Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 May 1822 — Page 4

DIALOGUE Betxseen a Poet and the the Headache. ening iViend why , liEAD-ACHE. ItOOd evening why frown von so ? I've made a civil call to knovr If by your clemency I miht Find lodgings tor a single nitrht. Your -u-ret will afford C'-kxI lodging i by pevp of day I shall be dodging 5fotT.--Hence hateful wretch and rpecd thy flight ; You told the scif-same talc last night; For you mut k-.w my upper story His ever Seen mv grtstest glory ; Tnere xtit-md fancy oft reside ; Who w'uh sich teiunu could abide To have his house disturbed anew By such i roaring g as you ? Iifei-acA?--Dc--uir. how sadly you'r mhtikcn, I -mered, found the toom forsaken ; An empty hail not worth tlie keepirg Ant c:dv fit for me to sleep in, V.xruse me sir truth makes me bold ; Twsdark and comfortles ard cold, I roamed about through thick uiul thin And fcund no furniture within ; I went to bed without ali&ht And could n'X sleep a tvink. all nsht. Poet Tint I'll believefor such .n c!h And midnight brawl you raisi within; I thought as I lay on my bed A drum was beating in my hr id, Such brawling guests IVe ktiona before, They open my hospitable doc r, Vd if sound slumber don't o'crUke Their eyesthey'ii keep the house ! awake. &o wonder t?:f mv tenant dm. From such a bully guest as yuu. fjtud xche.Vcar simpleton, as I been tcld, He has already taken cold, And lot his native i;re andbo?n W sitting tn thus cold tbmp ruun. Tis Only fit, I tell you free. For such poor starving cpu s as tne. A mom of dark 'tis no oil- -ice Hut charity to drive him thence ! Am ! he will think me, good er bid, J.e kindest fnrn ! he ever ) 1 o sir, without Ci Jc.ist tr.tr crcssion, I'll enter m and take poCicion. IS. SINGULA?! ADVRNTUHE Of 'i Hritish Sat, Her i t a Ofm piigu ? Snri'i . Im v'tca In t iu year 1779 when the wa V h America was conducted V'Vh great spirit upon ihat conti ent a division if the X itisb ar my vv encamped on Vw haos o a river. :nd it) a position 5 favored bv nature that it was difiioult for anv military art to surprise it. War in America was rainer a species of hunting than a r jiular campaign. Mfyou fight With art." said Washington to bis soldiers, you ait! defeated. Acquire discipline enough for reti cat and uniformity of combin ed attack, and your country will! prove the best of engineers "

true was the maxim of the American General, that the I2?i(r!ih soldiers had to contend with little ' else They sallied out of their impenetrable forests and jungles, and, with their arrows and toma hawks, committed daily waste upon the British army surpris

v T their sentinels, cutting off their stragglers ; and even when the alarm was given, and pursuit commenced they fled with a; swiftness that the speed of cavalrv ou!d not overtake, into rocks ar.d fajsheses wnitber it was dangerous to follow them. In order to limit as far as posnble this species of war. in which there was so much lost and so little honor, it was the custom with every regiment to extend its out posts to a great distance beyond the encampment; to sta lion sentinels some miles in the woods and keep a constant guard round the main body. A 'cgiment of toot was'at this lime stationed upon the confines cf .i IvniM.Mess saaor.ah ps particular tiiiee wa5 to guard ev-

-erv avenue of approach to the I

main body ; the sentinels, whose posts penetrated into the woods, were supplied from the ranks, & the service of this rigiment was j thus more hazardous than that of ; anv other. Its loss. was likewise great. ri lie sentinels were peroetuauv surprised unon men posts by the Indians, and were borne off their stations without communicating any alarm, or being heard of after. Not a trsce has been left of the manner in which they had been conveyed away, except that, on one or two occasions, a few drops of hlood had appeared upon the leaves which covered the ground Many imputed this Una-countable disappearance to treachery, and suggested as an unanswerable argument that men thus sunned might at least have fired their musket and communicated the alarm to the cohti guous posts Others, who could not be brought to consider it as treachery, were contented to re ceive it as a mystery which time would unravel One morning the sentinrls I having been stationed as usual over night, the guard went at sun rise to rehet e a post wmdi extended a considerable distance. into the woods. The sentinel was gone ! The surprise was great ; but the circumstance had occur rd before. They left another man, and depatted. wishing him be'ter luck. You need not be afraid. " said the man with warmth. " T shall not desert. " The relief company returned to the guardhouse The sentinels were replaced every four hours, and at the appointed time, the guard again marched to re lievc the post To their inexpressible astonishment the man was gone ! They searched round the spot, but no traces could be found of bis disappearance. It was ncce-sary that the station. I mm a stronger motive than ever, should not remain unoccupied; they wereenmpelted to leave another man, and returned tothc guard house. The superstition of the soldier? wa awakened arid terror ran through the regimen The colonel being apprised of the occurrence signified his intention to accompany the guard when thev re'ieved the sentinel tVv had left At the appointed tinvt thev all marched together; and again to their unutterable wonder, they found the post vacant and the man gone? Under these circumstances, the colonel hesitated whethcrx lu should station a whole comiytm on the spot, or whether he should 3gain submit the post to a single sentinel. The cause of the repeat ed disappearances of men, who courage and honesty were neivr suspected, must ne uiscovere.i ; j anu u seemeu not ueiy tuai iii discovery coidd be obtained by persisting in the old method. Three brave men were now lost to the regiment, and to assign the post to a fourth, seemed nothing lies? than giving him up toNrlestruction. The poor fellow wh)ye turn it, was to take the statiou though a man of incomparable resolution, trembled from head to foot. il must do my duty;' said he to the o Hicer. "but I should like to lose my life with more credit. " 'I will leave no man." said the colonel, will leave no man," said the colonel, against his will.'

A man immediately slept from

the ranks, and desired to tae the post. Every mouth commended his resolution. UI will not betaken alive" said he and you fhall hear of me on the least alarm. At all events I will fire mv peace n i near cue icasi noise If a crow chatters, or a leaf falls. you shall hear my musket. You may be alarmed when nothing is the matter; but you must take the chance as the condition of the discovery. j Thecolonp applauded his courage, and told him he would he right to fire upon the least noise that was ambiguous. His com rades shook bands with him, and left him with a melancholy foreboding. The company march ed back and waited the event in the guard-house. An hour elapsed, and every ear was on the rack for the discharge of a musket, vhen on a sudden, the report was heard. The guard immediately marched accompanied as before, by the colonel and some ol the most experienced officers of the regiment. As thev approached the post, they saw the man advancing towards them dragging another man on the ground by the hair of his head When thev came up to him, it appeared to be an Indian, whom he had shot. An explanation was immediately required. 4iI told vour honor.55 said the man, nhrtf I should fire if I heard the least noise. The resolution 1 have taken has saved my life 1" had not been long on my post when I heard a rustling at some short distance ; I looked, and saw an American hog, such as are common in the woods, crawling along the. ground, and seemingly looking for nuts under the trees and among the leaves. As these animals are so common. I ceased to considei it for some minutes: but being on the constant alarm and expectation of attack, and scarcely knowing what was to be considered a real cause of appre hcn-ion. I kept my eys vigilan 1 1 v fixed upon it. and marked itprogress among the trees; still there wan no need to give the a larm. and my thoughts were di reeled to danger from another quarter. It struck me, however as .-omcwh;:t '-ingular, to see th animal making by a circuitous passage, for a thick coppice immediately behind my post I therefore kept my eye more constantly fixed unon it and as it was now within a few yards of the coppice, hesitated wbeher should not fire. Mv comrades thought I, will laugh at me for alarming them by shooting a pig; I had almost resolved to lei it alone, when just as it approached the thicket. I thought it gave an jin.u spring. I no longer hesiared; I took my aim; discharged my piece, and the animal was in stantly stretched before me with a groan which I conceived to be that of a human creature. I went up to it. and judge my astonish ment when! found I had killed an Indian! He had enveloped himself with the skin of one of these wild hogs, so completely, his hands and feet were so entire ly concealed in it, and his gait and appearance were so exactly correspondent to that of the animal, that imperfectly as they are alwavs seen through the trees and jungles the disguise could not be penetrated at a distance, and scarce! discovered upon the

nearesl aspect. lie vas armed with a dagger and tomahawk." Huch was the substance of this man's relation. The cause of the disappearance of the other sentinels was now apparent. The In dians. sheltered in this disguise, secreted themselves in the coppice; watching the moment when they could throw it off; burst upon the sentinels without previous alarm, and too quick to give

them an opportunity to discharge their pieces, either stabbed or scalped them, and bore their bodies away which they concealed a? some distance in the leaves. Whatever circumstances of wonder may appear in the relation, there are many now alive who can attest its authenticity " Education in the State o.Yt rj York The number of children educated in the short space of seven years, in the common school, has increased from 140.000 to ufj 330.000. In 1821. 323.879 children were taught There are in the state (3835 school districts, being an increase of about 300 since lasi year; the number of children reported between 5 and 15 y ears of age, is 449.258 ; and the proportion between that number and those educated in common schools, is as 32 to 35 The whole is not probably less than 375 000. receiving public instruction in the state during the lae t year being more than one fourth part of the population of the state.

INCRE ASE Off POPULATION By a calculation in a late Albany Advertiser, it appears that should the United States continue to increase in population in the same ratio that it has for the last 1.0 years. It uili amount in 1900, to 100,153 980; and making an allowance for the density of population, and calculating the increase to be one fourth m each 10 years in the next century, in V e year 2000 our population would v be 937.260,41 . This would give the United Mates, in less than two centuries to come, two hundred and thirty seven millions more inhabitants, than are calculated to exist at the present timo in the whole world. A GYP8SY. Lately near London, some young ladies who had been taking a walk were accosted bj a gy psey woman, who for a small reward very politely offered to shew them their future husbands laces in a pool of water that stood near, fcuch an offer was to good to be refused, and, on paying the stipulated sum. the ladies hastened to the water, each in anxious expectation of getting a glance a that -beloved object; but Jo1 instead of beholding the "form and fare" they so fondly anticipated, they were surprised to see their own rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes glancing from below. "Sure you are mistaken, woman," said

one oi them, tor we see nothi? g but our own faces in the water.5 Very true ma'm." replied the sagacious fortune teller. 4kbut these will be your husbands' faces whn you are married." Scon after the accession cf Gorpc I a mayor of Leicester, rho always sup" posed that .ir.no onini ivas Latin for Qwen .Innr, hearing h3 clcrl rctil a muumus, wnen ne came to the Jr:no Domini, cried cut with some varmth, " And prav, Sir why not ilrcrzeo )-.

? Sut jcu forgot yourself. "