Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 22, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 October 1835 — Page 2

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persons. We are at present in a state of civil war. If you can get any volunteers to come down you will confer a great favor on an unprotected people. We on this side of the river are in a stale of defence, enough to protect ourselves in the small way, but we have only one barrel of powder on hand at present No more, hut remain, yours respectfully, WM. L. WEAVER.

Immediately on the reception of the letter, trie vice agent called the inhabitants together, and proceeded to make arrangements to succor JEdina, which, it was supposed, ill .tit i I wou d be auackec, by the savage and blood-thirsty foe. For which purpose letters were despatched to the settlements up the river,announcingthe fact,& requesting thai each would furnish its quota ofmen,and have them ready to embark from this place by 12 o'clock on the following day, and by six o'clock on the following morning, sixty men from Caldwell, New Georgia, and this place, were ready to proceed to the assstanco of their brethren. The distance to Millsburg being much greater, the volunteers did not reach this till late in the afternoon. About 9 o'clock, A. M.the English brig St. Lucia, capt. Rawlins, trading from Liverpool, arrivrd llankinsoti and ono wnun Snvn,l hnnlif,, Ktr Vw hnc lu? ""rr , vv v. iiiii lit ' t -1 1 1 i n i 1 1 i 1 1 1 1) r inn: ..v-wov. muvii uiu ruimess uenus were passing like a destroying angel through the place. The intelligence received from Mr. II. pointed out the propriety of adopting some method thai would enable the vice agent to supply Edina with provisions. To do which, as the stock on hand was small, it was necessary to reduce the number of men intended to be sent to fifteen, who sailed on the 15th for Edina.' On the IGdi the brig Ruth, captain Taylor, arrived from Little Bassa, bringing Mr. Pinney, who at the time of the massacre was about 18 miles up the river,ata place selected for a missionary location. The intelligence by Mr. Pinney is still more painful. A letter from I). W. Whitehurst,esq., (at Edina) written subsequently to Mr. Weaver's, states the number killed at 27, in addition to some that have died since of wounds. From this number, however, must be deducted the three brought up in the St. Lucia. Mr. and Mrs. Hankinson owe their preservation to tho fidelity of a Krooman, who protected them wnue ihe merciless savages were dealing death to all around. As soon as an opportunity offered, the Krooman conducted them to his own town, whence they were taken off by captain Rawling, and kindly brought to this place. What was tne immediate cause of the attack we have not been able to learn, but we have no hesitancy in believing that the smallest show of military preparation would have prevented the attack. But the principle on which the colony was founded is one that forbids every thing like military preparation, consequently they fell an easy prey to the villainous savages. With all deference to the opinions of men, in almost every thing our superiors in wisdom, we beg leave on this subject to differ. anu we iiunK our intercourse with the natives, and consequent knowledge of their disposition and habits, entitle us to llus privilege. We, as much as any one on earth, abhor and deprecate the effusion of human blood, but wo are conscious the way to prevent it is not to be Unprepared to resist the natives, butraiher the most certain method vnnn"kR a Such isthedastardknowleritTfwtr ."""nig nut a uui oi torsigners, win Keep them to the terms ot any compact made with them A colony established without the -neaw of defending itself, becomes x.e, from the force of their cuvptation to robbery and ttheraseeanexhibi-

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lion of military equipment, the slightest preparation lor defence, and iheir dastardly souls, like a a humble spaniel, will succumb into most willing obedience. The Herald of July 31st has the following additional intelligence: Native tear to ihe windward Hostilities are still kept up between the interior tribes, and ihose inhabiting the sea coast between this place and Cape Mount. However they may disagree on some points they seem to bo agreed on one, that they will not risk the issue on any thing like a general engagement.

Many motives concur to determine v.v, in una wai tii-uiui : tint lheir unconquerable aversion lobe their conduct in this particular; and mg tound in front of a loaded mus ket, is no doubt one of the most powerful. They have no idea of dying by a ball, when any means or expedients can be devised to prevent it. in itns we confess considerable sympathy with them. These feel ings being common to both parties they remain in iheir respective ter ritories, interdicting all intercourse. and content themselves by indulging a heathenish silence, and falling upon such unprotected individuals as may imprudently stray too far from their folds. The effects of this savage taciturnity on the part of the cynical chiefs have been severely feh by the colony. Bv it all egress and regress by the I i . . . v uan "e trade, as it were, locked "P "e interior. . We are hannv to state that it is at length finding its way down the Mcsurado, by a route hitherto untraveled. Another most convincing proof that the most effectual method to beo-ot a love of honorable industry andperseverance in the natives is to excite a taste for the comforts of civilized life. But for this desire they would have remained at home, gnawing cassado year after year, until thensulky headmen should consent to make peace, and it is no uncommon occurrence for them to indulge for years in this stoical mood. From die agitated state of the country, we had concluded that articles of offence and defence would be in great demand. But it was erroneousthey wanted principally tobacco, doth, and beads, a demand unusual in such an exigence. Will some wise one inform its what it augurs? Later from Liberia. A private letter was received in this city yesi " ,VM" Ul seiners at Monrovia, under date of August loth, from which ihe following extracted : "We have had to goto war with the natives of this country a few a)s ago. About 120 settlers a gainst 2000 or thereabouts of na lives. Uur cause was such a just one, that the Almighty enabled us to conquer and burn their towns down o ashes. They are still engaged, ui uui in ims place where I am uui m HiUinn, about sixty or seventy miles from this. Volunteers had to go down to fight this battle. It was a nard light, but we conquered without the loss of a man." The above letter was written bv an emigrant from this city, to on of Ins friends hete, and gives information fifteen days later than previous accounts. Richmond (Fa.) The famous Albigensis, a body of musicians, one hundred in number, are about to embark for this country from Leghorn.-Acto Orleans Ado. T ft. I uimUl 1 1 n ncn discovery made in the excava r n ! ciiiimunccs a . ... uimjeu. m tne house of ineotratladi Mercuno , that of Meleager, a building of small importance, although decorated with subtn rice, at ha umni pit rtn arcissus and Endymion painted on the wall, he found four leen silver vessels and a quantity of v-uiu, among winch were tvventynme gold pieces of the first empire, also two silver vases five inches in diameter, ornamented with cupids chanalmn emblems.

EIGHT DAYS LAI ER from FRANCE. New York, Oct. 6. Bv the arrival of the packet ship

Sulley, captain Forbes, from Ha vre, whence she sailed on the 2d oi September, the editors of ihe Com mercial Advertiser have received iheir files of Paris papers to the 1st, and ot Havre, to the 2d, inclusive. We give translations as copious as! time will permit. FRANCE. The report of the commission charged with the examination of ihe new jury law,was read in the chamber of peers on Saturday the 27th of August. The debate upon it commenced on Tuesday the first of September. In the chamber of deputies, on the29th,an amendment to the 13th article of the law relative to the press, was adopted, fixing the amounts to be deposited as security by the proprietors of each journal. as follows: In Paris, for papers issued more man twice a week, 100,000 fr. semi-weekly, 75,000 fr. weekly, 50,000 fr. monthly, 25.000 fr. It In the departments, for papers in towns containing more than fifty thousand inhabitants, 25,000 francs, and 15,000 fr. in towns containing R less than that number. A delav of four months is granted, within w hich proprietors of journals are to fulfil these requisitions. The 11th article was also adopted, providing that one third of the sum deposited, shall be the private property of the responsible editor. Also, the 15th, requiring the editor to sign each number of his journal, under the penalty of h orn 500 to 3000 francs. Also, the lGth, requiring every article offered by the governmenrjn answer to cne pre- . i . . . i

viously published, to be inserted greatly to the splendor of our pargratuitously on the day after its re-! ades. We are informed that a

ception, provided it be not more than twice as fong as that to w hich it is a replyin which case the excess to be paid fir as an advertisement. Also ihe I7th, providing for the insertion of all official documents, on payment of the expenses, on the day after they are handed in. Also, the t8th, providing that in case of the conviction of an editor for an offence under this law, the journal shall not be published, except under another editor, who has fulfilled all the prescribed conditions. The 3d title of the law, relative to pictures, and so forth,and the -lib regulating llieatres and nlnvs u-t.rn alsoadopted,after a Jong discussion, by large majorities. The first twelve articles were ndopted on the 28th, with but little discussion and by large majorities the struggle having been reserved lor that establishing the tariff of security. The arrest of a man named Pepin, on the 29th, is spoken of as an important measure. He issnidfJ be the person who supplied Fieschi with money for the purchase of his murderous implements. It appears, however, that he escaped the nnvl day from the very hands of the ponue. It is said that nrince Tnllev will speak acainst the law rpfntivo to the press, when it comes before the chamber of peers. More ol the prisoners rpromlv tried by the chamber of peers have made their escane thR whnln nm her, at the latest dale, who had ant away, was thirty-two. iW, August 28. M. Jaffrenou, editor of the IleformntP.,r yesterday found guilty by the court oi assizes ol instigating an attempt -w.t..i..,iMv,,,B government, and tuning me citizens to arm them selves against each other, by an ar cu.t- jMiuusnea may J, on the in consistency of ihe court of peers He was sentenced to flmr months' imprisonment and a fine ofGOOO irancs, which will be merged in the previous judgments pronounced against the Reformateur. PORTUGAL. The advices from Lisbon are no later than the 8th of August Tr i stated that the new ministrv is nin I i"g popularity, andZKS;

was tranquil except ilu royal p d-l lal tat '

ace,wnicn was agiiaied by disagree ments between the queen ami her mother. Rumor assigned another husband to the young queen in the person of a pi ince of Saxo Cnbourg, nephew of ihe king of Belgium. As it should be. A case was tried last week at Montreal, before the chief justice and a special jury, which excited considerable interest. It w as an action for two thousand dollars damages against a person named Trudeau, for driving his cart against ihe gig of ihe widow Starke, by which she was thrown out and severely injured. The jury gave a verdict of four hundred dollars damages. This is as it should be,and we hope it may have a salutary effect. Nitcs. Philadelphia lancer guard. We were lately much gratified by the inspection of the uniform of a new corps of cavalry now raising under ihe above name, and recom mend it to the notice of all who feel an interest in military costume. The dress consists of a coat of a rich maroon cloth faced with buff, pantaloons of crimson with a stripe oi nun on the outside seams, and a helmet of the lancer shape, theskull ot beaten brass, and the crest of crimson with a radiance of silver in front surrounding a golden eagle, the plume is of snowy white drooping gracefully from'the front peak of the cap, forming together ihe most elegant and fanciful costume we have seen. The lanc e to be carried by the corps, will be polished steel with a light ash shafrr decorated with a crimson streamer. This species of iroops is a novelty in the city, and, ifgotten up with snirit. will n!,l i oiisnotncer ol lancers is engaged tgivethe necessary instruction in me management ol the lance and the use of ihe sabre. U. 8. Gaz Young; Marcy,tho convict d convent rioter, has hem nardoiwd bv di e acting governor and council of Massachusetts. recent discoveries at Pompeii, has been found a copper Zw, constructed of ihe same shape, as : those? now in use; also, a bed with ivory posts. Opening of the port of Singapore lo American vessels. h is well known to merchants, that, for several years past, the question whether American vessels have a rmht to trade directly with Sinaapore, has often been mooted, hm never so far cleared upaflirmntivelv as to constitute a safe basis of anion tor shipowners. Accordingly, fr the most part, Amnrimn v"..i.. have either kept aloof from the trade "im Singapore, or have carried it on through the neighboring dutch port of Uh.o. This, of co.nU u attended with much inrnnvpn;0 and delay, besides the expense of r1 1,11 c c. In one or two usances, American vessels have ventured trie consequences of a di rect iracie; and m one at least. r prosecution was entered, which, al.wUB inunea in favor of the defendant, was, nevertheless, a source of great inconvenience and loss, and has, so far as we areaware, effectually deterred others irom simimr jm . . , j. ne mer chants and people of Singapore have always been favorable to the nirectlrade; but, until the del prmi. nhl,M,0t,the Brilish government should be known, thev were unable my tiling more than petition ir existinrohtnloQ i r existinjiobstaclps in lo rU,n..,i We are happy tostate that ihianh. j'Ttisat lengih accomplished, and il .'Itnorienn trade direcdv with Sin f.. mnv nnttr jrorn any hindrance or inter run. ! Ilt.ii.v. k? " iiiiormauon to mis rltect is coniamect in a letter of May 7(h from Mr.Balestier, American consul at Singapore, to a commercial dl ?m8P.rp to commercial &LU?

"I now hire 'ho pleasure to inf. rm v.n that yesterday 1 ntmr.1 fr, . , ve ; f copy of a despatch fn m the court ,.f direc'irs in London, saying hat inasmuch . s g ir. pore had been united under tl.r 8 u g, , merit with Penang, to wl ul, p. n LUr vV-ts had acquired a riy lit to trade by :!. convention of 1815, it was right to colder us at liberty to trade here, as well as at the other principal settlements, such us Calcutta, Mad-

ras, uomoay, and renang. And so the port is free to us! I have availed nivslf of ilw. circumstance, (which, by the by, from good authority I had before anticipated,) in favor oi i lie ortg ivlwin, Millett, ot Salem, whoso. cargo 1 nave had landed in the port there wing ai u,e time a king's ship in it, which so tar Irom vexing, offered me anv assistance, we might want. This morning the ship Marmora, of Boston, arrived from China." N. Y.Jour. ofCom. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. We would willingly have avoided publishing ,he letter of Mr. Alams, which appears in our columns to-day; but as it finds a place tn every newspaper, and moreover forms no uninteresting incident in the politics of the. day ,t would savor of affectation in us to withhold it Irom the reade.s of this journal in giving it a place in our columns, we feel called upon to make one, and only one, remark. With the congratulations which Mr Adams is pleased to offer to Mr. Pearce, on his victory over Mr. Burgess, we have nothing to do; in that he has exercised a rioht confmon to every citizen: and neitheron the manner nor the occasion of its exercise, in this instance, do we feel it to be our province to animadvert. But as members of the whir party, and amongst the sinceresl of llje sunporters of Mr. Adams, so long as he was a candidate for the chief magistracy, we feel the unkmdness with which that party is spoken of by him; and we must say, that, whatever may be its faults, it is chargeable with, no infidelity to him, and at Jijs hands merits rebuke or censuro least of all, FROM THE BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISED MR. JOHN Q. ADAMS. The Newport Herald of the Times ptrKhs cs the following remarkable letter, from M Adams ,o Mr. Pearce, the late Jackson can! tTr u,,nde ,S,an(,ad succtul competitor against Mr. Buries be wh.g candHlate. The p:,r,y which m Alla ns describes as having leen s,ngaUn for the last two years to break down M? Pearce, is i, same which struggled with thes.me z,al, when Mr. Adams was last a can. didate foi: the presidency, to elect him lo that otbee and with ,he s;,me succcss jn ,J)e 'bough, hey succeeded in obtaining for him the vote ot their own. state. Dev., : ' H... a Co,,v f,'0 i,0- . ... 1 .. .. X i i n ' he f- ( it-ly :.l,ila.-its t Mr. ' y ur :i;uni.g r tios.at i " IM m , i - - : 1 1 i r j M: IVV'T--:ir t; s. - J i. .! in; .n. !!', i:;j oi viiincy re t;.t s.' -U., Cornell repreavnted tin ltl acceptance, alsr, i.f ;1 ; , , the proceedings of ii tht c,i.i ..I I 1 ... t! CUiJICM aiHl S(tCICtV Ml t ho . .i cent settlement ,fa colleague to their pai-,r after thirty-five ye.-,rs of futhful service bv him in this land of desolations f heartily congratulate you'upon your reelection to congress. Although' upon many important puhhc measures I differed " wfcc i in opinion from you in the last congress, and although I do no. flatter myself that we shaVl agree much better in the next, I am yet convinced that the party which has been thesi wo years struggling lo break you down the r.ase .mpnd;,f Hartford convent ion f ! and royal arch masonry, i3 So JoZ ' - Mh the cniruption of both its e emen J ja" In, wn joytho v e, 0IJ jm,aat over i . 1 rejoice also that the people havo -g..rd , , ,J(,slic d by thesaSpar J llf ,1 turned h?m to n o i,ea,d Mr. Bnrges compla.n (hat thev have used it even wi.h him, t is their L. 7 and their vocation. I welcome the S - ..ullf as a pieage that the r chalice - returning to their own lips. They be t ayed Mr Barges, by not electing him to the senate of ihe United States. Their own organ S Prov.dence, charges the Ioss 0f his elScUon 0 the house, upon their treachery. So wTi it be, and so mote it always be. Thev havL no honest principle to keep them together I! 1 heir only cement is a sympathy of hatred to every man of purer principle" than them elve friendvf , himSelf' 1 chsh a friendly feeling; for, governed as he is by impulses, and bitter as be is in the indulgence of his sarcastic humor, he J,.:S bri!i?nt parts, a classical taste, occasional flights of eloque-ce and too much honesty for h?s ninv q S 1 y regretted the division h' i',:' 7 you, and lamented still more 1 ec tioneenng speeches nnino. n e,ec Lumblo opinion, DiibliV m .. in selves hvnpr,.,i L.Z' . uc,J,,5e nemebase wuici. me oepositar es ftr n. i should be ashamed to ZlJ J 'C, omer. ii)e j , titciiuneert nj? a pam st .,rscavencera of a party Mr n GS lhCl himself to J, l; t Mr; Bure8 s'lfTered he belonged. VerUlJ have paid him in kind. d Fhey 1 have taken as much interest in tl , "ince llic exchement on lire ms . ' vmy l,3 S(, lnud, ifluenmce u ''T " Vl,a, ,ho p,,lhic3 of ,!,e s,a,e m,, "h ler, or wl,at voun, in conreS, ill 1 1. J, will, great Kgard DriTrr. T i.. Adams, J ahce. esq., Newporf.R.1

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