Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 May 1827 — Page 4

Poetical.

CHANGES. . child is playing on the green, t With rosy check and radknt mem ; But sorrow comes the smiles departed, He weeps, as he were broken hearted: But see, ere yet his tears arc dry. Again his laugh thrills wild and high ; As lights and shades each other chase, So pain and joy flit o'er his face ; And nought shall have the power to keep His eyes one moment from their sleep : And such was I. A youth sits with his burning glance TurnM upwards to heaven's blue expanse ;

What is it o er ms paic cmx-h. iiusiims What thouglit has set the life-blood gushing? It is of many a deed sublime That he will do in future time Of many a struggle to be past ; Repaid by deathless fame at last ; He thinks not on the moments goneHe lives ill fiery hope atotit; ; And Such was I. Sunken these eyes, and worn that brow, Yet more of care than years they show : There's something in that cheek -.revealing The bosom wound that knows no healing ; He lives, and will live on, and simlfc And thoughts he cannot lose beguile ; He'll shun no duty, break no tieBut his star's fallen from the sky : Oh! pitying Heaven, the wretch forgive

I Uat bears, UUC wisia-s uu.vai int. And such am I, Spanish Etiquette The etiquette, or rules to be observed in the royal palaces is necessary, Writes baron Itelficld, for keeping order at court. Iri Spain, it was carried to such lengths as to make martyrs of their kings. Here is on !rcfanrn nf whirlv in snitn of

the fatal consequences it produced, one cannot refrain from smilPhilip the third, being gravely seated as Spaniards generally arc by the chimney, where the fire maker of the court had kindled so great a quantity of wood that the monarch was nearly suffocated with heat, his grandeur would not suffer him to rise from the chair, and the domestic could not presume to enter the apattmcnt, because it was 3gainst the etiquette. At length, the marquis de Potat arrived, and the king ordered him to damp the fire ; but he excused himself, alleging, that he was forbidden by the etiquette to perform sucb a function, for which the duke d'Usseda ought to be called upon, as it was his busiw t

ness. ;i he duice nau gone out, the fire burnt fiercer, and the king endured it, rather than derogate from his dignity. But his blood was heated to such a degree, that an erysipelas broke out on his head the next day : which being succeeded by a violent fever, carried him off in 1021, and in the

S The palace was once on fire a soldier, who knew the king's sister was in her apartment, & must inevitably have been consumed in a few moments by the tlames, at the risk of his life, rushed in, and brought her highness safe out in his arms: but the Spanish eti-

VJ VJ V- 1. WV l lit. I V If llllll I I 7 -VV I 1 into ! the roval soldier was brut' to trial and, as it was impossible to denv that he had entered her apartmcnt, the Judges condemned nim to die! The Spanish princess, however, condescended, in consideration of the circumstance, to pardon the soldier, and very benevolently saved his lite !

Mahommedan Logic. The laws of Cos, discountenance in a very singular manner any cruelty in females towards their admirers. An instance occurred while doctor Clarke and his companions were on the island, in which the unhappy termination of a love affair occasioned a trial for what

the Mahomedan lawyers casulstically describe as " homicide by an intermediate cause." The following was the case : A young man, desperately in love with a girl of Stanchio, eagerly sought to marry her; but his proposals were rejected. In consequence he destroyed himself by poison. The Turkish police arrested the father of the obdurate fair, and tried him for culpable homicide. " If the accused (argued they, with becoming gravity) had not have had a daughter, the deceased would hot have fallen in love ; consequently he would not have been disap pointed ; consequently, he would not have swallowed poison ; consequently, he would not have died: but he (the accused) had a daughter, and the deceased had fallen in love," &c. Upon all these counts, he was called upon to pay the price of the young man's life ; and this being fixed at the sum of eighty piasters, was accordingly exacted. Hoses. Perhaps, among all the astonishing productions of the vegetable kingdom, there is not one more remarkable than a rose recently introduced into Europe & this country, and thus descr ibed in Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, published in London. Hosa Grevilli, or Greville's China rose: "The shoot of this rose grew eighteen feet in a few tvcckt and is the most singular of the rose tribe that ever came under my observation. It now covers about one hundred feet square, with more than a hundred trusses of flowers some of 'these have more than fifty buds in a cluster, and the whole will average about thirty in a truss, so that the a mount of ilower buds is little less than three thousand. JJut the most astonishing curiosity, is the variety of colors produced on the buds at the first opening white, light-blush, deep-blush, light-red, darker red, scarlet and pin pie, all on the same clusters. This rose grows in the manner of the Multitlora, but is easily known by the leaf, which is much larger" and more rugose than the common Multiflora." This rose has been introduced into the United States, and we are informed that about fifty plants arc now in possession of Mr. Prince, of Long Island. iV. Y. Com, Adv. Nexc Cooking Apparatus Mr. 1). WesteriieldNew York, has invented a Kitchen Grate, which is so constructed that a family of ordinary size may do all their' roasting, baking, washing & ironing, with a small open fire, either of Anthracite or Liverpool coal, or any other kind of fuel. It is set permanently in the kitchen fire place with mason work, and takes up but little room, and is the most economical, neat, and best apparatus for cooking, that has yet been brought into use. For large hotels it is invaluable. The oven is always heated to the right temperature, and is so divided into apartments, that pastry, puddings, and any other kind of baking, can go on at the same time. A boiP er may be attached to the grate, that will keep a barrel of water or more, constantly boiling. The time taken up in bringing wood, building and replenishing the lire in the old fashioned kitchen fire places, is in a great measure saved in this grate. A fire of Anthracite coal will not need replenishing

more than three times during the whole four and twenty hours. Four of these grates have already been put up, and one in a kitchen fire place, where, although a number of experiments and alterations had been made to cure it from smoking, never could be remedi ed Until now. This consideration alone makes it an object to such as are pestered with smoky chimneys. We have no doubt but that this great and useful apparatus will in a short time come into general use. N. Y. Eve. Post. North JFesl Passage.- In a letter from Mr. Douglass, the bottanist to Dr. Hooker, dated from the great falls on the Columbia riycr, thclth March, 1820, there is the following curious paragraph respecting the Norfh West Pas. sage : There is here a Mr. McLeod who spent the last three yeai s at fort Good Hope, on the MeKen zie river. He informs me that if the natives, with whom he was perfectly acquainted, are worthy of credit, there must be a North West Passage. They describe a very large river that runs parallel with the Mackenzie, and falls into the Sea near Icy cape, at the rhoutli of w hich there is an ectab lishment on an island, where ships come to trade. They assert that the people there are very wicked, having hanged several of the na tives to the rigging; they wear their beards long. Some reliance 1 should think,- may be laid on their statement, as Mr. McLeod showed us some Russian coins, combs, several articles of hard ware very different from those furnished by the liritish compa ny. Air. McLeod caused the natives to assemble last summer for the purpose of accompanying him in his departure for Hudson's bay. This gentleman's conduct affords a striking example of the efiects of perseverance In the short space of eleven months he visited the Polar sea, and the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, undergoing such hardships and dangers as, perhaps were never experienced by any othcr individual. fillers The Hollanders in the early age of their republic, considered idle persons as politically criminal, and punished idleness as a crime against the commonwealth. Those who had no visible means of an honest livelihood, were called before the magistracy to give an account of how they got a living ; and if they were unable to render a satisfactory explanation on this point, they were put to labour. Those thrifty llol landers arc said to have employed the following singular expedient. They constructed a kind of box sufficiently large for a man to stand upright and exercise his faculties. In the interior of it was a pump. The vagrant or idler was put into this box, which was so placed in the liquid element, that the water gushed into it constantly, through the apertures in the bottom and sides ; so that the lazy culprit had to work at thn

'pump with all his might, and for

several hours at a time, to keep himself from drowning. The medicine it is said was found to be an infalablc cure for the disease, insomuch that no person was ever known to work at it the second time. Eloquent Extract. While we thus walk among the ruins of the

past, a sad feeling of insecurity' comes over us, and that feeling is by no means diminished when wc arrive at home If we turn to our friends, wc can hardly speak to them before they bid us farewell. We see them for a little while, & in a few moment they. arc sent away from us. It matters not how near and dear they are to us The ties that bind us to them arc never too close to be parted, nor too strong to be broken. Tears are never known to move the king of terrors, nor is it enough that we arc compelled to surrender one or ru-o, or more, of those we love for though the price is so great, we buy no favor with it, and our hold upon those who remain is as slight as ever. When a few more friends have left, a few more "hopes deceived, and a few more changes mocked us, "we shall be brought to the grave, and the clods of the valley shall be sweet unto us, and many shall follow us, as they are innumerable before us." All power will have forsaken the strongest and the loftiest will be laid lou and every voice hushed, and every heart will have ceased its beating, and when we have gone ourselves' even our memories' will not stay behind us. A few of the more near and dear will bear our likeness in their bosoms, till they too have arrived at the end of their pilgrimage, and entered the dark dwelling of forgctfulness. In the thoughts of others, we shall live only till the last sound of the bell, which informs them of our dpnnp.

turc. shall cease to vibrate in our eats. Seamless Shoes A method has been invented in England, of making a shoe from a single piece of leather, without seam The mode of operation is simple Thick leather is taken and cut to a shape resembling that of a common slipper when pressed flatit is then split by knives, adapted to the use, and the upper portion being raised from the lower, is made to conform to the foot by stretching it on a last. The superfluous parts are then pared off, and the manufactured articles are said to exceed in neatness, and equal in durability those made in the usual way. I would have every one consider that he is. in this "life, nothing more than a passenger, and that he is not to set up his rest here, but to keep an attentive eye upon that state of being to which he approaches every moment, & which will be forever fixed and parmanent This single consideration would be suflicient to extinguish the bitterness of hatred, the thirst of avarice, and the cruelty of ambition. Spectator. People may pride themselves upon their scholastic advantages and their facilities of education ; but no person can be very intelligent without a familiar acquaintance with newspapers, or a constant intercourse with those who are familiar with them. Sayings. He that can please nobody, is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please. Hope is the last thing that dieth in man and though it i9 exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use for us, that while we are travelling through life, it conducts us an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. He that wants hope, is the poorest man living.