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

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enre come up out of the solid j It was a noble but hazardous

earth, to worship upon the very ! game: And Pulaski, whose war

THE BACHELOR S SOLILOQUY. A Parcdu. M.irrr, or not to marry? That is the question Whether it is nobler in the mint to buffer The sullen silence of these cobweb rooms. Or seek in festive h ills some festive deme, And, by uniting, end it. To live alone No more! And, by marrying, say we end The heart-ache, and thos- throes and make shifts B ichclors arc heirs to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To many to live in peace Perchance in war: ave, there's the rub;

Fur in the married state what ills may come,

When we have shuffled eff our liberty, M ist give us p uie. There's the respect That makes us dread the bond of wedlock;

wives.

Tlic fits of spleen, the extravagance of dress.

1 tic thirst tor plavs, for concerts, and tor balls, The insolence of servants, and the spurns

That patient husbands from their consorts

take,

When he himself might his quietus gain, y living single. Who would wish to bear The jeermg name of Bachelor, But that the dread i f something after marri tge, ( h, that vast expenditure of income, Tae tongue can scarcely tell) puzzles the will. And makes us rather choose the single life, Th.in go to jail for debts we know noc f! Kconomy thus m ikes Bachelors of us still, And thus our mela. lCholy resolution Is stili increased upon more various thought. RKPLY TO THE ABOVE. By ITiJozvcr. To wed, cr not to wed ? That is the question To live, to love ves more, and have that love retun e !, Cures every heart-ache, and the many shocks, B chcloi s are heirs to. 'Tis a consummation DooikIv to be priced. To live, to lew, And .i ie that love returned, is bliss complete. F-Tin that virtuous love what joys do come, When we have shuffled off our daily toil. Present themselves There's the delight rl iial makes the wedded state so happy in this life. To see the smiles, and hear the lisping notes Ch ih so sweet darlings of our virtuous love: To trace the features, and behold in miniature The object of our life, is life indeed. To ciw.vn the whole who would forego That sweet communion intercourse tit soul; Til it social interest, and that wise economy. Which reigns predominant in marrige state

hen Ik might all tnose blessings g im By beit.g m irricd ? Who would not wish to bear Toe pie isingname of husband Knjoy a fortune, reputation, health, With cherubs sweet, and nartner dear as life. Than live in dissipation puzzles not man, But makes the Bach lor his title change. For those names which now he only knows. Tj us matrim ny shines conspicuous stili, And thus the fair one's resolution Is still increased upon those virtuous thoughts. mm : : : n -. o ; ; : .ni THE BAT I LE OF BH AN 13V WINE. The description below is by the author of the U ittle of Trenton," extracted tVom a -work, whicii, j I'tgir.g fi om those selections. Hi iv perhaps be deemed more worthy of perusal than it has hitherto been considered. B ston Sj-ecta-or. The battle of Brandy wine was fought on t he 11th of September. 1777; and lasted all the day long. It was a bloody affair to us. and bad vell nigh been fatal to Greene and Sullivan. We had been in the caddTe a bout four hours, under the intiepid Pulaski, who, with his own band, examined our points, pistols, and other furniture, as if assured that the struggle would be a deadlw and long continued one. The day was one of the most beautiful that ever broke over the

earth. We were about half a

mile from the main body ranged along green slope, faring the west; our horses, in number about four hundred, standing as patiently as

summit of the hill, behind us; it

might be for the noble carriagee of the man, the martial bearing of the soldier, would permit cither interpretation it might be, in the awful employment of deyotion or in the more earthward one, ol martial observation. But, sud

denly, he reined up bis charger,

horse literally thundered and lightened along the broken and stony precipice, by which we descended kept his eyes warily to the right, as if not quite certain that the order would not be countermanded. We soon fell in with Greene who was posting, all on fire, to

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shook the heavy' dew from his ! give Knvphausen battle; and the

horseman's ran renlared it. and ; next moment, caw hi: III van in

if full march, over a distant hill.

V ' I. I IV. 11111 1 iut as a bright flash parsed awav (upon which the morning sun

on the horizon, followed by a broke out just then, as if leaving

loud report; and the next mo

ment a part of our ranks were covered with dust and turf thrown up by a cannon ball that struck within a bundled vards of the

place that he had just left. Our

hoises pricked up their ears at

the heavens for a while,) to the

enemy V flank. This arrangement would have been latal to Knvphausen: but unluckily there was a stop put to it almost in tlx very moment when we were readv to fall upon

the sound; and all at once, as if a bin) man and horse, by the alar hundred trumpets were playing in ming intelligence, that- Cornwalthe wind, came the enemy in his lis had moved off to another quaradvance. " fcr There was a moment ofir Pulaski unsheathed his sword resolution doi.ht It was the called out a select body, and set death of ns Greene was recalled: olTat a full gallop to a more dis aod Sullivan commanded to halt, taut elevation, where he saw the Hardly had this happened, and

enemy advancing in twocolumns: our horses were covered with

one, under Knyphauscn, which sweat and froth fretting like

moved in tremendous steadiness, chained tigers upon the bit; our

like a dark solid mass, in a diree men coveied with dust, and blin tion towards Maxwell; the other ded with the wind and sun; for

under Cornwallie, which seemed it was extremely hot and sultry

to thi eaten the right flank of our

main body Intelligence was immediately , sent to Washington, and reinforcements called in, from the house that we had left. We kept our position, await

when a heavy cannonade was

heard on our right flank; and

Gieene. whose division we had

been attached to. va put in mo tion for the support 'f Kuliivan whom we had. left some hours he

ing for a whole hour the sound of tmv The truth now broke upon

conflict; at last a heavy volley

rattled along the sky a few mo ments passed and then another followed, like a storm of iron up on drum heads. The whole air wrung with it; another, and ato ther fallowed, and then gradually increasing in loudness, and loudness, came peal after peal upon us, still it resembled one continual

us like a thunder clap. The en

emy had passed, concentrated, (as

yet he was the first man! and

who would not have followed

him! we did follow him, and

with such a hurricane of fire and

steel, that, when we wheeled, our

whole path lay broad and open before us, with a wall of fire un-

on me ngni nana ana the left but not a bayonet nor a blade in front, except what were under the

hoofs of our horses. My blood rushes now, like a flash of fire through my forehead, when I recal the devastation that we bad made almost to the very heart of the enemy's column. But Pulaski be who afterwards rode in their entrenchments, on horseback, sword in hand, was accustomed to it; and having broken over them once aware of his peril if he should give them time to awake from their consternation, he wheeled in a blaze of fire, with the intention of returning through a wall of death, more perilous than that which shut in the children of Israel, upon the Red Sea but no! the walls bad rolled in upon us. and we were left no choice, but to continue as we had begun. The undaunted Pole rioted in the excess of joy; I remember bow he passed me, again and again, reeking with blood riding absolutely upon the very boyoncts of the enemy; and at last as they pres-ed upon him and hor-eman after horseman fell from our saddles when we were

all faint and feeble, and even Ar

chibald was fighting on foot over

his beautiful mare, with Arthur

battling over his head, we heard

the cry of sueeoui ! succour! and lelt the enemy iive wav hravp

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we supposed.) and fallen upon this way and that, and finally con-

our tight. I never shall forget centrate beyond us: 'Of ce more!'

Greene's countenance, when the (- ed Pulaski, or,ce moreV and I ... A " t 1

news came; he was in the road uc uem aa," urea'-ing in

side, upon a very steep bank hupon them as they were forming:

but we wheeled where be was aud trampling down whole pla-

dashed (iown the bank his face toons in the charge, before a man

white as the bleached marble

clap of thunder rolling about tin- and calling to us, to gallop for dec an illuminated vapour. ward, with such a tremendous

But Pulaski, with all hi mi impulse that they marched tour

could plant bis bayonet, or brino-

his piece to an aim: and the next

moment we were scouring over

the ground, where I could sec Ar-

petuos'ty. was a "enerak and ""dies in forty minutes; we held chihald and Arthur battling it

knew his dutv too well to Invard on our way. in a cloud ol dust with lour or live ot the enemy s

any movement till we should h and met Sullivan, all in disorder, horse; but our aspect as we came

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able to see with certainty the op near a mile b om the field, retrea ,mundenng round upnn them, erationofthe enemy in the v&- ting, step by step, at the head of proved sufficient. They took to

pour helow. IWcanwhi e sever.- his men, and snouting nimseii " iu w e urougui mem

al little narties that we had sent Mtoarse covered with blood and both off, unwounded unhurt.

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out came in one after the other in sweat; and stiiving, in vain, to full gallop, with the intelligence, bring them to a stand; while . 1 . 1 111 II - .

mar Knvphausen had uroken

down upon Maxwell in magnifi

cent style been beaten back a gain, but that he had finally pre vailed and that Maxwell had re

tornwaihs was pouring in upon

them an incessant volley

Pulaski dashed out to theright.

over t'ne broken fences; and there

(Tu be emifinued.) James the Second, when be was Duke of York, took it into his head to visit Milton, merely out of curiosity. In the course of their conversation, the Duke

stood awhile, untight in his stir

wnxtrA ...,, thn ni-pr A thin runs, icconuoit erin,r w hile the asKCU "Whether he did

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vapour now rose from the green enemy, who appeared by the '":11 1 u t u " ."''n'

smoke and (lust that mllcd helore IT1'1'.1"1" ,Ui

earth helow us. and complete!;

covered the enemy from oir

view. It wa no longer possible to follow him, except by the sound of his tread, which we could tcel in the solid earth, jarring ourselves and our horses; and now and then a quick glimmering in the mist, as some staff4

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rm. in the wind, to be much ' wiotc against his father, Chas. arer than they ually were, re- l' ur n'rtal bard made the

louowing repiy; -ir your lliU-

doubled their eltorts: but, at last.

be saw a favorable opportunity.

I he column wheeled the wind

swept athwart their van. revealing

them, like a battalion of spirits.

your mgi

ncss inuiKs tnat the calamities which befal us heie, are indications of the wiath of Heaven, in what manner are we to account

hreafhincr fir,, runt smoke- he for the ,atc of the king. VOUr fa-

(hud was raised above it-softKRave tlx: sianal-Arcliibald rc t,,c'- llic displeasure ot Heaven

weapon flourished, or some musket shot through it like a rocket. About an hour after, a horse-

! man dashed through the smoke.

so many marble creatures until j on the very vcige of the horizon just as the eastern sky began to j and alter scouring the fields for redden and undulate; and cloud j a w hole mile, w ithin view. eomafter cloud to toll up, and heave municated with two or three othlike a great curtain upon the ! ers, who set off in different direewind; and the whole heaven tions one to us. with orders to seemed discharging all its beauty hurry dou n to the ford, where and brigntness upon one spot I the commander in chief was de happened to turn about and aw j tei mined to fall upon Knyphauthe tall Pole bearheaded. tilting ' sen with all bis power, before his horse, like cumc warlike pies- Cuniwallis could conic to his aid.

pcated itArthur and myself. 1 ,,,usl' ul)on uns supposition, have In three minutes, we were readv cn much greater against him

for the word; when Pulaski. than nu tor 1 llavc onl' ,ost my

shoutina in a voice that thrilled etJes but llc has ,ust hls "cad"

1 1 irn no h m nr 1 t lirm inrli tic Qt i iuL

rl; to his rh:irTrr it wns hnlf n I Or.

r i . , TOCTOR M'Namee intends moving minute so hcice and terrible HO tmm his iesilwrc in Vir. nnr. Z

was, his charge before we were New. Harmony .He will aitcnd io uo able to come lip with him What settling of his accounts in the first week

could he mean! in acious heaven! i .f W "' s,,ch as ac not settled by

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my hand, convulsisively, like that of a drowning man, reined up for a women when I saw that we were galloping straight forward, into a field of bayonets

that time will be attended to by doctor J. U. Woolvciton, who is authorised to settle and rcctipt for the same and who w ill in future reside in the house now occupied by the subscriber. '5-lf May 23, 1835. TALLOW wanted at this office.