Indiana American, Volume 2, Number 25, Brookville, Franklin County, 20 June 1834 — Page 1
AMI AMTIBIEIKDAM OUR COUXTRY OUR COUNTRY INTEREST AND OCR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS. BY C. T. CIiAKKSOx . miOOKYlLLS, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1831. VOL. II, NO. Q5.
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TFUMS OP THE AMERICAN. . : . .-Im.- intl.t A rn
thi ex!nr?no,i mi i DvnRTissMF.TS. Twelve lincs,or less,will be throe timns. for ore dollar: and 25
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AJU'SErriENT.,
SENATE CIIAMHRR. Washixwx May 1G, 1834.
7o my old friend .Mr. Dnisht
rjfe .Vcot ltr Vniiy .i ivcruscr.
You mavlook out for rae nigh upon as soon vou cot this letter, for I guess you must
jbgin to tlimit I ueiong u iu rosi viuce
immittce, or some other committee, in Con-
r3S5 that dont like to make no report, seeing iat vou haint hoard nothin from ms ever nee" I writ to vou about the Gineral's Pro-
i. and tell d you that arc stery about UUW V" and the rest ou 'cm down East there.
kol lMi-3 Crane's Tavern, when they tried
mncn!v wiping out the chalk marks iv.i 1 -li t : 1 I t. .
jlil cm. mil my gu-ju oiu menu, i nauu Cei idle since that time, hut I have been
fciockin about here ever day pretty much ar-
r the old fashion all day: and then at night V.king over all matters with Mr. Clay who
i.n treated me so kind ever since I have ben
this house that some folks began to think
ut he is puttin up with mc instead of my put-
la up wuunim.
Yv hen the Gineral come to hear where I
lit 1 tit m
Iras and wnat i was dusv at, ne nas been in
nu-;ky worry ment. and almost ever day 1
Jrould get some kind of acoaxin hint, from
jorue of his friends here in Congress, that he
ouul like to have me back again with him
i r f i i jii i ,
Rim iur. iay nas icuea me over ana over
liat I need'nt make no hones on't but as soon
I thought I would he better off with the
tineral, I could pack up and go back again
ry, and that the Gineral better take that up at once, and that was that Diddle had refused to let the Committee, sent by Congess to examine into the Bank, have the books and papers of the Bank, to take over to their lodgings out of the Bank and to examine them there. And that he would'nt let the committee have his private letters,' that he had written and received, nor his wife's nor his child
ren s private letters. Nor would he tell the
Comommittee how much it cost him every
ay to go to market, nor whether he roasted
lis potatoes or boil'd em.
And when the Committee asked him if he re a win or his own natural hair he tell'd
them it warn't none of their business; that
is no tellin to what pitch my Government may
go yet, when uny man may drink what he pleases, and no mortal tan tell the difference
and whilst JYlr. Jetterson could say wer.?e
all Federalists and we tire all Democrat," I will say in my next message "we are all drunk and wc are all sober." I begun this Letter by tellin you I'd be in New York nigh dpon as soon as this would, and I haint telled vou yet why I am going
there. Well, vou see theSenithas bin wait
ing for a long spell to git a report from Mr,
Taney .of the exact condition of the Pet Banks
where the Cincral keeps the money now and as "The Government" don't choose to tell
if much about it, I have offered to go and look
owner of the horse that all was not right, and
measures were immediately taken for a search. Officers were started offin every direction,and
a reward tor the recovery of the property, but all in vain. - As ftfr. f ,vmnn was nassinsr
- .
through Pennsylvania, in the early part of
the present month, he put up at a public-house
in avne. and was there nrevmle.il nnon to
attend a meeting at the school house near by.
to hear, as the landlord expressed it, "one of
the smartest preachers that everFpoke. lie
went, and on the minister arising and reading as a text, "Thou shalt not steal," he was not
little surprised to behold in this "guide ornament, and guard of virtue's cause," the identical horse thief, who had deceived him in Utica. A fter the services were over, Mr. Ly
man repaired to a magistrate, made the ne-
d he would'nt think a bit hard ont't.
But I am determined to let the Gineral see
hat I haint cot as good an opinion of the
Iks about him as he has, and I would sooner
pee potatoes all day than submit again to mix
p with sich a set ot chaps as he has all the
While about The Government; and the las
imc the Gineral sent me a message, and asked
tuethe reason I would'nt quit the Senate and
Mr. (..lay and go back to the AY lute House.
et down and writ to him every word of that
re story about old Deacon Whittlesey's two
oris and the flock of sheep. You reniembc
h hen the old Deacon died, about a year a
re tne rmDargo, ne leu two sons. l,zra ane
chabod, and telled cm in bis will they might
.are all his property equally atwixt'em. Ez
i. was a pretty sly, cute critter and Ichabod
karat quite So much so, but was good naturcd
md some folks thought he never would cu
lis eve teeth, tho' I always thought in the long
run he had a rrettv considerable share of
Inother wit, but took his own wav in show
a
In on t. Y ell, when thev came to divide off
the sheep, (for the Deacon had one of the bigrt flock of sheep in all them parts.) Ezra thought he'd Irv nnd rrir flir lirsf nf hf har.
Igain,andhe got up early in the mornin and
put all the tine healthy and clean sheep iff ne pen ; and all the scabby and snuflle noses and tag locks in another pen, and then he put Old Billy along with 'cm Old Billy, you ' know was a pet ram, and Ichabod loved him almost as much as he did any thing in this world, for he had taken care of him ever since he was a lamb. So Ezra thought, that Ichabod would take that sharp, seein that Old Billy was among 'em. Well ni ter breakfast they went out and says Ezra, here, savs he. Ichabod, the sheep are all divided off. and seein it's you, and I do'nt want to lake no advantage on ye.u. you may take your choice of pens, ichabod he got on the fence, and he looked atone flock; and then again he looked at another.andassoon as Old Billy see him he began to ba-ba-ba right out arter him as he
always use to do when ever he seed Ichabod, he looked again, & to rights he took tip the tail of his coat and wiped his eves, (for he was
amazm tender hearted critter.) and says he my eld friend Biilv its plagy hard for me to
part with you, I tell you; I like you nigh up
on a? well as ever I did. but vou are surround
by sich a craft of snuflle nose,Fcnbbv set of
iiii ian, mat 1 cant have nottun more to do with you. And with that Ichabod telled Ezra he'd take tother flock, and so Ezra got the worst af'.er all his pains. He got Old Billy to be sure, but then he got an everlasting set of scabby scamps along with him, and all the neighbors about say to this day, that upon the ""'K tho, Ezra is n. pretty sharp'fellow thevwmc how think Ichabod got the best of of that bargain.
1 have hearn tedl. but T wont s.iv snrfin its
(lor I worrn'l tinthinn- is tr:ie nnw-a-davs
unless I see it.) that when the Gineral got my ftter containing this story, lie read it over tw or three times, and could'nt some how git the bottom ort't. , lie said he was sartin there was something ln t inUlOrlnnt f Un n,-rtrnmonf fir ll'o
I --- V VIV.MV lllliaill iV-l IIV, verknew the Major to take the trouble to s3on a stoiy without there bein somctnm in't of that u atur, and so he slatted round and ordered Amas.and Levi, and Ruben, and v e Cabinet to ge t together and to lend him a in understands this matter. As soon hey got into th e Cabinet room and found what the G inei al was arter. and all of 'em read my letter over, they began to whisnd among tlemselvesland to rights one ell'd the Gineral there was one story
s important : as the Major's sheep sto-
they wanted to examine the Bank, and all into the work myself I ask'd some of the
the monev, and books and papers in't there it Senators if the wanted to give me any direc
was for 'em, and a good room in the Bank for lions about it, and how I was to act; but they cessary aflidavit, procured an officer, and the
em to do all their work in thev wanted, and sav I know as much about it as any on em but Key. Mr. Smith was arrested and lodged in
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tnat lie or some oilier oiiicer ot the Uank seem that tother House had jist sent a com- jail to take his trial
would all the while be present to explain ev- nntlee to examine Squire Uuldle s liank 1 best
ery thing, and keep an eye on every thing fc follow the same track they took and give the Dreadful Shipwrecks. By the mails of
he would ut let a single book or paper go out l et lianks a sittin alter the same fashion; Thursday and yesterday we have received
of the Bank so long as he was President on't and so I am off for New-York in a day or two intelligecc of the loss of fourteen square rigged
that once when Uongress sent a committee as soon as 1 can git my boots looted, and some vessels, accompanied by the loss of not prob
there afore llerbcn Y hitney swore pint blank shirts mended I want j ou to tell Zekel Bige- ably less than six hundred lives!!! All the to some things that took place on a certain low I calculate on him to act as Secretary vessels, we believe were British, and nearly
day, 'twixt mm and the oquire at the liank, and lie can be gittin things in order, tor a rale all bound to (Quebec with emigrants.
ic was sure on t for he mark d it right down genewine and close examination I think it j. Y, Jour, of Com
on paper; and u it had nt been lor a little win be nest to begin in IN ew-l ork, lor I shall
piece ot paper mat tnc squire lound by acci- nae me tne am oi Aekeiana ll l hnd ev ry A suit lor slander was recently tried in
dent, he never could have shown that on the thing there free from all party business and Worcester, Mass., against a clergyman, by a
very day he was at Y ashmgton and not in corruption, and no monsters among em, my mercantile firm. The libellous matter conthe Bank, and so it's important to keep all the notion is, there wont be no occasaion to go no sisted of the public expression of an opinion
papers of the liank in order, he won t let no- lurther as 1 want to be as nigh Wall street that the ludividuals of the firm, naming them,
body handle em without keepinusome one at ns possible; tell Zekel to try and get a room were, as dealers in ardent spirits, guilty of the
hand to have an eye, out. and put 'em all tor me in Howard s Exchange Hotel, Broad crime of murder. lhe plantina were non-
straight again, and so forth, lhe Gineral street, and one big enuf lor spreading books suited.
got hoppinmadat hearin this, and especially and papers about.
when they tell'd him it was impossible, to find You need'nt say much about my plans as I AtZanesville on the ISth inst. a man named
any mistake or error in the Bank unless the should like to hop in upon the the Pet Banks 7m, killed a fellow prisoner in the jail at
Committee had the siftm and mixin all the pa- as 1 did upon Squire Uiddle 8 liank last sum- that place.
pers and unless they had the Squire s private mer, without letm em know of my comm.
pears he was during this time taking lessons on that instrument from the fair plaintiff; but
nis regular and prolonged visits, and the si
lence of the piano after a certain hour of the evening, led some of those kind people who il. :i . v . -
evtr uikc an interest in tne atiairs ol tho about them, to imagine that they discoursed to each other music of another kind. I will not undertake to relate the story. Suffice it to say, in process of time the attractions of the piano lessened, or the the pupil had learned out, and another object fixed his attention.
1 he sequel is easily imagined. The deserted
lair one laid her troubles before twelve rough old fellowi (one of whom is a bachelor of fifty) told them she had suffered in her health and prospects, and prayed thcirmtcrposition. The appeal was not in vain. They sentenced her faithless swain to pay her nineteen hundred dollars and cost of court.'
A Mr. Bush, of Ohio, on liis way from Baltimore, when within a mile of Fredrick, was robbed by two men of his pocket book, containing one thousand dollars. A reward of three hundred dollars is offered for their apprehension.
letters, and those of his wife and children; &
also knew what it cost the Suuire to go to
market every day, and whether he roasted his
potatoes or not; and more especially, nothing
could be done unless thev know whether the
Squire vore a wig or his own natural hair.
YYcll, says the Gineral, I m glad of thi
and it's jist what I expected ; now savs he, I'll
order the Committee brick to Y ashmgton
and all you must turn to and lend the Committee a hand in writin a report to Congress that will blow Biddle and the Bank all to splinters; it will help keep folks from looking into other matters, wont it Barry: says the
Gineral. The Major looked at the Gineral as knowin as old Silc did, at old Miss Crane's
Tavern. Now says the Gineral, let us take
up Major Downing's letter agin, and just then
one ol the Cabinet spoke up, and says he
Gineral you haint h
Your friend.
J. DOWNING, Major. Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade.
VA IS I ETA'.
Wabash and Erie Canal. We arc in
formed verbally, that the governors and the
boards of canal commissioners, of Ohio and
Indiana, are to meet at Fort Wayne, on the
loth instant, to concert measures for the pros
ecution of the Wabash and Erie canal, from
t ort ayne to the foot of the rapids, on the
iUiami ol the Jake. Miami of the Lake.
On the 1 1th inst. a sail boat used in convev-
ing passengers to and from the Steam Boats landing at the pier off Erie, Pa. capsized and
7 out of y persons' on board were drowned.
A Literary Curiositv. The following is
a literal transcript of the address of a letter mailed at the Boston Post Office the 7lh inst.
This ere letter is for mi bruiher uho lives in
tin bed furd or micisttr in Nantucket.
James roD. On the back was written: Ansur this leter puty quick. This reminds us of an event which occurred W 1 , 1 All.
in i-ionaon not long since. An oia woman called at the Post Office, and asked if there
At Lexington, Kentucky, a man named Williamson was killed by his wife, who fired a musket at him in self-defence he. having chased her with a drawn knife, with the sup
posed intention ot killing her.
At Painesville, Ohio, the daughter of a Mr, Peter Thompson, aged 11 years, has already attained the enormous weight of 210 pound. Two females, named Caroline and Susannah Crush, residing near Fincastle, (Va.) poisoned themselves by eating of the Will Parsnip, or Hemlock, having mistaken it f.r Angelica. They were interred in the sa:;i grave.
The New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser,
SHV9 lh.lt it i riltnni'ffl thnt fnirrnrinc te tlir n.
mnillllnfln-n luilnlrnrl 1 hnnenn. rlnl :ir3 hi. I " it."" " mutvu. iijau31.ui.u u.v
I.ppii r.,mm;(tr.l m. rvjiA Clerk, and handed her one received that
-imn nfilf i ijih t -i.:..i, morning directed to"?iv mother.
"V"" jiuiiui lijui ,iui 111 aUUlllUU ll' V 1IR11 I w v
the lellerol the liank has absconded, with
Singular Discovery . Mr ITorton, a gentle
man who has been engaged in boring for wti-
ter in Providence, li. 1. has presented to thi; public some remarkable results. In his second experiment in boring, he selected th" extreme point of a wharf, many yards from
the original land. lie bored through the ar
tificial soil then through sand, pebbles and quartz gravel. At this point, water impreg
nated with corpperas and arsenic broke fort:i,
but determined to proceed further, he next
struck a vineyard, and drew up vines, grapes;,
grape seeds, leaves, acorns, hazel nuts, pin bun, and the seeds of unknown fruits, togeth
er with pure water. This was 3.3 feet bel. v
the bed of the river!
Potatoes are selling in Philadelphia at one
dollar per bushel.
18.000
iouscs were
earn about the French-
r...: i- .. .! , nyi . .i i I w,v- "" vi
men .cum., io up mves i nreaty i naan t l50:000 belonging to the Institution.
c ui-M ictKu uu miii uuhiuess: ana so ne n . d - .
ii, i ii ln.i . . , I uwiuii uiutumuii
ten a tne uinerai an me new6 nsi received
from France about that matter. The Giner
al some how did'nt seem to think much about that he said he always had a kinder notion
it 1 1 iTl 1 .1 .
tnat unes naa quit i ranee a leet e too soon, The maritime city of Chien-Crow in China and that he had boasted loo much about it, has nearly been swept away by a sudden
cuiu u.i tm-.e .. a pu.gy u a. u. ume.em.e ,)Urst uf vater through a ravine. Upwards of
(1L 1AI uncivilly & fc dllU V- Ulll. IX 1 11 VI 1 l howsomever, says the Gineral, if we dont git
the money, we have got the I rcaty, and that s more than Mr. Adams got of the Frenchmen,
and we have had our Glory on t any way. 1
reckon. I wish though savs the Gineral, in
stead ot Mr. ivinston, l nan sent Major
Downing right out in the two Pollies, along ...-, . V 1 1 I i 11
with captain jumper, ana says ne, talking uQe corn.
about xAla)or Downing, let s take up that let
ter of his'n again, and the Gineral begun to hunt for itamong a hull pile of papers, on the
table, and not hndm it and he begun leelin for it as he did his spectacles a spell ago, and
Boston Merc. Jour.
destroyed together with
a number of the inhabitants were drowned,
Complaints (says the Camden Journal) are
made from all quarters among our planters,
that owing to the late cold weather, the cot
ton is dying in the fields to annnirhiinte; extent.
anil the worm is proving very destructive to
"JVb proper place for it. A law of Virgin
ia allows the retailing of spirituous liquors at
-proper places," in the dmerent counties. In
one of the counties the magistrates have de
cided that there is no "proper place within
JL A M.
their jurisdiction for such a purpose.
New-York, May 16.
Destructive Fire. About 20 minutes to
7 o'clock this morning, a lire was discovered
i in a cabinet makers shop in the centre of the
block bounded by Hudson, Morton, Green
wich, and Barrow streets. Such was the ra
pidity with which the (lames spread, that in
course of one hour, upwards of twenty build
ings were destroyed and at least calculation
fifty families have been deprived of a shelter
and a home. Lvcmng Star.
There are three thousand Widows in New
York City ! Think of that disconsolate Wid
owers. Boston Mirror.
Dreadful Shipwreck. The fine ship
Shenandoah, Hose, which sailed from Bremer-
I have lived,' said Dr. Adam Clark, s
know that the great secret of human happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of 'too many irons in the fire,' conveys an abominable lie. You cartnot have too many: poker, tongs, and: kee:
them a going.
Wc are informed that, a few days since, fit
a wedding on green Street in Louisville., h number of persons were poisoned by means of some poisonous substance having been put
into custard by a black fellow. Mrs. II. Buckner,Mrs. K. Foster, Mary Louisa, daugh
ter of Mr. K. roster,and four others, we understand, were dead on Tuesday evening last,
and several others were sick. The black fel
low suspected had been arrested and prison.
wan iu
true
Black Hawk. Among the distinguished
personages who have honored us with a visit
during the present week.is Gen. Bl ack Hawk. IT Inft fbifi lief rFiiicrt' ir frr TV.airif Ati
was jist gittin into the same trouble and was chicn in ordpr to rcposscss himself of his med-
leiiu. uai umii-uiiY ne iu n'i i" peine bags, which he lost in the battle ot the thines in order ever since I left him, -when an- r,,i at. in 4u ,.. r 8qo
other member of the Cabinet seein the Gin- ire savs tho nrrlirp hibeen vrrv ereat hriven on the 1Gth of April,bound to Baltimore
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iiviv.il i. w . . - , . - ... - -mm ,i
day, or the following night, on the Meiium,
near the Bremer beacon, and went to pieces
with the loss of thirty passengers drowned!
I The remainder have returned to port!
Value op Advertlsino. We lately heard of a country merchant, who. unable to collect his dues, advertised his notes and book accounts to be sold at public auction, at the same time pledging himself to prove their correctness. The consequence was that before the
day arrived, but very few remained unsettled, and those such as no one would bid upon.
eral would'nt give up or forgit that sheep sto-L;nce the drnnsi.oa ti-p rf.mr.vnd. so
.1.1.1 l l.i fil,..t . .'. I ' ,
rj , hsk u mm inti .uc ii.ui..il ui u.ctt tiat many moeasin shops had been compelled
plan of makin Whiskey, that it was one of the jQ rlose )US
most important things that ever was for seen
now that Masonry and Anti-Masonry was
pritty much all one, and goin to vote the en
tire Whig Ticket, all over the country and
all the foreigners too, and if somethin warnt, done to git up another party they were all' gone and seeiu that the Temperance Society
was now the bigist and strongest in the coun
try, it was important to git that on the Gincr-
sincss. And mirablc dictu, he ac
knowledges himself to be the sole author
the letters of Jack Downing. Galcnian.
of
We are happy to be able to contradict the
report of the ravages of the Cholera among the troops at Fort Mitchell, Alabama. We
learn from the Adjutant General, that an of
ficial report, dated the Tzd of May, was re
ceived on the 2d inst. from Captain Fraser,
al s side, liut that s impossible, savs tne urn- lhe commanding officer of Fort Mitchell, in
eral, for some of our slrogcst leaders wouiu which he says not a word of sickness of any list as soon go barefoot as to give up Wins- i.inr wiiafpVrr. If the Cholrr.i had been a-
key. What says the Gineral, would become mong (ue troops, or even prevalent at or near
ol ,ana ne was jisi going lug.rtguuu n,-01.t M tchcll.it is believed that Captain
list ol whiskey ioiks, wnen me omeronc went Fraser WOuld certainly have reported the cir.11. 1 ! 1 I 1. - .1 ll-.l 1 . .
on teiung now u couiu ne uwa, umi " cumstance. Ulobc.Junc 1.
invention was discovered to make W Inskey
that any man could drink, and git drunk too, .re etole the lix'ery of the court of heaven
without showm on t no more than it he drank 1 o Berve the devil m."
water all the while, and the hull trick on't
Richmond, la., May SI.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Merrill, President of j
the State Bank, passed through this place on his way to the east, for the purpose of having the engraving and printing of the notes for the Bank, executed in the best manner, and to transact other necessary business of the institution. Palladium.
The American Peace Society offer a prize of $1,000 for' the best treatise on a congress
of nations for the prevention of war. Com
munications will be received uutil the iJOthol
June.
TBreach op Promise. YY'e extract from
A man named James II. Smith, professing the Atlas of this morning, the following aci . . r.t i i.j ;.. i r t.!.i. uini i.;nj nf
was, in alterin the worm and instcd of having to be a minister of the gospel, was arrested m count ot a case which was lately tnca at orthat crooked, to make it straight, for the crook YVnyne co. Pa. on the 0th of April, Under the cester before the supreme court, chief Justice of the worm was the hull cause of folks ralin following circumstances. About two months Shaw, presiding. nmn,l irhm ihov rlr ' "'hiskpv. So now since the prisoner made his appearance at the This was an action for a breach of promise
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e a goodavcry ' Die 01 Mr. JUyir.an, in utica, very oj marriage, uruuui m irfur ui luirj i.iuv..i ..fnrl i mornin. and hired a hors' ' qgainst a Mr. Willard of Leicester, a
""he ladr was an reanist for the
'own, and Mr. W. having a jr was wont to pass his evenings
by this discovery
temperance nip as he pleased ; on't. The Giiu notion he stopped
Letter; he telled the cud work and git up a proclaiiirtih temperance; and to nave the cro altered to straight ones. YY'hy, says he ,
ery witching time of night,'
tones of a piano on which herself in practising for his
By his own statement, it ap-
Ciiari.eston, May 21. From Central America. The Captain ofth
brig Sezeautin,from Augua, (Central America) spoken oflfthe Barj esterday, informs that
the country was in a very unsettled state, and
appearances were such as to induce a belief
that another revolution would shortly tak place, in which it was supposed that the liberal party would obtain the ascendancy.
A Whale r James River. The Peters
burg Constitutionalist states that a whale, ful
ly sixty feet long, driven perhaps, by the late tempestuous whether from his more capacious home, was seen a few days ago in James river, nearly as high as Fort Powhatan, above
Jamestown. The contents of a musket, doub
ly charged, were fired at him from a schoo
ner; upon which he turned to the right about,
and put off to sea, leaving a wake behinel him
to be rivaled only by the majestic movement of the steamer Patrick Henry.
Foot Race. Ycssterday afternoon, at 4
o'clock, Mr. C. W. Claner, according to pre
vious notice, commenced the undertaking ol performing on foot the distance of twelve miles in eighty minutes, which he performed, as we understand, with ease, in seventy-eight minutes. The ground over which passed was from the corner pf Fourteenth street and the Bowery to ljarlaem Bridge and back. Post. Why is education like a tailor? Ans. Because it forms our habits.