Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 19, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 October 1835 — Page 2

A C J R I C U LTU K A L SCHOOL. The folloving,froin the Penny Magazine, is abrief, yet interesting account of the oldest, and probably the best, manual labor school in existence. It approaches more nearly the K,,-,ror nf nn ncrrirnltiiral school than any

other of which we have any knowledge; yet it is bv no means porelv and exclusively so. It is of a mixed character, a chanty school a teacher's school, and a school for general and miscellaneous education. From it , however, we m .y g'her many useful hints and ideas. Indiana Aurora. In the month of August, 1831, 1 traveled into Switzerland fur the purpose of making myself acquainted with the schools and institutions at llofwyl. Situated about three leagues from the picturesque capital of Heme, amidst a beautiful scenery, composed of n cultivated vale, the Jura ridge of mountains, a pine forest, a sm-dl lake, and the glaciers of the Bernese Alps, stand the extensive building of the establishment, surrounded by about two hundred and fifty acres of firm and l.ind. Unon mv first arrival, before Irl rtlir.iiii nn nnoortUiiltV of presenting my letters to the benevo lent founder, I wanuereu aouui m various directions, all was business and activity. Here was a troop ot lads cutting the ripened corn, while another troop was eni . 1.. it i, ilin li'it'nc r 3 . . I rrtTOO III COMmieiiii" iuu Here was the forge in activity, unu there some little gardeners perlorming various operations in small plots ofgrotind that were portioned out; lien; was a group of little girls gleaning, there others earning water, most of them singing while thus em ployed. But my attention was peculiarly arrested by about one hundred men, who in a large open building erected in a recess of the girden," appeared to be engaged like boys in a school room; over the entrance w as inscribed this motto: "The hope of their country." I was at last fortunate enough to beadmited into the study of M. de Felleuberg, a man somewhat advanced in years, with a countenance beaming with intelligence and kindness. He Felleuberg was, by birth, one of the aristocracy of the country, and in possession ol the hereditary property of his family, lie determined upon devoting his fortune ami the labor of a life, in tho endeavor to affect the generation of his native land by the means of education. "I will infuse good habits and principles into the children," said he, "for in twenty short vears these children will be men, . . . . .i giving the font1 and manner to im i!ifmri " i fir tmriv.iwfi venrs nas he pursued his steady course, in creasing in influence, and extendinjr his establishment as his schcim grew upon him, until it has become what he described to me. " Phis," c..;,i Ua ...nniiiKT tti lare Ik) I hi I nu. "is the institute for die hoys of the higher classes. Here are their difling rooms; arranged on each side of yonder galleries are their dormitories. Here you see their gardens, their museum, iheir work shops, their school rooms; here their gymnasium, where they excercise themselves in wet weather; here their stream of running water where they bathe everyday; study is their employment, bodily I tbor their recreation nut t.o.iny xernon l insist upon. There is no health, no vigor of mind, no virtue without it. Those persons grown to manhood, who arc mixing with tho hoys, are placed by me to observe every action, and catch every expression. My grand object is to comprehend thorougniy me cuararier ui my punil-, in order that 1 may work more 1 I .1 'IM pnif.acious v imou mem. i ocm persons are by no means considered as spies by die boys ihey are their companions. At Hofwyl all that is not in itself wrong is permiied. I never like to forbid a thing when 1 am unable to assign a reason for doing so. It creates a con fusion in young minds with regard topiinciple a thino most dangerous to their future happiness. We have no boundary mark, yet my boys stay at home. We interfere not with their pleasures, yet they cling to their duty. "Within this enclosure is my elj i aesieiiiiiginri pin ii mi is. m . i l,... .1 c.- , i She has about a hundred under her I

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direction, who are fed and clothed v the establishment. To these cf.o .lnvfiiPs her entire time. They loom nil thru in nfter life will be of service to them: to clean the house --to cultivate the garden; to sew; l(,Ul" W" to make all those little necessaries which are ol so much importance in the cottage; to read; to sing; to be happy. Unless our women be brought up in modesty, and with industrious and religious habits, it is ; VAn ihat we educate the men. It is they who keep the character of men in its proper elevation. Here is my school for the middling classes; here all instruction has reference to practical purposes. Alan was born to have dominion over the earth, and to subdue it; but it is by the intellect alone that he eandoso. His unassisted strength what is it ? To conquer nature he must understand her. Look in here, and you will see the laboratory ol the chemist, ami the loer and the pulley of the mechanic. "In these two buildings are my poor schools for boys,who are boarded and clothed by the establishment. And well i hey earn their mainlainance, f r the little fellows work ten hours a day in the summer; and the expense that I incur in their behalf is nearly repaid by their exertions. They study for two hours in each day, and this I consider sufficient. The case here is the reverse of the institute, for bodily exertion is the labor,and study the recreation. The habits I bring them up w ith aie those which I tiesire should continue with them through life; they consequently have reference to their probable position in society. The habit of continued study would ill become a person destined to gain his livelihood by his hands. Although there are now one hundred hoys assembled here, mine w ere but small beginnings. 1 had but one pupil at first. It was long before I could find a master in whom I could confide. Do you observe ihoe little patches of garden ground ? Each poor lad has one to himself; and the produce belongs exclusively to l.im. They usually dispose of it to the establishment, which either pays them the money at thelime,or lodges it for them in a little bank 1 have founded. Many of them have very considerable sums there. It is hero that they obtain a habit of pasM'ng the greater portion of their time in continued and patient labor ; ihey become acquainted wilh the value of labor by the produce of ibeir hide ".aniens. I lie instruction that I give them,ahhiiugh somewhat more elevated than what is ir.-nerally obtained by persons ol I ilu-ir r:nh in hie. is directed to tin rendering perfect the senses and re flection to make them better prac hical men ; drawing, the sciences of arithmetic and geometry, a useful selection from the other sciences, ;,; taught in the most unostentatious manner; the history of their native country, and an acquaintance wnh the different natural objects around them, together with music, form the extent of their literary instruction "Religion is inculcated in every way. Public prayer, both at churcl and at school, is regularly perform e,j jn common wilh the schools of other countries. Besides this, thesi poor lads are taught to see the cr ;,tor in his works. When their ad miration is roused by a natural object, they are accustomed to di ren meir thoughts to its maker. But here," said my venerablt eomnamon. s me enome tniui which I rely lor effecting the moral regeneration of my country (and my attention was directed to die men w hom I had before seen in tin morning) these are masters of vil lage schools, come here to imbibe my principles and lo perfect thetni .1. I MM. selves in meir ouiv. i nese men have -six thousand pupils untlei them ; and if, by the bb ssing of God. I can continue the direction of them. succ ess is certain." To insure success, M . de Fel i Minerg spnres no nains no expensc. There are no less than

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thirty-txvo prwfeo.ssol, ly .ievon o to his establishment, w ho inhabit a house to tuemselves upon me mises. In all, there are about three hundred and fifty individuals in this little colony. Despite of his enemies the spirit of De Fellenberg is spreading throughout Switzerland ; and after having seen the parent institution,! visited several of his establishments in some of the remotest cantons. A week closed my short soj .urn at Ilofwvl. I quilled it with a hea vy heart; and the recollection of the moral beauty of what I then witnessed will remain riveted on my memory forever. GEN. HARRISON. "77e signs of the times" plain ly indicate the hero of the I hames as the popular and successful can didate for the next presidency. When we contemplate bis great moral worth his nunahle private character his courage and mihta ry talents as a soldn r his services in the tented field during the late war his victorious campaigns against the combined forces of the British regulars and the irregular savages; his unostentatious and retired mode ot life; "lid above all, his humility and republican simplicity, in filling the respectable but humble office of a clerk to a county court all, all, designate him as the man whom his fellow citizens will delight to honor. What has Van Buren done to deserve the suppt.it of the yeomanrv of the United States? Himself a man of the most effeminate ami aristocratic manners in w hose bosom dwell no sympathies with the people around him, but w hose w hole life has been nent in saloons and drawing rooms, paying obsequiou court, to those above him, and re reiving the incense of sickening flattery from his dependents am admirers. The verv sight ol a bat lie, or the report of a cannon, wool r throw linn into a paroxism ol fear and trembling. Cologne water is far more grateful to his senses than gunpowder. In short, should lit succeed to the presidencv.he wouh establish a court of etiquette quite as severe and formal as any of tin pampered, festering and rotten mo narehiesof the old world. Let it be remembered that the Hither of gen. Harrison, was one o the immortal signers ohhe declara don of independence. Thai, dur die last war, when Van Buren was intriguing for office, and supporting De Witt Clinton one day, and de nnuncing him as a tlaiifud conven tionist die next, gen. Harrison was exposing his lite to the enemy's tom ahawk and scalping knife on tin . I . j' .: ti not in we.su rn iromier. Harrison is not only a brave soldier, but a good scholar; van Buren is neither. IT . . I . . rt . riarrison seeiis nominee, ins coun trymen call upon him to take il.Van Buren has done nothing a his life but ask ask fr nfficeoffice more office ! Albany, New 1 orK,Uazrlic. SECRETARY OF MICHIGAN. The Globe, of this morning, announces the following appointment by the president: John S. Horner, of Virginia, secretary of the teirilory of Miclug m Charles Slider, of I'ennsylvania, having declined the appoint ment. The Globe learns that Mr. Horner has ac cepted the appointment, and Ihat he is now on his w..y to Detroit. The Globe gives as a reason lor he president's neglect, in these important times to Michigan, to annoim a governor oi me territory, the refusnl of the r.i . ' - rr - senate lo confirm the nomination of Mr. Gilpin, and the understanding that the territory was about lo change its form of government, and mat tne pe pie were not desirous ofhav mg a new governor appointed for so short a period as that which would intervene before ihey were admitted into the union, when they could choose their own governor. Baltimore I'atrtotf September 15. A1ICI1IGAN WAR. After four days military occupation of Toledo, the Mtchigin army from 1200 to 1500 strong, and comunnded by ex governor M ison and general Brown, in person, evacuated the town on Wednesday morning, 9th September, and dispersed to their homes, having gained no other laurels in the campaign than the destruction of gardens and orchards, me snooung of horses and hogs, and some petty depredations on the office of the Toledo Gazette. Ohio State Journal.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1835. The publishers have sent to this office a copy of the Illinois Farmer's Almanac, for 1836; it makes twenty-four pages, duodecimo, and is well filled, with valuable matter, chiefly relating to the geography and population of that state, including also the Wabash counties of Indiana. Published by E. T. and C. Goudy, Jacksonville, Illinois. WABASH COLLEGE. The closing week has been one of unusual interest in this place. The evenings of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, were devoted to exercises connected with the first annual exhibition of Wabash college . The president of the institution was expected to have been present, but has not yet arrived. The address of Dr. E. Deming, of Lafayette, on Monday evening, as orator for the Philomathean society, was very cordially received, and is considered a happy effort, giving honor to its author, and to our literature. That of H. S Lane, Esq., for ihe Western Literary society, on Tuesday evening, showed much freedom and originality, and was also much admired. The Philomathean orator dwelt, as a leading theme, upon a proper, thorough, "American can education," recommending the deep study of the classics, together wilh the natural sciences, and noticing briefly the objections of the Grimke school. The plan proposed by the other, embraces great variety and usefulness, and would make, to say the least, an excellent Indiana education. Arrangements are made to publish both, in pamphlets, as soon as suitable paper can be procured. The exercises of Wednesday evening were, original orations by students in the college, as follows: Usefulness of writing, by J. W. Allen, of Lafayette; abuse of talent, R. W. Allen, Montgomery county; military institutions of our country, R. Jones, Crawfordsville; liberty of the press, T. S. Milligan, Montgomery county; influence of early trials in the formation of character, T. J Newberry ry, Crawfordsville; the insufficiency of mere knowledge, to the preservation of civil liberty, S. N. Steel, Owen county; connection of intelligence with independence of character, S. S. Thomson, Crawfordsville; - all of whom acquitted themselves in a manner to elicit the admiration of the audience. The house was finely lighted and wel filled each evening, and the music of a well organized amateur band gave animation throughout. CIRCUIT COURT. The Circuit court for Montgomery county closed its session yesterday. Several interesting cases of criminal conversations and slanders were decided; among the former was one, Shipp versus Croy, in which the defendant was mulct for irve hundred dollars and costs; in one of the latter verdict was for plaintiff, thirty-eight dollars, and in another, one cent, which last was promptly tendered, in court. POST OFFICES In Montgomery county, Indiana. Crawfordsville, Blakesburgh, Pleasant Hill, Waveland Parkersburgh, Waynetown. Editors throughout the state would confer a favor on the community at large, by publishing a list of the post offices in their districts, and copying from others. Post masters and publishers of papers, would do well by writing the name of the county on the wrapper. [The above is published by request, for the reason assigned that packages for this county frequently take a roule down south west, and papers for the east side of the state occasionally come to this place.] MARRIED - On Thursday evening last, by the rev. Amasa Johnson, Mr. Wesley Figg, of Shelby county, Kentucky, to Mrs. Melvina Pottinger of this county. ICE HOUSES.

A writer in the New England -U- AIr. Dickerson's Printing Press ManFarmer gives the following direc- ,1,I,:,c.,ory' a Stereotype Fonndry. .ions lor the construction of an ice S.PVL8!

house: "I have an ice house which is built on a gravelly knoll. I dug a pit, say from 8 to 12 inches longer .1 t . i i .i r f ban I intended the frame, and about 8 feet below the surface, and with the gravel, which came out ol the pit, I raised it about 2 feet. Mvfn.no n in rui !, a V, , : ; ' w ,w,,?t tr wme, anil lUleetfleep. I pbinked it up with two inch hemlock planks. aim filled tin; space on the outside, which was from 8 to 12 mcbes,wiih lau, rammed it down as fast as I planked it up. till I came to the ton of the frame. I then put on rafters

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as tight as it could be rammed in. then shingled the rool. The ends were boarded up, with a door at each end, for the convenience of filling the house. My house holds about 6 cords. I fill it with square pieces ol ice, as close as 1 can pack them. I put nothing between the layers ol ice, nor no the sides, nor do I break any in pieces to fill up the stiaces except broke n pieces that will not make stowage, l nave- nlleil the house to the top of the frame. I then fill the roof with shavings, and ram them down as tight as I can, 1 have no difficulty in keeping my ice, ami have spareei us we have used, and have often bad ice in the house when we ch ar it for filling afresh. 1 think shavings are better than straw, as they will not rota soon by the dampness. I go to the ice bouse at anytime of the! day. Under the planK at me hoitoni,l rounded out a place lengthwise, about a foot deep, sloping to. wards the middle, like an egg cut in two lengthwise, which I think is sufficient to receive all the water that will waste from the ice." GEN. HARRISON. The following testimony to tho early military merit of gen. Win. If, Hurrisou, which wc have no doubt was well deserved, we copy from a Pennsylvania paper: Nat. Int. Extract of a letter from major general Anthony Wayne, dated August 28, 1791, to the secretary of war, detailing the battle in which lie had just then conq tered the Indians. "The bravery and good conduct of every officer belonging to ihti army, from the general down lo the ensigns, merit my highest approbation. There were, however, some, whose rank and situation placed I heir conduct in a very conspicuous point of view,nnd which I observed wilh pleasure and the most lively gratitude: among whom I mua beg leave to mention brig. gen. Wilkinson, and col. H itntramckr the commandants of the right and left wings of the legion, whose brave example inspire d the troops: to these 1 must add the names of tny Jaithful aid-dr-cmnpst, captains De Butts and I wis, and If. HARRISON, who, with theju ji. gen. maj. Mills, rendereil the most essential service by communicating my orders, in every direction, niief lit? llldir finndilnl ir.) I ... .v2 . , : J 1 wl r,r! IUI "-""Jvoviiiciiui'opoH wnom meceun- . , F ' . ... rnaiKi oi me cavalry now devolved, cut down two savages wilh bis own hand, and U. Webb one, in turning the enemy's left flank." C. GKEGOKY &. CO. lake this method of informing their frienda W, aro jn arrears with ihem, whose notes dnd account? are now due, that they must be paid soon. m n tv , "f vw6? money mar therewith to do it without male, .M. lions of our friends. R, C, G. & CO ugusi o, joo?. jj TAKEN UP, by William Hillman ofChrfc township, Montgomery county, la a brown Jnare 4 years old, star in her forehead, two lflee! wlliJe' 144 an!3 hih appraised to S.tO: also a liav ntiwl nlt ... u u Iu,.Vh II L II I I, small bell on without flmv. . : i . hWdoriarsand fin, centTi 'A John Kelly, before me. JOHN P. ROUTH An...i On 1 nor ' nugu,,,, I4 STEREOTYPE rnnrmn rmHE subscriber has. i n dinner f liifi I. stanlly on hand, CUTS of a superior quality, 'eaffei Reglets, Plates for priming Blanks ftFMErr,? LrPA,T? FoR1GRAV; IMG, &c; all of which he can a fiord lo uai cheaper than , hey can be bought any where in the Western Country, for cash, or in exclj;,nge rr '.Ve at y cents per pound, MATRIN Al BARNEY, . wncinnau, umo. January JUth, 1835. Taken up, by John D. Schooley. of Walnut towtislup, Montgomery county, Indiana, an eslray iron gray horse, supposed to be seven years old about fifteen hands high; siod beiore; considerably saddle marked; no other brands or marks (NTcetvable; appraised to 40 dollars by S;unnel Sclxnley and Moses Kim