Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 37, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 29 September 1832 — Page 4

MISCEIiliAETT.

From the Jefferson Democrat. Hard but Fair. A life in town's a life of wo, " Of mischief dread and care, . Our neighbors vex us night and day, With matters hard but fair. How fair it seems to go in debt, How hard sometimes to piy, localise; those folks who owe us most Cut stick and run away. It's hard sometimes to get in debt, Bezauss our credit's down, But fair with those who trust refuse, For that's tho way in town. . It's fair to ask a lovely miss, A pleasant walk to take, Along some stream or through some grove, Cut hard to get a sack? And if by chance we have a wife, And children by her side, It's ftir to eat a scanty meal, But hard to please the bride. Sometimes to be like other folks. A party we must make, It's fair to ask the ladies there, But hard to stop their clack? Sometimes a grogshop heaves ia view, Thai seems to lure the eye, It's fair to stop and tako a dram, But hard to pass it by. . Some folks in town would think it fair, To join the temperance roll, t But eft they find it very hard, To shun the flowing bowl. The hardest case that I can find, Ij every ono to please, Some think it fair to. pray erect, ' And some upon their knees. Some think it hard to pray at all, And some would never cease, But I should think it very fair, To pray just when I please. It's hard but fair to pay a debt, . It's fair but hard to die, It's hard to live a life in town, . But fair I know not why. FRAGMENT, Man! moirtalman! to giltful error prone, Sees others' faults, yet can't discern his own ; Views with an' eye of jealousy the fame His persevering brethren claim: Willi self displeased, laments the mis-spent past, Vows this erroneous point, and that, the last; New scenes, and - finds his projects end in pain, Resolves to plan no more then plans again . On chiidliood thus does youth imperious frown, And manhood next on youth displeased looks down : j Afire sees in manhood follies to deplore. ! And grieves youth, childhood, manhood arc no more. And suck the feelings of the bard, whose .breast Erst tcem'd with fancied flowers, out weeds at best; Whose youth put forth full many a feeble lay, Which his maturer sense had cast away : As sires, whose children are regardless grown, He calls them his, yet fain he would disown The Poisonous Valley of Java. Under this head . we find the1 following singular story in one of the late London Journals. The account was communicated to the Royal Geographical Society in Lon don, at its meeting on the 2bth JNovember, by John Barrow, Esq. to whom it had been written, in the form of a letter, from Mr. Alexander Loudon. If the circumstances related are true, the existence of this poisonous valley may account for the fabulous talcs concerning the Upas tree. There is nothing in it positively incredible; as the effects attributed to the atmosphere might be occasioned by the exhalation of gasses from poisonous minerals, and the whole valley only another Grotto del Cane on a larger scale. The letter contained the account of a visit to a small valley in the island of Java, which is particularly remarkable for its pow er of destroying in a very short space of time the life of man or any animal exposed to its almosphere. It is distant only three miles from Batur, in Java, and on the 4th of July, 1S31, Mr. Loudon, with a party of friends, set out to visit it. It is known by the name of Guevo Upas, or Poisoned Valley; end, following a path which had hjen made for that purpose, the party shortly after leached it, with a couple of dogs and some fowl?, for the purpose of making experiments. On arriving at the mountain the party dismounted, and scrambled up the side of a hill, a distance of a quarter of a mile, with the assistance of the branches of trees and projecting roots. In consequence cf the heavv rain that had fallen during the night, this was rendered more difiiculi, and occasioned much fatigue. When a few yards frorn the valley, a strong nauseous and suffocating smell was experienced, but on 'approaching the margin this inconvenience ..was no longer found. The scene that now presented itself is described as one of the .mcL-t appding in nature. The valley is about a half a mile in circumference, of an oval. shape, and about thirty or tliirtj'-fivc foot in depth. The bottom of it appeared to be flat ; without any vegetation, and a few large stones scattered here and there. The attention of the party was immediately attracted to the number of skeletons of human brbgs, tigers, boarsdeer, and all sorts of wild animals, which lay about in profusion. The ground on which they lay at the bottom cf the valley appeared to be a hard sandy s'bst:;r.ce, and no vapour was jicrceivcd issuing from it, nor any opeuing through

which it might escape; and the sides were

covered wilti vegetation, it was now proposed to enter it, and each of the parly, having lit a segar, managed to get within twenty feet of the bottom, where a sickenin noiscous smell was experienced, with-n out any difficulty in breathing. A dog was now fastened at the end of a bamboo, and thrust to the bottom of the valley; while some of the party, with their watches in their hands, observed the effects. At the expiration of fourteen seconds the dog fell off his legs, without moving or looking round, and continued alive only 18 minutes. The other dog now left the party and went to his companion: on reaching him he was observed to stand quite motionless, and at the end often seconds, he fell down ; he never moved his limbs after, and lived.only seven minutes. A fowl, was now thrown in, which died in a minute and a half, and another which was thrown in after, died in the space of a minute and a half. A heavy shower of rain fell during the time these experiments were going forward, which from the interesting nature of the experiments was quite disregarded. On the opposite side of the valley to that which was visited, lay a human skeleton, the head resting on the right arm. The effect of the weather had bleached the bones as white as ivory. Two hours were passed in this valley of death, and the party had some difficulty in getting out of it, owing to the rain that had fallen. The human skeletons are supposed to be those of rebels, who had been pursued from the main road, and taken refuge in the valley without their knowledge of the danger to which they were thus exposing themselves. Extraordinary Character. In July 1818, A. M. Cromwell of Hammersmith, died suddenly in Tottenham Court Road. He was returning from the corn-market, when he was taken ill and carried in a dying state; into the house of a corn-chandler in Tottenham Court Road. The master of the shop, who knew him, was from home, and in the country. His wife did not know him, and he was therefore treated with no more attention from her than humanity dictated. He remained in the shop, and a crowd was collected in consequence, his dress not bespeaking him a man of wealth or respectability, till he could be removed to the parish workhouse. However some gentlemen passing by chance, recognized him; and, knowing him to be a wealthy man, thought it right to search his person in the presence of several witnesses, when they found banknotes to the amount of 1500Z. A surgeon was sent for, who attended and examined him, and declared that in his opinion he had been dying during the last two hours, in con sequence of the breaking of a blood vessel, supposed to be near his heart. It is said he was worth two millions and a half. He was 75 years old, and had been accumulating property for a great number of years, living at the most trifling expense. He frequently bought his clothes in Monmouthstreet, and wore them as long as they would han" together: his breeches were very greasy and ragged; his stockings usually contained many holes ; in fact, he could not be distinguished by his dress from his men. In the summer season he was frequently up at three o'clock, attending to and assisting in loading the brick carts, &c. See. His wealth did not improve or alter his conduct, manners, or mode of living. He provided plenty of food for the house, but it was in a very rough style fat pork, fat bacon, &c. sometimes poultry. His hog-feeders and other men sat at table with him in their work ing dress; and, if a friend happened to dine with him, his men were made company for them, and he did not deviate from his daily plan of helping his men first. Last days of Napoleon. The emperor for some time considered himself attacked by an internal disease, which would speedily prove fatal to him. He mentioned it; but it was supposed to he nothing more than the wandering of an imagination left unemployed. A few weeks before his death, he labored with a spade in his garden so long and so severely, as almost to faint from fatigue. Somebody suggested to him the probable injury to his health: 'No,' said he 'it cannot hurt my health that is lost beyond all hope. It will but shorten my days.' He gave but little time to the composition of the Memoirs of his Life. Bertrand one day urged him to labour with more assiduity. 'It is beneath me, (said he,) to be the historian of my own life: Alexander had his Quintus Curtlus, and I shall have mine. At all events, my my life is recorded in my achievements.' A short time before his malady became serious, he abandoned his reserve, and became familiar with evcry-body. He set a high value upon Bertrand but did not like him. He said to him, one dav at table, 'Ber trand, it was not your atttachment to me, but your love of glory, that brought you to St. Helena you would immortalize your name as my Jidcs Achates? (the ftithful com pinion of the hero of the iEneid.) A little girl only nine years old the daughter of a scrjeant of the garrison, often kept him com pany. He took great pleasure in speaking to her, and on coming, always kissed her on the cheek. He constantly provided himself with truitsor sweetmeats lor her, and shortly before his death hung round her neck a small gold watch and gold chain. 'Julie, (said he,) wear this for my sake.' With a penknife he graved on the cover, clumsily enough it i true, these words, The Emperor to his lit tle friend Julie. He sometimes amused himself in giving this child a lesson in drawing from the surrounding mountain scenery, with the most laughable whimsical figures and objects interspersed. His predilection for this child is extraordinary: she had nothing interesting in her person, and was in capacity rather below the average of the little girls of her age. The 2d of April was the day on which he was observed to be seriously indisposed. He rose early, and

walked in the garden. He, after a few minutes, sat upon a bank, apparently faint. Montholon went up to him, and asked him if hcwas taken ill. Ycs, (said he,) I feel nausea and sick stomach, the arant couriers of death.' Count Montholon smiled. Bo-

flaparte took'his arm and said, 'My friend, we must not laugh at death when he is so near us.' The little Julie soon appeared with a basket, and caught his attention. He brought her into the saloon, where breakfast was prepared, and filled her basket with different sweet things, adding a bottle of liqueur, with these words, 'This is for your father to drink my health.' One day he sent for a jeweller to alter or repair some trinkets, and asked him if he could make a silver coffin. The Jeweller tried to shift the question; Bonaparte repeated it, I shall die, (said he,) in a few weeks.' 'God forbid that we should lose your Highness,' said the other. 'God grant that I may die soon, very soon,' returned Bonaparte: 'I am well convinced that life is not a blessing but a curse.' He often strcached himself on a sofa opposite the garden window, and read with a loud voice from Telemachus, or the Menriade. He inquired one day with great eagerness, whether an English journal could be procured him. With some difficulty a newspaper was provided. He took it and glanced over it hastily, and suddenly exclaimed 'Ah! Naples! Naples! poor devils Murat was the bravest king they ever had; but he did not know his subjects. They arc all Lazzaroni, from the Duke of , down to the lowest beggar!' The morning of the day on which he died he said, 'Death has nothing to affright me. For three weeks death has been the companion of my pillow. Now he is about to embrace me, and bear me away forever.' Put money in thy purse Shakespear. We 'take our pen in hand,' as our good old grandfathers used to sav in writing to their sweethearts, to write a small chanter on money, it is a truittul subject, inasmuch as it is the governing principle if wo may be allowed tho expression of mankind, and the axis of human ambition. Money is a good thing a bad thing a kind servant a bad master a thief in the temple of vir tue a ministering spirit to the needy : villain in disguise and, withal, a sad rake. What opens the fair amis of the blushing o-irl to-the embraces of the old, infirm, and uly ? Money. vnat builds up a fool in the opm ion of the world ? Money. What causes old ladies to look kindly upon the advances of a young man to a blooming daughter? Money. wnai onngs complimentary remarks irom the old and humble, acknowledgements from the young? Money. What is the criterion of right and wrong? Money. What is the wrandino struggling, cheating, browbeating, shuffling, and bowing, so prevalent among mankind ? Money. What in fact, is the great standard oi human aitection? Money. What makes the printer struggle in the mire of politics? Money. What leads tho editor to inform the public of these facts? Money, (gp Do you take, sir? You arc the very man we wish to hear from. Life is short: The poor pittance of 70 years is not worth being a villain for. What matters it if your neighbor is interred in a splendid tomb? Sleep you with innocence. Look behind you through the track of time, a vast desert lies open in the retrospect; through this desert have your fathers journeyed on, until wearied with years and sorrows, they sunk from the walks of t i i i .i num. iuu must leave mem wncrc they fell and you are to go a little further, where you will hnd eternal rest. W hatever you may have to encounter between the cradle and the grave, be not dismayed. The universe is in endless motion; every moment is big with innumerable events, which come not in slow succession, hut bursting forcibly from a revolving and unknown cause, fly over this orb with diversified inflcnce. Benefit of early Instruction. A lady observing a little girl, apparently lost in the street, accosted her with the question of "whose child are you?" "Child of wrath, ma'am," cried the little urchin, dropping a curtsey as if addressing the parson. "Where were you born?" resumed the lady. "Born in sin, ma'am," persevered the diminutive theologian. A hint to Anglers. A paper states that a person at Enfield, crossing a pond, being thirsty and perceiving a hole in the ice, stooped down to drink; being possessed of a very long red nose, a fish supposed that he had some bait, made a bold snap at it, when the man thew back his head, and drew out a trout weighing 31 lbs.d oz. In looking over the list of candidates for civil officers in the Cherokee nation, as announced in the Phoenix, we observe the following among others: Sleeping Rabbit, Sweet Water, Roman Nose, Parched Corn. Lumber for Sale. THE subscriber has latelv received a very large addition to his stock of LUMBER, and now offers for sale 425,000 feet of Boards and Planl; 14,000 Joist, 15,000 Scantling, 500,000 Shingles. WM. TATE. Lawrenceburgh, July 12, 1S32. -20 1dm i Hi sir at or' s Notice A LL persons indebted to the estate of Charles lA. It. Washburn, late of Cincinnati, Ohio, de ceased, are requested to make immediate pay ment; and all lo whom said estate is indebted are called upon to present their accounts legal ly proven, within one vear from this dte. CALVIN WASHBURN, Adm'r. Cincinnati, Uth Sept. 1832. 35-3w

IVabash and Erie Canal.

ACRES OF WA BASH AND EIIIK CANAL LANDS FOR SALE, OX A CREDIT OF FIFTEEN YEARS. There will be offered at Public Sale commencing on the FIRST MONI) Y IN OCTOUEtt NEXT, in the town of FOItT JIMWE, in the State of Indiana, 7Vo Hundred and Ttven ty-ttvo Thouiind Acres of Lands, in the Canal Donation, situated in the vallies of the Wabash, Little, and Maumee rivers, cn or within five miles of the Canal routej from near the mouth of the Tippecanoe to the state line dividing In diana and Ohio. The sale will commence with cfFeriner the lands in Township No. XXIV north, Kane No. Ill west, near the mouth of Tippecanoe, and proceed northwardly and eastwardly, in regular order? irom the lowest to the highest township in each range, as the tracts have oeen numbered in the pub.ic surveys, until all shall have been offered. These lands were selected from those of the General Government in tracts of every size, and contain too large a quantity to he expressed individually in an advertisement. Maps show ing: the particular tracts, which will be oflered at the sale, are being deposited in the Clerk' Offices in the counties of Tippecanoe, Carroll, Cass and Allen, which probably the Clerks will j show if so requested. Maps of the whole do nation are also in the ofhee ot the Canal Com. missioners at Fort Wayne, and with Jordan Vigus, Canal Commissioner, at I.oganspurt, which will be open for the inepection of any person wishing to make an examination. According to the provisions of the law on this subject, these lands are classed into first second and third rate?? and are valued at S3.50 $2,50, and 1,50 per acre; they will be offer ed at these prices, and if not sold during the public sa!e, will at any time thereafter be sub jeet to be entered at the same rates at private sale, at the ofiice of the Commissioners at Fort Wayne, or such other place in the Canal Donation as may be selected for that purpose. The terms at either public or private sa!e, will be one-fourth part of the purchase money, with one years interest in advance, on the re mainder; to be paid at the time of sale. The interest to be paid annually thereafter, until the final payment shall be made; and the balance of the purchase money to be paid on or before the first of October, 1847, conditioned that a failure to pay interest cr principal for more than twenty days after the same shall have become due, forfeits the tract to the state, and subjects it to be sold for the benefit of the Canal Fund. It is perhaps superfluous to add, that the Canal donation is some hundred miles from the apprehended seat of Indian war; in the interior of a country settled far beyond it, and entirely remote from danger from that cause. At this time it is entirely free from Cholera, or any epedemic disease whatever, and from the heal, thy situation of the country is expected to remain so. It is believed to be equally useless to detail the advantages of these lands; it i9 e nough to remark, that 50.000 acres of them, were selected in small tracts, for their superior quality, out of more than 200,000 acres before they had been in market, when the choice of the country was free ; that they are now offered for the first time that no part of the remainder has been in market, except once, at a public sale which lasted ten days that they embrace a considerable portion of tl e richest lands in well watered with snrinjrs. mill streams, and in.l.ni.. .1 , I ,.I ... - . navigable rivers ; that they aiford a great variety of timbered and prairie lands; which with their situation directly on the Canal route, which is laid off immediately in their centre, and with the Canal commenced under favorable auspices of being completed in a reasonable time, presents as favorable an opportunity for me capitalist to invest nis money, the larmer to procure an eligible situation for his farm, with a ca6h market for his products at his own door and tne industrious man with his labor to earn a heme, as has been ever offered in the Western Country. u. isuKK, ) Uonfrs. of the ; JUKDAA Hi Lit?, Wabash and SAM'L. LEWIS, Erie Canal. Fort Wapic Aug. 8, IS:?. lU-ute. MOT5C33eTIIEStocl4llolJc" of the Lawrcnccburgh Insurance Company are hereby notified, that an election for nine directors for said company will be held at their ofiice in Lawrcnccburgh, on tho second Monday in October next, between the hours of 2 and Q o'clock. Tho Stockholders of said company are al so notified, that one dollar on each share of stock is required to be p:iid on or before the lUth day ot October next. By order of the Board of Directors, THOMAS POitTlMl, Sec. t g WE subscriber offers for sale SO 8 acres of standing com, growing iu the vicinity of Hardinsburirh; also, 10 acres on land of Isaac Dunn near Andrew MorIt will bo sold cither for cash in hand or on a credit of ti months, to suit pur chasers, lor terms apply to JOHN CALLAHAN Sept. 4, 1832. 31-tf. .ff W NOTICE. AMOS LANE, Attorney and counsellor at Law, will, in future, crive his undivided attenlion, to his profession may be consulted at his office, on higlt streeti near the clerk's of fice, at all times, except when at Court will attend the Circuit Probate, and Commission er's Courts, m the Cnnntv of Dearborn. 1 he Circuit Courts in Franklin. Switzerland, Hip. ley and Decatur counties. The Supreme and District Courts at Indianapolis. And will at tend to business of Importance either civil or criminal in any other courts in this, or adjoin ing states. He trusts that his long and suecessiui practice, will insure himi 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 close. AMOS LANE. Lawrenceburgh, June 13th 1?3J. 24. To Printers. THE subscribers have commenced an establ shment for the manufacture of Printing Presses from Super-Imperial to Medium size of approved construction, the workmanship and materials of which they warrant equal to any made, in the western country and which they will sell on liberal terms. Persons wishing to purcluse, are invited to call and examine, at the manufactory on 5th street, between E'm and Plumb streets, Cincinnati. DICKEUSON & WILLIAMSON. Cincinnati, June f, 18i2.

SATrj OP rrnSlE unders gned c'nm.ssioner of the Mi. -EL cliigan ltoad will at the town of LOG AN SPOUT, on Mondav the 15th of October, cjuv mencethc sale of the Michigan Uoad Lid in the state of Indiana, to the highest bidder u tracts as the United States La id are sold. For a full description of these lands, see ;he advertisement of the late sals at South H?n 1 on the 4th of June last pist. O A'iiig to the alarm on account of the lodnn war, at that time much vaiuaVe 'and was nut examined, and but few persons attended the sales; a-i-1 suice then both the Michitfvi ft r.u and the W abash and Erie Canal have been put under contract, and the works are progressing those who vili choice selections in that interesting part of Indiana, wi 1 do well to examine and attend tha sales. None need stop on account of the iu. mors of the Indian war, as there is not the re-

motest probability of ('.anger in that section of the country. Immediately after the conclusion of the sale's, an office will be opened for cuter ing the lands that remain unsold. WILLIAM POLK, Com. Vincermos, An,'. I'd, 1S&2, Public S:iEc subscriber will oh";r lor salr?at h' -S. residence near thp road between Wihnlnsr tin and Hartford, on Monday the 1st day of u.-tooer next, Horses, Cattle 7ir, Sheep, Bees, IS 5 or .10 ton Hay and Oul Corn in the fell, Household and Kitchen Furniture. FiiWiin" Ltcnsih, ie. v Sale to commence at 9 oclock.made known on d y of . Terms OIW. STEVEN'S CAUTIOX TO 77: VUULIC. THE public aro cautioned :ig:unst dealing with, or purc!tisii; from one KlxMirzcr (Joble, :i chimor protended chiin ho has to a jvirt of v. ostato of ViIliatn Heno, dec-casod tho siid GoMc has recently jjiven evident proofs of insanity and iris intended to tako le:,'al Measures to invent his squandering the said estate. BKXJAMiN nr.xo. Legal Guanlian for Mary Gollc, late Mary lie no. Sept. l, ai-nw. J&r r tv re sicr burgh "HK subscriber talk's this method to inform the public in general that he ha established the chair making business, on High strict, opposite the market house, where he will keep constantly uu hand a large and sp'endid assortment of ti AM) Windsor 0. v rp i-i WlC 5IAIK S.feftW Which he Warrants for durability and workmanship, tqual to any in the western country: which he will dispose of, on rev.eonable terms. Persons wishing to purchase, will please call and judge for themselves. WM. X. KORKRS. Feb. 11,1 SU. .VOTIVE. fiPI.,K rCfIu'sile number if shares, to author. Jl ize an election of Directors, having nvn subscribed to the C4pia! Stock of the "Harri. j son and White Witter liride Company" the t unuersigneu, L.ommts oners appointed bv the undersigned. legislature, hereby notify the stockholders thit an election will he held in Harrison on MmuUy the fe'lh rf October nest, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock on said day, to choose seven D. rectors for s aid bridge. WM. PUUSFJ,, Ji:0. WALDKOIT, JOIIXGODLKY, .1. I). .MOOUK. (ii:0. ARNOLD, T. M. IWACKLXRinGi:, J. RiTTLXiiorsi:, Harrison, Sept. 12, U;:i2. w WaJKtsh iwa ICrle i.';iunl. A'OTJCi: 7 0 C(hTJt'lCVOItS. SP'AI.KD Proposals will he received by the undersigned t Fort Wajne. from the CSrli October to the 3th Novem! f r n?xt. f,r the construction of a part of the YVAMASII & 1 KIT. CANAL, tniddls division. The wotk to be let j embraces a Dam across the ft. Joseph's WvtT. 14 reel lufiu, and aiso iwo i.eavy iwuu tectums on the same rive, together with the uual variety of excavation, cmhuukment, culverts 8;c. More particular information rcpeclg tl e character of the work, and tlte m inner of jcr forming it, will be given on ths lmc, bv eithfr i '. l ? I".' ur ' J l..ri. .i . . i). r.rurc, j. vicars, SAM'L U'AYIS, Ccmtfrt if the )V, 8t iJ Cannl. Fort Wayn?, Ind , Sept. 4, 13;.2. GfPrcsidesatiaS IKIct'ft&KSfi. WHEllEXS. by law it is made the ibity Sheriff.; to '.ve notice of the linv ot I. old inpj the election for electors of Piraulciit ?nI Vice-President of th? United SU.'es, and the number of electors to be votel h.r ct fcaid ehc tion, therefore be it known that f-n elctk-i will be he'.d at the several place, ot hoidn elections in the townships in Oeaibom rf ur.tv, cn Monday the 5lh day of November i cxt, ballot for nine electors of President and Vice President of the United S ates. The effirer conducting county r townnp e ectmns. are required to open and hold the election above named, as prescribed bv l w WILLIAM DILS, SJefTJ). C. Sept. 20. 1832. C6-tdv 500 3ACCS7 UATfX, of 1st quality neatly canvassed, received and for s;de bv siiaw & rnoTZMAN. July 7, 1832. Cash for Wheat. Cents per bushel in SiJi&XZ will be. given for IVUE.VV by Lawrenceburgh, Sept. 21, 1SV2. es iu M'c n 1:1: vore:?agcs For ti!e i'.t this '.V.Vr.