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LINE?, VCGESTKn OX REAPING, FIRST TETCH, III, III AND IV. Your."' maiden, tear that tinsel wreath,

Trow off thy polished brow ! The native curls that (low beneath, Are far more beauteous now, Unloose those chains of sliininj gold, That twine thy neck so fair; And let a snowy kerchief fold, In modest neatness there. Thy form, let nature's care impart, Its unknown loveliness; rfor borrow dangerous aid from art To mar its comeliness. O, lay that costly orb aside, So gay and shortened too Let a plain, graceful garment hide Your buoyant steps from view. "Outward adorning" C3asc, and bid A quiet meekness shine; Through all your life, as Jesus did That pattern so divine. VILLAGE ARISTOCRACY. 1 most villages of any considerable magnitude 1'iorc is found a social aristocracy, if we may be

t McKWr. "hat is opposed to socialise bv their preten5fcnf,c..Fit,zcn9toT0?-

caue oi a community sciung up uisuncuon: not feunded on merit, and productive of heart

Ivindnss, envy and ill-will amongst neighbors.

Generally it is the vice of w eak minds, inloxica-

!od with good fortune, or inflated by family disunrtlons. To the shame of the female sex, we (bar it is a vice more prevalent amongst them

than tfe males. These, in the transactions of

h isiness, are necessarily compelled to associate

together. Intercourse is a leveller of factious

distinctions and ultimately makes men pass for

what tney are worth. But the ladies mav have

extravagant notions of their own dignity, about

. K.-ir notions, which cannot allow them to asso.;ate with the "common herd'' of virtuous and

industrious females who have not been bom to

tae enviable luxury of a long purse.

mottling serves more etleei tally to check the

truest and most ardent aspirations of Genius

ncihhig odcrs a more fatal damper to an honor

able ambition, or discourages virtuous exertions

nnre than this aristocratic spirit. If the voun

"s,-X aspiring arc to be frowned upon and driven

iaio oscurity, because tney cannot boast o an honorable ancestry, of a long and full purse

mere is danger that they will retire to the

i:a mts of evil communication, and content them

selves with that actual degradation, which those

v iu ahect to give laws to popular sentiment

vrould consign them. Why should it be a dis

s.-ieu to a man 10 ie a mechanic r cr w hy a pe

culiar honor to another because he extorts his l ung from the sweat ef another's brow. And yet it seems to be considered there is something

:i a yard stick, a goose quill, or a green bag, Hhich creates a dividing line between the prossions and the arts, giving the former an envi

able superiority. Ave know of more than one place, where if a man w ields an axe, or pushes a

wrcpiain, however intelligent and virtuous he may be, why he should be debarred of access to "good society' and left to sutler even the want

oi social friends and assistance. We have seen

many an ingenious and virtuous mind made to stiller the most painful sentiments from neglect

ol this kind. It is cruel; it is barbarous. The only distinctions, as we view the subject, that .1. Ill . ... -

Hjuiu De Known in neighborhoods are those

jounded on merit. If a neighbor be poor, still if

e oe virtuous and ordinarily intelligent, he should have our respect and friendship'; on the other hand, be he ever so opulent, be his familv

M" so nobie, it he is dissolute and vicious

umself; wc will, we must, consider him in our

emaciation of his frame. In our presence he made a wager, that he cculd raise in his arms the heaviest man in the room which feat he actually performed lifting a Yankee Captain of large size, a foot from the floor. To all appearance he was, when standing, or sitting still, almost in a dying condition and we could hardly credit the slaicment, that he lived until wilh-

n a week past, were it not sustained by un

doubted testimony.

" Bock Asrain." Averv, after wandering to

and fro, a vagabond ou the earth, for some four

or live weeks, without finding rest to his soul or body, has again returned to Bristol. Several times, we know not how many, has Avery left

Bristol, sometimes alone, sometimes w ith the exElder, and sometimes with his familv, intending

as was said, at the time, to return no more. But he has invariably been compelled to retrace his ;

steps to the place from whence he started. Au-

thonsed by the Methodist Conference to preach.

he suffers no opportunity to pass unimproved of entering every temple dedicated to the worship

of the Most liign,w here he can find admittance, 1

of profaning the sacred altars with his solemn mockery. This, amoral and religious community will not endure. Hence the reception he meets and the difficulties he lias to encounter, wherever he obtrudes himself. The public very properly recoil from such disgusting scenes. A moral public cannot and will not quietly look on and see the temples of Jehovah prostituted, nor listen to the preaching of one who has himself, violated and trampled upon the laws of God and man; though he be countenanced in so doing by a body of men who profess better things, and who on that very account ought not to be spared in the least, or screened from public execration. Fall River Monitor.

Estimation, as low in the score of reputation as - actually is in the scale of character. Such a

character as this, however wc know will not be

filer

bed by

somc were it to become a rule of

ociety, they would be the sufferers.

Calvin Edson, "the living skeleton' is such no snger. He died at Randolph, a few days ago. Jo was a remarkable instance of the strange rcakswhich nature scmctimes plays. Mere than

enty years ago, as he told the writer of this

Paragraph, while engaged in the service of his

country, he lay down one night on the ground

seek repose alter a day ol severe duty. On

-waking in the moraine, he found himself al

most unable, from numbness and cold, to rise.

roni that hour he gradually lost his flesh, until.

at the period when we saw him. he had fully

famed the title ofthe living skeleton. Scarce-

: a vestige of flesh covered his once well pro-

Portioned limbs; His lens, closely wrapped in

wnon ts well calculated to set otf their excecd- ;? attenuation, supported a body from which

?very spark of vitality might have been suppos-

J i "J IKlVO Hen. hml tmt llir nmrL- nn:1 niAmnir

T?. glancing around upon every visitor, shown

ne was true to his 1 ankce origin, and hced'Oi tile WaVSand mennsnf rr-ili7irirl!i.' rhnrr-

,U!-ai to protract his miserable existence. Since

DonnaMaria.-Jtpl0 M5u0w the

suuject oi mucn remark, a description of her per

son may not be uninteresting. A letter from Havre ofthe 8lh ult. savs "I have seen Donna

Maria twice. Although not fifteen vcars old

she has the appearance of twenty. Kor eye is

tne omy ieaiure winch plca?cs. She has a small brilliant piercing eve, which gives her counte

nance a great deal of animation. She is very

fat, has a wide mouth and projecting teeth. She is by no means ugly, but simply good looking. Her dress is extremely simple; and a white gown,

sky blue bonnet, trimmed very neatly, and no

ornament whatever." Journ. of Com.

THE MORMONITES. There is no religion, or rather form of religion no creed or system of politics ihat will not find

its advocates. A friend from the upper part of

Uxlord county informs us, that cne Mormon preacher from Ohio, and another from New Hampshire, reinforced by a pair of preachers from Saco, have been making a great stir somew here about Lake Umbagog. In the plantation of Letter B, in the vicinity of Lake Umbagog, nearly the whole of a Freewill Baptist Church, numbering thirty persons, w ith their pastor, have gone over to the Mormonites, and avowed their faith in the Book of Mormon. They have all been re-bapised in the waters of the Lake. In Andover.Jhe preachers have had some trouble with the citizens, and were rather unceremoniously dismissed. Portland Covr. Oct. i!6.

SPIRIT OF THE TIDIES.

From the National Intelligencer. THE ALABAMA CASE. Since our last paper was issued, the annexed proclamation of the Governor of Alabama has come to hand. Jt docs not tend to allay our anxiety about the consequences of this unhappy controversy. The Governor, it would seem, has is

sued his orders to bring all offenders against the

State laws to justice; that is, to arrest all w ho shall attempt to execute the orders ofthe President, and brfrig them before the State tribunals. Soihatif the Government presists in the ex-

cution of its duty, we can see no olher result than

actual collision and tjioodsnec. as uom parties

seem determined, wc cannot peceived how the

affair is to terminate peaceably, although we

sincerely hope that some mode may present itself

to avert any other termination ot it. l lie government paper of Saturday is almost entirely filled with official documents o-i the subject, comprising chiefly the correspondence which lias taken jdnce 'between the Secretary of War and the Governor of Alabama. We will Mot

now publish these purer in extenso, asthcy

time he nas, we believe, achieved a vovage ;or.?3 the Atlantic. When we saw him", his s:u?!it w as about 10 pound-. lie was quite acc and of surprising strength, considering the

HOOSIHER. The appellation of Hooshier has been used in

many of the Western States, for several years to

designate, in a good naturcd w ay, an inhabitant

of our sister btate ot Indiana. Lx-i.overnor

Ray has lately started a newspaper in Indiana,

w hich he names 1 he Hooshier. Many of our

ingenious native philologists have attempted, though very unsatisfactorily, to explain the ori

gin of this somew hat singular term.

M.M. Aoah,in a late numbcrof his Lvcning

Star, undertakes to account font upon the faith

of a rather apocryphal story of a recruiting officer, not of very brilliant literary attainments,

who was engaged during the late w ar, was en

gaged in enlisting a company of Huzzan, whom by mistake he unfortunately denominated, Hoo-

slncrs.

Another etymologist tells us that when the

State of Indiana was being surveyed, the sur

veyors on hnding the residence ol a squatter.

would exclaim, "zcho s here that this exclama

tion abbreviated to Hooshier, was in process of

time, applied as a distinctive appellation to the original settlers of that State, and finally to the

inhabitants, generally. Neither of these hypoth

esis is deserving of any attention.

1 he word Hooshier is indebted for its exis

tence to that once numerous, industrious and

unique; but now extinct class of mortals called the Ohio Boatmen. In this orignal acceptation

it was equivalent to "Rip-staver," 'Scrouger," "Screamer," "Bulger," "Ringtail-roarer," and a

Kindred others equally expressive, but which

lave never attained to such a respectable stand

ing as itself. By some caprice which can never

be cxplained.the appellation of Hooshier became

confined solely to such boatmen as had their

homes on the Indiana Shore, and from them it

was gradually applied to all the Indianians, who now acknow ledge it as good natu redly as a New Englander does the appellation of Yankee. Whatever mav have been the original accepta

tion of Hooshier,this w e know, that the people to whom it is now applied, are amongst the bravest most intelligent, most enterprising, most mag

nanimous, and most democratic of the great

west, and should we be disposed to quit the State

in w hich we are now sojourning, our own nooie Ohioat will he to enrol ourselves as an adopted citizen in the land ofthe Hooshiers. Cin cin nn 7 i Rrp ublica n.

will

probably soon form a part of the Executive communication to Congress, and be accompanied by all the information which the Government possesses on the subject. We shall however give such an abstract of the correspondence, as will present its leading features to our readers. , The Spcretary argues the question elaborately, and vindicates with great ability the right and the duty of the Government to protect the Indians from the intrusion ofthe whites. T!ie Governor too, displays much talent in reply to the Secretary's arguments and maiitaiiiing his own side of the question. The proclamation ofthe Governor, being decisive as to the course which the State means to pursue, w e give it at large and without delay.

A PROCIAMATIOX BY THE GOVERNOR. To the Citizens ofthe comities in the Grerk Js'rUion. The Secretary of War, by the direction ofthe President ofthe United Stafcs.has instructed the Martial ofthe Southern District cf Alabama, to remove all white persons from the territory reded by the Greek Indians, by the treaty of March. 1832, which tcrritorj' is composed cl'thc counties of Benton, Talledcga, Randolph, Coosa, Tci!apoosa, Chambers, Russell, Macon, and Barbour. These counties have been established and or

ganized by Die General Assembly, in conformity with the views and policy cf the Federal Gov

ernment, and m pursuance of the Constitution o

of this State.

The order, if cxecutcd,will result in a destruc

tion ofthe property belonging to the inhabitant

of these counties, to an almost incalculable amount, and inflict upon the in other great and

irreparable injuries, not less caiamitoas than

those which would mark the invasion of a public

enemy.

By the virtue of this treaty, the Governmen

ot the United (Mates have assumed the right o

removing by an armed force, not only all persons

who have settled upon the public lands, but those

also, in the opinion of its agents, have committed

trespasses upon the improvements ol the Indians,

which are tncir private property; thereby under

taking without any lawful authority, and in vio

lation of our common constitution, to regulate

matters which belong exclusively to the laws and

tribunals of this State.

The order for the removal of the settlers must

necessarily be attended with the explosion cf

our civil officers, the suppression of our courts,

and in fact, the destrucuon cf the otatc Govern

ment throughout these counties.

The right of jurisdiction being admitted, the right to the use ofthe means that are indispens

able to its exercise, attaches as a necessary consequence; and yet a military force is displayed upon our borders, to render inoperative all the measures which have been adopted by the State Government for the extension and enforcement of its laws. The course which the General Government

has adopted, and is now pursuing, is a palpable and indefeasible invasion of the acknowledged rights of this State, and in its tendency, utterly

subversive of our free and happy form of Govern

ment.

There are now thirty thousand of our people

alarmed at the horrors of starvation on one side,

and of military execution on the other. In this hour of their afflictions, I recommend and exhort them to look with abiding and undoabting con

fidence to the majesty of the law. It will cover

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intelligent neighbors for information and protection. Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at Tuscaloosa, this 7th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1833, and in the 58th year of the independence ofthe U. States of America. JOIIN'XJAYLE. Ey the Governor: James I. Thohxtox, Sec. of State.

them over with a shield impenetrable to the

sword and bayonet.

In order, therefore, that "the laws mav be

faithfully executed,"' and bv irtuc of the power

and authority in rue vested, I hereby require all civil officers of the counties aforesaid, to be attentive to the People, upon whom any crimes

may be committed, or upon whom and whose

property there may exist well founded apprehen

sions, that crimes are intended to ue comnuiieu. by issuing all such warrants and other process as mav be necessary to bring odendcrs to justice,

particularly such as are guilty of murder, false

imprisonment, house burning, rouoery, lorciuie

entries, and all such like heinous onences.

And all good citizens are requested, w hen duly

and legally called upon,to aid & assist in the execution of all such process as may be issued by the competent authorities, and according to the laws of the land. And furthermore it is enjoined up

on the citizens in the counties aforesaid, to yield

a ready obedience to any precept or process that mav issue from the courts of the United States

or this State; and especially to abstain from all

acts of unlawful violence towards the Indians,

who, being ignorant of our laws, and of their

rights, should be taught to look upon their more

From the National Intelligencer. Major Dowmxg is excellent to-day. His huv mor does not flag, as he goes on, nor does his penetration into the secrets of the inner Cabinet diminish: To my old friend, Mr. Dwigiit, ofthe New York Daily Advertiser. Washington, Oct. 22, 1833. My last letter to you felled you about that are scufSc I had among some of our folks down stairs, and do you know it has been nigh bringing war among us. Mr. Van Buren came down here all in a lather about it. He was plagy fraid there would be more voluntary dismissals; and he says it v. oct do to have too many of ihem all at once, or the folks about the country will begin to think we aint all units. Some on em did try, I suspect, to make muddy water between me and the Gineral, for one day w hen I was busy doia up some wriiin for the Gineral, he was called out, and had a long talk with Mr. Van Euren and Amos Ken die, and some more on em; and when he came back, says he, Major, I wish you and I was at the Hermitage. Why, savs I, hcv so Gineral? Well, I dont know exactly why, says he, but I dont sec, says he, what use there is in my bein here, for things are gittin now so mixed up, that I cant tell exactly what is best to do to get M r. Van Buren in. Do ou know Major, says lie, that Mr. Van Buren says he dont think it was right to move the deposites. Why how you talk, says I. Didcn't he advise it? Well so I thought, says the Gineral; but he says it w ould be best only to hold it up by the tail, as you would do a fox, and keep ell the dogs barking for it; for, as soon as you throw the fox in the crow d, a few old jowiers grab hold, and the rest dont git a mouthful!; and then comes trouble. Well, says I, Gineral, that's true enuf, and that's just the way w e're doing now with the Minister to England, and some other appointments; we must keep the folks smcllin round, and one vacancy to fill, says I, is worth a dozen, filled ud. But, Major, that aint the worst trouble

now, says the Gineral ; and he got up, and stomped about, and then came back, and filled his pipe, and stomped about again, without lighting" it. I seed there was trouble abrcwin. Says he Major, I dont care so much about it myself; but tiicy sayuit mast make Amos Kendlean apology for that blow you aimed at him tother night. And w ith that I riz right up, and walked straight up chamber, and put on my regimentals, and my cocked hat, and hooked on my sword, and wrent straight down stairs to Amos. Here, says I, mister, the Gineral says you want to say something to me. O no, Major, says he,there must be some mistake. Well then, says I, is it that you want me to say something to you. O no, says he, that is a greater mistake. I looked at him for about

a minil; and he shook like a North Carolina

ague

Savs he. Maior. I snsnerf. ihn Cinpral

meant you to look over iJi me a statement I am getting up, showing 1 much money Mr. Clay has received of the Bank; it is almost done.

says he, and I'll bring it up for you and the Gineral and Mr. Van Buren lo see. Very well, says

I, that's enuf. And back I went to the Gineral ; and as soon as I got in front of him I stopped.

Now, says I, Gineral, what wras that you was

saying a while ago that you wanted me to do? The Gineral was stumped, he looked at me a

spell, and says he, Major, I reckon, I've forgot it; and suppose we say no more about it. And

jest then in came Mr. Van Buren; and shortly

alter imos came in, ana we an sot down, and

began to figure up the counts that our District

Attorney had been sendin to Amos Kendle, about the money the Bank had paid to Mr. Clay for his services from the time Mr. Cheves cm-

doved him to sue the folks away West there,

when the Bank closed up one of its branches. And it figures up pretty considerable. And Amos

las got it so fixed, that it looks for all the world

ke "bnoen' and corruption; and we are comin

out with it, and a good deal more too; and if it dont kill Mr. Clay, I'm mistaken.

rlic Gineral is as wrathy as thunder about

Clay's journey north, and Mr. Van Buren dont

ike it a bit nother. Iiut the Gineral tells Mr.

Van Buren, if so be that the folks north and south

and all about creation, take a notion to Mr. Clay

and think he would make a better President

than Mr. Van Bureu. then he, the Gineral,

would hold on for a third heal; and that's about

my notion too. Mr. an Buren would stand a good chance in a race, when a good many are

unnin, and if the ground is muddy and slippery;

for he is a master hand at irippin folks. But I'm

afraid he'd stand a slim chance over a clear field.

nd it aint fair to make him run so. Any man

can catch a rat in a strait race, because he aint

used to it; but give him a few old barrels and

ogs to dodge round, then, I tell you, its pretty

tou

1 haint had a letter from Zekel Bigclow for

some time. I raly begin to think that critur has left; Wall street, and gone East with Mr. Clay. Can you find out and let me know? Your friend, J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade.

Hydrophobia is very prevalent in New Or

leans the dogs are the streets.

running disordered about

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