Indiana Palladium, Volume 7, Number 19, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 14 May 1831 — Page 4

From the Delaware Gazette. 1 If ream of Spring I slept, and o'er a frozen stream 1 passtl a 6kater in my dream : The surface frail, beneath my weight. Bent and cracked as the sounding- skate Pass'd o'er, and far beneath my feet Koll'd one deep silent silver sheet Of waters o'er the silver sands Glitt'ring like some far distant lands, Beneath a golden sky, and gave Beauty to danger, and the grave . How like I said, The stream of time, that bears in bloom Its thousand skaters to their d:om, While some in safety o'er it glide. Others beneath the treacherous tide Sink with the dead. And not more like the stream of time Than the dread theatre of crime, O'er which the guilty skater goes, Tho' at his feet perdition flows; And tho' he sees a. thousand sink From virtue arms, o'er ruin's brink, Still ventures till with fatal tread, The wild wave closes o'er his head. There was a change Came o'er the color of my dream ; For now it seem'd it ims the stream Of time, and o"er its face a form EnvelopM in dark clouds and storm, Came gliding swiftly from behind. His white locks floated on the wind; And when his strange Long fingers touch'd the objects round, Lock d were the lakes, and st'.ff the ground . All nature withered at his look, And her green grassy grove forsook ; But as the hoary demon pass'd, On to the South, amid the blast, There came from distant flowery Isles Three fairy maids, enwreath'd with smiles, The first was melancholy, wild, The second one a tearful child. The third the ft wery fi iger'd May, Shook oders on her rosy way. Beneath their eyes delicious beam Green shores appearM, the icy stream I) ssoWd and nature dress'd in flowers, Sung anthems in her shady bowers; While o'er the hills, And from smiling fields and floods, And from the wilderness and woods, And from the rills, Glad sounds of swret rejoicing- thrillM, And Nature's solitude was lilPd. 1 woke and found the Winter pass'd, And the first morn of March at last. Hail beautiful Spring, I joy to met thee And with the Muses smile to ereet thee. milVoud baud.

ScoUisI Courtship. In a pastoral district of Dumfriesshire, there lived, about ten years ago, n young shepherd, whom, for the sake of particularity, 1 shaii call Robert Thompson. His father rented one of the large sheep farms into which that part of the country is divided; and his son was entrusted with the "looking of the hill," and care of his eevcral shepherds. Robert wa9 young, and, from the nge of seventeen, his time passed joy fully along, under the influence of a first love. The object of his attachment was half a year younger than himself, and a truly beautiful creature. No fabled Sylvia or Delia ever had any right to compare with her for sweetness of temper, a handsome form, dark locks, and darker c)cs, and a face which made every other maiden envious who beheld it. Her name also was a sweet one, at least to a Scottish car Anes Hawthorn. She lived at a distance of four miles into what may be called the interior of the pastoral district, where her father rented also a large sheep farm, bordering, on the one side, with that of Mr, Thompson. Houses are always scattered in a country of that description, but those of farmers in particular; and, with the exception of one that inter vened about midway betwixt them, Mr. Hawthorn and Mr. Thompson were nearest neighbors to each other. Two high mountains, with a valley between, reared themselves in opposition, to Robert's nightly visits to his fair one; but he was an adept in the art of surmounting such obstacles, and aware of the endearment that awaited him beyond them, he valued not the mosses, the streams, or the rocks that laid in his path, or whether the night was a clear or a gloomy one. No place can be desert where a beautiful woman resides; and upon this principle, though the houses around the dwelling of Agnes Hawthorn were "few and far '"between,' hardly a night passed over her head on which her dwelling was not beleaguered by a host of wooers. But Robert Thompson was the "apple of her eye." To him alone she would withdraw the curtain of the window, in order to whisper that her parents were not yet Bleeping sound enough to pe?mit her to unbar the door, or to ask him if no other youth was lurking near, who might discover her exit from, or his entrance into, the house. This was a most necessary precaution, and one which Robert never failed to use upon every visit always encompassing the house once or twice before he approached the window, and never pattering upon the glass until he had satisfied himself that no human eye was privy to his movements. But men see not, like cats or owls, in the dark; and Robert, with all his vigilance, was one evening so unfortunate as to be disco-cii-u, uy a pany oi tnree otner snepherds, who though all come a-wooing for their "ain hand," had clubbed together for the purpose of watching, when they foimd their several efforts

to gain admittance, or even an answrr

to their entreaties, in vain. A peat stack, as is common in such places, was built against one of the cables of the house; and upon a dciss of it, which was brought a good way down by frequent BUhtractioiiS tor ihe fire, the watchful triumvirate slyly perched themselves The color of the peats and ot tneir clonic Happened to be so similar that discovery was almost impossible; and theie they had the pleasure, or rather the nortirication, of seeing their successful rival in a short while make his appearance, and, after completing his customary search, gain admittance at ihe door. They had no certain knowledge, howii t . ii ever, oi tne person wnom tnev nau seen, for a plaid totally concealed him, from the crown of the head to the knee?. But whomsoever he might be, they were resolved for once to turn the sweets of his courtship into bitter ness. No sooner had the door been cau tiously closed, and all within sunk into perfect stillness, than the whole three, with a heavy tramp, advanced to the window ; and, wetting the tips of their finders, and rubbing them repeatedly along the glass, kept up a squeaking noise so loud as to be heard at a con siderable distance. The lovers were, by this time, seated at the parlour table with a candle burninjr before them. A large oaken press, displaying on its front the rude carving of former times, stood behind them in a corner, from which the young and innocent Agnes had taken, in the open simplicity of her affection, a new silk handkerchief, on which, with nice art, she had sewed the name of her Robert; and this he had just presented to him, and breathed a wish that he would wear it for her sake. Robert had pressed the pwcet lips by which the wish wna uttered, and was cradling her bead ;pon his breast, and vowing how much, for her sake. lie valued the present, when the sound of the spies without interrupted him Do you hear that?" said Agnes start ing. "Can it be the tread of men, or do you think it is gome of the cattle that lie without?" "1 saw nobody when i came in. It must be some of the cattle." The loud squeaking upon the glass of the window instantly resolved their doubts. "You have been observed," said Agnes, alarmed. "Some men were here before you came, and tapped Jong at the window without my answering them; and they have no doubt been watching, and now mean to be revenged." "It can only be me that they wish to molest," replied Robert, with an encouraging smile; "and," added he, rising and casting his plaid over the left shoulder, and knotting it beneath his right arm, "if I can only get out to the bent) they'll be Heeler than any person I have yet seen if they catch me. "Stay," said Agnes, clinging to his arm "They may cause a stone, or perhaps a shot to overtake )ou, if their feet fail them in the chase. And who knows but they may he ready at the door to seise you, the moment it is opened?" "But then vour father and mother will be awakened; and I would rather run the greatest risk without, than be taken by them within." "1 have many a bye corner where I can hide you till all danger is past. Do stay, I beseech 3011!' "No, no. The consequences to you might be worse than you are aware of; and I will never seek my own safety at the hazard of yours. 1 will make my escape in spite of them." Agnes had no time to reply, for the noise which the fellows were now making without, had already caused a stir in the bed-chamber of her father and mother. "What's a' this din about?" had been twice demanded, in a halfsleeping tone, by Mr. Hawthorn; and lrs. Hawthorn was heard to be out of bed, and rumaging about in search of a candle. Robert pressed the hand of his Agnes in silence, and snatching his thick hazel staff, proceeded to the door, which he quietly and quickly opened, and was out upon the hill side in an instant. The three spies, who expected no such thing, and who were congregated around the window at a short distance from the door, stood for a moment gazing upon one another with astonishment, before they recovered presence of mind to start in pursuit. "He's out! he's out!" was their first exclamation; when away they darted after him, each casting over his shoulder the end of his plaid, and holding his cudgel horizontally by the middle of his right hand. A low hill, with a gentle acclivity, lay before the house of Mr. Hawthorn, over which was the path that Robert, every night, trod to visit his daughter ; and in this direction he now led out his pursuers, in Ids way homewards. He had gained about twenty paces on his first starting, and it was evident, as he ascended the hill, that he was capable of still increasing the distance. With what joy did Agnes behold

him, a tho stood trembling in the threshold of the door, stretching away, like a deer, before his pursuers, and setting their cries and menaces at defiar.ee! The houc looked towards the south; the moon had about an hour previous risen opposite to -where Ancs was

standing; and, by her pale cloudless light, the anxious maiden was enable. to mark, with considerable precision, the motions and progress of her lover, and ot t host w no hallowed i;?m. Lut as thev neared the e-unno't of the hill. which formed her horizon, the figure of the whole became more indistinct, and their respective distances less dis ccrnible. Tho hill was level for a 6hort breadth on the top; and ns Ro bert, from the moment of his setting foot upon the edge of this table-land, appeared, at a distance, to be standing while passing over it, Agnes beheld, with inexpressible anguish the forms of his three foes, emeririn in the weather-gleam and apparently up proaching him, until at last tho whole group molted aw iv like apparitions before the horizon "lie's caught! he's murdered!" was her first exclamation, as t-ne sprang fom the door, and ran wilh uncon scious speed towards the summit of the hill. Her parents were by this i?m! afoot, with two shepherds and a female servant, who rushed out also on hearing ihe wild cry of Ague?, whom they fancied to be in bed. Rut their surprise, ami the bewilderment of mind which peonle feel, on being Binldenly roused from profound slumber, prevented I hem from pei reiving the cimusc which the hapless girl had taken, until distance rendered tier invisible. Then a sad and unavailing search through and arcuwJ the premises, vaa all thy could resolve upon. Agnes, in the meantime, had run up, or rather dovn, to the opposite fide of the hill, at the fot of which lay a deep linn, with a barn leaping along its rocky bottom, at a d5pth rf many fathoms from the edge of the precipices ih;U on cither side overhung it. The water was murmuring solemnly thro' the stillness of the night; the low breeze was sighing phintively .among the hazels and roviaii-iretS) that waved like spectres bene-Wh the moon beams over the hideous chasm which their foliage partly concealed, and a?, on reaching the summit, no mortal was visible to the eye of Agnes, the impres siveness of the scene hushed at once the tumult of her feelings, and awakened her to a sense of her lonely situation, f ler limbs, which bet a little before seemed possessed of more than human swiftness, now felt the palsying ellccts of their late efforts, and her spirit, sun-! dued by apprehension for her lover's fate, and the aw which crept upon her in the mi(Lt of her solitude,, completely annihilated her energy. She fainted and sun!: upon tho hill side. where nearly half an hour passed over her before recollection returned. "I will search for him in Ihe linn,7' were the first word the uttered to herself, as she rose from the spot on which she had fallen, and proceeded feebly to execute ner purpose, "barely, said she, in a half audible voice, while descending lo toe bottom of the chasm, by a steep and d'ilicult path which she had chanced to discover "Sinely nothing unearthly will harm me in this awful place, firce spirits know the errand on which I am come!" "Nor nothing human either, my dear gill," said a pes son at her side in a iow voice, who rose up in a crouching position, and caught her in his arms. Agnes shrieked, but the sound w;s Inaudi ble; for the unknown, anticipating such a result, had thrown a fold of his plaid over her mouth. 4,For the love of heaven, my angel, be silent V said the stanger, whispering in her ear, and folding her still closer in his embrace. "Do you not know your Robert? 1 thought my wispcring had been more familiar to you. But how, in the name of wonder, have you came here?" This was a question which Agnes was in no capacity to answer; for this discovery had so wrought upon her feeling', that for a long time, she lay utterly speechless upon his breast. At length she recovered bo far as to be ebleto articulate, "I came to seek for you. Oh, let us leave this, and return home; I am dying with fatigue and terror." liVe wil,shoj tlv; but we are watched at present; and how you have got inhere unnoticed is perfectly miraculous. Do you perceive the point of that rock opposite, which almost overhangs us here on this side of the burn?" "I do," was the leply. " Well," continued Robert, "one of the fellows is perched there, to trace me, if possible, within the linn, for thev t-aw me enterir.git, and seem to be perfectly aware that I am at no great distance. The other two are stationed above us on this side; and unless we can find some way of getting out either above nr below the place where you entered, we must assuredly be taken. We are safe enough so long as we remain here, however, for they know wlmt advantage 1 have over them should they edict

to descend. Thia pool at our feet

should receive the whole three, were they to approach me." 4'Agne9 was convinced of their danger ; but from having got in unmolested, sha was of opinion that to get out in the same manner was possible, and she therefore urged her lover to the undertaking'. I look upon my own danKer as of no consequence," was Robert reply to this entreaty j "andeed, until you appeared. I considered the whole tdiair as a nutter of amusement. Iut now, with my dear Agnea under my protection, the case is altered. 1 csnnot think of placing you in danger where the odds is so much f &au.st me.1 They wdl not harm a woman," returned she, "and neither shall they you, if prayers and tears have any avad, should we happen to be caup-ht .' llefore you utter prayers or shed tears for me," said Robert proudly, I shall be past the power of hearing them. Come! for you are in so faint and kgitated a state, that there is a much danger in remaining here, as in facing the mean fellows who have ihown so much enm'.ty towaidsme." With his arm round her waist tr support her, he now left his hiding place, and with some difficulty reached the brow of the linn. ,Ho, watch there!" cried the spy from the opposite side; 1 see him; he's beside you." A moment's time was not to be lost. Robert placed the fainting Agnes on the ground and springing forward upon the two fellows they starled from their lair, he with one push precipitated them both over the precipice into the deep pool beneath. Curse you for a murderer!" exclaimed their companion across the linn, while the loud plunge of the hapless wights half drowned his voice, Mf u have killed thtm! Their blood be on your head!" I have only ducket them well, as you should also bo," replied Robert in a half-merry and half-angry tone . Then snatching up his Agnes, who was not jet so far recovered as to know what had passed, he made for the top of the hill j with all possib'e speed. When there, aery or two brought the whole of Mr. Hawthorn's distressed family around him, to whom, as the ' proceeded towards the house, he related the ! whole ot the adventure, and frankly avowed his : love far the fond and faithful Arne's The par ents were unable to reprove the romantic pair. wiuie rejoicing at me recovery oi their claugli. ter; ana though Mrs, Haw thorn once or tw ice i-i --. ... ... endeavoured to knit her brows, and utter some thing of a "serious and weighty nature she was obliged to content herself with remarking: 4,Weel, weel, bairns, young folk maun hae their daffin out ; an1 if ye like ne anither as ye say, dinna keep jeV meeting any langer secret to be rinnin ye'rsel's into p.'iskita'a this sort again." Her advice was gratefully received and faithfully followed; and in a few months more, liobert had only to remain by his own fireside when he wished to eniov the company and conversation of his Agnes A PROCLAMATION. To all to zshom these presents may come. greeting: Know ye, that whereas it has ueen represented to us that several la dies, spinster?, females, maid?, girl?, un married women, x:c. within our domin ion, have not only a willingnesg to con sent, hut even au ardent desire to leave the state of celibacv, and take to them selves or to be taken to husbands; and wherea?, it u supposed by manv that the bachelors, young and unmarried men of these our realms, do not know who among the maidens, cc. would or would not be so willing, or so desirous to marry, and it seems proper and fitting that the ladies, epinsters, females, maid?, girls, unmarried women as afore said, should put on some mark of dress as a token by which their willingness or desire in the premises should be made particulatly known, we have b sueu mis our proclamation, giving leavr, oi tiering, and commanding, that the said ladies, spinstei?, females, maids, guls, and unmarried women, may and do make sleeves to their dresses large in proportion to their desire to be man led. Thus, those who most exceedingly desire soon, and can't well delay the happy hoar much longer, may Fay so, saving their blushes consequent on such occasion, by putting, over and above what is necessary for comfort or comeliness in their sleeves, seven yards of silk, chintz, calico, or other stuif. If they simply desire pretty considerably to be married, they may reducu the quantity to five yards. If they merely wish to be modestly understood as hcing willing to he respectfully courted, if a lad to suit them shall present himself they are in that case confined to wearing their eleeves the size of a two bushel bag, or only so large as to hide a moderate sizd lover, wic. Village Record. A Touch story. The Savannah Georgian of a late dale gives the following for n fact: In the Dublin Museum U the body of an ossjfied man, a Mr. Clarke, who fell asleep in the open air when in perspiration, and caught a severe cold; soon after ossification commenced and continued for several years, till the whole man changed to bone. After his teeth hail grown together, and became one solid mas?, his miserable existence j wa9 prolonged by breaking an aper ture, through which nourishment was received until his death. Si'Iiool Resumed. THE undersigned respectfully inforrm the citiena of Lawrenceburgb and its vicinity, that he has so far recovered his health as to be able to resume his school, and that intending to devote his whole time and attention to (be instruction of those confided to his care, he hopes to receive liberol encourage raent. He will receive and attend to the instruction ef scholars in all the different branchers of education, taught in the higher schools. ELIJAH GUIDLKY. April 1S31. 16-uw

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Iiaivrciicclmrs fc Ciiaciin2:(i POST COACH. f J proprietor would inform tla pubfj tic that ft Poit coach vdl bo in operation, ty or before the 15th of April, on tha roufa from Lawrenceburgh, via Elizabethtown, Cleve9, to CinciuDath Ieaxe Lar:rencburgh on MONDAYS ) at G A. M and WEDNESDAYS arrive at Cincin. FRIDAYS S nalh oi l- noonLeave Cincinnati on TUESDAYS J gG A. Mend orTil U US D A YS rive at Laicrence. SATURDAYS ) burSh at 12, noon. The above Una connects with the Indiana polls Mail 6laga at Lawrenceburgb, on Tuesdays. The proprietoi would also inform the pub lic that ha has procured a new and elegant four horso coach, of sufficient capacity to accommodates passengers, and that intending to superintend tho driving in person, he hopes to give general satisfaction. Tho fare, In all cases, will bo moderate. Persona wishing to take nassaga will en ter their rtamea at the Stage Office in Lawrenceburgb, at J. V. Hunter's; and In Cin cinnati, al O. L. Murdoek'a White Mall Hotel. JOHN D. CUMMINS, Proprietor. March 26, 1S31. 12 t.f C. P. WELSTACH, jYO. lOii, MUX STREET, six poors r.ri.ow THE UNITED STATES' BANK, CINCINNATI. jrilOLES.iLE DEALER LV Drug?, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye-Stuffs, 6cc. &:c. March 25, 1S31. 126 mo. l9ension ami SSouitty luanil Regulation WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington November 17, 1S30. r IHE many impositions tvhich are afJ tempted in relation to Pension and bounty Land Claires, has cansed the Department of War fo establish a regulation, which declare that do attention vtill, in future, be given to tpplicationa from persons) who act aa Agents, unless they ere known at the Department, of are ? ooohed for as respectable persona by come one who ia known. Notice of this regulation is hereby given; and thaf ell may be informed thereof, it is requested thai publishers of the lawa of tho United States, in the respective States will insert the same, on the front page of their respective papers, for three months. By order of the Secretary of Wan J. L. EDWARDS, Firai Clerk Pension Ofice. WILLIAM GORDON, First Clerk Bounty Land OJice, February 5, 6 3mwboii CAKBia and Clolh Dressing. THE subscribe! wishes to inform thfl public generally, that he will attend the present season, to the above mentioned business, at the mills known by the name of Hinkson's mills, 4 rnilea above Harrison, on Whitewater. His machines are new and of Ihe first quality of cards, and incomplete op eration. From hi long experience in theusinesa he will warrant all work intrusted to his care to bo done in the beat possible manner, and on es reasonable terms B9 at any other establishment in the vicinity Wool must bo well picked and ell bura taken cut, and one pound of clean grease must accompany every 6 or 7 pounds of wool. fc3" All persons coming from distance, can get their work done immediately by waiting. The grist mill, with run of stones, is in complete operation, end all pains will be taken to accommodate (he customers. MILES KELLOGG. Logan, April I3?h, 1831. 16 Sw A lyrick Moulder and Laborers Wanted. THE subscriber will give good wages and constant employment, during the season, to a good brick moulder and a nnaiber of laboring hands, to woik in his brickyard in Lawrenceburjrh. JAMES LEONARD. April 22, 1331. 16-tf. 7000 I23ihel Flax Seed. ANTED immediately, 7C0U bushels Flax Seed: For which the highest price will be given in cash and p-oods. JOHN P. DUNN. April 4th, 1331. 14 tf IHDiaNA PALLADIUM, PRINTED AND rUBLlSTIED BY Publisher of the Lazes of the United Staler, 933223; The Palladium is printed wetkly, on super royal paper, at TI1REK DOLL.15, per annum paid at the end of thejear; but which maybe discharged by the pn nient of TW O DOLLARS in aih'uncey or b payingTWO DOLL ItS an 1 FIFTY CENTS at tho spiration of six months Those who receive their papers by Ihe mail carrier, must pay the carriage, otherwise it Will, be added to their subscription,