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. n , . JfRT^T Blf M 'W fol& B B & D E T E R Y W ED IfSD A Y , BY T. C. , W , AT tr HIS PRINTtNG^-OFFiCE A N D BOOK-STOilE, PALMYRA, O ^ A R I O CO U $ t £ ' . J f e V \■ \ l a « « l¥ V 'r ' --- - ------- r-ry--.- ................. j . ---- ■ - >*-, ---- - 4 — -' - ........ -■ ;i: > •»;** ■ 'P : P A L M Y R A , W E D N E S D A Y , N O V E M B E R S6,. 1817. X 'N O . f? O P T H E gp in debt ai tllfavern. T»grog, to _ n n r o r i m n [toddy,tos'mrrMbitters! 0 ! horrid' KJ-a*«51 J i l t . what a bi!^!—Sever owe your ahop- > —■■■ i maker, your tm>r, your printer, your JcrfbM«nd tnilio»pwlio rfr-. blacksmith,or W r labourer. Besides It the Ofliee, Two Doilaiu > , . ., d K«rr». cr-H.yaW^n.fterlv , *he bad policy! becoming m df ».♦, it H T o M ail f P CT>hen' T-r# D o iU * J , p*jT / is dowflright IM S t i c c , to those v * h 'i-c num.T»vaWflad 7 .DCe -pi. r—t. labour you ha* received the b.-nrfit PAL3U I. To Village « i r e tbfir pap<'! •od Ftrf * Ci •nooin, II To C o m # 4* of tm or worr, Three Cent* * r J * ‘11 b f ili'fof'linu'-d till a'l ar- yvaratp* are j but at the ditcri tloo of thr Editor I . , , . . V Advrrti * t ’*,r u*ual pnef. *o n e dircont l 4 w llh w ,'P feil1 <iirMt,on ' FlUIS'TINO s FiKnii(WIJSU ^u u 'nint'fitu, M A:' &e*e •> - Exf-cu'f lJ 1*1 P»V»m>ii and £rp{di)i'm f ^ c e t o p . w»8 , had as parish nately an.;i mg T H E C L E A N E R . die of poor Robert tLe Scrfbc. 1 \y advicf if l fortune yoti d « t . j-ou owe, tbfn ki-*p out of <Jrot/ T h is# be bad poetry, but depend upon it.% excellent sense. It is an old sajwhattiic'debtorisa slave to the crew.’ If bo half the world en ter intowntary servitude. The uni versal q| to buy on a credit, iis a serioup i| in our country,many a \l- a uable n&s ruined bv it. Thf$ts Titus Thornbury, frho jstnous honest man. He I a farm as lay iu the nortli i|i|)!eb\:n. But unfort ti- ve wav fa the prevailing itjng in debt, and a >ad it- At thfl »gc of thirty wo hundred pounds. .Jt I if led about that sumyj^Ie ite without purchasing ^gnpi * as all tlie money ho c 5 «l$ to pay principal and intfce- ebt, ne had every thin\ to dit# Bo at tlie ycai’s end, st and costs, and loss «*f extra prices charged f«»r anse he aid not make ready *ts just as much involved as, fore. Thuslidmssed.dun- ormentcd waa .poor Thorn- iv'entv years. with hi s cousin Ned Fore5*^] 1 hr would owe no ninth ’P*e !■ of his farm was nboirt t' r :,rihornburj’B ; but .^8 be v. as 'jcLbv durri to sell on^of sre- ;ot tlie highest price. \As*-‘lic tliiiijrswl.cn he bought ther% s necca-aries 12 per «cnt as he paid neither, interests and lost no time in running nonev or to see his credit- id up '^0 pounda a year, liv- aj well as liia cou»i:ian<l in- appier. poor Tliombury saw a marl p the road, his an u o u h look plain as look coaid tell of. How hippy the fa*jr thft* ow m oot a poun'l But )tr«u p Itii fifljMrii r n r l*i«i ^ rr^md frar* urilhfr T o bank or to tm IIU c«ihr wrll Ml FI* livi** (if more. Th^n niy »dv! Pay off whatnot} RobV, ihenfT *«ri!uo jliav never to ru»', loil liif psn’ry II ftor d IjMsd tbnn a pnncr or n !o^d ] i f n Jhrtunr y«u d f.et . iod then kcrp out of debt* Description ofihorrid nhow of ticQ venomous sefentr, exhibited at Tta- bat, ex tract* from Captain R i ley's narrat \ Soon kftel M llah, [or J concourse of Moors and J>' of the single stood alone, red the cause was informo kind ofMooi were about Jews with a venomous sc! er witll fhelr human sperii who chosc to! rfyc| net ai ' b.ii wli d \vW on that follow, he is {Jne.’ When a sudden rap at nr entrance into the Town,] we saw a ople, consisting of cforvdinjr abfiut one ied , houses, which ng near it, I enquiV iis assemblage, ana at a couple ofitJjat lied Serpent “feater*. muse the Moors and it of two of the most ts on earth : topcth- nner of attacking the and that each one the erl.ibition through the window^or it was to take place in that hwirflnust pay half a dollar. Being dcsirai of hav inc a look, I of fered a dollmor a station at a win dow ; bntaipiie windows were al ready occupji, and the places?\paid for. My gu|l, ob^erviiij; mv «li«ap- pointment, lied ine if I wisfied fora birrh ? wliicm answered by\puttin'* two dollars *)bis h&'nd: tvliereapon he tallied otil> tlie Jews at one ol the window®) clear a place for el m ib del Smn, (the gujtan’s dqttor.) ’niose, yho had paidrtheir nonev, nqt ||n^’fo-loac their placeR, | to thove : upon nli'ub ihed then) away with ithout ceremnny ; jjiv- jle wii’.diw io rr .3 ‘-•*1 f, |il keep jiuard. 1 Jook- In v ill o>/ inlormptlon: $\ciity feet long, and Fflcen feet ilpad, j»a\ed with tiles, andploatmwithin. Tlte wu.dowK ' ecu red bv an addition- j of wire, in ‘•’uh a endtr ii.ini;.o-sible for esrape from the. room: door, atid that bad a Hit, six orcisxiit inches Ic was also secured by the room stuod two red to be Arabs, with lone bu-Jiy hj| and beards ; and I was told they wnjp.partic’.ilnr rare of men that couldt l*n serpents. Awoodori box, about4 wt lon^, &, ^feet wide., w as pla* ed npr tr d«».,i, w ,t'i a „tii:.^ fas tened to a 4Je at one endofit: this thrust oSt his forked tongue, threw and heart-headed one E l Uuschfah.— himself into a round coil, erected hia(I afterwards hnw engravings of these head, which was in the centre of the | two—s^rpefttsrjn Jackson’* Mqrpcco, coil, three feet from tlie floor, flatten- j which ane ve*-y correct resemblances: iop out the skin above his head and'thev an* ?*t»id to be very numci‘ou«or oycs in the form and nearly of the 1 and about the south foot of fiie Atlas -r/e of a human heart ; and, springing' mountains, and border of the desart, ''ke lightning on the Arab, struck it■» where these were raught when young, fangs into his neck, near t!:e jn'^ular and where tl.ey ofU*n attack and de- vein, while his tail and body flew round ’ ' —' his neckar.d arms in tv.oorthrlfefolds. T he Arab set up the most hideous and piteous yelliiiir, foamed a ,w1 frot^*-djman’s d*»ath inn fifteen minute?.— at the mouth, i^a-'ping the f.i'ds oft'iejWhen I saw t‘ie EfFah, it brought to serntnt, wlml. were ro'ind his arris,Imy n.ind thr story ofthefiry serpent* wiln his right, hand, a id seemed to be jthat bit tlie children of Israel in the in the great< !)t ajrony— striving to tear j desarta of Arabia, near Mount If or, the reptile from around liis ncck.wl ilc ai reu>rde»l in *he 21 st cliapterof the with bis left he heized hold of it near Hoojv of Numbers ; merely because its head, but cou! J not brrak its hold : ’ the EfTah resembh-d, in appearam e, a jy this time, the other had twined it- L .... self around his legs, and kept biting all around the other parts ol liis bodv, were unwill iny guard hi *'is big fan*' •iiig me a *v Having lie w' erf inw Hie it WTfs aboii haft a!°o bee] al grating maimer as t the tseqirnfsi it had but hole cut fhn square; this; a grating, men wjio ,np' string went srou^li a hole in (he door, anno meed a visitor, no mat. The two wrfent eaters weie dressed ^ ii lively he had b. en, he looked in haiiks oij|, and those very smnll ! , ji® tl sorrow fully anxidusu ntil the onf*j. Afi<athoy had gone through /.YuiRvas known. | with their r^ious ceremoniPs mosl f> , w ^ nian K0<?-! a store for a devoutly, tl^ appeared to take an ^mjifirticle. Lookfng round, twen- eternal farev»|l of each otlifr 1 this ty Mgs strike his fancy ; he has no done, one Ahem retired from tlie but he buys on credit: Fool- room, and fct the door tight after isljpn 1 Pay nay must come, and.^\ The ilab within seemed to be tefjanreh to one,like death, it finds j'n dreadful tttress— I could observe, reparcd to meet it. Tell me, J his heart throfemd his bn^om heave' bohav.Messing e\peiKneed it,h«<,li did tlie most violently and he cried out vei v the srtic -ar ipp^jyn to tlie pain of br.ng bultt»‘pay for them whfcn you not in your power. hark ye : a few rule^- 7 T°l\t»‘% i!l contribute much to ss and independence.— \ ^ jge on creoit whit you 'Take P,V,dp !tte-*iwapjce,j 5 7i0 mn>t.—i &'£»«i$itless — ters now and then extravagant* a time when neither wife 4 tor -er, would w illinglygive-a-pane ather’s bosom, they urge and dm to get anticles, pleasant ef , to be &ure,to posgess.but diffi* ir him to buy. He purchases , , .^,[edit»—is dunned—-sued*-*—and! 5 *SjSan hour ma'de wretched bv their imprudence. OTd Robert W o lW s compliments to theladies^ Oi m . i (hey would read the last tcit! ice amontl)|^llythgy get them land then act MiSieicown cx- Idipposition shall direct, re loudly, “ A lli houakibnr !” tiiree times, whichfe, as I understood it. “ (ioil havrn»ry on me'” The \rr.b- was at tlie faRest end of the mom at that iu'tanyhe cage was ojiened,’ and aseipenth-ept out slov^y ; he was about fc« feet long,-and eight inches in circfefcrcnce; ^his colours were the mosl)cautiful '^n^natttn^—. being bright, nfc variegated with defer yellow, a purA a creaiii'colour, bla^K and brown spclecl, &c.* 4Ae soon as j r , • 1 eroctw h m * second, hm hi 1 two feet higbx ant darting on tlie (cpceless A r a ^ i.i«< him between ie folds of his haiek just above jiispjrfat hip lKme,hi§sinj serpent - r a \ « a This last, was black, ;t«y sliining, ifd appeared to be sev- cn or eiglitjfjje*)!!^ but not more than two indien m Jfeameter: as eoori a> he had oletredBie cage,ih<?r cast birf evw+redjeiy e^e# | hi* intended iitroy both m -n and beasts. Tlie Ef- fah'n bite is ^ d to be incurable, and its poison so subtile as to cause a i making apparently deep incisions :— the blood isBuing from every wound, both in his neck and body, streamed all over his haick and skin. My blood was chilled in my veins with horror at this sight, and it was with difficulty my legs would support my frame*-^- Notwithstanding the Arali’s greater exertionB to tear awav the serpents with his hands, they twined themselves •still tighter ; stopped hi. breath, ar.d he fell to the flooi, where he continued fora moment, a-> if in the most incon ceivable agony, roiling over, and cov ering every part of his bodv v itn h own blood a-id froth, until he < <• *sed t*> move, and' appean .! t<> I .*\e < ''>iic In his last fitrugs»Je, !••* hsd wom;; *t*«! tlivbla<k t,erpe.it with hw tevT;., .1 it waa st.iving, as flt ware, to force tt<j head into his mouth ; which wo’ind seemed to itjrrd&xe its r.-ure. At t’ ii> in&tant, I heard tiie iiluill sound of a whistle ; and looking toward the door, saw the other Arab applying a call to his mouth :• the soipents li'-tened to the music ; their fury seemed to for- sajtt* them by degrees ; they disenga ged thcmsflvcs leisurely from theni; parertMj life!eus cftt^T**, snd crrrpipg towards the cage, tjicy soon'enterctTit, ar*3 were immediately fastened in«— The door of the njiartinent was now opened, and he without, rr .11 to assist his companion: h<“ ’>ad a pln.il ofldai k- reh liquor in 011 c ban*1, aid a<i iron ch’nid in the other : f. iding the tret’ of his companion set, he thrust in the chisel, pried th«i.:'. «.pen,ntul then pou-- ed a litlle l»f* the liquor into '.is n'-mt',; and holding the lips together, app!i“d Ijis mouth to the dead man’s nose, artd 'illedhis lungs with air: ‘he next anoin ted his numerous wounds w ith a little of the same litjUid ; and yet no sign of lift; appeared. I thought lie was dead in earnest; his neck arid veins vfrpn rTtcecdihglyswollen ; when his com rade, taking up fho lifth‘ss trunk in lisannc, brought it out into the ope r, a’ d continue?}' tlie opcniliun o blowing f>r sever.i.l„niin'J^'^ bi-foie a ?.i^ii of life appeared : at length he ga-pe.i andaftera time recovered m > far as to he able to speak. The swel lings on his neck, bodv, and legs, grad ually subsided,asthevco’.t n'ird wash ing the wounds with clear cold water, and a sponge, and applying the h\ack liquor occasional!’*: a clean haick w'jis brazen serpent : tl e tvva serpent-f a*- ers said, they camc from Esrvnt, about three years'ago. This exhibition of serpents, was'the first, I was told of the kind that had ever taken place at Rabat.” A Son purchasing his Parents. RAirjr.H, s. o.Oct. 1 .—The follow, ng little Narrative savors so«tron^K >r the romantic, that we should hesi tate in be.licving it, had we not be,- > tohl it bv a gentleman who witnessed part of the tian-action. A per- «n who had made a consid^i - V>le f.xtune 111 Philadelphia, as ;• hi.nlic-, went on boa-d one of the la t s' ips fioin \insieri’im, which lad «• h >ard a mutt . >er ot German Pe o nit - »ione*^», fjr the t’uinose of ptl••^ha^n'' o'le to a-si^t nim in his businef-y. \fter examining the p!iysio<rnoinv of -evcra! of Uie'pa-ssr 'igers, wlt’ioutbe- i:ig abh* to please heinself, hisattan- tion was arrested bv .the tranquil and nrpposcfl countenance of a man ratii er advanced in years, but with the ap- neurance of sire c *h and activity.— Vot fes4 pleased with tlie conversation of the German than with his exterior, he described the purpose wanted a servant, fiiobts* consent to purchase his indentures, provided he would aho ptmhase those ofhis wife, w ho had arcompitnied him The part.es then went .uhore to couK plete the b.isines?, atte.uled by the captain ; ar.d upon the names of ti e nersoiLM b^ing mentioned, t? insert, th-m in the writings', they were the -jiine of the pflrchas'er'.s father mother J. V'i+f 4 ' the wild wifc%j>vhjc}i>r \yi?3u ita companion, bdqt- treated 'to a fcugife pIan>ation, adjoiuiag the village of Jusi- * poor. I inimpdiately orderfd out the gu»s of^his place very desirous*, irt stance, to. try '§f catcblilg fltcin, I rtseemblc'? the inhabitants of this n^i^ibour^ hood, with fj^e neaistnnre tifli'a- jah llagnaut Sing, andcape^l (wo deej) pits to la prepared on theodg 9 01 the sugar ftfn^Tjlari' tation,in ti hicli our, Elephants and peojjle, with the utmost dif ficulty, contrived to' retain thC£c pnimals during tholday. Whcti (lie pits %\crcreporleaYeadj) we repaired to the spot, and Ifiry were., w ith much difficulty driv en into them, but unfortunately one of the pits did riot prove sui' firientlv deep, an<Mlu>, E^pfiritft that escaped from it (in the prf? qr-nce. of many wiine^se^) a^iai- ed bis companion out* %\ith hit? rank: both were, bowcvf#, brought back with mocfetMuti- le, to the Sugar Can® plant# fion, and no p«i-t:ciilar inStanfie of vice or fierceness havfhg-vtip- penred in ftic oouHe. oftlieda.^, f was an-.ions t<>, u:nke fnothtir trial to c.-flch* tlicni. Tlie pio neers, Jsfet tt^vork fa deepen the new holcf, dny-hiwft, when I-proptwpd mlsikin^lhe fi- nul.dttempt. At far.r o3cl?fck of the morning ye'Rt?rd*y, hftwev* or, th% hm4t'4hfou£rb and and, upon further inquiry, he ascertn>tie<i tiiemtobe, in. fact, his fa- dier and mother, the latter declaring that if l.e was their son, he, had are-! maik'able mole upon bis' lfcft ann-rr| which proved ’to be tfiij 4 case! I t s added,-that notliing could buijisss, the joy of all parties. The Provj- 'i-m e of God han snatched thcS-ftSef- ah!e pair from poverty atid Servitude, ind condnctedthem to plenty.apd' in-’ iepemlencc tnjder the protection>5fan iTectionate eon. He, it seems,, had; iHin aw'ay fronrhtB parents Vhen quite .1 boy, ur:d frOiiKtbe continual vVkrSlrf Europe, nettH'c^uS ever heard of tlie other sinffl. ‘ ’ - - ' m‘ m— 9 j Extraordinary Elephants. ) T h e follow ing copy of an of- wrapped nbou t\hnn Vurhir&trenTh | ficja 1 letter f^om the ‘officer COm- sremed so'far exhausted, that he could |mandin 2 the R n m g h u r Bfttlftl-: not support himself standing ; ^o'his|ion? j n lle n g a l,io t h e Magi.stmto; comrade bid him o, t»-o bv.a f {J t z m - v j ’ all, whe’-e he ni..k mt 6 a sl.ep.— . . . , , ' k ,-n 'Fins exhibition lasted forabouta quar-i^ n ^ pr,’k,n ^ new to tlie ptybHc !. ter of an h:n.r f, oin the time tlie ser- (i I h a VC the honor to state tO( iir:its were let loisi.uotiltiieywcrecal-'you, that qu .the 24-th of M a rch, led o,r. &. iit was more than an hour from, at tnidtiiirht, I received infoftn^ ation that two Elephants, offi# tli^t 1 count oim over tl:i:t tlie poison- > . < f-i iL iiit* o’jg fangs had been pulled out of these 1 UQCOinrnOt} size, h w l ffltltle tiiC ir i ■t formidable set pent*’ jaws, and mgn.* tioned that circumstance to the sht \ man, who said that they liad iitd^.„ be^Igp;ti-actcd ; and when I .wi&hefrar ^crtovf 'how swellings on his neckand' ofter-parti could be assumed, he assu- J^^fet^fJfK o u g h thoir deadly fangs that the poisonous quaTi* ty ^rtKeir t^eath and spittle would' cause the death of those tney attack } ^hat after a bite from either of thes^ __ ___ _______ , . no man could esi$ # ) » » r most homily {the Arabjave ahorrit| ;i®^^]||ftee'nsininutefl, and that ifetb shriek, ’wnm lother serpent came '#Mji^f^(|dfJfor any but thosi “ out of the ^ .. j ........ and to. rpanage jjib associate iiUnber. . The H<wri iHe thick and beautiful i^and tit? l<>ngW*sJ« appearance within a few Iiun-: djred yards of the *caht(fnments,!( And close to a village,’the inlfSlji- lUntefOf whichwereiEthe great- eiVUtaVra. I lost ntitime in des- pM^hjng all the public pn^I vate EIephants at tlie,stationjn! ^ of them, and at clnyj of the 25th -wns infoMac]| (Iiat th^ir very auperior apparent firceness, had. reudeW m. all attempts fortlieir scizurq that the, ihosf „ orient’d driver was clanger< Qx”d ^epliaiit on heen cfefefe 10 the ground 'h j mb of with so mudUrapidiiy,^Mt tfeft- horsemen who gallopt'tf in of them, had not time to appri§]s tho inhabitants of their danger^ and I regret to Rnv, that 1 n.an waa tom limb from trodden to deaths ntfb: wounded. Their destrufe- tiM'Vras *now become absolute Jy necessary,- and as they jip- peared'to show no incliifation to qiiiiihe village, W^gdricd. tlmfe t6 bring up tlie ?oW-p(V6n'd?rrf, from which round shot,..ai?d’ gwtpeveach.'^ tviro: waa-' Ejpon hrOTtghf ^io ili^ ffotmd, shot in tho head? but a^^^|icn«ining iherfe 4 o n m b b t h ^ c c e d ^ C i a i l d e ^ m|)tionr-r-they mftd^i'epeat^a chaises nearly witluife^tK)#' of thoa^uns, and had fj^fthe uncommon ste^fmesis & KffcVery of the* arfiller^nljft ^who mdrerthan once tefeHnfeto oijt for want of totttmiLionajicl'iho'U and before^' frfesihi snp))lyv^cmld !>&’ obtained/, the- olephanlsf ted the village, ftlid th.67 sltgatn'- wlsicli before I had idea>trS HkzaraBiing. .wSrS’fat ‘ ^ lo’ngtli byonght u p 'bv t^o^borcs- crowcle'r (lV-5^ AT).d^u®ua*ljfet ■afitjMnaiiy •' formidable ^iacfei^p^tne-^uns,
