Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 August 1837 — Page 3
INDIFFERENCE OF PARENTS. ) i noticing the various causes which tend to keep our coninon schools in the low condition they are at preMU in, I have been induced to regard as one of the rtnst prominent, the indifference, and in man cases, the total neglect of parents and guardians of youth. Perhaps indeed, this may bo the chief cause. Hence often is it the catc that parents in sending their children to school, consider Ihrt is all they have to do! With many, is it not the principal object to have them out of their sight, or out of tlio way f They never visit the school never become acquainted with the teacher in line, they know not whether any advancement in knowledge is ma le or not whether virtuors and moral principles arc instilled into the minds of their children, or whether idleness and all. its attendant vices sways the mind. Parents, you to whom the care, (I had almost said the drstiny) of the immortal mind, is entrusted, how is it with you? Are you milting to place your children under the care of one with whom you are unac'i'iaintedf Is the education of your offspring of so little consequence that it does not interest, you sufficiently to induce yo.t to bt-co.no acquainted with the moral und literary qualifications of him to whose care and tuition you give thorn up? How would it be were your property at stake? WVjI I you entrust that to a stranger! Would you not fust become assured of his solvency und integrity even more, would you not require an endorser orso.no collateral security? Most assuredly if wise, you would take every precaution. Hut your children, whoso destinies are immortal, and as much more valuable than wealth, as immortality, is
Adventures of a Hundred Dollar li ill. Yesterday, at the Court of Sessions; a man named McDownal, was convicted of having stolen a hundred dollar bill of the Union Hank, under rather peculiar circumstances. It appeared that in April last, the prisoner was a boarder in the house of Mr. Law, at the corner of Fifteenth street. A short time previous, another boarder named James Kelly, deposited some money with Mrs. Law for safe keeping. On the 2lst inst. wishing to draw his money, it was brought down stairs by Sirs. Law, wrapped in a piece of paper. The SlOO bill was among other bills of less value. Ry some accident, the paper fell upon the floor. A little black dog that was in the' loom, immediately snatched it up and ran out of the house. The animal was chased into another house, and all the money recovered but the said bill. After a fruitless search, only a small portion of it was found, and it was concluded that the dog had swallowed the remainder. Whether the animal was an anti-bank dog, or anti-ragocrat and swallowed the bill from principle, or whether he took it as an emetic, could not be ascertained; but all ng d that it had passed down his throat, and that it would never be turned into specie. Mean time the dog wagged bis tail and said nothing. Some time afterwards, Kelly took the fragment of the bill to the Union Hunk, when to his surprise, the cashier showed him the remaning part. Ileing then convinced that the dog had not swallowed it and being rather suspicious of foul play, he sued Mr. Law for the amount, and obtained judgment. The prisoner, McDowal being stung with remorse, then confessed that he had taken the bill from the dor, and given it to an-
than moitalit. How, I ask. how is it with them? W hen other person to get changed. The accused was ele
ven place the tender moid of your child under the care ' fended by two eminent counsels, and the trial funiishofa teacher, what security have you that that mind will j od considerable amusement. One contended that tint be rightly trained an moulded! Dare you, in view of dog should have been brought into court, and indicted the responsibilities that rest upon you dare you en- j as a party to theft, but as the animal on being crosstrust it with a stranger without knowing whether he is ; questioned, would undoubtedly have shown his grindpreparing that young mind for usefulness and happi-!cr3 at the least insinuation, and, moreover, the days lies., or implanting within it the seeds of idleness, vice j nl having expired, the suggestion was not adopted aud infidelity ? This is an important consideration, ec ; Had the prisoner not confessed the crime, it is said that it behoves you we'd to rgird it. Remember that the ! ,ie "light have been cleared, by contending that the lrtuul of your child i formed r.t an early age perhaps jdog gave him the money, which being a new point of while in tli-j district school. Then will you not become j 'lUV; bis honor would have leen under the necessity of interested? If you are not interested you cannot cx-! ruling "that in future it shall not be lawful to receive poet your child to be. N'j. he looks to Vou for example ' money from any dog or dogs.' Rut as it was he was.
he considers vou his ratteni as indeed vmi 'should : convicted. Jcir York Times.
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most probably become s too. Then be wi';e let him ice in yon a deep and lively interest in behalf of schools, and then you may expect to see him love his school, and make that degree of advancement which will soon tit him for the duties of sub-eqent life. And besides, by so doing, you will cause the teacher to make greater exertion, to meet your expectations, as he will see that you expect much from him, and are watching over the progress ol your child daily; aid if he is a faithful and conscientious man, his arduous and responsible duties will be rendered comparatively easy, from the assurance that others r.ro interested! Vou might then too, do something to keen back the unqualified, and encourage
uie worthy and quahtseJ to engage m this employment.
We deem the political regeneration of Illinois to be near at feand. Wheeling Gazelle, Tall Walking. "Did you run away from Texas?" said a man to his friend who returned from that country in some thing of a hurry, shortly after Fanning's massacre. No-oh, no: I did not run away exactly but I gave some of 'em a specimen of awful tall u-alkingV SHOCKING MURDER. A murder was prepetrated a few, evenings ago, a little after nino o'clock, upon the person of John Hale Vincent, one of the drivers employed by the Harlem Rail Road Company. The body of the murdered man was found lying upon the side of the road in the 3.1 Avenue, near 43d street, a few minutes af:er the fatal act had been committed, with his face literally broken in, apparently by a blow inflicted with a bar of iron, oi some other heavy weapon. His watch and a sum of money were found upon him, which induces, a belief that he was way-laid and butchered to gratify a malignant and cowardly feeling of revenge. Suspicion strongly attaches itself to a painter employed by the same Company, by the name of Henry Rrun, and he has been arrested accordingly. JS'ciz York ICrpress.
AN APPRENTICE WANTED. A boy 12 or 14 years age, of moral and industrious habit., who can road and "write tolerably well, wanted to learn the printing business at this o!hce. Application must be made soon.
TAKEN UP By David Butcher in Clear Creek Township Monroe county Indiana, one estray Bay Horse, supposed to be six years old, last Spring, fourteen hands three inches high, boath hind feet white the left hip capt.
a small star in his forehead. No other marks or brands perceivable, appraised to $25 by William Henderson,
and Daniel Butcher, before me this 2nd. day of August A. D. 1837. ALEXANDER RUCIIANON, J. P. 33-3 w.
important
LATEST FROM FLORIDA. Savannah, July 10. To a gentleman passenger on board the steamboat Ciilcinnatti, Captain Curry, arrived last night from St. ArgHs'.ine, we arc indebted for the following information : Major (Jen. Jcs3up and suite arrived in St. Augustine cn Thursday last. His stay in that city, we understand, will be short.
It is contemplated to establish a post at the mouth of 'Moultrie Creek, about five miles South of St. Augustine, an I by means of vi lottos to keep up a constant com-
municcitioii by way of Hanson's and Wcadman's to Pi-came thus untimely to his end, an folate. This will afford complete protection to the re-1 atrocious deed. Suspicion has su
MURDER MOST FOUL. On Thursday last, at Lost Grove, eight miles north west of Enterprise, La Salle county, was fount I the body of a man, w ho, from all appearances, must have been the victim of some murderous villiau or villians. The body was found in a state of entire nudity, his skull broken, his face mangled and disfigured, and his eyes pecked out by the buzzards, and the marks of a bullet upon his left arm, which bullet had alsocutcrcd his body on the left side. From appearances he had been shot about a mile from the place where his body lay,-had endeavored to evnpe-been purs ied-bcatvn with a stake-atid, finally, had his skull broken by his pursuer, or pursuers.-The body is described as bem?
about five feet ten inches in length, about twenty-five
oruuriy yea's oi age, Willi sandy tiatr, light beard, and the two upper fiont teeth projecting a little outwardly, while the corresponding ones of the lower jaw inclined inwanlK-the hands being rather delicate and hearing no marks of being hardened by labor. Siiuv Thursday some clothes have been found, about a mile from the place where the body was discovered. The clothes arc of a coarse texturc-and with them was found a pocket bible, containing in writing the words:
"Frederick Rutin, presented by the Wells Ladies1 Ri- ! ble Associations, Mrs. Gardner, President."' The bi
ble was printed in England. Nothing has transpired to throw the least possible.
light upon the questions of w ho the individual was w ho
and w ho committed the
SHEEP FOR SALE.
The subscriber will sell two or three hundr'd
Merino Sheep, If application be made soon. JOHN OWENS. Blootnington, August 8th, 1837. 38--3w
Jesse Rainbolt, Adm'r. of John Storm Dec'd. vs. } Heirs of said dededent.
AID heirs are hereby notified lo attend on the first day O of the next August, term, of Green county, Probate Court, la. then and there to receive their respective portions of said estate. JESSE RAINBOLT, Adm'r. July 26, 1847. 36-3ow A List of Letters
Remaining in the TostOlfieeat Tloomincton on the 1st day of July 11137, and if not taken out within three
lo the Pos-t Office Penai
ittled
upon a man re
naming plantations outh an t Last ot the Si. Johns cently employed upon the Canal, near Peru, of wham
mvcr. i wo companies ii loot are to do raised lor local ; the oliicers of j'
rotcction in St. Augustine, and a horse company will
be mustered in for the protection of the Mandarin settlement.
)f justice are in pursuit.
Hennepin Journal.
A raspectable gentleman assures us, that he has
Gen. Jessup went up to Volusia on Wednesday and stiewn plaster upon his fruit trees, for successive
examined several sites, with a view to establish a post in a healthy position on the St. John's River. We understand he contemplates to establish a post at Silver Spring, on Lake George, about 20 miles North of Volusia. The Indians, it is now said, left their camps in conscqucuce of the prevalence of the measles at Tampa, nnd that about 20 of them died before they left it. The opinion is still expressed that they will commit no murders or depredations, at least for the present, and as a proof, it is stated that single expresses still continue to ride through to Tampa, unmolested. A Sketch. It was a glorious evening! The sky was unobscurcd by a single c!ud ; the moon, nearly full, had just risen in all her splendor. I walked out as I often am accustomed, to look upon nature in her excellence and beauty. Who is there that cannot at such a period throw oil" all worldly feeling and be happy?--Such moments arc the bright spots of life, Whenever 1 take an evening walk I think of those days cT halcyon joy, when I had sisters with mc to ramble over plain nnd through the valley, and to point out the thousand beauties of nature. If a sight burst out, or a tear "so jiwccl," who would wish to control them? Memory foailly clings to early scenes md early pleasures; thus it is with the human heart, and thus it ever should be. 1 would not bo deprived of this source of gratification lor nil the wealth of the Indies. I never gaze up mi
those beautiful objects of nature, without thinking of
those who nrodearto mo, an 1 with whom 1 was wont to enjoy them. The moou-beams that here gild the green fields, the rising hill and waving wood, every object about my own dear home, reminds me of my absent sisters, those kind and generous beings, to whom more than any others, save those who gave mo existence. 1 am indebted for whatever of happiness had
nleamcd noon mv path. It is at such times, too, that n
icelinc of deep "latitude arises within me, that
n hnmr. ( ). vts. a A ' home, where strife
tention n-.iiv not enter: alt:, upon which the hies
sing of God daily falls. Rot there is yet another, and another loved one. on whom mv thoughts, even at this
hour, sweetly dwell. -The affectionate heart needs nothing to remind it of those who have a share in its
ntttu hinetit, for they live within it and rise up every
pasfdnc hour.
-God is love," and this enjoyment will constitute much of the bliss of heaven. Here at best, wc must love imperfection; for even our kindest and dearest friends have some frailties w hich it is needful to overlook. Rut
there, the sai,nU mado perfect, will be our companions,
whose spirits will be lotiiul without mot or blemish Lookim forw ard to such happiness and striving to cul
livaUjour dispositions, preparation therefore, is cue of
tho Christian s sweetest employments, having no all t-
aiicewJh the false pleasures of the world.
years, when in Rloom, as a means of inducing fecundity, with unvarying success. The discovery was the
result of accident- A tree which had flowered freely.
but fruited shyly, had by accident a dusting of gypsum while in flower, and it was loaded with fruit. The male and female organs, in most fruits, are in the same flower; and it is well known, that if heavy rains or
strong winds occur when tiees are in bloom, they seri
ously diminish the fruit and often destroy it. The re-
son of this is, that the pollen, which should fecundate the female organ, is prematurely blown away or des
troyed, before it has performed its office. The gyp
sum may prevent this.
I have
and con
0C? Van Rcren Shaving Shops. As long as tbo
present experimental system is prosecuted to its ut
most extent, will there bo instances like the following from the Wheeling Times, ofdeposile savings institute
lions, making a little extra change for particular pur
poses :
Another l et broke. I he post master at T rcderick,
Maryland, being directed, as all others are, to receve
nothing but specie in payment for letters, and to hold j on to that, as u pet bank, lately collected about 400 dollars, when a person came along and offered him 12
percent, for it. the speculation was too much for his powers of resistance, and he took it. A day cr two af
ter, a man came with a check tromthe treasury for '.he
400 in speceie. The poor man had it not, and the
check was protested.
ILLINOIS ELECTIONSA special election was held in this state on the 1 Cth inst. for the purpose of filling a few vacancies in the State Legislature, and w herever the question has been tried, it has resulted most favorably to the opponents of the administration. In the Scnitorial district composed of the counties of Madison, St. Clair and Monroe,
where the an Rurcn candidate at the Congressional election in August last had the majority of 1004, the Whig candidate (Moore) has now been elected by a ma
jority ol 700 votes. In Morgan County the wing can
didate, Capt. Wyatt, has beaten Rrooks, V an liuren, by a majority of more than two to one. In Adams. A. Williams, Esq. a thoroughgoing Whig, has been elected by a very large majority over Mr. Smith, a devoted partisan of tho existing Administration, and in Sangamon. E. D. Raker, Esq. the Whig candidate, has aho succeeded by a majority of about 300 over John Calhoun, Esq. a "better currency", man. In Fayette and Effingham, Gen. W. L. D. Ewmo, a Whig, has been elected without opposition. In Joo Daviess, S. M. Rautlett, Esq. Editor of the Galena Advertiser, a sound Whig, has been chosen; and in Calhoun and Greene, Shaw, Esq. a decided opponent of the Administration, has beaten the Van Ruren candidate.
month?, w i!l be sent
dead k tiers. Armstrong Wilum Al r uns tiahrttd Archie Edward Andrrnon Julian Ii Peeman Alotizo Hales James Haki r Henry licrry John M. Pallard O. U. J Rowland John Col. Meckel Thomas l!rown Thomas Hatterton David Ualdridec Samuel L'owin Isaac C CofTe Reuben 2 Clerk oflirown county Carpenter David Chandler Ijenjamin Clark Kaubcn Carter Aha Coon Fetor Carlton William D Pay William R. Dr. Dodds R. Mrs. Davis Esthur 2 Davis James Davis Hiram Day Elizabeth Dawson J ames David John Daniel Nathaniel Deckard Jesse Dodd William Deckard Catherine E Eller John Rev. Elmore Samuel Elmore William F Feris James Rev. Fowler W. Fosset John o Caar Michael Games Henry GriflVth John Grubb George Greenh- n Jackson Gater Terry Graham Clarissa II Hanloy R. Rev. JIarnes Isaac Hovious Stephen 2
Hedriek Veter. Hazel Caleb Hester CP. 4 Harmel'Hehry Henkston Thonias Gcn'I Harris Elizabeth Hudsonpiller Jacob Iledrick Samuel . J Jackson Henry Jones Godfrey Johnston William . K
Line lit as
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS.
sllhSnrU,or 1, ia in cf raifli fail nn1 1 fJ ar.l f, . . 1
a splendid assortment of New Good., Of the most fashionable description, purchased in riuki delphia by himself, with great care, for the present an approaching season, among which are the following ar ticles. Super black, Hue, brown r.nd olive cloths, Super black Casiniere and Sattinetu, Flannels, and blankets, A largo assortment of prints, Tainted Lawns and muslins, Avery fino selection of Fancy hadlV. do rio do veils of every colour. Thick, brown, preen and straw colored silk?, A handsome assortment of TaiT.i'a De S'ia'iis, Super black India S;tin,
ii iu .itim , jua on , j c.i . er a mi i ichlia i. i; iu i ' llrown SheetinsiH and Shillings, Linen canibrick handkerchiefs. Linen cam'.., Irish Linen iVc.vc. TON NETS ISpIit Straw, FirgM. Tissue, Colo;. Tissue, Truii'd. Tuscan, plain do. Silk Cim; Leghorn and To'.ivais, Boots and Shoes, The mo'l general assortment ever brought to this place GROCERIES, Qurenswarc, Hardware, Iron, Casting, NAILS, Arc. &c. Which I will sell very low for cash or approved count produce. JOHN S. BARNES 1 loomingtcn, July 1st, K;37. 4-tf
Administrator's Notice.
w
have taken out letters of administration ot ;!
tate of Joseph Arthur deceased. All the
them, and tlnv-e owinit, to make immediate pavim ' The estate is proballv sol vent. WM. UEKRY, Adm'r. SUSANN AH ARTHUR, Adm'x. July 11th, 10.",?. . . 31-tv-WOOf j t'AK Dlffti f "HE subscribers have now in successful opcratit -L new and complete STEAM ENGINE, for Carding Wool,' Wliprr fbov nrn n rti- rratv Inarrmmoil itf nil v!ir
please to give them a call. They are confident t!;
u-iirL- u-i tint Kirrn-iri! in u-pcirrn ronoirv. 1
public are invited to call at least, and see the inachi... as there will be no charge for lookinp.
JOHN IIIGIlT, JESSE DRAPER Ilouiminc;ton, June 13th, 30-3
Keen Thornton O. Knight John Knighton Lovel Kelliam Jesso L Labertew Ashcr Lofian W. Leonard Elisha Lake Joel M Motley Teter May Charlotte M 'Holland John May'.Peter M'Leod John Rev. Maxwell D. II. Miller John Marion WHliam Moss William Mayes Robert IT Markburg Richard More John A. M'Gee Richard N Necely Tolley Mrs. P Parks Harrison Parsons James Phillips John Esq. Pructt Samuel Tate Allen Padgett Kit-hard L R Teeve Renjamin Robinson Cloc Mrs Ridge Renjamin Reeves Samusl Roach John Rico Eleanor Miss
uecumore uoo. or brothers
Jiors iuary Uussel 3r:?. Robison William Renshaw William S , Sliovor Christopher Shaw William Scarlraua;h Elijah Sleeper Uriah Sheriir Severs Henry Small John Smith John C. Sparks Hardy Sexton Nancy Ritter George or Stone T Thompson Shady Turner William's
Tilford'Ann C.Mrs. V Vandavicr Elizabeth miss 2 W Watch John or Wicker E. wood James S. Wylie Samuel Ward Elizabeth Wright George G. K. Woodall Wiiiiam Whisanand Mr. White Joshua.
Taken Up
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I'.ivei urowii, liaciuoii iit-en nav io
Owen county Indiana, two esu
, one a dark bay mare, Pupposed to
or Fix Years old, alout Ij hands hii-'.
small star in the forehead, a Fiiip on
nose, rather on the rizht eidc and rr
white on the inside of the rieht hind foot, not higher!'
the pasture joint; appraieI to forty five dollars. author is a sorrel m ire between two aud three years : about fourteen hands high, some white on each hind! no other marks or brands perceivable, appraised to i!ty dollars by Alfred race and Samuel Herrington, be
me, !A.ML.t)UAM, J. : . I ner1Cr itio aUvf to bo .1 true rnnv from mv s;-
. ij j book. June 20th 1837. 33-3
Attachment IXji-i
riease say when inquiring if advertised. R. R. BYER'S.
P. V.
Salt Salt Avery large and superior lot of salt for sale, Wholesale or Retail by. - WRIGHT 4-KING, .fyril 2M 18s7. rS' 23 3ow.
TAKER VP Y Jesse Hamblen, living in Trown con ifanililpn tnwnshin. Imliana. nnn i-
liArcn Cflttrirtcojl in ho ftifrtlt nr nino
old, about fourteen hands and a half I. i bald face, class eyes, 3 white feet, two .
hind and ono uctore; tne vvnue extends nearly to hock and knee, and has also got the big jaw and complaint; no other marks or brands perceivable,:, praised to ten dollars by Tleasant Hamblen and 1. llatten, this tho 12th day bf June 1037. I do certify the above to be a true copy from my i " ofEstrays. VM. TAGGART, J. ! . Petition for set off of Dower. Susannah Arthur, rt Henry Arthur, Margaret Art Priscilla Arthur, Rachel Arthur, Joseph Arthur, i ctnda Arthur, Su.-annah Arthur, Joiccy S. Arthu . James S. Arthur, heirs of Joseph Arthur dee'd. NOTICE is hereby given to said defendants tb r shall apply at the next August term, of the Mo.-
sioners to set oil to me as the widow ol said deceit
n nn.i . :it i'.u.nr ;., -.,.! m oil .Lo I., i
which said decedent "was seized and possessed death. SUSANNAH ARTHUR, Ul,l July llth, 1837. 3-Jr.
Robison 31. Farmer, R. R. Rvess, j nnd others, t !
Jacob A. Crox. 3 Whereas said plaintiff on the 17th of May lf.37. ed out of tho Clerks office of tho Circuit Com Monroe county, Indiana, a writ of domestic attache against the goods and chattels, lands hnd tenimcnts ;., les and elfects of said defendant for the sum of fill ; dollars, and whereas said writ has been returned aed on the property of said defendant in said conn;? tice is therefore hereby given to said Jacob A. Cm: unless he bo and npoear on the Cd day of the next ' of said circuit court and answeru and defends nsaid plaintiffs demand, the same will be heard a:terniincd in his absence. Test, J. R. LOWE,'. May 30th, 1037. 23-n..
Petition for Dower. Sarah McFarland vs Andrew Todd, Flovd Todd. P.Todd, John Todd, Thonias Todd, Elizabeth James Todd, Henry Todd, George Todd, Linnv , aud Preston Todd, heirs of George Todd, de'ed.' NOTICE is hereby given to said defendant? ' shall apply at the next August term of the -Probate Court, Indiana, for the appointment of CisionersS to set olf to me as the widow of said de my dower in to the following lands viz: the W;' N. W.Qr. of Sec. 23 in T.7 N. R. 1 E. and the E: S. W.Qr. of Sec. 26 T.7, 1 E. in 3Ionro9 county, SARAH MCFARLAND, :.: July 17th, 1C37. 3i-.i Blank Deeds FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.