Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 1, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 February 1830 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM

The following Stanzas were written several years since : Tim TWELVE MONTHS. JANUARY Lo! my fair the morning lazy I Peeps abroad from yonder hill ; PhrtNis rises -ead and hazy Frost has stopt the village mill. FEB'RY -All around looks sad and dreary ; Fast the flaky snow descends: And the snow birds seek for shelWhilst the fleecy flocks are penn'd MARCH -How fierce Boreas rocks the cottage,

ana me snowers in sieci uisuu And pains rheumatic now invade While merrily runs the village mill.

APUIL-

With pure delight our fancy roves O'er blooming fields and verdant proves The feitlier'd choir salutes the rising day And joins all nature in the genial lay.

M

AY-

JUNE-

-The sheets of May, the eye of morn Sees the fields in verdure glow ; And trees in blooming life advanced, Make the heart with rapture glow. The rural nymphs and swains now dancing Round the haycock blithe and gay In June's prolific land rejoicing, Forget the early flowers of May.

JULY

-Serene the sky, while gentle breezes Softly fan the verdant mead All hut iovous scenes now ceases.

Shrnherds sound the vernal reed. ; indiernation. Humanity, conscience, rcli

I t . r . .

an wouiu conspire lo atop a work ot

AtJCHJST Now Ceres crowns the barns with plenty, Joyful farmers view their store Be happy men. let this content ye, Nor dread the winter storms no more. SEP'BER -Now loud Boreas sweeps the ocean, From New Zealand's icy shore With lowering sky, and clouds in motion. Equinoctials fiercely rear. OCTOBER Now Pomona pours her treasure. Leaves autumnal strew the ground Plenty crowns the market measu re, While the mill runs briskly round. NOV'BER Now the giddy rhes of Comus Crown the hunter's dear delight Ah! the year is flitting from us. Bleak the day, and drear the night.

BE'BER-

Bring more weed, and set the glasses-Join, my friends, our Chrismas cheer : Come aloirr, and khs the lasses

"Christmas comes but once a

year."

DR UKKCIIEK, ON INTEMPERANCE.

f HE REMEDY OF IN TRM PERANOZ. BERaTON IV. (Sermon 4, concluded.) Hasakkuk, ii, 9 11, 15, 16.

Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness

to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that i

he may be delivered from the power otevil! Tliv)'! hast consulted, shame to thy house by cutting oiT many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone sh ill cry nut of the wall, and the beam out fi the timber shall answer it. . Wo unto him that givcth 1ns neighbor drink,

th it putted thv bottle to him, and makest him

i. i i " i .i

u.aaKen ;iso, mat uuni

Si i v tiioii also. and let thv f4- be uncoverd :

tlje cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned u-ito taee, and shameful spewing shall been thy Is this then the manner in which rational bf-nr should be wiliinc to sprnd their days

such malignity.

We are appalled, and shocked, at the account from the east, of widows burnt upon the funeral piles of their departed husbands But what if those devotees of superstition, the Brahmins, had discovered a mode of prolonging 'he lives of the victims lor years amid the flames, and by these protracted burnings were accustomedto torture lite away ? W e might almost roUe up a crusade to cross the deep, to stop by fofee such inhumanity, ifut alas 1 we should leave behind us, on our own shores, more wives in the fire, than vvc should find of widows thus sacrificed in all the east ; a fire too, which, besides tt.s action upon the body, tortures the soul by lost affections, and ruined hopes, and prospective wretchedness. It is high time to enter upon the business of collecting facts on this subject. The statistics of intemperance should be published ; for no man has comprehended as yet the height, and depth, and length, and breadth of this mighty evil. We execrate the cruelties of the slave trade ths husband torn from the bosom ot hia wife (he son from his father brothers and sisters tparated forever whole families in a moment ruined I But are there no similar enormities to be witnessed in the United States ? None indeed perpetrated by tbe bayonet but many, very many, perpetrated by intemperance. Every year thousands of families are robbed of fathers, brothers, husbands, friends. Every year widows and orphans are multiplied, and grey hairs are brought with sorrow to the gtavc no disease makes such inroads upon falilies, blasts so many hopes, destroys so many lives, and causes so many mourncis

I to go about the streets, because man gocth to

his long home. We have heard of the horrors of the middle passage the transportation of slaves the chains the darkness the stench the mortality and living madness of wo anct is dreadful. But bring together the victims of

inlpmiiprinrp mwl rmtrl thrm infr nni

liou miycst look on their i -er houae. and siehtsof wo nuite as annal-

Thou art hUed wUTi lhame tor glory: I .. "

'- j J Yes, in this nation there is a middle passage of slavery, and darkness, and chains, and disease, and death. But it is a middle passage, not from Attica to America, but from time to eternity, and not of slaves whom

which immortal beings should till up death will release Horn suttering, out ot those th. short period of their probation, and make ; whose sufferings at death do but just begin, up ihc account to be rendered to God of the Could all the sighs ot these captives be wait-drt-dsdone in the body in which benevolent ed on one breeze, it would be loud as thunbeings, desiring to emulate the goodness of dcr Could all their tears be assembled, th? gr at God, should be satisfied to employ : they would be like the sea. their powers? I The health ot a nation is a matter of vast It is admitted that the trade employs and' importance, and none may directly and avow-

sustain man? families, and that in many in-, cdly sport with it. The importation and dis-

siau P3 tne prom are appropuatcu io usefu! purposes. Uut this is no more than might have been said of the slae trade. Tne same families might be a3 well sustained in some other way, and the same profits might be earned and applied to useful purposes in some other calling. The earth is not so narrw, nor population so dentc, nor the Wseful avocations so overstocked, as that

suelia population roercliants trotild do more 7

business, and secure better profits than when they depend for any part of their gains upon the sale of ardent spirits. What merchant, looking out for a place where to establish himself in trade, would neglect the invitation of temperate, thrifty farmers and mechanics, and settle down in a village of riot and drunk enness made up of tipplers, widows, and beggared children of old houses, broken windows, and dilapidated fences

I push not this argument raproachfully, but for the purpose of awakening conscicnti ous investigation. We arc a tree people. No imperial ukase, or forest of bayonets, can make us moral and industrious, or turn us

back if wc go astray. Our own intelligence

and moral energy must reclaim us, or we shall perish in our sins

2. The amount of suffering and mortality

inseparable from the commerce in ardent

spirits, renders it an unlawful article of trad .

The wickedness is proverbial of those who

in ancient days caused their children to pass through the fire unto Moloch. But how ma

ny thousands of children are there in our land who endure daily privations and sufferings, which render life a burden, and would have made the momentory pang of infart sactific a blessing ? Theirs is a lingering, living death There never was a Moloch to whom were immolated yearly as many children as are immolated, or kept in a state of constant suffering in this land ot nominal Christianity.

We have no drums and gongs to drown their cries, neither do we make convocations, and bring them alt out lor one mighty burning The fies which consume them are slow fit es, and they blaze balefully in every part of our land ; throughout which ihe cries of .nj'iied children and orphans go up to heaven. Could all these woes, the product of intemperance, be brought out into one place, and the monster who inflicts the sufferings be seen personified, the nation would be furiou-. w ith

It Ts only in the form of ardent spirits in the

way of a lawful trade extended over the entire land, that fevers may be imported and disseminated that trees of death may be planted that extensive morasses may be opened, and a moral miasma spread over the nation and that an armed host may land, to levy upon us enormous taxations, to under mine our liberties, bind our hands, and put our feet in fetters. This dreadful work is

going on, and yet the nation sleeps. Say not

that all these evils result from the abuse of

ardent spirits; for as human nature is constituted, the abuse is as certain as any of the laws of nature. The commerce therefore, in ardent spirits, which produces no good, and produces a certain and an immense amount of evil, must be regarded as an unlawtut commerce, and ought, upon every principle of humanity, and patriotism, and conscience, and religion, to be abandoned and proscribed.

semination ol levers tor tiittiv lucre s sake,

would not be endured, and he who should import and plant the seed ot trees, winch, like the tabled Upas, poisoned the admosphere, and paved the earth around with bones, would meet with universal execration. The con struction of morasses and stagnant lakes, sening out poisonous exhalations, and depop. ulating the country around, would soon be

large poif ns ot time, and capital, and labor, i stopped by the interposition of law. And may be devoted to the purpose of sustaining ' should a torcign army land upon our shores, life merely, without reference to public utili- to levy such a tax upon us us intemperance

levies, and to threaten our liberties as intemperance threatens them, and to inflict such enormous sufferings as intemperance infiics.

The m rchant who deals in ardent spirits is I imsH loser; lor a icmpera'c popula-

,nn c "msume mot e, and jv.n better, and live1 om ttalpowct could resist the swelling tide 'ngr, than the intemperate ; and a mong of indignation that would overwhelm it.

iiehrt county, Ky. Dec. 6,1825. Messrs. Ation fcr Lodge You will probably conler a4avor 10 the needy, by giving the following lines f- w insertions in your papei The widow of John D Green, who resid ed in her husband's life time in the town of Bedford. Ky. will by letting her place of resi dence b - known to the editors o!heIndi ana Republican,' receive omc profitable information to her and her unfortunate children 77" Editors thioughout this and the adjoining states, will subserve the cause ot humanity by giving thia place in their paper.

MACHINE CARDS ANT) WOOL CAKDINC MACHINES. c$ko (So IBIBCDW No. 37, main sthertcincinnati. Keeps couxdivily ov hand, an assortment of MACHINE CARDS. Of almost every description, either tor Cotton or Wool Carding, warranted of the best quality. ALSO. WOOL CARDING MACHINE, Built on the most appprbved plans, and of the best workmanship Likewise, a variety ot other articles required in the Carding and Cloth Dressing Business, viz: Machine Castings ; Fuller's Piess Soew ; Press Pla'es ; Fuller's Stoves, with Plates; Dye Kettles; Jack i ards ; Comb Plates; Cleaning Combs ; CardPlyers; he. Aiso A general assortment of UYE STUFFS All of which are offered at reduced prices. All orders for any of the above articles, will be promptly attended to, and the goods forwarded, when required, to any place situated on the Ohio, or other navigable rivers. Cincinnati Jan. 1830. 50-8 w.

rt t

fi KTrTTnir r

THE subscriber has now in complete operation, in PmscEToSy Gibson county, Indiana, a FULLING MILL. and will attend to all orders in that line of business, punctually. Persons residing in Knox county, who wish cloth Fulled, will please leave the same at the Stage Office in Vincennes, as arrangements have been made with the proprietors, to bring and return the same free ot cost A similar arrangement has been made for the convenience of the citizens of Vandeburoh h. Poset counties. He pledges himself to dress, and colour if required, in a complete and workman like manner, all cloth forwarded to him. JAMES EVANS. March 18, 1829. 6-tf

TO RENT.

A FERRY opposite tne Columbian Steam u MilhVincennes, with a house and twenty acres of Land fit for cultivation. For particulars, inquire of SOLOMON SHULER. Vincennes. Jan. 16, 1830 49-6t. MITII & TRACY'S Tin & Sheet Iron Manufactory. ON the corner of Market and Second streets, have on hand for sale, a large and general assortment of Tin and Sheet Iron ware, which they offer at reduced ptices. Tinware will be sold wholesale and retail upon advantageous terms to purchasers. Vincennes, October, 24, 1829. 37-tf :f) NOTICE. 'HHEttEvill be sold on Friday the 19th ii of February at public vendue at the house of olomon Washbourn, Knox county, Indiana, the property of Howard Putnam, Jr. deceased, viz: One horse, and one cow and call, one rifle gun, and a quantity of stock, ucb as tiogs &c. and household and kitchen furniture, and other articles too tedious to mention. SOLOMON WASHBOURN, ddminiatrator of HOWARD PUTMAN,dec. January 21, 1330. 5l-3t

Notice is hereby giveu, THAT six weeks alter date application will be made to the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, in the State of Indiana, for a certificate of forfeited Land Stock, for the amount paid on the south-east quarter

or section number thirteen, in township num

ber five south, of range number three, easr, r now in the Jeffcrsonville District, entered on

the sixteenth dnv nf Dprpmfipr. lftflR nnrt

forfeited for ron-payment, agreeably to law; now claimed by me, under the Act of Congress of 22d May, 1828, entitled "An Act for the relief of purchasers of Public Lands that have reverter for non-payment ot the purchase money;" the original certificate of the purchase of which has. been lost or destroyed. Given under my hand this sevcnrti day of January, 1850. JOHN PERKHISER. Vincennes, Jan. 9, 1830. 48-6t.

Exetutioners

Land for Sale. klJflLL ue so,d on the 10ln day of March V V next, to the highest bidder, the Landd belonging to the heirs of James Patton, deceased, on the premises near Owensvilic, on the following terms: One fourth of the purchase money in hand, the balance in three equal annual payments the purchaser giving bond with approved security, an h-dispu

table title will be made. Any person w ishingr

io view tne premises, win piease can on it; j B Richards, Esq. of Owensville -V

JAMES H. BELL, ) R P. fi AY. C

janiiary 1, 1830. 52-3t. W AN IEI), A JOURNEYMAN Tanner, to whom liberal wages and steady employment will be given, provided he be an industrious j and steady man. JOHN MURPHY. January 9, 1830. 48-tf. PROSPECTUS or THE JOURNAL OF HEALTH. CONDUCTED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS. Health The poor man's riches the rich mana bliss. XT OK the information of their medical brctheu. . whose asistance they invoke, and of the public at large, for whom the work is mainly intended, the conductors of the Jouknal of Health ' deem it preper to state with brevity, the aim and scope of their efforts. Deeply impressed with a belief, that mankind might be saved a lange amount of MuTering and

disease, by a suitable knowledge of the natural laws to winch the human frame is subjected, they propose laying down plain precepts, in ease style and familiar language, for th? regulation of all the physical agents necessary to health, and ta point out under what circumstances of excess or misapplication they become injui ious and fatal. The properties of the air, in its several states of heat, dryness, moisture and electricity, the reative effects of the different articles of solid and liquid aliments ; the manner in which the locomotive organs, senses, and brain, are most beneficially exercised, and how, and under what circumstances, moi bidly impressed; clothing, for protection against atmospherical vicissitudes, and a cause of disease, when under the direction of absurd fashions bathing and frictions, and tho use of mineral waters, shall be prominent topics' for enquiry and investigation in this Journal. The modifying influence of climate and localities, legislation, national and corporate, on health a branch of study usually designated by the term Medical Police will furnish subjects fraught w ith instruction, not less than amusing and curious research. The value of dietetic rules shall be continually enforced, and the blessings of temperance dwelt on, with emphasis proportioned to their high importance and deplorable neglect. Physical Education so momentous a question for the lives of children, and happiness of their parents shall be discussed in a spirit of impartiality, and with the aid of all the data which have been furnish by enlightened experience. The Journal of Health will on all occasions be found in opposition to empiricism ; whether it by in the form of nursery gossip, mendacious ret ports of nostrum makes and venders, or recommendations of even scientifically compounded prescriptions, without the special direction of a physician the only competent judge, in the individual case cf dicease under his care. The prevention of diseases incidentally arising from the practice ct the different professions, arts and trades, will be laid down with clearness and precision ; nor shall the situation of those engaged in navul and military life be overlooked in this branch of the subject. Diverscd of professional language and detail?, and varied in its contents, the Journal of Health will, it is hoped, engage the attention of the female reader, whose amusement and instruction shall constantly be kept in view during the prosecution of the work. TERMS: The Journal of Health will appear in numbers of 16 pages each, octavo, on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Price, per annum, 1 dollar 25 cts. Subscriptions and communications (post paid) will be received by Judah Dob son, agent No. 108, Chcsnut street, Philadelphia. Subscribers at a distance will discover, that the difficulty in remitting the amount of a single subscription will be obviated by any four of them sending on five dollars to the agent. Those to whom this may not be convenient, can receive sixteen numbers of the work by remitting a dollar to the same person. The Journal of health, including Index, wiU from at the end of the year a volumnc of 103 pages, ivo. Philadelphia, September 9, 1329.