Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 8 May 1824 — Page 4

Poetical.

"FARE WELL TO THE WORLD. Now verging on my eightieth year, Tis surely time to lose each fear Of deaths terrific call; Content that I with life should part. With smiles I greet death's welcome dart, Good night, companions all. Each bliss Iv'e o'er and o'er enjoy'd Each passion in me feels destroy'd My stock of comfort's small; When fit for nothing we have grown We can't I think, too soon be gone -- Good night, companions all. 'Tis Heavn's decree, we first should live, Against whose pow'r 'twere vain to strive, 1 feel I soon must fail; Forc'd all the ills of age to bear. Can happier days be look'd for here? Good night, companions all. Tho rack'd from morn to night the brain, Knowledge of all things to obtain, In this imperfect ball; More wisdom still in vain we seek, We never can depart less weakGood night, companions all. MISSELLANY. A SERMON. From the Port Folio. In a late excursion I made through the Southern States, I was kindly entertained at the dwelling house of my friend Col onel ---, in the town of --- in the State of Virginia. The morning after my arrival at his house, happening to be Sunday, the Colonel proposed to me to accompany him with the family to church, assuring me at the same time that their parson was a very entertaining preacher, and that both his subjects and his sermons were different from the hackneyed texts and discourses which we generally hear in places of public wor-, ship. I readily consented to my

f iend's proposal, and I had no chddren. or else I die there are reason to repent h; the parson was hundreds of her descendants who a neat little man; his manner was (ry out vc mcf no more c' gracefuland pleasing. His text , d,r1en; or chc 1 d,e- Nor IS th,s and sermon were both of a piece , a! how many u ives do we find and full of original matter I de- i vh? l,rRc th.e,r requests to their vourcd every word of it, and up ! yn;bands "lt the same poweron my return to Colonel 's, fuL anH-as they suppose, distres in the evening I sat. down and , Slll8 a,Sumt- Gve me, says committed the substance of it to PC a new house, or else I die--Wiitin, nearly I believe in his " RIVC nie. ays a second, another own words which are as f dlovvs; house wench, or else I die-give Which I think you will be we I nie, says a third a weekly route.

pleased with, and if you choose to V1 L c i uie-gnc me, says a publish it, you are at liberty, from ton,.t a trip to the Virginia

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.rhlUrrv nv rhr IHsrive me nmlJiinnVs nnirer ,r,w Lmdlrd aoainst Racial." (7 ti i3 SO, part nffh" st llf 2d vrrif t. From these words mv brethren cli ill hoiT t m;il n four onci mi ii inu u-iiu iu muoiu some new iueab oi me ienine ci a actcr. Tetirst remark that occurs is the unreasonableness and folly of Rachel's request to her husband, e asks for children as the con-

cii'inti of uer lite ' (five mechil- eise i me, give me. says a thir , -..... .i .

dren Says she, or else I die!" – Ah! weak and inconsiderate woman! Little didst thou know the dreadful connection that was established In the book of fate between thy death and the birth of children. But heaven often curses human folly by answering its prayers. Rachel's desires for an increase of her family are gratified, but alas!Rachel knows only a short lived joy from this event. She dies in childbed with her second son.

hv answering its iiraveis me should I attempt to pmimfp-nku ic a.i L.mimri ,.n mi U scrv nf vmmn- ;nn r i: -.v, Zzi:i

Rachel s desires tor an increase of ate all the instances of female fob gates were made of solid brass slt!ul.c in aInm I'ah-ic, Clark com.ty, j her family are gratified, but alas1 lv and extracagence, which 'dis Hence it i-; th it ivhpn fh , ?Ul.nols 1lhrc.c miIcs uth of dahwi.v, A lUche. know, only a short lived , lay .hlvc," in conjugal ,re,e Being iS.o'c TZt Zi joy from llns event. She dies in domestic hie. the eoi.miei ..f ll.il.vl.m lt..n, dl at .r d-.iar, t.rr hud,t. I

Uer lovely buy drops from her mark, which I hope will be probreast his smiling infancy and fitahle to the ladies, who com-

pratling childhood afford her no pleasure, for Rachel's remains have descended into the grave and mixed with the clods of the valley. A second remark that is suggested by the words of my text is,

that upon certain occasions anger lvith him to Ephrath but wc!

is a necessary passion, and that it may be exercised with peculiar propriety by husbands, when the folly of their wives requires it. Jacob was a man of uncommon dignity and character - he was wise, prudent and religious, and yet Jacob was angry. He was a fond and indulgent husband, and yet he was angry at his wife. For we read, that the anger of Jacob was kindled against Rachel. But let us examine a little further, and enquire in what manner Jacob discovers and gives vent to his anger; does he stamp on the floor. and call his wife by any improper names? No! Does he drag her across the floor by the hair of her head, and throw her into the fire, or does he throw her behind the back log? No! Does he pinch her. or kick her or beat her with his fist? No! for Jacob was a brave man, and never disgraced his character as a soldier by strik ing a woman. He rebukes his wife by reasoning with her: "Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld children from thee." Learn hence, ye husbands, from the ex ample of Jacob, to treat your wives as reasonable creatures; in this way only you will not only reform them, but secure their perpetual esteem and affection for you. We have now beheld the end of Rachel, the wife of Jacob; but unhappily for mankind., her pos terity did not all die with her. There are Rachels still alive in every part of the world. While one cries out, give me in c be I uie ii e York or Philadelphia, or else ij ui-gie me, Fays a sixth a serv,re of Plate' or e,sc 1 die-give ; me, says a seventh, a set of china. or else I die give mc, says an PlO'Htll. n cillr nrnivn mr K-r T u"--Snc uil: a b n niniu.a new p u ui eibc l cue give -mc, saba tentn.a new set ot chairs, or else 1 die give me. say4 an eleventh, a new pair of tables or else I die; give me, says a twelfth, a new pair of brass andirons, or teentn, a new large looking glass, : or else I die; give me, says a four sieenin, a new mahogany bureau, or else I die; give me, says, a hf teenth, a new chaise, or else I die; gn e me, says a sixteenth; but I forbear, for the day would fail I shall conclude With one re-Mark, which I hope will be profitable to the ladies, who, compose a great part of this my audience - and that is, that this kind of petulence never fails to cool the affections of husbands. Of this we have a trifling proof in the conduct of Jacob: we read that his wife died on her journey

read of no mark of respect paid

to her memory by a splendid or even a decent funeral. We do not find that Jacob secludes himself, even for a single day, from his ordinary pursuits, in order to mourn over her. We only read that he placed a pillar of stone over her grave - probably to prevent her rising from her grave to tease him anymore with her ill humors - and hence, probably. may be derived the origin of tomb stones. Of Nineveh and Babylon. Ninus being possessed with a rage of conquest subdued a great number of nations all the way: from Egypt to India; but suspendhis warlike enterprizes to en-

m " ai ukc rinniu,c&iwuiMana liity. j;y these streets thus larjre the city of Nineveh, whiclijj crossing each other tbi wlinl

had been founded by his lather Nineveh was quickly built with wans an hundred feet high, hav-: ing UUren hundred towers two hundred teet in height, to serve uunu.ru irri in nnguu iu m i v. equally for its ornament and der.cc The c.rcumlerence of the whole city was four hundred and eighty stadia ixty miles. This work being completed, Ninus resumed his arms at the head of several hundred thousand fighting men; and Semiramis. wno was the wile ol one ot his officers, distinguished herself by m m m - n'r heroic exploits. rI he kmc; unarmed her and left her his crown; and thi- ambitious, princes being desirous in her turn to render her name immortal, in a few years built the city of Baby Ion. to such an ama-ins; extent that it far exceeded Nioev eJi, its walls being of a sufficient thickness to allow six chariots togo abreast. The quays, the bridge over the the prodiges of sculpture, and ar chitectuie, the temple of Bdus. which had in it golden statue forty feet high, they were not all work s of 8 emit amis, vet they wre much improved and embellished by her. Ofthv Walls of Babylon These walls were built of large brick cemented together with hi itumen, a glutinous slime annuoout ol the earth of that country, which hind- in buildings much stronger and firmer than lime and non grows much harder than the bricks or stones which it ! ... . m. a s(niare hu m. each side of which i was fifteen miles Their breadth Was eighty seven feet and their height thiee hundred and fifty The walls were surrounded on the oneiric with avast ditch, full j of water, and lined with bricks on both sides The earth that wis 1 m i Mill ii in dugout of it, made the brieks wllerewith the walls were built- ! and therefore from the vast height !. !-,. : ithof the walls may be i:: ; :r : th.e greatness of the ditch e--ri- c'n1- nf ih;c o.o , ' - ---.W u:.. ..nil. . i. ... i ii ir i , " pi.-ri-sf before him the gates of OraS. 1 1 1 1 1 . - s .i.i. iii- ii l nr'i "-in Between every two of thenars were three towers, and four more at the four corneis of this reat square; and three between eah of these corners and the next n;ii(. - A I . 1 on nthcr side Everv one ot .these towers wa ten icet hWicJ

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understood only of those parts of the wall where there was need of towers. From these twenty-five gates on each side of this great square, went twenty five streets in straight lines to the gates which were directly opposite to them on the other side; so the number of streets was fifty, each fifteen miles long, whereof twenty five went one way, and twenty-five the other, crossing each other at right angles. Anil besides these there were four half streets, which had houses only on one side, and the wall on the other. These went round the four sides of the city next the walls, and were each I of them two hundred feet broad. I he test were about, nn h 1 r. a m I I i I l i V v city was divided into six hundred and seventy six squaies each of them four furlongs and a half ou each side, that is. two miles and a naii m circum erancp Hound these squares on everv side tnu arris the streets, stood the houses, which were not contiguous but had void spaces between them. They were built three or four stm'ies high, and beautified with ah manner of ornament tow at ds the streets The space within, in the middle of each square, was employed for yards, gardens and othersuch uses; so that Babylon was greater in appearance than reality; near one half of the city being taken up in gardens and other cultivated lands. Q in us ut CURIOUS ANECDOTE Where they D –l are you From? said Wilkes to a beggar, in the Isle of Wight From the lower regions What is going on there? Much the same as here. What is that? The rich taken in, and the poor kept out. At a banquet when solving enigmas was one of the amusements, Alexander said to his courtiers "What is that which did not come last year, has not come this year and will not come next year!" "It certainly must be our arrears of pay " said a distressed officer, at the same time stan ding up in his feet. The King was so pleased that he command ed him to be paid up, and also increased his allowance. A woman of the poteries sending for some snuff a few days ago in the afternoon, was asked by her husband, "What she had done with the half ounce she had brought in the morning?" "Half ounce," she replied, "what is that for a woman giving suck:" FRUIT TiEES. in payment Corn, Cuttle, Cofon, ll'h.ta: and almost any ot icr eoodtiat c. but tiraw articles, .ill bpr, (V4 low a librral trade f.ric for the same I he ppiclubcr -l.a!l have the i,!it to choose thctrrrs; none need he 5-fT; a;.! .f not hunt: supplied, a ti.cic are at 10,000 fit to set out w. n. ahchi:;: Julv 7, IS23. 21-tf Printing neitlv pVon,,i i I 1 t fir n-?'1' at

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