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AWA Y, AWA Y, I SCORN THEM ALL. BY HARVEY D. LITTLE, ESQ. " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart." Away, away, I scorn them all, The mirthful board, the joyous glee; The laughter of the festive hall; The long wild shouts of revelry; To their vain worshipper they bring Seasons of bitter sorrowing. But, oh, by far the wiser part, To visit that secluded spot, Where death has quenched some faithful heart, And closed for aye, its varied lot; For there, beside the funeral urn. Lessons of wisdom, we may learn. The brief, but busy scene of lifeIts fickle pleasures, and its woes Its mingled happiness and strife Its fearful and its final close, Pass through the mind in swift review. With all their colorings strictly true. We see the littleness of man The end of all his price and power; Scarce was his pilgrimage began, Ere death's dark clouds upon him lower; And rank and pomp, and greatness flee, Like meteor gleams! and where is he? Yes, where is he, whose mighty mind, Could soar beyond the bounds of space, And in some heavenly planet, find The spirit's final resting place'! Gone! gone, in darkness down to dust!

"Ashes to ashes, mingle must." Well may we learn from life's last scene, The fearful lessons of man's fate; How frail the barriers between The living and the dead's estate-. The elastic air the vital breath, Is but the link twixt life and death. BIRTH PLACE OF DR. WATTS. Extract of a Letter dated Southhampton, England, September 14th. " You rcmember Dr. Watts' beautiful Hymn, as every one accustomed to his inimitable and all but inspired Psalmody must There is a Land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign. And when I tell you. that I am now penning these lines from the very spot, and sitting at the window, which looks out where he looked on the Fields beyond the swelling flood, All dressed in living green! which so awoke his thoughts of Heaven, and helped , him to sing the Christian's triumph in

the Jordan of death, you will not perhaps, think

it unworthy that I should allude to this interest-

ing circumstance. Southampton is the birth place of this sweet singer of our modern and

Christianized Israel; and the house in which 1

am a guest, is the spot where he wrote the hymn above mentioned. The town lies on a swell

between

the latter of which is

Church in this country, captivated an accomplished young lady of London and so far ingratiated himself into her affections, as to be followed by her to New York, where she arrived a short time since, and met and married her lover. We shall let our friend of the Commercial tell his own story of this, as he calls it very properly, "Romance" in Real Life,'" in the Herald of Monday. It is a good story, well told, and on an interesting subject. Touching Peter Jones, it may now be well to remark, that we are now even with England. John Smith bore off our Pocahontas, and Mr. Jones has brought over Miss Farmoulh, a London belle. From the Washington City Examiner. LEAF FROM AN ALBUM. Man is the rugged, lofty pine, That frowns on many a wave beat shore, Woman's the slender, graceful vine, Whose curling tendrils round us twine, And deck its rough bark sweetly o'er. Man is the rock whose towering crest, Nods on the mountain's barren side; Woman's the soft and mossy vest, That loves to clasp s sterile breast, And wreath its brow in verdant pride. Man is the cloud of coming storm, Dark as the raven's murky plume; Save where the sunbeam light and warm, Of woman's soul and woman's form, Gleams brightly o'er the gathering gloom. Yes, lovely sex, to you is given, To rule our hearts with angel sway; Blend with each woe a blissful leaven. Change earth into a perfect heaven, And sweetly smile our cares away.

Farmers' Creed. The following creed, by John Sinclaire, constitutes the farmers creed; which none should fail to read, and of its hints take heed : Let this be held the Farmers creed, For stock seek out the choicest breed;

In peace and plenty let them feed, Your land sow with the choicest seed; Let it not dung nor dressing need. Enclose and drain it with all speed, And you will soon be rich indeed.

From the Western Times. ADVENTURES OF A DUTCHMAN. NO. II. Obedient to the dictates of nature, the first impulse of a Dutchman is to marry. He feels it creeping through his bones and twinging his flesh. The animal pushes him onward he forces his resolution, conceives his plan and it takes effect at every throe. There is no thrilling sentiment in a Dutchman's courtship. No romantic visions float in his fancy no fairy dreams interrupt his repose. He considers sleep the happiest mode of existence, and snoring the strongest evidence of a peaceful conscience. The passions which, in other men, seem to occupy the re gions about the head and heart, and are roused and fretted by every jog on the world's uneven way, arc said to have retreated in a Dutchman, to his haunches, where they sleep and swing about through life in perfect harmony and quietude. He is never troubled with an exuberant growth of the affections. Genial suns and gentle rains shoot the jessamine and myrtle, and bland zephyrs twine their delicate fibres, but the rugged oak grows up in a century and lock their branches in majesty and strength. The mountain streams fall

nuoneu. i lie loun lies on a swui . ... , p i f r . ... T. i I from crags and steeps, and gurgle through many the iorks of the I est and the Itchem, i h. . .. r ' . b ,& , - f i , avenues, before their waters unite and meander

in the valley; but the large rivers collect and meet in the low lands by the force of their currents, and flow on together. The fawn and the wild bee flee the most gentle approaches; and the Dutch lass delights to greet her lover. The warrior woos the Indian maiden; the huntsman seeks the mountain nymph; the dandy sighs to the village bell; but the Dutchman courts his girl in the domestic circle, lie finds her in her plain attire, and the experience of age gives direction to the passions of youth. Theirs is not

The swelling flood, celebrated in the song, one mile, or less, from my present position, and beyond which is seen from this plane the Land of pure delight, Where everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers. So, at least, it might seem. It is indeed a fair and beautiful type of that Paradise of which the poet sung. It rises from the margin of the flood, find swells into boundless prospect all mantled in the richest verdure of summer, chequered with forest growth and fruitful fields under the highest cultivation, and gardens and villas, and every ornament which the hand of man, in a series of revolving ages could create on such truly delightful, rich and susceptible grounds. Our poet's imagination, so spiritual and heavenly, leaped from this enchanting scene to the fields and gardens of the upper world. As he looked upon these waters now before mc, and

then before him, he thought of the final passage of the Christian: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. And arc these indeed the circumstances which suggested these lines, that have been such help to the; devotions of so many believers in Christ, and which forages to come arc likely to be breathed from the lips of those To see the Canaan which they love, With unbeclouded eves.

Shaking hands and exchanging hearts across the Great Waters. We have only room to-day, says the Philadelphia Commercial Herald, of the 15th ult. to announce, that Peter Jones, a Chippewa Indian, on a late visit to England, whither he he went in his character of Clergyman and Missionary, attached to the Methodist Episcopal

a mere, union of hands and of heart, but an union of interests and an identity of prospects. That a Dutchman never falls suddenly and carelessly is a serious fact. recorded I believe, by

that accurate historian, Diederick Knickerbock-

er, or Nicken-baken, which is a slight corruption of my own name, which was, perhaps, the same

originality. But whether recorded or not, the fact is nevertheless true, that a Dutchman will

sit, and ponder, and calculate the chances of

matrimony with as much care and precision, as

he would the result of any other enterprise

His love. I tell ye, is no play of the imagination ; but the firm aiid unchangeable decision of a cool and collected intellect. To sec him sit in the

very outset of a love affair, and like Socrates in

the hour of death, philosophise upon the change

about to take place, would to the sentimentalist, seem indeed strange and unaccountable; but it

is the pure breathing the high-wrought impulse the daring magnanimity of Dutch affection

and perhaps it is the only time in the course of

his life, when his fat and drowsy passions are coaxed out of their soft abode when all his af-

fections and appetites, and propensities, and

inclinations, and faculties, are roused and rallied into one motly crew to act and decide on a great

matter.

The svmptoms of Dutch love are no less strange and peculiar. There is a radical change in his dress, and a very obvious improvement in his whole outward man, from the crown of his head

to the sole of his foot. His gait is usually so much improved, that his neighbors suspect him

of insanity. It varies from the dog trot to the

hurried gallop of the wild ass. lie is seen at times in profound meditation, whispering and

smiling most gracefully to himself, when his cor

pulent passions rouse up a little and turn over in their fleshy bed. 11 is mind once made up, there

is no human being or creeping thing that loves

with such intensity as a Dutchman. lie pours his whole heart and soul right into the business, and raises an advalorem on every muscle of his

flesh, and on every bone of his body, to perform the labors of the enterprize. lie is, perhaps, the

only being, that runs or flies, or swims, that can

live more than nine days on the mere bread of

love. Death or matrimony is his motto, and he

either marries or dies in a short lime 'after he

begins his courtship.

tarried, he begins the world as fortune may

dictate. Whether rich or roor. he lives accord-

ing to his income, always spending less than he receives. Herein consists tiie whole art of Dutch prosperity. The world locks on and wonders that he, who, a few years ago. was poor, has now become rich; but they seldom reflect that while

they spent more than their income in high life, honest Haunse trudged regularly on, and every

year made a payment on his farm, or added an

improvement to his buildings. BACON.

From the Boston Statoseman. WHO IS A GENTLEMAN. Dr. Johnson says the word gentleman is de

rived from the Latin 'homo gentilis,' a man of

ancestry. In England, freehold estate of the

value of one hundred pounds constitutes a gen

tleman; it entitles him to write Unit, after his name and to shoo . partridges when he can hit them. The first of these privileges has become obsolete, the term rsquirc being generally preferred. In ancient paintings the hawk on the first is an invariable indication of a gentleman ; and no man under this degree was entitled to keep a hound or lurcker, or any other dog of noble breed. The dog of Plebeians were not less distinguishable by their less silghty forms, but were stigmatized by having their tails cut short: hence they were call led cowri-tails. From coarttail to curtail the transition was easy; and as the good people of England arc said to shorten their words to spare the fatigue of pronouncing them when long, they curtailed the word, as they had done to the dog, and called the arimala cur, and by that name a vulgar, ill-conditioned dog is known to this dav. Tog rag and boblail is now supposed to mean an assemblage of the lowest classes; but is signified originally an assembly of every ciass. Tag was tiie highest of all the lord and gentleman, whose hose and domdlct were ornamented with a profusion of ribands, from every end of which hung a silver tag. Hog was attached to the lowest class of the people; and boblail. which has been thrown out of its place for the sake of sound, was the appellation bestowed on the middling sort, who could keep a dog but were not permitted to let him beep his tail. There arc various opinions respec ting tkequalificaiiens which constitutes a gentleman. We asked a friend of ours what was a gentleman; and he replied, Every man that wears a good coat. We asked another fhc same question, and he said Every man that can afford to be idle. An honorable gentleman is a member of Congress. A fine gentleman is a man of taste and fashion. A good gentleman is a man of large fortune; bu a complete gentleman is a man of sense, geniu-. and education. Rich he must be ; for a straightened income would depreciate him in his own eyes, and the eyes of others and accustomed to good society; for it is there alone that he can acquire those easy graceful manners, that attention to others rather than to himself, which are not the only indispensible requisites of a gentleman, but his peculiar characteristics.

MAJOR DOWNING. From the New York Daily Advertiser. Zekel Bigelow called on us yesterday and handed us the following letter from Major Downing. He says the Major has gone back to Washington like "a streak of lightning; and hadn't time to apologise to the Hon'blc the Corporation and other public bodies, who, by their respective Committees, had waited on him, r.iid were desirous of showing the civilities extended to distinguished individuals. Zekel says, he "never see any one so completely in a rumple as the Major was:"' he read the General's letter over two or three times, backwards and forwards and crosswise, before he said a word and then he began to mumble the names of some of the Government and turned as blue as an indigo bag, till he let it out. To .Mr. Dwighl, of J"t ic York Daily AJco-ti.icr. American Hotel, New York, 23 Sep. My Good Old Friend I'm stumped. I jist got a letter from the Gineral. and until I got that letter, I thought all the stories about the Rank was jist got up by the opposition folks, to hurt the Gineral and Mr. Van Puren,and Zekel Bigelow thought so too. But the Gineral's letter tells rne pretty much all about it. and a leetle more too. As soon as I read it to Zekel, "well, ' ays he. "Major, my notion is there is some plagy foul birds in Washington, and if some on em haint sih d their own nests. I'm mistaken." TheGinral says he wants mc to come right on. for tho' the folks about him say all works well, he's afraid they'll git him in a tangle consam em. I dont know what on earth has got in em

and the Gineral too, jist so sure as I quit him he j gits in trouble. I must go right back to Wash-j

ington and try and put things straight if I can, but I'm afraid they '11 git the Government in a plagy snarl afore I git there. I was a leetle afraid on't when I left, and I telled the Gineral as much, but he said he'd do nothing till I got back, and I telled all the folks so in Philade Iphia and here too.and things was lookin bright agin, and now here's trouble nigh upon half the message is got to be pulled all to bits. I shall git my dander up if the y dont look out sharp, and if I do, some on em better streak it, I tell you, and that too afore Congress meets. Zekel Bigelow says, "its an ill wind that blows nowhere," and sccin that the Government is going to try to break the Bank, he's goin to turn broker in Wall street, he says there will be no better business stirrin, for then folks will have to pay a trifle for eny most every draft that drawn, and not git their business done for nothin as (hey do now. If he does turn broker you'll hear more on him, for he's a peeler. I tell ou. If 1 had'nt promised the Gineral to stick to him threw thick and thin, I'd go right home to Downingville and have nothin more to do with the government; but if I quit him now, the Government will go all to smash, jist as sure as I am in haste and wrath. Your Friend, J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Militia, 2d BrigadeAFPR ENTICES. The grievances complained of in the following article, is extending itself in a manner which cails for the prompt attention of all concerned. The laws already in force, on this subject, are sufficiently effective, where they can be put into execution; but as the proper means of apprehending the fugrtivc are seldom adopted the law generally speaking, is a dead letter. The most efficient method, therefore, would be a resort to the suggestion which follows viz., a refusal, on the part of employers, to employ such as have not yet completed the term of their apprentice-ship, and a prosecution of those who harbor or employ runaway apprentices. " Mechanics, in this c jntry, labor under many inconveniences, on account of apprentices leaving their employers or in other words, running away, before the expiration of their term of apprenticeship. In no part of the United S.atcs is the practice more common, or the evil more seriously fell, than in the Western States, v.hcre apprentices seem to think they are bound by no other obligation than their own wili. Whether this is owing to the want of laws to enable the master to command the services ofhis apprentice,or negligence in the cn!brcm?nt of fiosc already in existence, or to the false notions of liberty and independence, which are inculcated from early youth, or toother causes, we are unable to determine. Let it be owing to what cause it ma 'it is an evil very seriously felt, and is equally injurious to the interests of the master and the apprentice; to the mastcr,in being deprived of those services to which he is justly and legally entitled. and to the apprentice, who, by such conduct, fails to acquire such a knowledge of his trade as to benefit himself hereafter, and whose character is sensibly affected. It is a misfortune to all concerned, that an apprentice who lias acquired but half a knowledge ofhis trade, often finds employments in the shops, at half wages, and is protected by men who are influenced by the mere prospect of saving a few dollars in the employment of journeyman. If master-workmen would consult their own interests leaving out of view the interests of the runaway apprentice they would discourage, by every means in their power, such unworthy practices. It is completely in their their power to correct the evil. To do so, it is only necessary to refuse employment (o all w ho thus leave the service of those to whom they are bound, before the expiration of their apprenticeship, or without their indentures being cancelled; and by prosecuting, to the extent of the law, all who harbor, protect, or employ such runaway apprentices. These few remarks are called forth at the suggestion of one who has suffered much inconvenience from the evil here referred to." Philadelphia Spy. Mechanics' Ti'ivcs. Speaking of the middle ranks of life, a good writer observes: " There we behold woman in all her glory; not a mere doll to carry silks and jewels, not a poppet to be flattered by profane adoration, reverenced to-day, discarded to-morrow; always jostled cut of the place which nature and society Mould assign her, by sensuality or by contempt; admired, but not respected; desired, but not esteemed, ruling by fashion, not affection, imparting her weakness, not her constancy, to the sex she would exalt; the source and mirror of vanity ; we sec her as a wife, partaking the cares and cheering the anxiety ofa husband, dividing her toils by her domestic dilligence, spreading cheerfulness around her: for his sake sharing decent refinements of the world, without being vain of them, placing all her joys and her happiness in the man she loves. As a mother, we find her the affectionate, the ardent instructress of the children whom she has tended from their infancy; training them up to thought and virtue, to piety and bcnvolencc; addressing them as rational beings and preparing them to become men and women in lheir turn. Mechanics'' daughters make the best wives in the world."

A gentleman, it is said, had a board put up on a part ofhis land, on which was written, "I will give this land, to any one who is really contented :"' and when an applicant came, he always

said, "arc yon contented?" The general reply was, "I am." " Then," rejoined the gentleman " what do you waat of my field V