Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 April 1827 — Page 4

Poetical.

TTA WIFE. 'Tis a wife, whose smiles of gladness Falls like sunbeams on thy breast Scattering all thy clouds of sadness, Like the night shades of the west. And, 'tis she, whose voice of pleasure Comes, like music, o'er thy heart--Comes a sweet and soothing measureJoy and quiet to impart. Tis a wife, whose arms around thee Twine, like ivy to the treeArms that, when affliction found thec, Clung in deeper sympathy : And 'tis she, whose tender bosom, Like a beauteous lilly bed, Cover'd all with snow white blossomj Pillows thy dejected head. 'Tis a wife, whose heart of feeling, Like a stream tjf refreshing flow. Through the blooming meadows stealing, Pours its balm upon thy woe ; And 'tis she that rears beside thec Children like the flowers of May Children who, when ills betide thee, Shall be at thy hand to stay.

City ladies boast of being more delicate than country maidens.

host of travellers who do hot

occasionally stop at some or an

other of them and consequently

pay mdre or less to the toll gath

erers. Pay more or less. I say,

because there is a great variety, as

thin, dddasmuch Spanish brown whenever he intends wetting his or red or yellow ochre (or any! jacket. While thus confined I other colour vou like, ground line ! read in your paper a cure for

as usual with oil,) as will give

whole the shade wanted. Then

j lay it on with a brush as. hot and

well in the amount as in the kind I as thin you can. Some days after

of toll exacted at the different stopping places.

Pride and Fashion take heavy

tolls of the purse many a man

has become a beggar by paying at

their gates the ordinary fees they charge are heavy, and the road

that way is none of the best. Pleasure offers a very smooth, delightful road in the outset, she tempts the traveller with many fair promises, and wins thousands but she taxes without mercy like an artful robber, she allures till she gets her victim in her power and then strips him of health tmd

monev and turns him oft,a mise

The one breathes an air polluted rable object, into the worst ar

with many thousand breaths ; the other inhales the breeze fresh cned over the new mown hay. The one drinks water from the sewer mingling pump, or through impure pipes from the open horse pond 5 the other pours it from the moss-covered bucket, or dips it from the pure spring. The one walks over the hard pavements, along the dusty pile of bricks ; the other trips over the soft grass, along the grateful row of trees. The one is pale and sickly from watching at the evening concert ; the other is ruddy and healthy, from rising with the morning birds. The one is the lilly of the green house ; the other is the rose by the stone wall In the city is seen and admired the ingenious hady work of man ; in the country are traced and hallowed thestately steppings of the Almighty. Ohio Sjicctcitor. Printers may have a good bank but no money : many straight rules, but none in the right line: they arecompelled to justify daily, and are yet noted for error and

imposition ; their register may be perfect, yet the record vicious ; they prove every tiling, and while their proof may be the best in the World, the matter may he doubtful ; they plane a horizontal with a perpendicular motion ; they are constantly shooting at matters they never hit ; to make the world understand they are compelled to reverse every thing ; they darken most what they wish to be most plain ; though constantly in chase through all these contradictions for the good of mankind, they are daily compelled to distribute their effects, and stow them away in small cases, or they would be totally uuable to meet the daily demands of claimants ; such are the laws of the realm that they are obliged to keep a gallows always standing, on which, instead of the black and guilty, they hang only the most spotless ; though in all their concerns hardly pressed : they are the last to receive kind end sympathetic indulgence from those, for whom they have wasted the most quoin IFestern Teller.

?d

most rucked road of life.

Intemperance plays the part of

a sturdy villain lie's the very worst toll gatherer on the road for he not only gets from his customers their money and their health, but he robs them of their very brains The men you meet in the road, raed and ruined in .... fame and fortune are his visitors And so I might goon enumerating many others who gather toll of the unwarv. Accidents sometimes happen, it is true, along the road, but those who do not get through at least tolerably well, you may be sure to have been stopping by the way at some of these places The plain comrnon sense men. who travel straight forward, get through the journey without much difficulty. Thisbeinir the stale of things it becomes every one. in the outset, if he intends to make a com fortable journey, to take care what kind of company he gets in with. c arc apt to do a good deal as our companions do stop where

j they stop and pay toll where

they pay. Ten chances to one. then, but our choice in this particular decides our fate. V

the first coat is dried, lay on a sec

ond. It is well attested that this will preserve plank for years, and prevent the weather from driving through brick work. Do m est ic Enryclo ped ia. IJackxzodsmen' The backwoodsman of the west, as I have seen him, is generally an amiable and virtuous man. His general motive for coming here is to be a

freeholder, to have plenty of rich land, and to he able to settle his children about him It is a most virtuous motive. And notwithstanding all that Dr. Dwight and Talleyrand have said to the con trary, I fully believe that nine in

ten of the emigrants come hen

with no other motive. Vou hud, in truth, that he has vices and barbarisms, peculiar to his situation. His inanrers are rough He wears, it may be, a long beard. He has a great quantity of bear or deer skins wrought into his household establishment, his furniture and dress. He carries a knife or a dirk in his bosom and when in the woods, has a ride on his back, and a pack of dogs at his heels An Atlantic stranger, transferred directly from one of our cities to his door, would recoil from a rencounter with him But remember that his rifle and his dogs are one of his chief means of support and profit. Remember that all his first days were passed in dread ot the savages. Hemember that he still encounters them .still meeis bears and panthers. Enter his door and tell him you are benigh ted, and wish the shelter of his cabin for the night. The welcome is indeed seemingly ungracious : 1 reckon you can stay," or, k-1 suppose we must let y-ni ?tay " I5ut this apparent ungraciousness is the harbinger oi every kindness that he can bestow, and everv

j laving pant one regard 10 a comlort that his cabin can afford, prudent choice of companions, the j (;00fj coffee, corn, bread and but

From The Trenton Emporium. " High ways and bye tvays" We are all on a journey. The world through which we arc passing is in some respects like a turnpike all along which Vice and Folly have erected toll-gates, for the accommodation of those who choose to call in as they go. and there are very few of all the

next important thing is closely to

observe how others manage to i

mark the good or ill that is produced by every course of life see .' how those who do well, manage, and trace the cause of all evil to its origin in conduct. Thus you will make yourself master of the information most necessary to4 regulate your own conduct There is no difficulty in working things right if you know how by these means you learn. Be careful of your habits. These make the man. And thev require long and careful culture, ere they grow to be a second iiar

ture good habits I speak of bad ones are more easily acquired they are the spontaneous weeds, that flourish rapidly and rankly without care or culture. These ideas are thrown loosely together, but they may be worth a thought. I send them to the printers, who will print them

when they have a little room to spare. A composition jbr colouring and preserving Gates. Posts, Hams, Roofs and Timber gencrlaly from the weather. Melt twelve ounces

of rosin in an iron pot or kettle, add three gallons of train oil, and

three or four rolls of brimstone

when they are melted and become

ter, venison, pork, wiid and lame fowls are set before you His wife, timid, silent, reserved, but constantly attentive to your comfort, does not sit at table with you. but, like the wives of the patriarchs, stands and attends on you You are shown to the best bed which the house can offer. W hen this kind of hospitality has been

afforded you as longas you choose to stay, and when you depart and

speak about your bill, you are

most commonly told, with some

slight mark ot i esetment. that they

do not keep tavern. Even the

flaxen-headed urchins will turn

away from your money Flint.

The cure jor drunkenness, or the tippling husband. We cony the lollowing "good thing " from Xoalvs New York Enquirer, and recommend all ladies, who have tippling husbands, to follow Mrs. Arabella's example. Dear Mr. Editor You must know that I am blessed with a

tippling husband not one who gets roaring drunk and lifeless on the bed and snores out the night' but one of your soaking fellows, who tope incessantly, never gets

positively drunk, but is always

drunkards a few grains of tartar

emetic, epecac and asafoetida, which I obtained and mixed with his favorite brandy. A few weeks ago he released me from confinement one evening, and having seen no person for six hours I was happy even to see him' well my love," says I, "you are home earlier than usual I have been very lonesome "so much the better" says he, "you women are very chatting and gabbling when you are to gether always scandalizing your neighbors, and finding fault with your husbands Rut my dear," says I with great mildness, 'you know that sometimes the affectionate solicitude of a wife may plead her excuse for being troublesome." " O hah, don't talk to me, youre a fool." So saying, he rose up, went to the side board and took a copious draught of brandy mixture, which he repeated in ten minutes, and sat down to read the paper. In a short time he began to make a variety

ot wry faces, puckered his mouth, squinted awfully, wrinkled his face. 6c forthwith the dose operated as effectually as a chancellor's injunction. I pitied him all night. Next day he felt quite easy ; the tone of his stomach was improved ; he shrunk from the brandy bottle, and assured me that drinking spirituous liquors to excess produced bile on his stomach, and he would renounce it forever. He has not touched liquor since, and there is an evident improvement in his health,

person and manners On Satur

day one of his toping friends iust

called in to say - I hope I don't

intrude' tell a long story, and

uvuuhuiv nib lips Willi .i r j i. . .

a iass ui me injunction brandy.

wnicn stood on the sideboard. - Thinks I to myself," you will have spasms shortly he left us, alter a third and fourth glass, and 1 learn that he likewise " renounces the devil and all his works," having been powerfully moved. I have just commenced upon the third person. Thus you see, my dear Mr. Editor, that your receipt has been of incalculable benefit to a disconsolate wife, who has seen her husband daily undermining his health, wasting his resources, brutalizing his habits & manners, and neglecting his family. Arabella Thoughtful.

Coloured Cotton. At an annual show of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, held on the 23 of February, a letter was read from Mr. J V. Watson, dated at Guayaquil, accompanying a present of a parcel of cotton seed of a new kind, the production of Peru. The cotton is naturally colored ; the plant is perennial. It is raised from the seed in a kind of nursery, and afterwards transplanted and set in rows. It grows to nearly the same height as the peach tree, and produces for five years. The writer is of opinion that it might be successfully cultivated in the United States. One

variety of it is of a light brown color, with a pretty good staple, & in his opinion would make excellent nankeens.

One man cannot quarrel alone ; civc him nothing for his nassinn

brutal in his cups, and has a very j to feed upon and his passion will awkward mode of locking mc up j feed upon him.