The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 February 1833 — Page 1

BY T. DOWLING

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THE MUSE.

FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER. Be ye therefore perfect even at your Father which is in Heaven, is perfect.

Matthew v. 48.

Aim at perfection— 'Tis the will of God The path mark'd out

By mortals to be trod. Yet know this truth,

That he alone shall find Who walks with humble mind.

Aim at perfection— 'Tis Almighty love, That blessed sunshine

Beaming from above— That light which cheers The sinner and the saint— That guiding glory

Which no tongue can paint?

Aim at perfection-— That submissive might Which looks to Him

The only source of light. Ask and receive, Receive and ask for more, 'Till God his image in thy heart restore.

TO-MORROW.

Oh! dream not of to-morrow's bliss, Nor idly count its joys; Perchance a gloomier day than this

Will bring its new alloys.

Oh I think not of to-morrow's weal, Nor weave the scheme of days; For Fancy's hues are seldom read,

And Hope's—but flitting rays.

Oh picture not to-morrow's scene, Th£ elysium of its hour; That blossom, which to-day is green,

May be—a withered flower.

A hard case--Among the petitions presented to the New York legislature last week, was one of

"Dan

Manager, of N. York,

for leave to change the g in his name to j." We hope the request of poor "Dan" will be granted, and while they are about it, the legislature might as well give him leave to tack iel to the end of his Dan.

The sugar refinery of Mr. Andrews in Boston was destroyed by fire on the 20th ult. The stock was valued at $14,000, threefourths of which was destroyed; $8000 was insured on the stock, and $3,000 on the building.

On the 23rd ult. while Mr. R. Herndon, of Now Salem, Illinois, was preparing his rifle for a hunting excursion, it was discharged, and the ball striking his wife in the neck, in few minutes she was a corpse.

BUTTON HOLES ON BOTH SIDES--A Gentleman in Charleston, who entertained a good deal of company at dinner, had a black as an attendant, who was a native of Africa, and never could be taught but to hand things invaribly to the left hand to the guests at table. At length, his master thought of an infalible expedient to direct him, and as the coats were then worn in Charleston singlebreasted, in the present Quaker fashion, he told him always to hand the plate to the button-hole side. Unfortunately, however, poor fellow, on the day after he had received this ingenuous lesson, there was among the guests at dinner, a foreign gentleman with a double-breasted coat, and he was for a while completely at a stand. He looked first at one side of the coat, and then at the other, and finally quite confounded at the outlandish make of the garment, he cast a despairing look at his master and exclaiming in a loud voice, Buttons on both sides, Massa" banking the plate right over the gentleman's head.

An original letter from a

through

upon him but those of love."

FRIENDS OF THE UNION.

Amongst the men what dire divisions rise, The "Union" one, and one "Disunion" cries; Shame on the sex, with which there fends began, The girls are all for Union--a man.

lady to a lady, contains the following among other useful hints: "Some have/ ness in the appearance of post and rail said they should be willing to marry men of/ than those made with stakes, but for small capacity, because their influence might/ cross and rear, stake fences are altobe greater over them. Bat such men are invariably jealous and irritable. And even if

the wife succeed in ruling the roast, to use a/ ty of timber for these different kinds of homely phrase, she sinks herself in the opin-/ fences does not differ materially, but ion of the wise and judicious--and that de-/ for the former a superior quality is grades herself. I would sooner gain the con-/ required, and it more difficult to fidence and love of a man of sense and make/ make use of old rails than when stakes it

life to fasten no charms

FROM THE GENESEE FARMER.

FENCES.

The making and keeping in repair the necessary fences upon a farm is not only of vital interest to the farmer, but next to the purchase of his lands, involves in many sections a heavy portion of his capital.

Fron the importance of the subject, much has been written and many experiments have been made to discover the cheapest and most effectual method of enclosing farming lands. As yet no one has been able to discover an effectual node of doing this which can be applied in all cases, and under all circumstances, to equal advantage Stone fences, where the materials abound upon the serface, is undoubtedly the cheapest for time, because it is the most durable: but stone fences have their inconveniences, as they harbor many small animals, which "in some seasons multiply to that extent as to be very destructive to crops. But there is but a small part of the fine farming lands, now under cultivation in this or other countries, where stone can, at any reasonable expense, be procured. In the primitive formations, stones many be procured more generally than in the secondary, as they abound in mountains, at the base of which fragments of broken rocks may be found to any amount. These fragment, when laid in a wall, are not so apt to tumble down as boulders which are gathered free from the surface, most of the great secondary formation which covers western New York, most of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, stone in inexhaustible quantities may be found near this surface these, when the present growth of timber shall have disappeared, will befound as invaluable as they are inexhaustible but from the uniformity of surface the quarrying of them will be attended with more inconvenience than where the country is more mountainous. In much of the above spaces of country, necessity has not as yet driven farmers to adopt this mode of fencing.

Most of the fencing in the above mentioned country is done with rails, split from forest trees, and made either into crooked post and rail, or stake fence.

The winter months are not only the proper time for felling timber for rails but from the routine of business upon the farm, seems to be the most favora-

ble season for making all the preparations necessary for repairing fences as soon as the frost leaves the ground in the spring. In preparing the materials for fencing, reference should be had to the manner in which the fence is to be built. The first fence generally, where new land is cleared, the common crooked rail fence. Circumstances favor the making of this as the first, There is but few districts in which here is not an immense quantity of timber to be burned in clearing new lands; therefore, the extra quantity required in making crooked fence is no objection to it. Beside these, land, where fences are to be made, are full of stumps, which would require much labor to remove them, otherwise they would disturb the direction of the fence but by slight variations in the positions of the different lengths, most of these may be avoided in making crooked fence. As this kind will probably continue to be the more common fence in our new countries, pains should be taken by every farmer to commence with an uniformity in length of the rails, Twelve and fourteen feet are the more common lengths to which rails are designed to be cut, but through carelessness of workmen, they may be found of all the intermediate lengths. This inequality is found a great inconvenience when fences require to be repaired, therefore the length to be used upon a farm should be established and never departed from.

Next to the crooked fence, post and rail, or staked fence, are introduced, either for which are undoubtedly better calculated as second fences than the pioneer or crooked fence.

For front fences there is more neat-

more

economical. The quanti-

make use of old rails

than

A

when

stakes

are used, the ground occupied by either being the same. In making stake fence, the timber for stakes should be cut seven feet and a half long, and split to about the size of common rails; they should be set in the ground about eighteen inches, sod

One hundred years! Within that time a new world has been born, and has uprisen to maturity, with the strength of a giant in the unscathed greatness of his glory. The great God who giveth might to man to hurl the oppressor from his "high estate," has broken our yoke of bondage and our prison doors. The starry banner emblem of hope to the world waves its streaming folds over land of the free and the home of the brave." Within that time, infant freedom in Poland has been drowned

in blood. The vulture fangs of power

now rend her vitals—the chariot

STREAM OF MANY TIDES AGAINST THE FOES OF THE PEOPLE."--Ossian.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS. One hundred years have gone down to the tomb of buried nations since the eventful period we thes day commemorate. One hundred years! what changes have been wrought within that period. How many blots have been seen upon the sunny page of human life—how many stains of woe and strife, and war—how many thrones have crumbled, and kings laid aside their crowns! Within that time the chart of freedom has been unrolled, and its burning letters of golden light have llumined even the dungeon's depths —the tyrants have quaked within their palaces, and the pillars of despotism have trembled like an aspen leaf. Thanks giving to God! His spirit has moved Upon the dark and unsparing waters. He has heard the cries of those in bondage, and the arm of the oppressor has become feeble as a little child.

The genius of universal emancipation, like mercy's meek angel, has been abroad with unfurled pinions; she paused upon the Alps, covered with eternal snow, and the land of the mountain avalanche and the foaming cataract heard a voice that would awake the dead: she has visited the sunny skies and verdant plains of Italy, the vineclad hills of France, the inquisition of Spain, and the isles of Greece: she has spoken the startling watchword, on, for liberty and glory: the earthquake slumbering in her mighty caverns, hears the echo, and awakes with trembling, shuddering, and fear. From the deepest caves of Europe, there comes a voice that earth must hear to its remotest verge—let tyranny hear the words of doom, that her days of plunder and blood are numbered—that the people are bursting the fetters of oppression, as if they were flaxen bands that as well might the bruised reed attempt to check the rush of the whirlwind, as the palsied arm of despotism attempt to stay the mighty host that wills to be free.

TERRE-HAUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA: FEBRUARY 28, 1833

each pair of sufficient distance the one from the other to admit a rail between them. When the stakes are thus placed, a stone of sufficient size to raise the lower rail from the ground should be placed between them, on which to place the bottom rail, and proceed to fill up by placing the ends of the two adjoining lengths of railsalternately.

After the fence is about four rails high, a hole should be bored through the two stakes with an inch and a quarter augur, and a pin of good oak, or some other durable wood, drove through it, and the smaller end made fast by wedging. This pin should be placed

the ground will first fair, their length will be sufficient to allow them to be reset and the lower hole bored in them should be at such a distance from the ground as will prevent its being brought to the surface on the second setting.

There should be two of these pins put through the stakes; the upper one only calculated to support the two ends of the upper rails, which may be raised a little above the other, and thus a fence, with six rails, may be made the hight of seven when allowed to rest upon each other. Such fences requires less labor for making than the post and rail, by about the amount required to hole the post and sharpen the rails—is equally as durable as post and rail, and not more liable to be blown by the winds.

so high that, as the stakes at the top of/ by my side, the thrilling touch of whose

wheels of oppression have passed over/ Sharp shooting. her bravest sons--the ploughshare

her bravest sons despotism has upturned her holiest things—her while eagle's pinious are

of

a giants foot has fallen upon her

bosom—a horde of savage barbarians have been poured upon her beautiful villas—the Cossack scream and Tar-

county battlefields.—The blood thus

THE FIRST BLISS OF MATRIMONY. The charming society, the tender friendship it affords! Without a friend it is not for man to be happy. Let the old Maderia sparkle in his goblet, and princely dainties smoke upon his table; yet if he have to sit down with him no friend of the love-beaming eye, alas! a dinner of "herbs where love is," is to be envied.

Let the pelf scraping Bachelor drive on alone towards Heaven in his solitary sulkey. Lord help the poor man, and send him good speed! But that's not my way of travelling No! give me a sociable chaise, with a dear good angel

sweetly folding arm may flush my spirit into rapture, and inspire a devotion suited to the place that best devotion gratitude and love!!

Yes, the sweetest drop in the cup of life is a friend; but where on earth is the friend that deserves to be compared with an affectionate wife! that generous creature, who for your sake, has left father and mother—looks to you alone for happiness—wishes in your society to spend her cheerful days—in your beloved arms to draw her last breath—and fondly thinks the slumbers of the grave will be sweeter when lying by your side! The marriage of two such fond hearts, in one united, forms a state of friendship of all others the most perfect and delightful.— 'Tis a marriage of Souls, of persons, of wishes, and of interests.

Are you poor? like another self she toils and slaves to better your fortune. Are you sick?—She is the tenderest of all nurses she never leaves your bedside she sustains your fainting head; and strains your feverish cheeks to her dear anxious bosom. How luxurious is sickness with such a companion.

Are you prosperous? It multiplies your blessings ten thousand fold, to share them with one so beloved. Are you in her company? Her very presence has the effect of the sweetest conversation, and her looks, though silent. convey a something to the heart, of which none but happy husbands have any idea. Are you going abroad?— She accompanies you to the door—the tender embrace--the fond lengthened kiss—the last soul-melting look—precious evidences of love!—these go along with you they steal across your delighted memory, soothing your jour-

ne

y—while dear conjugal love, gives a transport to every glance at home, and sweetens every nimble step of your glad return. There, soon as your beloved form is seen, she, flies to meet you. Her voice is music—the pressure of her arms is rapture, while her eyes. Heaven's sweetest messenger of love! declare the tumultuous joy that heaves her generous bosom. Arm in arm she hurries you into the smiling habitation, where the fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm, the neat apartment and delicious repast, prepared by her eager love, fill your bosom with a joy too big for utterance. Compared with a life like this, merciful God! how disconsolate is the condition of the old Bachelor! how barren of all- joy! Solitary and comfortless at home, he strolls abroad into company. Meeting with no tenderness or affection to sweeten company, he soon tires, and with a sigh gets up to go home again. Poor man! his eyes are upon the ground, and his steps are slow for, alas! home has no attractions. He sees nothing there but gloomy walls and lonesome chambers. Alone he swallows his silent supper—he crawls to his bed, and trembling, coils himself up in cold sheets,* sadly remembering that, with to morrow's joyless sun the same dull round begins again!!

*Poor devil--for so we have a right to call him--let him procure a warming pan! he can get one of "flesh and blood," let him not hesitate. But if his day be past—why, he must e'en put up with one of copper.

Hermanus Rulison, of the town of Gleu, was lately killed by the upsetting of his wag-

on

th

the box of which

a

we

tar's yell are heard in halls that have/ been put upon the brig Lawrence, and other rung with shouts of freedom. But/ vessels bound to Charleston, for the benefit they have not died in vain upon their

struck him on the neck

A Mr. Sharp, of Penn-

sylvania, is stated to have shot forty squir-

rels in the course of a morning.

A letter from

dripping wet with her children's blood

Washington

in mentioning

present at

late occasion says, "There

Missonrians, Kentuckians, Indianians, and Main-iacs, too, in which last class I rank."

of the nation

ment

poured upon the Vistula's banks shall yet cry from the ground—the seed sown in tempests, battles, and tears, is dragon teeth--and the sail will yet yield a harvest of glory.

Mr. Farrington's Circular.

To the citizens of Sullivan, Vigo and Clay: In consequence of absence from home on indispensible business, for the first week after my return from Indianapolis, and the sitting of the Probate Court during the past week, I have been delayed in my purpose of presenting you with a sketch of some of the most important measures that engaged the attention of the Legislature during the session. And this purpose, the pressure of my private and professional bu-, siness would lead me to abandon, but for a consideration of what is due to others as well us myself, from the misrepresentations that have been given to the public, through the Wabash Courier. touching the conduct of the Senate.

The proceedings of the Legislature, resulted in the passage of one hundred and seventy-five acts, and twenty-two joint resolutions. Of the acts, a large portion of them are of a local character, and chiefly interesting to those who are immediately affected by them.— These measures taken separately, are generally regarded as of minor and insignifigant importance, scarcely deserving the notice of a Legislative body, yet view them collectively, and there are few counties but what have relief administered to them in a greater or less degree and let the sum of these benefits be duly appreciated, and its magnitude will not yield to any one perhaps all the acts of a general nature that have been passed. These enactments, while they confer but little credit on your legislators in the public estimation, occupy much time and attention in their consideration, and frequently involve principles that elicit as wide a range of discussion, as the most important measures. The new and ever varying wants of our rapidly increasing population, will for years to come require much local legislation, and we cannot expect in future, that the sessions of the legislature will be shorter than the last has been.

Of the acts of a general nature, there was none that was expected to encounter more conflicting interests than that for live formation of Congressional districts, yet few acts were passed that united a stronger support. In the arrangement of the districts, other combinations of counties would have been more acceptable to particular portions of the districts, and, this perhaps, would have been the case in relation to our own but if a survey of the State is taken, a more equal division could not have been made: and there is no part of the State that has more reason to regard the present arrangement of the districts as a fortunate one, than the West. Of the seven districts formed, five touch upon the Wabash, thus insuring a commanding majority of our delegation in Congress. in favor of any measure in which the Wabash interests are at issue, and over our own legislation the favourable influence of these districts has been, and will continue to be felt, where her interests entitle her to Legislative aid. It is in reference to results like tlese, rather than county or individual considerations, that my course in relation to this matter has been guided.

In regard to the canal, an amendatory act has been passed, remedying some defects in that of the last year. No additional loan is to be contracted fur this work the present year, the $ 100.000, borrowed with the other canal funds, are deemed sufficient to complete the construction of the summit or middle section of the canal the two coming seasons. Thus far, this work has progressed as favorably, and even more so, (all things considered) as the friends of that work anticipated. The influence of the seasons on the price of provisions, and the appearance of the Cholera on the Northern holders of the State in the summer and fall, were calculated to effect the contracts and the progress of the work. It is gratifying, however, to know thpt the contracts were taken at less than the estimates made by the Engineer. And if no onlooked for event takes place, we may reasonably expect an advance to be made in the progress ol this wotk, creditable to the State, and which will afford an assurance of its speedy completion. By a joint resolution of

Twenty-one piece of heavy ordnance have/ the General Assembly, the Governor

of South Carolina. A ship-

of small

arms was

a few days

On Thursday evening, the 27th ult. at 10 o'clock, the United State's Branch Bank, and the church at Natchez, (Miss.) were destroyed by fire. The books and papers of the

has been directed to open a correspondence with the Governor of Ohio, in relation to the continuation of the work through that State. The course that Ohio will pursue is not yet definitely known, but there is no good reason to believe, but she will he guided in bet action upon this matter by a just and liberal policy.

New Series-- VOL 1.--NO. 38.

An act has been passed for the distribution of the 3 per cent, fund for each county the amount in the hands of the agent is not quite sufficient for the payment of this sum immediately, but will be in a few months. In this Senatorial district, the direction of the expenditure is with the Board of Commissioners of each county. To shew tho growing importance of this fund, and to awaken that attention to it, which will be likely to insure a wise direction in the expenditure, I have thought that a statement of the amounts annually received by this fund for the last six years from the sale of lands in this State, might be interesting and useful. They were as follows: 1825 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831,

$6,085 15 1/4 7507 15 1/4 7,863 42 9,405 48 12,994 75 17,863 18 1/2 20,791 37 1/2

The amount realized the past year, has not yet been ascertained, the three first

quarters of that year exceed those of the former, and if the ratio of increase shall continue to augment, it will not be long before each county will receive $400 per annum, for the improvement of their roods, and the navigation of their rivers. In connection with this subject may be mentioned a bill which passed the Senate, by a vote of near two to one, but which was lost in the House of Representatives, for the improvement of the Wabash river. This bill provided for raising a fund of $15 000, to be spent in conjunction with Illinois, in removing the obstructions to the navigation of that river, so far as it forms the boundary between the two States. The Governor of Illinois having informed the Executive of this State, that Illinois had about $12,000 on hand, ready to be expended when Indiana would join her in the works. To raise this sum, the bill provided for appropriating the present Wabash fund, of about $4,500, and the State to negotiate a loan for the balance, and for the payment of the loan, the future portions after the present, of the 3 per cent, fund, coming to the counties on the Wabash from Allen to Knox, (and the counties of Posey, Gibson, Montgomery and Carroll, participated in part) were pledged-to the amount of $3,000, and the residue being $7,500, was to be paid by the State out of the three per cent fund. The failure of this bill is probably attributable to the feelings produced by the unsuccessful efforts that were made at an earlier part of the session, to distribute the Wabash fund among the several counties entitled to it. It was desirable that the benefit of the Illinois appropriation should be secured, if practicable, and the mode provided by the bill for raising the means, seemed as likely to prove acceptable to the Wabash counties, and the balance of the State, as any other that could be diviscd. Intelligence from Illinois affords some grounds of apprehension, that the fund of that State will be disposed of for other purposes at the present session, in consequence of the failure of this bill. Should this not be the case, it may be saved by the timely action of the Legislature at the next sessionlonger than then, Illinois will not probably wait upon us. An expenditure of $27,000, in removing Home of the principal obstructions at the Rapids, could not but operate as an immediate benefit to every county upon the Wabash, more than equal to 1 or 2 years privation of their portion of the 3 per cent fund—and when this work is once begun, its importance will become more generally known, and when known, it is believed it will be found worthy of a more liberal policy on the part of State and of the United States.

The School bill has been revised and improved by many valuable amendments. It comprises rising 200 sections, and will be found much more clear and explicit in its provisions, than the former law. It is to be published separately, and copies to be furnished to each Board of district Trustees, as well as the Trustees of the Township.

The law regulating interest has been changed, by which a higher rate than 10 per cent, cannot be contracted for, without subjecting the party loaning to a forfeiture of double the amount of interest, and to an indictment. The law is intended to guard against the evils produced by taking exorbitant rates of interest, and perhaps will go as far as legal provisions can well be made to have that effect. But their are difficulties to encounter in making any regulations by law upon the subject, arising from former legislation, that makes this measure one of doubtful expediency. The fact that there