Crawfordsville Record, Volume 3, Number 29, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1834 — Page 1

EC "XIBEUTY VXIOX, SirtV AM) 1 OREVKK, OXL .VXD INSEPARABLE." WHOLE NUMBER, W3. VOLTTME, III. NO. 29. CRAW.FORDSVILLE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 18, 18 34

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KDITEJ) BY ISAAC XXYLOR. raff's Fatwiltar Letters from s" 's oul ,m' darkest and most le-1 Mr. Alexander Rood, of Vah- of thrir own town,couniy, &, State?

scried corner to disentangle ner mgion, i run., in um moi ie mi me ij0 uu'v linn the result oi iheir elec-

?u:iL!s:ui:a wr.&Ki.v, ov I. v. wauk At Si 00 pa annum, piy i'ole in rutv ince, o; j i ! , : a ll.ro? tnvn'is d'trr thi: lini" of snl;:crihi::g; $ 0 within the year; or $3 00 nf 'or the yo r r;iros. .Yo paper r.' be discontinued. Hfifasn nt cur option, vithovt special notice and pay -TiKiii of all arrearages. I; i rt i sem ents Not eccelinir 1-2 ancs, will Ise insvnod three li:.. s fur on.- ilollai ;;irni 2. cents for each suhseqiu'-nt insertion. 3 Ai tVKuriSEMKXTs, for a limited lime, ot fY m a d:;st nice, must be paid for in advanceotherwise they will be coniimiod at the ex, p-nse of the advertiser.. Lette.rs, on business. must be postpaid.

Cathedrl-Cont l ast of t he Worshippers.

We enjoy tin4 hour bt ton dinner in rambling through iFie town. It Ins in a lovely valley, watered by the

iug in sib ul w -:r.-h ;. " Th high ceding, ateh d al oost l.ke the heavns was actmod u; the hn.-jjitness .f sunset irradiation - ivhe lines oi tall columns, the long i-ta, and f 5 1 - -temple ailes, with rear shad oa recesses, wore hut it df sei a, if the dim. solemn light. In one of die ehant'ls a young girl kmU at ;h confessional, ami 1 cuiil I iadit:.ieiIv hear, as I pass-.-d slowly by, the low tones of a soft female voiee.t!;nrrupted ly the whi-pered iidcrregations of her unseen spiritual iatin r.

Farmers' jLtjccums. Some of the most social ami instructive evenings I have ever spent, were at weekly meetings of twenty or thirty plain, prae.iieal farmer-, held at their own houses, during a few years since. At every meeting, so me! sii j.'Ct ot agriculture or domestic ecouo ny, was selected for conversation ami remark at the next meeting. "wo Secret tries, appointed far tin1 purpose, recorded the suhstauee. of the remarks,which were given orally, and kept on file all communications. In the course of the season, two volumes ol manuscript were formed from the rem irks made, whi h were, of course, almost wholly ol a practical experimental ch aractei. These volumes furnished many articles which were ol the most useful, hecause of the most practical

I. I it l.vv iw"io iiuor. I .

cninsei. !. i uvt- j yp eontmue t he greatly inter

ested in state and county Agncuuu-j ... f.a,il(.,ir:d. By their

ral so -ietieshut never received one- j,orI1SO(,r,ii!oni(s .'cration half th entertainment and mstrue- j ( anMiilT-ivotly impressed, tion tMMi !i others united, a InnrtLj ,7, .,,,,,1 outline and the oh-

iviou? antnputy, the pieturtsn

licvht and shadow, and tiie revt i nt:alav -mil devotion discovered in the poor, the sic k, the aged, and die deformed, who come h re nse k, in tite consul itions of rehson, a !e ly substitute tor the disappos'.rmesn of all iln ir hopes on earth, render these c;tth' iirrds insprev -ivi; t'v. s:.leum. Worshippers :-.t aU hours and of every oeseriptiott arekiund her1 at their devotions. Ahh ugh the eeretiioui-s oftliepri st are farci

cal, and the splendours of the place

inajrproprtate, and, sonu tunes, rid

iculous: vet the reverence tv of many ase strikingly

and cannot he insincere. They vvhomakea parade of n !egion are

always ptoper o'njeeis ot distrust,

mind trom the last hngei nig tno ts management oi sueep, pnimsueu in nonsy ifie proceed n gsol their legisaud hopes of the world, and to pu- the New England Fanner, Vol. Ill, laiurc? the progress of their ltiirih her heart lor the suhlime crisis page 60, observed that smearing : provements? and many other inat-

A pleasant ride down an eleva- (0r which she watches every hour. 'sheen's noses with tar is considered j ters which some tunes may beofvi-

ted branch ot the Appenines ha jshc knows herself to be wandering as a protection against this enemy, tal importance to ihem ? No, they lodged tts in the pretty town of ( 'hi- ! blindly onward close upon the edge i What cxp rience I have bad is rath-1 find none of this ; but they do fini avari, at the Hotel Royal, lis ap- ()f the stupendous chasm ; site feels'-or calculated to strengthen ibis - j ;ill the fights, cpiarrels, mobs, duels, pea ranee is clean, comfortable, and dirt very tottering step may plunge pinion. I have always made free ; tinirthrs, accidents, and such like

the landlord attentive and civil. her down. When I behold such a ; use ot tar anions my sheep, V 1 doisttdt, which take place from Maine

creauire bending her way trem- j not know that I ever lost one by blutgly and alone to the deserted worms in the head." tentple of her Gotl, laing silently i T, has hern recommended to mix

Fumera. As the shadows ot night his teet a heart in which the idle I a hide salt with tar, and place it unthickened, we entenai into three j (amo of vanity and passion j ((T COV( , ujUT0 sheep can have spacious catln drals widi the usual i,;Ut have been long ag ex- j arc0ss to it, and they will keep their profuse embellishments ot painting, nnguisheel, I eatmot lot.k upon ber!nosos sullicienlly centcd w ith tar, sculpture, wax figures, c, in the jwiih the frivolous contempt with to prrVent the insects from attackmidst of whicti the feehb-, care- j hi-h fe-lnonahle and unfeeling ' y diem . N E. Farmer. worn, ag"l, autl i)overt-tMeke-i t e-i;,v, i; i too o?tn regard the sad ! inrr, who crowd the iat K innriib j fill Iowa as fa relioiofi tliflerent from Fmm the Ri?ingSun (Indi-m.-) Times.

floor, annear a me!ae holy com- dn-irown. When ihis feeble and

Til

merit on their splendor , G;.e of ; o?8t u s e

ih -'so churches a-hi'n o n a mutant corner, and gru;a-, a er- kr, a

Support IViifr own Printers. j Reading an artich' headed 'Support yo u r Media n iesf has indue-

candidate anncars at the

j lar ot Heaven, amid the mitred . t . i r ... I

:asnops, meerowneu Kings, or me , . , ln5v,,Iu.r a few u

jmenol high intellect and m!liks on the habit the people in ; whose brows are decked wuhthe; . w ost u ,vo ffol ,.4fo. of natron-

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; i on-- iv oi til1 iMHire or w ;u, iih: aw

ful Jn 'ge wall not enquire into the

'echnial shades of her creed, hut uiU fi . l m In r withered and lowly heart ihe spirit of smcerity more aeeept dle that) the pomp of temples, or n the m igmfieence of nnnd. V;u me not mdVcquently here

-nrrounded fy cripples, to whom

life is scaieelv hfe. A little jjirlJ i 1 1 t I ft 1 a

iv- ted s;t ;m oid niuni man. !

to (ieorjiia. W1 consider it a ucn

nine old women's paptr, fit only for those who are particularly fond ol the marvellous. We go against the Courier, too, hecause it is an Eastern paper. We want to see "Western literature and Westt rn periodicals encouraged. At Cincinnati there are two literary papers die Mirror and the Chroniele. Give to either of these papers the patronage of tho Saturday Courier, and wo will insure it as large, and a better paper, at the same price. To those who vill not patronize us, wo would recommend either ot the two Cincin-

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so-aai, mtor o

m-et:,s

cSuld ; her full, red bus pouting w ith infant beauty, and the, li-ht of her large, blue, happy eye-, ooly veiled a moment with the solemn express-

tzieg foreign newspapers in prefer- ati p ipers and next to our own.

enee to uiose oi uieir own count) xv; " ' pin ir nwuiriiid Slate. Bv -foreign newspapers They are essentially Western

we mean tlio-e prmted in tin- Eas- papers ;t!iey do not send ageiiisttiro' na n citiessnd which have ohtame.; lhe E isiern states to solicit suhscriV V ft ft

i . . I , ;.. .1. ('! it is it i i n Vicl :i lntn I hiv

I Jill '111;" il iMlllwiMll'e Mlliie t IrlLI !i 1 1 ..-- .w...- ..... .....

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country. ' ,oo!; lor ln1' support.

We object tf this habit, for very i Another thing we dishkc to see,

is tiienamtoi a great many western editors hav e got into of publishuj los)g advertisements for these E i-ti i n papers, and piJig them, into notice. An ediior who does tins is certainly blind to his own in-

obvious reasons; and one reason 1-, l''causc ii h'is a ureal temleia') to

! .1 1 1. I I ! Ill K III IIV III I- If. I I I llll'l M hey both knelt m st ent adorano. i 1 . . tir ; " nJ . . ,, . Uf the Westt in Press. II:

me nainu, neaiiny, anu j-y-nea-mini countenance of the beautiful

atul inflii taa

an nidi

vidu d is anie to patronize more

than one newspaper, let. him fir.-i subscrilie forlhe one printed in hiown town,county,or neighborhood, and then we care not where heroes

terest.for he is helping to bring these papersintocompetiiion with hisown.

1! that they got m return is an ex-

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pvo T a f w neighbors, aio o

a ch '.racier as coubl he e,edv sust.iined in any town or neighborhood in the country. Such meetings among farmers receive meat additional interest and vaitia from their connection ,vtth General lycenms; embracing not only farmers, but mechanics merchants, and those engaged in literary professions. These different classes become mutually beneficial to each other. The clergymen, physicians, and toarhers, are no less benefitted by tno farmer's practical knowledge, than he is by their tneoretical sciences. Museums or collections of natural and artificial produe'.ions, to-

fi mIu r with hooks on scientific and UHud when thou prayest, thou shall

practical agriculture, and treatises I not he as (lie hypocrites are ; for

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teal ui rums n Milium i) . , r ? , . , V i i -' ' -o:d'ss that our leehng are sre!(o;f

ll'I'M tnoi .-vt T?j. flr.I k. ..t ' ,-

iwi ill n ri uu u inn iii in, iii.i

white, thm, tooddess hps mtirmur

sfor the second. In this matter we change, and we have even known

i liis to be refused.

ing an eag r prayer, and his sightless orbs turned upward, while a holy p.-nco diffused itself over his

s: How, skeleton face like a gleam of sunshine falling upon a desert. 1 nave seen here, loo, many young girls whose hectic cheeks nil the t.de ot approaching death, and who steal from the sunshine and gorjjeousuess of nature ,frou the viue-cl.td hills5, and groves of oranges,topend a sacred hour in meditation and nravcr. At these limes the eventful history of their religion passes trom my mind. 1 forget the proud prolate and the idle monk,the thunders fulminated against the good, the dispensations given to the wuked, the penalties for thought, the anathemas asrainst science, the dunneon.

on general science,wonM h- of th , :h, y bve to pray standing in thej ,,e rjlaiI( h rac die w heel, tin

c;and why should they not be? We presume no one will say that

Oar interests are tin; interests ol a newspaper is of no advantage to our f How-citizens, and it becomes the toe, n or county in which it is us then to work to each other's printed. Why then not foster and

and pieear nest.,

hands. There is no better evidence ol dio growth, prospetity, and intelligence of any country than to see the Press in a flourishing and prosperous condition among its inhabitants; and when we see a newspaper in a languishing state appearing once in two or three weeks

cherish them in preference to those printed at a great distance from their own? We hope the Western people will soon see the injustice they are doing an invaluable branch of the mechanic arts, by refusing their aid and support. We hope, too. to see a decree of sectional

its columns poorly tilled the pub-! pride and jealous: spring up a-

hslu r insisting that he must have mong u, wnich will induce our

people to "SUPPORT THEIR OWS ME--1 W ft T M 'C1 '

CHATS'ICS

inmost sci vaee in renderinff T' so- vn. uni on s, and ui the corners oi i r,fr,rit nml lt t t-irc i i

cia! m:--tiaio Urine, a lrai.-r- ,!,.. mi .its. th.i (i;oy may ! swn l l;iUo iho m.ml orilrr f ,'civl, ih- nrtcI ' a "n" , TTTi'"" liot,m. .m-iC h..s.,uhewa.fe .,ri,s.. lttl riCn ot .mWrf,' --"omeun lhmr..s hols- " , . , , c r t a, . n;,,,f 'f iM rirli ,T-r i ff i i ct the paper printed therein: tor kuen neing the f set. cv rv firm- who clothes hunscd in inn g.r- whicn hans over nearly every . . v ' Vf1tfla fjWi er who consults Ins own pleasure me.Us, and chants aloud at the al- Cadulic Church. I see onlv the ll,ll's j, pp . ... . . 1 .... .,.! i....,,.. ,i ,,M!m.nt nod i o .! ..sion Mair and eleai, and every tinng

lt,j ill'll rv 111 I ill

cn I th? entire feasiaility ot nisletidiir4 nsaid inline ereneral establishin. ait ot lye; u us in ali th-f counties, towns, and neighborhoods, of oar Union for, if h? aid in establishing or sustaining one in his own county or neighorhood, he will at

t M-t an example worthy of be-

sw ings the censor, who luislu s my spirit with an involuntary sentmvnt

of respH-t, as I pa-s by him, in the mid-t of his ostentations duties. 4kHe has his reward." Hat du re are those who-e failh, or whatever it may be called, is honest, deep, and sinct re. The lowest ol j ts d hu.11

ing followed in every other county I inanity the most wretchedly poor

the hideously deformed may no detei.tcd here, withdrawn into the darkest chapel,and so absorbed before some glittering symbol of their creed, as to be vidcntlv unoonscions of all around them. I never

and neiiihborhood in the tate.

Curwin observes that "the best preventative against fleas in hogs, lice in cattle, and ticks hi sheep, is corn meal anil good care." Hickory ashes thrown upon swine, not onlv assists in destroying fleas, hu; in removing cut mcous diseases, by causing the animals to rub themselves frequently. JScw York Far-

poor and tne uunappy

from sorrow, and here finding a solace for every wo ah asylum from the dreariness of their own dark homes from the brood iugs ot their yet darker hearts. New York Mirror.

saw more heart-rending pictures ot

llorms in the head of Sheep. JSome parts of the country are infested bv a kind of fiv, which naturalists call oestrus jr"s,m be same genius with that which deposites eggs in hair of horses, and causes botts. This fly attacks sheep from about the middle of September, de

posites its eggs in the nostrils of the

Nah-tfit. Oil Sunday last, about noon, a 1 irge whale exhibited hnnkoH within a hundred yards ofNa-

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loneliness infirmity, and distress,! animals, and causes those worms

(ban are frequenters of these still the head which so frequently

retirements. It is impossible. to re-

destroy sheep. The Mechanics' Gazette recommends as a preven-

covenng the nostrils with a gauze substance through

press sympathy. The character or

the consequence upon society mutative,

general ot the Catholic religion has; ust ol

which the animal can breathe, and keeping it in its place by something At

adhesive. Another preventative

no connection whatever whh their lowly truth and simple-humility. Here a decrepit woman , all bhght-

IT .,n ;ditnr ed and bent down with age vvrin-

tea times, and was observed to pass kled, emaciated, half blind, and al- jus is di-ctual, is to keep the noses between shag rocks (so called,) & i ready scarcely a tenant of the earth, of sheep constantly smeared with

the mainland. Hisleng h was va- come slowly nooiumganu snaking iai,ioo .iui (llu ui ikug. riouslv estimated from CO to 60 feet, along at the dim hour ot twilight, lo the latter end of September,

arranged in order, we ir:Ko u u r granted that w paper has a coon support, and the inhabitants of the town and county are in a prosjw rous condition. When this is the case.the printer goes to work che er

ful and buoyant in spirit ; he uses his

best endeavors to please his pairous,

and improve tho appearance & usefulness of his paper ; and such a printer never thinks about "w riting for glory, and printing on trust." In soliciting subscribers for our own paper, some individuals have said to us, 'Oh, I can get the Saturday Courier for the same price you tharge for yours, and it's goi more in than your paper." WV knew this to be true, and sometimes thought of saying t"G omul get it!" hut tiiis might have been considered uncivil. The Saturday Courier, it is true, is a large paper, and has such a large patronage that it can

be afforded for two dollars peryear.

i i

ish r insisting that ho must nave

more su? senhers, or calling on his old ones to pay up we invariably look nnoii the neonleof that section.

-., f iiriwr-ilt fill) ' lnd.nini- State of Religion in the U,

V IJI, lyM'lllllll) ...... ....... aging set, who lo not know how to States. Tho relative strength of appreciate their own interests. We, religious dt nominations in Amentoo, have been m tho habit, since ca is as tollows: In the Baptist we first became -acquainted with Connection there are 0,059 chur-

newspapers, of judging of the char- dies, and J.U,;.U communicants.

1 no increase ourmg me nisi yt;ai lias been upwards of 41,000. The

total number of churches ol the Orthodox Congregationalism is 1,059; (it communicants 110,000. The

increase during the pas: year has been 27,232.The Prewlwteri mg have!2lsynods,conqirising llOPrcsbyt ries, 2,381 congregations, 1, 935 preachers, 1,730 ordained Ministers, and 217,348 communicants,. '1 he additions made to the number

of communicants during the past tear have been 41,046. The Protestant Episcopalians, have twelve Bishops, and the population oyer whom they preside is 0,000. Tho Methodist" Episcopalians, cn as they are commonly sty led, the Episcopal Methodists, number 558,59S members. The United Brethren number 4,000 comn unicants; the Reformed Dutch Church, 79,560; the Associate Presbyterians, 12,033 ; the Germanttelormcd Church, 17,888; the Evangelic Lutheran

Church, 41,3o6;the Cumberland Presbyterians, 10,000, and the Universalis! 4,000. The Roman Catholic population may be stated to bo 500,000; tho Associated and other Methodists,l 70,000; tho Friends or (luakers,90,000; the Unitarians. 16,00; and tho New Jerusalem, Church ,5,000.

which sheep owners have assured , A great many people in this coun

try take that paper to ino exclusion of all others and what is it to them when they have it? Can they find any tiling in l touching tho. afiairs