Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 35, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 October 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

AUTUMX There is a fearful spirit busy now. Already have the elements unfurl'd Their banners, the great sea wave it upcurl'd ; fto blow

Vv The cloud comes; the fierce wind begins About, and blindly on their errands go. And quickly will the pale red leaves be hurlM world. From their dry boughs, and all the forest StrippM of its pride, be like a desert show. I love that moaning music which I hear In the bleak gusts of Autumn, for the soul Seems gathering tidings from another sphere; And, iii sublime mysterious sympathy, Man's bounding spirit ebbs and swells more high. According to the billow's loftier roll. ISCELLJXY. Shame all Greek, all Roman story.''1 A good lady, we knew her well when she had grown old. in I775..1ived on the sea hoard, a

bout a day's march from Boston,

where the British army then was. Bv seme unaccountable accident

. a rumor was spread in town and

country, in and about there, that the regulars were on a full march

for the place and would probably arrive in three hours at farthest

This was after the battle of Lex

ington, and all, as .well might be

supposed was in sad confusion some were boiling with rage, and full of fight ; some with fear and confusion ; some hiding their treasures, and ot Iters Hying for life. In this wild moment, when most pco pie, in some way or other, were frightened from their property. t ft .

our heroine, who hail two sons.!

one about nineteen years of age. ! and the other about sixteen, was seen by our informant, preparing them to disch-ifge their duty. The eldest she was enabled to cqinp in fine style she took her husband's fowling piece, made for duck or plover " (the good man bcins absent on a coasting V.I voyage to Virginia) and with it

the powder horn and shot bag but the lad thinking duck & goose shot, not quite the size to kill re gulars. his mother tonic a chisel.

cut up her pewter spoons, & hamin r red them into slugs, and put them into hi bag. and he set off in great earnest, but thought he xvould call one moment to see the parson, who said. k well done my brave boy God preserve you" anil on he went in the way of his duty The youngest was impor

tunate for his equipments, but his

mother could hnd nothing to arm him with but an old rusty sword ;

the bov seemed rather unwilling to risk himself with this alone, but lingered in the street in a state of hesitation, when his mother thus upbraided him; a Von John IV what will your fas her say if he hears that a ehild of his is afraid

house, but have a dwelling prepa

red for her at some little distance. They were accordingly married, and to her great indignation, she was led to the kitchen, a5? her only apartment ; how ever, not wil ling so soon to make her husband unhappy, she submitted in silence; but seeing no prospect of any alteration, she at length began to complain. Her remonstrances were at first unheeded, but when they became violent and incessant, the man quieted her by saying, that he would go to the bush and

natured female may serve as a toy, 1 straw in the stack, during the but never can command the res-! summer and fall, appears to be napect, esteem, or love of a sensible ture's choice. It is against that man. portion of heat we would have Communications from persons the farmers to guard, when we who answer the above description advise them to thresh, and keep (none others need apply) may be their wheat cool Whether the left at this office, to which prompt egg is deposited in the field or in

attention will be paid, if sealed, & the stack, we pretend not to say.

addressed to,

A.Z. but we have rather concluded, in

the latter; but we can with safety say, that the wheat now on hand,

which never went through the sweat, or w hich has never attain.

From the Maifsvillc Eagle. THE WEE VI L. Theentyiirv nf almnst. pvrrv fnrm-r is

hnw chati lVP nrPsWv, n.ir tvli-nt cd that heat to which nearly all

fetch wood to build the promised from the weevil ?" We answer vv,lcat in the stacl' ls subject, u he. house He went and brot' home thresh it immediately, clean it tnrr lt contains the egg or not, has a little in a few hours. The next -from the chaff, spread it in a barn produced no weevil ; and that morning the wife urged him to re oronen room and if it nemines I which we have lecently received

new his labors, and he went, and the least warmth, stir it daily. from the stack, ceases to hatch or alter staying all day, again return- j qple wheat which we received 111 a,0r wse produce them, so soon

ed with a small quantity, which about the first of this month, as wc can get it perfectly cool

so exasperated the wife, that she which thnn had nmn wpPi-il in I On these, and other obscrvati-

took the biggest of the sticks, and thn rv,; u fY..,,. hnoto,i o ons. too numerous for insertion

beat him well. The man then few days. We spread, and eonwent a third time, but staid all stantly stired it for about two night; and when he repaired to weeks; those then in it eat their his home, excused himself for re wav out none have since bred in turning empty handed, by saying it fit now lies in bulk without that he had cut down some large heating, and we consider it great -trees, and could only bring them lv preferable to that which we are part of the distance as they were daily receiving from the threshing so heavy. The day after he pro- floor. We have now several thou fessed to go to the bush to com san(j bushels of wheat on hand, plete his task and then staid two which was threshed from the days and two nights, which made s10Ck and from the stack, before the wife so unhappy, that when he the weevil commenced their rava

came hack to her, she cried, and trCs. It has been Iving in garners

hogged him not to leave her, and near sixty days and has been kept

that she was contented to stay in COol by frequent stirring; the

the cooking house all her hie. ra weevil has not touched it : and

ther than lose him .Hut by this we have no hesitation in saying time he liked the bush so much, (.t their ravages be what they max

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that he replied io. you maae in the stack, wheat thus cleaned 6c E LITTK I.L

me go to the bush, now I like the l:ipt cool, will in all cases be free f-Vo. 88 Chesnut street. Phiadeia.)

bush, and shall go and Stop there from thr flvmcf ivivil lias m press, an introduction t t k cnuca!

always," and breaking from her, ! We are now reeeivii

lied to the forest, where he became 1 a monkey, or a wild man, &. from him descended all other monkeys. " Oil ! ye lair married damesjjf our native land, take wamingtw . this Maudingo savage allegory Jb ;

w ire advise those who would pie serve their present crops, to thresh

and clean them immediately ; those who would hercafiei effec-

!ally guard against the fivi g

weevil, advise them to t'.resli

bom the shock, or before the

wheat takes the sweat.

N & N I1IXON.

The Ohio Steam Mill,

Maysville. Sept. 20 1825. X

A heavy complaint has been'

made against the authois of mo-

dern novels and remanees. full of ghosts, spectres, goblins. &e, that

thev have so fi iditeord t t ntYwfi

t hey are afraid to tleeji alone!

ing a lot of

stii'Iv h.v. knowlc.'rc ol tne Holy Set iptun-s.

BY THOMAS IIARTWELL IIORNK, A.IC.

Do not. by foolish complaints and by shite, drive your pat tnersW life to the woods ; for depend braon it. man would rather consent with monkeys in freedom, than be tied to a vixen, in kitchen or drawing loom. It is a queer lesson to learn from Africa ; but it is as true in civilized Europe, as in "the bush."

At. 1 1 11 I ' I

a mouanu nusueis, wtnen was

threshed in July and early in Au

iilKt niil tlirji' tluf:in X" cnroarl ttt

, , . , It will be printed from the London edition

ii iai U uai 11 it lb pel leciiy COOl, f 1823, in four lu ge Octavo volume ; it will

and has not received the least fi.l contain numerous maps and fac shiiilie oi

murp All mivill nt thrhmt Xr Bibliral anusrrips, and in short, c vr toing mage. All Small lOtS, tlUt ShCU v tlva is contained in that edition, and will bo cleaned at about that time, and very I'tiv irintc(i on rood paper.

fiinl Tiri1 in t!i 'I"le first Lomlon edition of this work was

in v v ' i , in iv. iii tilt out

good order It is also said, that

published in 1818 the second in '1 third in '2 the fourth in '23. So m

the .at a

ciimp w in t hrpshrul nnrl iwMi.iPfl s le ot so urec a work on stirli a mi it ct, is

4 , . 4, i iv i c i the best evidence that can l)e offere

to join hands," of the following

description: She must he 01 un

to meet the British, p-o alon T be ' exceptionable character and par

From the Petersburg (n ) Advertisei.. Advertisement Extra a wife wanted ! ! A gentleman whose

ue does not exceed Mb w ithouj

fortune, or great share of personu

attraction, is desirous to enter thew ild theorists lecommend this holy bands of wedlock, provided ; mode, to heat the wheat which

he can meet w ith a lady willing they say, will kill the weevil, &

their wheat in the chaff, before the

weevil were visible, have preserv

ed it ; but of this we speak with

some doubt.

We now hear many speak of

threshing stowing away in the

chart. But those we would ad

vice to be cautious : there is scarce

a stack of wheat in the country entirely free from weevil. and that

which contains bui a small norti

on, will heat, if packed away in

the chaff We have heard borne

destroy the egg from which they

hatch." This reminds us of the old btory of the Dutchman who

or borrow a gun. or you will find i outage, possess a liberal education, set tire to his barn to divert it of

rats; lor we know that wheat thus heated will never afterwards grow, nor will the Hour made from it, reward the miller for his labor it) minding.. It is nut our design to enter in-

it I i i l i?

one em hi some cowan!. I dare ' ana ne wen mcu, uoi less man iu say. will be running aw.iv. then nor over MO years of age. good ii take his gun, and march forward ! sure ad agreeable features. Ex

and if I hear ou have not behaved like a man, 1 shall carry the blush of shame on my face to the grave M She then shut the door, wiped the tear from her eye. and waited the issue ; the boy joined the inarch. Huston Gaz

Traditions nf tlic Xativcs upon the Gambia, in J fried. " There was once a big and a strung man who was by profession, a cook ; he courted a lady liv m "m the same place wiih himself, a 1 u ho w as of a rank superior to In own she accepted his offer on condition tint she should never be atiLed to enter the coekiu-

quisite beauty is not essential, but

will not by any means, be an objection. A tolerable fortune is in

dispensable, as the gentleman desi- to the natural history of this in-

rous to dispose ol himself, cannot . ect. We are desirous that the

j larmers should picterve their pre sent 6c future crops of w heat from

destruction ; and being willing that they should profit by our short experience, we freely tell them " that which we know." This much, however, we will add,

afford to make an even trade

Of bad qualities, nature has no doubt given him a plentiful $hare. If he possesses good, his partner (if he gels one) will be able to discern and appreciate them. No pveention w ill be made to aladV

r - - t

it will be a recommendation, se

ootid only to fortune. A woman who does not assume and exercise her rights is unworthy to be any man's wile. A soft, easy, good

of high temper, on the cohtflry3a$ mere opinion. We believe

they aie produced Irom an egg which, after being laid in the grain requires a certain degree of heat

to produce animation That por-

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