Indiana Palladium, Volume 1, Number 46, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 18 November 1825 — Page 1

Equality of rights is naturk's plan And following nature is the march of man. Hnox-. Volume L LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1825. Number 46.

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who, in the winter of 1777, on the hanks of the Delaware, looking on the broken army ofliberty, beheld, at his word, the light of enthusiasm gleam over the brow of misfortune; he who, in 1703, before the entrenchments of York, standing by the side of the fathers of his country, and participating his feelings, saw the liberty of that country sealed by the surrender of its foes, closed his life in neglected solitude. On the summit of the Chesnut Ridge, which overlooks the valley

of Ligonier, in which the commencement of

the revolution found him in prosperity; on this lonesome spot, exposed to winter winds as cold and desolating as the tardy gratitude of his country, died major general Arthur St. Clair. The traveller, as he passed the place, was reminded of the celebrated Ro

man exile's reply: "Tell the citizens of

Rome, that you saw Caius Manus sitting a-

mong the ruins of Carthage." He is almost in the rear of the gallant band in going to mortality's last sojourn; hut his great captain has gone before to provide him quarters in the sky.

GEjXERAL ST. CLAIR. General St. Clair was born in Edinburgh, and came to this country in the fleet commanded by admiral Boscarven, in 1755. At an early period of his life, he took up the profession of arms, and served as lieutenant in the British army, under general Wolf, at the taking of Quebec. He served during the whole of the French war of 1756, in the course of which he was honoured with the friendship of generals Wolf, Murray, and Mencton, under whose directions he learned the art of war. After retiring from the British army, he settled in Ligonier valley, on the side of the Ligonier Old Fort, of which lie had been the first commandant. In 1 773,

Richard Perm, lieutenant governor of the province, appointed him prothonotary, and register, and recorder, for Westmoreland county, which offices, with others he held in 1775, when he received a colonel's commission in the continental service. Although this appointment was without solicitation on his part, he assumed the duties of his new station with promptitude, and alacrity; and lie recruited six full companies, and marched them to the vicinity of Quebec, by the

first of the next May. In the campaign of

177G, he served in Canada, in company with

colonel Wayne, under the orders of generals Thompson and Sullivan; and his knowledge of the country, gained in the previous war, as well as his military experience, was of essential advantage to the army. In the fall of the same year, he joined general Washington, in Jersey, and first suggested that memorable russede guerre, which terminated in the capture of the Hessians at Princeton, and which revived the sinking spirits of the

army and the country. In the summer of

1777, he commanded Ticonderoga, which fort, being untenable in consequence of the

small force under his command, was aban

doned, which occasioned a load of unmerited obloquy to be thrown upon him at the time. The military tribunal, however investigated

his conduct, pronounced, that although he lost a post, he saved a state ; and all the wellinformed have unequivocally approved his conduct. He was in the battle of Brand vwine as a volunteer not having, at that time, any command. When the army marched southward, he wras left in Pennsylvania, to organize, and forward the troops of that state, in consequence of which, lie arrived at Vorktown only a short time before the surrender cf the British army. From thence he went to the south with a reinforcement to general

Greene. After the peace, he was a member of Congress, and president of that body; and in 1788, he was appointed governor of the then North Western territory. In 1791, he was again appointed a major general in the army of the United States. In all the various stations and situations of his life, after he became known to general Washington, he enjoyed the especial confidence and friendship of that distinguished patriot. General St. Clair, in his domestic relations, felt the kinder sympathies of our nature in their fullest force. In social life he was much valued as a friend. His conversation was instructing and interesting, enlivened by wit, and embellished by science. As a soldier and statesman, he possessed a

piercing accuracy of mind ; and fearless of

censure from the shortsighted and presump

tuous, he looked to the results, rather than

to the immediate consequence, of his actions. The resources of his mind were best developed in difficult and adverse circumstances; and although fortune, in some instances, seemed determined to thwart his purposes, his coolness, his courage, and his constancy, were above her reach. Providence seems to have designed, that the American revolution should disclose ev

ery species of greatness; and the subject ot

this notice, after toiling w ith unsubdued res

olution against disaster, and smiling upon

adversity, fulfiled his destiny by descending

to the tomb, a great man in ruins, 1 he af

tlicting spectacle of his last days, smites the

heart with sorrow. The friend of Wash

ington, the companion of his glory : he who, cation of their pet children, yet we take hv his counsel, turned the tide of battle, in',greally to heart any ill that may befal them

he most gloomv period of the revolution: he i we arc wanting in the discharge of our

duties to our bodies, but we do not in any

wise lack affection for them, and the mind sympathises in their distress, though it seldom forms any reasonable plan to avert the evil. Professor Jahn, it appears, was among

the tirst of the moderns who took the case of

bodies under consideration, and having de

vised a number of exercises and arranged

them systematically, he established a Gymnasium at Berlin, in the year 1810, which was soon resorted to by several thousands of pupils of various ages. "The ardent, real,

and infatigable exertion of this man," says

M. Carl Voelker. "his concise, powcriul,

and persuasive appeals to his pupils, had

such an ctlect, that ali vied wun eacnomer

in the endeavors to render their bodies strong and active.' M. Carl Voelker was one of Professor Jahn's pupils, and in 1818, feeling himself sufficiently prepared for the duties of a teacher, he established gymnastic exercises at the academy of Eisenach, and at the university of Tubingen. In these establishments under the system of Jahn "Weakly and sick persons (as thoe atTected by consumption, resulting from asthma,) recovered their health; and these exercises were perhaps the only effective medicine to their complaints. The judgment of physicians from all places where those exercises were introduced, concurred in their favora

ble eflect upon health; and parents & teach

ers gave testimones, that by them their sons

and pupils, and all young men participating in these exercises, had become more think

ing, active, and graceful in deportment.' j The Prussian government and the Holy: Alliance, however, who admire no exercises but the manual and platoon, discovering something amiss in this practice of making their people strong, put down the establishments, we are told, and M. Carl Voelker has been compelled to remove himself and his system to this couniry, where we hope he will meet with all due encouragement. It appears from the printed sketch of the exercise, that after a few lessens, a man of

any perseverance will step three English miles in twenty or twcntv-five minutes. The kangaroos in Nev South Wales will, however, always have the advantage of us we fear in this particular, for, according to travellers, they make only three hops to the mile.

"2. Running for a length of time, and

GYMNASTICS. The people of this land of roast beef and plum-pudding, have not the slightest idea

that, in common with other nations, they la

bor under the sore reproach of doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for their bodies.

But the fact is in a Prospectus of Gymnastic

Exercises now before us, and, after a moment's reilection, we cannot gainsay it. Wc certainly use our bodies ill, we give them foul names, call them cla', &c; and then, as vile earthenware vessels, we apply them

chiefly to kitchen uses, and do little more with them than pot meats in them; or else wc live in our bodies as men live in tenements, which they have on short leases, and

never think of improving the premises, or of

adding to their means of accommodating us. "I shall not live here long,' is the thriftless reply to every suggestion of wisdom; and then, when the tabernacle yields to time,

and becomes uncomfortable and disagreeable to inhabit, we thrust any vile doctors

stuli into the breaches, just as thougn we were botching an Irish cabin, and, UUc tinkers, generally make two holes in mending one. Even in their best days men used their bodies in this rackrent way, merely because

their time was short. We read that when!

Methuselah waxed in centuries, as he was with celerity; if the pupil follows the given

Uw on the ground bivouacking, as was hisi rules in tins exercise, and is not deterred by

custom, in the. afternoon, an angel appeared to him, and roid him that if he would get up and build him a house to sleep in, he should live five hundred vears longer. But what was his antediluvian reply to so eligible a proposal? Why, in substance, that it was not worth while to take a house for so

short a term! This is a type of the ways of

men. Tell a iazv citizen, with a face like a poppy, to strengthen his body by exercise, that he may live long in the land, and he replies, "man is but a flower of the field," and therefore he is content to emulate the sedentary habits of the sleepy weed he essential

ly resembles, and goes on nodding and bobbing his life away with a flaming countenance and a drowsy head; it is not worth his while forsooth to make himself as strong as a jackass for so short a span. Exercise of a

certain nature is indeed considered good; that is to say, a walk before dinner, or just so much, in short, as will prepare our earthenware vessel to hold an immense quantity of meat and drink, but as for taking systematic exercise, for the purpose of developing or improving the powers of the body, it is a thing never thought of. Mr. Carl Voelker, the writer of the Pros

pectus now before us, commences with the

following observations: j

"For many centuries, education has been

exclusively directed to the developement of

the mental faculties, while the bodily pow

ers have been entirely neglected. But all

who acted on such a principle did not sumciently take into account the intimacy of connexion between mind and body. For who does not know from his own experience, that the mind uniformly participates in the condition of the bodv ? that it is cheerful when the body is strong and healthy, depressed when it is conscious of bodily weakness.'

This is" certainly true; for though we ne

glect the training or education of our bodie

as fond mothers neglect the training or edu-

a little fatigue in the first six lessons, he will

soon arrive at making three English miles in twenty or twenty-five minutes; 1 have had

pupils who could run for two hours inces

santly, and without being much out of

breath. M. Carl Voelker soon puts any one in the way of jumping his own height, and persons who have a saltatory genius may hope to leap ten or eleven feet high. "3. Leaping in distance and height, with

and without stick: every pupil will soon con-

the principal exercises for the increase of

strength, activity, good carriage of the body and augmentation of courage, which employs and improves the powers of almost all parts of the body, and has hitherto always been taught as an art by itself, is brought to some perfection in three months; and if after this time the number of pupils will be sufficient to cover the expense, vaulting over living horses shall be introduced, and this exercise combined with riding.' Whenever an attempt is made to abate thejiuisance of the present game system, the country gentlemen threaten to fall sick, averring that field sports are necessary to

the preservation of their precious health, and that if they have them not they will pine away the victims of indigestion, loss of appetite, heart-burn, flatulence, and the thousand ills set forth in advertisements of quack medicines; but, by the aid of M. Carl Voelker, we nay hope to keep these worthies in a sound state of body, without detriment to the social system; and, further, it appears that their minds, which have ( -itainly derived no sort of advantage from their hunting and shooting, will be benefited by the proposed exercise. Great will be the pleasure to us to see our squires diverting themselves in this healthy and innocent manner, taking a run of half a dozen miles, jumping over a park wall, climing up trees, like a. squirrel, and throw ing themselves down again like cats, without any sort of personal inconvenience, and then, perhaps, w inding"

up the morning's sport, oy vaulting over their horses, instead of killing them following the hounds. But while we are amusing ourselves with the ideas which M. Carl Voelker's scheme suggests, we hope it will net be imagined

for one moment that we are inclined to ridicule his project. On tbe contrary, we think

that gvmnastics have hitherto been unwisely neglected, and we shall be very glad to see a fair trial made of the efficacy of these exercises. It sounds whimsical to hear that any of us heavy -heeled people may be rendered as agile as a good harlequin, but it were very poor philosophy to pronounce a thing impracticable, because it seems strange. It is sufficiently clear that we do ml not make the most of the capacities of our bodies, (except in the one sense of containing the utmost possible quantity of food in them;) and although M. Voelkers discipline may not enable us to jump into our drawing room windows from the street, yet

it may materially develope the inert powers, and add considerably to our corporeal strength. At all events, the thing is well worth the experiment; we cannot be a more clumsy or a more ungainly people than we are, and it is quite as well to try whether we are not improveable: if in the attempt we acquire the use of our limbs only, no great harm wili be done. London JIag.

A Paris paper gives the following account

vince himself, to what degree the strength of j of an incident which lately took place at

the arms, elasticity of the muscles of the

feet, and good carriage of the body are increased by leaping, particularly with the stick. Almost every one learns in a short time to leap ten or eleven feet high. It is equally easy to learn to leap horizontally over a space three times the length of the body even four times that length has been attained." We are particularly delighted with the prospect of climbing up masts or ropes twen-tv-four feet high at no distant day, and

should hope that in six months few people

will be so lazy as to think of using a staircase. "4. Climbing up masts, ropes and ladders.

Every pupil will soon learn to climb up a mast or rope of twenty-four feet high; and after a six months exercise even of thirty-

six feet. Climbing up a ladder is less easy;

but with some perseverance a height trom twenty-four to thirty feet is attained. The

use of this exercise is very great in strength

ening the arms.

"5. The exercises on the pole and parallel bars serve in particular to expand the chest,to strengthen the muscles of the breast

and small of the back, and to make the lat

ter flexible. In a short time every pupil

will be enabled to perform exercises which he could not have thought himself capable

of; supposing only, that he does not deviate from the prescribed course and given rules. "0. Vaulting, which is considered one of

the Jardin des Planles.

A man had introduced himself into the interior of the menagerie. The keeper perceiving him, ran towards him, to make him go out; but at the same time the lion Atlas whose cage was not well closed, raised the grate adroitly, and left his cage. The keeper cried immediately to the imprudent man, 'place yourself against the wall, and keep still, or you are lost!" It is well known that it is necessary to show firmness and courage

before the king of animals. The man obeyed, the keeper followed his example. The lion walked forward and approached first the keeper, but he recollected the friend who brought him food, caressed him in an affectionate manner, and passed on to the stranger. Arrived before him, the eyes of the animal sparkled, he raised his enormous paws, and placed them on the man's shoulders. For some moments the lion remained

in that position; he scrupulously examined the man, who already thought himself his vic

tim, smelt of him from head to toot, and afterwards returned mechanically to his cage. The grate was immediately shut. But the stranger has not )et recovered from his fright his life is despaired of.

The following toast was lately given at a public meeting: The Fair while they cultivate their external graces, may they not forget that the spirit of the age is in favor of internal imorvvemcnt.

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