Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 39, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 7 October 1826 — Page 1

EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURES PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Bah YHLOW. Volume II. LAWKENCEBURUll, INDIANA; SATURDAY, OCTOBEK 7, 1826. Number 39.

PRLVTED AXD PUBLISHED bit J SP KATE ft. IK V CT"Jj I. F F, ijf co. O.i every Saturday Morning . HEX 11 Y CLA Y Mr Clay is the fabricator of his orn fr ton-: Im is the in of a clrrevtnafi of V'rjri;; ia. arvl in his youth rcdvrd but a Innred ci cation. Nature bcuvevr-r h.s been inlulei. to hint; an:! stimulated by ambition the "lainfinjiity of noole minfis." be broke . throng' tlu Iranian 1 r.f irnJijj'-nce, and rm'-raing frotr obscurity, r s- to dsstincd'ia and honor O'jiiijiarrttivf Jy early peri'-d of life. I'houg the stores ot annq i fy and the treasure o science, hn$ not h-in vry diligently i-X;l rd by '!r. thy, b raise his prf ssioiul occup . ti ns -huve nvr allowed hin mueh leisure c vote to tin m yet their want is in a great d: pr e mjj'iIih by tlie ahnndance of his native re enure H njakf!" up ty deep and habitua T fl ction for the abs-nre of what would be. irdisp ns b'e to ordinary minds; and wben b sp'-rtks pours out miss of thought in a man ri'-r a. id whh a rapidity f succession that i trul wonderful. Tnis too is done in a style and language, appropriate, rigorous and fl e ing. WIipo a qu-stion is brought up f r di cussion, xMr ( hv always prepares bims- If b Di'd.tition. tn t not by consulting the opinions, or availing himself of the labors of others Ilis argio) nf's, images and vins are therefor a 1'ti si always original and striking, and peculiar o him If. No man ran hstm to th vi,!U n; of thought tip pours ou', bi bold bis earnestness and tin- warmth and sincerity h- display, without feeling the charm and power h .-xer p.is'js . t here is in t.is piqu nce a simplicity and manliness which gives it a rawness and force, that those who labor aft r sparkling conceits, and tinsel ormm niscn nevr rearh. He k iows wlnt will fTc and influence tie human heart without having recourse tr the unre-J glitter, '.nd mntnciou embellishments of art that bo many speakers are ambitious to ilir.pl iy . His niod I, if he has one at nil seems to be that of I) mosthpnes rather than

that r,f the orators who flourished in the days of Seneca and who were educated in the school of rhetoric and ddamati n. There is a ho about Mr Cley, a enema Tein of sentiment, a loftiness of mind a grandvur i;f fiscinat on that mingh s with w bp sa)s and all he do s, and that gives him whenever he app ars an iufl pnee and standing that cannot be r(sist'd. H s mind is naturally logical: he anahsi'S nd combines with grent rapidity, and apparently witbont-ffrt He but rarely t.por's on thn outskir's or wantons on the surfaC" of a pubj- ct b plunges at once into its darkst recpfs-.s, t browing as he ad vances, .vt'n ihing into light, and bre-iko g througfi the fl iriy cbtibs, the ingi'Mjitv of his opponent tis ra'-t in his way. H int'dlectual ni.rcb is uo!l; r-p:d and imposing, be nintP4 on from nr.umsition to nrnnosition. - r - l r r l witli a b ildn. -s ail mmhooi! with an pnergyj and f r. s-n. $a, that alwvs satisfi-s bpcause! (hey ar' aeconip.nied h th" p) raiue tif s.n-; C nh ?-.nd ruh hen Mr C Sfieaks be in entirely engrosed with the subject on whch nis eloq-iPnr is employed: his whole mind is hrwn into if. and tie apptrs npitliT to see J lipar. nor f e.J, any thing that passt-s around; Inn) s h- advances his eye rpwr,s with; jrreter lostr1. Ins r.intmiunc'1 bpoms mre: mated hi figure mre tafply, and h'S ac-! tion n or- veliptnent. He pnurs out Ins thoughts in such guslis that e.tprpss'on eem s jmtim- s to ftd him, but his mind m'ver pauses, fir '.vffrds or idei: thougnt rol on aff.-r liiought m 1 1 p. nti-s' m ig,!fi "nf supressioa.' and h" proppeds fr-un proposition to proposition.' fid ' oe ivl,di sub cf iioirMvr complic ited, i? foil 3' developed and elucd if d :vi?ti is Mr. Clay as an orator and his rank a a s!;ib s n in i no'. Ies tdvated Toe bar is !i it in 'h: son aal f r the f rnttinri of the jit.itpsman it is toj ;ip? to narrovv and eirromscnbt!i2 operations of ihe fnir.d, and to trimit down t.) the bul c. ntests un l b:ckrings ofonlmary l.f-: ni iril and intellrctual discnm n ttton is. in some d'-grep i npare A tiy P"'p tu d comuung;-1 I:n; of r g it aud Arorg. F w la.vy rs, tnere ; fjre. pv r i!i ,tmni?s, thems lvs ui the conn-, ci!s of th- nation; b e us in the political arena, sutj'C's r f a vitv d If rent nature; jv pr''-nMi to tiv ir eonidpr.tfnn suhj-cts. nrbic'i r- q iir3 the m ist eo nppdinsive rang! of thought, c'uhricing as they to th- confl ct ) in" in.l various intT- sts of oei tv and welfare, j i hapfiints and prosperity of thp'r country On. .i .i i . i. . i : l ! such a tiiearre a tois. mip minu uojsi n- nr?rral and. expand' d u ifetf -red bv technical distinctions or prof ssi nd j r j id:ces or habitj it must ter:ip-a!i!.-4'f vnrving at pleisurp tirongh the various ir-sehifpTV ,of society, and pmpre Iiea ding the t-ff-ct and tendency of evd regulation! on hf conduct and actions of nun Mr. CJ.ty has we think, the kind of intellect we have mentioned; hp seems to b" borne for a I rv tinker and rub r I he mc and wirr ilrovn su!tltips . the minute and r fineiJ technicalities of the law nf which tie had been a T.ractitaonr h ;il itnt the power to eepn t!ie ex ri'vivcnes of hi nrnd to wiin itsenergie, r-r to pit curnpr.lp its operation. His viep nr usually !:b r d and expauded. 1 hey dis play a depth o penefr.tmn and sagacity, and fOiijpreh.ensiven's that s-nns eminently to f'u-lify hiui fr a statesman His peculiar prominent characteristic seems to be an in-x'm g:!!S1':bl.' lovp of liberty, the spread of universal frpd mi is evirhnllv tlie first and strongef;' .vlshof m heart, and wbttber sbc flapped her

vings nrer the Cordilleras of America or repos-j t on the classic plains and delicious vdli.snf irpce she was sure to meet in Mr ( . ai

lend that no equality could alter, and no 'r"onal interest could change. At ihe commencemptit of the prppent admin ifr.ttion the Chief M g sirate appointed Mr lay to the office of Secretary of State Though is undoubtedly in the first rank of our able ad eminent state;man and qud-fi d for the iHee he has accepted gifted with a string uind and quick perception, resolute in the ursuit of right, mihl amiable , and e ven con 5 scendmg m his manners, yet from the disipunted and angry f-elipgs displayed by a few J oi the result f the late presidential eh ction is entrance on the duties of his ollice was. is might have been expected, a signal for open g the fluof'gaes of asperity and slamlr: his notives were q iasiifncd, and bs political prob tv spvereiy scrutinized. Conscious in h:s own inVgnty he commenced with promptitude and ndustry the dise.hargp of bis highly important rust, examining with crear.d attention every ' aper that came before biot in tne concerns of s department; and if industry and talent, deoted to the public good, can insure the approbation of his country, Mr Clay in this siiuaion 3 entitled to it. Indeed it is no disparagement to his predecessor in the Depar'ment of tate, to assert that for sagacity and profound oohcy. he nearly qu-ds Mr J ff rson, and 'hough he may not posses that diplomatic ,'hle.tn so conspicions in Mr Adam's negoti--tto 9, he is not far bpbind Mr Madison in the sobdiu of his judgment. When we consoler the stvle of his official orn spondence. particularly with the S julo -m tican ministers, tho we cannot pronounce it h ie writing, yrt we see in every sentence that Mr. t'lay possesses, in no limited degree that tact the most valuable of all other in diplomacy, the capacity to turn to advantage, as circumstances uflf r, the subj-ct of negociauon, and a d gree of shrewdness and perse veraic to atta n Ins object, which is n-Vi r tost sight of. in short, though the brilliant parts f Mr. Clay admirably q ni fl d him for the presiding officer of th. H'Mise of Representa tives Hnd won turn the approbation of all p-r ties in Congress, we cannot ihscern Hint he has lost any of his reputation or usefulness since he has been tra-isferrrd to an executive department, and honored with a seat in the cabinet. From .Yank's JSlorc- York Eitjwircr. B the following? letter fr m our old friend Joe Strickland, to his Uncle Bon, it would seem the relehration of our jubilee did not exactly accord with his mimple sense of strict propriety: in the Buls hed Nu York, Jewbely G. 1000. 800 &. 2G. Deerly hilhued unkle Ben. This ere silty h ei.u k ful of Jevv hely t hair ain't a sole in't from the mare down tu a hoy not hier than a chaw of tobakker hut haz hin over hed and ere.s in .fewhejv, u i as yu wer won ov old Ginr l Starks men in tlie revolushin, i spost! ud lyke tu heer how matters kind o' .vent on here so i?e jist jj;ive yu a little noshun ont Tlie nite afore thn Je.wbely, I sot up all nite far feer i shu !n wake up arely in the rnornin, so yM hi day lite i startid, un thinks i ile he damd if i donl se how a Jewhely lokcs. so I tuck too q;in koktales un went strait down tu tlie sulv haul, u:i by jitign, if't didait ban"; al natur, thur wus a kitid ova roe of hog pens hilt clear rou.id the park, kivered

over with old nlankits, un inside wu fill-; who, instead of passii g his lite at halls "He wnose eye can cnstmgmsii thep our wines, and your delicacies; carry ed with all sot tes otTicker, in leetle kagaiid assemblies, has preferred living with various beauties of unc ultivated nature,: nothing but what is necessary for your (im on um wer markt Jewbely rum, par- I di ins and monkeys in the forests of 'nd whose ear h not s'mt to the wild, own comfort, and the object Tn view, and f"Ct jov, ti i sider brandy, u.i all sortes of Guiana. He appears in early life to sounds in the woods, will be delighted in 'depend upon the skill of an I dian, or vitfle big milk pans chuk ful of Bild;have been seized with an uaconquerable passing up the river Demerara. Every your own, for fish and game. A sheet, b-en un pork, fryM ea!, un rite in theaversi )n lo Piccadilly, and to that train now and then, the maam or tinamoti about twelve feet long, ten wide, paintnid lb sum on um had little pig-, stand-; of meteorological questions aud answers, "ds forth one long and plaintive cdand with loop-hob s on each fide, will in up in the philters, with t hi r tales awl which forms the great staple of polite whistle from the depth of the forest, ai d be of great service: in a few minutes yon ki derkurldupovertherbacks,unlookd English conversation. From a dislike then stops: whilst the y (dpii:g of the ton- can suspend it betwixt two trees in the as if tha wer latin to see the Jewbely Uo the regular form of a journal, he c;l" and the shrill voice of the bird called shape ofa roof, Under this, in your HamHie wimen in then pens, most awl on unVthrows his travels into detached piece-, Pi-pi-yo, is heard during the interval mock, you may defy the pelting shower had letle babecs, un sum on um had too;1 which he, rather affectedly, calls Wan- The campanero never fails to attract the: and sleep heedless of the dews of the the wur purty sober, but m,t all there derings md of which we'shali procecdttcntion of the passenger; at a distance! night. A hat, a shirt, and a light pair husbins wer az drunk az a fiddlers bitchAo give some account. of nearly three miles, you may hear thisiof trowsers, will In all the raiment you afore son riz . I went inter won on thej His first Wandering was in the ycar'snow-whitc bird tolling every four or' require. Custom will soon trac h you to pens uri ete a pise ov hukkle-berra pv,' 181 2, through the wilds of Demerara live minutes, like thodi-tant convent bell, tread lightly and barefoot on the little in dry nk sum kawphy for brekfust, uuland Essequibo, a part of ci-devani Dutch, !rmm six to nine in the morning, the for- inequalities of the ground, and show you then st arlid tu sea the sogers down to Guiana, in South Ameiica. The sun csts resound with the mingled cries and how to pass on, unwounded, amid the the battery the ginrils 1 okt purty exhausted him by day, the mu-quetoes strains of the feathered race ; after this mantling briars.' lla-hey; there hatts wer'nt like the oal bit him by night ; but on went Mr. Charles. ''v gradually die away. From eleven Snakes are certainly an annoyance; f ishen rale koutamental halts, tha wer Waterton! j to three all nature is hushed as in a mid but the Snake, though high-spirited, is haipt kinder lyke a nu moon an tha hadj Tlie first thirg which strikes us in this night silence, and scarce a note is heard, not quarrelsome; he considers his fang? um stuck on a'won side, un tha al had oa'extraordinarv chronicle, is the genuine saxing that of the companero and thejto be given for defence, and not for anvaller brir.he, un long boots, sich az z-al and inexhaustible delight with pi-pi-yo ; it is then that, oppressed by thei noyancr, and never inflicts a wound but toko fish in ther wan't onlev too grate which all the barbarous countries he olar heat, the birds retire to the thickest to defend existence. If you tread upon

ginrul-, un tha didut hoalh liv in won street so they maid awl the sogers go by ther own housen, so ther fokes koud sea urn, un then tha went strait tu the sitty haw I in the park, un arter tha wer kinder zvdt bv tlie govner, tha al got inter -Irate kind cv a krooked ring, un fv red to' a fuzle joy, un sich a ratlin un bangin, ua popin. yu never heer'd tha made moar times than foarty thousand oald a -aggins, runnin down burch mountain I was so darnashun skairt I startid un run, and the smoak wus so blamnashun thik, that I run rile aginst ginrul Washington on hiz rairtn hors that tha drawd

i.itf-r the park last sahhrrda, um like tu ,nv nocht mi brat.e u when tha ,t,lnri A r;,i thn fny', i,v tlmal criv

three cheats; not Mich chear az vu set on, but three darnnshnn hooras uz loud az lha koud holler, awl the powers lookt ;z neet az pynks: wan kompyna had kinder hulits on tharo koat-, un t h ; i awl marrht so kl"St ttijrether that when wu?' took up hiz Tut, another put hi-in rite ithe saim ilai?, kwiker than yu koud s i haister puddin i axt a man who thaw usin h,Mi sed tha wer a I vui!'' Pot ridges. that the rorperashun had politlee axt t ktim from konnettykut tu help maik th' grate JewbeU, un tha wer i.. sich a pla gv hunee to git thr oan vilth s t hut tt:.i furgot to ax the kaptin till theM j ; i r f mutch ete evry thinp; up hut f.aks sei; tha want to blaim, k-z tha had s mutch tu due sum iv tn wer given awav Kanoll meddle-, tin sum ov inn that wus afeard tha shond'nt he chased agi next yeer, kikt up a komhoherashtiri vva up town un roasted too yoak ov kattb un won hors, td! hole just az tha wet horn only kinder kut the skin off un th;got purty neer a hundred harels ov sider un fold era boddy tha mite kum u ete drink un git jist az dru ;k az tlu. ware a mine tu so little afore i.iie t thort ide jist gow up un sea how a jewbely team lookt whim twas roasted u jist afore I got tha re i sea a paseel ov fel lers, un all on um had grate highoanso: tnare snolders sum wer lers un sum ri'os u;i sum bak bones with liith' kir.d o mete on tha sed tha got um in ldcrfeald when i got tha re tha had ete ti the hole team ouey jist won hnd h l un thare wus fore iiishmun tii'm (or"!, o i was most plagy skairt, kasc se::se Arnald has soald me so mont.y prizes u ;d maid me so d::riiastiun rich ive got pui t lid aide kinder la't, un i was Darn lean! they'd riste me if stad their so i kleard out un went tu see the Iyer works, up top ov tlie sit t V haul, bul tnair wus a hevv 'storm' kurn up un spiTd awl the fyer workes un kum j i i i t neer spiiin the corperashuo Dinner, hut it did'nt spile the luu in the park, kase the hoys k'-.p fverin t rackers, un gu- s, un won ov um fyred a darnasliuu popp gun so neer mi hed that it bload mi hat of, un while i was skrabblin tu gjt it tha tild it hair ful ov krakeis that sd my hare a fyer un birnt my hatt al ititu shu strings, tha CiVd my coat un troues pokel chuck ful un sot um a her n w thinks i lha mean to roast me in airnest, so i alii rtid tin run, the darn tilings kep g-in otF popp, popp, ppp, by jifigv t'do rather bin in a bumble be;.z n s', tha bind mi

shurt awl up un when I g t iatu the bullsjiards love the superlative. There is r hed, i hadnt hardly no times left one v In-hips nr. fee of a beautiful green. Tlx

jist tiie waiz'iun. iff you ever ketch me; keapm anuther jewhely in sich a darn boa! az this is, ev ma eall mee Neil so no moar frurn ure lovin Jewbcdy Neliew tel deth. JOE STRICKLAND. From the Museum. Trflt'r?7.'?r.9 Wanderings in South America in the Years 1812. 1 81 6, and 1824. Mr. Watxkt i a Roman Catholic gentleman of V.ukshire,of g iod f u tu.ie

visits are described. He seems to Iovc;5;'de, and wait for the relreshmg cool.him, he puts you to death for your clum

the forests the tiger, and the apes; toj be rejoiced that lie is the onlv man there; trial he has left his species far awav; and is at last in the midst of his blessed baboons? He writes with a considerable degree of force and vigor; and contrives to infuse into his reader that admiration of h. great works, and undisturbed scenes of Nature, which animates his style, and has influenced his life and practice. Tiiere is something too he highly respected & praised in the conduct ofa country gentleman, who, instead of exhausting life in the chase, has dedicat-J

ed a considerable portion of it to the pursuit of knowledge. There are so manv temptatior:s to complete idleness in the life of a country gentleman, so many examples of it, and so much loss to the community from it, that every exception from the practice is deserving of great praise.

umni; i nui'ii ) I'liin liii'ii uiULO ie:uUii. lo tlie business of their counties; but, it) general, there are manv more than are wanted; and, generally speaking also, thov are a class who should be stimulat d to greater exertions. Sir Joseph Banks, a squire of large fortune in Lincolnshire, might have given up his exisVnce to double barrelled guns and persecutions of poachers, and all the benetifs derived from his wealth, h.dutr. fid personal exertion in the cause of science, would have been lost to the comnu'ity. Mr. Vaterton complains, that the ! re" of Guiana are not more than six vards in circumference, a magnitude in trees which it is not easv for a Scotch imagination to rearh. Among these. ore-eminent in height rUes the mora, upon whose fop branches, when naked age, or dried by ac cident, is perched tlie T.ucun, too high for the gun of the ;'owler; around this are the green :eart, famous fi.r hardness; the tough ackea; the ducalabali, surpassing m ilogmy; the ebony and letter-wood, ex eeiling the most beautiful woods of the Old World; the locust-tree, yielding copal; and the haawa and olou-trees, !,arnisi ii g sweet smelling resin. Upon he top tf the mora grows the fig-tree. The bush-rope joins tree and tree, so as o render the forest impei vious, as de--cending from on high, takes root as vinti as its extremity touches the ground, and appears like shrouds and stays supporting the mainmast of a line of battle -hip. Demerara yields to no country in the world in her birds. The mud is tiaming with the scarlet curlew. At sunset, the pelicans return from sea to the courada trees. Among the flowers are the humming-birds. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruittrees. At the close of day, the vampires, or winged-bats, suck the blood of the traveller, and cool him by the flap of their wings. Nor hrs Nature forgotten lo amuse herself hern in the composition of snakes: the Comoudi has been killed from thirty to forty feet long; he does not act by venom, but by size and convolution. The Spaniards afiirm that he grows to the length of eighty feet, and that he will swallow a bull; hut Span a green. he Laharri snake of a dirty brown, who kills you in a few minutes. Even love

ly color in heaven is lavished upon thejLake Parima, or the White Sea ; but, on counachouchi, the most venomous of rep-jarriving at Cayenne, he found that lo tiles, and kiiowti by the name of t he j beat up the Amaz n would be lot. g and fifish-mnsttr. Man and beast, says Mr.j tedious; he left Cayenne, therefore, in Waterton. fly before him, and allow hirm an American ship for Parimaribo, went to pursue an undisputed path. through the interior to Corvntin, stopped We consider the following description'a few das at New Amsterdam, and pro

lofthe various sounds in these wild gbms as very striking, and done with ven considerable powersof style. evening. t sundown the vampires, bats, and goat suckers dart from their lonely re treat, and skim along the trees on the rivers bank. The different kinds of frogs almost stun the ear with their hoarse and hollow sounding croaking, while the owls and goat-suckers lament and mourn all night long. "About two hours before day-break, you will hear the red monkey inoani"g as if in deep distress; the houh.u, a solitary bird, and onlv found in the thickest recesECS, of the forest, diitiiictivelY ar-

ticulates, 'houtcu, houtou,' in a low and plaintive tone, an hour before sunrise the maam whistles about the same hour the hannaquoi, pataca, and raaroudi announce h! near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there." Our good Quixote of Demerara is a little too fond of aposhophizh : "Traveller! dost thou think? Keauer!

dost thou imagine?"' Mr. Waterton should remember, that the w hole merit cd these violent deviations from common stvle de pernio upon their rarity, and that nothing' does, for ten pages together, but the in dicative mood. The fault gives an air of affectation to the writing of Mr. Waterton, which we believe to be foreign from iiis character at d nature. We do not wish to deprive him of these indulgences altogether; but merely to put him upon an allowance, and upon such an allowance, as will give to these figures of speech the advantage of surprise and rcli'f. This gentleman's delight and cxulta tion always appear to increase as he loses sight of European inventions, and comes to something purely Indian Speaking of an Ii dian tribe, he says. "They had only one gun, and it ap peared rusty and neglected ; but their poisont d weapons were in fine order Their blow pipes hung from the roof of the hut, carefully suspended by a silk gra?s cord and on taking a nearer view of them, to dust seemed to have collect ed there, nor had the spider spun the smallest web on them; which showed that they were in constant use. The quivers were cloo by them with the jaw-bone of the fish Pirai tied by a string to their brim, and a small wicker-basket of w ild cotton, w hich hung diwn to tho centre: they were nearly full of poisoned arrows. It was with difjicu ly these In dians could be. persuaded to part wifli any cf the wourali poison, though a g od price was offered for it: they g?ve us to understand that it wa pow der and shotto them, and very difiicult to be procuA wicker-basket of wild cotton, full of poisoned arrows, for shooting fish! This is Indian with a vengeance. We fairly admit that, in the contemplation of sucli utensils, every trait of civilized life ii completely and effectually banished. Tue second Journey of Mr. Watertonf in the year 1 S 1 6, was to Pemambuco, in the southern hemisphere, on the coast of Brazil and from thence he proceeds to Cayenne. His plan was, to have ascended the Amaz n from Para, and get into tlie Rio Negro, and ftom thence to have returned towards the source of the Essequibo, in order to examine the Crystal Mountains, a d to look once more for re-;ceeded to Demerara. "Leave behind you" (he says to the traveller) "jour high-seasoned dishes, siness. merely because he does not under stand what your clumsiness means; and certainly a snake, who feels 14 or 15 stone stamping upon his tail, has little time for reflection, and may be allowed to be poisonous and peevish. American tigers generally run away from which several respectable gentlemen in Parliament inferred, in the American war, thatAmerican soldiers would run away also! The description of the birds is very animated and interesting; but how far does the gentle reader imagine the camdanero may be heard, whose size in tha.