Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 82, Madison, Jefferson County, 4 July 1818 — Page 1

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"WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY." ' VOL. II. MADISON, (INDIANA) SATURDAY, ULY 4, 1818. ' No. 82.

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ium for the Deaf and Dumb.

Hartford June i.

Thursday last there was a r . 1 v .

c examination or tne uear

l)iimn attached to the asylum

lislied in this city. His ex-

cy the governor and nearly

c members of the general as-

ly were present. The brick

ing house was not large e-

h to contain those who de-

to witness this interesting ition. The instructors and pupils occupied a stage e-

d in front ot the pulpit. Af-

raycrs bv the Rev. Mr. Hint,

Galiaudet pronounced with

force and effect, an address, en entirely bv Mr. Clerc.

several classes of pupils were examined by their instrucand exhibited the most grag specimens of their im-

cment, and the developement

seir mental faculties. Wc

delighted with the whole rmance, and especiallv with

nswers given to several ques-

! proposed by some ot the ators. The answers of six

fven pupils to the same ques-

, communicated all at once

e same signs, demonstrated

-hey understood what they

fc, and were not repeating Is" committed to memory, ar answers were expressed in pent words, and were cort beyond what we could have ?pcted. Wc shall not attempt Jxprcss our admiration of the hp composed by Mr. Clerc. United the beauties of perspicf narration, with the most cor7 nd iorciblc expression of '!rrt conceptions.

considerable share of public commisseration. George Engle a rifleman belonging to capt. Durnblazer's company, had his leg literally shattered to pieces by the firing of a musket, supposed to belong to one of capt. Lever's men. Although the musket was simply loaded with blank cartridge, the injury done was shocking. The contents entered the inside of the calf of the right leg, laying it perfectly open from the knee to the ankle, shattering and mangling it in such a manner as to render amputation indispensably necessary. The operation was accordingly performed the next day, and from the favora able symptoms since, hopes are entertained of his surviving the effects of the operation. This distressing occurrence was the consequence of a sham battle. Far be it from us to direct, unnecessarily, the attention" of the public to the ostensible cause cf this occurrence, however we may feel disposed to condemn the folly and impropriety of the custom that exposes the lives of our citizens to such unnecessary danger. Were this the only instance of the dangerof Sham fights, we might pass it without remark : but the numerous warnings which we have already had of their too probable fatal consequences compels us to call the attention of the public to so dangerous a practice. We do contend, that in this land of liberty, one man is not authorised unnecessarily to endanger the life of another, though that man be " dressed in a little brief authority." And let us ask are not sham fights replete with danger ? Is not the life of the citizen endangered by them. Ask poor Engle. Before this sham contest, he was no doubt like ourselves, unapprehensive of danger, he' drcamptnot of injury ? yet at its close what was he ? A poor wounded miserable man.

I (Venn.) May. 12. J:tfK:K.iNG. the training of jiiitia on the nihinst. at fi's, was attended with an ntc which excited no in-

FROM THE POTICO. Paul Allen's history of the Revolution. It gives us great pleasure to be able to announce to the public, that this work is now ready for the press, and will be published with aslittle delay as the magnitude of the undertaking will admit of. We understand that the proprietor and publisher, Mr. John Hopkins, of Philadelphia, has been at considerable pains and expense, in collecting, for the use of the author, a great mass of interesting materials, consisting of original state papers, military order books &c. which will furnish a body of matter superior in interest and importance, to anywhich has ever before been offered to the public. The high reputation of the author, and the great desire of the publisher to give the median i.

cal execution all the perfection of which it is susceptible, give us reason to anticipate a work which shall do honor to the country. Emigration. We learn that a gentleman has lately arrived in this city from England, whose object is to settle in the Illinois territory that his family and settlers brought over with him amount to 51 persons that he has furnished himself with agricultural instruments, seeds of various kinds, some cows, sheep, and hogs, for breeding, and about 100,000 pounds sterling in money. This is doing business to a great national, as well as individual, profit; and if gentlemen of fortune and enterprise will emigrate in the same manner, our western states will shortly be the most flourishing part of the wcrld. N. T. Adv. Extract cf a letter from a gentleman of rcpcctability, residing at Natchitoches, to his friend in this city, dated NACIIITOCHES, MAY 5, 1 8 1 8. ' The want of society makes this place by no means pleasant ; but we may look forward to a rapid change, as the Red River country is daily increasing its population. ' Emigrants are settling on its banks, above and below us; they arc generally from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. It certainly is a delightful country ; the lands fertile ; the climate equal to that of Maryland. I sincerely wish the government would take possession of all to the westward of this post ; in time we shall have some fighting near us. Three Frenchmen late officers under Bonaparte, arrived in this town from Galvestown. I sent for them, and on examination, they stated that general Lallemand, and general Grego, with 62 officers, had erected a fort in that neighborhood ; that general L. had observed, that he had expected a larger force ; that he held out the idea of settling a colony, but that there was more attention paid to military discipline than clearing lands. These men, it appears, fell in with Lallcmand in Philadelphia, who promised to take them to the Tombigby to settle lands. They state, that the general has usurped such strict military power, that they were compelled to abandon him. They leave this to day for Orleans. Laffitte (they say) has from eight to ten vessels in the bay of Galvestown. This is carrying on pirating in a bold manner." Nat. Intel.

From the Quarterly Review. . NORTHERN EXPEDITION. " If an open navigation should be discovered across the polar basin, rfhe passage over the pole or

close to it will be one of the most interesting events to science that e. ver occurred. It will be the first time that the problem was practi cally solved with which the learners of geography are sometimes puzzled that ot going the shortest way between two places lying east and west of each other, by taking a direction of north and south. The passage of the pole will require the undivided attention of the navigator. On approaching this point from which, the northern coast of Europe, Asia, and America and every part of them will bear south of him, nothing can possibly assist him in ascertaining his course, and keep, ing on the right meridian of his destined place, but a correct knowledge of the time a:J yet no means of ascertaining thai time will be afforded hitn. The only time he can have, with any degree of certainty, as long as he remains on or near the pole, must be that of Greenwich, and ihis he can know only from hood chronometers ; for from the general hazy state of the atmosphere and particularly about the horizon, and the sameness in the altitude of the sun, at every hour in the four and twenty, he must not expect to obtain an approximation even of the apparent time by observation, and he wili have no stars to assist him. Ail his ideas respecting. the heavens and the reckoning of his time will be reversed, and the change not gradual, as in proceeding from the east to the west, or the contrary, but instantaneous. The magnetic needle will point to its unknown magnetic pole, or fly round from the point of the bowl from which it is suspended, and that which indicated north will now be south; the east will become the west, and the hour of noon will be that of midnight. From the New T irk Columbian. Spots on the Sun. There are at present 3 spots on the sun's disk, two on his northwest, and one on his southeast limb ; there were yesterday morning three in a cluster on its northwest limb, one of which has since closed up or disappeared. There are a number of spots on all parts of his surface, which appear and disappear as he revolves round his axis; one on or near his centre disappeared in three days, and another in twenty four hours. The first appearance of these spots, the present year, was about the middle of last April, since which time I have had repeated observations of them with one of Richardson's improved Telescopes. The diameter of all the spots on one half of the sun's surface, taken together, I judge to be about one fiftieth ot his diameter ; now admitting the diameters of the eartj