Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-08-19

DeautlIul tldu Sfth III hch hopI'scS'j
Youngest hours, he had seen her; the
low of heath and pleasure sparkling
on her cheek, and her lovely form wrap
ped up in her white cymar, all edged
with gold and closed with diamond
clasp; she smiled upon him sweetly,
and said, "Be Of good cheer, Albert, we
have met to part no more" lie arose
and taking her harp, lett the beauti-
ful valley, and. after spending year IN
her pursuit in vain, to divert the melan-
choly of his mind, setout on "a foreign
tour. After visiting Spain and Italy, he
.dwelt season in the south of France.
Near the village where he fixed his re-
sidence was an ancient cloister situated
in a valley, much resembling that
which he had loved so much, and left,
except that it was cultivated and ado.al-
ed most richly, On the hilltop, above
the cloistef, he used to sit and play on
Augustus harp and sing her favourite
airs. Often he observed one of the SIS
terhood steal into little area, and lis
ten to the music; he could not distin-
guish her face or form distinctly, but it
.was enough like Augusta to afford his
fancy room to picture new scenes OF
happiness.
AT last he cav her no more--the bell
tolled the note of death; he knew the
rest. A small present gained the infor7
nation he sought, but judge of his feel
ings when he learned that the departed
sister was no othertha augusta! From
his home she had been carried by her
relatives, who had discovered her re-
treat; and, TO perpetuate their disunion,
she had been sent to France, and pla-
ced in this very convent, which she
chose because of the similitude of the
scene with that which was forever be-
fore her. Thither fate led her lover,
permitting them to look upon each
other before the died. In another year
he was no more. And some faint ruins
of the cottage in the Valley of Chamoy,
alone perpetuate the story OF their loves
and their misiortunes.
Lord Mansfield was very DESTROYS
oflong life. and, whenever he had old
men toeAamine, he generally asked
them what their habit of living had
been. 10 this interrogatory an aged
person replied, that he had never been
drunk in his lift.-"See, gentlemen,'
said his lordship, turning to the young
harristers, "w hattemperaHce will do"
The next, of equally venerable ap
pearance, gave very different ac
court of himself, he had not gone to
bed sober one night for fifty years.
See, my Lord" said the Young bar.
ristcr, "what cheerful glass will do"
"Well gentlemen, replied his Lord
ship, cit only proves, that some sorts
Of timber keep better when they are
wet, and others when they are dry
e@s.f- u
The Beam and the Mote, - GOOD hit. !,
Or how wilt thou sayto thy brother, Let me
pull ont the mote out of thine own eye. and
behold, beam 10 IN thine own eye? Thou by
pocrlte FIRST cas-, out the beam olit OF thine own
eye; and hen shalt thou see clearly to cast out
the mote out of thy brothers eye
Matt vii 4. S
A. correspondent in the Village Re
cord states, that by the ship Gold Hun
tre>s which arrived at New. York. on
The 9Th Of April last, from Calcutta,
there came gentleman who had resi-
ded;o the last fourteen years in that
H brings the information,
and insures us, upon his varaci'y, that
it may be relied on, that in Belan
poor, considerable" town not far from
the STA coast, the Brahmins, Or priests
of the country, were forming societies,
70" the purpose OF aSappointing mis-.
sionaries TO .Ame, ica, scitk q U7e,U
to the improvement Of the rel'gion
and morals IF our inhabitdntsLM4e1
In one of their addresses to the Be
Ian poorians, they say that their inter
course with the people of North Amer
lea has given them knowledge Of that
unfortunate peoDle That there are
more than j 100000 of fellow men,
who are held in the most deplorable
bon1age-that they are sold, like cat,
tie or goods, at public auction, and of
ten chained together and driven under
The whip of an .overseeS with every
mark of degradation that can he applied
10 the brute ,creation--that hliS6nnd
and aoife have been torn asunder and
sold to different masters; children rent
from the bosom OF their mothers; their
Al