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" Why do you damp the flowing mind ?
Why chill the ardent bosom?
When 1 fond hearts together bind,
'Tis your attempt to loose them.
When /the cheek with roses strew,
The lip with nectar sprinkle,
You dry the lip, contract the brow,
And give the cheek a wrinkle.
When /give life its sweetest charm,
And wake its keenest relish,
You fill the bosom with alarm,
And mar what 1 embellish."
" Peace," answer'd Care, “ your taunts fore
st
forth frowns at your perversion,
For every lasting joy you know,
Depends on my exertion.
When fortune smiles you give delight,
Ton teach the heart to languish,
But when distress and want unite,
You but increase the anguish.
While /extend my guardian powers
To hearts by you united,
But for my aid your wreaths of flowers
By frosts would soon be blighted.
Cease tlien, and we'll our efforts join, _
To increase and guard life's treasure,
The task to shield from ills be mine,
Be yours to heighten pleasure.
Miscellany.
From the Concord, N. H. Gazette.
DICTATING JUNTO!
The ascendency which certain influ
ential characters have obtained in our
democratic Councils, has of late, been
abundantly manifested in several instan
ces. A majority of these gentlemen
reside in the County of Rockingham,
and Judge E. still continues to be their
Chairman by hereditary right. Scarce
ly one appointment is made by either
' branch of the Legislature which is not
•dictated by them! Before a person
has any loaves and fishes bestowed on
him, the enquiry is not, whether he is
faithful or capable, but whether he
*as been an active partisan. In one
attempt however they have been sadly
disappointed, which was in the election
of Mr. Gilman on Wednesday last ;
some of the dictators appear to be in
exorable at his election; they openly
aver that they should have prefered
any federalist in the State to Mr. Gil
man! We are happy to observe, that
there are several democratic members
who have acted with much firmness
and independence, since the Legisla
ture has been in session. This has been
manifested not only in the ballots given
for Mr. Parker and Mr.,Gilman, but
in their uniting with the federalists, to
check the spirit of innovation, and to
oppose the adoption of those unpre
cedented laws, which have been so fre
quently introduced by some of the
dominant party.
Gay Love one morning, breathing sweets
With flowers and Myrtle's flaunting,
Encountering Care in Hymen's streets,
Thus spake in accents taunting.
Calculated for the next Political
Dictionary aspracticed by the Em
peror Napoleon.¥
It is one leading feature in the polk
cy of the emperor Napoleon, to sup
port his imperial and royal family by
levying contributions on his vassal
states —Accordingly—
Italy, supplies him with statuary
paintings, concubines and other cu
riosities.
Naples, with chocolate and ginger,
bread.
Holland, with gin toddy, men and
maids.
Spain, with precious metals, dia
monds. &c. &c.
Portugal, with wine and potatoes.
Russia, with hemp, horse-pistols
and ladies' hair.
Poland, .with ice, poultry and pep.
per-pot.
Turkey, with carpets and cannon
shot.
Wertemburg with play-things and
nonsense:
Austria, with a wife and grannies—
and though last not least.
America, with thirty millions oj
dollars to defray the expence of the
it rt% N T R i BU To R .
From a London paper May 19, 1810.
MUNGO PARK.
We have the satisfaction to com
municate the very piecing i,elli
^ of the ^ o ;, b ,^
CTtaOTtffi^ deplored for
The event was considered
^^, that a pension sot.
Aim Park bv the House of Commons,
to consideration of her husband's put.
FROM THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY.
CARE AND LOVE.
POETRY.
-—bs„§e—
finance,
THE ART OF
From the Tickler.
lie services, in a former session of par
liament.—This Gentleman, as our rea
ders will recollect, has been long and
usefully engaged in exploring the inte
rior of Africa, and a sanguine hope
may be now entertained that his coun
try will have the benefit of his labori
ous and hazardous researches. The
whole of the suite attached to the en
terprize, above fifty in number, with
the exception of three, are said to have
perished. The intelligence to which
we allude, and which we hope soon to
find fully confirmed, has been received
by the ship Favorite, of London, capt.
Truman, arrived at Plymouth, from
Goree. Previous to the departure of
that vessel, information had been re
ceived at Senegal by a native of the
Mandingo country, who accompanied
Mr. Park, as far into the interior as
Sego and Sansanding, that he was alive
in the month of January. Col. Max
well, the Governor of Senegal, had,
in consequence of this information,
directed that a decked boat should im
mediately be fitted out to proceed up
the river Senegal, for the purpose of
giving assistance to Mr. Park in his
indefatigable exertions in exploring the
continent of Africa. This account is
further corroborated by aletter dated
in March last, received by a vessel from
Sierra Leone, from Dr. Douglas, who
writes as follows: —
“ Permit me to lay beforeyou some
information respecting Mungo Park,
which Iwas favored with from an in
telligent Mahomedan, whom I met at
Goree, and who had acted as a guide
to Mr. Park, from the time of his
landing on the continent of Africa, to
his embarkation on the Niger. He
states that the king of Sego had shown
much favour to Mr. Park, and that
the report of his assassination there
was untrue. He had passed far along
the Niger, without any molestation
whatever, from the natives. My in
formant could not recollect the date
of his embarkation on the Niger, but
thinks it must be about three years ago.
Mr. Park, had taken four month's pro
visions for himself and two followers,
\with whom he intended to proceed to
the eastward, and onwards as far as
the Red Sea. Some travellers who had
fallen in with his guide, informed him,
that about two or three months sub
sequent to Mr. Park's embarkation,
he had been severely scorched in his
breast by the bursting of a gun while
firing at some birds, but that he passed
Tombuctoo, in the night by water."
Danville, Vt. June 16.
WONDERFUL CASUALTY.
On the 6th instant, the day after the
annual training, a number of the in
habitants of Glover, Barton and Shef
field, collected for the purpose of dig
ging a small drain at the north-east
end of a Pohd, which is three miles
long, and in some places about a mile
wide, situated principally in Glover,
but part in Greensborough, with an
intent to obtain a larger supply of wa.
ter for a Mr. Wilson's mill in Glover,
which was scantily supplied by a stream
issuing from a small pond a short dis
tance north of the one above mention
ed. It appears that the outlet of the
pond took a southerly direction and
formed a considerable branch of the
river La Moile, and lay something in
the form of a belfows, with the widest
part north~—and that the outlet of the
small pond takes an opposite direction
into Barton river to lake Mewphra-
magog.
The adventurers began digging at the
broad end of the pond, calculating to
to cut only a small channel, to convey
the water into the. small pond first,
which would naturally take its course
to the mill three or four miles distant,
in a northerly direction. They dug a
ditch about 6 rods long, 4 feet deep
and 6 feet wide, at one end of which
was a rapid decent from 60 to 100 feet,
and a more gradual but considerable
declivity from thence to Barton river.
The water began to issue, and it was
found that this slender bank, which
had resisted the waves for many cen
turies, was nothing more than a bed
of quick-sand, except about four feet
at the margin of the pond which was
composed of gravel and earth exceed
ingly hard. Immediately on the wa
ter's making its way in a small stream
over the extremity of the bank, the
earth and sand broke off, and in a few
moments had gulled a hole near 60 feet
deep and of considerable width, and
this continued until the gulph ex
tended within a few feet of the mar
gin of the pond-—when the mass
of water in the pond, beginning to feel
the force of this new outlet made a
desperate effort, and at one sweep drove
near half an acre of the opposing bank,
with all its timber standing on it, with
a tremenduous crash, over the preci
pice to the north, and in a few mo
ments cut for itself a channel from 10
to 15 rods wide and near 150 feet deep
to the head of the pond, and the whole
mass of water rushed at once down
the descent towards Barton river.
On its reaching the small pond its force
was so great that it dashed in an in
stant the whole of its waters fromits
place,and pursuing thecourseof theout
let of that pond, in afew seconds reach
ed Wilson's mill which it demolished
in an instant, taking in its wholecourse
from the pond the earth, timber, &c.
10 or 12 rods in width and near 20
feet deep, a distance of 6 or 8 miles in
length—carried off all the bridges the
whole extent of Barton river, and cov
ered thousands of acres of land from 4
to 16 feet deep with loom, sand and
timber—totally destroying all the
crops, intervales, &c.
Happily nd human lives were lost:
nor any live property, except a valu
able horse which was hitched near
Wilson's mills, and a few sheep.—
Such unacouutable havoc, perhaps
never was made in &> short a time, and
for such a distance, by an event so sin
gular. The damage is estimated by
some at 20, some at 40 and some 60,
000 dollars.
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