Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 1, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 February 1825 — Page 4

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Poetical.

UlOt T!tr. N.WTfCKU V INoCtHhtt. The f allowing is h antic it to us a rvUfmal.

It is H mean ioiit ilim of the jrcat Seotlisli

ana well uevrve-, 'a local habitation ana a name." TO A t..VNtTOUTO!SVk Guia nvWaC tr:,en yeYr cat U creep; i Wi' head erect a'mat e peepink Atul Meatly iit e alw i v keep in, Av e sate aa' slaw; 1 eloubl llic tiaic c t k t sl-vp hi Is unca vaia Vir crawlhC pi's mo aye in mind O uutl's ' the human lonh r Haw uiony craw lei s elo we taut 'Mau m.hs tCmcn, YYV Oioaits unto this cat i a inehuccl Until the end? VcM live a hnmVr years, they viy An moy a wear urie yc r, An' maay A ;llulcr 1 l'l . , Ye queer anU l)ca-t WhUk the sn-iki vnr mortal fie, tuony a feast. A.Y now- ve e sVt yourscl up the Jse t'ai 'v veav in awv me puj, it,

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Ai'n'ras, t mij;Ut,f -)r fan or t i'uo Javt cap p upcC oar h ml auC wanic. The two. initial o tm name; An' v lien I nu t ye, Wiilkdoac, na Huer in, at ) claim, Than down to set ye, W it f wo vr wecU T tow ni win leave ye: I ke t nv uhsenee w ill na ine e ve; YY ihniUng Sceteh V n i nardeae ye, An' ithcrs to; &o ancc lor n 1 fiecly pve c A I eng Adieu'

centre of the civat square ofe SaiUugo. The uppottUcd tlii was to strike lire from their tlinijr three times; a mirk sulVieicntlv conspieuousfor the purpose ol tli tinetion,yrt of a nalun; calculated to excite suspicion Han INl irtin alone and providnt with a brace of pistols went to the spot, where he encountered llcnavides Minilarly armed. After a loop; conference with the desperado, whom he final! v enuied in his service, lie M'ltled that Dcnavides should for the present, serve in the Chilian army, employed against the Aianeanian Indians in the. south, hut should he ready to joih the army in IVru. when the epedi tion sailed. This wa? ill iudVtl

in San Martin; for Hnavides

soon nuarrelled with th.e r,hilian general, and once moio changed

ndes, olVerinir his ervires to the

Indians, who were delighted to

obtain so brave and unrelenting

an associate In a short time, hi

experience and congenial ferocity Have him so iiroat an ascendenev

anions this warlike race, that be

was elreted eommandcrin chief.

In this capacity he. took various

ships ami the crews prisoners; fo

Henavides, thouo;h muiuestiona

bly a ferocious savage, was. never theles. a man of resource, full d activity, and of eonidei able enerjy ol character. He converted the whale spears into lances tar

his eavalrw and halberts for h

sergeants; the carpenters he srt t

quttttnpc the shore, they took the

precaution of staving all the other

boats, to prevent pursuit, and ac

cordingly, though their escape

was immediately discovered, thev succeedtd in "retting so much the start of the people whom cna-

vides sent alter them, that they reached !?t. Clary's Inland in

saletv.

This astonishing :mri was at last taken, and met with the re w ard, which, sooner, or later mut follow the deeds of blood whieh men of his nature commit. In pursuance to sentence passed on the if I'cbruarv, 'ne was

dragged from tb.e pr'on. in a pannier tied to the tail el a mole, and w as hanged in the g?e:U sqoase Uis head and hands, wrto ath r wards cut off, in order' to their be

ing plaeed on high poles. t point

itsinfirmiticj?; steals imperceptibly upon us, what is better calculated to make life's latter end tolerable, than a companion who will illumine our m my dark hours, and participate in our. joys; one to whom we can say as did the father of mankind, to our mother Uve,4 bone of my bone, and tlesti of my llesh." MORALITY. THK PILGUIMAGF. OF MAN. Youth is the season when eve rv thing is gay and bright before him. when pleasures and joys shed their inspiring inlluencc:

hopes and feelings arc sanguine and enthusiastic, and the imagination is deceived by its own fair gilding. Hvery thing appears unclouded and blooming before him. 5ut the real joys of his con

dition ate slighted for the gay an-

WOMAN. What is there more calculated

to ni ve as t tiil beinns. as men. a

forrta-t ol heaven, while journeying through tt is world, than an amiable anil atVcctimvate wife. Alive to ferv Un ler feel;r;, To deevis of metvy ewa- pi onr, The woiiiit'st'f pain and sorrow hording, With s ft vt inpassioiCs sweetest tone. AYnn in, loelv woman, sw eet soother of our cares amid the

out the places of his horrid eiime?.

Sauna. Juanna, rI:rpcii;.mca and ttcipations of a fickle nature, he

Aranco. neglects to nrize what he uhenrlv

.j posM-Ms pure and unalloyed, for the. pursuit of that whieh'dazzlcs at a distance through the beam of false glory. The path is mossy, the slcy unruuiVd, but be skips along unconscious of the softness of Hit: one or the mildness of the other. Fame sounds her treacherous notes to hear him onward, and he leaves bis youthful stage to breathe the colder air of manhood. In that, be finds ardour

stoi ms of adversity and afHiction. and enthusiasm dissipating obever willing to pour the balm of jeets appealing less inviiin and

consolation into every wound, less pleasing. He encountet s difleaving no means untiied.to chase liculties, exations. and tiiuU; the away the gloom which may have light hartedness of youth is degathered around the brow of a parting, and he finds all is fairy beloved husband, from the cares, isions illusive and deceiving: vet and faiigue of the day, who can fortune, with her capricious band

oners) not unkindly; he allowed withstand the enraptuiing sight, scatters some brilliant favors up.i '...' . I i. :.i. ..ii ... ..i t .... i .. '

tnem to live in his house, and w as " J;i iUI u,.v vuarms aooui on nun. anu me gay triumphs tc

very anxious, on all occasions, to thee, mou meetest the neioved new and renovate his

have their ad

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equipment ol his troops On an um welcome, to his nome. motion and revise his powers and occasion, when w alking with the Hut bow often do we see this energies; new schemes press, bim

death, along with his bt other and captain of the Herseha. tie temar- hnely being the last and most to action and exertion lie strugother deh n icUs. A vordingly ; IchI that his army was now ah perfect of (Sod's works treated gles through perplexities and dan-

The History of Henavides is building baggage carts and repairrious. He was a native of big his, ,hoals; the armoureis he

Conception Island, atd served for kepi perpetually at w ork, menome time in the Chilian army, ding muskets ami making pikes

curtou

C

some

from whieh be deserted to the

H valists. but. was retaken at the battle of Mvyno in ISIS. He was of a feco'dnus character, and as, in addition to the ethno of de scili'm, In a 1 committed several

r

lie treated the otliccrs too (pris

nalurr;

nun a

t

r:

he was sentenced to

th

i

lorin. 10 lite !-a.i m ran'ia:;o cent in one essential I

and shot lcnaides, who iho' and it cut bim. he said, to the terribly wounded, wa not killed. ; suul. to I hink of such a delicVnbad sut, -ii'nt fojtitude to feign ; e : he had no trumpets lor the himself d ad. Toe bodies being cavalry; and added, that it ws dragged tV w-ere loft without bu- utterly imp issihle to make the rial to be Mr ed b the gaHin- fellows dragoons unless they agos. a species of vultuie. The beard a blast in their eai s at eve sergeant who superintended this ry turn; neither men nor horses

last p;ut of the ceremony, w as per- would ever do their duty proper sonallv inimical, to Henavides, for ! ly. if not roused by the sound of

he 'tole p'ty ere brought most complete in eveiy tluug. ex Ulth brutality and contempt, gets, and imagines he wears the onh. i the I a, i of Santiago cent in one essential' particular; shocking to human natuie! Ye armour to shield him from the

seethe man conduct the lovely blasts of mistoi tune and repel the iigin. beaming in all the pride of attacks of iolcncc. Hut ycais youth, beauty and innocence, to steal over him and still sec him the altar, u ith vows of unaltera- laboiing. toiling and hoping and ble attachment; months and years still dispossessed of what lie fanmay roll away in domestic felici cied ahcady within his "rasp; ty. but his appetite is satiated and life and all its fluctuations ate cold, silent contempts, clouds the crow ding upon him; he hears the brow of the. once loving husband, noise of waifarc continually aThe regular hour of his appear- bout him, faculties and noivrr

jnnrdctiug some of his relations; a I trumpet; in short, be declared ancc at home passes by. leaving are distributing aid wearied; a and to gratify bis revenge drew ; some device must be hit on to his alVectionate wife to pass many few of bis strongest and mostharbisswoi d, and while they w ere supply this equipment. -The cap- a long miserable hour in sorrow dy feelings are still enduring the dragging the body of his foe to 1 tain willing to ingratiate himself and tears. She droops and with sirife; but the atVections are cut the pilt gave it a severe gash a- ! with the pirate, and altera little ers beneath the stroke, like a lilly down and destroyed, and the liteross the neck. The i esolute ! t ellcction. suggested to him, that of the field deprived of its wonteil lie endearments of youth are felt Henavides bore this also without trumpets might easily be mad nourishment from the earth, and no more. Age at "length gains flinching, and lay like a dead man out of the copper sheets nailed on) withering under the scorching upon him. and he finds himself in amongst others! until it became, the bottom uf the ships be bad i liiys of a vertical Mm. Perhaps a calm serene region; but his dark; he then contrived to extri- taken. Very true eiicd the de- somc unfortunate adventure has hopes unsatisfied, bis pow ers weacate himself from the heap, and in lighted ehieflhow eame I not to plunged the object of her alYcc kened, and his energies destroyed, a most miserable, plige.t crawled think of that before? instantly all lions into distress and misery, and Its tranquil atmosphere destroys fo a neighboming cottage, the hands were emnloved in ripping iustead of confiding the cause of e cry illusion, and teaches bim to

oenero-K inhabitants of which re- olVthe copper, and the armourers m trouble to the bosom ot a ten- see through the dark clouds that

eeive.l and amended lfun with the greatest ca: v(. (icieral an "! actio, w ho w as at that time planning the expedi-

being set to wot I; under uis super

intendence, the whole camp, be

fore night, resounded with the

wailike blast of the cavalry.

tt m to Pc-u. and w as looking for Toe captain of the ship, w ho had able and enterprising men. heard given him the brilliant idea of the of O 'navides In to j, still alive: and copper trumpets, had, by these

knowing hista'ents ami courage, ! means, so far won his good will

eonsidoied him a lit person to serve some of his dcspeiate pur-

jo-es m uio-c trvmg umes Wiicn,

dec and anxious wife, who might had put on a deceiving rarD. to

mitigate his anguish, he grasps the discern the rocks and shoals in exhilarating bow I, and dashes the which he had been tossed, and light built expectations of his all the gay atrial nothings which

menus anu laiuny umm io uie uati misled him. IJe lcels the l egion of despair, and too often end of all things; that joys and

and confidence, as to be allowed a considctable range to walk in. He. of couie. was always Ajok-

to o-im the meat ooiect m view, ing out tor sme plan, ot eVuvei i

h..... o-.jj tiifk vM-iiinilmisiifss a- ! and :i! lenelh an onooetnoitv orW ahd SOITOWS.

do we see her consigncu to an untimely grave, the Md victim of a husband's prtdligaey. Woman was not formed by an all wise being to bear the frowns of a man, but le the participator of his joys

pleasures ate but glittering shadows, fame a deceiving bauble, and the possession of human content an idle (beam, and like the weaned traveller among the shadows of mountains, prepates for a journey to that land that yields

less glittering, but more true and

substantial blessings.

bout the mean-. U is said that eurring, he. with the mate of the In the decline of hie, when the

the bold luttim himself gave in ! Ocean, and nine of his own crew, gav and fascinating amusements,

formation of his being alive and seized two whale boats, imptu ! which placed us in our youth,

invited San Mai tin hold a se ! dently left on the banks of the ! loose that charin, w hich once they ' BLAIV Iv DEEDS for sale at neteuntaence at midnight, in the ' river, and luwed olf. He lb re ! had with us, and old age, with all j this olhce.