Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 August 1837 — Page 2

THE BliOOUlINGTON POST.

FRIDAY

AUGUST 11, 1837.

The following is a correct statement of the election

polls of (his county. Herrod, 831 majority 393 Ray, 438 Duinont; 777 " 263 Wallace, 494 llillis 781 " 370 Burnett, 40J terry, 593 166 Ketcharn, 417 Farmer, ' 263 Brandon, C

The part of Brown county attached to this for Representative purposes, is not yet returned to the Clk. of this county; Coi. Berry received a majority. We have not yet received official returns from any county in the states we will be able next week to give considerable information upon the subject. We give the following rumors which we suppose are generally correct. At Martinsville, Wallace's majority 106, Ray'smaj.30. At Bloomfield, we understand Wallace got two to one. At iSpenccr, Dumont ahead. At Bedford, Dumont ahead.

By a private letter received Wednesday evening, from

a friend in Columbus, Bartholomew county, wo learn that Herod's majority over Ray in that county, is C98 vote?. The earne letter adds a postscript that Wallace and llillis will get 700 or COO majority. Lee and Tannehill are elected Representatives to the State Legislature. We learn that in Clay crvinty Wallace received upwards of oCO and Dumont TEN votes. We do not vouch for the truth of this Ftatnnrnt. Samuel II. Smith, formerly of this county, we ur.deiatand is elected Keprefentrtivo of Clay county. In Brown county, Dumont, !I;!!is, and Herrod received tiiajoritu f.

the just constructions which have been given to the laws in relation to pre-emptors: "The intentions of the act of the 13th of July 1832, being to grant an ettensional of time therein, to estab

lish and pay for thisir valid clai'ms, to those who, although settlers, and cultivators in the mode at the time contemplated by the original act, were nevertheless de

barred from receiving its benchts by reason of the surveys which were in process of execution within the legal term, it has been determined to be but a fair, plain, and satisfactory interpretation of that law, that the same remedial benefits are designed to be revived and extended to those who under precisely similar circum

stances were unable to avail themselves of the act of

29th May, 1830, revived by that of the Hhh of June,

1831. "Under this construction of the law, an actual settler or occupant of a quarter section, fractional quarter seclion, or of a fractional section not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, or of two adjacent and contiguous legal subdivisions of a fractional section, which subdivisions are designed by the law to conform to the quantity of half quarter section as nearly as practicable, who cultivated the same in the year 1 833, and had possession thereof on the 19th June, 1833, and who was not enabled to make proof and enter the same prior to the 19th of June, 1830, (the term limited by the act of 19lh of June, 1834) in consequence of the survey of the township not being made and completed, and the official plat thereof returned to and filed in the district

tana omce on or prior to me nunoi June, owe, may bo permitted to file proof of his or her right of pre-emption thereto, on the terms and in the mode prescribed by the act of 19th June, 1834, at any time within one year after the plats of the survey of such larrls shall have been filed in your office, as contemplated by the act of 14th June, 1832.

- From FessendeiCs Complete Farmer. STIMULATION OF SOILS. From a frequent perusal of the benefits derived from lime in its application to soil in Europe, I have been in

duced for more than a score of years, successively to make use of it for agricultural purposes to the extent of more than one hundred casks annually One of my first experiments arose from a desire to give a top-dressing to a piece of land which it was otherwise inconvenient to do. The soil was a heavyblack loam. Having a quantity of black earth from a trench, (or top stratum) I procured a qantity of lime. A bottom of four or five buck loads of earth was first

placed; then a couple of casks of lime were spjead thereon; then earth and lime again till my materials were used, or the quantity needed was had at the rate of eight or ten casks to the acre. Thus a cask being supposed to produce about five bushels of slacked lime, the cost of which, if the casks are swelled and the lime partly slacked, is eight to ten cents a bushel. This is the most moderate application in Europe, and the cost is about the same. This mixture, after lying twelve or fourteen days. was shovelled over, and alter some days, being found duo ,wl ,..t.ii : i r .u . . i

ground. To mv surprise, I found the effiect produced j wh" 'V1? c"mc' lot;k ol,t '"r a" extra display otto be equal to what is usual f. om common compost ma- 'V 'S,uch, 's.lhe nluct of all converted .sinners.

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TREASURY HANK. bis Reporter of August

Peopling the West. About a year and a half ago, a Mr. Charles Simmons moved from the State of New Jersey to the extreme west of Wisconsin, say fifty miles from the Mississippi river, with a pair of twin daughters and a son. His daughters were soon after married, and this Spring have each been blessed with a pair of daughters, and the wife of his son was the lady, mentioned in our paper some weeks ago, who bad lcen blessed with three. Now, we sav hurrah for

j Charles Simmons, who has done more for the West first sav from ; than anv other man. VhieaiiD Democrat.

New York, July 27. It is now confidently Wlievel that the solvent banks of New York and the? United States Bank of Pennsylvania will resume simultaneously. Public feeling is in favor of a return to honesty. Look at the decision of the suits brought arain1& the banks in this city by bill holders. Upwards of 130 other suits have been brought since the award of the case of Windt vs. the Commercial Hank of thee 20 arc against the Butchers and Drovers. If the banks do not resume in a month or so, they will be covered with suits. The jury is the corrective of the demoralization

of the legislature. I am not opposed to the banking system properly managed, but ban!s are nomoie IharT individuals, liable, to the laws of the land. Stocks to day fell oiFfrom 1 to 1-12 per cent. United States maintains its ground at 1 19 Specie is in demand for next packet day, and actually engaged at very low rates. The brokers refuse specie to dav atijl are anxious to sell. Some show of business since my la. t, begins to animate our streets generally. As confidence returns so will buying and selling. The Tammany (ieneral Committee did not do a.iv thing last night. No quorum. They meet to morrow.

It is verv hard to pet the old ones u; to the mark. I'jt

In England, where lime is most used for agricultural purposes, it is considered that in its crude state, or uncnlcined state, it is most beneficial, if pounded or made fine. Thin, where limestone abounds, it is well to know; but there is little of it in this neighborhood. Encouraged by this experiment. I continued to purchase and apply considerable quantities of damaged and airslacked lime in my cultivation, particularly for a low, flat piece of land. This being intersected with small ditches, furnished the earth, 1 was not able otherwise to procure to mix with the lime. It is not well, however, in such cases, to lower the surface by taking otl"

more than will keep the ditches open. hen the

vanaua anairs are beginning to assume a serious aspect. Some of the New York papers are foolishly taking the part of the revolutionists. Monsieur Papincau is still in favor with the discontented. He may yet I e another Mai ion. Correspondence f Bi'!iinore Merchant. Ciiitt.ESMX, Julv G. INDIAN MURDERS. On Monday morning, June 20, John Whalton, of the United Stales light slop Florida, stationed on Carysfnd iieef, went in bis boat with four men on Key Largo for the purpose of procuring fuel. Whilst ashore 'hev were all iircd at hyabodv of Indians i:i aml.u-h. aul I

Trouble in Maine. Gov. Dunlap has issued the fol-

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several indications that have f I'len under his notice, lie thinks preparation are making at Washington for a

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.11 1.1 M . .11,11111 , JUIli; .1 I, IG.II, j-.nt thither fioiu various sections of the country. He j I'd low Soldiers! The soil ofour State has leen in- - !'.- ! . .. I . f .... 1.. I I r '.. i - -1 r

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They all, save ouo, received some !le-'n wounKb;

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matcly e.scape.l.

earth is tough with sward, ic, it may be made liner by j am sorr' to ,r ! ; .vou ,'"a? 'as shot dead

beillT rartoi out an, 1 nut m ic.ini nn I n rrrniin. . n!K ,l,e s,o:, inning K'CClvej in-.n UilCC lo live liCAU.

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spread afterwards. Indeed this is done to fiteat ad

vantage in the winter. The poaching the laud or making a rough surface fur the scythe, king then well avoided. As this land cannot julvamagcously le ploughed, I have in apply ing every thjrd year a tp-dresing, as my custom is, alternated, giving first a dressing of earth and lime, and at the expiration of three yeai s, a coat of compost manure. This litis been done on the principle that a more ju-

uieiuus mixture woui l oe muue. ami a netter

COMMUNICATIONS.

lift Secretary of t! e Treasury. We suppose an

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i torv of Maino, ami carried to an aiiaeent foreign prov-

irrimr,,," upon our currency. The people should be j walls of a prison. This is but a repetition of former on the alert lest their condition be ma le viorse than it nets of injustice committed against our border iuhabievcti now n. Thcv should not fail to instruct their ; nts by officers acting mider the authonty of the 15i i- . l. : r x ii i

icprcsr-ntativo upon this subject-let their instruction pi'.-es -e v-i,nmsw.cK

be f.

by any party, and it any memtxr tails to obey such ( ),,r citizens must be secure within our limits, and

general reasoning not from any proof thai might nut be repeated.

it seems, However, lo L.e a prevailing opinion

ir ;.. Ji!:-,mhl.,ii i '.. Ma. Kemt t:A short ti:n ; si.i th :re a;'e.irel in yo'ir ier. a notice, that vo;i hal received a liomunieatioa sine,!

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totnepeiKo two ui mv friends: in their behalf, I d-;

! ny their having anv thing to Co with the production; where r.. l t. i...; . .. '...i.. ...,. .i .1... .

i-'i i naiu liill U!U. Ulill t ilt- f 1 1 - f -1 lilt" n rrt'.

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a N A 1 1 N AIj l.ANK which cannot be swayed . (Jok, to th(f(;lMlcral (lv)Vernmcnt f,K'rcdreSs.

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maKes it more porous, giving iheveuy a uctier nciion fllt-iilIirlEfi- ,, . tl.f,alV,- .u ' , :,

to other manures, which a judicious husbandry should ail(1 no oi, ' ?.. . , 'i .

j - I in succession aj-.ply. In this application of lime lo ' crass sward in a deep springy soil, 1 have been for

long time well satisfied. It was several Years Uforel

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ii!,lruciionsiethim bo cursed until the dnvol his death.1 may be fouml necessary to bring forth military power 1 "7'" ' 1"; tl' w "o'u "

to mve t hat n retort ion to w hie i t hcv am c-ntit . . i " " '. v '.M'"""' j

MAIN F. EEl'.CTlON. Joseph (.!. Noyes, n staunch Whig, has been

elected

Representative in Congress from Jarvis district where a Jackson Van 1'un n ii'Tn has Isecii elected for eight ears past.

Jones and Thompson, the individuals convicted of the murder of Win. S. Thomas, received their sentence at Louisville on the LM itist. Their execution

w ill take place on the 1st of September next the hours id' V) A. M.and 2 P. M.

with 1

ii iy n iiiv.ii int. ui u v-iimivu. p .

'l iiecom.nand-iu-chief therefore calls upon the mili- V'l

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iyj iiviu i in. 1 1 u"? in iviiuuii.33 iv nu uc dors as the security ofour citizens and the honor er the State must require.

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IMPORTANT. It is staled that Major Jack Downing has returned fi om his tour in Furope, and intimates his intention to resume bis correspondence with the Nc York Express. The people of the Unite I Suites will no doubt give the Major a cordial shake of the (7 for it has been some time since they had the pleasure of enjoying a hearty laugh at bis fit and humor. We suppose he will occupy a conspicuous place in Mr. Van Huron's administration, and will no doiibl.ltc of great service to the party in devising anotlter lll'.rierimeni upon the currency. TO COrtKKSl'OMiF.NTS. We have received sevcr.il Poetical communications this w eek, but owing to a press of other business, we 1 Aiinot give them attention. We will noilce them in mir next. Why don't our Poets turn their attention to w riling Prose! We arc hcarily tired of filling our columns with such itnj'. We received a communication by Tuesday's mail from Martinsville, transcribed probably by a school boy from ome newspaper which has fdl-m into hiB hand and signed Omen a. We hope that he will mnc it the 'wf' lot he forgot to pay the postage a thing which a well bred person never does. Our worthy correspondent Octavia still continues her la voir. Our columns will always be open to her or any other author who may ninal her in point of style and correct composition.

Our bites intelligence from New York is continued in the letter of the 12th per express. The Paltimore Merchant has a New York letter dated the 1 1th from which we take the following: liy the Oxford, there arrive 1 ,;30,000 in sovereigns, intended to In; invested in o tr depreciated Southern paper, and then sent to Sav annah for the purchase of cotton. When the news of our suspensions shall get to England great quantities are expected over for the same purpose. arious surmises are making by the knowing ones as to the clfect of the arrangement by which the city banks take the country bank paper at par. From tJl that 1 can learn, it w ill end in the blow up of half the country institutions. The tendency of things every where is to crush the week and badly managed banks. It is known here that Mr. Piddle does intend to resume specie payments in August notwithstanding the

mentioned a a compone nt ai ti

cle in top-dressmg for a green sward. Its effect w ill be show n on ploughed land, and in a gruiu crop.

to change the impression.

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I bad a piece of ground of about fjttr acres, ot ra'h cr light soil, which gave promise of a vcrv sinii! o:oi

ofgrass. Pcing Without the means of obtaining ma-j opinion

1111 re, as 1 h;nl a quantity ot earth ot the taken on building a wall, 1 forthwith

quantity of lime and mixed it in the manner Kdorc

mentioned. Ah ut the middle of June 1 bad the grass mowed and the h'.nd ploughed. The lime compost w as then spread and harrowed in. An early sort of yellow corn, which when ripe, husked itself, was procured.

Had this 'Leoiiidas emulated from the 1 ens ofeiiher.

I have no doubt but that it would have been original. Nor do they wish to strip the brows an 1 wear the laurels of these aspirants w ho have so cnirou endeavored to make a transfer of their jus' rr wards. I know not the motives of iheso young com lcrz, unless modesty has occasioiie I this exhibition of their great seh

ylrnial. lint be the cau.-e w hut it may, it is. sdirClrJal 1 1:1 mystery, for self-denial is a principle incompatible ; with a certain lump which generally develops rapidly ,011 the cranium ut Sophomeies. Iyt a voung mauV

be ever so mean of his own abilities while i;i

op stratum, j lower ciasscs in voi:egc. jet wnen lie is ratal as pinprocured a , more, he thinks his talents and acquirements equal if

not suj crior to even those or the Senior class. D.it there are ere yj.',: .!. to all general ru'es. Circumstances have led me to the belief, thr.t if the piece allude 1 to, bad have been published, these comvikrs would have been the last to charge the author-

And my neighbors, w ho knew the process, were, in the j ship to others. On a certain occasion, one of there

fall of the year, much surprised bv the stout tars of

golden grain that unfolded to view! I trust enough has been said to show the beneficial use of lime. Whether it nets on the atmosphere only, or as a stimulant to the soil, or actually contains (as is strongly maintained by some) within itself, the food for plants, is well worthy of discussion. Hut w hether cither of these causes separately, or they altogether, conduce to the nutrition of plants, nn

assertions to the countrary in some of the papers. For bow long, or for w hat object, it has not vet leaked out.

At all events the circumstance gives great annoyance j advantageous ellect ot the use ot lime on soil seems to the Regency men, and their second love the Whig conclusively to follow. I have endeavored to avoid nice speculators. J discriminations and have stated my practice plainly. I not from its novelty to many of vour readers, but be-

M11. Clayton, the unrivalled and intrepid seronaut, ' cause not onlv a great waste is made of this article, but

llird Currency. The people in Isaac Mill's Stale seem to le somen hat pushed for change. A Contribution was taken up at a public meeting in Nashua, lately.

and among the content'? rf the box, was an iron half dollar, a dozen buttom, three brass wnlch keys, and a box of anti bilious pills, (a bottle of 'drops1 would have Ken in lietter taste.) with other 'unconsidered triflesP U'e learn from the Terrc Haute Courier that a gentleman directly from Springfield, Illinois, brings intelligence, that a very serious nffray took place in that town a few days, ago, in which otic of the Springfield oiilorsand the Hon. Wm. I.. May, mcmlier of Congress, were seriously and perhaps mortally wouudedi It kccms, that a general light took place, and that several persons were more or less injured No further particulars aro given. Louisville Journal. Important loFTrTLbJisT The (Slobe contains the copy of n circular ol the Commissioner of the ( Jencral Land Office, to the scvural Registers and Receivers, giving them instructions of the highest importance to the pre emptors of the publie lands whohavc not yet secured their claims, under the provisions of the net of Congress of the 19th June.

If I. The following extract from the circular shows ?6,000 would make about 48 cart-loads

made an ascension in his balloon from the Boston pro

menade garden in Ijouisville on Monday evening last. It was the most beautiful ascension we ever saw. He ascended slowly and majestically nmid the acclamations of thousands who bad visited the garder for the purpose of seeing him perforin his serial voyage. He remained in the atmosphere forty-five minutes, when ho descended on the farm of Mr. Churchill, three and a half miles from Louisville, and due south of tho place from which be took bis departure. Fatly tho next morning, be again ascended, and continued lo sail over the city and on this side of the river until after one o'clock, when the balloon took south-easterly direction, and soon disappeared. To sec him hovering over us was truly a sublime sight, & enough to convince every beholder that he is a fearless "voyager of the skies," and that his vessel is perfectly under his control, obeying his will "like a steed that knows its rider. Jejfersonville Courier. S I FA MBOAT ACCIDENT. The steamboat Chariton; on the evening of Thursday the '27th ultimo, left the St. Louis wharf for Cincinnati, and ran alongside of the Missouri Fulton for the purpose of towing her up to the dock. Immediately after coming together, one of tho flues of the Chariton collapsed with a tremendous leporf, scalding the first engineer and several others very badly, There was a Urge number of cabin passengers, all of whom escaped uninjured. Since the above was written, we learn that thrco of the men who were scalded on board the Chariton, have since died two of them cooks of the boat, and the other the second engineer of the Missouri Fulton, who was on board the Chariton at the time of the acuident. The first engineer of the Chariton at the last dales, was not expected to live. Jejfersonville Courier, STATISTICS OF CROWS. The Connecticut Legislature have been obliged to repeal the law giving a bounty often cents each for crows's heads, the charge upon the treasury being too heavy lo be borne. Since the passage of the law, 26,000 heads have been brought in; about 10,000 of them

within the last year. It is calculated that the wholo

it is believed that as its average price in good condi

tion is about ten ccnls, it may be used to good advantage. So also it is with mortar, rubbish of walls and chimneys, plaster, kc. from old buildings. These, (and it is somewhat relative to this discussion) 1 have made usiof as a top-dressing to low soil to very good effect. It has been observed that if lime is a fertilizer of soil, why is it that where it abounds and often forms an under stratum a greater fertility does not prevail. To this it may be added that lime is a constituent principle, it is believed, in all soil, and may be supplied, where from experience n. def.ciency is found. But when it superabounds, as in most other things, excess may bo injurious. In all this more experience is w ishcd for as tho only safe and profitable guide. A VotcK from LouANsrortT. We find the following letter from a man 111 Loganspoi t, (la.) to his friend, published in one of the Nevv Y01 k papers. It will be interesting to the ladies: "Logansport, June llth. Dear, Brother 1 want you to come on here ns soon as you can.for times is good hero. Laboring men has form $24 to ,$20 per month, nnd found, and can not get men anulf, and, dear brother, 1 want you to come to Philadelphia, and take your passage on the canal to Pittsburgh, from there by steamboat to Madison. From there you will have to walk 130 miles to Logansport. You will have to go through Indianapolis and a beautiful country. Flour here is $8 to 25 per barrel, potatoes 50 cents a bushel, good beef 7 cents per pound, and, dear brother, get yourself a wife before you come, and bring nie one, for girls is scarce here, and proud too. Bad Definition. -The following occurs in Walker's Dictinary. "Bank Bill: a note for money laid up in a Bank, nt the sight of which the money is paid." If any doubts tho absurdity of this definition, let him make a practical test of it. New Orleans, 10th. Straws. Col. Charles Oliver, (whig,) and Gen. Isaac Thomas (w hig,) the first to the state Senate, the second to the House of Representatives, in Louisiana, have been called to fill vacancies once filled by Van Buren men.

gentlemen lion re I your columns with a short produc

tion over the signature ol i . and when another a visiter to this place was said to be the author-the n:ti author promptly came forw ard produced the manuscript and ac knowledged that he w as the author of the noted production. Now it i evident that "a change has come o'er the spirit of this Sophomore's dream." but there is no change which nn aspiring Sophomore cannot undergo or position he cannot assume. I doubt not, that the intentions of these gentlemen w ere to confer 11 favor on these two friends of mine, but I do not wish to see the public misguided, nor would I like to ace honor fall upon those to whom it is not due. I feel it due to the standing of these gentlemen, to correal the wrung impression under which you labour. These gentlemen 1 know are no plagiarists it w as not theii intention to 'hook"1 the piece ii was merely a cwipilatiuii of the writings of some other authors. To become eminent as a compiler, requires a great deal of labour and bard study also a good sound judgment and a refined taste; the two laUer requisites are the most essential. But these gentlemen may console themselves, for Dr. Goldsmith, as eminent as be was, failed in one of his compilations. ALPIIKl S. For tie Bloomington Post. A FRAGMENT. The world shone bright and gaily on his path I-arth yielded up tho treasures of her breast; Flowers sprang beneath his wayward and moody eye, The babbling rill did mellow down its tone Like sound of some far distant lute. Friends too, (For he did think them, friends, who with the tongue Of vile dissimulation flattered him.) Friends rose about, and once a smile did light The dull unmeaning eye of black despondency. They thought him gay (God!) they thought him gay Around whoso yet young heart Despair Hud wound her with a wily coil. They met A light burst through that blackned cloud of wo And stole upon his soul, faintly at first, Like day-beams struggling with the humid night For empire o'er the world. They met his soul Was in his gaze. Day after day he gaz.ed Still fancy conjured up despair and doubt. She was fair as was the nursling beam That first illumed creation's boundless space; No Peri dwelt'amid the coral bowers That in the depth of Persia's ocean shine More fair lhan that bright object of his love. He loved-for could he aught than love too well I He was alone No object could he find The world was false; and once agaia despair Twined around his heart, and buried deep her fujigs In life's red fountain soon will friendly Death Close tho dark visions of his heated mimL Spencer, la. July 28th 1837. OOTAVi i.