Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 29, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 August 1828 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM .Form Me Philadelfihia Album MAN. Strange province this wherein poor man is cast ! A Uttle empire in an empire Vast ; Bat stranger still that noble being man, Exciting wonders since the world began. Man, noble once, but, oh ! degraded now, Vroud in his fall, but erring scorns to bow ; His rudder passion, hope is his, though dark, And cursed lust his weather-beaton bark. Frail bark, indeed ! to brave life's stormy seas. Temptation wing'd on cv'ry venomed breeze ! And what is honor, fame ? a bubble vain Proud man is ever seeking to obtain. Does he obtain it yet! he sometimes may, But 'tis when death has blotted his fair day. Tell monster death ! thou ever must prevail, And life's frail bark be shatter'd in the gale ! Sec, see, that ancient being bending o'er The heaps of gilded dust lie has in store. And mark his features, mark his hoary head , Will not the dust soon be that miser's bed ! Behold that youth, by fashion Jed aside, To whom gay pleasure opes his portals wide ; Observe him well, tho' blooming now so sweet, His shiv'ring bark shall soon destruction meet. Thus moves our world; & thus poor feeble man Promotes the pre-conceived, pre ordain'd plan, Performs his part, and yieldeth up the ghost, " Degraded dies, a mortal but at most. ALP. The FELON'S SON. ( Concluded.) (i Satisfied with these reasons, and concluding from the style in which my father lived that he must be very

rich, I thought no nior ofa profession.

Some months passed away when

one morning rhy father entered my

apartment, and announced to me ah

1 ruptly that he was ruined. Shocked

and overwhelmed as I was, I had the presence of mind enough to attempt

to console him. 'The education you

have given mc cried I , will secure

us from want, and you have many

friends. Not one ! not one !' cried

he in agony.' Driven to despair hy my losses on 'Change. I had borrow

ed money where I could, and finding

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had recourse to forgery. My ennu

is on the eve of being discovered. I must fly instantly; but I will not leave thee, my poor ruined boy whol ly without resource. Take this, it is the halt of what remains to me.' He

offered me a pocket book. I rejected it with a look of horror. 'This aJone was wanting!' cried he in a voice of fury ; as he rushed from the room. I followed him I hogged hie pardon on my knees, but I was resolute in refusing the money. He tied. , and jnst when I began to congratu slatc myself that he was safe from pursuit. heard the overwhelming ti dings of his arrest and subsequent execution A burning fever seized me. I should have perished under it but for the charity of one of those who had sulTered the most by my unfortunate father. May Heaven's choi

ccst blessings light upon that worthy

her family, shunned society as much

as she could, and though always ev en tempered and at times cheerful, it

was easy to see that she was not happy.

Four years passed Leocade re

ceived many o fie rs of marriage, but

refused them all so peremptorily that her friends despaired seeing her mar

ried ; it grieved them, but they

would not constrain her inclinations In the beginning of the fourth year. Stendhall went on business to Paris, where he met by accident an old friend, whom lie had not seen for several years. After the first greetings mutual inquiries were made as to what had happened to each since they last met Stendhall had enjoyed an uninterrupted course of prosperity, while his friend had experienced many reverses of fortune. I was,' said he 4 at one time extremely rich ; severe losses reduced nie to competency, and I was deprived of that by the dishonesty of a friend whom I loved, and in whom I placed implicit confidence.' And now?' said Stendhall, in a tone of anxious inquiry. Why now, thanks be to Heaven, and to the honestest man I have ever known, I have recovered my hist loss.' How so ?' A son of the man who robbed me, came unexpectedly in possession ofa very considerable property, and the first use he made of it was to pay every shilling that his father owner.' What a worthy fellow !' ' Ah ! you would cay so, if you knew all. The father who was universally believed to be rich, had ta ken up money wherever he eotikl ; and the amount of what he owed, was within a few hundreds of the

! sum his son inherited. The vounn

man did not hesitate he. paid to the last farthing of his unworthy father's debts. As none of us had the smallest claim upon hini. we felt it r.iv ty to offer up a pari hut he. won id not hear of it.'

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5s absolutely beholden to him. This is the very feeling we would have all our subscribers experience that we are in debt to them for a year's paper not that they arc in debt to us Now think not, gentle readers you that have patiently followed us thus far that there is any hint in this not any. It is too plain for a z?i it is a downright appeal but whether to your pity or your pockets, we shall wait an answer by the return ot mail. Tralh Teller.

man ! Far from reproaching me, he

took paiti3 to console me. He even carried his charity so far as to recommend me to the merchant in w hose fmploj I was when you took me it) to your house. You will feel that after this avowal we can never meet again. Farewcl, forever, my friend my benefactor ! May happiness be the portion of you and yours ( GEO. ST. AUIN." The first impulse of Stendhal was to cause immediate search to be made for George- but all inquiries were vain he had quitted the town v none knew whether he had gone. Stendhall was at first truly grieved at his flight but when he began to reflect cooly on the circumstances of case he was not sorry that he did ; with all his affection for the voun" man. he shrunk from the idea of civing his daughter to the son of a con victed felon. He felt, however, deeply for the effect which the flight of George evidently produced upon Leocade ; and after a consultation with his wife, he determined to tell her the truth fche wept bitterly at hearing it ; but it was evident that her mind was relieved, for from that time, she ap peared more tianquil She devoted v herself more exclusiv ely than ever to

; till,

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ami vet poor le iovw it wan vjp. or i r i i

him too. to have on v a low aisici e( h ,.. . . , i- . . , ! known to her literary acquaintance elt. rViv, he has not even 1 .hat. ; , i i r , ,.. r -wnose virtuous and amiable dispoV hat iii) vnu mean r i i . ..m. 1

FROM THE DESK OF POOR ROBERT THE SCRIBE. " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of 1 east in if. " So. so from t he motto I see, saith the reader. Old Robert is getting quite serious. Just so. I assure you, pretty mi:s ; and you would have been serious too, had you been with old Robert the other evening. It was one of the coldest nights of the season The wind blew ith remorseless violence . aunt Eunice was

herself ill. anil begged I would step!

up and see how the poor wo mat: was. I entered the habitation. It was a poor one. The pale moon beams played on the floor thro' the chinks, and the wind whistled through the broken w indows. On the bed. pale and emaciated with a fever, lay the poor woman. In a cradle hy the side of the bed, wrapped in a single rug, slept an infant, and in the corner over a small fire sal a iitttie boy about five years old. There was no other being in the house. No friend to

soothe her distress ; no nurse to moi

st en her burning lips with a drop of water. Poverty has few allurements sickness none; and prudery and uneharitablcncss readily avail themselves of the Iraiities of the poor sufferer, to excuse their neglect. i stepped out to procure a loaf of bread far the children , I Wds not

loner gone, when on returninn; to the door, the noise of a footstep on the floor, told me somebody was within

I O if was a pleasing sight ! A young

iemale iriend, whose genius is un

e Whv he hap assigned the inferer.t of it as a pension to the mother ofa gensd'arm whom his father shot.' ' Tis he ! by Heaven it is St. Aubin ! it must he !' 4 It is indeed but how did you he come acquainted with him?' 4 Never mind that now, but tell me instantly where he. is.' 'He is oral least lie was two months since, a cltrkin a hanking house at Amsterdam.' Stendhall lost not a moment in proceeding thither and presented himself to the astonished George 001110.' cried he come my dear son make us all happ;,', by receiving the hand of Leocade. Ah never did the most splendid achievement of an ancestor confer upon his descendant greater lustre than your high minded probity will bestow upon yours V A downright Appeal not a Hint. We have seen a paragraph, taken

form a Southern paper, and which is

now travelling itself to death as fast as it can. stating that a gentleman lately deceased in Carolina, had never per mitted his subscription to the news paper to be behind, and that, as the same could be said of few men, is worth recording on his tomb stone. Verily, we sav amen to this. This man stands next to him who returned a borrowed umbrella ! What higher praise can there be. than have your printer say, u You always paid me." How clear, too, must be the man's conscience who reads a paper he knows he has paid for. With what enviable satisfaction does he unfold the damp sheet! He feels himself under no obligations, that the printer

sit ion, combined with a peculiar a

greeablcncss of manners, had prefer red to the gay scenes of mirth, or the charms of a novel, a lone, and unau sfcnfdtious visit to the house of poverty, and to the bed of sickness ! Like an angel of mercy, she was ad minis tering to (he comfort of the poor woman and her infant. S have seen the assemblies of the great. I have seen woman, glowing with beauty arrayed in the richest attraction ol dress, whose charms are heightened by the pride of pomp and circumstances, of "elegant ccfnvivi ality" A lovely woman in such a scene, irresistablv commands our ad miration. Dot alone at the bed of poverty and sickness she appears more than human I would not he impious, but she seems almost di vine. What has raised the lovely J above her companions? O virtue ! tho ii hast shed thy benign influ ence over her mind. Virtue! thou soothest our grief; thou pluckest from the wounded mind the rooted sorrow ; thou exaltest the soul in the greatest distress. c inspirest the heart with benevolence to our fellow creatures ! Would to heaven thy influence was more prevalent over the human heart. Gleaner. Col. Ethan Allen Wc have heard one anecdote of Allen, which we be lieve has not yet been in print. Mr. R. an attorney of Vermont, once received from some person in Boston a note of hand lor GO, against Allen for collection. It being inconvenient for him at that time to pay the note, it was sued. When the case came on for trial, Allen employed a lawyer to get the action continued

until he could raise the money, ta settle the demand, and accordingly the attorney, as the readiest mean3 of accomplishing his object, determined to deny the genuineness of the signature. This would oblige the plaintiff to produce the witness to the note ; who residing in Boston, could not easily be brought forward on the instant. The effect of the mancuvre would be to cause the plaintiff to postpone the trial till next court. When the case was called, it happened that Allen was in a remote part of the court house. And to his utter astonishment heard his lawyer gravely deny the signature of the note, "t Vi tli long and erect strides he rushed through the crowd, and confronted the amazed 44 limb cf the law," rebuking him in a voice of thunder.- Mr. , I did not hire you to come here and lie -that is a true note I signed it I'll swear it and I'll pay it I want no shuffling, I want time. What I employed you for was to get this business put over to the next court ; not to come here and lie and juggle about it." The result was, that the postponement of the claim was amicably arranged between the two lawyers. Maxims Some men entertain such high notions of honour, as to be continually engaged in disputes and fpiarrehi. When children arc little, they make their parents' heads ache v. hen they are grown up, they make their hearts ache A wise man will bend a little rather than be torn up by the roots. Wrhen asked to dinner, accept the invitation promptly, or give a good reason for declining it. I)o not make any hesitation, as if 3 on made your acceptance a matter of favour. If know ledge docs not make a man wise, it makes him vain Sr arrogant Ke who ha good health is voun 11 he who owes nothing is rich A good man is always at home, wherever he may be. The good wife does not say, will you have this ? but gives it to"you. Families that once quarrel, are seldom cordiallv reconciled. Go as early as you may to market; and as late as you can to battle When you mean to do a good action, do not deliberate about it. Never advise a man to go to war, or to marry. When you are about doing a dishonorable act, consider what the world will think of you, w hen it is completed. Never discuss religious questions with warmth: charity, moderation, & brotherly love, are the most prominent characteristics of true religion. Diversity of mankind. There are now 80000 000 of human beings on the earth : there have been more than a million times the number in the world, and as many more may vet

exist ; and there never have been, are not now, nor will there ever be. any two of that innumerable multitude exactly alike Vertical Urist Mill. T'y'iIIE subscriber having puichased the JL pattern nht for Knox county, and state ot Indiana, of the Vertical Grist Mill,

elves notice to the nconlc of u cnu,v.

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lie will he in Vinccnnes about the first nf

September, for the purpose of vending tho right to individuals any person wishing to purchase, can procure a ri ;ht for g 1 2 There is now one in operation in each of the counties of Dubois, Daviess and Perry, that grind from 30 to 35 bushels in the course of the day with two horse power. JAMES F. ALLEN. August 5, 1828 27-3r

GEO. v. PURLEYT HAS now on hand, and intends keeping for sale, an assortment of HATS

made of the Rest materials, in the Newest Fashion, and in the most wovkmantikc mannerHe w'iU sell low for Cash, Fur, and such other produce as may suit. 17-tf Vincennes, May, 1823.