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aU ID VEEUM ATQUE DECENS, OURO ET ROGO. V q l . IJ] KiNDERHOOK, n 7 Y. THURSDAY,'MAY 25, 1826. yUBLlSHED WEEKLY RY PETER VAN SCIIAACK, JunV TERM<^ o r THE lIEttJELD. THE ileraW will be issued frqm the office ; tMO dollars per annum^ payable half yearly. Papers w iliiiot be discontinued until all ar rearages shall have been paid, except at the discretion of the editor. Advertisements inserted upon the usual terms, and those which are sent without orders, will be inserted until forbid, IO= lie t t e r s t o th e ed ito r m u s t be p o s t p a id . PHUffTUire Of Pamphlets, Handbills, Cards, Justices’ and Attorniea’ Blanks, &c. &c. executed in good style at the shortest notice. . K inderhook ; B ook -S to r e . 'f-ilH E proprietor o f the ‘^Herald,” having JL opened a JBookand and Stationary Store, in ------ ----------- .Stationary Store, in the room adjoining the .Printing-Office, in the Villageillage o f Kinderhook,inderhook, offersers foror saleale thel follow in g among other books, which will be disposed V o f K off f s t in g among other books, which wlU o f on the most Reasonable terms: Historical, PoHtical, &c. Rollin’s An’t History, Josephus’s Works, Paley’s Works, Byron’s Works, Chesterfield’s Letters, Burn’s Works, Lacon,or Many Things in Few Words, Goldsmith's Works, Pope’s Works, ' Beauties of Shakes peare, American Revolution, Reid on the Mind, Beauties of Watts, Life of Washington, Life o f Wallace, Phillips’s Speeches, .Sporting Anecdotes, History of the Pirates, Dictionary o f Wonders Man o f Feeling, Domestic Cookery, ■ Musica Sacra, or Has tings’s Psalm and Hymn tunes. Speeches of the differ ent Governors to the Legislatures of the state of New-York, (just published,) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’sPro- gress. Spectator, - Shakespeare’s Works,. Domestic Encyclopedia Dryden’s Virgil, Homer’s Iliad, Young’s N ’t Thoughts Cowper’s Poems Campbell’s Poems Milton’s Works TL fiotnjl^soii^s 360.SOI1S « Pope^s Essay on Man Watts on tlie Mind Lock& Bacon Goldsmith’s Rome Cook’s Voyages Edward’s West Indies Mexican Revolution Practical Navigator. Bournes’ Ch. History, Columbia and Greene County Preacher, y ’s Pnayers, Commoin Family Bib] Small Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Dutch Church Psalms S i Glad tidings Edwards on the Affec- Kinney on Prophecies Scott’s Theological Works Newton’s Works Paley’s Evidences Rise and Progress Christian’s Perfections Jay’s Pr Prayer, and Hymns. Plea for Religion W 5 ^ s of Fiction. New- . Man of Fei ■Knickerboci Crusaders Madeline, a Tale Foresters Sir Andrew Wylie Johm Bull in America . Pilot, '\My Uncle Thomas The^'Recluse Juliana- Oakley St. Ursula’s Convent Scottish Chiefs hnefs Romance of the Forest Female Quixotism Tone wan te Peep at the Pilgrims in lfi36 Connecticut 40 years ago NationatTalcs Marriage Tales o f the Genii The adverttures o f Sir Launcelot Greaves Rasselas ' Charlotte Temple Arabian Nights Humorist. School and Classical Books. Blair’s Lectures, in full Bennet's Book-keeping and abridged Ainsworth’s Latin Dic- Blair’s Philosophy Tytler’s'History Pike’s Arithmetic, full, and abridged DaboH’s Arithmetip, Flint’s^ Surveying Conversations on Che,- mlstry j ‘Hedges’ Logic Murrayi’d, Granimar, fillland abridged ,Murray’s Reaide? • i s I . Atlas :* Woodbridge’s Ge'ogra- . ’'Pb^f withAtlds -Cmapiing’s and^ Wil*, S t i t i b n a |f j r ^ ^ c . tionary Virgil Delphlni Horace, Cicern» Csesar Sallust, do. Cicero de Oratore Viri Rom® Historia Sacra Adams’s lat. grammar Shi'eviUi Lexicon Grffica* Minora Greek Testament Greek Gfaiiunar Webster’s spclUng-bk. Bentley’s do. Burhap’s dp. Bentley’s Ihstructojr Walkdt’s Pocket Die* ticrfidiy , Jolmsott’d Dictionary Benjafijinfs Arphitec- turft'or Arajprican Builder’s Companion , sealiiig-wBX, s,^ India i great va- TOY BOOKS. Kinderhook, ^ Jan. 1826. i-mlsSSSIIfi •iiaaBih-bokVand i U ^ m ^ febiftm Q o . : itjttlWaTlTille, and cohsigting dP‘a 'cteveiiiont .dwfUmg4i6n?e<bamand other.oitt-Houseif, aficl l#out.ia,A^t9ES o r whieh . V JOSHUA Y o SBURGH: 4nf SytppoH oJComiAhri^chocht I«fit i|i*nd^3^*,its,^;brsaIe«t tBo ■r. , '■ ' t, i- ' i,k )• - I f !* * * * To Tatuters anA Ciwviers. FOR SALE, . rrS H A T valuable Property situate at JjL Valitie in the town of Kinderhook, consisting of a largo TAN HOUSE, con taining twenty-two Vats, Bark and Rolling Mill, together with one acre and 49 perch es of land. The above-mentioned proper ty is situated in a flourishing village, about one and a half miles from the village of Kinderhook, in the vicinity of two exten- siv’e cotton manufactories, and numerous other mills, and surrounded by a wealthy and prosperous country. The necessary tools for carrying on the business, will a l^ be disposed of.—The whole will be sold at a bargain, and the terms of payment made to suit the purchaser. Enquire of Whiting & Clark in the vil lage of Kinderhook, or of the Kinderhook Manufacturing Company, at Valitie. May 18, 1826. ________ 51tf BAIN & BIR G E ’S Kinderhook Lottery Office. N. Y. S. L i t e r a t u r e L o t t e r y , C lass No. 3, for 1826, To be drawn the 1st day of June next. HIGHEST PRIZE, $25,000. SELLING SCHEME. 1 prize of ^25,000 is ,^25,000 1 “ 10,000 “ 10,000 1 “ 6,000 \ 5,000 1 “ 3,652 “ 3,552 16 “ 1,000 “ 16.000 3G “ 500 “ 18,000 62 “ 100 “ 5,200 104 “ 50 “ 5,200 1300 “ 15 “ 19,500 10608 6 “ 63,648 12120 prizes, ^171,100 (TJ\ Less than two blanks to a prize. Tickets ^6, Shares in proportion. May 11. n50tf J X t O T I C B , P^^H E subscribers having taken John ■ Shaw Me Meehan into copartnership in their STORE, the business (here, will in future be conducted under the firm of Whitingy Clark Si. Co. The Stove, Tin, Sheet-Iron, and Copper bu siness, also, that connected with the Hay- Press, will be conducted under the firm of Iffdting 5 f Clark. All those\ indebted to the firm of Charles Whiting & Co., and all those having de mands against them, are requested to call *on either of the subscribers and settle the same, as they arc determined the business of that firm shall be closed without delay. CHARLES WHITING. JAMES CLARK. Kinderhook., 1st April, 1826. 45tf Mortgage Sale. T I Y virtue of a power of sale contained 11 in a Mortgage executed by John Lasher and John Cotton to John I. Van Alstyne and Christian C. Becker, bearing date the fourth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia on the twenty-se cond day of April, in the year aforesaid, and which said AJprtgage has been duly as signed to the subscriber, will be sold at public vendue, on the twenty-second day of November, next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day, at the house of Jsaac Ffinik, innkeeper, in the town of Kinderhook, in Jhe Comity nforssaid, all that Lot,of Land Wdth the Buildings there on, situate in the town of Chatham, in the County of Columbia aforesaid, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake and stones adjoining the fatm formerly belonging to Richrrd Lane, thence westerly along the said farm twenty-tivb rods and three fourths of a rod, thence northerly along the |lills- dale dad Chatham 'turnpike seven rcids to a stake and stones, thence easterly twenty- two rods apd three fourths o}‘ a rp3 to a stake and stones, thence southerly to the place beginriing-T-^containing one acre, of Land.' bd the sapid more or less, together'* With -all nnd singular the privileges and appurtenances therdfintb belonging, or any wise appertdiningj subject io the rents, covenants, and conditions mentioned in a certain lease executed between John I. Miller and Lawrence Hoff, on the fourth day of June, in the year one. thousand eight hundred dnd sfjt.r—Dated this l7th^ day of May; one thousand eight hundred and twOnty-six. , 6 m 61 WILLIAM BARTHRQP. ^ . Eamily Bibles ,, , ll^E A T L X , bound, nml printed, with a TH3Ej aacdogs yi^BEiii. Kront the Rockingham Gazelle. THE CONSUMPTIVE. No, nover more—my setting s«n Hath shed nis evening rays; And this poor heart is nearly done With hopes o f better days. I feel it in the clay-cold hand, The hard and fast expiring breath— For now,, so near the toinb I stand, I breathe the chilling damps of death. No, never more—it all is vain— y But oh! how memory leans To seo, and hoar, and feel again. Its youth’s inspiring scenes, ^ And deep the sigh that memory heaves When one by one, they all are fled, As autumn gales in yellow loaves. That wither on their woodland bed. No, never more—it may not be— When life and I were young. My saddest thought was light and free. And pleasures round me sprung; But now those glances o f deliglit I cast upon advancing years, Like hope’s clear rainbow, once so bright, Arc coldly melted into tears. No, never more—the weary heart Is sad to think o f man ; So lonely when liis hopes depart, So gay when they began. The warmest friends have lost their power. The feeling gives them no reply; No charm is here to gild the hour When early youth begins to die. No, never more—my heart beat liigh To join the lights of fame, And leave like great ones when they die, The music of a name. Perhaps it may bo wrong to grieve. That death must rend these thoughts away. That I shall have no name to leave. Nor memory, longer than to-day. No, never more—I may not view The summer vale and lull; The glorious heaven, the ocean’s blue, The forests, dark, and still. The evening's beauty once so dear. That bears the glowing thoughts above, W’hen nature seems to breathe, and hear The voicelesss eloquence o f love. No, never more—when prisoners wait The dcatii-call to their doom ; And SCO, beyond the dungeon gate. The scaffold and tho tomb; On the fair earth and sun-bright heaven. Their gaze how fervently they c a s t; So deatJi to life a charm hath given And made it loveliest at the last. No, never more—and now, farewell! That bitter word is said— A d soon above my green-roofed cell The careless foot ivill tread. My heart hath found its rest above— The cares o f earth arc passing by, And oh ! it is a voice of love That wduspers—it is time to d ie! W HXSTORICAXi. .51 SKETCH OF ROMAN HISTORY ^ROM JULIUS CiESAR TO AUGUSTULUS. A cademie F eancaise , Sitting of February Oth. M. lo Vicomte de Chateaubriant rfead the first part of the Introduction to the History of France, upon which he has been so long engaged. The following sketch of Roman History from Julius Caesar to Augustulus, was particularly admired:— “ Republican Rome had long repudiat ed liberty to become the concubine of ty rants. Her de^adation was almost for gotten in the grandeur of her first choice. History presents u& with nothing so com-, plete, so accomplished, as the character of Caesar. He united the three-fold gen ius of the statesman, the historian, and the .wajrrioL Unhappily, Caesar partook of the corruption of his tipies. Had he been born ia the age of pure morality he wduld have been the rival of Cincinnatus and Fahriciqs, for nature had endowed him with every kind of strength; but when he appeared in Rome, virtue had fled*—there’ was pothing left but glory—he had no xfl- ternative—no better career was. opettyto .him* , ^ “ Augustus, the heir ofCajsar, was nc!>t one of that highest order ’ o f m,en who oc- casipp revolutions in the affairs of natiou4; he, was of that secondary class who profit by them, and who hnild their superstruc ture upon foundations d«g and laid by a stronger hand. The terror which Augus tus inspired in the beginning of his tei^n, \yas advantageous^ to him in the sequel; the trembling factions were hushed, and a long peacereconciled them to their chains., ,T,he crafty Emperqr affected republkSah Afi'Us r consulted Agrippa, Maecenas, p d , perhaps Virgil, on the re-establish- ysent pf liberty, at thp very time; that he instituted the ?r®torian guards; ho ;6nj- plojqdlthf, inuse to silence, or to disanh diligence on the vices of the friend|ofHor- history, and the world has looked with in- wlthput tearing his <>wn vital Hut w|}eh j.., --------- ^ X, ----- .r-TT__ ^eXpiredyjiberty dm^ Qiho had notifing to leave but power. , ' “ Vitelfius. Sat down to the empird as to a banquet. H is armed guests forced hini to finish the feast at Gemonla. His death 8U||>cn(led the course o f these igridminiouS reverses.^ Twenty-eight years of happi-' “ Tiberius, the successor to A.uguslns, did not, like him, give himself the trouble to deceive or seduce the Roman people ; he oppressed them openly :—he did not try to conceal their chains ; he forced them to drink the very dregs ofslav’ery. In his person began that line of monsters, born of the corruption of Rome. He invented the crime of high treason, which became a source of revenue, and gave birth to the race of informers, a new order in the magis tracy, which Domitian declared inviolable. “ Tiberiim sacrificed the remaining rights of t h * eople to the Senators, and the persons of the Senators to the people ; because the people, poor and ignorant, had no other strength but in their common rights, while the Senators, rich and enlight ened, derived all their power from their personal worth. The tyranny of Tiberius was characterised by the vices of little souls ; hatred in return for the services he received, and jealousy of every kind of merit. Talent is always formidable to des pots. When they are weak, they dread it us a rival in power, when strong, as a de claration of liberty. “ His private morals were worthy of his political crimes, but they were passed over in silence, for he called in his atrocity in support of his debauchery, and sheltered himself under the terror he Inspired. “ At this period the model of all his vir tues fulfilled his mission upon earth. He brought back among men, religion, moral ity and liberty, just as they appeared to be expiring for ever. Two worlds now pre sented themselves before the eyes of men : —Jesus Christ on the cross—^Tiberius and Capreae. “ After Tiberius—Caligula and Claudi us—a madman and an idiot—were raised to the command of the empire, which then went on of itself, as it ivere, moved by those springs of baseness and of tyranny which Tiberius had put in action. We must do justice to Claudius. The crown was placed upon his !\ead in his own des pite. A soldier discovered him conceal ed behind a door, during the tumult which succeeded the assassination of C^aius, and saluted him Emperor. The terrified Clau dius begged only for life, he received not only life, but empire, and he wept at the gift. \In like manner as all conquerors are Ale.xanders, all tyrants are Neros. But it Is not easy to understand why this prince deserves so remarkable a distinction; for he was neither more cruel than Tiberius, nor more frantic than Caligula, nor more debauched than Heliogabalus; probably it is because he killed his mother, and be cause he was the first persecutor of the Christians. “ The Senators who condemnedNero to death, proved to him, “ that an cannot live every where,” as he Was Uacu lu say when he sang to his late. But these slaves, who sat in judgment on their fallen master, did not dare to attack him in his power. They let the tyrant li ve th ey put to death only the historian. The death of Nero caused a revolution in the empire. The eleetbn of the Em perors passed into the hands of the legions, and the constitution of the state became purely military. The barbarians, %ho were gradually admitted into the army, grew familiar with the creation of Empe rors ; and when they were tired of giving away the world, they kept it for them selves. Galba, who for a moment filled, tho place of Nero, was the 1 st of an ali- cient race;—after him arose a new order of Princes, chosen from the lowest ranks. They liad ruder manners, but more capa city’for governing. When nations are In theit decay, it is in thelowest classes aloqe that any strength or energy Is to he found, asf iron must be sought in the bowels of the earth. *Galha, Otho and Vitelius soon pas sed aw'ay. We might rather say that thdy • were invested with the purple, than that they really possessed the Imperial pbWeri Snfrohnded by rebels, Galba, at ffie age of> seVenty-threc, stretched oUt. hjs neqk to his miirderei^, and ‘ exclaimed; ‘BtrikYs if my death can benefit the Hp* man 'people V Hi$ head fell; it was hallli; a soldier was obliged to wrap It In a cloth to carry it. This bald head might hayje counselled Galba better. Was it worth while to place a crown upon a head which time had stripped of all the marks df ycnlh and vigour 7 j ■ i \Otho wished for the empire; hut he wished for it withoht delSy; he wisKcd for it not as a meahs of exercising power; but of procuring .plcasnre. Too voliiptuoup to. earn it hy labont;’ foe feehle to know ho^ to live, he had onl^’ strength enough •to die. When he had determibed fd stab himself h^ lay doivn, sle]pt soundly, «n^, on waking, gave* himself the mortal blow, and quietly departed; without reading P i4 to on tbc‘ Immortolify of the* ^oul, and 'elevation of Tespasian to the empire. It has been said that this w as thd p eriod dur ing which mankidd enjoyed th e greatest felicity. This is true, if the dignity arid the inclepeiidehce of nations are to goTot iofliingl , ; “ Every imaginable kind of merit ap-« peared at the head of the empire. Those who possessed these qualities were fred to undertake any thing they plCa^ed; they were shackled hy no restraints; they in herited Nero’s absolute power; they could employ for good the arbitrary authority which had hitberto been Used only as art instrument of evil. What, howeveri did \ this despotism of virtue pleduce l Did it reform manners'? did it re-estaBlfeh liber ty 1 did it preserve the empire from its ap proaching fall ? No; the human race was neither altered or improved.—Fdrmness reigned with Vespasian; mildness with Titus; generosity with Nerva; grandeur with Trajan; the arts with Adrian; the piety of Polytheism with Antonine; and, lastly, with Marcus ♦Aurelius, philosophy * ascended the throne—yet the fulfilment of this dream of sages, was productive of no solid beneficial results to the world. No, ameliorations are dui-ablOj ,none, indeed# are possible, when any act of government . ^proceeds from the Will of individtial&j aiid not from laws And institutionsand the - Pagan religion, no longer supported of corrected by austerity of manners, trans formed men into old children, destitute alike of reason and of innocence. There were at this period Some' Christ ’ tians in the empire ; they Were bb ;. o, and were persecuted by Marcus xAurelius: yet, wdth their despised religion, they ac complished what philosophy bn thb throne could not achieve. They instituted laws, corrected manners, and founded a society which exists to this day. With Marcus Aurelius'; terminated the era of Roman happiness under abso lute power. From the reign of Conlmo- dus We may date those fearful times for which there was no remedy bat the dis memberment of the empire,and the remo delling of society. The virtues of Marcus Aurelius, useless to the pu’olic, were tsna'»' vailing also in private—^they were power less even on his own hearth Commudus was an execrable sovereign; yet tlie* Ro mans plunged anew into abject servility, with such ardour, that they seeme,d,^jke' men who had just regained their liberty— they were delivered only from the virtues of their late rnlers,. . . ' “ Two effects of ^aBsolnte power dh tfie heart are here to bp\ remarked. It never entered the minds of the great and viriu- ous princes who governed the empire.,- to doubt the legality of their power, of to' te^ store to the people tlisir usurped;rights: the same absolute power which thus ob scured the reason of the good, destfoyen that of the bad. ^ Nero', Caligula, Domi tian, and Cbmmodqs were frequentlf per fect maniacs. Heavep; to render the spec ’ tacle of their CrFmesless terrific to mortals gave them madness Us h sort of apology. Oommodus, meeting a: fnan of ^eXtraoMI-V uary corpulence, crit him in two to sh^bVi his Own* strength, arid fa bi^oy -the ’ ptehs- ufe of the butchery.^ He Palled ‘ hiUssOli [Hercules-^he made Rome chaiige her name tb assume his, and libamefqT nterdals have perpetuated the retnbmhfaucb h f hh: caprice. Gommodud n^rished hy th§rin- discrotion of a Child whiiftvas cue of ^the iostrum'ents of hisdehancherles, by p6fs]pn; admlnisf efed by Onebf fiis concubirieivand by the-hand of’an athlete, who finlshbf!/ by strangling, the 'Wwk begun by poisOfi. ■ “ Pertinax succeeded tO Gommodus. As soon as his ambition was satisfied, he showed himself worthy, of the dignity to which he had attained.- ’ T hereis one* sort ,of ambition which Springs frofii the'C'ba-* splpusness of virtues which want'a fiel'l for Meir'display^ortbrtheirexercrso; there is another sort which arisen ffomf etsvy o? the virtues lye Cjannot feach. Pertm'ax, au austere soldier,^ wasr massacred by’ ibt PraBtorian guards, ,The empire wa3\^uj up to auction, and two biddefs contended for the rag? of . the imperial garment be- queathed by Tiberius.-’ Didius JuJmus wpi* it from his corajietltor; he out-bid Mm % five thorisand sesteftia. The isdtMp de livefrtd up 0 %hty millions of nreAliko* a flock of sheep, to DidiuS. He Could ratify his baVgaitr, and filaid M$ debt with his life. . . . • §C(fticluded in Marriage is a feast Whero* the sometmaei bettet than the tffiwec. | a
