Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Vevay, Switzerland County, 5 November 1840 — Page 1

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VfclVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1840.

VOLUME IV.

NUMBER 48.

Published every Thursday Morning,

Rocky mountains. Tfie limes is not far distant when the Air trade will be spoken of, only as a pursuit that has been within the territory of the United Slates.— Viable Beacon.

• Wonderful Invention.

A iin.—“No sensible man ever thought a beautiful wife worth as much as one that could make a good pudding. I wish (ho girls all knew this, for I feel s great interest in their welfare. W ell in order to have all the fair readers of the fanner learn this paragraph, wc have given it on insertion in our paper.*—We hope they will read it, and think ol it loo whenever they think of connubial bhts, A wife that cannot make a good pudding may be beautiful to othere, but we will assure our fair reader* that in her husbind’s eye her beauty is diminished when he comes to his home faint end weary, and instead of a good pud* ding is aroused with a tune on the pianoor a little bad 'French!! The question is often asked us, “Why arc there so many* single gentlemen and so many old maids!” Onr. answer has always been this; "No prudent young roan ought to think of marrying a young lady who boasts of her*entire ignorance of domestic matters.**—. And unfortunately young ladies now a days learn music .and - dancing, drawing, painting, and. '\Vjntienr paries tout, but of knowing nothing of the housework!— Long bland Farmer,-

■Corner of Ferry and JMarcl tired j, frray, Indiana.

A German paper gives an account of a wonderful machine for composilion in printing. The inventor is M. do Keiglec, of Pesth, It is of an octagon form, with db many divisions as there are letters in the alphabet, and on pressure the letters fall out and take their places in tho required order. Tho composition goes on with such rapidity, that a single workman, it is said, can compose the mailer for a large sheet in Ices than an hour and a half. The. distribution of the type when done-with, is said to be carried oa.wilh still greater speed and facility. A cylinder is turned, and the letters ore restored in regular’order to the divisions from which they have been taken. It is asserted that a- large sheet and a half of type may be thus distributed in one hour. The journal from which this is taken, says that the process hns.been witnessed by the University of Pcsth; and that the Russian Ambassador at Vienna having heard of the invention, and received tho particulars of it, immediately ordered a machine for the emperor Nicholas. We give this extraordinary statement as we And it, and must wait for further accounts before .we can give credit to it, for tho mode' of distribution alluded to surprises us even more than the composition. Something of the kind was attempted in England a great many years ago, and completely failed, —National Gazelle, .

From the Pilltburgh Jlanu/aclurrr, While our Democratic cotemporaries have shown by the official returns that our majority on the Congressional Ticket exceeds 7,000 voles wo have taken Iho trouble to average and compile the official vote for members of Assembly, and wo arrive at a clear Democratic majority of 8,111: Official, Dem. Whig. Armstrong,* 1478 11G0 Alleghany, 4295 6363 Adams, 1589 * 2066 Heaver, 1655 2547 Bucks, 4297 . 4321 Berks, no opposition, 4125 Bradford, 2594 2513 Bedford, _ 2498' 2677 Butler, 1725 1653 Clarion,* 1329 ■ 610 Clearfield, 093 , 410 Cambria, 694* 333 Chester, 4763 5443 Centre, 2423 643 Columbia, 2756- ' 667 ■ Crawford, 2646 2176 Cumberland, 2535 . 2403 Dauphin, 2107 2713 Delaware, 13S3 1955 Erie, 1641 2954 Franklin, 2703 3382 Fayette, ' 2376 2543 flrcrn, 1658 -1152 Huntingdon, 2380 ■. 3466 Indiana,* , 939 1411 .1 oilers on, 595 ■ '402 Juniata,- 1013 870 Lancaster, 4654 8343. Lebanon, ' 1357 1822; Lehigh, 2190 - 2133 - ; Luzerne, 3587 ; 2604 . Lycoming, 1837 ' - ' 1511 Mercer, 2291 ’ 2853 Mifilin;. 1235 . ■ ' 1128 : Montgomery, 4535 3004 - Monroe, 847 ' 169 Norihampton, 2988 2145 Northumberland,* 1914 1130 Philadelphia city, -4665 7112 Philadelphia county, 12717 9818 . Pike, 464 60 Somerset, 693 2110 Schuylkill, 2010 1414 * Tioga,* 1520 - 821 Union, ■ 153F . 2218 ' Warren, 053 775 ; Westmoreland, 4104 2220. Wayne, 1010. / 622 ■ Washington, 3720 L f 4045 - York, 3772.?* 0159 REPOSTED.* ’ Clinton, 694 501 McKean, 175 ntaj, ,. Potter,- 100 “ Perry, 1593 506 Susqnehanah, 1799 1127 ; Venango, 1275 740 130,833 ' 122712 : 122,712 Democrolic maj. 6,111

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Anecdote of two Arab Chiefs

There dwelt upon the great river Euphrates near the great city of Bassora, two Arab tribes deadly hostile to each other. The enmity was so proverbial ami well known, (hat when one man spoke of the cnmiiy of another towards a foe, he would say, he hates him as an Anizec hates a MorUtfeo, D fell out that the Pacha cf Bagdad being apprehensive of ihc invasion of the Kurds from Kurdistan, sent out an order to the chief of Anizecs to send him forth with 20,000 men; and the order was obeyed. The Pacha, I not placing the same reliance upon the promptness of the lUuntifec chief, resolved, to lay a plan to lake him by stratagem, and then demand from him the aid of his tribe, lie succeeded in obtaining (he attendance of the chief; and he was brought into the presence of the Turk, *J have taken you prisoner,* said the Pacha, ‘fearing tiiat I might not otherwise hare obtained (ho assistance of yenr tribe against the Kurds. If you now command that ten thousand of your men shall come to my as.-iitanco your chains shall he struck off, you may return safe and uninjured to your tribe; hm if you do not comply, your head shall roll at my feet.’ The chief leaked the Pacha sternly in the face, and replied, ‘Your slight knowledge of the Arab character has led you into this error. Had you sent to me for 10,000 of my tribe, when 1 was free, I know not what answer I should hive returned, but as it is, my reply cannot hut he negative. If you order my head to roll at your feel, be it so; there arc many more in my tribe equal to mine. Shed one drop of my blood, and every one will become its avenger. The Arab may be treated with when ftce, but when a prisoner, itcrcrf

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When Dr. Frankl inwas Minister of the United Stales in France, Its was often importuned by persons unknown to him, to giro them letters of recommendation. For cases of this kind, and when it was impossible to refuse, lie prepared the following model, ninl income instances actaally employed it, to shame persona making such indiscreet applications, and in conic measure to stop them: ,

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Sl.NOULAR FBKAE BY AN AMERICAN SAILOR.— Op Tuesday evening, as the Philadclshia'Amcrlcan liner, was entering the locks of. the St. Catherine's dock, a female of about thirty years of age crossed (he bridge over the dock, and which was on the swing at the itmo to let the veascl in, In leaping from one part of iho bridge to the other she unfortunately fell into the water, which in that part, is twenty-six feet deep. ; Her clothes supported her .for a short time,-and she was caught hold of with ‘a staff by one oftthe lock men and no doubt would have been safely transferred to land, had not a sailor onboard this Philadelphia, who had:observed the accident, immediately divested himself of every particle of clothing, and jumped in after her, swearing- that no one should save her but himself. Upon'rising to the surface of: the water lie swam immediately to the female, and setting her free from the staff, took'her out into the river, and brought her round jo Sti Catharine's stairs w hero he allowed her to goon sbore*~ The sailor swam back to iiiq ship, playingtho most astonishing antics in the water to the infinite amusement of the spectators.—ftitcrywoi paper* • ■ . ' ■

.Paris, April-—,1707. Sir—Tito bearer going to the United Slates, presses mq;to give hima letter of recommendation, although I knownothing of hint, not even his name.' ‘This ; may seem extraordinary, but 1 assure you it is not uncommon here. Sometimes, indeed, one perion unknown, brings another equally eo.to recommend him: and sometimes they recommend oneanother. As for this gentleman, I refer you to himaetf for his character and bis morals, .with which he is certainly better acquainted than I possibly can be. I recommend him, however; to those civilities which every stranger of whom wo know no harm, has a right'to; and I request you will do him alt the good offices, and ishow him all the favor, that on farther acquaintance you shall find him deserving- - . - 1 have the honor to be, &c, *

MISCELLANY.

Tho .Mississippi VnlIcy-1823.

To complete the survey of the northwestern frontier, M?jor long was sent in 1823 to ascend ; tho St. Peter?, a considerable river which enters the Mississippi about nine miles below the falls of St. Antlion v. . Ho traced ibis river 275 milts

The haughty Pacha looked upon him for a moment with surprise; then turning to bis soldiers, ho ordered them to sever bis bead from bis body. The chief stood calm and collected, while tho drawn sabre gleamed aloft in the air. At this moment lho noise of ahorse galloping in the paved court-yard of the palace attracted tho attention of (be Pacha. At every bound he struck the tire from the stones, and seemed to be striving la outstrip the wind. In a moment tho rider vaulted from his horse and almost in the same breath stood in the presence of tho Pacha. It was the chief of the Anizscs. 4 1 am come,* said he, ‘to strike off the chains from my enemy. Had ho been taken in open conflict, I should not have interposed, but as be has been taken by treachery, though mine enemy, yet will I be first to strike off his chains. There are .50,000 lances under my command glancing yonder in your defence; but if you release not immediately mine enemy, every one of them shill be directed against you as a foe.* The Turk was forced to yie’d, and the two chiefs retired together. Tho chief of the Anizccs conducted his brother chief, though his deadliest enemy, to his own tribe, atpl then said, ‘Wo nro now aga : n enemies; we bare only acted as Arabs should always actio each other; but you are now safe and with your own tribe, and our ancient hostilities are renewed.’ With this they parted, and tho chief of the Anizees relumed to the defence of the Pacha.— liuckingham'i Led arcs.

■ 'to its source, and continuing northward reached •the Rod River which flows into Lake Winmpcc. 'This led him to the boundary line between the JJritiah and American Territory; and having ex - . -amined the features of the country, the party returned Viewing (be frontiers in a military point of jview, rt appears from this and previous expeditions, that the nature of the country, on the .norilf-tuid the west, is such as affords a more .formidable barrier to the invasions of an enemy, than any cordon of posts that art could devise. The broken surface of the country on the north, from Lake Superior to Lake Winnipec, affords scarcely an area tie for tho entrance ofan enemy; while on the west tho Great American Desert, in Bteriic dreary waste, three of- four hundred , miles wide, stretching along the eastern verge of the Reeky Mountains, from Red river of the

All suall kxow Him.—In one town in Vermont, it is taidthal all the adult inhabitants but three, are professors of religion, .and that nearly all belong to the same denomination of Christians, If this community have the power asweU.ssiho form er god] j nesa^ihe/.tnost enjoy* more than the ordinary abate of human happiness. At.Icast, ijieir condition most afford tho world something of an opportunity to test the value of gospel principles, in regulating the intercourse of man with man; in preserving order in neighborhoods; in promoting domestic and social comfort, and in refining and sweetening tho enjoyments of life. The progress of the gospel in that town shows,:also, what wc may expect in other places,'whero tho spirit ot prayer and effort for the conversion of men is steadfastly and where tho blessing is expected to'come from Godin answer to the faithful eupElications of Ills people.; ’Why is not the same appy result enjoyed m other towns. Until alt shall know the Lord from the leaitlo the greatest. ’ :; jyv; y. obs. ;

.Army and Navy otEdhopb—The following iVthe strengtffor the annies of Europe'-actually kept tip, with the dumber of Teasels of war. * ' Men.- Vessels of war. England; ■ 114,000 1 6o0 Russia, , 066,000 • . 370, France; 330,000 ' 300 Austria, 207,000 . 4 Prussia, 167,000 0 Holland, ; 73,000 : . 18 : Spain, . .. 70,000 0 Belgium, ; . 60,000 ' . 0 Sweden, . : * 40,000 r - . 7 * Denmark, 98;0(K) . 4 . Naples, 30,000 . 2 Sardinia;. . v 60,000 . , 8 ’ Norway,' . 23,000 .. O ' Greece, . . 10,000 • ' ■ ■ 3 States of the Pope, . 0,000 ,9 ; Portugal not known, Hanover, 16,000 ' ‘ T Bavaria, 40,000 0/ Saxony,. ‘ 12,000 ' 0 Wnrtcmberg, . 18,000 ; . 0

sou.h, fora distance of more than fourteen hundred miles to the north, may be regarded as a continuation of the time of natural defence. Tims

ji portion of our frontier, caibracing 1 an extent of Niearly two thousand miles, is so welt fortified nature as to require no artificial structures bu t such as arc appropriate in Indian warfare. About Hits period tiiefur trade was carried on rtrith great activity. A new company had been •organized in 182J, entitled the Columbian Fur .-Company, to trade on the St. Peters and tipper Mississippi. Us operations soon extended to the Missouri. Hut the fur trade was not confined to companies. There wae then ns now, a peculiar met of hardy adventurers engaged in the pursuit. Providing themselves at b't. Louis or some

♦No Whig candidates for Assembly in Arm strong, Tioga, Clarion, and Northumberland The vote fur Congress is there loro taken. ♦No democratic candidate for Assembly In la diaua— is therefore taken.

Gnle on Lake' Erie.

Tub Turkish Preacher.— One day. Nasircddin ascended llio pulpit of flip motduc, and iliua add rested. thVcongregation:—0,lri)e believer*! do you khowwhailam going to ssy lo youl" • ‘No,* responded tho congregation. “Well,then,* !io replied, “iberc isnouso wasting time on such an ignorant' ecI;” and so saying he catnd down from ihepulpU. Ilo went to preach the second'limp and asked tho congregation, “0, true believers!, do* you know what 1 am going to-My to you!* *Wd know,*repliedtbc audience. - /Then there is no use in my. telling you/ said Nasircddin, and figaih he descended from .the pulpli. When .- next Ji0 can;c-to preach, and asked his □suaT question/ tho congregation, resolved to have a trial of InV powers, answered ‘some of ns know and some of us do not .khow.’-T-'O!’-said Nasi red din, 'let those wlio do know, tell those who do not know, and 1 shall be spared the trouble of preaching.* So saying, he came down, from the pulpit.— Tarkith Jeti bojfc.

We gather the following particulars of the destruction produced by late gales from the Huffalo papers. Ttio steamboat Vermillion and Michigan, schooners Lexington, Jan. IvingV and (lie brig {Indiana, arc driven ashore at and near liuffulo, j and a Port Omario schooner, with a red painted |stcrn ia beached near Comic: tit. The steamboat Chautauque is at Dunkirk, with her wheels guards, and false sides carried away. The schooner Martha Fume struck the pier in corning in, and sprang aleak. She is kept tip by her pumps. Schooner Cambria, lost every inch of canvass and entered the harbor in n dreadful plight. The new schooner Emily has all her starboard railing carried away, and the following vessels arc materially injured in their spars and rigging. .Steamboat Fulion, brig North Carolina, schooners Commodore, Florida, Duel:nor, Tippecanoe, Jlujiglcs, Alps, and Mitchell; the schooner Navigator lost some spars atf&jtl) her bulwarks on her larboard side. ,The SeW' Wyandot has lost her low and bulwarks alt destroyed and rigging much injured.— AV Erie a wood scow containing four men was blown into the hkc and is supposed to be lost. Many scows wore driven cu shore and some canal boats greatly injured. In addition to the above, the Hufialo Advertiser fays: “Wo continue to hear from the effects of the recent florni,and fear that we will have to narrate more serious results than those already mentioned. During the height of the gale, the spars of a vessel in an np wright position we to seen passing down the Niagara, and from the fact that the galley, binnacle and compass of the Schr, Helen Mar, have been found between this city and the falls, it is feared she hasbeen lost. It is certain that vessel left Cleveland a few days since for (his port, with 5000 bushels of wheat; and as no tiding have been received of her,’the assumption that she Is lost is well founded. ■

The following extraordinary narrative is giv cn in a recent letter to Milan:

rbther starling point with guns and traps, and ar■ticlcs for trading among the Indians, such as •coarse blue, red and scarlet cloth, guns, knives, .blankets, traps, coarse cottons, powder and balls, itoes, hatchets, bead?, vermilion, ribbons, kettles, Ate., (hey take their departure and in re--turn bring back furs of the beaver, otter, niusk-

“A priest, on reluming a few nights ago f r om visiting a sick person in the country, near I I’istoja. perceived lights in the windows.of a jfarm Iioihc belonging to a friend, and supposing | that there was a family meeting, entered with the intention of-partaking of their festivity.— On reaching Hie first floor he found the daughter of the Imuse suspended from a beam in.the ceiling, lie immediately cut her doWof.and took means to restore her. She recovered her senses, but before she could speak she urged him by her gestures to go into an adjoining room. Here ho found the father ond mother both dead, having been evidently murdered.— On returning to the poor.girl, who was about 15, she had recovered her voice, and told him that the house had been entered by fire men one of whom was the priests own servant, who had , first killed her father and mother, and then hung i her, and afterwards decamped with all the plate jewels, and money. Having Iho resuscitated girl in good bands, the priest went home. His servant came to him os usual to assist in undressing, but he desired the man logo to the cellar, and bring up a bottle of wine, as he was fatigued and thirsty. The servant went down, and the priest stealing gon-’ly after him, succeeded in locking him in. lie then hastened to the magistrate of the place, who on hearing bis lab, sent some officers to Ids house where they entered the cellar, and seized the servant and two of his four accomplices, but the remaining two effected their escape. The whole of the booty was also found in the cellar.

- Aucsican Steam Snips.— Two large steam frigates are now cpnatructing fia flits city for the Spaniel) Government, the engines for which are in preparation at the Novelty Works, .and:the hulls-at the yard of Messrs. Holland .Drown. A large steam frigate Tor thb Russian Government is also in course of construction under the charge;’ of 31 r.* Sch uyler. These fac la aro'honorable lb American enterprise and skill.—JBotfoh Courier:. / v-. ” 1 ■.

rrat, martin, bear, deer,lynx and buffalo. As the

•skins of animals killed in warm weather cannot bo preserved without great difficulty, tbeygen■crally choose the winter for such excursions. On arriving at their wintering ground, they •build a .store fur their goods with an apartment for themselves. These buildings arc of rough Jogs, plastered with mud, and roofed with slabs. —This done, the trader gives a great proportion of his merchandize to the Indians on credit. "These credits are from $20 ta $200 in amount .according to the reputation of the applicant, as a hunter.—It is expected that the debtor will pay in the following spring; but as many neglect tbts, the trader is compelled to rate his goods very high. Thus the honest pay for the dishonest.

tockc, (be Founder ofSocIalism.

Strange, indeed, are the material phenomena which illustrate the present era. Wo have a religious -creed' based on the facta of divine Jawff promulgated in the heart through the conrcicnf?,-* A.law which emanating from the Supremo powers no. less akin to wisdom than to Jove, and from the operations of which come not only truly pious dispositions, but expansive -views and intelligent perceptions. And yet, in connexion with this faith, is encouraged a system of philosophy directly contradictingitsradical tenets—a system of philosophy which refers the doctors of the mind and feelings of the heart to the opera*, tfon of external circumstances. -We have the anomaly of a Christian prelate rising to denounce iu the parlimcnt necessary conclusions of premises which are insisted on in the text-boob.of the Universities, We venture in stale, emphatically, that Locke's theory is the groundwork of Owens* practice and the most obnoxious dogmas of his school are fortified by the arguments, of ah author whose name has, unfortunately,,.become almost synonymous with that of English. Philo* sopliy. —London Monthly tVagatine.

• Novel Trap. —A correspondent has written the following account of a liowly invented'rat trap, which has already been used with success. Take a barrel and stretch a skin of parchment over it with a string, put it across and athwart, nearly to the outside.' Take*some dipping and mix it with meal,.smear it oh the middle of theparcliment. The rats will smell it, and treading on the parchment, it will give way, and they will tall Into tho water in the barrel. Put a. plank for them to creep up to tho barrel's brink outside and strew to me. oatmeal on it. You must not lot the water be too deop, but set a brick endway* in it, ana the first rat that ia. caught will make a noise, which will entico more, so that they will fight for tho possession. of. the brick, and the noiso will draw others. Thus, in one night tho home may be cleared of rats, be they over so many. 3Iico and other may be caught in a similar manner.

An estimate may he formed of the va'ue of this trade from the fact, that between the years 1820 and 1830, fur? were exported from the United States, after eupplying the homo market, to the amount of $GOO,OOU annually. The eficct of the trade on the Indians has evidently been

rather injurious than beneficial. Not to speak of the vice of intemperance and its kindred evils, which have thus been communicated, tho Indians, who have been connected srith the trade,

have lost liieir native independence. For tlieir * primitive arms and vest men Is, they have eubstiHtutcd articles of foreign manufacture, and ore Bthtis dependent on the whites for the means of r Iife. Any interruption of tlio trade, therefore,is to them a fatal calamity.—Formerly an Indian hilled a buffalo, made garments of the skin and fed on the flesh. Now he prefers a blanket, and to purchase It be must give in exchange two or three skins. To procure a gun, he must furnish g The operation of this cause tends rapidly lo ■extirminalo the game. Some few tribes hunt on Bthe different parts of their domains alternately', Knud thus preserve the animals, lint the greater Jyxi bare no such regulations nd the fur-clad hare already receded hundreds of .miles beyond their former haunts. They are now to hie found in abundance only in the far north, where the rigor of the climate and the difficulty of transportation prevent-the free access oftraon the Upper Missouri nod towards the’

Pressure of the Sea. —If a piece of wood which floats on the water be forced down to a great depth in the aca, the pressure of tho surrounding liquid will be eo severe, that a quantity of water will be forced into the pores of the wood, and so increase its weight that it will be no longer capable of floating ofl’ or rising on the surface. Jlenco the timbers of ships which have been foundered in a deep part of the ocean never rieo again to the surface, like those which arc sunk near the shore, A diver may with impunity plunge to a certain depth in tho sea, bat there is a limit beyond which he could not live under the pressure to which he is subject. For the same reason it is probable that there is a depth below which fishes cannot litfe. They have, according to Joeelin, been caught in a depth at which they must hare sustained a pres; eighty tons to each equate foot of the suHijtfo cf their bodies. v

Self tobtube. —The following ingenious mode of self-torture, practised by the native devotees in Calcutta and vicinity, is described by tho Rev. 'dr. Duff, a missionary of tho Church of Scotland. It consists in this; A number of devotees enter into a vow, that they will lie down on their backs on the earth, exposed to tho blazing eun by day, and tbe chilling dews by night. They will one hand & little earth, and In the other a few seeds; with one hand they place the earth under the lower lip and with the other plant the seeds in it; and the vow is, that they will lio there, without moving or epoaktog or receiving nny nourishment whatever, until the seeds sprout and germinate, and then they will, return to their homes. —Botion Journal,

* Horrible pate —Tlie St. Louis Pennant says.* M. Crevossol, merchant tailor, on the corner of Myrtle and Main streets, went out last Sunday, guninj, in Illinois. Not returning at night, his family became alarmed, and search was immediately commenced. It was not UU Tuesday that he was found dead, and half buried in a marsh which he had prubalby entered logoi some game he had shot. It is reported that the people ift the vicinity hoard cries of distress Sunday and Sun-' day night, but refrained from at tempting, to rescue the wretched man, on account of tlio depth of the mud! Why was not news of .the fact communicated to Si. Louis! A thousand men would hive instantly gone to ihercscueof a human being.

Uy tliu vceecI which arrived this morning it is ascertained beyond a doubt, that some vctsel is lost, asthc hull of one was seen in the vicinity of Gravelly Hay, a pefect wreck.

„ . Fairies.—' Tho Galvestonian says, the young ladies of Texas cat bull beef, have checks like red cabbages, wear moccasins at balls, tie up llicir hair with ccl skins, go armed with bowse knives and will take offa scalp equal to an Indian.

An old‘inaid says she would like to'know “wlii) the dickens this i’of/y- Ttckt is, that alt creation's making eich a rumpus about.”