Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 3, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 January 1826 — Page 3

LAWRENCEBURGH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 182G. The Palladium will hereafter be published, regularly, on every Saturday morning. This arrangement is made, the better to suit the arrival and departure of the mails. The legislature appears, at our latest dates, to be busily engaged with the apportionment bill, to the exclusion, no doubt, of a great deal of important business, which will, in consequence, be laid over to the next session. It is quite laughable to see how this business has been managed for some time: The lower house wishes to increase the ratio, and passes a bill accordingly, which is sent to the Senate for concurrence; the Senate immediately cither strikes it out from the enacting clause and inserts its own in lieu thereof, or amends it in some other way to suit its views, Sz, then sends it back to the house. In this way it passes backward and forward from day to clay, without effecting any thing. The Journal supposes that the ratio will ultimately be fixed at 700 for a representative and 1300 for a Senator. The greater part of the other proceedings being of a local or private nature, we have omitted this week to insert the legislative business, being assured that our readers would be better satisfied with other matter. It may not be amiss to notice, that the bill relative to a canal at the falls of the Ohio, has again received its dismissal by a small majority ; and that there has been a bill reported to the house, by Mr. Pepper, incorporating the White-water canal company. The Legislature will adjourn today or to-morrow, if it has not already. We are glad to see that the members of Congress from Ohio, are making some inquiry concerning the manner Mr. Bruce has fulfilled his contract to remove the obstacles in the western waters. On the 8th inst. Messrs. W. H. Harrison, Sanrl F. Vinton, J. C. Wright, James Findlay, Joseph Vance, and J. W. Campbell, addressed the Secretary at War on that subject, who has suspended Major Bab cock and appointed another to superin tend the work. An investigation into the whole proceedings will shortly take place. It is well and it is high time that the officers of government should see, before the money is drawn from the treasury, that equivalent services have been rendered; that the intention of Congress in enacting laws for the benefit of the Union is complied with; and that the moneys of the whole be not fraudulently obtained by a few greedy speculators. We expressed an opinion, some time since, that the navigation was not likely to be much bettered by Mr. Bruce's operations; which opinion has since been verified by the strongest test experience. To be short, the whole performance of Mr. Bruce, reminds us of a story we have heard of a man hoing ?re acres of corn before breakfast. The reader will no doubt be anxious to hear how a person could do so much work in so short a time it may be well to gratify him: Well, our farmer hops out of bed right early one morning, shouldered his hoc, and into the corn field he goes; commencing with the first row, he speak's thus to himself: "Indeed, that's a fine hill it grows mighty well it don't want hoing." On he goes to the next hill. "Now, as to this one," says he, "it looks yellow and bad it wanfs rain I'll just disable that gimpson stalk and let it go for what it will fetch." The third hill he came to was worse still: "Ah," says he, "here is labor lost in planting I might work at this hill all day, and it would not produce a nubin I won't lose my work for nothing." In this manner he hoed the whole field, and returned quite fatigued, tho' in time for breakfast. The reader can make the application no doubt without much difficulty. Any person having in possession a bor rowed book, entitled "The Dialogue of Devils," will confer a favor upon the owner, by leaving it at this office.

lam too poor to lake ike paper. Our cars are so often assailed by this pitiful excuse, that we have become completely disgusted with it; and we are frequently led to the conclusion, that there is more of extreme indigence in our country than really docs exist. We are the more disgusted because we know that it is often made by men, who, in property or sordid pelf, are worth thousands, but who in the mean time, are, in soul, poorer than the beggar who laid at the rich man's gate. It is also a deplorable fact, that there are many men in our country, who, rather than contribute a dollar for the support of the press, rather than take a paper, for the improvement of their mental faculties, and the edification and amusement of their children, will willingly spend double the amount in a grog-shop, to procure the cursed hebenon, to ingulph their senses in the mire of inebriation, entail misery, penury and degradation upon their fami

lies, and sink themselves in the scale of creation below the beast that perisheth. We were, not long since, busily engaged in our daily avocation, when a respectable farmer (from appearance) introduced himself into our office, and requested us to give him a paper, observing at the same time, that his wife and daughters were very fond ol reading the papers, and would be extremely grateful to us for the favor, judging, no doubt, that this would be the strongest appeal to our generosity. Ever ready to accommodate the ladies, we cheerfully gave him a paper; for which he thanked us, bowed politely, and was retiring when it occurred to us, that we might possibly enlist him as one of our subscribers: for this purpose, we endeavored to enforce upon him the utility of a public news, paper, and the necessity of supporting a free and unshackled press that in this country, where the permanancy and prosperity of our republican government, mainly depend upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people, there exists a moral obligation upon every member of the community, to contribute to the support of those institutions from which such intelligence emanates. Very true, he replied, I acknowledge that it is the duty of every man, who feels an interest in the prosperity of his country, to contribute, so far as he is able, to support the press ; but to tell the truth, Messrs. Printers, I am too poor to take a paper! money is scarce, taxes are high, and I could not procure the means to pay you for your labor. But sir, we replied, you have produce which you can conveniently spare, and asrrc have families to support, it will suit us as well as the cash; and in fact sir? your little daughters could, by using prudence, save enough rags, in the course of a year, to pay for the paper. The price of the paper is two dollars per year; which, if you divide by 52, the number of papers, you will find only amounts to something less than four cents a week. Now sir, will you, for this paltry sum, refuse to take the paper? will you deprive your wife and children of the inestimable benefits arising therefrom? But, continued he, (yawning) your great prototype, Benjamin Franklin, very justly remarks, that "a penny saved is two pence clear." So I bid you goodday. Finding it impossible to bringhim over to the faith, and being well aware that sound argument with him, would be like throwing pearls to swine, we were willing to let him depart in peace; but, notwithstanding his indigency, we soon saw him enter a grog-shop, and join his kindred spirits of iniquity, in soaking his senses in the swill-tub of dissipation. We were completely disgusted at the sight, our sensibility shrunk back with horror, and we could only exclaim Alas! for the depravity of the age! Price Current, Nc7o Orleans, Dec. 1 7. Corn 1 50 per bbl. scarce Flour, best, 5 50 per bbl. Hay cwt. $1 25. CoiTee lb. 17 dull Butter lb. 13Molasses gar. 20 Sugar La. 1st quality, lb. 7 "Whiskey 28 Tobacco 1st quality, lb. 7. MILITARY ELECTION. An election will be held at (he house of Simeon Harpham, on the 1st of February next, to elect field officers to com-

marid 15th Regiment, Indiana Militia The following gentlemen are candidates : FOR LIEUT. COLOXEL, Hardin C. Ferry. William Skinner. FOR MAJOR, Warren Tibbs, Mark M'Cracken.

TO THE EDITORS. Washington, January 2, 182C. Gentlemen'. Nearly one month, Congress has been in session, and verv little has been done of a general and national character. Committees have been busily engaged on important subjects, and two that have long been the subject of discussion. The one in relation to abolishing imprisonment for debt; and there is but one opinion upon the abstract question; and should the bill be lost, it will be owing to the difference of opinion in the details. The other, which is somewhat connected with insolvency and insolvent laws, Bankruptcy, which on a former occasion occupied Congress nearly eight weeks, and mav again. The great difficulty will be, the class of persons upon whom the law is to operate. Should it be confined to merchants and traders alone, (and that has been the received opinion and intention of a bankrupt law) what then becomes of the farmer? If the merchant or trader takes the benefit of a bankrupt law, his previous debts are forever discharged, and no law can enforce the payment, though he be worth thousands afterwards; and he is left to his honor alone to make satisfaction to the suffering creditor. The case would be very different with the farmer, in pecuniary embarrassments, his property might all be sold under the state laws, and he driven to take refuge under the insolvent laws; and even then, any property, personal or real, which he might afterwards accumulate, would be liable for the payment of his previous debts, to all persons, and to the merchant or trader, who had released himself by taking shelter under the bankrupt law. True it is, that in England the)' have a bankrupt law; and the merchant as well as the trader in this country, stands on unequal ground, for the want of such a law in the United States, compared with the merchant and trader in England. It is to be recollected, that there was such a law in the U. Stales, years ago, but from the immense frauds committed by those who availed themselves of the act of bankruptcy, the force of public opinion compelled Congress to repeal it. I have a vote to give on this great National subject, and wish to give it so as to approximate to the good of all classes of persons. Years ago, the bill was lost owing to its detail. Some were not willing to let the farmer have any benefits from the bill; but a majority of the Senate did prevail, by adding a section, giving to the farmer and all classes of citizens, the benefits by a voluntary bankruptcy. Unless some such clause should be inserted, I cannot vote for a law giving exclusive privileges; for it would affect the honest merchant, trader, mechanic, and farmer, by destroying that confidence which should exist among them. Respectfully yourob't. serv't. JAMES NOBLE. TAILORS DEFE.YDEL). A tailor instead of being the ninth part of a man, possesses the qualities of nine men combined, as follows: 1st. As an Economist he cuts his g-arment according to his cloth. 2d. As a (Jardener he is careful of his cabbage. 3d. As a Cook he provides himself a hot goose. 4h. As a sheriff's officer he does much at sponging. 5tU As an Executioner he furnishes many gallowses. 6th. As a General he brandishes, not a sword, but a bare bodkin. 7th. As a Sailor he shears off whenever he thinks necessary. 8th. As a Lawyer he attends to many suits. 9th. As a Christian and Divine it is his chief aim to form good habits for himself and others. 1 think enough has been said to do away the opprobrium so often cast upon the knights of the thimble and needle,' and to induce the fraternity to unite and contribute a suit of clothes to their friend and humble servant. Richard Ragged. Marriage It has been establisbpd as thp law of icotlana respecting marriage, that if a man takes a womn by the hand and declares her to be his wife in the presence of witnesses, that she i so in law. It was thus a person named McAdams, who had an estate worth 10,0007. a year lately married a woman with whom he had lived, and legitimated the children which shehad had alter which he shot himself. But the mar riage was held to be good, though severely con- . 1 .. lesiea, as 01 course 11 would oe Sheep. We read of 42 sheep being killed out ot one flock, near Winchester, Va. by dogs in one night, which also wounded 10 or 12 more. Wherever sheep abound, dogs should not; and it is in every way right that the owners of dogs should be made responsible for the damages like this committed on the property of individuals, and sheep-owners should shoot down as wolves, every dog that trespasses within their enclo sures. Great Britain and Ireland. The bills of mortality in London are stated to have been unusually large during the month of October, and particularly during the week ending on the 3d Nov. There died during the five weeks ending at the above period of the four principle diseases with which the city is most generally affected by fever, 103! by inrlamation, 205! by measles, 116 ! and by casual small-pox, 161. France. An iron tteam boat, intended to ply on the Siene.hss been christened by the rector of Clarenton ! Lafitte & Co have contracted for the Haytien loan at the price of 80 fr.

Contest -with a Shark. We Have" been made acquainted with the following- surprising in. stance of the resolute struggle which a youth of thirteen successfully sustained against the all

devouring jaws of this marine monster. i he circumstances occured last Sunday fe'night. The hero of our tale, accompanied by two other lads of eleven and twelve years of age, went to bathe outside the fort at Fort Koyal; tl.ey had been diving and swimming about some time two of them, W. Maude, a free mulatto boy, and John, a negro, slave of Wm. Robert Waugh, Esq. were landing on the beach, when Wm. Low, a free mustee, called to return and ride the waves, a sport ot which they were fond, and which consists in mounting the waves, which carry them rapidiy to the shore. He had scarcely uttered the request, when he felt himself seiz ed by the small of the leg, and imagining it to be one of hia companions, called out, 'John, none of your fun;' but looking round at the same moment, beheld his foot gone; he called to his companions, hut the shark again caught him above he knee, when he struggled to disengage him self, and bravely fought the monster with his fists till his companions reached him, when they lent their aid to tear him from the voracious animal, wiih the loss of his limb. In this state they conveyed him ashore, where they laid him on the be&ch. A servant of Mr. Waugh, named Cromwell, coming up at the moment, took him in his arms and carried him to a house in Pert Royal to which Dr. Laing, of the naval hospital, and other medical gentlemen immediately repaired to give assistance, and amputated the thign a little above the bite of the shark. Just as he was laid on a oed, some of hi3 companions went in to see him, when be pointed to the stump, saying, "You see what I am come to," and fainted: after which the operation was performed, and the reader, we are persuaded, will be happy to hear that this courageous youth is in a fair way of recovery. We believe this is only the second instance known where any human being ever preserved his life in a personal struggle with a shark. The first was that of sir Brook Watson, at Havana, wno lost a leg mtne contest. Jumuica paper. Speculation. A seisure of twenty-seven cases of Leghorn hats was made, a few day" since, by the officers of the customs at New York. The hats, after having been regularly imported from Italy, and exported, (for the sake of the drawback,) to Havana were, at the last named place packed in separate hogsheads of coffee, and ship, ped, landed and entered as coffee. The fraud was detected, after the hogsheads had been put on board one of the packets plying from New York to Philadelphia. This is a very handsome prize to the "cap. tors." Much of this sort of business is done. Jllue J.axvs Revived. A stranger finding the chilling bbsis ot December rather cool for hi thin dress calied at a merchant tailor's bhop in this place, in order to purchase habits more suitable to the inclemency of the- season; but not being able to find any to correspond with the lightness of his purse, bade the tailor good day He was not gone Jong before coat was missing from before the shop door. I'ursutt was immediately made, the man caught, with the coat, and brought back when the tailor, very FmrnnneU proposed that he should eithtr go to jail antl s'and his trial, or duck himself in the :anal. I he latter was his choice, which was accordingly performed, by plunging in head foremost, to the no small diversion of a great number of witnesses. I.) nn. Gazette. Large Jury, The gentlemen su-nmoned to attend the Court of 0er and Terminer, held in this village last week, as grand jurors, were altogether the greatest men we have ever seen. The heaviest weighed i02 and the lightest 175 lbs. The weight ot the whole twenty-four was 5560, and the average weight of each man upwards of 231 lbs. JUohaxvk Herald. On Monday night last, at West Springfield. Mr. Samuel Leonard, from some cause or other, struck his wife on the fice with an axe, so as to knock her teeth out, and then another blow from him, with the same weapon, killed her. His daughter, who was sick, secreted herself and probacy saved her life by it. The man ended the matter by cutting his own throat with a razor, by the side of his dying wife. Con. .Mirror. Mr. Gardener has returned to Columbus to take his seat in the House of Representatives, from which he waa recently excluded by an un precedented overstretch of legislative authority The same objection which was the ostensive cause, of his expulsion is again urged by his opponents; and the question of his right to a seat was to have have been argued before the House on Friday the 6th inst. am. O. Advertiser. Mr. Gardner has again been denied a seat in the Legislature of Ohio, by a vote of 44 to 25. The people of Green co. had better let him stay at home for the balance of the session.) Love Adventure A very ludicrous incident! took place lately in in the village of Pateniuir,i near Dunfermline. A young man who had been rather half seas over, determined to pay his sweetheart a visit; but she being unwilling t r Oil rv if h 1 rvt Ia Ct n 4 ! I. l I to admit him. he resolved after Irvine both 1 ""n ; door and window, to gain admission by the cot-! tage chimney.-"0 love will venture in where'. j-- r itcanna' weel get out," but here he ivas both in and out, for he stuck fast in the chimney, tie had got so far dotvn that his feet were visible, but, farther he could not go. The cries he uttered calling on his dear love to extricate him from his direful situation were tremendous. The family was alarmed, the girl fainted, the doctor was sent for, and a couple of masons, woo ncrc uouer toe necessity ot making a breach over the fire place, and taking him out in a very dismal condition, after sticking there for several hours. Lawrenceburgh River List. CLEARED FOR N. ORLEANS. J an. 14. Flat Boat, Zera T. Pcrcival owner. CARGO 1 GOO bushels corn. Someday. Flat Boat, C. MCalester, cV co. Cincinnati, owners. CARGO(by George P. Buell) lOObbls. mess pork 400 kegs lard 18 hhds. hams. J ax. 15. Flat Boat, David Netetf. owner. CARGO 5 tons hay 1050 bushels corn G7 bbls. pork 5 hhds. hams o head cattle 1 horse. Same day. Flat Boat, William Pattersen, owner. CARGO 10 head cattle 1 1 head horses G50 bushels corn 50 bushels potatoes. J ax. 1 8. Flat Boat, Alonzo Filch, owner. uakuu 1500 bushels corn 3G bbls. flour 3 bbls. whiskey. Same day. Fiat Boat,. om . French. A 1-V N owner. UAKLitJ 800 hiihe mm 74 bbls. pork 49 kegs lard 2 horses 2 tons hay 1 bbl. wiskey 1 keir tobac

co 1050 hoop poles 27 live hog.

Congress has, by the Constitution, an

express power to establish Post Roads ' and these are all the Roads they can want to establish, as nearly every Ivoad is, at present- a Post Road and they can de signate any they please as such. A new captain general of the Island of Cuba Vives. There was a report at Havana that the peace of the island has been guaranteed by the British goverment to Spain. V. J'. Kv. post. Administrators' Notice. ALL persons indebted to the estate of Alexan iter White, late of Logan township, Dearborn county, dee'd, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers and all those having; claims against said estate are requesed to present them, duly authenticated, tor settlement. Said estate is suppos? J to be solvent. JOHN WHITE, NANCY WHITti, J.tnSO, 1826. 33w Administrator. Administrators' Sale THE Administrators of the estate of Alexander White, late of Dearborn county, dee'd, will expose to public sale, at the house of the dee'd, in Logan township, on Monday the 13th of February next, all the personal goods and chattels belonging to sard tstate at which time and place the terms of ale will be made known. JOHN WHITE, NANCY WHITE, Jan. 20, i825. 33w Admr DEARBORN CIRCUIT COURT: October Term 1825. Charles Vattier, assignee, &c") On foreign atvg. tachment, in James Conn. J debt. WJOW came the plaintiff, by George H. Dunn Jl his attorney, and on Ins motion it is ruled and ordered, that notice of the pendency of the aforesaid writ of attachment be published for four weeks successively in the Indiana Palladium, a public newspaper printed and published in Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn county, Indiana ; and notifying the said James Conn that unless he be and appear beta re the Judges of our Deaiborn circuit court, at their term on the first Monday in October next, file speci-1 bail, receive a declaration and plead to the action aforesaid, judgment will then be entered against him by default, snd the land so attached sold for the benefit of his creditors. JAMES DILL, Clerk. January 19, 1825. 0W4 DEARBORN CIRCUIT COURT: October Term, 1825. Tore n a Iive, ) vs. sail !LL FOR DIVORCE. John Love. j OW came tl v. corrpianunt, 07 tieorge ri -Dunn, her at'ornt). ami proved to the stistactioi; of this curt, that tho sairi John Love i not now a rr ic. f.t of his Matt, 11 is therefore ruled nd ordered y the ci.tttt, that novice ot the filing of the aloress-u bill ol imj Umt, or libel for divorce be published four uiks successively 111 'he Indiana Palladium, public nev sniper pntKt d :ind published in I . w rt t.ct burgh. Dearborn . untv, r.oitty:ig the said John Love, thai urh's he be ami aj-peur before th- Judges of our Dearborn circuit court, hi ihtir h rm to be hohlto ir. and for .said county of De-rt fin, on the hist M..ndy in April next, then r.d there to answer the liiel or the bill tot" divorce aforesaid, or the same vul then "be tried ia his absence. JAMES DILL, Citrk. January 16. 1326. 3w& SHERIFF'S SALE. Y virtue of three v rits of venditioni exponas issued fiom the Clerk's i.ffue of the th arborn circuit court, I will expose 1 public sle on Saturday the 18th day of February next, at the? Court House door, in the town of Lawrenceburgh, between the hoursof ten and four o c ock, on said day, the use or rents and profits for the term of se.vtn years, of ninty acres of land, being a part of West half of Section No. 13, Town 7, Range 1 West. And should said tents and profits for seven years, not sell for a sum suflicitnt to discharge said writs, 1 will, on the same day time and place, and between the same hours, expose at public sle, ti e fee 3imple right and title of I ;aac Meatier in to said tract or arsel of land, to pay and satisfy two judgments in favor of Robert J. Moore, and one in favor of William Raidwiu, against Isaac Meatier and Julius Smith, and Isaac Pursel replevin security. JOHN SPENCER, Stiff. Lawrenceburght Jim. 20, 1S6. A Farm for Sale, ?C th north f.irlr of I To (run. ttvn rrilt from Aurora, and live miles Irom Lawrencebuigh, in Dearborn county, containing r II 1. ..-- '! I 1 -uuu ""'""" ::.. t '11 :.. 1.1 11 1 nPr,,ven;,t- llif re fa,!",K We" ul x uric i; d uuu ucinii; oouse, f water, and several exipp pnt (hriiiir nn thf firm Al-sn a Mnrco Mill now in operation; together with several other buildings on the premises. For further particulars, inquire on said firm to .V1EF1IEN J. PAIX. January 9, ISZ6. 2 tf TO PRINTHHS! OR sale at this otIke A PRINTING PRESS, sufficiently large to print a Roy al size paper, together with several founts job type, rules, ehases, composing stick?, &c; all of which will be disposed of on very reasonable terms. Jan. IS. Take Notice. PHEKEAS my wife, Elizabeth, has left 1117 7 7 bed and board without any just cause or prvivo nation, I hereby forwarn all persons from harbouring or trusting her on my account, for 1 an determined to pay no debts of her contracting after this date. DV1D CLOSE. January 4, 18 REMOVAL. rplHE subscriber, who is in possession of y the medicine for the cure of schirroua tumors, and cancerous affections, has left Lavrenceburgh, and moved lo CIeve9, near tho North Iicnd, Hamilton county, Ohio; where he mny be found at any time, by those who wish to experience the good effects of his medicine for destroying the above disorder. JOHN L. N ATKINS. Cleves, Sept. 25, 1325. 3D 1 y;r. RAGS! KACS! rfinilK highest price in CASH or writin,-; jsl paper given for clean Linen and Cottwi

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