Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 17, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 March 1837 — Page 2

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EI 22 2PDSS firfig,....TT?rrfr IP, 1837. We have received a letter from the Hon. Wm. Hekod, our Representative in Congress, dated the 18th ult. in which ho authorizes us to announce him a a candidate for re-election next August. ExGovernor Ray, is announced in the Indianapolis papers, as a candidate for the sine office. We invite the attention of the public to an advertisement in to day's paper, of the "Idiana Mutual Fire Insurance Company.1' The company is now fully organized and ready to receive applications for insurance. Ve recommend it to all persona wishing to have their property insured. Mr. John S. Dime?, of thU place, is an authorised ngctU Ur the company and will attenJ promptly to having property insured. Persons w ishing to knowparticulars will call on Mr. Ilame-, who will give all necessary information, EXHIBITION. There will ho an exhibition of the Junior class of Imlim College, on Wednesa day the 2'2d inM. The public are iu ited to attend. It is stated in iho IV Herald, that a flock of uliVep in it rteili'i, IkmkI, were struck blind on the niht f ihi lale brilliant display of th nuror.i Ivncilis. The Herald adds: "It would seem to imply that sheep are very attentive observers of celestial phenomena." Wonder if tinJunior editor of the I oil iiii D 'in vi at witnesscJ this brillhut t!ipl ' of nature 1 O.t Sattmlay 1.11, t?nera! Jaekson laat term of service, as President of the United States expired. The old man will now retirs to tho Hermitage, ami i leave Van II men Si, Co. to carry out th ' measures of his glorious aJmiinsirutiou.

) Wesus the name of Lieut. Goernor ' Wallace, ani.ounccd in the InJian t Iu. mocfat, a a candidate fr ti jvern r, tn ' circled a black tine. Tho editor- sfty they intend to keep it there until aflvr the election in Angiut next. Well, be it to it i perfectly in accordance with the btmck hearted hirelings and the JiUhy heet which gives it publicity. TEXAS. tty the latest intelligence received, it ftpnears that the ffovernment of the Uni-

, ted States, has purchased the Teritory of

texts from Mexico, at a com ot eiiit ! millions. If this be true, the struggle over, and Texas will come under the Government of the United Sutcs. Another attempt has been mad to as Msinate Louis Phillippe, Kingof IVanee. The kins was on hi way to open the

French Chamber, and being ariived an I RUrrounded by on ini.nenso crowif. win had assembled to witness hi-i arrival, before he allighted fronting carriage n voting man fired a pistol at him, through the glass windows, iho broking of which slightly injured we vera I persons wiihin. The king run a narrow ri-! , but escaped unhurt. Thu younjr. niait was immedi ately arrested and taken to prison. The Albany Aorgus i I nolii ing the , suspension of the publication or the Bed- " foro Transcript, say : "People at a distance, will no doubt, think it strange, thai so largo and flourishing a county as Law rence, will not

support one newspaper; but when we tell them that the paper supported the princi pies of modern whiggcry, the mystery is solved." Tho editor of the Argus is not ac quainted with the paper alluded to, or he,

like the party which he has attached him f self to, delights in misrepresenting facts

The Transcript neither supports "modern whiggery," or Toryism, but i, and ever has been, a neutral print. Would it not be well for the editor of the Argus to in form himself of the polities of tho dilTerent papers of his state before he proceeds any further in his editorial career! Mr. Editor:' I .enclose you, for publication in your paper, for the Immediate information of the citizsns of the Reserve township an extract from a letter received by me from Air. wnitcomo, thi Uommis tioner of the General Land Oflice in answer to one addressed to him bv me. asking for a confirmation of the election of lands made under the act of Congress for the benefit of the citi. zena of the Reserve township which aid lands are given by Congress to Ilea of the lClh section of said townhip, for the use of Common Schools therein; It will appear from this letter that the former Commissioner of the General Land Office had, from some cause or other withheld his approval said1 selection and that his successor has taken a different view of the matter and confirmed the same, there by leeuring to thia township about

sections of land, which will constitute ! the largest school fund of any other in the state of Indiana as many of said

lands will now bring $5 per acre as I was informed this last winter by the Receiver of Public money at Indianapolis. Yours respectfully. PARIS C. DUNNING. "Washington, Feb. 13, 1837. Dear Sir: I have been occupied with such a profusion of business, that I have with difficulty been able to devote the necessary time to drop a line to you. After encountering many obstacles occasioned by the necessary reports to resolutions of Congress and calls ol committees, etc. I was at last able to reach the matter of the selections or lands by the Register and Receiver at Indianapolis under an act of Congress of last session, in lieu of the IGth section for school purposes, for the. benefit of the Inhabitants of the Reserved Township in Monroe. The selvUion had been reported to my predecessor and had been remanded again tinder the opinion that the appraisal vf the 16th section had been too lar, It was afterwards forwarded to tin G r eral Lilid Oilicc, and on looking into the terms ol the act &c. I have been able toco.ifirm the selection. Of this conGimtlion, the Register and Receiver have been duly advised For the liberal provisions of the act, the inhabitants of the Township have been mainly indebted to the untiring devotion to I'.tii interests, on the part of uur lamented friend, Kintiard. The people there should know thi. Great and he irtfell regret was manifested bete at the annunu Umti of hi Jcalh, and I foil a tniUntholy Rr.iti'ication in being able on n.y w.y liitli er, lo piy the last duties ol! friendship o his rMniins. This donation of the government will provide the people of the R serve with a lrer school fund th in perh ps Ins fill, n lo the lot .if any other Congressional township in the bt.uc." COMl'l'XK'.t rtu , Since mv return home 1 have no ticeJ in your vnin tble paper an caj over the signature of Sen x. I was over helmed with sham and regret Jt the setitiinvnt it contained, and cotfidiT it a duly, I owe to you, mid the public generally, ti make an ap-1 nlogy for my fth:r. I have noticed! mother piece also, sit-.ed Jutitia, which w is evidently written by the same hand. . I feel a great delicacy in treating upon toe productions ol my parent; but it is through tins best of motiv. For I assure jou, although the old gentleman U in bis dotage f.Xtremely pevUh and childish, I have the gre ttet veneration and filial regard for him. We find in most cases, that men, when they become advanceu in l ears, crow cniui!i anav un, tnJ consider all mankind inferior to themselves. Thy look on the productions of their juniors w ith nfl'ccted contempt, and consider sound reason ing and sublimity foolish thine. 'I his is the case with mv father. Jfisruid 'A old mm He p."sseed a good share of common sene, before he besait to decline i but since that lime his mind. has become weaker, and his self conlidetirc stronger. Thouch it must be confessed, self t otifuleute has always been the predominant trait in his character. I attribute nil his re cent foolish caprices to that mormon tumprf self esteem , which has caused him no little trouble in hfo s dreary way. It has been the primary cause of innumerable attacks of the "h!pp?i and not unlreriiienttv of the L'uul 1 here is no other cause, lor his wield ing his pen against both friend and foe, with so Utile compassion. I .would here remark that he has always ettubitcd a benevolent disposition. This is the reason he has selected Sterne, for his text book. lie is so much delighted with the humane character ol "Uncle Toby" that I have seen him with tears in his eyes, read over and over the delightful pages and with a sigh complain that the devil had not prolonged the life of this good man. And the next moment hreak out into a dreadful passion, and curse all his neighbours, and the whole race of man, for attempting to write a treatise, or publish a work on any subject whatever. But all such fits of passion soon subside, and I have no doubt the old gentleman is now sorry (or what he has done. The cause of his unmerciful treatment of the fair-sex n short time since was owing to some disappointment in regard to the affections ol an ancient lady who had seen about sixty winters; on account of which he gave vent to his rage, in slandering the whole race of the feminine sender. But fortunately his artillery was not loaded with Instruments of death, and consequently did but very little iniu16 ry. woud here acquaint the la-

dies that the old fellow is quite an inamorato of their sex, particularly of

the young and beautiful. Further more he did not submit bit true sentiments to the public, in either of his publications; for I have heard him express his decided approbation of ladies exhibiting in public once a year. The whole cause of his malicious publications, is owing to the above mentioned love farce. The ladies no doubt are personally acquainted with the old gentleman, for I understand he was silly enough to spare no pains of letting it be known that he was the author of "Senex." Before 1 close this communication I must request you Mr. Editor, to pass over all pieces, which the old gentleman may hereafter transmit to you. My only reason for this request is simply, that I 'do not wish the old man to expose 'bis ignorance to the public gaze; and consequently bring contumely and reproach on me. I would further request fti': id Junior, also not to nolic him shou' I he again appear it public. Because Junior cannot tain any hen our by r. repetition with so si'llyan old ttnti. And to save any further exposure, fr degredation of mye!f or parent, he will confer a treat favour j not to notice such "papre bullets of the brain." Fines Sexh is. l'OllglCs. IN SENATE. Satlrdav, January "23. The VICE PRESIDENT, after the reading of the Journ il, adJri ssed li.; Senate S follows: Skxator: The period is nt hand w hi !i is to ti -rniiru:te tUe oflici l re I itii, Hut have cx'slcd between us, and I leave, nmhtbl i-vrr to r. torn i f i. .-..t.. ..iii. ..i;.,i. i i.... ... to it, a body with which I have been ! long connected ; where soma remain w hom I found here fifteen )ears ago, and where, in the progress of public duties, personal ass. tuations have ari sen never to be forgotten. From such scenes I cannot retire without emo lion. Nor can I give the Senate the uu tl opportunity of chooiti another to preside for a time over their delih erations, without referring to the man mt in which I have endeavored to discharge a most gratifying and hnnirable trust connected with the rlhcc to which my country called me. r.nteriug upon it with uivtfl ctcd lilii lence, well knowing how lilila my studies had been directed to its pru li tr duties, was yet slur.g'hened by the determination Unu rxpre,"d, o to discharge the authority w ith which was invested, as "best to protect the iihts, to respect ihe feelings, and to guard the reputations of all who would be nfl 'cted by its ixorcUc. " was sure tli i', if successful in thi, I should be p trdonod for errors which I could hardly expect to avoid. I i the mtei v tl til it has situ e elaps ed it hss been our lot in thi assembly Jo p is thruiigii sc enes of unusual ex ciu tifiit. The intense interest on nb!oilting lopes, which has pervaded o-ir whole cimmu iy, could not be unfelt within these walls. The warmth of political parties, natural in such times, the ungarded ardor of sudden debate, and the collisions sel loin to be separated from the invalua ble privilege of free discussion, have not been uufi equently mingled with the more tranquil tenor of ordinary legislation. I cannot hope that, in em ergencies like these, 1 have iilways been so fortunate as to satisfy every one around me: yet, 1 permit my eel f to think that the extent to which my decisions have been approved by the Senate is some evidence that my efforts justly to administer their Rules have not been vain; and I conscientiously cherish the conviction, that on no oc rasion have I departed from my early resolutions, or been regardless of what was due to the "rights or the feelings of members of this body. Though I may henceforth be, separ aled from the Senate, I can never cease to revert with peculiar interest to my long connection with it. In ev ery situation in my future life I shal remember with a just pride Ihe cvi dences of approbation and confidence which I have here received; and as nn American citizen, devotedly attached lo the institutions of mv country, I must always regard with becoming and sincere respect a branch o( our Government, invested with 6uch extensive powers, and designed by our forefathers to accomplish such important results. Indulging an ardent wish that every success may await you in performing the exalted and honorable duties of your public trust, and offering my warmest prayers that prosperity and happiness may be constant attendants on each of you, along the future paths of life, I respectfully bid you farewell. After the Vice President had retired. On motion of Mr. GRUNDY, the Senate proceeded to ballet for a President pro tern, j.

The number of votes cast was 37; as from Mexico, at the cost of necessary to a choice 19. Mr. King EIGtlT MILU0NS. We have to-day, Ol Alabama, had 26, Mr. Sauthard 7, Liil, e m0 rirt0 o Mr ri.-i a -a a c lOytne way 01 iew urleans, a Mr. Clay I, Mr. Prentiss 1, Mr. Ew-!,.-; ' ... , .' ing, of Ohio, I. Mr. Buchanan l. j report, which puts a version Mr. King, of Alabama, being thus upon the alleged contract, conduly elected President pro tern, of the sistent with our pending discus-

Senate, was coducted to the Chair by Mr. Benton, and addressed the Senate nearly as follows; Gentlemen op the Senate: To .be again railed to preside over the deliberations of this august assembly, fills my heart with the liveliest emotions of gratitude. When at the last session it pleased the Senate to place me in this exalted situation, I solemnly pledged myself to discharge the duties it devolved on me, without favor, and without partiality. I felt cOhsci otis that I had done so; but cculd any thing add to the grateful sense I enter tain of the honor you have again con ferred on me, it wilt be found in the unequivocal testimony you have this day borne, that I had faithfully redeemed that pledge. The Senate of the United States, gentlemen, is, from its very organisation, the great con servative body in this Republic. Here is the strong citadel of liberly. To this body the intelligent and virtu ous, throughout our wide toread coun ii, luun wiui Loiiuuence lor an un wavering and unflinching resistance to the encroachments of power on the once head, and the cllervcecenca of popular excitement on the other. Uuawcd and unseduced, it should firmly maintain the Constitution in its purity, and present an impregnable barrier against every attack on that sacred instrument, come it from what qu trier it may. The demon of faction should find no nbidii.g plnce in this . .. I :.u C l. . . . . . ... -""", oui every t.eari ana even chamber, but every heart head should be wholly occupied in advancing the general welfare, and preserving, uiumparied, the national nonor. To insure success, gentlemen, in the diicharge of our high duties, we mutt command the confidence, and receive the support of the People. Calm deliberation, courtesy towards each other, order and decorum in cle bate, will go far, very far, to inspire that confidence, & command that sup port. It becomes my duty, gentle men, to banish (if practicable) from this Hall all personal altercation; to check, at once, every remaik of a character personally oflensive; to pre? erve order, aud promote harmony. These duties, as far as my powers will permit, I shall unhesitatingly perform. 1 earnestly solicit your co op eration, gentlemen, itt aiding my el torts promptly to put down every t pe. les ol disorder, tor your kindness, gentlemen, I lender y ou my nckhow l. tdgcmeiits. Ma. Calhoun and the 1'rf.-idkxt. We publish to-day the letter ad dressed by the President of the Uni led atates to IVIr. Caliu.cn, with the remarks of the latter on presenting it o the senate. j It has been the misfortune of Gen. j Jackson to be surrounded ith a set of swiss lackeys, who avail themsel ves of every opportunity of minister, ing to the natural vindiclivcness ol his disposition. In the present instance they have induced him to assume, towards a Senator of the United States, a tone of insolent and impu. dent defiance which finds no warrant in the circumstances of the case, and which can have no other illect than to display the undignified and unres. trained impulse uuder which he acts. Iffjien. Jackson would take the trouble to look back upon his own career, he would find a long arrearage of iijuries unredressed and calumnies acknowledged but unretracted. Be. fore he demands reparation at the hands of Mr. Calhoun, let him retract the charge advanced against Mr. Clay of having approached him with a corrupt proposition a charge which his owu witness, when summoned to testify, most effectually disproved. Let him atone to the injured Poindex. ter for his attempt to implicate him in Lawrence's maniac assault upon his .person, before he complains of injuri. us in, putalions from others. Let him do jusiice to the members of his j m'1 whose fair fame he pi rove to cover with a cloud of oblo. tju', and who exniled from public favour, by the force of his unequalled popularity, are now scattered over the nation, the ghosts of their former 6elvei. TEXAN AFFAIRS. From the Mobile Commercial Register of the 10th inst. we derive the following news, which, if true, it is of much importance. -"We published the other day, one rumor, apparently well credited from the Montgomery Advertiser, giving information of the actual purchase, by our government, of the Territory of Tex-

sions with the Mexican government, and which, if true, it is probable,, will save some constitutional difikulatics and domestic controversies that might impede at home the admission of Texrts as a foreign State, and which would settle at once some foreign disputes. The report is given in the N. Orleans Courier of the 7th. That paper 6ays: "It is currently rumored that Colonel Almonte, acting in his diplomatic character of commis

sioner on the part of Mexico, to adjust the boundaries between that country and the United States, has agreed that the Rio Grande shall be the line of dcmarkation hereafter and that he has written to t his i : fleet to some of our fellow-citizens here. Conditions are of course annexed to this cession of a claimed or disputed territory, such as that Mexico shall receive a certain consideration for war expenses aud territorial losses. It is also stated that Santa Anna has unqualifiedly given his assent to this boundary treaty, tuul has promised to procure its ratification by the Mexican Congress and auihorities'-LojfKstvVic City Gazette. LATEST FKOM TEXAS. The Texas Telegraph of the 27th ult., has been receivcxl at New Orleans. President Houston had returned from the Army, and reports it to be in excellent health and line spirits. Hp thinks there are nottwenry men in it over forty years of age. The remains of those who fell at the defence of the Alamo are to be disinterred, and hurried wilh the honors of wa r. The Message of President Jackson communicatjng the report of Mr. Morlit, the Agent sent by him to inquire into the political condition cf Texas, had heen received . W c perceive that attention is already being given to the in crease of the population of the country several marriages being announced in the Telegraph. Late ami important fro.m Mexico. We received last night from the New Orleans Bulletin slips of the Gth and 7th inst. Halt. Chron. Advices had reached that city, from Vera Cruz, as late as Jan. 22. They contain the important intelligence that the announcement of the liberation of Santa Anna had caused great rejoicings in the city of Mexico. As snon as the news was received, the officers in charge of the government issued an order to the authorities at Vera Cruz, in the eventof his landing at that port,! to receive him, with all the hon ors due to the President of the Republic. The national flag, which had been kept at half-mast since his capture nt St. Jacinto, is now restored, to its usual position. Three days of festivity and general rejoicing were likewise had, and the most extravagant joy manifested by the people on the occasion. It was expected that Santa Anna would reach ;Vera Cruz by the middle of February, and that he would be immediately re-elected President. Bustamente, who was the prominent candidate, and who would, without doubt, have been chosen . if San ta Anna had not been liberated, declined in his favor, and has tendered his sword to his government, and with it resigned his Command as leader of the army for the invasion of Texas. All naval preparations for that purpose have been' suspended , and

in fact the wheels of government are completely at a stand, awaiting the artival and dictation of Santa Anna. Conjecture is rife, as to the course of Santa Anna, but the demonstrations on all hands clearly show, that his will will be the law. All doubt in regard to the independence of Texas, as a distinct government, must now be at an end.

It is stated that atGalena,(lll.) specie is selling at 25 per cent, premium, while in another part of the same state $1000 in specie has been paid for a draft upon New York for 960 dollars, the specie being at a discount of only 4 per cent. This is a pretty state of things, and certainly shows the wisdom of the "experimentters." What a wise seat of public officers to take care of the a flairs of the.nation!-The vicious; meddlers with the "currency" ought to have leaden medals presentedto them, to remind them of the brightness of their own in tellects . Cincinnati Whig. iLLixois.-The New York Joffrnal of Commerce says: "We know the fact that in Illinois paper drafts on New YoTfe have been purchased and paid for in silver dollars ,at a! discount on the silver of four per cent. A. thousand silver dollars sold for St. paper draft on New York of 900." The New York Exprrss of yesterday says, our correspondent at Kalamazoo, Michigan, has sent us a letter dated Jan. 25th, from which we mak! the following extract: 'The persons employed in the land oflice at Gonia, have beers i detected in defrauding Govern ment to a large amount. 7'hey entered several hundred of the . choicest lotsand employed agents to sell them at the East. The affair has produced a great excitement here , and will probably lead to an investigation of the transactions of this iflice." ijplt is slated in some of the. Eastern papers that a friend of the President's has challenged Mr. Calhoun, for presumed offences against his Majesty. It does not become the hero of Orleans to fight duels by proxy. 7'he correspondent of the Baltimore Chronicle, under date of the 16th inst. says. Cin. Evening Post. "It is said that General Jackson proposes to bring Mr. Cal houn to the scratch on the fifth of Marrh, or should it fall on Sunday, on the first fair day thereafter. FROM FLORIDA. Reported Surrender of Oceola. We can truly say of the following "thou coms't in very question able shape." "We have accounts that Powell had but 1.0 men with him .when last seen. The Savannah papers state that a letter had been received in that city from an officer in the Army in Florida, containing the gratis lying news that Oceola has come into Jesup's camp with 300 warriors .The great chief formed his men into a line, leaned himself against a tree, and when the U. S. Officer, deputed to receive him, came up, he approached him, and gave up his rifle, with all the grace of a fallen hero." . Since the foregoing which we find iu the Baltimore Chronicle, was put in type, we have learned through the same source, that the report was unfounded. Louisville City Gazette. All Down Hill. "I shall die, soon. CuffyI must set out upon a long journey," said a sick man to his negro servant. "Berry well ' replied Cuffy, "I guess massa hab good gting, lease it be all down hill."

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