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VA R IE T r.
The Yioi.it.
On mam in May, that sweetly rose.
In radiant glory bright,
' saw each fragrant ilowV disclose
Its lovely form to sight.
An humble violent rais’d its head
Beside a mo*s-grown wav,
And all its little charms were spread,
To welcome dawning duv.
Long had this simple fi >v/er adorn’d
The dell where first it grew ;
Unnotic’d, or by many scorn’d,
Its modest beauties blew.
But oh ! this sad, this luckless day •
From thence ’twas rutlt ly torn ;
Noting Henry pluck’d it, bright and gay,
His bosom to adorn.
Bereft of aids kind nature gives,
i’lie purple tints soon fade,
And all the green-clad blooming leaves
Droop withering and decay’d,
Ah hapless flow’r 1 how chang’d thou art!
He views thee with disdain;
And throws tin e t nreless from his heart.
At random on the plain !
Like thee, poor flower '. the village fair,
In rural beauty drest,
Too oft thy hapless fortune share—
Like thee sink unredress'd !
Anecdote.
“ I nm absolutely afraid,” said the
Duke ol Buckingham to Sir Robert Vin
ter, 14 I am absolutely afraid that / .shall
die a beggar.” “ At the rate you go
on,” replied Sir Robert, “ I am afraid it
will be worse,*—I am afraid ijou will
live one.”
Arlington sheep shearing.
The annual meeting took place on
Thursday the 30th of April. The bad
ness of the day prevented many of the
company from assembling, nevertheless
the meeting was very respectably at
tend e d.
At two o’clock the premium was ad
judged to a very fine lamb bred by John
Scott, Esquire, of Strawberry Vale,
in the county ol Fairfax. This lamb
was bred from a Spanish sheep imported
from the mountains of Andalusia: his
fleece is of fine and beautiful texture,
and weighed six pounds and throe quar
ters (a great weight for the descendant
©fa Spanish sheep.)
Mr. Custis has met with every success
lie could have hoped for, thus far, in his
impr ivements. The present state of the
weather has prevented his shearing any
of his improved lambs, except in one in
stance, where the fleece of a sheep,
whose weight would not exceed ten
pounds p r quarter, has produced six
pounds of very long and fine wool.
Hukcwell, the prize i.nn of 1805, con
tinues to be the stud ram at Ailington :
ten of his lambs are intended for Smith's
Island this fall, and will greatlv improve
the native stock in the length of their
1 wool.
A small specimen of Smith’s Island
wool was exhibited at the meeting, and
[ obtained lrtsh celebrity. As soon as
the season will admit, we shall endea
vour 11 obtain an account of the sheer
ing of the Arlington improved lambs,
and transmit it to our readers, feeling
much pi autre in being able to lay be
fore the publick any thing which may
interest the cause of agriculture or do
mes t i c k man u fac lure.
I he premiums at Arlington for the
next and six succeeding years, are, fifty
dollars, or a silver cup of that value,
bearing an appropriate inscription and
motto at the will of the successful can
didate : also, thirty dollars for ten yards
of what is commonly called Virginia
cloth, being composed of cotton alone,
and spun and wove by native Ameri
cans only.—The specimens to be sub
mitted tojudges in the usual way.
[ Alexandria pep.
The following article exhibits a de
plorable picture of the present state of
Ireland. Will any man presume to say
that the people of that country are not
miserably oppressed, when every dis
trict of it is, from time to time, convuls
ed by the struggles of a goaded and in
jured peasantry f [Press.
The Threshers still continue their
depredations in the north western dis
tricts. The Derry mail couch was lute
y attacked by a number of armed men,
near Drogheda, but owing to its being
doubly guarded, they were disappointed
in their object; but the mails have been
stopped and plundered so frequently,
that the merchants and bankers of Dub
lin have found it necessary to pr*. pare a
memorial to the lord li utenant, setting
forth the necessity of a more adequate
protection. The acquisition of horses
I and arms now appears to be one of their
| principal objects, and many houses have
been Attacked with this View, the.
near neighborhood of Limerick, a ser
vant of colonel Lcfroy’s was lately com*
p 11 -d at so early an hour as eight in the
evening, to give them two of his mas
ter’s lrjr~.es. The same night, a party
of about sixty men, well mounted and*
armed, preceded by a piper on horse
back, and another man sounding along
horn, vi ited a public house in the liber
ties of that town, compelled the landlord
to supplv them with liquor, and after
wards robbed him of a horse. They
t ike cv< ry precaution to disguise them
selves when in arms, and also to murder
every person whom they suspect not to
be stcdfnst in their cause.—A poor far
mer, in the county of Mayo, being un
willing to reside any longer amidst so
much tumult and clanger, advertised his
house and stock to be sold, having deter
mined to take a small farm in the coun
ty of Dublin. Some of the Threshers
hearing this, suspected that he perhaps
was acquainted withsome of their trans
actions, and was about to inform against
them. To prevent this, a near relation
of lus, connected with the gang in the
neighborhood,under the mask of friend
ship, brought him to a public house ;
and, while they were there drinking in
a room with several other men, a man
with his head, body, and all his limbs
covered with ropes of hay regularly
twisted round them, entered, and with a
hatchet which he held uplifted m his
hands, absolutely spit the suspected
man’s head in two pieces. The relation
of the deceased has absconded. Sever
al of the other men present have been
apprehended ; but there is no eVfdence
to prove that they were in league with
the murderer, who is, of course, as yet
unknown.—At the commission held
lately at Sligo, only one was convicted,
all the others who were indicted having
escaped from want of evidence. In
some instances they still affect to act as
redressers of wrongs. They lately
made a nocturnal visit to a poor man in
the county of Longford, who rented an
orchard, and enquired what he paid for
it ; when he had informed them, they
said it was a fair rent, and wished him
success with his bargain; but they de
clared, that if they had found he had
been overrated, they would have com
pelled his landlord to refund an hundred
fold. A priest in the same county had
chat ged a poor woman double fees lor
christening, on account of there being
twins. The Threshers soon paid Hifh’