Indiana Palladium, Volume 9, Number 44, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 16 November 1833 — Page 1

Dy David V. Cnlley. Terms $3 PER YEAR 33! PER CENT. DISCOUNT MADE O.X ADVANCE, OR 101 ON HALF YEARLY PAYMENTS. ILAWIEEMCIEIHIIUIffiGIHI, (IA.) SATTUMBAY, NOTEM1HHEIB 1, 133. W. 441.

From Jlrs. CharmichaeVs Domestic JUanners and i Society in the West Indies. THE CHASSEUR ANTS AMD THEIR PREY. One morning my attention was arrested at Laurel Hill, (Trinidad) by a number of black birds whose appearance was foreign to me ; they were mailer but not unlike an English crow, and were perched on a calabash tree, near the kitchen. I asked D. who at that moment came up from the garden, what could be the cause of the appearance of so many black birds. She said, "Misses, dem be a sign of de blessing of God ; dey are not de blessing, but only de sign, as we say, of God's blessing. Misses, you'll see afore noon time, how de ants will como and clarde houses." At this moment 1 was called to breakfast, and thinking it was some superstitious idea of D I paid no further attention to it. In about two hours after this, I observed an uncommon number of chasseur ants crawling about the room; my children were annoyed by them, and seated themselves on a table, where their legs did not communicate with the floor. They did not crawl upon any person, but I was surrounded by them. Shortly after this, the walls of the room were covered by them; and next, they began to take possession of the tables and chairs. I now thought it necessary to take refuge in an adjoining room, separated only by a few ascending steps from the one we occupied, and this was not accomplished without great care and generalship; for had we trodden upon one, wc should have

been summarily punished. There were several ants on the step of the stairs, but they were not near co numerous as in the room we had left; for not only were the floor and walls covered like the other room, but the roof was covered also. The open rafters of a West Indian house, at all times afford shelter to a numerous tribe of insects, most particularly the cock roach; but now their destruction was inevitable. The chasseur ants, as if trained for battle, ascended in regular thick files to the rafters, and threw down the cock roaches to their comrades on the floor, who as regularly matched off with the dead bodies of the cock roaches, dragging them away by their united efforts, with amazing rapidity. Either the cock roaches were stung to death on the rafters, or else the fall killed them. The ants never stopped to devour their prey, but conveyed it all to their sicra house. The windward windows of the room were glass, and battle now ensued between the ants and the jack Spaniards, on the panes of the glass. The jack Spaniard may be called the wasp of West Indias ; it is twice as large as a British wasp, and its sting is in proportion more painful. It builds its nest in trees and old houses, and sometimes in the rafters of a room. The jack Spaniards were not quite so easy prey, for they used their wings, which not one of the cock roaches had attempted. The jack Spaniards hotly pursued on the window, alighted on the dress of one of my children. I entreated her to sit and remain quiet. In an almost inconceivably short space of time, a party of the ants crawled upon her frock, surrounded, covered the two jack Spaniards, and crawled down again to the floor, dragging off their prey, and doing the child no harm. From this room I went to the adjoining bed-chamber and dressing room, and found them equally in possession of the chasseurs. I opened a large chest of military linens, which had been much infested; for I was determined to take every -advantage of such able hunters: I found the ants already inside; 1 suppose that they must have got in at some opening at the hinges. I pulled out the linens on the floor, and with them hundreds of cock roaches, not one of which escaped. Wo now left the house and went to the chambers, built at a little distance; but these were also in the same state. I next proceeded to open a store room at the other end of the house, for a place of retreat; but to get the key I had to return to the under room, where the battle was now more hot thin ever; the ants had commenced an attack upon the rats and mice, and, strange as it may appear, they were no match for their apparently insignificant foes. They surrounded them as they had the insect tribe, covered them over, and dragged them off with a celerity and union of strength, that no one who has not watched such a scene, can comprehend. I did not sec one mouse or rat escape, and I am sure I saw a score carried off during a short period. We next tried the kitchen; for the store room and boy's pantry were already (occupied ; but the kitchen was equally the field of battle, between rats, mice, cock roaches, and ants killing them. A huckster negro came up selling cakes, and seeing the uproar, and the family and servants standing out in the sun, he said, "Ah, misses, you have got the blessing of God to-day, and a great blessing it be to get such a cleaning." I think it was about ten when I first observed the ants, and about twelve the battle was formidable; soon after one o'olock. the great strife commenced with the rats and mice, and about three, the houses were cleared. In a quarter of an hour more the ants began to decamp, and soon not one was to be seen within doors, but the grass round the house was full of them ; and they reemed now feasting on the remnant of their prey, which had been left on the road to their nests; aud so the feasting continued till about four o'clock, when the black birds, who had never been Ion g absent from the calabash and pois de doux tree. in the neighborhood, darted down among them and destroyed by millions those who were too sl'uggish to make good their retreat. By five o'cloc k the whole was over; before sun down the aegro bouses were cleared in the same way, and they to Id me they saw tbe black birds hovering about t be almond trees, close to the negro houses', as early as seven in the morning. I never saw these I black birds before or since, and the negroes assurei i me that they were never seen but at such limes. A H !bg is being exhibited in Albany, weishintT 1400 pounds. The money to the captors of the Negroes from the SI sve Vessels within tho last seven years, tmount d to 1,370,000,

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. Mr. Cobbett, at the last session of parliament, presented an application from a number of females, single and of "an uncertain age," craving the right of suffrage. In one of the American States, unmarried ladies participated, at one time, in public duties and were entitled to vote at the elections. Public meetings of the ladies of Baltimore have, within a few weeks been held, for the purpose of ameliorating the condition and raising the prices of some branches of female labour. These different movements will be regarded as indications of a change in the character of the sex. They are, perhaps, rather, the result of circumstances. The early condition of women was purely domestic. Their power, their duties, and their eniov-

ments were all at home. Their education fitted them only, for domestic duties and domestic de lights; and even the female members of the royal family are often, among the ancient nations, described as engaged in duties which the fashionable ladies of the present day would be shocked at. Augustus seldom wore aught save that which was the domestic production of his wife and daughters: and an old writer, describing an estimable woman, to the merits of probity, beauty, fidelity, and chastity adds skill in spinning and weaving. The result was, that all the power was thrown into the hands of the other

m l . m . plied to tneir slaves; and the condition ot the gentle 1 sex, even in an enlightened age and among a refined people, was little better than domestic bond age. In the early days of English law, the rights of woman were neither asserted by one sex nor regarded by the other. Women were, in reality, slaves, and their fathers or their husbands, were their lords. To murder a husband was, until a recent period petty treason; and the law gave to husbands the right to chastise their wives. Their civil right were loosely defined, and carelessly guarded; and in criminal prosecutions, they were for a long time debarred the privilege of clergy. It is fashionable, even in the present day, to pra:6e the common law. It is only necessary to mention a single fact to enlist the whole of the gentler sex against it. By the common law, the inherent privilege, the high, holy and inalienable right, a right which 'women have in all ages asserted and maintained the right to scold, toas prohibited. Our ungallant and sturdy forefathers were in the habit of dragging their shrewish dames, before the court as i scolds. Scolds are defined in the books to be "troublesome and angry women, who by their brawl ing and wrangling amongst their neighbors, break the public peace, increase discord, and become a public nuisance to the neighborhood." The ladies of that, nay of the present age, (for, though we speak it with all sorrow, the lava still prevails,) who were accused and convicted of too free a use of the sharp edge of their tongues, were taken to the river and, being confined in a chair, were publicly ducked ay, their fairy forms were suspended above the water, which rushed in dark and cold torrents below them, and at the signal, the angels were plunged in once twice and again, and then restored, dripping and shivering, to their delighted and henpecked mates. It might well be thought that we were recounting the legends of some gothic age. No such thing. We are relating the existing law of this liberal and refined commonwealth. But a few years have elapsed since (in 1824) a young and fair creature, whom Providence had gifted with unusual and vehement eloquence, was, by some ruthless wretch, apprehended and committed as a common scold. The unmarried ladies will not of course, recollect so far back; but others may remember the general panic of the sex, when they learned that Nancy James, the young, the bright, the beautiful, was arraigned before a jury of cross, illnatured husbands. She was tried, and, as a matter, of course, convicted. The judge (himself a married man) sentenced her with great glee: and the dreadful catastrophe rapidly approached. It was in November; the fair sufferer, a martyr to the freedom of her sex, was to be taken by the sheriff to the Delaware, and there plunged into the chilly and angry flood. Happily for the reputation of Philadelphia happily for the domestic peace of its citizens, the Supreme court interfered and the fair Nancy was saved. we are oDviousiy on ine eve or a revolution a revolution which will achieve the neglected rights of a better part of creation. They have discovered their strength. Thev are now the principal artizans in different branches of labor; they crowd our factories; fill our retail stores; and husbands being scarce, are prepared for any movement, however des perate. Jrhilad. Intelligencer. Cause op Longevity. In a very interesting paper published by Dr. Rush in his medical observa tions and enquiries, we have a detail of the doctor's experience in regard to those causes which favor the prolongation of life. 1. Descent from long-lived Ancestors. Dr. Rush never met with a single instance of a person who had lived to be 80 years old, whose ancestors had not been remarkable for their longevity. In some instances the longevity was on the side of the father, others on that of the mother, but most generally it was common to both parents. The knowledge of this fact may serve not only to assist in calculating what are termed the chances of life, but it may be useful to the physician. He may learn from it to cherish the hopes of his patients in chronic and some acute diseases, in proportion to the capacity of life they have derived from their ancestors. 2. Temperance in Eating and Drinking. To this Dr. Rush found a few exceptions. He met with one man who was 81 years old, who had been intemperate in eating; and four or five persons who had been intemperate in the use of ardent spirits. They had all been day-laborers, and had not commenced drinking until they began to feel the languor of old age. The Doctor was inclined to the opin ions that tea and coffee, notwithstanding they evi dently impair the strength of the system, do not materially affect the duration of human life. The du ration of life is not always shortened by an infirm constitution, provided the stimuli which operates upon the several organs be proportionate to their excitability. 3. The moderate use of the understanding. It has been an established truth, that literary men, other circumstances beinjj equal, are no longer lived than other people. But it is not necessary, remarks ur. uusn, that the understanding should be employed upon philosophical subjects to produce this influence upon the duration of life. Business, politics and religion, which are the objects of attention common to men of all classes, impart an activity to the mind, which tends very much to produce health and long life.

sex. Ihey had the privilege ot chastising their j gevity without much exercise of body has been frcwives with the same instrument of punishment ap- I quently observed. The Doctor met with an in-

4. Equinimity of temper. The violent and irregular action of the passion tends to wear away the springs of life. Persons who live upon annuities in Europe, have been observed to be longer lived under equal circumstances than any other people. This is probably owing to their being exempted, by the certainty of their subsistence, from those fears of want, which so frequently distract the minds and thereby weaken the bodies of all persons who are subjected to them. Life rents have been supposed to have the same influence in prolonging life. Perhaps the desire of life, in order to enjoy as long as possible that property which cannot be enjoyed a second time by a child or a relation, may be another cause of the longevity of persons who live upon certain incomes. It is a fict, that the desire of life is

a very powerful stimulous in prolonging it, especial ly when that desire is supported by hope, this is obvious to physicians every day. Despair of recovery is the beginning of death in all diseases. 5. .Matrimony. In the course of his enquiries, Dr. Rush only met with one person beyond the age of 80 years, who had never been married. 6. Sedentary Occupations. Dr. Hush did not find sedentary occupations to prevent long life, where these were not accompanied by intemperance in eating and drinking. This observation is not confined to literary men, nor to women only, in whom lonstance of a weaver, a second of a silver-smith, and a third of a shoemaker, among the number of old persons, whose histories suggested the foregoing observations. 7. Loss of the Teeth. The early loss of the teeth did not appear to affect the duration of human life so much as might be expected. Edward Drinker who lived to be 103, lost his teeth thirty years before he died, from drawing the hot smoke of tobacco into his mouth through a short, pipe. Neither did he observe baldness or gray hair occurring in early or middle life to prevent old age. In an account furnished Le Sayer, mention is made of a man of 80, whose hairs began to assume a silver color when he was only eleven years old. Journal of Health. RULES FOR LETTER WRITING. 1. Date your -letter at the top near the right hand side of the paper. 2. Write plain; place your points and capital letters where they ought to be; and spell correctlv. 3. Sign your name at full length, and as legibly as possible. Let your signature be near the right hand side of the paper; and the name and address of the person written to, near the left hand side, and lower down. 4. Always leave a blank space for the wafer so that no part of your writing may be lost in breaking the seal. 5. When practicable, fold your letter so that it will be five inches long, and three inches wide. 6. Let the superscription commence on the left hand, just halfway from the top to the bottom of the letter. 7. Write the name of the person addressed in the frst line; the name of the post ofjice at which he receives his letter, in the second line; the name of the county, district, or parish, in the third line; and the name of the State or Territory, in the fourth line. 8. When your letter is addressed to a citv of great note, such as Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, &c. the name of the county may be omitted. 9. In directing letters to great commercial cities, it is sometimes useful to mention the street and number at which the person addressed resides, thus: "Mr. Jame3 Jackson, 121, Fulton street. New York." This serves as a guide to the Letter Carriers, who deliver most of the letters in large cities. It also serves to discriminate between two persons of the same name. 10. For the same reason, it is sometimes advisable to insert the occupation, office, or profession of the person addressed: "Mr. James Jackson, mer chant, ccc. 11. If your letter is to be sent by mail, let not the direction comprise any particulars except those above specified. Some people write the name of the township in which the Post Office is situated; not reflecting that there may be a Post Office bearing the name of the township, and thus the letter may go to the wrong post office. 12. If you write to a member of Congress, Post Master, or other person having the right to receive letters free of postage, let his office be stated in the superscription, in order that postage may not be charged on the letter. 13. If you write by mail to any person on business, purely your own, do not forget to pay the postage. 14. In writing for the press, remember that one line, or horizontal stroke of the pen, drawn under a word, denotes that the word is to be printed in Italic characters; two lines denote small capitals; and three lines denote LARGE CAPITALS. FATTENING CATTLE. As many farmers depend much upon the sale of fat cattle for the successful prosecution of their business, it becomes an important question with them, how the greatest amount of fat may be put upon an animal at the le?ist expense. That many erroneous opinions prevail upon this subject is evident from the fact, that while marvfarmera raise and sell beef cattle, so as to afford a handsome profit, others are obliged to give it up as a bad business. It is jrenerally admitted that nothing can be made by fatteninff cattle on Indian corn. We believe true economy requires, it should be done chiefly on grass, or other green food and roots. Beef fattened in this way will not be so firm or of so pood a quality as when fed with corn; but the difference in the; a. a. inarKPi. urif-rr iiiktm iiiii. i'iiiiiu?i rr. w iiii i ii i iHrnnrp i in the expense of feedinsr. There is no doubt that numkins mav be profitably fed to fatten cattle but more profitably to milch cows. Potatoes, tur nips, puta baga. and mangel wurtzel, are the roots on which the farmer should chieflv depend for fat tening beef, in order to render the business at all profitable; and we believe, with a proper use of the?e, it may be made the best part of the farmer's business. Puta baga is, in our opinion, a more pro fitable crop than either of the others mentioned; though we doubt whether a given quantity will go as far in fattening beef, as the same quantity of po tatoes. An animal put into the stall, and fed on potatoes, with hay and a little salt, without any water, will perhaps fatten as fa6t as in any other way. They should, we are confident, have no water when they are fed chiefly on potatoes, whether confined to the stall or yard. We put up a cow on the fifteenth of November, which had been milked until the first of October, and wai in no more than corn-

mon store order. She was fed with from three pecks to a bushel of potatoes a day, kept clean and rubbed often with a card. She was kept until she had consumed thirty bushels of potatoes, and did not leave the stall until led out by the butcher. She was lightly tallowed, but the beef was of the first quality. When put up she would not sell f r over 510, and when killed, was worth to the consumer $30. We believe that the Long John potatoes may be raised in common seasons at an expense to the farmer of not over 6ix cents per bushel consequently, those fed to the above cow did not cost the grower over $1 80; which, with hay and salt, might bring the cost of feeding, aside of labor to three or

four dollars. The exnenses of feeding on grain of any kind must have been much more, though tho quantity of tallow would have been greater. A custom prevails in France of feeding cattle for a short time previous to slaughtering, upon a kind of sour food, prepared by making a thick paste of rye meal and water, letting it stand till it ferments and becomes sour, then diluting with water and adding a quantity of cut hay. Cattle are said to thrive remarkably on this mixture; though if kept upon it too long it impairs their digestion and destroys their appetite. Farmers Journal. Longevity. Died, at Braynefield, in Caroline county, on Sunday la$t, Miss Catharine Rankin, aged one hundred and nine years. Shf waa a native of Virginia and, wis born near Port ltoyal. She distinctly recollected the ptace where tho town was built to have been a wilderness. Tlie wars with uiu umiiiusm ujr inni w no wmn im:utii .umuir. i .a. ...i-i. u' . tains, were iresiuy imprrsseu on nor memory, one recollected with much force tho great excitement in Virginia which was caused by Braddocks defeat, while the war of the Revolution was but an event of yesterday. She cherished towards England all the nftectionate attachment of the early colonists and mentioned it only by tho ondeiring epithet ohome. To the latest period of her lif she was a loyal subject of tho sovereigns of Enslind, and viewpd Virginia ns still in a state of rebellion. Her healih until the hst month was good, her spirits cheerful and her mind unimpaired by the pressure of her numerous years. llichmond Er.q. Useful rules for Ilouseieires. 1. When you ariso in the morning never be particular about pinning your clothes so very nicely; you can do that any time. 2. Never comb your hair or take off your nightcap till after breakfast. It is your business to take time by the forotop and not let him tako you so; therefore keep all right in that rjuartcr till 10 o'clock at least. 3. When you begin the business of your toilet you may do it before the window or in th front entry; but the most proper place is in the kitchen. 4. Never have a particular place for any thing in your house; and then you may rest assured, that nothing will ever be out of place; and that is a great comfort in a family. 5. Never sweep your floor until you know some person is coming in; ho will then see how neat you are: and beside?, in such cases even your enemies cinnot shako off tho dust of their clothes with winch you have covered them by your sweeping. 6. When you have done sweeping, leave your broom on the floor, it will then be handy; and being always in sight, and in the way, it will be constantly reminding your husband when he is in the house, what a smart nice, pains-taking wife bo has. 7. Never follow the barbarous practice of brushing down coh-webs. A man's house is his castle and so isa spider's; It is a violation of right and a shameless disrespect to the fine arts. 8. Keep your parlor windows shut as closo as possible in dorr days; this will keep the hot air out and you will have excellent fixed air inside. 9. Keep yonr summer cheeses in your bed chambers: thoy enrich tho qualities of tho atmosphere; and if a stranger should lodge in one of your beds, if he should not sleep, he could eat for his refreshment. 10. Never teach your daughters to mend or to make any of their own clothps, it is Making tbe bread from the month of labor' besides it will make them crooked, and i?ive them sore fingers. 11. But if they should insist on mending their own garments, they should do it while they are on; this will make them fit bettor: and eirls can't leave their work : if they should attempt it their work would follow them. 12. If your husband' coat is out at ono end of tho elbows, don't mend it till it is out at tho other; then tho patches will make it appear uniform; and show that you are impartial. 13. Never spoil a joke for a relation's sake j nor suppress the truth for any body's sake. There fore, if you don't like your husband as well as you ought out with it, and convince him you arc not a respecter of persons. 14. Yon should endeavor not tokeep yourtem;Per? 'f' " ? as soon and as tastas you can; and ' 'oi will then bo as calm and as quiet as a bottle let it oft as soon and as fast as j of cider ifter the cork has been drawn half a day. 15. Ifon any particular occasion, you are at a loss ! as to the course you ought to pursue, in tho manj acement nfvoursolfor your family affnr3, take down j tl0 pipPr wn;c, rnntnins theso n'des and read them I UOP nnj v,.r .-n M,:cfi0,i ,.rtlir m;nrl i . J TirAr mrrrTrk "U OH. POOR RICHARD. tiIhave the reading of it every week." It not unfrenuentlv occurs, when persons are nfked if they will subscribe for a newspaper, or if they already take it, that they replv, "no; but neighbor B. takes it, and have the rending if it every week. Such often add that they like the paper, and sometimes say they consider it "the best paper they know of.' Thev are benefitted every week by the toils, per- , ... , j: .r.i . piexities, anu expenuuurus oi inose wio receive no thing from them in return. Reader, if you feel re proved, just send your name; and take the paper yourself. From the Commercial Advertiser. Receipt to make Indelible Ink. Two drams of Caustic dissolved in two table spoon full of Brown Sugar, wet the cloth large, enough for writing, with strong Pearlaidi water and dry with a hot flat iron, then apply the writing arid dry with the same

Choosing ta he hang d rather than married. It was formerly a law in (Jermany, that a female condemned to a capital punishment should lc saved it4 any man would mirry her. A young girl of Vicuna was on the point of being executed, when her youth and beauty mule a great impression upon thtiheart

oi uia spectators, wno was a .vipolitins a middle aged man, but exceedingly ugly. Struck with her charms, he determined to save her, and running immediately to the place of execution, declared his intention to marry t ho girl, and demanded her pardon according to the custum cf the country. The pardon was granted on condition that the girl was not averso to the match. The Neapolitan uivii gummy umu me lemmothat ho waa a gentleman of some proierty. and that he wished he was a King, that he might offer her a stronger proof of his attachment. "Alas! sir," replied the girl, "J am tully sensible of your affection and genero.i'ty, but I am not mistress over my own heart, and I cannot belie my sentiments. Unfortunately they control my fate; and I prefer tho death with which I am threatened, to marrying such an ugly follow a you.1 The Neapolitan retired in confusion, and the woman directed the executioner lo do hid office. Xuttingham Pudding. Peal six good apples take out the coro with the point of a small knife, or an apple corer if you have one, but bo sure to leavo the apple whole, fill up where you to k tho coro from with sugar, placa them into a pio dish, and noilr OVff thfMll ft iH liirlit ti.it tpr. nr.t r.l n fnr ... --..--.... , , .w. batter pudding, and baits an hour in a moderate oven. For Making Jelly. Those who would make fine jelly, should always avoid boiling the juice of the fruit, when it is desirable, to have the article when made retain the llavor of the fruit from which it wa prepared. After the juice is pressed from tho fruit, and tho proper quantity of sugar added to it, let it j be heated until the sugar is dUsoked; alter this is effected, no further heat is required. .1 Whale. The dimensions of a whale, whoso bkelcton is now exhibiting in England, ttro t follows: length of tho head 2 feet; of the bick-bono 00li of tho tongue 20; fins 121; ribs It; its whola length 100 feet. Its weight, alive, was 4s,tKK) pounds, equal to that of more than IHlO men. Its oil alone weighed I0,n0 pound; about 100 barrcli. It was supposed. to be DUO or 1000 year old. From Alabama wo have received tho following letter, under dato of October 10, which gives a painful view of the stato of affair, and of feel in j in that aitatcd State: Alapama, Oct. 19th, 1833. We have arrived at a solemn crisis in our State at tho present moment. You are aware that tho wholu of tho Creek nation was some time since laid off into counties,and the Judges ofourCiicuit Courts ordered to hold courts in them accordingly. Thj case alluded to above is this: At the present term of said Court, held at Hussel county, an indictment was found against certain soldiers of Fort Mitchell for the murder of Col. Uarrrmau Owt ns, who was shot some timo ago by the command of tho Deputy .Marshal. Mr. Anstill, the Solicitor'of tho Circuit issued fmbpa'nas for the file of men and for Major Mcintosh, who id in command at tho Fort, to appear at the Court to answer to the charge. The Major refused to pay any regard to the mandate of tho Court, and swore that ho would not suffer any of tho men to bo arrested. The Court is sued an attachment for tho Major and men: tho Sheriff was ordered by the Major not to touch him; he returned to the Court next day and niado oath that ho could not take him, tho Major, for fear of death. Upon this the Court sent an express to our Governor for military power sufficient to arrest tho Major, and to bring him and men before tho Court. The Governor will undoubtedly do it, as he, as well as the whole country here, arc in a state of excitement against tho General Government, and are determined to support tho civil authorities cvtu to the hst ditch Union or no Union. i Large Family. Four hundred and forty beds have been made up in Holt's Hotel for several nights past, and every one occupied. The number of par sons that have blept in thies building for tho week past, family and douiebtics included, cannot bo much lesji than five hundred persons. For tevcrul days this Hotel, Pearl-street House, Atlantic Hotel, and several others that might be enumerated, have been full of boarders, and have been compelled to turn away many applicants. .V. V. Daily .2Jr. Lognnport .Vur.7. Wo learn by a gentleman ju from tho Treaty Ground, that the prospect of a treaty with the Miami nation of Indians, is somewhat less flattering than we anticipated a few weeks since. They hae mado a proposition to dispose of what lands they have lying on the North side of tho Wabash Kiver, which will be but trifling. They have entirely abandon thu idea of emigrating to the west, consequently they are entirely opimsed to selling the reserve on tho South side of the Hiver. Should the laws bo extended over them, they will be compelled to sell in con sequence of their not being able to pay their taxes. The Commissioners have been engaged upwards offourweek8, and we understand thut they will be engaged with them one week longer. Jit-publican, AcciOent Louis (iodfrey, a brother of the Chief of the Miami tribe of Indian), was thrown offhin houio at the Treaty (Sronnd, on Wednesday evening tho 3(Jth ult. and his head corning in contact with a log, which fractured his tcull, as to cause his immediate death. Smut in Wheat. Mr. O. Yuild gives tho result of eleven experiments of sowing clean and smutty wheat. The general conclusion seems to be, that wheat known to be perfectly clean, should bo kept dry and sown in a perfectly dry state. Tint which is washed and limed should bo well dried. Tho object in drving the grain is to deprive tho smut of moisture for its nourishment. X. Y. Farmer, . Vaccination, employed in three instances, by a physician, proved effectual in mitigating wLooping cough.