The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1842 — Page 1

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MISCELLANEOUS, STATE OF THE HOST CIVILIZED NATIONS.

Let as just see what the state of the most civilised notions of Europe Is at this moment particularly that of England and France. The further they advance in all kinds of freedom, in the extension of knowledge and in the developement of industrial improvements, the greater appears to be the misery of the people, and greater the danger of disturbance to social order, This is the Consequence of isolation, of f)it want of social order. Every family, every individual relies upon his own resources. Every father of a family has all the charge, all the responsibility of providing Tor wife or children, or servants. He who has no family, who has formed no Attachments, may in despair lie down and die in a ditch without any one crying for him. All professions are overdone all trade is in a permanent state of competition, in an exasperated state of rivalry. Every where they have more work-TTH^-TOTFRWCFLT, ITM^E1

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and on alt aides misery in abundance^ The rich like the poor, have their anxieties about their wealth, dread revolution, and are frequently involved in lawsuits, bankruptcies, and ruinous speculations they find themselves obliged to pawn their goods, or mortgage their estates, and are not able to provide ror their families in such a manner as their rank and station require. To regulate and preserve a fortune is almost as difficult as to acquire one. To live is necessarily the affair of every one. The most intellectual, the most elevated, tho most refined are obliged to give their attention to the detail of these materia) wants. None have a security for to-morrow none have the hnppy reliance of the savage. Every evil incident to the human frame is aggravated by the fear of want. In the most violent grief, in the greatest pain we must occupy ourselves with the thoughts of waj?kand means, for no one will do this for us. Not only are the faculties of the mind contracted by this continual anxiety after money, but the heart is corrupted and the mind depraved. Every noble sentiment is stifled by the absolute necessity of thinking first for self, or making one's way over the heads and by the

5* downfall of others, and of sacrificing con

DXVIVTOM~TPickard tinually the love of one's neighbor to the love Ltwn O—Moere Pieraon

self, ©r of family, equally exclusive. A11 "wM tckpowtedge. ,he e.B» of di»ni.n,

of isolation, of competition, and the word association is in every one's mouth attempts CRAS. are made to try it practically but these pre-

tended associations are those of capitalists, of

mutual interests, which only turn out to be coalition of company against company, of capitalists against workmen, or workmen against their masters, or poor against the rich till competition under new forms, of divers interests, the struggle, the social war organised, the ruin of some for the transitory gun of others.—De

appease

CA3PT DO IT. ^r'

What a volume of human misery is unfoldin that short sentence I What mighty brtsof undeveloped genius are chained by ...is conclusion of despondency, when a barrier chances to interpose the onward progress of the will and sometimes of mere human volition! What domestic unhappiooss what downward marchee towards the ghomy and solitary abodes of poverty—what anxious solicitude that fiUs the breast of the dependent wife—what ardent wrestlings with the demon of despair—what social wretchedness-- what deep, painful anxiety, what national evils, are depicted in the spirits of that expression! It is the language only of the self-wretched the determination of the weak and imbecile. It the voice of the moral coward, who, standing upon the shore of some desolate island, in the stormy ocean of lifo, and looking oat opon the billows strewn with the wrecks of earthly grandeur and human happiness, is so blinded by foar that he cannot see the ear* rounding gloom. It is the articulated feelings of the traveller of the desert, who, having aaerotneocev

nothing beta barren

plain before him, thirst parching hie £d weariness subdoit* ins ftrettflTlk* without hopeT Maf, ht hia shall he lie down without hope! forward, make tet«ne eflbit, greee wiU aieet has visioa, a cool stream wifi op fmm some s»fwsptin fooniam, and fan w»U

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his joarmyV end or owned

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conceived was offended—-some deserted th^ir village, and ran to the tops of the bluffs sortie miles distant and others, in some places, §s the boat landed in front of their villages, catno with great caution,and peeped over the ban&s of the river to see. the fote of« their cP whose duty it was from the nntuire of office) to approoche us, whether friendifoes, and to go on board. Sometimes, inC light, they were instantly thrown neck e^pvereashother'sheftds^ shoulde iin, -women, and dhtldren, ana sachem, old and young—all in a mass, at the frightful discharge of the steam from the escape pipe, which the captain of the boat let loose upon them for his own amusement.

There were many curious conjectures among their wise men with regard to the nature and powers of the steamboat. Among the Mandans some called it the bfg thunder canoe for, when in the distance Below the village, they saw the lightning flash from its sides, and heard the thunder come from it others called it the big medicine canoe with eyes 'it was

medicine

TERRE-HAUTE, 1ND. MAY 28, 1842.

THE STEAMBOAT-

INDlAttS AND

The first steamboat that ever asCeoded th Red River, was called the Western Engineer. It was a small boat with a powerful engine. Tbfe vessel, then belonging to the Government, ^iinM Bed River, about the year 1815 or l6, qn voyage of exploretion. The funnel which is Intended to entry off 4m which or&Mrtly Mpoke,

catry

and which orffinarUy stands

like, a piltitrln tlie centre Of the Vow of venel, was iashioned to resemble the lnad of an enormous serpent the forest beheld this singular looking object rapidly advancing against the poweffu! oorrtpit. without the aasistance of anils, Or oars, bearing the white men oa its bosom, And vomiting flom its mouth, fire and smoke, the simple wtt awe-ftruck savages lined tlie banks of the river, and delared they would never again take up the hatchet against the white man, irlio could construct and control such a. huge and useful fiery canoe.

it was the steamer. 1 These poor people, for two thousand miles up the Missouri river, had never seen or heard of a stoamboats and in some places they seemed at a loss what to do, or how to act, they had no name for it—so it was,- like every thing else (w#th than) which is tnyMerious and unaccountable^ called

medicine

(mystery.) We had on board

one twelve pound cannon and three or four eight pound swivels, which we were takinff up to arm the fur company's fort at the mouth of the Yellow Stone and at the approach of. every village they were discharged several times in rapid succession, which threw tip inhabitants into utter confusion and amazement—some of them threw their faces to tM

fmystery) because

they could not understand it and it must have eyes, for, said they, it sees its own way, and takes the deep water in the middl$ of the channel." They have no idea of the boat being steered by the man at the wheel, and well might they have been astonished at its taking the deepest water."

MARRIED IN SPITE OP THEIR TEETH— 1 A CHOICE ANECDOTE.

Old Governor Saltonstall, of Connecticut, who flourished some forty years since, was a man of some humor, as well as perseverance, in effecting the ends he desired. Among other anecdotes told of him by the New London people, the place where he resided, is the following. i••

Of the various sects which have flourished for their day, and then ceased to exist, was one known as the Rogersites, or called from their founder, a John, or a Tom or some other Rogers, who settled not from the goodly town aforesaid.

The distinguishing tenet of the sect was their denial of the propriety, and

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of the form of marriage. 'It is not good for man to*be akme.' This they believed, and also that one wife only should cleave to her husband,' but then this should be a matter of agreement merely, and the couple should come together and live as man and wife* dispensing with all forms of the marrkg covenant. The old Governor used frequently to call upon Rogers, and ta Ik ibe mat. ter over with him, endeavor to convince Mm of the impropriety of living with Sarah as as he did. Bat neither John or Sarah would give up the agreement.

It was a matter of conscience with them— they were very happy together as they were —of what nee then ooald a mere form be*— Suppose they would thereby escape scandal were they not bound *to take up the cross,* and live according to the roles tbev profeesedf The Governor's logic was powerless

Be was in the neighborhood of John one day, and meeting with him, accepted an invhatioo to dine with him. The conversation as usual turned upon old subject. •Now, John,' says the governor, after a debate of the point, why will you not marry Sarah 7—Have yon not taken her to be your lawful wife

Yes, certainly,* replied John, 'but my conscience will not permit me to marry her, in the forma of the world's people.' «Very well. But do yon tore her •Tee.* «Awi impact hrf *YmS •And cherish her enkow efyeer hens, ant flesh of your flesh f* »Yea, certainly, I do. *And you low hum and obey faitt.aAdtfr Hoc! Mm, and cherish him

^Tlien,' cried the ^ovefdof, riting 'in-the imeof the lawaof God, and the Common wealth of Connecticut, I pronounce you to be Ikaaband and wifo.'

Hie tarings and rage of John and Sarah iln uf no avail— the knot was tied by the highest authorty ofthe Stete.

MYoung

the" KSHStance of palls, Or oar*,f»ver meetooe With a simple and flattering fonl. Gan any one tell why 1

Mr. Catlin, the celebrated Indian traveter^ who is now in Europe, in his late work on the Indians, gives the following interesting description of his voyage in the first steamboat up the Missouri: »]l? »ftiwh tabrt. It said that

If wything erer tstooisM the Indiuo, mtrned the secondI time tat-

IBMUM MM.

& Jk AAPtEH OI* YOUNG iTlttOWrf. A correspondent has sent us a long article,

When'the red Sons of|^Btitled *A chapter on Young Widows.11 We have only room fora fow extracts

widows are always blithe. They

Yedng widows pay very scrupulOiis attonlo dress. None know so well as they, what dolors, black or otherwise, are best suitable f) their complexion, near what tricks of milKnery best nerve to heighten the beanty of ijrofflie Their knowiedge in this subject they Hill put in practice. Does any oao know

ounc widows, if at first pleasant, gay and «abk^ through affbetedness, presently be-

rafit ^r wife to her second than she was to her Irst hasband. Who can give the reason, if have not given it!

Young widows are better pleased with bachelors than with widowers. What can be a I

Young widows are thefmost 6harmiftg pirt of creation—the envy of one sex and beloved 4f the other—and why 1"

We doubt whether any one will undertake to answer the questions of our correspondent, hut if one of the personages spoken of will

give handu

8D0k

him a good scolding, we snail rejoice to it over to hi n.—Boston

post.

MONKEY'S MEMORY.

Authors ge re rally seem to think that the monkey race are not capable of retaining lasting impressions but their memory is remark* ably tenacious when striking events call it in-

A monkey which was permitted and frequently seen the men sergreat country kitchen, with its fireplace, take down the powder horn that stood CHI the chimney piece, and throw few grains into $e fire, to make Jemima and the rest of the ni32s jumpand scream, which they always did on such 'Occasions very pretijy. P«g waited his opportunity, and when was still, and he had the kitchen entirely hllftself, he cfampered up, got pemessMrof well filled powder born, perched himself very gingerly one side of the horizontal wheels placed I for the support of saucepans, right over the waning ashes of an almost extinct wood fire, screwed ofT the top of the horn, and reversed it over the grate. The explosion seat him half way up the chimney! Before he was blown, he was a snug, trim, well conditioned monkey as you would wish to see hi a summer's day he came down a black, Oarbonated nigger in miniature, in an avalanche of burning soot. Tho thump with which he pitchcd upon the hot ashes in the midst of the general flare up, aroused him to a seine of his condition. He was missing for days. Hunger at last drove him forth, and he sncakg} ipto the house close singed, and looking seared and devilish. He recovered with care, but, like some other personages, he never got over his sudden elevation and fall, but became a sadder if not a wiser monkey. If ever Puff forgot himself and was troublesome, you nad only to take down the powder horn in his presence, and he was off* to his hole like a shot, screaming and clattering his jnws like a pair of castanets.

OLD NEWSPAPERS.—The oldest living paper in America is the New Hampshire Gazette. It was established by Daniel Fowleat Portsmouth in August 1757. It was originally printed on half a sheet foolscap, quarto, as were ail the papers of that day but was soon enlarged to half a sheet crown folio, and sometimes appeared on a whole sheet of crown. It now in its 88th year, and is a well conducted paper of goodly dimensions.^

The oldest liviog newspaper in England is the Lincoln Mercury, first published in 1695. The oldest in London is the St. James* Chronicle, of 1761. The oldest paper in Scotland is the Edinburgh Evening Courant, of 1700. The oldent in Ireland is the Belfast News Letter, of

tTTt^-N. Y. Mechanic*

FAITH OF THE INDIANS.

Catlin gives the following account of the belief of lie Western tribm of Indians in a future state, as described by an Indian Chief: «*Our people all believe that the spirit lives in a future state—that it has a great distance to travel after death towards the west—that it has to pass a dreadful deep and rapid stream, which *s hemmed in all shies by high and rt»ged hills—over the stream, from hill to bill, there is a long and slippery pine tog, with the baric peeled off, over which the dead have to pass to the delightful hunting grounds. On the other side of the stream, there are six persoman the good hunting grounds, with Manes in their hands, which they throw at them all who teTmnoa the middle of the log. The good walk safely to the hunting grounds, where there is one Continual day—where the trees are alarays green—where the sky has no doudo—where there are cootinnal fine and cooling breezes—where there is one continual •ceue of feasting, dancing and rejoicing— where there is no pain or trouble, and people old, but forever live and enjoy the

The wicked see dm stones coming, aad try to dodge, by which they fefl/rem the log, udoodoare. thousands of feet to the water, which is dashing over the rocks, and is stink iacwith dead fshanp animals, where they aw enrrisd aranad and hramri* coutinally hack to the sen* place, in whirlpools where the tmea arte nB dead, aad the

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toads and liwrds, and snakee—^wherfc the lost nre always hungry, and have nothing to eat are always sick, and' ttevef die—where the wicked are continually, climbing up by thousands on the side of high rock, from which they can overlook the beautiful country of the good hunting grounds, the place of the happy, hut never Can reach it.w /11

AGRICULTURAL. CORN STALK SUGAR. I

This article promises to become a highly important portion of our domestio products. It is evident that the manufacture of Sugar ftom the beet root has by no rneans equalled what had been so confidently anticipated. There ia reaeou to suppose that corn atalk sugar will not only take its place but that we could soon obtain sufficient for our entire home consumption. It is much to be deeired that we should be a independnnt of other countries in regard to any thing else. It is said that Experiments made at Wilmington, N. Carolina, prove that one thousand pounds of sugar can be obtained from an acre of corn stalks. The saccharine matter is also stated to be three times greater than that'of beets, and fully a equal to that of cafie. if this' be not encouraging to the farmers of the southern and western portion of the Union, we really do not know what could be There seems to be nothing of the saw-dust bread and other scientific humbugs about this matter I. It has already been fairly tested and the results is extremely cheering.—

Agriculturlaist. »x iv

.,1 ROOT CULTURE*

These views are sound, but they do not go fer enough, as Mr. King might have added, that milch cows, if thus fed, would yield more! and richer milk, and consequently more apd

or flavor. We have thought our duty make this extract from the paper of this writer, because there is still time for farmers to practise on his excellent suggestions, and thus prqyc by their own experience* (the best of all teachers) the truth of them. Why is it that milch cows fall

off

Union

"Many of our farmers have yot to learn the great advantage of cultivating extensively root crops, as a winter feed for stock. A largo proportion ofour time and strength is expendin procureing this feed. It is now principally hay and corn-fodder. The average quantity of bay to the acre is less than a ton and half but fifteeu or even twenty tana of carrots and mangel-wurteil are not very ex# traordinnry. The expense of raising these roots is considerable, but commonly it do«| not exceed $6 per ton. There cannot be a doubt that, aa food for cattle, two tons of them are in better health and condition, and make more valuable manure."

so materially in the

fall and winter, in their usual quantities of milk VVhy, because, being deprived of succulent grasses and fed on dry hay or foddor, the substace taken into their stomachs are not of a character to encouage'the secretion of milk.—American

Farmer.

POTATOE OATS.

4 have been requested by several respectable gentlemen concerned in horses to call the attention, of farmers to the bnd quality of potatoe oats for horse-feed. They state that a very large portion of them pass through the aniiml undigested so much so, that their horses began to decline very much in flesh while feeding on tliem before the cause was suspected. They say that the chaff covering the grain is so firm and impervious that digestion is impossible. I cannot agree with them in the cause of the evil, however correct they may be in their observation of the evil itself, which I of course do not doubt. We all know that all kinds of oats, as well as other grain, will pass through the horse unchanged, unless it be crushed by the teeth as nature has provided all grain with a skin that the juices of the stomach cannot dissolve, if, therefore, more of the potatoe oats pass undigested than of other kinds, it must be because of their being more difficult to masticate.— Whatever be the cause.of the evil, however, the evil itself cannot be questioned consequently, no one that keeps many horses here, or at least no one that I nave seen that pays proper attention to them, will now purcham potatoe oats at any price. I have consulted several, and they all concur in opinion. The purchasers of fora go for the army horses here will not purchase them at all. 1 have therefore thought it advisable to caution farmers against their cultivation.

Baltimore, Feb. 1,1 B4&* G. B. SMITH. [Albaxg Cultivator.

MANNER OF SOWINO GRASS SEED 19 ENGLAND.

Gram seed* are universally sown by a drill which lays them with great regularity, and avoids aU the inconvenience and unequal distribution occasioned by unfavorable winds in mowing by hand. It is drawn by one horse and attended by a man who drives with reins while he walks behind the machine, and aees that aU is going right. The hone walks in the furrow between the ridges, which keeps him a straight course, and the machine sows to the middle of the ridgas on each side, being constructed to sow tarelve or fifteen feet, as may be required, and to deliver various quantities of seed, according to the amount per acre wished to be sown. AU descriptions of seed intended for sowing are mixed thoroughly tocether, by frequent turning on the granary floor before being carried to the field and pot into the machine. A man and hone will easily sow Otirfgnema a day on ridges of wide. sown upon wheat fifteen feet am commonly rolled And lightly harrowed* Those with barley are sown at the —that ia, previous io the last turn of the barby which the seeds are coveftii, a roller leave sotftMfc «»rfe&e*

and timothy Constitutes our principal hay*! will say a little of each seperately. Clover should fo sown as early in the spring as pet* sible. If there is snow upon the ground, ft can be sown much more tegular than on the naked land. A gallon of mod to the acre tar sufficient. No stock of any kind should be allowed to run on it tho first year for muob injury is done it, especially in wet weather«j£ thrown open to the stock. And here it ma be proper to remark, that a great mistake prevails among most farmers in keeping too much* stock, by doing which they eat off aU that' protects the hind from the rays of the son, tthich constitutes the'great secret of improving and. A former «#hould not keep stocfc enough to eat up all his rough food—better bed his cattle with it* eapcially if manure far an object with him. But to return tomy hay* The curing of this article (clover} requwea more than common attention should be cut when most of the heads am. Ngioiung. to turn brown and have lost their blossoeft Thto gram, when cut, should be immediately spm out to the action of the sun and air, and in couple of hours turned over. Then, in about the same length of time, it should be throwb* into windrows, and in the evening cooked up, ready to be carted in the next morning whilafe the dew is on it. Much injury is done thie grass by suffering it to become too dry before hauling in, as many of its leaves are knookeft off by handling it. Timothy should be sown about the last of Augusts iPloutth up your land with & light two horse plough about the 1st of the same month. Sow a peck of buck* wheat to the acre, and harrow it in Well.— When the buckwheat is about stx inches high^t sow about two gallons of timothy seed among it. This mode of seeding requires but one trial to convince any one of its entire superi* ority over all other methods. At least onehalf of the timothy aown in Maryland perishes from its exposure to the blenching of the sun, and the winter is often blamed for the destruction which should be charged to the sun. Protection, then, is all important to this grain. 1 have no doupt, from repeated expe* rience, that this gram should not be Out until the seed is very ripe. This appears to be contrary to the idea that grass when eut in ft reen state retains more saccharine matter, may retain more water, but ita nutritive qualities never arive at maturity untill the grass is ripe for we all know a green apple is not so nutritious as a ripe onev nor green corn as ripe. The grass, when cut at thia slate, may be hauled in the evening of the same day it is cut.—-American

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while cfavef, Jfatfe trefoil, perennial rye grass, andoccawalljr iitnothfy. or Italian rye gram and cockjobt. la the portion intended* for hay togmr quantity red ctomr is introdbcedrttnd less of some fef the others.— Clover h* is thought to be improved for boras fend by the nimture-of igre grass, and men easily made.

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pElllrfAftBNCE OF BLOOD III ANIMALS* There are fow farmers who are unacquaint. ed with nroofa of the singular tenacity with which the peculiar characteristics of any kind of animal will ding to the race in spite of warning or akillfeK-breeding ftoeqUanttyr appearing after several generations, and sometiroes when the origin of the peculiarity had been foigotton. This perpetuation of singularities in conformation is not confined to brutes. There is a family in England in which for great number of generations a tendency to disease (it can be called nothing else) hss existed, which, in the individuals affected, covors the with a kind of scales. Sometimes, in the branches of the family, no one is affected for years, and the tendency ssems to be lost when suddenly it reappears,and several scaly indviduals follow in sucossion. We are acquainted with a very respectable faily from oue of the New England States, in which the monstrosity of the fifth finger, with some intermission has been continued through many generations, disappearing in one branch of the family, apparently, only to appear in another. In a late number of the Main Farmer is a statement respecting Mr- F. Wingate's stock, from which we gather the following curious particulars: Forty-two years ago Mr. W. moved to Hallowell, and brought with him a polled cow and bull. The bull was sold and driven away a bull calf was raised from the cow, which lived till he was two years old, when he was shot ia- the evening fora bear—being without horns and*black. This was some thirty-five or thirty-six years since and since that time no polled bull has b*en with his stock, and yet they have always had animals of tho polled breed. Mr. Wingate has a cow that has raised two calves that had horns. Last spring she brought a fine polled bull calf. "In this instance, none of the polled breed as sires hath been with Mr. Wingate's stock for nearly years," and yet the polled blood continues to show its self among the calves. Since it is thus difficult, if not impossible, to eradicate the constitutional characters of animals, breeders cannot be too careful in their selections and in tbeif crosses, as good or bad poin||

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ifo PRESERVE BACON FROM FLIES. My simple mode of preserving bacon may be of use to some of your readers. I lay it down in chsreoal, and find it preserved from the fly and kept perfectly sweet, without any further trouble than putting the coal up fine, but take it from the coat-heap just as it comes, coarse and fine together. When 1 want a cut of bacon, I take it off, and put the remainder back or, throwing some of the fine charcoal on the fresh cut surface, hangup the remainder, and so cut from it until it mall consumed. The flies will not touch iu The coaldust is easily washed off before cookins, and the coal in which it has been packed, i*$» goqd/*rning as evw.

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