Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 49, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 May 1836 — Page 1

ECOIRB H "LIBERTY AND CMONK,nvAM) FORFAER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE." Volume IV. Numbeu. 49J CRA VI OKDSV1LLE, INDIANA, M A V 14, 1836. Whole Number 205.

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY I. F. WADE At two dollars per annum payable in ad-

vance, or within three moaths after the time of subscribing; two dollarsand fifty; cents within the year; or three dollars af ter the year expires No paper will be discontinued unless -I I 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 twentyfive cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertise - ments. tor a limited time, or from a d stance, must be paid for in advance; other wise they will be continued at the expense of the advertiser. Letters on business must be post-paid. S II A LL I S UCCEED ? A LEAF FKOM LIFE. "Hope ever gets tlte better of dis'rust." We must part, ihen,"' said Ilosih'e 'is it so? Aii, Eugene, J confess I tremble for you. Thrown out und-r such circumstances, at this time of lift, to push your way into the world, wh it toils, disappointments ( and suturing may await you! Wh it chance cm there le for the younu. poor, and friend less, wher Prospeti'y laughs at Misfortune, Power trunples up m Weakness and Temptation preys uhhi Inexperience?' A dreadful picture is tint yon hive drawn of the gre it world, my dear R s die,' said Eugene, sm l.ng. 'Sapse we vew it in an-.lher liglit. Let us consider it as one vast and glorious a m pint heat re, upon whose arena genius and industry, exertion and talent, are striving for the rewards which await the meritorious.' Aud h iw mmy hearts,' rejoined R sa!i:-, sadly, 'are broken in the cotifl.e. ! Ilovv mi ny are trodden down heue.tihdt; feet of th jostling aspirant?! If one succeeds yet ho many ful! B 'Sides, others have fiends to help them on you have none: none but one nd she can only aid you by her pr v -rs Others lnve wedth you aie poot. You pitli is solitary before you. Neither influ ence nor foilune s idles up n ii .' It is not wider the most f vordde circum stances that the greatest ch meters are loaned' replied Eugen ; prou lly. 'Tin; oak "f the mountain or the forest is not uurured in , a hot-house, but it strikes its roo s, and rears lis branches amid Hie winds md st inns i.f the skies. Look arund vou, II .s Is it ihe nursling of wealth in I firtuiie, who h .s been dandled i'lto mui'iood n thel,inif 1'ittsp Td y, wh carries aViV the wild's lvnr,-"S, or wins its mistiest mil ience.-? O , it not rub r the mm whose eailier year--, like mine, were seiredy -h rered by a sinrl aT-t itl aid. or smiUs o annoib aioli . and

who Ins lravn trom adversity ihe eleni -n's of greatness. You take it f.'r ground .,,t I shall b-i weak, unsuccessful, iiufortim ite. have the court deuce t- beaeve tint, uudei God. I shall be neither.' Yoii know not ihe hituro, my dear hucrpne. How many misfortunes m-y be in store for you. And at b st, how much toil, how many anxietjt-s, bow many sorrows, may cluster around your destined path, and must inevitably attend upon the duties and ditfi ulties of a uvst arduous profession.' Out upon thee, for a b;rd of illomh!' said Enretie, laughing. 'Do you not know that fortune ever flees the faint hean ? And as to difficulties, the greater the obstacles the greater the conquest; and ihe greater the conquest, the greater the g'ory. You sieak of sorrows they are, in a degree, the common lot of all.' But nnst have friends, or other blessings to hi 1 in bearing them up.1 Tiue' But you, if you fail if your favorite objct eludes your grisj if your vision of ambition fll?es before you,oi vanishes away if treachery letr;.ys and wounds you what have you tlun for consolation?' 'Hope, Rosalie Iiojkj, and your sweet self.' 'Nonsense! that is nonsense, Eugene.' 'By your leave, no': and so says that smile, which pirdoMne demands return. There . Pve done the deed! and vnfFer me to tell you, Rosalie, that there is nothing which industry will not achieve, when combined woh perse vtrance, and directed with an undivided nim oone great ol.j ct. Think you that poveity is a prelude of failure. Do you recollect what Ragidesiu, the coims lioi of Josephine, told lier on ihe eve of Iter in irtiage with iapdetii? 'You are about tod., a very fi dish thing, madauie; you ate going to marry a man who has not a second shirt to Ins back!" 'Humph! Well, never mind, I love splendid x unples.' Bonaiurte was a soldier, and not a l iw--yer. He was also aided by a rare coiicui--rence of accidental circumstances,' continued Rosalie. Well, we will talk of liwyers then A wealthy English gentleman ouch asked lord Keuyoiiwhat he thought of the probible prospects f his son, in the profession Your son does not want talents,' was the reply 'but he mUst first spend his own fortune -marry, and spend his wife's fortune and then there willbe some hopes of his succeed Ingat the law.' Now, luckily, my doir, I linve not the preliminary f spending two fortunes to go throngh, before I uny succeed attlielw.' Tint is very true,, wot not very comlorfiMe, krd lv ny..u t- me vuntiary, noiwiilh gtan.ln.g.'siulll'Sdi Vuaithuikyuu,iwsuhw? ihwrewas a

y.ui.g shoemaker, out here in Connecticut, j ,mce " a ,,mei it his head lo be a

lawy A shoemaker !' And why m.i? He was two and twent y-ears of age when the idea or fancy Hist 1 . t . . . ! sirucK mmjentirely uneducated, except in a , cor,m,un Slh,'; poor, and not only depend !e,,f' but having others dependent onhim. Was not this h liyl W'at then?' i . ' w,,v ,le ,ook his book and P,aced il before 1 mm' th"s Hml mlh ,)IS ,ast upon his knee, a,,u 11,3 uammKr ",3 ,M"U " uammereu and read, and read and hammered, from morning till night, and vice versa? 'And what was the result?' 'He did become a lawyi-r.' 'I suspected as much,' said R salie. 'And a member of Congress,' continued Eugene, "and chief justice uf his state: in tine' 'In fine?' hue, Roger Sherman.' 'R 'g r S ierinan!1 exel lined Rosalie. 'Aye. email I speak of Frmklu.?' 'O.i, Ii! no,' said Rosalie 'Ins story is worn out alieady.' M could teh you a tale of English lnwyers, for variety.' 'Whit is it?' 'All in good time. There dwelt during die last century, in thj town of iferwick-Uji on Tweed, (wmch, by the way, my lord Coke says, is no part uf England,) u, I am wrong in Novvoastle-upoii Tyue .1 coal mercnaut, or co:u m rchni', jiist as you please, I y the n one of bcoii. lie had two soiij, J.miu una Willi tin. O.viug lo Ins uuii i:r issed circuu.staiices, he Was utiibll 10 ..tfrd tlk.ni th.; adv uii.iges of a uiuvisily education, ana could only scud tlie.ii lo t rainiuar elnol in their Uiiive town, where luey accordingly beg .n and coinpleied t .en classical edoc .lion. Was not tins un iii.u? picioiis beguiuiiig ?' cio on go o.,,' said Rosal.e. reuiiiiitier t!i t in se yu In were intended' fr ti.e bu .u KugMiul to vhere the fitenuleSS antl uulllledaie obligeu lo contend with ten tun. s the difficul-i. which oppose i hem here. Wtiat would Hostile have said, suppose this John or W1I11.011 were i lover ot tiers, and he were abut to leive his home for tlie metropolis the gie ii L union to coniiiu'iice tie study of li.s piutcssioit 111 the Inns of Couu ?' X, 111 itter go on. 'Well, Jbn and William occupied the same dumber together, and puisued the s one studies. Poor, friendless, I'.ud uuaid twelve oij .Imio-- years, (fhese bngiisn liwy rs, ly th j ly, have lo uudi-rg. 8...ut . thing ol'a q-i iraiituie.) 1 welve y-a:s tlj;V devoted ihen.selves m ineir sohi.oy p esvnis. At tlu end of th a tun., the elder was admit ted to the bar.' 'An I how did he succeed?' Why, but btdly, it first. His awkwardness and timidity stood m his way; few exacted any thing fioin him; and somw even ridicul ed his afeinptsto succeed. But he found a friend. Ft lends are not such bad things, af ter all, my dear. His friend Hided ju briijr ing him out, and alter some years of obscurity, he suddenly burst forth upon ti.e woild, a star of the first in ignitude. His business rapidly increased; he became a memlerot parliament : then solicitor general; then at torney general; then Sir John Scott and then ' Then what?' Lord Eldon, and lord chancellor of En gland.' 'Aid William?' 'Was made a judge, and became lord Stowell.' 'Both lords?' 'Nothing more nor less, my dear girl Ami the decrees of the one were as right and irreversible as those of Minos, while the decisions of the other are splendid monuments of his genius, acuteness ami wisdom.' 'Well, erhaps you may succeed. You are certainly sanguine enough and confi dence is half the battle.' Possent quia jxsse videnter. You ack- j nowledye so much, do you, mvsipielit little couuselloi ? But you were speaking of tods. Ilosahe. Now, as to this matter, I won Id iddnc.e the opinion of lord chancellor Kill", (I like these great names,) whose motto was ' 'W,ai? Labor ipse voluntas.1 'Really, I am much tlw wiser.' 'Which, lieing interpreted, doth signify. ( s my lord Coke would say,) Libor is of itself a pleasure ' 'There is no contending against such authotiues.' 'You give up, then, do you?' said Eugene, laughing. 'But stop,' snid Rosalie, 'because Scott ecame lord dunce: lor, and Sherman chief justice, it djes not follow tint you are to IK' 'Lord chancellor or chief j-ist ice. Not at all, my dear. But it does follow, I apprehend, that v ith industry and good fortune, Jinny, in the f ir west,' provide myself and Rosilie a home and a livelihood. So good bye! dont cry now. God bless you my dear girl !' RrtonE island FXEcrioN.- John B. Francis, fami masonic nd V..n Buret.) Ins been ned governor of Rliode Isl md, hy a mi- j j .my 1 X more th tii eight hundred Votes, over I ristam lirnties, whig. A in j rry ot both brinclw'S of Mm .'jthi'ifw w re Ctuscii ot the satiiv politics us the governor.

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Domestic tyrranny punished. h will be recollecied that we mentioned during the moi wmir tl vpr.lirt i.f :i coroner's iurv on the occasion uf the death of a little colored iml beloinMmMo a Mr. Folly, a respectable farmernear Patterson, in consequence of the severe treatment and violence of her mistress, Mrs Folly. The unfortunate woman was brought before the Bergen county court, at Ihickensa. k, last week and plead guilty to! an indictment, by the gand jury, and solicited ihe mercy ot the court judge roro, 01 the Supreme court presiding. After due consideration of the circumstances, the court sentenced her to three years imprist nment at hard labor in the state prison! The annun ciation of the sentence had its lull natural clKxt ujon the sensibilizes of the pusoiiet, nd her piercing shrieks penelMOjd every neart as she was carried trom the court room I he win. I.- set.... w .4 ilt-enlv aifectliu'. 1 he apiiear.uice of the prisoner, a well dr. ssed, i. siei .t.i.. v..H...r ..( ir.iod con nec - Hons, sin rounded by her liusb nd and fami ly fi lends, m the act of being turn fn. in so - i a . cieiy, and d.Hiued to an ignominious com- . 0 puiiunship with the vilest telons for the m - dulgei.ee ol an ungoveinable temper, Could liitdiy fol to excite the sympitnies ol the speelaiors; while, at Ihe same tune, it atiords a who.esome rxhihilioti of the s eru and righteous impartiality ofpuhbc justice. The colored boy wtio.it wilt 00 recollect ed. was the subset vieut instrument ot Hie death murder, we

es ought to say of bis ht-jed , was also brought up, and

do iellow seivani aiso invoked ihe micy ot the court. In consideration ul his y..oih, and the tact ot ins having intbcied ihe several chastisements winch Cinliihuied to the child's dealt., in obedience lo the commands of his mistress, ne w is Sentenced to only two years unpiis oumeiil. TEXAS. We are happy to have it in our power to puoush the 101. owing letter, addressed j by ..jajor Geuorai Games to the Governors 01 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama anJ Tennessee. It may bo .Ciied on as authentic, and is ot gieat importance, it is manliest no.ii the tetter tuai the Government of the Li inted b ates has taken the p.oper nosition with icspect to the conleiiuaig parties in Texas, and that General Games has taweu the necessary precau liouury measures to enab.e him to execute Hie iinpoitant dunes devolved upon nun, and to cause our neutrality to be respected. -V.O Bulletin. Head Quarters Western Department,) -f- - !. l83o. Sir : The war ia Texas, which Juis 01 ; late assu.ned asanguinarv and savage aspect, bad inJucud tne 1're.siJent of the U. states to require a consideiauie augmeniaiion of regu.ar force to be concentrated upon this section of the national frontier, to which my attention has been particularly directed. He deems it to be tiie duty of the United States to remain einiiely neutral, and to cause their neutrality to be respected yeaccubL' ij jracticuLle,Jor cibiy 'J necessary. The 33J article of the Treaty with Mexico, requites both the contracting parties to prevent "by force all hostilities and incuisionson the part of the Indian nations iivmg within their respective boundaries, so Uiat the United biates of America will not sulfer their Indian. 10 attack the citizens of the Mexican States," &c. The provisions of this article I am particularly instructed to cause to be en loreed, and i have, pursuant to instructions, taken measures to make known to the various Indian tribes inhabiting that portion of the United States bordering upon the Mexican territory, on the waters of the Red and Arkansas Rivers, the determination of the Government to prevent any hostile incursions into Texas, and have directed that the chiefs be called upon to inculcate upon their people the necessity the aboveineutioned engagements and I ol caielully abstaining trom a vio ation ot have moreover informed them, pursuant to the orders of the Pi esident, that will not hesitate to use the force at my disposal for the purpose of preventing uny wh designs. I have learned from several of our citizens entitled to credit, that one Manuel Elores, a Mexican Spaniard, but for several years past a citizen of 'Spanish town' in this State, near the Sabine Ridge, has been lately commissioned by persons professing to act bv the authority of the Mexican Government, for the purpose of enticing the Indians 111 the western prairies on our side of the boundary line, to join them in the war of extermination now waging in Texas; and that, with this view, the Agent, Manuel Flores, accompanied by a stranger, has lately passed up the valley of the Red River, and has a.ready produced considerable excitement among the Caddo Indians. And I have very recently learned from seveial intelligent persons in Texas and others who have lately been thers that many of our Indians had gono over to the Texas sido of the line. These facts and circumstances present to me the important question wheiher I am to sit still and suffer these move ments to be so far matured as lo p ace the white settlements rn vot'i sides of the lue tih ihf ir.thiri t'ie poorer efthrse saviitraor wheiher I ought not instantly to pre-

i pare the means for protecting the frontier

settlements, and, it necessary, compelling me Indians to return iu meir own ovines , and hunting grounds? I cannot but decide in favor of the last , alternative which this question presents; for nothing can be more evident than that an Indian war, commencing on either side of the line, will as surely exten I to both sides, as that a lighted quick-match, thrust into one side of a powder magazine would extend the explosion to both sides. But I am without mounted men, the only description of force which will enable me to interpose an efficient check to the daily increasing danger which every intelligent citizen with whom I have conversed upon the subject apprehends. And apprehending as I do, that the loss of a month, which it would require to submit the case to the decision of the Piesident of the U. States, might prove fatal to a large portion . c .i. r i . i , . ii i . j noiiuer ninauiiauis, i nave aeter- ,' mined to solicit of your Excellency a br igI . . . - - . " aue, 10 consist oi iwo or inree oaiianons of vo unteers as many to be mounted as

p;acucao:e :o lepair to tnis place as soon 1 as convenient, by companies or battalions; , to receive their arms and camp equipage at New Orleans and Baton Rouge. There may be eight or ten companies to a battalion. ShoulJ the war in Texas be brought to a close without the apprehended Indian hostilities, the volunteers will be discharg forthwith. With perfect respect, I have the honor 10 ue Your obed't servant, EDMUND P. GAINES, Major General Commanding. To His Excellency Edward D. White, Gov.of the State of Louisiana, N. Orleans. Copy of an Expresss from Sam'l Houston, Commander in chief of the Texian Army. Head Quarters, West of BrasosJ March 31st, 1836. To the pfoph' rf the East of Lirasns: Vy encamp. nent is preparing on the West of the lirasos, wheie 1 shall wait for some supplies and reinforcements. My intention never has been to cross the Brasos, and the false reports spread are by men who have basely deserted the army of Texas. Let men from the East press on to the army and cjoss over at Groces. If n.'en wi I unite with the present force, we can defeat und capture the enemy. The army of the enemy has been represented a: from 10 to 30,000 men, when, indeed it never ha exceeded 3 or 4,000 in Texas: ana t '. i"o.f th-a , ue.ked Col. Fannin was only 1500, and ho . , vo ne,. They fought him in the prairie, where h , had no water, and where they surrounded him. Their cavalry are not so numerous as stated; and their infantry are men pressed into service and convicts from prisons. Their army is encumbered by women and children. Let the men of the East come to our aid, and bring all deserters with them. Aid from the United States is landing on our co:ist. Capt. Brown, with one ol our vessels, has taken a Mexican vessel, with 240 bbls. of Flour, 300 kegs of powder, and other supplies for the army. My spies report this morning that the observations made by them last night, could discover nothing of the enemy for ten miles beyond Bayou St. Bernard, 25 miles beyond San Felipe. The citizens of San Felipe when they heard it rumored that the enemy had crossed Colorado, immediately set fire to their own houses, and reduced the p ace to ashes. Let the people not be any longer in dread of danger, if the men will tu.n out like men. Samuel Houston, Commander-in-chief. P. S. My spies have just returned, and report the enemy within a few miles of San Felipe, 800 or 1000 men onl), and only 30 cavalry. We will whip them soon. SAM. HOUSTON. 4 o'clock, March 31. From the scene of Mexican hrstilities against our Texian friends, we have no additional information. The arrival of j the schooner Coralla yesterday from Matacrorda. brines us helpless women and children, who have been forced to throw themselves on the charities of our people. Their distressed situation cannot but ex cite our best sympathies, and should lead: to prompt and liberal measures lor tneir relief. Before this, we indulge in the hope that the brave Houston has given check to the foe, and suspended for a time at least, a cold blooded butcheiy, that spares neither age, sex nor condition. JV. O. Bulletin, ApH 14. Rumor says that Col. Fannin's forces were all, with the exception of thirty, put to the sword at the time of the battle, and the thirty whose lives were spared for the present time, were taken to Santa Annans camp, and, after pleading for quarters in vain, were shot four at a time until-all 1 were saennceu T EX I AN GOVERNMENT. David G Burnet, President of the Republic of Texas. '

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Lo i enzo D. Zavalla. Vice President. Samuel P. Carson, Secretary of State. Thomas I. Rusk, Secretary of War Bailey Hardiman, Sec of the Treasury. Robert Potter, Secretary of the Navy. David Thomas, Attorney General. J. R. Jones, Post Master General. The Lnd B ll Mr. Clay addressed

the Senate yesterday in support of his great measure the bill to distribute among the several States the nett proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands. We thought after hearing the able and comprehensive arguments of Messrs, Kwing, .-outhard, and White, in fovor of this be neficent measure, that the subject was exhausted; that, at any rate, but little new could be urged in its defence. Mr. Clay, however, in one of the most lumi nous and foicible arguments which we have ever heard him deliver, placed the subject in new lights, and gave it new claims to favor. He was not onlv stroncr 1,u --'vui:m, a eer is, oui ne was dear and perspicuous in the most complex I l i . i . , . " ' p-n i rgumeni inaeea, tne wnoie nam ui uis reasoning appeareu to US a series ot demonstrations; and we cannot conceive how any mind open to conviction could have listened to it unconvinced. A large portion of the members of the o'her House, we were glad for their own sakes, were present during the whole speech; and the galleries were crowded to excess by great numbers of ladies a9 well as gentlemen. Xnt. Int. A fact is stated m the Louisville Advertiser, which s:rongly illiterates the growing necessity form king use of rail roads for ti.e irinsjMirtati,n of the mails. The mail for St. Louis and New Otleans despatched fiom Louisville a few days ago, weighed more than a ton. The cart iage of such a weight, with any thing like the desirable expedition, would be next to impossible, in the winter months, by the ordinary mode of stage transportation. Cn the other hand it could be whisked along upon a rail road, over the Allegany, with as hide difficulty as a barrel of fl -uror pork, and at a nte th 1 would set all private couietition at d-fimce.-iVik. The Albany Evenini! Journal of Tuesday says the steamboat Constitution left that day for New York with o! hundred n npi rs and six tow bo l 'jelectybg 'he Eckford, Swifisure and Albany tra narration lines, the freight of which a mot 1 tea l twenty four bundled tons Nile Of 385 cases which have been i nitted into the asylum at Worcester, Mass., 90 were supjtosed to be caused by intemperance, 5 by religious feeling. ami 24 by disap.iii;i:t.eiii or apprehension in regard to prop erly. We learn that a robliery was 1 . v-ntd on the Merchants' bank of Providence, somelime between Saturday night and Monday morning last, and that the amount then ascertained to be stolen was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Incredible as it may appear, we hive now in New York more foreigners than are to bo found in the whole of the son thern states. In the summer of 1830 there were, in the state of New York, forty-eight thousand and some odd hundreds more aliens than Were contained in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and the territory of Florida. V K Jour, of Com . American convicts.- Of 213 convicts received into the state prison at Sing Sing, during the year ending 30diSept. last, 70, or about tne third, are foreigners. And of these foreigners, at least "6are from the Ih it ish dominions Of the 143 AmericanInirn, a lrge number are colored. Deducting these, the number of foreigners would bo nearly equal to that of the Americans. J&ur. Com. THE MEt iiODrSTS. We 'ake the follow ing from tire N. York "Zi Mi's Watchman," a well conducted M thodist pa pi t: V ithui a very short sp?ce the Methodist Episcopal church has been afflicted with tire tol o.vng calamities: 1 . The death of Bishop Emory. 2. The total destruction of our nobis Book Concern. 3. 'I he total Iofs, hy fire, of the Conference Seminary at Northwalk, Ohio. And it is not the least of our calamities, that, daring the past year, our church has actually decreased in its membership no less than four thousand one hundred and twen-ly-nitse rnemlers! Now we do not believe that these calamities are to be traced to the special and designing agency of the infinite God ; but lie has, for wise purpose?, suffered them to come upon us, no doubt." Mr. Clay rmde a brilliant and powerful effort on Tuesday last, in favor of hi great land bill, and on Wednesday it was ordered to a third reading in the Senate. This i, piobaahly, the last in.portant act of his public life for we learn that he is about to retire from bis seat in congress; md to rave adjusted &. c Tiled" thro' tins imp sing question, with i beneficent nsulis, is, indeed, "glory enough" fcr tne man. Nile.