Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 January 1827 — Page 4

Poetical.

THE CONTRAST. And this is love : Can you then say that love in hafifiiness ? There were two portraits ; one was of a girl Just blushing into woman ; it was not A face of perfect beauty, but it had A most bewildering smile there was a glance Of sich arch playfulness and innocence, That as you looked a pleasant feeling came Over the heart as when you hear a sound Of cheerful music. Kicli and glossy curls Were bound with roses, and her sparkling eyes Gleamed like Thalia's when some quick device Of mirth is in her laugh. Her light step seemed Bounding upon the air with all the life, The buoyant life of one untouched by sorrow. There was another, drawn in after years ; The fa e was young still ; but its happy look Was gone : the cheek had lost its color, and The lip its smile the light that oilce had played Like sunshine in those eyes, was quenched and dim. For tears had wasted it ; her long dark hair Floated upon her forehead in loose waves Unbraided ; and upon her pale thin hand Her head was bent as if in pain no trace Was left of that sweet gaiety which once Seemed as if grief could not darken it, as care Would pass and leave behind no memory. There was one whom she loved undoubtingAs you will ever love he sought her snide. And said most gentle things, altho' he knew Another had his vows Oh ! there are some Can trifle, in cold vanity, with all Tne warm soul's precious throbs, to whom it

is A trill nph that a fond devoted heart Is breaking for them who can bear to call Toung flowers into beauty, and then crush them ! Affection trampled on, and hope destroyed, .Teats wrung from bitterness, and sighs That waste the breath of life these all were her's Whose image is before me. She had given Life's hope to a most fragile bark, to lo e ! ' l'was wrecked wrecked by love's treachery ; she knew Yet spoke not of his falsehood, but the charm That bound her to existence was dispelled Htr days were numbered She is sleeping now, m :: : : The present aspect of the world Never f 1 i cl the earth present so magnificent a scene to he swept over by the eye of conjecture, as at this hour The Greeks, a people whose name is a&ociated with all that is astonishing and glorious in early history, are making almost a dying struggle for the mastery over their oppressors, that compels us to think of the poverty and distress which, at one por tion of our revolution, urged more than a thousand of the most patri otic and the bravest of our fathers, to withdraw together from the army, and caused a hundred bayonets to be pointed in insubordina tion at their beloved commander. A new monarch has ascended the throne of an empire, whose terito ries extend, in one continuous range, from the shores of the 15 it tic to the western mountain1? of America, more than half encircling the globe A million of nu n, in arms, stand ready to march at bis bidding, either for the relief ol the oppressed, and confusion of the oppressor, or for the desolation "of the world. On this continent, the millions of freemen whose habitations are scattered from the great lakes of the north to the wilds of Patagonia at the south, yet stand gazing at each other, & wonder bow they achieved so much, determined, however, to press onward in the pathofpoli tical renovation, until no vestage of usurped authority, shall remain among them. The progress of intellectual improvement in Asia, is rapid. even beyond the most ear nest expectations of the philanthropist & christian. A generation is fast growing up among it? population qualified to establish government and laws, and prepar cd to spuru at the absurdities of

their superstitions, and resist the cruelty & exertions of their rules Colonics are begining to be plan ted in Africa, which may yet ex tend themselves over the whole of its uncultivated regions, and like those, which, two hundred years ago. were planted in New Eng land, become at length " the glory and the praise of the whole earth. Finally, the church of Christ acknowledging what it once denied

the duty of subjection to the civil

ed, too, as if 'it had never been washed. This I didn't like ; nor 1 did not like Molly's mother, for she took snuiVover the cut apples, and half of it fell down into them, and she blowed her nos-e with her fingers and I didn't like the kitchen, nor any thing there ; so I think Molly won't do she's not the girl for me.'' Well, John," the old gentleman began again, you must judge for yourself in this case. Nobody has so

authority; is gathering together i much to lose in a bargain of this

concentrating

its resources and

its powders, and visiting, with its beni licence, every place of misery, and ignorance, & vice ; endeavoring to make an atonement for past inactivity, by two fold ardor and energy in the cause of humanity : striking every where a death blow at whatever is debasing and ruinous, and fostering, with a kind

kind as you have. If you marry Molly, you must live with her.-i. 80 look well about you before you make yourself fast. A young man about to begin the world, should he cautious in so impoitant an aft air as marrying It is the most important epoch of bis life ; he stakes every Using on the

mere-throw of the dice, i le may

hand, whatever is exalting and ; think he likes the lass he intends conducive to the best and immor- ' to marry, but he ougnt to be surjc tal interests of man We shrink that he loves her. If he does not, from the task of uttering the con j he should never man y her 0 jectures to which these thoughts J hn you must remember this. would lead us. Man. is short You will tiod yourself in a mi-era sighted, and his anticipation, vain, ble predicament if you link with The fathoming of futurity belongs one who has nothing to boat of only to Him, whose controlling but those charms which please a power resists, or modifies at his giddy young man IJ.it you ate

pleasure the machinations of his ; not a giddy one, ncuher my 1' 11 ay creatures. that much for you, John You Vermont Watchman. are a farmer, ami y ou want a larmei's daugh er. One tout can From the Buck's county Patriot. ' take care oiyour house the mom Well John," said my father ent she gets into it. 6c w ho can alto me. the other night, as I came ways w ear a smiling, face, evt n if from paying a fust visit to the things go ever so wrong. T'.is daughter of one ol his old friends, deposition is worth ail the fine who had lately moved into oilf accomplishments thut some iiirJs

neighnorhoou and whom 1 had been to see. at my lather's recom mendation WVll John does she seem to court well ? Is she prett ? Is she smart ? and will

possess. You'll find it so John.

But accomplishments are well enough lor accomplished men, not for a farmer's son like you, John Now, John, don't forget

she suit. do you think ? I've known ( this. If you don't like Molly, then the old man. her father, many a dont't have her. You tell a strange

story ab ut Molly & her motheY. When the old woman was a young girl, she was a sweet prettf lass, had come very near being your mother, John. But your mother, as it now is, John, is worth a hundred of them that might have been her. You should look out for one like her. But it's getting late, John, so we had better all go to hed. bee that t he

lire is safe, John." bo my fathci

long year, and I know she's come

of a good stock." The kind-hear ted being looked up into my fa A with a little anxiety in his air. but more of a laugh in his countenance u Why I don't know but what she does," I replied. When I got into the house I found her paring apples, with the old lady down along side of her, in one corner of the wide kitchen chimney, so 1 told them who I was"

-And did you tell 'em too, what j concluded his harangue, which, if

you came for ? eagerly enquired j it had not been eleven o'clock, & my father. No ! let me go on ; he almost nodding in his chair, my story. Where was I ? Oh ! ! mitu have continued for an hour in the kitchen well, that's where ! longer. But 1 lost no word of it, I generally like to get. But. as I for 1 always regard what my lath was saying I found her and her cr says, as more worth learumother paring a few wilted up ap- mg and attending to than that

pics so I told em my name, and 1 which any person utters. 1 boU

where I lived. v hy, sure said the old lady, and she opened her mouth so wide that I thought she would have thrown off the upper half of Iter head, do come and sit down bv us Here Molly, do get

ted all the doors and w mdows,and

went up to bed, and long before I fell asleep made up my mind that Molly w a not the girl for me bo tiue it is that fiist impressions

are generally strong, whether lav

a chair for John. John, how do orahle or unfavorable. If Molly you do? this is my Molly ; & I had looked neat and tidy, tneie's

went up and shook hands with her ; her hand felt as if she knew how to work ; so I thought that would do pretty well. Then I sat

down by 'em. and began to pne

no sav ing w hat w ould have become uf A LOOKER OUT. The Nutmeg The Nutmeg tree is a beautiful vegetable. The

apples loo But 1 didn't like the stem, .with a smooth brown bark, looks of things about me. Every j rise, perfectly straight Its strong thing looked diity, and IthoughHanti numerous branches proceed the kitchen smelt dirty tot) and regularly from it in an oblique di

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I'm sure Molly's face wasn't clean. Though these arc mere trifles, yet I couldn't help observing them : and then Mdly snufled the candle with her lingers, and didn't wipe 'em, but went on paring apples And she looked like a sloven, for her dress was all loose and

rcction upwards. They hear large oval leaves, p, hilous from thtun, some a foot hi length. The upper and i5 er surface of the leaf i smooth, uid of a deep agreeable green mi under and inner surlace it ,u ;ed with a strong nerve

in the puddle ol the leaf, Irorn the

this middle nerve others proceed obliquely towards the point and edges of the leaf ; but what dis. tinguishes most this inner surface, is its uniform bright brown color, without the !car intermixture of geen, and as if strewed all over w ith a fine brown powder. The whole leaf is characterized by its fragrant odour. snlVieiently denoting the fruit which the tree produces. This fruit, when fresh, is about the size and figure of a common nectarine It consits of an

outward rind, between which and the inward shell is found a reticulated mcmbiane. or divided skin, w hich when dried is called the Mace. What is known by the name of Nutmeg, is the kernel within the shell, and is left in its original state. Remarkable Circumstance On Tuesday last the body of a young woman was convened to the English burying ground for interment When the funeral party were about entering the gite. a respectable medical V'enllemari vas coining up, upon observing him the iclations of the (appaiently) deceased s'opped the' procession, & begged that Dr. R. would examine te body, as from the e.lor of h face they suspected that hairy w is not really extinct. Oil examining the body in the dead huue the doctor w as decidedly of opinion that she was not dead The face is .is fresh like as ever it looked the lips are red. but there is no pulse nor animation since Tuesday. The bodv is kept in the coffin -Jn the dead room, which is heated to a high degree, that putrefaction maV be caused JJut since the time when the body was placed there there has been no change Yesterday lorenoon, her mouth was of a blackish hue in the evening it again became red. Seveial physicians examine the bodv dady " Since writing the above w e have heard that moi lifi-ation has commenced. Montreal Gaz. Dis ag reea h I vs. T h e d a n d v, who. foi getting that he is G-d's creature, becomes the workman-

ship of the tailor The politician who is so exessively republican, that he will let none of his friends think for themselves. The sectarian, w ho has no charity but for himself. JYr mother, who is so fond of a noisy troublesome child, that she makes eery visiter assent to twenty falsehoods. about its beauty and exrraordinaiy qualities The young woman who visits her neighbors with the charitable object of finding fault with every thing she sees. Remedies For the gout, toast &, water; for cot ns. easy shoes ; or rheumatism, new flannel & patience ; for the tooth ache, pluck it out, and for love matrimony. Honorable Munificence The Liverpool Meiruiy siys ; gentleman, w ho assumes the annonymous si- ature of Lnndonensi. has remitied for the lelief of of the distressed artizans ot Sheffield, a second donation of 1500! This gentleman w ho is yet undisSCOcied. i far more worthy the title of The (heat Unknown' than the author ol the hcotch novel-.

flying about her ears ; and it look- j forestall to the point ; and from

BLAMv DEEDb iur atc at this oiiice.