Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 16, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 March 1816 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM.

CONTENT MAKES LITTLE PLENTY ! 0 were we of Ben Buftle's mind, Throughout this i.rnr of trouble ; To each ill lup we'd be refign'd, And deem it a mere bubble ! For he, whene'er the world wags wrong, Friends few, or money's fcantj, Siners gily as he jogs along, w Cootcnt makes Lade Plenty !" Let fate drive here, or bind him there ; O'er rugged piths or mellow ; Let Scandal talk Ben does not care ; Still he's a 1 happy fellow !' What is to him, a fplendid name, Or wealth ; one crown or twenty, Or none at all -'tis all the fame ; " Content makes little Plenty I Then while we buftle on through life, Be honeft Ben our model ; No disappointment, pain or ftrife, Will e'er perplex our noddle : We fhall not ?rafp at all below, Nr thmk our portion fcanty : But find 'tis 4 all in-all' to know, " CON KEN T makes little plenty I" THINGS THA T I HA TE. 1 lute, upon a f ofty day, To be without a fire ; 1 hate to fee a (lup rJ p'ay, And 1 abhor a liar. I hate the mfin and fordid wretch, Who lives for felf alone ; Whofr Innd was never taught to flrttch, When for row heav'd a groan I hate, when'er I have a cent, To have the fuffcrirg fhun me ; 1 hate, when all my money's fpent To have a fellow dun me. I hate when Pegafus I ride, A little fame to earn tv-, To hive a printer damn my pride, And not to print my journey.

TO M-XKKIED LADt ES. W ithout ar.v defire to be confi 1ered as wife as the re li of the thinking part of the world, I would with to communicate to married ladies a fecret of ineftimable value, and which it properly attended to, however bitter it may on the tint tafte appear, ic will not fail to give a never fading lultrc to beauty, 4 Where vou cannot con m fluently with truth, take your husbands part in any arguniiu, inftcad of joining againtt him, you fliould either be Blent, or prudently endeavor to turn the convention on other fubjccls. Nothing more effe&ually leflent man Or wife in t lie ees ot the w orl d than when they publicly differ in opinion ; and u u of little conk quince which may have the molt realoo on their

fide, fince both will equally fuffer in the deciflion : Modefty and diffidence are the greateft ornaments of women. That enchanting inftru ment the female tongue, is more powerful than all the charms of mufic. By this the flubborn foul of mankind is foftened, and men would not know how to refufe, if wo men knew but how to afk. Anger, violence, and rage deform the female figure, and a turbulent woman disgraces the delicacy her sex. Where violence reigns, love foon quits that habitation. Be advifed, ye fair, never be loud or violent, if you wifh to be happy, ' The characlereflic of an engaging temper, is mildnefs and cheerfunefs and with thefe two qualities a woman will pleafe a man of fenfe. To engaging manners, women owe tiie (lability of their empire, and the lefs power they afTutne, the more they are fore to have Too, many, fo far from betaking themfelves to the road pointed out by nature, counteract its intentions. They are no fooner out of bed, than they fet up their lamentations : every thing vexes them even to provocation, they vvifli themfelves in the grave and thus inftead of that pleafure and harmony which Hymen proroifed them, they difFufe fadnefs and languor around them. My fair countrywomen w ill readily excufe the liberty I have here taken, in cenfuring the conduct of some ladies, for if they look around them, they will find two many that is correfpond with this picture. There are fome men of fo preverfe a difpofi tion, that neither love or friendlhip can fubdue their terocity ; but let married wo man take this as a certain rule if love and tendernefs are not capable of bringing a man to reafon, fury and violence nev-

gious or philofohical fyftem that ever appeared in the world, wonder to fee fo many men, eminent both for tkeir piety and for their capacity laboring to make a mystery of this divice inftitution If God vouchfafes to reveal himfelf to mankind can we fuppofe that he choofes to do it in such a manner as that none but the learned and contemplative can underftand him ? The generality of mankind can never, in any poflible circumftances have lei jure or capacity for learning or profound contcmpla tion If therefore we make cht iftianiry a myftery we exclude the greater pai t of mankind from the knowledge of it ; which is directly contrary to the intention of its Author as is plain from his explicic & reiterated declarations. In a word I am perfectly convinced, that an intimate acquaintance with the fcripture particularly the gofpels is all that is necefTary to our ac. ccmplilhment in true chriftian knowledge. I have looked into fome fyflems of Theology but 1 never read one of them to an end, becaule I found I never could reap any inftruction from them. To darken what is clear, by wrapping it up in the veil of myflery and Icience was all the purpofe that the beft of them feemed to me to anfwer. (Letter to Sir Wm. Forbes.)

to the houfc himfelr where Ihe refided, and enquired of her if it was true that (lie had married in his abfence, and being anlwered in the affirm, ative, he demanded his papers and his children. Lieut Smith w ho was prefent at this con, verlation, having withdrawn for a few moments to an adja. cent room, returned with a loaded piftol, and immediate, ly discharged its contents in the head of Capt. Carfon. The ball entered at his mouih and (battered his head in a fliocking manner. Inthisfitua. tion he has languifhed from the 20ih of January until laft Sunday night, w hen he expir. ed. Lieut. Smith was immediately taken into custody.

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OF THE CHRISTIAN REEL G10X. BT DR. BE ATT IE. The chriftian religion, according to my creed, is a very Pimple thing ; intelligible to the meaneft capacity, and what if v e aie at pains to join praclice to know ledge we may make ourfel vest borough -ly acquainted with, without turning over many books. . I t is ihe diftinguifhtd excellence of this religion, that is entirely popular and fined both m its doctrines and in its evidences to all conditions c capacities or reafonable creatures a character w Inch does not belong to any other reii-

From the Philadelphia True A mcrican of Feb. 5. DEATH ! Capt. John Carfon, who was Ihot, on Saturday evening, January 26th, by Lieut. Smith, departed this life, about 1 1 o'clock laft night. The ciicumftauces relating to the above death, as they have been communicated to us) are as follows : Caprain Carfon failed from this country for the Raft Indies before the breaking out of the late war, leaving his family in Philadelphia, confifting of a wife and 2 or 3 children, He arrived at the port to which he was deftined after the ufual pallage, but the war having commenced about this time, cut off all opportunities of conveying any information of his fituation to his family. At this place captain Carfon was detained a long time, so that 4 years elapied lince he had been heard from ; and his wife think ing he nmil have bttn loft, mairied the above Lieut, bmith, with whom (he was living when Capt. Carfon returned a fhort time fince to this country. Being apprized of what had taken place in his family, he fent bis father in law to inform his w ifc ot his arrival in Phi la del. phia, add Ihortly after went

It being the ufnal cuftom of the Koman governors to advertife the fenate and the people of fuch material things as happened in their respective provinces, Publius Lemulus, being prefidentin the days of Tiberius CiEfer the Emperor, wrote the following epilllc to the fenate concerning Chriir. Pol. Examiner. Conscript Father sf There appeared in thefe our days, a man of great virtue, named Jcfus (Thrift, who is yet living among us, and, of the Gentiles is accepted for a prophet of truth ; but his owndiciples called him the fon of God. He raifeth the dead, and cureth all manner of difeafes. A man of ftature fomewhat tali and comely with a very reverent counte. nanre fuch as the beholders may doth love ar?d fear ; his hair the color of a filbert fudy ripe, plain to his ears whence down vi ard it is more orient of colour, fomewhat curling and waving about his moulders. I n the midlt of his head is a seam or a partiiion of his hair after the manner of the Nazaraties ; his forehead plain & delicate, his face without fpot or wrinkle beautified with a comely red, his nofe and mouth exactly formed, his head thick, the color of his hair, not of any great length but forked ; his look innocent his eyes grey, clear and quick in reproving terrible in admonifhing courteous in fpeaking very modeft and wife in proportion of body well fhaped. None have h en him laugh ; but many have seen him weep a man of his fin -gular beauf y for pa Acs the chit, tlreu of mtn M

Some people will never learn any tiling for this reafon becaule they undcrftand every thing too foon. TO M KK LOVE. Talk nonfeofe

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