Indiana American, Volume 5, Number 7, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 February 1837 — Page 1

AMI AM IKDAW Of R COUNTRY OUR COUNTRY'S INTEREST AN I OUR COUNTRY'S FRIEMM. IIROOKYII!,!?, COIATY, IXDIAXA, FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 1837. VOL. Y. Io. 7.

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TERMS OF THE AMKR1CAX. f 2 in advance f I,.ri in six months; or $3.00 M the expiration of the year. The I'd iter will discontinue subscription t his option. m-cm hkmev rs. Twelve lines, or less, will be ;irrt..l orice or throe times, for one dollar, and 25

ing lines keep company with the merchant's matter of fact epistle; and the Quaker's modest sheet shakes hands with a polite invitation to a hall, or a courtezan's amatory pro-

wesson?. Here the written declarations of

ctrM will bJ charged fcreach additional insertion i te,ad,y foe8 nre fcndy mj arueutv pressed

tegUicr the IflUers ol opposing politicians

OF

LATEST FROM TEXAS. The arrival of the lion. M. Hunt, Minister Plenipotentiary nnd Envoy Extraordin:irvatthoS. V. Pass, onthe 15th inst., i

announced hi the New Orleans papers of the ITihiast. He is on his way to Waseington. Advices lro' Columbia, the seat of government of Tex . have hee,n received to t!i ;) h Dec. The intelligence from Mex

ico is that the .Mexican Army was pressing cn to the borders of Texas. General Houston was to leave for th; army in a few days. His health is rapidlv improving. General or

ders have been issued from the. War Depart-

iniit.'ul vising me public oi coming aaugcr, calling on l!iem to be-, prepared to roiret the invader. The Texas Telagraph indulges in a train of proud reflections on reviewing the

meet and unbrace in the leather hall to

which they are assigned. Th; General Tost Office whose branches extend into every part c,f the country through whose veins the life-blood of commerce, of agricul

ture, of literature and of love are continual ly coursing, is the most important institnticn in the country. Without it commerce would he becalmed, science would retrogade, literature would die and love would cool. With

out its itulispensible aid the creditor could

.From the 1Tayne County Chronicle, Feb. 3. A Pill ATE APPREHENDED. Many of our readers probhhly recollect that a fewr years ago, it was stated in the eastern papers, that there was at that tin e.

a combination of villains on the Jersey shore, who br false beacons, decoyed vessels to a

hem n where the stranding of the same was

incvilabie. in order that thev might enrich

themselves with the wrecked cargoes. By some questionable circumstance, the vigii-

ance, we believe, of the New lork Police was extended into the direction where these depredators played their diabolical games. A number of them was apprehended, nnd

tried for their alleged nttrocities hi fore n certain Magistrate bv the name of IMatt.and b .......

is it appears, in consequence ct Ins oniciai

br?t and most abundant crop, put two large potatoes to a

)ield was a trifle less than where 1 pot only one large one to a hill. If I had planted an acre and seeded it as in the first case, there

would have been about an acre of the scond, " third,

lourin, The dilfeienre between

third is 120 bushels, w hich nt 'Jo bushels, amounts to 30 dollars.

In one row 1 1 er spoke to them in humane accents, and al-

hill, and the lowed them to hear only his own voice.

when he tried to make it imitative of the sounds of w ild animals. His ohiect was to

bring these, unfortunates up as savages, and then exhibit them for money. By some accident how ever, the poor prisoners w ere discovered, and the sordid miscreant has been delivered over to the law.

T.40 580 2C0 220 the

bushels

first rent Now

and

per i( I

should hav nothing but little potatoes to plant next spring, 1 should do wtll to throw them away and buy large t one dollar

per bushel;

who are so "s

Sale of Indian Land. The lands purchased some time last spring from the Wvandot tribe of Indians, w ill be oflhred for sale in the town ofMarion.on the second mondny in April next, nnd the five succeeding days.

and et how rnanv there are These lands are believed to be of an excellent

ort out"' for potatoes, that quality ; and w ill doubtless command the at-

thev are obliged to nick out nil that are tit

v CI foi planting, to eat. and then plant the leavings. S.ms farmer B.I don't know how U

not dun, and the debtor could not complain delinquency, acquitted. However su.picio i

the love-lorn damsel would sigh over the reviewed with renewed lorre. mul bv a tram

negligence of her absent swain-the merchant of intelligible indications, it became obvious! is, but I never have more than half potatoes would dream of shipwreck and ruin the that the Magistrate himself w as implicated j enough, and I plant as many as any of you. politician could not electioneer the poet in the nefarious business above mentioned. I The thing is, you plant too many. Such as

could borrow monev the woman of fashion He was placed under cognizance for 0,000 i you plant count up fast. The potatoes has

might wear a

pcrous condition of the country. The

death of General Austin lias spread a gloom over the country. He was buried at the

Peach Point. The Indians still continue to commit depreJitions. A Mr. Hcrvey, his wife and son, of Robinson's Colony, twenty-five miles nbere Tenoxtitiau, cat side of the Brasses,

were found drad and haase. His daughter.

old, was carried olF by the Indians. The

marauders were mounted on shod horses as appeared from the tracks, and are supposed to have been engaged in other depredations, from the hat found at the house and known

to belong to a gentleman, living 23 or 30

tades west. Hall, (chronicle.

been wonderfully improved, nnd I think i! may be still greatly improved, both in quantity and quality, by planting good seed en good ground, with good cultivation. Le-nakd K. Hatch. Alsiua .Air. 20, ISoG.

John Y. Mason, of Virginia, has resigned

his sent in the Ifouse of Cor.grces United States.

Represent

SANTA ANNA OUTLAWEDTh following intelligence, to He relied upon, will have an important influence upon

the question of the acknowledgement f the

independence of i cx.u. JiLrchnnls Extliottpe JS'urs Roorn.O Al.-? Orleans, Jan. llh. 8 oYor, l M. I have just received the following important intelligence direct from the city of Mex

ico that banta Anna is declaied by the present persons in power in Mexico to be an outlaw, and all citizens of any of the Mexican States are called on to shoot him should he ng.iiti appear within the limits of any of the States or Territory of Mexico. Rustamente has been invited to the Head

of Atfiirs there. Fihstia has been tried and would have been condemned if the common people had not shervn a disposit en to protect him at all hazards. I also received advice from Nacogdoches to IGih Dec. from which we learn that the United States troops were to march next day for Fort Gibson, via Fort Towson.

All was quiet on the Western Frontier.

Cim.

bonnet that had been three nnd soon disappeared. He steered his course

days voted down by the ton the state of the estw ardly. travelling like a man of althiweather in Illinois would remain unknown mice, nd stopped in Frnivkhn county, in a on the seaboard the murder would be first little village called Scipio. where he auctionanounced by a traveling preacher; and what ed oflf clothes and goods of all descriptions;

is worse than nil, the i'earl nnd Galaxy some new, some half w orn. and others of d.f j

would not be circulated down tnst. tercnt qualifies. He introduced himsell to Of how much importance is it then that the citizens of that vicinity under the name the affairs of this great thoroughfare of husi- of Wright. However his personal appearness, Jove and literature, should be kept nnce was so sui generis that the description pure nnd unsuspected. Of how much con- which the Marshal of New Jersey had riv-

scalpcd in lm own sequence is it that the gate-keepers nnd toll en of the fugitive Enquire Flatt, in several eight or nine years takers of this establishment should be men papers, was an evident designation of the

on whom the most imnlicit reliance can be supposed lich Mr. richt, that suspicion

placed! Considering the importance of the among the more sagacious citizens of Scipio i there, and it gets just as cold as it pleases

t'ost othce, and the responsibilities which Wfs awakened, ot winch the pretended rests on its agents, w hat must we think of those Wright w as apprized, and before long disap-post-mastcrs and mistresses who keep their peared. He wended his course towards

letters in a tea-kittle, or slow them un irnrret seme ot ins relations in tins county, inn ne-

in a hand-box among the lumber t What ing pursued by a Dr. James and others, ho must w e think of the old lady who picks out was arrested on the SGlh ultimo, about a half a letter with a handsome seal to give the mile from his mother's residence, and conchildren to keep them quiet, while 6he reads vcyed back to this place, from which he was. her bible upside down? What shall we we understand, takrn to Eaton jail. The

think of the post mistres w ho allows the girls Marshall of New Jersey offered 1.000 for his j

of the neighborhood to snueeze un and ex- apprehension. It is to be hoped that the

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amine all the rose colored letters at a penny proper auinonues win meci oui io mm m pre

tention of those desirous of investing money in

the purchase of real estate. (J. o. Jonrnnl.

I say neighbor Hodge, what arc you fencing up that are pasture for? forty acres of it w ould starve a cow! Right replied Hodge, and 1 am fencing it up to keep the cows out.

A man hoastinc about his knowledge of

the

world, w hen n wag, in company,

asked

alives.

Cause cf Coi.d. A wild wag of a tailor in Baltimore, think it must he mighty cold in Abington. "for thev have no thermometer

him if he had ever been in Algebra? 'I c:

not exactly tell,' says he, 'but I think I once

passed it in the coach. Alexander Monton. (V. li.) has been elected to the Senate of the United States, from

the State of Louhiann, to fill the vacancy occasioned Hy the resignation of Judge Porter, nnd also for six years from the 4th of March next.

The Legislature of Illinois lias instructed the agent of that State to "demand and re reive the surplus money in specie,' from

the institution on which the Treasury draft may be given.

the

a peep? Some of these little agents of the portion tothe enormities of w hich he is accuI'ost Oilice are about as comnttcnt for the scd.

task as a monkey is to manage a steam en- The individual .refrred to above livd in tJ.i gine. They will withhold letters by way of county for something like lti month, and kept a punishment to their neighbors, with w hom small grocery toro in the northern part of Whitethey chance to hate a quarrel and cannot Water township, near Mr. Millspaugh's. His ap

prehension has created great excitement in that

pattof this county. The particulars of the pira

cy or robbery of which h is charged was publish

ed in the American in February, ISmo.

En. America

think ol delivering up a magazine or newspaper to the humble individual who subscribes to it, until the squire and the minister have had the perusal of it; nnd even then if these worthies consider it ot immoral tendency or calculated to encourage heterodox o-

li i (.uv. ,iit .iirici . mi rffffi it li. . . . .

. .. . . 'I llf vv Svnw rvriiuar. A I 1 nrtland. on

How harpy men is mat people who have n " , .. . .i i l . . i1, ,i . , Saturday, the snow was between three and post master possessing all the requisite qual-L. f f, . . , . r . . .. . fmir fVrt deen! The Kastern Arpus savs:

no fit- rtmn lime ltiforrrif v I I J

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A cauiion lo JVbnh lobster. We ropy the following from a Western paper.

A joting man, who had attended more to

the cultivation of his heels than of his mind

fluttered himself that he cculd better his

condition by shaking his feet rather than an

empty skull, and lmied the following pro pesals.

Don Sine Skull. mis tcr liehtfoot propo

ses toe o pin a dan cing skull in which that

hellirunt hart will be tort in the new west

fashin. lad desand gen tel men boo may sea

hht to patron ze him in his under take in

w ill plezto sin thaer names to this ear paper

r.te a liean a. fkud to be o pin as suae

as In can tea sinners do sin. Ch. J ing.

ihcations and the scrupulous integrity

quired bv his calling. How favored is that

people who have ti "Nathaniel, who is an Israelite indeed, and in whoom there is no

guile."

The Baltimore American of the 27 ultcontains lha following acoount of the "he rvuTcaE of Santa Anna.

G?n. Sinta Ann accompanied by his aid.

Col. Almonte, and by Captain 1 atnall, ol the United States Navy arrived in this city yesterday morning from Washington, and

immediately took passage on board of the

steamboat Norfolk, which left yasterday at

. o clock.

We understand that Gen. Santa Anna will

embark, on his arrival at Norfolk, on board

of one of the Government vessels lying there

and will sail immediately The destination of the vessel is not known, but is presumed to b Mexico.' This is rather a novel proceeding, and one

for wh:ch the reasons hava not transpired

A scrupulous Quaker; up country, had a

horse for sale. A man called to purchase

him, and asked the owner if the horse would

draw well? 'Will he,' replied the other; 'thee would be glad to see him draw.' A

bargain was struck, and the money was paid. After the buyer had kept the horses several days he went to the Quaker and said, 'that horse will not draw an ounce. You warranted him to draw well.' Thou art mistaken, friend,' returned Aminidab;'l told thee that thou would st be pleased to see him draw.

So should I be very much pleased to see him draw; hut I never could get him to gratify me in that respect.'

Poor frelanJ. President Humphrey, of Am-

"The roads arc blocked up with snow drift

The Southern mail arrived at a quarter past nine A. M. and it took ten hours to bring it from Saco in a light cpen sleigh, with two horses. No mails from the north or east last night; and the great tastern mail due last night had not rrrived at twelve o'clock, w hen

our paper went to press.'

The same paper has ue following account of a remarkable footrace: "We are told that a man by the name of Burke, ran yesterday from this city to Saco in three hours, winning a wager of about $-10; and

that the roads were so bad, that a man who accompanied him on horseback, to see that

the conditions were iairly performed, was

compelled to change horses once on the way.

If this be so, would it not be better lor me contractors to employ 51 r. B. to bring the eastern mail?'

S team boat burnt. On the night of the 17th inst. at 12 o'clock, on her way from Columbus o Mobile, the Steamboat Iowa

took fire in her hold at i airfield, and was to

tally tonsumed. The passengers were al

asleep, but escaped without injury. She

had on board 330 bales of cotton.

R. L. S'e rr.5, Esq., of Hobokcn, Was in-

cnted a new kind of shot, which is hollow.

ind is filled with detonating powder. Two

hots are expected to destroy a t 1.

All li? Eoncparlcs ro7?ii';?g to the Lnilrd

Stales. The paper called ' La Presso ' says.

hat m consequence of friendly intimations

from various quarters, all the Bonaparte fa in

ly will emigrate to the United Slates, except

two fendes. whose nee lncapaciales ihcm

from sustaining the fatigues of the voyage. This will he a w holesalc accession of royal

ty to our population, and if all of them act

with the circumspection and benevolence Joseph did, they and their money will he a valuable acquisition. It is ascrted that or

ders aic already issued for the sale of their

1: rge estates in Italy and elsewhere. We stongly doubt if they can forego the luxuries and distinction which thev have enjoyed in

Europe, even since they have been a fallen dynasty. Jercme the weakest, lias in a measure maintained his royal position, nnd been the luckiest of all of them, and of course w ill remain. Eve. Slur.

Does

taki thf. responsibility"' of providing Santa Anna with men and monev to regain his

domination in Mexico provided the people of that nation shall have set a price upon his

head! Jous rrroH.,' a he of the Richmond Enquirer hath it. Cin. Whig, Michigan. The bill for the admission of Michigan into the Union has passed both

Houses ol Congress; and received the sig-1 nature of the President of the United Slates In the Senate (Jan. '20) "Mr. Grundy rose and moved that the Senators fiem the State of Michigan be admited to take the oath and their seats. Mr: Grundy then presented the credentials of the Hon. Lucius Lyon and the Hon. John NorTell, which were read, nnd those gentlemen accordingly took the oath and thtir scats."

A merchant well known on the Royal Ex

change, London, who lately died suddenly,

the President of the United States herst Ccllege, says in his European Tour left in his desk a letter written to one of his

that one third of the population ol Ireland

are paupers and require relief lor thirty-

weeks in the year. And that all that anoth

er third possesses would scarcely be sufficient

nrlotheand leed mem lor one year, i no

whole population is 8 millions, aad it is fur

ther said "on high British authority" that ieart good to nee un old maid married, after two-thirds of the time of Farlalment is ta-Li her vain struggles, doubts, nnd despair.

ken up in legislating lor this one island; To see the smiles ol delight and triumph cur

30.000 troops, and a Constabulary lorce ol Jipo- round her withered lips as an old w id

7000. are spread over it to keep the ppula- 0wer with IS children, or a lean shancked

correspondents, which he had not sealed.

The sagacious clerk, seeing it necessary to send the letter, wrote at the bottom "Since

writing the above I have died!"

Marriages of ou Maids. It docs the

Fran the linst.ttt Galaxy POS! OFFICE. Your Post Oilice is your only true democrat, leveller of all distinctions. th patron

ot nil Ir'i.to nit, I rkrrkfVs&imit the ho ml. I nf

lover's siahs and creditors duns the dislri

buter of good and evil the announcer of

intelligence to kill, and intehgence to cure.

the scroll on which depends the late ol chance, nnd that which decides the sale of a load of potatoes are equal here. Both receive the hke attention. With equal care is paper of State and the rustic's blotted epistle preserved and forwarded on its way.

Besides some Senator's important package

nestles in, check by jowl, the greasy letter of

a SOin.hmlpr a ili.iTlitor Th nnrl i hum

tion in subjection.?

New York, J an. 2i, 2 P. M.

Devth of Judge Hoffman. this gen

tlemans's death took place this morning at

his residence in lth street, and was nnnoun

ced in the Superior Court, of which he w as one of the Judges, shortly after the Court

opened. In compliment to his memory the

Superior Court was adjourned to Friday

ncxt,and all the other Courts in the city ad

journed for the day.

A friend called a few days ago

and enquired w hat we would charge him for

printing some cards. 1 hree dollars lor me tirst, and one for each additional pack,' was the reply. After studying a moment, he observed, Well, your first pack is rather too

high, but I w ill take two ol youi additional packs. Rockzille (Li.) Intel.

bachelor of sixty, leads the blooming bride to the altar. . No romantic lass of eighteen ever took a partner with such unaffected rapture

as does the spinster ot hlty. 5he really leels and looks young again, and is as proud of her

poor conquest as Gen. Jackson was, of his victory at New Orleans. Reader, if you wish to see real happiness, go to the wedding of an old maid.

New York, Jan. 11. The piice of Flour has risen two dollars a barrel within a few das. This advance is not owing to any demand for export, or for shipments lo the east; on the conliary there has been but It t: lo request for the ar-

very destructive fire occurred at St. tide. The ad' ante is owing to the whole

Johns N. B., on the I 1th ult. About 150 supplies having fallen into very few hands

houses were destroyed. The w hole loss is sup-1 w ho not only control the supply, but also the po.c d to Amount to between 2 and 3,000.000. price.

I he money market is still in n leverish

Death of Gov. Poindexter. The St. slate on the whole, however, the market is

Louis Republican contains the following in- easier. The Banks discount with greater telligence: "Gov. Poinrexter is dead, freedom. Considerable sums have also found The wounds received by him from a fall at their way to this city, for the purpose of in-

tre Mansion House in iatchcz proved fatal vestment in JNotes. J he consequence is

to hi life, after his friends had begun to that most of the very best of lonz paper has

entertain strong hopes of his recovery." been taken out of the market.

Nothing done in Bills on England since

Fatal Rencontre. A letter frcm Colum- Saturday. The sudden rise on that day from

bus (Geo.) of the "Sth Dec. gives ti e nc l07i to 1091 has created no little speculation count of a fatal rencontre in that city. as lo the cause. It isthe prevailing belief,

"About 20 minutes ago, 1 wilnesseda quar- that the cause is owing to the fact that our

rel between Col. Felix Lew is and a Dctor Bill drawers here have principally declined Sullivan in which Sullivan drew a pistol and drawing and tkc Southern merchants having

attempted lo shoot Lew is, as he fired, Lewis I lost so much bysendingon Bills, (hat they

drew a large bowie knite nnd slabbed him to have ceased sending their usual amount--.

the heart. He now lies a corpse did not These facts together with the circumstance live tw o minutes." there were laige orders from Boston to remit,

caused a nidden rise. This advance it is

The English paper says: 'One of the thought will not be sustained . Stocks have

brightest matrimonial prizes of the day is fallen lo day and yesterday.

Miss Savile, niece to the present lhike ol j he Havre packet is still detained, ns is Dorset.' She is said to be worth a million also the London packet. The ice has made

pounds stcriHg ($4,500,000.) A rare chance U0 fast, and in such quantities, that all tha

lor some good looking yankce. Long Island and Jersey ierry ljo.it i have

been greatly interrupted. The bay and har-

Disaster. A slip from the office of the bour arc so large and spacious, that the Sta-

Savanah Georgian dated on the 20lh ult., ten Island boats perform their trips without

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brings intelligence that the steam packet Dol- the slightest interruption.

m1 ii ii. ( ant. Kodo oh. burst her boi cr on

the IGih otFSt. John's bar, killing 15 persons Art oj Idler rcriling. The art and skill of and w ounding several others. Among the epistolary writing being somcr hat difficult to killed were Col. Brooks and Lieut. Alexander arrive at nowadays, we beg leave lo introduce

Mackey, of the U. S. Army. Louisville Journal Jin. 24.

Red Hair. A nataral philosopher has

observed, that red-haired women are gene

rallv trulv feminine, affectionate and kind

Mr. Cook: I send you the result of an experiment which I made the past season

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rr UPOll Seeuing poiiliocs. A uj l.tuu, m.iuuic,

at our ouice I , ,,. . vn,v tho m

1. One very large potatoe in each hill, 2. Two parts of a very large potatoe to a hill, 3. Two halves of a common sized one, 4. Four small ones to a hill,

1 have reduced the quantities to decimals!

- that the relative

once. 1 repeated

for the edification of the public generally, the following extract of a letter which was received last week by an editor in Canton, Ohio, no doubt from a tiue ion of Saltor Tar river. Hear him all nations: Aurora. Dear Sir. It's not in the power of my el-

epitle of sufucieat

A new war against the United States

Bank has been commenced by the Pennsyl

vania Legislature. On the 22d ult, Mr. Hill

otlVrd a resolution in the lower branch that a ocution to excogitate an

Committe of seven be appointed to "inquire efficacy the intense frigity of the circumam

into the mode, manner, and means, by which hient atmosphere has congealed the placid the hank obtained its charter and particular- anueous fluid of the enormous river Mississ-

lv whether it has not violated it charter since ippi that with the most imminent and su

it went into operation" the committer to perlalive reluctance, I am constrained to pro-

have power to send for persons and papers. crnstinate my egress to the esviorns ot your

magnmcieni resiuei.ee.

A monster at Vienna, (in Germany,) stole

ho .n nf' two children, a boy and a cirl, of very ten- The Mass

i.iA : ' u.! i ,i.r -m. from their narents. and shut tl em clear profit of $13. 590 last year. There

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The Massachusetts S-..tj Prision yielded a

st year.

The whole nun

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j j . . ... i ... i . .L t ..r. n o iiir rptnnii' i mm un numane mimi-i Hre m isiu.i;i s iwi nit

hearted,nnd that red haired men are mtellec- er part oi me ne.a, out win. me .... c-, u ... tn f , I unr :' MtM nQ t!i4S :if,th Sent. ws 278.

tual. jealous and high-sf irited. iult. Large HhoU potatoes produced the auou 8av j -