Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 7, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 18 February 1826 — Page 2

J. Spencer, M. Gregg, and D. V. Culley; Editors nd Proprietors.

BORROWING. "Tis a yerygood world that we lire in, To buy, or to tell, or to give in ; iMit to beir. or to borrow, or to get a roan's own,

Tj9 the very vrorst world that ever wks known.'

I have oiten thought on the subject oi borrowing. It is singular and astonishing whit a trade of that kind is carried on among mankiud. Some people make quite a business of it and sustain a character, or keep up their credit by borrowing only. In all classes among mankind, this trade will be found to be carried on extensively. I may begin among families. There you will see borrowing carried on upon a scale quite pleasing and which Tvorks no particular injury. The rosy

cheeked boy, or the smiling little girl of

some doating parents will pop in a neighbours of a morning and with 'mother's compliments," will "ask the favour of a drawing of tea" or with papa's compliments will ask the favor of the neivspapcr for an hour, or "mother would he much obliged to Mrs. if she would lend her her gridiron, her chopping knife her little brass kettle, her spider, her tin oven, a bowl of Hour, a dish of salt, a boiling of pork, a dozen potatoes," or whatever the case may be. Or the bare-head boy, who has been brought up in ignorance and knows no school but the street, will open the door and bellow out "daddy wants to borrow your axe, or your wheel barrow or mammy wants your

barrel" &LC. Now this kind of

borrowing basin itself no very evilconsequenecs; indeed families are not neigh-

body if they refuse to accommodate one

another in this way. Again, among

young folks will be seen the borrowing of books, or garments, or what not and, indeed, when the smiling fair is led to the alterof Hymen, superstition prompts her to believe that if she has some borrowed article about her when she renounces the daughter for the bride, that it is ominous of good fortune. One would think, however, that when a young lady was via)ried she needed no assurance of good fortune, for at that time fancy flies but o'er fields of elysium, and contentment. But there is another species o( borrowing which I have hot yet described. It is that which occurs among men of business. A man is in business his speculations lead him to contract much that he njay gain the faster. He is not content tvith doing a fair and decent business but branches out into new scheme?, thoughtleu, except it be to calculate upon fortune. By and by money is called for. Thsre is little in the "locker," and away goes he to borrow. A few days or weeks pass, and the borrowed h called for. To borrow he goes again and thus "robs Peter to pay Paul," as the saying is, not living upsn his own resources but using the funds of neighbour A. neighbour B. and neighbour C. Borrowing is necessary to various cases. Indeed, every man ought to be willing to spare his money to his neighbour upon emergencies but money borrowed and long retained, or to put off for a week when a- call is for a few dollars "cash borrowed" gives room for the lender to indulge the weakness of nature to surmize and guess. To "wonder

if he is not hard run," or whether he is not even on his last legs." Now the truth is in borrowing, every one should keep a tood eye to the payment of it again. The merchant hates the man who will borrowto carrv through a speculation, and enrich himself at his expense. The mechanic hates his neighbour such an one because he wears out his tools by eternal

ly borrowing them. And the printer being different from all other mechanics, hates the man who will borrozo his paper

to read, instead of becoming a subscriber.

If any should borrow this paper Mr. Ed

itor, I hope he may borrow from thisar;

tide a lesson to your advantage. And new to those who borrow without end, Who drain the purse of neighbour and of friend, May you be happy underneath the sun, Nor, hate, as I hate one thing that's a ura !

were scarcely gone, when the possibility of deception flashed upon the Sheriff's mind and upon entering he found the young woman before mentioned in bed, by the side of which sat Mrs. Randeil and her child. Exertions were instantly made to overtake the fugitives, but in vain. Every thing conspired to facilitate their escape. The extreme dark

ness of the night was such, that no object could be discerned at the distance of even a few feet. There was no want of vigilance on the part of the Sheriff, Zz blame can by no possibility attach to him. Randeil was of the same stature as the

"The day I left Boston, Dec. 1 Oth Itorm. Though hVy wrs all jmnre of the exhad thn nlpasnre of tindim' Gen. Wm.h8tei.ce of balloon, few of them knew what a

Rnrtrm in ih t:,frp rnarl.. hound to Pro- jbailoon we like, and we need not wonder il

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vidence to see his family and home, af

ter an absence of 14 years, during which time he had been confined for debt at Danville. Vermont. A few days since he was liberated by a remittance from his old companion in arms, the good Lafayette. General Barton was born at Warren, R. I. in t he year 1748, and

informed us that at thecommencenent oil

the revolutionary war he shouldered his musket. In 1777 he took Gen. Prescott

prisoner, on an Island near Providence,

vounz woman who remained in his place, Jin the night time, and conveyed him

and whose dress he assumed. 1 wo olisale to me American camp; tor mis on

veils, lercss otfd him a Sword, which he car

the persons in female dress wore

which partially conceiled their faces one of whom is supposed to be a man in female dres-, prepared forancmergency ; and the other to have transferred her bonnet and veil to the head of Randeil, and thus completed the deception. The two women found in jail were immediately taken before a magistrate, and not being able to give bail, were committed for trial at the next Court of Common Pleas. Persons are still in pursuit of Randeil and his comrades, but there is little hope af their being retaken. Adz. Weicopy the following lrom an adver

tisement of the i'orth Carolina Mining

ried with him in the stage it has a sil

ver hilt, embused w ith gold, and of curious workmanship. It seemed to astonish the old General to see the great

alterations on the roads as wef approach-

ed Providence; ar.il when he spoke of

the Marquis, (as he always calls Laly

Uty felt as tuucb surprise as the South-fcea In

dians did on seeing a stately bark bearing down with every rail set, on tbeir own remote isles of the ocean I'be Esquimaux mistook a whaler for a great tea serpent the Otaheiteans, when they sw a sailor ruounted on horseback, believed that he was part and parcel of the tame animal and the children in particular, residing in arophray, were equally at a loss to know what to make of Mr. Green's balloon A knot of urchins, who first beheld it, ran calling out, 'Mitber, Mither, oh Mither! there's a great muckle thing fa 'in fra the sky; it's no an angel, but it's a' glitterin,' (the sun was then shining on the air ship.) A boy who bad been herding the siue, belonging to Mr. Carrulhers, of Hillhouse, came running borne n ight and main, and seemed so terribly agitated that his friends actually tho't he had gone rind Some minutes eLj.sed before be was able to sjeak, and then be gravely informed the bystanders that a grrat muckle dragon har c ome our the bill ar.d !sfc.hii d Dfar the back of the i . . l . . :. .. ...I ..! .. 1 4. 1.4 :

iMacx-varu; inai u cm a uunurr suiuirrs

HAMILTON, (o) FEB. 7. Singular Escape. Shepherd Randeil, who was confined in the jail of this county on a charge of having counterfeited Spanish milled dollars, made his escape last Thursday night. The circumstances attending this singular escape, are briefly these? On the night of Saturday the 23th uit. a young woman supposed to be a relative of the prisoner, called to see him: and stated to the Sheriff, as she left the jail, fhatRandell's friends would be up from Cincinnati in a few days, to give bail for his appearance at the next term of the Court of Common Pleas. Last Saturdav nisrht the same vountr woman- returned accompanied by Randell's wife, three men, and another person in female dress. They were admitted (with the exception nf one of the men who remained w ithout by the fire,) into the prisoner's room; and after remaining within some time, they informed the Sheriff that they wished, to return to their lodgings. Accordingly opened the door, and the same individuals, to all appearance, who had a short time before been admitted, except RandclPs wife, passed out. They

Company in the National Gazette.

Gold. This Mineral is alloyed with

silver, or copper, or both; it sometime j iii . i

contains palladium and otiier minerals; is

usually about 23 carets tine, but varies in its purity from 22 1-2 to 23 1-2. It is

sold at the mines, and at the mint, at 90

cents a pennyweight, being about two

and a halt per cent, above the standard gold coin of our country. From this difference of alloy, it is suggested that some advantage may be taken favorable to the manufacturers, would they describe to the Miner the quality of the Gold and kind of alloy suited to their purpose. The matrix of the gold is most generally ferrugencus. Quartz, or argilaceous iron ore, but by far the greatest quantity of Gold is taken from the common soil which is most generally a species of ferrugenous clay. Such is the hind of earth at the Mine intended to be worked the present year: it is a mile in extent, and yields at the rate of three pennyweights of Gold to the ton of earth, w ith great uniformity of tine spangles approaching to dust. From the regularity with which this Gold is distributed in the soil, it is said by those engaged in the business, that they can calculate beforehand the quantity that may be obtained by uniform labour, with as much certainty as they can estimate their crops of corn or wheats It is principally from the introduction of men of science in the severaldepartmentsconnecled with this sub

ject, that the Mines are now considered

of more value than at any former period and that the gold in the form of dust, which until now has been thrown away,

can all be arrested without the use of

mercury. From the resemblance of our Mines to those of South America, it is thought by geologists highly probable that Platina may accompany the Gold;

but there has been so little know ledge ot

this mineral with those who have work

ed, that were they to observe it, they would probably throw it away with the

iron sand, as of little value. Th conditions upon which the Mines have hitherto been worked, were to give to the Miner half of the gold obtained. Viewing the skilful artist and the industrious mechanic as constituting the main spring of national wealth, a3 well as the nucleus of commercial prosperity, they will be permitted to work at the mines on the following conditions: 'Thev must

introduce machinery that will be approved by the Engineer of the Company, to be worked by steam or some other adequate power; as any method formerly practised will not be allowed. A steam enjrine, with other necessary machinery, capable of walking forty tons of earth per day, will cost a thousand dollars, and require ten hands to dig and transport the earth. None of the Gold obtained will be exacted for the mine, until the machinery be paid for by the proceeds, after which the Mine will require a 4th. Fuel, water, timber, stone, 8zc. w ill be allowed them gratis, to facilitate their progress; and those who may require land for cultivation, will have it granted upon the same terms, one acre to each working hand. For further particulars

on this part of the subject, see the end oil

this communication, t or a more general knowledge of these Mines, see

'Cleaveland's Mineralogy,' article fcgold

the last report of the Mint of the United States; but more particularly Professor Olmstead's "Report of the Geologv and

Mineralogy of North Carolina, to the

General Assembly, in 1324 and 1825.

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ette,; lus eyes lined with tears oi grali- ;anij niajr u, ji and thai us sides wtre a' red

tude. lie has been a very powenulk,. bluid." By this link: the "bale country man, and retains now, in the 77th year was aster," and Strang rs flocked so fast of hisagc, much of the vigorof his youii-jfrom all quarters that the farm !' K.llbiook ger davs. He would oiten sing a fewjhad all the appearance of a great hiring fair

lines of an old revolutionary song, with alEven after the aeronaut must have been a good

jay on his road to Carlisle, and quiet persons

bad retired to rest, a post-chaise, filled with servant losses, and drawn by two clumsey woikhotees. csme routing and roaring, and the company was so anxious to see the show, that they could scarcely be persuaded to retrace their steps, although they were told that they were at least four hours too late. All the good peo-

ary song,

clear and strong voice: when he arrived near Providence, he sung, k.hid sutce zvci hcrt:y " ith friends so dear, "We'll drive dull cares awav 1" But w hen the uid Otuerai entered his ancient home, ai.U c-iui.icca u.e uncol

cuiiuren, ana u.ci his ola unek cram, it was a scene 1 cannot attempt lu Uc2C111jC'.?:

LNITLD mails NAVV. lrcsse!s of Hue uj inc i,nucd dtdics Jlavy. ..iMS aXV RATE. YliEK liUILT. Ships uj the line ?.

74 Portsmouth, n. h.

71

Washington.

r i.UiLlin ColumUUS Independence Ohio iNorth Carolina Delaware

74 74 "ti 74 74

PniiiiUelphia. W asiiington. Boston. New lork. i'niladelpliia. iNoi tuik v irginia.

Frigates, Jirst class G.

'Constitution 'United btates

GEX. BARTOX. We have been favored (says the Boston Commercial Gazette) with the following extract of a letter, from, a gentleman of New York, giving some account of the revolutionary veteran, who was a short time since released from imprisonment by the munificent hand of Lafayette. -

lus vouth, iiis cniiuiei, and insc.aidern s p!e of Mofiatdale seem to bate been as much

dunafounded at Mr. Green's unexpected appearance amongst them, as tbe old wives of Fife were when the great Lunsrdi crossed the Frith, and fell fioru the lift, and when some wag made a buruorous stave, of which we ooly recollect the fag-end "They thought it wis the. las i'ay, An4 went to ther houses to pray: But k! when the angel came down, ' Tw as only Luaardi's Balloon " 'v Tiiimfries Cour. A Her. nit It is staled in the Tomaston (Maync) Register, that there has resided for a number of years past in the back part ot the town of Montville, a hermit of the name of Barrett. lie has dwelt in a cave, the work of his own hands, dug in the bank of a small river, and carefully secured at the entrance against the intrusion of wild beasts, by a large log sulliciently hollow to admit of his entering, lie rejects every kind of luxury which may be offered him: the fruits of the earth that grow spontaneously in the woods around him, being his only food ; water from the limped stream hb only drink. Since his retirement from the world, hchas copied the Bible twice; once on paper, and once on the bark of the birch tree. About a year since, he moved from his cave in Montville, farther into the woods; the country having become so much settled around him, that

he w as frequently annoyed by visitors. He

as the son of a respectable farmer, in

Massachusetts, who obliged him to mar

ry a woman he disliked, having previous

ly tormeo an attachment to another. He lived with his wife but a short time when it is said, rather than endure the society of her he could not love, he determined to forsake the world and its pleasures, and secretly left his native town for Maine, and took up his abode in the wilderness. Statesmen.

Uucti iere Jay iotumoc "Brandy wine Fiiinda Consteiluiiun Congress

Boston. Pihladelphia. Philadelphia. Baltimore. ashington. v iiSnn.gton.

44 44 44 44 44 44

second ciuss 1. Jo Baltimore. I'orlsinouth.

Macedonian oli GY.piured 1812. Fulton, isieam). 30 New iork. Conettes 2. John Adams 24 Charleston, S. C. Cyaue 24 Captured 1815.

Sloops oj uar b.

Ontario

Peacock Boston

0. To determine on what footing shall be placed the political and commercial relations of those portions of the hemisphere, w hich have obtained or shall obtain their independence, but whose independence has not been recognized by any European or American power, ai was for many years the case w ith Havti. Baltimore, Feb. 1, 182C. An industrious drayman, by the name of WiUium Riley, was murdered on Monday evening about tight o'clock, in North Howard street, opposite Moore's orchard. Circumstances were developed cstLTday which have fixed suspicion upon a man who had employed the deceased to haul a loom about dusk from Scrabble town. It appears that the deceased had been so imprudent as to count his monev at the house to which he took the loom, in the presence of the supposed assassin, w ho, very soon after the deceased had quitted the house departed, under the promise of returning, and is supposed to have waylaidf Riley, on his road to his sister's dwelling in Riddle street. The deceased, after having counted his

money, divided it into two parcels 58 dollars he put into a glove in one pocket and 18 loose into the other. It appears that the murderer got the least sum, as the other was found on the body of the deceased. The supposed murderer ha been traced, having excited suspicion in taking his seat for Washington; two vigilant officers have gone in search of him and it is hoped that they will succeed in bringing him to justice. It is said that the deceased had-intcn-ded to deposite the money in the Savings Bank, but was prevented by some circumstances from doing so. Chron. The individual above referred to, as being suspected of the crime, was apprehended yesterday in this City, and carried on to Baltimore for examination or trial. Nut hittL

18 18 13 18

18 Other vessels

12

Baltimore.

Bah imore. Baltimore. New York. Boston.

10.

12 12 12 12

3

Philadelphia. H ashington. Portsmouth, x. n. Washington. Purchased 1823,

Purchased

Captured

Purchased 1823. Purchased 1823.

Spark brig

Dolphin schr.

Grampus, do. Porpoise, do. Shark, do. Fox, do. Terrier, do.

Alert ship Decoy ship 3 Sea Gull, galliot

Lid cf the L . S. vessels, nozc building. At Port smo 'dtli, J . . One ship of the line, and one frigate. At Charleston, Mass. Two ships of the line, and two sloops of war. At Brooklyn, X. K-f Two frigates, and one stoop of war. ( At Philadephia. One ship of the line, and one frigate. AlGosport, Va. One ship of the line. The ships building are generally so far advanced, that they might be launch

ed ma very short tune, il required.

Congrefss at Panama. The primary topics to which the attention of the representatives in the ongress of Panama w ill he directed, are these, as enumerated by the writers in the South American newspapers, and quoted in the N. A. Review : 1. To form a solemn compact, or

league, by which the states, whose re

presentatives are present, will be bound to unite in prosecuting the war against their common encmv, Old Spain, or any

other powers, which shall assist Spain in

her hostile designs, or in any otherwise

assume the attitude of any enemy.

2. io draw up and publish a manifes

to, setting forth to the world the justice

of their cause, and the relations they

Fhey are under good houses, and not I desire to hold with other Christain pow-

only in a stale of preservation, but also ers. in one of improvement. The ship of the 3 To form a convention of navigation line at Portsmouth is called the Aa'mma, anu" commerce, applicable both to the Those of Charleston, the rirgima and! confederated states and to their allies.

Vermont, and that at Philiudeiuhhi. rh 4. To consider the expediency of

. 7 w Pennsylvania. We have not heard ofj combining the forces of the republics, to any name being assigned for the ship frce the islands of Puerto Rico and Cuba building at Gosport. 'jTotal building j from the yoke of Spain, and in such case,

5 shipsof the line, 4 Irigates and 3sloops. what contingent each ought to contn i , . i ii. .11. i . . r. .i i

uessiues inese, me Keei oi a innate and

of a slogp of war have just been laid at Washington, Those marked thus () are in commission.

Consternation caused by a Balloon in Scotland. 1 he following amusing account of the descent of a balloon in a remote part of Scotland, we Had aiming the extracts from foreijrn

journals in a late Baltimore Gazette. We

have room only for the best part of the story. It must be premised, that on the 29th Sept. a Mr. Green ascended in a balloon at 'merry Carlisle and alighted in a field on the farm of Killbrook, ia the parish of Wauaphray, near Moffat.

The good people of Warn ph ray were, of

course, Kuch puzzled as to tbe real nature and character of the visitant who had thus come,

as it were, to take tbeir sequestered parish by

bute for this end.

5. To take measures for joining in a prosecution of the war at sea, and on the coasts of Spain. 6. To determine whether these measures shall be extended to the Canary and Philipine islands. 7. To take into consideration the means of making effectual the declaration of the president of the U. States, respecting any ulterior designs of a for

eign power to colonize any portion of

this continent, and also the means of re; sistingall interference from abroad with the domestic concerns of the American government. 8. To settle by common consent, the principles of those rights of nations which are in their nature controvertible,

Louisiana. A writer in the ?.Icrcantile Advertiser says AJjne, nearly due. south from that cityC pld strike the bay of Barralaria, at hwnan one third the distance to the Balize. A part of this distance there is a natural communication by water; and it would be less ditiicult to make a channel for ships than many public works in the northern states, and in Europe. New Orleans, he says, would, in this way, he as easy of access from the ocean as New York. He computes the ships, and otheF vessels, annually towed up and down the river by the steamboats, at five hundred, the toll on which, reckoning up the river at 200 hundred dollars each, and down at 100 dollars each, would be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This sum would pay the annual interest on the amount the canal wouhl cost. The formation of such a work, he thinks, would induce merchants and monied men to settle there they would have a better chance for engrossing the trade of the west and of Mexico, and they might then Hook down with indifference, not only upon the humble hopes of Mobile and Pensacola, but upon the proud aspirings of Havana and New York." .Melancholy occurrence. It is seldom we have to record a more tragical occurrence than that which happened in Salisbury during the last week. Seymour Howard about 17 years of age, son of EllerViloward, Esq. while attending up-

on!)Wdl, and in attempting to interfere witliVrne discipline of Mr. Blake, the master, in punishing his younger brother, received a wound upon the head inflicted with a crutch, by Mr. Blake, which terminated hisexistance in a few hours, A conrt of enquiry into the melancholy affair has been called, and Mr. Blake held to find bail for his appearance at the next County Court in April, to respond the charge of 3Ianslaughter. As this melancholy transaction is soon to undergoa legal investigation, we cannot feel ourselves authorised to detail the circumstances attending it. Injustice however, to the unhappy individual, who w as the instrument of the mischief, we ought to observe that the examination before the justices disclosed no preconceived malignity of purpose, and many circumstances of alleviation.

Winter food for Cozes M. Chabcrf, the director of the veterinary school of Alfort, had a number of cows which yielded 12 gallons of milk everyday. In his publications on the subject: he observes that cow s fed in the winter upon dry substances give less milk than those which are kept upon a green diet, and also that their milk loses much of its quality. He published the following recipe, by the use of w hich his cows afforded him an equal quantity and quality ot milk during the winter as during the summer: Take a bushel of potatoes, break them while raw, place them in a barrel standing up, putting in successively a large of potatoes and a layer of bran, and a small quantity of yeast in the middle of the mass, which is to bo left thus to ferment during a whole week,and when the vinous taste has pervaded the whole mixture, it is then given to the cows, who eat it G readily