Indiana American, Volume 3, Number 41, Brookville, Franklin County, 9 October 1835 — Page 2

XEW8 OF T1IK WEEK.

Pkrpeti' vt. Motion. A correspondent of the Boston Courier stales that the long sought principle of perpetual motion has at length heen discovered by Andrew Morse, jun, a voung mechanic in Bloomingfield (Me.) The following is the description given of the general principlc-and construction of this self-moving machine. In this age of hoaxes and humbugs we beg it to be particularly recollected that we express no opinion in relation to this matter. 'This machine is propelled by mu, acted VPON BY THE CIIVNOES OF TEMPER ATI HE IN the atmosphere. It consists of an air sisfern and piston a reciprocating rack, with its pinion wheels for giving motion a drum, with its pullies. from which the weight is suspended pnd guided cog wheels and catch for maintaining power wheels and axles, rpmiirpii lor roiiueui iu' niv. r 1 : I wi 'i i r . o -and levers tor changing the direction of the power, he operation of this machine is produced ,. iire-idv etiested by means ..r affected by the change temperature. By this is kept constantly wound up, ; perpetually and uniformly act keep in motion, any machinery to it is adapted. In short, the machine .tirely regulated by its own motion." It is added that Mr. Morse intends shortly to embark for England with the view of claim ing the twenty thousand pounds ottered by tho ltrilUh Government for the construction of a self-moving machine. TheInoemnitv. Recent information from Paris strengthens the hope that the American Indemnity the live millions of dollars and interest) has been or will be speedily paid. As it was in the President's Message that umhmirp u-.-is riven to Louis Phillippe that the cnnnnspJ wound was indicted on the honor of Trance the explanation or reparation would he best accomplished in the next Message. The treaty being once fulfilled, the President might easily acknow ledge that all suspicions and grounds of suspicion, ofbad faith have been removed that credit is due to the French Executive for the zealous and full discharge of all official obligations. Such might be the mutual understanding. Nat. G azette Governor Dlncvn. of Illinois, in a letter to Dr. Henry, published in the Sangamon Journal, severely denounces the Baltimore Convention and its nominations. The Governor snvs that it is "a blow aimed at the freedom of the election !' No one can honestly deny, that Van Burenism is'grcatly in the wane. On.' Wine.-. The Best kino of Property. In a town where several heavy failures had occurred, an individual was conversing with a friend on the different kinds of propcity at the present time. Having expressed an unfavorable opinion of band stock, real estate, vVc. as sources of pennanentTincome, he wos asked what he .consider the best kind of property ? He replied. "An inherit vxce incorruptible, VN-PEFILEO, N1 THAT FADETH NOT AWAY. We published a letter, a few weeks ago, from an individual, who threatened to shoot us for our exposure of Col. Johnson. The panic fellow now threatens us again. What is he at? If be wishes to pull a trigger on us, why does he not pull it? Why does he keep, writing to us upon the subject? Is he expect ing us to furnish him with powder, balls, and pistols? Lor. Journal. True De m ocracy. We take the following from the Madison, la. Banner. The fact which it sots forth, speaks eloquently for the Democracy of the hero of the North west: Louisville Jour. A friend related to us a short time since the following incident in the public life of Gen. Harrison, which, in the absence of all other testimony, would prove him to be a genuine democrat of the Jefferson srhool. While Gen. Harrison was Governor of Indiana Territory, he was vested with almost dictatorial authority. Among other powers confered on him on account of the situation of the country, the exigencies of the times.and the confidence reposed in him by the general government, was that of appointing to all offices, cither civil or military, in the Territory. Whenever an appointment was to be made, it was the constant, practice of Gen. II. no matter w hat the claims and recommendations of the applicants, to zcaivchispoin r of appointment and refer it to the election of the People. How seldom do we hear of a man relinquishing an authority lawfully possessed, for the purpose of deferring to the judgement of the people. This is true democracy indeed. The Kittaning Gazette, a Jackson paper after coppying the letter of the Post Master General to the Post Master at Charleston, South Carolina, on the subject of the abolition publications, makes the following very just remarks. This is horrible doctrine. 'If'e om an ob ligation to the 7rr., but a higher one. to the communities in rrhiih tre live; and if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. So thought the late Baltimore mob, and no doubt fi.lt themselves full of patriotism while destroying the property of their fellow citizens. So also thought the Vicksburgh murderers, and supposed they were doing their country service, while patriotically trampling its constitution and laws under foot. And doubtless the midnight riotorc who burnt the Ursuline Convent, flattered themselves that they were sterling patriots. God tare ut from such patriots! But what

are we to expect when one of the highest officers in the government telJs a subordinate that it is patriotism to disregard the law? What a fearful text is this sentence in the mouth of the unprincipled agitators with which the country swarms, instead of directing the postmaster at Charleston to do his duty agreeably to the law and his oath of office, he virtually constitutes him a censor of the press, and not only him, but every one who may happen to be entrusted with a key of the mail. But all this is trifling when compared with the broad, pernicious, jacobinical position, that it is sometimes patriotism to disregard the laws. Movements of the People. In every section of the union, the people are rising in their primary capacity, and resolving to support the iilustrious Harrison for President. The spotless purity of his private life, his civil acquirements and qualifications his great public services his experience and suc cess as a statesman his amiable temper his respect for the laws and the constitution, evinced through forty years experience as a civilian, and his correct principles, honesty, and integrity, point him out as the only candidate upon whom the great Democratic Republican party of the whole Union can rally with a triumphant hope of success. Every mail from the North, the South, the East and the West, brings cheering, intelligence of the determination of the sovrcign people, to break the chain forged by venal politicians upon the anvils of federal dictation, in that sooty smithery, a National Convention. The people are speaking and their voices are begining to be heard in unison, louder and louder on" both sides of the Alleghenies until the sound is already heard like a peal of thunder, in the ears of the 'spoilers' from one end of the confederacy to the other.

Ilarrisburg Intelligencer. Great Democratic Republican Meeting at Al bany, in the State Capitol. The friends of Gen. Harrison, without distinction of party, met in the State Capitol in Albany, N. Y., on the 10th of September, the aniversary of Perrv s victory, and nominated for the rresiden cy the Democratic Republican Candidate of the People. The call in the Albany papers was signed by more than ten hundred and m i . 1 J fifty names, l ne meeting was large anu enthusiastic, and the capitol was illuminated. being filled before the hour of meeting. JohnTaylor was President, assisted by eight Vice Presidents and four Secretaries. Delegates to the N. York Festival were appointed. We shall copy the'proceedings in our next. Ilarrisburg Intelligencer. Bank of the United States. There is much force in the next brief paragraph from the Maryland Republican. The dominant part)- proscribed the Bank, because it would not be subservient to their political schemes, forced it to wind up its affairs: and now when it begins to do so, by calling in its debts, the same part- raise a clamor against it the very measures which thay have forced it to admit. Nat. Intel. The United States Bank charter expires on the 3d March next. Complaints are made because they are calling upon other banks for settlement. A draft for only 400,(iUU, upon the chief pet bank of New York, (the Manhattan,) last week, created the utmostronstcrnation, and which did not subside for three davs. All idea of re-chartering the bank is at an end. Loans to the amount of upwards of forty millions of dollars, and bills of ex change to the amount of twenty-one and a half millions of dollars, are now due to the united States Bank. When it was determined not to re-charter the bank, it was of course understood that the bank must make all who owed them pay up. The difficulty of doing that, was taken into the estimate of course, or should have been. Let us have no complainings now loo late too late we must meet the close. There is nothing now in the task cf winding up the bank, which every man that chose to look ahead beyond the length of his own nose, could not have foreseen. Let us have no panic about it. The people of business have the thing to do, and they can do it, and no doubt will do it. JUi Rrpub. Important. We learn that the United States Branch Bank at Charleston, has been sold out to the new "Charleston Bank," and that on arrangement for the sale of the Baltimore branch to one of the local banks in that citv, was expected to be closed yesterday. It is understood also that overtures have been made for the New York branch to one ofthe local banks here, but we are not apprised what progress has been made in the negotitation, or with w hat prospects of a satisfactory result. If this information is true, as we believe it is substantially, it will be welcome news, to the merchants, as an earnest that the winding up ofthe United States Bank will be effected without creating any serious convulsion in the money market. The idea, as we understand it, is for the busiuess of the Branch, in any particular city, to be transfered en masse to one of the local banks in the same city, and by that bank to be closed up in conformity to the charter. -V. York Jour. Com. The Bank of the LTnited States. We have been informed that the Bank of the U. States has sold out its branches in Charleston, Baltimore, Lexington, Louisville, and Portsmouth, to some of the local banks, and the negotiations are on foot for a similar transfer in two or more other places. Of all other modes of winding up such an institution, such a process is the most advisable for all parties concerned. In the first place the bank will realize its capital much more speedily and surely, than by collecting its own debts; and in theeeccond place, the debtors to the bank, by being trans

ferred to another institution, which is not obliged to demand immediate payment, can obtain lime on their accommodation loans, and fresh discounts to meet busines notes and acceptances.

KJt me terms oi tnese sales we are not ap prised, nut we learn that the purchasing banks have take.i the whole current debt at a small discount, payable in two to five years, and at a rate of interest which allows them a profit of the transaction. The managers of the Bank deserve credit for their efforts in rela tion to this policy, which cannot Axil, in those places where it is adopted, to obviate the pressure which might otherwise result. Phil. Gazette. .M.IRTIJS FAM BUREjX. This gentleman is designated by his friends, the democratic candidate for the presidency. We thought the democratic principle was. that the people should retain in their ow n hands all powers that could be conveniently exercised and that to secure responsibility in public officers, frequent elections w ere ordained. If Mr. Van Buren be subjected to this test. His democracy will be found to rest on a shallow foundation. Inlhevoteand proceedings of the convention called to form a new constitution for the State of New York, we find that on the proposition (ogive the elections of sheriffs to the peep, s in Mary land) Mr. Van Buren voted agains-. ii! lie did not think the people could he trusted in this matter, and therefore preferred giving the election of these officers to the council of appointments. We also find, by the same proceedings, that Mr. Van Buren supported the motion to admit fee negroes to the rigid of svffiagc! So that he would place the negro on an equality with the while man. Whatever ma)- be the abstract notions upon this subject, nnd however this equality may be sustained by Mr. Van Buren, Garrison and others, it never can be admitted in Maryland; norcan the free nnd independent white voters of this State cast their votes for the man who maintains the right of free negroes to control our elections. Ball. Chron. On Friday night, the tiger in the menagerie in Sixth street, contrived to escape from his cage, and having a good appetite, he beset the little Shetland poncy that belonged to the same concern. Having despatched the horse, he turned to one of the men belonging to the establishment and would have torn him to pieces but for the timely interposition of some of the attendants. The beast was killed and the man saved. U. S. Gazette. Another of Perry's Fleet afloat. We learn from Erie, that theshooner Detroit was raised a fewdas since. This is the second of gal lant Perry's sunken fleet that has been raised to float again upon Erie s waters. JNot now with the martial and frowning aspect of war, as formerly, but with ensigns of peace fiutleting before the breeze, as she glides over the lake's wave rippled bosom she comes like the veteran soldier to the hall of legislation, laden with trophies of past renown, and still eager in the cause of usefulness, ne understand that cannon balls were extracted from the hull one of which, together with the chip made in cutting it our, nas ueen sent to mis T7 city. Daily Com. Adj.. Before the disappearance of the Comet in 1811, many thought the world was then to have an end. A tin pedlar, firmly believing this, procured a gallon of rum, drank until he could drink no longer, and fell asleep. A wag observing this, and knowing the fellow thought the day,of judgement had come, procured some dry hides, and laying Ihem on him, covered him over with straw and green hemlock boughs and then surrounded him with dry brush, and set them on fire, and behind the tin man's cart, awoke him by a blast from one of his horns. The pedlar thinking himself no longer an inhabitant of this lower world, exclaimed, "just as I expected, in Hell slick enough!'1 Emigration to the West. We have so often mentioned this subject, that we would look on in silence now, if it did not almost exceed belief. The "movers" may find some room perhaps, in the wide and "far West," but where upon earth do they all come from? It would seem that the whole East and North had broke loose upon us and were pouring in almost as numerous (but not so barbarous we hope) as the northern hordes that overwhelm ed ancient Rome. Certainly the great thor oughfare which is now constructing thro' this place, is well denominated "the National Road," it might be appropriately called even now, the Road of Nations, for we have samples of most of them upon it. A gentleman of this place informs us that he counted in one day this week, sixty-three moving wagons crossing the ford below town. The average number would probably be two thirds, of that. Truly, "West-ward the course of empire takes its way." Richmond la. Palladium. A'avigaiing the Atlantic by Sleam. Our readers will find in our advertising columns this morning', notice of an intended application to our Legislature for the charter of a company to be denominated The Atlantic Sleam Packet Company," the ob ject of which is to establish a line of steam packets between this port and Liverpool. We are happy to hear that Captain Cobb one of out most enterprising packet captains hat charge of this enterprise, and that it is intended to ouiici vessels of about twelve hundred tons burthen with two engines each. Hut little doubt is entertained of accomplishing the passage out in about twelve days and the return passage in about fourteen! We have long been satisfied of the practicability of propelling our packets by steam, and we congratulate the public upon the reasonable prospects of accomplishing this gjeat object on the course of the ensuing summer JV". Y. Cour.& Enq.

THE JfEJF POST-OFFICE LAW.

By this time, we presume, every body has read the Postmaster-General's exposition of the duties required of his deputies. Of the prac tical oppcration of this new rescript, the following letter gives a good account. Boston Courier. Letter from a Deputy Postmaster to his Superior. Ltschtown, Sept. 2d, 1835. To Amos Kendall, Esq. Postmaster-General of the United States: Sir The labors and perplexities of my office have mightily increased since the promulgation of the doctrine contained in your letters to the Postmas ters of Charleston and Sew York. Previous to that I never troubled my head to examine into the con tents of such newspapers and pamphlets as passed through my office, but invariably sent them all on, according to their direction. Hut now I find the duties of a Postmaster quite a different thing from what thev formerly were. In stead of merely receiving, forwarding, and handing out letters and periodicals, I find it a part and no si.iall part of my business to exercise a censorship over the Press. The duties of my office, in other respects, are by no means onerous; but it is no little labor, I can assure you, take off the wrappers and read, and examine thoroughly, a hundred different newspapers, tracts, magazine, and other periodicals, every day, to see that they contain no matter of an incendiary or insurrectionary character. Then, Sir, I am apt to be a good deal puzzled sometimes to know exactly what is incendiary and what is not. There are different opinions on this subject, and 1 have called in the aid of the Doctor and Squire of our village, to assist me in the most difficult cases. Hut they can never agree. For instance, the Doctor, who is a temperance man, insists upon it, thai all papers are incendiary that advertise ardent spirits; while the Squire who takes a drop himself, declares those paper to be tt-" iost inceudiary, that prohibit the use of stro' "for," says lie, "they excite the stomrdgings, ion, as it were." Now in this difficulty, Sir, I must beg. form me explicitly, what constitutes matter, in a newspaper or pamphlet w - what sentiments, what arrangement oG-f" "Qpuc whether, in case the ideas in the so,. rw--:-. clasli with one another, they may 'Hies.' ..T .1 . I. -.,.., r. : i. c two dry sticks rubbed together: win -. kno collision or friction of sentiments (iliis on- SOnV press my self,) among themselves, is; duce a conflagration in the body pol Vfeman had nmil lljl(r In Pltlipr rncp it will lid m o " " rffg flOW I stinnress them: for the onlv ninde. of pnsnri- ' safety of the mail, as well as the body politic, iM keep them both clear of incendiary matter. I wish also to be informed but that between ourselves whether all the papers opposed to us in religion and politics, are to be considered incendiary. In the last Northern Farmer, a notorious opposition print, I find an article commencing thus "Lay in your fuel in season." And then it goes on to urge the adv antages of a good fire in a cold day; and says something about giving one's friends a xcarm reception. I don't knew how this may appear to you but it looks to me as if it had a decidedly incendiary aspect, and I have very little doubt but it relates to some conspiracy which is now brewing, and which, before we are aware of it, will blow us all to the moon. In a late number of a religious paper, called Zion's Messenger, and published somewhere north of "Mason and Dixon's Line," is the following ominous sentence "I trust we shall this day kindle such aflame as" You may be sure I read no further, not deeming it necessary to finish a sentence, so boldly, openly, and horribly incendiary as that evidently is! These two papers I promptly committed to the flames; and if I had the remaining doubt of their combustible character before, it all vanished like smoke when I saw them burn. Did I not do well in these casesl I am sure, if I rightly understand your late exposition ofthe duties of a deputy Post master, 1 have fulned, and no more than fulfilled mine. i nere are a great many other papers, among winch 1 may name the estern Light, the Eastern Luminary, the Paul Pry, and a host more, which look to me, to say the least, as very suspicious, and I have detained them accordingly, until I could hear from you. But, Sir, 1 must inform you it is no sinecure to exercise the office of Postmaster under the new regulations. I do not mind looking over your small country papers with large print, but to examine the city bed-blankets such as the New-York Courier "Ai'c labor hoc opus est," as my Latin master used to say. Why, I assure you Sir, upon the word of an honest man and no incendiary, that it took me and my three daughters "From morn to dewy eve a summer's day," to survey the entire territory of the Courier and Enquirer alone. Lucrctia, my second daughter who has attended a boarding school six months, and learned chronology, zoology, entomology, philology, and twenty other ologies bids fair to make an admirable censor ofthe Press. Hut, Sir, all the labor of this censorship cannot be performed gratis or with the ordinary compensation of a Post Master. The commission must be raised, or I must resign my office. Hitherto my commission of thirty per cent, on all receipts from letters, and fifty per cent, on all that arising from newspaper postage, has yielded me about two hun dred dollars per annum; and it paid very well as the business was formerly done. But now the censorship of the press is united to the post-office duties, I could not engage to perform the whole for all the receipts of rav offioe no. nor twice the sum. Besides my own time and that of my three daughters, it has taken up a considerable part of tne doctor s and the aquire s time into the bargain. These gentlemen have been so good natured fc accommodating, as to oblige me thus far, and my daughters have accomplished their part with much patience, considering the dryness of the task. But this cannot last always. Two of the girls are about getting married, and the Doctor and the Squire have other fish to fry. I must therefore employ three or four clerks to aid me in my office; which, I dare say, will meet with vour entire ap probation. But, Sir, whether it does or not. I shall go on and engage the clerks and retain the lull receipts of my office to pay them; and should you refuse to make up what is wanting to a reasonable compensation, I shall make free to open all such letters as contain money, and make up the remuneration to myself and my clerks out of thnir contents. Jtecesity, as you very justly argue, knows no law, we owe a higher obligation to the community in which we !i ve, than to any law? whatsoever; and it is my duty, 89 Postmaster of Lynchtown, to see that the Commonwealth sustains no detriment. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM LYNCH, Postmaster of Lynchtown. A Keen One. One of the New York prints fells a story about a scythe eo sharp that when hung upon a limb of an apple tree in the sun, a man's foot was cut off by iff shaddow!

coiraraTCATioxs.

For the Indiana American. Mr. Clarkson: I have frequently been not a little amused at the course pursued lv Mr. Hutchen during the last Representative Canvass, in the manner in which he endeavored to obtain his election by crying "povcrty is my only curse,'''' nnd a good deal of such trash! This he must think is a recommendation, or probably he thinks that because of his "poverty" the people will send him to the Legislature to enrich him. Now, Mr. Editor, would it not be more proper to send a man to represent our County who has some interest personally in the welfare of our county a man who has, by good management raised himself from "poverty"' to independence, and procured for himself a respectable standing in Society such a man is Mr. Conwell, now the honorable competitor of Mr. Hutchtn for the oflice of Senator. It is well known to most of your readers that Mr. Hutchen is now living under the benefit of the insolvent oath, and that he has not one inch of land in the State; neither has beany personal interest in the welfare of the County. I would, not have you to understand me as urging that Mr. Hutchen has no claim upon the oflice be cause he is poor, but would merely surest the great impropriety of electing a man to transact business for the public, who is not capable of transacting his own private concerns, and who has no property, and who dare not have any, for fear of having to pay his honest debts, in preference to a man, who, by economy, correct management, and indus'ry is worth thousands, and can have noother g',ct in view than the welfare of the counJL.and which cannot but prove advantagefo. himself. With this suggestion I will And he myself A Hoosier. ? 1835. All of attention. tended 1 or the American. Political .menagerie. (.,. .Jitor' Although I appreciate as a tiional blessing, the freedom ofthe pfrun consider it as the guardian 1 il institutions, and a fosterer of a i c ( , . . ... vcripnrpfi nnn lnmrnrpmonfc v 1 w K cf our ill those it .i ! .. ffcicm.es .iiiu iinm uv tineii is which niaKc ,.: i: i u I. . j, j refine society, and render life agreeable; Yet do I view the political editon of this day and country as the Sharks of society, especially where two rival presses are established in a small community like ours. They destroy the peace and harmony of societyraise political prejudices and instead of enlightening the public mind, sow the seeds of discord, arouse the basest passions of the human heart, and make society more disagreeable than it would be, were it not immediately under the influence of the Press. Notwithstanding the foregoing remarks, myself and neighbors, have been considerably amused for the last six months, in per'ising the Brookville Papers, and in noticing the effusions of the different editors and the different names and characters w hich they seem naturally, and correctly to have assumed. They certainly form a grand political menagerie, and in this neighborhood are now generally called by their assumed names, instead of their real ones. The pronridor of the Inquirer, (Mr. Berry) is called the Hyena, perhaps from a natural propensity which has indulged, and from his unsocial and revengeful disposition, and some say he is so named from his 'whole external appearance, but whether true I cannot say as I am not personally acquainted with him. The osfrnsible cdilorof the Inquirer (Mr. Hutchen) has been aptly termed the Pole-cat named so, I understand, from the nauceating matter which he weekly casts upon those with whom he comes in contact, and from the fact that those who would make him battle, although they mav hesiineriorin strentrth.fc even armed with J r e ' , the shield of truth, still thev are sure to be be spattered with that same natural production of his mind and body culumvy. And younc editor of the American) have been named after the monarch of the forest the Lion. This has been saddled upon you by the dignincd and independent course you have pursued during the past summer, avoiding the petty squabbles which have occupied others at ten lion,and from the signal Ac summary manni i m which vou destroy the objects of your venWhen vou have sineded out your Miiff-f (Iipv hiv nnlv hnrl imf to litter a lOW expiring groans before their bones have been scattered upon the landscape of infamy, there f r--it in Iho amrla rrl i-nins ni heaVt'n. OUCH lin hppn tbp lin fortunate fate of the Hyena. um ... .. V. . I V. . ..... j v. r?..t Ml olt Kt- n arp a hne SCI of boys, and I have some notion of making ; tr-w-llinrr cli- nf vnn. nnd hire Cant. W 0001 for a clown. What do you think of it, eh? Corn Planter. V JL RECEIPTS. ,,rls. Horse radish cut info cm-ll niw1 rl chewed in the mouth is an excellent- edy for hoarsness, coughs, colds, and incit it consumption. IVhotw p- Covtrh. While this disease pre vails ko ireherallv in this place and vicinity? we are advised by a lady to reccommend as a safe and simple cure, tea made from sliperj plm hark, to be used as a constant drink. - says she has used it with the greatest success and never knew it tolau in giving rtnu. Richmond PalladiumExtract of a letter from a gentleman of this city noroinJXezv-rork,to us jnena mu.. "I concieve, from the opportunites I nne enini-pd. during a six weeks travel thrpuglVirginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Deleware, and New-York, that tnc way is penecuj for Gen. Harrison, and that his western friends have only to let it be distinctly under- ... - j .i ...;n j tr. Kim. in anvIlu all events, to secure his election to the rrcs dcncT." Cin. Ev. Post.