Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 42, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 2 November 1833 — Page 1

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The following Song, written by Mr. Le Ray Anderson, of Virginia, was sung with great taste and spirit during the past season of fashion and gaiety at Saratoga. The fair songstress, Miss E. A. S. of Wiliiamsbargh, is one of Virginia's most accomplished daughters, and General Hamilton and other distinguished nullifiers, were always among the loudest in. their encores of this- good-natured jcu tT esprit. .A". Y. Enquirer. CAVE DE UNION. To the tune of Clear De Kitchen. A might angry quarrel rose Among de Tariff's friends and foes, And South Calina in a fit, De Union vow to curse and quit. But save de Union old folks, young folks, Old Virginny never tire. Virginny love her sister State, And most as much the Tarilf hate; But while the Tariff she dispise, De Union very much she prize. So save de Union, &c.

She send her son, Mas Watkins Lcig De South Calina's folks to see, To tell em just to wait a while, And better times will on us smile, To save de Union , &c. The Tariff chief, name Henry Clay, Who love his country much dcy say, Begin to fear its danger great, And says I joins my native State, To save de Union, &c. Calhoun, a great Calina man, Abominate de Tariff plan; But he too say, O yes, 'tis right. And Clay, let's lie and you unite, To save de Union, &c. JfcDvjfie too, when he see dat, Off-hand begin to smell de rat He say, no doubt Calhoun is wise, And we must do what he advise, To save de Union, 6cc. Den all de folks in Congress Hall, De ladies, gentlemens, an all, All smile upon Calhoun and Clay, And say well done, dat is de way To save de Union, ccc. And when Calina hear de news, She come into Virginny's views; She smile upon Mas Watkins Leigh, And say my Nullies all agree, To save de Union, dec. A NOCTURNAL SOLILOQUY. This world what is this world! soliloquised Sammy Stetson, cordwainer on the ladies branch, as he doubled Wright's corner, and pursued his way up Market street, somewhat after the "noon of night." Why, I'll tell you what this world is it's a miserable rapscallion that's a fact (stamping his foot) and what's more not what's more than a fact, but what's more than than I cannot fix it, so let it go, my organ of language is all down to the heel what's more, there are few things in this world that are not miserable rapscallions too. I shouldn't wonder much if I was a miserable rapscallion among the rest (in a tone of surprise.) Here I've been threatening this two years and a half to there, the clock strikes one, two now its the dead of night, to a dead certainty who'd have thought it? What have I been about! But I knew 'twould be so (with a very serious air) courting and late hours are just as much cause and effect, as the honey moon and early hours there's another dead certainty no not a dead certainty, becaaee it's a certainty that exists, and how can a thing be dead when it exists! Now I shan't get to sleep till day light then to-morrow I'll be mopish and surly, (in an agitated tone) and then they'll begin to plague me. But what is courting! Why, courting is a miserable rapscallion there's no mistake (with great earnestness) and the sooner a body gets out of the scrape the better. But how can you get out! Ay, there's the rub, as Shakspeare says there is but one road, and that's a narrow one you must either back out, or drive right ahead. The main question hinges upon this, as lord lord somebody used to say, but it's bad grammar though (striking the fore-finger of the right hand into the palm of the left, and keeping time with the modulations of his voice) "which is the frying pan, and which is the fire! which is the miserablest rapscallion, single blessedness or double blessedness! which is the best batch, a batch of children, or a bach-elor! Fourthly, or in short, or finally, do I believe in matrimony! (with great animation) matter-o'-money that's good (in a low " voice) out then I can't have this matter-o'-money, without something else with it that's bad, and then if matrimony should be the fire, I can't get back into the frying-pan that's bad again now there are two bads to one jjood. And more than that more than what! (stopping short) what was I going to say ! the deuce, I've forgot it, I can't say what I was go ing to say 1 always am frustrated at this time of night my ideas are all tangled up like an old fash- ; ioned skein of shoe-thread. I'll give it up, I won't try to argue the matter I know I'm a tough fellow to argue with at any time, but in this predicament there's no use in trying. But here (as if recollecting himself) I've been threatening this half hour to tell what I've been ' threatening to do these two years and a half I will My it (stamping his foot) I will say what I was going to say, so there's no use in talking about it. But my ideas act strangely to-night they could'nt act worse (with great rapidity) they act as though they had been courting themselves. They are just like a flock of sheep one jumps over the wall, and then the rest jump after it. But I'm just so all over well, (in a grave tone) its nothing new7 Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights the same old tune (vehemently, giving the fence a blow with his fist) I'm all out of kilter. My lips have been cutting : 6trange capers to-night every thing about me have been cutting strange capers I wont be answerable for any of them I'll advertise the whole boodle I'll advertise that all my ca-pa-bilities have left my bed and board, and ca-per-bilities have taken their place, and I'll pay no debts of their contracting. I can't talk at all I aint drunk I could walk a crack, and what the duce is the reason I can't talk a little etraighter! I can't make my tongue say what I want it to it wiggles and squirms every way but the right one. I say I've been threatening this two years and a half to do so and so so and so there, there's another flash in the pan I want what is want! why, want is a miserable rapscallion, and the less a body has of it the better. But (giving the fence such a tremendous kick as to break a two , inch slat) I will get it off, if I have to tafce bgltf of, iy

tongue and wiggle it myself I want to tell what this so and so. is. Well, I say, I've been threatening these two and a half years to to what no, not to what, becuase I don't know how to what, but to pop the question there, it slipped out, before I was ready for it, after all. But what is popping the question! Why it's a miserable rapscallion, and the sooner I get through with it the better. Essex Tribune. Prom the jXcw Hampshire Patriot.

Oregon expedition. Extracts from tho letters of Mr. John Ball, to his father, dated Fort Van Couvek, Feb. 23, 1833. "Believing that you still feel that interest in me that is usual to parents, and that you have always manifested towards rne, I will now inform you of my wcllare. My health has been uniformly good ever since I saw you fifteen months ago, and never better than now. I wrote from the mountains, and hope my letters were received, and that this will be also. "I continued my journey across the country, leaving the place where I wrote the last of July, and arrived at this place the last of October. Afterwards went to the ocean, 100 miles below this place then returned here where I have since remained in comfortable quarters, teaching a few boys, enjoying all the usual conveniences of house and good living. This is a post of the Hudson Bay Company a company which extends its trade for furs from Oanoda to this place; and they have here extensive farming operations raise wheat, corn, peas, potatoes, and most vegetables usually cultivated in gardens, a number of head of cattle, and dairy of course hogs and sheep. I have been very cmly treated by them, though possessed of no introductory letters, or any thing to recommed mc, destitute of every thing, for little can be brought under any usual circumstances across such an extent of wilderness country. And now I am going at the trade you taught me, but as I think in a country better than you selected that more comforts can bo obtained with less labor. More healthy it cannot be but perhaps I am too fast. You know your changeable weather brings on colds, and those colds consumptions. Hero for three years past somo have had tho fever and ague, though never known, even within tho recollection of the healthiest regions in the world. I have the choice out of a tract as largo as the state of New Hampshire, except what is occupied by seven farmers, who commenced last year. I am going on to Multnomah, near tho mouth of which is this post shall settle in the neighborhood of those already there. I have tills week returned from looking out a place. Find tho soil good, and most of it prairie still, timber in abundance for fencing, building, fires, &,c. well dispersed over the country. White oaks often grow on the plains like an orchard, and groves of firs and other timber. The same kind of fir that you have grows here to a great height, and three or four feet through, answering all tho uses to which you put tho white pine. There is another tree called tho red fir, the timber of which is like that of the yellow pine immensely large. The grand advantage here is the climate for there is so little winter that I found the horses hogs and cattle, on the Multnomah fat, though none of them had been fed this winter. In fact 1 have not seen a flake of snow to lay on tho ground a moment, and hail but in ono instance, which lay on, of two inches deep, for one day. Much rain in December, and in January so cold that the Columbia froze over, but tho Multnomah did not. Some trees are now in blossom, and in favorable spots the fresh grass has grown six inches. The Indians have horses which they sell at $S, but cattle aro still scarce, there being none this side of California, except what have sprung from a Bull and seven cows, brought from there seven years ago, if I am rightly informed. Any thing can be raised here that can with you, and many that cannot. Many kinds of fruit trees have been introduced, which succeeded well. But recollect that I am not in possession of these things myself, but have hopes to be after a while, from the generous conduct of those who aro tho owners. "I have seen the country, the description of which from John Ordway so much interested you, when he returned from his tour with Lewis and Clark. The natives, with their flattened heads, arc nearly tho same, though a residence of some white people in their neighborhood for more than 20 years has doubtless had its effect. They have exchanged their skin dresses to considerable extent for cloth. They wear nothing on their feet, but wear a kind of apron and blanket, or skin: some, however, have adopted tho dress of the whites. They are not a warlike people in this quarter, tho' sometimes individuals arc killed but payment of some valuable articles is said to satisfy his friends. The practice of the whites is to chastise any aggression severely, thinking for mutual benefit. They live on whatever is nearest at hand and easi est obtained : nor do they lay up Full stores for the future still they do not entirely neglect it, drying salmon and roots. On tho Multnomah they live almost entirely on roots, principally Camas and Wapatoo, but they prefer tho potato, or any of the food of the whites, when they can get it, so they may eventually turn to cultivafion. Be under no apprehensions on account of them, for with com mon prudence no difliculty is to be learea oesiaes, they are fond of having tho whites come among them. I hope hereafter to let you know more about them and other things in this country. JOHN BALL." The next and latest of Mr. Ball's letters is addressed to his brother, Nathaniel Ball Jr. who also resides in Heborn. .It bears date 'Fort Van Couver, March 4, 1833,' one day later than the last received by his friends in New York. From this also we aro permitted to make extracts: "Fort Van Couver, March 4, 1833. "After writing in the Mountains, a battle occured between the Blackfeet, (a tribe inhabiting the mountains, and said to be a very hospitable people at home; but always at war when abroad) and the whites and friendly Indians. Six or eight of the 1 whites and as many of tho friendly Indians wcro

killed, and it was supposed a greater number of the enemy. I was so nigh as to hear the firing, and assisted to take care of the wounded as they were brought into the camp. The battle was as necessary as warfare usually is, that is unnecessary, for the whites might have avoided it. "On the 24th August twelve of our party, the rest choosing to return or to stay and trap in the mountains, left that place with about 40 trappers, who were going westward. Travelled, first south, till we re-crossed tho main branch of tbe Lewis river, then southwest, at a distance from that stream, on the heads of creeks falling into it, going within a short distance of the great salt lake. We I

travelled in this direction 3 or 400 miles, then down a creek about a hundred miles north to the Lewis river, then three or four hundred northwest, sometimes on and sometimes off that river, till we reached the Columbia at Fort Wallawalla, 9 miles south of its mouth. Here we left our faithful horses, of wh'ch, on this part of our journey we had a full supply; and took a boat for this place. Soon after five of us took an Indian canoe and went to the ocean, and this completed our long journey without any accident to myself, good health all the time, and as much enjoyment; notwithstanding all tho hardships, as ever I had in the same time.' "It was now November, for our progress was retarded on the head of Lewis river in drying buffalo, on which to feed after wo got beyond their range, for they do not come very far this side of the mountains, then tho men with us stopped to trap some and afier we quit them and turned down to the Lewis river we trapped some ourselves, for instance, J. B. caught ten beaver and ono prairie wolf, but game was by no means plenty, we having now come within the sphere of tho Hudson Bay Company's operations. The country through which we passed is a succession of mountains and plains, entirely without laige timber, except a few pines on the mountain willows, rose bushes, in fact a complete thicket usually on the streams the rest is an immense pasture, interspersed with low shrubs and barren sands. I saw. in a few places granite and limestone, but ninetenths of the country i3 volcanic, the rocks show the marks of fire as plainly as blacksmith's cinders, which they often much resemble, being full of holes in the same way; in other cases like glass, lava, and also compact, a kind of rock thoy call basalt, which always appears in columns of five sides you have probably read of the Giants' Causeway between Ireland and Scotland even the rocks of other kinds and often appear burnt and partly melted. Along the creeks this rock forms perpendicular banks, often of astonishing height, and form tho greatest obstruction in travelling the country; the rock on the lower partot tho Columbia and along the coast is of this kind, and about 100 to 150 miles from the coast are a number of exceeding high mountains in form like Etna, always covered with snow; they have never been ascended, but are undoubtedly the same kind of rock mounts Hood, St. Helens and Jefferson are of these. About half way down the Lewis river we met with a great number of springs, in fact small brooks coining out of the bluffs that were of one hundred degrees heat, that is a little above blood heat. I hat is the only appearance of great heat in the earth I have seen now, although the time has been that the rocks of the whole country were probably melted. "Below tho fall of the Columbia the country is mostly wooded, though there arc in all parts especially along the Multinomah, extensive prairies. One at this place is occupied as a farm, and produ ces well. They raised last year 12,000 bushels of wheat, barley, peas and coin, potatoes and garden vegetables in abundance, and aro doing still moro this year. This place is in Lat. 45 deg. 27 min. Long, about 53 deg. west of Boston or yourselves, 100 miles from tho sea, and tide flows 20 or 30 miles above this. JOHN BALL." Mysterious and Melancholy circumstance. Week before last a well dressed female apparently between 25 and 30 years of age landed at Dunkirk, and on Friday came to this village. She stopped at the mail stage house, where sho remained over night and till afternoon next day appeared melancholy said little or nothing to any one, and called for nothing to eat. When she left sho said she wanted to go to Coney's tavern, which is eight miles west of this place, where sho arrived about four o'clock in the afternoon. Here also she appeared depressed in mind and retired enrly to bed. Tho next morning it was ascertained that she was quite ill and a physician was sent for, though against her wish. The physician upon ascertaining her situation informed her that she could not live but a short time, and sho died about four o'clock in the afternoon. All the information she gave of herself was that her name was Melinda Smith that she had a husband and three children living in Clcaveland Ohio, to whom she was returning having been on a visit to her husband's relatives at Rutland, Vt. This statement, from attendant circumstances, is thought not to be correct. Sue had with her a trunk containing considerable clothing and in it was found a quantity of medicine which she said was given her by a physician in Buffalo with directions for its use to produce an abortion, and she stated that she had taken five doses of it. The attending physician upon examining it found it to be rank poison, and gave it as his opinion that one dose of it was sufficient to cause death. The only opinion that can bo gathered from tho whole of the circumstances is, that she was betrayed and made the victim of some monster in human shape. She was decently buried, and her effects, together with a sum of money which she had with her, arc in the care of Mr. John R. Coney, subject to the request of legal claimaute. Fredonia Censor. Power op Music. The N. Y. Constellation says that a celebrated vocalist, made such a "bellowing" a few evenings since, that he actually turned the milk sour in the neighborhood and as the good housewives indignantly declared, actually kept the bread from rising I After this we may well exclaim, "Music hath charms to soothe the savage brood, To saftcn rocks, and gplit a log of tcwd,"

Prom the -V. Y. Farmer bALTl'KTKB IS MEAT. It is a matter of regret that while s- much salt meat is made and used, we have not yet acquired the proper knowledge of the best mode to prepare and preserve it; nor is it generally known how noxious salt meat may become by an improper use of saltpetre in the pickle or brino usually employed. There are various modes of preserving salt meat and fish, by drying, salting, pickling, oiling, smok

ing, iSzc.i but 1 merely mean at present to notice some of the defects and noxious properties of our actual salt meat, either beef or pork. One of the main defects appears to consist in the useless addition of saltpetre into the pickle, whereby the meat often becomes sour and spoiled, and always acid and perni cious. 1 never could understand why this substance was added to common salt in curing meat, except that it is said to look better. But it ought to bo known that part of saltpetre absorbed by the meat is nitric acid or aquafortis, a deadly poison! whereby our salt meat becomes unpalatable and pernicious. A slight excess of this acid makes the meat sour, or spoils it as we say. It has been suggested to correct this by potash, which re-absorbs tho access; but merely hides the defect without neutralizing the whole poison. Is it not surprising that wo should feed and deal, as a staple of our country containing a portion of such active poison as nitric acid! In fact, our actual salt meats aro no longer meat! They are a new pernicious substance produced by a chemical action of salt upon the flesh of animals. This flesh when fresli and clean, consists chiefly of gelatine and tibrine. Gelatine or jelly is the substance soluble in warm water, forming a broth by boiling, or becoming a jelly by concentration; white fibrino is the fibrous tough part of the meat, which cannot be dissolved; and is therefore unfit for food, while gelatine is the real nutritive part of the meat. But it is well known that salt meat and even corued beef can no longer afford a broth, and therefore gelatine must have been changed into another substance no longer soluble, nor so nutritious, by the chemical action of salt and saltpetre. To this new substance chemists have, as yet, not given a name; but it is ns different from meat as leather is from tho hide before it is tanned by the tan bark or tanner. To this chemical change in meat, is to be ascribed all the noxious qualities of salt meat, and the diseases to which those who feed chiefly on it become liable sea scurvy, land scurvy, sore gums, rotten teeth, biles, ulcers, $cc. which we entail on ourselves by using a kind of poisonous bad meat, which we call salt. This important and doleful fact ought to be well known, or made known generally to all those who raise cattle, cure meat or eat it, in order that they may correct this 6ad defect. The first thing to be done is to abandon altogether the use of saltpetre in curing meat. This is indispensable, and no one who is told that aquafortis is the produce of it, ought any longer to uso this poison in pickles or brines. The best substitute for it is sugar, a small quantity added makes the meat healthier, sweeter, nicer and equally durable. How to inako a brine for meat perfectly innocuous, is yet a desideratum, (jelatine ought to bo preserved in salt meat perfectly pure and soluble, as it is in broth cakes, before any salt meat can bo perfectly healthy and equal to fresh meat. But at any rate, by withholding the saltpetre, we divest it of a deadly poisouous substance. C. S. RAFIXESQUK, Proftssor Hist, and Natural Sciences. From the Herkimer ilmcrican, if Oct. 3. The Murder. We published last week from the Utica Observer, a letter detailing the circumstance of the murder of the Indian, by Nathaniel Foster. Since then, the Sheritrhas been sent to Icwitt county for Mr. Foster, and arrived here on Sunday last. Since the return of the persons sent, wo have conversed with them and also with Foster. Judging from their statements, the act is not so ll grant as represented by the correspondence of tho Observer. The facts as related by them, are nearly as follows: The Indian who was a renegade from his own tribe, (St. Hcgis,) went for tho purposo of hunting on what is called Brown's Tract, a large extent of wilderness in the north part of this country, which is uninhabited except by hunters, of whom Foster is one and the most unrivalled. For a while, matters went on peaceably between Foster and tho Indian, but after a time the Indian began to manifest his disposition. Foster, is above dictation and would not submit to the Indian, and they consequently had several quarrels, at all of which the Indian threatened the life of Foster. On the occasion on which the affair happened for which ho is now confined, they had had a quarrel and pitched battle aud were separated by two other men. Tho Indian then swore by every thing that was sacred, that Foster should "never see another Christmas," and proceeded to get his rifle, but was prevented. He then embarked in his canoe up a certain lake on the tract, reiterating the same oath. The two men proceeded in the same direction in another canoe, and left Foster to take his own direction. The Indian, as if fearful of what might happen, kept his canoe close alongside of the other, but on the side opposite to the shore on which they left Foster; who in the meantime had loaded his rifle with two balls, and proceeded by a roundabout course to a certain point about two miles up tho lake, where the pass was rather narrow, and there awaited the arrival of his antagonist. As they came up, Foster was obliged to fire directly between the two men to the Indian on the opposite side, which he did, and the balls pierced the heart of the Indian. Good News, if true. It is rumored that a deputation of the Creek Indians started for Washington city, a few days since, for the purpose of treating with Government, for the disposal of all their Reservations iu tho Creek nation. Montgomery (Ala.) Gazette, October 2. Slander most foul. The Providence Herald relates a story of a marketman in this city, who, unable to give away his pigeons, tied mnepenee to each bunch, as an inducement for some one to steal them. A western paper speaking of Baron Steuben which according to a memoir in the Commercial Advertiser, passed through a state of petrifaction, says gravely enough that the Baron died if the apology. Wo know of a good many individuals that would be petrified by an apology, but we cant help thinking, after all, that the editor means to pay that Baron Steufcsa d;ei gf aa apoplexy,

Madison, I a., October 21. mktiiodist ITISCOPAL CHURCH. Tho Indiana Annual Conference of thia Church closed its session on Tuesday last, having been eraployed six days in tho discharge of it various duties. There wcro about 70 preachers that attended, and the affairs of tho conference, wo understand, wcro conducted and closed, with much good feeling aud brotherly affection. On Sabbath evening a public collection was raided for tho 6UmX)rt of the ...; tvhih amounted Ut

$ 1 2V. On Monday there was another raised for the missionary cause that amounted to $t3. Manor fttiru:, presided. The stations fur the ensuing ytar arc utfolfoxci: Madison distkiit, .J i Wiley, i. i: Madison Station -Lorenzo 1). Smith. Fcvay Circuit Kiclurd tf. Hobiiwoa, John W. Holland. LavreneeburghWm. M. Daily, John Daniel. White Wahr Charles Bonner, John Hobbiu. Wayne John C. Smith, Isaac Kimball. . Ai'io Cattle H obcit llurne. ConncrsvilU John .McBeynolda, James S. Harrison. (ireensburgh Joseph Tarkington. Fernon-John W. Law, Robert Johnson. CllAKLlHTOWN UIKTKH'T JJ'll. ShuuLl, V. E. Charleston John Miller, George M. Berwick. P;llbany- to Ik) supplied, Jijfersonville I'M ward K. Ames. Corydon John Kerns, Flijah Whitton. Salem Zachariah Gamed. Jtedford Hiram Gregg. Jlroxcnstoion John T. Johnson. Paoli Henry H. Talbot, Jesse Harbin. Lexington Joseph Oglesby. Imuvn wous niNTHic i James Ilirrm, r. K. Indianapolis Station Calvin V. Kuter. Indianajtvlis Circuit John Y Sullivan. Fall Crttk Ancil Beach, Lemuel Kccves. Danville Joseph White, Iooreivil! l'hilip May. Columbus Sjiencor W. Hunter. llushville Isaac X. Klsbury, David Stiver. Franklin Amos Sparks. Jtloomington Win. II. Smith. YiNCENNts din ruit'T James L. Thompson t r. K. Carlisle John Uitchie, J. T. Kobe. Pttersburgh Samuel Julian. JVi'iceoi Enoch G. Wood, Cornelius Swank. Jioonville Thomas Bay. Washington M ilea I lutfacre. Terrc Haute Hichard Hargrave, Win. Watson. Jlockvillc Samuel C. Cooper, Harvy Deputy. (ireencastli Thomas J. Brown. Craufordsrille John A. Browse, D. Watkins. Lafayette .Nchcuiiah B. Griffith, H. Vredenburgh. Xoutii Wcstekn district Jat. Armstrong, p. k. St. Joseph John Xewell, IMward Smith. South liendWoyd Phelps. Pine Creek Win. Clark. Carrol! Knoch Wood. Franlford Stephen It. Ball, Wni. Campbell. Tippecanoe and Eel Jlicer mission A. Johnson. Jlissinneipay mission F. Farnsworth. Waumee mission to bo supplied. Valamazoo mission . C. Meek, Tho next Annual Conference to be held at Ccntreville, Wayno county, to commence on tho C'Jdof October, 1 bill. Manner. rRACTH'M. KNOWLCDGC I.N A LEGISLATOR. It cannot bo expected that Legislator always hrtvc a practical knowledge of tho tubiecU which come before them, but when this does happen, tho country .nuit derive benefit from the circumstance, Roger Sherman, when a member of Congress, detected some extensive frauds iu tho accounts of a shoemaker, who had taken an army contract. This grave legislator and incorruptible patriot, had in early life been a shoemaker himself, otherwise tho fraud would have been undetected. Homo year ago a bill was brought into tho DritUh Parliament to tax fchops. When a member had finished a long speech against tho bill, Sir Gregory Turner arose and made histirtt speech, in which h elicited thunders of applauso from the galleries for hid deep knowledge iu tho luxuries of trade. "What," says he, "not tax tdiops!! I ara amazod! They are able to pay any duty almost. I myself knew a little miliner in St. JanaV street, who, from only telling ribbons, and wires, and gauzes, (teas there not a tittle smuggled lace, entre nous) was able to marry a baronet. Xy 1 know it to b a fact, for I am that very baronet, and my wifo id that very littlo milliner. I have looked into her book, aud it id astonishing what profits aro ma do even on tlu wire of a cap. Would you believe it. Sir, that lady Gregory Pago Turner, when tJe kept a retail shop in St. James' street, could 6ell a cap for nine shillings, which did not fetand her in abovo two and sixpence; and that she might have charged twelvo guineas for a cloak, tho making and materials of which did not amount to moro than four pounds; therefore, I say, tho tax is a good one. Lowell Journal. To Dye Guken. Make a strong decoction of black oik bark, by boiling it in water until the coloring matter is extracted; having fctrained it, add a butlicient tpiantity of the following preparation to give the shade wished for; take one ounce of tho best quality of indigo, having pounded it, put it into a stone or glass jar, then pour on it four ounces of the oil of vitriol, (sulphuric acid) keep the mixture warm, stirring occasionally with a stick until tho indigo is dissolved, when it will bo fit for use. Woolen yarn should be boiled in strong alum water and put into tho dye without rinsing; after it haa boiled sufficiently to ect the dye, it may then bi well washed, A strong decoction of arrcswart, which will dyo a fine yellow, may bo U3ed instead of the oak bark, when tho onk bark cannot be conveniently obtained. Fanner and Mechanic FAYETTEVILLic, Oct. 15. Murder and Arson. Wo learn that a deed of horrible atrocity was committed in the lower part of Moore county, near tho line of this county, on Sunday last. The family of Air. John McKinnon heing at church except a negro girl who was preparing to follow them, his houso was set on lira and burnt to the ground, tho remains of tho girl wcro discovered amidst tho ruins, and a trunk which contained ti50, found in tho woods, a short di tanco off broken open and robbed. No doubt that tho girl was murdered by the incendiary awd robber. No discovery has vet been nnd cf tho monster.