Indiana American, Volume 2, Number 41, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 October 1834 — Page 1

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TERMS Or THE AMERICAN. 1 2 in advance $2,50 in six months; or 43.00 at tte expiration of the year. . Advkrtismb.its. Twelve lines, or less, will be inserted once or three times, for one dollar, and 2T cent will be charged for each additional insertion. POI.ITICAE. fhe two following violent political articles we pub, litih by special request. We do not adopt the lintimcnt of either. MR. CLA F A CA ,VD IDA TE! It is now morally certain, that Mr. CJav f ro run ii".un iur irresiaencv. io rnnriiri r i r :j ' J . . man in the west doubts it; and the subjoined paragraph, from the Louisville Journal, may be considered as the otticial annunciation of Mr Clay, and the official denunciation of Judge M'Lean. It is the production of the notori ous George D. Prentice, the biographer of air. iiaj ana wno naa out just returned, at .1 M. - J ' mr J 1 .. & W i tiie momeui w wnnng ii, irom a visit to Mr. 0. It contains precise! the language which Mr. Clay uniformly employs when speaking yi rfuu- it muu. A ocvuuu raie iiian, Willi no pretension, no fixed priciples, and as ohjjectionable to my friends as Van Buren.M Jwme oi our readers may be ready to inquire, if Mr. Clay is thus hostile to Judge M'Lean, and intends to run, why is he not announced at once? The answer is at hand Mr. Clay wishes to use Judee M'Leans's name in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and perhaps Maine and New Jersy; and when these elections are over, cry out " Whig victories!" andyas his friends are more violent and more active than Mr. M Lean s, he will then force brnweU on, & Judge M'Lean offthe 'rack. To the Bank party, Mr. Clay is indispensable, and his banner is, therefore, to be first listed in Kentucky. Persons not residing a that state, or not well acquainted with its -ccent history, are at a loss to account for the influence which n corrupt Bank exercises in it. A few words will explain it. Kentucky, in 1818-19-20, resorted to the usual expedients to relieve the people from their monied embarrassments, occasioned by the over-trad-II ft . ft m mg t lat toiiowed the late war, and which were to be expected among a people so ar-! dent and enterprising relief laws, replevins, Stc. &c. The J udiciary, in gross violation of previous decisions, declared these laws unconititutional: the Legislature, rashlv. and In violation of public, opinion, recoamized the court, aud thereby removed the Judge. i mi act ovennrew the democratic party, and gradually subdued all opposition to the U. Bank; and the people of Kentucky may be said to have had no other specie paying invitation since, until very recently. Yet the Bank had not so entwined itself with the state, as to control it, until 1832. In that and the preceding, year, her loans to merchants and exporters of produce-nnd shaving IwrrrhaA f? strengthened her, that under the advice of the noted Ben. Hardin, she determined to eater the arena, and try what such men as Hardin, Chilton, &c. could effect with money. The result is known. The state was carried by such means as only such men would have used; and from that day to this, the Bank, mnftrlAnt r u ft .ft . 1 w..Uv.tU4 us power, nas boldly used it. Hundreds of honest democrats have sold their r recreated, like the Union men of ou iaroiina, to Missouri, Indiana and Illi nois, rond themselves of Mr. Clay's and the Bank's government. a mn0t c!leate1 lnt the optn ion,that -uvi win oe allowed to be a can didate for the Presidency lrrttK,,r f K kind can happen. The recent annunciation of wign, ty uie lyio dollar editor of the Rich .u M..,g , ,s,n accordance with instructint 1 srl . . .rem viay, and with a view to prevent N Lean or Calhoun from being taken up in the south, and that they may ultimately be iaro run Leigh In the south, or unite his force npon Clay, as the "only alternative" to wwd V an Burcn. Mr. Clay's private onran 7nl W. Leigh, the steady ene-'-k rc"c,n tne boldest aristocrat in aorta America the man, who declared, not ' peasantry or poor -- .. uuniry never did, never will, and nereroushttotakeanvDart in the rovernmcit He is the man who UAA th iirii toostitution, with all its Bishops, Earls and WMs, as a perfect model of human wisdom. "7 Jeiin called state rights in Virginia, w y portion of her depraved sons! Judge k a te'ks free we are told and declares "a determination not to allow his name to be ii -''" uicj iic sua.ii oe given we entire opposition field ; & does not attempt I!5ncc1 his opinion of Mr. Clay's char. -""and prospects. au Rtpnolicwu : Tron tht Virginia Advocate. 7w vul.l not be a Jackson man?-"It cov"ta one all over like unto a blanket," oancho said of sleep. It is a panacea for al wral ailments, and cleanses a nolitical lenfosy as brimstone cures tlie itch. Do you want W raise tK n,;A ; i PaJ old debts cry hurrah for Jackson! Have jou been crossed in love or lost your law suit, or failed in trade come and dive into the pool of Jacksonism, when the muddy waters re troubled. Would you be a great man in Plte of nature a natrint n-ifhruit virtu a 'ttcsmaa without knowledge a philosopher -vWui iaient cry hurrah for Jackson. Are Jou a federalist of the blue light and black tockade order, stoned in K mnl of h

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dition act and hung up to dry on the hooks of "ie proclamation and the force bill cry hurrah for Jackson two or three times of a winday day, and vou are a leader of the republican party. Did you approve the treason of Aaron Burr or Benedict Arnold have you been kicked and cuffed like a wet dog, by every whipster from Callender to Tom Ritch ie practise the fa so la mi of the Kitchen chorusthe Bank or no Bantc of the Jackson-Van-Buren-Ben ton-Ta n ey-K en d al school, and you are a statesman, "ripe for stratagem and spoil." ., Were you a dunce at school, t . i i . . .i nae jou oeen seven times spurned by tne people when you offered to serve your country, and are you in want of the wherewithal to make the pot boil, try tha hard money tact, and jingle a few "Benton yellow jackets" at every body but your creditors, and its odds ifyou dont, rise to an embassy or department. It is the short cut to fame to wealth and power; and one has hardly time to put on a clean shirt,or comb his head,before he writes his name with Kendall and Whitney, and Blair and Lewis, &c. &c. on the milky way of glory." Doth it surpass your comprehension how two and two make lour, cry hurrah for Jackson, and two to one if they don't make a dozen. Are you puzzled at the learning of the books, vet ambitious to be wise without reading them, get the Globe to puff j ou ever ana anon, and your wisdom fits like a pair of inexpressibles. This Jacksonism is a crucible, which, like that of the astrologer, turns all baser metals io goia. It is tne I'rocrustes bed. which, if I your conscience be too long, will dock it at the knees if it be too short, will stretch it to the orthodox standard, even to the tearing asunder of joints. It is a dictionary, which spells economy and extravaganc retrenchment and corruntion reform and ahns principal and interest right and wrong with the same letters. It is a crreat political steam Kitchen, where public opinion, Ministers Plenipotentiary. Senators. are all cooked to order, from the rawest ma terials, just as the wench dresses beef steaks or apple dumplings. Oh! what it is to be a Jackson man!! The following is the communication which we declined publishing in our last, but by repeated so licitation of the author, it is now inserted. WHITEWATER CANAL. Hoop-pole Thicket, Sept. 30, 1834. Mr. Editor: Just at this time an idea notmed into mv head and I thought, in as much as the Canal question was in agitation, that I would pen it down for the col umns of your paper. You can publish it, or lay it asiae among otner rejected matter. 1 had cut 20 large Bized Hogshead poles and shouldered them up, as hoop-pole cuttcrt do, in or der to pack them across a holler so that we could git to them with a tlide. After I had touted them about 80 yards down I threw them and seated mv self on the pile to rest, having about as much further to pacK them. Whilst I was tettm there the Canal question obtruded itself upon my mind -for I'm al wars thin km, and 1 rubbed my shoulder and just concluded that if there was a Canal cut along here I would freight mypofethe balance of the way. However, there was none, and up I shouldered them again and in a few minutes landed them across an old moss covered log, biased a few trees about that might again find them, and retreated into the thicket for another load. After working it so a few days I found that I had saved, fcy my own tabor, several dollars that I would have paid for freight, and I am none the worse of it. so I cnaiiy concluded that if I bad as many more back loads to toot I would make a ROAD across the holler and haul them on my slide for, thinks I, f there is money to be made by cutting and carryng, I'll cut and carry, and the job will be of longer duration. The more labot the more Jfay. If I had plenty of money you would not catch me koort-ooliTtsr neither cultiner nor carrwtii-. But I think, as the matter stands, I had better perform all my own labor than to hire any part of it, until, at last. I can do so without borrowing the money to paw mv hands. The reader may apply the foregoing to the uanai question just as he pleases, aud he will not dis please me. C W. HUTCHEiN. The Governor of South Carolina has issued his Proclamation, ordering and directing that a system of rigid Quarantine be established in all the Torts and Harbors ot that state on al vessles coming from anv port or harbor in the State of New i ork, or any other port or place where the Asiatic Cholera is known to prevail, Caroline Advocate, Valtmblk Ixykxtton. A city correspon dent writes as follows: That the world may know that the scientific in our land are fast gaining the requisites for exploring the deep, as well as navigating the air, I would call the attention of your readers to an exhibition made on Friday morning last by Mr. Norcross, at the wharf of Mr. I rail I ft . A ft which was sunk by the weight oi coal some weeks since.' Mr. Norcross obtained at the Roxburv India Rubber Factory a dress which enabled him to descend upon the coal, and its precise situation, and place a quantity ot It in a box to be drawn '.out. From the perfect construction of the dress, he is kept completely dry is at liberty to use his hands, and to walk on the bed of the river under any depti of water; having a free supply of air by means of tubes, he is enabled to remain under water six hours at a time. This dress appears to be well calculated to be used in searching for property that may be lost in rivers, bays, har bors, &c. and cannot fail to interest all who

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from the Comet. By the politeness of Col. Cahr we hve been favored with the perusal of a letter from Capt. I Ford, of the U. S. Dragoons, datcM Fort Gibson. August 19th; from which we make the following extract. "Col. Dodge marched his regiment from this post on the 19th of June, with orders from the commanding ceneral to nerfnrm a certain tour by the way of the mouth of the ivasnua, and Irom thence to the Red river. lsiting several tribes of Indians the supposed boundary between ih States and Mexico, and on the river Plate, and thence to Fort Leven worth. When the Col. reached Washita, the command became so unhealthy that it was found impracticable to march to the Pawnee villages'with the entire command. The Col. selected about 250 of the most healthy and efficient men and horses, and made a push for the 'villages "leaving the balance at the Washita under the com mand ot Lieut. Col. Kearnev. Genoml Iv. enworth followed in the rear, with a company of infantry and a piece of artillery; but unlununaieiy ne and L-icut. M'Clure both took sick and diedithinabout fortytmiles of the Pawnee village. The Colonel marched on with his detacl -ment, and'within about ten?or twelve miles of Red river, fell in with ahout seventy or eighty Camanchees. These Indians were very timid, and it was with difficulty thev could be prevailed upon to stand. In croine thence about sixty miles, they came into the vicinity of the I awnee villages. In the erpnimr thov caught two Pawneess4one of whom thev,kept in custody, and sent the other into the village to invite the Indians out to the dragoon camp. On the next day, early in the morning several of the principal Pawnees chiefs, with four iiuimicu ui meir warriors mounted and equipped, marched out to the Dragoons' camp, and after becoming satisfied that there was no hostile intention on rhi nnrt f thn whites, they invited theJColonel $to their vilage, lor me purpose ot holding a council. he Col. marched throusrh their village and encamped about a mile and a half from it. There he made a feast, and sent for some of the Kiaways, Pawnees, and Picts. The offi cers oi the Drasroons. mpr wifh nhniit nn equal number of the leadintr chiefs from those several tribes who had assembled with about a tnousand ot their warriors, and held a council in their council house. The Col. demanded Abbv.'the ranker who was captured last summer. They stated he was; taken by the Texas Camanchees, and was sacrificed immediately after crossine Red river, ne men demanded a boy, who was captured about three months ago; the boy was the son of Judge Martin near Fort Towson, who had gone out on a hunting expedii : i i ii .. . r ....v. .mv. "nii Trim nun ms iiuie son, aoout eight years old and a negro boy. The Indians killed the father and the netrro. and captured the boy. They verv rcluctantlv consented to give him up, and sent a runner lormmtwo miles from the village. -When the little boy found himself among white men rctuuiu unruly coniam Ilimsclt. The Col. arrived with the detachment ves terday, and brought the little bov, and 18 chiefs of the different tribes of Indians; the most savage looking Indians I ever beheld. They will remain here till the several? tribes, in this region are assembled for the purpose of treating. They tare at warwith all our friendly Indians. The horses of the detachment have return ed in very thin order. Col. Kearney did not come in with the de tachment, but is expected, with his command in a few days. As soon as the horses canlbe sufficient) v re cruited, my company with three others, will march to rort Leven worm, there to remain for winter quarters. It is reduced to a certainty 'thatJSerg't Abby was murdered by the Camanchees, a few days after he was taken. SUPPORT TOUR OWJfPRtATERS. Reading an article headed "Support vour Mechanics," has induced us to throw together a few remarks on the habit the people in the West have got into of patronizing foreign newspapers in preference to those of their own county and State. By foreign newspa pers, we mean those printed at the Eastern j cities, andg which have obtained so large a patronage in the Western country. We object to this habit, lor very obvioU3 reasons, and one reason is because it has a great tendency to prevent the prosperity and influence of the Western Press. If an india a ft ft . I vidual is able to patronize more than one newspaper, let himf first subscribe to for one printed m his own town, county, or neighborhood, and then we rare not where he goes for the second. In this matter we confess that our feelings are sectional, and why should they not bet Our interests are the interests of our fellow-citizens, and it becomes us then to work to each other's hands There is no better evidence of the growth, prosperity, and intelligence of any country than to see the Press in a flourishing and prosperous condition among its inhabitants; and when we see a newspaper in a languishing state appearing once in two or three weeks its columns Doorlv filled the publisher insisting that he must have more subscribers, or calling on his old ones to pay up we invariably look upon the people of that section, as a poor, ignorant, and bad-managing set, who do not know how

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to appreciate their own interests. We, too. have been in the habit, since we first became Al'XrLri? "ePa.P"S of judging of ..... v.. UI lown 0y tne appearance we mean the outicard looks of the paper, printed therein for when it is well execu-! ted, the impression 'fair and clear,' and every thing arranged in order, we take it for! granted that thnt paper has a good support, and the inhabitants of the town and country are in a prosperous condition. When this is the case, the printer goes to work cheerful & buoyant in spirit; he uses his best endeavors to please his patrons, and improve the appearance and usefulness of his paper, and such a printer never thinks about "writing for glory, and printing on trust.'' In soliciting subscribers to our own paper, some individuals have said to us, "Oh I can get the Saturday Courier for the' same price you charge for yours, and it's got morn in than your paper." We knew this to be true, and some times thought of saying "Go anrf erf tV:" but this might hivre been considered uncivil. I he Saturday Courier, it is true, is a large paper, and has such a large patronage that it can be afforded for two dollars per year. A great many people in this country take that paper to the exclusion of all others and what is it to them when they have it? Can they find any thing in it touching the affairs of their own town, county, and Stale? Do they find the result of their elections? the proceedings of their legislature? the progress of their im provements? and many other makers which sometimes may be of vital importance to them? No; they find none of this; but they do find all the fights, quarrels, mobs, duels, murders, accidents, and such like stuff, which take place from Maine to Georgia. We consider it a genuine old tromati's paper, fit only for those who are particularly fond of the marvell ous. We go against the Courier, too. hernus it is an Eastern paper. We want to see irestern literature and irselcrn periodicalsencouraged. At Cincinnati there are two literary papers the Mirror, and the Chronicle. Give to either of these paper the patronage of the Saturday Courier, and we will insure as large and a better paper, at the same price. To those who will not patronize us, we would recommend either of the two Cincinnati papers and next to our own, we wish to see these papers flourish. They are essentially Western papers they do not send agents through the Lastern states to solicit" subscri bers; it is to the West alone they look for their support. ' Another thing we dislike to see, is the hab it a great many Western Editors have got inw oi puunsning long advertisements for these Eastern papers, and puffing them into notice. An editor who does this is certainly blind to his own interest, for he is helping to bring uiese papers into competition with his own. All that they get it return is an exchange, and we have even known this to be refused. We presume no one will say that a news paper isoi no advantage to the town or coun try in which it is printed. Why then not foster and cherish them in preference to those printed at a great distance from their own? W e hope the Western people will soon see the injustice they are doing an invaluable branch of the mechanic arts, by refusing their aia ana support, we hope, too, to see ade C I ... greu oi sectional prtae ana jealousy spring up among us, which will induce our people to "srrppnwp TiirtD nu-w uvn . 77 Rising Sun Tlmey. MARRIAGE OF AN EASTERN PRINCESS. The Hamburgh Correspondent of the 5th instant contains the following additional particulars relative to the marriage of the Princess, Saliha, at Constantinople: "The marriage of a Princes is a very rare event in the annals of Ottoman history, for it has seldom been permitted to the daughters of the Sultan to marry, for fear of transmitting the blood of the Uahphs into the veins of their children, and thereby rendering it possible that the throne should pass from the male to the female line. Sultan Achmed III was the last who, about the beginning of the 18th century parried one of his daughters to a Grandee of his empire. The preparations for celebrating the marriage of Saliha exclusively occupied the public attention and the time of the mon arch. It may be computed that a fourth part of the population of Constantinople took a share in the rejoicings. The character of the Turkish people appeared herein, in all its peculiarity. Old men and young women, and even children, who find their only and highest enjoyment in repose, here collected to gether in immense crowds, witnessing and partaking of the various amusements. The only enjoyment of the Turk is coffee and pipe: he sips with delight the essence of the Moka bean, and observes with pleasure the curling clouds of smoke ascending from his pipe, lie is satisfied with himself, appears what he Is, disturbs nobody, and wishes not to be disturb ed himself. 1 he men were separated Irom the women, and the approach to the latter was guarded by a line of soldiers, who tailed out, "the place is sacred.'" At the approach of night, the women, who were double the number of the men, retired. "The rejoicings continued ten days; on the eleventh the birde's treasures were carried from the Se-rao-lio to her Palace, and on the twelfth she was led to the arms of her expectant husband Although the cavalcade which accompanied her did not start till 12, that hour having been

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pronounced favorable by the oracle, there were at least 150.000 6.. .. ' i -iiumir lour ve miles, collected by. day-brcak Some squadrons of Turkish' cavalry -proceeded the procession, then followed the foreign Pacha with their suites, amongst whom were the celebrated Hussein Pacha and the former favorile of the Sultan, Mustapha Pacha, most of them on fine Arabian h6ie; next Aiinsiers oi tne l'orte and the VIi.n unu iin- ilium in snlnrlirl Hc. rt me iuuiu in snlendifl Hrr. ti. came Kislar Aga with thirty or forty Eunuchs, the Imperial Chamberlain and Pages on horse! rtu n4 Iengt .came lhe splendid carriage of the Princess, followed by forty or fifty othyr equipages, containing the attendants oftho mioses, an oi whom were veiled, and" the procession was closed by several squadrons of Cavalry. Having arrived at the Palace, the bridegroom, a fine man about forty, who, in spi te of his low origin, having been formerly a slave of the Seraskier.Pachn, had a distinguished appearance, came to the bride's arXiace, Jo receive and conduct her into apartments. I lo llinro .,1 I I ... . .. .... ijcraccorning to the usual ceremonies rentfv imrm -r.. i. rew back resnerffnllt- nA ua lumble posture that she would look witn vor upon the lowest of her slaves; he then pi.ijeu mntsne would unveil herself, offered her fruits and other refreshments; and after manifesting much reluctance, she unveiled, and he invited her to partake of a repast with him. After the renasr. thi to the bridal chamber, and the bridegroom some time after followed. The Sill Inn Km given a new proof of his enlightened minW. standing on this occasion. According to the Ottoman history, from the earliest period. th custom has been to strangle all the children of sisters and daughters to the Sultan immediately on their birth. Sultan Mahmoud has, however declared to his daughter and son-in-law, that "the age of barbarism for Turkey . prtst, aim mai me onspnng Irom this marriage, even Princes, shall live." The Mormons. The elders of th Xf nrmon Church, otherwise called the church of the Latter Day Saints have put forth an apr meir countrymen claiming peace, and leave to worship God in their own mannor. They claim restitution for the property' of theirs that has peen destroyed; .and protection for the future. They intend to send forth apostles to preach thegospel to all men; and nope io convince the world that they are neither deluded, nor fanatics. ' We hope thev may hereafter at least be safe, even though they do not succeed in so doing. ' W We suppose, savs the Boston Courier tV.. if there be in existence at this moment, toy ncre on me lace oi the globe, one wretch more utterly unprincipled and abandoned thnti all the rest, a man thoroughly destitute of any icucciiinig murai quaiuy, ano more totally infamous than his fellow men, that man is William Cobbett. His life has been given up to the task of appealing always to the worst passions i of men; and in this alone has he been consistent, for there is no great cause which ho has not denounced, no honorable party which he has not villified, no set of estimable, public men whom he has not calumniated, no great principle, religious or moral, against which he has not poured forth a torrent of vulgar ribaldry, in terms and spirit, beneath the standard of billingsgate. Friends he ha acquired, but to deceive and betray them; knowledge, but to make it the pander to the most abominable purposes; power, but to'display the characteristic madness of a beggar set on horseback. A greater number. pen wilful, base wanton ' falsehoods, may be collected from his writings, than, we had almost said, from those of all the rest of the generation in which he has lived. He is in fact an outlaw from truth, honor, decency, consistency, principle every thing which just men prize and pursue on earth. An Editor trapped Mr. J. J. Can an. one of the Editors of the Edinsburgh (Penn.) Spy, has been caught in the mouse trap of matrimonial tribulation. He makes quite a busi ness affairs of it, as appears from his notice appended below. . ANkw Partnership. W e announce- to the public in general, and to our friends in particular, (as the advertisements have it,) that JOHN J. CANAN, one of the Editors of this paper, entered into partnership, on . Thursday evening, the 17th instant, with Miss MAKUAKLT DAVIS, of this place. The terms of the contract were explained by the Key. Morris M. Jones, and agreed to by the parties, in the presence of the requisite number of friends. All business relating to their mutual benefit will be hereafter carried on under the firm of J. J. Canan and Wife. . A great public, dinner was given to Gen. Jackson at Nashville, Tennessee, at which h offered the following toast:- , The true constitutional currency gold and silver coin It can cover and protect the labor of our country without the aid of a national bank, an institution which can never be otherwise than hostile to the liberties of he people, because its tendency is to associate wealth with an undue power over the public -interests. The glory of the young is in their strength, and the beauty of old men is the 'grey bea?.