Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 28, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 August 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

MASONIC CONTEMPLATION. What pow'r but God's could form an Institution To stand un mo v'd, nor suffer diminution ? What is so ancient, grand, great or sublime, Or what but this, has been obscur'd by time? This Light Divine, effulgent first began; When God, in His own image first made man. X Shining in darkness, comprehended not, V But bv the wise, thro revelation taught. VtVhatisall knowledge, Sciences or Arts, ComnarM to this, which life and joy imparts? Sweet calm retreat, and true Elysianrest, Where love, and joy, and harmony's confest! A Monarch, here, will own his sight began, His greatest boast, the title of a man. Here reigns a deep tranquility o'er all; No care, no strife all's free, without controul! 5Tis lost to rhetoric; language c an't express Nor fancv form such finish'd happiness. The Architects the stately Fabric rears, With wondrous art, the lofty arch appears! Prcpar'd with skill, then each, constituent part Goes up complete, without a hammer's art. Jehovah's glory condescends to grace The scene Divine, and sanctifies the place. The radiant Eye, beams dazzling glories round, While, awful, reigns a silence most profound! When Arts sublime, and Points mysterious, move, And Wisdom's taught in harmony and love, Lo! by the Ark, the sons of freedom stand. While God vouchsafes to bless the chosen band. J. R.L.

HtlSCELLJNY.

Extract of an Oration delivered on the celebration of the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, at Georgetown, D.C.by Brother . B.Shackelford. We have the misfortune, too, to meet a frown where frowns should never be. For us no sunny smile sits in the eye which marks the fairest, purest, best of God's creation. If there he on earth one work of spotless loveliness, whereupon the hand of Hea

ven has written Masterpiece; that work is. Woman. Who is he that denies? lie is no Mason Who is he that doubts? lie is no Mason. Who is he that hesi tates to avow it? He is no Mason The spirit of the Craft whispers to the heart of every Brother, thou shalt bow before that workman who pronounced it ood; thou shalt cherish and support the work, for without it, the pilgrim, man. has no sun, no bnme. no comfort, and no hope. F' om woman thou shalt withold

nothincr coou, save that which

iikc tne appie ui luro, is luriiKiden. I do not say. however, that the whole sex presume to censure what they do not comprehend. I have tile happiness to know oth crwise There a?c many distin sruished and honorable exceptions. Elizabeth old England's beautiful intelligent, and jealous Queen, bearing that the Masons had certain secrets which could not be revealed to her. (for that she could not be Grand Master,) and being

, jealous oi all secret assemblies. . 1 r l i

M i u iiu ai im u mice in Dicaiv Up

cue ijoosje at oi k. at a celebration in honor of St. John the Evangelist. The Grand Master being not dismayed, received the

guests with gallantry; and so con-

vinced tnem oi mc rxvemncy oi our order, that the chief officers

were themselves initiated on the spot. And Elizabeth said that

she would never repeat the effort;

for that she esteemed the Mason's

a peculiar set ot men. who cultiva

v ted peace and friendship, arts and

sciences, without meddling in the

affairs of Church or htate. Are you a Mason's wife? Then remember that vou mav be

eume a Mason's widow. The smile that mantles on your cheek to dav: the love that sparkles in

in the morning, may be blighted ! like a killing frost; to night But thank God, winter is not always. The spring shall breath upon the garden, and it shall bring forth buds. So shall thy tear. Oh! Sympathy! more grateful and refreshing than the dews of spring, fall upon the withered stalk, and it shall bloom again. Go cherish and encourage him who is the source and fountain of your present happiness. While, by your amiable gentleness, you teach him to love his wife, suffer him to love his brother also: and when your little boy shall ask you what a Mason is tell him that a Mason is the Orphan's Father, and the Widow's Friend. The benefits which the order dispenses to its own members; the important privileges which are conferred upon them, none but a Mason can properly comprehend or appreciate. It is the delight of Masonry to walk into the hum ble retirement of poverty, to administer relief to the unfortunate, and to pour oil into the wounded spirit. By the power of Masonry, we often check a Brother on

trie brow of a precipice, and are enabled, too, oftentimes to avert

the peril that is aimed at our own

breast. By the power of Mason ry the captive Putnam arrested the scalping knife of the savage; and the fettered Const as commanded the wheels of the inquision to stand still, and thev obeved him These are instances where mason ry opcratestoindividual good. Her general good effects upon the whole human family; the many important results which have originated in the spirit of Masonry, are not easily enumerated. Iter spirit is seen in the enlightening philosophy of Franklin: her light

smnes m the history oi her cis

tinguisbed patron. Gen. Waiington: beams in the heroism of, the vet lamented He Kalb; and blazes in the philantropic chivalry

ot La ravette.

He 5s then conducted, or rather whirled away, by his fair companion, to the manager of the green, where he has an opportunity of beholding the congregated celibacy of the place. The grotesque appearance of the various groupes particularly amused him "The Grecian robe and the Roman toga, the Monkish cowl, the Monastic veil, and the blanket and feathers of the Indian, were mixed in ludicrous contrast " The allotment of partners was equally diverting. "A gentlemen in an embroidered suit led off a beggar girl; while a broad shouldered Mynheer flaunted with an Italian countess Queen Elizabeth was dancing a jig with a jolly cobbler, a person of great bonhommie, but who fail ed not to apply the strap when his stately partner moved with less agility than comported with his notions. His attention was then arrested by the appearance of a spare looking gentleman ad vanning to the genius of the place in high glee. Poor man! he had no soonor come up to the group of ladies, than a tall swarthy, lantern jawed, antiquated virgin rais

ed her foot, as a challenge for him

to dance, whereupon they both

fell to. and had danced six months when he left them, without any

prospect of cessation. Port Fo lio.

The Bachelor's Elysium. We

are informed that there is in the

other world, a place prepared for maids and bachelors called Fid

dler's Green, where they are condemned, for the lack of good fel-

lowship in this world, to dance to

gether to all eternity. One of a

party who had been conversing on this subject, after returning home, had his brain so occupied

with it. that in a dream le ima

gined himself dead, and translated

to this scene of incessant fiddiing and dancing. After describing

his journey to these merry abodes of hopping shades, he says that on passing the confines, he perceived a female figure advancing with a rambling, rapid motion, re sembling a hop, skip, and jump. He now cast his ees upon his own person, as a genteel spirit would naturally do, at the approach of a female, and for the first time saw, that although he had left his substance in the other world, he was possessed of an airy form, precisely similar to the on he had left behind him. and was clad inthe ghost of a suit of clothes

made after the newest fashion, which he had puchased a few days before his death. As the figuie came near she slackened

her pace, and struck into a grace ful chassee forward; at the same time motioning to him to cross a

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your gladdened eve; the hopes nvuiet. which he no sooner did. that nestle in your tranquil heart; than he fell a dancing with incred all, like the buds that blosoms ible agility.

easy companion for life; virtue and good sense, an agreeable

friend; love and constancy, a good wife or husband Of all disparities, that in humor makes the

most unhappy marriages, yet scarce enters our thoughts in contradicting them. Before marriage we cannot be too inquisitive and discerning in the faults of the per son loved, nor after it too dimsighted and superficial. Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness or misery. A marriage of love is pleasant; of interest easy; and where both meet, happy only to those who tread the paths of life together in aconstant, uniform course of virtue. true liberty The true value of liberty can only be conceived by minds that are free, Slaves remain indolently contented in captivity. Men, who have been long tossed upon the troubled ocean of life, and have learned, bv severe experience, to entertain just notions of the world and its concerns, to examine every object with unclouded and impartial eyes, to walk erect in the strict and thorny paths of virtue, and to find their happiness in the reflection of an honest mind, alone; are free.

si glorious act of Justice! Never, since I assumed the edi torial pen. have 1 had it in my power to furnish an item of intel-

! ligencc more crratifvinp. or to re

.7 n cord an act of justice more truly magnanimous, than I now have the unspeakable pleasure to notice. A gentleman from Virginia, applied at the office of the Baltimore Haytien Emigration Society, on the 24th inst. for information respecting the propriety and practicability of sending a large number of slaves to the Republic of Hayti. After he had received, from the Agent, a statement of the present situation of things relative to the emigration of our colored people at that island, he requested assistance in procuring a vessel for the purpose above men-

L tinned. This was cheerfully com

plied with; and the next day a contract was closed, with a ship owner, to take out eirhtii ei?ht

slaves all belonging to the renNeman aroresaid, the price of whose passage he pays himself, and for the use of whom, he al so purchased Agricultural implements in this city, to the value of one hundred and thirty dollars. Genius U. Emancipation.

Courtship and M irriac The pleasantest part of a man's life is that which passes in courtship. Love, desire, hope, and all the pleasing emotions of the soul arise

in the pursuit. An artful man is more likely to succeed than the sincere lover. The lover hath ten thousand griefs, impertinences, and resentments, which render a man unamiablc. and often ridicu lous Where the choice is left to friends, the chief point is an estate. Where the persons choose for themselves, their thoughts turn upon the person. The first w ould

provide for the convenience of

life; the others are preparing for a perpetual feast. An agreeable woman is preferable to a perfect beauty. Good nature, and even

BOSTON BAUD. PROPOSALS FOR PUPLISHING BY SUB SCRIPT 10.' , THE LIFE OF THE "BOSTON BARD? With a Portrait by Dura?: a In youth, I saw the rugged road. My feet were doomed to tread. And sane, I took misfortune's load And bared to heaven my head. The frequent requests of friends, and t::anxiety expressed by the public generally V In-come better acquainted with the histor, of the ftoatzn Bard? has, at length induced him to attempt the publication of his life, together with a number of poems, which arc necessarily attached to the narrative. Misconception of character; unmerited censure; loss of health, and the great uncertainty of life at any time, have eac h, had a due influence in hastening this determination. And, i:"vAiULTY's the erv sfick of life," the readers of his work will find their mental repast sufficiently zriuwt d to please even the palate of an epicure. The sorrows and misfortunes of himself, and those of his father's house, began in the childhood of the author these calamities and griefs, therefore, are not of his begettingthere must have been a cause foreign to himself: that cause shall be made known with a due regard to the feeling cf the living. Except my mother, sister and brother, I starl indebted to no living relative for any favor whateer. If the clouds which veiled the morning sun of life hae been broken and dispersed; if, under a sell given appellation, I have merited any encomiums for my poetical productions; and if those productions have a tendency to instruct, amuse, or enlighten the understanding, the kir.dr.ezs oj hindered has net in any manner, nor at any time, been productive of these events. If I have been an hungered the bread cf the stranger lias strengthened me: if weary, on his couch have I reposed, slumbered, and refreshed; to the stranger, therefore am I indebted, and I tender him that which I owe no one else gratitude. The heat of the day has been borne alonk, having always been as unwilling to ask assistance where a refusal was certain, as I am now solicitous of exclusively enjo i;.g that credit for my poems which candid men mav think proper to bes tow. BOSTON BARD. Mount Pleasant, (N. Y.) March, 1S25.

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