Vincennes Gazette, Volume 11, Number 4, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 July 1841 — Page 2

S A T V R I) A V , Jl LY 3, 1811. OC?We arc authorized to announce Mr. W.m. Davis, as a candidate fur Count v Auditor at the ensuing August election. The Secretary of the Treasury recently received in an anonymus letter S100, postmarked New York, June Oth, which lie has put in the Treasury. The writer pars it is "for duties loner due." - The House of Representatives has passed a bill appropriating S25,C00 to the widow of our late and lamented President. This is as it should be. The people's response to this righteous net, will gladden the hearts of those who voted for it. Thomas II. Ifenton declines being a candidate for President in IS 11. Hunker Hill Monument is progressing Tr.pidly. It is already one hundred feet in height, and will be finished this autumn. Shawncclown Bank.-The report which has been so freely circulated, that a writ ( quo irarranto had been awarded against the Bank of Illinois at Shawnetown. proves to be incorrect. The facts are substantially these. The Attorney General of Illinois, has served a notice upon the President and directors of that institution, that at the July term of the Sangamon Circuit Court, application will be made for the grantingof a writ of quo warranto. The writ will be returnable in December next, before the Supreme Court of that erate, and then, and not until then, will the controversy be determined. The fell destroyer death has taken from the Galaxy of American Poetical literature, one of her brightest stars. Willis G. Clark editor and proprietor of the Philadelphia Gazette, is no more. He died lately in Philadelphia of pulmonary consumption, aed 7l vears. Our own hard lot. Some time ago we mentioned how extremely lucky our friend Prentice of the Louisville Journal was in almost daily receiving presents. Every mail brings us additional news of those u ho have been in fortune's way. Kendall of the X. O. Picayune, has received a golden tube to suck juleps through. Hirney Mc-.rhall of the Louisville City Gazette has received a gold pencil case, to niawe " 1 encilmtrs bv the way. Charles Albright of the Guernsey (Ohio) Times, has received a pig none of your long-nosed, slab-sided, crane-legged "crrfurs," but the prettiest kind of a fullblooded Yorkshire breed. Such a present now (or an editor oh hush! Others are receiving baskets of Champaigne wine, all the new Novels, t!s:c. ecc. while we poor mortal, receive nothing but duns, and tba of the hardest kind. We are not even fortunate enough to get a piece of sweet bread for noticing the junction of two happy hearts. Our case i3 truly lamentable. "It seem to me, that Monotonous music, when sung bv a rich fine voice, has a deeper effect than music which has more variety," said, a friend a short time since. Undoubtedly it has "on a mind which is either wholly uncultivated, or which has arrived at the highest pitch of refinement. The untutored ear can relish none bat simple melodies; when the ear begins to be cultivated, it also becomes vitiated, and takes pleasure in variety and apparent difficulty. It must even be kept from satiety by discords. As we goon the taste refines itself, and we reach our original love of simplicity we find we have travelled in a circle, and that when we fancied ourselves farthest from ignorance, we were exactly the same distance from perfection. It is the same with every thing dress, eating, books, manners, habits of life. The coquette comes back to her white gown, the epicure to his boiled chicken, the man of fortune to his cottage. We take great trouble in acquiring factitious tastes, and then hav-3 to unlearn them." The above quotation, which we found somewhere, we not only think a good answer to our friend, but a capital piece of knowledge which all lovers of music cannot but peruse with pleasure and delight. Great Bargain J. P. Chapman. Esq. of the South Western Sentinel, Evar.sville. bv reason of having made arrangements vith his brother. Oo. A. Chapman, to

print a paper at Indianapolis, ofFers for sale the printing office and subscription list of the Sou'h Western Sentinel, on very favorable terms for cash. Now's your chance.

For the Vinconnes Gazette. Mit. Capdington: Sir: The Committee of arrangements for the Sunday School celebration on the Dth inst. have directed me to prepare for publication, the accompanying list of officers, &.-.C for the day, with the request that you would lay the same before your readers on Saturday next. Yours respectfully. D. MATTHEWS, Secretary, -c. July 1st, 1811. In compliance with a resolution of- the committee of arrangements, in behalf of the Sunday Schools of this place, I beg leave to notify the public that the following named gentlemen have been selected by the committee, to take part, and to assist in the Celebration of the sixty-fifth Anniversary of American Independence, on Monday next, and have consented to act. D. MATTHEWS, Sec'ry. President of the day. DAVID GASS, Esq. l ice President of the day. DR. W. C. WARNER. Chaplaiixs. REV. T. ALEXANDER, REV. J. KEARNS. Reader of the Declaration of Independence D. MATTHEWS. Orators. REV. J. H. HARRISON, R. F. McCONAUGIIY, Esq. Chief Marshal. MR. LEMUEL GARDNER. Assistant Marshals. ISAAC MASS, Z. WILLIAM. Standard Bearers. II. HARPER, L. BADOLLET, Committee of recejilion. (To be at the Church and attend to seating the pupils when the processions shall arrive.) Mr. Maddox, Dr. Decker, " Hill, Mr. Kyle, 14 Whitmore, " Rathbone, " J. W. Greenhow, " W. Emery. Conxmittte to prepare the Table. Mr. A. Gardner, " Thomas Bishop. " E. Gardner, " J. B. Martin, " J. H. Henderson. Committee of Vigilance. (For the preservation of order at the place of entertainment.) Mr. A. T. Ellis, Mr. J. B. Martin, " McGifiin, " W, Fellows, " S. Smith, " M. Robinson, Dr. Somes, " A. Badollet, Mr. W. Burtch. N. B. For the order of procession, see the annexed "Orders of the-day" reported by the Chief Marshal. For the order of exercises at the Church, see the printed programme. Orders of the JDav. The assistant Marshals, Teachers, Scholars, Citizens, &e. will please observe the following order of procession for Monday the 5th inst. in the Sunday School Union Celebration. At 8 o'clock, A. M. the Presbyterian bell will be rung as a signal for the schools to assemble at their respective places of meeting. At the 2nd bell (9 o'clock) the schools will proceed severally to the pavement at the Town Hall. The Marshal will take charge of the Methodist E. School, assistant Marshal, Mass, of the Presbyterian School, and assistant Marshal, Pulliam, of the Episcopal School. Upon arriving at the Town Hall the line will be formed as follows, fronting 4th st. with the head of the procession on the right of the column: 1st. The Band 2d. Banner. 3d. Pres't. and Vice President. 4th. Chaplains. 5th. Speakers and Reader. Oth. Female pupils and Teachers of the Episcopal School. 7th. Female pupils and Teachers of the Presbyterian School. 8th. Female pupils and Teachers of the Methodist E. School. I'th. Male pupils and Teachers of the Episcopal School. 10th. Female pupils and Teachers of the Presbyterian School. 10th. Female pupil's and Teachers of the Methodist E. School. 12th, and 13th. Ladies and Gentlemen. At the 3d Bell (9 o'clock) the procession will move towards the Presbyterian Church, passing out Market to fifth st. and up fifth to the Church. When arrived at the church, the female scholars and teachers, will pass in at the side-cateon Viost. and enter the church by the right door. " The male scholars and teachers preceded by the Band and officers will pass up 5th sr. to the front gate, and enter the church bv the left door.

The Committee of reception will please !

seat me eciioois, in me oruer ni wmui -t. . i .i i. : .. ,:k ! they enter, beginning in front of the pulpit. After the exercises are closed, the procession will pass out as it entered, preceded by the Band and officers, aud form on 5th st. fronting Market. The procession will then move toward Market st. down Market to front, and up front to the Rev. Mr. Alexander's residence. As the scholars cuter the enclosure, the females will pass to the seats upon the left hand, and the males to those upon the right of entrance. N. B. Schools from the country will please assemble at the Methodist Churcn, and report themselves to the Chief !arshal, who will assign them proper places in the procession. L. GARDNER, Chief Marshal. July 1st, 1S41. Congressional. House of representatives. The House agreed to-day, to meet at 10 o'clock, after this week, and to allow the Speaker to adjourn at 3. There was a onz discussion relative to abuses in franking stationary, and then a very strong debate in Committee of the Whole, on the report of the Select Committee recommending an appropriation for Gen. Harrison's family; after which the House adjourned. The debate lies over till to-morrow. June 17. In the House, th bill making an appropriation to the family of Gen. Harrison, being under consideration Mr. Adams moved that the blank in the bill be filled with the sum of $25,000. He sustained his position in some appropriate remarks, in which he styled the appropriation and indemnity for the serious expenses to which the late President was necessarily subjected by the people of the United States, in placing him for two years in the situation of a candidate for the Presidency and which he could not avoid. Mr. Cooper, of Ga., was in favor of the appropriation. He hoped no opposition would be inade to it, that the lie direct might be given to that stale reproach of despots, that "Republics are ungrateful." Mr. Ward, of N. Y., took the same ground. Mr. Gordon, of Vi., moved to amend the motion by inserting the sum of .$-0,500. Mr. Dean was opposed to the appropriation. He was astonished that this question should come up at this session. He wished to know if this was the business for which Congress was convened ? What clause of the Constitution would warrant this gratuity to the heir: of Gen. Harrison? He ha J no intention of speaking of Gen. Harrison. He was willing to bury what evil he had done with his bones, and let what good he had done, live after him. Mr. Lane, of Indiana, hoped the bill would be sustained by the House. He should vote for it as for the payment of a debt due, and not as an alms. Mr. White, of la., said it was a debt due to the deceased, who had devoted a long life to the irterests of our country. Mr. Briggs. of Mass., said he should vote for the full amount, and he was sure that he would represent the will of his constituents to a man, by so doing. Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, said that he should vote for the appropriation. Mr. Payne, of Pa. opposed the appropriation. He believed it unconstitutional. There are no priviledged classes in this country, and if this appropriation was a reward for military services, let it be general; let us give pensions to all the widows and orphans of those who walked in the line, or fell in the defence of their country. He should vote against the appropriation. Mr. Stokeley hoped that the bill would pass without futile amendments being offered to defeat it. He said, let it stand on our records as a monument of -a nation's generosity as an act of justice, as an act of honor. Mr Snyder, moved to amend the bill by filling the blank with the wcrds '$1,000 as a gratuity,' and '500 semi-annually, on the first of January and the first of July, to Mrs. Harrison.' He was going to debate the question, when Mr. Cooper called him to order. He not yielding the floor, Mr. Gilmer, of Va., inquired if it was not the duty of a gentleman to take his seat when called to order. -Mr. Profiitt, of la., said, 'I call that side of the House generally, to order.' On motion of Mr. Gilmer, the Committee rose reported progress, and the House adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House was engaged all day in discussing the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison. The Bill finally passed, only GG vclin- agains' it. The following is the form in which it passed the House. June 18. UNITED STATES SENATE. Nothing done but speechifying. "A Bill for the releif of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United Stales, "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in Treasury not otherwise appropriated to Mrs. Harrison, widow of William Henry Harrison," late President of the United States, or in the event of her death before payment, then to the legal representatives of the said William Henry Harrison, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars."

Washington, June 10th. 1 UNITED STATES SENATE. The Senate was not in session to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ths House was occupied in a call of the States for motions. A vole to re-consider the vote of last night, by which the bill was passed appropriating $25,000 for Gen. Harrison's family, was negatived without a division. Mr. Adams offered a hat full of Abolition petitions, but the question of reception being raised he demanded a receipt for the same from the Clerk. At a comparatively early hour, The House adjourned. From the N. Y. Express. The House of Representatives. We fihoulu really like to know of the Members of the iJouse of Representatives, the Whig members particularly, upon whom we have a right Jo call, if

they mean to go on doing nothing, Ior the ten days last past. To take aboSC two weeks to organize a House, for what ought not to be over a six weeks session, is a little too much even for one's friends to bear, especially when there is no doubt who has the majority, and how large that majority is. Many members daily voting for every adjournment will anon be called to account. More will suffer before the People, and lose their seats too, if Congress adjourns aud does nothing, as is indicated by this waste of two week in the House. There is, we readily 6ee, no spirit for business among the politicians of either party in the House. Why do they not take hold of their work as business men, as mechanics would, and hurry to do what they h?ve to do, in order to return home. Why quibble for hours upon points of order? Why waste time upon abstract principles, when action is what is wanted. Mr. Adams for example, will surely have time enough the next session of Congress, to vindicate the abstract right of petition, without worrying the country out of patience now. Mr. Ingersoll could print his essay on Slavery and not consume the time of the House. The Loco Foco members are, however, hardly to blame. They came to do nothing, and the don't mean, if they can help it, that any thing shall be done. It was most unfortunate for the action of Congress, that the proposition of Mr. King to lay aside the luxurious desks and cushioned seats, did not succeed. As it is, the Capitol is about the only comfortable place now in the City of Washington, and it, therefore, has positive temptations for members to waste their time there. The air in the well ventilated and spacious building is good. The grounds around are beautiful. The protection from the scorching rays of the sun complete. Members upon their desks can write all day, much more agreeably than in the hot, narrow rooms of their boarding houses, so that protracted and fatiguing sessions are held accomplishing nothing, and doing no good. Talking against time is permitted, for talking, what is wanted, consumes lime. Members feel no serious incovenience, for they have occupation, or if not, the best of seat, in the best of rooms, with all outward appliances to make them comfortable. On the contrary, if all were seated hard, all promiscuously, without chairs or desks, on mere benches as in the House of Commons, they must, and would work, for being so miserable there, they would hasten to escape elsewhere. As the House of Representatives is constituted, and a3 it acts, there is not the least need of such a so-called branch of the Government. Its expense certainly ought to be dispensed with. The Senate is the only legislative branch of the Government, and creates and perfects all that can be done. The country must look to that body for aid, and leave the mob in the House to prate till dog days upon points of order, and its 21st rule. In a few years hence, however, as the nuisances in the House become too expensive for the people, and too intolerable to be borne, the body will be forced to adopt the customs of the British House of Commons; which long experience has proved to be the only means that can make such large deliberate bodies act. No Piracy after all. The affair of the ship Charles, found abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico, is at length cleared up. We copy the following from the National Intelligencer, of the 22d. The people of New Orleans, on reading it, will probably be transported with mingled emotions of joy and rage; joy for their fellow citizens who have not been murdered by pirates, and rage at having been betrayed into a vast deal of unnecessary excitement, trouble, and expense. Lou. Jour. The mystery solved. It happily turns out that there was no just foundation for the report that reached here some days ago from New Orleans, which attributed mutiny or piracy to the crew of the ship Charles, on account of that vessel hating been found abandoned off the Balize on the 4 til inst., three days after her depart ure from New Orleans for Bordeaux. It appears that the ship sprung a leak on the night of the 3d inst., which caused much akrm to the passengers and crew, who, after having become quite exhausted by incessant labor during the night at the pumps, determined to abandon the vessel on the morning.of the 4ih; on which day the passengers were transferred at their own request on board the French ship Louis XIV, which vessel was luckily but a short distance from the Charles, and was enabled to lend the assistance of her boats for the purpose. We obtain the particulars here slated

from the Charleston Courier of Saturday, at which port Captain Gorham and crew of the ship Charles arrived on the preceding day, in the schooner Ann, from Attakapas, bound for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which put into Charleston, in distress, having been struck by lightning. Captain Gorli3m has published the following card in justification of his conduct in abandoning his vessel. 'The undersigned, passengers onboard the ship Charles, Captain Gorham, declare that, on the 3d of June, about 8 o'clock, P. M., a leak was discovered, which increased so much in the night

that they (the passengers) demanded of the captain to send them on board the ship Louis Quatorze, which was at a little distance, the danger was so imminent that Captain Gorham acceded at once to our demand, and was himself under the necessity of abandoning the ship. "This is to certify that Captain Gorham did not abandon the ship until he found it impossible to save her, and that we have given him this paper to serve .him casejin of necessity. 'Given, on board the ship Louis Quatorze, in the Gulf of Mexico, on the 10th June, 1641. GUAJBERTAN Sr. NICHOLAS DUBON, JNO. MERRICK, P. Y. BERNARD, ST. HUBBERY. ROBERT PYFERAN." Geoloffical Remains in the West. We have had the pleasure of a conversation with one of the most intelligent gentlemen of the west upon some of the most striking of the ancient remains of the Missouri and Wisconsin. Most of what he informs us, he had actually seen and examined for himself, with all the facts and history of curious remains either of men or animals in the west. We thought it would not be uninterest ing to describe, in brief terras, some of these remains especially as we have been rather sceptical in respect to some of the accounts. 1st. The Missourian, or the vast and unknown animal recently discovered in Missouri. This he has seen and examined. The man who discovered this animal did it in consequence of an Indian tradition, which said at that place there was buried a great animal, whose remains they were anxious to protect, and keep the whites off. On digging the remains were found as described. With them were also found arrow heads of much larger than the usual size. The animal is put together aud is of vast size. A band of music is seated between his ribs, and at the height of ten or twelve feet; his length is twenty or thirty feet, and he belongs without doubt to the amphibious class. His tusk9 are of an enormous size, and notwithstanding they are curved in and partly broken, measure fifteen feet from tip to tip. The most singular part of this furmatioq is, that the joint of his hind leg turns outwards. This creature is as much larger than the mammoth, as the latter is larger than an ox. 2d. It is a fact that on one of the highest hills of Missouri, are found a great quantity of the mammoth bones of skeletons, indicating that at the deluge, or some other great flood, these animals had retreated to the tops of the hills and there perished. 3d. The petrified forest. Of this we had some doubt, but of the general fact there is no question. Over a considerable space of ground, parts of the trunks of the trees and fragments of limbs are found perfectly petrified. 4th. The city of Aztalan, which a year or two since was announced as existing on one of the branches of Rock River, in Wisconsin, is a reality, so far as relates to the extensive remains of ancient works. Our informant examined this work thoroughly. It consists of parapets of earth, like the Indian fortifications of Ohio, with some things peculiar to itself, covering thirteen acres of ground. No evidences of a higher civilization than that which exists in the Ohio was found, except it may be some brick burnt in the ancient rude way. These were found in certain projections from the parapets. They were evidently brick, but made with straw in the old mode, and rudely formed. It is said, however, that the Indians in the rocky mountains do now make brick. Within two of the angles of this work are found two towets and a mound, intended, as our informant believes, for watch towers, and also burial places. Through one he dug, but found nothing. In the other he found a regular vault, about the size of a common room, but much longer one way than another. Here he found many bones of human beings. It was evidently a tomb. He says that the Indians of the far north-west say that they have seen the common Indian mound built, and that the process is, first an illustrious chief is buried, and that in mark of their respect, others go by, deposit some additional earth, and thus the mounds grow to their present size. The existence, however, of these remains, and even of the people themselves still involves an inscrutible problem: a problem upon which the forthcoming wotk of Mr. Stevens may throw some light. In the Clinton Republican, Wilmington) we-find an artieal on Geology of the Miami country, which has much interest. The writer is speaking of the geological remains on Todd's fork, on the Miami. After speaking ef fragments of primitive rocks, still found in this region, the writer proceeds to say: "In digging wells and excavating the earth near Wilmington, beds of peat

have been discovered at the depth of twenty feet from the surface, and chared wood and parts of vegetables at a much

greater depth, luirmbing indubitable evidence, that the superincumbent coil has been made by the convulsion of the eleUl fills 111 lllcll icai v-lljuc I'lUU'viUCU the order of things by the deluge. Thv country through which Todd's Fork runs, is formed from the deluvial deposit, at in many places the alluvium is collected in peat beds, and furnishes the richest and most productive bottom lands in Ohio. Minerals are buried fr beneath the Burface, and the land is much better adapted .u . a , , .i .1 i,for farming than for mining. Along the banks of Todd's Fork notthwest, and west of Wilmington, may be found the human skeleton deposited in stony vaults, made of flat limestone. These stony graves are built on elevated ground, and bear evidence that the design in their construction was to exclude water from entering. The earth does Dot seem to have been excavated to deposit the dead, but their tombs are built on a level with the earth's surface. Comparing a human skull taken from one of these arches with oe taken from a mound that had been near ten feet over the skeleton, it seems that the changes that have been wrought on them by time, are very similar. The skulls taken from these rocky tombs present to the eye the appearance of bone that ha been calcined by plow g,nd continued heat, dissipating the fibula and fdantine and leaving nothing to preserve tne luemiiy i uie mimari tiorm but the phosphate of lime. It has been supposed by those who have examined the contents of tne mounas mat are louna in various places between the Scioto and Miami rivers, they have been the depositories of human remains for many ages. Cincinnati Chronicle. Kentucky Banters on the Coast of California. In Dana's "Two Years Beforo the Mast," we find the following account of an instance of summary Justice administered to a murderer, by a party of Kentucky Hunters, on the shores of the Ix, cific. It seems that the Kentuckians make their foot-prints deep and legible whenever they tread. "Revolutions are matters of constant occurrence in California. They are got up by men who are at the foot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just a9 a new political party is started by such men in our country. The only object, of course, is the loaves and fishes; and instead of caucusing, libelling, feasting, premising, and lying as with us, they take musket and bayonets, seizing upon the presidio and custom house, divide the spoils, and declare a new dyn-ty. A for justice, they know no law but will and fear. A Yankee, who had been na turalized, and become a Catholic, and who had married in the country wa3 sit ting in his house at the Feublo e'e loa Angelof, with his wife and children when a Spaniard, with whom he had a difficulty, entered into the house; and stabbed him to the heart, before them all. The mur derer was eeized by some Yankees who had settled there, and kept in confinement until a statement of the whole affair could be sent to the governor general. He refused to do any thing ahout it, in '- the countrymen of the murdered mvn, seeing no prospect of justice being administered, made known that if nothing was done they should try the man them selves. It chanced that at the time, there wae a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quarters at the Peublo; and these together with the Ameri cans and Englismen, who were betwe" twenty and thirty in number, took r. session of the town, and waiting a reason able time proceeded to try the man accor ding to the forms of their own country. A judge and jury were appointed and he was tried, convicted and sentenced to ba shot, and carried out before town with his eyes blindfolded. The names of all the men were then put into a hat and each one pledging to do his duty, twelve were drawn out and the men took their station with their rifles, firing at the word, laid him dead. He was decently buried, and the place was restored quiet ly to the proper authorities. A general, with titles enough for a hidalgo, was at San Gabriel, and issued a proclamation as long as a foretop bowline threatening destruction to rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment of hungry, drawling, lazy, halfbreeds. This affair, happened while we were on San Petio (the portof Peublo,) and had all the particulars directly from tbosa who were on the spot. A few months afterwards, another man, whom he had often seen at San Diego, murdered a man and his wife on the high road between the Peublo and San Louis Rey, and the foreigners not feeling themselves called upon to act in this case, the parties being all natives, nothing was done about it, and I frequently afterwards saw the murderer at San Diego, where he was living with his wife and family. This seems to be the age of surgical openiinna A )ircrpnn' knife. uarr1 mArmt. ly, appears to have a magioial eflect it contains as much virtue as there was said to exist in wands of the fabled enchanter of old. Sauint eves, wrv necks. nrl - i olub feet, are cured by a single stroke of the knife. It is now said that a surgeon of Liegue has communicated to the T t Academy of Science, a new and mostccessful mode of curing and preventing stammering, by mean of an operation performed under the tongue.