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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-30

NINE STATES A DAY.-Some gentlemen on
board the steamer Diamond the other day, were
conversng about the wonderful powers of steam,
the great facilities it has given to travelling, &c.
One gentleman remarked that man might leave
New York in the morning, and arrive the
same night in Baltimore, thus being in five States
in one day. "Only five is it We say 2" said an
Irishman present, land fits meeself who was in
nine States on Monday last" The company
were increduous, and called on Paddy TO ex-
plain how such thing could be possible, which
he did as follows "Well We see gentlemen,
was married in New York last Monday morn
ing at 6 O'Clock, and went with my dear Bridget
to Baltimore the same day, and sure before
got there, was after getting drunk as haste,
so We persave was in the State of New York,
the State of Sobriety, the State of Single Bles-
sedness, the State Of New Jersey, the State Of
Connubial Felicity CHATS what we call matri-
mony) the State Of Pennsy lvania, the State Of
Delaware, the State OF Maryland, and the
State Of Intoxicaion all in one day, and the
whole of which was owing to the wonderful
power OF stame.-M y Erening Mail.
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VERMoST--Hon Charles X Williams, Chief
Justice, Stephen Royce, Jacob CoIlamcr, and Isaac
r Red6ed, Assistant Justices, have all been re-elect
ed for the ensuing year, by the Legislature.
prs year we're Ss4, 100 81; the expenditures $751;
1913 06; balance 90, 794 ST. which added 10 the So
500 90 previously on hand, makes 1884 IA. No
State Debt. Vermont has ever been VIII. State
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HEAp.ouAhreas, MAINS Coaps,


Washington City, Del. 4h, l64l.
SEPARATE Proposals will be received al the Office
~ OF the Qaarermaster of the Marine Corps, IN
this city, until ~ o'clock, on Wednesday, the 10th
day Of November next for furnishing rations To the
United States Marines at the following stations for
the year 1872:
Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Long Island, New York
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gosport, near Norfolk, Virginia;
Pensacola, Florida and
Washington City, District of Columbia.
The ratons to consist Of one pound and quarter
of fresh beef three quarters of pound OF mess
pork eighteen of bread -four, al the option
of the Government and at the rate Of six pounds Of
good clean coffee, twelve pounds Of good New Orleans
sugar eight quarts Of beans four quarts OF vinegar
two quarts of SALT four pounds of soap and one and
half POUNDS of good dipped candles to each hundred
rations.
Ii is understood that the full side Of beef neck and
shins excluded) be delivered, If required; 4 such
quantity be not required that the fore and hind quar-
tiers be delivered alternately And the bread or flour
shall be of superfne quality All the articles to be
unexceptonable and TO be issued to the troops with
out expense to the United States.
Proposals to be endorsed " Proposals for Rations
for IS42" AUG. A. NICHOLSON,
QsSssrmaster.
The American Sentinel, and Pennsy lvanian Phil
adelphia; the Portsmouth Gazette, New Hampshire;
the New York Evening Post, the New York Herald,
and the New York Enquirer the Baltimore Republic
can; the Norfolk Beacon; the Norfolk Herald; the
Richmond Enquirer, and Richmond Wing; the Al
exandra Gazette, Alexandria, ID. c.; and the Pensa-
cola Gazette will give the above three insertions each
per week, and send one copy of the advertisement to
accompany the accoun. when forwarded to this office
for payment
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THE LAMENTATION FOR THE DEATH
OF CELIN.
FROM LocKHART's SPANISH BALLADS.

FROM LoCKHART's SPANISH BALLADS.
This ballad, which celebrates the untimely fate of
Legri CAVALIER by name Celln, OF Selm,
Por la puerta de Ia vega" So,
consists 40 stands In the romancero, of many more
stanzas than | have translated. But M. Doping
points out sufficient evidence that of them had
been added in the time of Montemayar.l
l.
barrd,
AT twilight at the Vega gate there is a trampling
heard;
There is ,ramplng heard as of horses treadng slow
And weeping voice OF woman, and heavy sound
of wo.
What tower is falln what star is set, what chief
come these bew ailing y
" A tower is fall'n, star is set,-Alas alas for
Celin !"
Three times they knock, three times they cry, and
wide the doors they throw;
Dejecle eddy they enter, and mournfuy they go;
In gloomy lines they mastering stand beneath the ho-
low porch
Each horseman grasping in his hand black and
flaming torch;
Wet is each eye they go by, and all around is wall
For all have heard the misery. Alas alas for
Celin %
Him yesterday Moor did STAY Of Bencerrajes blood
Twas at the solemn ousting, around the mobiles stood
The mobiles of the land were there, the ladies' bright
and fair
Look d from their latced windows, the naughty sight
to share;
Blu, now the mobiles all lament, the aties bewai-
ing,
For he was Glanadas darling knight. ALAS alas
for CeIin !"
Before him ride his vassals in order two by two,
With ashes their turbans spread most pltlful to
view;
Behind him his four sisters, each wrapped in sable
veil
Between the tambour's dismal strokes take up their
doleul tale
less bewaillng,
And all the people, far and near, cry" Alas! alas
| for Celinw
Oh lovely lies he on the bier above the purple pail,
The flower Of all Granada's youth, the lovelest of
them all
His dark dark eyes closed, his rosy lip is pale,
The crus, of blood lies black and dim upon his bur
And ever more the hoarse tambour breaks in upon
/ their wailing
Its sound is like no earthly sound" Alas alas for
| Celin ~
The Moorish maid at the lattice stands, the Moor
| stands at his door,
One maid is wringng of her hands, and one is weep
| ing sore
Down 10 the dust men bow their heads, and ashes
| black they stew,
Upon their broidcrd garments of crimson green, and
| blue
Before each gate the bier stands still then bursts the
! loud bewailing
From door and lattice high and low" Alas alas
for Celinl"
! VII
An old woman cometh forth, when she hears the
people cry;
Her hair is white silver like horn her glazed eye
Twas she that nursed him at her breast that nursed
him long ago.
She knows not whom they all lament, but soon she
| well shall know.
With one deep shrek she through doth break, wher
her receive their wang-
+" Let ne kiss my Cen | de-Alas alas fol
| CelnW
TENNESSEE u. S. SENAToRs.-The lower house 0
the Leg stature had adopted resolution to go int
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paper published a, MsrseilIes, in France, repre-
the olive that part of the country to be
weighed down with fruit, and to promise gathering
at least equal to any within the memory Of man and
thus 10 compensate for the losses of the country by
the foundations from which 1t suffered severely st
an earlier part Of the year.
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TENNESSEE U. S. SENAToRs.-The lower house Of
the Leg stature had adopted resolution to go into
the election Of United States Senators Saturday,
23d instant.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-,

October llth, 1871
NOTICEis hereby given that the Library of Con
i gress will be closed on Tuesday, the 18th instant,
for the purpose of cleaning and arranging the books
and will not again be opened until Tuesday, the 23d
of November,
JOHN S. MEEHAN, Librarian.
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poettral.
SONNETS.
by D. BALLEcK.

To love and be loved again--to feel,
That one heart beats responsive TO our own
To cherish joys that words can ne'er reveal
Gentle and lovely as the dying tone
OF far OF music 10 so strongly forth
On hie's rough journey grit with womans love,
And woman's truth, jewels Of priceless worth,
That sorrows dim not, trials can but prove;
To stand with her beside the shrnes where lie
Our household gods-to feel her true hand press
Our own in silence, while within her eye
Glistens the tear of holy tenderness
To stem 10 voice whose every tone
Tells US that We ON earth ale not alone
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"OUSEKEEPERS, ATTENTIONl-Th sub
IL scrbers would respectfully call the attention of
housekeepers and others desiring housekeeping goods
to their stock which has been selected with great care,
andcan be sold as low, and on terms accommoda-
ting as they can be procured in the District.
We have just received, in addition to our former
stock
Sideboards, dressing and plain Bureau1, Sofas,
Lounges
Mahogany and marble top centre Tables pier TIA
bles
Wardrobes, mahogany and painted Wristbands
High and low post Bedsteads Mattresses feather
Beds
nj ,hogany, cane and wood seat Chairs
Mahogany, cane, and Boston Rockers
Trunde Bedsteads, Cribs, Cradles, and Settees
A handsome assortment of China, Glass and
Crockery Ware
Stair Rods, plated Casters Candlesticks
Cake baskets and Salvers Butter.tubs
Shutters and Trays, Buuerknives
Ivory buck, and bone Knives and Forks, Egg
boilers
Sauscpans, Walters, Ovens, Pots and skiets
Gridrons
Coal hods, brass and iron Androns, Shoves and
Pokers, wire, pierced iron and brass Tenders
Sad Irons, Hearth-rugs Baskets
Brushes of every description, Bellows, Wood.
Hall Lamps, mahogany and gilt frame Mirrors,
Curtain Bands and Pins Britannia Ware
Spoons
Toilet Glasses, Tippecanoe Spttoons, Tea-ketes
Wood horses and Saws, Tin-ware, &c. &c.
With many other articles too numerous for an adj
vertisement.
Persons wanting any of the above articles will find
1t to their advantage to call and examine prices be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
BOTELER & WARING,
9Th st, nearly opposite Patriotic Bank.
oct 2S-4t
pURNAP'S Lee lures to young men, on the
ID mind, formation Of character and the conduct OF
life | volume.
| On the sphere and duties of women SC, vol
| just received by FRANCK TAYLOR mmedi-
| stsy East Of Gadsby's. oct 10
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Glistens the tear OF holy tenderness;
To stem 10 voice whose every tone
Tells US that We ON earth ale not alone.
To see the worm feed on the pallid cheek
: Where shines the star Presaging swift decay;
Totremble with fear we may not speak;
To bid adieu TO hopes declining ray;
To know that she we love and prize must die,
Even in the opening her spirits dream
That the deep love that flashes from her eve
Is doubly bright with e's last hectic CLEAN;
To stand beside that loved ones grave and feel
Lfe's utter loneliness to silent shed
Tears, bitter tears, DER memory's waste-to knecl
Beside the dwelling Of our cherished dead
Sending the bruised spiri, forth to trace,
Beyond the sky, her peaceful resting place.
To stand upon fe's desert and to know
The love-lit radiance Of woman's eye
Is not Tor US, to watch the louret blow
That on another's breast must blushing lie
To cast affection on one shrine and feel
There's no divinity to feed the flame;
To feel the brain throb and the senses reel,
Whenever we hear the loved and chersh'd name,
VI one whose heart can give no echo back
INTO the voice OF our burning prayer;
Where crush'd TO earth hope perishes in gloom
And memory weeps in pleasures living tomb.
These are the lights and shadows of mans life,
The fretwork woven by the hand of fate
With the mixd web of his existence--rife
With grief or gladness; yet around him wait
thousand mnIstrants, TO dry the tears
VI deepest sorrow or estrange the mind
From loves first thtaldom, breat hing in his ears
Spells more enchanting than he leaves behind,
A thousand streams gush forth to sweep away
The dim memorials of JOY and grief,
Beneath whose waves unseen, unnoted, lay
Affection $ garlands, wiihered-hower and leaf
WI ile other gods, Ambition Wealth, or Fame,
From his changed heart feeting homage claim.
W
But love, first love- womans life--to her
No second fame its deep oblivion brings
Al one long shrine trembling worshipper;
Fearful, yet trusting, her young spirit clings,
Unchanged, Interchangeable, that altar round,
Through veal and woe--through glory, grief, or
shame,
TIL death, whose hand alone can quench the flame
Ger the crushd heart uprears the grassy mound.
Should falsehood's hand sweep DER the living Tyre
or young affection, that but once can pour
Forth from the heart its melody and fire,
She droops the rlven strings in sadness DER,
And like the tabled bird of Southern skies,
Enamord ofits own sweet music, with it dies.
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Oct. - colin.

TIRCULAR.-Th partnership heretofore exist
~ ing between Mcssrs. POPE & GIBBS, as At
torneys and Counsellors at Law, and Solicitors in
Chancery Is dissolved by consent.
They continue 10 practice Individually in the Coun-
ty courts of Coosa aid Autauga Countes-in the
Circuit Courts of Autauga, Coosa Tallapoosa, Mont
gomery, Dallas Bib, Shelby, st. Clair and Tallade-
ga Counes-o the CHANCERY Courts held for
the same Counties-in the SUPREME Court Of
ALABAMA-and the District Court Of the United
States at Tuscaloosa.
The above Circuit embraces the cities of Wctump-
ka and Montgomery, the towns OF Selma and Cahaw-
ba, and many other small towns and villages.
B. Il. POPE, Wemupka, Ala
G. r. GIBBS, Columbiann, Ala.
Messrs. P. & g. renew the tender of their profess
sonal services Individually to those who have here
tofore entrusted business 10 their joint management,
and TO the public generally.
Their fees for collecting will be, heretofore, in
common cases, viz:
For bringing suit on all hquidaied demands
Gas Notes, Bills, &C. under $500. $40 90
For bringing suit on all Iiquidated demands
exceeding $500, 5per cent.
For bringing suit on unliqudated demands
Gas accounts, &c.) $40 dollars added to
above fees
For taking Interogatories, Dispositions, &c.
If not more than two pages, 90
If more than two pages for every additional
two pages, or less, W
In all cases sued TO judgment, and execution return
ed property" haLf the above fees If there is
usual litigation and difficulty, resort to e1tranrdi-
nary necessary 10 secure debt an addi-
tona fee in proportion to the services required will be
charged
Persons sending business from abroad requiring
proof Gas accounts &c to prevent delay should send,
at the time, the names and residences OF wit
nesses and the Of two three respectable citi
zens in the neghborhood OF the witnesses to act as
Commissioners to take their testimony.
Partners sending business should also send the in
dividual, as well joint names of the firm.
References.-Jas. 0. Proudft, Esq. Wall st. New
s. C Messrs. T. Goddard g. Co, Macon, Ga WIN.
bearing, Esq, Athens Ga. Messrs. Holt G. Rose,
and Hon. E. s. Dargan, Mobile Ala Hon. II. w,
Hiard, Montgomery, Ala; Messrs Crenshaw
Bryan A. Ready, Esq, Messrs. II. B. Bailey & Co,
and Messrs. James Trimble & Brothers, Wetumpka,
Alabama. oct 9-tf
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CABINET AND CHAIR FACTORY, 4 doors
~ west OF 4 10 street James Williams has
ceived by the schooner Alyne, lot of high and low
back Nurse and Arm Rocking Chairs and Cabinet
Furniture.
Has on hand and continues to manufacture, by
experienced workmen, all kinds of Cabinet Furniture
and Cain and Winsor Chairs, Hair aud Shuck Mat
trasses, China, Glass, and Liverpool ware.
Old furniture taken in exchange for new.
Old furniture repaired ard reprinted.
Which will be sold low for cash, or on time for good
paper.
On hand good assortment Of Mahogany, which
will be sold low for cash. OCT Saw3w.
rHEAP PAPERS.-Fine Satin Surface Letter
~ Paper, ruled on three sides at 81 25 per ream.
Also Folio Post, Fooscap Double Cap, and Envel
ope Papers reduced prices.
Russia and other low priced Quills, suitable for
schools for sale by WIN. F. BAYLY,
Agent for j. X. Herriek)
Pennsylvania Avenue, bet 18th and 18th sis.
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FROM LoCKHART's SPANISH BALLADS.
This ballad, which celebrates the untimely fate of
Zegri cavalier, by name Cen OF Sellm,
Por Ia puerta de Ia vega" So,
consists az It stands in the romancero of many more
stanzas than | have translated. But M. Depping
points out sufficient evidence that Of them had
been added in the time Of Montenegro.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-02-17

HE PHRAsEoLGY OF THE WEST.
-ltisreally believed thatan unsophis.
Il Gated Phladelphian could not travel
comfortably in the West without an in
terpreter, any more thanin China. 1t
was the boast of London Cockney,
that he travelled through France and
Italy, being better provided with cash
than lingo, with only one word"
Combine" In Iowa, and parts ada
cent, if you ask man, DO you know
Colonel S-?" The answer would
be, 'Know hiln?' Why Stranger, !
don't know any one else!" IL the ma
tive was describing the large eating
propensities, ola neighbor, he would
observes that settler hides turn
Ups, and puts baked beans into the
shade, is a caution to patriarchs.' A
hundred similar expressions, extraVa-
CANT, but full Of originality, are every
where current in the West, and takeT
without their verbal contexts, woulC
scarcely be understood withouta guide
| Altogether, they would make a vol
ume.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-02-17

Health Of children.-The following
passage from 1.-THE Fathers book" is
we'll worthy the attention Of parents.
Rising early is habit of high impor-
lance to fix in children; and in forming
it there is a far greater facility than in
other cases. There is a natural pro-
pensity in children generally to early
rising, which needs only to be grati6ed
and encouraged. They usually retire
to bed some hours beforet their parents,
and at daylight, or at least sunrise, are
generally awake and anxious to rise.
Many of them are actually bred up
with difficulty to the habit of taking
morning maps, which, when once FORM
ed, generally prevails through life.
Let the father deny himselfso far as to
retire to bed early, and become an ear
ly riser also. His health, enjoyment,
and usefulness, he may depend upon
ii, will be preceptibly benefited. And
this may be connectedwith anotherpr pre-
ventive of disease-active employ
ment. The morning is the season fol
activity; the frame, invigorated by re
pose, is prepared for exertion, and mo-
ton gives pleasure. The pure atmos
! phere, so much more bracing thar
f at other hours, so much sweeter ant
more exhilarating than the air of a con
fined chamber, has been prepared to b
breathed; and like all natures medi
9 cines, it is superior to any which sci
J encecanproduce. Early rising and earl
E exercise might more properly be call
= ed food than medicine, as they ar
d designed for daily use, and to protec
}. us from disease rather than to remov
d it. Every thing except mere slotf
le invites US, nay, requires Of us to trai
up our children to use them. III
morning is the most favourable SCI
to son for exercising the frame as we
al as for making useful impressions
OF the mind and heart; and, whoever tri
Id to conduct the education OF his chi
en- dren the independently of this practi
10 will lose some of the most favorat
he opportunities.
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COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, FEBRUARY II. ls41


come of him. He told me he had
with much difficulty and after encamp-
ing out night or two reached the next
stand, then at Uchee creek, abouttwen-
ty FIVE miles off, where he died an
humble martyr of filial affection. AT
now an unknown spot by the road
side, and not far from the banks of the
swift rolling Uchee, lies the last re-
mains of him, who though sufferer of
many woes, left behind him but a sim
gle sorrow. Let the traveller as he
passes this hallowed spot, stop there
and begin his eternDI journey; this val
ley will tell him, in its mournful still
ness that death was here; the whisper
ing buzziDg of the tall capped pines,
ever waving and soaring in the ETHEREAL
hues, shall point him to his spirits
home, and in the swift current and low
bed of the stream running at his feel
| he shall behold fiji emblem OF hi
life fast fastening to its ocean enc
| As you pass the bridge make 1t new
epoch in thy life; when you stop to tn
bottom may you have the hope OF poo
John Clark, and who would dare b
skeptic or zealot enough to aay tina
thou shalt not find heaven in the broa
expanse beyond.
The MoRAL.--I have commente
almost too much for its explanation
a Let it suffice in conclusion to say ths
parental disobedience is almost sacr
, lege; that perhaps tho greatest punish
ment of heaven, as an earthly cure,
to die in astrange land far from home
its attachments and friends; that hop
) is everlasting link connecting life WI
, immortality; and TO the Christian
does and ever shall cheer console an
satisfy him, as certainly and hapyill,:
! though not as deceptively, as 1t d
Moor Tohn Clark HOPE.
CULLoDENsv1LLE, May Goth, ls4O