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f ‘ J l \ a ; VoL. I.] ' QUIP VERUM AJQUP DECENS, CURQ ET JROGO.’* lONDERHOOjK:, N. Y. THURSDAY, APRlD 20;48^6; ■%Eo.A7^ PUBLISHED WEElCLY. P. VAN SCHAACK, Jun. Editor and Proprietor : r . S, RANNEY, Prmter. TERMS OF THE HERALD, THE Herald 'will be isduod from the office tioa dollars per annurth payable half yearly, l^apers ■will not be discontinued until- all ar- except at the --------Jdsementsinserted upon the usual terms, and those which are sent without orders, will be inserted until forbid. ffT’ Letters to the editor must be post paid. PRXNTISrO ‘ Of Pamphlets, Handbills, Cards, I ind'Attornies’ Blanks, &c. &c. executi ■ ^ style at the shortest notice. Justices’ ied in good K in d e r h o o k B o o k - S t o r e . fjjnHE proprietor of the ‘‘Herald,” having . o^penod a Rook and Stationary Store^ in jfKi imongo bf on the most reasonable terms: ' Historical, Poetical, &c. Rbllin’s An’t History, | Dry den’s Virgil, WorlcSj Paley’s. 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Einder/ioo&,2dJdn. 1826. ; A List of Letters ' Remaining in the Post-Office at Chatham, A- / pril 1st, 1826. James ^esworth, -Thomas Hemslcy, •^Samuel Hudson, Rttfos E. Ames, Ea»kiel (Booth, Peter Knickerbocker, Stinucl Briggs, Rev. Asa Lymans, Mrk. Tiyphena Cady 2, Sami, or Reuben Lum- . Benjamin Cole, phier, - \ • - '®-'-wn,Mid ^rJamea Dunlap, Brown, Midwood & Co. Abra^m Ferguson, Reuben Moore, ■ jm > » Bbtsy FOTmire, Benjamin Rogen 'John Fross. Richard Steves,, 'John Fross, Andrew 6a Richard Steves Henry Shufeldt, Rev. Mr. (>old, , Hester Tompkins, James Green, Stephen Van Derburgh, .Reuben R. Hollister, James Van Derburgh, _ John Westfall. m 40ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, P, M. T H E P A S S A G E O U T . Love all j trust few; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than in act, ^ Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. S h AKESF£AR£. When the fleet' came round to the Mo ther-bank, we marched to Cowes, and em barked on hoard the good old East India- man, Earl Howe, commanded by Capt. Murray. The recruits of difierent corps in India, were chiefly convicts from the Hulks, who had commuted their punish ment for general service; there were about one hundred of this description with twen ty-five English, Scotch, and Irish lads pick ed up by the recruiting parties iu_tbe com mon way. Many of the convicts, and a few of the young adventurers, were mar ried ; and it was really a heart-rending scene to witness the separation of several seemingly fond wives from their husbands. By his Alajesty’s regulations only a certain proportion of women are permitted to em bark with troops. It is a cruel expedient; and I sincerely hope that such misery which it inflicts will soon be prevented.— Surely ilt would be better to enlist only single men, and, afterwards to permit none but a regular number to marry, than to break asunder one ofthe most sacred bonds of human institution and to lacerate affec tionate hearts with incurable wounds. I know not any grievance in the service that requires correction more than this. The women stood weeping on the quar ter deck around the first officer, Mr. Nes- bit, who was preparing lots for them to try their fortune of chance, as all of them they well knew, could not accompany their husbands; the men were pressing forward from the waist to witness the touching scene, with anxiety strongly painted on their countenances; the. passengers were looking down upon the poop with no com mon degree of interest; and many of the sailors had climbed up the shrouds to view from aloft, what excited general sympathy. I had been deeply struck by an agony of fear and hope that appeared in the pale looks of a pretty girl who stood sj)cechless with a babe in her arms; her chocks were a trickling stream of tears, and the whole of her deportment expressed the profound ness of silent grief. At length the name of Nancy Gordon was called ; she trembled from head to foot- The chief mate, per- ceivingthat she was quite unable to ad vance to the capstan, on which the bat was placed, humanely took it to her, where she was leaning against a gun, and, to my supreme delight, sho drew fwrth a prize.— Never did I behold such an instantaneous change of countenance ; a light seemed at once spread over it, and she instinctively exclaimed—“Thank God 1” kissed her ba by, and flew to her husband, who was ready to receive her w'ith a trani-port of joy inde scribable. During the,passago, I cultivated the ac quaintance of Nancy and her husband; he told me their melancholy story, and I give it as follows, nearly in his own words : “ An extensive, cheap farm, that had supported my father and mother, was di vided at his death between me and my brother; but, as 1 had been an expert pen man, I disliked the plough, sold my inter est in the land, and set up as an innkeep er in the torvn of N ------ — The coach day mon 1 ye ha na been .here iioo laftg syne! right glad Nanny’s eye will be to see ye.’ . . ' ■ “ But the Newry bank failed ; the wor.- thy ’Squire Moore, a real gentleman, be loved like a father by his tenantry, and all that knew him, was ruined, and I shared his fate. My. creditors came upon, m e; I lost the Inn; my relations and fronds left me to sink; my intended father-iri.law no more came hear me ; poor Nancy offered to share poverty with me, but he threat- ened.to disinherit her; and I h^id strength of mind, at that time, to resist the tempta tion of making her wretched in poverty. “For some time despair stared me in the face, and I found corhfort in the stupor of potyeen, with wretches like myseiflost to hope ; in short, I forgot God, and deter mined to become a self-murderer. With this intention, I wrote a farewell to poor Nancy, and went to a sturk-.shed with a rope which I fixed to the balk, and was putting the noose round my neck with the intention of jumping off a broken window, when I heard from under some straw in the end of it the voice of Nancy—-‘Oh God ! my God !’ and my emaciated form was immediately clasped in her arms, and my bosom bathed with her tears. “ I cannot describe what followed. Nan cy went to the straw where she had hidden herself on hearing the approach of steps and shewing me a scarf twisted into a rope, confessed that her visit to this desolate spot-had been for the same purpose as mine. Knowing the life I led,*despair had seized her, and she determined on quilting a wretched existence and a mercenary world. In short, I married Nancy and en listed, for the purjpose of going to India, where the people in our part believe that all the streets are paved with gold.” But, gentle reader, poor Bob and his Nancy were unfortunate adventurers; they both fell victims to disease in India. Un- happy pair ! I sincerely hope yc found that felicity in heaven which was not your por tion on earth. Your baby also sleeps in the grave! Cruel father ! what must be your feelings when you think of their fate ? when you reflect on the misery produced by an injudicious exercise of your parental authority 1 O ! ye parents ! take warning, and do t© your children as you would be done to; for the heart of age, you ought surely to recollect, is cold and selfish; and you should know, that as much anguish is propagated in the world by the folly ofthe old as by the disobedience ofthe young. At length the boat disappeared from our view—the boat which carried to the shore those mourning and disappointed wives, whose fate it had been to hid a death-like adieu to the living. The yards are man ned ; the captain arrives; a signal gun from the Hindostan man of war, our convoy, an nounces the glad tidings of departure.— It was a moving sight to behold fourteen brave ships unfurl their white sails, and like living beauties, assume majestic mo tion on the blue expanse. The shrill fife and war-stirring drum rousing the anchors from their watery beds, were dear to my ear, whilst my eye feasted on the buy scene, till the toiling sailors ceased from their stimulating ” yo, heave, ho!” and the rippling waves curled into white foam as they met our gallant prow. from Armagh ito Dublin stopped at my house, and I profited by the passengers. Besides, I had a great deal of posting, and a very good share of general business ; so that I was, in a short period, a right shining fellow in that little town. Every one there who had a marriageable daughter# begun to pay me no small attention. ’• I encouraged the belief that my father had left me a considerable sum in ready cash; for I fell into the erroneous opinion, that .in this world innocent deception is sometimes of great use : I therefore got every thing on credit, and kept my money snug, at six per cent, in the hands of a gen tleman who* was partner in the Newry bank, No firm in the world was thought more substantial; 'Squire Moore ofDrum- banagher, had Joined it, and his estate was deemed a solid security for all its connex ions. My mind Was easy, and my affairs werfe most prosperous. “ To crown all I was on the point of be ing married to the very girl that fixed my youthful fancy. Her father had withheld his sanction, for he was wealthy, and the de.scendant of a prudent Scotchman and thought me hardly rich enough for his daughter 1 now he came to market ev ery Saturday, often for no other purpose but that of seeing the run at my house, and taking his glass with me in my little par lour. Then, in fiis mellow, soft moments, he would bring round his chair close to mine, and say, ‘ Bob gee me thy fist mon; the time is na far awa—^hut no more o’ that just noo.’» Or when he met me cross ing his fields to see Nancy, he would brush up to me with pleasure beaming in his eye, and exclaim, ‘ What way are From the Trenton Emporium. F O R T U N E T E L L I N G . The desire to pry into futurity—to learn the destiny that awaits us, whether riches or poverty ; honor or shame; is of univer sal prevaleilce. A wise Providence, how- ei'er, has not seen fit to gratify this longing of our nature. It is well ordered. But stUitherc are many stages on the road of life at which pretty sure indications inay be found of the fortune that awaits the traveller. My young reader, have you ever paid a shilliag to an oldliag of a pre tended fortune teller, for her opinion in this matter 1 Or if you have not, has your de sire to peep into the hook of fate and see what is written concerning you, been strong 1 ■'rhen-sit down and listen to one who may, perchance, tell your fortune tru ly : and who asks, by 'i^ay of compensation only that you read carefully, and treasure up what you read in your memory. Colquhoun, who perhaps is one of the closest observers of men and things the present age has produced, tells us, that in nineteen cases out of twenty, young men who save money in the first six months af ter they finish their apprenticeships conti nue to make money, and become not only respectable, but« wealthy members of-so ciety ; and that the sarne ratio of those who’ save nothing in that time, live alt their days in poverty «nd die at last in want— \When f read the statement, I sat down #ith aview to ascertain whether my own experience and observation would enable me to confirm it, I hav§ kpown many inj- stances in my time# all leading to .» «mi- _____ ,lar conclusion: and nothingtiiatxantradic- ye# Bob, the ted i t : arid s6bcrly and seriously, I ielieve it to he true.. But let bs Whether the; evidence of reason does not agree with that e f experience in this matter. Our fortunes are, in almost every case, shaped entirely by o ||| habits;and our ha bits are generally f o r ^ d in youth. It fol lows,therefore, that ifin youth we acquire those.habits of industry, prudence bhd e-; cOnothy, which arc the foundation bf rich-’ es, they Will remain with Us in all probabil ity, through life, and produce their invari-' able fruits. The best evidence ofihe re al existence of ^uch habits is, that in the outset of life, wfien he first ‘.becomes his own inaster, a young man practices the vir tues which spring; from thera-rrANo saves - MONEY—for industry is necessary to gain money; prudence to temper and direct in dustry ; and economy to Sdve what we gain. But again. ‘ ^ j He who begins with saving a little, has constant encouragement to persevere.— From the first moment that he puts a dol-; at interest, he recollects that he is not working single handed; his money is earn ing something for him every day; is always assisting him. He remembers too that the more he puts at interest the more rapiidly [ he will gain ; the faster he will he hasten ing towards a competence. * Thus the lon ger he pursues his habits, the better-he will he able to appreciate their value ; the more he will be satisfied with them ; the stronger will grow his attachment to them; and the less danger there will be of his ever abandoning them. Thus he who saves during the first six months of his freedom, is scarcely ever known to iail of becoming rich. ‘ On the contrary, be wlio plunges at first into prodigality— w h o s a v e s n o t h i n g , cannot but look back at every pause he makes, with dissatisfaction on the past, and forward, with discouragement to the fu ture. And all causes which operate in the first instance to confirm and strengthen habits of industry and economy, in tlus go to increase the force and power of those of indolence and prodigality. All experience testifies to the fact that those who put the day of reformation off to a future period, never reform at all; it is written on every page of the history of human nature. To believe otherwise is madness. Here then my young readers, is a key which unlocks your future destiny; and you will perhaps be surprised to find that every thing depends upon yourselves —that your own conduct must determine your fate. Y'et, ray word for it, if you will treas ure up this essay in your minds, you will, if you are spared to a good old ajge. have reason to confirm what I have said, by the testimony of your e.xperience. * ' . A single word in conclusion. Let those wlio have not begun right, he alarmed at the danger that threatens; & in proportion aj.they see the danger, exert themselves to escape. It is not every leak that sinks a boat, hut those only which are not stop ped. O liver O akwood . GOVERNMENT o7 the THOUGHTS. What is so free, it may said, as thought, and what so innocent, as long as our ac tions are right, as to suffer our thoughts to range without control ? The connexion between thought and action is so intimate and unavoidable that in its most exten sive sense, it may said, that as a man think- elh in his heart, so is he. The Gospel therefore requires the. gov ernment ofthe thoughts, not merely as a useful, but an indispensible discipline; not merely as auxiliary to the higher virtues of the Christian character, but as altogeth er necessary to preserve us from the do minion of our sinful propensities. It does not teach us to wait for sin until it is strong and flourishing, but commands us to root up its seeds as they .dre bursting into life. It carries order and discipline into oUr very fancies and concept ions,, and makes our ac tions themselves good u'nd holy. What is called a vigorous and active mind seems, after all, io-mean only a mind of which the thoughts are .all subjected to the authority o f its governing powOr, and may therefore all be brought to hear, with the whole force, on the' business in which it is occupied. Attention seems only another name for that state of mind, when all its thoughts are ffxed and collected, and bent to a sin gle point; and it is a power of attention, much more than any-original and native diversity of talents, which constitutes the intellectual difference among men. New ton was accustomed to declare, that if he differed from' his fellow iWen, he owed it to his power of patient meditation: in other words, to his po*wer of fixing his thoughts intently and long on any subject with which he was occupied. We all must have ob served the truth of these remarks in the course of ouc various pursuits. If we examine our minds ^Ht; those peri ods when tjiey are most ^vigorously and successfully exerted^ *ve shall observe that all other objects are excluded from our minds, and that our themghts sire concen trated and engrossed by the task'in which we are’employed. If, ohtbe/contrary, wo observe 4>urseives wheh^our minds are disposed> reluctant and inefficient, we shall find that ourtlomirtiob oVer dur thbu^fits is lost, that attention is dissipated and .dis\ tractedbyia inultitud^ bf unrelated imagds w'hich float through the fancy, and that aft our powers are Weakened, Because discor dant and divided'. ’ .. ■ .. , The effect o f suffering our thoughts td wander without guidance and without oh* ject, is too obvious to have escaped the most careless ohseryer. It breaks up all our habits of regular inquiry, indisposes us for any thing which requires seriousness and patience, and ^especially unfits us for . meditation on. divine thiUgSi which, frqi^ their nature, the mind is with sd inuch dif ficulty. brought steadily to contemplate, . I f then we desire to effect any thing vai^ Uable in this short life ; if ive seek. to use our-talentaaecOrding to the purpose of the Giver; if we would improve out owdihinds. for the service of God, and the scenes of eternity ;;, and contribute what we can to the happiness dhd improveiiaent of our fel low; men, we .must learn to control our thoughts, restrain our vain and -wandering imagination, and:Seek to make the proper Business of life in our various callings, and the rluties of demotion at their, appointed seasons, fill and occupy our minds. A. ' '' ' ' that ’ s Mirsicl* , . “ Music is the science of sounds,” we are told by that'crabbed looking old fellow, Avhose .oonVersation was music to Boswell and.'Phrale; hut what .sort of sorind he does not tell Us» It ii no matter—there is no disputing about tastes, and the.sound that would be music to one ear, perhaps to another wbuld he more grating thati the creaking of a ivagon wheel. The sportsman tl;* A s no music equals that of his hounds, when they open in full cry. .Tbe citii^eti believes that no music can eqiiy the-harmony of the hand. A huntsman invited a city ftiend oiit to bis country residence, to a fOx hunt. The morning came, and the friends .rode out together^ . As they ascended a little hill, the voicb of the dogs broke bn ihe ear.— The huntsman in ecstacy of delight ex claimed—“ Hark, dear,fellow, do you hear that music 1” The citizen listened—“ Mu sic,” cried be, “ no—-I don’t hear a note of it, the cursed dogs raise such, a yell,” In return for the visit, the countryman waited on his friend in the city, who took hj.m to the theatre: the .curtain had not risen, and the band from the orchestra struck up “ the Battle of Prague,” in full chorus. Enraptured at the sound—“ Lis ten,my friend, said trie citizen, did you ever hear sdeh heavenly strains V’ “ I can not hear them.for my life,” cried the coun tryman, “ those noisy fellows in the cellar make such a horrid racket.” To our bucks, the violin is the best miit sic. To our merchant it is music .to.hear the purse chink on the count(||:, with— take a couple of patterns, if you please,”— A just cause and a good fee make.* excel lent music to our lawyers. “ Will you take a sleigh-ride. Miss 1” is music to oUr young ladies;-hut;— “ Will you marry me, my pretty maid ?” when the question comes from the favorite lad, possesses all the charms bf harmony arid m’elody combined. And to the printer it is music to be told, “ I have brought you half a dozen new patrons.” But to bid Robert, I will tell you what is music. To rise |as the morning “ peers through the golden windows of the and hear the hammer of industry resound-, ing through the village. To walk up the bank to the cabin of the blind soldier, and to hear him say—\' ! fopght for my country when I was young, and now though I am old and blind, I am comfortable, for ray countryinen are not ungrateful—rthey re member me this cold and inclement sea son”—that would he m'usic.. . ; Ye, who are favored with plenty,—^ye, who are “ blest in your basket and your store;” now, while the.cold wjnds of winter blow so cheerlessly a'round us, forget not the poof ; but by yorir charities, light up the smile of joy and gratitude in the houses of want: Then will your conscience tell you well done—^and oh I —that will be dsi lightful iniisici . * ’ ORIGINAL ANECDOTR. ^ , The following anecdote Says the Phii8l« delphis Religious Messenger^ we hkte re* ceived.from an authentm source, and may he relJ^d on as substantially correct. Xt.is the severest satire we have lately 6eett upon the liberties of our country/ ■ ’ “ Some .winters since, white, the Con gress of the United States were ihsession,. a Georgia klavb dealer jyas driving past . the capitolut Wjxshinito^i, about 4 0slaves chained togetheri Among the rest was large pegro eSari, who waa net oidy chain ed as tbe bthers Were, Rut also hanacufied.
