Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-22
NO. II
F,om the B.sglo Jo,anal.


rude hamlet) stood upon the further con6nes
Of the rising west. Still beyond there did.
indeed, exist an ideal realm Of future great
ness---a matted and mighty forest, ssbut
clouds and thick darkness rested on itn Here
and there il was dotted with a settlement OF
whites. clustered together fer mutual assist
ance and mutual defence. These were sew
and far between and snil beyond and deap-
er sunk IN the murkey shadows of the wider
ness roanaed the border band Of iawisss and
outlswea whites--a rice nf men found only
upon the line orirontier territory, bstwsenss-
wage and civilized life. to neither Of which
they havs any affinity, and whose anomalous
character rejecting, thu virtues Of either, end
bodies the wees of both.
Butthe solitude las been penetpStsd, he
forest has been overwhelmed by The fowsrine
wave Of emigration. Thaiwsesb,sl reoanilT
spentIts utmost fury ere il reached even here,
and It's last and dying ripple WIS wont 10 I'll
gently at our feet, but not 20 nos--it has
swept over us. and while is mighty ,ielug.s IS
yet rushing past, In one acknowledgements.
che roar Of its swelling SURGE. repeated ~
each babhlng echo. is still waited back 70 -
upon every western breeze - Ours is ~ ION
ger western settlement; our children are
surrounded hy the comforts. the blessings aud
the elegancies Of hfs. where their iathevs
found only hardshps. privaGcn and warf,--
The westward is onward still. onward --tut
where? Even the place that was known 40
such but yesterday. to morrow shall be known
so no more--The tall forests, NE prowlng
beast aad sfIhe stoscl 81 the woods--the niao
without tear" are alike borne down, tam.
pied and destroyed by this everlasting seram.
bic for the west. This cesrse Of empire may
-nlust be stayed, when the shore Of the Pa.
cific has been reached and the intsx1nediAle
distance reclaimrd and populated. But he
fore these arc effected, how mighty must bo
the growth Of our republic! Already the an.
nnal tourist, who was wont to exhaust al hiS
rambling desives IN reaching tho "Falls. = dis
dams so slight an excufsioR---he must visit
the west-and Green Bay, or Fort Winnie
bago is now his resting place Another year,
and even these will be left behind. and the
ever re- ceding west mnkt be pursued ovsR
succcding rivera, and mountains, and plaiEss
until "thc western tour shah terinina1e. b
necessity, at the mouth ofthe Oregon.
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Erasmus had got into q polemisal control
yersy on thatpoint--as to the real prcsence
of Chnst---He pushed his adversary 70 close
that he retreated to his creed, exclaininf
+" Cyede gssod habfs es habes--. Beliers that VOC
have, and you have. The argument had
been carried ON in Lain, as was the custom
with literary men of that age, particularly on
friendly feeling, and Erasmas borrowed hie
antagonist 8 paifrey Tor his journey home. y
not being returued. the owner sent for it's
Erasmus made the following reply:
1T ns;si dixiah
do cspnr Christi. i
6iade qund kG6es, e hsbey
SIC nssac tsbi d;co
Do tuo paJfi1do,
Cvede qtsod habss, Il hnbss
This was testing humcrously an impcrt8o
dogma ofthe Catholic Church; which, bcfnS
il q dead language, n hope thai the publ
will find nothing offensive in the introduce
tion,' and none is intended to thoss iauniiise
with that language. A.
.4pnl 1.
ILLusTRfoUs SHoEMAKERs>--Eihord and
Drew were both Shoemakers: 90 was Hoicroit,
whose dramatic works have dons him 80 much
honor. Robert Bloomfield was ShocmakeR
when he wrote his Farmers Boy" DR.. WI
liam Cary, Professor ofSanser;s and Bengaiee,
in the College of Fort William, Calcutta
was in early life 4 Shoemaker. So IS Nj
John Strothers, the author Of "The Poor
Mans Sabbath ss'rhe PsasantsD eath. y and
other poems Roger Shsfmaa, Of ConnOcti-
cut, one Of the abIs signers u American In
dependence, was also Sboemakrr. Ho,
worked at his trade till he was twenty ono
years Of age, at Newton, near Boston, from
whsnce he migrated to Connecticut; and BY
assiduity in ciyl emfloyments arose grades.
ally to be Judge, . Legislator, and an elnps
iDent Statesman; thus setting at nau2ht Tho
old maxim, .tsutw ultra ssspidon
Hotc to hare Good CYop--It is stated ~
the Village Record, that Jesse Pugh, Of Chess
ter county, Pa obtained last harvest from 81
acres Of land, 207 dozen Of wheat. which
yielded two hundred and three bushels. This
comparative good crop is mentioned a. tho
result Of lime and manure on a sod naturally
it being supposed By the
grower that the adjoining groani without saek
appliances, would not yield bushels 70 To
acre.
OF the family Of Waldrons, residiag -
Albany and SaIatogA counties n. three
brothers have died in the course Of thu tase
year. whose united ages exceeded 40 yeaye+
The youngest brother 10 yet living, EhssahGs
is nearly 30 years.
Domestic Linen. The editor Of the Gazette