Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 28, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 December 1836 — Page 2

Saturday, December 13, 1835

The rioladelphia "Iv.upiirer" gives a judicious recommendation in the follow ing article: We hope the friends of "Harrison and Erecdom"1 will keep wide awake throughout the I num. 'Keep the Fla- Flying." The battle has gone by, ami the result is known. .Martin an Buren has in all probability been elected to the rrcsideuoy of the United States for four years from the fou r.Ii of March, 1S:17. The result should be attributed to the force of party organization, together with the popularity ofPrcs;dont Jackson. Without that popularity without the aid of Jackson? name and inlUienee. the most zealous partisan, would not contend that Martin Van Buren could have reached the Presidential Chair. Look at the state of the case in Pennsylvania alone- and without the vote of Pennsylvania Van ISuren must have been prostrated, (lew. Jackson was lirsl nominated for the Presidency in this State ihe people took him up, and rallied around him with a decree of enthusiasm altogether unexampled in our political history. They looked upon him as an honest man a firm patriot a brave soldier, and a victorious general, and they stuck to him with a pertinacity as remarkable as steadfast. They sustained him to the last re-elected him in 1S3vJ, and confirmed all the prominent measures of his administration. Under such circumstances it was natural to suppose that the candidate brought out under the immediate auspices of President Jackson sustained by the (lovernment patronage, and by the powerful phalanx of office-holders from one end of the country to the other, would prove victorious, especially as the opposition did not rally with any decree of unanimity upon a candidate until within a year. Is it not remarkable, therefore, that such a result should, under such circumstances, have taken place in Pennsylvania? Con. Jackson's majority in was more than 50,000 votes Martin an Buren s majority in 1830 is less than live thousand! Willi such a resuit under such circumstances, it must be apparent to all our friends that there is hut one course to pursue. It is to "keep the Jlas Jlyin a"' to rally once more for the hero of the Thames to stand by Harrison and the supremacy of the laws. Standby your amis, therefore, friends of Harrison! Defeated, not conquered, thousands will crowd into our ranks before the next contest, who -at the last took part with the enemy. Even now while in the very flush and excitement of victory, it is admitted by the Van Buren men themselves that at another trial the Victor of the Thames would sweep all opposition before him PhilnJ T 'nq The Washington Sun oilers the following wholesome advice, which is well worthy of general attention. Slacp on yoni' Matchlocks and keep your "Powder dry. If Van Huren suee eds at all, it is now beyond a doubt that he will be a minority President. His majorities in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia, and other states are so small that it only required an effort on the part of his opponents to turn the tide against him. He owes his election more to the apathy of the whigs than to his own strength. What, under these circumstances, ought to be the conduct ot the people who are adverse to the misrule and corruption w ith which we have been so long cursed? This is a question easily answered. The means by which we obtained the Distribution Pi ill at the last session, in spite of the opposition of an Huron and his myrmidons, read us a lesson we ought never to force t. The circumstances connected with that measure teach us our strength, and of what it is capable, when applied with a ch ar knowl edge of what we want, and with taat ear nestness, nndimmed by passion, which calls forth every energy without blinding its possessor. The same is ii our mm hands, even if J'etn Buren should be elec ted President; and all we have to do is to play it u-tirily and coolly. Congress, es pecially the House ot Representatives must be our implement. The people must set about mending i;s composition forth with. Dr. Buchanan has been delivering lectures for the last week in this place, on Phre nology. The science, through him. has just ly gained great reputation in Vincennes Dr. Buchanan is a young man of excellent talents, genteel deportment, and fully com pctent to the labor in which he is engaged His examinations of the heads of divers individuals, well known, hive convinced those heretofore sceptical, that the science of Phrenology is not a mere chimera of the brain. We attended the first of his series of lectures. It was truly interest ing;. - The follow ing article w hich we exirae from the Louisville Journal, willcommatul some attention. The Science of Phrenol ogy is beginning to be correctly apprecia i .1 . . 1 i leu ov me peopie, ana such s-tat ments will !o allowed their dee weight in deeid ing upon me cnaraoiers oi pvituie men. "Perhaps if the American people had been generally acquainted with Phrenology, and with the head of Martin Van Hu

ron, we migiit nave escaped ttie misior-

tune of having such a man for President. Wc have been assured by Dr. Buchanan, that the phrenological remarks on Santa Anna and Almonte are correct. He received an accurate account from Dr. Johnson who visited Santa Anna in June, and made a cart ful phrenological i xainiii.i'ion of his head. g'-y When the portraits of S.m'-i Anna ami Almonte, now at the museum in this city, were in Mississippi, Dr. Powill. the distinguish. id phrenologist, made a thorough examination of them, especially of Santa Anna's. The Doctor has sent us tin' result of his examination, which wc publish in another column. SANTA ANNA. (hi seeing the portrait of Santa Anna. by Major Strange, I gave my opinion of him, and as it is deemed more correct than that which is generally entertained. 1 have been requested to make it public. The intensity of expression w Inch gives character to the features of this individual, dors not indicate a foul and murderous spirit, but simply an intellectual dilheii'ty in individualizing his conceptions, and an indomitable sell-will, or thirst tor power and disMnoiion. Under circumstances which do not stand opposed to his ambition, he is capable ot much kindness and generosity, and in this respect he is not unlike most ambitious men in Camp, in Church and in State. Put Santa Anna was cruel and vindictive: so are all men w ho tight under the influence of religious bigotry. He was taugtit to believe Unit it was doing lioil a special service to kill a Protestant, and Protestants were no better when they murdered Quakers. Beligious fanaticism is the same in all sects Hill born and of course in ompromisinsr. Santa Anna has not the mild and cat-like expression of the cool and deliberate murderer, of the midnight assassin, of the political knave and religious hypocrite. If you desire to see such a face, look at Almonte. Santa Anna's face indicates a restless aspirant after power; and although he is talented, yet his powers of percep tion are too leeble to render him successful. His abstract conceptions are far bett( r than his practical plans for their achievement. Header! lie is a man of excitability; go and look at him. W. BYRD POWELL. .. We have just been to see Air. LeFcvre's excellent painting of Christ delivering the keys to St. Peter, measuring 140 square feet. Near the Saviour stand the Apostles in a compact group, each head exhibiting its peculiar physiognomy, with the expression properly belonging to it. The expression of Christ is at once sublime and beautiful. In fine, it is one of the most truly elegant paintings wc have over ccn, an accurate description oi w tut it. could not be given in less than a column of our paper. It is now being exhibited iu the house formerly occupied bv the late Christian (iraoter. Co and see it every one. i "II iram K. Hunt received '-260 damages :tgainst the town of Pownal, for contu sions received by Ins w Ue by the breaking down of their carriage, in consequence of ie miserable and dangerous state of a road under the jurisdiction of the town lu'Jiorities of Pownal, State (if New York. t the time of the accident, a sister and iuld of Air. Hunt were killed." : "'Suppose the supervisors of Roads in this State were rendered liable, as Mr. Hunt was in the above case, would not improvement soon become evident' lu ll IK't so.' We arc requested to say that John D. Earlv, Esq. is a candidate to represent this district in Congress, at the next Au gust election. Latest from Florida. T.M.1.A11ASSI.K, Nov. .") We learn direct from Black creek, that tlie 1 ennessec brigade had taken no the line ot march lor tort Drane, and will .... 1 continue to move immediately upon the Wythlaeouehoe; that large supplies wore also on the way to 1 ort Drane, and thence to the nation. Cel. Wyatt will move on Monday with some volunteers, find will forthwith join (Jen. Armstrong. From every appear ance, we are luliy justified in saving that there is no doubt of a speedy termination ot the w ar. Jac ksonv ii.u: Nov. 10. The Army is in motion for the field. The last detachment left Black erode : day or two since. Col. Pierce was or derod to be at Port Drane on tho Oth m et.int t.i ii-. rtij i.l ,1,-. ! ... 'IM -j.niiu, i. f tij l.ie IKUIOll. 1 Hoy 'rO again to that charmed spot, where nearly ad our tones have met defeat, the Wvtlilacooehee, where Oseola, proud monarch 01 the wilderness, reigns triumphant. It is Stated in a loiter from nn fi.'Pi. f.itho western side of the Peninsul i t! (:,..i r... i - n.i .fio.,,,, iimmiijt received orders to assume t!m command m Florida, proceed od to IM. .Mark s to hasten and direct the movenunts ot the provisions Sic. for the Army, and that lie returned, and w as then on the Wv thlaehoochce. This accounts lor his delay in reaching Fort Drane. Gov ernor Call will probably meet him in the nation. There is said to be a largo supply of provisions on the Wnhhcooch it Tarn

pa Bay. There are nearly 1,000 Kegulars l,i50 Tenncsseeans, (i00 orTOO J'loridians, and t'.UO or 800 friendly Indiana in

the country. Oeneral Enstis, we understand, is ordered to Florida. Col. Hankie ad, w e also um;ers:a;ut arrived at iu ( n k a few days since. Appointment by the "i c;idc rt. William 1'kick, to be Collector of the Customs for the District of Baltimore. ice James II. AlcCulloch, deceased. Globe. By the above, it will be seen that Air. Prick has receiv ed one of the most responsible and honorable stations in the gift of the President, and at last lias obtained full compensation for his zealous serv ices in the cause of (Jen. Jackson, and which he followed up to the last, as an Elector for Mr. Ya Biri:n. Air. E. is a lawyer of respectable attainments and has the requisite qualifications to fill the cilice won, ami as we must nave one oi ins po litical stamp to till the place, we regard him better than some and inferior to none of his competitors, of whom there wen not a few. There is one thing not a little remarka ble in the appointments in this modern 'democratic" Administration, that the old Federalists obtain the best otliees. to the exclusion of the real old v' mocrafs'1 of the Ji ilerson School. Within a few months. Mr. T.wf.y has received the appoint ment ol Chnd Justice of the United State, Ur-rox S. Hi-JATii, United States District Judge, and now Air. Euick, Collector of the port of Baltimore alt Fi derali-.ts of the Old School.' and residents too, ol the boasted "( morru! tr' ehv of Bal timore!!! Air. Jellerson was brought into power expressly to put dow n letti ruisoi. and it would appear that (Jen. Jackson lias been brought in to re-instate it! P a It in i ore Patriot The Vice Peesidi nc The choice o Vice President of the United States, will ultimately have to be determined by the senate, as by the vote ol lrgiuia lor Judge Smii h of Alabama, Col. Johnson .-.lis behind Air. Van Buren, and certainly falls short of a majority of the electoral v otes. The ( lection then fore goes to the United States Senate, whose duty U is to choose one of tho two persons having the highest numberof electoral votes. These, it is now ascertained, will be . AI. Johnson:, of Kentucky, and Ukvni is Ckanoiu;, of New York. With regard to the choice between these individuals, we shall merely say that if the Senate of the United State's can reconcile it to their sense of the fitness of things, and to their own character and dignity, to decide the question in favor of Col. Johnson, and thus to make him the presiding officer of that body we suppose the country will acquiesce. If the Senate can get over the formidable objections against Col. JoriNSON, iw Pre sident and President of the senate, we suppose the croat public, yvho see so little of tho indiv idual, w ill be able to do so too. But it is pos-iblo that the senate of of tho United Stales cu,i get over these objections? We shall see.' Jiidiii.iorc Patriot . Judg-c Blackford's Rc-orts. Vie have had the pleasure of examining the third volume of Jilac!f,rd' s lliprts. just issued lioni the press of AI. M. lienkle (f this place. We are proud to see a work of this kind, so ore. lit: J :io both to the reporter and printer, i-s,;e from the capita! of our State. The mechanical execution is excellent, and as reg rds the talents and ability of tho reporter, we have the following highly complimentary note irom the v:nd volume Un l edition ot Kent's Commentaries: InPnroa I), morrnl. ''Lis an interesting ('.-.ot to find not onlv .i.f ir . .'.i ii i-i too '..' .in icn'orm ot tlie imgiisii common law, but, tlie refinements id' the I!n-gli.-h Equity System, adopted and enforced in itioui.-xr, as cartv as io, wtien w c come to consider how recently that country had then risen from a wilderness into a cul tivated and civilized community. The Beports in Indiana here referred to, are reph-to with extensive and accurate law learning, and the notes of the learned re porter, annexed to tlie eases are very valuablo: Kent's Co,.,,. (,,. . " neccipt to cure Tcrk Haras. Tibs, salt; U ozes, saltpetre; Ii red pep pers; -1 gallons water. Make a pickle according to these pro portions, sufficient to cover your hams w i ll by putiing the salt, salt-petre and poppers into ttie water, cold irom the well or spring, and stirring it we'll till the salt is nearly dissolved. Pack your hams in a barrei or other vessel, and pour your pickle cm them, sin ring it well at tho time. that the undissolved salt may be all poured to your hams. lie careiul that they fie all covered with the pickle, and kept so for six weeks; then take them out and wash them out or rinse them oil in clean cold water, hang them up and let them drain for a day or two, then somkc them with sugar maple or hickory chips or wood, green from the tree, which makes tho sweetest and purest smoke of any kind of wood I am acquainted with, and makes it entirely unnecessary to put sugar and molasses in the pickle, as I used to do. Aly method of smoking is, if in moderate fill or w inter weather, to make one smoke in twenty-four hours if in severe weather, two. The object to be aimed at in regulating the smoke, is first: to make as little lire as you can, and make a good strong smoke; second: to let vemr hams get thoroughly cooled through, after each sui(,;e, PC lore auoiner is maue. i.verv farmer, u houses an axe, knows how rapidly a cold frosty axe collects pvroligne- ! ous acid, or essence of smoke. While

hams are cold, they collect it as rapidly,!

and ;u? they become warm it dues into them. If vou increase the heat so as to make them drip the fat, you lesson the weight of your hams, and injure their havor. With regard to the credit of my hams in market, I will only say that gentlemen iu Cleveland, w ho have used hams of inv cm inc. pronounce them equal to luiv they ! . ve over seen, and they compvi'ui 'be hi rhest price in market. E. FOOTE. Brooklyn, Ohio, SepL, ic:'.0. (7 i i:;iut!i Oa-( tic. HON. CEO. L. KifsTNAnt). It is with pain we announce that the i IIin. (Ji:o. Ii. Kinnaru, who was so badly scalded a few days ago on board the steamboat Flora, died at the hospitable dwelling of Con Lyile. on Saturday evening last, and was buried yesterday afternoon with distinguished marks of respect. I lis remains were escorted to the grave by the elegant uniformed companies of Captain Bowman and Captain Kichards, as w(,-ll as a large oonconr.-o of citizens. The military escort fired the usual salute upon such occasions. Air. Kinuavd was aged about 33 years, and was a highly respectable member of Congress, from Indiana. His death is rendered the more distressing, as wo understamFlie was cm his way to Philadelphia, with a view of being married to a lady in that city, whom he intended taking with him to Washington. The afllietion w ill bo painful to her in the extreme. (7). Jl'hix .A "or. '2. We understand that Air. Kiimard is the sixth of those injured on the Flora, that has d.ed. Gazelle A bank Failure. In consequence of the recent failure ol the President of the Nahaut Bank, at Lynn, Mass., there was a run on the institution last week, for specie, and the result of which was, as wc are informed by our Boston correspondent, and also by a gentleman w ho left that city last Saturday, that tho bank, unable to meet its notes w ith specie, was obliged to stop payment. Bickmll'x Pcportcr. of Nov. 'Ii. The rvioucy market. Money continues very scarce. Abundance tif good paper though not of our fust houses may be obtained in the Philadelphia market at from one and a quarter to one and a half per cent a month. It should be remembered, however, that the surplus revenue, now amounting to more than forty millions of dollars, will be distributed among the States on the lirst ol January next, when relief may bo immediately anticipated. Tho pot banks in whose custody this vast sum now is, arc of course unable to loan it out, as they cannot say how soon tho trovoriuncut may demand it, for the purpose of paying it over to the States. lb. - .... A A TPAvruiwrt PAtiprn The other day an old man, of rather deeentish appearance, presented himsi It at the Commissioner's ollice, as a eandidate for admission to the alms His '-ountenanee struck Col. Maun as one not allogotln r unknown to him, and so ho stated to tho applicant. "Seen me before, d'ye say.'"' said the old man; "why to be sure vou have: we re no strangers, I assure you: or at least we onght'nt to be, for I've been iu your almshouse this many a ) ear. But you see, about fifteen months ago I got little tired of my old home and took a notion to travel a bit, and went oil to Boston, and got into the alms house there. It was pretty good, and 1 made myself tol erable oonilortaiiie and contented. thou,r!i the overseers diil'iit mean I should; and at last, to ge't rid of me. they oll'ered to pay my passage to Norfolk, V irginia "U ell, I wont, and got into tho poor-house there; but I made a precious poor bargain of it, I till you. Hogs' fat and hommonv, homuiouy and hogs' fat was all the variety of that concern: so you may be sure I dul'nt stay long, but made my way to Richmond. There 1 found the poor-house fare a little belter than at Norfolk, but no touch at all to w hat I was used to; so tarrying there long was out id' the question. The next place 1 stopped at was Baltimore; and I must say for Bahimoro that its poor-house accommodations are not to be sneered at, and I should have made out right well there, had'nt it been that the company was entirely loo promiscuous for a New York anti-nigger man. I got along with it as long as 1 could stand it, but that was "nt a great while; and so 1 packed off, and here I am again. Colonel, ready for my old quarters, "There'a no place like home," Colonel; let them travel that will, but Bellev no is as good a resting place as I want." And at Bellcvuc t'.ic old man made up his bed the same night, and in the morning was found 1 ing in it with a countenance perfectly placid and serene indiath A . J. Sun. A druggist in the North advertises that he has laid in a general assortment of fashionable medicines. Whatnext? Weshall hav e patent geometrical cathartics for mathematicians, and lunarian powders for persons altlicted w ith astronomy; together with a general assortment of masculine and feminine syrups to suit the complaints of either sex. warranted to opeiatc the same as at Almacks and the Court! Scotsman. AFDoNAt.D Clarke's tasti:. 'I hate those gasping sick turkey looking crrrehtr.s, with wasp-like bodies, and mincing jfeet! (Jive me a girl., says ho, 'with a waist tike a cotton bus, and a foot like a Jknnuh r." F.xtr noire Bank Bobbery. The vaults of the Oneidi Ihnk, at Utiea, were er.tcr-

ed on Sunday the iiOth inst, and the sum of o;7f hundred and gy thousand aj' i

hundred dollars extracted therefrom, bc--ides about six thousand dollars m notes md eiie-ks. 'I he mom v sto.en consist-, ed of notes on the banks of Rome, Albany j and New V.rk.;md ihe other banks in tho j state, with alxe.it sound on nanus m m eastern states. In order to ellect tho rob berv. siv locks had to bo unbolted, live which were c-ll'ected by keys and the other If oken mien. The directors oiler a reward d' sCithlO for the recovery ol tin money and the arrest and conviction of tie thiol or '000 for tho arrest and eonon of the thief alone. llj.il. Trail. To ;-('"'' .rirhc.t Bi'e. If tlie h will not bite, e.'rry him to Wall street, L'Cll .md bind him apprentice to a broker for a wee i . and his leelh wi 1 become SO Sh.il rp that I ie will bite throu kettle. X. 1 di the hotium ol a bra Transc rijil . ss A man named Thomas Davis, said t.) be a native of New burvport, Alass. has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in the new Peniieiniarv at Phil. oh lphia, for false allirmation at the late general election held in Westchester Pa. The Westchester Register says "this case ought to serve as a solemn w arning to all those who are disposed to attach but little importance to the solemnities of an oath or aliirmatiou." F The Faston Democrat savs that a young lady was tried before an ecclesiastical tribunal in New Brunswick, for heresy. due ed the charges against her was hav ing declared '-that there was but one (Jot ami that w as President Jackson. Post. 'Fran. " tDruid fid operation of the English poor Laic. Six nilants wore recently taken out of the Canal at Preston, which bad boon thrown in, it is supposed, by their mothers, to escape the operation ol the ii i-i t .1 i i late law. which niaiics nic mother charge able w ith the support of her illegitimate offspring. Sat. ('our. Origin of Genius: Columbus was the sou of a AVeavcr, and a weaver himself. Babelais son ed" an appothecary, Claude Lorraine was bred a pastry cook. Molicrsonof a tapestry maker. Cervantes served as a common soldier. Homer was a beggar. Hesiod was the sou of a small fanner. Demosthenes of a cutler. Torrenee was a slave. Kichaidson w as a printer. Oliver Cromwell the son ol" a brewer. Howard an apprentice to a grocer. Benjamin Franklin a journeyman printer. Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Worcester, sm of a linen 1 )rapor. D.mirl lKi'ue v us a hosier, and the son of a butcher. bitfield son of an innkeeper at Gloucester. Sir Clotidcsloy Shovel, rear adiuial of I.ngland, was an apprentice to a shoemak er, and aitervvards a cabin buy. Bishop Prideaux worked in the kitchen at Lxcier college, Oxford. Cardinal Woolsey son of a butcher. Fiiigusoil was a shepherd. Neihiihr was a peasant. Dean Tucker w ;o: tin; son of asniail farmer in Cardiiigaushire, and performed his journeys to Oxlord on foot. Edmund Halley w as the son of a soapboiler at Slieredith. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, son of a farmer at Ashby do la .ouch. Win. Hogarth w as put an apprentice to nu Engraver of pewter pots. Doctor Mountain, bishop of Durham was the son of a beggar. Luciau was the son of a statuary. Y irgd of a porter. Horace of a shop keeper. Piatus a baker. Shakespeare the son of a wool stapler. Milton of a money scrivener. Cowley son of a hatter. Mallet rose from poverty. Pope the son of a merchant. (Jay was an apprentice to a silk mercer. Dr. Samuel Johnson was a son of a bookseller at Litchfield. Akenside son of a butcher at Noivcastlo. ( 'ollins son of a hatter. Samuel Butler son of a fanner. Bon. Johnson worked sometimes as a brick-layer. Bobert Burns was a ploughman in Avshirc. Improve your Brcninss. As the season of long evenings is near at hand, wo foil anxious to impress upon the minds of our young friends, the importance of spending them in some appropriate and useful manner. Such are the faculties for the dissemination of knowledge at the present day, that every individual can have access to the best of books and newspapers. Depend upon it you will never have occasion to regret such a use of your leisure hours. You will not only in ibis way, sow seeds of usefulness and enjoyment in after life, but v ou will derive immediate benefit and gratification and secure the respect and confidence of all around you. If you have but one hour to yourselves each day learn to improve that hour to the very "best advantage. To those who feel interested in tlie efforts now making to increase their leisure time, we would say, he sure and improve what little leisure you now have or it w ill be in vain to hope for success. Mec. .idr.

t'uti'itcrfii!.. Counterfeit UlUonthe Hank of Kentucky, of the Jciioiniiintioii of f 20 have hern passed in this city, w hi. Ii tiro not il.-r rilM,l j ,.;,l(,r Itiekti.dl's or Sylvester's Di tecor. 'flu- ,, j,,,. l'.-rc us is i-i v. 1 1 ilc :it Louisville, leper A.. :v.yz. p i ,iM.' I i K. S. To.lil. (J. C (Jvviithniv.Cash'r .!.'....!. .I e-, !-.. lhe-t.. ii:i'.-d June Iglh. '.;!.-,: p,,'. eie;,n he; V i y hidly cxeeu'ed. i;ik linieh , r Own i i Ihe "' mine note's, end arc iiearty aipunu-r if an i .e!i .-U. ii ter. 'in. CuztHr. Five Steam Boats have been lost upon the Missouri during the present season. Tho last w hich wi! have t o no 1 it e is that of tin! John Hancock. This boat h ft our port on Saturday last, and on Sunday she struck a snag a few miles above Bellefontaine, and sunk in ton feet water. Tho boat was heavily freigthod, and tlie Insurance (.(liccs, we understand, suffer heavily. No liv e s were lost.

A. .ai,; r ..,,!. - j' - (v The ( Jov erii'ir of Illinois h 'tu his Proclamation, announcing the election of the Electors mimed upon the Van Bureti Ticket, for President and Vice President. . Sram J clccidcnt. Tlie ''Kansas" w hich left this place yesterday for Chariton, after coming too alongside the wreck of tho "John Hancock," parted the forward end of her starboard boiler. No persons were scalded, and no further damage done, except the blowing olf of a part of the boiler deck. The iron where the boiler gave way, appeared to be defective, and no blame whatever is attributable toany of tho ollieers of the boat. She will have to return to this Port for repairs. ';. .-.F F 0.,... It is a fact that some respectable citizens of Loudoun county, (viz:) owners of the soil, and md a hundred miles from Middleburg, did not know en which day the Presidential e lection was to take place, ami was astonished when they heard that it had 'come and gone." .ihr. Gaz. I.csul Ft lrets or sore Sati foctinn. The anecdote of two litigants going to law lor an oyster is as old as the hills each party saved a shell and the lawyers shared the oyster. Bating the mere subject in dispute, precisely such a case was settled in a lawyer's ollice opposite the new ( 'ourt House last week. On Friday . two sm.i! 1 coasters arrived at one of the wharves, nearly at the same time. The first had just time to "make fast" w hen the second hauled alongside. The master of tho second for the purpose of securing the snuggest birth for his own craft, let go the "fast" of the lirst, and sent her adult about her business. The captain of the lirst. as soon as he realized the trick that had been played him, jumped on board of No. '2, ami gave the captain tici a 'tamal lirhins that lie couldn't see out of his eyes. As soon as the flogged captain's nose stopped bleeding, he ma !o for ihe lawyer's ollice, took out a court writ for the assault, laying the damages at $1110 and pa ing about to the lawyers and constables for serving it. As soon as the writ was presented to the captain th.it did tbi! beating, ho olfered the beaten captain sHO to settle. The plaiuliil" consented to take that sum thinking himself to bo So richer by the, transaction. A receipt being given, Captain No. 1 said to No. '2 "Now it is my turn to sue vou lor damages for easting oil' my vessel." As l.e spoke, so he did. and paid S5 for a writ, as his antagonist had done before him, and in a few minutes Cap!. .. I was in his turn iu durance rile, and was only released by pay ing hack his assaulter tho s-10 which lie pist received from him: and cs s. out of both tens went to the lawyers ami constables both captains wore, of course, $5 out of pocket by thencross actions. Boston Post. .7 Just Bcu-ard to Ma il. It is a rare thing in these times to find a government agent of sufficient firmness to resist tho course of corruption. Such, however, appears to bo Colonel Hogan, who is occupied iu ferrelingout the recent disgraceful frauds upon the Crook Indians. At x late meeting of the citizens of Al.icon Alabama, the following resolutions was unanimously passed: Prsnlrrd, That the conduct of Colonel John B. Hogan as Agent for the investigation of frauds which have been practiced in the sale of Creek reservations, far from meriting the obloquy or censure attempted to be heaped upon it by a particular class of land speculators whose dark deeds he has exposed and brought to light, in our opinion deserves from the honest and upright portion of the community the most unqualified approbation, and that therefore wc "approve of the course pursued by him in that capacity and support him in it. w ' MA H HIED On Thursday tho Kth of Dec. by Henry Turbctt, Esq. Air. Douglass Williams, to Aliss Dorcas Johnson, all of this county. "HK sid seiilw r will sell at l'ublie Auction, at 2 his residence, in Lawrence Countv. Illinoi-, one and a half railes above Yinceniies, on Wednesday tl.e 21st of Dec. yopn; c attli:, 5i:i:i:i Farming- Utensils. (Mri:.n:n'x tools, A G0G3 FAMILY CARRYALL AMD HARNESS. J'ovver Lathe Irons and Tools, 3 its, ICL-ittortts. Hoa tTDaius, And fimdrv oilier articles too tedious to mention TKKMS (IK !S.L1. All Kllnis 0f three dob l;irs and under cash in hand, all sum over tin ee dollars six months rrodit, the purchiirser civinz hi note with approve d "rarity. J, BRODEH. De -. Slid, 1 r,R';i3o",..

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