Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 11, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 March 1830 — Page 4
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SESSGIBILILAK
From the Delaware Gazette.;
Why do we sigh for winter's' reign, Of storm and tempest dire?" Why iigh to hear "(he winds ag:la Aroond'tbe crowded fire? Man like the season seeks for change, From Spring to Winter grim; And eyen Nature's widest range, Is not enough for him. ,
When Spring9 trips forth enwreath'd with
floff'rs, And ber delicious frtfits, Man. sighs for fjmmer's warmer hours. And Summer's warm pursuits. Nor sooner Summer comes with all ' Her fertile fields to please, Then comes his wish for Autumn's fall, ' And her luxurious ease, He sees her glories all expire, And point him to the tomb, And in his heart springs up desire For Winter's weary gloom: Man fearing time's too quick decay, Aod trembling at bis fate, Still wishes moments, months away, Nor ceases till too late. To gain one toy, desire endears, Or fancy gives a charm, He oft annihilates whole years, Nor thinks of death's alarm. But when possessed, the value flies Anticipation gave; Tears fill his dim and aged eyes, He ponders on the grave. Fain would be give the gaudy toy, And all its pleasures flown, fiat to regain the soul-felt joy. His youthful years bad known. .. IMilford Bard.
From the Boston GiUxy. A TALE Or A TRAINING, OR A SKETCH OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE MASACHUSETTS MILITIA. Nobody, up aod down the country,
was equal to Josh Beanpole, of Kye. He grew up faster than a hop-yine or a string-bean. He was a man before he knew it, and being told of it, gave himself such airs that he was thought quite the thing by all the girls ten miles refund. He was an absolute dandy, if such things could be, among the woods. He was foremost in all husking-parties, quillings, house-warming?, sleigh-rides,and scrapes of all colors,wore an eel-skin queue and a ruffle shirt on Sundays, and so by hook and by crook got into such favor tvitb the feminine gender, that he might almost have taken his pick out of the whole town. There was no one who could have said no, to such a gallant gay Lothario as our Josh, except one, but as the devil would have it, ?he happened to be the very one who Josh wanted to get. There is do accounting for the whims of a woman, so we shall not attempt to assign the cause why Nance Crabtree turned up her nose at Josh Beanpole. Certain it is that Josh stuck to her like a burr without any effect, She carried her head high, looked askew and gave Josh the go-by whenever he attempted to be familiar. . Some thought she looked upon Josh, with all his accomplishments, to be no great shakes. Others thought she had set her cap for the parson of the parish. There might have been .some truth in this last supposition, for when the parson, to her great surprise, married, the widow Sly, Nance began to relent aud Josh found himself getting into her favor. H laid siege to her hart with redoubled ardour, and the whole town at last thought it would be a match. Still it was now and then a little offish, and Josh was sharp sighted enough to see that he must cast about for some uncommon expedient to push his suit the girls,' thought he, 'are fond of titles and chow and parade: Nance would have snapped up with the parson to a dead certainty ; now if 1 can get to be a captain of militia, 1 shall come off conqueror. If she turns up her nose at me then, the devil is in her.' So Josh set about intriguing for office, a&d' as the actual incumbent had been for several years somewhat cramped withthe rhumatism,and unable to march faster than common time, or carry his bod nearer to a perpendicular than 45 degrees people began to think he had
served bis country long enough. With- j out much difficulty he was prevailed upon to resign. Josh set himself upas a candidate for the office, and having opened a grocery store, came in by a unanimous vote, for it is a standing maxim in the country, that the best man in the world for a militia captain is a grocer tavern-keeper. Now was Josh near the completion of his wishes. A captain! who could resist a captain? But little did be think the very stick which be took up to help him over the ditch would itself knock him into the mud ! However let us not anticipate the catastrophe of the story. In order to begin the campaign with uncommon splendour, Josh, determined on a 6ham fight; there is nothing like a sham fight for all lovers of military glory ; nothing like a sham fight for all-ldvers of fun and frolic up aud down the country.
it was immediately noised abroad, and great preparations were madeinall .quarters for witnessing the grand show to be made by the Rye company, and their new captain. Josh had bespoken a bran new uniform of blue, turned out with yellow flannel, and it was tho' he would cut such a dash, and make such a flaming appearance as to steal the heart of every girl who was made of penetrable stuff. Josh was not a whit behind any body in the confidence of his hopes. 'By hokey l'said he, as he looked at himoelf in his regimentals, if this don't take the sunshine ouof her eyes she's harder
than hickory. . ;, At last the long expected day came; and what a flocking, and bustling there was! the like had not been known in those parts, within the memory of the
eldest inhabitants.' Such throngs of jolly damsels and old grannies; such crowds
of every age, sex and condition; such a
rattle of chaises, carts and wagons, such au array of booths and tents, and extem
pore retailing shops; such a show of ginger-bread, sugar-plums Qid molasses can-.
dy! 1 here was no end to the wonders
and the novelties which this grand occa
sion brought into display. Josh marched
his company up and down with great
eclat, and though they did not display i
perfect regularity of uniform, and una
ble exactly to keep time in marching,
yet they were pronounced to have an un
commonly martial appearance.
According to the plan previously drawn
up, the sham fight was to represent the
capture of Lord Cornwallis,at Yorktown;
and a spacious pigstye on the side of a
hill was fixed upon to be the scene of
conflict. The wooden walls of this for
midable dwelling were accordingly clear
ed of the swinish multitude, and by the help of a few plank and rafters metamorphosed into the fortification of Yorktown.
Josh placed half his company under Lieutenant Shute in the pig stye, to act
as the British army under Lord Corn-
wallis, while he himself io the character
of General Washington took the com
mand of the beseieintr army. The whole
J w plan of the attack, defence and surrender was as follows:
Lord Cornwailis was to open the campaign by detailing half a platoon of his forces under Corporal Spinbutton to forage in Deacon Styles's cabbage garden. These on being attacked by General Washington's advanced guard, who were to form a corps of observation at the Hole in the Wall, were to retreat across Dobson's Folly and Mud Lane till they reached Turkey Cock's Vengeance, where they were to make a stand and receive a reinforcement from Yorktown; whereupon the American advance guard were to commence a retreat, and be hotly pursued by the British across Peg's Run and Long twisted Bogery till they reached Dog's Misery, where the main army, under General Washington in person, was to be stationed. Here Corporal Spinbutton was to receive a check and draw off his forces, leaving behind him his baggage, consisting of two knapsacks of bread and cheese. The whole American Army was then to take up the line of march, and proceed in three columns through Widow M'Quirk's cow pasture and Skunk Slab's orchard, till they arrived at Deacon Style's cabbage garden, where they were to debouch and prepare for the grand attack. The assault was to be made by the main body, under genfJVashington, while a detachment cf five men, under Sergeant Doolittle, was to manoeuvre upon the enemy's flank and stonri his outsvorks, consisting of a couple of hay-cocks. Hereupon the enemy was to beat a parley, and Lord Corp wallis was to despatch a llag of truce to General Washington, to treat of a surrender; but the two generals not agreeing about the terms, the action was to be renewed, and a sharp firing kept up as long as the ammunition held out. At this time finding the fortune of the day going against him, General Washington was to put him3elf at the head of the troops and lead them on at the point of the bayonet. The detachment above mentioned having possessed themselves of the enemies haycock, outworks, and the ravelin and half moon made by a pile of logs, were to pour in a gallingfireand enfilade the wholetenaille of the enemy's works. Taking advantage of this, General Washington was to enter the intrenchments, sword in hand,
when the enemy was to to hoist a white flag, and the surrender of the pigstye was to follow. Certainly Josh Beanpole's general orders were drawn up as well as any of Bonaparte's bulletins. The plan of the campaign was excellent, and not a man on the ground but would have betted ten to one that Josh'and his army would carry the pigstye," but by the strangest chance in the world it turned out that Count O'Reily did not take Algiers, but Algiers took bim! The rival armies took their stations and the battle began. Immense crowds flocked around the scene of action, all wrapt in wonder and breathless with cu
riosity to view the great spectacle of
the capture of Yorktown. All eyes were turned upon General Washington, the hero of this eventful day. Josh did really cut a most gallant figure at the head of the American army on this oc
casion. His dazzling regimental?, with their show of brass buttons and yellow baize, shone out among the general officers of the stafflike the meridian sun among the stars. His enormous chapeau surmounted with a bunch of cockerel feathers, a yard in height, caused him to loom up from the rank and file of the army,- like one of Don Quixote's giants; while his legs being incased in a monstrous pair of new cowhide boots, that came a foot and a half above his knees, imparted a most imposing military stiffness to his gait. "General Wash
ington! General Washington!" exclaimed every tongue and every one agreed that Take him all io all, Tbey na'er should look upon bis like again. The old men gaped and wondered, the old women did the same; the boys
shouted and marvelled, the girls looked on, stared and admired. J ush Beanpole never appeared so irresistible before, Nance was absolutely delighted, ar.d every body thought she was positively done for. The iirst part of the plan of operations succeeded to admiration. The grand attack commenced, the outworks were carried by assault. The American army pressed forward, General Washington flourished his sword and exclaim'd, "On! on! my brave boys;" Lord Cornwailis mounted the ramparts of the citadel and thundered defiance at the assailant?. Bat g! bang! went the guns, huzza! huzza! shouted the spectators.
i he musketry roared again, the drums beat a terrible genfretp, the sky was rent wilh shouts and shrouded in smoke! Sure never did pigstye present a scene so sublime before. But just at this moment all the spectators were struck with surprise at ob
serving an uncommon appearance in Yorktown. The firing suddenly ceased
and the whole garrison ftll instantly into sudden confusion; presently Lord Corn
wailis came tumbling over the wall ot
the pigstye wilh his whole staff at his
heels, and the rank and file, of the garri
son after then) burly burly, pell null, scampering off like madmen. Every
body stared and was struck with aston
ishment. But we must go back for a moment to explain the cause of this. The same pigsye, as we said before, was cleared of its tenants a day or two previous, and the pigs shut up in another enclosure. It so happened that an obstinate surly old sow, not liking her new quarters, contrived to get louse early on the morning of the battle. After rooting about the tit Ids, and stuffing he rself with a monstrous meal, she trudged instinctively back to her old dwelling, where she got in unobseved while every body was absent at dinner, There she snuggled away in a dark corner and fell fast asleep. But the roaring of the musketry and the rolling of the drums and the shouting otthe multitude and the trampling up and down of Lord Cornwailis and his soldiers upon the citadel of Yorktown, . a .
at iengtn aroused tne snoring animal and she oponed her eyes with a most significant grunt, wondering what could keep this dreadful pother o'er her head. Getting up and poking her snout into the open air, she found her peaceful domicil filled with men of war making such a racket and tantarra as were enough to drive any hog in the universe crazy. No hog could be more hoggish than the one of which we speak. She was a cross-grained, snappish and as malicious
a piece of pork aa the country for ten
which General Washington bad put himself at the head ofthearmyto lead on the attack. He was flourishing his sword in a most fierce martial attitude, when the furious animal took him between the legs and carried him off at a full gallop. His new cow hide boots so stiffened bim at the knees that he was astride of the animal's back without the power to throw himself off. Away went Gtneral Washington extemporaneously mounted without saddle or bridle, with his head to the rear, and grasping the tail of his steed with as tight a grip as muscles could exert. In an instant he broke thro' the centre of his own line, put the corps de reserve to the rout, and in ten seconds was amoi g the thickest of the throng of spectators, knocking down all before him, frightening the females out of their wits, breaking horses loose, overturning carts and tables loaded with apples, nuts, cakes, bottles, decanters and glasses, and making such devastation as never had been witnessed since time was. The multitude scrambled to save themselves and pushed one another down in the attempt. The whole field was in a hurly-burly. Josh and his steed galloped offand have not been heard of sicce Nance was married last week to corporal Spinbutton, who is now a captain. II has just arrived in Bstou as a member of the General Ciurt,and was seen at a milli'
ner's shop in Washington st. yesterday cheapening a new brure,
Canine Sausages. A lady in this city, a few days since, having purchased some sausages of a couple of bos, overheard them just as they left the house,diaputing about the money. "Give me half on't," says one. 'No I won't,' says the other, 'I'll have it all.' 'Now, that an't fair,' re
joined the first, "you know 'tant Jo, for half the pup was mine !" It is needless to say, that the lady, not relishing the idea of eating puppy sausages, threw her bargain into the street. Coyistellation
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AIT OltDZlTAITCE, Regulating Sales in Market. Sec. 1. Be it Ordained ly the President und Select Ctvncil of the tcivn of Laurence&urgh, That if any person or ptrsons still purchase of any person or persons any article or articlts, brought to market, on any market day, to sell sgain or not for his, her, or their oun familyconsumption, before the hour of nine otlork in the morning of such market day. he, she, or thf y, so offVndipg, on conviction thert-of, hefore the President of the said Corporation, shall be fined in any sum not txcecding ten dollars nor hss than one dolUr; to be proceedfd in, collected and appropriated, aa in other similar ensrs. Sfc. 2 That if any person or ptrsons shall bring any article or articles, to market on the evening Defore, or on the morning of such nur ket day, and fchall sell, or agree to sell the same or aoy part thereof, before the hour of four o'clock in 'he morning, the person or persons so selling or agrttu g to sell, and the person or persons, so porches ng or hgrteinp to purchase, shall on conviction, thereof, be fiiied in a like sum as is provided in the iirst section of this ordinance. Sec 3. That if any person or persors shall sv 11, or attem .t to sell, any article or articles, in matket, by weight, which shall be less than full weight, such article or articles, so attempt ed to be sold shall be forfeited to the Corpora tinn and lablp to be immediately seized and sold by thp market rr.sur or marshal of said town, for the benefit of said Corporation, and the price or vaiue of such article or articles ac tually sold, shall in like manner be forfeited to the said corporation, to be recovered in an action
j of debt, from the person or persons so selling or
from tne owner ot such article or articles, so sold, in the name of the Treasurer of the said corporation before thf- President thereof. Sec. 4. Ttut it shll be lawful for the President, upon the trial cf all violations of the provisions of this ordinance, or any of them to ex amine the defeodanl or defendants upon oath re
Utive to th truth of such charge, and in cuse of
rental to answer upon oath, as to
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pounds weight, in an instant she sprang among the enemy arid knocked down a platoon of them before any one was aware of the new assailant. The next instant she butted an aid-de camp out at the sally port, and gave Lord Cornwailis a grip in the rear at the slack of his
pataloons, which ruined that portion of
his regimentals forever and aye. His lordship sprang over the walla inajifly without waiting for his suite, and the whole garrison was put to the rout in the twinkling of an eye. Some threw themselves over the ramparts, others climbed up the bastion, others scuttled oil the half moon, the fierce animal meanwhile rooting hither and thither among them, knocking down, and biling, and scratching and kicking, at a most terrible rate. Those who could not get our in season were obliged to turn upon the assailant by beating her with the butt ends of their muskets. Dire was the confusion ! The soldiers belaboured the porker and the porker pummelled the soldiers, bit their legs, tumbled them down and trampled them under foot! Chaos was come again! The soldiers roared and shouted, the old 6ow squealed in triumph, the walls of the pigstye trembled with the clamor, the bastions came tumbling down, the citadel shook to its foundations, kicks, thumps, cuff?, thwacks, bangs, blows, pokes, hits forestrokes, and backstrokes pevailed ; shouting, screaming, yelling and grunting tilled the air! The walls tumbled with a terrible crash, aDd the old sow came scampering down the hill at a gallop after the routed army! Thia happened at the very insia&t in
against such defendant or dtfrndants the same aa if conftsstd; Provided hb-wever that if such defendant or defendants shall deny such charge upon oath, when called upon to be sworn, he,
she or tney shall oe forthwith discharged. Sec 5. Thia Ordinance to he in force from and after its publication in the Indiana Palladi. urn.
JOHN M'PIKE, President
of the corporation of the town of Lawrence burgh. Murch 4th, 1830. Corporation Notice. The President and Select Council of the Town of Lazvrenceburghy VERSUS James Leonard and ethers, heirs of Samuel Leonard, deceased, Amos Lane, David Guard, Elizabeth Bozven, and Samuel Bozven, (the said Lane, Guard and Elizabeth Bozven, being the administrators of said Samuel Leonard, deceased,) John Elliott, Zerah T. Percival,and d. S. C. V ince, Margaret Aoble,Lazvrence Vance, Catharine Pinckard & Thos. B. Piixkard, her husband, heirs of Samuel C. Vance, dee'd, and Stephen Ludlou NOTICE is hereby given to the foregoing named persons, and all others whom it may concern, that on this day the President and Select Council o! the town of Lawrenceburgh, by their attorney, have filed in the Cerk's office of the Pearborn circuit Court their petition, praying said court to vest in the petitioners the title to certain tracts of land in front of said town on the Ohio river- one of said tracts lying on the upper side nf Short street and belonging to said John Elliott, the other tract lying between Wal nut and Short Streets, and between New streets and the river, a part thereof supposed to belong to Zerah T. Pernival, and the residue to the said Jmes Leonard and others, unknown heirs of Samuel Leonard, deceased. JAMES DILL, CVk. rcbruvy 27, IB?. 9
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