Western Statesman, Volume 4, Number 23, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 16 August 1833 — Page 1
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Western Statesman.
MAJOR & SMITH, J EDITORS & PROPRIETORS Our Country, our Country's Laws, and our Law's Supremacy, S VOLUME IV. tauIBER S3, LAWUENCEIEURGII, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1833.
ORIGINAL POETRY.
For the Western Statesman. To Mis? . Tell me Louisa, tell nic from thy heart, If thou believ'st I e'er could bow to pride; Ah no! fair lady, such an act were base, And would degrade me to a Demon's rank. The proud materials of my inmost soul, Are not so flimsy, or so basely mean, As e'er to bow at any shrine but God's. TA'eit thou Louisa poorer than the wretch Who craves her daily morsel from the lich, And rests her weary limbs upo.i a couch of earth ; Thou still would'st be as dear to ae as when, TLeLandof fortune blessed thee with her smiles. Ah lady! had that little heart of thine, here purity is seated on her throne, Tiit one poor wish for me I'd a;k no more Tl nn iff, Louisa, to be rich indeed. But should it be the will of Him who made Creation, and that nobler creature man,
company of one sister in the day time,
constituted his whole livine society.
In 1802, the old cottage getting ruin
ous, sir James had another built for
hammer. He visited Peebles, the coun-j The "World i. Miniature. If 'we pledge of love only three weeks old.
Bitter is my sorrow."
Ajrain: "In mv old nse sorrow has
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trv town, bat vcrv seldom went to suppose the earth to be represented bv
church. He was supposed to entertain ; a globe a foot in diameter, the distance
some very peculiar notions on religious ' of the sun from the earth will oe about overtaken me. Yeterdav evening mv
him, and in this he lived till his decease, objects, but those who were intimate : two miles, the diameter of the sun, on j daughter died, aged seven-and-forty in 1811, at the age of Tl. lie latterly with him say that he would now and the same supposition, will be something years. Those who knew her, will subsisted chiefly on charity, but had then speak concerning a future slate, ; above one hundred feet, and conse-; know my grief and those, too, who grown so penurious that 20 were found J wit!) great earnestness and good sense; qucntly his bulk such as might be made knew what she was to me. In the coin-
in his chest, Ills' chance was SDent and on such occasions, when his feelings I up of two hemispheres, each about (he forts of religion I D'jf mv trust ' Wain-
were excucu, wouia sometimes Durst;izuui i uumu ui 01, i aui s. i ne uur orave son is dead, lie departed
moon will be thirty feet Irom us, and her this life at ' Yet once more,"
mostly for snufF, the only luxury which he indulged in. David's height, we are told in the
Waverley Anecdotes, was about three i scribed by one writer as "a beautiful
into tears. TL. ! 1 l --jL. T r J
i lie uunai piace 01 uie AJwari is tie-
mount called the Woodhill. which rises from a plain nearly in the centre of the
palish of Manor, skirted with a number
feet and a half. His skull, which was of an oblong and rather unusual shape, was of such strength that he could strike it with ease through the pannel of a door or the end of a tar ban el. His laugh is said to have been quite horri
ble; and his screech-owl voice, shrill, heath, a
uncouth and dissonant, corresponded j and dive i. -ii-d by deep ravirx well with his other peculiarities. There , rocky precipices.'' Davie had r
diameter three inches, about that of a Our brave dau;htcr is no more. Shs
cricket bail. Thus the sun would much j died last night aged only twenty. What more than occupy all the space within j parents feel, who in two-and twenty the moon's orbit. On the same scale, J weeks have lost their only son and their Jupiter would be above ten miles from only daughter, cannot be told bv words.
of venerable old trees, and encircled by j the sun, and Uranus forty. We see Friends of hutmnity,trouble us not with
an ampnitneatre ot steep ana lofty mountains; covered to the (ops with
(hen how thinly scattered through space ; vcur consolations, but shed a tear with
are the heavenly bodies. The fixed j us in sympathy." "After a sickness of
iv ms ttieir sides broken :si5r "ouia oe at an unknown distance, : a few dav. mv beloved husband died
d bv deep ravines, and i but, probably, if nil distances were thus I (0-dav. Deeply afflicted with my six
eouest-' diminished, no scar would ue nearer to
was nothing very uncommon about his ; ed that a clump of rowan-trees,in whose j s'ich a one-foot earth, than the moon
dress, lie usually wore an old slouch- power against witches he putgreat faith, now is tons. On such a terrestrial ; mvseif for the sale of coiree, tea, and
, rd hat when lift went nhrnd-nnrt irhon i mi'rlit hi nhmtod nver bis cmvp. nr.d frlobe the hir'""?.t mountains would brMciwli
rhatlhou should'st never, never, think of me ,..!,,.. Knrt n frnu.i rtl: ,'. ..i, t!,;, h-J Kp nrnm!l,im' r...f ! ahnt.t 1 -8.1. ' nn in,-!, Im-h. anrl rnn. ! '
as he is here represented with. He nev-1 changed his mind on his death bed, and frequently - just distinguishable. We
children, I repose in the hope of his
ection, and I beg to recommend f for the sale of coiree, tea, and matters, to the general satisfac-
o
tlUtr feelings than esteem can know, ch me, lady, to endure the pans,
A ... with coniposue, view thy hand bestowed L'l mi some being worthier than myself; Yes, with submission teach my soul to bow, To God, and thank him for thy happiness, Then let my language be, like his who died For sinful man; "Father, thy will be done." This let me do, then let me gaze and die. J. R. S. Lawrenceburgh, la., August 12, 1S3.1.
whole organised
covering of such
The Barber ofDumo, . rem a Scottish Journal, j ,obe WOuld be lu'te Undiscoverable by t I . f n ., , . . 1 . i . 1 , t:i...
i .1 .lie ctr, A.n.1'1. lJcliltll'3 u V UiOl, 111' A f'i t pinan. nosscssin" an nnrom- . . ' 1 J . J '
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mon share
a ' duns
of wit and humor, hndoc-ithc ,m n l' P!"m ln ,orGr to rc" i ty of public taste and feeling, that had
SELECTED. From the Cincinnati Herat J. THE FALSE ONE. She is not happy, though the smiles, And looks as free from care. As if life's shadows could not frown On one so young and fair. Though pleasure seems to light her rye, And on her cheek repose, As beautiful and placidly As sun-beams on the rose. It is the semblance but of joy, There's that withm her breast Which takes from every bliss sh wool The sweetness and the zest. And like some rare sepulchral urn, in which the dead are laid, ithout, she's ail surpassing bright, Within, all crloom and shade.
She loved, and yet was false to one, Young, ardent, kind and brave, Whose spirit could not brook the wrong , Self-doom" d he sought the grave. Rar.k, wealth and dotage bought her hand ; She's now a thing of art,
Hut though deceit doth sun her brow; niock me.
er wore shoes, being unable to adapt ! contented himself with the ordinary ! may imagine therefore how impercepli-1 Editorial Dn
tnem to nis mis-snapen, tin-like leef, but runs. Boston jMrrcanhtt Journal. ; ie wouui oe tnc largest animais. i ne j povertv, dehnqu
always nad both ieet and legs quite concealed, and wrapt up in pieces of cloth, lie always walked with a sort of pole or
i pike-stair considerably taller than him-
j sell, fecott says 4ihis arms were long and
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mi.,iuruisneu w.in two muscular panv wi(h soin,, MCIU!s, at an inn of a i V , "V'5,u" ne m" hands, and when uncovered in the ea- own hk!l, for c,.rlaiil rcason5( Wfij th'-m orty millions of times;;, gerness , of his labor, were shagged WUhlshslU denominate Dunse. llcquirin-! st-,rvc,.ta pr'iortions we mu
coarse black nair. it seemed as if na- t!ie sorvice3 of a barber, he was retomture had originally intended the sepa- meded to W attic Dron who was re-
,c uuU) ii) ue ine mem- nrcsent( as not oulv skilled n that
Difficulties. Xext to
uent subscribers, and
to which mo-t editors are sub
ject, the greatest difficulty is to please
the public. 1 or so great is tha varie-
casion t lodge, for the night, in com
bers of a giant, but had afterwards capriciously assigned them to the person of a dwarf, so ill did the length of his arms and the strength of his frame, correspond with the shortness of his stature." Davie was a misanthrope. He detested children, probably from their pro
pensity to ridicule mm. io strangers
prolusion, but excellent at cracking a joke ,or tellingastory. This functionary being forthwith introduced, made such a display of his oral and manual dexterity, as to leave on the mind, as well as the body of the customer, a very favorable impression, and induced the latter to sit down to a frieudlv glass. The cir
culation of the bottle served to show o'F
It cannot lisrht her heart.
n aci: L LAX EOUS.
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ne was suny, and in tne presence of ll I the harbcr in his happiest mood and sorts of company exceedingly irritable. ; the facetious gentleman, amid the genOne day, it is said, a lady who had i f,P:1l Mh.ritv. thus ad,lrpsnd him-
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miou uiiii iiorn midiK, navmg gone : ow, Wattie, I engage (o give vou a
j to Miir mm wun anouier lady, lie tookja -uinca.on the following terms: that j them through lus garden, and was show-; vou leap backwards over vour chair. i ...:1. 1. : j j . 1 ....
, .,v v. in. n.uLi. f.iuic- ana good nu- for tl,c 'pace ot hall an hour leisurly jmor, all his rich and tastefully assorted; yCt n-ahu ly crvi-m out at evcrv (borders, when they happened to stop hr-ra ocs f. Vv'at tip. Dion. l.nr.
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neai a piui ui caonagi:s Wl;icn nau been! ber of Dunse;" hut that, should vou utsomewhat injured by the caterpillars. J tcr :,ny thing else during the time, you Davie, observing one of the ladies smile,: forfeit the reward.' Wattie, though instantly assumed his savage scowling no doubt surpiised at the absurdity of
j aspect, rushed among tne cabbages, and j the proposal, vet, considering how easidashed them to pieces with his cent ex-y ne could cam the guinea, and the imI claiming,'! hate the worms for they 1 probability that such an ' opportunity
would again present itself, agreed to
! their true dimensions, we must magnify
md to prest increase
equally the distance cf the sun and the stars from us. They seem thus to pass offinto infinity; yet each of them thus removed has its system of mechanical and perhaps of organic processes going on upon its surface. But the arrangements of organic life which we can see with the naked eye arc few, compared with those which (he microscope detects. We know that we maj' magnify objects thousands of times, and still dis
cover fresh complexities of structure; if
we suppose therefore, that we increase every particle of matter in our universe
the conductor of a periodical paper a3
many heads and as many pens as his paper had readers, he could never hope to please all; for they cannot please themselves. Docshe speakout in language plain and simple? it is mere common place; the taste of the learned is not gratified; it is fit only for the vulgar. Does he aspire to elegance? the unlearned cannot understand; and the learned regard him as a conceited fellow; dabbling at what he has no pretensions to. Does he show his colors and boldly contend for his ground? he is too severe. If he hides himself beneath a mass of equivocal matter, he is temporizing; if he publishes extracts,
better than he can write, he has no
in such a proportion, in length, breadth, ! talent of his own to display; if he fill
Till: 11LACX DWARF.
and thickness, we may conceive that we
tend thus to bring before our apprehension a true estimate of the quantity of organized adaptions which are ready to testify the extent of the Creator's power. Bridgncutcr Treatise, by the Rev. IV. Whcurll.
jiiiuiut-i i.iuj, hkmim; a menu and the stipulations. The watch was set, old acquaintance of his, very uninten- and the barber, having stripped off his tionally gave him mortal offence on a i COat, leaning with one hand on the
similar occasion, i mowing back his j chair, commenced leaping over the set,!
jealous glance, he fancied he saw her I uniformly rope ir j spit at him. "Am I a toad, woman! that the words pre f . r i h,.i. .. . !i ..i i .
iting.in i
esc ri oca.
After matters
Tl,. nr;.rin:il r.f fb.is rxtraordinarv
poitraituretoneof the most remarkable j ye spit at me that ye spit at me!" he j had gone on thus smoothly for about
even of Scott's, was David Kitclue, a i exciaimeu v uu iuij , .mu wunotu listen- j hve minutes, the eeiitlemm rung the Scotchman, born in Treebleshire, IT .! ing to any answer, he drove her out of i bell, and thus accosted the waiter:
and believed to have been ill-shaped j Uie garden wim imprecations and in- J What is the reason, sir, you insult me
by sending a mad fellow like that, in-
stead ot a proper naruer, as you pre
tended he was? barber (leapintr.)
We extract the following horrible account from the lielridere Apollo. Clough and Jlina are saints compared with snch a villain. Jldrfc the villain. The most villainoui conduct of a person named Jaccb Inaley, who resided near this village, became public about the loth ult. He was charged by his daughter,
a girl now about fifteen years of age, of having held illicit intercourse with her during the two years past, threatening her with instant death if she made any disclosure of his atro
cious practices. Insley, on ascertaining his ,..o. ...1.1 ...i, t v...
n exuliing tone, ,..; r.,.i:iir a;.. r ,n,i wt f.;u nr
several young children penn ylcss, on the charity of the public. The mother of the girl was living during most of the time.. It is supposed her death was hastened by the knowledge of her huiband's criminality, and his abusive conduct towardi her; while she was sulleriiig from palsy, which rendered her speechless. We are informed by a physician who attended her near her de-
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from his birth. After learning to read suit. l'ngli'hata common school, he was) A farmer in the neighborhood went cent to Kdinburgh to learn a bust ma-j one night, out of a frolic, to frighten ker's trade, but his figure attracted such j Davie, but paid pretty dearly for his . .i ... i... r. ..ricm r.r,ls nft tlir! joke. He had assumed (lie character
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c.tv in disgust. After h:s father s deatn ; ui .i u, u io ue oreaii-, know what is the matter; 1 never saw ror. The crime was first attempted while the . . . . . :nt inin his lint I hn irr,..r i . .. ...
lie h II in the vrav ol JSi r James ia?!-;s hci ic-jhip.i u tins wav in mv ni i: iur. JJron, moimor was excittti by spirituous UtUfr, be
r.iving tir.i unveil ins wim irom ma nouse,
'Here goes I, Vv'attie Dron, barber 0fj tht she often attempted to speak and T-iT- . , ni t i would point to her hu.-band and cry iwo! no." Dunse. Waiter '"Oa. sir, I don t L.llile fe!llur ex )rPBsed the (!p upest hor.
m
ytli, a wealthy neighbor, and obtained connoitenng him from a small unglazed J r. D.on, what do you mean," Barber :.i:n prrmiion to" build a cottage on j window,which he had n?ar his chimney,! 4Lre goc I, Wattie ,' Waiter ,s manor at the bottom of a secluded wrenrhed a large stone cut of the wall. Ulei me, Mr. Dron, recollect there
'tern bunk. He immediately cleared i "dS"-u n u upmi ui Hanani, anu j are gentlemen; now ran you make such . ii r.. i.., inrl I knocked him to t!ie srround. whrro br : c.-.i r l-r,.,,-c.ilf ?" I! nKr i!r.,.
a Spot SUllaOlC lOl IMS jiui jiut , n - o 7 umiuijum o. . ... i i m ic 163
?( ooi f d out a larjre reces3 in the side
cft' e hi!!, proper for a garden. This trn. cndoH-d by the earth on one side, bv trio ottr'.ee on another, and by high
v;i!l- 0:1 the third and fourth, built of
i:v-n r;te layers of stones and turf. Having covered the cottage with a neat iliyrkrm.r md constructed a small
' .'u'"l - . do..r, ai.d a few rude pierrs of houscfurniture, he proceeded to the cultivation of his garden, in which he disf !)rd very considerable taste as well a iiid i-trv. In a short time he contriv-
lay for a while senseless, and very se
verely hurt. Davie was very dogged in pursuing his purposes. lie once applied to a neighbor for leave to cut off a branch from one of his trees. The gentleman civilly refused, and Davie went away grumbling. The next morning, some
of the gentleman's servants happened to be going from home so early as two o'clock, when, to their surprise and terror, they perceived through the twilight
Landlord, (entering in haste,)
who sought protection from a neighbor. Jacob Insley is a shoemiiker,bfctwaen 45 and liO years old, dark cumplexioned, about middle height and slim ; his hair changing grey. When last heard of, he was on his way to Michigan. It is ranch to b regretted that he has es
caped the punishment demanded by niK laws
for incest, which seems tar too light lor the oiTcnc,
his paper with original matter, he might have given something better from the works of others. If he attempts to philosophize it is dull and uninteresting, and if he writes on plain and familiar subjects, every body knew them before. Docs he use his endeavors to amuse? it is light and trifling. People generally are fond of being praised, and one would suppose this might satisfy them, but let an editor try the exneriment, and he soon will find out his mistake. For such is the
power of envy, that no one will thank him for praising him, and every body will hate him for praising others. Some people arc fond of hearing their neighbors slandered; but if you attempt to point out either the vices or follies of mankind, every body will find something applicable to himself; and here again, you encounter the whole mass. Every one can tell how to conduct a paper to please him and of course to offend every one else. These being stubborn facts, there is no alternative but for an editor to please himself, if he
I can, and har.ard the consequences. If
he does this he will be certain to satisfy one, which is more than he can say, if he tries to please all. We can safely say iAin'n" to the difficulties above enumerated, and could greatly enlarge the list.
a strange figure struggling and dancing
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ed to Mock it with a few fruit trees.anu ' me ree. lipon go-m-i!l, -H h of flowers, he rbs, and cul-i P the jdace, they found it was
inarv vegetables, which cojld be pro-
luiod in the neighborhood. His mani f r ,f working is desctibed by persons ui iied to visit him jis exceedingly 1 1Tl.dnfT unable to use his feet
h ilio'.mfr. he had a spade ?o contrived
down with hi
'What the devil, sir, is all this? The f.liow is mad. How dare you insult gen
tlemen in my house, bv such conduct?';
Barber 'Here goes I, Wattie Dion,t ' Landlord! say, Bob, run for! Vvici- Manners. Wo never rchis wife, for this can't be put up with. ceivc Dutch newspapers, says thejtaGcnticmenthe man is evidently derang-j lcigh Iteg'ster, nor could we read them ed, and I hope you will not let my j if we did. We cannot, therefore, guar-
houfe be injured, in any wav by this; anty tnc accuracy ol tne lonowmg ex.-businr-ss?' II re cccs' ,'rushin 'Oh! ! tracK given bv a writer, who cites
Wattie, Waltio, what's this that's comej litem as curiously illustrative of the over ye? Do you no ken ver fair wife V Dutch character. Tiie papers arc two
Barber 'Hero goes I,-
Wife
Davie, who had contrived, by some
mean, to fasten a rope to the branch he wanted, and was swinging with all his weight upon it, to break it down. They left him, and before he was again disturbed, he succeeded in bringing it to the ground, and carried it home with
. j him.
lh.it l,f 1 ould force it
br-.d. test of the labor was per-1
rf......i ontirrh' bv cm-ans of his arms! The dwarf is said to have been rx-
j
and hands in which he poscscd great trenth. He alo procured some beehives and planted a bower of willows and mwan trees. Thenceforth David's
trcmely superstitions. His reading was
confined to raradisc Lost, Iooke s 1 an theon, Shcnstone's Ballads, and the Ad
(weeping,) 'Olt, Wattie, Wattie, if ye care na for me, mind your bairns at
hame, and come awa wi' me. Barber 'Here goes , Wat' The afflicted wife now clasped her husband round
the neck, and hung on him so as r(lect-j niot of which tell
thirds filled, he savs, with advertise
ments, of which the following are a few examples from a single Journal. "To our friends and acquaintances We, the undersigned, are m trrried." Then comes the advices of births,
the world that the
ually to arrest his further progress. ! lady has ien brought to bed of a "welt Much did poor Wattie struggle to shake '; Iki'ihm1 chil l. Of thesj, all arc Signed off his loving, but unwel omo snnuse.! bv the husband, and they sometimes
but it was now 'no go' his galloping ' pour out a flood of affection on the lady, was at an end. 'Confmnd you for an 1 But the manner of publishing deaths is ideot,' he bitletly exclaimed, '1 nevci ! the most angular. Thus:
could earn a guinea so easy, in all my' "To-day, departed after sickiicss of
ventures of Wallace, Bruce, and other j life.' It is only noccssary to add, that ton days, my beloved wife, he has
. 1 1 t in nrtnmrnt. i 1 1 1 n hlanderq. Ills inlormalinn r f am thp f v nl .1 tiat i on wim h immoi i.iirli- f.A'i left me and her aLretl mot nor in a state hh,i patron.
whole nappiiit.s r ,j ; ... n i t leu i"g and rxhibiling thene little premise?, j told, appeared to great advantage when j lowed was much more satisfactory to! of despair. H rep with us all who knew tues. He raied flowers for his rich neighbors,! he mingled with the peasantry at the mine host than the barber's better half, her weep with my children. They a strict qmiri in.i krl,a fnr ibf poorer: and his bees mill or smithy. He was very satirical and that the gen'.lcman restored Wattie hive vet to learn their loss which they, , ,
From the F.nn (Pennsylvania) Observer. STOP MY PAPKIt:" The followinp; article we copy from tha Sutunlay Kvciiiuj Post, of a recent date, antl publish it bro.mse we ar- fully convincoJ it is literally true. Our own experience, has long aire witnessed more thau one similar circuia- ' r.-.s; ptpir.'"' "So says a subsenber whose name has been on our books for several years. Co itrary to our usual rule, wo allowed his arrearages to increase to thirteen dollars. Wo line iv him to be nn honest ;nr:t, au thought his omission to pay mi-ht be owing to nc-h"M. We wanted money to pay for paper tn journeymen for printing for the thousand art icies necessary for our publication, and we sent him a bill, lie flew in ft passion,
fonvardrd the money, and eays "stop my paper." "I have been k patron of your'?," ay be, "for five years you have never lost ft cent by me I pay nil my debts I tend you roy duos but stop my paper." " Than this there can be nothing mere unreasonable. This fiiond of ours ha been a subscriber for five years, it is true; but what are subscriber worth who will not pay T He never forwarded us a cent until he was dunned. He rend notice after notice, that w wanted money he knew his subscription vris r'jc, and w'.ien we k for our own, l. gets angry. "Stip my paper," so we wii. fold with pleasure. We a?k no mr.r's p-ironage who, ' his acts, declares that the laborer is not worthy of bis hire." We regard no man as our fricn
who withholds from us out jut
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enabled him to Mipply tnc t;,lcs 01 a11 In ms conversation; ana nis narsli creaKf lasers with an abundance of honey, ing voice was there frequently heard 'ihc bees with his cat and dog, and the j much higher than the Bound of the forge-
to his usual good humor, by generously j will learn loo soon." rewarding his exertions with the weili Another: "My deeply lov
died yesterday
carocJ eruinca.'
She has
i.vi:.k,.l of
aiiline nas oeeu cmuii--""
against tho rholera; nnd Buy
nerson intro 'nirliiE: himself from I orine,
C(l Wife I Vnna,r.ra,v rl ee v, 1 e"- that Use.ae has rw-e
left mo a! itsep;varancr,H pusU.aWe with 4