Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 December 1809 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM, On the migration to America, tnd pcop ling the Wcftern country, by P. Frcneau. TO Weftern woods and lonely plaint, Ptlemon from the crown departs, Where nature's wildeft genius reigns, To tame the foil and plant the arts What wonders there fliall freedom (hew I What mighty fUtes fucceflive grow I From Europe's proud, defpotic (bores Hither the ftranger takes his way, And, in our new found world, explores A ruppier foil a milder fway Where no proud defpot holds hiiadowo, No flaves infult him with a crown What charming fcenes attract the eye On wild Ohio's favage ftream ! Here nature reigns, whofe works outvie The boldeft pattern art can frameHere ages pft have roll'd away, And forefls bloom'd but to decay.

From thrfe fair plains, thefe rural feats, (Si long concealM, fo lately known) Th' unfocul Indian far retreats, To make fomr other clime his own Wh-re other ftrrams, lefs pleating flow, And darker forefts round him grow. Grt fin of floods ! whofe rapid wave Thro various countries takrs it way, To which creating nature gave Unnumber'd Rreams to fwell thy fway ; Ko longer (hall they ufelrfs prove, Nor idly through the forcft rove. No longer (hall thy princely flood From diftant l ikes be fwcll'd in vain ; Nor longer, through a darkfome wood, Advance, unnotie'd, to the main : Far other ends the fates deeree, And commerce plans new freights for thee. While virtue warms the gen'rous breaft, Hre heavi born freedom ftull rtfide; Nor ihll the voice of war molrO, Nor I O rope's all fpiring pride : Hrrerefoi (lull new lws devife, And order from confufion tifc. Forfkinp kings and rrg fltte, With '11 their p mp and fancied Mifs, The trav'Ier own ' ocvinc'd tho' late, No rclm To free, fo blcft as this : The eR ib hJf to (lves confign'd, And half to (Uvery more refin'd. '0 come the time, and haQe the day, V-.tn man Hull man no longrr cru(h ! When reafon Hull enforce her fway, Ncr thfe tir rrgions raife our blufli, Where Rill the African cnmpUins, And mourns his, yet uwbroken chains. Far brighter fcenes, a future agr, The nuifV pnli, th-fefUtrs Onll hail, Whofe genius fhill the world rnqagr, Whofr drrd? f 1 1 1 1 over death prevail I And hapj irr fyllr ma bring to view, Thn ever caOtrn facs knew. Millilfippi.

M ISC EL L ANT.

For fair at th QtVue of thr W rftrrn Son. THE PEHi'hTUAl. A LMANaC, J'ruc li 1.2 Crnr:.

LOUISA VENONI, THE MAID of the VALLEY. (Continued.) Sometimes when flie perceived him forrowful, her lute would leave its melancholy, for more lively airs, and her countenance affume a gaiety it was not formed to wear. But her heart was breaking with thatanguifh which her generofity endeavored to conceal from him; her frame, too delicate lor the druggie with her feelings, feemed to yield to their force ; her reft forfook her ; the lullre of her eyes grew dim. Sir Edward faw thefe fymptoms of decay with the deeped remorfe. Often did he curfe thofe falfe ideas of pleafure which had led him to confider the ruin of an artlefs girl, who loved and truded him, as an objecA which

it was luxuary to attain, and pride

to accomplifh. Often did he wilh

to blot out from his life a few guil

ty months, to be again reilored to an opportunity of giving happinefs to that family, whofe unfufpeding kinknefs he had repaid with the

treachery of a robber, and the cru

elty of anaflaflin.

One evening, while he fat in a

little parlour with Louifa, his mind alternately agitated and foftened with this impreflion, a hand organ

of a remarkable fweet tone, was

heard in the dreet. Louifa laid a-

lide her lute and lidened ; the airs

it played were thofe of her native country ; and a tew tears, which Ihe endeavoured to hide, dole from her on hearing them. Sir Edward ordered a Ten ant to fetch the organid into the room : he was brought in accordingly, and feated at the door of the apartment. He played one or two fprightly tunes, to which Louifa had often danced in her infancy ; Ihe gave lurlelf up to the recollection, and her tears flowed without comroul. Suddenly the mulician changing the Hop, introduced a little melan. choly air, of a wild and plaintive kink. Louifa darted from her seat and rulhed up to the dranger. He threw off a tattered coat and a black patch. It was her father! She would have fprung to emembrace him ; he turned alide for a few moments, and would not re

ceive her into his arms. But nature at lad overcame his relentuient; he burlt into tears and preUed to his bofom his long lod daughter. Sir Edward ftood fixt in adonilhnuntand coiilulion. " I come not to upbraid you, (laid Venom; I am a poor, weak, old man, finable lor upbraiding ; I am come but to find my child, to forgiveiicr and die ! When you faw u lirjl, we were not thus. You found us v irtuous and happy ; we danced and we lung, ana there w as not a fad heart in the valley where we dwealt. Yetweleltour dancing, our longs, and our cheerfulnefs : you were didrcifed, and we petied you. Since that day, the pipe has never been heard in Yenoni's

fields ; grief and fielcncfs have al-

mod brought him to the grave ;

and his neighbours, who loved and

pitied him, have been cheerful no

more. Yet, mnhinks, though you robbed us of happinefs, you are not luppy ; elfe" why that dejeded look, which, amidlt all the gtandciir around you, I fee you wear, and thofe tears, which, under all the gaudinels of her ap parei, I fee that poor deluded girl lhed?" But Ihe fliall Ihed no more, cried Sir Edward ; you lhall be hap. py, and I lhall be jud. Forgive, my venerable friend, the injuries which I have done thee ; Forgive me, my Louifa, lor rating your excellence at a price fo mean. I have feen thofe high born females to whn h my rankmight have allied me ; I anrathamejl ol their vices, and fick of their follies. Profligate in their hearts, amidft atfeCled purity they are flaves to pleafure, without the lincerity of paflion ; and with the name of honor, are infenfible to the feelings of virtue. You, my Louifa But I will not call up recollection that might render me lefs worthy of your future elleem - Continue to love your Edward but a few hours, and you

(hall add the title to the aflecVtons

of a wife ; let the care and tender-

nefs of a hufband, bring back its

peace to your mind, and its bloom

to your cheek. We will leave for a while the wonder and envy of the

fafhionable circle here. We will

redore your father to his native

home; under that roof I lhall

once more be happy ; happy with

out alloy, becaule I lhall defer ve

my happinefs. Again lhall the

pipe and the dance gladden the

valley, and innocence and peace beam on the cottage of Venoni. A. THUMPER. I was ohte, fayga Vermont Nimrod, pa (Ting down, the banks of the Hudfon, in feardh of game, and fuddtnly heard a crackling on the oppolite bank. Looking acrofs the river, I faw a dately buck, and and inllantly drew up and let fly at him. The very moment a huge flurgeon leaped from the river in the direction of my peace. The ball went through him, and paired on. I flung dow n my gun threw off my coat and hat, and fwam for the floating fill), which, mounting I towed to Ihore, and went to fee what more my lhot had done for me. 1 found it had palled through the heart of the deer, and llruck into a hollow three beyond ; w here the honey was running out like a river! I fprung round to find fome'.

j thing to ltp the hollow with, and

caught hold of a white rabbit It squeaked like a duck pin; ; f() I

J thrulhed it away Irom me in a paf

lion at the dilappointment, and i, went with Inch lorce that it killed three cock patridges and a wood cock ! ! ! BU ITER. Take two parts ol the bed fait, one part of fugar, and one part of salt-petre, beat them up together, and blend the whole completely ukc one ounce of this companion

o every fixteen ounces of butter

work it well into the mafs, and clod- it up for life. Butter thus cured eats as fweat alter being kept

three years as at firll.

NOTICE.

TREASUR T D EP ART ME NT,

November 27th, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received until the fird day of February, at Kafkafkia, by Ninian Edwards,

Governor of the Illinois Territory, for renting the United States

SALT WORKS

and Springs, on Saline creek-, in

the Territory v aforefaid, for. the

term of three years, from the firft

day ol March next. Perfons ma

king propofals will be pleafed to attend to the following outlines: I. (Propofals may be made forrerw ting the whole, or part of faid works and Iprings. II. The kettles hot damaged, and actually found on the premifes, mull, as well as the lines of pipes now in good order, which have been laid by the preftnt leflees, be paid for at a fair valuation by the new lelfees ; and thefe ihall in like manner receive payment at the end of their leafe for the kettles they may leave, and for the lines ol pipes aforefaid at their value at fuch time. III. The ufual redriftions neceffary to prevent the walle of timber, and disorderly behaviour at Jjie works will be infertediu the com raft. IV. The aggregate quantity of lalt annually made, mult not be lefs than one hundred and twenty thoufand bulhels for the whole faline, or in proportion for any part thereof. V. The hrgheft price at which the fait may be fold to be fixed by the leafe ; and a fixed rent in fait, to be paid to the United States, be the quantity of fait actually made more or lels but faid rent to be diminilhed when- . ever the fait lhall be fold at a price lefs than the maximum fixed by the leafe. VI. The efforts heretofore made to reduce the price of fait by fixing its maximum, havieg proved inefleftual, that condition ispreferved only for the purpole of guarding againd monopoly but the important point being to reduce the market price by ensealing the quantity made, ihfe propofals belt calculate d to anfwer that object, and offt ring in the mean while, and until that reduction lhall take place, the highcfl rent to the United States will naturally claim the prt fer-ni'-e. It mud at the fame time be underllood that government will uke into conli deration the character and ability to pi rfonn tin- contract, not v than the nature of the propofals.

f KOM THE Pli Ess 0F E. STOUT. PRI.VTFH TO TH K TKHRiroKY AVD CF THE LAWS OK THK UNITED bfATfcS.