Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 40, Vincennes, Knox County, 2 November 1822 — Page 1

WSSTEHN SUN & GENERAL ADYERHSEE

BY HL1UU STOUT. V1NCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, NOVEMBEK 2, 1822. Vol. 13. No. 10

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man uit aiii:r-ai.iiuiji: m wuaii men iiiuai , ses are running av. ay auer one anotner on learn to toil and suffer; while the boys each side of us ? Who cares for Punch, I have an advantage all their own in the j when he is neatly certain that he is not a ; unconquerable sportiveness of their age. i live ? and what do we go to a pla '.for, On this ground 1 am cleaily disposed to after the time when we turned to manma

From the London Magazine. experience of life is sufficient to dispel on this spirit of youth is the young the charming illusions ot ignorance. Evand the old. . cry day, from the hour ol our birth, takes The child is rich in hope, and longs to from us some happy error, never to icbc a man; the man has his treasures in turn. 1 he fugitive enchantments of our memory, and wishes that he had always swaddling clothes are supei ceded by me been a chiid We are all pleased to look wonders of short couts ; these again wc back upon ourselves as school-boys, and are koon taught to despite ; and so, as we recall, with a mournful tenderness, those live, we are reasoned or ridiculed out of thouglulcss, happy days when we had all our jocund mistakes till the lull grown masters to insttuctus that we were born ' man ses things as they arc, and is just to suffer and to die, but when the feeling wise enough to he miseiable. Ah! a Jack was that we had lite within us, wiiose a-lanthorn ! At this hour ol my sad matuprinciple was enjoyment, and whose du- rity, I remember the thr b of heart with ration without end. Whether our school- ' which I used to welcome this metaphysi daysaie the happiest of our lives is a : cal strangir ; how I chuckled and crowi d contested question ; but theie can be no as my dazzled eye followed him quite , doubt, I think, as to those of them pas- j through the clmngeful figures of his lansed out of school. 1 have no great fa- i tastical harlequinade. What it was, or vour, 1 confess, for masters, and cannot i how it camctl.eic, it never occurred to conscientiously defend the agrecableness me to enqui.r . ; it was regarded simply of lessons, or the pleasing propriety of i as one of tlu delicious accidents of ufe,

being flogged lor not attending to them ; sent on put pue to puzzle and to plca:

but the play ground ! and the holidays !

no, there is nothing like them afterwards. In estimating the happiness of a school-

Soon, however, a tender instructor broke in upon my senseless delight, and explai

ned to me the cause ot the phenomenon.

boy, people are apt to think more of the From that moment the sprightly meteor school than or the boy. He is not happy danced and gamboled unheeded over my 1 in consequence of biing at school, but in head. Who remembers, without regiet, '

spue ot it. I may incur some disgrace the extinction ot his thrilling bciel on the

my

tornies, to transact and do my business for me in my absence. S. P. STRIKER. October 17, '822. 38 3t

M KUICAL iNOriCK. T7T II E board of Physicans St Surgeons j

O t tin. firKt MediriU district, will

tm-et at the house of C. Gre tter's on

Monday the 4th ol Nov. next at 10 o'ciock A. M. J D. WOOLVERTON, Sect. October 19th, 1822. 38 td. Now in the Press, And will be. shortly published by SAMUEL DILL WO R I'll, The Military Instructor, And Militia Manual, Containing a System of Discipline and Manoeuvres of Infantry, Adifited to (he use of the Militia. Shewing the formation, manoeuvres and evolutions of Company, Battallion Sc Regiment. Also the several duties and situations oi eich Officer and non commissioned officer, on Pa' ade and in Manoeuvre. 7b which is added the most approved mode of Manuel Exercise. Price. SI i b-nrds, 75 cents, stitched.

COGentlemcn holding subscription papers tor the above work, are requested to ward a list of the names attached Persons wishing to subsctjb will please ion 1 their names as soon as possible. Estrav Cattle.

Taken up by John

J7v Henington, liing in in-

Kt;vrVnJkJ cennes 1 ow nship, in the

----- Liwcr Prairie one Red Cow, about eight y ars old, witn some white on her back, ami some white spots on her forehead,

In r hoins hangs down with a bull calf, n ariv the same colour, with the exception of tho w bite on the back, the two appraised to S 1 Also a light Red Cow. with some spots of white in her forehead, about five years old, horns nearly straight, she has a calr rattier d.uker than herself, appraised a eight dolfirs. V Also a R d Cow, horns hang down rav ther more than common, marked with two uaderbits in the right ear, about four ears old, appraised to S!t) Also two yearlings, one a bull, marked -w ith two underbits in the right ear. and some w hite spots over the kidncx s. both ot a red colour, and appraised at S", be rore mc, SAMUEL HILL, J r k c.

conclude that school-days are the happi

est of our lives. How beautiful is that law of playfulness which governs the youth of all created

j animals ! How glorious that short-lived

era of the blood, when school-boys, atid puppies, and kittens, caper and dance by a sort of instinct, or necessity ! This irresutable gaiety is not the result of superi

or health and strength ; it is the exulting

to beg her not to let the man stab theYa-

dy ? And then the Man in the Moon ! not to mention the precision with which you made out his lace 1 Can wc foigtt that such things were, and can we foigive ourselves that they cease to be ? Rut if we regiet the changes which time c know ledge produce in toe sights and sounds of the physical world as they affect our younc fancies, how much more

n nv i.y

October '24, I8:2.

IU,ACKM1THS.

7" ANTED immediately, a sober,

V i industrious, good woikman, to

take charge of a Hluclxsmitlrs Shop, about one mile k a half from Vinccnnes on the state load constant employ and good wages will he given ipplv to the subscriber liing near the Rev Samuel T. Scott's DAVID ANDREWS. August 29, 1322. 3l-tf

spirit of mere life in the ne vly born an may we griec for tho-e which they esta-

elementary joyousness which requires no blis'i in our moral attributes, our passions aid from without, w hich is not excited in affections, loves, and aversions ! What a them, but is a part of them. The child, cot of honest nature goes to make up a in proof of its being, might say, in the gentlemen! Talk of teachii g dogs to spirit of the philosopher I rejoice, there dance what is it compared with the bar fore, I am W e, whom years and know- baiity necessary to make a man, in the ledge have invested with the prerogative common sense of the term, polite ? there of being serious, smile at the extasies of is a politeness, the gift of natuie : but it youthful levity, with a sympathy modera- has many awkwaidnesscs Sc simplicities led by contempt. Poor foolish creature, of feeling, gc sture, and carriage, w hjch how nappy it allows itself to be ! Pleasant must be removed, or u fined, before it enough, we exclaim ; but, ah ! if it knew will pass curt cut in the commerce of gf nwhat was to come! We shake our pro- teel life. See the poor bipr d turning oift phetic heads when we see the lambs Iris his toes in the stocks, sec him in the slow king about us. and think of mutton torture of elaborating a bow, and then 1 h'u triumphant sense of life has ditTc- trace him through all the heart-aches of rent degrees of duiation, according to va- his moral drilling, tin t system of disgui-

rieties in moral and constitutional tempe- sing, cramping, twisting and pinching, by rament ; it may give way, before its nat- which, inside and out body and soul ural period, to the shocks of accident Lord help us ! What hae we done to sometimes it is prolonged almost to that deserve all this ?

term which we call our years of discre

tion ; and sometimes it burst out in brief transports through the gloom Sc the cares ol perfect reason and melancholy maturity. Once in a way, in a spring morning, perhaps a gentleman of sober habits feels Himself, on the first taste of the air, very unaccountably disposed. If lie be in the counti y, he talis incontinently to rolling in the grass, or takes to kicking his heels; or tries a short run with a jumb at the end of it, with other caprices of motion, which have nothing at all to do with getting on, and for which, very likely, he

heartily Mespises himself He is soon re-

The school-boy looks forward with rapture to the time when, says he I shall be my own master." Idle anticipation ! His firt essay, perhaps, as a free agent, is in the critical business of love ; his young heart burning for the realities of that tender passion, w hich he has doattd on in the creations of poetry and romance. He is informed, however, that he must not love Miss Brown lor whom he is really dying, because she is only beautilul Sc amiable he must learn, nev crthelcss; he is told, to love the ugly Miss J because

she is rich with the same sort of respect for his natural predeliclions as was shown

i: i i.:.. i- .:. i r i- i i

,ieveu-ms nahiiua. .eenngs, anu num- ,vhcn he was fornicrly lauht to svahjW

ueneaa uuie em. uuisianees oi nis ciany experience, arc at hand to quell his rom- j

ping vivacity at a moment s notice. He (eels a twinge of the rheumatism, or recollects a bad bargain and wc see no mote of his jumps. For my part, whenever a fit of this soV ol coltishness comes upon me, I not only indulge in it without lemorse, but encourage it by all the means in my power. Oh 1 tor the secret of commanding such a spirit at all time I the noble art of going through life with a hop & skip ! How giicvious it is that wc cannot alwavs be boys ; that we cannot grow from three feet to six without an absolute change of natuie! Lady Mary only observ es, with her usual liveliness, It is a maxim with me to be young as long as one can riiere is nothing can pay one for that valuable ignorance which is the companion of youth ; those sanguine groundless hopes, Sc that lively vanity, which make tip all the happiness of life To my extreme mortific ation, I find mv , elf growing wiser and wiser every day." 'Tis folly to be wise," is not a mere conceit, out wc cau help it. The most limited

rhubarb without making tacts,like a man. He has a sincere friendship for an old crony of his school days, because he admires his talents, and honours his principles ; but he must leain to give him up, or sec him at u-e ri-k ot being ciisii. Merited, becnus'.' !v wickedly of a family opposite to 1,1 political interests and opinio;:. . . ..sajust indigt.ation against a certain j;am;t vv ho sold his conscience for a piace ; bt t he must learn to treat him with respect, brcbusc who knows what may happen. He is disposed to be on veiy easy tern s with an agieeable foreigner that falls in his way ; but he must leain to be shy and distant, because nobody knows him ; while he must go picmtcli'atcdly to dine will Mr. Crump, notorious only tor his duiinrfi, because, in fact, he lives at the next door but one, and is an old acquaintance He plays at whist, which he abhors lest Mis. vcrevv should be out of humour; drinks wine which always makes him ill. because he is asked : goes to bed, when he is not slei py, because it is It o'clork ; md gets up, when dying for more sleep, because it is time to rise ; sits shivering

with odd, htcause it is June; hints for want of loed, bicuuse ciii.iu i is not u .iuv ; or eats without hunei, bicaust it i n'aiy ; sets iMtois whoon.j aui-ov him. because they call ; anu then annovs I ui t if and them, bicaue he muM num, tin ir visit; goes out when he wiuui ri:tUi be within. b cate his hoise is at ti t d oi ; and stays at home wl en 1 e is h i gi . to be ; broad because it is onlv toe. j-d nobony goes out tiil two. Am this is being his own master. No pity for simple natuie sttaig) t-ft-r-waid wiii, and con. loitabii igr.i.i Learn .eai n is the 1 1 tiil wt j. i i i p all vv: love, and hear a! I we hate ! . c ) et untaught at d unpiactivi d, Low i ; i t r are we to ti ust ad that w ;.nt ; to n m ;id to hate as the htart ciiuefs; to s i k v i at Nve think, iiMi ail we tl.u k ; to c'o im ; ll that is d q.icab!e ; toihcnsh tl i l :.t have saved u ; to h,e f u n in !i) u r its own siki ; oi d to h e ic h i f r (lod's ake. Rut aias ! w I at -an I . - t t o invti uc.'ion aiM fv j,., iii;,k'. w:l tS-c native in pul e- ai d it h di rii i ( nfidei.ee ii n-1 leain to U boi t i charity to lister. :o, eas ? Sc o m It ; . . c to keep a I otise oxet it- ! e; i! ; I a'- i ot to nuke laces; sitccri v to led its tongue; s m to be hti ; e'ati n..i o foiget; j ati( tiMr to get a pin ; i.i d religion io be a bishop 4 M n aie but cbiidnr of a Jaigcr giowih," might be a I ip' c n j in . i.t to Tinman natuie; but i.iiiomtii.oelv . it is not tine. Ii o'd ; g rei. i) hi u ub d onh as a coniit'i-n ol pt n' i, it would be full ol at'iae'io: Si 1 1 i' a o i i ; but. stumpi d with tie m r ii le world, w it. ail i's nicks, its s i filmg isdom and callous exj cniict. it i o i oc tesen hies ihr imi n si td ol 1 1 i I d, thin a swalhw ord vi i'u k!i d sk n m mb es ti e smoothness, ti e vnf.i ., : i d

b.oom of is sn i ine; face. Oi r ii turv. indeed, oi l meets i v; n ! i

sunt to nii'ke out the vi.k , t' tl.' , t one who ha. b me 'hi s! i tk c' i f. cting ii tetets at d pasrior--, in.; i l I i.r at ii ast unchaniif (I ; wf o has pusi it ' is way thiough the ciov d of ibis vi :ai. os w or Id, an-' vet. in ev et y e-p ct ot i; t tal simpliiity. still m i ars l is bib rt.d n. k r and ea's with a spof. uch a p n makes but a bad fieute on t fa i.t " k would be out 1 ail ih n nt c list cm ;to oi t He is much too out u tot the h v . ; t d not quite old enough fir rite r I on ii It is not impossible iha vot- might fn ( i m among the cuiates; I tit ni vet ll ink if looking for him in a vrig 1 l ave l oi n one individual ot this description. S o!y one; ajrvous biib-y of the si me, vih whom I once vent a bit -resting ii n nu pany with his giaid clitic1 1 ri. I' wp- in a spring moining, erly. when tlu dew still spaikled on the grass, rod a' nalinc was an image of outh attd fresl riss The grey head of my conq at ion n ii. ht be consideic d a little out ot s csoi. ; tut his cheeiful eyt, his lively talk, ii.ci tady laugh, were in peifict ktip'ug with the general stine. Tin e had sit bis maik upon him ; but, like :-n old tlotn he blos'on.i d to the las Agi lad stiffened his joints and haidrm.d his sinews ; but I is aflections weit stilt full of -pi i g and 1U xibiliiy lie eoiod not i xacly p iy at leap fiog ; but he could slid stai d i d look on with w endci fui agility. I wind not have these consideitd at the 1 appii st instances oT his cliildishi t ss. Tie rimnleton, aff. r sixtv wintt is. vas still womi

j tie a 1 1 eel and disinter t stcd ; had s'ili taoh in the natuial kindmss of man; and an immoveable conviction, that to do o.o d was to be happv , and to be happy the end of his living. He was not igi.otant of ti c use and the powei ol moiu ; Lut sfmehow or other, it was seldom eonnictto in his mind with any nnrt digtrfitd associations than bull's eyes at d ug'ida':s; and he tiever could be hrc light to cdndt, by any force of calculation, tl at it was a component part of love at d frier c'sl if He had many other p culiaibii s, w I it h he cherished with a rtfiienceto his own feelings, rather than the opinion i f the world He had a shocking habit of liiiighini at giave tares and at all its of ytavities not fi unded in sincerity He cou'd look sad, arc! be sad, at a tale ot dittos, and had a laugh alwavs ti c fi r a j-ki . or even thi intntion ot ore ; but the artifices of afi t n? ic n, ncre!y -.hys"ognon ical solenw ity, or a stni'c discovering more treth thaii p'rasawty, excited in ti;rn no kind ot emotion His sister, who. in relation to him, was altogether of the Antipodes w as pcipetually oppri ssing hiia with the remark. 4k Iliothei yu ought to know better" But, poor man, he nevtr improve!' ; like all children lie was very impatient of leading trings, and would