Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 22, Number 20, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 June 1831 — Page 4

l-OR THK WKSTKUS SUN. MOSCIIETOS. . . x r 4 z. l w f.; ' ty low . uvi I'jrrutrmtu, uutij-j-j-ll' u s- out. Shakspkare. Clear oat ye crew of noisy devils. Ye worst of all the summer's evi'.s. Leave, leave your fell blood-thirsty revels, And me in peace. Or cesr, yc foul tormenting (tew, Your nightly soni, your curst tattoo. Worse than the IndiWs dread halloo. Your wars ong cease. Drive home your Mood ensanguin'd stings, llithe in the red tide's crimson springs, Uut curse the noise your banquet brings, Let that subside. I'd hold but lightly all vour stinging. Though blood from every pore were spnngI'd murmur not, but oh! your singing, I can't abide. Then cease, ere I'm to madness driv'n, I've blood enough to spare thank heav'n, And what I have 's as freely given. As drawn by you. 'Music hath charms" for many a mind, Than mine more musicly inclin'd Then sing for them, prav be so kind. And bleed me do. Do this, or by my many wrongs, I'll clog your boist'rous brawling lungs. And step the concert of your tongues With su'ph'i ous clouds. VINC,lvNNr BAUD. Vincennes, June, 1831. FOR THE WESTERN SUN. THK WA II HI Oil's BURIAL. saw him pass in youthful bloo m. The warrior chief in steel arraj M; I traced him through the battle's gloom. Beheld the lightning of his blade. I paused, the clouds of combat fled, As brightly sunk yon sun to rest; I heard his followers wail the dead. His heart was cold within his breast. Slowly they move in mournful files, 1 hey gam yon mountain's misty head, Where the last beam of evening smiles They scoop'd the soldier's gory bed. His form beneath the turf they cast, K eh dauntless boom heav'd with woe; I7 or s id they mused on anerst past. !icn fell their chief, when fled the foe. Hark, 'tis the thund'ring cannon's note, R sounding o'er the hero's grave. Ami its dying echoes float, llts tomb the tear of friendship laves. On farewell glance, one parting sigh, Kach faithtul soldier s rrowii.g gave, Then itream'd again tne manly eye Tor him, the eU ai the mi tu rns brave. IIA1U OF ! WKST. THE SIvY L HAP tillS. Much cl ihe strong exenement, teh On bonolding a chain of loiiy mountains, arise trom the conviction, borne upon our t. eaits bv annais of ail toomus and people, that on lands such as tiiest, ttu loo. ot the inva lei lias seldom tested, U lias nevei long tan ied. We view thesA irigantto rainpatts over all the known wotid, as imits placed by the Cieatur, to the unruly ambition of nun. Wherevet Ihey rear their am lent heads, they ar proud in the lecotelyd defeats of leaders. Whose tame "hathtiiicd the ends cl the earth," otten by a mere handlul ol pea Sarttry el welling amongst them. And on hearing ot the subjugation ot a mountainous country, we teel as tho' the waidersof God's forts had ban un faithful So otten. trom the pass ot Thci tnopyle to the heights of Morgartcn, have toe Oiave proved their own bills impregnable, that no tale ot overwhelming number will counteract the feeling that a mountainland, so won, has been be trayvd ov the cowatdice of the inhabitants Of this cowardice, histoiy untor tunately gives us some proots. But these tew instances of weakness and treachery only serve to give the foiccol Glror.g contrast to 'the bright examples,' ot multitudes of higher anil nobler spirits, i'hese i ifleciions apply more especially mi Norway, (or the old writing No toway) the scene of the tiaciitnm vhich now awakens tliem; and which ohca rouses the warm Norse blood., when told by some of the other peasants to the crowders round the cottage hearth, on a long winter's evening. In 1 6 1 J, there was war between Norway and Sweden, distinguished trom a inn of forgotten conflicts, almost per petuiliy raging bctw en these lival .?nd neighboring countries, by the tragic fate of WinCim's body of Scottish allies celebrated, as many nt our readers will re number, in a fine Norwegian ballad It is uelt known that the icots landed on the west coast of Norway to join their .lilies the Swedes, went along the oily .11. . .1.. ft. .1.. ....k ? . v . . I vaHrvath leading to Sweden, ami vttc annihilated in the deep defile of Gulbrandsdale by the peasantry. At the time when they should have arrived at Sweden, t small holy of Swedes ctnatnped in Jemptland, resolved to mm their allies, of whose move

iccats they had intelligence and cscortlncss, aud aciivity shown by each pariyiai

them over the frontier, crossing the hill

passes, and uniting with the Scots on the other side I his band, to whose fortunes we attach ourselves, number d but three hundred warriors, but tticy were the flower of Sweden. They resolved to penetrate the barrier at the most inac cessible point; believing that the Norse would collect in the southern country where thev were opposed by a Swedish i arrny, and rest secnte in the deep snows which rendered the hills impassable for the defence of their mountain frontier So they came, says the legendary story, to the foot of the wild pass of Ru ben; a spot fated lobe dangerous to the Swedes, and since strewn with the frozen corpses of the troops of the hosts ot Labarre and Z cga, who perished there rheir company filled the few cottages of the small hamlet on the Swedish shies ot the barrier; where they at rived early in the day They were eager in their in quiries for a guide, being rcsolved to pass the lulls ere night, lest tidings should reach the Norsemen ot their ap proaching foes. But all their search proved fruitless Many of the Swedes of the village had been over these moun tains, but none were on the spot posses sing that firm confidence derived from certainty ot knowledge, and from co scious intrepidity, which could alone make them secure or willing guides in an expedition of so much peril o.d im portance. At last, old Sweyue Raping, the keeper of the little inn which was the Swedes head quarters, shouted with the joy of him who has at once hit upon the happy solution of a difficulty. "By the bear: cried he, "could none ot you think of the only man in Jemptland fit lor this cnterpi iz; and he here on the spot all the while? Where is Jet I Lidens.' A hundred voices echoed the eaget question, and the leaders were toid, to their regret, that they must wait per force, till the morrow, for the only man able or willing to guide them Lidens had eone forth un n a iournev. and would not return that day "Well," said Eric Von Dalin, tinchief of the Swedish detachment, "there is no help for it. Tu day we must depend upon the kind entertain ment ot our host; but be-vare my brav men all, hewa-e of the deep horns of air or mead Remember," pointing to tin rugged peaks glittering in the snow "remember, that all those who wouul sleep beyond those tomonow, will need firm hands and true eyes And, good. Sweyne," addressing the innkeeper who was the chief petsonof the hamlet "look well that no sound of our coming reach the Norse sluggards. There may be some here, who for thtir country'?, safety, would cross the hills this night with warning Thuu ait right, bv Mnnhem's free doml" cried the host, "here sits Alt S'.a vengei: he knows these hit's better tha his own huntingpouch, and would think little of carrying the news to hifcoun try men I am sotry," he continued, turning to AH, "verily I grieve to ntak nn old friend a prisonet: but you mtis; f abide here in sunn keeping, till our nti arc well forward "I care no? it I stay here to-night and forever." teplied the Norseman. E ic now looked tor the first u c uponth speaket,and confessed that fie had nevei beheld a finer looking oan In the ' M imp id thr he. nit v if t!if ii .ttlip,, jouth. AM Stavenget was remaikabU L . . ...LI' I . tor a cai oi ieaun t. s ot arioe t aces ol a higher mind than can otten bediscctnt-i i... t i . . i t ! in uie eucciiUi IUSIV I.1CCS Ol niS lounti vmcn "Does the valley marksman speak t us said the host. " A ," anwv red he vuth, "when vou are thrust torth from ttie fi eside, you can but seek another tool If your own land casts you out, you are fain to cling to the stranger the enemy " "lias Emlen's f ather been rough?" enquired Sweyna "Name him noil" replied the young peasant angrily. " They have hcapei. insult and refusal upon me: let them look for their return! Ay, Skialm Hat der may one day wish that I had wed his daughter my name shall yet b. feat fully known throughout Norway Swede, I will this night jjuule yotit troop over the fydet Trust me fully, you shall be placed to morrow beyond those w hit c peaks." "He will have a fearful passage fi st," said an old peasant "there is in moon now: and it will be pitch dark ere you cross the Nacroe." "The nigh is to us as the noonday," cried a spirited young soldier; "lot your crags we fear them not, were they high as t tie blue heavens Our life h3S been I r fll iMl L t rnr I- t nrifl in ...... .. 1 ..,.1 ... are called the sky tcaperv!" I will trust the y ung Norseman." continued their cliiet "wounded pride & slighted love, may well mr-.ke a man hate the land that has spurned him, were it his own a hundred tin es " As t he day was ast wearing over, ma!l time was lost in preparation Each man carticd with him Ins fr skates to be used when a'ter climbing the rough ascent, thev wound j those narrow and difficult narts which a'onir . skirt the face of the cliffs, crossing the mountains Their guide told them thai he shou'd lead them win n it grew dark, by lighted torches, procured as he should afterwards show them During their slippery r.nd rugged iournev, Alf and his folio w ers could not help altcrnitelv admiiinir the snint. cool-

scRlInj the dargcrcui rock; and Ihcyjword from the nearest follower roused tell insensibly draw ti otie to artothet , b hn ; he shouted to hasten their rapid ;

that natural, though unultcred Irietidship, which binds together the brave and highsoultd Still lew words pasM d between them, though many of the Swedes spoke Norse well, and Alf knew Swe dish as ihoiuigly as his own tongue On both sides were hosts of fccllings which led them to commune with their own thoughts in silence. After some hours of hard and success ful climbing, they halted, at the clos. ot day, for a tew moments, on the snowy summit of a ridge which they had just ascended, to fasten on their skates They trad now to traverse the long slip pciy defiles so peculiar to Norway, where the path runs upon narrow lcdgs ot rock, at an awful height, winding ab ! ruptly in and out along the rugged face ol the hills. Here they formed in single file; and heir guide taking the lead ot the column, kindled by rapid fi iclion, one ot the pine branches, ot which each had, by his orders, gathered in abundance on their way. He said, in a few bticf and energetic words, "that here must they tempt the fate of all who would c nquer Norway unless they chose to return: now were they really to win their proud name of sky leapers." He bade them move along rapidly and stetdily follow nig close the light of his torch Every man was to bear a blazing pine, kindles trom his; and thus, each pressing close . n the light before him, the track would not be lost in the abrupt turnings and windings. He placed the coolest and m ist active in the tear that they migi-t pass lightly and skilfully over the snow, roughened by the track of their leaders; and keep the line of lights, which was then only hope of salety. compact and U'isevered What a change from toilsome climb ing which had wearied the most elastic mnbs, and triedthe most enduring spirit They flew over the narrow slippery paths, now in the long straight artow c urse ol lires. now lost, and thenemer K'ini; in the shatp tut nins of the ciifTs l he dangers ot the Nae.'oe, which make even the natives shudder at the t-riddv narrow path ami awful depths, were halt unseen in tSe daiknes, at d all unteaied by these brave nun, w ho darted exult ingly, like wing-d g'ds, through the keen btacing night-breeze of the nills At every step the winding beCan t note abrupt; and it seemed to his near -t follower, that even the guide looked nxious and atiaid: w hen almost tooling lokc to him at a turning, he saw, by tin j ui.ing light of their toiehes, the coun tetvtnee ot Ad turned bat k towards the ' iig line ot fli g snow ith a troubled md sorrowful i ok 1 o encourage bun, ue cried in a bold and cheei ful tone, "N-. eai' no dangei! On. bi a c Stav en ! - The sky leapers follow thet 1" "On!" sh.-utid the guide, with a cry that echoed through the whole band, arid quickened 'hei' lightsome speed Then torches i'tw fi. w niong in one straight, unbroken gham oj fie till a w ild dea'.hscream a use maki g th. spot where light at-er igt.t diopped in the dark silence Th depth was so tertih'e t hat all sound of tall was unlu ard. But thatcy readied he last of the sinking line, and their hearts died within tin m: their was no -topping their airow flight no turning side witlm'it leaping into the sheer ah! Alt Stavenger shuddered at the death leap ot those hi ve men over the edge ot the lock His svul has been bound to them in tntit lit ict jcuttuying togeihti, and had they not come as his countrv s mvaders lie would have loved iherna. brothers for their frank courage Bu Alt was at heai t a true sou ot Norway; u is true, he had resolved in the despera tionot his sorrow to leave his lather land fotevet; stih when he saw this band loming to iay waste the vaheys which e knew to be undefended, his anger was in a moment forgotten, and all his hot Nor st blood was stirred wi'.hin him. Hi nus detained, as we have seen from crossing t he hills to warn his countrymen; and lie knew that when Jeil returned, he would be well able and willing to guide the Swedes over the pass. He soon planned his daring scheme "Ay," thought he, while the waving tram followed his leading torch, "1 told them 'hat hrrc they should earn their proud name ol sky leapets! that here those who watred with Noiwav should brave their la:e! I Slid that skialm Harder should wish that he had given me his lair daughter, that m name should be k"Own over my laud for a died ot tear & wondet! I ptomiseu they should sleep to-night ou our side of ihe htils! Now will I keep ail that I haveswoui! 'l is pitv tor them mo, sobtaie, so young, o unsuspecting; but two wotds have made my heart iron Kmlen nd Norway!" Alf well remembered one point, where a long stiaight path ended suddenly in a peak of rock, jutting tar into the empty air. The road was continued round so shatp a re enterintr amrle, that much j caution and nerve were needed, even by one well aware of all the danger, to ! wheel ranidlv and steadily round the face of the ab'iipt precipice; and avoid shooting snaight on over the ledge ot lock. He fixed upon this spot tot the death leap; indeed, the Swedes never could have passed it in safety, without having been fully warned of the peril. U afterwards cautioned at its app'oach. When he looked back as he ltd the line rapidly lo their unseen and dicadful fate, he shuddered to think on what a death Hie brave .mil lirht hrarterl men who followed him were lushing. A

11 ght,andtlartid boldly on, throwing hi

leading torch tar over a point where thej should have taken the sudden turn He had neatly fallen into the ruin nt his followers; with the sounding speed ol the flyers pressing hard upon his footsteps, all his nerve was barely sufficient, alter flinging his blazing pine straight for wards as a lure, to check his own course, and bear him round the point which seven d life from death His speed was slacked bv turning; and. lor a second, he fell giddy and senseess: every nerve had been strung l r decisive moment, and his brain reeled with the struggle. He awakened to consciousness, to sec the l ist ol the line of toiehes, dart into the empty space then 6ink forever; and he listened, with a cold thrill of awe and terror, to th echoes of the death scream of the las: of the sky leapers! From the Xar-Yor!c Constellation. New York. April 1 2th, .831. Dear Salty ur Tim, hi his last Ict ter, said as how you wanted me to write something about the womenfolks in New Yoik My acquaintance aint been nothin to sptak ot among cm, but I've uu u iccue experunce mat way as you shall hear Your oid maid aunt Louis who is dead and gone used to say, looks is nothin, behaviour is all, and I guess as to looks the gals aim got much to boast on 1 hey are most on em pale and sick ly look'n g critters, which comes of theii keeping bad hours and tight lacin. They keep it up night after night in the win ter time, with balls and panics, so thai they get completely fagged ou' and looks a though it was the day alter washin As for dress, there is no telling how extravagant they art there bonnttsare as big as a cheese tub, and the shevts ot their gowns are large ci ufT ot mtalbags But the most comical thing some ot them wear, is a sort ol towserloons that ne ns out under thtir trowns and makes cm look jtst like bantum hens You'd laugh moat plagily to see cm viuttin in the streets, but lis no laffin joke to their fatheis who have to foot heir bills I hear a gteat many men unplain about their wives too, because n ey are so extravagant in their dress One man went the other day to a lawyer tu-re to get him to set hs seal to a bill id divorce agains his wife the lawyer axed him the icason and he said be could'm pay her hills no longer end if the civil Authutity did'nt intcice e, he'd take the bem fits ot ihe act or run ot to Cana da Tho lawyer laughed arid told hint there was no help for his case that he took his wife for btter or ooe and must abide the cons qnences. That's fact!" says the maiiud man, "but tis all ii'crsc with my wife and I ct no chaiue of her being any better!" and with that fie went home, par keo up his duds and the next momin left Ids wife last asleep and set iT for Canada. I said ihey kept it up in the winter i i . i i i m ie wnn nans ana panics, nut you musni suppose thc danced the good " d fashioned country dances we usid to Deacon Btown's No such a thing! w hen they have a dance here, they c.;h it a maskerade or a fancy l.ab and they go dressed in as many tiifiVienl ways .s solgers at malitia musters they loek for the woild more like p ay actors ai d play actotesses than human beings, ar c! as they were masks they cut up pretty curious shines 1 tell you Atoneot these fanciful balls a gal got in there who want jist so, as some ot the othei gals thought, and they made a miirl ly r t m luss aoout i:,you may ut pcnilont i u see theif is two sorts of fo ks m this city the quality tolks and the folks ot no quality or as, Joe Jinkins rails it the china folks and the ciockcry folks Well, this bail was a china ball and no ciocKery was lobe admitted the china gals all set up'n crock iy and said she should be pus out. Crockery said she wouldn't budge a foot china said she should, and so they had it Which car ried the point is more than I can tell, but 1 guess, Sally, it I had sent you a card to ball, china or crockery, and any fuss was made about it. they should pay back the money before I d start an inch for them There is another kind of dancin ah the rage here called waltzin. I cannot de scribe it exactly, but the short and long of it is that a feller and a gal stand up in the middle ol the oom all alone the music begins and they hug each other round the waist and whirl round thr room like a house a fire they keep go in, till l.iiuby they get clean gone and cant stand it no longer. 1 hen they se down and another couple goes over hc exhibition, but what pleasure there is in such a vrhirligig dance I cant for the lite of oic imagine. I axed a tallowy look ing gal just after she'd done waltzing to tell tr.c w fiat there was in a waltz she li ked so much. "O. sit," said she rolling up her eyes, "lis so sentimental!" Sentimental! nrmrn'says 1, 'I guess I Uont understand you!" "Then stand up, sir," says she, "and w altz with me Sc you will feel it." "Not by chorks, inarm!" says I, 4Idont like to chew upon such sentimcnta ity I" l'he gal took out her quizzing glass and look'd at me as if she'd look me through, but I guess she founde her match for I stated her out ot countenance without any quizzin glass or spectacles neither. These are the gals. Sa 'y. that make fun about the Cape Cod gals, dancin in their s'ockin and feet) but to my notion there aint any

comparison for decency ttrccn that er J wabz n dont vou sav so loo?

Besides walizin every real New-York lady must know how to play on a piuncr. I his is a sort of machine made of mahogany and is about as big as a mealchest, inside of it there arc wirci so that by thumpin with the f.n gers on some little blocks i utside, it makes a kind ol music But to my cars the music ol a tpinnin whtelis vastly moic agreeable, but it wculdn'i do to tell the gals here so. I shouldn't care about marryin one these of planner gals, cause why? all the phr.ers in the woild wont Icatn a woman how to darn a coat or make a pudding and whais tho use of a wile that dont know how lo da that? Y'ou no need be afeard of mv being caught by a New. York gal. My noticn is still lor New England gals, let em l;.j a n.uch as they will at their green bonnets and guessing but I can tc i I em what it is when they ketch Enoch "I imbertoes they catch a weeze! asleep But 1 wont S3y no more lor fear nyUtttr should get miscarried, or be opened bv some pecking Jacksrn post-master, t good by and be iew- me Yours till Cht istmas. ENOCH I IMRF.RTOES. by Tim FiLB&i&r of tUe euntttr Suttco. tN putsuatct ol law, I, ANDREW JAl KON, President of the Ui.iui! States ol America, do heteby eleelaro

anu rnuKe Known, mar nuuiK sales wiii x

e In Id a' the undermentioned Land Of-vy

ces, in the state ol Indiana, at the pt rj o s de signated, for the sale of the la;.d heteinaht i menth-red, v iz : it the l.a'.d OJJlcr at Vir.cer.r.es, cr, the 3d Aibnaay i'i Julu ntxt. And at thr 1. and -Office at Jtjfcr&ctivill: on ihe st Monday in .iugust rt xt Foi the disposal ot such ttiii.qu.s'.ed and leverted lands, within the on sent iim'ns of thnhc districts, not herc;oh;re exposed to public sale, substquei i y to tluir relinquishment or tcveisioi- io iho United States, as shall not, prior to iho filth di'V ol Ju'y ntxt, have been paid lor or redeemed. Agreeably to the provisions ot the Act ol Congress, approved on the 31st day of March. I830,cntititd ; An Act tor the relief ol the putchasers ot the public lands, find for the suppic3sion ol iiaudulent practices at the public salts of the lands ot the United Stairs," and of the Act surDlen entarv thr.retn. approved or. the 25' lv v.y ot Felt 1831. Jit the La,d Office at ton Wayne, on the si Monday of June next. F"f the sale ol ihe following townships, v.z ; Township thrty ro, north, of Range ten. east ; Township thirty three north, of Ruges nine, ten, eleven and tzzelzc, casi ; Township thirty f:ur. north, cf R; nges, nine ten and eltven cas: ; Township, thxryjive. nort: cf Rngtspe. hix. stven, eight, anu 'ire, v as' ; I ownship thirty eir, north, of Ranges, tArc,four five, seven e gn. and nm , cas' ; low i snip thirty seven, nonh, of Range s Jive, six, and stven east ; "I own-it;., thnty eight, north, of Rat gtsH-r, six, seven, tight, and nine, er.v ; At the Land Office at Craivfcrdsviltr,cn the Zd Monday in June next Fo' lit disposal of thr undtrmrntinn cd 1 ownships and Fractional townships, v iz : Fractional township thirty four north of Range three west ; Fractional tow nship thirty five north of Range two west ; Fractional township thirty-six, north, of Range one west ; Fractional township thirty seven, rorth of Ranges four. Jive, six, seven, and eight, west ; F' actional township thirty seven, north of Range one cast ; Also, at the same times and place?, will be exposed to public sale, without reserve, all sections or parts of st coons, subject to be sold by the United States, and situate within the icspective limite of the afortsaid Land Districts, and within any township heretofore offered at public sale, which may not have beeo heretofore exposed to public sale Lists ot the particular tracts of hnd mav be had at the resptctiye Land duces above named. The sales will be kept open for a term not exceeding two weeks, and no longer than may be necessary to offer all the tracts intended to be embraced by this proclamation, and the lands reserved by law for the use of schools, or for other purposes, will be excluded from sale. Given under my hand at the City of Washington, 'lie 25th div of Match, 1831. ANDREW JACKSON. Bv the President : Flu a ii IIatwrd, Conm'r cf t!.z Getural Land Office April 23 1SB'jCird Trusf cr. cr'.;;'.'2 of i'tn crnr.es, Sa.'un.'j'i. June 4, 1331. y On motion.it was ordered. That notice hr given by publication in the Vincennes new. Papers, that the act ct tbeiiencrai .Asseni bh . entitled "An art relative totiie H nic;r of Vincennes." approved J mu irv Cn, tt'o, has been adopted, and is fmv in t,tor. M. U03IN50N. (nt:. Sml. Hill. CTk.