Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 2, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 26 January 1833 — Page 1

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ft By David V. Culley Terms $3 PER YEAR 33J PER CENT. DISCOUNT MADE ON ADVANCE, OR 16! ON HALF YEARLY PAYMENTS. TOIL. EX. liAWKEWCEBUirGH, (IA.) SATUIUUAY, JANUARY 2S, 133. WO. TO

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From the Boston Statesman. The principles acted upon by South Carolina, would at once set bounds to all improvements, arrest the course of civilization, and stop the progress of knowledge, saying "thus far shall ye go, and no father.1' There can be no improvement without changes. VVa3 not Commerce once the pride of the North? t.' : source too of her honor and her profit? Look at the once goodly cities of New England behold them now with their wharves desolate their ware-houses empty their habitations tenantless with their commerce departed like the spoil to the lion's den restigia nulla vetrorsum leaving no returning footsteps. "Are these our joyous cities, whose antiquity is of ancient days ?

their own feel have carried them afar off to sojourn;1 they who once went down to the deep in ships, are now peopling the wilde wilderness of the far West filling the vast valley of the Mississippi crossing the eternal snow-clad summits ofthe Rocky Mountains wandering on the fertile banks ofthe Columbia pitching their tents around the Cataracts of the green Oregon halting only, in their unconquerable enterprize on the far distant shores of the Pacific Ocean. If the cities of the South would meet with a manly spirit, the reverses that have alike visited ns and them, let them "go, and do likewise" let them follow the footsteps of the spirit of the North let them drive the wild beast from his lair let them fell the forest in theirmarch let them subdue the earth, and have it fan their heritage, and the heritage of their children and their children's children. Have none but the cities ofthe South felt the oppression, which the changes wrought by the folly of other governments and the counsels of our own, have produced? The ancient metropolis of New England has not escaped the scourge. But the question was not, (with her) "how it came," but "how shall it be averted ?" If she has asked, "who hath taken this counsel against lyte, the crowning city, whose merchants latere princes whose traffickers the honorable of the earth?" it has not been in the spirit of the complaint, but humility; and her answer has been, "the Lord of hosts hath purposed it. New England has met her fate with the spirit worthy of her origin. Her language and her motto have been, "nay do not please sharp fate," to grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. She has turned her wealth, and her enterprize and her industry into new channels, and prosperity has rewarded her labors. But enough enough. The only essential difference between the North and the South is this: that here, it is disgraceful for a man to be idle; there, it is more disgraceful to be employed! They complain that the grass grows upon their wharves show it. They "sell their last ship, to a denizen ofthe sand banks of "Nantucket;" and while he is compassing the deep (on a three year's voyage and hurling his har poon at its monsters, from pole to pole) to collect a cargo of blubber, they remain at home all the while, blubbering! If the South is so mad as to suppose 6ne can eat her bread on any other con dition than Adam ate his, when expel led from paradise (the sweat of his brow,)let her if she can, regain paradise. But we warn her that Nullification is the wrong road to it; and that rebellion will behold more flaming swords to encounter, than were ever brandish ed from the gate of Eden. The Union It must be preserved. From the Working Men's Shield. FEMALE LABOR. An old maxim says, that precaution is bet ter than a cure. It is certainly more easy to avoid evils, than to correct them after thev exist. Should their cure even be effected like the ravages of the small pox, the mark is indellibly fixed, which cannot be obliterated even by time. The present low prices of female labor lead to evils that few casual observers take into consideration; in which there is not only great injustice, but bad policy. There are in Cincinnati, and else where, many poor widows, who are destitute and suffering for the common necessaries of lite, because they cannot obtain work or a fair compensation for their labor. Must they starve or freeze during the coming win ter? or shall they resort to' beggary? or be driven to theft? or fall victimsto prostitution? By their labor, as now paid for, they cannot earn a living. The people here are benevolent and warm-hearted their chari ties extend to the widows and orphans, and tneir cans are never disregarded, when at iv-iiueu wiui amiuw or aisiress. it seems difficult to devise any method to afford per

manent relief yet, we think it might, in some degree, be effected, at all events their condition might be ameliorated, and that, too, without the aid of charity or even the semblance of it. Give to laborers just hire, for they are worthy of it. Women labor harder, and certainly longer in the day than men, and yet are paid only in proportion of

four to one for instance, a man receives one dollar, whilst the woman only gets cents, aid yet the woman probably has the greater number of children, dependent on her daily exertions. What matter is it to the community whether these children are supported by man or woman, if they are decently provided for, kept from being a public charge, and are properly instructed? If a proper equivalent is allowed to female labor, the poor taxes would be lessened, and the condition and morals of the rising generation greatly improved. At the present prices of sewing, a woman can rarely realize more than forty cents per day; out of this must be deducted her boarding, clothing washing, &c. If she has a family, which is often the case, out of this small sum how is her house rent to be paid? How her daily allowance of provis ion and clothing for herself and family to be supplied? It cannot be done. The consequence is, she is thrown upon the charity list, her childern go uneducated who often, very often, become in, time burdens to society, vagabonds and criminals, spreading their contagion among others, like a pestilential atmosphere. Now we would most earnestly recommend a general raise of female wages and prices of labor. Those who give out sewing work from their chops would not be the losers, they would lay on an additional price ; like taxes on liquors or merchandise, the consumers would pay the difference, it would be a trifle on each article; yet in the aggregate, amount to a great deal to individuals who sew for their living By adopting this generous, yet just course, another evil of the greatest magnitude would, in a measure, be obviated. Women, in general are much more virtuous in their nature than men are not so easily led into scenes of dissipation and vice, yet temptations will overcome them at times, particularly when assailed by the iron hand of poverty, and where their education has been defective. They have their various wants that can only be obtained with money. This they are willing to work for, upon just principles, and if they cannot obtain their wants in this way, their virtue falls a sacrifice, and they become outcasts from respectability, and end their days in wretchedness and infamy. This is not, however, the case with all, yet, unfortunately it is with some. Here we introduce some judicious remarks from the able pen of Matthew Carey of Philadelphia: he says, "The difference between Great Britain and America consists more in the number of the sufferers than in he intensity of the suffering for it is a melancholy, a heart-rending, a disgraceful and dishonorable truth, that there are, in this blessed country, thousands of women usefully employed, who cannot possibly, by their utmost skill and industry, earn enough to support human nature. "Let not our citizens 'lay the flattering unction to' their souls,' to palliate or justify the callous lnditlerence displayed on this subject, that this is an exaggerated picture. Would to Heaven it were! But unhappily it is a shocking reality. Coarse muslin shirts and duck pantaloons are made at various prices, at 0, 8, 10, and 12i cents each. More I have reason to believe, are made be low, than at, 12 i cents. The Provident Society in Philadelphia, and the Commis sary General, it is true, pay 12 cents but the shirts for the army are, I am informed, made in New York for 10 cents the House of Industry in Boston pays but tenand ten, I am persuaded, is a high average throughout the United States. "Among all the persons I have seen, ladies and gentlemen, there has been but one uniform sentiment that of strong sympathy for the distressed women. All exclaimed against the cruelty and oppression under which they labor. For a time I deluded myself into a belief that the object in view would be accomplished; but I regret to say that I was miserably disappointed. Widi all my eftbrts, I have not been able to secure, in New-York, Boston, ot Philadelphia, one active, zealous efficient co-operator! Yet tens of thousands can be raised, in a few hours for the relief of distant nations. Are not the souls of American women, whom penury and distress drive to desperation and crime, as precious in the sight of Heaven as Hindoos, or Japanese? "Baltimore has done herself great honor in this affair. She has set a handsome and laudable example. Her impartial Humane Society, conducted by a number of benevolent and beneficient ladies, aided by a few respectable citizens, pays IS J cents for making coarse muslin shirts and duck pantaloons, which is fifty per cent, more than our Provident Society gives, nearly double what is given by the House of Industry in Boston, and nearly double the price paid in New York for Work for the army. Some of the tailors in Baltimore, I have been informed, have generously followed the example. It is easy to conceive what masses of misery and wretchedness this arrangement must prevent if generally followed how much happiness it must confer and how many it will probably rescue from those wretched courses which lead certainly to perdition

here, and often, it is feared, to perdition hereafter. "It is frequently said, in order to silence

complaint on this subject, 'why do not these women become domestics? These are scarce.' 1 he iact is not exactly so. There i are as many domestics generally as there are situations for them. Some of them, it is true, are worthless but the number of this description is greatly exaggerated. Some masters and mistresses are hard to please and make constant complaints on the subject and hence the class of domestics is liable to imputations which as a body it does not merit. But be this as it may, there are thousands of women, who are unfit for this kind of employment some from age, some from feebleness of constitution some from having small children to support, whom they cannot bear to part with. And are there not hundreds of widows among them, who have formerly lived in ease and affluence, and held their heads as high as those to whom the appeal is now made in their favor, whom no honorable man would wish to reduce to the state of domestics? Ought not all of these to re ceive such wages for their steady industry as will afford them adequate means of subsistence? "Sould it be asked, what is to be done in this case? I answer A few of those in each of our great cities, who are blessed with a portion of that divine spirit, which leads to commiserate and not merely to commiserate, but, when practicable, to relieve, the sufferings of their fellow mortals, ought to meet, and to appoint committees to investigate the subject, to appeal to the humanity and justice of the employers to try to contrive additional means of employment to raise funds for the establishment and extention of houses of industry where fair prices will be paid; in a word, to devise whatever means may be practicable to alleviate the sufferings ofthe ill-fated women in question." The foregoing remarks are as applicable to Cincinnati as to other cities, and we hope that the subject will be diligently investi gated. The task, we acknowledge, is of great magnitude, but when we take into serious consideration the beneficial results that may follow, we ought not to shrink. We cannot always dive into the hidden springs of domestic or individual misery. We cannot view the workings ofthe human heart, or pry into their sorrows, neither can we tell to what an extent moral anguish or mental suffering one must endure to drive the unfortunate to desperation; yet we do know there are bounds beyond which the agonies of human nature cannot pass. It is in the power of the philanthropist to avert much of the present evils which exist in society. There is another class of unfortunates, still more wretched than the widow, justly entitled to all our sympathies, yet, from their situation in life their claims are weakened, and our charities must be delicately administered, still they are deserving our commiseration and pity. She who is cursed with a worthless husband, (uo degraded beast husband is an inappropriate term,) with a large family of children, is infinitely in a worse condition than the lonely widow. Like the widow, she is compelled to support her children and herself and often the wothlcss wretch not only eats his daily bread from her hard earnings, but the means are snatched from the mouths of their famishing children to furnish the inebriating poison for this odious brute. We have known women thus circumstanced, who have supported their families with considerable decency and credit, by their own hard labor, yet they could do it more effectually, and educate their children better, it temale labor was placed upon a just footing. This subject we intend to resume at a future day. Prompt Arrest. The partner of a Scolch Banking house charged with the commission of several forgeries, took passage in the Wm. Byrnes, under a he ticious name, for this port which vessel sailed on Nov. 17th. The necessary documents proving the facis were transmitted by the George Washing, ton which sailed on the 24th and arrived before the Wm. Byrnes. The consequence was that the delinquent before landing was arrested by a Sheriff's officer and carried to prison. This event should admonish persons who commit crimes in the old country that fleeing to the pew world does not afford a secure refuge from injuslice.-.V.y.Pa. From Rotterdam. We are informed by Captain Ames, of the ship Philadelphia, arrived last knight from Rotterdam, that on leaving the port he was made heave to and examined by one of the English fleet, seven of which were in sight. Police-Office. Messrs. Homan, Sparks and Merrit, having received information from some black boys whom they had arrested upon a charge of stealing, that their stolen articles had been sold in a cellar 50 Orange street, kept as a kind of old iron and junk shop by Thomas Mullin, proceeded there night before last for the purposes of searching this premises. On their arrival Mullin? strictly protested that he was an

honest man, and carried on an honest business, but the doubting officers proceeded nevertheless to examine the house, where, in a kind of upstairs store room they found lots and loads of cloaks, coats, umbrellas,

boots i&c&c, including a large collection morning the Liverpool packet ship South of defaced and broken up silver, all of which America, Capt. Marshall. Wc 1 mo rethcy caused to be taken to the Poliicc Of- ceivea by lcr London dates ofthe 4di Dc-

fice. In the course of yesterday they found claimants for a portion of the articles, and succeeded by dint of industry in matching two or three dozen silver table and tea spoons, the marks on vvhich had not been so certainly defaced as to render the initials unintelligible. three or four coats, three camblct cloaks, some ladies dresses, and a . r i c . e .i quantity oi broken fragments of spoons, with ii n. nl o e);n ,1 .i n- r other articles still remain in the office for claimants. X. Y. Enq. From the Baltimore Visitor. A Yankee Trick. There has been a good deal of talk in this city, as well as in those cities north and cast ot us, concerning the marriage of a Miss Phelps with two gen tlemen, Mr. lloswell 31. ricld, ol layetteville, and Mr. J. II. Clark, of Boston. It appears these two marriages, in which but three were concerned, were announced simultaneously in the Boston and Windsor papers, and rumor, of course, began to conjecture. The "Traveller ana limes," ol New York, throws some light upon the mystery. It seems that Miss P. possessed on ample fortune, besides every other charm that could make a young lady lovely in the eyes of a suitor; she was betrothed to Mr. C. with the consent of all partieshe being a gentleman of medium circumstances, and a merchant of Boston. In the mean while in steps Auld Robin Graiu in the form of a Mr. F., a rich gentleman from the south, ra-

ther advanced in years, but having an am- Journals irom uenin, anu likewise tho priple store of the ready. The parents were vatc advices by the continental mails of tocharmed with the glitter of gold, and of day, it does not appear that the army of obcourse, used all their endeavors to break scrvation on the frontiers of Belgium has

the lady's engagement with Mr. C, but she, . .i t . i . t 11.1 v true 10 nernrst love, resisieaaiiineireuorts, wrote to her lover concerning her situation ; and planned an elopement ere tho dreadful day of her union with Mr. 1. should arrive. The sordid parents, suspecting, by the chcerfulness of their victim, that all things were not right, ordered the marriage rites one day earlier than anticipated at first. The poor girl was consequently hurried to the altar more like a statue than any thing else, and the ceremony was performed. The Boston lover in the mean while had not been idle, he stationed a relay of horses on the road, and arrived at Putney just in time to be too late the rites had just been consummated. Not in the least disheart&med, he put his wits to work, and soon found out that the bans had not been published, and Miss P. was not a wife in the eyes ofthe law. He consequently stole an interview with her, and had an explanation of affairs. The "hour for retiring" had not yet arrived, and the groom began to be in the fidgets about his bride; she was sent for, but could no where be found, and so poor Pilgarlick was left to make the best of it. Chase was instantly made; but the lovers were too fleet for their pursuers. They reached Boston and were lawfully wedded. Thus the mystery is explained it is said they frequently laughed at the joke a laugh which must be greatly at the expense of Mr. F. An article in a late Richmond Whig, states, that Mr. Calhoun has declared in conversation, that S. Carolina will listen to the appeal of Virginia with all respect; that she will oblige her in every thing except the surrender of principle, and that her Ordinance will he suspended at the entreaty of Virginia! Can this be true? "And, has it come to this?" Is Mr. Calhoun begging Virginia to resort to entreaty, by way of saving appearances to give the Nulliliers a saving opportunity to hack out? The manner in which the President's Proclamation has been received, has probably con vinced the Chief of the Southern Band of Traitors, that it may be well for theni to be entreated to pause. But, no matter. Wc are anxious that tho effusion of blood may be avoided, and we would rather sec the Ordinance suspended than the projectors of it. One or the other will occur. Louisville Adv. A late number ofthe London Globe, in speaking of a contemplated forced loan by the Neapolitan Government on the merchants, including foreigners, to build a hzaretto at Naples, makes this remark: "The government of the United States, by menace or cajolery have extorted a sum of 35,000 from the Neapolitans in indemnity of certain losses under the government of king Joachim, 17 years ago1. Jonathan is often ridiculed by our Tories for underpaying his diplomatic agents. These illpaid servants, it must be allowed, do their business pretty well." All preach humility, none practice it. The master thinks it is doctrine for his servants; the worldings for the clergy: and the clergy for their congregations. The difference between happiness and wisdom is, that the man who thinks himself most wisa is gonerally the very reverse.

Foreign IVcws,

LATE FROM U'UOI'E. The news-schooner Eclipse of tho Cour ier Xt. Knmiirer office, hoardoil vnvtntnw ccmbcr, and Liverpool of the 5th. ANTWERP. London, Dec. 3. On Friday morning last the citidrl of An twerp which all along has been acknowlcd even by the Dutch themselves to belong to Dili mtiktMin1 4 r ot iir 1 tm 4 r r . . .. . r , r , . , f . r -r. replied to by a cannon-shot from the mihta- .... ,r. run i rv representative ot the the King of Holland, f , . , . : wjiu uus uu ciaim, ami prcicnua iu no niii ui I'uosisaiJi nun xvi ii loro. i iui.si iuii, therefore, which has agitated Europe for the last two years, and which ought long ago to have been decided by tho treaty of the 15th November, 18J12, is now to be set tled not by diplomacy, but by arms. London Dec. H. The accounts brought from Holland, dated Saturday by the Attwood steam-boat, arrived in the river this afternoon, contain little beyond the announcement oi tho bonibardmcnt of the citidcl of Antwerp by tlw French army. That the hostilities will bo protractcu to a much greater length oi limo than was at iirst imagined no doubt is entertaincd. The orders given to the Dutch Commandant from the Hague on the arrival ofthe French army, were that ho should hold out to the last, under the expectation that something might turn up to give a new face to affairs. Probably King William anticipated an interference in his favor on the part of the Prussians; but they arc as yet very tardy in their movement, and in the latest materially altered his position. In the letI a 1 ! 4 ! J .1 ! icrs, pontics iiigeMi-iui uru uvoiucu uora inotives of prudence. Antwerp, Nov. 30. A.iC o clock. lhe important moment has passed: the summons has been delivcred to General Chasse for the evacuation of the citidcl: he has refused. The cannon ot tto citidcl have been directed against tho French soldiers while working in the trenches, and several have been killed. Tho conditions offered by the commandant of tiie citidcl for the neutrality of the town have been declared inadmissible by tho French authorities. A second parlcmcntairc has been sent to the citidcl. During the evening tho shots have been widely distant from each other. The weather is rainy and dark. The French soldiers are said to be still working although from the citidcl it is impossible to descry their movements. To-morrow, it is expected there will be a great advance made not only towards tho completion of the two parallels, but towards the establishment of several batteries, whence the assailants in return will be enabled to annoy the citidcl. An attack is expected tonight on the forts holdcn by tho Dutch on the left bank of tho Scheldt, to whose commander a Minmions was also sent this day at 1 1 o'clock. Who can therefore, wonder if the excitement and anxiety of tho people here is of the greatest? Tho details of the delivery of tho summons, as I have hern enabled to obtain them, are, at an early hour, some state G o'clock, the summons was entrusted to a superior officer of Marshal Gerard's stuff who proceeded at day break to deliver it. 1 hopo to have the document, to which one may refer. The answer of General Chassc was, that he could riot suppose his country to bo at war with Lngland or with France and that he would not yield until his means of defence were exhausted, or until he had the orders ofthe King of Holland to surrender the fortress; and as to the neutrality of the city ho proposed several conditions, which have been consid-.rt d as inadmissiblo such as that tho Scheldt was to cont'nuo free for all communications to tho citadel, and that tho forts on the left bank were not to be attacked, and that no use should bo made against tho citadel of the batteries erected in Fort Montehello and within tho compass of the city. Tho officer brought back the reply to Marshal Gerard with uu intimation that if the French persisted to work in the trenches after mid-day the citsdel would fire upon them. As the works were continued, the firing commenced at a quarter past 12 o'clock. The conduct of the commandant of tho citadel and of the garrison itself appears inexplicable; the French worked during tho night, yet not a shot was fired at them, and at mid-day they had completed without injury what they hid expected to have cost 2,000 men if an active resistance had been given. At 10 o'clock last night th Belgian posts were relieved all round the citadel, as well in the town as in the country. At midnight several volliea of musketry wcro fired oiffrom the citadel, in order to clear tho atmosphere and to allow the garrison to seo if the enemy was near. Tho French, though under arms ready to begin th ir work, preserved a strict Fil ncc. The rison went "to sleep," until tho summons awoke them hern their slumbers and they saw the French swhliers at wutk within hail: the soldicis und r fixers contimiid to look on impassively until mid duy.