Vincennes Gazette, Volume 5, Number 39, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 February 1836 — Page 1

V7 VOLUME 5. VINCENNES, INDIANA i FSkiilUAIttT 27, 1836. NUMBER 39

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Tin: widow. BY SOUTHS". V. Coll was the night wind, drifting fat the mow fell, Wide were the downs and shelUrleis and uak ed, When poor wanderer struggled en her jourf j. Weary anil way sore. Dreary were the downs , men dreay her reflection; Cold was the night-wind, colder wai her bosom! She had no home, tha world wu oil before her, She had n tbeller. Fait ortha bleak heath rattling drovt a chariot, 'fitty me!" feebly cried the poor night-wanderer, 'Titty me, strangers! lest with cold and banger Here I should perish. Once I had friends. but they have all forsook me ! Once I had parents, they are now in Heaven! i had a home once I had one a husband Pity uie, strangers I 7 had a home ones I had a husband ? am a widow poor and broken hearted !" Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining;. On drove the chariot. On the cold snows she laid her down to rest her; Bha heard a horseman, "Pity me!" she groaned out ; Loud was tha wind, unheard was bet complaining, On went tha horseman. Worn out with anguish, twil and cold and hunger. Dawn tank tha wanderer, sleep had seized Kar senses ; There did the traveller find bar in the morning, God had released her. THE FOUNDLING, ik TALC OF THE REVOLUTION. There it a time wheu adversity it keenly Iclt, and when it winds are peculi aily liable to tum the fair fabric of the niind to ruin. That time is infancy. To be cast oil the bosom of the wide world -ithout a protector; to grow up to man hood without a guide: to be friendless.

without a habitation or a name ; to wander tiuous and to the west of the Schuvlabout ao outcast from society, shunned kill ; and the very spot where they are all by the virtuous, who leo often judge of j interred used to be pointed out, about half character by decent, and hold the one a mile from the road to Darby, doubted while the olher remains so, and

to be mocked at by the vicious this is misery that wants a name on earth. Yet (his has been the fate of many; it was that of one with whom we must abide a moment. It was late in the evening of a summer day in the year '56, that Mr. M , a tradesman in Philadelphia, reluming to his residence, found wrapped up in an old cloak, and lying on Ihe sill of his own door, an almost expiring infant. It ap peared to be but a few hours old, and while the good man was shocked with an instance of such heartless depravity, he resolved to do for it such offices of hu rr.anity as lay in his power. He had it nurtured as one of his own; called it by his own name, and had he lived, it would never have known Ihe want of a father; but he died when it was yet an infant, and (he overseers of the poor took charge of the forsaken boy. Frederick, tor so he had bean named, was in process of tiaie put out to an unfeeling master; and as he had early exhibited traits of a high and ungovernable spirit, he fared so hardly, that at the age of twelve he ran away, and went te sea. After passing through a raiiety of scenes during ten v eais, he was at last found in the British army. The history of his early life was engraven on his mind; he knew that he had been cast out from his birth, by parents to whom he was to live & die a stianger; he knew that the only heart (hat had ever loved him was mouldering ia death; he remembered his unfeeling matter, and had sworn vengeance agaist the country in which he had thus been born and suffered, and sought it row under the banner of that country's foes, while he marched with them to trample down her liberties, and whelm her dearest interests in ruin. One dark and rainy night, a short time after the battle of Brandywine, he was out with a scouting party, beating ap the country toward the Schuylkill, when pass ing through a deep and woody morass, he and his companions came suddenly upon a retired cottage on its borders, and entering, found a disabled American officer within, whose fresh wounds a beautiful girl was weeping over as she dressed, while the old woman sat by, holding a candle, herself the picture of grief and wretchedness. The soldiers fell to plun deringlhe house. Being unaccompanied by any officer, aod finding a quantity of liquor, they drank freely, and soon at ter became outrageous. Sme of them even abused and insulted the wounded f ficer, who, however, took no notice, appa rently of any thing that passed, until Fredrick seised the yourg lady ; and at - J e -

templed to kiss her. This was an insult

or anotner kiiki, and l tie American ? prung from the bed where he lay, and grasped hitn by the throat. The discharge of a pistol followed like a flash of lightning, and the officer fell dead. A lud scream followed "Oh my brother! He has killed my brother !" echoed to the distant hill top; and the young lady fell upon the bed by the side of her brother, while the feeble old woman ran creaming and calling lor help, in distracted madness, from one part of the room to the other. It was a scene of horror that devils would have smiled at, and that fancy alone can imagine. B it, bad it ended here, time might have effaced that night of (error from the memory of man, and it deed been cancel, led as one of the dark vicissitude ef cru . el war. Here it ended not that innocent and delicate and lovely girl, just in her sixteenth summer, and her young heart already broken by her only brothel's death her sweet blue eyes swimming with tears of anguish insupportable, with out one hand to protect her, or one bosom to pity her, became that night the victim of brutal violence. The tenderest heart, the keenest sensibility and the most delicate frame, will sometimes suffer long and most bitterly, before the thread of life in mercy breaks asunder. But she was spared from this: two days after, when the British army came up, she was found a disfigured corpse, and was buried with her brother. The wretched mother appealed for justice to the English officer, and Frederick was brought to trial. I conversed with one who was a witness of the ptneeeding. The deer! of murder and plunder was proved againt him by the old woman, who win brought up and examined before the Court Martial . She lilened to the trial with on air of insanity, and when she heard the history which he gave of himself in his defence, she fell from her seat in fits. She knew him , he was her own, her eldest son, the nfTpring of a guilty connexion with the man she afterwards married, and made the father of those whom he had sent in blood aod distraction to the grave. Thus the curse of guilt came at last upon the guiltyFrederick was executed, and the miserable parent died in all the despair that an overbuilhened concience is capable "of awakening, in her old age, a fearful maniac. It is many years since I was con versant with tha scenerv con- " John Smith." (From the New York Commercial Advertiser.) nil men of pith. Sixteen called Johnson, and nineteen named Smith. Don J nan. The perpetual errors arising from the multitude of persons bearing (lie name of Smith, ai e equalled only in the histntjps of the Antipholues and Dromios of Ephesus and Syracuse. Well may John Smith say : There is not a man t met,bijt doth salute me As if I were his well-acrptainted friend; And every one do'.h call me by kit name. Some tender money to me, Forne invite me; Some other give me thanks for kindnesses : ?ome offer me commodities to buyKvcn now a tnilor called me. to hi fhop. And showed me silks that he had bought for me. Sure thee are but imaginary wile And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here. One of the most ludicrous blunders on record was developed at the Court of Sessions at the City Hall Ust week, which sve recollect to have heard of. It wa in substance thus : John Smith was some veeks since arrested on a charge of forging a check for one hunderd and forty dollars on the Leather Manufacturers' Bank, in the name of Jhn E Benners, & committed to the care of Mr. Lyons, keeper of the prison at Bellevne, where another John Smith was in durance vile for petit larceny. The latter circumstance coming to the knowledge of the fiist nam ed John Smith, the twain met, embraced, aod exclaimed with Antipholu? Some blessed power deliver us from hence; aod their prayer was heard. At the December session, John Smith, charged w ith the forgery, was ordered into Ihe pres ence of his Honor the Recorder, fortrial; and when the worthy keeper of the prison placed his hand upon him for that pur pose, Mr. Lyons was astonished at his elo quence, as he uttered W tint, wilt thou murder me? Thou, jailor, And I thy prisoner? thou? Lyons. Ah me, bow pale and wan he looks ! Smith . Thou art a villuin to impeach me ihusr I'll prove mine honor, and mine honesty Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand. Lyons. I dare, and do defy thee for a villain. Smith Fear me not, man, 1 will not break away; I'll give theeere I leave thee,o much money To warrant thee, as 1 am 'rested for. Poetry, however, will not satisfy Mr. Lyons, aod while riding down in the death wagon, he descended to plain prose; was brought mto Com t, answered to the name of John Smith, was arraigned for pttit or cenv. aod discharged by proclamation, no tone appearing against him for the olleoce

On the first day of the present term, John

amith, Io 2, win arraigned for forgery on the Leather Manufacturers' Bank. When the indictment was read, the priso-

ner rose, and truly declared that he was J nddle. or wheat fan, or in a strong wind, not the man, hut that it was another Joha !or, better stdl, if convenient, by catling, Smith, tvlis was discharged at the latjlhat is, by throwing them with u shovel tprm of the Court, by pi or Initiation, sio j as far as possible over a barn floor, which witne s s appearing against him ; aud that j w ill epai ale I he good Irom tha bad leant, he the prisoner was confined for stealing rid Uje hulls 1 1 r.m both. The best beans a coat. As the identity of the piisonei flying furthest, the inferior ones lying next could not be established by Mr. Beimars, ' and bulls falling shot t. It is well lo adopt or any of the witnesses present, some ed this method, if praticable, should bad the officers of Police were brought intojbeans have accidentally become mixed Court in order to prove that litis was the ; with good on. real Dromio, who committed the fargery.j Faimers with large young families will but it was "no go," and his identity was'hnd therasiogof Castor Beans a profila as dai k as ever. The c!ei k of the Police i hie business. In Illinois where farmers was then called for, aud an investigation I raise but 10 or 15 bushels per act e it is confind, which resulted in the r??abl vVnent idcied a good an 1 pi othable crop. Ileitof the foregoing circumstances. A ver-j' our bottom lane's, we may expect in a diet of "not guilty" was entered, aud he good season aud under good management,

was acquitted . From the Disseminator. TO FAIi.MI'KS. On the Cultivation ej the Castor Dean. It will be seen by a notice in the ad vertising columns of this day's paper

that weaie ready to contract lor all lhej'0,e ,l0"1 Mmi consequently augments (he

Castor Beans, which may be raised i , our neighborhood during Ihe appioaching season, and that the Poey Agricultural Society offers as an inducement loan ex. tention in their cultivation, n ?.-, i,ip.. ium, for the largest and fioesi lot w l,u h may be brought lo us this jtar. The following hints ma) be of service to Ihe farmer, who is o-bout lo cultivate the article for the fust time. their cultivation . Ground inteoded for castor beans, which should be a rich and warir. soil, should be broken up early in the winter; Ibis will greatly tend to deslroi ihe Cut worm which is very fend of. and 1 1-iii.i l kabl v dtt nirt i v a in Ida oung Castor Bean. II- who has not yel ! brokep.-rouud should make us. of the xtrU ! J rstoyucar'urfnrth.trurno.e.and

hably sullicient cold weather may etar- Documents, " ' ev,u,u I,dI lire to answer his purpose Several crops I U'e lVotl S a Uie,e lo lblaui chttr of ten ac.es each were last year entirely aClfr a laUo,fd l''eul ftt lhe 'conoiulost for the want of. h.s n-cessarv precuu ! ,Cal " Mulilc- pple lather lhi. ti u. The m-und Khnnhl rtiva'a spromll liberal attempt to promote lhe elhc.eu-

ploughing in March and be planted thrte r four weeks before eaily corn planting lime. Castor Beans are planted and tended like corn. Three or four beans rna) be dropped in a hill ; the hills m-iy be six feet apart and two stalks, but no more, ma) he guttered lo stand on a hill : a singie tlalk will produce nearly as much as two, and more than three hills. It is also of great importance lo pl.int the Castor Bean as eaily as the season will admit of, aud bv prompt and judicious cultivation, ( foice on t he plant, w bile young, as much as possible. The cutting eason commences si mui h the earlier for it ; an I all that is ganed in this way is so much clear gain, in a much as all farmers, whether their crops be forward or late mut stop at the same D - "! time, that i after the first severe frost. All the Beans ripe on ihe stalk when fro-l takes them, may be saved aud are considered merchantable, piovided this cutting i kept by itself and is not mixed with the bulk of the crop. It is very important that these refuse beans, as thpy are termed be kept separate, f rom the others ; the v make an inferior quality of oil, aud therefore greatly depreciate the value of an entiie crop, if mixed w ith the good beans. AH the other beans cut btfiie this time m V I. A Ltfll lllTPlftPr tlVl'Oltl tllB WAV. I fimt ruttmirs which should b o,,ed mil in the sun and laid aside for seed TI.p - o - i r i beans left on the stock after the first liuo ni- ii'' I'-'iiit emnii:, ljrj UIC U UU tnb.M tvt,:,iPvPr f r ii t u r si not tevrtrtfi t'luinir tlA r .f . On rather. ntr and savior the cron. - Gather.nir the bean is like rr ilherinr cot O S3 i

ton. When the beans begins to ripen, the." l " i farmer must go over the patch every mor- MS ,J" H':l c"ure ") '"e'. ning or so, aod pick out all (he ripening a"'J the Uct ol h,s occupying a the heads; so soon as a few of the lower pods ' cabinet, and an office of great importance, begin to open, the entire head is cut off. ! re not to be deemed evidences of merit, This must be continued uninterruptedly j ne" il 18 known that the Chief M gisunlil frost and is by far (he most tedious tr,e of tl,e completely in his s s i i . ' i i i '

rs a . . - r" part of the bu-ine. Women and young children can at. tend to it, however, as well as a man The sooner the bean is popped, that is ill ' .

hulled, after being cut, the better. f eti gauieieu io mo sneni isnm. no i uie in a heap, in the pod, in the shade, lhe vvll advises the President "to conbean rots and spoils. If popped and kept:' " constitution as he understood it" in a dry place, it will keen for years who urged him to take lhe -responsi-

Qnail Hauna chnnll Iia i m tn a t t;. .ii., . I V v ' i ..ak-T c ii w u i i lUJUICIfllllcIT .... .J .. posed and dried in the hot sun and small crops may be entirely popped in (his way. Laige crops arc popped in the follow ne manner. An unner floor cane or small slats, is laid in a smoke house C7 , or other small log building in such a manner that the beans, but not the pods, can fall through between them. A hole to; contain fire is dug in (he ground below and a small clay arch is built over it, to keep the beans from falling inlo the fire. Burningout (he boards used in making the arch, will burn it sufficiently to make it stand ; which is all that is wante.'J. When the beans are gathered they are thrown on to the slats and a small fire is built tin der the arch. The heat pops them out; they fall through on the floor underneath, and are there gathered up. The arch prevents them from fulling into the tire. A small smoke house, will enable a farmer to save aod pop out ten acres ot beans, provided each day s cutting is regolarly taken to the kieo,o coon as il is

rut and the fire is attended In. A very

nine nrai cuuiccs. i ne neaos wnen once flopped are safe and may be cleared i ; i .. i - j-i- i i i up at leisure, like wheat, by means of a twenty or thirty bushels per acre ; or even more. In a rich soil we should advise topping the plants. The remaining beans will grow the larger in consequence, and will ripeu the sooner, which is an object of considerable moment to the Grower, it increase the quantity he can gather bevalue ol his crop OWEN & FONTLEKOY. Febiuary 3 The Pot Office Committee have been ,ns" ucled lo ,mlui' ml ,ue e'tdienc of so changing Ihe rates of postage en let teis.aslo adopt the same lo the deuoiu inatiai.s oi our national curicucy. ro.sT MAsTt.u c;lm:kal. Thai the administration journals should praise (he repoit and Utearuies of ihe 'Post Master General excites no surmise. What is it Ihc-y do not praise emanating 1 1 o ii i heir pat I y 1 but thai whig juumals i.i i:.. i .i - . . i .,.i.,.. " p-'" lo' ll,at re'0,t' txCit' our wo.udri :

pro-re.ve reai1 ,l ,u " olf'er

. . L .1 .. I 11 . I . cy ui iue uepai iiiicui. rv.enuau auic uuject is lo shew the department out ol debt, to accomplish which a dangerous curtailment of tiecedtary expeuUilui es a clone, pal iiuibijious appropriation of lhe public funds aie adopted as established sj'cu, I be consequences of which aie that Ihe mails were never earned more loosely, nur tailed iuoi li equeully. j Nearly a year beiore Major Barry left the depui tut rut , le gi ealesl tibi t were made lo ren-ed) lhe confusion in lhe office and restore a ty stent of legal expenditute, and the expeiimeul was in successful operation when Kendall look pojtssiou l (h i thee; aod us a Coufiiuiallou ol .is aj poiiiimeut is a paluuiouut c.uaiueruU .ii wiih lino, a shew of economy and g'joi in judgement, he believes, woulu reive his purposes belter than the ciedit of being a uccessful, etlicieut, liberal and stunted othcer in oilier word, lie Ihinks it better to lei three mails tail taihei Itian 'allow a competent contractor a lew huuJdred dollaia more thau a pciswu U caj pable would demand. j Kendall's talent as a public ofiicer is ! n-tlriiiiiilrtliinil lit fin lata: I ihuIloUS Jin the more mechanical labor ol seltliug : accutiitt be is keen in ducovt ing neui which cau be convened lo lhe bei.etil ol I 'ie government, aud construing the law ! ' wa- S'i lhe citizen tie maue ' Sood Auditor, as hundieds ol g ood (. Icounlatil wuuid also make, but he liaa not ; . . jibe unnd, nor lhe temper, required li i aii e,,l-red or ,,1er' I,u,ic-V "r d"-V ol ! qoaiiucauous easen.iai io charac i c .. in ij nur it.i leallll. j power, anu compelled to tonow ins auv ice o grainy ni amuitun anu cupiony. 1 be evil counsels ol rvendaii win ne Iel1 long alter Uen. Jackson shall be . ,i. j ... 'i . t. II.. I btlitv?' violating the la w and (he faith cd ! - t ' .,i i: ... l,lc ueiiniiein-nuu I'f""1!" lu J llU his alarming populi nty lo an extent j v nicn Ie'1 people a mere iemof;r,ini OI repmmcan oovernmeni, aoo , who has instigated Andrew Jackson to violate every pledge, one by one, that he freely avowed when a candidate for office. That Kendall did not command Andrew Jackson to name him as his successor, probably arose from (be fact that he had not organized a party in any state to lake the field for him: and that Mr. Van Buren has been named for the succession, aod the 9ceptre of power and patronage placed in his hand, is more the result ol mi arrangement and understanding with Kendall, than the voluntary act and choice of lhe President himself. And yet it ie apprehended that the pernicious influence of this man is lo be perpetuated by a confirmation of his present appoinment y the Senate; and it is boldly declared Uut senators who toted for tha rejection

f honest, useful men, appointed to office) early in the administration of General Jarkson, may he induced to approve tha appointment of Amos Kendall. We are loth to believe in such dar.geroua inconsistencies and yet will not be surprised to find the pirvulftii system of puicbasing" votes lit this instance successful. Aein York Star.

Firestw Natcbiz. A deliberate plet seems to have been formed to burn the ci. ty of Natchr to the ground. -Besides several large ires, various attempts havs been discovered to l the crty on fire Some idea may be gathered ol'lhe excitement prevailing ibere,frm the following article, takrn from the Natchez Courier, of the I2th mstutit. Louisville Ae"r. FJBE AGAIN AND AGAIN. Tn-tnty-tight houses Lurnt at A'alchtz Landing. The excitement here is iudes-cnbable--it does really appear that eur devoted city is to be titteily consumed j and the opinion is rife, among all classes of the community, that the gamblers who were driven from htre, having sworn vengeance against the place, are the IN CENDIAKILS. The state of things on Sunday night heggat tfescriptron The citizens oi the upper tosen, upon the first impulse rushed towards the landing. Tlien the startling cries of 'It's a plot to burn us up,' 'Don't leave (tie upper town,' Guard the Banks,' 'Take care of your own property,' were wildly vociferated by a hundred voice. Everyman turned cut, almost everyone with fire arms, and regular i ndoles wete established. Eveiy square was guarded during the whole) night, and every stranger stopped. Several persons were uppish end e d aod lodged in jail. The feelings of our high roindea ciiizens, who were obligidXo remain apon (he hill, eye-witnesses of ihe destruction of the property of their friends below, can better be imagined than described.It is a singular circumstance that tha greatest liser by the fiist fire, week before) last, Mr. Barlow, was the heaviest sufferer by this. The alarm on Sunday night was given about half past eight o'clock, when the fire was discovered in the cenireof Messn Lintot k Denny's buildings, betw een tha barber's shop and an adjacent house, we believe occupied by tome German families. We have not heard of a single dollai's worth f the property destroyed having been insured! 't he Insurance Of (ice of ibis city will not insure at present, so strong is ihe belief that we are beset by incendiary agents of the gamtleis Two large meetings were held yesterday and the moet effectual measures for our preservation have been taken on all hands Scarcely an eye will be closed to night. We annex a statement of particulars, it is not full, but is as much as vt are alia li make it to-day. Dr. Xov'er Cl aubert, lhe celebrated fire kingr, died in New York, ou Wednesday last, in a most awful manlier. He was engaged in making some experiments in chemistry with phosphoric ether , or prussic acid, which exploded, and scattered his mortal frame into a thousand atoms. The Murdered Cornslock. Two years ago. an the evening of the3ltofDecember, Janies Couislock. of Sullivan, was in this towa--had some small sums of money due him from inditi !uals, and left his boots lo be mended, &.c and has not since been heard of, until within a lew days. He was repeatedly advertised. After a, while suspicious were afloat, with no oth er fnsHidaii-in than his strange absence, that there had been ful play a murder had been committed ! A letter has juat been received from him at Little Fulls where, or in (hat vicinity, he has been at work; and a person who knows him well, I mm (hal quarter, confirms the account. He gives no explanation of hit strange conduct. Keeni Scntinei, A". . The last N. Orleans Morning Post sfatea that C-il Nicholas, a friend of the administration, has been elected United States Senator to supply the dace of Mr Gayarre, resigned. Col. Nicholas receives! 32 vo!es, Mr. Barrow, 27, Mr. GrymesS, Mr. Augus'io I, Blank 1 Nicholas eUc ted by a mojoniy of one vole. Louisville Adv. The Very Last. "Grandmas," said ad rchin to his father's mother, the other day, living somewhere in Worcester coun y, 4,G rand mam, the Kailroud is coming through our town " it, 'Siah," said the venerable dame. "Well, I hope it will come through by day light, for I looj to see one tembly." B$st. Transcript. At the time of adapting the Federal Constitution, every State, except Massachusetts, had slaves! The people of St. Louis, Missouri, are) aooul to erect a splendid new Hotel, on the corner ef First and Latlrel streets, by i slock company. It is to be two hundred feet front , aed one hundred and filly back, fur stories high. Tha cast is estiasatad at $100,000.