Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 4, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 December 1816 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM.

THE GIN SHOP ; OR, A PEEP INTO PRISON. LOOK thro' the land from north to fouth And look from ctft to weft ; And fee what to our countrymen, Of life'f the deadlieft peft. 4 It is not want, tho' that it bad, Nor war, tho' that it worfc ; But we brave friends endure, alai ; A fclf tormenting curfe. . Go where you will throughout the land, You'll find the reigning fin, In cities, villages or towns ; The monfter's name is gin Tht prince of darknefs never fent To man a deadlier foe ; ' My name is legion' it might fay, The fource of every woe. Nor does the fiend alone deprive, The laborer of his wealth ; That is not all, it murders too Iiis honeft name and health. We fay the times are grievous hard, And hard theyare'tis true ; But drunkards, to your wives and babes They're harder made by you. The drunkard's tax is fclf impof'd, sT Like every other fin ; I The taxes altogether lay No weight fo great as gin. The (rate compels no janan to drink, Compels no man to game ; 'Tis gin and gambling finks him down To rags, and want, and fhame. There comes a man (was once fquire) With children nine or ten ; Comes down to get feme bread on tick, And daggers home with gin. And in his house the harrrlefs babes. Are poorly clcth'd and fed ; Because the craving gin (hop takes

The children's daily brea. The little wretches tremhle there, With hunger and with cold, Where by their father's love of G5N, To fin and misery fold. ""V How amply had his gain fuffie'd On wife and children spent ! But all muft for his pteafuresgo, All to the gin (hop went. From thence he (taggers to the (lew-, To fatisfy his lull : Take home difease and poifons her, Who fufFcrs for a crufi. See the apprentice young in years, But hackney'd long r.i fin ; What maJe him rob his matter's ti!l 'Twss foul ofFcniive gin. That ferving man I knew him once, So trim, fo neat fo fmart ; . Why did he fteal, then pawn his gown ; 'Twas gin enfnar'd his heart. But hark ! what dismal found was that ; Tis lure a tolling bell ! It tolls, alas for human guilt ! Some makls&or's knelt. O ! woiul found ! O ! what could cause, S ch punifoment and fin Hark 1 hear his words, he own's the cause, Eadcorrpny and gin, And when the future lot is nVd, Of darknefs, fire ind chains, How can the darknefs hope to 'ftspc Thofc cverlaftiug paiiu For if the murd'rer's door 'd to wc?, As holy writ declares, The drunkard and fcli murderers, That dreadful portion (Lirtu

From the Connecticut Courant. from reversing the above pro-

Short Chapters of Hints and verb He Jeaped ere he looked.

Advisements on the subject of Hard Times. By One of the People. CHAP VII. No cause of Despair. Where there is no remedy it is

fruitless to tamper with the dis-

Exnerience teaches a dear

school, yet fools will learn in no other." And just so it is But since now he has Graduated, he CP thinks himself competent to teach freshmen fools. Look ere you leap into un

guarded expressions. One word

diness to prosecute any person charged with a breach of those

laws.

Fed. Gaz.

ease ; it is worse than fruitless, as may be a link that will draw on

it encreases tne pain wicnouc any an rndless concatenation. lie hope of cure. Were this alto- careful not to be trodden under gether the case, with respect to f00t? yet suflfer a pound before the present hard times. 1 should y0U resent an ounce. And when think myself insulting my fellow others fling fire, return water racountrymen by the thoughts I ther tnan combustibles. A nohave been addressing to them. Die consciousness of superiority But the condition of the people js the svveetest revenge such a is not thus desperate. There is reVenge as a man can sleep and a remedy, and an effectual one ; thrive on Under tn;s head we though at best it can operate but may rank hasty and pa9Sionate slowly. actions as well as words. However, there is one impor. LooJc ere you jeap into con. tant particular which it behoves tracts and speculation of very us, even in the very threshold, to douDtful result; true, " nothing be well apprized of ; it is this: venture nothing have ;" but he with those of us who are no high- must indeed be a freshman who er than the common sort m point wouid venture his all into awhirlof income, the question now is pooi . for so have circumstance not as to whether we shall be and season conspired to render able to live in a sort of sPlendor, the present time. Look ere you nor as to whether we shall be jeaDj or your neXt bound may able to live at our ease, now land you into the limits, or perworking, and then idling, as best haps -nt0 the very ( inner tempje suits us. This is quite out of the itself question nowThe times are m , into debt past when we could gather mo- There is no getting out. Go you ney by handfuls, and spend it by musfc Do u think of agki double handfuls when, i not the for a liule ? wiU hJ wisest, we were the finest people a scri tural answer t0 be sure, upon earth, when, somehoW,tbut n() other than payffle what work or no work, we could fare thou owest sumptuously every dav ; when r 7 , . . the ladies and the gentlemen al- Look ere you leap mto idleness most out numbered those who You had. muchJt fetter eap mto i M n i a quagmire. It benumbs all the were merely women and men. 1 P . , . . Those times are past, and in all e,ierSf oi t.S0UJ' and, bgs a prohahilily are gone forever. ma to t,ff,aim 8.od fcllo"s V i j well met77 to every vice in d?a Nay they have carried our mo- . r f , , , J . w J i ui ,i a iff bohcal gradation. It is worse ney along with them and lelt us 7, . ... , J -i 0 1 j 1 1 4 T than ah the dungeons and blackpenniless and in debt. And now, . . . . , " ! , holes m the annals ot despotism.

for the Old Fellow himself lies

Love Episilc hij a Stone cutter (9 a Widow. Divine Flint, Were you not harder than por phyry or agate, the chissel of my love, drove by the mallet of my fidelity, would have made some impression on thee. I that havi shaped as I pleased the most un toward substances, hope by the cumpass of reason, the plummit of discretion, the saw of constancy, the soft file of kindness, and the polish of good words, to have modelled you into one of the prettiest statues in the world: but alas ! I find you are a flint, that strikes fire and sets my soul in a blaze, though your heart is as cold as marble. Pray pity my case madam, for I know not what I say or do. If I go to make a dragon I strike out a cu. pid : instead of a church font for baptism I mare an apothecary's mortar. And dear pillar of my hopes pedestal of my comfort and cornice of my joy, take compassion upon me ; for upon your pity I build all my hope, and will if fortunate, erect statues, obelisks, and pyramids, to your generosity.

with us, the only question is, as

to whether we can live at all, or, rather, as to whether we can get a sufficiency of wholesome food to eat, and of comfortable raiment to put on. And this very interesting question admits of a downright affirmative answer.

with his mouth wide open at the bottom. Look ere you leap very drep into a jug of spirits ; that is ere you let the spirits leap into you. Warm drink makes cold

Yes, with the blessing of God, r"' ? . ,caK. wm we ran Hvr vet and onde aoart Sink a Teat shlP-' There 1S no l ca..ilneet,and pude apait, good thing within the compass can live comfortably ; we can Jf . 6 , . . v 11 1 ot imagination or desire, but yc : live quiet as well as our good 3 11 1 ' ir j a Yu spirits will drown, grandfathers and grandmothers 4 . , . . , if

r uiany near in mina me en-

granaiatners ana g

did before us, and peradventure better. What! when we have hands to work ; when we have such an abundance of land to till: when we possess a great deal

suing Winter, and " LOOK ERE YOU LEAP."

It is not to be doubted, that it. i 1 1 .

(UUI 1II1U1 I Hill 1 KJll V. V ' 1 1 V. I 1111 lii MIO c i i, orioc tKon f rrZ many of the citizens of the U . S

un in i , ii ill uu ii vi iui nu.i 1 i ages-cant we get a living, after to afford assistance to the natnots all? Away with this hypochon- South Amenca, in their atdriac whim. We can yet pro- tempt to throw off the Spanish tu. i,; yoke, and become independent ;

iviv i,hi iiiiiiii l IV i. ccii y iu iuu ... body : but, then, we must come an excuse, will readily be down from our high ropes, and Pund four tJ?,s1 disposition, by

that right soon. From the Catskill Recorder. By Aphorismns. " LOOK ERE YOU LEAP."

So thinks Aphorismus ; and idence of disposition, or wish on accordingly he has been looking the part of the government of the ever since his lust number not United States, to be at war with gaping at the world, he wouldn't Spain ; especially, as the laws of have you think, but, according to the U. States provide for punishthe true import of his last text, ing any person within their jurislooking to himself minding his diction, who sets on foot any own business. And for a good hostile expedition against a pow reason ; for his own business has er with which we are at peace, & I een more than he could attend the executive, so far from refuto. And whence was this ? just sing, have always evinced a rea

those who feel grateful for the

aid afforded to the U. States, under similar circumstances, during the Revolutionary War. It would, however be unfair to offer this conduct individuals as ev-

LONGEVITY. Died in Washington county Md. a few days since Mamm Iiiicy, a woman of colour, aged at least one hundred and thirty years, having been the mother of nineteen children. She belonged to the estate of Mr. Thomas Henry Hall, deceased. Her exact age cannot be established with any degree of certainty ; but from the evidence of some ancient family records, it appears, that the years of the days she had numbered, exceeded six score and ten. An old woman, yet living, who has been attached to the family upwards of seventy years, asserts with confidence, that she overran the above age. She states, thai when a small girl herself, Mammy Lucy was called a very old woman, and then carried the marks of advanced life. Her youngest son was in Old Castle Cressap, (an Indian fort at Mr. Thomas B Hali's farm, four miles from this town) when invested by the aborigines, upwards ot seventy years ago. He was a waiter upon Col. Cressap the commander, and was at that period thirty-five years of age It would appear that the old lady lived throughout the whole of the eighteenth century, nearly making up, in two more, the grand climacteric of human life. And Lucy gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto her people, being old, and full of days ; and her sons and her daughters buried her." An Irish soldier once returning from battle in the night, marching a little way behind his companion, called out to him 6 Hallo, Pat, I have catch a Tartar !' 4 Bring him along then !' 4 Aye. but he wont come.1 'Why then come away without him fc By J -s, but he won't let me ?

GAMUTS for sale here.

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