Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 34, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 July 1837 — Page 4

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THE RRlPivS FAREWELL. KV MRS. Hf.MA.NS. Why do I wool:? To leave the vine, Wliorio clusters o'er me bend! The myrtle yet, oh! call it nuno Tlio ilowers I loved to tend! A thousand thoughts of all these dear-, Like shadows o'er me sweep, I leave my sunny childhood here, O'. therefore let mo weep! I lo.tvn thee ei-tor! we have play'd Through many a joyous hour, Where thesilrcry green oi'iiio olive ha.ie Iliwig dim o'er i tie fen. it a. id bower'. Yes, thou and I, by stream, by shore, In song, in p-ayer, sleep, Have been as we may be no more ivind tiu-r! let we weep! I leave thee, faJiei! Eve's biLht mcon Must now light other feel, With the gatherM grapes and the lyre i.i tune. Thy homo ward Flops to give:! Thou in who-e voice, to ' s-j thy child, Lay tones of iOk"c fo deep, Whoso eye o'er all my yemh hath e.nilcd I leave thec! let me weep! Mother, I leave thee! -on thy Ire a?: Pouring out joy and woe, I have found that holy plate of reft Still change'et vet I go! Lips that have lulled mo villi your- strain, Eyes that have wjiciiM my s!et p! Will earth give love like vns again! Sweet mother! let me weep.

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A Si: UPE N T-TON J I'EI) IN I' A X T. TiVERi-c., (R. I.) May 22, 1C37. I embrancc the earliest opportunity to make you acquainted with such cf the facts as have come to my knowledge relative to the, serjnl longned infant, of which we had casually heard, just previous t my departure lor Block Island. Quite, unexpectedly, day before yesterday, I found, myself in the very ncighooi liood of this strange and waywaid pi oductioii of nature. My curiosity, as you may well suppose, was greatly e xcited, and I confess I felt an intense anxiety tocxaminc for myself an object which began to excite- so much interest in the neighborhood of its cx-eni reucc. Mr. T , a worthy old gentleman in the vicinity a former acquaintance of mine, with whom I accidentally met, Kindly oflbred to accompany mc to Mr. V"s. the father of the unfortunate child. We i cached there about !' o'clock this morniug and were received very com ten inly by Mr. W and his hrere ti.i.j young wife. After an agreeable introduction, my aged fiiend stated the object of our vi-it. an l the dedro I iiaJ mau'ile-tcl to sec their unfortunate little child of whom l had jo t heard. Mr. W informed usthat for several weeks he had, in almost every instance, declined admitting strangers, as he thought their presence hud an unfavorable effect upon the child, but us I had come a considerable distance Cut t'f my way, he was disposed to gratify my wish, the more a- pedal ly as he thought I might give him some advice in relation to the course he ought in future to in rsue. We were then invited into an adjoining room, in one corner cl'whieh wo beheld, tied in a small low chair a most horribly emaciated little child, apparently about 2 years old. i an aware that I shall totally fail in giving you any tiling like an idea of the miserable object before us. Imagine, if vou can, an infant, or more child, of about the ago suppe cd, reduced to a very skrhion, hairless, ami covered with a parched and shrivelled skin, dark and unola-iie as the corresponding structure in the withered oetagenri ria.). Its little red, liery eyes, rolling restlessly, in the deep recesses of its lleshless sockets, sent forth horrid (la dies of indignation w hen the door to us apaitment was thrown open. The little sufferer opened his mouth, and in the place of its lougue, an I JW a tongue a serjienCs head and neck were thrtut out, vibrating and hissing with an intensity peculiar to the more venomous varieties of that i cpul.ivo species of animated nature! I could not, for several miiioics, mtisier sufficient courage to approach thcobject of my curiosity. 1 was tixed to the post which I at lirst occupied, while the serpentheaded tongue continued to dart forth and recede with the quickness of though'. : its lit!.!fvrkal and fiery tongue at the sum" lime playing aljut the lips and nostrils of the child, equalling in velocity the liglilniii's Jlash! Mr. W , the father, gu lu oly approached the child, all the time shaking very soothingly to il, and in a few minutes succeeded in producing quiet the head' receded, the lips closed over it, ami the infant exhibited the aspect only of extreme emuei.uion. Rut the mo-j ment 1 moved towards the child, even but a single step, the mouth would open, tl. ; head suddenly dart forth

and tin same dreaiful s,i..v;uue, I haveidrcaiy imperfectly d'jsci i!kj 1, would be again presen'ed. 'I he faiher, however, beckoned me lo approach, which I did. but never shall 1 forget the it em',ndet,:i hissing, which came fioni the serp'-nt-hevue lo:;:;nc oi't'ue lialo smi'erer. It was scveial lianms beibie quietude etjuld be )rodu.."ed, and even the slightest motion on mv part

vvouiu cause nn iiHtaita:!eoti pro in. ion ol tno u.i-r.dil-

licved by a copious bleeding. He informed me also, that the child cat Voraciously of milk, and sometimes other kinds of food, but that it preferred the former. The child is of the female sex. He stated further that several eminent physicians and surgeons had been to see the c hild, and that it had been recommended by one, the eminent Dr. W. that the tongue be extirpated. I coincided in this opinion, and advised that the Dr. be called upon to perform the operation. The father, Mr. W is about twenty eight years old, and the mother, i should judge, about twenty-two. She is very beautiful, has been married about live years, and this is their first and only child. I have omitted names in this hastv sketch at the request of ttic parties concerned. Fall, liiver Patriot.

AN EDITOR IN TROUBLE. The following good humored article, with its bill of fare appended, is from the Tueahoniian, a good and 'rue Van Union paper, published in Mississippi. We would only remaik, in reference to this worthy editor's case, lhat bis 'vi;l!ermgs is 7iol intolerable;" for it migbt be fur worse with a man who has thus far plenty of corn cake cv;ry day in the week. 'This U our 10th No. r mi lucky for us it ii that the volume is so near it completion; for never was a poor devil of an editor so nigh being '"starved out"'as we are "at i iie present wriiing-'' Aye. we ate threatened with starvation! Think of that c rump-fed scribes, whoihihe a day legale your luxurious sipuaiilh on mutton chops, rc;vt beef, d'nupling-. and, perchance, tin tie roup and iVicpsced chicken, (ZoumN! how our mouth waters!) washing the same down your pampered callets widi old October brown and bright, or Miurkline l-'hampaigue! Think, ye "good, fa', sieek-heauetl," pure and unbribed Whig editors, who aie eon uuilly crying out against the "spoils."' men, and "die pavtyV" liberality to its cdiiors ihhik of a Van Ihircn and .lolim-en man, so nigh starvation, that one No. 3 mackerel per diem, and a half b ihel of com meal lor a fortnight, is almost hi i w hole allowam-e. This is no exaggeration. Towns and town ouieers and indiv iduals owe us trifling sum-' for printing. and although we have dunned and dunned them, wi; ha obstinate pci severance, week a fief week, through o"r columns, we can't induce themto call and pay their debts wc cannot collect

money enough to fund h ourselves with the lnurie

of pork and Hour neii her of w Inch we have been ab'e to procLiio during the la-t .siv months. As for pariy patronage, we woo) I not givu a picayune lor the patlonage of the w hole dein rraey, if a fair display of its b- nciits has !eeii exliibiied to us. If we bad ever dreamed of leing "rewarded,1' we might wi.h truth exclaim : "how. ! ll nv ! v'-here are t!ie "spoils," thy g'owim; fancy j'.iirti tiV KXTKACT MlOM AN KtUToUS I1 ATI V. Si'.tday Cora biead, mo!,-ses and codeo. M-.tdry Coin bread, codec and mackerel. Tni .;!,iy Corn bread, po";uoos and slt. '( lne j'cy Corn bread, cod'ee and maekcri I. Th'ir ''ay Corn bread, mackerel and potatoes. L'ridtiy Corn hi cad, potat oes and salt. Su.urt. '.uy Corn bread, mackerel and onions. A true bill Attest Dr.vn..

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an, more or Ics.; i.iTcu.so according to the tears of

liie ciiuJ. I had seveiid !air cp. oi tunities ol .seeing the strange m'miber, and v. iii endeavor lo give you a description of it. u c.,.)ri, r. dark ooppur, shining; and in i!act s iaciiiiing to str-;. !. of rr,wn. Its eyes are a jet black, and when im; ii.;ht sirii.oj tlie.ii favorably, no diamon Is ever senl forth more bVillinnt scintillations of light! A b. i-lit yellow ring en r !es the nock, and really has much the appearance cf cold. The mouth of this serpent headed tongue, is quiitV Iar 'e, and was always slightly open when the head was orotruded beyond the lips. Its little forked touo-uo, us, I have already said, was incessantly in motion. We stayed in the room just 30 minutes, during the latter part of which time the child became very quiet, and took freely of milk, its usual food. The father told me he hid known the tongue to bite several limes, and once when it fastened upon one of his fingers, much swelling and soreness followed, indeed he was only re

in reference to the rights of woman, which are so little regarded by the lords of the creation, it may be

.asked on what ground, other than that of mere b-giki-

uve enactment, uees tne simple ceremony ot marriage deprive a female of her property I l.dt lecau.-.e, Iteing naturally atlcetionate, generoiH, and confiding' she is willing lo losiow upon the object of her atfections not only her p-Oisoual kindness and attention, but her all in the way of property ? Is it lvc;uise, in lliu fullness of her heart, she is too apt lo consider the man of her choice more worthy than he ically is, and to transform his veiy failings into virtues, that she is to be left to the impulse of her feelings, that no law exists w hich may place beyond her roach that which Indongs of right to herself and her olfspiing exclusively ? Look around and behold the numberless instances in which highly bred and delicate females w ho have lieen nurtured in the lap of indulgence, and to whoso early years the feeling of want never even suggested itself, who, thought the prodigality or Vieiousness of unworthy husbands have been forced to depend mainly on their own exertions for subsistence for themselves and chil

dren, and then say whether humanity, if nothing else,

does not demand that they shall be prevented Irom. indicting upon themselves so mighty a mischief. Look o the multitude of eases in which cold-hearted, unprincipled lortuue-huntcrs have imposed upon the confiding affection and unsuspecting credulity of innocent and

inexperienced females, and induced tiicntlo make them

selves the slaves ol men as unworthy of them ar, a

spirit ol darkness is of an angel ot lights, and thin say

w inter it shall lie left within their power to make so revolting a self-saci ifice. The interest of a wile's for

tune should belong to her husband as the father of her children, hut never should the principal, that furnishes Mibiiitenre to her and her offspring be left at the disposal of those whose only motives of acttion is too often the gratification of self. 'lJulimorc American. SUi WJilNC FROM THIRST. Some twelve miles from O. an, wo passed the spot where, a year and a half ago, there had been hard lighting between the French and the natives. The French soldier., thought an overmatch for the Arabs, suii'eied dreadfully from heat and thirst. Their store of water was exhausted; the breath of the Simoom set in; liie cavalry stui.d us shock, and by their elevation liom the ground were able to respire, but the foot sol-

uiors ictl by companies, gapping lor breath. A captain of drugooiH, v hu vas in the scene, told me there was more than one instance of the infantry soldier, driven to mail, less by thirst and agony, pulling his head lo the mouth of his musket, and his foot lo the trigger, anp committed suicide. One infantry officer alone gave way to despair; and though it is probable that he was, in these circumstances, no more a responsible agent than a man in the delirium of a fever, yet it was better, perhaps, that he; did not survive the occurrence. He pulled his purse from his pocket; he said to his men: "I have always been a kind officer to you; the horror of my sufferings is now uusupportable; let the manamoii" you who is my host friend, shoot mo dead, and there are thirty louis d'ors for his legacy. No man would comply with his request, but he had hardly uttered it when he fell down and expired. CampclW Letters from the South.

Indun Eloqtjknck. The last words of Pushmataha, Choctaw chief, who died at Washington in the year 1024 "I thall die, but will return brcthcrn. As you go along you will sec the (lowers, and hear the birds ; but Pushmataha will see them and hear them no more. When you come lo your home, they will ask you, vhcre is Pushmataha?' and you will say to them, 'ho is no more.' They will hear the tidings tile tho fall of a mighty oak in the stillness of tho wood."

GENERAL WASHINGTON Extract. "The Cabinet of Washington wa3 one of extraordinary splendor, talent and patriotism, and which in the force of its character, its inelefatigable industry, the unspotted purity of its motives, and the prophetic wisdom of its councils, has never been surpassed or even equalled, by tho cabinet of this, or perhapsof any European nation. This splendid pre-eminence will not appear strange, if we consider the peculiar influences under which it was warmed into life. Not in the silence of the lettered closet not in the en

joyment of fartklious ease, but on the bloody field

where nations buttled for victory, lor glory, for liberty not under the protection of a wise and humane government but w hen time had beaten the old confederacy into a pile of ruins, when the national treasury was a mere starveling, and the laws but hives of folly, weakness and despair it was in the darkest hour of this dark period, that Washington, looking into the very secrets of the future, summoned around him the

clitvulrous Hamilton, tne utiuosonnic jenorson, mo

bold and sagacious Knox. Chaos immediately assum

ed the form of beauty. Happiness grew to the perfec

tion of its nature. Commerce lilted up Us urooping head, and spread its snowy wings over the boundless ocean. Prosperity looked down on all America. Wise men were her legislators, brave men her defenders, cc happy, indeed ihrice happy were her citizens. When shall we have such times again? When anotlnr Wa.shinr'iou shall exi;i.'T

Hat Manufactory.

LATEST

FASHIONS.

,S. IP. Chipnian,

TEELS grateful to his former customers lor their

2 tormcr lib-jr.d support and respectfully informs '

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE. Let the people who have been imposed upon by the "goM humbug' or a promise of gold and silver currency cntil the pceie is locked up fiom them, and the country is Hooded with a -shin planter' currency, read and ponder upon the following facts. When the late president commenced his "experiment upon the currency, there were three hundred and twenty banks i-i the United States and the discount

at the Ai la.ntic cities, upon the note.; of the most remote,

was only fioma hah' to one per cent. J he I mtcd Siates Hank was then the fiscal agent of the govern

ment, a. id nut a. dollar waslo-t by it: nor were the peo

ple tlooi-ed bv the shavers of bank paper. I he-.c three

hundred and twen'y banks the countiy was forty years

m e-ta'lUh'm:. and most of them had small capitals

.Sinc; h;s aiiempt to-Segulate the currency," three huiurcd i .ad Jlfy-scv;u hn,t!:s have been added to the number thai existed before, making at this time-six hundred and .-cvemy -seven banks. Thus, iu ,iie course of six or eight years, during the reign of the late Pi esident, controlled by Martin Van Hu in, there wero more slate banks established ihan under the fori years administrations of Washington, Vl.uns, .letiersoii, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adonis! This is i lie stream o! Hold, a'is rag paper currency, that was promised ihe people to flow op the Mississippi, and peep through their long silken purses. Venn. Tel.

ihcni and ihc public generally, thut he has purchased J of Philip Murphy, the b t shon formerly occupied bv F T. Eu lcr, w lie re he is now carrying on the above business. He intciuls keeping constantly on

hands a eeneutl asset imcnt cf hats such as fine black

leaver huts, dr-b Heaver r.r.d Oner, fine and common Uouni, child re ns hats cf all ci Icrs, wool hats Sec. Uii work will be done in a reat, fashionable an J

chiiublc manner, net inferior to any manufactured in

he western country. The puhl'u are respectfully invited to c.til and cxanfms for themselves. BloO'mm'on, 1SJ7.

f HIE subscriber acquaint- his friends and the public

JL tiiat lu lias commenced the 4 :iA9 MAKING Husincss, In ldooiinngton, ntar thesouth cast cornerof the public s piare, next door to David ILuterion's TlQ Shop, where he intend.-: kee mg on hund a rc.ie vl assortment of (CHAIRS, ' . And can sai'olv say his w ork shall Lo interior to noii mado in the West. He can only s.y lothe public that no exertion shall be spared to please, accommodate and do ample" justice o those who mav favour him with their custom. JOHN LAWfiEXCE. DtcnnLcrZOth, 13J0. 7 if. School Commissioner's Sale. .. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder at the Court House in .Spencer, Ow en county, Indiana, on Satur

day ihe 19th of August next, the following described Delinquent Town Lots, for the tax of 1033.

J.m Randolph. The late John Randolph, of Roanoke, in tho year 1813, when the New York banks suspended specie payments, had a remittance of some thousand dollars mane him from Holland. The sum covered liie whole of one of Ins tobacco crops, and the funds wee locked up in the vaults of the Hank of America. Mr. Randolph w n at ibis lime in the prime of life, in the full enjoyment of unequalled popularity. lie repaired to New York, mid demanded his funds in specie. ! I cannot l hatl w as the prompt reply. "It must be had,"' was ihe loconie response of Mr. Randolph. The bank was incorrigible tilt iho succeeding day, when the columns of Ihe New Yoik Columbian amTuunecdhy advertisement, that afternoon at li o'clock, the Honorable John Randolph of Roanoke, would address the people on the subject of Hanks, and tho frauds they committed, frmn the steps of the. Hank of America! it is scarcely necessary to say, that before the hour arrived, every fa rthiug demanded bv Mr. Randolph was paid over in specie. Uleamh.tal M'tnoranda. According to a paragraph iii the Wheeling Times, the steamboat business ef the West has been greatly reduced by the fulling oil" in I -'avcl and trade. The number of steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi and their tributaries, is set down at about two bundled, of which between fifty and sixty are now laid up rU Pittsburg, about fifty at St. Louis, and a number nt Cincinnati, leaving nbout sixty on,,the w hole streams of the west. Of this number, tho Times says I hat ihe small portion that continue running on the Ohio river, have very litite freight, and are not overbui thened with passengers, and as a case in point it cities the following fact which occurred on Wednesday of last week: One boat took eight while persons, with fifteen negroes and children, four horses, wagons, and scvcml hundred pounds of baggage from W heeling lo iSt. Louis for ihc sum of $75, it being a distance of 1200 miles. The fare in this instance amounted on each person, throw ing the horses and baggage out of the accornt, lo the sum of ,$'3,25 per head, for the whole route, or oMf mirth cf a cent per mile. "TUP. PRISONER AT LARGE.1' The celebrated Joseph Parkins, ex-sheriff of London, who was famous in the Rowland Stephenson affair, and who has fill l!if l:it fulir vnrtra lwin rrr Ci nrwl in llir

- - - - .'-- J X. k. 4 J V I . V Vlllllll. 11. V 1 1 l city prison, New York, in consequence of his irascible . A. - . . 1 . . I fS

iciiipeiamciH, is now permitted to go at large ii no wishes to lb

er, he knows not whero to go, and therefore, still rc-

aieicsiu uiejuii. lie is a man ol large lortune. Calling vjhtu Hercules. The accredited Oovcrnment

Oi'o.n il 111 il! at i' I) 1 1 in nrlmits tli.-it. lhr llinlr .il. JT...I

i I ........ - - - ' . 1 . V V 1 llllj iiiii, ed iSmle-j has loaned or advanced to the Government

'lour or live hundred thousand dollars, in order to discharge die pensions due our naval veterans."

An Excellent Thought. The Wheeling Times sug

gest; that Mr. Vnnllurcncan only fulfil his pledge of

lollowmg m the footsteps ol his predecessor, by taking

the hack trad:, and crawling out of the same hole the General went iu !

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Due allentioi will bo given by tne, JAMES A. STEELE, ScWCWr. O. C.

SCOTT'S OPINION OF CHESS. Sir Walter Scott, after having in his boyhood made

some progress in chess, declined to pursue it, saying that it was a shame to throw away upon mastering a

game, however ingenious, the time which would sulhce for the aquisition of a new language. 'Surely chessplaying (he added) shows a sad want of brains.' London, May 8. Despatches were reveived at Windsor Castle, last night, announcing the death of her Serene Highness tho Duchess Dowager Saxe Meinengen, mother of her majesty the Queen. The melancholy event occurred on Saturday tho 30th of April. The Court will go into mourning on Thursday next.

School Commissioner's Sate. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder, at the Court House in Spencer, Owen county, Indiana, the School Section in Congressional town-ship" 9, North of Range 4 West, Friday the first day of September next. Said land is of the first quality, lying in the bottom of tho West Fork of White river, containing eligible situations for settlements, with several first rate springs, the river and Central Canal running through said section; has alout one hundred and fifty or sixty acresof land improved and now in a high state of cultivation. Said land will be sold according to the sub division made by the trustees of said township. Sale to commence between the hours of ten o'clock A- M. and one o'clock T. M. and to continue from day to day until sold. Due attention given by inc, JAMES A. STEELE, School Com'r. O. C. June 1S37. 31-3w "I never yet did know a philosopher Who could Lear the Tooth-Ache patiently." .Much ado about nothing. Montague's Halm. A sovereign and infallible remedy for tho Tooth-Ache and an effectual preservation lor the teeth. PRICE $1,00 PER DOTTLE'. In offering this invahiable Palm to to the public many, certificates of its elficicncy might be given, which tho limits of a new spaper forbid publishing and which may,' be seen by calling at the agents but as every species of; medicine has been thus thrust into notice, we iuVite th?'r puulic to a more convincing proof of its almost miracu- .

ions powers to relieve this worst ol all aches, the lootn Ache. tilVElTA TRIAL, being careful to adhere strict to the directions given on each hotl'e andleUtrisc or fall upon ITS OWN MERITS. Suffice it to say that in thousands of cases it has not failed in asingle instance. It should be used afier all operations, bleeding and spungy gums, sero teeth, scurvy Sc.; And is decidedly the Lest Tooth wash ever yet discovered, it should be used with a brush, instead of any powder, 'or substance containing, or that can contain, the finest particlo of grit. The Ladies speak of it with unmeasured praise r i nd all who have used it have laid aside all remedies offered asclcnsersofthe mouth, and purifier of the teeth. For sale at George IT. Johnson's Store, Bloomington, and every town and village in tho United States, by proper Agents. May2nd,lC37. 24 12mo. . Taken lj TY ni" WaItcrs Wayne township Owtystt cn ccliuly Indiana, on the30th day of JaHMay 183r, a Sorrel Mare, four years old, Y " O with a llax mane and tail, both hind feet Bi5sasS3 white, a star in the forehead, with a small white spot on Jhe right hip mixed with white hairs on the sides; appraised to forty five dollars by Wm. Ham and Isaac Surber. A true copy from my estray book. DAVID FULTON, J. P. June 10th, 1837. 30-3wp Job Printing. Neatly executed at thisOffice on the shortest notice.