Camden gazette and mercantile advertiser. (Camden, S.C.) 1818-1822, July 27, 1820, Image 4
P O E T R Y.
T*iE FLOWER OF LOVE.
'Tis said the rose is Love's own flower,
Its blush so briglu, its thorns so many ;
And winter on its bloom has power,
But has not on ks sweetness any.
? For tKo* young Love's etlwreal rose
Will droop on Ag"Vs wintry bosom,
Yet still its tided leaves disclose
1 he fragrance of theu* earlier blosom.
/ 'But ah ! the fragtance lingering there,
H Is like the sweets that mournful -duty
Bestows, with sadly-soothing cfcTe,
To deck the grave of Bloom and Beauty;
For, when its leaves are shrunk and dry,
Jt? blush extinct to kindle never,
That fragrance is but Memory's sigh, .
That breathes of pleasure past forever.
Why did not Love the amaranth choose,
That bears no thorns, and cannot perish ?
Alas 1 no sweets its flowers diffuse,
And only sweets Love's life can cherish,
iutbe the rose and amaranth twin'd,
And Lov?, their mingled powers assitm
. inKi
Sh?dl round his brows a chapletbind,
Forfever iweet, ftjrever blooming.
- I
, From the Illinois Gazette.
" What'* the new6," said a Quidnunc to
''Taddy^M'Shanc,
-JlXiimivJsirjign relations? and what about
I
u Oixy for eignre lotions !M cried Pat, with;
a tear,
* Och ! they're hanging Xhem up by the
dozen, my dear I
v Miscellaneous .
from the Wilmington *( Del.) Gazette.
BRIEF VIEWS.
* can't just now.
- ? . 'Thin is the common expression of
persons who seldom do tilings when
they should. No matter to such per
sons., of what i. -portance the busi
Hf?s to which they are advised or
requested to attend, ft is sufficient for
" them that they ate, for the moment,
engaged; and, however strong the;
advice, or urgent the necessity to at
tend immediately -to the matter pro
posed, tht;r reply 4s, "2 can't just
now."
Thus, if a person rides by the
. dwelling of a friend, and notices a
hole, in his garden fence, lie may
? *dvise .the owner to stop it, hut the
- <; reply is, ** 1 can't just now." And
? what 49 the consequence! Why per
? baps On his return, he will g?e the
pigs in thd garden, and (teas des
Iroyed. There now Js a uice spot
?of work.! What then is to be done?
f All hands are assembled, the dogs
.called, and all go to work, with
"hammer and tongs," and a hue
*?d iiy is raised to drive out the
V pigs : but before this is accomplished,
there is, 'probably, as much trodden
flow n as the pigs have destroyed.?
And what is worse, the pigs are al
ways after trying to make another
hole in the same place*. All this
r#>v arises from not attending to bus}*
neas in time, ainl from using the
foolish expression, "/ can't just
r .-The wise man says, ? what your
hknd finds to do, do it with your!
might ? the proverb says, " never'
put off till to-morrow, what you can:
do to day"? and we say, put not
till .'another time, what may, audi
should be done now.
The propriety and necessity of at- J
twiding .to things at the moment,
W lien it appears requisite that it
r should be done, is perhaps obnoxious]
' . 1? every one. i here is no one, pro
? bfthly, who cannot advert to some in
, cident which has forced the observa
tion of their mind, that "what is
necessary to be dune, should be
done immediately ?nd who have
not, at one time ur other, ex|>erien
ced the hitter consequences of saving,
'? I can't juat now."
If it is necessary to do a thing at
all, why may it not be done just
now?" It will take no longer at one
time than another; and die present
when you have, a proper view of the
subject, is the time when it should
i be attended to; if n is deferred till1
nother lime, u may be forgot teu,
?s circumstances may occur which
\ill render it impossible for you to
attend- tu* it, or some disadvantage
nay result from the neglect ; !>u t if
it w done immediately, ?? it will not
have to be done again," and you
will be sure that no mischief will
result from your negligence.
There are many persons who ne-i
ver will do a thing "just now." ? 1
Chough they have every thing pre
pared, have a full view of the busi
ness in hand, have the instructions
which are necessary to etiable them
to do right, still ibey say, " I can' I
just noicf all are laid by, perhaps,
m some sqft> voider, w here they will
not be readily found again, and the
business is postponed until absolute
necessity compels tli^m to attend to
it, and then they have nothiug ready.
Preparations must then be made 5
implements are to be looked after;
one and another is asked if they had
seen them; all hands mu*t be em
ployed in looking for them, and per
haps as much time is thus spent in
these preparatory arrangements, as
would havfe been necessary in the
first instance to have finished the
business.
But with the persons who alvyays
reply, " I can't just now," it is well:
if business is attended to at all; fot
iu nine cases out of ten, perhaps,
it is altogether passed by. If they
can't do it just now, the tame reason
will probably be given ogam, and
they wiH go on from time to time,
with, 6i 1 ca* U just 3101c" until ill
can't lie done at all, gr it is altoge-j
tlier lost siglrt of, and perhaps
material advantage is lpsi bv the neg
lect. Bat I 4? not presume my Es
say will ;tmve much effect upon them ;
for if persons are in tire habit of put
ting tilings off, by saying, " 7 can't
just now" 1 cannot expect hut that,
with regard to my advice^ they will
think they " can't just now" attend
to it. TOM THIMBLE,
BONES oy COLUMBUS, 1
This illustrious navigator died n(<
Valadolid in Spain, May SO, 4506,
and was buried in the Cathedral of
Seville, with the insertion cm his
tomb, 4
<l A Castillo y a Leon ,
44 Nucvo Muuds dio Coiorr/*
So say the narratives of lik life.'
Other accounts say that it was in av
Carthusian Convent of Seville that
he v> as deposited, "along with the
chains with which he had been load-;
ed at Cuba." In this there seems to
be a slight inaccuracy, as it was
wluje he was at St. Douiingo thai
he was seized and sent lrome to
Spain in irons. On his arrival at
I3ad& Jhe k'ipg and queen ordered
him to be released, and apologized
for the treatment he had received.
But Ccrtumbia could not forget the,
ignominy. He preserved the fetters;
hung them up in his apartment, ajnei
ordered them to be buried in his!
grave, In compliance with an jn-j
junction in his will, his body was;
removed from Seville to ttispfuiiohi,
ami debited with his chains, in ^
brass coffin, on the right of the high
alter of the Cathedral of Kt.Domin
go. There they reposed until after
the cession of the Spanish part o(
the island of St. Domingo to the
rep'ihlic pf France, by the treaty of
peace of July ?3, 1793. In corise
atience of tliis cession, the descen
aritH of Columbus ordered that his
remains should tie transferred to the
island of Culm, pn the 19th of
January, 1799* the brass coffiu which
contained tlie ashes of this great man,
together with the chain which served
as a memorial of his sovereign's!
weakness, was carried do\vn tlie
harbor in pioceession, under the fire
of the fori*, and put on board a brig
of war, to be removed to Haviina,
On the passage from oni* island to
the other, it is said I ho brig iell in
with and captured a British merchant
ship, amongst the cargo of which
was some choice Madeira wine.
The brig and her prize entered the
harbor of Havana, and the remains
of the discoverer of the nr\^ world
were received with great pump and
Wremony, and buried with all the
honors that could be bestowed oi
them. In tire mean lime, it is said,
the wine in the prize ship, which at
tracted little attention amidst the hus
tle and parade of the occasion, was
Sjrchased by some merchant getule
eu from this town, and brought to
llostou, where a bottle of it is occa
sionally recognized, at some of our
hospitable tables, uuder the nameol
the Columbus wine, to this day.
It has been repeatedly asserted thai
the remains of Columbus were de
jjosited at Havana without any monu
ment, but from the following para
graph, which we find in the New
York papers, it would seem this i>
an error, B. 1). Adv.
Columbus. ? Perhaps it is not gen
erally known, that the bones of this
great man repose in the new Cathe
dral of the Virgin Marjyat Havana ;
wlyprc the following inscription i*
placed: ?
" The highly ^^Jinguished here
Chuitofhek Cqjajmbls, by his sin
gular skill in na tical science, open
ed to all a way that had, before,
been shut against all. ? He added a
region of the greatest wealth to Cas
tile and her Kings. To tire three
parls of the globe, lie subjected f
fourth, Hispaniola. But alas! aftei
having explored almi>st all the
Lucayos and Antilies Islands, and
returned a fourth time to Hprin, Ik
died at V.vllndolid, worn out b>
2?ief, gout and toil, on the 18th. oj
May, 1506, His body was deliver
ed for keeping to the Carthufeians oj
the Seville, that it might be convey
ed, at a convjwffent time, to (he vie
iropolitan Church of Hispaniola;
for he had so willed, and it was si
done. But now, that his bo?eema;v
no longer lie in ground which w noi
Spanish, they have been retaoved
alter a lapse of nearly two centuries,
to this new Cathedral of the Virgin
Mary, of emaculate coocaption, ?g<l
duly buried, on the 17th day oi
January, 1796. The city of Hav
ana, mindful of th^Jgnerits of sc
great a mau, iu lelatiou to herself
and cherishing, at this expected
lime, his precious remains, has erect
ed this fnonument, and conducted
the whole funeral at her 0H11 -ex
pence ; under the civil administration
of Philip Transplace, and Verdirja^
and during the military command oi
Ludovico de las Casas."
THE PRAlRIfcS OF THE WEST. '
FROM fenXlltAN's JOURNAL.
To the traveller who for several
day 8 traverses the .prairies ami bar
rens, their appeftrafice is quite unin
viting and even disagreeable. He
m \y travel frvm morning until night,
and make good speed, but looking
around him, ho fancies Jiiinself at
the very spot whence he^rted'^
JSTo pleasant variety fcf^hiU" and dale,
no rapidly rni?uingut?it)(>k delights
the rye, and no sound of woodland
music strikes the ear, hut, in their
steadf a dull uniformity of prospect
"spread out immense/' excepting
here and (here a tree, or dead leavel.
covered with tall weeds and course
grass, The sluggish rivulets x>f a
reddish color, scarcely move per
ceptible aod their appearance is as
uninviting to the eye, a? their taste
is disgusting to Uie palate, ttuch
are the prairtes and barrens of tWe
west; hut, in order to ma fee ample
ameoik) for tiny deficiency;, nature
has made them exuberantly fertile.
The farmer who settles upon
by raising cattle, becomes rich with
little labor. He ditches those which
are too moist for grain, lie ploughs
and fences them, and raise* from;
seventy to one hundred bushels of
maifte, or Indian com, to ihfe acre,
without ever hoeing it. The United
States owns thonsafafeiitu! thousands
of acres of #wch land in the westettr
States rtivd Territories, which, for
prompt payment, may be pbrclwed
for one dollar and sixty-two jn*l ?
half cents an acre. One objection
to these lands is the want of trmbei
for fuel and other purposes; and
another is, that they are unhealthy :
but in many places there is an abuu*
dance of peat in the wet prairies, aw*
estivation will every year render
tlem mote and more hcolihy. Soroej
*1 i he in 1 1 it \ e lit'cn cultivated for]
'ifleen or twenty years past, with
:nun, and are as fertile as they ever
were. As M. Yolnev savs, Tiiev
are the r landers of \mevican."
Revolutionary l\'ur-~ Anecdote *?
General Marion was a native of
South-Carolina, and the immediate
threat re of his exploits was a large
section of uiaritiuie district of that
^tate. -The peculiar hardihood of
his constitution, and liis being adapt
ed to a warm climate, and a low
marshy country, qualified him to en
dure hardships and submit to ex
posure, which in that sickly legion,
few other ?ueu would have been
competent to sustain. With the
small force lie was enabled to em
body, he was continually annoying
the enemy, cautious never to ris.\
an engagement, till he could make
victory certain. General Marion's
person was uncommonly light, and
lie rode, when in service, one o;
the fleetest and most powerful
charters (lie South could produce:
-?when in fair pursuit nothing could
esca|>e, and when retreating nothing
could overtake hhn. Being once
nearly surrounded by a party of
British dragoons, lie was compelled
for safety to pass into a cornfield, by
leaping the fence ? this field, marked
with considerable descent of sur
face, had been in part a marsh :
Marion entered it at the upper side,
the dragoons in chare, leaped the
fence also, and were but a short dis
tance behind him. 80 completely
was he now in their power, that his
only mode of escape was tq pass
over the fence at tlie lower side. To
drain the field of its superfluous
water, a tr.eucb had been cut around
this part of the field, four feet wide,
and of the same* depth; of the mud
and cla> removed in cutting it, a
bank had been formed ori4ts inner
side, ancl ou the top of thi& was
erected the fence, the elevation
amounting to nearly eight- feet per
pendicular height? a ditch four feet
in width runuing parallel with it
the outer side, a foot or more inter*
vening, between the fence aud ditch.
The dragoons, acquainted with
ihe nature and extent of this obsta
cle, and considering it imposslblfe
for their enemj to pass it, pushed to
wardsliim with loud slu.uts of ex
ultation and insult, ami summoning
him to surrender or pefrfct} by the
sword 4 regardless of their rudeness
and empty clamour, and inflexibly
'determined not io become 4 heir pri
soner, Marion spurred his horse to
the charge, the noble animal, as if
conscious that his master's life was to
danger, Ami thai KM) his efcertions de
pended his safety, approached tjie
harrigiv ih lus linefet style, and with
a bound that was altaost supernatur
al, -cleaved)ihe fence and ditch com-,
pletely, and recovered himself with
out loss of time on the opposite side
? Marion instantly wheeled about
and saw his pursuers unable to puss
the ditch, discharged his pistol at
them without eftect, and then wheels
inghis horse. and bidding them good
morning, <lt*parted. Thi dragoons,
a^tmished at what they had witnes
sed^ .and scarcely believing their foe
to be mortal, gave up the chase, >
? tim ? , *
? ?*>i?iii 1
"From the pailjr Adfertjteet*, ;
Burnt Cfrtrk.~r~' Fhe season has re*,
turned when bilious complaints, tin)
disoiders arising from debility#
(which always iffffect the stomach)
periodically make their ravages on
irom?ft life. Let parents especially;
tfem*$>ber the simple remedy first
pnhltah In your paper, a year ago,
and make a timely application of
carbon of Calk : there is nothing:
more Imrtnkfes ; it may fie given to
an infant, only observing flmt it 1>e
thoroughly burnt: pour a teaspoon
full of jmandy on a cork thus repair
ed, and mash it w?l) with loaf ?ugar
and a iittle nnttiM^, or peppermint
essence, ami water. The pobBca*
:tion of this recipe has already salved
many lives in case of Cholera Mor
bus and bilious cholic, and for the
?' summer complaint," in children, it
js aapecifg.it' taken in time; the
quantify may be encreaseil at pleasure
without the least danger. Kvery
family should he provided with a
supply, ready for the moment, f<n
it often happens that a person is sud
denly and violently attacked, per
haps in the night, when it is extreme
ly inconvenient, if not impossible,
to prepare it.
MED1CUS.
It happened, no matter when, that
a proclamation was made to the
prisoners in the goal of Algiers, that
the public executioner was dead, and
that any one under sentence dexter*
ous at cutting off heads, should bo
pardoned upon accepting that office.
5io strong is the love of life, thai
three candidates presented themselves*
for Unlawful and bloody office, each
boasting of his hkill in the art of de,
capitation ? a Frenchman, a Hpniu
iard, and an Englishman. The day
of election was fixed, when a num
ber of an happy victims were brought
up for slaughter, and an atoiple-sup
j|>ly of swords was provided for tlie
experiment. The Frenchman made
the first attempt, aftd at one blow off
went the prisoners head : Monsieur's
exaltation was visible to all the spec- A
tutors, when the Spaniard intimated,
that ii a narrow ribbon could be fix
ed round 'the throat of his victim,
us a mark, he would prove his su
perior dexterity by cutting exactly
through its centre, which he did
with superior facility. When the
Englishman, not at all dismayed at
the success of (lie Spaniard selected
a sharp and fine sabre, and made a
blow with the velocity of lightning
at the neck of his unfortunate prison
er?' Ah !' said the prisoner, * you
have missed me.'?' Have I,' replied
John Built < Spit'? When to the
astonishment of all, so dexteriously
had the feat been performed, that
when the sufferer inclined his bead,
for the |Mirpose of spitting,, it fell to
the ground, and the Englisbmau
was immediately declared most dex
terious, and long continued execu
tioner to the jQey of Algiers.
WmderfuLirf-I'lie, seven wonders
of the werhl ware exhibited at Wash
ington City, in a new museum of
natural curiosities :
< 1st. A widow that at the age of
sixty refused ah pffitr of marriage.
24. A dandy with only five era-"
vats on his neck.
3d. A cqntented old maid.
4th. A Lawyer of integrity.
5 th. A moderate doctor's MH.
6th. A tailor that was never known
cabbage.
71b, A Congressman that wished
to adjourn, the session, when there
was motoey in the treasury.
" Description qf a party of pleasure.
?We wept out clean ? we oame
home dirty. We wentout sober ? we
came home drunk-- We wept out well
-- we came borne sick. W e went
out laughing? we came home cwing.
We went put sound'? -we came home
broken. We went out with cash ?
we came h?.me moneyless. We
went out for air? we came home full
of dust,
./ ?
is/porting Anecdote.? Borne eager
sportsmen in Cumberland (he o.ther
day, having coming to that part the
chase which is called a check, in
quired of a country lad if he had
seen the hafe go that way? After
grinning aiid scratching his head, he
?sked, " had hur a brown bqok 1"
" Ves, (eager)y) "Hail hut long
legs" jes,r (patiently,) ? Hod hur
a hit o' white under her tail?" " Yes
? have you seen her? "No, sur, I
banna seen hur." ? Gkftgaw paper.
The, Lady's Choice.-? A. lady, see
ing the sheriff of a country, who
was p very bapdsome young genfte
man, attending tjie judge, who was
an old man, a gpnftotnan landing
askec| lfcerf wliicli she lved the
heat, the jud&e w the Bbotiff? *rhe
iady told him the ahcifF. 4 Why $0 V
?mid the gentleman. * Because/ an
Hwercd she, ' tlwugh 1 love judgment
well, 1 love execution liettir.'*