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The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
From the Boston Spectator
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The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26

Union and the building up OF southern mon
archy; and then, prisoner answering to the
charge of high treason at the bar Of his coun-
try. A man, who; perhaps, considered~Eith
reference to the powers of mind alone, had no
superior; has now no superior. But he left
the path of honorable virtue |; and he IS, what
you may see him-a solitary being in the midst
ger as mere object of curiosity.
Trenton EmpOrittne.
The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
Just Published, and for Sale at this Office
VIEW OF THE HEBREWS,

TRIBES OF ISRAEL IN AMERICA.
Exhibiting The destruction of Jerusalem,-
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The present state of Judah and Israel.--S
= An Address of the Prophet Isaiah to the
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Second Edition, Improved and Enlarged.
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The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
From the Museum of For. Lit. and Sci.
THE VAUDOIS VALLEYS.


YES thou hast met the suns last smile
From the haunted hills of Rome;
By many bright Egean isle =
Thou hast seen the pillows foam:
From the silence of the Pyramid
Thou hast watch'd the solemn fiOw
OF the Nile, that with his mantle hid
The ancient realm below:
Thy heart hath burn'd as shepherds sang
Some wild and warlike strain.
Where the Moorish horn once proudly rang
Through the pealing hills Of Spain:
And DER the lonely Grecian streams
Thou hast heard the laurels moan,
With sound yet murmuring in thy dreams
Of the glory that is gone.
But go thou to the hamlet-vales
OF the Alpine mountains old,
IF thou wouldst hear immortal tales,
By the winds deep whispers told
60, if thou lov'st the soil to tread
Where man hath bravely striyen,
And life like incense hath been shed,
An offering unto heaven!
For DER the SHOWS and round the pines
Hath swept noble food,
The nurture of the peasants vines
Hath been the martyrs blood.
A spirit, stronger than the sword, a.
And loftier than Despair,
Through all tn heroic region pour'd,
Breathes in the generous air.
A memory clings to every steep
OF long-enduring Faith,
And the sounding streams glad record keep
Of courage unto death!
Ask of the peasant where his sires
For Truth and Freedom bied,
Ask, where were lit the torturing 6res
Where lay the holy dead?
And he will tell thee all around,
On fount, and turf, and stone,
Far as the chamois' foot can bound,
Their ashes have been sown.
Go, when the sabbath-bell is heard
Up through the wiIds to float, :,
When the dark old woods and caves are STIR
To gladness by the note SO;
When forth, along their thousand rills,
The mountain people come,
Join thou their worship on those hills
Of glorious martyrdom!
And while the song of praise ascends,
And while the torrents voice
Like the swellO many an organ Blends,
Then let thy soul rejoice!
Rejoice, that human hearts, through scorn,
Through grief, through death, made strong.
Before the rocks and heavens have borne
Witness Of God so long. FIJI.
The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
ABEL CATLTN.

AGENT for the PROTECTION
INSURANCE COMPANY, in Hartford,
continues to insure against loss by FIRE, on
the most liberal terms. 1t is believed that
the terms of this Office, and the promptness
in adjustments, entitle it to as high confidence
as any institution of the kind in the United
States.
Litchfeld, June l4,l826. If !,
The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
THE FRAIL ONE.


The night breeze gently sweeps the ground,
Ger bright lawn and whispering tree.
It spreads refreshment all around, @s..
But brings no sleep, no rest to me
My wailing babel your eye is dim, =
9 Your limbs are cold, your cries are few;
Your feeble accents call on him
Who thinks not, cares not, now for you.
Your parched and pallid lip demands
Some food to ease that gnawing pain
Oh, raise not thus your wasted hands,
The breast is dry-you weep in vain!
He sees me not; he thinks not now
OF all the thousand oaths he swore-
The plighted troth, the broken vow;
The fatal fight now deplore.
Fair was his form--a heavenly ray
Seemed DER his bright refulgence shed;
And saint-like radience seemed to play
Its halo round his holy head.
Kind were his words, and bright his smile,
But like the meteor light it played,
AS cold--as brilliant to beguile
And lure to wo an artless maid.
He meier returned-the tear drop fell
Ger my pale cheek in silent shame;
II wrote, my wretchedness to tell
Unopened, back, my letter came.
O! could he see his victim now
E. Her beauty and her bloom are fed, sR
And beams upon her pallid brow
The fatal spot of hectic red.
/ hail the shortening of my breath,
The fire that burns within my breast;
Welcome the harbinger of death,
And lay my weary head to rest.
The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26
From the Boston Spectator g. Ladies' Album
FORGETFULNESS OF THE DEAD.

FORGETFULNESS OF THE DEAD.
The holy sanctitude of the grave should not
be disturbed but to give lectures to the living.
Once past its threshold, the dearest friend OF
the heart can not be recalled, but consolation
is not to be found in forgetfulness. No: the
greatest selace is in contemplation of their
virtues. bringing to mind by easy and natural
association, tender and soothing images of the
past; though we may never hope to enjoy
again the sweet hours we have enjoyed in
their society; in the faithful memory they
will be treasured up, there they still live, and
will live forever.
The hope of living in the grateful recollec-
ton of our friends, when we shall have put
of this feshy tabernacle seems an inherent
quality in every mind which is conscious that
recollection viii be of its virtues. Will it not
smooth the dying pillow Of the faithful parent,
to know that his memory viii live ever in the
hearts of those children he had nurtured, edu-
Gated and protected, and is now leaving them
name unsuIlied. and rich legacy in exam.
pie ?-WilI not the consciousness that be-
The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26

DISSOLUTION.
THE Copartnership heretofore existing
IL between the subscribers under the Arm
of HARRISON & PARMELEE.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent. w
ELIHU HARRISON,
ALBERT o. PARMELEE.
~ The business will in future be carried on
at the Old Standby the subscriber.
ELIHU HARRISON.
Litchfield, Sept. Is, 1925. II
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07
SPLENDID EQUIPAGE.

Ackerman's Repository states that, ssthe Bur-
mese Imperial carriage, which was captured at an
early period of the present sanguinary Indian war;,
has just reached that country, and is preparing
for public exhibition at the Egyptian Hall, Plea
dilly. Il is, without exception one of the most
splendid works of art that has ever been produced,
presenting entire blaze of gold, silver and pre-
cious stones Of the latter, the number must amount
to many thousands, comprehending diamonds, ru-
bies, sapphres, white and blue emeralds, amehysts,
garnets, topazes, cats eyes. crystals &c. The
carving is of very superior description the form
and construction of the vehicle extraordinary ; and
at once so grand and imposing, yet at the same
time so chaste and refined, as to defy all rivalry
even from European workmanship. The warlke
power and resources ofths surprising people are at
present exciting universal astonishment and atten-
tion This new object attess the fact that for taste
in design and skill in the execution of works of art,
their talents have been no less hidden and unknown
to US. The carriage stands between twenty and
thirty feet in height, and is drawn by elephants.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07
COMPASSION.

It was a custom with Alexander the Great to
oblge the captive women whom he carried along
with him to sing songs after the manner of their
country. He happened among these women to per-
ceiye one who appeared in deeper affection than
the rest; and who by modest, and at the same
time noble confusion, discovered greater reluc-
lance than the others to appear in public. She was
perfect beauty which very much heighten-
ed by her bashfulness, whilst she threw her eyes on
the ground, and did all she could to conceal her
face, The king soon imagined, by her air and
men, that she was not Of vulgar birth and inqur-
ing into it, the lady answered, that she was grand
daughter to Octius, who not long before had sway
ed the Persian sceptre, and daughter of his son -
that she had married Hystaspes, who was related to
Darius, and general of a great army. Alexander
being touched with compassion, when he heard the
unhappy fate of princess of the blood royal, and
the sad condition to which she was reduced not on
~ gave her her liberty, but returned all her posses
sions and caused her husband to be sought for,
in order that she might be restored to him.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07
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and tears; or if she condescendedto speak, she al
ways chose some unpleasant and irritating subject
the treason and execution of Essex, or the preten
sons Of Arabella Stewart, the war in Ireland, and
the pardon of Tyrone. At last she fell into state
OF stupor, and for some hours lay dead. As soon
as she recovered, she ordered cushions to be brot
and spread upon the floor On these she seated her.
set Under strange notion that if she were once to
lie down in bed. she should never rise again. No
prayers OF the Secretary or the Archbishop, or the
physicians could induce her to remove, or take any
medicine. For ten days she sat on the cushions,
generally with her fngern her mouth, and her eyes
open and fixed upon the ground.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07

even trees and stones dance to the tune of their
harps. This is, of course, figurative, or fabu-
lous, but the history of the ancients, long after
it had quilted the regions Of fiction, abounds in
instances which show that music, even in it's in
fancy, has produced very extraordinary effects.
Iyrteus, the Spartan poet, by certain verses
which he sung to the accompaniment of flutes,
SO inflamed the courage of his countrymen, that
they achieved great victory over the Messe-
mans, to whom they had submitted in several
previous conflicts. Timotheus, with his flute.
could move the passions of Alexander as he
pleased, inspiring him at one moment with the
greatest fury, and soothing him the next into
state the most gentle and placid Pythagoras
instructed a woman, by the power of music, to
arrest the fury of young man who came to set
herhouse on fire !; and his disciple, Empedocles,
employed his Tyre with such success, as to pre-
vent another from numbering his father, when
the sword was unsheathcd for that purpose
The fierceness Of Achilles was allaved by play
ing on the harp on which account Homer gives
him nothing else out of the spoils of Eetion-
Damon, with the same instrument, Quoted wild
and drinking youths; and Asclepiades, in a ST.
milar manner, brought back seditious multi
tudes to temper and reason.
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07
FROM LINGARD's HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
QUEEN ELIZABETH.

Sir John Harrington, her god-son who visited the
court about seven months after the death of Essex,
has described, in private letter. the state in which
he found the queen. She was altered in her fea-
lures, and reduced to skeleton Her food was
nothing but mauchet bread and succory pottage.-
Her taste for dress was gone she had not changed
her clothes for many days. Nothing could please
on her person.. She stamped her feet and swore
violently at the objects of her anger For her pro-
lection she had ordered sword to be placed bv her
table, which she often thrust with much violence
into the tapestry of her chamber About year la
ter he returned to the palace, and was admitted to
her presence. 81 found her." says he, s'ina most
ptable state. She babe the archbishop ask me if
had seen Tyrone. Irepled, that had seen him
with the Lord Deputy She looked up with much
choler and grief in her countenance and said %,
now it mndeth me, that you was one who saw this
man elsewhere and hereat she dropped tear and
smote her bosom. She held in her hand golden
cup which she often put to her lips but, in truth,
her heart seemed too full to need more filing"
In January she was troubled with cold, and a.
bout the end of the month removed, on a wet and
stormy day, from Westminster to Richmond. Her
indisposlton increased but, with her characteristic
obstnacy, she refused the advice of her physician.
Loss of appetite was accompanied with lowness of
SPIRITS and, to add to her Distress CHANGED that her
intimate friend, the Countess of Nottingham, died.
Elizabeth now spent her days and nights in sighs
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-07

SuIPiisc anu Joy WHcH tney IOunu tHclf cAer-
lions had neither rent their cheeks nor broke
blood vessel we may form some idea of the
style of the Grecian music.
The flute was long in Greece an instrument of
high favour, and the flute players were held in
much estimation. The flute used by Ismensias,
celebrated Theban musician, cost at Corinth
three talents, or 5SlL S.; and the remuneration
Of the performers seems as extraordinary as the
price OF the instruments, for we find that Ama-
baus, harper, was paid an Attic talent, or 1881
l5s. per day for his performance.
The musicians of Greece, who performed in
public, were of both sexes !; and the beautiful
Lamia, who was taken prisoner by Demetrius,
and captivated her conqueror, as well as many
other females, are mentioned by ancient authors
IN terms of admiration
The Romans, like every other people, were,
from their first origin as nation, possessed of a
species Of music which might be distinguished
as their own 1t appears to have been rude and
coarse, and probably was variation of the mu-
sic In use among the Etruscans, and other tribes
around them in Italy; but as soon as they be
gan W open communication with Greece from
that country, with their arts and philosophy
they borrowed also their musical instruments:
and therefore an account of Roman music
would only be repetition of what has been
said on the subject of the music of Greece.
1t has been generally supposed that music,
and, indeed all the fine arts, have the character
of humanlzing the human mind: and it is on re-
cord, that the wrath of princes has been appeas-
ed, and the dagger of the assassin arrested. by
the power Of music. It had, however. no such
effect on Nero, the Roman emperor, who was
passionately devoted to the art, and held pub
lie contentious for superiority with the most &C.
leprated professors of it in Greece and Rome.
The solcitude with which this detestable tyrant
cultivated his vocal powers is curious, and
seems to throw some light on the practices of
singers i'll ancient times He used to lie on his
back with thin plate Of lead on his stomach;
he took frequent emetics and cathartics, alb
stained from all kinds of fruit, and from such
meats as were held to be prejudicial to singing.
Apprehensive ofinjuring his voice, he at length
desisted from haranguing the soldery and the
senate; and after his return from Greece. he
established an officer to regulate his tones in
speaking
Before we proceed further in the history of
music, it may be as well to relate some instan-
American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-01-03
LIFE OF A SAILOR.

How melancholy the life of sailor From the first bour
OF ms embarkaon his habits and modes of life become es-
sehtay different from those of his brethren on shore
His habiaiion not fixed, and have no founda
tonnow leaning this side now to tbatacted non bv
every wave and every breath of wind
Even his food unna'nral it engenders diseases and
can only be relishtd from long habit
Frequently he does behold the face of cheerful wa.
man, green fields, cottages for months together so sad
are the watery deserts which lie traverses that solitary
and sterile land becomes him an object of interest
AT night he simbers in narrow hammock from which,
IN the midst OF dreams OF home he often reused by the
sound OF danger-rushing deck he finds the vessel
driven before t. blast, OF laid down upon her side by
sudden gaze the remainder OF tine night spent amidst
cold and wet, and darkness and storms
Even the morning light hardly welcome since il serves
only to discover turbulent and boundess ocean, in which
he may possibly long be overwhelmed and leave no
sad memorial to tell his fate.
Yet how pleasant is the life of sailor Forever rowing
about, he enjoys without that variety which the
epcrcan sedIlosy and often so vany seeks as alone
capable OF giving zest to the pleasures of existence The
uts, the productions the of distant climates be-
come TO hun as familiar those of his own country He
sees narc under every aspect; and the widely VARYING
races OF mankind the Chinese and the Negro the Indian
and the Malay, are brothers with whom he has often con
'e'sed 1t the duty and pride of sailor to struggle with
the tempest which nures his mind body to fatigue and
dagger but storms do alu avs vex the surface of the
cef, do clouds always arken the face of beayen at
Intervals favorable bree yes bear him smoothly along He
sees the sun rise from the eastern all his pIory
and disappear III the evening of fire. He con-
templates with pleasure the tropical Clouds the rich and
splendid coors Of which bid defiance the art of the pain
ter and awaken 10 admiration the rildest mind lie
alone with his level horizon can contemplate in ali lis
naSncence, the star light canopy OF heaven, the
reflected on every side from thousand broken waves
Who, then, would not undergo few hardshps and priva-
Mons, 10 arrive at the enjoyment of objects so sublime p
How pleasant IS The life OF sailor! Lon. Nee Rec
American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-01-03
WILMINGTON, Del TUESDAY, JANUARY 3. 4s26
THE SAILORS DEPARTURE.

o fresh blows the gale DER the wide mantling ocean.
And proudly the frg~te repes the white foam
and nigh beats my heart with tumultuous emotion,
On leaving for fortune, my dear native home.
Perhaps, for the last time, my father has best me-
sec his white locks and the tears on his check.
And my mother how close to her bosom she pressd me
And kissd and sobbed her kind heart would break
may roam through the wide world and friendship NAV
court me,
And love on my hear, its soft characters trace,
Bun ne'er shall affection lend aught to support me
30 sacred-so pure as that parting embrace.
Friends and prolectors when danger surrounds me.
when pleasure, when wealth spread their lures for nv
fame, -
That momert good angels shall hover around me,
10 chase every thought would dishonor your name
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