Vincennes Gazette, Volume 14, Number 34, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 January 1845 — Page 2

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ICT'W'e must ask the indulgence .f otir!mmi1 sulls lts readers for our lack of editorial matter! This opportunity will scarcely ever octhis week. The length of Mr. JudahVcllr Rt ho,ue; bul 'ro'n ''J'"e--ah! that is Temperance Address is the cause; nor do j l!,e rub! that from home! and that is for we regret if, because the Address is truly 'ou lo llunk of' niy fenl3,e frled!-

ad excedent one one thai should be read by every body, and one which cannot bo loo highly prized. COMr. Robert Sears, editor and proprietor of the 'New Monthly Family Magazine,' will please send us the first volume of his Monthly Magazine, in lieu of a voluin3 of his 'Pictorial Publications. pCr'The reader is respectfully requested to lead the Prospectus of the 'Indiana Farmer and Gardener, on the fourth sage of to-day's Gazette. VlNCfcN.NES, J an. 15, 1S1"). Samuel Juimh, S ir: Having lis tened to the very able address, delivered by you on last evening in the Presbyterian Church, on the subject of Temperance, and believing that much good would result to that cause from the publication and distribution of said address, we respectfully and earnestly request the favcr i f a copy for publication. Respectfully, Your obedient servants, WM. 15LRTCH, SAMUEL WISE, GEO. I). II AY, II. P. IiROIv A W, !$. II. CORN WELL, A. GARDNER, N. SMITH, C. M. ALLEN, JOSEPH ROSE MAN. 1 11 11 ESS. about three Years sines more It is now than live hundred persons in Yincennes. pledged themselves to the Temperance Reformation. It was a reformation indeed. Its eilects are not yet forgotten. It closed the houses of the venders of liquid tire amongst us. It stayed the downward course of many good men, then almost tottering on the edge of that proelicit f, Ironi whostf bottom, when once reached, there is scarcely any return. And it restoied peace and comfort, and hope hope, in whose Sweet earden grow, Wreathes for each toil, a charm for every woe.' to many of the firesides of our borough. But it is said, that to a great extent, these effects have passed away. It is said, that, of those who then pledged themselvt s to abstinence from the use of ahohol, a large number have returned to its use, some occasionally, some freely, and many dangerously. And it is said that it is now even after so short a time necessary for those, who desire to secure proper exam p:es for their sons and dependents who wisn tn weuareot tneir relatives, inenos find neigiiljors who hope to witness the roiilimiPil nrnnpri t v- of nil r rnmnninitv. " i - - " .... i to ma,;e an etiort to recall those who have , abandoned their pledge, and again to at-, tempt to save those who lormeriy retused togive uptlie poisonous cup. ; I his, t ion. niv tnends, is the object ot , our meeting. Hence, it is proper thatj

v v. 1 1 i ;.i 1 . uiu-r, "''"iAlTord to the boy an opportunity to be

devoted i'ie m?e I ves to i ue practice ot lem nprsin'i1. Iiflvfi IvTfks iiipil. nnd w n v sup r"' , ' ... ,1 , r as these and all men, should abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks. W ny is n mai muse, w ,,, , rue u ,m eueu i :. .... .1. ...!. I 1 " memserves iui m nracuce u, i emperauce. ; hebacksadeu? because they were tempt-j . cd once and a . again, at last tliey were' overcome importunity overcome oy opportunity ami . - . . . l or 1 assume the position 33 uiiviuuuieuiy irue as ue uuu c un ir a- ; i . j... i ii.. . i r .. uicuon, i:uu nti man wuu lias ueeu in nie habit of regular tipplm: I . , ,1, i,u; l .. , i -i c ,i ... i i v .1 c r' other circumstances, but rejoiced in his ' t a ! i i" fl i" , Wilt rm ii' in.l t t-i (kfl Iriielinoa C n

.'ii i i I, i , nraee. is most shamefully neglected ov pwcetcned breath, healihy muscles, hiiJ,'11'-'' ... . , - i . m . i ,i . ' i i c fall r-lises. We have hero a large pubclear mtei.pct. and in t.ie gladness of i.n- 1 ; . rt , si proved health, improved spirits, and im-j Hhrary-ncar 2,000 volumea-a great proved prospecis, and in his own sef.re. cooect.on of books, of all sorts, excepting

pect. Thes-. then. hac .K hooansp ! being tempted oy opportunity an ,1 importunity, at some nii)ment ot excitement, fmm pleasure er pain, or at some moment of weariness, or vexation, or distress, r.trrrc I Till .f t 1 1 .5 Pis' a r-i , 1 ,T.fn!,Tl!; ,loa. 1 I J 1 l V.' 1 t I V. 1 1 O I , 1 I V.1 V. 1 , II i Ul 1 perate as to the Future, they fell. PI . . , I I II I fell, my friends, the Fattier, IIu.;band, Brother, Sou! 'Fnhappy man! Who thinks, a!a! but to forget; nor see That melancholy sloth, severe disease. Memory confused, and interrupted thought, Death's harliiimers, lie latent iu the draught. And, in the il wers that wreathe thesp ukling bowl. Fell ajJers hiss, and poisonous serpents roll.' Hero thfii wo have the causes: opportunity and importunity. Let us consider the in, and separately, for they deserve it. Opportunity is that which invites us to action which tempts us to embrace the moment for taking the step. The great English moralist has somewhere written "That every man is obliged, by the Supreme Maker of th a Universe, to im -

t prove all the opportunities of good which ".are afforded him." Cut poor human na

ture is much more apt to improve its opportunities of evil; to forget its cares; to drown its sorrows; to gratify it? propensities, a to indulge its passions. Id reft tence then to the subject under consideration, . pp'rtunity consists in the present .fat ilities for drinking. Theie is a tide in the alLura of men, Which, taken at the tliod, leads on to fortune' There is another tide, which, taken at tile iljoJ, leads on to drunkenness, dis grace and death; and this tide, for the rei tunned tippler, may flood whenever liquor i- convenient, and the stite of body or y uu v. iugu.-. mean, whose Fathers, Husbands, Brothers, Sons, spend their leisure time, their iJle days, their evenings from home have you thought why this is so? If you have not, it is time you should thirk of it. It is mote important than the quality of that bonnet, or the color of that shawl, or the fashion of that dress more important than tho'last great meeting or the last party more important to you than the last marriage, or birth, or death, than any social event, than any thing indeed that you have thought of lately. It is for you the most important question connected with oureaithlv slate. It involves the hap piness, prosperity, the respectability of yourself and family. Why is it then, wife, why is it that your husband spends his leisure lime from home? Why is it that ho prefers some lounging place, some store room, some street vomer, soma bar-room, or some grocery, to his own fire side? It is, most probably, because his homo is not i.s it should be. Perhaps he loves neatness and order. If so, he may feel disgust when he looks around. Perhaps he loves peace and quiet. If so. your children m ay have been spoiled, and he may not unnaturally prefer even a grocery to a menagerie. Perhaps you are ill tempered, cross, peevish. Perhaps you have the faculty of making disagreeable, bitter, cutting remarks in an exceedingly mild, amiable and gentle manner. If so, be assured, my dear, he will rush from the heli within to the hell without to where 'The public haunt. Full of each theme, atvl uaim with ruixt dis course. Hums intlistict.' or where The sons of riot fljw, Down the loose stream of false enchanted joy, To swift destruction.' or where 'On the rankled soul The gaming fury falls, and in one gulf Of total ruin, honor, virtue, peace, friends, families, and fortune, headlong sink.' Rut perhaps, none of these remarks ap ply to your case. Perhaps you are what vo i should be, 'Heaven's last, best gift to man,' indeed. Perhaps you are such as Pope describes: Oh! b!e t with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She ho ne'er nnswers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never .shews s-he rule?; Charms by accepting, by submitting sway, Vet has her humor most when she obeys.' Yo'.i mav be all this, an 1 yet your husband may bo inclined to wander. If so, there mav be a rradual remedy within Vour reach. Give him pleasant occupa tjon ,t your lire side mako his evenings l. : .. , !..,. 1 1,:.., 3l nuiua iiiieicsuiisj nun, uonu iu iiuii Contrive that he shall read to you. Read to one another, and to your children. Give a man peace, comfort and occupaflo;i at home, and he w 11 stay at home, or ie j,, a brute, and beyond our reach, AnJ t pareuK wilh yotir s - comforab!e al home, wilh an opportunity i, . . ,)r sue!) occupation mere, as may oo atn , -m. frnit)h frt ilim r;n,lrPQ . , , .,,. i.- . ... ;Ul irJUlJ", ilMU ICHl U 111 ill ll 11313 ;ul h ; m a proper f X3,np,e of ratioMal occupa jnn f )r hi, ,eisur,? anJ you W1; not fl!lli Mm roimi from CPrner to corncr ; ( F1 h r I" I 1 It! n i r N 1 lii' Wl W . . 1 11 i 111 I 1 1 J L - ,, , oo ,n rn..va nAr ,I,nn;,m ;in i 1 i i i I.Ldi n.l l' f,iutj viivivij Mij'jFiii niiv , 10 .roccries-and he will not learn to frm rn(.ftr;,- In t!,. amh'incr "- "v " o e o 11119 SUU eCl uiuuuin uutu j.uiuii iui cur Mimrs m rcia.v at iuii iijui l'ujmii.31 kji study reminds mo of an auvantagi . . . , '. . . I . ... . r i m ,i ti n .o D n 3 nrcr rfti er towns of its size, and which, to our dis1 r' uu" m,,c"-'mui ,v" . ""I"'1 " and treating of almost all subjects. The cost of access to it is within the reach of everv family. The annual con iribulion to it is a mere nothing not as much as every regular tippler spends every week, - . , , il 1 1 11 M I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 C 5 111 J Ili-llt v-'l uo,, oiiu v-, .. .IT to our disgraces witn enure mini 1 say, u is neglected by all classes. It is neglected by the Ministers of Religion, by the Lawyers, the Doctors, the Merchants and Mechanics. It is neglected by all, even by our students. Our Ministers should not neglect it. They should watch over it, and advise, though they could not control, the selection of books made for it. They should set an example to their flocks in its use. and if their store of learning be sue'), that further reading be unnecessary for the acquisition of professional knowledge, they yet may be assured that constant reading is necessary, to make their sermons interesting to sinners, if not t saints. Our Lawyers and our Doctors and their students neglect it, and thereby showthat they do not cultivate their habits of study, and that thev do not tplue generated

know ledge. If they were students, they would want relief from mere professsional studies. If their minds were improved, they would vtlue general knowledge. If we, the professional men of Yincennes, were as we ought to be, we would value and we would use that Library. And then our Merchants, too, neglect the Library. Some of them have never looked into it. Some of them perhaps do not know that there is such an institution. In the cities, in other towns, the merchants have formed mercantile library associations. In New York there is published a merchant's magazine, which has meiited and has obtained a very 'high rank in the periodical literature of our country.

(One only of our merchants, I believe, is a subscriber to our library one only of them to be sure ho is one of our most valued citizens has attended tho meet ings of the share holders, or shown the least interest in the concern. Now I know, that our merchants are generally occupied with their business, and thai they are economical men. But they have young men in their employ as clerks. 1 hey have tanulies growing up. Ihey should recollect that these young men, that these lads and lasses, cannot, will not, concentrate the powers of their minds on the contemplation of tape, bobbin and twenty per cents. They will have idle time. They will have occupation fur such time, and if they are not provided with opportunities fjr innocent oceupa tion, and if they are not taught to enjoy such occu pal ions, they will seek and find others. Card panies, stews, friccasees, drinking, and gambling will amuse the leisure of tho young men; whilst French novels, dress, and one unceasing tittle-tattle-latiou will cccupy the young ladie3. it our merchants are so intelligent t.iat they have no need to read, or if they can not make time to read, or if they will not read, vet. they should encourage this li brary. It is their interest to encourage their clerks to read. It is their interest and their duty to teach and to encourage their children to cherish the habit of read ing; and as citizens, claiming and occupying a prominent station in society, they should encourage and aid their fello vcitizens to spend their leisure innocently and pleasantly in the acquisition of knowledge. A few of our mechanics, more than of the merchants, are share holders Yet too few, to the town's disgrace; too few for tho credit or welfare of this class of men, so important to the prosperity of both town and country; too few for their own true respectability an 1 for the happi ness and welfare of their children. But it is time that I should return. If the reformed tippler can ba induced to remain at home if he can be made con tent there--comforlable there happy there it is not probable that he will return to the use of alcohol he will escape the opportunity Importunity, tho solicitation of friends and associates to join them in drinking, is the other cause of backsliding to which I have alluded. This often occurs at the houses of our friends. For there are yet amongst us men, and some of them good men too, who, from a love of ardent spirits, or from a weak and erroneous es timation of liberal and generous house keeping, or from a vain imitation of fashionable life, persist in keeping intoxicating liquors; and thinking it hospitable to in vite their jruests to participate in their own good things, solicit them to take the cup of physical and moral poison. Lut it more often occurs when men meet at taverns, or in groceries, or on public occa sions. And here, as in the dwellings of of our friends, the tempter assumes the guise of sociability of liberality of friendship And yet, my friends, can you believe that there is any man so destitute of the ordinary powers of observation, as not to know the evil consequences which the u?e of spirits brings to almost all men? Can you believe that there is any one so dull as not to know, that the progress of this vice is gradual that indeed each glass is but one more step to the perfect habit? If so. is it not strange that sensible and intelligent men, good men and clever fellows men who have heads to think and hearts to feel, and hands to aid in the service of their friends on ail ordi nary occasions, that such men as these, should think it friendship to tempt us, to invil ns. tn imnnrtnne tn nur ruin? Such Iriendshin is imippil - 1 But a name A charm that lulls to sleep.' It is euch as that, which is by some one well described, as the friendship which 'May a while subsist Between tho sot and sensuilist. For vicious ends connected.' There is no true friendship in asking one to participate in that which is evil, or which leads to evil. But to invite, to so licit, to tempt tho reformed tippler, again to take tho cup of poison, is without excuse. It is a crime. I have already spoken of the necessity of securing rational occupation at home for our leisure hours. I have pointed out the use which might be made of the library. There is another s object connect ed with this, to which I desire to attract the attention of the heads of our borough. We have a class of men amongst us, who now seem, to a great extent, destitute of employment in winter, buch are ad me- , . .1 . I. .1 c ciianics connecieu wuu mo erection oi buildings; and there are others. Amongst them are some valuable citizens, and some promising young men. If practicable. employment should be .found for these men. I was lately engaged in conversation with a friend respecting .Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which led to an examination of the census tables, and elicitsame striking facts. Sam-.-person had

sent to me a copy of a lecture, delivered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by the

Rev. A. P. Peabodv. on the means of improving the busines of that town. . It gave rise to our conversation. Essex countpin Massachusetts and Rockingham county in New Hampshire, join each other on their longest side. The size of these counties, the climate, the sou, tne natural advantages, are about the same or rather, in all these respects, Rockingham has tho advantage. Rockingham had, when the census was taken, (i,000 persons engaged in farming, and Essex then had 7,0 ;0, But Rockingham produced 204.003 bushels of corn, 803,000 bushels of potatoes, and 57.000 tons of hay; whilst Essex produced only 1GG.000 bushels of corn. -137,000 bushels of potatoes, and 13.0 K) tons of hay. With all theso advantages on tho same coast, in habited by tho uu.ler the sam: same race of men, living free institutions, it is nev ertheless true, my friends, that Rockingham county is not to be compared to Essex county in intelligence, prosperity, comfort, in moral or physical improvement, in any, indeed, of the evidences or results of high civilization, rightly directed, jet us take a few illustrations from the census tables: Rockingham had 45.071 inhabitants, but Essex had 1)1,78". Rricklngliani liad not any college, and had 10 academies, with 1.015 scholars, and '243 common schools, with 10,018 scholars. But Essex had its own college, with 125 students, and had -14 academies, with 2,IC'9 scholars, and 3 S common schools, with 19,200 scholars. In commercial capital, as in soil and produce, Rockingham has the advantage. lis commercial capital is given a: si, 800,000, while that of Essex is only . 1 ,0J7,t'i00. In corporation capital, these counties are nearly equal, the annual corporate product of each being about $1,500,000. Nevertheless, the number of students and scholars in Essex, is near half the total populate n of Rockingham. Whence, then, you may ask, the support for this superior population? Whence, then, you should ask, tho wealth and prosperity that can support these wonderful facilities for educa tion? My friends, R ickingham possessed only 2.514 mechanics and tradesmen; while Essex counted 13.93 1 mechanics and tradesmen more than five for one. B esides in Essex, (and this is the matter to which I wish your particular attention.) in Essex county, every mm ichose calling occtipies him but a part of the year, spends the residue in some branch of productive industry. But I will let Mr. Peabody state the matter: "I have had the curiosity to compare as to their modes and amounts of industry, our county of Rockingham and Essex county, Massachusetts. You all know how many cheerless regions there are in our own county, w here the lazy hand of cultivation competes in vain wiih the wild growths of the sluggard's field; where every homestead looks dilapidated, and every fence adapted to the convenience of truant cattle. Iu the interior of the country you seldom pass a work shop, except that of an occasional blacksmith, and he seldom does more than keep suitably ironed tho wheels and hoofs in his neighborhood. In Essex, with inferior natural advantages, you hardly find a spot that does not suggest associations of good thrit, comfort and prosperity. An Essex county larmer witn nity or sixty acres of uneven, rocky, and unpromising and, will surround himself with all the comforts of life, and at the same lime add to his property every year. With a farm two or three times as large, and of much better land, a Rockingham farmer will barely sustain his family. The reason is, that tne L.ssex county larmer, and all his family are manufacturers also. lie has, if nothing else, his shoemaker's shop, where ho and his sons work in the winter and in rainy weather. His wife and daughters do their part in braiding slriw or making Palm leaf hats. The two counties have each about the same number of farmers, and about the "same amount invested in foreign commerce. From theso sources I am disposed to think that Rockingham derives the largest revenue. But Essex county supports twice the population, and in a very much higher style of comfort; and she does it by her manufacturing industry. Of persons called mechanics and manufacturers there are nearly six times as many in Es sex as in Rockingham, and as I said be fore, besides, every farmer is a mechanic. It is as rare a thing to find a farmer without a trade there, as it is to find one wun a trade here. The fishermen too are mechanics and even man u-hise nom inal calling occupies him but. a part of the year, spends the residue in some branch of productive industry. The gross proceeds of the manufacturing industry of Rockingham does not exceed S2.00J.OOO per year, of which 81,100,000 or more, consists of the products of corporations; whilst the boot and Bhoe manufacture of Essex county exceeds 55,030,000 and its entire manufacture amounts to .si 0,000,000 of which about 31,500,000 represent the proceeds of cor porate enterprise, and the residue is the fruit of private industry." That residue, my friends, is 8,500,000 annually, which you may contrast with 8000,000 annually, the gross product of the same classes the farmers and mechanics not employed by incorporated companies in Rockingham, The population is as two to one, but the gross proceeds are as fourteen to one. The gross product of each inhabitant of Rockingham is thirteen dollars and a third, whilst the gross product of each inhabitant of E;ex is eightv-nine dollars and a half, ex

clusive of agriculture, commerce and corporate companies in each county. Hence the wonderful wealth, comfort, and civilization of Essex county.

Mr. Peabody states the value of the Palm leaf hats made in Massachusetts chiefly by female laborers at 9010,000 annually, i the value of the- straw bonnets made cmetiv oy temale laborers a so, at more than si, 250,000 annually. I have made these long statements, for the p.irposo of exhibiting the results of regular employnent; and of enforcing on the attention of our wealthy and benevolent merchants, the propriety of, and their own interest in, providing employment in the winter, for those of our mechanics who can only labor at their trades in the warm season. These men can all learn, and I believe would all gladly learn to braid straw and palm leaf, and to make common shoes, if -they were fjrnished with the material for the one, and with the facilities for making sales for all. For this, and for these, they are dependant on the merchants. W ill some one risk a few dollars in the importation from Boston of a little Palm Leal? Will some one, risk a few dollars, and a little trouble, in the attempt to introduce the manufacsuro, as a regular winter labour, of coarse thoes, into our Borough? IIo who shall do this, will not only add to his business, but he will add to the comfort of families; and he will rescue from the dangers and temptations, and from the opportunities and importunities, which idleness an idleness now too often forced presents to the use of ardent spirits, and to habits of intoxication, many of our best men, who now roam from corner to corncr, from store to store, from grocery to grocery, almost a burthen to themselves, their families and friends. He who shall do this, will merit the name, Merchant, iudeed and whether he succeeds in piling wealth on wealth in his own coffers or not, when he shall pay the great debt we all owe to nature, he will leave behind him a claim to the grateful remembrance of his townsmen, which will secure a more enduring monument, than lands or houses, or sculptured stone can fjive. But. why should those who have been tempted to leave us, and why should all men abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors? Because all experience proves, that it is a habit which grows on man on some faster, on some slower but on all certainly, and because, all experience proves that this habit, thus constantly increasing, as constantly and certainly, affects the body and the mind. Each one who indulges knows it. and knows it well we all know it sometimes the body is inflamed, bloated; sometimes it is emaciated but it is always affected and Chymisis have taught us the reason tho alcohol we diink consumesa portion of that oxygen in the arterial bio' d, provided by nature for the continuance of healthy action. The mind, too, of the tippler, is affected as certainly as the body. Who doubts it? Who so hardy as to deny it? Here in our own town, again and again, we have witnessed public exhibitions of that demoralization, which only the use of ardent spirits can produce. The Minister of Relioion, who thus degrades himself, is soon exposed and driven from the trust he has betrayed. The Lawyer may continue for a time to impose on his clients, and to earn his fees by false pretences, but he will gradually lose his business. And the Doctor what shall I sav of the dram drinkins Doctor? what of his patients. what of the parents, and husbands, and wives, and friends, who blindly trust to his discretion and skill? With blunted attention, confused memory, and impaired judgement, sensibilities dulled, feelings imbruted, and temper irritated, the Doctor may commit murder blindly. But how much better or worse than the Doctor, is the parent, or relative, or friend who call ed him? Such is human nature! whilst the .Minister of Religion, suspected of the free use of intoxicating drinks, is driven from the desk, which he can only disgrace, and the Lawyer, w ho permits himself to become a regular toper, gradually loses the business of his clients, whose pockets only can suffer the Doctor may continue a life lime of drunkenness, blindly tam pering continually with life. Alas! my friends, it is melancholy thus to repeat only the truth upon such a subject. Once, in a neighboring village, I walked into its o o o Grave lard, and was astonished at the number of its graves. I wondered that such a location, and such a stout and hardy looking people, should have been so unhealthy. My wonder ceased, when I recollected that the most popular Physician there, for twenty years, had been continually under the influence of whisky or opium On inquiry, I found that his most popular successors continued the same habits and the people continued to die! To the man of wealth, of knowledge, station, to the professional man, who in defiance of constantly recurring examples, and in defiance too of his own consciousness, will In the tempting bowl 'Of poisoned nectar, sweet oblivion swill.' I have only to say that tho results are certain, and may be pictured forth without much imagination. Your means, vour health, your parts decay; 'Your friends avoid you; brutishly transformed, They hardly know you; or, if one lemain, To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven. Despis'd, unwept, you fall,- who might have left A sacred-cherished, sadly pleasing name,A name still to be uttered with a sigh.' For the families of such as these, there is generally some provision, the relicts of property left, family connections or family friends lefi, to savo them from destitution, when the drunkard's grave is closed. But for that other more numerous c.ass, who depend on the daily exertion of personal

industry or skill for their support, the mischiefs produced by a tippling husband and father, are infinitely worse. 4 'Ti3 quenchless thirst, Of ruinous ebriety, that prompts His crery action, and imbrutes the man.4 His drink consumes the money tha

snouid ieeu and c.ottie nis wife and chf: dren. I hey neglected, nine at home. while li3 drinks. They go hungry and naked that he may drink. It is hard to contemplate such results, and nut join Cowper in his honest indignation, and exclaim with him, 'Oh fur a law to noosa the villain- neck. Who starves h'u own; who persecutes tha bio o Ha gave them in his chiidrens' veins, and h-ites, And wrong the woman he has sworn to iovc Surely, niy friends, all men should abstain from the use of intoxicating liquor; those in danger from a habit of txctss, to shun the dead!y danger; and all others, from caution, as respects themselves, ard for the sako of example, as resp"c:j others; and thesp, one would think, wre reasons sufficient for the wise and t. c pru dent, for the goo 1 and tho benevoler.I, f.r all wb can or will think. Andct to amni the act to establish a Levcs frpm the town of Vincenr.es through the Lower Prairie near tltj Jl'cra river to the Grand Coulee, February 2, 1633. SECTION I. TE it enacted by the General Assembly of ' state of Indiana, That Pierre AnJ re, i; -Bousha, John Kicharjville, William Buitc i Berjjtmiri M. Thomas, and their succ"?.. hi office to be appointed annually, a he Ui. unprovided, be, and they are hereby appo.iitcJ en,:;. mUsior.ers for the purpose of iniproint, a. J keeping up a good and sufficbi.t tovecs u id public highway, from the high ground iu the. ,i..u of Yincennes, along the Wai'B-h ri'-er o .. . Grand Coulee soulh of said town. -.,1 to ex-.-nd said levee around said coulee, a a n.Ayr:.y f the inhabitants of what is termed the I o ;r Prairie south of the boundaries ofsiil t. .',, acting with the owners of property with': l- i . I boundaries, may fioin time to time i.i public me. iing, to be convened after tn diys public r. : c in a newspaper prin:ed in said town, deterrr.:;:-? and direct. SFCTIOX II. That it shall he the duty of Knox county cvinF. missioners, or board doing county business ni their firstsession, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, and at their Ilrst session. annu.J.'y theu -afler to appoint five citizens residing in Yinrt-nn s township, who shall bo interested as owners or h.M ers of land insai i lower prairie in rnairitumin jnd improving the utility and !-tali!itv uf said levee a-! commissioners under this act, and the act to w hich this is an amendment, anv three or more of whom are hereby empowered, and shall be deemed lolly authorized to act in all cases touching the premises. SECTION in. If the commissioners or any of them heroin appointed, or hereafter be appointed, refuse to qualify by taking an oath to perform the duties required of them by this and the act i f which it is an amendment, faithfully and impartially, or refuse to act, die, or resign within the peiiod of their appointment, it shall be the duty of tho board of County Commissioners or boaid doinj county business of said c un!y of Knox on being apprised and satisfied of the fact when in session, to appoint some suitable person or persons as aforesaid, to fill the vacancy and to serve during the unexpired portion of the year. SECTION IV. That so much of the act to which th is is an amendment ns comes within the purview of this act, be, and the ame is hereby repealed, and al! other of the enactments thereof are to be deemed valid and in full force. SECTION V. This act to take eifecl and be in force from. and after its publication in the newspapers punted at Vincennes. A. C. STEVENSON. Speaker of the House of Reps. JESSE D. BRIGHT, President of the Senate. Approved, Januarv 8th, 1845. "JAS. WIIITCOMli. INDIANA, to-wit: This certiiles that the foregoin; is a correct copy of the original roll on file in my office. In testimony whereof, I, WiTiam Sliceu, Secretary of state of the state of Indiana. sfcAL.'i have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said state, at Indianapolis, tho 14th day ot January, 1845. w.m. sheets. January 23. 1845 34 3w. II A 11 It 1 12 1 , On the 10th instant by tha Rer. Poet. Hall, Ma. William C. Scott, of this place, to Miss Maria Frances II. Crawford, of West Lebanon, Miama county, Ind. Witli the above notice we received a nice slice of Wedding cake. Il has been a longtime since any one has been thoughtful enough thus to favor us; wo therefore cannot help making mention of it. May the happy couple never know sorrow except by name, and may their sun of happiness never 6et. On Thursday the IGth inst., by John T. Boyd, Esq., Mr. Henry Cotton to Miss Elizabeth Getty, all of this countv. LOST. ON Tuesday last the subscriber lost n small Microscope, by having a "hole in his pocket." Any person finding and returning it to tho undersigned, shall bo suitably rewarded. It was enclosed in a pasteboard case. R. Y. CADDINGTOX. Jan. 23, 1845. I'LL CHARGE BUT LITTLE. WTL act as Agent for all non-resi-Q dents who own land in Knox county, Indiana, in seeing their taxes paid, their lands leased, or rented, and prevent the destruction of their limber, (if possible), i8 a reasonable compensation, providing tod will entrust me with such agency. A Auditor of the county it will coni3 direc ly in my line of business, and be corta to meet prompt attentiou. Wi" says seo to mine? SAM'L II. ELLIOTT. Jen. 23, 1S45. 34 tf.