Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 June 1837 — Page 2

THE BLOOJIINGIW POST,

FRIDAY ...JUNE 16, 1837. , - - - - -- The editor of the Corydon Investigator appears to liave had his feelings somewhat ruffled at. a remark which We made some weeks siace in relation to Mr. Dumont, j candidate for Governor of this State. We stated in that article, and we still say, that wc have no doubt Mr. Dumontis to be made the duj: and tool ofthe Van L'uicu

party. We are sorry to say this; hut such is our honest

opinion, and we feel it onr duty to express it--hot from

iUiy ill will we owe Mr. Dumont, but the good wih we owe the Whigs of Indiana. The editor asks us why we have no doubt of the above assertion, and asks us to produce our testimony. He says no testimony, no faith. Now for the testimony or cireumsiauces which lead us to entertain no doubts in relation to our asset-lion. It is a well known fact, thai Lieut. Governor" Wallace has font been con?idertd the Whiff candidate lor

Governor, and that the Van Buren or Jackson party has been working every schnie to defeat him. At the close ofthe Fresideutial contest in this state, they found thems jives considerably in the minority, and they well knew it would not do to bring out a man of their own party in opposition to Waliace. They then set their heads to work to divise some plan to effect their object. They eoon fell upon the echeine to decry Governor Wallace and hold out false pretences of support to some ofthe most prominent Whigs in the State. We heard numbers of theni say, during the past winter and spring, that they would support any man in preference to Wallace, and that they did not want a man of their own party to como out. This hypocii-y succeeded admirably. Gen. Morgan not knowing the trap set lor him, became a candidate, but so soon as he perceived their intrigue,

1 lite Steamboat Alton arrived Vol fan Wir after the ieling; but by rut investigation rrtosl f.'.innie arid thbr-

Columbus, but, from the carelessness or indiscretion of lough, made by the Senate arid House ol Keprestenta-

he declined running, knowing it would endanger the ' by the steamer Statesman.

thnsA n hnnrd -wiis the means of drowninie many per

sons who were floating in the water. one drove into

the mrdst of the exhausted sufferers, who were too weak longer to make exertions, and by the commotion occasioned by her wheels drawned a large number. A gentleman by the name of Hamilton, from Limestone county, Ala.," was floating on a barrel, and sustaining also a lady, when the Alton drove up, and washed them both under the lady was drowned, but Mr. Hamilton came up, and floated down the river fifteen mites, then he was taken up by the Steamer Statesman.

Mr. McDowell attributes trie drowning ot wue to

the indiscretion of the managers of the Alton, as she

was Coating safely on a plank at that time. Mr. Mc-! Dowell sustained himself some time against the current, so that he only floated two miles down the river, when he swam ashore ten miles above Fort Adams. Mr. Rundell floated down the river, ten miles and was taken up by a flat-boat at the mouth of Buffalo creek. He saved his money in his pantaloons pocket, but lost one thousand dollars worth of freight. Mr.

McDowell lost his wife, son, a lady, Miss Francia Few, who was under his protection, and a negro servant. Mr. McDowell feels himself under great obligations to Mr. William Stamp's family for their kind attention to him in his distress soon after he reached the shore. Mr. Rundell acknowledges kind attention from the ame source. There were 225 persons on board, of which not more

than 50 escaped, leaving 175 drowned, including the Captain's three children and his father. His wife was

picked up by a flat-boat badlv burnt.

The following arc the names of some of the ladies

lost:

Mrs. McDowell, of Bel font, South Alabama; Mrs.

(Gamble and three children, of New Orleans, Miss

Francia Few, of Belton, South Alabama. Mrs. Smith, of Mobile, saved.

The following are the names of the passengers saved

success ot tr.e ms. 1 hey ttin proposed Mr. l.lake,

who at one glance saw their plan and indignantly spurn-

ed their false friendship. Mr. Dumont was then prevailed upon by them, to become a candidate, having the promise of their support, lie consented and the grand object was then completed two Whigs and one Van buren man in the field. 'I hey now no doubt "laugh in th if ih fvf" at the duplicity ofthoe Whigs who have become so easy a prey to their shallow plans. We hope the Whigs will not suffer themselves to be duped by a party which seeks tiu-ir destiuction. They are like the poisonous sern?nt who watches his pn v with a fascin

ating eye until he finds ;t completely in his power, and ' then wind hi offensive body around it, and .'rushes it j to death. j To you Mr. Investigator, we would say, wipe the I rales from your eyes, and remember the old and true j mi.xim "a house divided against itself cannot st.md.M j Do not catch at every bubble which rises upon the po-1 litical ocean. If Mr. lhimont was the sound hearted'

Whig which you represent him to be, he would never

have consented to divide the strength of his party, by becoming a candidate, and thereby laying both himself j and Governor Wallace liable to a defeat. The Van Pu- j ren party, will most a-suredly, unite on judge Taylor, and leave Mr. Uumont in the lurch. I

Thompson Duval!, Shelby county, Indiana

Matthew M. Ornie, Natchez, Thomas W, Blagg, Alabama. J. S. Ljwe, Tennessee. Charles W. Andrews, Yates county. New York Cantiu Macon. Cincinnati. Wm, Wallace, New Voik.

John Montgomery, Indiana. James O. Philips. tin. J. W. Barent. Pecan Point. John Dasmi. lvlwan' Bushman. Edward II. Burns, Indiana. John N. Williams. do. John Blanc, New Orleans. John A. Davis, Floraiue county Alabama. Daniel Marshall, Moscow county, Indiana. Erastus Griggs, Marrietta, Ohio. A Randall. Hockey Springs, Mi., left at Fort Adams. James P. Wilkcrson, Richmond, a., Kphraim Stanfield, do. W. T. Gamble and sou, N. Orleans, left at Fort Ad

! ams.

The lion. 1)amf.l Wkbti:h, visited Madison on the n nist. whtie he wa cordially received by upwards ot

Rosamond P. Andrews. A. II. Hartley, Arkansas. John Ijowney, Indiana. Hugh Simpson, Tennessee; Constantine Malum, Ohio.

Patrick H. Wndkins, Bedford county, Virginia. j In additiou to the foregoing, Captain Hard states that I

he and the man at the wheel discovered the tight of the Ben She r rod on fire as soon as he entered the Mis-

tives of Indiana, ascertaining the extent ofthe undertd

king, its ultimate cost, and the time necessary to convplete, with all the additional taxes required, to pay the interest on the money borrowed. Figures will not deceive. If the friends of the system believe it a practicable brfe, they surely will not shrink from such an investigation; and if it turns out to be within the resources ofthe State, we will all cheerfully lend our aid, to sustain and finish the works at an early d&tc. But if it shall appear, upon a full investigation of all the facts, that 20 to 30 millions are necessary; the consequence will be. that some change must certainly be made, and

a proper one will be classification: and 1 now declare,

if classification be found necessary, as 1 think will be

the case, that I have such confidence in the people of

Indiana and their patriotic and honorable motives, as

to be sure, that selfishness will never prevent a classifi

cation ofthe works, when they find it is calculated to

promote the general prosperity of our State

W e feel already tse burthf n ol taxes, and they mv.st

annually increase in amount lor some years to come.

Let us go on then with such works as can be finished

without too much oppressing the people; When these

are finisned go on with the others, as our means increase. In this way all will be sure at last to be finished. By this mode of p reed u re, the public works bear

their own burthens instead ofthe peon.c.

i he present time in particular, must admonish us all

to be prudent and economical- A time of unprecedented prosperity has stimulated the Banking system of

the United States and England to go too Tar; a fearful reaction has taken place, and our funds provided to pay the labor on our public works for this season, are not altogether free from danger, in the places of deposit in the Fast. Every way we turn wc find powerful admonitions to be prudent. The idea of levelling mountains, filling up valleys, making artificial rivers, cease to animate and excite, and are lost at onco, when the tax gatherer calls, and we reflect on the probability that each successive year will increase our burthens; unless we classify and introduce the most severe economy into every branch of our public expenditure. As a public man or a private citizen, I shall always feci a deep interest for the cause of education. We must guard, with a constant and jealous watchfulness,

Us privileges; for this is the great and powerful good,

! which, above all others, lends its aid to secure the I blcss-ngs of civil and religious liberty and every thing j beneficial to our race. High schools and colleges are ! in the hands of those who can and will always sustain j them; but our common schools need the fostering care ; of the State. Wherever iri other states this has been j given, we see its good effects. We have an excellent 1 basis for Common schools. Each township has from ! Congress, a grant of a section of land; and as soon as is

practicable, it would be good policy to raise upon this basis a superstructure of durable and of inestimable value. It is my opinion, that the whole advantage and benefit of the income, accruing from our portion of the

surplus revenue, should be devoted to the cause ot coin mon schools; and this disposition of it will be finally worth far more to the people of Indiana, than any other use to which it could ever be applied. GAMALIEL TAYLOR. Indianapolis, Jcne 1837.

great tVtngs and little things, leads lo thefiequent perpetration of that species of blunder! tSrrriVti bulls. He that stated (hat he had somewhere met with an account

of the bill of an Irish farrier presented to an English

noble man, couched m phraseology which had suggest

ed 'he Toast that would be offered. It ran as follows:

''To curing your honors mare until slu died 12s.

6d."

M r. Dew then proposed : The momentary system of

the United States, cured to death bu D o7. Jackson Alas

poor Yoricki

Adam JLinlsmav ("a representative i;i the last Con

g-ess from Tennessee,) thus close ai udJress to tils constituents, in which, after givi-ur an account of M-3 stewardship, he declines a canvass for re-election: "As 1 have declined being a candidate for Congress . at the ensuing election, I consider the preceding explanation necessary in addition to what the journals will show, upon which I am willing to stand or fall. I have many reasons for the steps I have taken. Since I arrived at the age of twenty -one years, m u-c than one-

half of my time has besti spent in pubiic life. The sympathy excited for the melancholy fate of the late Col. Crockett is such, that nlany wish to pay a trih ite of respect to him by electing his son. I will not stand in the way of this generous sympathy ; besides, in the last two years I was Only four and one half months at home; my own affairs need my attention much. Fur

thermore, I find young Crockett possesses (in the main) sound republican principles. He is opposed to a protective tariff for reducing it to the wants ofthe Government administered with economy. lie is against the power claimed by the General Government to make internal improvements, but is for loevtng that to the States. He is against the re-charter of the United States Bank; for a strict construction of the Constitution ofthe United States; he is against federalism.. abolotion, and has always been against the doctrines of nullification, most especially; and 1 shall most unques

tionably support him against any man possessing con trarij doctrines in these pdrticul'irs. AN IMPORTANT FACT. The first United States Bank expired in 131 1, and all State Banks South of New England siitp")uied specie

payments in one year thereafter. The Charter of the

late I nited States Bank expired in March 133G, and in May 1837 the whole state institutions throughout th United States, suspended specie payments'!! Specie payments were resumed by the establishment of the United States Bank in 181(1, and they may again bo resumed by a reehartcr ol that Bank, or the establishment of a new Bank, in which the StaVs and g-.-usral Government hf e a portion of stock. Grv i lin er Gazelle.

.'01)0 persons who ha l a-si mMed on the occasion. lie j sissippi from Red river, fifteen miles below Fort

remained until late in the departed for Cincinnati.

evening ofthe same day and

We have nothing very important to

lay before our jocs Ilot knovv

Ad-

i t i r- i 11.. il .

ams. bantam llarU met me iotumuus una auuii uoai-

ingdown with the current, for the purpose of picking up the unfortunate sutfers. How many they saved he

readers this week. There w-re little or no changes in the j The Ben Sherrod, at the moment of the last e.xplo

money matters at our latest dates. We must all "lay to" j sion on Ixjard, sunk instantly, about a mile and a half and help Van to hold on until the meeting of Congress, 1 above Fort Adams, on the light hand.

when we shall pe. teHtr Cum nrij."'

laps

hear .-otuethina; more about the

By an advertisement in our p-tpcr of to-day it will be Feen that Mes-rs. liiht and Draper, of this place, have now got their Steam Carding Machine in full operation and are prepared to till all orders of Carding Ac. on short notice and in a very superior manner. We have had the pleasure of examining the Machines which we pro

nounce first rate being entirely new. We recommend it to the public and hope they will bestow that patronage upon the enterprising constructof, which they justly merit. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE LOSS OF THE BEX SHERROD. The Natchez papers contain mr'hcr particulars of the deplorable loss of the Ben Sherratl. At the time she took fire, &he was engaged in a race with the Steamer Prairie; and the fire took from the great heat ofthe boilers, caused by raising hir steam to its extreme j'uwrr. A barrel of whiskey teas placed on deck for the use of the hands during the race, vlut drank lo exeess, and became intoxicated. About 12 o'clock at night, the furnace became so heated that it communicated fire to the wood, of which there were on board about sixty cords. When the crew discoAered the lire, they all left their posts and ran for the yawl, without giving any alarm to the passengers, who were all asleep in iheir births. The Can-

tain, for a lime, attempted t j alby the extreme confu-

bv

PUBLISHKD BY REQUEST. TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA. Flllow Citizens: Having consented at a late p- riod of the canvass, to become a candidate for Gocr nor of the State, it will not be in my power to visitevery purt;4ut if lime had permitted, should certainly have done so. In this respect my opponents will have the

i advantage; having taken the field at an earlier date, jvk already had many opportunities of personally meet

ing with and addressing the people. We all know tlvat candidates have seldom credit for sincerity, when avowing a disinclination for office; but as to myself, my friends well know, tbat such was the fact; ami I did not consent to have my name announced, till a late period. 1 intend to visit as many portions ofthe State, as will be found practicable; the residue I can only speak through the medium ofthe press. It will of course bo expected, that I should state my opinions, relative to important interests; and as to the policy which will be proper and necessary for the State to pursue, for the coming three years. And here, 1 wish it to be distinctly understood, that I am by no means opposed to internal improvements. On the contrary, 1 think that pnblrc works, judiciously located, can and should always be carried on in such a manner as to advance the general good, and without imposing too heavy burthens upon ttie people; but when this cannot be done, such undertakings would be worse than useless. If the credit of the State and such other aid as the Legislature can prudently give, aided by that portion ol the community directly benefitted be not suf-

Sion, OV StatiniT that the file Was CXtinim shei tu- rn , "l-iuiii io consu uci aim ll.lisil our nmus mm raimis,

he forbid the lowering of the yawl, which was attempt- somul discretion would naturally suggest the expedi-

shl'ieks ofi miisumg nrsi, uwjse oi iiiu musi mpn uiiiuc,

e l by the deck hands a passengers. 'Tin

nearly throe hundred persons on lx.urd now ro.se wild

and dreadlul. The cry was to the rhore! to the shore.'! and the boat ma le for the starboard shore, but did not gain it, as the v.'ImjcI rope might have given way, or the pilot been driven by the flames from hi station. The steam was not let off, and the boat kept on. The scene of horror now beggared nil description. Thw yawl which had b.eti Idled with the crow had sunk, drowning some who were in it, and the passengers held no other altcrmviivs than to jump overt-card, without taking even tiim; to dress. There were ten ladies on board, who all went overboard without uttering a single stream, somo drowning instantly, and others clinging to planks tw of the number were finally saved. Soinr) of the passengers me supposed to have burnt up on board the Ben Sherrod. One man by the name of Ray, from tmuiisville, Ky., bun"1 to o rope at the bow ofthe boat, until taken up by the yawl of the steamboat Columbus, which arrived about half an hour after the commencement cf the disaster, on her downward passage. Mr. Ray's face and arms wore much burnt while clinging to the boat in the above position he lost $20,000 in Natchez and United- States paper.

and which will give the greatest revenue, for by the aid of this revenue, we can then finish those works

next in importance. The Wabash and Erie Canal, aided by a large and liberal grant of public lands from Congress, is now far advanced, and will soon be finished without costing

the State much money. Certainly of this prospect, of

the early completion ol tins important work, other portions of the State cannot justly complain, for without increasing their burthen, a revenue will be realized from it at an early dat ), to aid in finishing other works of importance. I am well aware that the present system of internal improvements is exciting apprehension and alarm in the minds of our citizens. They fear that the burthens imposed, will be much beyond the resources-of the State, and that the first century of our political exis

tence as a nation, is to be marked by the bankruptcy of

a Mate. I myself am oi the opinion, that the system ts by far too burthensome, and will result in embarrassements. But, fellow-citizens, honor and patriotism require at our hands, that we give the friends of the sysr i . t I ... . i

icin a iair nearine: noi oy oeine to a on tne stumn

; ''how millions can be paid by the results of a little mar'

PROGRESS OP THE EXPERIMENT. The Boton Courier of Tuesday says, "In the shipyards and fuundarics great numbers of hands were discharged last week; take the following for a sample, viz. from Gordon's ship-yard, 80 hands; Hazeu's do., 48 do; Wilson and Shield's foundry, 40 do; Harkness's do., 80 do. The Cincinnati Gazette ofthe 1 tth inst., says that day labourers, who, a few months since, obtained one

dollar and fifty cents, now take seventy five cents per

day. jSat. Int.

' FROM THE BOSTON ATLAS.

The Belter Currency A Fact. An elderly and respectable female in reduced circumstances, presented yesterday, in the market, a twenty dollar note ofthe l'lanters1 Bank of Natchez, one of the Deposite Pet Banks. It was all the money she had in the world; but she found that would not buy her a pound of beef. Under these circumstances, she applied to one ofthe men of whom she had been in the habit of making little purchases, for advice. She told him hat she was poor, and chiefly dependent on the pecuniary assistance she received from her son, who was settled at Natchez, and who had been in the habit of making her such small and occasional res mittances as he could spare from the results of his constant and laborious industry. His last remittance, which was all the money she had in the world, was this twenty dollar note on the Planters Bank. He had no other way of remitting than by mail and the best currency which he could remit was that of a Deposite Bank. Deceived by the false promises ofthe Government, he probably thought that this bill would bo redeemed by tin) Pet Bank hi tliVs city. The friend to whom she applied, took the bill to one of the Deposite Banks, and uskcu at what discount it would take the bill. The answer was, that it could not take it at any price. Being thus driven to the brokers, the reply was, that for the twenty dollar Note they could afford to pay but five dollars! Thus is a poor and destitute woman, by the mere action of the Executive, defrauded of thrcc-forths of a sum, which, however insignificant, was to herself of the utmost consequence, inasmuch as it was her all. Thus it is not merely those who have 'earned nothing and therefore 'ought to starve' in the language of the Globe who have been stripped and plundered by the accursed policy of a cabal of swindlers and vagabonds but the honest and laborious poor the very class interested above all others in the preservation of a sound and uniform currency. Alexandria, D . C. May 26, 1837. The "better currency" is cominst rapidly into voeuc.

We had an order yesterday for printing, for the use of

one oi me taverns in town, a quantity ot "small change"' "Good for 6 cents at my bar." "Good for 25 cents, at my table," &c. &c. It is well for the people in these days, that a printing press can serve as a

mint from which to make emissions ofthe only kind of money that seems likely soon to be in common use. Gazette.

The American Mmthly Magazine for May, published by George Dearborn of New York, contains a mezzotint, by Sartain, ofthe entrance to tho Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and a highly interesting deeri;tion of the

interior, which will le concluded m th- June number, it is from the pen of the co-editor, Dr. Bird. One of thy anecdotes is startling. The writer is dc--ribing one of the almost bottomless pits ofthe cave: 'But let us sit down by is brink; the g ti le ha many a wild and dreary story to tell, which can best bj to! 1 in such a place as this. "And, first, he tells us that this iden'ical abyss the Crevice Pit, as it is called sounded by Mr. Lee iu 1835, w ith a string having a stone tied to the end of it, was sornded. many ;t long year before, by the miners, pretty much in the same way only that, instead, of a. stone to the string, they had a young negr- lied to the end of it. However, this highly original plummet, it appears, was tied on with his own consoii'. the li i being a bold, romantic fellow, ambitious to signalise hii.s self by a daring exploit, and perhaps abri'iiant Iiicov- ' ery. Down, therefore, into the pit they lowered him; though with an effect singularly resembling that attending the Knight of La Mancha's de-ei-nt into the

Cave of MontesiiKW. The rope suddenly becam" light, its burden had vanished; though, in the course f time, it ogaiu felt heavy in the hands ofthe miners, win. drawing it up, fmrnd tire adventurer at its uJ as before. Some cock-and-bull story he told them, with great glee, of his having discovered, fifty or sixty f"-t below, a spacious and splended cave, which he ha l walked in; but as he never could be, by any persuasions, induced t attempt a second descent, it was thought he had imitated Don Quixote to the letter, ensconced himself on the first convenient ledge or shelf, and dreamed the remainder ofthe adventure."

A poetical description of the Falls of yiagira. Fanny Kemblc had sonic power of description, butshodil not dare to describe the Falls of Niagara. An English tourist, who has recently visited this country, has no such foolish fears. Hear him: "I visited the celebrated Falls of Niagara, but really could not see nny thing so very imposing about them as I had been led to believe. The great breadth takes away from the height; and I must say that I have seen as striking an effect produced by the fall from a common mill-dam at liome, or in one of those that run across the Hudson-to supply the canals. Poets and travellers caH it sublime;- and I am aware that the frothy appearance of the tenter, after it has fallen, gives it a.rapid-1'fc appearance for a considerable distance;- but wc may observe this in miniature in the commotion caused- Vy the paddle wheels of a steamboat, or in any ofthe falls in Britain."!!!

SIGN OF THE TIMES. At a public dinner given to Mr. Wise, ai Williamsburg, Va. last week, President Dew being called on for a toast spoke as follows: President Dew being called on for a toast, said that he would tell an anecdote bv wav of introduction and

explanation to the sentiment which he should give. He

saia mat among the characteristics of the interesting people of Ireland, was that peculiarity in thought and expression, which both in. speaking and writing, in

It is remarkable (says the Baltim ro Patriot)' that neither General Jackson nor Mf. Van Bt?RE3 have found much favor of late in tho eyes of those among whom they have lived longest, and who know them best. The latter has been condemned recently by the citizens of his own State, at the very headquarters of the Regency; while, in respect to the "Old Hero," we find the following lamentation in the Globe -of last night: "The worst portion of the federal opposition press to General Jackson the most inimical to hi principles, his person, and to his fame are to be found in Nashville, his immediate neigh bo rlkxxl." Tho meaning of which is simply that the' General's ol J friends have come to the conclusion ihet he is the greatest humbug ever palmed olF on a confiding people. The Sun.

THE TUNE CHANGED. In reply to the prayers of the northern merchants for relief, General Jackson said to them that "those wh trade on borrowed capital (that , on credit) ought t break." The Globe applauded the sentiment as what opinion of the President would-it not have applauded? But the key is changed. The Globe now exclaims: "What worse can happen, in the money icay, than the general stoppage, we cannot divine. It puts an end to credit, the greatest merchantile calamity thai

j could liappen:" The Sun.

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