Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 24, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 July 1830 — Page 4

POETICAL ASyXUIVZ.

SILENT WORSHIP. BY J.G. WHITTIEP. The morning was summer one; the boughs Of the green trees were lifted in the wind. The soft south wind, that wandered over earth. Touching thelong grass 5c the quiet streams With a light wing, as fearful to disturb Th. sanctity of worship. One by one. The multitude had gathered, in the deep And howling sense of man's unworthiness. Slowly and o vietly they came the young. And the gray man; the modest glancing girl, And the gravity of riper years, seats. Like noiseless' shadows, stealing to their As the last footsteps passed away, the breeze With its light tones, was audible alone; Stirring the willows which o'erhung the And whispered to the grave stones, dead, Motionless That congregation worshipped. Sdence lay Like a strange presence, on the very heart, Which gathered nothing from the outward world makes Of sight, or sound, or any thing which Man's sacrifice a mockery, had turned Deeply upon itself. The human heart Hath a most complex fashioning. The tics Which bind to the circumstance of earth, And its strange yearning for a happiness Drawn from material mockeries, are strong As the soul's master passion. It would g-iin Its elements of happiness and love From natural creations, and contrive To blend the heartless vanities of man With the pure fountain of religious truth. Human pride And vanity, are things to be cast off Like an unseemly garment, from the heirt That boweth unto God, and giveth up Its stubborn will and earthward tendencies, For the mild teachings and deep solaces Of the all-quickening p;nt; and the light Which cometh unto alla living beamArt emanation from the Eternal Mind, Hath a more blessed influence en the heart That turneth from the world, and gathers, in Its wandering affections, and subdues Its vehemence of passion, and in meek .And chastened reverence, awsits the time VOf him, who bids the worshpper be still t jind knoi'j that he is God. ANACREONTIC From the Dublin Freeman's Jonrnz!, !btep by step young Love appears, Rosy urchin ! sidy stealing ."Through the heart, in early years. Searching out each tender feeling 1 3n the careless, youthful heart, Where the fire cf passion centers, .Arm'd with sweetly poison'd dart. Imperceptibly he enters. Sometimes from behind a flower, (While the pretty maiden blushes) In a soft, unguarded hour, To her inmost soul he rushes Or it may he, when she sings Some delicious thrilling measure, Note by note, his way he wings Through a labyrinth cf pleasureSometimes in a stolen kiss, (How I love a kiss in private !) Cupid gains the seat of bliss, Which lie wishes to arrive at in a tender glance, or word, In an oath past all believing Nothing can be too absurd For a traitor so deceiving. Waking, sleeping he is found (Ah poor maidens ! sad condition,) Always fluttering around, On the watch to gain admission. AN ESTIMATE OF TIME. Time ita?, is past, thou cans't not it reca! i Time i.?,thou hast, employ the portion small, Time future, is not, and may never be. Time, fircsnit, is the only time for thee. CAN L vs RAILROAD. The following humorous arguments "Xi'i advanced by a canal stockholder, for iht purpose ot putting down railways; lie saw what would be the effect ot it; Y ,( it vo.; d set the whole world a gad vr. Fv- n y miles an hour, sir. Wl v u will not be able to keep an apprcn .. boy at his work ! Every Saturday e Mng he must have a trip to Ohio to pe .' a Sunday with his sweetheart. Grve -adding citiLens will be flying about li' comets Ail local attachmen s wi: be at an end It will encourage f.ieh'.iiiess of intellect Veracious people will turn into the most immesur : able liars I all conceptions will be exag gcratcd by the niagnificient notions of distance Only a hundted miles off! Tut, nonsense, I'll step across, madam and bring your fan ! 'Pray sir will you dine with me to day, at my little bos on She Alleghany ? Wry indeed I don't know I shall be c, but you must let me off in time for the tneatie. And then, sir. there will be bane's of po-k. cargoes of flour, chal drons of cu . .ti.d even lead and whiskey, an I such like sober things that have alvr s been -l-tvl t0 sovv traveling whisking sway lih- sl:v rocket. It will upet all th? ; a-iiy of the nation If a coup' of ti ,' cmen hue an affair of bonoui, it is :r v to n-i off to the Rocky Mou trains in J there is no jurisdiction that can 'ouch hem. And then. Eir; think cf it fiv g f --r debt' A set of b i i I i fTs mounted on bombshells would never overakc r.n absconding debtor, only pjve him z fair start Upon the vh.dci sir, it is a res-tilential, topsy-tur-Tev i)3ri'm -scarcm whirnrir. uiveme the old. .)lear. traight forward, reg ula' 'Ju ch cana: three miles an hour for x presses, 3,id two rod jog trot j'Hi'.irys with a yoke ofoxen for heavy I go. furbeaata of burdSDi U is

more firrnalltc and sfciiptufal, and suits

a moral and religious people better. iNioncot your hop skip end jump whimsies for me." Xothir.g. From nothing, it is said, the stupendous fabric of the Universe was framed. Armies have met upon the bloody field cf battle, and have left their bones to bleach in the sunbeams ; thrones have been shaken; kingdoms convused ; monuments of glory defaced ; records of heroic deeds, destroyed ; the rights and claims of humanity disregarded ; the evil passions of the human heart aroused and all for nothing Life's whole race yields nothing substantial : and the brightest hopes often end in nothing. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen a urns them to shapes, and gives to airy noA local habitation and a name." thing Yet how often docs the minstrel get nothing for his pains, while he is forced to exclaim " There's nothing true but heaven." Nothing, for a while, could withstand the prowess of an Alexander, a Cassar, or a Napoleon ; but now, nothing remains of them, save the empty fame of their deeds Solomon, with all his wisdom, found nothing but u vanity and vexation of spirit," after travelling in all life's luxuries ; and many Solomons of the present day, find themselves nothing wiser. The Mountebank capers upon the slack rope, as though the fete were a thing of nothing ; and the rogue draws the tight rope while he dances upon nothing Nought from nought and ncthmg ie mains, cries the school boy ; nothing is too often the bahr.ee which the careless merchant finds upon his ledger; the Printer often prints for nothing, and his labor is frequently considered (as it may be in this case) worse than nothing ; and as we have in this paragraph said little else than nothing, we will just end it with nothing at all ! From the' Dayton Refiublican. Washington, June tst, 1830. Our Puill Congress has broke up and oh what a scrambling there was why old Dorothy Allspice s Tea party up Mad river was nothing to it, when it broke up I thought thtre was the tarnalest scrambling ever I saw, for Nelly Mernw eather fell over Clubfoot, and our Sal trod on the Schoolmasters big toe, and then such squeezing and crowding for hats and bonnets and shawls, why it beat any thing but its all a Ilea bite to congress breaking up At two o'clock in the morning the very city shakes with the rattling of stages and the blowing of horns ; vhy old Jerry Deertrack and his horn and dogs are just a whisper to it. And then to see the darkies jumping, carrying trunks and baggage a3 if the enemy was at the gate and then to see the congressmen leaping from their beds clashing, hurly-burly, books, clothes, papers, shoes, he. all in hotch-potch, as mammy used to say of our Saturdays meat-pie running " to and fro" es the good book says of old nick some half dressed, othet s less or more as the hurry of the case would admit some rushing down into the stage, carrying off my landlady's night caps some inquiringsome bellowing some swearing all doing any thing else than praying well, as old par son Saintly says, some of them will bend their knees at hst, and that'll be just vhen Ihey ride a little while in a full stage but you see Phil I'm -off the track as the Senators on root s resoluti on were this winter well I hope when the congressmen get home they'll tell all they done for the people some must tell some hard stories, if they tell the trbth but Phil don't you think when I once said 11 tell the truth and shame the devil," as deacon Telltruth used to say, they all laughed r.t me here, and so thot' I, no school for the truth here. But as I was saying there all going off. and I'll be drot if I did'nt see Davy Crocket go off too well when I saw Davy you may depend I looked, for one cant see such a man in all the Miami and how d'ye think Davy looked, why old Grim Thunderstorm that used to come up to Huffcrs Mill at night and turn the whole concern just right round is a tadpole to Davy ou know Job tells of the Leviathan, well I'll be rirctif I don't think old Job wrote about Davy well as I was saying, Davy started off from Washing ton think Davy was going in the stage-? no he was'nt going to be pampered -he took a tarnal big steam-boat in one hand, and a railway in t'other, and a sea-ser pent over his shoulders, a wild cat under his arm, a coontail sticking out of his ccat pocket, a pair of Seven mile boots on, then clear off to the Massacippi goes Davy, and now he'll just step across the Massacippi as easy as old clumplc upsets the milk pail and if he dor.t drink the Massacippi I 11 never now if all this c'nt true I hope I may be shot I Well as I was goin to say I sold all the Tur kics for a good price, and some to old Hickory the old fellow is an immortal clever fellow, why he just shook my hand as you would, and then he took me into his house ami I called for a half-pint, but I'll be drot if he'd take a cent for it and then he'd have me stay to dinnerend oh Phil what I saw I dreamed of it, every night since. Hut I C3n only tell you of our old gobler that I sold to the President well be was on the table in such a nice dish that I'll be hanged if I did'nt think the old fellow look'd proud, tho he was dead. When they began on him the juke and 2ravy ruu out aud

jtl:nks Ifolc3 gobble fceep up tuc name

3nd t9 did, For he was as tough and spunky as an oak knot and says 1 to the presi dent "old Robbie has fought many a bat. tlo these 20 years, and was never lick'd i yet, and lie dont like to give up;" and they all laughed at that and as old gobble was so much spunk they said thcy were afeared of him" and no one had the pluck to try him but Crockett and me, and we cat him up neek and stern, I i uujjb i may miui m hu uju m. Yours till the last. JIM CROMSTICK, PHILIPCROMSTICK near Dayton. N. II. J ell Tim Smiley that it he should cut round the girl on the hill he'd catch his everlasting never get-over-it when I get home. The Condor. In the course of the day I had an opportunity of shooting a Con dor ; it was so saluted witn its repast on ! me carcass ot a horse, as to sutler me to ; approach within pistol shot beforr it ex tended its enormous wings to take flight, which was to me the signal to fire ; and having loaded with an ample charge ol bullets, my aim proved effectual and fatal What a formidable monster did I behold in the ravine beneath me, scream ing and flapping in the last convulsive ! snuggles of life ! It may be difficult to believe that the most gigamic animal which mhab?ts the earth oi the ocean can be equalled in size by a t-.mant of the air, and those persois who hae neer seen a larger bird eagle, will. prob. ' ment cf a -species ri ma c'd with mountain astonish- ' ;he s mie bird, in p. b'dng so large un '. .. with its tal-tli-j ir, whence it the southern hcsi'ispand strong as to sicze ons, and to lift it into lets it fall to the ground in order to kill it and to prey upon its carcase. But this astonishment must, in a great degree, subside, when the dimensions cf the bird are taken into consideration, and which, incredtble as it may appear, I nor insert -verbatim from a note taken down Willi my own nana. "When the -wings are spread, they measure sixteen paces (forty feet) in extent, from point to point: the feathers arc eight paces (20 feet in length, and the quill part two palms (eight inches) in circumference It is said to have powers sufficient to carry off a live rhinoceros. 1-ldmwid Temple's Travels in Peru. Discfiicintnent A3 wo were going down street last Wednesday, we met a man enquiring for our office. Expecting a job, we promptly returned with him, and gave him an enquiring loob, as much as to 3ay, Well, I am ready to wait on you. "I want (said he) to buy a paper." Yes, sir, here's onethe latest. i(I want an old cne,the one wi:h the account in it of the storm in Ohio " So we commenced a search, and at last found one, which we handed him. How mucn is it ? he asked Six cm.s. What, six cents for an old paper ; 1 thought you'd let it go for less ? No cir, we never take less, without we give it a way, was the answer. Well, are you sure the account is in it! Oh yes; here it is. Well now, if y iu ju-, set down and read it to me, I need'nt buy it 1 his was almost too much, but i: was a good one, and we read the whole account faith fully and honestly. After which the chap cooly said " Oh, it is'nt so bad es I thought for," and walked out. In hall an hour after meeting him, I got to the same part of the street again, thinking to mysellthat tho I'd caugh' no fish, I'd had a glorious bite.- Winchester Refi KENTUCKY HAMS,!' Y NHEE KUTMF.OS The Kentucky Xation have commen ced a rivalship with Yankee-land in the manufacture of wooden eatables. A merchant in our town, desirous of procuring a lot of choice bacon hams, re quested a friend to make the purchase for him, from the boats passing down the Mississippi After many fruitless inquiries of the passing craft, he met with a Kentucky Jonathan, whose load was composed of the nicest h. choicest hams, all canvassed; and the one which was shewn as a sample, looked so well, and tasted so delightfully, that the confiding aient made the purchase on the spot. The new Jonathan had such an innocent, unsuspected, and unsuspecting counte nance too giving forth no scintillations of vivacity, nor evidencing the owner to possess 44 brains above an oyster shell," on any other subject than that of curing bacon the art of which appeared to be impressed cn his brain, as drippings wear the rock, or the knowledge of law and physic is made available by some members of those honorable professions, who could suspect him of perpetrating a miscellaneous or original act ? 'Straws sher? which way the wind blows,' but the humnn countenance presents a mysterious enigma to the reader Not wish ing to break abruptly upon the reflection of the circumspect perusers of editorial articles, elicited by the sage remark immediately preceding the sentence, we. state the fact at ence. The hams, when opened, proved to be wood, neatly turned in the shape of a hog's hind leg ; and the Kentuckian shewed him that he was 41 up to a trick or two." All will agree that he was "pretty tolerable cute." Port Gibson :aier. In reference to the religion of Thomas Jefferson, the editor of the Essex Gazette, who is a member of the Society of Friends, holds the following language : " Whatever may have been the speculative belief, Thomas Jefferson was not

a practical infidel. Ife respected and loved the free exercise of rational religion. He was not the bigot of an exclusive creed : but his spirit reioiced at the

privilege which those around him cn joyed, of worshipping their Creator according to the dictates of their own con sciences." In support of this opinion, the Gazette publishes a letter from Mr. Jefferson, addressed to Mr Canby, who was him self a relieious man, an extract from which is conclusive as to the character of Jefferson's relieious tenets, and can not fail to be acceptable, and win admir ation from the reader. He writes: "An eloquent preacher of your religious society, Richard Mott, in a discourse of much unction and pathos, is sr.id to have exclaimed aloud to his congregation, that he did not believe there was a nuaker. nresbvtenan, mcthocist. or baptist in heaven having paused to gjve his audience time to stare, and to wonder, he said, that in heaven, Gcd knew no distinction, but considered all good men as his children, and as brethten of the same family. I believe with th quaker preacher, that he who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all relicions concur, will i ever be questioned at the gates of heaven, as to the dogmas in which they differ: that oogmas on entering there, all these are left be hind us; the Aristideses and Catos, Penns and Tillotsons, presbyterians and papists, will find themselves united in all principles which are in concert with the reason cf th snnremp mirwl. OF nil thr y - - systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure S3 that ot lesus. He who follows this steadily, need not, I think, be uneasy, although he cannot comprehend the subtleties and mysteries erected on his doctrines, by those who, calling themselves his special followers and favorites, would make him come into the world to lay snares for ell understandings but theirs; these metaphysical heads, usurping the judgment seat of God, denounce as his enemies, who cannot perceive the geo metrical logic of Euclid in the demonstrations cf St. Athanasim, that three are one, and one is three and yet that three arc not one, nor the one three. In all essential points, you and I arc of the same religion, and I am too old to go in to the inquiries and changes as to the unessential. Ilcpcating therefore my thankfulness for the kind concern you have been o good as to express, I sa lute you vith friendship and brotherly love. if The Nantucket Enquirer tells a story of an Anti-Sunday Mail Deacon in Con. necticut, who petitioned for a divorce because his wife had given birth to a child on Sunday. Kankawa Register. Cure for Gtings of wctsfis t5c The following antidote for the sting of wasps and other noxious insects, may be wor thy the attention of our readers: Take a leaf or two of the bread leaved plantain (plantoga major) ?nd bruise it, by rubbing it on the part stung, and in ten minutes rubbing or less, aii the pain and iihfiammution will cease. There is at present living in Holland, a female whoi? said to have existed for nine years without taking nourishment of any kind whatever, either solid or li quid. She has not eaten any thing for eleven years; and two years cftcr she ceased to be able to cat, she ceased to drink also. The truth of the facts connected with this extraordinary phenomenon has been testified by a medical commission of the district which was appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the case The female in question is 42 years of age, and resides in the village of Pyr.acker, near Delft. It is thought that she cannot survive many weeks longer. Be what you afifiear. The posse3sion of great substantial learning, com bined with common sense, will effectually secure a man against the charge of a vain display. Needlessly assuming the appearance of an inestimable qutlity, justly exposes to the suspicion of being deficient w that quality. It is the cowat d that boasts aloud of his courage, the bigot of his candor, and the tyro in learning of his extensive treasures. Fire. It must be familiar to many observers, that the rays of the sun, falling on a fire, put it out. This is accounted for by a writer in a foreign journal, saying: "That it is well known that a fire will not burn without air, and also that heat rarefies the air. Now the sun's heat, combined with that of the fire, will rarefy the air to such a degree that the fire will go out, because the air is not sufficiently dense to make it burn." JY. Y Med. Jny. NOTICE. ffTTAVING purchased the right f JL LJL making and vending within Knox county, Pink ham Moshcr s u ashing Machine, for scouring and washing clothes, any person wishing to purchase can have them on trial, and if not ap proved, may be returned. I have also on hand and intend keeping, a supply of Cabinet Ware ol the best quality; will also do Carpenter's and Joiner's work at the most reduced prices. JOHN MOORE. May 1st, 1330. --ly-.

PROPOSALS for Publishing by Subscriptlcvcv A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP or THE STATE OF INDIANA THE subscribers, having been coneerf1 cd in the publication of thte -work,re spcctfully inform the citizens c.f this Staff and the public, that they have made rangements to insure its speedy public atic--Some may have come to the conclusion tl.ut its publication was entirely abane'end, r& consequence cf its not appearing at the ti" expected by its author hence, wc deemproper to say, for the satisfaction ofthc-i who may have manifested a disposition o patronize it, that the delay was cccas:o;vft entirely by circumstances beyond the centre! cf its author. The undertaking is r.-re which requires more labor, and ncces.urJjr incurs greater expense, than many are aw are of, or than the author at first anticipated. The delay, however, will afford the publisher an opportunity cf presenting much new and interesting matter, whicU has been brought about by the late seion cf the General Assembly, w hich will, hi some measure, make the delay rather advantageous, than otherwise. Suffice i: to say, then, that the work is progressing, and will be completed as soon as u due regard to correctness will permit. Wc deem it unnecessary to beg the patronage of cur fellow citizens to this work, a3 wc feel confident (from the patronage already received) they will take a pleasure in riving it their support, especially when they consider it is the production cf their own.

and not of another state. To those who have not had an opportu nity of examining the Manuscript, we w ould say, that itwas presented to the members cf the Lcgisliturc.at their session of 18C9, and pronounced to be correct, and as an evidence, we refer to their signatures on the prospectus, or to the Representatives themsehes, residing in the different sections cf the State. Great pains have been taken to obtain correct information in relaton to the Koi th part of the State; and we are much indebted to these gentlemen who have long been engaged in the Indian trade for the information acquired. The manuscript is now in the har.ds cf Mr. Wm. Woodruff, of Cincinnati, whose character as an engraver is well known to the public; we may, therefore, say the work will be executed ina style not inferior to any in the United States. CONTENTS AND CONDITIONS. This map will contain a rariety cf useful and interesting matter, not usually published in maps. It will shew the 'Indian and County boundaries- the Seats of justice and other towns- the surveys as registered in the several land offices the location c the several Indian tribes, their villages, and the number cf their inhabiuntis Co'b-r-land Road-State Keads Wabash CanalWater coursesthe Form cf Government of the State Fact of the Country Soil Prairies Antiquities and an interesting table showing the quantity of 1st, 2d and 3d rate lar.d in each county the i.umbcr d inhabitants Lawyers Doctor:- Merchants Pi ir.tin- Offices Mills-Machinery, CvC. 1 he whole to be neailv executed on copperplate, handsomely embellished with a view cf the FALLS OF OHIO. It will h neatly executed oai a fine sheet of paper, (2 feet by 3 in jizc) handsamrlv colored" varnished and mounted, Price S I CO. ' i he rcalc will be nme miles to the inch, it?" Any person Prr curinesix suUrnr-i-c and becoming responsible for the san.:, will he entitled to a cotv of tl Meters, Pnne ters, and the agent for the Miami Times, arc rt quested to int rp themselves in getting subscribers. Persons who procure subscribers are requested to send a list of them to the Publishers by the first of June net. THOMAS J. EVANS. JOHN SCOTT. Logrr.sport, Feb. 1830. fi SMITH & TRACY'S f 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 prices. Tinware will bo told whole sale and retail upon advansagcous terms to purchasers. Vincennes, October, 24, '829. 37-t HATS, Made & Sold, by It. P. PRICE. ( Vincenxss, Indiana,) house lately occupied by & MoAhtiiur, as an Iron I N the James store, cn Secon street, one door abo?e Market street i he prices of hats general, are for Braver - ZIO Fine Caster, 8 Ccarse do - 6 Fine Roram, g5 Ccarae do 3 Hats made in the shops here, are in general, much superior to those in ported from the Eastern states, for the latter arc made of the coarsest wool, and naped with rabit fur the fanners would find it to their interest, at least 25 per cent, to purchase from the manufacturers. I pledge myself that my Hats shall be made in the beit manner, of tufierior stulT, and in the most Fash tonable style. RICHARD P. PRICE. February, 1829. 2-tf KrPoiiK, conx is oats win be re-ceivtdin exchange for Ilcts. R. P. P. Hags ! Rags ! Rac;s ! CJSIIot WORK, will be given for any quantity of clean Linnen or Cottc: kags at the wzs;jTR:t sun omcc.