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POETKY. * FttOM TQI S ASTON CEKTIKCL. TO &APPIAESS. I sought thee in the mazy dance, W nere pleasure's votaries throng, The bachanalian < ?ast you fled, And Sickeu'd at its song. I sought thee in the raiser's chest* k - - 'Aflid gather'd f$uld with tare ; * But happiness, you fled my- grasp-* Left disappointment there. : I sought thee in the victor's path, laurels deck'd this head ; ; ile is not the -victor's ught of hhn that bled i thee in tlw peaceful tot, at resides; cioud the sky, i divides. . v . soutM^e in fCBjgBn's smite, >'d thepath I tied; . .?* M-e tHie happiness 1 lound? Tivaa love to man and <?<*?/ MOUNTAIN BARb. 7 ~ ? ? ? ? ^ TO A CALUMNIATOR. " From Martial > ' ' "thouspeakest always ill of me : 1 speak afways w?H of thee, But spite of all our noise and pother, fTTho wor^ btrtieves nor one nor t'other. * n j\t isveila neous . ' " ' f t rr> ? From the Petersburg Intelligencer. FL > KID A* The, following letter to Oflte of the l&ditors, we have no doubt Will prove tiecpptahle, as well to Uie personal friends til' the Writer, as to *11 Others Vho desire correct information re specting the h*wiy acquired country of the Flriridas. Pentacola ( Went Florida .) *J M*. YANCWfe** ? | . Sir- >? hen i left yiiginla I |?ro Hiised upwards of fifty of my ac <jiv?iniances fuSvrite them <m my" ar rival here Yes|;ecting thirttinonttyj Though lbave nWt time to ??y tbefa that respett my dujy and feelings dictate, yet I am in hopes they can tfdfcbiiu lh??i? ohjenU through thi? mft. tfium of youruseMand widely dis - ^edi>aj)eiv All wise created tlm world to abited by a race of beings all dissimilar ttY each other, & in his t? Hiflcence formed its parts to suit their several cpbsfftutions, * mif wants.? Therefore wl*m i inform my fiends that 1 am highly pleased with this country* they must not conclude that 1 would advise ajl of them to move tp It, because 1 do Hot know their re spective situations and Vj? ws> aud if 1 did it is more than probable tl&t 1 would counsel some of them to remain 1n Old Virginia* A country that has produced" a ^Wastiingfori," a Henry 'with innumerable other stars that wi 1;litier and shed (heir influence to tie ateyt pwsteritv, cannot be bereft*? of I all advantage*), it must at- least pos setfi some inducements. Though Vt roust confess th&t while wealth and the luxuries can be obtained com paratively ease in some places, others Hould scarcity be habitable ibuvbx a* industrious and intelligent comntunity. ,'k K* It is not my Intention .to draw a flattering ot partial descripifoil of this Country, or to m<tkc anj invidious comparisons, but to speak of it as I "flint tr, fti.fi if the description should Appear flat^erinj^ they must recollect , mucn likewise could , be said in favor of the AtUntip fetalis, lime m<?} t have causeil the tnn4t of the ancient oak to undergo soon decay., while io branches and scions rfeman iti h flour ishii state, still lhe.<ttuhk roigln be able to affio d to tliofte v\ ho seek its {roiection shelter irom to violet it sionn travelled through AMahama whicl is a tine state, Inn veiy\miK h op} it * sed by the great depreciation, in th< I>ric? of | ropery* It tWhad a ti?? cv\\> ul tin of the Un tr.l The uncertainty ot publw sentiment remaining in a medium is no vrW more fully proved tltau in the short historty of Alabama, . Aflet it luwt beeu represented as tfa land of pral raise, and the lands bid off at prices exceeding a ny sales ever before^mnde by government, now it is frequeutl} spoken of io (be most contemptuous terms. Alaljama certainly possesses many and great advantages from cli mate, soil, and navigation; and tiie low price of lands at th& time, it) addition to its polite and Intelligent population renders-it doubly interest ing to an emigrant. As evidence I refer to its -population, which his been more numerous from the state of Georgia than any other? a state if not the first for (be value of its agrw cultural productions, is second to no state on the Atlantic. Ask them why they left so fin# a country, and they will reply, that with the money they sold their lands at there, they can purchase in Alabama, not only en ough for themselves, but their cbil dren likewise, on which with tbej same labor, they can raise much more produce : and then they have the best navigation rivers can afford, to transport it to market. " The town of Pensacola is situated nine mHes up (be bay, on a level about ten feet above high tide, which rises once a day about a foot, andl never exceeds two. Tile town id laid off in squares similarly to Phi ladelphia*; , The streets wide. All the lot* sufficiently large for out houses, and gardens. The house appear indifferent out side, beitij generally old, find Only one and iw< stories high, but inside fieat and con venient The houses exte n d abou i a mile on the bay, and a quarter in} breadth* * 't The springs Which afford water of} the fast quality, and in sufficient qurftotity to supply thousands, and then turn grist mills, are situated north of tile town. Some of the branches enter Hie bay bejpw and| ethers above the tow!), wbicnbraiich es form tbeeast *ud west ijoimdariee of the. m|Hroved 'parts df the town, it Joeing bounded south by the bay. The water might be conveniently conveyed to eVery part of the town. Pensacola at this time contains about 1500 native inhabitants* but houses enough with little repairs for twice that number, . One half of its pfe sent inhabitants , are said to be officers! with their families and the soldiers. A large majority of the citizeus talk of moving with them at tlie transfer. The level tm which the toWh is built affords agodd soil for gardens? dur ing the time the English had posses sion there Were a number in urbs but the inclosures have to decay. After ? leaving a strip of good land on tbe bay, the country becomes hilly and barren for seven or eight miles tbe soil compos ed of white sand and growth shrub oak and pine* The next fifty miles continues poor but of a dark sandy soil, growth tall pine with a Tittle undergrowth of dt^uvood and shrub i wft. uniformly tbicw set with grass,! affording excellent range for cattle| which has induced numbers to set* tie in there, who raise a small crop of corn and, sweet potatoes: and no doubt cotton Would likewise grow. Thegext twenty ejetettdjp the neighs hot hood of the head w aters of Pen sacola bay in the state of Alabama : which is intersected with some good laud* Though but a small district has been sold by the United States mere have already several hundred families settled on the Conecuh river, the balance is now surveying and no doubt w ill be soon sold and settled.-? The road leading from Pensacola to \ labama for upwards of one hundred miles is remarkably good. And the rivefH all afford the best boat naviga ton almost to their very sources w hich t ine in the y icinity of a wealthy t>d populous settlement. I hfte is a good inland navigation rom. 8t. looses bay to Pensacola. It f said all the trade of Apftlachlcola nftt necessarily Battle at I'ensacola - i lie bay is no rieepAr than the river iitxtahatchie ; that vetfttU drawing oie, than 4 or 5 leet water cannot cuter while steamboats and fciimll schooners can navigate upwards of! a hundred taiies oo*. iltt Ubt named river and then have<a safe-passag to Pensaoffla a considerate part of which wogkl be inland 'Flint it i ver affords excellent navigation and bos already exteosiye nettleiiienta. - Allj thtf riveri^mring inand throughuYY. Florida afford the best boat navwT-J turn, being no rocks to make Tails, their channels are narrow and deep and current clear and smooth. H is said Steamboat* that navigate the Al abama riyer can run round to PetiffK ctila with safety. And that the waters of Mobile, Perdfdi* and Xfensacola bays interlock each other within five miles, and tliatxanals of only seven or eight tailes would give good boat navigation from Mobile to PensacoU which could be cut for id or 30,000 dollars ; if that was accomplished a good inland passage for steamboats and small schoouers would be open ed from New-Orleans to Peiisacxjla. Merchants from ttostou, New- York, Philadelphia, Mobile and Ne'.\ -Or leans have already established them selves liere and people from every part 4>f the southern country tia^ been and .still flock here to view the place and inake purchases of real instate. It is supposed that they havt; already bought two thirds^nf ihii tots, and now lots are hel4 <i? high as they sell at in Petersbtifg with JJtfie improvements* ; Pensacola heretofore iievefc *has been a place t>f much trade, the sur rounding country until ye*y lately being inhabited by Indians and vei^? poor. As sucli there are no \vaj$ Peopjp of tbenorthappe.u v know ten pei at nre whoorify by com parison. ? Those have extreme cold weather in thfc' winter ate Apt io coir, elude where the winters arc temper ate the summers must be intense _W. from what 1 have seen ana heard 1 believe Fensacola as respects tli mate affords \>ne among the best summer retreius on the continent of North America*? A cool and re freshing breeze is wafted on it throughout the yeai^ and the sun does not appear touch more vertical here than lie did in Virgipia.<??-N of is the town incommoded^inuch hy musquetofrs, they having rro^place of retreat but about the spring when the waters have been neglec ted and suffered to render about fifty acres it ^juagmire. ? Oysters and a < great variety of good fish in profusion. A bove the town the bay is (shallow and can be navigated only by river boats ? as such JPerisacola is sure of a direct trade 'by boats and wagons from a rich and populous country and Us such is a place where im provements can be made without in curring any danger of loss, and if the country in the vicinity becomes settled and the coasting trade obtain ed, be profitable* And then should it ever become the emporium of the Gulf of Mexico for the U. Htates Which its frietids anticipate; it would be doubly profitable. But that time alone cau determine. Comnercial cities ha* risen and nourished and] then decayed ^before a contending world could decide what were the original cause of their prosperity. Venice raised her head froftr beneath the waves, and pointed her compass to every port while a light on a dis tant eminence mOch more calculated for a town, directed the mariner not to a market \Vhere he could dispose of his merchandise, l>ut a haven into which he might lake shelter firoq^ an approaching storm. ' Yours respectfully, T. J* W* Ftom the Mw'York ? Idle Mkmu WOMAN. * Women have been called angels hi live tales and sonnets, till w&have , almost learned to think or angels as little better than women. Yet a man who knows a woman thoroughly, and loves lier truly ; and there are wo men who may be both so known and loved ; will find, after a few years, that his relish for the grosser plea sures has lessened, and that he has pown into a fondness for 'the intel lectual and refined, without an effort and almost unawares. He has been iled on to the virtue tlirourfi !>is plefK sures. Tin? delight of (be eye, an?'< the gentle play of that passion whk is ilte uiost inward and romantic n] our nature , and which keeps ruiul of its character amidst (lie concern of life, have held him hi a kind of spiritualized existence. He shares Jus very tieing with one who, a crea 1 tore of this world, and wi(h some of the workl's frailues, is v . . Yet ? spirit still, and bright W ith something of' an angel . * With all the siucerety of a com panionship of feeling cares, sorrow*, and enjoyments, her presence Is as the presence of a purer being, and there is that in her nature which seems to bring him nearer to a bet ' ter world. 8 he is, as it weifc linked to augels arid he feels, in his exalt ed moments, held by the same tie. *'! woman, amidst the ordinary affairs of lift, lias a ^reatvr influence than a man on those near her. ? While, for the most part, our feel ings are as retired as anchoifet% tier's are t n constant play before, us. VJffl licftr them In tar varying voice.-? V- e see them /in 'the beautiful and Iiarmot lions undulations of her move ments; in the quick-shifting liues of h A face ; in tier eye, glad and bright ; then found and^uflbsed. |??r whole frame is alive and active with wjhal is at her heart, and the outward fttrtn all speaks. ; I -And can a man listen to this ; can his eye rest upon allfbi*, day, 'and he not be iiiade better? Hhe f.^Mild than we, ?f, lie?uty, acts "With hearts. ] I feel a triove and spreatis [iitehig%ith _ V The dignity peculiar chara* than that of sical, bearing itself tip gy of courage Which w or a strength which \mb against. He is his own and >ve may stand the brunt woman's dignity has lie force in it. It is of a hi0 too delicate Tor mortal t< how before it as before spirit appearing in beautiful bwutj our we From 41 Freedom's Chair ? v 'There are few men Whose are totally divested ideas, and even th directed, may render fits to the society in whu by exciting a just pride to The _ American soldiej^n battle j, if armed wi Hashing'&n, Would > be sti prompted to behave bin hero, though the sword : be less calculated to do than other* within his power seas himself of. If Franklh brary and aparstus hac to remain as he left tL?, v i>le condition of things would all lave inspired one with some know? ledge of, Of at least, have persuaded a resjiect for the science and useful arts. So when I scat myself in " free dom's chair, * (which lone do not use every day ,) a train of reflections! passes through my mind with the! rapidity of lightning, teaching me that I am a matt, and that no other is a better one than myself, unless mote virtuous, ? and 1 look at my veins, and ask myself, why the blood that fills them should be less noble than if I had been begotten by a Bourbon prince instead of an American carpenter; and as some times the notion presents itself that it would be a good thing if a skill* ful surgeon were to obtain a bowl of the blood of " Alexander the deliver er, and an other from the aim of his most degraded boors ? and, after reducing tliem to their first principles tell us what evidence was furnished thfd the blood of the one, who mounted the throne of his murdered father; was more divmely const it u ted than that of his slave. If I look .?t home, 1 recollect that r Franklin vas a printer like myself ; and lean that Mr. Monroe, the president at tlie United States, was the son of a i ick layer- so 1 ilont think (litre i? .iiuch in bVood, and l>egin to feel hat 'oyal men call saucy ; that is, that J have just as good a right to s|>eak my mind, as any other t>erson has ? provided always, I have some thing to say, ami the people are wil Ung to listeu to me, J\~ilesJ Register. WHAT AFFLICTION TEACIIETH. J^AN ELEGAKT EXTRACT.] 44 Sickness teaches not only the uncertain tenure, but discovers the utter vanity and unsatisfactorines* of Hie dearest objects of human pursuit. Introduce into the chamber of the sick and dying man the whole pan theon of idols, which he has vainly worshiped*? fame, wealth, pleasure, beauty, ' power. What miserable comforters are they all ! Hind that wreath of laurel rouud his brow, and see if. it will assuage his aching tempies* Spread before him the deeds and instruments which prove him the lord of innumerable posses sions, and see of you can beguile a moment's anguish ; see if not give you up those barren nte for one drop of cool wa draught of pure air. Go, when a fever rages through that hit table smokes with and that the wjne raoveth ind '{?iveth its colour in see u. this will calm his *e ad it open p i Jbe proof JthrAbitos; pulse, v Tell him, as ho | I lies prostrate, helpless and sinking I with debility, that ttrtfeong and danco to begin, and that all with- I is life, alacrity and joy.? ' \r place in Ilia motionless sceptre of a mighty empire, and see if he will be eager to grasp iU The eye of Cesar could not gain its lustre by*Mecollection, that its \f bend could awe the world," nttle quieted by re BMfttod had com from millions of I. this, is wtuch our desires must d, and our judgment cor> The man, who. from ?ifch nothing but per fearfully inseusi E^that ?his vani _ erstand spi . merciful t be merciful unto me, trusteth in thee;< jeai, of thy wings will I m until these calamitie I will commit my soul _ unto a faithful Creator." *" ? hi 9m i , The geMroaity of anol ? An eccwnmical old Bachelor in New-Loaddty flMbitiated with tilt charnubg looks of a young lady at church, was bent on hiving an inter view with her.? Fie accordingly went after meeting to the place of her abode, and approached the bourn the back way ; he met some person in the yard, whom he retitttstod' to ask the lady to step oat and see bim at the pump; she appeared^ and he very civilly aske4 her to go and ride with him; she partially declined, but he pressed his invitation, assur ing her that he would pay JILL ex* pmniBj and it should not cost Jker a rent. " * % * To be in a passion is to punish >ne's ?elf for 4hi> faults and iaiiJeitin encles of Another,