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The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24
AS 1T SHOULD BE.

WE have our liberty and may purchase
w Tickets in any Lottery We please, and a
saere arc several good ones. we shah not be
confined to one, che object Of which Is good
hut from appearances viii not be accomplished
There viii be a grand play performed IN Phila-
.ielphia and n York this and next month. For
further particulars. inquire AZ
FORTUNES HONE.
The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24

FRIDAT, Feb. 20.
The poor debtors bill was again taken up,
The subject debated, and the bill rccommitted
for amendments.
Bills Pasftd 70 b acknowledgement
Endorsement Of wriis, as amended addition
al Tor regulation OF Innholders sc. famended)
additional respecting foreign attachment
aaai1,onal Tor regulating prisons Se---aadi-
h0nai 10 Act setting Of part Of Canion to
The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24
TO LET,

Estass Of Edssay9 Capen,--deeeassd.
ALL persons Indebted to the estate Of the late
II EDWARD CAPEN, are requested to make
pavmeni 10 w StoreF, Jr. Esq. with whome
all demands due said Estate have been left -
and z1ch as haveuasettied accounts are requested
10 adjust the ssre with him.
ELIZABETH CAPEN, Exccutrix.
Portland, Feb. 8 1874
The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24

o. these sixty-six Mr. Crawford had q votes.
leaving Majority GgGinsf hsm u ONE HUN
DRED AND THiRTY-THREE.
The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24

TUESDAY, FeA IL.
Resolves passed to be engrossed-fxng or
the place of meeting Of the next Legislature
on petition of Charles p. Curtis in favor q
New Castle: Respecting ratarns Of Caants
expenses on petition of Alfred Gates, ant
others; and providing for collection Of de
mands assigned 10 this State by Massachu
sets.
Resolve Cd petition Of Jonathan McKen
ney, was postponed indefinitely.
Resolve on petition of the Cumberland
Bank was read and refused passage; after
wards the vote was reconsidered and the re
solve committed.
Resolves committed-appropriating money
for support Of the State Prison; and provid
ing for the choice Of Electors ofPresident, sc
Bills passed TO be engroased-to provide fol
the government ofthe State Prison addition.
al respecting inspe s3on Of Beef, Pork, &c.
additional TO the Act establishing Courts o.
Common Pleas additional to Lords day Act
(amendedG respecting fisheries inst. Georges
river (amended); and additional 10 Act reg.
ulating damages on inland bills Of exchange.
Bills read and Communicable incorporate
the Portland Rifle Corps additional for The
relief of poor debtors; additional respecting
retailers, &C.; to apportion add assess the
State tax.
Bills passed 10 be cnacted--to incorporate
Casco Bank respecting pablo shows, &C.
to annex part Of Buxton to Standish.
Leave to withdraw petitions was granted
TO Aaron Porter also Jacob Quincy, and
others. Petition Of James Walker, and o.
thefs, was referred to the next Legislature.
The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1824-02-24
% Stock IN trade for sale.
FRUIT TREES.

A PPLE, Pear. Cherry, Plumb, Peach,
N Ounce, Apricot Trees, &c win be supplied
from one OF the best Southern nurseries BY the
subscriber, il applied for in early season.
BARTLETT ADAMS.
Portland, Feb. 10.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09

windows, and they say, "we are cold''-She
answers them only with signs. Alas she
has none to bind up her own bleeding heart.
And is this the once sensible and sprightly
SRenus, fortunes child, who inherited a
large patrimony ?-the samel-" How fallen,
how lost !''-And what has wrought this ter
riblc reverse in their circumstances What
has turned this man into brute? What has
plunged this woman into the deepest distress,
inasmuch as that her tears arc her meat!
What has rendered these children miserable!
What ,feud has poisoned and destroyed the
happiness Of this whole family ?-Ihat curs-
ed fend is drunkenness.-1imc was when
Silenus was 4 kind husband and an aifcc-
tionate father, when his company gladdencd
the heart of his wife, when his little prattlers
uscd to meet him at the door and receive his
fond caresses.-Time was when every room
in his mansion was gilded with domestic hap
pincss, when he ranked in society as a use
| full member and an ornament, and when the
ewes that saw him blessed him, and the car
that heard him was respectfully attentive.
But Silenus looked on the sparkling liquor
while giving its color and temptngly moving
itself in the cup-hc tasted, he at length tip
pied daily; the habit became rivcted-h he
plunged occasionally into intoxication, and
became at last downright sot.-His estate
is consumed, and of all poor people, his fam
lily are among the most wrctchcd-" Dig
they cannot" having never been taught to
labor" to beg they arc ashamed This is
not a romance there are many families in
our country, whose dcplorable situation cor
responds with this description.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
CDLIECTAggE
REMARKABLE rHIAL DUTY,

The practor had given up to the Tfumvlr,
woman of some rank, condemned for capital
crime, to be executed in the prison. lie who
had charge of the execution, in consideration OF
her birth, did not Immediately put her to death.
lie even vcntured let her daughter have access
to her in prisons carctully searching her, howcr-
er, as she went in, lest she should carry with her
any sustcnancc; concluding, that in few days the
mother must of course perish for want, and the
severity of putting woman offanly to a violent
death, by the hand OF the cXecutioner, might be
thus avoided. Some days passing in this manner,
the triumvr begun to wonder that the daughter
still came to visit her mother, and could by no
means comprehend, how the latter should live so
long. Watching, therefore carefully, wliat pass
ed in the interview between them, he found, to
his great astonishment that the life Of the mother
had been, all this while supported by the milk of
the daughter, who came to the prison every day,
to give hermother herbreast tosuck. The strange
continuance between them was represented to the
Judges, and procured pardon for the mother.
Nor was it thought sufficient to give to so dutiful
a daughter, the forfeited life of her condemned
mother, but they were both maintained afterwards
by pension settled on them for life. And the
ground, upon which the prison stood, was conse-
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
ron THE wILMl NGr0NIAS.
| KNOW BEST.

This short sentence may occasionally be true
in the mouths of those who use it; yet perhaps
there has not been one more abused. It was i'll
the scrpent's mouth when he bcguilel Eve. I
know best, was his language to her-i hno'r best,
was her language, in substance, to her husband
and to this day, Ikno,o best is the language of
some men to their wives, and wives to their hus-
bands, and by exarnpling after them, children
soon learn to kao,o best; next in order, the SER
wants think they hnoo best, and not unfrcquently
let their thoughts be publicly known. Men and
women, in gay circles, generally speaking, each
knoio best; disputants matters ofntercst, poll
cy, and religion, individually haop best. Indeed
We have only to listen with our cars, and if we
arc not incrcdulous, must believe that every body
kiolcS best. O.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09

The following lines, said to be written by an
American lady, have lately been set to music and
sold in London. They are entitled the "Mis-
sionary's Farewell"
land where the bones of ourfathcrs are sleeping,
Land where our dear ones and fond ones arc
weeping
Land where the light of Jehovah is shining!
We leave thee lamenting, but not with repining.
Dark is our path DER the dark-rong oceani
Dark are our hearts, but tho fire of devotion
Kindlcs withn-and far distant nation
Shall learn from Our lips the glad song Of saliva
ton.
Hail to the land of our tolls and our sorrows!
Land of our rest!-when few more to-morrows
Pass o'cr our heads we will seek our cold pillows
And rest in our graves, far away DER the billows
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
DESTRUCTION OF THE ALEXANDRIA,
LIBRARY.

When Alexandria was taken by the Mahome-
tans. Amw,s, their commander, found there PHI
loponus, whose conversation highly pleased lnin,
as Amr,s was lover of letters, and Philoponusa
learned man. On a certain day Philoponus said
to him: sYou have visited all the repositories or
public warehouses in Alexandria, and you have
sealed up things Of every sort, that arc to be
found there As to those things that may be
useful To you, presume to say nothlngi nat as 10
things of no service to YOU, some of them perhaps
NAV be more suitable to me- Amrus SAID 10 MN;
+" And what Is it YOU want 'Tis the phlosophic-
al books rcplicd he) preserved in the royal libra
res' ''i'his Says Amrls, is request, upon winch
cannot decide. You desire thing where can
issue no orders till have leave from Omar, the
commander Of the faithfil!.-Lcttcrs were accoi-
dinplv written to Omar informing him OF what
phloponus had said; and an answer was returned
by Omar to the following p,rport: 'As to the
books, Of which YOU have made mention, If there
be contained in them, what accords with the book
of God (meaning the Alcoian) there is without
them in the book of God, all that is sufficient
But if there be any thing i'll them rcpuSnant to
that book, we in no respect want them. Ordel
| them therefore to be all destroyed Amrus upor
this ordered them TO be dispersed through the
baths OF Alexandra, and to be there burnt in ma
king the baths warm After this manner, III IN.
space of six months, they were all consumed
| The historian, having related the story, adds
| from his own feelings, 'llear what was done, an1
wonder.'
| Thus ended this noble library and thus began
fit did not begin sooner, the age ofbarbartl ant
ignorance.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
From The Literary Gazette.
THE IRISH FUNERAL CRY.

! sit down to tell you little circumstance
of which | was myself witness, some
months since, in little village in the south
west of Ircland,-a district which has late
" excited a melancholy interest. The Gus
tom of CRYING aloud at funerals in that coun-
try is well known, and has certainly very
powerful, though not very pleasing etect
on those who have been accustomed to the
silent and cold decorum with which we fol-
low the remains of our acquaintances TO
their long home in this. But those VINO CLOSE
their ears at the first intrusion OF this strange
simultaneous wailing Of many voices and few
hearts, are very widely mistaken II they
imagine that it is the easy acquisition OF all,
or that it is so unmusical in solo as 1t is IN
the aggregate. 1t is held just in the same
esteem among the peasantry as very per-
feet intimacy with Mozart, Handel, or Ros-
SIM, is in circles more polite. An Irish
swain, in describing his mistress to you, will
place he: perfections in this ratio: 4" All
but she is very cieUer girl, with white
skin and Shaking his head) she has a. fine
cry zvHh her." | have actually known of
many conquests made by well-graced maid
ems and what appears still more extraordl-
nary, conquests hianned by them, in the
train of a funeral, and in the wailing of a
friends death! | have heard the perfor-
mcrs in those singular choruses taken to
pieces in cottage coterie OH the subsequent
evening, with as much malice, and as great
an af'ectation of critical acumen, and as lit
tie of human mercy, as is here exhibited in
the dissection of the young performers in
Lent Concert or Oratorio. "Why, Mary,
you didn't cry to-day at all at all.'-" III
deed, then, but it wasn't that there was no
room for worse than Mary" said third.
"Well, to be sure, it isn't good to Judge; but
if ever c'er girl did make a muthane of her
self, Kitty Kilmartin was that girl this day.
She made the whole chuIch-yard laugh
There she was, with her yoHo7o jack and
her white handkicher, and her fdy colour
ri6bin, and she crying for the bare life, and
sorrow a note she had, no more nor the gor-
soon that drop the truckle."-"l wonder
what would Thady say if he seen herr
Who is Thady p" II boy of the Galahoos,
that was looking after her; but Kitty went
IN service to a Blue heart (.AngAce, Protes-
tant.) and-thcrc's month there since
she went to mass with one of the mistress's
books, with fine red cover; but what should
Thady be doing but sitting behind her, nm
knozvnst, and she having the wrong side of
the book to-yYards her. Thady seen how
twas, and he never come nigh ~. after;
and, ('tisn't good to judse,) b. hitty MI,
martin set up for to rry ever the oe9a
cortsc !-Gondoutha 20
| You see, therefore, that sincerity Is not
even thought of. But have been fortunate
enough to hear this melancholy and wild
piece of monotony in its perfectlon, Tor
hcardit when it Svas sincere--whenlt sprung
i from and gave expression to the real feeling
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
THE. ALPINE HORN.

The Alpine Horn is an instrument con-
structed with the bark of the cherry tree
and which like speaking trumpet IS used
to convey sounds to great distance w hen
the last rays of the sun giid the summit OF
the Alps, the shepherd who dwells highest
on those mountains, takes his horn and calls
aloud, Praised be the I.ord!' AS soon as
he is heard, the neighboring shepherds leave
their huts and repeat those words. The
sounds last many minutes, for every echo
Of the mountains and grotto of the rocks re-
peat the name of God. How solemn the
scene Imagination cannot picture itself any
thing more Sublime the profound silence
that succeeds, the sight of those stupenduous
mountains, upon which the vault of Heavan
seems to rest, every thing seems to excite
the mind to enthusiasm.
In the mean while, the shepherds bend
their knees, and pray in the open air, and
soon after return to their huts to enjoy the
repose of innocence.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
A woMAry'S LOVE.

A woman's love deep in the heart,
Is like the violet flower,
That lifts its modest head apart
In some scquester'd bower;
And blest is he who finds that bloom,
Who sips its gentle sweetsi
lie hecds not life's oppressive gloom,
Nor all the cares he meets!
A woman's love is like the spring
Amid the wild alone,
A burning wild DER which the wing
Ofcold is seldom thrown;
And blestis he who meets that fount,
Beneath the sultry day;
How gladly should his spirit mount!
How pleasant be his way
A woman's love is like the rock
That every tempest braves,
And stands secure amid the shock
OF oceans widest waves;
And blcst is he who knows rcposc
within its shades is given;
The world, with all its cares and woes,
Seems less like earth than heaven.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
4 oUAKER's LETTERT TO HIS WATCIIMA-
KFR.

I herewith send thee my pocket-clock,
which greatly standeth i'll need OF thy friendly
correction; the last time he was at thy friend
" school, he was no ways reformed, nor even
in the least benefit thereby; for perceive,
bv the index of his mind, that he is liar,
and the truth is not in him; that his motions
are wavering and irregular; that his pulses
are sometimes very quick which betokeneth
not an even temper; at other times it waXeth
so sluggish, Notwithstanding ! frequently
urre him. that when he should be on his dll-
f., rs thou knowest his usual name denoteth,
| find him slumbering and slecpng-or, as
the vanity of human reason phraseth it,
catch him mapping. Hence, am induced
TO believe he is not right in the inward man.
Examine him, therefore, and prove him, |
beseech thee, thoroughly, that thou may
est, by being well acquainted with his inward
frame and disposition, draw him from the el-
ror of his ways, and shew him the path
wherein he should go 1t gricveth me TO
think, and when ponder thereon, am ver-
ily of opinion, that his body is foul, and
the whole mass is corrupted. Purge nm,
therefore, with thy charming physlc, IRON al
pollution, that he may vibrate and circulate
according to the truth, will place nm lof
few days under tiny care, and pay for MS
board as thou requlfeSt IL. III liy iio'' inv
chargest me with one eighth OF pound
which will pay when the work deserves It.
/ cntreat thee friend John, to demean thy
self on this occasion with right judgment,
according 10 the Sit Sphich is !" h1ee' ana
prove tbysclf a 7yorkman that needs nor be
ashamed. And when thou layest thy cor
rcctinr hand OH him, lett be without passion,
lest thou drive him to destruction. DC
thou regulate his motion for the time to come
BY the motion of the light that ruleth the
dav, and let him learn from that uncrlne
puide, the true calculation of his table and
equation, and when thou findest him conrerS-
ed trom the errorcf his zcays, and more con-
fornablc to the aforementioned rules, thel
do thou send lin home with just bill OF
charges, drawn out by the spirit OF modera-
ton, and it shall be sent, in the root OF all evil
| TO thee.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
SERIOUS RESTRICTIONS.

Look not thou upon liquor when it sparkle
"whenit giveth its color in the cup, when it NOV
eth itself aright at the last it bltcth like SER
pcnt and stingcth like an adder r"-SoLoMoS.
Would you learn how like serpent drum
kenncss bitetb and how like an adder it
stingcth-then contemplate the disgusting
figure and the deplorable circumstances of
SHeaus.-Behold this miserable wreck of Il
man He is not yet turned of forty, yet tot
tiers in his steps like one of fourscore.-Sec
him weakened in intellect, morose in temper,
lost to all sense either of honor or shame,
lost to all affection towards the wife of his
bosom, and the children Of his own body.
Mark the stupidity of his countenance, the
morose aspect of his blood-shotten eyes, his
palsed hand, and the leprous letter that
covers his skin.-Tum now and behold his
wife-there she sits in that corner covered
with a thin robe and shivering over hand
ful of coals.-See her pale and emaciated-
her eyes dim with weeping, and her checks
furrowed with tears.-Haplcss woman! who
can but pity thee? who can but mingle his
tears with thine look next on those suf-
fcring children.-They receive nought but
frowns and curses and blows from the mar
whom they had been taught to call by the en-
dearing name of father yet they havaa9
friend whose bosom throbs with tenderness
toward them but her hand is too feeble tt
supply their nccds.-Thcy ask their mothe
hut 10. M hrS L fp n
---fhe storm howls through the brokel
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09

know of nothing more calculated to bring
back the nearly faded dreams of youth-the
almost obliteratcd scenes and passions OF our
boyhood-and to recall the brightest and
best associations Of those days
When the young blood ran riot in the veins,
And boyhood made us sanguinc-
nothing that more easily conjures up the al
ternate Joys and sorrows of maturer years
the fluctuating visions that have fioatcd be-
fore the restless imagination lii times gone
by, and the breathing forms and inanlmate
objects that wound themselves around our
hearts, and became almost necessary to our
existence, than the perusal OF old letters.
They are the memorials OF attachment-thc
records of affection-the speaking-trumpet
through which those whom we esteem hail
us from afar. They seem halowcd by the
brothers grasp, the sisters kiss, the fathers
blessing, and the mothers love. When we
look on them, the friends whom dreary seas
and distant leagues divide from us are again
in our presence. We see their cordial looks
and hear their gladdening voices once more.
| The paper has a tongue in every character
it contains-a language in its very silentness.
They speak to the souls of men like voice
from the grave, and are the links of that
chain which connects with the hearts and
svmpathies of the living an evergreen re-
membrance of the dead. ! have one at
this moment before me, which, although
time has in degree softened the regret that
felt at the loss of him who penncdit, dare
scarcely look upon it. 1t calls back too
forciblv to my remembrance its noble-mind-
ed mthor-thc treasured friend of my ear
liest and happiest days, the sharcr OF my
pueric but innocent joys. l think OF him as
he then was--the frec-the spiiited-the
gav-the welcome guest in every circle
where kind feeling had its weight, or frank
ness and honesty had influence; ard, in an
instat comes the thought of what he now
is; and pale and ghastly images OF death are
lowering round me. l see him, whom low
ed, and priced, and honoured, shlunk into
: poor and wasting ashes. mark stranger
5 closing his powerless litls--a stranger follow
, ing him to the graye-and | cannottrust my
self again to open his last letter. 1t wa!
written but short time before he fell a vic
: tim to the yellow fever in the West Indies
t and told me, in the affecting language o
n Moore, that
Far beyond the western sea,
n Was one whose heart Remembered me,
5 On hearing of his death, wrote some stan
y zas which have prescrvcd-not out OF an.
pride in the verses themselves, but as TO
ken of esteem for him to whom they wer
!. addressed. and true transcript OF my feel
n ines at the time they were composed.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
WILMINGTON, DEL. SEPT. 9, 1894.

Grated, and temple to Filial Piety buitupon it.
What will not flial duty contriyc, or what haz-
ards will it not run, fit will put daughter upon
yenuring, at the peril of her own life, to maintain
her imprisoned and condemned mother IN 50 unu-
s,lal manner For whatwas ever heard OF, more
strange than a mother sucking the breasts OF ner
own daughtcr' 1t might even seem SO unnatuta'
as TO render ii doubtful whether might it not be,
in some sort, wrong, if it were not, that duty to
parents is the first law of nature.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09

ITRMS.-ADvERTIsEmE not exceeding
one square will be inserted four times for one
dollar, and 20 cents for each subsequent inser-
tion., If continued for three months, 81 50--tor
six months, 81 SO; Or for one year 80.
0T Subscribers are entitled to the privilege OF
having their naines place of residence, and occu-
patton, inserted in the Register, GRATIS.
No Subscription ,riH be discontinued until all ar
reayuges are paid and t,co tceek's notice giuen.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
AMERICANH HEROISNi.

During one of the former wars btwecn france
and England, in which the then colonies bore an
active part, arespectable individual member OF
the Society of Friends, of the name oi--' COM
manded fine ship, which sailed from an eastern
mort to a port in England. This vessel had a
strong aud effective crew, but was totally unarn-
ed; when near her destined port she was chased,
and ultimately overhaulcd by French vessel OF
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
zPG)1HTEAHYe .

The following beautiful lines arc from tht
Obituary notice of Miss Amanda NJ. Lightncr o
+ ,ncnstcr County, Penn who died Mt Baltimore
on the 2lst ult much regretted By all who knew
her.
Breathe not Il sigh Tor me
When am gone;
But let my gravc-placc be
Drcaiy and alone;
Let the rude tempest rave
rcquium ocr my grave,
But sing thou none.
Yet place wild rose near
NV narrow bcd
Emblem of one too dear,
Still dear, though dead
Cherish its tender root,
Let no rude strangers foot
Bow down its head.
Yes! 'twas lovely flower
Ny bosom wore;
Vast was its bciuty's powr--
Alas! its DER.
Death, in gloomy hour,
Tore it from Loves own bower,
To bloom no more.
Winter will blight the rose
Thou pianist for me!
Spring will neville disclose
Twill flourish free;
Md my hearts flower shall bloom
Brightly beyond the tomb,
Etcrnally!
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09
No time
Can ransoir us from sorrow.

We fancy ourselves the adopted OF mise
ry-Carc's long inheritors. The bloom has
gone off from our lives; "a chilling blast has
blown over our souls,
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-09

make no apology for inserting them here.
Those who have never loved, nor lost IL
friend, will be backward in persuing them
those who haze, will recur to their own
feelings and not withhold their sympathy.