Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 22, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 June 1823 — Page 4

Poetical.

laid upon his anvil; not o wag 1 This brief and to be final inter- stood within six feet or the lad'on of anv description was to be I view had passed, however; those der ! the prisoner's eye caught the

seen in the street, and even the unfortunate ones had loudly com sight, and Hashed with fire while bar of the tavern was locked, and mended each other to the keeping he called out 'there is Lewis the

the key gone with its worthy pro of their heavenly parent, and par murderer ol the traveller,7 and the prietor towards the cliff, a 'token ted; he to face the assembled mul jailor at the same moment seized fan important era which was titude at the scaffold, and they, the stranger by the collar. At without a parallel in the annals ot as thev said, to return by weary first he attempted to escape, hut

the place. And save that here and journeys to their sorrowiui nome; oeing ecuu-u, a.m taum nt-iurc here a solitary head looked the convict, worn out with sick the magistrates, he confessed the through a broken pain in some ness and watching now slept. deed, detailed all the particulars; closed up house with an air of His name was .Tanson Creel; delivered up part of the money; sad disappointment, or the unruly his place of residence said to be informed where another part was ries of a little nursling was heard. Virginia. He had been taken up hidden, and was betokening that in the general while travelling from the north lor trial, while Creel was turned Ihsht. it had been left in unskil- ward to his home, and tried and loose and hastened like a man out

ful hands, or may hap here and convicted at the county town, oi nis senses irom tne seauoiu. there a solitary, ragged and ill-na- some miles distant, for the mur- Three days had elapsed; Creel tured school boy Was seen, or a der of a fellow tiavcller, who had had vanished immediately after nut less solitary and ill natured borne him company from the his liberation; when the pretended dog, either seeming but halfap- Lakes, who was ascertained to Lewis astonished and confoun-

peased by the privilege of a hoh- have had a large sum ot money ufu me magistrate uy declaring day, granted on condition of stay- with him and who was found in Creel to be her husband; that she inff at home; the whole village ex- the room in which they both had assumed the disguise and per-

hibited a picture of desertion and slept, at a county inn, near lied loimeutnc w noie part oy nii oisilence, that had forever been un- cliff with his throat cut. Creel rection; that he had given her . . . .1 i'ii i i ,n ,i

me money, wnicn ne nau tin then successfully concealed about his

vol. 2 page 502 the following ve nearer the nonderous cliffs, in the perpetrated by some one while he person; and that the whole, from

ry remarkable instance of the midst of w hich the little town of was asleep, but the circumstances

power ot discovering home, exlu Uedcliffwas situated, you min- were against him and, though the

HtUM I UK NEW ENGLAND FARMER. Till-; FARMEK'S LOT. 5w?et is the farmer's humble lot, Unknown to anjruirh care and strife,

Happy antl peaceful in his cot, H: glides adown the vale of life! To him that vale is spread with tlo'vers, And graced with amarathian bowers, And pleasure and delight are there. And dove-eyedjoy with laughing air. IIiw sweet to roam at glittering dawn, Atlown the viok-t-spar.gled ladc, A d; - Minud sea on every lawn, A tuneful c'aoir in every shade; A'nl fleecy clouds of purpcldye, lY:Uin athwart the erncl sky; Anvl h.lls in enieraMine ests, And wrapt in gold their tinning crest?. O ! Ut me ever, ever dwell, Fnm vice mi 1 folly far away, And roam a Mig the woodlr.ul df 11, And tuiVe my rustic round alay : And v. hen old age with soft decay, Steals tiiu-i-ie of youth away, Tin-u h'tmc press the cypres wreath, And sweeth sleep the sleep of death. Ml SCC Mi A.N Y. In the 'Introduction to Entonv

olviivV bv Kirbv and Spenee, . . .. . .

known before. always had protested his inno

But in proportion as you drew cencc; declaring that the deed was

the prison to the scaffold scene, was a contrivance to effect his es

cape; which bating affected, she

bitcd by an As, is communica I tried ayrain in the thick hustle and money wai not found on him, be , car

ted on the authority of 1ieutcn- motion of the world of men and was sentenced to be hung, and ! was regardless of consequences.

. ill. It. 1 I .V - . i . . ...I . . . i I I 1 1 . 1 a a 1 -II. lj n( lllnrr rtiMiIri Ka rl.tin . I. tmr

am Aiucrmiu, un ui uniurci s, woman and hovs. and horses and nau oeen removed 10 me oiu i ui,,,,,h luuiu mm iia

security.

deemed

unsafe. This was the day the , ul again.

execution was to take place; the

scaffold was already erected; the

crowd pressed round the building.

who was personally acquainted dog, and all living, moving, and stone jail at Hedcliff for s with the facts. creeninor things, that inhabit the the county prison being

In March, 1816, an ass, the wild districts of Pennsylvania, property of Captain Dunda. of The village itself was crowded the Royal Navy, then at Malta, to ovei flowing long before the sun was shipped on board the Ister fri- had gained a sufficient altitude to g.ite, Capt. Forrest, bound from throw its rays upon the deep val Gibraltar for that island. The ley in which it lay. There the vessel having struck on some bar-room of the inn was crowdsands off Point de Gat, at some ed and the fumes of tobacco and distance from the shore, the ass whiskey, the jingling of small was thrown over-board to give it change, and the 'perpetual cla a chance of swimming to land mour of the throng, was sufficient . a poor one, for the sea was run to rack a brain of common flexinun; so high, that a boat which bility. In the streets there was

lett tne ship was lost A tew the greeting of old and long par-day-afterwards however, when ted acquaintances; the bartering the gales of Gibraltar weic open- of horses; the fettling of old aced in the mimiing. the ass presen counts; the buffoonery of halfintcd himself tor admittance, and toxieaied men; the clatter of wo-

P'-oceeded to the stable ol Mr men; the crying and hallooing of

eeKs.a men.nant. wnicn ne nan ciuldren and boys; and the barkformerly occupied, to the no small mg and quarreling of stranger HirpiUe of this gentleman, who dogs. To look upon the scene; imagined that, from some acci to mingle with the crowd; to lis-

dent, ne animal had never been ten to the conversation, or to sursbipped on board the Ister. On vey the countenances of the asthe return of this vessel to repair, scmbled multitude, would lead to the tmslcry was explained; and no satisfactory solution of the it turned out, that Valiante. (as cause for which this mass of hctethe ass was called ) had not only rogencoua matter was congrega jwatn safely to shore, but, with- ted. 1 ''out guide, compass, or travelling Within the solitary walls of the map, had found his wayfiom old stone jail ut the foot of the Point de Gat to Gibi altar a dis mountain, a different seim hnd

she was set at liberty, and neith

er her nor ber husband were heard

From the MUcellanrous Register. Foriy years ago Literature

meant learning, and was suppor-

and frequent cries of .bring out ted by common sense. Re'f;ncd the murderer, ve.c heard. Ilonscnsc had no advocates and

. ..c r,... . l(.,u mc ....... vvas jJetty generai)y kickcd 0llt of ol eleven, and there could be no doors . more delay; the convict's cell was , Fm.t ago-men of propentered by the oftVers inattcn- Crly could labo?. & wear homesdance: who aroused him. with the t0 cliurch Womun CQxM information that all was ready and wcave-makc butter and lor him witl.-mt. and b.d him has- chcesc .,,osc husbands wcre ten to his execution: they laid worth tl0llsands. hands upon Mm and pinioned Forl off there were him light, while he looked up to bul fcw merchants in the country wards heaven m wild astonish- -few insolvent debtors, and very mcnt, as one newborn, and only rArrv a nnn :m.,..:c f.r

said 4kthe dream the dream (c)l 1 And what of the dream. Mr. Forl n.s. ag0the young ,a. .Tanson? said the sheriff -you ,,i ,,. 1tc.,....i,,:i:,.. i?.

would do meagreatlanc nessif cd music, but it was the humyou would dream yourself and ming of the wheel, and learned the

mc m o tnis eurseu serape.' necessary steps of daneing in fol?Ztmi ,CP I ,C.C0,!V,m- 'mg it -Their forte piano was -that while you read the death a loom their narasnl a bmnm

warrant to me on the scaffold, a their noVcIs lhc Bible

man can e inrougn tne crowu,; FurttJ , ar8 fl lhc ? and stood before us in a gray gentlemen hoed "corn, chopped dress w.tb a wlute hat and large wuo(J at the d J P whiskers and that a bird nutter- school in the wintc; tQ , cd over him. and sutw distinctly Antr wiitmrr ...m

tancc of more than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams which he had never tra

been, that morning, witnessed. There, chained to a stalec in the miserable dungeon, damp and

bcai-cciy illuminated by one ray

versed before, and in so short a of ligot, now lay the emaciated

penou. inai ne couiu not nave norm oi one wliosc final doom

made one false turn His not seemed near at hand a i-u.

having been stopped on the road, hours before his wife and hitlc vas attributed to the eircum- daughter had been with him ha

v --,.

stance of his having been former ly used to whip criminals upon which was i;.di a cd to the peas ants, who have a superstitious

horror ol such asses, by the hole'

ing travelled a hundred miles to

meet him once more on the thres

hold of the grave; they met, and

from that gloomy vault, the song of piaise ascended with the as-

in his ears, to which the persons cending sun, and the iailor as he

lioggcu were ueu likened to the melodious voice of

. . tiuee persons whom he looked

1UOM Til . I.mMIUUIM. UDUI1 US the m.,Qt H.dn

TI1B DI5AT11 NV A KU ANT of all m lhc T,, r

"Hu list, the fatal hour has come drd Wvviy toother, and chuun 'I he mist of the morning still turn that beantif.d liv mn

hung heavil v on the mountain ..lt is lhe , vr . , shm , ..

top. abtve the village of UedchlY Or contr.uhct his r &c. but ilie loads which led tu aids almost doubtrd the evidence of

it were crowned with t e varied his encs. and stood fixed in as-

rpopo.a ion ol the surrounding tonishment at the massy door.

tins Lewis (he murderer of the

traveller."

j unirnu mm lauor uciu a

short consultation which ended in a dctermina ion to look shar ply alter the man in gray with the white hat.a-companied with many hints of the godly resignation of the prisoner and the possibility of his innocence being asserted by a supernatural agency; the prison doors were cleared and Creel, pale and feeble, but with a hymnbook in his hand and a mem all meekness and humility, was seen tottering from the prison to the scatTold. He had no sooner ascended it, than his eye began to

wanner over the vast concourse of people around him with a look of scrutiny that seemed like faith

in dreams; and while the sheiilY

read the warrant the convict's an

xiety appeared to increase be

looked and looked again: then raised his hands and eyes a mo

A ft M

mem towards the clear sky, as if

ding, writing and arithmetic.

luriy years ago there was some respect paid to old age, to

me minister ol the parish, and to

bun day. Forty years ago there was no

such thing as balls in the summer, and but lew in the winter, except snow balls.

l orty years ago-tf a mechanic promised to do your work, you might depend on bis word, the thing would be done. W. An Irishman coming through Handbridgc, near Chester and seeing a crowd of people, inquired what was the matter, and was answered, a man is going to be buried." -Oh !" replied Pat, -and I'll stay and sec that, honey, for we always carry them in our country."

country irom lar and near. At Could these be the voices of a ; hrrathintr a In.f '.:7' ,

4 l i aI. , . I t . r . - auuiai u . (M

" "u-sMops were eio-e.t mimin-cr. ana a murderer's wife : lo! as he resumed his first nosiiin , the hammer nf n... iln..L-c.,.;n, , 1,1 l ., Ilrst pos"ion

v itiHviigiiiivii i ituvt viiiiu 4

the very person lie described

Remarks To be angry, is to revenge the faults others upon ourselves. Every man has just as much vanity, as be wants understanding. Party is the mrdncbs of many, for the gain of a fcw.