Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 100, Richmond, Wayne County, 18 March 1826 — Page 1

c :ir:ir i . i 'i i

D '4 r

ii

v -,,

"friendly to the best pursuits or MAN, FRIENDLY TO THOUGHT, TO FREEDOM, AND TO PEACE." Caliper.

SOMBER 100.

RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1826.

VOLUME .

r JN TED AXU PUBLISHED EVERY S VTL'RDAY BY z'T BUXTON WALLING

Front street, oppotitc Van "hern's Hotel.

f THE VIUCE OF THIS PAPER I Ore Djllar an i Fiftv Cent? lor fifty two r.umht;r-. ta he paid in advanee; Two Dollars if paid vuthin the year, nrTwo Dollar? ami Fiftv Ctnls, if n it pai l befotv tin expiration of the year: 'payment in advance bein:; to the mutual interest of both parti? tlrt mode is solicited. o subscription taken for le?lh hi six :uonth, and ; no paper discontinu .ii until all arrearages arc ' paid. , failure tr notify a dis.vintii nance at tl e expiration of the time suMcrtb.d for, vull be consider ; til a new encasement. ' .ill Utters to the editors have the poitege zid ct they trill n ttbt at'eni'dto

: TERMS OF ADVERTISING. eu lines r le, fr three e - rti ns One Poliar each oontina nce twenty-live cent. r?( r advertisements in the sini proportion. LAWS OF INDIANA.

. All H: r to amen i tl-eart entitled, An act. r. -u-I'tfii divorces n.v. rov. ?1, Ju;ii'irv '2 2 h SZA.'

Sec. 4. N. evidence shall 0e heard oy said committee unless it be evidence in support of the points made in the notice served on the person whose election is contested. Sec. 5. No person shall content any election, unless he shall have previously ta-

: ken an oatli before some person, duly nuj thorized to administer oaths in this stale, j that he is a qualified voter of the state of j Indians, and that the charges, and specifications, or points on which he means to ' rely, asset forth in the notice delivered to j the person whose election is about to be contested, are true, as he verily believes; which affidavit shall be delivered to the presiding oilier r of the Senate. T is act shall take cffect,and be in force from an after its passage.

AN ACT providing fcr ascertaining the expense of supporting ihe ,or aninriliv in tl.i state, f n:1r0v d January U. 1826. Be it cn i -tcI f,y the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court, in each and every count in this state, on or before the first day of September next, to certify under his hand and seal of office, to the secretary of state, at his office in I.-diana-p dis an accurate statement of the amount

ol expenses incurred in his count during

atpr-'VED J.if.a ir vi. 'cu'j j Sec. l.Jc it enacted hi the Gtncril .i-'.i-of the Stite f Iniiurvu Tn at the libel ( ; petition tor a divorce aut'mriz (1 by the rt t. which thi is a,i amendment, may be d iri the clerk's office in vacation, ami hall have the same krec and cllci t, as if "i of.n r niirt rm-l mimmiiis m:: v thercun-

u i-ue without special cider of the ceuit,j Vcir, next preceding the aid'tirt day ; S "ielhtng more than thirty-hveyears; !br that purpose. ! of S p:, mber; together with the number i ;ll,d lri si,il-' "c prophcies that lie would Snc. - Tie circuit judge alone, or the j; n,d kind of paupers and indigent p i -or-, ii tarvc (o (,tath' Uv threats that he should oavs.eiat judges, in the presence of j, who receive the charity of their re-pec-iit:irv'N :i,,d tl,e not u,lcommf)r asservation

ach ot!n r, may in vacation, nsu r fuel j tive counties.

r petition tIL d, mike sU' h ttmptary or 'J'his act to be in force from and after

its passage.

From the Trenton Eiupurium. TOM TO-MORROW. Lvery town and village has its eccentric genius; and a fat, greasy, jack of all trades sort of a fellow, by the surname of Kersey, but who passed altogether by the trite appellation of Tom-Tomorrow, used to attract no inconsiderable share of attention in Aylesbury, in consequence of the singularities of which his character was compounded. Ifi3 nick-name furnishqd at once a complete epitome of the man and his history. H never looked as though lie belonged to the generation of to-day for lie was always sleepy and lazy, and go d for nothing in the dav time, and as regularly awaked from his lethargy in the evening, and was noisy and industrious at night; time seemed to have gotten at least a twelve hour start of him and though alwas travelling with some annarent sin-

centy after the old man of the scythe, he j could not for the soul of him, get a single

step the advantage all his life long. His father left him an old house in the village when he died, which answered most of the purposes of a dwelling, and he married a wife who was considerably more industrious and regular in her habits than him-dl. To these fortunate circumstan

ces in all probability it was owing that he ft . a

!ers relative to the property ai d p irtie-,; th circuit court in term time, ire anJiorizrd to make by the act to which this j !s ai. aiiiendrr.eitt. I SrC 3. Th proceeding by thU art Jutii -r;zed. art! by the act to which lhi i i nn amendment. snl! he considered within 1 tb common i :w iun-Jn tionof the court, and f the juu;:cs thereof.

Frin !.- Mtrhi- in ?.-nt::d. INTLRIOR OF MICHIGAN. We are indebted to Mi. R ,hert Clark, jr. frthe following interesting sketch : The district of country with which I am

best at quainter and part of which I haw

recently MirvevcJ. i- -itu

that he ought to starve, kept the llesh well

j about his hour, ami had a heart) dinner ;tli: verv d iv he died with a broken neck, !thc fruit of a fill through the tloor of his j chamber, whicli he had been going to mend every to-morrow fur better than a ear. In all Tom's practice in the world; whether the discharge of the duties he

r, e to otiiers, or the ptirformance of those

concluded he never broke the resolutions. Certain it is, that he never found out this truth, that he who is idle from choice today, will seldom be doubly industrious tomorrow, and consequently that a loss is certain. There are a great many of the Tom Tomorrow family in the world, as I have already hinted, and possibly this lesson may be of use to some of them. Let him who intends to be poor, put off work till tomorrow. Let him who never intends to be out of debt, defer paying till to-morrow; and in fine, let the man who never intends to accomplish any thing, to enjoy any thing, to be thought any thing of, go and do as did the hero of this brief story, Tom Tomorrow.

This act to be in force, from and after j of thi territory, eomrm

it passage.

teste In the interior , mvn w,,,larc demanded, were consid j M-ine ITmile: west I' ,'r,HllV()in planting his poUtoe patch to

Boston, February 4. Honesty Rewarded.- Those who of late years have had occasion to visit the State House, during the session of the Legislature, have probably observed an elderly matron sitting by her table of nuts, apples, &c. in one of the lower lobbies. This good woman had the good fortune to find on the floor of the State House, two hundred dollars in bank bills, which as it has since been proved, weic accidentally dropped by a merchant's apprentice, who had been commissioned to pay them into the State Treasury. The money was advertised the next morning and immediately restored to the owner by the old lady, who was rewarded by a present of twenty dollars, and an annual stipend of five dollars, to be p aid her on every anniversary of the day which proved her honesty. The good woman's name is Mrs. Marshall; she is poor as may be inferred from her vocation, but she has proved herself rich inasmuch as s!i e rank3 among the noblest works of God."'

o

f Ter.;tn.eh,aHKnntim,ing ii that direc- !iIMin (1 ',t il was a11

. u 1 1 or

1 AN ACT rr-: i ir.z r r..s n nw.z ti c e'

t . ".'.r and l.u nt nant w n:.r. ; vi hovld - I), a rt I r, ?2H j ; Sec. 1 Ii' it inntt !!,) th G'rntrr.l

stmblyfih Stub f Iwtitnir:, That if any c.unli lain. . r eK ( tur. hall ( loif.-t to con j i test ttie ritit of any p rs-n dc 1 iretl 'n! ' ; rh'f tf d (I tveriiiu or Lieutenant CIov rm r. ! oflfte state of I'oKana, uch ( ot-tes'or sliall ?,. ive itoiii e in wi iting to flie person who-.- 1 ' el -rti n he m.-ans to contest, or b ave a Written in. uce tl.vrerf', -;t tb,. !i(.u.t. Iirr.- ; ie last re-id' d. v.iii.i., p.reidv davs nfjer 1 T; proclamation of .u h election, expre-ing ' .therein, the jniints er4 which the .tr.w is H 1 :ro:, tested and'hallii.liko mana-r.atid with-;! . !n the satri time give t otice thereof, toth.)n iding fdilcers of ear ij ho-e of the Gen- f

. :raLAssembI,whosliaIlfoiihwith

tton 4 J tildes, from l'J to If. in breadth l " i u-rrorrow, aye, to-morrow."

And not all the arguments in the world;

"'"Hi lead h

Gforg! a Wedding. It appears from the Darien papers that Mr. John Odcna lately iniifed his friends to his wedding, and a ball which he gave in honor of that event. The company assembled, the magistrate and fiddlers were present, as w ell as the bride and bridegroom. The bride bcinc solicited to receive the ring, she peremptorily refused, observing that she bad

Irorn norta t- f.uh, conti. uotis to the h

waters of Riw r Iai-in, Bean v reel , ai;d ; ",: th; b-son of experience; not all St. Jo-eph of Lake Kri-, and Grand river. j t,',, hiring of money, nor all the threaten-f'n-Kirk al-a-m i z o and the St. Joseph of 1 ut poverty, could for a moment con L ikf Michi nin. -.vince hiai that it was necessary or possi-

.' r:riot a fine running due wcm Iretr.il nuMne, to-oay ; or unu u u chai ,et her mi(uJ The company think-

l ( umsen, mere arr extensive ti 'acts ol l 13 ii-v nr umgeious.io pn v.wiy oak openir g.,M or a- they are more fre- y. thing df until to m in ow. And when cv-ju.-ntlv called 4'plain,v of a much superi-(rrv morning sun reminded him of the pro-

r iu dit to thoe near Lda Krie, exton ! ;'s-,s: he m ide the past day, and of the ap- ' - i ..... ...a

lin north in some n ce from 30 to 1 0 ? . proach of the time in which lie had pronu

din? north in some places from 30 to 10. nacfi of the time in which he had niib-s: tie oiI is generallv sandv mixed ! tiM'ir filfdment, in-tcad of reg

n ith gravel, tlnuh in some parts it h quite -t rt v ; timber consists of the dilli'retit kind of oak ;f.d hickoiy; the face vt the countr i f very where rolling, and in fome

o ut Jallv. soeriallv east of the di viilint' l!

. . - -----

t . f ..: i , ... i i .i ii .. ..

miUcnuti an-i uiwi me waters oi me ivivei i

; Itaitice in writing, and deliver the nu.e to Raiiu. la this description of country is die Srgeat-at-arms to the senate, who l to ! found the principal part of the rnall jn-di give a copy thereof, to fh, person II like- common in tin: interior of Michift m Xu tc eiecf inn i content' d, or leave a copy gan they are f-d bv springs and generalllit renf at the houe where h? last resided, j L h ive cejtlels of a superior quality of wa .hat his election has been cor. tested, and ij ti'r; in fa t, the water of all the streams rh:it a committee of the General A-embh . 'J that run through the openings in this disViil rncet on some day certain, which thajl t irict of country is excellent. It naturally. )v fixed on by uch presiding ollicers. to i, l-r grazing purposes, i inferior perhaps to :ear ami examine the cniJetica of the par- 'r country in the same parallel of latitude, 'esconcerncd. b"ing interspersed with prairies too low Sec. 2. As soon ns t!ie president of the H J i' cultivation, and yet admirably adapted nale, and speaker of the home of repre- ,to ttie growth of grasi. mutative?, shall have receiver! notice of j! S uth of the line above mentioned, the ,nch contest, agreeably to the tir,t section ;! country is generallv heavily timbered with Cf this act, each houe shall proceed separ- j black walnut, white woad, nn, sugar mar'ately to choose seven persons, members of pie, beech, oak, Sir soil fir the most part ;ih ir own body, in the following manner j r't'h and II calculated for agricultural Co wit: The names of the members of the ! purpose--. There is one invariable rule ?") u-e of representatives, except the spea- 'jth.it rviy be o!j,erved with regard to this :er, siu!l be deposited in a box, and it ' part of our territorv , viz: the laud is either :uhall be the duty of the Secretary of the (: kuh and rolling, or a - wuT.ip uch a thing pnate, ra pretiuu e of the senate-, and of I 1 w w,d raitiallv wet and drv is sc arce-

..Cie clerk of the hou'u f representatives, !j I known; the swamps arc not extensive,;

i the presence of the house, to draw from j containing from 5 to 100 acres, very few pcir separate l uxes the names of seven ' exceeding those limits- in some parts thev rer-am; wh'ch per oris whufce names are :lr(-' f"-v in number in others 'they may so drawn, shall constitute a cornuiitlee to jl he said to be somewhat numerous. About try the validity of u li contested election. Ij the head waters of Rean creek will, I think, 2nd who alter hem- duly sworn, shall, in ii admit of a dene population as any part

oiai meeung piot eed to hear and deter- i! of the country I have seen, on account of

i

rpitn the -ame.

f Sec. 3. The committee aforesaid, when net agreeably to the provisions of the seciCIid section of this ar t. shall have imwrr

the many streams and the richness of the soil; it lies from 20 to 30 miles west and

(south west of Teeum-ch, and is very im-

periectly known. The lands on the wa-

10 end for pero!Ss or pap rs ;.n 1 take all ! tfrs of St. Joseph are well calculated for nccosary mans to procu.-: teiiumnv. the extensive settlements. v II- I

pnw.eL' oc.p.; exteinlcfi to the per- I Finally, it H tnv opinion, taken from a

i ii jc uu:: i- i uniei-ieu; lor wtuch ij

nerion:d know le.h4. nf thivi rrkiiiifrt :iod

the cmjinitt' f thall have power lithe' information I i.:.Vf. r.U.wl nf th.it Iv

i a!j eara f.vmi das to

or to a

i. ! iu' north and south west, that it will at

fjn -da a: ti-- nature of 'a-- r, -y :J- Mime future dav, he the dover of our ter- '' ' ritory, both for populatim wealth.

retting

his lost hour, he would hum over a mcrrv

tune, listen with mute and unresisting do'cility to a long lecture fnun his good dame,

and thank his stars that to-morrow was'

still before him, and that he could stil! rcnew all the bjr.g catalogue of his promise !, j He altvavs insisted he had never lost j any thing by this unfortunate h:bit of his;) and proved it to a demonstration, for he j said he never had any thing to lose, ergo.

:c. hut the argument was, at last, rather specious than solid; for he once had a tolerable lot of potatoes growing and he put olf stopping a hole in his fence till to-morrow, and the neighbors' pigs at last got through and destroyed the crop. Often little jobs were offered him, for which the cash would have been immediately forthcoming; but that accursed to morrow, overset the patience of his friends; and every now and then the payment of some trilling hill was put off and put off until the constable rapt his knuckles with four or five shillings cost. He fired perhaps in this last matter, however, better than nine in ten of the multitude of Tom to-morrows in the world, for his credit was about as slim as his purse. In two things, and in two things only, he let slip his rule of procrastination he ate his dinner and drank his mug of ale, whenever he could get it to-day; and so it commonly happens with his kindred. The rub; would not workout so badly it those who defer working till to-morrow, would also defer eating and drinking to the same convenient season. But it was universally admitted by his friends, that Tom did not really intend any dishonesty to himself or others by his conduct. From original indolence of mind and body, he acquired the habit of postponing all exertion for the present, really and sincerely purposing to go earnestly to work the next day. How he succeeded in cheating himself for so many years in this way, I know not but probably the fact was that to-morrow never came, and he therefore in his odd mode of reasoning,

A. 'Ill 11 " . .

mg me nnoe nail only Deen seizcu win. a momentary whim, ordered the musician to strike up "haste to the wedding,' when she and John Odcna immediately began dancing, and all the company joined in. The bride after the dance still continued to refuse her hand to John Odena, and the lady hostess of the house, fearful, perhaps, that some unpleasant disputes might arise, entered the room with a club, and drove the whole company into the street.

A Hermit. It is stated in the Thomaston (Maine) Register, that there has n sided for a number of years past in the back part, of the town of Montville, a hermit of the name of Barret. He has dwelt in a cave the work of his own hands, dug in a br.nk of a small river, and carefully secured at the entrance against the intrusion of wild beasts, by a large log, sufficiently hollow to admit of his entering. He rejects every kind of luxury which may be offered him; the fruits of the earth that grow spontaneously in the woods around him, being his only food; water from the limpid stream his only drink. Since his retirement from the world, he has copied the bible twice, once on paper, and once on the bark of the birch tree. About a year since he moved from his cave ia Montville, farther into the woods; the country having become so much settled around him, that he was frequently am oyed by visitors. He was the sou of a respectable farmer, in Massachusctts,who obliged him to many a woman he disliked, having previously formed an attachment to another. He lived with his wife but a short time, when, it is said, rather than endure the Society of her he could not love, ha determined to forsake the world and its pleasures, and secretly left his native town for Maine and took up his abode in them' derness. NOTICE.

ULL persons indebted to the estate of John Frazer, late of Randolph county, deeeased, are

requested to make immediate payment ana persona having claim against said estate, are requested to present them, legally authentic itetl, for ettlement, withiu one jtar from thi date. The eitate is solvent. KNOS UODSON. Executor. SUS.NNAlt riiAZElt, Kxeeutrix. January '2Cth, I U2o. 974