Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 35, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 15 September 1832 — Page 4

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A PARODY OX THE "Hwnters of KeiUuc2jr." Yg gentlemen and ladie3 fair, Who grace this Western city, ' Pray listen, if you've time to spare? While I rehearse a ditty; And. for the opportunity j Conceive yourselves quite lucky For 'tis not often that you see A 'Hunter from Kentucky.' O Kentucky, die Hunters of Kentucky You know II. Clay was once our pride, pur 'true Kentucky son sirs; Tlie peoplk'l will was then his guide, - We thought him true as gun, sirs; But when he took zgamc of erag With Adams that soon stopp"1 him; He soon found out he'd struck a snag, For tlien Kentucky dropp'd him. O Kentucky, &,c. Adam of old was made of Clay, Old folks and scriptures tell us; But now, here fn this latter day, ( Wiiat mischief has befel us !) - Finding all he could write and say, . Wouldn't touch our hearts so rocky, 'Adam (s) himself did turn to Clay, To H. Clay, of Kentucky. O Kentucky, &c. Reports about the bargain went Like lightning through the nation; Adams was made our President, And Henry next in station; When 'he of Roanoke' did speak 'Bout things that made Clay stagger, He wa3 then 'called out' to meet 6 Tiro bullets and a brasser? O Kentucky, &c. The teople next were called upon To make the bargain good, sirs, But we not liking what was done, Soon made it understood, sirs, That Famine, War and Pestilence, Might be invoked in vain, sirs; We still had left sufficient sense, Not to be fooled aain, sirs, O Kentucky, &c. They soon found out against our force ,'Twas vain to make resistance, 'OLD HICKORY,' when brought on the course, Soon left them in the distance; At dinners and at barbacues Clay's speeches were unlucky, All etlbrts made were of no-use, To transfer Old Kentucky, O Kentucky, &c. Old Hickory's foes then sought air means To embarrass and annoy him, And many traps behind the scenes, Were' set to destroy him: Branch ; Berrien Co. he sent away Chose others who were lucky; i Crocket was kept in Tennessee, And Chilton in Kentucky. O Kentucky, &c. I s'pose you've heard a mighty fuss, About the late election; And were told that Clay was beating us, Without' a doubt or question: But after all was said and done, Clay was again unlucky la Congress Jackson TWO to ONE Will have from Old Kentucky I' O Kentucky, &c. selected. The Honey Coiner. BX THE AUTHOR OF "VILLAGE TALES." "Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer viewed, you'll find they were unwise." Young. There is no word in the whole vocabulary of the English language more frequently misapplied than the word "unfortunate." Mr. A. a respectable merchant of my early acquaintance, neglected, one cold, winter's night, to take care of his store fire, and before morning the building with half his fortune in it was reduced to ashes. Nothing . would suit my old friend Timothy Tandem", when he came out to see me last January, but lie must drive across the ice on the Sliippany creek ; he was warned that it was a hazard, but on he dashed, and his fine horse and gig, with something like eight hundred went to the bottom ; and his pocketbook, containing the whole proceeds of his corn .crop, a handsome sum, was missing when he came out. And my next neighbor wlio has all the celebrated harangue of Poor Richard at the vendue by heart, and retails more proverbs then he sells bushels of corn, forgot the other ovening to put up a pair of bars that led into an eight acre grairvfleld, and next morning he found six or eight of his cattle had made a repast upon it that proved fatal to one half of them. My pooririends are pitied for their misfortunes, and these mysterious dispensations of Providence have each occasioned their nine days of wonderment while Jack Hoyt the robber who was sent to the State Prison a month ago, on a ten years' apprenticeship, did not boar a .sympathetic sigh from the concourse who listened to his sentence, all agreeing that the punishment was- scarcely equal to the crime.for which it was inflicted. t This providence, about which so much is said, I believe is, after all, a fair dealer; and I made up my miad in this respect Ion" before I came across the little sentence I have phced at the head of my narrative. When wc meet with losses, and are suffering under the ctrects of our own errors and'earelcssucss, we cry outy ''Unfortunate t unfortuuate I ascribe the disasters that overtake us, to the hand of an over-ruling power, and are ready to question the justness of our puuishment; while these losses and disasters are- the natural consequences of our own doings, and could not in (act be prevented from falling upon us but by the direct z.nd particular interposition of an almost mi

raculous power. This will be illustrated as I proceed to introduce my readers to an honest hearted soul as ever lived, Charles Clements, of Alesbury, alias "The Money Coiner," a hand and glove acquaintance of Bob Hawthorn, of Holburn Hill, and whose hammer is at this moment sounding in my ear. Charles came down to Alsbury from among the mountains, just before I left the village, to reside in Philadelphia. He was a raw country lad, and so awkward in his manners and appearance, that boys of the village used to crack many a merry joke upon his broad brimmed' hat and clownish dress. For lack of a better place he was apprenticed to Giles Overshoot, the silversmith. It was a poor business in a country where pewter dishes and wooden spoons were served up at the dinner table of the 'squire, but it afforded Giles the means of

supporting a lazy fimily, and of keeping his credit tolerably good at the alehouse. With him Charles learned the business, and came out with credit, slim as from a variety of circumstances, his chances appeared at first. By this time, the silver smithing business had become better than it was. The girls had taken it into tl-eir heads that their city friends looked better in silk and lockets, than they did with their homespun frocks, and their rosy cheeks; and those becoming fashionable for an evening walk, they soon brought the furniture of the table into corresponding style. Charles set up a shop, not in opposition to his old master, for opposition means to injure, but with the view of benefitting himself, the business and the public, by bringing the trade to more perfection than it had been brought there; and in the honest object to which he aspired, he was successful. His hammer has never ceased from that time to this. He married, and children grew up around him; but he set them to work as soon as they left the school; he had not an idler about his pre mises; ho had not only set an example of constant and unremitting industry, but in his frugal habits, in his regular de portment, in his moral religious duties, he was a pattern to all who knew him. Charles Clements never neglected his shop, never broke hi promise; never slighted his work; never cheated his customers; and Charles Clements soon had a purse full of dollars, a cellar full of beer and cider, a house of his own, and two or three handsome lots round it. Giles on the other hand found his business declining; his old customers one after an other dropped oft'; and as may be supposed, le saw them calling upon Ins fellow trades man, with not much of complacency. Still, however upon reviewing, he was assured that in the aggregate, since Charles had set up for himself, the greatest part of the business had come to the old shop, though now indeed the balance seemed inclining last to the new one. How could it be that he, with a smaller and older family than Charles, should be poor, while Clements was growing rich? It was a mystery he could not unravel, and he resolved to watch him close. Night after night, as he returned from the tavern, he saw a light over the way, and heard the hammer, that was charming his customers from him, busy; and again, its clink was heard at the first blush of day. He reflected and observed, and reflected; and at last apparently big with some new idea of discovery, he posted down to the magistrate's, craved an audience, and informed that he had ascertained beyond all controversy or doubt that Clements was in the habit of coining spurious metal into dollars. This discovery was, indeed, an unraveller,andhe proved it by an argument drawn from the circumstances that his rival worked at unseasonable hours, in secrecy, and that he accumulated more than was posssible to be gained honestly from the business he did. His honor smiled very good naturedly, but sent for tlie olTendcr,.and promised that justice should be done him, if the charge was made out. Charles soon appeared in his leather apron and checked shirt. If, said he, in answer to the argument of his accusers, I have made a living and laid up money, I owe it to other means than those alleged. "NVliile I have worked hard, as my hands attest, I have spent but little, as all know. My boys assist me in the shop, my girls spin, and my apprentice, because I am always with him, earns me a round sum every year; the necessaries of life are few, and we want no more. Thus I live ; and if you, Giles Overshoot, would cease to spend your yearly hundred at the alehouse, you would earn your three hundred at the hammer; if you would put out your children, or make them earn their living at home; if you would do as much work as you could with as little expense as possible, and then live frugally and sparingly, you would deserve the appellation of "Money Coiner" as much as I do. The audience laughed heartily. Giles hung down his head, and the rival tradesmen shook hands before they parted. ' Curious particulars of Dr. Joiinsojx's Marriage. The artless manners, and rustic pettiness of Lucy Porter, had won Johnson's youthful heart, when she was on a visit at the Rev. John Hunter's, Master of the Free School, Linchfield, in Johnson's youthful days. The peculiar appearance, however of John son, could not tempt the lady to a return of his passion; and at length she returned to her parents at Birmingham. But business requiring Johnson's presence in that neighborhood on the death of his father, and calling upon his former mistress there, he found her parent dying. With that affectionate friendship which particular situations always experienced from him, he passed all his leisure hours at Mr. Porter's attending his sick bed, and a few months after his death,, asked Mrs. Johnson's consent to his marriage with the widow. Mrs. Porter has been represented as very fat, with a red fice, and indifferent features, and m her speech and manners affected,

and bordering on girlish leavity; while Johnson, on his first introduction to her, exhibited an appearance yet moretsingular. He was theniean and lank, scMhat his immense structure of bones, was hideoifsly striking to the eye, while the scars occasioned by the scornful, were deeply visible. His hair which was straight and stitf, he wore separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter however, was so much engaged by his conversation, that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and expressed to her daughter "this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." Johnson's mother as might naturally be expected, expressed her surprise at a re

quest so imprudent and extraordinary, both on account of their disparity of yeara and her want of fortune. "No, Sam," said she, "'my willing consent you will never have to so prosperous a match. You are twenty-five and she is turned of fifty. If she had any prudence, this request would never be made to me. Where are your means of subsistence? Porter had died poor, inconsequence of his useless expensive habits. You have great talents,- but yet have turned them into no profitable channel." "Mother," replied Johnson, "I have not deceived Mrs. Porter: I have told her the worst of me, that I am of mean extraction; that I have no money; and that I had an uncle hanged! She replied that she valued no one more or less for his descent; that she had no more money than myself; and that she had not had a relation hanged, she had fifty who deserved hanging." After some little lapse of time, however, matters were brought to a conclusion, and Derby was fixed on as the place where the ceremony should be performed, (on the 9th July, 1730,) for which place the bride and bridegroom set out on horseback. The singular account of their journey to church on the nuptial morning, is given by Boswell, in the Doctor's own words to him ; "Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog So, Sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and that she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly till I was fairly out of sifjht; the road lay between two bed"es, so I was sure she could not miss it; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me; when she did, I observed her to be in tears." This, it must be allowed, was a singular beginning of connubial felicity, yet he pro ved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of her life. He once told Ophan Beauclerk with much gravity ; "Sir, it was alove match on both sides;" and in "his prayers and Meditations," we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after her death. BoswclVs Life of Johnson. A remarkable Anecdote. Lord Craven lived in London when the last great plague raged. His house was in that part of the town called Craven Buildings. On that sad calamity growing epidemic, his Lordship, to avoid the danger resolved to no to his seat in the country. His coach and six were at the door, the baggage put up, and all things in rcadines for the journey. As he was walking through the hall with his hat on, his cane under his arm, and putting on his gloves, in order to step into his carriage, he observed his negro, who served on him as a postilion, saying to another servant, "I suppose, by my Lord's quitting London to avoid the plague, that his God lives in the country, and not in town." The poor negro said this in the simplicity of his heart, as really believing in a plurality of Gods. The remark, however, struck Lord Craven very sensibly, and made him pause "My God (thought he) lives every where, and can preserve me in town as well as in the country : I'll e'en stay where I am. The Ignorance of that negro has preached a useful sermon to me Lord, pardon that unbelief, and that distrust of thy providence, which made me think of running away from thy hand." He immediately ordered his horses to betaken from the coach, and the luggage to be brought in. He continued in London, was remarkably useful among his sick neighbors, and never caught the infection. AMALGAMATION. Calculated for the Meridian of New-York. Two Irishmen were travelling in the United States; Patrick had a black horse which was very good; and Sawney a ivhite one dull, restive, blear eyed, and a little blind withal. As their finances were rather low,they conversed together how they could contrive to convert their two steeds into one. They could both ride on the same horse, and this would gave half the expense of keeping. When they stopped for the night, they suggested the plan to the landlord, who appeared to approve of it, and ottered his aid. It happened that he had a pye bald, restive, uncomfortable animal, black and white, with one blue eye. He told them that he by a process of amalgamation, could convert the black and white into one, which should bear an equal proportion of both. The Irishmen retired to rest pleased with their prospects. Before they awoke, the crafty landlord had contrived to convey both their horses away and in their stead, produced the black and ichite. "Mere," said Patrick, 4is a part of the black;" "and here," said Sawney, 41 is a part of the white." "Here," 'said Patrick, is one

eye of the black," "and here;' said Sawney, "ii one of the white." As Pa4nck's horse was the best, he claimed and obtained the right of riding forward. They had not, however, proceeded far, before the black and ivhite began to show his tricks. He was first on one side of the road, then the other he reared, kicked and refused to go on. "Patrick," exclaimed Sawney, with a triumphant sneer, "what do vou think of the mixture V "Ah, Sawney," replied Patrick, "I fear that the ronc of a landlord has put in too much of the white horse"

RemartvAf.lt: CmcuMsrvxcr. Two or three weeks since, on a Saturday evening, three jovial young men of this city, who were of rather intemperate habits, "met at their accustomed haunt, a tavern in Broadway. In the coarse of their conversation, says one of them to another calling him familiarly by his given name, lf I die of the cholera, wo'nt you see inc decently laid out and buried?' The one addressed answered in the affirmative, and in his turn made a similar request of the third which was acceded to -while the third asked the same favor for himself should he die before them. This was done Jocularly and in apparent high spirits. That same night the first one was taken with the cholera, and on Sunday he needed the offices performed to his dead body which he had engaged. The second was taken sick soon after he had buried his friend, and on Monday the third was called to fill fil his promise and before Wednesday the third one himself was in his grave. These are facts well suthenficated, and names would1 be given were it not for wounding the feelings of friends. One of tho persons, at least had been in a station of usefulness and trust previous to his irregular habits. tfew Yorkjmpcr. flTUIE subscriber has iust received from Phil. udefphia, and is now opening, a splendid SIOCK. OI WJEW GOODS At his old stand; where he is nremred to wait on his Customers and all those who may think proper to give him a call. JOTT P. DUXX. March 17th, 1832. REMOVAL, THE undersigned having removed their Gro. eery Store, to a room in the new and splendid inree story bricK building, recently erected by a. L.UUIOW, esq. corner ot Short and High streets, near the upper wharf, avail themselves of this means, to inform the public, that they are prepared to furnish all articles in their line. either at wholesale or retail, on the most ac. comodating Si reasonable terms. They keep on hand large stocks of Iron, Coffee, Fish, Spades, race cnams, sugar, Liquors, Soap, Candles, SHAW PROTZMAX. July 7, 1832. Iron. IVaals. & CHnss. ITUST received from Pittsburgh, per Steamer L.auy jiyron, a quantity ot NAILS, Assorted; IRON, Assorted .fir! GWjASSmmATsOj WHEAT SKIVES, And for sale by JOHN P. DUNX. March 17th, 1832. 9 STATKOFIADIAIVA, DKAltr.ORN CoUXTY, Dearborn Circuit, ?CT. ttJ 0T1CE is hereby given, to the heirs and t egai representatives of Nathan YVorley. ucccahcu, anu particularly to Oliet Worley, widow and administratrix of the said Nathan, An Jlf 1 ITT . tmiijacoD tvoriey who has intermarried with rnebe Worley, daughter of the said Nathan, Judges of the Dearborn Circuit Court, on the nrst day ot their next Term, to be holden on me 4th Monday in September, for commission crs 10 De appointed, to make partition of the JNortn hast quarter of Section 19, T. 5. II. 1. West, in Dearborn county, and also of 72 1.2 acres ot land situate in the North Kast corner r , . - ot the South hast quarter of the same section, Town and Range, of which the said Nathan died seized, in said county-and also to assign 10 me said widow her right of dower therein, agreeauiy to the several acts, &c. WILLIAM CONAWAY, by A. Lane, his AWy. Aug. 20, 1832. 324W, To Printers. rjpiIE subscribers have commenced an establishment for the manufacture of Printing mg to purchise, are invited to call and examne, at the manufactory on oth street, reet, between mm ana I'lumo streets, Cincinnati. D1CKERS0X & WILLIAMSON. Cincinnati, June 8, 1832. - 28 3mo Xf If NOTICE. AMOS LANE, Attorney and counsellor at Law, will, in future, give his undivided attentinn, to his profession my be consulted at his office, on high street, near the clerk's of fice, at all times, except when at Court -wid attend the Circuit, Probate, and Commissioner's Courts, in the County of Dearborn. The Circuit Courts in Franklin, Switzerland, Rip. ley and Dee ttur counties. The Supreme and District Courts at Indianapolis. And will attend to business of Impustance, either civil or criminal in any other courts in this, or adjoining states He trusts that his long and successful practice, will insure him, his former liberal portion of professional business, when the public shall be assured, that all business entrusted to his charge, shall receive his prompt attention, and best efforts, to bring it to a speedy and successful cl.e. AMOS lam:. Lawrenceburghj June ljihj 1.-3.'. 24

.-..v.w.. ,.u..CJr, i iat,s voriey, Mary wor- mans up. eiiiia to ant- mtl. , ley Lyd.a Worley, Elizabeth Worley and lien which he w P2 , f ZLlV nT' 1 ry Worley, children and heirs ot the said Na- Persons wih nLC PrVhe ?i' than-that the subscriber, William Conawav. and judge for themfe ve 1 ' who has intermarried with Sarah Worley, UM v ImrrpQ daughter of the said Nathan, will annlv to thP Feb. 11 iq-ji l' "olr.S.

t-resses trom super-Imperial to Medium size, "'.Muei1 "' wo certain fields of com, one of approved construction, the workmanship ,nff adjoining the l?nds of A. Morgan mith if and materials of which they warrant equal to Lawre nceburgh, and the other lying on the enst any made in the western country and which fule of the. Miami, opposite llardinibcirgh, this they will sell on liberal terms. Persons wish- therefore ,s caution all persons from nup.

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"3 UST received from FhL'tuL!phiaK gnrul m 4J sortment of HOOKS, rcnsUtwg, ii. part, of BXBI.2S, (mffi:i!s;xt sixi s) ir.-rTO, and Mivnuumr ISyiim TESTAMENTS, LXWJSll HEADERS, OECGHAPSIYC, AmU variety of XOYKLS, $c. And for sale by x. , ,n Joiixp.duw. March 17th, 1 8.12 . v. JtfST RECEIVED, " per Steam lloat Arab, 700 pound Loaf Sugar; 1 cask JVppor; 1 do. 1th proof JJrandy; 1 do. Holland (Jin; 1 do. Port Wine; 1 do. 'IV ne ri Ho Wine; and for sale by 0 SIIAWlTvOTZMAX April 2S, is:ic. - - 1 , I5oo!s, Brosnnw, & Shoe. THE subscriber has a first rate stock of BOOTS, BllOdWS, AJ) SllOUS, (con:?-!: ami rixr.) JFor.Jlvn, Women, and Which he will CU low fr Clash. J0J1X P. DUNX.March lrih, 1832. 9.

'ALU OP tfitiiignii Ko:m Land. npilR undersigned commissioner of the Mi.' chigan Itoach will at the town of LOG AN 9. 1011 1, on Monday tha 15th of October, com. mencethe sale of the Michigan Hoa 1 Landj in the state of Indiana, to the bight-st bidder in tracts as the United State' i.mU are fold. For a full description of these lands, see :!io advertisement of the Lie sales at South llend on the 4th of .)une!at past. Owing fn the alarm on account of the Indian war, at thai time nurh valuable land was not examined, and but fev persons attended the sales; and ainca then both the Michigan llnad and the W&WU and Erie Cinal have been put under contract; 'd the works are nrnirret.siiu. ihn u i, choice selections in that inlet estintr part of Indiana, will do wed to examine and attend tho sa!e9. None need stop on account of the ru. mors of the Indian war, as there is not the remotest probability of danger in that section of the country. Immediate ly after the conclusion pf the sales, an oftcc will be opened fur enter m& lhe JanJs that remain unsold. WILLIAM POLK, Com. Vincenncs, August 13, 1832. OJ-tS . tivovcry Ml ore. 03 bbY 1st quality Flour; 50 do. do. No. 3 lack;relt(l332:) 10 " do. N. o K.igar; 50 boxe3 beit Melee Cigars; 10 do. ll'oom Kasins; 10 bags 1st quality Coffee; 10 dozen best Shaker niooms, Just received at the old stand, smith u-ct corner of High and Wa'.aut streets, and for a!c uy J. M. I) A It II A GIL une 16, 1832. 22 &awrvncv1mrgh eif.sm . m s.wr.sc to n v T),,R Ml,b1scri!)cr tatps this method to inform the pubhe in fftnera! that hp le stKtsi. ed the cha.r making business, on High street opposite the market house, whera he will keep constantly on hand a large and splendid assortment of 1 1 9 AND Windsor 15 53 U 1 &c!lccs, il-c. HOUSH AND XGT For Sale. 1757 ILL be Fold to the highest h'cMcr, m the and Lot situate on tho rnm.r nMr.i. 1 c. "T . ' ..i.m, j, J It-live " - 1-uinci hi niirn anil hnort streets in the town of !iu-rcpcrhurirli Ind-.nL The terms of sale will be six. twe ve eighteen and twenty-four months, with inierest ' JMLTON STAPP. At.'nmr,, J ',' Jor the pmi,l-nt and director of the Fat-men and .Mechanics bank tj Indiana. August 29th, 1832. 53-ts CAUTZOH! WHRRl-US the unders gntd ha by CnV tract purchased i.f Nathaniel Rrrcn tl etuicn.s,nFT said corn or any part thereof from tl sa,u reen, as he is r.ot the true and Uwf ie fu! owner. JOHN HILL. August 20, 1832. 0 ,,, FLOUR A LARGE quantity of country Klour wanffd, A. tor which I beral price will be given, by Hi I AW PJIGTZ.UAN. July r, 1S.12. CD f K-UiS superior Coiil'C just v OO ceivrd and far snip bv SHAW & PROTZMAX. April ti, 1 S.i'J Cash for Wheat. THE highest price in CJASH will be given for heat, by TOLS1W Ar. DU.N.V. Lawrenceburgh, Augu,t 10. lb;2. 3J(fjf 15RLS. first quality Nfiw 0;1 vm Sugar n or ivt (1 mi.I for hv SHAW PHOTMAN. " April G, lSJ'J.

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