Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 July 1830 — Page 4

POETICAL A5YLUIV7.

THE SI ATT EH X. A SKETCH FROM REAL Lin.. i Gnc vie an ounce of civet gdafr,thcc zry, to szvecten my imagina'tiri." I marked her well. She wcte a c i;i so soilM, It secmM as though 't had hung a month in

smoke: And in ungraceful manner 't vv. dispos'd Around her temples serving not to adorn Nor protect a head, which, all eyes saw Of kind otfice stood in utmost need. Her hair in matted clusters from beneath That dirty cap escap'd, and waving free In wild disorder, half her features hid. Her dress had once been white (when it was new,) But now, alack, conjecture had been pozM fTo guess it proper hue. 'Twas stained with snots

Of every die, and stripes cf every shape. Save those which Fancy, with her handma id Art, ployed Aid sister Taste be? t pleas'd and best craWhen call'd to decorate the Fair, and then Most hr.ppy in their skill are want to use. In her silk hose a grievous rent appcar'd On either heel designed, I ween, to let I Icr feet enjoy the benefit of air, Since water was denied them and for lack Of garters circumspec t and well secured, All their supernal length, in ample folds, Had round her ancles settled while her shoes, and gaps Slip-shod and loose, with seam rent soals Were worn ill fitting, on contrary feet. Her children were unwashed, their hair uncom'd, . cloth, Their garments patch'd "with ill-assoited And out at elbows' was her husband's coat. Her house was topsy-turvy : cobwebs hung From the smok'd ccilinc : tables, desks and

chairs look'd

With dust were covered : and the windows As thouch thev'd not been wash'd since the

- - 1) j treat flood.

With busy bustle, fidgctting about ploy'd. In "setting- things to rigits," was she emWhile strange confusion worse confounded, marr'd ETer.eMjrts r.t ndiustment for what yet,

Perchance, had in its proper station stood, Was by her over activeness displac'd Apologies abounded, for the plight found, In which her person and her house w ere Were glibly made : while the whole blame Of that most dread disgusting filthincss. Was cast on all, save the true cause; herself. Determined at the moment to be neat, And to display her skill in housewifery, At a distorting glass, a twitch or two She gave her cap then seiz'd a broom, And with such force her dirty carpet swept, That scon a cloud of dust the chamber fdl'd, And like a mist, its friendly veil spread o'er The scene abhorrent. Gladly I escap'd From the loath'd interview ; and as I left

The palace cf the queen of Filth, & breath 'd Heaven's pure air again, 1 vow'd, and said

I rather would be tied down to a stake.

And thrice be flogged on each returning day,

Than be the husband of a thing like her 1 cannot call her woman. DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. A sound cf mirth was heard by night, Its merry peals rang high And soog, and dance, and sinful rite Bade the wing'd moments fly, Glad Sodom in her pomp and pride Gave up her soul to glee, And proud Gomorrah by Ucr side Rang with the rewlry. The streets of Zeboim too were glad, Glad with unholy mirth And Admah,s drunken sons were mad, And ruled upon the earth. And 'igiit passed on the torch's light Flash'd far from tower and wall. And gay forms, gliding to the sight. Glanced bright from bower to hall. The morning came and all was still Save they, the warned from high, Who fast toward the distant hill, With hurried step flew by. The Sun r-.,sc and fiercely swept Along his redd'ning path, While Riot's drunken sons still slept cr dreamed cf coining wrath. There is a dark cloud rolling or., Swift as a rushing flood ; Ztshe ning bosom, dim and dun, S-wC.v.a filled with flame and blood. It ticses o'er Uiem fierce and fatt Red streams of sulpher pour ! Xightning and smoke and fiery blast, Mix with the thunder's roar ! And hark ! a dark yell rends the sky i Ten thousands shriek aloud ! The cry of mortal agony ! "'Man struggling with his God ' :Tis clone the cloud is rolled away But where, O where are ye ? Yon dim, black lake alouc can say, Ye cities of the Sea.

the SnHucncc of a pitiy; ar.i "in a few moments I ascertained that he was blind. The first emotion that touched the breast, were thoso of mingled pity and veneration. Rut oh! sacred God! how soon were all my feelings changed! the lips of plato were never more worthy of a prognostic swarm of bees, than were the lips of this holy man! It was the day of the administration of the sacrament; and his subject of course, was the passion of our Saviour. I had heard the

subject handled a thousand times: I had j

thought it exhausted long ago. L.m:c

did 1 suppose that in the wild woods or A"erica, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give this topic a new and more sublime pathos, thas I had ever before witnessed As he descended from the pulpit, to distribute the mystic symbols, thee was

a peculiar, a more than human solcmni

natural. Thc iJesfrucli&l o? the CSfi. qucred w as against the first principles of the Roman policy, and, to the last hour of our national existence, Home held out offers cf peace, and lamented our frantic determination to be undone. But the decree was gone forth from a mightier throne Duiing thc latter days of the

siege, a hostility, to which that of man

was as the grain of sand to the tempest that it drives on, overpowered our strength and senses. Fearful shapes and

oiccs in the air; visions startling us Jrorn our short and troubled sleeps, lunacy in its most hideous forms ; sudden death in the midst of vigor ; the fury of the element; let loose upon our unsheltered heads we had every terror and c i: that could beset human nature, but r esilience ; the most probable ol all in a city crowded with the famishing, the diseased ih wounded ami the dead.

The" procession lingered on the summit of the hill. The thunder pealed;Tand they rose at the command, diffusing waves cf light over the expanse of heaven. Their chorus was heard, still, magnificent, and melancholy, when their splendor was diminished to the brightness of a star. Then the thunder roarcd atrain; the cloudy temple was scatter

ed on the winds, and darkness, the omen of her gtavc, settled upon Jerusalem.

ty in his air and manner, which macje my j Yet though the streets were covered

blood run cold, and my whole frame

shiver. Ke then drew a picture of the suffer ings of our Saviour; h: irial before Ft late; his ascent up Canary; his cruci

fixion: and his death. J knew the wh.e history; hut never until then, had I heard the circumstances so selected, so arrar

gcd, so colored! it was all new: and 1 seemed to have heard it for the first time in my life. His voice trembled on eve ry syllabic; and every heart in the as sembly trembled in unison. His peculiar phrase had that force of description that the original scene appeared to he at that moment acting before our eves We saw the faces of the Jews: the star

ing frightful distortions of malice and rage. We saw the buffet; try soul kin died with aflame of indignation; and my hands involuntarily clenched. -But when he came to touch on the patience, the forgiving meekness ot our Saviour, which he drew to the life, his blessed eyes were streaming to heaven; his voice btealhing to God, a soft and

gentle prayer of pardon on his enemies, 'Father, forgive therr, for they know not what they do the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter

and fainter, until his utterance being en

lirely obstructed by the force of his leel- . . i i i i i-.c.i ; .

inrrs. ne raisca nis nanaiiercni.i 10 ms

eyes, and burst into a loud and irrcpres

sible flood of grief The cnect is in

conceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans, and sobs,

and shrieks, of the congregation

It was a long time before the tumult

had subsided, so far as to permit him to

proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual

but fallacious standard ol my own weak

ness, I began to be very uneasy for the

situation of the preacher. For I could not concieve, how he would be able to let

his audience down from the height to which he had wound them without im-

with unnurkd : though every wall and

- r

trench was tun ing ; ihough six hun

dred Moused corpses iay flung over the

ramparts, and naked to the sun pestil

ence came not; for it it had come, the

et.emy vqV ' f.ave been scared away. But the "ah. .minim-.- cf .Violation' the

pagan st; r rd .rUed; where it was to icmaiti until the plough passed over

r'.c tui .s of Jerualim.

'On this light, - his fatal night, no man

his head upon thc t. artn were in u : . ubo- e us ; the.

,.- Jcet ; t'u

low flict.

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f. r W e he

J..ii.i Mediterauean, as tre at ou sdes swelling by .am.

1 lie lakes ana rivers

r.undated the land. The

ttij(the Pi esident of the United

i states.

TLN pursuance ot law, I, Andrew

JL Jacksok, President of the U ited

States of America, do hereby declare

and make known that public salea will

be held at the Land OfiVces cf Craw-

fovdsvillc and Fort Wayne, in the state

of Indiana, at the periods hereioalicr

designated, to wit; At the Land Ofiice at Crawfordsville, on the first Monday in October next, for the disposal ol the public lands within the limits cf the undermentioned townships and lrctronal townships, viz: Townships twenty-eight, thirty seven and thirty-eight, of i&ngc ooe, cast ot the second principal meridian; Traction cf township twenty-seven, and townships thirty-seven and thirty-

eight, of range one, west cf the second principal meridian; Fraction of township twenty-six and

rownships twenty-seven, thirty-seven

nd thirty-eight ot range two, west cf the second principal meridian;

Fraction of township twenty-nve, end

s,ar.d the

IX 1XDIAXA.

SEALED Proposals will be recehed at the National Poad Office, in

Indianapolis, from the 16th to the 31st of August next, for the graduation ol

twenty sections, of cne mile mile each,

vrcst; and twenty -live bccucns, ci enc mile each, east of Indianapolis The? clearing and grubbing having already been completed, the operations will ha confined to grading alone. Proposal', will likewise be received tit the same time and place, for the construction o$ bridges add culverts, and all necessary

masonry on tne atovc line. i or tnc bridges, culverts and masonry, the above distances will be divided into suitable? sections, as may seem most advisable to

the superintendents. There roust be a rough grado dono by the 2Sth day of December, and the graduation completed by the first day cf July next. The bridging, culverts, and masonry, will be completed by the first day of August next. All bridges of twenty feet span and upwards, will have their abutments cf stone or brick, and the superstructure of wood, covered and painted. All culverts and bridges of twenty feet s$)an

and under, to be built of stone or brick.

Those intended to make proposals for

any of the above work, would do well to

make a thorough examination previous

ly. Not mere than ro sections (or miles) will be given to any one contractor.

The Superintendents will attend id

person at their Office, in Indianapolis, to

fiery sword shot out tenfold fire Show ers ol blood fr I! Tnunder pealed from eery quat-tt oi the heaven.--Lightn

ings in immense sheets, ol an intensity of dur&tion that turned the darkness into mere day, witheiiug eye andsoui, burn ing fron. the zecd'h to the ground, and mar ked its trru k by the forest on flame, and the shattered summits o the hills, -Defence was unthought of; for the monal enemy had passed from the mind. Our ' hearts quaked for fear;" but it was to see the "powers cf heaven

shaken." All cast away the shield and p"ar and crouched before the descending judgement. We were conscience mitto4). Our cries of remorse anguish,

and horror, were heard thro be roar of the storm. We howled to Uic earth to

i rwncti5n! t wrntv.sk'.twpn!v.;pven. l hir.

tv fvnand thinv. pmht. of mr.o-p three cive descriptions and explanations of the

west of the second principal meridian; work, from the 16th to the31stcf Aug, Fmrtmnal rnwnshin ihirtv.rmht fit next, and by agent at any time required,

rnntrp fmir. wMt nf the se-nnrl minrinal to shew and explain to those wishing

nPt irVnn. to make proposals, all parts of the ahovo

Fractional township thirty-eight, of mentioned line of Read. Tcstimoinab ram;e five west of the second principal of character and ability to perform, will

tneridian; The Fractions of townships twenty five, twentv-six, twenty-sever andtwen

ty-eight, above designated, fjrcln'.les the

lands (o-crved to the state of Indiana, lor

Canal pui posts, under the provisions of

the actot congress, approved o:ftLe 2d

day of March, 1827.

The townships designated as numbers

ihiily-seven ar.d thi: ty-cight, are in the

vicinity of Lake Michigan.

At the Land Ofiice at Fortwa5ne, on

the third Monday in October next, for

the disposal of the public lands within

the limits of the undermentioned town

ships and fractional townships between

be required with every f.rcfishal; ar.d in

all cates contracts will be given to mo

lowest rcsponsibled bid.

JOHN MILROY, Superintendents, A", J?. Tndiarapolis, July U, 1830. 24-t. A.

SULLIVAN CIRCUIT COURT. 21 AY TER2I, Lavina Davis, rs. Petition for Ditorcc. Jcsec Lcgcrc. ) 1 ND now at this time comes the com i plainant bv Judah her counsel; and

it appearing to the satislaction oi tne

hide us; we plunged into the sepulchres vvaoabn anu xei rivers, anu emora- Court that the said Jesse Lcgcrc 13 not a to escape the wrath that consumed the cl"S aM thc alternate sections and parts residcnt of this state, it is ordered that .iving if wc would have buried ourselves of actions reserved to the United States notice by publication in the Western Sun, under the mountains under the act of Congress granting to a licwspaper printed in "Vinccnnea, for

J knew the cause the

cause, and knew tna? the

unspeakable

last hour" of

pairing the eolemnity and dignity of his crime was at haad. A tew fugitives assubject, or perhaps chocking them by tonished to see one man among them not the abruptness of the fail. But no : the sunl- into tne lowest feebleness of fear, descent v?as as beautiful and sublime as ca,c round me, and besought ms to lead

the elevation had been rapid and ctuhus- them to some place of safety, if such iastic. ' were now to be found cn earth. I tohl The first sentence with which he them openly that they were to die ; and broke the awful silence was a quotation counselled them to die in the hallowed from Rosseau : 'Socrates died lik a phil- ground of the Temple 1 hey followed osopher, but Jesus Christ like?. God 1" ar.d I led them through streets encum I despair of giving you any idea of the bered whh every sin pe of human sutTerefiect produced by this short sentence, jng lo the foot of Mount Moriah. But unless you could perfectly conceive the beyond that, we found advance irrfossi whole manner of the man, as well as the ble. Pile3 of clouds, whose darkness peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never was palpable even in the midnight in

before did I understand what Demos- which wc stood, covered the hoiy lull, thenes meant by laying such stress on Impatient, and not to be daunted by any

the State of Indiana certain lands tor

the purpose of opening a canal, with the exception cf those sections thTOUgh which the canal may run, to wit: Fractional townships twenty seven, of ranges two, three, four, five, six and se veti, cast of the Escond principal meridian;

Fractional townships twenty-eight, of

ranges two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, cast of the second

principal meridian; Fraction! townshio twentvnine, cf

four vce&s - successive! v, be given to the?

paid defendant of pendency of this complaint, and that he the said defendant, appear on the first day of the next term of this Court, to bo holden on the fourtU Monday cf November next, to answer.said complaint, or the same will be decree against him in his absence. Attest, S. "COLEMAN, C?. Mcrom, June 2 1, lb30. SW-lt

TCBILINSON & ROSS,

ranges five, si,evcn, eight, nine, lei1 ; -tr 5 AVE iust received from PhiladcJ1 1 . r.v... .i ..:.:..ni H ti J . .

anu w-i wi iwu sciunu puuw. , d Bali more, a larce and

general assortment of MERCHANDIZE

meridit-n; Fractional township thirty, of ranges seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, east of the second

inenes incaiii uy laymy, sum v in))3licm, auu nui m ua.nv.u u; n7 nrincioal mer'dian delivery. You are to bring before you thin that man could iivercome, I cheer- H .FrctiRn'Mn .hirtvone. of

ranges eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, e-3t of the second principal

the venerable figure cf the preacher; his

blindness, constantly recalling to your tpmllrrtion old Homer, Ossian and

Milton, and associating with his per

formar.ee, the melancholy grandeur of

their genius : you are to imagine that

you hear his slow, solemn, well accented enunciation, and his voice of afiecting

ed my disheartened band, and attempted

to lead the way up the ascent au i had

scarcely entered the cloud, when it was

swept downward by a gust that tore the

rocks ina nmtj shower round me. Wow

came the last and most wondrous sign

that marked the fate of rejected Israel.

"While I lav helnless. I heard the

melody ; you are to remember the pitch whiilind tear through the cloudy hill;

of passion and enthusiasm to which the and the vapors began to revolve. A pale

COngrcgailUIl Cll laiaiu , ... few minutes of portentious, death like

silence which reigned through the .

house s the preacher removing nis wnitc

handkerchief from his aged face, (even

yet wet from the recent torrent of tears,) and slowly stretching forth his palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence: Socrates died like a philosopher8 then pausing, raising his other hand, pressing them both clasped together with warmth Sc energy to his breast, lifting his 'sightless balls' to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice Tocc Christ like a God I" If he

' u x J v. d -w, --

light, like that of the rising moon, quiv

ered on their edges j and the clouds rose, and rapidly shaped themselves into the forms cf battlements and towers. The sound of voices was heard within, low

and distant, yet strangely sweet. Sti'l the histre brightened, and the airy buildings rose, tower on tower, and battlement. In awe that held us mute, we knelt and gazed on this more than mortal architecture, that continued rising and spreading, and glowing with a seiener light, still, soft, silver, yet to which the broadest moonbeam was dim. At last, it stood forth to earth and heaven,

the colossal imarre of the first Temple,

of the buildings raised bv the wisest or

men. ar.d consecrated bv the visible

meridian?

Also the undermentioned townships in the vicinity cf Lake Michigan, viz: Township thirty-seven and thirty-

eight, of ranges two. three and four, eust ot the second principal meridian; Townships thirty-seven, of ranges eight snd nine, east of the second .principal meridian; The townships will be offered in the order nbove designating, beginnir g wi'h .he lowest number of section subj'. ct tc

sale in each.

The lands reserved by law for the use ft 1

c: sci-oois or o oiner purposes, are to

be excluded from sale.

Given under my hand at the City of

Washington, this firih day of June, A. D.

1830 ANDREW JACKSON.

Geouge uraham,

Commissioner of the General Land Ofiice.

THE BLIND Vi AC HER. B'- WILLIAM W1KY. It was Sunday, as I travelled through the County ol Orange, that my eye w"as caught by a cluster ot horses tied near a ruinous old, wooJcn house, in the forest,

rot far from the road side Hating freqacntly sren such objects before, in travelling through there states, I had no difficulty in understanding ttut this was B place of religious worship. Devotion alone should have stopped fnc, to join ir. the duties of the congre

gation; but I must ccntess, ina: curiosi ty, to hear what the preacher of such a vvilderness could say, was not the least cf my motives On entering I was otruck wWh his preternatural Eppcarencc. He was a tall and spare old man; Lis head, which was covered with a

Vite linen can, his shrivelled hands,

C$4 bis voice, were all shaking under

had been in deed and in truth an angel of light, tho effect could scarcely have Knon mnic divine.

Whntnver I had been able to conceive 1 ci0ry. All Jerusalem saw the image ;

of the sublimity of Masillon, or the force j aPd the shout that in the midst of their

of Dourdaloue, had fallen far short ct the , despau ascended from its thousands, ana r.nvv,- whirh 1 felt at the delivery of this! tens 0t thousands, told what proud re-

;mri SPntpnre. The blood which iust membrances were there. But a hymn

before rushed in a hurricane to my brain, . was heard that might have hushed the

and. in the violence end agony 01 my world beside. rever Jell on my ear

frriinr. had held mv whole system in never on nurian sense, a uunu maj-

, m -

suspence, now ran back into my heart, t-5th n klnrl nf Pn;atlOn vhich I cannot

sound

cstic, vet so subduing ; so full of melan

choly, yet of grandeur and command.

describe: a kind of shuddering delicious 1 The vast portal opened, and from it

horror 1 the paroxism of the blended pity , marched, a host, sucti as man naa neer

and indignation, to which I had been ; seen before, such as man shall never see transported, subsided into the deep self 1 but once again; the guardian angels of abasement, humilitv and adoration. 1 1 the city of David! they came forth glo-

kad iust been lacerated and dissolved by

sympathy, for our Saviour as a fellow creature ; but now with fear and trembling, 1 adored him as "a God 1"

At their old Stand on Market street, which they are determined lo offer cn the lowest terms, for cash. Vincennes, May 18, 1820. 15-Gm NOTICE. BOCTOR McNAMEE has received by recent arrivals, a new and

extensive assortment of DRUGS, MLDICINES, &c among which, are many of the highly celebrated and lately discovered chymicals of Lapellitierre c Carpenter's manufacture; now largelyused, and greatly admired by the ablest Physicians, in Europe and America The ;bove added to his former stock, f: ake his assortment very ample. He will supply Physieians on the most liberal terms; and Family Medicines will be put up, at reduced rates, accompan--.1 i-

icu witn uirecuons grans. Vincennes, July S, 183-3. 21-6L FOR SALE,

The ILLINOIS HOTEL, situated in the town of LawRENCEvilLE, near the centre o

the town. It is a large Lame

I a

ills

It will be observed that some of the;

lands proclaimed tor sale at Furt Wayne jbulMin Conlairin five rooms below by the President's proclamation, dated! tairg &nd lwo zbot. .r :4 a lar-t lwo' 5th June, 1330, are not included ir the' . rtr nnrch rnnn:nf, thK uhn!e r'. nr

above proclamation, but that. other lar.ds 1 lUc ho,.sC A)sQj att3chtd !o thc S3m.(

a god kitcheo, smoke house, dairy, wo: kshop, and a large stable, corn crib, Sec. also a garden. With thi3 property will be sold, all the household and kitchen furniture in faci, e ery thing thereunto belonging. Ter:.s will be liberal; persons are invited to call and judge for themselves. 17-tf A. S. BADOLLET. Lawrence ville, May, 24, 1820.

are substituted in lieu thereof. Thisrc-J suits from the circumstance that thero has been an omission in the law to attach

the lands ceded by the treaty made with

the Potawatamies on thc 20th day ot September, 1828, to the Fort Wayne Land District June 26, 1830. 2J3 tds.

JERUSALEM, THE CLOSING SCENE OF ITS FALL. f From Saint hifl. ) The fall of our

illustrious and unhappy city was super.) night, to the forthercst limitf of the land

rious, but with woe in all their steps; the

stars upon their helmets dim; their robes

stained, tears flowing down their eeles

t?ni firatitv. "Let us co hence, was

their song of sorrow. 'Lct us go hence," was answered by tho sad echoes of the mountains.

"Let us go hence," swelled upon the

' SMITH & TRACY'S Tin & Sheet Iron VLVN UFACTORY.

N the corner of Market and Se

cond streets, have on hand for sale,

o

NOTICE. . A T.L ncrsons havine claims or ius!

, - - - o - j wvu-.uj Mg-Mnst the estate of thc late Howard Putnam, Jn. deceased, aro renuested to make thcra 1... vn immedi-

a large and general assortment of Tinjately; and the creditors an' heirs

aro

and Sheet Iron ware, which they offer at reduced puces. Tinware will be told whole sale and retail uponadvansageous terms to purchasers. Vincennes, Octcbcr, 24, 18:9. T-t

hereby notified, that the estate believed to be insolvent, and that I ah- ' claim the settlement thereof as such SALMON WASHNL'HN.-V . n. Vincennes, July 23, 13??. 2-