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the intoxicating cup, the card table, the midnight street-) possible chance. Ve believe that General Harrison's

CLASSIFICATION OF OUR PUBLIC WORKS. We have recently published several circulars of convention, and candidates, upon this sabject; not that we coincide with them in sentiment; but because we were requested to do m. We have ever been of opinion, that the system of intenal improvement adopted by our Legislature is rather too large for the resources of our ttate; but as it Was a matter of compromise between the

different sections of the state, we are disposed to let it rennm as it is. The Wabash and Erio canal from the Lake to the mouth of Tippecanoe river will be

pai l for out of moneys arising from the sale of lands granted by Congress for that purpose, so that, that work has nothing to do with the other lines of improvement in

the state. For our classification candidates to say there lore, that they are in favor of the Wabash ani Erie can

al being completed, is equal to saying that they are in

lavor a man's house being built, when he has previously

laid in all the materials and paid the workmen for building it. It is well known that the Representatives from

the opposition counties were during the last session of

the Legislature the most zealous supporter? of the Bill called the caff, which if it had passed would have added

ome three or four millions of dollars over the present

eum appropriated for our public works. These men now

present a most exaggerated and destorted statement of

the amount expended, and to be expended, for inter

nal improvements, and cry out that the people will be

ruined by taxation. Strange inconsistency!! An

what it may be asked do our citizens now pay for inter

nal improvements! Just fifty cents on one thousand dollars worth of property, nor will the tax it is believed be increased during the ensuing year. Suppose howev

er that cur public works should be classified and that the

rote, the 'plearuriig parties' of foot or hone back, on the

"house to" nor in the 'cellar. If we were to spend our time in all, or any, of these vices it would make the

honest and intelligent part of community, as curious as our critics arei to know who writes our editorial articles.

For the edification of our crifi'ci and those hollov-hcaded

counter hopper, quill-drivers, qnttcks and pettij agger , ;who

have heretofore busied - themselves aboua - oun.edi-

torial articles, we would inform them, that we write therri ourselves.- In conclusion we once ItfikH btWeech

you to cease your maledictions but if you cannot, or

will not, we can only say, "Lay on, Macduff; and

damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough." .

SUICIDE. -

Job Stevenson, Esq. of Georgetown, Ky.j a gentle

man of wealth; a strict member of the Methodist

church, and for many years a member of the State

Legislature from Scott county, recently put an end to

his existence by hanging himself.

A dreadful tornado recently visited the village of

South Hanover, Jefferson county, - Indiana. For par

ticulars we refer the reader to anther part of our paper

Another. We learn from the liockville Park county Intelligencer, that on Sunday the 2d inst. tt most

chance has resolved itself into almost ft certainty and the Whigs should adopt the 'determination at once to

make it so. Louisville Lily Uazette.

YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY. Three bovs, between the aces of 10 and 13, were

brought up before Justice Chapman, on Saturday last, on a charge of robbing a market boy, whom they intercepted on his way home from town, where he had been disposing of some raspberries. Two of them were acquitted on the ground of their extreme youth, and vague

notions of the enormity of the offence. I he Other was

remanded to tail till Monday.

Ihese youths are on the high road to ignominious

ends. The evidence on trial showed them to have

been brought up without any parental restraint- no

moral principles had ever been instilled into their minds

Like the wild beasts, they have been suffered to run at large, doing their own will and pleasure. The father

of one of them wis present, who did not know his son's

age, nor any thing about him, scarcely; he said lie had

never had much conversation with his child, and did not know whether he was possessed of sane mind or

not! If wc may judge by the crowds in our streets oc

casionally, and around the wharves, we should say-

there are many, very many, such children about our town. Who their parents are, or whether they have

any, we know not but it seems that they are sulFered

to be trained up in idleness, without learning, without

trades, or without reputable means of living of any kind

destructive storm passed over, the South Fast part of learning all the vices of mankind, without any of the

that county, which did great damage to the farming

class of its citizens. Many fields are so filled up with the fallen timber as to render it impossible to cultivate them the present'season. .

4 TO CORRESPONDENTS. "A Parody Lovers too many," cannot have a place in our columns. It is too personal and would be calculated to involve ns (perhaps) in a pop gun duel with

amount cf money now expended on all of them should the gallant beaus at whom it is aimed; and moreover be applied to a single out, would the people then pay j we do not wish to incur the displeasure of the fair one,

any less taxes than they now do! Assuredly not. But j who is so successful in the beau catching line. Let her

virtues, lo what end must they comer V ho is to

control them, or put them in a way to usefulness and respectability, if their parents will not, or cannot? Republican Banner.

it is argued that this single work when completed wo'dld at once be productive from its tolls, and thereby pay the interest of the money which was expended for its completion. The same r-moTn? and probably more would ke derived from the parts of all the works which would yield tolls in proportion to the amount of them finished. Ta'-vo for instance that partof the Centre Canal which begins seven miles above Indiauapolis and terminates at the stone ouarry at the Bluff-. Sufficient water will be

"go ahead' she has no doubt adopted for her motto ' Variety is the spice of life" &zc. LkoMpaS has evidently "pcnt much of his precious time in preparing stuff for our columns. We cannot publish it, but we feel disposed. to remuneratejhim for his labor, and if our devil has not "stopped Sp&Qir payment," and will lend us R fp he shall have .it... "e are astonished at you Iiconidas do you not know that our

las given much dissatisfaction to the pkpie. vho.fr.ir.-

its absence cjre exposed to the incursions of the lncl--ans and Mex'qans. The army also appears to be dis, ,

satisfied with President Houston their wish was to . attack, and if possible, take Matamoras, but President

Houston, would not accede to their demand.

Mexico. The New Orleans papers contain a trans

lation of the message of the President of Mexico to the

Congress of that Republic. Its tone in regard to the

united States is by no means violent. Alter speaking

of the amicable relations between Mexico awl certain other povers, it says: Touisville Journal.

"In the flattering perspective which I have traced of . foreign relations, I have . the mortification to except

the conduct held bv the Government of the - United

States. Nevertheless, the law which authorize the

Mexican dovcrnment to act on the claims of that cabinet, and to take the proper measures for the safety of the nation, in case it should not condecend to grant the satisfaction to which we have a right on our own part, induces me to hope, not without good grounds, tint our relations with the neighboring republic will be restored., The passages of the message, which relate to Texas, are as follows: "The army, after having undergone destruction in 1833, was hardly re-organised, when the campaignof Texas commenced, and suspended the measures adopted for its better organization. Neverthelessthe Government now counts on a farce, with the proposed aug

mentation, which will sullice to sustain the honor ot

our arms, and already measures are taken to this cf

feet, and to give it the strength which it requires. By thellecree of last March, the Government was authorized to provide for any difficulties that might arise, and immediately the army wa in a condition to bo a solid support of our institutions, of internal tranquility, and of tlie national rights. " "The creation and augmentation of a. navy depends on the progress wc can only obtain in time. Our small naval force requires a radical re-organization in reft -ence to the resources which we can apply to it with all possible economy. "The Government authorized to make this organi

sation will acquit itself immediately of this duty, and

From the Cincinnati Gazette. DREADFUL TORNADO! SOUTH HANOVER, INDIANA, IN RUINS. We have been permitted to make the following extract, from a letter, received yesterday, from Jas. S. Kemper, to his father P. H. Kemper, of Cottage Farm, dated SOUTH HANOVER, July C, 1037.

"I set down in haste to give you some account of a j it hopes to succeed without swelling the expeiiccs that scene the most ten ific and aimallinsr 1 have ever wit-; hane over the treasury.

ncssed :

brought by the canal into the basin at Indianapolis to ;cr7ic would totally demolish you if you were to poke

propel some 50 or tiO pair of lare mill stones, all of which

will be rented out for purposes of machinery; and the canal from the Bluff to town wtfiM be constantly used in transporting stoue and timber Tire same would be realized on the Jeffersonvilie and CrawfordsvtUe road when fini-shed to Salem, and also on the New Albany and VinrennMroad when finished to Paoli. We could ay murh more on this subject but we have not time ai present. We do not believe that there is the least prospect of nullifying the present system of Internal Improvement. The different sections of the state which are so

vour nose into the columns of the Post?"'

We take pleasure in introducing to our readers, our new correspondent Octavia. Such a correspondent is a credit to any newspaper and wc hope he will continue his favors.

Who assume to be the heads of the classifiers, and of

those who arc endeavoring to persuade the people to abandon the present system of internal improvement? John Dumont and Samuel Milrov. Thev declare,' or

Our village that vesterJay was peaceful and

cheerful is now in ruins. Yesterday evening about 6 o'clock the heavens wore the appearance of a coming storm, and in one hour a most fearful tornado burst upon us, sweeping over our village in devastation, (tho" praised be a merciful God, not in death.) The scene was terrific beyond my powers of description. The

"The Government will likewise give its attention to the special establishments which have relation with the noble career of arms. It w ill re-establish military discipline, with a view to prevent those abuses in the army which the nation, the Government, even the chiefs themselves, and the subaltern officers so muh deplore. It will icward merit and the ardor of the

hoarding house here has the whole gable end torn out. I valiant troops who defend order and the national houMr. Young's store, a substantial brick building, is a ! or. It w ill, however, neglect no method to avoid the heap of rums Dr. Matthew's house is taken oil" at the' distress which it has suffered by reason ofthe iuijerieves the house in which Mr. Bishop lived, on the hill,; ous ri remittances that have weighed ujxin its liuaais torn to fragmcuts one end of Col. Morrow's house! ces. '

is torfi to the ground Mr. Chever's house is torn t pieces the college roof riddled, and the w ing level almost with the ground, and about one fourth ofthe eastern wall ofthe main building lying scatterred over the

earth Professor Nilcs' house is torn up from its verv

From Florida. We learn from a gentleman wh left Jacksonville on Sunday last, that a rejort prevailed there that Sain Jones and Powell, who, it is said, are now at the head ofthe Macasukies held a I'-ouncil

foundation, the very floors and sills are carried awav recently near Iake Monroe and condemned Mk'ANoi'y

s library are to-1 to death, lor having signed the treaty with Oeneral

Mr. But'cr occupied" tae house; fortunately j Jesit.

all the fitrniture and the professor'

tally lost.

there were none of thrm n't hhmf".

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saw mill is destroyed. These" are but com ofthe prin-1 pieces by the saynges.

cina losses: some ten or fifteen other bunding, dwe - 1 he sul cruets, Cloud, Al.igater, l i-rertail. and v ild

I Micanopy was. pursuant to the sentence hewed tO-

nf lenvt M r Dnmnnt declares, thnt thf rrftnl tvtixm

deeply interested in its accompli.- huent, will when uni- cannot be carried on without ruin on account of its ex-

ted, always constitute a large majority in iw favor. Our, tent, and yet it is a fact that loth of the above named ! ines, out-houses, shops. oVc. arc dest roved Trees ofi Cat had all been deprived of their rank, for Mining the

leaners nave nnnoutu remarked, mat tnc mends ol clas gentlemen did every mmg in me compass ot their powideation dml ingmtral, and that they carefully aroid i er 'ast winter to cxtced the system and increase the t-!li:t us what part ofthe public works thev are in fa. j expense. Mr. Dumont voted for every bill that iras in-

orrf'i.ostponin. From the sentiment... vwpH bv mr ! traced prosin to make new marks.

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elapsiflication candiJatm thev would feel i; their dutv to

arrest the further progress cf work on the road leading through our county, as they do not consider it of equal importance with some other works. We on the contrary lelieve it to be one ofthe most important works in the tntr. Are our citizens willing that hundreds of thousands of.lollars shall be paid out to the farmers, mechanics and merchants in some favored section ofthe state, t'.iniby enriching the inhabitants and improving the country whilst rAry have no interest in the matter except the extreme satisfaction of paying their iW ofthe l.irit'.o carry on such works! We th'tik r ot.

nun CRITICS. .Vta had fondly cherished a hope that the wounds which we inflicted upon these loathsome creature, would

have ere thir, ftrccd them into silence and tttniston.f Hut not so: before their wounds have time to heal they force its to tear them open again, for 6uch is their jcalou and corrupt nature, that they cannot avoid venting their pleen against those who always make it their study to lit themselves for a life of usefulness and reppcctability, although confident of bringing ruin and disgrace upon themselves. Their march is onward, and so strong is the force of habit, that at length though apprised of their danger, it will lead them into tho most damnable deeds of darkness and disgrace! Yet like the unfortunate ting who chances to catch the fascinating gaze of the most poisonous and deadly reptile ofthe forest, they cannot break the charm. They stand riveted to the spot, gazing on the brilliant orbs, and although their iron frames may abound with nerves of Steele, yet they move not; but stand and tremble lika th aspe leaf, until the wily foe shoots forth his venom and makes them the prey of his deception. We have not sought this War with the young gentlenieir who Sftthemselres up as critics; burwe Isold it sarred to defend ours elves and friends so far as prudence will dictate; no matter under what circumstances we may Le placed. When attacked by a respectable rource it id our dutv to make a defence. And now this hitiinsr gnnc at' Mould he critics, have intercepted our path, we imibt of necessity crush them, though it makes odr flesh crawl.- With one glance of their t-elnuh eye and a lash ofthe for kedtonqnc nf slander, they demolished the immortal Tope, Montgomery, and Uryant. Our modest and unassumkg correspondents, Junior, rhilo-Junior, Aticus, Lara, arid ethers, next f. ll a prey to their unmnrci- . criticisms; and, when Wc took otJca.sirtn to defend them in several editorial articles, they had the htpudenee to come into our office and ask the author of the pieces to pee the manuscript 4 c. Such ungentlemanly conduct

ifl well calculated to excite feelings of pity and contempt r : .1 Ttr i - - .

iui n.- uuuiuip. n e nave no acsire 10 oe engaged in a' controversy of this kind. We have an ambition for bet-

With what kind

of a face, therefore, can ltfc travel through the stato And endeavor o prejudice the people against the system on account of its size.' If all the additions had been made

which Mr. Dumont and his coadjutors desired the system would have been double as large as it is now. ft is pretty well known that if a turnpike had been authorized from Napoleon to Yevay Mr. Dumont would have been an advocate for the present system, and would have regarded it as sife, judicious, and glorious. We call upon the people to scan closely the Conduct of those members of the lest General Assembly, and aspirants for offices, who are bellowing abouttaxes anil oppression. Iast winter they advocated a Calf Hill providing for more works than arc authorized in the original bill. They now say that the internal improve mcnt system is so large that it is beyond 4je means of the state, and that the works must be classified ,r sus

ponded ; they said last winter that the state was perfectly ablf! to complete, without oppression, the whole with the additions they proposed. If the state is able to make thirty odd works it is surely ablo to make ten. The people owe it to themselves to spurn such inconsistent demagogues from their confidence, tihd to treat them with contempt. Our state has always beerr more or less cursed with demagogues, but we hoe to see the time come when they will bo treated as they deserve. We hope that time may be at the approaching election. Indiana Journal.

all sizes and all kinds are lorn un and dashed to atmos. ! I mity, and reduced to common arriors.

There are but few buildings in tho place, especially in ! wc loarn also that a party of seven Indians had visthe northern and central parts of it, where all the it ! itcu thA plantation ofMessrs. Claik. and Rollins' wi h'n

important building are, that arc not racked and sei i-1 seven nrrtes oi .ewnansviiie aim commenced cuuing ouslv injured. The streets are covered with fragments, i down, the crops of those gentlemen, who, being there This was the work of certainly less than live minutes ! a!oe, (their families leiiig fortunately absent,) imitw-.

Tiis next Presidency. We havo heretofore ex-' pressed our entire satisfaction that General Harrison is the most popular man who his any pretentions to tlie Presidency, lie cart certainly carry with' hini the strength he had in the late contest, and we do' not be lieve it is transferrible. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana are for him beyond all question. In the next contest Illinois find Missouri will follow suit, if any exertion lie made. Pennsylvania will go for no other man- To see his standing in New Jersey we refer to the following, from the New Jersey State Gazette it deservesattentton. "We lrave seen' with great regret, a very respectable portion ofthe Whig Party, determined upon.nomin ating Daniel Webster to the presidency. If this course is persisted in, which we hope will not be, we shall be obliged to nominate that candidate, who is, beyond all question, the choice of New Jersey. That man is William-Henry Harrison, the only one who, as things now stand,' can carry this state against Van Baren.' We speak advisedly: and if those who have 6uzeestcd the

name of Henry Clay, will examine" thd particulars of

the Isstelection, and Ica-rn wherein General Harrison reduced the strength of Van Bureo, thejr-i:wii"l: agree with us. Henry Clav once lost New Jersyv When it

belonged to the Whigs : General IlafrisBn .gained 1 it when it blonged to their opponents"

Ifthe Whigs, aredisposed to throw anfey thepower

oi restoring to our country a wealthy Government by cavilling as to who shall be the cdrtdidatetHw" bteod

be on their own heads we are sorry for it; ' We admire Mr. Clay we admire Mr. Webster-we have of-

- 1 . , .,,... . . IlilHi mi. via;-

rpr m,,..-. -n, en we : nave an id.enour rron, labour, len wished that either of them could be President; J But we do not wis i to spend it tn chastiseing such debased ; really we have not believed within the last eight vears,: carr a they are,-nor do we wish to impend it over for one moment, thatcither of them had the remotest

ily

yet wonderful as it appears, amidst the crash of fall

ing buildings, the lury ot the bursting tempest, the peuls

of thunder ami the livid glare of lightning, not a soul

in Hanover or its vicinity was either killed or seriously injured.11

W c arc ti red, most, heartily tired, of publishing the

diatelv proceeded to Newnanville.

We fear that this is but the prelude to another disastrous summer to lie encountered by the inhabitants of bleeding Florida. Horrid M truer. in Selma, Alabama, resided lale!'

Messrs. Phillips and Dickerson, physicians. Mr. In

contradictory accounts from Florida. Wc fervently i is brother to the wife of M. Bleevin, Fsq. a riclr cottor

hope, that we shall have no occasion to publish any

thing contrudicting the following which welind in the Baltimore American of Tuesday last: Louisville Journal. FJiOM TIIFSOFTH. Charleston pnpers of 23d and Norfolk slips of 25 reached us yesterday by the the steamboat lines. The Norfolk Bcncon' slip says: We learn orally from those whose position has given them full opportunities ofobservitig the character ofthe Seminoles, that the recent rnnjors of a renewal of hostilities arc unfounded, and that the Indians have withdrawn from Tampa for fear of the measles, which had begun to rage there, and which they were apprehensive would prove as fatal as the small pox. The Indians regularly receive their rations at Fort Mellon,'and are friendly disposed. They all seem inclined to postpone emigration to fall. The officers who arrived in the Georgia, travelled from Tampa Bay through-the country, ami , were in nowiso molested by the Indians. It is generally believed that many of t'te rumors set afloat are the results of perverseness or passion, and

that many ofthe accounts purporting to be full and nu

tncntic, are cither entirely false, or rest on premises.

slight

Texas. Advices from Galveston Bav to the 17th of June have been received in New Orleans. Ori the evening of the ltth the Texian Congress adjourned after a protracted session. The New Orleans Bee gives the following intelligence on the authority of a passenger from Galveston : The town of Nash ville had been taken and sacked by the Cumanche Indians, who massacred the few inhabitants that remained. They can, it is said, bring fifteen thousand well armed Warriors in the field and their bravery and prowess have always plit the Mexicans everriir the' zenith of their power in fear and trembling'. The number now engaged in devastating the frontiers of Texas is about 5,000, led on, it is said, by painted white men, who, being dissatisfied with the government, have joined them, and leati them onto deeds of rapine ahd carnage Several ftmiilies werri murdered ' fifteen miles from Washington, and sucris the apathy of the people in that town hb steps'were taken to arrest their blood thirsty course.. President Hotrston has rented furloughs tp nearly ail the efficient men composing the army of the Republic, until about the middle of September, and in " case of not returning at the time specified, are to forfeit all their lauds, and other privileges and emoluments." As might be expected, thfe disbandtiig' of the' army

planter in that neighixirhood ; the latter has a very lovely daughter to whom Dr. D. paid his addrts es, and to wliom report said" lie was engaged to be married. A short time since a' gentleman from Mobile visited her father, saw her, fell in love, proposed, accepted and : i t? ..- .t: - ....i i . o i

ma set a story afloat to the effect that he had heard Dr. D. say things about the lady's conduct before marriage which ought not to be said about any lady. Hi. D. denied having spread the story, but neither denials sufli ced to pacify the enraged parent, whose own feeling and daughter's reputation w here thus trifled with. Ho met Dr. D. and fired at him two pistols and wounded him. Dr. D. was unarmed, and advanced to Mr. Bleevin, holding up his hands imploringly, when B. lr:w a Bowie knife and slabbed him to the heart. Thn Doctor dropped dead on the spot; and Mr. Bleeven has been held to hail in the sum of twenty thousand dollars to answ er for the act. Neic Orleans Herald. From Texas By the' scar. Byron, at New Orleans from Galveston Buy, we learn that the Texan '"em

press anionrre,! tho evrnmiroi thn 17th ri Jimp. - I lip-

publication of the Texas Telegraph is suspended for want of money. It is reported that the tow n of Nashville, Texas, has

been taken and sacked by the Camanche Indian. Their warriors are computed at the enormous number of 15,b00. Of vflioin 5000 are now occupied in devastating the Texas frontiers, led" on by painted trhitemen, dissatisfied with the Texan government. Pre side til Houston has granted furloughs to nearly all the efli cient men ofthe army until the middle of September. In case they should not then return they are to . forfeit their lands, privileges, &c. The disbanding of the army has produced dissatisfaction among the people, who are thus exposed to Indian incursions. They are also, it is said, dissatisfied with President Houston, for. not permitting them Id march on Metamoras. New York .j

OIM . SNIPE'S'SOLlLOQuYoN HIS DEPARTEf) IJOtVl

And be she dead, and am she gone, And is I living all alone Ah cruil fate thou is unkind, To take her 'forehand leave I 'hind.' .' ... . A stirrERT coNcatLv. A mill dam, across the Hudson, at Troy, New York, lately gave way, and three thou: sand "Lamprey eels' were caught. Cin. Trur.

Emigrants. The late arrivals from England, have furnished the usual number of emigrants; and every steam boat, that comes in port, has hordes of Germans, seeking homes in the west. - Ci'n. H.7it. -