Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-10

scenery in America her lakes spreading into tic IN
land seas, their vast, deep and pure waters, reflect
ing back the, azure OF heaven, unstancd with \
cloud her rivers, collecting the waters OF hills and
plains intcrmnable, rolling their masSy volumes 1
for thousands of miles, broken into caiaracts To
which the nohest cascades otthe old hemisphere are
those ot rivuets and then sweeping down their broad
channels 10 the aroh ocean, the treasures of world
The lakes and rivers this continent seem TO espsc
a foreign auxiliarcs OF nature art, aud trust to
their own unasSsted majesty 10 produce effect upon
the eve and the mind without, alpine mountains or
moss-yron ruins, they strike the spectator with awe
ENtent, weight, dcpt-itS by these intrinsic quail
ties that they affect him t'icr character is one of
simple grandeur you stand upon their brink or .,-
verse Their bosom, or gaze upon their rolling rapids
and umblng cataracts, and acknowledge atonce their
power and immensely, and your own nsgnicancc
aud imbcciliiy. Occasionally YOU with excep-
tons To this rule. recall nj this the heaui:-
full shores of the Passic its graceful cascades il,
wall OF wooden hills, and rich aud varied landscape,
all spread beneath sky of glowing sapphres IA scene
for claude TO gaze upon. These north western wa
tiers, however, have nothing of this character Won
find them hcdded in level plains, bordered only by
sable forests from which the stroke of the axe has
just startled the panther and the savage.
| VARiErIEs.--In our last we gave our readers n
charming deneaiion Of private character from the
pen OF Miss Wright The following anecdotes illus
tivc OF the nation, and some of its brightest orna-
menis, are equally gratifying to the pride OF our
hearts, rs Americans. She thus describes the cir
cunSances o the mutIny oil the PENNSYLVANIA line, in
| the seventh year Of the revolutionary war.
" Painting under the united hardships of military
duty, and deficient of food and clothing they with
drew from the body of the army, demanding that
which their officers had not give, the immediate
supply Of their nccessarics. To awe them into ODE
dicncc, Gen. Wayne presented his pistols they
pointed their bayomets III his breast. "Welovc and
respect you, but il you fire, YOU are dead man. We
| are not going TO the enemy but are determined on
obtaining cur just rights. They withdrew in good
order, with their arms and field pieces to u
| ne'shborine town, committed TO dey.sttons hut per
! sisted in their demands. Congress dispatched some
OF its members to the mutecrs bat before these ar
rived emissaries from the enemy appeared among
them. Unconditional terms were shered gold pre-
lerment, and the immediate and assistance OF a
body oil royal troops, already their march towards
them Their reply was the instant seizure of their
evil tempters, whom they immediately ander a
guard from their own body the same general who
had pointed his pistols At their lives Al the appear
ancc OF the Congress commissioners, their grievances
were stated, and redressed; but when President
| Reed offered them hundred euneas from his pri-
vate purse, as reward for tLcir fidelity in having
surrendered the spies the s,urypatrios refused them
" " have done duty we owed Our country and
neither desire nor will rcceiveany reward but the an.
probation of that country for which we have so often
hiec' a country peoplcd by such men, might be o.
| yerrun, bat could not be aubdued"