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P O E T II Y. ^ FKOM ThIRadIKS* LltBRAKT CABINET* u I'M ONLY SIXTEEN." AS late I was strolling alone to my bower, To catch the wild breeze as it wliispered along; And give to sweet pensiveness, eve's sac red hour, Young Henry saluted my ear with his song. The lad was soon with me, and seized my soft handA Then tender4)^?ess'd me to give him a kUs ; I blushing oomplicd? -for it seem'd a com mand, And I'm now half afraid that I acted amiss. If wrong* let a smile of forgiveness be seen, You krrcJ^ my dear mother, I'm" only six teen." He then in sweet language related bis love, And told me the anguish that burn'd in his breast 5 He call'd me as fair as the Angels above, And swore tiiat my smile could alone m?ke him blest. So earnest he pleaded, so winning his look, So lovely the beam that .illumin'd his eye, . That all hesitation my boaom forsook, And without thinking farther, I said, I'd comply. If wrong, let a smile of forgiveness be seen, You know, rearest mother, w I'm only six* teen/' ? * ..?.*? ' ' *? i | Then straight t6 the Parson's, we tripp'd it along, Who apake the b?st worda J e'er heard in my life ; I'm sure what lie aaid could never be wrong, For in a few momenta he made mfc? >a Now brighten'd by joy, shall our days pass 'V.-iv: away, . Nor aorrow^nor care, disturb our repose: \ye'll laugh, and we'll love, and we'll pleasantly play* While life's sportive current unceasingly Now all this must be righf, dearest mother, 1 ween ; For what's right at twenty, a'nt wrong at aixteeiu , ; " " v:-.. AMALGAM. * jjagaaMMMT Awdellaneoils. .. . . A ? ?> ' : 2 iHMUJIL ROADS. The following extract it taken irom an old Now-York paper,, and whose date we could not aactottain* At a time when an Improvement of Roada and an increased vent for domestic manufactures, are so fnuah the subjects of conversation, Its In terest is revived ; and, most especially, as its contents are aanctioned by as useful a citizen as ever lived in the U. 8. and whose decease the arts now deplore. More par ticularly, as we learn from the AvaoaA, and its Editor asserts it on the authority of at) Iron Master, that cast Iron msy be produced as cheaply in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, aa in England* Should it succeed* two Birds will be killed with one stone. , The first experiment of an hori zontal road, famished with cast iron spring piece* for the wheels of com mon travelling carriage* of all kinds to run ui>on, wa? made some years ago, for a short distance, on the public road between London and Walworth. It wan suggested by a Mr. Wildgoose, of Croydon, in Surry, who had strenuously recom mended it for a number of years ; but his reasoning on the advantages of such a road above all common made roads, being as new as the ob ject itself, he was listened to iusl as our Oliver Evans was when he first proposed to the miller* of the U. Htaie* his great and permanent im-l provement iolhills and the manufac-', lure of flour. Both propositions were, in their res|>ective countries,! far a long time equally regarded as' %vild and expensive projects, that never pay the cost. Gravel became, however, so very scarce and dear near London, that Mr. Wildgoose'* plan waw adonted, for a short dis tance only, from no othei motive than the. saving of money. He could evea prevail so fat as to have / ? flanches on the castings, because a fianch would add to the fex pence ; anil the first pieces of cast iron laid down upon the road were as flat as aboard. This was however a be ginning. The iron did not wear away like gravel. The large, heavy loaded waggons drawn on the com mon road by eight horses, required on the iron road only a single horse ; and this circumstance, which Mr. Wildgoose had predicted, with the duration of the road, brought his advice into repute. He, meanwhile, was privately forming an association for making a cast iron railway from London to Croydon ; and though the great advantage of such a road was manifested by this first and imper fect experiment, yet there was such a backwardness, from the novelty of the thing, that it was seven years before the undertaking commenced. The old road from London to Croydon is twelve miles; The cast iron railway is twelve and a half; this is occasioned by winding it round Blake Hilk in order to pre serve its level; and this circumstance, founded on the most accurate reason ing, caused a tedious and clamorous opposition. The levelling the course of this new road, d typing the trenches for the foundation f alls, finding the rough stone, the couping. the wall ing, as well as the cast iism and plumbing, were all in separate con tracts ; and the several undertakers performed their portions of work with such commendable union and alacrity, thirtnearly a whole year was saved, and the cost was 15001. sterling less than the estimate. It is a singular circumstance, that those who were the most opposed to this surprising improvement in road making, were the first that received its benefits. For. instance: Mr. Jones, the proprietor of the stages that run between London and Croy don, used to keep,?0 horses, lie now does his work with six, and has reduced his fare one half; because he has more than twice as manv passengers as he had before.? tl is carriages are made to carry tarty people, and they are drawn by a single horse at a smart trot, perform ing the journey in half the time re quired on the old road with fom horses and twenty passengers. Tlu* uncommon facility, safety, and cheap ness of tni? new road had made Croydon the residence of many new house keepers, whose daily occupa tion is In London ; and Croydon has, consequently, nearly doubled its former extent and number of houses. /V Almost every true genius is a pa triot. Like Newton and Locke, they think and act for the benefit of ages. Oliver Evans, notwithstand ing what he baa already done, jet generously offers to drive Qftrri&ge* on a rail r<?d, from Philadelphia to New-York, by steam; anil Mr. Wildgoose, though 60 years of age, yet hones to sfee a cast iron railway from London to Manchester. ItV is largely concerned in the Chelten ham cast iron railway company . Their undertaking is founded on pub lic good as well as private Iwuefit: their gain being fixed, by law, at (he one-half of what tlie public save on a just estimate by travelling on their road. FROM LANCASTER JOURNAL The Sights 1 Have Seen. The following condensed chrono logy of eveii ta may be takeu as a nut shell argument in proof of an affirmation, which, tho' few mi^bt dispute, it is still open to controversy by the captious sophist. We owe it to the pen of the Ilev. Mr. Dutens, | a gentleman well known as a litera cy and diplomatic character. It is taken froui a sketch lately published catted " The Sights 1 have Seen ,w and contains a more compressed view | of the leading stents of modern times than we have ^en. As such we of fer it to our re.nlers : I " I have seen a king imprisoned Jhy his son ; 0 emperors massacred, 1 B kings assassinated, 6 kings deposed, Iff republics annihilated, and a great i kingdom effaced from the juaap oi Europe. 1 have seen Englatid lose in 8 years halt' North America, after possessing it for more than a ceniur \ . 1 have seen her, verifying tbe senti ments of an ancient, (that the em pire of the seas gives that of the laud) take the Cafie of Good Ho|ie and the island of Ceylon from the Dutch; Malta,, J&rypt, and several colonies from the French. 1 have seen her dictate the law to tbe king of Denmark at Copenhagen, and carry her victorious arms into the most remote parts of the world. I hdfcre seen this same Eng^nd, in 1780, resist the combined efforts oi Kurope, of America and the north ern powers, who formed an armed neutrality against her maritime do minion. I have seen her in the re volutionary war, often destitute of allies and alone opposing the euor nious power of France, of italv, of Denmark, and of Russia, i have se$ii the son oJ an Jt?ugli*hman go out to ludia, as writer to a mercantile company ; hut quitting this service, when very young, to embrace the military life, afterwards rising to the head of au army, dethrone a most powerful prince in the east, place an other on his throne, conquer a part oi Hindustan, and raise the British do minion in that quarter to the pre-em inence which it now enjoys. I have seen, what has no example in history, a little Corsica*, gentlemen conquer Italy ; force the emperor of bqrmany tomakeadisgracetul peace; takt^Maita hi two days; u-gypt in a month ; return from thence and place himself' on the throne of the Bourbons ;\jind in less - than f(jur years, from May, 17^0, to Novem ber, 1799. 1 hive seen him trans port his army aiul artillery iu the midst of w inter ovei* the most difficult pass of the Alps and iu a single bat tle, decide at once the fate of Germany and oi Italy. 1 have sei'U' this same Corsica n gentleman order the F^pe to I'aris, in 1804, to crown him em peror of the French, and afterwards, deposed the same pope, and deprive him of the temporal possessions w hich his ancestors had enjoyed lor more thau a thousand years. I have seen him declare himself King of Italy/ I have seen him braving a formidable league which w as directed , against him, march to \ lenna and even into Hungary, in 6 weeks ; give the law three times to the emperor of Germany, com pej him to abdicate the imperial crown to the C?*ars ; deprive him or a part of. his dominions; force < the emperor of Russia twice to re J tire; and soon, after obliged him to! march to his assistance against the I emperor of Austria-^I have seen! bitn destroy^ the power of the kincj ?? V0**'11 ,D .*3 *nt* fitrike all Europe with dismay. I have $eeu him dethrone 0 kings, and create 8 others; annex Holland to France; dictate to Spain as if 1t i were one ot his province ; employ her force* as bis own, and at last jtake possession of the whole king dom. I have seen him pronounce a divorce between himself and his own uile, whom he had Dreviously, at his own coronation, declared to be empress of France and the jpartner of his throne. In short, I have seen him extend hit dominions fur ther than those of Charlemagne, and find nothing that could resist his am* bition, hut the king of G. Britain, sometime* with the troops of the con tinent in his pay." Such are some of the ttrange eights w hich Mr. Dutens has seen, and the most striking of which those who are much younger than he is have beheld with equal cousternatiou and surprise. From the Christian Observer . | Statistics of Europe.? The- pre set! t population of feurope amount* to 177,221,600 persons, scattered over 1&4,4.M) geographical square miles. This population, consider ed \u an orthographic point of view, comprehends ft3,19G>0()0Tuetonian?, or (iermat)S, 60,586,400 descendant* of the Romans, 4^^30,000 Sclavo irians,8, 71 8,000 Calidonians, 3,499 < <KK) larUyro aud JBulgarianB| S,070r ? i ' % A ' OdO, Margnrians, 2,082,000 Greeks 1,760,000 Cimmerians, 02^,000 Bas ques, 313,000 Gu isles, 201,000 Ai - u a tits, 131,600 Armenians, 88,000 Maltese, &c. ? There are, 1,179,300 Jews, 3,607,500 Mahometans, and 172*132,500 christians, of whom there are 98,2-29,000 catholics, and 41,303,800 protectants. Europe is now divided politically in 78 sov ereign states, nominally iude|>endent. I heir aggregate forces iu peace, are 1,000,000 and ou the w ar establish ment, 3,600,000. ? i lieir maritime forces consist of 400 ships of the hue, 83 ships of 50 guns, 348 fri gates, and 1563 vessels of an inte rior class. A CARAVAN, An Extract ftvm Irwin's voyage up the t*ed ?ea. . Yainboo, Sunday, 25th May, 1777. 'A caravan arrived this forenoon from Medina, which is but (wo day's Journey from hence. This was the tirst I had seen : ?nd though it con sisted hut of 4 or 500 camels 1 must confess myself to have been much struck w ith the grandeur and no\elt} of the sight. W e discerned it from afar, moving onward, with a quick though solemn pace ; and as it pas sed near the bv&ch, we could distin guish with our glasses the economv |of the whole. The major part of the camels were loaded with merchan dise, and the rest carried the travel lers and the principal cameLjrtriverK The sun w as in his miridian; and not a cloud obscured the heavens, nor a breath disturbed the surface cf the deep. The natives were retired to I heir habitations, and uot a solitary l>east was seen abroad, save the pa tient camel, that now braved the liery ray, ami marched, with steady steps, j beneath the united pressure of hun-' ger, thirst, and heat! While the, wooded bark ploughs the deep, and wafts from shore to shore the pro- j duce of each clime, this living ves-; sel traverses the pathless waste, fraught with the precious treasures of! the east. A caravan of camels ex-l ploriug the wilds of Arabia, with' nothing in view but sand ' and sky, and conducted by the plauets to its desired haven, may well be likened to a ileet of vessels, w hich are not moi$ useful in their way or wonder ful in their structure. As the ship alone can outlive the seas, in whiuh the weaker boat must perish, so is the camel peculiarly adapted to a region in which uo other class of beasts could Bear fatigue, lie. ex periences the change of sublunary bliss. His mighty strength, bis i+mntless heart, sink beneath the whirlwind's r$ge, and, like the towering ship which winds and waves assail with ceaseless fury, he yields at leugth to inevitable fate. Wm. Penn's Deed fiom the Indians in 1635. This Indenture, Witnesseth, that We Packenah, Jerekham, Sikals, Part que sot t, Jervig Essepenauk, Felktudy, Hekelloppan," Econus, Viachloha Mettheouga, Wissa |K>w rr, Indian Lings, feat hemake rs, ri^lit owners of all lands from Quinc^um* ^g, called Duck Creek, all along by tiie west side of Delaware river, and ho far between the said creeks back wards, as a iiian can ride in two da} a, * ith a horse, for and in considera tion of these following goods, to us in hand paid and secured to lie paid by William Penn, Proprietary and Gov ernor of the Province of Pennsylva* nia and territories thereof, viz: 80 guns, SO fathoms matchcoat SO fathoms stroud water, SO blankets, 20 kettles, SO lbs. powder, 100 barn lead, 40 tomehawks, 100 knives, 100 pair of stockings, 1 barrel of beer, SO pounds of red lead, 100 fathoms of wampum, 80 glass bottles, 30 pewter siioons, 100 Awl blades, 800 tobacco pipes, 100 hands of tobacco, SO to liacco tongs, SO steels, 800 flints, 80 l?air scissors, SO combs, 60 looking glasses,1 200 needles, i skipple of salt, 80 pounds of sugar, 5 gallons molasses, SOtobacco boxes, lOOJews harps, SO hoes, 80 gimblets, 8(. wooden screw boxes, 100 strings ot heads ? do hereby acknowledge, &c. Niven under our hand, &c. at .New. Castle. 2d day of tht&ih moml*, i^>U"?. Tiie above is a true cop}, hoiu a copy taken from the original by Bphraim Morton, now living iu Washington county, Penns\ Ivania, formerly a clerk in the land office, which copy he gave to ^ iu, Huttou, and from which the above was taken, >u Little York, the 17th Dec. 1814. A. Al t? We have never seen the homely malady of home -sickness so feeliugly and correctly described as in the sub joined extract. " lie jests at scars who never felt a wound. *' Thpre ; are probably few of our female or male readers, who have not, iu the moruingof life, experience,! the truth of the vulgar maxun, that * home is home, though ever so homely;' |~ Proviitence 1 *alriot. HOME. The pain which is felt when wd are transplanted from our native soil ? when the living branch is rut oft* from the parent tree ? id one of. the most poignant which we hum to endure through life. Th?re uyr af ter* griefs, which wound mure deep* ly, which leave behind them scats never to be effaced, , wliich bruise the spirit, and sometimes break the heart; but never do we feel so keenly the want of love, the necessity of being loved, and the seuse of utter deser tion, when we first leave the ha ven of home, and are* as it were, pushed oil upon the stream of life. Recreation . " Beware of loo much recreation. Gamins:, taverns, and plays, ares pernicious, aud corrupt youth. If they had no other fault, they are just ly to be declined, in resjwixLto their excessive expeuce of time, and ha bituating , men to idleness, vain thoughts, and disturbing passious, when they are past, as well as while they are used. Chief Justice Bale . JV et C8 far the blind . ? Comparative happiness is restored to the blind by the work of Abbe Guille, director of the Royal Institution for the blind at Paris. This valuable book has just been translated and printed in Lon? don ; and it contains many practical means and plain instructions, by which the blind may be taught to read, write and cypher, and to work at various useful trades and manu? failures; illustrated with many en gravings. In Paris, the original work was printed for the blind ! I?M M I ?i Woman ? wa$ made of a Man's rib . Many frivolous queries have been proposed concerning this circumstance in the creation of Woman; but it ought to satisfy us, that this mode of her formation was most' agreeable to the Divine wisdom ; and it may sug gest some practical hints of no small importance in domestic life. ? The Woman was taken, not from the head of if an, to usurp authority over him ; nor from hit feet, to be tram* pled cm by trim ; but from his tide, to be regarded as next himself} un der his arm to be protected ; and near his heart, to be beloved by him." If a young woman is worth having for a wife1, some roan that is worth* having for a husdand, will find her out. ... Marrying a man you dislike, in hopee of loving him afterward^ is like ?oing to sea In a storm, in hopes of fair weather. Mr. fell in love with a remar* kably thin woman. On his being asked by his friend the reason of his choice ; he made answer. ? It was to ease the fatigue of courtship, as the avenue to her heart must be so much nearer than that of one moro plump#* ? An Irishman being asked whether his sister had a son or a daughter, lie answered " upon my soul, truly, . don't know whether I am an uncle or aunt."