Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 48, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 January 1828 — Page 4

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IMMKS HO LOVE. I've mingled in the wild delights, The revels of the festive throng, Indulged 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 glee, But never, never, tasted joy, Till found Domestic Love, in thee. The bnght romance of fervid youth, The glory of those golden days. When love's sweet image passed like truth, Herserf before my rapturous gaze ; The luxury of each day dream, Hy warm anticipation wove, In all their fragrant freshness teem, Concentrate in Domestic Love. This peaceful home ; these fervent friends, These budding blossoms of my line, Within whom my very being blends. Whose destiny and hopes are mine ; If there's a Paradise on earth, A joy below like joys above. It glows arftund the social hearth Of home and dear Domestic Love. From the New Yurie Statesman. Christmas Ceremonies. F.ngland was merry Kn gland when Even trom a gay and giddy boy, I strove to drown each care with glee, w m.9i.i.a3 in.r,,,. Knchiml was nierrv hnirlaiul when OklChristmrishroiighthiisportsMKiin. vjiu vnrisimas nrougut nis sports ag tin 1 wasC.hristmis hronch d the migaticst ale ; a a. A I, hustings gambol ott would cheer A noorman's heart throue.li half the vear" 1 r 1 r Scott. In detank of present news, it may a u I be intm-stingto the reader to tra-e the origin ot customs, where the primary m tive has ceased to operate. The practiceof dee.orat ing churches an 1 apartments with evergreens at Christmas, is sup posed by many to allude to the people's strewing blanches in the Way of the Saviour when he en tered Jerusalem ; by others, to the taste of the monastics in the early periods of the church, who hung their aheis with ivy and laurel, emblems of devotion and tri umph. to enhance the grandeur and solemnity of their rites. 15 it the practice of ornamenting places of worship with evergreens springs from an ea lier elate. The ) uids decked their houses and places of worshin with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them Sl remain unhurt by the frosts and storms of the chilling season. Onthe accession of Christianity, councils of the church forbade Christians to de curate their houses with Iav or Holly, but afterwaid?pe:mitted it in order to accommodate its cere monies to the old mythology in such things as were not fundamen tal. An ancient wtiter says that "trimmyngof the temples with han" ynies of flowres, bougies. & garlondes, was laken of the heath en people, whiche decked then id oles& houses wit h sucheat raye v In the earliest ages the Misletoe Was held preeminent for such uses over every other plant or tree The D uids veneiated it. fur its mystical origin. Gnnvina as it - idnes upon the oak, without resem duiir it. they deemed it a nor ' aculous proituction. ami believed it possessed ol ch ii m and defenceagainst evil It was iut by them frmn the tree wit h g eat cei enmny . Toe prince of tie I nid- ascenlfing the nak.cut the 3lilete with a g.dtit'n sickle in the piesence of it.. i an me people and then presented it to the other T) uids. who received it with great icverence. and ilis trihuted it. as a sacred talisman blessing for the new year. It was. however, at length banished horn the churches because it was held sncred by the heathen, and m'nmt therefore mislead christian u or shipper to a profane i expect for it. or to belie'v e, as the Orudical rites md taught them. ik that it had the power nf proclaiming pardon and fitedom to all wickede people towards the lour tjuurte.es of hcav-

ene. The mince pie and the

aa a m . a Christmas pie, those u favorite peculiars1'oftbe Christmas festival

naa also their appropriate ueriva- prey, ana ivusjust stretching lortn aovance similar 10 mis in population. The former beinff a com to devour it a Serpent, that had tion & improvement, will perhaps

pound of the choicest productions oi uie E.asi, represents me oner ings made by the wise men who came from afar to wo! ship, bnng

lug spices. The cotlm shape oi serpent, a liawK was stooping the true old English Christmas pic from above to seize theyellowbird, "is in imita ion f tbe manner" all were intent upon their ptey, wherein the infant Jesus was laid and unmindful nf their own danTnis pastry is a learned com- ger So the whangam cat the position, being a mixture ofneats grasshopper, the serpent eat the t ungues, chicken, es. suirar, rais- whangam, the yellowbird the serins. lemon and oi ange perl, with pent, and the hawk the yellowwines and various kinds of spycer- bir d: when sousing from on high, ics The mention of the 4 Chi ist a Vulture gobbled up the hawk, mas log1' will kindle t'ie feelings grasshopper, whangam, and all, in ot ever y New E lglander. as ano a moment.

ther wvll known feature of this iovous festival Tr was in Old 'Enjrl uld the meat, indispensable, " . to have kt a huge heaped-up, over . . .. , . ,, heaped up. all attracting fire;' & the larger the lo; the merrier the defiance which was given to the .... . . . . P , CO (J Without. All the (lemons t I frost, and the spirits of the storm 1V.P i:1;,i ht, .hp nnPt ai.ll a charm lhj ,hese !)0,thcrn climes, which nee led not the aid of superstition to enforce it Then comes the feast, and dance and song and then the grave reflet on ine morions occasion : anu use 7 gay rejoice with mirth and glad ness. ana cuts, on the solemn festival which commemorates " The day that gave " To rran a sav iour freedom to tiic slave." From the United Wate.i Gazette. GOING TO LAW In the Gi'tzr.i' of the IVortd there is a descnpMon of the CmnP of.Tustict? in Westminster k a ii 1 fifty years liich heiii?; ap plicah'.e to tS-.e sent stale (. t.ike tlu court )roeee;ho;'s here, ! liberty of exlraet'n- some of the observations. ami of iiterirrj oi hf s. to suit the times, which I heu" v-u to publish. C. I had sonic intentions lately of visiiitig Ih'dlam. the place wheie those wlin go mad are confined. ealled upon a IVier.d to accompany me, but found him prepaed to go to court. to attend a taw uit. which, he informed me hail been depend f " several years. How is it posihle, said I. for a man w ho know s the w orld, to go to law. except on emerufeneW s .Many of our com ts of instiee aie not only lotteries but rat trap easy to get in. but difficult & haz ardous tt) get out again. I s'uuild not have gone to law. said my ft iend, but that I was assm ed of success before I began 1 have been on the eve of an imaginary triumph, every term these ten years, antl at the present one. I expect to lay my antagonist on his haek. .M y law yer encourages me in the belief, and I am determined to persevere I5ut, remember. said I, moie time is spent in learning the art of litigation than in the discovery ot our rights. Do you observe what numbers of lawyers we have? How can half of them find employment and support ? I'll tell you watching each other.. For instance, the catchpole watches the man in debt.; Uie attorney watches the eatehJphlV ioc coiiuseimr waicuesine aiiorn ey, the solicitor the counsellor; but the client pays them all : and thus they all hud employment and ( support jtom the client. j 1 will illustrate the position by a Chinese table. A Gra&bhoppcr, filled with dew,

was mprniy sinking: under a

aa shade a Wbangam, that eats gras

shippers, had marked it for its!nators and one Delegate. An

f.r a long time fed on whangams, w us cnut-u up u ia ini upon uic whanp-am. a Yellowbird wasiust upon the win?; to dart upon the I had scarcely finished mv fable. when the lawyer came to 'inform my friend, that his cause was put .' ... - oil another term; thai money . , A , .1 . was wanted to retain, and that all the worm was ot opinion, that the very next hearing, would bring! . ,v- . rt v ' him oil Victorious It SO, Uien, ' cries my h iend. 1 believe it will be j ,nr uiJ.t wnv rn rnntimiP fhp i cause (or another le. m. ai.d in the I mean time, my friend Ifeie, and 1 will go and see Bedlam. From the Ohio Sate Journal Tweut eight yeuiago, Wil liam II II o rison, now a senator in Congr ss fiom this state, pre sented his credentials to the louse of Heprcsentatives e.s a delegate from the whole Northwestern Territory What a charge has taken place under his eye ! The fierce natives of the hrest, after many a sti ugjle. have disappeaied before the lace of white men. Their shiill warhoop i- no hsnger heard to animate the heart of the wariior to battle or to sound the signal of death to the inmates of the cabin ; their canoe is no long- ' er seen to float on the bosom of Huron or Hrie or wend its way among the inu s liesolVheheantilul river. Tl e council fue is broken up wi a few have survivi d thehlood Cut. test with their (larif)g invadeis, h.ave turned thci faces to the d s a t west, and with a sigh hid furewi II to the rich v al "ie and huntinjr g -minds, where i ho l)i)nes id theii fatheis repose. A new race now occupy their osse-sions. and the wilderness is made to blossom as th.e rose The forest is thinned by the blows of the back woodsmen vilhijjes, and cultivated fields arise on every sde ti e land teems with population the river which felt be T re no weight but the canoe of ti e warrior hastening to battle, are now covered with freights, eonvey'u gthe lich products of the west to market canals and roads aie con-tiucted for commercial and frieodly intercourse halls of legislation and justice are erected for the government ol a thriving people colleges, seminaries, and common schools are found to dis pense the treasure of ancient and modern know ledge to their sons Mich is the wonderful change that has passed under the eye of this sole Delegate of the Jn'ortb western Territory in 1791). The territory which he then represen ted is now cut up in the state of Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, and the teiritory ot Michigan and leav ing a tract of country to the noi tb west sufficient to form several more states At that time this district contained about fifty thou sand inhabitants. The populati on at present is oyer a million

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anci is represented in congress ny eighteen Representatives, six hcnever be witnessed acrain. A physician in New England of a facetious disposition, who had long practised, according to the customs of the day. giving So receiving wine and spirits in the social circle, became convinced of the evil of such a course about a year ago, and took the following method of arresting the influence of custom Having several friends one day at his own house he had his decanters produced as usual, and said to the cnmpany Gentlemen will you help yourselves? Here are wine, and brandy and i & arsenkk ; all ate poisons; j some slower in their, operations I 1 I 1 U . . 4 11.. ! umeis. uui rquuuy sure j rn 1, vmir chnifA " lakeyoui cnoice. , ... ..y sooner liiflamr- the mind, than th i . . T flames of virtue can warm the af fection. For a little wormwood being cast into a great deal of honey, presently maketh it bitter; but twice as much honey mingled with wormwoid will not make it svect. King of Jrrarron Alphonso, king of Arrag.m. was one day admiring the different articles in ids jeweller's shop, with many of hi- favourite women. He had . c . t . . sca- eiy lett the house, when thfjeweller missed a diamond of great value, and ran after him, complaining of the theft. The king not willing publicly to dis grace any of his attendants, com manded a large basin full of sand to be brought him, into which he made each of his women put her hand clinched, and draw it out flat. Jv this means the diamond was left in the sand, unknown by whom mong men ox honor a word is a bond. Without union there can exist nei her strength nor public spirit. Do great things, but do not promise ti em Tiie vine produces three fruits pleasure, intoxication, and repentance. OI 10 H to parch asri .s of I'uhlic Lands, Ukceivkr's oi Firii, at Yincknnes, October 22d, 1827. E N pursuance of instructions ftom ths H ho noi able 1 1 1 c Secietay of the Treasury, the purchasers of public lands, in the district ot Vinctnnes, are hereby notific that Iiom and alter the 31stot next December, the receipt of the notes of all local or St?te ISuiks will be discontinued at this office. Therefore, those persons who have payments to make into this office, will alter that period, provide themselves w ith specie, or note of the United State's Hank or its H- anches. JC S UAH It I SOX, Receiver. October 25, 1827 38-1 It K X TtSKTALNM IS -NT. TDK subscriber has resumed his former business, in the house sometime ago occupied by Mr Frs Cunningham, as a T1VERj on Market street, in Viuccnncs lie has built a new, large, and commodious stable ; and has put the buildings in complete repair. Uis stable will be constantly supplied with Oafs, Corn. Foddery and Timothy Huy and attended by a good Ostler. Uis house hall at all times be furnished with such things for the comfort of Travellers, Sc others, as the country can afford. He Ar by h'u attention to business, to merit and receive a share of public patronage. II. JOHXSOX. January 8, 1827. 51-tf Magistrates BLANIvSfor lllf nois, for sale at this office. Tallow, wanted at this oflicc

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