Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 July 1826 — Page 4

Poetical,

i. Prom the Rural Visiter. What falls so sweet on summer's flower's, As oft, refreshing showers ? What bids the bud its sweet exhale. Like evening's mildly whispering gale ? Yet sweeter, more delicious far. And brighter than the brightest star, Decking the intellectual sphereIs Pity's meek and balmy tear! hat bids despair her arrows hide ? ' What checks affliction's torturing tide ?

What heals the wound of a mental pain. And sooths the fev'rish throbbing brain, And bids the rending soul subside ? Lulling to rest distrust and fearSoft Pity's kind and holy tear Vet not that pity formed to give A pang which bids affliction live ; Not pity that can taunting shew Superior pride untouched by woe ; Not pity that with haughty smile Consoles and murders all the while ; But pity which is formed to prove The bond of faith the test of love ! WHAT IS LIFE? What is life ? 'tis a delicate shell, Thrown tip by eternity's flow, On time's bank of rpiickvmd to dwell, And a moment its loveliness show.

Gone back to its element grand Is the billow that brought it on shore : See : another is washing the strand ; And the beautiful shell h no move.

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HISTORY OF QUACKS. However lenient we are at present with respect to the notorious, illitei ate empirics, that infest this country. mre care was taken for merlv of the Peovles, constitutions. and their health was not suffered to he infected by these poisoners of whole countries In Edward the sixth's reign, one Grig, a poulterer, was set in the pillory twice, for cheating peo pie out of their money, by pretending to cure them by charms. &c.

Cv In James the first s reign the

V4 council uespateneo a wan am to the magistrates to taUe up all em pirics. and bring them before t lie censors of the college, to examine how properly qualified they were to he trusted either with I he limbs or lives of his majesty's subjects In Queen Ann's lime, these poison venders were prosecuted by

the government with proper n gour ; they were tried &e. convicted for destroying people by giving them medicines unduly prepared ; & transported for the same. Trig the shoemaker, was an in

stance US vans, the priest was punished for killing people with

0s antimonial cup. Fori ester Foreman, were severely punished for administering bitter apple and wild cucumber as specifics. In king William's time. Fairfax. Anthony. Dec, Foister, Tenant. Aires, Pnilips. &c. w ere punished, fined and imprisoned, for vending their Aqua Celestis. Aurum Pot abile. Strong Waters. &e. Hunt was punished for putting bills up in the streets. Any idle mechanic, not caring longer to drudge at dav labor, by chance gets a dispensatory, or f ome old receipt book, and poring over it, or having it read to him (for many of these present doe tors cannot read) he finds that mercury is good for the itch, and old ulcers; that opium will give case ; and that a glass of antimony will vomit 0 Down goes the hammer

,or inc saw, razor, awi, or snume and awav to w ork, to makee-

lecttiarics, tinctures, elixirs pills, plasters, and poultices. Each pre paration new named, & his own name decorated with M I). He spreads pestilence around him, as the mad savage shooting a roong the multitude with poisoned arrows.

At best, if any good can be done by these miscreants ; .it is a chance : as if twenty people fell down a precipice, and two of them should happen to be saved, not by skill nor foresight, but by some unforeseen accident in their favor. Many ate torn to pieces by violent cholics, and killed out right by fevers, dysenteries, palsies, and consumptions, occasioned by such preparations. Nor is it likely it should be otherwise, where no regard is had to state, sx. age, nor habit of body. Liver grown and worms were two names, and now become a subterfuge of ignorance, for every apparent distemper, or the more hidden symtorns of disea$e ; and many under dangerous mistakes of this sort, are lamentably barrasped ; hundreds of little infants are yearly destroyed by ihe very remedies the unhappy parents were prevailed oo to administer in order to destroy these supposed worms, w hich never existed but in their brains Coblers now set up for regular bred physicians ; hacney coachmen and barbers for anatomist & natural philosophers; washer women lor chymists; tumblers, mery andrews hostlers, and scav engers. for bone-setters, oeeulists, e&. Nothing can equal the ignor

ance ot such empirics but the stu pidity of those people who buy their unwholesome preparations. AKECDOTE OF THE II E V J A S ARM ST RON G

Some months ajn the Rev. Jas. Armstrong preached at Harmony near the Wahash When a Doctor of that place a professed Deist or lofidel called on his associates, to accompany him, while he attacked the mcthodisf as he said. At first he asked Mr Armstrong ' if he followed pleaching to save souls' he answered in the affirmative. He then asked Mr Arm-

if he ever heard a souP No' if

he ever tasted a soul' fc No' if he ever smelt a soul' ' No' if he ev- j O tate of bidiana,

said Armstrong. k Well' said the

Coxcombry The Margravine of Anspach, in her lately publish ed memoirs, relates, as a fact : I literally knew two young ladies of high quality, (sisters,) who employed a servant with soft hands to raise them gently out of bed in the morning Nothing less than all powerful vanity could make such persons submit to thefati goes ot the toilet " This is bad enough, but not so exquisitely ah surd, as the reply of the famous Beau Brommcll, who, w hen ask ed hovy he had caught a cold, replied. tk Gad I fancy my valet wast have put me into the same loom with a damp stranger." It was this same coxcomb whose taste was so finical ; that he never allowed himself to do more than just bite into the sunny side of a peach, lie. also, it was, who aid to George IV when Prince Regent, ,k Wales, my dear fellow, touch the bell " Uis roval hi-jh-ness did so. and when the page entered, quietly said to him. Tell Mi'. Ilromell his carriage waits Bui, we could lell a th usand of these rediculous Bromnn lliana. Xouh's Advocate. Historical Scraps Julius Ca sar fought fifty pitched battles, & killed one million and u half of men Cato pleaded 400 causes and gained them all Cvrus knew, the names of all the soldiers in his army ; Lucius Scipio knew the names of all the lloman people. Julius Caesar wrote, read, dictated, and listened to the conversation of his friend, at the same time.

The orator Carvinus forgot his

own name. Mithridates spoke to the am

bassideis of 22 nations without

an interpreter. Juliu Viator lived to an advan eed old age, without drinking wa

ter or using any kind of liquid

nourishment.

GIBSON CIRCUIT COURT, Pebruaru Term. 1826.

I jr. there are lour ot the live James Stewart, adm. ut'"

scutes u;amM one yase lueiu c tnat , liivnwituijumioiu' j

there is no soul' Mrl Asmstron; u,cieccascu, iorngn .11

luen a$Keu tne gentleman

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uneiuau mi no

was not a Doctor of medicine' he also answered in the Allirmativc. lie then asked the Doctor if he ever saw a pain1 4 No' 4 if he ever heard a' pain' No' 4 if he ever tasted a pain' - No' 'if he ever smelt a pain' ' No' ' if he ever felt a pain' Yes.' Mr. Armstrong then said, 4 there are also four senses against one to evidence that there is no pain, and yet sir. yflu know there is pain and I knov there is a soul the Doctor ap peared confounded, and walked olV. la. Gaz

JFEEFIL It is stated in an Ohio paper, that, if in stacking wheat, elder leaves are strewed over each layer of sheaves, that it will entirely secure the wheat against the ravages of the weevil ; it is further stated, that if the wheat is threshed and cleaned and put into casks, and the surface of the wheat covered with elder leaves, it will likewise preserve it. The writer asserts, that he has not only saved his own grain by thee

! means, but that all his neighbors ' who have pursued the same . course, have been equally succesful Ken, Gaz.

Samuel C. Hirons, and j Thomas liiackbutn, J IK j OW atihisume came tlic plaintiff,

JL by samuel hall, Em attorney, and on motion ot the piaii tiff, by his at

torney, It is ordered by the court, That notice of the pendency ot this suit be gi

ven in the c&tcrn Sun, (a public newspaper printed in Vinccnncs,) for tou'

weeks successively, that unless the said

No. IV. FOR APRIL.! MUSEUM

OF

Foreign Literature & Science. IS JUST PUBLISHED BY E. LITTELL, PHILADELPHIA. The bubsciiption h 6 a year, payable in advance It will be sent to any part of the U:it d States, by mail, upon a payment t g5 on account, being icceivcd by the publisher. CONTt.NT FOK THIS NUMBER. Portrait of Robert Pulton. P.tqr. Oh the peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy. Uichmoiid-Hiil,by Alaiic A. Watts. Life of Thomas Kliwood, by himself. Constable' .Miscellany, No 1. HalPs Voyage to the Eistcrn Seas. Mcmoit s of the Margrai inc of Anspach. The Wren; a Manx Legend, by Mrs. Franklin. Manual of Classical Biography. Strypc's Life of Archbishop Whitgift. Eros and Antcros, a tale. A Phrenopaictic History ; being an Exercise in Somnambulism. Letters from Posterity to the author of Wavet ly, No. 1 Stanzas. The Mediccan Venus. A Vindic ation of Authors 'rem the vulgar charge of P..vtvty. We pjws'd beside a grass grown Tomb. The shipwreck, b) a country Curate. The Effigies On ihe Preservation of Zoological specimens fiom the depredations of insects ; by Thomas S 1 rail, m. d. Miscellaneous Selections. Literary Intelligence. New British Publications. 9-3 Apiil 1S26. State of Indiana,

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Sally Hay, vs.

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NOW a this time came the plaintiff, by samuel hall, her attorney, and it uppeaiiig t me satisfactio:f of the court, that Toand RockhilU use not inhabitants of this s ate uhcieup n, on motion, in ordtred by ru- court. That the pi ndct cy ot ibis suit be mad, known in the Western Sun, (-j public newspaper printi d in Vinccni-es) loi ovir .eeks successively, ivulj inix i aid dclendan s, 7bland Rockhdt. that unless they appear on or before ti e first day of cur next term, to be holden at the court heuse in Princeton, on the third Monday in August, 1826, and answer the complainants bill, the same will be taken for confessed, and a decree entered accordingly. A copy test, JOHN I. NEELY, Clk. g c.c. June 9, 1826. 18-4

defendants personally appear on or before , the fust day of the next term of this douft, ;

v ' ' i vvj u v. v "Ait uv. Larvi 1 1 i

" " l 'r. lu 1 ceA mustLe delielCd when the rolls arc ta

ion, on u,c unru .ionciay in August, ib-6, kcn aWuV MAR y SMALL.

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WOOL CARDING. THE subsciiber wishes to inform the public in general, that she has now reaily to i un, two good Carding Machines, & a Cotton Gitu which will run at Small's Mills, on the Embarras rier, where I hope that those who favor me with their work will receive ample satistaction, as I intend to have eveiy thin kept in complete order. Terms of Carding. Common woe', 7 cts per lb. i blooded Mciino, S 1-3 h do. do 10 5 do. do 12$ Fnll fir fir. 1 e

Whin paid in wool, one sixth pound.

Pioduee uil. be taken for carding, but

and put in special bail, the said suit will be heaid and determined in their absence ar.d further ordered, that this suit be continued until the next term. A copv test, JOHN I. NEELY, Clk. g c.c. June 9, 1826, 18-4

YOIIE'S HOTEL. Sfgnof irASfll.XGTOS',

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6 k 8, North Fourth Street, near

Market Street, Philadelphia,

Kespcctfull) informs her friends and the public in general, that

she has reduced the price of boarding to seven dollars f;er :ie(k. The house is situated in the most central part of.the

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June i 5, :826

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city for t,Usinc5S, ihe rooms are numefiuW y-,e " ' " and commodious, llic beds and naitTa& , A. ARMS TRONG. Shff ,v c. . . I Jimp f. 1 (

cs arc of the best, the table, as hereto

fore, shall be furnished with every 'hing the extensive market affords the waiters are attentive and obliging. In offering the above she hopes to continue to receive the public patronage. 3-39 March, 1826.

IVahush county. Illinois. "3 Y viituc ot a w ritol ei.ditioni expoJO ns to me ditecttd fiom the Circuit couitot Edwards county, there will be exposed to public sale on the 22d d.-y of July next, at the dwelling hfuc of William Mcintosh, near the grand Rapids, on the Wabash, the following tract oi parcel of land, containing 1,19 acres, situate in township No. I south, iniangc No. 12 west, in such divisions or lots as the statute of this state will justify in uch cases taken as the property ot said William Mcintosh, to satisfy a jiidgiucnl obtained against said William Mcintosh,

and others his security, by John Hollo-

June 6, 1826.

Ra! Ha

Tiro CEXTS

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Hags

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per pound, will be

given for any quantity ot clean Linr.cn or Cotton RACiS at the wfsstkus sun office, in cash recdits against goad accounts.