Indiana American, Volume 3, Number 18, Brookville, Franklin County, 1 May 1835 — Page 2

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

From the Connersville Watchman. WHITE WATER CANAL. We take the liberty of presenting the following letter to our readers. It contains matter of deep interest to this section of Inliana. Did we feel ourselves permitted to end with it the name of the gentleman who honored us with the communication, it would command for the suggestions and ideas advanced, much attention and respect, both in this State and in Ohio. He does not present himself as the common and superficial scribbler, but as one whose long extensive and practical experience in connection with the Western Improeemeuts, particularly by Ca nalling, together with his present station, entitle his sentiments to high considerations. "Indianapolis, Aprill 11, 1835. Sam'l. W. Parker, Esqr: Dar Sir : The course pursued by the Ohio Legislature in regard to the Whitewater Canal, seems to have been received with surprise and regret in every part of the State. This you have doubtless perceived from the tone of the Newspapers, particularly those of this place. I cannot say that I am discouraged in relation to the prospects of the Canal--I hope that the people of the Whitewater Valley will not be. The policy of the Committee's Report cannot be sustained by the State. Her past legislation forbids the supposition. When application was made for leave to construct the Wabash & Erie Canal through Ohio the same illiberal policy set forth in this Report was urgr-d and did actually prevail at one session. But it was afterwards set aside, and a more liberal course adopted by a large majority. So I apprehend it will be in this case. The people of Hamilton cannot induce the State to pursue a course, for their benefit, which will be so discreditable to her. I have heard it intimated that some of your leading men were almost ready to give up the Canal and adopt the substitute of a Road, but hope this is not so. The Whitewater Valley must before long have some improvement. The Canal, I am convinced, will be vastly more beneficial than any other work. When Ohio shall ultimately and finally refuse leave for its construction.it will then be time to think of a substitute. The People of Cincinnati and Hamilton may try to persuade you that a Railroad would be better. But they would not preach this doctrine, if the Canal would go to them. Ask the people of the upper Miami country if they would exchange their Canal for a Road? I repeat my conviction that the project of a canal ought not to be given up. It has been suggested that it is practicable to make a branch of the Canal from Harrison to Cincinnati, by way of North Bend. Should this be the case, Cincinnati would, take a deep interest in the work. I was in that City recently, and heard the plan proposed. But should Ohio finally refuse, it will then be necessary to devise some other mode of Improvement. Two plans might be suggested-- 1st, Make the Canal to Harrison, and then connect it by a Rail-road to Lawrenceburgh, passing up the Valley of Jamison's creek and down Tanner's creek--2d, To construct a Rail-road, or M'adamized road for the whole distance, terminating at Lawrenceburgh. But in that case, I hope there will be spirit enough in Indiana to prevent the construction of any Roads pointing either to Cincinnati or Hamilton. The proposition of the Ohio Committe to make a Road from Connersville to Hamilton, is most absurd. Surely we have routes enough for Roads within our own State, which would terminate on the Ohio River .and thereby avoid the trans-shipment from Cars to Canal-boats. Yours, Truly." Remarks-- We think that there is no abatement of ardor and determination in this section of the State in behalf of the Whitewater Canal. Great as was our surprise, because of the Ohio Committee's Report, and inimical as is that paper to the interests of Indiana and the Whitewater in particular--we believe that the matter will ultimately redound to the advancement of the Canal. See a notice in this paper from the Lawrenceburgh Palladium. The illiberality of that Report has awakened the spirit and excited the energy of our fellow citizens to an extent that was unfelt and unknown at any prior period. There is now very little if any lukewarmness and halting about the Canal. If wc were for it before we are doubly so now. If Hamilton or any other portion of Ohio is jealous of the prosecution of this project, it is but an argument in behalf of its intrinsic value and great importanee. We are fully of opinion that had our Legislature, at its last session, passed a bill for the immediate com mencement of this work that the last Legislature ol Ohio would not have adjourned until the requested permission had been granted. The expectation is now general, that such a bill will pass the next Legislature. We say let the bill pass, forgetful of the Ohio Committee's Report-- let the work be commenced and continued as far as Harrison--and then if the State of Ohio will, in the face other sister States and of the world, take upon herself the responsibility of stopping it there, let her do it. But this we feel very confidently pursuaded she will not do. But should she then act so ungenerously and unrighteously as to put her veto upon this Canal, a Railroad can be constructed from Harrison to the Ohio River, within the borders of our own Siate. And we are more than half of the opinion that in such an event the People of Indiana would be ripe and readv to cut down the barrier of Hills and run the Canal itself through. It can be done. And if in such an emergency the Hooshiers are not

cut and dried for the buisness, w [illegible]

ken their charecter. We wer [illegible] conversation a few days ago with an old [illegible] of this county, who informed us that he had in his lifetime cleared up three farms, the last of which, the one on which he now resides, is somewhere amongst the hills of Bear Creek, some four or five miles from the line of the contemplated Canal. He knows what it is to pay one's taxes by hard knocks--but says that he will hold up both hands for appropriating One Million of Dollars, just for cutting the canal through the Hills, should Ohio persist in the illiberal policy of her Committee's Report. Such are not novel sentiments in this section, during the last month or so. From the Louisville Advertiser. BALLOON ASCENSION. Louisville, April 16, 1835. Messrs. Editors; In Conformity to established usage, I have concluded to furnish for your paper an accout of my late aerial excursion, which I trust may prove of some interest to your readers. I had advertised to ascend at 3 o'clock P. M. on the 14th inst. but in cousequence of the state of the wind and weather, I did not hasten the inflation of the balloon or the arrangement of my apparatus, and did not ascend until half past five o'clock by my watch. In consequence of the delay, (which was protracted with the hope that the wind would lulu) a larger quantity of gas was generated and carried into the balloon, than was absolutely necessary, and my ascent was unusualy rapid. The wind blew from the north, northwest, consequently my course lay east southeast. In fifteen minutes the barometer indictated an altitude of something more than a mile. The cold at this elevation became intense, and I experienced the want of my overcoat, which 1 had unfortunately had left behind. The view of your City, as I was rapidly borne away from it, was exceedingly beautiful. The Falls, or rapids of the Ohio, can only be seen in all the beauty and grandeur with which nature has invested them, from a position of considerable elevation. They, together with the noble canal which begirts their southern shore; and the gracefully bending woodlands which form a landscape of great loveliness. When seen from the height of a mile, they constitute the indistinct, and mini ature element of a most imposing and beautiful spectacle. The city too, with its long and regular streets, filled with a busy and active population, fading into indistinctiveness by the greatness of my elevation and the rapid whirling of my car,constituted a view in which heads and houses were blended together in pleasing but indescriable confusion In thirty minutes, I was between Middletown and JefFersontown-- nearer the latter place than the former. At this time I was at my gratest elevation which the barometer indicated to be about two miles. My view of these two villages, was very indistinct; indeed, the only indication of houses was the appearance of dingy and sombre looking boards, somewhat elevated from the earth s surface. I gave them a cordial wave of"starspangled banner", but could not see from such an altitude whether any one recognized this aerial exhibition of our country's ensign. I now commenced letting the gas escape gradualy from the valve, and, of course, a slow desent towards the earth. I could soon see with tolerable distinctness, the face of the surrounding country- nor did I ever see one more lovely or inviting in its appearance. The budding woodlands the fertile vallies and plains, green with the freshness of early spring-the quiet beauty of the gently running rivulets, and the opening of flowers of the growth which luxuriates on their Banks, conspired to form a lanscape on which the eye could rest, with the reflection that poets and orators need not travel and beyond the face of the earth on which they dwell to find figures and fancies of beautiful grandeur and surpassing loveliness. At a quarterpast six o'clock, I landed on the farm of Peyton Simson Esq., on the road leading from Jeffersontown to Shelbyville, and about ten miles from the former town. When the ancher first grapled a tree, the balloon, (being sufflienlly inflated to float a considerable weight,) was struck by a flaw of wind, which tossed and swung the car about with great violence, by which my barometer was thrown out and broken. At this time, several persons came to my assistance, and we commenced exhausting the gas, which we had succeede in reducing to about one half its original quantity, when the balloon was struck by another flaw of wind which disengaged it from the grasp of some, parted the cords by which others were holding it down, and it again rose and floated in an eastwardly direction. Some of the gentleman in the vicinity, on the next morning were good enough to pursue it in the direction it had flown. At the distauce of about ten miles from the place of which I had landed, they found that it had been discovered on the previous evening, in a tree near the Hemp Factory of Messrs. Gray & Brown. Some persons had taken it down, folded it, deposited it for the night in the Memp Factory, and in the morning had taken it out and exposed it to the sun. In this situation it spontaneously ignited from the action of the sun upon the combustible materials of which it was composed, and it is now utterly runied. Finding the balloon entierly useless, I left it and returned to this city; where I arrived to received the cordial greetings of my kind friends, at 11 o'clock on the 15th inst. I cannot conclude this communication without returning my thanks to Mr. Simpson nnd several gentleman of the vicinitvfor their kindness and hospitality; to his honor, the Major of Louisville, for his generous offer of the City

Mound for the occasion; to the police officers

of the City, efficient aid, and to the citizens generally, for their continued kindness during my stay among them, and for their patronage on the day of the ascension. Respectfully. THOMAS KIRKBY. Mammoth Anchor. We had the pleasure a few days ago, of seeing and examining a ponderous Anchor, which is the manufacture of our own skilful and industrious mechanics. It is well worth a walk to our Navy Yard, to view this Mammoth Anchor, probably the largest in the world. We observed in our walk through the Navy Yard, many new improvements, which wc shall take an early opportunity of noticing. For the following paragraph we are indebted to an esteemed correspondent. "We felt considerable interest the other day in examining an anchor just completed by the mechanics of our Navy Yard, which for strength and justness of proportion is not surpassed by any we have seen in any part of the world. This anchor is of the largest size, being designed for the three decker at Philadelphia, and weighs eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds exclusive of the stock. The ponderous chain cable to be attached to this anchor will weigh thirty-five thousand five hundred pounds. Not only powerful machinery and great skill are requisite to unite firmly such immense masses of iron, but the workmen must possess almost the constitution of a Salamander to sustain themselves in the heat to which they are exposed. With all the caution that can be used on such occasions, accidents are unavoidable and we were sorry to hear that in sweeping around this great anchor for welding, an old and esteemed workman, Mr. Gos, received a severe contusion and fracture of the leg. Washington Mirror. A British Amazon. The excentric Lady Hester Stanhope, so long a resident in the east, on being visited by a recent traveller, and advised to return to her country having lost much of her influence over the Tur- kish Pachas of Syria, from the diminution of her means to bribe them -- thus expresses her determination, and described her dangers: "As to leaving this country, your advice is in vain; I will not return to England. I am encompassed by perils; I am no stranger to them; I have suffered shipwreck off the coast of Cyprus; have had the plague here; have fallen from my horse near Arce, and been trampled on by him; I have encountered the Robbers of the Desert, and when my servants quaked, I have galloped in amongst them and forced them to be courteous; when a hoard of plunderers were breaking in at my gate, i sallied out amongst them, sword in hand, and after convincing them that, had they been inclined, they could not hurt me, I fed them at my gate, and they behaved like thankful beggars. Here I am destined to remain; that which is written in the great book of life, who may alter? It is true that I am surrounded with perils; it is true that I am at war with the the Prince of the mountains and the Pacha of Arce: it is true my enemies are capable of assassination; but if I do perish, my lall will be a bloody one. I have a plenty of arms, good Damascus blades, use no guns; and while I have an arm to wield a banjar, these barren rocks shall have a banquet of slaughter, before my face looks back in the presence of my enemies." Trial for Murder.—The trial of John U. Waring, for the murder of Samuel Q. Richardson, took place at Frankfort. Ky. on the 25th ult. The jury were in conclave till within twenty minutes of twelve at night on the last day of the session, when they were sent for by the court, and stated that they could not agree on a verdict. Corydon, April 16, 1835. Trial of Sipes. -- We have delayed the pub- lication of our paper till to-day, that we might be enabled to inform our distant readers whether or not a jury could be found to try the case of the State of Indiana against Levi Sipes, for the alleged murder of Col. Wm. Gressham, former Sheriff of this county. After a tedious examination of near two hundred men, a jury was on Thursday evening empanneled, and the trial now progressing. It is not for us to predict the result. He is now on his country, and we hope he will have an impartial trial. It has been found difficult to get a jury in consequence of the fact that almost every man in this community was acquainted with the facts of the case, and has expressed an opinion as regards the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, and thus rendered themselves incompetent jurors. Indianan. Manufacturing Females in America.-- The stage from Newburyport to Lowell was crowded with well dressed females, unembarrassed in manner, untainted with forwardness or vulgarity, and who evidently had not been accostomed to high life. On our arrival at Lowell, we observed several stages deposite loads of the same sex; which circumstance was accounted for by the extensive cotton manufactories situated in the immediate neighborhood. There is a constant succession of females departing from and arriving at Lowell, the high wages of those attending the factories attract such as particularly want a sum of money, after which they return home. The females engaged in manufacturing amount to nearly 5000, and, as we arrived at Lowell on the afternoon of Saturday, we had an opportunity of seeing those connected with some of the largest cotton factories, retiring from labor. All were clean, neat, and fashionably attired, with riticules hanging on their arms, and calashes on their

heads. They commonly walk arm in arm,

without displaying levity. Their general appearance and deportment was such that few British gentlemen, in the middle ranks of life, need have been ashamed of leading away to a tea-party. Next day being Sunday, we saw the young females belonging to the factories going in their best attire, when the favorable impressions of the preceding evening were not effaced. They lodge; generally, in boarding houses, and earn about 8s. 6p. sterling per week, independent of board; serving girls earn about 4s. 3p. -- Sheriff's Tour through North America Woocester, Mass. appears to have got into a very comfortable predicament by its adhesion to the cause of temperance. The people having instructed their select men, by a vote of 352 to 273, to withold from all innkeepers the usual licence to sell ardent spirits, the whole body, with the exception of the keeper of the Temperance House, instantly shut up their houses and refused to afford entertainment to travellers. However Mr. Potter, of the anti-alcohol establishment, aided by the friends of the cause throughout the village, who threw open their houses to assist him, has continued to accomdate all who call upon him, amounting on some nights to one hundred and fifty lodgers, and he is making such additions to his house as will enable him to entertain a still larger number. We presume, however, that his brethren in the vocation will "come to their milk" when they find out that they don't spite any body at all at all. P. S. -- We understand the innkeepers have resumed their avocations on some terms we know not exactly what. Newyorker. Mr. Grayson, a member of Congress from South Carolina, has published an address to his constituens. It appears by the following passage of it, that he heared no announcement in the House, before it was proposed on the last night of the Session, of the three millions appropriation: Wabash Courier. "I will close these very imperfect remarks, which I have endeavored to make as brief as possible, by adverting to the attempts made at the last hour of the session without previous notice, to give three millions ol dollars to be expended at the discretion of the President. It was closely connected with the project of war. Such a proceeding strikes me as utterly at variance with every principle of prudence or propriety; that should regulate the formation of money bills. Specific appropriations, and repeated checks on the expenditure of the public treasure, are absolutely necessary. No pretence of State necessity should dispense with them. No confidence in any individual should ever become their substitute. Reliance on men, is not the maxim of Republics. Their reliance is upon the law. The Father of our Country himself would neither have desired nor deserved to be entrusted with a discretionary expenditure of the national treasure. If this is to become the spirit with which appropriation bills are to be framed, it is difficult to say where it is to stop. Where shall the line be drawn? Is it to be the duty of Congress, hereafter, to appropriate a gross sum of money as the President may dictate, and leave it with his discretion to spend? If it be right with three millions, why not with twenty? If he may be entrusted with raising an army, or creating an additional navy at will, why may not the minor distributions and expenditures be also left with him? If Congress give up to the Executive the weightier matters ot the law, why higgle about the tithes of annise and cumin? There was no shadow of reason on this occasion for departing from a rule of vital importance. The condition of the country at home, its relations abroad, were what they had been during the whole session. Satisfied, as I am, of the correct in tentions of many who sustained the appropriation, among whom I see names of personal friends, it must be regarded as in the highest degree dangerous in character, and they who defeated the measure deserve the thanks of the Republic. Conspicuously do they deserve it, who, on this important occasion, preferred the welfare of the country, and the sanctity of salutary principles, to the obligations of Party." THE USE OF A DEAD WIFE.-- A German journal contains the following paragraph:--The wife of a laboring man, in the neighborhood of Stockholm, died some time ago, and the husband made the necessary preparations for the interment. He however deposited a block of wood in the coffin, instead of the corpse, which he conveyed, during the night into a forest, that it might serve as a bait for wild beasts. By this expedient he succeeded in catching a wolf and two foxes. On the circumstance being made known, the man was arrested and carried before a a court of justice; but, far from being intimidated, he claimed the reward offered for the destroying mischievous animals. A Tornado-- On Sunday night last, (April 19th,) we were visited by a violent and destructive storm. A current of wind, about the forth of a mile in width, passed on the southern border of this village, without, however, doing material damage here. About a mile east of us it seems to have increased in violence, taking the roof off and otherwise injuring Mr. Barber's barn, removing his fencing, and prostrating much valuable timber. -- The farmes of Mr. Cook, Mrs. McDaniel, and others, in the range of the tornado, were much damaged. Mr. Cook's dwelling house, a two story brick, was almost entirely demolished, and what is most singular, and most fortunate too, is the fact that although there were several persons in the house at the time, no lives were lost, and but one individual slightly injured. -- Rushville Ind. Herald.

A LETTER FROM FRANCE. Paris, March 15 The Ministry of the Duke de Broglie 1, adopted the recognition of the American tre ty, as a Cabinet measuie, and there can l no doubt that it will outlive this first'shot with w hich it is threatened. In yesterda " setting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Gu,' the Minister of Public Instruction, in'nnswe"' to the renewed interpellations of M. r... '

announced that the prosecution of the' State Should the new administration equal success, in passing this second onUi niLj niii:uiiiiciici ccre inai durineth discussions on the budget. This is reason t believe however that considerable rcductior of the military force are completed, Admirl de Rigney having suggested sinm M, al to the war office, that the pecuniary diff culty might be overcome, by an alteration in the cipher representing the numerical ford of the regular army which would diminish by 30,000 men. 8D" There are many points of interest in their regular discussion of yesterday, which aL though originating in the right of an individual member to question the government uito the causes of the dissenlion which produced the late ministerial crisis, was not of sufficient importance to justify an adjournment. The most remarkable speech was that of M Thires, who, in answer to M. Sauzet, a leader of the tiers parlie, said, that that party and ....V- .!....... ncic pei iti uy agreed,and adopting, as M. Guizot had done the Juste Milieu, declared that they were opnosfd i.v cm ouua ui uuiLiiiu, uuu icarea nothing so much as excess. In this he said the ministry and the nation were identified. In whnHh.. onsisted the disunion in theamn- Tu.. question might be settled in a single shunt tj iihj ,iiamDer pro nounce (renewed agitation' lot (hi. ,,. lion be solved, and he could announce on the instant, that a cabinet w ould be amnesty for its basis. This sounds very like an invitniinn i u Chamber to reject one of the principles on w hich the new ministry has been formed. It is quite well known, that M. Thiers is not at all satisfied with the present position. Bj dint of intrigue, he has succeeded in ousting Admiral de Rigny from the foreign office, but is jut ne nas not succeeded in reaching that favorite object of his ambition. It is dear therefore first of all, that there are at least two members of the present cabinet, who cannot be perfectly well satified with their several situations, the Minister of the Interior, because he still remains there, the Minister at War, because he only holds that office cd interim. On the other hand, the King himself has been forced against his will, to renounce the presidency of the council, and the power of interfering svith their administrative details. For the present he feels a sort of temporary relief, after a protracted crisis,during which he must have suffered a great deal of personal annoyance if not of personal anxiety. The love of power, however, and the itch of meddline in state afl rs. will assured ly return to him before long, and as surely will his interference be dogmatirly, and perhaps Petulentlv bv the DJ-. rtn TirnirHg. who is willing to incui the responsibility ofhii own acis, Diu not ot such as may be dictated tO him. by an irre;nnnsili ennorinr. Then if not before, will come the time, for M. Tkira to renew those intrigues, by which he hopci to raise himself to the pinnacle of power. Ifii path is clear before him, and it is not easy to See whatohstnrle ran grroct Kim in anvnfltie . vim u l tai uuu i - ""J - steps which stand between him and the highest object of his ambition. The inclosed extracts from the Journal de Paris, and the Echo Francais. are repeated in this morning's Moniteur. Yours, &c. X. Y. Z. JVhereyou ought to have been. A clergyman who is in the habit of preaching in different parts of the country, was not long since at an inn, where he observed a horse jocky trying to take in a simple gentleman by imposing upon him a broken winded horse for a sound one. The parson knew the bad character of the jockey, taking the gentleman aside told him to be cautious of the person he wa dealing with. The gentleman declined the purchase, and the jockey quite nettled, ob scTved Parson, I had much rather hear you preach than to see you privately interfering in bargains between man and man in this way." 'Well,' replied the parson, 'if you had been where you ought to have been last Sunday you might have heard me preach.' 'Where was that,' inquired the jockey. 'In the State Prison, returned the clergyman. We copied into the Herald of last week, from a Pennsylvania paper, an account of cow giving birth to forty-one calves! During the wept a cronf lorr-i-an nf our office alii informed us of a similar circumstance, vai occurred on Little Blue River, in this county.? V.IIIV.1JI1II V- ( 1 1 1 V U Mvw . A cow belonging to Mr. Andrew iin Drought forth, at one birth, twenty-one one of which was of the usual size! the others were quite small, and died immediatel)' did the cow. The larger calf lived four or nve days. Indiana Herald. Scarlet Fever. The Printer's Retreat WooVKi M.onn,..rc..rJr 1-jcK savsthe scarlet fever is now rammr in the northwest' em part of Switzerland county to an alarming extent "several deaths have already occurred; amoung them old Wm. Pruett,oW Mrs. Reese and her daughter, a young0" man; and a number of children have w& ArA The Al.sQcn t mnwn clnnr hilt aboUt

as fatal as the cholera." Rising Sun Tim"-