Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 June 1830 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM.

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STANZAS, ify ffo cKMsr cf"Richlieu." I've sat and seen one bright wave chase Its fellow on the strand, Then fill away, nor leave a trace Upon the printless sand Though scarce the pebbles felt the shock, The waves have worn the solid rock i I've sat and heard the autumn wind Amid the branches play. So softly mild, so blandly' kind, It scarcely stirred the sprav Yet soon it bore spring's verdant birth, To wither on its native earth. I've sat and seen the cx-ening sun Sink from the golden sky, His long bright race cf glory run, And close his golden eye ; So slow he passed, scarce changed the light, And yet he left the world in night. And like yon sea in human life, Events, like billows, roll, Moment on moment, strife on strife, That change us, to the soul ; And joys, like autumn leaves fast fallHope sets and being's light is past. I've stood on earth's most daring height, And seen day's ruler rise. In his magnificence of light To triumph through the skies. And all the darkness of the world, Far from his shining presence hurled. All, too, that fades upon the earth, Too weak to linger here, I?e-blossoms with the second birth, To deck the coming year ; Shall hope, then, man's eternal dower ' Be frailer than a failing flower. Ah no! like autumn leaves that die, That bloom again in spring. Fresh joys shall rise from those gone by, And purer incense bring ; And when, like sun, hope sets in night, Shall she net beam from worlds more bright? From the New England Weekly Review. FROM ISSABELLE FLITS, Asking Consent. I told you. Dear Pa, in my last Oh, no, I believe I did not The thing which one sits down to write Is the very thing always forgot But now I ivill tell, and perhaps That I did not before is as well, For until we decided you know There was nothing especial to tell. And 'tis only a month or six weeks 'Twas the night which 1 wrote you about, When we walked by the silvery beachWas that walk from the letter left out? 0 then I have got .to go back You'll excuse me, I hope, for the slips Of my pen when a body's confused, The pen stammers just like the lips. Well, the party that went out with us Harl left us alone on the shore 1 wonder they were in such haste, 'Twas a trick never play'd us before And we stood on the bank and look'd down In silence, long long on the sea 1 mean that I did his dear eyes Were fixed all the while upon mc. Oh I thrilled with a feeling all new. For the beam of the look which he gave Sunk deep in my soul, as the glance Of the moon through the luminous wave : And he vow'd by the stars that have shone On the sky from the hour of their birth, By the s a that's so true to the earth. lie ador'd and he said 'twas all false, The story of Clarissa Lee I knew so before, though I'd wept llow mischievous people can be! Your money he said was to him As the dew to the fathomless tide I've heard his oxvn went like the dew, But the tattlers undoubtedly lied. For he spoke of his owning a Mill Connected with which is a Bank ; The one manufacturing Cash, The other for issuing Flank ; And he spoke of the "Buggv" he keep?. And his Farm where he frequently call, Some-where out in the state of New-lork On his route to Niagara Falls. I knew this would gratify you, And so I consented or rather I promised to wiite for consent ther? Which you zi'ont rtfuse, will you dear faThey d fill your head lull of their tales, But he swears they are false if his name (Whit a beautifal name f ;r a man,) Is Augustus Fi-jderick Graeme. The school is most out, and I'm sure I'm old enough now to" engage ; You'. I h.tte an old maid ; and he says Nxteen is the prettiest age. So you wont be vex' 1, will you ? now dont 1 w ish you could come to our when 3 ' I'll bring him hone hoon from the jaunt, And I know yua'n Le satisfied then. An' now , v.h'le I think, clearest Pa, J h.ise 'N't by thovtry first mail llV momently looking tor finds B it says they may po-sihi- fail Son -e five hundred doli irs ou must, I i.f ed it for trinkets and tbiug Aiid our letter to .vt. -'. (hum:? W;:ltin-.l mat Lebanon Springs. J'Tr.vithc jYevj York CcnstelUiim. WHO IS A GENTLEMAN? Tne answer to this question, among Anneri. ans, depends generally upon the condi-ion, feelings, and particular modes ct ihinking, of those who undertake to answer it : and, consequently, he who is very much of a gentleman in the estima

tion of one person, is no Rentlemin at all in the opinjon of another. A gentleman, in tho estimation of mine host, is one who calls freely for all the good things appertaining to the bar, the wine cellar and the table; pays his bills punctually, without disputing the items or the prices; and speaks in flattering terms of every thing about his landlord's premises, from the beds in the attic to Betty in the kitchen. With waiters and ostlers, a gentleman is one who is flush of his cash; who, after having paid their master as much as their services are worth, pays thtm four times their value into the bargain. "Massa Dash," says CutTe, "he be one real gemman ; he gib me half a dollar for brush his boots, three duarter dollar for hold his boss, and whole dollar for callin him a gemman. And he be first rate gemman no mistake." A gentleman, with Dolly, the chambermaid, is one who says a soft thing to

her, praises her good looks, compares her cheek to the damask rose, her lips to red cherries, her eyes to the planet Venus, and her waist to an hour .glass; and who, to prove the sincerity or his soft nothings, gives her occasionally a sly kiss, and a gentle squeeze of ihe hand. A dandy's estimate of a gentleman is based on a foundation peculiarly his own. lie is not a creature who has any thing to do with money, sense, feeling, flesh or blood. Ke is wholly a fictitious animal, made up by the tailor, the seemstrees, the cordwainer, the hatter, and the cor set manufacturer. He is, to be sure, a creature that walks, talks, and eats; but lie docs all these from no ordinary motive. He walks merely to show his gentlemanly figure ; he talks only because he never thinks ; and he eats for the same reason that his tailor uses padding, viz. to fill out his proportions. With a duellist, he is no gentleman, who refuses to fight a duel. He may enact as many villanous tricks as he pleases ; he may seduce the weak, betray the confiding, cheat the htmest, and murder the unresisting all these do not detract one whit from his gentleman ly pretensions. But if he refuses to stand up and be shot at, he is no gentle man. Having complied with this requisite, he is a gentleman every inch of him, treachery and murder to the contrary notwithstanding. With "good society" people, he only is a gentleman, whose ancestors were gen tlemen before him ; who can enumerate a long line of forefathers and foremothers ; or who according to the idea ot Franklin, left off their red woolen shirts and linsey woolsey peticoats, at least one generation sooner than their plebean neighbors. In short, in the opinion ol "good society," the term gentleman has no referrence to what a man himself is, but to what his ancestors have been. With the gay Miss, who never breathes freely except in the atmosphere of folly and show, a gentleman is one who exerts himself to promote her wishes; who gallants her to theatres, balls and sleighrides; who spends his money to advance her pleasures; who, in a word, is pretty much if not altogether, a tedy's man. But with the young lady's maiden aunt, a staid gentlewoman of forty, the gentleman is still a different personage. He is the essence of respectful attention ; and does not indicate by word, look, or action, that he suspects her of being ol der than she was once, or that he prefers the company of younger Misses. With old ladies of Revolutionary times, a gentleman is one, who wears a three cornered beaver; has his hair tied behind, and powdered all over ; and has shirts ruflled at the wrist. Who wears short small clothes, and a long waist coat with pocket flaps; who wears silver buckles that reach from side to side of his well saved shoes; who walks with a gold headed cane ; and who, in his manners, neglects no item of the ceremony of olden times. The pit a pat heart, or a susceptible girl of sixteen, tells her that a genileman is a tall fellow, with a fine military cap on his head ; a blue coat turned up with red facings, a sword by his side ; a neat pair ofwiskers; a measured step, and a "flow d ye do, my charming Miss ? ou are the loveliest creature I ever beheld upon my soul you are." Miss Phil lis too she hab her gemman, And he be a brack a man, trait as a lamp post, wid wite teeth, roily eye, shiny skin flatty foot, pumpy lip, broady lip, broady nose a nigger who wear a red coat be decolor what it will: who fiddle like Polio,' dance like Frenchman, make two tree bows a minute, and say, ''O loddy Missy Phillis, your unpalatable beautv hab set my heart on fire. O glue pot!" Among fox hunters, a gentleman is a fellow who can leap a five barred gate, jump a twenty foot ditch, thread the windings of a forest at full gallop, smell the track when the hounds are at fault, be the first at the death of Reynard, dip the brush in a bowl of punch, end drink the washings of a fox's tail. Wi h a country housewife, he is every bit of a gentleman, who praises her domestic accomplishments; extols her cookery, admires the neatness ot her house, and pats the heads of her children; w ho prefers molasses to sugar, in sweetening his coffee: eats sour bread without a wry face; despatches the worst articles on her table with the best relish ; rises at the crowing of the cock ; and washes his face at the pump, instead of disarranging her ever and bason, which are kept for show.

A sailor's gentleman is a lit of a tar. He is a man who can box the compass ; knot, splice, hand, reef and stec ; who can run aloft with the nimbleness of a cat, and keep his footing on a rope, as fearless as a spider on his web. Who recks little whetherhe sleeps in his hamniock,on the round top, or at the bottom of the ocean ; who fears neither storms, nor billows, nor hostile seas ; who cares not a grot lor money ; whose hand is ever open at the cry of distress; who loves his wile next to his ship; cannot abide a fellew who comes in at the cabin window : hates meanness; and despises a land lubber. In the opinion of some, no man is a gentleman but he who is rich; and his gt ntility is a counted in exact proportion to the number, quality, and value of his bouses, lands and stocks. In the estimation ot others, no man can be a gentleman who does not keep his carriage, live in splendor, and make a good deal of show. Bur it would be endless to enumerate the different opinions, which go to make up a gentleman. And we may as well conclude at once by taxing, that with us he is a GEN'l LEM AN, in large capitals, who subscribes tor I he Constelation, and pay s in advance. H'jTJ to fireserve the Comfilexion. Every in ividud, who will reflect lor a moment, n.usi fully assent to the followmg remark of the Journal of Health on ti t: best method of preserving unimpaired he freshness of the complexion; Our female ? caders," says that print, 'may rest assured that the only beautifiersof the skin fc.'e personal cleanliness 'egular exercise temper ance puj e air and a cheedui tfopti. It any one of these be neglected, the skin and complexion will invarvory suffer." In relation to the best fluid s an ordinary wr.sh for the face.it is rem, ked that ''there is nothing so well adapted a pure water, with the occasional audition of soap Tscy who. from a ridiculous idea that washing, frequently with water injures the skin, aubsiitutc distilled l.quor, Cologne water, or any other fluid, simple or compound, pursue a practice most el fcctually calculated to destroy i s suppleness, transparency and smoothness, snd to cover it with unseemly blotches." Frequent bathing is recommended; and

as proof of its efficacy, it is added, ihat those nations by w horn bathing is the most frequently resorted to, arc those disting uished, most generally, for elegance of form and freshness of complexion." Tt was the opinion of Dr. Rush that singing is to young ladies, who by the customs ot society are debavted from any other kinds of salubrious exercise, not only to be cultivated as an accomplishment, but as a means of presei ving health. He particularly insists that vo cal music should never be neglected in the education of a young lady ; and states hat besides its sa utary operation in en abling her to soothe the cares of domestic life, and quiet sorrow by the united assistance of the sound and sentiment ot a properly chosen song, it has a still more direct and important effect. "I lere introduce a fact," remaiks Dr. Rush, "which has been suggested to me by my profession, and that is, that the exercise of the organs of the bre3stby singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and oilier causes expose ihcm The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumptions, nor have 1 ever known but one instance of spitting blood among them. This, I believe, is in Dart occa sioned by the strength which their lungs acquire by exercising them frequently in vocal music, for this constitutes the essential branch of their education The music master has furnished me with an observation still more in favor of this opinion. He informed me he had known several persons who were strongly disposed to consumption who were restored to health by the exercise ot their lungs in singing." Cautions to mother. Avoid the use of tight bandages for your infants, especially round the body for fear of producing fits, obstructions in the bowels, or a slow decay. Avoid giving them Godfrey's Cordial, Daffy's Elixir, Dolby's Carminative, Bateman's Drops, or any other warm anodyne, for fear of producing fits, fever or palsy, a common consequence of quack medicines indiscreetly given. Avoid giving them any quack medi cine, for fear of bringing on decline or sudden death Journal of Health. From the AVcy York Evening Post. Should you think proper to publish the following remarks, the writer presumes they will prove a benefit to those rrcntloroon V. r n f r niitiiro r ( ft n A rr. J "A great nnmber of fire horsrs are destroyed in this country by those that have them placed under their care. It is a custom to wash horses with cold water, sometimes after hard diiving, in the hottest time of the year, by which practice I have known many of them take the lockjaw and die; others have been foundered by only washing their legs and feet; it stops all persperation and produces violent fevers. No gentleman in England will permit his horses to be washed; the horse i not a water animal; he wants the particular fostering hand of care, when placed in a domestic sute.

"Another bad practice prerails; the grain is thrown into the manger without sifting, and sand or gravel being heavier than the grain, it will settle down on the stomach of the horse. A few years past I brought a stone from a horse which was believed to have been formed by thus feeding. I placed the stone in Peale's Museum; it is as large as a goose's egg, and cased round like acocoanut shell. "I would suggest a better plan for building stables, than that in use at present. AH stables should be well ventilated, so as to admit a constant circulation of fresh air, without which horses are continually breathing on their lungs foul putred matter. No stall should be less than five feet wide, as the horse, like man, wants to stretch himself when lying down to rest; many horses have died in the tight, by being confined in narrow stalls, and being tied with a rope round their necks. All horses should have head stall halters, w ith a rein r n each side that should run up and down with blocks, in pulleys, cn each side of the stalls The mangers should draw in and out like a draw in a bereau, or desk; by being thus fixed as I have described, the horse will rise with ease, but on the old plan, the horse by struggling to rise, often gets his head under the manger, and is found dead in the morning. The hay racks should be placed in front ot the stalls, and not on the side. Any gentleman wanting further information on the subject, can find me at 147 Leonard street. Few men have had

the opportunity to observe the evils that have occurtd by the bad management of horses, and very few have doctored so many, as myself. I presume none of my fellow-ciiizens will doubt but I have acquired some knowledge of the struc ture and economy of the horse, after fifty years extensive practice. I have found many gentleman v. ho have objectted 10 have their horses removed from their own Mables dur ing their sickness I will, therefore, attend them as usual, and treat them as if my own property. Value cf Greatness. ?.Ir. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Knelier one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew," said Sir Godlrev, "you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men m the world "I don't know how great you may be." t-aid the Guineaman, "but I don 1 like your looks: I have often bought a man much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas, Valuable Evidence. During the las essrzes, in a case of assault, where a stone had been thrown by the defendant, the following evidence was drawn out of a Yorkshireman! "Did you see the de fendant throw the stone?" "I saw ; stone, and I2e sure the defendant throwed it." "Was it a large stone:" I should say it wur a largeish stone." "What was its size?" "I should say a sizeable stone." 'Cant't you answer definitely how big it was?" "I should say it was a stone cf some bigness." "Can t you compare it to some other ob ject?" Why, if I were to compare it, so as to give some notion of the stone, I should say it wur as large as a lump of chalk "Jusrih M Her. PROPOSALS BY BLACKWELL & HALL, VANDALIAj ILL For publishing by Subscription A New Periodical Work, under the title of the ILLINOIS MONTHLY "MAGAZINE TO BE EDITED BY JAMES HALL. npilh object of this work, will be to de1. velone the character and resources o Illinois to furnish accurate information upon subjects connected with its present state and future prospects to awaken and cherish a taste tor literature in our new country to advance the cause of education and to aid and advocate every plan for the moral improvement of cur population. Its pages will therefore be devoted to the publication of well written articles, original or selected, of the following description: Statistics of Illinois, Descriptions of Scenery, Local Peculiarities, and Characteristic Manners in the Western States, Essays on Rural Economy, Scientific Papers, Notices of the Fine and Useful Arts, Criticisms on new Books ft Pamphlets, Periodical Essays, after the manner of Johnson, Addis: n, and Goldsmith, IJiography, 'Pales, Literary Intelligence, Fugitive Poetry. CONDITIONS. The Illinois Monthly Magazine will he published at Vandalia, at the cernm'.-nce-mcnt of every month. Each number will contain 48 p?ges, octavo, neatly printed, and done up in pamphlet furrn. The price Nill be S3 per year, payable in r.dvance. The first number will be issued in August 1830, provided a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained. J-Persons to whom the subscript',, n papers arc sent, will please return them by I the til'St CiaV Ol JilllC OCX. The Editors of papers m this State, the Htfiublkan and lUur.ru St. Louis, and the Journal, Indianapolis, ami o:n, v 111cennes, Indiana, w ill please to give the above a few insertions, and the favor will, at any time, be reciprocated. Vandalia, Feb. 10, 1S30. POCKET ECOIL POUND. Tf'ipUNU on the road between Lawjjj rc'nceville arid Vincenr.es, in IllinoisV.O'Mhc 27th of this inst. a Pocket IJook. The owner can get it again by calling at tire Post Ofhce, Vincenncs, describing the book and contents, and paying for this advertiser! ent. ARCHIBALD FISHER. May 29, 1830.

PROPOSALS FCIl PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCSIPTIOIT, A GAZETTEER & MAP CF THE STATE OF INDIANA. o;o:o

HAVING purchased the crpy-right cf Mr. Scott's "Indiana Gazetteer," we propose to publish, as early as practicable. a Gazetteer cf the butc; which will be cn the usual plan cf works of this kind, and will emorace. amcrtr other things, a oescription of the Counties, Towns, Lakc. Rivers, Creeks, Roads, c.c. '1 he descrip tions cf Counties will show their situation, time of organization, extent, boundary, quality of soil, water privileges, amount c-f population, number nr.d character cf churches and schools, &c. The descriptions cf Tow ns will crribra'-e thtir location, the w hole number cf inhabitants, the number of professional men, artists, merchant. mcchar.tcs, the progress rt improvement. distances from the sc at cf government and from other important points, their latitude. lor.tntude, 2c. The descriptions cf Rivers and Ct ceks will be somewhat general, showing their source and confluence, iize, !cr p,th, the face cf the country through which they run, navigable advantages, ccc. It is deemed unnecessary to say much in relation to the importance and value cf the proposed .publication. Every person, who will refijet a moment on the ti'.ojvct, will be convinced cf its utility, and w ill sec the importance of patronizing it. Such works have been hlxrallv patronized in marv oi our sister states; and it is presumed that there is no state m the Union v hose htory, population, soil, and natural advantages are less understood than these cf Indiana. Besides be ing intercstingjand valuable to all classes of the people, such a work will add greatly to the character cf the state abroad, by developing, in some measure, the vast resources cftlic state, her repidly increasing population, and her natural advantages. Accompanying and attached to the dazettecr, will be a MAP of the state, on a small scale, but sufficiently large to cm.ta:-n every thing of importance which can be found in Maps of a largcs size. The M..p shall be executed with the greatest possile accuracy. Every exertion will be used to make the work accurate and interesting, being well aware that much cf its value will depend on the correctness with which the descriptions are given. It will be printed on good paper, with typographical neatness anil accuracy, and will contain about 00 pages ducdeciw o, with suostantial bindimr. The nricc to subscrib? will be One Dollar per cepv. payable on the delivery of the wrrh. Pwenty-hvc per cent, on the subsciiptk.il price will tie added to non-subscribers. DOUGLASS c MAGUIKE. Indianapolis, April 19, 1SJ0, (ly Editors of newspapers in this state arc requested to give the foregoing prospectus a few insertions, anil the favour will be reciprocated when an opportunity is presented. PROSPECTUS. OF THS NEW YORK AMULET, AD Ladies Literary and JUligicus Chronicle. 0:0:0 THE primary object cf this work will be, to check the rapid progress ot two alarming evils, so fatally prevalent in our country, viz: Intemperance and Infidelity wincn, like tne canker-worm, are stripping the green walks cf life of all flowers, and leaving the moral world a leaf.es e'esert. To elo this, the mere effectually v. c shall pourtray in the most vivid cdouis the deformity and deleterious cor sequences of these most deadlv evils, bv interoting moral tales shetches, fragments, e-ss.av s, and scriptural illustrations. We shall endeavour to cherish in the hearts cf our readers, the sublime and benevolent sentiments of the blessed gospel of Jesus Christ to exhibit the beauties and rewards of virtue in all their captivating loveliness to awaken the better feehngb cf human nature to cultivate the social a nil domestic affections to lead the mind three. .h the most delightful avenues, to the bowers of happiness and peace; to elevate and enlarge the conceptions to imbue the understanding with the most exalted iceas of iinn liable, attributes and perfections cf the (ireat Divinity thereby leading mankind to ' fear God and keep his commandments.' 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In each and in all, the great end arid aim will be, to cenvey moral and rtiigious r cntimcnts, f hrr ugh a pleasing medium, to the heart; r, in other words, to blend the "useful with the sweet," In order to furr.ih cur readers with the choicest articles fx ih of pcetiy and pr. to ei.courag0 get;iu a: d to t.slei talent generous pr em. urns v. id be awarder!, tn.;a time to u'.'.e, fur criminal articles furnished. 1 !,e entire se rvices of a distinguished iitera:y genth man, late from London, w ho has or some time past been a contributor to the English periodicals, are engaged for the New-Yo: k Amulet. With these claims fc r p-itront-.ge, the work will be submitted to the C nsideration of a candid and generous pubhe. Should we succeed i:i cur endeavors to blei.duscfuh.e s and instruct! n with amusement and delight, our object a ill be accoiiii liihed. CONDITIONS. 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