Indiana American, Volume 17, Number 42, Brookville, Franklin County, 12 October 1849 — Page 1
IMTOIAMA
AM1EIRIAi
OVR COUNTRY-OCR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AND OUR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS. BY C.F. CLARK SON. BKUOKVLL E , INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1849. VOL. XVII NO. 42.
THE TIJIES.
HISTORICAL.
I upon all around. At last young Howard took say, from one or all of these considerations the him gently by the arm and expostulated with , American people determined on abandoning the
Rrawtk m tbe Cat. Hill, the Omtnw. mm, urging that he should return home. 1 his j old systems, and to put tnemselves on the oner- . i to the estimate of the United States' As an Introduction to the fearful narration emed 10 infuriate Cutry, and he turned ear- ous task of working out a new theory. Their According to tne estimate 01 uw w ...... gely upon young Howard, who was strong, trial has proved to be the trial of the world. Commissioner of Patents, there were in 1848, which follows, and as an evidence of its truth, I well-formed, athletic man, nearly Curry's equal The French in the exuberance of their vanity, 31 states, containing a population of 21,686,000, we subjoin two extracts from the columns of in personal prowess. He clenched young How- ; attribute the advent of democratic principles "to A an area of about 1,912,126 square miles, or the eldest and most respectable journal of Ar- j 'rd, threw him down, and even attempted to j themselves. They, in their own opinion, are fta Since the treaty Kansas. j shoot him, but the youth forbearing all effort the apostles of liberty; the philosophy of mod11 persons toa square i . - l "Among the truest friends of the people of i except in the defensive turned the muzzle of ern civilization originated with them; their nawith Mexico, 750,000 square miles have been -B tne py convention, may be named the pistol away, and the charge entered the tinn constitutes the only focus of light and inadded to the Union; making with other lands jonn Hill, of St. Francis. His energy, elo- ' ground by his side. But every moment the era- ' tellipence; and, moreover, they are destined to not enumerated a grand total of 2,750,000 quence. and conrage, fully entitle him'to the j zy man grew more furious, until Howard found renovate the world. The egotism apart, the VT . ht :i 85n. i.e' proud place he holds, and, as we trust, will lo!ig!-ll his entreaties vain, and already fearfully truth is not so. The American Revolution is iqaaremile.. iow supposing inai m i retain that of leader of the Arkansas democ- wounded in more than one place, he saw that the event to which we must look as giving the United Slates contain 23,000,000 of human jyacy." Littxi Rock Gazkttb, in the days of: unless he exerted his strength his own life must impulse to the new order of thing?; and the
incs, there will be a density of 18 persons to a, the Convention.
square mile. Thus we see that in the year 1790 there were 8 persons to a square mile
"Bloody AmiAV. A desperate rencontre oc-
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pay the forfeit. The crowd not daring them- feeds of this were laid in the Puritanism of the
aeles to interlere, yet urged him to protect his first settlers
tribunal of his country, and acquitted for want
of that overt proof, which his own tar stretcningcunning had developed in impenetrable dark-' ness. And, finallv.he follows him from Staten Island, where in 1S36 he closed his miserable career, to the cemetery of Princeton to be in- j terred with the honors of wrr, and to moulder in a grave upon the curses of injured virtue and the rewards of vicious ambition are to est for- ; ever. i The life, the death, and the grave of Col. Burr carry their ova moral. The simple fart tell a : tale that needs ne comment. Words need not , inform us that genius, however tianscendent, unless virtue be one of its elements, can attain eniinenceon which an unclouded sun will for- :
ever beam.
POETICAL.
own life by taking that of his intended father-
in-law, for they saw and marked well his forbearance, and now for the first time he drew his bowie knife. Both were reeking with blood. Curry's blade was upraised to kill him. He
curred last week in St. Francis. Two distin
guished citizens were killed and three others
dangerously wounded. The difficulty resulted
from an attempt to arrest John Hill, a member
of tne late legislature, and formerly of the state convention, who as it is alletred. is the no
torious robber, Nixon Curry, that committed; his own knife deep in his adversary's heart! em history. What will be the consequences of j
such atrocities hfteen years ago in the moun
The disputes about the legality of this revo
lution are ail lost in the splendor of the issue. Nobody now ever thinks of the principles involved, or the disputants on either side. The
tact is, in itself, too great to admit of these minor
1850 probably 18
This will convince any one that although there is a great increase of population, by immi
gration and otherwise, there need be no fear of increase of density. There were grown in the 6 New England tatea in 1838, 2,534,000 bushels of wheat, or a little more than 1 bushel per head. In Ohio, in
the same year, there were grown 20,000,000 of
bushels of wheat, or something more than 10
bushels per head. It is estimated that the value of tha crops in 1848, in the United States was $640,000,000. The value of live stock on farms is estimated at over 557,000,000. The sums invested in manufactures for the same time, amounted te $343,-
300,000. The auma Invested in merchandise
tains of Carolina." Little Rock Gazette, of
May, 1840. Some half a century since, there lived in Iredell county, North Carolina, a yonng and promising lad, named Nixon Curry. His father was
received the blow upon his arm, and planted j considerations: it is, in truth, the fact of mod Ilia nam IrnifA A aan in tim 4nArcm 1. o . ' 1 .1 n li I 1 , -Wl. . U f I. . ...... ........... a .
j Howard gazed for a moment upon the lifeless j independence to the Americans themselves?
body before him then rushed frantically from
the spot. Mary could never be his, she could never marry the murderer of her father! Alas', no, for as soon as Mary heard the fear-
! ful news she fainted, never again to wake in
a Presbyterian minister, and the eon was sent ! reason. &he became a maniac, and is now in
to the village scoot until he was some sixteen i"" insane Asyium ai ew urieans
The boy William Hill, for the family now
went by that name, did practice with his father's gun, and faithfully did he keep his command to
years of age. Here he made the acquaintance
of a yonng and beautiful girl, of gentle parentage and hiph Decuniarv expectations, named
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JL.UCy liordon. Young Uurry and Lucy were nooi me man who snouiu um nay kiii niBiaever together, both at the head of the school, ! ther, for he followed Mose Howard into Texas, and ever striving to outdo each other in mutual j nd shot the charge of both barrels of his fathkindness. Indeed it was apparent to all that er's gun through his heart!
they loved each other with a devotion that nei- 1 he paragraph ef the last or our story is still ther time nor circumstances could change, and , fresh in the i ncidents of the day, and was but
their teacher, who waa also Lucy'e confidant, lately me ineme 01 newspaper comment.
knew that they were secretly but firmly be'
trothed. Lucy Gordon, as we have said, was te daughter of one of the proudest and most aristocratic families at the south, and har parents immedi
ately on her leaving school made their selection
Hitherto it is vain to deny that the attempts at
self-government have been most successful. No doubt there are ferocious passions in America; and tales about the uses made of the bowie-knife, Lynch-law, and matters of that sort, are abun
dantly rife. It would, indeed, have been a marvel, if a scattered population, living in remote
amounted to $322,000,000, exclusive of $149,- of a suitable husband for her, and withont re-
090,000, employed in the commission business
and foreign trade. Tha aggregate of the productions and business of our country then amounts to the enormous sum- of mora than $2,000,000,000. Early Literary titHtion, 1 the Wrt.
It appears from a recent letter from the- Rev.
Robert Patterson, of Pittsburgh, to the Rev. Dr Brown, formerly President of the Jefferson Col
lege, at Washington, in this State, that that
College claims the honor of being the oldest lit
erary institution in the Western Valley, if we include in its history that of the Cannensburg academy from which it arose. The college was
chartered ia 1802 the academy was organized in July, 1791, Mr. Patterson making the first recitation therein; and previously to this a Latin
school whieh was merged into the academy, had
been ia operation from about 1789. Thus it would appear that the oldest literary institution in the western valley is that which has since grown up, without any break in the connection
of its successive stages, into Jefferson College
The oldest college charters in the west are those f Transylvania, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1798; Greenville College, Greenville, Tennessee, in
1794; and Washington College, Washington
county, Tenn., in 1794i The last named iosti
tutien may, perhaps, contest the claims of Jef
ferson ia the rights of primogeniture among the
western colleges.
Wa learn from Dr. Fbote'a sketches of North
Carolina; that the Rev. Samuel Doak common
ced a classical school in what i now Washing'
tea county, Tenn., about the year 1750. Th
institution, says Dr. Foote, waa incorporated by
tha Legislature of North Carolina in 1758, ua
der the nam of Martin Academy, and is the first literary institution that was established in
tbe great v15ey of the Mississippi. In 1755 it was changed into a college and received the name of Washington. Mr. Doak procured for his institution a smal library in Philadelphia, caased it to be transported in sacks on packbosses across the mountains, and thus formed the nucleus of the Library at Washington College. PfMltowalairaBri Il . O. V.
gard ta the feelings of their child, directed her
to prepare at once for the nuptials of one she
scarcely knew. Lucy committed her situation to young Curry, and he at once planned an elopement.and on a dark October night ran away together, and were
married by a friendly mstice. not was the
pursu it by enraged friends, and an armed party travelled night and day nntil they came up with
the fugitives. Nixon Curry was ever remarka
ble for personal prowess and bravery. He had not andertaken this adventure without being folly armed, and when he found the house where
he was stopping for the night surrounded ay
these wh o pursued hint, ne shot two ot bis enemies dead, and mortally wounded a third, who was one of, the Gordon family. Thus check
off their advance, he escaped with his bride
from the back of the house, mounted a fleet
horse and dashed oft for the mountains.
Rendered desperate by their constant perse
cutions, Nixon was at last driven to join a band
of desperadoes who had their strong hold in the
Alleghany Mountains, near the source of the
Catawba. There he lived for some Years, nntil
his very name became a tarror through the nor
thern sections of the State. His robberies were remarkable for boldness and succes. Though
he never committed murder to procure booty-
vet he did take life many times to prevent being
arrested. A charm seemed to hang over him, for although constantly engaged in the most hazardous adventures when death was ever about
him, yat he was never injured, but escaped en
tirely unhurt. At length so bold had inixou Curry become, that the Governor of North
Carolina ottered a reward of hve tnousaud aoi
tars for his apprehension.
Fearing treachery, Nixon soon after left tha State and was heard of no more In Carolina.
A few years afterwards we hear of that fine land bordering on the St. Francis, and among the
emigrants was one who called himself John Hill, astady, Industrious and intelligent man, with an interesting wife and children. He was
marked as being a man of remarkably kind fee
lings, and with whom no one qnarrelled . l nera for ten years and more he lived among the peo
ple, and the settlement grew and prospered. There as now and then a chance for him to show his manlv prowess and then he proved bis bravery and daring. He was elected to the House of Representatives of Arkansas, and af. terwards to the Senate as well as to the Convention that framed the State Constitution. Ia short be possessed the full reliance and confidence of his fellow-citizen. A family of two brothers and several sisters were near neighbors to Hill's present home, and in an unfortunate moment. Hill made the elder brother a confident,, and related his history to him. Tb wiley rascal aw that he had Hill in
Such is our story of Frontier life.
Tbe New Krn. The following striking and eloquent para
graphs are copied from Rev. Dr. Dixon's new work. It is refreshing to see such views from the pen of an English writer. If our travellers on both sides of the waters would learn a lesson of wisdom and liberality from this excellent delegate from the British conference, to the
American conference of the Metho.iist church,'
the foolish prejudices which often exhibit themselves would be done away, and the monstrous blunders which have been the fruit of those
prejudices, in both England and America, would
not again recur to mar the intercourse and disturb the peace of the two nations:
Thus have wo brought our historical notices
down to one of the most eventful periods in the
annals ot this country and of America, Ihe
loss of her colonies by Great Britain was an
event of the greatest national consequence, an
awlul catastrophe, the merits of the contest,
the principles involved, the spirit manifested on
either side, the policy of the Governments, and
the talents and blunders of each, are points Iving altogether beyond our line. But it was a fear
ful thing to see masses of men of the same race
arrayed in deadly conflict. It may be very true
that great principles were at stake, great inter
ests the prize of battle, great issues the result:
but this does not alter the painful nature of the fact, that the combattants were brethren. The passions then called forth, and the animosities
created, could not but convulse both communi
ties to their centres. To any other nation, less
elastic and energetic than Great Britain, the loss
The SMinl", Vaws:
TUB VOWS OF DANGER. Can you look back on some hour of Impend- j ing danger, perhaps amid the terrors of a thun- j derstorm, when the voice of an angry God seemed to threaten in every thunderpeal, and i
his vengeance flashed with terrible brightness out of heaven, and you knew not but that the next flash might be commissioned to call your guilty soul into his presence? Or have yon witnessed the more appalling horrors of a storm at sea, when death seemed ready to rash on you
places, away from the seats of government and j in every rolling wave, and all within was dark, magistracy were not guilty of some excesses. anJ w:,d and templaoug M aU without; when
parent State, and consolidating their own gov- ,he dreadful whispers of conscience were heard , eminent, it would be equally a matter of aston- i above the loudest roarings of the tempest; and l ishment if everything connected with the state the thought was forced upon yoa, that in a few j machine could atonce be laid in an even balance, ! n)otuents you ,nU8t sUnd Mon an(1 unknown, and be made to work without friction. But, ,, ,, bating unavoidable accidents, and the imperfec- I "tfnded God, and plunge into an awful eterni- j tions attendant upon all human affairs, the es- ty ? Have you, amid scenes like these, vowed a tablishment ef the American system and social vow ut0 God, that if rescued from the threat- ; state must be pronounced hitherto as a perfectly I , , , .. . . ... . i r w.. , , ' . . m, ., r . .-. ened destruction, you would repent and forsake i successful experiment. That other races should . " 1 attemnt to follow in tfi mm direction, is nn your sins, and devote to the service of God the i
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wonder; but it does not follow that '.hey can , life which his mercy spared tread In the steps af the Anglo-American peo- I THS vows OF Death. pie. The soil was free, the space was ample; i . ,' the institutions founded among them while col- Cm you remember a time when you were oniesof Great Britain were essentially democra- stretched in pain and languishing on the bed of t!c; the people had been educated for generations sickness, which you then feared would be the in the principlesof self government, and in most bed of death? wh wil,, k(fen, Krilia
iaiiva trirvicu iiitjk u rr li iiiairii a iTOf aim uitcu
the governor himself. In thia state of things glance you watched the physician'scountenance
there was no antagonist power upon the soil. as if to read your sentence there; and there did They had no throne to overthrow, no aristocracy read w m, shuddering soul, the sentence his lips to declimate, no hierarchy to proscribe, even no M nounce ,.no ho and llml)cd code of law to abrogate. Every thing favored i v ' the experiment; and allowing for the iiifermt- j you saw that sentence confirmed by the antics of human nature, it must bo conceded by guished looks of those arouud, which they vainall candid persons that hitherto the people have )y iUOV, to mde and the traces of recent tears, been true to the doctrines of their origin as an n- . ,, . . . independent nation; and that the establishment hich M their efforto could not restrain. hen of the United States in their free and confede-! yoo felt these outward announcements of your
rated nationality is the greatest event of modern approaching dissolution fearfully confirmed by
times.
the sinking of all within; in that dreadful hour, while you almost fancied that you saw the burning eye of God fixed on you, and felt his crush-
ng hand pressing you down, and the dark and
on
From the Louicrillr Journal
The Uratf f Aaron Rnrr. j But a few moments have elapsed since we
were standing in the Princeton Cemetery, gaz- dreadfui eternity appeared nuveiled, did y trior nn th rrrai-A nf CM Aarnn T?uta Tlia loot 'II
resting place of this distinguished man impres- tl,en vow vow nn' God- ,hat if IIe wouM j
sed as with tho truth that men impart their , spare your lite and restore your strength, you own character and their own immortality to j would consecrate to his glory the life He spared,
rln. mere are ,ew p aces, o. no , d d . h; fc ,twn lh n, reMo. more geographical extent, which call up so ma- ' "
THE rORGOTTM VOWS. Have you keptthe vows which in the hour of danger, or prospect of death, you vowed unto Gad? Has your rescued life been consecrated to his glory! Or is the guilt of broken vows
ny reflections, so many associations, so many
recollections.
T. u-iIm BMainn in RaltimAr rr-entl v
, . , , . . ,. . his power and immediately made a demand of On tho Ibth mat,, the follewing 's'rati himrt ;hst the latter would not and indeed could
took place. 1 not in reason grant. Enraged at this, the broth-1 P. G. M- Robert II. Griffin, of G-. being- pre-, en Strong conspired together for his overthrow, aanted by P. G- Stre Wildey- and P. D. G. S ' They wrote to Caroiina and procured a copy of J7, , . . . , . . the reward offered for tha arrest of Ntxon CurMoore, at the foot of tha Chair, and having bean r J the famed robber and with , ,trongly armed qealified by the M. W. Grand Sire, according to party undertook to seize upon his person. Nixlaw, and invested, with the regolia of kiajoffice, on was always armed to the teeth, and when r n j j - j he saw them coming, he suspected theirpurpose, was formally conducted to the chair, and pro- of funn he ia claimed tha duly installed M. W .Grand Sire of Jhe atUry him both of tho Droth.
te Independent Order of Odd Fellows of North ers, and fearfally wounded five others, escaping i himself without so much as a bruise, though
... , ,, r, t r o- mora than a dozen bullets were fired at him. P.G. M'a. A.S, Krilore, R. W. D. G. Sire. ; Thus from 1w of hig adoption) ha . Jamaa L. Ripgely, R.W . G- R. and C.Sec'y. hastily fled to the northern part of Arkansas to Andrew E- Warner, R. W. G. Trees., wore join a band of desperadoes, whose shelter he had then each introduced by P. G. Stre Wildey and Jone inc' resolved to seek in case of neod, well ,, j . lk . . knowing that hia personal prowess andknnwl-
r. V. v.. loore, ai in.wu.ru .ulw i....r .r- woo)d him mwl Ta,ajlbIe ,0 themspective offices. He was ebiiged to he expeditious and cantious
The following Grand Officers were appointed 10 his movements, tor the Uovernor of Arkan 1 ec j .j i , l v.
We know that a sanctity which nothing can destroy or justly profane, invests those places
which harrt hepn thartrA with tliA nf friA
of such territory, wealth, population, and poli- I great and good men. But greatness and goodtical power, must have produced a perfect par- ness have not always been united in those men alvsis. have prostrated the nation irrecoverahlv. 1 Ko ,. i. i i, -
and sunk her to the state of a fourth or fifth influence can nevercease to be felu The deeds aPon our oun Look back - When God airt nnwr A nA tn anv Arhr iuaiL tV.n Ih. r .L , , .. . , , 1 J.U- .1 1 ..-J tl.. l.,ll
r.... --j . -.u ..t oi me wicaea are as impensnaoie as ina aeeus children of this country, the prize won would j of the righteous. A mysterious influence, as inevitably have entailed insuperable ditficul- i strong as that which binds us to the sepulchres ties. of the henpfartnm nf mankind- AftAii xltrArl
But the event itself is one of those stupendu- n8 to the graves of the great enemies of civil ous facts of history which Goi decrees once in society. tha course of many centuries, for the creation j The influence however is not the same in the of new epochs on the theatre of nations. Its two cases. It is only similar in strength. We
wosam is infinite: it must reach through all j remember with delight tho aaasons whose corntime; and touch and influence the destinies, in ; ing has filled the earth with plentv; and the one way or other, of all countries. The reflux ' principles whoso development has built up hapof the tide is now felt in all nations; and the j py communities. But we treasure in our memflow of events cannot be turned till all old things cries, with scarce less interest, the ravages of pass away, and, for good or evil, all things be-j pestilence, the ruins of tornadoes, and the tercome new. Would the first French Revolution ; rors of revolutions. It is an interest of this ever have taken place, or, if it had occurred, : latter kind which draws us to the grave of Burr, have assumed its democratic form, had Lafay- j a place not soon to be forgotten. Men of far ette and his legions never visited America, and ' distant times will visit it, and memorize upon imbibed the spirit of revolt? Wonld the thrones , the fate of him who enehanta it. It will be
of Europe have been shaken by the revolution- known and frequented when the mausoleums of
ary war, and the migmy organic cnanges nave good men have crumbled to dust and their p!a been effected by even the war, which really oc- ! ces are known no more.
curred, had not this democratic spirit prevailed" We envy not the man who can'nnmoved gaze
would the decimating power ot tne movement ! upon the grave of Col. Uurr. It is one of the have swept away the old aristocracy, and the ! most desolate places that wa have ever seen.
older church, o as to mane way tor tne military . There is no monument, pile, or sculptured mar-
l'rom ihe Ohi Cultivator. Vhnt hall I licf Love all things; love the gentle flowers That spring from angel foot-prints light, They glad our hearts in lonely hours. And cheer us with their beauty bright. Lve all things; love the warblii'g bird That flits about the lire-long day, And storm or shine, is ever heard,
Still carolliug iti gladsome lay. Love all things; love the ptacid brook Whoe waters 'nealh the stars pale glow, Lie all anstirred, as if a look From angel eyes had checked thrir flow. Aye.lcve them a!'; the rippling stream, The merry song-bird's tuneful lay, The sun's bright glare--the moonlight gleamThe flowers that bloom, and fade away. But love thou more than all bet-ides,
That God who gives such blessines rare, And scatters tokens far and wide, Of love unchanged, and tirelefs care. Love Him, and He will guide thee home, To realms of purity aud peace; Where flowers immortal brightly bloom, And songs of gladness never cease. Milan, Sept. 1 -Mil. Zomsf. ' A I'ariMly. Take a little wife, The prettier the better; Tat her cheek, and when She wants to kiss you let her. Keep her in trie house. There she'll cook yiur mutton; Dam your jacket too, If she's worth a button. Never miuJ the lets Of her auiiU and coiimii:. Ask them to "drop iu;"'
Dine them aU by dozens. One of these old days You'll feel a whole inrh taller When you see her hug A chopping little sqnaller. HO.TIK. That old and knotted apple-tree That stood Leneath the hill! My heart cau never turn to it But with a pleasant thrill; Oh! what a dreamy life I led Beneath its old, green shad, When the daisies and the buttercupsA pleasant carpet marie. I am thinking of the rivulet With its cold and silvery flow Of the old, grey rock that shadowed it, And the peppermint below. I am not sad, nor sorrowful; But memories will corns; So leave me to my solitude, And let methink of home. hiM'a Kyrnins; 1'rnyrr. A few evening since, while on a visit to a
lenced the thunder, or aettled the tempest, tell ous female friend, her sprightly little daughter
me, did your purposes or promises of repen- , came in to bid her mother "Coodnight. the tance and amendment follow the footsteps of the child was told first to say her evening prayer,
retiring storm? As the voice of the thunder, or '. which she did with great apparent rverence the tempest, when departing, waxed fainter, did , and propriety. It seemed so beautiful and apyour repented fears and resolutions wax fainter propriate that we requested a copy, and give it also, until the last trace of them had disappeared our readers, thinking that other mothers may
with tha disappearance of the storm? And ( wish to teach it to their children, when the sky was once more clear, and the sea ! evening raAvra.
calm, was your soul once more sunk into its. Jesu. tender Shepherd, hear me.
former state of guilty security, the fearful calm
of spiritual deadness, the precursor of eternal -
death? Recovered from sickness, have you ;
once more plunged, with the same infatuation j as before, into the world's pursuits aud pleas-1
ares, and, amid their absorbing or intoxicating 1
influences, lorgotten altogether tne terrors you
sas now offered an additional reward for his ar
rest. An expedition was at once fitted out to - take him; mire than a hundred persons engaged
in it, and started in pursuit. The party came
jup with him atConway court-house,
I Carry saw them approaching in a body over
the plain, and with hi double-barrelled gun and
the weapons that he always carried, two pair of
ritie pistols and a bowie kniTe, ho marched out j boldly to meet tlwm! They saw him and knew I full well that if they came within two hundred
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Tha Lodge adjourned ne die on Saturday , onerrillgfir.t anJ ,hat on a ,p 3Qdlnst. Tho next mealing will bain Ciucin-;proacj,, at least four more would fall by his natl, Sept. 16th, 1850. ! pistols, after which there were no six of them a . j match for Nixon Curry in a bowie knife or hand New Orleans Sept. 23d. ' to hand fight. Realizing these things and seeing The steamship Severn baa arrival at Mobile, ' hiaanarcoantable bravery, the entire force, after
. gaaiiiir iari lew iiiuiiit-iii? v,mht . . . . ir. a . V .
tied at the approaca ot oae man. out uiai mu
by the Chair, and with the consent of tha Grand
Lodge: P.G.M.Rav. E. M.P.Wells, of Mass , R. W. G. Chaplain. T. G. Jna. R. Johnson, of Ga., R. W. G. Marshall. P. G. Jno. E. Chamberlain, or Md", W. G Messenger. P.G.S. H.I-ewyte, of Md.,W.G. Guardian
dictatorship of Napoleon, had it not been for ble, standing aver it, to evince tha respect or this predominant tendency?' Would the singu- : affliction of a single living soul. Not even a
lar events of the present day the republican- i rough unhewn stone marks the head or the fnot ism of France, the revolts of all the nations cfj of him who once) held such sway over the minds
hurope against their dynasties, tha establish- and feelings of men. lid grass and poisonous ment of the democratic power, more or less de- j weeds forms the sod that partly covers him. The
veloped, in new and untried institutions; the j rest of the surface of the grave is sterile clay, freedom of the press, the opening, of legislative , vieldimr no verdant plant or shrub. The stranff-
chambere, the unrestrained expression of public ! er treads upon the snot and regards it not nntil
opinion, and tha strange sight ot an kings and ; he is told that he stands over the remains of
princes permitted to raign at an, nor ne upon tne , Burr. shoullers of the people to their thrones would! How changed the scene when from this un-
these things ever have occurred had it not been ; marked spot we turn to the sleeping place of the
for American republicanism becoming indege- ; father of Burr. Over it there is no lowering
nous on the soil of r ranee T ho can see the ; monnmeut, but there Is a massive tombstone, on
end of these thinirs? No one; it is impossible, which are chiseled the deeds of the loved and
Time alone can develop the principles and agea- honored 1 resident of Aew Jersey college, ine
ciea now at work. The swell of the Atlantic, , grave of the sob is only designated by its being
of the western waves, is now ten on every shore at the root ot the lather s. of EuroDeandof the world; and, from appear- Immediately to the left of President Burr is
ances, it seems not likely to abate till tha tide the tomb of Jonathan Edwards. "Secundus tins borne American principles to every nation nemini mortalium" is written on it, and no one
under heaven. conversant with the life and character a a man, would erase the characteristic insc
The American Revolution, both in its politi-! Still afterward in regular order are the tombs of cat and religious phases, maybe considered as ' Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley, John W'itherthe advent of a new revelation of ideas; as ini- spoon, and Stanhope Smith eac loved in life, tiating a hew class of social relations; as found- lamented in death, and embalmed in the memory ing a new order of institutions; as creating a . of a grateful posterity. new, a democratic force, of tremendous power; j The proximity of Col. Burr, to those loved s ushering into tha social state a new, but uni-1 distinguished men, renders his fate still more versal eliment, destined, like the atmosphere, or melancholly. Their unforgotten virtues make
some other ubiquitous agency, to modify all ex
Bless Thy littl lamb to-night! Through the darkness t-e Thou near me, Watch my sleep till morning light! All this day Thy hand has led me And I thank Thee for Thy car; Thou hat clothed me, warmed, and fed me, Listen to my evening prayer.
Let my sins bo all forgiven! Bless tha friends I love so well! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy, there with Thee to dwell!
felt on your bed of sickness, and the rows which you there vowed to your God? THK JtECORPEn vows. You may have forgotten those rows, and every day, and every hour, may witness your
shameful violation of them; but remember, l j jj-xhe following sympathetic efTusion, founconjure yoa, that God has not forgotten them. (.d on wafJ wri,ten by j0in Finley, Esq.,
in the day you vowed them, l.od heard, and re- of Riohn,0,ldf alld fir,t puw,vlti!ied some twenty
gistered them in that book, where an your , , aj,c in the rj.dper.
thoughts, and words, and actions, are written w. pive u tn to ,he p-.;,.. The sorrow
down, aad out ot which you snail be judged in of ,he r.j wi(e cannot f..il to excite the
that day when the books shall be opened. From yl.lpathy of the reader. the moment you pledged those solemn promises, , i hc .tliiler. up to the present, that God to whom you fdei'g- Once ou a lime, 'lis n o great matter wht-a, ed them has been the constant witness of every ; There livtd, (and 'tis as little matter where;) movement of your heart and life, and has seen j dusty Miller, much like other men, "violation of your own" stamped upon ail. He ' Bt 0f if-g it's he had a double chare, has watched you silencing the pleadings of con- ; And of the good things scarcely one in ten ! science, and stifling the convictions of his spirit, u,,t what mosl vexed this mealy son of care, when reminding yoa of those solemn rows. j ),ad to combat all the ills of life, He has seen with what self-salii-fied complacen- ' Willi an outrageous teniagant to wife. CV vou have coagratnlated yourself, or received ... i , . ' - . . , " , . His null was situate ill such a place,
, , . That to pass to aud fro without much trouble, shaken off the fears that terrified you, whan , , ,v. ,.
l dilute JMOiir wa mm i .... . , Far better, 'twill be seen, had it been double;
Oae day, well laden, at his usual pace,.
bri aging one million one hundred and twenty-
ne thousand dollars in gold, mostly for Eng- was Kixon Curry !
land the remainder for Mobile and this city, j H anted like a wild beast, Carry grew more Tho tat Round Island axpeditio excited , aad more desperate, yet he loved his wife and mach aaaaslnesa ia the city of Mexico. The j was ever kind to her, and his two children, a boy Coasal at New Orleans sent ward that the e-' and girl, the latter handsome as her mother bad sedition would land at Labea Island, near Tarn- been before her. A young man by the name pica. of Howard was already betrothed to her. He Harrera adareesad a remonstrance to tha U. S. ' was a noble young fellow, and the day was fixed Laration at the capital. Tbe rorernmeat has ! for their marriage. One morning Curry got
commenced extensive nreDaralioas for defend-1 no rloomv and aad, aad told his wite that ha
in t b eitiaa alonr th raaaL. dttm. T .a Vn should die before nirht
eolleeted a farce of 800 men aad armed a steam-1 ted companion of the bold man urge upon him are not, as a er witb. artillery to defead the entrance of the that it was but a aenroos dream tliat had im-! plaything i
Tampteo river.
isting things; in a word, to put the world upon a new path, another probation, an untried exercise of its moral and political capacity. America has stood before the world, up to this time, like an athletic yootli just having escaped from the care of parents and governora. How it will ultimately fare can scarcely be divined at pres
ent. Either from the conviction of conscious strength; from a repugnance of evils, endured nr imagined: from the teachings of history, and
the antecedent miseries of mankind, assuffered in the old world; from the abhorrence which thechainsof government and priesthoods had.
in every nation of Europe, forged for the people, and successfully rivited oo their limbs;
from a detestation oi ine wasie oi puoirc muney.the hard earnings of the laboring classes, in the gorgeous decorations of the abodes of pampered idleness and debauchery;, from tho notion
Iavaindidthearrrigh-;tliatmea,equally made in the image ofGod,
aaity or ine uport ot :eipottsm,
his vices sem ten -fold more vicious.
TU ah. t AA nf Y lifrt
hich might under other circumstances palliate j f".ng, slow to anger, and delighting in mercy.
death and eternity were staring you in the face. And yet ha has watched over you and kept you 1- t . ... V.1 1 . . J. V... J.u wkiU t
IU NlCil, mill H1C9K , VU UOJ ' " " I " " " ... i l . I- t I ' . , . T .... . . . . (Which by the bve was but a l:npi:ig hobb.e,)
you hava conuuuea 10 insun nis majeaij , ami - - . i j , i.:. J IT- ;A.l nlaitV nd half wvoVr had rot turn.
..n.. II. " I" '
When souse went bag and Miller to the bottom.
despise his love! Why is this? Because He is
God tha merciful God gracious and long-suf-
A kind, officious neighbor runs to tell
0The National Intelligencer has in its pos-
The tragic story to the .Miller's wife, j How broke the plauk, an how the Miiler fell, 1 And how he lost the bag aud lost his life!
his bad ones. Aa the visitor stands over the grave, many scenes in tho checkered and eventful life of Burr
Crown om.ll Ills ircutin nun. UP irmniiuvis , . , T , ,.. . , the 6lh of February, 1756. wben Burr first saw ! session a number of 'The Oeorgelou Leoger, , l?ut "twa, n3 i,me on themes like these to dwell; that light through which misdirected zeal led j published Nov. 26lh, 1791, which contains the : He britfly told the Miller's strife; him to so many deeds of woe. He calls to mind , f0?iowing beautiful sonnet by Dr. Aiken, ad- ..g there again," exclaimed the vixen hag,
l FOREIGN NEWS. j AKRIVAI. K Till: l lVtIA. j ONE WEEK L AT EllFliO M EL'ROrE. i Tlie Canid; arrived at IWifax at a quarter ; past nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, having j made the paspaje iu teu days. The uews, Ts , stated yesterday reached Philadelphia ouWed- ! nes,iay evening, but it was not until half past five o'clock yesterd.-iy afleruocn.ll.at the followi ing report reached u.
St. Ji-hiis, October 3d. The political ne-s-s from Europe presents no new feature, r.nd I find nothing that would jiis-
I tify a lengthy report.
The Fortress of Comorn, though besieged, still holds out, and it is said it can defy tin besiegers one entire year. The influence of Austria and Russia has been exerted to compel Torte to surrender t'.ie Hungarian chiefs' who have takea refiign in Turkey, bat letters from Constantinople state that lit ia has been positivt ly refused. The Pope has quitted Gaeta and proceeded to Naples. His reception was of the most striking and popular character. Ho will not go to Rome for the present. Tho cholera was committing severe ravages
n Triest-.
Important news was daily expected frem Mo
rocco, where the Spanish and French General
were likely t? produce something more thau a
mere demonstration.
The Moors were expected to make an attack
on Missilla, having already cut ofT supplies of
provisions,
File newly appointed Jlinis'.ers were assem
bling at Madrid, but no notice seems to be taken
of the events recently transpired in tha Unile-i States relative to Cu' a.
I France a good de.,1 of attention is directed
to the Metropolitan Council of Clergy which has commenced its sittings nt Tjiis. Almost ail the Bishops and distinguished clergy of Trance
are assemblies at the Council.
The cholera appears to have permanently di
minished at Taris.
The conspirators of June '13 are to be tried
at Verinllics on the lfltli of October.
Rraiuaiion of the Onlrh ?li".itry. Paper received at Liverpool on thr 0'st an
nounce the uuerpected rrsl-nnlion of tbe Putah Ministry en masse. After a nip'.'s deliberation, the King accepted the resiu.ition ami gave
instructions for the foimntion vt a new cabinet. The circumstauces whtrh led to this result have not transpired. TurJ:cr. Honor to Ab.id Mcschit! Honor to the Turkish Ministry! Thfy have nebly done t't.eir daty, and refused to pander to the vindictive blood-thirsty desires of the despotic powers of Austria and Russia. The Russian Ambassador, at the Torte, demanded the exlradiclion of the Hungarian officers, Kossnili, Pemblnsky, Dereyel, M-'tma-lasses and their companions. The Kusm.iu Cenerjl arrived at Constantinople, his mission being to bully ihe Sultan into
compliance with the demr.nd of the Austrian Co u Jul.
The Turkish Government rcsolv.id not to
surrender the Hungirian refugees to either the
Russian or Austrian Government. On this de
cision being coininuaicated, the Sultan declared
n the most impressive and determined manner,
that tt.e refugees should not be given up, let the consequences be what they might.
"Wo- trust," says a leading Lorn on paper,
"Lord Pulmerstoii will do his duty as nobly as
the Sullau has done bis, aud that Russia and
Austria will be given to understand that War with Turkey, for such a cause, means war with England. Wo rejoice to find that Kossuth and
his compatiiots are furnished with passports
from English Ambassadors, and wo trust every
assistance will be reudered to support the In dependence of the Sultan against the attacks of
Russia, and its vassal, Austria.
Ilunjtnrr. The latest intelligence to the London Pun, i., that the Fortress of l'eterwardien had surren
dered to the Imperial troops on the "lh ultimo.
The Magyars- dteided to hold out, but a ma
jority overruled their noble determination.
T.ie Garrison of Comorn was well provisioned, with 30,01 0 men In a state of complete discipline. The officers held a meeting, and resolved, by a large majority, not to surrender. According to the Vienna Journal H',000 men are to besiege Comorn. Tha bombardment would commence on the 13th, when the Austrians occupied a great part oftiie Island Schutt, without resistance, but part of the Hungarians were tlrongly entrenched btfore the fortress, and it was expected they would give the Austrians battle. It was rumored at Vienna that Bern had falleninto the hands of tiie Kussiane. The Hiiugariau ctlkers had been put to death some by hanging. n1n:l. A favorable charge lia t.ikeu pi. ice iu the mortality from cho'rra throughout England; tho
cases having ceclinrd one-half, r-ince its commencement, 11?,0"0 persons have betn swept away in London alone Ireland. The pot.itoe disease ws, beyond a doubt, extending into several district?; though it has not, by any means beceme general.
t - : . - .. ... - i . .
... . . r- .k. k. i hnt alike nossessea ail the Tisrnts oi mannooa.
pressed n:m inns, oui vnrry inwsira .... .---- r - , . ..
,w Tarn, and are eonany capaoio vi iia ami m
it m vnA.f ihin uv nni v 1 1 1 HMSini anoi a na Kumi htiuiq ci. - i -
. ' ( ..L: V It. II nPl m
Thi tort of Aatigaa is completely iaanda- double-barrelled gan antil yoa can snuff a can- - decay had enb
tod with tha heavy raine the inhabitants har- die with either boreal a hundred
ing aarety time to eoeape with their liree. Public conlribationa'.wete takea ap at Vera Cras ta reliara the sufferer. The cholera ia docreaaiag ia Mexico.
The newa by tha Cambria has just been re
ceived. Tne aatea of lotton yesterday were out Tk. .,w.. i. i I.
tire death of both his parents while the boy was
only tnree years old; the handsome fortune that . .! . I . L - i J
was oequeameu an orpnau sou; tne luur uaj abscondauce from his preceptor when too he was a child of four yoars' growth; the runaway from Mr. Edwards for the purpose of gowing to sea, while he was in his eleventh year; and the entrance of Princeton College at tho early age
dressed "To His Excellency, George Wash- "Lord what a fuss will be about thai bag '."'
inctos, President of the United States of America." 'Point of that pyramid, whoso solid base Rests firmly founded oo a nation's trust,
Which, while the gorg-ous palace sinks iu dust
of twelve, where he graduated at the age of 16, ShaU sU(j1 fubIime fin it, snlple space!
takin? the honors of his class in spite of a mor
al character that evoked much disapprobation. He reflects npon him as a volunteer in the American revolution and a soldier inthecele-
aid to Gen. Putnam, and a conferee of the title J
of lieutenant coloneli He follows hrm to the
Tcmpcrnnre Mitlii Gen. S. F. Carey, of Ohio, addressed the citizens of Centreville on last Wednesday evening,
savs the Whig of the 3d Inst , at the Methodist
Chureh ou llis sabject of Temperance. As au orator, and especially ou the temperance question, he has but few equals in the West. His
Than kings whose glittering petls are fixed wucie souj ia in ihe temperance cause. Within by t.irt!.. . the last yoar, he has addressed more than one Named by thy country's voice for long tried ,u,dred thousand of his fellow-cilizens in eigh-
t teen different States of the Union. Possessed
Elected chief of freemen; greater far
rsrth.
og ,0 hi. .on, he .aid. Bill, practice with that blessings; -i-- f? " , Z the Albany ' U.r c.rw l aee. as once her shield in war. ' ( -P'e fortune, he freely spends a portion
Prartiml km f Ijke VisuipiKrerr. The Laud ?nd Water Company owning the factories at Lowell and elsew lu re ou the Merrimack, purchased a few years since ".lie right to the water of Lake Winuipiseogee. The lake now constitutes a vast reservoir for the supply of WEter to the -Merrimack during the months when the river is at a low ei.b. To obtain tho command of ;h wau r a n-w channel lias been excavated para lcl to the old one. This enablesthem to command ticht feel of water in depth
of the whole su? fare of the lake. The supply thus obtained is iuvaluab'e. For some weeks past the .Merrimack has beea so low that, without this supply, many of the cotton mills could hrtve worked but a portion of their machinery. Sonre one has Slid Ui;.t the aid thus obtained is h oi til a thousand aoilars a day to the manufacturing companies. Asing'e inrh er day upon the surface of the lake will usually be all lhat is
bar in 17S2; to tho Senate in 1791, and to the' jjcn Wasliineton, to hear a British lyre,
required, and hence the eight feet will afTord a
of it, together with his lime, in appealing lo hi; supply fur ninety-six days. It will be remem-
hi own eloouent language, lol iwrea nisi ine iae is auoui iwruiv-iwt. muea
wW ,1sa iffiiA-,np. iinnfll-nrr. Ami i
yards, and men ...-i"
ai ...... k tkA nriiie oi mose. wno. iui oc -m.-rt h-". nvi'uu iia. m mo ..li... tn, - i rpi,. ; . .. t ... . m-iih BnnUiifiir ,v - j: - . i. i j .u .;i .i.niMr. in pn au.i i roin one 10 if ii in nreanin. una.
I pal lire CSQlCnlS VI owll I . . . , . u I . ? t, LI. i k. AmMjr I IHfllBluclllEirci. ...... c w uriVC irtlfll llie lailU tll-J lll.'lis.fr, tin. .M...-f. i -- - f . t: u.-u.i,.i.:-j i .,l:,i ,.! iil them, and which were about to fall over people in 1. SI. He beholds him the destroy- ... b. . , , . , r. ,-. ..u i.s. .ihv.r 1 he, idea th s baa a Urr mini her .f bavs hence..
leather heir head.; from a conviction of the dreadful er of Hamiltoa; the miserable litigant at ,he Ad to the patriot hero nonage pays: thrahlf; T inch npo'u the surH. wont oat a. a.aal to tbe village, where ha evil, of war and bloodshed, generally arising i Now York bar; th. rev.l er in H Oh, would the muse immortal strains inspire, , 'J;,, JZt 11. him for the good face, ...Immense qnant.ty of water i, drawn off.
met young Howard, and he begaa to drink deepr ouioi vno . .sfc.-.-...v.-, .- .- - 1 M,S"' "J""" he has dona. We hop t!it the eimmenis n , i ms au.a.:Kr is ..nc u.. .... . J. B r.. '.kfii.. ihouniuirt of despotism, the ouar-1 pre bevond the creat father of rivers, of whicil- i ,,. ..... , , ., : .,i . ,.r,,. I .in- -n .,.' ives di-.it onal valr-
V taorawa im atmnsnsouiK pmwN uim, -" ' 7 . c l. j ! - . - ..j ik. r.irn.ih. .warn soar 10 iiuirs u " n-j u.vi, uumn , a.ivanceo on ine uceuse qursnuu j -- . . , " . otil.tl..t ha became almost crazy, and at-, rels of state-gamblere and prixe-fightera, and he was to be aniperor, and the Crescent C,ty he ( I . . bv our citiiens. ue U the water power of the M.rnmacW.
tempUd the wildcat and most arbitrary tr:k. ' never, oo -iU, from truth and jU8trce;-we great capital, at sees mm arraigns w.