■ - name 
and his friends for introducing hlS in 
in the manner in which it is mentioi 
i „ hut we can 
this article into our columns, l> 
assure them that it is only to expose 
writer to the contempt he deserves. e 
have occasionally published pieces ot hu¬ 
mor at the expense of the Captain s the¬ 
ory, but they have generally had some 
pretensions to wit unmixed with the ar¬ 
rogance and nonsense o! the Repository. 
Those who know Capt. By mines esteem 
him as an amiable worthy man, and set 
ting aside his own feelings, it must be 
painful to his friends to see him made 
the butt of a stupid and senseless ridicule, j 
and all the world will cry out shame to 
such trash as the following. 
rilOlVl THE BARDS TO W N REPOSITORY-. 
John C. Symmes, again. 
This noted geological philosopher still appears 
to be figuring upon the public theatre at Lexing¬ 
ton Kyi the singular excentncities of this chi¬ 
merical innovator upon the doctrines of our 
globe has long rendered tins luckless wight a fit 
butt for wit and pleasantry to split and crack 
their jokes upon, and irony and satire was his| 
only due while he confined the promulgation 
of intellectual vagan-sand pertubed Rodaman- 
tudism to die ephemeral and evanescent publi¬ 
cations of the day. 
But since Mr. Symmes has had the boldness 
and temerity to commit his ridiculous whimsies 
to the press in a more solid and permanent form, 
and make an interested and lucrative business in 
their dissemination by public lectures, he mav 
be deemed worthy of some further notice. 
And here we cannot but observe, that we 
feel less astonishment at the fooleries and du¬ 
plicity of Mr. Symmes than at the credulity of 
the Lexingtonians, in giving audience and be¬ 
stowing respectful attention and patronage to 
11m, tor which courtesy and benificence indeed 
this noble gentleman very graciously in an ad- 
fr ess 1,1 a late “Kentucky Reporter” returns 
his gratitude. 
Now can it be conceived that enlightened” 
tuens of Lexington at the very vestibule of 
e.r uniycrsuy under the irradiating beams of 
tb«s illuminating institution can feel themselves 
stimb)'' ’ eStef ln , th ' S ridicu,ous nonsense and 
ticket^" e themselves to purchase 
ickets to one and a second course of lectures 
upon the wild and incoherent theories of Mr. 
. ' mines, and ent.eavouv to give them Celebrity 
them* lC eSSUySm SUPporl and countenance of 
