignation which I still feel
He was my brother officer ; wo shared
together the perils of a difficult war ; and,
iii4tattle, I know that he did his duty, and,
whatever might have been his conduct to
others, I never had personally any reason
to complain of him. But there he eat, ap
parently, at least, unaffected by the mis
chief he had done, by burying, in an un
timely grave, a man who had never injured
• him, whose arm might be needed in the
pending decisive battle with the hitherto
triumphant enemies of his country, and
whose intellect might at some future time
have been usefully employed in its coun•
cgs- The severe bodily pain which the
dying officer had for some time suffered,
had ceasedl ; and that calm and ease had
, succeeded, which is the unequivocal har
binger of approaching death, and which a
Gracious Providence had provided for the
mortally wounded soldier, to enable him to
offer a last prayer for his distant family, if
he had ime, or for the pardon of his own
sins. Turning his intelligent eye upon his
late antagouis . t, he mildly said that "he had
desired to see him, for the purpose of assu
ring him of his sincere forgiveness ; that
he wished him happiness in this world ;
and that as the means of securing it, lie
recommended to him, with the sincerity of
a dying man, to endeaver to restrain the
viorence of his passions, the indulgence of
which had deprived one of life, who had
never injured him, in thought or deed."
I am satisfied (hot what I have said
above, does not entirely meet your enquiry,
and that you will expect me to slate what
etnct the scenes described, had in form
ing my own principles, and governing my
own rim/loci. I ltnve already slnted an t
entire change in Env sentiments on the
I subject of duelling, from those which I en•
tertained upon my first entering the army ;
and for which no excuso can be offered, but
my extreme youth, and the bad examples
continually before me. In almost every
other case, possessed of the deliberate
opinions of a man, you might safely con
clude that his conduct would be in confor
mity to them. But such, is not the case
with men of the world, in relation to the
laws which form "the code of honor."
Abstractedly considered they all condemn
them, whilst in pratico they adopt them.
In all other cases, independent men act
from their own convictions, but,in this case,
upon the opinions of others. I acknowledge,
then, that the change of my opinions,
which I have admitted io relation to duel
ling, had no other influence on my conduct
than to determine me never to be the agree.
sor. But, although resolved to offer no in
sult nor inflict any injury, I wasdetermined
to suffer none. When I left the army,
however, and retired to civil life, I consider
ed myself authorised greatly to narrow the
ground upon which I would be willing to
resort to a personal combat. To the de
termination which 1 had previously made,
to offer no insult nor inflict any injury Ito
give occasion to any one to call upon me in
this way, (for after witnessing the scene
which I have last described, the wealth
and honors of the world would not have
tempted me level a pistol at the breast of a
man whom 1 had injured,) I resolved to
disregard all remarks "upon my conduct
which could not be construed into a delibe
rate insult, or any injury which did not
affect my reputation or the happiness and
peace of my family. When I had the
honor to be called upon to command the
North Western Army, recollecting the
number of gallant men that had fallen in
the former war, in personal combat, I de
termined to use all the influence of my
station to prevent their recurrence. And,
to take away the princiPal source from
which they spring, in an address to the
Pennsylvania brigade, at Sandusky, I de
clared it to be my determination to prevent
by all the means that the military laws
placed in my hands, any injury, or even in- '
suit which should be offered, by the superior
to the inferior officers. I cannot say what
influence this course, upon my part, may
have produced in the result. But I state
with pleasure, that there was not a single
duel, nor, as far as I know, a challenge
given, whilst I retained„-the command.
The activity in which the army was con
stantly kept, may, however, have been
the principal cause of this uncommon har
mony.
in relation to my present sentiments, a
sense of higher obligation than human
laws, or human opinions can impose, has
dbtertnined his never, on any occasion, to
accept a challenge or seek redress for a
personal injury, by a resort to the laws
which compose the code of honor.
1 am, very respectfully,
Your fellow citizen.
W. H. HARRISON.
To AARON B. Howes, Esq.
.1 'Matrimonial Squabble.
(Scene—The Country, two neighboring
farmers in conversation.)
'Lank Swipes, what d'yo think's happen.
ed 7'
•Well, don't know'
'Why, my wife hung herself high and
dry on our big apple tree in the orchard ?'
'You don't say so ; I wish my apple trees
would bear such fruit I'
'Oh, you good - for - nothing villain I' .
shrieked a female voice from the other side
of a neighboring hedge, and in leas than no
timo, Mr. Swipes found himself collared by
his good lady ; 'You wish Vd hang myself,
do you 1'
'Oh. no, dear Lizzy ; I —I---I don't wish
any such thing '
'You did, though, you villain—l heard
you.'
did'nt mean it ; if yo'd hang yourself,
I'd but you down.'—Wife relaxes her hold,
upon which Swipes immediately runs off,'
and in running cries—'l'd be sure you
wore dead first, though I'
'Good mind to pinch you, Sal,' said an
awkward Josey, on his first visit to his first
rustic flame.
'What you 'ant to pinch me for Zokiel ?'
'Golly, cause I love you so ?'
'Now go 'long, Zoke, you great hateful 1
I should thinkyou might be big enough to be
ridiculous l'—Manhattan dide.
BARRINGTON, TUB PICKPOCKET.--At
one of tho meetings in St. Martin's church,
for tho benefit of the Llicester infirmary, I
noticed a tall, handsome man, in 'n scarlet
coat, with a gold button hole in a black col
lar, the fashion of the day, moving with a
gentlemanlike air. This person proved to
be the notorious Barrington, the pickpock•
et. In going up to the middle aisle, he was
invited into the mayor's paw, and sat be.
twoen Miss St. John and Mr. Ashby, of
Queenby, our late member of parl • ,ameat,
One of the plates wee held at '.:ne door by
this lady and gentleman, and when Mr.
Barrington laid his gn.:nea limn the plate,
he was kindly thant:ed by his new acquain•
tance and pass,; ( l on w ith a graceful bow.
The gentry who held the plates retired into
the veP,lry, to add their contributions, and
when Mr. Ashby would have placed his ten
guineas on the plate, to his utter astonish.
meat, they had flown from his pocket.—
Afler considerable amazement, the myste
ry was explained by one of the company's
remarking that Miss St. John's pocket was,
turned inside out . ; and that the elegant gen
tleman who sat between them had helped
[WHOLE; NO: 479.
himself to the subscription ho had put on
the plate, and something beside. It is said
that Barrington facilinted his operations by
instruments, which he had made for the
purpose I recollect a circumstance of this
kind. He waited upon a surgical instru
ment maker, and ordered a pair of scis-ors
of a curious form ; a,lew
. days after%veri;s,
he called for them, and paid two guineas,
which the maker charged. Mier ho left
the'shop, the cutler's wife said—
'My dear, as the 'gentleman seemed iv,
pleased with the scissors, I wish we hal
asked him what use they were for; he might
recommend us; do rim alter him !"I'liO cut
ler scampered out of the shop, and over
taking the gentleman, hoped he would ex•
cuso him, but would tell him what use be
intended to make of the scissors? 'Why,
my friend,' said Barrington, don't know
whether I can toll you—it is a great secret.'
'O, pray du sir—it may be something in
our way.' Upon which Barrington, pres•
sod hard upon his pockets I' In the utmost
consternation, the scissors maker me back,
and the moment he got into the shop, 'My
dear,' he cried, 'will you, believe - it?-they
are for tho picking of pockets 1' 'Yeit, my
dear,' cries the wife, 'but what is the 'Mat
ter with!your clothes?' The cutler looked
and presently discovered that the scissors
had extracted the two guineas he had just
received for them—Boston Atlas.
LUDICROUS INCIDENT IN A Cannon.—
On Sabbath evening week, a clergyman
from the South, who is remarkable for the
simplicity and unceremoniousness of his
manners, wee officiating for a minister in
this city, when, after announcing the num
ber and verse of the first psalm, he discov
ered that he could not proceed further with
out the aid of his spectacles, and stretching
himself over the pulpit to the minister or th;
place, who was setting in the baptism room
below, he exclatmed, in a sufficiently audi•
ble voice, "I say Mr.—, did you see
my glassed", The person thus riddressed,
without uttering a word, stepped up the pul
pit stairs, and removed the 'glasses' from
the worthy man's wig, to which they had
been unconsciously exalted, and placed them
npon his venerable nose !—Edinbnrgh pa
per. .
A Missiarippi Jury, einpanneled some
whore "up south" last spring, is described
by an eye witness as being engnged in
sticking pins in each other to. keep awake,
and betting liquor on who could spit tobac
co juice the farthest against .a newly plast
ered and neatly whitewashed wall, togeth
er with various other amusements, alike ra
tional, beautiful and dignified.
He who is passionate and hasty is gener
ally honest; it. is your cool, dissembling,
smiling hypocrite, of whom you should be.
ware. Thom's our sentiments.
Tom, . tell me tho greatest ho, now, you
ever told in your life, and VII give you a
glass of cider. "Me, 1 never told a lie."
Boy, dmw the cider. .. •
Grasshoppers are happy fellows--they\
have dumb wives. It is the malo insect
that sings.
Paul, being a Roman citizen, was be•
hoaded just outside the walla of the eternal
city ; and Peter, who was a pleb►an, and
could not claim the distinction of the axe
and the block, was executed on the cross,
with his head downwards to increase the
pain and the indignity.
PUDLIO DocumEmrs.—George II was
once silly enough—for even kings are silly
—to demand to be shown all the documents
connected with a case that had been laid
before him. The next morning he had the
satisfaction of seeing beneath the royal
windows three wagons filled with the pa
pers which ho had demanded, the said pa
pers being 'wetly labelled and tied up with
red tape, and in perfect readiness for his
majesty's perusal.
CONSIDERATIN—Pat Hogan, once riding
to market with a sack of potatoes before
him, discovered that the horse was gettmg
tired, whereupon ho dismounted, put the.
potatoes on his shoulders, and again mount-.
ed, saying “it was better he should carry
the praties, as he was fresher than the
poor baste."
APOTIMIEO3II3 OF THE ANCIENTE.-ill
answer to the question, 'Which is the most
perfect popular government 7' Bias said, .
'That, where the laws have no superior.'
Thales said. 'That, where the inhabitants:
are neither too rich not too poor.' Aria,
charsis, the Scythian, said, 'That, where
virtue is honored and vice • detested.'--
Pictacus said, 'That where dignitios are
always conferred upon the virtuous unit
never upon the base.' • Cleobulus said,
'That where the laws are more regarded
than, the orators.' But Solon said, "Eliot
whore en injury done to the meanest
subject is an insult upon the whole coustt
tution.
Buz I—The following are the latest facts
we have seen recorded by the-English pen•
ny-a liners: • •
There was sold lately, at an auction in
London, the wig worn by Queen Elizabeth
—the same that she, threw at the head •of,
Lord Essex. Iler mast gracious lattle.llla
josty Victoria, who, by the way, inherits.
goodly portion of Betsy's spirit, gayer .500/
for it. At the same auction, John Listen,
the celebrated comedian, gave seventy gyins:
ass for an apple, preserved in spiritis—thzi
identical pippin, which falling led Ste hatte t
Newton to dignover the laws of grikvity,