Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 27, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 August 1827 — Page 4

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Poetical.

St lectjd. V DOMESTIC LOVE. I've mingled in the wild delights, The revels of the festive throng, Ttuhileed in fancy's fondest flights.

And chased the phantom, Pleasure, long-

Even from a gay and giddy boy I strove to drown each care with gleb, But never, never, tasted joy. Till found, Domestic Love, in thee. The bright romance of fervid youth, Vhe glory of those golded days, When love's sweet image passed like truth, Herself before my rapturous gaze, The TuXury of each dear dream, By warm anticipation wove In all their fragrant freshness seerri, Concentrated in Domestic Love. This peaceful home these fervent friends, These budding blossoms r.f my line, With whom my very being blends, Whose destiny and hopes are mine If there's a Paradise on earth, A joy below likejoys above. It glows around the social hearth Of home and dear Domestic Love. " W J J " Trenton Emporium. llONESTYvs IDLENESS

No man. said my uncle Timo

member, who lired at the Swan,

on a couple of hundred dollars a

year allowed him hy his lather,

actually became so great a nuis

ance that the people threw him in

to the mill pond one day. and having given him a thorough ducking

sent him out of the bounds of the

township

The truth is. that the active

exercise of the bodily or mental

powers, in a profitable or useful

way, seems i nseparable bom the

idea of a right employment ot

time. Every man accomplishes

much good or much evil in the

world. Uhe adds nothing to the

stock of knowledge, or of proper

ty in society, though he be not immoral or vicious, he stabs by

the influence ot his example, the

very vitals of virtue and good

order.

BOB SHORT. Card Planing. The finished

gambler has no heart The club

brought before K the justice," on

Saturday, by his sweetheart, charged with the offence of too much love The lady held the proof in her arms, which, as well as herself, cried loudly for justice A bond, the jail, or marriage, were the alternatives, atid hard ones Hob seemed to think them. Long he pondered, dnd wistfully he looked, and like other rustic deepthinkers, much he scratched his head. Better men would have stuck fast on the horns of so grave a dilemma But it vvas a pressing case, for the crowd thickened, an! Jenny's ire was something les gentle than zephyr. At length he thought it better to marry than do worse and the Justice, taking him

at his word sent for the parson. !

and had him wedded on I lie -pot. The groom, we are informed, he-

the occasion, and

thy, can be perfectly honest, and with vvh;ch hc herds, would meet, at the same time perfectly idle. It though the place of rendezvous

was a saying which natt grown in- were the chamber of the dying: to so much credit with him that tiley would meet, though it 'were

he always let it out when mere an apartment in the charnel house.

was even the smallest occasion for

it. When I speak of my uncle, I

speak of days long past of times and scenes far back in the dim

vista of departed years, to which

memory sometimes still turns

with a childish fondness and Whither sometimes a sigh will stray. I vvas then young and

Not even the death of kindred can affect the gambler lie would play upon his brother's coffin ; he would play upon his father's sepulchre. Yonder see that wretch, prematurely old in infirmity as well as

sin He is the farther of a family

s ne mornpr n hk c , rn

thought myself a good deal wiser 1(n e, -n ,UT (eai.g g.;h.(,s u ith than my gray headed uncle-but lhe lcnderrst assi(j(1j,i(.3. t0 res!oie

1 am now old, and my opinion of

my uncle's wisdom has been in creasing and of my own gradually diminishing ever since. Time has shaken my theories and estab lished bis. Whenever I heard the old g?n tlcman deal out this maxim of his 1 felt a strong disposition to cor rect an error, into which it seemed to me he had thoughtlessly fallen ; and one day I took the liberty of speaking on the subject. I sup posed a case of a man in independent circumstances ; a man who owned two or three larms, or had a great deal of monev at interest and I said surely such a man may take his ease. and be idle if he likes and yet pay his debts punctually, and wrong nohodv , and be honest. But my uncle always settled cavils in a brief way he was a man of few words. Look into the world. B b s iid he. and you'll see how that is. Experience and observation is the mother ot wis dom Well, I have looked into the world, and every year has unfold ed problems which at first appealed mysterious

My neighbour Thornhill had a large estate and a large family lie passed a peculiarly quiet life of glorious idleness, as a modern lounger would say and paid his debts, and was esteemed a very upright, clever man. But when be died his property w as insufficient to maintain his children each in the ease and luxury of the paternal home yet they had imita ted their fatherthey were so in corrigibly idle, that they all sunk to nothing and then ThornhiU's memory was charged with the foul dishonesty of ruining his boys. It was a heavy charge. I have found it too to be a mat

ter of fact, that one idler would

pros-

hav ed well on

departed with as reason ible

pects of happiness as old bachelors usually h?,vs who ate inanicu a

gainst their will Was ever !ocr in t ' Is rumor c o' i ? Was ever lover in this Iiumor won i We hope when the marriage is announced that the usual order will be reversed, and the biides name tak the precedence to which this vigorous measure entitles her. Baltimore American. Robinson Crusoe The fasci nation of this extraordinary work is not limited to the Juvenile reade. Tawney a respectable alderman of Oxford used to read !ob"insnn Gi nsoc through every vvw with great delight, and thought every part of it as much matter of fact as his bible. A friend at last asked him. how he could be such a child as to credit a story so marvellous. The original Gru -oe.' added he. -was Alexander Selkirk ; and Daniel de Foe, an ingenious writer, embellished the

)1 - v.rv of 'nis shipwreck upon fhe i!:iTrd of .Ti'nn Pprnamicv

with almost all the adventures and remarks you so much admise.'

Your information,' said the

alderman whh a siuh, may In

correct, bui- 3 had rather you had

withheld it. f r by thus undeceiv

ing m". you have deprived mc of

one of the greatest pleasures of

my old a ;e

EXT!! ACTS. That writer does the most who

his health, and with it to restore temperance, his love of home, and the Ions; lost charms of domes' ie

life. She pursues him with her kindness and her entreaties, to his haunts of vice ; she reminds him of his children, she tells him ol their virtue of their sorrows of thpir wants ; and she adjures him, by the love of them, and by the love of (J.)d, to repent, and to return. Vain attempt ! she might as well adjuie the whirlwind : blumight as well entreat the tiger. The brute has no feelings left He turns upon her in the piiit ot the demons with woich he s possessed. He curses ids child c and her who bore them ; anu a he prosecutes h sgame, he fills ,h intervals with m p cations on nimself, with imprecations on his Maker imp editions borrowed

from the dialect of devils, and I giver his reader the most k n v;i-

little of society, who think it can bear to be always employed either in the exercise of its duties, or in high and important meditations. Complahancc. Complaisance pleases all, prejudices none, adorns wit, renders humor agteeable, augments friendship, redoubles love, and complying with justice and generosity, becomes the secret charm of the society oi all mankind. Immediately before Lord Russell was conveyed to the scaffold, he wound up bis watch, saving with a smile. Now I have done with time and must henceforth think only of eternity " iMetaphysical writers are like minuet dancers who bcint dressed

to the greatest advantage, make a couple of bows, move through tSie room in the finest attitudes, display all their graces, are in continual motion without advancing a tep. and finish at the identical point from which they set out. Time -In all actions that a man performs some part o! his life passes We die with doing that for w hlch only our sliding life was gran'ed Nay. though we do nothing Time keeps his constant pi:ce, and flit-s in idleness, as in employment, we play or dance or study the sun posts on, and the sand runs An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue. But the difference wi ich follows upon good actions, is infinite from that of ill ones The good, though it diminish our time here, yet it lavs up a pleasure for eternity, and will recompense what it takes away, with a plentiful return at last. When we trade with virtue, we do but buy pleasure with expense of time. Absence lessens small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires. It is impossible that an ill natured man can have a public spirit ;

for how should he love ten thousand men who never loved one?

uttered with a tone that befits only the organs of the damned' And

hi 101b monger mere ont e

dwelt the spirit if a man. lie hah

talents he had honour he tud

edge, a d take from him the leant

time

AH things have their time

mm r 1 1

: ne j l Miia j uiai wonuereu ru

those people's folly who played

honour he had even faith. He vvhh their little dogs andmnnkeys

might have adorned the senate, the having little ehildien of their own

bar. the altar. But alas ! his was to PKV itli. what would he

a faith that a eth not. The have said to such who pursue their

gaming table has robbed him of it. delights with the greatest earnest

and of all things else that are ness w hen they ate far enajied in

worth possessing. What a tie- business of the greatest cone

mendous wreck is the soul of man quence ; For we should deal with

in ruins !

our pleasures as with little whelps ;

never play with them, but when

Melancholy case of Matrimony we have nothing to do, for want of

It is generally admitted that a better company.

man pays the toll price ot his Y e may do a ver' good action.

follies Indeed it is an opinion a and not be a good man ; but we

mong the prudent that he pays cannot do a very ill one, and not

more than their real value bean ill man.

What is worst of all is that he can A man must beware of strain-

never know the price beforehand, ing piety to a pitch he cannot

but like a man who has worn out maintain throughout ; 'tis like

bis coat got on credit, is forced to beinning a tune too high ; he must pay whatever is asked, and that, take it a note or two lower, orgive too, after the commodity is no disgust before becomes to the end

generally do more mischief in the longer worth any thing. We beg of it, by downright squeaking.

...bv, man iweiuy muustnous paruon lor giving the moral Oelore simusemem. it is doing some

men mio mmdetl tneir own we have to d the storv. service to humanity, to amuse

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ousinesg ana one fellow I re-J An unfortunate swain was innocently, and they know very

AviVvAole founded on fact In a small village of the State of (ieoioia a quairel recently occured be; wren two Frenchmen ; one, a n. eager little physician, that looked c S if he lived on his own diugs, the other, a sturdy grocer, w ho, as a cannibal, could have taken the little M i) at a mral. In the pr gs of the dispute, the doctor, v rought up to the sticking joint, and as warm as a cataplasm, exclaimed vehemently," I be dam, il I no kill you" to which the grocer replied with a non-chalancc ot the most ludicrous contrast, ?Co D ciaire. I be dam if you do fur I shall not employ you."

A Snake Story It has been

continently asserted that a black

snake of North America has the

property of expanding itself to such a degree, that he has been known to swallow a bulk twice as big as bis own. Our informant states that two of these reptiles having lately come in contact, and both feeling the same demands of appetite, the first assailant began on the tail of the "other with so much vigour that be soon made bis antagonist look about, who, believing in tbedoctiine of retaliation began to pay him in his own coin and thue they began mutually to swallow each other until not a vestige of either was to be seen I most sincerely wish that the contendingparties of the day may nut go and do likewise