Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 February 1822 — Page 4

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THK WINTRY DAY. Is it in mi ms'mns rich and ir;iv,

O i vlo'vny 1kcs and couches warm, That N iUuv oA-iis the Wintry Day, And s irivks tohcar the howling storm?

Ali! no! 5T;s o i the black and barren heath, Where mis'ry feels the shaft of death, As to the d irk and freezing grave Her cluldren, not a friend to save, Unheeded go !

Is it in Clumbers, silken drest, At tables with profusion's heap; I Is it oi pillow s soft to rest In dr- ims of long and b dmv sleep? Ah! no! 'Tis in the rushy hut obscure "Where l'o ertv's low sons endure, And, scarcely d inngto repine, On a straw p diet, mute, recline, O'erwhclm'd with woe; Is it to fl mnt in warm attire, To laugh and f.vist and dance and sing, A 'id crowd mind the 1)1 azing lire, And m ike the room with revcli ring ? VX Ah! no! Tis on the Prison's flintv floor.

Tis vhere the de if'ning wliirlwinds roar.

Tjs wVn the sea-boy on tue mast. I Lavs the waves bounding to the blast! And looks below ! Is it in chariots gay to ride. To crowd the solendi i midnight ball ? T i -evel in luxurious pride, "Wad- pamper'd v ssals wait vour call ? Ah! no! Ts in a c'aeerless, naked room, Where nis'rv's icttms wait their doom! Ware a f'Mid mother famish' dies, "Wh le forth a frantic father flies, Man's desp'r ate foe !

industry, became so powerful that! fall besides going two quarters to ' with the great importance of the

I they could H-nd 300.000 fighting; school, spun one hundred and Saviour's Advent. The event is

Is it where, prodigal and weak. The sll snen-Uhnft sattvrs gold, Whn e gt felly hasti s to seek The sordid, wanton, false and bold?

Ah

no

T.s in the silent spot obscure, 'here, forced all sorrows to endure, V le G rtus le rn -, oh less sad To c'vr-t the am, ;.nd on the bad False praise bestow ! Is It, -vhere gamesters flocking round, T1 - shining heaps of we 1th displav ? W f ishion's giddy tribes are found Sjvuu'ng their senseless hours away ? Aii! no! Vis where neglected genius sighs, Whe'-e hope exhausted silent dies; "Where merit starves bv pride opprest. Til k. en stream th it warms the breast rorhears to flow !

""FROM NILKS WKF.KLY RKGISTER "J

IIOUSV: HOLD M ANITFACTURKS.

men into the tieUl hut their wealth sunk them so deep in ef

feminacy, that they banished from

their chief eitv all the artists

whose occupations occasioned

rude noise, and even would not

suffer a eoclc to be kept within

their walls, least his crowing miht disturb t ieir slumbers or

effect their delicate nerves the

lesult of these things was. that one

quarpd with the Crotious, a bar-

fly and lahonous people 100000

ot Hie latter killed or made captives and slaves of 300 000 Sybarite -oldiers, in one day with per fe t ease, and at once, as it were

extinguished that people. On

the same principle we might shew

how it is that the reigning prince of Kuronc, boasting on each side

a long line of royal ancestors

seem to occupy a middle space

between rational men and irra

tional brutes about the half of

them a e almost idiots, and there

is not ooe man of talent among

them blessed as they have been

with opportunity to obtain know

ledge ; a Spartan mother would

not have acknowledged the best of them for her son. if possible to

avoid it. A d sire of nulepend

ence springs up from an acqoisi

Hon of power, and men of the

m st servile minds feel it as the

road is opened by wVieh they

may arrive at the enviable con

dnion, through a reliance on

themselves; woman a e equally

suhje.'t to the operation of these common principles, and it is al

m st impossible that they shouU

not impart a portion of their own

honorable feelings to their chil

dren. a d cause their little hearts

to pant with the ground work of

republicanism a wish to be on ly !elf dependent. Household

industry cannot he broken down

even by the "ever wa'ehful in

flnenee of Britain" nor be bribed

to prostration by her conspired

manufacturers, it once more iull

established in the United Stales;

for we have learnt wisdom too

i lxtv pounds of wool: not a scarcely more miraculous in its

thread drawn by any one but nature, thm arc the effects by

themselves. in my lathers house which it was followed. Before no thread was spun except a little that period, almost the whole A .I' . l. .1.1 I II I .1 i

ior making snoes ue oepenueu worm was mined in the darkness upon European goods. While I of heathenish superstition and ialso did so. my family was always dolatry. Even the Jewish Churchy

oare oi oeu cioines laoie linen. nau oecome sunk and degraded vKC now we have not only a plen ' to such a degree as to possess littyofall these things, but piles of tie more than a name The in-

them to spare oi in reserve. It troduction of Christianity produwould tire you to hear of bow ced consequences that miirt have many line twilled blankets, single astonished the surrounding world, and double coverlets &c. we have. Empires and kingdoms were conThe girles are now spinning wool verted to the new system of faith 2 1 cuts to the pound to make a and morals kings and heroes, piece of cloth but I have with all their civil and military boasted enough, and most cun-. strength, were unable to withelude" 6cc. stand the force of the doctrines My friend has not boasted too propagated by a handful of unletmucb his brief history reminds tered fishermen and peasants the me of that part of Mr. Clay 's elo- pride of man was humbled, the quent speech in favor of domestic i power of monarehs was withered industry, wherein he referred to ; the spirit of persecution was conthe family of the venerable col. , temned. the rack and the fire Shelby, (the hero of Kings m nun-'. were submitted to with the lofttain in the revolution, and wno so test and most triumphant fortilirmly led the Kentuckians, as lurle. and the doctrines of the his children, to battle in the late Gospel spread with a rapi iity war) see vol XIX. page 190 that astonished even the bloody Ilis family is claTi by the labor of minded cmemies of the religion of its hands the spinning wheel and the Saviour, and at length softcnthe loom were in m tion by day ed or satiated their cruel and sanbreak" and the matron delighted guinary disf)nsitiofjs to shew her friends the stores of Wliat a change does the world goods laid asa'.d for her daughters, exhibit at the present time. Naon the days of their marriage tions, which at the commenceLet the painted dolls of our cities ! ment of the Christian era were sneer at such things as they please i involved in the horrors of paan the daughters of isaac sh l- idolati y. are now. and for cenury whether at the spinning wheel . r,cs have been, refined and poiishr in i he drawing room, posses- ea the pat-ons of science, of comsinnr a real dinnitv that would, ot merce,and of social lwumnp t

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us own lorce. put to night a whole 'Mipponers oi morals and religion, Jsqua-h-on of those semimen cal- the followers of that Divide EM;Yled dandies, while gathering to it- MANUEL, who was born at

UV ;.-ver reilcci upo i the pro j dearly through sutVeiing. lobe ItVJ

gress and prospects oi mat poruon ! u&iiiiv uguni. ii is uaseu on virof t 'ne national lab c wni!i is ap-' tue cheerfulness is its compan plied to !hu '!wld M in u fact lives, ion. happiness is its fruit, and in without feeling our hearts warm- dependence iis result. Women vA with ;i national nride : for all thus reared will not give suck to

I 7 ' t''c virtues moral, religion a id a breed of slaves ; but teach their

political, are interested in it. offspring a knowledge ot their Ten-ot thousand of amiable and own powers, having furnished

loNrlv younir w man. (ladies, if them strength to maintain their

theVerm plaeses better), of those rights It is true, the progress of

ranks and conditions in life, such employments are highly dewhich a lew years since almost trimental t ihe revenue of the

as n i i desnised a dMatTas they United States all that is accom

di.i a field hoe. atv now engaged plished thereby is added to the

to lrive awav tie disease and national wealth and extends the

di e.-s of insanity, a id keep Public res nnces ; tne exlraordin-

t mselve in health and cheer- ar la m exists, tout the wellaie ot . l . m

1 re.-'der t emeles irood the people is embui rassi iir Mto

wives a;id es ecm ioie mothers, their government a eondhion of i his labours, his sufferings, and his . .1 . I ...... f

wiU add to the ' Dint rt- and con -r..Mcoees of their pa ents, and nu r a "pic ititul house. " by a de r- aHeirion to spinniog vca vi.? , l H.g vKc by whi' h all tiie re ! waors of family, as to ar i les of c :-oti -ing. are supplied, with j. jo- i i'ig ill llft to furnish t t in I ve with m e delu a e and luxurious .trtn es f r t eir su i . ! a?nent or use We have

self the attentions of the good and

vir tuous ; such, I trust is the con

dition of the daoghters of my

friend, and my earnest desire is. that it may be so with those of all good men and women who tea h their children to be useful. These are not of those who live a few years. & after giving birth to some two or three sickly children die off with the consumption by inches miserable themselves and rendering misery to all around them. From the New-York Advertiser. CHRISTMAS. THIS DAY is observed by a large proportion of Christians as a festival of the most joyous des

cription That the birthday of

the S A VIOUU should beconsid ered as an occasion of Thanksgiving and P.aise by tlmse who

believe in his Divine character

and mission, cannot be thought

strange or extraordinary The

birth of the Messiah, the infinite

benevolence of his incarnation

Bethlehem, and cradled in aman-

irer.

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things unknown to any other peod death, will be the subject of

j,.v. i. iu t,"" mi "iiuu 1 1 1 1 i j i 4 4 s . v- ihhi auuiiiaiioii luroilgn

canopy oi heaven y-t. in t e opit lion of sonic atTct ting to be suitemen. we are the - freest and most enlightened people in the world!" I have just received a letter from a much respected fiiend in Virginia, from w hich 1 take the

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the riKiios ages ot eternity. When the mind is led to a seri us reflection on this wonderful sub

ect.it is overwhelmed with as

Who can wonder that Anek

were commissioned to proclaim the Advent of the Ileavenlv

Strangerwho amonir the belie

vers in his Holy Dortni:es will

tor a moment hesitate to join the sacred choir, in singing 1,0UY TO GOD IN TUB DIG-IIEST-ON EARTH PEACE GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN." DASHING. What stupendous speculation the two Mr Barings ot London are engaged in! We believe these two Englishmen married ihe daughters of the late Mr. Bingham of Philadelphia whose estate was said to be worth five millions of dollars. They were immensely rich prior to their marriage, and one of their first dashing trades was the purchase of the debt the United States owed Frame for New Orleans. This debt amounting to eleven and a half millions of dollars, and by this purchase it is said the Barings made 1.300000 dollars clear

profit! e peiMime the Gentleman employed by them in South America, is the same I), ,,nP

IJollman who released the JJar-

fec time- spoken f the etVeets

i ; i - ti-

tance Us profound mtery. and cd to settle ti e same on or be fn.p .i

li nnifciv important consecjuences. 1,1,1 UJ. OI icn mxt. And all pcr-

liberiy to make the follow in ex-

v. trat:t. tr.ofgo he will not I e a lit

i- as a ready resulted from ' tie surpr'red to see it in print

h apphcatioos of tie stiu'fx of lb1 says Ihae long observed u: ai rejoiced in toem in ti ( Uegister witl dehdu. vour r becai e iheir he -elicial ' nai licular w ish that domestie f:i

. i - 1 e 1 a-, a e ma ent tendeney b icks should supercede thcKu-

a couiit t t,,eir solid adth- i ope.tn Let me b-ast a Suile No person, even slightly act t e am cf nf oatk nal aod t- 11 vuii t hat mv two damrh nii-i'intcO t-;tl tM . .... r.i.

- - r j'iinvi i mi tii v.. 1 1 1 n i I'liiic nt-uiih. 1 i.e hybaiiie&; by iheii , ter&, during the last summer and ( world, can lad of being stiucL

I v. i . it viv i-j uriineu wiin as- ' f . v fiaitonis ment Indeed so great and 1 A fVctte from the God like is the work of l:,(pm. l! ,miItz Guard, and who in 1806

ption that in the contemplation i TV" the ,Vll'nd antJ coanjutor

C ' .i -m ' ! 1)1 ' Tin K 'J !.

lorniiKT Staic vni.trln. " hii JJIlil

of it -the

gether. and all the hons of God shouted for joy ; and in its progress suc! was its vast imnor-

Administrators .Notice. ALL persons indebted to the estate of George Fiddler, decd, are request-

that even the Angels dcsiied to

look into it

sons having claims against said estate are requested to presnet them properly attested for settlement by the same time. ISAAC DECKER, NATHANlEL HARNESS, Administrators. February 1, 1822. 1-3t