Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 5, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 August 1811 — Page 4

Trom thl DESK of POOR IIOCI-RT the SCRIBE. Though she in aid fortune shine ; n J rm and beauty be divine ; A Slut shrdl ne'er be Wife of mine. There arc fome Icllbns very proper to be rriven in domettic ceconomy, which the wri u-rs of your folio volumes think below then noiice ; the preacher conceives them below the dignity of the defk ; and they muft pafs without remark, unlefs fome humble plodding wight, like poor Robert the Scribe, (hall take them into fpecial confiderauon. Among thefe one on cleanlinefs, is not the leaf! important Some writer has obferved (and I think I faw the obfervation in the Gleaner) that cleanlinefs is allied to Codgers.' Certain it is, that there is an intimate connexion be tween the purity of the body and the purity of the mind. No woman can be lovely that is not neat. The fairett (he that ever trod the earth, though (he were young & bloom

ing as Hebe ; though grace were in her

ftep, heaven in her eyes, in all her geQures dignity & love yet, Ihould (he appear abroad

with her neck foiled, or her wnlts grealy,

believe me dear git Is, fhe would excite only

difguft. When Paris decided the moll delicate

and important point, on the fouthweltern declivity of mount Ida, had Venus appeared

w wh her mouth ereafed, like an-Alderman's

w ife at a turtle feaft, depend on ic, (lie never

would have been honored with the Apple.

Harrv Haw keye, of the city of New York,

Was a young gentleman of much fprightlinefs and wit ; genteel in his manners, of graceful perfon, and pofleflinc a handforne fortune.-

lou may eafily guefs, that all the girls let their caps for him. Harry, though not too fallidiou?, was yet defirous of getting a neat wife. Beauty,' faid he is defirable ; good

fenfc and good nature necenary ; but neat-

ne(s added he is indifpenfable. A young hdv with whom he became ac

quatnred, added to a fine perfon, regular fea

tures, wit, 2nd good nature, a tortune of

ten thouland dollars. Dorothy Harley, for that was her name, was well pleafed with the attention of Harry. The courtfhip went on and every body confidered it as an excellent match. One afternoon, Harry went up to her fathers, which was a little way in the country , to ipend a tew hours with his Dorothy, to partake of fome or their excellent ftrawberries, which were at that feafon in high perfection. Seated in a delightful arbor, in the garden, they chatted a while, as you may luppofe, of love ; and then Ihe ran to bring, with her own hands, fome ilravvberries and cream. After regaling theinfelves with the delicious treat, Harry, playing with his faucer chanced to turn it bottom upwards in his lap. What his mortification end altonifhmcnt, when lie U'heid the bottom of the faucer black with dial it would hive pofed a man of 1 els leniibilitv than he poficfled. He feized an op port unity, and wrote on the grcaie, with the end of the fponn, the following lines, and left the houfe, v hich he vihted no more : 'J hi she in cr.d f-tiunc .ir.e ; InJ:ir.i c.i:J beuuly be diV.ne ; A j'.j.V iur be Wife i f 7r.it;:.

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TEAM nu.IT news.

On Saturday nigrum- Kill, at t:n o'clock;

failed from New York for Albany, t!;e new j

learn boat Hope, of Albany, Elihu Hunker ;

.late of the Packet Experiment) mailer. ; m m

heis oneot the two boats built by the Al-

bany company, in oppofuion to the tight j claimed by meifrs. Livingllon and Fulton, j under a patent from the United States, and aj

law of this (late, to the exclufive navigation of the Hmlfon or North river by fleam boats.

It is (uppofed, that an attempt to obtain an

injunclion in chancery, and Hop and feize this

boat, will be immediately made, but with

what fuccefs is doubtful. The Hope is a

handforne boat, about 156 feet in length, el

egantly fitted up, and meafuring upwards of ft. ST" f ft I I .

200 tons, one went oil inline uyie, wnn a band of Pandean and other mufic on board, amidft the cheers of the fpe&ators, whom intereft and curiofity had attracted. While we (hould condemn and difcountenance any infractions or encroachments on the legal and conllitutional rights of meflrs Livingfton and Fulton, whole meritorious exertions in bringing this delightful and. ex peditious method of travelling to fo great perfection will engrave their names on the tablit of hiftory among the benefactors of mankind ; we cannot but ifeel pride in contcmpla'ting the picture, in cafe the new. com; pany fliould not be prevented from running their boats, which the current feafon will prefent. The other Albany boat will be ready to fail in a few weeks. The new boat of the F Clermont company, building for commodore VVifwalli has been launched fome time, and will be completed with all pofhble difpatch.

And poffibly, if their navigation is not prohibited, the Rariton may enter the fame line. We fhall then behold the Angular, and truly adonifliing and magnificent fpectacle of a ri ver travel led by fix fleam boats, one ltarting each day in the week except Sunday, and each, if the patronage is equally divided, obtaining fufficient to cover the heavy expenfes of running them throughout the feafon a

public accommodation without equal or fimi larity in the world. Y0'ua)lan FATAL, March to, 181 i. To the 'Editors of the Boston Patriot. Sirs, I fend you for record in your valuable paper, the following account of a remaikabic phenomenon that hys lately happened at bt Michaels, contained in a letter I recently re ceived from I homas Hickling, vice conful of the United States for that ifiand. As the fhoal therein mentioned wiil probably expofe Ihips to danger, it is dcfirable that this information Ihould be generally dilluled, tliat mariners may be guarded again!!. I am, cc. JOHN B. DABNKY. Consul of the United States for Azores. St. Michaels, Feb. 23, 1811. " Dear sir On the 29th, 30th and 3 ill ub. we were much alarmed by frequent Jhocksoi earthquakes fay upwards or twenty; and on the lit inll. information was received here that a volcano had broken ou: in ihe fea, five leagues welt of this port, and half a league trom the land, in fifty or lixty, and fome hlh erinen lay leventy or eighty fathoms water. 1 repaired immediately to that part or the illaud, and to my utter afronifhmcnt, faw a vutl column of black fmoke ilfued out of the ocean. I here was a flrong gale from the fouthward, and blew the Ja:okc over the

land. The fea was exceffively agitated, and the lurf on the lhorc was frightful. It

was allertcd by the pcafants, that the preceding night fire had been emitted ; being curious to afecrtain the fact, I returned to the city, and 4fired my lbn and fon in la " go and tarry oppofitc the (j) cano all night they did Uk3 and faw at various times, during the night, fire ifTuc forth like a number of rockets dis

charged together. Large malles of Hone, or lava, were continually thrown above the furface of the fea. Wonderful, indeed, how fire could pierce lbc!i a vafl body of water ; yet luch was adlually the cafe. In eight days if entirely fubfided, leaving a flioal on which the fea breaks. What a happy deliverance for us : for had this formidable volcano opened on the land, ic would have gone near to ruin this line ifiand. I;am, &c. T;H., , Interesting A' act. A letter from a very intelligent gentleman in this city, to his friend in -New York, ftates, that a few days fine'e a fracas occurred in the Philadelphia Ho'pital, between two per-, fons who were labouring un i der mental derangement.. 1 In the conteft the fkull of one of the combatants was fractured. Dr. Phyfic was called in to trepan the kull in per. forming the operation he difcovered fome fuperfluous flefh which bore hard upon the brain ;t and by removing it, the fubjeft was reftorcd perfectly to his realbnPhil. Gaz. A gentleman of veracity arrived in this town ycfierday dircflly from tort Maiden, Upper Canada, via sandufky, who informs that lie law a large number of Indians from the Miffilfippi, collected ar the

former place, receiving prcfcnts from the- iritifh. And at sanduffcy a white man had jufi been found in the woods, near riie United states Hore, murdered, (hipped and fcalped fhree ftrokes of a tomhawk had penetrated his fkull. Cincinnati pap.

BKKF WANTLI),

nPHK CiMct&tT v.i!I givr fixtffP niil.

charitable becf.

Joseph 0 nettle.

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