Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Vevay, Switzerland County, 18 June 1840 — Page 3

YEVAY TIMES AND SWITZERLAND COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

VEVAY:

Bask Report.

DibuajLccvut From the Circleville Watchman, we learn that the hard cider party recently held a meeting in Now Holland, Picawajy county, Ohio, at which some of the most disgraceful scenes we have yet heard of, were enacted. • It seems that after abasing the administration And drinking hard cider to their hearts content, one of the orators of tho day, stated that thcy'imeoded to hold i'taerament, in honor of old Tip, and invited aft those who wished to join with them in the ceremony, to approach (he altar,— Three -sacrilegious wretches presented themselves kneeling, when the speaker raid, “if there bo any more let them come forward,” and, after singing on? of*their log cabin songs; he proceeded by saying, “ Take thit in rcinmItri/nee of old Tip!' 1 altlie same time giving the con verts a few grains of parched corn and a sup of hard cider! For the honor of our country, we hope this Is untrue, but from the scenes which are daily presented to our view, and from the testimoney of a paper , published In the immediate neighborhood of this disgraceful scetie, wc fear there is but little'ground to doubt its correctness. We are aware, that to bring Democratic institutions into conlerapt-has long since, been the object of the leaders of the Federal party, but we were not prepared fot; this attack upon the rites of oitr holy religion, conduct is unpardonable, and it is a mystery to us how the religious portion of the community can countenance a party, who make intemperance and blasphemy their rallying cry.

FOURTH OF JULY.

• In the South Bend Free Press, a Whig paper of May 6, the editor calls public attention to the report of “a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Branch Bank at South .Bend, to examine certain statements made by the Legislative Bank Committee, in their report dated 4th Feb. 1840, relating to the management'and condition of the said Branch Bank.” This Com* nrlteo report the following, as tbq result of their examination:

Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the citizens of Vcvay was held at the Court House, on Monday evening, -June 13th, for the purpose of making arrangements to" celebrate, the approaching anniversary of our National pendence; whereupon. Heart McMakix was called -to the Chair and B. L. Simmoxs appointed Secretary. * ' By the request of the Chair, Edward Patton,' Esq., In a short and appropriate address, slated the objects of the meeting, when they proceeded to tbe election of the comtnroittees and. officera.of the day, Edward Patton, President of the day. --Joseph' Malik, sen-., and Pcbbet Duroin, Vice Presidents,

THURSDAY l ;:;»u::::!;»:::t:iUNE 18, 1940.

“That policy is that the General nuktfno further declaration of hi? principles'for (he public eye whilst occupying his present position. * * * V The General’s views, in regard to all the important and-exciting questions of the day, have heretofore been given to the public, fully and explicitly! and those views, whether connected with constitutional or other of very greaLiuterest, have undergone no change.’’—i/armon’i Coji/u/enrial Committee The above determination, witll the accompanying declaration, pf General Harrison and his confidential advisers,-leave the public but two alter natives, viz:—cither to wade through a mass of history, embracing nearly forty years,, or to elect a chief magistrate without knowing one syllable about bis political views or sentiments! Indeed, but one of these alternatives is left the great mass of the p,eoplJ; for how many of us, wo would ask, have the moans, to say nothing of time, to critically examinednto the political 'Course of a. man, during such a large spare of time! • We leave the farmer, the mechanic, the laboring mao, to answer this question. This is certainly an awkward pred teamed for the people of the United States to be placed in, by a man aspiring to the highest nnd most responsible office in their gift! .* put, we suppose wc must make ! tho best of it—and lor the' benefit of those who may not be. possessed of .the means of t informing themselves upon the -subject, we ’ propose, Tor some weeks to come,' devoting a portion of our time and space, m reviewing the former acts and expressed opinions, so far asxan be obtained,.ofGeneral Harrison—.leaving the public to judge, from them, as to his qualifications and 'fitness* for the responsible station to which he aspires. In our next number, we will commence the labor, and as it w'ill be attended with considerable research, and as it is important that 'something.should be laid before the people, from which to infer the true character.of General Harrison’s principles, we invite particular attention to the subject.

"Union, Concession, Harmony—Kecry tiling for the Cavite—'Althingfar men."

“That the said Legislative Bank Committee have overrated the liabilities of the stockholders more than nindy ihoiuand dollari, supposing the answer made by the Cashier of the Bank to said Committee to be correct.”

EIGHTH OF JANUARY.

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.

“In their report (alluded to above,) (hat Committee say, when speaking of the Branch Bank here, “The liabilities of the directors are now os borrowers $40,3117, and of the other stockholders, $90,607; making together $140,141, or nearly lour times their stock. The other liabilities of the same Directors as endorsers and partners, is $41,237; and of the other stockholders 63,807, so that the total liabilities of tho directors and stockholders of the branch is $313,7-18, or nearly, bight times tlicir stock.” At that very time the books of the bank shew the entire amount ot its loans to be only $190,770, out of which arc loans to persons who own ho stock $103,082, or a considerable more than one half of the whole amount then loaned by the bank: So that there was loaned to stockholders only, $90,607.” The’South Bond Branch Bank Committee and the editor, then both, gravely conclude that the Legislative Bank reports unworthy , of confidence; dee. dec. Now what arc tho "facial

FOR GOVERNOR, Tjrlghitiau A. Howard.

Rev. Mr, Ames, Chaplain. ,. Hexby McMaein, Marshal, William Price, Deputy Marshal. The chair then appointed, the folldwjng committees; . 1 * 1 " 1 '

FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, Benjamin S. Tuley.

SWITZERLAND countv democratic NOMINATED TICKET.

of Jlrrangcmenlt—OVivQr DuTour, Percey Rous, Dr. T. Gale, Ira N; Matin, Joseph Dalmazzo, Samuel L. Beal, and Jesse Teats. Committee on-Toot/x—W. II. Gray, Edward Patton, and C. Eggleston.

for senator, irinrdii It, Or ecu, FOR .REPRESENTATIVE, El In’o.od FI slier.

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, Ban Id X. liirin'sg. . IS THE Tit UK ANTI-I.VTERN.il. IMPROVE* MENT TICKET, AND TilK FRIENDS Of REFORM WILL BALLY TO ITS SUPPORT,

Dr. S. Clarkson, Edward Patton, Dr. T. Gale, W, 11. Gray, and Dr. Joseph Matin, were appointed a'committee to solicit'an Orator and Reader of the Declaration of Independence. ■' Dr. Joseph Matin, Edwin Rigby. Jesse Teats, Richard P. Lewis, snd Francis Tardy," were appointed a committee to furnish powder."

Public Notice*

.. The citizen of iVificrland county, iDdiaoa,-are hereby that the undcnijocdj candidate for a «at in the Slate Senate of , Indiana,'will address bis felloiv-citiiDDialIhc following liraea and places: . Al Centro Mcding-housc, in Pleasant township, on Saturday the 13lh day of July, l&ld.at noon.. ..

very delkdic and refned feelings of Dilff Green, arp most awfully outraged at the pretumplion, aa.be calla it, of Mr. Kendall, in calling upon the Democratic parly to support bis paper. Duff, has surely.forgotten that bo did the same thing, to no purpose, more than once; or, perhaps it is the recollection of this fact which' so much disturbs (he gravity of bis temper* v

. Oliver Dufour, Bela C. Kent, and. Benj. L. Simmons, ofero appointed a committee to pro-: cure the.Attendance of the Artillery of this place, ■ ' -

The Legislative Committee address a series of questions to each of the Branches, and the branch at South Bend answers, amongst others as fol-

•Retched, That tho proceedings of this meeting be published in tha Vevay Times, wltb a general invitation to the citizens to participate in the celebration. . - HENRY McMAKlN, ChaiVn. ' B.L. Simmons, .Secretary. v * * '

AtMoorcfipUl, in Pleasant lowmhip, on the 18lh day of July 1810, ntnoon. ■

At the store of Wilson B. Benefield, Esq., in Craig township, on the20th day of Jii|y v 1810, At Jacksonville, at ten o’clock, on the 53d day-of July, 18-10,. M Mount Sterling, at one o’clock ea the same day. , \ ■ t .. At Vcvay, in said county,on thefUlK day of July, 18-10, at noon, .

lows: ■ ' Liabilities of Directors as drawers', * 49,337 do. do. as-endo fs$r», 41,247 do. stockholders as drawers, 00,807 do.- . do. os endorsers, 6?,367.

A BIOM worth Al 4 party, in this (dace the olher;day where there were forty-one ladies present, a vote was taken on the Presidential question; end, the result was . r For Van Buren - !'*• -32 1 ■ “. Harrison : r 9 { This is worth a dozen hard cider tymplomt'y for as go the ladies^—so go the rpeh. 1 :

-MoReIsdus Murders.—' The Apalachicola Gazette,* contains accounts of more Indian murders in Florida, * Three or families rc-j siding near Dloiintstojvn, were inhumanly mur : derad and their bouses pillaged and biirnt about the middle of last month.’

(c5*The people of tbfs county will bo pleased to learn that Gen. Howard, Democratic candidate for Governor, wilt be in this place on Toes. Hay next, (33d insl.,) and address the public at -one o'clock. Gen, II, js fresh from the Halls of Congress, and will doubtless give us a .faithful account, of (be labors.of that body, down to the 'time of bis departure from Washington. It is also expected that ha will give Ilia views. at length, on the various local subjects which at present interest the people, and particularly on the subject} of our Internal Improvements, As this .will probably be the only opportunity, Mr. Howard wilt have to address the people of this county, it is hoped that there will be a general attendance. ■ .*

• * total, , f . $243,753 which makes the total of their liabilities precise* ly the sum stated in the Dank report; and theta' answers|were made under oath by the officers of the Branch to the Committee, and were published by tho House of Representatives annexed to Bank Report. ‘ ‘ ; The Committee,: however, appointed by the South Bend Branch itidf, and of course well qualified and.’impariial, would rebut the above test|mohy by saying that at “that very time the. hooka of the Bank chow the entire amount of Us loans to be only $109,779.” Now : the effort proves either the stupidity or dishonesty of that committee. . Who ever pretended that the Joans of a bank ; were equal to the liabilities-to the bank of. its debtors? Docs not every body know, that one or more endorsers are required, for every loan; who become liable in addition to the drawer of the.note or bill? The liabilities then on every loan ste al least twice as much as the loan itself. And yet the Branch at South Bend through its self-appointed committee, would humbug tho people with the pretence that the amount of its stockholders liabilities must bo falsely stated, because they exceed the amount of the loans. The South Bend Committee in stating that tho liabilities of the stockholders had been overrated mora than ninety thousand dollar*, cither said what they knew to be untrue, or displayed an ignorance which exposes their total unfitness for their task.

May 14,1810.

J. C. EGGLESTON.

SHERIFF'S SALE. BY- virtue of an execution atid an order and, decree of the Switzerlind.circuit court, entered at the last April term of said court,* and is* sued outW the office of the'clerk of said court ' and to roe directed, I will expose at public auc-‘ tion to the higheat bidder, on a credit of twelve .month*, from and after the 33d day of April 1840; (by the purchaser giving bond and security according to law.,) at (he courthouse door, in the . town ofVevay.in said couoty.'on Saturday the 11th day of July-1840, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. -SI. and 4 o’clock P. SI. of said day, the rents and profits for seven years ofihe following described property, viz: The following lots lying and borngin the county of Switzerland, and.described as follows, to wit: Lois number' 329,280, and 283; known and designated on the additional platt of in-lots ofthn town of Vevay, as laid out by John Francis Du four in Scpteniber 1836, and on failure to realize the full amount of the debt interest and costs <tf suit on said execution endowed, I will then and there at, the : lime and place abovb mentioned j in.manner and form aforesaid, expose the fee' simple of'said' land so described as a fore said,-to sale on the same' credit as aforesaid, purchaser giving bond ‘ and security os aforesaid.. Said lota having been, ordered lb be sold by naid court as the property of Jfary D. Dufour, Charles I. II. Du four, and 1 Emma Esietla Dufour, widow and children 1 and heirs at flaw of Jamesll/Du four deceased, at the suit df Ezekiel S Lockwood and Lewis Lockwood, merchants and partners trading Under the'* name and style df-E. S, Lockwood do Co., against* the said Alary D, Dufour; Charles I, H. Du four, : and Emma Estella Du(biir, widow and children ; and heirs at law of James It. Dufour, dec’d.vforthe debt interest and costs of suit, arid alio for accruing costs. : HENRYMcMAKIN. S.S.C. • June 18, 1340, ' pr s. f ee $4—29c >

Murderers Takes. —Major Hamilton, [Indian agent brought to St. Xouis, on .the 3Sth ult., an Indian of the Ohma tribe, who had murdered a White man,; Another Indian, an accomplice in the murder waa drowned. ■ Major If.- had also with hjmseven Spanish boys, who had.been elolen froth ; theirparents by the Pawnees, and whom ho had rescued. . p v

fine packet ship Poland; plying ‘between New York and Havre, w** struck by lightning atsea, on the lOih'Ult., by wbich accident the cargo became and she was burnt to the. waters edge; The crew and'pas fse tigers on board amounted to 63 in number, all of .wfioiil wore!\alertlie' most.intense suffer! ng'. - *.. .■ ,■ * for 43 hours/'sayed-bytha- fortunate arrival of the ship Cli ftbnj wKichiyesBel took them from the, bu rni ng wrt|k*||rrho|Poland, bad ! $70,000; in* specie on board, which, with her cargo,* 1 was entirety lost..■; .* v- : •. .!

; the Cincinnati News, we learn that a gang of counterfeiters were arrested in the woods,in Twin Creek, near Portsmouth, on Friday last.- They were discovered byia man who TTasbonlingoxen, and were at wdrk making spurious coin at the lime.; Four of the number were secured, with their clies, and other implements drtbeir trade, and taken to Portsmouth; three'escaped; ?

last was a proud day for York townabip. I’he Democracy, of that portion of old Switzerland did honorto.lho cause in which they are engaged. They met almost to a man, not for the purpose of drinking hard cider or participating infeata ofbnflbonery, but to discuss and bear discussed great national and local questions, connected with their welfare as freemen. The meeting was addressed by'P. 31. Kent Esq., in a speech of about three hoitrs.itt length, abounding in documentary evidence and unanswerable arguments—followed by our Senator, Marlin R. Green, Esq., who in a very unassuming, plain, sensible, speech, triumphantly .sustained the course be pursued in the last legislature. Other . gentlemen were present who designed-addressing, the meeting but were prevented by the want of time. Mr. Kent dwelt entirely upon national topics, and'did.ample justice to the grcalcausc in which ho ia engaged. He not only triumphantly defended the administration againsttlie volumes of Federal falsehoods and abuse, with which it has been assailed., but completely stripped our opponents and their acknowledged leaders of their specious covering, and held them up to view in all their deformity. The attention with winch Mr. Kent was listend to, gave ample evidence of the interest fell by t]io audience In the subjects which he so ablyfdiscussedi York township is sound to the core. ■ , .

opposition press ezuUingly announce the important Act,'that Generals Gaines, Scotia .and Clinch arezealous supporters oflhe log cabin candidate. What a tremendous regard • they of late day a.manifest for Qeneralt, They were wont to invoke “pestilence and famine** as wide spread as the Union, in preference to placing!a military chicftian at tho head of the Government. But their tune is now changed—they not only wish to place a mittary'chieftain (!) at the head of the Government, but announce lhefact,W an auspicious sign that all The generals; of.the country are with thorn. .What a'consistent set of patriolt, are these same Whigs!

- Mors. Cocntebfeits. —Counterfeit fifty dollar bills, nn. the Stale Bank of Alabama, are.in circulation!in; New Orleans. They are signed UE. Bihly, Cashier, S. Clayton, President.

- Jranixo’s Coosrr.—A Democratic meeting war held Jn ,this county in the 93d tilt-, at which Afclii w ter, Eeq.lVit* nominated for a seat m Ihe Xegistatu re, ~ . — ■ ■ ; * , ■ infant of a Mr. Tbrnslon of Springfield township, Dearborn county, fell into the fire, a few days since, in tho absence of its mother, and was burnt to death.

We leave the people to jndgo which is the fciost unworthy of confidence, the Legislative committee who made a report, which no member of the whig party, or any parly, could attack or did attack, and under whose withering dcvelopemenls the defence of tlio President of the State Bank fell powerless, save for the mortification of his own friends-or the modest bankappointed committee, who make this bold experiment on what they take to be the ignorance of the people. 1 Let the Bank report and the testimony extracted from the Banks themselves be read, and it wilt be seen bow that concern, the Stale Bank, managed by a few.monied men, has been siititfg with tlio Internal Improvement system like a midnight incubus on the vital energies of the people, until the State has become trate and breathless. The Legislative committeo' touched this disguised- monster with the spear odtliuricl, and it stood confessed before tbe State in all its mischievous deformity. It must be reformed.

Another Swindling Concern.— The New York Courier and Enquirer states that they have seen a package of $1,078 in notes, dated 1st of May, 1840, purporting to be of the Globe Bank in New York, of the denomination of two, three and five dollars each, payable ten days after date, sent on as a remittance bj a bank in Ohio, to its correspondents here. In reference to this transaction, the Cincinnati News says, “as there is no incorporated Bank of that name in this State, and as the five banka can only ii : sue notes countersigned by the comptroller, this would seem to be altogether a swindling affair, and as such, should be Immediately laid before tho grand jury now in session.

Stanton, of the Maysvillo Monitor, has just commenced the publication of the spicy little sheet entitled.the Log Cabin Humbug, It.will be after the Presidential election.

SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue of an execution and da ordef.atid decree of the Switzerland dreutycourt/en-; tered at ilje last April term of said court, and iisued out of the ofHccjof the clerk of said .court and to mo directed, I "will expose at. public auction lo lhe highest bidder, oh a credit of twelve months; from and after the 14th :day of April* 1840i*(by the purchaser giving bond and-securily< accofting to lav,) at the court house door, in the town-of Vevay, in said county, on Saturday the llili day of July ISlO.betwcenthe hour* of 10 o’clock AaM. and 4 o’clock P, M. of said day, the rents and profits for seven years of the fol-' lowing described property, viz: All that certain parcel or tract of land lying in' Jeffersontownship, county of Switzerland, and Stale of Indiana, known and described as follows: being - lots in that part of the town.of Vevay as laid out by John Sheets and Daniel Dufopr, numbered' 154, 155,156, 157, 158,159. IGO, and 161, and i a strip of land between said lots and the Ohio riverr ana on failure to realize the' full amount of ito debt interest and costs of suit on said execution endorsed. 1 will tiicn and there, at the time and place above mentioned, in manner and form aforesaid, expose the fee simple of said lots and-strip of land so described as aforesaid, to sale on a credit as aforesaid,'by the purchiter giving bond and security as aforesaid. Said-lots and strip of (and having been ordered to be sold by said court, as the property ot Mary I). Du four, ; Chylei I.-II, Dufour, and Emma Estelta Do-. four,*; widow and children and heirs at law. of Janies II. Dufour, dco'd, at the suit of Nathan L. Stratton, and Daniel Lupton, merchants trg*, ding jundcr the firm name -and alyle of Stratton & Lhplon, against the said' Mary D. Charles I, II. Dufour, and Emma Esiella Dufour, widpw and children and heirs at law ;of James II. Dufour, deceased, for $2720 24, the) interest and costs of suit, and aUo for accruing costs] v . • f' ' • ■;

'. The Belgian Government has appropriated 400,000 francs to the encouragement of steam navigation between that country and the United States. *

' Preaching.

The Iter. Mr. Caldwell will preach al the Court House, in this placemen Sunday afternoon next, at 4 o’clock,

Onr Democratic friends willbcar in mind that mother meeting will be bold on Saturday next at ihe house of Mr. Allen McKay, in Craig township. A full attendance is expected. Several addresses will be delivered on the occasion.

(£rA certain Dr. Drake, hat gratuitously come forward, and certified that Gen. Harrison, though old and infirm, has all the sense he ever had! This same Drake, in conduction with a Col. Todd, has just published a pamphlet, to which we are referred for Harrison's political sentiments. We would liko to see a certificate from the Louisville Medical Institute, as to the character and condition 'of-this Dr. Drake. Wc think it would amount to this: "We the undersigned certify that if Or. Drake over had any sense, there is no evidence of the fact extant."

I. O. p. P. vsvitf? sj®g & fllHERE wilt be a Procession cf the IndeX pendent Order of Odd Fellows in this place on the 27th June, 1840, it being the first Anniversary of Vcvay Lodge. Brothers of the neigh* boring Lodges of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky arid Illinois, and all transient brothers in good standlog, are respectfully invited to participate in the celebration. By order of the Lodge, IRA N. MALIN, Secretary* Vevhy, June 4,1&40, -

KpTh# Democratic firea are globing with effulgent brightnesa'dri the Green Mountains of Vermont.' The largest convention ever held in that State assembled at Woodstock, on tho 17ih nit. The object was to nominate Presidential electors and a Democratic ticket for Governor Lt. Governor and other slalo officers. The Hon. Or P. Van Ness, aud the Hon. William.Bradly; are the Senatorial electors, and Paul Darlington, and Edward D, Barber, received the nomination for Governor and Lt. Governor. The right spirit prevails among tho Green mountain boys.

*■ (£7*SIanj of our Democratic friends arc giving currency to a circular purporting to bo from tho Whig Central Committee of Ohio. it is. evident the writer of this circular, is somewhat familiar with 'whig tactics, yet said committee,, have under their own signatures, disclaimed any knowledge of it, and therefore we are bound to doubt its genuineness, A good cause spurns the aid of deception, and so far as we are concerned, wo will uso none of it,

Propensities.—A writer in the Richmond Enquirer, thus describes tbo leading propensities of the opposition: ’• * T

TAKEN HP

“Bragging is their forte. It is with them; high brag, low brag, I brag, yon brag, wo brag, they brag, alt brag.’J .' •

BY Truman Grey, living in Posey township, Switzerland coltnty, Indiana, Jqn, 23d 1840, a Red Steer, marked with a square cross off of the right eaf, and two undar bits and one upper bit off the left ear, with a white face: no other marks, ori brands perceivable, supposed to bo 3 years ohJlsst spring. ' Appraised at eleven dollar),‘by William McNutt and Alta” McNutt, before mo the 23d of January, 1840. . WILLIAM HOWE, J. P. Juno 18,1840. ‘ .

In little Delaware, the work also goes bravely ori. A.tremendous convention was held at Wilmington on tho 30th ult., for the same object. Tbs people of that State are arming foV the coming contest, and we doubt not will give a favorable account of their devotion to Democratic principles.

Pesnstivaxia LEoisi,ATtRE.~On the 28th ult. tho chairman of the committee on Banks, reported a bill to regulate tbc several banks and ssvngs institutions of that Stato, - one of ttye sections o t which requires the Banks' to resume, specie payments on the first of October next. '

The Charleston Patriot of the 3d instant', says —“A letter from St; Augustine, dated last Friday,. Hates that, great apprehension! were entertained that the Indians would attack that city.” ’

I HENRY McMAKIN, S. S. (.!, June IB, 1840. * pra, fee $4—*J0c

AUGUST ELECTION. Ercrr Mon to his post.