Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 August 1833 — Page 2

VINCCNNES. S.VTUUl) VY, VI n 1 1ST 31, 13.1.

An attempt at assassination was made m Market street, Louisville, on Saturday last by G. J. Trotter on G D. Prentice It appears that the former, armed "cap a pie;1 laid wait near the Tost Office, on the road which Mr Prentice usually went from his office to his lodging that in due time the latter gentleman came along, passed Trotter a short distance, who then deliberately drew out a pistol and fired at Prentice, slightly wounding him in the back, upon which the latter turned, snapped a pistol at Trotter, and a scnfile ensu ed, which ended in the prostration and dis arming of Trotter af a dirk, with which Frentice, it appears, could have easily despatched the prostrate bully, but most magnanimously refrained. Whether this course was for the benefit of society or not, remains to be seen It appears that great excitement prevails at Louisville and that n most foul and murderous spirit actuates, not only Trotter but some of his friends, and we expect daily to hear of some victim sacrificed to satiate their ap petite for blood. We understand that the preseot quarrel is a personal political one, which are the worst sort of quarrels, as

they excite the feeling of a large portion lllio will prevent the completion of said of community The violence of party is!01 a lo?S as she can P0S8lb,y l il' be' ,, .. , , ... ;cause it vvdl come in conflict w ith her own la all cases attributable to the violence L., f- ,l , ...u-.u

and profligacy of the press, and we trust that the people of this country will never again be so far led away, as by their coun tenance, to encourage or patronize such partisan paper9 as have flooded the whole country for the last 7 or 8 years. We publish to day a letter from General R Jones, Adjutant General, U. S Army,

another from Major Wright. Pav- ,i J , , , ,,i 1 , j p'", a, an( wrong, and but little regard for jus master, U. S. Army. St. Louis, relative lo'tice and morality. No doubt Indiana is the discharges and pay of the Hangers ! powerful enough to coerce the Miami to which have been politely furnished U5 f,y jse11 out their land, but will she do it? Will . r i . , , ,. . ;she in defiance of principle, adopt the law Capt. Beckes to which wed.rect the at-jivhicll EngIant al,tcmpl4ed 0 piJt in torce tention of those interested. We are jin the colonies, the germ of this now powpleased to be able to give this information, 'erfu! confederacy the law which has not only rs regards the pecuniary con- ,,ored Russian chains for unfortunate Poc ., n , , I land the law which makes one man a cerne ot the Kangers, but on account ot i , i i c 0 , auuum ui save aQ(j an0j)er a master the law of Capt. Beclies who has been blamed withjmight? I am confident, however lightly j

unjustifiably holding back the discharges your correspondent may think of the of the merr, when it would seemTie ha3nghl3,ot ,he Itldiun9' t,lut il w'11 be ,on&v

enly acted iu obedience to the orders of thoae whom a9 an officer, he was bound to cbev Adjutant Genf.ral's Offtce, Washington, Jug Oth, 1 833 . j SIR Your communication of the 22d

nu. au.iressen io me secretary ot Uar,;lhe Maumee river be forthwith made, to has been received; and I am instructed to!asccrrail ths practicability of effecting a iriiorm you, that the term of service of ileamboat slack water navigation" It is

our company ot mounted Hangers having expired, they will be considered as discharged on the day of their completing the twelve months' service for which they

were engaged; to be computed from thelthose ln ie Wabash, ivhich everyone

unib m mm utiutj mu-irreo inia me ser-1 vice of the Luited States. I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. JOXES.Jrf. Gen. Capt. B. V. Beckes, U. S, Rangers, Vincennet. Indiana. Saint Louis, Missouri, .lugust 14, 1833. -As soon after my return SIR from' ?),,;,; j., n.t' :n .u:.i.! I will go inadayortwo to pay the troops! of th armv, and the remnant of yourl Company, I will visit Vir.cenues for the' Dun. se of navinp-thP riUrliarrprt mpn you'- Company, who, I understand ' - o - - - iderstand,willbe found there. I will reach Viocennes by the 10th of next month, or as soon there after a9 possible. I will give information in time for those concerned, to meet me on a particular day. I am with respect, Your mot obedient, THOS. WRIGHT, Pay Master, JIo. Capt. B. V. Beckes The following is an estrart from the

Indiana Democrat, relative to the three1"

per cent fund, in which the several counties of the state are interested. "We are requested by the Agent of the three per cent f,llKl to give information, that four hundred dollars are now in his hands, for each of the counties in the ftate. to be applied under the appropria tion of last iv inter " FOR THE VINCENNKS GAZETTE "PARTUIw-E BARCITE CIJAHim:'' Mr Editor: In reply to your corres ponlent in the Gazette of last week over the signature ot "Indiana," I have conclu dp.l to act in accordance with the motto which heads tin communication , which fneans in pl. n Eaglish, "In mercy Pju.re while we do our best, To make a? in,:ch waete paper as the rest,'' ftnd will therefore r-p!y io bis qut-ns a ropiunde.J. although i ie had takM thtrouble, he migh have satisfied himeell ttithoitt troabling either yoc or rnc.

U reolv to Lis fii uueitlon, 5 refer tcu;,d cannotsee abetter way to do so, man.

the following quotation from a joint resolution passed at the session of 1831-32, viz: ''The General Assembly of the State of Indiana, respectfully represent, that influenced by the general welfare, and stimulated by the grant of land made to this state, to connect the waters or the Wabash with lake Erie, this State has em barked in the disposal of said lands, tor the purpose of commencing: a portion ot said canal, lying within her boundaries, misting that the donation of lands, and her mutual interest, would equally insure the concurrent action of the State of Ohio, iu constructing a part of said canal, which must extend through her limits, but owing nrobablv to her engagement in other I J CO works of internal improvement, or tor other reasons, said Stale of Ohio has not thus far ratified a negotiation entered into a year since" Also to the following extract from a joint resolution passed at the last session, 18323.3. ''Resolved by the General Assembly of the Stnte of Indiana, that the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to communicate by mail, without unnecessary delay, with the Governor of the State of Ohio, touching the contemplated extcn sion of the Wabash and Erie Canal thro" that State in order to afford to this State some certainty of her views, &c." I have in my last said ' that one end of the canal lay in the State of Ohio who would neither make it herseIC nor allow any one else to do it." The above extracts from joint resolutions of our own Legislature, are my authority lor so eay liner, and I am moreover convinced that uuuma, tut uic Lumuuni'Ui ui ti Uii.li cue; is dow involved in a tremendous load of debt and taxation. In answer to the 2d query of your correspondent, I say that ;the Miami Indians at a treatv held for the jpUrpose last fall, did positively refuse to sell the land, and I judge of the future by the past. But "Indiana" says, "of what consequence will such a disposition be on the part of a few hundred Indians?" The man who can ask such a question, , must 1 1 '1 T n '1 trortr I m nfl r f f t r. r f c r I nr n f rivtif very long ueiore me liepresenianves or the people of this State will prefer the rascality of a Thetnistocles to the justice of an Aristides. In reply to the 3rd question, I refer tc the following quotation from another joint resolution, viz: 44 Phis General Assembly respectfully solicit that an examination of! presumed that the Legislature would not have doubted the practicability of making the Maumee navigable, unless they con sider the obstructions in it greater than 1. c...,i.m r : . La , :,'..:. ..: as to render its navigation uninterrupted except by ice. In reply to the 1th, 5th and Cth enqui-,

ries, I say that lam not called upon toj truth. To do this, says the Doylestown McLean, Louis McLane, B. W. Leigh, give the names of individuals who have. Democrat, from which paper we gain Martin Van Buren, and Richard M.Johnmade efforts to improve the navigation oil these particulars, he gave out that he was eon. A correspondent of the Richmond the Wabash and White rivers; attempts! going from home and did not expect to re- (Va.) Enquirer, signing himself 'Georgia,1 have been made, and perhaps all has bten( turn soon. He however, came home,! nominates Philip P. Barbour of Va. Presidone that could be effected under the cir-;SOme time in the night, entered his house, 'lent, and John Forsythc of Geo. Vice

nuiumg; uu i;

!lue uuunng zeai anu ministry which was.mcions were confirmed bv fWlintr iHp Hp-

. bring about the commencement of( Can:i1' haS 1101 bee" used t0 l)rocure! improvement of the Wabash. I stillj ' 0,."lm"UIJ ,Ui" l,,e tauui, "uwevei , .mll.L ,(,( i. ..iu ucuv-ul uu,lue,u Klui ot our state, will be of no direct benefit; to the people in this section of the country iu uui uay anu generation. w ere a tin ished now, could the farmers of Knox! county sen.l their flour or other produce uuor juu miles upstream, obstructed by sanci oars to the mouth ot the canal? At

this time freight is worth $1 00 per lOOjtioned to him, he expressed the highest lbs. from the rapids to Lafayette. Should satisfaction, stating it was exactly what

me nvei rise in x ov. or uecemuer wtncu it frequently does, and steamboats could ascend to the mouth of the canal, it would a" PaDI,,y ue .c, 'ce ttuuiu nui ujuru itaui ueiuitj may, ai which lime the Wabash is frequently too low for steamboats. "Indiaua," is mista ken if fie thinks I am opposed to the con tinuance of the canal. 1 am not. 1 wish it to go ahead rapidly and prosperously. It is commenced, and it would be madness to halt; the sooner it is finished the better. But nevertheless, I must take the liberty to express my opinion as to the probable benefits resulting to us by even its completion. I still think that the Wabash ought to have been improved first, and that it ought to have been known positively whether the Maumee ccubl be made navigable before we commenced dig ging a ditch to connect it with the Wa bah. I am not envious of the "well earn ed11 political reputation of the great champions of the canal project. I accord to ihem full credit for a faithful and diligent discharge of their duties, in accordance ith the will of their constituents. So i. ir Mom wishing to 'stab' their good fame. 1 an anxious that they should add to it,

to annlv their talents and industry to pro

curing aid both from the state and general rrnvpmmon? tn imnrnVR OUT rivCI'9. YoUT correspondent has mistaken the object of my last communication, which was io bring about an unity of action and a zealous effort of the whole people of he Wa bnsh and White river countries in favor of this great desideratum to our prosper! ty, until the completion ot whicn our i sources cannot be developed, the business of the whole community must remain in a sickly and languishing state, and the rich blessings of heaven, our abundant crops and immense surplus produce, are almost valueless to the firmer. However great a friend "Indiana" may be to the canal, he al. he cannot object to the improvement;. river. I hope, therefore, he will unite with mo in endeavoring to stir up a spirit of enthusiasm ou.this matter T

EXTftAOiUM.N'AiiY DCCl'ItUS-Vi - . ,a gun with powder, and put info it half On Thursday, whilf Mr Montgomery, ja rushlight, and fired with the intention a banker, in Irvine, and another gentleman jof covering him withgrease. The poor were fishing in the liver Garnock, theyjman instantly dropped down, and died in

were struck with the appearance of a; whirlpool in the centre of the river, which appeared as if the waters were rapidly de scending into the earth. They immdiately concluded that, the bed of the river had given away, and that the waters were de scending into the colleries beneath, and hastened to th nearest pit's mouth to give the alarm The men below soon heard

the mighty ruhinff of the wafers, andihort distance above the bridge, and just

hastened to escape, which providentially they all effected, 'hough without a mo. ment to spare; several of them being up to their necks in water. The water continued to pour into the extenive cavaties beneath, and the next day a tremendously large space broken down, into which the whole river descended leaving it quite dry for the space of a mile on each side of the aperture where it had previously been full sis feet deep. On the flowing of the tide the depth of the water below the chasm increased to nine feet, the des olation was awful. The water still rushed in a torrent into the earth. Three men in a boat had an almost miraculous escape from being sucked into the vortex; they bar! no sooner got out tfian the boat was drawn down with fearful rapidity. The great body of water continued to pour down till the whole workings, which ex tended many miles, were completely filled. A new scene of terror now presented itself the imprisoned air, pressed by the weight of wafer, burst through the surface of the ear th iu a thousand places, which, for the extent of many acres, presented the appearance ofa boilingchaldron. Immense quantities of sand and water were thrown up and descended like torrents of ram for many hours. By this calamity six hundred persons are thrown out of employ : .and so entensivo is the destruction as to preclude the hope that the works are ever to be restored to their former state. , ; Edinburgh Evening Courant. INFIDELITY MURDER. We are again called upon to record an! addition to the many murders which have ... - . ! lately been committed around us. The increase of crime in our countrv is appal ling, and goes far to prove the inefficiency of the present system of punishment. There should be a rigid, investigation instituted into the subject. A laborer on the Jersey Canal, at Bull's Island, in the Delaware, opposite Lnmberville, named Burns, for a long time past suspected his wife of infidelity. Unwil..il,nS act hastily in the matter, but being j strongly convinced that his suspicions were well founded, be resolrerl in t.ikp measures to ascertain certainly tbp whole an,j proceeded to his room, where his sus-i ceased there, and the marriage bed pros uted to the vilest passions. He imme-1 diatcly seized a club and beat out the' Drains ot the seducer of his wife, and the: , . . . ' . . i destroyer ot his happiness, a9 he lay the bed. This done, he with the samel dub beat his abandoned wife so severely j uiat she died in a few hours afterwards, Burns immediately gave himself up, and was committed to prison, in Flemington, N J. where he now awaits his trial. When the decease of hi ifn wn men he desired . Phil. Gaz. A no?t shocking murder was committed in the village of Christina (Del .) on the 3d inst. The perpetrator of the deed is named Thomas Walsh. He became enraged for some trifling cause, at a female named Piiscilla Tfiomas, and after deliberately loading his musket with a very heavy charge, he went in pursuit of her. When within about eight paces of her, he took aim, and fired. The charge took effect just above the knee, and nearly severed the limb from the body which caused her death in about thirty minutes. Walsh immediately surrendered himself up to the magistrate, was examined, and committed to the jail of the county, to await his trial in November next. He manifested the most perfect indifference relative to the crime he had committed, and the consequences which await him. The parties both resided within a few miles of Christina, and neither of them iiad previously sustained a very good character. P.cerh Trees nronf nm;t F.hrttiml j Fbdd A coiresponclcnCof the American

armer siaies, - vevors ana wooasmen

of the western states that the beech tree 9 t7 . . . . possesses the noo conducting power ascribed to the cedar; "I presume," says Jie, "I have passed a hundred oaks which have been stricken, and although beech is more common than any other timber, I have not discovered one of that kind." A MAN KIIXEl) WITH A CANDLE. An inquest was held atClewer, on r n dav lat, on the body of a man named Chas1 Home, who was unfortunately killed that morning in the following thoughtless manner: it appeared in evidence that the poor fellow had been engaged the previous evening as an extra waiter at the Cavalry Barracks, and had returned home early in the morning with a friend, with whom he was laughing and joking. As he walked down the yard at the back ot his house, the other loaded less than two hours afterewards, the candle having passed through his kidneys He has left a wife and 5 small children destitute . London-paper. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. About eleven months ago Mr. John Murray commenced boring for salt, on the isouth side of the Monongahela river, a opposite the eastern end of this city, and persevered in his work for the period of tpn months, when he bored to the debth ot 627 feet and struck a body of salt water, which has sufficient force to rise 30 feet above the level of the earth. The water is said to be stronger than the average of the Kiskeminitas ; about seven thousand gallons are discharged, spontaneously, in every twenty-four hours, which is suffi cient to make twelve or fifteen barrels of salt. It has been discharged at this rate ever since the vein was struck, about 3 weeks ago Mr Murray thinks that, by the aid of a pump sufficient water can be raised to make fifty ban els per day. Pittsburgh Gazette. A Camden, (N. J.) paper mentions that a machine, promising great advantages to Cord wainera, has recently been invented bv Messrs. Gerband and Vanneman of that city. It is constructed on a plan which must conduce greatly to the health, comfoFt, ease and profit of the operator, who can stir or stand by it at work, in any position. A person without feet or legs, can perform his task with equal facility as those who have these members, hitherto indispensable in that business. And it is alleged by one who has been for some days using the machine, that nearly, if not twire as much work can be performed with than without it, in a given time. A NEW ARTICLE. A gentleman i this town has lately commenced the .nanufacture of Brace for carpenters' bits. He finds he can well afford and has engaged to supply the prinl it t TiT 1 .1 cipal deariers in iew i ork, at a iesB price than they can import them. This fact tak ing into view the quallity of the American Brace we should think would drive the English article from market. This is adding another to the hundreds of articles which are now made cheaper and better in this country than they can be imported . Thus brother Jonathan triumphs over John Bull in a better way than by the word and musket. Springfield Rep. The next President. There are a mnl1 titude of candidates in the held. Here's list: Daniel Webster, Lewis Cass, John ii resiuenr. io many or me canumaies mentioned, we now have no insuperable objections, but it is much too early a day to begin seriously to agitate this matter, unless Mr. Van Buren's friends fchali force a aiscnssiou uy a rauonai vouvcuuon,

inland mere is uuie uouui

i . i J...I.. but that they will.) We hope at least for a short time of calm upon the political waters. Vermont Watchman. A Thousand Dollars Premium! We call the attention of our talented friends of Peace to the liberal Premium which is offered by the American Peace Society, for the best Essay for settling, by the amicable arbitration of a National Congress, instead of resorting to War, all differences which may hereafter arise between Sovereign Power9. The writer of such an Essay will not only entitle himself to the handsome premium offered: he will enjoy a much higher reward, should his composition produce the happy effect proposed, in the consciousness of having brought about a system of Peace and Harmony in Society, which will prove an inappreciable blessing to all future ages. JYat. Int. Splendid Bedstead. There hns been lately exhibited in the Palace of the Tamedo, at St. Petersburgh, a state bed, constructed at the Royal manufactory by order of the Emperor, to be 6ent as a pre sent to the Schah of Persia. It is formed of solid chrystal, resplendent with silver ornaments. It is ascended by steps of blue grass, and has a fountain underneath so coutrived as to throw out on each side jets of odoriferous waters. The effect, wheu the chamber is lighted up, is absolutely dazzling, as it has the appearance I of myriads of diamonds.

A DI IX. It was one of those raw co'.d morning., unusual in Bardadoe3 at the approach of the rainy season. A thick, dense fog partially obscured the landscape round, but which the newly risen sun and the awafc. ening sea breeze had in part dissipated on the higher grounds, obscurely revealing fragments of the scenery in distorted and unsightly portions. ! advanced towards my quarters: the fog became thick

er and thicker, so that it required a person well versed in the local geography cl Crab Town to be able to find his way Finding myself mure and more at a loe?, ! struck into the burying ground: by crossing which I knew I must arrive ai the beaten road between the garrison and the fort. I was winding my way carefully among the graves, cautiously avoiding the prickly pears and other thorny shrubs that grew scantily in the sand, between' the riilges lhatmaikcd the resting-places of the dead, when the sound of two shots, lired in quick succession, struck upon my ear. They vvere evidently dircharged close at hand; and I tood in no enviable situation, for 1 had clearly distinguished the shrill noise that a bullet made in passing close to my head : nod as 1 had heard too many of such singing birds whistle by me when on actual service not to be well acquainted with the sound, I shouted with all my strength, in order that the persons who discharged the shots should cease firing, unconfciusly, and in my haste, using the technical word ot cc-mmand. But the echoes of my words had not yet died away, when they were answered by a repetition of the same sounds; but now no bullet whistled past; for they had reach ed their destination. At that instant the morning gun from the fort was fired, and nnsweretl by the admiral's flag ship in the bay, followed by the brisk and irregular discharge of small arms from the marines on the gangways of the several men of war. The effect of heavy artillery on mists and vapours is well known. The thick, smoke-like clcuds that hung over the sands slowly rolled aside for a moment in heavy folds, like the withdrawing ofa curtain, and again closed, darkening and concealing the surrounding objects; but brief as fhe interval was, it had permitted me to discover a group of figures, which might serve as a study for a painter, could the artist be found hardened enough to gaze unmoved on such a scene Not twenty yards from me, on the ground, lay two officers, one in the uniform of my own regiment, the other in the undress of a naval captain, the surgeon and the second of each were 6tooping over their friends, and a black servant stood at a trifling distance, in evident alarm; while the srwke from their pistols still hovered over ihe spot, in dark circles, struggling to rise through the overhanging canopy of mist. I hastened to the spot: one was my brother officer, M'Jvor; the other was the fighting captain of the Elmira; bolh mortally wounded. The surgeons of each, after a few moments1 consultation, declared the impracticability of removingeither of them from the ground, as a few moments would most probably terminate their existenceindeed from the paleness and agony impressed on the features of L a, and from the crimson flood which widely stained the white sand beneath him, it was evident that the vital spatk was about to be extinguished. Not so MMvor; his1 wound was in chest, and the bleeding was mostly internal. He had risen upon ono elbow; a small stream of blood flowed from between hi clenched teeth; but as his dark eye was fixed sternly upon his prostrate antagonist, his whole face wa3 illumined with an expiession of exultation and delight, fearfully in contrast with his evident and increasing weakness; and the brilliant hue of pleasure lit up those featuree, at other times so pale and death-like. The departing1 sailor, in faultering and broken accents, gasped out a request to be brought nearer M'lvor, that he might grasp his hand and die forgiving him. A strange ex pression of contempt placed on the blood stained lips of the latter, ns he heard thin demartd,and beheld the surgeons assisting his adversary to approach him. With pain and difficulty the dying man reached out his trembling hand, and the accents of forgiveness hung upon his lips; when the youog Highlander raising himself to a sitting posture, fiercely grasped the extended hand, and, while a gush of blood accompanied every word, exclaimed, inaccents never to be eradicated from my memory, "L s, you are dying on the grave of my brother-in-law, poor baldwin; he whom you murdered rots iu the soil beneath you; but my sister, Jessie M Ivor,she rests with Iker foi bears, among the green hills of that native land I never shall behold. You wronged a M'lvor a son of M'lvor has avenged her wrong?.1'' He flung the hand from him with contemptous violence, and falling backward in the effort, ceased no exist; his face retained, even in death, the same expression of stern delight. L- s writhed in redoubled agony, as if the grave on which he lav had been a bed of molten fire his features became convulsed the glare of h'n rye bora fearful resemblance to the once infilling glance of the professed and succrtul duellist. Suddenly he started to his feet he assumed the pos ture of a prepared combatant and with his arm extended, as if iu the act of discharging a pistol, bo ffdl poatrate over the now seneeles body of bis youthful nntago njct. .,1 Soldiers Jlecollections . Jail s uagazLiie. "What h n verb?'' akel a hr,y, the other day, of a dandy ; "a verb, you rorruc, signitie to have, to do, or to piiKVr; Mjch is n tailor, n V?ennl;,:r or a hi'.'.: : '. "