The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-24
WHOLE NO. 1896.

MOnLalgne was not person VINO could be
accused of credulity, and he informs us.
that near his house, a cat was observed
watching a bird at the top of tree. For
some time they mutually fastened their ewes
on each other, and at length the bird let it.
| self fall as if dead into the cats claws -
either, he remarks, being dazzled by the
force of terror, or by some unknown attrac-
tive power in the cat"
To this paragraph the Editor of the Phil
adelphia Aurora, annexes the following Just
! remarks -
We have long been of opinion, that this
fascinating po,oer of cats, serpents, and 9TH
er furious animals, and reptiles, consists in
nothing but the tmidity of the victim. 1t
is well known fact that some individuals
! of the human species, upon occasions of
sudden alarm, have been riveted to the
| spot, when a few steps would remove them
/ from, harm; others have wildly rushed upon
the danger. many persons when elevated
to great height above the ground, on the
tops of high buildings, steeples, or the brink
of precipice, become giddy, and let 90
their hold, or totally neglect to take neces-
sary precautions for their safety and we
have known others, who, in such situations.
felt a delirious inclination to precipitate
themselves from the elevation. This we
conjecture is the same feeling which over
powers birds, &C., when watched by cats
and reptiles. 1t is not fascination, but fear
and delirium. 1t is the fascination which
leads men to commit suicide
MORAL BEAUTIES OF New ENGLAND.
1t is our moral associations that must bind
us for ever to the land of our fathers. 1t is
! To- 4 80 IL
ed by slave. 1t is land of religious
freedom; no hierarchy can here exalt its
head, no pontif can hurl his thunders over
trembling and PROSTATE multitude. 1t is
land of industry and toll; affording in
this constant pledge of the manly virtues.
1t is land of knowledge and progressive
Improvement. In no part of the world, is so
liberal provision made by law for public
instruction. 1t is land whose inhabitants
have already fulfilled the high duties to
which they have been called. Other nations
have gathered more laurels in the field of
| blood other nations have twined more gar
lands and sung louder praises for their poets
and orators and philosophers; but where
has romantic courage and adventurous skill
been more strikingy exhibited? Where
has practical wisdom been better display
ed? In the hour of danger, her sons have
been foremost in the battle. In every con-
! test for the rights of mankind, her voice has
/ always been raised on the side of freedom.
( And now that she stands possessed of eve
ry thing which civil and political liberty
can bestow, she is vigilant and jealous for
the preservation of her rights, and is among
the first to resist encroachment.
| Hauen's Remains.
/ AMERICAN SCENERY. have already
alluded to the force of local associations
and would again advert to it in connexion
with ties which ought to bind us to our ma
tive land. Other countries may possess
richer soil, and gentler sky but where
! shall we find the rude magniicence so
blended with scenes of enchanting beauty,
as among our mountains and lakes? Be-
lieve me, it is because our country is yet
uneXplored that her scenes of beauty and
grandeur, her bright waters and swelling
hills, her rich pastures Of living green, min
( gled with fresh flowers, and skirted with
deep and shady forests her fields teeming
with life and vegetation; her mountains
rising into the dark blue sky, and blending
their submits with the purple clouds; her
streams rushing from the hill side, and has
tening to mingle with the sea, or lingering
in the solitude of her valleys, and sparkling
| in the glorious sunshine sit is because
these are UNEMPLOYED, that they are unsung.
The time is not far distant, when the poet
will kindle into rapture, and the painters
glow with emotion, in delineating our ro-
mantle scenery.-Ibid.
I MAY YoU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED.
1t is sad thing to feel that we must die
away from our home. Tell not the invalid
who is yearning after his distant country,
that the atmosphere around him is soft that
the gales are filed with balm, and the fiow-
ers are springing from the green earth-he
knows that the softest air to his heart would
be the air that hangs over his native land