Indiana American, Volume 11, Number 13, Brookville, Franklin County, 24 March 1843 — Page 3

AH ERIC AN . BBOOKVILLE, IN DIANA

mtOAr, MARCH 84, 1843.

FOR PRESIDENT, HENRY CLAY, of Ky.

WHIG XOMIXATIOXS. ro governor. SAMUEL DIGGER lieutenant governor, JOHN II. BRADLEY.

Got. ir.iy-H5n.-f Message. On our first page will be found theMessige of Gov. ttaymond,

to the Brookville Legislature, which has been lately convened in the place, ll is worthy the place it occupies irt our paper, for its pound and lensible sugestions and recommendations. Those who wish a'plain exposition of whal our State policy should be, will be repaid ,iti reidin this message. Most of his opinions ro?et our hearty concurrence.

WHIG MEETING n Blooming Grott. The Whigs of Blooming G rote Held a spirit

ed meeting on Saturday last David Genn was

Chairman, and D. Slaughter Secretary. Sev

eral appropriate resolutions were adopted, a township Clay Club was formed, and delegates

appointed to the Napoleon convention, to-wit.

R. Chambers. 5. Miller, Wm. Harvey, Orville

Gorden, C. B. Clements, Levi Rench, Levi

Clendening.David Genn and John P. Williams

The further proceeding of the meeting is

crowded out, but will be inserted in our nexh

District Contention. The Congressional District north of us hold their Whig convention at Cambridge on Saturday the lath day

of Aprit. There will be considerable interest and excitement connected with this Convention. Some of the old embers hare not gor.e out. Gentlemen, we speak a good word for our friend S. W. Parker.

The Comet. We hare giren tip considera

ble space in this days paper, to opinions and speculations upon the celestial stranger, which has been the subject of talk, wonder and attraction for some weeks. When we published our last, we were decidedly of the opinion that it was atodiacal light. But the opinion almost universally prevails among astronomers, philosophers and fools that it is a comet, un

known to ancient or modern star caters. Al

though not fully convinced, we yield our opin ion to that of greater men.

Tug Weather, and a Storm. The month

of March, thus far. has been rather cold but

pleasant. Those Who are disposed to be always croaking and complaining of the weath

er have found considerable unit with it. It is

true, the canal has been closed, but as an off

set we have had good roads for travel and

teaming. Wehave had no opportunity for making early gardens, or for farmers to com-

menee their early plantings, and consequently have nothing to be destroyed by the frosts of April. Taken altogether it has been a more pleasant and agreeable March than we have experienced for many yearsfar preferable to changeable, rainy, muddy weather, which

is usual in March.

On Wednesday morning last, It com.ncncc!

snowing, the wind from

air pleasant. About

broke away fend the sun shone out w ith uncommon warmth 'and brightness. At sunrise the mercury stood, 20 deg. above rcro, but at 12 o'clock had risen to about 40. About this time the wind suddenly changed to the North west, and the dark murky clouds began to heave up in pillercd mr.sses. and in aw instant the sky was overcast and the atmosphere m charged with cloud, snow and wind in such

tarrimiaul awful gratt.lc-.tr a Tow hive ever witnessed, tt was magnificent in the ex

treme. It seemed' as though all the clement

of nature were combined in an exhibition of the power, majesty, and might of "Him who tides upon the whirlwind and directs the storm." The wind blew a perfect hurricane, but in no particular direction, but rolled and whirled about in all kinds ef contortions and gyrations, whilst the falling snow so filled the air as to be almost impenetrable with the eye. To those whi lore to look upon the sublime and magnificent operations of nature, this storm was one of the most splendid and beautiful displays ever witnessed in the wild turmoils and excited wrath of the elements. But to those who always hare a "fearful looking for of fiery indignation" in every operation of nature, this was a seen of terror and dismay.

The mercury fell in a few hours from 40

down to 10, and continued to fall until 5 o'clock on yesterday, when it stood at 2 degrees above tero. being within 4 deg., as cold as any morn

ing the past winter, and just the same as the 2d morning of the present month. But on the

morning of March 12th 1836, the mercury

stood at 12 below tero, being 14 deg., colder

than yesterday morning.

LOCOFOCOISM BOILED DOWN.

e know that the loco toco doctrines are

levelling iu principle, and repudiating in prac tice. A few of the more independent but reck

less, such as Bronson &c.,hve come out with

their true doctrines, and foreshadow the in

tent and aim of that great party. Alfred J.

Cotton, one of the Associate Judges of Dear

born county, Indiana, and a leader of that par

ty, comes out in the last Lawrenceburgh

Beacon, and throws down the glore in faror of a great expunging law, by which all indebt

edness, of whatever kind, is to be w iped out

But in order that we shall not misrepresent

him, we give below his proposition in his own

words. After endeavoring to show the ineffi

ciency of the Bankrupt law, and the Relie

laws, for the 'great National disease which is

paralyiag all the energies of this country

public and private debts, he asks ''what shal

Congress dor' And then answers It as fol

lows:

"Let Congress proclaim a national Jubilee-

let it enact that erery man shall keep all in his

possession ana that all his debts are paid

This would re leaving men just 'as they have been placed by each other, It would prevent

all fraud stop the expenses of nil suits and

all farther legislation. I care not bv what

name it is called w hether it be a national Ju

bilee or a national Bankruptcy. If Congress has the right to declare a Man a bankrupt, and secure to him &300 against just claims, thev

may clearly declare his debts nil paid and se

cure to him all the property in his possession. Nor would the measure be as odious or as oppressive as at first might appear. Let us suppose for illustration as above, that A owes B $1000, B owes C and so on; A has not a cent to pay. he therefore receives the full benefit of the act a clear present of 1000. Well it effects tin hardships on B it cuts him off from a plump $1000 from A, but it gives him a credit to that amount on C; and so of the rest, until you come to 55. who has the loss to sustain. And nltboMah it might seem oppressive to him as all innovations must fall heavily upon some, yet it would not break him or turn him

out of a home; it would secure him all In his possession. This measure would reliere the country, and make erery thing btisk and cheerful. It would not break up a single individual, nor throw any homeless upon the cold charitv of the world. Were I in Con

gress I would stake all upon this measure. If

i ' Coneress had pnssed such an act Instead of a . . . a

m the south, and the jb(,cllcyr "this. If men fre to be legislated 11 o'clock the clouds; into relief this is my measure.

I throw down the glore to any gentleman who will over his proper signature, in a calm and rational manner, discuss the subject

WHIG MEETING. At a meetiag of the Whigs of Brookville Township, held at the Court House, on Satur

day 18th inst., George W. Kimble was called

to tne chair, and Charles Smith appointed secretary. On motion, resolved that twentv-two

delegates be appointed to meet in District con

vention at Napoleon.

The following gentlemen xrere selected:

Samuel Goodwin, Harvey Blacklidge, Abner

McCarty,J. II. Farquhar. Geo. Holland. Thos

W. Coalscott, Chas. Smith, Riley Wood worth,

James Everett. Samuel Shepherd, Wm. J

Peck, olney Parks, R.Tyner. James C.Jones,

Konert lempleton. James Mewhtnnev. An

drew Reid, Thomas Sims, J. D. Howland, and

N. Carmiehacl.

On motion, resolved, that tho delegates in at

tendance hare power to supply vacancies in their own body.

On motion of Geo. Holland, resolred, that a

committee of -five be appointed to act as a

township central commiVee.

Whereupon the Chair named the following: Messrs. Holland, Howland, Haymond, T. W. Coalscott and Clarkson. And the meeting adjourned. G. W. KIMBLE, Ch'm. C. SMttn.Sec'ty,

CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.

John W. Payne Esq. w ill be the Whir candi- inhabitants, which is

date from the First District. Aeood choice. ,SiniraDore islands, a nniiinn' nrM.i,... ...

A strong man and a worthy one.

j Sumatra, a first portion in China, the greatest

In the Madison District, (should Mr. White! part rf Australia. Tasmania, Norfolk islands, dine,) James Collins, Jr., Joseph G. Marshall New Caledonia, Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, id John H. Thompson Esqs, are spoken of for and Tahiti.

deel

and

the race. They are all heal horses; either of

them need only to be put on the track to sweep the purse. In the Knox District, Dr. Davis will probably take the Locofoco shoot In the Terre Haute District, Messrs. McGauehev. Collet, Farrington. Moffat, Coffin and

Steele are spoken of by the Whigs

true.

asRariden, Parker, and Caleb B. Smith.

In the Rush District. Messrs. Cravens, Watts

and Matson are spoken of.

Old St. Jo' District will elect Judge Sample

or De frees.

WHIG MEETING.

At a respectable meeting of the Whigs of

Posev township, held nt Henry's tavern in

Laurel, on Saturday, 18ih inst.. Win. Arnold

was called to the Chair, and D. G. wells ap

pointed Secretary.

On motion of Elias Macy, it was rrsolved

that, 'David Mount, Urban Edgerlon, B. G.

Wells, Jas. D. Henry, Thomas Giffbrd Mid Jas

It Moore, be delegates to represent Posey

township, :in the District Convention, to be

held at Napoleon, on the 5th of April.

Resolved. That the delegates have

power to fill any vacancy that may occur in their body. And the meeting adjourned. WM. ARNOLD, Ch'm. B. G. Wells, Sec'ly.

Rnssia, which has lost nothinir. hat rained

from sweden, Finland, Abo, Wilhuree, Esthenia, Livonia, Riga, Revel, part of Lapland; from Poland, Volhynia, a part Lesser Tartary Crimea, Bessarabia, the shore of the Black Sea, and the mouth of the Danube; from Persia, Georgia, Circassia, and Scberwan: in fsct the

Good and two extremities of Asia and America at thir

point of conjunction, and the neighboring la.

Dr. L. G. Thompson.of Fort avne, is high- lands

y spoken or, and a better man does not breathe.; Thus it nppears,that in the gradual awallcw-

In the ayne District, there is such mettle' ing up ofthesmaller States bv the lareer. France

alone has lost, and that as territorial power, she

has fallen several degrees in the Europeau nations.

LocorocoisM. The genuine spirit of Loeo-

The Marion District will settle her matters ocoism, was recently exhibibited by Mr. Spea

about right. Indiana Journal,

OUR FLAG! We bo to war in this contest for the follow-

in b measures, and we glory to witness them common massess the PIG RINGERS'."

wiih me light."

through the press. "Let there be

Belief Lairs. We have heretofore announced that the Supreme Court of the United States has declared the valuation laws, and stay laws uneoimttutiotifO, so tt a relates tc

contracts made before the pasnge of the law.

This decision is of great importance, and will affect m.viy of the chitons of this State. The Marshall for the District of Indiana has already announced his determination to proceed to sell lands in accordance with this decision, and regardless of the laws'of this State. Consequent

ly the foreign indebtedness of our merchants.

&c, will be thrown into the District Court

their property sacrificed, and long bills of costs entailed upon them, which but few will be able

to stand. But the probability is, this decision w ill be recognised by our circuit courts, and our justices of the peaee.'and the beauties of an exclusire specie currency will bo fully illustrated. The rich who hare a few dollars, will be able to buy up all the Real Estate of the country forming a system of large lordly estates, with large dependant tenantry. As the locofoco principles rise the country 'falls. They will hare no National currency, but prefer National Bankruptcy, National misery and distress. But we hare the same consolation that the Philistines had when Sampson buried himself at well at them, in the mint of the temple.

WHITE WATER. March 18, 1843.

Pursuant to notice, the Democratic Whigs

held a meeting at the house of Thos. II. Bar

wise, in While Water Township, for the pur pose of appointing delegates to attend the 3rd

District Conrention, to be held at Napoleon on

the 5th of April proximo. The meeting was or

ganied by calling James A. Lowes. Esq., to the

chair, and appointing Samuel Daris. Secretary.

The meeting was ably andeloquently addressed bv Messrs. Barwise, Case, and others, after

wliicfi it was Resolved. That this meeting appoint John P. Case and Thos. II. Barwise as delegates to attend the proposed convention. Ketolred, That in case sickness, or from any other cause, the abore named delegates to unable to attend, that Samuel Boutrher and Judge Kineshnry are appointed as alternates. Besolred, That this mealing has the utmost confidence In the ability and integrity of our delegates, to'represent us to our entire satisfac

tion In the conrention to be held at Napoleon,on the 5th of April next. But as Democratic Whigs free at all times to express our will to our public serrants and for the purpose of releiving our delegates from the responsibility of acting

uninstrnced;do hereby authorize them 'o exercise their own choice as to the nametof individ

uals who may be presented to the convention. Nevertheless it is htreby declared to be the

will of this meeting that said delegates thai I

vote onlu for such aperson ns Is known to be of

true nAi principles', and who will pledee himself if elected to vote and use all his influence

to have laws established creating a Bank of the

t'r,itetl State a Tariff, and the distribtdion nf.

thetrccecdsofthe public lands among the States. JAME3A.LOWES.Ch'n. Sam. Davis, Sect.

Flouring Mill. It it with pleasure we inform our readers that our public spirited an-1 enterprising fellow-townsman, G. W. Kimble, hat determined on erecting immediately in thit place, a large merchant and custom Flouring Mill. He hat already considerable ot the timber on the ground, and it it his present intention in having it ready for the approaching

ull business. Such an additional establishment is mnch needed here. Preperations are

also making for several other fine buildings

here the approaching summer.

Bankruptcy. fiat a tingle citizens of the town of Brookville has applied for the benefit of the Bankrupt lw. Is there another county

town in the State of the tame amount of buti test and tra-'.e can tay the samel

The editor of the Lafayette Advertiser an

nounce! the name ofTilghman A. Howard as

a suitable person for the Vice Presidency.

We have no doubt but that party will rim tome

THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR. The Globe gives us the following account of the new Secretary o f War. We find .the article in 'the Philadelphia Pennsylvaninn (ihe organ of the LocoFoco party of that city.) from the Philadelphia Pennwhanian. JAMES MADISON PORTER. We give below some extracts from the Globe on the subject of the appointment of the new Secretary of War. We doubt whether this appointment will receive much favor with the democracy any where. Cabinet Making. We must do President Tyler the justice to say that he is the most skilful and fortunate man in Calinet making we ever knew. He could not have found a fitter material to supply the veneering that was removed from the War Department, in

the transposition of Mr. Spencer, than Mr. Porter. This personage exhibits, in the texture of his politics, nil the intricacy, and twisting against the grain, and the dark and motley appearance, to bo found in the curling of a knot of mahogany. And could anything work in better with a Cabinet which has every variety of involution in its grain, and every tinge in it complexion, from the brightest mulatto to the very black? To mingle with tnch a mongrel Administration, Mr. Porter was the very best selection

that could be made. He. like every one of

hit fellow-members of the council board, (including the (President himself.) has been a most devout professor of democracy, but al

ways proved to be itt betrayer whenever oc

casion seemed opportune for its destruction.

a floating at our mast-head

a protective TARtrr,

To retain specie in America; to create a reve

nue for the Government which must other

wise be raised by direct taxation; to afford our farmers a home-market or a foreign market.

To protect our Mechanics and Laborers from

the pauper competition of Great Dntian.

A NATIONAL CCRRENCY.

Convertible into specie at the will of the holder, to supply the place of worthless Slate

Ranks and Slate Scrip; to afford a place of safe deposit for the public money and thus to pre

vent its being stolen by siib-treasurert. To make exchanges equal, and thus save to Indiana the sum of scren hundred fifty thousand

dollars, which she now fays yearly in he troy ef exchange! DISTRIBUTION OP TnR TCBLIC LANDS, As a measure of relief to Indiana, whereby her public debt shall be paid fiom her share of the public domain, without taxing the pockets of the people. THE FLAG OF THE FOE! We go to war aga'.nst the following nvowed

and destructive policies of the Locofoco party:

free trade!

By means of which weshall buy all of Europe and sell nothing to her; thus creating a foreign debt to be paid in specie, wrung from the pockets of our People! By means of which the produce of the farmer is denied both a foreign and a home-market! By means of which British pauper labor will beggar American Mechanics and Laborers! By means of which the revenue for the support of the General Government must be raised by direct taxation from the People! a scb-treascry! By which the government officers shall be paid in gold and silver, and the People in Bank rags! By which the public money shall be left in the hands of Swarlwouts and Prices! By which the entire property of the country shall be reduced to a hard money value, and the wages of the Laborer and the produce of the Farmer to a similar value, while the office-holder is paid in cold, for which he gets double its amount in

naner. the veovte's currency! By which one

hundred thousand new officers will be created

bv the Executive to corrupt the elections! A

measure bortowed from the despotisms of the

old world, to introduce slavery here! MARTIN VAN ItfREN TOR PRESIDENT

The father oithe Sub-Treasury; the Standing

Army! the expender of Forty Millions of Dol

lnrs.gross.per year! the reteainer of Swart wools and Bovds in office! the opponent of poor white suflVaffc! the friend to rich negro suffrage! the

man who said the people expect too mnch

from theGovernmvnt! the opposerof the late war and James Madison! the enemy to the Cumberland Road! the calumniator of the vete

ran Harrison: NO public lands!

In other words, repudiation of the State debts

or its payment by direct taxation from the pockets of the rcoplc! Beneath which banner wiil the People fight? Indiana Jour.

Kcr wavis in tne . y. legislature, in commenlingupnn a proposition to give the election of Bank Commissioners to the People, he said

it would he "committing it to the hands of the

It it

not long since the men who live in Log-Cabins wcie sneered at by this same party and and now they talk of the People the Farmer and the Mechanic, as "COMMON MASSES" and

PIG RINGERS!" not fit to be trusted with power! Verily, the name is all they have of "Democracy I

Locofoco Consistency. "Te it not in GatV, that thirty-one out of forty-one Locofocos, In the Kentucky House of Representatives, voted to establish a Bank founded solely ttpon credit, without a dollar of capital, and without the hope of ever having one cent of gold or silver in itt vaults. What think ye of this, ye har4

money Clamites?

Burns says of Political Ambition that itt climbing is creeping, and that with all itt pride it has to do many dirty jobs.

r.Jd' A lady in Kemper county, (Miss.) was recently safely delivered of five children at one birth. That county will have to be enlarged in a few years.

The ImsI of the Mohicans. We understand

that no less than sir thousand and thirty bankrupt notices were yesterday deposited in the

I'ost Umce or this city. The expectation of the repeal of this important and beneficent

measure, has caused many to avail themselves

of its provisions, while still in existence. Cin.

Hep.

Married On the 12th inst. by the Rev. S.

T. Gillett. Judge ISAAC DUNN to Mrs. HAR

RIET HUNTER, both of this ci y.-Lowrsnci-

bttrgh Beacon.

Administrator's Notice.

TVOTICEis hereby given, that the tmdersigned has taken out letters of administra

tion onlhe Estate of Franklin Sample late of Union county, Indiana, deceased. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims

against the same, are notified to present the

same duly authenticated, for settlement (with

in one year from this dale. The estate is sol

vent. JEREMIAH COREY, Ad'm. March 20th, 1843. 13-3w

The Presidency A letter is published, writ

ten by the Hon. James Bccbanan, to members

tf ika DAnnawIvs v t T A Ai1 at II tA a."Vrt tkf HAIn.

one of less talents, less character, and lets de-j inMed Km hf he pudency. The Senator

serving, let, I toward it one pi me ongmcsi

ornamentt of that rarty, but hat been badly treated by it.

is as humble and unambitious as if he were a

youna girl instead of an old Bachelor. Before he thinks of thePresidency he must first qualify himself by getting married. The ladies of the

' bachelor.

All for fore. A young lady by the name of United States have solemnly resolved that no

n i. I... . f. it.v. n n Dnu ' nun man ubcicccu ricsiucm u is an uiu

township in this eonnty, with a rator. The

cause of it is said to be disappointment in iovc. Natai A C3ka.te. The Nor fork Herald has

She was arrested in her purpose, before sheirrCeived advieetthat the U.S.brig Boxer,Lieut.

had entirely effected it. She had ent the . Com'g Bullns, arrived at Matanzes, on the 20th

external jugular butb, the assistance of surgical' from a eruire near the Isle of Pines; hav- ... i in a fallen in with aud given chase to a topsail

aid she is expected to recover,

schr whose movements and appearance exci-

Have our petty politicians forgotten that Ae. ted suspicion, but which eontrived to make her

April election i. on nextMonday week -P.w,,no,u r,ng oversea.-Kep.

GAINS & LOSSES OF THEFIVE POWERS Since the middle of the last century France has lost America, Canada. Louisiana, and con

sequently, all her possessions in the gulls or St. Lawrtnce aud Mexico, the greatest part of the Antilles, St. Domingo, Goree, Madagascar,

Isle of France, the whole of her Indian possessions, with the exception of two insignificant pla

ces, and Minorca, with four strong places constructed by Louis XIV. to guard her frontier.

Instead of small and weak States, she has for near neighbors, to the east Prussia, and States les formidable in themselves, but which from

their associations in the Germanic Confederation, possess creat strength. As a set-ofT, she

eained Aimers, if we may so term it, wrier tne

conquered country, is only maintained from day

to day, by force of arms, where there are ro colonies of the conquerors, and where the mil

itary possessions bring nothing but w aste of

money and men

Since the middle of the last century Austria

baa lost the Austrian low countries; she has

gained Gallicia, Salzeburg, a portion of Tyrol, Venice, and the Vcnitian States, Istria, Dalmatin, Ragusa, a fooling in the papal States, and several islands in the Adriatic in the whole seven times more than she lost

Prussia has gained the Grand Dutcry of the

Rhine a considerable part of Saxony, vt estpha-

lia and Franconia.. England has lost her colony of North Ameri

ca. She has gained in Europe, Malta. Heligo

land, Gibralter, the Ionian Islands. In Amen

ca. Acadia. Canada, and the Northern continent

thft Ttprmiidns almost all the Antilles, a part of

Guiana, the Maldivia. and some other Islands; in Africa, Bathnrst Sierra Leone, several es

tablishments on the coast of Guiana the impor

tant colony of the Cape of Good Hope, the Isle of France, Rodigo.Secheles, Soeotra, the

Isles of Loss, Ascension, St. Helena, and per

haps soon the mouth of the Niger by the ac

quisition of Fernando Po and Annobon;in Asaiai 1 . - AAA AAA A '

FINE PRINTING INK. npHE subscribers have a constant supply of Printing Ink of various qualities, from 30 cents to $2 00 per pound from the Eagle Printing Ink Manufactory, which they offer to Printers at reduced prices, and which thev confidently recommend to fpurchasers at be ing fully equal to any manufactured in the East or West, they having used it on the best woik for the last ihree months. Owing to itt peculiar blackness, but a small quantity is required on the type, which makes it the most

economical Ink in us; even at former prices. Prices. Newt Ink, 30 cents per lb. Book Ink, 40 do Extra Book Ink, 50 do Terms-CASH. S. & Co. are also agents for Wm. Hagar A. Co. (New York) Type Foundry, and are constantly supplied with Type and other Printing apparatus, which they offer for sale at New

ork prices. SHEPARD & CO,

Stereotype Founders and Printers. Third street between Walnut and Vine. March 21. 1843.

CO

SALT. BBLS. SALT just received and for sale, by

N. D. GALLION. Brookville, May 16, 1842. INDIA NA S TA TE SCRIP. TUG Subscriber will take SCRIP AT PAR For WRArriNG AND TEA PAPER. J. II. SPEER. Brookville Mills, May 6th 1842.

WHEAT. The highest Cash price will be paid at al times for good merchantable Wheat, by

N. D. UALLIU.. Brookville, Aug. 11th 1842.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. A few excellent Breakfast tablet and Bed-

teads, just from the shop, either for money or

or almost any kind or produce.

C. F. LLARKpU.i. Ang.8. 1842. ' If .ft BUSHEL CLOVER SEED for tale JltF by R. & S. TYNER. March 13, 1843.

CJOLE and upper leather for ssle by W 11. c 8. TYNER Brookville Fb. 17. 1841.

LAST NOTICE. ALL persons indebted tout are requested to make payment. We shall proceed againtt 811 who fail to make immediate payment

K. & 9. TYNEK.

Ceylon, on empire ef more than I00,000,r0v"j Nov. 29, 184.

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