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VOL.. III.
MARIETTA, PA. FRIDAY, FEBRl ARY G, 1829.
NO. 30.
farewell—when weeping on his neck,j from her bed-, and by this manoeuvre,
«i .Orient pearls at random strung"
(^'Tis Home where ^er the Heart t*.'* Frnm the IVinter'g Wreath. *Tis Home where e'er the heart ia !
AVhere e'er its loved ones dwell, In cities or in cottages,
Thronged haunts or mossy dell; The heart's a rover ever,
And thus on wave and wild. The maiden with her lover walks,
The mother with her child.
'Tis bright where e'er the heart is :
Us fairy spells can bring Trcsh fountains to the wildernegs.
And to the desert—spring. There are green isles in each ocean,
O'er which affection glides; And a haven on each shore,
When Love's the star that guides.
•Tis free where e'er the heart is;
Not chains nor dungeons dim, Ma\ clieck the mind's aspirings,
The spirit's pealing hymn ! The heart gives life its beauty.
Us glory and its power,— 'Tis sunlight to its nppling stream,
And sofi dew to its ttowcr-
REBUS.
Three filths of one fourth of three fifths of
five score,
One third of two sixes divided by four ; One half of two thirds, of six more than five
threes. Three fourths of eight dozen, add eight it
you please. The initials of those when joined you will
spy- A thing which this moment is under your eye. NoTF..—V.'^e ratl-.er suspect.—are inclined to believe,—that is—we guess—(and indeed we are almost certain of it,)—that the gtm- llcmun, (perhaps the lady, but we hope iio'^ who wrote that 'ere rebus, had a nasal prom¬ ontory—a handle to his face, sc large that he could think of nothing else, see nothing else; and all this, just because of the simple rea¬ son that his NUSE was never ou* of sigJu- Now be not mis'.alien—wc only ^uess so.
and melting with parental tenderness, she earnestly implored him to protect and cherish that child^who had been made the innocent instrument of his mother's degradation. No vestige re¬ mains of the royal canopy which, with mock respect, was suspendetl from the bed in which Mary lay, surrounded by female spies, and sometimes ruder cen- tinel3, whom the rigor of her unkind, ungrateful brother had authorised to watch and control her movements.
But, if the relics of Mary's captivity
have perished, memorials of her escape
[are not wanting; and,after  the lapse
of more  than two hundred and fifty
she was at length relieved from the presence of her odious spies, who glad¬ ly quitted her for the supp»T table. No sooner was she freed from their vigi¬ lance, than, without even waiting to change her night clothes, she precipi¬ tately left the apartment, supported by Catharine, who had, however, taken the precaution to suspend a shawl from the window as the signal ol the enter¬ prise. Softly and cautiously the queen descended, equally alarmed by ima¬ ginary sounds and real silence. At the fo'ot of the stairs she paused in an agony of suspense—all was still. Without venturins to articulate a ain-
years, we are enabled to trace her steps, gle word, she counted the minutes that to observe, and in a manner almost to must have elapsed since the critical witness, the progressof her deliverance., moment when Douglass was to secrete
ESCAl'E     OP    M\liT,   QUEEN     OV     SCOTS, FROM    LOCHt,i:.VliN   CASrLE.
By ^fisi Jiengcr, autfior of' .Memoirs ,>f Marv Qti^en of Scots' it. The Castle of Lochleveri has been long mouldering in d>>c.iyj the strength of tho>e compact round t-r.vers, which so often repelled tlie Etii^nsh invader, has yielded to time; the steep stone stairs leading to the state apartments have been transported, for the purpose of constructing dykes, to the opposite shore; even the chamber occupied by Mary Stuart is with difficulty to be distinguished in the surrouudin.i; mass of ruins. The lake alone, witit the exception ot the few scattered habita¬ tions erected on its banks which dis¬ turb not the faith of historical associ¬ ations, presents the same aspect that it wore in other days; and we may •parp a ;;lance to the roof vvhere the too early lamented poet, Michael Bruce first '^aw the light, without losing the pleasur.ible consciousness of reality witli which ue linger on the spot where Mary landed after her memorable es¬ cape from Lochleven—that critical mo- ¦mpnt, the most agitated, perhaps the happiest, ot her calamitous existence. It is natural that the lovers of Scot-
The fortress of Lochleven situated, as is well known, in Kinrnssshire, was a place of considerable strength, and at an early period had resisted many at¬ tacks of English invaders. The adven- turo't« enterprise vf tne brave de Vi- pont, who, witn f.iur jjallant knights, by a masterly manoeuvre had compelled Sir John de Kurl.iijr to raise the siege and return to England, had been cele¬ brated more than two centuries, when the castle came into the possession of Siv Ill^^r". D .u^lais, r.r.o liad espoused the 'rpudiattd n'..slre»s of James the fifth, tne naughty lady, Margaret Ersk- ine, mother ot the regent Murray and according to her own testimony, the lawful unacknowledged wife of the K-ing of Scotland. Absurd as were these pretensions, they were not with¬ out abettors and dofcnders among Mur¬ ray's professed partisans; but the ar¬ rogance ofthe lady's manners render¬ ed her generally unpopular; nor was it without reason that Mary conceived for her an aversion, which she never betrayed to any individual in Scotland. Alter the defection of the royal army at Carberr}' hill, and the frightful indig¬ nities to which she had been subjected at Edinburgh; the delinquencies of la¬ dy Margaret ceased to be regarded; and it is probable that Mary, with her wonted facility in believing all she •.vished, allowed Uerselt to calculate on receiving triendly offices from the mo¬ ther of Lord Munay; she soon per¬ ceived however, that nothing prevailed with this imperious dame like gold; and that by chinking a full purse,or displaying jewels winch were indirect¬ ly offered to iier acceptance, she should best enforce attention from her venal hostess. Her next step was to win her nominal j^uardian Sir William Doug¬ lass; but his pusillanimity batlled her peiSuasioiLS, and thougii nut less mer¬ cenary than his mother, nor more hu¬ mane '\p was ton wary to ha/.aid the dispitasure of the regent, whom he ratiier feaied than loved, lor the doubt¬ ful chance of esrabiishing the suprema¬ cy, and earning the gratitude of the Queen of Scotland.
His younger brother Gcorgp was of a nature more susceptible ot generous sympathies—from him Mary won pity by her tears; she obtained his friend ship by her confidence, and he engaged in her cause, with impassioned z,eal; but his first attempt for relief miscar¬ ried, and served but to furnish pretexts for treating the Queen with greater ri¬ gor. •' Help me,"" she wrote to Cath¬ arine de Medicis, " help me speedily or I shall perish in this place." At this moment Maty saw iierself bereav¬ ed of her only friend. George had been expelled from the castle; but he lett in it another youth, equally devo¬ ted to the Queen's cause and more a- ble to sustain it.- This new champion was a stripling of seventeen, an orphan kinsman ot the house of Douglass, and entirely dependent on the bounty of his powerlul clan.sman. No latent am¬ bition kindled the zeal that glowed within hli breast—he was humble and
tibh history should approach these des
elated wali> with the expectation of obscure; no juvenile vanity had sug- discovenu;; some local illustrations ot or,>sted such tlreams ot passion as Geo. the mouintul scenes which in 1.566.' Douglass was believed to cherish. His were here exhibited, and which form efforts were prompted by pity and pat- in a manner the nreUule to .Mary's tra- riolism: if he failed in the enterprise, gedy.—But although tiatiiiion directs he migiit expect to lose his life; and if our attention to the turret in which tiie ! he succeede«l, he was sure to lose the Queen was lodged with Catharine Ilon- nedv, the only female   atti;ndant whn
Irie.idship of the house of Douglass. Never was courage more strikingly h.idbpen permitted to L'cconupanv her. i exemplified ;    never  was  intrepidity the filling up of the  outline'iniisi  be ; more happily  blended with prudence, lett to  the euridition or the fancy   of ' "      '^
the spectator. We look in vain lor some vestige of the place in wuich the outraged Queen was despoiled (d" the Pi>ip;ns of her sovereig:)ty; struggling with liiiulsav's ruffian grasp, she sub¬ scribed, unread, the fatal deed of ab¬ dication, a'.id became as a cypher in Scotland. It is fur the poet only to describe the embowered window under v.'hich Murray stood—the last time that I.e. e.>:cl!anged with her an aQectionate
than in this modest youth. Convinc¬ ed that the boldest course i3 the safest, he'resolved, at supper time, in the face <d" the assembled household, to steal Irom the niche in which they were de¬ posited the keys of the castle, and to avail himself of the succeeding prayers to etfect the liberation of the queen of Scots. Apprised of his plan through the medium of Catharine Kennedy, Ma¬ ry, on the plea of indisposition, refus¬ ed^ the next Sunday morQiog, to rise
the keys. Even then, he iiad to achieve another task almost equally difficult, in withdrawing, unnoticed, from the assembled congregation. The chances of success were few, the risk more im¬ minent. Another minute pissed, and suddenly, like the phantom of a dream appeared the active, though diminutive form of William Douglass, at once beckoning the fugitives to approach and significantly motioning to them to observe silence. The Queen and Cath¬ arine pursued his steps, each gliding like a nocturnal spectre till tliey reach ed the first and most important gate, to which Douglass presented one ol the four large massive keys concealed under his cloak. At that sound, the queen shuddered, so overwhelming was the dread of discovery; but her con¬ ductor, with perfect coolness, quickly j opened, and then cautiously reiocked the portal. In like manner, he cleared the second gate, and again, in spite of the queen's impatience, observed the same precaution.—
At a third portal no obstacle occur¬ red; at the fourth, the baying of a dog excited in the queen such alarm, that she no sooner found hersell without the walls, than she darted towards the boat regardless of the stones which bniised her feet, from which, for safety, she had put off her shoes, and springing into the boat, which had beeu^lfawn to the shor(?, she conjured Douglass not to lose a single moment. Having reached the middle of the lake, Doug¬ lass threw from the boat the four hea¬ vy keys, which impeded its course; meanwhile, Catharine seized an oar, and rowed with all her strength. But, j instead of making for the nearest land; Doi'glass steered towards a more dis¬ tant point, contiguous to the wood, in which the fugitives might be sheltered from pursuit. With what exultation did he now discover, on the margin of the lake, a horse, evidently prepared to assist their course, and, as was now ap¬ parent, attended by George Douglass, who, in conjunction with Lord Seatcm and John Beaton, both included in the number of Mary's confidential friends, had. in difloreot stations, reconnoitrod the coast.—It were superfluous to speak of joy in such a moment: but faint were the transports with which Mary was hailed by Lord Seaton to the rap¬ turous emotions with which the two Douglass's reciprocated congratula¬ tions. With what pride did they con¬ vey her Niddry I—with what triumph did they see her lodged in the palace ot Hamilton! '
Thus happily terminated an enter¬ prise of which it was the peculiar fea¬ ture that none suffered by it either in person or fortune:—Even George Dou¬ glas, after a temporary exile in France, returned to Scotland, and was reward¬ ed with the hand and fortune of a no¬ ble heiress. John Beaton, one of his auxiliaries, attached himself to Mary's service; and little William Douglas, as he was called, continued in her household, and was one of the individ¬ uals mentioned in that last testament which was written a few hours before her death, with expressions of grati¬ tude and regret. In like manner, Catharine Kennedy retained the inti- macy with her queen to which she had been admitted by participating in her sorrow; and during all her subsequent trials and misfortunes, Mary was sooth ed by the presence, or sustained by the counsels, of those whose fidelity and attachment had been approved at Loch¬ leven. .
Singular Instance of Sagacity in a Dog.—A gentleman in England, being on a journey with his friend, snd a Newfoundland dog, who was one of the party, being the subject ot their conversation, he asserted that he would fetch any thing he was ordered from any distance. To prove this, a mark¬ ed shilling was put under a large stone on the side ofthe road and the gentle¬ man, accompanied by the dog rode for¬ ward for three miles, when the dog's master ordered him to go back, and fcfch the shilling he had seen put un¬ der the stone. The dog turned back, and the gentlemen rode forward, and got home; but contrary to their expec¬ tations, the quadruped did not return for the whole day.
It appeared afterwards, that he had gone to the place where the shilling was deposited, but the stone being too large for his strength to remove, he had staid howling at the place, till two horsemen riding by, attracted by his seeming distress, stopped to look at him, and one of them alighted and re¬ moved the stone, when finding the shil¬ ling, he put it into his pocket, not con¬ ceiving the dog could be seeking for that. The dog folUuved their horses for upwards of 20 miles, staid in tlie room v;hcre they supped, followed the chambermaid into the bed-room, and hid under one of the beds. The pos¬ sessor of the shilling, hung his small clothes upon a nail by the bed side but when they were both asleep, the dog got them off the nail, and the window- being open, leaped out of it with the small clothes in his mouth, and dragged them through bog and quagmire, over ditch and through hedge, until four o' clock, when he arrived at his master's house. In the pockets were found sev¬ eral guineas and four watches, (the owner being a dealer in those articles) and the marked shilling. The watches being advertised were returned, and the tliicf not convicted.
Lord i?;me7.—Immediately before Lord Russel was conveyed to the scaf¬ fold, he wound up his watch, saying with a smile, '* Now I have done with time, and must henceforth think only of eternity."
The first care of a good wife, is to have a good cook, and no cobwebs in thei houie.
Back and Stomach.-.^The Editor of a paper in Maine make* the following appeal in behalf of his back and stom¬ ach:--' We bave many subscribera who have taken our paper for four years, and have paid us nothing. Do such persons think we can live on birch bark like a Cossack's horse, or grow tat by inhaling the west wind ? Do they sup¬ pose the Female Charitable Society find us with clothes ? Do they suppose that paper, types, ink, fuel, and many other costly and necessary articles, are sent to us by unknown hands ? What¬ ever Dr. Faustus migr.t have done, the black art of modern printers has no such magic in it. When hungry, we have no time to fish or hunt, and it would be impious to expect a sheet full of good tliiiigs to be miraculously let down from the heavens by the four cor¬ ners, as in tlie case with Peter; and as to being fed by ravens, it is more like ly that the ravens will feed scantily upon us—unless we get some money shortly.'
DISCONTENT.
*' It's a slavish life that we had,^^ said the devil to the fiireman the other night, as both were rubbing their eyes over a dirty proof sheet at twelve o'¬ clock. The devil looked as though he believed what he said, when he stuck his grim visage through a wreath ot lamp-smoke for an answer. " It's a slavish life that we lead, penned up here amid ntusty papers and stale ink, small type and low cases, with weak eyes and unintelligible copy—nightaf- ter night to be smoked like southern bacon—day after day to be tormented with the errors that we have overlook¬ ed—and finally get more kicks than coppers for our trouble.'' Thus did the devil vent his teeling, which a thou- send little vexations had rendered pee¬ vish, and which had for a time soured his devilship^s disposition.
A Quaker having been cited as an evidence at a Quarter Sessions, one of the magistrates, who had been a black¬ smith, desired to know why he would not take off his hat ? * It is a privilege,' said the Quaker, ' that the laws and liberty of my country indulge people of my religious mode of thinking in.' ' If I had it in my power,' repUed the justice,' I would have your hat nailed to your head.' • I thought,' said Oba- diah, drily,' that thou hadst given over the trade of driving nails.'
Comfort for tragedy writers.—(^ If
you did not like my tragedy, why did
you  not /i<«s.^"—"My  dear sir, no
man can hiss and yawn  at the same
I time.-'
The Editor of the Daily .Advertiser, has employed an accomplished  .\cci- nENT M.\ker; for the purpo«.e ot fill¬ ing his columns with  tales rare  and kvonderful.     We  give   the  following paragraph as a sample of the writer's talents;—"Bad   Affair  —Mi-is   Ju¬ dith Toughenough, a respectable maid¬ en lady in the town of Tewkesbury, oa Tuesday morning, in ciimbtng to a "shelf in the cellar closet, for the purpose ot examining the condition ot her favor¬ ite plant, the Bachelor's Button, and to  ascertain Whether it had survived the recent frosts, unfortunately mada a false step, and was precipitated head foremost  into a barrel   of soft soap, which had   been carelosslv le't uncov¬ ered.    Her long absence Ch  -e'' ; ano alarm, and the fam.ily on stu.   .nngfcr her, found her feet and and ancles pro¬ truding from   the barrel, while  not a, particle of her body could be seen.— Her situation was truly peculiar.   Sha was drawn forth, and in a few minutes discovered symptoms of life, by hurl¬ ing a pot lid at the head of poor Susan, the cook, for leaving the barrel uncov¬ ered."—.FiV. Record.
Anecdof'\—.When, during the war» Admiral Warren was lyins in the Ches¬ apeake, Captain   Smith was   sent by Com. .Steward, then in Norfolk, to nc- gociate an exchange of prisoners.   The news had just arrived of the capture of the ,Java, and the admiral speaking of that event, asked captain Smith how it happened that our frigates were suc¬ cessful in taking theirs.    Capt. Smith answered  that he knew no reason for it unless it was that we fought better. 'No,' said the Admiral, 'that canrot be; the reason is, that two  thirds o[ your crews are British seamen.' 'Thea' replied Captain Smith, 'the other third, being Americans, make the whole dif¬ ference.'    The Admiral attempted nj further explanation or argumeot on the knotty subject.    We doubf if  the re¬ cords of wit can produce a more happy repartee.    It was prompt and   sharp; and at the same time goes tf» the very heart and marrow of the qu>>stion.    It IS one ot those pushes that can neither be parried nor returned.    It closed the game;   the Admiral had   not another move.
Some years ago, a noted warrior of the Potawattomie tribe, presented him¬ self to the Indian agent at Chicago, as one of the chief men of his village, ob¬ serving with the customary simplicity of the Indians, that he was a very good man, and a good friend to the Ameri¬ cans, and concluded with a request for a dram of whiskey. The agent repU¬ ed, that it was not hie practice to give whiskey to good men—that good mca never asked for whiskey, and never drankit when voluntarily offered. That it was 6arf Indians only who demand¬ ed whiskey. "Then," replied the In¬ dian quickly, in broken English, " me d n rascal."
Genuine Laziness.—A young farraet* inspecting his father's concefns in the time of hay harvest, found a bod% 'f the mowers asleep when they sh o'd have been at work. ' What is this ?' cried the youth, * Why, me, you are ?o indolent, that I would give a crown tn know which is the most lazy of you.' ' I am he,' cried the one nearest to him, still stretching himself at his Cdse.— ' Here then,' said the youth, holding out the money. ' Oh Master George,' said tl^ fellow, folding his arms • do pray take the trouble of putting it into my pocket for me.'
Dr Walcott, better known as Peter Pindar, had, for some time, a most vio¬ lent cough, when his friend, Dr Geagch persisted in recommending asses' milk as a certain cure. The bard, tired of his importunities, at length quieted hinv by sending the following epigram:—
'• \nd. Doctor do you really think.
That asses' milk 1 ought to drink ?
'r would quite remove my cough, you say,
And drive my complaints away.
It cured yourself—I grant it true;
But then—twas mother's inilk to you.
Envj/.—In a Polish fable entitled " the Miser and the envious Man," the latter is represented as obtaining from the gods the favor of being allowed to lose one eye, in order that he may at the same time, deprive the former of only eye he had left!
No man is obliged to think beyond his capacity, and we never transgress the bounds of good sense, but when we j aim to go beyond it.