Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1841 — Page 1

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lIEMfloWIEIMMLII MAIL. BY DOUGLASS & NOEL. INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1841. VOL. 3. NO. 244.

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From the Boston Daily Advertiser. SAILING OF THE BRANDY WINE. BY GEORGE HINT. Her penant at the mainmast head, Her ensign on the flowing breeze, Her snowy sails, like pinions spread, To waft her o'er the rolling seas; And gently bending to the tide, That folds her in its swift embrace, And smiles around her as a bride Smiles welcome in her lover's face. In gallant trim, as staunch and true As ever dared the seamans' grave, She bears her hold and hardy crew In triump o'er the ocean wave. So like a thing of life and light, That fades along the sleeper's brain .: She bounds upon the tranced sight, To seek the broad and gloomy main. And hatk! what warlike strains awake, 'Mid volumed smoke and fiery gleam, AndNpeals, whose ringing echoes break : The busy city's worldly dream? The gav salute, the jovial cheer, The stern command the prompt reply, Their pride to share her swift career, Or on her blood stained deck to die! And oh! what thoughts across the deep Commend her to the favoring airs1 "What freighted hopes her bulwarks keep What treasures of uncounted prayers'? From mount and valley far away, By sweet gr'en fields and flowery 'ea, While she, amid the tossing spray, Careers along the heaving sea. And dearer still, her country's fame Is with heron the mountain wave; And honor's bright and holy name, To nerve the weak and cheer the brave. That stainless flag, whose starry fold Still pierced the lurid battle through, And o'er the tide of war unrolled, On every sea triumphant flew! And fair and happy be her way O'er oceans broad unfathomed bed And prosperous all the winds that play Where'er her swelling sails are spread! God save her from the deadly rock, And cliffs that crown the wild lee shore; God keep her in the tempest shock, And bring her home once more!

THE SLA VE TRADE. The vengeance of Heaven on individuals is wisely, in most instances, put beyond human discovery. But, for nations, there is no judgment to come; no great after reckoning makes all straight, and vindicates the ways of God to man. They must be punished here; end it might be neither difficult nor unproductive of the best knowledge the Christian's faith in the everwaking and resisiless control of Providence, to trace the punishment of this enormous crime even in Europe. It was, perhaps, the slave trade, that lost America to England, and the crime was thus punished at its height, "and within, view, of the spot where it ,was committed. The three great slave traders, whom it has been found impossible to persuade or restrain, are France, Spain, and Portugal. And in what circumstances are the colonies now placed for whose peculiar support this dreadful traffic was carried on? France has lost St. Domingo, the finest colony in the world, and her colonial trade is a cipher. Spain has lost all. Portugal has lost all. Spanish America and the Brazels are severed from their old masters forever. And what have been the espt'cinl calamities of the sovereigns of those countries They have beenalfihree expatriated, and the only three, dher sovereigns have suffered temporarily evil under the chances of war; Hiid Portuffal. have exhibited the

. UUI t I ni.v-t', i - peculiar shame of three dynasties at once in exile: the Portugese flving across the sea, to escape from an enemy in its capital, and hide its head in a barbarian land' the Spanish dethroned, and sent to display its spectacle of mendicant and decrepit royalty through Europe and tlie French doubly undone The first eff rt of Louis XVIII., on his restoration, was to re-establish the slave trade. Before twelve months were past, he was flying for his life to the protection of strangers! On the second restoration.the trade was again renewed. All representations of its horrors, aggravated as they now afe by the lawless Tapacity of the foreign traders, were received with mock acquiescence and real scorn. And where are the Bourbons now? And what is the peace or the prosperity of the countries which have thus dipped their guilty gains in human miseries? The three are still centres of revolutionary terror: Portugal, still covered with the wrecks of a civil war, with a trembling throne, a jacobin constitution, and a broken people; Spain, torn by faction, and watching every gathering on her hills, as the signs of a tempest that may sweep the land, from the Pyrennees to the ocean: and France, in the first heavings of a mighty change, which man can no more define than he can set limits to the heaving of an earthquake, or the swell of a deluge. Other great objects and causes may have their share in those things; but the facts are before mankind. Croly's George IV.

Politics. "Say, Bill, what's all dat ere muss Mr. Adams are makin?" 'Why, Cucumbershins, I tell you. If a child cry for the moon de fader haint no right to give it to him cause he can't. At de same time he no right to tell de child he wont hear it cry, cause dat would be interfering wid de right of petition." "Dat are's de ground, is it? Well, I guess they can't drive old Boss Adams off of it. Now, Bill, what's dis physical agentl" De agent for selling Moffatt's Pills. Why don't you read tbe papers, nigger?" Railroads in Germany. The Frankfort Journal states that it is in contemplation to construct four different lines of rail road, to commence at Breslau. The first will lead from Breslau to Ohlan, and thence to Oppelu, 14 German miles, the second, from Breslau to Schweidnitz, in Freiburg; the third from Breslau to Frankfort upon the Oder; the fourth, from Breslau through Leignitz Gorhtz to Dresden.

. THE BANKRUPT BILL. For the purpose of bringing the principal provisions of this bill within a small compass, and to facilitate an examination of it, we have, with some labor, prepared the following synopsis of it. This bill, it will be recoltectedfpassed the Senate some time siiieefand has not yet been acted on in the House. Verbal accounts are unfavorable to' its receiving the attention of the latter branch of Congress, at the preseut session, though these accounts are rebutted by a vole upon the motion to lay a resolution from the committee on the judiciary, declaring it inexpedient to act upon this subject this session, upon the table. The vote upon that motion was 118 affirmative to SI negative, which may be regarded as an evidence of a disposition in the House, to take action upon the subject. Sec. 1. Enacts that a uniform system of bankruptcy be established throughout the United States and thr.t all persons owing debts, who shall by petition, setting forth a list of his or their creditors, the amount due each, together with an inventory of his or their property of any kind, verified by oath, apply to . Uie proper court for the benefit of this act shall be deemed bankrupts, and may be declared so by a decree of such

court. All persons being merchants or retailers of

merchandise, all bankers, factors, brokers, underwriters, or marine insurers, owing debts to the amount of not less than $2,000, shall be liable to become bankrupts, and may upon petition of one or mora of their creditors to whom they owe not less than $500, be so declared in the following cases, to wit: whene

ver each debtor shall depart the State of which lie is

an inhabitant, with intent to defraud his creditors; or shall procure himself to be arresied or have his goods &c. taken in execution; or shall remove his goods, Sec. or conceal them, to prevent their being levied on; or

make any fraudulent assignment or sale of his lands, goods, &c: Provided however, any person so declared

a bankrupt at the instance of a creditor, may, by petition lo such court have a trial by jury to ascertain the fact of such bankruptcy.

fcec. 2. Enacts that all furlure payments, convey

ances, 6ic, made in contemplation of bankruptcy, or

for the purpose of giving any creditor an undue pre

ference, or any such payment or conveyance to any

person not a creditor, for a valuable consideration, without notice, shall be deemed void and a fraud up

on this act, and the assignee under the bankruptcy

shall be entitled to claim and sue for the same; and the person making such unlawful preferences shall receive no discharge. And if it shall be made to ap

pear to the court, that, in the case of a voluntary bank

rupt, he has at any time given or secured any prefer

ence of one creditor over another, in contemplation of

the passage of a bankrupt law, he shall not receive a discharge, unless assented to by a majority in interest of those of his creditors not preferred. Nothing in this act shall in any way impair the rights of married

women or minors, or any hens, mortgages, &c. which

may be valid by the laws of the States respectively,

and not inconsistent with the second and fifth sections of this act.

Sec. 3. All property of every description, of every

person declared a bankrupt, except as is hereinafter

prov ided, shall be ipso facto divested Out of the bank

rupt, and (he same shall be vested in such assignee as

shall be appointed by the court suits pending by the

bankrupt shall be continued by the assignee, and no

suit by or against an assignee shall abate by death cf

said assignee. Ihere shall be excepted from the provisions of this section, such necessary household and kitchen furniture of the bankrupt, as the assignee

shall designate, having reference in the amount to the

family and condition of the Bankrupt, but in no case to exceed in value $300, and also the necessary wearing apparjl on exception being taken to the determination of the assignee, the matter to be decided by the Court.

Stc. 4. Every bankrupt, who shall comply faithful

ly with the provisions of this act shall (unless a ma

jority in number and value of his creditors who have

proved their debts, shall hie their written dissent

thereto) be entitled to a full discharge from all his debts, and a certificate thereof granted bim--such certificate, however, not to be granted until after 90 days from the decree of bankruptcy, nor until seventy days notice is given to all creditors and persons interested, to appear and shew cause why such certificate should not be granted. Such bankrupt shall at all times be subject to examination orally, or upon written interrogatories, before such court, on oath, in all matters relating to such bankruptcy, which are ne

cessary for the purposes of justice. If in any case of

bankiuptcy, a majority, in number and value, of the

creditors who snail have proved their debt, shall at

the time of hearing of tne petition for a discharge, file their written dissent to the allowance of a dis

charge and certificate, to such bankrupt, or if, upon

such hearing, a discharge shall not be decreed to him, he may demand a trial by jury, upon a proper issue to be directed by the court, or he may appeal from that decision lo the circuit court. And if, upon a full

hearing.it shall be found by the court or the jury, that

the bankrupt, has, m all things complied with the re

quisitions of this act, the court shall decree his dis charge.

Sec. 5. Creditors coming in and prov ing their debls in the manner hereinafter prescribed shall'be paidp-o

rata, und no priority or preference shall be allowed, except for debts due she United States, and laborers in the service of the bankrupt, when those of the lat ter shall not exceed 25. All creditors whose claims

are not due till a future day, shall have their present

value asceriained and allowed. Sec. 6. The district court, in every district, shall

have jurisdiction in all matters and proceedings aris

ing under this act, the proceedings to be summary and

the court always. The court to prescribe forms and rules for the regulation of proceedings, and to pre

scribe a tann or fees. Sec. 7. All proceedings in a case of bankruptcy,

shall take place in the district in which the bankrupt

resided, when his petition was filed, and al proof of

debts or other claims by creditors shall beunderoath, before such court or commissioner appointed thereby, or before some disinterested State judge, in such form as the court may direct. But such proof of debts shall be open to contestation. Sec. 8. The circuit court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the district court, of suits brought by the assignee against persons claiming an adverse interest, or by such persons against the assignee, touching any property or rights of property of the bankrupt transferable to, or vested in, the assignee; all such suits barred after two years from the date of the bankruptcy. Sec. 9. All sales, transfers, &c, by the assignee of the bankrupt's property, shall be made as ordered by the court all assets shall be paid into the court within six'y days from the time of their receipt, subject to the order of the court for their disposition and bond shall be given by the assignee for the faithful dis

charge of his duties.

Sec. 10. The court shall require tbe collections ot

assets, to be made as speedily as the interests of the

creditors will allow, and a distribution of them to be nmde every six months, and all proceedings shall be closed if practicable in two years. Sec. 11. The assignee shall have authority to redeem and discharge any mortgage, lien, &.c. upon any

propertyTand to teuler adue perforniance'or the conditions thereof, and also to compound debts, under the order or direction of thetourt and creditors shall have notice, and he allowed to shew cause,, why such order or direction should not be passed Sec. 13. The proceedings in all cases of bankruplcy shall be deemed matters of record, but shall not be recorded at length. This section also establishes certain fees to be charged by the officers. Sec. 14. This section provides for cases in which two or more persons who are partners in trade, become insolvent, and directs the assignee to distribute the proceeds of property, joint and separate, among their joint and separate creditors according to equitable rules in all respects, except as relates to the manner of distributing and disposing of the proceeds of the property of such partners, the proceedings against them shall be the same as if had against one person alone. Sec, 15, prescribes the manner of constructing the deeds, to be given by the assignee upon the sale of any lands of the bankrupt. Sec. 16, confers upon the circuit court of 1 lie United States, for the District of Columbia, and upon the superior courts of the Territories, all the jurisdiction, power, &.c, vested in the district court of the United Stales, in cases of bankruptcy. Sec. 17 prescribes the time when the act shall commence taking effect and the period of its duration.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. A Yankee pedlar, one of the great tribe who have learned the art of skinning a flint and of drawing blood of a stone, entered the store of a Yankee merchant, and wanted to sell him some razor straps. The merchant declined having anything to do with him and ordered him out. The Yankee pedlar is not got off so easily. There is no getting rid of him, while there is a chance of his wearying your patience' until you make a purchase. He's like the immortal "Jim Bags." He knows the value of peace and quietness, and wont leave off his noise unless he is well paid for it. "Come Mister, now I swow I must trade with you." "You do nothing of the kind." "Look here now I'll take any goods you've got here in payment." "No you wont." "O get out. I tell you what I'll do Mister, I'll sell these straps at the lowest wholesale prices, and take any- of your goods at your retail figure. That's fair." "Well, as you're so pressing I'll take twelve dozen at $6 per dozen, that will be $72, which you shall take it out in any goods I chose that I have in the store."'" . "Well, I guess you ain't got nothing here that I can't dispose of somewhere." "Make out your bill and receipt it." The pedlar did sO, and called on the merchant to select the goods he chose to pay him in, whereupon the merchant handed him six dozen back, and said, "I retail these at one dollar each. We are now square I bought your goods according to agreement otyour wholesale price, apd I sell them to you at my

retail price." The pedlar looked daggers, but he had to put u

with the mortification of being over-reached, which was his greatest trouble and made him right down

savage. Sunday Atlas.

E.agg age. A correspondent of the Boston Post re'

lates the following:

As I was lately travelling in a stage coach, not fif

ty miles from Boston, the passengers were remark

jng on the obliging disposition of the driver. One of

them related the following:

'As Mr. J , the driver, was proceeding out of

Boston not long since, a woman called to him to take

a bedstead on top, without iincordivg.it!.: He told her

he would oblige her the next time he came along

but he could not then as he had engaged to take on a wind-mill a little ways ahead, and as he had a large

cradle on the top at the time, he Was afraid he should

not have room!'

The relation of the above reminded me of a driver

who said he was once requested by a woman to wait till she finished her washing and ironing! He told

her he often had to wait for the women to do their

ironing, but he could not stand washing and ironing,

both! :.

'Why don't you come after cold victuals as usual,' said a lady to a boy who had for a long time been a

daily visiter for that species of charity, 'rather ha

joined the Temperance Society and we have warm

victuals now,' was the reply. New lork Lnqui rer.

Oricjin of the expression, " You can't pvll wool over mv eyes." 'Have you any real beaver hats here?'

said & dry looking Yankee, on entering a hat store

'There's one a splended article!' said the clerk, handing the man a hat which looked more as though

the fur bad come from the pelt of a sheep, than that

of a beaver.

'This a beaver?' said the Yankee, eyeing the hat

closely. 'Look here, stranger, you can't pull wool

over my eyes so easily as all that cornea to.'

Not so bad. Corporal Streeter, of the Richmond

Star, is an incorrigible wag. Like tbe "fat Knight,

he is not only witty himself; but is the cause of wit

in others. Such scamps are scarce and they should be preserved without pickling. Here is the Corporal's last: "Mother why does Pa call you honeyV "Because, my dear, he loves me." "No, Ma, that isn't it." "It isn't? What is theti?" "I know." "Well, what is it?" "Why it's bacause you have got so much comb in

your head that's why."

"He! he! he! lora you re a strange child."

Woor,. We learn from the farmers, (says the

Troy Whig,) that they are receiving seven and eight

cents more per pound for wool, than they received this time last year. Should Congress make the en

actments which are expected by the people, there is every probability that there will be a still further rise in the prices of wool, until our farmers shall again re

ceive an ample remuneration for their labor; for unless

we are deceived, the manufacturing interests of this

country are about to receive an impulse which will

place them in a more prosperous condition than ever.

LATE NEWS FROM EUROPE. New York, Thursday, July 29. The steamship Great .Western came up to our wharf a little past 1 o'clock to-day. She left on the , 14th, and has of course been 15 days coming over.

Her dates are eleven days later than those by the Caledonia at Boston. The political intelligence is decisive of the fate of theBritish Ministry. The Tories are every where triumphant. The Whigs concede a majority of 50 in the House; the Tories claim near 100 and the victorious party is generally nearer right than the other. The Tory tally is as follows: Conservatives, 345 Liberals, 259 Tory majority, 86 Daniel O'Connell and his colleague Hutton have been defeated of their return from Dublin by about 150 majority. The poll is as follows: West, (Cons.) 3,860 Grogan, (do.) 3,839 O'Connell, (Rad.) 3,692 Hutton, (Whig) 3,662 This is a terrible blow to the Repeal cause in Ireland. Belfast has also returned two Tories over Lord Belfast and colleague. ' But the hardest blow to the Ministty was dealt by the great constituency of the West R-iding of Yorkshire, where Lord Morpeth is defeated, as follows: Lord Morpeth, (W.) 12,08G" Lord Milton, (do.) 12,031 Mr. Wortley, 13,165 Mr.Denison, 12,780 ' Thus the Secretary is at the foot of the poll, where lie has always been at the head; Snd Mr, Wortley, the twice-defeated Conservative, kstands at the head. So it is all over. Peel comes in Prime Minister with a tremendous backing. The Ladies of the Bedchamber must back up. Well, 'turn about is fair play,' and is generally the best for the people. There is no other political news of any consequence. No new India mails and of course nothing later from China. The Money Market is still depressed. Trade is dull. Cotton fully maintains the slight advance noticed by the last arrival. A terrible casualty took place at Rotherham, in Yorkshire, on the 6th inst. A barge which was launched upset in going into the water, with 150 persons on board, of whom 51 were drowned! The Harvest looks badly. The British Finances are short this year. French ditto. We have little news here, beyond a rise ingrain yesterday. Genesee Flour went up to $5,75; other sorts in proportion. S'ocks are very dull. There was a serious fire in Vestry-street last midnight which destroyed several houses. Loss probably $25,000. : It broke out in Prevost's Pianoforte Factory, and was caused by combustion. The seventh edition of Stephen's Central America is issued this morning, the six preceding having been taken up by the public as fast as they could be hurried through the press. The work has been out about a month, and already the sala exceeds 7,000 copies. This is the most signal success that ever, yet attended an American book, but Mr. Stephens has richly earned it. His account of the wonderful Ruins of Palenque, Copan, &c. is so vivid, thorough and graphic, the accompanying engravings so eminently labored and faithful, his political and general observations so sagacious, and his travelling adventures so rich, so interesting, and related with such inimitable spirit, naivete, and invincible hilarity, that he has already taken rank as the prince of modern travellers. We clip the following from the New Orleans Bulletin, but do Dot know who the generous would-be

donoris:

If I possessed the most valuable things in the world, and were about to will them away, the following would be my plan of distribution: I would will to the whole world truth and friend

ship, which are very scarce.

I would give an additional portion of truth to edi

tors and lawyers, traders and merchants.

1 would give to physicians, skill and learning. To clergymen, zeal and disinterested piety. To lawyers, merchants, brokers, nublic officers.

honesty.

lo old women, short tongues and legs. To young women, common sense, large waists, and

natural feet.

To servants, obedience and honesty. To masters, humanity. To farmers, punctuality and sobriety. To old men, preparations for death. , To young sprouts or dandies, good sense, little

cash, and hard work.

To old maids, good tempers, little talk, and suitable

husbands.

To old bachelors, a love for virtue, children and

wives.

The best joke we have lately met with is to be

found in the Nea' York New Era of Mondav. in

which the bill before Congress to make provision of

paying, in part, the debt entailed upon the country by

the last administration, is called "a law to create a

national debt!" We say, to pay the debt "in part;" for it is in part only. The fourth instalment due to the States under the deposite act is as much a Dart of

the debt created by that Administration as even the floating Treasury notes; for the money, toth amount of nine millions of dollars, was in Ihe Treasury to pay that instalment when the last Administration came

into power, and would have been paid lo the States if

the Executive had not borrowed it for other purposes. It is yet due to the states, and ought to be paid to them. Add that sum, with the amount due to Indians for

their funds used by the General Government for its

own purposes, and the outstanding and unascertained debt of the Florida war. and the amount nf Aoht

which the last Administration has left to the Whit

the duty of providing for will exceed thirty millions

of dollars. National Intelligencer.

A New Counterfeit. -We were shown. a Ten

Dollar note of " The Dank of Brighton," Massachu

setts, which we are informed is a counterfeit, and

probably the first which has appeared on the Bank, as none has been noticed in the "Detectors." It is represented to us as being well calculated to deceive.

I he public will be on their guard, .as efforts will

probably be made to extend this spurious circulation

in the West. O. S. Jour.

Digby, will you take some of this butter." Thank vou, Quilp, I belong to the temperance so-

iety, and therefore I can't take any thing that is

btrong." Mo. Argus.

Somebody will play the dicker with you, if yoa

go on stealing chips that way Louisvde. Gazette.