Indiana American, Volume 17, Number 31, Brookville, Franklin County, 27 July 1849 — Page 1

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OldBr.llorlionorBrM.kviUc-Kvan. illr WUIHW""1"'" ... - the Chnlrra the CJermnne .rnu.v . Whisker turner. DearClarkson: You are not to attribute my long silence to forgetful, .ess of you or your readers. A multitude of duties kept me from enjoying the pleasure of conversing with you and Ihera as I had hoped to do. Forget you I can ... . .1..

- ... ...-... mi ... nunu Hums wuiiiu an uninierrupteo rery many of the readers of the American, as I lence that walks in darkness, comes as much H her remaining provinces of Bohemia, Gali- ; boundary and under a single civil system, so am bound to no other people, for me soon to through the established order or second causes, cia, Tyrol, Lombardy, and Venice. The travel-' many striking contrasts of language and of' forget them. This is not strange. They were as does the destruction that wastes at noonday. , r who approaches Vienna from the North, blood. j the associates of my childhood, the companions There is, in the operations of the pestilence, and at one glance from the sloping heights '. The same causes which have operated to preof my youth, and very many of them contribu- in the mortality which walks in its train.enongh j which conduct him to the Danube, the Imperial vent the advance of the Hungarians in all modted by precept and example, to the formation of that baffles all human knowledge. Its causes , city at his feet, the spires of Hungarian Fres-! ern arts, have also contributed to preserve, in! my character. It is true that neither the town ajd its processes are concealed from our view, j burg on the horizon, and the outposts of the ' spite of persecutions asd intrigue, the ancient ! nor the adjacent country is the same to me as Why under the same sun and rains a mortal dis- Carpathean range far away to the northeast. 1 balance of sects, in religion. The Magyars . tt,. I ... 1 1 J . I II I 1: Fmhi ik. r: nr 1 ..... I . . 6 ' i

Tl.n r too many lies mai nun me m formerly, l ne nuts, tire oroons, mu nvtu indeed unaltered. These stand or flow as they ty did long ago, but their sameness contrasts pain- j fully with the changes which have taken place ( among those that, in childhood and youth, gave . them their principal charm. Twelve years have . told sadly on the happy families that once were my acquaintances. You, who have been a- ; mong these changes.all the time.and upon whom ed they have come, one by one, can not feel them, ; be as one upon whom they come with the accumulation of years. An occasional sojourn of a few days at a time, has not been sufficient to engraft the many excellent strangers that are now your citizens in the place in the affections, , from which numbers have been severed by death. I have often regretted that it is so. But life's young love entwines around the heart as the love of riper years can not. But I must not indulge in this strain. I find it carrying me back in my feelings to other days, and involuntarily the forms, the faces, and the names of many of the sleepers in the church yard come up before me almost to the exclusion of those yet living. Such a retrospect is not pleasant to ' be me. I prefer forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth to the things before. I love to live for eternity. As you have doubtless learned from the papers, we are in the midst of the dreadful scourge, the cholera, though its ravages here have probably been less than in any other place of equal population on the river. In a population of about 6,000 the deaths have averaged about feu per week since the first of June. Some weeks they have been more numerous-but from the

best information 1 can obtain this is the average I sss of the mortality could not better be detected for 6 weeks last past. In the coumry the mor- I and provided against. tality has been great. In one family in this i But no rational mind doubts that the pesticounty seven died in three days three young' ence follows the orderly course of second causmen one afternoon. Of course there must have I es, and whatever the Scriptures teach with re-

been great suffering. Often in the country oritinarv ntfVictinna nra (rrentlv mimvlpnter! bv R dinary afllictions are greatly augmented by a , want of attention, but when whole families, and

whole neighborhoods are smitten by pestilence SOme divine commission. They represent God it is impossible to describe the suffering. No j his providence, not as setting these causes medical aid and no gentle nursing. In one fain- , aside, but as working through them, and workily a few miles from the city the father had died jg B ; n. We naturally feel that we are J l.ffc .u . r :t i.. . .:. 1..1.1. A ..

auuienuie imiu. in luiu.,i..uo1: ura.ui. - few days afterwards some neighbor called and found the mother just dying, watched by a little boy ten years old, and an infant was in the eradie in a slate of collapse. But such scenes are becoming common, especially in the parts of this county inhabited by Germans. Of all the . victims in the city and county about nine-tenths are Germans. It is difficult to account for this, unless their habits and diet are favorable to the ; malady. Most of them live ,n poor houses, and : the habit

, uu jHia wen intormed and well balanced j orancn ol the t-clavonic race known as the of using ardent spirits and beer. But are we miud will acknowledge his hand in events whose Slowaks, and some Germans who are connectnot gudly of then- blood? They have sought atral causes are so manifest. Not a sparrow ' ed with the mineral operations, is rich in the refuge amongst us from the wrongs of the old faIIs without onr Father.8 Uuowled . What ' precious as well as the ruder and more necesworld to be slain by our wrongs. For a per ,), ,.. r ,...........,...,.., .... -i., : -.u. j.. .

.... . cent, of the price of blood we authoriie men to i oeal out to them the deadlv noison which at auv oeal out to liemtue deadly o,son w ihlh, ai auj t me, must hastea death. The icense thev hold , . , , makes them our agents. It does not exculpate , , . , . ,. us that the only persons who engage in this work of death are their fellow foreigners. We are as much bound to restrain them from crime ; as the native citizens, and our laws do not limit j this crime to them. This sad havoc among the i intemperate should require every man to make ' renewed efforts to break the bond by which he ! Is now united to the traiTic. There maybe ..I. : :.. l. : ..!. l. .. . i ,k. i: .-Mu.HB.w.,, U r.eseui.a.4i.e license,

can not be prevented, but by one united efiort truly gratifying to know, that there is not only j Austria should have endeavored to bring such ! we can remove the disability or the present law, . a disposition abroad to get up institutions of the 1 a country under the yoke of her grasping monand theu we may be truly free. Then, do not very first order, in all parts of our country, for 1 opoly of 'trade and oppressive internal customs, 1

. "", wnen me cnotera aoes not exist, demand a penally for violating the law that will be more con- j Biuuuouai uiau me present i n r ranKiin counij ii cwiawiiie o. tiouars to am a Gog, out ne , ... .. .. V ! ,..., , r of which riots and bloocshcd ...u- i UK "Le, pajs, the enormous sum of two dollars. You will .m-mW fW . f ,u k i V remember that a ew ears ago a youth who had , been intrusted with fifteen dollars of counterfe.t money by seme counterfeiters, wh.ch he was to j ' "',l' Vl l"D 1'-. was ni tothe penitentiary for two or three years from j your county, while no man had been the looser to the amount of fifty cents. But the man who had taken the last half dime from a poor man, j (as much in violation of law as this money had I been passed) and sent him home drunk, to beat his wife and children nearly to death, was fined Too Dollars! These are facta which the records of your court will show. And these penalties were inflicted under a constitution which says "All punishment shall be in proportion to the nature of the offense." Shall these things continue so? Let every man in your county peak through a memorial to the next legislature on this subject. If he loves the present law lt him remonstrate against its alteration. If he wishes his children to be as well protected as his dogs or his money, let him ask a penalty that w ill show that the law does not connive at drunkard making, more than at stealing five cents. The penalty now inflicted for stealing five cents would effectually suppress the business of making drunkards. Your county is fortunate in having in the Senate one so able to do justice to this subject. He ablv and readily voted for a law to send Doctors to the penitentiary for disintering the dead, and he knows that the inevitable resuit or the traffic is to fill graves with druukards, and he cannot refuse to protect the living by as good a law as he does the dead. In other words, he will certainly count it as great an offense to put a mn in the grave prematurely ag to resurrect him before the proper time. Surelv th wife or drunkards do not just begin to have feelings that may not be outraged when the drunkard

tails into the grave. Ought we not to save their feelings from the outrages they suffer from drunkenness before death comes to their relief. Yours, Evanvi!le, July 7, lP

RELIGIOUS.

e i in ih ItilwM-r. Many nlaces have heen visited durimr the nr- ' - sent season with epidemics, which have carried many suddenly to the grave; and some teflec-j tions on such events may be timely and accep-, table to not a few of our readers. j Though the causes of them are, in many in- ; stances beyond the reach of science, none of us ; .1 . t. . i iri. - .: Hiunwr mem 10 oe supernatural, i lie ursu- . IUu.u icm iwu mtr souib smau mean- j in a large and populous town, and that to all j appearances as favorably situated for health as the rest, and leave the rest untouched, is more than science, ever so conversant with subtle agencies, can tell. But nature is full ofanalogies, which may confirm the belief that God in ! such instances, works by general and establish- j laws. All the forms of vegetable life seem to exposed to like wholesale operations of death ' tnrougti unseen causes. j Now a particular species of tree is singled out, ! and the frosts of death gather upon it wherever ! it is found, leaving all other trees around it flush j with life. Next an esculent root that has furnished no small share of the food of the human . j race, is smitten with disease at the same time in every nmon and continent, shawing the unseen; cause to be as wide as the world. In this we see that God has under his control agencies of a j nature too subtle for our sciences, through which he can send a blight when he will, either directly on our life, or indirectly on our means of life. Could the history of all sweeping pestilences written out, it would be full of instruction, and especially to this point, that "all flesh is

grass. It would also show us how little we climate by any other part of Europe. It yields, know, and how much less we can control, the j in great abundance, all the products of the terncauses of wholesale mortality. Twice within Pirate zone, with others common to Italy and .1. . t i . ., ' ... 1. . f rri ,

jui mriiiuij urn cuuiera nas sprung up lu tne , far East from causes uuknown and commenced j its voyage wes-.ward round the world. A ud every place that acknowledged its invisible presense, lelt the terror of the darkness in which it walked. Men were the more impressed with fear and awe, from the fact that the natural caugard tQ the particular providence, they do not ... . .. :t Avnt.,.lA .1 . lnake it exclude second causes, except in cases j 0f professed miracles done for authentication of prought nearer to God when the visitation comes to us through inscrutable causes. We somehcw fee, that God has less to do with events which we can refer to some human cause. But when all such causes are out of sight, and we can see Mlhin(brtTOB ug and li8 hand we more rea(lily admit imnression. And this lllaT be one reason wh he comes t us jn g tiIence that wa!k, in darIl nessthat we 1 take . greater lm ion of and cast Selves helpless ;nt0 ,,is bandg ai , " "'""'c ou 1 esiaunsneu moaes , ofGod. . ..,, , oi uoq working! And what are second caul . t ,. 1 Bes. but subordinate agents or elements put in mofin v F. , r" , ... 1 . motion by the t irst Cause? All the processes . r . r., , . , . &" oy an impulse anu control rrnm u . , .. ., .... . ...u.u.io,., Ul u.e siarry All tI,o. !.: .! .1. . . i heavens, and all the doi HP'S and PVPiits nf minrrt. scopic words are cotltroIled by lUm ..who pire, it, ,. , n inrc,.s .inp AnJ wh ' his chariot upon a rolling world." Messenger. Vrlej-n IVmnlc Col Ice c. (inrinnnli. We have received the "Seventh Annual Cat ., . .... .. ... a.ogue- oi mis tlourishiug institution. It is ,,,5 v.-ucauon oi lemates, but also to sustain them This Female College is acknowledged to be 1 me most extensive and complete, of any in the united olates. l ip nnnilwr nf ri.... i.J: ... i ue niimuer oi young ladies in ..urn., .lin e uuring tne last term was 4o6. Th i i ...... ooara oi instruction consists of the President.1

Rev. P. B. Wilber A M six male nnH ten f i . V r, ' iM-'slxn,aIe ndtenie-,ed male teachers, making , the whole seventeen teschers. e have frequently visited the school and confess that we feel inadequate, in few

worcs, to give tlie reader a nroner concention of . . - i the very superior character of the college edi-

lice, the regulations of the school, and the very j port she cannot rely, it will be seen in numerigreat facilities for imnartinc- instruction. To ...i . i.,,k H.marv falls little short of beius

be properly informed, those desirous of such information must visit the premises, become ac-

quainted with Mr. and Mrs. Wilber, and others portions of the Hungarian people, are, however, who have charge of the institution, and after; influences which prevent the country at presseeiug the school and a few of their exercises, ' ut from displayiug its full power. Whether they will realize far more than" we can commit- j th more imminent damr-r which threatens iu

nicate on paper. We find among the names of the graduating class of last year, those of two very special fr.eds,

Miss M. E. ., of Centreville, Ind , and Miss , gj S. L. L., of Monroe, La. These gifted ladies are The Magyars constitute the original C-ungar-destiued to reflect much credit and honor, both jan stock, whose chiefs Taunded the kingdom a

upon the Institution and the two State from which they hail. Family Visitor. .tlnhoftiat Church ProprrtT. After all it seems that law, and not arbitration, is to determine the dispute between the Northern and Southern divisions of the Methodist Church, wilh reference to the church property. The Western Christian Advocate of yesterday says: "The Commissioners of the Church South have instituted suits against the Book Concern, both at New York and Cincinnati, and have served writs upon the Book Agents. The proposition to arbitrate thus falls to the ground. The bishops, as we are advised, will not farther lay it before the conferences." 07"! yield to his earnest persuasions,' the young widow said after angling two years

HISTORICAL.

Lrrnm trip New ork Tnhune. Hungary -It, Nitnntion, RoOMrclmion . ' PU The geographical extent of Hungry, including the ancient dependencies of Transylvania and Croton.e, and that collection of different tribes organized under a peculiar system as a military frontier between her dominions and T,,l,.. .1 ...... "c, , inure unn eaua Is mat nF Anclrl. .;,K - niYcr marcn me Austrian frontier north of the Danube a day's forced march ! would take an army to the walls of Vienna. The boundary line extends nearly to Cracow on the north, following the course of the Carpatheans as they curve eastward like a grand natural arch, resisting the presence of Russia, South of the Danube it runs to the southwest u an irregular line, closely approaching the great highway from Vienna to Trieste, and striking the Adriatic at the head of the Gulf of Fiume. The Danube, sweeping to the east for about seventy miles after leaving Presburir. turns abruptly to the south at Wailzen, (the scene of late glorious Hungarian victory.) and narlinir the rival cities of Pesth and Ofen. naseq thrnntrh the heart of the kingdom. At the fortress of I Vterwaradin which is to the Danube what Ehrenbreitsteu is to the Rhine it again reassumes its easterly course, striking the Turkish frontier at Belgrade, and skirting Transylvania till within a hundred miles of the Black Sea. The central region of Hungary, stretching out from the Carpatheans to the Danube in vast steppes which are drained by the Theiss and its 'myriad tributaries, is not surpassed in soil and suuiucm i taiice. i ne narvesis in grain are abundant and certain. The plants are protected from the cold winds of the north by a moun tain range 8,000 feet in height, while the hot blasts of the south are tempered before they reach the Danube, in the Hefil,n nf !, nullr.. and the immeasurable forests of Servia. Hungary produces within her borders, even under the imperfect system of agriculture which her peasants have practised for three hundred years, all that is necessary to her own sustenance. The valleys of the Carnathpans mm. port numberless flocks of sheep, goats, and - - i - c cattle; the central table, watered by six hun- i dred streams brings forth, w ith little labor, ! wheat, rye, maize, barley, and all kinds of vege- j tables; the warm hills bordering the Danube yield annually twenty-five million gallons of wine, among them the renowned Tokay, while the marshes in some of the southern districts t are successfully used in the cultivation of rice. I ' The climate, more mild and equable than that ; ' of Germany, is the healthiest in Europe, one ! Pof of which is shown in the sturdy frames 1 and strong phisical energies of the inhabitants, 1 materially to preserve the stamina or the race j Xhe minera, WeaUl of Hu a t v " imperfectiy explored, promises to develop inex- ! ' ha(18tibIe resources of ,.,, and ' j j The Carp;ilhean district iuhabited I I. . . ' . 1 i mciam. umu n u nuuiiunu in some 10-I ,;..; m r .i, it i u cations as in the mines of the Ural, whence' ' Russia draws her fabulous wealth; veins of sil-' , . . . . ' , ver and copper of unusual nchnessare frequent- 1 , . . . . , ., ., ijf "in wim, uu me wauuenug lapiuary picas ........ j ,., . . ..:!..... 11. J r .1 ..... UF umravrneu recesses o. u.e moumains, the emerald, the jacinth, and the radiant opal. Mines of rock salt, sulphur, and salpetre, on iL. 1 J 1 1 ... .1. . I

u.e one nana, anu copper, iron ana zinc, on tneiInf.nlr. of tIie T ine : oraniTeA ,hna.

other, need but labor, enterprise, and a proper i encouragmeni from Government, to rank among J the most prohU hie in t-urope, and vast beds of coal, which might supply the "disforested Orient," still lie untouched. Itis no marvel that ; or that Russia should seize on any pretext to! take up the quarrel, with a far-reaching hope for a lion's share. The kingdom of Hungary, with Transylvania, , . , . and Croatia, covers about laO.OOO square miles, and supports a population reckoned atabeut 14,- " IT"' " - '-i " mm nnn Th. ;. Heitaelv nnnnlat1 ' ";.":' !. than Austria; in fact, portions of it still re- ; tain the original forests, in which the deer, bear, and wild boar are hunted by the native noble- ; men. But, deducting from the remaining populaiion of Austria the Polish and Ita ian nrov- , - - . i inces which are disaffected, and on whose supher equal. The difference of races, and the ! consequent hostility of blood between different will efface for the time jealousies and unite all fralernaiiy in a common struggle, is a question I wllose favorable solution is earnestly to be de - ; thousand years ago, aud in whose hands the governing power always remained. They sprung from the same Mongolian origin as the Turks, their near neighbors, whose language strongly resembles their own. They received the name ofUngri from the Sclavonic tribes, whom, in the teuth century, they dispossessed of the fertile plaius or the Danube. This till was taken up by the Germans, and under it j they became famous as a nation. The Magyars, j who number about 4,800,000 souls, still inhabit the generous soil which attracted them from the East, and one of their cities, Debreezin, is now the temporary copital of Hungary. The Sclavopic tribes hold all the mountainous districts, and are estimated collectively at as t 4,500,000, divided between Croatia on the south, c,bracinB the seaport or Fiume, the Slowaks

. among the Carpathians, and the Szeklers, Bul-

garians, bervians, snd other small groups on the , m. ' military ironuer. I He Germans, 1,250,000 in all, inhabit the rich, wooded, and hilly province Transylvania, east of the Carpathian- whither they emigrated in the twelfth century, and where thev still preserve the language and cutoms of the Rhine, surrounded on all sides by the Magvarsand Sclavonic races No conntrv . ' J in il n-.l.l i.u . . . embraced Christianity soon after their settlement on the Danube, and for centuries kept the tide of Turkish invasion from flowing upon! western Europe. At the time of the Reforma- i tion the greater part of them went over to the J Protestants, in connection with the Germ ns of Transylvania and some of the Sclavonic tribes. The population now stands: Protestants five and a half millions, Catholics nearly five mill. ions, and members of the Greek Church about' two millions. The uninst persecution of the Protestants by the power at Vienna is among the wrongs which Huugary is now so valiantly avenging. Itnin ll SIitbi;1i nnil Ett-tourrr. At the present time much curiosity has been excited, as to the condition, strength and re sources of Russia. It is a singular fact that the people of Southern Europe continue to be as oblivious, and indifferent to the strength and conditions of the nations who occupy more than half the surface of the earth as their pred ecessors, the Romans, were two thousand years before. It is quite time that they mane a closer observation of people, who have, in all time, been the depositories of that natural hardihood, original strength, which have proved unconquerable, by all the skill, science, and refinement of more civilized nations We have before us, McGregor's "Statistics of Nations" from which we compile the following view of the Russian Empire. The actual population on the 1st January 1S27 is given, and as it will be known that Russia has since been rapidly increasing, an addition of 10 percent will be a very moderate allowance fi.r the last twenty years. We have theu: roruLATiox. Tlains of the Volgo 8,019,000 North Russia (St. Petersburg!!, ic.) 11,007,000 Central Russia (Moscow, &:c.) 14,301,000, 6,307,000 ! Litherauia (Podelva, &.C.) Tart of Toland 7,313,000 2,154,000 1,143,000 Other European Provinces Orenburg Cossacks of the Don Russian America 400 000 r-Q qqq Total Population (15,525,000 18 " t'uroI,e' comprehends about half U,e f F'nT0 and Russia in ll,e wMe " three cn,,nen,s- much th" all ,pe- f"ch,fthls territory, however, is ta"n "nd '''P'table territory, L ' RTCet of Russi3 a Sood way of rrm'nK an accurate .dea, is to compare ' ,h f U,e -St -nthern Europe. eare able to make the MIC comparison between the Agricultural 1 roaucisot these two Nations. Russia. 553,000,000 12,0.10,000 15,800,000 France. 3G6.S0O.OOO 1 ,SSfi,300 5,550,000 v .u 4i,, p., . r. , W e thus see, that Russia (in Europe) proj i . j i, i r . . .. , duces about double as much of the substantial . ,,,, v , , agricultural products as France, whose populafi.n !,.- ,,i n. f,,i,. f,u, r tion is however nearly three-forths of that of , r.i Kussia in Europe. The Anv at Russia is not stated correctly jn the account!, rect.IltIv pubIished. It is mos't ! PV8,emfl,icay and efficiently organized. The 7 Corpsde Armes: j - - - - - o 3 Divisions to each Corps: 2 Brigades to each Division: 2 Regiments to each Brigade: 6 Battalions to each Regiment: 1000 Men to each Battalion. This organization gives for thelufantry 432,000 men. OfCavalrv. there is a Division to esch Cor ns. This js composed of two Brigades, of two Regiments each, and each Regiment of nie squadros 0f one hundred and sixty men i ! eacj, fhis makes 34,500 Horse. There are I joq pieceg f Artillery, and 6000 Artillery men ' .. , , ,. - ..... - .o ... : attacneutoeac, orps-maaing w,.- me... The Army of the Line, then makes 502,500 i me. T)e buardsi and Grenndier8 nlake , , ; 000 wilh 24n iece8 of Artillp The Kes).rve9 cf Cavalry number 30,000 rnen.--ri.. iiirir 1 are two Corps de Armes or the Caucmssers and Siberians, which together make 90,000 men. T he aggregate or Regulars then, is Army or the Line 502,500 Guards and Grenadiers 114,050 Cavalry Reserve 30,000 Army of the Caucasus and Siberia 90,000 Total. 736,500 Of the Infantry of the Line, however, 144,p0. (one-third) const.tute a permanent Re1 Deducting that and the Army of the ! Caucasus, and we find that Russia can bring into the field about 500,000 regnlar troops The irregular troops, Cossacks, Veteraus, Germans, &c, make about 150,000 more. Russia then can retain half a million troops within her own borders, and yet march three hundred thousand into Germany. Such is a brief view of the population and resources of Modern Russia. Consolidated under an able head, they make a formidable phalanax to maintain the cause of Absolute Power. sjniritle. "For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear from tale orjhistory, The course of true love never did run smoothe." On Sunday evening last E. G. Wilkinson, a young Englishman, committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol, at Detroit. He was deeply in love with his cousin, a daughter of Mr-James Wilkinson, and on failing to obtain theconsentof the young lady's father to their union, destroyed himself. He was 23 years of age, and bore au exemplary character. The ..I.. .L!Aii.tH t tUn iiij rrijvn true tlia nilins we coU!!;ns.

POETICAL.

a . -'"'" The ov'mg lines were written by an mZ - TVV'0? X""? fuNon ito I'depihchn. from choosing husbands and wives Tor themSe'VeS' Suar(iin powers that watch above, TllOII kllflU'lst hnsv fiin.llv T itn lnr - .' ' Oh ! grant to ease this torturing pain, Nor suffer me to love in vain. I once dery'd the powers of Jove, And laugh'd at those who talk'd of love ; But now, the powers of my mind To one dear object are inclin'd. But, by his father's strict command, He's banished from his native land, Where I no more shall see his face, No more his lovely lips embrace. Oh ! how my soul's oppress'd with grief, And not a friend to give relief No hand to wipe the falling tear, No soothing tongue to ease my care. "If I forsake you dear," said he, "I wish that Heaven may forsake me, And may God's veneeance on me dwell, And burn my soul in flames of hell." "Cheer up my dear girl," he often said, "My friends shall ne'er your peare invade: Tho' they should all against me join, If life is spar'd, you shall be mine." The day before he went away, He kindly thus to me did say, "You must not weep for mo my dear, Your tears are more than I can b,-ar. "Tho' I'm bound to foreign port, You are the mistress of my heart ; No other maid, tho' e'er so fine, Shall ever change my constant mind." I once was happy, once was blest, No care of mind disturbed my breast ; I was beloved by rich and poor, And must that pleasure be no more ? The world now views me with disdain I own my faults, confess my shame And could my life atonement iimke, This wretched world 1 would forsake. If fate has destined us to part, No more can pleasure reach my heart. Why should 1 wish on earth to'live. Since earth cannot one pleasure give. Each day my min i U filled with cares. Each night my pillow wet with tears ; Oh ! that the God that rules above, Would prosper those who truly love. If 1 am not to be his wife. Adieu ye transient j.iys nf life ; Not all the gold on India's shore, Can ever raise my spirits more. But like the lonely widow'd Dove, i'll mourn the absence of my love, And in some loue, sequester'd place, I'll spend the remnant of my davs. And when our souls are called home, To a fairer world remote Irom hence, I hope to gain that happy shore, Where none can ever part us more. NANCY WILSON. The song was written as early as 1 SO 1 or 1 805. , Soon after writing it Miss W ; cide, by taking laudanum. committed sui - .TIr I'ntlirr. The weight of many a weary year Rtsts on my father now, And none but silver hairs appear Above his furrowed brow ; His quiet life has not been s"nt In luxury and ease, But humble scenes, with t-weet content, Have power his heart to please. His hands are hard w ith honest toil. But they were never stained With aught of the unholy spoil By daik oppression gained ; For kindly thoughts have ever dwelt W ithin his open soul, And his warm heart has never felt Stern Avarice's dark control. I never from my father heard, Through all my happy life, A single false, deceitful word, Or one of angry strife : For power or place he has uot sought, But for his country's weal, His heart has always had a thought Of patriotic zeal. The world would call him poor indeed, And pass him proudly by, But his calm soul would little heed The glance of haughty eye ; He may be poor, but at his side Whene'er 1 take my place, I feel that I can gaze with pride, Upon my father's face. A Wife lo hrr llu.lmntl. Linger not long. Home is not home without thee : Its dearest tokens do but make me mourn. O ! let its memory, like a chain about thee, Gently compel and hasten thy return. Linger not long. Tho' crowds should woo thy staying, Bethink thee, can the mirth of friends, though dear, Compensate for the grief thy long dela) ing Cost the fond heart that sighs to have thee here ? Linger not long m ing. How shall I watch thy coAs evening shadows stretch o'er moor and dell; When the wild bee hath ceased her busy humming. And silence hangs on all things like a spell I How shall I watch for thee, when fears grow stronger, As night grows dark and darker on the hill ! How shall I ween, when 1 can watch no Inni.er! Ah l : art tllllll Mhsent nrt 1 inn ahuunt Ktill ' A j Yet I should grieve not, though the eye that seem me, GilZ,dulh-r0Ugh XfST' that mike 'U S''1''ndors For. O I I sometime fear, when thou art . i.h me, My cup of happiness is all too full. Haste, Inisle thee home, into thy mountain dwelling! Haste, as a bird unto its peaceful liest '. Haste, as a skiff, wheu tempests wide are swelling. Flies to its haven or securest rest I ILTA young lady was ouce bantered by a young gentleman to write two lines of poetry impromptu, which should rhyme with two of his. He wrote as follows: Come waki my muse, nor slumber long, Awake aud sing in sweetest song. She immediately took up the pen and wrote underneath: Sing of the griefs of single life, Of hopes deferred Oh! for a wife. Men dying make their wills but wives Escape a work so sad. Why should they make what all their lived The gentle dames have had?

TIIK TIMES.

John . I:itxn. ' Wecont.nue to receive from ail parts of the Slate, the most cheering intelligence of the prospeots of our candidate for Governor. Wherever he has gone, and addressed thePeopV, the fruits of his labor have bjen -abundantly manifest in ' the confirmation of believers and the conversion of sceptics to the true f.iith. Indeed, John I A. Matson, so fu!l of hunt sty, of truth, of humanity, need only make profert of himself to I the people of the State to win their hearts and secure their support on the First Monday of j August. On the Wabash, where Mr. Matson h&s spent considerable time, we are informed from public aud private sources that he will deveiope more than the Whig strength, and obtain Irom that section of the State an unexpectedly large vote, From the southern part of the State, where he has recently been laboring, we receive equally ' , . . ... cheering intelligence. " III this Congressional Disti iet, we kxow that Mr. MaUon will obtain more than the regular Whig strength, and largely exceed Joseph G. ,t . , . Marshall s vote. Here John A. Matson is known ; and appreciated, and besides tlw confidence re- I

i posed in him as a politician, and his personal , - -----';-.. . . 1 1 i here is frequently more pleasure hi giViiiga popularity as a man, there are some agencies at ,i .i . ,. , ," thine than in receiving it. 1 Ins applies more worn which will co operate in giving him an . . ,. - , , . , ,. , , 1 " , especially to M 'd n ine, Advice, and K:cks. overwhelming vote. j ... j If the friends in other parts of the Stale do ffc5 "Dj make yourselves at home, ladies," , their duty to .vttrds our candidate in half as gal- said a lady one dav to her visitors. ''Titat ' lant style t.s the Whigs of this district are dis- home myself, and I wish you all were!" charging theirs, we will redeem the State and J O" "Have enough then to i r;v your Chil- ,' elect a Whig Governor by a handsome majority, dren." , We assure our friends abroad that the Fourth j The R-v. pr. Green, of Boston, was a most i District is RIGHT. For reasons that we deem beuevi lent man, gave i.w.-y npnually the great- ! it unnecessary lo name, our candidate ill re-Jrrpart ofa large salary, and I eg-. d enormous ceive here an unprecedented majority ! I j F,!s from l,js tlv,- Vrry wealthy congregation. Are the Whigs of the other di.-trict.- doing ' He was in the habit of telling the father's of their duty? are they active and vigilant in the 1 hi, flock, "you are able to give" so-and-so, . came? If so, the victory is ours, and the battle j -aiid then have enough left to ruin your chilwill be gloriously won. We believe the Whig ' dreii." There is a great deal cf good "lard com-

i party of Indiana feel the importance of this elecI tion, and their energies will be equal to the e- j inergency. The signs are encouraging: everything betokens an approaching victory. Let our friends be steadfast and faithful in the coni- , ing struggle, nii.l we feel confident that the rei suit here, and throughout the State, will large- , ly exceed their most sanguine expectations. ' Connersville Valley. I hr l'f'ti!-nrr :it SI. I.oui. j The St. I.ouis f'nion gives a sad account of ; the condition of things in that city at the pres- ' cut liine. It savs: J All worldly matters have new given way in j this city, (o the one absorbing droad of the cholera. This terrible destroyer of the human race , seems to increase in violence in this city daily, ' until we can scarcely look at its ravages withj out a shudder of terror. Already it has carried , tiiousaiiu oi our population, and ! now its blow falls with more fearful and fata! j rapidity than ever. To add to our terror, medii -Y r...- .1. I e ... j cal specifics and medical skill, become each day i more inefficient hio! useless lo arrest the disease in its progress of fatality. Contrary to our first supposition, it seems now tj have little or no regard to the classes f society it attacks, as the rich fall with the poor; the temperate and comfortable in life, along with t'le dissolute, the ai bandoned, or the wretched. The past week's j bill of mortality proves t!ii: as in it wi:I be found members f what are called lh- better d iss oT society; a large number of tli.se, females, loo, whom we are bound to believe were prudent and temperate. On the. other hand, three or four Ii u n.l red, g-neral'y impoverished, dirty. wretched fori igners quarantined below laiscity remain comparatively healthy, in all their filth and discomforts. As regards the city itself, we have heard it remarked often of late, that iu the most filthy parts or it there is the least imount or sickness. The I)irnr i:i Iila dr. Hud. The Lafayette, Ind., Courier, of Friday last, gives the following, iu relation to the progrer-s and state of the epidemic in that place: The Cholfra The Board of Health report that the first case or Asiatic Cholera in this place occurred on the 23d or June. From that time until the morning of the 1th inst., there were no more cases and from the 1th up to Wednesday evening (11th) they report 26 cases and 10 deaths. We hsard no cases yesterday. Business of nearly every description is prostrated, aud many uT our citizens have left for the country. We were glad to see yesterday, that the panic amongst our citizens had in a great measure subsided. There is nothing more dangerous, wicked, or foolish, than to indulge in unnecessary Tear or excitement in the present crisis. Let us he prudent iu all things keep our premises, streets and alleys clean, attend and relieve the sick, bury the dead (ir we should continue to be so unfortunate as lo have any J aud put our trust iu Providence and all will vet be well. tiirin.li.rl for pnbl ii alien Singular hnl ru Trl on four Hurdrrrr. I ii couseqnence of a dispute among the meiii - cal men at Petersburg!!, respecting the coutagious or non-contagious character of cholera, ' the Cz ir of Russi , adopted the following method to decide the ouestioii! Four murderer, sen . i . i .1 . iruceu iu urnin, were pm oil a oeu lately OCCU- ' Pie,! ''" fur cholera patients who had died, and i i . . .i .... i . .. . t , , ... j yet the murderers did not take the disease. It was then announced to the murderers that they i eT about bei,,2 'Uc un on w,,icl four persons died or malignant cholera, and that if' , ,, .. , ... -. ,l hi me ii iru uic tirnor ii.cii me wuuiu uc I si'jreti; lmt "sfd or cholera beds they were put on beds which had not been occupied by diseased persons, and yet such was the effect of , r ... .. for dieju three davs. Tear that the four died within three days. Tlie i'jtnt Wind. . . -.. i . .1 Ruice I committed to the press my recent speculations on the character and influence of the East Wind, ray attention has been directed to the fact, that thia wind is considered in Phil- , , adelphia, New ork and Bostoo, moie produclive of disease, than any other one that blows that Eueene Sue. in his Mysteries of Paris, states ; distinctly that the recurrence of easterly winds I ' J ! was always found to aggravate the mortality of ! cholera in 1533 and more especially I have i been called to notice the coincidence with eas- , . , , . . , . ... tony wmus.preva.eni lor tne larger snare o. u.e past two mouths, with the alarming extent to which our wheat crop until that period, uncommonly promising has been btricktu w ith ' rust. Cist's Advertiser.

VARIETY.

E"A mnrri,:ge recen'.Iv took i.'.ace at UncWc, , whi,.h ,,;i(j(.rpom w ml ,he bri,,e n vrars T,)t. ,ioy UnpmtHi IlmM1 lh m;uifWT bv rearing fMye wi,;s!ier9i and th( cjr by col,ou breilsl works Brrnrti of I'rom t. Eiuimiinm I (!. ion. For the benefit vf our unmarried friends of both s-xes, says the fierUs and SchuylVili Journi.1, to whom a rij;!it understanding nf the law may be important, we copy the following from au opinion of Judge Blaok, recently affirmed l y the Supreme Court of re:ins Ivania, per Coulter, justice, Dovy vs. McMillan. S Barr, H'.;i: "If a man oilers to marrr a woman, or promises to do it, he is not bound to t onipiv with it, t, make a 7narri;.2.-contr..-t as well as any other bargain. Where a man h is a contract of marri;'S with a woman, and merely puts it off, and slie becomes impatient, she ran not drarr i . . , K liim into ourt aim i:emau.: uumages, unless s.wi has formally uffere.t to perform llie contract ou her part, and lie dishonestly refuses. :;iui so put ; -nd to the contract, t-.-cause. perchance, he would preler the mirriagrt to the suit, ami lie 0llg,t to have a chance to make a choice." - U 11 ess she l-rees to ncivtil Into ll I.Um tu'n she i mon sens in the doctor's favorite maxim we may safely say axiom. A K:tE S'nttii'ni!triil. A young parson lost his way in a f.iresi, ci)i il being vehemently cold and rainv, he happened upon a poor cottage, and deoired a lodging or a hay loft lo stiy in. aud some lire lo warm linn. The man told him that he and his wife had but. one I'fd. ami if he pleased to lay w ith them he should l welcome. The parson tlia.iked h im, ami kindly accepted of it. in the morning the man arose lo go to market, and, meeting some. ol Ins neighbors, be i.-ll a laughing. They asked him what made him so merry about the mouth'' "Why," says lie. "1 can't but think how asliKinrd the parson wi I be when he awakes lo find himself alone iu bed with my wife."The I .ore of I'niisc. The love of distinction pervades everv class of society. The lines of the poet Young are beautifully expressive of this universal passion : The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, (ilows more or less, aud reigns iu every litail. The proud io gain il toils on toils endure; The modeft shim it but to make it sure. It aiiis the dancer's skill, the writer's head And heaps the plain with mountains of thedead. Nor ends il here; il nods with sable piume Shines on our hearse, and glitters on our tomb. " iu;m i:ti(l .TZurrisigr. If there is a tie denied sacred on earth, and holy in a brighter land, it is tint wh ich binds man to his kindred spiiit to become as oue iu unity nnd love; and et it rarely happens that he properly appreciate the kindness and sincerity of the female heart, by setting a right value on a gem so productive of happiness to the possessor. There is nothing in life so pure and devoted ns the linqiiein liable love nf woman. More piie.ebss liiau the gsrns of (loleouda, and more devout than the idolatry of .Mecca, is the unsealed and giii-liing tenderness which flows from the fount of the female heart. It may here with propriety be asked, what sa often enhances the sorrows of the lemale, lienrt, causing many anxious days and fleeph-ss aights? Is it not the inconstancy of mn 7 For whose sake does she depart from her kindred, and bid adieu to the home of childhood ? For whom does the h ave tlie loved father, sun! the doling mother, and the sweet sisters who played witli hei in infancy ? To whom does she cling with fond embrace, wheii all but she have forsaken him ? 'Vsiinir 'Jod-ly. Modesty in a young female is the flower of a tender shrub, which is the promise of excellent fruit. To destroy it is to destroy the germ of a thousand "irtues, lo destroy the hope of society, to commit an outrage against nature. The Kir of the w orld is a horning breath that every day blasts the precious flower. iwl rtiiiu rt. The other day, one of widow B.'s almirer-t was complaining of the tooth-ache, when Mrs. B.'s boy spoke up : "Well, sir, why don't vou do as inn does ? She takes her teeth uutaud jiuU 'cm back whenever she wants to." A few minutes afterwards, the boy was whippet on some prefnee or other. O"lla!lo liiere," said a farmer lo an Irishman bnsily engaged at one of his cherry trees, "by what right do you take these cherries ?" "1, failh my friend," taid he, "by my right hand sure." fjWhy am de firsliKdiahly dressed l.i-'les ' jw-a-days like our democratic postmasters ? 'ase most a" nl 'em have got de sack. f 0"Lt the toast lie, dear womaa,'" aa the j ho.rder s aid when his landlady was about to remove the plate. IHTNever bs cast down by triil-s. A spider will mend Wis web twenty times a day, if broken. SctiimiiI the .National 4'nilol. A correspondent of the 2'ew York Tribune, writing Irom Washington Citv, says : "A poor woman was put into the jail of the District, about a week since. It is tlie jail that cost the P"'Ie of the Uuited States nearly or quite sixty tl-ousitid dollars. Had this woman committed . .... . v . .t 1 . - .1 i i ,i ItllV Crime nl I i. Ie:.i:t 111 the u'nr i Iter mistress wants to sell her and pocket the money, that's all. She puts her into jail simply to know wh,!r ' wl" ha tia is customer. ThU i !!oor, fo's,,t eXS to be coni.ueu in a lew weeKS. rne lias a nusoana una I mother, but neither of th'-m is allowed lo go in ' to the mil lo visit her. The h'.ish.nd tried to talk t0'her thron!rh th Erat,d window, the other day, but was driven off by some menial of the establishment. Amanda, the slave woman, is a mwiiber of the Methodist Church, winch takes the name of Bethlehem. 1 near mi-4 is in good standill? ju lhe ciUro and sustains a fair and good character generally. The mistress the owner the trader who in she? Shi is Miss B." a venerable spinster, a few years ago from irgiuia, and now residing iu tins citv. She brought wilh her this wonun, her mother and two or three children, upon whose wages she hi,s liv-d or some, years past, and now proposes to put Amanda iu her pocket. She (Miss A.JS.) j, lnolllber of le Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the McKeudree I hajiel congregation, aud attends class regularly. 1 am glad to say some of the brethren aie a little miumd about tin- traiii-deliou."

to catch an old bachelor.