Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 12, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 August 1835 — Page 2
CRAW FORDS YILLK RECORD.
Chicago, June 18, 1S35. Mechanics' wages are very Iiigli here, being $1 50 to $L 73 per day. Provisions of all kinds are also lugli owing to the number of emigrants passing through, and to the extraordinary number of persons attending the land sale. Flour sold here yesterday at twenty dollars per barrol nnd twenty five is asked to-day.
Butter thirty seven and a half per pound; eggs twenty five per dozen; potatoes one dollar fifty to two dolJars per bushel ; oats one dollar and one dollar twenty live; corn one dollar ; wheat eighty cents, but no mills to grind it. Wc shall probably, however, have supplies from
lake Line soon, or mere will be a
iamine.
Hundreds have left here for want
ol accommodations. Several who name in the steam boat Thomas
Jelferson to attend the land sale,
returned in her, because they could
set neither victuals to cat nor a lloor
to sleep on. Hundreds who came
bclorc thcm,liavc no other bed than
the lloor, and many sleep in cover
ed wagons in the open air.
The sales of public lands have
cone ouictlv on until to-dav , the
settlers bidding for that on which
t lev had settled at HI ncr acre.
when one or two speculators undertook to out bid them ; this caused an immediate skirmish, in which the
speculators were rather roughly handled ; not, however, very much injured. It is generally understood that the scttleis are to be allowed to have the land on which they have located at government prices. They have in one township magazmed, and are determined, at all hazards, not to be interfered with.
June 10th. I have but a moment to add that there has been no disturbance to-day between the settlers and other purchasers, as was npprehended, except in ono or two instances, and those were immediately quelled. There has been paid
into the land office up to G P. M.
this evening, over &'2G0,GG0.
Flour sold this day at $v25, and
28 per barrel was offered lor more
and refused. I am happy to say,
that a vessel has arrived Irom lake Erie, which is said to have some on board.
tion law" saves a world of hard
swearing and fraud, and accomplishes the same object with half the trouble and expense. We rei
joicc that this sale lias passed
over as it has, presenting so few cases in which individual settlers have suffered wrong and injustico for the want of a preemption law.
names there seen, become known and even familiar, m connection with whatever business the advertiser pursues. The benefit of this
every one can appreciate.
With these advantages which
advertising olfers,it is matter of sur
prise, that any business man mer
chant or mechanic should neglect
to avail himself of them. Some say
From the Dayton Journal. Advantages of advertising
Vdvcrtising is becoming, every day,
more stronglv established as a prin
ciple if w e tnav so express it, upon
which business is transacted. In
argc cities buyers and sellers rely
upon the newspapers as a means of
giving and acquiring information of
what is in the market. Lhis rule,
perhaps, will not apply to the same
extent m smaller places, yet is ncv
crthclcss much acted upon, and is
daily becoming more prevalent.
Indeed, it can not be otherwise ; be cause all men in business feel tha
when one of their number uses the
newspaper to nivc notice of the
commodities he has on hand for sale, or of the occupation in which he is engaged, an advantage is gained over them, which can only be cqualizcd by adopting his course.
Thus one advertiser necessarily forces many to become such, and so the system is established.
'advertising docs no good no one
cads advertisements." This, to
be sure, is an antiquated excuse.
Wc believe, it proceeds from such
only as arc unwilling to incur the
trilling expense which advertising
imposes, in anticipation of its bene
fits, liut the principle, as wc nave already staled, is becoming fixed.
Those who have houses, lands,mer-
chandise, &c, to sell, will make it public bv advertising and such as
wish to purchase will seek for that
which they want in the newspaper
He who neglects to keep pace with
this spirit w ill soon find himself in
the back ground.
An incident in point but one out of many, however wc will
mvo- A valuable breast Pin was
o 1 lost on the 2 1th of July; on theSSth it was advertised in the Journal. By 9 o'clock on the day of publication, the pin was brought to the of
fice and returned to the owner. So much lor advertising.
band ot desperadoes, wc should of his other children severely shockthink there was every disposition to cd, all ot which last, however, wo obey this order. arc pleased to learn, have rccoverThe citizens of this place, arc cd. The electric fluid appears to constantly harassed, persecuted, ar- have descended upon a locust tree rested, and imprisoned, by the Mi- before the door, and after passing chigan authorities. Their houses partly down its trunk, to have been are broken open citizens arc sci- conducted to the house by a limb
zed in the night and dragged oil to resting against the weather-board-Michigan prisons. Their females jng jUst above the door, in which, arc insulted and abused. Their unfortunately, Miss 31'Ginley happress is assailed and destroyed. pencd to be standing. She was Armed desperadoes aro kept con- instantly struck down and expired
stantly prowling about tneir streets, without a groan.
Lebanon (Ohio) Star.
CilAWFORDSTILLE:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1835.
with shcrifPs commissions, to mo
lest them. Unprincipled and dis
honest men are commissioned as
officers of justice; the officers and
civil authorities of Ohio have cith
er been driven nom tneir nomes, r&-yc would iust inform our subscribers
or arrested and imprisoned , to be Uat one more number will close the first threo
tried as criminals, and W hen the months of the fourth volume of the Record, people have tried to defend them- Those who wish to avail themselves of ad-
selvcs against worse than Algcrinc vance payment must attend to it previous to
robbery or 1 U rkish persecutions, our next publication. Wheat, oats, and hay ,
Under the covering of law, large will be received in payment, at cash prices.
bands of armed men. have been
M;,n,ii1.,nr1ln,fll,nnn,.,.rnnr nn.l T,1C following are the official returns of
eont nn in rnmn.it fiirt'hnr denrcda- thc whol number of volcs giv represen-
- i ,,; tt . i-.i-
tions upon their persons and prop- iaiM" 111 "sy m Pinion counties:
erty,"
Chicago sales. A gentleman who attended thc sale of lands and
lots at Chicago, has given us a lively picture of the extravagant delusion which prevails as to thc value
ot lots in Chicago. l here were
two thousand persons, purchasers,
irom abroad, besides those who had
authority to purchase for gentlemen
-residing in New York & elsewhere.
Thc village lots sold, in some in
stances, as high as one hundred
and eighty dollars a foot. These lots were generally eighty feet wide by one hundred and sixty feet deep. A block running to a point, about two hundred and fifty feet front,was sold for forty thousand dollars. The
parties, however, differing as to the
rate of interest on the balance of
the payment, (ono half being paid down,) the bargain was broken. There was not as much land sold on the line of the canal as was ex
pected. The quantity was dimin
ished hv thc amount taken by the
preemption purchasers and the
squatters. It sold generally for from one dollar and thirty cents to four dollars. The woodland was the most valuable.
Chicago, July 1, 1835. The public sale of the government lands which commenced here
on the 15th closed on Saturday last.
the whole tract advertised having
been ollered in the time specified.
We have been unable to ascertain
thc number of acres sold, or the a
mount ot money received at thc land office ; but from the best information which wo can obtain, we
arc led to believe that between ft re
and six mind red thousand dol
lars have been paid in at the office
during the sale. e have been
gratified at the respect which ha: been had for the claims of thc set
tiers upon these lands especially
irom speculators from abroad. Ly nek's law is "thc best prc-cmp
These are only general reflections, however. We wish to make some that will apply more particularly, not only for thc advancement of Dayton and the advantage of its citizens, but for our own benefit. A newspaper with a handsome adver
tising custom gives a business appearance to a place, which is of
great advantage to it abroad, it
evidences a liberal, enterprizmg spirit among the inhabitants, and
hows that they understand their
own interests, which is a recom
mendation to a thriving place, not
to bo lightly estimated. Men ol
moderate capital, and others pos sessing mechanical skill, are con
stantly seeking places ol location in
tho west, to establish themselves,
without the disadvantage which
thronged avenues to eminence orc
ein in all the eastern cities. Thcv
seek a thriving town, that they ma'
grow up with it, and in making thci
selection frequently judge of thc bu
Jlontsromcn. Clinton. TotsiT.
w 7 ' r
From tho Toledo Gazette, Extra, of July 20. OHIO AND MICHIGAN.
Renewed hostilities. On Satur
day last, a large body of armed men
headed by the sheriff of Monroe co., Michigan territory, was raised by
order of the acting governor Ma
son of thc territory, and proceed
ed to this place lor the ostensible
purpose ot serving some civil pro
cesses upon a number of cur citizens. They arrived on Saturday
about o o'clock in the atternoon, m
number about two hundred and fif
ty, regularly armed and equiped,
with muskets and bayonets, and, af
ter arresting and making prisoners, some seven or eight individuals, a-
mong whom are Iscnj. F. fetickncy
and Gcorgo McKay, esq's., they
proceeded to the printing oflice of
the 1 oledo Gazette, and forthwith commenced an attack upon thc
press; as there was no person in the oflice at the time, and thc door was
locked, they effected an entrance by
sincss of a town by the advertising splitting down the door, and then
columns of its newspapers. lhis commenced demolishing the press is well understood and shows the and materials, Much damage was
effect which advertising produces done, and as thc standing matter upon the prosperity of a place by was pretty much all broken down, inducing thc kind of emigration and the type thrown into confusion, w hich is most beneficial to it. it will take some weeks to so far rcTo individuals established, ad- pair thc damage as to issue another vertising is practically advantage- paper, ous. Their business is exactly in They met with no resistance proportion to tlic extent to which from thc citizens of Toledo, as they
they are known. What better plan were too strong and too well armcan bo devised to give the public ed to make any interference on their information of the merchandise or part, unarmed and unprotected as property which one has for sale, or they were, of any avail. Besides a thc mechanical business which an- very large number of the citizens,
other carries on, than the columns who, from the independence w ith
ol a newspaper allord? Certainly which they had always expressed
none. A newspaper, it may be said, their opinions, had become obnox-
gocs every where. Jbach copy pass- ious to the Michigan authonties,and
es through many hands, and is read against whom processes had been by numbers who neither subscribe issued by the Michigan courts, had nor pay for it. This class is by lar withdrawn fiom thc town to avoid too numerous for the printer's in- the disastrous effect of a collision teres: yet, although ho may be in. between thc armed nosse and the
jurcd, the advertiser is benefitted, people, which they had reason to
and he is charged nothing extra for apprehend would ensue, should an it. A merchant advertises his attemnt bo made to nsn nnv vin-
gooda; citizens, seeing the notice, lence towards them. After coin-
arc at once apprised of the place mining various outrages upon sev-
where certain articles maybe ob- cral unoffending citizens, insulting
tamed, which they desire to pur- the women, and arresting such of
chase. People m the countrwwith the men in town as were at all oh-
l y t whom he has no intercourse, feel noxious to them, thc mob, or posse,
nan acquainted with him irom his withdrew to Monroe with their prisadvertisement. They know his oners, where thcv were, upon thc
name, piace ot busmess,and in what order of the acting governor,immchis stock consists; and although diatcly thrown into prison.
i-icjr uiaj iug a regular place of The orders given to this armed dealing, will bo still induced to give mob, or posse, were, according to the advertiser "a call," which may thc statements of its leaders, to prolead to future transactions between ceed to Toledo, and take as prisonthem. The farmer who takes a pa- ers all who were in any manner per pays as much attention to the imnlimtpd in onnosin the iurisdir.
advertisements as to the other mat- tion of tho territory, and in case any tcr. It is a mistaken idea, altogeth- rcsistnnrn wns mndn. to immn,li.
er, that this substantial class of cit- ately hum and dcslrou the town,
izcns do not read them and is a and fire unon thc first man zcho
credit to their intelligence of which should attempt to oppose them ; they should not be deprived. Their and judging from what wc saw of
, w ives and children read them. The thc materials that composed this
On one occasion, during captain Ross' detention in the northern regions,they fired a ball ol frozen mercury through an inch plank; and, on another, they lroze oil of almonds in a shot mould, at minus forty degrees, and fired against a target, which it split, rebounding unbroken.
Henry Ristine, 77G, i)0
Henry Lee, GS8 171
Tho's M.Currey, 777 40 Edwin Winship, 271 208 John Ross, 08 171
8G( 850 817 5G0 230
Dr. A. Ilendrick, of Bradford
county, Pennsylvania, has invented
a shingle machine, which, at a mo- votes
derate calculation, it is said, will cut ten thousand shingles per day.
Justice's i:li:ction. At the election held in this place, on Saturday last, for justice of the peuce, to fill tho vacancy occasioned bythe resignation of P. M. Currcy, Youel B. Pullen received 2G1 John Gilliland " u,o
Giving
Mr. Pullen a mnjority of 100
Congressional elkction. As far as wo
Hannegan
la
have been able to ascertain, Mr. llan
majority in this district is very laroe.
Montgomery county the vote was, for
Hannegan, 857 Gregory, 587 TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Hannegan, 853 Gregory M) fountain county. Hannegan, 1037 Gregory, 32G VERMILLION COUNTY. Hannegan, 774 Gregory, 250
These arc all ilc counties from which wo
Cure for diarrhaa. As this
disease is usually prevalent at this season ot theyear,a gentleman who
has, for some time past, used the
following recipe with great success, requests us to publish it: A table spoon full ol vinear,and a tea spoon
lull of salt, mixed with a gill ol warm
water. If relief be not obtained in
ten or liltecn minutes, a repetition
of thc dose, he says, has been cflect
ual in every instance he has obser
ved. This is a simple remcdy,wor
thy at least ot trial, and can do HO have received the correct vote.
narm. new xoru mercury. !n tho olbcr districts, the probability 3
j that the old members are returned, with thr
rn.- . . r v 1 ir . .
1 no county Ol J-iOUUOn, in ir- exception of Mr. Ewing The last accounts
ginia, With a population ot twenty from Mr, Lane's district, however, left his .1 11 ii 1 . I 7
mousanu, nas not nau an inuict- case rather doubtful.
mcnt for crime in three years.
David V. Culley has disnosed nf his in.
mw . t . . ... "
mtami 0 ante at Cincinnati. terest, in the Indiana Palladium, to E. Cur-
in euori is uems tnaue to revive tnc tis. The naner will iinirtm- 1 .i,.,i
( 1 1 . - . --'v fcV. VjU&AVA IA V. LVll
Miami Exporting Company's bank, by V. M. Cole and E. Curtis, who bavo
anil again commence banking ope- hoisted the Van Buren and Johnson banner.
rations under thc old charter. At a
recent meeting ot thc stockholders
a report was read from a committee
appointed to investigate thc afiairs
GENERAL HARRISON,. Thc citizens of Louisville have invited 'tm'
civiIiajL to mrtalco nf n
veteran soldier and
of the institution, in which it is Sta- public dinner, and he has named the sixth of
ted that "from the best estimate that ueusl"sr uie day pn winch he will bo with can be made it i their oninion that u ' , , reco2n,,ze ,amonS the names of can ue mauc, 11 is mcir opinion tiiat those who have lendere( this honor G
assets OI tnc company Will be SUlli- Harrison, some who stand intimately connect-
ClCIlt to pay all Its UeotS and nave a ca Wlin ,l,e crave men, who in the campaigns surplus of about ten dollars on each P.J"1812' and Pured out their blood
hare now held by tho individual Z.:'sl:
1111 ., riM 1 . ' . v-wwj.i.auu. j. ijuy KIIOW Stockholders." 1 he committee al- how to appreciate his services, and to defend
SO recommend tlic expediency Ol "'sjusi ciamis 10 nonors that have been un
appointing an agent to settle all thc
business, and to transfer to him all the property of the institution. On thesuggestion and recommendation of thc committee, the stockholders, it is slated, have proceeded to act, and have, in conformity thereto, appointed M. S. Wade, ajient
tor thc company. Thc resnseitn-
m tion of tho bank is thousht altogeth
er practicable.
Mr. Jenks, thc editor of thc Nan
tucket Inquirer, says that colonel
Johnson told him with his own lips,
at wnsmngton, hvc years ago, that
he did not kill Tecumseh and was
not in any way entitled to thc hon or ot that achievement.
justly usurped, and in part fraudulently worn
uy aiiuuii-r. 1 no aay is ai hand when tho people of this country will set their seal to it
uku 10 vjen. iiarnson ociong "glory, honour and gratitude." n,in Oar
Mil. Randolph's will. We learn from tho Richmond papers that the general court, on Monday, rendered their decision in the case of Mr. Randolph's will having admitted to probate the will of 1832, which leaves, the bulk of his estate to the son of John R. Ryan, and excludes his slaves from the freedom provided for in a previous testamentary act. It appears that the general court was nearly equally divided on the question admitting tho will of 1832 there being six judges in thc affirmative and five in the negative. As to thc points of law, such a decision may bo said to decide nothing; and, accordingly, wo learn, that an appeal was at once taken to a higher tribunal. Baltimore Patriot.
Melanchohi. During the show
er on Saturday last, the house of Mr. John M'Ginley, in the north part ot town, was struck by lightning, and his daughter Mary, a
young lady about eighteen years of
age, was instantly killed, and three
We learn from the Cleaveland Herald, of the lGth, that Mr. Mason, governor of Michigan, had received instructions from secretary Forsyth, directing that no obslructiona should be offered by the authorities of Michigan to the running of the boundary line by Ohio. Governor Mason has issued his proclamation for an extra session of the legislative council, to take the matter under consideration, on the lGth August. Zancsville Re-lulican.