Vincennes Gazette, Volume 11, Number 5, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 July 1841 — Page 1

AT? tfw3 s R, "TRUTH WITHOUT FKAIt.

V OLUME XL

VIXCENNES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10. 1811

The Sabbath Bell. BI KLIZA COOK. real on, on T love to hear The old church ding-dong soft and clear; The welcome sounds are doubly Met With future hope and earthly iett. Yet were no calling changes found To spread their cheering echoes round; There's not a place where man may dwell But he can hear a 8abbath bell. Go to the woods, when Winter's sons Howls like a famished wolf along; Or when the south winds scarcely turn The light leaves of the trembling fern. Although no cloister chimes ring there, The heart is called to faith and prayer; For all Creation's voictell The tidings of the Sabbath bell. Go to the billows let them pour In gentle calm or headlong roar; Let the vast ocean be thy home, Thou'tt find a God upon the foam; In rippling swell or stormy roll, Thecyrstal waves shall wake thy soul. And thou shalt feI the hallowed spell Of the wide water's Sabbath be!l. The lark upon his skyward way, The robin on the hedge-row sprav. The bee within the wild thyme's bloom, The owl amid the cypress gloom, All sinj in every varied tone A vesper to the Great Unknown. Above below one chorus swells Of God's unnumbered Sabbath bells.

From the Washington Examiner. Death of CoL Alooza B. Sweitzer. The intelligence conveyed in the sub

i Dined extract of a letter from a highly

respectable citizen of Texas, cannot fail

to cast a deep gloom over those who en

jayed the acquaintance of him whose death

if narrates.

The 'grim tyrant,' strike- as he may,

send? terror to the soul, l et, when he

nerves the assassin's arm, and drives his

unerring bolt to the heart's core of one

who was 'young, noble, loving and beloved,'

then, indeed, tnnce terrible is the monster Death! .ilonzo B. Siveifzer, eldest son of Dr. Lewis Sweitzer, deceased, late of Brownsville, Fa., was aged thirty-two years. During his youth, he resided for some t.me in this place, being then a student of Washington College. After completing his collegiate studies, he acquired the profession of medicine. Of a romantic, daring and enterprising disposition, he r-oon directed his course to the far West, and about nine years since settled in Texe.e, then a province of Mexico, and at that time principally inhabited by the native ron3 of the (ores:. Before attaining even knowledge of the language of any of the Indian tribes, he mingled with them es

one of themselves, participated in their exercises, and, by his dauntless interpidity soon elicited the admiration of the principle chiefs, and the love of the humbler savage. After devoting several years to travel and research, and the acquisition of the Spanish language and those of the various Indian tribes, he located on a beautiful tract of land in the vicinity of Gonzales, on the Gaudaloupe, one of the most lovely and picturesque streams which that country can boast. There, far from the world's strife and bustle, with a few favorite authors for his companions, he lived in a happy retirement, until aroused by the story of his country's wrongs. None quicker than he to fly to her defence. Repairing to New Orleans, he speedily returned at the head of a fine body of volunteers, whom he commanded until his elevation to a Lieutenant Colonelship, to which post he wa3 elected, in the midst of hundreds of ambitious spirits, without formal opposition. What stronger evidence could be adduced of the exalted character ho maintained among his brother soldiers? The civil government soon becoming convinced of his great abilities, remarkable sagacity, and indubitable courage, elected him as one of his confidential agents in almost every critical - and hazardous enterprise. More successful than any other, pave the illustrious hero of San Jacinto himself, in securing the confidence and co-operation of the wily Indian, his services were constantly called into requisition, when a treaty was to be formed, or an alliance sought with the tawny monarch. Hisduty, too, was to mark the conduct of those Mexicans who professed friendship for Texas, but in whom, from the perfidious character of their nation, full confidence could not be. placed. i Soon after the disbandment of the army in 183S,Col. Sweitzer was elected to represent the district of Gonzales in the Congross of Texas a decided mark of the esteem in which he was held by the citizens of the infant Republic. In defence of those for whom he profes3ed friendship, his life was often placed m jeopardy. As an enemy, ha was open, bold and magannimous. The soul of chivalry, he disdained to trample upon a fallen foe", but (as was w itnessed .ir Houston four years since,) he was the f:r3t to r-.ssist P. desperate r utile n, v.-fco-, in lnMrg ?.t hi"

life, had fallen prostrate before his welldirected blow. In social life, mild and amiable in the hour of danger, cool and undaunted gazing upon peril with a smile in battle, the first among the foremost in victory, generous and humane in conflict, calm and resolved. Truly are the ways of Providence most inscrutable. After escaping a thousand perils on sea and land after mingling in safety with the savage in his haunts far from the abode of the white man after dwelling securely with the crafty Mexican, whoso very character is written in the word treachery and more, than all, after eluding, as if by miracle, the pursuit of

the fiend-like cannibal to bo thus, in the midst of his friends, in open day, shot

down by the hand of a dastardly assassin

and that assassin a fellow-cuizen!

In this hasty and desultory sketch, the writer has not attempted to do full justice to the memory of the deceased. Though

not arrived at the prime of manhood, the

life of Col. Sweitzer would furnish inci

dents for a volume of much interest.

May not the hope be entertained that somo

friend, in the 'land of the Single Star,

who possesses the materials, will under take the task, and present a biography which will be read by thousands with de light and at the same time perform an ac

of justice to the famo cf one cf Nature's

favorite sons. Gonzales, May 11, 1811.

"The Colonel, sometime during the win

ter, had entered into a contract with the

government, to furnish the army with

certain amount of corn, to be delivered at

a certain place in this neighborhood. But

because of default on their part to make him such remuneration as he believed he

had a right to expect, 'he declined to per

mit the removal of the corn, when applied for. This led to an altercation between

the government officer who had been d

spatched to receive it, and himself the

one insisting, even to the tnreat and exer

tion of force, and the other protesting and

forbidding at the peril of life. Thus the

difficulty progressed from stage to stage,

until it resulted in the deplorable conse

T rri i i

quence l now announce, l ne coionei was

killed by the discharge of a rifle ball from the gun of the government officer, which

penetrated the heart,and produced intanta neous death. The murderer was arraign

ed, and bound over to await his trial et the fall term of the court of this county, to be

holdenin October next. These are, briefly,

the causes which have clothed us in the

mantle of grief."

From the Philadelphia Journal of Tanking. The Times. In several respects, the present times

more nearly resemble those of 1819, and the years immediately succeeding, than

any other period in our country's history.

Then, as now, the Banks, after having

been enormously inflated, suddenly col

lapsed, and spread ruin' and destruction

every where around them.

Then, as now, enterprize was chilled, i .1.1

because men Know not wnat a aay may

bring forth. Then as now the country was burthened with n heavy public debt. The case is not materially altered by the fact that the debt pressed them immediately on the

Federal Government, and that it now presses on the States. Then individuals owed millions and millions more than they could pay. Then, capitalists could with difficulty find safe and profitable investments, and

laborers were consequently left without

employment.

Then, wages, end the price of land, and

of commodities generally, tell greatly.

Then, as now, the troubles of the times

were occasioned in part by extensive- speculations in the public lands. The Banking revulsion is now more extensive. Through the period above alluded to, the great body of the Banks in the Atlantic States, at least those north of

North Carolina, and we believe, those cf

Mississippi and Louisiana, maintained specie payments. Now, all the Banks .o the south and west of New York, with the exception of certain Banks in East Jersey, the Bank of the State of Missouri, and perhaps the Banks of Charleston, S. C. are

in a state of suspension. The Banks of

Ohio profess to pay specie; but from the best accounts we can gather, their practice but ill accords with their profession. Then the public debt was a burden on the Federal Government, now, it is a burden on the States. The States were not then, n3 they are now, involved in extensive, and, in most cases, injudicious schemes of public improvement. Then there was a Bank of the United States with a capital of thirty-five millions, in full operation. Now, we are without that blessing or that evil, just which the reader will be pleased to consider it. . The public distress is the same in kind that it was from 1818-19 to 1S23-24, but differs from it in degree. The reader who has not turned his attention to the past, will be surprised to learn that the sufferings of the present day are much less than those that were aforetime experienced. Our large cities were not half as populous then as they are new, yet, according tNilvs' Register, ct one pcascn in 1S1P. thfre were 10,000 able bodied men in N.

York daily seeking for employment, or, adding women , 20,000 pe rsons who desired something to do; in Philadelphia, 20,000 persons were in like condition; and, in Baltimore, 10,000 were in unsteady employment, or actually suffering because they could not get employment. Neither is the fall of prices now as great as it was then. According to the testimony of a Director in the United States Bank, houses in Philadelphia which used to rent for 1200 dollars a year, brought in 1820 no more than 450 dollars; fuel which used to cost 12 dollars fell to 5 dollars; flour fell from 1 1 dollars to 4 dollars a barrel; beef, from 25 cents to 8 cents a pound, sco Niles' Register, vol.

xvm, page 387. Lands in nineteen counties of Pennsylvania, which about the year 1815, brought, on an average, from 93 to 122 dollars an acre, would in 1819 bring no more than from 29 to 42 dollars. This, wo assert ori the authority of a committee of the senate of Pennsylvania, of which Mr. Raguet was chairman. In September, 1S20, corn was sold in some parts cf Kentucky et 10 cents, and

wheat at 20 centj a bushel. In May of

the following year, corn was as low at

Cincinnati, and wheat in some parts o

Ohio was 10 cents a bushel.

;v rmsDurgn paper, in the spring o

1521, referring to prices at that place

says: "Flour a barrel, 81.0'1; whiskey

15 cents a gallon; good merchantable pine

boards, 20 cents a hundred feet; sheep and calves, $1,00 a head. Foreign goods at

the old prices. One bushel and a half of

wheat will buy a pound of coffee; a barre

of flour will buy a pound of tea; twelve

and a half barrels will buv one yard of

superfine broad cloth."

in some respects the tunes are better

than they were from 1818-19 to 1523-21,

and in others they are worse.

The public debt is twice as great as it

was then, but the wealth of the communi

ty has increased in more than equal pro

portion. The burden of the debt then,

however, fell on the Federal Government,

which had more facilities for collecting

revenue to pay the interest than are pos

sessed bv the State Governments.

The states were not then as they are

now, involved in schemes ol internal im

provement, calling for the incurring of

new debts at a time when they cannot pay the interest on the old.

The credit of the State Governments

was then good, because they had used it

sparingly, and they had it in their power

to apply it to thrj rebel, cr the apparent re

let, or the debtor clnss, by establishing

"Commonwealth Banks, and by other

contrivances. Now tho credit of some of

the State Governments is so low, that they

find it difficult to pay the wages of their

own officers.

Great part of the distress that existed

then, was occasioned, as it is now, by ex

tensive purchases of wild land. But then

such of those lands as were brought from

the rederal Government, were bought on

credit, and Government relieved this class

of speculators by taking back the land,

and thus freeing them from obligations to the amount of millions. Of late years the public lands have been sold for cash,

and as this cash has been "deposited with

the States, the Government has it not in

its power to relieve this numerous class of

peculators, by receiving back the land and

giving them back the money.

Origin of JIIH Crow. II broke two more, and undertook a fifth,

The N. O. Picayune states that a few which I abandoned after several trials.

yeara ago 1 nomas u. uce, now tne la- iook piace oetween seven ana nine in mous negro comedian, was an actor in a lh morning. I then thought the applicaWestern theatre: and though he did some 'ion of the secret ouht to be varied. .

things cleverly, he was particularly re-1 Accordingly, after having adopted and re

markable for nothing but being the bestljected a great many ways of applying it, dressed man in the company. An origi- I fell upon one which proved to be the

nal piece was got up, in which Rice was persuaded to take the character of a ne

gro, much against his will, lie consented only under the stipulation that he should

Forttmc's Changes. Many years ago, a dashing young gentleman was riding in his splendid gig in tho suburbs of Boston. He had but a few davs before attained his majority, and came into the possession of an immense fortune. His reflections were of the most agreeable nature, when raising his eyes, he saw sitting by the road side a young man apparently about his own &ge, whose soiled and dusty apparel, and homely K.napsack,

proclaimed him but an humble pedestrianHe appeared broken down with fatigue, and unable to proceed farther. Moved by a feeling of compassion, the gentleman "reined up," and offered the traveller a seat beside him, on his way to the city. The offer was gratefully accepted. As they rode on, the young traveller, at the request of his companion, told his short story. It was a simple one a country boy, one of a large family, without friends, about entering the wide world to seek his fortune. They arrived in the city, and parted one to splendid lodgings, the other to some lowly inn. Twenty-five years have passed away, and lo! what a change! The poor country lad had become a rich merchant; honors have been conferred on him; he is surrounded by friends, made by an honest and upright course through life. H is voice has been heard in the great councils of the nation, and his influence is felt in all classes of society. He is called a good citizen a noble-hearted man and the deserving poor never speak his name, without a glistening eye and faltering tongue. And his accidental companion how has he succeeded? lie is no longer the gay young man. His brow is wrinkled, h s step heavy, his hands palsied. His wealth has vanished like a shadow. The dashing rider is dependent for his bread on the charitv of the wcery traveller by the rosd sice. - No great character cavil?.

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oest. At eleven o ciock, i went in again

to the horse; but when he saw me he rear

ed and pitched and kicked in a most terri

nc manner. I stopped, notwithstanding.

have permission to introduce u negro song stood still for a few minutes, and then be-

of his own. gan the operation, and saw with pleasure.

Rice was fond of riding, and frequently that at half past four he was perfectly

visited a stable in town where there was (gentle, and always remained so; for I had

a very droll negro hostler, who used to! already discovered this last most important

dance grotesquely and sing old fragments part of the secret of having them always of a song about one Jim Crow. Very lit- remain gentle and I never havn revealed

tie difficulty was found in transforming the it to any living person. St. Levis Ga

hostler into a tutor, and in half an hour zetle

Rice was master of symphony, melody,

and all the steps, words, and drollery of Woman's Bights Illnatrated.

tho famed and irresistible Jim Crow! A few yeara since, in a retired tillage

The evening for the debut of the new f New Hampshire, where Universalisra But the next time I was a candidate

play came on, ana never aid ivembie ori,1iU wxerciseu r.s mnuence in an unusual tne same ctiice a lankecirom ermc

Talma study more intensely over the ef- degree, a minister of that doctrine wan was the opposing candidate, who havi

feet of costume than did Rice in dressing engaged in its defence. He was a man! learned my secret, stole a sheep, and rti;.--

for his necro pert on Mi9 occasion. He pi great gravity of appearance, Urge etature ime tkv hizh! Fic d

had easily contrived to throw together a

It opns

- EiCEl. ai'1 C7The absurdities of political (C')f, a f ,a. have been very often satirized, but njcje j, ,,11 more happily than by an ex-membeicavy disCongress in Miohigan. In relating or chillistory of his rise and fall, he says: 1 11 y. ttll you how I secured my election in n l'rudisirict, several yeara ago. When I ',!."5 nominated, the party to which I belonu !, was in the minority, and there wac ., hope of succeeding unlesB something m tLan ordinary was resorted tq. Andrefl. hi-h-ing some time I came to the concluan i,,. to steal a hog from ono of my netghbt- Tied.which I did; and in the morning ' neighbof traced me to my dwelling, i' ascertained beyond a doubt that I was thief, and published me as such, whet5,1,i', immediately appealed to the eympath of the people, and asked thm if th7 thought I would steal a hog! They iw ' lowed the bait and said it was perset tion on the part of tho neighbor, who V ; politically opposed to tne and thecc''1"' equence was, I was triumphantly electt., (i1rf

few verses with witty local allusions, and

to heighten the extravagance of the dance

to its greatest extent of grotesque absurdi

ty. The play commenced and Rice went

on, dragging heavily and lameiy Rice

himself failing tn stir up the drowsey au

Blow-motioned in hia movements, with

I a .

a heavy voice, and that Deculiar scow

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in the visage cf

often seen

Dead Letter Office.--The dead let!

office, in the Post Office Department "',

Washington is a great curiosity. Tl '

we allude, he dead letters are returned to the Gener-. .

had a Free-will Baptist sister among his Post Office, wiih the quarterly account t U hearers. This rood ladv had the nower from the 1.1.000 nn.f rtfier wliMi rn

which is

preachers.

On the occasion to which

dience with his clumsily written negro of prophesying, as she firmly believed exist. Five cleiks are employed in t!

part until tho third act, where the song nor did she ever suppress the notions of

came in. tne propnenc t-pirit, he she where she

Utter damnation wr.s lowering ominous-1 might. She lisiened to the discourse till

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ly over tne place, ana tne actors naa ai-iene coujq no longer reiram. In the very

ready pronounced it a dead failure, when I midst of the sermon she started up, ex

the hitherto silent ana gloomy green room claiming witn tragic vehemence

was starilea dv a tumuiruous round ot

cheers breaking out suddenly in "front

"What can that be?" said the manager,

picking up his ears.

Another verse ot tho song v.as sung,

with tho extravagant dancing accompani- sheep's clothing!

ment, and the house shook with still more

violent applause.

" v hat is that? said the

"Who's on the stage?"

"Rice is singing a negro song, was the

reply.

UI that s it, eh! saia tne maneger,

and concluded that an audience which

II,. fir r

ueau letter omce. the tnve ones ar t

ken from ihe packages by one clerk, uh'

ueo a suing rounu me conients anc caH.rv h0...

them into a basket the next clerk assorUr on them and compares them with the rnry, iV

bids sending the letters to a clerk to M hp i

'Woe unto those that sew pillows to all opened on opening, the letters contaiiu'd n:

arm-holes! Daub with unlemnered mor

tar! Cry peace, peace, when there is no

peace! ith lies make the heart of the

righteous sad! Beware of wolves

II.

manager. -

ing no valuable inclosnre?. are thrown ii 1 to a basket and destroyed. Those cmT'.1 . . iii-,' be U l,lnin(T tl r 1 1 1 i K 1 n i..nli...in - .

taming wanmuiv illU"3Uirp, arc IClurilf. r" to the office where they were mailed,

sent to the owner if found. If not rlaim

Here she was interrupted by the gtuff" ej, al'l money is placed in a separate funti

voice of the preacher 'Madam!' land the account recorded, en that itr.:

Sir! exclaimed she, turning her head I be paid to the owner at any future prrf' to the pulpit. nd if claimed. They open about tw.l'-v

thousand

CIIT.-

hundred and fifiv

letters pe

air

ration"

How long do you intend to talk?'

'Just as long as the Spirit of God gives quaitcr there are now several cart !na f.cr,j ! any thing to say,' and on she went in the office unopened. The work n'.'r

. M' .-.I L .11 . I I '

-ue 10 wicm wiai say, ye snan not soreiy opening and asserting is verv tedious aiuido.-

uy inetr iruits ye shall know them: laborious

die!

are

JTornan at the Couch of Sickness, -f-'""'

love to seu her at the couch of ekktieFsVv

sustaining the fainting head offeiing t .'' the pa-ched lips its cordial to the crar.,!', " ing palate its simple nourishment tread-

could applaud such a thing, would be just All liars shall have their part in the lake

aslikelv to hiss it the next moment. that burnetii with fire and hrimamne''

But the new song continued to call down Here the preacher si?ain shouted ener

expressions ot pleasure tnat could not oy geticallv 'Madam, vour remarks

any means be mistaken, and at its conclu-Jverv broken!'

w.v,.. i.m.iuj.v,. v,..v... v.. t jiuww n i Know n: i ne multitude ing paiaie its simpie .) . r g " i : i ... ... i . ... . .!.'..

tuum, -ciiu uu.. tu i . o. luutifu iu me was led wiih broken bread and on the in? with no seless ps mtv nrnnml ihP

. . . - ... ... ....

loudest encore he ever heard in his the- vvept, with a renewed impulse, while the solemn curtains, complying with the wi.Sr,

aire. lassemblv. huae v ilehphtpfl with thf cnt-lof ivp ina 7 u-on l.o

nn j v.... r - "

mo uMy n.iuuui.tou tuiam, uui m- rjess ol that promut retort, pave wav to ..t.p m r,, h i.;.

it-r ivoor uiree repeiuiuiis u s uiscuv uie mirthtul influence Ol the scene. i he About mv room. hrnf mv l.-,!

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ered that the song was all the audience disconcerted preacher retired from the un- But blooming roses wet with dew,

wanted, and so Jim Crow emerged trmm- equal contest, with feelincs Drobablv simi-l To cool my burning brw instead .

rot

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when 'a certain woman cast a piece of a forehead; bathing the hair with ointment, J'--

mill-stone upon his head, and all to breakjand settling upon it, from the summer his skuli!' And gladly would l.e have (casement?, the air that breathes of hpav.

fallen by a manful hand, that men might en. How lovely are such exhibitions .f

not say of him 'a woman slew him,' lever-enduring constancy nnd faith. How

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pnannrom tne asnes oi a oamneu pia , iu ar to those ol the mortified Ab me ech. IhsposuiL' the son- p it ur.nn thp

I urn about aii wheel about, An' do just so. An' eb'ry time I wheel about I Jump Jim Crow! A-hcah-hfaJi-wfwoh '

Rice soon found his wav to New York,

and Hamblita was not long in snapping up

the new card, which he made tell to as

Puritan.

Important Facts with regard tn the

handsome a tune as any other that the Sickness. A highly intelligent gen-

great caterer ever played upon the Bow

ery boards.

Fortune brings in some botts that are not steered;

and when Thomas I). Rice was p'aving,

"fVilliam Teir in Cherry st., N. Y., he

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uiey appear iu uie Sc Ul, like tne iovei in

Canticles, whose fingers, when she rosn to open the door to her beloved, were

dripping with sweet smellipr rnvirh

upon the handle of the lock."

Warninz. On Tuesday evening last.

ueman, lormeriy oi this city, and now a resident of Illinois, who has epent much time in the portions of that state which

are subject to the milk sickness, has com-a little after eight o clock, the store room

municated to us one or two important of J. F. Cruft, Esq. of this town, was

trie dreamed of ever makinr a fortune respecting that remarkable and for- enteied by the back window, and severs

rttf' midable disease, which were new to us, articles of clothing stolen. The clerk of

and may be to most of our readers. He the establishment had been absent less

states that an acquaintance of his, who than an hour, and, on his return, found

has lived in the milk sickness region for that the window had been forced, and rri

many years, earlv adopted the practice ed open, and a candle ("yet warm) Irincr on

oi salting his catiie regularly every day, the iloor. I he early hour of the meht. 11 1 .1 '"It I

anu oDserrea mat wniie his neighbor s wnen hundreds were vet rassinr to and

cattle were affected with the disease his fro, indicate a bold villainy of purpose own invariably escaped. This course seldom equalled. The amount of articles he pursued for several years with the same j taken is comparatively small, but the return

result; but at length, becoming careless, of the Clerk, so much sooner than was ex

and neglecting to salt his cattle regularly, pected. no doubt prevented more extensorae of them were siezed with the sick- sive depredations. To the crime of rob-

ness. He immediately returned to his bery an attempt at arson was added, as

former promptness in givingthem regularly several pieees of cotton goods, were fired

every morning as much salt as they would and partly barned in the store. Our citi eat, snd since that time has not been trou- xens should keep a arp look out for tvs

bled with the milk sickness among his ncious characters. H abash Courier.

stock, Hence he concludes that salting catttle regularly every day is an effectual protection ?gsint the disease. It is well to know' that the flesh of cattie affected with the milk sickness will prove fatal when eaten fresh. The gentleman first referred to, states that the salted beef made from the same animals may be, and is, eaten with impunity. Lev. Journal. 68-

by singing Jim Crow!

' Tachyhippodamia, Or art of quieting wild horses in a few . t .i

hours, as discovered oy tne author, in

the year 1814, to which are added many useful instructions concerning horses, in French, Spanish and English, by Willis

J. Powell. A gentle hand may lead the elephant by a hair. Persian Proverb'

This is a long title for a little book as this book really is but the promise it

makes to the earf is, we believe, not broken to the hope. Mr. Powell writes in a style that is direct, and engage attention by this manner of 6tating what he has seen and done. He opens as follows:In the year 1811, whilst residing in Georgia, I read an account of a man who lived more than a hundred years ago, who would take any wild horse, and shut himself op with him in a small yard or stable, and, at the end of a few hours come out with the horse perfectly gentle. Nothing was ever known about the means he employed in gentling him, for he died without ever communicating his secret to any ene. I always possessed a great share of curiosity; therefore, as well to gratify it as to become useful to myself and others, I made a great many experiments, but the danger, far from discourageing me, animated me to make new trials. At the end of the year 1811,1 came to Louisiana, where there were many wild horses. I renewed ray experiments. After having met with many difficulties I discovered a secret in 1814, on ray plantation in the Attakapas, by which I broke a horse in three hours. The hoise always remained gentle. My the same method I broke another; but two days af er I found him almost as wild 2s ever. This perplexed me very much why ene horse should remain gentle and the o'her no'.

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A opeedu Cure for Burn. Some r,f

our friends assure us that for the cure of burns and scalds, nothing is equal to the leaves of the plant called "Asron's Rod." They are first bruised up with the stem, and applied directly to the wound. A neighbor recently had his face much scalded with steam, and on applying tins remedy he drew out the fire with-ut pain and without leaving a scar. 'Tis a curious plant and it has tho p0,r. er of subsisting upon air aIo.t cr on somethig which it imbibes from the air. It will grow while hanging up in the parlor, but i prows better in ;rood nnd. r.-ot of it 6.hnuH grow in mrtv garden, - Boston Cvl'ivnt

5 Cheep Home. The Southern Shield

states that the Iieeuslature of Arkansas

has pasted a law, offering great inducements to persons disposed to emigrate. Each settler can, by oing to the Auditor' office, select a tract of land, not mre than one quarter section, and by a settlement thereon secure himself a home. fre of charge. The lands belon? to the

State, and are some of the best in its ter

ritories. Baltimore Sun.

no'

l nl nV,;

The insect which eatiifies iti thirst wirh ihe dew-drop contained the f.owret's cup, has as much eP'Ovmc-nt as the el?-

yuan vijiL-u ur-.Ks from th V.ream some mi2h-' ritcT V v 1?

'a! and the boy who sucks molifsen

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