Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 1, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 19 January 1833 — Page 4

Hard Time??.

, ' HY HANNAH MOORE. We say the limes are grievous hard , And hard they arc 'tis true ; Bat, drunkards, "to your wives and babes 'ilieyVe harder made by you. The drunkard's tax is self-imposed, Like every other sin ; The taxes altogether cost Not half so much as GIN. The state compels no man to drink, Compels no man to game ; 'Tis Gin and gambiim sinks him down To rags, and want, and shame. The kindest husband, changed by Gin, Is for a tyrant known; The tenderest heart that nature made, Becomes a heart of stone. In many a house the harmless babes Are poorly clothed and fed, Because the craving Gin-shop takes The children's daily bread. Come, neighbor, take a walk with inc, Through many a London street, And see the cause of poverty, In hundreds that we meet. Behold the shivering female there, Who plies her woeful trade! 'Tis ten to one you'll find that Gin That helpless wretch has made. Look down those steps, and view below Yon cellar under ground ; There every want and every woe, "And every sin are found. Those little children trembling there, With hunger and with cold, Were by their parent's love of Gin, To sin and misery sold. Look through this prison's iron bars! Look through that dismal grate, And learn what dire misfortune brought So terrible a fate! The debtor, and the felon, too, Though differing much in sin, Too oft you'll find were thither brought By all-destroying Gin. See the pale manufacturer there, How lank and lean he lies! How haggard is his sickly cheek ! How dim his hollow eyes! How ample had his gains sufficed, On wife and children spent! But all must for his pleasure go; All to the Gin-shop went. See that apprentice, young in years, But hackneyed long in sin ! What made him rob his master's till? Alas! 'twas love of Gin. That serving man! I knev him once, So jaunty, spruce, and smart ! Why did he steal, then pawn the plate 1 'Twas Gin ensnared his heart! But hark! what dreadful sound was that! 'Tis Newgate's awful bell ! It tolls, alas! for human guilt! Some malefactor's knell! Oh woeful sound! Oh what could cause Such punishment and sin ? Hark! hear his words he owns the causc"Bad company and Gin!"' And when the future lot is fix'd, Of darkness fire and chains, How can the drunkard hope to 'scape Those everlasting pains?" . A TALE. nr jiiLronn. Dignity, a mild and gentle, but still a most striking dignity, was the prime characteristic of Agnes Molesworth, in look and in mind. Her beauty was the beauty of sculpture, as contradistinguished from that of painting; depending mainly on form and expression, little on color. There could hardly be a stronger contrast than existed between the purity of her finely-grained complexion, the softness of her deep gray eye, uiu tcum composure 01 ner exquisitely moulded features, and the rosy cheeks, the brilliant glances, and the playful animation cf. Jessy. In a word, Jessy was a pretty giri, ana Agnes was a beautiful woman. Of these several facts both sisters were, of course, perfectly aware: Jcssv, because every body told her so, and she" must have been deaf to have escaped the knowledge; Agnes, from some process equally certain but less direct; for few would have ventured to take the liberty of addressing a personal compliment to one evidently too proud to find pleasure in any thing so nearly resembling flattery as praise. Few, excepting her looking-glass and her father, had ever told Acnes that ho was handsome,jand yet she was as conscious of her surpassing beauty as Jessy of her sparkling prettiness; and, perhaps, as a mere question of appearance and becomingness, there "might have been as much coquetry in tho severe simplicity of attire and of manrf r Jjhich distinguished one sister, as in the tiasyate adornment and innocent showingoil ot the other. There was, however, between them exactly such a real and internal diuerence of taste of character as the outward show served to indicate. Both were true, gentle, good, and kind; but the elder was as much loftier in mind as in stature, was lull of high purpose; had abandoned drawing, from ffcling herself dissatisfied With her own performance, as compared with the works of real artists; reserved her musical talent entirely for her domestic circle, because she put too much soul into that dehcious art to make it a mere amusement: and was enly saved from becoming a poetess, by her almost exclusive devotion to the very great in poetry to Woodsworlh. to wdlou aud fchdispearc. Theo tastes'she j

f verv w'selv kepi tolhrrself; but ther gave a

higher and firmer tone to her character and manners; and more than one peer, when seated at Mr. Moleswortlvs hospitable table, has thought within himself how well his beautiful daughter would becoms a coronet. Marriage, however, seemed little in her thoughts. Once or twice, indeed, her kind father had pressed on her the brilliant establishments that had oiTered, but her sweet questions, 'Are you tired of me ? do you wish me away?; had always gone straight to his heart, and had put aside for the moment the ambition of his nature even for this his favorite child. Of Jessy, with all her youthful attractions, he had always been less proud, perhaps j less fond. Besides, her destiny ho had long in his own mind considered as decided. Charles Woodford, a poor relation, brought up by his kindness, and recently returned into his family from a great office in London, was the person on whom he had long ago fixed for the husband of his youngest daughter, and for the immediate partner and eventual successor to his great and flourishing business: a choice that seemed fully justified by the excellent conduct and remarkable talents of his orphan cousin, and by the apparently good understanding and mutual affection that subsisted between the young people. The arrangement was the more agreeable to him, as providing munificently for Jessy, it allowed him the privilege of making, as in lawyer-phrase he used to boast, 'an elder son' of Agnes, who would by this marriage of her younger sister, become one of the richest heiresses of the country. Ho had even, in his own mind elected her future spouse, in the person of a young baronet who latelv had been much at the house, and !, C C ...1. r.-.-r.r-.rl rA i rl A r" c e r o Crr I the proposals had not yet been made the gentleman had gone no further than attcntions,) he had determined to exert the pa - ternal authority which had so long vr. !crmant. But in the affairs of love, as in all other?, man is born to disappointment. iUhomme propose, ct Bleu dispose,'' is never truer i than in the great matter of malrimonv. So found poor Mr. Molesworth, who, Jessy having arrived at the age of eighteen, and Charles at that of two-and-twenty, offered his pretty daughter and the lucrative partnership, to his pennyless relation, and was petrified with astonishment and indignation to find tha connexion very respectfully but very firmly declined. The young man was much distressed and agitated; he had the highest respect for Miss Jessy ; but he could not marry her ho loved another T And then he poured forth a confidence as unexpected as it was undesired by his incensed patron, who left him in undiminished wrath and increased perplexity. This interview had taken place immediately after breakfast; and when the conference was ended, the provoked father sought his daughters, who happily unconscious cf all that had occurred, were amusing themselves in the splendid conservatory a scene always as becoming as it is agreeable to youth and beauty. Jessy was flitting about like a butterfly amongst the fragrant orange trees and bright geraniums. Agnes standing under a superb fuscliia that hung over a large marble basin, her form and attitude, her white dress, and the classical arrangement of her dark hair, giving her the look cf eoinc nymph or naiad, a rare relic of Grecian art. Jessy was prattling gailv, as she wandered about, of a concert which they had attended the evening before at the country town : I hate concerts !' said the pretty little flirt. 'To sit bolt upright on a hard bench for four hours, between the same four peo ple, without the possibility of moving, or of speaking to any body, or of any body's getting to us! Oh! how tiresome it is!' 'I saw Sir Edmund trying to slide through the crowd to reach you,' said Agnes, a little archly : 'his presence would, perhaps, have mitigated the evil. But the barricade was too complete: he was forced to retreat, without accomplishing his object.' 'Yes, I assure you, he thought it very tiresome; he told me so when wc were comin out. 'the And then the music!1 pursued Jessy; noise they call music 1 Sir Edmund says that he likes no music except the guitar, or a flute on the water; and I like none except your playing on the organ, and singing Handel on a bunday evening, or Charles Woodford's reading Mil ton and bits of Hamlet.' 'Do you call that music?' asked Agnes, huffhinir. 'And vet,' continued she. 'it is most truly so, with his rich Pasta-like voice, and his fine sense of sound : and to you, who do not greatly love poetry for its own sake, it is doubtless, a pleasure much resembling in kind that of hearing the most thrilling of instruments. I myself have felt such a gratification in hearing him recite the verses cf Homer or of Sophocles in the original Greek. Charles Woodford's reading is music' 'It is music which vou arc neither of vou likely to hear again,' interrupted Mr. Molesworth advancing suddenly towards them; 'for he has been ungrateful, and I have discarded him.' Agnes stood as if petrified: oh, father'.' 'Ungrateful! 'You can't have discarded him, to be sure, papa,' said Jessy, always good natured, 'poor Charles! what can he have done?' 'Refused your hand, child,' said the angry parent, 'refused to be my partner and son-in-law, and fallen in love with another lady! What have you to say for him now!' 'Why really papa,' replied Jessy, 'I'm much more obliged to him for refusing my hand than to you for offering it. I like Charles very well for a cousin, but I should not like such a husband at all; so that if th:s refusal be the worst that has happened, there's no great harm done.' Andcfftho gipsey ran, declaring that -sho must put cr.

her habit, for : sho had promised to ride vviih'canro of tea, which thov picked rm -in'

Sir Edmund and his sister, and expected j them every minute.7 The father and the daughter remained jn j the conservatory. j 'That heart is untouched, however.' said I Mr. Molesworth, looking after her with a I smile. 'Untouched hv Charles Woodford, un doubtedly,' replied Agnes, 'but Ins ho really refused my sister?' 'Absolutely.' 'And does he love another?' He says so, and I believe him.' 'Is lie loved again?' 'That he did not say.' 'Did he tell you the name of tiie lady?' 'Yes.' 'Do vou know her?' 'Yes.' 'Is she worthy of him?' 'Most worthy.' 'Has he any hope of gaining her affections ? Oh ! he must ! he must ! what woman could refuse him?' 'He is determined not to try. The lady whom he loves is above him in every way; and much as he has counteracted my wishes, it is an honorable part of Charles Woodford's conduct, that he intends to leave his affection unsuspected by its object.' Here ensued a short pause in the dialogue, during which Agnes appeared to be collecting the blossoms ofa Cape jessamine, and watering a favorite geranium, but it would not do; the subject was at her heart, and she could not force her mind to indifferent occupations. She returned to her father, who had been anxiously watching her motions, and the varying expression of her countenance, and resumed the conversation R.r: cr! perhaps it is hardly maidenly to avow so mvxb, but although you have never in set words told me your intentions, I have 1 yet seen and known, I can hardly tell how, jail that your kind partiality towards me has dvsiTicd for v:t children. You have mis taken me, den . father, doubly mistaken me; rirst in lit :.u r me fit to fill a splendid place in society; icxt in imagining that I A -IT l! OC5" d such si-Icdor. You meant to give '.id ;.ie lucrative partnership to i- Wccdford, and designed me and J-.-S5 your large possessions for our wealthy and titled , neighbor. And with some little change of persons these arrangements may still, for the most part hold good. Sir Edmund may still be your son-in-law and your heir, for he loves Jessy, and Jessy loves him. Charles Woodford mav still be vour partner and your adopted son, for nothing has chanced that need diminish your affections or his merit. Marry him to the woman he loves. She must bo ambitious indeed, if she be not content with her destiny. And let mc live with you dear father, single and unwedded, with no other thought but to contribute to your comfort, to cheer and brighten your declining years. Do not let your too great fondness for me stand in the way of their happiness! Make me not so odious to them and to myself, dear father! Let me live always with you, and for you always your own poor Agnes !' And, blushing at the earnestness with which she had spoken, she b.nt her head over the marble basin, whose water reflected her fair image, as if she had really been the Grecian statue, to which, whilst he listened, her fond father's fancy had compared her; 'Let mc live single with you, and marry Charles to the woman whom he loves.' 'Have you heard the name of the lady in question.' Have you formed whom she may be ?' any guess 'Not the slightest. I imagined from what you said, that siie was a stranger to inc. Have I ever seen her?' 'You may see her reflecting in the water at this very moment: for he had tho infinite presumption, the admirable good taste, to full in love with his cousin Agnes!' 'Father!' 'And now, mine own sweetest! do you still wish to live single with me ?' 'Oh, father '.father!' 'Or do you desire that I should marry Charles to tho woman of his heart? 'Father! dear father!' 'Choose, my Agnes! It shall be as you command. Speak freely. Do not cling so around me, but speak !' 'Oh, my dear father! Cannot wc all live together! I cannot leave you. But poor Charles surely, father, wc may all live together!' And so it was settled; and a very few months proved that love had contrived better for Mr. Molesworth than he had done for himself. Jessy, with her prettiness, and her title, and her toppenes, was the very thing to visit for a dav; but Agnes and the cousin, whose noble character and splendid talents so well deserved her, made the pride and the happmesi of his home. Tjie Yankees. One man in Chalestown, Massachusetts, has gathered 303 lbs. squash es, from one seed another at Portsmouth, N. II. plucked an apple from one of his trees that weighed 1 lb. 10 oz. and the cow of a third dexterously shook a quince tree, and ate a peck of golden fruit! A fourth makes about wC00 a year by the manufacture of shaving boxes to assist the operation of nullifying the beards of southern centlemen. A fifth orows water mel ons weighing 39 1-2, lbs. So thev go on. With any thing, from a shaving box to a ship, from contriving wooden nutmegs to the use of the bayonet from making cider to handling pounders, the Yankees always wish "to go ahead;"' and he will sit down with a penknife to make a clock out cf cedar shingles or to enter for a three years' voyago to tho Pacific to harpoon whales "just as it happens !M Two of them some vears ao took a trip to Canton in an old sloop, in which they built an oven, and commenced the manufacture of gingerbread, and having gathered

money, returned with a

'considcr-hle

trade." And one who hid recently, perad-

venture, reiumeu irom a voyage among mo frozen Islands of the south, to catch seal, lately managed a team of one hundred and fifty pair of oxen at a cattle show, marchinir them like a well drill ed company of soldiers at command! We may next hear of him teaching a school, or hammering horsc-shoca building a mill, weaving cotton tablecloths or making mouse traps: His only motto is 'onward, always onward. 2ile A Regulator. A traveller in a steamboat, not particularly celebrated for velocity, inquired of a gentleman who stood next him, what the boat was called; upon which the latter replied, ' I think, Sir it is called the Regulator, for I observe all the other boats go by it? An apothecary asserted in a large company that all bitter things were hot. 'No,' replied a physician, ' a bitter cold day is an exception.' Some years since a man, who had morn monev than Good sense, suffered himself j to be sued for two dollars. Enraged at the audacity of the plaiutitij he resolved to put every engine of the law in motion, to keep him out of the money, and accordingly applied to a gentleman of the bar for his professional aid to effect this object. Aficr listening to his statement of tho case, the Attorney demanded a fee of only three dolls, which the defendant promptly paid down, highly gratified with the smallncss of the sum required. The Attorney went to the magistrate's ofiico, and paid the debt and costs with the three 'dollars which he had just received from his client. They met in a few days after, when the man inquired of the Attorney whether he had attended to j the case, and what had been the result. 'Yes,' replied the lawyer, 'and I have completely nonsuited the plaintiff hcll never trouble you any more. FUIiVTirVG PRESS llanu factory ) and PRINTERS' VAXISKOUSB. I DICKINSON & WILLIAMSON, Fifth St., ! (between Lilm and Plumb Streets,) Cin. cinnati, have commenced an Establishment for the manufacture of PRINTING PRESSES, of Medium, Royal, Super Royal, Imperial, and Mammoth sizes, of cast iron. The FRANKLIN PRESS, an improved Press by Mr. Dickinson, (who has been engaged, for several years past, in manufacturing Printing Presses,) combines great ease in working, and durability in those parts where the friction is greatest. The pull is probably the most easy that can be obtained giving an immense pres sure. They also make the common Press now so generally used in the West. D. Si W. will shortly produce a machine to beworked in connection with the press, to perform all the duties heretofore performed by the roller boy or the pressman with balls. Ma chines of this description have been in successful operation in the United States for several years, and in this city for several months; producing better work than is usually done with rollers or balls. Messrs. IlATi?r.ns, of New York, work all their presses in connection with these machines one pressman thereby performing the work of two, with not more than ten per cent, additional labour, allowing him to work off twelve to fifteen tokens per day, if desirable, and keeping one uniform color throughout . They also manufacture an improved appara tus for inking types with rollers, by a boy, with traversing roller ; by which means the equally distributed over all parts of the iVk s roller which inks the iorm. The Proprietors intend keeping the f blowing articles constantly on bund: viz, .Moulth for casting rollers; Holler Frames, double and sin ffle; Chases of wrought and c ist iron, all sizes: Composing' Stickay Pcints, Cases, etc. Or All work done at this establishment will be warranted. Termsare liberal, and J'rices very lo-.o. V Several second hand 'Presses for sale. Cincinnati, Nov. 24, 18.V2. 45 3;to &1W NOTICE. M03 LANK, Attorney and counsellor at 4-A.Luw, will, in fttiure, give his undivided attention, to hit profession may be consulted at his oflice, on high street near the clerk's office, at all times, except when at Court will attend the Circuit Probate, and Commissioner's Courts, in the County cf Dearborn. The Circuit Courts in Franklin, Switzerland, Kipfey and Decatur counties. The Supreme and District Courts at Indianapolis. And will attend to business of Importance, either civil or criminal in any other courts in this, or adjoining states, lie trusts that his long and sue cessful practice, will insure him his former liberal portion of professional business, when the public shall be assured, that all business entrusted to his charge shall receive his "prompt attention, and best efforts, to bring it to a speedy and successful close. AMOS LANK. Ivnvrenceburgh, June 13th 13 J. 24 LAW DANIEL J. CASW'KLL am DANIEL S. MAJOR, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, have entered into partner ship, and will practice in the third Judicial Circuit of Indiana, particularly in the Counties of Dearborn, Franklin, liipley and Swiizr rland ; e Supreme Court at I ndianapolis. Also in the uin.ee on short street immediately opposite Mr. Ludlows large brick building; where D. S. Major will at all times be found, unless, aWat on business, ready to attend to any professional services that may be required. He will klso attend to the sett ement of estates before the Probate Court; and of claims befoe the Commissioners Court of Dearborn county. Persons wishing Deeds Mortgages. Powers of Attorney, or conveyances of wny kind, can have them diawn in a legal and untxccptioi.uble form, b) calling at their omce All business confided to Caswell & Mfcjor wi!l receive the united and strict attention of both. Lawrenceburgh, Oct. 13, 183?. 39 tf lumber Tor Sale. rj5MIE subscriber has lately receivt d a very it larjre addition to his stock of LUM VAM, j and now oilers for sale fat of Boards and Vluin; 1 1,000 " Joist, ;",iHH) " 4; ScarUi:;, 51KVJ00 Shi Ics. WM. TATE. I.awrcnceburL'h, Julv 1,1'. -t

WEFT GOODS. THE suhsnihrrs 1k vc- just n eciwd Horn PHILADELPHIA A General Assortment of SKartlwnrc, Circcrrit also, ri:oi S.9itiubarh) W!,!.l. i '11 ...11 I i- r-. i

uicu wiry sen J0W iOf L ufcll or I time. N.&G.SPARK!. Oct. 1SW. H-tf on (ucrcactfiurzli rpK!l mhscriber tuks this method to inform the public in general that he It estahluhed the chair making business, on High irtet, opposite the market house, where he ui'. keep constantly on hand a large and sp endul assortment if AND i 11 A I K S. Settees, tic. Which he Warrants for durability and workmanship, equal to any in the western countrv ; which lie wdl dispose of, mi reasonable turns. Persons wishing to piirclnsc. will please cull and judge for themselves. wm. x, ltor.uns. Feb. ll,is;il. MEW 0E5g subscriber lias just received from the it city of NEW YO!iK, in additionjto his for mer stock, the following articles: lilac and Stcc-l-Mixt Satinetts; Kcd white Flannel (assortM qualities;) 20 Pieces (pait newest st) It ) Kith, Dark Fancy Prints; Assortment, of Circ:i?ians; Mackinaw , Rose, and Point Pdankcts ; Drab Cloths; Olive & Drub Lion Skin Coating; Tibctt, Wool & Cashmere Dress llandkfs; I artain 1'hud.s; Men's :3oal-Skin Caps & Beaver Glove?; No. 1 & 'J Tickings, &c, &c. Which he is now prepared to sell to bis cuj turners and all who may give him a call, JOUX P. JJUXX. Oct IS. SCHOOL LAXDS IV H SALE. 1C1100L Section, Xo. Hi, Town 0 Range 11, fast, will be offered at pub lic sale, at the Court-llouso door, in tho town of Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana, on the third Monday of February, 1WJIJ. Tho above section is divided into sixteenths or forty acre lots, and will be sold by their number. liy THOMAS SMITH, s.c i:.r. Versailles, Doc. 1, RdV. 17-tJ FUM.'C NOTICE IS IIKKE1IY CIIYEN that 1 &hall expose to sale, at the premises, iu the town of Itising-Sun, on ti e fourth Saturday in January ncit, at Public Vendue, ths real f tate of U.ixter D ttis. late cf Dearborn coi'nt. I deceased; consistir" ofrart ot in loU No. J5 U ! in t,iel'nvi1 'f itsing-Sm-j with their im ' lr.ovcmenls a'u appurtenance kc-Tmg alto the j widow's riglit of dower with her consent. To be sold on the following tet ms and conditions to wit: one third of the purchase money in hand, one third in three mouths, and the residue in six months Irom the day of sale. Ily order of the Probate couit of Dearborn county. (iliOlUii: W. ANDKRSOX, Admr. 13th November, lb2. 45 tt YTho wauls Money? T1IH subscriber wishes to employ or ! poisons to ride as mail carrier?, to whom employment for one year ami liberal wages wil be given. Voumr men of industrious, moral hahils, weipbing lVom lJ(l to Hit) pounds would be preferred. Application should be made immediately. JOHN I). CUMMINS. Oct.si;, isn. ii IRS b:s proft sssicnal services to the y citize ns ot .iaiu laster and the surrounding country, llisollice is at tha house of Oliver Heustis. Nov. -JOih, lSIv. 4Z-Xuo rJit&2':cra. TTUST received and for salt by J. M M. tJ iiAoii, 3.21 Kegs 'f fi st rats manufactured Tobacco . Dec. Srdi. 1 o . 50-CoiiirSor-a Vu: ice. rsous u.to are m arrears lr x aN -A es. are that the s;unf ,ri!st Ll V 'i1''1 r b;-fre the Isti 1S::J. After whicli tiiuo I shall lav -f J;m. proceed to collect th simir: I'.eroroii;-' to law. lil.'rKEt 'O.M.W, Col. D.t Manch ster, ) c. 7, LS.V. iT-if. S It TU5T rrce'tved and for a'e by J M THhuau CIO 72iVriS.r...Y.X.S ffri rate C.u.hu al C ft uiiK.t i pi . Nov. 15 h, li2. -:3 tf. ,1 UST received :nd for aU by .sv.;r k pj:ot::m.k Nov 9, 18?. 43-W-E23. by H r h'rc fr n.v y NovT. 1812 4 l I IMXUIYMD aud foe Ja uiry, lSjp. 'N. k V. 5!t;K 5 )'!. 1 lr .'( at tiii '.'.

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