Indiana Palladium, Volume 10, Number 2, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 25 January 1834 — Page 1

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From f Ae Detroit Journal. MICHIGAN. Twenty one years ago. On the 19th of August 18 12, or just 21 years ago took place the capitulation of General Hull and the surrender of detroit to the British. At that time, there was no road connecting this territory with any other portion of the United States, except that recently cut by General Hull for the passage of his army. With a few exceptions of a few settlements at the mouth of the streams, the whole of Michigan was a vast wilderness, and from the description given in the ancient mips was supposed to be a morass so drowned with water, as to be uninhabited, erroneous impression was derived, probably from the statements of the Fur Traders, who although tbey must have known better, found it their interest to inculcate this belief, for the purpose of preserving undisturbed possession of the gainful traffic which they had long maintained with the Indians. The extensive country now

composing a populous district of Ohio, nortli and northwest of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga county, and Mansfield in Richmond county, was a wildernesj. The road from the rapids of the Maujnee to Lower Sandusky, was an Indian trail which was rarely ..travelled. It had such a winding zigzag course, for the purpose of avoiding fallen trees gullies or bayeati3, in which water collected, that it was difficult, even in a dry time, to trace it and, in wet weather, when from the flatness of the land it was covered with water, and exhibited the appearance of a vast lake; the traveller could only pursue the path by the indistinct trace, of the -ancient blazes on the trees. The whole extent of this 'district being covered with a heavy growtli of timbers much of it blue ash and cotton woods filled up with underwood and alder and spico wood; and having usually a dark and sombre appearance, and the soil being of vegetable decomposition black spongy and porous, rendered the name of the Black Swamp, a most fit and appropriate designation. Till after the last war the intercourse between Michigan and the other portion of the Union, was very limited ; and the arrival of a stranger in Detroit was ah event of so much importance as to challenge the special attention of the male and female gossips of the place. This was long before the era of steamboats. The few sail vessels then on these waters, were supposed to have done well, if they made a trip from Detroit to the foot of the Lake in the time that is now required for our packets to make their trip from New York to Liverpool. The steamer Walk in-the-water, was built in the year 1S16, and about that period the first attempts were made to penetrate the interior of the country, by the inhabitants of Detroit. The first settlement formed in the interior, was" by a few families who had moved into the Territory from Upper Canada, and ascended what was then called the Upper Huron, now the Clinton, some ten or fifteen miles from its mouth. They settled ou an oak opening, and raised fine crops of wheat. They Lad been there a year or more before it was known in Detroit, and the fact was regarded as a ramarkable instance of enterprize and hardihood. The next settlement was formed at Pontiac and its neighborhood. From this period, the tide of emigration has steadily increased from year to year. The inhabitants of Detroit, with a spirit highly to their credit, explored the country, and caused its advantages to be published in the eastern papers. For some lime it appeared up hill work, many visited the country, who from a slight and partial view of it, or from ignorance and prejudice, returned with unfavorable reports which to some extent retarded for a time, its settlements; and after this the ravages of a malignant epidemic, which for several . years afflicted Detroit &. its neighborhood, induced a widespread report that the country was unhealthy. The inhabitants of Detroit, with a zeal that cannot be too highly commenced, and a forecast which for intelligence is rarely equaled, strugged to remove these unfavourable impressions. They . took upon themselves the labor and expense of acting as pilots and pioneers to emigrants and assisted them withjnformation, advice, and often with money and other facilities. We could name many of the old citizens of Detroit, who were distinguished for their zealous efForls in this way. One who should now visit the interior and behold the steamboats and stages filled with emigrants, crowding into the country and pushing on to the Tery shores of Lake Michigan, could hardly realize the care and nursing expended on the sickly and tender plant which has now become a tree whose branches overshadow the land. The language of our motto "lamden Fit Surculus Arbor? though . adopted long before our prosperous and palmy state, seems, like the prophetic truth of inspiration. Michigan may be truly said to be in the very spring tide of her prosperity. It is believed there has been, within the present session , an increase of population from abroad of near 10,000 besides the natural increase. The quantity of produce, and particularly of wheat raised this season, is said to have exceeded, to a large extent, that of any former year. Health, that highest blessing, without which all else is valueless, has been enjoyed to a degree that callsjbr our special gratitude. Navigation of Lake Erie. A fine, large schr. boilt and owned by Wilkeson &, Sons, of Buffalo, was a short time since launched into the waters of i TTriC; She is called the John C. Spencer. The Buffalo Journal . 'ves the following compendium of the navigatr of the lake. "The first vess ;vigating Lake Erie, under the American flag, w the sloop Detroit, purchased by the government of the British North West Company, in 1795. She was of about 70 tons burthen, but was old, and scarcely sea worth when purchased, and soon after was condemned, and laid up at the River Rogue. In the same year, '96 a email schooner called the Erie Packet was built'at Canada, to run between Fort Erie and presque Isle. 8he was lost in 98, by drifting out of Erie harbor. In 1797, the schooner Wilkinson, of 80 tons, was boilt at Detroit by Abbots & Connelly, and sailed for two year, by old Connelly ts nasler. In 1810,

she was thorougly repaired, and her name changed to the Amelia; and in 1S12, was purchasd by the government, and armed, and had the honer of belonging to commodore Perry's squadron, and participated in the glorious victory. The Good Intent, of 35 tons, was built by dpt. Lee, in 1799, and navigated the lake till 1803, when she run on to Point Abino, and was lost, together with her cargo and crew. The same year '98, the brig Adams, and the schooner Tracy were built by the government. The former was captured by the British the first year of the war, afterwards retaken at Fort Erie and run upon Squaw Island, and burnt. The latter was sold to Porter, Barton Co. and afterwards lost on the reef, near Fort Erie. In 1803, the War Department, possessing, it would seem, no very accurate notion of our localities, directed the commanding officer at Niagara, to construct, at that post, a vessel of suitable size to

transport the Indian presents from Niagara to Fort Wayne. The commanding officer, nntcipting some diffidulty in advancing up the Falls, ventured so fir from his instructions, as to cause the vessel to be built at Black Uock. She was called the Nancy, and was of about 50 tons burthen. The Contractor, in a fine vessel of about 80 tons burthen, was built at Black Rock, in 1S0G, by Porter, Barton &. Co. and was sold to the government in 1812. The Catharine, another line schooner, was built at Sheldon. Thompson, and others, at Black Rock, in 1808. Several other vessels were built about this time at different places on the lake, but our recollection does not serve to rrivo their names. Indian Ruhhcr. There is a manufactory of Indian Rubber, leather, cloth, ccc. in Roxbury, Massachusetts, which employs about one hundred persons. Some years since, an American Chemist discovered a method of dissolving Indian Rubber and reducing it to paste, which being spread with a brush over the surface of cloth, and dried, rendered the cloth water proof. He obtained a patent and sold it to the Roxbury Company, and is now in theiremployment. They manufalure beds and pillows without sewing, which a man may almost'earry in the crown of his hat, and at night blow'them up to any size and sleep on them. They make gas pipes, engine hose, garments of every description without stitches or seems, &.c. These garments protect the person from ruin and storm as completely as if made of iron. They also make garments of cloth, and then cover them with a coat of Indian rubber. This coating c;in he applied from the thinness of paper to any required thickness. About forty girls are employed in sewing the garments and applying the rubber. The cloth made entirely of rubber is said never to crack, and of its durability there seems to be no end. The Company cannot half supply the demand, and their shares which cost 100 dollars eachare now considered worth from 300 to 400 dollars. New Invention. Among the "new inventions1' of the day, (says the Editor of the American Farmer,) are the two following, which are sufficiently remarkable to merit soecial notice. A man in Connecticut has found a way to warm hisactory, to any degree, without fuel! He produces heat by the friction of iron cylinders, which are moved by the power which actuates his factory; and the rarefied air carried to any part of the building through pipes. This way of generating warmth for human dwellings is new to us; but we have long been of opinion, that one fire place or furnace is sufficient for the warming of almost any building. Indeed we anticipate, that at a day not distant, a good anthracite fire in the basement or cellerof a building will be found sufficient, not only to warm it in either or all of its apartments at pleasure, but that it shall serve for cooking the food of its inhabitants, and also for manufacturing gas for its illumination at night; and perhaps even the quantity of fuel may be diminished by,the use of part of the gas thus generated. Wethink there will be found little difficulty in supplying any room of a house with both warmth'and light, as we now supply our kitchens with water, viz. by the turning of a stop cock. The other invention or discovery is the use of atmospheric air asajmotivc power, by reason of its elasticity and compressibility. Recent experiments have proved that this power is very considerable. Should it be found sufficient for the purposes to which steam is now applied, it would doubtless be a great improvement, on account of its cheapness, plentifulncss, and, above all its greater safety as amovcr of vehicles for the conveyance of property and travellers. Color of Rivers. The Rhrine in its course from the Alps to the lake of Constance, is bluish; after its passage through the green water of lake Constance, it is grass green; after repeated mixture with the rivers and streams of Forschweitz, Alsace, and the Black Forest, yellowish green. The Maine flowing for the ferruginous rocks and plains of Franconia, acquires a reddish yellow color; during great degrees of cold it becomes greenish blue, owing to the decomposition of iron ochre, and when if it is not colored by long continued rains, it flows onward with an amber grey color. All the rivers of Old Bavaria, which are formed of water from the lakes and Alphine streams of the Iller, Iser, and the Inn, are bluish green in the winter; in spring,grass green; and Jn autumn pale herb green. ThcMurdcrer of Miss Cunningham. We published an article yesterday from the Port Deposite paper, (says the Baltimore Chronicle,) respecting the arrest and imprisonment of a man on suspecion of being the murderer of Miss Cunningham in Cecil county, in April, 1825. We are now informed, in addition, the arrested is a shoemaker, who has resided at, or in the neighborhood of Port Deposite, ever since the murder was committed and that in one instance he appeared as a witness, and testified strongly against two pea trho, a few

ysars since, were arrested on suspicion of having committed, or being accessary to said murder, and had it depended on his testimony alone, they would in all probability have been convicted. The discovery now made was truly prov'd mtial. He had hypothecated a very valuable rm'toa man to whom he was indebted, which ring the creditor placed upon his finger and soon after, being in company it was observed and identified, MissJCuningliam's name being still legible. On being questioned, he informed from whom he received, and for what purpose, and -referred to two persons who were present at the transaction. Process was accordingly issued, and the suspected culprit was arrested, and is now confined in Elkton jail. On searching his premises, we alo learn that a stocking, belonging to the deceased, was also found which, on comparing, corresponded precisely with its follow which has ever since been preserved by her family. Nile Register, of the 23d April, 1825, in mentioning the hwrrid account of the murder, says "She was just about to be married, and her ring, the emblem of plighted faith, was carried off It is possible this circitmstance may lead to the discovery of the viurderer.

Salmon and other fish possess great muscular power, as evinced by the extraordinary leaps they make out of the water. In Captain Owen's Narrative we find the following passage: The bonita lias the power of throwing himself out of the water to an almost incredible distance, when in pursuit of its prey the Hying fish: and the day previous to our arrival at Mozambique one of these fish rose close under our bow, passed over the vessel's side, struck with such force against the poop that had any one received the blow in all probability it would havu been fatal. Stunned bv the violence of the contact, it fell motionless at the helmsman's feet; hut soon recovering, its struggles were so furious that it became necessary to inflict several blows with an axe before it could be approaced with safety. The greatest elevation it attained above the surface of the water was eighteen feet, and tha length of the leap, had no opposition occurred, would have exceeded ISO.' Heavy damages. Our readers probably recollect that about a year since, Mr. James Currier and Miss Smith of this town, while on their way to Chelmsford on a dark evening, in a chaise, came to that part of the road which was intersected by the rail-road excavation, and were precipitated a distance of about twenty feet the horse was killed, and the parties received serious injuries. Actions have sinee been brought against the town of Lowell to recover damages. Thev were tried at the Supreme court, now holdeu at Cambridge, and we learn that the parties have recovered seven thousand dollars. Mr. Cunier 1000, and Miss Smith 3000. Lowell Jour. Another Avery Mob. We learn from a Lowell gentleman, that considerable excitement has prevailed in that place since Friday evening, in consequence of iho arriv.il of Mr. Avery, it being understood that he would preach at the Methodist Church on Chapel Hill. Ho was accordingly hanged, burned and shot sucessively on Sunday thrico unhappy man in effigy; and more serious disturbances yesterday morning were probably prevented only by the revrend gentlman's assent to the request of the town authorities that he would not preach as appointed. The rush was very great at the church in the morning. Boston Journal. Dreadful Outrage. The Providence Journal of Saturday says: A villian applied last evening, at the house of Sunuel Reynolds, Esq. in Exeter, in this State (Rhode Island) at the Old Turnpike House, on the New London Turnpike, for lodging which was granted to him About midnight; ho attacked :two boys with on axe. Both their heads were badly fractured, and an arm of one broken in two places. The next attack was made on Mr. Reynolds, who was stabbed in seven place?, and is supposed to be mortally wounded. Mrs. Reynolds received two stabs in the breast, but succeeded in making her escape. The follow, who was armed with a club, an axe, two knives, then decamped, and the officers of justice arc now in pursuit of him. Farmer. It does one's heart good to see a merry round faced fanner. So independent and yet so free from vanities and pride. So rich and yet so industrious; so patient and preserving in his calling, yet so kind social and obliging. There are thousand noble traits about hun which light up his character. He is generally hospitable: eat and drink with him, and he wont set a mark on you, and sweat it out of you with a double compound interest at another time you are welcome. He will do you a kindness without expecting a return byway of compensation; it is not so with every body. He is generally more honest and sincere less disposed to deal in a low and underhand cunning thnn many I could name. He gives to society its best support he is the edifice of government and the lordot nature. Look at him in homespun and grey back, gentlemen laugh, if you will but, believe me, he can laugu back if he pleases. Tobacco. The ?moke of tobacco drawn into the mouth, without being inhaled into the lungs, acts powerfully on the nervous system and produces the effects of a stupifying narcotic: hence its use among the lower orders. The chewing of tobacco has the same influence; and if the saliva be swallowed, its effects are powerful and dangerous. The powder of tobacco, called snuff, drawn into the nostrils, produces on those unaccustomed to its use immediate but momentary intoxication, along with much sickness. This baneful plant is supposed to have been introduced into England by the fleet of Sir Francis Drake, in 15S9. Itordner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.

CtoOD ADyiCE TO YOUNG MEN.

From a work by the Rev. Hosl.v Ilildieth, Gloucester, recently published. It is highly important, my young frirncs, that jo i early acquire and establish habits ofrconomv tnrniUers of expense. It is important to your own personal welfare to your success in the world, as to the welfare of your country. Young people are apt to entertain extravagant and absurd potions of life to estimate their enjoyments by the money they cost; to ch oso enjoyments which are expensive and connected with display. But you may depend upon it, the most valuable enjoyments are easily obtained, they cost but little money, and are within the reach of all, of the poor as well as the rich. If a person's design is to secure si.c'i privileges and enjoyments only as are connected with virtue, with sobriety, intellectual improvements and elevation of character, he may carry his designs into operation with very limited funds. It is dissipation, sensual enjoyments, enjoyments whichhave no good moral tendency it is such enjoyments as these that cost money and very often put young persons upon disagreeable expedients to meet their cxper s The truth is, man's ind speusihle wants are few but those wants which their own folly Ins created or which the customs of society have imposed these wants are all expensive; and they do more than a liltlo to prevent young p :.opla rising in the world; to bring no failures, discouragements, habrs of itemptrance, end crimes. Anecdote. While Franklin the printer, was ambasscd r t i the English court a lady, who was about being presented to the King, noticed his exceedingly plain appearance, and enquired ul o he was. "That madam," answered the gentleman, upon whoso arm she was leaning, "is Dr. Benjimin Frai.klin, the Ambassador, from North America." "The North American ambassador, so shahily dressed?" exclaimed the lady "Hush mad: m fur heaven's sake " wl.isptr d the ientlemm, "iie is the man that bottles up thunder and 1 tjhtu.n 6 rw Columbia, (Mo.) Nov. 0. Return of Santa Fe Traders. At oat one hundred of our citizens lave, within a few days past, reurned to their homes in this and the adjacent counties, from Santa Fe, in New Mexico, They hive brought with thetn, we understand, frum eighty to one hundred thousand dollars in specie, besides a large quantity of furs, mules, &c. the value of which we have not heard stated, I ut will, undoubtedly, pro hu e a large sum. Wo are pleased to learn that tha traders met with no mob station from the Indians on the route, and that they have generally made profitable vdvcr.tures. This trade, which is principalis carried on by the citizens of the Western part of Mis; o iri, Ins now become of considerable importance. Sp cie, furs, mulc-s, &c. are annually brought in from that country to a very large amount. From the Cincinnati Advertiser. Mr. Clay and tiu: Aomin istkatio.w The "Vindictive Demagogue" has romc out with a tirade against the Administration which is fully equal to any of his vile effusions ever spoken at Btrbecues e-r dinner parties, 'n beautiful Oration of war pestilence, and famine m- mory not excepted. He has laboured in his vocation he has used his utmost powers and ingenuity to make the worse appear the better cause. Rut he has failed any tyro in Constitutional knowledge could defeat all his arguments, and set aside all his positions: hut there is only one remark necis-.ary to expose him either as u traitor to his country, or a viio propagator of falsehoods. lie charges the President with violating the constitution and laws, as well as usurping a power which does not belong to him Now if any one of these charges be true, the President has made himself liable to impeachment. If they are not true, Mr. Clay and hi coadjutors are prop- gators of slander. If they fall to prefer articles of impeachment against him, the charges being well founded, they are traitors to their country; and if the charges cannot bo sustained, they are calumniators, :nd have forfeited all claim to public confidence. Let the ultra tariflitc and the nullifier think of this they have their choice to tale either horn of tho dilemma they are welcome to take cither or both. The Presidency. A Rhode Island opposition paper expresses the opinion decidedly that Mr. Van Ruren will be elected to tho Presrdency in 1836, and that tt will be altogether useless to attempt to oppose him. We suppose the editor draws this conclusion from the fact of his being so grossly abused by the opposition, having a tendency to induce the friends of the administration to nominate him, and a consciousness that the candidate whom they nominate will be elected. Wo have frequently cautioned the opponents of Mr. Van Buren against this course if they wished to prevent his election, cn tho ground that it would have the effect to opperato in his favor; but they paid no attention to our admonition. Men who will not be advised, have frequently to suffer for it, and they may possibly be among the number. We cannot say that Mr. Van Buren will be elected, because we do not know that he will be nomina'ed. But we feel very well satisfied that tho man who shall he nominated by a convention of the friends of tho administration will certainly succeed. Of this our opponents may rest assured; and if they do not now believe it, they will in due time see tha prediction verified. Baltimore Republican. Or Pretty fair. A f icetious editor thinks tint the decision of the Rev. Mr. Malcolm (adverse to officiating at the nuptials of a communicant and non-rommunicant) comes well up to tho matrons of Wheatland, who whilom resolved, in conclave assembled, "that their daughters should not marry masons, or to the little Yankee girl who refused to 'lap lasses1 from hogsheads landing from a vessel on ih9 wharf, 'became tha can'n iwoi'd

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Chcrolees. A Cherokee Council was rr -cently held at Red Chy Tennessee, which is said to have resulted in a decided divit.on between th-j emigrating and non-emigrating pirties. Messrs. Ridge end Coody, belonging to tbo former, tendered their resignations which were accepted, and they were expected to enrol thoir mines for emigration, and that with them, nearly nno half of the Indians would go west of tho Mias;sjippi. The enrolments arc s-iid to be going on rapidly. ft7-A letter from Tu-caloosi, Alab.nmi, siys . "Tho Creek controversy is now regarded as at end. An agent of the General Government, (F. S. K-y, Fsq.) Ins bcenhere for several days, and the rumor is that he is in a f lir way of bringing all the difiicultics that have grown out of tha vexed Creek question to an amicable close." George Ma.on, indicted for scaling n pickage containing 1 1,500, property of ih j Pistaqut II llilr. fYltm Ikllf ikf tilt !V iirtl Ct ,nelirj in I 1 1 j ly last, was tried at Ipswich l.;st week and acquitted, i fC7" A "Mvster'oua Lndv" from London. i ex. hibiting wondciful "mental feats" at N. Yoik. She can see thing which are nivisiLlj to her re peat what people say, when shodo.s not hear theni and divine their thought, when they dj not speak! CCrThc Senate of South Carolina Invo refused to pass the section of tho Military 15111, containing the "Test Oath," commonly called the oath bfalU glance. A good sign from little l'ickle. 034,I am afraid of lightning," murmered a pretty woman, during a thunderstorm. "Well you maV be," s'gheu a despairing adorer, "when your heart is steel." (cjKdurntion i. a companion which no misfortune can depress; no ciimo can d stroy, no enemy can alienate or enslave. At home a fi ic nd abroad an introduction in solitudo a sjhec and in society an ornament. Cr Dividends. On Saturday tho Mechanics' and Traders' Rank declared a dividend of four per cent, payable on tho 10th January. i c commercial insurance company tight per it., payable the 0th January. X. Y. Gaz. cent CO" Two young Indie?, Miss R'cord and Misf Huffiailing, at Clay, in this state, were suffocated to death on Tuesday sennight, by sleeping in a room wanned with charcoal. Cheraic Gaz. (trThe Legislature of South Carolina adjourned December HHh, after parsing iid acts. Tha bill imposing new restiicticns upon iho instruction of si ives and free persons of color wusdefeatcd ia the Senate. OCT Cel. WiHirtm Camming, cf Augusts, has been nominated by tho Union party of Georgia, as a candidate foMhe effico tf Governor at tho next election. The Chronicle oince, nt Charlottesville, Va. has been recently destroyed l y lire. Tho loss of properly is estimated at $i,0C0. OCT All tho public laud belonging to tho'State of Georgia being disposed of, the drawing of tho laud lotteries terminated on tho 13th inst. 03-Tho Revenue received at tho Port of 'Montreal for the present year, is being an in crease of 50 per cent, on the last ycai'i amount. Irge quantities of white dolphins have recently paid a visit to Quebec, and after an absenco of 25 years from that port! (tr The late gale injured t'ie whsrf, and carried off much propeity it Sag lhbcr. Loss about $2000. OtrThc Mercantile Jovrnal h?s doubled its sto and its price wo hopo it may douMo its usefulness. Neighbor Thatcher is a clover fellow, ond a good writer, but he unroiks tl.o wrong Lottlo once in a. while. Boston Statesman. (r A bill has been introduced into the Ahbami Legislature to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to defray tho expense of a survey of aroutu to connect by railroad the waters of the Tcnntssco and tho Alabama. lb. 03" By the census of Mobil?, fomplctrd on tha 12th inst., it appears that that city contains M-01 inhabitants, of which ;UIV7 are white. lb. (rr The Barnstable Gazette asks ''Why does not Mr. B'ddle engage Colonel Crockett at once to grin the deposits back to the Bunk Again P C3r Earthquake. By tho Baltimore Republican of 27th nil. wo learn that tho towns of Africa and Tacus in Peru were almost destroyed by an Earthquake on the 16th of Sept. No parl'icukrj received. Misrepresentations Ejpoccd. Wo see in Urn Norfolk Herald tho account of tho payment madu to tho soldiers at Port Monroe, about w hich our opponents raised such a cock and bull story about tha injury that was done them by paying them in tho notes of the Virginia Banks, from which it seem that no objection was made to the money, and that if they had wished it, they could have it changed into any kind of money they desired, without chargo or loss, and that ono of them actually preferred taking tho note3of the Virginia Bank to those of tho United States. And yet wc were told that tha soldiers were compelled to lose 12i per cent, in consequenne of not being paid in the notes of the latter Bank. What will tho advocates of that institution not do to sustain their cause, and imposo upon tho public? Truly they are desperate men; they are engaged in a desperate cause, and resort to despersto means in order to support it. But ell will not do. Their schemes arc Ml exposed, nnd truth is mighty and will prevail. Baltimore ltr-pvblkan.