Indiana American, Volume 3, Number 7, Brookville, Franklin County, 13 February 1835 — Page 2

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSIN ATETIIE PRESIDENT From the Globe, of Jan. 31. While the President was at the Canitol yesterday, in attendance on the funeral of the Hon. Warren K. lJavis,from South Carolina, Richard Lawrence, a painter, resident in this city, attempted to shoot him. Col. Lane of Indiana, informed u.?, thai he sawthis individual enter the hall of the House duriu"- the delivery of the funeral sermon. Before its close, however, he had taken his stand on the eastern portico, near one of the columns. The President, with the Secretary of the Treasury on his left aim, on retiring from the lietundo to reach his carriage at the steps of the portico, advanced towards the spot where Lawrence stood,who had his pistol concealed under his coat, and when he nnnroarhod within two yards and a half of him, the assassin extended his arm and levelled the pistol at his breast. The percussion cap exploded with a noise so great that several witnesses supposed the pistol had tired. On the instant, the assassin dropped the pistol from his right hand, and?taking another ready cocked from his leftvprcsented and snapped it at the President,who at the moment had raised his slick, and was rushing'upon him. Mr. Woodbury and Lieutenant Gedncy at the same instant laid hold of the man, who gave way through the crowd and was at last knocked down. The President pressed after him until he sawhe was secured. We attended the examining court immediately after .the event. The Secretary of the Treasury, thej Secretary of the Navy, Col. Burd of theHouse, Mr. Kingman, and Lieutenant Gedney, all of whom witnessed the act, were examined, and gave a more minute detail of the circumstances above stated. From the J'ifional Intelligencer, Feb. 2. Since the publication of our paper of Saturday last, information, which lias reached us from various quarters, leaves no doubt of the insanity of Lawrence, the unhappy individual who attempted to discharge two pistols at the Preside n:, in the portico of the Capitol, on Friday. The person who know him are not supprized at the occurrence, and would hardly have been surprized at anything he had done or attempted, lie has, it appears, fancied himself to be some other person than himself; to have mistaken his own indentity;or at least to have misunderstood his relations with the rest of the world, When being conducted from the Capitol to the Marshal's Office, he answered to the questions as to his motive, that he had intended to kill General Jackson because Gen. Jackson i i i:n i r. ji tin t nau Kineu nis miner. nen asked again. noic ijren. J ackson killed Ins lather, he would answer nothing. His father, we hear, died a natural death, in this District, some ten or twelve years ago. The answer was, of course, the effect of the hallucination, under the in fluence of winch he attempted the outrage upon the person ot the 1 resident. We have had the curiosity to ask, whether he was any thing of a politician, thinking that he perhaps might be politically insane, as perions are sometimes religiously so. We were informed, that he was never known to have talked or thought about politics. His acquaintances seem to think that he thought himscu entitled to be King or Governor of this country, or something of that sort, and hrooded over the notion that Gen. Jackson stood in his way. It is certain that he inquired, the evening before, of some one, whether the President would be at the funeral, and was answered in the affirmative. His being at the Capitol, armed, was, therefore, almost certainly, the work of premeditation. After committing the above to paper, we were politely favored with the following aiithentic statement made by a highly intelli gent Magistrate of this city, who has taken the trouble personally to investigate the question of La-wrench's sanity: W Asm.NRTON, 31st Jan. IS35. I have made all the inquiries I could, today, in regard to the unhappy man (Lawrence) who made the attempt yesterday upon the life of Gen. Jackson, and the result has been a perfect conviction, upon my mind, of. uis aosoiiue insanity. I went first to the house where he boarded. He had not been there long, but one of! the hoarders said he had been some lime convinced that he was not of sane mind, and that he had previously mentioned it. He boarded at Mr. Shiclds,nearthe Unitarian Church, but did not keep his cIothes,or any thinrelsc there. Nothing was known there" of hishaving had pistols. M. 1 went to Mr. R.'s in the West end of ine city, who married a sister of Lawrence's. Both he and his wife told me that they had no doubt of Lawrences mind being more or less unsettled for eighteen months "pat. Thev gave as criJeiiccofit, first, that about that time, he had left here, with the avowed intention of going to England, and had proceeded to New York, where he remained some time, and then returned, saying that the shipowners had all entered into a combination against him, and had refused to give him a a passage to England: that they knew he had large fortune there, and that their object was to prevent his getting away, so that they light possess themselves of it. Some time ago Lawrence attempted to kill lis sister, (Mrs. R.) and her husband had him arrested and confined for a while in jail. He did not reside with them, and indeed, had larbored swh a resentment against Mr. R. that he did not speak w ith hi. Thrr did ot know of his having pistols of late, but Mrs. R. says he formerly had a pair of small kcass pistoLs.nhicli had belonged to their fa-

ther they had flints, but she has heard that he wanted to get them altered to be used with the percussion lock. She thinks if she saw them she could say whether those he used were the same.

Lawrence had a shop where he did his painting. .Mr. Drury had a room adjoining this, and the latter savs that for a lonjr time lie has observed L. to be verv solitary : tacit urn in regard to his intercourse with others, but very much given to talking to himself. He has heard him declare that he should be Richard the Third, King of England, and King of America. These declarations were so well known that the boys were in the habit of calling him "King Richard," and of late this has annoyed him so much that he has threatened tiie boys, and even driven them out of his presence. Drury savs, that yesterday morninsr he was in his shop talking incoherently, and he heard him, all at once, slam down the lid of a box. and exclaim in a very audible tone, "-I'll be damned if J dont doit. ' This was but a lit tle while before the funeral. To-day the sister of Lawrence called at the jail to see him, and tothe inquiry why he had commuted the rash act, he said "It was all right; General Jackson was his servant. but had not done as he wished, and ought to be punished, 1 could mention mnny other circumstances, but these, I am sure, will carry conviction to your mind that the man committed the desperate act of yesterday, under the influcuce ot mental derangement. Anolher Slate Legislative Xominalion.. At a meeting of the '"Democratic" Members of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, on or about the. 8th of this month, Martin Van liUREN was nominated as a candidate for the Presidency, and Thomas II. Benton, for the Vice-Presidency, subject to the nomination of the Baltimore Convention, to which Convention, at the same time, Delegates were appointed. J'al. Int. Bogota. From Bogota papers to the 7th December, received by the Daily Advertiser, it appears that the civil war in the Republic of Ecuador, still continued. It was, howevever, conducted so feebly that it was impossible to say when or how it would be terminated. The frigate Columbia, which had been held in trust by the American Commodore on that station, was delivered over by him to Scnor Rocafuerte, but the troops that were on board, under the direction of Col. Juan Francisco Elizalde,set tire to the vessel,which was extinguished by the U. S. Ma rines. Jour. Com. Dei VTH OF llON. U AKHEV R. T)vrs The lamented decease of the Honorable Warren R. Dams, one of the Representatives of the Slate of South Carolina in Congress, which occurred in this city yesterday morning, arrested the proceedings in both Houses of Congress. The melancholy event was announced to the House of Representatives, in terms more than usually apuroDriale. just, and eloquent, by Mr. Pickens, the Rerresentative horn South Carolina: and. when the news reached the Senate officially, it was rcsponuca to wnn equal eloquence and feeling ii. -. i - ' ov tne aistinguished elder Senator from that State. After voting to attend the Funeral of the deceasce at IM o clock to-day, and to wear the usual mourning, both Houses immediate ly adjourned. .Vat. Int. Jan. 30. xUatrtmontai. Ladder Sir John Har rington, giving some advice to a fair damsel, when first nourished the tender passion, des cnoes what he calls the matiimonial ladder, which ne says consists ot eight steps, viz: 1 Attention 2. Flirtation 3. Courtship 1 !.. I.: ti. - . r- . . .. uiMMii-uicict o. roppingthe question G. The negotiation 7. The Ceremony o. j ne rrpauencc. New York, Jan. 30. Uisircssing t.veni. We learn from the Courier and Enouirer.of this mrninr iUt the painful apprehensions that had been entertained of some unfortunate persons having been buried under the ruins of the late fire in Gold street are unhappily realized. On digging into the rubbish, the workmen perceived an unusually disagreeable odour, and shortly after the multilated flesh and burnt uuhcs in two numan oodiel The most extraordinary part of it is, that there has been no public advertisement, or announcement of any persons missing; a proof of the extent & motley character ofour population. I i As Ohio can bring two candidates into the field for the presidency, and as both are pr. ceedingly popular, would it not be a good notron lor their friends to come to of an understanding in the matter, and unite me strength ot the two as for instance M'Lcan for President, and Harrison for Vice President. A ticket with a Judge and a General on it would be a real hurricane of a concern. Suppose they think of it. Carlisle Pa. Rep. Tallahassee, (Florida.) Jan 10. The Legislative Council commenced its session on Monday last. Cel. John Warren, was again elected President without opposition. I romthe manner in which the business -has- been commenced, we are inclined to believe that this will prove a useful session to the country. Governor Eaton, o far seems to have created ajerv favorable impression in this community. "His mea"e is plain and unaffected, and abounds in Sood sense and useful suggestions; and we have no doubt, that the Council will be ready to support him in his efforts to develope the resources of this Territory. Floridian

LYNCH'S LAW. i Extractof a letterdated Natchez, January 4th, 1835. "Yesterday was a great dayl here. Foster. the mnnlprer ,..;r o

acquitted and set free, but it was only for a ' lua ! lit. V tl3 minute or two. Perhaps you have heard of him before. He was tried for the murder of his wile last year, who he killed with a negro whip, ile was a planter and is worth .SO or 90,000 dollars, and gave Eli Huston, one of our urst lawyers, JWJ dollars to get him clear of the gallows. Yesterday at 3 o'clock he was set iree, out the moment he made his appearance outside of the Court No. ie. a mnh. composed of the most respectable citizens of TVT-J..1. , J .1. . aclinic: .uiu me surrounding country, laid hold ol him, took him ouc to the edtre of the town and there stripped him one hundred and ? lashes well laid on with'3 good cowhides. None but gentlemen of good standing flojrscd mm, anu auer they had done so until his backwas cut to pieces, they got a tar barrel warmed it and pored it all over him, then laid abouttwo bushels of feathers on him; after this they made him walk through all the streets in the citv. followed bv a rlrnm nnl ri limit 1000 people, with all the yells and cries of kill! K 1 m n'ltin'nm . t C 411 il . T H ....... ..i.ij, i,iiM cijictui, oi.c. in mis i was an eye witness to. Whilst whipping him, some of the crowd called out for mercy, when one ofour first lawyers rose and said ''his wife called for mercy when he was killing her and he did not hear her." It was the intention of the populace to have taken him to the river and put him inacanoe without oars, carried him out into the middle of the river and then let him go. This they did not do, on account of it having been said among the crowd that there were several waiting on the Bluff to shoot him. What else will be done with him I do not know.' TIIE HOOSIER OAK. "Tall Oaks from littla acerns grow." Mr. Ephraim Myers, a very respectable citizen of this county, informs us that a year ago last June, he cut an Oak on his Farm, which was ( ertainly a c'.artcreiM not' the char ter Oak." This mammoth of the woods was 7 ieet in diameter and about 21 feet in circumference and perfectly sound from root to branch, with one small exception. It being known that honey Bees had been at work amongst its branches for sometime, a goodly portion ofthe neighborhood, men, women and children, to the amount of about 50 souls, as sembled to witness the execution of the for est Kins:. About 10 o'clock. A. M. the rhun. dering echoes from "hill and dale and forest wild" announced the prostration of the Monarch who had battled the storms of ages. Much ofthe Honey was wasted by the felling the multitude fed to surfeit upon it until night, and still 8 gallons of an excellent quality and a "right smart chance" of Bees-wax were preserved. And then this matchless Tree yielded the owner ,$G worth of Bark 700 Rails 300 Stakes and 4 cords of Wood. If there is any body i'n the Mississippi valcy a valley which bangs the world--who has got a larger or more valuable Tree than the aforesaid, on his farm just let him brin" it on. Until then, we of Fayette expect to claim the Premium from the Agricultural Society for producing the largest and most valuable Oak. Connersville Watchman. It appears from the proceedings of the Legislature of Virginia, that James Bennpft. member elect to the House of Delegates for Lewis county, has absconded from the State on account ot "sundry presentments for forgery and subordination of perjury found against him by the Grand Jury." The Presidency We publish in this paper the ofheial account of the meeting held at the Court House in this vallage on Saturday last, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the Presidency. The proceedings were characterized by harmony and unanimity. The meeting was not a full one, owing, doubtles,to the very disagreeable state ofthe weather, and the almost impossable condition ofthe roads. Notwithstanding these unfavorable circumstances, a very respectable number attended from differents parts of the country. Rusfaille Herald. J'ew York Bill of Mortality for 1834. The annual bill of mortality submitted to the Board of Aldermen at its last sitting, exhibits the following facts: The whole number of deaths in the city during the year 1831 was 9,082; 1471 of which were by consumption, 971 by cholera, 418 by scarlet fever, 233 by small pox. and 100 by typhus fever. In the year 1833 the whole iKvmbcr of deaths was 574fJ In 1832 the whole number was 10,359; of which 3513 were by choIcU. Deducting the deaths on that year by cholera, it will be perceived that the mortality on that year by diseases other than that, was less by 1205 than during the PrCico5 r;-0f the who,e number ofdlaths in Usil, 44o were under the age of ten years, or more than one half. X. Y. Courier. Trce Philanthropy-. Benjamin Brown, Esq. of assalborough, Me. has generously offered to the Legislature of that State, a site lor the establishment of an Insane Hospital, and a donation of six thousand dollars for the endowment of such an institution. This is an age of generosity. We do not recollect a season when acts of private munificence were so numerous, especially in New England. We have received from Mr. Hotchkiss the Thirteenth Canal Report. It exhibits an increase of revenue on the Ohio canal during the past year of .$27,503 64 an a decrease on the Miami canal of $429 Gt. AH expenditures for the year ending Nov. 18 amount to 14o,627 97 while the receipts for the same time were $214,529 97. Chroru

INDIANA EEGISEATIRE.

Indianapolis. Ftb. G. Both Houses have agreed to adjourned on Mondaynext, by which time the business will probably all have been despatched. Several important measures have received the action of one or the other, or both Houses, since our last publication. The ad valorem bill passed the Senate on Wednesday morning with- iundry amendments, and was sent to the House of Representatives for conc urrence. The House concurred in all the amendments of the Senate without amendment. So that the bill needs only the sanction of the Governor to become a law. The bill providing for a loan of 300,000, on apledgeof the three per cent. lund,for the purpose of improving roads, &c. has passed the House of Representatives by a large ma jonty I he Senate had not acted finally upon it when our paper was made up. The joint resolution, authorizing the Commissioners for superintending the erection of the State House to make alterations u the plan thereof, which passed the Senate some days ago, was taken up in the House of Rep resentatives on Wednesday evening, and, after some discussion, the question was taken on its pasase, and was determined in the negative by a small majorit). The vote however was afterwards re-considered, and the resolution passed. The bill to extend the charter of the Farmers and Ilechanics' Bank of Indiana, it will be seen by our report of proceedings, has been postponed indefinitely. Late yesterday afternoon, the bill propos ing to borrow $3UU,000 on the faith of the 3 per cent, fund was debated for some lime in the Senate on a motion to postpone its consideration till December next, i:;ade by Mr. Boon, which was supported by Messrs. Boon, Morgan, Clark, and Whitcomb, and opposed by Messrs. Battel!, Embree, Thompson, and Plummer. The motion to postpone was determined in the negative by a majority oftwo votes. So strong a vote however on that motion is a pretty strong indication that the passage ofthe bill is quite doubtful. Journal. IX SENATE. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1835. Ad Valorem Bill. On motion of Mr. Long, the order of business was suspended, and the Senate took up the engrossed bill from the House of Repre sentatives to provide an equitable mode of levying the taxes in this state. I he bill was read a third time, and passed by the following vote, viz: Yeas Messrs. Battell,Beard,Boon,Brady, Chambers, Dumont, Embree,FowIer, Griffith, Hackctt, Hamilton, Long, Mastin, Morgan. Plummer, Tannehill, Thompson, Whitcomb 18. Nays Messrs. Caldwcll,Clark,Daily,Feeney, Ilanna, Hillis, Hoover, Payne, Ileid,and SiglerlO. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1835. Mr. Wilson of II., from the select committee to which was referred a bill authorizing a loan ot $JU(JtU lor the improvement of roads and pledging the 3 per cent, fund for the payment thereof, reported the same with an amendment, which, after being amended was agreed to. Mr. Nave moved to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of the bill, which was determined in the negative yeas 22, nays 43. The said bill was then read a third time & passed by the following vote: Y'eas Messrs. Bell, Bennet, Brackenridge, Brett, Carr, Conwell, Cook, Davis, Green, Hargrove, Harris, Henkle, IIoaglnd, Howard, Howell, Johnson of F., Kelso, Les lie, Lockhart, Marshall, McDougle, Mendenhall, Moore, Parks, Phelps, Puckett, Shank, lajiaw, oiorm, otrain, i hompson, Torbet.Vandeveer, Vawter, Walker, Wallace, Wilson of II., Woodruff, Wright, and . Gregory, Speaker 10. - Nays Messrs. Armstrong Bigger, Bower, Bradbury, Bryan, Carter of C, Chapman, Crume, Curry, Curtis, Gaddes, Hardcsty, Johnson of M., Latshaw, Liston, Mclntire, Nave, Ray, Rockhill,SchooIing, Smith of R.. Smith of F., Stafford, Stanford, Willett, and Wilson of P. 2G. BMloen accident, at Jeu, Orleans. Mr. Elhot attempted a ascension at New Orleans on Sunday, the 28th of December, which terminated disastrously for the irronant. He started, it seems, before the balloon was sufficiently inflated, and consequently had about as much tendency to come down'as to go up. The car, too, was improperly attached, and after rising a short distance turned nearly bottom upwards, and the voyager was obliged to save himself from falling by holding on to the ropes merely. In this situation he was tossed about the ehimnev tops and the upper sto nes ot the houses, and into the windows of some ot them, and at last got entangled in the rigging of some vessels in the river,where Mr. Llhott was extricated by the sailors. He immediately fainted, and surgical aid being promptly obtained, he was found to be in a most deplorable stale. His feft Jcg broken above the knee, which it was apprehended would" have to be amputated, A chimney was knocked do wn ii the course of the ad venture. 1 he fees which the surgeons will obtain out ! tne disaster, is probably about the first '-benefit to the cause of science" tliat these asnal adventurers have brought about. JVezo York Courier. We learn from the Lexington Kentucky Gazette, ofthe 3lst ult. that a serious acci-

dentoccured on the Rail Road between l i place and Frankfort, on the Sunday previr, A car loaded with passengers, as refumiru

trom a pleasure inn. lu n n.,.i i a ed to come in contact with il. A. ( , -v...l,KUj)j,j nim hincrv which knocked a number off ih eir spj.i n. iiKiii n.13 iii!iimn iMiii'u, anu ciht others severely bruised. Timts. or ten Judge right of the Supreme Court ; about to resigu. He retires from tho iSenr with the" view of devoting his time to if prac tice of law in the city of Cincinnati and to the a lanccmintoftho L uv c'iol th which he, with others, is now conducting ' ll'cilcrn .Vc A large fire on the ever in g of Janu:irY i). mount of 150,000 dollars not more ff.an third was insured. The late fires in )iat tjty nun. mgiu hi cuiisuijucuce ci the water in the hydrants. want ot Clinton Roosevelt ofXew York b.-., ;.. ted a steam vessel which may be impeiltd against a man of war, and by means of a projecting prow under water affix to it a lor. cd, I "'"" ii. ne nas a petition he fore Congress with the certificates of Profes sors Ren wick and llacklev. The new year is thus beautifully alluded to in the felicitous stle of the editor of the Nantucket Inquirer: "Human weakness will mourn over defeat, ed hopes, and disappointed calculations. li,'t there is no philosophy in that species of a. mentation, which has no referrence to available remedies. If the year just gone ha carried in the foldings of its gloomy pal, a bosom lriend, a parent, a chlid honor the memory ol the loved and lost, by distributing among those who remain, that amount of af-.v.,-i..u in,..! 4in in, mnijui leacntnc ouiert of your grief. It fortune has proved hostile. anu praiseworthy schemes have been over thrown, regard the future as the sole recess for indemnity. Avoid whatever may have contributed on your own part to produce disaster; and redouble your efforts at recovers Thus, and thus only, can the years, as they -lide by, be made subservient to the great purposes of life. If prosperity shall have blessed your home and your vocation, durinr the space of time now closed, be it laid up a'gainst possible reaction hereafter. If you have been the recipient of advantages not returnable to their source, diffuse them, when in the mood of repayment, to those who need and deserve them most. Under the influence of such a spirit, the readers ofthe Inquirerin a sprcial manner, connot fail to enjuy what we most heartily wish them a hoppv new year. Frankfort, Ky. Jan. IS. TheLeqislatuue It is probable that the Legislature will take a recess of a few davs, commencing on Friday and terminating on Tuesday. Such a resolution has passed the Senate and it is supposed the resolution will be concurred in by the other branch. The citizens of Lexington propose celebrating the successful completion of the nil road, from Lexington to the head of the inclined plane, by a public dinner and a ball on Friday next. The members ofthe legislature are allinrited tothe festival,and itisei) pectedthey will generally attend. The city of Lexington is to be splendidly illuminated. Commonircalih. A Judicial Tyrant. Judge Baird, pre siding judge in Fayette countr. Pa., h.n stricken the names one associate concur ring of eight regularly practising attorneyi from the rolls of the court, which deprnci mem ol the right to practise law as attorney in that slate. The offence ofthe ni miicrso:' the bar, seems to have been answering a let ter of the Judge, in which he had expressed an inclination resign his seat; and, in the answer of the beheaded members they expressed a willingness that he should, "ns " their opinion the public had lost confidence in the court. Ihis candor in the lawyers instead of meeting the approbation of h;i juugesnip, as it would thatot all liignmina ed and honorable men, brought down- hi vengenee upon Iheir heads, as it would from any tyrant in a high place. The fact is, courts generally have a higher opinion of their own "difrnitu." than th a which other people place upon them: yet the conauct ol Judge Bawd is beyond parallel in I f 1 o lilcfnrir rf . . ...... I 1 1, ,,1,1 rmr. the scorn and contempt of every honorablel man. lie based" his decision upon a section ofthe English law. pnaHpd in lT22. Ha' ' roiv rnmi. tn thie hof f lir. Kor must he niadd the plaint tools of an aristocartic nabob, who n placed in othce, (as is the appointment i M. (HUH J 1 V 1 J1ICUI UUU UL11"U" so, it might answer others to be lawyers, it weuld not suit us editors. Ohio PatriotPrance. Advirps fmm PjirU are to Pf 1.1. Vnll tine iM American claim. The Paris paper (the Constitutional) staks that 'Prince Talleyrand speaks of a letur nrhioli 1 Ko : 1 r- il, Tlnke d "".! m, una ICtClVtU JIOI1I llic Wellincton, inviting him to return to Lou don. and astnnnir htm liaf nn altCratlO 7 " - 111 i 1 III llKlk - J would be made in the foreign relations of ti coifntry.' The principal topic of reflection at p resell in the Paris papers is the citation ofthe edito of the National before the Chambers of Peer; for publishing in his journal an article dcrog atory to the dignity of that body. The national road, throughout its whoh length from Wheeling to Cumberland, is " to be now in fine order-