Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 20, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 2 June 1832 — Page 4

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From theiuw jionuuy .utigazmv.TRY ME. Long, too long, I've wailed, clearest, Why, oh why, deny mc? If my constancy thou fearcsf, Take me, love, and try me. See the crystal tear is glowing, One bright smile will dry it! Doubt not, when 'tis easy knowing, Try it, dearest, try it! Joys when brightest still are fleetest, Haste', dear maid, they're flying, Wedded love, the fondest, sweetest, May be had for trying. Now I see thy heart relenting, Dearest 1 defy thee; Eyes and cheeks alike consenting, Maiden, shall I fly thee? Hopes and vows thus fondly meeting, Dearest, do not chide them, They who say love's joys are cheating, Never thus have tried them! Ludicrous effect of the appearance of a Comet in the year 1712. In the year 1712, Mr. Whitson having calculated the return of a Comet, which was to make its appearance on Wednesday, the 14th of October, at five minutes after fivevin the morning, gave notice to the public accordingly, with this terrifying addition, that a total dissolution of the world by fire was to take place on Friday, following. The reputation Mr. Whitson had long maintained in England, both as a divine and a philosopher, left little or no doubt with the populace of the truth of his prediction. Several ludicrous events now took place. A! number of persons in and about London seized all the barges and boats they could lay their hands upon in the Thames, very rationally concluding, that when the conflagration took place, there would be s (he most safety on the water. A gentleman who had neglected- family prayer for better than five years, informed his wife that it was his determination to resume that laudable practice the same evening; but his wife, having engaged a ball at her house, persuaded her husband to put it off till they saw whether the comet appeared or not. The South-Sea stock immediately fell to 5 per cent, and the India stock to 11; and the captain of a Dutch ship threw all his powder into the river that the ship might not be endangered. The next morning, however, the comet appeared according to the prediction, and before noon the belief was universal that the day of judgment was at hand. About this time one -hundred and three clergymen were ferried overthe Lambeth, it was said, to petition that a short' prayer might be penned, and ordered, there being none in the church service on that occasion. Three maids of honor burnt their collections of novels and plays, and sent to the bookseller's to buy each of them a bible, and Bishop Taylor's Living and Dying. The run upon the bank was so prodigious, that all hands were employed from morning till night in handing out specie. On Thursday, considerably more than seven thousand kept mistresses were legally married, in the face of several congregations. And to crown the whole farce, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that time the head director of the bank, issued orders to all the firc-ofllcers in London, requiring them "to keep-a good look out, and have a particular eye on the bank of England." Presence of mind. During Lord Exmouth's attack on the batteries of Algiers, in 1S16, the Algerines used a great number of red-hot shot, particularly in the early part of the action. On board his Majesty's bomb Internal, one of those comfortable ar ticles came in, through Wallis's, the pur ser's cabin, in the after cock-pit, and having bundled a shelf full of books on the top of the assistant surgeon, Jones, who was lying in the purser's cot, given over with the Gibralter fever, it rolled across into the opposite cabin, and was there got into a bucket of water, by the gunner and some other stationed near the spot. This interesting amusement was but just concluded, when the men in the magazine, the door to which was close by, heard a desperate smash among the powder barrels, and were almost covered with a cloud of loose dust and powder which was thrown all over them. Knowing tha business which had employed the gunner in the cock-pit but just the instant before, they naturally enough, in the confusion of the moment, said to him, "a red-hot shot in the magazine !" and were rushing out of it to circulate wider the same cry, should their new red-hot acquaintance permit them. The ill consequence of this may be easily conceived; the only chance for any one on such an occasion being to jump at once overboard. The gunner in an instant saw that if the cry was false it was folly to spread it; and if true it was useless, for to kingdom come they must inevitably go. He new to the magazine, shoved the fellows back into it, and turning the kev on them, stood there, with his hand on the lock, till he knew all danger must be past: rather a queerish situation, gentle reader! The chaps were afterwards a little laughed at; for, strange to say, we

could not lmd this intruder on their equanimity of temper any where: and many doubled at last if any shot had come into the rmgf zinc at all.. To be sure there were the broken barrels and the spilt powder in favor of narrators of the story, but this seemed still not fully to convince; for even the worst of dangers generally get laughed at when they are over, by ourhappay go lucky sons of Neptune. When, however, she came to return her powder into store, after arriving in the Thames, the rovsterv was solved: it wus then found that a V

the said shot had gone through four barrels of powder, and lodged itself very comfortably in the middle of a fifth. The gunner's name was Coombs ; and the last time I saw this man, who had shown such an unexampled presence ofmind,wasin 1S24; he was then mending shoes in a solitary room in the back slums of Debtford, to help out a precarious existence: Sic transit gloria mundiP United Service Journal.

Letter from a Tennessee school master. The present winter will long be remembered on account of the intense and hUhnr All the concentrated frosts of the icy poie ; have been let loose upon us, and have j played such fantastic tricks with our nation atmosphere that a Russian, or a Norwegian might here have fancied himself some twenty degrees north of his accustomed latitude. We have, indeed, had winter and summer in delightful contrast. One day oppressively hot, the next as cold as if the sun had been instantaneously annihilated. What think you, courteous Bostonian, of twenty degrees below zero, here in Nashville, 40 miles nearer the equator than sultry Algiers? The 25th of January was the coldest average day we ever experienced any where. We were nearly frozen in riding a quarter of a mile on horseback. And our juvenile Greeklings looked so, that we could not find in our heart to scold them for not threading the mazes of Euclid or Euripides. By the way Old Nick was a fool, or he would have made Job a schoolmaster; and then, if he had not triumphed wc are no conjurers. That our winters are gradually becoming milder, and that our climate is ameliorating, we utterly disbelieve. The clearing of our dense forests will render the seasons more inclement and uncertain. Our own experience satisfies us that the cold is greater on this side of the mountains, than in the corresponding parallels of the latitudes along the Atlantic coast. Tennessee is most unfortunately situated. It is liable to all possible changes; to late frosts in spring and to early frosts in autumn; to blasting heats by day and to chilling damps by night to every form and type of the torrid zones, at all times and seasons. Nothing here ever reaches perfection. We have no good fruit; no good melons; no sweet potatoes; wheat, beef, mutton, fish, fowls, or venison ; no good garden vegetables; no good butter, cheese, nor pumpkin pics; nothing but cotton, tobacco, corn, whiskey, negroes, and swine, and these not worth the growing. Every tiling degenerates in Tennessee. Doctors are made by guess, (anatomical dissection is a penitentiary offence,) lawyers by magic; parsons by inspiration; legislators by grog; merchants by mammon; farmers by necessity; editors and schoolmasters, by St. Nicholas, to do penance for the sins of their youth; mechanics arc too cunning to live amongst us. We cannot naturalize a slioemaker or a tailor. We import our ploughs and saddlebags. We send to England or Barbary for horses, and to Mexico for our asses, (a work of supererogation in all conscience.) We get our notions irom Yankees; our fashions from travelling milliners and pedlars; our flint-?, clocks, and nutmegs from Connecticut. Our colleges and schools are like fire kindled upon icebergs, tleir light is scarcely visible before they are ex tinguished. All the world here ia migratory, and fitful, and chaotic like the climate. We have players, buffoons, rope dancers, harlequins, giants, pigmies, caravans of wild beasts, circus riders, fiddlers, tumblers, fire caters, steam doctors, picture venders, tooth ma kers, panaceists; all sorts of lions, stars, showmen, lecturers, teachers and holdersforth; but they are all birds of passage. They pocket our cash and then they are oft' in the first steamer. We are fleeced by all the charlatanry, and necromancy, and impudence, and craft, and knavery, and jugglery, and cockneyism, which can muster the locomotive ability to reach this most gullible, tropical, polar, nondescript, and uniformly variable territory of ours whereof Nashville is, and ever will be, the splen did, uolden, august, munificent, refined litt erarv, freezing, and boiling metropolis. Rash v ill e Herald Philosophy axd Housekeetoc:. The true economy of housekeeping is, simply 4l, nri rr rrnt iprinrr nn thr raomcnls. sf ring up the fragments, so that nothing be 1 oat fragments ot time, as well as materials. If vou have a greater quantitv of cheese in the house than is likely to be used, cover it carefully with paper, fastened with flour paste, so as to exclude the air. In tins way it may be kept free from insects for years. They should be kept in a dry cool place. Instead of covering up your glasses and pictures with muslin, cover the frames only with cheap yellow eambrick, neatly put on and as near the color of the gilt as you can procure it. This looks better, leaves the glasses open for use, and pictures for ornament, and is an effectual barrier for dust as well as flies. It can easily be rccoloied with salVron tea, when it 13 faded. The fumes of brimstone are useful in removing stains from linen, &c; thus if a red rose be held in the fumes of a brimstone match, the color will soon begin to change, and at length the flower will become white. By the same process, fruit stains or iron moulds may be removed from linen or cotton clothes, if the spot be previously moistened with water. When plain tortoise shell combs are defaced, the polish may be renewed by rubbing them with pulverized rotton stone and oil. The rotton stone should be sifted through muslin. It looks better tc be rubbed by the hand. The jewellers afterwards polish tliern by rubbing with dry rouge porrdcr, hut sifted magnesia does just as welland if the ladies had rouger perhaps

they would by mistake, put it upon their cheeks instead of their combs ; and thereby spoil their complexion. Frugal Housewife. Warning from Cholera. The following humorous warning upon this grave subject may, perhaps, do more real good than advice in a more serious garb. It is assumed to he adtuesscd to the editor of a newspaper. Sir As I am at present residing in England, and may probably soon pay a visit to my friends in America, I have thought it best to send before hand to vour columns a

, 1 ;t ; "V I was born and bred m India My father. w ho is a wen Known oiu serpent, naineu me Cholera, by way of signifying my sympathy and regard for the cross and choleric portion of mankind, lam particularly attached to every thing my parent has a hand in. consorting dwavs, whatever country I inhabit, with the promoters of any kind of evil and iniquitv. The profligates, the drunkii.un . i e , ! ards, the gluttons, the lazy, the dirty, , the ouarrelsome. mav be sure I Will find out their abode. And I never fail to fix on those constitutions that have been enfeebled by debauchery or undermined by the infallible poisons which arc such favorites in your country, under the name of quack medicines. I prefer lodging always in narrow courts, and in cellars under ground, in chambers where no windows will open, in the neighbourhood of gasometers, or the purlieus of public houses, redolent of bar beer, among effluvia of punch, whiskey, and blue-ruin. But this 1 must observe, that if a man be industrious, sober, and temperate I shall have nothing to say to him. If he rise early, open wide his windows, wash himself, from head to foot, whitewash often his house, take his meals with iiis family, and keep himself always in good humour with his neighbors such a one I cannot abide. He may live in health, and die in good old age, for all I can do to the contrary. I pass by his cheerful hearth and heart to revel in the rotton liver of the drunkard, and stir about the boiling bile of the sulky, the discontented, and the litigious. I am, sir, yours truly, CHOLERA MORBUS. A home thrust. We find the following dolorious complaint in the form of a communication, published in the St. Louis, (Mis souri,) Republican. Massa Printer: I see de grand jury present de corporation for sutler Niger ball; da say it is very injurious to de moral ob de city; de Niger go to meeting, hollo, yell and cut all kind a capers all nite long, wy not gran jury take notice dat. What iiarm for de poor Niger to dance 1 Tell you what massa printer, spose de corporation make law for keep white gentlemen from Niger ball, den dare be no fuss but de white gentlcmen no sooner hear the Niger fiddle dan da cum to de ball, den da nopolize all the putty gals, andde black gentlemen have to dance wid de ugly old women ; spose de Niger hab no feelin spose da let de white gentlemen take dare sweet hart and no make fuss some of de gran jury know very well dese twits are true. i FEMALE INGENUITY. Secret Correspondence. A young lady, newly married, being obliged to show her husband all the letters she wrote, sent the following to an intimate friend. "I cannot be satisfied, mv dearest friend! blest as I am in the matrimonial state, unless I pour into your friendly bosom, which has ever been in unison with mine, the various deep sensations which swell with the liveliest emotions of pleasure, my almost bursting heart. I tell you my dear husbandjis one of the most amiable of men. I have been married seven weeks, and have never found the least reason to repent the day that joined us. My husband is in person and manner far from resembling ugly, cross, old, disagreeable, and jealous monster, who think by confining to secure a wife, it is his maxim to treat as a bosom-friend and confidant, and not as a plav thing or menial slave, the woman chosen to be his companion. Neither party, he says, ought to obey implicitly; but each yield to the other by turns. An ancient maiden aunt, near seventy la cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady, ivp in t in llOUSO WIUl Ua Mil.: 13 m uuj lives in the house with us she id th light ot both young anu oiu sue is civil to all the neighborhood round, generous and charitable to the poor I know my husband loves nothing more than he docs me; he flatters me more than the glass, and his intoxication (for so I must call the excess of his love,) often makes me blush for the un worthiness of its objecti and wish 1 could be more deserving of the man whose name I bear. To say all in one word, my dear.- , and to crown the whole, my "former gallant lover is now my indulgent husband, my fondness is returned, and I might have had a Prince, without the felicity I find with him. Adieu 1 may you be blest as I am unable to wish that I could be more happv." N. B. The key to the above letter, is read the first and then every alternate line . , 1 .iv A letter passed through our rnjst oflice a Urn,lnr.crl-,v frr.ni n tmvn ill XfiW .TorSPV. with this noetical direction: Courier To the State of Ohio. Where the land is not barren; To Goshen Post Oiliee, In the countv of Warren ; In the township of Salem, Where hardy hoys grow, And the little Miami Adjoining docs flow; So please Mr. P. M. Send me along, In haste and great care, To Isaac Armstrong.

JUST RECEIVED, per Steam Boat Arab, 700 pounds Loaf Sugar;

cask Pepper; do. 4th pi oof Brandy; do. Holland Gin: do. Port Wine : do. Tenoritle Wine; and for sale by SI I AW & TROTZ April 28, 183-2. AN. SALE OP THE lichiuan lioatl Lands, IX TilE STATE OF INDIANA. Y authority of an act of the General Astern hlv of the State of Indiana, approved Feb ruarv 2d, 1832, entitled "an act to provide for spllinff the Michigan road lads to open that put at the Michigan uoad oeuveen lansport and lake Michigan, and for other purpos- j " -v 1 m I es tne unuersijjiieu m unci ui jjuuhv. c iu the highest bidder in ttacts, as the United States lands are soldi with such variat ons in those sections the road passes through a3 is DroT Jed for m 3rd section of said act, on Pr . x-,rirj. wiirijTwnp zrrvp Ll'JXai J. am.ju x v. iii a v-i AT THE TOWS OF SOUTH B32ND, In the count 11 of Saint Josephs, cn much of the Michigan road lands as will pro duce a sufficient sum to refund the slate the , amount advanced, ani the amount cue xor contracts heretofore made, all the sections through which the road passes, will be first offered tor sale in the following order, to wit : In township 33 n. range 4 west, sections o4, 35 and 36. , . Township 37 n. range 3 w n. east, north west, south east, west s. w. half. 1 , 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, n east, north-west, south-west 12. Township Z7 n. range 2 west, south east south-west 7, north-east, north-west, west half, south-east and south west 8, north east, north west, south east of 9, west half, north west, west half, south east 10. Township 37 n range 1 west, south east and south west, of 4. Township 33 n. range 1 vest, north wes, south east and south west of 34. Township 38 n. range 1 east, north east, east half, north west, south west, south east, west half, south west 31. Township 38 n. range 2 east, west half, south east 28, west half, south west 29, north east -nd north west, east halt, south east, west nan soulh west 30. Township 36 n. range 2 east, north half, north west 1, north half, north west, south half, south east, south half, south west 2, sections II, 14, 15, 22, 27, and 34. In the Indian country, sections from number 1 to 45 inclusive, commencing at soulh boundary, township 36, range 2 east, south of section 34 , with the exceptions of 1 5, 29, 3 , 32 and 33 part of which sections were sold at former sale. Should not a sufficient quantity be sold, the sales will be continued until the requisite quantity be sold, in the order they are inserted in this advertisement, or unM the whole lands be offered. Township 38 north, range 4 west, sections, 31, 32 and 33. Township 38 north, range 2 west, section Township 38 north, range 1 west? north east, north west, south west 14. seclions 15, 21 and 22, west half, north west, 23. east half, south east 35. Township 38 north, range 1 east, north west, south west, 13, east half, north east, north west, south east, west half, south west 15, 20, northeast, north west, south east, east half, s ;uth west of 22. 23 . west half, north east, north west, west half, south east, soulh weat, 4 and Township 33 north, range 2 east, north east 14, south east, east half, south west of 19, east half, north east, south east 21, west half, north east, east half, north west, west half, south west 22, north east 23, soulh fraction, south east 26, north east fraction, east half, nor.h west, soulh east, south west 36. Township 37 north range 4 west, section north east, south east 11, 24 and 25 northeast. north west, south east, east half, soulh west

33 34 and 35, north west, south west 3t. canai, irom me jjui oi my o me isi or june Township 37 north, range 3 west, r.orih east, j next, at Fort Y a ne. for the construction of north west 13, north west, soulh east, east halt', j a number of miles of the middle division of said soulh west 14, 19, north east, no.th west.fvac- , Canal; during which time, the Plans and Estition 26 north east, north west, tractions 27. SO. j mates of ihe Engineer will be open for the in-

souih east 31, south fraction 32. Township 37 north, range 2 west, north west, south west 2, 3, 4, 5, and t, 1J, noun easi 15, west halt, north east, east half, north west. south east, east half, sou'h west 17, east half, north west 13, 24, 25, 25, n jrth east, south east, south west 28, north west, south west, fraction 31, north west, south east 32. south part of 33, north east, north west, fraction 35. north east, north west 36. Township 37 north, range I west, S.3, north east, south east, south west 8, 10.11, north east, north west, south east 17, north east, south east, south west 20, north east, south east 29, north west, soulh west 30, north east fraction 31, north east, north west fraction 3-. Township 37 north) range 1 east, 5 18, 9north fraction 32i west hatf soulh eastj south west part 36. Township 37 north? range 2 east north east, east half north west 1, west half west si uih 14, north east north west south east 22, swet half north east, north west, souvh east south west 27 sou'h east east half) south west 32, south part 33 34 and 35. Township 37 north, range 3 east, north east, north west, north half, south east, south west 10, north east, north west, south east, north part, south west 11, 12, north east, north west, west half, south west 18, south east, south west 31. Township 37 north, range 4 cast.- north east, north west, west half, south east, south west 3, north easty south east i, south fraction, north east, south fraction, north west, south east, south west 12, 13, north east, east half, north west, south east, south west 22, 24 . east half, north cast, north west, west 25, west half, north to ' eastr east half, north west, south east, south j west 20, south castr south west 27, north 1 ' 1 . ! west, south east, south west north east, i north we;t west halt, soutn cast oi,-oi, ri i J Vmu " Township 30 north, range 1 west, west half, north east, north west 1, southeast, south west 2, 3, west half, north east, west half, north west, west half, south cast, south west 4, west half, north east, north west, west half, south east, south west i, north west 10, east half, north east, north west 11, north west 21, south east, east half, i'outh west 23, north east, east half, north west, south east, east half, south west 28, east half, south east, south west 27. Township 3t north, range 3 west, north west 4, north east, north west, west half,

T west, west half, south east, south west c, south cast, east half, south west 11, north east, south east, south west 12, 13, north east, east half, north west, south east, south west 14, south east, touth west 1", north west, east half, south west 17, north east, north west, south cast, east half, south west 23,24, 25,2(5,35, north cast, north west, west half, southeast, south west 3b Township 3o north, range 2 west, 4, 5, north east, east half, north west, south east fraction 1, south west G, north cast, north west, east half, south east, 7 IS. Township 36 north, range 1 east, north west, east half, south east, south west 1, north west, south east, south west 12. Township 30 north, range 2 east, 3, 1, north east, north west, south east 5, west half, northeast, south east, southwest i, . . l 1 .1 a north east, east halt, north west, soutn casi, soulh WCs?t S? 10, 1, 13, 21,23, 21, 25, 'Jo, P3, 3t, sections and Iracuonal sections, on Eel river. TovRhip 29 north, range 5 east, fractional sections 35 and 36 Township 29 north, range G east, fractional 11 south, 12, 13, 11, fractions 15, 19, 20, 21, south 22, cast,23.2 t,2b27,2Sy 29, fraction 30, 31, south 32, 33, 34. Township 28 north, ranse 5 east, south 1, south east, east halt, south west -trac tion 9, south 10, 11, 12, 13. M, 15, 21, 22, 23,24, 26, 2S, fraction 29, south 33. Township 2S north, range G east, south 5,G,7, 18. These lands were selected by tli undersigned, and are generally cf a superior quality, and are in a part cf the state of Indiana, that is improving as rapidly as any other part of the western country. The lands on Eel river, are in the vicinity of the Wabash and Erie canal, which is authorized to be opened by the state of Indiana. A second sale of said lands will be held at Logansport, in the county of Cass, commencing on Monday, the 1 5th of October next, where nil the lands j that remain unsold, will be again offer ed for sale, together with the secti&Ds. yet to be selected, to complete the road grant. WILLIAM POLKE, C. M. R. L. Vincennes, March, 17, 1832. 12 KEW GOODS. THE subscriber has just received from PAi7ade'ptia, and is now opening, a splendid stock of VIS II GOODS At his old stand; where he is prepared to wait on his Customers and all those who may think proper to give him a call JOHN P. DUNN. March mil, 1832. 9ESoots, Brogaiis, & Shoes. TUB subscriber has a first rate stock of BOOTS, BROGAXS, AND SHOES, (coarse and fixe,) For Tlcn, Women, rJirl Which he will sell low for Cash. JOIL P. DUNN. March irth, IS32. 96J rfk BIJLS. first quality New Orleans Sttgftr received and for sale by SHAW &. PROTZMAN. April 0, 1832. . . . ... QV.ALED proposals will be received, by the O Commissioners of the Vabsh and Erie speetson ot any person wisningr to become a contractor; and any information relating to the kinds of work to be done, the terms of pay ment, or the particular sections of the Canal ? line, which will be put under contract, will be given, on application & the subscriber. D. 11UUU, ConVr of Contracts. March 16h. 1S32. 13 2mo. II UST received from Vhiladdphiax a pood as9J sortn.ent ot HOOKS, consisting, in part, of rAHILY BIBLES, (different sizes,) WATTS, and METHODIST Hymn ISooks, TESTAMENTS, ENGLISH READERS,--GSOGRAPHYS, And a variety of NOVELS, 4'c. And for sale by joiin duxx. March 17th, 1832. 9-' JU 5T received from Philadelphia a general assortment of srniKG DIIY-GOOES, Groceries Hardware, SHOES, HATS, &c. iho, from Pittsburgh, an assortment of SADLSHY, &.C. ! which will he offered (at the old stand of i X fnriTi. Tmisev. on ncc.ommodatinc terms, by

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luuaiu &uo.. March 29, 1832 11-tf Iron, TVails, &, Glass. JUT received-from J'ittsburgh, per Steamer1 Lady Myron, a quantity of SAILS, Assorted; IRON, Assorted .Ind G1j3SAUo, WHEAT SKIVES, And far sae bv JOHN P. DUNN. March 1 7t h,l 33T . -- (jy r RAGS superior Cofiee just received and for a:le hy SHAW PROTZMAN. April 0, 1S32