BY V. S. JOHNSTON.
VOL. S4--NO, 16.
NEC DEESSE, NEC SITPERESSE REIPUBLlCvE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COLUMBIA, S. C. APRIL 81, 1838.
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ued till ordered out, and charged accordingly.
A Catalogue of reasons for using
BR. PETERS'
CELEBRATED VEGETABLE PILL:
1
|: ?? BECAUSE they are exceedingly popular,
which proves them to be exceedingly good .
Because they are composed of simples which
have the power to do good in an immense number
?of cases, without possessing the means.ro do injury
3L because they are not a quack medicine, hut the
scientific compound of a regular physician, who has
made his profession th?* study of his lift
4. Because they are not unpleasant to take, nor
distressing to rel ain, while they are most effective to
*?^5^Because tfiey are recommended as a standard
medicine by he regular faculty.
5. Because by keeping t he system in a natural
state of action, they cure almost every disease which
is incidental to the human frame
7. Because they are cheap and portable, and will
retain all their virtues in full vigor, in 3ny climate,
And for any length of time.
8. Because, notwithstanding their simplicity and
mildness, they are one of the speediest purgative
?medicines which has yet been discovered.
9. Because they are an unfailing remedy for pro
curing a good appe.ite.
10" Because in cases of spleen or. despondency, by
their heakhy influence on the excited state ot the
body, they have a most happy effect in calming and
invigorating the mind.
' It. Because they effect their cures without the
usual attendants of other piHs, sickness and gri
Because as well as heing an unrivalled purifier
the general system, they are a sovereign remedy
for sick head ache. . .
13k. Because they differ from the majority of me
dicine. in the fact that the more they are known the
more they are approved.
* 14. Because as their application creates no debility
in '.he system they may be taken without producing
any hindrance to business or the usual pursuits oi .
everyday life. _ . ,
15 Because when once intn*lnced into a family, or .
a village, they almost immediately take the prece- !
dence of all other medicines in general complaints j
16 Bemuse a number of the wonderful cures they
aave effected, can be substantiated without any
indue means being resorted to, to procure invalid
cstiraonies. ... ? , . , 1
17. Because their composition is such, that they
je equally applicable to the usual diseas -s of warm,
^old, oi temperate climates- , _ .
13 Because two or three are in genera* sufficient
or a dose ? so that, as is the case with the generality
of patent medic.nes ? the patient is not compelled to
make a mea! of them. ,
19. Because each individual pill is out up under
the immediate superintendence of the Proprietor, so
that no mistake in the composition or quantity '-an
?possibly occur throurh the carelessness of a less in
'^AfA^tPu acrpnf
20. Because they purify the frame without debili
tating the system , . .
21. Because, notwithstanding their immense pop
ularity, no person has ever ventured to raise against
them the breath of censure, which would not have
been the case, if envy could have discovered in
them a single flaw to cavil at.
22. Because ? (and this facj is of the utmost lrn
porta nee ? ) ladies ?n & certain situation ma\ take
them, ;not more than two or three at a time howev- ;
ever J without in the slightest degree iiK-^r ring the i
jaxard of abortion. Were the virtues of PE ? t-K> ,
INESTIMABLE PILLS confined to this desirable
and alone, it would give them a deeded advantage
over the medicines of all competitors, as in no cases
\* there more danger to be apprehended, or for which .
30 few remedies have been discovered, as the one ;
referred to. .
23. Because while they are so efficient in -their
speratiom with adults, they may at the same time
be administered to children, and even to infants, in !
small quantities, half a pill for instance, without the ;
slightest danger.
24. Because their virtues are acknowledged to
-stand pre-eminent, for their soothing influence upon j
young ladies while suffering from the usual changes
.of life, as directed by the laws of Nature.
25 And lastly, because rhey are acknowledged to
be an almost mfaffihie remedy for Bilious Fever,
Fever and Asrue, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, Jaun
dice, Asthma, Dropsy, Rheumatism. Enlargement of
idfcB Spleen, Lowness ot Spirits, Piles, Colic, Heart
'bum, Nausea, Distension of the Stomach and Bow
els, Flatulence, Habitual Costiveness, Loss of Appe
tite, Blotched or Sallow Complexion, and in cases of
forpor of the bowels, where a mild but effective me
dicine may be requisite. *
T? ?h?rt. the eeueral voice of the community has
de^ecUhat Dr- PETERS' VEGETABLE PILLS
one of the happiest diecevcnes of modern days
snd altogether unrivalled as a general soother ot
bodily afflictions. ^ ,,
90" Be careful and enquire for Peters \ egetable
Pills ? they are sold in Columbia by pjTCU
March 34. 12 lf
Peters' Pills*
FOR sale, warranted genuine. Likewise BECK
WITH'S .ANTI-DYSPEPTIC PILLS.
For sale by ^ OGIER.
March 31, 1838. ( 13 eop6t
Sealed Proposals
WILL be received until the 14th of May, for
repairing the COLUMBIA CANAL. The
MMtrs required will be to clean out the Canal to its
o-jgHyil bottom ; repair all breaches in its banks, on
the Dlan of the first construction, of earth or stone, as
the case may be ; all the culverts to be perfectly
ooened and cleaned, the waste wears repaired, the
taw-oaths repaired, where necessary No part of
tL earth taken out of the Canal is to be left upon
the tow-oath, except what may be necessary for re
The proi>osals offered will be sealed and left
? the Treasurer's Office in Columbia, and on ray
in Columbia after the time limited for re
Sff? "told security will be requ.red lor the
faithful penormauce of the
Superintendent of Public- Works.
Columbia, April lyth, W38.
Ten Dollar* Reward
\WT ILL he given for the apprehension of SAM,
? ? who left my premises a few days ago, ami
who is now, in all probability, lurking in the neigh
borhood of Columbia- He is a very s' ort negro, (4
feet 1 1 inches high,) about 35 year> of nsre, sharp vis
age. But what will immediately identify him, is a
remarkahlr. (scrotal hernia) enlargement, which renders
his walking extremely awkward 8am has a very
ong head and high forehead He had on, when lie
) went away, a snuff-colored frock coat and high
crowned far hat, both much worn
The above reward will be given, and 1 11 reasonable
expenses paid, for his being delivered to me, or lodg
| ed in any jail.
Sam ran away about 5 years ago, and was found
1 in Augusta He may make his way to that city or
'Charleston. ELIAS MARKS, >1 D.
Barhamville, near Columbia
April 14. 15
Books, stationary,
J l' ST received the following articles, viz:
Leila, or the Siege of Granada, illustrated with
splendid engravings; Scrap Book, illustrated with
I splendid engravings; Lady Blessington's Works, in
: 1 vol. complete; Bulwer's Works, in 1 and 8 vols. ;
Paley s Works; Rolhn's Ancient History; Hannih
: More's Works, in 2 vols ; Waverley Novels, jn 27
vols.; Goldsmith's Works; Home Book of Heal.h
and Medicine; Burns's Works; ToddV Student's
s Manual ; James's C hristian Professor ; The Young
j Wife s Book, a Manual of Moral, Religious and Do
| mestic Duties; The Young Husband's Book; The
I ^ oung Lady's Gift; The Laws of Etiquette; Com
, plete Farmer; The Fellow Commoner, or Rcraarka
j ble Escapes of a Predestinated Rogue ; The Young
J Laud's Friend, by a Young Lady; Woman as She
i should he; Book of Flowers : The Pickwick Clttb, in
? 2 and 5 vols.; The Mourner s Book; fine Albums ;
! Flora's Interpreter ; Flora's Dictionary ; Col Crock
; ett's Songster; Sbakspeare, Byron, Milton, and
P?pe's Works, in fine and plain binding ; Pocket and
[ Family Bibles ; Cap and Letter paper ; Blank Books ;
Music and Musical Instruments; l>lack, red and fan
cy Sealing Wax; Glass Seals, Shelf Ornaments, &c.
j For sale at the store lately occupied by Mr. B. D.
! Plant. E. JOHN HUGGINS.
Columbia, April 14, 1838.
The Subscriber tenders his thanks to those per
i sons that have patronised his establishment, an.i so
I Iicits a continuance to that of Mr. E.John Hoggins.
B. D PLANT.
Columbia, April 11,1838. ]53t
* onianercial Bank.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
Bank will be held at their banking house in Co
? lumbia, on Monday,! he 7th of May next, when there
' will be an election for thirteen directors for the ensu
ing year. JOHN A. CRAWFORD, Cashier.
April 14, 1833.
Notice.
FIFTY DOLLARS will be pa:d by the Subscri
ber for the apprehension ai*i delivery in any
jail in the State, or at my residence in Clarendon, of
a mulatto man named DA.NIEL. Me is about five
feet ten or eleven inches high, not more than 20 or 25
years of age. He left me on the last day of May,
1837. When last heard of he was said to be in com
pany with a mulatto fellow from about Columbia,
who had followed Dr. Briggs's negroes down to the
plantation purchase*] from Dr S. Cox. It is supposed
i hat Daniel is still with said mulatto man, and proba
bly gone up to Columbia. The only distinguishing
mark recollected is a small split in one of his upper
front teeth. He inclines to swear, and wears his
hair generally lon^. To the above reward I will add
100 dollars more tor proof sufficient to convict any
white person or free person of color of harboring or
of aiding or abetting him to escape.
WILLIAM BROCK.
Clarendon. Janesville P. O. )
April 6. 133^. ) 15
The ttoiisliern Agriculturist
And remster of rur\l affairs.?
Adapted to the Southern section of the United
States B R Carroll, editor. Vol XI., April, 1839.
No- 4 Printed and published by A. E. Miller, No.
4 Broad-street. Subscription, five dollars per vol
ume, in advance.
CONTENTS.
Part I ? Editorial and Original.
Proceedings of the Monticello Planters' Society of
Fairfield District. S. C. ; Report of the Committee on
Manures; Report of the Committee on Cotton ; Re
(>ort of the t'ommhtee on Corn ; Corn, by Home
spun; on Ploughing Corn, by Colleton; on Hay,
<fec., by A * onsumer; Monthly Calendar of Horti
culture, &c for April.
Purl II. ? Selections.
New Zealand Flax Lily, by Dr. Henry Perrine ; of
the benefit derived from Draining in general; De- 1
crease of the Trade of the Southern and Increase of
that of the Northern Ports; Marl; on mixing Lime
with V anure; a few Suggestions in regard to plant
ing out Fruit Trees; on the Wanting, Pruning, and
Management of Buck Thorns for Hedges or Live
Fences, by J. W Russell, Superintendent at Mount
Auburn ; on the Culture of Ruta Baga ; Experiment"
in the C dture of Carrots, by A.' Ford, Jr ; Setting
Milk for Cream, &c , by Elias Sprague ; the Manu
facture of Silk a Healthy Rmployment; Successful
Cultivation of Roots, by John Sandford ; a descrip
tive Account of the Origin, Culture, Progress, arid
Productiveness of the celebrated Black Hamburg
Grape Vine, Hampton Court, England, by Edward
Sayres, formerly an Apprentice in the Gardens; Si
berian Spring Wheat ; Charcoal for Hogs
Part III. ? Miscellaneous Intelligence.
Improvements in Pumps for raising Water; Ma
chine for Mortisiug Posts, and sharpening Rails for
Fences; Substitute for Soap; Cure tor Rheumatism ;
Cordasre of the fibre of Aloes; Durability of Timber
in a wet state; iFhe Mount Vernon Farmer; Supe
rior Johnny Cake ; Potato Flour for Children ; Three
Great Physicians.
Charleston, April 14.
SOFA AND SETTEE BEDSTEADS.
AT E. Brittin's Furniture Ware-Room, a hrnd
some and convenient article ? which are offered
on reasonable terms, with a great variety of High
Post, Field and French Bedsteads ? also Fancy Bas
kets, Floor Mats, Toilet Work Boxes, Opticks with
i plats, Chinese Table Cloths, Willow Cradles and
Chairs, Cotton reels, &c. &c.
ALSO,
Mattrasses of Curled Hair, Wool, Moss and Cotton.
Nov. 25 47 tf
Laurens District, S. ?.
GEORGE ABRAMS tolls before me a bright
sorrel FILLY, three years o'd this spring, one
glass eye, her hind feet white, blaze in her face,
thirteen hands high. The owner is requested to
j come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take
her away. JOHN WHITMORE, J. P
March 23, 1838. 15
Brandy, Holland Gin,
CLARET, VINEGAR, &c.
OCT DIRECT IMPORTATION
yS^HE Subscriber has constantly on hand a large
? assortment of the following articles, of his own
importation, and offers now for sale, on liberal terras,
Cognac and Champagne Brandy, in pipes, half
j pipes, and quarters.
Very superior Cognac Brandy, 20 years old, in
I quarters and barrels of 20 gallons.
Holland Gin, of superior quality.
Claret of all qualities, in casks and boxes of 12 b.
Muscat, Frontignan, and Sauterne white WTine, in
1 boxes.
Champagne Wine, in quarts and pints.
White Wine Vinegar, in barrels.
Superfine Clarified Sallad Oil, in baskets of 12 b.
Cordials, in boxes of 12 bottles and baskets of 2
bottles.
Swiss Absinthe; Fruits in brandy ; Pickles; Mac
caroni; Vermicelli; Sardines in oil ; bottle and demi
john Corks, in bags.
EMILE LARRONDE,
. 60 East Bay, cr. Magwood'n Sth Wharf.
| Charleston, April 14. 15
List of Lei tors
REMAINING in the Post Office at Columbia, on
the 1st April, 1833.
Anderson, J H 3 McGuinnies, for B Quig
Boss, Peter It 2 McCcskill
Blair, Messrs W & J Martin. Daniel
Barker, Savannah McGowen, Sarah P
Barclay, W K Murphy, Mrs Sarah
Brenson, Ed. Martin, Mrs Susan
Belton, II Naylor, Wm
Butler, H Owens, Miss Mary
Brown, Jos Pace, L
Colvin, Col G B Price, D L
Cunningham, Rachael Pratt, H
Cresia, CammelJ Prescott, Mrs Mary
! Cline, John Pickett, Julia
I Clarke, Harriet Pierce, James
i Cherry, D Rawlinson, Jno. 2
j Craft, Caleb Rutledge, James
Drake, J C Russell, Jno. A.
I Dyson, I, M Raoul, Mrs Sylvia
Dupont, J B Raoul, F 4
Devault, M Robertson, Sarah
Eavans, Martha Rapdale, Sarah
Entzminger, Ezra Rawlenson, Samuel
Futal, Jos Roark, Wm
Fetm*, Arch'd. Randell, Eliz.
Fairbridge, Robt. Smith, Wm.
Fetner, Geo. Stoukal, Geo.
Freshours, A. Smith, R G
Fuller, James Shadrack
Fetner, Aberhart Simons, P J
I *Gibbs, Jasper Stowell, H
Hood, L Threewits, J H
Howell, H Tyler, Lucretia
Hardley, Thos. Thompson, Charles
Hood, N B Threewits, Mrs Mary
Hawkins. J C Timberland, Jacob
Henderson, IsaaJ Thompson, J W
Hoy, I) J Worthy, W
Horrell, Thos. Wraring, Rebecca
Jones, Wiley Woods, J W
Kaigler, Geo. Watts, B T
Kaigler, Eliz. Wright, Sarah
Kelly, John Weeks, E C
Kelly, Eliz. Watkins, W B
Kelly, Frances, Miss Wages, Jno.
Love, W H * Wells, Sophia
Livingston, Sarah J Wadsworth, J C
Lynch, John Williamson, T T
Laretz, Mr Wrages, D
Lee, R H Williams, H
Lane, Franklin Williams, Martha
Lovel, Mary ? Young, A D
McKesson, W F Yancey, C P
McNabb, Daniel
14 BENJAMIN RAWLS, P. M.
Secretary's Office, ?
Columbia, 30th March, 1838. $
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Beit
known, that Daniel Hurtz, of the city of
Washington, lately appointed and commissioned by
his Excellency the Governor of this State, a commis
sioner to take the acknowledgment or proof of any
deed," mortgage, or oi her conveyance of any lands or
tenements lying in or being in this State, or of any
contract, letter of attorney, or any other writing un
der seal, to be used and recorded io this State, did, on
the 23d day of March, 1833, take and subscribe an
oath or affirmation before I. We'les, jr., a justice of
the peace in and for the city of Washington and Dis
trict of Columbia. "That while holding t"he said ap
pointment he will perform the duties required of him
to the best of his skill and judgment,' according to
the directions of the act of the Legislature of this
State, passed the 17th December, 1834, entitled u An
act to authorize the appointment of a commissioner
or commissioners to take the acknowledgment of (
deeds and other instruments of writing under seal,
and for other purposes."
14 B. H SAXON, Secretary of State.
JS'egroes Wanted.
THE Subscriber is desirous of hiring 50 or oO
first rate Negro Men to work on the Louisville,
Charleston and Cincinnati Rail Road, in the vicinity
of Columbia Liberal wages will be given. Per
sons wishing to hire will call at the Rail Road Office
back of the Commercial Bank.
WILSON NESBITT.
Columbia, April 7, 1838. 14
Choice and Rare Articles.
THE subscriber has just received and offers for
sale at his Store,
No. 3, New Brick Range, . j
1 Pipe choice Cognac Brandy,
5 1-8 do do.
2 1-8 do. 24 years old,
1 do. champagne, 17 do.
1 do. fine flavored Holland Gin,
1 do do. Jamaica Rum.
WINES ,
All of the most approved brands, in Wood and Glass
Madeira, Sherry, Champagne, Tinto Ma
deira, Claret, Muscat, Sauterns,
Malaga, Old Port.
French Cordials , assorted.
Maraschino and Curaco Cordials,
Superior French Syrups, assorted,
Bitters and Absinthe,
Lemon, Raspberry, and Rose Syrups.
Underwood's Pickles and Sauces.
Capers, French and Spanish Olives,
French Rose Water,
Assorted Preserves and Fruits in Brandy,
Sardines in Oil,
French and English Mustard,
Slices of all sorts, u
Milk, Wine, Soda, Sugar, and Butter Crackers.
Smoked Beef, Bologna Sausages, and Bulluck's
Cheese,
English tf alnuts, Almonds, Raisins, Currants
and Citron,
Loaf, Lump, crushed, and Brown Sugars,
London double Brown Stout and East India Ale, in
quart* and pints,
Prime Green and Manill \ Coffee,
Gunpowder, Hyson, and Black Teas,
Sperm Candles, Soap and Starch.
20,000 superior SPANISH CIGARS,
Fine cut, Plug, and Leaf Tobacco.
CROCKERY, CHINA, and GLASS WARS,
Comprising a complete assortment.
HALL and ASTRAL LAMPS, and BALANCE
BALLS.
Knives and Forks, Waiters, Dish and Plate Covers,
Sugar Boxes, Spittoons, Nursery Lamps, Andirons,
Brass and Green Wire Fenders, Shovel and Tongs,
Brass Candlesticks and Lamps, Nut Crackers, Spoons,
Brooms, Whit -wash Brushes, &c. <fcc.
AJ^o ? An assortment of Tin Ware.
I. D. MORDECAI.
March 24. 12 tf
Chairs.
THE Subscriber has just received, arid will sell
at reduced prices,
30 dozen Windsor, Cane, Rush, and Maple Chairs.
4 do. Settees.
2 do Fine Mahogany Rocking Chairs.
1 do. Large do do.
1 do Small, do. do.
2 do. Children's High Chairs.
I. D. MORDECAI.
March 17. 11
Polishing Liquid,
FOR cleaning Brasses ? a new supply iust receiv
ed. This is an invaluable article which every
family will find to its ndvantage to purchase. Di
rections accompany each Bottle.
A. FITCH.
March 24. 12 tf
MAPS.
"IWBWPS of the State of South Carolina can be had
IT jL at a very reduced price, by applying at the
Treasury Office in Columbia.
JOS. BLACK, Treasurer.
3farth 5, 1838 10
[^Yom Landor's Imaginary Conversations.]
Perilla ! to thy fates resign'd,
Think not what years are gone :
While Atalanta look'd behind,
The golden fruit roll'd on;
Albeit a mother may have lost
The plaything at her breast,
Albeit the one shftcherish'd most,
It but endears the rest.
Youth, my Perilla, clings on Hope,
And looks into the skies^
For brighter day ; she fears to cope
With grief, she shrinks pt sighs.
Why should the memory of the past
Make you and me complain ?
^ Come, as we could not hold it fast.
We'll play it o'er again.
THE ART OF MAKING POETRV.
* editor Richelieu reported to have
he vtoplclmake sogianyfd?kes
that it shoufd be a shame to be one and &
shame not to be one. It appears, however,
that he changed his mind afterwards, inas
much as down to St. Simon's time there
were only thirteen dukes in France, besides
the blood royal. At present they are more
plenty, though it is even yet some distinc
tion to be a duke out of Italy ; and in Poland
there is an express law against the title being
borne by any man who has not a clear in
come of three hundred dollars a year to sup
port its dignity. But what Cardinal Riche
lieu threatened with regard to dukedoms has,
in fact, been effected by the progress of the
world with regard to another title as honora
ble, perhaps, as that of duke, though few of
its possessors could retain it if the Polish
regulation mentioned above were to be ap
plied to it and enforced. I mean the title of
poet. To be a poet, or rather, for there is
still some-reverence left for that name, to be
a versifier, is in these days a shame, and not
to be one is a shame. That is, it is a shame
for any man to take airs or pique himself on
a talent now so common; so much redticed
to rule and grown absolutely mechanical, and
to be learned like arithmetic; and, on the
other hand, for these same reasons, it is a
shame not in some degree to possess it, or
to have it for occasions at command. It is
convenient sometimes to turn some trifle from
a foreign language, to hit off. a scrap for a
newspaper, ro write a squib or an epigram,
and for all these emergencies the practised
versifier is prepared. He has, very likely,
the frames of a few verses always ready in his
mind, constructed foi the- purpose, into
which he can put any given idea at a mo
ment's warning, with as much certainty as he
could put a squirrel or a bird into a cage he
had ready for it. These frames may consist
merely of the rhymes, or bouts rimes , being
common-place words, such as would be
easily lugged in apropos to any thing ; or
thev may be very corr mon-place verses ready
made, upon which an appropriate travestie
could easily be superinduced ; or, finally,
their place may be supplied by the actual
verses of some author, who should, however,
be, if possible, but little known, which may
be travestied impromptu. This will be bet
ter understood by an instance, and as I am
now making no secret of the matter, I will
take those well-knwn lines of Moore.
" Vain was the man ? and false as vain,
Who said, were he ordained to run
His long career of life again
He would do all that he had done.
It is not thus ihe voice that dwells
In < oming birth-days, speaks to me ;
Far otherwise, of time it tells,
Wasted unwisely ? carelessly."
Now suppose I wish to make love in poetry.
I am a despairing lover ? or will suppose my
self one for the present, and my griefs may
be poured out in this same measure, and with
so mauy of these same words as to leave no
ground for any claim to authorship for me,
in the following stanza.
Vain are the hopes, ah ! false as vain
'I hai tempt me weary thus to lun
My long career of love again.
And only do what I have done.
Ah ! not of hope the light that -dwells *
In yonder glance, now speaks to me,
Of an obdurate heart it tells.
Trifling with hearts all carelessly.
And now take the same stanza, only
change the circumstance to something as
different as possible. I am a flaming patriot,
the enemy is at our gates, and I am to excite
my fellow citizens to arms. It will go to the
self same tune and words.
Our country calls, and not in vain,
Her children are prepared to run
Their father's high carecr again,
And may we do as they have done.
In every trumpet voice there dwells
An echo of their fame for me ;
Ob. who can hear the tale it tells.
And pause supinely ? carelessly.
"Again, I am disgusted with an unprinci
pled mob orator, some indescribably low, but
gifted scion of perdition, one of whom no
prose can reach, why have at him with the
same arms, ? they are always ready.
Thou bad vain man, thou false as vain,
If Satan were ordained to run
A free career on earth again,
He would do all that thou hat?t done.
It is of him the voice that dwells
In thy gay rhetoric speaks to me,
Of horrors scoffingly it tells,
Of crime and suffering carelessly.
Or, lastly ? for one may get too much of
this ? I am enraged at a bad singer or musi
cian, and waut to gibbet him,-r-lo, is not
Moore my executioner ?
I stop my ears, but all in vain,
In vain to distant corners run,
He imitates the owls again.
And will do all that they have done.
Of roasting cms ihe voice that dwells
In such discoi dance spPaks to me,
Of Tophet up in arms it tells.
With doors left open carelessly. %
There is absolutely no end to this, and
any man may practise it to any extent, who
has musical ear enough to danc" a contre
danse in correct time, or march decently
after a drum- He must not take his imple
? meuts or frames out of Moore, he would do
better to tax his owu ingenuity lor the mak
ing of them ; or, if he have none, he can do
very well without it, if he only possess a little
memory, and a competent knowledge ol the
dictionary. The examples given above are
intended to prove that the words and the
ideas have but little to do with each otWer.
and that anything can be made out of any
thing else, and that, therefore, in composi
tions of th? kind, it is perfectly legitimate
procedure to cook vonr dolphin before, vou
catch him. Make your verses, ? and look
about you afterwards for ideas ? any^-man who
has two, and there are many such in society,
will give you one. But. I must exhibit the
whole process, for after ail, there i? nothing
like example, ? and with the' assurance, gen
tle reader, that up to this moment e no
more notion than you have of what they are
to be, I shall proceed now to make eight
lines of verse, and endeavor to makeyotftul
derstand, as I go along, how I do it/ And;
as 1 have shown already how the ideas may
be inserted or change^ itv ready made*terse,
I propose now to-^hdw how th^v^rsBfltiW be
worked up when fhe ide# is readyr??d to
begin at the very beginning, /I wilPsljpw also
how I got the idea.* This'verjg efemng a
highly gifted and beautiful faip has been
teiling me of some conversation or 'Cincxfta
stance, in the course of wfiTcii she twis com
pared to tjie mofcg ? a eorfU&rison upon Jjhich
the corflment arppe 'o.f ilfljj iqos| wfctirally
to my lips ? that, .not* tow crrticise^jfcflBlWer, 1
the lady had at* least the?i&4*antage^i^Kfci?
expression ? for which th# moon is not re
markable. . Very well, we will try to versify
this, and we wilJ Succeed too, after some sort
of a fashion, aud that by virtue of intelligible
rules.
The subject is a lady's face, and a ques
tion of resemblance ? ? face is a good word
for a rhyme, and trace comes in very well
with it, and has also some sort of bearing on
the matter in hand ; the moon is to play a
part ? there is light, and night to rhyme with
it ; sky also, and eye ? for the deuce must be
in it if we cannot get these words in ; fair,
also, is very appropriate, and for a rhyme the
word there, which has an impressive, pointed
sound, and is a capital word to rest on at the
end of a rhyme or phrase. Now let us try ;
I should like some one to stand by with a
watch, and we would fill up this against time.
It is evident that the difficulty of this is
nothing to a game at bouts rimes , for there
the words are expressly chosen for their
difficulty and incongruity, things as hard
as possible for any sense to link together
? here they are so easy that, for fault of bet
ter, nonsense might do it. Allons ?
Oil, lady ? would some spirit trace,
Upon the moon's unmeaning face.
That goes of itself ? if we had shaken a
dictionary over the paper the words would
have fallen into their places, ? but the eye
must come next, as we are to tell what the
effect would be ; and after eye , sky is indis
pensable; night and light must follow, as next
in order of thought ; and fair, and there ,
which, for the reason given above, must come
in at the end. But we must begin anew, for
I have not confidence enough in the effect
my instructions have yet produced, to trust
my readers even to put together the disjecta
membra poette.
Oh, lady ? would some spirit trace,
Upon the moon's unmeaning face,
Such lineaments as thine ; mine eye
Should grow a gazer of the sky,
And often in the cloudless night.
Should turn to her ethereal Tight,
To hail its beams, 'so bland and fair,
And greet thy rich expression there.
Here is some scope for criticism,? as in
the sixth line, the word her does'not seem
to have any strict antecedent; it. might, by
the construction, apply either to the night or
the sky, or possibly, to the moon, as it is
intended. It is easy to make this right and
say, Vj
Turn to yon orb's ethereal light, &&:
I quit here, for a moment the subject of
rhyme, to say a word or twb upon blank
verse. There is no more difficulty pr skill
in cutting up a given quantity of' prose into
blank verse, than there is in sawing ftp a log
into planks; both operations certainly reflect
credit on their original inventors, and would
Immortalize them if we knew their names,
but fame would have her hands full, and her
mouth too, if she should occupy herself itf
these days with all the handicraftsmen ill
both or either. The best way, perhaps, Jfif
settling this in a clear point of view, is to ex
emplify it; and, for this purpose, it woufff,
not be difficult to pitch upon authors whose
whole writings, or nearly so, would bear be
ing written as blank verse, though they were
given out as prose. For instance, there is
John Bunyan, the whole of whose works it
would be easier to set up into verse than to
restore some works, no\tf held to be such, to
their metrical shape, if by any accident the
ends of their lines should get confused. Let
the reader try his skill in reconstructing, with
the visible signs of poetry, the following ex
tract from " Samson Agonistes." from line
118, omitting the next three, and going on to
line 130.
" See how he lies at random, carelessly
diffused * * * * in slaving habit, ill
fitted weeds, o'erworn and soiled, or do my ;
eyes misrepresent? can this be he, that he
roic, that renowned, irresistible Samson,
whom, unarm'd no strength of man or fierc- I
est wild beast could withstand, who tore the
lion as the lion tears the kid, ran on embat
tled armies clad in iron, and weaponless him
self, made arms ridiculous," &c.
But to return to Bunyan; take the follow
ing extract, which is verbatim from his
44 World to Come," ? it is more correct me
tre than much that we find written as verse
in the old dramatists, though it is always
printed as prose.
44 Now, said my guardian angel, you are on
The verge of heU, but do nol fear the power
Of the destroyer ;
For my commission from the imperial throne
Secures you from all dangers.
Here you may hear from devils and damned souk
The cursed causes of their endless ruin ;
And what you have a mind to ask, inquire.
The devils cannot hurt you though they would,
For they are bound
By Him that hns commisaion'd me, of which
Themselves are sensible, which makes thetn rage,
And fret and roar, and bite their hated chains,
But all in vain."
And so on ad infinitum, or throughout the
44 World to Come."
But not to seek eccentric writers and far
fetched examples, let us take a popular and
j noted one, even Dr. Johnson himself, ? every
j body will recognise the opening sentence of
j Rasselas.
44 Ye who listen with credulity to the whis
pers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the
phantoms of hope, who expect that age will
perform the promises of youth, and that the
eficiencies of the present day will be sup
plied by -the morrow, attend to the history ftf
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia."
This is prose, iacontrovertibly,? in two
Minutes it shajl be as ificontrovertibly blank
Terse. " +' ' , , , &
\ .* Oh ye who h?ten with incredulity.
. "To fancy's whimpers, or with eagerness
* Phantoms of hope parsae.orwho expect '*/
Age tfill perform the proaises-of yoath, ??
Or that the present day Is deficiency# V( ,
SliaJl by the morrow be supplied, attend
To Raaifelas, the Abyssinian prince,
His history. Rasselas Was worth son, Ac.
I do not suspect any person of stupidity
enough to find a difficulty here, or of frit
enough to imagine one ( the process speafcs
fqj itself, and so far requires no comment ;
but in carry iiigit a step' or twofarther, we
shall see*by what alchemy gold may be trans
united into baser Petals and into tinsel, and
how th* rogue who steals, or thepodr devil
[' wholfcfrrrows it, may so thoroughly disguise
it as Jo run no risk at fast in taking it openly
for-his o#iC : I take th$ first sixlines only
of the alcove, and tipping them with rhymes,
the v .suffer a little violence, and read thus,*
Phantoms offeojMpoEsne, expecting still
Age will iho promises of youth fulfil,
Or that the morrow will indeed amend
The present day's deficiencies, attend?
Now in tins shape they might do pretty
well, bad they not been taken purposely from
a notorious part of a notorious work, for one
might borrow even from 41 Rasselas," in the
middle or any where less in sight, and few
indeed are the critics who would detect and
expose the cheat; but the next stage of our
progress would distance the major part even
of these. That a scrap from "Kasselas"
should be set to "Yankee Doodle," is an
idea which seems to have been reserved from
all time to be first broached in the present
article. But if not the same, there dre simi
lar things done hourly, and if the written
monuments of genius, like the temples and
palaces of antiquity, were themselves di unw
ished by all the materials they supply to new
constructions, how much would there be
remaining of them now? Imagine a chasm -
in Moore or Byron for every verse atiy loVef
has scrawled in an album, or any Julia oi*
Eliza in a newspaper; or reverse the case. .'
and imagine the masters of the lyre and of
the pen reclaiming, throughout. the World,
whatever is their own, in whatever hands aii<i
in whatever shape it might be now fefcisting.
The Scotch freebooter was warned upon
his deathbed? rather' late, but it was the first
time the parson had had a chance at him?
that in another world all the people he had
robbed, and all the valuables he nad robbed
them of, sheep, horses, and cattle, would rise
up to bear witness against hrm.^ ^Wbv '?
then," said he, in a praiseworthy ^eifr of res- ?
titotion, "if the horses, and kye, and tt' will
be there, let ilka shentleman tak her ain, and
Donald will he an honest man again." Now
I should like to be by at a literary judgment,
when "ilka shentleman should *ak h5 ain,1'
to have righteousness rigidly laid to the fane,
and see who would ill fact turn otit to'be-'r
" shentleman, n and have a balance left that
was "her ain," and who'wsrofki be a Donald,
left with nothing ? a destitute blpes infjfltfJ
mis. Then, arid not till then, will Ijjwe
back the following piece of morality to Ras
selas; and indeed,- intbftahajje into^Wbfetf f
am now going to put it, i think it will nor be
till then that he ot any body for him' wiH" lay
claim to it; ' \ 4*.;T
Am?1 wYatdue DootUr
listen, 7? who trust a?true> ? **'
All the dreams of fancy ; , - -;i'<
Who with-eara chase pursue , ; , ,
Each vain hope you can see ;
Who expect that age wjDjiay 5
All that routh may berrow, * ? .
And that all you want to-day -
Will be supplied to-morrow. { . ... .
I trust I have now said euough fo prove
that there is nothing new under the t un,r
that a reproduction of old ideas will pass for
new, ? that songs may be made out of ser
mons, and sermons out of songs,
From the Baltimore Price Current.
? The first steam vessel that -ever crossed the
Atlantic ocean, is now in oui? port? She is
called the "City of Kingston*'? is schooner
rigged, spreads a very large sqnskresail from
her fore-yard ; is in every respect well found,
and apparently fitted for sea navigation. She
is a handsome vessel. > v .
This vessel was built in London, about 1 1
months sinoe; is 325 tons, British measute
ment, and her construction long and buoyant,
not unlike some of our steamers on the At
lantic waters. -v Her wheels and^rmsare con
structed of wrought iron, and heir buckets of
oak plank. She has two low pressure en
gines, each 50 hone power, aod her machi
nery is fitted rbelow. Her cylinders are 40
inches diameter, with 4 feet 4 inch stroke ?
has two boilers, and consumes half a ton of
good Liverpool coal every hour? can carry
65 tons of coal at a time without inconveni
ence. tP1 **r
The City of Kingston was intended as a
mail packet between Jamaica and Carthage
na, and with that object in view Jeft London
via Madeira. Her run from Plymouth to
Madeira was made in seven .daya, five and a
half of which she was under steam, and per
formed well. Failingin her object after ar
riving at Jamaica, she left for New York, and
put into Norfolk as mentioned moor ltt?. She
again left Norfolk: for New York, but . encoun
tering at sea the gale of Saturday aod Sunday,
I aod failing in all efforts tp succeed with wood
or anthracite coal, and the gale continuing, it
was deemed advisable to put baclt and into
this port, where she now remains waiting ad
vices froin.her consignees at New Vdrk.
Djstaoit, Ma*cb 21.
Another sub- Treasury Exploded. ? We
learn that Allen Hntchins, the Receiver at
the Ionia Land Office, has taken to himself
wings, and fled, leaviug Uncle Sam minus
some ten or fifteen thousand dollars. ? Ad
vertiser.
An exchange paper mentions the marriage
of a Mr. John Sweet to Miss Aoo Sour. It
is probable they mean to set up the lemonade
business.
They who will abandon a friend for one
error know little of human character, and
prove that their hearts are as cold as tb eir
udgments are weak*