Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1845 — Page 4

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.

Hxtcusive Orjr in as lloii of Murderers ' stmt Thieves. From tht thiuzo D.incrat, Oct. 1. On ThnraJ rourmiie. F. Ovtnor. E--. of Montrose,

Itwt, arriel in litis city in he temlwat Champion, wiih j the establishment 6i tiie present tariJF, the Lowell two if ih Gi murderers of Cd Dmnpoit, Wiilian E. factories have al mo d'.hxrLjeJ l'.'O'J girls from their Uirch. alias Hiue, a.id Jahn Loni, alus Howe. Both J employ, and reduced thj wages of th? remainder 50 thesa men sre well known in the It.ck River region and ccnrs each per weelt. This i tli3 inevitable consei.erd no ducription at our himls. The people there i I ! q,,8ae (,f cjr;vrate industry. The girls are firt, uoalwy j "e to harn th I Fhx. alias SulUm. waaarre-.lf!, ' jer a tirt.f, seduced ffjin their household duties a l.m Uu.e ince l.y this smue chivalrous Uonnev, anJ has Ij jja,,p.y J)0,nej w tic temptation of hA wa;jes.

been kopt in irons secretly afs in one f the jils f 'h's Stale. Iti order to prevent aUrin, it wss reported that be was arreted f.r horc s'eilmg. as l'ie gn have accomplice's ail over the WasWrn Sute, many of whom will not tea! or rourJer, hut will knowingly harbor those who do both. Thia intrepid Bonney. wh. live at Montrose, Lea county, low, laok an interest in dicoverin? the murderers ( Miller and Licey, who were the two IMg a and Tom Brown. II succeeded in bringing the two Holges to the fallow, but Tom Urown is tili at larre and has recently been traod from low to Missouri, Indiana and Ohio. He is making arrangement to pass counterfeit money, finding out the proper places to top an 1 the men to circulate it. Ii will be remembered that when the two Höriges were tried. Birch, S uun, Long &. Co., were on hnd to prove an alihi, as usual. It waa of no il however. They were hung protesting not their innocence, but that there wa iHt evidence enough to hang them. Bonney succeeded ao well in the cafe of the Hodges, that be was induced to undertake tbe discovery of the murderers of Col. Daven port. By a process lest known to himself, a disclosure of which would deprive hwn af hu magic, ha discovered ma: the murderers of Col. Davenport were Birch, Sutton and Loiisr, and two others who should be oriented and taken to K-H-k Island, wherever found, with or without proces. The two others are J.,hn Baxter and Aaron Long. Let all those knowing ttu'sa men orjjjnlze a posse instanter, and lake them to Il.ick M ind. There is a gang cf lawyers and tavern keepers all along that country, who are in the secrets of these murderers, and in due time will lie exposed. The tub'ications in this piper, by representing lhee vil lain umewhere in this vicinity still, enabled Bonney to find then ont. Every number of this paper has been seen by Birch and Sutton ; and when in Ohio they felt safe. The keeper of the great depot of all sorts of Loaves, at St. Louis, showed Birch the first article about him. As U usually the case, after the murder, tbey all fled t Upper Missouri, tJ Aikiu's, to slay uatil some one should write them whether they were mistrusted. A fictitious letter ras written to Aikin that the murderers of Davenport were pursued, and that he would bo lynched if be was found harboring them ; but no names were calk-d. " Li Davis" ws nd is now in that region. Either Aiken or Davis turned them in another direction. They then dole a horse each, travelled nights and slept days, and ran to St. Louis. There a certain "blackleg" tavein keeper showed Birrh tbe Democrat, and they fled to Lebanon, Illinois. There they stale three horses and fled to Terra Haute, Indiana, near which they separated. Fox, alias Sutton, taking a route by himself to the residence of his father, a respectable farmer by the name of John Fox, in Vayne county. 1 here he was arrested for passing coun tcrh.it money, and bound over in the sum of SdO. His father bailed him. Bonney asked them if they knew be wüä arrested ! They replied,4 but his father bailed him. "J'hey undoubtedly, from their confidence of being rescued thought Fox was still at large. But after being bailed he was arrested on another counterfeit money charge, but really for the murder cf Col. Davenport, and his been prirately secure, for some ti;ne. Fox was born on the farm where bis father now lives, in Indiana, and is about 3 years of age. Long and Birch are said to be North Caroliuians born. The former is 23 years of age, and has broken nearly every frontier jail in the West. The latter is 2S years of ase. He and Fox have been at their devil ries eight years, and have never before this been arretted as they boast. Long is a pupil of the celebrated villain Brown, who was killed at BtHevue, Iowa, a few years since U niney after securing Fox, went in search of Long and Birch, who with another knave, were to have robbed an honest old farmer near Sandusky, Ohio, on Saturday nigh a week last. They were to da as thev did by Mulford. i they could ; if not as they did by Davenport When Mutton counted cut his money on his knee to Birch, he said to Mulford, "You must have been a d d lazy devil not lo have scraped together more money than this at your age." Birch says be never killed a man in his life, and was opposed to killing Davenport. But Long said," dead men tell no tiles," and fired away. There is nodoult, however, but Birch or Long either, would kill West if they could get a gcd chance. By the way, they stole a splendid race mare in Missouri, which Donney had left in Indiana until her owner should give some orders as to the proper disposition of her. Bouncy first siw Birch at tho race track in Litt'e Sandusky, and recognized Col. Davenport's chain ; and as a stranger, frequently spoke to him. But as Long was not with him, he did not arrest him. Finding that they were to be in Lower Sanduskytogcther.be went ahead of them and made arrangements for their arrest. He arrived in the morning, and they camo passengers in the Southern stage at night. Just as they were about being arrested, a notorious blackleg, purely out of sympathy, and without the least acquaintance with them, stepped up t D.rch, and said, "You are going to be arrested." His name is Kich, and he ought to bo in the Stste Fr'uon. No sooner was this said than Birch tore off the watch ch.iin and threw it away. This was seen ; and the chain was found, answering Col. Davenport's description exactly. They were then arrested and takea away. W hilst on the pass ige across the Lake from St. Joseph here. Bin h, supposing that the gold chain and other articles of evidence sgaiiit him was in Bonney's portmanteau, went, with fetters on, to the clerk's office, took it out and tlirew it overboard. When asked why he did so, he replied I felt full of the devil, and wanted to do something." They arrived here about 4 o'clock A. M., and were taken to our jail, where Mr. Lowe, our sherifT and Mr. Perrior, out jtiior, gave their usual good attendance ; and they were kept safe until about nine o'clock, when they were started oiT for Km k LlanJ, in company with Bonney, the sheriff of Sandusky, Ohio, and Win. Wcssencraft, one of our city police. Lest the news of their arrest might get to their accomplices around Inlet and Washington Grove, they were to hurry through so as to be at Dixon on Friday morning, and at Kock Island on Friday evening. What scene will then transpire cannot be conjectured. These men, who have been outraging that community f4ir the last five years, will first engage a lawyer. The Kock Island Court will soon sit. We think it will be next week, if not this. Their lawyer, as is generally the case, will advise a change ot venue. Perhaps he wi'l make thcra swear it ont of the circuit. They will want to go through the winter without trial in hnpe to break j nil in the mean time. Should a trial be forced, they will swear gome necessary witness i absent, and cannot be had, say Davis, Aiken, or some other wretch, by whom they expect to prove an alibi. If a trial is still forced, then they may hive the luck to find some of their accomplices, yet undetected, willing to perjure themselves, and swear that they saw them somewhere tUe on that day. This has been the usual course in such cases. This Long is the one who robbed Frink & Walker's stage awhile ago ; and Fox says that he and Birch did the very act for which Bliss was sent to prison. When here, they were told that Bridge had been lynched. Birch immediately said M that's the death I hall die,"nd almost cried. He continued," I have done a great many bad thing on Rock River; the people aro prejudiced against me ; I never killed any one ; I want a fair trial ; do write to Knox to defend me ; do let me slay here until the excitement is over ; I don't want the people to kill me ; but they will da it if I am carried there now," fee. A.c. But Long reproved him and bdd him to stop his whining, saying " I a.n uot afraid ; I've done nothing to trouble me," litanifrsting I he greatest indiflurcnce. Birch seemed a great coward and could easily be frightened by fear of the lynchers, to confess all his dark deeds. But it is doubtful whether L,ong would confess on the gallows. We would not be at all surprised if Birch should turn State' evidence, a this is his first arrest. But Long has been arreittrd s of.en, and baa always escaped, that nothing need te expected Irom bi n but the most daring acta to break away. The people of the Rock River country cannot be too grateful to Bonney, for bis three month's consum, sorewu ana a.irmg pursuit ot iliese murderers, nd he should have his $2,500 in ready gold, the moment be delivers them up. We hope there will be no hacking out on the reward, as is loo often the ease. We have never heard or read of adventures equal lo his, and we say let him have his due praise. No ene knows the amount of treasure and of blood he has saved, they having already one engagement to rob. and who knows but a dozen on hand. By the way, these murderers, in order to avoid detection, buried the money they obtained from Col. Davenport's safe, immediately after the murder, and it still remains buried. Her Majesty of England secru5 to be as popular lere as in her own realm. At any rate there is quite a sposiuon 10 inaKe er presents ot nice things. . A cabiuet-mada barrel and half barrel of flour, marked in o!d letters " Lyman A. Spalding, Lockporf," was Jeisrned for the Fair of tho Am. Institute ; but a gentleman must need buy it fjr a present to Victoria. St it mnt now go to the royal kitchen, where the T'yal hand will be most iiiicreLns'ly employed in rnki.ij hot biscuit for breakfast. N. Y. Jjurnul cf Vermont Eutter again. A Vermont merchant came to the city lat week, to sell his fall supply of butter ninety tons ! 1 retty well for a s;ngle trader, in a small town among the mouataiua. Uusion TraIhr.

Already it the corporal factory system Icglnniog to produce in the United States that depth of distress which has lang excited the horror of every observer of the condition of Lnnnis'iirc. Wo have recently had occasion to call atteution to the luct, that since

When a sfjilicient nunibur are drawn into the snare, a little improvement in mirhinery enables the stock)oId?ra to discharge somo of the hands. Lut, alas, the best years of thrir life have been spent in the gloomy walls :f tho factories. They have had no opportunity to control matrimonial alliances, and they iave no resource but the lactones, lhcy nint work there or become dependants on friends. This is the point sought alter by the cotton lords. Iliey now rule with an iron hand, and cut down wages at their pleasure, until the miseries of Lancashire are repro duced in New England. Happily, however, the New England operatives possess a clear intelligence, and a little of the spirit of their grandmothers, who, hatchet in hand, sent back the savage from their dwelns, and afterwards scorned to drink tea, when to do sj was to acknowledge an unjust autnority. Already the operatives of Lowell have congregated in a "labor reform association," and we hive before us tract No. 1, printed by the association.- This num ber has spirited communications from t4J uhana and "Amelia." It appears that when an operative is engaged in a factory, she is to remain a year under any circumstances. If not, ehe gets no "written discharge," without which she can get no employ else where. Slie aho jrcts a printed paper cf "regula tions," bv which her tc hole conduct is to be governed. "Amelia" gives tho state of affairs at the Lawrence corporation, the particular property of J.Ir. Abbott Ltwrenco, whoe assi.luutes at V aslungton procured the pas-ingo of the present tariiT. Let us see how tchile s-Iavcs arc treated under the strap qj his over seer: The next is of a more general bearing, concerning nuite a number of individuals employed on the Lawrence Corporation, where the owners have recently erected and put in motion a new oiiil, at tbe same time stopping one of the old, in which said persons were employed. Now as they did not voluntarily leave their situations, but were discharged therefrom on account of suspension of opera tions by the company, they had an undoubted right to choose their own place of labor ; and as the work in the new mill is vastly more laborious, and the wages less thsn can be obtained in many parts of the city, they signified thrir wish to go elsewhere, but are insolently told that ihey shall labor there or not at all ; and will not be released until their year has expired, when if they can pottihly find ns further excuse for delay, they mry deign to bestow upon them what is in common parlance termed, a "regular discharge ;" thus enabling them to pass from one prison house to another. Concerning this piecious document, it is only necessity to say, that it very precisely reminds one ofthat which the dealers in humin fleith at the South are wont to give and receive as the trausfcr of one piece of property from one owner to another. "Now, reader, what think you 1 is not this the height of the beautiful ! and are not we operatives an ungrateful set of creatures, that we do not properly appreciate, and be highly thankful for such unparalleled generosity on the part of our employers ! "But to return to our toiling maiden, the next beau'iful feature which she discovers in this g-loritvs system is, the long number of hours which she is obliged to spend in the abova named close, unwhdes me apartment. It is not enocg'i, that like the poor peasant of Ireland, or the Rus fcim set who labors from sun to sun, but during one half of the j ear, she must still continue to toil on, long after Nature's lamp has ceased to lend lis aid nor will even this suffice to satisfy the grasping avarice of her employer ; for she is also through the winter months required to rise, partake of her morning meal, and be at her station in the mill, while the sun is yet sleeping behind the eastern hills; tLus working on an average, at least, twelve hours and three fourths per day, exclulve of the time allotted fur her husty mcalt, which i-i in winter limply one half hour ot noon in tbe spring is allowed lie same at morn, and daring the summer Ua Jv'ed 15 n.iuutes to the half hour at noon. Then, too, when she is at last released from her wearisome day'a toil, still may she not depart in peace. No ! her footsteps mutt be dogged to tit that they do not ttray beyond the corporation limits, and the mutt, whether she will or no, be u' jecled to the manifold inconveniences cf a large crow-Je 1 boarding house, where, too, the price paid for her accommodation is to utlerly in' significant, that it will not ensure to her the common comforts of life: she is obliged lo sleep in a small, comurucss, iiau-veniiiareu auariment, containing some nait i dozen occupants each ; but no matter, the it an Optra' five it is alt well enough for her ; there is no 'abuso about it ; no, indeed ; sj think our employers, but do we think sot time will show. Here, too, comes up a case which stiikingly illustrates the petty tyranny of the employer. A little girl, some la or 13 years of age, the daughter of a poor widow, d. pend .nt on her daily toil for ner iieniiUUu, woeu o.. u.ie ui u.e cur., ooarain j with her mother who, dying, left her to the care of an aunt, residing hut a few elrps frorn the corporation ' but the poor littla creature, all unqualified as the was to provide for her own wsnts, was compelled to leave her home, and the motherly care bestotocJ vpon her, and enter one of these same largo crowded board. ng houses." The gloating eyes of some wealthy roue had pro bably rented upon her, and she must be compelled, like the daughter of Virgiuius, to the care of her de jc ner yct stroyers. It will be borne in mmd that 5 cents meal is the allowance for feeding those jrirls the atrocious perpetrators of such horrors talk of en i vn virtr A mrvM o. n i n1 tif wr " a ft A a 1 1 f vor i lJLll 11! All illlit: 1 ivttll illUUOillt U.11VJ IX IK UUll i i v- A linre the fnfimtelv snnerior condition of the sonthern slaves. Again, ct a meeting of the boarding house keepers, held Sept. 2(3, the following resolutions were passed : 1 uRtsolved, That we most reepectfully request those persons who have the control of the prices of board on the corporation, to take the tut jct into consideration, and do as that jus'ice which their uual magnanimity gives u reason to expect. "Iietolved, That the only method by which we can, as keepers of boardioq-houses, make our receipts meet our expenditures, is by reducing the quality, if not the quantity, of provisions furnished by us to our boarders." This is the "home market" for farm produce that tho tariff was to create "bepuce the quality if not the quantity" of food given to girls that work fourteen hours per day, and sleep six in a small room at night. Oh, 'beneficent tariff!" what bles sings dost thou not shower down on misguided and thankless operatives ! Dost thou not give force and point to the precept3 of the illustrious Graham, who clearly showed that food, was only slow poison, and the less taken the better : N. 1 . ews. Jeremy Taylor must have had a very shrew for a wife. Hear how he defames the gentler sex : "These women have tongues like cats and bite like an adder. All their reproofs are scoldings; their common intercourse is optn contumely." Speaking of the widow of a blacksmith, who was constantly laboring to obtain the necessaries of life, he thus portrays her character: "Thus she lived, poor, patient and resigned. Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ. Her ideas of Heaven were few and simple. She rejected the doctrine that it was the place of constant activity, and not of repose, and believed, that when she at length reached it, she s' ould work no more but sit always in a clean white apron, and sing psalms." Friendship. Do not believe, because a man smiles upon you and seeks your society, that he is your friend. Smiles and professions, alas ! are so abundant as to be of no value. He only is your friend whose heart is in his words, and whose actions iiljstrate them ; who stands by you in all vicissitudes of fortune, ' in sunshine and in shade." When you find such a being make him your second self cling to him as to your very lifo fur the jewels of the earth are scarce, and therefore precious ; for the sand of life but glitters in the radiance of a high enjoyment, and even the golden bowl is broken at the fountain. The Koyai. Antelope, oa Gitevi. There are on board of tho ship Eclvidcra, from Java, three of these beautiful little animals one male and two females which are believed to be tho only ones of their kind in this conntrv. They are about the size of a common cat, but in color and shape of body and limb, just like a deer though full grown.- Journal of Commerce. There is a man named Ilarvev, living near Utica, New York, who is 111 years oid. lie is a Baptist preacher, and is very effective in rebuking sin, old as l.o is. lie well remcmhers running about in the wood of Dutchess county, a hundred years ago. To all upcsrances, he will live many ycara more, as Lc U active, JieuU! y, ai d full of spirit.

Changes in TrxanporUitioia -Itailwnjs and Canals. The Heavy Kail. Lute intelligence from England brings increasing evidence of the revolution steadily going on in tLe transportation business. Canals arc being turned into railways, even for the carriage of freight. The tow-path of the canal in most case, affords a very favorable grade for the laying of rail. With a mod-

crate cutting, the ascent and descent of the lock lev els are easily overcome. Tbe expense of such conversion is far lees than that of a new route. An ex change paper says : "Ahe proprietors of the Kennet And Avon canal met at Reading on Tuesday, Aug. 20, and agreed to apply to TarKamcnt for powers to make their canal into a railway. Tho Great Western Railway Company, a rival work, had nearly ruined their carrying trade to and from Hungerford. The canal is ninetythree miles long, that is, fifty-seven cut, (from Newbury to Bath,) and thirty-six of river navigation. The mtention is to convert the fifty-seven miles of cutting into a railway ; this will give a line between Bath and Newbury, will shorten the distance from Bath and London by the Great Western, and will avoid the Box Itinncl. I he ureat V estern Company have got a bill for making a branch from Reading to Newbury and Ilungerford, and the canal railway could make a junction at either place. The expense is stated to be small. The proprietors of the bomerseUhire Lanal purpose to convert it into a railway." The Western railway of Massachusetts, with an enormous grade of over 80 feet to the mile, has demonstrated that railways can successfully carry freight under the most unfavorable circumstances, while the Reading and Philadelphia rail road, with a favorable grad will carry 1,0( 0,000 of tons of coal this year cheaper than the canal along side of it. These facts are sinking deep into the public mind of this country. and will eventually produce a decided effect on the direction of future capital. The Philadelphia people very earnestly oppos the railway connection between Baltimore and Pitt&burg, which the Baltitnoreans are now striving to consummate. They fear not only the loss of the passenger business but f the freight also. To obviate the dangers of this rivalry, they are now proposing to construct a direct line of railway between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. This enterprise may not be carried through just now, but it will in the course of a few years. In building railwavs for freight it is alt important to put down a rrry heavy rail. Fixty-six pounds per yard is the weight of the rail on the Western .Mas sachusetts railway, but this is found to be too light. Seventy pounds is none too heavy, and experience shows such a rail to be the most economical. Iron will be so low in this country in the course of a few years, that new railways can adopt the very latest improvements either in the shape or the weight of the rail. Railways have one advantage over canals even in summer, which begins to be more noticed, and that is, they are not affected by the severest drought. During the present season, the streams have been very low ; the intense heat absorbing the springs. Some of the Pennsylvania and Ohio canals have felt that drought, and their navigation was interrupted, while the rai!' way I xromotive moved on as usual. Obstruction to the navigation, from the waut of water, is not an uncommon thing, even on the well managed canals of New York. The floods of the spring and the autumn likewise affect the one, while they may not disturb the latter; and the ice ar.d the snow of winter stop the one entirely, while the other performs its daily trips. Those considerations of certainty, speed, constant ue, and independence of physical causes, are daily commending the well constructed railway for the transportation of freight, more and more to the favor of the enterprising and improving American. A.6. Argus. New York stands, in the rank of cities ia the world, in the following position : Tekin 2,f00,r00 lYJOO.OüO i.3;va,ooo 1,101,000 9C0,000 500,000 fjr-o.ooo .Vio.tK'O SOO.fK 0 474,000 ;so,(H() 330,000 3:u).nto Imdon Jcddo Paris Canton Nankin Constantinople Calcutta Surat S7. Pclerslurgh JI')SCnio Manchester . Netc York Midro 3 Naples Vienna Cairo 330,000 New York thus stands first in the Western conti 'n,,t sixth in Christendom, thirteenth in the World. ,iauYag, Naples, Vienna and Cairo.ara given according ,Q . Q . i enumeration, and the two last have doubtless made some progress since. The popnlousness ascribed to sine of the eastern cities (Jeddo for instance) is somewhat apocryphal. SLACGnuF.R of Witches. During the 17th century 40,000 persons are said to have been put to death for witchcraft in England alone ! In Scotland the num j nor was pronaDiy, in proportion to me pop ! ,nilcn greatcr fr il 13 certain, that even in ! forty years of the lGth century, the executio I not fewer than 17,000. In 173 1, the madne ber was probably, in proportion to the population, the last utions were dness may be said to have reached its highest pitch ; for in that i 1.1 it 1 f . I w , - 71. occurred the celebrated case of the Lancashire witches, in which eight innocent persons were deprived of their lives by the incoherent falsehoods of a mischievous urchin. The civil war, far from suspending the persecution, seems to have redoubled it. In 1044-43 the infamous Mathew Hopkins was able to earn a livelihood by the profession of witch finder, which he exercised, not indeed without an occasional suspicion, but still with general success. And even twenty years later, the delusion was still sanctioned by the inost venerable name of the English law ! for it was in 1034, that the excellent Sir Mathew Hale, after a trial conducted with his usual good sense, condemned two women to death as witches, both of whom were executed accordingly. Edingburgh Jiexkir. A Secret. " How do you do, Mrs. Tome : have you heard that story about 31rs. Ludy V " Why, n really, Mrs. Gad, what is it do tell!" " O, I pr mised not to tell to' all tho world ! ISo, I miKt never tell on't. I'm afraid it will git cut." " Why, I'll never tell on't as long as I live, just as true as the world ; what is it, come, tell V " Now you won't say any thing about it, will you !" " No, I'll never open my head about it never. Hope to die this minute." Well, if you'll belicv me, Mrs. Funday told me last night, that Mrs. Trö. ;o!d her that her sister's husband was told by a person who dreamed it, that Mrs. Trouble's oldest daughter told Mrs. Nichens that her grandmother heard by a letter which she got from her third Bister's second husband's oldest brother's step-daughter, that it was reported by the Captain of a clam boat just arrived from the Fejee Inlands, that the mermaids about that section wore sharkskin bustlc3 stuffed with pickled eels toes!' Did you ever ! AGKicTLTunAi, Prejudice. At the annual meet it;g of the Liver pool Agricultural Society, last month, Lord Stanley, who presided on the occasion, in advocating the introduction of iron ploughs to supercede the lumbering wood ploughs in common use, lllus trated the prejudices cherished by some . fanners, by an anecdote. He said a gentleman in the mid-land counties, who presented one of his farmers with a couple of iron ploughs, and having left the country for two years, returned and was surprised to find not only that the number ct iron ploughs was not increased, but no U3e was mads of those he had given to the tenant. . The answer he received on inquiring the cause of this was, 44 Why, you you see we have a notion in this country, that iron ploughs breed wads!" "A Share in the Concern." One evening, as a little sweep was running along the street, a big sweep met him, and shouted, "Halloo, Jack, where are you going in such a hurry 1" . Little Jack said, "Don't bother mo now ; I am going to the missionary meeting. I've got a share in the concern, and I want to see bow things are going on." This little sweep was connected with a Sabbath school, and was a contributor to the missionary society. X. York IlepiliHcan. Dr. Clark, a celebrated engraver, counter fe iter and thief, and largely concerned with gentlemen in that line of busiucs?, has been taken at Mnysville, Kentucky. .

C'eistrc Towns Uli 3Ie.-titiK. Marion County, At a meeting of the democrats of Centre township, Nov. 7th, held at the Court House, to appoint delejratcs to a County Convention, to be kid at Indianapolis, Nov. S, Henkt II. Nei.son was called to ti e chair, and William Stewart appointed Secretary. On motion of N. B. Talmcr, it was

RssoheJ, That a delegation of thirty be appointed to attend the county convention, which carried ; and the following gentlemen were chosen : N. B. Palmer, John Montgomery, Thomas John son, Towell How land, John McFall. Horatio J. Här ris, John Greer. John Talbott, Benjamin Ream, Hen .ry II. Nelson, John Thomp-on, Edwin Hcddcrly, W. B. Preston, C. C. Campbell, B. Lawhead, Jacob Van degriff, Joseph T. Roberts, John Lister, John Biehop, 'James Greer, W. L. Bates, E. S. Tyler, J. Nicolai, W. Sullivan, Joseph . Fairchild, Joehua Langsdale, William Morrison, Houoton Talbott, T. R. Fletcher, and Daniel Carlisle. On motion of J udgo l'caslee, a committee of hve was appointed to act as a township committee for Centre township, to transact such business as m.ght become necessary and proper for the welfare of the democratic party in said township ; whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed. W. B. Preston, John Linter, Joshua Langsdale, William II. Morrison, and T. R. Fletcher. HENRY II. NELSON, Chairman, William Stewart, Secretary. Marvellous. A French savant, at Dijon, went one night quite exhausted to bed, after long and vain ef forts to make out the sense of a passage in a Greek toct. On falling asleep, he seemed to himself to be transported in spirit to Stockholm, where he was con ducted into the palace of Queen Christina, ushered into the royal library, and placed before a compartment in w hich he distinguished a small volume that bore a title new to him. He opened the volume, and foun the solution of the grammatical difficulty which had so perplexed lam. lue joy which he felt at this disco very awaking him, he struck a light and made a me morandum of what he had seen in his dream. The dark passage he now found perfectly cleared up, The adventure, however, was too strange to suffer him to rest satisfied without taking some steps to ascertain in how far the impression of his nocturna journal corresponded with 'lie reality. Descartes vas at that time at Stockholm, and our savant wrote to Chanut, the French ambassador to the Swedih court, with whom he was acquainted, requesting him to ask the philosopher whether the royal l.brary had such and such peculiarities, (which he described,) and whether, in a certain compartment, a certain volume of euch a size and form, was not to be found, on such and such a page of which stood ten Greek verses, a copy of which the savant subjoined. Descartes answered the ambassador, that unless the querist had been in the habit of visiting the library for the last twenty years, he could scarcely have de scribed its arrangements more accurately: the compartment, the volume, the ten Greek verses, all tallied exactly with the description. A counterpart to this story is related by Wangenhcim. The son of a Wirtemburg jurist was studying at Gottingen, and, having occasion for a book which he could not find in the library there, and which he re membered to have seen at home, wrote to request his father to send him the same. The father searched his library for the book in vain ; it was not to be found, and he wrote to his son to that effect. Some time af ter, as he was at work in his library, and rose from his scat to replace a book which he had done with on its shelf, he beheld his son standing not far from him, and in the act, as it seemed, of reaching down a hok which stood at a considerable height, and on which the outstretched hand of the figure was already laid. 44 My son ! " cried the astonished father, " how came you here 1" As he spoke the apparition vanish ed. 1 lie father, whose presence of mind was not disturbed, immediately took down the book on which the hand of the figure had seemed to be laid, and, behold, it was the very one his son had written for. He sent it by that day's post to Güttingen, but soon after received a letter from his son, written on the verv morning on which he had sacn the apparition, and stating the exact spot where the writer was confident the book was to be found. It is unnecessary to say it was the very spot which the apparition had already indicated. Dublin University Magazine. Fine Fhcits. The produce of an apricot tree in this county (says the Rochester Advertiser) was sold for Älö; and we were presented, a few days since, with a simple of pears from a tree, for the fruit of which the owner took k, besides reserving enough for family ue, to be worth at the same rate sl4 more. Tho pears were carried to Boston by railroad, and the purchaser was desirous 01 contracting for the pro duce of the same tree for ten years to come. These two examples show that those who had the forecast to cultivate good fruit when the country was first set tled, are reaping a rich reward. It is not yet too late to iollow so good an example. Manufactures ix Tennessee. There are no less man nay cotton lactones in lennessce. 1 hey consume auually about 10,000 bales of cotton. There are many oilers employed in spinning and weaving both cotton and wool. Jeans, Osnabergs, linsey?, kerseys and bedticking are made at Lebanon, Shelbyville, rranklin and Winchester. At Lebanon, 100 hands are employed in the manufacture of the coarser kinds of cotton and woollen negro clothing. One half of these hands are blacks slaves, of course and they ttj said to be expert in almost every department. Counterfeit Gold Coin. The editor of the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette has seen a skilfully executed counterfeit ten dollar gold piece, U. S. currency, of the date of IS 10, which he thus describes : "It may be detected bv its ring, which will prove its being made of some gilded white metal. The die by which it has been stamped is well engraved; and without "ringing," the counterfeits will not readily be detected. We are told that they have been numerously circulated." Bears arc very pleDty in Michigan this fall. The Kalamazoo Telegraph says: ' A man towards Grand Haven has alone killed 17 this season, aDd more or less arc daily killed in litis county. Their appearance at this time is occasioned by the scarcity of mast in the upper Peninsula." More Erass Tlates, with inscriptions in an unknown tongue, the key to which has been delivered to a new prophet, named Strang, have been recently found in Wisconsin. The multiplication of so many plates speaKs greatly tneir title to credibility. " Sound, Safe, and Solvent." The Eank of England has Eifzlilu-one Milllions of Dollars in its vaults, and has a paper circulation on the basis of lira Hundred Millions of Dollars. It would want, if all its circulation were returned, just one hundred ana nineteen millions to pay its debts Danks have the benefit of discounting notes, 'tis their business they issue " promises to pay " with out interest and take " promises to nay," with inter est they make millions on millions of this species of exchange and pocket the profits. Seedless Atple. We have received from Levi oturtevont, 01 v est iioyiston, a red apple ot very good quality, without seed or core. We understand that the fruit 19 produced without any blossom upon the tree. Worcester (.1jss.) py. French Railways. The editor of the New York Courier des Etats Unis, writing from Paris, states that the first instalment on five new railway schemes in France recently paid in amounted to about $SG, 000,000. a n t -1 a. J. Aict-annon, wiio wa3 some months since apprehended near Jackson, Tennessee, upon a charge of. murdering a whole family in Tippah county, Miss., has been tried and condemned to be hung on the 1st ef November. Crawford Burnett and wife, convicted of the murdei of Mr. Shelby of Cane Hiil, Arkansas, ore to be hanged at Fayettevillc, Ark., on the 8th of November. In Mexico, it is said, there are three thousand five hundred secular ctergy, one thousand seven hundred monks and two thousand nuns, owning property valued at one hundred million dollars. - One part of alum dissolved in seven parts of water, will render cloth oaked in the solution, wrun" out and dried, nearly incombustible. A southern paper says that a composition of onethird cf sweet oil and two-thirds of molasses is a certain cure for the whooping cough A Yocng Digamist. Alexander Kctchnm, aged but twenty years, his been convicted ia Oswego county; N. Y., of having two wives!

Tlie rnllcn Leaves. We stand among the lallen leaves, Voun children at our play, And laugh toste the yellow things Go rustling on their way ; Uijrht merrily we hunt them down, The autumn winds and we, Nor pause to gaze where snowtrfts lie, Or Sunbeams gild the tree ! With dancing feet we leap along Where withered boughs are strown ; Nor past, nor future checks our song The present is our own. We stand among the füllen leaves, In youth's enchanted spring When Hope (who wearies at the last) Firat spreads her eagle wing. We tread with steps of conscious strength Beneath the leafless trees, - And the color kindles on our cheek As blows the winter breeze ; While gazing toward the cold, gray skyj Clouded with snow and rain, We wish the old year all past by, And the young spring again. We stand among the fallen leaves In manhood's haughty prime When first our pausing hearts begin To love "tha olden time:" And, as we gaze, we sigh to think How many a year hath passed, Since 'ncath those cold and faded trees, Our footsteps wandered last; And old companions new, perchance, Estranged, forgot, or dead Come round us, as those autumn leaves Are crushed beneath oar tread. We stand among tho fallen leaves In our own autumn day And tottering on with feeble steps, 'ursue our cheerless way. We look not back too long ago Hath all we loved been lost; Nor forward for we may not live To see our new hope crossed ; Cot on we go the sun's faint beam A feeble warmth imparts Childhood without its joy returns The present fills our hearts ! Autumn An Extract. End of the vernal year ! The flower hath closed And cast its petals, and the naked stalk Stands shrivelling in the frost ; the feathered grass Is heavy in the head ; the painted leaf Flies twittering on the wind ; and to the earth Falls the brow n nut, with melancholy sound. Vet the low, moaning autumn wind, that sweeps Tbe seeded jrrass and lately blossoming flower, Hears the light germs of future hie away, And sows them by the gliding rivulet, And o'er the plain, and 011 the mountain side, To clothe anew the earth, when comes again The quickening breath of Spring. And on the place Where fall the rippened nuts, the frosty night Will heap the stricken leaves; and then shall spring, In many an after age, another growth Of stately trees, when those around me now, Fallen with eld, shall moulder, and enrich The ground that now sustains their lofty pride. Wm. D. Gallagher.

The Bustle. linste, Venus! daughter of the purple wave, UnVei! on earth thy radiant charms no more. Hie, maid of beauty, to thy coral cave, Thy peerless reign, alas ! too soon is o'er. Nor longer now ye artless graces rise, Your forms in sweet perfection to display ; Love, grace and beauty, with the goddess dies, Since now la mode pioclaims the "CuslleV sway. Hail, humpbacked muse ! if such a muse there be, Of gods begat or of the briny sea. List to my song, sweet goddess now attend, And with my verse thy bumpiest numbers blend. From Helicon, or from Parnassus height, Look o'er my page and guide my pen aright. Tell me, yc daughters of tho tuneful Nine, If one ot you e'er More a hump behind ? Tell me, ye sisters or the graceful Three, If such a hump on one of you there be ? , Oh say ! sweet goddess ol the nimble chase, Does such a hump your outward woman grace f Proclaim jt, mistress of the rosy morn, Does such a hump your outward Eve adorn ? Speak, gentle Hebe, fairest of the fair, And if a hump thou hast, sweet'goddess, tell us where. Hail, beauteous Psyche ! whom artless Nature blest, With charms by far more perfect than the rest ; In praise of whom, both gods and men combine, Say, lovely sprite, wear'st thou a bump behind ? In vain, alas ! the sculptor's god-like art, rtirla crrnfn nnil Lofiilti infrh Iwini fnrt ' In vain, he moulds the female form divine, If enus lacks an extra hump behind ! ! In vain Apollo strikes the tuneful lyre, And all the Muses in her praise conspire ! Even Poets sing, "mid Tempe's flowery maze, And Gods combine to utter forth her praise ! Ah, no ! 'mong all in vatn 1 seek to find, A maid who wears a shapeless hump behind. Proclaim it, daughters of the tuneful choir, And touch my song with notes of liquid fire, Whilst now 1 sing of etiquette, the laws, Extol la mode, and plead a ''Bustle's" cause. flail, beauteous hump ! mysterious bustle say ! Of Cesh and blood, of rajs, or bran, or hay, Art thou composed, and dost thou claim A ,ocai situation and a name ? 1 a . 1 Say whence thou sprang, and what thy use and end, Ar.d these I promise with my verse to blend, Thou art, indeed, the pride ot every belle, Who delights at all to cut an extra swell, And, by thy aid, secure the utmost honor That feathers, rags or hay, cau heap upon her. I know of humps, at least a score in all, Which have been worn from time immemorial t To wit: the back, the shoulders; and 'tis said, That bumps abound upon the smoothest head. Now, if from these paternity you claim, Then tell me, pray ! what is your proper name? Some call thee "Bishop," "Bunkey," "Tournure," And others, by at least a dozen more. But now, forsooth, myself will call thee "Bustle'' Which means, you know, to frisk about and hustle, Or move, at least, within so small a compass, As not to raise a riot, row, or rumpus. Hut these aside, in thee alone we find, Lore, grace and beauty, in one heap combin'd. In thee alone, new beauties rise and live, Which only art and etiquette can give. Among tho grave, the gay, the sad or merry, Each maid displays a Lump la Dromedary ; The rich, the poor, tho' duns and debts entrammel, Are found equipped, la a la mode de Camel. The young, the old, though long oince tired oC fashion, Alike delight the extra lump to lash on. In truth, 'tis strange, the Gods should thus mistake, And place such beauties on a Drome'y's back, When Venus sure, this mark of grace should claim, And raise complete, her beauty, back, and fame. Hail, wond'rous ago ! when Nature's perfect law . Resigns the contest to a bag of straw ; When fashion bold, embracing every whim, Augments the form where Nature fain would trim, And taste, as fickle as the fleeting wind, Must needs attach an extra hump behind ; While youth and beauty, bending 'neath the load, Become a martyr to the laws de mode. Hut, spue of these, I'll plead a "Bustle's' cause, Extol la mode, and emulate the laws, Tho age, the custom, etiquette and taste, The largest bustle, and the slenderest waist; And if for these, I'm favored by the fair, I'll add the grace, the manners and the air, For all are written in that perfect code, The Laws of Fashion, or in French, la mode. ORIE. Filing up Jokes. Speaking of wags what is more waggish than a dog's tail when he is pleased ? Speaking of tails we always like those that end well. Hogg's, for instance. Speaking of hogs we saw one of these animals the other day lying in the gutter, and in the opposite one a well dressed man; the first had a ring in his nose, the latter a ring on his finger. The man was drunk, the hog was 6ober. 44 A hog is known by the company he keeps,' thought we; so thought Mr. Porker, and off he went. Speaking of going off puts us in mind of a gun we once owned. It ire if jf oue night, and we haven't seen it since.

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Aiucricmi Notion of Aristocratic Be-

Iiavlor. A corre-pondcr.t of the Dilar Mwzinr, publ;bed in Thil-idelphia, gives the following curious information to his brother Republicans aa to the characteris tics of Aristocracy : I have in my travels heard a great ceal said at one time and another about Aristocracy ; and I have seen people who talked very much against it, and yet could not tell exactly what it is. Now, as I have never been an Aristocrat myself, and will never be so if I can help it, I ehall be glad to give some notions cf what are the symptoms and character ct tins so much dreaded monster. While I was travtlling, some years rgo, in the mid dle and back parts of the State of Pennsylvania I came one night to an inn with another traveller, and after upper, we were Loth put into a large room contain.1 , t iif 1 . .:...! ...I mr ii:rea oeas. we 11-.U lust got iiul uicm wuvu a very decent looking young man came up, with a candle in his hand, and began to undress himself at the 6idc of the third, I should have mentioned that it was of a Saturday night. Well, when the young man had undre ?sed himself, he put out the light and then, taking his shirt off, got into bed. We could sec this by the moon, which was shining quite bright at the time. My fellow-traveller had shown, even during supper, that he liked to have his own way, and did not care much for anybody's convenience interfering with his. Perhaps I am rather uncharitable in this matter, however, for upon reflecting, I don't believe he thought about any one tle at all. Well, as soon as the young man had covered himself, with the bed clothes, my fellow travellor called out in a very loud and domineering manner, ' Are you going to sleep without j our shirt !" as no answer was given, he cried out again very boisterously, (for he was more than six feet high, and thick in proporportion,) " Do you intend to sleep in the room without your shirt, sir !" I shall do as I like " was the answer now. " I'll be if vou do," says the other, get up and put on your shirt or I'll put you out of the room." With that he threw one of his legs out w ithin the sight of the young man w ho might have a sjKJcimcn of the force with w hich he was threat ened. 44 1 13 a very hard case," says the voung man. ' that I can't jdease myself in a matter that concerns n jbody else." Cut the other persisted that it did con cern him to have any body sleep in the same room with turn without having a shirt on. At last the young man stated that he had come thus far on a virit to his swecth?art, whom he should see next morning and know ing; as it seemed, that he should have no chance in resisting his huge adversary, he entreated as a favor, that he might be permitted to reserve his shirt for service next day. I was much moved by this plea, and the tone of humble entreaty but the effectual hard hearted man was not touched at all and the poor young fellow was actually obliged to wear his shirt all night. I think, M. Editor, that this was a real piece of Aristocratic behavior. Yours, respectfully, Peter SnirxE, Jr. In Aristocratics it is a first principle that 44 what is yours is mine, and what is mine is my own," and accordingly, that in doing what they w ill with their own, they do what they will with the rights and property of others. Our Duke of Newcastle or Lord Exeter would regulate the voice of any man in their power, as the bully in the above story regulated the covering ; Lut Aristocracy does this thing more completely in England. As Johnithan Wild would say, 44 It knows a better trick than that of making a man sleep in his shirt whether he likes it or not ; in England it strips liirn of his shirt for the maintenance of those in purple nnd fne linen. The publication from which the above characteristic anecdote 'is copied, bears the name of the D xhr Magazine, though of the same class as the periodical which in ostentatious England is humbly called the I'cnny Magazine. In frugal America, w here there is a Fen ny X resident ti.cre is a Dollar .oiagazine, and where there is a Dollar King there is a Pcnnv Magazine. The name of a Dollar Magazine would scare our people from any publication. The Americans can bear tlie idea of such a disbursement in lump, bnt, on the other hand, they would take fright at the thought of a Crown Magistrate. They had him once, and insisted on change. A Judge Tczzled. A Western Judge, or Justice of the Peace, was recently thus bothered by one of the half wild vagrants of the bickwoods, who was brought up with an empty whisky bottle in his own personal custody. 4:, sir, you re there, said the Justice. 4 Do you always ccnie as near the truth as that! was the reply. 4 Silence, sir; where do you come from!' ' You'll be smart if I keep silent, and you find out ! 4 Dont bo impuuVnt, sir; what is your occupation ! 4 Look here Judge, I'll tell you one thing, and I want to do it rcspcclfullv., Well, für.' 4 You're d d impudent yourself. 4 Have j'ou an occupation!' 4 Kecken.' What is it r 4 Bet you a pint o'whiky I can tell what yours is. 4 Do you mean to satisfy me! ' Certainly,' squire ! What'll you have !' 4 It is necessary that you should undeTstand that order and peace are necessary in society. Whatever wild freedom you may find in the woods, you are now here in community of law, and quiet submission will evince a wisdom on your part. 4"Squire, I should like to understand you, but you're too big for me. Just say no more about it and let's go and take a drink. 4 1 never drink. What! 4 Never, sir.' 4 Vou don't !' Xo sir." Sir, I bid you good morning. I have no desire for any farther acquaintance with you. Wk1i ! I'm a coming, and the backwoodsmen broke out of court. The Giels. Tlie editor of the Portland Express, in discoursing upon early rising, speaks thus : 'Up with you ! Don't sleep away this beautiful morning! Mar)', Helm, Elizabeth, Louisa, Lucretia, Margaret, Harriet, Charlotte, Julia, Sarah, Kate, Cornelia, Jane, Caroline, Adeline, Amelia! and aU the lazy girls, arouse wake tip rise and gee the sun shine, and Lrush away the dew from the beautiful grass. You not only lose the best portion of the day, while you linger in bed, but you depress your spirits and contract sluggish habits. What if you are sleepy ! Jump out of bed fly round stir about, and in a few moments you will be as bright as larks. We wouldn't give a straw for girls that won't get up early in the morning. What are they good for J Lazy, dumpish creatures they are not tit fur wives or companions. .Our advice to young men who are looking out for wives, would be never select a female who dozes away the precious morning hours. She may be a help-eat, but never a help-meet. EoTiXT FOG THE MlLLIO.V. Wiiat part of a plant in vegetating, shoots" best? The pistil of course. How would j-ou raise a fence ! By stripping off my coat, and seiring the foils. What is the signification of Mistletoes! Well, mizzle " toes ! most certainly is a stage direction at the opera house, to let the ballet dancers know when to leave the boards ! W'hich part of a tree contains most of its substance! Probably its trunk. What Ehoüd you call a good strong reed ! Three hours at a stretch in the Mucum Library. What may you do legally to eggs which you may t do when they're hatched ! Poach them. not