Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 29, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 September 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

BEAUTIFUL SONG. When freedom on the battle storm. Her weary head reclin'd; When round her fair majestic form The serpent Slavery twhVd; Amid the din above the cloud, (Jreat Washimtov appeared' His daring hand rolled back t:ie shroud, And thus the (ioddess cheered "Burst, burst thy chains be great, be fret! In giants strength arise; Stretch, stretch thy pinions. Liberty' Thv flag nailM to the skies' Clothe, clothe thyself in glory's robe! Let Stars thy banner gem; Rule, rule the sea' possess' the globe! Wear vict'ry's diadem! Tell, tell the world, a world is born! Another orb gives light; Another sun illumes the morn, Another star the night ! B' just be brave and let thv name Henceforth COLUMBIA be; Wear, wear the oken wrath of fame, The wreath of Liberty." She said and lo! the stars of night, Forth to her banner flew, And morn, with pencil dipt in light, Its blushes on it drew; Columbia's hero seized the prize, By angel hands unfurl'd; Flew with it to his native skies. And wav'd it o'er the world! BOS I ON BARD.

ARAN THES AND ASP ASIA. A anthe was son to the Gov ernor of one of the Mediterranean i-mds. and favored with all the ad .intakes of nature, fortune, and education Aspasia was a Greek ladv. beautiful, bryond expres sinn. and admired by all the youth of Athens, which was then the p! re nf concourse for all the Roman Empire. Their mutual merit soon pro duced a mutual esteem, and this was after Mime time converted in totbemost ardent passion They both indulged the hope ot being happy in each other for life, when A'nthes. returning home to obtain his father's consent, was taken by a pirate, sold into the in ternal part of Africa, and there condemned to toil with the most unremitting severity .

m tne mean time. Aspasia telt ah that love and impatience could inspire; one year passed away without hearing from her lover

another came, but still the same

silence: at length an account arri

ved. that Arantbes was no more, so that Aspasia now lost her love

in desperation

Time, that obliterates every passion, bv degrees assuaged the pain which was felt by Aspasia; she was at length brought to lis ten to new addresses, and so far prevailed upon by the admonitions of her parents that she con sented to go into France with an old merchant who. designed her f'r his son then in Afri.a, trad ing with the natives of that barbarous region Her voyage was successful ; and if her lefmed man tiers charmed the old man, the son who soon after returned, was not less enchanted A day was fixed for t!vir nuptials; and as be was the xnnA pu lent man in the country, all the inhabitants came successively to otTer their congratulations, and in order to add still givatersplendour to the solemnity, the young merchant, who was to become bride groom, made her a present of hf

ty Maves, who were at that time

lust landed, and within halt a

dav's journey to attend her. As the presence of such a num

ber of slaves, it was thought, would still add magnificence to

the entertainment, they were led

up to tin- merchant's palace, loa

then the custom, bending beneath

their sorrows and fatigue. As

pasia felt all that humanity could inspire, upon the sight of distress, while they passed on before her. But what could equal her emo

tions, when among the hindmost

of those unfortunate wretches, she beheld ber own Arantbes, emaciated with labor, and affliction, and with his eyes unalterably fixed on the ground! She gave a loud convulsive shriek, and fell senseless into the arms of her attendants As her situation near ly drew the tyes of all upon her, Arantbes sa v once again the ob ject of his earliest passion, he flew with baste to her assistance. Their .story and his misfortune were soon made known to the Company; and the young merchant, with peculiar generosity, resigned his mistress to the more earlv claim of Arantbes. Were this story a novel, it would end with the greatest propriety in this place; but truth disagreeably prolongs the account for one dav sitting at a window of one of the apartments, happy in each other, and flushed with the expectations of still greater rapture, a youth, who with a bowbad been shooting at birds, in a neighboring grove drew it at ran dom, and the arrow pierced both lovers at once Thus a life of misfortune was terminated by as unfortunate an end Thev were - both laid in one grave, and their epitaph still continues legible (at Lvons, in France) though erected more than a thousand years, a

her prison deprived her of the power of utterance. However she felt herself lowered into a boat, and then swung on board the pirate schooner, and eventually consigned to the hold, along with other articles of plunder. The pirates soon got under weigh and were so busy in attending to the navigation of their vessel, that night came on with

master of which he gave 3omc money, with directions that their charge should be put on shore the moment they got into port. The Spanish seamen fulfilled these injunctions, by landing the lady at Havana the next morning.

Beat this Girls. Two voun ladies, one named Betsey Tuttlc the other Betsey Camel, spun at

the house of Joseph Tuttle ir

out their examining any of their

new booty. The lady was in ! ivmgstun, 0n Monday ot last the mean time contemplating the 1 week, one hundred knots of woolhorrors of her situation, and de-! len 'arn each. The yarn was of liberating what she ought to do. Sn0(1 nua,it.V, aml produced two If she remained in concealment ITms to ihc pound They cornshe would soon perish of hunger, ; "if need at 20 minutes past 4and if she discovered herself she ""dock in the morning, and fmwould be a victim to the insults ,shc(1 27 minutes after 6 in the

I evening making the whole time

of which they were enaed 12

and brutality ot the negroes She at length determined to pursue a middle course, and to seek an opportunity of disclosing herself to the pirate captain when none ot the seamen were present. She had some hopes of accom

plishing this; for she naturally ! enough supposed that the bold of j the schooner communicated with ! the cabin in the same way as in her husband's vessel. When she i

monument at once both of the as she expected. On passing for-

caprice ot their late, and ot their mutual fidelity.

hours and 13 minutes including times of eating. JVilksbarre Democrat. A pert young lady was walking one morning on the Steyne. at Brighton, when she encountered the celebrated Wilkes. "You see." observed the lady, "I am come out for a little sun and air!"

supposed, from the sumiuivling .. ' , "u ' gp' a stitln.-ss. that midnight was ap- "t"e""s"a"(l tirst 1 1 1 I t " ii ...

proa'Mung. slie linerateu herselt fnm her wooden prison Total darkness prevailed, except near a chink, through which a faint light appeared; she groped her way to the spot, and found that ber guiding beacon was the keyhole of the door ot which she was in

search. It yielded to ber hand J'

and afforded access to the cabin,

NO RLE ACT OF A PIRAT!. CHIEF. A pirate vessel once attacked a sloop, the crew of which made a violent and unexpected resistance; but it proved unavailing, and she was soon boarded bv her assailants who showed themselves inclined to proceed to extremities

ot every kind The master of the sloop, unfortunately, had his wife with him. She remained below decks, while her husband stood by the gangway, and endea vored to prevent the negroes from descending to the cabin; however

he was almost immediately knocked down and murdered

The female saw this, and aware

that she now had no one to pro

tect her, rushed, in a state of des

peration, into the bold, which communicated with the cabin by

a small door in the bulk-heads.

Her first impulse was to open a

lage empty chest, that had once

held w ine. and to take refuge in it. and to close the lid. in w hich there happened to be a chink

large enough to admit air Here

she lay in total darkness, scarcely

daring to breathe, and listening

with intense anxiety to the noises

made by the people above. She

heard enough to convince her that

the work of death was going on.

and that the pirates had murder

ed many of the ship's crew. Com

parative quietness soon succeeded.

and the hatch being removed, the

negroes came down to the hold, and lifted up a variety of bales and bxes upon deck, and sent them on board their own vessel. Among other tilings, they seized the chest in which she lav con-

cealed thinking, doubtless, that !

it contained bottled wine. Her terror was so great that slu

BOSTON BARD. PROPOSALS For puplishing dy subscription, THE LIFE OF THE "BOSTOX bard: With a Portrait by Durand. In youth, I saw the ruggcci 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 thtanxictv expressed bv the nuhlic p-rnrmlK- u

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w ai U Sue lOUIlil Hie pirate Criei oecome octier acquainted with the hision asleep on a couch, with a lamp on fhy'"drh at length induced . , . , . ,r luiui' hun to attempt the prbhcation of his life, tt tlietaole neSUie him Having se- jollier with a number of poems, which an:

TanT-WaV door, she a- TR(Cs:iril attached to the narrative. Mis-

cured the

wakened him as gently as possi

hie; but the moment he cast bis eyes upon her he stalled up, uttered a cry of fear, and endeavored to rush out of the cabin. She fell at his feet, and explained quickly who she was. and how she had been brought on board his vessel, and implored his protection The negro, on recovering from bis first alarm, listened attentively to what she said, and (hen, altera little hesitation, told her that he had not sufficient control over his men to prevent them

lrom intuiting her. and that her only security lay in her continuing in tier former concealment, till she found an opportunity of leaving the schooner He promised to supply her with food during her imprisonment, and to put her on shore, or on board some vessel, as soon as be found it pos sible to do so. lie now conduc ted her to the hold, and having placed the chest in a spot less

likely to be disturbed than any other, left her, and shortlv return ed with food and w inc. The female remained two days in this state, undiscovered by the crew,

andregulaily visited by the captain, who supplied her abundantly with the necessaries of life. 8he had the liberty of moving about the hold all night, but was obliged to take refuge in her prison dining the day, every place between the decks being then oxposed to the visits of the negroes At length the pirate came in sight of a Spanish coasting boat; and

having made her heave to. be at once brought his female passenger on deck to the indiseribable astonishment of his neonle. and

would have discovered herself had embarked her without opposition

loss of health, and the great uncertainty oi

life at any time, have each had a due influ ence in hastening this determination. And, if "variety's the very spice of life," the readers of his work will find their mental repast sufficiently uav7ivd to please cen 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 begetting; there must have been a cause foreign to himfcelf: that cause shall be made known with ii due regard to the feeling of the living. Except my mother, sister and brother,' I stand indebted to no living relative for anv favor whatever. If the clouds which veiled the morning sun of life have been broken and dispersed; if, under a sell given appellation. I have merited an) encomiums for my poetical productions; and if tlir.se productions have a tendency to instruct, amuse, cr enlighten the understanding, the kindness o; kindt rrd has not in any manner, nor at any time, been productive of these events. If 1 have been an hungered the bread of the strange bas strengthened me: if weary, c: his couch have I reposed, slumbered, and refreshed; to the stranger, therefore am 1 indebted, and I tender him that which I owe no one else gratittde. The heat cf the day has been borne atone, having always been as unwilling to ask assistance where a. refusal certain, as I am now solicitous of exclusively enjoying that credit formv poems u':ich candid men mav think proper to besI'.OSTON BAUD. Mour.t Plea (X. Y.) March, 13:5. rl he v.ctk w ill co; tain ribnut tw o hundred p ige, duV... . imo, printed on fine paper, with a t ar and neat type, and afforded to sctii,.i r. one dollars, cash on delivery. . There will not be a greater number of copies pi in id han v. Ii.it are subscribed for.

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