Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 49, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 January 1831 — Page 4

poetical .o'ijlun

From the Mirror. To When life has fled this weary breast And earthly hopes have ceased to bloom, Then bear me to that.spot of rest The silent tomb. When softly tolls the evening bell. An 1 slowly I am borne from thee ; Let not thy tender bosom swell With grief for me. Then hush'd in everlasting sleepNo more the ills of life to share. Stay not around me then to weepBut leave me there. The tomb shall take me to its trust, When to its God my spirit flies ; There I shall miugle with the dust 'Till seraphs bid me rise. The trump will sound, the dead shall rise. The bars of earth shall then be riven ; And we shall soar above the skies To meet in Heaven. A. A WINTEil SKETCH. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And Dick the shepherd blows the nail. Shaks. Now are we buried in the very bowels of winter. Every thing is frozen. The tnu'. of benevolence itself expands not without an tffort ; cramped are the very fingers ot charity; patriotism sparkles but as a dying ember ; waning are the fiiea of religion; Hymen's torch shed deth more light than heat, and Cupid hath need of a blanket. All faiths and all virtues are shrivelled into the smallest possible dimensions. Closed are the avenues through which man sympathizes with his fellow. Frigid vapors and dismal blasts compress into setlish ness and ice, all open hearts and all still Waters Vegetation hath long ceased, and peculation droops, and one vast 'frost seems to circumveat the universe, and the banks refuse to discount. x Now falleth the feathery snow and the g: ty sieet slantwise, sometimes by intruding gusts ol hail, roughly pattering against the bedrooms s eastern most casement. Elderly matrons and impatient convalescents look despondingly along the deserted street, and symptoms of shuddering crawl over the flannelled epidermis, and master Dicky in his ball diess exclaims "dear me, I'm all goose flcsn." Now the hearth is thickly peo pled, and the dry sticks snap spitefully in 'he blaze, while the green log splutters sulkily below. Now through narrow chinks insinuates trie iretful breeze; and aunt Guzzf I, with a ghastly pucker, snudges closeJy against the other j.imb. Now long icicles decline from projecting eaves and -Yerhangin spouts, and the iron pumpbake cleaveth to the round and rosy hand of Miss Jemima essaying to fill the tea kettle. Now camblets thickly lined, and tartans with exaggerated capes, and drab duflles and dreadnoughts and devonshires, and coaung cloaks for the soofter sex, are cxteriorily displayed. Now do we appi ipinque to the time ol sleighing and 'adding afar off there is a tinkling of httlc bells mingling with the hollow winds; and tough younkerstell of congenial ponds, shrilling thither with a viaticu'u of skates and gingcrbread, to cnact feats vertiginous and ruminant. All neighborhood hath departed, save at city hre sides, where silent whist bea-s sovereign rule, or clattering dice break dolefully upon the social loneliness In towns populous, each rustic householder now summons his whole circle, from jocund Johnny on the three legged stool within the chimney's precimts, up to bouncing Betty that wears around her ample waist two yards of yellow pcarlcdged satin ribb-n. And, a the four font faggots flame and brighten, around doth-piss the foaming 3 ion, replete with cider new and saccharine ; and nuts laid up in upper stories, and merry jokes likewise, are forthwith brought tor cracking and in gurgitation Now sylvan lads turn out and tackle restive poneys into weatherbeaicn sleighs ; willing that divers damsels, moping all alone, shall face the surly storm, and visit squire Muddleton's hotel in yonder village, whereat to sip a cheering glass, and chat at courtship chceringly the while. Wheels crt ek along the indurated road, and wagons bound to market move with sad reluctance, urged on by drowsy drivers, with scarlet gills and noses tipped with blue; the stageman passes by, and fain would us'ier forth his notes vociferous, yet frost forbids, ihey would be frozen in the loudest noise h- makes is cracking of the whip, which by the way, is nst the most reSned WOMAN. "In our soft hours. It k lightsome sunbeam on our skv of joy ! It; -Vrp distrees nnd agony of mind The star and herald of our earthly hope." RESPECT TOR. FEMiLKS. The following is one of the most elosketches which wc recollect to fcrc seca. It is rich ia figure, chaste h

delicate in style, and highly refined in sentiment. Phil Albnm. "I dislike the man who deliberately trifiea with the affections of woman. I would rather shake hands with a highwayman, than with a gentleman who has sacrificed to his own vanity the life long happiness of an inexperienced girl. I fear this sort of conduct has never been sufficiently reprobated, and females too often betray the rights of their sex, .by accepting with pride the homage of a man, who has become notorious for the

conquest and destruction ol their sisters, h as if his meicy and love couia oe aepended upon! The world laughs, and stores of living proverbs and stupid jests on the briefness of woman's love, are administered; but you will find, if your heart be not hardened by selfishness, that this will be in vain. Perhaps yu had no intention of being serious, you only flirted, tried to be agreeable, U. to please for the moment ; you had no conception that youi behaviour could be misconstrued, and you shudder at the bare thought of earning the icy damnation of a seducer. It may be so, for there is a descent to the hell of seduc- . . tion, though the descent is perniciously easy, and "Nemo repente, fuit tuipissimus," but what if while you are meaning nothing, your trifling created anguish, your 6port became death to the object ? When, by exclusive attentions, you have excited regard, by the developemcnt ol talent, or by the display of devotion of personal graces you have fascinated the mind and the heart, when, by the melting and the sinking eye, the faltering voice, the fervid tone: the retained hand, you have awakened the passion you cannot lay v hen you have done thi3 in the co'd blood of vanity, and it suits your convc nience, or stated coxcombsry, to finish the scene by altered mein, a distant courtesy, or an expression of surprise at the expected efforts of your civility, will you be able to quiet your conscience with a jest? Will you sleep on an adage of fools, or a lie of your own? What if the poor being, whose hope you have changed into despair, whose garden you have blasted with mildew and dust, whose heaven you have darkened forcvermore, and suffer, in silence, striving to bear her sorrow, praying for cheerfulness, pardoning without forgetting you, till the worm has eaten through life, and the body is emaciated which you have led to the dance, the voice is broken on which you have hung, the face wan which you have flattered, and the eyes frightfully bright with a funeral lustre, which used to laugh radiancy, and hope, and love when they gazed upon you ? What if a proud temper, a more aident imagination, and a stronger constitution, should lead to spite, and impatience, and recklessness of good and ill, if a hasty and loveless marriage should be the rack of her soul, or the provocation of her sin I Is there mandraora could drue you to sleep while this was on your memory, or does there really live a man who could triumph in such bitter V)0 i But "verium et mutable semper Famina." O believe it not ! For the sake ofour household Gods, call it and cause it to be a lie 1 Be ye sure that coquettes ar6 the refuse of their sex, and were only ordained to correspond with the coxcombs of ours. Women have their weaknesses, c plenty ot them, but they are seldom vicious like ours ; and as to their levity of heart, who shall compare the worldly, skin deep fondness of a man with the one rich idolatry of a virtuous girl ? A thousaad thoughts distract, a thousand passions are a substitute for the devotions of a man ; but to love is the pur pose, to be beloved, the consummation ; to be faithful the religion of a woman It is her all in all, and when she gives her heart away, she irives a lewel. which, if it does not make the wearer richer than Croesus, will leavothe giver poor indeed. AGRICULTURAL AXIOMS. In no department is Bacon's celebrated maxim, "knowledge is power," more true than in regard to agriculture : hence no farmer can be accounted skilful in his ptofession who does not avail himself of the information to be derived from the experience of others, and who does not improve his knowledge ot husbandry by the perusal of the ablest works that have been written on tfiat Mihject. It is ansuru to imagine, than the communication of knowledge byf ... . . - printing, which has promoted the advancement of every other art, should be of no use in agriculture Endeavor to raise good grain, for it will always sell, even in years of plenty ; whereas it is only in dear and scarce season that there is a demand for grain of an inferior quality. Let your stock of cattle, horses, &c. be of the best sorts, and more remarkable for real utility than for beauty or fashion. Be not above your profession, and al ways consider it as the first that any man can follow Admit no guest into your house, who cannot live upon the productions of hu own country. No farmer ought to undertaketo cultivate any more land than he can stock and manage to advantage. It is better to till twenty acres well, thaa one hundied in a slovenU manner. A man owning a large farm is do ex-

cuse for Imperfect tillage What he cannot improve he need not undertake to cultivate. Most of- our lands in the vicinity of villages, if left to the operation of nature, will soon be profitable for ful and limber. Large pastures may be profitable with no other labor than what is necessary to keep them clear of bushes. But to run over twenty acres of ploughed land or mowing land, for what, with pood cultivation, may be obtained from five acres, is the quintessence of bad husbandry.

A large farm without skill? capital, or industry, is a plague to its owner. It is like what somebody said of self-right-eousness the more you have of it the worse you are off. Be not afraid of trying experiments ; but let them be on a small scale at first, and few at a time. FEMALE TEMPER. It is particularly necessary for girls to acquire command of their temper, be cause much of their powers ol reasoning and of their wit, depend upon the gentleness and good humor with vvhich thev conduct themselves A woman who should attempt to thunder with hei tongue, would not find her eloquence in crease her domestic happiness. We no not wish that women should implicitly yield their better judgment to their fa thers, or husbands ; but let them sup port the cause of reason with all the graces of female gentleness. A man, in a furious passicn, is tcrri ble to his enemies ; but a woman, io a passion, is disgusting to her friends ; she loses all that respect due to her st x, and she has not masculine strength and courage to enforce any other kind of respect. These circumstances should be considered by those who advise that no difference should be made in the education of the two sexes. The happiness and influence of wo men, both as wives and mothers, and indeed, in every relation, so much dt pends on their temper, that it ought to be most carefully cultivated We should not suffer girls to imagine that they can balance ill uumour by some good quality or accoik.pllhhnie ; because, in fact, THERE AHR NONi WHICH CAW SUPPLY THE WANT F TEMPER IN THE FEMALE SEE. THE CIlOTV. "They are very docile birds, and may be trained up to following like hawks j to fetch and carry like spaniels; they may be taught to speak like parrots ; bt which is most extraordinary ot all, ihe may be taught to imitate the human voice in singing. They have a great propensity to pilfering, otten hiding things of value, to the great loss ot the owner without use to themselves. Dobson's linczclofiedia article Corvus. io those who are not personally ac quainted with the fact, it will seem incredible that the common crow should be said to possess the faculty of speaking intelligibly ; and were there not now in this town many persons who daily witness the occurrence, we should hesitate to make the statement, lest we should be suspected abroad with dealing in visions and fables. But knowing, as we do that we shall be supported by the evidence of many and by actual daily oc currence, wc venture to state, that there is now every day, flying and lighting about the roots ol the houses in Georgetown, a crow, of the common size and color, which displays a remarkable pronciency, tor any mine oi its kina, in learning and pronouncing the English language. He is not yet two years old, having been taken when young, spring bctore last, and domesticated by the lam ily of Mr. John Adams of this place When he arrived et an age which ena bled him to fly, he was permitted to go at large, and so remains returning every night to his native lodging, and manifest ing no inclination to leave the town. There are several childien in the fa mily where he was raised, whose names were necessarily frequently called in his presence; and hearing these names, and particularly some of them, he has learned to articulate with a clearness and distinctness, not to be excelled by any human being ; and we are informed by those who at e best acquainted with him, that he is capable ol uttering many sentences, and does it in reply to what is spoken to him, manifesting strong evi dences of his having a knowledge of the . meaning ot the language used by him. On ihis subject wc have confidence in our information, becauss we are daily made eye witnesses to the fact of his using several words with clearness and distinctness, and particularly the words 4tO Bill 1" which he pronounces with a shrill clear voice, so near like that of children or females calling a person at a distance by the name cf Bill, that were a person not apprized of its being the crow, tie would have no doubt of its being the voice and words of a human being, lor the correspondence in articulation and sound, we are coafident cannot be exceeded. In this exercise he seems to take a particular delight, especially ivhcn he is hov ring about the children at play, which is otten the case, seemingl tVa,,?..del,hllne.ch0lne lhc word' O uui : io those wno annear anxmux of hearing him speak. For the sake of his seeming intelligence and speaking faculties, he is much respected by ali who hear him, and in return, he appears to haye a much greater regard for the

society of the human family, ttan cf his own species. Jlbany paper. THE BESUKXIECTION. The following beautiful and descriptive extract, is taken from sermons published nnder the title of the Scotch Preacher 3 "Twice had the sun rone down upon

the earth, and as yet all was quiet at the sepulchre-, Death held his sceptre over the Son of God; still and silent the hours passed on ; the guards stood by their post, the rays of the midnight moon gleamed upon their helmets, and on their spears; the enemis ol Christ ex ulted in their success; the hearts of his friends were sunk in despondence and in sorrow ; the spirits of glory waited in anxious suspense to behold the event, Sc wondered at the depth of the ways of God At lencrth the morning star, an sing in the east, announced the approach ot light: the third day began to dawn upon the world, when on a sudden the earth ttembied to its centre, and the powers of heaven were shaken; an an gel of God descended, the guards shsunk backirom the terror of his pre sence & fell prostrate upon the ground ; his countenance was like lightning, ant his raiment was as white as snow ; he lolled away the stone from the door o the sepulchre, and aat upon it But who is this that cometh from the tomb, with dyed garments from the bed of death ? - He that is glorious in his appearance waiketh in the greatness of his strcngtl It is voui Lord He has ttodden the wine press alone; he hath stained his raiment with blood; but now as thefiist born Irom ihe womb of nature, he meets the morning ot his resurrection. Ilea rises a conqueror from the grave; he brings salvation to the sons of men Never did the returning sun usher in a uuy so glorious 1 It was the jubilee of the universe. The morning stars sang together, and all the sons ol God shout cd aloud U joy ; tht Father ot Mercies looked down horn his throne in the heu vciu ; with complacency he saw his wotk thai it was good, t hen did the desert icjoice; the face of nature was gladdened Oeioi e him when the blessings of the Eien.ai descended at the dew ot heaven ! tonne retreatiing of the nation it The opposers ol the people say that "universal suffrage" is dangerous, be cause n permits a man without piopeny to hive a much influence in forming a Kovernmciu as the man worth fifty thou sand crone hundred thousand dollar.This is altogether a lallacy. Piay what is the object and end ot govern ment ? U it not to make the people nappy ? And if it be so, is not me hap uinessol a man whose property consists in lhr Ktrenvth nl hia arm. Ba dear IO him as valuable to him a the prop ertv ot the richest man in the communi ty ? Men ought to support the govern ment in proportion to ptoperty but the formation ol the government is tquai to all persona happiness on winch a gov eminent acts, arc equal in ali into to tkereloicougt thei: votes to be. A" Y. Lour, is Enq. UN FAR ALLELE!) STEAM ENGINE TUI?. Air v.cplitiifcui., the piopuetoi ot the Rocket Enirine rn Hip t utir ht-itp t anri Liveipoo. tail way had this week ueciUcd in his favour a watrcr oi one thousand guineas upon the speed ot his engine, b travel sing the distance bttwtcn the two toviiis, ('.hilly-two miles) in thirty-three nnnu'c- or in oiuet words, at more than filty-eight miles per hour J Honest industry, sava a sentimental writer, "is sadlv out ot fashion. Our dashing men of spirit hat? slow, creep ing ways of acquiring property. I hey must snike some capital stroke' set fortune, integrity, happiness, every valu able consideration upon that chance, and either become great people, or, in their own language, nothing. This spirit o rash adventure is one ot the features o the times, and is derived from that fata system which despises the bounds o it i ... propriety, ana launs at the aictaleB o rectitude. Brief Remarket. The spirit of intrigue causes in up right and honest minds a sort of dread analagous to that which springs from personal dangers which may :hreaten us in darkness. This arises from the im possibility of our forming any exact judgment as to the nature of what we have to expect. , SMITH &. TRACY'S Tin V Shed Iran MAIN LTALTUHI. ON the corner, of Market and Second streets, have on hand tor sale, a large and general assortment of Tin and Sheet Iron ware, which they offer at reduced puces. Tinware will be sold wholesale and retail uponadvan tagcous terms to purchasers. Vinccnnes, October 24, 1829. 37-tf 2 IOOII AT THIS ! A LL persons indebted A scriber, arc request to the subrequested to call in this month and settle the same with cash or by note and all having demands against him to present them in the same time and receive their cash. R. POTTER. Vinccnnes, January 1, 1831 47-5t

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