Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 43, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 September 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM, N X AN ACREONTIC. N Bring me wine and Ice me drink ; Would you have me ever think, Always dancing aftercare, Rambling on I know not where 'AVine allays my parching heat, Bids the heart more nobly beat ; Wine difpenfes mirth around, Age more lightly treads the ground String me never fading bays, ' Wine will yirld the fongs f praife. Then I'll alfo join the Gods of wine, Chief of Mirth's mod noble line ?

STANZAS. IF there exifts a charm more dear Than Beauty's oazzeling dye, It lives in pity's generous tear, And Virtue's hallowed ligh. For thu tear the foul's refin'd That flows at pity's call The gentle figh improves the mind That heaves for others thrall.

ANECDOTES.

As two rultic neighbors was talking together on a late market day, in Dromore fays one to the other, Can you tell me Paddy, what makes candles fo dear this feafon ? Why the war, replied the other. Lord bless us! (cried Pat ) arc they going to fight by candle light V M ISC EL L ANT. THE PERPETUAL COMPLAINT. Being among the number of thofe with whom mankind is conftantly diffuisfied, I beg leave to fubjoin my complaints to thofe that hve occafionally introduced them to the public, through the channel of your communications. When I tell you I am as old as Time hirnfelf, you will allow, that on the fcore of longevity I ought to be rrfpected; and when I add that I am venerable in my appearance and temperature, as mortals themfrlves, you will alfo be difpofed to grant that I am not to be re probitrd on the fcore of inconfiftency. Yet fo it is, that even though I fremingly take piins to accomodate my variable difpofitions to tbr variable difpofitions of mankind, thr circumftancr producrs no iVmp3-tht-tic congeniality between us ; und my incotiftancy is rendered proverbial, while their own propenfity to fickelnefs never occurs to thrir recolleaion. Yes Sir I have roqmrrcl with the world on the fubjeel, of ind.fiVrence, neglect, or difregard ; for I inult confrfs every body pays me due attention ; I am irqired after every .light and every morning, and am fo much the topic of ccmvrrtatioii, and f regularly introduced alter the cuilocmy greetings of tcrcmo-

iual intercourfe, that I may he faid to be a kind of ucceflary alTiftant to converfation : for when people are barren of ideas, I am always at hand to fupply the vacuity of their minds; yet I am fcarcely mentioned in any other light but as the fource of complaint and dilTatisfadUon, and without having fome opprobrious epithet attached to my name. Some times I am accufed of being too warm in my behaviour, fometimes too cold. If I finile unexpectedly, I am fufpe&ed of harboring treacherous defigns ; and men fay to one another 'farcaftically, " We (hall pay for this 1" If I continue xny placid deportment, and am mild, fwcet, and amiable, for any length of time, I ani faid to be good humored even to fatiety. Some wifh me to weep when I am difpofed to be merry, and fome to be gay when I am inclined to be fad. Thick, dull, nafty, are epithets commonly applied to me. If I am ftill, I am faid to be vaporifli if loud, boifterous and rude. Aches, pains, rheumatifm, & mooting corns, are often attributed to my influence. In fliort, fir, I am fo wretched, fo cenfured, To abufed, every day, that it would feem as if I were a Granger upon earth, and born but yerterday rather than an inhabitant of Paradifr, known to Adam and Eve, and one who was prefent at the Creation. But I will nor detain you any longer, Sir, for I fee you ore looking at me through the window, and meditating an interveiw with your very old acquaintance, THE WEATHER.

WTLUKM HENRY HARRISON,

Govjrhor end Commander in Chief of the

Indiana Territory, and Commissioner

Plenipotentiary of the United States for concluding a Treaty or Treaties with the Indians North West of the Ohit. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS conferences are about to bS commenced in the town of Vincennes, with certain of the Indian Tribes, on fubjec"s interefting as well to the Territory, as the United Statesand whereas the laws of the Territory authorife and empower the Governor of faid Territory to prohibit the falc of any ardent or intoxicating liquors to the Indians, pending any Treaty or Conference. Now therefore I have thought proper to ifiue this my proclamation prohibiting the fale or difpolTticn cf any fpirits or other intoxicating liquors, to, or amongfl. the Indians, on any pretence whatfoever. in the Town of Vincennes, or within thirty miles of the famr. Given under my hand, and the fcal of the Territory, at Vincennes this twenty-third day Gf Augull, ore l.S. thoufand eight hundred and nine, and of the Independence of tb: United States the thirty fourth. WILLI All HENRY HARRISON. I5y the Governor, JOHN GIBSON, feeretary. For fale at the Olnce of the Wcftern Sun. THE PERPETUAL ALMANAC, Fries 12 1-2 Cents.

PROPOSALS BY GENERAL W. JOHNSTON L. D. C of Vincennes, I, T. J For publishing by fubferiptioti A VJorky to be entitled THE INDIANA JUSTICE AND CONSTABLES GUIDE. This work fliall embrace a legal defertation on the life and progrefs (under the laws of England) and prefent rtfpr cYvc powers and duty of Juttices of the Peace and f!iin fth!ri iinrinr t!i fhrntr hu-c rf

Indiana it fhall likewife contain all the

neceffary forms for their rcfpecYive olHces j and be prefaced with the Conflitution j of the United States and the ordinance of

th: Terriory. Tfte utility and efientiality of fuch an undertaking and publication, efpccially in Indiana, cannot indeed it ought not, fur a moment, to he doubted it is therefore hoped that44 what is generally good, will be liberally encouraged.". CONDITIONS.

1. It will be comprifed of one volnms

ottavo, of oetween one hundred and one hundred and fifty pages. 2. It flial! be princed or good common' paper and flitched. 3. It will be put to prefs as foon is fou? hundred conies are fubferibed for (which amount, it is fuppofed wiil barely defray the expenfes which muft ncceffarily be incurred for materials, a copW(t and printing.) 4. It will be delivered to fu'jfciiben, in Vincennes at one dollar per copy. 5. The number of copies fubferibed for, muft be paid npon the fubferibers bcim;

publicly notified that the work is teaay fcr delivery. . Subfcription3 for the above ork will be received by thcfeveralPoft-Mafters in the Territory, by ether Gentlemen to whom fubfription papers m2y be forwarded and by others who may feel favorably difpofed towards the undertaking. EDITOR.

NOTICE, Brought in by the Fiaiiltashaw Indians cud delivered up to tlq Governor, A BLACK mare with a blaze face, thft near fure and hind foot white, and the hind part of the cflf hind foot while, fourteen and a half hands high, branded on the near fliould-r J D frven years old la fk fprirg, the lower part of her under lp white the owner is defired to come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take her away. Joseph Barroru Interpreter. Auguft Cth, 1303. 3GU

NOTICE. THOSE who are indebted to the Vincennes Library, are recurhVd to imke immediate navment. nthrrwifr hv an ord?f

r made by the Prefidcnt and Directors I Hi-Il

be obliged to brinf; fuit far the money i,ov

due.

Augufl 8:h, S09.

Peter jones, Librarian