Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 January 1828 — Page 4

Poetical.

TO JULIA. Sweet seducer ! blandly smiling, Charming still, and still beguiling; Oft I swore to love thee never, , Yet I love thee more than ever. Why that little wanton blushing, Glancing eye, and bosom flushing: Flushing warm, and wily glancing, All is lovely, all entrancing. Turn away those lips of blisses I am poisoned by thy kisses ! Yet again, ah! turn then? to me : Ruin's sweet when they undo me. Oh ! be less, be less enchanting, Let some little grace be wanting. Let my eyes, when Fm expiring, Gaze awhile without admiring. (From the Kentucky Reporter Revolutionary anecdote.

A knowledge of the facts which

wive evidence of reason in the

brute creation, constitutes the hun a. ii I.I i j rv .

ier. ltcnautes mm to eiiect nis object in killing his game, & with

same posture as at first, and by

crying 600 0 booh oh and trotting

fiercely up to the pen, he got the hogs into a perfect rage. When

their alarm had subsided in some

measure, he went back and slipped out the rails, making a considera

ble opening for the exit of the

captives. He then again ap

proached the pen on all fours, as at fust, but brisker, and cryioc: at everyjump boo oh boo-oh. boo oh.

The hogs burst through the open

ing and ran off as fast as they could, all crying boo all. boo oh.

boo oh, and old Gavin reached the gap just time enough to take his

stand by the side oi an old sow.

who had probably been the mother of two thirds oi the gang. They took an even start, and the old man says it was the hardest race' he ever had to keep up with that old sow, on all fours lie passed ail the sentinels in safety.

who mistook him for a real four-

respect to animals oi prey, furnish

I - - 4 VftBWajw'V V. till es him w ith means of escaping i-.i ... 1 0 iooied snunter.

uieir ropacny

7rt

rn rnp l ri rr ni n rrnnH n H Win. I - - .

while he amused our hovhnnrl . " -

..,:u i, .. u J, . 'onn liangdon, is given m

Chastcllux's Travels, an edition ot

which is recently published in New York : " At the time ot

Burgovr.e's descent into the 8ta

tes from Canada, ?ir. Langdon

was a member of the Council or

' with the advantage he once deriv

ij ed from his knowledge of the character and habits of so stupid

an animal astuenog. uid uavin was of this number, and had a fine stock of hogs in particular. The lories kent so strict a watch for the old Whig, that he had to visit

Senate of New Hampshire. Go

' ing to the Council or Chamber

T "umt.7 ua,lu' auu he perceived the members about

sp-t .u ,.,a,.y um,iuiS 0 d,scuss somc alyilirs f ,ttie

out in me woods. The lull ap- conscqut,n,c. and 0lUrec6C(i the. vcproachcd and every thing appear-1 f Gentlemen, yc

u,&Viwy quici. ua.m vcnLu.eu may talk us lotirr as VoU please ; on spending more of lus time at i,. . L.n,v (,, r!. ,M.mv- u

home, and among other necessary 0U1. fl.on!:,.,s aiu! ,hal j am arrangements got up his killing t0 ,ak(. my ;stos am, mml,;t 1V hogs. and put them in a pen to horse (o -ml,at ilh mv cUi:v fatten. But Gavin had hardly c ;,tj2ens The ,Taie?t" part oi began to dream quietly under his t)C meml)rrs folfnwed bins, and own root, before a party ot 40 or joinetl Genera! Gates at Saratoga.

iU UMICb bUinJUIIUCU IHb UOUhC made him prisoner. They com pelled him to take his fine fat hogs

from the pen and toll them to their

mcmorialsovcrlhe mortal relics of the wealthy and the great. Ah! who. in such an assemblage as this can be accounted great? What

sold survives the crucible ofdeath?

We can learn nothing from the

living w hich the dead don't teach

us. Would beauty be modest and unpretending, let hrrquit the hall

and festival for a rnoment.ee can v

her toilet to the tomb. Would the proud learn humility ; the

penurious charily; the frivolous seriousness ; the higoted philanthropy ; would the scholar ascertain the true objects of knowledge; the man of the word; the tiue means of happiness here and here

after ; ar.ri the ambitious, the true sources of irreatoess, let him retire

a while from the livinor and com

mune with the dead. We must a'! come to the mournful and sil

ent grave. Our bones must min

gle in one mass. Our aiiections

should travel in the same path,

they must terminate in one fearful

issue Life is full of facilities of

virtue and happi.-icss; and when they would abuse them, go purify your affections, and humble your pride, and leave your hopes in the tomp ol a friend when the stars are shining upon it like the glorious beams of teligiou on the mansion ol death.

As he was maiehin r.hv

reposing

h.iuii

onlv

tit.

woods, a ne-JTo servant w

u alien

camping ground 4 or 5 miles. There another pen was made in

ded hirn, said to him. blaster, on are hunvinir yourself: but, no

matter vou are ironic to hiint lor

suiter patien

the woods.the hogs safely enclos- liberty," I should

cu anu oiu vravm su icuy guarueu. also lf ;;.ld ub t defend.'

However, alter night sentinels .Don't let that stun you.' iep!ied were placed all around the en- Goionei Langdon 'from tins campment, it was not thought moment VOu are free.' The ne

necessary to tie the prisoner, or gro tolloxvcd him, behaved with

courage and bus never cp fit led him. Thepu'olis'ier of this edition, in his note? at the end of the work, has mentioned the African regi

ment of Uhode Inland, w ho gained

otherw ise abridge 'the use of his

locomotive powers As the foes died awav towards midn'mht, the drowsy eyes ol the tories were closed in sleep, except the sentinels

who paced around the camp at the ; thei libetty by defending that of

usance o, iju or zuu a.us irom t their maslcrs tlirou-hthe ilevolu

their comrades. At this tune Gavin planned his escape, lie got on his hands and feet and ap proached the hog pen with some caution at first and at last in such a manner as to arrest the attention of some of the more watchful

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slightly, and grunt as if aware that every thing was not right, but were uncertain what it was. Old Gavin then returned, and after the lapse of 15 or 20 minutes, he as sumes the same altitude, and approaches the pen at a pretty biisk trot, and when he had got within 10 or 12 steps, he uttered the hog's note or alarm, Uooh This roused the gang, who repeated the note with many variations. The old man then returned to his bed of leaves, and when they had become somewhat quiet, he walked erect to the pen a third time, and raiding the corner made a slip gap but without laving down the rails lie then went back and approach ed the side opposite the gap in the

tion. The Chuck Yard You have sauntered, perhaps, of a moon light evening, out of the precincts of the living, moving world, to linger and contemplate among the

memorials of those

The torments of an ez'l conscience arc most zividhj depicted hi the annexed extract from a recent work of fiction. For weeks (after the sudden death of his mistress.) he knew nothing of this earth he was encompassed with the spectres of a terrible d earn. A tl was confusion, darkness, horror, a series and a change of torture ! At one time

he was hurried through the heav ens in a womb of a lierv star, girt above and below and around vith unextinguishabie but unconsuming il imes wher ever he Irud, as he wanueied thiough his vast and blazing prison, the molten lire w as his footing, and the breath of fue was his air. Flowers, and trees, and hills, were in that wot Id as in ours, but wrought from one lurid and intolerable ii'.ht ; and scatter ed around, rose gigantic palaces c domes of the li ug dame, like the mansions of the city of hell. With every moment there passed to and fro shadowy fo: ms on whose countenances was engraved unut terable anguish ; but not ashi iek, not a groan, rung through the red

air ; for t he doomed, who fed and inhabited the ilames, were fo: bidden the consolation of a voice Above, there sat fixed and black.

La solid and impenetrable cloud

Mgnnrozen into suubiance; ana from the midst there hung a bannt r of a pale and sickly flame, on which was written " For Ever." A river rushed rapidly beside him. lie stooped to slake the agony of I lis thiist the waves weie waves of fire ; and, as he started from the burning draught, he longed to shriek aloud, and could not. Then he cast his despairing eves above for met cy, and saw on the livid and motionless banner. " For Ever' Donald M'Donald a Scotchman who is said to be one hundred and five years of age was re cently sent to the House of Correction in joston as a common drunkard, lie had just finished a G months sojourn there. When

one bunred and seventy thousand, Philadelphia one hundred and fifty thousand, and Baltimore seventy thousand ; making in all four hundred and ninety thousand inhabitants in three cities. Pleasant result of the CensorsorshipTUe Paris Journal des Debates of the 30th June, has two blank columns under the head of variety. Whip up The Xewr York Daily Advertiser, in speaking of the mania of steamboat passengers to make the trip between that city and Al bany a ftxv minutes quicker than any others have done, thus exemplifies the passion which some men have to hurry. An old gentleman in New England, com eyed a just idea of the character of those who were fond of travelling at such a wondrous rate, when he s ud he believed a his son John, if he was riding on a streak of lightning wmid xzhip up " An In .-ih gentleman lately fought a duel with his intimate

fiend, because he jocosely asser-trd-thai he was born without a shir to his back' A beautiful eye makes silence eh quent ; a kind eye makes contradiction an a-sent ; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed : the eye speaks a language in which there can be no deceit, nor can a skillful observer be imposed upon by looks, even among courtiers or women Hapiim2Ss. If you wish to be happy for a day get well shaved ; if tor a week get invited to a wedding; if for a month, buy a good nag ; if for half a year, buy a handsome house; if for a year, many a handsome wife : it for two years,take Holy Orders; but if you would he always gay and cheerful, practice temperance

IilSi oi letter x einaiiiniir

who are gone. " The ho !y to ks ri.'.cr, Awd the soul to ho;t vn's ;;r;ic, And the rot i (ioti's alone." An appalling chill shoots through the cuircnt of life at the undisturbed and universal silence of the scene the stars tranquilly shining on the white marble, and fieely illuminating the name, which friendship had caived for the slumberer beneath ; here the grass w ave in rank luxuriance, as if to hide the triumphs and the trophies ofdeath, & there a human bone unearthed from its time worn sepulchre, a ghastly visitor to the realms of day; a wooden

toilet, marking the repose of the a man gets di unk at tl e age of 100,

numble; u cross the sign of ttu

believer, and lofty and magnificent

he must be inconigible.

xNew York has population of

in the

Pct Ofike at Washington, Da icss

county, la. the quarter endim; the 31st day ct Deccmbci, 13:7. which it not taken out within thr.e months, will be sent to the Gene: a) Poi Oincc a dead letter?. A IMi J Akesn;,::, F. F. Adkirfs, a ? J Peter AiUiiu-nv.an, J;,hn Allen, Peter Humis, Wm. Ivirti, J .s. Crnehaii, Wanvn Chinch, V. O.neihan. P n & H Ji Mr.n,Mret Goodwin, ThadiXHjici v,s (hvo.er, Hczckiah Ilol-h.-n. J. I,n Il mr.e, A Iklf, Vance Jones, W. J :ht son. S S. KeiMv I nihj Kerns. I 3 X'Ji ! Vm- i2say. James IjjliN v 'J A L-!i.say, James McCanieren, l):a!!y Norris, ;)a!y Osnion, Xehem::ih O.jden, Jan.es T. iujiicrtsGii, William 11. Htnt, Cieorii;e Ivomer ver.

7. n r

tmes Sinilv, R. Scott, 3,

J. Ii ShvrclifF. Kdw. Stn-nv

'-nhr;im Tlsnninvn, J. lin Thomas. l)aid

'l'honias, 2, J. C. Veal, David Warner, Ro1 II VI '.. 1 1

uert 15. w ailace.

January 1, 1C23.

S. RODDICK, p.m. 48-L40

J LIS r of letters remaining; in the 'A. lost OHiceat Vncennes, the quarter ending the 31st ot December, 182T, and which if not taken out within three months will be 3cnt to the General PostOfiice as dead letters. A R $ 1 V-AHic.n, Vasainte Amelin, JT fc XJ James Alice, I, lktde, C. Bealc, Henj. V. lJjckcs, J-C. lkckv ith, Misliellc Hroudlet, Kaac Uri?-, J(hn IJadollct, Mary Uiick, Uithard 15..,k-rf J. Harknian, Chas. Uurd, James I'.ryan, Wu.. Hi i:;ham, Jcren.iali Colman, Mrs. Cr.lnian, Jos. C irdir.alle, Ilvj. Call. (;. W. C:;U i;rove, W. Childress! AJlUi: Oil Durham. Michael Dil-

low, (Jtorge D a Cit e ru,e Fwing, Hugh A. Fmison, Daxid l'elpv, Win. H. Gibson, Mathew Ciilkeison, S. Goodride, Shadaick Hill, Sims Harris. ti. 0 I McXamee Judah, W JohnilfX ston, S. Jackson, J(,hn Johns, James Jarre!, S. Jndah, Mallcna Lassclle, II. l.assclle, 7, Jclm LeKov, Ama!le Lataurc, Waller Leonard, Mrs. Miers, Chas. Moes Abram Miller, Matilda McNamee, Lsaw McFall, Klis Mi-.itgt nu ry, Mrs. Motlit, John MeGiMin, 'l'lio:na Mi Giirm. VI V1S1 Rubin Nortin, Wm. Norris, 1 111. l Knock Org .,, T.:,s. Pal

mer. It. H. Foil ard, S. Ratltbor.e, J. Roderick.

T Jacob Small, Mr. Stn tht r. Jonathan

Slienlieard, 1). Shoxe, J.R.Simons.

J. Vankirk, Thos. & l'h.tbe Wilks. SA.Ml. HILL, p.m. January 1, 1827. 4S-L75 JCT"Fer0!S inquiring for the above letters, wi 1 plc&sc say they ate advertised, otherwise they may not rjet them.