Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-11-15

ny pUsslDic VhTleIy OF OFOWU, hgDt
blue, vivid crimson or blood color
Oh all the trees, non but the ever
green tribe, will keep their integrity.
They will show along the battlements
OF ine mountain darker than ever;
more cloudy than ever; like SO many
architectural runs, or surviving tur
rets-In the splendour oil the surround
ing landscape.
mo, no; il is not saying too much
OF all this beauty Of all this great mag
niilcence, when the fresh, cold, brisk
wind oil the season, gets among the
branches; after such a night; and
blows up the s~uperAuous leafing, TO
the warm sunshine, like a tempest,
among the p%rodigious DEMONSTRATING
up and scattering the tulip colored TO
liage owe all the earth, and over all
the waters; no, IT IS not saying too
much-merely 10 say-that under hea
ven-throughout all The vegetable ere
a'loD, there is no spectacle OF beauty,
or show OF richness, or g~randeur-to
be compared with it.-imagine-
we do not mind appearing a Iullc alb
surd, If, thereby, we may give the
stranger true idea ofthis appearance;
imagine therefore, a great WILDERNESS.
Of popples or tulips-oulspreadmg it
self on every side; reaching quite a
way to tn horizon; over mill aud over
valley-or a wood. literally encum
oered, heavy with great gorgeous
live huttefh,es-forever in notion.
1--WE have been a traveller; we have
looked upon the dark Norwegian
woods their dull evergreens-tower
ing up-into the sky-covering whole
provinces, woods, TOO, of stupendous
0ak-each tree, ii the soil were div
ded, overshadowing a mans inherit
ance; Hourishing bravely through whole
territories; more than one quiet, soiita
tary place-eDtirely shut up in by the
hills; Towering all over; all the year
round. But we have never met with
never heard o%f-never looked upon,
eiswhere, that profusion of gloriou,
vegetable beauty, which is to be seen,
every fall in the woods OF North A
merica; heaped up, on all the banks
Ut the rivers-up--to the very skies
on the great mountains: or accumula
ted over the low couniries-and wei
terlng there. all the day through, in
the light or shadow; or wind, or sun
shine, OF the season"
The great importance of ,cashing
and ransing bottles -Lately a youog
lady, Of the name of Bradley, sister
Of Mrs. Foden, of Wortley, near
Leeds. England, after an early din
ner, took a drsught of porter on, of d
bottle which had just been brought up
from the cellar. Immediately after
drinking the porter, she compliance to
her sister of sickness, and had scarcely
got into the kitchen before she fell
down ADD almost instantly expired
On Analysing the remainder Of the
porter ia the bottle, it Was found to
contain a mixture of that most deadly
poison, called prussic acid; and one
of the servants in the house. who af
terwsIds took a smalla quantity of the
same beverage, became extremely i'll,
but she was soon recovered Ii is
remarkable, that other bottles Of the
porter taken gu, of the same bin are
perfectly free from all deleterious adj
mixture An inquest was held upon
the body of the unfortunate lady, when
the jury, after "a short consultation, re.
turned a verdict That the deceased
came to her death in consequence of
taking a quantity of porter mixed with
prussic acid, and believed by her TO
be wholesome porter; bot how, or by
what means, the prussic acid got into
The bottle, no satisfactory evidence ap
pears"
Destiny Hunt has recored in the
"Perlodlcal of Hisa," one of those
little tales, so common in the East, in
~culcating the great oriental dogma of
fatality. Solomon was walking in
his garden with n of his attendants,
when he observed a strange and fear
fuI figure approaching them. Sol
omon," saldIhe attendant, who is that
mysterious being, his appearance fills
me with dread; send me | pray thee,
to he remotest mountain of India