Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 23, Number 28, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 August 1832 — Page 4

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CHANGE. From a volume of Poem?, ly a younT Lady, just published in England. And this is what is left of youth! There were two boys, who were bred up together, Shared the same bed, and fed at the same b ard; Each tried the other's sport, from their first chase; i young hunters of the butterfly and bee. To when they followed the rleet hare, and

tued The swiftness of the bird. They lay beside The silver trout-stream, watching as the sun Played on the bubbles; shared each in the store Of other's garden; and together read Of him, the master of the desert Isle, Till a low hut, a gun, and a canoe. Bounded their wishes. Or if evercamc A thought of future days, 'twas but to say i hat they would share each ether's lot. and do Wouders no doubt, parted But this was vain; they WMi premises of long remembrance, words Wlicse kindness was the heart's, and whose warm tears. Hidden like shame by the young eyes which sheil them, But which are thought upon in after years As what we would give worlds to shed oncemore. They meet again but different from themselves. At least what each remembered of themselves: The cne proud as a soldier of his rank. And of his many battles, End the other Proud of his Indian wealth, and of the skill And toil wbv-u gathered it; each with a brow And b-art alike darken'd by t ears of care. They tn -t with ccld woids, livA yet colder ion'is! Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought The other only changed, himself the same, And coldness bred dislike, and rivalry Came like the pestilence o'er some sweet thoughts . i iMii umi ez, ncaiuiy ana ocaumui, niiit dark and unkindly ones. And tiuy, Whose boyhood had net krown the j:tiring word , Were strangers in their nga. if their eyes met, Twas hut to lock contempt; and when they spoke. Their speech was wormwood: And this, this is life! FrOin th Blirevillo Ilc-crt Sketches cf the Lift, aid Military and Hunting .idx'enturta of CAPTAIN SAMUEL BRADY. HO I Who has not heard of Brady, Captain j of the Spies? Of his perilous adventures by field and Condi Of his hair bieadth escape in the imminent deadly breactT? Of hi" unmatched personal activity? Ytt where do we read his hiator)? It is to be learned only from the aged settlers of Pennsylvania, or per adventure, from a time-worn Ranger: for cfew of Brady's warriors still survive. Actuated by a desire to preserve from oblivion, such portions cf his life and actions as may yet be obtained, I have made several attempts to procuie from individuals the most interesting events in his tnilitary career but hitherto without success. At length an aged friend has kindly offeted to furnish such details as an intimate acquaintance with Capt. Brady, enables him to give. We trust that the subject will be deemed of such interest that others will contribute their mite, and that a historian will yet be found to place Brady of the Rangers by the side of Wayne, Marion, Lee, of the Legion, tnd other distinguished patriots, whose memories are immortal. He is emphatically the Hero of Western Pennsylvania; and future bards of his region, when time shall have mellowed the facts of history, will find his name the pei sonification of all that was fearless and fruitful of resources in the hour of danger. His the step that faltered not, the eye that quailed not even in the terntic scenes oi u,c lodien warfare. Many a mother has quieted the fesrs and lulled to sleep her infant family, by the assurance that the broad Allegheny: the dividing line between the Indians, wa3 Wchcd by tht gallant Captain and his rangers; and o their apprehension of death or captivity by the Indians, hath rerl'ud encouragingly. "They dare not riiove on the river, tor there lies Brady and his rangers " In this number of my sketches I can pive little more than an inttcduction to the subject. John Brady, the father of Capt. Samuel fliady. was born in ihe State of Delaware. A. 1) 1733. Hugh Brady father of John had emigrated from Ireland. At a very early period, Hugh Brady settled within 5 miles of where Shipprnsburg now stands. The country was then a wilderness, thinly settled by Irish emigrants, simple, sincere anu religious. Many anecdotes are reconecrea, evmcive cf this. but they would be out of place here. During the French and Indian vvars, that part of the country was much haria. cd by the Iadiini. John Brad aLd

several other young rr.cn had been active ;

against them; and as a mark and reward of merit, he was appointed a captain in the provincial line, which, at that time was no small distinction. He married Mary Quigley: and Samuel, their first child, was born in the town of Shippensburg, 1753. Alter the war, and a purchase had been made from the Indians, John Brady moved with his family to the West Breuch of the Susquehanna, where Samuel resided with him until June, 1775. Capt. John Lowen, a widower, raised a corncany of volunteer riflemen seventy in number and all unmarried, and marched i to Boston. Samuel Brady was one ot his 0 band, and the captain intended that he should be an officer, but his father objee ted, saying, "let him first learn the duty; of a soldier, and then he will know how to act as an officer. While the riflemen lay in the "Leag ucr of Boston," frequent skirmishes took placc. On one occasion. Lowden, was i ordered to select some able bodied men, and wade to an island when the tide was out, and drive cfT some cattle belonging to the British. He was consideted too young for this service, and left him out ot the seletion; but to his astonishment found Brady was the second man on the island, and he behaved most gallantly. On another occasion, he was sitting on a fence, with his Captain, viewing the Bri'ish works, when a cannon ball st-uck the fence under them, Brady was first up, caught the captain in his arms and raised him, saying with greaucomposure, we are not hurt, captain.' Many like instances of his coolness happened while Oe army lay at Boston. In 1775, S. Brady was appointed a First Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Doyle's company, raised in Lancastei county. He continued with ihe army anO was in all the principal engagements, until a'itsr the battle of Monmouth, when he was promoted to a captaincy, and ordered to the vest under General Broadhead. On their march he had leave to visit his friends in Northumberland county. His father, in 1779 had accepted a captaincy in the 1 2th Pennsylvania J regiment, M as badly wounded at the bat tie ol Brandavvune, and was then at home ! Whilst there he heard of his brother's I j death, who had been murdered by the In idian&on the 9th da of August, 1773. ) 11. remainrd at his father' ..mil tho he. I fining of 1779, vhen he ctarted for Piits- j burg and joined his regiment. j Shortly after he had arrived at Pittsburg he hcattl the news of his father be- j ine murdered by the Indians on the 1 Uh i day of April, 1779. He then vowed ven geance against All Indians, and he never altered his n.ir.d. Here commences his western exploits which must be the subject f another paper. At the battlo of JPi inccton he was un der Cot. Hand of Lancaster, and had ad venced too lar; they were nearly surroun ded. Bradv cut a horse out of a team,

got his Colonel on, jumped on behindl'v, under circumstances of peculiar afhim ani made their escape. j iliction, and leaving a large family nearly At the rr:iisnr.rp at Priiili. Rrndv hail dtsliiuie. Scntinent hpard of hi dpntii

.ccn cn p-uari, and laid down with his blaiiket buckled round him. The British were nearly on them before the sentinel fired. Brady had to run he tried to gel clear of his blanket ceat, but could nut. As he jumped a post and rail fence, a British soldier struck at him with his bayonet, and pinned the blanket to the rail, but so near the edge that it tore out. He dashed on; a horseman over took him and ordered him to stop, Brady wheeled and shot him down, and ran on. He got into a small swamp in a field. He knew of no person but one being in it beside himself, but in the morning there were fifty five, one of whom was a lieutenant. They compared commissions; Brady'g was the oldest; he took the command and marched. KISKIM1NE FAS. PICTURED ROCKS. Upon the southern coast of Lake Su perior, about fifty miles from the falls of St. Mary, are the immense precipitous cliffs, called by the voyagers, Le Portrait and the Pictured Rocks. This name has been given to them in consequence of the different appearances which they present to the traveller as he passes their base in his canoe It requires little aid from the imagination to discern in them the castleatcd toner, and lufty dome, spites and pinacics, and every sublime, grotesque or fantastic shape, which the genius of ! architecture ever invented. These-cW its , are rn nnbrc wen mass of rocks, rising to j an elevation ot three hundred feet above! the level of ihe lake, and stretching along the coast for fifteen miles. Thevoyasr ers never pas9 this coast except in the most profound calm; and the Indians before they make the attempt, offer their accustomed ob ations to propitiate the favor cf their Manitions. The eye instinctively searches a'org this eternal rampart for a single place of security; but the search is in vain. With an imj pass-ble barrier of rocks on one side, and an interminable expanse of water on the uuti,a Miiiuen storm upun me ianc -x L n n it . 1 I V wou(. as inevitably, insure destruction to the pesscnger in his frail canoe, as if he were on the brink of the cataract of Ni agara. The rock itself is a sand stone, which is disintegrated by the continual action of the water with comparative facility. 1 here are unbroken masses 1 here i upon which the eye can rest and find re - lief. The lake is so d-ep that these: masses, as they are torn from he preci-' pice, are concealed beneath its waters : until they arc reduced to and. The ac- j ticn of the naves has urJernuncd every :

projecting point; and there the immerse

precipice rests upon a cries, and the foundation is intetscctcd with caverns in ! every direction. When wr nassed this ! mighty fabric of nature, the wind was still and He lake was calm. But even the slightest motion of the waves, which in the most profound calm agitates these internal seas, wwept through the deep caverns with the noise of distant thurder, an ' died away upon the ear, as if rolled forward in the dark rccerses inaccessible to human observation. No sound more melancholy or more awful ever vibrated upon human nerves. It has left an Wn- , i pression which neither time nor distance j

v...vv. u.;n, nesting in a iran oarKne nau a menu in tne worki, is now in ;

canoe upon the limpid waters of the lake, j we seemed almost suspended in air, so pellucid is the element upon which we Boated In gsz'.ng upon the towering battlements which impended over us, and from which the smallest fragment would have destroyed us, we felt, snd felt, intensely, our own insignificance. No sit ution can be imagined more appalling to the courage or more humbling to it priae oi man. v e appeared like a spec upon the face of creation. Our party, Indians and voyagers, and soldier and officers, and servant, contemplated in mute astonishment the awful display of creative power, at whose base we hung; and no sound broke upon the ear to interrupt the ceaseless roaring or the waters. No splendid cathedral, r.o temple built with human hands, no pomp of worship -could ever impress the spectator with such deep humility, and so strong a conviction of the immtnfe dis tance between him and the Almiphty Architect. The writer of this artirle has viewed the falls of Niajra, and the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, two ot the most stupendous r-bjocts in the natural features of our country The impression they produce are feeble and transient compiled with that of the Pictuicd Rocks on Lake Superior. Gov. Cass. Ferling and Skntimnt. There are two men of my acquaintance, of nearly the same a?c. property and standing in society, one of whom is a man of teeline, and the other a man of sentiment. Seati tnent is rather a more giiu.d man than Feeling, wiitesand talks well, and on no MibiLct doe. act does he speak so olten and so well, as on the duty of doing good to each other. Feeling nev er wrote a paragraph in o newspaper, nor spoke where ten people could hear him; but there is not a cellar or garret in street, that he has not been into, and there ate huti dreds of people v- ho pray (or him evcy day of their lit es. Sentiment is the ad miration of his acquaintances Feeling the delight of his friends. Nohc'teri lustrations can be pivenof tht diflci trice between them, than was shown in thtir conduct on one particular occasion. A i mutual friend of theirs I ad oied sudden j as he wai going to an evening party, where hi pnoke of his denaried f.icr.d and of the irreparable loss to his widow and childten in such a way at to bring tears into the eyes of all w ho heard them; but; in a short time the conversation turned upon other subjects, and Semi ment became as lively and as entertaining as ever. Feeling also heard of it as he was going to the same parly, and turn cd about and w ent home, for he loved his friend too well to feel in the mood to join m a gay crowa wnue ne was yet unouried. The next day Sentiment sat down uiisj ihuiv- a iv.auijiui iviivi iu tub UvI Caved widow, while Feeling went about and calltcted a subscription for her use. Sentiment published an eloquent obituary notice of his friend, while Feeling- paid the funeral expenses Feeling adopted one of his sons, and educated him, w hile Sentiment named one of his own after hira. A'ew England JTag'.zine. A FEW FRIENDS. "And vhat is fuendslnp but a name?" r.ver v thint? that Cicero has rard in his Treatise De Jmicitia is vciy fine, and very good, and very tine; but he does not seem to have been altogetfier aware of the fullness of meaning contained in the word friends. A man invites a few friends to dine a few friends to dine

with him. They come, they eat, tbtyjSO Boxes Gunpowder an.

drink, they talk, they criticise, they depart. I hey have praise and blame for the ccok, and they speak learnedly of the I wine; and, in nine cas.es out ot ten, some what censoriously of the host. For either he has been too osten'atious in his libelant, or too niggardly in hospitality; and he seems almost require d to ask pardon, of those whom he has fed for the manner in which he has fed them. Then the en tertainer becomes, in his turn, she enter tained, and takes his turn, also, in the delights of culinary criticism and friend i ly censoriousness. These arc friendn bv the table, cemented bv the various com . . . . . - ! 1 jm. t i ry i i t : uinai?ois oi listi, titsn anu lowi, closely adheting so long as that lasts which hoids them together; but that failing, they fail. and depart, and separate. A man writes a hook, prose cr poetry, ! as the ease may be. lie, of coui se, thinks j it vciy fine, but fie is not quite sified that all the vvond must of nccessitv be ol 1 the same opinion; therefore, lie show s it i to his frinnU, and asks their Cdi.ciid ol pinion and they read it, and ive him ! (excuse the pun, gentle reader) (hcii caidtd opinion. They advise him, by alii meat:-, to publish it they are sure ii!

jrr.ust succeed. It is published, and it

does not succeed; then these herds wonder that any man could be so simple as to imagine that such a thirtr ever could - - succeed; and they wenuer that lie ciu run see that what thtv had said was ret their real opinion; but, Vine his fricndM, ho could they do otherwise than praise his ; book. I A man grows rich, and rise in the J world. Thereupon all his neighbors and ; . . w acqi lottunc, their his before his ptusperity scarcely knew that formed how delighted his countless i friends are to hear cf his success A man grows poor, and sinks in the wonu. rottnwitn ne nears. or he may . ;r . .i- . . . , . sape lectures upon prudence, and many eddying uisserta'ions upon discretion it : t . i He receives many a humiliating lesson, 3nd observes many an altered look; he has a great deal of pity, and very little !

laintance congratulate r.im upon nis i iu rigm yapy i adufr.tr-;...,.

and are ready. in the plenitude of I "c puu.icuin n ci i,it e :n r a crm-

wisdom, to teach him how to spend I fenced in April last, since m hit h time it hns

r, . i i i l rev i;c(i a pairorace so unexamp td newly pcnuirco wealih. And he, who, 1 p, . .

speck help; and he is recommended, in the most whole,elicate manner imaginable, not to spoil ! !diers,Ve pleosurcs cf his prosperous acquain- , i p. M ,

I - " - I tance by his unprosperous piesence; and, while he fancies that he has not a hiend in the world, he u given to understand that his friends are very sorry for him, j and his friends, as all his friend t say, ought to do something for him; but, unfortunately, be has tired all his friends out. A man, just beginning life, marries a woman whose lamily is not so good as his own. Thereupon, father and mother, un cles and aunts, and brothers and sisters, and cousins, first, second third and fourth ! t.nt themeW-: into an unanimous nassIon; co operate in a system of unanimous su kiness; insult the young woman, and tschew the young man, more especially if the newly married couple are in need of any assistance or countenance. And then, when the persecuted couple aic suffering; under the panfts of poverty, and the mortification and solitude, the world Scith, with a most edifying gravity, "the young gentleman s friends uM not approve of the match A young man comes to his fortune as soon as he becomes of age. He buys horses and dogs, and runs laces, and lays bets and plays at cards, and sometimes vins and sometimes loses; he gets into 'scrapes, and rights duels; he fiod himself nrne the richer for his winnings, and much the poorer for his losings; and if he cannot spend or lotehis money fast enough himself, he has myriads ot friends who will borrow it of him, and do their best to assist him in dispersing it. Then at last he smashes, or is done up: and then all the world, with its long, moral phiz, says -Vhat a pity it is that his friends ltd him into such extra vsgance!" At midnight there is a noise in the streets; women are shrieking, and men are hallooing, end some are calling for help; and there is a well dressed man swearing at a constable who attempts to hold him, which well dressed man has evidently been rolled in the dirt; his hat is fiat as a pancake, his eyes are as red as herrings, his tongue is like a weathercock in a whirlwind, and he must be trussed like a boiled rabbit bcfoie he can

u.a..aK..t a.m un iui, annum i.c j formation than can be fcund in ar-v other pagive of himself the next morning is, I per, as in addition to a condensed statement that he had been dining with a few; of localities, a svnopsis of passing evti.ts in

friends. Warwick, in his "Sparc Minutes, lhl)3 describes common fiienrfship: j Vhen I see leaves drop from their j trees in tho tu-Vmr.ino-nf m.H.rr.n. ;.u

such, think I, is the tiier.dship of ihe ; executed by a skilful artist, world. While the cup of maintenance j The Editorial Department embraces rclasts, my friends swarm in abundance; views cf new publications; notices of the

but, in the winter cf my need, they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a true fiiend at his neede; but he i more tiuly happy that hath no neede of his fiitnds " f i j JUST KEOEnnZD, Ijrs Havana Coffee, vvJ itio j ICO Bhls. Kenhawa SAL iO " Saline do ! '-O Kegs Bostsn Xai!?, I 5 nns Juniatta Iron, 20 Bbls. ew Orleans Stitjar 1 12 Boxes Chewing Tobac i 15 Boxes Tumblers Which are offered for sale bv BURTCII & HEliERD. Vincenncs, May, lS.. 10 hn. tlNG AND SU.M.MICIl OODS. biibsrni crs have just received t icir SPJ'J.NG ami Sl'.MMF.R as sortment of GQuiJO comprising a vrt ry solect variety ol fancy ami staple i articles, to whi'h thev respect full v invite' I the attention of their friends end n-ircha-i .. ..... . sera generally, and which thy niil o'.kt ! on verv moderate lerni-, wiiuiie .arid! retail. BURTCII & I1LBIIK1). cennes, M:iy .r, 1 V. , lt5--:n t-ivvZZTZ 0&ltL'rf2i ZL(Jz.S AS on hand a lakoe an; ;!; html A'iOUTMfM or :?ALiU.S. Lflr iI.l.S, MAIi'J llAl.l , r v ' Ij is (1 ow n mantdctisro, v!.i'jli h, will tlis-:. on liberal t"i m-s. Viuronncs, June 1.'.'?, I-ST-J. VO e o; tf fv.i hand. t r ( j: re

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