Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 48, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 October 1808 — Page 4

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fplendor to which a thoufand diadems is de (litute ? Have I inftrucled my children pale." Behold the extent of his dcfolation 1 in wifJom Hive I led them in the paths

IJchold this Unpwreck ot every remaining jot nghteoulnels r l-iave 1 taught tnem to comfort, this laft and bloody icene of atra- worfhip Gcd I And is it theiefore that he

POETICAL ASYLUM,

gedy of horrors It You may have wept over the grave of one chilJ, perhaps of another or another; bnt heot all : he, in one

moment the delighted f.aher of a numerous

offspring, is the next thildlefs. Nor did thev exaier crrarliiallv 2nd ientlr ill their

j r o o 4 i-jr beds nor did he fit bv them .nor did he

feel the laft faint preiTurc of their hands

nor aiu ne near the oying wnnpers oi aucv.tion. Even thefc fad fouthings were deni-

cd him. INor was aggravation wanting,

which can add to the bitternets oi cfnci.

They died not only fuddenly, but in their youth, not only in youth, but in inno

cence ; unconfeious of evil, unfufpicious ofli

misfortune. ;in the ions and daughters oil

rntujy, uj me jcv j. x curujc, misionune. tin tne ions anu uaugnicrs ul) nISTILL D amidft the gloom of night Job, he lud watched every bud of virtue

-a warK uangs tne uevz-arop on uieias it opened; they Uione in aiine varie.l l r i ,t . i i

ties of human excellence : thev were wor

thy of his love, and they were all beloved.

it anv ot thele circumitances would nave

1 welled the torrent of adveifity whau muft

have been their fury when they were allleen united, when thev all rallied together a-

. . . i ' gainfl him ? The enemy of the world had

put iorth all his itrength, and attacked him with all the malignity of his nature ; he had bereaved him of all his enjoyments ;

he had left him no hope but for death

.vv hen we think how thele things were

thorn ;

'Till notie'd by approaching light, It glitters in the fmile of morn. Morn foon retires : her feeble pow'r The fun outbeams with genial day ; And gently, in bewignat hour, Exhales the liquid pearl away Thus, on Affliction's fable bed, , Dep forrows rife, offaddeft hue; Condenfir!rr round the mmirnei's head.

' o . i I 1 ; oThey bathe the cheek with chilly dew. borne my brethren, we are loft in amaze-

rnent ! we behold a miracle of the Almigh-

Tho pity (lie ws her dawn from heav'n ty : The ftorm had howled among his When, kind, Ihe points affiftmce ncar branches, had ftripped him at once of all To fnendfliip'i fun, alone, 'tit girn his fruit : it had pafled over him and he

lo toolhe and d;y the mourner's tear, itood a leailets trunk but he itooc. I he I r mrnr i i it l

angry waves oi aimciion nau roueu upon

nun. nur hie nrrl 1 1 1 ! I tlr5rl in a lr: - t

ELOQUENCE of St. CHRYSOSTOM forrow All the foundations of his faith

(were undermined, but the tower was un-

Kji ine oiograpny ot t. Uhrj'loitom, fhaken. the celebrpted orator of the Greek church, In the intervals of pain when difeafe Gibbon has givm us a fkctcU interefting had fufpended her tortures, that the fevef :r the viciflhudes of his life, and the ex- ral tortures of refleaion might be inflicted, traordinary; fplndor of his charader. what muft have been his feelings! His With his works he poflVifes no acquain- thoughts flew back to the children he had Uurt ; being alarmed at the- fight of thir- loftfad recollection to a father ! He rctven folio volumes filled with homilies, and membered alfo their filial tendernefs, their fitisfiecl to form his opinion of their excel- obedience, their endearing qualities which ler.ee from thofe "rriticks, who have been had increafed the natural affedion of a na-

iro.i mojcratc in xneir commendations. irent, and now acravated his misfortune.

u They (he fays) onanimoufly attribute to

the Chrillfan orator the free command of an elegant and copious language, the judgment to conceal the advantages which he

derived from the knowledge, of Rhetorick!

ph.lo! ophy ; an inexhaufted fund of metaphors and, fimihtudes, of idea? and images, to vary and illuftrite ths ir.oft familiar topicks ; the happy art of enagine thepaf-

ficns in the frrvice ff virtue, and of ex-

Had they been vicious the unworthinefs

a has deltroved them ? No fuch murmurs

cfcape him. He kiHes the hand that chaf-

tiks him. He bends with reiignation to

the will ot Heaven 44 I he Lord gaveu

and the Lord lnth taken aw.y : blclted be the name of the Lord!" Wonder riot my brethren, that he tore his hair that he fcattered the fragments of his garments to the winds that he fell upon the earth that he rolled in the dult. He was a

father Had he been unmoved, his forti;

tude woaldhave been without merit a

cold and Druttiii puiioiophv would have

cylgraced the character ot J b.

TAKE NOT-rCE-That I will apply to the next Court c Common Picas tor the county of Knox ca the kilt Mondav in March next, to eftab-

lifli a Ferry on the Ohio, river, on my land

in fx id county ; bring fractional ledmn

No. 26 in Town No. 6 Weft.

Odder 15, 1808.

T S. of range No. DANl. Grafs.

Extract of a latter from Ji. Jones to one

of tb: Kaskskia Champions Pardon me incomparable Knight of thr

Blanket, if I enquire from wh it hih fourcr

you derived your inquilitoriai authority n, affairs of Literature ? Does your vanit

lead you to imagine that a tincture of

falfe politics and arheiftical divinity; a little of fomething which you take to bt

and a rlicrht Tcnowledcre of local. laws, cnti

ties you to be diftinguiftid as a man oi fcience or genius?- Your, wit, if wit it car; be called, is truly anomalous and fublinie.

you cab with wonderful facility, compare a broomftick to a ruoufe-trap a monkey or

a mammoth, and fhrug your important

moulders and make your hues with tittering at the oddity of the thought. But 1 will leave you to your Blue devils and

your lirandy-bottle, and affure you that i would almoft as foon dance a, fandango to

your honor as excite the ill natured

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orld to lauh at your expence. Your ?"1T iame' .

foppifli-remarks fliall never make me fnnJ iM V r. John Moore

iels a clalhcal alluhon where it can add

orce or dignity to an exprrffion, & when

your fqueamifh. friend raifes the alarm of

pedantry, I wilLadvile him to go and he-

come himlelt a pedaut it may fave him

at leaft frcrh the drunken circles of Kfsfkaf

TOST-OFFICK. FincetmcSy October l , 1 803. A lift of letters remaining in this OfHce ift quarter which if not token out before

the expiration of three months, will be returi eil to the General Poft Office as

dead letters, viz.

A Thomas Arc her JVilliam Allen Isiac

Aispn 1 homes Allen, James Anderson stand G. AlUn.

RJl'illijin. fcrazclton William Berry ,

John Back, Berjamin Buchanans Robert Buntin, C Benjamin Chfm&ersZ Samuel Camtherst John Camjjjill, Jeremiah Chjolef Sarah Crosby, 2 Alexander Chambers 9 D Thomas Dacan, John Durham, Mies Dolofun, John Drennan 2 Josph Decker, jun , rS Philip Frederick, k G John Goodman, Robert Gill 5 William J G an: ' e, H Edward Humphreys William Holmes Josiah Holmes, Thomas Hamilton, Betsey Handly, George Harper, Moses Harriman, Isabel Hodden, John Haton.

J Silly Jenkins, '

fv John Kimberland 2 Peter Kuyhndal Abraham KuykcndalL f

L Mr Lap f ante.

John Moore $ William

Miner, John Martin, John M Donald

James M'Clean 2 Frederick Mehle Mrs, Muhol'y, Robert Moslcv?

P Mr. Panablack, Thomas Flummer.

Moses M. Posey, Richaid Palmer-

Pete Palmer, EowardiPutr.um, IVolsey

kia and ofcourfe from difgrace and a Bailiff. ,, 1 rtd6 'Jacob Though, Jonathan Pure? II

I never boafted of my learning or gemus. V UHC Joseph

and am readv to acknow W tlfct mv ivuuyr'f'"i wanum iwaarmtU

and am ready to acknowledge tlfet my Kodrtl, Abraham Rodafmi portion of either is trifling in the extreme- 5 Reul)Cl1 Sulleger, JehnSihall but trifling as it is, it will never fbrink Sterh Hnry ' Summers

William

trifling as it is, it will never fbrink tewarh Henry Aummtrsf. Richard

fmm Um. r , il Sharks. Smith Sttyt ' F;J.,,t Vj.

o their hv.i woo d have been fome confo- Siser of , y3nk'ee co whom ,lis fc T Threlkeld, Bturj TisLie 2 lation for their deaths; hnt thf ni.mrtr . vt' . !, . " r I f;i;:l T:Jf

- - - . vaw ixvili Will m nT n" PJ kV.a a. I I 1 1 M L I LX t L M I .1 LA ILL e

r . . n . . , , '"wi imic, ju ouc oi iicr ireaKS en J " of their virtues fhowed him the ineftimable hwl :u rl i r n 9 V r,,

i..- r kiaT:,, r u j r i- c "'ti a marc oi inanow " v.,lue of bLffings fna.ched from him for- plaufibility, low cunning impudence and W James Walden, William Welch, Peter ever -he remembered alfo that, alas r,,,. i- hT 1, 1 ilw tir:u. . . , V . .

i, un.n oil . r i i hi a w ipuuii jonatnan lvearH " tt uns, jacoo narrtck. he had loft all tnat not one was fpared rUCn-A .n ..... '. rA . J . 9

r i r - - X - v v v i v 1 1 I J

tint he had no earthly obJea of hi, love frcond Ferdinand Count fall

-a.- 0 .... i.iM j .- r ' 1 I .

i ruin iiiihi. ii ia n . i r nn l npvriirnri is .

" "i lU 7 rVuVV ',uw trom the intelligent is honorable

wuuia rc nave cnreueaitr mow w-r i t n n w.

- ...... vi un -aiujroua non oi

wretch, guilty

every thine: abo

; a -

honor by b

Jrc afraid

icm. Praifr GEN. W. JOHNSTON, P. M.

C O R Y D O N, THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OF HARtllSON- COUNTY.

OI '

the woi.drrful effca, of an otatory which'griff, a, of ioy. is ftrrngthrned by bcii.R X? H ;"? T ' "f your 1 HE giftature of the In diana Ter-v.!t-d ann'1!.Ir,1tH,i1;);. l .r . Y.r.. . r 6 , y ucmg mte this is natural innocence is nevrr L; i . j m "u,an51 J cr

" " " n.fwinwu iiimi iiiir:pr:iiru. now outn, when ceatu Until ,fr'.A tvi , . " ",,M; ""'"g imu cu a new lonntv tLon vidn. to a hei;htof pow, in the inetrofe.ed up.m his viaim, after a few 1, !l '"' Knoxat.d Claik,

ci.h m ue i.4.ir, empire equal, u not i;i,m, do we hear complaints of the cruelty VrlcU8 i flr VnrnTntn Aip-nor, to the emperor h.rr.fttf. iQf de.th I Yet he had beheld the deflruc f ui i ? it i.;.w Ut.i.. .... , r .i.-r . . . 1 . acUrUL- of your public and private

M 1 wf.uh miht contribnt

coin.c w.tl, ,,r i,hrj the fe , , . '-

w,t,;,w, l.f.i ...iri. .u.r.: n.:..L:i! .. . U1 yr puoiic and private career in a m.n. .;n r..r, . ' ..T"""''

i . iw .aw., iu.v wiic iiiw cl ) i i s cm jrt i. nnr in i tm . i . - ... . - -"mm- i, rx r in n c nn t,i ... .

.,! il, t. .1. t . . r . . . . llcr UUk Will ITIVe VOll lO Ir-nlnil frt rt.--Xl II ? i i t , . . 1 u,c

i uuiiMir' uit j nrrccivc a in a lew nours : hut in a ir.M..,r ..i . . ' . nismeti ju i er. t iotc r : i

f .1 u:' u r n:r 'i t . .. ' . . . 0 V'OUr opinion ot mv aci nrarv a. n l,:n.: "t.. vc ..i.u i own

in. ne in -i"ViMii .,u.i uiin-;3 u.c j pnei- niomrnt tne icene ot their or fft v'.tt ... . t -n , X . ' on rridav the 1 t i of K'nm!,,, ......

. r iifL . a .". f ".i ; , . ; mi i win coriuuet von mm n , .i.. ' . ' : ., 1.11,-,

u;io'ioi4-wii :or' tne rciuen was made a den ot I'authtrr th',r !,,k:I-n. ... ' mr jms own is hanr fn.i.. r.,,..,.-.! ......

1. ...... k.. !. : 1 . ... .... , , . 3 .7 lerruorv, exnole vour nt4it rl rfl; t .. .nine

ivh u.m, ivcii.uy ins c(urinporr;-st anu i::on tneir tomi) f At this tunera nil?. : '

. m . 1 lai.rtBr .) ill 1 1 w 1 1 1 r ' ai

f . " i - i ' II a a aa & - W J 111 . LJ III111B I I I I ' - I I 1 a .

ii c. i . lurr wti: v. ritf i-i. rr -, r. .i 1 . i ' j vv "w mi vn r nf m.n.. .. .r ir .

' : ' . . VV mazes ot inimutv. nnH f'i-r :. . . " auvar.tai.i-s

k--, r' a r" oinrr IIJanti hte in the 'IVr,

p.or. to ine literary wrrutM ot the preient e.s among the rums he grafps a broken Hon. Albert Ca lami A lhcf II,,and fitc the 'JVr tcfy. r, I have ventured to oft,rou the &,!. ?HUr of tlie buildingit is wet with the p r i v" t r I i f 1 1 r vi ! e ! I of c a I imi n i , in lUe 'ntr ftfa vnBuvS Settle! lowin, trantio, in his homily on PAT1 blood of his children. With one trem tven and;a l;e body of 0fd land .Nl.l Kcmembrr then, my brethren i.blinhand he removes a none the other nrr In nffir,- .1 5 . p r l w,1,f h 15 hejter furplied with rnrflo. n the p.rfTr nfvcrly, in the p.in ,n,l n.rinks f.nmah, mailed ,in,b of, , U "Jngue ' I lir Ut'cTvou liave" "f "r"roS Mi " P 'li Lr.y Ser Unr ot .l.tVafe. in Jl ffli:tis, re-nem. TlieJr mutll.itcd bodies are before Mm JiTlTr i n '"ll"vored i.i the Wrfirrn'Country : it , rcn.isr, t hi br ruff.,,,,, Cf ,0I ad b.uH, forhe illU.i,. of .,o;,e .re vanindl Thlrc ?,i;;SilVt:dr ' cf y,ur ,pl -.,. U,It ,,t mr difplay t.;!, neither life, nrw form, nor feature remain- t you ft Id of "I,' im be tr I . ,f'!,f clonics of every d fc,ir.in v.iil ? you a,l t!, ter.o,, of a w.r, in which all inr. In vjin" doe., he attempt to recog- . "ffl 1 W ? J , bf "ntaK--"" " fettle , err jnturr tvss combined l,im. Te.,'ni,r .llr ,II t, i;.,.... :.. Lt , ""T ' ",,,ftfr. of Vlce ''lots the T.r . r r : . .

were torn from l im r!l n n ,l,ri; ;i -n. VJ cc 01 alu.e. Are ou not, in evrrv ani! ln i Known

children

dridf 1 -

nnu in

crditniy mjsns, but by dath thrj

cru-1, t!ie leaft expite'!.

en were torn r,nm l;i, , rll in one'to diftinKui!li one f,n, another.-Thry are n, n f Vou,, A 'ouf falmomrn-; all i the fl.wer of life ; all alike ; all litr.atrJ n i,h inn.merVb I ewiVrJ .f S r T'' ,b' a uthel.Wm cf vi.tue: and by no w,d,;ll cuH.d into a bathiome m Sf ffidaTV. "fnd rv muni, but iv a Ja'h ti,- ,fi . r ir . . .. . 11 "lc -uaK oi one ot the funrcmr

ji.ucso! wic jerritory artir-d thr leal of

I r f I, . . .. 1 , x . I 1 . ...

v,!, ,:n fuel. fl-d ofr,:i.i ..K ,.t . ,rr- ImlJ If..;.. '.,.., I..., i"ur "'. "X ptov.n

vn-irTi? . Ativ hrtt ot

ot :'iniint . i.u

1 r n . 3' 't'i r .

For if mv of thefe rhiinitirs won! i he--, of i:f"!f into!:rriM'', tliink v ii it k 't

lnvt hrert hi-; .inriv -i-iiii:l wh'!.1 lucli

'.tn'":!''!;" thm, mv '.r-thren,

- m d ynurte.rs. f vou cannot be.,r -.hole :reicl:, ,f cojua P . ;' ;' '"'W .W"U,J V'U !UVe b0r."e.t,'.cm ? the.peorle thcul,t men,

. , c l"ui ,mr,.tru ny 4 you their confidence ?-f.V4 "'n a!,0!her? caUn,,,r. tlunk Cer ttou Hu,t oSaiK a f.U. it mull have been the f;oi:y ol the jt. 6 1

ft rii

yu ii ive loft fruh, a fM.

ri"ri:lr-fj

r-f.r- from riri") ,ir, n

Jn"- th

tn-nnf-r his

a m-n who beheld it ;f ie father who en-fcA

n ! Amu'n the v.a;ii-f:s n doyfu hear the voicr of t:pbraid

f) i-Cts a vour fie i.v. hrrfT.r ie . ,

J ' ' - m iv i ki n i til lUHlt UjKlll remember tint me f lul lj the icwurd of hrnpvnl-i.fr?

:iif rxamp'- ot K.tV'

I orv p.r i!

AYjTrr

f (K the fi'ft Monday in'Mrch ne ing? Dj-hVDiII apply to the court 'of Com

rie-s o: uiaik coimv.

my doors to the Hrnfer

'V i .!;

i ;r r;.ni..h;io-r Re- He I dii iouted welth to the poor ? in th.e m iil nf lii an. Have I hern 4 fj-'x.r t .1.- r..i.-.ir. ;

guitu, Jicy uuC.df hh memory with aAnd u it therefore that 1 aim naked tnd

Indiana

next, I

mon

1 errifmv

A . I Kit. i ' . . 7 '

u. cu-ioiui a lerry -rrf l; thr Ohio, fro,,, 7y 1-nd to the ori,olite fhore, at Lanes tciry. q ury iVc;--;. September 2r.Ja l0e.

and

above

. rw 1 1 1 v u due attrntUruc given on the d.y : mentioned hy '

'J Hi: PROPRIETQUS.

TAKE NOTICE.

t:at i win appIy to tlie nf xt court J ofU, for the county of

nclkv in N!..-....i

a terry on thr Uh-,n. .. 1 ...

1 . ""ii'i ivurrr irif

IUU HITIIIOf I r 1

Ki ox, tin the !U

n-xt, tor

T . , Ill H i yl.f,,.,'. . r-1

vcil. lull X rl '. m.f. .

town c relics the fjrnr. 7

- JOHK RAYIiORN. Sept. 8th, 18C5.

1 pom the rnr.ss or E. STOUT.

FRI.VTF. R TO TIIK TV t r r -r . ...

TH LAWS OI TUE UKiTKO iTAT E J.