Camden gazette. (Camden, S.C.) 1816-1818, August 25, 1817, Image 4
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7 HE FORLORN HOPS.
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On the edge of a rock in the midst of the
deep, ; . :: - - V ?
Where the billows of Ocean loud roar,
Where those*, fowl retires for shelter and
sleep.
Was a mariner lash'd to his oar^
' iu,- ' 9 ? . ^ ?
Prom the topmast they 'spied him, as -quick
*';fore the wind
_ A well furnish'd sjiip scudded by?
'William saw-? was trai^febrted ? Hope ra- j
visb'd his mind? . v /
And the big tear.rush'd quick to his eye.
H-All-hnil shflntrd
_ soon shall I see
My friendsrand mv dear native l^nd?
Then" no longer, ? thotr terrible Death I
- > threaten me, v '
? 7 For deliverance is already at hand.
? j ' v-v -* ? ? ' ? ?' ' '
in this mdlnent of rapture his he;?rt testi
(And the thought was luxuriant indeed,)
That Am bounty and fr^ndship had ne'er
? been denied, ^ ;=
To the claims of a brother iniiced. -
13ut the captain iras steel'd gainst the call
.of. dafcjw-- **. f ? '
Ancl onward hi* course he yet stood?
William 'reft of hi ^ hofic-~* aw the vessel
' leaw * .v '
Then roird in despair in, the flood !
i.'.'fy /r/ ' i i ' ; ; .
MORAL.
Thi# story, reader , 1 have told,
Tn make you hate that deed ?
Jnd Ua& you never t9 vtUtihold ,
Youraid/rom those need . ;?
A BACHELOR'S SOLILOQVY,
TolMn^iHt^.wed ? tbl? i? tlfc qt*^1
... M?0' ? j
whether His better still to rove atlarge
trom fafr to fair, ? mid the wtfds of passion,
Or plunge at once irvt'o the^iiiinof taarriAge .
And quench our we? f? to marry? have a
Wife?
!Ko more 1-r-ahd by that act'to say we still
The restless ardors / all the natural tumrl is
That flesh i/jbeir io ;? 1 'ti| a consume.* >on
Devoutly io .tie wjshed*-? T6 marry? have
' . * M -4
A ^Wife? perchante e devil-? AVe'- the re 'a
the rub;? ^
Tor 'wortgst tlifc nigcl *e*, frhat deVlflrfcre
, found
W hen they.; hftve shuffled offthfp virgin
irta*k,
Must (|tte ns -paose.? There'* the respect
That makes a prudent mafi' so Jong a Be
~ cbetor,
f who would bear the taunts of willing .
maids? * j
TOt coquetl|*t artifice, the prude's disdain
'With all the fear* arising Ccym success,
When he tnfght hUowu qubiu* make i'/*
With oner kind woman f Who would lose v
Ia^ouWt respecting thoic whose I&ve he
claimed ; ,
But that the J re$d of sOmethiiis after honaj
moon, , ? i
^Thtttw;ri? perio^ whose short joys
n tempt the dfttk plerplexmg way
EDL0CK
|? sicklied o'er bytfie pale cast of thought,
And many a Youth ?f no s.nall piih and
? 't ' ^ ^
^nchin^ "Pen<" a,n,U d#y'SB
4 M i *i V" wtit
Aiid scorns the name of Hutband.
iNpfEftEstiNC Views
* OF OUk COUNTRr. j
Translated topi of a letter from a dis
thtgui^jtf enlightened French
^JWy Pm>- Friend ? Of pri
vations I have endured duripg the
last five months, that of remaining
without letters from you, the most
sensibly affect* me. It would be
too formidable a task to attempt to
give you extracts from my notes on
the Ohio, the Mississippi, the river
Volt, the St. Francis and the White
River, which afford no position sui
table for a large settlement ; but,
from what I have myself seen here,
and from every information which I
receive, I feel assured that I shall
find on the borders of this river all
that we can desire. The higher you
ascend the long river Arkansas, tht
more picturesque and fertile is the
country, particularly that part of it
lying on the right hank, which be.
lon^s to i he Indians ? who fori t V\r
greatest attachment for the French,
1 and- Lhe strongest desire that
would form a settlement near them ?,
styling them their Great Fathers,
and characterizing them by the re
mark that they are as good as Indi
ans. It is confidently asserted that
government is at this moment ne
gotiating the purchase of a~considc
rable portion of this immense terri
tory, which has only two or three
hundred families for sovereigns, le
gitimate proprietors of a country ex
tending three hundred miles in length
and two hundred in breadthv If
this purchase should be made, it
knight be practicable, after having
obtained the lefc bank, to induce a
cession, of the right alsoj which
would be very advantageous. I
have b^en obliged to remain at the
Most of the Ark^&sas, on account of
the rising of the river, and the dif
ficulty of procuring a light boat to.
ascend it; but this week's delay has
not been last, 1 have visited a gflfet
proportion of the lands situated be
tween &e VV htte^T vcr,^heSt7 Fran
cis and the Arkansas, and hate seen
immense, prairfcs.1 The largest is
nearly one hundred miles in circa re
ference, it* soil of middling quality.
The smaller, which ifc a Spanish
cession not yet confirrtied', would be
extremely desirable for any tohp
could stock it with; two thousand
head of cattle, but would not be sui
table for 4 colony ? Nearly id! th^
inhabitants of the Arkansas post and
its environs, ate French, many ?#
them very amiable snd sociable. "fo
f All unite in wishing for us as neigh
bors, unless it be afew*who livfe by
hunting and tradings but the great- J
er partJaave given up thH rtiode qf
life for nthe Cultivation of the lano?
s More than one hundred families
have, within a few years, establish
edthemselves here as sqUatters, it
i 50, 100 and even 300 mifcs from
this post, on the beautiful feanks of^,
the Arkansas. There the lands are
of an admirable fertility for the jjIo- .
duc^ipn of cotton, tobaefco, indigo, J
rice, maize, vines, fruits and vege
-taWesr The is, without doubt, the
Ojost beautiful and agreeable pa?t of
the United States, both un point of
temperature ofi climate and fertility
of stotU Nothing is watlting in this
delightful portion of *piir happy
country, btrc useful and industrioys
ha^ds and intelligent heads, to ren
der it the mos* flourishing of your
irnmenft possessions. All the riches
of nature abound in profusion. The
mountains contain nitre, a Hum, salt,
Vitriol, lead, copper, Wnf&ht
lime-stone, mill-stdne, quarries, ful
ler's earth, "chfysul, good clay fpr
delft ware, and sand, far glass ware.
Vegetation is g^antic ; the
press, tne cedar, the white oak, the
plumb tree, tht cherry, the sassafras,
the xtntilbefry for silk Mtorm, arid
above all, the indigenous otihty flou
rish here.* ? I do not know if this
beautiful tree, which rises to the
height of one^hundred feet, and
whose fruit I haveieen, wfflpi oduce
oil equal to that of Provence y but
I am ctnhdent it will answer well
for the manufacturing of *oap, the
tannins of leather, for burning, &c.
tec. T jtelie vfr this discovery i$ my
^ rtitifwiU be a valuably
acquisition to the country . Ithink,
al $o, that the alive of J?grope would
nfiost assuredly nuccecd here. Mad^
der, frkligo, pecoon, fit for' dying
red, the yellow tree, the gum tree,
which yields a rosin highly aromatic,
i the lemon tree, which produce* an
! excellent lemon, &c. all flourish
here, without care or culture. I
cannot enumerate all the varieties of
the vine, among which are the prune
grape, ripe in June, the red, the
white, the black, the violet, &c.
I Th is, my dear sir, is the vast and I
natural nursery j/ Bacchus .
* The writer has enumerated a number
of trees and planis, but having given the
Frencn names instead of the Classical ones,
we have not been able to render them into
English, winch we lament, as our U livelier
is t* cekbrated ^ atvrulisu
I have devised a very simyie in.:
economical mode of speedily ob
taining good ^gra pes fvom rhre ^wlid
vines. It is \to ?ut down an adja
cent tree, on wMckl incline the vine,
taking care not t^injure irs stem,
removing; all lln*jji^ssary foliage
from around it, to rS^t from sbadc,
and pruning it ccrihey u^uie irrc^ j
which serves as a pr<*p dfor it. ?
There zrc large dis r ri c ts ift wh i c h
almost every tree supports^
three enormous vines, Your..^
eVn country is the Arabia Fctra*
America ; and your vegetation stun
ted when compared with this. ?
Here are many tter.s grow ifrg more
?I- - r _ ?. ? i tir. ?:
than 200 feet high. W nat a beau
tiful country, if it couki be secured
from inundation ! I tire every one
I jneet with rtiy ouestions/arfd every
'day I learn something new and use
ful. My zeal and ardour do not
abate, too happy if my privations
and exertions prove beneficial to
my companions in misfortune.
j v *1 V"" 7- s ? 7 ^
, A manufactory of chamois lea
ther add a tannery, established here
would surely insure an independence.
Fine buffalo skins, whose hair would
makcC#n excellent matrass, &cv
could be pyrcha ecTat 7 5 cents each
is carried on ^gMftnstw.
these poor animus solely for theit*}
fat. The flesh is tnoredc^irare ;han
that of our best oxen,; Kish are
caught, game killed and wildTrmts
produced without difficulty $ and
vegetables of fcvqry kind succeed
;Wn# , .x , / ?
? I have left the advance ^njard of
? ; ? rr o i V
the colony on the banks of the Ohio.
I The ,patr|4Ch abandons his
p Ire treat to Accompany us. The in- |
habitants of New Madrid and those
of this ppst, wkh sit *lown be
side us ; hut I do not think vw(e
ought to make A very extendi v? pur
chose, unkriaWe were&ssured ofob
takiingfrpm government a protract
ed-tenii^orypaytnent, Gtn>d cttfti^
vation vwitl < afford greaeer profits
thanspe^ulatingoivthe re-sale <>f thfc;
land, on account of th? great TXteftt
of country to be scid on the borders
of the Arkansas, when the Mirvey
ing of it snaHL be compteied.
0 % 1 v ? .
A fn ail has bljen established this
year between thw post and St. Louis/
an4 another; is much wished for from
heg^ce to Washita 1 but it is absoT
Ibftcly necessary that there should
$>ea ware house at the mouth pi the
river, on the banks of tht' Missis
sippi, for the loading and ur,i<;adirtg
of steam-boats ?*nd sloops, ajxi the'
settlement!, hasin
to undertake this
ishmeut on the Ittdun Territory.?
^ i ttmstQ Ncw^
h c 3. 5 0 r 4<5
1
boat. 'I seen an|$igj?
whose navigation is equal to that 0g
the Arkansas; It can be ascended
in % traded boat, at the nic of 300
mite iil t & days. tWith sea qcly
*?y &her expenee tha? that of
horlei, there might be relay* pu
blished on the banks, by which,
mtart* Boats might be ijrawn up
fast as the mail travels. The ?baKv
-lows are hard bottomed, wtde-4to~
naturally kept clear by the current. J
There are neither rapids n6r dm^e
f&li* Wcla The river is as beauti
ful at the Seine, *nd only wants a
Rouen or a Paris In miniature. I
find myselfieftto complete my ope
rations alcfie. Five iponths have I
been wandering in the woods, and do
not think I shall have completed my
reaedfeftres before the middle* of May.
It is not enough merely to ca-vt the
eye ovtr a vast territory ; it is ne
cessasyto explore and examine it *
ro compare one part with another*
and note all its disadvantages. The
socicty have required of me a Vitu
brious climate, a fertile soil and ra-y
v i gable witer. This desirable tr 4
nicy is not easily found atfiembicvj ,
but I feci, however^coiitidr; c o.
meeting with them on the ouac, oi
thli ri. t: , i." :r.y i.ca.i ; w...* ... "gth
do bu: continue. I a>surc you that
I encounter much fill [nit: and man)'*
thorn*. I have just written 10 Gen*
***** to urge him to come ami
pa*s the summer on the deiighfftft"
Arkaa*as. mountains, and escape
from musque toes and yeUow fevers
Every cne enjoys -hratth here. ? - ?
There art* alreadv 14 or 150a
^ ?/
squatters on the borders of this river;
the greater part of whom -h a vrr
up hunting and trading: for the culti
vation of lands whose prodbc?* ar^
and the necessary labour
without danger. Thw
to live frnde^
pendent snowM^nl, freed from tiXC
shackles of ^sophist#SW*S68NSg|^|
may here enjoy Full and com pletc
satisfaction Apiculture, the chase, *
fishing, and thepleasurcs of ^ weH
provided table; will amply ccrnpen**
site him for tHiSj^sertce of the too *
often perfidious attentions o? th<* ^
shining city. Those who have play-HV
ed ajdistinjgui.yljeci part in life retain
tfi^ greatness* solitude, bnt lose K
it on the pavemeht$i, Adiei% niy^
dear friend ? cbuld Xvilte yQ\i a v?-*"*/
I time \ but I dread tb$ *aski tftdfe4rrV
you will be scarcely ible to t?$fi my
scrawl. My hatads *reronly suite#
to.^fce plough, to it I destine
thrrn for the rertv&nder oftny life?
?Sr. tfbf Liber tnsyibi Patriae * My
! respects to the illustrious exfljps,*^
Tell theifi, I beg you, that cjicy carr-^
not better place the wfceck 6f their
Tortunes thin here. WitK ^6r6oo^^
dollars andt discretion; ijcrS^ctable,^
beginning cm be rr^? )ffe^jb| en
joyed, and independence sccured.-?^
? Wkh courage und p^rscvewiJce^l^fi 1
shawl^eedily attain; a
upon it. ^
Tell y^nrfj iend Anacreort? *#?*
not to J^jrjr himself in the snows of
jche Si. L& wrcr.ce :
his talents and chemical apparatus^ 1
hrnyand we will keep, a continual ;
jubtfre. Hrre }s a country ignoranr
of art?, and rather or e th?t ? emails ^
^loud for them. Did I not dread,
writing, I cpuld sketch him scene* ?
iOLhl^oaung^oJoSfr-^B^ ~
to communicate to jfici my Aoiffifte
epistle. Apropos ; There U scarce
ly any winter in this country We
arc already in the midst of spring.
Frost U seen but five or afar' times -
during winter, and thcjjlaifcia ^aid
not to beso great as at PHit^lphi*.
The cultivation of cptton, the ma
nufacturing of oil and soap, and at
tcntion to the vine, arc sure means ot*
Obtaining ifi'lependericcTicre. Or\p
itian can cultivate six acres of landi #
When cleared, the acre yields from
one thousand
pounds of cotton iii the pod, and
[ three hundredths, picked. The act
produce of tho acre may be estima
ted at 50 dollars. Children ?an
employed to gather it, ahd oi^p
very profitably engaged, in iriiikmg
oil, soap, brandy and dtaveagT which
will sell for 50 ddlarjuriM<rar>u<;ami
ift New-Qrlrarts. Jinflficieir ?or their
mi; port may he edvily raised, an<J
the food for thffcatrlt co t nothings
which <tii a very p,rrat advrongr.-? ?
shall be the first to heir wflefe
* fix our rttlemrnt VA/tice to
\c .so'^n, and be assured ot'rray sin- ,
I screst respects and rfgard.
F Quebec, Ju Jty m.
During the la^t fortni* ;ht, tha
weather in thU district has 1* ep fa
vorable to Agriculture j wa nm,\wth
occasional fains The prognsvof'.
vegetation lias arcordmgf^v been
vei y rapid. Wheat sown about thfr
middle of May, begin* fo shootout
in e.ir. Our reports from different,
parts of the difttrtct art rather favo-.
i able than J dthcrwife. We think, '
generally, that vegetation is farther .
advanced than at the same perio ^
ia>t ycartr v?r4
^*rri K r o m \\r 1 t Vi tr ^ e
20th ??f JuW tht Dtoplr f t iVlotVfT* ^ \ ry ~
p^nencrd UttefnoM hot and
i.' r tfv^l ii .dtx eM 1 <. 4r\.
, . , {?riy.t A*Ui i
M*.?:
? ? m ^gii ii y m
I t thcrm*W?eMn thr static ll(
jucully Iroun 96 to V8.
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