Vincennes Gazette, Volume 5, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 October 1835 — Page 1

VOLUME 5. VINCENNES, INDIANA, OCTOBER 24, 1835.

NUMBER 21 i

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From the J"ew-Yorker. Tin: KJIICUAM'S I' A KEWFLL. Awav to the Trairics! the hour is at hand, 1 nni't f.y my sweat homo to the paradise land, Where the iloweis are the brightest, the blue sliios more ihar, And the wild-wood it thronged with the Elk and the Deer. Away to the dairies! Dear Father farewelll Oli dark is that won!, as these tear-drops may tell; Farewell, my lono Brother we part not for long We shall soon join again iu the hunter's wild song. Awav to (he I raines' bweet isters, one kiss: Lelov'd! lnsiy your cups ever paiklo with bliss: As In iilit he your 1 i e a? your rosef, ye btost But fortret not your brother, whose home is the West. Away to the Trairies! Oh bitterest now Comes the pang to my heart anil the ice to my brow: 1 kneel, but. mv Mother, thy lips cannot bless Thy beart-lricken child, nor return his caress. The death dew is gathering upon thy pale cheek : To tell thy soul's wishes thy breath is tno weak; Thy ihiiiinM eyelids droop, yet is written ie n e a t h The love of a Mother is stronger than death." Away! dearest Mother, we're passing- away, Like the spring-loving birds from stern W inter's decav ; Thy home will be bright, but in mine may be tears- - Oh gild with thy spirit inj deiolato yean! A war to the Prairies! the parting is o'er; My s"ted bounds with joy towards Missouri's far shore: Jlr dreams are of mountain, of river end plain: "Will they bring uio my home and my mother again ? J. H. S. Slieshequin, Pa. August, 1 lie was obliged to leave home at a time when his mother's decease was daily expected e 1 - - 1 From the Chicago American. CAICACO AND VINCE.NNES RAIL ItOAl). It will be seen by a notice in enr pa per to-day, that tl.o Commissioners of thi Road will open the books for subscription, to the Stock, in Dec. next. We hope that capitalists will avail themselves of this occasion to make investments which we trust will be beneficial, alike to the public and to stock holders. The region through which the Road is to pass, is rich and delightful, exhibiting, as yet. almost in native wildness, the excellence and luxurience of the boundless munificence of nature. All are aware that the construction of this road will secure to us a most important trade from a flourishing region, which may be essential to our rapid growth, as well as advantageous to the section of country with which it is connected. A work which is destined to become so great a thoroughfare, andto bethe agent of so great a commercial facilities, we are sure must offer ample inducements for the investment of capital. Chicago and Vincennes Railroad Com' rtanv. The Commissioners of this company recently held at a meeting at Danville, in this State. The following pereons were appointed by the Board to prepare and open books for subscription of Stock viz: John II. Kinzine, Peter Pruyne, at Chicago. G. W. Do IE, J. II. MuRniY, . R. Moores, Wm. B. Archer, D. S. Bonner, Danville, 111. Vincennes, la. G urdon S. Hleuaru, at New York and : Philadelphia. We are glad to see this project again revived ; a project in which there has been too much apathy in this part of the State. We are told that the country through which this Rail road will pass is exceedingly fertile and level, presenting but few obstacles lo an improvement of this sort. Let capitalists look to this: it is at least worth an examination. lb. The Oswego (N. V.) Observerof the 3d inst., speaking of Mr. Vau Buren and his prospects for the Presidency, and his partisan supporters, says--Thev must, indeed, believe their nominee to be a wonder-working magician, if he can slip himself into the Presiden tial rbnir with the three fourths of the i States against him, which i.- now the case, if the recent elections are any ci iterinn. They cannot reasonably claim but the following States, to wit: Maine 10, New Hampshire 7, Rhode Island 4, Connecticut 8, New York 42, and New Jersey 3. (Michigan being not yet a Slate.) making 79 electoral votes, of the 208 but a little over one quarter. And even before he obtains all these, there will be. Relihazzar like, trembling of tin joints Yes, notwithstanding their lod, asuranc en and boasting, we ,y it wilh ronlidknee, that he gets New Yoik, (as Duty

.Crocket says, ly a very narrow squeeze, if

at an. e Know of many yes, many, who have heretofore gone the nholeho Lcgency, nowopenly declare, they aie for the defender of our frontiers ihe ilero of Tippecanoe for the Pieaidency. I notice that Ilr. Van Buren has admitted (o a Virginia friend, that if Pennsylvania goes against him, he is gone. He might as well have admitted at once that he is gone, H9 to have said what he did, fur the 'Key Stone State,' will certainly go against him. 1 have no doubt hot Van Buren will be defeated, and then 1 ihall be dished. In great affliction?, yours, OLD DICTATOR. September 23, 1835. From the jYashville Republican. By what right, we should like to knowdo the supporters of Mr. Van Ruren assume to themselves the name of the Republican party? Is it because their idol had uniformly opposed the leading men of that party, while he thought he could de. rive ad vantage from opposing them? Is it l; cause he was opposed to Madison, Clinton and Jackson? Is it because he was in favor of the election, while iu the Ne Yoik Legislature, of that high toned federalist, Rulus King, to the Senate ol the United States? Is it because he was in favor of the tariff, and of establishing toll-gales on the Cumberland road? Is it because he was a Mietouii restriction? Is it because he has a prospect of obtaining the vote of the federal States of Connecticut and Rhode Island? Is it because Henry Hubbard, of New Hampshire, and Judge Schley of Georgia, both of whom were ence federalists of the deepest dye , are found among his supporters? In short,- is it because the "repulican" States of the South and West are almost unanimously opposed to him? If these are good reasons why Mr. Van Buren and his friend should be called the Republican party, then must every rnau allow that there ii no virtue in a name. From the .Yexa Hampshire Couritr. The Washington Globe claims a majority of thirty three Administration mem- i hers io the next House of Kepretenta-! lives. Last year it claimed sixty, and still the Globe editor could not be elect- i ed pr inter to the House. Thus far, during both terms of this Administration, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have escaped the disgrace of electing Fra?icis P. Blair, as their printer. For the honor of the nation, we hope the next House will refuse to disgrace itself, ; and to outrage all decency, by electing a ; man, who has slandered every man that has refused 'to bow the knee to Baal.'--BUir has constantly beeu a candidate, and will be one again in December next ; and if the House will but save its h&nor this

lime, the danger will be oer forever, soce to enter our columns of (hat character

far as Hair is concerned. ?.IAKYLAM i:iir.CT! We have now accurate information from all parts of the Stale relative to the Election on Monday last for Members of Congress and Delegates to the Slate Legislature, which make it certain that the Whigs have gained a most signal and triumphant v ictory over the combined forces of Jackson-Van Burcnism. It may be emphatically and truly saiJ, that "we have met the enemy and they are ours."' The Election at the organization of the Slate Government this winter will pre sent the following cheering and most satisfactory result: A WHIG GOVERNOR, A WHIG EXECU TIVE COUNCIL, A WHIG SENATE, A WHIG HOUSE OF DELEGATES, and A WHIG MAJORITY IN CONGRESS, as follows all of n: horn are stanch ll'higs: DANIEL JENNIFER, GEORGE C. WASHINGTON, JAMES TURNER, JOHN N. STEELE, JAMES A. PEARCE. The Van Buren .Members arc: ISAAC McKIM, BENJAMIN C. HOWARD, FRANCIS THOMAS. This is the VOICE OF MARYLAND, as proclaiaied through the ballot-box on Monday last, and she now loudly and earnestly calls upon her sister States, to "go Maryland holds fast to her Democratic Republican Whig principles, and the seductive devices of the Jackson-Van Buren parly can never gain foothold wiihio her borders --Ball. Pat. Presidential. If Uie sentiment of news papers are a correct criteiianof public opinion, Gen. Harrison's popularity in this state is rapidly increasing. No les; than thirty-three papers have already declared tor him, and at least twentj' more quote the remarks of their contemporaries in his favor. Can the Van Buren Press in Ohio, muster thus strong for their candidate? Cincinnati Gazette. One term. The Cincinnati Whig of Wednesday says: "Numerous, enquiries, by private letter and otherwise, have bteu made of us, whether it is General

Harrison's intention to suffer himself to be made a candidate for re-election.should !

he succeed in the ensuing Presidential contest. Repeated conversations with ponI,ri u.1r.,r, tl,L i- . Oeneral ilairison, upon the subject, ena-1 i . . j -viuiiIvsIj mi i no circumstance whatever would induce him to serve for a longer period than for a tingle term; and we plpdge ourself to our contemporaries and the public, that should the people confer the high lug ij i Kt rit y viti u ii. f i mi i v urn i inn i hit ' honor upon the General of placing him in I

the Presidential Chair, he will never be-inow ,iv,f)? n Ibis and an adjoining counfound recreant to the principles on which i'- IIer tnird husband was called on, a

he is elected." Louisville Journal. al Squally chance for the Presidency. While at the Springs a short time ago, Mr. Van Burcn admitted to a Virginia friend, that if Ritner could not be defeated in Pennsylvania in October next, there

was every reason to apprehend a defeat iin& a nc,le lor lue neb', of the Baltimore nominees, inasmuch asj Lvansvillt Journal. the State seemed to him to be the "Key: The Lunar Hoax. Never was there a Stone of the Arch," w-hich , in giving wav,j hoax better imagined or more cleverly would let the whole democratic family executed. A second perusal has impress-

into the cellar, from which it would beed us with increased admiration of the impossible to extricate the w hole of them 'genius and attainments of the author, who in season to be of service in the Presiden- j is entitled, by this one effort, to rank high

tial struggle, and, consequently, his opponents would owe their triumph at last to Democratic Pennsylvania. LuuisviUe Journal. The authority can be produced. jYoah EXTRACT TO THE EDITOR, HATED Chillicothe, Dear Sir. ll is within a few months that !hu People ot this State raided the Harrison llrfg, and already the signs of ( victory are more certain than ever they j were tor Jackson in four times that length of time from his nomination. It appears that noting was necessary but to name Harrison , The Jackson Party, here, on whose neck the ) oke of Van Buren set so uneasy, are rail) mg round Harrison; man after man are coming into our ranks, and cn last Saturday we held a Harrison meeting for Ross county, in thi place, which was attended by from eight hundred to one thousand people, of the bone and muscle of the land. The farmers are with us. The mechanics are with us. The merchants are with us. And all seem to hil Harrison us the peocan(1 ltlate ' the est. I give you the assurance, and it will prove as ti ue as any assurance I ever give touching Jackson's election, that liar rison will carry Ohio by 20,000 majority. From the Washington City Sun. (A Jackson paper.) What has Mr. Van Buren'a canvass for the Presidency, to do with anv man t friendship for the present administration ? Whv is it jvlr (j0t)e. that ton cannot touch Mr. Van Iiuren, without, in your estimation, treading on the toes of the pre sent administration ? We are not aware j that we Jiave n.er said anv thing unkind j of the administration, or sufi'eied anv artiIhutwedo not intend you shall keep Mr. Van Buren wrapped up in the mantle ol General Jackson's popularity, so closely that we cannot oppose him without attacking the present administration. They are the antipodes of each other in a thousand points, while you are laboring to keep them indenlified in feeling in interest, and in purpose, we and the people, whose cause we have advocated, and intend still to advocate to the end of the chapter, are determined to compel him to stand, like an honest tub, upon its own bottom, and it he should be elected President of tha U nited States, which God and our good destinv forbid, that the people shall elect him, not for the love they bear General Jackson, but from the necessity they feel themselves under of obeying the caucus. SCRJ1P8. The Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for Indiana, commenced its Session in Lafayette ou Wed nesday the 14th inst. Steam. It is stated in a London paper, that a steam carriage , on Mr. Gurney's princijde, lately went from London to Reading 40 miles, in three hours and fifteen minutes. It returned to London with twenty passengers, in three hours and twenty two minutes. It will be recollected that this was upon a common Macadamized road. The following, from the 'Pennsylvania Advertiser,' containes the most convincing and satisfactory arguments iu favor of a candidate we ever heard: "What a triumphant event the election for Ritner will be tir i,-. -ii Ithe Wolhtes will lory because of the defeat of Mulenberg the Mu enbergers because he will have; defeated Wolf, and the friends of Penn srlvania because of the defeat of them both." l he following trom the Lynchburgh Virginian, is quite as good: -3iajor iNoan sryies me v asningion Globe 'the infernal machine.7 I he simile would be agood one, were it not for " harmlessness of the Globe'a shots. They never kill or wound an adversary.7 The Annual Conferences of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, in the 'free States' rf Ohio .".iu .Mainp. have both adonted formal resolutions, disclaiming all connee

tion with the Aboluf ionists. and unequiv ocall v rienoiinrino ibpir nmrHm.

ocally denouncing their proceedings. An old gentleman having observed to i yoiiiu, mat a sun tongue snows a wise uOQ,i r ,i ,t ,& , . . iheany the youth replied, "then what a wise head must mv brother Bob's be, for ... he is deaf and dumb." Ttll not that man is inconstant. About two weeks ago, a young woman, twenty years of age, took onto herself a third husband. All of the three husbands are (ew f,ay since for a debt which she had contracted prior to her last marriflge; but he not being as rich in money as in love, was unable to satisfy the demand, when (he first husband gallantly stepped forward, and with a true lover's hand, united with the third of the triumvirate, in sign among: men of science as well as wit. A little less extravagance, and the narra live would have imposed on every one. Fredcricksburgh Arena. Compliment to a Poet The beautifu Marguerite d'Escosse, wife of Louis XI. having discovered Alian Chartler. the po et, one dav asleep in the King's ante chamber. bestowed on him a kiss, sa vinf that it as not the man she saluted, but the mouth from whence issued so many fine 7 - j - rr sentiments and go many charming words Texas.--The. report of the Mexican Minister for foreign allsirsstates that there were in January last 20,000 inhabitants of the state of Texas; but the commer cial transactions of Texas and Coahuila yielded last year to the government treasury a sum exceeding 1,400,000 dollars. A new name for a periodical is a rarity, but we have at last met with one. We have received from Georgia a paper called "7e Southern VoonV It indicates a reference for Van Buren, but we presume that the Moon will change. L"uisvill Jour. BIGOTRY. A member of the Massachusetts Legislature, has brought in a bill to fine any person who travels on Sundays. He ought to have lived in the dajs of Salem witchcraft. This enlightened age will not permit men to cloak their malignity under the rnakk of piety. From the Knoxvill Register. The results of the late elections nre most auspicious and cheering. The panic attempt to be got up by the caucusites by a loud and long vncifeiation of "don't di vide the party," has not materially diverted the strong current ot popular sentiment. This, alter the subsidence of its first shock, and which daily develope ments are 'roving to be causeless, will be followed by a reaction, productive of much good to the cause of the people's candidate. A Most Grave, a Dry Grave Digger, and an Affectionate Grandson. A Lynchburg (Va) paper published the following account presented by a son against his fath er, as administrator on hi grandfathers estate: Admr. In ac. with , Dr. 1834, Feb. To Apple Brandy, used while digging your father's grave 25c ts. A " writer in the Rahway Advertise; says, although he is a Jackson man, "he prefers Harrison glory to Van Buren glo ry, any time Who don't? tin ix umi't n rf A young girl at Cincinnati, recently stabbed a negro fellow to the heart, who attempted to take liberties with her person. This is no country for Desdemonas and Othelos. Counterfeit 20 notee of the Bank of the Valley made their appearance in Virginia made payable in Winchester badly executed. I The Boston Gazette says, that Beef is ihiger now than it has been for nearly twenty years a lot of eighty bhls. .first quality having been sold the day previous for a whaling voyage, at thirteen dollars and a half. "JUDGE LYNCH IN TETTICOATS. The Bangor Advertiser tells a story of V UUlli: IJiclU III it,imij ' ti' lino i J .6 . i - j . . m, r. s n-k.ic n I h f IM r I D I f 1 IV tin h 1 fl ' rjUUlC lUUC paoi ucs- u J & g,t vcrtc ' f or i r-1 in I !to c rn a nfllfr)ihrrrirnjl Cii r fc .1 .1 1 , j .to withdrawvand penned a billet intimaiting to the lady that he was no longer to be Ir.onsidered amoncr the number of her ad:(nirera This epistle he confided to the !Care pf his sister, who, ignorant of its eon,entSi presented it in person. A family 'councii tvas immediately called and the lacklesa irl was condemned to sutler ti ;f,a,(fer, the penalty of braving the en raeed beauty . It is said that the mother - 'and daughter whipt or frightened the un joffending girl until she fainted, and was r.onveveu sense ess into the hou or a - ibeiyhbor." J". Y. Aducate,

VAN BVREN Hl'Mlil'G, Two laborers in a store in Washington

street were discussing politics. 4,Vuii'nt it lucky for us, Terry," said, one, "that Ginerel Jackson was an Irishman?" "Oh very lucky ; but, by the powers, what aie we to do, Brian ? he serves his timeout in one year." "Well, honey, and what then Does'nt Patrick Van Buren come in arter him. A POETICAL IDEA. A talkative resident of one of the most northeasterly towns in "our happy repub lic," being on hoard the Eastern steamboats, sang the praise of his native State in the following strain "V by 1 ary (argue) said he, "that the State of Maine is the upper crust ot the hull (whole) universe. " JS'erzburi voi t llrald. Time for painting houses. The Gene see Faimer says, that repeated experimeats show that paint put upon a house late in autumn, or in winter will last tar longer than that put on in warm weather. In cold weather the oil dries on the clap, boards, and with other ingredients forms a durable body ; but in hot w eather the boards absorb the oil, and what remains on the surface ha9 but little substance. The New York Gazette of yesterday says: "Capt. James Riley, came passenger in the brig Wm. Tell, arrived last evening from Africa, brought with him a beautiful cross breed Arabian and Rarbary stud Horse, three years old, and also Ram and Ewes of the celebrated Todla breed, intented for the improvement of the breed of horses and sheep. United State$ Gaz. Cor.SET-oo-j,'. A young lady who fell from a calash in a lide lo St. Jean from this place was to severely hurt by the steel in her corset, which entered her stomach, that she died a few minutes after her fall. Quebec Gazette. The Portsmouth Journal, a Van Buren print, says: "There is not a more selfish & griping set of meo in the uoioo than the Woolen manufacturers. Has the editor any allusion to the voo manufacturer at the Great Crossings in this State? Lou. Jour. The Democrat tlerald, the xeorking man's paper in Philadelphia, has hoisted the Ritner and Harrison banner, and saye it is nailed to the mast, determined to fight and conquer, or die under that Hag. THE BEST WAY TO EE HAPPY. Never sit down and brood over trouble of any kind. If you are vexed with yourself or the world, this is no way to ob tain satisfaction. Find yourself employment that will keep the mind active, and, depend upon it, this will force out unwelcome thoughts. Who are poor? Are they the industrious? Those who labor, provided their gains are small, have generally a feeling fo independence with that little, akin to the rich man's treasures. Whu are the unhappy? Are they not those who are inactive, and sit stilt aod tell us, if fortune had only thrown this and that in their way, that they should have been far happier ? It seems lo me there is a great defect in the conduct of the unfortuuate. If we are deprived of ordinary resources, instead of looking round and substituting other things, are we not prone to sit down and mourn what we have lost? This deadens the energies, kills the activity of our natures, and makes us useless drones, when we should be working bees. Besides this, indolence sets fancv at work, and presently we imagine ourselves to be in a condition that we are unfit to work. We get the habit of observing the changes in the wind, we feel our puis es, look at our tongues, and in a short time become regular dyspeptics. Industry, then, preserves health as well as happi ness. "She is a charming dancer," I observed "YesP replied he, "she understands the philosophy of her art better than any of her colemporaries ; it is to throw around sensuality such a celoring of refinement as will . divest it of its grosiness. For this she is paid a hundred pounds a night, and is allowed two benefits in the season, which generally averages a thonsaud pounds each. While you are thus liberal to a dancer, some of the worthiest of of your ministers of religion receive about titty pounds per annum, for wearing out their lives for the good of your souls: and many of your exalted men of genius are left to starve. Such is the consistency of human nature." Jhphislophtles . INDIAN ELOQUENCE. A few days since, a gentlemen i.) thj city handed the following striking specimen of elegic pathos said to have been uttered by an aboriginal female, over two contiguous graves, the one containing her husbaud. and the other hr infant. J". Y. Statesman. "The Father of life and light hath fa ken from me the apple of my ee and the core of my heart, and hid them in these two graves. I will water (he one with my tears, and the other w ith the milk of my bieast.till I meet them in that country wheie the eun never selsl"