Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POETRY. THEf NEWSPAPER. ' "Tis truth, with deference to the CoHege, NEWiriPiK> are the spring* of knowledge; The general source throughout the nauoo Of -every modem conversation 4 What would this mighty people do9 If there^ alas! was nothing new ? .V#' , ? > A Newspaper is like a feast, ? Scope dish affords for every guest ; Urge, some small, some strong, tome tender, Far every stomach, stoat and slender} , Those who roast beet and wine delight in, Are plcas'd with trumpets, drums, and for those who .are more lightly made, Alberts, ana sciences, and trade \ \ 4 For fanciful and am'roua Wood, ' We have a soft, poetic food, L. fttwittf and statyric /folks, . High seasoned Attie salted jokes ; And when we strive to please the ?npb9 A jest, a quarrel, or a job. m ,r -I. m If any gemman wants a wife, (A partner, as'iis term'd for life) ' _ An advertisement answers well* # And quickly brings t^e prrtty Belle* 'y " ' ? ? ' ? " "if yon want health, consult our pages, You shall be well, and live tor apes $ i r Our empicioe, in search of bread, , Do eveiy thing? but raise the dead. be had, if they are wanted ; sed, or rented ; of every shape and , form? rvanta? coaches swarm j matter whether good or had, vv ^We will tell, you where they may be had* Our services we can't express, Th^good we do yoa hardly guess) There's not a wast, of human kind, Qttt we s remedy can find. . l-:M 1 Miscellaneous, r- - * . , FROM THE ATH&NBVM. On th* article *' Letter' from Chili." u Turn your eye which way soever yoo wilt, the fields appear &? so ma ny gardens. The fields tire not en closed as in Europe; each iuhahit tant maik? out what spot he chooses to sow with seed, and there is no one will aay, yon trespass on' my grounds nor is there any tak to Ix: pnid.v All is fhx, and the cattle rove unmolested ; they are taught * when young to cdtne to their owner when be wants them, by making use of a particular Bound or whistle, each person having their own, to which they are aery obedient. Thus plenty surrounds the husbandman,! ' for ha 'who sows, is always certain of reaping t in Chili bis hopes are : never disappointed. The wild flow ers which grow in the field*, Would, fawn their beauty and sweet scents, l^ highly valued in Europe, as the superior ornaments of our gardens and conservatories ; while they are herein such profuaion, that they are distilled in vast qunutities, and, 'pro duce the perfume A water, called an gel's water, used in the churches." " All exotics become, as it were, immediately naturalized t and such is the fertility of the soil, that its pro duce is infinite, and the rapidity of it would be incredible to all but the ? eye that beholds it.. The grass : grows to a surprising height, and ? the mustard riees into a tree.- There < are groves of these trees, in which \ the birds build tlieir nests} they are1 &ldom left than twelve feet high, * and branghy in proportion | thus veri- , fying the description of the gospel.; But the mustard is not the only pl?nt: that grows wild ; all sorts of escu-1 lent roots and herbs that are reared with care in Europe, fin gardens, are sean for leagues together, in the Seatest profusion, furnishing food r cattle, which feed on them at * pleasure." . "Nor is Chili lea# gifted with all kinds of medicinal plants and herbs, W the knowledge of who$e virtues is confined to the Indian Qoctors, to ho are veiy skillful in their ap plication. The know ledger of thrai they keep most carefully concealed ftm th? Spaniards; hut notwith [standing their precaution* vre have lobuioVti IheSh^oi^f jT?f*lsevf ml iof ItbeiD by dial of pbttifiiMQ tod ex IperieiKe ; particularly the famous one loameu QtMmhamali. It vb a dwarf I plnnt, which rises about eight or ten {inches above the ground, with spread ling branches, each ending in small I flowers at the point, which, both in J colour and shape, resemble those of Ua{&on: when wanted for use, they [pull up the plant and boil it entire, [with its root*, leaves, and flowers, [in spring water: the decoction is [given to the patient to drink hot, and lis a powerful interior as well as ex Iterior vulnerary/ * In all cases of i# lternal braises or wounds, it causes | an instant evacuatinn of all blood (that in congealed ; which, by reqiain ling in the body, might cause infla Imation, obstruction, and finally (death; a draught of this not only [cures Internally, but external wounds tare alike healed by it. There is I another called Albaquella. It grows I in bushe^ as high as the tallest rose* [tree, with leun? like sweet basil, (which are ^?RVagrant, andjaweet ?to the taat^^ke honey} it fjr com Imonly braised for use, and in cases |of wounds, some of the juice is [dropped into the part, and the bruis led leaves laid over, which, without [any other application, never fails to [effect a core in a very pbort time. r This herb grows wild, aM is to be I met with almost every where* Ano ther much spoken of but not so com mon, is a specific for fevers and pleurisies* It is^a small herb, low on the grotiad) without more than siVor eight leaves; in the middle of which grows a small tuft, like the finest thread or .hair, of a white co lour* inclining to yellow j, the tuft, only is made use of, boiled in springs water. I have only mentioned these among the great numtier of .medicinal herbs, with which this couafryj abounds, because they are the only ontkpf utfiich I could apeak from1 actual experience." J ... mtm 1 ESTATE OF POETS. Juiow not where iiupug the eame number of men occupied in tbe same pursuit, so many iustancesftf unharness could be diftcovered. Home indeed have been the merited victims of theirown intemperate follies 5 but to the lovers of good old times, who shrink back when they hear of a modern Bard's receiving 8000 guineas for the copy right of a modish poem, it may af ford some consolation to review those who have been tenants of die cell m the garret, and whose stomachs have] kept au inverted Sabbath of fix days out of tl^e, seven. Greene, It is true, dipdk of a surfefeff pickled herrings] and eld Khenisn; Msttowe.fcnd] Motteaux were killed In drunken! quarrels at a brothel ; Lelton drank two bottles of Fort sveryaflernooaJ in hiseftsy chair, and- dteq by aM tempting a reduction; Randolph,] Homerville, f'arnell, fell sacrifices I 4o Bacchus ; George Et lie ridge broke! bis neck down stairs* While bowing! his friends out after dinner; and! May was so delighted with ihe sue- 1 cess of his " Breviary," that he went I to bed one nigbt after having drank] freely in apj>arent health, and wast found dead in the morning. ? Some! indeed assert, that hi* night cap lf**| tied too tightly under his chin, nut] Andrew Marvel attributes his dfeatftl to an equally probable cault, of auf- 1 fecasion. Look now on the shadow I side of the picture; Denliam, thUj , bee, Collins, Cowper, Smart, Brook,] G, A. Btepliens, Baropfylde, and] Ferguson, all died in idiotcy or ot I ! madness j of thd last a most touch- 1 Sing incident is related':?" W hen | committed to the receptacle of tb^l insane, a consciousness of his dread- 1 ful fate seemed to come over hip.-*~| At the moment of his ctatrancfe, he] uttered a Wild ary of despair, . wMch wasre>echoed from the inmates of the] dreadful mansiob, and left an in}, presiion of inexpressible horror onj the friends who attended/* In a {few dafs, his poverty-stricken mot lierj] I who had relogantly committed hm son to a public hospital, from fieri ^inability to support hhn, received' reraitUAccs suficient to defray the rxj>eu?e of bis attendance at' lumie ;? 'nit they arrived too the pooi maniac was already daid. Otwa\ was suffocated from the rapatyty of hunger: John Brown (tha author of Barbarossa,) aud - Chatterlon, were suicides. George Wither, Dekkrr, I Cot too, Savage, and Lloyd, breathed. I their last id jails. Lovelace, ooce [the pride of -catlKs, after loosing bis [mistress, like Biron in Isabella, es caped a prison only by concealment, landdied in* miserable lodging near |3fc>c-lane.~ Butler and Ben John Isoti each experienced the worst ex - Itremes of poverty, v Andrew Marvel lis supposed to have been poisoned. IQuarlesdied heart- broken at the des truction of bis whole possessions, [(among which he most regretted Iris I books and M8S.) by the Puritans. iDrummond la said never to have re-| I covered his shock on bearing of the I murder of Charles L Bhirly and Ibis wife died of fright, the fire of [London f and poor George 8ewell,j I after writing in the Spectator, and hiving in a polished circle, bad not a [single friend to close hi* eyes. He I was buried meanly under a hollow Itree ia the boundary of Hampstead I Church-yard, and, however courted lin his life time, hag not now; even a I turf hillock te point out the spot of I his repose. The laborious an t iqu ary . I John Stowe, after dedicating the [greatest part of a life, extended far I beyond the usual period bf existence, [to researches ia which the public I were essentially interested, when (suffering under the tortures of an ex cruciating disease, and upon the ve |ry verge of the grifve, was oblige*!; to ask alms of Ms fellow-citizens and countrymen* However strange thi* may seem, it is nevertheless (rue, that in the year 1601, this worthy citizen obtained from that learned Monarch, and great encourager of learning, Jamts I, a license to colleet " the charitable benevolence of well* disposed people" for his subsistence* In this account, bis various^ labors for forty-five years spent in compos ing bis Aunala, and also etebt^ears tferircatertto hisSurtfy^fT^wJoo, his merit and his age, are mentioned, and power was gjlven to him or lus deputies, to ask charity at the differ ent churqhes through a considerable aumber of countries and cities in England, with an exhortation and persuasion to persons to contribute their mitea. This was in ihe second year of the King. A letter from the King on the same subject ia also extant# on the back of which seven shillings and sixpetise are tki down as the subscription or the parish of 8t Mary, Woolnoth, with the churchwarden's name endorsed. - vi. a t [London P after* %. V m mtm . . tFrm-iiqffWB TburJ rflE CATACOMBS IK PARIS. J The catacombs present a different ace nee, . There, underneath the Sound, yen pass through innumera e streets and lanes, flfcoae build-1 ings,lf one may so speak, are com posed of hnfaan bones, collected from the different cemeteries of Paijs, and arranged according to the recep* ?Seles whence they were coHected,-^ 11 is, indeed, a golgotha? . a place of skulls; Yon pass through park be* of. the deed, ; It is Paris in the grave. Here its once gay and busy people T? ringed in their last house, aqpord ing. W houses they occupied Whilst living.? -lau an affecting sight? It is like going cfwwn iaio the very heart of the empire of deafo, and intrud ing Into the capital of tasking of ter rors. One pile alone, Vontain#^o millions four thousand human skulls, nnd the different heaps extend a mile! in Mtegtb. Not I ting can be conceived ! more solemn end affecting than a visit to these dfeary abodes. The indistinct with which objects are seen by tbe feeble light of Jib? tapers you carr^ io yoor hanaP^tnb intrica cy end uncertainty of^iie path yon trkverse, and Which is only Indws tedis the right one, by a black line drawn along the roof of the cavfern, the loss of which due wight be fatal UTtlie party-? the tbte^Md palpable darkness into which the innumerable passages branch out? the ghastly anil affecting materials uf w hich the w a lis that 6n pvcr) side- enclose you are composed? the appropriate mottoes and sentiments engraven on the rude stones, with various sepulchral de-j vices, interspersed throughout the! melancholy piles? the deep silence that reigns around, broken only by the voices of the visiters, in curiosi ty or terror-^conspire to render this the most interesting and instructive of all the exhibitions I have ever seen. There the gay n&d volatile spirit of the French seems to have sunk into something like seriousness ; and thougbts'and words that refer \o the supreme being, and an sternal world, recorded* D Extract from Junis. 1-V hen youth first edlers among the ranks of ?nauhood> it becomes conscious of powers of manly intel* lect which it has not tried, and lo gins to assume the authority to judge of those to whom ' iU has .hitherto looked up with submissive venera tion : a change so considerable, nev er fails to make it estimate its own powers by much too highly, jti id judge too contemptuously of the abilities of others. It measures its own talents by the wild, gigantic f reatness of its hopes and wishes, t judges of the genius of others by the inferiority of what they have at tained, to that which it fondly ex pects for itself. ^ |n censuring works which are not its cwn, it condemns with passion whatever accords pot with its own delusive views uf the good, 4he true, the just, the beautiful and the great, in the opening scene* .of things. Such, in entering upon manhood, is the effect to every ar dent, youthful mind. In its farther progress, one of these three events eve# takes place, and three great classes of characters consequently arise in society Either the young man never becomes sensible of bis first error, and in this Case he passes through life, pert, ignorant, presump tuous, self-sufficient, of all men the silliest, yet fancying himself to be of sty men the wisest, tin scorning the means of improvement, because lie supposes every thing io himself to lie already perfect, without the pos sibility of bejng improved, Or# he is bumbled by the discovery of his erroiyto a degree of debasement and despair* which makes him relinquish aU thought? of rising above the com. mon level ofmankind, content him self with heing quite an ordinary character, and descends to tiie prac tice of every little sordid and disin genuous art Or, perceiving his er ror, refusing to disclaim the hopes be h^d founded on it, and learning how much is by unconquerable persever ance to he surmoijuled and achieved, cherishes his first generous ambition, employe those meant which are the fittest to crown it with success, and, by unweajied exertion, and foe most candid arts, rises to be number. ?*d among tbe best nod greatest of mankind. w *' ,v : v? ? ' nZf. ? x * ** I tfrtm Hccltman '# HUtory qf Invention, The exhibition of cups nod balls U of nest antiquity, bimI depends entJrelyon msnusl dexterity. Tum bling, balancing, rope dancing,? catching balls, rolling jars along the body, horsemanship, are arts ac quired by long and severe practice. Swallowing atones, inserting s sword blsde into the stomach, could oolyj be accomplished by long and painful iretation, and are disgusting to be* bold. People have exhibited them selves who would suffer latge stones to be broken on their breasts' with a hstnmer, or iron to be forgrd on an anvil placed upon it; but these' aire nwfe tricks: it is not even neeessaiy as the Frofes4-?r seems to think, to pat the Mfintb a position to for m no arebwfet the anvil be large en ough and the hammer small, and the etroke will scarcely be felt ; thus an?anvil of HOO pounds will resist the stroke of a hammer or$ pounds, wielded with the force of 100 pounds, or of 4 pounds with the impetus of #t> pounds (action And re-action being equal and reciprocal, ^ without the body sustaining any .injury. The marionette*, or puppe t'sfcnws, the various kinds of automata, the androides, the ombres chinoises are ingenious mechanical contrivances, which can hardly he ranked among the appendages of jugglers. ^ We have the testimony of both Plato and Aristotle, that Dsdains was said to have made statues, which had not only a locomotive power, but which it was necessary To tie down to pre vent them from running away ; and Aristotle describes a wooden Venus made by him, to which motion was communicated by quicksilver, like a Chinese or a Dutch toy* The Pro fessor seems inclined -to doubt the wonderful powers of these Mferfa l6aa< images : ? when the astonished Greeks beheld them, he says, they might cry out " they will soon walk? ?<~?tbe next generation affirmed that they did walk 5 and posterity, add ing a little more, asserted they would have run away, had they not been bound. The better way would have been to deny them altogether. FROM HANNAH ftfORE*S WORKS. pAith, a Practical Principle* To change the heart of a sinner is a higher exertion of power, than to create a man, or even a world; in the latter case, aa God mute it out of nothing, so there was nothing to reaist the operation; but in the former he has to encounter, not inani ty, bat repulsion ; not an unolwtruc tite vacuity, but a powerful counter action } and to believe in the Divine' energy which effects this renovation, is a greater exercise of faith than to believe that the spirit of God, n?i>v-\ ling on tite face of the waters, was the efficient cause of creation. - In producing this moral renova tion, Goo has to anbdue, not only' the rebel in arms against his King, but ** the little state of man" in artpS against himself, fighting against his convictions, refusing the redemption wrought for him. ' Almighty Good ness nag the twofold work of provi ding pardon for offenders, 'and male* ing thetn Willing to receive it. To offer Heaven, and to prevail on tnsn to- exceptit,. is at once an ad of God's omnipotence, and of bis mercy. . Thus frith, which appears ' to ho so easy, Is W ell things the nioet dif ficult ; tvbich seems to be common, is of all things most rare. To con sider how reluctant ' the human' heart adopts this principle ; how ut evades end stipulates; how it (tro,. crastinates, even when it does not pointedly reject ; how ingenious ita subterfuges, ^ how specious its pre- ' fences; and tliepto deny that - faith Jl* supernatural gift, is to reject the concurring testimony of reason, of daily observation, of , actual expe rience. St. Paul frequenter intimates that faith is oarer ft solitary attribute; be never separates it from humility, H being indeed the parent jof that 1 self-abasing grace. He also implies that faitb' is not,' ee some represent' it, a disorderly, bot -a regulating principle, when.be speaks of the i taw fy faiify of (he obedience of; frith. -Faith and repentence ate the two qualities inseparably linked in the work of buttsttvation; repen tance teaching us to abhor ourselves for sin? faitb, to go out of onrselvee i for righteousness. ' Holiness SRd ' charity pattl exhibits as its insepara- ' ble concomitants, or rather its neces sary productions, their absence cUiar. ly demonstrating the want of the E aerating principle, May we not nee infer> that wherever faith io? seen not in this company she is an imposterj, ? h' ,? ' ? : . Doctor Mead had his rite in life, from being called to see the duchess of ? at midnight. She unfor tunately drank to excess, -*?th? doctor also was Wfy often much In liquor, and was so tW night, fn the act of feeling her pulse, slipping his fupt lie cry'd, * drunk, l?y G? d,' meaning i himself. She, imagining he had found' nut her complaint, which shn wished to conceal, told the doctor, if tfe kept it secret, she would recom mend him. He did #o, apd made his fortune.