Indiana American, Volume 11, Number 12, Brookville, Franklin County, 17 March 1843 — Page 3
QUOOKVILLE, INDIANA 'RlDAr, M AllCII 12, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT, HENRY CLAY, of Kv.
WHIG XOMIXATIOXS. TJtt GJVERXOR, SAMUEL DIGGER. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, JOHN II. BRADLEY.
We are authorized to say that Joseph C. Eggleston, Esq., of this District, will not be a can
didate for Congress. It has been currently reported among us that this gentleman had turned loco foco. Of course knowing him as we do, we never credited such a story, but as others may have been deceived we make the following extract from a letter lately received from him, which will set this matter right. ,:I feel a deep solicitude in our success, and will do any thing in my 'power to promote the election of the nominee. 1 have no personal choice, nor do I believe the whigs of this county have. We were beaten last August by want of concert among ourselves, and from no oilier cause. A great effort was made to divide u on local matters, and it succeeded so far as to defeat our ticket by a very close vote. I think we will do much belter this vear."
Dearborn Ccvnty Seat. We have been pleased to see that large and spirited meetings have been held in Lawrcnceburgh anil Rising Sun, for the purpose of organizing a regular opposition to the present county scat of Dearborn, and in favor of a division of the county, and a re-location of the county seat. A county convention is to be held to nominate a Senator and three Representatives, (two of each rarty) who will pledge themselves , if elected, to exert their influence to affect the proposed object. We heartily wish our friends of Lawrenceburgh and Rising Sun success. And although, we are not a citizen of that county, and it may be said we should not take any part in the local concerns of that county, yet we here pledge ourselves to co-operate with them so far as our vote or influence may extend . We go for the removal, any how. Remove it up some hill, r down some gully up south Hogan, or down north Hogaa on to Manchester Ridge, or Laughery Creek up any creek or into any mud hole, stick it upon any stony peak, or down in any deep ravine, and we are with you. You stand 103 chances to better the location, and no possibility of making it worse. Wilmington is the last place for a county seal it is convenient to no place, nor has any conveniences of its own. We hope and trust the citizens of that coun
ty will never cease their exertions until their wrongs are redressed, aud their county seat is located in some place better calculated by Maker anl man, for a seat for the temple of jus-lice.
THE CONVENTiOX. The Rushville Whig agrees with U3 in suggesting 5th proximo as the time, and Napoleon as the place of the Congressional Contention. We have seen nothing from our friends at Greensburgh in reference to this matter. What have they to say 1 Delegates
will be appointed from old Franklin on to-morrow.
In Dearborn County the Whigs have no press; but through ihe politeness of the democrat publishers they have an opportunity to call their meetings. The late number of the Deacon contains the suggestions of the Whig and the American, in relation to the Convention. So the thing stands, and will stand until we can learn what is done by our friends in Dearborn, Decatur, Switzerland and Ripley. In the meanwhile there is high promise of
success to the whigs. They are certainly uni
ted, and we feel sure that there has never
been at any time, in the district, a more firm determination among whigs to support any
good man who may be nominated. And we feel certain too, that never was a Convention proposed with fairer prospects of expressing the popular will. And this because We know
of no electioneering for any particular man.
N.me seems to be urging their personal claims.
This is right. Let all iust claimants come be
fore a Convention, unaided by any extrane
ous influence, and "when the choice is made let all the rest submit aye, and go to work like men to aid in the election of the nominee. Among those heretofore spoken of as candidates have been Messrs. Gregg, Eggleston, Haymond, Cravens, Matson and Watts; the three former have formally withdrawn their names, through the columns ot the American. Other names beside those of the three last
gentlemen may come before the Convention.
Let the candidate be who he will, if he will but go to work himself, we will faithfully work to help him, and may success attend him.
We ask our readers to notice the beautiful
address made by S. S. Prentiss, on the reception of Henry Clay at Vicksburgh. It is bet
ter worth reading than many a column of pointless trash, we hive known eulogizsJ before to-day
For several evenings past an appearance
Known to astronomers as the "Zodiacal Light" has been visible from this place, appearing shortly after sunset, in the western sky. It is
a beautiful luminous ray, springing out of the
sun s track and rising far toward the Zenith, in a line about midway between the ecliptic and the horizon. Its shape is that of an inverted cone, slightly rounded at the anex. It
may ,,ave been seen by early risers to precede
the coming of the sun; our observations have
been confined to its appearance after the de
cline of that luminary. That our readers may see that this is nothing new, and consequently not a precursor of Millerism, we publish'from
the Encyclopaedia Americana the following
account of this phenomenon: It is generally supposed to arise from an atmosphere surroundiug the sun, and appears to have been first observed by Descartes and by Childrey in 1659, but it did not attract general attention till it was noticed by Dominique Cassini, (q. v.) who gave it its present name, Ife s.ippoj2 the sun to have an atmosphere as there is every reason to believe from the luminous aurora which appears to surround his disc in total eclipses, it must be verv much
flattened at its 'poles, and swelled out at the equator, by the centrifugal force of his equatorial parts. When the sun then, is below the horizon, a portion of this luminous atmosphere will appear like a pyramid of light above the horizon. The obliquity of the zodiacal lisht
will evidently varv with the ohlionitv of the
sun's equator to the horizon; and in the months of February and March, about the time of the vernal equinox, it will form a very great angle with the horizon, and on "lit therefore to be
seen most distinctly at that season o f the year. Dtit when the sun is in the summer solstice,
he is m the part of the ecliptic which is parallel to the equator, and therefore, his equator, aud consequently the zodiacal light, is more oblique to the horizon. Laplace, however, has made some objections to this theory in his Mecaniqus Celeste; and Regnier is of the
opinion mat u is owing merely to the retraction of the solar light by the earth's atmos phere.
To Darid Mount, Geo. G. Shovp, end John T. Cooley: Gentlemen: Being one of your constituents, and acting in behalf of many more, we beg leave to call your attention to an act of the last Legislature of which you were members. It i an ot generally known by the title of the 'Relief Law." You were constituted the guardians of the people's interests, and consequently voted cither for or against that law. If you voted for it, you doubtless know what you were voting for . If yo'J voted against it, you must have known its provisions to have been contrary to the people's interests. In either case you are presumed to know the intention and meaning of the law, and as our lawyers and officers are equally in the fog as
The late number of the 'Deacon contains a
communication signed "A Whig," which we
think no Whig would have written, much less have published in a loco foco paper.
If he should really b e a whig we ask his pardon for our suspicions, and have only to tell
him he exhibits some imprudence in publishing
such an article. We thank him for approving the sugges
tions already made, and for the appeal he
makes to the whigs of Dearborn to prepare tor
the 5th of April. Here he should have stop
ped; but on the contrary, he proceeds to arraign
lawyers as unfit to represent the people, and
eulogize farmers and mechanics as ihfc only
proper men to make laws. We caro hot who goes, w hether a lawyer, a farmer, or a mechanic, so he be a man of good sense, a thorough whig, iwid the people's choice. This arraigning one profession against another, is a ruse of locofocoism, to which a whig should never resort. We are one people, with common interests, and no profes sion, iu itself honorable, can disqualify a man from representing the public. The consistency of ihe writer of this article appears in a baJ light, when, after passing sentence on all lawyers, and recommending a farmer or mechanic, lie attacks most ungenerously the only man whose name is before the convention, who is not a lawyer, by insinuating that he can neither "spell, read or write correctly," and declaring him incompetent to
This lan-
LEGI5LATURE. , The Queen, ie Pope and Louis pi The gentlemen of this place have agreed io t It is rumored, that, within ihese few dt" meet once a week.every Friday evening.for the l?U" has bea received by Her Majesty ffiil purpose of debating; and have adopted ihe form J !t'"g f th ?Tenc singly recommendof a legislature, the most convenient. At a 1 "he V, 'a ZlT preparatory meeting forty member, appeared .raordin'coun the and took their seats. John II. Farquhar was Present present prevailing throuhnt 4
elected Speaker; Robert McCleery, principal, iw.iA m''shl en expected, it is .,. n:, . . . ' 1 ' "id to have created a rrmi n,; '
a,.u vuarics .wiey assistant, cierks. Dr. Hay- Palace. We have also heard that ,7. r -mond was chosen governor, and will this eve-1 expected to consecrate, in person of cou ' ning read his message to ih T.irUiit,iM ,a , with unusual snlpnHm- tho r.: . .rse:
v. -..v. -r iivii.iMi vatnedral uch or our citizens as may think proper to at-' "w. "rec,mff neighborhood of Westend. Delow we furnish a list of the RtBdii roiUMer f-EJinb, H it.
Treaty VM Mexico.-Tlie Intelligencer state, that a treaty lately concluded with the Mexican Government at Mexico, the terms of
wuicn are nijniy honorable and eligible to both nations, was ia:ified at t!iet!oeof the Sesjion of the Senate. A well dressed young gentleman at a ball in whisking about the room, run his head against a young lady. He began to apologise. "Not axvordsir"cricdshe, ' it is not hard enough to hurt any body."
Long's Securities. There is a wrong impression with the citizens of the county relative to the act passed by the last session for the relief of the securities of Gen. Long as county Treasurer. It was merely passed to enable them to appropriate towards paying Long's defalcations, two or three hundred dollars.which Long had deposited with some person at Indianapolis. The county lost nothing by the act. We are informed that the securities paid into the Treasury between S700 and 800 a few days eince, it being the balance for which they were liable.
Assessor. The county Assessor being una ble to finish the assessment of the county by the 25th of May next, as provided by law, the last Doard of Commissioners appointed David Gavin assistant Assessor.
to its intentions, for the information of your
constituents your opinion of the law is respect- serve a a member of Congress.
fully requested. What do do yon understand i 8uaSe U Hsed toward Johnson Watts. bytheOlh section of that law? Can the do- These things ought not to be. We should fendant retain any property as exempt from , be "nited; to succeed we need the help ofovexecuiioii? Is property to sell for two-thirds. er' w1li? mechanic, farmer and lawyer in the or its fair value? These things are mentioned , dwtrict, so we should give offence to rone of in the act, but are so obscured by unexplained , ,,,ese- We the aid of all proposed cancontradiction!, that r.o person apper.rs willing 1 diJales whether nominated or not, so we
o act under it. Shall we hear from vou? i s:ouiu give oilenee to none of these
Sane of the fruits. A.t& very large meeting of the citizens of Brookville on Saturday last, it waa resolved to erect immediately a school house, for the use of a common school in this place, of the s'zc and plan, in every particular, recommended by the Education Convention of Franklin County. This is some encouragement for the Society in the laudable prosecution of its labors of love. James Whitcomb, the democratic candidate for Governor, is said to be at work canvassing the State.
We have already waited two weeks for some explanation, hut none has appeared. Rea d it overcatefully, and give the reader your view of it, as you understood it when you voted for or against it. EDITOR. Brookville, March 15, IS43.
Wednesday morning, 15th day of March, A. D. 1843. the ground hard frozen, and covered with a thin coat of snow. Verilv this has
been along winter for us, beginning furiously S November and hanging on to March with "frosty pow." A transition from the pr-sent cold to the consummation of Millerism would be rather startling. We nvy take some consolation perhaps in the probability of an abundance of fruit this year, as the backwardness of the season has prevented the expansion of the young fruit, and so for secured it from the effects of frost
That Tinkertown Doggery is as great a nuisance as ever, notwithstanding Meyer was punished at the late term of the Court. Almost every day we hear of soma fight coming off in its neighborhood, and rumor says Meyer has received no few hard knocks at the hands of some of our If ish friends. It is some consolation to the respectable part of our people
jin Know mat u tins joaier wm nave sucn
rows in his house, that he shares a full proportion of their comfortable results, as the bandages we have seen about his head indicate. We understand that the respectable portion of our German population, agree with us in condemning this villainous establishment as a desperate nuisance, a place of drunkenness, fighting and worse 'tis said, if worse can be. We are pleased to learn that Meyer was fined this week, by one of our justices, for an assault.
County Surveyor. Tot the satisfaction of
many inquirer, we would state that Wm. W. Carson is county Surveyor of Franklin county. His residence it on the Hamilton Road, about five mile East of Brookvillt.
The Indiana Journal, now in the hands of S. B. V.Noel, publisher, and T.S. Barnett, editor, addresses a new prospectus to the public. We predict success to the enterprise. Marvland. The House of Delegates in this State, have resolved, in the right way, to sustain the public faith, by passing a tax bill for that purpose. Resolutions passed saying we will notrepuJiate,are worth nothing, and when followed up by propositions to reduce the tax
ation, are a mockery and insult. So it is in Il
linois; so it is in other States. We will nav.
they say in one breath; in another, we wont.
luaryianu. lor one, stands on true ground. And we trust, the peopie of other delinquent States, who respect the public character, or would maintain and strengthen pi ivatc virtue, will unflinchingly oppose all such miserable and mean subterfuges. They would disgrace the meanest trickster in the land; how then, must they degrade the State which resorts to thrm! Cin. Gaz.
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tend
committees, with the order of business:
STANDING COMMITTEES. Elections Messrs. Davis, William., Wheat, Pelsor and Linn. Finance Messrs. Clarksnn Smiit, it..;!.
Pursel and Howland.
IVavsand Means Messrs. Itnlinni n,;
of L., Baker, Davis and Berry. ' Judiciary Messrs. Matson. Ilollun u.,.
land, Haymond and Johnson of V. Education Messrs. Ilaile. Hitt Mn..,,,
Clarkson, Bartlow, Woods of L, and Riley.
l3"' uan-c .Messrs. Haymond, Matson, Berry, Hitt, Pursel, Ryan and Riley. Corporations Messrs. Berrv. William,, n...
via, Wallace, McCleery, Winscott and Baker. Federal Relations Mpmm Inh nmn nf v
Coalscott, Haile, McCleery and Price of L. '
military Affairs Messrs. Winscott, Johnson of M. and S., Wallace, Wrood of L., and Ryan.
Canals at J Internal mDrowmirAf....
Howland, Linn, Butler, Carmichael and Pur
sel. Claims Messrs. Smith. IIoll and Tnhncnn
of M. and S., Berry and Swiggett.
1 Of Urookville Messrs. Wnnrta f T.
Roberts. Templeton, Pelsor and Coalscott. Agriculture Messrs. Hitt, Meek., Roberts. TempitJon aiid Bartlow.
state Prison Messrs. Carmichael. Wil
liams, Butler, Woods pf A. and W., and Tyner. Canal Fund Messrs. Williams, Winscott, Riley, Butler and Woods or A., and W. Engrossed mils Messrs. Wheat and Ryan. Enrolled Bills Messrs. Lindsly, and Van Camp. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 1st. Reading of the Journal. 21. Introduction of petitions, memorials and remonstrances. 3d. Reports from Standing Committee: 1 on Education; 2, Finance; 3. Ways and Means; 4. Judiciary; 5, Education; 0, State Bank; 7, Corporations; 8, Federal Relations; 9, Military Affairs; 10, Canals and Internal Improvements; 11, Claims; 12, Town of Brookville; 13, Agriculture; 14, Slates Prison; 15, Canal Fund. The committees on Engrossed and Enrolled
Bills will report at anv time during th iitmr
of the House, when there it nothing pendine.
4iii. joiih itesoiuuons. 5th. Reports from Select Committees. Gih. Resolutions of the House. Original Bills order of the day. THE METHODISTS OF THE UNION. According to a statement recently submitted to the Georgia Conference, the mmlirc
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States amounts to 1,033,254, and are dis-
Trav. & Local Preachers. 422 463 356 445 381 282 455 309 160 283 201 270 357
"tunning it into the ground si nee tha great earthquake, a large whirlpool has been forme, in the Mississippi river, about ibreo hundred mile, below St. Louis.-Notches Courier.
Mr. Van Buren has left Kinkerhook for Albany. Gossips say his object is to get the Legishture to nominate him for the Presidency. Pshaw! heV only gone down to ascertain the puce of cabbage. Daily Xevt. Of the late Commodore Hu'.l it is said, that he was Xhtfint man of any nation vho took an English frigate in fair and single fght. Florida has repudiated. This act of selfabasement was committed in the Council by a vote of 22 to 4. These latter voters ought to be known. They were-Messrs. Cromartie, De la Rossa, Floyd and Knowlcs. Mr. Floyd entered a protest against the repudiation uf tht bonds. Cin. Gaz.
Married. About a fortnight since, atCIarks' Tavern, Ohio, Dr. John W. Hughes, formeily a student of Dr. Berry, of this place, to Miss Mary Clark, daughter of Clark's Tavern, on Dry Fork.
Clay Convention in Pennsylvania. A. large Wrhig Convention numbering about 1200, composed of delegates from nearly all the counties in the State, assembled at Harrisburgh on the 22n of February nit. Enthusiastic resolutions in favor of Mr. Clay and of Whig principles, reported by a committee at the head of which was Jos. R. Chandler, editor of the United States Gazette, were unanimously adopted. Speeches were made in the evening and the spirit of 1840 appeared to animate every heart and to inspire the hope that the Key stone of the Federal Arch will in '44 do what it did in '40-go the Whig ticket, Henry Clay and John Davis. Leb. Star.
Is it true that James WThitcomb, circulated the notorious coffin handbill's against the old hero, Gen. Jackson, in 1828? Dare his friends deny that he did sol Richmond Palladium. More Millerism. The Essex Banner says ''Mr. Nathaniel Brown, Kingstown, N. II., formerly travelling agent of the Eseter Mutual Fire Insurance oftlce. cut his wife's thrrwt
Thursday last, in such a shocking manner that a i: i . .
ner iiie was aespairea of. It is said he was partially deranged, caused by over-excitement in the Miller doctrine."
tributed thus:
Alabama Georgia S. Carolina Baltimore Philadelphia New Jersey New York Troy Providence N. Hampshire N. England Pittsburgh Maine Biack River Erie Onedia Michigan Red River Genesee N. Ohio Kentucky Illinois Ohio Missouii Holston , Tennessee Indiana N. Carolina Mv-mphis Arkansas Virginia Mississippi
Texas
Liberia Mission
Total. S4.518 51,420 58.580 CO 370 48,107 25.974 39.7G3 25,180 13,401 20,281 15918 43,611 24.738 18.C52 22 833 26,139 13,828 11.435 30.701 28.218 46.229 30.320 C7.I04 20.612 39,271 32.156 C2G42 22:861 25,171 10,022 29.630 18.582 2.795 818
170 296 373 312 167 4C2 382 533 555 C17 319 3G1 394 65G 209 316 183 252 307 59 33
1.021.328 T'v. & L'l.Pr'ch's 11,633 Superanuated do. 301
11,635
Tola!
1,033,264
We notice in Ponnsvlvani tti r, r
Mr. V njlit to Miss lletterwav M v,:..
- j. .... .,,!, had no doubt read Pope's Universal Prayer.
pattivuKUkjr wie loiiowing verse or it:
ii i am right, thy grace impart Siiil in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find ihe better wav.
TE M PER A NCE. The WasYingtonians will meet in the Court House, on Tuesday eveninz n-.-xt. at candle
lisht.
BLOOMING-GROVE TOWNSHIP. The Whigs of this townshin will hold a
meeting for the purpose of organizing aud ap
pointing aciegues to a Congressional Conven
tion, at Bloomimr-Grove mi Nunnliv ith
instant, at 2 o'clock. MANY WHIGS.
BROOKVILLE TOWNSHIP. The Whiis of this townshin will men at 2
o'clock on the ISih instant, at the Court House
to appoint delegates to the District Convention
MANY WHIGS.
POSEY TOWNSHIP. The Whig of this township will meet at Laurel, at 2 o'clock on the ISih instant, to appoint delegates to the District Convention. MANY WHIGS.
ASSIGXKE'S SALE.
THE Assignee of the Estate ol Robt. K. Brienn lnln Jnn.itnrl n T?-..l ...... 1 . T I
to the highest bidder, for cash iu hand, between 12 and 3 o'clock, on Saturday, the 15ih. of April next, at the place where the Brookville and Rushville State Road Across the West fork or White Water, above Judgo Mounts, A FERRY BOAT, belmging to the Estate of said Robt. K. Brison. Said Boat is nearly new, and well suited for a Ferry Boat any place on White Water, or for the use of Millers, about keeping up their dams. C. F. CLARKSON, Assignee. March 16:h, 1813. (SI 50.) 12-3w.
- X BUSHEL CLOVER SEED for sale by R.&S. TYNER. March 13,1813.
Fromheu Vulgar Herd." Gen. Paer, the
f resident of Venezula, is perhaps the most re
markable man now living in South America.
The revolution found him a simple Llanero, or
herdsman on the vast plains in the south of
Venezuela, ignorant of the very alphabet, and as simple and superstitious as any around him. He was a grown man when he entered a corps of irregular cavalry, as a private lancer. He soon distinguished himself by his address and reckless bravery, attracted the attention of Bolivar, w as rapidly promoted, and in a few years found himself commander of the horse. As
such, by an unauthorized charge at the battle of
enrabobo lie gained the day, and set the seal to his military reputation. He is now the Exec- j ntive chief of the most hopeful of South Amer-J ican republics, with the kighest reputation for wisdom as a statsman, and moderation as a politician, with manners and address that would grace any in Europe. He has remedied all the defects of early education. He has not only read much, but is one of the best writer of is country.
5 CENTS REWARD. 99 AN AWAY from the subscriber on the 25lh ult. John Gregg Seals, aged about 14 years, an indented apprentice. The public are cautioned against trusting or harboring him on my account, as he having absconded, no such debts or expenses will be paid by me. No costs or charges will be paid for returning him to me, except the above reward. SAMUEL SERRING. March 8ih 1843. 3-w ASSIGNEE'S SALE. THE Assignee of the estate of Isaac Clements, a Bankrupt, will offer for sale to tha highest bidder for cash in hand, on Saturday the 8th, of April next, between the hours of 12 and 4 o'clock on said day, at the residence of the said Isaac Clements, the following articles belonging to said estate, to-wit: 4 beds, bedstead, and bedding, 1 bureau, 1 clock, 3 brass kettles, 1 set of chairs, 1 Dearborn Waggon and harness, 2 horses, 7 sheep, 2 cows, 1 table, 1 stand. This property is mortgaged to Dr. Caleb B. Clements of Lebanon, Ohio, to secure the payment of about 150, and will be soht subject to said mortgage. There will also be sold at the same time the following bank bills belonging to said estate, to-wik 5 bill on the Merchants and Me-
J chanics bank of Wheeling, (this note is suspi-
cioned for being counterfeit);S5 bill on the bank of Gallipolis (broke;) $4 on the Cincinnati and. White Water Canal Company; $1 on the KirtJand Safety Society bank; 25 cent billon the Urbana bank; and a 810 bill on the Bank of Michigan, at Detroit, (which- looks a little suspicious also.) They will all be sold for the best price they will bring at the risk of whom
it concern.. v. r . uiAtwvov,
March 7. 1843. (prt. fe $2 SO.) 11-3