Indiana Farmer, Volume 2, Number 29, Salem, Washington County, 9 January 1824 — Page 3

THE INDIANA FARMER.

SALEM, JANUARY 9, 1824. COURT HOUSE. The petition respecting a new court house has been forwarded to Corydon; it had about 350 names. A correspondent of ours in the House of Representatives at Washington City, writes as follows; "There is much speculation here with regard to a congressional caucus to nominate Mr. Crawford for the next Presidency. ms, Mr. Clay, to caucusing and disposed to let the people determine for themselves who they prefer. December 15. Our attentive correspondent It Coryden gives us the following important information: "A bill is now pending (Jan. 7.) which provided for the times of holding courts, and limits the terms to two in each year." The writer here observes that he is in favor of the proposed alteration, as it will have a tendency to lessen the expenditurns of the county. The act of last session repealing the law for imprisonment for debt is repealed; and perhaps it was this, more than the hundred dollar law, as it has been termed, that occasioned the evils complained of last year. The bill incorporating the Salem Grammar School, has passed both houses, and been approved by the Governor. It passed in the same form it was introduced. The revenue bill has not yet been reported, though it appears to be a ruction prevailing sentiment, that no reduction of the taxes ought to take place this session. "A preamble and resolution disapproing of caucus nominations of candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, was this day indefinitely postponed ia the House of Representatives. It passed the Senate, only by the casting vote of the President." Our correspondent observes that it is his opinion that it will be to the first of February before the Session closes. CIRCUIT COURT With regard to the spoken of by our correspondent, in to the hold ing of Circuit courts but a year in each county, we can only observe, that as a means of reducing county expenditures, it cannot be exceptionable; - and perhaps the only plea in favor of holding courts oftener, is, that it affords a more speedy hearing to such as are held to trial for criminal oftences. Our knowledge of this subject, as connected with the circuits of the state, affords tut small grounds for ccsiroent. But it appears from what we have heard, that this course must be adopted, or an additional circuit must be formed. PRESIDENCY Mr. Force, the editor of the National Journal, has made a calculation on the subject of the presidency, by which, if correct, Mr. Adams will have 197 votes, Calhoun 12, Clay 49, Crawford 52 and Jackson 41. -- the sequel prove correct. But our opinion of the question, although in the main not unlike Mr. Force's is in a few particulars somewhat different. We are by no means inclined to adopt the opinion that Mr. Clay can commend the votes of either this state or Ohio, as is classed by Mr. Fircem ekes syupported by better evidence than is now presented. To set aside all our personal feelings on the subject, and calculate from the expression cf public sentiment, which is the only criterion by which to judge correctly, Mr. Adams must receive one half or nearly so of the votes in Indiana, -- while Gen. Jackson will obtain a large portion of the residue; and Mr. Clay's friends, although zealous in the cause, cannot be reckoned sufficient, even if the state were districted, to give him more then one real ticket. Gen. Jack certainly increasing. In in the electoralpopularity is county he has six months ago m. -- In Jackson are the only now many advocates, ones spoken les to any extent The population of of any other state in ed, quality, made up of equal proportions from United States. and her na, more than that ion is of a mixof nearly every section of the aggregate preference of men to fill offices under the General government is regulated less from sectional felling than perhaps any other; and her voice in the presidential question may be contingent on events not yet transpired. - But we cannot but think that as things are at present, that Mr. Adams will be her choice.

Froa the lauicna Gazelle. j The bill subiectinsr real and nersonal ca- I

tate to execution, lias passed the House "of Representatives, and "the fallowing are its features, as it passed the House. Necessary wearing appearel is exempt from execution. $ Personal estatefmust be sold before real estate, and for the best price it will bring. For debts contracted before the firt day of January 1821. if real estate is taken n execution, the defendant may require a jury of three disinterested freeholders, to en quire if the rents far seven years will pay the debt, interest an J cost; ar.d also to value the fee simple; and if it will extend, it it to be Grit ofTved for sale in that way; hut if not to!dv then the tee simple shall beso'.d for a sum not less than half its value, but t' .3 restriction decs sot extend to;any greatsr quantity of real estate, than half a quarter section of land, or one hjuse and . lot in town For debts contracted afcer th? first day of January 1824. real and p.-ri m il estate must sell lor what it Vdl brin. uniess the rents will pay the debt an I cost9. If the defemlent has a family, he has the following pers iUAl oods exempt fooj cxecu-J tion. to wit, n BiMe, one Cow an J Calf, one lied nd the necessary lie -ldi4 therefore, house hold and kitchen furniture not exceeding in value ten dollar, one chop ping axe, one weeding hoe!, one spinning win el, one reel, and the neccessary provisions to supply the family two months. Defendants may havrastav ot execution tor ninety clays, on ai sums oy n:cnng sulucient security, except juticetoi tae .u ... . :rv. peace, Clerks of the circuit Court ifmiHs. 'ITeasurerB, Trustees ufthc Seminary funds collectors, or attoMiics, for any moDie re ceived hy virtue or their ofures chartered banks for money deposited with them ; and their property real and pcraonal to be sold for the best price it mil bring. A bill establishing the permanent scat of government of ths state of Indiana psed ; the Senate yestenlay by nine votes in the narn.auf c aim emu lii uic ncuvr. tins .... - , .r k rt. bill provides lor the next session of the hebeholden, at the .curl hnain Inil'un? polis, cn the second Monday in January 1825. unless convened by proclamation ot the Governor, under the protUiuns ol the.CoDttituti.rn. What its fate may be in the House of Representatives, we can not conjecture. The first week of January will be a cold time for the ufliccrs of government to move in; unless the season thould fortunately resemble the present, they inav then psddle through mud and water. On Monday last,the"select ccmroittrc on the bill for the election of Klectors, reprrted an amendment to provide for Districts which amendment the House rejectee The bill from the Senate to elect by Gfner al ticket thr roughout the state, was read the third time and passed without any division . m. Cf the vote oeing caucu lor. 1 he signature i. of the Governor u only requisite for it to become a law. The election for the five Etectors is to be held on the second Monday of November next by the people. Kmm the Baltimore Jlorning Chronicle. Important rumor A rumcr has !. cn afloat in this city for some days past, th it iV!r. Hush had made an enquiry of rur government, by the request of the Krgli&h Cabinet to ascertain whether the UuttcdStates vVere prepared to join England in a united resistance to any attempt of the Holy Alliance upon the independence of the South American Republics. We confess that wc are credulous to believe not only this, but that England is prepared to join us in resisting all further attempts on the part on the Allied Powers, to colonise this country Kugland i jcalnuaolAlexander 's pow er and the settlement which he has fo ed oo'our western frontier, has all been with the English Cabine of remonstrance. , For the Indian Farmer. Friend Patrick, Looking over, the other evening, that eminently useful piece of American Biography, Franklin's life, 1 met with the classification which that Philosopher once made cf the virtues most necessary to the attainment of happiness. That which held the third place in his catalogue of thirteen . was OUUKIt It led roe into a trs'tn of rt flections, the result of which was thst the Djctor was right Fevr of os dearly as we love ottr own happiness, and sensible as we may be that it is 'car own beings end and aim" are aware Iw . izzi'i it defends on the possession or want cf th'u virtue." For . its operation on cur happiness is both ceatifeand positive Negative, because by the want of it we lose much cf life's most preciout commodity, time and confusion and perplexity are introduced into all ear batineis. . rositlvct because Order by ill leading to a nits and regular distribution of time, arracsment cf cur affairs, and discharge of cur f evens' relative duties, secures to the mind a calm, contentment, confessedly another name for bsnmnets itself. It was this limited view cf the virtue which the good Doctor was disposed to consider cardinal that he an

i , the maxim, "Let dl votir things' 'places let each part of your bu itstime." Hut he himself, great share of Philtfsonhv and self vSsines as w. commaDU. found it easier to lay down pre ,w - . j cepts for self government, than to live up to them. And it is doubtless a wise ordinance of Providence that it should be so; for if our virtues and good habits cot us no "exertion if perseverance, of self denial, they woolj, like other things which cost us little, soon leave us fur want of effort to retain them There arc many of us, who, like the Doctor, are sufficiently sensible of the importance of this virfae. make many ardent efforts to acquire and retain it but hy frequent relipses, become so much discouraged that they are tempted to give over their exertions and content themselves with, in that espcct, a faulty character. ' :! Like the man as the Dirctor lays, "who in buying an axe of a smith, my neighbor, desired to hve the whole of the surface as brigSt as the edge ; the smith consented to grind it bright for him, if he would turn the wheel: he-turned while the smith pressed the broad face if the ax hard and heavily on the stone, wich made the turning of it very fatiguiug. The mac came every now and then from th wheel to see . how the woik went on; and at length would take his axe as it was without further grinding. No said tne smith, turn on, turn on, we shall have it'hrghtby and by; ss yet 'tis only speckled. Yes said the man, but 1 think 1 like a speckled axe best." "And I believe this may have been the case with many who, having, far want of .me sucktneans as 1 employed, fiuud the difliiolty of obtaining good, and breaking bad habifj in other points of vice and virtue have given up the struggle and concluded that a "Mpecklcd axe was best " But aside fVoui the usefulness of this virtue tTthe economy of our time and government of our actions, to which the maxim cf Dr. Franklin appsirs to be confined; its influjnee on she tnird affords matter for inucH profitable ipeculation. Mind is the standard of man. The value and strength of tie mind depends (after making due al lowance for whatever miy he considered the difference in natural endowment) upon the rase and discretion with which idoas arc received into it the faculty cf arran sir,;, digesting and retaining them there, and the facility of imparting them to others. Sume Jaysince having business which led me toIuIsVille, my wife and some of my neighbors gave tne several errands to the dry g cd stos of that place. Not being fuicfi kurricd, I spent more time in a number ot three Vanity fairs than was necessary fr the execution of my commission?; and my mind, accidentally i everting - to some t t Por Richards too much forgotten maxim, led by tiatural association to the subject on which I am now writing. . What a wonderful difference, said 1 to mvsclf, docs ;hi same Order make in the business of these shop keepers,arid how many points of sinilitude one of these shops hat to the humtn min i ! A vast deal ufdiscrimina ticuind c?i: is necessary in laying in these tcls by purchasing them at the best marketsprocuring articles of the best quality, and which will be most likely to yield profi itid avoiding those which might prove unseeable or bear no advance. Jut so with the mind. In storing that with ideas, too much caution cannot be used in our commerce with books or men, to the end that we nay select with discernment, such ideas as viit be useful to us through life and rcfarc stqre room to such s would but encomber our stock, but add nothirg to our mental wealth. I could net help remarking, too, the striking contrast between some stores, where the goods were disposed on the shelves with svstem, neatness and beautiful regularity, enabling the proprietor to. find each article called for with admirable promptitude, and others, containing equally liberal stocks, totally devtituta of methodical arrangement. Such too, thought I, is the difference in minds. In some, ideas when received, are dipoed of with Order, by mechanical ..because habitual arrangement, digested by frequent reflection into srstem, ready to be called into exercise, on the spur of any occasion however unexpected. In others thev are jumbled into such a promiscuous, heterogeneous mass, that any sudden or imperious requisition produces an exemplification of "confusion wsrse confounded." As nothing is a surer prognostic of ill success than the want of Order in the business of the merchant, io nothing impoverishes the mind more than want of method in managing its acq uii tion s. In some stores wMcn I entered the stocks v ef comparatively small. In some of thete, the same neatness and Order Avhich I lave before noticed, were charmingly conspicuousbat in others 1 was struck by nothing 16 much as their tawdry, ridiculous irritations of better furnished establish cents, here and there an article of some value worn thread bare by frequent unnecessary exhibition ; and a few pieces ol slewy goods suspended from the upper shelves to conceal the emptiness cf those p Stneath them I the shopman zurins ahaut ta little premises-xhlbitiDg his goods I th the most obtrastre eagerness, as if de

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tcrxnined -to' make ac ends for the poverf r on his shelves by' the profusion on his counter. . :.-Vr.-v ;-v- ' ' - - . A How-true a picture of the tittle barren mind! it is too striking to need a key. t will leave it to the ingenuity of the reader I cannot, however, dismiss the subject without relating an anecdote reminding me in a forcible manner, of some persons, who, if addressed oh any subject out of their limited stock of idea, will always, . rather than expose their ignorance, obtrude upon yon in reply, something as little to the purpose as , can well be imagined. A lady stepping into one of these lean looking, poverty struck money traps, asked the shopman whether he had any fancy Leno Muslins, No madam," replied the exquitliz vrith a shrug inexpressible, and bow ';ct:b!e

but I have some really superb b h Ila vsnna sugar. Y Virtue of a writ Vc . me directed from the7 J ciiceof lite Washington Circuit f . i ia the name of James & John Wiley, I inst George & Greg Goldsby and Wiism Jentle their securUy. commanding me expose to sale three head ol horses, twelve l?ad of cattle, fifteen acres of corn, nine head of sheep, a quantity of hogs, a large kettle, one small pot, and 1G0 acres of .land, tit being the north west quarter of section 25, in township 4. north of range East, the land of said Jentles and the place where he now resides on White river. 4 miles aboye Bono ; which will be sold by me at said Goldsby 's on the 2d day of January next, between the hours of Jl and 4 o'clock of said day to satisfy the execution aforesaid. LEVI WUlGHT, Sh'ff.W. C. December 221, 1823. 9-3 w STATU OF IXDIJUSTA. Monrot Circuit Court, July Term, 1823 Peter Gore, V vs. J. Libel for Divorce. Isabfla Gore'. J PIOMES now the Plaintiff by his solicltyj or Craven P. Hiester and Smith Elkins, Esqrs. and files this petition for divorce, and it appearing to the satisfacton of the Court, by disin terested affidavit, that the defendant is a non-resident of this state, it is therefore ordered that publication of the pending of said Petition he made four weeks successively in the "Indiana Farmer" a public news paper printed at Salem, and that unless the defendant the said Isabella be and appear here on the first day of our next term, and answer unto the plaintifis petition aforesaid, the matter and things therein contained will be taken as confessed, and decreed upon accordingly. Tkst, J. D. LOYYE,Clk. October 10th, 1823. - 9-4w i f ; . - .NOTICl THOSE indebted to t' -Bscribcr, (particularly uhose ac.unts are of long standing) are requested to call and settle them without delay, otherwise they may expect to find them in the hands of an officer for collection. . JOSEPH GREEN. Saltm, 6ih January, 1S2J. 29-3wr A Fa)m for Sale, ABOUT three mWes Souh Eat of Salem, the subscriber has an improved Quarter Section of Land which he would dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Wm. R. DENNEV. January 9, 1824. " 9-3sr ' PUBLIC NOTICE. : . MAV1NG been legally authorised by the heirs and representatives of Zichanah Lyon, dee'd. to sell and convey certain real estate, lying in the county" of Washington and state of Indiana', the same beinj the effects of said Z. Lyon, dec'd, By virtue whereof, I shall sell to the highest bidder, at the Court-House door in Salem, on Monday the 23d day of February, the following doscribed pieces or lotacf ground, with their appurtenances, (to wit,) the undivided half of lot No. 167, in the t6wn of Salem, also the undivided half of lot No. 1 1 in the town of Fredcricksburgh, and also, lot No. S6, in the towu of Livonia. Term of sale, one half the purchase money in hind, the residue in six months thereafter, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. ; ELl.W. MALOTT. Salem, January, 7th 1824. 29-7 vv LIBBM( JfOTICE. THE Shareholder in the Salem Library are notified I -ct at the School House in Salem, or loth .iosU ta ciuh- ... of having "the company , ; to lay a tax, and elect suing year. It require ''venin'x the kZT thi cn- .. o thirds cf tho company to be present i i crd:r ta become incorporated a .punctual tttccdance is therefore recjuetted. All thesa who are disposed to join the Company are also invited to attend. Shares will bo 0ered on very accommodating terms and it is ex pectcd that the Company will shortly purchase a new stock cf choice books. J. ROWLAND, Libr. January 9th, 1824,

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