Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 March 1822 — Page 4

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tin ON MELANCHOLY, "When absent friends invite Tae silent tear, the tender sigh; V!i n Memory throws her liht On scenes of joy passed swiftly by: Then Melmcholy flings A vm')re sadness o'er the mind ; She f ikes t le tender strings Of sensibility refined. She bids the tears to speak, T" tell the l atent grief she feels ; Tlu ir l.mgu ge is too weak, Tis what the deep-fetch'd iigli reveals. Put, Melancholy, why Hang all thy tender charms ever mc ? I w-ndd not always sigh Vor orldly jo s, which transient be. Th' gh time and distance join To p rt me from the friends 1 love ; If J s is is bat mine, Tis joy which changes cannot move.

Then. Mel inchoilv, jp Thv power can never bind my soul; Th m t'swler nurse of wo, 1 yield thee not vn'-e:re control." F"om the Charleston Conner. Tne beautiful process of the seasons, reeurrinu as thev revolve.

lriiii the natural world to an imaginary pause, when we faney that it re-eomnvnes its eai ecr JFt iter chaste and pensive like inn -enoe Spring her blossoms full of jov like hope Summer. terming with ardency like love and .iifiiwri.rich and mellow li .r heauty these foimt'C graceful i:cle in whoe society time dwv 's in sweet constancy and In? m minus succession. Aw ire t'vit al things voimac are fair, and n d ing is fair that is not young, heisfuttul e ich successive year in a fresh cradle, where" he is wel corned lie a new horn babe with smiles and k'sses and caresses And if Time be so studious of ap pe i. a ires, that he attempts t pahn olV upon us eah lingering fragment as an entire novelitw shall we blame those of eit her sex wh would conceal the ravages of v aie? It is a mistake to call Time old he is not older than the eath and the earth is fresh, and original now as wnen it -ptimg from the will of the A invent y Its seeds immoi t d its resources ex hauties its fabric perfect its piv.ess ii'iim eded it preserves its er iri.ms nath heedless and independent of t lie creatures ration ! al and irrational who dwell upon its s'irfve Time cannot atVee.t the globe whi we inhabit for that cannot he oid which is unimpaired. H it wi'h regard to man. that co tp icnt ial little being; and wit 'i regard to woman. tha civilizes and saw him; it does not so ha-men X is it desirable that it should I would be dreadful if there was in the at m m eeanv prio 'iole which shouid nre-erve t ;t miserable passion of human natme which shmdd embalm. a miser or keena'ivea dem i me:

hopes of salvation. But if thy

conscience smite thee, thou can si

not be happy, it is in vain for thee that the earth is young, and the seasons are joyful, and the years meet and embrace each other; it is in vain that the music resounds ii the hall, and the beautiful join in the dance; it is in vain that gladness and joy beam around thee Thou hast, it is true, new oppor tunitics of wrong remember that

thou hast new opportunities of

repentance, INDIAN" INTERVIEW. A C rrespendent id the National Intelligencer, diseases the following particulars of an inter view which took place, recently, at the. President's House, previous to the departure of the Indian de putation from the seat of govern ment The Indian Chiefs were stationed in the anti-chamber, with their buffalo skins, mockasin, pipes

and feather head dresses, which they intended to present to the President, when he entered with the Secretary of War; and in a few words said through the in terpreter he was glad to see them, that when be had met them before, he was too much engaged in receiving bis great council to shew them the attention he wished that he now had more leasure, & he was pleased to see them in the dregs of their white brethren as he had before in that of their own country He adverted to the visit they had made to our large towns to our arsenals; navv vards, and the like, and told them that as much as they had seen, it

could give them but a faint idea of

our numbers and strength as the

deer and butfalo thev might chance to meet in passing through

their forrests bore a small piopor-

tion to those t'ey did not see

That they bad met with few of

our warriors, because thev were oot wanted at the seat of govern ment. and because we were at

peace with all the world- but if

we were in a state of war, all our citizens would take arms in their hands and become brave war riors lie enjoined them to pre serve peace with me another, and to listen to no voice which should persuade them to distrust the friens lip of the Unled States. They were told that they should receive some piescnts, and be conducted safe I v back to their wives1 and rhildren by major CVFallon whose advice they were told to consider as t e advice of their great father, the president, and were earnestly recommended to pursue The principal Paxcnee chief then came forward, shook hands with the president and others, and remarkedthat he had heard the

or prolong the term of exisienee j words of his great father, and they

ol i r triviioiis thes who biz ab 1 t t.iepa l uirs of ibis world V wrr of mischief deserve onlv ttVhe tolerated for a while beau-1-Vaod goodness ouopt to live eerlatinglv And so tJe will, if n t in the hape :md feature and eudea ing softness with which th" charm us on earth, vet in s MV.f mote worthv of themselves a I m "-e prima c'tlv gl-uinns. r-r Meant v and goodness must be

had gone in at one ear but would

not go out of the other, that they had seen our chiels. our towns, our buildings, and were much pleased with what t1 ey had seen. Thev found the United States populous and powerful while thev were weak and lew: that the great spirit haul made some men while and n eis red: the w ute men ould make fine houses and clothing and guns and furniture.

white men, and protected hcm both Me said that some white men bad offered to send preach ers among them, to teach them their way of worshipping the Great Spirit, and cultivating the ground. He said there were a good many buffaloes in bis coun fry, which his nation wished to be permitted to bunt a while longer; and after he was dead and the buf lalo extinguished, hisnation might plant corn and raise animals like the wdiites He gave thanks for the new clothes, professed friendship for the wdiites, and hoped soon to return to his own country. The next orator, in a different language, began by shewing his hands and stating that they were clean unstained with blood ; that he had from a boy been a friend of the wdiites, and had been, on that account, an object, of suspicion among his own tribe He said be had seen our towns and our churches, and that lie wor shipped the Great Spirit one way, and they worshipped him another. He like the first speaker, deprecated the habits of civilization so long as buffalo were abundant in their country. One speaker began by saying he bad been very wicked in bis life ; he had been like a mad dog; he killed men belonging to all three tribes, pointing to the rest; but, since he bad known bis fatter, ( Major O'F.) he had been as if his arms were broke he had not struck a blow. An ardent attatchmen to their country as well as their habits of life was frequently manifested They said to their tk Great Fa ther" you have a fine country great towns large houses to live in, fine clothes to wTear; but we love our country as much as you love yours You lov e to work we dont want to work as long as we can kill buffalo and steal bor

srs. Our villages are small we wont lie and say they are large as yours but our men are as bi ave inch as you see us such are the men we left behind us Two of them spoke with great humility of the red people compared with the whites, whom they distinctly admitted that the Great spirit had made their superiors. They all expressed the pleasure they derived from their new clothes, and one said he felt in his new dress like an animal that had shed his old coat and come out sleek in the spring. Afterwards one of the followers, a line looking voung man

said that his father had died j when he was very young, and

mat ne nau grown up like tne grass which again shoots forth af tor it seems to have been killed by the frost. lie was not vet a great man he was a mere bov he was not eijual to bis chief, but he endeavored to keep close behind him (putting one fore linger behind the other.) He hoped one day to be a leader in his irihe The presents were now deliverercd, refreshment set out. pipes produced, and smoked by the Indians, then handed to the President, and who took a whiff as a token of friendship and thus the interview ended

rising

Greeks sinking Tories,

Uu ssians, sunken Italians, falling Prices, ruined Farmers, rising Waters, sauci Americans, wrangling Politicians, spoiling Corn, surplus Cattle, too much or too little ol every thing: and quite enough of Giumbliiig. Book keeping by double entry. Mr Ximms, in bis history of Sterlingshirejn Scotland, informs us. that wdien writing was a rare accomplishment, the old treasurer in the town Sterling- kept bis accounts in the following singular

iTiethod :---He hung up two boots,

one on cacn sine 01 tne cnimnev ; and in one he put in all the money he received, and in the other all the receipts or vouchers for the money he paid : at the end of the year, or whenever he wanted to make up his accounts, he emptied the boots, and by counting their several and respective contents, he wTas enabled to make a balance, perhaps with as much regularity, and as little trouble, as any boolc keeper in the kingdom. The following story beats the yankee raft man's "half and half? two to one. Whilst the American army was invading Canada during the late war, a soldier by the name of B' own, finding hiscanteen empty, on a cold stormy day, borrowed one from his companion, which he immediately filled with water, and placed them both under bis roat. directed bis steps to a store hard by Presenting the empty one, he requested the store keeper to fill it with the bcti; which being complied with, 1 icplaced agai i underneath the coat. "Out of cash tiufmorning, sir but it shall be paAto.;iiagrrow'.'' "Stop a hit," cried the store keeper; kfchand me back my liquor ; I have too often been cheated by sol

diers lor any ol them to do it again..' Upon this Brown presented the one filled with water, which he pretended to do .reluctantly, to the prudent storekeeper, who immediately, emptied it into the cask from which the liquor had just been drawn Bowji returned to the ranks with his canteen with undiluted aqua vita, which he shared with his accom oditing companion ' A new ly made justice of the peace in order to quality himself for discharging the duties of lib oilier, looking over some old law books, in one of which he found an act. inllicting a penalty on such persons as should ''l ire any beacon " which he unfortunately read, ' Fry any bacon." His worship, a few dav after this discovery liding thro' a village caught a poor woman in the very act of Irving some la'.es tor her dinner Zealous to fulfil his duty, he eau-ed her to be immediately apprehended and committed to prison, and the nexi quarter sessions, had her brought fourth and arraigned for the offence, when an explanation took place, greatly at the expense

: of his worship's erudition, and to the no small diversion of a crowded court.

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the white man lived upon the an

imals he raised at home; the red man homed the buffalo, whose skin he wore a-d w h se flesh he a e Vet the Great v pint inten-

q'pir.vss, new in the , ued theie sdruiiid be ixd men and

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John Dull in the Suds. A correspondent writes us, (says a London paper) that Things look all round very gloomy with 'ailing Weatnt r falling blocks, rising Irish falling

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SELLING OFF AT RKDITED PIUCKS

rjj-IIK MiUctil'crs haveu !an;e ijtirui9 tityof ihe abovt- ankles iu l.un!, which they will bell in euaiuitics ,f five hundred weight ui.cl upwuicis al very low pi id s JA US Mc ARTHUR. Vincenuei, January 1823.