Indiana American, Volume 3, Number 19, Brookville, Franklin County, 8 May 1835 — Page 1

HMDDDAMA A1HISIEII(DAM

OUR COUNTRY OtJR COUNTRY'S INTEREST A ND OUR COUNTRY'S fRIENDS.

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TERMS OP THE AMERICAN. ( in advance $2,50 in six months; or $3,00 at T,e expiration of the year. Advertisements.- Twelve linns, or less, will be inserted once or three times, for one dollar, and 25 ents will be charged for each additional insertion Frnmthe Cincinnati Gazette. MATTHIAS THE IMPOSTOR. We published yesterday some notice of the trial of JUatthias lor muruer. lie was acquit ip on the ground that the proof of death of Mr Pierson by poisen was not sufficient. He rraf then tried and convicted of two aggrn ated assaults upon hisown daughter, a young rr'ipA woman, whom he had punished for expressing her determination to live with her husband, and for declaring her disbelief in her father s doctrines, inereaaer may iorm a rnrrect opinion of the whole cage of this imnnstor. from the following icmarks of the 5,1(tp. n passing sentence. .The Court then proceeded to pass sennrp upon Matthias, and asked what he had to say whv judgment should not be passed utjon bim acording to law i Matthias then appeared very much cast down, and he remarked to the court that his long imprisonment ought to operate, so as to mitigate the term ot ins imprisonment ior tne nsiult, he was going to make some observa tions thus "as to my doctrines The Court here stopped him very quickly. Vku said, that lliey uad heard a great deal too much of his doctrines already, and they could not now be bothered with such foolery and blasphemy. They told him that he had been loo Ion a shameful and barefaced impostor, practising deceit upon a credulous people, and thereby commiting the most shameful immoralities upon those whom he had seduced bv his arts, and making them forget, by ther blind attachment and implicit reliance noon his dogmas, their sense of decency, of i ... i r i II J..i morality, ana 01 sname, as wen as men umy (o their God and their, fellow men that, in ihort, by his infamous imposture he had converted the house at Sing Sing into a comparitive den of iniquity, where, under the garb of religion, the greatest wickedness and immorality was practised; and all to gratify bis wicked and licentions desires. But he must not lay the filtering unction to his soul, that he would ever find any more such dupes as he had deceived at Sing Sing the reign of nf hi imnnsture was at an end the halo of pretended piety, but real infamy, in which he had enshrined himself, was dispersed the mist was dispelled from the eyes of his victims, and they were left to mourn over the wreck which their follv, and the prisoner's villany had produced. The assault on his daughter was cruel and aggravated, and resulted from depraved disposition and a base design ; and for this he was sentenced to be imprisoned thru months in the County goat. The Court also told him that lie would pun hh him for his contempt of Court on Wednes day morning, when he made such an outcry nd pretended to be crazy; all of which the Court told him was only a part of his whole tondurt imposture; cc moreover, said Judge Ruggles. you know that it was (like your pre tended doctrines) a cross imposture: and you yourself never did believe for a single instant inanvnfihf nrpnosterous and monstrons abmrditiesand wickedness that yon endeavored to propagate. And for this last otlence we lentence you to be further imprisoned 30 days in the county gaol, making four calender months in the whole. And let this be a war Ding to you in future, and when you come out of nil shave oil vour beard, lav ly your im positions with it, and go to work like an hon fit man." Hirmony of Jature. How admirable are the analogies and harmonics of Nature! Nothins is isolated nothiner is imDerfect nothins is out of olace. The universe may be cj i f aid to be a transcendentlt vast social system The moon revolves around the earth ;the earth ith numerous other planets and their satel lites, around the sun; and the sun, with its train of uependent worlds, around other systems; and these systems around other systems, through spaces and with forces infinitely beyond the power of the human imagination to conceive and yet, as we have seen, the same Principle that guides and connects these countless and vast worlds, holds together the partides of a pebble! Thus every thing is connected with every thing. The several subrtancesof the universe co-operate, in a system of natural deptndancies. Observe the phenomena of the seasons: What a circle of beautiful dependencies! each is neccssory to all, nd all to each. Vegetables are dependent upon the inorganic matter for sustenance and tongth, and animals are dependent upon both vegetable and inorganic matter; lime is n ingredient of the bone, and iron of the Wood; inorganic matter in turn, is dependent on the principle of life and heat, for the multiplied and distinctive beauties which are con ferred upon it, in the countless myriads ofve-fc-aiie and animal productions. How ndmi oly nil are blended and grouped together, -iu giving and receiving advantages! 'w beautiful is the analogy of the vegeta te uujmai struclui-e. Take the circulation of the blood: In the animal, the food i len into the stomach, and converted into thyme by the operation upon it of the gaslir Jee; when it U rKnmnJ inio rhvle. it is ab0rbc 1 hy innumerable minute vessels, the ' ,u'aIi and lymphatics, (the root of the stomcn.) which unite and terminate in a common runt, called the thoracic ductjhy this duct it

is conveyed to the left auricle of the heart, tnence to the left vinti cle. whence it is taken by the left pulmonary artery, which divides into two branches, leading to the lungs; there, I. . 4. j f . m - . . ) lue action oi me atmospheric air, it is vitalised or oxygenized ; immediately the new made blood is taken by innumerable Vessels . . t . . . - to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle, where it is thrown into the aorta, and thence distributed by numerous arteries thro' out the system; these terminate in veins, which return what remains of the blood to the heart to go through the same process. Who would suppose a similar elaboration takes place in the humble plant, upon which we tread with such lordly heedlessness? When the seed was placed in the ground, the cotyledons or lobes impart moisture and oxygen to the heartlet, which sends forth two radicles, the ascending and descending; the descending is the root, which is composed of small fibers, to which are attached at their extremities small vessels, called spongiols; these spongiols are the proper roots or lacteals that; absoi be the blood, (water,) the water is conveyed by means of small vessels, (the artiries) l ? I i ...... . w men diverge into ten thousand lesser arteries by which means nourishment is conveyed to every section of the plant: when the water irnves at the leaves, (which are the lung?,) it is oxygenized, as in the animal; from thence it is taken by another set of vessels, (the veins) and carried down the trunks, between the cuticle and the inner bark. How striking and beautiful is this analogy! 8EKIOUS DISASTER AND REMARKABLE PRESERVATION OF LIFE. About half-past two o'clock yesterday morn ing, the roof of the large two-story pork house of Mr. II. Echols, in South Wheeling, fell in, bursting out the walls, and making an entire wreck ot the building. 1 he South end stood upon an alley, on the opposite side of which was a small house occupied by a Mr. Sands and his family, consisting of a wife and three children. The building fell southward, and against this small house, beating it in and ut terly demolishing it yet, wonderful to relate the family escaped almost unhurt. Mr. Sands was lying upon a mattress in one corner of the room, while his wife and three children occupied the bed. The former received a bruise upon his breast from the falling of a Joist, as he supposes; the four latter were un touched by the falling fragments, although the bedstead on which they laid was broken in several pieces, and the floor below broke through to the ground. Mr. Sands said he was awoke by the sound of the fall, w hich bethought was thunder, and the next instant was enveloped in the ruins. 1 he building was one of the largest of the kind in town, being GO feet by 30: it was put up late last fall, and used before it had time to settle sufficiently. 200,000 lbs. of pork had been hung up in it, commencing at the south end, and continuing about half way through. This gave the roof a cant southwardly, and produced the disaster. The house was visited daily by the hands, and on Wednesday eight persons were in it all day hanging up meat. Had the roof then fallen, the loss of life must have been dreadful. The night on which it fell was perfectly calm. The owners of the pork were Messrs. . Isaac Mitchell fe Co., whose loss is supposed to be about $150; Mr. Echols thinks his own will not ex ceed S'OO; all of which might have been saved had the loosers but stopped a day before atone of our insurance offices. IVhetling Gazette. Certain sectarian newspapers are doing all in their power to stir ill blood between the Protestant sects, particularly the Calvinists, and the Roman Catholics. The Journal of Commeicc and the Commercial Advertiser lead the van in this warfare of bigotry and intolerance. It is strange that the world should not yet have learned, alter so many lessons written in blood, that persecution in flames and combines those whom it aims to subdue and disperse. If political evil should ever come of the Roman Catholic religion in this country it will come m consequence of the exercise of that narrow and intolerant spirit which we are sorry to see to active among us. There are other religious sects whose predominance we should consider quite as un friendly to the perpetuation of free institutions and the diffusion of human liberty. They whose creed prompts them, in this day and generation, to urge proscription to the Roman Catholics, because they believe more or less or different from themselves, are, to say the least, ciuile as dangerous enemies to the prin ciples of liberty as the Roman Catholics possibly can be. -V. lr. Evening Post. A Husband Wanted. There is said to be now liviner at St. Mary's in one of the lowest counties of Maryland, a lady at the age of 105 years, of whom the lollowing account is ... . i r I.- : ; given : "lirr mental lacuuies are mumpm -u -she is in excellent health and spirit rides on horsenacit as aextenousiy as h iroopci hrps iii hir corsets attends the toilet punc tually and, what is yet more surprising, she is now "as willing to be married as she was 90 years ago." There's a sweet-heart for y ou ! CirThere arc five newspapers about to be established in Illinois, which shows the flourishing condition of that new State. Tlx-y are at Quincy,Uushvillc, Jacksonville, Pekin,and Chicago.

ANOTHER PLOT.

The National Intelligencer of Monday, April 20, contains the following: "we Lear that on -Friday!) ight last, at the President's mansion, the slumbers of the family were disturbed by an incident, with all the particu lars ot whicJi we are not acquainted, but we believe is suDsiantiauy described thus: The sleep of the President was broken by the noise of some one at the door of his chamber, endeavoring, apparently, to obtain entrance into it. On the president's demanding who it was, and what was his object, the intruder answered that he was try ing (or wanted to find the way) to get out. The noise having aroused some members of the family sleeping in ajacent rooms, they promptly repaired to the spot, and succeeded in arresting the offender. On being examined, the first impression that his object in attempting to get into the President's room was personal violence, enlierly gave way before the fact that he was without arms or weapons of offence of any kind; he was an ordinary person, of the appearence, ol a day laborer, who had, to all appearance got into the house with a view to plunder, but had missed at the same time his way and his object. In order to keep the fellow safe until the morning, when he could be sent before a magistrate, he was locked up in an apartment on the premises, usually occupied as a stable, but at the time vacant, where it was suposed he would be safe until morning. When the morning came, however, the bird had flown; having escaped out of a window orapparture of some sort, which was at. such a height from the ground that no one supposed he could possibly reach it. This is the substance of the story as we have beared it. Should an authentic account of the occurence appear, differing in any material particulars from this verson of it, we shall place it before our readers. We hope some clue will yet be found to lead to the apprehension of this depredator, and bringing him to a just punishment." Look out for them A late French paper contains the following paragraph: A well known banker at Paris, while retruning home some evenings ago from a ball, missed three things his wife his cashier, and the contents of his strong box. Having bysome means nscertaind that the fugitives were gone to Havre, he immediately followed them and arrived at the hotel in which they had taken up their abode, where he learned they were to sail the next day for America. Making a confident of the landlord, the banker went to the Chamber in which the two culpirts were. At the first summons the recreant chashier opened the door and throwing himself at the feet of his injured benefactor, acknowledged his guilt and supplicated mercy for his guilty companion, who lay trembling in the bed which he had just quitted. 'don't be allarmcd, my worthy fellow,' said the banker, "all I want is my money." The whole of this was immediatly given up. The banker having ascertained that nothing was kept back, turned to the delinquent and offered him notes to the amount of 10,000 frs., saying, "This is for the service you have rendered me in ridding me of a vicious wife. You may set off with her to-morow for New York, on condition that you sign an acknowledgement that you have received the money for the expense of the voyage of yourself and Madame, to the United states. ine paper was signed, the door was closed, and the Banker having remained not much more than a quarter'of an hour at Havre, set out on his road to Paris. French Paper. The United States and the Cherokees. The Washington Globe contains the draft of what is styled "a treaty agreed upon at the city of Washington, Jlarcn i4tn, iooj, ueiweciw. F. Schermerhorn on the part of the United States, and a Delegation of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, which, by the President of the United States, is directed to be submitted to the Cherokee nation of Indians, for their consideration and approbation." This 'treaty' is really only an 'arrangement' agreed tipon between Mr. Schermerhorn and seven delegates, who represent about one hundred out of the ten thousand Cherokees who remain on this side of the Mississippi. The treaty (or rather arrangement) provides that the articles are to be considered merely as propositions, to be made to the Cherokee peof le,on behall of the United States, and to be utterly invalid until approved by them; it being distinctlyunderstood that the said Cherokee people, are not in the slightest manner committed by the formation of this provisional arrangement. The arrangement provides for the payment to the Cherokees of $4,?92,25l in money and the grant of 800,000 acres of land west of ih Mississinoi. valued at 500,000, in addi tion to their portion, (about one half) of 13,000,000 acres formerly assigned to the whole Cherokee nation. This treaty will soon be presented to the Cherokee people assembled for the purpose at New-Echota, together with a soothing letter of General Jacksofj, with the tone of which, considering the relation in which we stand to these Indians, we coufess we are not well pleased .J. l.Vb. (&-Coni Oi7. The editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, snis that he has been inform ed by a gentleman from Chillicothe, that the neonlo ol that Tow n has been largely suppli ed with corn oil during the past Winter, which is produced by some buckeje, back in the CAuutry.

FOREIGN MEW8

LATEST DATES FROM LONDON. London, March. 20th. England. In the House of Commons, on the 17th, Sir Robert Peel introduced a bill to authorize the contract of marriage to be en tered into by dissenters, before a magistrate, without the intervention of a clergyman. No tice, fourteen days at least, before the mar riage, is required to be given to the magis trate, of the intention of the parties toperform before him the civil ceremony of mar riage, and this ceremony is performed simply by their acknowledgement, before the ma gistrate, that they enter into the contract, which contract is to be subscribed to by each party. The new scheme of church and reform in England, will fix on the income of the Arch bishop of Canterbury at 10,000., and that of the Archbishop of York at 6000., while the salaries of the oilier bishops are to be equal ized at o,vUUl. a year. Ol course these arrangements must be prospective. A plan. disguised for its ingenuity, has been submitted to the commissioners, with a view of pro curing the immediate abolition of pluralities. We are not at liberty to slate the details. London Courier. The entering teedge.lr. Ewart, of Liver pool, will bring before the parliament a law to create peers for life only. The very mention of such a daring innovation in the feudal oligarchy of England, will cause her sepulchared barons to start from their searments, and the living occupants of the old time-worn palaces of her lords to think that the world is coming to an end. A blow like this would uproot the accumulated parchments, and emblazonments of centuries, and more than any other event shake the British empire to its foundations. But unless that blow be struck she never can be free. Eve. Star. The question relative to the Irish Church was brought forward in the House of Commons, March 20. It was to be resumed on Monday evening, when it was supposed the opposition would make a decided stand, and complete the arrangements which had been commenced under the administration of Lord Grey. The report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Established Church of England, was laid on the table of each House of Parliament, on the 18th of March. It proposes a new arrangement of dioceses, and the adjustment of the incomes of the bishops as nearly as may be, to their several stations and duties. As respects income, the rule laid down is, that when the annul income of a bishop amounts to 4.500, no addition shall be made, nor any dimunition unless it exceeds JC5,500. The present income of all the bishoprics is 148,855, which if divided equally, will give 5,726 to each. France. The revolution in the Ministry, was considered favorable to the American claims. There is but one opinion expressed by the passengers or letters f rom France. It is, that the bill will pass. One letter states that the Duke de Broglie refused to accept the position in the Ministry which he holds, uutil it had been ascertained beyond all doubt that the American Indemnity bill would pass; and that, to satisfy him, the opinions of the members of the Chamber were specially inquired after and counted, and the result was, that a majority of from one hundred and twenty to thirty, were found in the affirmative. Switzerland. The German papers hold out no hope of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the Imperial Court and the Diet of Switzerland. The grand Duke Baden and the King of Wurtemburg, have already given symptoms of commencing hostilities, by establishing a cordon of troops on the Swis frontier, under various silly pretexts, and all the other little despots are preparing to follow their example. The Bible in Greece. An Episcopal clergyman, who has lately visited Greece,says in a letter from Italy. "Even the Papas priests received the Bible from their the missionaries hands with thankfulness, and in an interview w hich 1 had with the patriarch of Constantinople, (on the 6th of August last) he expressed himself ready and most willing to co-operate with the missionaries in distributing the Word of God among the Asiatic Greeks." The value of the eggs exported from Ireland is stated to average 500 per day! They are packed in crates, similar to those used for earlhern ware, straw being interposed be tween the layers, each crate holding about 10,000 eggs. Rome. The finances of the Episcopal States are stated to be in the most promising condition under the ad.i i lustration of the Treasurer General, Mr. Tosti. The reve nues of the last year were ample foi defraying all the expenses, including a deficit of 700,000 crowns of the preceeding year, and there is a surplus lit the treasury. The new minister of Finance in Prussia, the Count Alyenslcben has devoted himself with zeal to the subject of Internal Improvements and particularly to the construction of rail roads. A commission has been sent to Paris, to examine the steam carriages of Messrs. Diebz and Asda, with the view of encouraging a similar experiment on the great roads of Prussia. ' The following, incident lately occurred at

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Munich in Bavaria. A child of two years of age, which had been conveyed in its coffin to the burial house, at the moment when it was about to be committed to the grave, was found sitting up in the coffin, gaily amusing itelf with the flowers with which the body had been decorated, preparatory to interment, without anniarincr rlifnrKfrl fV tomed scene fy which it was surrounded. On being addressed, the child requested to be carried to its mother. Liberia. A letter i cate and Journal states that at Caldwell, in Liberia, the Methodists have a society of 87 members thev held a four lnva there last October. I T 13 ifl S VIRGINIA. RHODE ISLAND. The elections in Virginia terminal this week. The exact rrsiilf: r.mnnf Um. known for twelve or fifteen days. It has been hard contested and close. My opinion ii, that the Van Buren men have succeeded. In Rhode Island, too, the result is uncer. tain. Both parties hope they have carried the Senate, which is chosen bv general ticket. It is agreed that the choice of IT. S. Spn.-itnr depends upon the newly elected Senate. The poll is so close that the exact result lannnt h ascertained until the votes are eanvaspH. which takes place early in May. Cincinnati GoxeWc Methodist Mission of South America Whn we intimated in our last that this country yet would be blessed with American Methodist missionaries, we had not the'sliditest suddosition that one had been already appointed. we jearn by tne Western Methodist, that Bishop Andrew has appointed Rev. Fountain E. Pitts, the stationed prcachei at Nashville, to this mission. His place of residence will be Buenos Ayres. The Methodist says that he does not so much in the eharaetej of a ner. manent missionary himself, as he does in tho character of a pioneer of missions; his stay will probably be less than one year. Z.10H S Herald, Papa, said a little urchin to his father tha other day, I saw a printer go down street just now. Did you, sonny how did you know th person you saw was a printer? 'Cause I do, papa. But he might have been a carpenter, blacksmith a shoemaker, or Oh, no, papa for he had no stockincs on the crown was out of his hat and his coat was all tome: I'm certain he was a printer. Encouragement to Bachelors. Mjirriarrft it held in such high repule at the remote settlement of the Galena lead mines, that the young men have formed themselves into an ii i . iiymencnai society, and established a set ol premiums to the first members that enter into the bonds of wedlock. A suit of clothes, vaN ue $60 to the first; another,$50 to the second and 44 to the third. OtDied, at her residence in Oxford, Ohio, on the 6lh inst. after a short illness, Mrs. Salome, late consors of W. F. Ferguson, aged 30 years. She died in the triumphs of faith, leaving a husband and four infant children, besides numerous other friends, to mourn their loss. The deceased was the daughter of Lemuel Snow, Esq., formerly of West Barnstable, Mass. C3-The field of batlle at Waterloo, after a lapse of nineteen ycnrs,is still remarkable for its extreme fertility and dark rank color of its rich crop- of grain, nurtured by human gorc 03The proper authorities of the States of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, have signified their acceptance of the portions of the Cumberland roadwithin those states, re spectively, agreeably to the provisions of an act of Congress of the last session, authorizing the expenditure of the sum of 346,186, for its final completion. OrSomelhing Curious. During a very high" tide, not long since, a bank cared in, at Tiv erton, R. I. on examination of which thera were found the bones of an Indian, together with seven guns two iron kettles, four brass kettles two pistols, 6c seven bottles of spirits. (7"The cholera is raging at Marseilles the greatest number of deaths amounting to 40 per diem. CCrThe Appeal, a paper published at Wash ington, and edited with very considerable abiiiiy, in support of Judge white, has becu transferred to the editor ol the bun. &rA Goodly Assembly. The N. Y. G' zette says that the steamer Ohio, brought. 500 western merchants to that city, on Wednesday last, to purchase their spring goods. OSrEggs. The reason why liens do not fay eggs in the winter is because the earth is covered with snow, so they can find no gravel, or other calcareous matter to form the shells. (&Poand. It is believed that the Polet . are again ripe for insurrection. Russia u throwing more of her military into that eui slaved country: but 'a rise' is expected in a few weeks. The people are goaded on to madness by tyranny. CThe Common Council of Utica, by vote of 11 to 1, have resolved not to give etst single license tor sell rusrt