Indiana Palladium, Volume 11, Number 43, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 7 November 1835 — Page 2

For the Jalladlum.

MARTIN VAN BURKN No. ir. The rivalry to which we have alluded, continued inore thin ten ycirs; yet notwithstanding the duration, and fierceness of their political collisions, their profession- b isincsa was conducted in a spirit of unbounded liberality and chivalric confidence. l,ch hi3 over since borne ample testimony to the pencroty andod faith with which he was treat ed oy uis adversary . lu the meantime, Mr. Van Dnren and his distin nshed rival were called tn th TJis.ica rival were called to the higher courts, 1 here h3 encountered the first talpm in tho sr.,tn. - and with such success, that on the republicans regaining their nscendency, he was appointed, in Feb a, a ..w-v ,uvwf ruary, attorney general of the State, in the room of Abraham Van Vecleten, then equally eminent for political sagacity and professional reputation. The duties of tin's otlice, and the extension of his practice, induced him, in the following1 year, to change his residence from Hudson to Alhanv. From this time until his retirement, he was deservedly ranked among those luminaries of the profession, to whom in connexion with the judiciary, the State owes so large a portion of her prosperity and renown. The public lif and services of Martin Van IJuren, demand a fuller notice than that bestowed on his professional career. His first connexion with political atlairs, was in the great contest which preceded the civil revolution of 1601. His father, a irAs-of the Revolution and an anti-federalist in lib8, was among the earliest supporters of Mr. Jefferson. Martin, then a law student at Kinderhook, e?pnused with great warmth the same principles; but his course was emphatically his own. It was the result of a docided conviction, that the conduct and doctrines of the men in power, were not only subversive of the rights of the people, but fast tending to the establishment cf an aristocratical government. The strength and integrity of these convictions were severely tested. The gentleman in whose office he was a student, was a high-toned federalist; so was a near and much loved relative, his earliest patron. A majority of the inhabitants,' including nearly all the wealthy families, and most of his youthful associates also belonged to the federal party, and that party then had the ascendency, not only in his own town, but in the county, the :State, and the Union. Aware of his superior endowments, and anxious to save him from what was deemed by many of his friends a fatal if not a criminal heresy, great exertions were made to attach him to tlu dominant party. Every motive which could operate on the mind of an ardent and ambitious young man, was held out to him, but without success. He persisted in maintaining the principles lie had espoused, and he spared no pains to inculcate them upon others, especially by animated addresses at the meetings of the people. His devotion thus early to the cause of the people, though it exposed him to the implacable hostility of the federalists, secured to him the confidence and affections of the democracy of the town, and soon made him so conspicuous in Ins county, that in 1S00, when only in his eighteenth year, he was one of her representatives ina republican convention composed of delegates from the counties of Hensselear and Columbia, and held for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the houe of representatives. On that occasion, he assisted the veteran politicians, with whom he was associated in pieparing an address to the electors. Darin the residue of his minority he was in the habit of re"presentmg the republicans of his town in the county conventions, and of taking as active and efficient part m the political contests of the day as an v of his seniors. . J His first appearance as an elector, was in the spring of 1S04, when, in common with the jrreat mass of the party in which he had been educated he eupported Morgan Lewis for Governor of New i ork in opposition to Aamn Hum tM i . . . ai-Aiu ins integrity and independence were strikingly exemplified. Mr. an Ness, with whom he had recently been a student, was the intimate friend of Col. Hurr and Mr. Van Curen himself, whilst in the city of Aew or, had received many flattering attentions from that gentleman, then the idol of every circle in winch he moved. Several of the leading republicans of Columbia county, including some of Mr. V an Huron s earliest friends, were amon his warm- " est supporters. Yet he took a decided stand against Col. Hurr.on the ground that he was the candidate of tne party opposed to Mr. Jefferson, and to the democracy of the State. His course on this occasion subjected him to some temporary antipathies; but its wisdom and propriety were sanctioned by the judgment of the people; and at the present day will hardly be called in question. In 1S07 the democratic party were divided between Lewis and Thompkins, and Mr. Van Huron was amcntrst tho ter 1 kiw i "HfYllv-,is Ul iaiiu isus lie was appointed siirmto appointed county, an olF.ce whicfh beheld until February. iSl:twhen the federal party, having irnined the nnn. uency in that branch of the legislature which con- . - - ' r- vj nit; tiUfflappointing nower. 1if wan nmmnti., eU PllILOMARTII 'rT.n a-uy rt-nceuurgu, lb-Jo. r i , . . A meeting hns been held in (infintut! vu pronr ptv or rnnctmr.;. propriety oi constructing a Hail Road rum in.i cuy to Springfield, in Clark County, un he Little Miami Valley. This will be a continuation of the Mad river and Lake Erie Kail Koad. Arid it is suggested as one of the object to meet the proposed Southern rail-road, tVom C.iai tcstnwn.b. C. to Cincinnati thus connecting the 'Northern frontier with the Atlantic coat, ihe people of the Whitewater Valleynre making great eflorts to open a communication from Lawrenceburgh up the valley of this river by means ot a C1 and rail road. ,rest. 7krnphT JlePem-riiQ !ePMican majority in the next legislature will not be less than 20 on joint ballot.tbofr V7,SOn,VCrS.pUtLthe whi3 completed their backs. 1 he W lugs begin to think of tryin- a new name. The whig presses throughout the State and country are beginning to prepare for a new canUjdsfe. One says it is authorized to say that Harrison and A hite wont both be candidates, another enyat.ie whig will unite on some one and that if tint one should be Webster or Clay all the others will be withdrawn. It is plain to us that cither the friends of White cr Harnson must be disappointed. We think most clearly both. Harrison will not run unless he can gt the whole whig vote. White will not unless he Can hf Dccnrn.l I i.n ...Ml L. .1 tt!i. 1,1 "c UI" oe-nesoie opposing canl" an uuren. Una he cannot be. The ; j.iousiuie result, in our iv-Z oi view, will be the holdt.. resf,onal caus at the meet in of the nex compromise candidate. ' -v. vision and the nommstinn M - m... . Western Ohio) Teltzrarh. The l RESIDENCY Th. U'I,:B-,.- m i. L . . " JUU1 'iUI J. ticaUl,lo,r,2?d' that "Gen. Harrison 1 . vuu,.t M.rreiiuerniaown pretensions in fa vor ot a more stronr rn,l;,i, . j lua,JUUSe nue win evince equal disinter estedness." 1 llu .i t.. , " . ,ua- nave no Well this is as it should b?. Mr. V an Ttilron ie rt j-trc Krc? ror man thin either Gen. Harrison or Jud-e H te; they will of course, both surrender their pretens'ons to him ifnnf nl.n.,f..ii.. i... .u . 1 i.in of tl,.,-. , iiicu uv me uecis- ... nation. rtt fr.f AVr rest. . Tto llacV of t.-Ti-!n Kv nr,;,i irn Me. It ia r.in.l tint nn J n c.m.e uoTi l!..n cllVclHully Ju,, ' !Ia" T I! "P," "'' -'S,V. M. fit. A. been sentenced to yucli. bevcralhive work-bom s?x tnontln iso, where thy Wln hm,kii , . , . .. 3 up stones for macadamized roads;

From the Ptourvltauiau.

The Presidential election. Some of the whig p?-p?rs hereabouts are already squabbling as to the individual from their ranks, to whom the Presidential vole of Pennsylvania shall be given, Webster, Harrison or Clay. Having by means of an anti-masonic alliance and a division on a local question, in the ranks of their opponents, opined a temporary triumph upon half the matter at issue, they aic iiiuijr cuitu tviiu wieir iirst victory, anu taiK ol electoral votes as if 1833 were 1S3G. They doubtless find it a very nleasent delusion: and irmgine themselves the better up and puller down' rPrnchlpnta iv...:j. err- .i-i -v Ul t IV IV .I.1! 111 l IM'( " V 111 I f 4 III delicious day-dreams they distribute national honors, ana recall the times of the elder Adams: for the i younger lie of that name no longer finds favor in ineir eyes. The whig delists, however, are mere phantasms. Pennslyvania is sound to the core on the Presidential question. The names of Van Buren and Johnson are graved on the hearts of her people, and as she sustained Andrew Jackson against all comers, so will she carry the nominees of the National Convenuon triumphantly through every species of opposition. fins pnper, wc believe, was the first in Pennsylvania to declare itself in favor of iMartin Van Buren for the Presidency, and now every de mocratic print in tne stale, whether it hbs been for Muhlenburg or Wolf, is enlisted in the same cause. Such are the prospects for 1S3G. Even if there were less unanimity in our ranks upon this subject, the want of fixed principles on the nart of the opposition, and their hesitating policy, their vacil lation irom one man to another; now bringing forward a recreant democrat, and atrain a hhiRS.a..i federalist, and showing a new front for every week i-usuiu uieircenain aeieat not only here but every where. Before talking of the electoral vote ofPennsylvama a-i mem una a candidate to comnrto for it miiimr. an nuren. cot your man to stand the scrutiny which he must undergo, or cease to delude the opposition in other Stales with the idle hope that any thing can be effected in this. As this cannot be done, the universal whig party may cease troubling themselves about Pennsylvania on the Presidential question. The people have nlreday made up their minds upon the subject, and ifcalled upon would vote to day precisely as they will vote a year hence, for Martin Van Buren and Richard M.Johnson. Jrystcrious Affair. We received yesterday evening, in a slip from the New Caslle Gazette, the following account of an inquest held in that pl.ice over three dead bodies: We were called upon as a juror, yesterday to examine the dead bodies of three negroes found packed in tierces, similar in make and size to those used for packing fine New Orleans siwar It Slff8,1 wcre forwarded from Baltimoro to 1 hilndelphia by the Union Line Comoany and labelled, "II. G. Francis " They were- put on shore at this place on acrcount of the disagreeable odour that come from them while lying on board of the steamboat and upon a suggestion beinr made that they contained human flesh, one of the tierces was opened which was occupied by two female negroes packed ftce to face the casks wcre accordingly' removed from the wharf to the public burying ground, and there opened and an inquest of twelve men called to examine the bodies who returned a verdict that tho said persons came to their dealh by means unknown to this jury." The decomposed state in which the bodies wcre found prevented a thorough examination ofthesimo -the necks of the two females appeared to have been dislocated and ihe nose of one broken, toaether with the eyes nearly forced from their sockets whether this was done previous to their death or caused by forcing them into the tierces is uncertain. I he man was in a belter condition than the women, rather above ihe middling size, stout built very dark, and we should judge near thirty years old there was a piece of blue cloth tied round his argo rigni toe, which may have beeen placed there by the persons concerned, for a particular purpose. Uno of ihe females was nearly white, the other a ui.g.u jeuow a plain bras? ring was found oi me urst mentioned right hind finre wcre all without any covering, and packed on one fingers they in straw uuu corn oiaues. Atter the they were buried in one examination was over crave, toaei! IPr Willi llln tieic.es that contained them. Various conjectures have nnturally arisen as to the probable manner in which these persons were deprived of life, and the uses for which Ihey were intended, our opinion is, however, that they died . ;u.,.,uCais, anu were intended bs subjects for uissecuon although that belief is somewhat sta ftorrwl ti h,i " l . . I? .,u ,..-.. e consiacr me particular season of year, anu tne t,ct that neither of the medical colleges of .Philadelphia, hive,8S yet, commenced mvrii regular course ot lecture .wu are well aware that the Faculty must w muLS una cirscnption to examine for living, but we must say i m tno forwarding of subjects ot this ii luu ear '"rough a line intended princi pally for carrying passengers, deserves the strictest censure, and should the authors be discovered a severe punishment, (if possible.) should h Jfl;,l.i as a caution to future dealers in this new article of ndusporiawon. Tlis name is fictitious, without rim,!,, tea upon a card, and nailed ou the head of each was writtierce. Tox3s.Tho Arexicans appear resolved to keep i3 1 exians with the.r hands full. Not only have brge bodies of troops been sent to that state; but Mexican agents have excited the neighboring Indians to attack the American colonists. The Comnnnches and Cherokces have already made several incurs.ons; so ihit ex-govornor Huston and other gentlemen have been obliged to write to Uashmgton to entreat the interference of the national government. Americans to the rescue! Remember the condition of our revolutionary ancestors, when the Indians were excited agiinst them: shall we suffer our colonial Iriends to be massacred by Mexican and have them driven from ihe colonies which they have honorably purchased and laboriously improi cd ? Ac:c-Uricaus Bee. Afoul Duel. The following is an extract of a letter from an oflicoron board the U. S. ship 1)P. aware. It j3 dated Palermo, August 1 lib: "We hive just anchored here. We left Malta on the -d, m the company of the Cnglish fleet; ihey left us l ist evening. Q the 7.h, at Ciergenti, an untortunate a!fiir npr.irrr.i .... r i n. uuiiTccu two oi our gatn"iLi 'r"'u"? ;f'l.om was mnmlly wounded , u'' d'Cd. 'enty.r,lr l.ours; the .' rc.c,'v?"S- ln" ... I.onrd a ward of ii f n, r- : . . . . vjiiiuimiMim tun ubuiuiion we look for her daily. We are I ami m hh spirits, uith the hope of soon all wrll stet rin in November. i .. mtewjw.-Wo expect to h5 at NVw.YrL-

PRAIRIES OP WEST MISSISSIPPI.

THEORY OF THEIR FORMATION. In relation to thoss areas, which have received the appellation of pniries, from their surfaces, denuded of timber, beng at certain seasons covered with long grass, 1 an not of the opinion of those who think that all prair.es have originally been produced by firing the limber annually, and thus, by repeated combusiions, destroying the timber as well as Ihe sprouls. That much ground has been denuded by such means, I would admit, and the cause certainly would appear a sufficient one for those prairie districts, to which oo other cause apparently could be assigned. By whatever method plants begin first to germinate in such deposites,it is evident, as I have before stated, that where the vegetable matter is thin, and the season unfavorable, ihey are liable to perish; ani where they would not altogether perish, it must bs remembered, that this country wasstocked, as the more distant prairies still are, with buffalo, which would, by their periodical occupation of the counry in numberless herds, assist in exterminating plains of a vigorless constitution. These may be enamerated amongst the efficient causes of a prairie cr mcdow slate of extensive tracts of country. This liew of the subject is some what strengthened by tin fact of plants, in modern times, encroaching on the prairies; for I have observed they encroach on the sides where vegatable matter has been washed and accumulated, finding a nutritious bed thsre into which they can push their innumerable delicate fibres, secured from the devastating teeth and hoofs of the buffalo, which have now all left this part of the country ; for where man setlles, lha animal never remains long. But there is also anoiher view of the subject. These vast prairies of the west, as well as the diminutive ones in question, must be admitted to be ancient floorsof the ocean. When it abandons! them, they were cf course, without plants, and unless we admit their spontaneous growth, we must suppose them to have germinated from seeds derived from plants growing on lands which had been left with a iiigher level than the ocean, before it receded from these prairies. Their borders would, of course, be planted first, and ihus we can conceive of every new generation of plants giving some of its seeds to the winds and the waters, and gradually extending the forests, like the present members of the human family, advancing upon and settling the country for the uses of posterity. This seems a more natural and just method of accounting for the immense prairies of the west, and the pampas of the southern portion of the South American continent, than conjectural opinions founded on a convenient method adopted by ihe Indians in securing their game, and which they have practised at all times, certainly with the effect of thinning, but without destroying the timber, as wo know from the immense forests of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri and Arkansas, which were once annually fired by the Indians, to burn the high grass, that they might belter see their game a practice which destroyed the undergrowth but only thinned the trees; and now that the Indians have left these countries, we find the undergrowth rapidly occupying the ground again. Before we receive opinions altogether hypothetical in relation to the cause of the prairie condition of land, it seems as if wo were bound to enquire what was their first condition, consistent with the geological fact that ihey are ancient floors of the ocean. It, therefore, appears to me to be probablo that many of these prairies have never since the ocean left them, hern ! covered by any vegetable of greater importance than nhe gramina. Under this view of th rr n t Inr it a consistent to s ippose, what is personally known to me to be the fact in many observed instances, thai 1.1 . uecs ana plants may be transplanted to those prairies with perfect success JtcathcrstonhauglSs GcoL Report. Fruit. Why aro some fruit3 improved in sweetness by drying or half withering on the trees? Because their watery parts thus exhale, and ihe sugar is virtually increased in quantity. Why should grapes hang on the vine until they are peifccily ripe? Because unripe bunches never get any riper after they are gathered. Why should grapes be eaten soon after they are gathered? Because, unlike other fruits, grapes do not improve in flavor after gathering. Why should the crowns be removed from ripe pine-apples? uecause, wnen suttered to remain, thev live upon the fruit till ihey have sucked out all the goodness. Why docs an apple, when cut first, appear white and atler a time brownish? liecause a fermentation arises from the rest of the Iruit absorbing ihe oxygen of the atmosphere; the apple having previously been, by its loull skin, protected from ihe contact of air. Donovan. Why arc certain apples called russetings? Because of iheir russset or reddish brown color. Why are chestnuts best preserved thro' winter in sand. Because if there be any maggots in tho chesnuts, they will come out, and work up throuoh tho sand to get air. Why is fern preferable to straw for the bed between the layers of fruit? Because it does not impart that musty flivor which is so often produced by the straw. Why are the autumnal fruits, as plums, pears, &c, more crude and indigestible than those of summer! Because, in part, of the state of the rnnct;.,,. tion. Thus, at the commencement nf ..,mmo. ihe system is more icrved and braced by the atmosphere of winter and spring, and by the dryer food which necessity obliges us to take at those seasons: so that ihe cooling fruits of summer are wholesome from tlieir opening the bowels, ccc. Hut it is not wonderful that a continuance of watery and nutritious Pood like fruit, should, towards the autumn, produce debility in constitutions partly predisposed to it, by the continual and relaxing heat of the summer months. Knowledge for the People. Benefits of advertising. We are pleased to see, oy nn luihtoral in this morning's Gazette, that our merchants, or some of them (and we doubt not all will soon see the utility of it) adopting this mode ot making known what they have forsale. If generally and tinifortnlv , - - j lfc WWUIU double the amount of business done in this place in one year. We know of more thnn :J f , " iiiaiaiiuu U'flclArtl M.nl..l . .1 . . oiv.ui "iiv-iLiMius coming to mis city to p chase dry goods, and after referring to ihe owners puras . , ... . . 7 - .T C U 1 1 1 U a single article of dry goods advertised, naturally " siiit-jaiucu uu in an niaees. anri - . T " " " v not sceintj v,w,.v..vjol.i uitru were none Here, and departed for the east immediately. Cin. Eve. Post. It Ins recently len decided in New York, that railroad and steamboat companies are responsible tor the safe transmission of baggage, notwithstanding their advertisements that it is "at the rUk of the owner?.1

FROM EUROPE. The picket shin Ornheus. Cam. Buralev. arrive :

at this port near th close of last week, bringing! uuiiuwii num.es in me uu. cigiii uays later. The intelligence is unimportant. Parliament was prorogued on tho 10th, by the King in person, after on unusually protracted session of seven months. Tho principal measure of the session has been the bill for the reform of Municipal Corporations, which has received the royal sanction. The Address of the Commons on the occasion of the prorogation alludes to the fact that a new loan of 15,000,000 lias been effected, in order to defray the expense of the Abolition of Slavery in tho Colonies. The King, in his reply, informs them that treaties have recently been concluded with Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Sardinia, for the more effectual suppression of tho Slave Trade Parliament will re-agsemble on the 5ih November. The revenue of CVConnell derived from the voluntary contribution of his admirers, amounts for this year to above $00,000. The King of Franco has just created thirty new Peers of the realm. New Yorker. London, Sept. 14. It is currently reported hero that two conferences were held during last week by our minister respecting the affairs of Spain, and at the latter the Russian Ambassador was present, when it was decided that the French intervention should take place, and that forty thousand French troops were to enter Spain. The news from Spain continues to bo unfavorable to the Queen. It is said, on the authority of a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, that a liberal junta had been formed in Madrid, and that the Queen had adhered to it. We do not think the latter part of the report probable; if it be true, she has been driven to this desperate measure by hard necessity, and it is only a prelude to ihe total destruction of her authority. Insurrections in favor of Don Carlosare taking place in all part3, & desertions both from the French Legion and ihe English mercenaries are abundant. Espeleta proceeded to raise the siege of Bilboa, in which, according to the Montour, he succeeded. It is reported that the Curate Merino has been taken, but this partisan has been disposed of in so many ways already, that we are not inclined to pay the report much attention. The constitution of 1S13 has been proclaimed at Badajoz. London Standard. Turkey". Intelligence from Constantinople to 10th Aug. stales that the plague was making fearful ravages in that city. The last intelligence bro't to the Porte from Albania was, that the vanguard of tho army of Roumieley Valessy had been routed, with the loss of three thousand men on attempting to cross the river Matt. Scautri is still holding out, although we had a report some days ago that it had yielded. Prince Milosch, on his arrival at Constantinople, marked his sense as to who are rulers of Turkey, by violating all Ottoman etiquelte in going at once to the palace of the Russian legation before he visited the sultan. This, it is said, has deeply mortified his highnessbut prince Milosch, wo may be sure, well knew' what ho was about. Tumult at ITtim TV v T .. . I 1VTj1 n r .1 ... . me nuruiern lviau of this day, we are apprised of a serious tumult at UtlCa nn iVprinoolo . !,.. i . cj, : " . , ol " flssemonng ot the blate Ann-Slavery Convention. Tho City Council had voted to allow them the use of the Academy for their meeting, which fact contributed very materially to the strong excitement already existing. It seems that they finally resolved not to make use of this building, but to avail themselves or the tender of the Second Presbyterian Church, made some days previous. Two meetings of the citizens opposed to Abolition were held prior to ihe appointed day, to take measures to prevent tho assemblage of the Convention. As soon therefore as ihe Convention, numbering four hundred members, had been ornanized on the morning in question, its proceeding's were interrupted by the entrance of a procession, headed by Hon. Sam'l Beardsley, Member of Congress, and the Hon Chester Hayden, First Judge Sf the County, to inform them that their assemblage was contrary to the wishes of a great majority of the citizens of the county, who were determined that it should be broken up, and it was essential to the public peace that the Convention do adjourn Hereupon, Hon. Gerrit Smith, of Petersburg!,, Madison County, a leading Colonization, and not a member of ihe convention or the Anti-Slavery, Society, offered the convention the use of the church in Petersburgb, which was accepted, and he Convention adjourned to assemble at that town thirty-five miles distant. ' Of course, all this was not effected quite so peaceably as we have written it. The church, it is said, was seriously injured and some of the flyini? rumors with which our city is filled assert that one ot the city aldermen was roughly treated. We omit further particulars. New Yorker, Oct. 23. From the New Albany Gazette. I here is now building at Messrs. Bunton and aiuLKE,RS Stea.m enino establishment, (New Albany) an engine for a steamboat to be called the Benjamin Sherwood; of the following power and d.mens.ons. Her cylinder is 33 inches diameter and i feet stroke. She will have 8 boile s 40 lines 14 inches diameter. This tremendn.. battery of steamboilers will be equal toXpower of 04 horses, constantly ot work, or 40S horses with a re ay; according to the English mode of calculating horse power. But according to ihe Amorcan, as tested by long experience, these boilers when clean and well supplied with good fuel, will produce, a power equal to 514 horses, with a relay : ot, horses constantly at work. Her fly whee will weigh upwards of 3 1-2 tons.-We are also informed by Messrs. Benton and Walker, that their (183o) will amount to 85,000 dollars; their contacts for repairs could not be clearly ascertained but supposed to amount to between 20 and 30,000 pilars more; making i nil the round sum of 115,000 dollars. Who would have believed ten years ago, lhat bus.ness in the steam engine way to this amount, would ever be done in one shop at New Albany 7 This is emphatically an age of steam. IiGV r Skinner professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary has received a cal" from ihe Light st. Church in New York, of which Dr. Cox was formerly pastor. Wo understand that Dr. S. has accepted this call, and that in consequence he has resigned his professorship at Andover. Landmark. Intebestx.vo to Farmers. Short Wheat, a newly introduced kind of wheat spoken of with high commendation by o correspondent of the Farmer and Gardener, was, in May, 1834, obtained in New lurk from a Polish emigrant (who had just then jrnved) by a gentleman living in the interior of lennsylvania. Of this wheat the gentleman just mentioned raised a crop. Ho praises tho grain

for its unrivalled beauty,-its abundant yield, Hi great produce of flour und its capacity to wiih'staixf fIi.Ar.ii .nnaAhn 1.. ..II . I . ... . .

BunoiDo v-a.iuu;. a n an uiesu properues II IB highly valued in Poland, from which country it originally comes. Tho grain, it is further said, i beautifully while the berry rather short and very plump (whence it derives its name) and it weighs 044 lbs. per bushel. Blackleg3. The editor of the Philadelphiari the Rev. Dr. Ely, who is travelling in the far West, writes homo an interesting account of tho dealings with some blacklegs on board a steamboat. They attempted to gamble; and tho captainn ordered ihem forward. Hero one of them was very inso lent. Dr. E. says; "Captain Baldwin, as brave as Julius Ca-sar. bore the insolence of the fellow for some time, and then told him to go below.' He refused and with his left hand the captain hurled him dowri tho stairs. With a sword cane in his hand, ho endeavored to ascend, in resistance to orders, but tho captain wrenched the sword out of his hand and threw it overboard; at the same timo siczin a chair, he broke it over his head, commanding him to keep below. Why, captain,' said he, in a coaxing tone, do you beat my head to pieces?' 'Haven't I behaved myself peaceable? Don't beat mo so said he, while endeavoring to ascend and set near tho captain. He'll stab him,' cried one of the passengers. 'I've got no knife,' exclaimed the blackleg, and at the samo instant unsheathed a butcher knife, twelve inches long, from its glittering case and made a blow at the captain. Soma one gave his left arm a blow which made him droo the case from his hand. The captain caught tho right hand, which held tho knife, much resembling a Turkish scimctar and the samo instant, Mr. M'Gunnegle, of St Louis forced the deadly weapon out of his STtLS' A gun was then handed to the captain, & tho disarmed ruflian was compelled to keep below. Ono of his comrades attempted, at one moment of tho nf. fray to seize the captain, while keeping his opponent from ascending; a but fellowpasscnier interfered, & told him, much to his discomfiture that he waa one of the same gang. All of them, doubtless being intimidated by tho force of men on the richt aloof conlroversy bought prudent to keep, A few minutes after the contest was ended, the offender was landed on the Illinois side of the Ou.o. lie swore that ho would be the last man tho captain should ever live to put ashore, and thaYha would shoot him whenever he should see him At the mouth of the Tennessee river, on the Kentucky side, the other members of this blackleg company left us, with feelings of mortification that thev had come there twelve miles without any success h then- business. ' v-vv-oa " Murrell, the Land Pirate. A religious paper in Columbia, South Carolina, has asked the quest on why tho people of Tennessee suffer the Sons man named above lo live; to which we answer because the people of Tennessee have a reverenco' for the laws and the demands of justice. MurH immured with n the substantial masonry of ha Tennessee Pen,tentiary-and at a late attempt to escape which was delected, and which he ?IH believed to have originated, he washonored with a block, chained to his leg, while ho is in the Ibor yard, so that he is in a hopeless situation durint tho day of seeming liberty by an escalade or rush-! Besides which he has been given plainly to under stand by the Superintendent, Mr.-M'In Lh tho value of whose words all Western roaue7 kno well how to estimate, that, on the leasfatte At to escape either among the prisonersor by an assault of the Murrell clan from without, the very first slen shall be o put nn instant end to his lifc i Th Murrell knows! It has been told him by an ,W souled man, whose countenance turns l4ie vil kin pale for years after ho has been discharge f om his wardensh.p. Measures have been taken to make matter secure; and that ten years of Murrell'. life will pass if death do not release him At the expirat.on of his sentence the people of rennessee do not expect to see him set it liberty For this man there is no more sun-no pleasant' flowrey world--.no laughing brook, or gentle "fireside home. He is an outlaw upon a boisterous sea-every wave his enemy, and everj! Ireet. I his Ioe Western Methodist. Free Negroes of New Orleans. A Mr Trim bio at New Orleans, was recently killed by some' fiee negroes who were quarrelling at his houTe A p.stol was also fired at a Mr. Nixon, an atto?nPy' who was conducting the culprit to the watch-hous It appears the free negroes in New Orleans aro a erim"5n(So.r0l,ll0f Wul"Umof 60,00(5 nnn V ' "? coloured,and of these last, 15 . 000 are free; yet they are not permitted to reside there, unless ,n the employment of white personsnor to lrade OB theif own ac arms. Canal Tolls. Tho tolls collected on tho NewYork canals for the first week in October, amounted id for torrf 8,035'?- The vvhole ed for tollsrom the opening of navigation to the 7th of October, has been $1,154,000. oni0lu'i& -sffl' tit ir !r w s averv nfiW ti . uiea In front of the ant - 4Z T. T,Wd no '"wer, dispersed SIM Lalcr. A teller, wriiten at 4 o'clock P If of Wednesday state,, that tlm riot l,ad eallv f creased .od that they were in posses'- of r,!' Sig" '-g'-';;t-classes StZZZll ll T"'" of ,he ,iff"'" designed. 'aLlv,,Sud'a to' om they were specially IcX tl !: " ihe evil day ,.y be afar arJLlnH,h!b6Il,i,un f i.tho 1ui"' d the little devils mln r hi ' he tho" oddest thy daughter to tho cial Ml REwAuD.The President of the Commer(inn I .1' at Albany. has olTered a reward of $ls . 000 for the apprehension of the late Cashier of that nstitution, and the recovery of the amount of h2 delinquency, which is stated to bo one hundred and thirty thousand dollar,. Two thousand 33 liars ia offered for his person, without tho money, f led ed m any jail in the United States. Jt eU

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