Indiana American, Volume 7, Number 34, Brookville, Franklin County, 23 August 1839 — Page 1

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TERMS OF THE AMERP4V. l in a-lvtnce, $'i 30 in mix months, or $3 at t expiration of the year. No paper will be Jistwtinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at s ootion of the editor. Ten per cent, interest pr annum will be charged on all subscription, fro-nthe expiration of the year, until paid; and for t Job-work and advertising Huea payment is de lated oevona six idorios. AnvMtTlSEXCTS. Twelre tittf nr Ur. It inserted once or three times, for one dollar, iad 23 ceats will be charged for each additional insertion. A TALK. From Ike LoAy't UocJ-. THE TWO ROADES TO YYKALTH. "What a fine thing it is to be rich!" laimed Chirles Ashlon, as he passed Esauiro exWilkins' great house. 'A tine Hung, indeed replied his friend. Frank 3iay, 'provided r. ft ' 'Provided what!' 'Provided we. can hate a few other eood Thing with it. 'Other good things! why man, monev will atirall the good things (n tke world.1 Not quite,' replied Frank. To be sure it will buy some small matters which are conyeninent, but there are things esseuttal that it will not our. 'Such as what!' interrupted his friend. 'Such as health, happiness, and a clear con science. Welk Frank,! suppose it would not be ex. sdtly the right coin for these commodities, but I H ten y ow ot one nice article which it will buy. 'And whutisthal!' A wife!' Ah!' replied Frank, Hhnt'a the onlr article ia ths world which I should rather beg than D'lY 1 Well, Frank, you are a mm of independ ent feelings, but I'm afraid you'll never be a nun of in Jepcndent property. Why, Charles, what makes you think so! 1 like money, and I mean to getmy shate, provided I can do it honestlr.' Ah! you will be to much hindered with vmples, to make any headway in the World. My motto is "Go ahead, hit or miss!",) 'And I, said Frank, 'should as lief have nothing to ant but sugar, as td have nothing to enjoy but wealth. Here the friends parted, one to his work shop, and the otter to his counting room. These two young men lived in the pleasant Tillage of B ,on the banks of the Con necticut. Charles Ashlon was a merchant. nnd Frank May was a mechanic. They were both whit the world calls veiy fine young man men. ver. Its eye never looks down into the heart. It is the prerogtlive of one eye alone on .the iccret springs o! nction, to that eye the difference between the two characters wns very k k . great. Both applied themselves with all dilieence to their respective callings, and both hoocd to be rich. Frank May resolved that every dollar should bs gnincd, not only honestly, but honorably. s - ft as. k r ' k . A -or ia.ar.es Asmon, lie had but one mirft.tk. . . . pose, ana tnat was to acquire wealelh un trammeled by scruples about wax s and means Til be a rich man before I die!' said he to himsclt one night, as he was stud vine his ledg erthe only hook in the worlJ that he thought really interesting. He was untirin e ia his application to business; and if he did not absolutely cheat, he made what are tal led pretty tight bargains. Hard and honest was his maxim, which some think means Aartfto noneat.'. He soon acquired the reputation of a keen, mstey-mhking man. But making money is not always making friends. At the end of tea years Mr. Ashton was a richer man than ins friend May. but he was surprised to find himself not so much respected, er so happy. He began to think there were some things money would not buy. . But I'll see if it won't bur me a wife.1 said be. ! believe its living a bachelor that makes me so blue!' Now it never occured to our friend that a ife who could be oourAf, might not be worth baring. But it did occur, naturly enough, uiai wiiuc ne was about It, he might as well wj w a rtcn one. So he wentpeeptgn muid amongst the heiresses nothing doubt wg that a young lady who was heir to a good fortune, would inherit everv other fine onaliJy It was not long be fore j he fixed his afccuonsino his thoughts, on Miss Jemima turns, h was not the color of Miss Jemi nn's hair, or the sparkle of her eyes, or the dimple of her checks, that attracted our hero's "iwniion. Oh no, Mr. Ashton was too ten t"le and nrudnr In h Inflnonmd h tn-h tnflcs in the important matter of choosing a toinpaoion for life. It was well that lie quite forget to look for grace of mind or per Jt for the young lady was scantily endowed. ul then she had Uen thousand charmes, In e shape of good round dollars, and that a enough for Ashton. He was the richest Joung man in the vittage,and that was enough '0r Jemima. Rrt lk 1rf.il tlnirlr n uw wiunm ... ...w. u' it tnce M 00 limtt io8t ln moon's5hl ' ad seranades,and no money wasted in a presents. This interesting couple were married, and possesion of a nic new house, full ofl uc. new fucniture, and settled 'themselves , to get as much comfort as empty heads mptj hearts vrith a full . parse ctould "V.

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Here n- trill l ii r . . r. l cac mem in me iuii glory ot the honey moon, to look after our friend, t rank May. Let us see what the lapse often at? ? forhim IIe wa not a whit behind Ashton in activity aud industry, and he reaped the usual reward of present comfort and prospective plenty. Though, as he told his intnd, he meant to acquire wealth, it was not for its own sake, but for the benefit of others. It was a good proof of his sincerity that he did not defer doing good till the time s.iould arrive when he could call himself rich, lie knew that if he did not form the habit i7 . WoU,J no ,iave toe heart hereafter lie knew, and what is better he felt, that no one should live to himself not even a young man, just setting out in the world, w ho has his fortune to bull up with his own hand, lie early came to the conclusion that he had four things to attend to in this life, viz: his own temporal ond spiritual welfare and the temporal and spiritual welfare offolher that is, of all the human fcmily who should t ome under its Influence, either directly or indirectly. Here was n wide field, a noble work; sufficient to fill the largest heart, and task the highest energies. This was the grand outline of his scheme of life, and he left II to the finger of Providence to point out dally the particular manner in which it was to be filled up. With these views he stood ready for every good word and work. He was never so busy about his own affairs, that he could uui '.up id uo a goou act. vv hen called upvu u, icaTo nis woric to do something lor a poor neighbor, or hand round n subscription paper in aid of some bcnevolet object, or do something for a church, or the village, he did not call it an interruption, but considered it as a branch or his business. Ashton used to laugh at him, and tell him he htd chosen a strange road to wealth. evcr mind,' Frank would say my road ie rather circuitous to be sure, but it is pi iasant. You Charles, are on the high-road to wealth a strait, dull turnpike, w here there are so mmy trying to overtake you, that you are blinded with dust. While my path is through a green, shady lane,among murmuring brooks and singing birds." "Ah' good bye to you Frank," replied his friend, '4you are welcome to your brooks and birds and shady lane; I like the turnpike best, and dont mind getting a little gold-dust in my eyes, provided t'.ie rest settles in my pocket." Though Charles Spoke so gaily nsde turned away, there wag a still small voice which whimpered to his heart, and told him Frank was right, and he was w rong. But this moni tor had hot been listened to when its tones were loud, was it to be expected that its whisper? would be heard! j Among the poor neighbors who shared Frank's kind attentions, was e, w hose pe culiarly lonely and desolate condition gave ncr a strong claim to sympathy and kindness. The widow Green, as she was commonly called, had 6een "better days; hut she had lost her husband, her children, and her property. One after another, she had laid her little ones in the grave, till only two remained, a son and a daughter. All the sympathies of Frank's nature were moved, when that only, son was cut down just as he had reached an age at which his poor mother might begin to lean upon him. lie resolved in the fulness of his heart, to make this widow his especial care, and do all in his power to supply the place of her lost son He was unwearied in his attentions, and though time was money with him, he gave it freely to provide for hercomfort. The widow Green had, as I have ssid, an only daughter; this was all that had been saved from the wrecks of her earthly happiness. A rich treasure Was this daughter at least, so thought the widowand so thought another. Now I bee the reader not to call in ques tion the disinterestedness of Frank's attentions to the widow; for I do assure you, that when he resolved to be a son to her, he had no idea of a literal fulfilment. But benevolence sometimes meets with unexpected rewards Mary Green was at this time about nine teen years old. I suppose you expect me to say she was the prettiest girl In the village; no such thing there were n doten as pretty, prchaps prettier; but I don't believe there was one who had a kinder heart, or more sweet nnd gentle manners. Though while her features wete at rest, you would not lay she was handsome, but when they were light ed up with thought nnd feeling, as they al wavs were in conversation, you would ac knowledge there was beauty there And the best kind of beauty too that which will not fade. This Was just the sort of beauty to take with Frank. lie found too, that her views of duly.of the great end of life, accor ded with his own. That the nfhiclions of her family had matured her character, and pro nounced a chastened and elevated spirit which eminently fitted her for the companion ship of one whose great desire was to be good and do pood Une eventnp iranic ana Mary nau occn takinp a lone walk, (it was a bright moon livki vninit. of conrseA and thev reached home iust as the village clock struck nine. They stopped oeiore tnc nine gare, wunu was fastened by a string. Mary" said Frank, as he reached over to undo the string. Well." 1 have been thinking hem" here he stopped, ond worked away for some seconds on the string. It had got into a hard knot, I sup

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"I have been thinking," he began again, and then waited so long, chat Mary wondered what he had been thhinking about, and whether he would ever be dene thinking. "I have been thinking, Mary, that" as he had advanced one word further, he would probably have got out the whole sentence, but just then widow Green, who hud been sitting at the window, and seeing Frank working so long over the gate, the kind official eld lady- mu$t needs tome out, lo see "w hat in the world was tire matter of that 'are string." So Mary was left to finish the sentence according to the dictates of her own feelings or imagination. But Frank took the inoie satUfacton method of finishing it on paper. " How the sentence really ended, may le inferred fromtue fact that the next week Frank was bustling about, with an extra gleam of satisfaction on his fine countenance, making Prepcrations Tor building a house. A light heart stakes light Work. In nn incredibly short time he had finished one of the piitlUsi little cottagi s y ou ever saw. It was painted white, with green blinds, nnd a portico all round. It stood far enough from the ro d to allow a large garden, which Was enclosed by a white fence, with a litfcle gate fastened by a "rig. Behind the house at sone distance, roiled the Connecticut river, with its beaatirull expaitte of interval land on cither side, ornamented here and thera with a solitary, graceful elm. Is there a river in the world whose path is marked with more beauty and verdue than the Connecticut f Among all the dwellers on its banks perhaps there nevef was a happier couple than the one who on

j v wceiwn wi me new cottage. "And so," said Miss Jemima Wilkins that wa, as the was returning wil!i others from the wedding visit, "poor Mary Green is Mrs. FranciBMay! I suppose she will carry her head pretty high now." "Frank's a fool," thought Mr. Ashton, "to msriy a girl who hasn't a cent in the world 1" Years rolled on. Frank and Mary were happy in each other, and ever active in piomoting the happiness of nil nbout them. They had two children, Willy and Mary the prettiest and mast interesting children in the world at least, in the eves of their parents. But when the sun of our prospcritv shines brightest, the storm may he gathering. One night as the May family were retiring to rest, there was a knock heard at the door. On opening it, they found a poor beesar, who asked the favor of a night's lodging in the ia tne lavor ol a night s lodging in the a. He ha I rather a MtspU ious looking ractcr.but Marv said, "Let him slny,poor iw '."and Mr. May consented. The faiaiuarn. char fellow ly then retired to rest, little drcamin" how much their hospitality Would cost them. About midnight there was a cry of "Fire!" i ney started irom tneir ueds and rushed out of the house. What Were their feelinir when they, discovered the barn in a blaze, nnd the the llames just communicating with the house! "Run Mary,' exclaimed Frank. tal it J chilJren to the little grove, while I sec what can be done. But he soon found there was nothing rt I done, for he could get no water: the w ell was so near the burning buildings that he could not approach it. 1'oor I rank stood still, nnd with his arms folded across his breast, looked on in silent agony, while the trembling family aw an irom me grove, i ne village wns alarmed, nnd inn few minstcs nlmost every man wns on the ground. But a fire is a thing of such rare occurrence in the country, that the people do not know what to do with it. Thouerh these worthv neighbor rnnM A nothing but stand with Mr. May and look on. a a a . . . vet couia you nave seen their laces, as the light flashed upon them from the blazing pile, you would have read in each the strongest expression of sympathy. When nil was over when the last rafter had fallen in, and the last blaze had flickered out, Frank turned away with a heavy heart, and went towards tne grove where Mary and the children were waiting. "Well Mary," said he, "what are we to do!" "DoP replied his wife, "let us kneel down and return thanks that we are all safe." "Ah! Mary, you are right. I was thinking only of what we have lost, you are thiakiug only oi wnnt we nave tared. With such u treasure left to me, how can I repine, even for a moment!" And there, on the green grass, under the light of the mnon, and the shade of the trees, they kneeled down, and poured out hcattfelt praises for their merciful deliverance. Some of their friends now approached and perceiving how they were engaged, waited at a distance in respectful silence, till the little group arose, then they came up, and taking each by the hand, gave utterance to their feelings of sympathy and congratulation. Tho words were few, but they were such as go straight to the heart. One of bis friends iusisted on taking them all to his own house, where he said they should be welcome to stay till they could do better. "I cannot imagine how this fire originated," said Mr. May, as they entered the kind neighbor s house. O, I can tell you, pa," said little Willy, "it must have been the old man s pipe, for when he went out to the barn I saw him ssnoking. So I suppose he ran nway when the fire broke out, for fear you should ,lay it to himi - : "So much for taking vagabonds into your'

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830. barn," thought Mr. Ashton, who was one of the company, but he did not fel jus! then, like saying it. Next day, 1 believe, erery man, woman, and child, in the village, turned out to see the ruins. As they stood looking on the smouldering heap, the murmur w ent round, "that such a mau should meet with such a calamity P "He has always been helping us,' said oue, "and now it's our turn to help him. Come, let's show that we havn't forgotten old scores." The tuggeiticu look in h moment, and a subscription was opened on the soot. For want of paper and pencil, they took a piecej of clean, smooth board, and n" bit of newly'. made charcoal. It was handed round, and in a few moments every name was down. Enough w as subscribed in n-jney, labor, and materials, to rebuild the house. To work they went forthwith. If the former house went up in a hurry, this wnt up still quicker. In a very short time, n new house and bam were coitpletcd, exactly like tho first. 1 shall never forget the day the Mau took pessession. As the men of "the village hsi built the house, the women and children de termined lo furnish it. All day long the pres ents were pourg in. Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Ashton and a few of the firt lad !ra. fur nished the heaviest articles, for the rtArlnr ni.il chambers, while the farmers' wives filled up the Li chcn,paiitiy,nud cellar. One btoitshl a tub of nice butter, another n couple of fine cheese. One old lady brought a dozen pair nuuiicu mugs wiillil sue uad set up nights to knit since the ire. Anieng the rest, came Rosy Linwon. Willy s favorite playmate, a sweet little elrl abn.u six years old. She had something wrapped up in ker npron. When 6he came in. Williwho had been capering about with rhiMi!. Joy all .day, ran up to her, nt.d peeping into her apron, exclaimed, "Why Rosy! if there i yvur nine oHuium ciiKkenl "lcs, Willy, its for vou mctl fr an! J might give it o you." It was Rosy 's pet, and tho only thing in the world that she ceuld call her own. "There, Willy," said she, as the opened her apron, and let it hon down tn iln fl"take care of it, wont you, and don't let it get singed, ns yours didT And then she ran away, lor fear illy should see n tear in her eye. Meanwhile, the farmers snid the ham nimbi to be furnished loo. Some one drove in a fine load of hay, and another followed w ith a -Y I - 4 I I. . ft k iivc uiT, ncoiiier came oraccinp nlontr a squealing pig, "hccaufe,"hc said,"Mr. Mar's pig got roasted before his time." uch a scene of joy ful Lus(le,ns hou;c,yard, and bam presented, you never saw. I believe it Wis the hnpp'icst holiday the village of B had ever enioved. That nlirht Mr. May was richer that he was before the fire. " ell Frank," said Mr. Ashton. as he stood with his hand's in his pockets, looking at the heaps cf good things, "you have indeed taken a very circuitous road lo wealth, kut I believe you will get there before mo after all.' And so it proved ; for from this time, Frank continued to rise in wealth ond Influence, and at length became the richest snnu in the place. For a while Ashton went on ss before, but at length he tired of his "turnpike," and conclu ded to make a nying leap. He and Esq. Wilkins engaged in a grand speculation. wnicn wrnco out to be n grand humbug, and plunged them both into irretrievable ruin. Had Ashton resembled Frank, his ruin mieht not have been irretrievable; but in the day of prosperity ne carra lor no one, nnd now in his adversity, no one cared for him. S. I. Bcrmxqton, Iowa, July 2 . HOKRID MASSACRE! TWO IIUXDRKD AND TwEJITV INDIANS KIL LED. We learn from Governor Lucas and another gentleman, that two hundred and twenty Indians were killed in the upper coun try aooui tne ist instant. The facts ns they were related by a young gentleman, who was at the Treat v, are as follows: The Sioux had invited the Chlppewnys to meet then at St. Peters for the purpose of making a treaty of everlasting friendship. The Chlppcways assemoiea accordingly the pipe ol pence was smoked and they parted apparently good mends. A large party of the CJhlppe ways was encamped at the falls of St. Antho ny, and a smaller party encamped on Ihe St. Croix on their way home, without the least suspicion of treachery on the part of the Sioux. While they were thus peaceably encamped, they were surprised by the Sioux, who commenced their .butchery. They immediately rallied, but before the battle terminated the Chippeways lost one hundred and fifty at the Palls and twenty on the St. Croix. The number of Sioux killed on the occasion amounted to about fifty. We do - a ft k .a k ... . . . not wonaer at tne hostilities that hare been exhibited by the Sauks and Foxes against the Sioux, if this latter tribe has always been as ircacnerous as they were on the above occa sion. Patriot. Bad Business. Several vessels have arri ved at Glaucetter with few or no mackerel.' The habits of ths fish have entirely changed witntn a lew years. The fishermen can't come the hook over them now ns tlicy used to; and some new mode must be invented to seine them. They keen nearer in shore than formerly, and when found In deep water bare do appetite, ana wilt not cat.

VOI,. YII Wo. 34 Roxakcb i.i Db ith. The last Natchez Free Trader '.ells the following affecting story: "On the 7th instant, Miss Mary Ann I.. Barbar, aged 17, and L. B. Young, aged 23, both of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were buried in one grave,.aflcr having departed tl.u life under the following rinumsUnrcs: Mr. Young was a high-minded, honorable oung genlltt man, most ard-ntly attached to'Miss Barber, between whom and himself those promises and uttentions had been interchanged which pledge them lo the marriage union at no distanl dy. One in every sentiment, as well as in sympathy, both, a few months since, made a profession cf religion.at the same a!tar,and at the samo time. Oa the day of their death, they had gone ou a water excursion, with uncommon buoyancy nt.d hi imntlon of spirits, along with four other, in a tkiiT, which suddenly overset, and j hingtd ihtm all in the water. The lover seized ihe one, whom, of all others, he w ould save, and they both perilled! They werr found at the bottom, locked fast in each other's arm.. With n solemn propriety, thnt embrace wis never broken. Hu uieir uooies n.us rest in one grave together, even ns their spirits together pneicd into liCHYCU. TaoUSLB AMON THE EdITOUS. Mr. MoniiK. the editor of the Red River Whig, has becu murdered by the locofocos, that being,iu locofoco tactics, considered tho mor rorinin wnv of pining -tloun unanswerable arguments. Air. Gibson, the -faithful and bold" of the New Oi leans True American. hn ben trid for a libel, but fortunately, insU-.ad of "hanging" him, only hung" themselves it would huve been well while they were nbout it, had 'hev brourhl in a rrli. i l!- f o v s mm bs iv a the libt-llee, deserved not baneine. but all ho received, and a little more to boot. Mr. G' troubles, tt setms, are not over, ns he und the immortal Dr. have been Irvinsr to Diimmr l each other, i iiu are now w aging a paper war. The independent editor of flie La Fayette, L.n. , Gazette has been assaulted by u mob of ' foreigners, and narrow ly escaped with his life. on account of his ndtnrnitr.g the Native Amcrican Association. The editor uf ih TV. Y. Buffalonian, cndilcs his editorials in prison, being confined there for an allcdged libel. ; Mackenzie, the Patriot, ato sends forth L?'. editorial elTusions from the Rochester Trisii. a. ....... " wncre ne is expiating lus'patriotic' doinrfTrf. Nor content with monrnlng his dismal lot self, he has also clothed his pnper in the lnd imcnts ol woe. Ihe ditrni hed and ar'nns pliehed Mr. Eflingham Cooper, has also tuted libel suits ncainct some half-dozer. more or the fraternity. Mr. Thurlow Wc, of the Albany Evening Journal, hasprcsca leu iiiccauorsoi tne Argus lor a libel; that pa per naving repeatedly put lorth a charge that Mr. Weed, .lurine ll. e Anli nnwonic ex citement, for political purposes, disfigured tho dead body of Munro, fished np in Oak Or- . i i . .... muiu irccK,so as io rcseiiit ie that ol AI organ. What is the world coming to! This looks quite portculious. Xutcfuz Cowr. A few days ago, a Mr. Ellison and a Mr. Robert Mi't hell, both f New-Orleans, fell in love with the same girl. On the evening of the firit instsnt, Ellison, hearing that Mitchell was nt the house of the gill, reviling in all the cctacics, of reciprocated flection, w ent tolhe house with n double barrelled gun te kill him. On arriving at the gate, he was espied by Mitchell, who instantly fled through a postern door nnd made his escape. Ellison then determined to kill the girl, turd filed at her through the window but without effect. The ruifian lover was arrested and bound over iu the sum of $3000. Lou. Jour. Corrsx Houses. Establishments which are known as grog shops in the eastern or Atlantic cities, are dignified with the name of cftffee houses in the west. A murder was recently committed at one of the St. Louis coffee houses, on a Sunday; yet, it appears by a paragraph in the last St. Louis Republican, that there is n municipal law in force, in that city, forbiddingall coffee houses to be opened on the Sub bath. Will the commission of n murder, at one of these places, in the broad light of day a day, too,ronsecrutcd to peace and rest, nnd to the offices of religion, put the citizens of St. Louis upon the inquiry bow fur their law against the opening of coflec houses on Sundays, is obeyed or how often violated! Wc believe there is a law agaiust our "coffee houses" being opened on Sunday; and the degree or measure of observance accorded to this law, would be irrore interesting, to our citizens, than that w hich is accorded to the Si. Louts ordinance ftf the sane character. Bull. Pat. Among the thousand and one toasts drouk at the celebration of the 4th, the following is the only one having any claims to originality: "Woman There's a purple half to the grape, a mellow half lo the peach, a sunny half to the globe, and a fcy.' h to man." The Chicago Democrat sayv: "Eastern gentlemen travelling in the 'west with their wires, will do well lo take inclr marriage certificates along with them, ns some of our Jandlords are growing fnqolSllvc.', Theodore Hook receives about jlCG0 per annum for aerontribution per month to the new Monthly Magazine.

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