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The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1825-12-24

by song OF poets never nam'd,
UNMARKED by any sculptur'd stone.
lis there beneath the rocks bold brow.
And lash'd by every foaming wave,
The child OF sorrows eyes may view,
The poor deserted madman's grave
The sea-pink droops its feeble head,
The lonely nigh,-hawk screaming flies
Above the spot where low and dead,
The maniac's form for ever lies,
No plated mockcry held his frame.
No train Of friends wcpt DER his bier;
No child sobb'd loud fathers name,
Or kiss'd speeches mothers tear
Long, long beside the dangerous shore
Beneath the wint'ry blast he stray'd,
And mingled with the oceans roar
The dreadful cries he nightly made
His feet BY every rough rock torn,
Through snares of death he urg'd his way +
With him despair rose every morn,
And cos'd each sad and cherries day,
Yet dark oblvon's gloomy veil,
Der all his senses was not flung
The midnight wandeFer heard the tale,
OF deep distress flow from his tongue
Remembrance racild his tortur'd BRAN
Where hope had fed, adreadful guest,
And incoherence mark "a the strain,
Which signs conveyed from misery breast
DtFe was uie hSut, WAen ms last cry
Pierced sad and oft the troubled air:
The sun rose DER the Fairhead high
But shonc upon no maniac there.
The storm may raise the troubled sea,
The wild winds Der the mountain rave
The maniac's soul from pain is free
He sleeps in yonder nameless grave
Oh God of heaven on me look down;
Though dark distress be ever mine,
I ct III I,.r 81,
And VIII bear, and not repine.
With reason all my steps to guide
My soul shall shine Supremacy brave,
When mercy shuns the vault of pride,
And peace wide opens misery's grave Nj
*Ballycastle bay is formed by the promontor
Fairhead aud Bengore it is very unsafe fro
ne prevalence of westerly winds.
t A mine was discovered near the Fairhea9, whio
ad been worked some hundred years since
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scene is cooured by the fairy pencil of fancy, But
he at length finds, that sorrows obtrude upon his
gay moments the warm ideas of innocent friend
ship that have roved through his mind, frequently
prove erroneous. He turns with apathy from the
realty finds that he is alone in the world, when lie
expected to be living in the days of joy. He has
pa,sed through the wild hilarty of youth, dashed
among the breakers and now is willing to moor in
safe harbor. 1t is then that reason ascends her
throne. And what then Why, fair reader, it tells
him, that he needs helpmate; one that will cling
70 him with the fond tenderness of her nature whose
10y will be in bis smile.
90 happy state where souls each other draw,
g Where love IS liberty, and nature law"
Then comes the joy Of the : bridal feast !; congo
nal spirits are blended into one. The dream of
youth has ceased but reality more fair has sue
eeeded Yes, be has chosen one who will remain
firm when the gay friends of youth disappear
Together they will go forth to struggle against the
current sail along in the sunshine Of prosperity
Their aim is the same, their affections are linked to-
gether
. Time but the impression stronger makes.
8 As streams their channels deeper wear.'
Such are the fances that float around, when a
gay and smiling bride is before US Life is robbed
Of her Ills, and robed in smiles.
lie who passes through life, without ever feeling
the soft rapture Of that charm which woman possess
cs, when age has whitened his locks and the Incl
dents Of her pilgrimage pass in review before him,
viii acknowledge that wedding scenes are sunny
spots that glitter on the landscape Of his memory
they afe scenes in which he would willingly become
Interested partcipitator; for he now feels that
lc is alone in the world there is no heart that
beats in unison with his, no hand to smooth the p-
i,w where anguish dwells nor hang with fondness
Of affection the fevered frame.
But very different are the feelings Of the young
and enthusiastic, when they mnge with the we'd
ding Joy, and gaze upon happy groom and sml
ing bride. They have thousand fairy links woven
N chain around them by the busy hand of Cupid.
II their fancy is centered object they long to
make her bride, to see her cheerful and happy
and if not, their eyes will roam around to find fair
one worthy of the affections they have to bestow
Yes, at such times, there is rapture in the thought
JOY in the anticipation of that day, when the sun
Will shine sweetly upon their happiness when
Their destiny shall be linked together he to protect
and cherish, she TO love and TO soothe Thus one
wedding creates another. May they be frequent
VANITY INSCRIBED ON ALL THINGS.
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TEE MANIAC.


In the year 1898, an unknown maniac, whose
dress and figure bore the vestiges of once bet
ter lot, wandered to Ballycastle, beautiful vii
lage on the shore Of the county Of Antrim, Ire
land. He was sullen, melancholy, and incom-
municatve: his days and nights were spent a.
mong the lofty rocks in the neighbourhood of
the bay and his food was the shell fish or sea
weed that was washed in by the tide. A life Of
such hardship and privation would soon have
terminated the career of one endued with unim-
paired reason f; but insanity hardens the consti-
tuition by depriving it of sense of its affection,
and by diyerting the mind from real, to mag gina
~ objects. At certain periods of the month his
sullenness was changed to frenzy he would
then groan and shrek as if suffering from ex-
cesslve anguish, and although the neighbouring
peasantry were frequently disturbed by his
nightly meanings, yet as he never attempted
any act Of violence, they suffered him unrestrain-
cd to indulge his misery. For several weeks he
continued thus alternately melancholy or outra-
geous, until one night, in the latter end Of july.
when the neighhouring cottagers were awaken
ed by the loudness and horror of his shreks.-
For while they continued violent, then grew
fainter, and at length sunk in total silence
Early the following morning a fisherman arose
to examine the kep kiln, which he had lit the
night before, when the shocking spectacle Of
the half consumed maniac met his sight The
wretched sufferer, while wandering on the pro
jectng ledge Of steep cliff, had missed his
footing, tumbled down the precpice. ard rolled
into the blazing kiln, which burned at the base
Of the rock His mutilated remains were en-
veloped in piece Of sal-cloth, and buried in
little green recess at the foot of the precpce
from which he fell. The verdure of this spot is
rendered more lively, by being contrasted with
the gray tnts of the surrounding rocks: it is a
dorned with seapnk and other marine flowers,
and on no part of the romantic shores of Antrim
does the traveller of taste feel emotions more
varied, or sensations more interesting, than on
the spot where heaves
THE MANAGES CRAVE,
Where Ralns fierce contenIing tides,
In storms and Gains incessant roar,
And rudely lash the moss grown sides
of Ballycastle's rock bound shore
Where western winds for age prevail
And ch!de the weary wanderers stay
Who crowd the heaven aspiring sail,
And swiftly fly the dangerous bay.'
Where the dark mine Of old 80 f4n'd+
Now echoes to the tempest's moan
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VANITY INSCRIBED ON ALL THING

VANITY INSCRIBED ON ALL THINGS.
Time, like long flowing ,tream, makes haste
INTO eternity and is forever lost and swallowed
up there; and, while it is Fastening to its peri
od, It sweeps away all things with it which are
not immortal. There is limit appointed by
Providence to the duration of all the pleasant
and desirable scenes Of life, to all the works of
the hands of men, with all the glories and ex-
cellencies Of animal nature, and all that is made
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TEE: ER0SxToRY 8.
a SOLDIERS FAITH.
FROM THE LITERARY GA

FROM THE LITERARY GAZETTE.
Never shall forget their bridaI-earth
scarce contained aught more lovely than
Maria as she passed the portal Of the viii
iase church, and FASTENED to escape the
admlring gaze Of the rustic crowd. Maria
was barely eighteen; the light of beauty
danced 10 her deep blue eye: but on this,
her bridal morn, its long silken lash hid
more than half its brightness, aud the
snowy ven which fell over her auburn
tresses' was not paler than her cheek.
had loved her ere left my fathers roof !;
Dat had no patrimony excerpts proud
name and soldiers fortunes and Maria
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been all through the low grounds to find them -"
The water was streaming from her gray hairs, and
she crying and sobbing as though her heart
would break The gentleman Immediately recog
nized the features of Mother Danforth in the afct-
ed grandmother, and at once proposedher mounting
behind him. She had been a famous rider in her
day, and ventured to accept the offer. The horse
was ranged alongside Of wndfall, from which the
old woman mounted. The gentleman took the
torch in his hand, and moved slowly towards the
hut, about two miles from the place where he had
taken her up. The gentleman called the old wo-
ran by name, which she thought indeed, a piece of
witchcraft-and he endeavored to console her, BY
assuring her that her grand children could not be
lost. The woods, he said, were not sufficiently
large now to lose them in, they once were, when
She first settled in that place-that few hours of
daylight would bring them home. She was quiet
until they near the hut, when she burst into
fit of ecstacy, tnged with little ofthe tone of vexa
ton, and exclaimed" The brats are safe don't
you hear them call me y The COW, too, had found
her way home, and all were happy. The gentle
man entered the cabin, and waited until the shower
had passed away--a few shillings distributed a.
n,ongst the group, made them the happiest of NOR
tails. The visitor left them, believing in wchcraft;
iorhc found there was sorcery in parental tears,
which had made him associate with, and protect and
,oothe old age, ugliness, and infamy
The last was Moll Pitcher of Lynn; but she was
50 veil known to most persons, that their recoIlec-
ions VIII be better than any description. She had
the thin lips, the arched eyebrows the chappv fin
gers, and that srewdness, which have 50 often been
the characteristics of those who have deceived the
world by pretending to tell fortunes, or to find lost
goods. 1t can do no harm to ainuse ourselves by
the history Of any dclusion when it has passed
The age of reasonh come, and superstition is now
shaking from her raven wing the last dew-drop
swept from the fens Of ignorance, and the light of
knowledge has broken the enchanters wand and
the sorcerers cup. The deluson has not only pass
ed from the high places Of intelligence, but the
laughing loves" of the nursery amuse themselves
with the tales Of the credulity of former days
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ON TEMPER.

1t is observed that every temper is in
clined in some degree, either to passNn.
Peevishness, or obstinacy; many are SO
unfortunate as to be inclined to each Of
the three in turn; il is necessary, there
fore, to watch the bent Of our nature, and
TO apply the remedies proper for the in
trinity to which we are most Liable
With regard to the first, il is so injurious
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descent-and lived on. My brother
soldiers dashed the red stream from the
cleaning steel, and shouted victory! till
the very skies seemed to echo back the
pealing Of their voices, and stood by ia
silence, and only asked to perish
We left the fair land Of fame and cor
quest, and babe adieu to my fellow-soi-
diers forever: they pressed around me
with generous warmth, and besought my
stay; but | was a moody and wretched
man, and their words were those Of cCur-
tesy and compassion! There is spell
10 the thought Of home 81 will return
home and die" murmured: it was
vain idea, for my father was in his grave,
my sister welded in foreign land-I was
alone; but Maria dwelt near the spot
where had once been happy, and her
proximity was resting place for the
wounded spirit. But even that link in the
cankered chain of existence was unriyet-
ed: Maria had dropped beneath the wi
therng breath Of unkindness she slept
in the cold ground | hurried to the
church-yard two marble tombs cleaned
pale in the moon-light-they shroudcd
the ashes Of her lovely babes; but her
own grave was obscure and unlcttercd,
and the rank grass which covered it wav-
ed darkly to the night-breeze, like hearse
1lumes. She had willed lowly, but not
forgotten resting place; and cast my
self on the neglected grave, and pluck
ed from it every bitter weed, and trimmed
the long dark grass; and shed no tear
as performed the mournful duty-Maria
was al peace; she slept with her children.
Ere left the spot, my eye fell on the me
dial which hung at my breast; the moon
beams glanced brightly on it, as if in
mockery; it was all that now linked me
TO my fellow meu-all that yet cherish
ed on earth. | scooped marrow hole IN
the green turf on her breast, aud there
deposited my treasure. 1t is The only Of
fering Of my Inflated love; il will be nv
witness with Maria in brighter world,
that did my duty to my country
| slowly left the graveyard, and drew
near to take t.look at the habitatioa
which was once Naria's Feasunr and
revelry resounded through the vast apart
ments: Maria's lord had taken another
bride. paused for one moment, to look
on her full black eye and deeply tinted
cheek-from that hour life has been
blank, and have moved amid the worlds
scenes as passionless as breathing corsc.
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ed l looked upon her ldegroom-every
feature was replete with manly beauty,
and each wellknit limb might have form
ed study for the fastidious statuary !;
and yet | gazed upon him till my heart
sweled almost to bursting, and turned
once more to look upon Maria, and wish
ed that day had chosen her another lord
Never shall | forget that dark, deep,
earth-turned eye, or the naughty lip with
its triumphant and fearful smile l left
my native village; sighed not one fare
well to Maria. After her marriage we
feared TO meet she felt that | loved her,
and her own heart, more stubborn than
her nature, resisted even vet the harsh
mandate of an unyielding parent; she
knew it, and she shrunk not from her
duty. Again left my home, and the sun
OF Spain darkened my brow, and her wars
nerved my spirit to greater daring; but
| retired from her naughty daughters
with slckening soul, for | thought Of
Maria, and her fatal destiny, and | clung
70 her remembrance as if my hopeless
truth could in aught avail her Years
sped on, and my heart yearned to revisit
the home of my childhood-the birth
place OF my first hopes l trod its path
with hrm step, but the sun-ray which
glanced on me In the home Of my fathers,
rested on the SCARED features of a war
scathed soldier; sbrunk from the ref1ec-
ton" Should Maria now look on me,
how would she deem me changed y 1t
was foolish thought, and in the next
moment blushed for its conception. NV
stay was brief, yet, ere again became a
wanderer, once more beheld Maria: she
had been the mother Of two blooming
boys, but they had withered, like roses
devoured by the foul worm which feasts
on beauty. saw her lord, too; the voice
Of murmur was on his tongue, and his
eye scowled reproachfully as he threw il
on his young brIde-the pale cheek grew
yet paer beneath the gance-the soft
blue eye swelled with the drop Of silent
suHerng-the heaving bosom struggled
to repress the sigh which threatened to
escape it-and fed ere my tongue gave
utterance TO the curse my heart engender-
ed. became loudest in the revel, but
could not drown the memory Of that low
sttied Sigh mingled in the train Of
beauty, but the deep eye with its large
tear was ever in the throng, and every
pale cheek on which | gazed in my wan
behring's recalled the memory Of Maria
Again the tented field was my abode, the
green sward my resting place-again my
nlght-slumber was amidst the brave, and
my day-dream Of conquest and Of glory
many bold and buoyant heart slept in
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Twenty-Five Dollars Reward.

STRAYED or Stolen from the subscriber, at Wnissqun
~ Summerset county, Md. in January last Dark Bay
Horse, saddle and bride, sixteen hands high, well
broke racks, tros and canters, his tail lightly kncked
res when rode also catches the bits in his teeth when
reted. He has white spots back of his sht
ear also the ar rubbed off the curls each side of his
neck as if had been and the inside OF his right
hind foot is scar accustomed by snag when colt The
said horse is years old of spare body and is three
quarters blooded The above reward will be paid if the
horse is delivered to Stephen EM Laureltown, or 10
the subscriber. THOMAS ROBURTSON Of Go.
18th Feb 1925. 24-4tp
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT., February /, 1926.

4
OTlCE is hereby given to the Proprieors of the per
1 cent. Stock, commonly called the Treasury note
per cent. Stock issued in pursuance of the Act of Con-
grtss passed the 24 February, 1885, that the Prnci-
pal OF the said Stock and the Interest which may be due
thereon at the time, will be paid to the said Propetors
to their attorneys duly authorized, the LIST day Of April
next at the Treasury in Washington, such Loan Of
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may stand.
Inflammation is further given that surrender of the
Certificates of the said per cent Stock will be required
the time of redemption, and that the Interest thereon
will cease and determine the 31st Of March next.
VIM. II CRAWFORD,
22-l3t Secretary of the Treasury.
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10 the FRIENDS IF UELAW.ARE and
CHURCH ESTdBLISH,1IE,NT

ME Managers of the Lottery for he benefit of ST. Pc
,er's Church, in the Borough of Wilmington, with
eat satisfaction that the Honorable the Legls-
ure, has been pleased to extend the time allowed for
mpetng the necessary contemplated small classes, so as
enable them what they have lost by delay in
~ng the previous ones, owing to the neglect of their
lends, the sale of foreign tickets, and the consequent
cessy OF drawing The Lottery at periods, with
half unsod add to which, the public drew all the pri.
IS and the Church left minus, but they hope thro'
ct punctuaty in paying prizes, and by drawing the Lot
|y the honorable New Series plan, has ither
been conducted and which has been universally prais-
they will still obtain liberal preference and patronage,
ch partly, Trustees of the Church, and managers
the Lottery they will endeavour TO Deserve on account
the credit Of the institutions their regard to chUac
and the benefit of the public The following scheme
presented for appreciation, being the best yet presen
u to the public.
Py authority of the State of Delaware.
DELAWARE STATE LOTTERY,
Fifth Class-New Series
for the benefit Of st. Peters Church in Whining
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ORPHANS COURT.

A ORPHANS COURT will be held at Newcastle, in
"A and for the County of Newcastle, Monday the
Eleventh day Of April next at O'Clock in the forenoon
before the Honorable NICHOLAS RIDGELY, Chancellor of
the State OF Delaware composing the Orphans Court
said Couny-Wlen and where all persons who have re.
turns to make to the said Court other business will
please to give their attendance
BY order ofhe said Co,rt
ATTEST, MATTHEW KEAN, Cpk O. c.
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SHERIFF'S SALES,
By PETER b. UELa,NY. SHERIrF
Y, SHERIFF..

lY virtue Of writ of yend exponas to me directed will
- be exposed to public sale, at the house of Henry
Steele, in Newcastle hundred, Wednesday the 2nd day
of March next, at O'Clock, p. M the following desert
bed lands and tenements situate, lying and being in the
Village of Newark and hundred of White Clay Creek and
county Of Newcastle, frame house and Kitchen black.
smiths and wheewrghs shops, frame stable and carriage
house thereon erected adjoining lands of Joseph Chamber
lain heirs of John MBeath decd and others containing
one fourth of acre or less. Seized and taken in
execution as tine property of .96el Tyson.
Newcastle, Feb. Q, 1926. 23-4t
virtue of writ of vend exponas to me directed will
- be exposed to public sale, at the house of John
Ball in the village of ST. Georges, Saturday The 18TH
day of March next, at O'Clock, p. NJ the following des.
cribed farms situate, lying and being in the hundred of
Red Lion and county of Newcastle, to wit No. farm
in said hundred, bounded by No. 3: lands Of William
Hurock, James NJ. Broom and Others with frame dwell
ing house and kchen granaiy stable and other build
or less No 2 farm said hundred, bounded by No l.
lands of William Vandegrf estate of Henry Frombergrr,
Decd and others, with log dwelling house, kitchen and
other out buildings thereon erected, containing two hun
bred less, together with all and singular thu
movements thereon erected Seized and taken in exc
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ID virtue of writ of vend exponas to me directed will
Id be exposed to public sale, the house # Daniel
flames, Mdletown, in ST Georges hundred. Thursta,
the 10th day of March next at O'Clock, p. Nj. the fol
lowing described plantation of lands aud improve
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ton or farm with brick dwelling house and kiicen smoke
house, barn. graary, CRIBS, stables and good apple
orchard thereon erected, bounded by lands Of Robert
Maxwell, William Rumsey, No. and Others containing
two hundred acres less No 9: plantation or
farm, in said hundred with frame dwelling house and
kitchen, smoke house and other buildings thereon
erected bounded by No. lands of Robert MAXWELL john
Eddowes and Others containing two hundred acres more
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and appurtenances thereuno belonging Seized and Ia
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NOTICE.

adjourned meeting OF the Commissioners of the Levy
"A Court Of Newcastle County will be held at the Court
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and on Tuesday the first day of March next the SAID Com
The Assessors of the respective Hundreds are requested
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to present them tor settlement, duly attested, to
80 PETER O'DAN1EL, .4l,n'r.
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