Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 22, Number 16, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 May 1831 — Page 4
iJoctfc.tl Stoijlum.
FOR THE WF.STKRN SUN'. Spring. Balmy are the days of Spring. Nature clad in green appear?. Blithe the birds their matins sing. Waking thoughts of by-gone years. f low'rs the pleasant proves adorn, Nought is seen but speaks I lis praise; Then should we on each bright morn.
Raise to Him our joyous lavs. Skylarks springing from the fields, joyous mount towards the sky; Gv'ry thing enjoyment yields, Man the reason scarce know why. Spring must shortly now make room. And give place to Summer's reign;" Winter, then, with all Ids gloom Will re -visit us again. But the hope of Spring's return. Still should animate our hearts. We her absence should nrt mourn, Since she now such joy imparts. Life, like Spring, is speeding by, Fading like a Summer flnw'r; Da s and months how swift they fly, Years of life seem but an hour. fife's a rare-show at best. Compound of sorrow, pain and trouble; A scene of labour not of rcst A dying spark an empty bubble ! We should then our minds prepare, Cleanse our souls for joys above, (Scenes celestial, bright and f air. Worthy God's and Ansel's love. A WANDERER. Vincennes, NT w. 1831.
sundry times cr,J oo Jivtrs oceasiais, during Ihe good old days when, if a man did not choose to be merry sometimes himself, he did not ciy out against those who did. Uncle Sam was a sad fellow at Racknon hunting; and a barbecue was his delight, until it got to be the custom to tatk politics and make long speeches at them. Uncle Sam, in early life, save tome of fence to his lather about going to the meeting house instead of the church One word brought on another until John Bull at length took to beating the poor fellow into conformity with his notions lie was a lad ol spi'it th.it would pui up with this from no man, not even his la ther; and accordingly, without saying a word to any body, he packed up his all, and linle enough it was, and marched off into 'he wide world to seek his fortune You may suppose Uncle Sam had but little to begin with; hut he was a stirring blade, who did not mind trouble at first,
to pay among tl rest. They accused a few thousand of the old gentleman's the o.d man of being more partial to one money for the encouragement i f domrs-
thaoto the other, and never gave him a 1 tic industry, which about tr is time be-
ny rest till he put them all on a level; which he had no sooner done than they, one and all, began to grumble and find
fault, saying the poor man was in his do tage, only because he had not given each one a prelcrencc over his brother. Uncle Sam sometimes said to himself, 'H ippy is the man who lias nothing to give away, for his children won't quarrel about his estate " Hut this was not the worst of it. The old Harry got into them about improving rhcir farms, which they all swore was Uncle Sam's business; he was devour ing all the money they could rake and scrape together to pay tor the lands he had sold them. They said it was a sin and a shame lor him to make them pay every thing, seeing they were his natural born childien; entitled to bed.boauhed
ucation, and an outfit. Besides, the old
if he could only see his w ay clear to j man was now become so rich he did not
nmethim? in the end He set hin seif
to the business of clearing and selling new lands As ast as he became pretty comfortable in one farm, he sold out a' profit and set off for another, so that he was seldom or ever more titan two or three years in the same place. B t for all this he never lost sight of the main chance; for there wan nothing on the facr of the earth he loved todcatly a a bar
pain or a prontauie speculation uv
know whit to do with his money, and it
was actuady a kindness to rid him ol its
management in his oid age
Those cunning varlets agreed in the
propriety ol sharing Uncle Sam s mo
ney, but they fell out about the minner
o dividing it. like a parcel ot undutilui
rogues as liny were The big fellows
argued that they ought to share accord
ing to weight, and insisted they shouk!
ail go down to the mill and be weighed
good management and good luck he at ! But the little fellows, who had been
last got to have a vast property in lands, which he was everyday adding to by buving out the Indians, or taking (aims lor debts that were owing him. In short, he prospered in all his underta kings, and became, in process of tine, a great imn among his neighbors Bui to mv mind he was not ab ve hall as
clever a fellow as when he was poor
gan to be veiy low-spirucd, and wanted a little patting Avast there, you land lubber," ex-
claimed one of the brothers, a bold
hearty Jack tar, who hart sailed round c round the world, and was a mighty navi
gator; 'avast there, none of your fresh
water rabble. I should like to know
the reason why you should be paid for
making bob-nails, any more than 1 am
or building ships Avast there, I say.
vou lubber, or I'll be foul of your dead
lights."
Next came another brother, who was
a great hand at raising sheep, which he
called being a wool grower, to demand
that, as people could not live without
clothes, Uncle Sam should shell out a
lew dollars to lewatdhim tor Deinir a
gieat public benefactor.
"Fudgii" exclaimed the cotton grow
ing brother, "where one man is clothec
in wool, a thousand wear cotton Why
not encouraee me then, instead of this
M woolly? Away with your bleating, oi 11
be into your mutton before you can sa)
Jac k K; bison.
Nx came a sober, sedate, economi
eal brother, who had set upa shoe shop, and wanted Uncle Sam's protection t hat is to say, some of his money "Rot your sole," cried the high handed gentleman who despised hard work.
and had rather ride a blood horse than make his own shoes a thousand times
had taV;n, end begsn to plot together to turn the o'd n an c.ui ot house and b me, and take posessicn of all his es'a't. as soon as they could bring matters to 1 1 ar. Accordingly they went about ?n or jj their neighbors and people, insirta'n .5
that the old man was in his dotage, ar.d
could not manage his affairs an) longer.
h was high time, they said, that he
should cue up his estate intotneir
hands, and set about preparing for a tetter world. Thev raised ail sorts c i sto
ries against him, as how he did not car any more about the law or ti e gtspel
than a pagan; how he lucked up pri p'C)
just lot the pleasure ol string 'hen. kick
their heels in the air; and how he threatened to cut off the ea's.ot a member ot congr ess, enly because he told stone s about him. In this way those tcystcrir g tnjs raised a great clamor against U.ce bam, which emboldened their, at i;.s; to hatch a diuboacal plan lor taku g an I is lands away atone blow. They wnenot conunt with gcting them by dcgitu, to pay for the schooling ol thur childien, building school houses, teael ing; duti.b people philosophy, and a it. cusand other ways, but they now t etei n irtd to
make one business of it, and strip toe O'd gentleman as bare ss my hend Not findii g any law lor this, they determined to get one passed for the purpose; accordingly they went amorg the people, and told them a hundred c k &; bull stories about this, that and the i cr
"slnunk in the boiling,' demur red to
this, and swore it was all in mv eve. Bet What are you talking about thtre? It's
ty Martin. They were as much the a. ighty natural that you should he asking
lawf. I sons of Uncle Sam as the be-t St encouragement for making shoes 11
hit ecst of them, and were determined to I .'hey were horse shoes now I'd talk to
have their share at the point of the bay- you " So sayi -g, he mounted his horse
.snet. There was one little lel'.ow parti m challenged Uncle Sam to run a iate
i-ularli. who lived on an island about as lor a thousand elollais.
big as my thumb nail, who talked like a
FO t 11IK WESTERN SUN. CONTENTMCNT.
Happy the man. butt) how fe v we find. Who feels the pleasures of a tranquil mind. Who meets ill I blessings in eon'ent alone, Wh knows no station happier than his own. No i'i xious cares disturb his peaceful breast. With life content, and with contentment blest; -JCo pangs he feels to break his calm repose, Tvro envy fears, for he no envy knows: To man still faithful, and t (v)d resignM, l. body subject to its lo;d, the mind, lie must he good, for surely hcav'u ne'er mt ant, Without strict virtue, to bestow content. Tisnot the glory false ambition brings. The wealth of misers, or the pow'r of kings Nor all the fleeting joys by man possest, Can give this earthly frame that heav'nly guest. Whatever the joys life's fleeting hours beslow, Ar'ue from virtue, and from virtue flow. YINCKNTNlv BAUD. Vincennes, M ty, 1831.
Th-n he was a jolly, careless, high giam. and threatened to dissolve the lam
F'omj the N V Mii ... ITNCLC HAM AND HIS BUYS. A tttit' for politicians hy Paulding. Once upon a time iheie lived, and Sites still, in a country lying tar to the
rest, a famous squire, rich in land and
ninded dog generous as a prince, and
hospitable as a Turk He would amar a little ai time, but he never meant any harm by it But as he got rich he set himself to be genteel; aped the manncs of all the wouid be fashionable stragglers that came that way; never mvpany bodv to his house exct pi to shew ff his new finery, and eft oil' all his honest old habits by Utile and little. The lact is, and I don't care who knows it, he took to canting, and turned the embroidered side of his jacket out ards, as a I urk decs when he goes t. court Many people doubted whether he was any thing Ihebeitei loi thi; and.
if 1 must epcak my mind I think he lost more than he gained! tor, as it respec-
myself,I had rather a man would swea k drink punch a little, than pick my o k et while he is canting about brotheiiy love and good will 10 all men II Une.e Sam is angry at this, let him scratch nis back and get pleased again As Uncle Sam goi rich and with-l stout and hearty as a young giant, the neighboring gentry, who called him an upstart and looked askmce at his pr s perity, would shake their htada ven wisely and cry out, 4Ah! poor man, to be sure he looks well and heart : bu a ny body cau see. with half an eye, tn is not long lor this world." And then thev would sigh and take a pinch of snuff to
their prognostications.
it union, and set up lor r.imsclf, if they did not treat him like a fullblown man.
After this, for thero vras no end to
their persecution of the poor old man; after this came another, a gieat mecha
nic3l genius, who had inventtd a machine
1 hey had a grat many hard bouts at lor pealing apples, and wanted enccur
words, ar-d some of the neighbors featei: agemcnt from Uncle Sam for th. great hey would come together by the ears. saving of time and labor in making ap But though they quarrelled like so many pie pu s. nid women, 'ike old women they never "Whool whoo! whoop?" cried the eamc to b;ows Tney had a kind of wild harem-scareni barhecue. one ol sneaking kindness for one another at the Uncle Sam's youngest sons w ho had jusbottom, which always prevented their se'tled a town way off west, and not y t proceeding to extremities thrown off his moccasins; whoop! Bui foi all they were forever falling Mis-er, mind which way you p int your out about nothing or some trifle nexi to tfle there I can turn a flip fl.ip suroerooihing, and never gave each other a set, grease your head with bear' meat good word, except when they all put and swallow you whole without a pant:, p tir heads together, as they often did, You had bv iter take neer how you to diddle Uncle Sam out of a few thou steer your steamboat or you'll lun foul s.L.d fui he imnrovcmcr.tof their larms. of a snag "
Fortunatt ly, however, lor the old man's By an by came another cf this hopeful pocket, it as seldom they would agree family, with a long story of the great
about rhedivisi'in of the spoils, or it advantage Uncie Sam wou.d derive fiom
would not have been long before he clearing out a ditch, at his own expense,
w ould have been as poor as a rat. lor he benefit ot other people
Be this as it may, the good man had Here the great big fellow mentioned
no peace ol his life, and was several before, who was the richest of the bro umes on the point of making ovei ab ihers,put in his bar and cried out
his property to build meeting houses Sc "None of that fun, blotter Ji.i.&tlm ;
educate the cnildren ol other people I've done all my own ditching mysci, &
Certain it is. he had good reason to do I'll bt totally ramswis ed il I'm g' ing to
so, for these undutilul boy s left him no let daddy pay for w hat 1 did al! myself
rest dav nor night, on account of his mo Dig your own ditches, my boy, as I have
ney No being able to agree upon the done. plan of dividing Uncle Sam's income, Then came a fine fellow, one cf the accoidingto weight, it was proposed to young fry, who wanted Unci' Sam to
do it by measure; but here again the lit pony up lor a lane he was about making
. At. . t a k 9 It
Iluows has children in all parts ot the j every attaci; lie had, ana every ruo lie torld. But, if the truth were known,! met with, only sewed to show tlu 1 believe he had a great many fathers, I strength of his constitution, and make it though his mother was a very honest I still stronger, until at last these false woman, for he looked like as many peo ! prophets began to say to themselves pic as there were hairs on his chin But ; c,the rouge will certainty ta jt forever "
paper money. Keport made him out to 'the success ol
be the son ol John Bull, w ho every one j But it happened somehow or other thai ! tie fellows, w ho wer e '-shrunk in the horn his barn to his hog pen, which he
boilmir, made a most infernal rou'e and assured the old man would be a vast
opposed it tooth and nail They swore public improvement; for that wherea
they were as good as the big fellows any his carts s'urk in the mud now, they
dav in the week, and as much the sons ol would be able lo get along likt a streak
Uncle Sim as the others, and assisted of lightning a3 soon as the improvement
hat the apportionment should be made waB made.
iccordmg to merit, riot weight or size " Thunder and blame)!" exclaimed f'hev all agreed to 'his. and the matter three or four ot the elder brothers at
' ' 1
old Squire Bull had the credit ot being
iih father, and truly there was a great likeness between them Like Bull he Tjas somewhat given to boasting, tip piing, fighting, and sailing boats; and tras apt to hold his neighbors in con
tempt, dubbing hem a pack ol snivel
Now I don't pretend to sav this would
have been the
case, seeing
there is an
end ot all things; but I veriiv believe he ! was just on the point of being amicably once, "hav'nt e made our own roads at would have lived to a happy and green j settled, had it not been that a trifling dil- our own cost, and withou' asking daddy
ole age, had it not been tor the undu'i ful behaviour of his children, which made his latter days one scene of trouble
ling, pitiful rascals, that did not dare to land 'urmoil call their souU their own, or look their j Y ui must know that as soon as Uncle liiog in the lace, as every cat has a right J Sam thought himself able to maintain a So dj. He took after his father in ano i family comfortably, he go! him a wile; ther respect, that is to say, nobody could and in the course of twice as many years tell which he was most fond of, making his children amounted to foui fcc twenty ; money like a horse, or spending it iikejalt jolly, strapping, roysteiing blades, on ass But for all this he did not so j with the exception of two or three, that much favor John Bull, but that you j were rather stinted in the growth, or as could now and then ca'ch an expression Unrle sain used to say in joke, "shiunk
Acuity occurred in adjusting the scale of for a cent; and do ou think, you snivel
merit I he roystei ing burbacue fellow ling blockhead, we'll stand by and set
swore he was as good as any man you the old man cheated out ot what bslongs
could throw aatiikat; the splitter of to Usi
shingles maintained the sup riority of 'Goody gracious!" at length cried
his art; the young sou'tre, who was food Uncle Sam, throwing up his eyes
t
3n his face that put you in mindofevcr n the boiling " These last were rashe
t)ody you had ever seen in the world. j conceited and jealous, as most little J.ihn Bull had christened this son ot j people I believe are. his by the name ot Jonathan; but by and ! As fast as these lads giew un, Uncle
by. when he became a man grown being1 Sam portioned them off on his farms, j in the fire, which they heated till it was
ol riding a fine horse and doing nothing, dtclatedhe considered himself the most
of a gentleman; the raiser ol rice md cotton claimed precedence on the score of administering both to the back and
stomach; and the little fellow that lived ! on hii island, put in his claim on the
score d morality This would net do, and so the old man escaped being plundered this time
But these fine boys had another iron
a ciou ncarty lenow aoout hall horse S: which they wore to pay for when they ha'l alligator, his friends and neighbor were able, at very low prices. They all g.vi him the nick name ol UocteSam;' imned out pretty clever industrious fela sure iKn 'hat they like him. lor I lows, with the exception of here and riescr knew a respectable nick name ; there one who was rather lazy, and got Riven to a scurvy fellow in my lite.' all his work done bv neL'ioes Thev all
his lamilv and differed in s mic resnecis: but th re was mcnt, whir h used in old times to be im
provement ol mind and morals, out now means digging ditches, pulling up snags
red hot. 10th one ot the cunning varlets, Ibvlieve it was the barbecue chap, 'Let us set about improving our larms, and make the old boy p. y the piper" upon which they all ageed, and set upa hurrah about internal improve-
and making roads through the deaert. Upon this one of them went and set up a loom in his building, as he said, for the encouragement of domestic indus-
Ut ihis a3 it may,
1 t k
en nu neig;mours at last ca ne to ca 1 i1n
him nothing else but Unclr Sam; and after the mother, who was a pretty conall his beef, pork, and flour, in fact sidcrable talker One was a famous felcvery thing that belonged to him, was low for cod fishing; another s great hand tnatked with a huge U S six inches; at splitting shingles; a third was an am Jong As I have a great respect for u ateur of "road makinr and ditching; a
niversal example, I shall give him this fourth was m'mhu hind of barbecues. ! try, and hired other neoDle to come and
name in the sequel of my history, which taking after his father in that particu ar; ; tend it When he had done this, he I heieby commend to the special atten-; a filth dealt largely in wooden bowls and j went to Uncle Sam and insisted lie tion of all wise men, more especially ' onions; a sirith was a great cultiater ol j should give him abandfullor two of mo the wise men of the east. As to the rice and cotton; a seven h was a pretty ; ney, lo encourage him in such patriotic fools, every body knows they are so high minded fellow, fond of a good i and praise worthv under takings scarce nowadays, that I hereby snap horse, and of an independent, open-j "Stop there, my little fellow," cried Ciy fi bers and defy them. ! hanJed spirit, and so on They all lived 'he biggest brother of all, who had a fis I fli.tir myself no man living is bet ; together like living brothers, having a like a sledge hammer; "stop, if you ter q nl'Fd tor this piece ol biography. ; rich father who could do what he oleas ; please, I have setup my looms at my
U c e am and I hae been hand and cd with hs money that is to bay. they own expense; and I'd be switch'd il the j honest debts to pay, ar.d meant to piv ev
ftl'Mc these fifty years Many ate the were as ieatous of each other as two old man is going to nay v u for doing I ery penny he owed in the world he'ore
cock- running in the same vard what I have done for myelf " he began to talk boui laying o ,t money
If Uoc'e sam made a Christmas pre-1 Then another chap of the family set i improvements j sent lonne, 01 conferred a nai t icular ! un a blacksmith shop for m kinir hob- These g a"e ess young "gues ere a j
"goody gracious!" wht can be the mat
ter with these boys? I believe they meao
to eat me un alive! 1 wish I wish I was
as poor as Job's turkey
Now all that was required for Uncle
Sam to be just as he wished was to let
the boys have all the money, as they
wanted todo But what is very remark
able he never thought of this, and conti
nued wishing himself poor, without
once hitting on the best possible way o getting so.
Things went on getting worse for
sometime afterwards. Uncle Sam was
almost every day pestered for money to p3y for some improvement or other in
the boys' farms He kepr an account o
these, and the amount they would cost
and found that it would take all he was
worth in the world, and more besides, to
get through with half of them. So one
day tie put his band in his breeches pock
et, and swore roundiy ihey were a brood ol ungrateful rogues, that wanted lo get
him on ihe parish, and not another cent would he pony up for man or beast. This raised a terrible hue and cryamong the b jvs. who threatened todisin hciit the old man and set up for them seUes But he was a pretty s'iff old fellow when his pluck was up and he thought himself in the right You
might as well try to move a mountain as
thing 1 hey bwote the land ol ij,ht belonged to them when ol age accord:to an oid seuli mcnt, h C declared s . t Uncle Sam's children should allsha c
his estates equally al his death But thty kept the last part to themselves, as you may suppose, and pretended that they had a right to lake the eld nan8 pioper-.y while he was a'lvt. Be-i;icsf rhey wou.d szy,thc poor old getirhn.o don't know what to do with so n.cb
land; halt of it lies waste tor wan- of
proper attention, and if we only had it
we would make it ten limes more valua
ble, and pay the taxes, which he istxempted fiom, by virtue of an old charter.
1 he notion of getting mom) by luxa
tion is a biit which geneially thkts with people whose business is law nuking, no? tax paying, as I have always t ? :':u.
S the legislature which govci i-td w hero
U S's property lay. rubbed tlni t a.,dj
and were mightily tick ed with ihe uiei ot being able to squctse a little money Iron. Uncle Sam's new lands. Peictiving this argument told mc boys hatched another r.otion abou? Uncle Sm itctiviog all the money tor me lands he sold, and then forcing those w ho bought turn to woi k then get s o the bone to m;ke themstlvts w hole again, as it this wera not the w-ay all ovei the world. Uncle Ssm defended his bacc.nto tho last, like a stout old hero, as he was; but by degrees ihe 11.fiue1.ee of it-i.se ogues prevailed, and a law wjb pasted raki g aw ty all his properly, and dividing i: equally among the boys. s that those whuweie "shrunk in the boiling," get the same pioportion as the big n.ys-
tetir g blades, who rather than not come
n lor a s?ice, consented at last to si .e,
and share equd.y They were a'' -pe-cially enjoined to take care ol U tlo
Jam, and that he wanted lor rothn g, t ut
the poor old man fared pretty tr tie h as people gt ncrally do, when ihey n-ka over all their Dionertv to their c hihi-en
in their life time At first they 'u jied
him pretty wed for decency's sake, but by degrees they began to deprive tun of
tns usual con. torts Fust they ter k a-
way bis pipe, because the young mad
ams the sons had married could net t are
tobacco smoke '1 l.en the eldest bT
took possession of his aim chair, and his seat in the chimney corner Nex; they took the blankets from his bed, because they said il would injure hishca'-h to sleep too warm; and next thty a I but starved him to death, for f ar he sh uld
e'ie of apoplexy Finally, losing ai. re
spect tor the lies of blood, and all recoU lection of the early benefits they hud derived from the old man, they fair iy mined him out of doors The last I heard of Uncle Sam he was in the poor house.
IllV TO DL&TKOY It ATS. A friend in Sa'.err . M ssachusctts icforms us that rats are tasily desnnytd by srinkiing a little ponder cf Spanish Flies on some buttered bread, 01 .incr food which ra! s are f' tid of and it will easily destroy them N ! it dori not destroy but drives them fiom the premises. I his I know 10 be the fact, tor I hve tried it in old houses much iL.tes.ied wi:b them.
On Sunday the 10th inst Mess sF. Lousignont, J. Cox and A Scott. !ef: rt is place withaboal load ot limt ; they proceeded about four miles bcljw mis, when, the wi,.d being very high and the river rough, the boatsurk and upset; Lousignont attempted to $ im hut m o' the violence of the waves he ur k, within a rod cf the shore Cox end Scott succeeded in getting on the boat and rcma ned thereuntil it floated about three miles, when some persons on b.rc discovered their situation, ar.d preceded to relieve them; but just bwlore they reached the boat. Cox. who was vcr-
b .M' ve h jvp k'eked up among the bux om ymn; h' st?s who ate now all lon Cs vbcr iii'jihtt s of familu ., and mjny
him, when he put his foot down and toed; come by the cold, fell eff and ha nevtr the maik He told the boyi he had (since been seen Scot' was taken f:,
but had he remained a feu ti inutis more he would have shared the !a:e ol his companions The body of Lo.ig. nont was f"U?id a few davssir.cr. bet
Cox is s'i'l missing t tiry
t-vc
IXQ ffOUle nc huvc Cracked logeuiei al Uiudncsson another, there wa thn Hrr'f nails, and made the mmo claim to touch 1 little Slumped at IU0 SiauU Uli-Je Saci 1 aclplcsa laUiiitCi to lamen' hei
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