Evansville Daily Journal, Volume 2, Number 242, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 23 February 1850 — Page 2

DAILY JOURNAL.

A. H. SANDERS. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CITY OP EVANSVILLE: SATURDAY MOBNIN Os FEBRUARY 23. medical College. By advertisement, it will be seen that the Commencement of the Medical College will be held this evening at the Mthodist Church, when the degree of Doctor of Medicine will be conferred by Judge Battell, President of the Board of Trustees, upon such of the students as by the proper examination have been found qualified. As the exercises will be interesting.a large attendance may be expected Mr. Blythe we understand, will deliver an address. This closes the first session of the Evans, ville Medical College. The number of students attending the class during the session was about thirty, who seemed well pleased with their Professors.and the Institution generally. We may here remark, that during their brief residerce among us, they have conducted themselves like young men feeling that they in a manner were the representatives of a worthy institution, which would in some degree be judged of by their conduct. They have been orderly in society,and attentive to their duties in the College which make them an exception to most other classes of Medical students. They will carry with them to their homes, the good wishes of our citizens, and we hope the majority of them will again visit our town next winter. The second session of the Medical College will commence next November. It is anticipated that there will be nearly one hundred students in attendance. Our citizens should feel themselves called upon to render the Trustees of this institution assistance in their laudable endeavor to found a standard College at this point. The Trustees and Pro fessors deserve much praise for the energy and perseverance" exhibited thus far in starting and continuing the College. The Profes sors, especially, have always been at their posts, and privately and pnblicly labored zealously to securely found the institution. Their present college building is a great draw back to their efforts. It is inadequate to the purpose in every particular, or will be with the large class anticipated. We have the wealth in Evansville to erect a suitable building if a little well-timed liberality were manifested by certain of our citizens. A standard Medical College at this place, wouid be of. great benefit to tlie city, and be the means of the establishment here in a short time, of a large Hospital." As an evidence of the success of the Institution, we may remark, that the Professors will .soon commence the issue of a monthly Medical Journal, in pamphlet form, of good size, and handsome appearance. Scantlin's Foundry. Last Thursday afternoon we took a walk with Mr. Thos. Scantlin to his Foundry on Main street, near the canal. Mr. Scantlin is largely engaged in the sale of stoves, &c, the principal part of which he is now manufac turing himself. There are three Founderies in Evansville, but we believe this is the only one engaged in tL? manufacture of stoves to any extent. It was erected last August, and has been 6teadily in operation almost ever nee, and. with a rapidly increasing business Jobs of different kinds are executed to order. The proprietor is now filing an order for four hundred plough shares, which order was made by a gentleman doing business in the interior of Kentucky. At the time of our visit, the hands were engaged in " running" stoves and other work, for which there were long rows of moulds, filling the whole foundry allotted to them, and showing the extent of operations, as the foundry blasts every other day, and this was thus one third of the week's work The furnace was roaring, the liquid iron hiss ing, the men hurrying about busily, the engine " going it with a rush," and all things giving evidence of prosperity. Mr. Scantlin emDlovs fifteen hands. He intends building an addition to h Cuund-y eoCTi. The stoves manufactured at this foundry f are of the latest styles, and heavi-sr made than those brought here from Cincinnati generally. Evansville will soon be manufacturing a great many of the articles aow imported to this city in such large quantities. A visit to Mr. Scantlin's will certainly repay th walk. Daguerreotypes. -Mr. Teliga's room is now crowded with ladies every bright day, and he is kept busy beautifying his plates with their countenances. His daguerreotypes are all good, and utterly unequalled by the works of other artists who have formerly visited this city! Mr. T. has been induced to remain longer than he had anticipated by becoming at a late hour appreciated.yet he will continue operations m this city but a short time longer. Let all, therefore, who wish to be handed down to posterity in their natural beauty or ugliness, drop in at Teliga's at Nelson's residence up Main street JCJ The revenue bill, giving the Secretary of the Treasury $1,225,000 to defray the expenses of collecting the revenue for the balance of the fiscal year, has passed both houses of Congress.

Plank Roads. The notice we srave yesterday of the letting

of the principal work on the Evansville and Princeton Railroad, should admonish our friends in neighboring towns, that there is now another inducement for connecting them selves by Plank Roads with Evansville. Every new avenue of trade opened to this city, increases the importance of this connection, A short time back, there was some excitement in several towns in this neighborhood, relative to connecting themselves with Evans ville by Plank Roads. Eut lately we have heard nothing on the subject, and have been told that there is but little talk about these roads at the towns aliud id to. Nothing more, we should think, would be needed to bring the subject of these improvements strongly before the minds of the citizens interested, than the present condition of ihe roads leading to Evacsville. During the winter there was but little communication between neighboring towns and this place, the roads being almost impassable. Every farmer having produce to bring to market, must have felt the necessity for good roads. This same inconvenience and injury will be felt next winter, unless some provision be made in the way of Plank Roads. The town that first connects by this kind of public improvement, will have a great advantage over other communities. The citizens, and farmers on the route, can take immediate advantage of any favorable change in the markets, or receive merchandise, &c, speedily and cheaply. But the advantages are too apparent to require particularizing. We only hope that they will be realized in their full force, by those interested, and immediate action taken to secure their benefit. Plank Roads, are emphatically i;the Farmers' Road," and all that farmers on the line of their proposed routes can do to build such improvements, will be money, time and labor, put out to good interest. Saddlery, &c. Our enterprising friend, Mr. Jos. P. Elliott, has just received a large and splendid addition to his late stock of Saddles, Bridles, &c. &c, and as he is also manufacturing on a large scale every thing in his line, he can certainly suit customers. lie is prepared to furnish Saddle and Harness makers with every thing desirable, and on the most reasonable terms. It will repay trouble to give him a call at his establishment. He manufactures an immense number of saddles every year, and in the very best style. He has also just received a large assortment of whips, of all varieties, lie has presented us with one to keep in our sanctum, to cowhide individuals so reckless as to demand apologies, and all that. ' " Drowned. Capt. Prunty, of the Wabash packet, Julia, informs us that a deck hand named Francis Holcomb, stepped overboard on the night ot the zum, a lew miles Deiow Mt. Vernon, and was drowned. Every effort was made to save him. but in vain. He sunk before the yawl could be got out to his assist ance. Mr. Holcomb was from Hannibal, N Y., and was a steady and industrious man. Julia. This excellent Wabash packet commanded by Capt. Prunty. arrived here from Terre Haute on Thursday night, with a full freight, for the manifest of which, published in another column, we are indebted to the politeness of the Captain, and also for Lafayette papers. The Julia will start back this afternoon without fail. The boat and officers are too well known here to require introduction to travelers and shippers. Swiss Boy Sunk. We learn that the Swiss Boy struck a snag in tbe Wabash, just below Vincennes. on the ISth inst., and was sunk. She was going up, and heavily laden with salt. Said to be a total loss. Gen. Bem. The Bern arrived here from the Wabash on Thursday morning. She brought down 3,500 sacks corn to Mt. Vernon. 100 bales hay for re-shipment to New Orleans, taken by the Alex. Scott. She was to have- returned yesterday afternoon. Mr. Fach, the attentive clerk, will accept our thanks for favors. Sartin's Magazine. The March number of Sartin's Magazine is before us. It contains twenty embellishments, and twentythree original communications. This is one of the best Magazines in the country, and merits good support. The price is S3 per annum, and every subscription Is accompanied by a premium of a beautiful engraving. Two copies $5 per annum, with the engravings. d'A man named James F. Kelly was shot at Cincinnati by a woman named Weickmeir, whose house he had forcibly entered and threatened her life. Jtf-The steamer Globe went up the Wabash, heavily laden from New Orleans, a few days since, and if the water will permit her will no doubt go down just as heavily laden. Wabash River. We understand from Capt. Prunty of the Julia, down on Thursday night, that the Wabash is falling, with four feet water from Terre Haute. But there were between 6ix and seven inches snow at Terre Haute, and a heavy snow reported at Lafayette, eo that the fall in the river may not be expected to continue long.

PAl'L IENTOS; OH, Tlie Texas Camp.metlinif, BY CIIAnLES SUMMER FIELD. During the last, week of September, 1S36.

the first successful Catnn-Meetinr was held in eastern lexas. l employ the epithet "successful," because several previous fail ures had apparently rendered all efforts of a like kind perlectly hopeless. Indeed, the meridian, at the period, was most uncongenial to religious and moral enterprise. The coun try bordering on the Saoine, had been occupied, rather than settled, by a class of adventurers almost as wild as the savages whom they had scarcely expelled, and the beasts ot prey which still dissipated their domain of primeval toresls. rrotessional gamblers, refugees from the jail, absconded debtors, outlaws from every land, forgers of false coin, thieves, robbers and murderers, interspersed among a race of uneducated hunters and herdsmen, made up the strange social mis cellany; without courts, or prisons, or church es, or schools, or even the shadow ot civil authority or subordination a sort of unprin cipled pandemonium, where fierce passion sat enthroned, waving its bloody sceptre, the naked bowie knile! Let no one accuse me ot exaggeration, for the sake of dramatic effect ; I am speaking now ot Shelby county that home of the Lynchers the terrible locale, where ten years later, forty persons were poisoned to death at a marriage supper ! It will be obvious that, in such a community, very few would be disposed to patronize camp-meetings ; and accordingly a dozen diflerent trials, at various times, have never collected a hundred hearers, on any single oc casion. Uuteven these were not allowed to worship in peace ; uniformly, the first day or night, a band otgdesperauoes. headed by the notorious Watt Foeman. chief Judge and exe cutioner of the Shelby Lynchers, broke into the altar and scattered the mourners, or as cended the pulpit and treated the preachers to a gratuitous roue ol tar and feathers . Hence, all prudent evangelists soon learned to shun the left bank of the S.ibinc, as if it had been infested by a cohort of demons : and two whole years elapsed without any new attempt to erect the cross in so perilous a field. At length, however, an advertisement ap peared promising another effort in behalf of the gospel. The notice was unique, a perfect backwood's curiosity, both as to its tenor and modf of publication. Lei me inve it verbatim et literal im : ,; Barbecue Ciimp-Mecting. " There will be a Camp-Meeting, to com mence the last Monday of this month, at the Uoanle bprmg throve, near 1'eter Unnson's, in the county of Shelby. Ine exercises will open with a splendid barbecue. Preparations are being made to suit all tastes; there will be a good barbecue, better liquor, and the best ot Gospel ! ' Paul Denton, ; Sept. 1, 1S3G. Missionary M. E. C." This sinTular document was nailed to the door of every public house and srrocerv : it was attached to the largest trees at the inter sections ot sill cross roads a.J principal trails: and even the wandering hunters themselves. found it in remote dells of the mountains, miles away from the smoke of a human habitation. At first many regarded the matter as a hoax played oil" by some wicked wag, in rid ieüle of popular credulity. But this hypo thesis was negatived by the statements of Peter Brinson. proprietor of the " Double Spring Grove," who informed all inquirers, "that he had been employed and paid, by a stranger calling himself a Methodist missionary, to provide an ample barbecue, at the period and place advertised." " But the liquor the better liquor are you to furnish the liquor too ?" was the invariable question ol each visitor. ' The missionary said he would attend to that himself," replied Brinson. ''lie must be a precious riginal " was the general rejoinder. A proposition which most of them afterwards had an opportunity to verily experimentally. 1 need hardly add that an intense excite ment resulted. The rumor took wings : flew on the wind ; turned to storm a storm of exaggeration every echo increased its sound, till nothing else could be heard but ''the Barbecue Camp-Meeting;" it became the locus ol thought, the staple of dreams. And thus the unknown preacher had insured one thing in advance, a congregation embracing the entire population of the country, which was likely the sola purpose of his stratagem. I was traveling in that part of Texas at the time, and my imagination being inflamed by the common curiosity, I took some trouble and attended. But although my eyes witnessed tee extraordinary scene, I may well despair ol the undertaking to paint it the pen of Homer, or the pencil of Hogarth, were alone adequate to the sublimity and burlesque of the complicated task. I may only sketch the angular outlines. A space had been cleared away immediately around the magnificent ' Double spring,' which boiled up with ibrre sutlicient to turn a mill-wheel, in the very centre of the ever green grove. Here a pulpit had been raised. and before it, was the iaseparablt altar lor mourners. Beyond these at the distance of filty paces, asuccession of plank'tables extended in the form of a great circle, or the perimeter of a polygon, completely enclosing the area about the spring. An odoriferous steam, of most delicious savor, diffused use If through the air; this was from the pits in the adjacent prairie, where the filty slaves of Peter Brinson, were engaged iu cooking the promised barbecue. The grove itself was literaly alive, teeming, swarming, running over, with strange figures in the human shape, men, women, and children, in every variety of outlandish costumes. All Shelby county was there. The hunters had come, rifles in hand, and dogs barking at their heels ; the rogues, refugees, and gamblers, with pistols in their belts, and big knives peeping from their shirt bosoms, while here and there might be seen aspiinkling of well-dressed planters, with their wives and daughters. The tumult was deafening, a tornado of babbling tongues, talking, shouting, quarrel ling, betting, and cursing for amusement. Suddenly a cry arose "Col. Watt Foeman !" "Hurrah for Col. Watt Foeman!" and the crowd parted to the right and left, to let the lion Lyncher pass. I turned to the advancing load-star of all

eyes, and shuddered involuntarily at the

devilish countenance wnicn met my glance ; and yet the features were not only youthful, but eminently handsome: tue hideousness lay in the look, full of savage fireferocious, muiderous, It was in the reddish-yellow eye-balls with arrowy, pupils, that seemed to flash jets of lurid flames: in the thin sneering lips with their everlasting icy smile. As to the rest, he was a tall, athletic, very powerful man. His train, a dozen armed desperadoes, followed him. Foeman spoke in a voice, sharp, piercing, as the point of a dagger : Eh ! Brinson, where is the new missionary ? We want to give him a plumed coat !" ' He has not yet arriverd, " replied the planter. "Well, I suppose we must wait for him; but put the barbecue on the boards, I am hungry as a starved wolf." "I cannot till the missionary comes; the barbecue is his property." A fearful light blazed in Focman's eyes, as he took three steps towards Brinson, and fairly shouted, "Fetch the meat instantly, or I'll fill your own stomach with a dinner of lead and steel 1" This was the ultimatum of one whose authority was the only law, and the planter obeyed without a murmur. The smoking viands were arranged on the tables, by a score of slaves, and the throng prepare u to commence the sumptuous meal, when a voice pealed lrom the pulpit, loud as the blast of a trumpet in battle, "btay, gentlemen and 'adies, till the giver of the barbecue asks God's blessing I" Every heart started, every eye was directed to the speaker ; and a whisperless silence ensued, for all alike were struck by his remarkable appearance. He was almost a giant in statue, though scarcely twenty years otage: his hair dark as the raven's winr. flowed down his immense shoulders in masses of natural ringlets, more beautiful than any ever wreathed around the jeweled brow ot a queen by the labored achievements of human art; his eyes, black as midnight, beamed like stars over a face pale as Parian marble, calm, passionless, spiritual, and wearing a singular indefinable expression, such as might have been shed by the light of a dream from Par adise, or the luminous shadow of an angel's wing. The heterogeneous crowd, hunters. gamblers, homicides, gazed in mute astonish ment. The missionary prayed ; but it sounded like no other prayer ever addressed to the throne of the Almighty. It contained no encomiums on the splendor of the divine attributes; no petitions in the tone of commands; no orisons lor distant places, times, or objects; and no implied instructions as to the admtnis tration ot tlie government ot the universe. It related exclusively to the present people and the present hour ; it was the cry ot a na ked soul, and that soul a beggar for the bread and the water ot heavenly tile. He ceased, and not till then did I become, conscious of weeping. I looked around through my tears, and saw a hundred faces wet as with rain! 1 Tvow, my friends." said the missionary, "partake of God' gifts at the table, and then come sit down and listen to his Gospel." It would be impossible to describe the 6weet tone ol kindness in which these simple words were uttered, that made him on the instant five hundred friends. One heart, however, the assembly, was maddened by the evidences ot the preachers wonderful power. Col Watt Foeman, exclaimed in a sneering voice : Mr. Paul Denton, your reverence has lied You promised us not only a good barbecae. but better liquor. H here is the liquor "J. here!" answered the missionary, in tones of thunder, and pointing his motionless finger at the matchless Dcuble Spring, gush ing up in two strong columns, with a sound like a shout of joy from the bosom of the earth. ' There !" he repeated with a look terrible as lightning, while his enemy actu ally trembled on his feet; "there is the liquor, which God, the Eternal, brews for all his children '." "Not in the simmering still, over smoky fires, choked with poisonous gasses, and surrounded tviih the stench of sickening odors and rank corruption, doth your Father in heaven prepare the precious essence of life the pure, cold water. But in the green glade and grassy dell, where the red deer wanders, and the child loves to play, there God himself brews it ; and down, low down in the deepest valleys, where the fountains murmur antl the rills sing ; and high up on the tall mountain tops where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm-cloud broods, and the thunderstones crash ; and away far out on the wide, wild sea, where the hurricane howls music, and big waves roar the chorus, 'sweeping the march of God' there He brews it, that beverage, health-giving water. And every where it is a thing .of beauty gleaming in the dew-drop; singing in the summer rain ; shining in the ice-gem, till the trees all seem turned to living jewels spreading a golden veil over the setting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon; sporting in the cataract; sleeping in tht-gla-cier; dancing in the hail-shower; folding its bright snow-curtains softly about the wintry world; ard weaving the many-colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whose harp is the rain-drop of earth, whose roof is the sunbeam of heaven all checked o'er with celestial flowers, by the mystic hand of refraction. Still always it is beautiful that blessed lifewater! No poison bubbles on its brink ; its foam brings not madness and murder; no blood stains its liquid glass; pale widows and starving orphans weep not burning tears in its clear depths ; no drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grave, curses it in words of eternal despair ! Speak out, my friends, would you exchange it for the demons drink, alcohol?" ' A shout like the roar of a tempest answered "No!" Critics need never tell me again that backwoodsmen arc deaf to the divine voice of eloquence; for I saw, at that moment, the missionary held the hearts of the multitude, as it were, in the hollow of his hand; and the popular feeling ran in a current so irresistible, that even the duelist, Watt Foeman, dared not venture another interruption during the meeting. I hsve just reviewed my report ofthat singular speech in the foregoing sketch; but alas! 1 discover that I have utterly failed to convey the full impression as my reason and imagination received it. The language, to be sure. is there that. I never could forget but it

lacks the gesticulation, now graceful as the

play ot a. g ilden willow in tue winu, ana anon, voilent as the motion of a mountain pine in the hurricane; it lacks that pale face, wrapped in it to dream of the spirit-land, and those unfathomable eyes, flashing a light such as never beamed from sun or star; and mre than all, itlacks the magnetism of the mighty soul that seemed to diffuse itself among the hearers. As a viewless stream of electricity, penetrating the brain, like some secret firej nieltmg all hearts, and mastering every vo lition. The Camp-Meeting continued, and a revival attended it, such as never before, or since, was witnessed in the iorestot lexas. But unfortunately on the last day of the exercises, news arrived on the ground that a neighboring farmer had been murdered, and his wife and children carried away prisoners by the Indians. The yonng missionary sprang into the pulpit, and proposed the immediate organization of a company to pursue the savages. The suggestion being adopted, the mover himself was elected to head the party. Alter several days of hard riding they overtook the barbarous enemy in the grand prairie. The missionary charged foremost of his troops, and having performed prodigies ol bravery, leu not by the hand of the Indian but by a shot from one of his own horsemen! I need scarcely name the assassin; the readertwill have anticipated me. The in carnate fiend, Col. Watt Foeman, chief hang man of the Shelby Lynchers, and ten years later, a master cook at the Poisoned Wedding ! Such is the only fragment from the biography ol a wonderful genius : the sole twink ling ray of a dazzling luminary, that rose and set in the wilderness, a torn leal lrom Paul Denton's book of life. Peace be with his ashes. He sleeps well in that lone isle of ever-green sea of the great prairie. Nature's beloved son inherits her costliest tomb that last possession, the inalienable fee-simple of all time I Great West. A Desert Banquet. The trappers were now devouring their horses and mules at the rate of one every alternate day ; for so poor were the animasl, that one scarcely furnished an ample meal for the thirteenth hungry hunter. They were once more reduced to animals they rode on ; and, after a last of twenty-four hours duration, were debating upon the propriety of drawing lots, as to whose Rosinate should fill the kettle, when some Indians suddenly appeared, making signs of peace on the Bluff, and indicating a disposition to enter the camp for the purpose of trading. Being invited to approach, they oflcred a few dressed elk-skins; but being asked for meat, they said that their village was a long way off, and they had nothing with them but a small portion of some game they had lately killed. When requested to produce this, they hesitated; but the trappers looking angry and hungry at the same moment, and an old Indian drew from under his blanket several flaps of portable dried meat, which he declared was bear's. It was but a small portion among 60 many ; but being divided, was quickly laid upon the fire to broil. The meat was stringy, and of a whitish color, altogether different and unlike any flesh the trappers had ever before eaten. Killbuck was the first to discover this. He had been quietly masticating the last portion, the stringing of which required more than usual dental exertion, when the novelty of the flavor si ruck him as something singular. Suddenly Ins jaws ceased their work, he thought a moment, took the morsel from his mouth, looked at it intently, and dashed it into the fire. " Man-meat, by heavens !" he cried out ; and at the word every jaw stopped its work ; the trappers looked at the meat and at each other. "I'm a dog-bone ifit aint," cried old Walker, looking at his piece, "and white man at that waugh !" (and report said it was not the first time he had tasted such viands) and the conviction seizing every mind, every mouthful was quickly spat into the fire, and the fire of the.deceived whites was instantly turned upon the luckless providers of the feast. They 6aw that a 6torm was brewing, and with more ado turned tail from the camp, and scaled up to the bluffs, where, turning round, they fired a volly of arrows at the tricked mountaineers, and instantly disanDeared. f Iluxton's Life in the Far West. Lyceum Notice. The Thirteenth Lecture of the regular Winter Course, will be delivered before the Lyceum, on Monday Evening, the 23th inst., bv Abb. II. San ders. Subject Printing and the Press. tel23 d2 GILES COLV1N, Sec'y. DCrA Funeral Discourse upon the deuth of our late fellow-citizen, Mr. Nelson Kazar, will be preache in the Episcopal Church, on Sunday Morning. The Pews are free. feb23 LLOYD'S SABLE HAREE0NISTS! POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT ! ! AT THE BALL ROOM OF THE EXCHANGE HOTEL. THIS Celebrated Troupe, consisting of the following: talented Performers, who. either singly or in coLjunction, challenge tho vorld : ..' Messrs. VV. A. LLOYD. - S s, -C. C. SEGUIN, ' B. FERDINAND, W. P. BELMONT, W. C. FISH, H. VAN LIEU, J. K. GRANT, G. W. WHITE. Most respectfully announce to the citizens of Evansville that they intend sriviusr one ot thpir fashionable and unique Soirees at the Ball Room of the Exchange Hotel on this - SATURDAY JSVJSJMiXU, Feb. 23, 1850 T. B. FRANKS, Aient. LATE ARRIVAL! ,4 FRESH Riinnl v aC MflHirinoo D.:.. im - i J , ..v., v,ia, aim X amiev - - " K11-aaaui ulieilL Ol foreign Liquors; Cogniac Brandies Segnette, Dupey and Wines Old Onorto Port MHoir. M.I.,., rt.r. et? -St. Juban, Chateaux, Margeaui, etc., 'etc. .ti.h, niouuigu ii iuuow ijiass, ana Apoinecnries' Ware, in store and for sale, retail or wholesale, by. J. G.IHATCH1TT, Druggist, teb23 d2m Front street, one door below Mam. X Jtt. Ptth ri, A Kxrw i,.. r.,-,,.. Yram TTmse. on Clark street, Texas. The house is well insured and. febl3dlrn , ; J.THVGO