Indiana Palladium, Volume 11, Number 29, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 1 August 1835 — Page 2

ELOPEMENT OF MISS GRANT. Tor the last week, the whole of the fashionable world has been in a state of ferment, on account of the elopement of Sir Colquhoun Grant's daughter with Mr. Hrinsley Sheridan. Nothing can be more amusin'than tho manner in which this event is spoken of. Certain dowagers, whose incessant and countermining efforts in favor of their own needy eons, have proved "Love's labor lost," talk with horror, wrath, and astonishment of the transaction; forgetting how much cunning and flattery they have wasted, in order to influence the affections of the little heiress; or perhips, remembering the old proverb "Two of a trade never agree." The elder part of the community, oblivious of the days of their own youth, and the youth of their grandpapas and grandmamas, murmur words of blame which tempt us to make out a list of the elopements in every family, for tho entertainment of our readers; and we

will innf eiir that, like the elder sons of Egypt under the tenth plague, there shall scarce bea house in which there shall not have been one gone: and that not always before marriage. Perhaps next Saturday we may favor the public with a paper, under the head ot Uretna ureen Weddings, which may make the step taken by Miss Grant appear less singular than the world at present believe; for, although it would seem that it is as outrageous now-a-days to make a marriage in the North, as it would be to come to a drawing-room with powered hair, still there teas a time when such mar riages were ranch in vogue; so much, indeed, that an old Scotch lidy assures us they averaged one per tceek. Meanwhile the newspapers are filled with myster ious hints, the coteries are replete with scandal; and the tact ot a young girl making a love match, is thought so amazing and unaccountable, that were the laws of witchcraft still enforced in England, three beautiful sisters would stand a chance of being burned at the stake. To these three sisters, as to the three Fates, the would of fashion attribute the working of that mysteri ous spell which caused ayounglady to marry according to her own inclinations. The political world hint, on the contrary, that Miss Grant's election wa9 made in order to decide the election for Poole; and, cither way, Col. Grant pronounces it a "foul conspiracy.' But the Duke of Cumberland is the real nuthor of the remarkable events which have taken place, however little his Royal Highness may have intended to forward them. It was to the Duke of Cumberland's influence, in an earlier period of his life, that Sir Colquhoun owed the hand of the beautiful and accomplished Miss Richards, heiress to .(30,000; xvho, exerting (as her daughter has done) that freedom of selection which all women prize, refused several brilliit proposals, including Mr. P 1 31 th a and Lord II a, and bestowed herself and her fortune on the handsome officer whose brave career subsequently so well justified her choice. This marriage brought property into the family, which was originally to have been divided; between two daughters; but the elder dying, miss Marcia Grant (now Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan,) became the sole heiress in expectation. But for the Duke of Cumberland, this marriage, we repeat, would never have been accomplished. Again, it was the Duke of Cumberland's influence, which sent Sir Colquhoun Grant to stand for Pcole as a "Conservative Reformer," and induced him to leave town fit a critical moment, when he was so well aware of his daughter's attachment, as to leave her under the close guardianship of his relative, Colonel Grant, nnd a distinguished oflicer, with whom he was on terms of intimacy; besides providing her with a governant, whose services came too late to be of use to the young lady. His Royal Highness was thus in fact the promoter of both marriages; the voluntary promoter of the marriage of Sir Colquhoun Grant with the heiress, Miss Richards; the involuntary promoter of the marriage of Mr. Sheridan with the heiress. Miss Grant: and if the latter union turn out as happily as the former, we apprehend the young lady will have no cause to repent the rashness of the etep she has taken. On Friday afternoon, about five o'clock, the young couple borrowed the carriage of a friend; and hastily collecting such articles of the wardrobes of two of "the Weird Sisters" as could be spared, set off full speed for the North. We can inform the curious, that they performed the journey in the short space of thirty-two hours, and were married on Sunday morning. The posting on this road, is, we all know, excellent; both for those who fly, and those who pursue; and if Colonel Grant had not preferred the Dover road, for his journey, there would probably have been a neck and neck race. If such had been the case, the circumstances of this elopement would have resembled 6till more Ftrongly those which attended tho departure of Miss Childe, first wife to the E:l of Westmoreland, and mother to the loveiy and fashionable Countess of Jersey, and the Lady Augusta Paget. The enraged father, in this adventure, pursued the fugitive pair so closely, that the Noble Earl felt compelled to take the strong measure of ordering his servant to fchoot one of the leaders in Mr. Childe's carriage. which was accordingly done; and the delay so gained, enabled the two lovers to become one before they were again overtaken. Lady Jersey inherited from her grandfater, Mr. Childe, no less a sum (according to common report,) than 40,000 a-year. Miss Grant's eventual property is stated to be only 7 or 8,1500 a-year, independent of her father, besides the sum of 40,000 to e paid the day she is of age, which will be in a few months. How the affair may terminate will depend much on the sense of both parties; but we shall carefully watch its progress, and communicate the result to our readers. The most amusing part of the whole transaction has been the variety of absurd stories circulated reppecting this transaction; the boundless ingenuity and malice which have been displayed on the part of the inventors; equalled only by the gaping credulity of their John Bull listeners. From the N. Y. Morning Herald. CONVERSATIONS WITH SHERIFF PARKINS. Our separated fortune Shall keep us both the safer: where we are There's daggers in men's smile. Macbeth. Where have you been this agel asked the Ex-sheriff". I thought you had forgot me altogether. Well, no apologies; 1 know your time is much occupied. I am delighted with you. Here you see me full of business; up to the very eyes in papers, letters, scraps, documents, and I know not what. Poor Miss Chaworth, Lord Byron's first flame! I knew her well. She was a fine, buxom, luscious and delicious girl. She had the prettiest neck of any woman I ever saw; and I tell you that a handsome neck, to a horse or a woman, is at least one third of their beauty. A scraggy neck is a most horrible deformity. Mahomet lets no scraggy necks into his paradise. Poor Byron, if he only had married Miss Chaworth, his destiny would have been different. Rut she refused him and threw herself . away upon Musters, a handsome fellow to be sure, but was without mind, sentiment or feeling. Musters, after living with her a few years, left her and ran away with a creature to Paris, where he staid come years. What dreadful corruption of manners there is among fashionable society! Sir, it is the same in this country as in the old world. I am not sure but it ia worse here. In Europe the great and wealthy give their damnable wickedness a polish, an eleKan;e -but here, it is on most occasions vulgar and low. our great scoundrels here spring from dirt, ana d,rt they always remain. I have known a horUvIa CBQ ln N8ton day a beaatiful young girl JrLrfm Vlr 4gu in ' sflQ was of the finest pccimen of a brunette. She was lively and intcr-

esting. Suddenly her lather died, uer uncic uvea

in . in great style, sue went to ms nouse io live. Her uncle had a son about her age. They were thrown into each other's company at an age when passion is all-powerfull, and nothing to prevent or check its gratification. The son kept the society of his cousin all the time. He actually seduced her in his own father's house. She had to re turn a "am to , and in twelve months she pined away and died. T . . m 4 Tf a. This was the tate ot the poor orphan, lei, sir, we are caueu vnrisiams, lnnaouins a wnswui country: Sir, we are barbarians, we are worse than barbarians. My God, to compare the Hindoos to us, would be almost profanation. These ignorant Hin doos, as we suppose them to be, ere as far above us . 1.1 ! 1 - A. " m true pieiy, gooaness, ana pnnanuiropy , as u js possible for one set of men to surpass another. I would trust a Hindoo with my life, with any thing. but especially I would not trust the bloody, blasted Jawers. Here was my case of assault against the two brought on the other day against my consent. I could not get my witnesses on the ground. There's that Recorder, do you know hi ml Yes, very well. He has always a smile on his face. Oh, d n his smiles; he lias too many of them. Of all things in this world, Mr. B. avoid a smiling judge. I once knew such a one in India. He was the greatest scoundrel in all llmdostan. lie smiled when he rose in the morning, when he lay down at night. He smiled on the bench he smiled off it. He smiled in his robes he smiled out of them. He smiled when he sentenced to death, and Emiled when he got drunk. There was an ineffable smile on his face. I don't like smiling people, but least of all, smiling lawyers or judges. Insanity. There is no end to the false impressions and delusions with which the mind may be affected. A physician was once called to 6ee a man laboring under the fancy that he was converted into a tea-pot. And when the physician endeavored to ridicule him out of the idea, he indignantly replied, I am a tea-pot,' and forming a semi-circle with one arm by placing his hand upon his hip, he said there is the handle, and thrusting out the other arm, 'there is the spout.' Men have believed themselves converted into barrels rolled along the street. One ease is recorded of a man who believed himself a clock, and would stand for hours at the head of the stairs clicking with his tongue. A respectable tradesman in England even fancied himself metamorphosed into a seven shilling piece, and took the precaution of requesting as a particular favor of his friends, that if his wife should present him in payment, they would not give change for him. Some have supposed that many armed knights were engaged in battle with them. A sea captain in Philadelphia, believed for many years that he had a wolf in his liver. A madman in the Pennsylvania hospital believed that he was once a calf, and mentioned the name of the butcher who killed him, and the stall in the Philadelphia market on which his flesh was sold, previously to his animating his present body. One man believes his legs to be made of butter and with the greatest caution avoids the fire; another imagines them to be made of glass, and with extreme care wraps them up, and guards them in wooden boxes when he goes out to ride. A Prince of Bourbon often supposed himself to be a plant, and taking his stand in the garden, would insist upon being watered in common with the plants around him. A French gentle imagined himself to be dead, and refused to eat. To prevent his dying of starvation, two persons were introduced to him m the character of the illustrious dead like himself, and they invited him after some conversation respecting the world of shades, to dine with another distinguished but deceased person, Marshall Turennc. The lunaatic accepted this polite invitation, and made a hearty dinner. Every day while his fancy prevailed, it was necessary to invite him to the table of some Ghost of rank and reputation. Yet in the other common affairs of life the gentleman wa3 not incapaciated from attending to his own interests. Pneumatic Railway. We have lately had an oppoitunity of examining a large working model of a somewhat novel system of inland transit, which is about to be brought before the public. The body of the railway is a hollow cylinder with ledges on the outside, under the horizontal diameter, to serve as rails, upon which the carriages travel, bestriding the upper semi-circumference of the cylinder; on the inside there is a raised ledge at the lower end of the vertical diameter, and upon this two wheels are placed, connected longitudinally by a divided perch or duplex branch, and held upright by a vertical arm affixed at its lower end to the perch, and passing out through a continued longitudinal slit, or through groove in the upper surface of the cylinder. The upper end of this arm enters the floor of a car on the outside, and is the means of connecting the inter nal apparatus with that on the outside, and thus of communicating the impulse obtained within to carriages without. The impulse is obtained upon a piston or shield, which is held up by the vehicle within the cylinder, and which is allowed to travel freely through it, by the action of air-pumps worked by fixed steam engines, of sufficient power, at stations along the line of road. The longitudinal slit or chase through which the vertical arm passes, is covered, and the cylinder made air-tight by a wadded strap or cord, which is laid over it in a trough, and being lifted by a wheel placed in the body of the external car, over which it is passed. It is impossible to convey a competent idea of the system by a verbal description only; but it is believed by the projectors, to be a safe, certain, and highly economical application of power, to effect the transit of carriages; and it has been, we are informed, examined and approved of by many of our most eminent men of science, among whom we may mention Dr. Lardener and Mr. Faraday, as well as by many other persons who are skilled in practical mechanics. We Ehall not ourselves presume to offer an opinion on the merits of the system, but we certainly think it well worthy examination, by those who are skilled and interested in such subjects. London Alhensum. V Livingston's Letter to the Due de Uroglie is every where received with approbation, and the grounds taken in it will be sustained by the united oice of the nation. Fra.-.ce has already made herself ridiculous by the part she has played in this matter, and will only make herself still more so, if she persists in demanding, what she has no right to ask for and will never obtain an apology for remarks contained in a document, of whose existence she had no right to take official cognizance. The result rests with her averse as our citizens would be to war, when the issue comes, they will choose it, objectionable as it may be, to nationaj dishonor. They can sustain the former the latter, never. The A Vto York Morning Herald, in speaking of Mr. Livingston, pays him the following just tribute: "He has clcscd his clouded diplomatic caieer in true brilliancy. The noble, bold, and lofty sentiments of his note to the French minister will be responded to by all the patriotism and talent throughout the country. There can be no mistake. The President, ar the head of the American Republic, denies the right of the French Government to catechise him, and will submit to to such insolent DEMAND FROM ANY QUARTER. This 18 the spirit of the whole correspondence. He is right. This is no party question it is a national one involving honor, character, feeling, sentiment, and reputation. He will bo supported by the whole country."

"All the Decency.91 What is meant by the Whigs when they assert, as the Federalists used to assert before them, that they have all the decency and all the respectability 1 If they mean that their party possesses all the honesty, all the morality, all the honor, and all the intelligence of the community, they manifest the greatest ignorance or presumption by the assertion. If, on the other hand,they mean that their party in general, is possessed of the greater share of what is called gentility that thev

can number in their ranks a larger tribe of fashionable dandies that their men and their women can get thejr feet into a smaller shoe, and their hands into a smaller glove than could be worn by the Democrats if this is what they mean by decency and respectability, we are willing to allow that they may have the greater share. 15y decency, in the Whig sense of the term, however they might be inclined to define it, is really meant fashion gentility and coxcombry. The whig ranks are filled with a larger number of those exquisites, who can tip their hats with a graceful air tread lightly upon the soil with artificial step and artificial feet and who, on account of their wealth or their servility, are allowed to eat at the tables of republican aristocrats, and to repeat to the world the wise sayings of their debauched patrons. By respectability, in the Whig sense of the term, is meant, being well esteemed by the upstarts of the land, who esteem all their servile flatterers being possessed of a bigoted attachment to all the errors and abuses that exist is our laws, customs, and institution paying a scrupulous attention to all arbitrary rules imposed upon the community by parasites from foreign courts paying strict regard to all foreign fashion foreign language foreign pronunciation foreign opinions, and foreign logic, imported by foreign actors and actresses, tory reviews and court magazine humbly considered by the party who have all the decenoy, as the law and the gospel of their faith and conduct. Which party, think you, fellow citizens, bears the greater resemblance to that ancient band of heroes, who fought and bled in oar revolutionary struggle for liberty that party which possesses all the decency and respectability, or that party which is more remarkable for honesty, industry, hardihood and intelligence! Boston Statesman. A SHOUT SERMON How TO MAKE MONEY. Do you complain that you have nothing to begin with! 'Tom,' you 6ay,hasa farm, and Harry has athousand dollars, but I have nothing." I say to you look at your hands, and tell me what they are worth. Would you take one thousand dollars for them, or for the use of them throughout your life? If you can make half a dollar a day wish them it would not be a bad bargain, for that sum is the interest of more than two thousand dollars; so that if you are industrious and Harry is lazy, you are more than twice as rich as he is: and when you can do man's work and make a dollar a day, are four times as rich, and are fairly worth four thousand dollars. Money and land , therefore, is not the only capital with which a young man can begin the world. If he has good health and is industrious, even the poorest boy in our country has something to trade upon: and if He be besides well educated, and have skill in any kind of work, and add to this, moral habits and religious principles, so that his employers may trust him and place confidence in him, he may then be said so set out in life with a handsome capital, and certainly has a good chance of becoming independent and respectable, and perhaps rich as any man in the country. Everyman is the maker of his own fortune." All depends upon setting out upon the right principle and they are these: 1. Be industrious. Time &nd skill are your capital. 2. Be saving. Whatever it be, live within your income. 3. Be prudent. Buy not what you can do without. 4. Be resolute. Let your economy be always of to-day, not to-morrow. 5. Be contented and thankful. A cheerful spirit, makes labor light, and sleep, sweet, and all around happy, all which is much better than being only rich. Political Advantages. Every citizen ought to be so far acquainted with the laws of government and society, as to know what advantages he ought to claim, and his natural and civil rights, and what advantages he ought to be willing to surrender, for the good of the whole, or on account oftheir imprac ticable attainment. A certain degree of equality of aavantages is attainable by all the citizens of a republic; but this, from the very constitution of society cannot be a perfect equality. Every citizen should know the extent to which this equality of advantages can be carried, that he may not disturb the harmony of society, by attempting to create an impracticable equality: and that he may know when and where to stop in his schemes of reformation. But he ought never to rest satisfied, however comfortably his situation may be, until he has gained all those political rights and advantages, which are properly belonging to him, by the laws of mutual justice. He, who from indolence or a love of peace, neglects to use every opportunity of securing such advantages to himself and to his own class of citizens, is guilty not only of injustice to himself, but to his children and posterity. Every right which he surrenders to the monopolizing spirit of another class of citizens, will increase the power of the lever, which they may use at some future day in extorting from him, or from his children, certain political priv ileges, which he little dreamed of losing, when he voluntarily sacrificed the first trifling advantage. The different classes of the community are constantly engaged in a kind of a warfare against one another's interest in which it is one's duty to secure every rightful advantage for himself, as much as to avoid taking any unjust advantage of his neighbor. Bolson Statesman. , Aboriginal Relics. Some notice wag taken in this paper last fall of tho opening of an Indian mound, in this place, in preparing the foundation for a house; during the past week the excavations have been extended in the rear of the building erected, and many curious Indian relics have been brought to light. Two or three nearly entire skulls which we saw, would puzzle the head of a phrenologist; of one, there is an elevation (or bump) on the top of the right side of three-eights or a half an inch higher than tho left side, or in other words, a gradual ascent from the left to the right; of another, the skull, from near the eyesockets to the back part of the head, presents an angle of about 45 degrees, and the back a perpendicular line. The lower jaw-bone of one has no double teeth, and the front teeth instead of being placed with their broad side parallel with the front of the jaw, are the reverse, or appear to be set in their sockets crossways. Numerous articles of rude Indian pottery were found, some enlire, and of curious form. Manchester Miss. Herald. Swallowing. A young man, after entering into a marriage engagement, communicated the circumstance to a friend with the name of his intended bride. Indeed,' said his friend, 'you are aware that she has been a mother, but not a wife!' Yes, but I love her well enough to swallow that.' What is worse, she has two children.' Thelover scratched his head - I did not know that, said he, but 1 love her well enough to swallow that.' Still more,' said his informant tlie last was a black one. If I sxoallow that j u n mc.

Negro Insurrection. Wc have understood that an insurrection among the Negroesin Hinds co. & other adjoining counties of Mississippi State, has been discovered, and prevented. The rumour goes that the insurrection was fully organized throughout those counties, and the rising was to have taken place on the fourth instant, the males, ugly females and children were to be massacred,

and the hadsomo women to be reserved as wives for the insurgents. When the planters and their families in the country were murdered the in- . 1 . TVT.I !. surjieni army was io proceea io iaicnvz, iase, plunder and burn it, and then proceed to Orleans and treat that city with no more delicacy. It appears that the insurrection was organized by five white villains who had been inmates of Penitentiaries. The discovery was made by a negro who gave information to his master and being incredulous he was taken to the place of mutiny one night by the negro and secreted in a position where he heard the whole plan recapitulated, being then convinced of the truth of the story he hrid heard from his servant, he proceeded immediately to alarmhis neighbors, had a number of the insurgents, arrested, the five white villains among them, and in a summary way had them brought to trial and inflicted up in the fiJ Penit entiary heros and ten negroes capital punishment hanging the whole fifteen. The writer of the letter in the Nashville Banner stated that while he was writing other trials were going on. Not having seen any further authenticated account of the horrid transaction, we can say no more of it, but this that we do not doubt that the missionaries who are now so busily employed in preaching up emancipation have much to answer for in this nefarious transaction, and that they are the greatest enemies to those whom they profess to defend. We have also understood that there has been a difficulty at Vicksburgh in the same stale on the 4th July. Lynch law hns been administered to five persons, who were hanged and thrown into one pit. We have not received such an authenticated account as to enable U3 to gointo further psriiculars. We may probably have more of it before our next publication. Cin. Adv. Michigan. The Executive has issued a proclamation convening tho Legislative Council of Michigan, at the city of Detroit, on the seventeenth d;iy of August, for the purpose of submitting matters of high import to their consideration. Detroit Dem. Free Press. From a perusal of tho rest of the article which follows the above paragraph, we are induced to think that Governor Mason, with Cov. Cass at his back, is determined upon preventing the running of the line as chimed by Ohio. Not daring to resist the running of the line upon their own responsibility, and in direct opposition to the express understanding between the General Government and Ohio; these functionaries are to enlist the passions and prejudices of the peopleof Michigan, for the purpose of throwing the odium from their own shoulders. We believe that Michigan is determined to resist, or rather we believe that Gov. Cas3 is determined to resist all the attempts of Ohio to obtain her rights and we believe he is acting, in fact we know it, in express violation of the wishes of the President. We shall publish the remainder of the article to-morrow, and endeavor to show who are the chief actors in this transaction. Cin. Republican. We learn from a gentleman who lias recently returned from a visit to the western parts of New York that ha was informed that the celebrated Indian chief CORN PLANTER is still living at his residence near the source of the Allegheny river, at the advanced age of 118 years. He is said to enjoy excellent health and to be able to mount and ride his horse with great ease: his wife and his wife's mother are also both still living, the first 108 and tho latter 128 years old. We doubt if there can bo found in any other family in the world three persons of equally advanced ages. Niles. Colozination. Oneact worth a thousand theories. We have just1 seen upon the desk of Disosway & Brothers, Pearl street, a pen knife set in a handle of most beautiful camwood. The wood is from a lot recently received by those gentlemen, from two colonists at Liberia, and sold on their account for nearlf six thousand dollars. These emigrants are among others whom one of that firm advised to emigrate, a few years since from Virginia. They are contented, prosperous, and no inducement would bring them back to this country. One of these Liberians has lately arrived in the United States, received the proceeds of the wood, and has purchased a vessel in Philadelphia, which he is loading with an assorted cargo for his return. Success attend his enterprize. JV. Y. Com. Adv. The Steam Boat Susquehanna touched at this place on her passage down from Oswego to Wilkesbarre on Tuesday last. This is her second trip and, although somewhat unfortunate in her first, we still have hopes that she will ultimately succeed, and establish the practicability of navigating our noble river by steam. We are confident there is at all times a sufficient quantity of water in the river, and that the bed of the channel might be so improved as to render it navigable by steam boats constructed on the plan of the one now floating upon her waters. The Susquehanna is a beautiful boat, and is said to draw but sixteen inches water. She is expected to return from Wilkesbarre to-day. Northern Banner. Manchester, Miss. July 4. Negro Disturbance. There have been rumors and reports in circulation for the last day or two of an anticipated rising amoung the negroes. We have nothing definite, only that several hive been summarily executed in Madison county. From what we have heard, a rising and massacre was to take place on the 4th, (to-day,) while the heads of families and males were assembled at places of public resort in celebrating the d iy. The reports and information received were deemed of so much importance, that a public meeting was held in Benton on Thursday last, to take the necessary measures for protection and safety. Herald. W e are pleased to hear that other and more valuable discoveries of lead have been made on the Merrimack river, on the south side adjoining the 17th sectkn. The ore appears in great quantities, and of superior quality to any yet discovered; and we are still more pleased, that the lands are purchased by citizens of St. Louis, and that the operations will shortly be commenced. From appearances it is believed to be inexhaustible. All we can say is, success in the highest degree, to our enterprising citizens. St. Louis Rep. We understand that Mr. Woodburv, the able Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, on seeing tho account of the imprisonment for debt at this place, of three revolutionary soldier?, immediately addressed a letter, full of bonevolence and feeling, to a ITOntlpmnn horn, rnuorlnrr tko mnana fnr thmr - C , vv.nil.(5 -" discharge from priaon. Burlington Sentinel.

FOR THE INDIANA FALLADIUHT. MSsrsEditors: I discover that Truth has again appeared bfore the public, in the last "Times," with the same recklessness, or rather, a determination to promnlgate falsehood, that characterized his former communications. He, probably, thinks that he can pursue the nefarious course which he has bo boisterously began, without the public ever knowing his real name. It may b o. One thing, I am pretty well assured of, if "Truth" can keep his real name in the dark, the people of Dearborn county will never know it, for it is very evident that he has not the nerve to act the man, and that his knees begin to smite together for fear that his name will get out. Hearhirat "If I could be found out, I doubt not that the guilotin would be soon employed for my extirpation." It is virtually saying, for heaven's sake, Mr. Editor, don't let my name out I am afraid of some bodily harm. The guilty coward can always see danger where there is none. Fear not, Mr. "Truth," do not believe that there is a man that would harm a hair of your simple head. For my own part, I would holdup both hands for you to live on in your selfconceit and use yourself up, whenever it becomes your province so to do. "Truth" gives full vent to his spleen in the article under consideration, and 1 ivishes his abuses upon me without measure, for no other cause than this, he made some false statement, and I told the people that they were not true, and

called on him to let the people know on whatauthority he made them, which he could not do without acting like an honest man and confessing that they were hatched in his own depraved imagination. I charged "Truth" with making statements that were not true, and pointed out the language. Docs ha come out and clear himself J No. But states, by way of justification, that I was the violent and warm enemy of Lawrenceburgh, and gave Wilmington the preference as to the county seat not long since. This I pronounce to be false. And I now challenge Truth to make it appear that I have evaded giving an answer to any question that has been asked me since I was brought out as a candidate, or that I ever was the violent enemy of Lawrenceburgh or any place in the county, or that I ever gave Wilmington the preference for the county seat. This, I know, he cannot do, unless he can find others as reckless of character, as regards what they speak or write, as himself. He says that I "was not called on for a speech." Indeed. Truth is exceedingly modest. I wonder who called on him for his slang that the Rising-Sun Times has been teeming with for weeks back Of all the things in this world, I do despise, aye, most cordially hate, is the poor fool that can be hired to calumniate and publish falsehoods about men that he knows not au;ht against. Who can doubt that this same "Truth" receives his wages for doing the work that no honorable man would stoop to. There is nothing original in all his communication?, except some half dozen falsehoods he has palmed off un der the cloak of truth; it is just such language as we nave heard from the Times for a year or more. And still, this fellow can prate about lords and masters. "Truth" tries to cast some insinuations that he and Mr. Clarkson know something about me. If he or 3Ir. Clarkson knows any thing against me they are at liberty to make it known. I would not have it understood that I habor any unpleasant feelings towards Mr. Clarkson ; if he does towards me it is not my fault. It is true that, when I informed Mr. Clarkson that I should vote for Gen. Jackson, he said a few hard things, as men naturally will, under such circumstances; but, Mr. Clarkson, although an editor, never assumed the important attitude that my friend of the Times has, by informing the people that he would "use me up." I expect the next thing we shall hear from "Truth," will be, that lie has applied for a patent right for using the Hooshiers up. As it regards my belonging to several political parties, I will state that I voted for Mr. Adams in 1823 in 1832, I voted for Jackson. When I voted for Mr. Adams, I believed him an honest man and a friend to his country; and believe it yet. The old men that were engaged in the party strifes of former days tell me that Mr. Adams in his young days was guility of the egregrious crime that "Truth" charges upon me, viz : belonging to two politicalparties in one year, which, I judge, in the opinion of "Truth," is sufficient to brand him with infamy. In 1832 I did intend to vote for Mr. Clay, but when I found that the contest was to decide whether the bank of the U. S. should be rechartered or not, and believing it was dangerous to our free institutions, I gave my vote to Gen. Jackson. What lover of his country would not do the same? Every friend of the bank must approve of the course I took, notwithstanding he may say that I had no real evidence that the bank was a dangerous institution: here we are at issue I think I had. Could I have went to the polls and voted for Mr. Cla)r, with my judgment telling me that I was voting to uphold an institut ion which threatened to subvert our liberties, and returned home with the proud feelings of a freeman, with the consciousness of having discharged my duty to my country? I never liked this kind of consistency which binds a man to stick to all the errors he may embrace through life. If I find that I am in an error (and I have no other means of ascertaining this, than to trust to my own judgment) I always drop it, and what I conceive to be truth I embrace with all my heart. I do not understand that I am bound to stick to party views, right or wrong; but always to vote with an eye single to the welfare of my country, friend "Truth to the contrary, notwithstanding. But who does not see through the silly contrivance. "Truth" thinks that the mighty talents he has displayed in electioneering, has drilled every man in the lower half of the county so thoroughly, that every one is at his post, and there is no danger of making a split in that quarter: now, if he can raise the question in the upper half, by harrowing up some of our old difficulties, and get us by the ears the Wilmington ticket will triumph by a great majority. We may honestly differ in casting our votes for men. Why is "Truth" so shallow as to accuse me of acting as every freeman will, to wit: vote for just who he pleases, without paying any attention to the dictation of such trucking slaves as my friend what eats folks up. I do not believe a word of the story he tells of seeing a "letter from a gentleman in the upper section of the county, stating that he could have been nominated if he had pledged himself for the Burghers;" nor shall I believe it till 1 see the letter, or it is published with the proper name : for I was a member of the Manchester Convention, and know that no one asked for a pledge, and with what evidence I have of ''Truth's" disposition to make false statements, I am inclined to believe that it is a story of his own making. I am not friendly to involving the State in a ruinous system of internal improvements, as the "Times' will have it; however, it is useless to say any thing on this subject, the writers in the "Times" will have it so, until after the election. They are welcome to all they can make by misrepresentation. I think the people understand their slang. JAMES P. MILLIKEN. Manchestee, July 29, 1835. The valedictory services of the present Senior Class of Harvard University, will take place in tho College Chapel, on Tuesday next. The oration by Charles C. Shackford, of Portsmouth, N. II The poem by Benj. D. Winslow, of Boston. Scrvi ces to commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. Trans' m A singular case was tried in tho New York Circuit Court on Thursday. It was Geo. G. B irnard vs. John J. Caul and Mary H. his wife for a breach of promise on the ptrt of the lady. Damages laid at $5000. Verdict $1000. The citizens of a portion of the disnuted Terri tory, celebrated the Anniversary of America Independence at Toledo. Some of the proceedings, had upon the occasion, partook of gome degree of novelty. In addition to the Declaration of Independence, which is usually read upon such an occasion, the Message of his Excellency, Gov. Lucas, wasalso read, together with the accompanying documents. Cleveland Herald. General Harrison and the Vice Presidency .A great number of the Whig papers throughout tho country, have recommended the name of General Harrison to be run as Vice President, on the ticket designating Mr. Webster, for President. Now, we are authorized by Gen. Harrison, himself, to say, that this disposition is made of his ha me without his consent, and that he is firmly resolved not to permit his name to be run as Vice President, on this or any other ticket. Cincinnati Commercial JVhig. Enlargement of the Tlrie Canal. A bill to' enlarge the Erie Canal, throughout its entire length, and to double the locks, thereon passed, the Assembly of N. York, on the 29th of April, by a vote of SO to 20. Within three weeks we have had a profuse supply of rain. The crops have gained wonderfully, and we now have, notwithstanding the apprehensions entered a few weeks since, the prospect of an abundant harvest. Onondaga Standard.

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