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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY I. F. WADE, At two dollars per annum payable in advance, or within three months after the time of subscribing; two dollars and fifty ter the year expires. No paper will be discontinued unless at our option without special notice and .payment of all arrearages. Advertisements, not exceeding twelve lines in length, will be inserted three times for one dollar: and twentvfive cents lor each subsequent insertion. Advertise ments, for a limited time, or from a dis tance, must be paid for in advance; otherwise they will be continued at the expense of the advertiser. Letters on business must be post-paid. POETIC A L. WOMAN. BV JAr.IES STEWART, OF ARMACH, IRELAND. When half creation's works were done. Just formed the stars, the glowing sun. And softly blushing skies; And wide across earth's dewy lawn, Gleamed the first glances of the dawn, And flowers began to rise. Clad in her robes of tender green, Nature, delighted, viewed the scene, Pleased with each novel form; And from each sweetly op'ning flower, From hill and vale and shadowy bower, She called some lovely charm. Soft o'er the lily's glowing white. Tinged with the trembling ray of light, She shed the rose's flush; Just as the first-born morning gale, Light breathing o'er the spicyvule, Deepened its virgin blush. She d rew the diamond from the mine, And lustre from the stars that shine Amid the cloudless sky; And purest pearls obscurely spread In ocean's dark and gloomy bed, Remote from mortal eye. She took the balmy violet's blue, The sweet carnation's mellow hue, Rich with the tear of night; Though the young beam of rising day Had melted half that tear away, In the first stream of light. And now in elegance arrayed, Her last, her fairest work she made, Almost a seraph's frame: To animate this form was given A gentle spirit sent from Heaven, And Woman was her name. Then on her softly smiling face She lavished every winning grace, And every charm was there; Upon her eye the violet's blue, Upon her cheek the rose's hue, The lily every where. Yes, on that eye was seen to play The lustre of the stellar ray, The diamond's humid clow; She threw, to form her bosom's globe, Life's tender flush and Beauty's robe, On the wreath of virgin snow. Then Woman's lips in smiles withdrew Their veils of rich carnation hue, And pearls appeared beneath; And blest Arabia seemed to pour The perfumes of its spicy store, To mingle with her breath. Hark! hark ! she speaks, and silver strains. Melodious floating o'er the plains, A nameless joy impart! The nightingale hath caught the tone, And made that melting voice his own, That vibrates uu the heart. Fond Nature cast her glance around The glowing sky, the llow'ry ground, The day-d ffusing sun; On Woman last, her darling child, She gazed; and said with accent mild, "Creation's work is done." VALUABLE CARGO. The hull of the steamer, Uuncle Sam, left here on Sunday last, for New Orleans, in tow by the Samson. She is owned by Messrs. Dunn and Watts, who reside near this place, and is the largest hull ever Joaded at cur wharf. Her cargo consists of 150 tons of hay, 400 barrels corn meal, 2000 sacks shelled corn, 300 head of cattle, 100 hogs. 4 horses, and 2000 bushels .of corn in the ear. Estimated value of the cargo, twenty thousand dollars. We -wish our enterprising neighbors a safe trip aad good markets. Laicrcnccburgh Palladium. A deputation of twenty-seven Ottowa and Chippewa chiefs and delegates are now in this city for the purpose of treating for the cession of their lands within the state limits of Michigan. They have been kindly received by the president, who has referred the subject of their business to the secretary of war. We understand the portion of country which it is proposed to purchase, is of high value, and that it is probable a cession of it may be obtained on terms advantageous to them, and to the United States. IVasftington Globe,

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CRA WFOR Fmmtlie Western Monthly Magazine. THE PATRIOTS GRAVE Mr. editor: As your JMagazine seems to ho devoted to western lit jcraiure, I hope the following sketch ' will he acceptable. As a classical . pi odllction, no merit is claimed for hut is thought that the tads it I . -n,0. . j contains w ill he interesting to those ! who love to "Catch our tnmncrs, living ns they rise." In the year 1810, bu siness called me into the lower part of the state of Kentucky that part which 1 es south of Green river, ami which at the time, was hut little advanced in improvement or population. One day and a very hot dav it was die rapid approach of a thunder storm, induced me to rein up m steed at a log tavern, in the town ol . Though a stranger in ihe country,! could at once discover, by the 'signs,' that something more than common was going on in the village. A large number of people were crowded round the door ol the inn. Horses ot all sizes, colors, and conditions, whose equipments were as various as themselves, were tied to ihe trees, thai still grew upon ihe public square. The occasional discharge ol a rille, indicated that some of the company were 'culling the centre' for half pints; while others, who had ihe 'best quarter nags in all Kentucky,' were prancing ihem up and down the streets. The conversation of those around me, induced me lo believe that the court was holdin" its usual session in this backwoods seat of justice; and had a doubt remained, the stentorian voice of ihe hei iff, issuing from the door of a log school house, with ihe usual ,kOh yes! oh yes! oh yes!'' must have satisfied me that a general settlement of the rights of tncnm (t twin, was about to lake place. I felt a curiosity to witness this scene and having disposed of my portion of corn bread and bacon, which I found at a table sui rounded by a promiscuous throng of jurors, witnesses, suitors, lawyers, indictees, spectators, and county officers, I concluded to spend the little titne I had lo remain, in personally viewing the dispensation of justice in so rude a temple. The house was ofa single story, built of logs unhewed. The judge was elevated on a small plank frame, a linle raised above ihe puncheon floor. The clerk was placed at a small table directly before him. The members ot the bar were sealed around on temporary benches, made of rough planks, placed upon blocks of wood but could not be distinguished by iheii appearance, from the people who sat with or stood around them. The usual tortus and ceremonies of opening a court were gone through, w ith a celerity and preciseness that would have astonished a Westminster law-! yer. The first cause on the civil docket was an action of siander an old soldier and an early settler as "guardian and next friend," for words "falsely and maliciously ut-1 if I tered, published and spoken" by the defendant, "of and concerning" the plaintiff's daughter, a lovely girl of about seventeen. On the callino of the cause, a person's name was mentioned which I did not distinctly hear ; there was a bustle in the crowd; and after a few minutes of pushing and elbowing, an i idividnal appeared, who announced thai he was ready lo proceed, as a counsel for the plaintiff lie was a tall athletic man, of about thirty-five years of age with a fine, manly, intelligent countenance dressed in a hunting shirt, trimmed with a yellow fringe. His face bore those indubitable marks of genius, and those traces of study and reflection, which can not be mistaken while fiis fino form bore evidence, equally

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DSVILLE,. INDIANA, A strong, of habitual fatigue, rtnd ex posure to the e lements. I pass over ihe incidents of the trial the evidence which fully sustained the plaintiff, and left the pretty client of the buckskin lawyer, pure and spotless as the driven snow and several speeches, w hich, though strong and forcible, did not strike me as extraordinary. During all this, the manner of ihe stranger in the hunting shirt was distinguished by little else than an appearance ol indiflerence; when he arose to make die concluding address lo thejury, every eve was fixed upon him- while the deep sib nee, the suppressed breathing, and the eager looks of die audience,attesied that a sense of the presence of a superior mind pervaded the w hole assembly. Kvcn that rough and miscellaneous crowd composed of men, some sober, some half sober, and some not sober at all was at once awed into silence. The orator commenced in a low tone of voice, and .recapit ulated the evidence, in a style of colloquial brevity and plainness yet in doing this, there was a something about him that convinced ihe spectator that he was more than an ordinary man. But when he began to warm, and rise with his subject when ihe lire began to illumine his eve, and his voice swelled out into its fullest tones when every sentence was filled and rounded .i id) rich thought and richer langunge when argument and satire, persuasion and invective, burst from him in rapid alternative, ihe orator stooo confessed in all his powers. He spoke of the beauty, the delicacy, and die amiability of his fair client the helplessness of woman, and the sacreduess of die female character he described her parent as a warrior, now trembling on the hrink of the grave. And he spoke of thetradueer I can not tell how but all who beard him shrunk and trembled under the fierce and hitter and overwhelming phillippie of the indignant advocate. When he finished, the success of his effort was show n by a irinmpliant verdict from thejury, and by the indignation, the fears, and the acclamations of his audience-, w ho rushed from the house, w hen the orator sat down, as if unable to suppress their feelings. 1 followed diem out. The charm was broken; die people had resumed the use of their own faculties, and were now collected in groups. Parsing a little party, I heard one say 'Did you ever hear a fellow get such a sumnm! I 9" "It was equal to any eampjire" remarked another. "That's true, and well he deserved it," added a third, "there's no two ways aboui it." "Can you tell me," said I, addressing one of them, who leaned on his gun, w hile he wiped his eye w ith a fringe of his hunting shirt, "can you udl me die name of die person who has just spoken?" "You are not a resideiiter in meso paris,l reckon," said be of the jl rule. "That is well seen," rejoined the hunter, "oiherwise you would never have asked that question. What man in all Kcntuck could ever have hruttff tears in my eyes, by the tin full but Jo Daviess?" I had seen, in die guise of a hunter, ihe highly gifted Joseph Hamilton Daviess and had heard, in the obscurity ofa log cabin, one of die choicest efforts of a man who has seldom been excelled in genius, in generosity of heart, or manliness of character. Ten years afterwords, business again -called mo to the west. Anxious to view the improvement of ibis promising country, I extended mv iournev io the beautiful vallev of t J mi the Wabash. At that period the

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I II I L 1 G, 183G. population had not extended a "rent distance up the river. Here and there, even as fir up as the mouth of ihe IMississinaway, was seen the log hut ot ihe settler on public land nut the country was generally but sparsely populated. It was the spring season, and rm couulry in die world presents a richer scenery, or more diversified landscape, than die valley of that Jovely river, at this period of the year. A!on- the path which I pursued, one small prairie, skirled with the finest timber, and covered with a profusion of flowers, succeeded another; and die eye was eoniimi.illv mfn.ulwwl with the graceful stream and iis clear waters. The richness of the grass, die beauty of ihe forest, ihe mildness and brilliancy of the spring weather, and the enchantment of the whole scene, induced me to linger for a time in the wilderness. One evening I reached ihe cabin of one ot the most remote seiilers, and learning that the bat tle ground of Tippecanoe was but a few miles distant, I determined io visit it. On the follow ing morning, early, I reached the spot consecrated by die blood of your country, and having tied my horse to a bush at the skirl ol the prairie, ascended to a small plain of table land, in the form ofa horse shoe, where "M any a valorous deed was (bine, And manv a head laid low." But few vestiges of ihe battle were remaining. Here and there the bleached skull of some noble fellow lay on ihe urass. and more

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w hich had formed a part of the temporary breast work thrown up after die battle, and have since been scattered over the field. At an angle of the encampment, and where the carnage had been the greatest, was a slight mound of earth, scarcely raised above the surrounding surface. Near it stood an oak tree, on die baik of which the letters J. D. were rm;e!y carved. This was the only memorial of one of the most favored of Kentucky's sons ; for, under the mound, reposed all that remained of the chivalrous, generous , die eloquent and highly gifted "Jo Daviess." ITEMS FUOM NILES' REGISTER. There are before ihe Massachusetts legislature sixty petitions for New banks, with a capital of more than twenty-five millions of dollars. There is a large batch before the lesislaI lure of Maryland. It is stated that in one of the experimental trips on the Greenwich railway in England, ihe train of six carriages w.s conveyed ut ihe rate ofa mile a niinuie,or sixly miles an hour. This is annihilating space with a vengeance. Nantucket is going largely into ihe silk business. This is characteristic of ihe enter prise of those famous burners of ihe whale. The delicate fabric of the one employment is in singular contrast to ihe bold and daring d ingers which are associated with the other. Theie is io be erected at Nantucket, by ihe Atlantic Silk company, a steam silk factory, which is already in great forwardness. The New York American says: 'The grand jury have, as we understand, found lour bills of indiciment against th- journeyman tailois, for riot, and one bill ag unst Mb of the same individuals, for conspiracy. These indictments will be tried next month." Twelve hundred and twenty -five houses were erected in New York, during the year IS35. Eighteen pence a pound for choice cuts of beef. Two dollars for a good turkey. Eighteen pence a pound for North river bass. This is a land of plenty. N. Y. Star. Twelve thousand bushels of American! wheat, which had been carried to England, hounded there, and reexported to the city of New Yoik, were sold lust week at 1124 to 1 ifc! cents per bushel. Three men and thirty-four horses were consumed by fire, in New York; on the morning of the 16th March. The distress and agony of the horses, evinced by their deafening cries and contortions of body, were heartrending to the beholders, who were unable to render them assistance. A remarkableact. The church at Southhampton, Massachusetts, was org'uzed in 1743, and they have had but twar clergymen in all that time; the first serving a period of

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GO years, imd his successor still holding on. This speaks as much in favor of ihe congregation as of their pastors. Such instances of uninterrupted harmony are but too rare ia our country. Oak wood was sold in Philadelphia, last week, at twenty dollars a cord. The harbor had then been blockaded with ice for two months. It is now about six dollars. The Hudson (New York) Gazette says: "This day makes one hundred and eight days that I lie ground ha? been covered with snow; a thing, we may venture lo say, unknown in the history of America since its first settlement. We may reasonably expect, from present appearances, that the snow will last twenty days lunger." The Columbia (Pennsylvania) Peffiater says: "It any evidence in addition to our senses were wanting to prove ihe excessive seventy ot the present winter, the fact that many deer have been found dead in the woods. in the upper townships, in this county, is conclusive. TJiev are nenerallv found et. iug erect braced in the snow." An officer of iho Georgia volunteers who marched to fort King (Florida,) with general Clinch, writes as follows: -'To give somo idea of the scarcity at Fort King, I will menliou that three dollars were paid for one bis cuit, one dollar per trill for liquor: twentv dollars per gallon was ottered fur liquor, and would nave been given readily. 1 think in one instance one hundred dollars was offered for one gallon. Money was of no use, grog had usuiped its place, and would buy any iliing in the eating line. I offered a United States soldier twenty-five cents for lu3 cup of coffee, and he would not take it, but would have given it up instantly for a drink ot liquor. The generous fellow divided it with me and would not charge a cent. "Provisions had, however, become plentiful; supplies being furnished, at convenient points, by steamboats." Neto Orleans, Feb. 20. The ship Unicorn, .captain Lindspy, which has just arrived at this port from Trieste and Marseilles, has on board three jacks and three jennies, which, we understand, are beautilul animals of the ihe purpose of bringing them to this country for that public spirited individual, Henry Clay, esquire, to whom his adopted state is greatly indebted for this and other valuable acquisitions, accomplished without regard to labor or expense. Commercial Bulletin. The New York Ga zette says: "Yesterday was the eigthty eighth day since the awful conflagration which visited our city; and yet, in many places throughout the burnt district, the ruins are still smoking." HIGH PRICES IN THE WEST. We are informed, by an intelligent gentlemen from the west, that the prices of pork, wheat, and provisions generally, were nerer known so high as I hey are at this moment in Kentucky, Mississippi, and ihe adjoining states. Pork, for example, running alive in the stieeis, brings seven dollars a hundred; and wheat from two to three dollars a bushel. At Chicago, we have already known that pork was selling for twenty-five dollars a harrel Ai Louisville, Kentucky, and other places along ihe Ohio and Mississippi, we learn that the prices are equally exorbitant. The explanation given is ihis: During a few years past, the Atlantic states, in the south, have turned their attention to the more valuable cultureof cotton, lobacco, rice, and so forth; and meanwhile the western states have heen filling in to an almost incalculable extent, with the flood of emigration constantly setting in thai direction. Thus, Indiana, tv;o or three years since, contained about three hundred thousand inhabitants, and now has six hundred thousand. The population of ihe whole union has gone on increasing rapidly. Thus the demand fjr grain and provisions and live stock has been greatly increased in the states, for example, along the valley of the Ohio, where they are niostabundantly produced, and secondly, the dernandhas been further increased by the attention of ihe planter, in the cotton growing stales, being almost exclusively directed upon that and other precious staples of the south. Rew York Star. TRIAL FOR MURDER. The case of the state of Ohio, vs. John Sponsler, for the murder of his son-in-law, Allen McLaughlin, on the 1st of August last, was commenced on Monday and closed on Wednesday night. It will be recollected that at the November term of the Court of common pleas, of this county, this case was first tried, and a verdict of guilty of murder in the firs; degree returned by the jury. Amotion was then made, by his counsel, for a new trial,which was granted. Thejury was empanneled on Tuesday, and the evidence closed on the same day. On Wednesday the case was argued by Messrs. Bebb and Weller, on the part of the prosecution, and Messrs. Woods and Ross on the part of the defendant. After a clear and impartial charge from his honor, judge Hinkson, the jury retired to their room, and returned about midnight, with a verdict of GUILTY of MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. Rossville Telegraph. If we talk less about other people, other people would talk less about us,

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