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The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-03-13
THE HERO's ORPHAN GINS.

Oh, lady buy these budding flowers,
For ! am cold, and wet, aud weary
gathe, d them ere break Of DAY,
When all was lonely, STILL and drearv,
And long have sought to sell them here,
To purchase clothes, and food, and dweHng
For Nalor's wretched orphan girls
Poor me, and my Young sister Ellen
Al those who tread LIES thornless way,
In fortunes golden sunshine basaing,
May deem that Misery wants not aid,
Because her lips are m,lte-unasking
They pass along-anI if they gaze,
lis with an eye Of hope repelng-
Yet once crowd of latterers tawn'd,
And fortune smiled on me and Ellen
oh, buy my flowers they re fair, and fresh
AS mine and Mornings tears could make them
To-monow's sun will view them dead,
And shall scarcely live to weep them
Yet this sweet bud, if nursed with care,
Soon into tulness would be swelling
And nursured by some generous hand,
SO might my little sister Ellen
Sh- sleeps within hollow tree,
Her only home-its leaves her bedding;
And Eve no food to carry there,
TO soothc the tears She will be shedding
Oh that those mourner's gushing griefs0
The pastors prayer-and BELLS sad knelling--
And that deep grave-were meant for me
And my poor little sister Ellen
When We in silence are laid down
In lite'sslast, fearless blessed sleeping,
No tears will dew our humble grave,
Save those Of plying Heavens own weeping,
Unknown we live-unknown must die
No tongue the mournful tale be telling,
OF two young, broken-hearted girls
Poor Mary and her sister Ellen!
No one has bought of me to-day,
And night-winds now are sadly signing;
And l. like these poor dropping flowers,
Cnnotlced and unwept am dying.
My soul is struggling to be free
1t loathes its wretched earthly dwelling
My limbs refuse to bear their load
Oh. God protect lone orphan!Elen
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-03-13

Slave Of the mine thy yellow light
Cleans baleful as the tomb fire drear-
A gentle vision comes by night
My lonely, widow'd heart to cheer;
Her eyes are dim with many a tear,
That once were guiding stars to mine
Her fond heart throbs with many fear.
lcannot bear TO see thee shine
For thee, for thee, vile yellow slave
lefta heart that lov'd me true
cross the tedious ocean wave,
To roam in climcs unkind and new
The cold wind Of the stranger blew
Chill on my wither'd heart-the grave.
Dark and untimely met my view
And all for thee, vile yellow slave
IIa com'st thou now, 50 late, to mock
wanderers banisi'd heart torlorn.
Now that his frame the lightning shock
OF sun-rals tipt with death, has borne,
From love, from friendship, country torn,
10 memory 5 fond regrets the prey
lie slave thy yellow dross scorn
20, mix thee with thy kindred clay.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-11-27
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THE REPOSITORY.
LILLIAN OF- TFEE VALE.
T CONCLUDED.


A very remarkable circumstance attending my ac
ouantance with this creature was, that, except on
the above OCCASION never knew what it was to feel
her touch and even here, the sensation was more
that of breeze rustling in my bosom, than of NOR
tai hand. Though perfectly familiar and unsusp-
cious, whenever approached within the possible
ty of touching her, she seemed to fit from me by
ilnperceptible degrees, so that could not at this
moment assert, except from the evidence of sight
and reasoning, that she actually corporeal. In
deed all her habits and actions partook of another
nature. She spoke little expressing herself most
ly by gestures or inarticuate moduations of voice.
When she did utter words, they were breathed in "a
kind of rectative cadence, or, was most ge-
nerally the case, her sentiments were conveyed
in the form of song. l have given few speci-
mems of these and although simplicity is their prin
cipal attribute, when aided by her angelic voice and
expressive gestures, they were the widest and
sweetest imaginable. In fact she had natural turn
for poetlv education had nothing to do with it 8
both her poetry and the music with which she &C
companied it, were irregular and narti6cia, like
the song of bird, the murmur of a brook, or the
sigh of a tree-more the involuntary emanations
than the premedtated combinations OF Sounds
Such of her songs as can recall to memory-tor as
she sung from momentary impulse it was extremely
difficult to find her repeating the same words ex-
cept on similar occasions such of these as could
collect on the instant, will appear in order, whilst
endeavor to give some notion of this extraordinary
girl, with whom the happiest, if not the most ra-
tonal moments of my life were spent
Her mother had often told me that she did not
know how Lillian subsisted She would never sit
down to a regular meal, but would sometimes take
morsel of bread with her when she purposed
distant excursion, and even this would be strewed
on some pathway for the birds who might happen
TO light there. She was impatient of confinement;
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-11-27

and often when her mother had seen her to bed,
on going into her room an hour after, it would be
found empty, and Lillian escaped unseen to wander
by moonlight in the valley. This happened fire.
quently during my residence there and once be-
ing excited by curiosity, l went out in search Of
her and found her in the bottom of del-drinking
dew out of the cups of flowers. Gillian" said !,
"w why have we lost you p "My sisters my SIS
tiers % answered she. "What sisters :" "Look
look said she, pointing to some fantastic shapes IN
to which the spray of the distant cataract form
ed by the reflection of the moon s'Isee nothing
but the river foam dancing in the moonbeams -
"These," she replied, 'these are my sisters
the only sisters Lillian ever knew; Listen do they
not speak to each other ~ Come, you are too
mantle, Lillian the water as it falls murmurs indis-
tinctly and at this distance, misleads you Nearer
then % said the girl, 81 must hear what they say"
And before 1 could interpose, she rushed to the
brow of the cataract and disappeared. Uttering
cry of terror, followed, and just as had reached
the spot where she had vanished, her mother came
to tell me that Lillian had returned to the cottage
l retired to my chamber, lost in ASTONISHING nt at
this singular occurrence. In the morning, when
her mother expostulated with Lillian about the inn
prudence of wandering in the night all, she replied
in roundeay:
The wren hath her nest at the root of tree,
And the tufted moss is the couch Of the bee,
Where rain nor cold hath power to harm her;
The bed of the eagle is built in the sky,
And the bittern in rlshes doth nightly lie;
Then why should Lilian's bed be warmer
Her senses were incontestaby more acute than
belongs to the nature of mortality. She would Of
ten stop in the midst of our conversation, to listen,
as she sale, ito the wind walking over the flowers
and accordingly in little time would perceive
the breeze to swell into transient gust as it pass
ed by the place where we stood Whether in
some instances her romantic imagination might not
have suggested ideal murmurs, l will not decide,
but her delicate perceptions of sound were mostly
verified by fact. remember sitting with her one
sunny day the river bank in sequestered part Of
the vale, when, after fit of contemplative silence,
upon my addressing myself to break it, she raised
her head, and motionng me to be still, began in a
low tremulous voice, scarcely dstingushable from
the mixed murmur which rises from the breast of
the woodland in summer time, kind of irregular
chaunt-
Hear hear
How the vale-bells tinkle all around
AS the sweet wind shakes them-hear!
What wild and sylvan sound
Hear hear
How the soft waves tolk beneath the hank.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-11-27


He sings at his fowery fair
Hear! hear
How the wood-bird murmurs in the dark,
And the distant cuckoo chimes-hear!
From the sun-cloud trills the lark
She could discriminate accurately between the
scents Of flowers of the same Species so as to name
them blindfold. Her sight so fine that she
would detect the mnnows lying on the bed of a
stream, in the darkest weather, when to me they
were indstingushable from the Shiny pebbles OF
the bottoms on putting down straw to the place
she pointed out, they fitted. Her other senses
were equally discriminative.
But in what she chiefly resembled our notions OF
spirit, was the lghtness grace, andpecuiar swift
ness of her motion. Something between flying and
dancing. Her movements were SO rapid that some
times it required great stretch OF superstition to
believe that she actually vanished into the air The
wild and restless life she led, wandering over hill,
DELL rock, and precipice, had given an elasticityto
her foot, which made her seem to tread on air
whilst the slightness of her limbs, formed ON the
most delicate model of beauty and grace, appeared
by the tremulous instability which they gave to her
Frame to indicate necessity for perpetual and ever
VARYING motion. had often dreamed of Attendant
Spirits, Sylphs, Hours, Semi-deities and imagined
beings partaking of double nature, the spiritual
and corporal, beings of an intermediate class,
whose outlines and figures were human, but whose
form was insubstantal whose actions, habits and
thoughts were not preternatural nor supernatural
wholly. but such as human actions, habits, and
thoughts. would be when refined by some celestial
alchemy which would clear them of their grossness
without dvesting them of their specific essence =
with such visionary beings had my waking dreams
been peopled, but never until now were these con-
ceptions apparently realized. This creature ade-
quately represented my preconceived notion OF an
intermediate being.
The surface of the Vale of the Waterfalls was not
uniform. but was broken into numberless hilocKs
and des in miniature nterspersed with the several
varieties of rock, cleft, grove, glade, and decv'ty'
Amid these romantic solitudes Lillian ever stray
ing; every singular characteristic point OF lne
Vale, was to her in place of companion hlhocks'
rocks. shrubs and flowers, the people OF the will
derness were to her in place of society," have ire
ouent1v wandered for the whole day in search Of
| her and perhaps found her at length i'll shady
nook. singing to the wild flowers, or on sunny
hank. dancing round knot of cowsps, or lowering
on the brink Of the torrent, chanting her mystic
verses to its monotonous numbers. Sometimes
have accompanied her from the cottage door, while
she rambled like wild bee from bank to dell, and
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-11-27

Hear hear!
How the blue fly Kisses in the air
With his voice in his tiny wings-hear!
He sings at his fowery fair!
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1824-11-27

Hear hear
How the wood-bird murmurs in the dark,
And the distant cuckoo chimes-hear!
From the sun-cloud trills the lark
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
To he Editors Of The Constitutional his,

1ENTLEMEN-The General Assembly of vrgi-
MIA in February, 1923, passed an Act concerning
1aiiors and for other purposes" 1t appears TO ha We
oeen the intention Of the Legislature by the passage
OIL this Law, tn improve the condition of the Jas,
case would admit, the unfortunate individuals in
carcerated within their walls.
After prescribing the duties of the Tailor in terms
as plain as the English language would admit. that
the requisites Of the law Nigh, be fully CO. piled
with, II is made the duty of the Judges of the SUI
perior Court to appoint a committee of inspection.
anime into the condition of the ails, and the treat
mcnt OF the prisoners, and true report make there
to the court"
And the General Assembly earnestly recommend
that the Judges should every term make personal
inspection, and should il he found that the condition
of the Jail, and the treatment of the prisoners are
not such as the law directs, it is "lawful for the
Judges TO punish the Tailor by a fine, and to dis
charge him from Office"
What, Sirs, l would ask, is the use of this Law (?
Is 1t complied with? No. Who should sec il com
piled with, is a question it would be no difficult
matter To answer. The committee of inspection
f there be one in existence have visited neither of
the JAMS In this county or corporation within the
last four months. The abuses practiscd on the
wretched inmates of our Jais, arc as great if moi
greater than before the passage of the Act above al
iuded to. The two Jails for this county and corpo-
ration produce to the Sheriff profit Of from to
3ooo dollars per aunun,, and he employs Il deputy
to transact all the business for $50 dollars.
Sirs, there is remedy for these evils and il is in
the power OF the people to use it. IOTA.
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.

PHILADELPHIA, MAY 17.--By the arrival
at this port yesterday, of the fast sailing schr.
Mexican, Captain Dawson, in twenty Que day s
from Alvarado, we learn, that carly in tho
month of April the Mexican Congress appointed
a committee of their own body consisting of
eight members, who were directed forth with
TO report the best means of preserving the pub
lie tranquility Of the nation. The committee
brought IN an unanimous report, in which, after
acknowledging the entire want of mora,
strength and energy on the part of the govern
ment, as at present organized and the loss of
confidence on the part of the Provincial AutI.o-
rites and the public generally, they propose as
remedy, that the supreme executive power.
consisting of three, should appoint one of their
own body, who should be styled" Supreme Die
totor Of the .Merican, Republic, to whom should
be given the power 10 appoint Tice Dictator,
to act in all cases ofinability (of the Dictator,
and who should also be Commander in Chief OF
the Military forces of the country. To trans
fer the Government and Congress from the ca
Pital to any other part ofthe country. To APP
point military commanders in any Of the Pro-
vlnces, and dispose of the military forces eener-
ally. To obtain money on the credit of the ma
ton. To resist at pleasure the acts of the Pro-
vmcial Legislators. To solicit foreign aid if ne.
cessary. To exPel foreigners who have not
been naturalised, and finally to annul anv of the
acts of Congress whenever they shall Interfere
with his measures. &c. sc.
The above report was Immediately discussed
IN secret session, and passed by majority of
that body.
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
LATE FROM SPAIN.
PHILADrIpp,.

PHILADELPHIA, May Is.
The private advices received here from main.
would seem to warrant tie opinion, that ,hc
French army of occupation will be withdrawn
ere long, and that another and fierce civil war
vii almost immediately cnsue. France ia oblip-
cd TO support the army altogether, and has no
prospect OF Reimbursement, either for present or
past expenditure. The Spanish government
can scarcely collect wiicrcwithal to meet the ex
agencies OF the Kings household. The old mon
opoiies are restored, but yield very little rcyc,c
nue.. Ills Catholic Majesty has taken that ne
cessary article in the European Catholic coun-
tries, goldfish, under his special protection and
control. The consequence is, that none will bc
shipped direct to a Spanish port, but all to Gi-
braltar, as place OF dcposite, whence it will
be smugglcd into all quarters Of the kingdom.
The importation of grain and -four into Spain.
has been prohibited, that, in the first weeks o.
March, while wheat was selling at Gibraltar at
less Than one dollar per busl,i, the poor Spaniard
within five miles of that place. was obliged to eat
his bread at the rate of two dollars and half
per bushcl Spanish salt, at Gibraltar, was
twelve and half cents, ana the Spaniard paid
one dollar and a half per bushel for it, owing to
the royal monopoly. He is not allowed to saw
that he docs not want salt-that he does not use.
or cannot pay, for il: The salt administration,
or commissioners, Judge for him. and each year
supply each family with such quantity as they
think proper, for which they must pay. 1t was
calculated that the Constitutional party had "a
Their gained, than lost, in numbers, Since the
hing's resolution, notwithstanding the ruthless
persecution to which every thing in the shape of
q liberal, or liberalism, was subjected. Lcpii-
n'acy was supported by the French force alone,
and whether TO stay, or march out, is a problem
for the French government, almost as difficult as
was that of attempting the invasion. To repeat
Invasion in case Of new intestine struggle,
would be attended with difficulties and results OF
a peculiar and aggravated nature. In short,
from the recent condition of Spain, which has
been SO paradoxically styled delivcrancc, the
peace Of Europe, as it is called, may be conicc-
tured to be by no means fully assured.
MAJ. Gds.
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
ERRATi.

The following crrata occurred in the piece
signed ''Republican Of 49," printed on the last
page of our Tuesdays paper.
Accident placed that essay on our last fage--
it was entitled from the beauties of the compo-
siticn, the strength and the lucid arrangement
of its arguments, to the post Of honour, ihe
third page. We invite all readers Convention
lists or An;i-C onventonists, to dispass ionatc
perusal of it, and the numbers which arc TO
succeed-the first viii be pleased at finding
their opinions so ably supported-the last may
ifthey choose, find in it, an ample apology for
conversion to the "true faith"
In the 81 column, Sd paragraphs, 81 line, for
clause, read clauses.
In the 9th paragraph Of the same column, Sc
cond line from the bottom, strike out the word
Of before Ohio.
In the 18th paragraph, same column, in the 18th
line, after the word Information, insert, eli wiH
be seen.n
In the same paragraph, same column, p ]
line, before the t0ord the tree, Insert r.
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

New YORK, (SUNDAY,) May 16.-On Satur-
day evening, about half past o'clock, the
;tteam Boat ETNA, Capt. Robinson, was ont C
way to this city from Washington, N. j. with the
passengers from Philadelphia, by what is called
the &c Citizens Line" and number of way pas
sengers, when in sight of, and about miles from,
the city, bursted both of her boilors. The explo-
violent that almost every thing in tie
cabins was demolished the deck torn to pieces,
and the vessel rendered a complete wreck. But
what renders this occurrence most distress
ing, and has cast gloom the city, is the
destruction of The lives of persons board, to
the number, as near as we can ascertain, o
from | S to 20.
1t has yet been impossible to obtain a list of
the names or number of the persons on board
and there are persons who were 10 expectation
of the arrival of their friends, yet in state of
agonizing uncertainty.
OF the persons killed, who have been rccog-
nized are Mrs. Messeroie, wife of .6Jr. Abra-
ham Messerole, merchant ;.lfrs. Furrnan, wife of
MIR. job Furrnan, merchant; Il sister of
Mr.. f. and Miss FurInan--all of this city.
The way bill Of the Philadelphia coach gives
the names Of Pearcc, 3rncii, Braden, Hcacock
EclSfelt, and .kIrs. Strout, passengers. The
following is list of the names Of the persons
who were sent TO the Hospital on Saturday even
ing, the most of whom belonged TO the steam
boat viz John Winter, born in Philadelphia !;
JObH oHieDS, 0O.i WITS. ann DOIndS, OF no.;
Alexander Croweil, of Jamaica; Nancy Dough-
crty, of Auburn, n. Y; Lefty Taylor, Of New
York Joseph Stevens, of Ireland; .Wicbael
Ecklcft, of Philadelphia; and Thomas Brady,
or BradeD, of Wilmington, Delaware. We
understand 4 or of the above persons have died
Of their wounds, and il is feared several Of the
others cannot survive long, as they said to
be awfl1lly manned.
1t is the opinion of one Of the passengers that
there were about % passengers on board.
Two passengers jumped from the cabin win
dow, one Of whom was drowned. The barkeep
or, Frenchrnan, named Victor Grasse, sprang
overheard TO the relief of the other, whom he sus-
taiucd till a boat came to his relief, but pcrisled
himselfin the attempt, and sunk as the boat was
taking up the man he had saved.
SIX persons were lying dead on board the
boat last evening, most of them females. Ano-
Their was found this morning among the ruins OF
the vessel.
| Some Of the wounded were taken off by the
Health O1icer's boat, and carried to the qusraD-
tine hospital. One of them, it is stated, died on
| board the boat.
: These arc ell the particulars We = 70 yo'
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21

found II possible 10 oo;,in relative TO tic dread
ful disaster.
Immediately after the accident, tho Etna was
taken IN tow by the steam boat United States,
Capt. Beecher, on her way from New Bruins
wick, and brought to the city.
The engine the Etna, il is said, 1--WE know
not with what TRUTH was constructed ON the
high pressure principle, from which most OF the
accidents of tins kind have been caused.
+. ;. .Nrs. Taylor, wife Of u Mr.. John Tay-
Tor, and Miss Bates, daughter OF Captain An
drew Bates, both fthis city, are asccrtained to
be among the number killed.
"A boatman living at Bergen Point, and who
was tho first row boat alongside the steam boat
Htna, after the explosion, states, that he picked
up four hats, one of which contained bill of
iading of goods on board of Thomas ii. Smiths
ship, at Amboy, from Canton. He also picked
up a paper, which was part of Il contract for
making part OF canal in Ohio.
[.uerc. AIDE.
Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-21
EXCHANGE & READING ROOM.

A T the request Of many of the most respectable
"a inhabitants OF this city, the subscriber has bee
induced to open an Exchange and Reading Room,
for the accommodation and convenience of the n,er
chants and citizens generally. The room nov oc-
cupicd by the subscriber and the ADJOINING one will
be opened for that purpose. The Principal newspa-
pcrs and prices current in the United States. and
the most approved periodical reviews nd ma gaines
in this country and Europe win be furnished
Strangers are respectfully invited to visit the Ex-
change.
The annual subscription to the EXCHANGE will be
FIVE dollars, payable in advance. Persons wishing
to subscribe, will be pleased to call at the suhscr-
bcrs Office Due notice will DC given Of the open
ing Of the Exchargc.
The subscriber will sell public stocks Of every
description al auction OF privately.
CARTER 2. PAGE.
Richmond, 1Gih May. tsS5