Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 October 1833 — Page 2

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u i o v a l j o ft) I k r r hi . i : i r. ros 1 1 s. "The lung agony i o'tr.'1 The Presi. dent ha determined on removing the public ilopo-itf 9 from the vaults of the United State Hunk, and transferring them to ihosn of the State Hank. We believe fin's measure as unwise ns it is unjust. It df jttiovs :t once the unity ot Gen. Jackson's cabinet proper, although it is doubt less much in unison with that which is U-U 1 11 v denominated the Kitchen. He has formed this decision in direct opposi lion t le opinion of Messrs. Mr-Lane, Cass and Duane .1 majority of his cahi net, Mr. Duane, it is eaid, will retire

from his offire, and another Secretary ol,, whicu , M(eve original!y a1. the Treasury must be appointed rot !e.,ret u xe Kentucky Intelligencer over more talented or more honest but onejthe initials "J C. C " That such a promore subservient to the powers "behind ;duc!ion should be admitted into any parte throne." May there not be another;!'" P"" ,hf Vl,Uf S"l ,, ,. .. many very minute and authentic de.-crip-rupture in his cab.net equally disgraceful jjif)i; t,)lt ,...,, Leeu nen ol hii bziUe, and disastrous as the first? lu this act! bucked by the irrefutable testimony ol there ha been a violation of the compact 'those who had the honor of being engaged between the Gov ernment and the Bank, in !; . mre than strange ;-but that it 'should tind its way into the columns ot a which it was understood that the deposite9 ne(a,er pubtished in Knox County, in should rem tin in the latter during the ex- the State of Indiana, and its numerous, istence of the charter. It i9 in opposition egregious falsehoods remain for six weeks t j a report of the special agent of the unreplied to, is, to me, really surprising. -.. . . , , , .The object of the w liter is so badly Treasury Depa.tment, who reported l;cIoJlked hal , ea)y cr(; ,hl8 expect the last session of Congress in favor of j!o see ,,orne pf our cnizeus, more convertheir continuance there. It is in opposi-'sant with the facts in relation to that hard lion to the wishes of a majority of the aught battle, step boldly forward to de- , , , ., . teat it. lie ha3 most unnecessarily and, I last Congres, who sanctioned that report ... , , , , , - . ,,' & ' r think, unfairly endeavored to elevate the by their deliberate and solemn vote. It char.,cter ol the gallant Daviess at the i?, we believe, in opposition to the wishes fxpense, not only ol truth, tui to the uisof a Urge majority ot the people of the paragement (done of tlie bravest sol. Iter.United States In this act of the 'res.- anil1ul0Sl I',MO,,c me ni C"U',1' try has produced i mean -VJhjoi uei.eral dent, we think we can read too much of William jjenr;y l,irijSu. ,'erh;ip sone

personal and v inflictive feeliog too liitle ,erd for the inte.ests of the public T1; TnPfiQ,.lfpai . , 1 he United States Band will now have to

tunai. ,3 oicounls ana auu a nun.irea man,,er) tnall have been voluntarily tenfold to the commercial distress which now dcied ty those who served under him, nrntT'itlj la it -i Ira a; fa .lo.,ns;inrt nl Mllll of COI11SP OUht tO ItllUlV llHTl best

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Hiomil.il mnnpv nmv il,an it a, w ti c re v e i' ill- cnaiactei nas nee n a 1 1 acli " 1 c " " ' " i J ' " " the publ.c money now, than .t was la t m tliem r,ot!tv men under the command ot Captain winter, when a majority of the people s men ae b no fIJl.dn3 txceplt(j; ,Hlt I3jG -ligrr, also from Jeffonon County, Kenrepresentatives decided so emphatically not at this day, and tu this country that j w ho a!I behavt-t! like heroes. The inrtsfavor? U it less safe than the State the fame ol smh a m ... as Harrison can i valry , and Colonel Wells and Major Banks? Have the people forgotten the be tamtshed by the caiumn.es of any ano i 0.vn. composed the whole n ";1'j;; . f c. 1 . & ... ,. nymous scribtder. It .e,t, uKon ar, inn, re in the engagement; they eie tvant ot confidence in those institutions J . . . , , , ' j nof ',n(rprJ i)n niivate citizens, who lishable foundation, having b come so in-' n(" rangers, on puaic tiuro., nw Which once prevailed all over the lan I? cr,)0rale,i ulc lt.iy ot the tun--, I voIup.'pi rc d their service;, and were com When went there by a time when a Bill;"that tiied men's souls," that every lover j missioned t.y Governor Harrison. of the U. States Bank was d.shonored?-;of his country will ind.gnantly spun, at "J C C " also asserts, that the site of . . - . I.,nv attint)t lo ca?.t the .ii:rhiet siimi '-he encampment was pomtefl out bv the There is no doubt in any unprejudiced d tem1 lo ,clst 1 e sll1"'1 . ,. . . , c..,umnv . . ,Uon his etiaracter either as a man or asi,n"lini 1 13 an 01(1 t,,lumn) ,inl one and well informed mind ot its solvency ja SQ,j ier (er (j,e battle ot TippecauueJ war'd suppose it ought to have been put

Oow 1 tic re can ue none. r ne people! Will feel the consequences of this hasty . .... . c , . and impolitic act ot Gen. Jackson, by . etill greater moneyed pressure. If e -

mistake not, the next congress will con - rlcmo it with a voice which cannot be ... ., n . oi-understood We consider the Pre?t-!nefn

e'ent's reasons for his action on this matter j rntirelv unsatisfactory. Mr. Van Buren.'1t we are afraid, has been too much consulted,nnd has had too much influence in this decision

We have made these remarks not trom'irinst the Indians on the Wabash. Gov. !

an overweening desire to support the l.'ernor Harnson has, in the opinion at tin, :"' 'nflineil to camp at some c r, , ur . ,r , , c . n , 'legislature, behaved like a hero, a patriot,; 0,her l"are- py made no remon S.I.ank. We want a United States Bank a gen;ra. aml lhttl 1()r hw f , strances against it-neilher did they dare of some kind. We care not how many : ll)erate kjltul aoi gallant conduct, in the lo romplain of it. No ofiicer or soldier wise modifications the present one mavibite battle of Tippecanoe, he well de-' k"ew wUo elected it, excepting those who

(Indereo. We care not t if it give place to . I ,V. . do believe that it is a better one But we

I.tniucMj legislature j by far the safest depository of the public: par i,e it tiom me to utter a syllable to1 money in the land, and we much fear the' the prejudice of the valiant Joe Daviess,! i H l , , . .1 ,i nr wterm.t m ttip -lihte-l decree to dpOeoide wdl have reason to lanieut that the,r ,ulempi, in ine siijjuitsi ot gite, ue IV irrt from the . haracter of the brave

President has used so high handed a mea suie as to make the transfer to the State Bank in opposition to Ihe views of a mau r.hin, t nr.,1 n I Conore,., jy.i.j u. 3 ,

We scarcely open a newspaper wh,chlnmed out, and of a Slate which certainly I , f ; -A id. d furnish three fourths of the heroes that' 13 not crowded w ith scores ot suicides, as-. . rp u . hornrpfl at 1 innecanoe. I cantiot conent

eassinations, attempts at assassination, n,l nrnirrrn.o, :.n.l m p I n rif h nl v d l 5M st e r. Never was the United States so complete-! ly destitute of human reason as at the pre sent tune. England, it will be remem. bered, was at one time, famous for suicides, but times have changed, and vice tcrsa. Edwin Ilandolph, son of the late Peyton Randolph, of Richmond, Va, lately left this sublunary" sren of action bv committing suicide, at Charlestowo, Va. We take pleasure in calling the atten lion of the reader to the communication of "W " in to day's paper; inasmuch as facts are therein contained, in relation to the battle of Tippecanoe, (a partial description of which was published in the tenth number of the Gazette,) of which we were before totally ignorant. ele ii should never have appeared in the col atnns of this paper. We are not only willing, but it always affords us great plea ore in correcting any and every error f hicb may obtrude itself upon

Mr. ETmn C Forest, the celebrated j

American tragedian, has been engaged by ,i,P manager of the Louisville Theatre. He appeared, 00 toe v e n i n cr of the 28th tilt, in hi favorite character of Damon. .Mr. Knight has also been engaged, and made her appearance on the same even in j. The Races, which are to take place on the Vinrenne Course, have been postponed from the 17th to the 31st inst. Mr. M. R. Triniide, will, on to-day and to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, A. M. preach at the new Court House Several other preachers are expected. FOR THE VINCLNNES GAZETTE Ar. Editor, In your Gazette of the 17th of August, you have published an aiticle untie r the 'i.e.. ..I " w'Cltrt n.ittlo iirmind nt Tinne. of our military men ever nceived muie

Oatf-ring test.mon.als of approbation, ,.r'- ' f tell noo.y in ner cau.e ij ui more enthusiastic encomiums both tor bis the w, II earned laurels ot others, equal y , , , . , , i.nvp nul to the full as patriotic, should private worth and Ins ability as a com- ' l,,ve' ,intI lo 1 1,1 lrtl"

I J c .ill his conduct as a military oincer was nan jtonly assailed in the State of Kentucky ,! 'aud elsewhere, tv a tew cowardly wretchi ... .." .1 1 1 : 'es v ho "hated the excellence thev could ;, Their atlemnts to lovv'er linn 1 j, the estimation of the American peopie proved entirely abortive as might have ; I ripen exoecied lor ve find that fie same j "l lcl, ' 101 He uuu mdl "e 85 m,L 1 : .tMr.-:,tive bodv th,i weot n. to mourning jyhe loss ot Colonel Da ie, and others the verv same session, a.itl ouiv a short: period alter the battle, 1 winch w-is still . "

the suiject ot much discu-si m,) adopted r ,u",ul ,v" seiei-.c-u u.e si;e 01 me almost unanimously the following resold camp th in "J C. C " himself did , and it lion, viz; "That" m the late campaign'"' ost "s-uiedly not a fact, that "many

seives the warmest th inks of tne nation " ( See joint resolutions of bulk houses of the , . . J J

Keu(uckians u h() tiie happme:i3 o2 j otlier3 l-etter qnlified, may be induced to; 9emrt, under him on that memoiatde oc- t:kc up the cudgels whenever they meet! casion? But as a citizen of obi K(JX Uv ith wilful misreptesentations in relation County, which alone furnished more thanl to l- h 13 ,!,le 10 our country, inasmuch;

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hor-;tostlft a the honor conferie.l on Kentucky,''' wl" VPn,ure 10 6i,.V, 'hat the statements 1 1 1. .n r.n eriivell dowilhf.nl lienor ,i''baVP illldewill be found tobeStMClly

lhe credit given to her sons, when I doj4,irett The good old County of Knox,

I know that it is justly, and almost entirely,! due to our own. What are the assertions' of J. C. C, and what are the facts? He has the affrontery to say, that the victory was achieved by Colonel Daviess, and "a few hundred mounted Kentucky rangers," when, it is a fact, that all the volunteers from that Stale in the whole army did not amount to above sixty or seventy men, and of these, nearly one-half were not under the command of Daviers when the corps led on by that gallant individual, consisted of only twenty one or two at the most, of w hich, not rnoie than five or six ivere Ken Uf kians and more particular ly, when "the charge" made bv him and theie utterly failed, leaving aft ns in a much woise situation than they were be fore he he tded it! Oi Daviess's particular command, (the Dragoons, I have gleaned the following tacts which may tie relied on as correct It consisted of one troop of seventy men lit tor duty, nn the night of the engage nent from Knox County, one other troop )f about torty men trorn Clark County, and one small troop from (tJejferson County, Kentucky, Phe latter had not

more than 25 men, perhaps, thirty at the

extent of it; and if to these are added the four or live young gentlemen who came with Davifs, you have all the Keniuck ians who were in the squadron command ed by that officer, who acted at the time under an Indian commission, given to him by General Harrison. Is it not monstrouslv absurd then, to impute the victory of Tippecanoe, to the Kentudiians, when if it had deeu acmevcu uj ir. a maml, the proportion of Kentuckians wns to tho'se of Indiana, as 30 or 35 is to 110 or 120? Iiut the most singular part of this infamously false statement, is, that it boldly claims the victory for Daviess, when the only charge" made by him was totalbj unsucctssful ! He only ordered what be called his "first section," consisting of twenty or twenty two men on this service, and one-half of these had passed the line of infantry, "hen he and wi.iia foil The few that made the miiiv charge with them were driven back in confusion, and they had to repulse the savages several times, ere they succeeded in carrying the body of Daviess into the camp. In consequence of this unfortunate failure. General Harrison was com pelled to cause the Indians tha.t Davif-ss had attacked, to be dislodged by Captain Snelling's company of U S Infantry. The writer in the Intelligencer sajs "defpnf Ktjirpd ihe white men in the face, and the chill look of death was setting in eve

ry countenance. Hie ui avesi ipi.tocu,i uimi nireu man nan gone aw,y , on itur&c Lc."1 Base calumniator, who quail i dav , I asked Mr Say le for rive dollars, as ed ? Did Harrison? Spencer? McNahan?. I wanted a hat and soaie other articles. Bern ? Warrick? Why the battle had j He gave me a five franc piece. This 1

ti'i i f .....Irt.i I hardly commenced when Daviess fell j What had happened before he received I

M9 mortal wounii was urn - prtn-mug jusm.c on- a jem u I'uuif. i nau ; lauon ; nut w nen animaieu, u rings uu hjz whnt afterwards took place, in resisting : made my preparations by cleaning the 'ear like a clarion. the repeated attacks of the savage toe stable properly , and feeding the gray mare j As an orator. I should imagine Mr. Webduiing the hour and a half immediately more than I did the hore. 1 then went'ster's forte to be in the department of pure afttr the bod v cf poor Daviess had been: to town, and got some cider and segars, reason. 1 cannot conceive his even'at

earned oft the held. It was subsequently j to his fall too. that Spencer s company first, and Spencer's and Robh's company's attenvards lesisted with signal success, the several very desperate charges made; upon them, by al least, uve nines men numbpr. 'The brave and excellent Joe Daviess" well deserves to be honored by his coun- . . i . i . i . FIp tf-ll nohlv in her cause. But net be rudely plucked from their brows to add to his fame. Besides the cavalry I have mentioned, i. i. i . i Ihnrn ... . o L; rr i II s-mMUnV lit !4lllllt InlT ,101,.., mr muiumijfunnuscniiiMwih rtUc p"can,pmen( ' w lay lor, and General M in miiiMciinn niiti 11,0 O i-.r 10 cnf.ju.Htion wun the viar Dj ftitt seiect ttie encampment, viz: iieneG. Clark, arter Master General of the Arrny, (Piatt.) whose duly lt xvas lr 'ect the sp.it for it. Mit ject ,10WP.vpr ,0 ,he a.piol ation of General rr'on- referring to the statements fratiat. J, , n , , ,, T ot General I ay lor, Colonel Piatt, in Daw 3 ,ris narrative of the serv ices of General! Harrison,, p 220, the conviction is clear .!... i.i: 1 r-"" ' " . ue n" t!,e olnrers doubted the faith ot the lo ,ciuany uiu pncn upon it whom 1 have ilWpuh' mentioned Believing nn I reallv do. thnt tbp rhn. i J racter nl Indiana, as well as her old favor i,e General llarrison, is involved in the publication in the Intcltiecncer, I have venj lure' to Sil 'his much, in the hope that as it is an important item in its historv. as! -Jl - 1 1 , ... tl... . . i . . I .1 . II 1 "c" ttle JrJth f:iceiJ falsehoods should be tradited However olam ' " ,c'cl p.am wen is 10 uie eaus;e oi iruin, tnai an uarepromptly con my language, " "" irK"' niiauuy, u lr,,0P dragoons, ami two companies of, --.I'll l . - -.-- i mounieii mienien, in me action ot l ippe-j U I i t r canoe, under the command of one who, for:

a ioog penou, nai.eu ner so-i as tits uo.ME, as jt ,vere. a household word. Many dis(in which, around his domestic hearth,: :im),.0ve his noliiics. but none denv bi

with old-fashioned, genuine hospitality, he, for many years held the most friendly in-1 tercourse with her citizens.) never will ,Iuhi.c.j piI,u.ii.i .-ee. ,:u unjuauy ue prived of those laurels for which be so, gallantly risked h-s life. W. September 21th, 1833 cori.ssiu.s or hi: ijlanc. rm i . i . rne last number ol the JNew Jersey Advocate, contains the confessions of Lei lilanc, who was executed on Friday the! Cth of September. The following is an extract ; I had not lived with Mr. Sayre more than a week before 1 saw that I was con sntereu more as a menial servant than a1 common hired man. As soon as my work; was done for the day, I had something to do abent the house, euch as feed the hog?,

take care of Hie horse?, cut wood ami bring it in, carry water, and the like, and was under the servitude of the servantaround the house. 1 was further convin ced of this when my lodgings was ex changed for one of very inferior quality I plainly saw that as I was a stranger am. a foreigner, unacquainted with the custom and manners ot the country, I should" be made a miserable beast of burthen, if I suffered it, to whom no pay would be re turned but my food. From these considerations engendered the fust idea ot mur der and plunder. 1 had longed to be in possession of sufficient money to either send it to my betrothed Maria, or go to her. I saw that Mr. Sayre paid out and received considerable, and believing from my treatment I should never be able to

earn enough by my labor, these murderous thought! often came into my mind. 1 then began to pray to God to prevent me from committing so great a sin. Every time I thought of it I began to pray. T3ut I found that God had left me: 1 had not confessed for ten years. These ideas were coutinually recurring to me whilst I was at my daily labor, and my treatment determined me. 1 had formed ny plans, but 1 waited several days for their daughter JMarv to return, that I might murder her also, as she had a gold watch which I wanted. Finding that she did not return, and that 1 daily became the more degraded in my own eyes, after tu..:. l' i i t. considered an insult, for I had worked hard for him, and was willing todothe ann men went to a tavern, at which 1 had ieen once before, and took a glass of bran

dy and a segar; this was done to pass much knowledge of his own powers to cnaway the time until the people had gone counter failure In debate his very coun-

to bed. I went home a liitle after ten o'clock, and remained around the barn

sorre time, and then went into the kitchen Jof that eye, so cold, so keen, so penetrawhere I found Mr Sayre shaving. I pre-;tiri, so expressive of intellectural power, tended to be frightened; and told him by A single look would be enough to wither words and signs that something was wrong up a whole volume of bail logic, at Ihe stable I ran out and stood inside i In the Senate, I had , unfortunately , no the stable door some time, with a spade iopportunity of hearing Mr Webster disin my hands, waiting for him to come. At play hi-great powers as debater. Durlengih I saw him coming, w ith a candle in ing my slay the subjects on which he haphis hand, and as he came into l he stable. pened to speak were altogether of inferistruck him down with the back of the'or inteiest In the Supremp Court ho spade, on the left side of the head, which delivered seveial legal arguments which killed him without a struggle . I gav e himjeer tr.inly struck me as admirable, hoth in another blow on the forehead to make sure regard to matter and manner. The lat work of it, and then dug a hole in the 1 ter was neither vehement nor subdued. heap of manure, dragged him into it, and It was the manner of conscious power, covered him up As soon as he fell, 1 tranquil and self possessed, thiew the candle on the plank near by, to Mr. Webster may be at once acquitted pre vent any light shining out and espusiug of all participation in the besetting sin9 me. j of his age and country I even doubt, J then w ent into the kitchen and decoy, j whether, in any single instance . he ran be ed Mrs. S .yre out in the same way. She fairly charged with utteiing a sentence of came out in a hurry, but without any mere declamation. His speeches have light, and as soon as she got past the shed, 'nothing about them of gaudioess anil glit1 strurkher with the same weapon withjter. Words with him are instruments, not which I had killed her husband. It being! ends; the vehicles, not of sound merely, dai k. the blow glanced she screamed; I j but of sense and reason. He utters no gave her another, but with like effect, sheiperiods full of noise and fury, like the

screamed again and again, clinging hold ot me, and begging tor her life; and it was not until 1 rave her several blows:

that I brought her to the ground. 1 gotipraved, when an orator like Mr Webster,

tired of striking her with the spade, and 'hen 1 kicked her on the head with rny heavy shod boot She died a terrible death, and I see her every time I close my eyes to sleep. When I found she was dead, I covered her up in the same heap ot manure, and rolled the plaster over the blood which had run from her head whilst Iwa9 murdering her I then went into the kitchen with a club in mv hand.

look a light, wvn: softly up stairs to thecountry. As a politician, the opinions of garret, where Phebe, the colored wornan,i Mr Webster are remarkably free from was sleeping, and with a single blow, she ! intolerance. He is one of the tew men in passed into an eternal sleep. The blood : America who understand the British Co'nspouted into my face and on my vest and ! stitu'ion, not as a mere abstract system of hands; she did not stir after I first struck Jlaw? and institution?, but in its true form I then took the chisels which I had seen jand pressure, as it works and acts on the the carpenter put into the corn stalks, and i people, modified by a thousand influences.

opened all the drawers and trunks in the nousu my oijeci was oniy m-me) . i he i rnir.A. i rm ' silver money found in the belt around me, belonged to Mr S as also the change the Sheriff took from my pocket, except a lew sh.l hngs left from the five franc piece which Mr Sayre cave me. - w From Hamilton's Men and Manners in America DANIEL WEliSTLIt. Phe person however, who has succeede(J jn rivetting most strongly the attention ot t,e whole Union, is undoubtedly Mr. Webster. From the Gulph of St. "Law -

rence to that of Mexico, from Cure Sablei'ecl impunity. 1 he tact is ct much ira . i i i i .

to Lake Superior, his name has become, greaf talents, his unrivalled fertility of argUment, or his power, even dill more remarkable, of rapid and comprehensive induction. In short, it is universally be iievcd by his countrymen, that Mr Web s(er is a gre;lt man; and in this matter certainly make no pretensions to singularity of creed Air Webster is a man ol whom any country might well be proud His knowledge is at once extensive and minute, his intellectual resources very great; and, whatever may be the subject discussion, he is sure to shed on it the ugni oi an aciive, acute, and powerful minil . I confess, however, I did meet Mr, Webster under the influence of some pre judices. i rom the very day of my arrival in the United btates, I had been in voluntarily familiar with his pretensions Gentlemen sent rue his speeches to read When I talked 'of visiting Boston, tho ob-

servation uniformly follow. 'Ah'.ih, :e v ou will see Mr Webster.' When I reach ed Boston, 1 encountered condolence oii ,il hands. You are very unlortunate said my friend, 'Mr. Webster set out yes;erday for Washington.' Whenever at Philadelphia and Lbillimore, it became known that I had visited Boston, the question 'Did you see Mr. Webster? was a sequence as constant and unvarying as that of the seasons. The result of all this was, tint the name of Webster became invested in my ear with an adventitious cacophony. It is not pleasant to admire upon compulsion, and the very pre eminence of this gentleman has-been converted into somethingof a bore. To Washington, however 1 came, armed with letters to the unconscious source of my annoyance. The t;rst night of my arrival I met him at a ball. A dozen people pointed him out to my observation, and the first glance riveted my attention I bad never seen any countenance more expressive of inlelleclual power. The forehead of Mr. Webster is high bioad,and advancirg. The cavity beneath the eyebrow is remarkably large, The eye is deeply sst, but full, dark nmi

penetrating in the highpst degree ; the nose iprominent, and well defined , the mouth !m irked by the rigid compression of the lips t.y which the New Englanders are tl is jtingufshed. When Mr. Webster's coUntenance is in repose, its expression struck me as cold and forbidding, but in conversation it lightens up; and when he smiles. the whole impression it communicates is at once changed His voice is clear, sharp 'and firm, without much variety of modutempting an appeal to the feelings It 'could not be successful; and he has too ;tcnance must tell . Few men would haz j ard a voluntary sophism under the glance voice of an idiot, signifying nothing; and it certainly exhibits proof that the taste of the Americans is not yet irretrievably dewho despises all the state and petty trickeiy of his art, is called by acclamation to the first place. In conversation, Mr. Webster is particularly agreeable, ll seems to delight him when he mingles with his friends, to cast joff the trammels of weighty cogitation, and merge the lawyer and the statesman in the companion; a more pleasant and in structive one I have rarely known in any of which his countrymen in general know lothing. Remarkable Coincidence. Mr. HawIcy has published a communication in the Adveitiserat Rochester, stating that on the same day General Arnold died in En-, eland, the oak tree, under which Messrs, Van Wart and Williams captured Major Andre, in Tarry town, was struck with lightning and shivered to pieces. The poison of the snake is only veno mous when it mixes with blood, and it may ! ,JP swallowed into the stomach with perr f e . portance, and should be universally be. lirved, for confidence in its truth may bo the means of saving much suffering. Forgeries. On the 9th inst. a check lor jjJ.j.oSU was presented at the Bank of Philadelphia, and paid; on the same day another check for 3.500 was presented at the Farmers' and Mechanics' Rank, and another for 1,500, at the Commercial Rank, both of which were paid. After the hour of closing the Ranks, all theso checks were discovered to be forgeries. The perpetrator at the last accounts had not been detected. A reward of 1000 dollars is offered for his apprehension. Louisvills Herald. irciicntal Death. A youth by the nnn;3 of U'imjam Mar i nett, was accidrntly killrd, at the residence of Mr. Berry, on the St. Charles road on Sunday last. We understand that l.o met Id? death by the load of a gun, placed lor a moment near him, and which w:!5 discharged l v a fortuitous Mow of a horse's foot, 'flit: boy survived but for a fe w hours ot I'jC wound . 6'J. Louis Ti s after the irdlic-