Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 2, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 14 January 1832 — Page 4

For the Palladium. ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND. Ah why are iet those eyes, whose gentle beam Had shed such softness on thy morning dream; That woke at Fancy's touch, at Hope's brightray, And pictured pleasure on thy coming day t And why that cheek bo pale with lines of care As if some hidden grief was wasting there ? And why that form, that every grace posses'd, That youth and fancy once so fondly dresk'd, Now cold and careless to each foreign aid.

Leaving the social walk to seek the shade ? Sure some uncommon wo or pain has pass'd, And 'cross thy way its sombre mantle ca&t; Some dark, unfriendly fate has lent its power To blast thy blossom in the opening hour. But still, withia, thy generous soul can live, And wield a power no mortal power can give; And still that form each parted gift reclaim, Kindle with joy, and wake a kindred flame. Those lips can yet thy manly thoughts declare, And tacred truth and unstained honor bear. Then leave the lonely haunt, the silent shade, For musing sceptics and for dulne9s made; Catch the fond lyre, that's lain so long unstrung; Let taste and beauty hear the notes it sung When youth was buoyant, in its tiptoe hours, And life was filled with fragrance and with flowers. Come, dress the wreath that early science wove, And Joy shall bind it on the brow of Love. Think of thy honored line, without a stain; O, wake thyself to manly life again. X For the Palladium. THINK OF MB. Oh ! think of me, love, in the festal hours, When thy footsteps tread on mimic flowers In the glit'ring dance. When mingled voices, by the blazing hearth. Swell in sinless glee in the hour of mirth, Then think of me. When in the bright and virent bowers, You cull the sweetest of summer's flowers, Then think of m:; When the rose's breath, on the floating air, Is caught in thy respiration there, Then think of me. When winds' and waters' blended sound, Borne from afar, is breathing round, Then think of me. When thy soul's in thy prayer to the God above, My first, my last, my only love, Then think of me. Y Jrora the London New Monthly for October. Anti-Isiiaovator. Plague take the world! why cannot it 6tand still, and go on as it used to do when I was a boy? What do the people mean by the progress of events and the march of intellect? What good ever came by change? How i3 it possible that any man can be wiser than his father? Where can a man get his wisdom from, but from his father? and his father cannot give him more than he has got to give. Ah dear! ah dear! 1 remember the time when the parish beadle was a man of some consequence, when a lord was a thing to be stared at and a sight to be talked about and the King! why no man in his senses ever thought of the King, but with the profoundest respect. Everyday after dinner as soon as my father had said grace , he poured out a bumper of port and drank "Church and King." It did one's heart good to see and hear him; it was as good as a sermon. The wine itself seemed conscious of the glory of its destination to be swallowed not unblest, and it looked bright in the glass and seemed to dance with eagerness to meet his lips. But now o' days if I venture to toast Church and King, I am forced to do it in a hurried, irreligious sort of a way, with a kind of a eneer, as much as to say, it's all in my eye; or my boy Tom will laugh at me and drink the majesty of the people. The majesty of the people indeed! I should like to see it. There used to be some reverence shown to lords in former times, but how are they treated now? Snubbed at in the newspapers, elbowed in the streets, quizzed in epigrams, peppered with pamphlets, shown up in novels, robbed of their boroughs, and threatened with annihilation.. People call that the march of intellect I call it the march of insolence. When I was a boy, all the books we had in the house were the Bible and Prayer Book and the Court Calendar; the first two contained our religion and the last our politics: as for literature, what did we want of it? It is only the means of turning the world upside down, and putting notions into people's heads, that would never get there without. All the evil that is in the world came by innovation; and there is no part of the world free from innovation, neither the heavens above nor the earth beneath, nor the waters that are under the earth. What bus iness have men in the air with balloons? What good can they get there? What do they go there for, but merely to come down and perhaps break their necks? They would be much safer upon dry ground. Ou ancestors used to be content wilh the sun, moon, and stars, and four or

five planets, now forsooth the impertinent ones must be poking their telescope up to the sky and discovering new planets almost every night, as if we had not got as many planets already as we could do with. Steam Engines 1 do not think we should ever have heard a word about Parliamentary Reform, if it had not been for steam engines. I hope Mr. Colburn will not have his magazine with this article printed with a steam press, for if he does I shall not dare to read it for fear of being blown up.

What did we want with steam engines? Did'nt webeattheFrench without steam engines? To be sure we did. I hate innovations. 1 should just like to know what is to become of all the hackney coach-horses, if we are to have steam carriages. They poor beasts look half starved as it is; they will be ten times worse if they are to be turned out to make room for steam engines, and what shall we do for dog's meat if there are no horses to cut up? Then must we have Macadamized roads loo! our ancestors did very well without Macadamized roads. They took their time in travelling from one place to another, and if they happened to be too lnte for the stage, they had nothing to do but run after it and catch it. Let them try to do so now. Buildings too! did ever anv mortal see such an overgrown place as London is now ? There is not a dirty ditch within tire miles of London that has not got some Paradise Row, or Mount Pleasant, or Prospect Place stuck into it. Why can't the citizens fire in the city as they used to do and stick to their shops? There is no such place a3 the country now, it is all come to London. And what sort of houses do they build? Look at them a huddle of matches for timbers and a basket of bricks for the walls. Rail roads a pretty contrivance forsooth! to pick the pockets of the good old wagon horses, and the regular legitimate coach horses that had stood the test of ages. Pray what is to become of the farmers if there are no horses to eat their oats? And how are the rents to be paid, and the tithes, and the poor rates? who is to pay the interest, of the national debt? and what will become of the Church if horses do not eat oats to enable the farmers to pay their tithes and feed the clergy? Manchester and Liverpool were quite near enough without the assistance ol a rail road, and if the building mania goes on much longer there will be no need of a road from one to the other, for they will both join, and the people may be in both places at once. Peo ple are talking now of rail roads super seding canals, the good old canals, half of which are already three-quarters full of duck weed and cats. What did the Wellington ministry mean by opening beer shops? Why could not they let the good old gin shops alone, and stick to the regular legitimate public houses? Our ancestors could get as drunk as heart could wish, at the genuine licensed old fashioned pot houses. Look at the population too ! People go on increasing and multiplying as if they never intended to leave ofF. Hundreds and hundreds of people are coming into the world who have no right to be born. The world is as full as it can hold already; there is positively no room for any more. There was nothing like the number of children to be seen about the streets, when I was a boy, as there is now. I have sometimes half a mind to ask those lubberly boys that 1 sea about the streets, what right they had to be born; but perhaps they would make me some impertinent answer for they swagger about as if they thought that they had as good a right to be born as any one else. I wish they would read Malthus's Essay on Population, they would then be convinced that they have no right to be born, and they would be ashamed of themselves for existing to the manifest inconvenience of gentlemen and ladies to whom they are exceedingly annoying. Look at the Reform Bill, that sink of innovation, to speak metaphorically; that climax of noveltv, that abominable poke in the ribs of our Constitution, that destroyer of all that is venerable. Its opponents have been accused of talking nonsense against it. Very likely they have talked nonsense, for they have been so flabbergasted at the innovation, that they have not known what they have been saying. The constitution is gone quite gone! Lord John Russell has purged it to death. If things go on changing at this rate for the next hundred years as they have done of late, we shall scarcely have a relic of the good old times left. The weather is not what it used to be when I was a boy. Oh! those were glorious old times when we had sunshine aJl thro' the summer, and hard frosts all through the winter, when for one half of the year we could bathe every day, and for the other half could skate every day. There is nothing of j that sort now. If a man buys a pair of

skates in the winter, it is sure to thaw next day; and if a boy buys a pair ol corks one day, there is sure to be a hard frost next morning. There is no thing but wet weather all through the winter, and no dry weather all through the summer. Formerlv we used to have an eclipse or two in the course of the year, and we used to look at it through smoked glass , and very good fun it was, only it used to make our noses black, if we did not take care to hold the glass properly. If we look into the almanac for an eclipse, we are sure to see that it is invisible in these parts; and even if it is visible we can never see it, for there is always cloudy weather. I scarcely know any thing

that is row as it used to be when I was a boy. Day and niht have not quite changed places, but night and morning: have. What used to be Sundav morning when I was a little boy, has now by a s! range mutation become Saturday night. I wonder why people cannot dine at dinner time as they used to do; but every thing is in disor der; a wild spirit of innovation has seized men's minds, and they will do nothing as they used to do, and as thev ought to do. Things went on well enough when I was a boy; we had not half the miseries and calamities that one sees and hears of now. What an absurd and ridiculous. invention is that nasty, filthy, stinking gas! The buildings where it is made, look like prisons withoutside, and like infernal regions within; and there always is some accident or other happening with it; peopie have their houses blown up, and it serves them right for they have no busmess to encourage such newfangled trumpery. The streets used to be lit up well enough with the good old fashioned oil lamps, which were quite good enough for our ancestors, and I think they might have done for us; but any thing for innovation! I must confess I liked to see the good old greasy lamplighters and their nice flaming torches, they were fifty times better than the modern gas light men with their little hand lamps like so many Guy Fawkes,' And what harm have the poor old watchmen done I wonder that they must be dismissed to make room for a set of new police men and blue coats? The regular old legitimate watchmen were the proper and constitutional defenders of the stree!s?just as regular as the King is the defender of the faith, ,i i i . i mm a mole tjiuiuiess sei or men man the watchmen never existed; thev would not hurt a fly. Things went on well enough when they had the care of the streets. Bat innovations are not confined to land, they have even encroached upon the water. Were not London, Blackfriars and Westminister bridges enough in all conscience? What occasion was there for Waterloo bridge, a great overgrown granite monster that cost ten times more than its worth? And what occasion for Southwaik bridge and Vauxhall bridge? Our ancestors could go to Vauxhall over Westminister or Blackfriars bridge. Bat of ail the abominable innovations none ever equalled the impudence of New London bridge. It was not at all wanted. I have been over the old one hundreds and hundreds of times. It is a good old bridge that has stood the test of ages, and it ought to have been treated with respect for very antiquity's sake. As for people being drowned in going under the bridge, nonsense ! they would never have been drowned if they had done as I did I always made a point of never going underit; and besides, if people are to be drowned, they will be drowned elsewhere if they are not here. Talk of innovations, what can be a more outrageous innovation than steam boats? They have frigtened the fish out of the rivers already, and if they go on increasing as they have done of late, they will frighten the fish out of the sea too; and I should like to know where all the fishes are to go then. We shall be in a pretty mess if they all come ashore. Besides, the sea is obvicusly made to sail upon, or else what is the use of the wind? And if we have nothing but steam boats, what will become of the sail makers? People in these revolutionary times care nothing about vested interests. I hate innovation. I hate every thing that is new. I hate new shoes, they pinch my feet; I hate new hats, they pinch my forehead; I hate new coats, they put me in mind of tailor's bills. I hate every thing new, except the New Monthly Magazine, and I shall that if the editor rejects mv article. ANTI INNOVATION. An eccentric preacher, in his address to his congregation, lately observed, that "there is as much chance for a drunken man to inherit the kingdom of heaven, as there is for a pig to climb up an apple tree and ling like a nighting ale." France, in 200 vears, constructed 900 miles of canal E 'gland in 70 years 2752 miles the United States "in 14 years25G0 miles.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. Some days since n worthy and reep ctable old gentleman, residing not iarfrom Ellicoti'6 Mills, ten miles ftom Baltimore, received a letter, telling him that on or before a certain date, he must enclose 800 in a letter, addressed to B. L., Baltimore Post Office, and threatening that if he did not do go, he should be put to death. The letter l so informed him that should any attemp! to ascertain who it was that should call for the letter, he should certainly meet the same fate. Information of the receipt of this letter, together with the instrument itself, were given to the Chiel Judge of the City Court, who employed Mr. Riggs to ferret cut the matter. A letter was written, directed to B. L. and made to pass tRrough the office at Eliicott's Mills, and Mr. R. put himself on the watch. Oa Wednesday a well dressed very genteel looking man, presented himself at our Post Oilier and

asked for a letter directed to B. L J After some questions, on the pari of i the clerk, the letter wa3 delivered, the postage paid, and the person retired, putting it in his pocket. He had scarcely left the door when he was accosted by Mr Ri ggs, who demanded his nmo, which was given, after some remarks as to the nature of the request from an entire stranger. To this the rfiicer replied by asking if he had not just taken out a letter directed to B. L., which was answered in the affirmative. 31 r. R. then asked if he knew who B. L. was, telling him that he must be conducted to him. The person stated that an individual whom he had met at the tavern had

requested him, as he was gomg down tQ wit. ..Atar,!fd ttven(v 8cres of street, to call at the Post Oflice and j ,and prt oftbe N V. cr. cf section 15take out a letter which he would find j ron 5, Kan- S, West, in the county of directed to B. L., which he had done,' Dearborn." iNow, therefore, tbe said debut he hoped he would not be account- ; fendants are hereby notified, that unless they able tor the letter, as he was a man of ! appear, file special bad, receive a declaration, respectability, and referred to several j and plead to the action aforesaid within one

persons of standirg to whom he was known, with some of whom he was connected. The otllcer told him that if he could show him 13. L. it would be well, and that he would accompany him in seaich of him; but that if he did not do so he should be nut in prison. He then went ilh the person to one of the uesi taverns in me cuy, anu aner wan ins a Ions time for the real or I 1 r pretendrroed the ed R. L. and having info Judge of what had passed, conducted his prisoner to jail. Oa Thursday morning the g?ntlem-an who had been threatened attended with some friends at the City Court room, nt 10 o'clock, A. M. w hen an examination was commenced, and after some time, was postponed until half past ten yesterday forenoon, After due deliberation the prisoner was released on giving bail to appear before Baltimore County Court, ou the second Monday in April next. The person suspected ha3 hitherto stood high for integrity and correct deportment, and is very respectably connected. His present place of residence is in Frederick County, w here he has enjoyed an extensive professional pa tronage; but he was formerly of Baltimore. We do not deem it proper, at present, to give names. Bait. Minersa. Achanlage of Tight Lacing A very influential physician in a populous town in Massachusetts, was once appealed to oy a gentlemen to have him use his inuuence in bringing to disuse the practice of tight lacing which was carried to a great extent by the hdies of the town. The doctor heard the appeal very quietly, and then returned for an swer that he could not conscientiously I engage in any undertaking of the nature, for said he, "I think this practice a great public benefit. 'A great public benefit!' exclaimed the astonished philanthropist, why, how can that be, do you not see that a great many of our young ladies are ruining their health, and losing their lives by it? "Yes yes," returned the doctor,but my dear fellow, do you not see that it kills' off only the fools', and we shall all be wise ones by and b ?!' Fitchbnrgh Gaz. Parliamentary Qualifications. A candidate by the name of Cnadwick, in standing for a seat in the Biiii-h House of Commons, sums up his qualifications thus: 4k 1 am no man of family; I am no man of business 1 have never been used to it; but I can shout, laugh, hawk, spit, cough, stamp, hies, hoof, and huzza; and what more can be wanted from a member of Parliament ? 1 do not dcubt but my stamping, shouting, would have as much elfcct in the House of Co nmons, as most speeches generally have." "Su$ Rosa." The Rose was dedicated by Cupid to Harpocrates, the god of sileuce, to engine him to conceal the secrets of Venus; hence it has ever s;nce been considered as the symbol of silence; for which reason it was customary to hang a rose over the banqueting table, to signify that what wa- s .id there should be kept private, or "ui.dei the rosc.'?

DEARBORN COUNTY Dearborn Circuit Court.

CO fpkmbcr Jcrm. 1231. David Pa'rner, 4 1 V' sus Wm. (.-. Vanhoutcn, Hannrh Vaniioi-ten, Cornelius W. Vanhouten. ! On complaint in cuucei7. and Isaac Vanhouten. J O I ICE is hereby given to William C. Vanhonten, Hannah Vanbouten, Cor nelius W. Vachouter, and Isaac Vanhouten; that the said David Palmer has tiled bis bill of complaint on the chancery 'side of said court, prayins amongst other thirds, that the said defendants be compelled to make hiai a deed in fee simple for cerlain lands iu the sa?d 23 ill described; the defendants aforesaid will tbertfore take notice, that unless they be and appear before the Judges of the Dearborn circuit court, in chancery sitting; at their Term to bo boldrn m and for tbe said county of Dearborn, on the fourth Mcndaj in March next, then and there to answer to, gainsay, or deny ths nsatters in the said bill stated, the same as to them will bz taken as t j confessed, and the matters therein prayed for wMK..a, i I i l r . i JAMES DILL, Clerk. December 19, IS3 ? - 51 Sw DEARBORN COUNTY.) Dkarhokx Circuit Court. $ September Term, 1831. Justus M. Cure, Versus AnctrewS. Winins, I Oa foreign attachJ TT O ICE is hf reby given fo Andrew S.Wininjrs, and James Winiogs. that Justus M. Cure, the plaintiff aforesaid, has 9ued out of the cltrk's office of tbe Dearborn circuit court, his writ of foreign attachment in an action of debt snd that tbe same hae year from the September Term of the Dearborn circuit court, 1S31, Judgment will b entered against them by default, Bnd tba land so attached will be sold for the benetit j of toe'r creil'lor:S By orJe r of the court. JAMES DILL, Clerk. December 19, 1831. 51 3w j Administrator S Notice. ' p "UBLIC notice is hereby given that I j h t kpn of CSerk,s office of (be Proba)e Court of oearbQrn County leiters cf !minis!ration cn the estate of-JCSC j Poster late dfOrarborn County deceased, all persons indebted are therefore requestfd to make immediate payment, and tbcia haing cidirr.s against said estate will present ; them properly authenticated for settlement. ' It is believed the said est&le will be ampl NLMROD V. DART,.tfmV. Dec. 13ih, 1331. 50 3w pftJ BIJC notice is hereby given that I Cter fr ?a'e at the late dwelling cl Jesse Foster, deceased, on the first Tuesday in January rext, the fallowing articles: One Wcn, and Horses, one Cow, And Youny; Cattle, and Sheep, Corn, Oats, ilay. Potatoes, Farrninc Utensils, Househod end Kitchen Furniture, and a Hi He Gun, and other articles to tedious to mention. Sale to coamience M 10 o'clock on said day. i'i)e months credit will be given. xNl.MROD W. DART, Adm'r. Dec. 10th, 1331. 50 3r 1 T! that HK subscriber tnkes tbis method to give general iDloruiaucn to the public, thut his r v -. W W U. SC works pre in full operation, and having employed Bn cznerifDced band to do the bmioes3, he fiatters bimstif that be will be ebla to give ener:i! satisfaction to those who may favor him with their custom. The price will be as follows: For London Ctow n fulled cloth "5 cts. pr y'd 41 London Sfitofce CO . do . do. do. do. do. Snuff Cref n ISiack 10 20 so 20 i is I. Xuw Clue " Drabba 12 12 i All other wo k low in proportion. IS. B. hot the accommodation of those living at a dUtHnce, be has made arrangements with George Tousey of Laivrencebnrgh to receive cloih at his store, where it will be taken by him and returned when finished; he has also made the same arrangements at Mr. Piuaimers store in Manchester tovvnsLip. EDMUND BOND. White-water Mills, Oct. 5th, 1831. 4(N-2mo Revised Laws of 1 SSI. A FEW copies oftbe Revised Laws ol Indiana, passed at the lata session, for sale at this office. FiLGUB & OOH1I Will be received at this Office on subscription. INDIANA PALIiADIUPrl, PRINTED AD TUBI-lSIIED BY Publisher of the Lazes of the United States ?3ui23i The Palladium U printed weekly, on super royal paper, at THREE DOLLARS, per annnm paid at the end cf the year; but which mav b? discharged bv the pa)ment of TWO DOLLNRS in aha7cey' or b paving TWO DOLL RS an 1 FIFTY CENTS at the expiration of 'r month Thase who rece;ve their papers bv tbe wail carrier. muM pay x be carriage, otherwise U will be adued le then- subscription.

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