Indiana American, Volume 1, Number 36, Brookville, Franklin County, 6 September 1833 — Page 2

"A snapper tip of unconsidcrce-

GREAT BRITAIN. The bill for the abolition of Slavery in the t 1 V-.1 51.- riiin A ra.i(1inrr in

W est inaies, uas reatuuu i the House of Commons. No doubt ttvitfl soon become a law. For the following outline of this important bill, we are indebted to a correspondent of the Journal of Commerce. Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies. On the 1st of November next, the bill will commence its operations, for on that day all arbitrary punishments will cease, and the slave will have his labor reduced to a period of ten hours a day. For all offences he must be brought before a Justice of the Peace, who will have summary powers of inflictiug punishment, and who is not to be interfered with in any way by the drivers and planters. The owner if he forces his slave to work for a longer time, will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the same 1-ithr.rifv.

This State of tilings is to exist until the 1st of

August, liKU, when tne system 01 apprenticeship will commence, and that too without the -execution of any indenture or other deed for that purpose. The original resolutions left it optional with the slave to claim his liberty or no';, and stated 12 years as the duration of slavery. The bill makes the time of apprenticeship only 11, fixing its expiration for the year IS 15. It al60 classes the slaves under three heads with the singular titles of 'pracdal attached' 'prsedal unattached' and 'non-pracdal.' They are to labor only sevcu hours and a half a day! The domestic E?ave and mechanic, is only to have six years of modified slavery but the held slave the time above stated. The planter is not to be allowed to have the power of engaging the slave for more than 15 hours in the week, in addition to the 45 allotted him under this bill. No Colonial laws are to be permitted to interfere with its operations, and the King is to have ful power to appoint Justices and Judges to have the same carried into effect. The other portion of the bill is occupied with a plan for raising the 20,COO,000 sterling for the compensation, which is to be by way of loan on the security of perpetual annuities, to be charged on the consolidated fund, and which, as a natural consequence, will increase the interest of the National Debt. You now have got all the inI ran collect on this important

subject, and I have no doubt but it will be hightn nil in the United States who are

anxious for the abolition of slavery, and who - . .1 . .1 f A.

cannot but be pained that tneir own iree country

should be disgraced oy us presence. STILL LATER. Capture of Don MigucPs Fleet. We mention 0 vf.sfpiY..iv. without attaching any ercat im

pdrtance to it, a report brought by the brig

Splendid from Tarragonna and last from Gibral hr. tW ihr- fWt of Don Mieruel had been cap

lured by that of Don Pedro. We have since

been favored with the following letter Irom a m.o-Mir rpsnprtaWc and intelligent rrentleman at

Gibraltar, who appears to entertain no doubt of ... ... . W 1 J 1. J 1

the truth of tne report:, in snort, ne uues not

speak of it as a report, but as news. GmtiT.Tn. Jnlv 10.

A vessel from Barcelona, stopping at this port for a few supplies, gives me a moment to confirm my respects of the 28th ult. and to inform you that news has just been received of the taking of Don Miguel's fleet by that of Don Pedro; so h-if tlinrp is liHlo or no dnnht that thfi war in

Portugal will find a termination during the sumf rn t. .:.

mer, in lavor oi tronna maria.

Bank of England. One of the principles

agreed upon in the renewal of the charter of

the Bank. is. that its notes shall be a leeal tender

.. f j F for all sums over five pounds. The motives for

this is, the unnecessary doroands for gold in time

of panic.

A. petition was presented in the British house of Lords on the 1st July, praying that the House

would consider the unhappy state of l'olandtnd

cause England to unite with France in procur

ing the restoration of the rights ot her oppressed

people.

Mr. Cobbett had recovered one hundred

pounds in an action against the proprietors of

the London limes lor a libel, in calling him an

uncertificated Bankrupt, and therefore ineligible

a? a member of the House of Commons.

From Havana. Charleston papers of the 31st ult. contain Havana dates to the 24th, at which

time it was said both the cholera and yellow

fever prevailed. All kinds of business was ve

ry dull.

From the Florence Gazelle. David Crocket. We are iuformed that the "life and adventures of Col. David Crocket" is eagerly sought and read with avidity by the people of this district Our informant states

mat an individual wno naa given sixty-two and a half cents for one of those books brought it to the town of , in this district, and sold it tor a dollar: the purchaser read it, and then sold it to another for two dollars, he read the book and sold it for three dollars: another individual bought it from him. and disnrtspd rf fhf hru-ik

p - , -T again for five dollars. The last purchaser declined a sale again at any price, and was actually hiring out the Colonel's Life at the rate of twenty-five cents the hour.

The Lexington Homicide. Trotter,who killed young Wickliffe, and who, as we noticed the other day, had been foiled in an effort to take Prentice off in the same manner, attempted on Friday last to kill Prentice by firing a pistol at his back. Prentice received a slight wound, turned on the assailant and prostrated him, but forbore to take his life. It is probable that Trotter is insane? Cm. Gas.

NEXT LEGISLATURE. Ti.o f.llnti-incrisaromnlcte return ofthe mcm-

Krc rWfpd to thfi Senate and House Represen

tatives, in this State, at the late election:

SENATORS. Spencer, Perry and Crawford Geo. B.

Thompson. . . .

Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick Uiarles

I. Battel!.

Harrison John W. Payne. Monroe, Green and Owen Jumes Uhitcomb. Jackson, Jennings and Scott A. C. Griffith. Knox, Daviess and Martin Wnu Wallace. Putnam Daniel Sigtcr. Marion and Hamilton A. F. Morrison. Dearborn David V. Culley. Hendricks, Morgan and Boon Lewis Maslin. Fountain F. C Pain. Johnson and Bartholomew ZacAan'aA Tan-

nehill. . ..

Vermillion and Warren Stephen b. Uillct. Clark and Floyd David W. Dailcy. Gibson, Pike and Dubois Elisha Embrce. REPRESENTATIVES. IVmmr A. W. Bradbury, Abel Thornbu.rg,

William S eele and John Jones.

Dearborn George II. Dunn, I nomas luion

and David Guard.

WashiT fon Woodbndge Parker and Hen

ry U. JYlonroc.

(jranc o. r. a. carter aim juwi cumccn Laare.icc--Mitchell and Williams. JcfK.-svn Nathan B. Palmer and James H.

Wallace.

lf?AMarinus Willet and S. bigger. Harrhon Leslie and Wilson. Pulnarr R. Hardcsly and George Piercy. Fountain L. B. Hughes and Thomas J.

Evans. .

Tifprccnoc Thomas B. Brown and L. i air

man. .

Franklin John Reid and B. S. Noble. Fayette Marks Crume and Caleb Smith. Union W. H. Bennet and Z. Ferguson. Clark John II. Thompson and Samuel J.

Stewart.

Posey Jesse R. Craig. Gibson John Hargrove Crawford 7 Levenworth. Green Mr. Barber. Green Mr. Moore Monroe Paris C. Dunning. Sullivan Mr. De Pauw. Warren Judge Clark. Switzerland Daniel Kelso. Ripley Mr. Smith. Jennings William C. Bram well. Scott Elisha G. English. Floyd William Williams and P. M. Dorscy. Clay Mr. Yoacum. Johnson Joab Woodruff. Morgan Grant Stafford. Hendricks Thomas Nichols. Shelby Rezin Davis. Decatur William Fowler. Henry Thomas R. Stanford. Marion Henry Brady. Randolph William Edwards. Bartholomew W. P. Kiser. Vigo Elisha M. Huntington. Jackson Richard Beem. Vanderburgh and Warrick John A. Brackenridge. Perry and Spencer Mason J. Howell. Pike and Dubois Gen. Wright. Knox Samuel Smith and J. F. Snapp. MMln Daniel M'Donald.

Montgomery and Clinton David Vance and

Jacob Angel. Carroll and Cass Gillis M'Bane. Hamilton and Boon-Austin Davenport. Madison and Hancock John Foster.

Allen, Elkhart and St. Joseph David H. Col-

Virmillion Milo Gookins and Isaac Pearson.

rarke Joseph A. Wright. Delaware, fyc. Mr. Gilgore. Duelling. A disguting detail of a correspondence and preliminaries for a duel, between

Geo. J. Trotter, Editor ofthe Kentucky Gazette,

and Geo. D. Prentice, bditor oi the Journal and

Focus, is now going the rounds of the Kentucky papers. After the exchange of diverse epistles, some of which were penned in no very courte

ous terms, the parties failed to agree upon the

precise terms and manner in which they should murder, or attempt to murder each other, they

are both "alive and kicking" with whole hides, and though each claimed to be afflicted with fell disease, the one of vision and the other of nerve,

yet they have shown that the powers of abusing each other soundly is still remaining. Each claims to have backed the other out. Trotter was the challenger. Prentice accepted promptly the challenge. Trotter objected to Prentice's second

the objection was afterwards waived. Pren

tice, the challenged party,as was his right, selected the weapons, rifles distance 25 paces. To this Trotter objected, though not the right of the challenging party, alleging that he was nearsighted. Prentice then proposes 15 paces, Trotter accepts, but insists on 2 feet to the pace and his own choice of weapons. Prentice insists ; but proposes to fight at near distance with dirks or small swords Trotter declines. From the whole correspondence we suspect that Printice has not more courage than a Yankee ought to have; and we are mistaken in Trotter's conduct. We had supposed that after travelling that far to run the risque of having his throat cut, he wonld have submitted to the operation at all hazards. There was a fair opportunity given; and if the chances were in favor of Prentice, under the circumstances, they were clearly his by right, and it was not for the challenging party to complain, or retreat in consequence. And we suspect that both the gentlemen now congratulate themselves that the distance between Lexington and Louisville separates them, and are heartily content to hurl their vengeance at each other through their respective papers. There is certainly discretion in distance. Western Telegraph.

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BROOKYILLE, INDIANA:

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 , 1S33.

TO THE EDITOR. Hamilton, Ohio, 31st August, 1S23.

Sir Having in a former number of your useful pa

per, observed a notice to U. S. iJebto rs, that there was

a law in their favor, passed sometim e since by Congress; that if they apiiied shortly, and in proper manner ,might be to them beneficial. It would no doubt be pleasing to this class of people, who have not had an opportunity of seeing the act of Congress referred to,

if you would be so good as to insert that part of the act

referred to for the benefit of thos who have never seen the act. By which means they will be enabled to know how to proceed in such case. In so doing you

will oblige A SUBSCRIBER.

fr"7- As the acts referred to by "A Subscriber,"

would occupy between two and tUreo columns of our paper, we would respectfully decline publishing them. But for the information of those concerned, we will cite them to the "Laws of Congress of 1S30 and 1831,"

pages 62, 63, 64 and 65; to the "Laws of Congress of

1831 and 1832," page 199. The Laws can be found

in every County Clerk's Oince throughout the United States.

We would gladly comply with 'A Subscriber's" re

quest, if it were not for the great length of the act.

We see it announced in the Cincinnati papers ofthe

31st ult. that the Hon. Henry Clay and daughter arrived in that city on Monday the 26th, and took lodg

ing at the Cincinnati Hotel.

Murder. We learn by the last Connersville paper

that on the 2Sth ult. a man by the name of Thomas Massey shot a negro man called Bob. It seems that they had met at a etill-house, and engaged shooting at a mark, and that the negro won all the money that

Massy had, when he demanded him to give it up. The negro refused; upon which Massy raised his gun and shot Bob, who expired in a few minutes. The stillhouse was about six miles west of Connersville. Massy has fled.

Thomas P. Moore has been returned as a member

elect to the next Congress from Kentucky, although

really in a minority of 58 votes. 1 his result was produced by one ofthe sheriffs, who withheld part of votes given in one county.

The Hon. Wm. Carrol has been re-elected Governor of Tennessee, without opposition.

Q7 We are happy to learn that the Cholera has nearly subsided at Richmond, Centreville and New Castle. Cincinnati, Hamilton, Rossville and Dayton

are nearly free from the pestilence, and at Lebanon and its vicinity, but very few fatal cases have occurred within the last ten days. Columbus, Circleville and Chillicothe, were comparatively healthy, at our

last advices from those places.

THE "FAR. WEST." The following extracts are taken from a letter from a gentleman at Macomb, M'Donough county, Illinois, to the editor ofthe "Indiana American." The wri

ter is a young man of promising talents, and of perse

vering industry, and fired with a laudable spirit of

ambition. He formerly resided in the state of New

York and has recently emigrated to the land where Nature has been so prodigal of her blessings. It is

dated, Macomb, M'Donough Co. (111.) Aug. 7, 1833

Dear Sir: j am now jn what

is called the " far West" still the " west " is beyond

me! This country has been called beautiful! Aye,

it is more beautiful than the classic scenes immortal

ized by the bards of olden time. Here nature is seen

decked in her own native loveliness; the prairie covered with their living green, rising and reaching like

the swells of the ocean here and there fringed with

groves and woodlands, presents a scene of beauty bordering on sublimity. Nature seems to have marked this country with its own peculiar characteristics with an unknown and seldom exerted agency, she seems at once to have re

moved the barriers to civilization, and to have destin

ed this region as the abode of cultivated man. Notwithstanding the beauty ofthe scenery, the fer

tility ofthe soil, and mildness of the climate; it is to

the genius of Fulton that the west is indebted in a great measure for the rapidity of its settlement. Where but a few years since was only seen the canoe of the savage, wending its way among the reeds and eddies of the Mississippi, is now beheldthe beautiful steamer, stemming its mighty current like some sportive monster of the deep. The prediction of the poet is verified: , " Westward the star ot empire takes her way." And it needs no ken of prophecy to predict that the " WEST" will exert a controling influence in deciding the destinies cf our Republic. Already have the voices of her orators been heard in the halls of Legislation. Their oratory is tinged with a spirit of native originality, tempered with the softer persuasive powers of Ciceronian eloquence, The people are worthy, intelligent and possses a spirit of native independence true to the sentiment that "man was nevermade to be the property of man." They acknowledge no earthly superior, and bow only to Intellect, as mind acknowledges the supremacy of mind. Despotism can never unfurl her standard over the prostrate liberties of such a people. So long

as they remain true to themselves the current of

their prosperity will run on in its destined course, though to thwart it, earth's mightiest powers were brought into action. But to return; the West offers facilities to the emigrant hitherto never surpassed since the shepherds settled upon the oriental plains. Millions of acres of the richest soil is already "cleared" to the hand of the husbandman, and only requires fencing, and the culture of the plough, to yield the most luxuriant harvests. I hesitate not to say that whoever has funds sufficient to purchase and fence a quarter section of good prairie land, and will pursue a

1" A syat3uiatio aud i:idustriju5 couree for ten yeare, n ay be possessed at the end of tho period, with more means of independence than thousands who, in less fa vpred climes, commenced under much better circumsta ncee, -

ui.u uir uaic uui sugu fi.it cu niiiitiiiicH 1:1111 rn. .in. tin. i.

" J locks are blooming for the-jrave. Perhaps Islould here close, but I cannot be silent when I know that in theeaetern States, there are thousands that, with unremitting toil, are barely able to gain a precarious subsistence the slaves aye, in effect the slaves of the owners of the cold and barren soil which seems to defy cultivation. I say when I reflect that they might here rise from the thraldom in which their po verty holds them, and bo ranked among the independent yeomanry of the country, I cannot but hope that the Press " the thunder speaking Press" will awaken them to a sense of their own true interest. I say the press should not be silent; the cause of philanthropy calls upon it to 6peak out; not merely mentioning with cold formality, that there ia " FAR WEST," giving a vague idea ofthe immensity of space in that direction! But to enumerate its advantages, and give to Eoaa portions of it a geographical locality. I know tLat tny feeble powers of description would fall far short to d y

justice to the scenery of this country, otherwise I

would gladly portray its beauties." Regularity of the Jtiails. One day last week va received the Louisville Herald ofthe 14th ult. and by

the 6ame mail, received the National Intelligencer of

the 21th, containing articles copied from the Herald which came by the same mail, hence we Bee that we can get Louisville news as soon as any other way, by Washington. The mails are bo regular that they arrive at the same time, whether they perform a route of 125 or 1200 miles.

SECOND DISTRICT OFFICIAL. Ewing, 1921 Davis, 1919 Law, 1668 Boon, 1459 Linton, 1183 Livingston, ----- 1022 J. W. Ewing, .... 1 Postage. The editor of the Blaiisville Pennsylvania Record, on the subject of postage, says, if the

subject is again agitated, he will vote for a rate of poe-

age on newspapers something like the following: If carried out of the State where printed, 2 cts. Within the State and over 100 miles, 1 ct. Within the State and under 100 miles, i ct. To any place in the same County, free. New Work. There has been just published by J. Cain, of Indianapolis, a work entitled, "The Officers Guide and Farmer's Manual, containing a comprehensive collection ofthe Judicial and business forms adapted to the jurisprudence of this State, an explanation ofthe law phrases and technical terms, both Latin and French. Price $1,50. We have not seen the work, therefore cannot speak of its merits. We know that such a work is very much needed. A portrait of Major Jack Downing has been placed in the Athenteum Gallery of Boston, and described at length in the Globe of that city. Qj- An editor in a neighboring State, in relinquishing the publication of his paper, says that he has "watched and prayed," and if he coutinues much longer he will have to "o".' THE WORKING-J&EJf. From the 'Highland Democrat, published at Hillsborough, Ohio, we copy the following just and appropriate remarks: Who are the Working Men ? In the first place, all who obtain an honest living by honorable and honest industry, and those engaged in business, the prosecution of which conduces to the welfare and happiness of community, are denominated "WORKING MEN," or Operatives; that such require the special influence of the Press is evident, when we reflect that upon their shoulders rest the heavy burthens of the Government, and upon their labor depends the future advancement of our National prosperity. In order that the Workingmen ofthe United States may act in concert, and with unanimity, it has been thought proper to adopt a fixed policy, and a firm determination to bring their measures to operate upon the public mind as speedily as possible, and in the following manner: 1st. By the improvsment ofthe human mind; 2d. By the promotion of morality; 3d. By encouraging equal, universal education; 4th. By the abolition of all licensed monopolies; 5th. By the abolition of imprisonment for debt; 6th. By advocating a less expensive law system; 7th. By a repeal of the present Militia laws; 8th. By an equal taxation of property; 9th. By having all officers elected directly by the people ;

lUth. By allowing all men a proper compen

sation for their labor;

11th. By discouraging all legislation on lieligion. These are the WORKING MEN'S MEASURES, to which we have cordialy subscribed, and which, at no distant dav. will eive a char

acter and a name to our Republic more brilliant and lasting than has ever heretofore been registered in the book of her fame. These are our honest sentiments, and as honest men, we shall neither fear nor blush to express them, on any occasion when such service may be required at

our hands.

Wa shall, hereafter, take ud the respective

subjects in regular order, and dwell particularly

on the necessity which exists for their adoption

At present it is our onlv aim to draw the atten

tion ofthe Working Classes to their own inter-1

ests; and to awaken them to a sense ot tneir uu ty: and for this purpose we have laid down the

leading object of the Working Man's Advocatet

and the candid sentiments ot its conductors.

"Truth has nothing to fear from investigation.'