Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 14, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 August 1835 — Page 2

town, and the country, the dreary wl'dr.r'ens; ' through winter through summer, amid rlcn" and foes, through health and affliction; thro smiles and frowns-yet I cTcr "ef painted upon my imagination the imag o rny lamented Mary. Here the m.sts began to gather in the eyes of the Colonel, and for a few moments a death-like silence preva.Jcd. At length looking upon his intended bride he "aw that she had taken more than usual interest in the relation he bad been making. lie then broke the silence by saying, 'you must forgive me for the kind remembrance I bear for the beloved companion of my youth. While he was uttering this sentence Mrs. Starks swooned away, and would have fallen from her seat had not the Colonel supported her. While she lay in this death like state, many were the reflections that passed through the mind of Col. Lossley. First supposing that as ho had for a time kept this secret from her, and at last divulged it without intending to do so, it might have had a tendency to destroy her confidence in him, or to fear that his affections were so much placed upon the memorv of his first wife that it would be im-

posible for him to adore her as he ought ; these and many other thoughts of a like kind rushed through his mind, and he but awaited the return of the power of utterance on the part of Mrs. Starks to hear her renounce him forrv.r But. oh! how mistaken were his tears No sooner was slie roused from her swoon than she tlKew her arms round his neck, and resting her head upon his bosom sobbed like a child, crying out, 'OA my husband! my husband P The Colonel being much astonished, inquired rather hastily what she meant? With her hands still resting on nis snouiuers with a countenance beaming with joy and ffiifTiised with tears she exclaimed, with half choked utterance, 'lam your Mary! your long lost Mary! and you arc my Henry, whom I mourned as dead these twenty vears r The joy became mutual. That night and Ihe next day were spent in rciauug incur rumcinrpo which transpired with them dur jng their separation, and in admiring the Providence that brought them together. On the next evening those bidden to the marriage attended. The parson came but mere was no service for him to render . The transport ed rnnnlfi in formed the assembly that they had been lawfully married twenty years be fore, and gave a bnei outline ot meir History, and entered into the hilarity of the evening with a degree of cheerfulness unusual to them. We will close by saying they are now doing well for time and eternity. Indiana Loans. Our late New York papers bring us the information that our Canal and Bank loans have been taken on fair terms. We copy the following notice from the New York Journal of Commerce of the 5th instant. Indiana Jovrnal. Indiana State Loans. The loans of $500,000 advertised for by the State of Indiana, have been taken by Messrs. J. I. Cohen and Brothers, of Baltimore, as follows, viz: 400,000 Bank Loan, irredeemable tor twenty vears at a premium of 4 i per cent or $10 4 50 cts. per 100 stock. $200,000 Canal Loan irredeemable for twenty live years, and a part for thirty years, at a premium of five per cent or $105 cash for $100 stock. The northern counties of this state are increasing in wealth and population with very jrreat rapidity. We are informed that upvvards of eight hundred votes were given in Laporte county at the recent election, and that a great many more of the effective population were prevented from voting by not having resided twelve months in the state. The towns ofLaporto, Michigan City, and Smith Bend are increasing rapidly in wealth and business, and property is advancing with rapid strides. There can be no douut mat the whole of that part of Indiana bordering on Lake Michigan will before very long, contain a heavy population, who, with a proper improvement of the advantages with which nature has furnished them, cannot avoid becoming wealthy and happy. Indiana Journal. Charleston, South Carolina, The post office in this city was forcibly entered last night, by removing an inside shutter at the north end, and a bag containing a large number of incendiary tracts and newspapers, intended for distribution to the south and west of this place, taken thence,and will, we understand, be made a bonjre of to-night at 8 o'clock, without the limits of the city, There was no injury committed or violence done to any other part of the post office; abstracting the above Dag ana its contents being the only object. This act it premature, as application had Wn made to the ceneral post office for in structions as to what disposition should be nrtA nf thf se publications. If the answer had been, that there was no authority to interrupt their passage through our post office, in that case those states whose peculiar institutions are involved in hazard, must take the late into their oicn hands. Extreme cases require extreme remedies. It will never do to allow our mails to be laden with these anarchical publications, while our citizens fold their arms and permit the poison to circulate through all the veins and arteries of society at the south and west. But we would suggest that whatever be done in this way, let it he performed in open daylight, and on the public highway, and that persons of responsibility and weight of character be deputed to act in the name and for the good of the whole of the citizens. Let us, if the necessity is imposed on us of temporarily violating order act with as little disorder as possible, and' without tlie agency of large masses of 'men who may become excited beyond the necessities of the case . Southern Patriot. Lovisville, Ky., August 1. Important. The bank of Kentucky has, wc learn, agreed on the terms on which it is

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to take one million of the debt due to tne branch of the United Slates bank in this city, and is to take its banking house at $3o,000. The debt is to bear interest at the rate of o per cent, and to be liquidated in one, two, three, and four vears. The arrangement will be advantageous to the banks, and highly beneficial to the community. It will be completed in a few days. The entire sum now due the branch here, is thirteen or fourteen hundred thousand dollars. Advertise r. THE INCENDIARIES. From the Richmond (Hrg.) Whig, Avg. 8. The postmaster at Richmond has obligingly furnished us. with a copy of a letter from the postmaster general to the postmaster at Charleston, which is an interesting paper, to lay before the public: Post oftice pepaktmevt, 5th August, 1835. Sir: My views in relation to the subject of your letter of the 3d inst., may be learnt from the enclosed copy of a letter to the postmaster at Charleston, South Carolina, dated 4th instant. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AMOS KENDALL. Edm'd Anderson, asst. P. M. Richmond, Va. Tost office department, Aug. 4th, 1S35.$ P. M. Charleston, S. Carolina: Sir: In your letter of the 29th ult.,just receiTcd, you inform me that by the steam boat mail from New York your office had been filled with pamphlets and tracts upon slavery; that the public mind was highly excited upon the subject; that you doubted the safety of the mail itself out of your possession; that you had determined, as the wisest course, to detain these papers; and you now ask instructions from the department. Upon a careful examination of the law, I am satisfied that the postmaster general has no legal authority to exclude newspapers from the mail, nor prohibit their carriage or delivery on account of their character or ten dency; real, or supposed. Probably, it was not thought safe to confer on the head ot an executive department a power over the press, which might be perverted and abused. But I am not prepared to direct you to forward or deliver the papers of which you peak. The post office department was cre ated to serve the people of each and all of the Vnited States, and not to be used as the instrument of their destruction. None of the papers detained have been forwarded to me, and lean not judge myself of their character and tendency; but you inform mo that they are, in character, "the most inflammatory and incendiary and insurrectionary in the high est degree By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingy, in giving circulation to papers of this de scription, directly or indirectly. We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. lntertaining these views, I can not? sanction, and will not condemn, the step you have taken. Your justification must be looked for in the character of the papers detained, and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. " This view appears to us such as the post master general was obliged to take. He certainly has no power to exclude newspapers from transportation by tlie mail, and, having no such power, his conclusions upon the subiect are aliUviral as could have been expect ed. The law is defective, and to supply its omission, until congress meets, the people and postmasters must act upon their own responsibility. All men will acknowledge that the circulation of these incendiary tracts is out of the question. Whig. New York , August 7. From Liberia. The brig Rover, at this port, left Liberia on the lGth May, having arrived there on the 2d from New Orleans with 71 colored emigrants. They were generally in excellent health, both during the passage and after their arrival. Tiiere had been only one death among them, and that was by consumption. The name of tlie sufferer was Armisted Price. The greater portion ol them had gone 15 miles up the river to Millsburg, where they will remain until the rainy season is over. The health of the colony was excellent, and the colonists; apparently contented and prosperous. The wais among the adjacent native tribes had been terminated; and a few days before the Rover's departure, 300 or 400 of them came to Liberia with camwood, &.c, which they carried on their backs. Captain Outerbridge informs us that he saw nothing which looked like intemperance in the colony, and heard no profane language. Most of the colonists, he thinks, are members of the Temperance Society, Journal of Commerce. INSURRECTION IN VENEZUELA. From the Philadelphia Exchange Books. Letters dated St. Thomas, favored by a house of this city, inform us that Vargas, the president, and vice president of Venezuela, had arrived at St. Thomas from La Guayra; that on the night of the 8th of July, the troops, instigated by their officers, revolted, attacked the president's house in Caracas, threatened his life, &. finally sent him under a guard to La Guayra, and put him and the vice president on board the schr. Aurora, bound to St. Thomas. Gen. Marino is supposed to be the leader of the insurrection,and it appears to have been some time in progress. A white man of the name of Reuben Crandell, was arrested in Georgetown on Tuesday evening, by two of the polico officers of this city,(IVlessrs Robinson and Jcffers)

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&, committed to prison, on a charge rf hnvinrr hnnn onp-ncred in circulajm .... ...-q o n ting incendiary publications among the negroes of the district. He was examined yesterday afternoon before JMr. justice Coote, Mr. Key attending for the United Slates. The examination took place in the jail, and we have not learnt the result, iurthcr than .hntmnurrli nnncarcd in evidence to authorise the full commitment of the prisoner for trial. Nat. Lntel. The citizens of Charleston, wide awake to the danger of allowing the circulation of incendiary publications in that state by mail, or otherwise, have, in town meeting, appointed a general committee of safety of twenty-one citizens, headed hv iudflre Colcock and gen. llaync, and filled up with the most res table names. The following 'VV w - is a part of the result of the dchbertion and action of this committee: Nat. Iatel. PUBLIC JSOT1CE. The public will doubtless be gratified to learn, that the committee of the citizens who met this day at 1' o'clock, have made an arrangement with the post master, by which no seditious pamphlets shall be issued or forwarded from the post oliice in this city, and that the committee of the citizens will make with that officer the necessary arrangements for effecting this object. The following resolution was unanimous ly adopted by the commute of 551. The character of the committee that have been nominated on this subject, gives full assurance that the proper measures will be adopted by them on this subject, and that they will be supported in their measures by all classes of our fellow citizens. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to communicate to thecitizensthe arrangement made with the post master, that no seditious pamphlets shall leave his office un til the civil tribunals ot tne city are informed upon the subject, and that thev be authorized,!!! the nameanu behalf of the citizens of Charleston, to accompany the mail trorn the steam boat which is expected to arrive this night or to-morrow to the post office, and to make the necessary arrangements with the post master to prevent the distribution ol the seditious pamphlets which may at that time be received by the mail. The committee consist of general Ilavne, John Robinson, Chas. Edmondston, II. A. Desaussure, Jas. Robertson , James Lynah, Edward R. Laurens. INCENDIARYISM. We take fromanextraof the Nashville Republican the following ac count of the doings and reward of one of our incendiary abolitionists. The madness and the folly of these misguided enthusiasts begin to produce their legitimate fruits. While the constitution continues the supreme law of the land, the people of the south have a right to hold their slaves, and to manage their property as to them may seem fit, and it is a violation of all good faith for those in other sections of the Union to intermeddle in the matter. The people of the south have also a right to protect their peace and their quiet by such means as they may deem best calculated to secure them. If the wild-fire fanaticism of these itinerant preachers of abolition and insurrection leads them into the bosom of the slave states, to scatter their tracts and stir up in surrection, the people must and will protect themselves. We are no a pologists for mobs or mob law; but when men dare invade the right's ol others, in utter disregard of all propriety,and attempt to lay the ground work of a servile war with all its horrors, they must expect to meet with a warm reception. He who disregards the rights of his fellowcitizens, and in his madness will not know and recognize the law that secures those rights, has no just ground of complaint ifthelavvis laid aside in repelling his assaults. The Nashville paper is correct I

in saying that this JMr. Dresser is one of the persons who left the Lane Seminarv. The trustees and faculty of that institution would not permit it to become an engine of fanaticism, in this war upon the peace and quiet of the south, under the imposing garb of religion and philanthropy. Cincinnati Gazette. AN ABOLITIONIST CAUGHT. Our city was much agitated on Saturday evening last, by tho apprehension of a young man by the name of Dresser, who, it is said, has been disseminating tracts and pamphlets of a very inflammatory character, in relation to slavery. He was carried before our committee of vigilance, where a patient and elaborate investigation took place. From the prisoner's papers, pamphlets, correspondence, and statements, it appeared that ho was a member of an abolition society in Ohio that he had been a member of Lane Seminary, at Cincinnati, which he and odicrs had been forced to leave, chiefly in consequence of the dangerous principles they held in relation to slavery. The ostensible business of this villian was the disposal of the Cottage BmLEl thus veiling his unhallowed designs under the cloak of religion. The evidence, mainly furnished by his correspondence, clearly proved that there was an organized system of operations adopted by this society, for the promulgation of its doctrines in the slaveholding states, and which, if carried into effect, would manifestly tend to insurrection and rebellion among the slaves. There were found in his possession a number of pamphlets, papers, &c.of the most inflammatory and violent character copies of small hooks, with prints representing slaves chained to trees, and suffering under the lash oth

ers representing them as manacled, and white females scourging them with cowhides, &c. Numerous nxtracts were also read from his journal, all tending to show that his design, in visiting Tennessee, was to find out and secure friends to the cause of abolition, and thro' them to disseminate the doctrines ol the society. It was proved he left copies of his pamphlets at the Nashville Inn, and at Mr. Cayce's in this place, and also one with a citizen of Sumner county. Tho committee found him guilty 1st, Of being an active and effi cient member of (he Abolition So cietyofOhio. 2d, That he had in his possession, in Nashville, sundry pamphlets of a most violent and pernicious tendency, and which, if generally disseminated, would, in all human probability, cause an in surrcction or rebellion among the slaves, 3d. That he published and exposed to public view, the said pamphlets in Nashville and Sum ner county As might have been expected, a numerous crowd ot citizens, wno witnessed the development of this fellow's guilt, were much excited, and, wc verily believe, had it not been for the prudence and firmness of the committee,his life w ould have been the immediate forfeit of his crime. is it was, ne escaped witn A 1 1 t the infliction of twenty stripes up on his bare back and an order to leave the place in 24 hours. We have reason to believe that there are others belonging to this same gang, prosecuting their unholy designs in some of the neighboring counties. At the same time that the above examination was in progress, at our court house, a vigilant patrol of citizens succeeded in capturing anoth er villain in this vicinity, in the very act of tampering with slaves! We have not time this morning for comment but wc say to the south tbe on your guard and to the north, ftyBEWARE? AMOS KENDALL. There was some ground to hope, when this individual took upon himself the management of the post office, that there would be an improvemem m the management of the rotton concern. This honnhns. however, been dissipated from the

fact, that he still continues the old system of "rewards and punishments," and also that there is as much reason to complain now on the score of the irregularity of the mails as under the former administration of the department. Scarcely a week has elapsed in which Ainos has not appeared in the delectable columns of the Globe promising new reforms; all his promises have, however, so far as we have been able to discern, ended in smoke in "a great cry and little wool." Not a long time since a vacancy occurred in the post office at Old Point Comfort, and Kendall, wishing to make a show of his regard for public opinion, issued the following billet: "The post master general desires that public notice be given to the citizens ofOld Point Comfort, of the expected vacancy in that post office, that they may have a voice in recommending a person for employment.'1 On the reception of the above, a public meeting of tho citizens was held, and three gentlemen were put in nomination by the meeting as candidates to supply the vacancy, viz: Messrs. Williamson, Hix, and Crews. Tho polls were immediately opened and Mr. Williamson received two-thirds of the votcs,and Mr. Ilix the remaining one-third; Crews did not receive a vote. Who received the appointment? Crews! Truly, this is a singular mode ol hearkening to public opinion ; But it is on a par with the hoodwinking policy of the ruling patent democrats of the day. Western Star.

WHAT NEXT!!! Wc subjoin the following postscript from the last Dayton Journal: WARLIKE PREPARATIONS. After a part of our impression had been circulated, we received intelligence of an important movement on the part of our stato executive, which we stop the press to communicate. Orders have been issued by gov. Lucas to the major generals of militia throughout the state, to report to him immediately, what number of mounted riflemen and cavalry can be furnished from their respective divisions at a moment's warning! It is supposed this force is intended for the disputed territory, to prevent or repel tlie aggressions of Michigan, or perhaps to invade the territory! Further we learn, that these orders were confidential, and will not appear in the paper until the governor removes the injunction of secrecy. The correctness of this intelligence may be depended on. A gentlemen who saw a copy of the orders communicated tho contents to us. Wc can not vouch for the truth of this statement, but merely give it as we received it. This much we can add, that governor Lucas has just returned from the disputed territory. We have conversed with one of our citizens, who came in the stage with the governor from the north, last week, but he did not apprehend any serious difficulty. Rut if these orders have been issued, they arc a curious commentary upon the late mission to Washington and the plenipotentiaries. Have the powers at the white house played lalsely with their political friends m Ohio? We believe they have. It is a hard game to keep in with Ohio, and yet win the influence of the two new senators from Michigan, when elected. The union will be fotind too large a theatre for New York tactics to operate on with success. -Cincinnati Gazette, SHERIFF'S SALE. KY virtue of a writ of fi. fa., issued from the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Montgomery county, to me directed, I will oner lor sale at the court house door in the town of Crawfordsville, on the 18th day of September next, the 'following prop erty, to wit: one wagon, and the rents profits of the north cast qr. of tho south east qr. ot section y, in township TO, north oF range 4 west, for tho term of seven- rears. if the same will not bring a sum sufficient tew satisfy said writ, together with, the interest and cost and accruing cost, I will then offer for sale the feo simple of said land taken as the property of Joseph Conrad &. .George Ik Conrad, at the suit of Peter Bin ford. AMBROSE HARLAN D, S. M. C. August 21th, 1835. h TAKEN UP, by William Hillman of Clark township township, Montgomery county, la. a browo mare, 4 years old, star in her forehead, two left feet white, Hi hands high, appraised to $.v;aiso a bay stud coif, one year old,smalI star and snip, some white on both hind feet, small bell on without a clapper, appraised to 22 dollars and fifty cents, by Isaac Baker and, John Kelly, before me, JOHN P. ROUTH August 22, 1835. " n

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