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WHEELING REPOSITORY.
(Vol. I.) Thursday, 3d December, 1807. (No. 3c
M ISC ELL A Ar 21
Mo RNING.
Through her dappled cloudy shade,
l*e ping with her velvet eye,
Ch sic Aurora wakes the Morn,
Scull’ring roses through the sky.
in a gold-embroider.-d robe,
Morn resumes her orient pride,
Hastes to met. the brxdcgio >m Sun,
Blushing like a virgin bride.
Now she treads the azure skv,
Waves aloft her purple wand ;
Health sits smiling on her brow,
Pouring- plenty o’er the land.
Through his gorgeous palace gates,
Seat 1 in a sapphire wain,
Sol, the great Sultan of the East,
Conies v ith 1 riumph in his train.
^ i'lging deep the glossv main,
liiiglu with her effulgent rnv;
JY>w tin M mai « h of th. Stream
Darts upon hi:; destin’d prey.
Arching neck of snmvv white,
Swelling in he r plumy pride,
See the silv r-c rested swan
Swift the wal’ry suriacc glide.
Paddling in the puddled pool,
Calling round her cryhnv brood,
Sec the gaudy-chequer’d rluck
Karly sicks her sli.nv food.
Cackling o’er the blooming wild,
G tabling geese together stray;
Fowls in iriendlv concert feed,
Driving dove-cot iocs away.
Man! the Morn of Lif is sliort ;
^ astc n >t, di n, its fleeting hours)
W ■ ke ! at \ it ee’s arlv call* ■
House up all thy sleeping powers /
With the early dawn arise,
Meet tlu Sun of IlravYly Love;
^ ' ’ist he shds his genial warmth,
On secure the j • vs above !
A GOO I , LAN.
x 'l.tfh'r'B ' uc’o, • r akr their rafh hoi ! out,
t*. a —Ouu *n.«u it tu^lil duuttit
Anecdote* ■
A young gentleman of good morals I
was unwarily drawn into a gaming
house, where he was so lucky as to win
all the cash the gamesters had. Upon
leaving the place, he was beset at the
door by a number of beggars, who gene
rally attended to ask alms of the fortu
nate gamesters. He directed them to a
neighbouring tavern, where he feasted
them, and sent for such people as kept
ready made clothes, and clad thenx all
completely, and gave each a sum of mo
ney, according as he thought their ne
cessity required. OnhisarriVal athome,
his father, who had been very uneasy at
his long absence, inquired where he had
been, and what doing P fie said, I have
been fulfilling the scripture : The naked
have I clothed—the hungry have I led- —
and the rich have I .sent empty axvay.
Fcv the Jl heeling Repository.
Emigration to the State of Ohio.
The emigration to the state of Ohio
for the last three or lour years, has been
beyond common calculation. No per
sons can lie so well acquainted with the
nun.' ref families going into that state,
as those placed at the cliflercnt ferries
on the Ohio river; and it would be mat
ter of curiosity, were an account taken
at each ferry-house, of the number of
waggons, carriages, ike. crossing the ri
ver daily, and also the number of souls
these might contain. By this means an
accurate account would be ascertained,
from the thus collected information, in
some given time, oi the number of emi
graters to the state of Ohio from all the
different points at which they strike the
river. Il other places on the Ohio hear
the same proportion with Wheeling for
the number of horses, carts, waggons,
carriages, &c. crossing the- river, the
country, indeed, must be alive with
movers and travellers.
M ving been in Wheeling a few days
>’ Oetob. r 1807, I w as astonished, to lie
• 1 , to see the arrivals continually of
oUv'hoioC) two-horse, threo-hovse, four
horse, and five-horse carriages,waggons,
See. all filled with women and children*
and family goods, some from New
England, and indeed much the greater
part ; some from New-Jerscy, but not
half enough ; some from Maryland, the
lower parts ot Virginia, &c. &c. Mixed
apparently with these, were companies
ot horsemen, some travelling for curio
sity, others to look out for a new place
of future residence for themselves and
their numerous posterity, others to fix
on a place for the sale of merchandize,
others for their health, and some perhaps
hunting money. This kind of scene'
keeps the mind busy in viewing the va
riety of manners possessed bv the vari-*
ety of people ; in which the New-Eng
landers and Virginians differ very much:
each have their peculiarities. The fa
shion anti make of the carts and wag
gons, the horses and their tackling, all
tended to fill up the drama, which to me
was not an unpleasant one ; for 1 some
how or other like to see the world in a
gog, in a moving frolick, as it were : it in
a proof that we are not dead.
As a further evidence of the great
emigration to Ohio, the landlord where
I lodged, told me that in the autumn of
1805, there crossed the river, opposite
Wheeling, 800 family waggons, carts,
and carriages, in the course of three
months, all destined lor the land flow
ing, as the favoured land of Canaan was,
with “ milk and honey.”
Ii Ohio thus continues to drain the
eastern states of their people, they may
well get alarmed, and pray for a law
for the stoppage oi all ferry-boats on the
Ohioriver. Indeed if the New-England
states don’t look out pretty sharp, they
wont have boys enough to raise corn
sufficient to support their old women in
a few years.
It is thus Ohio is filling up with all
classes of people, exce pt the friends of
Si.i\ ery. 1 hese go not into her boun
d iricsj for “si iverv dwcllcth'not there.”
H r laws hayc* excluded the principles
ot lh.it abominable traffic. II: j* ci.izpns
arc more just ar.d wise, than to make