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Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05
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When from the sacred garden driven,
Man fled before his Makers wrath,
An angel left her place in heaven,
And crossed the wanderers sunless path.
Twas Art sweet Art! new radiance broke,
Where her light foot flew DER the ground
And thus with seraph voice she spoke,
"rhe curse blessing shall be found
She led him through the trackless wild,
Where noonlide sunbeams never blazed;
The thistle shtunk the harvest smiled,
And nature addened as she gazed.
Earlh's thousand tribes of living things,
At Arts command TO him are given
The village grows, the city springs,
And point their spires o faith 10 heaven.
lie rends the ak-and bids it ride,
To guard The shores its beauty graced
lie smiles the rock upheaved in pride,
See towers ofslrenglh, and domes Of taste.
Earlh's ieeming caves, their wea lih reveal,
Fire bears his banner on the wave,
He bids the mortal poison heal
And leaps triumphant DER The grave.
He p'ucks the pearls that stud the deep,
Admirng heau'y's lap to fill;
He breaks ,he stubborn marbles sleep,
And mocks his own Creators SIX i'll,
With thoughts that swell his glowing soul,
lie bids The ore Hume the page,
And proudly scoIniug times control,
Commences with an unborn age.
10 fields Ct air he writes his name,
And lreads the chambers Of the sky;
lie reads The stars, and grasps The flame
Tina, quvers round The throne on high.
Ia war renowned, in peace sublime,
lie moves in greatness aud in grace;
His power subduing space and time,
Links realm to rea I'm, and race 10 race.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05
SHORT SERMONS.

We think that those of the Clergy who
have the best faculty for condens'ng their
dscourses, aud presenting at the same
time finish. argument, eXhortallon and
strength, best subserve the interests Of the
sacred profession they have assumed. The
most eloquent man IN the world may tire
an audience by too long addressing them
for though The spylt may indeed be willing
the flesh is weak, and cannot, in comfort
support long aud wearisome confinement
To hear and 'nwurdly digest a good dis
course, It Is necessary That congregation
are not held together long enough 10 beg;
even to think Of home.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05

or intimacy with female, was us good ev
idcnce Of intended matrimony as special
contract The principle of the case un.
doubcdly is, that if Hastings did not prom
isc, he ought 10 hare done IL! and so the
law holds him responsible for the non.pcr.
formance of his duty. A most excellent
decision: most righteous Judge: compar
ed with whom Daniel would appear but a
common squire. We have no idea of a
young fellow dangling about woman for
year or two, without being able to screw
his courage IN to the sticking point, aud
then going off leaving his sweetheart hblf
cour,ed: We hate this everlasting nibble
and never bite: this beating the bush and
never starting the game: this standing to
the rack without touching the corn; it is
the crying sin Of the age. There is not one
girl in twenty can tell whether she is court
ed or not.
No wonder that when Betty Shippers
cousin asked her if Billy Doubtful was
cour,iag her, she answereJ-'I don't know
'xac,lJy he's sorter courtln' and sorter no,
courtiE' We have no doubt that Hastings
is one Of these 'sorter not fellows, aud most
heartiytdo we rejoice, that the Judge bro't
him up standing with a Sl425 verdict
The Judge says, that long continued atlen.
tons or intimacy is just as good as G
regular promise. Now we do not know
what would pass for intimacy according
to the laws Of Vermont; but supposin.
attentions TO consist in visiting glr
twice a week. and estimate the sine vast
ed BY Mss Munson at each visit to b,
worth dollar, which is dog cheap, Mr.
Hastings has been making fool Of hlmse
fourteen years and some odd weeks. Thi
decision makes new era in the law G
love, and we doubt not will tend to tn
promotion of ma'rlmony and sound moral
w. Utica Democrat.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05
GU II COU N II Y,
BY JUDGE STORY.

BY JUDUE STORf.
When we recolect what has been, what
is, how is it possible not to feel profound
sense of the responsibilities Of this Republic
to all future nges What vast motives
press upon US for lofty effort What bril-
liant prospects invite our enthusiasm
What solemn warnings at once demand cur
vigilance and moderate our confidence
The old world has already revealed to US
in its unsealed books, the beginning and
end of all its marvellous struggles in the
cause of liberty. Greece lovely Greece
the land of scholars and the nurse of arms,
where sister republics, in fair procession,
chuunled the praise of liberty and the good
where is she ? Her arts are no more.
The last sad relics of her temples are but
the barracks Of ruthless soldiery the
fragments of her columns and palaces are
in The dust, yet beautiful in ruins She
fell not when the mighty were upon her.
Her sons were united at ThermopylG and
Marathon, and the tide Of her triumph roll
led back upon the Helespont. She fell
not by the hands of her own people. The
men of Macedonia did hot the work Of des-
tructon. 1t was already done by her own
corrurtions, banishments, and discussions.
Rome! republican Rome whose eagles
glanced in the rising sun-where and what
is she The eternal city yet remains proud
even in her desolatlon, noble in decline,
venerable in the majesty Of religion, and
calm in the composure Of death. The ma
laria has but travelled in the parts won by
the destroyer. More than eighteen cen.
turtles have mourned over the loss of the
empire. moral disease was upon her
before Caesar had passed the Rnbcon, and
Brutus did not restore her health by the
deep probings of the Senate Chamber The
Golhs, and Vanda's, and Huns, the swarms
of the North, completed only what was
begun at home. Romans betrayed Rome.
The legions were bought and sold, but the
people paid the tribute money.
And where are the Republics of modern
times which clustered around Immortal
Italy Venice and Greece exist but in
name. The A ps indeed. look down upon
the brave and peaceful Swiss, in their ma
tive Businesses but the guaranty of theil
freedom is their weakness, and not theil
strength. The mountains are not easily
retained. When the invader comes, he
moves like an avalanche, carrying destruc
ton in his path. The peasantry sink before
him. The country, too, is too poor fo
plumber, and too rough for valuable con
quest. Nature presents her eternal barrie
on every side to check the wantonness o
ambition. And Switzerland remains, wit
her simple institutions. a military road l.
climates scarcely worth permanent pos
session. and protected by the jealousy @
her neighbors.
We stand the latest, and, if we fai
probably the last example of self govern
ment by the People. We have begun
under circumstances of the most ausp
cious nature. We are 10 the vigor {
youth. Our growth has never been check
ed by the oppression Of tyranny. Ot
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
BY MRS, sIGoURNEY.

Why do We tear
Yon ling ring tenant from his humble home?
His children circlins bout him, and his wife
Regardless Of the wnry Storm doth stand
Watching his las, far footsteps will, gaze
or speechess Misery. That is his crime
The murderer's steel in headlong passion raised,
Or the red flame in steadily malice touch'd
To some unguarded roof? All no, ye say.
His crime is POVERTY.
Disease, percl,ance,
Hath pprazed his arm, or adverse skles
Withheld his harvest or the thousand ills
That ihrong the hard lot of the sons Of toll
Drunk up his spirits. Ye indeed may hold
His form incarcerale, bur aciH that repair
The trespass on your purse TO take away
The means Of labor, yet require the fruits,
Savorelh, melhinks, of Phalaoh's policy
DOH Themis sanction wha, the code of Christ
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-10-05
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

A case was recently tried in Rutland,
Vermont, in which a Miss Munson recover
ed Si425 of a Mr.. Hastings, for breach
of a marriage contract. The curiosity of
the thing is, that the Vermont judge charg
ed the jury "that no explicit promise was
necessary to bind tho parties to marriage
contract, but that long continued attentions
The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-12-28
Norti.-garol;na legislature.
SENATE.
Frldag, Dec. :.


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tain Of Justice, originally sat there in per.
son. anu IS still deemed TO be present, IN
construction Of taw-aIone possesses the
h,rh power of issuing The wrI, OF manda.
mus. no, only to inferior jurisdictions and
corporatlons, but also 10 magistrates and
others, commanding them, IN the king's
name. 10 do what their duty requires, m
cases where there is a vested right, and no
other specific remedy. IL has been held, IN
the case referred TO, that, MS the Supreme
Cou,, of the Unied States Is, by the Con.
s,i,uton, rendered incompetent TO exercise
thus power, aud as The circuit ccurt oil this
District is a court Of general jurisdiction ~
the District, the night 10 issue the "rii OF
mandamus is incident 10 Us own common
law powers. Another ground relied upon
10 MAINTAIN the power IN question l., that IL
vas included, BY fair construction, M the
power It granted to the CIRCUIT courts oil TIE
United States. by the act Ito prosids Tor
the more conyenlen, organization OF tue
courts of the United States, passed 18Th Of
4 February, leol, tina, the act establishing
the circuit court Of tins District, Passed The
27th dav of February, lsOl, conferred up
on that court and the Judges thereof, tue
same powers as were by law vested 10 the
lcircmt courts of the United States, aud ~
the Judges of the said courts that the re
neal of the first mentioned aci, which TOOK
place m the next Year, did not dryesi The
circuit court Of this District 81 The authoTi.
4 IL IN dispute, but left II slIll clothed wiih
/ the powers over The subject which, II IS
CONCEDED, were taken away from iisa car
Gun, courts of the n,.ed States BY the re.
peal Of the act Of 3,h February, lo0l.
Admitting that the adoption 81 the laws
Of Mary land for portion ct ihis hisiFic'
coaiers on the circuit court thereof, n 'ha
portion, the iranscendent extra judicial pre-
ro2ative powers ef the Court Of hing
Bench, IN England, or that either o. 10
acts of Congress, b. necessary implication
auihottze the iormer court TO issue VII
of maudaraos to an cfiSccr OF the tui'e'
} States, TO compel INN to pef,ori6 minis
terrell daty, the consequences are, IN on
respect, the same. I he result 10 eliAS
case is, that tho officers OF the | nilr'
States, stationed in dtllrrtbt parts OF u
United States, are. N respect 10 the per
Torrance OF iheir Official duiias, SUBJECT L
different Laws aud dilllrnt supef,isIca
, those 10 The States to one rule, ADD those II
the Dlsi,ic, OF Columbia 20 anelhcf and
very different one. Ia the District ,he'
official conduct IS sutlrcl 10 : lndscal cen
,rol, Gom waich IN tbs states they are ca
emy,.
Whatever dir renee of opinion may ~
Isl as to the expediency Of vesiIns such
power IN he judiciary. IN "a system Of Gov
, ernmeut constituted like that OF the tn
Z ted States. all must agree tina, these dIs
I. pars.ing discrepancies ~ the las, and :
; 10. administration OF IutIce, ought not 10 b
: permitted 10 conlHue; and as Congres
! alone can provide The reuedy, the sul Jee
) IS unasoldabiy presented 10 Your eonsidefn
: lion.
VI VAN buren,.
WAzHINgTox Dec :, isJ-
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24

he has paid his fare, he wishes he could
have his money back again and disgorge
his ride. He cannot forgive himself for
spending needless sixpence; he repents
of the extravaganza with as much contrition
as man who has committed moral enor-
nifty; he would almost infict penance on
himself and scourge his own shoulders for
his folly. He cannot hear to be cheated Of
farthing. So he says, but he means that
he never parts with arthing but with re-
luctance. He has no. notion of buying
golden opinions. He has some little re-
gard, however, to opinion, and wishes to
have it without buying; If, however, it
must be bought, he will endeav0r to buy il
as cheaply as possible. lie has an eye TO
quantity, not quality. He has adherence
of all public amusements which are not ac-
cessible without payment; and if ever driv-
en- by strong impulse Of curiosity to visit
a theatre, he will spend whole day in hun
ting after free admission, and it, after all,
he must pay for admittance, he will have as
much as he can for his money, and sit to
the last dregs of drowsy farce, though he
be'as weary as a horse, as sick as dog,
and as sleepy as cat. Whatever he has
bought and paid for, he will use and con
sumo, however much against the grain
If he has hired stupid novel, he will read
it throughout; if he has paid fare in
he will ride in IT as far as it
will carry him; if he has taken lodgings
in a watering-placo, he will stay ill the last
moment, letthe weather be as bleak as De-
cember; if he has subscribed to a cold
bath, he viii have his quantum of dips at
the risk of his life; if he be member Of a
club, he will read every newspaper; and
if he sees and hates himself in this por-
trait, he will peruse it to the end, because
he has right to do SO.
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24
WELLERJANA!

"That's personal, y as the gentleman said
to the negro ringing the bell on board the
steamboat, and requesting the people to pay
their passage money.
@Rather squeezing,"as the newspaper
said to the steampress.
"Rather clawng,n as the softrcrab said to
the hard-crab as the latter was making
meal of the former.
>. 'tQuite SUrfcit," as tho gentleman bath
ing observed when the salt foam choked
him.
"Bad company'is better than none" as
the shark obsergedto the ships company, as
he followed the vessel to pick up any body
that mightstumble overheard.
"a suh-treasury abstraction" " as the pick
pocket observed when he took an empty
purse.
awe are suffering with drought," as the
loafer said to the cornfeld.
,sYours truly,"as the gentleman about to
be hanged observed to Jack Ketch.
ssHead work" as POmpey remarked, get
ting over fence with a tub of water bal
i lanced on his wool.
Il "Whata vessel ofelectionm as the loateI
observed as he was offered a glass of gin ant
water at the polls.
"Rather Musical, = as the OK observed t
the bull-frog
aYou didn't nett much by that voyage,
as the spider said to the 6y when he caugh
: him in his web.
Il Nat;Osdl IStellgeroev.
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24
EXPRESSION.

ssWhat mighty mystery is expression.-
Poets and orators, to whom tho world ieels
somuch indebted, and with whom it has
been so enamored and delighted, have re-
voaled no new facts to mankind. We do
NOT owe to them the knowledge that we pos
sess of the course of the stars--of the
movements of oceans waters--of the
elements and their combinations which
form the material world. When the voice
ofDemosthenes Numbered over the waves Of
the democracy Of Athens--when the sol
emn music of Cicero's eloquence in the
eonate or forum awakened indignation a.
gainst treason or tyranny--when the blind
old bard wandered through tho cities of
Greece singing the tale Of Troy divine
the rapture with which these men were
heard was not owing to any perception of
profitable knowledge which they convened,
butwas measured by the beauty of express
| sion. We have all eyes to see and hearts
To Bel; but when the eye roams delighted
Iy 0Fer the external and visible world, or
thelhoart beats rapturously in happy SYM
4 patty with beauty, there is a pleasure for
which il not easy to find words; and II is
when the poet gives expression to those
feelings, and embodies them in language,
thatwe admire his gehlHs. Now, The posi
who describes external nature beautifully
and POLITICALLY, has no more physical appre.
hension Of its beauty than we have: and
Indeed, we can only measure the excel
lcnce of the poetry by its answering to on,
feelings. 1t precisely the same with the
Ipoeto of the heart and with the impassionct
Iorator; their excellence is measured. no
Ibytheir apprehension, but by their expres
Nsiehs and this is proved by the simple an,
.welEknown fact, that ifany sorrow. snfTerin,
oriniustice, be spoken Of by the poet or or
htorin terms too strong for o0f apprehen
Zion, we are not excited to sympathy. bu
DfEehded by what we feel to be bombasl
bay. only lot real matter of sorrow b
BpokBn or written of with an excess Of pa
siunbte language beyond our sympathy, an
hat which might have moved us 10 teal
TilIgo nigh to provoke US 10 laughter
4 sopSpws Of children and sorrows of lo'
re matters with which we can sympj
kV yet we can also laugh at the lack
~ calness of lovers, and smile at the pre-
Nd ssIons of infancy. | dare say that
~ like Shakespeare or Goethe cou
very moving passage out Of Il
" little girl for the loss Of doll
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24
LOVE.
BY CHARLES SWAIN.

BY CHAkLtb hHAiNs
Ioyel-I will tell thee what it is to love!
Itis TO build with human thoughts shrine,
3 Where Hope sits broOding like beauteOu'
dove;
Where Time seems young, and Life thing
divine. sa, .7. @
All tastes, all pleasures, all desires combine
To consec rate this sanctuary OF bliss.
Above, the stars in shrOudless beauty shine;
Around, the streams their aowery margin
And IL there's heaven on earth, that heaven is
surely this. q.
yos this is Love the steadfast and the true ;
The immortal glory which hath never set
The best, the brightest boon the heart Ger
knew;
ofali lile's sweets, the very sweetest YETI
on, who but can recall the eve they met
To breathe, in some green walk, their hrst
young vow,
while summer flowers with moonlight dews
were wet, gf fan
And winds sighed soft around the mountains
brow,
And all was rapture then-which is but memory
now
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24
RECLUSE.


A fountain issuing into light
BEFORE marble palace, threw
To heaven its column, pnre and bright
Returning thence in showers of dew;
nat soon humber course il took,
And Gid away the nameless brook.
Flowers on its grassy margin sprang'
Flies o'er its eddying surface play'u'
Birds midst the alder-branches sang,
Flocks through the. verdant'meadow stray g.
The weary there lay down to rest,
And there the halcyon built her nest.
,rwos beautiful, TO stand and watch
The fountains crystal turn TO gems,
And from the sky such colors catch, .sf
As 'twere raining diademsi
Yet all was cold and curious art
That charad the eye, but miss'd tho heart
Dearer to me the little stream,
Whose unimprisoned waters run,
Wild as the changes of dream,
By rock and glen, through shade and sun;
It's lovely links had power to bind
Inweicome chains my wandering mind
SO thought I, when saw the face,
by happy portraiture roVeard'
)ne adorned with every grace;
Her name and date from me concealed,
II not her story ;-she had been
The pride of many aspondid scene.
She cast her glory round court,
And frolick'd in the gayest ring, ,.. =,
Where fashions high-born minions sport,
Like sparkling fire-fies on the wings
But thence, when love had touched her soul,
no nature and to truth she stole. ,.,
From din, and pageantry, and strife,
Midst woods and mountains, wales and plain'
Ehc treads the path Of lowly life,
Yet in bosom-circle reigns,
No fountain scattering diamond showers,
But the sweet strcamlet watering flowers.
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24

How TO MAKE HOME HAPPY.--Nature
is industrious in adorning her dominions,
and man to whom this beauty is addressed,
should feel and obey the lesson. Let him,
too, be industrious in adorning his domain
lin making his home, the dwelling Of his
wife and children, not only convenient and
comfortable, but pleasant. Let him as far
as circumstances will admit, be Industrious
in surrounding it with pleasant objccts-in
decorating it, within and without with neat
ness and order--a place which brings sat
isfaction to the inmates, and which in abb
sence draws back the heart by the fond as
socations of comfort and content. Let
this be done, and this sacred spot viii be-
come most assuredly the scene of cheerful
neess and peace. Ye parents, who would
have your children happy, be careful
to bring them up in the midst of pleasant,
a cheerful, and 7happy home. And, to
secure your happiness as men, waste not
your time in accumulating wealth TO leave
them, but apply your energies to store their
hearts with rich and everlasting seed Of
virtue, honor and religion.
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24
FALLING IN LOVE.

A man falls in love just as he falls down
stairs. 1t is an neutrality-suspicious. and ve-
ry probably misfortune; something which
he neither intended, nor foresaw, nor appre-
headed. But when he runs in love it is as
he runs in debt; it is done knowingly and
intentionally; and very often rashly and
foolishly, even ifnot ridiculously, miserably
and ruinously.
Marriages that urc made up at watering
places, are mostly of this running sort; and
there may be reason to think that thov are
even less likely to lead to- will not say
happiness, but to very humble degree of
contentment, than those which arc plain
business of bargain and sale; for in these
latter certain degree of prudence enters
on both sides. But there is distinction to
be made here; the Nan who is married for
mere worldly motives, without spark oi
affection on the woman's part, may never
.heless get, in every worldly sense of the
word, good wife; and while English women
continue to be what, thank Heaven they
are, he is likely to do SO; but when awoman
is married for the sake of her fortune, the
case IS altered, and the chances are hVe
hundred to one, that she marries villain,
or at least a scoundrel.
Falling in love, and running in love, are
both, as every body knows, common enoughi
and yet less so, than what | shall call catch
ing love. Where the love itself is impru-
dent, that is to say where there is some just
prudential cause or impediment why the
two parties should not be joined togetger in
holy matrimony, there is generally some de-
gree of culpable imprudence in catching it,
because the danger is always to be appre-
hended, and may in most cases be avoided
But some times the circumstances may be
such as to leave no room for censure, even
when there may be most cause for compass
sion.
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24

American Ingenuity .--Messrs. VIM. Nor
ris 81 Co. of Philadelphia, have just COM
pleted a superior locomotive engine, which
is intended for the Austrian rail road be-
tween Dresden and Prague. This is the
second engine made by Messrs. N. q Co.
for Austria. t
Southern telegraph., 1838-10-24

that point will not go. Now, if the express
sion, not exceeding the feelings in intensi-
ty, but merely missing them by awkward
ness, fails of awakening sympathy, it will
60 yet more wide Of its mark in propoEiion
to oitsextrayagance. ! viii use metaphor,
and make the matter plain. You shoot an
arrow at target; you miss the target:--
then you draw your bow more vigorously
IN the same direction, and send your arrow
farther still; then you are farther from the
target than ever. Few can send the arrow
into the bulls eye-they are men of gen.
ius; few, but more, can hit the target--they
are men of ability; but many miss, before,
beyond--they are friends to the trunk-ma-
ker. ~