Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 50, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 November 1837 — Page 2

ruitcd to this season. Fourth , let hot food and clammy broad not bo taken into the stomach. Fifth, violate none cf the laws of nature or of revelation. I put these togeihpr, for they arc enacted by the same wise and lx-nevolent lawgiver, and they are in perfect harmony the one with the other: particularly let appetite and passion be kept under the control of reason: let excess be avoided : let a cheerful and benevolent temper and a good conscience be cherished and maintained: for these arc health to the bones and an clixer of life to the soul. Though I have already detained you so long, I trust you will bear with me while I mention and I can but barely mention, a matter of economy in regard to which 1 have known farmers sometimes to commit mistakes. Commodities that they had for sale they kept on hand.jthough offered,"a fair price for it and in cash too; because they expected prices to rise. This is generally a bad plan. An article on hand is so much capital idle and unproductive: so that, should you sell it in six months hence, say, for one hundred dollars, that is, at least, at tho rate of interest here, five dollars less,

th.m if you sold it at the same price, now. Besides, there is the risk that prices may fall, or that the article

may sutler damage. 1 he man who works with a eapi

tal of but one hundred dollars, makes it yield the reven

ue ol twelve hundred, it he disposes of his products, or as we say, turns it round, once every month: and he

goes on accumulating, with the rate of a general ratio, if, at each reinvestment, or rum, he adds his gain to his capital. Sutler tr.e to make another remark here. Once the opinion prevailed that the prosperity of one nation was always at the loss of another, and that in the same community the same rule applied, both to classes and indiiduals; so that, no one, whether a class or an individual could make gain without making it off of some one tbe. This, I say, was once a prevalent opinion. Cut it is false: and I consider it one of the happy effects w hich have arisen out of f he increase and general diffusion of knowledge that its falsity begins to be discovered. .And it is for the interest of the farmers, as well as of every other class I say more than of any other c!ns of the community, that the false and pernicious sentiment should be banished entirely. Because the farmers as a class derive more benefit than any other from the increasing wealth and general improvement of the country. In illustration of this let me state a fact. While I lived in Pennsylvania I noticed the state of things :n two different periods. The first was the same with the state of things amonz us at present. In

every farm house, for instance, were to be seen and heard the wool cards, thejspinning-wheel and the loom moved by robust, 1 will not say masculine wife and daughters, thus laudably but laboriously engaged in manufacturing materials for garments for themselves, their husbands and brothers. Then wheat was worth to the farmer fifty cents a bushel; and butter ten, a pound. In the second period, the carding, spinning, and weaving was done by the many-fingered machine. Then in this socend period, wheat was sold by tho farmer at three times the former price, and butter in the same proportion. But though the farmer sold his butter to confine myself to this particular for three times only three times its former jtc?, he got foi it, ically, twelve times its former value. Thus, suppose, in the former period, he wanted a shirt. He could buy three yards ot cloth a pattern for one dollar and fif

ty cents. But to get this dollar and fifty cents, he must si ll, at ten cents the pound, fifteen pounds of butter. But say twelve. Now, in the latter period, he could get a shirt pattern equally good, for thirty-seven and a half cents, which sum he could procure at Pittsburgh, for one pound of butter. So that this butter was really worth to the farmer for any thing is worth what, when exchanged, it will bring of other articles fifteen at least twelve times as much in the second period as

it was in the first. AH other articles, the produce of

the garden and (arm, advanced in like manner, though not alljin the same degrr-, No new channel of enterprise, or sphere of labor, cm he opened in any community without immediate benefit to the farmer. The introduct ion of the wool b isiness in Western Pennsylvania had this effect, it converted into pasture lands thousands of acres before employed in raising wheat. Less wheat was, of course, taiscd. But the consumers of wheat were not diminished in number. Hence wheat rose, at once, to more than double its former value. These instances prove how much farmers here are interested, and especially farmers' wives and daughters, in the progress of improvement. Nor need we fear that after the introduction of laltor-saving machinery shall have relieved them of the toil of manufacturing garments for the household, after the fashion of former days, they should be corrupted w ith idleness; since there will still remain enough w ithin the domestic circle to keep them, for want

of employment, from sighing over the mawkish novel, or pestering their neighbors with idle gossip. The time thus saved may be gloriously employed in cultivating their minds. One more subject, fellow-citizens, must be touched upon before we close. It is a subject that, from its vast importance, demands an entire discourse of an abler spenkear. But the deep interest I feel on it must be my excuse for introducing it to your notice, though conscious that 1 cannot do it justice. The farmers as a class have not that weight of influence in the community whic h they ought to have. The fact, I suppose, will be admitted. To what is it owing? I shall name some i of the causes. First: they live apart from each other, and consequently cannot readily think and act in conceit. Second: they seem to themselves to have separate interests, because they are locally remote from each other. Third: they are divided by sectarian jealousies. This cause docs not div ide people in cities and towns, because of the countervailing action of local interests binding them together. Fourth: though they possess great wealth, it is divided into small portions and diffused over a wide spare. In cities it is found in masses, and acts with greater force. Other causes might be mentioned hut these arc sufficient to accouut for the fact just mentioned; and they shew why it is that, heretofore, the world has been governed, for the most part, by an influence residing in cities, or at least concocted there, while the farmers have been contented to follow in the wake of whatever movement, orginated by others from time to time passed through the community. Now, I ask, is it reasonable that this should be the state of things in future in this country ; and if not where is the remedy? The remedy is with vou. fellow citi

zens. Allow mo to speak plainly as becomes a man, who claims the honor of having been a farmer, am who feels deeply concerned in the happiness and rljave known people to bring nckncBs on themselves the vile practice of wearing, for months together, unchangeable flannel, next lotheskin. If their fancy prefers, or jf their feelings can endure, a flannel shirt, l'.'t it . t least, r;e the wash-tub rometiinef.

respectability of that class of citizens. You must per

severe in me use ot all prudent and honest endeavors to increase your wealth; not, indeed, for its owh sake, but for sake of those advantages for mental improvement which it requires a certain degree of wealth to pocure; Mistake me not. In vonr line of business, tn

y y - t suddenly at wealth is not to be expected. Neither is it

aesirnme tor you nor tor any. INo man, Who regards his interests. or has a snark nfmornl nrinrinlo -;n -i

I l- ic r ' "t"t "n .illOW himself, for one moment to entertain the thought of

luuiieunig oui uuomose Doiaana Hazardous adventures, so common in our dav. in which nine fail fnr mm t Vi-t

y 7 w tllltl. lO successful; and in which success itself is the deepest

rum. i say ruin, eecause mat ana that only deserves the name which corrupts and destroys a man's integrity. And how can a man hold fast his integrity, who leaves the question whether he shall pay his just debts or not, to be decided by the issue of a doubtful enterprize? I say nothing of the maddening anxieties which must torture him in the mean time. No: my friends, SUCh is not the course I would rpcammniJ in vmi..n,l

- .VB....I..V. V J . U 1 1 1 1 that vour situation and ir.orIn of lifn rpmnvo vnn nut

- . . j v vm vi the way of temptations to such a course, I reckon one of t ii ; r i - . . ...

iiiusu uiessmgs ior wnicn you snouid be specially thankful. The "deep damnation" which will crush the wretch who contrives to letothpra KiifW fnr tKoir

aiu MO. I I 1 1 1 1 . J placed confidence in his honesty, will never be yours, unless you go out of your way after it. It sweeps along the path of the idle-of those whose guilty parents have5, by their example and training, left them to take up the notion that industry is not for them, but for the i"noble ....i ... . . . . . ,. . . .

vuigar. ui you were not so taugtit. Settle it, then deeply in your minds, that this world has nothing bet ter, nor fairer, to offer to moral man, than what a con tented and virtuous mind may obtain in the calm re treats of ruial life. But there must ! mmwionw-

by this I mean that happy medium which lies between ik f r i .

me iiuiiu tune oi pmening want on tne one extreme and the torrid zone of corneous wealth on thi ntV.rr

For this, if not already attained. let everv firmnr iriv

not merely for the many physical comforts which it yields, but, as has been already intimated, that he may enjoy that amount of leisure time and other advantages ...L- L . f .. . . . . . O

which are requisite ior tne cultivation and improvement of his mind in knowledge and virtue. Knowledge is virtue: in these let farmers be ambitious to excel. They are the source of true respectability. They confer the only legitimate influence. Whoever is deficient in cither must be under the direction of others: for he cannot direct even himself aright. It is a principle in the very nature of things, and which no power on earth can chance, that no man has ri.rlit m nrr.ii-m ?,

part in the social system, for which heis not qualified :

.v. in. "uuiu nac u riiu iuuo miscniei, wmcu is absurd. But all auallificat lOnS for rtPrfnrminrr ruir

4 I v v n offices' in social life may be reduced to the heads of L . . , . I T - . .1 . ....

n,1"H Lr.i'tE anu v iRTiE. All men know and feel the force of these truths, unless in those cases where they are blinded by some hateful prejudice. Hence, by common consent, men come to have influence and weight in society according to their decree in knnwlp,?,rn nnH vir.

tue. But these do not grow spontaneous! j in the soil of

nuinnu nature. iiemeniDer, men, my friends, to cultivate your minds a3 God has given you opportunity. They are your best estate. To prevent them from being overrun with the briars and thorns of ignorance and vice, moralculture is as necessary as that of the plough or hoe, to keep down the noxious growth that pollutes the neglected field. O, what a harvest of joy awaits the man, who has withstood the storms and the fervid heats of temptation, checked the growth of passion and evil desire andjplucked up by the roots every vice of the mind, and cultivated with care and with the blessing and under the influence of approving Heaven, brought to perfection the "fruits of righteousness to enrich himself and bless mankind." I wlil not shock your imagination by attempting to portray the character & fate cf him, on the contrary, whose symbol is that of the field, which, because it""bearcth briars and thorns, is rejected and ii nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned."

We have received the third number of the Indiana

Farmer and Stock Register, published" byOsnoRN & Chamberlain, at Indianapolis, la. It is published weekly on an imperial sheet at two dollars a year.

1 he number in our possession is well executed and contains matter both useful and interesting to the far

mer, and we think they should take a deep interest in its welfare and extend to it that liberal patronage which it justly merits. We are authorized to act as

agent for the Farmer, and will take pleasure in having

it forwarded to any oT our friends who may wish to patronize it.

The Indiana Journal is as heretofore to be published twice a week during the session of the Legislature. It is useless for us to say any thins in relation to the

high standing of the Journal as a State paper as it is

well known, ft will be printed on a royal sheet at one dollar for the session, to bo paid in advance. The weekly Journal will also be published as heretofore, on a mammoth sheet.

Till BL,OOMIi GT01V POST. FRIDAY NOVEMLER 10, 1037.

TO.OURtPATRONS. It will be perceived that three more numbers closes

the second volume of the!Post. Before we ran rom-

mencethe third one, it is necessary for us to collect all our dues for the two volumes above mentioned ; and we therefore requesfall those indebted to make payment on or before the close'of the present volume. We

have contracted debts." for materials which must be

liquidated, about that time. Persons'indebted for two

years may discharge the.same with fire dollars if paid

oetore the close ot thisvolume; but if payment be neglected until the volume expires six dollarsyill invariably be charged. Our friends at a distance w ho are in

debted for two years may discharge the same by re-

muung,t7 letter, a Jive dollar bill on any current bank before the close of the volume, but if they should neglect this opportunity, their accounts will be foward-

ed for the collection oi six dollars. All persons wish

ing to discontinue must give us notice previous to the issuing of the first number of the third year. If they should fail to do so, they will be considered subscribers for another year. No paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. We sincerely hope our friends will pay strict attention tothis notice, as our whole success at this time, depends upon their punctuality. n KT NOTICE. All those indebted to, us for Job Work and Adtcrtiscivg, are requested to make immediate payment.. N. B. It ha9 been asserted in this, as well as the past age, that sach calls as the above are always passed over, apparently unnoticed by those concerned. Whether this is the case or not, we cannot say at this time we how

ever, have more confidence in our patrons than to believe it until we try the experiment, the result of which we will hereafter give. What say you friends? Shall we have the extreme pleasure of wiping out this foul slander which the heartless world has saddled you with, or will you suffer us to say, in bold capitals 'TIS TRUE? Lloomington, JVcr. 3d, 1937.

We have seen a great deal said in the papers lately,

ttuuui extraordinary vegetable productions mammoth cabbages, apples big as half bushels, ecc. &c but we have a curiosity in our office which takes the rag off the bush a leetle the slickest, and promises to put the whole vegetable tribe to tho blush-it Ivrs all nutnr to think on't. It's nothing more nor less than a monstrous bket, measuring full SIX FEET six inches, from the top of the leaf to the extremity of the root. This extraordinary production was raised in the garden of Mr. Robert Scott, on Rchmond Hill, near New London, la., and is pretty fair specimen of what the Hoosicr soil can produce. The stem is slender, but the fact of the root penetrating to such a depth, speaks well for the richness of the soil. If any body has any thing that can match this, we'd like to see il.-Madison Banaer. Is it not a lucky circumstance Mr. Hauner that the inhabitants below did not happen to discover this torn; Ittt) Ifthey had, they would certainly have pulled it

through. The following letter lias just been received by Dr. Maxwell, the Acting Commissioner on the Jeffersonvilleand Crawfordsville road, from Mr. J. L. Williams, Principal Engineer of Indiana. 1'rookville, Oct. 27th, 1C37. Sir I take the earliest opportunity to inform you that I have recently seen Mr. WcUh, the Principal Engineer of K'v. and have obtained f

join me in the proposed.re-o.vamination of the Jefferson-

iuu miii v,rawiorasviuc Hoad. 1 hope also to obtain the services of an experienced 'and able Engineer of the State of Ohio, as the third member of the Board. It is proposed to commence the examination at New Albany, on the second Monday in Dec. next, and it is believed that our report may be submitted to the Board of Internal Improvement by the 20th to the i!5:h of that month. I am duly'sensible of the importance of making this review at an early period, and have therefore spared no excrtions'to hasten it. In addition to my written correspondence on this subject, I have been- three times to Ky. for the purpose of a personal interview with Mr. Welsh, but was not so 'fortunate as to meet with him until the last visit. Mis duties in that state are such as to forbid his leaving until the day above named. The postponement 'of the investigation need not prevent a letting on this route carl v in the ensuiti" spring inasmuch as the report will be presented to the Board in time for definite action during their winter session. It has been my object to obtain for this examination the first talents and experience of the country, and it is fortunate that in this respect I have been so successful. Verv Respectfully J."L. WILLIAMS. l r the lUovmington Post. The Indiana annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church commenced its session in New Albany, on Wednesday the V'Sili of October, and closed on thc lstmst. It was one of the most pleasant sessions

c i meeirrnaa. Aiuch business, of importance to the church, was transacted; and through the whole a oneness of spirit, and tho highest degree of brotherly feeling, prevailed among the preachers. Bishop Sole, presided with his usual dignity, in inmrovinrr h.w,ltW

and fine spirits. The following is a;iist ofthe stations of the preachers for the ensuing year. Madison district. Enoch C. Wood, P. E. Madison station Win. B. Ross. Vevay Ct.L. Hurlbert, J. Crawford. Rising SunV. C. Ilolliday. Latrrenccburgh J. Jones, S. T. Cillet, S. Rawson. lirookvilleJ. T. Robe, H. S. Dane. Grccnsburgh Charles Bonner, A. Bussy. Versailles Thomas F. Spilman. Vernon Miles Iluffaker. Sand Creek Mission Pleasant Royse.

naricsioien uist.u. . Kuter, P. E. New Albany Aaron Wood, W. II. Oood. Cortdon Isaac Owen, J. Myers Greenville B. T. Griflith. raoli Jacob M. Stallard. Salem V,. Patrick, Wrm. Fraleigh. Broicnstown Emons Rutlidge. Lexington G. K. Hester, Charlestotrn W. V. Daniel. J. C. Harbin. Jeffcrsonville station John Kearns. lndianajmlis Dist. A. Eddy, P. E. Indianapolis Ct. John Edwards. ShelbyvilleS. W. Sullivan, J. B. Burt . Rushvillt3 F Truslow, J II Ilarryman, Noblesville Miltiades Miller. Danville Asa Beck, John Newel Franklin William W Hibbin, ColumbtisJ V Watson, C B Jones, Moorsville IIGrigg, Bloomington Dist.U S Talbott, P. E. Bloomington station Amasa Johuson, Sjr ingville Ph i 1 i p May, Bedford Ezra L Kemp, Brown county mission Eli P Farmer, Spencer William McGinnis, Fulnamville Thomas Ray, Grcencastle station J L Thompson, Greencastle Ct. Jonos L Belotte, RockvilleC M Ilolliday. Russelville Enoch Wood, Vincennes Dist. John Miller, P. E. Vmccnnes station John S. Baylcss, Tarre Haute station John Daniel, Tarre Haute Ct.-D Demott, 1) H Dickerson, Cnrisfe-Thomas Batlet, If asAi'wgfon-lsaac McElroy,

Ptinccton-Vf rn. Knowlcr, Mt. Vcrnon-i M Reeves, J 3 Barwiok, Boon villc. t hon y Robi nson , .Rome-Jacob Miller, KnoxmissionJ M Cole, Crawfordsville Disl.-.cn Wiley, P. 1 2. Crairfordsrile slaion-ll N ll&rnur, " Craufordsville Ct.-J White, Cole creek Thomas Poiner, Covington C Swank, C Ha!!, Pine crcef:- Beach. Lnfitielle station L D Smith, Dilphi-U Wcstlake, Mont ice! lo J II Bucc, Diylon II. Vriedcn burgh. Frankfort T J Brown, IjOgansj(rl-J B Mcrshon, Lajorte Dist. R Ilargrave, P. E. Laporle Ct. B Phelps, II Van Order, South Bend and Mishawaka-l S Robinson, Nies-3 S Harrison, SS Williams, Halnmazoo-V, Kellogg, J Colelager, St. Joseph William Toodjone to b3 supplied, Elkhart-T P M'Cool, riymmdh-T V Owen, Lagrancc G M Boyd, Fort Wayne S R Ball, IT 'araaie miss. W llurlliert, Deeprii'cr mis. II B Beers, Cenlrcville Dist.) Stiver, P. E. Cenlrcville C7 .-Elijah W bitten, G C Beek-s Winchester-W Posev, Isaac Kelso, Nno Castlc-A K Miller, Mnnceytoicn-K Burns, F R Kary, MississiniwayCt W Bowers, Conncsvile-J Scott, J Kiger, Libert y-i M Beswick, J Hastv, Prndlcton-V M Richmond, MBruffy. William Shanks, S C Cooper, Win. M. Daily and J A Browse. Agents for the Indiana Asbury Universe ty. James Havens, Agt'nl for the Preacher's AaiJ Society. E. R. Ames, transferred to Missouri Conference and

stationed at St. Louis. Rodman Iewis, Joseph Tarkington, and Win. If. Smith, superauuated. The next Conference to be hfdJ at Rockville, Parke county la. Oct. 17th, 1833. Respectfully. W. M." DAILY. Bloomington, IW. Gth, 1 ?37.

"For the Bloomington Pjst. TO OCTAVIA. Has sorrow's cloud thy sunshine shaded, And joy from thee fled far away? Have life's first flowers in darkness faded. And wintry storms obscured thy May? Have friends long lov'd too soon departed, And left thee here alone lo mourn? Has from thine eye the tear drop started, To weep thy hapless lot forlorn? Are ties of other days now broken, And seared the leaf that onco was green ? Thinkest thou of words of love once spoken, When love and summer decked tho scene? The line too well the heart expresses, When melting poetry wields the pen; Thy skill to every heart addresses What is thy lot what might have been. THE LONE B IRD. lotimingtm, hid., November, 8A 1637.

Office of the United States- GorzcttcPhdadelphia, Oct. 241 A. M. MOST DARING AND ATROCIOUS PIRACW Our citizens were yesterday thrown into a statecf the most painful excitement, by the subjoined acrccat of a supposed piracy on board the packet ship Susquehanna, which left Philadelphia on Tuesday last; acl proceeded to the breakwater, which she left on Saturday morning, with a fine breeze from tho N. E., boend to Liverpool. The ship was owned by the Mgrr. Copes, and is considered one of the finest vessels and

best sailors out of our port. The number of passengers, among whom were several of our most esteemed fellow citizens, and for whose faie an anxiety painful in the extreme is felt, the boldness ofthe outrage committed, within sight of our shore, and under circumstances of so daring a nature, and tend to render this occurrence one ofthe most extraordinary that Las ever taken place on our coast. It is supposed that this pirate has been laying in wait for the Chandler Price, bound to Canton from which they wound have obtained a prize; but in taking the Susquehanna, if money was their object, they have succeeded but poorly, as it is supposed she had only about eight or ten thousand dollars on board. Captain Dumphy, who resides at Port Penn Peers says that on Tuesday evening last, a suspicious looking vessel anchored about two miles below his house and remained there until Thursday afternoon. Purine

the time, they sent a boat ashore, on the PelawarS side. He bavins no class, could not ascertain correct

C C.I 7 . IV U'riTlf CIIA tfa lint f rrn-. I. Cnl.nA, .-I..., c n n rt- I

peared to be a clipper built vessel, painted black, hca-vy-fore yard, and raking masts. THE JUSTICE OF THE WORLD. A I , ... . I4

un.iv.MUUI Ul u 1 1 UUCSIIIUU Will J'ttUlltl .':-, six, eight, ten, and twenty dollars for a sign-board to j stick over his door, to' be gazed at by a few loafers, or excite the wonder and curiosity of idle fellows who ! have nothing to do but to stare at the outside show, '

without a shilling to spend at the counter. At the same time they will neglect to improve the advantage of the newspaper, or grumble at the small charge ofthe printer who sends a detailed account of the wares and merchandise home to a thousand families, and ten thousand readers, the most of whom have houses, lands and mo

ney, but being industrious and thrifty people, have no time to walk the street and read sign-boards; and consequently without the notice in the paper, never would have found their way to the tradesman's shop or the merchant's store. N. Y. Times. An Itallian, in travelling in this country some years since, being in company of a true son of New England, remarked with much enthusiasm in his foreign accent, 'Sar, you have no great delights in America, that wo have in Italy we have there, Sar, the beautiful skjj! the fine landscape ! we have there Sar, Vcsevius, that send its fire to the havens! The true Yankee boy stood it long enough his pride came up he turned round

10 i no uanan ueiore ne nau time to set nis nanus uum their gestures of admiration of his country, and with a

got a Ningara will put her out in five. minutes!" t