Indiana Palladium, Volume 7, Number 47, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 26 November 1831 — Page 2

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For the Palladtwrri. IVIarriage Ceremonials. Marriage being the most important event, and the one which has the greatest influence on a mau'a happiness, that may chance to transpire during the whole pilgrimage of life, it behooves him, not only to take care to obtain a good and virtuous wife, who will 'Move and cherish him, in sickness and in health," et cetera, ot cetera, but also to take special care that he bo rightly, properly, and legally married. J am not ambitious to be thought an antiquary, nor have I any very pertinacious attachment to the fashions of "olden time;" but I have a great veneration for the old established marriage ceremonial, and think the alarming innovations that some clergymen are making on that form should be forcibly resisted bv everv man who considers himself a candidate for matrimonial life, and a proper degree of resentment shown toward those who are daring enough to maka those outrageous alterations alterations which go far to deprive the husband of all authority over his wife, and leave him no more power or right to abuse and command her, than if she were (what few men are willing to admiO fully bis equal. Without further preamble, Mr. Editor, would inform you that 1 learnt, a few eveDings since, from some ladies, (what you probably learnt some years ago,) to my utter astonishment, that marriages are frequently consummated, in these degenerate days, without a promise from the bride that she will implicitly "obey1 the commands of the bridegroom, good or bad, or whatever they may chance to be. Such a promise 1 say is not to be dispensed with; and its omission ought certainly to be considered sufficient to invalidate the marriage Whatt shall we give up the power of commanding, and basely me and sntreat for that which it is our unalienable right to extort? Shall we yield the power of exercising our petty tyranny in our own house, and bo compelled to acknowledge a wife as an equal in importance and authority? Pride, manly pride and manly dignity forbid t "Obedience" is, to be sure, a ponderous word; and women have, doubtless, a natural and inherent antipathy toil; but they are the weaker vessel "might makes right" and they mu3t be constrained to obedience, nolens volsns. The bride always claims the right of choosing the presiding clergyman and he who does not urge that promise of obedience, finds himself,-of late, in very profitable business. 1 propose that the legislature you are a member, you know, Mr. Editor, and may present my petition to that effect? if you please instead of attempting to lay a tax on bachelors, should exact a heavy fine from every audacious parson or magistrate who marries a couple, omitting such a promise, and that the said fine be appropriated to the benefit of those who have suffered by their former treachery. Besides the humiliation to which such a metamorphosis of the marriage oath subjects a man, another great evil must necessarily ensue, which is the inevitable increase of bachelors, and the intolerable consequenses-of such an increase it double surplus of old maids. No man will enter the holy state of matrimony, unless he may have the privilege of maltreating his wife when he pleases, and chastising whenever his whims may dictate "My lord and master"" zoas the epithet' with which every wife should address her husband;: but under the present perverted marriage form she may say,."out upon you, I owe you no obedience; I promised none." Very humiliating indeed to a man to the lord of creation; but swallow it he must if his wisdom does not teach him to be married in the good old way. I hope, Mr. Editor, that you will have the goodoes9 to recommend the notice of this subject to our worthy governor, that he may mention it in his message to the nest legislature ; and 1 doubt not that they will pass an"act," compelling, from this time, henceforth and forever, the due observance of the ancient oath, and thus free the husband from the obstreperous independence of the wife, who is bouud to obey by divine, and hould be by humn laws. L. . The Cherokee Candidate. A prominent trait in the character of the antrmasonic candidate for the Presidency, is his rare benevolence. When our northern philanthropists were exciting the Indians to resist the authorities of Georgia, and appeal to the Supreme Court for protection, Mr. IVirt was engaged to mangi their cause, &, it was supposed, the object pure benevolence, that his services would be gratuitously rendered; or at least it was for a time believed that no selfish motive prompted him to urge the course adopted by the Indian?; but the poor, ill advised fnd ians were dfeat-d, as every body knew they would be,& Mr. Wiit claimed ten thousand dollars for his services!! Su'-h was the diiintefefednep of the r&ti masouic candidate. Uticu Observer.

From the Washington Globe. We have received from ao honest old Former of Kentucky, a loiter on business, in which he nmkej the following remark on the ubj-ctofMr eta' fu'ure prospects, The writer is a icious, though a very plain epo. ken old follow, and has coma to very sauud conclusions all h'u life, rather from his observations of things, than from a knowledge of books. "Mr. Clay has been spoken of a3 a candidate for United States Senator n great falling bai:k. Mr. Clay re-rnindsjne-of one of our Peacocks, when we lived on Klkhorn. I noticed that one of our Peacock?, for several month?, roosted on on a broken or short limb of a peach tree, near the farm house und appeared to be very well satisfied. One evening, at dusk, I saw him standing on his peach tree limb and he appeared very much dissatisfied for some minutes. At length be flew und aimed

to settle himself in the top of a tall and beautiful sugar tree; he reached the top of the sugar tree and scuilled in it lor some time, ana mougm 10 place himself on the sugar tree to roost: the darkness of tho evening prevented him finding a limb, and at length he came to the ground. I saw nothing more of the Peacock until next evening, when he took his old peach tree limb, and seemed well enough fatisfied with it. Mr. Clay is willing to descend to the peach tree limb again." Precept vs. Practice. We find the following notice in a late Connecticut paper; we wonder how it agrees with the tender sympathies of the advocates for Indian sovereienty: "Escape of o Prisoner, Win learn, that one day last week, an Indian escaped from the Sheriffof New London county. He had been sentenced to the State Prison, at Wethersfied, for two years, we know not for what crime, and the Sheriff had hint in charge on his way to the Prison. They stopla V ped near lymp, and the Indian gave him the slip. His handcuff were found in the woods; but the Indian had disappeared-" A small remnant of a tnbo of Indians still inhabit a spot of earth in the State of Connecticut. The authorities of that State long since exercised the right of legislating oyer these original inhabitants of their present residence, and yet tno benevolent philanthropist a has appeared, to mourn their state of vassalage;, no patriot has arisen to assert their iudependence For them the tear of sympathy has not been shed, nor has the vengeance of heaven been invoked on their oppressors. Bat in Georgia,, where a larger number of Indians reside, we are told the principle is changed.. We cannot have jurisdic tion over the Indians,, because they number five thousand souls;, but in Connecticut,.where there are perhaps a hundred, the case is different We would thank some of our northern' friends to tell us why an abstract prin ciple of immutable justice will not npply as well to the government of five housand Indians, as to one hundred,. or even less: and whv tnat which is wicked in Georgia is not equally so in Connecticut.. According to a late decision of the Court of Common Pleas, of Hamilton County all notes issued by the United States Branch Bank under 100 dollars signed by the president and Cashier of the Branches, are illegal,, and unauthorized by the charter of the B:mk. The charter authorizes no person but the President & Cashier of the Mother Bank to sign even a bill of exchange under 100i. This decision waj made in the case of a criminal who was charged with having about him counterfeit notes, with intent to pass them, purporting to be signed by a President and Cashier of one of the Branches. It was set up as a defence that no suclVnote was authorized by the charter of the Bank, and therefore the defendant was not guilty of counterfeiting This defence was sustained by the decision of the Court, and the criminal discharged. Senator Benton has since given his opinion on the subject publicly in St. Louis,coinciding with that of the Court. If the correctness of this decision be sustained, some dozen or twenty convicts, now in the Penitentiary for imitating that which the Bank had no right to put forth as the original, will be asking to be set at liberty upon the plea of having been convicted and punished without law. Hamilton Telegraph. JZi T TURXER. "By Wednesday afternoon's southern mail,1' says the Norfolk Herald of Friday 4th inst. "we received a further confirmation" of the capture of Nat Turner, the negro insurgent, in the following letter Irom the Postmaster at Murfreesborough, dated on Tuesday : "Tikis. G. Brocghton, Esq. " Dear Sir: The notorious Nat Turner is taken ; this you nvty confidently rely upon. 1 yesterday had it Irom a genUem.tn of respectability who saw him after his cap'ure. He whs taken on Smday last, near his foimer residence,

and surrendered without resistance No doubt public curiosity is on tiptoe to hear his confession, but 1 am inclined to think it will be disappointed. It seems he preteuded to act the ideot. He says he can command the thunder, and can thunder when be pleases; that he was in the way of his dut) ; that he could read it upou the leaves of the tree?, Szc. "You will probably hear farther from him soon. Respect fullv, von i s, "JOHN WHEELER." We were, subsequently to preparing the above extracts lor the press, politely favored with the perusal of a letter from Southampton, to a gentleman ru thi9 place, from which we are enabled to give the following statement, corroborating the one published in our last, with soma interesting additions: Nat was shot at by Mr. Francis, (as stated in our last,) on Thursday, (yesterday week,) near a fodder stack in his field j but happening to fall at the moment of the discharge, the contents

of the pistol passed through the ciown of his hat. He had the hat on his head when he was taken, with the shot holes in it, which he exhibited, to show how narrowly he had escaped being shot. Although he escaped from Mr. Francis, the rencountre caused a general turn out in the neighborhood, and on Sunday there were at least 50 men out in search of him, none of whom could have been two miles from the place where he was caught, at the time of his capture. He was taken about a mile and a haf from the house of Mr. Travis, the man he served, and whose family, including himself, were the victims of this cruel fanatic and his besotted followers. He had made himself a sort of den in the top of a fallsn tree, which be had covered over with pine brush. His head was protruded through this covering, as if he was in the act of reeonnoiteringrwheu Mr. Phipps, (who had that morning, for the tnst timer turned out in pursuit of him,) came suddenly upon him. Mr. Phipps, not knowing him, J -J l 1 llll all aemanaeu, v no are your was answeredr"m JYuJ Turner.'1 Mr. Phipps then ordered him to hand out his armsr and he delivered up a 6word, which was the only weapon he had. Mr. Phipps then took him to Mr. Edwards,, "hence the news of his capture spread so rapidlyr that in less than on hour a hundred persons had collected at the place, whose feelings, on beholding the blood stained monster, were so much exciled,lhat it was with difficulty ha could be conveyed alive to Jerusalem.. fie is said to be very free in his confessions, which, however, are no further important than as showing that he was instigated by the wildest superstition nnd fanaticism, and was not connected with any organised plan of conspiracy beyond the circle of the few ignorant wretches whom he had seduced by his artifices-to join him.. He still pretends that he is a prophet, nnd relates a number of revelations which he says he has hadpfroro which he waa induced to believe that he could succeed in conquering, the county Soulhamjtlon! (what miserable ignorance !) a3 thj white people did in tha revolution He says the idea of an insurrection never crossed his mind until a few months before he started with it; and he considered the dark ajpearance oj the sun was a signal for him to commence 1 His profanity in comparing his pretended prophecies with passages in the Holy Scriptures should not be mentioned, if it did not atford proof of his insanity. Yet it was by that means he obtained the complete control of his followers, which led them to the perpetration of the horrible deeds of 22J August. Nat Turner has been eonvictedrby the called Court of Southampton County. The record of his conviction has been received by the Executive. He was sentenced to be hung on Friday last week. Richmond IVhig. Some of the New York Daily papers, in the frequent habit of borrowing the earliest foreign news from the Courier and Enquirer, and palming it upon the j public as the production of their own industry, have lately been caught at their dirty work and justly exposed before an indignant public, by the editors of the Enquirer. It will be recollected that the proprietors of this paper have lately increased their facilities for obtaining the latest foreign intelligence at an early date, which has been attended with much expense, for w hich they anticipate a commensurate support for their already widely circulating Journal. A day or two after the arrival of the news of the fall of Warsaw, the editors of the Enquirer, to use their own language, baited a trap for the rats who nibble at their cheese, with a statement that Warsaw had not fallen; that by the arrival of the Ajax, the previous accounts of the fate of the Poles was stated to be all a fabrication of the Prussian State Gazette. This news was not printed in the daily edition of the Courier, Lut only in a few copies

sent to those papers before alluded to, the editors of which hastily caught it, stopped their presses, and gave it to the public as their own news, received by the arrival of the Ajax. Tho Ajax had not arrived, and to their great shame and mortification, these men, in the habit of feeding at anothers crib, found themselves caught in a trap set for their particular accommodation. This is as it should be. Rrldgeton 0!7.

The political Babel. The opposition, including Anti-Masons, Clayites, as our readers were last week advised, are in a great quandary. Soma of the more wise prudent friends of Mr. Clay, who are real connoisseurs in tha signs of the times, from appaling omens begin to distrust their own strength, & make overtures to the Anties and their new Apostle, suggesting that "the two parties will ultimately fall upon the tornpromise of running Mr. Clay for the j President, and Mr. Wirt for the Vice ! P." while others scruple not to pour i upon them plentiful showers of abuse. ! Some think that Mr. Clay would act any candidate who can concentrate the popular suifrage, bo as to ensure the defeat of the present President." Others say "nay j at present he bids fair to carry more votes than any other candidate that could ba named." Some recommend that the nomination by the Baltimore Convention should be postponed until n late period "say until towarns the close of the session of Con gress." This will atford an opportunity rf feeling the pulse of that body. "Let us pause (says one.) We are not recommending any abandments, but only protesting against unnecessary and injurious commitments ." The A nil Masons appear determined to stick to their candidate. This dilemma of the Opposition forcibly reminds us of the condition of the impious descendants of Noah, who undertook to "build a tower whose top should reach unto Heaven." Theea modern Babel-builders, in their fierce contention against the Administration have set only used brick and Clay, but like the fabled giants of the Greek and Roman poets m their war with the Gods, they have piled Ossa upon Pelion in order to scale the elevated seat of power and distinction. But they have ascended as high as the public voice will permit. "'J ruth is mighty and wilt prevail." It is beginning to speak in the public sentiment, with a resistless force; and already has it thrown the adversaries of the faithful rulers of this happy land into utter confusion, and they appear to labor under an entire destitution of any thing like unity of sentiment. If they are not literally as "seventy two different nations, with seventy-two-diSerent language?,1 their situation is not altogether unfitly illustrated by the following description of their ancient prototypes, by the f U i I A . rv m l-ll t i renen poei xju xarias, wnicn nas peen rather quaintly metaphrased by the English poet Sylvesterr "Some speak Ittween the teeth, some in the no$e, Some in their throai the words do ill dispose; Urin me,' quoth one, 'a truveU, qu.ckJy quick!'-' One brings him a hammer. '7- this brick ,' Another bids; and then they cleaxe u trts. mM ale fast this rope;'' and then they lei it fa. One calls for flanks; another mortar lacks: They bare the first a $tene; the last an axe. One wcvuld have spikes; aud him a tfaJe they give :. Another asks a em?, and pets a sehe Thus crossly crost, they prate and prim in vain-. What one hath mads, another mats again. These masons, thn, feeing- the storms arrived Of Cod's Just wrath, all weak St heart deprived; Forsake their purpose; and like frantic fools, Scatter their stufr, and tumble down their tools." Ita!eigh Siarr An lerican Slaves seized a( A'assau. Y. P In March last we gave the particulars of the seizure, by the Governor of New Providence, of 165 Slaves saved, from the wreck of an American vessel from Alexandria bound to New Orteans. The Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court dismissed the libel filed on the part of the seizure, & it was recommended by the House of Assembly and most of the respectable men of the community, that the slaves should be restored to their former owners; but his Excellency Sir J. C. Smyth, persisted in retaining them. A Col. Morse of New Orleans , had arrived at Nassau, as agent for the owners of the slaves, and a correspondence commenced between him and the Governor, the result of which had not transpired; but the Bahama Argus intimates that it is likely to become a national question between the British Government and the United States. A bill is now before the IIoue of Representatives to prevent the importation of slaves fiom other States, fur sale, and will, we are informed, probably become ,a law. It inhibits the introduction of slaves into Ken'cky, from and after tho first of June next, except by emigrants, or persons residing here who may become, by descent or marriage, proprietors of slaves in othei sUle. Louisville Auv.

Vovi'ign Xexs. Four davs later. By the arrival at Now York of the Packet ship Sila Richards:, London papers to the 25ih, Liverpool to the 2Glh, and Glagow to the 23J of September havu bceu received. The Reform Rill has passed the IIuUe of Commons Paris is trunquitami there is every appearance that the peace of Europe xrill not be disturbed. The most important intelligence by this arrival, is the hual passage of the Reform Bill in the House of Commons on the morning of the 22X b) a uv j Jilt of 109. The vote s'ood

Fur the Bill Against it 23G Majority 100 On the ?ame evening it was carried up to tha House by Lrd John Riseli, Lord Althorie, and more than one hundred members of the lower house. The great qui stion which now agi tates the public mind almost to revolution, is, "vvill the Lords reject it!" Bell's Weekly Messenger of the 2Mb, says it will pass by a majority of from 40 to 17, whilst other papers evidently fear that it will be rejected. A private correspondent says, that although Lird Wellington is pledged to vote aainit the bill, he will give his proxi&s about 15 in number iu favor of its passage. If this is so, there can be but little doubt of the result. Meetings have been held in all parte of the country, in favor of Reform. That in London, at which the Lord Mayor presided, is said to be the most respectable that could be assembled throughout Europe, for wealth, commercial importance and intelligence. In remaiking on thi3 meeting, the Timea says, "The crisis indeed in our political condition has nozo become one of breathless interest. 1 he people, on onu side, are in movement every wheie, to put down the atrocious calumny which described them to have betrayed their own cause, by deserting the Government which first opened for them the road to liberty; while on the other side, the agents of corruption are more malignant than ever, und more despeiate, louder and more audacious in their propheeks, that the Lords will throw out the bill." The Bill wa3 to have been read tha second time in the House of Lords, on the 18lb of October. Contrary to our expectations, Pari has become quietrand the members of the Perier HdrninUtration, again firmly fixed in their places. In future all speculations as to the affairs of France will be idle. They present an enigma which even the leaders of the different parties do not comprehend -f nnd u more unsettled state of things cannot well be imagined. A highly interesting debate, which lasted three days, took place in the Chamber of Deputies on the questions put by M. M.uguin to !!. .i r iMinisters, respecting me foreign policy of trance. At the time when all the Paris and London presses were speculating on the result of the vote a vots which all parties believed would be a close one a division was made and stood thu: For Ministers 21 Against Ministers 126 Majority for Ministers C. Accounts from Si. Pttersburgh say, that the cholera had again appeared with such violence nt Nishno Novogorod, thai the merchants lei t the city before the fair wa-3 ended. It is said that a forgery has been detected on a Lindoo Buiking house, to the amount of 10,000. sterling. Tho Times says lhat if the lords reject the Rj'orm Bill, it will be an attempt to put down the KingT tho Common?, and the People that they in that case would be rebeU and the army would not oWey them!! St. James Palace, Sept. 21. TMj day had audiei ce of hi Majesty Mr. Van Buren, Eavay Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to deliver hiscredentials. Algiers, Aug. 15. Since the unfortunateexpedition to Medeah the Bedouins carried terror to the gates of. Algiers and it was reported that they are aesembling to the number of bOy 000 men, in the plains at the fool of thts Little Atlas. Prusszls, Sept. 20, Tuesday Evening Persons ho have lately left HJIand, assure u that the greatest enthusiasm prevails among all classes, of the people, who re determined not to yiehf to the Belgians in any of their rights; and who imagine that in consequence of their victoiies over the brave smockfrock men, they ought not only to saddle this country with a portion of the? debt, but also lake the portion of th& country best suited to their terri'orie. The Flanders paper state?, that there is an army of 25,000 men in Dutch Flanders alone. The kin of SX'ny ha issued a decree, loi bid Jing young mMj to nvrry before tin y huve coiiipletLu ihcii 2l?t year.