Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 27, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 July 1833 — Page 1

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The following letter, from the pen of an

accomplished foreigner, was intended solely for the perusal of a London friend; but has been politely handed us for publication. JVew York JHirror. LETTER TO A FRIEND IN LONDON. I wish you were in this country, my dear B., you would have much to learn and unlearn. You would be surprised and delighted although you might miss some of your accustomed luxuries. I have not myself forgotten you, nor our friends, nor our merry old England; and hallowed in my memory is the recollection of that spot "where Thames is seen Gliding between his banks of green, "While rival villas, on each side Peep from their bowers to woo his tide, And like a turk between two rows Of harem beauties, on he goes, A lover, loved for ev'n the grace With which he slides from their embrace ;" but here are scenes, although strangely different, yet of wonderful magnificence, and a people who have been much misrepresented by foreign bookmakers. J am now in NewYork staying at the Mansion-house, kept by a Mr. Bunker. It is in the lower part of Broadway, a large building not unlike , where, you remember, we put up together. This Broadway is really a fair street, several miles in length; and, although not remarkable for any splendid buildings, (the city-hall is a clever thing, surrounded by a small enclosure, termed "the park;") but throngs of well dressed people always occupy the side walks, and give it a fashionable and happy look. There is, at the southern termination of Broadway, a piece of land fenced off, divided into grass plots, and shaded with pleasant trees. It commands a view next to the bay of Naples. It is, indeed, surprisingly beautiful, and provokes continual exclamations of delignt trom citizens as well as strangers. Before it and around it, stretch the broad bay, studded with islands, and bounded with a bright shore: steam boats, vessels of war, packet-ships, sloops, and a great variety of small crafts, are forever gliding over it, giving the scence a striking character of animation. Here the military parade, fire-works are exhibited, balloons ascend, and a thousand other little local affairs attract large crowds. At present the city is all in commotion. It is quite an era, and a very interesting one in the history of the town, from the fact, that the venerable president of the republic is now, for the first time in many years, a visiter. He is a man of extraordinary character, and, from his earliest boyhood, has continually grown in popularity. You have heard me before speak of General Jackson, the famous hero of New Orleans a military chieftain a soldier of courage and genius, and unrivalled firmness and decision a statesman, prompt, fearless, aspiring and energetic. His coming to New York has been for some time a topic of newspaper comment and congratulation, and of drawing-room, as well as pot-house and tavern discussion. There is not, probably living, a man so popular as this aged chief; his name is in every body's mouth; his pictures, busts, &c, have, for many years, crowded the streets and print-shops, windows, parlors, libraries, barber-shops, taverns, &c. &c. &c, and, on certain public occasions, he has been, from time immemorial to the rising generation, represented in the evening on an illuminated transparency, with one war-like hand resting on his unsheathed blade a tremendous affair, by the way, which might have tested the strength of Sir William Wallace and the other leaning on the flow ing mane of a steed of 6uperb outlines and dimensions, and so mettlesome, that we fancy the youthful Alexander would not have been as ready to back him, as he was to mount Bucephalus. I do not mean to say that the president has been universally po pular. No, no. That would be a sad deviation from the customs of republics. There has been against him, as against all others, a party whose opposition has, probably, ren dered the acclamations of his adherents more loud and apparent. Their watch-word is, "hurrah for Jackson!" There is not a little curly-pated imp of three years old, but will f ing up his tattered hat, and cry out, "hurrah for Jackson!" For years and years this has been the state of the city in reference to their present president, and" many measures or nis aummistration have tended to overflow the cup oi his popularity, already full. The fact, that under his direction a dangerous question, which threatened the dissolution of the Union, has been amicably settled, has elevated the general enthusiasm and curiosity beyond all bounds. Besides this, a recent personal insult offered him by a crazy navy officer, has shocked the whole country, and all, friends and foes, appear equally anxious to make every possible reparation to him whose gray hairs might have still protected him from actual assualt, if no respect was felt for the dignity of the office and the services of of the man. Hence you may judge, that on the day of his expected arrival, the streets presented a curious spectacle. There are more than two hundred thousand inhabitants in New York, and, I do believe, the greater part cf them thronged toward the place where the celebrated soldier and venerable statesman was expected to land. The scene was imposing, grand and sublime. It will probably live on the page of history, as cue cf the most impressive and romantic events of the times. Fancy, my dear B., a i proud, great city lofty houses trees fen ces an swarmed with multitudes, anxious to get a glimpse of the hero as he passed from the superb shore. On landing, he was received by Major General Morton, at the head of his column, a gentleman of the old school, to whom I had letters from you, and with whose acquaintance I am greatly pleased. Ho addresGed the president in an appropriate, concise and pointed speech, and the lin ct marcn was then taken up through the city. The distinguished visiter rode through the mobt magnificent street on this continent, to his hotel. The Battery a large area was a living mass of human beings troops, hore and foot, and thousands and thousands

of citizens the bay covered with steamboats and other vessels flags floating cannon roaring music swelling on the wind bursts from the trumpet that made the pulses wild, and, over the whole, the cheers and loud acclamations of the crowd. I was well accommodated with a seat at the hotel, which is situated, (or, as the Americans say, "located,") in the widest part of the street, and where the throng, carriages, carts, stages, gigs, horses, and foot-passengers amounted to suffocation, and furnished, certainly, one of the most impressive sights I ever beheld. The wide street, through which, for hours, the tide of human beings had been rushing steadily with the heavy sound and motion of a strong current, was at length filled and dammed up completely, as far as the eye could reach. Windows, up to the fourth story nay, the very house tops, and the roofs of the churches and all the public buildings, were crowded. They were well-behaved folks, and waited patiently till a troop of horse rode through the vast dense assembly in order to make way for the principal object of interest, whose arrival had already been announced by the cannon. The trumpeter blew his blast, long and loud the hoofs of the horses rattled over the stones a

passage was at length cleared, only wide enough for two or three horsemen abreast. The president had been much abused; his face, form and health had been caricatured and misrepresented. He had been termed a feeble, sickly, dying old man, and, by some, an "old woman," suffering under the weakness of age and imbecility, and incapable of acting for himself. The excitement at this moment was really intense, and it was not allayed by a rumour which flew from lip to lip, that, in crossing from a fort a little out in the bay to the main land, the bridge had given way, and also a covered arch, bearing scores of people, a moment after the president had passed from beneath it. All the great men in company with him had been precipitated, with numbers of others, into the water and, in the confusion of the moment, it was said that many were dangerously wounded that some were killed, and that the escape ofthe president was miraculous. Presently my ears were stunned with the burst of voices wnich announced that the crowd had caught sight of him. The waving of hats and handkerchiefs grew nearer, till amid the thousands beneath me that rocked and heaved like a tumultuous sea, I saw a group of officers, richy dressed, and among them, and distinguish ed by the simplicity of his attire by his tall, commanding form and dignified demeanour his bare venerable head and calm expression of face, I saw the president himself mounted reining his horse with the air of an accom plished rider, and waving his hat continually, and bowing to the thousands and thousands who, above, below and all around, were greeting his course with thundering cheers. Do you not remember a passage in Shakspeare exactly applicable to this! AT-iinfror! iinrn n Vint n nrl ?r-nr ctorxl Which his aspiring rider seemed to know, With slow but stately pace kept on his course. You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old, Though casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage; and that all the walls, With painted imagery, had said at once, Jesus, preserve thee! Welcome, Bolingbroke! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus I thank you, countrymen: And thus still doing, thus he passed along." There was really in this sight a good deal ofthe moral sublime. Cincinnatus from his plough could scarcely appear more unassum ing than this great man in his plain black dress. The city is all in excitement on this, as well as on one or two other subjects. A balloon has gone up and an Indian chief, with his son and a prophet of the tribe, which have been recently conquered by the government, are also in town. The vice president, Mr. Van Buren, is also a sojourn er and some ot the secretaries ot the de parments yesterday, I ran against a gentle man whom, upon a nearer view, I recognized as Washington Irving and the deuceknows what else there is to ferment the population. hat did old mother 1 rollope mean bv sav ing that the Americans had no enthusiasm Why, they are tinder. They burn spontaneously. Eight or ten thousand of them assembled yesterday on the Battery to see a balloon ascend. I am a great friend to balloons they are so elegant and airy and careless. like a nne gentleman, or a poet, or a belle or a butterfly. They tell odd things of these inflated machines too. You have heard of the aeronaut, who ascended with his dot . The parachute was overturned at an indefi nite height, and both were precipitated, (that is scarcely the word the word overset,) in to the air. The man fell, was whirled about for a long time by conflicting currents of wind and after having been abandoned to his fate for three or four hours, he heard his little dog somewhere near him barking in the air If I had not seen this story actually printed, I should scarcely believe it. The New York man is a bold fellow he goes up really in magnificent style. The inflation takes place m a tort, (now converted into a public ice cream garden,) on the shore of the bay. The place itself is generally filled, and also the surrounding stream, walks, streets, &c, with boats, pedestrians, carriages, and all the et ceteras. Imagine a delicious sunshiny afternoon a soft Italian air a heaven with scarcely a cloud all blue and transparent the thronging thousands waiting around. At length a little balloon a pioneer ascends, and is borne off rapidly by the light breeze, till it is lost in the sky. Prensentlv the huge globe of brown silk looms up above the edges of the wall with a beautiful motion swinging, floating, and displaying all the aspiring impulses of an eagie eager for the flight, and scarcely retainable on earth. The arrangements within are at length com

pleted. The huge mass rises slowly, clear and free into the air. The car, with its adventurous plot, is greeted with multitudinous cheers, and off they float upward and away upon the gale flags waving huzzas mingling cannon firing horses prancing and the lonely vessel smoothly gliding into the blue high distance till it fades to a speck. Among the spectators of this scene were Black Hawk and his party. These Indians are great curiosities to me. Nothing makes me more strikingly realize that I am in America that a broad ocean rolls between you and me. The savages who infest the frontiers of the republic have no idea that

the whites comprise more than a handful of men, and fancy tney may be conquered by perseverance. Several of them were conducted on a tour through the country some years since, and of course were astonished. On going back to their people they detailed the wonders they had seen; but such monstrous stories gained no credit they were for some time the objects of ridicule and persecution, till at length, in self-defence, they recanted. It is the desire of the government that the present chief may see and judge for himself of the extent of the people with whom they presume to war. At Baltimore the other day, these Indians were introduced to the president, who addressed them as follows: "My children When I saw you at Washington, I told you you had behaved very badly, in raising the tomahawk against the white people, and killing men, women and children upon the frontier. Your conduct last year compelled me to send my warriors against you; your people were defeated with great loss, and your men surrendered, to be kept until I should be satisfied that you would not try to do any more injury. I told you I would inquire whether your people wished you should return, and whether, if you did return, there would be any danger to the frontier. General Clark and General Atkinson, whom you know, have informed me that Sheckack, your principal chief, and the rest of your people, are anxious you should return, and Koe-kuk has asked me to send you back. Your chiefs have pledged themselves for your good conduct, and I have given them directions that you should be taken to your own country. "Major Garland, who is with you, will conduct you through some of our towns. You willsee the strength of the whitepeople. 1 ou will see our young men are as nu merous as the leaves in the woods. What can you do against us? You may kill a few women and children; but such a force would soon be sent against you, as would destroy your whole tribe. Let the red men hunt and take care of their families; but I hope they will not again raise their hands against their white brethren. H e do not wish to injure ITT 1 . you. we desire your prosperity and im provement, but it you again plunge your knives into the breasts of our people, I shall send a force wich will severely punish you for all your crueltjes. "When you go back, listen to the counsels of Koe-kuk and the other friendly chiefs. Bury the tomahawk, and live in peace with the frontiers. And I pray the Great Spirit to give you a smooth path and a fair sky to return. To this Black Hawk answered: "My father My ears are open to your words. I am glad to hear them. I am glad to go back to my people. I want to see my family. I did not behave well last summer. I ought not to have taken up the tomahawk. But my people have suffered a great deal. When I get back I will remember your words; I won't go to war again. I will live in peace. I shall hold you by the hand." All this is mighty romantic for us, dear B; and the liberty-loving ladies of the west greet him like a hero. A critic, however, who seems authority, gives the following pas sage: "Black Hawk and his cotnpagnons de voyage continue to draw multitudes of gazers. They bear inspection and suffocation admirably. Each verifies the description ofthe poet "The stoic of the woods, the man without a tear." Ladies emulously and eagerly grasp tawny hands that have been imbrued in human blood, as the teeth of the panther are with that of his prey, quadruped or biped. These savages are of noble form and characteristic mien; every thing in them is aboriginal: the son of the chief is a master-piece of his race an Uncas in his conformation and aspect. It is such a being that seems to breathe every where the soul of Smollett's lines "Thy spirit, independence, let me share! Lord ofthe lion heart and eagle eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls sky." along the The president was also on the ground at the hour for the ascension of the balloon. He was, as before, ever greeted with acclamations, and continues to be the victim of reports. One paper says, "a story has become very current, that President Jackson intends uniting himself to a very amiable and accomplished lady in Connecticut, and that the nuptials are to be celebrated during his present visit. We presume the story, like many similar reports, is without the least foundation in truth." Another announces, that "among other tokens of respect which will be shown to the president and vice-president, about Jive thousand of the fairest ofthe fair, unmarried, and young, elegantly dressed in white, will join in a procession to meet and greet them on their arrival in Lowell, in the state cf Massachusetts. Here is a specimen ofthe enthusiasm with which his words are observed and reported, from one ofthe newspapers: "When the president appeared on the balcony of the city-hall, and witnessed the countless multitudes of well-dressed, orderly citizens, who had assembled to do honor to the first magistrate of the republic, and to testify the reverence and aiFection so well

due to the public services and the individual

character of the incumbent when he heard the long rolling thunders of their enthusiastic cheering he telt that it was to their noble and happy institutions, that this people were doing honor, and were thus giving the most sincere of all pledges of their endearing attachment to and worthiness of such high Advantages. His forgetfulnoss of self, and his singleness of devotion to the common weal, were never more strikingly displayed than in the half unconscious remark which fell from his lips, as the magnificent scene presented itself before him. Turning to Governor Marcy, witu a quivering lip, but a brightening 1 eye, he said "Nullification trill never take root here!" Even at that moment, the proudest and dearest to himself, in all his lifetime, he could think only of his country and its welfare." As for myself I have witnessed the entrance into cities of victorious general and coronations of kingsbut I never saw a sight presenting such a striking example of the moral sublime, as the entrance into New York of that tall old man, in simple attire, with his gray, uncovered head, bending to the salutations of his countrymen. Yours sincerely, dear B. r. a. k. TAILORS. There arc some things in this world which astonished me when I first opened my eyes upon it, and which I have never since been auie to unuersiann. une oi incse is ine popular ridicule about the business of a tailor. The arts and crafts of all alike refer to one grand object, the convenience and pleasure of the human race; and though there may be some shades of comparative dignity among them, I must confess I never yet could see any grounds, either in reason or jest, forthe peculiar contempt thown out upoii one, which, to say the least of it eminently conduces to the conduct of man. A joke is a joke, to be sure; but then it should be a real joke. It should have some bottom in the principles of ridiculous contrast, or else it cannot be what it pretends to be, and must consequently fall to the ground. Now it strikes me that all the sniggering which there has been about tailors since the beginning of the world (the first attempt at the art, by the bye, was no laughing matter) has been quite in vain perfect humbug a mirth without the least foundation in nature; for, if we divest ourselves of all recollection of the traditionary ridicule, and think of a tailor as he really u, why, there is positively nothing in the least ridiculous about him. The whole world lias been upon the grin lor six thousand years about one particular branch of general employment; and if the world were seriously questioned as to the source of its amusement, I verilv believe, that not a single individual could give the least explana tion. The truth is the laughter at tailors is an entire delusion. While the world laughs, the artists themselves make riches, and then laugh in their turn, with this difference that they laugh with a cause. I am almost tempted to suspect that the tailors themselves are at the bottom of this plot of ridicule in order that they may have the less competition and the higher wages; for again 1 positively say, I cannot see what there is about the business to be laughed at. Nobody ever thinks of laughing r,at a shoemaker, though he applies himself to clothe the very meanest part ofthe body. Nay, the saddler who furnishes clothes to a race of quadrupeds, is never laughed at; while few trades awaken the human sympathies so strongly as that of the blacksmith, who is relatively as much meaner in his omploment than the saddler, as the shoemaker is than the tailor. What, then, is the meaning what is the cause of all this six thousand years' laughing! If any man will give me a feasible answer, I will laugh too; for 1 like a joke as well as any body; but upon my honor I cannot laugh without a cause. 1 must see were the fun lies, or it is no fun for me. If the mirth be, as I Respect, enMrcly groundless, what a curious subject for consideration! A large and respectable class of the community has been subjected from apparently the beginning of the social world, to a system of general ridicule; and, when the matter is inquired into, it turns out that nothing can be shown in the circumstances of that class to make the ridicule merited. Men talk of the oppression of governments; but was there ever such oppression, such wanton persecution and cruelty, as this? Does any superior, in almost any instance, inflict such wrong upon those under him, as is here inflicted, by ordinary men, upon a part of their own set.1 How much discomfort there must have been in the course of time from this cause; and yet the jest turns out to want even the excuse of be in g a jest! Thousands of decent and worthy people have felt unhappy and degraded, that their neighbors might have an empty, unmeaning, witless laugh. The best ofthe joke is, that the human race must have paid immensely, in the course of time, for this silly sport. The tailors properly, would iiui, inaikc ciuiuvs aim lurnisn laugmng stocks 1 . .U 1 C i l l . i wiuioui payment lormeir service in ootu capacities. Their wages therefore, have always been rather higher than those of other artisans; and few tradesmen are able to lend so much ready cash to good customers, as the : d. l i i i i London tailors. 1 he fellow s pocket the affront amazingly, having become quite reconciled to a contempt which is accompanied with so much of the substantial blessings of life. J5ut the world should net cllowthis. It should say, "No no, Messieurs Tailors, we see through the folly of our jesting, and would rather want it altogether than pay so much more than is proper for cur coats. So, if you please, we'll make a rew arrangement. We'll agree never more to reckon up nine of you as necessary to make a man, never more to speak of either goose of caMngc, r.cwr more to use the words "prick the louse," or anything of that kind, m short, we'll give up the whole of this system of obloquy, ami maKe men oi you, livou win oniv srtve us a disccunt of the per cent, oft' your charges." Let the woild do tie's; and, if the tailors be not by this time quits hardened in endurance, and impervious to all sham.;, th::;k wo might

an save a goou uoni oi uvr incomes every yenr, and the amount of genuine mirth not to be much diminished. vrgh Journal.

ii , .. JOURNEYMEN 1'Kl N TTUR, Prom high to low, in New England, or at the south, they are the class of dissipated, careless, well informed good hearted men knowing how to act better than they donothing at timers, yet every thing if occasion required it. We have seen one and the same individual ofthe cratl, a minister in Carolina, a boatman on the western canal, a shorid'in Ohio, a sailing master on board a privateer, a fuller in New Orleans, a dandy in Broadway, New York, a pressman in a garret printing otlice, and without a settled habitation any where! Having nothing to lose, no calamity can overwhelm them; and caring to gain nothing, no tide of fortune carrier them upwards from the bvel where they choose tostJiid; the least to be envied, yet the happiest dogs in Christendom. Philosophers by practice, and spendthrifts by inclination, they complain not when their stomach cries tor bread and they have no bread to give, and in the next hour, if fortune favors them wih the mene.s, expend more for unnecessary delicacies than would serve to keep them on wholesome food for a month. Tivavtifid r.rtrac!. "Behold him revered from every tiling he held dear, and which makes existence even tolerable. 'J'ho relation of husband and wife, parents and children, dissolved. The association of kindred and the felicities of home, are his no more. For him the niorniiig brings no rwcets, and the evening promises no rest. On him the sunshines wih sickly rays, nnd the stwrs shoot mnhgnant fires. For him the heavens distil no pleasant dews, and skies wear no brightness the fields wear no verdure tho flowers blossom in vnin in seed time and in harvest he has no portion. The smiles of his consort and the welcome of his children i,nly serve to harrow up his soul. "The most lolly mount" ins on our gloho are composed of atoms. Chi mbcra.o's towering height, is formed by the union of minute particle of mailer. The largest river are made of small breams. No ene, in be holding the source of the .Mississippi, could form any idea of the majesty of its termination as it rolls on, it increases in strength. In the' same maimer, morals and institutions, bv the united energies of society, become permanent, lasting and beneficial." "Her crowns will never crumble, for they are crowns of life. Her laurels will never fide, fi r they grow in an unpolluted clime. Her fires never go out her incense ever bums her temple doors, like the gates of day, have been open since the morning of time. Shall we join in procession with ti e millions who have knelt at her shrine! h'ho necr pressed more urgent'claims she never undertook a more glorious cause it is the cause cf humanity." Conjugal vjfic!ionr.asy t?tnih-n old lady residing not far fromg F.xcter, was perhaps one ofthe most brilliant examples of conjugal tenderness that the hist century produced. Her husband had long been dying, and at length, on the clergyman ofthe parish making one of his daily visits he found him dead. -Tie disconsolate widow in giving him an account of her spouse's last moments, told him her "poor dear man kept groaning and groaning, but ho could not die; tit lat," said he, "I recollected I had get a piece of new tape in the draw or fo I took some of that and tied it as tiirht us I could round his neck, and then I stopped hi nose w it ii my thumb and linger, nnd por dear! he tccut oJJ'like a lamb!" The New Orleans llee, of the Tfth ultimo, furnishes the pleasing intelligence that th Hon. I'M ward J). 'White, one ofthe licprosontatives in Congress from Louisirna, w hose jjfo had been despaired of, was recovering from the etlect.s of Irs indisposition, occasioned hy the burning ofthe steam lvat Lioness, and that he would he able to he oi.t in a few days. .V. ('. Star. The Lastshifcdott." Who's that nre Mr. Scattering that always t ots a few votes rt our town meetings," inquired an eld lady a few days since of her spouse, as she was busily engaged in perusing a newppaj er. "I don't know," said le, "though the pooph have been trying to elect him ever since I be gan to vote. Jhdha.n Jit. On Tuesdny h?t a woman was convicted in the .Mayor's Con it of NYilmington, Del. oi" stealing a watch, and fontonced to receive twenty one laches on the hare back. Ot.tjfn Timts. In th? rein rf Tlerrv YII!, Sir A. ritzherhert, Jedge of the C urt of Common Pleis, wrote a Treatise entith'.l the"ickof Husbandry," from which t'o following is extracted: "It is a wives oecupation 1o wynowe a'l "manner of comes, to ma' recite, to wabo, "and wringe, to make lty, rl.eve, come, "(reap) t-nd in tymc ofnecee to hdpr h-r hm;"hand to fdl the much hayne or dur.g crt, "drive the plougs, to load beje, come nrd "such ether. And togoto ryde t' the nniket "and sel better, chose, n.ilk, egg?, cheeky n-,, "taeons, beeves, pvgges, gee.-e, h.vl ail inan"nr of comes." Ladies ofcightccn hendrd and th!ry-thrre! what do you think of thi! Was not the learned Judge a lmrd-he uted old wretch to hurden, the gentler rex with labors lmo;:t heicuh-ml As old time passes or, he brings his elnrge many of them we believe, have lrx'n lrghly j f t 1 j favorable to the con.f !t, if not to th w.d!-lv-ladi Jjd'tim-jre ' u The F.oard of iym!?Kr.er vrver tH J Fr:r.?h Treaty ofli-dcv.vtyret ;r Vahh:f. io?i on Monday. The. rewly appointed Cm. raifsicuer, li!. -Mvde.v. bcirg in atS r.d tnce, m j lice of .Mr. Willi ;r.. p, iv:,gnvd.