Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 25, Number 15, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 May 1834 — Page 4

Cortical Eicgitim.

LINES WRITTEN ON A PUNCHEON OF SPIRITS. BY PHTLIP PREKEAU. Within three woden walls confined, The ruin lurks of human kind; More mischiefs here united dwell, And more diseases haunt this cell. Than ever plagued th' Egyptian flocks. Or ever cursed Pandora's box. Within these prison walls Tepose The seeds of many a bloody nose; The chattering tongue, the horrid oath; The fist for fighting, nothing loth; The passion quick, no words can tame. That bursts like sulphur into flame; The nose with diamonds glowing red, The bloated eye, the broken head! I?or ever fastened be thr door! Confind within a thousand more Destructive fiends of hateful shape. E'en now are plotting their escape. In all their dirt of death reside Revenge that ne'er wai satisfied; The tree that bears the deadly fruit Of murder, maiming, and dispute; Assault, that innocence assails. The images of gloomy jails. The giddy thought on mischief bent, The midnight hour in folly spentAll these within this cask appear, .And Jack the hangman in the rear. Thrice happy he, who early taught, By nature, ne'er this poison sought; Who. friendly to his own repose. Treads under foot this worst of foes; He, with the purling stream content, The beverage quafts that nature meant. In reason's scales his actions weighed. His spirits want no foreign aid; Nor swelled too high, nor sunk too low. Placid his easy minutes flow; Long life is his, in vigor passed, Existence welcome to the last, A spring that never yet grew staleSuch virtue lies in Adam's Ale. JBfflccHawcottP. JlEFLY TO THE K EM ARK, "YOU MUST HAVE SOME TIME TO KILL.' "Kill! kill time! Oh dear! no," replied Archibald: "You know nothing about the matter. Time travels too fast by half to please me; I should like to clip the old scoundrel's pinions. The complaints "which I have heard occasionnally, of time .passing away so slowly, ennui, aud what not are to me miraculous. Time seems to travel at such a deuce of a rate, that there's uo keeping pace with him. The days are too short by half, so are the nights eo are the weeks, the months, and the years. I can scarcely get to bed before it's time to get up; and I haven't been up but a little tims apparently, before its time to go to bed. I can barely peep at the Gazette, or any matter of other similar interest in the papers, and swallow an anchovy-sand which and a couple of cups coffee, when its time to ha at the counting-house. By the time I hae received the letteis and given a few directions, it's time to be in a hundred places, before I can reach the last of them, its time to be on change; I dont speak to half of the people there, to whom I have someting to say, before its time to reply to correspondents; and mv letters are scarcely written, before it's post and dinner time. Farewell business! tut then there's no enjoyment: dinner, wine, coffee, supper, and punch follow in such rapid succession, actually treading on each others heels, that there's no time to be comfortable at eithor of them. Ji's the same in bed: a man mut sleep faster time will get the start of him, and business be behindhand an hour or two, and every thing in disorder next morning. If I accept a bill for a couple of months it's duo before I caa well whistle: my warehouse rents are enormous; and upon my conscience, Ladyday and her three sisters introduce themselres to ray notice at intervals, so barely perceptible, that the Wrirt of one of the old harridan's garments has scarcely disappeared before in flounces another. Its just as bad with the fire msurences, and a thousand things, little matters as well as great. A man can Scarcely pick his teeth before he's hungry again. The seasons are drawn by racehorses; my family has barely settled at home after a trip to Buxton, Brussels or elsewhere, before the summer cmnes round and Mrs. II. piues for fresh air and an excursion cheque again. I can scarcely recover the drain made on my current capital by portioning one daughter, before auuther shoots up from a child to a woman ; and Jack This or Tom Tothera father vanta t know -if I mean to give her the ;i me a her sister. Its wonderful how a man getstliro' so much in the short space of life; he must be nrenared far pvprt thing, . r- - r when, egad! thete is no time lor courses and a Dcsany scrt. thing TArce from Major Jack Dovning Magazine. FIRST RECOLLECTIONS. The first I remember, 1 found ravself one coiu November day, when I wuj about live yeurs old, bearhcaded and ba.refKJt, alidiug on the ice. It had bceu a snapping cold night, aud in the morning the pond was froze over as sniooth as glass, aud har leuough to bear u horso. All the toys in the neighborhood, and most of the gals, turned out, and had a fine frolic that d, f liding und ruuoin oa the pood.

Most of the larger boys had shoes; bull

we little tellers that want big enough to wear snoes, nad to tutt tt out aa well as we could. I carried a creat nine chip in my hand; and when mv feet cot so cold 1 couldn't stand it no longer, I'd pot the chip down and stand on that a little while and

warm em, and then at it to sliding again dow; I helped her in, where she staid sewlike a two year old. ing or knitting till midnight; I working

THE MAJOR'S EDUCATION.

We nmnA to hnv a crhnol in Dwninff-0RQ

ville about three months in the winter season, and two months in the summer; & - - - w w ... o I went t the winter school three winters, from the time I was twelve till I was fifteen. And I was called about the best scholar of my age that there was in the schoel. But to be impartial, I must con fess the praise didn't always belong to me; r. i . 'i tn Arb ,oaA r.,i, little in order to get the name of being a D.urtio, On. inutnn.o f it un-in reading. I got along L reading so well, lk.t.hpm9srnrM;,llrPn.iM.rihflncnmP of the boys that were considerable older then I, and that had went to school a dozen winters. But the way I managed it was this. There w as cousin Obediah was the

, , .1 j i tight-Iacing-society. We say w ith Davy clever a boy as one in a thousand, onley b . J j . . J J 'II VkrrL-o blvn nknnHI' nolo

his father handnt cot no orchard. So I used p cary a great apple to school in my pocket every day and giv to him to get him to set behind mo when I was reading, where he could peak into my book, and when I come to a hard word, have him Obediah But it proved to be a match for Obediah. He peaked, and choked, and I was catching my breath and waiting for him to speak ; aud at last he found he could do nothing with it, and says he 'skip it., lhe moment 1 heard the sound I bawled nnt.bin it Wh,.', tKntf .k tor Inftl-imrni m no n.. . , , had catched a weazle asleep. 1 stent and Uokedatthe word again, and poked my tonUOOUt. and WHiteii Inrtlhprfinh V. Obediah gave me a hunch, and whispered again 'skip it.1 Then I bawled out again, skip it. At that the master and about onehalf the scholars yawhawed right out. I couldn't stand that; and I dropt the book, and streaked it out of school, and pulled foot for home as fast as I could go, and never showed my head in school from that day to this. But for all that, I made out to pick up a prety good education. 1 got so I could read and spell like a fox, and could cipher as far as the rule of three. And when I got to be about twenty years old, I was fciruugiy laiucu oi one winter ior schoolmaster. But as a good many of the same boys and gals who would go to me that were in school when I read '.kip it,' I didn't like to venture tor fear there would be a sort of a snickering among em whenever any of the scholars come to a hard word. THE WHIPPOORWILL. Having never seen any particular cownt oi the habits of the ivhippoorwill and being under the impression that thev are not well known, I thought the followmg remarks might be interesting to some, The peculiar cry of this singular bird, which resounds in all our crve3 during the early summer evenings, is familiar to every one; but its object in making this cry, is perhaps known to few among the acquaintances of this nocturnal visitor. It seems that it is the call of the bird to its mate. , Having lived where thev a . came nightly to the very door, I have h;1 a good opportunity to watch their habits, as far as the dusk of twilight would per mit. After the call of whinpoorw ill fead been repeated for some time, an other dividual would frequently arrive, and th it ceased. There was then heard a kind of croaking in a low and subdued tone, or else a clucking, with intervals of over a second between each note. From these circumstances, wo have good reason to believe that the cause assigned is the true one, from the apparently solitary habits of the bird, and the time at which it comes out from its solitudes of the forest, it would sera necessary the bird should have some means of indicating its place to its mate. A similar provision is assigned to the gloow-worm, whos winged partner would with difficulty find its creeping consort, were it not thus provided; and this is no doubt the use of the flickering taper of the fire-fly, which we all have loved from eur childhood. The whippoorwill begins to sing about the first of May, but is not much teard till near the middle. His song gradually dies away in June, and by midsummerjhe is hardly to be heard. He is one of our must singular birds, aud 1 think, peculiar to our country. Economising Courtship. In the same a musing work, is the following description of Grant's eourtship; He says: uMbrother got tired of attending store, and wftnt otl to rhiladeipnia. l was now in grWut trouble; we were beginning to make some pennies bv the store, and 1 did not like to give it up; neither did 1 like to give up my uail-makiug for this was sure. So 1 resolved to push my courtship, calculating that if I gut-married, 1 shotbd have a shopkeeper of my own; but if qit, to soli otf and leave the city; for I couh) not live iu New York and see her the wile ol another; and in the mean time, continue to keep both. Fur this cud rose at 4 o'clock

whisper it to me, and then I read it out a- Ir.ms sf,e,llnS "well done, my nu.e Uud. Well, one day I was reading along fe,,0,w ,u all have a feather m your so, pretty glib, and at last 1 come to pes- 1 h,e bo' b"rsul into takv great long crooked word, that I couldn't lt thf mraltf- s.:lld lhe mas " . , ,un, make head nor tail on't. So I waited for a fe?1 17 ln m' C?P rePIlted thue lad

A. M. anil mide nails till eight: opened

store; at eight P M. shut up, and went ot nail - makinr till twelve; thus getting scant four hours slecn in twentv-four. Mv nail shon window onened into the vard of the house where I boarded, and where my ffirl lived. She used to come to the winand &us killing two birds with Slon0 . fr. An Excellent Movement. A correspon dent informs us that a new society is ab out to be formed in this city, to be called "The Anti-Ti-ht-Lacin2 Society." Such a society would doubtless be tho means of doing much good. If our belles could be persuaded to join it, an astonishing improvement would soon take place in their pny cal constitutions and their general health Consumption would be less frequent, and PaJCKchkS? and fcaturc3 cvidtly distortcd b.V th excessive paitl, which IS endured with the fortitude of a stoic, for the sake of a eentccl frame, would be a rare occurrence.The days of our glasses wmild be numbered, and posterity, would have cause to bless the founder of the "antiCoockett, "go ahead" eiris. N. Y. Merc. Jour. A True Story. A village schoolmas tersaid to one of his pupils, a very small boy who had just gone head of his clas. feather in his cap he always comc3 home drunk and scolds at mother & whips her.' Temperance Recorder. Home. We were amused, says the Tol J i j i . i . - i ,a"a ivovocate a iew uays since, iu near a man who is confine in jail in this P,Iace for abus,nS 113 wiingng,,hrough l"cr lron Srale" me f. ,,aiollVB meiUU "wmM Administrator's Sale t SPHERE will be exposed to public sale Ji on baturday the lOih uhv ot Mav next at the Intn rnsiflnnre nf I?i-lnrd I. pricc, dec'd.all the personal goods of said decedent, consistingof T , Household Furniture, QNE H0USE, SADDLE AND BRIDLE, ' HATTERS' TOOLS, STOCK, TRIMMIXGS, IE HATS FINISHED A!tD SOE UXriMSHEl. ether with a nambcr of other articles. S le to commence at ten o'clock, a.m. lhe terms ot sale will be a credit of nine months on all sums of three dollars and over, bond and security rentnreH. , . l JOHN C. HOLLAND. MARTIN ROBINSON,! April 15, 1831. 13-3t Adm rs. ELECTION NOTICE. qualified voters of Knox county, are hereby notified to meet at their Uual places of holding elections in said bounty, on the first Mondav in M.iu nnvt for the purpose of electing one Associate Judge, to fill the vacancy of tho Hon. R. P. Price, dee'd. JOHN PURCELL, Shnf. K. C. April lii, 1S31. li-3t co-partetershzpT rjpHE undersigned have this day enterJl cd into Copartnership, under the firm of Ross 6; Ewing. They occupy the store on the corner of Market and Wa ter streets, lately occupied by Tomlinson & Ross, andjopposite John C. Clark's Ho tel. JOHN ROSS, WM. L. EWING. Vincennef April 8, 1831. 13-3t BOROUGH ORDINANCE. TJ I) E it Ordained by the Board of TrvsJ15 tees of the Borough of Yincennts in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordarned, by the authority of the same, That a tax be levied for the car 1S31, of one quarter per cent, on real estate, and even dollars fifty cents on dry good's stores in said bwrough and that the bo rough Assessor be directed to proceed immediately Jfj perform his duty as Assessor sscd lUhAuril. 1831 J. B. MARTIN, PreSt. el Hill, Llerk. rilll, 1831. 13-3t TAKEN UP David .Meekcs. Hammond town. i - ncer county, Ind. one ACK MARE, a and a half hands high, anine years old, one saddle left cide of the back, no brands perceivable: appraised to $37 50 cts. by Jonathan (ireathonso and John Tarp,on the 20th March, l$34,befcre me, WM. BARLEY, j. r. April ! 3-3t

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Administrators Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undersigned have taken out leters of administration on the estate of Richard P. Price, (late of Knox county, Ind.) dee'd. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims against the same are notified to present them duy authenticated lor settlement. The books and notes are left for tho present at he office of Martin Robinson. 1 he said estate is Supposed to he solvent. 1 Wg-K f fT g tirvT T XTV II 111 I. Ill II.I 1 All m - Admrs. eriff?s Sale. tue of three writs of fi fa to me directed, from the Clerk's office of the Knox Circuit court, I will offer at pub lic sale, before the court hause door in Vinccnnes, on Saturday the 10th of May, ensuing, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m , agreeable to the third section of the law subjecting real and personal estate to execution, all the right, title and interest of Antoine 3Iarashall,of, in, and to the following described Lots or parcel of land,to-wit: lrontingon the river Wabash one arpent and running back fifty five arpents, bounded on the north cast side by the land of Pierre Brouuettc, on the south westsido by the land of Pierre Laplant, in town 3, N. R. 10 W., supposed to be the north cast half of survey No 13. Also the south west half of TOWN LOT, known and designated on the plat of Johnson and Emison'a survey by No. 102, in the borough of Vinccnnes, with the appurtenances thereon belonging, given up as the p'roperty of Antoine Marashall, to satisfy the said executions in favor of John W. Berry, and W. W, Hitt, executors of Thomas D. Berry, & Co. JOHN PURCELL, Sh'f. K. C. April 18, 1834. 13-3t INDIANA STATS BANK. T HE undersigned having been appointed bv tho President and Direc tors of the State Bank of Indiana, in pursuance of the charter of said institution, Commissioners to receive subscrip tions for stock iu said Bank for the seventh District, composed of the counties of Knox, Sullivan, Daviess, Pike Du bois, the books will be open on every dav, (Sunday excepted) between the hours of J) o'clock, a. m. and 12 o'clock m. at Clark's Hotel, from the 7th day of April next, to the 10th day of May inclusive, where due attendance will be given by us. We would invite the attention of the citizens of Indiana, and others, generally, to lhe advantages to be derived from the establishment of a State Bank, with the effect it will have on the prosperity of the country, and hope they will come forward and take up the stock without delay. Arrangements can be made by those at a distance, by sending a power of attorney to so;neperson hero to subscribe for them. sornjM 8 JOHN ROSS, JOHN MOORE, JOHN WISE. Commissioners Vinccnnes, 27th March, 1S31 10-7t iNCITATUS, u 7IEL stand the stanu tnc en , V suing season at my stable, in Lawrence county, III. seven and a half miles west of Vinccnnes. The season will commence on the first of April and end on the 1st of July, and will be let to mares at the single leap, to be paid when the serv ice is done, or 10 to insure any mare that may be put, with fual. Persons putting by the insurance and tra ding otl their mares before they known to be with foal will be held are accountable for the insurance money. 1NCITATUS is a dark chesnut sorrel, fifteen hands three inches high, and well proportioned. Those that want to improve their stock would do well to come and see him; as a foal getter he is very sure, and can shew some of the finest colts that has ever beer, foal (led in this country. 1NC1TATUS was sired by Kosciusko, his dam by Blackburn's Whip, grand darn by the imported Diomed. He will be six years old next May, and was raised by Joseph Miller of Madison county, Kv. JAS. NABB. March 22, 1631. 9 lit 7& NOTICE hereby civen. that I thall annlv to w If Board of Commissioners for the county of Posey, in the state of Indiana, at their September term, one thousand eight hundred and thirtv-four, for the establishment of a FERRY across the Wabash river, opposite, and near the north w est corner of the north w est fractional quarter of Section thirty-five, in Township number seven south, of Range number fifteen west, of the lands directed to be sold at Vinccnnes, Indiana, lying in said county of Posey. DAVID BENTON SEARS. February 12, 1S34. G-13t AND SHEET-IRON lAITUFACTOniT. n rl w r, a large assortment of TIN ARE on hand, which I will sell at wholesale or retail low for CASH or PRODUCE, such a may suit. Job work done at short notice. N. SMITH. Vincennes. Jan. 21, 1932. iO Cf Umb tor SllCnofo Oa hd cul f-f Qle at tfcu O&se.

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Young Stallion, DIET'S?, Will stand the ensuing season at the subscribers' Cfy-'V'x 8lJLD'e ,n Mount Vernony r iW mnA arrommodatf visi tors on the following terms: Ten dollars the single leap, payable at the time of service; if the mare should not prove in foal she can continue the season by paying Seven dollars at her return; Fftecn dollars payable before the expiration of the season ; Twenty dollars payable the 2oth day ot December next; Twenty-rivc dollars to insure a mare iu foal, payable as soon as the fact is ascertained, or the property changed. Pasturage will be furnished and mares grain fed at seventy-five cents per week. Particular care will be taken with marcs, but no liability for accidents of any kind. The season will commence the first of March, and end the first of July, ' ii ii it Mi iii : r" miM-iii:i nil a- it a in: from a distance. VALIANT was selected from a multitude, in the vicinity of Gallatin, Tennes see, which is emphatically the land of fine horses in the west; he is fifteen hands three inches high, four years old last spring ; a rich bay, with black legs; his highly xiaished head and ears, lolly appearance,, great strength of shoulders &, body, round hips and tapering thighs, broad harns and flat bony legs, must be an acquisition to Indiana. As such, he is offered to tho public as a breeding stallion. Although his racing fame is not on the wing of every breeze, still he has always kept good company, being beaten only ia two public exhibitions, thi ee mile heutsne men led toe field more than two-third thedistance, then gave place toa half sister in one instance, and a cousin in the other. He was the contending horse on both occasions, and for both heats, and oa ly beaten a few feet in both cases; ho at the same time beating a field of reputed good racers, Stockholders, Tiruoleons, &c. &x. It will be perceived by reference to the certificate of pedigree that this young horse has two crosses of col. Elliott s old Top Gallant, a son of Gallatin, by the i:nported isedlord; his dam being by Top Gallant, his grand dam also, which was the dam of Tonson, Richard, Henry and Champion. I would say to all well wish--ers of this branch of internal improvement, come and see this beautiful youn fcjiuuvu ii jW uaniiui corae. send vour marcs, and thus prove vour theory by practive. J. Y." WELBORN. Mt. Vernon, la. Feb. 15, 1S3 J. G-101 We do certify, that VALIANT was oi by the noted race horse Sir Richard, hol)y Pacolct, Pacolet by the imported horse Citizen, he by Pacolct of England, he by Blank, and he by Godolphia Arabian.-! Citizen's dam Princess, bv Turk, ho by Regulus, and he by Godolphin Arabian -1 His grand dam, Fairy Queen, by Young Cade, he by old Cade, and he by the g dolphin Arabian. His great grand dam-, Ruth's Black Eyes, by Crab, out of the Warlock Galloway, by Snake, Ball Galloway, Curwan's Bay Barb. Pacolefj ian? EPP,S Sra' mare, by Tippoobaib. She was also the dam of several "m, ,e9amono them was Palafox, W ilk's Wonder, Pacolets grand dam, by Brimmer, he by the imported horse ahant, fcc. His great gr. dam, by Babraham his great, great, gr. dam, bv the imported horse Jolly Roger. Sir Richard's dam, Madam Tonson, by Top Gallant, he by Gallatin, he bv tho. i.,nrt.j torsc Bedford, out of an imported ware by -!; i u"ju oy uungannon, one of the best sons of the celebrated English Eclipse. The dam of Top-Sa!!ant! by Wild Air, he by Fearnought, he bv RrJhi3, and he by the Godo.phm Arabian! The dam of Wild Air, by Jolly, out of tho imported mare Kitty Fisher, Lc. &c. Thus it is evident that Sir Richard has descended from the most valuable hlocd stock, including that of Citizen, Gallatin, Medley, Wild Air, Fearnought, Jolly Ru. ger, Valiant, Old Partner, dec.; and ocs directly back in all his crosses tothe most approved blood in England; particularly to that of the Godolphin Arabian, of which celebrated horse he partakes of more than a dozen different crosses. Sir Richard's racing fame has never been tarnished by defeat, though he has run many races, and is said by his keeper never to have been put to the top of f.ls speed. AyAXTS dam was got bv col. El

liott s lop Uallant, a son of Gallatin, her dam by Andrew Jackson's old Truxton, son of tho imported Diomed, her grand dam by Turk, a son of Dr. Barry's Gray Medley, her great gr. dam by" Reuben Cages s ch. stallion Rinaldo. a son of Dawson's Mouse Trap, a son of the imported Mouse Trap, her great, great, gr. dam, by Wild Air She was esteemed one of the best mares in the country at that day... The Truxton raare was esteemed of equal value to Madam Tonson. The Top Gallant marc was valuable, having produced many good foals, among them VALIANT above described. For Truxton's pedigree) see American Turf Register, vol II.p30i)' Given under our hands, in Gallatin, Sue. ner county, Ten. 15th Dec. 1S33. Hardy M. Cryer, G. B. William, Ilezekxah Uouie, Tkonas Foxall, H. S. WiUanson, Jetac Gambling CLBIUTS nitALlUS. ' JUST P1USTED AXD FOll SSLQ AT T&LS OFFWfS. A m