Vincennes Gazette, Volume 4, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 May 1835 — Page 1

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VOLUME 4. VINCSNNES, INDIANA, MAY 16, 1S35. NUMBER 5d

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VINCENNES GAZETTE t Published ever) Salvrdnu, Terms ,?2 50, if paid duriTicj the year. $2 00. it" paid in advance. $i 00, if not paid during tho year. 51 25, for six mouths. I aprs discontinued only at the option of tho puontner wnile arrearages are due. Cy-Ad vertisenieiits making one squareorless will he inserted three times tor one dollar, arid twenty-five cents for every subsequent insertion! Innsrer advertisements in the same ratio. Advertisements sent without orders, will in all cases, ha inserted until forbid, anJ charged Hcrordingl y. siiieii articles of produce ns are used in a family, will he receired in payment forsuberiptions, at (he market price, delivered in Viucennes CAKKOTS. The culture of carrots in this couutrv has been but little in practice; but by thoe who have made the experiment, they are found to contain more nutriment than either potatoes or turnip?, and may I e cultivated in far greater abundance, upon the same spare of ground. It is said, and by good authority, that nine bun died nd sixty bushels have been raised upon one acre. The greatest object in cultivating them is for the use of feeding and fattening swine, horses and cattle. They are so easily cultivated, and so hardy, that they may be raised in the fields to great advantage. They will grow well in a foil that is but moderately rich, if it be ploughed deep and made mellow. Owing to the form ot the root ot this plant, and its penetrating so deep into the earth, it is but rarely injured by droughts that cause other vegetation to droop, and many kinds to die. The ground should he ploughed in the fall preceding, and ploughed very deep: it must be well harrewed Dstore sowing, first with a heavy harrow, and afterwards) with a lighter one. After the seed is sown , the ground should be raked, otherwise the seed being s light and of a forked form, if it be harrowed, it will be loo much collected. I have known gead craps raied that were sown as late us the middle of June. The earlier they are sown the larger the)' will grow; but they are not so guad for table use as those which are sown later. There will be no danger in thinning them early, as they are a plant which is seldom diminished by insects. The European farmers raakea practice of harrowing them after they have grown to some bigness. It is said that not one to fifty will be destroyed by the operation; it will loosen the soil, and greatly forward their.gTowth . Bat it will be nd visable to zo among: them after harrow ing, and uncover those which are buried under heaps of mould. It will be found, by those who try the experiment of raising carrots, to be a great improvement iu our present system of agriculture. Advantage of Carrots in fattening Oxen, 4-c. Nothing can exceed this root for fattening oxen; but they should have some sweet hay to eat with it, and they will thrive much better on it if they are stalled. It nourishes them much, and soon makes them fit for tha butcher. Soma oxen will not take to eating them kindly at first. For those they should for n time be parboiled; but they must every day be less and less boiled, till they come to eat them quite raw, which in a little while the nicest will do. I always find carrots excellent fr increasing the milk of cows. Hog are very fond of carrots, and they make them thrive apace; but they should always be given to them boiled, ns they will with great difficulty be induced to eat a sufficient quantity of them raw. It will be proper, however, to give them before they are killed, either a few bushels of barley meal, or some gray peas, boiled, or some corn, which will complete their fattening to admiration. From the Ohio Fanner. SWEET POTATOES. This excellent vegetable would be more extensively cultivated but for the great labor of planting and cultivating them in the usual mode, and for the difficulty of keeping them in the winter. To obviate the first difficulty, I have, for about 20 years, ceased making hills ultogether and planted in ridges. 1 break up the ground well, and if necessary, harrow it then, with a barshear or carry plough, throw three furrows together. To complete the ridge, take a weeding hoe or fine rake and draw the dirt up first on one side and then on the other, to about the height potatoe hills are usually made. Open a treuch n the top ot the ridge and drop the flips five or six inches apart, cover with the hand about two inches deep. This mode is attended with several advantages requiring less ground, less labor in preparing the ground, less in cutting the seed roots, less in bending ridges than hills, and greatly less in digging. The last operation is mostly with the plough. After clearing off the vines run furrow along the lidge, taking down about two-fifths on one side, leaving about one tilth in the middle, nearly full of po-

taloes, which can be easily torn to pieces

with the hand. A hoe will he necessary to move the dirt thrown out by the plough so as to facilitate the picking out the po tatoes. Thii node of cultivating and taking up the crop, reduces the labor, in tny esti mation, nearlv one-half. To obriate the difficulty as to keeping, I put niy potatoes in a gainer ' 'ne cellar, pulling chaff or dry dirt around and on them put ihetn op the pame day they are dug. When freezing wealher comes on close ihe cellar windows. In this way I had sweet potatoes for the table throughout the last cold winter. Plant about the first of April, and be sure to dig after the first frost hard e nough to bite the leaves. Ja method of obtaining earlu peas. ilht. u. iMsnop in L,oucion's Magazine, makes the following remarks on this subject: "The method of rearing peas in pots and boxes, in hot-beds and hot houses, and afterwards planting them out in the open ground, is a common practice with gardeners, and often succeed? very well; particularly if they are not too long in transplanting them; but I would recommend a method not so well known, as far preferable to that of pots or boxes, particularly when they are to be raised in a hot bed. Tin's consists in having a quantity of turf cut into pieces of about nine or ten inches leng, uml three or 4 broad, which are placed in n regular manner over the surface of the bed, grass side downwards, Hud a row of peas is sown upon each row of turf, and afterwards covered with soil; when they are fit for transplanting, no more is required than to lift out the turf, piece by piece, with the peas growing upon it, and place them where they are to produce their crop. By this measure the roots receive the least check in transplanting. This meth od may be practiced with similar success in the raising of potatoes, beans, Lc. TIIE FAIUIEIl. Thera is not a more independent being in existence than the Farmer. The real farmer who attends strictly to the duties of his profession; who keeps every thing about him snug and tidy and seeks every opportunity to introduce, to add beauty and worth to his farm. Su;h a farmer is always happy and independent, and he lives as it were in a little world of his own, nothing to trouble him save the cares of his farm, which by the way are considered rather as a pleasure than otherwise, ilis mind is always at ease, and the duties of his calling are performed with a good degree of pleasure. When the toils of the day are over and the night cometh, he takes his seat at tha domestic fireside and whiles away the evening in sweet converse with his little family circle. The toils of the day had been perhaps rather arduous but what of that? Tl ley are drowned and forgotten in the pleasure of the evening. And then he feels sincere on rejection, that while he rests from his labour, his businesscontinues to flourish. His crops are grow, ing and preparing for harvest his cattle, &c. are fattening ready for the market, and every thing prospers. With such thoughts as these, he can calmly xe. sign himself to the nights' repose and rise on the narrow with the running sun; refreshed and prepared for the duties of aaotherday. RAINY DAYS. How much time is thrown awav by tome farmers when the weather will noti permit them to work out doors. And how well this time might be improved ! There are many days and hours of wet weather m a year in which it is impossible to do work on a farm, and when these are lost, as they are by too many farmers of my acquaintance, they amount to a considerable sum. Time is money as my grandfather used to say and further, "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.1' Now if this is good advice in money matters, it will surely apply to economy in time, to those hours and half days when the rain drives under cover. Well how are these hours to be best improved? I will tell my brother farmers: get yourselves n set of Carpenters' Tools, and make a work bench, and if you can plane a board and drive a nail you will find enough to occupy all your spare time. The tools will cost but five or six dollars such as are most necessary, and then you will be able to keep your outbuildings, fence, and many of your farming implements in good repair. If your barn orstahie door break down, mend ii immediately tha first rainy day. If a board is loose, put a nail in or replace it. If you want any plain useful kitchen furniture, such as a pine table, benches, &c. take those occasions. But it is unnecessary to multiply the things that might be made r repaired in sach times. Every farmer that look around him (if he is not in the habit of so doing) will find the wood work ou his plare lamentably out of repairt Besides, every farmer should accustom himself to the use of tools. When he wants a small jobd one, it wastes as much lime often ss it is worth, to g several milts after a carpeutcr. I know some

farmers who hare not a hatchet, drawing knife, augur, plane or work bench about their place. The consequence is

uiir jous ana repairs generally go un done, and tbej-have nothing to do in rainy weather. Is this economy? Yet such men will carry their grain live miles further to a market where they can get two cents more on a bushel. POOR RICHARD. SMMMe Value of Hops in diseases of the Skin One of the best external applications for many eruptive diseases of the skin, is a strong decoction of hops, in which the limbs or other nfJected parts are to be bathed several limes a dav. The decoc tion should not be used till it has become perfectly cold. In bad ulcers of the leg, the most satisfactory results have been repeatedly realized from this simple preparation. Medical Journal. 3IATT5IIAS. Fhis imposter hasbeen acquitted of tire murder of Pierson by poison, lor want sufficient evidence; but has been found guilty of an assault on his daughter, Isafclla Laisdel, the wife of George Laisdel, with a cowhide in Januarv last. After

the examination of Mr. Laidel and his'can be called such, and without food or wife, and considerable argument between 'even water to drink ! When Matthias did the counsel of both parties, dm ins which 1 consent toeive him water for nothing

the assault was clearly proved, Matthias was sentenced to thre months' impris-

crimenl in tha county jail for the assault, j taken by any of the fraternity in the fa. and one month for contempt of Court. j mily, without his permission he poured Judge Buggies addressed the Jury KSjif, as he would upon a dog, into the gasp 'lh,w: ling mouth of the dving man, then strngThat there was no doubt that a parent j gling on the floor, almost naked, and in the might inflict proper, but not imiropar. Ui ao-onie or hU rlUpuio ' Thi n, it o

chastisement. True, the daughter was u minor but she was married, and therefore beyond the father's control, for she was of an hge fit to contract marriage when she was wedded. The difficulty that led to the chastisement arose, he said, from a conversation between Jlrs. T1 t t oler and the slaughter, about Matthias' doctrines, &c. relative to marriage and about sick ness; she disbelieved the doctrines; Mrs. t olger told Matthias that the daughter re fused to obey the father. The daughter was about to explain; he refused to hear her and immediate!' commenced to beat her with a covhide,and gave her twenty stripes or more. He ought to have heard her, ever: if he had the right to chastise her; but he had no such light to detain or D 1 neat tier. It sho was as a visitor, and disturbed the peace of his house, he could only put her out of his house. lie en treated the Jury to set aside tho monstrous blasphemies, immoral doctrines, Sec. advanced in this house, and the shameful practice there, ns well as the infamous assumption of power by Matthias. But on tho other hand, if the daughter's disobedience to her father arose from a repugnance to yield herself up to his immoral desires and doctrines, then the jury might take those doctrines into their consideration. The Jury retired for two or three minutes, and returned a verdict of G UiLTY. The Court then proceeded to pass sentence upon Matthias, and asked what he had to iy why judgment should not be passed vpon him according to law? Matthias thenrppeared very much cast down, and he remarked to the Court that his fang imprisonment ought to operate upen thera, so as to mitigate the term of his imprisonment for the assault, he was going to make some observations thus 'as to my doctrines" The Court here stopped him very quickly, and told him that they had heard a great deal too much of his doctrines al ready, and that they could not now be bothered with such foolery and blasphemy. They told him that he had been too long a shameful and barefaced impostor, practising deceit upon credulous people, and thereby committing the most shameful immoralities upon those whom he had seduced by his arts, and making them forget, by their blind attachment and implicit reliance upon his dogmas, their sense of decency, of morality, and of shame, as well as their duty to their God and their fellow men that, in short, by his infamous imposture he had converted the house at Sing Sing into a comparative den of iniquity, where under the garb of religion, the greatest wickedness and immorality was practised; and all to gratify his wicked and licentions desires. But he must not lay the flattering unction to his soul that he would ever find any more such dupes as he had deceived at Sing Sing the reign of his imposture was at an end the halo of pretended piety, but real infamy, in which he hadeoshrined himself was dispersed the mist was dispelled from the eyes of his victims, and they were left to mourn over the wreck which their folly, and the prisoner's villany had procured. The assault on his daughter was cruel and aggravated, and resulted from a depraved disposition and a base design: and for this he was sentenced to be imprisoned three months in the County jail. The Court further told bim that he would als punish him for his contempt

of Court on Wednesday morning, when public. This respectable class had no he made such an outcry and pretended tojageicy in the ludianapolis Convention, be crazy all of which the Court told hitnjnor will it be dispoed to allow others to was only, a part of his whole conduct Jspeak iu its behalf. The Convention alimposture; and moreover said Judge jluded to was by all regarded as a misera Huggles, "you know that it was (like yuar'ble failure, and iu end proved tt ta be so.

pretended doctrines) a gross imposture; and you yourself never did believe for a single iustant in any of the preposterous

- and monstrous absurdities and wicked ness that you endeavored to propagate. And lor this last offence we sentenced you to be further imprisoned thirty days in the County jail ; making four calender months in the whole. And let this be a warning to you in future, and when you come out ot jail, shave off your beard, lay by your impositions with it, and go to work like an honest man." TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF MATTHIAS. The monster Matthias, for such he de serves to be called whether sane or insane, has after the most extraordinary development of unfeeling brutality towards Pierson the victim of h ta fanatacism, been acquitted ot murder, bv poison, for want of sufficient evidence. But who. after read. jingthe facts proved, can rise from the ; trial without a thorough conviction that i of his death was ai least accelerated bv the most savage neglect on the part of Mat thias, who lett him to starve and peris! almost alone in the chamber, without the 'slightest attendance or nour ishintr which j wus ever done either on the farm or in tho house, not even a mouthful of victuals fatuity, the voluntary debasement of the personages of the family, chiefly females, subjecting themselves by a saiemof ab ject triennial obedience to the will of this imposter, will forever form u theme for j reflection, as astounding and incomprehensible as it is degrading und revolting t 0 to human nature. I hat a family ot nine rapectable persons, one it is tiuo a black woman and several of them children, in the position of (he comfort and elegancies of life, with their country seat, coachman, carriage, &e. should have beeo found to exist in this free and enlightened community, secluding themselves from the rest of the world for tho purpose of de voting themselves, and services, and property, to an ignorant and ferocious impostor, who had insinuated himself so far into their confidence as to palm himself off upon them, in the language of Mrs. F1er, as 4,God the Father, possessing the Holy Gost," and the type of the 'Mast trumpet of the angels in the revelation," that they should have abandoned themselves to the most unlimited credulity in the truth ef these profane declarations, and believed him to be vhat he professed, will forever be a black and damning spot on the alleged rtfioemeot and civilization of the age. To what will not fanatacism and the criminal intentions of those who foment this spirit, as well as of Ihose who for equally unworthy motives surrender themselves to it, ultimately bring our hap py country! Will it not be the rock on which all our highest and flattering anti cipations of future glory and prosperity will be shipwrecked? Is there not some mode that may be devised which may reach the abominations practised on the community by religious impostors ? Could not this end be effected without in any manner violating the freedom of retigicus toleration? Without gome such remedy the fires of fanatacism that are lighted up from one end of our country to the other, will not only corrupt but ultimately consume the very frame and substance of all that is pure and holy in the construction of the social compact. X. Y. Star. TRESII DELEGATES.' We learn with surprise that several of the delegates appointed by the packed Convention at Indianapolis, held some 10 months ago, have actually gone to Baltimore to attend the Office-Holders' Caucus. Will political impudence ever have an end ? Willupstart politicians never know their place, nor cease to make war on the liberties of the citizen? Selfelected, self-chosen, they no more reflect the voice of Indiana, than would the bellowing of the bull ef Bashan. We unhesitatingly declare that the opinions of such individuals, as delegates, are entitled to no weight, nor do thev reflect the opinions of one in five hundred of the people of this State. But little more than half the counties were represented in the assembly by which they were nominated and, even those that were, not more than twenty citizens in each county ever attended the primary meetings therein! This we assert, and challenge a contradiction of it from any respectable quarter. A dozen village politicians could be found in every county, prepared to assemble: at the Court House for any purpose to make patriotic speeches, drink a giirsling, or talk politics tut not so with the tarmeas of the country, who, at;ler all, are the chief pillars of the Be

James G. Reed was Dominated for Governor by the Convention, and was beaten ten thousand votes over a elear field, bacl -ed as he was by the whole weight of th government. The People condemned the Convention and its doings, the firrt and only time tbey have had an epportu .

nity of doing so, in the very teeth I which condemnation the Delegates pro ceed to offer a new insult to their majesty ! With that defeat staring them in th t face with the indignant accents of their fellow-citizens yet ringing in their ears, they dare to execute a duty already stamped with the disapprobation of the public voice! If this is a sample of the modesty possessed by the self-constituted delegates we expect to heur more of them hereafter. Wabash Couriir. Miss Reed's Hook -This book is said id have met with a most unprecedented sale what strange perversity is there in the human heart, which makes us seek with so much avidity any thing having a tendency to operate to the ii jury of our fellow creatures? Had this book purported to have beeo a history of the good done by the Sisters cf charity in wretched abodes of poverty and affliction, or at our hospitals iu the times of the disease and puldic distress, it would in all probability have been left to moulder on the shelves of the booksellers; but became it is thought to contain an exposure of tho religious forms of an opposite sect, the supply has been by do means adequate to tha demand. The mst beautiful features in religion. are humility, benevolence, charity, and if (bete were more strictly inculcated among the unlettered of every denomination, we should have less of that spirit of elimination and recrimination which so often, di-grace the followers of the cross. The stibject of every religion, we understand to be to do good to those around us, to purify and enlarge the human heart, to extend the hand of kindness aud charity to those differing with us ou doctrinal points or matters of faith not burning places of worship, murdering innocent and unoffending friars (as was the case lately in Spain), or prosecuting those under colour of law (as has been done ia Boston) for an honcbl avowal of opinion, Metropolitan. Manifold virtues of the Elder Tree. Sir J. E. Smith has remarked that this. tree is, as it were, a whole magazine of physic to rustic practitioners. It is said that if sheep that have the rot can gat at the bark and young shooll of elder, they will soon cure themselves. The wine made from elder berries is too well known by families in the country to need any encomiums; it is the only wine the cottager can procure, and when well made, it is a most excellent and wholesome drink, taken warm before going to bed. It causes gentle perspiration, and it isa mild opiate. If a rich syrup be made from ripe elder berries and a few bitter almonds, when, added to brandy, it has all the flavor of the best cherry brandy. The buds and the young tender shoots are greatly admired as picklo. The leaves of the elder tree are often pat into the subterranean paths of moles, to drive these noxious little animals from the garden. If fruit trees, flourishing shrubs, corn or other vegetables, be whipped with the grecu leaves of the elder branches, it is said insects will not attach themselves to them. An infusion of these leaves in water is good to sprinkle over rose-buds, and otherflowers subject to blight, and the devastation of caterpillars. Leigh Jlund London Journal. EIUAL EXCURSION. Mr. Clay ton made a balloon oicensiori from Cincinnati on the 8th inst., Ha started at 5 o'clock, P. M. and landed id safety at half past 2 o'clock, A. M. on & mountain called Stinsnn's Knob, in Monroe County, Va. 3000 feet above the lev el ef the sea, (according to his barome ter,) and from 3l0 to 400 miles from ins place of departure having been only nine hours and a half travelling that distance. At half past 12 o'clock, it being very cold, he took a glass of brandy; wrapped himself comfortably up, laid down and went to sleep. He was net siwakened until the car struck at the place where he landed. The Metropolitan. fj-We are requested to caution the public against two imposters, representing themselves as Polish Lxiies, and who have already imposed upon several persons. No deserving exifa has yet pre. sented himself to the Polish Committee, who has not been relieved or offered employment. Louisville Journal. Important from France! We received this morning in un extra from the office of the Boundary Gazette, dated Calais, Le, April 17th, the folio wing intelligence : 4'By the brig Mung, arrived at St Andrews on Wednesday last, m seventeen dvs from Liverpool, we lenrn that the French Chambers of Utputies have dis solved uilhout making the appropriation j'o'r the payment of tht American claim. The Muner brings Liverpool dales up to 11 arch 20 : Our previous dates, via New Yorkj were to the 24lh. Boston Tramcript: