Indiana Farmer, Volume 38, Number 1, Salem, Washington County, 7 February 1823 — Page 1

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Terms. The' fniianff r's fro ? r '' j p u b -Lihel every Friday arid delivered in subscnH-r at the Printing: Office or placet! in the Pnt Office, racketed and directed any other Pint-Office, at t:co dollars and ft'?y cyn's per volume, (that i. 5 numbers) sibject to collection when 26 numbers arc He'ivered, Sutraaj be discharged with two dsll-ri in advance. A failure to tiotify the publisher of a wish in discontinue at the end of t'i jeir, ill be considered a a n;'w enaement. Advertisements wid he inserted in the Farmer a gl 00 per square, io- h'-ee week, wi'h the addition of 25 ns for cttv subsequent insertion. .VHCELLAA Y. THE HAPPY MAN, .Vi7 7fL7; GE.YVLE 1A

Th- happy Man was horn in the city

generation, in the parish of Renrn-

lan-.e unto li . He was educated at the ch- ol of Obedience, and lives now in the t- wn f Pr-severcncc. He works at the trade of D bgmce, notwithstanding he has a Ia-ge estate in the countv of Ch ristian Contentment, and many times d es jabs of self-denial. He wears the plain garb of Humility, and his a better ;

suit to put on when he goes to Court, called the robe of Chriit's ITghteousnesi. He often walk in the valley of self-a basement, and sometimes climbs the m -untain of spiritual mindctlness3. He breakfasts every morning on Spiritual P . er, and sups every evening on the i -'.e. He has meat to eat that the world kn w not of. and his drink is the sincere m '.k t the V ,rd. Thus happy he lives and h j,.y he dies, fl ippy is he who has G.pt't submission m his will, due order in his affections, sound Peace in in h- Conscience, Sanctifying Grace in h; Soul, true Hum htyin his Hrart, reM D v:r..ty in his b'eust, the Redeemer's Y ke oa his nek, a vain World uiuier h - I rt, and a Ctown of Glory over h's he vi. Happy i the life of sach a person, in "rder to gam which, pray fervently! brlieve firmly, wait patientlv, live holy, die dady. wa.:h your heart, guide your arrises, redrem your time, love Christ and hopr tor glory. A true qenllcman is Gods servant, the world' master and h s own man. Virtue i his business, S.u ly his recreation, Contentment his ier, and hwppmess his reward. God is his Fuher, the Church his Mother, the S no's are his B-ethren and he is a friend ro all that need h'm. Heaven is his in hfrance, Religion his mistress, Loyalty and Justice his two ladies of honor. De-T-t - n his chaplain, Chastitv his chamb . him S hriei his binlcr, Temperance hi n. k, Hpitality his h'use keeper, P.- vidence h:s steward. Charity his tre iMirtr, P.cty the mistress ol hi houe, an: I) -scrrtion is pwrter, to let in and out as s most fi. Thus is his whole famdv mdr up ot vrrtu-s, and he is the true m;r t r of the family. H is nectsiitafd to take the world in h s way to Heaven, but he walks thr uh it as fast as he csn; and all his bu'ness by the way i t- glorify the name of God, and do good to mankind. Take him tn two word he i a man and Christian. From h.p ft'trm Carolinian. INTKKhS HNG UPKKA 1 ION. Amorg the many cases of cataract successfully trea'ed by Dr. Iirckwith, one, who was eye witness of the facta, thu k the following cae, the only one nnK , g us, it is belit-vcd, of one born blind b u.g it stored to sight, must be interesting to th public. S i.nt iimr snce, Miss Mary Smith, a ouig won an about 18 or iy years of ag-, blind from her birth, in both her ejyes, come to this place to submit to the the operation ol touching. The event has marc than realized her most sanguine hopes. Rv the ope ration, she has been brought to iH perfect sight as persons of her age, laboring under congenital cata ract, have, probably, ever been. The effects on her fetlings were such as might be naturally expected. When the broad light of day burst upon h-r, nothing couid exceed her joy, surprise and astonishment. O.i using, for the first time, a pair of cataract spectacles, she could express her joy ooly by repeated and extravagant bursts of laughter. The sense of touch had made many objects familiar

to her; but on receiving hrr sight, all

was to be learned anew, as she could not tell a single article by s'ght, until she called in the aid of touch, or was told its name. She can now distinguish her ac quaintanres across the street, walk freely abroad, and perform most domestic du ties. She declares that she never sufT-r ed one hours pain or any inMamation, in consequence of the operation. Doctor Beckwith, who has thus had the singular happiness of restoring an interesting female from all the horrors of to'al blind ncss, to the blessings of society, has succeeded in completely restoring to sight a number of o'her persons, laboring under this distrwsvng privation; withm a few years put. From the circumstance of an almost total absence of pain, inflamation and other unfortunate sy.npr oms, so often complained of, we are induced to believe there mut be some improvement in Dr Reckwith's mode ot operating. We entertain a hope, he will give the public a history of his case, with his method of treatment. Should any apology be due to the Doctor for using his namr so free Iy, the desire we have, that others mw experience the happy effects of hs kill, is all we can offer. Z. 'A. Salisbury, (N. C.) Dec. 10.

ANALYSIS OF THE CHURCH. There are about 1 3 OOO clergymen of th? established Church in Eng'and and Wales. They are evidently divided into two parties; one denominated but why, I have yet to learn Orthodox; the other generally. Evangelical, frequently, Methodiitica1, and sometimes Puritanical. The fouv.tr which is by far the most nu merous, may comprise about 10 OOO; the latter, which appears to be annually increasing, and to be chiefly composed of pious, zealous, clergymen, sound expert theologians, exemplary in their conduct, very useful member, of the community, and conscientiouely attached to the esablished church, but as ardently solicitous for i's reformation, may comprise about 3000. Of the Orthodox. Clergy, it has been fairly computed that at least three fourths are attached to the Established Church, merely under the influence of pecuniary considerations. These together, with their families, dependants, patrons, tir. may amount to about 4() 000 and in each parish, one with another, there are probably about twenty individual habitually, or hereditarily, but in considerably attached to the established church, without any regard to its reformation; making altogether about 260. OOO. London paper.

St- fetersiurc oct. lf. Proposition of the Scripture. The Moscow Committee of the Bible Association, has told, in the last quarter, 4bGG copies of the New Testament; and to the amount of 18315 roubles of copies of psalms in various languages. A letter from Constantinople, written by an agent of the British Bible Society, states that a distingushed and learned Furk, who was formerly ambassador at one of ihe principal European Courts, is employed in translating the New Testament, from the Arabic into the Turkish language -Tn order to devote himself eutirely to this difficult task, he has withdrawn from public life. At Engern in the district cf Minden, the birthday of his Royal Highnes the Crown Prince was solemnized by bringing back the bones of Wittckind. This renowned General of the Saxons, and the enemy of Charlemagne, -.vas buried at Fngern in the year 807, but cn acccunt of th trouble of the times, his body was removed in the year 1414, to Muntter, and in 1673 to Heord, from which latter place the bones are now brought to their original ptuce of repose, in the choir of the church. A charitable institution for the distribution of g'fts to the children in the schonH at Flngcrn, on the day of the heroes ffeath still exists. SUEKP 8TEALIXG. The followiuj; is related as a fact, a having actuaffy v taken place some years since in the stite of Connecticut. A man in rather indigent circumstance, surrounded b a large family, being entirely out of me had recourse to his neighbor's (a realty farmer) sheepfold

for relief. The nc'ghbor, having a large

fl rk of sheep, dd not perceive he had lost any, until one of the finest in the (lock very large and fat, was missing; and counting h's sherp, found he had lost several. Unable to account for this extraordinary loss, he resolved a few nights fter to watch. Ab )ut mid night, he observed an uncommon disturbance among the sheep, by the sud len appearance of a man in disguise. Curiosity, as wll to observe the conduct of the person, as to fiud him out induced him to lie still. In the fl ck there was a la-ge ram, with whom, it seems, the man was in the habit of conversing as if he had been thr- actual owner of the sheep '"Well, Mr. Ram," says the nocturnal sheep stealer, T am come to buy another sheep; have you any to sell? Up m which he replied himself, as in the person of the ram; Yes, I have sheep to sell." By this time, the owner of the sheep perceived him to be one of his own neighbors.

Whatwdl you take for that fat weather? says the purchaser. Four dollars,' replies the ram. That is a high price,' says the man; but as you are so good as to wait on me for the pn I think I will take him. 4 Well, Mr. Kun,' continues the honest sheep buyer, 'let us see how many sheep I have bought of you.' If I am not mistaken, says Mr. Ram, this makes the fifih;' and then went on to cast up the price of the whole: and after giv ing .Mr Ram a polite invitati jn to call on him for his pay, and bidding him a good night, took the weather and led him home, while the owner lay laughing at the novelty of the scene, as highly grati

fi-d as if he had received amply pav for the whole. A few nights afterwards, when he supposed his neighbor was nearly out of mutton, caught the old ram, tied a little bag under his neck, and pla ced a piece of paper ietween his horns, on which he wrote in large letters, T HAVE COME AFTER MY P iY!' Under this line he footed up the amount of th Uv- sheep exactly as his negnb r hid d me, as before related; he then took the ram to his neighbor's h use, wh-re he tied him near his door, and then r.-cnt home. When his neighbor arote tn the morning he was not a little surprised to find a sheep tied to his own door ; but but 'tis beyond the power of words to express his astonishment when he f jund it was the old ram wiih whom he had lately been dealing so much in mutton, with his errand on his forehead, and the amount of the five sheep accurately made out, as he had done a few nigh's before in the person of the ram. S office it to sav, he obtained the money, and after tying it up nicely in the littlcbag, and tearing the pa per from his horn, set the ram at liberty, who immediately run home, jingling his money, as if proud of having accom plished the object of Ins errand, to the no small gratification of his owner.

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There are in the county of Rockingham Va. two female children, of a most un common ize. The eldest, in Marth last, was 9 years and 8 months old, and veighed -56 pounds the youngest was 5 years old, and weighed 136 pounds and we have been informed that their increase in weight, since that time, has ex ceeded the increase heretofore for the same length of time. What is still more remarkable, their father, Mr. Jacob Wrunkle, is not very large, and their mother is very small they have had several other children not above the usual size. The eldest daughter is 5 fret 1 inch in height, and the youngest 3 feet 11 inches. Woodstock Herald. Presidential nomination It appears from the Columbus Gazette of January the Oth, that some of the Representatives of Ohio, have nominated henry clay, for the next President. If this is the sober sense of the people of Ohio, they must have had a great influx of Jwhn Randolph's dough face gentry, since the Missouri Question was cn the tapis in Congress. They had as well voted for a Convention to erase from their Constitution the article which prohibits involuntary servitude, that a unity of color and feeling as well as interest may cement the whole Western Section. Look out Indiana ! ! ! You are to vote for or against a convention next August.- Ind. Gaz.

From th Frankfort Arn.

IMPOR TAN T DECISION". KesponsibiL ty of Bail. General Court, Jan. Term, 1823. Lewis, ) rT . vt ( Upon asiere facias agu Chambers. J baiL This was a siere facias brought by the plaintiff to obtain an execution against Chamber as bail for Briscoe, since the passage of the law abolishing imprisonment for debt. The defendant pleaded that no capias ad satisfaciendum had issued against hi principal, to which the plaintiffdcmurred. After argument, the court, consisting of Jvidges O.dham and Bridg-s, drlivercd, in substance, the following . pinion : That the issuing of a ca sa by the plaint flf against the principal, was an indispensable pre require to discharge the ba I 1st. L. K tymnnd 156; 3 I B i r 316, 2d, Salk 599. That the act ab dishinp imprisonment for debt, virtually discha-ges that part of the ob1 gation of bad which requires him to surrender the b.)dy of the principal in execution; and as the recognizance of bail gives the choice of either of two conditions, to pay the debt or surrender the principal, and the bail by operation of the law is prevented from discharging the latter condition, the whole obligation become thrrebv forever discharged; for in all such cases of obligations with two or more conditions, in the disjunctive, if either afterwards become impossible to be performed, as by the act of God, or of law, or of obligee, the whole obligation is discharged See 3d Silk, 57, Powell on Corn's 265 6, Co Lit. 206, Shep. Touch. 393, 4 h Coke 52, 5-h Coke 22. Wherefore, judgment was given for defend int. This decision regards the true distinction between right and the means of enforcing the right. The writ of capias ca. sa. and action against bail, were all means the law furnished theobhge-e for the coerciou of his right out of his obligor; therefore, the law making power could repeal them in its discretion. Th's power, therefore, well abolished the writ of ca. sa. and thereby well abolished the action dependant thereon against the bad.

Gnnbling.Qr the26;h of OctnVr last, an action was brought in the Court of King's Bench, London, by the assignee of Moses Abiibol, a ba nkrupt to recover of Abbott, Boldsworth; and Davis, a large sum of money which they, as keepers of a gambling houe, had won from Ab'ub d, t the play called "Rouge efc Noir." The sssignee succeeded in obtaining a verdict lor the recovery back of all the money the bankrupt had lost, for the purpose of applying it to the benefit of his creditors.

In a case lately tried in Boston, for a libel, the Judge decided, in the opening of the cause, that "under our constitution, the defendant has a right in all case1 of libel, without the consent of the prosecutor, to prove, ia justifi anon of the publication, the truth of the allegations." This is a decision of great importance to the real, and net the nominal freedom of the Press, and we do not see how, under our govcrnmeut, the law could ever have hern differently construed. MORNING POST.

Counsellor Lilliensiern, of Frankfort on the Maine, has published a very singular work, in which he attempts to prove argumentativcly and methodically, that the predictions respecting Anti-Christ, are now on the eve of being accomplished. Anti Christ, he asserts will appear in 1823; his arrival will be succeedrtl by ten yeais of religious wars; alter which the Millenium as he assures, will come in 1836. We understand that the Senate yesterday, by a unanimous vote, advised and consented to the ratification of the Convention concluded during the last year, between the United States and Great Britain, under the mediation of the Emperor of Russia, to prescribe the mode by which the first article of the Treaty f Ghent shall be carried into effect, ir? conformity with the decisioa of hi impciia Majesty. Nat. Iut.