Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 39, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 November 1830 — Page 4

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Wc cut the following lines from a newspaper several years since, wc know not who is the author of them, but whoever he was, he has written a hymn which, for sublimity of thought and expression, we do not remember ever to have seen surpassed: St. Louit Times. HYMN TO TIIE STARS. Ay! there, ye shine, and there have shone, In one eternal 'hour of prime:' Each rolling, burningly, alone. Through boundless space & counlcss time. Ay! there, ye shine, the golden dews That pave the realms by seraphs trod; There, through yon echoing vault, diffuse The song of choral worlds to God. Ye vis'ble spirits! bright, as erst Young Eden's birthnight saw ye shine On all her flowers and fountains first, Yet sparkling from the hand divine: Yes! blight as, then, ye smiled to catch . The music of a sphere so fair, Yc hold yon high, immortal watch, And gird your God's pavillion there. Gold frets to dust; yet there ye are; Time rots the diamond; there yc roll In primal light, as if each star Enshrined an everlasting soul. And do they not? since yon bright throngs One all-enlight'ning Spirit own, Praised there by pure siderial tongues, Eternal, glorious, blest, and lone. Could man but see what ye have seen, Unfold awhile the shrouded past, From all that is, to what has been; The glance how rich, the range how vast! Thes birth of time; the rise, the fall Of empire; myriads, ages flown; Thrones, cities, tongues, arts, worships; all The things whose echoes arc not gone. Yc saw rapt Zoroaster send His soul into your mystic reign, Ye saw the adoring Sabian bend. The living hills his mighty fane: Beneath his blue and beaming sky. He worshipped at your lofty shrine, And deemed, he saw, with gifted eye. The Godhead, in his works divine. And there ye shine, as if to mock The children of an earthly sire: The storm, the bolt, the earthquake's shock, The red volcano's cat'ract tire. Draught, famine, plague, and blood, and flame, All nature's ills, and life's worse woes, Are nought to you: ye smile the same. And scorn alike their dawn and close. Ay! there, ye roll, emblems sublime Of him whose spirit o'er us moves, Beyond the clouds of grief and crime, Still shining on the world he loves. Nor is one scene to mortals giv'n. That more divides the soul and sod, Than yon proud heraldry of heav'n, Yon burning blazonry of God. DIVINE IMPRESS. There's not a tint that paints the rose, Or decks the lily fair, Or streaks the humblest flower that grows, But heaven has placed it there. At early dawn there's not a gale, Across the landscape driv'n, And not a breeze that sweeps the vale, That is not sent by Heav'n. There's not of grass a single blade. Or leaf of lowliest main, Where heavenly skill is not display 'd. And Heavenly wisdom seen. There's not a. tempest dark and dread, Or storm that rends the air. Or blast that sweeps o'er ocean's bed, But Heaven's own voice is there. There's not a star whose twinkling light, Illumes the distant earth; And cheers the solemn gloom of night. But mercy gave it birth. There's not a cloud whose dews distil Upon the parching clod. And clothe with vendure, vale and hill, That is not sent by God. There's not a place in earth's vast round. In ocean, deep, or air. Where skill and wisdom are not found, For Christ is every where. Around, beneath, below, above. Wherever, space extends, There Heav'n displaye iu boundless love. And power with mercy blends. irKforrUfiutous. From the 'Western Spectator. ?xr maxox: Ai the jinest solicitation of some of my friends, I have attempted to communicated to the public, through your paper. A tew facts relative to the use of charcoal, as a family medicine in our cluiK ie ; which I hope you will li3ve the go-Moos 10 publish, as I think the sub ject in important one. But as I am not a medical man I shall not undertake to give a technical description of its medi cal qualities, or of its pectiar operation upon the human system, but I will confine myself to facts which have come QnJer my own observation. In the first place I will give the reason which first induced me to make trial of it in my own family : in the summer ol 1 326 or' 27, I vas looking; over the columns of newspaper, perhaps the United States Gaze u in which I noticed a paragraph, taken from a French paper, said to have been written by an eminent professor in Fr&ucc, upoa the trcatmeot of the yellow

fever. He stated in substance nearly as follows: In the hot teason the last past; he had been called to treat with that disorder; and had treated it as usual, in five cases of which he lost Tour. He then laid by his saddlebags, and took to the use of charcoal alone, with which he treated thirteen following cases, equally malignant, and saved them all. He therefore recommended to medical gentlemen, to try the experiment. The uncommon success above stated, and supposing the yellow fever to be a billious complaint of the most malignant character, (which I still believe to he a correct idea,) I reasoned, that if coal would cure that, it would also have a salutary effect upon other billious complaints, of a less malignant character. I therefore made the experiment, first upon myself, in a violent case of the dysentary: ( w hich I take to be a billious disorder) after trying every thing else that I could think of, without effect, and my disorder increasing to an alarming degree; 1 commenced with coal on the fourth day, and took a table spoon full once in two hours, for eight hours: when my disorder sensiblyabated, and the next morning I was aDle to i ise with my family. I had an opportunity of seeing its effects, in four other similar cases in my own family the same season, with equal success I have used it in my own family since, in the dysentary, diarrhoea Ecc. as occasion required, with most perfect success. I have had occasion to use it in but two cases of fever in my own family. One, a case of typhus, I gave a large spoonful first, which the stomach immediately threw up; I then gave a tea spoonful, which it retained I continued it once in ten minutes, for four or five hours when I found the stomach would retain more, I increased the quantity and lengthened the time, gradually, for eight or ten hours longer, when the fever subsided, and the patient directly recovered. The other case was a moderate internment, which I treated with coal, and the fever left the

third day. I have from the above facts, been led to believe that charcoal is (if not a specific in all cases) a medicine above all price for family use; and if properly used, would cause the Physician some pain, perhaps, but the community at large much good health, and save a great deal of distress, some lives, and much money. The best way that I have found to use it, is to take coals directly from the hearth, pound them fine, mix them with cold water, sufficiently then to be easily swallowed; then feed it in as large quantities and as often as the stomach will retain it. No other medicine, has been given, in the above recited cases, after commencing with the coal, nor do I think it necessary, where the coal would be useful. ELISHA HIBBARD. ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL. While visiting one of the public schools in this town last week, we were astonished at finding on the muster roll, so large a number of absentees. One boy had been absent one hundred and three days in less than a year; another seventy-two days in the same time, and soon, and so on All this time the parents consider their children at school; and of course blame the instructor, if iheir children do not learn so fast as others who are at school the whole time. It is laughable to hear the excuses which parents and children frame up in order to avoid the school. uThe poor boy has not eaten his dinner in time and it would be bad to send him without a dinner" though he purposely contrived to make this an excuse for absence. Many parents have a pail of water for "Jonny or Sammy" to bring, when the school hour has arrived. The boy is late, perhaps, fifteen or twenty minutes. The parent is then too indolent to write a billet, or there is no paper, or no pen, or no ink; and a little play wont hurt the child so he is permitted to stay at home only one half day. Another has "to go o' arrants;" another "to pick up chips;" another to tend the young one;" "to split wood;" uto draw water;" uto get the dinner," or to do something or other, all of which things might as well bo done out of school hours. The boy tells the parent "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,, and the parent pities the dear creature who has to study so hard. But how much time is a boy kept in school! onlv 30 hours in a whole week he has all the rest of the time to play, to go his errands, and to do whatsoever may be required, yet there is not one family in ten that send their children to school with any regularity. A half a day is nothing, is the cry, though the loss of this half day puts the pupil a lesson or two behind his class, discourages him gradually, by making him inferior in his acquirements to his associates and thus leads him to play the truant, to hate his school, the master and his switch, with an equal and a deadly hatred. It is truly strange that in a country like ours; where our free schools are wide open to all without a cent of additional cost, people will not take the trouble to educate their children by sending them to school regularly, for they connot be educated without. In fact that pupil who gains an education by staying at home one fourth of his time is a prodigy. Portland .Mv. - From the Philadelphia Album. AMERICAN WOMAN. The western reviewer, with a super ficial survey, characteristic of man in his j speculations regarding female character

and conduct, fixes the reproach of indo

lence upon those of America. Let him absolve the parties from all participation in the formation of that social position they occupy by the decision of foreign ascendency, their moral location represents the aristocracy of Europe, being that of chartered idlers. What observer of human beings has escaped the conviction, that destitute of the impetus of motive, the mental faculties and all the internal economy, subside into inertness, and finally, extinction. Not only do women suffer from the absence of such impulse, but the principles, tastes, and sentiments of society, are exerted in the interests ef that inanity so ofTen-J sivc to the reviewer. Young ladies see their brothers go forth to their accustomed tasks, some with gaiety, some with reluctance, yet all equally submissive to their fate; but with the exception of the few' who are favored with a decided vocation (perhaps to the pencil or the piano,) their lot is idleness; yet men, in their cloistered reveries, glancing on the superficies of existing circumstances impute obloquy where commiseration should have been conceded. Let them rather regard with an indulgent eye, a few aberrations of coquetry, a little extravagence of dress, in those who have so va?t a superfluity of leisure. We learn fr om English novels, that coldness and indifference of bearing consti lute the most valued style of deport ment; this estimate probably results from the national volubility of the woman people are ever prone to invest with artificial excellence, possessions or qualities, foreign, and often adverse to their personal character, or actual condition; thus from the charge of stiffness and langcur so often alleged against Philadelphians, a very few fashionable belles may verge to the opposite extreme. More ingenuous and consequently more original tran the other sex, women are gcnernlly the staves of pre cedent they icvolt from the spectacle of tyranny, and sympathize with the victim of injustice, even though his sufferings are sanctioned by time consecrated usage. It is also alleged of them that they have the power to conceive gicat purposes, but not the fortitude or con stancy to execute. Surely this charge would equally apply to the lai ger portion of the whole human race, who, when placed amidst scenes and events, novel and unexpected, display all the rashness and misgivings of inexperienced females. In the prosecution of those minute schemes, the offspring of ordinary circumstances, women and obscure men evince as great a shaic of perseverance and fertility of resouice, as heroes and statesmen on the great theatres of their ambition. If in the commom course of life, women arc more demonstrative, and their speech more unlicensed; it is that they are not educated in the fear of the club and pistol. ENGLISH WOMEN. In a country like England, where the tremendous disparity ol poverty and luxury is associated, where tho struggles for fashionable pre-eminence arc unceasing, and the means of attainment difficult or exhausted, the relative position of women of rank, or those aspiiing to be tho't such, must be vety wretched. Those who are unmarried dare not move unattended, they have not an atom of individual liberty, its indulgence would cos:. them all they hold dear. The lot of Turkish women is infinitely softer, their intellects are measured to their cages. But these English woman educated for the world, writhing under a sense of insignificance, and who, while 6'inglc, have no social existence, and look to marriage as the means of exaltation, while the increasing demands of luxury, and the embarrassment of affair, forbid their hopes how miserable an allotment! What state more degrading than that of an individual of an assemblage of accomplished women, offering successive incense at the shrine of wealth, pei sonified in vice or fatuity. Philadelphia Album. Ch)ldrens air. -The Journal of Health that excellent work which should be in every family recommends, in a late number, that the hair should be frequently cut, until children are ten years old. The idea of its making hair coarse to keep it cut, in childhood, is stated to be mere prejudice. A too luxurious head of hair is apt to produce paleness of complexion, weak eyes, headache, dropsy in the brain, Sec. Tho habit of frizzling the hair and of forming it into braids, is very injurious to its beauty The frequent use of an ivory comb is objected to; but no matter how frequently the brush is used. If you wish for glossy and abundant hair7 it must in early life, be kept thoroughly disentangled and perfectly clean. A HAPPY THOUGHT If you wish to find any thing that is lost in a well, or to asceitain the cause of any impurity there may be in the wa tcr, place a commcn mirror over the well in such a position as to catch and throw the rays of the sun directly to the bottom of the well, which will instantly become illuminated in a manner so brilliant that not only the smallest articles, such as pins, needles, spoons, knives, Sec. can be distinctly discerned, but also that the smallest pebbles and stones at the bottom can be as effectually examin

ed as if they wero held in the hand. ;

The sun is in the best situation to be reflected in the above manner in the morning or afternoon of the day. This simple experiment," say the Editor of the Hamden flrhigy vas communicated to us

by a worthy patriot, with a wish that we should give it to theTpublic. A Dandy cf the Olden days. Smyndyrides, of Sabyris, a Greek exquisite, sailed about in his own galley with a host of cooks, fishermen, and bird-catchers. It was this person who could not sleep because a rose leaf was double under him as he lay on his couch, and complained that the sight of a laborer mak- ! ing great exertion gave him the stomach ache. "Do not wrong yourself, and you will not wrong another. "The possession of riches never be stows the peace which results from not desiring them." Nelson said that "the politics of Courts are so mean, that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed " Scuthey's Life.. "There are some vices wMch almost border on virtues: but meanness is of so grovelling a nature, that even the other vices are ashamed of it. "Too elaborate a reply against an impotent defamcr, is only to fire at a target; you waste your powder and ball." "It is always dear to buy a thing cheap which one does not want; so it is some times dearer to receive a thing as a pre sent, than to pay the price of it. THRIFTY S ADVICE FOR NOVEMBER. Gather jour Indian corn, dig your po tatoes, and garden vegetabels Husk the corn as soon as gathered and put it in your granary or corn cribs, sheltered well font the wet. lie careful not to lay it too thick, if you do, it will heat and spoil It should be well dried before it is put in the cribs, which should be so constructed as to admit the air through crevices in the sides, left open for that purpose. Feed out your pumpkins to your cattle before they are tiozen Dry your potatoes before you put them in your cellar, which should be kept close enough to prevent freezing. Gather in your beans, carrots, turnip;, par snips and every thing worth saving, before the weather becomes cold. Remember that a penny saved is as good ai a penny earned; and that many a little makes a mickk; and always taking out ol the meat tub and never puttii.;? in, soon comes to the bottom." Thrifty says he knows many farmers who waste every year the one half of what they raise, by leaving their crops exposed 10 their cattle and hogs; and by a total want ol care and economy. He saves every thing an 1 makes a little go a great ways. Instead of throwing his corn in the ear into the mud to be tread upon, mangled and destroyed by his hogs and cattle, he shells it off of the cobb, and has it ground into meal, which he moistens with the slops of his kitchen, and will fat his hogs on one half the quantity of corn. By heating the water and boilng it into mush, it will go much farther He stacks his husks, and by coveting them at the top with a few bundles of straw, keeps them dry and sweet In short, every thing is put in its proper place, and preserved in the neatest manner. He prides himself upon economy, order, and neatness. His wife and daughters observe the same rules In their work, their persons and their dress, every thing is neat, tasteful and wholesome. Every thing is in its place, and every 'hint- done as it ought to be done. By obsetvi-g method in all they do, they have leisure enough to make and receive visits, and to improve ther minds by reading good books. Scrafi Bock. SIVIITH & TRACY'S Tin &1 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 be sold whole sale and retail upon advantageous terms to purchasers. Vinccnnes, October 24, 1829. 3T-tf COLLECTOR S NOTICE. 'w7'Ol'ICE is hereby riven, that on the se cond Monday, in A oven.ber, J 1830, I shall at the court house door, in Home, county of Spencer, and state of1 Indiana, expose to public sale all and ; singular, the sev eral Tracts and parcels J of Land, including Town Lots, in said, countv, upon which the taxes for the ! year 1830, and other previous years have not been paid; the said Tracts and par - ceis oi i-auu, iiJLiuuiijg i own JLots, nave been levied on by mc as Collector, for want of personal property out cf which to make the taxes due on said Tracts and Lots. Sale between the hrmr r,f 10 o'clock a. m. and at 4 o'clock, p. m on said day, and be continued from day to day, between said hours, until all arc disposed of. or have bec offered for sale. WM. BENNETT, Col x c. October 2, 13v0 3d-2t

23d rvugust, 1830. 'tk" OTICE is hereby given, that the X sale of Public Lands, directed by the President's proclamation of the 15th of June last, to take place at the Land Office at Crawfordsville, in the State of Indiana, on the first Monday in October next, is hereby postponed until the first Monday in November next; and the sale directed by the same proclamation to take place at the Land Office at Fort Wayne, in the same Slate, cn the third

Mcndy in October next, is hereby postI l .: i ,u t-: i . i ' 'LliCU u,u" u,c umu uvBy direction of the Secretary cf the Treasui v, ' JOHN M. MOORE, Act'g. Com. of the Gen. Land Office. By the President of the United States. iN pursuance of law, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States ol America, do hereby declare and make known that public sales will be held at the Land Offices of Craw, foidsville and Fort Wayne, in the state of Indiana, at the petiods hereinafter designated, to wit; At the Land Office at Crawfordsville, on the first Monday in October next, for the disposal of the public lands within the limits of the undei mentioned townships and fractional townships, iz: Townships twenty eight, thirty-seven and thirty-eight, of range one, cast of the second principal meridian; Fraction cf township twenty seven, and townships thirty-seven and thirtyeight, of range one, west of the second principal meridian; Fraction of township twenty. six and townships twenty-seven, thirty-seven and thirty-eight of range two, west of the second principal meridian; Fraction of township twenty-five, and townships twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty seven and thirty eight, of range three west of the second principal meridiar; Fractional township thirty-eight of range four, west of the second principal meridian; Fractional township thirty-eight, of range five west of the second principal meridian; The Fractions of townships twentyfive, twenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight, above designated, excludes tho lands reserved to the state of Indiana, for Canal purposes, under the provisions cf the act of congress, approved on the 2d day of March, 1827. The townships designated as numbers thirty-seven and thiityeight, arc in tho vicinity cf Lake Michigan. At the Land Office at Fortwayne, cn 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 the Wabash and Eel rivers, and embracing all the alternate sections and parti of sections reserved to the United Statei under the act of Congres sgranting to the State of Indiana certain lands for the purpose of opening a canal, with the exception of those sections through which the canal may run, lo wit: Fractional townships twenty-seven, of ranges two, three, four, five, six and seven, east of the second piincipal meridian; Fractional townships twenty-eight, of ranges two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, east of the second principal meridian; Fractional township twenty-nine, of ranges five, si.Y, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, east of the second piincipal meridian; Fractional township thirty, of rargei seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, east of the second piincipal meridian; Fractional township thirty-one, cf ranges eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, east of the second principal meridian; Also the undermentioned townshipi in the vicinity of Lake Michigan, viz: Townships thirty-seven and thirtyeight, of ranges two, three and four, cast of the second principal meridian; Townships thirty-seven, of nnget eight nd nine, cast cf the second prin cipal meridian; The townships will be offered in the order above designating, beginning with the lowest number of section subject to sale in each. The lands reserved by law for the use of schools or for other purposes, are to be excluded from sale. Given under my hand at the City cf Washington, this fifth day of June, A. D. 1830. ANDREW JACKSON. George Graham, Commissioner of the General Land Office. It will be observed that some of tha lands proclaimed for sale 3t Fort Wayno by the President's proclamation, dated 5th June, 1830, are not included in tho above Droclamation, but that other lar.di 3re substituted in lieu thereof. Thisre1 suits from the circumstance that thero . nas oeen an omission in me law io attach the lands ceded by the treaty made with the Potawatamies on the 20th day of ! September, 1S28, to the Fort Wayne Land District June 26, 1830. 20 tds. Rags ! Rags ! Rags ! CASH, or WORK, will be given for any quantity of clean Linnen or Cotton SAGS at the WXSNTRX SON offlCC.