Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POETRY. _ . WORTH* OA) foBX Q4ZKTTX; ' Ma, The following- was expressly written, for a tale disc rip Live of Indian manners* and illustrative of scenes a short way up the River?the imperfections of the piece will be overlooked) when wo consider, that III is cjpbfii*d 30 unaffected discription* jpmd dedicated to the simple effusions ?f aeasi* tali* awl J*turo. ? INDIAN DIRGE. . j FROMTHl UGMD OF WATSRBE. The hills are drest in vernal bloom, The grass is green on Arno'* tomb, , The warblers chant movent ale, i?o ^ . ? - ? B! Mm ? ? * ? ? - ? ?? ? ait, And balmy odoor?so*nt the gale. *Bul#r*fa happy hours ere Aed^ v. The clod is cold on. Arno's head ; She oolylives to weep, and tell > How Arno bravely fought and Je& <? v?>- ^ No more h? potent toas ahsllweifa The glaring sword and goryakMd?, <Nomore his martial voice inspire - The hosts of war with valor's jfire ; lie slumbers with the fallen brave ; His camp of gldrjr is the grave : Yet Ora'swattuig.tear, shall tell How Arno hiavtty fought and (elk ne forest doer, priay proudly bound IthJ^lesasiejpaota* ArnoVinouftd, 5 ?***, mnyrt XT v4 > <M m^sCSStSk Wolf withotjt dismay* srpajr <1*"eUs iSCT.J.Sfe; *r, ?h*ll tell ;bt and fell. the mod welcome^ to the apri f will not heat the strain V? 4 # ? * 7 ;\t ifflr- J t WW hi ?w? tn><u IHV POTlIltf> ? V ' * How Arno bravely fought and fell. His suffering When dancer threats to But he than not their So" " Lend, . ??;, ^SP&t? "?*? comet headlong drivtn, jpwi 1110 sparkling stars may tall and rite, And fiery meteors course the ?tie?i B?.V Arno shall nomore diyine,^ , ' T he nitafiin^ of ear.h ?;??? . How Arno lA**-** Way o'er him rave," The r<lns taa, beat UpM his ^ye> ' K?? rmuk (Aantl^MM * ? ???? Ui. k. 3 The i iY*r rannumg irom lttned /| May sap the that wraps his hea And An* shall hot wake, 16 see Jet! * How Ai?>4>ravehr^fought and fell* i . r J ? V, " . ?> jk tessr She' told 1W' *' Iai And all tier fearles* beaiitieasaw ; But coul not cheer her saddeo'd c ?Nor hush her wailing threnad^ wF* f$ u\~ fr^' '? ,vW .? ^ .?] house' of death I ami May hopeless love furgtitdikpair, witfeawe, ?*V lil Dartf istk* boustf of death! and there May hopeless love furgtitdispair, And tearful sorrow, treed from **oea " Enjoy a pillow of repose. She's taught the saered lone itetrcfct* Her A unR kindred ghost to meet* While fancy's strain remains, to tell How Beauty wept ami Va)or fcH. ?*' " ' ,/ i : ?> : *' ? ? ?-?*? j'Ci Caalan. . Prom the Literary (fabtnet. EPIGRAM ON AK^SUCTIONEEK. An Auctioneer, of iutuc ataall, - For more theftWemy years, Had eung ? a g*lng A rA* ft?; caJir I Tomitya huitffredcart. >T . * f ,j ; /t^wWlwTRv > ' v-'^ '*? > '? ^Srj ? ? ,y-4&' 0 ' jjjj To evetfy caeerotind ^ boir^ He roer'd without cefwtiun. 1 J going ! going ! gentlemen, f* Y t\ still he kept hie station. ' At Vcnjrrti, to ?top his earnest brawl, Intruding Deathwaa *cnt? 1 A going: * cried the' astonith'd knight, And sure enough^# twfr' ? EtTBAORMKAHT IDSt'S WATCH B, (i* Lxxingitn Public A<ivtft\*tr. L*We do not recollect to have seen any notice taken by -oar newspapers of an extraordinary birth in Wood ford county, in September last. " Every considerable' deviation from the beautiful aod harmonious arrangement pursued by nature in tbe animal kingdom, is -denominated ? monster. These 'productions, though not frequent, are remarkably diversified. *lo prove this position it is not only necessary to state that cases 'have ineu 'recorded where children have bete born either destk ttfe of ahead (when they survived but a few hours,) possessing two heals, or where tbey were insepera, Wy connected. ' v , ; Of tUs /description of monsters are two children flow living in Wood ford county. To the curious, a con cise account of this prodigy may not be uninteresting. Neither leisure or ability will enable us to suggest in genious dr learned speculations rela tive to the principles which influence and control thiA anomolous forma tions. . ? s Martha Ann and Mary Jane, were born September ?Sd 1819 ) the former is smaller, and remained in 4 atato of apnfertfy *ath, for three quarters of an hour, whensbe Was revived by the vfeorom circula tion of her sfite*. These children are joined together at the -back, bt tow the loins ; before, ;the junction is fleehy, ? behind bt " their bodies and faces sideways, towards 'each x&eft? ? Jrrom tljeir connection upwards, they are perfectly formed and have lower extremities similar toother children! but only -one extremity will be -enw ployed by each child hi walking, viz, the. ^external, as the other tv^ are smaller and Ihe feet point rather backwards. 'One child -cries whilst the other is aatop. They *re sprightly and intelligent df their ages,' and give every indication of their ??* 'rhey ??c?te the commiserfc thm of those who have visited them, among win* are several Physicians, *b6 almost unanimously SR S? S^aars I A analogous cane to the pre Un .i.ten, who born i? SSo tiorwas Uhnfcfeto that of Martha Ann and Mary Jane?their intellec tual powers and wills wewHliflerent, thev were agreeable and well hwd, Sps Jon : they however, most fortunate died together." Ihmlljr Ub known to ??re baa ?n inmate for ataoettbo tfrhole length of this period. The lady heiaelf is in her 89ih year, Mid the parrot was u> het patents' possession when the was barn j bat how long H had bean so previous to this event, wet believe now there it na tneant of coRtdly asowtainingr^-ll may, perhaps, pot be deemed totally irrelevant to re nark here, that during aome part of tbLa time ,the cclelirated FraeWirt lodged in the tame honaty the fami ly being by marriage distantly relat ed to him. This happened When the transatlantic jWlosopher ami statesman was in this country on half of the American Provinces, ami probably when he ?i nmler som apprehensions for his pvrtontl safety, i short time before the war broke )ut. Whilst on this visit, that illus trious personage amused bis leisure bours by forming, >\ith his own bands, one of those simple instru ments of music, now congpon as a toy, composed of rude pieces of wood of various lengths, linked upon a string, and kept by the inter vention of small corks. With this instrument, whjfl^was recently pre sented to a gentleman of taste in Preston, in whose possession we have seen it, the individual, who wkn destined to become one of the founders of a mighty state, amused [he infant mind of a neice to the lady we have nieutimed. < It wRl be kriownHo those who are acquainted with the philosophical researches of Franklin, that his attention was di rected to this apparently trifling toy, More he entered upon that series of axperiments, with glasses^ which fln aally led him to complete the sweet toned musical instrument he so ap propriately called the llarmemca? ? - - - Anecdote (f American frogs. ? David Baillie Warden, Esq. a n*-. tive "of Down, late Consul of tbe] United States at Paris, in bis history of America^ nlitn tbetfbilowiug ex traordinary circumstances, -pa tbe aur thority of Anbury, said to be Tur i-ently believed by the natives; Dur ing tbe great heat of the month of July, 1708, a podfr containing an area -of yearly throe miles square, lost all its waters, and the frogs whicb inhabited it, many thousands in 'number, by some wonderful in slinct, set out for the nver Winno mantic, a distance at nearly five mHe?f and passing, in the night through the town of Windham, thel inhabitants imagined that their nefael was that of a^ enemy's detachment of French andtydianti ; with whom ndt being able to cope, tliey fled,, almost naked, to the neighboring' woodsy where hearing a sound dree fete, which was supposed meant -three persons we? sent for the -purpose of negociation, wbo soon -discovered that it was an army of 4birsty Trogs, led on by their. i? t~ij ??3l his oaturS^pinent. S.SJ fKSKfflii 3* mmi ed to ascribe to ^ay ilTntly," but since I am told It wai my merit this I assure yoa mortified me hiuch my grey hairs, v -But to jB 'inbtw addressing a young 'lady ] teadily for ?xyear?-,he first W Iflhd. nothing bat look at and ogle her? the yecood 1 chatted with her a< little-i^the third 1 squeezed her baud and sighed? the fourth I made pro posal! of marriage to her-tbe fifth she ^consented? and the sixth we were to be married, but we could not agree upon the time or place, 1 was desirous to marry on the Sd day of February aud it her oWn fathers' house : she declared against marry ing till the last" day of 'August? 1 begged, pray'd, sigh'd, rav'd, rant ed, swore? but all to no purpose she stuck like a tick toiler tvsolve--: nil she drove me to despair: ? so one morning ! took * sword and went to 'ttte her, when 1 renewed my suit wfcb all the persuasion 1 was master of?but the jade still continued im mutable^! then ' discovered ^ lay ?word/ and fixed the . point1 to my breast, with a determination to pul an end to my wretched life, unlew ''she would recedc from her cruel ie ' solution. 1 positively declsred (<? In* that I would dojit instantly? she ?etmed ft. little surpiizcd when she saV how determined I looked. i then pricked my breast to rank) t bleed ; the blood ran a littl* [w*n, Mr. PriHtsr, instead of d*?, 'via ling a whit from Inj#v Iwgafc' ? instead of begging me to spare & life she held most dear ? instead of fainting or shrinking, sbe gently laid bold of my arm, and requested me to walk to the Ure-plafce before i stabbed myself, for blood was the worst thing to stain a floor in tiro world, and bers was newly washed : in an instant 1 fellas if ten thousand inusquetoes had laid violent bands on my flesh ? my sword fell out of my hand, and I, ran* home, deter mined to remain till the day of my my death an OLD BACHELOR. The Majesty of God. , * We res|*&ct the Princes of the earth who commanded t ? numerous subjects, and rule over several coun tries ; liut what is that speck of earth which is subjected to them, com pared with the empire of the universe, of Which our whole globe is but* small nrovince; an empire, that ex tendsover all the stars .of Heaven, and their inhabitants! an empire whose Lord has all the Sovereigns of the universe for his servants ; and around Jiis throne, the cherubim and seraphim -ever ready with wing# outspread to execute his orders* *' We judge of tfc? ereatn*ss of men by their actions and tneir wwks? anil we celebrate Kings Who nave built cities arid constructed palaces ) who have governed well their states, and have successfully executed gr**t enterprises J but what are the works ofjhe Most High? The creation of the Universe j the weser^ation^.of so many creatures ; tins wise and just government ot innumerable worlds? the redemption of man-kind j the reward of the sotid, -and the chaa Heenent of *he wicked 1" . . '?? ??; ?" -jfeil h > - v V? ? '" ta. fiwln of thinking he' more desirable than ano ther, it is thai which regards the phenomena of nature with & constant reference to a supieme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of out own minds, is to have laid the fbun iRSflOStfSSft Marin. _*>? Bfe Itodf ?oe continued act nf ndorctran. ?? ?? I History ? Says Cicero, is the evi dence of ages, <lte light .of troth, the life of memory, and tlie school of life. ? Reason, slow snd doubt ful in her progress, requires an intel ligent guide to accelerate and ref late her march. History takes her by the band in infancy, accompanies hemp to maturity, and collec* the testimony of universal cxy/rienCe for her instruction. J ? TW cbame the Teeik, 'tnd Im- j ve the Breath.? To 4 ounces of ih prepared lime water add 1 drachm of Peruvian bark, and wash ] the teeth with ttus water in the morn ing and evening, before breakfast, and after supper. It will effectual!* destroy Hie tartar on the teet iemoii&ibffiwivn #nelt from those that are c \ ? ? , . $ mmm Sore Throat*. the year,< wbenrjmuiy afflicted with that danjjjfr tressing complaint, asote throat, the, following Beceipe for its cutfrfa said to be very useful-:? Take a glass of olive oil, half a glass of spirits of turpentine^ mix them together, and nib the tliroat externally, wearing flannel round it at the same time. It 'proves most effectual when applied early 4 Hweet oil will answer equal ly asftfjw&V J H ??* flfl Umg had a very long m>? ??'"S ? PF? aite to HnogKjr at kPaJg WW% Jft latter ?aW to ?'??? " S^ ^er? " J <flv on your nose. Well, replied 11, Zulh it Off tben, it ia nearer ? ou than roe* >:?' sfjSs " It tai told to Lord Chsteriicifc that Mn. , a tema&ant and iscoWr Wa? miuticd <o a [ilia Lordship said, " that ctria ft ml t/rimafon* mndothe bent matches'' '