Indiana Farmer, Volume 38, Number 1, Salem, Washington County, 7 February 1823 — Page 2

K ,i:h ft-xtan Christian M?ssnzcr. MK Jr;F?fi?l-:i)S AW!) Wl U)vMS. The following Letters have been ol tained by solicitation; and arc s-nt to c pr-ss by the permission of thnr ven

erable authors. The character, standing, .

tU; srmsur of youth, yet my indignation would not permit me passively to receve tht kick of an ass. To turn to the news of the day, it Rv"fm thai the cannibal of Europe are piinr' to eating one anoth-r attain A war

become too c&mmqn sr in newspaper arm&uciali , h :

It is a practice "tbsarrree-

and aire of the writera, the one in hi t betwe n Russia and Turkey is tike the

h ttde of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destrover the for the world. Tins pugnacious humour of mankind seems to be the kiw of 'on nature, ooe of the obstacles to too ;;reat muhiplic.at ion provided in the me .Maoism ot th U-.-ivcrse. Fhe co;ks of

jgr a id war, some

ightieth the other in his eighty sevema ear, cive them peculiar interest, and thev cannot fad to be read with great pleasure. It is d-bgMtt'ul to witness this kind cd correspondence between th-3-wa distinguished men, the asperities of party bv which they were at one time

separated, wrn down, and notumg rc- j tic hen yard till ons anotnrt; Dears,

bulls, rams, do tne same, atid a norse m hii wild st.'ir, kills ail the young males,

until worn down with

vigojous youth kills him.'

I hope we shall prove how much hap per lor m an th Q taker policy is, anil ;hat the life of the tVedcr is better than ill it of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these manir.c of one part of the earth, is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the i.i.ter ur otn e; and let us milk the nw, while the Russian h dds her by the horns, aud the iu;k by the tad. G -d bless you and g'Ve you health, strength, good spirits, and as much ot life as you think wjrdi having. Ill JKFFKRSOX.

mained hut the interchange of sentiments

of unfeigned kindness and respect. It ; is charming to see an old ge like th.s retaining, even under itt decays and in nmitirs, the intellectual vi mr unon ; pairrd: and displaying amidst us snows, ; the greenness and trcshntss ot the sum- ; per of hfe. It is an enviable and privi Ug'd bright to which th-e great men . ha - attained; Iron which th y rc pr ; m'. ti.l to look d )w n uon ao cvcnsive ; and eminently happy country, tnj :y.r.g the troit of their labours and sacniV e.s, j more than real.z ' g. their boldest anticip.uions; and regatd'ng the n wh to t ; gntitudr and respect to which their -o ny nanimtty and distinguished patriotism so cniphat'rallv entitl-d ihem. J The letter of Mr J ffrrson was writ- j ler. soon after an attack upon bum bv the i "Native V-rginian;" and when there j wa- a strong expectation of a war ie j tween Russia and Turkey; this will er- ; piam some aliuaions in them. C !

ia" discourse.

able to m) feelings,-atjd inconsistent, -as I think, with the dignifned simplicity"bf freemen, and to the nature of the vocation of those to whom it .is applied. And having made it a tide through life to address no one as H Excellency, or The Honorable, or by any such unmeaning

title. I 'o ust I shall be pardoned for ask j ing it as a favor of vu. and my fellow j citizens genet. dlv, not to apply them to i me. I ;r. & &' j EDWARD COLES.

o:; ..ova speeches. ,v V -Va$ll THE AUUORA.

hi A H) n iificourse, not UiV is an aouse ok

a ifnan'sisaro, ,hut, in some degree, is au insult td.HrB-understahdiiig. With the ig'norhnt.fCicr ,U need of detail; with men of g&hse sbrnethm!: ipught to be left, in mercy trtlhelr tfwhToteliiKei ce and discernment. $?oeojle were'more sensible of this necesfs.rjc acfi-Df discretion, than the ancient GreesTPhncion, preparing; to ascend tha roatrurnVland beinj sked by some one near him th c&use ofhis pensiveness; replied, J am rftirctinz: haw I shall abridge what 1

am to sat on ihis occasion. Ot this Phoci'ii. I) imos'hf hh t ret. r This is the axr which prunes my speeches. in our country, tne merit of a speech is rnfM-ured b its duration, iv. Greece, an ot atur ws praised for speukin well; in Ameiica. for spepkinp; a long tirr.r ; and the ivd pivnle are not only insensible of the insu: ffVred to their judgment, and of the etpnse of time and money to the nation;

bur are hmsHves iccotnplices ot the ot

Among the articles imported at Hu'l (G. R.) last year, were more than a mil lion bushels of bones, whuh hadbrtn swept from the fields of Lctpsic, Austcr litz Waterloo, and other places, where

1 I 1. 1. 1 I 0 "

auring me iatc utoouv war, inc . f Thp 0 ivernoT made a speech twa

oatiits were luugtu. i uc uijnc- ui uic ; horse and his nder thvis collected' from 1

every quarrer, are forwarded from Hull

from Vr. JejT-ron tt .'r .J;, Mowticello June I iiVJ'2. Ir is vf r 1' r. c m -n.ar su , MOfr

have written to you. .My dislocated w st is now become vo t rt h- I write slo-vlv and with pj'n: ard, thr.-efore, v-t'te hs I cir. Yet it is due to mutual ir en ;h:p to ak nce in a whde how we

d r is i St.! ial. mu rec A nh h: U

t'hf

,.pt u !' us 'rtui G n. Srk !". . ?y t nnetv- i nr- e. .a t ) ui the mie age, cr.-er-

r.tl t i a g j-shopper, and so out memory, that he scarcely l . toe members of his household, i. tte friend of hi t died on him j - nee. I w:is dithcuU to make

be tol J him

3 kit

n as, and sitting ne

same story lour

& lift? with laVrmg

times over.

at-p. To f.-'-ad our former footsteps? pace the i ound Kternl? to b-nt and b-at The bc?:en tra.k to see uhat we have ser n To taste the tas'ed o'er our palates to decant A' Ker vintagf ? It is, a: most, but the life of a cahoigr, surely not wnr.h a wi-h. Vh-n d "ur faculties h.ve it-1 c, r ;o e leav.ng uh one hv one, sight, har-g, mem- rv , every 3H , n ie rt plr?sr,g sensation is closed, a? d .:thumy, debiluv, and maha-se lelt in heir places, wh-n ib.r tri-nds of our ? .h rr all gone, and a gM:eration is

nd us, wh- :a we know not, is

4GieU lescner. to me as to you.

r; - d A

for-

Oh,

,r.e by i.rc our neg are torn, ! imkI lV ;m triet tl is snatchM i-rn; ii r:.r left al' nt to mourn, iheo. h iv sweet it is to d.t!

Iimb3 refuse their

When trt n,!)!''ncr

-e phi, And fi'm low gathering dim the sight; Wi ' o cloud- bscurr tht- mentoi hght, I i- n utir. k'' dm boon to du! I rcallv thirk so. I have evir dreaded a doa; t.g rdd age; a: d rn beahh has bt tn get ei ally so good, and is ikw so g; . .. that I diead it still The rapid de i e of m v strergth during the last wi' y is made me hope sometimes that I mcc land. During sumimr. I tnj( v ils trmperature, but I shudder at the appioach ot winter, and wih I could uhep thrr,ug ' with tht dotnioui, and only uake wi h him in tp:irg. if t-vrr. The say thv- Stark couhi walk about h'i room. I am told vnu walk wt 11 aid fir T;ly. I can only rt?eh rnv gulden, and thai with sensible fatigue. I rid.-, how co r, daily: but reading is my delight. I hould uosh nevr to put pen to paper; an,! the rnre because ot the treacherous practice aomt p' ople have of publishing on's letters woh out leave. Lord IMans h Id declared it a breach of trust, and puoi h ble at lav. I thiuk it should be x pciiototiary ftlonv; yet you will have been tii th-y have drawn me rut into

th voi;i of tne newsp. pers. A: ." ugh ; I lawY,' it is too la: lor mc to buttle cn !

MR. AI)MS' RKPLY. Miuiezello June 1 t, ISC:?-D'.-ar Sir Half an Hour -go I received, and this moment have heard read for the third or fourth time, the best letter that ever was written by an (Xi enarian, dated June lit I have not sinrame J tr.y wrist; but both my arms a id hands arc so overstrained, that I cannot write a l.zc. Poor Stark remembered nrth.r.g but the battle of benningter:. is uot ciuite so re duccd. I cannot mwunim noise, but J. can wlk three miles over a rugged roc ky mountain, and have done it within a month; yet L feel when sitting in tny chair at it I c u! d not rise out d it; and when risen, as it I could not walk across the room; my sight is very dim, hearing pieity g' d. m-ni'-ry poor enough. i answer oU' q icstiop is death an evil? It is not au evd. It is a blessing to the individual, and to the world; yewe ought not to wish for it till lite he comes lmupporuble. We must wait

the pleasure and consequence of t he-

V inter is as terrible I am almosi reduced

in it to the lite ot a bear or a torpid swallow. I cauuot re. id, but my delight is to hear others read, and I tan all my friends most unmercifully una tvrauicellv igituist their consent 1 he ass has kicked ;n vain, ail men say the dull anir.ij! i;as missed the mark. 1 he Globe is a theatre of war, its in habitants are ail heroes. The little eels in vim gar and the animalculas m pepper water, 1 believe, arc quarrelsome 1 h-j bees at as warlike a the Roman, Russians, Hntous or Frenchmen. Anf, catterpillars and cuukcrworms, are the only trib.s among whom I have not seen battles: 4indht;ivcn itself, if we believe Hudo ;s, J ws, Christians and iMahome tana, has n.t always been at peace. We need not '.rouble ourselves aboutfihece th. i. gs nor iict ourselves because of evil d- eis, but sitrly trust the ilRuler with his ik es " Nor need we dread the app a h oi doiage; let it come, if it must. it neems still debghts in his four stoi.es, -u.d Stark, remembered to the lis; his B nnington, and exulted in his glory; :he worst t.I die evil is, that our Ii et.ds will suffer more by our irnbicihty than we ourselves. ........ In tfishmg for your health and happiness, I am very stilish; fur I hope for more letters; this is worth more than five hundred dollars to me, for it has already given me, nod will continue to give more pleasure than a thousand. Mr. Jay, who is about your age, I am told experiences more decay than you do. I am your old friend. JOHN ADAMS. President J tTerson.

i to thr Y ikshire bone grinderies, wnere,

by means of powerful suam eugoes, they are reduced to a granular sfao In this condition they are ent ch -fly to Dacasier, one of the largest agricultural markets in that part of the country, andare there sold to the farmer" to manure their lard. An English editor adds, 'the oily substance of tht li ne gr dually evolving an the bone calcines, mikes a more permanent and substantial manure than almoft any o'her subsume particularlv human bones." U.ucn.

Fro:;i the Xiuskinzum !rsnenger.

From the Illinois Inte'lieneer. VANDAL! A, DEC. 10, 1823. Jlessr. IWown S tierry Gentlemen : Our State Constitution gives to the person crerciaing the function of th- Executive the appella tion ot (ioTERNon a title which is specific, intelligible, and republican, and amply sufficient to denote the dignity of the c iTicc. In your last paper you have oticcd me by the addition of "His Excellency" an aristocratical and high ouud ing adjunct, which I am sorry to lay h

huri lr'Z the dUortiey General spoke twos hows and a half I re longest ot DemostVnes' speicrn.s msy b read in fifty minuos. and the most diffuse of Cicero in an Imur. Airi'.ngt the pleadings f the French ha'" the filliw'n, !nief sjieei 'i hag heetipieserverl uy the cui ioux. which niy he irnniafec ai.d dediciiti'd to the c.rators f ti.e M&7or& court, ant! to n:":er speakers of the republic ger.i-rally. 'l r dtfendaui, w ho was t dander ot sizv.i a s..rry occupation in Paris,, was r;chi'd!v pi-.r. prr.v ei hiall) slupid,.

a' d hid.-ousiv u!v; ami tnorniver was ac

cused of seducticn. Ihe pleading of his !.-.w ei :

' Oentleuex: 1 f arguments on thi& cise haii e Lo ief. In the seduction nf e, woman, one of ihree rfquUites are indispensable, thp c iucer muit p ossess beauty, bboney, or si Rhp. My client is ug!y, ht-gaarly. and Jou!ih. Ugly; look at him I'eggarlyY he is a paint-.. I siy;ns Foolish interiopatp him. Gntlemen, I pers.st in ry con

foilow in is the

7 calcufating Crt.w. A Scotch newspa-

po d 'he rr'w, .";

ce:v :

18!0 s'ates, -'iHt a carriou brood of 14 chickens,.

M Y is 1 KIUOUS -.KFaiK. V r hive beo lequesied, in common with 5.1 1 printers, n si-. e tin following nar rativc from the St. Clairsvil'.c paper, an in si'rt'.on in ours; and wc wioinlv coir.piv,

hoping that our joint erertians tnav lead to j c.usions

the detvcti iti ot the supposed ni jioerers. man wh pasfl thro i:;!: thi (L4ce a fr-w j davs airo informed us that he had very lit- ' tled)Uhtbut that one ot the tht ee untortu-

nate uirn wns hin tiocle, w ho was a trier- 1 under he car e ot the parent hen, on a lawn.

picked up iue, but on h voun lady oper;ini; die window and ivin; an alarm, the robber dn'ppt'd bis pf.v- n die course k' the dav, however, the plunderer retuir:edt accompanied u 13 other ctows, when every one seized his !id, and carried off ihfwhole brood at once. 0,i Sunday pvpnin-j. the 29. h ult. about 8 oc!nck, MiH Ann iL-hbins, ajr; d 22 year9? wa.uliowr.ftl in the onnpeticut Il.ver, opposite MiJdletawn. S'i v. -nt with several yoan nersons o! both sex-s, i) slide on the river, whn the ice broke, and she and a youn nun in company fed in. Thcj stuggled rop'toer fo- s one time, wh?n she bid the youn man ave himself, kod heimmediately sunk 'he you' mn was saved hv sssistan e comii' to his aid.

chant of K ii'ucky, travelling in ciunpany 1 wih two otiiers from the s ime state. He suys that the left Holtitnore and Phiiudel : phia, in Jane last, on their icturn hom-, ami have not since been heard o. Kadi oi diem had a laige amount of muaey in !!i posscssiiui: A tew lavs back wis found in the wood ; aliout a mile south of toe road leading (Voui ! heei.ntt to Zuiiesville. in Union township livlmont county, nejr the road lead- j Iroai Morristown to ll-liiioiit, thr ee sad- J lies, idl of wliich appear to be considerably w orn, otic "f them has b en of i;jou quality, ihe stiriup leathers one inch and a halt ' broad, and holes ytitched, have been cut r.r.d th ? s'urrup irons taken otf T:k pad is lined with red flannel. The other two are comnicn .-addles, one of which h-d a blusaddle cloth; bound wi:h vcl!cv.' a.;d liacd with red flannel, tinned stirrup irons (not fe'.lows, and one. of them splii)a coat pad fastened w ith straps ami pUted buckles a Ulicl on it a if maoofttCi ured bv Philip Low, Fi edericktown, Md. The ottier has a pad lined with tow !inen, its stirrup leath ers are cut, and ihe stirrup imns laken off it had a part ofairth f a veiiow wora ted web ot a very ;ood cjuu'ity Tnere 1 were found with them two -addle blankets, and a huiYiloe robe nearly rotten, and a small loaded riding whip wirh two plated hoops cn it. There are various eonjrc j turc as to the time they have laid, and the eaue of their beinj deposited their evrr- J al are epprcheusive that murder has neon ; caux-.dttcd. The saddles are deposited with I the Post Master of Belmont, in Belmcnt county fr inspection. i In addition fo the at:ove,it i also stated j bv persons from the neighborhood in which .

the saddles were found, that a short time after thi discovery, a Mr. Perry, who wbs seirdiinj; the woods, had his attention arrested by the appearance of a iiLixn. and recently disturbed leaves near it. On in

specting the place where the fallen leaves j 1 . " 1 . I A I lAt '

The Kdior of the New York Pvenin P.st ..-, We are assuiedbv a gentleman ofr. pec .frtbiiiiy, that he ha ierusel a letter from toif racoa. of t!o- 4 o I")eeeud)er last from tn uodauiited source, eontirmin the first int -diigeiic.ii f Mnrides victory, aoci adding iha'. '.'on ell.;, h.td ariived too late with a division inter. ded to finfrce Montilla. and vhpn he learnt the news precipitately retreated to L.u;ra. The letter alsostates that Bolivar wa expected fimGua?ntpitl abour hp middle of the present month, when a bloody contested battle might be expected Yat Int. A letter from Alvarado, dated Nov. 14 , 1S22, states, that the Emperor had dioled the Congress of Mexico, and taken the whrde authority into his owe hands. Several of the members had been imprisoned, and the Minister of Columbia was ordered to depart in sir days. Iturbide had violated the armistice between Mexico and Spain by deelaring war against the mother country. lb.

iad oeen lately moved, there appeared the v.m v v , i r , ? J , , , r i . ' l l0m tue v. ninu-cial AdTcrtiser, of marks o! three bodies about 5 or 0 teet m o v ,3- ' . i 1 1 ? 1 I iccttitoer Xi .

length, as if their heads, had 'uid near to

gcther, with their feet cut like the three sptkes of a wbeH; the ground thus impressed, was covered with innumerable maggots, some of them extremely smtdl. Not fir from this pnce was discovered the marks of a recent fire, near which some grayish hair, like that of a man. any a tooth supp.ised to be huruan, were fouckd aUo a pocket book pencil, but whether the pencil was found neir the saddles, the supposed marks of the bodies, or the place where the fire hal hcpn,our informant does not' recollect. Mr, Perry's farm is near the place where, the saddles t$'c. were discoverer. He states that in the nnnth of Jur.c last, .three horse (agrcy, a black aud a hay,) shod all round, apparently Just from a jourtiey, werebrousinr for some days in ihe neighborhood. It is rumored that some person came and took them away shortly .after, who uid he lived in WelUbnri, Va.

Tub bxia7.il. A letter from St. Salvador of the 1st November, cordirrn3 the fact of the arrival at that place of a fleet with 1200 troops from Portugal. A ship of the line was to proceed on to Ivio, to blockade it, and another expedition was expected to follow this, which in the opinion of many, would have? no other eflfect than prolonging the Hurrender of the city, a from its liunlpd force, it was unable to open au intercourse with the interior. Markets at St. Salvador continued as formerly Floor from 7 to 8 dollars. WASIINCTOH CITY, DEC 15. On Thursday last, was launched from the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, the United States' ship Krtc, a sloop of rar, of the first class, rc built under the immediate direction of Mr. John Fiovd, naval constructor.