Indiana American, Volume 1, Number 31, Brookville, Franklin County, 2 August 1833 — Page 2

Etoiioia- 1 tiic Times.

peculiar

TilF. PRESIDENCY IX KG. The JVest-m Ilr.ihph-re, printed at Col

nhio. has for some itinic, manifested a

desire to commence the campaign lor 1 rcsiucntmaking. As a mat ter of course, it advocates the claims of no one, but is content to wait ami give its support to the man who receives the nomination of a national convention. In the last number we are informed that "true to their principles, the citizens of Ohio ask no more than their just due; a voice in common with their fellows. Now this is all plain enough there is to be a National Convention,whcthcr the people call for it or no. Ohio must be represented in that convention, but she is by no means to ask more than her just due, that is to say, Judge McLean is not to be talked of, while Van Burcn is in the field. The man of the Hemisphere is rather gravelled at the idea that Judge McLean should be railed a Democrat, and he thinks to dispose of the Judge's claims to that title, by a reference to those wlio are inclined to support, him. This is rather a dangerous test, just about these times. What would become of Dr. Jackson's Democracy, while Democratic President Quincy is converting the Tennessee farmer into a Doctor cf

Laws, and Judge Story hvnm en the occasion.

With a special eye on the public good we wil

iid the Hcmisohere in circulating the informa

tion contained in the close of the article.

" The campaign may be considered fairly o- , rr r r i i. 1 r.. 1: j . I.

pened; tiie union ci a lew i:ueresi.eu uiumuuai cf the Democratic party with the old coalition i

consummated' ...- i ill

it is well ihat tne people stituki oe iniormcu

of the great pains which the office hunters an

ran suckers take to keep them in the track of

duiv and interest. Without the aid of such dis

interested gentlemen, there is great danger that

the people would recklessly rush upon their own

dcStUK tlOIl. Seriously, gentlemen, we beg for repose an

anici, Lo let us have enougn ol repose to re

rruit ihe blishted energies of the nation. Let

the people calmly contemplate the past and re

l'ect upon the present, before thev are c; lied

upon prematurely to commit themselves for tl future. Cincinnati Gazelle.

mgmg a democratic

being i. j longer able L ear bread, 'because,'' said she, 'r pain pro-hiisail mal dn ceeuf she forced her sister to eat near her, almost in her mouth, and died saying, 'Since the good God wishes that I should no longer cat, at least I may have the pleasure of seeing eating.' Standing Armies. In whatever liglit we view the institution of our own country, we cannot but see the immense advantages which she enjoys over all the world. The laboring classes of Europe arc not only compelled to pay for the support of a lazy, indolent , and insolent aristocracy, and a numerous clergy, but their hard earnings arc wrung from thorn to maintain large standing armies. The fallowing table shows the ratio which the standing armies of the principal natians of Europe and the United States bear to their respective population. It is in,

France, - - iclgium, - - -Holland, - - -Russia, - - -Denmark, - -Bavaria, - - -Prussia, - - -Austria, - - -Great Britain, -Spain, - - -United States,

one to every do. - - - do. - - (lo. - do. - - - do. - do. - - - do. - - - do. - - - do. - - - do. -

- 17 - 4'2 - 43 - 6? - 60 - 95 - 115 - 110 - 200 - 293 2500

the Cincinnati iommertiai iiuvcmser gives

Ihe following list as comprising all the candid

atcs for the Presidency, at present before the

public: M ut:n Van Buren, of New York. !,kw)s Cass, cf Ohio. I -oris McLane, of Delaware. John McLane, of Ohio. !iic;i m Rush, of Pennsylvania. JIenky Clay, of Kentucky. Das sr.!. Webster, of Massacusct Is. B. W. Li:n;ir, of Virginia. Jon:,T C Calhoun, of South Carolina. Riciiakd M. Johnson, of Kentucky.

Whe n the first Congress met after the adop lion of the Federal Constitution, it was in con

(omplation, but afterwards abandoned, to have

the seats of each delegation wrought with some

device, descriptive cf the staples of their several

States, viz:

New Hampshire to be represented by a pine

tree. Massachusetts, by a barrel offish. Rhode Island, .i hamper of cheese. ( 'onnecticut, an ox. New York, a hogshead of flaxseed. New Jersey, a bundle of llax. Pennsylvania, a bag of wheat. Delaware, a bag of wool. Maryland, a pig and bar iron. Virginia, a hogshead of tobacco. North Carolina, a barrel of (nr. :uth Carolina, a bag of cotton. Georgia, a barrel of ric e. Eos!

.'Mas.

L VT3 Or.PTNARY case 07 nvsur.ii. We

bridge- the following remarkable narrative from a hospital report communicated by Dr. Descuret.

translated in the London M fiical and Physical

Johrn,;!, tor .lay:

'v-.ime Donise LTIermina, born at Novon.

July ;2', 178(1, from the first moments of her life v. a- remarkable for her voracity, exhausting her

nurses, and sucking more than four children of

her own age. Towards her seventh year all the :t tributes of puberty were developed. As she advanced to her tenth year her gluttony kept pare with her age, and obliged her twice to quit

nor fester parent, because she ate the bread of

all the children of the school. After a. variety of irissitudes and troubles, during which she passed through several hospitals, she died in !$!!.- She had t hree sorts of hunger 1, the hunger which from 1320 to IS22, was appeased by 12 pounds of aliments in 21 hours; 2, that hunger which took place three or four times a month, more frequently still on the least contradiction, and

i.!r:iig winch she ate from 20 to 2 1 rounds of

r:l .' , "'"'g'? which occurred on the 'Jill ofjFebruury,for five yeais in succession, and

once on ood 1 ndav, because she thought of

tasting. It was then she devoured, in 21 hours from 30 to 32 pounds of aliments, as much bread and soup; eating, and vomiting blood, alternately until she was completely exhausted. One y ear being in the kitchen of the Marchioness do Latour de Pui, on the 9th of February, Denise was seized with hergroaf hunger, and swallowed up, in a few minutes, the soup destined for twenty guests, and twelve pound of bread. On being taken home she continued eating a great part of of the night, and almost all the next day. To resume, we might assert that this woman lived entirely fur digestion. Durinr the lirt monfh

hi.

We have estimated the standing army of this republic at about 5000. On an emergency, however, this country can bring into the field one million and a half of troops, who are entitled,

besides from three to four hundred thousand ex

empts, all ready to breast the shock of invasion or insurrection. Xciv England Rcvinc.

MR. WKl.S'iER. We copy the follow ing notice of the progress of Mr Wkhsteu, on his return to tho cast, from the Pittsburg Times, of the 10th ult. On Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock, a cold col

lation was served up in the v.rove, m tne rear

of Mr. Miltcnbergcr's residence, Penn street, at which between three and four thousand citizens attended. This multitude were addressed by Mr. WEBSTER, for upwards of an hour, in his most eloquent and happy manner. The cause of the Constitution and the Laws against Nullification; the Protective System; the Internal Improvement Policy, and Education were severally dwelt upon in the most eloquent and

convincing manner. It was an effort worthy of

Mr. YV ebsters great fame; and was full of surpassing interest to the manufacturing population that had as with one consent, left their business

and occupations to listen to the outpouring of a mighty intellect; that had gathered together for the purpose of paying their homage to a patriot,

who in his own thrilling

language

"while he

and proprietor, Mi:. Benjamin Folsoai, Esr died suddenly on Thursday last, while sitt

The Eastport. Me. Sentinel crone to us yester

day, clad in mourning, for the. death of its editor

isu. who

ltting in

his chair, of a uiseasc of ihe heart, 'what shad

ows we are, and what shadows we pursue.1 He

had resided in Lastjorl sixteen years represent

ed that town m the State Legislature and in

all his relations, civil, domestic, and social, sus

tamed tne character ol an man . Saturday Co 1 1 rier.

upright honorable

Cholera. Far be it from us to attempt to jest

upon so serious a subject, but it is amusing to

read the various opinions of physicians in rela

tion to the cholera, and their different modes of

treatment. One proscribes warm salt zrater in

the first stages of the disease, followed by smal

doses cf calomel and oil; another pounces upon

tins prescription and asserts that warm water

alone would be just as affoctual. A third admin

isters calomel, as the Sampson of medecine, be

fore whose power ihe disease must fall, if admin

istered in time, whilst a fourth asserts that al who are closed with calomel, or submit to the lan

cot, die as a matter of course, and depends solely

imon opium, given in tincture in doses ol a table

spoonful, or injections of an ounce one proscribes cold water after the adminstration of calo

mel, whilst another prescribes ice and ice water.

Now, "who shall decide when doctors disagree? '

Louisville Hi raid.

The Revenue. We understand that the a

mount of duties secured at the Custom House in

this city for the first quartear of the current

year, was about $5,500,000, and that since the

present law went in operation, the monthly amount here has been about one million of dollars,

So that if the import if ions which have taken

place since the 1th of March shall prove a fair

average, the receipts in New "iork for a year

irom that time will be twciv millions ol dollars.

From these premises it would appear that low

ering duties does not necessarily decrease the

venue. We have no exact data by which

we can ascertain the fact, but presume there can be little doubt of that, when it is considered that tea and coffee now come in duty free, as well as

many other articles, the increase of importation has been considered in some species of merchan

dize, otherwise the duties could not amount to a

million of dollars per month. A. Y. Murcantile

Advertiser.

Some time ago, an agent of the War Depart

ment demanded of the chief of Ihe Sac Indians

the persons of those of his tribe who murdered Mr. Martin, of Warren County, Illinois. The chief was, however, unable to comply with the

lemand, the murderers having fled. Lest their

flight should create strife and reaction on the

art of the government, four young men of the

tribe offered themselves as substitutes to appease

odended justice, and desired that thoy should be given up as the real murderers. They were accordingly committed, and on the day of trial evinced a perfect contentment to die The old chief and several other Indians were in attendance, and explained the motives which had led the prisioners to offer themselves, and their ex-

ectalion that government would be satisfied

with any four lives of the tribe. The result, of

course, was their discharge: but this devotcdness

ro tne saiety and Honor ol llic.r nation is worthy

of the noblest era of Greece or Rome.

Cin. Herald.

Mr. W. II. Milton, of Boston, has presented esident Jackson with a ncwr suit of black

clothes, from the cloth manufactured by the Northamptom Manufacturing Company, as a specimen of New England skill and industry.

Saturday Courier.

A machine has been invented in Cincinnati

for cutting wheat, or any other small grain, by horse power. It is stated that it w ill, when pro

pelled by two horses, cut as fast as eight persons

iair inai nas neen made ot it. in

an bind.

, "V mc exiMustcu several nurse?; a. a child ihe presence cf several members of the agricul

i h i V ic-.iuwn as inrai socieiv ot Hamilton bounty. It met their an adult, she ate day and night; becoming less fullest approbation, andjhc editor of the CincinvoracuHW, she was continually in a slate of drunk- nati Advertiser, who has seen the machine, exnnes?; struct with deatn, she wished fo recover pre?se! mmrm iK,w 1.

ting grass also. Sat. Courier.

nily to cat; at last, some moments before death.

knew he was addressing those who had American hearts beating w ithin their bosoms,t -ll that he, loo, held tlic heart of an Amcrirn.', It w as a scene full of delight and absorbing interest, one that will not soon or easily be foi gotten. We feci persuaded that whcn'Mr. W. returns to his home, Pittsburg will not be forgotten. We are persuaded that the scene of Monday will not soon fade from his remembrance, but that he will often be carried back to that pleasant Grove, and feci again the pleasant breeze about his temples in its invigora

ting and delghtful freshness. We think that the thousand attentive and eager faces that surrounded him will not soon pass away from his memory; and though he may, when pouring forth the rich treasure of his gifted mind in the Senate chamber of the Nation, feel that he can "ride upon whirlw ind and command the storm," we are much mistaken if the recollection of the place and circumstances, where and under which he was placed on Monday, will ever be found in his estimation ether than highly delightful and gratifying. Mr. Webster came amongst us a sf ranger only in person. His opinions and his policy, as developed in his address of Monday, are, and hav e long been those of Pennsylvania. We therefore felt, when receiving him, that w e welcomed no stranger to us, and to our interests. And as for his reputation, that is his country's. In

nis own words "c Knows no urtn, no lust. ?o

South, no West; '' no sectional feelings ever crept

into his breast, for that breast knows no feeling

other than that which every true American en lertains from Penobscot to New Orleans.

the things which l,ae na-.-. d. r! 1., i .

rnnfiniif-K lr nnti it?-.n.1f.i1 i-.w,. . u l'U

try, and hardly a day passes without brinnt news of estates depopulated in every directi We are standing upon a volcano. The sccur!

.v,v. lv, ii.u number c' deaths is really3 alarming. Our advices fr llavnnna are of the same melancholy nature Let interested speculators try to keep the b under a bushel; it will not. 6 We are standing upon a volcano. $8,000,000 would not supply the loss of slaves, valuing them even at 200 each. Moreover, who shall calculate the number of orphans left destitute or nearly so? Where is our guarantee that 'the disease is not permanently located in the island? I could state facts innumerable which woulj go to show that all I have written is true ail(j all I could write would fall far short of reality Rut enough at this time. When the season arrives, (should I remain to tell the talc.) I susiain my iirst proposition by facts. Matanzas, June 25, 1833. Although the Cholera has disappeared from the city, i;. is spreadir -; on several estates in the country, ;-nd as the rainy season is about commencing, it w ill tend much to reduce the amount of crops. Inhuman. The Butler Sentinel stales that on the 7th ult. a woman with several small children arrived from Pittsburgh at a house five miles from Butler, and in the evening was taken quite unwell. The owner of the house thinking the woman to have an attack of the Cholera, removed her into the woods, and left her without medical aid, or assistance of any kind. Her dead body was seen the day following, near the road side, with her children weeping around it. Such brutal conduct in a civilized country merits the scorn and detestation of every one who has the least spark of humanity or human nature in his breast. Beaver Argus.

From the Circlcville Ohio Herald. As Messrs. Webster and Ewixo w ere w end

ing their way to Circleville, when about seven

miles from town, their pessage was intercepted by a tree, which had recently fallen across the

road, and which an honest yeoman was leisur

ly cutting out. They survej'cd the premises to

see how the difficulty might be overcome. Our

knight of the axe, not knowing either of the dis

tinguished Senators, congratulated himself on

the timely arrival of two such hale and able-bo

died men to his assistance; and very frankly ad vised them, as the best means of escaping the

difficulty, to get down from their carriage, and

aid him in the removal of the obstruction.

Pleased with the republican plainness of the

suggestion, and finding the man's strength inad

equate to the task in hand, they follow ed his advice. Mr. Ew ing first took tho axe, and wield

ed it with effect, as he does his arguments in the Senate and at the bar. He was relieved bv

Mr. Webster, who was less familiar with chopping logs from the road, than with removing ob

structions of chop-logic from the wheels of the Government. His efforts were so labored and ineffectual, as to attract the notice of the woods

man, who declared to him, "you arc not doing your best now, sir! you must he playing the ' 'Possum! You don't bend your back enough, sir." The tree cut off and the way cleared, our travellers resumed their journey and left the coun

tryman blessing his stars that they had been di

rected that way, (w hich was off the main road.) at that propitious hour.

The removal of four or five hundred of the

Pottawattamie Indians is to be attempted imme

diately. Lieut. Montgomery of the army, (who

atcly arrived at this place lrom the east,) is to

assist Col. Pepper in their removal. They arc

now making preparations and collecting them together about eight miles below this place, in

order to start in a few days.

Logansport Times.

Anecdote. An Irishman in the eastern part

of this State, (Indiana,) had taken passage on

the stage lor a short distance as he had came to

the conclusion that riding on foot-back, as he termed it, was rather tough. Shortly after he

embarked, the road being very bad, the stage got fast in the mud, the Irishman (the only passenger) got out to assist in relieving the fatigued

horses, which was done in short order, and pro

ceeded with a call occasionally, he at last concluded to remain out of the stage until they got out of the bad road. He then shouldered a rail

and followed, until he had become nearly ex

hausted; throwing down Ins rail, murmured out,

"I am willing to pay my passage and walk, but dam me if I carry a rail. Logansport Times.

DISTRESSING ACCOUNTS FROM CUBA. Correspondence of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Matanzas, June 17, 1833. I send you a few lines regarding the terrible

scourge which continues to afflict this island in every direction. Its ravages arc appalling, and its attacks more violent than ever. Respectable estates within a few miles of this city are

eft with only live or six negroes. Whenever

there is a change, I w ill let you know.

Matanzas, loth June, loJo. We arc standing upon a volcano. The pros-

j pcrity of the island of Cuba may be noted among

Horrors of Cholera. A Kentucky editor, w hen describing the ravages of the Cholera in that State, syns: UA messenger arrived on Sunday morning, from Flemingsburg,and announced to us the thrilling and appalling intelligence that our father was no more, and that two dear sisters had been

attacked with the epidemic. We hurried to the scene. A father and a sister had been borne to their graves, and another sister v, as breathing

her last. We watched by her wept over her

and she died! How many have suffered and done like this, and how many arc yet to suffer and do like it? In this village, out of a family of thirteen individuals, it is stated that twelve were carried off by the disease."' New Hampshire. On the last day of the session of the New Hampshire Legislature, a resolve was passed by the House of Representatives, that the future sessions should be held in Portsmouth, instead of Concord. This was designed, says' the Patriot, as a mark of disapprobation of the conduct of the citizens of Concord on the occasion of the President1 s reception. The resolve was concurred in by the Senate.

EAST AND WEST. The Editor of the Portland Advertiser, w hose letters during a tour through the Southern and Western States, have furni.-b.ed entertainment and instruction for most of the newspaper readers in the Union, since his return from that tour, has taken atrip in another direction. He s;iys: 4Some thirty days ago I w as inquiring in Cin

cinnati for the West, and they said it w as among "the Hoosiers" of Indiana, or '"the Suckers' of Illinois cant names given to the residents of these States. Some thirty-five days ago, I was

even there, and they said the West was off in the Missouri, across the Father' cf Wafers. I stopped some forty days ago an the borders ot Missouri, and there the West was in the Rocky Mountains, or among "the Snake Indians," cr "the Smack chops" cf the Oregon Territory. It

was the work of a dozen years to find out the West and so I hurried home, in despair, to sec

where the East was. But where is the Last: Even that is disputed. Ask a man in Washington, where down East is, and lie locates it in Boston. In Boston it is in Portland. Here it is at Ban cor. and Eastnort is the end cf the East, but

there they say it is in Halifax, or the Miramichi or Labrador. The truth is, our country, of it

self, without the Provinces, is of such immense extent, that the eye running over the map, ta

ng all in at one view, cannot understand n

vaslncss, and the unbounded variety of employments in which men are engaged. Let one sec the villages and towns from the Passamaquaddy to the Mississippi, here the Millman sawing wood in all the variety of forms there the sugar

and rice planters gathering rich treasures from a bountiful soil here the fisherman anchoring his little bark among our rocky islands, and there the boatman floating hundreds and hundreds of miles with his carero of knicknackeries let one

sec all this in a short time, and shift rapidly from

village to village and he must feel that this oj our is no common land, whose destiny, if linked

as one, even prophecy itself w ill dare not prc-

announce.

Nat. Intel.

" Tbn business of Louisville has rarely been

brisker than at present. The wharf, during the last two days, has bacn thronged with steamboats. Not less than thirty-five were lying here yesterday, with an aggregate tonnage of at least eight thousand tons." The condition of the city is healthy,and every thing seems ominous of better times!" Louisville Journal.

It is said, that the Siamese Tzrins have been tried in Trumbull County, Ohio, for an assault and battery, and having plead guilty were each fined five dollars and costs. We pacsume the question is now legally settelcd, that Chang and

Yon", are distinct lndividuals.-

-Lous. Gaz.

A Ware-house at Lawrenceburgh wasffruo

with lightning

on the 21th ulf.