Indiana American, Volume 20, Number 6, Brookville, Franklin County, 30 January 1852 — Page 1
IMHiAMA
MffllEdMCAi
V. Ot,R COVNTRY-QVR COtKTRf INTERKSTS AND O BR COCNTRTS FRIENDS
BUOOKVILLE, FRANKLIN CO. INDIANA, PKIDAT, JAN.3D, 1852,
fOMTICAL
J of previous notice given a large
see added by legislature enactments, strict economy in the expenditures of our state government more uniform and equitable asessment
meeting of the Whip of Frank- for purposes, and a well matured and
,.t r.s hfl'l '"e Cou" House, on .-w 17th Pay of January, 1S52, for vning suitable persons a deleM Convention, to be holden at
10 th StSth of February next, and Is: weffretif for a candidate for Tresf:T," frtt'einon wore chosen as offi- .-. ( EntirePresident. p-ruffs HAV.MOND. va:. Cspt James W. Maxwell, f inals, Joseph Depew, Jefferson !Wa!terS. Baker, Trin. Aiford . v vm Lowes. do.
Richard Wood Michael Mngenthnll William Klomme John C. Knett Roswell Schoonover Frederick Guler
The Meeting was a spontaneous out pouring of the People, notwithstanding the severity of
VOI XX. XO. o.
THE TAFJEF.
From the Tribune.
more thoroughly digested system of common of the Peonle. nt-itt..tnni ..... ' :. -V - The Balnnre r Tmrte.
school education, the w,,h ' .... '.l, 7 "' - "09X"S "P th arroun,s of ?'
Tintblv That we !,,.-.,. ' eeed., v'uZ ! ii r- r.inPSS' "d ""ons thereon cannot
il,. nr.... . r . . : -r., ' : " " . ""l Pp",0"R deemed unreasonable.
rj.,.r. Vl R,,,,ranieni 01 real estate i touoiy were represented, and the Court There is such
inefficient and
i-i i . i r . i . ...
.orMiny ueiecuon. I linta siamea lull Willi peon e and entbn. ,!.. tl.:
svstem .!mi.t;.. r .1.. , .. . ' mnjBi an uniavorndie
v., mr . aiuauon 01 iamts,siuiate i ""
a thin" as (lie balance of trad
balance a bal-
wonder why tie Tariff men don't 'let well enough alone,' and can't see why all is not going right,' so long as they are annually scoring up a balance (in debts paysble) on the right side of their ledgers. No, easy friends! there is no well enough' to 'let alone.' Th
c b r " " l unemployed factories and artisans only, but for for nearly all our people, including even you!
AGRICULTURAL
'uunuwiioi ianus,siiuate """" ' ance Rfrntnst n A r i i Iti t - - r--r-i r.on ju in tl,e same vicinity, of equal fertility ofsoil.l The occasion wa, made the more interesting accounTof hi, "oullnJT. I" P" iT''e Na"on is runni"R ''y i" debt and p posessing the same natural and artificial advan- I V the presence of the Bronfcvill. J h 8 ou,'n " '""ie, h,s crops and ; par.ng for a grand revulsion. It may co.
tages and grated onlv by In.min.rrCo.ntr which Bl.d most lmir.hU.i Z. - I. .V. , T?. Pm (nS farmer, sooner or later, a, circu
line,, the astounding disproportion as is dem'- to their cre.l,t, and the sanction of the Audi"- h. tWh", 1 L. , "J"1 ? W 'T? ? be
onstratedby the late and former annraisement. m. . . ... , r 1 wo"" aur- jw nanKs, ma .Merchants. or
demands, thorough mistonorntterabrogation. At the conclusion of Col. Farquhar's speech JIZlnAn lS " "1cn"of'"- wWehflowd That Ih. party maintaining such nnjuft and " President announced three leers forG to Z T I " re .o-ght cer-) Ad Valorem TarifT of I9IC. an une,quit,b.e,awsbyforc,ofVrtydiJp,en,for ott,whichwas itj.y of O.eMmporUtion which an uninterrupted sorie of years, should be held i hch made the welkin rlnB. After whW. ..J r-rrrin Jit . ! ' 11" ' hU' f ,heeV' day 8,uU ''become,
, Col. John II. Farquhar, a com- j by the ,.,Mt but ufl.
i responsible for llie irreparable confluences, bv
-ens were appointed to
consideration of th
report
Meet
; j Ff. Farquhar, Solomon Williams -; ' Fitton, Kiy Woodworlh, and ai f ei appointed as said comtuitr;!irfm.".it of the committee, the --TViXvnd iiiterestin'y addressed by - HiUsJ, Esq. t--V, ascbainnain of the commit- - -; tv following preamble and resoc ,-K5i uiwiiimcusly adopted. . iT,f.jf':evein, and approve of the ;:um of as'mbly together as did
:t :z :;nifS p:is!; uiscuss the wants of
s-jjorm the practicability of our re-
lering tax payers.
Elevsxthlv That we steadfastly adhere to, I
and recommend the readoption of a state board of equalisation, based upon the same principle as is that or the County boards; that the present unequal, unjust and onerous system of taxation may be corrected. Twelvthlv That we recommend to our young friends throughout the state, and particularly to those of our own county, friendly to the succes of the "Peoples candidate" for the Presidency, the immediate orgauiiation of "Chippawa" Clubs, iu their several Townships, for the formation and consummation of that much desired end.
Thirteknthlt That we will unite with our '
j fellow citiiens of the State in a convention to be
ff OQ Oil PVItlitlciva In... : J Al 1 a.
meetin.. nHir,.,,,.-! t.. ...... .. ' . '". or ooing inese unngs I
the 2G,hlf f rli; " I"1 "",nnaI'0"9 on , 8om-l"'S wWch Evolved him toextraordi nary!
. . : xPe. this state of the account need not nlr,n
i him; but if he finds that it is the
re-
may come
instances shall dictate
found execrating
some other class.
iroctly from the I tha fatal faciliit created. When rill you think o f
ufemofrovernmentandpresentto our t Iud.anapol.s, on the 2P,h of February
., , .. I recommemt the appointment of a :::::?Mucht!iPUElits and suggestions as u . . " ., .. n j number of delegates from each township to attend -3 nt for their consideration. There- i .. 1
C. F. Clorkson, Esq., offered for adoption the following: Resolved, That we recommend to the state convention the name of Col. John II. Farquhar,
, as a candid:tt f..r Wliiir ril., r., : .!::..
truth, w steadfastly adhere to the r, F ', f
I tlJ ii.u IMUtn j r.iii-u ior, sua
Kjtved, - T: tt a Nation to be "free
: ' nr.st loo to its own
and Inde-
resources, and
ne dependent upon others for the im,;d iniis-eiiAiHe wants of life. In
reooraniended by our Washington, '
.:r.;iiri;tUr ijy all of our illustrious chief ef Cefraying the expenses of the W rT"3aieat, by revenue arising from a
upoc goo!s imported from foreign j
.c4 iu the arrangement of such du- J - s-:-:-ve, that judicious liiscriiniumtions '
.:3L:e,trording snlnoient protection "C -a nird, mechanical, inaiiufacturiug
-'7h,;j;ri d interest of the country. iaV.ic do naia U legiUat tely the 'T7 f ! whole people and has long been Tr-f pitied controver.-y; we recommend ' i- be donated in reasonable and suffi- ' cb unities to actual st iters, hether na'rforeijabom, wlio will improve and cul-'-it, with Iwam fide intention of permey sceapyifj tV.e wme, and becoming a citA ra.";--,:'5a:es. m 7 ::i thea.uinptiou by one branch " of tlie (iuti-s and functions of ..:,? .TjB.'h, alMj especially the einploy--ne,u!ive patronage nnd influence to ' J-' -ret't t'ae legislation of the country examples; tending to the conceu5'"j"r.!uch power in the hands of one ;T3:r That we regard the wanton abuse ' r -mer, as repeatedly exercised in " ' t-s. by the President and executives of 1 ' :he st -.t. s of this Fnioin, as dangerous the encroarhmi'iits of one ijpnart.
Kf .government upon the rights and du- " Mother incompatihl- with the spirit of Tentative frni of government, and rrww-s-d for cause other than toarrest
responded in one of the ablest and best speeches, which was loudly and enthusiastically cheered. The Resolution was then unanimously adopted. On motion of George Holland, Esq. The following Gentlemen were appointed ns delegates to the State Convention: BROOKVILLE TOWNSHIP. Charles Smith James Evertt
George M. In ram James S. Coolescot Jr. George Holland Wilson Morrow William Hackelman Joseph M. Jones Silas Sering John F. Hazzard Johu G.Adair Jacksou Lynn Richard Chambers Elijah Moffitt
Silas Tyner Mathiew Ilutcheson James C. Jones Theodore P. Meeks Joseph Smith Samuel heppard
Walter S. Raker Rufus Haymand Robt John James W. Maxwell J. O. St. John James Mewhiny George W. Kimble John D. Houland Wesley Moffitt Edman Hopping George Ulerich John H. Farquhar John Goodwsu Henry Gallion Richanl Tyner Jr Earnest Hautrick Samuel McNeely
William Liens. WHITEWATER.'
Mason W. Haile C F. Clark son Ell Cain James Spear Josiah Allen Levi Updike Philip Alvey William J. Peck Ira Stout Johu Harkleman Joel Keeler
;;o!r
or "hasty and inconsiderate"
Tiolation of tlie spirit and intent of;
-At-jtioa and derserving the condemna-fT-y true n-publican. -a'.-Th;it the "one term" principle as ;r ?is: continues to form a consnicious
r -fat-iw,!;.: i i , .
r.Hiiui irret:;ana is now proclaim"ie!y true and practic;d method of adthe government impartially and ye single in ilia li.t r u-
p-' That in Genl. Winfield S.-nit w
' blended, pre-eminent quantities of --"acoldipr and eminent statesman i SCTytf whose past life for near forty! l!w"'.taiit ri umnh in nit nnr
to-;!,.S; whose moral character ( Pv,'.Btl5)ii";J.l U .1.. . .,1
w vrru mp lUIIJJlie Ol
1 I
Samuel Davis John P.Casa Joseph SUelove Ma'com Lowes Thomas H Sater Daniel Wilson
George Karber Z. A. Nye Thomas Benton George W. Kingsbury John Ponton D. C. Cater
STRING FIELD M. V . Simonson Frances Rarber Samuel Holliday Morgan Roop Charles Hasson John R. Conyers Jeffersan Cooleecott Ssmuel Shirk William Selfridge Rufus Hinkley
Aquilla Rairden Samuel Goudey
Judah Hinkley
RA TH Oliver Bourne John Blue Ifoah Davis
Abraham Jones
"T-- aate him as a candidate for
- V ."'.F0' St',u's. and pledge him a ' ' its.'.a,! forever silence the dogma that . - are ungrateful." 1
n-T!:,t
John Shultz Jas C. White Eiiphelet Allen William II. Lee
John Feenis FAIRFIELD James McMannus William Johuston
.tuat i
; we recognize and endorse !
' very Xitioa to le free.
e- " .
"- ary ami
--ra;ate its
po-
inherent power, the
wn domestic affairs and
k 1 Us cw n form pf government; that
--ace whatever, to prevent the free
ou exercise of such powers, by on. is a wanton assumption of un-
t -uu-,0ri!y ud (.hould wgarJej 1)y " ''wXation as a frr f
-!-Thlt,,Cilizen8of Nf:ou pro-t.-.V P"Wp!esofsetf eoTernment. we
.S-,.. ,!!ao sympithize with down tred- I
Tnor'ver il is struggling to emu-j -- f fr"ei!o,Ti. happiness and gen-1 -..l; Rt,i"ing that the midlightl
prf-ji '"Sn1' thr"ngh the "potent influ-
ac,l"shed instituUons, develo-::"th-irrphere'win 90011 d;sPe"ei v-sl hoPrglorions future realieed,lamanity, of every clime: we . confidently, and as in courage-
Samuel Masters Stephen S. Herrell Thomas Towers Valentine Snvder
Frances Brown George Adams William Russing Jacob Erb
BLOOMING GROVE. Jnmes M. Clements eloman Williams
David Slaughter James Mcllwaine John Ablott George Flummer Austen Webb
Wiliam Miller William Harvey J. X. Clements William Hatfield Richard Wilson
LAVREL Cyburn Murry James D. Henry
kelson Patterson Caleb Scofield Curtes W. Smith William Williams
Joel Hvatt
iMosos J. Kelley Hugh Brison Asbury Conwell
A. V . Sullenberger Elias Macy Alonzo Winship David Hazzard Alfred Hall SALT CREEK & RAY
RUFUS MAYMAN President.
Walter S. Bakkr Secretary. For the American. To an Orplinn. "T M. LOl'ISA CH1TWOOD. Thou art lonely veiy lonely, Traveling down the path of years! Xone may smile with love upon thee, None may quell thy rising fears. Often will thy heart lie yearning Mid thine hours of loneliness, For some voice of kind affection, For some kind and sweet caress. Genile child! the way before thee Soon will rough and rougher grow ; Clouds will gathet o'er thy pathway, Chilling winds begin to blow, There is one who constant watches O'er thy fragile fading llowers, Surely he will guard and guide thee Mid thy darkest, darkest hours. Oh ! if hearts would be more tender, Giving oftener gentle words, Checking every rash expression, That so prey on lire's deep chords. If the stream of sweet affection Would be wider and more free, How it would like sunlight linger On the pain of one like thee. But too oft we treat with coldness Those whose paths are dark aud drear; Ah! we little know what sorrow Such cold actions give them here; We should ponder, ponder deeply, Andour inmost spirits prove, Ere we wound the lonely orphan, That has none on earth to love. Mt Carmel, Jan. 1S53.
The Aiigrl of Tcmpo-ance-I saw a rosy maiden fair, l-wiftly gliding thro' the morning air, Zjihra kiooo.1 her as she Hew, All her joyous footsteeps knew. A Bible she held in her unpraised hand, To bless and gladden some distant land, Said this power of her work would be Love, Turity, aud Fidelity. Down to earth in haste she came, To quench an all devouring flame, Cold water poured with au angel's might, The flame soon vanished from my sight. I watched her then where 'ere she went Ever from her hand some good she sent, Tlenty and peace in her pathway sprung, Where before crush'd hearts with anguish wrung; She went to bind up the broken heart. And ere from their tlneshold she departs, Light and joy has arisen bolow, In those dark abodes of misery and woe. And an army of votaries bright Followed her, bandaged in dazling white, A goblet of water they bore in their hands, They called themselves the reserved bands. And I wondered what was her name. Her that quenched that raging flame Yet scattered blessings all around, Wondered if she'd dwell on mortal ground. And I asked her what her name might be, As she glided so swiftly by me, She smiled, and her eyes upward glanced, And said that her name was Temperance. Intervention. General Jackson in his fourth annual Message said : "In the view I have given of our connections with foreign powers, allusionshavebeen made to their revolutions or dissensions. It may be proper to observe, that this is done solely in cases where those eveuts affect our political relations with them, or to show their operation on our commerce. Further than this, it is neither our policy nor onr right to interfere. Our best
wishes on all occasions, our good offices when
Onlv wnv hn
"as that his sons linm nA fir.- i
.i uwuis, waver; hats aud lever watches, while his daughters! j have sported silk dresses, leghorn bonnets and ! pianos, and that holp has been hired to milk and' j churn and chop and feed the cattle while his! j boys and girls were offsleigh-riding and dancing ! night after night, why then we say that the
farmer must turn over a new leaf and draw , a tighter reiu on his household, or he will soon I have uo house ever their heads. Wondrous j as human ingenuity Is, it has never yet devised
, inoae oi subtracting a larger sum from a.
smaller, or enabling a man to go from year to
j ear spending more thau his Income without rushing on embarrassment and ultimate bankruptcy. Is there a show of reason for believing that this is less tr ue of a community or nation than it is of an individual? We know that n i..,t,.
vidual of good property may spend more than he j acquires uutil he eats himself out of house and i home, do we not that people may do likewise? j Suppose, for example, that the Cotton-planting ' States should sell Eighty Millions' worth of! their staple per anumu, and buy yearly of Grain ! and Meat, Fabrics and Wares, Tianos and' Champagne, Gold Watches and Pleasure Carri-' ages, One Hundrred Millions' worth do you! fancy that this course could end in anything ! but general embarrassment aud baukrupcy? Ifi such must inevitablyjbe the result of individual ! over-buying, why not of a like course on the' part of a State, Section or Nation' If a large! proportion of the citizens of our country run' heavily in debt to their merchants, who owe for j the goods thus absorbed to the city wholesale! or jobbing dealers, who owe for them in turn to the importers, who likewise owe for them to ' European manufacturers or bankers, why does' not the aggregate of this Indebtedness form prac- j tically a National Debt, depressing the energies ' aud embarrassing the industry of the entire I community? True, it may not at all times be j felt as an embarrassment, because the creditors may not bo pressing nor the debtors seeking to ' pro vide for pajment; but at best the sword hangs suspended by a hair, and may fall at the ' slightest whisper ol the creditor. Under such ! auspices, how can the debtor be quiet, efficient' and prosperous? j 'But surely," says a Free Trader, you 'don't object to our gettting more for our ex- j 'ports than their cost; nor can you insist that!
'we are falling in debt to Europe because our
From the Christian Freeman. mpiuutiii. BY MRS. D. L. HOSMER. You ask me to eome home, nicther, To spend Thanksgiving day You say the day'll be sad aud drear If your children are away: . I fain would grant your wishes, mother, 'Twould give my heart more joy Than all the wealth of all the world, In gold without alloy. Oh, would that on each glad return Of this bright festal day, We might in one unbroken band, "Chase the glowing hours" away: We'd gather round the old hearth-stone, Aud talk of childhood's days When first your tender.earnest voice Taught U3 our Maker's praise. I know that all the homes, mother, Whene'er Thanksgiving comes, Are gathering around their hearths The absent straying ones; And, as I hear the gladsome tones Long for the happy day, My heart almost laments the fate That keeps me far away. I know it cannot be, mother I cannot fill my place, Around your generous, festal board You may not see my face; For the distance is too long, mother, The autumn winds are drear; And i ere I could return again, Stern winter would be here. But do not let my absence Durken your heart that day, But seek to make more joyous The oues who with yo stay; And when the summer comes, mother, With singing birds and flowers, And thousand beauties which God sends To deck this world of ours; Then will I come to you, mother Come with my heart full of love, And joyfully we'll pass the hours, And praise the God above Who kindly giveth friends to all, And taketh them away; Who'll one day give us all a home One long Thanksgiving day. I Ace a l'inl I'm nlmont Home. The following is related ef a young girl.
Imports may come to us officially valued wll0f!e journey of life was near its end: About
'higher than our Exports. Suppose we should l,er c"al" ghded gently the loved forms of 'send out a hundred cargoes of Ice, valued at ,,er Parel,,s anJi only sister. She silently no'One Million in all, sell them for Ten Millions ted ,heir movements with a mild expression of and take our pay in Iron, Silk Tea, &c, ller '''inR turning it from side to side. Ar- ' would that prove that we were rushing on ru- rrS,,?lI '" lle"" peculiar look, so expressive of af. in?" fliction and patient suffering, they paused to No, Sir! not at all! We don't regard the look l,l,on her whom they only saw now but officially declared value of our Exports and Im- iim,J' through their tears, aud so soon should
see no more. A feeble effort to speak, a quivering voiceless movement of the lips, drew closely around her the loving hearts or that sorrowing circle. Mother, father, sister, all came closer to her side. A playful smile lit up her countenance. She laid her little mi icpTa linn?
ports respectively as of much acccount one way or the other. How could we, when we have most undeniable proof that the various Wines now imported under an Ad Valorem duty.are valued at less than one-third of the valuation of the like Wines imnorted undar the
Specific Duties of the Tariff of '12? We have wun,n mother s palm, then closed her eyeno doubt thit the actual balance against us is lids to 1,10 ''K1'1 of eart,1 a,,d sa,1k "way. The much larger than that shown by our Custom C0,,i .iamp air d1"'8 shadowy valley seemed houae valuaiions;but we place no depenleuce jCirrIi"g over her. Slowly sinking down, she on those valuations, cne way or another. , gied towards that river's shore, which like a But thess things we do know and any but :,larrow stream, divides the spiril-land from ours, the wilfully blind may know them; 1. That R,,t 8Pe! 1,19 lu'riiig lips essay to sneak! a large proportion of our National Debt is held ;"Mo,her!" O, how each heart throbbed now, in Europe, while of our State debts many "nd t!,Pn eBch Puls stood still. They listen -millions are held there and more constantlv "M"ther!" the dying-girl breathes forth "I
tending thither;
That a great amount of
see a light Fm almost home!" Blessed
our Railroad Bonds and other evidence is held bought! Light is sown for the righteous, even
i i i i . r ainiri the gloom and darkness of the prave in Europeand more kicking about from one .r "e E'banker to another in eager quest of purchasers ICTDr. Carson of England, who has distinon almost Rny terms; 3. That our Merchants, gnished himself by his controversial works in asac'ass, areserionsly in debt to those of whom favor of immersion, has lately uttered a seiitithey pure base iu Europe; 4. That large n- ment which is full of meaning as to the tendency mounts of European Capital are constantly of his views of baptism, excludingchildren from comiug here for investment, and being loaned a'l interest in christian ordinances. His words on bond and mortgage and other productive se- are:
required, will be afforded to promote the domes- cureities; 5. That a great share of the import-! "The gospel has nothing to do with infants, tic tranquility and foreign peace of all nations e& goods still in first hands in this Country are nr have gospel ordinances any respect to them, with whom we have any intercourse. Anv inter-! the property of the European exporters of their j The gospel has to do with those who hear it. It vention in theiraffairs further than this, even bv agents here, while far less of our exoerted sta- good news; but to infants it is no news at all.
the expression of an official opinion is contrary p'es are still American property; and 6. That, ' hey know nothing of it. The salvation of the to ourpriuciples of national policy, and will al- sPite of a11 tais' t,le Rat of Exchange is gospel is as much confined to believers, as the
you exactly anticipated me, and CIV 1 up the deficit. My fa-m consists of seventy acres, perhaps I might with more propriety say my garden, for the whole of it is msnaged lake a garden.an,! our hedges are trimmed as neatly as they would ordinarily be about a garden, hence the expense accruing is as I represented. The subject of fencing is one which I profess to understand, one on which I feel that I am well 'posted up,' and I am convinced that every firmer in the country conid be as fully so, if" he would only think for himself, and I am fully satisfied that to a very grnt extent the heaviest fix p-i.l by
nie tarmer is that paid for the constructi-m of worse than useless fences. ery respectfully your obedient servant, Jno. W. Wii.kfvs r n. Mt Airy Ar'I Insliture, March 15. "."I." The article to which rrofewr V.'i'Iicnson refers is as falloviR: "Mr. Editor As one engngod in f.-ncinr mv own lands, as also in selling p! ints to others, i return you my sincere thanks f..r nvtUisliino- th
excellent article from President WiliUnson, in
your last number; respecting tho Madura, or Osage orange hedge plant. How yon should consider this article as contrary to your former positions, o: how the learned and able writ, r should have feared any attack from any western man, whose criticisms are worthy of any nolle..-, I do not readily preceive. "For myself, I consider every worn of that article as strictly true, in the s--ne in which t!iwriter intends to be understood. I understand the wiler to advocate preoNelv those views ..f the sutjeel which I have always believed to Le correct, nnd ever desired to aid in extending. He says "I consider the maclura the best adapted of any plant with which I a, acquainted for the purpose of live fence? and that it will beau economical, efficient, and desirable fence, to inclose vineyards, orchards.aim ornamental lawnx, or a bouudry fence for small farms, suburban to villages and cities ;and also upon praire fa run when fencing materials are scarce or difficult to be obtained." "Now, a Massachusetts man understands W
a small farm, one from twenty to fifty acres,aii l
v.'itn tuss understanding this para-raiih exorcis
es, in my view, just what the Osa--.. oranae i
gooa ior, in the linefest possible terms Sol have always 'bought; so I still think. He thinks also it will not go above the -he degree of latitude with safety; Bnj I a in inclined to the sain?" general opinion. "But he further speaks 'of a hedge left without any Irimmingsome fourteen years, which, had provad instructive to im neighbor's crop, for some t wenty-five or thirty feet,-and say that it threw out its feeder roots, and exhait.-d the soil to that distance. "Now, I have not the lea-t doubt of the !.!-; truth of these statement, and of their i iio'is scientific accuracy loo. But on thin ;,,id smother points a' western man may practieailv misunderstand !rir',thctiEh a man br.-d and U-r'i in Mass?bhusetk,like mysrlf,. an not li. !;. seeing the whole matter truly at a glance. 1 vvH therefore beg leave to cxplai-f,ir a single mo - lllelll, "The soil of Massachusetts, so Ut as I :n:i acquainted with it, i generally e,i the nirf. ee, a sandy, gravelly, or clayey 1 nm, some six cr te:; inrhes deep, beiie;,(h hi,-!, -j,at f;iri!,. r
appropriately call th- '-'i ird iv-n cr a snl
almost as hard as our sand stc.ue. "Com-
surface soil it-!f is by ,,..,. rVt.
i .......li l...ir . - i ,
u.-t.aM iia;i fs r:rn i,v naiure as ;;ar eoi! i i!ii
feet from the surface t.f the earth. It will n even produce one go.. d crop of Indian corn wit out ::n annual manuring, and even v.illill enriching, our poorest renters would n- t rdi a decent crop.
"But it is the nature of th Osnge or:iii--
to strike adeeg tap-root into ;,.- earth, like our hickories; and, second, lihoc.'her western things, to grc- at any r:.te, hit or miss. "Now, ill such a sn.l t!,:it of New Engljiui, it wi.'l first attempt to dorrn a t ...-root, as it does with ii-., but the coldness and hardness of the sub-soil at once forbid. It next !et. rmiiies
to grow at any rate, throws its fee !,.r
ways be avoided." j steadily and heavily against us, drawing away
-- , our Coin at the rate of several millions per ki irkam. I ,...,. . , i. j M, .,. , . month, vet not all diminishingour indebtedness, r. eed, in a letter from Euro,.e,savs: "II ... ." , , ...(T..i .ir . , . . i which increases nevertheless.
-i.hth7u, usuai, irom sea srcKness, out those sufferings bore no resmblanc.e to the horrors Mr.
'tWed millions.
E-,v, 08 ':me th mrn is breaking, ":t,f frdotn's blessed ray, , i ,mthis nce awaking, LC!r7,maano ,oneer Er.Tr ad march sublime; T ir kenBU,e yUr time" C'r' ton v e rj0iCe t0 866 in our new" tiTr n,S0 many of the wise v ! reform , ,
vfnrn ""'"menuea oy a con- ' :' !ai J ,m0Cratic Whiff Mend! assemJJZ? ln'nnr 185: that
- """rms, we ernestly hope to
William Fruett Aaron Allies Johu Rukets William Amack
Reuben Hawkens Thomas Biggs Valentine York Charles Marlen Peter Felsor
METEMORA Washington Walker Johnatiian Banes G ilbert Van Camp Harvey Blackledge Feter Wood John Armstrong Ezekiel Tyner William Gordan John Rubottom Calvin Jones .Tyler McWhorter Samuel Lewis BUTLER Samuel Alley James T. Osburn David Alley Charles Clark Elisha Jones HIGHLAND Thornton Howe Thomas J. Fitton G.W.Titus Francis Bower John Williamson Peter Jacob
treely, of the Tribune described. What a horble account he gave of "Life on the Ocean Wave!" They told me on board the Baltic, that while deathly sick, but keeping the deck a heavy man, as the ship lurched, trampled on Mr. Greeley's toes, but immediately apologized. The sea sick man replied, '"Don't speak of it sir, lam rather obliged to you for affording me momentary relief from a misery worse than having my corns excoriated."
G iv ;! G ive !' still cry the horse-leech's daugh -tars, and the more gold we send to Europe, the more we need to send to avoid a crisis. If California should withhold her supplies for a bare
baptism of the gospel is. None can ever be saved who do not believe it. Consequently, by the gospel no infant can be saved.' ( "The Rich Men of Massachusetts," is the
title of a book of statistics just published in Bos- , ton. The Daily Mail gathers from it the ful- ; lowing facts: "The number of rich men in this '
State, (those being called rich who are worth ,
three mouths, our whole Commercial fabric $30,000 or more,) are put down at 1,496.
would, tumble lulo chaos. As things are, we are
exhausting our desposits of the precious metals, and eating up the proceeds rather faster than wefcau pay forthem; so that, when we shall have dug Five Hundred Mil'ions' worth out of the earth.we shall have hardly I ifty Millionsaid of it left.aud for this and much more wshali be
07-Nothing was so much dreaded in our debtors to Eu rope. Onr banks can do little in school-boy days as to be punished by sitting be- of Industry and our Internal Trade, because tween two girls. Ah! the force of education, thev live in perpetual danger that their last dolIu after years we learned to submit to such lar of coin will be drawn from them for shipthings without shedding a tear. Albany Knick- ment to Europe in payment for Manafactures erbocker. which ourartisans stand readyand eager tomake " . at home. We are thus eating and drinking up our ITJThe daughter of an East India Rajah has capital, our substance, our patrimony, aud alj been taken to England by her father to be made the time running i n debt; wearing out our Gold like the finest thing on earth a young English in Silks, Cloths and Laces, and running iu debt ldj- ' for Cur Iron; and yet thoueanui of easy souls
Amount of property owned by do. $2J4,GS0,-;
000; the number worth over 1 ,000,000, eighteen; ,
just that sum, eight; three-fourths of a million, 1
one-hundred and forty-seven; number who received all or the most, by inheritance, or marriage, two hundred aud eighty-one; number of, rich farmers, ninety; manufacturers, (cotton!
and weolen, &c.) twenty-three; merchants and
various trades, four hundred and sixty-three; lawyers including judges, fifteen; physicians, thirty-one; clergy men, two; brokers Including speculators, forty-six; publishers, eleven, editors, four; shoe-makers, carpenters and ship builders, fifteen; masons, niDe; butchers and provision dealers, fourteen; distillers, fourteen number ascertained to be more or less benevolent, three hundred and twenty-five; number of old bachelors, sixty-eight."
From the ll'rstrrn llortirultural ncvlcn' . Ilcdsra. Trof. J. B. Turner, of Illinois, is a great advocate for hedging and hi: exnerience is valu
able to others he has tried Privet and Thorn, as well as the Osage Orange, now his favorite, he says: I agree with Mr. Marshall in his opinion of the Trivet for a field hedsre. and
j blight has this year attacked it here, which renj ders it pefectly useless even as an ornamental ! 1 ...
neuge. 1 also agree with him in the utility of J the Virginia thorn, of which I set the oldest
hedge on my own farm, lefore I could get the Ossage Orange. But now I prefer the Ossage incur locality, and have entirely destroyed all my young thorn plants with which I originally intended to have fenced my lands, s:mply because I like the Osage better. But there arediffercnt interests and tastes ia hedging as in other things, and the more thorn plants Mr. Marshall cau sell his friends who prefer them, the more good he will do them, for I think these infinitely better than rails. Moreover, there are large districts where the thorn could not be had, e en if it was better than the Osage, and still larger regions where they cannot wait for its slow growth. But many experienced cultivators are now offering the Ossage orange at very reasonable prices, which they have been able to do in consequence of the excellent quality and good success with the seed last spring; and in my epinion, if the farmers do not buy their plants at these moderate cr.d reasonable prices, they will stand greatly in their own light. It is possible it is true, that plants may be as cheap, or even cheaper, another year; but it is hardly proahable. It is doubt
less true, that the seed will be much cheaper
man before, as I have myself contracted for all I may wantto use at ten dollars a bushel deliv
ered at my door, which is much less than ever before.
But if you can get seed, plant it in the nur
sery, not in the hedge row the first year, or you
win nuy your seed too dear in the end. This
season's experience has, moreover, I prosume, conviuced all that good seed is of more conse
quence than any particular mode of sprcutingthough care and skill may still do somethinr at
that, as I Imve seen many places where tho
planter said his seed am. came it when I was
convinced not one quarter of it on::ir.
As its regards trimming the hedges. I intende if life and time are given me. to si.cnk more m
large before another se:ison. I will now barely
remark, that I have never, in a single instance, known or heard of a young hedge being cut too low or trimmed too often, but I have known miles upon miles ruined, so far as small pigs are concerned, by the opposite course. If I was to make the best possible hedge, I would cut close to the ground the first time, and then cot every shoot all summer, as soon as it rose six inches above its fellows, down to the general level, and never leave "snakes," as I call them, to stick up above their fellows for a single day at least not for a single week , and this is bu little trouble, if the operator will hang a sharp, stout, Dutch sickle, upon a common hoe handle, which makes the best possible hedge plasher for a young hedge, worth all the shears and common plashersiu the market.and is moreover the mos. economical and useful tool on a place, to trim
shrubbery, head in fruit trees, cut small patches
ol grass etc, that can be hail. I thidk all the
writers in the west, fail, if they f.,',1 anywhere,
111 not urging a more frequent and relentless
mode of pruning.after the first year. There is
no Hanger that 111 practice it will be overdone:
in our rich soil.where every plant which is stout enough forahedgs tends, it left to itst If. lor Or
too coarse upward growth. The report has been
circulated that because 1 and others have sold
plants cheaper this year, we were loosing confidence in them. This is not the case, at least so far as I am concerned. Tha simple reason for selling cheap is our good success in raising.which makes the crop pay t present prices as well, and even better, than it has ever paid at former prices. On the coutrary, I have never before made so great exertions to get hedges on my own land, and they haw never before done so well as the past season. The growth of the young plants
nere, on account of the extreme coldness and wet of the season, is, it is true, smaller than usual, but it is sound and pood. As renrds
my reply, or rather my exposition cf President
UKinson commi'iiicatioii to ths Boston Cul
tivator, I felt sure of two things when I wrote
it.First That as I was a nativeof Massachusetts.
I clearly understosd it. 1 was alio equally sure
that the same causes which rendered an east -ru or foreign agricultural paper utterly uncles ia the west, would lead west ren readers, to a greit extent, to a total misapprehontion of his true meaning. That I was not mistaken on the first poiut, tho following extracts from a letter since received from President Wilkl'ison will show;and I deem it not a little singular, that two men a thousand miles apart, who had not seen or heard from each other before, should on their first iaterchange of thought, on this important subject, be found so fully to agree, especially where so many others supposed there was a disagreement between us. I have never yef had the pleasure of an acquaintance with President Wiikenson. and the letter called forth bv mv article in
closed, is the first and the only one I have received from him. But I feci quite sure be understood one thing at least, the true theory and practice of fencing farms, and though Iluve
not his permission to publish any part of his letter, I should give you the whole of it, except that it is mostly adapted to a country so different from ours, and where soiling is the great resort of the whole community. The part relating to the subject on hand is as follows: "I read your article with great satisfaction, and am gratified to see that one of your experience in, and capacity to judge of this moinentuous matter, should so perfectly concur with me in opinion thereto. I was pleased to s-e that you so perfectly comprehended my nieaningand Intern in the article published in the Boston Cnl-
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mawr, raauiT 10 Hi" .uirciun tor Iifiinvs; also I a, , ,, i c wiuinii-a that you clearly explain what was men, .v small ZZ W-.il !,t. '7. around
fanns. 1 stout I ennn lvan m u,;,i, 1.:- t .
"Perhaps I should have been more -xpli.-il I 'V.1?' lver"sWs, vl do much l.'-ite
while tre.itni nf ft.. , . I "' ' " i!0 'VC
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first
ch
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the
abroad in all directions above th ... c i!d bar,! below. Ofcouise it siu.n exhausts the meager surface soil near to it. and v. lc-n th; exhausted it seeks for food further abroad i
it reaches that part of the culrivated field w receives the annu il liiaaurings of the onltiv and here it appears that it m i:ngns ,,,.; enough of food from all tiussurr.ee of soil
the manure to bout in m !.r..., ..ti
........ ,,,, tutu,,!, large as anutnl growth.and I should thii.k even larger, than it does on the uiimam.red lands of lb" west. "Well, I tl.ink the learned Trei ie. Ofori-. cf the firstagnciiitiir.il Insli n', s of ih-country did exactly right in pronouncing a hedg- plant that will so fight its way, and in tin1a:ng is g-oipi i,
..11 ,,,,,, lr gr.iuue inns ci :ew J.ii"' n best hedge plant he knows of;' n.l just a.
100 when he says, thst in ,., r,llIn,rv Kil , soil, where farms are made up of patches of land offromoneto ten acr-s, or even sm i'l-r. as
their modes of culture require, 'it ,ust exceedingly exp-uive fence.' I sh.urd r.. ..'i i.., ...
" ' "u,:" fo ' "?-ci t'iy whet- I in ) is worth frn.11 CM i.S-1n-1
r",-(,er rfcre, tae. ( i,g,. 0ldI,T9 fenc? was the ver.- worst sort offence ,.e Kit"o man could possibly .levis-, except as a protection for slock, fruit sheep, etc , agai, 8 ,s ,.. thieves Iltitiu our we.-terasiil tlie nv.ut c,n lolow its own nature -strike rfowi. iis root, and find more imtrime,,. ... .. . . .'
"v .1.,., ic I If. nature ,! wants, , the soil w.tbi,, iUr f,.t
t' man 'I f"'"d !.-id in a whole acre ol common New Haw! ... :i
'One word more about t'riaunii.g:' In
V '":"'. -' still tri;.i ii, the
...i.is.i L.siuon, with ll!til shears : hoods; and as I un.ierst .,,) u . .... ...
post anrt ran Tence tlier.., J s!lonlJ til tri.ti 1 lix.r.. .;il. 1. 1
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sa-isf .ctio:, of ,,,,!, an instif.,!',,.,, as that
" .,"ro' l'resi!.e. would be f,i!!
i 1 1 1 ill ' lence ie specifies, deed., I should have supposed it would cost more. Around many of the Kne-h pa wh-r. hedges i!re k t .;
three t.mes the amount ,f .,!,r , am crehl,ly lnlW.,. onr'r uhm(,n here u he west, w,h , he , trim l;;,f a mile to '!,. , a,lv ,, ;,. (?y
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