Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 35, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 October 1826 — Page 4

Poetical.

From Ackerman'8 Rtwtitory. WOMAN. O woman ! woman thou art formed to bless The heart of restless man, to chase his care And charm existence by thy lovliness ; Bright as the sunbeam, as the morning fair, If but thy foot fall on a wilderness. Flowers spring, and shed their roseat blossoms there, Shrouding the thorns that in thy path-way rise. And scattering oer it hues of Paradise. Thy voice of love is music to the ear, Soothing and soft, and gentle as the stream That strays mid summer fllowers ; thy glittering tear Is mutely eloquent ; thy smiles a beam Of light ineffable, so sweet so dear, , It wakes the heart from sorrow's darkest dream ; Shedding a hallow d lustre o'er our fate, And when it beams we are not desolate !

No! no! when woman smiles, we feci a charm Thrown bright around us, binding us to earth; Her tender accents, breathing forth the balm Of pure affection, give to transport birth : Then life's wide sea is billowless and calm. O lovely woman ! thy consummate worth Is far above thy frailty, far above All earthly praisethou art the light of love From the National Journal. AMERICAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, ( Concluded from last week.) on with so much vigor, has produced the natural and necessary consequence of rendering those animals more timid and fewer in number, by their destruction, without reference to season. This makes it extremely desirable that new situations should be

explored, where these animals may be found in greater abundance and procured with less uncertainty and risk. The result of the voyages heretofore, show satisfactorily that the opjects of value to this branch of commercial enterprize are to be found with great

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1'arry mtorms us, tnai tne number of whales in hgi latitudes was astonishing, that no less than fifty were seen in the course of one watch ; in other places they were seen sporting in shoals like porpoises. We may aUo state, that human beings have been found as far north or south as explorations have yet been made. The discovery of Islands of great size, or even a continent to the south, is not too much to be hoped for, if we may be allowed th draw any inference from the obvious indications aflbrded by analogy, the observations ot experienced navigators, or the natural signs presented by currents, c. already known to exist in those regions. The great probability that such discoveries may

be made, is doubled with a certainty, that the profits to be de rived from them in a commercial point of view, especially in animal furs, oil, &c. may hereafter be pursued to the great advantage of our common country. We venture the assertion that the lain! of

the sea otter will be found in the

Bouth. But, abstract from all theoretical ideas, the following conclu sions may be deducted by every impartial observer ol the facts hitherto collected on this subject : 1. The expeditions hitherto fitted out, have not returned because it was impracticable to proceed further 2. Those who have gone farthest have, in more than one instance, put back with anopen sea before them. 3. The experience acquired by preceeding attempts would, at

present, enable an expedition t6 go to sea, prepared to avoid most of the obstacles heretofore experi-

4. As far as explorers hay

jcuuuc, iiuiui ur oouin, aoun dance of human inhabitants, and land and marine animals have been descovered: 5. All these circumstances combined, justify us in believing that the renewal of this inquiry, at this time, and by the citizens of this country, with the view to determine the figure of the earth, collect interesting facts in natural history, open new channels for commercial enterprise, &c. &c. would be followed by the most important results, tending to the

immediate honorand advantage of our common country, and to the world at large. j Description of the vessels, num ber of men, scientific corps, instruments, &c. belongs rather to the appendixof ajournal, than to a paper of this kind. We have al ready stated, on another occasion, that this enterprise has not been prematurely undertaken, and that we have received the council, and advice, and assurance of a friendly co-operation of names dear to science and to our country. As the object of the expNdifion is strictly national, we entarkun the expectation that therejr?1'' some daring spirits in our Army and Navy, who are tired of ingloriorus ease," and who would, with leave of absence, enter with delight upon this new path to fame. While we feel a defticiencjrjn our abilities to conduct the part that mav he allotted us, we are

inspired with the utmost confidence in the skill, enterprise, and perseverance of our seamen ; with them we hope to bear our national colors to the unexplored regions of the South ; unless, indeed, it shoule be found that there is a limit beyond which human.

esteemed by their air. A watch 1 every soft, tender, & delicate aftecmay be a masterpiece without ex- tion. I think of her as the young actness, and a Woman rule the and bashful virgin with eyes town without beauty, if they have sparkling, and checks crimsoned air. Here life's a dance. & awk- with each empassioncd feeling of wardness of step its greatest dis- : her heart; as the kind & affectiongrace Character here is dissolved ate wife, absorbed in the exercise into the public, and an original a of her domestic duties ; as the name of mirth. ' Cela sc fait, et chaste and virtuous matron, tired ctla ncse fait pas? are here thesu- j with the follies of the world, and preme umpires of conduct. Their j preparing for that grave into

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mat musx lor ever mariv tne "ultima Thule,, of human knowledge, J. N REYNOLDS. Washington City Aug. 15, 1820. Na tional Characteristics The following chareter of the principal

nations ot luirope was wittten about the middle of the last century by Mr. Mozer, who was envoy from the Elector Palatine to Hanover. Though it may appear somewhat tinctured with prejudice, and time may have made some alterations, yet the moral political features of each country are pretty correctly drawn, and may be recognised as a portrait.at the present day. " England. The domain of. liberty and property the country of extremes. Virtue is here divine vice infernal Here are liberty of conscience, political liberty, civil liberty, commercial liberty, liberty of thought tongue and pen. to and beyond the limits of the most prohTigate license, news

papers, magazines, pamphlets, registers ; turfs, cockpits, clubs, macaronies, stocks, lotteries, schemes, lame ducks, clever fellows, humour, and November bis: with suicide ; post chaises, Italian musU and pictures, but few with earM eyes ; the nest of foreigners ; the couatry of Shakspeare, Newton and Hogarth. " France. The country of Citoyena and Mode. Here things are

religion is superstition, fashion.

sophism. The ladies lay on rouge in equilateral squares, and powder with brick. Tyranny may grind the face, but not the countenance of a Frenchman ; his feet are made to dance in wooden shoes. The Parliament resembles an old toothless mastiff. France was the country of Le Suar and Kacine, and is that of Voltaire. Spain. The dregs of a nation two centuries past the arbiters of Europe and leaders of discovery. Still hense, sagacity, and cool courage, are tame! submitted hereto the iron yoke of the inquisition ; and each note of humanity drow-

ned in the yells of poor victims The prerogatives of society nioul der here in provincial archives these are the cxorable factors of Europe. To see a sceptre in the gripe of women. Confessors and favorites make no characterictic of Spain, nor is the country of Calderon and Cervantes, more than its neighbors the land of ignorance, vanity, poverty and envy. u Portugal Something of literature & history, glare gallantry, superstition, daggers, earthquakes, inquisition ; the bloody dawns of an uncertain day ; the country of Canioens. fc Germany. Its heroes, like Italian pictures, show best at a distance. The rest parcel out to deserts, petty tyrants, pedigreed beg

gars, and pedants ; and all her neighbors know Germany. Yet this is the mother of Armimus and Frederic, of Leibnitz and Wolfe, of Handel and Graun, of Meinss and Donntr, of Winklcman and Raimarus. " Russia The motley creation of Peter, called the Great Imitators of all Europe, but not Russians ; a country taught to rear the produce of southern climates to vapid life, and to neglect its own

vigorous ouspnng. History, mathematics, geography, a general

balance ot trade, inhuman intrc pidity, slavery, savage glare of wealth. ; Holland A country, through all its ages, fertile of patriots, tho' now wealth, and unstrung by public indolence. A nobility once full of republican metal, sneaking by degrees into courtiers. Here are scholars, civilians, laborious tri flers, trade. Here absence of misery is happiness ; profit, honor.

Here sentiment is nonsense ; plain

sense, wit ; jollity, pleasure: possession, enjoyment ; money the anchor of the mind, the gale of passion, the port of life. Switzerland. The land of liberty. Trade, taste, knowledge, dis co very among the Protestants, vigor in all ; despisers of death ; slaves of money. Abroad, con temptible swarms of valets, clerks officers, artists, schemers ; the leechers of fools.

which she must so soon descend.

Oh! there is something in contemplating the character of a woman, that raises the soul far above the vulgar level of society. She is formed to adorn and humanize mankind, to soothe his cares and strew his path with flowers. In the hour of distress, the is the rock on which he leans for support, and when fate calls him from existence, her tears bedew his grave. Can I look down upon her tomb without emotion ? Man has always justice done to his memory woman never. The

pages of history lie open to the

one ; hut the meek and unobtrusive excellencies of the other sleep with her unnoticed in the jave. in her may have shone tin- genius of the poet, with the viitue of the srints, the energy of c man with the tender softness of t .e woman She too may have p i-sel unhced ded along the sterile pathway of her existence, and felt for others as I now feel for her."

Ancient Inscriptions In various parts of Galloway, large cra:;s are to be met with, having vet y ancient writings on them, some of which the antiquary deciphers, but others not ; one of these, in the farm of Knockicbay, has, cut deep, on the upper side Lift me ufu and Vtl tell y wore' A number of people at one iime gathered to this rock, and, after, much labor, succeeded in lifting it up, whh the hopes, no doubt, of being well repaid for their trouble with the treasure beneath , hut, how must they have been disappointed, when, instead of finding any gold, they lound written on its ground side 4 Lay me don as I tra before.' Fredick the late king of Prussia having rung his bell one day no body answciing opened the door and found the page in waiting asleep on a sofa. He was just going to awake him, when he perceived the end of a paper out of his pocket, on which something was written ; this excited his curiosity ; he pulled it out and fonnd it to be a letter from the mother

of the page thanking him for having sent her part of his wages which had proved a very timely assistance to her ; and in conclusion beseeching God to bless him for his filial duty. The king stepped softly to his room, took a roleau of ducats ond slipt them with the letter in the page's pocket. Returning to his apartment, he rung so violently, that the page awoke opened the door, & entered-' You have been asleep," saidtheking. Thepageattempted to excuse himself; andin his embarrassment, happening to put his hand into his pocket, felt with astonishment the roleau. He drew it out, turned pale, and looking at the king, burst into tears, without being able to speak a word What is the matter?" said the king; " Ah i sire," said the young man throwing himself at his majesty's feet, somebody wishes to ruin mr : I know not how I came by this money in my pocket."

What God bestow 5 resumed the king, u he bestows in sleep ; send the money to

The tomb of woman " For myself I can pass by the tomb of a man with somewhat of a calm indifference ; but when I survey the grave of a female, a sigh involuntarily escanes niR VViih th

Imli. nnma nf if.in t - your mother ; salute her in my name, and. h0l name of Woman, I associate I k assure her thaiUhaU take care cf both her