Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 January 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

- 1 i m thk chkuaw isTKLLiGSNCKu. ( Ih.) llll'j lAbhfcVN M it. V;m Hmtn. Lmiciit'mirover the death . in of Mr. Cr.iwford, to Forsyth, Dickenson, Ci ilcs, N.)dh, and other followers : My very dear an 1 const mt friends, It you h ive ten s, prep ire to shed t!iem now. Yo i all do know the Caucus : I remember Tie. first time ever Crawford pat it on; 'Twv is on a winter's evening, at the Capitol: L ) ok! in this place, ran Jackson's dagger throtnrh;

SS w!i it :i li'nt thi nnMe Clav did make:

T.iro here, the n-behvrd Adams stabb'd; A id as lie p'.uck'.l his cursed influence away, M irk how all the People followed it; As r.ishmg out of doors, to be resohed If Adams so kindly call'd, or no; For tne People, as you know, are Adams' angels: JjJ-jc, O you gods, how dearly Adams loves the ni ! Tne New-York stab, was the most unkind of all: Tor when Crawford saw that People stab, 1 lgratitude more strong than traitors' arms, Q ute v anipnYn'd hiui: then burst his mighty heart; And, in his C incus mutfling up of his Tace, K.c.i at thesivleof( de?s Intelligencer, W.iich all the while ran blood, great Crawford Ffe.Lt.. O, what a fall was there my countrymen ! Taen I, and you, and all of us fell down. Wuilst Adams and the People flourish over us. O, no v yo i weep; and, I perceive, you feel Toe dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kiu l so ils, what, weep yoa, w hen you beiiold Oar Crawford's Caucus wounded? Look you here, H.-re Is himself, marrd as you see, with traitors, The People. :::a&o::: MISCELLAXY. Mauri is d At the head of Lake Ontario. l7m. J. Keer. Esq ot" Niagara Upper Canady, to jMis H andt, d tugher ot the late 3 1 B-andt, Chief of the Six Nations yh Biiehanan gives an account of a visit he m ule to this young lady in 1819 The house of Mr. IV audi, is on the shores of L ike O itario. bits a noble andcommmdmg aspect atid stands on a spot f great natural beauty. The vi si ers entered t tie bouse unobserved and p tssed into a parlor well furnished vvith looking glasses, earpets, mahogany tal!es. and iashi'Miahle c'uairs, a guitar hung agai ist its wall, a book c ise contained a number of elementary W(rks, and a prayer book in the Mvhawk Language "Soon," says Mr. B in walk ed a charming noble looking In dian girl, dtes.-ed partly in the native. and partly in the English costume. Her hair was confined on tiie head in a silk net, but the lower tresses, escaping Irom thence, tlowed down on her shoul ders under a tunic or morning dress of biack silk she wote a pet ticoat ot the same material and ivuili' whliMl rilihif 1 ViM'Y llftli till I IIO.OC I l,l CII,.- Ctfll' .r i.aw.. xvv.rv. - v- T ftlVl I i.us ami UKi sooes were. hUe the r&a ot her dress, black. Tiie - ' . . . grace a ul dig iity of her moveV - V I in -ot te yle of her dress and m inner, so new, so unexpected.

idled us all with astonishment. AVit'i great ease, yet by no means i i that common plavie mode to generally prevalent on such occa Hihh, he i.ujoired how wo had fn ind the r.iaJs, accommodations i'v!. No tl otter was at ail appa rent on account of the delay in getting breakfast; no tidgeting and tuss tn living, no running in i and out. no ide expassion of r-

WJ . Mil 11 1. V I III. II I lit' ll t.l i Cpwn of your coming, you w ikl not have been kept in this wav; hot witn pertect eise ?he maintained the conversation, until a Squaw, weat ing a man's hat, hrougnt in a tray with preparation for bceakiast. A tabic

I cloth oF fine white damask being! to my expectation when! left the than AdaMs, Jackson and LaI laid, we were regaled with ten domestic circle- around the the I Fayette.

and entice, hot rolls, butter in wa ter and icecoolcrs. eggs smoked !-. f i ,t, lio,-r- -r-; ii I'L'uriO &c; all served in a truly neat and v i aim i i. in uinu vint.nvii.'. i comfortable style rThe delay we afterwards discovered, arose from the desire of our hostees to supply us With hot rools which were actually baked while we Waited. I have been thus min ute in my description of these comforts, as they were so little to be expected in the house of an I ludian. "After breakfast Miss Brandt, as we must still call her. took my daughters out to walk, and look at the picturesque scenery of the country, hhe and her brother had previously expressed a hope

that we should stay all day. but the innocent and bring to punishthough I wished of ail things to mcnt the guilty. There every do so. and hajj determined in the man must be his own avenger, event of their pressing their invi- Heie you have schools, where the

tation to accept it, yet I declined the proposal at first, and thus for feited a pleasure which we all of us longed in our hearts to enjoy, for as I afterwards learned, it is not the custom of any uneorrup ted Indian to repeat a request it once rejected "They believe that those to whom they offer any mark of friendship, and who give a reason for refusing it, do so in perfect sineerity, and that it would be rudeness to require to alter their de termination, or break their word, And as the Indian never makes a show of civility, but when prompted by a genuine let ling, so he thinks others are actuated by sim ilar candor.- I really feel asham ed when 1 consider how severe a rebuke this eat ries with it to us, who boast of civilization, but who are so much carried away lit- ilw cTMwr:l inirirM-if v nf py. nl'psion tifiv:idinu all rants i hat lew indeed aie to be found, who -peak just, what they wish or i know." From fhe IFvsfern Herald, INDIAN fel'tiHCII, Composed and delivered by J Limes Terry, at the Commencement of Jefferson Col lege, Pa Sept 80. 1821 Per ry is a native ot the Chickasaw nation, in the SiOth year of his age, has attended the mission school at Elliot about two years, and one session at this college The speech was first 1 delivered in the Chickasaw language, then in English. Respected Audience One year since, htile did I expect to he call f( lliion in hic rltctitnf I7ivimi) i t 1 1llll'iiO t h.Cl tl'll.A '1 ! f.il.ll 1 (..!. V. 'J 111 1 I U VllOVl-llk I I ' I I l'? tiers to my native anuae. I hit 11 CT O the overruling hand of Providence. for reasons to me unj known, hath placed me this day among you. iv)t to increase my stores of wealth, have I changed the friends, relations, and society of mv childhood, for that of sli angers; but to acquire a know! edge of the ai ts and sciences, and familiarize myself vvith the man ners and cusUun of civ ilized men. V V a . Y ith these views and ledums 1 have severed for a season, and perhaps for ever, those ties which bound mc to mv kindred and the M ill . 11M i lOil.kl I . . - 4 1 1 the-e leehngs i have exchaued r t if . i

) friends ami the sports othiifcl,mt UH. 1101 Unow 'Utty est. for strangers, and the b,("c lt

fill sings ot

science; and 1 moicVv I have never seen a lawyer rc-

th.it thus far my most aidentpJe a fee on account uf bis elients vvi-hes have not been disappoin- poverty. ted. Au unseen hand, contrary i iiavc never scen greater men

side ot my lather, hath led me to this tountain of science, and t-l-i-jl rmt mwlm. tw f.-toriinv .mm

of those who watch over the inimu i u iiiv uiiui I lilt IUJIUI III'' Luiv I tcrcsts of this institution Al though I am an Indian, and separated more than seven bundled miles Irom my kindred and the hunted tract occupied by my na lion, et heie often have 1 been animated by beholding so many youth, hand in h.and. ascending; the hill of science, aided by th.eir superiors. Placed, as I now am. in (his land ot science and religion, it is natural to compare the disadvantages o( iny own countrymen wim the privileges here enioved Here you have laws to protect youth and children are trained up for usefulness and honor in the world. There, with a few excep uons, tne youtn spend their time in roving the forests, with their instrtimcnts of amusement Here you trust the taithtul records ol history for the past, and the prophecies of sacred writ for ti e futore. There thev trust inincrfeet tradition for the past, and blind conjecture for the futuie Here revelation lights up the pas sage to the tomb, ami points to the glories that await the righ teous. There an impenetrable darkness overspreads all beyond the confines of the grave. But. I forbear further to draw thp- nuin ii eontj.-mt ao( reio cn lSi:,t T this day, find myself surrounded" by the learned' the uise and iood. who are both able ami wiliinirtn iomart that irmtrii.. m Which is calculated tn ninim,.nt m v own hanniness. anil whieb if rightly improved, will render me more useful to my beloved eoun tryrnen, who are jit beginning to emerge irom neatnen darkness and on whom the sun of science and the sun of righteousness are beginning to dawn. From (he Metropolitan. Mu Editor: You published some time ;?incc. what you have h( n-. T noNV sen(J 'i)U an account U1 lM,,,r -3 ' "lccl I have never seen an Editor im received payment from half r his subset ihers IfTl 1 uave ,u'ver scen sl,ch hard thnes, athe present, in all my life. l nave never seen moie beg gars than now beset our dwellings I have never been so old a town without a comfortablepoor house. I have never seen a place more destitute ot amusement than Oeof getown. 1 have never seen why we have no balls or assemblies, i l nave never seen a young parson, but he was admired by all the young ladies. I hav e never seen a younn parson '"anicd and afterwards pre serve his popular ity with the fair sex. I have never scen an old maid decidedly opposed to matrimony. I have never seen voting doctors heetrom pedantry in the use of technical phrases. 1 hav e i.ever seen a prettv girl that did

i nave never seen a women who was tongue-tied. T hft' UPl'PP t nrn n ,,rl 1 I. l-

would ting without being asked a i ii i v. i iv v i cttii il I IIIUU ed at least foity times. 1 have never seen the nccessity of ladies wearing hip splits. I hae never seen a man that could explain the Apocalypse. I have never seen rich men pre fer marrying poor girls I have never seen but one lady t i I. i . y nsc a bed wrench and pin to tiditen her eorsetts. 1 have never seen a tax atherer or sheriff starve. 1 have never seen more candidates than at present for all va cant unices. I have never seen provisions cheaper and money scarcer than at ibis time. I have never seen a woman die of the lock jaw. 1 have never seen nronnsnlc tr turnpike the little falls road or to eiect a free blidge for the improveueorgeiown. I have never seen a ladv who learned music, to catch a husband, ever play alter marriage for his gratification. I have never seen the necessity n' young ladies (who are not bald) wearing lalse hair I have never seen the great Sea Sarpent or Tom Thum or Clcves Sijmmes or the man in the moon I would have travelled to see a!l these things but my guardian pokeu straws in my eyes. PUU-BLIND. il ",ll,lS5 urm- caned CO HlVe ,,is ,elimony court, in the ?la,,e olNexV ork respecting lut: IUi,b ni sgave ine lollowInS ' lother said, that Blltll saiu, mat ieii said, that Poll told her, that she see a man that . . v 1UU V"?111 mc strect with a streaked flannel shirt, all checker, checker, checker, and our gas won't lie, for mother has whipped them a hundred thousand times for lying. A gentleman sat down to write a Deed; and began with "Know one woman by these presents.19 "You are wrong says a bystander. it ought to be. Know all men." -Very well," answered the other, "If one womar knows it, all men will of course' A learned young lady at a tea table, being asked if she used sugar, replied, "I have a diabolically invincible repugnance to sugar, for according to my inessable cogitations upjn the subject, the suavosity of the sugar nullifies the tlavosity of the tea. and renders it vastly obnoxious." There arc three sights most detestable, a proud priest civin nis messing; a Knavish hypocrite saying his prayers; and" a false patriot making a harangue. 1 here are two sorts of fiersons scarce to be comforted, viz. a rich man when he finds himself dying; and a beauty, when she sees her charms lading. When Aldeiman Gill died, his wife ordered the undertaker to inform the Court of Aldermen of the event, lie wrote to this effect: 1 am desired to inform the Court of Aldermen, that Mr. Alderman Gill died last night, by order of Mrs. Gill" IVmting neatly executed at this otliece

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