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No.. l.~—Voi. II.] “ QUID VEKUM ATQUE DECENS, CItRO ET ROGO.’! InNDERHOOK, N. Y. THURSDAY, JUNE 1 , i82p. 1‘VftI.lSIliED WldiOOiY t Y ; ' PETER VAN SCHAACit, Jun. . TERMS OF THE HERALD. T h e Heralii will be issued from the office kittipo dollars per annnm^ payable half yearly. Papers will not be discontinued until all ar rearages shall have been paid, except at the cliserction of the eilitor. Advertisements inserted upon the usual terms, ^ndthose which are sent without orders, will he inserted until forbid. CT Letters to the editor must be post paid. P i f t i i m s r o Of Pamphlets, Handbills, Cards, Justices’ knd Attorniea’ Blanks, &c. kc. executed in good style at the shortest notice. . K in d e r h o o k B ook -S t o r e . vSTHHE proprietor- of the “ Herald,” having , X. opened a Book and Stationary Store^ in .jthe room adjoining the Printing-Office,' in the .village of Kinderhook, offers for sale the follow ing among other books, which will be disposejl W on the most reasonable terms: Historical, ’ Poetical, &c. Rollin’s An’t History, 'Josephus’s Works, Paley’s Works, Hyron’s Works, Chesterfield’s Letters, Burn’s Works, Lacon, or Many Things . in Few Words, 'Croldsmith’s Works, pe’s Works, i of Shakes- Beauties American Revolution, Reid on the Mind, Beauties of Watts, Life of Washington, Life of Wallace, Phillips’s Speeches, •'Sporting Anecdof ■History of the Pirates, Dictionary of Wonders, Man of Peeling, c Cooke i S . js’i Hymn tunes. ery, .era, or Has- Psalm and Dryden’s Virgil, Homer’s Iliad, Young’s N’t Thoughts Cowper’s Poems Campbell’s Poems Milton’s Works Thompson’s Seasons pe’s Essay on Man Watts on the Mind Lock & Bacon Goldsmith’s Rome Cook’s Voyages Edward’s West Indies Mexican Revolution Practical N avigator. Bournes’ Ch. History, Columbia and Greene County Preacher, Jay’s Prayers, Common Prayer, Family Bibles, Small Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Dutch Church Psalms and Hymns. Plea for Religion Glad tidings Edwards on the Affec- Kinney on Prophecies Scott’s Theological -I Works Newton’s Works Paley’s Evidences Rise and Progress Christian’s Perfections Works of Fiction. Female Quixotism Tonewante Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636 Connecticut 40 years ago National Tales Marriage Tales of the Genii The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Rasselas Charlotte Temple Arabian Nights Humorist. School and Classical Books. J[>Omestic Md^ica Sa< tings’s Speeches of the differ ent Governors to the Legislatures of ‘ the state of New-York (just published,) ■ Banyan’s Pilgrim’sPro- •Spectator, ^ .Shakespeare’s Works, • * .Domestic Encyclopedia JVIan of Feeling Knickerbocker’s New- York • Crusaders •Madeline, a Tale Foresters Sir Andrew Wylie ijohn Bull in America Pilot, My Uncle Thomas The Recluse Juliana Oakley St. Ursula’s Convent »Scottish Chiefs Romance of the Forest isophy Tytler’s History Tike’s Arithmetic, full and abridged DaboU’s Arithmetic, Playfair’s Euclid pay’s Algebra Flint’s Surveying 'Conversations on Che- Sh'-evilii Lexicon tionary Virgil Delphini Horace, Cicero, Ciesar Sallust, do. Cicero de Oratoro Viri Romae .Historia Sacra Adams’s lat. grammar t ____ mistry Hedges’idges’ ] Logic .Murriy’s Grammar, in fulland abridged Murray’s Reader Murray’s Sequel Morse’s Geography & Atlas {Woodbridge’s Geogra phy with Atlas ffiumraing’s and Wih ‘lett’sdo. Graeca Minora Greek Testament Greek Grammar Webster’s spelling-bk. Bentley’s do. Burhan’s do. Bentley’s Instructor Walker’s Pocket Dic tionary .lohnson’s Dictionary WOMAN. Ye are stars of the night—ye are gems of the Ye are dew drops whose lustre illumines the And rayless that night is, that morning unblest, When no beam from your eye lights up peace in the breast. And the sharp thorns of sorrow sink ddep in the ’Till the sweet lip of woman assuages the smart; It is her’s o’er the couch of misfortune to bend In fondness, a lover—^in firmness, a friend. As the rose of the valley, when dripping with Is sweetest in odours, and fairest in hue, So th6 glance of dear woman the brightest ap- When it beams from her eloquent eyes thro’ her tears. From the New-York Evening Post. SUMMER’S COMING. • Thou openest thy hand, and fillest all things with plenteousneVs .”—Psalm 145, ver. 16. Summer’s coming, summer’s coming, O’er the long imprisoned earth. Hues of paradise are peeping Where the red buds late were sleeping Young birds feel their feathered birth;— Honey bees are softly humming, “ Summer’s coming, summers coming.” Summer’s coming, summer’s coming. On the lazy pacing clouds,” Swallows, in the soft air sailing, Twitter to the light wind’s wailing ;— Butterfllesi forsake their shrouds ; Tardy beetles thus are booming; “ Summer’s coming, summer’s coming.” Summer’s coming, summer’s coming. Where old ocean heaves his head. Sunny snakes from broad Savannahs, Seek the lily’s opening banners— Rising from the rivers bed. Earth, sea, sky, say through the gloaming; “ Summer’s coming, summers coming.” C. E. E. HISTORIOAXj. ed his bed-side, hegai gave him as the watch word of the day—“ Let us work,*’ —and Benjamin’s Archi turo or American Bqilder’s Companion Stationary, <^c. BLANK BOOKS o f various kinds, ruled and ^drawing paper, letter paper, fools-cap do., rea dy made ink and ink powder, Holland quills, commem do,.; ink-stands, wafers, sealing-wax, lead pencils, slates and slate pencils, India rubber, spuuges, &c, ko, &c, Also., a great va- : ^ t v x>f TOY BOOKS. Kinderhook^ULm, 1620 . 3TG R B A U S , fy iH E “premises occupied by the . - 1 - subscriber, situated about five ^ south of the village o f Kinder- and 11-2 miles north froihCo- tumhia-ville, and. consisting > of a convenient dwelling-house, barn and other out-houses, and about 12 JikOiaiSS OF JsBMD, on which •there is an orchard o f lOd grafted apple-trees,] 4 ind of which 3 apres are wood, and 3 acres of meidowland. For ineelianical businesi of al most any description, the above property pre- /Sents an excellent stand, and will he sold on ac- .Oommodating terms.' Enquire of Dr. H. L. Van Dyck in the village of Kinderhook, or to. the •ubscriber on the premises. JOSHUA VO$BURGH. Stnyvesant, March t. ________ 41 tf The Act for the Support o f Common Schools, the latest amendments, fo? sale of. the ▼ f Kinderhook book-store. Feb, L _ y H o rse H a n d h ills, K \ ^^XKCdTED in handsome style and on short K \ notice^ a t this officer: SKETCH OF ROMAN IHSTORY FROM JULIUS C j ESAR TO AUGUSTULUS. CONCLUDED. Severus succeeded to Didius. Born at Deptis, on the coast of Africa, the native tongue of the master of the Romans was the language of Hannibal. He had Pu nic cruelty and Punic faith; yet he was not wanting in a certain kind of grandeur.— When he was taken ill at York, being con scious that he was dying, he said : “ / was every thing— now nothing remains to me*' T j^ officer of the guard having approach- ■ le,he day—“ . sank into eternal repose. “ Caracalla, the son and successor of Se verus, reigned for a while with Geta, his brother, whom he soon caused to be mur dered in the arms of his mother. He went into Asia, and visited the ruins of Troy. To honour and imitate Achilles, Caracal- la wished to show his grief at the death of a friend; he therefore ordered Festus, a freed slave whom he tenderly loved, to be poisoned, and then raised a funeral pile to him. “ As Achilles ,the most boautiful of the Greeks, cut his fine hair upon the bier of Patrocliis, Caracalla, ugly and deformed tore o.ff the few locks which debauchery had left him, exciting the laughter of the soldiers, who saw that he could scarcely find the material for this sacrifice to the remains of the friend he bad poisoned.' ” Caracalla’s excesses had destroyed his health ; his mind was as much diseased as his body. He thought himself pursued by the ghosts of his father and his brother; his crimes arose before his eyes. He con sulted .^sculapius, Apollo, Serapis, and that of Jupiter Olympus whose immortali ty resided only in his statue. Caracalla was not tranquiliised ; there is no cure for remorse. » “ Macrinus, prefect of the prastorium, being threatened with deathby Caracalla, caused him to be assassinated before he could execute his menace. This Macrl- nus, proclaimed Emperor by the legions, was a man of a character ordinary in everjr respect. He wished for empire *, he ob tained i t ; and was embarrassed by the power he had acquired. He had the in stinct of wickedness, but he had not the requisite genius to turn it to advantage. He knew not how to give fertility and ef fect to his crimes. When he had commit ted one* he was at a lols to wliat purpose to turn it. This is the 4Uso whenever am bition outstrips capacity—^when a lofty destiny befalls a feeble and narrow, soul, instead of receiving its fulfilment from an elevated genius and a noble heart. After a reign of fourteen years, the legions took the empire from Macrinus. “ A young Syrian, a pries/efthe sun, vviUi eyelids painted, with cheeks tinged with Vermillion, wearing a train, a neck lace, bracelets, a tunic of cloth of gold, a robe ofPhoenician silk, and sandals orna mented with gems; surrounded by eu nuchs, courtezans, buffoons, singers, and dwarfs, vvas soon called to reign in the birthplace of Horatius, to rekindle the chaste fire of Vesta, to bear the sacred shield ofNuma, and to touch the vener able emblems of the sanctity of Rome. “ The peculiar kind of vice which ruled the world under Hcliogabulus was obscene brutality. Political power was vested in the hands of consummate and beastly de pravity. None were called to the exer cise of authority who could not attest their pretensions by a course of every variety of debauchery. Heliogabalus submitted himself by turns to be governed by a char ioteer of the Circus, and by the son of a cook. Had he devoted himself to the ser vice of Cybele, as he at one time intended, he would not have been less impure. He had prepared, as instruments of death, in case of need, a silken cord, a golden poign- ard, poisoi.3 enclosed in chrptal vases, and an inner court paved with precious stones, into which he might throw himself from the summit of a tower. All these re sources failed him; he died as he had lived in a receptacle of uncleanness. His head was cut off; his body was dragged along by the populace, who tried to throw it into a sewer, but the mouth of the sewer was too narrow, and to this accident Heliogab alus owed the honours of the Tiber. “ Alexander Severus, cousin of Helio gabalus, succeeded. This economical and rational prince reigned thirteen years.— The legions w'eary of an emperor who per mitted bis subjects to live, were impatient for the tribute which the army claimed at every new election. The empire was a farm, which every succeeding Emperor took on lease at a.stipulated sum, but with a tacit clause, by which he bound himself to die. “ Maximinus excited the legions to re volt, and Alexander Severus fell bnder the blows of assassins commissioned by him. Maximinus seized the reigns of govern ment. Thus was the throne first filled by a barbarian; a barbarian of that very tribe from which sprang the first destroyer of Rome. He was born in Thrace, ank drew his origin from the Goths. We now be hold a new race of men who had an excess of those qualities which were nearly ex tinct in the descendants of the ancient con querors of the world. This one generation of Romans, in less than a quarter of a cen tury. had as masters, an African, an As syrian, and a Goth ; %ve shall presently see an Arab bn the throne. The Romans, re covering from surprise, revolted; they could not endure the idea of being govern ed by a Goth;—as if slaves like them r« uld pretend to any dignity or pride. “ Gordianus.Pius and his son perished in Africa, where they had been proclaimed emperors; but Maximinus was killed by his soldiers at the siege of Aquilea. The Praetorian guard sleW Maximus and Bal- binus who. succeeded him, and the purple mantle was at length thrown to the third Gordian, grandson of Gordianus Pius.— Gordian obtained great advantages over that Sapor, who was destined to be fatal to the empire. These advantages he owed in great part to his father-in-law, Mysoteus, who has been called the Guardian of the Republic. Gordian had the candour to confess this; the man who can ascribe his glory to him whom he owes it, gives the best proof of deserving i t ; but Rome could no longer support a great man. If by chance she produced one, like an exhaust ed mother, she had no longer strength to nourish him. Mysoteus died, probably .poisoned by Philip, who succeeded him in the important office of Prefect of the iPraetorium. , ' ‘‘ Philip wqs an Arab* and the son of a captainxkf cobbers. His ambition could Bnly be satisfied by obtaining at once su preme power, and the death of the prince to whom he owed his fiartune. - Nobody^ was shocked at this; crimes had ceased to attract any attention. Betrayed in his turn by Decius, his lieutenant, Philip was killed on the fields of Verona, anffthe Sen ate confimed the military eleetion of- De- “ As soon as the Praetorian guard learnt the defeat and the death of Philip, they hastened t a slaughter his son. It rela ted of this uhfortunate young man, that from the age of five he had jiever been seen to laugh. He did not reach the throne, and he lost the pleasures of infahCy. These at least he would have enjoyed if he had remained in an Arab tent. In these times an emperor never died alone. ’ His child ren were generally massacred with him. This lesson, though incessantly repeated produced no effect. There were a thou sand competitors for the empire; there was not a single father. “ Such was the state of men and of things at the accession of Decius. to the throne. Every thing,tended to hiirry on the dissolution of the Roman Empjre; every thing was prepared for the invasion, and for the victory of the barbarians,— Nothing was opposed to their progress ex cept Christianity, which awaited tHein to take possession of thq^ minds, and to ren der them capable of founding a new state of Society, by blessing their swords. “ The terrible Goths are now about to appear; the other barbarians encamped on the frontier will soon follow them, and the Capitol already seems to tremble be fore the shouts of these hordes Then will follow desolation without example ; three nations will be beheld at once—the Pa-f gans at the Circus ; the Christians amid the tombs; and the Barbarians every where. They will proclaim themselves the scourge of God, and they will earn the title. Some, a race of giants, with grey eyes, with flaxen hair, naked, or covered with the skins of beasts, will combat on foot with clubs, or with two-edged axes ; others mounted on small horses, sw'ift as eagles, will sling on their saddle-bow the skulls of their conquered enemies. The Romans, in terror at the black and flatten ed countenances, the shrill voices, and the savage gestures of these frightful horse men, will ascribe their origin to the union of Scythian witches with infernal spirits. “ Here Piets, or Caledonians, will eat the flesh of their prisoners; there Arabs will drink the blood of their enemie.^; wouncled by their darts. Genseric will wish his ships to bear him wherever God visits the nations in his wrath. Alaric will exclaim: “ I cannot stop; I feel within me something which urges me on, and drags me to the walls of Rome.” • Atala will fol low a mysterious sword, found in the bo som of the earth. “ The grass grows no more,” he will cry “ where the horse of Atala has trodden,” and the king of the Huns will hesitate which prey to seize. He will not know which arm to extend ; whether to take possession of the eastern or of the western empire ; to raze Rome or Constantinople from the face of the earth. “ In these days there will be no shelter from death or from slavery. All the char ioteers of the Circus; all the populace of the Amphitheatre; all the prostitutes of the Temple of Cybele, who made the world blush at i heir hideous excesses; all the senators, those successors of Cato, who could not support the heat of day, whotraveledl in the night, enclosed be tween curtains of silk, and borne on the backs oftheir slave.s; all this race-judged and condemned,—will be scattered by the blast of the divine wrath. To escape from the barbarians, the Romans w'ill take ref uge in Carthage, in Cyrene, in Alexandria, in Jernsalem, and in all the cities of Asia; —but in the most remote places they will find other barbarians. Driven from the centre of the empire to its extremities, thrown back again from the frontiers to the centre, they will be entrapped, like beasts in a park, surrounded by hunters ; there will be no retreat, neither under the walls of the crumbling capitoJ, or in the solitude of the desert. “ Plague and famine will carry off those whom the sword had spared ; the antique race of men will be extirpated; fields strew ed with the bones of the dead, will be clothed with forests ; the desert borne a- long, as it were, by the barbarians, and shifting as they shift, will cover the face of provinces formerly the most populous; and in countries which had been animated by countless inhabitants, nothing will re main but the sky and the eartlu After so many horrors, when the dust raised by the march of the armies of natidns shall have subsided; when the clouds of smoke aris ing from the conflagration of citiesshall be dissipated ; when death shall have silenced the groans of multitudes;' when the fall of the Roman colossus sh-all have ceased to resound; then will be beheld a dross,— and at the foot of this erpss a new universe. Ail will be tihanged ; men, religion, man ners, language—a few apostles with a ^ s - pel in ther bands, sitting upon the ruins, will resuscitate society from the midst of the tombs, as formerly their master restor ed to life those who believed in him.— Pause at the aspect of'this new world, to recognise, if you can, two men—the one is the son of a secretary of Atala, who quit ted Rome for ever, with the empire ; he lives in exile, in a country-house formerly belonging to Lucnllus, without thinking of all that is associated with his name, in different to the lessons, ignorant of the re^ collections, which are given or recalled bv the place he inhabits-^the other person-, age has an axe for bis sceptre, his long hair for a crown; he has conquered a little town called LutetiU. This son of the secretary of Atala is A u g u s t u lu s t h e barbarian king is Clo- -vh. CERONOLOGIG^L yABEt;. , , OF TH K EM PEROKS OF; ROM3K, IN 'THE UKDER O \ T H E IR S U t^E S S IO N , #ROM T H E D E A M O F .X U L ICi-- C.ESAR , TO TH E Y fiXE O F O V lt ^ . Julius Caesar-^assassinated istli March\ B. ^..44 years,,.. ^ ... A . feign 13 years alter - --------- s tie of Actiuni) B. ( reigned 44 yeafs, , .Tiberius reigned* 22 years. 6 montl>s and 26 days—‘died A. D, 3 7^aged 78. ^ Caligula reigned 8 years anff ID mpnlh^' •was murdered at the age of 29 A. D Claudius reigned 13 years—died A. i>. 64—aged 63. i * . ... .. . • Nero reigned 13 years and. 6 months^-, killed himself A. D. 68—in the 32d , G a lba.J^^ed 8 years—was put to death A-D* 69—aged 73. . Oth:p feigned three inonths'—committetl suicide A, D. 69... i .. . ;. , ] ^ Yitellius jeigned 11 fnonths and 15 days —was pilt to death A. D. 69. , . Vespasian reigned io years—died Al 79-_.,ged 7Q„ , ^ . Titus reigned 2 years arid 20 days^- died A. D. 81—aged 41. - . . . , . Domitian reigned 15 years—assassinat ed A. D. 96—aged 45. . - . , , Nerva feigned 2 years—died A. D: So Trajan reigned 19 years, 6 months an-f 15 days—died A. D. 117—aged 64- . Adrian reigned 21 years-—died AJ D.' 138—aged 62. ^ . Antotiine reignOd 29 years—died A. D 161—aged76. . ‘ j , Marcus Aurelius. (surnamedv.Antotiine“i reigned 19 years—died A. D. 180—agesf 67. ' . . ■ - . . . . Commodus feigned i,3yeafs—put tc death A. D. 192—aged 31. ; . ..... PeU.inax reigned oqly 87 .days—rmassa-- cred by the Praetoriaaguard A. H. 49R‘. Julianus Didius wa^ put to. death tbo same year, in which he bought the effi .s-; Severus reigned 17 years and 8 raobtl:' —died A, D. 211—aged €6. ..... Caracalla feigned 6 years—assassinate.' A. D. 217—aged 43, _ . , , _ . Macrinus reigned 2 months arid 5 davr —put to death A. D. 218. ' Heliogabilus reigned 3 years, 9 mORt'. * and 4 days—put to death A. D. 222- aged 18. ^ ^ Alexander Severus reigned 13 years-*- murdered A. D. 235—aged 27.. , Maximinns reigned only a few month- . was killed by his' soldiers A. D* 236—agi 65. _ .. ............ . Gordianus Pius anil his, son perished '?■.* Africa after a short reign of only \ . ... • , Maximus- and Balblnus reigned, for.o short period and were massacred by fit Praetorian guard A. D. 238. .., . . Gordianus Riiis (grandson of the firi' J reigned 6 years—assassinated by Pbi; .'r A. D. 244. , ^ , Philip reigned 5 years—assassinated D. 249-—aged 46. , • ■ . Decius reigned 2 years—slain A. D. —aged 50. - HEROIC GRATITUDE.:. Lewis the Fourteenth, who had oUf bombarded Algiers, ordered the Marqi' f Du Quesne to bombard it a second f'inv in order to punish their infidelity and in*:.-\ lence. The despair in which the Oorsa t: ■! found themselves of not being able t o V'*- \ the fleet off their coasts, which did thoH so much mischief,'caused them.to brings!*' the French prisoners, qnd, fastetaing ther*.^ to the mouths of fh|?ir caUnon. fifjed off tb. - pieces, and the different parts of their bi-^ dies were blovvn even among the French' Ah Algerine Captain, who had been tr- ken on a cruize, and very well treated by the French all the time he had’ been thei-^ prisoner, one dayperceived,^ among unfortunate Frenchmen who were dor liieu] to the cruel fate just mentioned, an office^ ^ named CholseuI, ffqm whom he had re ceived most singnlaf; acts , of kindness.— The Algerine .immediately begged,' en treated, and solicited, in the most pressing^ manner, to save the life of the genermw Frenchman; but alF vWs to no purpose.] At last, as they were about^ to app4.V -the. fqakh to the cannon at vyhich Choiseul Was fixed, the captain threw himse.lf upon’ the body of lijs friend, and closply embme-y ing^him, exclaiming, “ Fire! since I not save .the life of, my benefactor, L :af have the consolation to die wutb him”—The Dey, in; whose \presence this^ scene passed, was so affected by bUrba-i rous and savage as he was'by nature^ thatl he now fdadily graiiledi frbin ,dictat.es plj bumfinity, what he had just hpfbte fefu^ff with so much savage ferocity. ^ 1 One asking Diogenes what eoufse be*- s hould take to be revenged f nemyl* “ By beepming nRodm an,” gfiswcictliilr
