Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 September 1828 — Page 4

POKTIOAL ASYLUM 'ttm FROM THE BOSTOJC RECORD. r BAPTISM. She stood up in the meekness of a heart Resting on God, and held her fair young child Upon her bosom, with 'ts gentle eyes Folded in sleep, as if its soul were gone To whisper the baptitmal vow in Heaven. The prayer went up devoutly, and the lips Of the good man glow'd fervently with faith That it would be, even as he had prav'd ; And the sweet child be gather'd to the fold Of Jesus. As the holy words went out, iler lips mov'd silently, and tears, fast tears, Stole from beneath her lashes ; and upon The forehead of her beautiful child, lay soft With the baptismal water. Then I thought That to the eye of God that mother's tears Would be a deeper covenant, which sin And the temptation of the world, and death, Would leave unbroken, and that she would know In the clear light of Heaven, how verv strong

The prayer which prcss'd them from her heart

had been In leading its young spirit up to God. From the Western Monthly Review

REVIEW OF THE OUTSIDE OF A

book Extracts from the scrap book of Mr Sly. I have just received from an attentive correspondent, a number of those splendid & literary trifles which at e among the fu st fruits of the New-Year If all was gold that glistens Jt would indeed be a golden harvest. Such a prufusion of gilding was never seen since the days when beaux wore laced waiseoats, and the lustre of female beauty was rivalled by the dazzling splendor of a spangled skirt. I gazed at the elegant toys with the wistful eye of a miser, but dared not touch them, for fear of doing mischief. An

old poet says that gold handling,! sticks to the fingers like meal.' and it j

Would be a sad mishap it my rude hand should subtract of the precious particles which adorn these volumes. When a novel matter is pr esented to my mind. I am apt to become argumentative on the subject I turn it over, examine the pro and con. dis

pute the debatable points with mvecif. j

and although I have no other listen er, I probably derive as much pleas ure from my own logic, as could be possibly felt by another auditor. ' What is a book made for? ' I enquired To communicate useful know!

edge, or innocent amusement. Very well now pray, what ha-

all this gingerbread work to do with

either of these objects ?

w With the first very little I grant H)Ut with the latter a vast deal It is an innocent amusement to look at that, which is beautiful The siht of a pretty girl, for instance, carries me back to the davs of mv vouth.

fills my fancy with delight, and my heart with virtuous sentiments. I k love to gaze at the dear little souls, as they trip by me : and this I hold to be ao innocent pleasure. Now the same rule, by which a beautiful exterior renders woman the loveliest and brightest ornament of human existence, may apply, though in a less degree to inanimate objects. A plain woman, of good sense is, like an old

ianuly mole, a respectable piece ot

furniture in any gentleman's hunse : but a handsome one. particuk:; ! v if her embellishments be fine, is the

most splendid object, that can he presented to the human eye. Sol omon. who was not only wise, but a

greatest ladie's man of-his day ; and assembled more pretty women at his parties, than any other gentleman Those, who are not Solomons in wealth or wisdom must select cheap er and similar toys; and there can be no fitter substitute for a fine wornv an. than a fine book. v Women and books then are to be esti 'nated by the iplendor of their binding ; a female, like a Souvenir. must be valued by her decorations. and described as being elegant lv bound, gilt, and lettered. No, n.it lettered a lady mav be .... . .

accomplished, witty, sensible but

not learned, literary, learned, nor

blue stockinga lettered lady is to all cabinet is a council of state ministers

intents and purposes a blue stocking

Then you must drop the compar

ison.

I do with a full conviction that it

is a wicked and worthless simile A

book is, alter all, a cold and cheerless companion, that, like a parrot, has

its lesson, tells Us talc, and is silent; while a woman is always eloquent

appealing continually to the heart. the

judgement, and the fancy, captivating

by her benevolence and her virtue, her beauty &, her tenderness sooth ing the bitterness of affliction by her kindness, and brihteninur the hour of pleasure with her smile. A bright eye is more potent, than a thousand volumes The love of knowledge has tiansformed men into hermits, but the love of woman has madethem poets and heroes. No man ever iouirht for a book the most ponder-

ous folio could not have awakened the tenderness of Petrarch libraries could not have elevated the imagina tion of 3Iilton into that sublime, and tender, and descriptive beauty of thought and language, which he poured forth in honor of the first woman. The intercourse of love is the sweet est communion of the soul, and an acquaintance with the female beast is the highest knowledge, because it is the knowledge of good and devil But I am wandeting from this little volume, continued I, taking it up cautiously between my thub and linger and yet it is so fine. I hear to

open it ell. I am not the best critic.who lias reviewed a book. with out ever seeing the inside of it bul I have this aoolosjw that I intend to

who regulate the affairs of the nati on. In this sense, a lady's cabinet would be composed of her maid, her milincr, and her single aunts, who would be called in to advise, touching the disposition of a ringlet, or the merits of a dress. !Now these are matters, which like the secrets of a certain fraternity are never commit

ted to paper, but are discussed by certain words, signs. Sc grips, known

to the initiated To call a book therefore. 4k A Lady's Cabinet;" is as malapropos, as it Would be. to call i he piesident of the United States a cabinet maker The term, however is a very general one. and has other applications. Anliquaiirs have their cabinets o? old. rare. & curious mat ters Kow these are precisely the sor t of thiol's which a lady does not keep, or keeps at a distance. They

have no f'reat love for aniimniy. and neither a lover, a novel, or a dre.-s. is the more esteemed, for heinui old, odd. or outlandish ard as for cuiiosity. if a lady was to put her cm iosity in a hox.it would burt the lock. Theie is still another kind of cabinet. An auctioneer at Washington city, some

time since, advcitised ' three cabinet

best husbands and wives arc those

who bear occasionally from each other sallies of ill humor with patient' mildness. Be obliging, without putting great value on your favours. Hope not for a full return of tenderness. INIen are tyrants, who would free themsevics and have us eofincd. You need not be at the pains to inquire whether their right be well founded : it is enough if they are

established. Tray God to keep you from jealousy. The affections of a hiirband are never to be regained by complaints, reproaches, or sullen behavior. Fashion. The piesent style of shirt cottars requires them to be about

three inches broad above the cravat, and stiff, and sharp as a butcher knife. Aiough wag of a fellow from the blue lidge lately met a dandy with his head ensconced within one of these collars, in the streets of Baltimoie; and struck with his strange appearaneejie accosted him- ''Gcup-e. me. my h-ro. if I don't believe you have got your shirt on xvrongcnd upxvards"

The Inquisition in 1820 The

review the outside only. Without las an honest critic, to eoixh-mn th

ij i-r ' i tollowinii' acts show that the ironic (cretanvs U r sale : and as there . ,. n . " 1111 ",( l,IS

r . r . , itors ol our uavs uo not fall hMmv are four threat luuclionaues at th:it , . , , 1 "uuw 4 . . .; : . i the standard oi those who followed metropolis, woo are entitled to this . r . . , uumwca ,).-l!ation. I asai a hss to know. ,,u" fana,K" 1 'lnada - was which of thorn was lo lu- kmxkrd Pre?e"t U !'e". t,!C Iqsilion was down!., the i,! hkki.-r. until I 11 "F"; 'n 1S20, by order ofthc learned, that, the -( l,:k-,nun of ihe ' Coucs of Madrid. . Twenty one hamnw wa. m!v authorial to dis !f5r,,sone!"s w mml in it. not one of r r i' i ;wnom knew the name of the eh v in pose ot a n w pii tabic wntmn" uesks. ! . . mtoi) in fin ,-.! - . i-wtneh ue was. o me h?d hrrn enn l his title is too vaue. -it mi. ut.u ulliicoiiy -r . , r , - , . . 1II:'C(I Unce yw. some for a longer

ne ti:ii:c, i leei 11 nix uin 1

further pi eface. I siiail proceed to give the best account. 1 can, of the Ladies' .Literary Cabinet, Packet Alnianac '

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outside of this hook, and most ;;f feet innately advi-e my female read ers, not to pocket such an affront upon thfr hrhif; :tt HffhM-;tntHitio-c

biers me what The may ridicule it, if they p!cac ; do not we;;;-'i''lJr 'v 1 M' l!: down as naught.

noc !cet

will.

po.

ted

pftcicets iio'v. aiai w) w car. ;

erly he teniied i i

u mcn never possibility b

w nen owv wort u ?;andmot hei s w which were suspe? of panic, s of sui

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and shall proceed with due caution.

i

rv an vi 1 k u 1 ' t "iK ,u v;-winnii

line uVrOH there in any thing within, to com

odiruiv excellent pusate for the foppery of the outside . i

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niTMOs OF MATRIMONY

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liuhvs of tmincnt liferar? attainn;eius on fhesulijrct o matrimony : 31rs V. MntiLvue in her letter. .2vs, ,k I can define matrimonial hap-

'lent c-ipac:v

contain their :evs tecir :;miisn.o-. ami

other emblems ot I'ousew ifery, with perhaps a miniature, bible. a version of Sternhold and Hopkins, and. p-eiad venture, an almanac. A good iadv of those times never returned from' a

sweet rslce for the children", stoned i'10' ia'.liery.-th.attoo bitter; nor is awavinthe ssnv-eonveninnt r, ntn ! U th.e sSuiltlecoek ol reply-for that's

: .1 iltoo tart

i

iir.ess only like wit. by neo

a is not kis-mo that s too

if

aiives

sweet

'tis not scolding that's too sour ; "u-

i period; not one of them knew per

fectly me nature ot the crime of

which he was accused. One of these pnsoners had been condemned, and was to have suffered on the following day. Ili-punishmeiitu as tobe death by the pendulum. The method of thus destroying the victim, is as follows The condemned is fastened in a groove upon a table, on bis back ; suspended above him is a pendulum' the edge ol which is sharp, and so constructed as to become longer with every movement. The wretch sees this implement of destruction swinging to and fro above him, and every moment the keen edge approaching nearer and nearer; at length it cuts the skin of his nose, and gradually cuts on till life is extinct. It may be doubted if the holy office in its mercy ever invented a more humane and rapid method ofexteiminafingberesy, or insuring confiscation. T?iis let it

he remembered, was a punishment of

her love letters, and three or four volumes of Clarisa ilarlowe, or Sir Charles Grandison, in the like man oer. Eut no belle of that day or tjm no buck, not even the most darinsr dandy, that ever set propriety at dciP ance. would have ventured to carry an almanac. The thing is quite un-

j genteel altogether heathenish, audi

out of the question. A gentleman may pocket an affront, or a tooth pick, but not an almanac : and to a lady, who wears not this barbarous appendage of ancient damsels, the thing is morally impossible I am seriously alarmed at the carelessness displayed by our editors, and autlwrs, in giving names to their literary V spring Had it been my lot to perform, that responsible office, in relation to this little book. I should have entered upon it with a solicitude commensurate with its importance. Nothing is o important as a good namethe world is governed by names, and yet no where is more bad taste shown than in the title of books. The Ladies Pocket Almanac!' Shocking barbarity I only to think of a young lady having to carry an Almanac and. worse than all, to carry it in

a pocket.

The Ladies' Cabinet," is not

v.

it

much better. Among politicians a

Administrator's Sale. lJTlLh.ke rjflcretl at public sale, cn Tucs t V day, the sixfrcnih day cf Xtfitember r.', at the late residence of i he Ktv Samuel T. Scott, deed, all the nci serial oroncriv

neiongins to ti c estate of said deceased i eims will be made known on the day of sale sale to commerce at 10 o'-lock am MARGARET W SCOT T, icw.rx. A D. SCOTT, Mmttr. August 23, 1823. 30-3t

how to season it exactly to my tastH " " 1 UIl4lu A- u' lbLU!

bnt I will neither have it tart, rot mawkishly sweet. I should not like to live entirely either upon methe iit n or verjuice " Aoain she savs I fancy in ma tnmony one finds vaniiy in one, in the charming vicissitudes of S'-ir.ctiTiies my plaj;-''.e, sonu'tinu s my darlKisinlJ to-d;'.y, to inoiTow y!:;!; ;!,;,'." ' 1" i sr .

'Could that kind of love,'' says ?.Irs Tharle, "be kept alive through the manage state which makes the charm of a simple one, the sovereign iood would be no oncer sought for ; in the union of two faithful lovers it would he found; but reason s-howsus that this :s impossible, and experience informs us it never was so : we must preserve it as long, and supply it as hapily. as we can. 4IIope not," says the celebrated Madame de Maintenon to the princess of Savoy on the eve of her mar riage with the Duke of Burgundy, ' for perfect happiness ; there is no such thing on earth, though if there were, it would not be found at Court Greatness is exposed to aftlictions often more than those of a lower sta tion Be neither vexed nor ashamed to depend onyour husband Let him

Jbe your dearest friend, your only

comment, nope noc tor constant harmony in the marriage state. The

Administrator's bale WJ ILL be sold at public sale, at my own V V house, on Saturday, the 20A Sefi teinbcr next, all the ptisonal pjoperty ct the

!-,.. lv, r'n: -l i . r

ait v,iium Junius, uectastn, consisting ot

a consiuerauic quantity ot CGr OA in tho seed, and Household furniture Terms of -ale made known cn the day of sale due attendance will be ftiven by, GEORGE SHANER, Adm. August 26, iB28 503t

reu Dollars Reward, And all reasonable charges paid. gTRAYED or stolen from tt e subsciiber liing in Harrison township, Vigo county, Indiana, on tht Sth of July last, two horsesone dark BAY M.tRE, 7 years old, a, bout 15 hand-high, blind in the lei t eye, a black mane ai d tail, she travels very wr'c, nd is ery heavy made. One a bright 6 0?PEL HORSE, 4 years old, about 15 hands Mgh, a bald face, three white legs, his hind legs white up to the gambrcl joint, one of his lore legs is white up to the knee, he is mixed with white hairs around his body, and he ha3 a light mane and ail. RICHARD VVELPTOM. August 15, 1828. j S0-3t