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Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-02-10
POETRY.
LIBERTY TO ATHENS.

Ii8Ltk IL
o.
The Gag Of freedom floats once more
Around the lofty parthenoni
II waves as waved the palm of yore,
In days departed long and gone.
AS bright a glory from the skies
Poufs down its light around those tow rs,
And once again the Greeks arise,
AS in their country's noblest hours
Their swords are gir in virtues cause
Minerys's sacred hill is free
Oh! may she keep her equal laws,
While man shall live and time shall De-
The pride Of all her shrines went down;
The Goth, the Frank, the Turk hsa IeL1
The laurel from her civic crown;
Her helm by many a sword was cleft;
she lay among the ruins low
Where grew the palm, the cypress rose
And crushed and bruised by raany q oio"'
She covered beneath her savage toes'
But no. again she springs from earthf
Her loud, awakening tr4ppet speaks
She rises in a brighter BIRTH,
And sounds redemption to the Greeks
1t is the classic jubileei
Their servlle years have rolled away;
The clouds that hover'd DER them flee
They hail the dawn of freedoms daylA
From Heaven the golden Ugh descends;
The times OF old are on the wing,
And Glory there her pinion bends,
And Beauty wakes a fairer spring;
The hills Of Greece, her rocks, her waves,
Are all in %oriamph's pomp array'd-
A light that point, Their tyrants' graves
Pays round each bold htheni.n's blade.
The Parthenon, the sacred shrine
Where Wisdom held her pure abo de;
The hill of Mars, where light divine
ProclaImd the true, but unknown God;
Where Justice held unyielding sway,
And ,rampled all corruption down,
And onward took her lotty way
To reach at truths unfsding crown;
The rock where liberty was full,
Where Eloquence her torrents rolld,
And loud against the despot's rule
knell the patriots f4ry TOLD;
The stage whereon the drama spake,
In tones that seem'd the words of Heaven,
Which made the wyetch in terror shake.
As by avenging iuries driveni
The groves and gardens where the fire
OF wisdom as a fountain burn'd,
And every eye that dared aspire
To truth, has long in worship turnid;
The halls and p~orticos where trod
The moral sage, severe, unstain'd,
And where the intellectual god
In all the light Of science reign'd;
The schools where fose in symmetry
The simple, but majestic pile
Where marble threw us ronghness by,
10 glow, to trown, to weep, to smile
Nhere colors made the canvas live.
Where Music rolpd her food along,
And al! the charms that art can give
Were blent with beauty. love, and song;
The port from whose capacious womb
Her nayies took their conquering road,
The heFalds of an awful doom
To all who would not kiss her rod:
On these a dawn of glory springs,
These trophies of her brighter fame;
Away the iong-chain'd city filings
Her weeds, her shackles. aud her shame;
Again her ancient souls awake
Hainodius bares anew bis sword
Her sous IN wrath their letters break,
Aud Freedom is their only lord! pERc1vA1
Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-02-10

Resolutions have been offered in the
Legislature Of Pennsy l%yania, by Mr.
Stetigers wormly app ewing of the Ad-
ministraiion OPP esidsntMonroe. They
had not been acted upon at tie date q
our last alyiees, hutwal no doubt be a.
creed ta.-. al. h..
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

ascertain the opinion of the French
Cabinet relative to the affairs of Greece.
The mission of Mr. Stratiord Canning to
st. Petersburgh is also said 10 be exclu-
slveiy directed TO the same end. NJ. de
Metternich will remain at Paris until
May. He will afterwards proceed to
Nulan, where, it is sad,. an interview
Will take place between the Emperors
OF RussIa and Austria. The Greek com
mittee at Paris is diligently and eGec-
lively employed in aiding the cause of
the Patriots. "Let US hope" says the
Journal des Debots, in conclusion, ".hat
the year will not pass away without the
policy OF Europe being fixed, both in re-
gard t6 Greece and AMERICA
From Madrid we learn that the king
of SPANS health is completely restor-
ed.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

or windpipe, cautions the public against
the fashionable folly of talking and eat
ing at the same time, and adds-"But,
after the beef was so fastened in tina,
situation, the mans life might have been
saved by the simplest means. No crook
ed wires, OF curved instruments what
ever, could be Of any service. The
patient either sitting or standing, an at
tendant should have inserted one thumb
into one nostril, so as, by that nostril,
to prevent the escape of wind; and
with the pipe of a pair of bellows intro
dnced into the other nostril, and the
parts so pressed as to prevent the escape
of wind by that ori6ce; one short, sud
den, strong puff would have remedied
the case in an instant"
For raising early Cabbagcs.-Take from
the stumps of old cabbages, which you
generally set out in the spring, the
most prominent shoots, after they have
sufficiently expanded themselves, and
set them out in the same mode you do
your plants, AID they will Immediately
take root, and afford you very early
and luxuciant cabbage. Those who
have tried this method, affirm that they
are much earlier and by far superior TO
any that can be raised from the plants.
They must be broken from the stumps,
and not cut off, as their small tibres
greatly facilitate their taking root.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13
Asp the sMatls.
NETWORK APRIL 6.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.

NEW-fOHk- APRIL y.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The ship Crisis arrived this forenoon
from London, by which we have receiv-
ed London papers 10 the third Of March.
The contents of these papers, in a
commercial point of view, are extreme
ly interesting, and has produced great
excitement this forenoon among the
mercantile community.
The advance on Cotton in London and
Liverpool has been very great. Advic,
es from Liverpool say, that Uplands
have sold as high as 16d which is a rise
of Adj sterling Id. which we believe
unprecedented.
LONDON, MARCH 2.
The attention of the House Of Com
mons was devoted last night 10 the i'm
portant question Of Roman Catholic
Emancipation. A motion was made by
Sir F. Burdett. that the House should
resolve itself into committee. to take
into consideration the state of the laws
peculiarly affecting his Najes:y's Roman
Catholic fellow-suhjects, with view to
the repeal of those laws. The motion
was seconded by Mr.. Croker, and follow
ed by a long debate, in which Mr.. Leslie
Foster, Mr.. Plunkett, Mr.. Peel, hIr.
Brougham, and other members, partici-
pated. On division, there appeared
for the motion, 247-against it, ESD
majority, Is.
LONDON, MARCH 3,
The Paris papers contain some advic-
es from Greece, contradicting the
groundless rumors respecting the land
ing of Turkish force in the Morea
The .fustrian Observer. the persever-
ing and determined foe of the Greeks, is
compelled at last to admit that all is we'll
on their side, though it adds, Ibrahim
Pacha, "will make preparations for a
real expedition" The appropriations"
of the Turks for the accompanying Of
the Peloponnessus are not much less RI
diculous than those ofFerdnand VII. for
the subjugation of South America. The
Observer repeats, after the Greek Jour-
mails, without ventLring to contradict the
fact, that the internal troubles of the
Morea are entirely appeased; and it
states on its own authority, that Omar
Pacha has proceeded with his troops
from Arta TO Joannina, contrary 10 The
Sultan's order 10 repair TO Salonicha.
SIC this be the case,'; adds the AustTian,
there is nothing for him to>do, but for
mally join the insurgents" In this way,
as we have often predicted, the insur-
rection against Ottoman despotism will
spread, until the empire is in danger OF
total Acknowledgement, from the intol-
cradle pressure of the vices Of its weak
and barbarous Government. The diff
Guilty will be, not for the Greeks 10 with
stand the attacks Of power, which, for
the last four years, it has "beaten and
BUNDLED" in every campaign and in ev-
cry encounter, but in case the war be
continued, for the Turks 10 find the
means Of holding together the unwieldy
and heterogeneous mass which yet sub
mits to their sway.
The Journal des Debates states, that il
is believed at Paris, by persons Of good
information, that the object of the Prince
de Metternich's visit TO that capital is to
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13
BOSTON, APRIL 9.
VERY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

Il is our melancholy duty to record
one Of the most destructive fires which
has occurred in this city for many years.
About half past len O'Clock, on Thurs
day night, fire was discovered in store
occupied by the lhspector-General of
Fish, in Doane, near State street, which
being an old wooden building, became
Immediately ignited, and communicated
the fire 10 some shops of mechanics adj
Jacent In very short time the de-
struc;ive element spread in various d.
rections with fury which appeared TO
defy all efforts 10 contract it !; and pene-
trated through many partition walls of
the best built brick stores.
The wind, at north, was not very
strong, but. owing TO the narrowness Of
the avenues in that commercial part Of
The clty-the continuity Of the buildings
the intensity of the neat of the com
bustlbleS In several Of the shops and
stores which first took lire--a scantiness
OF water and other causes-all exer-
tlons of the citizens, who were earlv at
the fire, 10 arrest the destruction, were
for long time completely baliled, and
the principal part of elegant stores in
CentTai-street, many on the east side Of
kilby-strecf, and on Liberly-square TO
the Commercial Coffee House. including
hive on State and four on Broad-street,
were wholly destroyed. Many of the
occupants Of the stores, relying on the
fre-proof Of their buildings, were not in
haste to remove their properly, till too
late to effect it IN safety. Much, how
ever, was saved, and the efforts made
in its preservation by the trucks, carts,
&c. which in some instances blocked un
the streets, very considerably retarded
tn. operations, and interrupted the ar
| engagements of the !irewards and engine
men TO prescribe limits to the desl1uc-
ton. The streets, courts and houses,
for a considerable distance around the
scene of conilagration, were filled with
valuable goods, foreign products, and
American manufactures and number
of the military corps, with praisewor-
thy alacrity, assembled in arms to guard
the preserved property OF their suffering
fellow-citiZens. The extent OF the loss
by this calamity has not been ascertain
ed. Calculations on such losses are fire.
quent!y wild. Those most TO be relied
on, do not make them exceed 100000
dollars, including the buildings. 1t is
thought that such improvement may be
made in new allotment of the vacant
land, as to realize TO the owners larg
Ell. sum than they valued it at, buildings
and all. Many of the sufferers were
fully insured, aud others partially so;
the claims on the Insurance Offices. il is
said, will amount TO 100000 dollars
Many of the stores were considerably
glutted before the fire took them. We
have taken some pains TO collect the fol-
lowing account of the sufferers.
Occnpaats, S'c. on State-Strect.
Francis Whitney, w. India goods, No.
9o.-Johnson s. Sewell, the chambers;
Hastings s. Marsh, Paints and Dve-
Stuiis, No. 81 Samuel Thaxtcr g. Son.
Mathematical Instrument Makers, No.
80; Payson Perrin g. Co. Iron store
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

rights OF persons, runs to the popular air
OF "Life let US cherish, &C." This may
seem TO some the ne plus uItra of harmo-
MES; but London composer, designs 10
go beyond it, by setting the Tooth Ache
to music, expecting to produce such per-
feet chords that the nearer will suppose
himself suffering this dreadful malady.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

Hoo to ertract meat from the wind-
pips.-Mr. James Ogden, in late Liv-
erpool paper, in noticing an account Of a
man losing his life from piece of meat
being accidentally fastened in the trachea,
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

The celebrated Mannheim Telescope,
the masterpiece of the famous Spaiger,
a Hungarian optician, was destroyed a
few years ago. in most singular man
ner. A servant of the observatory hav-
ing taken out the glasses TO clean them,
put them in again, without observing
that cat had crept into the tube. Al
night, the animal being alarmed at the
strong power of the lunar rays, eideav.
ored to escape; but the effort threw
down the instrument, which, falling to
the ground from the top of tower, was
broken in pieces. Lon. paper.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13
PARIS. ZEE. o7.

PARIs. FEB. 81.
Captains Of merchant vessels on their
passage heard at Chios, on The 18th OF
tins month, that 26 Greek vessels and
4 fire-ships had been overtaken near
Cassos, by Turkish frigate escorting 4
transports. AZ the story was told, the
i:Igate was burnt, and three of the,
transports taken.
Accounts from Syria of the 18th state
that dissensions have arisen between
the Turks in Gambia and the Egyptians,
and that blood has been split on both
sides.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

HAMBURG, FEB. 22.
We have the following from Madrid :.
The report is circulated here that our
Government has received notification
from the Holy Alliance that the High
Allied Powers were not in a condition TO
aid Spain in re-couqueriDg her piovin-
ces beyond the seas.
PARIS, MARCH /.
Events of great Importance are, it is
said, preparing in Egypt. The Pacha
makes great efforts TO civilize his coun-
try; twenty thousand troops are being
instructed in European tactics, by order
OF the Pacha. Several French Generals.
among whom are mentioned Boyer and
LivFon, accompanied by certain num-
Der of half-pay or discharged officers,
are arrived at Cairo, where they are en-
ployed by the Pacha: il is said that
their departure was not unknown TO the
French Ministry. Manufactures and
Assurance Companies are establishing in
Egypt, and there is, it is said, newspa-
per about 10 be created.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

eating, and manufacturing interests of the
North do not call on us TO aid and support
them, by united counsels and united efforts.
But abstain from enlarging on this topic.
Let me rather say, sir, that in regard 10 the
whole country, new era has arisen. In a
time of peace, the proper pursuits of peace
engage society with a degree of enterprise,
and an intenseness Of application heretofore
unknown. New objects are opening, and new
resources developed, on every side. We
tread on broader theatre; and if instead OF
acting our parts, according 10 the novelty and
importance OF the scene, we waste our strength
IN mutual elimination and recrilnination "a
bout the past, we shall resemble those navi-
gators, who having escaped from some crook
ed and narrow river to the sea, now that the
whole ocean is before them, should, neverthe-
less, occupy themselves with The differences
which happened as they passed along among
the rocks and the shadows. instead OF opening
their eyes to the wide horizon around them,
spreading their sail to the propitous gale that
woos It, raising their quadrant to the sun, and
graspins the helm, with the conscious hard of
q master.
The following extract from letter from DR..
Drake OF Lexington, Kent. to the Editors Of
the National lntelligenccr, goes TO show
that the course pursued by Henry Clay rel
alive to the Presidential Election, was fixed
upon with deliheration, and that there is no
ground for the imputations which have been
cast upon him in consequence of his vote.
LEXINGTON, KEN. MARCH I.
"GENTLEMEN At different times, before
NjoNy lafi III -, L.
tall, had conversations with him on the SUBJ
Ject OF a choice of President by the House of
representatives. In all Of them he expressed
himself as having long before decided in favor
OF MIR. Adams, in case The contest should lie
between that gentleman and Gen. Jackson.
My last interview with him was, think, the
day before his departure, when he was still
more explicit, as it was then certain that the
election would be transferred to that ;ribu-
nal, and highly probable that he would not
be among the number returned. In the course
OF this conversation, took OCCASION to express
my sentiments with respect to the delicate
and dithcult circumstances under which he
would be placed--on which he remarked,
that could not more fully apprehend them
than he did himself, but that nothing should
deter him from the duty Of giving his vote,
and that no state Of things could arise, that
would justify him in preferring General Jack
son to Mr.. Adams, or induce him to support
the former. So decisive, indeed, were his
declarations on this subject, that had he vot-
ed otherwise than he did, should have been
compelled to regard him as deserving that
species of censure which has been cast upon
him for consistently adhering to an early and
deliberate resolution.
"DANlEL DRAKE, NJ. D."
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

Olden Times The following ex-
tracts, from an interesting historical
work, recently published in New Hamp
shire, by N. Adams, Esq. will afford "a
musement 10 the reader.-ln the year
I649, the Governor, Deputy Gov. and
magistrates formed an association for the
purpose of preventing the wearing Of
long hair, and the following was one of
the articles which they signed.
Forasmuch, as the wearing Of long
hair, after the manner of rufhans and
barbarous Indians, has begun to invade
New-England, contrary to the rule Of
Gods word, which says it is shame for
a man TO wear long hair, as also the
commendable custom generally, of all
the godly of our nation until these few
years: we the magistrates who have
subscribed this paper (for the shelving
of our own inuocency in this behalf) do
declare and manifest our DISLIKE and de-
testaton against the wearing of such
long hair, as against thing uncivil and
unmanly, whereby men do defnrn them
selves, and offend sober and modest men,
and do corrupt good manners. We do
therefore earnestly entreat all the ell
ders of this jurisdiction Gas often as they
shall see cause to manifest their zeal
against it, in their public administrations,
and to take care that the members of
their respective churches be not defiled
Herewith, that so, such as shall prove
obstinate, and will not reform them
selves, may have God and man to wit
ness against them"
".l662, SEPT. 25th. At town meet
ing, ordered that cage be made, or
some other means invented by the Sc
lect men, to punish such as sleep, or
take tobacco on the Lords Day out Of
the meeting, in the time of the public
exercise"
"1672, MARCH 12. Voted that if any
shall smoke tobacco in the meeting
house, at any public meeting, he shall
pay fine of FIVE shillings, for the use
Of the town."
Musical Mania.-EDglsh journals in
form US, that Esop's Fables have been
turned into verse by Dibdin and set to
music by Whitaker, and German has
actually verslfed and SET to music JUS
tiuian's Code of Law. The title of the
piece is Roniscyuristishes Gesansbuch,
Leipsig, 1894. Each chapter is SCI TO a
l. - Al
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

Uncommon Liberality,-A woman
whose humble sphere of life had made
her consider treacle as the greatest lux
ury in the world, in sweetening the tea
of her minister was surprised to find him
decline an extra quantity of moasses,
and exclaimed" Do take some sir, II
the tea acre all moIasses, 1t could not be
too good for you."
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

TIE French ReUolution.-So little was
life valued at that dreadful epoch, that
the jailor of the Abbey, having TO send
twenty-eight persons TO the scaffoId, on
ly twenty-seven answered TO their names
-" Gentlemen, (said he,) | have twenty
eight on my list, and ! cannot 60 with.
out them. Here are only twenty-seven
arrange it as you like, but my number
must be completed" One ofthe prison.
ers, who had been tried, instantly said
+" Well, day sooner or later is no mat.
ter; Twill make up the number" He
did so, and was guillotined.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

Longevity IN Virginia. The last Pc
tersburgh InteIligencer mentions the
death Of five persons in the house
of that town, within the last two months,
whose united ages amounted TO 522
years; consisting of white woman aged
lie, negro man 10, his wife los, anoth-
er negro 95, and another do. 100.
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

.4nswer to the .4,,agram aohich appeared in this
paper Of the 9Th inst.
From the National Journal
EVIL is that which all men deprecate;
Things that are VILE the good are apt to
hate,
Shifted again, your favorite word we hail;
What lady promenades without VEIL?
Your other word. more happy yet, you give
Pray, where's the wight who does not wish to
LIVE?
So, without many vigils," believe
Have found your pretty name out, Mr.. LEVI.
Z.
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The following neat specimen of bad
spelling is copy ola notice posted in
the town of Chulmleigh, (Eng.) -
" Now,open,for, Sail at the Butchers
arms a, larg, a, Sortmint, of Superfine
Brod, Cloth, and Beever of Divers Cul-
ers ollie Sail and Retale buy the Nanny
facter."
Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-13

Talue Of Printing.--In 1874, the
price of small Bible, neatly trauscrib-
ed, was thirty-tOoo pounds, sum equal to
at least too or three hundred pounds OF
our money. A good and clearly printed
Bible may be had for tpo or. three shil-
lings.-It is related, that the building of
the two arches of London Bridge cost
only 25l which is 81. less than what a
copy Of the Bible sold for many years
afterwards. These facts afford Curl
Gus commentary on the changes and ad-
vantages produced by the extraordinary
invention Of Printing, which has done
SO much to alter or shake all the institu-
tons of the world, wherever the press
has appeared.
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CONTRACTION BY COLD.

Some years ago, it was observed at
the Conservative des Arts ct Meiiiers,
at Paris. that the two side walls of a
gallery were receding from each other,
being pressed outwards by the weight
OF the roof and floors. Several holes
were made in each wall. opposite to one
another, and at equal distances, through
which strong iron bars were introduced,
so as TO traverse the chamber. Their
ends outside of the wall were furnished
with thick iron disco, firmly screwed on.
These were sufficient to retain the walls
in their actual position, but 10 bring
them nearer together would have sur
passed every effort of human strength.
All the alternate bars of the series were
now heated at once by lamps, in conse-
quence of which they were elongated.
The exterior discs being thus freed
| from the contact Of the walls, they
could besadvanced further on the screw
ed ends of the bars. On the bars pro.
jecting on the outside of the walls from
the elongation, the discs were screwed
up; on removing the lamps the bars
cooled, contracted aud drew in the walls
The other bars became in consequence
loose, and were then also screwed up
The first series Of bars being again heat
ed, the process was repeated; and by
several repetitions the walls were res.
tored TO their original position. The
gallery still exists with its bars, TO attest
the ingenuity of its preserver, NJ. Mol.
ard. Masonic Mirror.