Vincennes Gazette, Volume 4, Number 44, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 April 1835 — Page 2

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Vi'NCTNNES. S T ' I A ' a rim, i, i83.-. W e have received the Circular of our Representative in Congress, the Hon John Ewing, and shall lay it hefore our readers next week. It is a lucid and manlv expose of the last winter''? Con gressional proceedin-gp, and will r.nsnly compensate any one for the trouble of jierusing it. We heartily concur with Mr. Ewing in many of his views. We think it high lime that our Representative in Congress should act for ua, and not for Gen. Jackson and his party. To do thif, they must be untrammelled by party restraints; they must be elected upon higher considerations than those of serving party purposes. We should lock to their firmness and capacity to advance our interests, unawed by tLreats and uneeduced by the blandishmenti of power. We cannot serve God and mammon, nor can a repiesentative serve the people and party; for in high party times, the interests of the people are completely merged in the interests of party. It is also true, that the power and patronage of the Execute e have increased to an dancing extent, and we must take some steps to curtail them, if we wish to perpetrate our liberties and to hand them dovn to posterity unimpaired. This alarming growth oi" Executive power, is in a great measure the fruit of partyism; and when the fruit is so poisonous and fatal to liber ty, there can La no doubt but that the tree itself should be cut down. Mr. Ewing in the codc sion of his Circular, pre texts himself for reelection. Ifdevoted-j ness to business, experience, honesty and j ability in discharge of the various duties attached to the responsible office of leiiresentin our interests in uongiess, te , , r T i i any recommendation, Mr. Lwmg a chaoc J must le jrood: and lor the welfare

good; and for the welfare ofmen

the Wahnsh country, we would be pleased to see him re-elected. We are authorized to announce H. M. Shaw as i candidate for the Senate, at the ensuing August election. We ere authorized to announce R. N. Carnan, Eq. as a caodidate for Repre. sentatire at the ensuing August election. We are authorized to announce John Myers as a candidate for Representative, nt the approaching Auguit election. from the Kiansville Journal. We regret that we are called upon to give the following communication to the public. No presiding Judge, io this circuit, was ever deservedly more popular, and no one ever stood higher in the estimation of the bar as a jurist, presiding officer, or a man. than Judge Hall. Under such circumstances, it is to be regretted, that while in the midst of usefulness, and :n full possession of the confidence of the .iizen generally, he should determine to re tii e from public service. To the Editor of the Evansville Journal. Dear Sir: You will confer a favor by announcing to the public, in your next paptr, that before leaving Evansville, thia morning, I forwarded to the Governor, my resignation of office as President Judge of this judicial circuit. At the commencement of the present circuit, it was no; my intention to resign until the close ot the spring terras; but haviner' business of importance to transact at the east which requites my attention, I concluded to embrace the opportunity presented by the vacancy between the court in Vanderburgh and that of Warrick, to lender my resignation to the Governor, and give an opportunity for the appointment of a successor. Vour humble servant. SAMUEL HALL. Princeton, March 23, 1835. TIIE NEWS ritO.H FRANCE Which will be found in the Patriot of this evening: is of the most erralifvinr character. Every thing is now indicative of the passage of the American bill, by the French Chambers of Deputies, ?nd consequently, of a speedy adjustment of all difficulties between that country Bnd our?. Most happily, for the onward march of Republican principles- most happily, for the continuation of that long cherished und deep rooted friendship which has existed betwixt the two most Republican nations ef the globe most happily for the preservation of blood and treasure, and for the cause of humanity. Frncf. and America are not going to war. In contemplating this most auspicious result, the mind naturally inquires, l whe e or what means has it been brought abcit ? And can such an inquiry come up in the mind of any man, of whatever partv he may be. without the name of Henry Clav being immediately a.sooin teo v. ith that inquiry! To his masterly report upon the French question, and the prompt and unanimous action upon it, by the Senate, may justly tie ascrrjoij uu? I eaceful setUfffieut of or difficulties with

France. Had the Senate (fte n0Mnrcf

Striate! granted the request of General Jackson, instead of following the counsel of Henry Clay, what would have been the character of the newt from France. which we. should have had to lav he lore our readers this evening? Can any one fail to imagine what it mould nut have bten Luckily for America, she has a Senate! and luckily for her also, she has in that Senate, u Clav, a Webster, and a Cal SiOt'N We rdore no man such reverence belongs not to man but we do admire the handy work of Henry Clay, which is so clearly seen in all the great measures which, for the last twenty years, have redounded to the honor and prosperity of f ur country. Who, in Congress, during the last war. led the debates in its support. nlead for, and cheered on, our army and navy? Who wn9 the great mediator between the desperate contending parties the Missouri Question: Who plead ear neatly for, and accomplished more than aov man in the Union, towauls the iude -

peodence of the Sou;!i American States? It was extensively rumored that the Who plead the cause oi the suffering King had made an overture preliminary Grerhs? Who, ly his indefatigable la-1 to Earl Grey, to return again to the gov bors, marie proselytes to, and carried .ernment, and that his Lordshsp had givthrough Congress, a Tariff, who has paid , en a conditional assent. The Dublin off the National Debt, built up slupen- j Evening Post says it has reason to know dous woiks of Internal Improvement, jthat the statement ia substantially true. made our people independent of foi eign j Whereupon the Lodcn Morning Post cxmanufactures, in case there should beaidaims Fudge! war, and the country rich and prosperous? j "Intelligence has been received of the Who threw himself into the breach be- jloss of the tine American ship Lion, which tween the Nullifiers of the South and the 'sailed from Liverpool on Friday. She

friends of manufactures at the Noith.was hound to New Orleans, and was when the administration, with all its non- 'commanded bv Cant. Purslev. Brother of

olanty, could do nothing, and gained , by Capt. Dursley, of the American Packet (he " coin romise bill" for the friends of ship Orpheus. The crew consisted ot manufactures, and for the whole country, ; fourteen men, including the Captain. that which no i. .n else could gain? Who She stiuck on a ledge of rocks about two now, by a report on the French question, 'o'clock on the morning of the 1st of FtbcoccheH in such noble and dignified terms, , ruary, a short distance from Port Patrick, that, although it eevetely rebuked the nearer to the Irish than the Scotch coast, rashness of the Executive, )ct received j The wind nt the time was blowing fresh the unanimous support of its friends iOifromthe north weft , and she immediate the Senat, has been the means of notonly jly went to pieces. Three of the crew sue preventing hostilities with France, pei jceeded in teachhg the nearest land , and

hap?, but causing her, by peaceable means, to pay us whal the threats of theExecu-jcf

tivc could never extcrt from her? Otherja watery grave. The Lion sailed from great and splendid achievment9 of the ;the highly respectably housa of Ilagger-

u"s l,c ' merated ; but it is unnecessary here to do i ,. . , . c,. !f - IIipv' live in tnp ln-arl nl Ina rnnntrvThe Administration Pres? will of course say the indemnity would have been paid had it it not been for Mr. Clay's report and its adoption by the Senate, and the previously received ne.wa from France will be quoted to prove that there was rvery prospect of the payment of our claim, before Mr. Clay's report reached France. Very well ; there was to be sure a prospect of its payment, but let the Adruin h In 'ion press tell on w hat grounds! It was solely on the grounds that the French Chambers wished to keep honored the good faith of their nation, and because they believed Congress would not fane lion the war message of the Executive. This it was, and this only, that caused the general hope and belief that the treaty would be sanctioned by the Chamber of Deputies. Had Mr. Clay's report coincided with the sentiments of the President's Message, Jand receiver! the sanction of the Senate, who believes the Chambets would have sanctioned the treaty ? No, they wouWl not have been forced into it, but would have deemed that they had tuQrcient cause to reject the treat)', even at the hazard of breaking the good faith of the nation. To Henry Clay, then, whose capapacious mind clearly foresaw the diticulties on every side, which attended the subject upon which he was to report, and who always knows what and how much to my ir report, or tale paper, which concerns other nation a well as our own, as well as he knows what and how much to say, and how to say it loo, io a speech before Congress, touching our oe n interual ailairs, and to the benate ot the United States, belong the credit of amicably settling our diflitul'ies with France. The Administration Prees may labor incessantly to take that honor from them; but it cannot do it. The peoplo know where the honor lies, as well as they know whose object to create a -jcar has, as there is ever reason to hope, been most signally aod triumphantly frustrated. Bi.i!t. Put. From the Ga2tite Di France, February. The Times gives long extracts from the American journal? of the 10th of Jan uary. It was Mr. Clay, according to the N. York vommeicial Advertiser, who read in the Senate the report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, on the affair of the twenty-live millions with France. This document is voluminous. In substance, it recommends the adoption of milder measures, at Ieat, until further ndvices. It expresses the hope that the efforts of the King end his Ministers would prevail over the factious opposition which formerly appeared to negate the Chambers of Deputies in France. It concludes by eiying, that the lime has not yet come to invest th President of the United States with power to order hostile repriaals against France. ENGLAND. Strength of the MiNrsmr. The Mornir-g Post says the feeling of confidence and attachment to the Administra lion of Sir R. Peel gains giound and increases with unexampled iapidity. Scarcely a dav elap .i without some frech manifestations of the growing strtrgtli of the great body of Conserv.?ives, and additional demonstrations of feebleness on the part ef our facticious antagonists. j The insolent tcue of Llusler drops by im -

petcc - ptible degrees ido the querulru3 pc

centf of comrlaint. 'I he loud denuncia tiers of successful hostility are gradualy converted into the gentle remonstran ces ot discomfited opposition. Viewed, then, in every possible and imnginaMe jlight, the prospect of "merry England" is brightening. A lewweeks moie, and the measures of the Ministry of Sir II Peel, combined with the characters of the men composing it, will have emned the support and approval of all -a hose support and approval aie valuable, and will liave extorted even fiom its former opponentsthe praise and admiration which even they dare not deny to triumphant honesty, integrity, and ability. The opposition are making active preparations to oppose the election of Sir Charles Manners Sutton to the Speaker's '.Chair. Mr. Ahercrombie is their candsdate, but his friends say he declines cphvassing for himself. The Sun caut-.ons the Reformers against the rumor that Sir Charles intends to withdraw, 89 being "an invention of the enemy," to throw them off their guard. were saved ; but the rem amder, consisting the captain and ten men, have found ............ from Hie Cincinnati Gazette. INDIAN Itroil.NISCENCES. We find the following iu the Steubenville Herald of March 1 1 : "Mr. John Adams, a respectable inhabitant of this county, called upon us a few days ago, with a bullet that had bepn cut out of a large sugar tree, on his farm, by Mr. Andrew Uuchanao, while engnged in felling the tree. Mr. Adams is of opinion (and there can hardly be a doubt of its correctness) that this bullet was lodged in the tree while asapling, at Juskirk's battle with the Indians, more than forty years ago, Mr. Adams' farm having been the battle ground . We do not recollect that we ever heard the particulars of the battle, until related to us by Mr. Adams, although we think the fact that there had been such a battle was among other things mentioned to us by Mr. William Floyd of this county, who, in early times, was well known a a skilful an intrepid Indian hunter in this section of country. It seems that a party of Virginiaas, tindiog (hat some Indians had been committing depredations on this side of the river, crossed over under Captain Buskirk, and, although on the lookout for the enemy, were tired upon from an ambuscade on Mr. Adams' land, situate on what was then called Indian Cross Creek, at the mouth of v hat is still called Battle Ground Run. The Virginian fotce consisted of thirty-eight men, nnd the Indians twenty-eight Captain Buskirk was killed, having received thirteen bullets in Lis body, and three of his men were wounded. The loss of lha Indi u us was not precisely known, but it was ascertain ed that three of their number were killed; they were, howe ver, defeated, and compelled to retreat to the Muskingum. Adjoining Mr. Adams' tarm, is mat mow owned by Judge llanock) on which the celebrated Lojan breathed hia last, and where his remains aie deposited. The tree iu which the bullet was found is now about two feet in diameter, in the centre of which, about four feet from the ground, was the bullet. The bullet can be seen at this office it was divided in two by Mr. Buchanan's axe." There are several interesting recollections associated with " Uuskirk' 's battle" j here referred to It was fought in Au gust, 1793, and in it was the last blood shed iu battle between the Indians and the whites ou the Ohio frontier of Virginia. The whites were veteran Indian lighters. They were on the trail of the ludians, well knowing the' were near them; yet they marched in t an ambuscade, and but for a most singular circumstance, they would have been mowed down like pigeons. The whites marched in Indian file, the Captain, Buekirk, at their head. The ambush quartered their flank, and they were unsuspicious of it. The plan of the ambush was to permit the whites to advance in numbers along the line before firing upon them. Tuia was done, but instead of each Indian selecting a man, every gun was directed at the Captain, who was shot dead. The whites and Indians instantly treed, and the battle lasted more than an hour. It was ascertained that some Indiana were killed, and some wounded ; but they retieated and carried with them their killed and wounded . Except in he death ef Buskiik, the whiiea were little injured. The falling-into this ambuscade was so 'cut of character with the wariues and

caution of the Indian hunter?, that it w as accounted for in a melancholy incident of ' previous occurrence. In the summer of

1792, one year hefore, two Indians cross ed the Ohio, in the night, and landed under the narrows immediately below the nov village of WellsLurgh. The village then consisted of live or six cabins. CV.pt. Puskirk resided about two miles fiom the point where the Indians landed, diiectly in the countrv, in a neighborhood of stveral plantations. In the foienoon of the day Mrs. Buekirk set out on horseback to vi;dt a neigbor toward the river. In a short time the horse came tunning (mi on sly home, showing the terror which the domestic animals of the day evinced at the eight of the Indians. The truth was instantly understood bv Bus-kirk. The neighbors were alarmed, and as Mrs. Pus-I kirk was not found on the road she had j set on! to travel, the conclusion was cr j tain that she had been made prisoner. To! nif. . . , i ; -. - : i - i i ! uuiuijii untti ii wafrauu'.vu ivi.ijiil lead to her death. The plan of operations was soon formed. No parade or stir was made. Individuals collected ar d explored the river, and, as they expected, found the canoe of th Indians. No doubt was entertained they would approach it in the night. Watches were stationed nt scvernl of the mogt convenient points of approach, for the purpose of rescuing Mrs! busk 1 1 k and destroying her captors Thi r i i i - - ot ntie inn I v ul n.i I. ivlin nnnn .,o !. t. m I iii- i nt ., , f i the Indians annroach with .'Mrs P.mUirlc ' , . . ii luui hiiiv, nunc Buuie uihiii) uiai an-; ...i .i i i- c .1 ) ,, 1 I prued the Indians of their danger. They j returned up the hill, und the w regard to the safely of Mrs ! !" deemed it imprudent to purine, until morning. The trail was then taken, and M rs. Uuskirk found murdered and scalped about a mile from the river. Her ancle was dislocated, ai.d it was supposed that .1 . V . , ' ' . 1 this tendering her unable to travel, was the cause of her murder. Loth the Indians escaped. This sad catastrophe exasperated Capt Buskirk almost to phrenzy, and inflamed him nth an insatiabie thirst for vengeance. Goaded by this feeling, and deeply excited by a hope of its speedy gratification, it was supposed, rendered him incautious and unobservr.nl of facts that would not, in any other slate of mind, j have escaped him, and thus he rushed to his distruction. The murder of Mrs. Buskirk was the last atrocity committed by the Indians east of ihe Ohb from Pittsburgh to Marietta. The Editor of the Gazette was then a lad resident in (he vicinity, anil acquainted with the localities and the parties. The details are now given from recollection; but that recoliec tion is most vivid. The events were too stirring to be forgotten. C3 From the A'ezvark Daily Advertiser. Tilt: Ni;W -JERSEY PlitATES ACQUITTED. We are very much gratified in being able to state explicitly thaf the sUwy IVIl rn ntll onnB i hrnn f h r , 1 1 1 1 f 1, n - i . . . . . -

".&vu. unvuyii me nnuici unueu duhps ::cju r ranee, it has warmcountry, of the plundering of the passeu-' kindness into ardor and ml enthu-iasro.

gers and me wreck ot the ship Sovereign, on the Jersey shore, by the people of the neighborhood, has not the slightest color oi tiuth. We learn from a conversation with the United States Marshal, who?e name has been very freely used on the occasion, that he has ascertained in the most outhetic manner, that the people in the neighborhood are not in the least df-giee culpat'e. The robberies appear to hav e; beeti committed by the sailors and other! ueionging io ine vessel -ou the credit ot the Jersey wreckers. The only lady passenger, (Mrs. Schenley) 9aid to have been robbsd of het wardrobe, watch, and other valuables, staled to the Marshal yesterday , that she jlost only a chain and some email trinkets ol no irai vmuB.anj uiiimeia were ab-l i i i.i .. .:

stracted trom h?r cn board the-vessel . and stern devotion to piinciple fo.bade Daring the thirty ..-ix hours that elie was ,h3jr avt,i!i,,r themselves of such an opwith the wreck end on ebo;c, she saw portunity to rid their own country of the uotiimg of the Ceet of pirates spoken ol,! CKiriC ot ,,e Postmaster General's admin.

and neither saw nor heard ot any improper conduct in the paople of the neighborhood. We are the more gratified in thus being able to relieve the slate from the dis-! grace of the reputed-depredation, because' we had been led to believe that the expo-j sures and arrests in a recentcase, would have the effect to prevent any future out.) rages of the kind. The neighborhood j and state have enough of the past to an.' swer for, and wt enrneslly hope there! may be no cuute ot complaint for the fu lure MAKING ER1CK BY STEAM. We shall soon do every thing by steam steamboats were once a wonder to the ,,, rr c. c. - world. Then came Steam Mills, Steam,- ; P , . r ! l actones, Steam Carriages, and, ,n , ",v l" u -vuimijvi. wmi, hrf litr.u vo . a In I,-. ., c .. .. I -1, ,l ...:.u FACTO-I iy. Some enterprising individuals have' purchased the right of using Sawyer's celebrated Patent Machine, and are ujw' erecting one in the village of Jtffersonville, opposite this city, to bo propelled: by a sufficient steam power to make 200,-' 000 bricks per week. The machine is in' a stale of for watdness, aod can piobably be put in operation in the course of a leiv weeks, so as to supply the spring demanus of this maiket. We have seen a specimen of (he Liicks made upon a machine of this description,,' propelled by a common two-hortt powci,: and consider it a very superior ai ticlr,.--.j Willi a stcm power of ufficient iv eight J ;t is 6.4 i ! 'hat "tfcey can be male " soimj .tijH durable as marble.1 In point of n.-, gnht?i'y and tve.'ne" of th.-ip-, ihev .i'o' intended to compete with the t-',--t ol em'.

ern pressed brick. Specimens of the Li ick may he seen at the office of theManufao tory in Jeffersmiville, a few doors below

the Land Office. Louisville Jour. THE TRUTY-MK. CLAYS REPORT, The Report ot Mr , Clay lrom the Committee ol Foreign Relations of the Senate, on (he question tvith France, first reached Paris by (lie way of England; and the arrival of the Francis I., conveying the unanintou; . -le of the Senate encticnitir the report, was o"ost opportune, and produced at once the happiest intluer.ee in favor of the bill of indemnity. This vote iv as legarded as "a palpable caisurt upon the cla'ise of the Message relative to Vaice." The general aspect of the question was immediately changed. To quote the langu.isre of the Courier's coirespondent, "neither war nor outraged dignity, nor danger to our commercial relations, is longer, thought of. Attention is entirely directed towards the fair amount of liie claims." On the 3lsl of Janunry, M. de Rigny proposed that the Chambers should proceed to consider the project of the law en Monday, the 2d of February. Put Thursday, the 5lh, was ultimately lixed for the pteliminaty dic-u$;sinn. It was riccordingly taken up on the last mentioned dny, and referied to a committee consisting of one fioui each of the nine Bureaux. It is flated that six of this Committee are necidealy ::i tavor oT the law. . . J ' The toilowu.jr is a list of . & the committee, and the views entertain of the treaty. , ,. ., . , according to the authority lint cited : U . . ,,.J. I . uniiiKinii, HI I -I I 1 1' I lii I lb I ;t vorable to the Uw. Mr. Maynard, Miu istei iai.?f , the same. Mr. Dtles?ert was one of t l,o Majority of the last couuni?sioi which was in fvor of the indemnity of twenty-five millions, but he now decfare a .t . i that 1 that he is of a very different opinion, and ie will reouire further documents. Mr h'.e Dumon, Ministerialist, and favoraMr. Ducos require mote document. Mr. Dufuuie, opposed to the pnject, also requires more diplomatic imloimation. Mr. Croissant, faverable. Mr. Fleury le Chaboulon, formerly Secretary to the Cabinet of Napoleon, favorable to the project, and M. de liemusat, the contrary. It is the duly of this committee to examine the whole case, and mnke a circumHantial report a duty upon the discharge of which they entered on the 6th. Bait. Pat. rKOM EMANCF. . We take the pleasure in laying before our readers further intelligence from France. It ia of the most pacific character. It ia calculated to carry Joy to every patriotic heart. The effect tof Mr. Clay's Report and of ihe uuanimous refusal of the Senate to sustsin the warlike recommendations of the President issuch as we have anticipated. The Re-port has hushed, as if by magic, the dark and angry spirit excited by the Executive Message. It has re stored and even increased the feelings of lrienduipso long cherished between the IT '. tri . - 1 r-. t Two greit and powerful nations are indebted to it, under an over-ruling Providence, for their exemption from a long and bloody war, with all its interminable train of calamities and sufferings. Louisville Jour. Wo have the authority of a U. States Senator for saying, that, near the close of lb lit session of Congrees, a movement was made on the part of certain indivdu. als acting of course under the direction of the President , to nfcerfin, whether, if Mr. Barry weie nominated as Miuisttr to Spain, the Senate would confn in him. The proposal, however, wa received so coldly by the Whigs of that body, that the plan was instantly nbandone-d. We a most ifrrtl. that il.ir rnn.i.lprai;nn. istration. lb GOOD The clever (Ohio) Herald thus enumerates the candidates for the Presidency : Martin Van Buren, of A'ew York. Johii McLean, of Ohio. Hugh L. While, of Tennessee. DANIEL WEBSTER or NORTH AM ERICA, Never was there a juster or more happy compliment. Mr. Webstei's is indeed a name which belongs to the whole Union and to all limp. His heart is truly Ameri can, and his fame is the common property of our common country, though it is co"extensive with the civilized woild. He helongs to no state he deseivea to be .1 .1 . ,1 ... u.isi-i-.i Hinuiin uic gi?ai ruimej which k i.. imrnn,t,V..A !. k:. i iu.iiivi ..i.i,.- 11 kj . ina unit "itiivilii; j anl ennnenl description,--!!,,. .. ,1P ' . me Iliitledee. the t inckneys, ihe buninters and the Manons, Aim rirans all w hose fame was no more hemmed in by slate lines, thau their patriotism could l e circumscribed within the same narrowlimits. In their d.iy and generntion, they served the country and ihe xxhole country, and their renown is the treasures of the whole country." Ilrmnrkable sagacity r f a do. The most extrn-rdinaiy ir.-l.ifice ol the sagacity of thi l.iilhfiiJ animal; that e recol!e.l to have I. care', -: urred the othir day in tl.i? ri'y. While the carriage cf Mr. Powell was efar.dinp i'l Sprure-sireet, near Fifth, the hoists become nlaimid und s rt off at fnli spearl. The i.'rg in.tnr. i!i..te!v Pn after tlteru. ;md hv ei.n s the reiief n : S 111 i nih. arid iily ur.ietdeil in i r.T-, t:i ',;,(- flriv er enrne to '" arch's .2 in Vaili; Adv.