Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 48, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 October 1837 — Page 1
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Published every Friday morning Office on Main Cross Street, first door West oOIa j. flight's. Volume 2. IlLOCmiXGTON, INDIANA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1837. Number 48.
EDITED AND rCM.tsiu:il KVKIlY FK1DAY ?l. li. It V. A I, .
BY
nix months and
'I HUMS. a nee, two fifty in
e our. L.-couiwnicd until atl arrearages are
Tw o dollars in ad v three at the rndof !' No paper will le
pant ur. (rrAvETiTisEMrTs n( rlfrht lines or less, will be published threo weeks for one dollar, and 25 cents for each additional insertion. All advertisements innt he marked with the number rf insertions, or they Will be inserted till forbid and charged accordingly. . The c.it must inv.ui iMy accompany advertisements from a distance or tin y wi.i not receive attention. All !o ters and communications addressed to the editor
must he free of nostapn. No variation w hatever need be expected from thefe terms. List of Agents tor the Iost. . The following gentlemen are re.ucfted and authorized to act as agents: to receive Subfctipiions, Job Work, Advertising c. amlrcrupt for the sane. Thomas C Johnson, Spencer, la. It. II. Tnnoor, Mill Grove, I t. V AMVKL It. y.MYTU, l.'owli U i'.rrei'll , 1,1. 0rMi.Kr. MtiTsAt-s, IVii f.i.Y, Ii. "Vm." IW.kof, 1;. .'o!utub-F, I t. I G. W'avmav, M.irtinsbtirr, 1 1. I). A. R,wt.i us, New A!' r.ny, t.u J. S. Irwin, Louisville, Ky. ttRoiinF. May, 1'ai kei-Inir-r, Montjouieiy Cc. Ia. V-i. S. Koi!F.T", Ki., Nashville, la. . tr. I. P.. Muwv.u, Frankfut, la. John HATTF.itroN, tirocncisrle. Ia. tKo;: ;k It. t't sv, I'.-m. Telford, Indiana.
.11 ('A (icnt'riim i llnikt. We have sometimes
visit from an old gentleman w h wears a plain snutT brown coat, n broad brimmed ha. drab small clothes, .v
-shoes w ith buckets. rnd who walks with an ivory head
ed cane. Like a!! old nun, bo is fond of talking, am
ai ho talks sensibly on mu.it subjects, we take pleasure
in Hstetjt ng to b remarks. I he old gentleman was till he arrived tu near tho ng- of three score, a practi
ral mechanic a rou! inuusti ions working man none of your 4vix to si x" men but one v. bo began at day
light, and onlv iuit at sunset.
Said th -ol J Gentleman, the other, nay, as be laid down a now unner he h a d V'-n reading, " This is a
strange w-u M, an 1 inn 1' up of strange people." (We
have heard the re murk a tlu Kan I limes before, thought
We.) "It seems to u.e the Amenean people are not what tbev used to lb it. perhaps, it is mvsell "that has
altered, and not them, Formerly I never knew any
uch thing to taki Trades Union' w hi
place as n I was a
got along rcmaikablv wel
America. I w
money to buy
ut merchants thought Af;T a while some i btiv.'.ek ? got in the way tonally. About a ear
I recollect a lot
arrived from South I'teh. but had not the neighbour, who had
turn outs: we had no
working man. and we
. Not ili lwe use to have
such meetings in the State House Yard as I now bear Vf. All we then thought of was. to min i each man bis ow n business, an 1 to earn all the money we could. When 1 first Ijonau to woik as a jour, we bad no banks.
or but one or two. a id n-L 'y ( "of obtaining discounts in them, more were chartered an 1 the 1..1. of asking discount in tliemoee-v
after I commenced business lor m r f hides (I was a taun m bv t:n!e)
rant': 1 t;i"i i very t:
then wiili. i'iv
been Ion" in businc.;-. and had a plentv oi money, be-
in one of the rich, intended buying them, and knowing
I had i:o money and that no other one of the trade car
nl about iHtrthaving. tlioe. ht to got tliem at his own
price, lie ollered the nw ner much less than tbev were
really worth, but the latter came to me to buy them
told hunt wanted them, but that 1 had not the money
wherew ith to pav for them. He sai l he would rather
sll them to me at a bargain than to my neighbor, who
seemed to think no one else could or would buy them
but myself.
"It so hntmi t.ed that a .i lend ol mine w ho was in
good credit, was in my sh"p at the time this convcrsa
t ion took place. Sail h Mnenl I. il you have
mind to try the new I! ink for money, I will endorse
your note." I hesitated but finally, being a little urged
and some what pinned at mv i h neighbor and fellow
craftsman, I coin-ludid to try and net a diseou.it. The
note wa ; put in and 'dmi"," mid I took the hides and,' paid on;- ft ion. I, '".j make a Ion:: storv short, that pur
chase was the means of mv no! ting ahead in the world."
' 1'his was my first ace mimo dation at c.ny bank
ihoii" ! I have I.e. I in;;.' v hun n eds Mnee, winch have
habit d toe toilo much business, nnd ofeourse to lav u
inort oftlie world's '-ear them I otherwise could. Had
1 not the Hank aided me, my neighbor, the rich man
would have bought the bides at bis own price; with the
aid d' mv fi tend, the endorser, nnd the hank, and
good character, I, thought comparatively poor, was en able to compete wuh him, tm l could do so ever after
wards, which annoyed him much and caused him to be
c'ome u violent opponent ol all Lanks. 1 don t pretend
J tbsav whether Hank are u-a ful or injurous to the com . i.iii .ii,
inunitv that is a matter w men i nave ncer
much about, and which wiser heals than mine inustde
frrmitic. I only say that w hen I had less capital than
1 could use profitably in my business, I found they put me on an equality in that i. spect with these who had
lar"c capitals, by the facilities w hich they atlorded, and 1 very naturally concluded that it was the industrious wor tbev assisted and not the rich w ho have money e-
nough without them. Hut 1 am taking up too much of
your time with my talk so good morning
First, as to the superior safetyof the public funds under this ?yr,tem I The public revenue of the United Slates is sometimes forty millions of dollars in a single year. It arises, chiefly, from imports and from the sales of public lands. The sub-treasury system.contcmplates'the rcceptofall this money specie, and that it shall be kept and disbursed by agents, whose personal liability, and that of their sureties, arethc only guarantees the "government can have for the security of the fund. The receipts of many of these agents,'singly," will be millions of dollars. They are not to be permitted to deposit it, at stated periods, as heretofore, in Banks, but are to be provided with strong boxesjn which it is to be lodged, p.nd to be forthcoming, w henever called for by the proper authoi-
ity. If it be lost or embezzled, the government has nothing fo look to but the rcsponsiblencs of the agent and his sureties. Every man, w ho has been conversant with public allairs, must know that this will often
prove insuthcient. If we look throughthe business of the states, w hose moneys have been generally entrusted to sub-Treasuries, we shall be surprised at the enormous amount of the defalcations Sheriffs, collectors, treasures, clerks and iheir several'surctics, year"" after fjar, dissipato and embazzle an incredible amount of public money. Is it reasonable to suppose that the agents of the Federal Treasury will be more scrupulous? On the contrary, as the temptation and the opportunity arelioth greater, than they can possibly.bejin the case of State agents, it is fair to presume that the embezzlements will, say to the least, not be less "3jut, we are not left to specula
tion, upon this subject. The Federal Government has
at this hour upon the books of its treasury, evidence of
how little reliance is to be placed in the fidelity ol a
gents, entrusted for a length of time w ith large sums of
public money. If it could now collect the balances due from those agents, it would, we presume, have but little occasion for an extraordinary issue of Treasury notes.
I he suiwrior safety of this ncvvl v proposed mode of
keeping the public funds is, therefore, to say the leas', sulliciently problematical to afford good rea-on fn doubting the w isdom of thosrTwho. to adopt it.'would a bandon old and well tried plans, under w hich the pub
lie monies have been kept without any loss w hatever.
Indeed, the history ol the eustixlv of the public funds of
the I'nited States Hank prech des argument upon this point. The money could not have been safer, for the government never lost a dollar. It is alledged that the proposed plan will be less expensive than the use of the Hank of the United States. It is aulhcient refutation of this to cite the fact that the Wank never occasioned
the government any expense at all. It is further con-
improved so rapidly as in the United States. As for the newspapers there is no end to them every little village of 5 or 600 inhabitants has its 'Gazette,1 or its Courier.1
In year 1020, it was calculated that there was at that
time, about f00 newspapeis published in the I nited
States and its territories and in I03o (only C cars
after) the number had increased four hundred, making the number published that year, thirteen hundred, besides which, there are numerous Magazines and other
periodicals published all over the country.
tended that th'j new plan w ill bo more efficient. 1 he
answ er is the same. The Hank of the United States
as a tx rfrcthj efficient fiscal agent. The government
lasonly to intimate its desire to have funds at apartic
lar point, and. iircsto, they were there. .More than
five hundred millions of public money were kept, trans
(erred and disbursed by this bank, without the los, to
the go ernment'of a single cent. In all the qualities
tions ot a sate, cheap and elhcient ngent, it was unc
ceptionahle. We postpone to another occasion an en
juiry into the probable results of the employment of tin
oposcu substitute.
The l'tr titer.
them a sufficiency of water All canon should he speedily buried; and as the feeding of those useful ani
mals m wet places, or on rotten "ras or l,-v. fm.
quenlly causes (his malady, lhnr food ought lo consist
ot dry and sweet foJder. ( Willich.) J corrcspor.ddent in the Farmers Cabinet says, '-iherc arc two processes recommend"? for the cure of the murrain m cattle; one of them is to give the animal one pint of. spirits of turpentine, and in I weiit v-four hours aiV: v.-anls a
pint of (dive oil or hog'.x liard ; in foitv-ci-'l t hours af
ter .aids half a pint spirits of turpentine, and in tweri-
ty-lour houis niter this, halt putt ui olive oil or beg's hid. The other is to give a pint of flax-seed oil, and in two hours afterwards two pounds of glauber salts,
lol'owcd immediately bv r nea'ed ( loses of warm w?-
m I -
FACTS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. Five millions of Agriculturalists in Great Hritain
furnish subsistence for her population of sixteen to eighteen millions of people. Great Britain imports but
i small amount ol provisions. Twelve millions of agriculturalist !n the U. States do
not lurnish a subsistence for a population ui sixteen millions. We import bread stuffs, now, from a' most
every country of Europe.
w heuce this mighty difierencer It is not owing to
the natural inferiority of our soil, nor to the inferiority
ofour laborers in physical strength and industry. In
both these we claim to have the advantage of the old
continent; but it is owing to the neglect of our le
gislators and statesmen to patronize and aid this great
primary branch of labor. It is for want cf that aid which government and science give there, which they
do not give here. There we see established schools of
agriculture, and boards of agriculture. Here we see neither. There agricultural .science constitutes a branch of instruction in the primary schools, anil practical instruction is dispensed in those of hipher grades.
Here our schools do not afford instruction in either the science or practice. There large sums arc disbursed
from the public treasury, to make agricultural surveys,
to publish standard works on husbandry, and to call
forth genius and skill, by liberal rewards and dUtinc
tions. Here government expend" nothing for these objects. There agricultural improvement is promoted
from state policy. Here it is neglected locausc it has
no quid r-Roqro statesmen are so greedy for the sixpence that is close to their eye, that they do not see the dollar which beckons them from the distance. The landed proprietors of 1-urope generally possess intelligence and influence, w hich is effectually exerted, in combined effort, to increase the products of their estates. Here the proprietors ate too often uninformed and spiritless, having no courei t, nnd tamely submit
ting to the miserable pittance which their public ser
vants mav find leisure or inclination to dido out them.
Ciitivdtor.
tcr, fo
fj'en or twt he hours." 'Jit'lica!. r.
Mr. J, m -s Stewart, n. respect al 1 ; citizen t f Scott
comity, n ginia, met his death in rather a singular
manner, on the 12ih ult. A friend in that county
writ' s us shat Mr. S. ; t empted to smoke some le?f ill
a cave upon his pi intation, and with this view entered nnd kindled a fire, abo.d fifty yards from the entrance. The smoke filled the cave, and prevented him from
making his way out. In consequence of his remaining
absent from the house- longer than was expectc I, his
wlfi went to the cave and penetrated it as far as tic smoke would permit her. She heard tl cdyinggr ar.s
ol ner husband, nut wasunah e to rencve linn Irom n s
perilous condition. Her cries of distress drew her son to the place. Hoth then entered and reached the spot
where Mr. Stewart was, but life was extinct. They were unable tu bring the body out, and in consequence
of the smoke were compelled to retreat from the cave,
in order to ?preservc their own lives. Some ol the
neighlxrs soon afterwards succeeded in getting the lo-
ly out. 1 he deceased was an exemplary member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was much esteemed by a largo circle of friends and connections.
I . S a'csman.
-but don't
nut whnt 1 have said in vour paper, though it is the
hin truth." Hut we shall tho. thought we, and here it is, What do you think of the old gentleman's remarks, reader? rhilali ffhia Herald and Gazette.
From the Albany Daily Advertiser. THE A UT OF PRINTING. Of all the arts that man has invented or discovered
there is no one that stands so pre-eminent as the art of
lrmting. ith tbe.discovcry of this art commenced the
regeneration of Europe the great religious reforma
tion the civilization and enlightenment of mankind.
t aroused the people to a s'-ne of their rights and lib
erty. Literary treasures that before the invention of
this art were unknown to any but the monks and a fa
vored few, were published to the world. Hooks, that
before the discovery of tho great art, w ould have cost
a kingdom to purchase, and in (act, could not be pur
chased at any price, may now he found in the handsel
the poorest in the land. Even kings and nobles could
not obtain them for it is a well known fact that Hen
ry IV. of France, before he could obtain the loan of a
book had to leave his jewels in pledge with the monastery to which it belonged.
It is now upwards of four hundred years since the
art of printing was discovered by John Gencsteish,
stir named Guttenburg, who first printed the Alphabet.
It was done with wooden blocks that served only lor the work printed. About the year fourteen hundred and forty five John Faustus invented movable types.
Ho received assistance from his son-in-law, Peter Sch u (for, w ho, it is said, devised the moulds, eVc. for
casting them. It is contended by some that Faustus was tlie original inventor. In tho year fourteen hundred and sixty two the first book was printed, which
w as the Vulgate Hible, by Faustus. He sold it at first us
high as 500 crowns per copy. Having afterwards re
dnccd the price to thirty crowns, he was seriously charged with being in league with the Devil, and had he not explained his art he would have been sacrificed for witchcraft. About the year fourteen hundred and
seventy three printing was first commenced in Lng
land by a German. Tho first Geographical work was printed in Spain about the year 14!)9,at the time of the
excitement caused in Europe, by the discovery of Am
erica.
In the year 1531, the first newspaper was publish
cd. It was called a Gazette, (from a coin named Ga
zettc) and was printed at Venice. In 1588 the first at tempt at periodical literature, called the "English Mer
agents now known
THREE OIUECT
There arc now in agitation before the people of this nation and their representatives in Congress three
idans for the collection, keeping and disaurscment of
the public revenue these are: The employment of Treasury
as the sub-treasury system. The employment of State Hanks. The establishment of a National Hank
The first of ihcse projects is the scheme of the Exe-
cutive. It is claimed for it that it is the safest, tho least
expensive and the most efficient. Let us examine it,
in reference to all these points, and
curie,11 was printed at London.
The first printing office established on the continent
of America, was at Cambridge, (Mass.) in year 1639
In 1 06.1 was published the "Public Intelligence," the first newspaper in England and in 1G05, (134 years afterwards) was published at Boston, by a Scotchman, named John Cambell, "The Boston NeVs Letter,11 the
first newspaper in the United States.
About the year 1718, there was published at Phila
delphia, a newspaper (the first in this city) called the
"Weekly mercury."
In June, 1728 was published tho "New York Ga
zettc, the first paper in that state.
. Previous to the year 1732, the printing was nearly
all done on parchment in that year the lirat printing on paper, within the the present limits of the United
States, was done. In no country in the world, has the art of printin
DISEASES OF NEAT CATTLE. The Yr.i.Lov. s. This disease in cattle usually originates in hepatic, or liver obstruction, from cold; how
ever, always from obstruction, which is most effectual
ly opened by mild medical purges, notwithstanding tho beast may appear weak and hide Iwund. Symjitoins. A general tremor over the animal in the morning,
particularly in the hinder leg, loins nnd thighs; the
eye-lids appear hollow; the whole body assumes a ycl
low cast; the nose is dry, and the ears often hang dow n; the dewlap, shoulders and loins swell ; the udder of cows becomes tumefied, and produce little milk, which, in a few days, acquires a peculiar yellow tinge, coafgulating when boiled; and lastly, the fore teeth be
come loose. 1 he disease, if not speedily attended to,
ill, in a few days, settle in the interior parts, and in-
uce murrain, dropsy, or other fatal disorder. 11'-
ui.l Take the patient to the barn, the earlier the bet
ter, and if he remain weak after two or throe purges,
give steel beer, milk warm, a pint twice a day, and good keep. One gallon of good beer, threo or four
ounces of iron filings, infuse in a stone bottle corked
three or four days, shake daily. Lawrence.
'urge two or three times w ith calomel and jalap, 40
grains of each. Cooper.
Murrain. This term corresponds with that of the
plague, in the human species, and the diseases have a similar origin, namely, in putrid mirsmata, or vapors
inspired or drawn into the noses or mouths of annuals, which nnd animals being infected, acquire the power
of infectinsi others by their breath or perspiration.
rho regular exit of the disease is in the eruption of
suppurating biles or buboes, and the care of tho physician is to prevent a fatal result the while from mortification. Symptoms. Decreaso of appetite; poking out
of the neck from difficulty of deglutition or swallowing.
shaking the head, hanging dow n the ears and deafness; dullness of the eyes, moving about restless. About the fourth dy, stupidity, unwillingness to move, great debility, total loss of appetite, running at eyes and nose, sickness, throwingup bile, husky cough, and
shivering. Head, horns, breath very hot, body and
imbs cold, rever continual first three days, now ris
es; pulse quick, contracted, uneven. Constant diarrluva,
or scouring of fcetid green dung, slinking breath, nan
seous steam liom the skin, infecting the surrounding air. Blood florid, hot, frothy. Urine high colored.
Koots ol the mouth and barbs ulcerated, minors or balls are felt under the fleshy membrane of the skin;
ertiptiansall along the limbs, and about the bags of the
cows. IMiIk dries up suddenly. I urging more violent
These symptoms countinue increasing until the se
venth day, on which generally, although sometimes
pjotracted till the ninth, the crisis, or turn, takes p'acc.
Latcrence.) The murrain is occasioned by various
causes, but principally by a hot dry season, or a gen-
erat corruption ot tne air. i no rcmcuy cmpipyea uur-
ing a general prevalence of this distemper in liurope,
botn lor its prevention ana cure, consisted in a mix
tureof equal parts of gunpowder, salt, soot, and birmstone: one spoonful of this composition was eiven for
a dose, and washed down with warm water. The most effectual preventive of this distructive contagion is, to keep the'catlle cool during tho summer, and to allow
FRANK LIN'S ADVICE JTO F.DITOlVs. n the
conduct of my newspaper I carefully exclude all libel
ling and personal abuse, which is oflate becom9 sqdisgraccful .o our country. Whencrer I was soli:i!"(! to
insert any thing of that kind, and the writer pleaded, as he generally did, the liberty of the press,and thata ncwspaer was like a stage-coach, in which any onq that would pay had a right ton place, my p.nsv er war, that I would prut the piece separately if desired, andj the authoi might have as many .copies, as be pleas-a to deslribute himself, but that 1 would not take upon n;o; to spread his detraction : and that having contracted
with my subscribers to furnish them w ith w hat might be either useful or entertaining. 1 could not fill thcr pa-j pers with private altercations in which they Jhad no
concern, w ithout doing them manifest miustiee. IVo.w
many ofour printers make no scruple of gratifying thi
maiicyoi individuals, dv laise accusations ol the laire:t
charade's anion-; ourselves, aniMi'.ciitatint' animosity
even to the producing of duels. 'I hese things I inc. tion as a caution to young printers, ami that they may. be encouraged not to pollute tho press and. disgrace the profession by such infamous prn'ic, but refesc steadily, as they "nay see by my ex imple that such a, course of conduct will not on the whole, bo injurious td their interests.
MELANCHOfA' ACCIDENT. We icarn tb?'( faY. men were drowned ycstcrJay afternoon about thfee o'clck, in the river between Chelsea ami Fast Boston.. A party of eight were crossing near the bridge, in ,Uj small boat which leaked badly; before they reached, the shore the boat filled, and went down. Three perr. sons nly escaped. Of those drowned, flirco. were. masons employed on the Eastern rail road; tire n6.rri:s cfj two of them w ere Sampson and Tuttlc, belonging i?
Koxbury. Boston Atlas.
STONE CUTTING MACHINE.
i n
In the iew Hampshire I elegraph, a dosenpuo is given, of a stona cutting machine, which has lately leen constructed at Nashua, by Adin llolb-okaud Nm Ayres. The machine is represented to be simple in. its, principles, but complicated in its details. . It Ui$ tl.rpct chisels one for slabbing, one for cut'ing do-.?;", ner3. a, third for finishing and is so arranged that rough stone, put in at one end, comes out at the other finished in tho most perfect manner, in a very short time. HARD MONEY IN CANADA. i. Although the banks of lower Canada have suspended, payment in specie, the troops aro paid in specie, and ho also are the government duties. There has been
hoarded in the chest of tho Receiver General, a sunii
supposed to be equal to $800,000, of which 600,000
s already due to the government officers and others,.
for expenses which have been in arrears for four years in consequence of the refusal of tbe House of Assembly to vote the usual suppies, for tho purpose of coercinc''
the Executive government of a part of its customary
ircrogativc.
AN INHUMAN MOTHER Catherine Inslc was'
arrested at Albany on Monday, charged with the mur-.
uer oi ner own ciuid aged ten years. The child had. been boarding at a colored person's house for five weeks. On tile 10th August the mother came and took the child, saying that she intended to give il to a wo
man who was a going to ltuilalo, by the evening cars. No suspicion were entertained any thing was wrong' until last week when it was ascertained that the body ofa child answering the description of that of Mrs. In-,
gle s had been taken lrom the canal basin on the 1 1th ult. The boy was disintorred, nnd immediately re
cognized by several witnesses a? the body of the same child. The mother, after an examination-, in which she denied all knowledge of the act, was committed.
ISciD-iork Commercial Advertiser.
Aasence of mind -t-A man thinkimr he was,.at home
a few evenings since, laid dow on thecominor-, and pit
ms ooois outside the "-ate to be blacked m the morning.
Another person," after getting home one rainy nigtt, put his umbrella in bed, and leaned up in the corner himself. Boston Tost.
A hot berth. The Baltimore Suii has this advertisement "Wanted, three steady men to carry the Sun.'"'