Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 45, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 24 November 1832 — Page 1

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THE OFFICER OF THE GUARD. A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. It W33 a dark and gloomy period during the French Revolution. The remorseless Robespierre had stretched his mad ambition to the utmost, and the terrible factions which he had raised to support him in his ascendency, already began to tremble at the growing influence of the Royalists. The Jesuits and Jansenists were burning with all tho zeal of theological controversy, and the infuriated people giving themselves up to the unbelief of an unintelligible jargon or the spirit of a false and dangerous philosophy. Religion, affrighted, had fled the country, and infidelity, with all its attendant evils, was stealing over it like an invisible curse. The very fountain of abomination seemed

to have been broken up, and a deluge of pollution poured upon the land. The sanctuary and monastery were invaded, and the "blood thirsty tyrants becoming more merci less and sanguinary by the very dosponden cy of their cause, heaped the most unprovok ed venseance on their wretched inmates. While the fury of the Revolution was at this extreme height, a community of nuns in the suburbs of Paris were seized and condemned to the guilotine. On the day set apart for their execution, a ferocious mob had gathered in the streets of Paris, and as the victims passed along in their monastic dress, a faint murmur of disapprobation arose, not unlike that of the mingling of far-off waters. Many of them were in the full bloom of youth and beauty, and sung as they ascended the steps of the scaffold, the hymn of veni creator with most lively and musical voices. They reached the fatal guilotine, and with the black veil still down over their faces bowed their necks one by one, beneath the bloody axe. It was a martyrdom which even the old in crime could scarcely witness without feeling their bosoms heave as with the thrill of their best emotions. Barbarity had indeed become a business, and humanity been frozen hard by constant scenes of desolation and horror. But there was pictured in the countenances of nearly all, a something like a struggling of heart and mind, and the stout arm of one of the officers of the guard fell nerveless as he looked upon the massacre. He could no longer riot in the destruction of maiden innocence, and his pent up feelings relieved themselves in tears. A victica who was just then on the eve of submitting to her fate, cast an eye of recognition upon the man who li3d shown so much humanity and throwing her veil partly aside, disclosed to him a familiar face. He rushed for ward before the executioner, and in the agony of his spirit cried out 'iSpare her'Oh! for mercy sake spare her'.' The multitude gazed in astonishment, and the executioner stayed his purpose. And the axe fell by his side "Listless from his crimsoned hand The axe hung clogged with massacre." "And thy heart fails thee, does it, young man?1" said he, with a fiendish smile. "Liberty of speech and action calls for the sacrifice, and must and shall be made." 'Oh! no,' cried he 'by your love for me by all that is dear to our country and to human nature I entreat you to spare tha't girl. She is innocent, and her father never opposed the liberty for which we contend.' 4I cannot now bandy words with you,' said he. 'The execution must go on, and as I have no power myself to revoke Jhe sentence which has been passed upon these Nuns, it will be useless to trouble me with any further pleas for their safety.' 'Will you then prolong the execution of this victim until I have seen and asked her life of the proper authority. I know my prayers will be granted when they have heard her innocence and the cause of my anxiety." "Go young man; but remember, unless you return in fifteen minutes from this time, your errand to yonder palace would be as well untold." Many minutes had not elapsed before the chivalrous youth had reached his destined place. It was not a wild freak of gallantry nor a dream of wandering sense that urged him on the accomplishment of so bold a plan. It was the prompting of a better nature and of early love. The beautiful Nun had b?cn the object of his attachment from his childhood, and although the turbulence of the times had separated them from each other for many years he still loved her with unchanged afiection. At the out breaking of the revolution, he joined the party of his father, and became a friend to Robespierre, and an enemy of the Bourbons. The blood-thirstiness of his leaders sickened him- to the very heart's core, but he could not retrace the steps which he had taken. It was immediate death, or help on the work of destruction which had been so well begun. His conscience struggled for a while with his principlesbut the 'latter prevailed and he became a frc equent witness of the slaughter of his . frie saw the ios and his acquaintances. He father of his beloved fall nn iha scaffold, and breathed out a prayer for the safjiy of his only daughter. He heard how, from this circumstance she was forced against her will, to embrace a lite of conventual seclusion, and to seek in the cloister an asylum from the cares and corruption of the world. But the affections of the artless girl could not be thus easily weaned from society. They were concentrated into cne sublime feeling of love, and the con-

ventand black veil were insufficient to lead her to the sole contemplation of holy and enternal things. The young liberalist loved her with a warm gush of youthful feel-

iT. and during the few moments whicn were allotted him by the executioner, plead like a mother for the preservation of her life. He gained his object and hurried back with the glad tidings. A thousand enquiring eyes were looking out towards the palace. No officer of the guard met their view. The cheeks of the maiden were pale with anxiety, and her brow was deeply furrowed with the lines of thought. The angel of hops which visited her but a few momenta before, had fled; and she now gave her last look to the spirit's heaven. The allotted time had expired she bowed her neck the axe fell and her "soul went back to God who gavo it." Just at that moment the officer was seen hurrying with unwonted human speed towards the fatal spot. He ascended the scaffold with the word tardox trembling on his ashy lips, and as he looked around on the bloody scene before him, he saw the yet unquiet flesh of his soul's idolatry tho words of grief became too big for utterance, and the energies of his noble nature died within him. He reeled and fell prostrate amid the slaughtered Nuns. The dreamless, pulseless sleep of death had come over him, and his body was consigned to the same tomb as that of the unhappy victim whose life he had vainly attempted to preserve. Extract from Paulding's ncic Novel. The people of the United States have been occasionally ridiculed, for the warmth and eagerness with which they participate in elections and other political contests of less importance. Yet this perpetual solicitude about public affairs, is one of the great char acteristics of liberty; and provided it does not extend to actual violence, nor to the disruption of kindred and social tics, is a wholesome and indeed essential ingredient in the composition of a free people. Without this deep interest, which instigates them to a perpetual watchfulnes of their rulers, and rivets their attention so closely to the acts of their government, there would be no security against those quiet, insidious usur pations which power is perpetually making on the rights of mankind. For ourselves, we are pleased that our countrymen are agitated occasionally by the wave of politics, and hope never to see the day when they shall become indifferent to the acts and character of their rulers, or neglect the exercise of their great right of expressing their opinions freely and fearlessly. And though we do not admire female politicians, we as little like to see a woman without patriotism as without religion. It has often been a subject of regret to observe that natural love of aristocracy, title, precedence, and that disgraceful foible of giving a preference to foreign fashions, manners, and countries, which are among the characteristics of the more vulgar and ignorant of those females who aspire to distinction in tho beau monde. The love of country, in the mind of a virtuous, reflecting, intellectual woman, should come next to her faith, her domestic affections, and her attachment to home. It ought never to mingle in party dissensions, or become the common topic of her thoughts or conversation; but, like the pure light of religion, it should be a quiet, deep-rooted, unobtrusive principle, worthy of every sacrifice, except that ot the virtuous which constitute the divinity of the sex. The great duke of Marlborough, passing the gate of the Tower, was accosted by an ill-looking fellow, with, "How do you do, my lord duke. I believo your grace and 1 have now been in every jail in the kingdom." "I believe, friend," replied the duke, with surprise, "this is the only jail I ever visited." "Very likely," rejoined the other; "but I have been in all the rest." Yankce Accommodations. The Boston Transcript gives the following humorous account of an incident which happened at Worcester, Mass. last week : On the first evening of the Convention, a teamster drove up to the door of one of the principal taverns and asked for "lodging for himself and beasts." The landlord said that he could not accommodate him, every bed in the house being taken up. "Well," said the teamster, "I am not at all particular, I will put up with a part of a bed." "Part of a bed?" replied our host, "why my dear sir, there is not a bed in the inn, that has not two in it already, and some of them three and four." "Well, can't you lot me sleep in that are parlour?" "No, we are going to make up seventeen beds there to-night, and they are all encageoV' "Well now that's curious; can't you give me a buffalo skin and let me lay down here in the entry, I shan't discommodate nobody." "No, I shan't have vou in the entry: we shall be up all night, and I don't want any folks clittering and sprawling about the floor where people are passing all the time." " "Well, by gosh, you are an accommodating fellow, I don't think," said the teamer "wonder if you've got a tavern lisence! Tell you what, Mister, you have no beds, no buffilo skins, no nothing well, that's not your fault just now, exactly, but," continued

he ; looking at the rack where a multitude

of cloaks and surtouts was suspended, "what will you take to let me hang on one of them there pegs?''1 The laugh was fairly turned against the landlord, the company present interceded and the teamster entertained en prince, but at whose expense the Boston delegation sayem not. Cobbett on Pledces. Above all things. pledge candidates; make them promise to do what is wanted they should do. Oh, what a monstrous thing to pledge men of honor; such a thing was never heard of before! Nonsense, in every transaction of life, pledges and covenants are exacted. What a pretty thing it would be to hear an agent who was to be sent to America or any where else, say that he would do as he likd with the ship, cargo, and money! No man could refuse to pledge himself unless he had an intention of robbing. There was one thing, however, they were obliged to pledge and bind themselves in he meant the affair of marriage; The women, sensible creatures, took right good care of that, and bound them pretty tightly, both in church and out of it, and various other places and ways. (Laughter.) In marriage, as every thing else, it was money the aris tocracy was raking after, and whenever they found it they made a dead set like a staunch pointer at a partridge. When the Marquis of Bath discovered that Mellish, (the butcher,) had a rich daughter his son made a dead point at her. When Shafiesbury found out that old RundelPs money, got by snuff-box and bath-machine making, for that supreme monarch George the Fourth, passed into the hands of one Neile, an attor ney, this Shaftesbury's daughter fell in love with the attorney, and could not live a a. ...m i i t, j mumu wiuioui mm. n was aiierwarus found out that the attorney was for keeping his money; tho lady then separated, requir ing a settlement for she had in the begin ning bound him down and pledged him. She was right, and he was for Lord Shaftesbury's daughter in imitating election matters. (Laughter. One of the highest blood of all one descended from kings had taken a play-actress as his wife. To be sure she had passed through a banker's hands, and was so far purified. But she took good care to pledge the Duke, and had him bound hand and foot. It was all nonsense ; no man should be sent into parliament without pledges, and the electors would not be doing their dutv if they sent them there unshackled. Candidates should be pledged to the abolition of all tithes to the repeal of all taxes on malt, hops, and soap to the abolition of the assessed taxes and corn laws. If there was a proper reformed parliament, no tax-gatherer would show his nose save for the collection of the poor's rates. Lectures to the Finsbury Ehctors. Outrage. A most diabolical attempt was made to assassinate Captain Laines, port warden at the Basin Carondelet, on Wednesday evening. As that gentleman was walking down the canal, a short distance from the basin, two pistols were suddenly discharged at his breast, but happily without effect, by a person concealed behind some bricks. In the confusion of the moment, Captain Laines, while drawing the sword from his cane, fell into one of the holes that have been made by the travelling of the horses on the margin of the canal. While in this situation the assassin that had attempted to shoot him, began to beat Captain L. upon the head with the butt of the pistol and with a brick; but being seized by the leg the ruffian was thrown into the canal, where he was picked up and rowed to the lower side of the basin. A horso was there in readiness, and upon him the assassin made his escape. The circumstances combined the attack the horse all bespeak a premeditated assassination, which was only frustrated by the superior strength of the intended victim. But besides these, a placard was posted up in the neighborhood, a day or two previous, "inviting Frenchmen and dogs to attend the funeral of Captain Laines to-morrow morning." Suspicion we learn already points to a Captain Lee, as the perpetrator of the foul deed. Captain Laines is very seriously wounded in the head. JY. O. Bee. From the Boston Morning Post. Tiie Winter, with a proper respect for our nerves and noses, has saluted us for a few days past to the tune of 30 to 30 Fahrenheit, but, thanks to the heats of political contests, nobody has thought of shivering or turning blue but the minority; and as none acknowledge themselves in the minority, of course no one feels blue, except a few the Police court have sent to Fuddle Island to recover their carnation. On Sunday about two or three dozen flakes of snow fell, hardly enough to afford sleighing but sufficient to make us think of the belles bless their tinkling! Every one, wre trust, is prepared for winter. There is plenty of fuel in the city, thanks to speculators who hope to make their fortunes; enough of every thing else to make us comfortable, if we have an inclination to enjoy it. The city is healthy and prosperous; we have a few alarms of fire now and then, to keep us vigilant, and to encourage the insurance offices; some accidents by flood and field to employ tha news carrier; now and then

a military company parades, giving a parting

salute before they go into winter quarters; pumpkins are turning yellow for thanksgiv ing; turkies are gobbling for Christmas: and porkers are preparing to go tout le rochon, the whole parson, of the ensuing elec tions, hvery thing is in the full tide of successful experiment; we therefore bid winter welcome ! "Blessings on his frosty powT' The Half-Breed Countkv. A communication in a late Missouri paper, de scribes a very interesting tract of country, in tne ncigiioomood ot that state, under the above name. It is a point of land, between the Des Moines and the Mississippi rivers, extending from the mouth of the Des Moines nearly or quite to the head of the lower rapids of the Mississippi. The Half-Breed land is stated to bo in a very peculiar condition, unlike that of any other tract within the limits of the United States or their territories. It is not within the organized limits of any State or territory. It is not public land, subject to the dis posal of Congress, nor is it Indian land. It is subject to no established community, civilized or savage, yet is inhabited. Tho town of Keobuck, at the foot of the rapid, is ahead growing into importance, and will at no distant day, become a city. At low water it is the limit of steamboat navigation, and the point of trans-shipment for all the trade with the Upper Mississippi. If the northern boundary of tho Missouri had extended to the Mississippi in a straight line, it would have included this country within that State. By the Indian treaty of 18iM, between the United States and tho Sacs and Fox Indians, those tribes ceded to the United States "all their lands within the limits of the State of Missouri," including within the lines of description, this country, which the treaty stipulated,"is intended for the use of the half-breed belonging to the Sacs and Fox nations; they holding it, however, by the same title, and in the same manner, other Indian titles aro held." These half-breeds form no nation or tribe, and do not live together as a community. The land is said to be among the finest and most valuable tiacts in the west. Bait. American. KANHAWA ALUM SALT. There has recently been put in operation in this county by Messrs. Donnally, Noyos and Patrick, a manufactory for the production of Alnm Salt, which has been attended with entire success and promises to constitute a new eica in the manufacture of salt in this region. Heretofore the entire quantity of salt manufactured on the river, amounted to about one million bushels per annum, has been made by the agency of lire, supplied by stono coal, in turnaces composed of a largo pan from twenty to twenty-five feet in length, used to convert the water into brine, and from twenty to thirty kettles used to reduce the brine and convert it into salt. This mode has been universally in use for several years past and has proved highly successful in the produc tion of a fine granular salt of excellent qual ity, ana much esteemed m the western country. The principle of the manufactory recently established differs materially from that described, as so also does the article produced differ. Tho manufactory now in operation consists of a large pan about 3j feet long set in a furnace and is closely sided up and covered over so as to prevent the escape of any portion of the steam evolved. Connected with this furnace is a vat made of plank 135 feet long and sixteen feet wide, underneath and along the bottom of which is a trunk 10 inches squaro of strong plank which connects with the steam to tho whole length of the vat. The upper surface of this trunk or conduit is upon a level with the floor of the vat and is composed of lead. The pan is used to convert tho water into brine which is then drawn off into vats and settled, when it is again conducted into the large vat where it is evaporated and converted into alum salt of the finest quality. The fire applied in the fur- j nace to the pan rapidly reduces the water , into brine and the steam generated by this process and conducted under the vat as before described, raises the temperature of the brine therein contained to upwards ot a hundred and fifty degrees and renders the process of chrystalization very rapid. j With these very simple fixtures the proprietors are now making not less than iiOO bushels of salt per day with a consumption of much less labor and coal than is required upon an ordinary furnace which produces a much less quantity. In the process all the foreign matter is effectually excluded, and the salt produced, both in appearance and quality is not inferior to any in the world. In the success of this experiment, (which we understand has been secured by patent,) a great desideratum has been obtained which will be attended with tho greatest advantages not only to this, but to the entire country west of us. Wi th the means of production almost unlimited, the salt from this region would have supplied nearly the whole territory on the Mississippi and its tributaries, had not alum salt been deemed indispensable in putting up provisions for commercial purposes, distant shipments and the like. This led to the introduction of alum salt from tho West Indies which, to the extent used, excluded the, domestic salt from market.

Tho alum salt now manufactured her?, being in no respect inferior to imported, and furnished at a lower price, will ere long entirely exclude or supercedo the uso of the foreign article on all of tho Western waters. The gentlemen who have succeeded in establishing this valuable manufactory, and who have the exclusive privilege of erecting others, cannot fail of reaping a rich reward for their persevcrencc and enterprise. . Kanhawa Banner.

Sudden Retribution. About two wceki ago, a man on horseback came to tho gato of the Delaware Bridge at this place about an hour after midnight, and demanded passage. The toll keeper, Mr. Albe, suspecting that ho could bo on no honest errand refused to get out of bed, and tho man went oft'. The next day a horso was observed wandering along tho shore, tho saddle and. bridle having evidently been thoioughly soaked with water. Mr. Sidney Down of this place took tho horse in chargo and stabled him, but before he could bo advertised a gentleman arrived hero from Ucidlcbcrg, in Lehigh County, in pursuit of a thief, and hearing of this horse, went to ice him and instantly recognized him as his property, upon which the animal was delivered up to him, and taken home. The matter caused considerable excitement and various con jectures, tho most obious and probable of which was fully confirmed by the intelli gence received in the course of the ensu ing week, from Reck Falls; at that place, about 10 miles below Kaston, the body of a man W3S found rather tall, and tolerably well dressed, with a leather belt around hi J body, containing about 12 dollars in silver, and having on his boots a pair of spurs. No doubt remains in the minds of our citizens, but that the horse thief in his eagerness to get out of the way attempted to swim tho river, but being unacquainted with and unused to the plunging motion of a hcrsc, was unseated and met a watery grave. Chickasaw Treaty. We understand tho principles of the late treaty to be these: The whole Indian territory is ceded to tho United States: not one acre is reserved. The President is to have the country surveyed as soon as possible, and to advertise and sell it at public sale in the same manner, and on the same terms in all respects as other public lands the sale? to be made as soon as tho land can be surveyed. It is stipulated that the Chickasaws are to select for themselves, a country west of the Mississippi river and if possible, to move away before the first public sale of their lands. Should they be unable to remove before -tint time, they are permitted to retain a tract of land for each family to live on, until they fix upon the place cf their future residence. It is expressly agreed, however, that they will remove as soon as they can, and when they go, those tracts upon which they resided, shall be sold as the other lands arc, but all the Indian tcrritoiy not now occupied by them, it is to be sold, when surveyed No persona arc permitted to move on tho ceded lands until the sales take place: should any ono presume to do so, they will bo driven otV. Tho Chickasaws arc to rcccivo the nett proceeds arising from the Bale of the lands, deducting all incidental expenses connect ed w ith tho survey and sale of tho same. Three fourths of all the money derived from the land sale?, aro to be vested in stock at interest, by the General Government, for the benefit cf tho Chickasaw nation, allow ing them to use the interest, but never touch the principal, reserving that as a fund for tho use of tho nation forever. The ceded territory is about 100 milts square, and tho number of acres is estimated at 7,000,C00. Florence Gautte, Female Horse Thief -The Pawtucket Chronicle says that a horse and chaise were last vreek carried off from tho village cf Lonusdalc, under the following peculiar circumstances. A young lady of prepossessing appcaranco landed, it is believed, from one of the canal boats, and contrscted to work at a cotton factory at that place. Sho next went to the keeper of a livery stablo and hired an elegant horse and chaise under the pretence of going to Providence, to bring out her cousin, who, as she represented, wished to procure employment at tho same place. On being asked by the owner to what name he should make tho charge, she replied with an engaging modesty, tempered with a slight show of indignation at thaski ng of so impertinent a question, "Miss Walker." Miss Walker drove off in fiae, stylo and has not been heard of since. Slaves. The following may bo looked on as a tolerably correct estimate of tho number of human beings held in slavery : "British Colonics, 800,000; French Colonics, 200,000; Cuba and Poto Uico, 500,000; other Foreign Colonics, 75,000; United States, 1,050,000; Drazil, 2,000,000; total, 5225,000." A mo nuxro ract.. floct. John Mason Good, in his Book cf Nature, sayi that the blood of about forty men contains iron enough to mako a good ploughshare, and might easily have its iron extracted from it, to ha reduced to a tnetalic state, and manufactured into such an iiKtruiuuut.