Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 48, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 January 1826 — Page 4

Poetical.

STANZAS. The heart long stccp'd in bitter care Finds hope at last give way ; And, like a vulture, grim Despair Seems hovering o'er his prey ; And whispering look not for repose, This dreary scene will never close. But come it will the joyful day Though shrouded now from view, Which well the sufferer shall repay, To generous feeling true ; And he shall smile no more o'ercast, And ills endur'd and dangers past. REPLY. Aye come it may, and come too late A sinking heart to save; Or only serve to soothe that fate Which still must be the grave ; For what is life, when nothing more Than all we ive shrink from, or deplore ? A blighted mind is sear'd too deep, For Hope's gay dream to cheer ; And withered joys o'er which we weep, But warn us death is near Or should be near, to close a strife. Whose end can only be with life ! M:::o3frb:::i MISCELLAXY. DouV wrong yourself Doubtless many a one will think the admnnifnrv srntpnre which sfnnr1

at the head of this essay, a very unnecessary one. and say to himself, the man who needs such advice, who is witless enough to Wrong himself in any matter must

be a simpleton indeed But stay j

a moment, gentle reader don t decide hastily in this matter ; de

pend upon it if we never received ! an injuiy but such as came from j

the hands of others, we should escape many a somuvful dilemma With all our cunning, calculating, and painstaking wisdom, and with alt our self love, we do often cheat ourselves most mischievously ; and a tittle examination and reflection will he sufficient to teach us, ave, the must dishonest, for per- .

Chance tncre may ne some such among us, that however craftily we may have over-ivachcd others, we have ten times more inaeniously overreached ourselves &, that the caution is far from being inappropos doCt wrong yourself. In how many thousand instances do men wrong themselves by the excessive indulgence of their appetites Only look at the tippier look at him at home, in the midst of poverty and want ; disconsolate gloomy and melancholy ; a wretched family around

him; a hopeless prospect before: look at him abioad, dishonored and despised, ruining day by day his health, and spending his substance, his hopes, his character, his happiness, his all, over the intoxicating bowl yes, look at him, and say, if he does not need to be warned, atid warned against in juring himself. Note, then, the man of pleasure how he destroys his health, and stabs his con Stution. renders himself miserable, for the momentary gratification of

bis passions; the man who while engaged in the employment of killing time, absolutely kills himself and say, is it not misery, self inflicted misery; and, great as seems the paradox, is not such an one his own enemy? How ma ny. too. under the influence of Ambition, sacrifice peace and conscience on the altar of fame; or Stimulated bv an inordinate love of wealth, toil all their lives lonir, and deny themselves the ordinary comforts of life. Look, yes, look at the world of mankind, and say if there is not room enough for the admonition Dorit wrong yourself. We may and do not only wrong ourselves often by an in

dulgence of the appetites with Which nature has gifted us that they might be exercised toward the promotion of our happiness, but we repeatedly and frequently suffer our passions to injure us in a variety of ways. Anger which is the worst master in the world, and under the influence of which we never do a wright thing or act or speak without afterwards regretting it jlaice, which burns upon the heart and torments its victim night and day and in the game bosom with which happiness never dwells Envy, that ever friuitful source ofbitterness and misery; and Jealousy, which turns the human heart into a Pandemonium; all these, and more, reign with a powerful sway over the human family ; yet reign by the consent of their subjects, not by virtue of their own power. And who that feels the workings of secret passions, needs not the monitory voice DonH wrong

yourself 9 Besides all this, we wrong our

selves in numberless instances; by our indolence, when we suffer our golden sands of time to run unim proved away, instead of purcha sing something valuable with every hour we expend, that we may be rich in intellect, rich in hope, when the winter of life approach es and finds us poor in days By

our thought lesness, which exposes us to repeated losses, and to frequent pain. By our Pride. which is the source of a thousand mortifications and .disappointments. By our extravagance, which so often ruins men. in. temporal matters at least. But the catalogue is endless. Heaven has given us rational

powers ; we can reason and decide; and we know, and we all know, that we often wtooo our selves. But why should wc do so? Exposed as we are to be wronged by others; to suffer from numberless causes beyond our control; surely we ought not to augment, by our own conduct, the measure of our ills. The floodgates of sorrow w ill be oben ed wide enough; the storm will beat with sufficient force on our heads, without our assisting to open w ider the one, or add to the violence of the other. I have often thought, in observing the conduct of others, and in scrutinizing my own too, howmuch a little practical wisdom would save most of us, in the course of a life of ordinary length I say practical wisdom, because it is a different thing from that which genius bodies forth in beautiful thcoiics; it may exist in the tongue, but never reach, or affect the actions. Still however, good advice is not the less nercs sary. Mine is simple and easily remembered Dont wrong yourself? Oliver Oakwood.

supported the platform till it reached the water, but finding no way to escape, it returned to the platform, and for some time cmployed itself in preparing web. with which it loosely enveloped the abdomen by means of the hinder legs. It now descended, without hesitation, to the bottom of the water, when the whole of the abdomen was covered with a web, containing a bubble of air, probably intended for respiration, as it evidently included the spiricles. Tlje spider, enveloped in this little "diving bell, endeavoured on every side to escape, but in vain, on account of the slipperiness of the glass; and after remaining at the bottom for about thirteen minutes, it returned apparently much exhausted, as coiled itself close under the little platform, and remained afterwards without motion.

Commissioners Sale, 0 INCHANCERY Between,

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Respiration of the Spider. A house spider was placed by a gen tleman on a small platform, in the middle of a glass full of water, the platform being about half an inch above the surface. It presently made its escape, as might have been anticipated, by suffering a thread to be wafted to the edge of the glass. The person who witnessed this, suspecting it might have been assisted by the water, being so nearly on the same level, poured some of the water away, and placed the spider as before. It descended by the stick that

WUnTTi Mcridcth, complainant,

against

ohn Stalcy, admstr. Sec. Francis Vigo,

Nekton Edward Westfali, and oihers,

defendants.

HERE AS by a decree of tnc Circuit court of Knox county, in

Charicei y, in the above cause, made at the last term, it was anions other matters, ordered adjudged and d crecdy that certain tracts of land, beinpj lots No. 48, 74, & 93,

in the Old Donation, in Knox county,

containing four hundrtd acres each, and all the rii;ht, title and interest which A

bel Westfali, now deceased, at the time

of his death had therein ;nr."cl all the lien, claim or demand which Andrew Holmes

at the time of his death haJ thereon, by

virtue of a certain judgment of the Gene ral court of the North Western Tcrrito

ry, in his favor against the said Abel

Westfali, now deceased, and all the right, title and interest, lien claim or demand

whatsoever which Francis Vigo at any time, had in or to said tracts of land ; and

all the right, title, interest, claim or de

mand whatsoever of the said Newton Ed

ward Westfali, Juliet Westfali, now dc

ceased, John Fait hurst, and Sally Edwards Westfali his wife. Virginia West-

fall, Indiana Westfali, Jo! n Wcsly West

fall, Milton Giles, and Melvina Giles,

heirs and devisees of the said Abel West

fill, deceased, be expose d to public sale,

to the highest bidder, for cash, and con

veyed to the purchaser thereof, in fee

simple, free fiom all incumbrances what

ever in favour of the said Abel Westfali, deceased, Andrew Holmes, deceased,

Francis Vigo, or of the said heirs and de-

wees ol .the said Abel, deceased. Therefore XO TICK is hereby given, that the undersigned, ths Commissioner appointed by said decree, in pursuance ol said deciee, will exiosc to fttiblic saley to the highest bidder, Tor cash, at the court house door in Vincemies, on Saturday the fourteenth day of January 7iexty between the hours ol twelve o'clock, m. and four o'clock, p. m. of that day, the fee sinfde ot the s dd lots of land, in the Old Donation in Knox county, numbers fortyeight, seventy four, and ninety five, of four hundred ac-rcs each, free from all incumbrance, as aforesaid. S. ALMY, Commissioner. SAML. J UD AH, Cojv.'ts. Aily. December 10, 1825. 43-5t 86 &rrThc above tract, lot No. 48, is the Westfali farm, about four miles from Vincenncs, has about 75 acres under fence, a good brick dwelling hous,e, orchard, fcc. and well merits attention the title from the Commissioner will be unquestionable. Should the purchaser require it, an arrangement can be made with the subscriber for a credit of six, twelve, eighteen Sc twenty-four months, for three fourths of the purchase money of the above tracts of land. SAMl. JUDAH.

fiftjuma t Monday

OKOHGE FOSTEK, respectfully lifnurnathc inhabitants ol Vinctnnes. that

ds opening his SCHOOL on

unlay next, at the house lately occu

pied by Mrs. Mallet, or in any other room ,that a majority of the subscribers may provide and notily him of. he hopes by a strict attention to the duties of his profession, to merit a share of the public patronage. December 24, 1825.

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