Marietta Pioneer

              VOL. II.
MAMisTTii PiomasR.
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MARIETTA, (PA ) FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1828
\     AT $2 PSR ANKinW,
? 2'ai,..ble t-cerii .^ix .Months in iidx'anct
Uitcrarji l^epartmrnt.
'* If here everu .Mvse and all thr virtues meet.
•« Terror alarms the breast; the comely tear Si...l;w;cr the cheek: or else tb:r comic Muse H..1 Is to the world a pic'vire "f itself,^^ Ar.d raises sly the fair imp:<rti:il laujrli.'
LOVE AFTER DEVTII.
r.nne is the smile that once lightcn'd my way, <i,»np is the eve wliose each look was a ray, (;ine is the heart unchanging and tro^.
noble and frownin:; as its ru^<;ed peaks are, is earthly, compared to tnis true seat of the court of Jove.
But this cloud sometimes looks an¬ gry and keeps its promise. On one of tlie evenings that 1 had destineil to ex ploring a branch of tbe Val di Nota, 1 nad scarcely climbed up iialf the first pre'.ipice that rises over the Casa di Madonna del Pianto, well known to all travellers, when I saw my guide plunging down as fast as he could among the shrubs, an'l pointing to the Casa. On my overtaking hiin, he ex- pliified the cause of speed, by point¬ ing to the mountain, whose summit had
ken,
f;f,ifl is the hand that to mine trembling' stole
I o'A is each nerve that once   ihrdl'd with
the soul.
D.-ai grows this heart to the world's garish
sp'endor, 'lo the ifni'e ol the gay and the sigh of the
tender; To  the  sorrower's  tear, and  the scorner's
r<jJe laughter ; iJ.-ad lo all hope, save of me&ting hereafier
SI\i;UL vR StUUIlli V.
" what pity 'tis," said Joim the sage, "That women should, for hire,
I'.xposc themselves upon the stage, l?y wearing men's allire-
" r.xpose !" cried Ned, wlio loved to jeer,
"111 sense you surely fail ; Vv hat can the darlings have to fear
Wiien clad in coat o^ male }
(lone is ihc lip wiuch to mine fondlj ii w.
Told is the brow on which love has ofl sprken,   ^'«'*" ut.usually dark, in the midst of
.IJ is ti.e cheek, and each beauty-line b.o-   •""^, "V''« '""^^ b;;"'*"^ Moiliterrane-
an heats. As nutiuii;; could stop his movements towards the house, and as explanation between liis mountain jar¬ gon and myimperfeclltaliaB was hope i("-s, 1 let him take his way and follow t"(l to th.e convent. There his first act was to throw himself on his knoes be¬ fore the rna<;e of the Vir;;in tnat sits .11 primeval blackness in tiio portico, iiri(l his next was to solicit some branily from the attendant at the i;ite. Nijjjlit had camp on before he felt his devo tions or his alarm sutBciently iridulifeil; and I had no other resource than the easy one of trustin;^ to thf Conventu¬ als for the ni;;lit'3 hospitality.
Tiie friars, who are often lively fel¬ lows, and jj^lid to see a t.'-aveller for the double jurpoje of boat ing the news and disposiiij^ of their wine at a fur price, were, as usual, hospitable, and conj^ratulated me on liavin;; reaclu'd their roof in i;ood time. Mv ^uide had been in the ri^ht, tor in a lew minutes the wind began to blow with tremen¬ dous viidetire, and short heavy gushes of rain dashed against the lattices.— Other iu:5it.ives soon came rushing in, and the supper-table exhibited a curi ous variety ut physiognomies, from the placid superficies of the German, up to the eager torment of the French¬ man's face, aud the strenious sensi¬ tiveness ot the man ol Italy. The storm deeniMied, and belore we had closed our by no means silent entcr- tauitiient, its roars and gusts had cx- tiii;:;ui8hed all lighter topics, and the tow that spoke, spoke only of the con¬ genial themes, Hvalanches, eruptions, and " [lerils by land and sea."'
I'o the natives, the p'Tsent visita¬ tion jiave only feelings ol alarm, but lo me, this "hurly-burly of the ehi- ment^" was an adventure. A storm on zElna was irre»i>tible; it was the very thing that 1 had crossed the IJri- 'isii Channel, and left the ij liet past¬ ures and smuotii fatness of my indige¬ nous land, to se**. I liicrcfore deler- mined to sit out the tcm|»est, and ordering a couple of bottles of their best wine, astonished the brotherhood and their gufsis by my •' tempiatinn of Providence"' in watching the whole pheuomenoii IVotu my cro'tscc
WW. I'Ul'.iS- I7i\s" shall I speak thee or thy power address* Th )U God ot our Idolatry, the P vss ' — Hv tliee, religion, liberty and laws, Kxert their influence and advance their cause By thee woise plagues than IMiuroaii's land
bcfel, DiduHiil, make earth the vestibule of hell; t liou fountain at which dunk the good and
wise : Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies, Like Kden's dread probationary tree, KnowlodjfC of good and evil i» from thee.
From Uli':htu')od'r, .^l.-.^aziiie.
THIS CAl^BO..^il^'CO, iV S'vc'iV'iaTV Stor^.
In the ye.ir 1923, I made an excur¬ sion to .Sicily, beginning by 3L*''5!na; like all travelleis, my first uiijtci was -lUria. I was al.nie, for tu an Eu^lisii- /'.i.in who has any thioj; better in vniw tii.in eternal taikng ab.>iil Iv.igland, ^!'.d eternal coiupiaiiiing and cuatempt .;: every Ihinj, out of it, tne society of ..IS countryiiien is not rem.irkable for . uuscinont. On tiie roads r^iun I AEti- >.\. a genuine man of Ki-nd street would '•¦ heart broken and il Kpient beyond ; I e idurance. B/di. provi-iions. iiin- I. eper^, hand-maids, the w'lole inn es- -1 ilisunent would inrow him into an .i.;uo, and his listeu-ir into an abhor- f'-ice of llie facul y of speech. For 11 )¦*€ reasons 1 dote; .iiKie I to travel iliiie, taking mv cnaut.e for brown I'l-ad. bandiiii. iii'Sua Frwica, and the Mnumerable coloni->uinat Sicilian beds aivc boeu iieirs U» since their first an- uiiation.
.\fter leaving the shore, 1 soon plun- i;*^! into liie heart of tlio.se defiles that \<e lik^' ri;l"^e.s of some s;ormv sea sud- ! Mily lixed ill its t.)s«,iiigs, rountl the /-I I'U of the mighty molaerol vol:anoes. * 1 i>-ic associations are thick sown in tiis land, and tiie man wiio s'lddenlv ' ''i:ig )i;s I'Ve from tiu* depths of one 'i these v.illevs of coi nred marble, iiiil verdure ol all the hues of the rairi- ''•¦•v, to the m.iunlaiii .ibovo, rising, like ¦I piil.ir ut the very lioavens, tiirough 'load and sunshine, itself crviwned wuh '^pi-'culiar cbmd. that, as the dark.iess i.')nies on, tiuiis, like the pillar of the i-raeluci, mlo (iro, may remember that upon ihat shade by d iv, and llame by night, liuif Uu; hoioes of the bard and •.iie historian liave lo .ked in their time; —¦•hat llo:i».T iii.iy iia\e wondered at •t froin his gaU.^v, lad dro.uned of gods •.icendingaiul d'ii:oiidiug-, that llanni- ivil may on liis rounds'have countetl ¦ le nig'it-watc-ies by it, with thousands
' Moorish laces beside him, jja/.iu"- on ' le splendors ot this incxhausiible con- •1 igratioii;—that  it  flashed upon  the
>iUine in Cicero's band, aul might • ive given Cesar an emblem of his o*n ua/.'lng anil consuming auibition.
-fcitn I does not always Uame. hut it \i never without its crown of vapour. V broad, deep, rolling wreath, that in ;:ie strung sunshine of noon almost ri- val.s the colour of gold, and the ltali.Tn evening looks like a rosv throne for all '».a-«  spirits of naylholojjy.   Olympus,
clenched, and bounding from his sea. he rather charged than paced about ti,(. room.    Ill another moment, id\ this was changed, and with true  Italian versa tility he dung himself back on his si^at. laughing  at   what  he  had   called  his '• extravaganza."    ' But," siid he, '• it is well   that it was not performed b-i f )re any ot the cowled gentlemen be 1 »w stairs, tor this very house was the scene of an extraordinary aftair but a few years ago."
I begged for the story, which I pre¬ ferred, as an alleviation to his politics; and he indulged meat length, whicli I have tried to condense into the follow¬ ing outline.
"• Two years ago, the whole Sicilian world rang with the beauty of Carolina Visconti, the only daughter ot ihe rich¬ est man in Catania. In this island, al¬ liances are made by fathers and moth¬ ers, witiiout mucii c(msi<leratiun ofthe choice of sons and daii^hteis. But Carolina was of a loftier temperament tlian to takh; any goulv old grandee, or young and disaiirocable proiligato, on the opinion of others; and tliP rejoc- fions wiiich the whole tribe ot the Ca- tanese nobl'S and forru:ie huntors re¬ ceived, will be felt by some of them as a r-,Uun upon their coal-<d-arm»j, till they iie whc.-e they nuake love no lon g;-r.
At Irnsjth the man of her heart camp.
I loiu ihe blow of Etna, witi: its ba-e Is .11 on the mountain, and its fjrehead ,11 me very heavens. The hiack va- ,» mi s were tiie uick ground to tins ap- pariti<m, and their wavering masses growing ihinneras they rose, floated broadly on tne air above. '• Satan him sr-lf in full wing," exclaimed the Ital¬ ian; and his idea showed tie pictur¬ esque eye ol Ilis country. The light from this tremendous shape tlirew a new born day over the whole countrv —every hill, every tlwelling, almost every tree, was frigjittully visible.— The pictures in the remotest nook ot our little apartmerit were seen with minute distillctn^s¦^—a 1 ttie Madonna under a pavilion, which scarcely «.liow ed her in the noomlay, was now <| iiv eringina flood of illiiminaticm. From the noises in liic convent ue lound that tliP whole house was dirmed; jod t.ie molanchidv tolim^jni" die beh to pray¬ ers minified a paintui ami sepnlcliral character with this subliiiie terror.
Bill at length a sudden gtist of wind lore its way amony; the clouds above, wrai.pod this splendid phantom in ten- told night; and. alter a onei struggle of the i iomonis, aod a lorrent of ra:n that fed like a solid sheet of watei. drove this iiicainiiion ot the Evil ge nius down to his cavern a;:ain. In a few mitiutes all was silliness but the s )'ind of service going mi in tne chap-
batched  till   the    hour of Vivaldi's wound.
'• I think," said the Italian, "that if the moon were to get up a little be¬ yond that peak, you miirht catch a glimpse ofthe palace, where the curi¬ ous scene 1 am going to mention occur¬ red.
(' To be Continued,]
A Promising Youth,—Go Wednes¬ day last, we had the curiosity to weigh, and measure a young man, who camt to this village a few days since, in com* nany with his mother, to visit some fn-nds residing here. His height was six teet three inches, weighed two hun¬ dred and ninefy-eight pounds, was 18 vears ol I the fourth day i>f November hiit. Wo are unable to state his place of iesi(h'tire—his name i« Dariuj \Vhit» •na.i. He 13 said to have had a very severe attack nf the ague the aeasoa pfist, in consequence of which he has undoubtedly lost considerable flesh.— [^Lockport Observatory,
cue l^iunauriot.
" <";,;./ S/'iort, that -crinkled Care dendet, .ind Laii;rhtrr holdin^r both his sides."
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A gallant heutcnint of  mine;  he had | e|  beh.w; and all was utter darkn,
made a summer excursion with me to f!ie Calaiirias; and tenifited by the sii;iit ofthe mountain, wo c;ime over to the island. At a bill given al Messi na, we saw this beaut v. Sfie was cer¬ tainly extremely handsome; a noble Greek countenance—a profusion of the richest chesnut hair, f.iliin.; over eyes mat'e for scltinj; heart.s on fire— a maiinificent figure—altogether a be¬ ing of sparkling and s.dendid beauty. The ceueral ailmiratiun was now ac¬ counted for, and I contribiitetl my sharp, of course?. As bol mging to the hussars of the Itiilian guard, the two strangers were received with due hon¬ or. I had the hand of the governor's lady. In my infinite mortification ; a'ld my subaltern danced with the Sicilian wonder. VivaKli was handsome c nough for a soldier, lively, and had gained decorations in I is campaigns — But he bad higher merits ; and a nobler heart did not exist in mortal.
On tliis night his fate was decided. He had loved and been love I by a whole host of the fairest of the fair; but 1 had never seen his gaiety lowered for a moment. On this nijjht, however, he came homo out of spirits. I saw that •he arrow was shot to the head, and as advice is alwavs troiihlesonie, and in such a case is absurd, I left mat'ers to tako tlieir course. Ho went to no more ba Is, but had suddeidy taken a prodi¬ gious fondness for sig'aing, walking in tiie woods,guitar-playing at unroas»)n able hours, and ail liie otiier received
One Italian was thr only pors.on whom j unifies of desperate passion. In snort tny example wrought up into curiosi- ihc beca.ne so bud a companion, thai 1 ty', and wc took our 5Pats at tlie open jleft him to his lucubra'ions, and looked window, in full si;;iit of the siitnmit of i for plea.-.'!re alone. One eveniug at a the mountain, which liad ali«?.idy than- ! m.is(|uer,uio. a nmo vvas put into mv "•ed its crown of vapour for a crown of liiand with the wonl s—" \ <>ur frienil li^liti'iiiA? of colours   innumerable,   a-
Ajro, wiiite, ami ofthe most viviti aud oloodred briliiiiiicy, that whirled and sprang abr.iad. and again reverted, and tiew round like a gigantic wheel id" lla.ne. My l«ilow ga/.or had been a mililulre in the service of Napoleon; and something that I accidentally said of tlie likeness of the great usurper's fortunes to the transient flashes now playing above us, led him to open the store of recollections of which every vleu.c moustache is full. He had fol¬ lowed Napideon to Elba, had returned with him, lud seen his star cast down in Belgium, and had finally found mis¬ fortune reaching himself in the shape (d" dis jandiuent, and present suspicion. \lyi was now exiled from Naples, under the imputation of attachment to Mnrat, and   was   not   perfectly     determined
IS in danger—take him out of t.io isl a:ul V'' Siciliai vengean'C is lonnida- ble. But Vivaldi laughed at ha/.ard, and continued his romance. On t!ie next night, as 1 was watching the moon rise over Rhe^igio, I Iieard a tumuli, and found my unlucky Iriend brough' home blc'dingfrom a shot fired at him un.ler his mistress'* wimlow.
The aftair was inquired into of course, but as to arrest every would- be assassin on this occasion would have been to s^ize hall the noblesse, detec¬ tion and punishment were alike impos¬ sible. At this crisis an order arrived to join the regiment without loss of time a* it was on march for the North. Vi- valdi's wound rendered it impossible for him to be m.ived for snme time, and I was obliged to leave him in the hands ot his surzeon.    The fair Car-
whether his next  direction should   be   olina had been put intoconvont on the
east or west, China or the llliu)is.
" riiey suspected you of being a Carboiiaro." said I.
" Whv, Mister Englishman, when a man has'commanded a regiment of ca¬ valry for six campaigns; bas scoured over Eirope in the train of a conquer- er, from Cad;/, to Moscow, and lived like a prince all the time, ha may dis¬ like being reduced to walk on foot, live like a beggar, an I brush his own coat. Carbonar(», indeed! How can .1 man help thinking ot the past, and ceinpiring that vivid, bold, brilliant son of fortune (rogue as he undoi:bted- Iv was) with theso tame, domestic, feather-headed— - But le.t tbat pass. Carbonarol—Diavnlo—let them call me what they will.-'
Tiie Italia'n's pale and hollow face had swelled with haughty expression; hia eyes darted fire,  his bauds were
first rumour ot this love-busmess.— Hut—^' Heavens ! look there !" A flash of fierce lishtning burned round the chamber. W>11 might he cry out. The storm had lulled as rapidly as it i-ose ; but it was followed by a display a thousand times more superb and aw¬ ful. A small cloud ©f the most intense blackness had risen from the crater, and had been for some time quietly settling in a variety of shapes above the moun¬ tain. One might have seen some sim- ilitude in its fantastic and almost solid fabric, figured all over with innumera¬ ble feeble streaks of blue light, to the hu;:re throne of an Indian idol; its black was complete ebony. The thunder still growled above; ami while our eyes were fixed on the throne, its rightful l^rd seemed to ascend and take pos- session. A column ot the most daz¬ zling   white flame rose majestically
till the moon ci'oe Uoatint; and stoop¬ ing through the clouds like a rectmci- ii'ig spirit, and, from the ridge of the hills above iMipheniia, threw a lonj: hue of brightness o\er the Strait, aud the oast era side ol Eina.
The Italian re.iewed his story. "Of what tullows,"' said ho, '• I vvas ol cour.'se not an cvowiuioss; but I can assure you,'' and lie smil'd, •• my au¬ tiiority IS U'iiiiipe.ti liable."
Tnere wa> a Marc'iose Sponttmi a; that time in the isiaid, a siio>vy a:id expensive pruriigitce of iiign lile, li,s coHOectii n wiih the Veniini;;iia lamiy gave him coimcenance among the Sici lians. But report had a-si^ued oim a History of a very dubious kim!. It wns known diat he had been an u;j;cnl ot France in the Uepublican conquest ol lialy, and had even figured aiiioo^ ilit JacJrtfin Club of Pans. At Naples, ho had appeared like a potontalo, ano kept up an establisiiment thai was pro¬ bably among the ciuef spoils ot liie Slate Treasury. But he had been .it length charged with peculafioo; a.-iti the French, who vvere delicate eoou^l! not to sorter any plunderers but toe-n- •lives, called liim to account. Bui the witnesses suddenly disappeareii; ami vvhetiier they were earned up tiic mountains, or sunt ta Iced the tunnies in tne 'o.w, is still to o>i discoveretl. Tlie ."Nlircliose shone out on Ihis es¬ cape, Ik' a snake thai had cast iiis s\i:!, more >.li'toring than ever. Bui, 10 was unlJ k.ly devoted to the tair sev; and as tiie consummaliou <d his ill iiicti, he bic.iuie the adorer ofthe pret fo'St diin.',euse ot the thearro, who had dreafly an adorer m .M nsiour le (ieri- ei.il Ctimoiaiiilaiit. I'lic Frfiichman ft It iiisul od by tlio nvairy of any I1.1I .ao in tlie creation; ami a file ol ;;rfii- adiers. walking iiiio tiie Marci cs'^'s bedroom one inonimj;, delivered liiui to a couple ot mounied <ien-(.'arm'* in the street, wh > never losi sight of liiui tid !)•> was placed on the otiier bide of the Alps.
On the change of affairs he return¬ ed, lurked   lur awhile m the precincts ot the Court at Naph's, tnen ali at once started up from bei;r;ny and obscurity I into the full honouis of a court favour i(e.    He was hands<ime,d.iring. super¬ bly   prodigal,   and   a scoundrel.      To which  of those qualities he   owed his elevation, I honour greatness too much to say.    But we were then   ruled by women;  and   11 I) m Giovanni  would have been Prime Minlslorui any llal ian Court tor the last century.
But a younger or hatidsomer politi¬ cian finally superseded the Marchese, and he was houourably dismi>-sod to be governor of liu- Southern Milltary Uivision uf this Island.
His passion for so celebrated a beauty as Carolina Visctmti was in- staiitfv lighted; and for the first time, he iliou':;ht of siiackliug himself with the hoavv bonds o. matrimony. But La Carolina had tlie s >irit that was pictured in her lofty countenance, and she refuse I the governor; a most ex¬ traordinarv tliini; in Sicily. Nay. she did worse, and nude no scruple of al lowing it to IJ" f <rth that she had a con¬ tempt for the man. The arrival ofthe hussir offi frs was a topic amonsc the opulent and idle; and the xManhes* had watched their imprei'sion. hu Carolina's dancing with my unlucky friend sealed the new rival's death warrant, and «ur oiwvemeuts liad been
.in-e.c:lote of Mr. ^Vcslfy.—Durinff the vovage of 3Ir. Wesley to America^ he hearinj; an unusual noise in the cab¬ in of Gen. 0-^lethorpe, the Governor of Georgia, with whom he t»ailed, stepped iQ to inquire the cause ol it, 01 whicU the tieneral immediately addressed iiim; "Mr. Wesley, you must excuaa me, I have met with a provocation too great for me to bear. You know th^ only wine I drink is Cyprus Wine, af it agrees with me best ot any. I there¬ fore provided myself with several dor- en ot it, and this villain, Grimaldi, (hift fiieign servant, who was present, aud :il iiist dead with tear.) has diunk up t' e whole of it. But I will be revenf* ed of him. I have orilered hin to b« tied hand and toot, and to be carri* ed to the man of war that suls witb Us. The rascal should hive tak> n car* how he used me, for / never forgive.** •• Then I hope, Sir," said Josn VVesleVf looking calmly at him, 'you iiever sin.* Tiie tieneral was quite confounded at the reproof, ai.d, putting his hand in¬ to his pocket, touk out a bunch ot keys which he tiirew at Grimaldi, snymgf " There, villain, take my keys, aud bt« have he^er for the future."
.\n emintnt bass singer was inform¬ ed that there rc-ided a man about 200 mil'-s iff who could sing much lower ih.m what he could. He set off imme- iliately in search of him, and found him diijging in his garden. The trav¬ eller looked over the hedge, and said, in his very lowest note, '' Good day, ¦SV?-." The other returned the saluta¬ tion in a notefve degrees lower, whicli caused the astounded musician i% trudge back again wiihout delay.
In the report of a recent discussion before a magistrate of Essex, England, that i.ffi;.er remaiks—
" My father used to say that magi§- trates should have nothing to do with law. The less thoy have to do with it he better in my opinion. We do not s t he'e to administer the law, but to act us magistrates."
A common liar, who, to the improve* ment uf his faculty, had been a travel¬ ler, was telling many stories of the re« markable thinj^s which he had met witb while he whs abroad. Among the rest, he said there were cannon so lar;ie in Egypt, thai once being in a calash, drawn by four horses, aud a shower of rain falling, he drove into one of thenai for shelter, calash and all "Oh!'* says a gentleman, who was listening to him, "I can vouch for the truth of that myself; for I remember I was at the very same time at the other end of it in a postchaise; and. upon your com- ins; in at the mouth, I drove out at tha touch-hole."
Mr. Holland, a gentleman who died rece;itly in England, was remarkable tor the eccentricity of hia character.— Amongst other whims, he would neveP allow his horses to be shod, as he used to say it would make thera so proud that they ceuld never work for looking down at their feet I
Rebuke.--tK buck with a cijar in his mouth, entered Mr. Cross' menis;prie recently in Philadelphia, when Mr. Cross .pquested the visiter to take the ••weed" from his mouth, lest he should learn the monkies "bad habits."
Modesty to the temale character \%
like saltpetre to beef, imparting a bUiU while il pre»erv#« it» puritj^