Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 44, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 November 1822 — Page 4
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FROM THE INDIANA INTELLIGENCER. fritted. GLOOM OF AUTUMN: Hail yc sighing sons of sorrow, View with uie autumnal gloom; Ia- m from hence your fate to-morrow, Dt.'ul, perhaps laid in the tomb. See all nature fading, dyingSilent all things seem to mourn; Lif' from vegetation flying, Calls to mind the mo ild'ring urn. Often autumn's tempest rising, Maken the lofty forest nod; Scents of nature, how surprising, Head in nature nature's Ciud. Se our sovereign sole Creator, Lues eternal in the sky ; While we mortals yield to nature lUoom a while, then fade and die! Nature's fall by dread Bellona, Through the tyranny of kings; Just Wtt pUnts in pale l'omona. Fall to rise in future springs.
" L largrc rocks from the skies oftriose I fall. At first T took a large table
l biJ lu&im. i hills. These often set others a spoonful of coal night and mor
coins with them, to the ereat tcr- nine, with half a tea cup of sweet
ror of persons below One dav milk 1 thought I was benefitted
when this laborious amusement the first dose, but live or six days
was over. Col. Hufus Putnam restored me to tolerable health 1
proposed going up to take a peep have since taken two or three do of this curiously situated rock; it sesawcek, and feel no symptoms
was found situated on a fiat rock of hilc and my Health is now bet-
ot great extent, and near the ter than it has been for ten years
bunk of a considerable precipice, past. ' The gentleman who lurand hung very much over it nishes us with the above extract.
Col. P. believed that it was nlov assures us that a very extraordin
able, and if once moved, that it ary and almost miraculous cure
would roll over; and falling frm I was efiected in his family by the
20 to 50 feet, commence its rout use of the common fire place coal.
to the river. The subject Was about 18 months A few days after we formed a old, and apparently far gone, hav-
paity of officers, with our servants ins been declining for more than
who took w ith them, axes drag six months The child mamfes
ropes &c in order to procure le ted a great desiie to eat the coal.
vers for the purpose of moving it was indulged, and Irom that
the rock, which we soon found time a recovery was manifested
was in our power. The levers It is now 3 years old, and perfee
being fixed with ropes to the tly healthy
ends of them an. Col Putnam.
Their purpose is to hunt and obtain furs. We wish them better success than has fallen to the lot of those mentioned above.
Mournful scenes, when vegatation, Dies by frost, or worms devourDvHihly liivurful, when a nation Fall by neighb'ring nations poVr. Death ami war my mind oppresseAotvi nn shows my own decay Calls to mind my past distresses, Warns me of my dying day. Autumn makes me melancholy, I-nt ikes dejection through my soul J Wu.lo 1 mmini my former folly, Waves of sorrow o'er me rod. Xjo I hear the air resounding, A it h expiring insect' cries ; Ah ! to me, their moan how woundingEmblem of my own demise. Hollow winds about mc roaring Noiv waters round me rise. While I sit, my fate deploring, Tears fat streaming from my eye. What to me is autumn's treasure. Since I know no earthly j y, Long le lost all youthf.it pleasure, Time must youth and health destroy. CT I ensure once 1 fondly courted, Mooming like the blushing roe; All ' to inu. where once I've sp.)iacd Now embitters all my wets. Ag' and sorrow since have blasted Every youthful pleasing dream; Qaiv'rii.g ige with youth vomrastt d, O ! how whort our gl nvmg beam. Athc annual fronts are cropping Loaves aad tendrils from the trecf, fco mv friends are yearly dropping, IV v old age or dire disease. F-ruier friends, how oft I've sought them Jki-t to t'heer inv drooping mm.'; I3 u t it tv g uie like le ivcs of autumn. Din'n before the dreary wind. hen a few more years are wed Wnen a few nmre d us re o r Waen a few more griefs le Usud, 1 .11 ast fall to rise no more.
who headed the party ordered tis
to haul the ropes tight, and at the
Word fjonmess to ivr. n. Imio
pull, a strong pull and all togeth
er This w e did ; the leavets fell.
From the fionn's Itck Inf. FIIOM TUB SANTA FE I5XP N DITION. About three months since, a
number of persons prineipally of
the roek rolled over, tumbled uus comity, tnrnnng two parties
Irom the precipice, and took up onc u,u,er thc direction of Col. it line of march for the livrr ! Cooper, and the other of Capt.
The o.irtv then had ihn. cnfU(ai. K'cknell, left here for Santa 1Y
From the .Vrw Orleans Gazette. It has been said of Jackson that the military qualities are too preponderant in his composition to admit of the existence of the civic virtues: in other words, that he is too good a general to govern the nation in time of peace. This we think is a groundless supposition and a futile objection. The same quickness of perception, soundness of judgment, and firmness of purpose, which are essential to the chaiactcr of a great commander, aie indispensable re
quisites to form an able and efficient statesman; accordingly the hitory of every country shows that those who have made a conspicuous figure in war have conducted the affairs of peace with the greatest ability and succes. Need we mention the names of Epamanondas, of Phocion, of Titus, iNap Icon of Alfred of our own Washington? The fame of these illustrious men is not solely derived from their military exploits, thoogh in that respect they
stand preeminent: it is probable
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down in homage and ob Hi ence to ,tUVI 1 M w ltU uv s ann t n Zlcl I i i w i ;v -n 7 t . " 4V I I I. i" II . lUllfltll :tU W .'KhlniTtiitl Will nllf.
this might v travel er, which never UL earn, ny me lounw.ng t-xnaet ( ry- ' "V Vi ri
a icrver irom a oeutienun ol ; v w v..v... a-
F t my sum of life's declining Nnii t'will feet in cikIK ss t ; Bat inv hop s .uv Kt tn?iiniig, UlcsbM m future life and ligin.
Cc ise my fc irin, trembling, sighing, lo, ith will bivak the sulkn ;ltotn; So'M uy vj'i it, llut'rn g, flvmg, Mvist Ik 1) M-tv !v'n;i,', the t'Mnb. JFro'v 'h .iner c in J-jurnat Science, PUTNAM1 UOCKM I . . i'
Ms tract ot a letter imtn prof'ssor Dana of Oarthinuith Gdlege, to the editor, dated Feb. 5th .18 21 k I have received ati account of Putnam's Rocky which is in the river opposite West Point. It iva mven to me bv mv friend Col. Tucker, of Giouscester. INIa-s and the history, as eonncc t'l with the American Uevolution. eannot fail to he interesting : ;1 will give it m his own words: as
the-e is a naivete in his manner of relating it "This famous rock, originally a na ive of the highlands above West Point, was situated on the cxtieme height ot Hutttv Hill: when the morni ig fng was descen- . diog from the hiil, it had a very beautiful appearance not much unlike a horseman's tent or hns pital ma que ruling oti a cloud ll was comm n amusement for the oiliecT: wucn oil dut to roil
stopped till it reached the bed ol
the iiver, where it now lies on tin
edge of the flats and far enough
Irom the shoie for a coasting ve-
sel to sail around it. We follow
ed after in its path, and weir as
tonished to see that rocks of ma
ny tons weight, and trees of the largest size, were ground to powder; on arriving at the river the pany embarked, and landing f o i!w number nffiO nf TO mi
rock, when col Putnam moke a bottle of whiskey and named it
4 ridnam s Hock.1 I may have forgotten tbe minutia of the transaction in the lapse of 43 years, but it is a fact that the rock now in the river was removed from the extreme top ol Hotter Hill by the ofliceis of col. Uulus Putnam's tegimcnt, in the revolutionary war, in the ser ice of the U. 8. some time in the month of June
in the year 1778." ciiaucToal. Jlri xlwstvr, ( vu ) Aug n. The following exti act of a letter bom a gentleman in Lexington, Kentucky, lately resident of
of
respectability, at Fort (Nage, to
his friend in this place, that it has met with a serious disaster. 1 OfiT O SAO IS. ACC 20. 'It is reported that Col. Coop ers party were robbed by the Indians, and left in a starving eon dition. The news came here by (Sen. Atkinson, from the Council Muffs. Mr. lmmell. of the Missouri For Company, who had been out with a party, brought
the intoimation to the IVuff
sent to Mr. lmmell for relief who
was not in a situation to afford them any and they mut either have arrived at Santa Febefoie this or peiishcd. The )resump lion is, that if they were not dcpiivcd of their guns and ammunition, tney could be able to live; consequently their being lelt, as the icport says, in a stai ving eondition. implies, that they weie rob bed ol the ineana of procuring the necessary tood. ul am inclined (exclusive of the repoits coming from so correct a Stunce; to believe that it is true.
this county, furnishes a valuable as Mr. Glenn who came in from lact in lavor of the use of charcoal i ania Fe some weeks ago. stated in bullous and other complaints that tic met Col Coopers part v which we hope will not be neglec- at the Uig Bend of n e Arkansas, ted by those who are so unfoi tu- and he had no doubt hut they
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cluevements Who that has wit
nessed the mildness and urbanity of geneial Jackson's deportment in privaie life, the warmth of his attentions, the frankness and dignit ol his manners, can believe that nature intended him for a mere soldier! Nu; "she gave him a mind of ethereal cast and mane him a favorite of both Minervas." In knowledge of the laws and history of his country, in quickness of apprehension, in
The party of Col. Cooper had lm)th a.nd i-"'arness of intellect,
know my health was bad, and had been for some months pitvious to my leaving Virginia I was all last summer under the caie of the Doctor, who pronounced mcalhVtcd with the liver complaint ; but bv taking a
ties oi Indians in a lew days, w ho would rot) and probably kih them, as ne had been stopped by the same party of Indians, and with (hhvnity got clear of them, and had he not have had an interpicter. would doubtless have shar
dose of calomel about once a ed a similar late. Cooper bcin week, I kept about, and was without an interpreter will render something better last winter bis travelling through the country But as the hot weather came on extremely dangerous
this spring, my complaint return- I mention this in order that
ed, and I had recourse to the cal-
you may let theii fiiends know
innrl About :i month incr I i r i.
; 7 UIC SUUIUC uuiii wnence tne news
commenceu taking pulverised ; came. a.Ml will vmirh tim .hn, i
chorcoal in milk: a medicine i have stated is correct (as it was
wnicn l uau seen lecommenueu told me by Gen. Atkinson) in evil) the National Intelligencer last cry essential particular." A company of about fifty per
I his hill is 1520 feet above 'sons principally from m. Louis
tidewater, and MVM above its and its vincinity are now in this
base, according tu capt. rutndge. j town, on their way to Santa Fl j ui forbid, k must be paid for accordingi;
above all in a talent of penetrating into the thoughts and characters of men at the first glance, he is not surpassed by any of his com
petitors. And who among them
can lay a claim to a tythe of gratA . .1 I
uoue we owe nun lor services rendered to the country at the
most dismal penod ol its history?
In pnuty of purpose and lutein i-
ty of action, in a heroic contempt of all that regards himself when the interest ol his country is concerned, his equal is to he found
no where hut in the pages of history, buch a man is general Jackson, and fortunately it will
be lor the people of the United States if they have the w isdom to
elect him their chief magistrate.
JJLACR.sMI'lllb. 1J,'!J'ANTKl) immediately, a sober, V V indusuiou, good workman, to take charge of a JJlacksmitfas Shop,
about one mile Sc a half from Vinccnnes on the state road constant employ and good wages will be given apply to the subscriber living near the Rev. Samuel r. Scott's DAVID ANDREWS. August 29, 1822. 31-tf
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