Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 7, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 March 1830 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM.

ROBERT BURNS. There is much sweetness in the following description of this great Poet of nature. It is from the pen of hi gifted countryman, Allen Cunningham, who beheld him after his decease. He la in a chamber sick and lone, And meet for a poet's rest; And the flowers of Spring were lighty thrown On his cold and shrouded breast. The lines of his face mitfit still be scann'd, If the gazer would yield the care; They were dark and deep, for death's cold hind Had not swept destroying there. Silent and sad, not a sigh was heard O'er the form that in slumber lay; Unbroke was the gloom by a whisper'd word; All gazed and all passed away. His countrymen came, ten thousand strong. To weep o'er his narrow bed; And tears they gave to that Child of Song," Who had sued to them for bread, The earth was heap'd, the turf was strew'd, And far fled the mournful train; And the morrow came, and each rcnew'd His grovelling craft again.

A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. fBiackwoods's Magazine for Nov. conUius a narrative of so extraordinary a charac:r that although we have nothing but our ow-k dmbts to alledge its credibility, we know not uw to place an implicit reliance upon its statements. The story U told in a letter from Mr. Wn. Mitchell, a Scotch settler at the Cape of Good Hope, to the Ethicke Shepherd, and bl uing the date of Oct 1, 1826. It is tr lon to be inserted entire, and we Dhull tiierefors publish it in an abridged lorm, for the amusement of our readei b Mr. Mitchell had with him at the settle ment, a youthful wife, (whose marriage to him at Beattock,in Scotland, he recalls to the recollection of his friend) and one son, named William. At the time William was eleven months old, their settlement at Vander Creek was invaded at night by a tribe of those baboons called ourang outangs, pongos or wild men of the woods. In driving off the depredator55 a youngling belonging to the monsters were killed; and tvro mornings afterwards, an ourang-outang who had concealed himself, swam across the Keys river, and reached the woods in safety with the infant, notwithstanding instant pursuit. About three month afterwards Mr. MitchcPs wife was missing, and suspicion fell strongly on one of the native chiefs who had made an ofFer to D'lrchasc her, according to the African custom. Lieut M'Kenzie, with three companies of the 72d were sent to assist in indicting summary vengeance upon th supposed despoilcr, when a Katire servant of one of the setters stopped the expedition by informing Mr. Mitchell he had seen his wife carried across the river by a band oF pangos (ourang outangs) but he had until then kept it a secret, for fear of giving him distress, as they were too far gone for pursuit when he beheld them He said they had her bound, and were carrying her gently in their arms, but she was either dead or in a swoon, for sue wss not crying, and her long hair was hanging down. Two years passed away without any tidings of A;'es or her child. About the beginning of I 825, intelligence reached the settlement that two women who had been on the mountains of Noarowclt (in the interior of the country) gathering fruits, had seen a popgo aui w iite boy tog"er force was imme-div'-iy got in readiness, and after a week's jo i n y the party reached the seclu Jed distric 1 1 'j-iestioij. There they learnt from the n . i s ' Mat a whole colony ot pongos had :k:i I'fusf ssi n of their country, and the ?iief was it they would he masters of it J; f.i e Great Spirit had sent them a ii u fV .n the country beyond the sun, who a -'.t them do every thing like other it- ip e The expedition being strongly re-isii-ced In the natives, the body of langoa ra co nuletely surrounded t the word f ci v.mand, tne monsters fiVw to arms, or ni"g close circle round their camp and j . - . t strongest of the males being plac U.t'ic f tidies inwards, all armed alike, an 1 all having the same demure and melan jly laces. Sir Mitchell ascended a cii V ' Kt.tg tne encampment, in order to u ;t .i i his wife was really there, and Ca! - 'i na nc several times. In about five mir-'i.f-i the iole circle of b'utal warriors flun i nv?y heir ai cos and retired backwards,

leaving n open space for him to approach ticir .uecn, ivs .snts. she was standing rcadv . . ceive 'mn, with herlittle William in her x r u hand, jnd a chubby daughter in her If!-., -bout two year old. The two children looked healthy and beautiful, and wore fur aprons; thev were v. frightened that they took she' t with the i i friend the pangos. Mm. Mitrh :!l fil l her N.isbind that it be-

it with her protectors on d dter distributing all her . .bs und roots, equally a- : ; i speech accompanied with :nd contortions, made her v. that she was about to vr-it ivnrntaiions followed, j . t ' o l i the same time lavinr

' ei and her children's hands upon their heads.

hooved iitjnod ter r,v Store of U u: monrit th m.i violent nio.r ; :ubj rts m:i .'eae tliem. v nl the

Agnes tnd her children were, however, car- j

ned off in safety, although a large body of the tallest pongos followed tho steps of the party for three days; and on each day some were deputed to see that she was not being injured. But the wife's narrative is the most interesting part of the story. According to her statement, the creature's motive for stealing and detaining her, appear to have been as follows: These animals remain in distinct tribes, and are perfectly subordinate to a chief or ruler, and his secondary chiefs. For their expedition to rob the gardens, they had brought their sovereign's sole heir along with them as they never leave any any of the royal family behind them, for fear of a surprisal. It was this royal cub which was killed, and the queen, his mother, having been inconsolable for the loss of her darling, the old monarch had set out by night to try if possible to recover it, he seized on the boy in its place, carried him home in safety to his queen, and gave her him to nurse She positively did nurse him at her breast for three months, and never a child throve better than he did. By that time he was beginning to walk and aim at speech, by imitating every voice he heard, whether of beast or bird; and it had struck the monsters as a great loss, that they had no means of teaching their young sovereigns to speak, at which art he seemed no apt. This led to the schemes of stealing his own mother to be his instructor, which they effected in the most masterly style, binding and gagging her in her own house, and carrying her from a populous hamlet in the fair forenoon, without having been discovered Their exertions, and rapidity in their move

ments, described as inconceivable by those who had witnessed them. They shewed every sort of tenderness and kindness by the way of proffering her plenty of fruit and water, but she gave herself totally up to despair till she was introduced to her own little William gamboling away among his brutal compeers, for many of whom he had conceived a great affection. Agnes, immediately took her boy under her tuition, and was soon given to understand that her will was to be the sole law of the community; and all the while that they detained her, they never refused her in aught save to take her home again. Her little daughter was born six months and six days after her abduction. She spoke highly of the pongos, of their docility, generosity, warmth of affection to their mates and young ones, and of their irresistable strength She conceived them, however, to have been a tribe greatly superior to all others of the race, for she could never regard them in any light that as dumb human creatures. Mr. Mitchell confessed that the same sort of feeling while in their settlement, for many of the young females in particular, were much com Her than many negro savages which he had seen, and they laughed, smiled and cried very much like human creatures. They would make the most docile, powerful and affectionate of all slaves; but they come very soon to their growth, and are but short lived, in that way approximating to the rest of the brute creation. They live entirely on fruits, roots and vegetables, and taste no animal food wh -it ever. The writer concludes this interesting letter, by intimating his intention of emigrating to New South Wales, as soon as he can dispose of his stock at the settlement, as he has a feeling that no part of his family are safe on any part of the east of Africa.

In a paper entitled "Anecdotes of South African Baboons," from Mr. Pringle in the Juvenile Keepsake, for 1830, the circumstance cn which this narrative is founded, is evidently alluded to, but in a manner that divests it of the marvellous form given to it by the pen of Mr. Pringle, describing the habits of the large dog-headed baboon as being perfectly harmless and inoffensive, says, "there is indeed one story told at the Cape, and said to be quite authentic of a par ty ol these cynophelia carrying off an infant from a farm house in the vicinity of Cape Town, and only resigning it after having been hunted for a whole day, by a numerous party of men and dogs over the tremendous precipices of the Vynburgh mountains. The child, however, when recovered, was found perfectly uninjured, and perhaps this extra

ordinary abduction (the only instance I everl

heard of in the colony) may have been occasioned rather by the erratic affection ol some mother bereaved of her own offspring than by any more ferocious or mischievous propensities." Mr O'Connell. This gentleman in a late letter to the people of Ireland, announced that he would be in London on the 28th of Jauuaryand that he had established an office for the transaction of other Parlimenlary business, at No 25 Stephen street, Dublin. It is meant to be supported by subscription and by way of giving the experiment a fair trial, Mr. O'Connell will himself pay the expenccs of the first year. Mr. Dyer hag undertaken the management of the concern, and he, assisted by Mr. O'Conncl's son, is to furnish the public with a full report of the business relative to Ireland, transacted in Parliament, which has hitherto been neglected by the reporter. Mr. O'Connell expresses his hope that the subscribers will soon form

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and says that he looks on this body of subsc

bers as most likely to for to the baaitof that great notional society which he contemplatts in order to render the repeal of the Union peaceable and tranquil, as it is, he thinki inevitable. Drunken Husbands. We may canvass the world for victims of wo ; go down into the solitude of the dungeon, where the light o! heaven has never gladdened the eyes ot a prisoner, nor its pure air entered to relieve his labored breath ; accurately measure the suffering of those who bleed under the lash ol the task master, or groan under the iron bandage of oppression ; but where shall one be found, deserving more commiseration than the female who is doomed to waste an existence with a drunken husband ? What horror, to live through life with a monster, whose heart is filled with bitterness, whose lips with cursing ! with a wretch sunk below the brute cic-uion in his uncleanly habits and outrageous conduct ; possessing the obstrucness of an as without his instinct ; lost to every thing en nobling, beautiful and glorious; having vitality enough to signify existence, without the conciousness of accountability to God or man ! And yet, what numbers of helpless forlorn wives in almost every villag?, and town, and city; are pining under this accursed connection. A good Law An excellent Law. The Legislature of New Jersey has passed a law exempting soldiers and officers of the Revolutionary war over seventy years of age from imprisonment for debt. We hope our State will forthwith pass a similar law. Justice and liberality demand it. Every State should follow the example. Put to a shift for an answer. "Pray, Miss Sophia, what are you making?" said a Dr. , 10 a young lady who was at work upon a garment of a certain description. 4A Sofihia covering, Doctor,"was the reply.

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