Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 May 1827 — Page 4

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THE WOO DMA jYFar remov'd from noise and smoke. Hark ! I hear the woodman's stroke. Who dreams not as he fells the oak, What mischief dire he brews : How art may shape the falling trees, In aid of luxury and ease : He weighs not matters suck as these, But sings, and hacks, and hews. Ferhaps, now fell'd by this bold man, The tree 6hall form the spruce sedan. Or wheel-barrow, where oyster Nan So runs the vulgar rig ; The stage where boxers crowd in flocks, Or else the quacks, or else the stocks, Or posts for signs, or barber's blocks, Where smiles the parson's wig. Thou mak'st, bold peasant, O what grief! The gibbet on which hangs the thief, The seat where sits the great Lord Chief, The throne, the cobler's stall : Thou pamper'st life in every stage, Mak'st folly's whims, pride's equipage, For children toys, crutches for age, And coffins for us all. Yet justice let us still afford ; These chairs, and this cenvivial board, The bin that holds gay Bacchus's hoard, Confess the woodman's stroke : He made the press that bled the vine, The butt that holds the generous wine, The hall itself where tiplers join To crack the mirthful joke. A new mode of raising the wind. At a sale of furniurc and other effects of a bankrupt in the West Orchards, in Warwick, on Tuesday week, among other articles to "be disposed of was a coffin, which was purchased by private contract by a respectable tradesman in the Saltisford, for l. The history of this unusual household appendage unfolds a singular but characteristic piece of cunning which was practised by its late eccentric owner in order "to raise the wind;' The individual alluded to, whose name is Harvey, no relation, we believe, to the celebrated author of Meditations-a-mong the Tombs, about two years ago, being indisposed with a cold told a person with whom he was sitting in company, that he should l certainly be in his coflin in a week" Mis friend thought otherwise, and poor Harvey considered it no sin either to turn " an honest penny" whether dead or alive, offered to lay him a wager of ten pounds that he would see him in the situation he had described, before that day wctk. The wager was accepted. Harvey immediately commenced active op erations ; ordered a good oak eof fin to be made, and then took a melancholy leave of his friendnotwithstanding the latter fro quently assured him that there was no fear of his sudden departure, for, taking hold of his hand and feeling his pulse, he said you have no fever upon you, your pulse is very regular, you say that you eat weil and drink well, your cursed cough, as you call it, has entirely left you and to tell you the truth, I never recollect seeing 3ou look better in all my life." In vain did Havev tell him that appearances were deceitful : and that he had a strong pioentiment on his mind that the melancholy event he had predicted would take place within the time specified And sure enough it did, but not exactly in the way Harvey's friend anticipated, 'for when the latter made his usual daily call the next morning, he found poor Harvey in a coffin at full stretch Whether the feelings of regret at the loss of his money, or sorrow for the loss of his friend, at this crisis, predominated in the mind of the visitor, we do not presume to determine ; but Harvey's disconsolate widow thought the formcr, for ahe immediately tried to

pacify him, by telling him that he might pay the money due to her poor husband at his convenience. The inmate of the coffin, who had hitherto enjoyed the joke, not relishing this arrangement of his ribs, to the great surprise of his friend, instantly jumped upright, divested himself of his grave clothes, contended he had fairly won the wager, and demanded the debt of honor to be paid down on the nail. The visitor, whose sensen were in no small degree bewildered from this apparent transition from death to life, hesitated what to do; but observing some symptoms of a disposition to enclose hirri in the place from which Harvey had so recently risen, made some pecuniary overtures, which were accepted, and then made a hasty retreat, glad enough that he had escaped being entombed before his time. The blind Orator. The following beautiful & touching narrative is1 from the "The British Spy " by Jlr. Wirt, attorney general of the United States: " It was on Sunday as I travelled through the county of Orange, ( Va.) that my eye was caught by a cluster of horses tied near a ruinous old wooden house in the forest, not tar from the road side Having frequently seen such objects before in travelling in those slates, I had no difficulty in understanding that this was a place of religious worship. " Devotion alone should have stopped me, tn join in die duties of the congregation ; but I must confess, that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness, wanot the least of my motives. On entering I was struck u ith his pre- j ternalural appearance, S let was a tall and very spare man ; his head, which was coveied with a white linen can, his shrivelled hand'?. x his voice were all shaking under the influence of the palsy, and a few moments ascertained to me tliat he was pot fcetly blind. The first emotions that touched my heart, were those mingled with pity and veneration. Hut "ah! sa ercd God ! how soon were all my feelings changed ! The lips of the apostles appeared not mote torched with holy tire than were those of this holy man ! It was a day of the administration of the sacrament, the subject was of course, the passion of our Saviour. I had heard the subject handled a thou sand times; I had thought it ex hauscd long ago. Little did I suppose that in the wild woods of Amcrica, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give the subject a new and more sublime pathos, than I had ever before witnessed. ' As he descended from the pulpit to distribute the mystic, sym bols, there was a peculiar, a more than human solemnity in his' air $c manner, which made my blood run cold, and my whole frame shiver. " He then drew a picture of the sufferings of our Saviour ; his cruciliction and death: I knew the whole history ; but never until then, had I heard the circumstances so selected, so arranged, so coloured1 It was all new, andT seemed to have heard it for the first time in my life. His enunciation was so deliberate, that his voice trembled on every syllable and every heart in the assembly was in unison. His peculiar phrases had that force of description

that the original scene appeared at that moment, acting before our eyes. We saw the faces of the Jews ; the staring, frightful distortion of malice & rage we saw the buffet ; my soul kindled with a flame of indignation, and my hands were involuntarily & convulsively clenched. u But when he came to touch on the patience, the forgiving meekness of our Saviour ; when he drew to the life his blessed eyes streaming into tears to Heaven ; his voice breathing to God a soft & gentle prayer of pardon on his enemies, " Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" the voice of the preacher, which had all along (altered, grew fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and inexpressible flood of grief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans, the sobs and shrieks of the congregation. It was some time before the tumult subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual, but fallacious standard of my own weak ness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher ; for I could not conceive how he would be able to let down his audience from the height to which he had wound them, without impaiting the solemnity and dignity of the subject, or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of tfie tail. lint, no the descent was a beautiiul and sublime, as the ele valion had been rapid and enthu. siastic. The fust, sentence with which he broke the awful silence, i was a quotation from llosseau, " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ like a God !" " This man has been before my imagination ever since. A thousand times as I rode along. I dropped the reins of my bridle, and tried to imitate his quotatum from Ilosseau, a thousand times I a bandoncd the idea in despair, and felt persuaded that his peculiar manner arose from an energy of soul, which nature could give, but which no human being could justly comprehend. In short, he seems to he altogether a hcingofjv former age, one of a totally different natuic from the rest of men." Virtue of the black Pepper as a Febrifuge )r Louis Frank having 'un ited the profession to try the effect of the extract of black Pepper in intermittent fever, prepared by digesting, in a glass vcs. sel, one ounce of the Pepper in twelve ounces of distilled water, for thirty-six hours, in a water bath, and evaporating the liquor to llic consistence of an extract. This remedy was tried on nine individuals, affected with intermittent fever of different types, in doses of four, eight, ten, or twelve grains, dissolved in water, in some cases given in the form of pills, in others, by Dr. Clock, of Trent; and the effects surpassed his warmest expectations. From these experiments, the Doctor concludes, that the extract of Pepper is not only one of the best succedancums for the b?rk, but that it actually is very prcferO able to it, on several accounts : 1st. It never produces disturbance of the stomach or bowels. 2d. Because it never failed in producing its curative effect. 3d. Those who were cured did not, in any one in

stance experience a relapse. 4t It promotes a regular alvine discharge, as well as the cxcrctions of urine and sweat. 5th. None of those who were cured experienced that sensation of languor so common to a state of convalescence. The following picture of Woman, taken from an essay in the Quarterly Review, is recommended to the attention of our fair country women : Speaking of the middle ranks of life, the writer observes: 4 There you behold woman in all her glory; not a doll to carry silks and jewels, a puppet to be dangled by coxcomb children, an idol for profane adoration ; reverenced to day, discarded to morrow ; always justled out of the true place which nature and society would assign her, by sensuality or by contempt ; admired, but not respected; desired, but not esteemed ; ruling by fashion, not by affection ; imparting her weakness not her constancy, to the sex which she should 'exalt ; the source and the mirror of vanitj 44 We see her as a wife partaking the cares, & cheering the anxiety ot a husband ; dividing his labours by her domestic diligence, spreading cheerfulness around her ; for his sake sharing in the delicate refinements of the world, without being vain of them : placing all her pride, all her jo v, and all her happiness in the merited approbation of the man she honours. As a mother, we find her the affectionate, the ardent instructress of the children she has tended from their infancy; training them up to thought ind virtue, to meditation and benevolence, addressing them as rational beings, and preparing them to be men and women in their turn." Never Despair A gentleman who had paid some attention to a young lady near Ponsmouth. (N. M.) proposed marriage, which she declined, on account of her youth, (not a common reason.) lie begged her to name when he might expect a favourable answer. She replied in twenty years (her age was then 20.) He paid atrict attention to her, and at the expiration of that time, reminded her of her promise, when, true to her word, she accepted his hand, and they were married.

A safe Ansxecr A person who suspected that a minister of his acquaintance, was not truly a Cahanist, went to him and said. " Sir, I am told that you arc against the perseverance of the saints." Kot I, (said he) it is the perseverance of sinners that I oppose." Rut this is not a satisfactory answer sir. Do you think that a child of God cannot fall very low, and yet be restored .-" " I think it will be very dangcrous to make the experiment." The Turkish Crescent The origin of this device is not generally known. It was the symbol of the city of Byzantium, before the Turks adopted it. When Philip of Macedon besieged the city, he commenced undermining the' walls in a very dark night. Before his object could be accomplished, the Moon arose, and the city was saved. The grateful Byzantines erected a statue to Diana, and adopted the crescent for their coat of arms.