Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 August 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

Jonathan's visit to a Wedding. Did von ever go to a wedding? Vhat darned sight o'bussing it takes; Then your mouth it is hot as a pudding, They put so much spice in their cakes. Surh playing and running, I never The gals all as neat as new pins! I'd fairly wear out my old leather, Tocatch'em and bussem by jings! I wonder, by goll, what's the matter I can't get a sweet-heart I've tried But, I sniggers, I never could flatter, But the g lis would all tell me I lied. So rot'em I always am cheated, My gosh! I will twig'em, I vum! If I can't be more h in'snmcr treated I won't go a courtin, by gum! Then T guess they will come to their reason If what grannv savsbe all true If you'll let'em alone, with your tcazm, The gals will come flor.kin to you. m- :::o o::: Ticomleroga.

The following 15 Col. Ethan

Allen1 account of the capture of

Ticonderoga, on the 10th of May

1 o:

The first systematical and

bloody attempt at Lexington to enslave America thoroughly elec

trified mv mind, and fully deter

mined me to take apart vvith my

country. And while I was wish ing for an opportunity to signa lize myself in its behalf, direc

tions were privately sent to me

from the then colony, now State

of Connecticut, to raise the Green

Mountain Bo vs. and if possible.

x v surprise and taue uie fortress oi v Ticonderoga This enterprise I cheerfully undertook; and after

guarding all the several passages

into theparade within the garrison,

gave a halloo, and ran under a

bomb proof. My party followed

me into the fort; I formed on the

parade in such a manner as to face the barracks which face each other. The garrison being asleep,

except the sentries, we gave three

huzzas, which greatly surprised them. One of the sentries made a pass at one of my officers with a charged bayonet and slightly wounded him. My first thought was to kill him with my sword; but in an instant I altered the design and fury of the blow to a slight cut on the side of his head; upon which he dropped his gun. asked quarters which I readily

granted him; and demanding

where the commanding omrei

slept, he showed me a pair of stairs

in front of the garrison, which led up to the second story in said bar racks, to which I immediately repaired, and ordered the comman der. Captain Dclaplacc to come forth instantly, or I would sacrifice the whole garrison At which the Captain came immediately to the door, with his breeches in his hand, when I or dered him to deliver up the fort instantly, lie asked me by what authority I demanded it 4 1 answered him "In the name of the great Jehovahand Continental Congress." The authority of Congress be ing very little known at that time, he began to speak again, but

i uuerrupicu mm, ana witn a drawn sword near his head, demanded an immediate surrender of the garrison, with which he

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t Kit led muner 10 cui on an uiiei- men compuru anu omereu nis licence between the garrison and men to be fort with paraded withthe country, made a forced march out arms as he had given no the frm Bennington, and arrived at garrison. In the mean time, the lake at Ticonderoga, 1775, some of my oilers had given orwith r2.S0 valiant Green Moun- ders, and in consequence thereof, tain B ys: and it was with the sundry of the barrack doors were utmost . difiVulty that I proem cd beaten down and about one third boats to cross the lake. How- of the garrison imprisoned which ever I landed $ men near the consisted of said commander a garrison, and sent the boat back lieutenant Felham, a conductor of for the rear guard commanded by artillery, a gunner, two sei gents. Colonel Hcth Vai ner; but the and forty four rank and file, about day began to dawn, and I found one hundred pieces of cannon, myself necessitated to attack the one thirteen inch morter, and a fort, before the rear could pass number of swivels. This enterthe take; and as it was viewed prise, was carried into execution hazardous. I harangued the ofli- in the gr ay of the morning of the cers and soldiers in the following 10th of May 177.5. The sun

manner

seemed to rise that

morning with

"Friends and fellow soldiers; a superior lustre; ami Tieonderoyou have for a number of years ga and its dependences smiled up past been the scourge and terror on its eonquerots, who tossed a to arbitrary power Your valor bout the flowing bowl, and drank

lias been famed abroad, and ae. success to Congress, and liberty.

knowlediied, as appears by the and freedom to America.

orders to me from t he General

Assembly of Connecticut, to surprise and take the garrison now before us. I now propose to advance before you and. in person, conduct you through the uieket rate; for we must this morning

cither quit our pretension to val-

Norih-Qirolina Gold Mines A writer in the National Intelligencer, speaking of the Gold Mines of North Carolina, says: One of the Senators of NorthCarolina lately visited Washington, and stated that Mr. Barrin-

weight, and all that has been head," said the officer, elevating found, has been by random dig- the chin of the Irishman with the ging: for in no instance have the head of his cane," to an angle of operations of these persons been nearly forty five degrees; Hold directed by miners or scientific up your head so, and throw your men. A native inhabitant of the eyes somewhat to the rWit thus.' first respectability of Lima, in Pc "And must I always doso. noble ru, declared, on hearing of the captain?" asked the recruit with quantities of gold that had been much apparent simplicity. 4Ws, found in North Carolina, of the always," answered the officer, size of the piece of S3 pond ''Then fare you well my dear lit-

weight, and also of the extent of tie fellow, rejoined Paddy,

the region so richly impregnated shall never see you more."

with gold, that he knew not of any mine in Peru that was equal to it. and which he declared to the writer of this. The worthy member of Congresq. who represents that district in which the mines are, has unequivocally asserted that the re

ports relative to the riches which have been drawn from these mines are true that he has visi ted the mines and has seen many pieces of several lbs. weight and lias seen ten or twelve pounds weight of the gold as it was drawn

from the mines, and that he did

"Well," said Mr. Secretary Goulburn to a labourer who way repairing some fences near Dublin Castle. uwhat do you propose to ask of Mr. Canning when he arrives here?" ' The suppression of pigeons, of rabbits and of parsons," was the reply. "Why, leally this is a strange mode of classing them " "Nay, your honour, it is very clear: the first devour nr. in the seed, the second in the blade, and the third in the sheaf.'

A sailor was lately at a chapel,

II "III l"U IIIIIK HIIU IIK1L lit. UIU .t i . i . i he parson observing he looked not see an excavation that exceed 1 , . . , ;l it r l ir i 11 ii rather Serious approaching asked cd ten feet, lie has declared the . . f ,. M , n .l ,11 i i i mm ' ne kt ay chantri? The titles also to be good, and to be -i . i- i . .

goo

depended on as much as the ti ties of any of the lands in the United States lie has declared that lands which might have been bought for two or three dollars an acre, would not, in some spots, be sold now for five thousand dollars an acre. Many persons are desirous of buy

sailor put his hand in his pocket.

and said he was sorry, but he had'nt got a single cent.

MUSEUM OF FOltEIGX LITERATURE AXl) SCIEXCE.

fllHIS work is composed entirclv, as its tiJL tic implies, of selections from foreign Journals. A few words may show that it ir

ing the gold mine lands, and the institutions or literature ami that, ru the

more thev can depreciate them cnntrar' it may have an important cfTect ir. the better chance thev have of I?.revcI11lilIS UlL: fr:.nation of doctrines i:i UK. nt.nci cnanec iney nave OI accordance with the principles upon which making good bargains; but SUch our society is constituted. Some of the linnets are unworthy of men of lion- ?'l!,h Kcvicws Magazines, arc repriced . A. - this country exactly as they appear at or, and to ICSOl t to them IS deS home, and they, as well as those which are picable. "ot l)V,)ll:3,Ktl nert embrace much matter ct" 1 little interest and no advantage to our rc.vlr, ... t J,,, . . ers and which is not unfrcnucntlv litted to lortltllde. rl he dying Speech vitiate their literary taste, their morals o-

Of Mr Cuffe, Secretary of the their political principles. Hut while it can-

P n l of I?Cc.v II,. ivoc (.vn,... not bo denied that there h in all these to3vu I ol lssex. He was execu lv-IKn jMirn;lp. a larcr,. nart f;f wlllrh rntwkt.:

ted 111 the reigll ol Queen EllZa- of details and speculations which are uninu-r-

beh for

brought V

lkI am here adjudged to die for their contents is of general applicat'.on and ol ' I IfltfM'I'Vt V'llllO -ltl1 tl.n 1.... . ... . 1

a-'t.ns an art never plotted; for u,7vuZXZ

plotting a plot never acted. JllS ing and curious practicable, sound andahle

tire will have herennrsp- iccn;er; rc"nc" a,Kl tieg.nt much that v.dlexcite

must be heard; greatness will " raise the genius He mendthe he in." A!ti

hav

lei

the pre eminence) must die like I the ciiunnel thriMigh which

iiieir opinions can oc conveyed wiUi tlie grea test certainty and Uicct to'the greatest num-

nr or possess ourselves of this for- Ser ,,a(' worked three days in his

tress, in a few minutes; and, in g'iind without finding much, but amuch as it is a desperate at- going a little deeper, he struck on tempt, which none but the brav- 11 vm f Pu'e gold, and dug out r st men dare undertake, I do not about eleven pounds weight; he

urcit on any, contrary to his thcn callc fr aid of his viTl. You that will undertake h iends, who assisted him, and he vnlnni.irilv nnisn vnnr fire locks ha(i deposited in the bank of Sa-

Tne men beinn at this time lisbury thirty pounds weight of

drawn up in three ranks, each Pu,c gokl- 1 lus s carats in poised his firelock, I ordered h'leness -At the Messrs Parhr. nml ai. n" "avc obtained

till 111 IUV V l HIV Hf,"'J " , , the head of the centre file march mor th4an ten thousand dollars ed them immediately to the wick- w" th ot ?old. from one acre of et gate, aforesaid, where I found 8round ai,d "tead of digging a sentry posted who instantly ; twenty or thirty feet deep, have snapped his fuzee at me, I ran im- ' in no instance exceeded ten.

mediately tovards him and he

treated through the covered waj

the same offence that V!'5-10 mr!can rcatlfs' f ischievo.,s n - . . m their political or moral tendency, it is chSSeX to the hloek. qually certain that a considerable portion of

ive the victory; scholars ftho' hcn vciC(,I'5i(ici that the greatest pitiioso. i . il l pliers and statesmen, as well as poets, critics armng and valor should have unci all other men of literature, m.d now the 1 1 1 A- - I l M ...

1 II I i r.

nogs, ami ne nanged I o mislike this, were but folly: to dis

pnte it. but time lost; to alter it. impossible: but to endure it, is manly; and to scorn it, magnanimity The Queen is displeased the lawyers injurious and death

terrible: but I crave pardon of the v3c SrCat ck:POJ,itorIcs , r ..I , iSew Invention?, a work

ber of men, it will appear verv evident, that

i knowledge of what is thus written ar.d donr abroad, is necessary to the successful cultivation of nr own literature, and important to the politician, scholar and man of business, as w ell as to him who reads only for amusement.

To persons who reside at a distance from

of New Kooks. and

Queen; forgive the lawyers, and

the world; desire to be forgiven

v elcome (leatl7,

Early Rising Young Ladies! would you improve your minds? know that the morning is the best time to study. Would you improve your beauty? know that the morning air is the best cosmetic. Would yould enjoy pleasure without alloy? know that the sun rising from its vellow couch, presents one of the most sublime and beautiful scenes in nature. Would you delight your eyes, and regale, your olfactories? know that flowers are clad in their best attire and send forth

the sweetest perfumes in the mor

k. conducted ur on this

plan is peculiarly important, as r.iTrdiv.g to

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Cheap Wholesale & Retail, Hat Store.

ii.

ninrr.

P. PRICE, On MARKET STREET, viNCKNNF.s, has constantly on

hand, a handsome assortment of hats of

Finally, uould you attend cvcr description, which he is enabled to

t sell as low as any in mc piacc. a morning school? up at 4 , , " HE NOW MANUFACTURES THE o clock.

Cortes of Oval 11 (iter rroof

k n r i II

inimurv unieer, oi ( minu- K1i

tivestature.'was lately drilling an wh!ch arc asrl3.ined bc the latest

re- They have found several piece, (irishman ronsidcrablv above six SV UyfiW ,vay of above three and four pounds , feet m height. "Hold up your 43-iy Norembcr, ml.' ...