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Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16
The Press.

Where half aedged bards on feeble pinions seek
An immortality Of near week;
Where cruel eulogists the dead restore,
In mAudlin praise TO martyr them once more;
Where ruffian sanderers wreak their coward spite,
And need no venom'd dagger while they write
There, with quill, noisy and so vain,
We alnost hear the goose it clothed complain,)
Where each hack scribe, hate or interest barns,
Toad or toad eater, stains the pase by turns
Enacts yirtu, usurps the critics chair,
Laudsa mock Guido, or monthing player;
yiceroys it DER the realms of prose and rhyme.
Now puffs pert Pelham now The Course of Time;
And though Christmas both may be forgot,
Vows this beats Milton, and that Walter Scott;
With Simpsons vigor feels his nerves expand,
To overthrow the mobiles of the land;
Soils the green garands that for Otis bloom.
And plants brier even on Csbot's tomb;
As turn the party eoppers, heads or tails,
And now this faction and that prevails;
Appauds to-day what yesterday he cursed,
Lampoons the wisest and extols the worst;
While hard TO tell, 50 daub he lays,
Which sullcs most, the SANDER or the praise.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16

Even when some coHsned friend we gather round,
We ask, "What news" then lay him in the ground
To this the breakfast owes its sweetest zest,
For this the dinner coos the bed remains Impressed
What gives each tale of scandal to the street,
The Kitchens wonder and the paror's treatf
See the pert housemaid to the keybole fly,
When husband storms. wife frets, or lovers sighi
See Tom your pockets ransack for each note,
And read your secrets while he cleansyour coats
See, YES, to listen see even madam deign,
When the SNUG semps'ress pours her ready STRAIN.
This wings the lie that malice breeds in fear,
No tongue SO vile but finds kindred ear,
Swift flies each tale oflaughter, shame, or folly.
Caught by Paul Fry and carried home to Poliy;
On this each foul calumniator leans,
And mods and hints the villsny he means;
Full well he knows what latent wildfre lies
In the close whisper and the dark surmise'
muffled word, wordess wink. has woke
warmer throb than if Dexter spoke;
And he. Ger Everett's periods who would nod,
To track secret half the town has trod.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16
THE AIIsER.

The churl, who holds it heresy to think,
Who loves no music but the dollars chink;
Who laughs to scorn the wisdom of the schools,
And deem the first of poets FIRST of fools;
Who never found what good from science grew,
Save the grand truth, that one and one are two;
And msrvels Bowditch DER book should pore,
Unless 10 make those two turn into four;
who, placed where Catskl's forehead greets the SIX
Greyes that such quarries all unhewn should lie;
Or, gazing where Niagara's torrents thrill,
Exclaims: "a monstrous stream-to turn MILL
Who loves TO feel the blessed winds of heaven,
But as his freighted barks portward driven;
Even he. acrosswhose brain scarce dsres to creep,
Aught but thrft's parent par-to get, to keePi
Who never learned hte's real bliss to know
With Curiosity even he can glow.
Go, seek him out yon dear Gotham's walk,
Where trlfic's venturers meet to trade and talk,
Where Mammon's vo,sres bend. of each degree,
The hard eyed lender. aud the pale lendee,
Where rogues inSolvent strut in whtewashed pride,
And shove the dupes who trusted them aside.
How through the buzzing crowd he threads his way.
To catch the flying rumors of the day;
10 learn of changing stocks, ofbargains crossed,
OF breaking merchants, and ofcargoes lost
The thousand ills that traffc's walks invade,
And give the hear, ache to the sons of trade.
How cold he hearkens to some bankrupt's wo,
Mods his wise head, and cries. told YOU 50:
The thri.tless fellow lived beyond his means,
% He must buy brants--I make my folks eat BEANS"
What cares he for the knave. the knsve's sad wife,
The bGghted prospects Of an anxious liie
The kindly throbs that other men control,
Meier melt the iron Of the mser's soul;
Through life's dark road his sordd way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends,
But when to death he sinks, ungrieved, unsung,
Buoyed by the blessing OF no mortal tongues
No worth rewardr d and no want redressed,
To scatter fragrance round his place OF rest,
What shall that hsllowed epitaph supply,
The universal wo when good men die
Cold Curiosity shall linger there,
To guess the wealth he leaves his fearless heir;
Perchance to wonder what must be his doom,
In the fair land that lies beyond the tomb;-
Alas! for him, if, in its awful plan,
Heaven deal with him as he hath dealt with man!
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER Is, 1929.

We have been exceedingly pleased with the
ercerpfa from Mr.. SPRAGuE's POEM, delivered
at the recent commencement al Harvard Uni.
versity. Its subject, CURIOSITY, was calcula,
ed 10 exercise well the wi, and fancy Of the poet;
and, if we may Judge from the extracts from
the Poem given iu The newspapers, MIR. Sprague
has done il ample justice, and gained himself
no small degree Of credit for the performance
Our readers, we are sure, will oe pleased with
wha, follows; for they cannot help being pleas,
ed with elegant thoughts, judiciously express
ed. Mr.. Sprague's vivid description of the
prcsen, state of the Stage, his accurate define
sassins Of Reputation, cannot be praised too
highly. We have before given an extract from
this admirable Posm; and believe others viii
read the following extracts with the same relish
that we did:
The STAGE.
10, where the Stage. the poor, degraded Stage,
Holds its warped mirror to gaping age;
There, where to raise the dramas moral tone,
Fool Harlequin usurps APpoilo's throne;
There, where grown children gather round to praise
The new.vamp'd legends Of their nursery days.
Where one loose scene shall turn souls to shame
Than ten of Channing's lectures can reclaim;
There, where in ideot rapture we adore
The herded vagabonds of every shore;
Women unsex'd, who, lost 10 womans pride
The drunkard's stagger ape, the bully's stride;
Pert hspng girls, who, st in childhood's letters,
Babble Of love, yet barely know their letters;
Neat. iointsd mummers, mockisg natures shape,
To prove how nearly match ape;
yaulters, who, rightly served at home, perchsnce
Had dsngied from the rope which they dance;
Dwarfs, mimcs, juggers, all that yield content,
Where sin holds carnival. and wit keeps lent;
Where, shoals OH shoals, the modest million rush,
One sex to laugh, and one to Try TO blush,
When mincug Ravenot sports tight pantalettes,
And turns fops' heads while turning pirouettes;
There. at each r. aid sally, where we hear
The knowing gigg'e and the scurrie jeer,
While from the intellectual gallery first
Rolls the base paudi, oudest at the worst,
Gods! who can grace yon dtsecrated dome.
When he may turn his Shakespeare DER at hone'
Who there can group the pure ones of his race,
To see and hear what bids him veil his face
Ask We who cam why I, and you, and you;
No matter what the nse, il 'tis new.
To Doctor Logic's wit our sons give ear,
They have no time for Hamlet, or for ear;
Our daughters turn from gentle Juliet'swo.
To count the twiris of Almavys's toe.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16
Mrs. W augh's school,

WILL be re-opened on Monday the 3i'' Of Us ~, =
w sent month. Mr. Townshsnd "susn ', ~,
determined upon ressnng his place as tsaehs, :.
public Lancasterian School, will henceior'n cCT
with Mrs. Waugh in hers. august 25-i.,.'II'---
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-16

That we have not discovered their bones is ow>
ing 20 he FIRE, which left bu little 10 tell Of"
"Thy head is a ch4rnel house, dull Dudley,
but this picture Its furniture shall no, suffice
for me. The man who is 10 be my husband
mus, have feeling for mothers sorrows"
"What is now getting uppermost in thy
mind, Faith!-ls il for me 10 bring back the
dead 10 lie, or to plare child that hath been
lost SO many years, once more in the arms of
its parents"
alt is. Nay, open not thine eyes as il ligh,
were first breaking into the darkness Of cloud.
ed brain! lrepeat it is"
81 am glad that we have got to these open
declarations, for 100 much ofmy life hath been
already waisJed in unsettled gallantiug, when
sound wisdom, and the example Of all around
me, have shown that in order TO become III IA
iher Of a family, and 10 be esteemed for sub
stantial settler, should have both Gle AIRED and
wiYed many som. ago. ! wish 10 deal Justly
by all, and having given thee reason to think
hat The day nigh, come when We should I've
together, as is fitting 10 people of our condition.
felt II duty 10 ask the to share my chances;
but now that thou dealesI in impossibilities, il,
is neediul % seek Elsewhere
"Ihis hath been ny way, when good ua-
derstanding hath been established between Us.
Thy mind is ever getting into some discomfort,
and hen blame is heaptd on one who rarely
doth any thing that should in reason offend thee.
WIS, madness maketh thee dream that I ask
impossiblliies! Surely, Dudley, thou cans,
no, have noted the manner in which the nature
OF the Madam is giving way before the consnm-
ing hea, of her grief; thou canst not look into
the sorrow OF woman, or thou wouldst have lis
tened with more kindness TO plan Of travel
ling the woods for short season, in order that
il might be known, whether she Of whom The
trader spoke is the lost one Of Out family or the
child of somt stranger
Though Faith spoke with ve1a,ion, she also
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-20


.rew 20 the h,,..il;a;iug comparison. We view
our beloved State, blessed by the God OF ma
ture with q variety OF useful and losely capa
bilities, unsurpassed by those ,f any other
country on The globe We view ], not merely
as stationary, while her sister States are ad
vaneing, but as positively declining. u Is Pc
culiarls the province of such statesmen rs COM
pose your honorable body, TO detect The causes
of the national calamity aud degradation, and
10 provide aud apply the remedy That the
causes heretofore lrequeaty assigned are tue
true ones, we do moi believe. II they have
any effect. as possibly they may. II must be e.
tremely small and partial. We humbly suggest
dur belief that the slavery which casts, aud
which, with gigantic strides, "a gaming GROUND
amongst us, H. ~ truth, the great, efheien'
cause oil the multiplied evils which we all de-
plore. We csnnot conceive that there Is any
other cause sufficiently operative to parnlEe
the energies ola people 30 magnsnimons. 10
neutraliye the blessings ofH Providence inclU-
ded in the gift Of a land 30 happy in its soil, IT'S
climate, its minerals and its waters aud to an.
nul the manifold advantages -four republican
freedom add geographic position. II Virgi.
mia has already fallen from her high IS ate,
and if we have assigned the true cause Other
fall; il Is with the utmost anxiety that we look
10 the future TO the fatal termination o the
scene, A. VIZ value onr domestic happiness
ss our hearts yearn for the prosperity OF our
offs ring ~ we pray for the guardian care Of
the Almighty over our country, We earnestly
enquire what shall be done 10 avert the mpend.
ing ruin The eff ;icnt cause of our caami.
ties Is vigorously increasing 10 magnitude aud
potency, while we wake aud while we sleep
The outlets, for drainins III portion OF this
pestlferous population OF slaves. are fast clos.
ing against Us. la he niea1 time our white
people are removing IN muiituJes 10 distant
regions and those who remain feem destined
20 become martyrs 10 their love ofVfrginia, Ell
posed 20 foreign snemies, To civil fruds, aud to
domestic Instructions without The physica
ability indispensable 10 thelr own preservation
And SHALL we, alas reduce ourselves to the M.
ccssty OF invoking aid from the North aud the
West? We will not press this appalling topic
any farther I; but with intense soiicitudc re
commend il TO The serious Consideration of
you honorable body. We feel assured Ina,
10 addressing men Of such enlarged and liberal
views as we confidently ascrlbe 20 the mem.
beers Of your body, il must DO unnecessary TO
dilaie farther upon this moDinful aud most in
tsresling subject We deem il prudent, too
not 10 push this memorial into greater detail.
aud therefore No desist. only adding our mpor.
tunats prayer that you may devise some con
siin,ional provision the fruit. Of which shall
very which threatens with destruction all
RIA we hold dear and valuat,le as a people
All which is respectfully submitted.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-20
MORE REFORM.

William Hunt has received the appointment
oil Postmaster IN the town of Urbanna, tOhlo. J
IN the place OF John c. Pearson, removed.
lrumbull Cary has been removed from the
olhce of Postmaster at Batavia, n. Y. to make
room for Simeon Cumming, a hrawliog na,ti.
IAN of the present administration. This an.
pointment, SAYS the Batavia Advocate has
gwen general dissatisfaction even 10 the friends
of Gen. Jackson
Benjamin Mute is appointed Postmaster at
vernon, Oneida county, N, Y. vice James II.
Collins, removed.
Dr. John b. ElIwood is appointed Postmast
CT a' nochester n. Y. vice Abelard Reynolds,
removed
Joseph Scott, ESQ. of Benefonte. Jackson
comfy, Alabama to be u. S. Attorney for the
Northern District a Aiabam, vice Harrv
thornton, rem0ved-Wnh regard to ,b,s q,
po'ntment, The Huntsville Adyocat. IA ,Jockson
PdpeTJ remarks Justice to the eeo,lemao
removed requires ns 10 say that il is received in
''s community land amongst the warmest sun
po''e's OF me fresident with sentiments of re.
s'e'i WI Ahornton has long resided amongst
aS oeeh member OF our State LepisIa.
'oie' anu mas SO conducted himself as a nrotes
o'o"di 'nah ahG a gentleman as to secure the
UNIVERSAL esteem OF the community. HIS sua-
ny VI manners and amiabity of chara ter
J Ju; e"oear him to large circle of personal
h ""usLehehieS, we believe, he has none. The
oa' OF this place, we think were unauimons i,
'"e wish 'hat he should have been suffered IN ,o.
mann W once and we believe no member NJ
"ou'o nave taken any stems calculated IN
ssuPp'd"' h'fn' Or the gentleman appointed in
"S s.e"u we Know nothing He has not been
ci''zen OF this State more than few mon,bs
as we are informed, and is bu, lit,le knew
n L.,
reputation o'ns ana
ha". 8. John b. Derby and Joshua sev.,
pa oeen appointed Inspectors of the nor, 81
'ohoh' 10 place of Messrs. John Sk;nnso =,
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-20
LIBERIA.

From The Baltimore Gdsette.
We have conrersed with a very intelligent
colored clergyman, who left Baltimore two
years ago for Africa He went TO see Tor him.
sell the situation OF affairs al Liberia, and to
satisfy many OF his friends here, who looked 10
his opinion, after an inspection Of the ground
as the guide of theirs. On this account his
return has we understand been some time aux.
'oasly expected by many very respectable col
ored people of this place and we were
particularly desi Gus, from the interest which
we take IN toe schemes OF African Col
oniza ION to hear his report. His first words
were entirely satisfactory. al have come
back The said for my wife and children and
am satisfied that Africa is the place for me
and mine, and all others ofmy color who wall
go there with common industry and persey.
arnce Nothing would induce me TO remaia in
America" In reply to our questions, he lheo
eniered into such detail Of circutEs ances as
fnlly justified his opinions and Conduct. The
mortality. he said, was comparatively trilpg
IN most yoyages-and could be traced verv
generally to the imprudence of the GONZALES
cents, who, anxious to lie getting forward, make
exerons which bring on a relapse, a second
and third, and some times even fourth time
before it carries them Off In most instances
common care, when convalescing, will prevent
mortality. DIR. Randals case as he reported
II 10 us-and he was one whe nursed him
through his illness-illnstrates his idea. Dr.
Randall was quite conyalescent, weakness be.
ing all that he had TO contend with after his
first aitack,'and that was rapidly vanishing. In
this state, he saw the Government schooner
aground on the bar. tie boarded her, and re-
manned ON deck. with the waves occasionally
breaking over MIN, and exposed to the hot
test beams OF an African sun. from seven until
eleven o'clock, A. NJ The consequence was
to have been foreseen he was taken home de-
llrious with stroke OF the sun. He again be-
came convaiescent, and was gaining strength
rapidly when the Harriet arrived contrary TO
the entreaties of all around him he insisted
on experimenting the debarkation and loca.
ton OF the settiers-and another relapse was
the consequence of his uDremtted labour.-
again he became conyalescent, and was doing
well when the Harriet's emigrants began TO be
taken down with the sickness. He now broke
from bis immediate attendants, WHO wou,d
have restrained him within the bounds of com.
mon prudence, and, borne on a chair or SUP.
ported on the arms Of two men, IN isted UPON
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-20
POLITICAL ITEMS.
From The National fnteliigtncer, July 8.
The PRESCRIPTION


Al last, the L Islmasler General Welding to
the opportunities with which he has doubtless
been beset from the moment of his arrival at the
seat OF government, has removed from office
Andrew Coyle, the able, faithful and upright
Chief Clerk IN that office, and has put IN his
place Obadiah Brown, Baptist Clergyman,
who has been Tor some years Clerk III the
same office. Thus has MIR. Brown been " rewar
ded" and Mr.. Coyle punished" for then diff =
rent opinions as 10 The Presidential candida 8
at the late election. II the Caucus had desired
signay TO demonstrate the ruthless spirit which
actuates IT, no clear'r proof of il could be fur.
nished than his NJ -rlt aud usefulness, ass
ciated in the same individual with true pirty
and TIE purest morals. are no protection to him
who hath dared 10 disapprove of the d crees oi
that Invisible and irresponsible tribunal which
| now controls these removals, and dooms its
| victims to worse THAI death YES worse--to
see their families almost literally perish for
want, without the power TO give them bread.
! Mr. Barry of himself could not have had the
| heart TO do this deed The gloom which has
| already ogersprsad this lately hourishIng CIV
from the effects OF this drvastalIng policy, will
become yet darker If thi, removal is 10 he the
| signal Tor further prescriptions. Against Mr..
Coyle, II is needless p add, after what we have
misconduct can be alleged
| Another prescription, in the neighhoring city
of Alexandria, has produced a great excite.
ment there. Ii is that OF William Nedder-
burn, Surveyor of the Port. In regard TO this
removal, the Alexandria Gazette asks" For
what was DIR. W dderbune removed? Was il
from incompetence or intitention We dare
I them TO the proof. They cannot bring title
| of evidence TO support the charge | he has
erred in the discharge of his duties, the govern
ment has always been the gamer; for we hesi-
tate not TO say more stiict and faithful officer
never was employed His letter of dismissal
contained not syllable of reason for his re-
moval we take 1t tor granted, therefore, that
there were no such reasons a, we have men
toned The Gazette adds, that the real cause
for the removal of tins most worthy man. is.
that, being connection by marriage, of the
late Editor of the Alexandria Gazette, he is
| supposed to have obtained the office originally
through mis- influence James Mcclure has
been appointed his succe sor. [0T in relation
TO Mcclure, the Alexandra Gazette speaks We
ry ely, as being every way unqualified for
the ofhce-and says that not FIVE men in Alex.
dria approve the Change.l
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-20
COTTON SEED HuLLING MACHINE

TElERSBURa, va. July I.
We bespeak the attention of The public 10
the advertisement of Messr. Toilet aud Saith
offering TO sale rights for the use of their very
ingenlus machine, Tor huing Cotton Seed. We
have lately visited the Machine viii these
gentlemen hay~ efected at the Mills oil Messr..
SmH 4 B,isseau and were highly eraified
wit us performance. Inc force applied y as
equal to from two 10 thr - horse power and
tie ed WAS cl"aned and hulel with great "a.
pIdIty furnishing a bushe of ker Ell. IN goo..
order IN seyen miuutes and half. We IN ard
nothing in say ing that This m'chne is rs cred
tnhle Ia the ingenuity OF us inventor, "a II rs
likely 10 be beneficial - its results to the couu
try AT lai se hut more particularly 10 the cotton
growing States The oil expressed from the
cotton seed has been used her. for painting,
ant from the few ex nerlments hiCh have
been made for that purpose, il was found to
be but little, if any l. feror, TO linseed. II i.
believed that 1t may b. applied 20 many other
pnrpo es-for gas lights, lamps, machinery,
cleaning wool &c. Some Idta may, theirs.
fore, be formed of the importance ofthis in
yention, when the fact is taken INTO considera
t,on, that The CONSUMPTION o oil tor these pur
poses, is annually increasing, while the pro.
duction of haxseed is rapidly declining If
this oil shall he found, Oh further experiment,
hive tried II ia the present Imperfect state OF
IL manufacture and 10 enter generally into the
consumption ofthe country, II must add great
ly 10 he resources OF the Southern states. A
bale of cotton weighing $50 pounds, will yield
10 bushels uI kernel IN clean state, from
which 90 gallons of oil may be expressed
The annual crop OF cotton in the United States
may be estimated ~ 800 QUO bales, which Will
yield 5000 900 bushels Of kernel-but deduct
ing 20 per cent. for the seed " hich NAV be re
CURED Tor pl ntlng, aud lost in the gathering,
we have 6,40O, 900 bushels of kernel, OF II 500
600 gallons OF OIL which, IT sold al the moderate
price OF 80 cents per gallon. would be an adj
dtion TO our resources of So 40O, 600 per an.
neutrality-suspicious. OF the sale of The oil-cake
an article which is known TO every farmer as a
nutritious food for cattle. In making this
statement, we are not o be understood as say
ing that such riH be, bnt that such MAJ be tne
results arising from this invention. Snce tie
machine has been cree ed, II has been visited
by several gentlemen, from diff rent parts of
the Union, fully competent TO judge OF its mer-
lis, who have pronounced II second IN impor
lance 10 this section of tlr country, TO he
cotton gin only ; and we trust that the public
attention will ne speedily directed 10 lis ad.
vantages, which are fully ser forth in the adj
vertlsement inserted in to-day's paper
Intel