Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 50, Brookville, Franklin County, 11 December 1840 — Page 1
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nMBDDAETA AMIEIBIKDAM OCR COCXTRY OCR COUNTRY' INTEREST AND OCR COUHTRY's FRIENDS.
BROKL"i,jE' FRAWKMW COV2VTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEXIDER II, 1840.
VOL. VIII. Io. SO.
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NORTH CAROLINA Official.
PBESIDEXTIAEi ELECTION.
Alexander Adams Bond 8urear
Brown lloonc
I'Uy
Clark
Crawford
Calhoun Carroll
Cook
Christian
Clinton
Champaign Coles
De Kal!
De Will
Da IVe
Edgar Edwards EfSnglum
Fayette
Fulton
Franklin
Greene
Gallatin
IfamiKoa
Hancock Ienry Hardin
loqnois
Jefferson
Johnson
Jersey J Daviess Jackson Kane Knox Ijiwrcnce La Salle Like Ira liringsJon Iogari Marion Montgomery JIacon Mclean McDoMMigh Mcllenry Menard Mercer Morgan Marshall Macoupin Madison Mtnroc 0'H! Pectia. Pope Pile Putnam Perry Rock Man.l Rttdclph Shelby Sangamon Sce-tt Stark Sckuyler Stephenson St. Clair Tazewell Union Vermillion Wabash -Wayne "White Warten Will WhttcsiJe Winnebago Washington Williamson
ILLINOIS Official Van. Buren. Harrison.
424
Fed.
maj.
1352 531 279 434 222 338 611 392 133 69 315 1989 147 417 141 695 197 316 373 720 212 207 645 1347 542 1175 1280 557 661 86 132 175 178 727 440 360 680 337 774 541 507 163S 267 230 78 167 573 520 377 531 427 971 374 193 1293 183 813 1184 563 266 767 268 1037 151 331 224 S17 751 1249 575 154 611 241 1783 661 636 587 254 500 639 524 1367 236 321 493 578 47,476 45,537
1,939
299 1617 513 434 301 220 218 667 421 213 244 397 1034 89 326 154 1109 175 293 428 783 311 52 442 1253 71 870 500 126 1313 162 154 151 78 210 109 517 1079 210 810 740 676 1080 281 241 85 260 174 311 250 683 472 346 434 315 1533 209 632 1704 370 491 744 391 1149 259 174 420 715 403 2000 685 187 732 371 989 1181 78 1044 509 205 770 711 753 375 789 149 103 45,537
Anon Ah Beaufort Bertie B'aden Brunswick Buncon be and Henderson Burke
Cabarrus Camden Carleret Caswell Chatham Chowan Columbus
Craven
Cumberland Currituck
Cherokee
Davidson Duplin Edgecombe
rankhn
Gates
Granville Greene Goilforj
Halifax
Hertford
Haywood Hyde Iredrcll
Johnston Jones
Lenoir Lincoln
Martin
Mecklenburg
Mon'gomery Moore Macon Nash
New Hanover
Northampton
Onslow
Orange
rasq'iotank
I'erquinions
Person Pitt Randolph
Richmond Rowand & Davie
Robeson Rockingham
Rutherford
Sampson
Stokes Surry
Tyrrell
Wake Warren Washington Wayne Wilkes Yanc -y
Harriscn.
1.194 578 961 '496 346 350 1,436 1,623 891 612 454 276 1,124 330 204 666 612 142 414 1,441 253 135 374 378 933 297 2,300 604 396 431 431 L7S0 597 243 1,000 291 1,000 1,136 529 433 78 293 550 143 1,639 693 596 214 627 1.314 820 1,630 579 547 1,802 553 1,212 1.191 380 1,026 105 432 306 1,450 415
46,376 Harrison's majority, 12,594. 'Returns not received.
V. B. 395 460 309 385 414 230 452 309 354 100 186 1,169 568 158 315 540 950 468 113 390 807 1,374 6S9 323 778 215 414 356 199 221 89 328 549 132 1,958 596 1,246 105 495 168 797 1,042 383 690 1,443 149 134 597 391 269 102 725 506 905 540 741 1,061 812 83 1,149 754 54 731 114 290 33,782
MASSACHUSETTS Official.
Suffolk Esex, Middlesex Worcester Hampshire Hampden Franklin Berkshire Norfolk Bristol Plymouth Barnstable Duke's Nantucket
Harrison. 7.557 10,056 9,716 11,537 4,083 3,441 3,461 3,931 5,404 455 5,065 2,751 346 671
Bkney. the abolition candidate, received
W votes.
VEIT HAMPSHIRE Official.
Van Buren. Harrison
4959 4043 6755 5352 5026 2750 4727 3753 3380 3657 2154 2ti '4967 3453 1051 353
Rocking m Steisra erriBuick "ilUkorouffh Cheshire Uinn Ortftoa Cos,
3IARYLAND Official
Harrison. Van Buren
. 1271 1093 1G04 1384 7296 7326 1941 8620 494 325 687 5:15 1554 1610 1449 1314 841 502 1381 839 3958 2623 1342 124 679 476 1099 065 1017 669 778 661 1516 844 895 415 740 682 2484 3290 1494 691
Alleghany
Anne Arundel
Baltimore- City
Baltimore county
Calvert Caroline Carroll
Cecil Charles
Dorchester Frederick Harford
Kent
Montgomery
Prince lieorge a
Queen Ann's
Somerset
Si Mary's Talbot
Washington
w orcester
72,874 Harrison's majority, 20,930. Scattering, 1,618.
V. B.
4,339 6,513 8.626 6,764 1,625 312 2,137 3,780 4,238 4,904 3,538 1,554 294 320 51.944
MICHIGAN Official.
Harrison. V, Buren. Abolition
982
Macomot
Mackinsw P ranch
Wayne
Ratnn
Ingham Berrien
Oenesee
Hon roe
Washtenaw
Kalamazoo
Calhoun St. Clair
Lapeer
Oakland Saginaw
Harry Van Buren
Jackson
Hillsdala Lenawee
Cass
St. Joseph
Allegan
Li rings ton
Ionia
Clinton
Kent Ottawa
Shiawassee
Coippewa reported
85 543 2246 337 254 549 512 939 2526 ' 954 1143 517 491 2372 89 128 182 1504 843 2118 670 800 257 700 266 221 319 81 233
V, Buren. 1124 79 616 2237 229 261 553 380 1021 2057 744 1169 446 413 2366 100 105 251 1121 721 1865 527 781 174 842 319 144 320 88. 151 19
11 25 II a II 1 60 27 S3
15
76 6 8 7
from the Touth't Cabinet. Henry Haydex; the Boy wno bad his wis way. "Children obey your parents,says the apostle to the Colossians. "This iff one of the most obvious dictates of nature; even the irrational creatures are obedient by instinct, and follow the signs of the parent, beast, bird, or reptile, perhaps thers is noduty more generally acknowledged than this. Your obedience should begiu early; and the younger you are, tLe more yon need a guide) and a ruler." James. Henry llayden gave his parents and teachers much trouble by his perveise, ungovernable temper. He might truly be terired a spoiled thild. His parents sought.to gratify hit wisb es in every rcspuct, and by so doing injured
22,911
Ha rriEon's majority, 1,805
21,106
294
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION'1836
The following statement of the votes for
President in 1836, was published in the
Washington Globe of May 9, 1837, and is
doubtless pretty nearly correct.
V.jtJuren. All other tickets.
Maine
N. Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island Connecticut
Vermont - N.York N. Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia N. Carolina South Carolina Georgia Kentucky Tennessee Ohio Louisiana Mississippi Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Missouri
Arkansas
Michigan
22.900
18,722 38.501 2,965 19,234 14.087 166,815 26,34b 91,475 4,155 22,167 30.261
26,910
No popular vole
15,239 6,228 43,093 2,710 18,466 20,991 138.543 26,889 87.111 3.738 25.852 23,368 '
23,620
28,752
va Barents majority. 6,436.
33,53 Harrison's roai . 4.776
This is the Largest pell, end the largest major
ir mwmr viven in the State.
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Annpolia city is inciuaea in asne Aranasico.
NEW JERSEY Official
Atlantic
Bergen Burlington
Cape May Cumberland
Essex Gloucester Hudson Hunterdon Mercer Middlesex Monmouth
i Morris J Passaic ' Salem
1 Somerset
Sussex
Warren
VT hat's a Hooster. mammy f UA Hoosier,
cild,lsaran dressed in jeans, who drives yoke of oxen, carries a whip ten feet long,
Harrison. V. B. Birney. 425 i 846 , 977 1346 3417 2405 696 194 s 1497 1190 4636 2S32 25 23SS 1773 2 732 501 1830 2733 6 2022 1494 2014 1683 2953 2880 2 2509 2150 13 1362 962 IS 1582 1302 1 1721 1345 1171 2932 1 1419 3466 33,363 31,034 69
22,126
33,435 26,120 06,948 3,653 9,979 32,480 18.097 19,068 10,095 2,400 7,360
24,930
37,955 35,955 105,404 3,383 9,688 41.2S0 14,398 15,637 8,337 1,238 4.080
From m Dublin Paper. Bernard Cayanadqh. As anv thin? re.
specting this extreordinary being must be re
garden with great interest, I beg leave to state the following facts, which may be relied upon
as autbentic. He aDDeared in Bovla lf
week, having been brought there under the
following circumstances: A report has lately gained ground in the west of Ireland, that
Cavanaugh has the power to perform miricles,
ana a gentleman named reyton,residing near Boyle, whose wife was ill of consumption proceeded for him to his father's residence, near Swineford, and took him in gig with him
from thence to Boyle, in the hope that he would cure his wife. She died on the morning after Cavanauch arrived: but he told Mr
1 eyton that his wife would die, and that no him, and eventually brought sorrow noon.
mi r it le could be performed in ber behalf. themselves. Oiu a when his teacher correctOn the road from Swineford to Bovle, which ed him, he Said to one of his school mares
is a distance of nearly a hundred miles, and (I don't mind getting puniJ-cd if lean have for two or three days whilst he was there, he myjown way. I am determined to do so again, never tasted food, or had a secretion of any the first chance 1 get." kind; and the fact is now beyond all question, One day when he returned Aorri school, hv that ha U iSli lo live without meat or drink,At told his mother he was go'iug to ride or. Mri (hat a similar case wa? never Lnown in tie D'shorse. Mrs Hay den knew the atiimaljwa woiid hefore.Ther!a)aficrheitrihedinBmJc unmanageble, and requested him hot to go. he asked permission from the parish priest to Finding her arguments ineffectual in convincpreach in the chapel; but when that would ing Henry that it would be dangerous for him .not be granted, he proceeded to the Court to attempt to manage the horse, she told him House, where he held forth to the people. he must not go to the stable. But he paid no)
lie told them that a tew years ago ne was ta- attention to her commands, luc hostler ken up to heaven at night, and shown all the helped him to mount the horse, and rode glories of it that he saw ihe Redeemer on round the stable delighted with his achievethe throne, nnd the Virgin Mary worshiping ment- He then passed the house in which at a distance from him that higher up in he lived, and in order to display his skill Iti the heavens was a resplendent light, that he horsemanship to his mothor, he struck the could hardly bear to look upon that the an- horse. This enraged the firey animal. He
gel who showed him the vision explained eve- rared and threw his unskilful rider upon a pile ry thing tofhim, and told him that in a short of stones that lay in the road, and was out of time another revelation should be made to sight in an instant. There laid Henry Hayhim, which should be disclosed to mankind den, senseless. The blood was flowing pro-
that the lime was fast approaching when he fusely from a deep wound in his forehead. would be authorized to make disclosures that He presnted a ghastly spectacle. Several would try the hearts of men. He said that weeks passed before he had an interval of feathe angel showed him Heaven, and promised sen. His parents watched his bedside with thatanothei revelation should be made to him, their hearts wrung with the keenesl'anguish.
had told !.im,'as a proof to the world that what In his delirium his thoughts dwelt upon the
he had seen was not delusion, and that man
kind shoulJ believe in his mission, that he
would be able to live without mortal food du
ring the remainder of his life.
He added that it was four years since that for doine wrone during his life.
promise was made to him, and that he had I Four months parsed, and Henry llayden never tasted food of any kind. He then quo-(entered school, lie dlJ not appear as he'd
ted the Scripture, saying, "That it was not by formerly done, prompt in his lesson and eupebread alone that man could live, but by every rior te his school mates- No. He knew not word that came from the mouth of God." a letter in the alphabet. His brain was inHe spoke of the Eucharist, and said that tbe jurcd. . After trying several months to teach proud and the worldly would not believe in it, him te say his letters, the instructors gave it but that the doctrine was true, and that all up in despaii. It was then evident that he should belies e in it. The interest that was was on idiot for life. excited by his presence in Boyle, was beyond Two years after thin afflicting event his all description; the crowd was so great in the wretched parents left the homes of their child court house, that many were almost crushed hood nnd removed to the far west. 1 have
to death. As he passed through the streets not heard Irom them since.
on the following day, there was a poor crip- Before this sad accident Henry was a very
pie on a barrow, who atked his blessing, and interesting child. I hose who saw htm were besought his aid to restore her to the nse of delighted with his intelligent countenance, her limbs; he looked up to Heaven and pray- and bright, penetrating eye. But oh! how
ed to God to heal her, and so strong was the sad the change! It was painlul .to see the
force of imagination, that she stood up walked large scar which delormed his lorebead, and across the street, and seemed so well that it would have made your heartache to observe thousands flocked round in breathless amaze- the idiot gaze with which he started at his
ment; but unfortunately she was almost as bad old mends and play mates. the next day.as ever she was. This damped This is a true history of one who was bent the ardor of the Deople with regard to Cava- upon "having his own way." O, my young
nah's power of peifoiming miracles; but his friends, take warning from the sad fate of
scenes and events liicii had developed his
unamiable traits of character. ul had my
way," was ii ore than once unconsciously ut
tored by him who was to suffer the penalty
762,140
736,736
own enthusiasm relative to the revelations he Henry Harden. We know not the dreadful
is about to make, is wholly unabated, and as I euflTerine he has felt. Perhaps his parents,
have said, the fact seems beyond all doubt, won out with grief which gnawed upon their
that he lives without mortnl food. Some weeks hearts, have left fl heir idiot son to the cruel po a pentleman in Dublin sent him a present persecution of an unfeeling world. Perhaps
of some books, which were directed to the he is now wandering from village to village,
care of a Catholic clergyman in Connaught, sleeping in barns and sheds, pelted by rude
hut w in. art nr unnn Ins own itidcemenl in oovs. and ouen asting in vain tor a Biieucr
ii.rgu Irani tli iinnlia. hpraiise (!avanuph from the oiercinc wind or driving stoi m. But
uttered 6ome expressions which the reverend if his parents live, who can estimate the bitgentleman believed to be the effusions of a ternessef grief which fills their hearts?
T. a .n.isn.n.r.J kr.in. On another recent occe- O. that all parents migni avoid a snare in
fl) lUB 1 IUB9 iMSwiaa-fa- v ...... v .... . - - I ' . .... a a
r -ii-u nartlrularl fond of noticingUion, he wanted tocelebrate mass. And here their grief, by early lorming in their cnuaren
ullr .Af riimi who considers that let me slate that although he has never been a habit of prompt obedience.
iiic iitna - rTf:.. U:. i:f l.-l
there is no better indication of prospeuty than Known to tenrnsru !, "
an increase ol marriage. tJr.. -fc. kZh . iTa.!.. Wmraw ate Caai-Wc underslan d
ion that he. ha. uiscovereo , ,n.. ' " Water Ca-
mark ef improvement "JX': uTtwn h7 Thou-and. nal Co.. that the Board of Directors have de-
mumriy. upon thouJndVar; losTiu astonishm at termined to suspend all further work on , the dowe rejo ce, if h s notion be tfij ppf.rentlr superhuman being, and the Canal during the winter, and that they will
u..i...u...6 . - . . Mi ..... .hkfn mnrh. and one exceol the small amount necessary w it ir
r.-- . . . . mi i; j
Van Burcn's official majority, 24,413
Marriages A Siow
A t-RIEKD TO TUB YoURO.
and Inst.
which will be cancelled as fast as they are
MMsonblp. and any poor man can supply him- We would advise the holders of White Wa
I f .1 ..I.I.I. kiu, dp. van'ri I.. ..fl.. raI Ia nirl ill it at HIT VPTV
.... t II iV m I Sell W ID reilrc.wura '-'J I vi w ------ - j - The truth is. there is a time for all things - . . n trtArriil of lfnn-l avrAnt sxriGa. thArp run b no doubt A
. i nna ian. sacs aiw.is-aa- divi m-r - v - - i ili va vts s a w
and even the attachmeut or a oung and im- Dressed Pork has been the princi- bout tlw ability of the Company to meet U at t x k.in mav have its bounds, esneci-l '.V , ... .i s. t, i L.r. ....!. n.
puiiuutu -v f jlpal article orougni in una wcc. uaic or oeioremaiurny. v. "
ally it nope oe oe y fljM n,Te been sold at prices varying
the heart thus sickeneo, from 3to 3i. One of the paper, of thi city Pan a. The Michingan City Gazette
u.j r ! hinnm bv a aisnDOOinimenu ir-i . .i i, ti... T..,t- o...ir.i : . i. i.
. ... ' istatea aurmgiirc r., -,..,-.5 -i.a lnal nDDearanccs inuicaie i orian r
riageisan insnuiuon recognru .a. Rt 59. w far as we e5.rn there has w iQ Vmk ,sc pre?cnt witner. Tho
ed both by me iaws,oi v,oo an i -"--" Uld at that price. $33 50 miy be q.u.u .1 . M;,,,e- City will open at 3 W
. .
if there be any among our reaoers wno, nav-i mRrkct prke,.7Voy ( V. V. JMi7.
ing courtea jcr m . . ......
01 tbe means 10 "J ftV Crarksville (Tenn.) Clironicle, says
alter they ihooia exniou tome oegr 7 lhat Ihe Lecofoco leaders in lh. t State are
Harrison's majority, 2,393
The rejected me
been re-electee over
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magnanimity ard tell denial, and, acanowi-1 nf,loraii . ,h . ir scattered forces, lor
edine their true position, allow other, an op . T of leilectine Mr Polk to the of-
As well migni 1 unrawu
ing troops at-
swept over
r
mtJi rfC.n,r.i. h.. I"" "b,ch !he.'e "",her ,h " 1 h .weallo r.ll7 hU Ir.nglin
m 9
1 . .
i.er 100 lbs. for hogs weighing 200 and over.
Uievetana tier. iw. u
them. Lou. Jour.
Otr The Maysville Eagle, of Satnrdayay.
that the Maysville Monitor is dead. I ass
leave, but three locofoco papers in Kentucky.
And two of those three will have copper, up on their dosed eyes In less than a month.
- vui tar UsM-laon'
I majority of 204.
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