Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 44, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 December 1830 — Page 4

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DIVINE IMPRESS. There's not a tinr that paints the rose, Or decks the lily fair, Or streaks the humblest flow'r that grows, But heaven has plac'd 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 Ileav'n. There's not of grass a single blade, Of leaf of lowliest mein, Where heavenly skill is not displayed, 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 verdure, 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 arc not found. For Christ is every where. Around, beneath, below, above, Wherever space extends. There Ileav'n displays its boundless love. And power with mercy blends. From the Trax'clkr. A FrtAGME NT. He was a m m of high and lofty mind, Willi stern, unbending spirit ; ami he held His course among the things of earth, as one Who could contemn all meaner objects. On Careering like a mighty wave, he moved. Unbroken, uncontrolled. The bonds which tyrant custom bound. He burst indignant, as if thev had been 1 he feeble web the snider weaves. Honor Alone had power to sway his mighty mind Once,onlv once, his course was stayed. A bright, A fairy vision crossed his path. She was 7 A beauteous one fair as yon golden Fleecy cloud, which veils the azure sky. Am too poor of words to tell the traces iv men were clustered there, l ne rose and lily Each, had lent its charms U that fair one who Looked much less of earth than heaven. The dew-drop, sparkling in the light, the sun Drinks up from off the rose at morn, was no So bright. And who could think that such an one Was all of earth ? "Frailty, thy name is woman V Wonder not that lie should stoop from hi hiirh Path :nm the clouds ! The lofty, soaring Mind of m m is oft controlled and downward Dra wn by the strong ties of woman's love. He S'u;',;i for sterling gold, Sc found that all Va tinsel, mean ficiioth'ng worth. It was not madness, but 'twas might with which he burst The cords that bound him, & again resumed His onward course. MARIA. WOMAN S HEART. First take a feather and lay it upon Tijr stream that is rippling by With the current, behold, in a moment 'tis gone, Unimpressive, and light as a sigh Then tak-. thee a dear and precious stone. And on the same stream place it Oh! ma k how the water, on which it is thrown, In its bosom will quickly encase it. Or take a crystal, or stainless glass, With a crayon upon it, then trace A sentence or line, & watch how 'twill pass, A breath will its beauty etTace Then take a diamond pure and bright, And write some modest token "Mid cold or heat in shade or light 'Twill last till the crystal is broken. And thus with the tablet cf woman's pure heart, ! Where the vain and the idle may try To leave their impressionsthey swiftlv depart Like the feather, the scroll and the sighBut once be engraved on that tablet a name And an imatre of eenius and worth Through the changes of life it will still be the same Till that heart is removed from the earth! ittforrUanrotto'. Jrrom thtXw England llnkl:, Ktvuv. THE BACHELOR. The bachelor the confirmed system ttuwudtuciur vtou pay him Man nor v?oman nor child will not. He is one marked out and fitted for abuse and cav illings oi his neighbors. He is a tonek wandeier on the ftreat thoroughfare of ueing his sympathies lettered down in his bosom his affections unshared, unreciprocated, and wandeiing like the vincd messenger of the Patriarch of Che deluge, over the broad waste of un social humanity; and fiudi"g no rest no place of .eluge no green branched forest lo.k.ng above the desolation, here the weary wing might be lohled. and the tanning heart have rest. It is a weary thought for the human bean to brood over, that in the wide universe of life there is no ether heart to

quicken with our own no smile to we!-1

come our coming no eye to brighten vvnn our juy or weep wiin our ataiction. There is no thought which falls so hca vily and darkly on the human spirit. It is as if a leaden hand had been laid upon it never to be lifted never to be warm ed from its frozen communion. Ket there is much in a bachelor's life which is pleasant much of real and unadulterated hanniness. The romance of the married passes rapidly away never to return. The cares and duties of do mestic life bieak in upon the beautilul dream; and the sundered links of ima gination arc never again united. Not 80 with the bachelor. Romance is to him as the breath of life itself; and as age comes on, he gathers back to himself the day dreams of his boyhood; and, if less vivid than the long past reality, they arc more sweetly beautiful, as the moonlight hues of memory linger upon them. Visions have hovered o'er his sleep, Light fairy forms have bent above him, And eyes smil'doa him, like the dcip Expressive ones of those that love him. Wild, brilliant eyes, through raven hair Clustering upon the bosom's snow; And thin, white fingers, like cuol air, Have passed alsng his fevered brow!" I had a friend of this desciiption a bachelor of fifty, a kind, free hearted 161 low, who frequently amused mc with his allusions to the events of his earlier vcars Wearied with the loneliness and silence of his existence, he found a certain relief in the treasured memories of the past. Sorrow and joy, were, perhaps, equally mingled in these remembrances, like the shadows and sunshine ol u; April landscape, yet both were treasur ed up and loed and mused over. "I had a dream last night," said he as I entered his apartment one cold morning in winter "an ugly dream, ugh! my blood chills to think of it!" His teeth chattered as he spoke, although there was a glowing fire in the grate; and he had a thick wrapper thrown over "his shoulders "Sit down," continued he, "and I'll tell you my dream, if I can gei through with it without freezing us both into icy statues." "Go cn,"said I, seating myself comfortably at the fire "I ap prebend no danger from the recital ol your dream." u Well last evening I was all alone 'twas a bitter cold evening and I, as u sual, when the present is not particular!) agreeable, amused myself by thinking ovtr the past. You cannot imagine what a world of memory passed belore me. But as the mind's images thicken ed, they grew fainter the dim light of the lamp grew dimmer before me the howling of the north wind died away in my ear and I fell asleep in my chair. For a time my visions were broken & vague; yet they bore somewhat the im pi ess of my waking ones halt formed, half seen laces, once familiar, started a round me and dim and huriicd petceptions of familiar scenery passed belore me, like the changes of a phantasmagoria. Suddenly the scene was changed. I seemed wandering over a vast plain of ice anon, struggling in the rift of a Swiss avalanche, or tiding on the steep pinnacle ol an ice berg, or standing in a s ift current of cold water, with the raw wind blowing, hnd the ice stiffening around my body ; and then the dimness Sc incoherence passed away, and anew or der of visions came before me "I was standing in a familiar looking dwelling, at least its proportions seemed sobut i was entirely composed of ice cold, shining, unmclting ice. The trees which stood without I knew them by their gnarled limbs and stooping bo dies, as familiar to my youthful days were also of ice, limbs, and foliage, and trunk of the same. I was treading up on an icy floor the ceiling the doors and windows and household furniture were ice nothing but clear glittering ice. I stood in the wintry parlor, sha king with cold, when a figure slowly approached mc. I knew it in an instant. It was the mother of my first love the Caroline whom I have told you of so of ten. There was the same figure, pro portion, dress, he the same pair of huge spectacles on her face, which characterised her thirty years ago. She came forward and bowed, without relax inn" a muscle of her countenance, and o pointed to a sofa of ice behind mc. Hard ly had I seated myself when the door a gain opened, and Caroline herself en tercd and advanced slowly and without any sign of emotion towards me, altbo' she evidently recognised me, and held out her hand in a sort of mechanical welcome. I arose and clasped it in my own Heavens ! it was cold, cold as a winter tomb-stone Sc as the icy fingers fastened about my own, I shudei M as if a spectre had welcomed me to the world of shadows. She was ice, like every thing around her. "The cottage, the old lady, and my long loved Caioline passed away, and I found myself in a beautiful mansion in a far off land. Thet too, the spell of winter rested upon ever :ry thing around me. The uiilars, the st dendul galleries and magnificent apartments, and the attendinis, were all ice, in that winter ol desolation. Yet, I recognized the scerie of mv deenrst attachment the dwelling 0f her whose beautiful image has never ceased to haunt me. from the moment of ou. first meetine And I saw her the magnificent giil, and she threw her aims around mc k kissed mc. It was liketl kiss of a maible status; the twining of the arms of the dead around the neck of the living a coU and icy communion. And

then, I teemed myself to take the nature

of all around mc, and I became as ice, all save my heart,-which still beat beneath my unconscious body. And we sat down together, two icy statues, mocking one another with the look of warm and kindly affection. And she would lay her cold hand in my own, and bend her head with its rich but unmovingmassof ringlets towards me ; and her eye beamed constantly w ith a smile like that with which she had always welcomed mc : and yet I knew that it was an awful mocking, and that the warmth and passion of love and life weie not there. "I awoke. My lamp was like a small spark, it had burned so low the fire had gone out ; and the moonlight, as it streamed through the unshuttered win dows, revealed the black and cold bars before me ; the doors were ajar, and the current of air, bitter with frost, was sweeping through the room. For a time, indeed, I almost imagined my dream a thing of reality, for I was actu ally stupefied with cold, and have not yet recovered it " My friend, as he spoke, drew his cloak closer around him, with a sort of involuntary shudder. "Now," continued fie, "I have determined to live alone no longer. I marry, let the consequences be as they may. Rather than suffer again, what ldid last night, and all for the want of a compan ion, I would marry the veriest termagant in Christendom." He kept his word. He is now a married man, and, what is more and better, a happy one. He has a wife who loves him, and childien who bless him, and I have never, since his marriage, hcaid him coir plain of his lruzen dicums. IIII8II TRAVELLING. The first day of our journey passed ovtt without much ecnt: we derived sufficient amusement from the peculiar iitt sot the carman, a mop headed, lark limbed beauty, whose clothes were so ' aKKC(,i that as he strode alcng, with his coat, siii t and breeches fiuiteiing behind iunv,(e put us in mind ol a persevering ship, making its way against a head wind. This gentleman never whipped his horses when they were low spirited and lazy, but reasoned with them as tho' they were a pair of Houynhmns, men tioned by Gulliver, or intelligent Chris tian bcines "Airah, Bainev," he said to the leader, "orn't you a pretty spa! petti to suffer your own brother Teddy t Imr llip rnr im thr hill hv hiinsfli ? . . . r j Haven't I set you befcie him as an ex ample? Have you any hcait tofoigita fiiend bekiize you don't see him i Oh, bad luck to your faalings ! Arral i eddy, (to the other,) don't you see, my daiiiutf, what JJuinev is at i He wants i" t in away wis h you, and get to the little dicbetn house halt a mile off and ate up .dl yout coin belore you come Hutry. hum, my darling, or divil a mouthful will he lave you !" Strange as it may seem, these addresses produced the de siicd effect; and Barney and Teddy, as shaggy as a pair of lions, would pluck up courage si d pull along like a ccup'.e t camels t)h:-civing that one of thenwas lame, we noticed it to their owner as an infringement of our contract. 'Lame, your honor r he replied, "no such tiling the boy's quite parfect ; only, you see, its a way he has of resting one leg till the other three are tired " Bernard's Reirtsenfations of the Stage SINGULAR DISCOVERY. Mr. Horton, a gentleman who has been engaged inbotmgfor water in Providence, II. I. has ptcsenttd to the public some remarkable results In the second experiment in boring, he selected the exticme point of a wharf, m?ny yards from the oiiginal land. He bored through a stratum of mud, then through a bog meadow, containing good peat, then through sand and cjuartz gravel At this point water, impregnated with copperas and arsenic bnke forth; but determining to proceed farther Mr. Hor ton next sum k a vineyard, and drew up vines, grapes, grape seeds, le ves, acoms, hazel nuts, pine nuts, and the seeds of unknown fruits, together with pure water. This was thirty-five feet below the river. REWARDS OF A NE WSPATF.R FDITOR. These generally consist more in kicks and cull's than in coppers. They arc To be reviled by the malignant, and misunderstood by the stupid. To have your sentiments misconstrued, and your motives misrepresented. To labour for years together, making great personal sattificcs for the advancement as you fancy, of important principles, and after your labor is com pletcd, to find that you were laboring uuiy lur me advancement oi men m whom you never had any confidence To be courted by politicians on all occasions, when you can render them a scrvice through yur paper; and alter these services aie rcndcicd, to be forgotten lo hear each of your natrons declare himcll friendly to the liberty of the press, ana find that by liberty of the J press, the great majoiity mean, liberty to express sentiment rvrrflu .in.i!r to theit own, and none other, ! l o find that even those whose rcneral punciples accord exactly with vour : own. depart from you if you will not support some lavotitc pre jtct, which is perhaps incompatible with both your and ( tht ir general principles, though they j may not scc that incompatibility.

We could mention other rewards of a like nature, but these are sufficient.

ENORMOUS BONES. The skeleton of an animal, of prcdi cious size, was discovered about tour! weeks since, al the I3ig iiOllC LiCk Hi! Kentucky. We have the following iioin a ftiet.d, who received them from a gentleman who resides ucar the Lick : There ate ten or twelve sets ol tusks, Xrom lour to twelve feet long ; the claw s are nnr !pp noir nr! ihrp.i: hrniti: LllC ' l .wn& tuiks were arranged in circular order, as if by the hands ol man; within the circle the bones were uepofei.ed, which when placed together, showed the ani mal to have been at leas, twenty five feet high, and sixty feet long. The skull bone alone weighed 400 pounds. T hey were found by a Mr l'inney, about four teen feet below the surface of the earth, who had refused five thousand dollars for them. The keleton is said to be com plete, saving only one oi two ribs. When and how this animal existed, must b&file all speculation. The mam moth himself, so long the wonder of these latter limes, must dwindle into comparative insignificance betoiethis1 newly discovered piodigy If carnivo rous, a buflalo would scaicely serve him tor a meal, and if ipanivoious, trees must have been his tender herbage . Auf. Int. RETROGRESSION OF NIAGARA FALLS It has be i) much a cispuud poim whether ihe cclebiattd cataiact in a lormer age was ai Quetiutown heights. i lie opinions wt now cue on the qucs tiun are iiom Lycli's "Principles of Geology," lateiy published. "The fails ct Niagma afford a magnificent example of the progiessive excavation of a deep valley in a solid rock. 1 hat river flows from lake Erie to lake Ontario, the lormer being three hundred and thirty feet above the latter, and the distance between them being thiity-two miles. On flowing out of the upper lake, tlu river is almost un a level with its banks ; so that if it should rise per ptnuicularly eight or ten feet, it would lay under water the adjacent flat countiy of Upper Canada on the west, and the state of New-Yoik on the cast. Theri ver wheic it issues is about three quarters of a mile in width. Btfore reaching the falls, it is propelled with great rapidity, being a mile broad, about twentyfive feet iic cp, j-nd having adescentof fifty leet in hall a mile." Aftci this immense body of water has been prcci pitattd ovtr a precipice of 1 hunditd St sixty feet, -the bed of the river below the falls is strewed over with huge fragments hurled down into the abyss. By the continued destruction r.f the locks, the falls have within the last foity years receded nearly fifty yards, cr, in other words, the ravine has been prolonged to that extent I hrough this deep chasm ihe Niagaraflows forabout seven miles, and then the table land, which is almost an a ievel with lake Erie, suddenly sinks down st a place called Qucenstown, and the river emerges Irem the ravine into a plain which continues to the shores of lake Ontario. 1 here seems gogd reason for the general opinion, that the falls were once at Queens.cv .1, and that they have gradually retrogiaded from that place to their present position, about sc ven miles distant If the ratio of recession had never exceeded fifty yards in foity years, it must have required ten thousand years for the excavation of the whole ravine; but no probable conjee ture can be offered as to the probable time consumed in Mich a. i operation, becuusr the ictrog'adc movement may have been much more rapid when the wnolt current v. i confined within a space not exceeding a foui th or a filth of that which the falls now occupy. Should the erosive action not be accelerated in future, it will require upwards of thirty thousand 'years for the falls to reach lake Erie (twenty -five miles distant) to which they seem destined to arrive in the course of time, unless some earthquake changes the relative levels of the district. Should lake Erie remain in its present state until the period when the ravine recedes to its shores, the sudden escape of that great body of water would cause a tremendous deluge ; for the ravine would be much mor than sufficient to drain the whole lake, of which the average depth was found, during tho late survey, to be only ten or twelve fathoms. -But in consequence of its shallowness, lake Eric is fast filling up with sediment ; and the annual growth cf the deltas of many rivers and torrents which flow inio it is remarkable." LACONICS. It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; Sc judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession, and another for practice, and make up their consciences, as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set ol furniture for show, and another for use. The most adroit flattery is that which counterfeits a resentment at hearing our darling opinions so sturdily attacked, yet counteifeits it, only to bestow the meed of victory wrested from us, as wc pre tend, by the mote forcible weapons ol our opponent. If you cannot inspire a woman with love for you, fill her above the brim with lov e for herself all that runs over will be yours.

Tun itnronMED KIEBICAX. COLLEGE,

rl Y and with the consent of the Hcforruthe r.ru- Hri'nrrr.rA lnt'.ru Tr ctW lit irn h been located in Woithington, an iutcx c? tir.g and fieiimhing town on the hcts'oe river, t ight miles north cf Columbus, cn the Northern Turnpike. This state has been chosen, becau: it presents the greatest adtcuiui&c o iacimait the researches ct the ui.wi.Raisvuciu me ccurtry around it ajbcundirg with every variety c-f medical ....I .. J . .. plants; ana the situation beii g the most aad delightful in the wtsu m ccuntry ar.d because the occupancv cf the lar. college edifice, together with the ground c f every variety of foil for an extensive botanical garden, has been presented to us bv the bor.rd of trustees of Worthinetcn collrirr.

There will be attached to the institute?. 4 J a dispensary for analyzing and preparis vegetable medicines; and an infirmary, where persons from the neighborhood, or" distance, laboring under fevers, consumptions, dyspepsia, liver cerr.plaints, grave?, ulcers, fistulas, cancers, Jcc.cNc. w ill be successfully treated, without blcedir.niercU' ry or the kmfe and from which the student

will acquire a correct knowledge cf the na ture, operation and superior efficacy cf ve getable agents in remov ir.g d;e.isc. Ihe necessity for such an irstitutkn cf this kind, in the west, to be undt r the direction of competent professors, is trikinglv evident. Itis an institution that is desnned to concentrate, and disseminate, all the know ledge and discoveries of doctors of me dicine and cmpyrics, sages, :md savnejes: and that w ill demonstrate to the student and the sick that vegetables alonafferd the on ly rational, safe, and effectual means of removing diseases, withcut impairing the constitution, or endanger life or limb. That the present system of practice, which tieat diseases ot every form with metallic minerals, the lancet, or the knife, is, dangerous cr inefficient the lamentable facts which every day present too fully illustrate. Nor ii this truth more clearly exhibited, than ti t fact that vegetable substances alone, arc void of danger, and powerfully ciT.cier.when administered : a preference to the successof our New-York infirmary, and the success of ignorant botanical physicians, proves this fact. The college and infirmary ill be opened the first w eek in December, where suuknt?. from all parts may enter and complete their medical education, and where persons labeling under every species cf disease shall receive prompt and faithful jvttcr.t.cn. The course rf study to be pui ucd, ar.d which will be taught according to the OLD and the IIefokmku systems,' y. Lectures, Recitations, Examinations, and m.;l .hie text books, is, 1st. Anatomy and Ph logy. 2. Old and Reformed Surgery. ' 3. 'j l.ccry and Practice cf Medicii:.; I. The i Id ar.d improved system of Alidwiu ry, wi-h the diseases cf women and children 3. Materia Medica, with practical and general Botany. 6. Medical and Iktanical Chemistry and Phanm.cy. 7. Stated Lectures n collateral Science Moral and Mental Pbilt&rpky Phrenology Medical Jurisprudence Comparative anatomy, Medical histny.&c. by attending this institution, the student v ill acquire a correct knowledge 1 1 the present practice of physicians a knowledge ct" the use, and abuse, cf Minerals, the Lancet, Obstetrical Forceps, and the knife, and t. knowledge of the new and improved system, that supersedes their use, with te nfold morr safety and success. There w ill be no specified time to complete a course of study ; whenever the ttudent is qualified he m&y graduate and receive a Diploma some will pass in one year, others will require more. REQUISITIONS FOR ADMISSION. I. A certificate of a good moral character. 2. A good English Education. TERMS. The price of qualifying a per

son to practice, including a Diploma, and access to all the advantages of the Institution, will be S150 in advance, or 75 in advance, and 100 at the close of his studies. Every advantage given, and some allowance made to those in indigent circumstances. Hoard will be had at Sl.OO per week, and books at the western city pi ices. J7 Every student on entering W orthington college will become an honorary member of the Reformed Medical Society cf the United States from whom he will receiv e a Diploma, and Annual Report of all the doings and discoveries of its different members, and be entitled to all its constitutional privileges and benefits. Those wishing further information will !- please address a letter (post paid) to Col. G. II. Griswold, or the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt attention. Students and others had better beware cf the slanders of the present physicians, who know no more about our institution, thaa they do about Botanical Medicine. J. J. STEELE, President. IVorthington. O. Oct. 1, 1830. NOTE Editors publishing the above Circular fifty-two times, shall receive as compensation, a certificate tr.itlii.g the bearer to tuition gratis, or an equivalent to that sum (S150) in medicine, advice or attendance, from us or any member cf cur society. Those publishing it Z6 times, to half that compensation. Such editors in the west as published the N.York Circular one year, by giving the foregoing twelve insertions, can send their student to this institution, and he shall be accepted. November 27, 1830. 42-ly

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