Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 40, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 October 1845 — Page 2

A !MEI1CA..

BUOOKVILLi:,

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1845.

Full Hoik Tnide.A the season for ! pork packing approaches, llieie is no lsi-

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J) V J rnaiiei t'l s omen hiii'icm iu vui - I mers and merchants as this subject ihe

pr ba'oie pri-rc, and ilie quantity in the

: ' -- : j country. Upon this suhjeel we desire to List of Wf .. In ,n-e.da:ice w ith the : impart an J receive nil the information we U v req uring ihr.n published in ihe p iper jr:i,,. Theie t now no doubt but the marif the greatest circulation, the Lsi of Let- J it will pen nt the very fair pi ice of from ters i inserted in ihe A nr:i-an. Those j $3 53 m .! OJ per c t. Editors are not Calling for alerlied letter have t" p i expectril to know-a much about this matiwo cents additional on unpaid letters, and jter as those who make ii their sole and two rents on paid or free letter. 1 constant study. Bui as we have travelled Uo;ne, and ilniughl so Tie upon the subject, Calelw .-We insert in anoher col- jour ,prt.llIilUoiu can ,,e ,llkei, for i,at tmn n communication in reply toilie Rev, i!,ey re worth. Allen Wiley. In publishing this we He- j Lnsl BMSni beyond controversy, the

ran irnmwir u.n, miesm i wo lespeet. : turpl v dij , ,.10re lhan meet the demand.

and consequently there is Utile or none in

In the first place, we do not intend to permit religions controversies into our columns. Should Mr. Wiley feel disposed to reply, ihere ii will close. In the second place, we deviate from our rule in allowing a man who signs a fictitious name to reply to a uan w-'io sign his real name. It is no; fair play. Cut the author's na;ne left w ith us. which can be known to those interested.

Laurel. By those from Laurel the present week we learn that the health of that pluce is iropioiine. ft is also improvina hi! al v2 the Rjicr. All the tow ns 0:1 the While Water have bren more affected wi-h chiiis and fevers than at any

former y

tiers

m'rr f.r W.. s.nie more than o'hers. liiit none !i; ber i so clear as to taunt the i-thois with their misfortune. It will l e en y hi "card" in '.his

-Hi' piper thai another physVian ha lo- ! ,.t . T. I - . . ..!

rai-uai i.r.im. i e relieve .Mr. bewail Is from Baltimore.

stote of lasi vear's pork. This scarcity and the prospect of a war with Mexico, has tended to keep up, if not advance the price. Ilenee the packing season will open with mess poik at $13.00 in the principal cities, instead ol 3 23, al the same lime lust year. The deficiency of the supply last year was as plainly seen then as now,and could be traced to legitimate causes by any person. It was an extraordinary wet season. Most of the rich river bottoms of the west were overflown in the months of May and June, destroying; the crops in the most fertile portions of the country. This wet

LEVI WOODBURY has been appointed by the President, to a seal upon the

Supreme bench of the U S. in the place ol Joseph Story, deceased. Mr. Woodbury is a matt of talents and experience, and ifthe place most be filled by a poli-

ticial favorite iif the President, not much 1

belter selection could be made. But he

has but few of tie qualities of the great and good man, whose place he is to occupy. After a long life of n fereserf politicial action, he is now placed in a situation where he can view ihe manners and principles or the various parties calmly and dispassionately. No selfish motives

can any longer bias his mind; and so soon as he can eradicate ihe deep rooted prejudices of rrty, engfiiceud by a long political life, he w ill settle down a confirmed whig. There is nothing more certain.

season was of such Ion? continuance lhal

er year. B.ookvtile. Laurel Con- .1 1 j . - j on. L.irr., v.i 11 the corn crops weie also destroyed in flat, vi. ie a-id Cambridge have all suffered L.i. a :.. .1, r .1.-

i.j.ki, ..v. ouu. .-iiivi in an ai is n mc

count iy the rains were so ronlintted fiat fanners could not mure lhan half cultivate

j tt.cir crop. Loiiseq'tet.tly there Cfitild

not have been much over half a crop of

rn in ihe great Missi sippi valley the

last year, and surely not half as much as litis year. This scarctiv was known to

Deaths -Dunns ihe present ick!y j ''aimc'r md they all calculated that it season we notice in our exchange papers j wo,i' l'e better to save iheir com than lo ihe deaths of several worthy i ..f : fl0 ''gsi 81 the then prospect for pork.

this State ;no2 the number. Mr. Win. ' Ul this w as not h'l seen by pork packers, Wm?. f.irin.rly a member of .-.he Lei?- ! unl" near the close of parking, and hence lititte and Mr. Wm. Paird, Keeper r,f! l'e advance ul that time. 'Biii:ds Hotel, loilmf Terie Haute. Mr?, j This year, w bat is the state of affairs? Colerick. (Jatijhier of Gen. Join. Mc- i 'ar'" 'i rm? the prospect for poik Carty) at Fort Wayne. Mrs. A . W. Rus- j " as 4er5' farmer made hi calcuse! (daughter of the Hon. James N.d.le) atj,alil,ls httsely for coin and hogs. Every Indianapolis. Mr. J.ise h T. Mitchell lff thiog has been properou. Better com Ciawi'ordivilie. Mr. Samuel Re 11, Snge j rrors 'l8V- r.cvcr blessed the farmers of Agent of Indianapolis. Hosea D. Hun-.ph- j l',e rl"i,e '"'C raising world. More coin reys Esq. of Crawr..iJsilie. Ju 'Din-1 fie'i!'i 'arSrr or belter ones, have never ry of Vign Comry. Besides a la. go num-i c,,v,uei ,,ie fru e "f llie wei-1- Rut ta-Vs

ber of very worthy n,en aid women who ''"me, there i nol slock hogs enough to

though not known beyond the count v j0 feed. This we considct a mistaken idea

which they live, were o!inmiits and blessings to the society in which they lived. Doctors ll is w?ll known, (about Brookvi'.le, nt least ) that the editor has but little loe for any person that answers to ihe term ' doctor.'' This is doubtless much of it yrcjuJict. But let tt see how ibis ptcjudicc was engendered. Some years voce, in the tow n where we were ihen living, there was a lich doctor worth his thousand. Bui his riches did not save him from diseae. We srem with him

many tedious and weary nights dining a I which the farmers saved last fall, and ex

long season f sicknes. Aiier his recove-; pectcd lo get a high price for, has this

ll is ttue there aie but few sti ck hogs to be bough:, for ihe reason that every man hastticli an rAumdajiee of rorn lo feed them, end the prospect for potk is so good that they will ttit sell them. And wc predict now, and we do it upon some knowledge of ihe facts, that the pork this jear will far exceed in quality and quantity any former year, and nearly double that of last year. The hogs, too, will be larger and fatter. Lasl winter was very easy en stock hog, anJ the pastures for hogs have been

o.d most of ihe season. And the corn.

ry he done for us a trifling for which physicians charge 23 cet.ls He charged us ih t amount and dunnrd us for u We paid it we were a boy and it was a'l the money we had! This a our Mrs I l"hys:cian' bill.

summer been fed out to hogs. In these matters we speak from actual knowledge

tn many instances.

v.incmnati rules the price of pork. But

ihe amount packed in the country towns

throughout ihe west, is year! increasing

Our next contact w uh a physiriin was (The country merchants are becoming

some three years afier. We ha I an atiac k I more able to compete in these matters cf the billions rholic. The physici vn lived j with city merchants, and Cincinnati has

immediately opposite, some 60 'eel. He ; seen her best days in pork packing. By

was called, and gave ns a hiile laudanum, ihe public works which are exten Img from j At ihe time he was awing us ten dollars- Cincinnati, the pork can he taken there We settled our h-,Us just b iloncx!. So cheaper 111 bant Is than alive. Formeily, in ieh for theis h testy. Their capacity U j when we bad nothing but I ad resds, our generally about tbesame p?r cent discount.! hogs, even from the Wabash country, had This was our rxpeiionco w ith doctois j lo be dtiven to Cincinnati. That day has wml arter out marriace. Since then w e j passed. As w e have travelled through the he found ' ruler tt" a l.ttle rhenper, but I country, and from or.r exchange paper rot much l etter. jwc learn of additional arrangements in every direction for packina poik; and these Bishop Son.'ehas removed Troin Leha-L,, , n,oro r lfM Jiverl ,he busins ron.tthto.to Nashville. Tennrssre. lie frm rtril,n3li. Allthese circumstanwas ot.i.n.d'ya j ankce from the N CM, t(,grthcr with ihe fact that hogs will England Stair. b,;t his residence in Balti-1 bp drire ,() ,u(4rke, w ;, kccp Hp ,he more and V.rgmi, naturalized htm to ! price or Pork at that place until towards peculiar institution or slavery.so th it w ben ie c w of he mk ,

he becomes old he cannot depart from it. ir, .1 ,11 i 1 , 1 1 If our poik laisers rtuhl be assutcd tf

Lafayette, hut. We think it is settled beyond controversy that Lafayette is to he city of Indiana. She has advantages that no other town has. and for which no other town can compete with her. There is not the least doubt but Lafayette buys more wheat from first hands, than any other town or city in the West, not even excepting Cincinnati. Itisnottobe disputed that more wheat passes to Cincinnati, but it is "purchased along the thoroughraie and public work leading to the city. But Lafayette buy& more of Farmer's direct than any other p.irt. The amount of wheat shipped from Lafayette for the week ending Sept. 25ih was ttren-

ty three thousand bushels, and 652 bids of

flour, which is not quite an average, as it was a busy week with farmers in eeeding. They have been paying the regular price for some weeks of 50 to 52 cents per bush

el. Lafayette is yet quite a new place

and they have not the machinery and

mills for manufacturing w heat into flour,

consequently most of the wheat bought

there is shipped to other ports to be man

ufactured. This will not remain so Ion?

The amount of Merchandize received

by Canal at Lafayeite for ihe week ending the 25ih tilt, appears to be very large,

winch shows that most of the wheat is

paid tor in goods and groceries. There

was received there 4,678 bbls. of salt; 170,

.21 lbs. t-r Merchandize, 12,892 lbs of Furniture; 5 lbs. of Nails; 1,322 lbs. or Tobacco, 3;758 lbs. orClocks; 0.240 lbs. of rags; 1,501 lbs. of sole leather; and other

articles in propoition for the mercantile business. F10111 the articles received

there, Until be seen they have but few

manufactures, excejt probably paper, as

w e see ihe article of rags. Among the or

tides shipped from there, we see the item

ofr,7201b.nfpig iron. Will Bro. Se

mans please itifoiin us where this pig iron

comes from.

We with our editorial brethren at Fort

Wayne, Logansport, Terre Haute, Evans

ville, New Albany and Madion would give

us some of ihe items of business at their

various tow us.

Latrrenctburgh tnJ It is known that

Laarenceburgh is a little ahead of any

other town for whiskey and boas, whilst

her flouring establishments and cooper shops arc not to be overlooked. By the Beacon we learn that the following articles were shlppeJ Tiom Lawrenceburgh

during the week ending on the 25ih ult: 1 ,3G9 bbls of flour; 781 bbls of whiskey; 602 empty bbls; 15;009 lath; &e. &c. The receipts of produce at Liwrenccburgh during the same time were 5.300 bushels,

456 sacks and 43 bbls of wheat; 225 sacks of corn; 42 sacks and 15 bbls of flaxseed.

On Saturday last they were paying 55 cts

for w heat; DO to 15 for flaxseed; corn, old, 30 to 33; flour S3 ,00 lo $3.15.

We have beard it whispered that the

Canal Company have agreed to give to

Law renceburgh that poation of the While

Water Canal between Harrison and Law

renceburgh, ifihey will gree to take it

and keep it in repair. It is also said that

Lawrenceburgh will accept it on condition

the Company will ke-p tip the dam at

Harrison.

Lawrexcebi rgii, Sept. 26, 1845. C. '. Clarkson, Esq., Sir,: I have jusi received a copy of your paper of the 26th inst. in which you make use of the following language in reference to a judgment for libel w hich I obtained against Tumi & Watts, proprietors of the Beacon, "some two jears since." "It vasamost out-

l rapcous and infamous iitdirment discred

itable to an enlightened community, and

disgraceful to our lavs."

My object in w righting to you is to as

certain whether you mean by this lan

guage that the charges against me for

which I brought the suit were true. If you ihink you can maintain the charge let us see it in the next "Amciican."

For your information I will state that

this judgment is not oppressing Mr. Dunn.

It w as appealed for the alledged reason

of getting time to see me, (I being in N. Orleans) and it ha not been decided yet.

he judgement was a righteous one

and the charges 6hall not be reiterated against me w ith impunity.

In haste, yours &c. JOHN B. HALL.

The foregoing letter was received by

us on Saturday evening last. It did not recur to us, until reminded of it by this letter, that John B. Hall, the present publisher of tha Lawrencebureh Register.

was the individual who sued John P. Dunn for libel. We assure friend Hall that we know nothing of the truth, nature or enormity of the libellou article, and we care less. We have made no ex

pression upon the subject, nor is our pock

et so full as to be willing to replenish his

byj endorsing, defending or republishing.

We have had sufficient experience in that

line. But we do say the judgment was

an infamous outrage so far as John P.

Dunn is concerned. But it is probable

there were actors in the publication of the article w ho should feel the stripes of

the law in the shape of a State's action,

if we had such a law. But it is not like

ly Mr. Hall ever intends collecting a cent

of the judgment, as it is presumed he sued

ror character and not for money, at leastjwe hope we shall be able to retain this opin

ion or him. And so far as plaintiff or plaintiffs lawyer is concerned, we retract,

not in the least, our expression of last

week, relative to the receivers of this

judgement. We hope we are now under

stood by all parties.

There is but few men of his piety, experi

j alw ays getimg SI 00 per cat. for their

nice and good sense, that would prefer a , . ,, , . , ' 1 ; pork, we can supply the world, only give

s'ave lo a fiee S:ate

But al his aje it

iinposiii'le lo aitiibute to htm Hit honest motives.

' 1 us eighteen months notice. In behalf of

any li.mg

: the greal west we ate now ready to enter

j into the contract to supply every market

Dr. I'ier. The U.iion Circuit Com t in the world with pork, if they w ill guaran-

found Dr. Pier gtii'ty on the second indict- i tee us S4 00 pei cwl.,and the costof pack ment against him, (that of horse stealing.) : ins, curing and transportation.

r.nd sentenced him to three years more; W'e think there is no danger in packing impi is liuiienl the Penitentiary ma-' ihis s.-asoti, if sales be male immediately.

kin years 0:1 ili-j tia indictment. The : Other think the prices will be sustained

oilier throe iiiiiioimetas they h.ne against throughout the season. It may be so. h;m. the Court has hung up for contingent ; But we wish our friends to recollect how

events. Tiiey intei-d to hixe them realy ! many men have been mined in potk pack-

to arrest Mid convict bun agai:i, should ! ing W hen poik is high, small profits can G.). Wltio'viitib, ihe friend of scoundrels, j 01.lv be made, and there is a chance for pirdon him on ih? present sentence. ; heavy losses. W'l.en pork is low-, large

w hich he w ill probably do. ' profits may be made in packing, and there

Itisnot only painful, but dgraeeful, ; i no possibility of large losses.

tj speak thus disrespeeiiiillv o( the chief , . ,. , , . , ' in luiaa Journ il This paper, under mag'iiraie of our Stale, but the conduct of ; , . . , , , , , . ... , , , , ! ihe editorial charge of that safe and sound W h 'comb and Porter demand a plain and ! , , , , ., . . ' ., 1 man, John D. Dcfree s, is to be published prompt expression cf the popular w 1 I and . , , . , . . Daily during the approaching Session or the Legislature. The price for the Daily est It it Si iptu We learn w ith re- i during the Session will be if 1.00. AnJ' gre; that iliere some probability ol the : person wishing to subscribe, we will at-

'l.iiivu Aviury U.iivcrstty." loosing th? 'tend o forwarding the mon y, as weshall 1 Per XVf"-

s'e a-it n'-;ih sfir ''( President -n;.n. (Spp letter fie-nr tircencat.)

Fatal Accident. On Saturday the

21th of September, a painful accident hap

pened about a mile from Grecnsburgh,

in Decatur County. As Miss Harriet Reilley, nrice of N. D. Gallion of this

place, w as drawing a bucket of water, the

post upon which ihe sweep moves broke

off near the ground, when the falling sweep struck her on the back. She fell to the ground, but instantly sprang up and

ran into the house, exel timing that she wa killed. Medical aid was called in,

and until the next day it was thought she

wottid recover. Al 10 o'clock on Sunday,

after a copious bio id letting, she began to

sink, and at S o'clock in the evening was

dead.

RICHARD TYNER.

A correspondent of the New Castle

Courier, writing from Brookville, under

date oflhe 11th ult. after giving various

political speculations, takes the following

notice of Mr. Richard Ty ner, of this place:

"The Board of Directors of the While

Water Valley Canal has appointed Rich

ard Tyner, of this place, one of the Direc

tors of said company in place of Solomon

Claypool deceased. I heard Mr. Tyner

say the oilier clay, that he would not ac

cepl the appointment. This is to be re

grelted. Mr. Tyner, beyond controversy

is one of the safest and best business men

in the State ol Indiana. He is a careful

far-seeing business man, of long expert

ence. He has the right notions of public

and private credit, and looks upon the vi

o'ation of either as dishonorable and dis

graceful. Mr. Tyner has been a merchant in this town for over a quarter of a century, and has made a fine fortune. But who should

envy him that competence? I know there

i a disposition among the poor to abuse and despise the rich, but I would rather examine how they become rich. In early years, Richard Tyner was what is call

ed a poor boy. By hard labor, and strict economy he gathered enough to make en

humble beginning in a mercantile way.

lie used to take flat boats of produce to

New Orleans, and pack his money back on foot, oter land, and through the Indian country, to this place, before steamboats

floated upon the Mississippi, and when

steam boat passage was too high for him

to pay. Let those who envy htm his rithes, try this plan or pursue any other occupation with the 6ame zeal, and then let them abuse those who have made fortunes in that way, ifihey choose!

His counsel and advice would have been

valuabla to the Canal Board, and to the country, but he does not feel disposed to hazard his honor and credit with aboard

that he csnnot control.

In all the commercial distress of the

country since the year 1838, and with all

his heavy operations Mr. Tyner has dis

tressed but few of his debtors. All that

have comelo him, and have fairly and

honestly slated their circumstance to him.

and have acted fairly, have never been

hurried in their payments, nor made to

feel the uneasiness of a debtor. He has

also helped many in this and the adjoining

counties in the way or pecuniary accom

modations which none other would or

could do. If any one w as in distress they

must consult Mr. Tyner, and seldom ever have they sought help in vain. In this way he has been a very useful man. But

I must not weary you or your readers a-

bout one of our merchants. Our country

and towns being so full of picayune sha

vers, instead of liberal high-minded merchants, that when we have a good and useful man of this kind, he should be known."

f mm in Laicrenceburgh. They havear

rested a Hotel keeper in Lawrenceburgh

on a charge of keeping a gambling house

At the lime of the arrest, it is said there

was come drawing of pistols and some tall

walking not common in those parts.

Too many iron Mr. Hatch of Indianapolis, is Ihe editor oflhe ''Daily Morning Courier." the ' Western Spectator' and the ''Western Cultivator." We never knew a man who had too much talent, and industry to edit and publish one pa-

Price of Wheat and Flour. Wheat. Flour.

Oct 1, Sept 29 Sepl 27 Sept 23 Svipt 20 Sept 20 Sept 23 Sept 20 Oct Ul Sept 25 Sept 23

prohcb'.y ic ''if abo'.:t the renmenccinrRt cf tlie Session.

fj"Wc call attention to the advertisement of S. H. Parvtn & Co's. Hat Store

Cincinnati, Louisville, Ky Toledo, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore Charleston, Indianapolis, Xenia, Boston, Terre Hauie, Lafayette, Logansport, South Bend. Buffalo, Detroit.

Sept 27 Sept 27 Sept 27 Sept 25 Sept 20 Sept 2?

55 53 73 1 00 70 03 83 00 37 50 00 35 52 53 52 SS 7f

$3 20 3 00 3 50 4 87 3 25 3 73 4 62 5 23 2 50 2 75 5 00 3 00 3 10 3 12 3 00 4 18 3 R7

Correspondence of the Ind. American Cincinnati, 30th Sept. 1845. Mr. Editor: It seems to be the general impression here that the pork inaikct this season will open well foi producers, and also for packers. There has been a cry, not uncommon perhaps just before the maiket opens, that the stock of hogs in the country is smaller than usual. An extensive packer, w ith whom we were conversing a few days bince, did not seem to

place much reliance upon this opinion, but said that other causes would ensure to producers a good price: It was his opinion

that the market w ould open at $i, and that al least 40.000 hogs w ould be cut up at that

price. He thought, also, that il would not fall much below $4 during the season; and that a superior quality might bring S3. This is a fair prospect for farmers, who, at

present prices of corn, can, I suppose,well

afford to sell at those rales. It is much

belter, at least, lhan they have done for

some years. The old stock, as this gentle

man informed me, is pretty much exhaust

ed, and the market w ill not be clogged, as

it was last year, by a large surplussage of

the previous year. It is cheering lo know

that enterprising farmers oflhe Northwest

will be able to turn their labor to such good

account. Should the present prospect hold out, not less lhan $2,000,000 will be dis

tributed within a few month among them

and the mechanics. A few years of good

market, w ith their unlimited pou ersof pro

duction, would render our agricultural

population wealthy, and enable them w ith

ease to clear off all public embarrassments There are some however who are proph

esying that the number of hogs this year

will far exceed that of last, and that they

will generally be heavier, w hich, in their opinion, will not allow more than $3 00 to S3 50, as the price. What the facts are,

we cannot tell with certainty, but the opin

ion we first gave above, was that of an ex

tensive and intelligent packer.

Small lots of flour have sold the past

week at $3 20, from mill. Large orders

were sent on here from the east, during

the prospect of a deficiency in the Engli.h

crop, but later intelligence has blasted that

bud of speculation. One of our millers in

formed me that he had an order for 4,000 bbls., which he was now filling, at S3 10.

There is no present prospect that flour

will go much above existing rates, "if any

and last quotations at the east show a de

cline.

By a recent arrangement with the Rail

road Co. the eastern mail will arrive here

after this date, some five hours earlier, somewhere about noon, and by a new steamboat arrangement will go on to Lou

isville the same evening, instead cf the next morning al half past ten.

A College of Dental Surgeons is about

being estab'ished here, under a charter

eranted by our Legislature last winter. The professors are J. W. Cook, J. Taylor, and M. Rodgers, Esqrs. The building is nearly completed, and the institution w ill open in November. There is, no doubt, need enough for an institution of this kind

in the West, for ihe number of eoi disant Dentists, that plough and scrape among teeth with no more notion of their busi

ness than Sub Treasurers had of honesty.

is quite too numerous. W'e understand,

however, from those who are familiar

with the whole proceedings, that this Col

lege was got up without the approval of

the great body of dentists, and will receive

no support from them. They donotdis

approve of the object, but only to the man

ner of getting it up. The Mississippi al

ley Association of Dental Surgeons will

have nothing to do with it, and at its last

meeting here, in July, il president, a pro

fessor in the College, resigned, from a con

viction of his unpopularity in the body on

that account. The objection seems to be

partly to the charier, and partly that il was

originated and pushed through by some

few individuals, for their own interest and

importance. The Professors, however,

are good men, well qualified, and we hope

will make it worthy of patronage.

The College of Teachers will meet here

next Monday, and continue its sessions

through the week. Dr. Bishop, formerly of Miami University, will deliver the first

address, and President Pallison, of the

Baptist Institute in Covington, U. T. Howe

Esq., of this city, and others will follow on

succeeding days. The Mechanic s Insti

tute also will hold an exhibition next week

Il will doubtless be a fine display of skill,

invention and workmanship.

xeslerday a new paper was laid before

us "The Cincinnati Daily Native Amen can." Il is published by W. II. Haldeman

formerly of the Courier, of Louisville, and edited by Haldeman, Bryant, and an indef

inite number or gentlemen "prominent members or the party," so it says. Who

they are, it would take a wise man to tell

For our part, we don't know or any party

hereof that name; much less any "promi

nent individuals." There was a little jun

to that called itself a "party" last fall, but

we thought it was occupying apartments

in the "tomb of the Capulets," or wander ing with hopeless tread in the limbo of de funct associations. The paper advocates

we believe, total abstinence frombeer,sour

krout, and stub pipes; and goes in forliber

ty and equality except in the case of

Dutchmen, etc. who are supposed to be too stupid to know anything about it. We understand it is to be published both here and at Louisville, which, being interpreted means, that ii is obliged to skim two pans for a churning. Clay refuses to touch the type and press

sent here by the Lexington committee, or to have anything to do with it, and holds the said comrnitiee responsible. There wa a good deal of a scattering to-day on Main street, made by a ftightened horse. He had broken loose with a buggy attached, and came dow n at furious speed till he w as near Third. Here, nearly opposite the office of Ellis & Vallette, there was a dray directly across hi path. He took lhal with a flying leap, and passed completely over it. As the buggy struck the dray the king bolt came out, and he passed on with ihe shafts and forward wheels attached, while ihe body and hinder wheels flew several feet into the air, and turning a stim'rset, came down on ihe other side. Luckily no one was in the buggy or on the dray, and although the street through which he run was crowded, we heard of no one being injured. We have had several fine show ers since last evening, but no prospect of a rain to raise the river. Owing to low- water, there is a small supply of coal in market, enough only to last the city but n short time, and it is held at 10 cts per bushel. Truly yours. CI VIS.

Correspondence of the Ind. American, j

Gheencastle, Sept.28, 1845. Friend Clarkson: Havingalreadj spent j

nearly iwu weeks in ims piacc 1 suppose

it about tune I was making my report.

A ride along the National road, t this season of the year, is d elighiful, except for

the dust, w hich is almost suffocating when the w ind is not strong enough to carry it away as fast as it is disturbed by your horses' feet. Fortunately for me for I lost

my friend by tarrying so long in Indi

anapolis there was abrisl; breeze all

day and I suffered but little. Turning to the right off the National ro-id, 23 miles

from Indianapolis I soon found myself in sight of Grecncaslle. The town spreads out before the stranger and reminds him of a big boy's whiskers extensively laid out, but thinly supplied w ith the thing

desirable for ihe object intended.. Not only are the houses scattered over a vast

area, but they are generally of indifferent I correctly, that i:our Baptist friends" after

appearance. Most of them are but one having been once the most numerous,"are story high, and but few or them are as at the present, compare 1 with some other

neat as they should be The object denominations, on Ihe back ground," prowhich most attracts the attention or the ceeds to give, as he modestly terms it, "a

stratiger i the edifice oflhe Ashury Uni- candid answer" to the inquiry why this Is

versily which i placed on the highest the case, and states as the first and apparground and is seen at some distance. It ently the prominent reason, that "the lims i a beautiful building perhaps the best has passed by for the peculiarities or Cad-

for the purpose intended, that is to be vanism to be eeceived by the public at found ia the west. And now sir I feel large, with any degree of cordiality." (?)

anxious that your readers should know! Now, in reading this, (to us somewhat

that I am no longer to be classed with the of a new thought,) the query aross in our unfortunate herd who have never rubbed mind. If this be the case, what are we to

For the American. Calvinism Rev. A. Wiley. Mr. Editor: In perusing your valuable paper of Sept. 12ih, our eye immediately alighted upon an article copied from the "Western Christian Advocate," and captioned Introduction and Progress of Meihoriism in South Eastern Ind ana, No. 3." Having always cherished a high regard for that respectable body of christians, we consequently promised ourselves somewhat or a treat in glancing over that portion ofihcir history. But niaik our surprise when we found that the writer, instead of giving us the promised history, after noticing himsell and his father, his wife and his wife' father. &c. &c, proceeds to gire us a sketch of the rise and progress of the Baptist church in Southeastern Indiana. But it is not with this that we have to

1 do. The writer, after slating, and no doubt

their backs against a college wall, for sir,

I not only entered in due form, but I have

gone through college entirely through, and lhal in the surprising short period of

less than two weeks. Of course you and

they will anticipate a material change in

infer from it? Does il indicate an advance

of "the public at large" in the scale of intelligence and cspeciallyof religious knowledge? Does it augur well for the cause of truth in our community? H we turn our eyes to the history or the

the style or my communication. For or Church of Christ, we find thai almost all learned men an exhibition or learning is or those who shone eminently as lights in alwaysexpected. Well sir, you have my the world those who stood forth as men ipse dij-il (Latin) lhat i t shall be to your of profoundrudiiion, sagacious minds end liking, for I have gathered up a quantum active piety, he!d, as peculiarly precious, sxifficit (Latin) or real classic words and those doctrines, termed by our writer 'ihe phrases which will soon pour forth like a peculiarities or Calvinism." Passing over torretis horrendus (Lai.) until you will all Paul, the great Apostle of the Gentiles, admit I can write a la mode, Unirersitatis who could use such strong predcslinarian (Lat. & French), and admire my erudi- doctrine as we find in his Epistle to tha lion. But first let nie impart to the unin- Ephesians, chap. 1, and in many other structed a small portion of ihe knowledge parts of bis writings, and a Peter, w ho is I have obtained in my rapid course through equally plain and clear in presenting the college. I found on the first floor a large same views, we would merely mention chapel, about 70 by 50 feet and a laburato- Ignatius and Irenaeusor the first and secry. Prof. Downey, under whose care i ond century, Cyprian and Gregory of Nysthe department, or Natural science, if un- sa, of the third, all of whom were the lu-

defatigable in his researches and probably I minaries of their age, and the pillars of the

excels any man in the west of his age, in church. And yei from their w ritings il is ihe branches il is his duty to teach. He manifest lhat they held the peculiarities

has an elegant telescope of his ow n con- spoken of by our writer. (See a work cnstruction, through which I had a view of titled 4 Historic Proof, by the celebrated some of the planets. The second floor Toplady.) contains 8 or 10 recitation rooms. On the It is well known to those acquainted third floor come recitation rooms and the with Ecclesiastical History, that (he sys-

halld of the liierary Societies. These are tern of Calvin was almost entirely the same tastefully finished and elegantly furnished, wiih that of Augustine, the variety of

Especially do the members of ihe Platone-1 whose great and shining qualities fi.led the an society deserve credit for their indus- world wiih his fame, and whose writings,

try and taste. They have their hall well according to a learned historian, ''had for carpeted and well supplied with settees. many centuries as potent an influence on Their chair for the President cost 20 dol- the religious opinion of Christendom as

lars, and in addition to these they have the those of Aristotle exercised over philosoportraits of all the members of the faculty, phy, and who sowed the seeds oflhe great

On this floor Prof. Teft has his recitation reformation. It is equally well known

room, in which the Greek verb is drawn that his doctrines were heartily espoused out on about 250 square feet or the wall. and advocated by the noble Chrysostom,

An arrangement W6ll calculated to racili- patriarch of Constantinople, and termed by ate the acquislion of thisdifficult language, historians, on account of his talent and

of course I know il is difficult, having eminent piety, the sun of his age.

passed through college.) On the fourth! If we pass on lo the dawning of the refor Attic story is one large room which is ormalion, we find John Wickliffe, of Eng-

wholly appropriated to a museum and ge- Und, called by his enemies the Gospel ological cabinet, which far excels any Doctor, a great admirer of Augustine, and thing of the kind I know of in any western laying the great foundation upon which college. Prof. Larahee, under whose care were afterwards based the thnty-tiine arti-

is this department, is just the man for such cles or the chinch or England, acknowla collection. From this story begins the edged to be Calvinistic. Nor shall we pass

cupola. As is always the case, when the by the eminent Huss, that man or sound

student is about to finish his Herculean knowledge and sterling piety, his enemte

task, the last part of my college course being judges, who was to Bohemia as

was the most difficult, and I am credibly Wickliffe was to England, and who by esiniormed that many, who had proceeded pousing and advocating the same peculiar thus far, have hailed here and gone no doctrines laid the way lo the reformation

farther. Not so with me. My aspirations in that country. for eminence were too indomitable to sur- We have noticed these because they fer me to stop short of the highest point were the ones prominent in their age for

of college privileges, and on I went until knowledge, piety and usefulness, and yet

I found myself 170 feel above terra firma all holding and teaching what our writer and gazing upon those beneath, with the terms "the peculiarities of Calvantsm.'' feelings which such an elevation must But when we come to Luther, the sun necessarily inspire. How contemptible of the Reformation, whose name stands the pigmies on the common valks oT life unrivalled,and whose praise is in the mouth appeared at that time I need not say. of every sincere protestant, or John Knox, Who ever graduated at so respectable a the reformer in Scotland; they too hold college and did not feel important? So strenuously to the doctrine of predesiina111 uch then for my course through college, tion, and that our justification is solely by The present session opened last Mon- the imputation of the merits and satisfacday, wiih quite a number of new students, tion of Christ Nay if we may receive the though Ihe actual number in attendance is testimony of the celebrated Dr.McCrie, in not as great as last session, owing in part his life of Knox, Luther, Zuinglius, Meto the session's beginning earlier than u- lancthon and Calvin, Cranmer and Knox, sual, and to the extreme unhealihiness of all spoke the same language on this subihe Wabash Valley. Dr. Simpson hasjust ject. returned from Cincinnati, where he had To proceed farther, we need but menbeen detained beyond his proper time, by tion Banclave, jBaxter, Doddridge, Wilthe sickness of his family, and yet his wife berforce, and all that host ol Calvini sts so had not sufficiently recovered to accompa- well known as the great lights and reform

ny him. He confirms the report which lars in Scotland and England, my, perm.t

has been current here for several days

that he has been offered the presidency of Woodward College, in Cincinnati; and the fears of his ftiends here are not much allayed by ihe report he makes of his acceptance. He has resolved to leave it to the advice ofthe Indiana Conference, and such are the circumstances in the case lhat, no doubt, much as they love him, they will advise him to accept. What then becomes of Asbury University? Why sir she will prosper still. Her foundation is too deep and too well laid to be moved by the moving of any man, and though I regard Dr. Simpson as one of the greatest men of this age, I do not believe the prosperity of this University depends upon him, much as he has done for its present popularity. Prof. Teft is just the man to take his place. He is in every sense worthy and well qualified, and on the spot now. Yours, X. Y. Z.

Hogs. The Chillicoihe Metropolis 6ays: :'Asthe season of hog-killing is approaching, wo feel anxious to receive and give all the information on this subject that can be gathered. From the best advices, we are led lo believe lhal the quantity of hogs ror sale, in this valley, will be at least double that of last year the corn crop having been the largest ever known. The hogs will be very laige, and prices bid fair to open at 3 and 31c per pound the latter price for those weighing over 200." (fThe Following Capital Toatt was given at a late dinner or tbo Hasty Pudding Club, in Boston: 'Our corn-Ted boys and corn-fed girls the right material t form a enm-fed-era-tion."

us to ask. who are now at the head of al

most all our literation and religious instw ti'tions? Who take the led in almost every benevolent and religious enterprize? Blot out every Calvinistic denomination, with all their benevolent and religious institutions from under heaven and what would be the condition of the Christian world? We leave it to the intelligent to answer. Now, if such be the case, will our writer be so kind as to inform us what we are to infer from his language? Are we to understand that he and the public at large in South Eastern Indiana have advanced beyond these great reformers and almost all the lights of the church? That they have now become more discrtminar ting and intelligent? And that il those holding such obnoxious peculiarities were so eminently useful, we must now expect prodigiesof usefulness? Or what are we lo understand? But farther: Look at the character of those communities where these peculiarities are embraced. Go lo old Scotland, thai land of general knowledge and steady moral habits, and you find them almost all Calvinists. Take those churches in our own country, the different branches of Presbyterians and they will challenge any other denomination to a comparison w ith them of the intelligence and piety of iheir mi nisters and people. And how shall wa account for ihis? Is il their Calvinism that prompts them on in the acquisition of knowledge, and stimulates them, not to that mushroom piety which springs up in a night and dies in the morning, but to a constant exercise of holy affections, and a consistency in their lives? If s , can the present disposition cf the publi at larg t