The Wabash Courier, Volume 11, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 October 1842 — Page 3

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HAMUXOn*

LOWDOCI,

To TBS Hon. Joo»

LETTM.

September,

Oth, 1842.

C. Cautoum:—

My Dear Sir:—Ml

have

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letter to you, it is not *looe from the justification which I find io the recollection* of an old and cherished friendship, but from the fact that I desire to attract the public attea* tion to its object, through the instrumentality of a name far more influential than my own. Be not surprised, if you see it first in the newspapers. 1 wish not only "to tbiflk aloud," but speak aloud.

My purpose in writing to you, is te put yoa in posse«rion of a knowledge of the condition of the American credit in Europe, with a suggnslion of the indispensable necessity of our

doing something at home to meet the truly ari larming crisis, which th»« «ate of things preients. *1 am far from defending the profuse confidence, with which European capitalists lent their money during a period of si* years from 1834 to 1840, to our countrymen, even on the faith of a variety of schemes, exceedingly visionary and unsound. They did this, however, out of theexccM of a virtue which

have been pushed toNbe extent of rathgr an amiable thin criminal weakness for they generally made these loans

This confidence was given to our young country because our resources (in no degree exaggerated^ were considered immense, nod because it was thought, as we are of the Sax„on family, we were essentially a debt paying people. Indeed, from an observation, which a

larger

Avigorated

But if you consider this faculty of borrowing abrond, my dear sir, as an evil, you may certainly console yourself with the conviction that it no longer exists, although I am equal* ly convinced that you will regret the cause which has produced this want of all confidence in the good faith of the people of the United States, and the consequences which hove followed in fixing «o sever© a stigma on the character of our country,

It is absurd for us to talk in America that we do not want the capitil of Europe: at the very moment when the General Government of the States has sent an agent abroad to borrow for its daily bread, We do want their money, and they want the results of our labor. And greatly then it it to be deplored that this beneficial interchange has been suspended under circumstances so disastrous to ooth countries.

Let me now give you a brief statement of the condition of American credit in Europe, and without presuming to suggest a remedy, to enquire of you whether the force of public opinion, (if Congress has not the constitutional competency to do any thing,) acting through the legislatures of the defaulting States, cannot b*} made sufficiently potent to convince them of the truth and force of the old adage that, after all, in the long rue, "honesty is the best policy."

The first branch of my subject I can dincuss in a very few words. As our old friend Randolph used to say, American credit is kilted ••stone dead." John Jacob Astor might obtain an uncovered credit to a reasonable amount, (where he was known) and Mr. Bates of the house of Barings, by wearing out a

Bouee

iir of shoes in walking from the Mansion to the Minorieo, might sell fifteen hundred pounds worth of Massachusetts stock, *with large concessions to the buyer* The fact is not the lees to be concealed that we begin to b* regarded as a nation of sharpers and swindlers, with whom, if the day of judgment should happen to be Monday, our day will not be until the Tuesday following— This revulsion of confidence does not arise so much from a discredit, which attached to our resources, or, in other words, our abibtyto nay, as our seeming indisposition to pay. the former is still considered in most cases as undoubted, whilst a sickening distrust has fallen npon the latter. Hence it is, that whilst the rate of interest has Sullen this day to two and a half per cent, in the London market, it is not probable that if the Commissioners of the

Statea*

may

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interest than they could be effected, if at all at home, and apparently for objects of great public utility. But loans to the States "stand on a different footing. At least in reference to the public sanctions with which they are invested. They were made according to your reading and mine, of the Constitution, to sovereigns under tlie obligations of a high public f»iih many of them were contracted on terms greatly advantageous under the agency of houses of the first respectability,* whose liberality and confidence, knew no bounds-.

residence for the last five yea re in

Europe than in America enables me to make, it is quite obvious, if we had paid the interest, on our foreign debt that the rate of that interest would have fallen gradually to the level of that paid by some of the oldest and best established State* in Europe, and that for objects of well founded public utility, und even of private enterprise, our industry at homo might have been almost indefinitely in-

out of the large surplus capital of

this country. You will say, I am sure, that this facility of borrowing has been a great curse to our own. This 1 admit, is true to a certain extent but it was converted into a curse by the action of our government on the currency of the United States. Under judicious regulations and prudential guards, a state of things more propitious to the development of the resources of a young country like ours, borrowing of an old one like this, its capital to invigorate its labor, at a^ low rate of interest, cannot well be conceived. If the ^profits of labor transcended the rate of interest, it was to create capital at home. From what other source have sprung those miracles of enterprise and wealth that are to be round in our country in the midst of a population of eighteen millions but this conjoint notion of our labor on the capital of others. The Pil* grim* found no Bank of England planted on the rock of Plymouth, or the Huegenots of of Samarcand on South Carolina, the gems its thirsty plains.

percent, loan, were to offer

a price which would secure an interest of ted per cent, ten pounds of the stock could be sold, without, from ooasktecarioaa of policy, under the advice of Lord Aahbuitoo on tus return to England, the Barings should be tndaoed to take the loan.

When we contrast thai discredit of our own country, teeming with such gigantic resources, I with the palmy credit of other States that have little ebe but good faith, and high taxalion to oftr, is impossible to refer it to any ptfrf* cause hut a deep moral distrust ia us—

The most tgiHiffl'f*—"* enree that can fall on a who ami re to he eiviHasdand free. Of thauuth of this fact, I cannot give you bet ter proof than that whilst no om will look to,

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and capitalist# tarn wSthi aversion iloo, the United Suites loan, the comparatively insignificant town of Hamburg, with its population of200,000, to enable to rise out of its ashes, has borroweda: 8} per cent, precisely doable the amount of our proposed loan, one farthing of which the U. S. Commissioner will probably notybe able to negotiate. Denmark and Belgium, neither of which would be scarcely a breakfast for the hungry stomach of Brother Jonathan on a fronty-morning, can borrow at 4 per cent, what they want, and England and Holland, with the principal of a public debt, the payment of which is likely to be contemporaneous with the discovery of perpetual motion, cm borrow just what they want, at and under 3 per cent, because they pay their interests, and tax themselves to pay their interests.

their public debt

states to impose, and the people to bear such

taxes as shall provide the means of paying the I

.PM..to St... pride and National honor would be unavailing*fV^IOU see that

fear, if this expectation were held out, the

defaulting States would do nothing of them-j selves, and the exigency has not yet arisen

unjust to those States who are faithfully pay ing their debts, and to others who have perhnps been far wiser to forbear contrnctiog any, although I can conceive such arstate of things in which such assumption as a measure of finance and national pottcy might be eminently expedient. 1 am gratified to inform you amidst this convulsion in the credit of severa I of the States, our own South Carolina,

u,uoul™ e||ers

interest, .nd ert.bli.biug .inkiog fund for b'ffi the gradual extinguishment of the principal of,

when such an onerous responsibility ought to drag up

be assumed by the National Government, so

jf j,

I cannot believe that these

u\vears

her beaver

up.'* She is never in arrear one day, and very often, as at this moment, (in reference te the !oa« (contracted for her) hat her tn« terest six months in advance in her banker's hands. This is not surprising. You l$ow it has been one of our familiarand household lessons at home to submit cheerfully to the imposition of direct taxes, to support the security and honor of our country, and hence by a habit which we derived from the buried "warlike and the wise" who have made us what we are, we pay our State taxes with almost as much alacrity as we give money to our wives and children. If the defaulting States would only practice on this doctrine, the smallest imposition would produce an amount abundnntly cwfticieQt to resuscitate their credit.

Occupying the position you do, I sincerely hope, my dear sir, that your influence throughout the Union will be brought to bear on this great national question. We all know that our countrymen are essentially honest, because they are essentially sagacious as well as, in the main, right-principled, and require merely a proper direction to be given to their exertions to make even an heroic effort to recover and sustain the character of the country.

But, auxiliary to these efforts, something more remains to be done by yourself. It is to lend vigorously the powers of your own genius, and the impulses of your own patriotism, in your appropriate sphere, the Senate of the United States, to create and establish a sound circulating medium throughout the Union, convertible into specie, but in sufficient abundance to elevate the standard of value from the droadful depression to which it has fallen, and in fact, to be adequate to perform the exchanges of trademnd value in our country. Whether this be a Bank of the United States or an issue of a redeemable currency by the Federal Treasury, is not of so much comparative importance, as that we should have an abundant uniform circulation from some source or other, which, miking allowance for the variations in the balance of trade, shall be of equal value in New Orleans and Boston,

This circulation, in the recess of that financial wisdom which is past finding out, was destroyed by our friend Gen. Jackson, when he slew the Bank of the United Slate*, with the arm of Sampson, and almost "with the self-same weapon, too," when we recollect all the twaddle of the old gentleman on this subject. He, as Burke said, was certainly a "consummate architect of Ruin," in his time and tide, and had the happy faculty of imper sonating a corporation his mind's eye,** for the purpose of hating it as cordially as be once did you and Mr. Poindexter. When, therefore, Mr. Biddle entered into a contest with this hero of two years,be forgot the wisdom of the Spanish proverb, "That he who sets down to dine with the devil should eat with a long

spoon."

sult of thia feast, in broken meat and empty plates you all know. It has left our country palsied indeed—hungry in flesh and poor in spirit. I doubt, since the creation of the world, whether such an example can be exhibited as we have presented for the last sixteen years of fblly sod m»-govemment. No Southern planter would permit his plantation for one hoar to be governed with such a lack of all sei^se and providence. The Ca&iras and Hottentot*, in reference to their condition, 1 doubt not, have been governed with a policy

br more A cotntry

vigilant and enlightened

on "Money^fattlleitMlaa tointeowgresentcoodition to its true came.• We have ben suffering ever since General Jackson destroyed the Bank of the Untied States (with the exception of a abort period of distempered inflation created bv his own measures) under a steadily dimuuaktagcireuiation, which the eminent philosopher to whom I have reference basdeclared to be one of the worst calamities that can brail a civilized couniry—far more disastrous "than toe continued blight of unfavorable harvests and seasons." THIS Mit has beea first io the constant action of the Federal Government, or their supposed meditated action on me Banks of the States, which created a universal panic, that has campeilled tbe Banks to withdraw their awla tion. and aeaPt the General Government permitting to remain ia criminal abeyance their sovereign function to supply a currency equal to the wants of the country, and "to regulate its value." ..

The conaequenee is, that the States have nothing in lite chape of credit, or nkmey at home to pay with abroad. I3very species of property hu&Heo from fifty to one hundred per cent- sad the standard of nlw a® seriously disturbed, that a man in 1839 might nave had property to three times the value of his debts, yet he is now

ip»ofacto

As a Statesman and Patriot, I am sure, my dear sir, you will say that this state of things must not be permitted to last. No country can continue in the worst species of insolvency, a bankruptcy in its repute, without losing that self-respect which is the salient spring or all that gives vigor and renown to national character. It may be said that as a nation we are in no degree responsible for this decadence in the credit of the States. This may be true to a certain extent. Our national and political aggregation, however, if I may so speak, is made up of this family of States, and you may depend upon it that other nations and posterity will hold the government of the Union morally responsible for the character of its members, although the forms of our federal system may discharge it from a legal liability for their engagements. 'Admitting the potency, and the extent of the evil, you will ask what is the remedy?— This, my good sir, is precisely the question 1 am about to ask you in the form of a specific inquiry, whether public opinion through the Union, may not receive such an organization by the action of Congress, popular meetings and the press, as to induce the defaulting Slates to hold Conventions this winter, comprehending those who have negotiated foreign loans, who nevertheless have met punctually J^w.™\^icd.«Vthat victor, of the 8th of Jan their dividends, that by united action they may oar, cost as fire millions ot dollars, besides the small induce the legislatures of the several indebted

mined by the silent transit of our

couniry Iron a redundant circulation to whfct some are pleased most felictttousiy to call a bard money carrency—when the fact is that we out procure neither that which is hard or soft.

By this alteration in the standard of value, a revolution is iu portentous progress in oar country, as widespread ana desolating, as far as property is concerned, as that which distinguished and illustrated the masterpieces of human policy of theRooespieres. Dantonand Marat* of another ill-fated country, which in its time was governed by its demagogues too, who made paper money so thick tint it snowed assignats in the streets of Paris, and liwn torn round'and burnt in phrensy their own handy work. Look, my dear sir, at the thousands and tens of-thousands of families that have been mined—tint have had unutterable woe carried into the very bosoms of their houses, by the nostrums of our political quacks, who, in their senseless war on the very banks they created gate no time "by the preparatory revolution of the intervening discords." for the country to pats from a period of expansion to one of severe and arid t^striction

To those who have been rained in these times whose esiates have passed under the IJ

gripe of the sheriff, the moral justice of General Jackaen's memorable apo:heysm will be but a dry crust," f"that those who borrow mooey ought to break,"— doctrine out of which their creditors are likely to derive as little comfort as themselves, although it must be admitted that the General tried all lie dould to secure this blessing to the country. But, my good sir, the day of reckoning must come. The account will be sdjusted now or by posterity hereafter. One of its first rums will be to settle what the victory of New Orleans has cost us. These are generally expensive pageants any how. Bonaparte probably never achieved one for La Belle France, except to the tune of twenty millions of francs—to say nothing of the loisof "cracked crowns, and bloody noses" he left in thefield ot battle-

But his victories, in cost, were no more to be compared to tha victory of New Orleans, than a penny whistle is to Baron Munchausen^ celebrated clarion under sn A*

expmtcol entailing upon th^country, "a set of driv-

whose folly has taken away all dignity from dis-

tress, and made even calamity ridiculous."1

You will say hold. You and

WOuld

lay out

of account the assumption of thejState debts

k„ 1,. k. a with all that is great and glorious in human action and by the Federal Government, because I often

enterprise. The

are greatly respensi-

recall the fatal past. Bat this is impossible,

Let us look with courage, and resolution to the future.

out of its present deep decadence- Yes, my dear sir, I

believe yout ambition and your genius are on a level

field is

some great

before you—take the lead

public

give to us an abundant,sound,circulating medium,and

from

the

I remain, my Dear Sir. with sincere esteem Very respectfully and faithfully yours, J. HAMILTON. P. S.—I shall be out in the next Halifax steamer and hope to confer with you on the subject

ter on my arrival in Carolina.

hour-founder

measure, whether it be a Bank of the

deep the drowning credit of the

s-m I Ot.iM Hn iki *nrl if tltAihpaf nnnnr of trtA MlinlPV

States. Do this, and if the-first honor ot the country does not await you, its lost blessing will rest on your fame.

this let

f* speedy Care for a Foundered Horse. I send you the following prescription, which yoth give a place in your useful paper, if you think.it be of any advantage to planters and travellers.

may give a will be of any advantage As soon as you fina your horse is foundered, bleed

him in the neck, in proportion to the greatness of the founder. In extreme cases, you may bleed him as long as he can stead up. Then draw Ma head up, is common in drenching, and with a spoon put far back on bis tongue strong salt, until you get hiin to swallow one pint- Be careful not to let him drink too much.— Then anoint round the edges of his hoofs with spirits of turpentine, and your horse will be well in one

A pervades every part of the system of a horse. The phlegms arrest it from the blood the salt arrests it from the stomach and bowels and the spirits arrest it from the feet and limbs.

I once rode a hired horse 99 miles in two days, reluming him at night the second day, and his owner would not have known that he had been foundered if 1 had not told him, and. his founder was one of the deepest kind.

I once, in a travel of 700 miles, foundered my horse three times, and I do not think that mv journey was retarded more than one day by ihe misfortune, having In all the cases observed and practiced the sbove prescription. I have known a foundered horse turned mat night on green feeds in the morning he would be well, having been purged by the green feed. All must be attended to immediately.—South-founders

Wettern

Farmer. .. ...

MAIZF SUGAR.

By our Western exchanges, and by verbal information,

hear of numerous experi

ments made and being made in making sugar from corn-stalks. We have no idea that many of the experiments will be so far successful as to produce handsome, granulated, dry sugar. The process is not sufficiently understood. One great obstacle, which, we think, not generally known, will cause many failures—the juice ranst not be allowed to ferment in the least and oftentimes fermentation will commence within a few minutes after the juice is expressed. Good molasses can be made from juice fermented to a certain degree, but it will not granulate.

We hope our readers and correspondents who have made experiments will at once commence the publication, through our columns, of their several modes of cultivation of the corn, and the entire process pursued by each. By comparing them, it may be expected, much valuable information will be gained and it is quite possible, the correct system be established, from the planting of the corn to the draining of the sugar.

We have every confidence that the manufacture of sugar from corn-stalks 1s yet to become an important branch of industry to us in the West. We do not suppose that every farmer is to make his own sugar, any more than he does his own grinding but neighborhood-mills will be established, where the sugar will be made as wheat

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_i PiiNU0pin^^^|epn recently visited some friends near this city, who hattfe^jsutifuVflower garden, through which hehifrine pleasure of promenading with the very jjfccomplisbed lady of th& bouse. Whilst mg the-elegant Dahlins, which among .. choice flowers and plittits added to the indor of tiki gn rdeq, and rehearsing their botanic names, there was one, a s'lort distance from the rest, the richness and proud bearing of which attracted especial, attention* Struck with its peculiar elegance and noble aUjre, the gentleman enquired its name— **HEifRV CLAY, sir is tlie botanic and emblematic name of this noble, magnificent flower,** —was the reply. A few days only had elapsed visit tt The first enquiry was for the Clay Dahlia.-— He was informed that a storm had swept over the beautiful garden during his absence, and in Its fury, prostrated everv child of Flora, save one, and that was "Henry Clay!'* It like its great prototype, stood unscathed amidst the war of element,^ whose destructive wing bad spread desolation round. It was a well named flower. We admire the lady's

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things bearing

unhapp lende

THB

A*" SAGSCHSSSS*—Take

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ground

now. Should the macerating process be found to succeed as well in this as in the manufacture of sugar from the beet, the stalks can be cured, and the work prosecuted throughow^e winter. This will be a most desirable at^ament, and our President will make the necessary experiments and report the result. It is his favorite project*—Uuitm

Agriculturist.

the tops of

sage, and press the joice from them by beating in a morter, do the same with leaves of spinach, and mix the two juices together. After patting the rennet to the milk, poor in some of this juice, regulate the quantity by the color and taste to be given to the cheeseAs the card appears, break it gently aod in an equal manner then, emptying it into the cheese vat, let it be a little pressed, ia order to make it eat mellow. Having stood for about seven hoars, salt and torn it daily for four or five weeks, when it will be fit to eat. The spinach, besides improving the flavor and correcting the bitterness of the sage, with a much finer color than can be obtained trtxn sage alooe. SeltttCf/

id whenthe same gentleman repeated his to the couotry mansion of bis friend.— door in Marshall, Illinois,

protect them in storm as well as in sunshine.

Salt. Amer.

We copy* from the Philadelphia Gazette, the" foil owing anecdote, related by Mr. GIBBONS at the public meeting held in Philadelphia on Friday last. It is too good to be lost

Presidential office. Mr. Bo ts, who bad been '""mate

w%h him in private life, and knew something of his pecuniary embarrassments, called to see him: while they were walking together throa«h the gronmlsof the PresidenPs house, Mr. Butts made tills remark to his friend: •'M.\ Tyler, you are now in a position that affords you an opportunity cf relieving yourself Irom pecuniary difficulties, and making yourself comfortable tor the resit of your life. I think, by living |n a plain, republican style, you can support the dignity of your station for about ten thousand dollars a year, and at the expiration of four yean, yon can retire with a snug little fortune of 960.000." ^'That msy all be true," replied Mr. Tyler,'but Mr rofca YEARS?'

lWhv

VIII IIIV VIIO IVIMI |»IIWVI|MV I ed Mr. Tyler, 'that was only an electioneering pledge —the people wont think of that now!— and we will not be expected to redeem it!' The wife ol one of the Prrsidem's sons now approached them. 'My dear,1 said Mr. Tyler. 'Mr. Botts talks of limiting me to a single term What do you think of it!' 'Why, pa,' atw replied, you know we have talked that matter over amongst ourselves, and we all agreed that you should serve two terms. I am sure I dont nee the necessity of agitating that question again!'" .,

•pTHE MINT AND ITS OPERATIONS^ The new edifice on Tower Hill was completed about 1811, nt an expense of about a quarter of a million of money. This immense sum, however, including Boulton's expensive machinery. In the present interesting process of coining, tho ingots are first melted in pots, when the alloy

PASSION.—On

says an exchange, as the marriage ceremony was about to be performed in a church in neighboring town, when the clergyman desired the parlies wishing to be married to rise up, a large number of

Mtef.—Ptkxa

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vrcil UaillvU UVWVI* auuilto mo iuuj 0 saiu was iw« asav* wi twte. A prosidiDggBBios keep.vigilover.il

10 ,1 .'That msy all be true replied der the United Slates Bsnkrupt L&w, hereby notifies all Mr. Botts, why do you limit me to peraons indebted to either of them, toniakepaymentto £bv sir' said Mr B. 'you are ac- said asstpee, and all persons having in their possession -i" out the one term principle!' 'But, Mr. Botts,1 answer*

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copper, is

added (to gold, one part in twelve, eighteen pennyweights to a pound weight,) and the mixed metal then cast into small bars. And now begin the operation of tho stupendous machinery, which is unequalled in ihfe mint of any other country, nnd is in everyway a triumph of mechanical skill. The bars in a heated state, are first passed through the igpeaking down rulers, which, by their tremendous crushing power reduced them to only one-third of their former thickness, and increasing them proportionally in their fettgth. They are now passed through the QO&roller, which brings them nearly io the thickness of the coin required, when the last Operation of this nature is now performed by the draw-bench, a machine peculiar to our mint, and which secures nn extraordinary degree of accuracy and uniformity in the surface of the metal, and leaves it of the exact thickness* desired. The cutting-out machines npw begin their work. There are twelve of these engines in the elegant room set apart for them, all mounted on the same basement, and forming a circle range. Here the bars of strips arc cut into pieces of the proper shape and weight for the coining press, nnd then taken to the sizing room lo be separate* |y weighed, as well as sounded on a circular piece of iron, to detect any flaws. The protecting rim is next raised in the marking room, and thepieccs after blanching and annealing, are ready for stamping. The coining room is a magnificent looking place, with its columns and its great iron beams, and the presses ranging along tho solid stone basement. There are eighty presses, each of them making when required, sixty or seventy, or even t#ore strokes a minute: and at each stroke a blank is made a perfect cointhat is to say, stamped on both sides and milled at the edge—each press will coin between four and five thousand picces within the hour, or the whole eight between 30 and 40 thousand. And to accomplish these mighty results the attention of one little boy alone is required who stands in a sunken place before the press, supplying it with blanks.

LAPISS

MEW ORLEANS IAUKET, 0*. I, 1842. foand the price yesterday to be $3 96 a §3 376

fat

soperfioe, tboogh the Utter figaras were on

ly obtained for limited paresis of the best brands. /Vt—The stock ia now redoeed qsnte low for the MWKMU Iftd I Hit, lOjPllNfT Wllb Ilttfo Hi UM demand, has caused the market to acquire more firmness at a farther advance. We now quote clear S3 aflS 501 miss W 50 M• 0.|( a|8 50 prime, 94 73 a #5 P. O $3 75 a

are alasost nominal at $8 a $9 per bbl-

fat Western mess, do. in half Wls., $4 SO a lij prime,

wLeqaeeceef a small slock sad tha

eaaunosMsofa iair denwnd for limiiod parcels, we have again to notice an tinas. Bams at, 7 a 8c canvassed do-8 a Mcj 4t a Sca ahosUan, 4te- per lb-

Thsrr hr»

faMr

TT export da-

We qoote extremes at 6 a 7c-—

10 a (mibet eaos*deiaM« decline. We no#

is'dsll at S3aJ3e. byhel.

Wheatxiauiiars dall at 50e.per bnsht^

T£Rii£rJBAUTE .R£$AJL MARKED-

fnttrnm: el*. Qrain: cts.

lb. *00.3 to S 1 4 4 6 6 10

JT^J Pork, jio Lard, do Butter, do Cheese, do do*. 4 Beans, bt*b. 40 50 Potatoes, do

Shoulders,

3(7* to 8

Wheat, ban. Oats, do Corn, do Barley, do 3T Rye, do 90

SALE lit IMSKRTrrcr.

ill*

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cherished a name, that will $69 02 on 1st Jnne, 2842, |65 50 on the 1st Jane, 1843, MS mmII ikA sa* AllMnli inA Qt AH taat lllSIA lftiJ Slll4 AfiQ 9ft An 111 JllDA.

ii. 1 1 _i .1 sidence ef said Thomas While, on the land above d« "When Mr. Tyler had entered upon thsdatMrfths

undersigned will sell st private sale the follow* ing JMtlnnble LOTS, in the town of Terre-Haute, to-wk: IN-LOTS No* 60, 51, and 52. Terms made easy Inquire at the office or dwelling of

immediately

00 13 80 SO 35

Hide*

Peadtesdried I.00 15 Africa 4*

Floor. b&I. SL50 3 00 Corn meal,bus 20 35

I 9

Slaughter,)b. 4 Dry. do S Cal&ktas. d# 19 Swulriti: 8»k. bash fit

fit

Cranberriea.b. 1.50 3 00 tfams, lb.

W«od, cord, 1X0 WW,

Bread Stufsr

1 25

1b. to

Coal, bnah. 8 Flaxseed, lb. 50 Hay. ton. 4.00

10 so

5,00

sale, on THURSDAY, the next, at the Coart House

Illinois,all U*right, title.and inter

est of Thomas White, in and to the following tract of land, vis: The Northwest quarter of the Sontbeast quarter of section thirty-one, in Township

No. 11,

north, of Range 13, wrest, containing forty acres, adjoining the town of Aabnm. Clark county, Illinois. The improvements on said place, consists of a cw» fnrtable frame building, smoke-hoose. a goon Winl a water, and a yoaag orchard of fruit trees, some of which are bearing. There are fifteen seres under feme, three of which are in a state of caliivation.

The above land was sold by JamesC- Hiilibert to the said White, on the first of April. 1841, for the sam of

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V* V*l IVI I# mivt 4vl• ^Vw »W 1 saw •60 93 on 1st June, 1844, and $63 30 on 1st June, 1845, each note to draw 13 per cent, per annum if not punctaally paid at maturity- On the first note a pay ment of forty dollars has been made—the remainder is still due. Possession of the premises will be given immediately. if required.

a WIII aiw uiivi IVI Mwii iu« sa*tiv wejr

I will also offer for sale, on the same day, at the re-

CTibed three milcll

CoWB

and

Dronm.

four calves, and

...... v«.-v., some oth

-n currenderad

the aaid VVhi

er propeftv, all surrendered hy the said White, an insolvent debtor, for the benefit of his creditors* The sale of real property will take place at lo^lock, P. M. and of the personal at 3 o'clock, P. M.

Terms, cash—specie funds-

JOHN F. CRUFT.

October 21-7-ts. Assignee-

Notice in Bankruptcy.

fpHE

undersigned having been appointed assignee of

the following individuals, declared bankrupts itn-

deliver the same 10 the undersigned. NAWCS OF BAXKKUrtS. Zachariah Capin, Vigo county, Indiana.

James W. Carrico, Thomas J. Buck man, Martin Moudy. John A. Williams, Win. F. Krumbhaar, John Scott, Jas. S. Freeman, Thos- Fearn, Kdw'd Wright, Thos. Rogers, Jiwse Andrus, Jas. Armstrong, Abel Casio, Simeon Alien, Sqnire Smith,

do do do do do do ido do do do do do do do do

oc|(iirv ciuHiit Bushrod Smith, Sullivan couniv. Tndtnna. Thomas White,Clark conmv. Illinois.

JOHN F. CRUFT,

Oct. 1-4-tf Assignee.

Ttilunblc Town liOti for Sale!

THE

S. W. EDMONDS.

Terre-Hante. Oct. 31st, 1848-7-tf

One Cent Reward.

t) UN AWAY from the subscriber, on ihe 16»h inst., Jti an Indentured Apprentioe to the BLAonMrraiao BUSINESS, named WILLI AM HOWARD. All persons are forbid harbonring said hoy,—or trusting nim on my account,—as I am determined to enforce the utmost penalty of the law against all such. The above reward, but no thanks, will paid any person returning said boy to me. at my residence, in Terre-IIaute.

Oct. 21, 1842-7-13 WM. LYNCH. ...n, I'..,.

1 11

House to Keltt—Cheap.

THEfor

dwelling house now occupied by the subscriber is Rent, possession given 1st Oct.. 1842. Sept. 17-2-tf J. S. FREKMAN.

BHANCU STATE BANK OF INDIANA, I TI.R*E-HAUTK, OCT. 3, 1842. I

THE

annual election, by the Stockholders, for Directors of this Bianch for the ensuing year, will be held at the Banking House on Monday, the 7th day of November next. ,-

By order of the Board,. Oct. 7 1842-5-w4 D. DEM I NO, Pres'l.

Wcw Establishment..

ANTON

GUfiNTHER. lately from Lonisville, Kentucky, respectful!? Informs the citizens of Terro-llauie and its vicinity, that he intends carrying the business of Dying and Scouring, in all variety

colors, on National Road streei, opposite Codington and Randoms,—Also, general Renovating, and hopes by Strict attention to business to gain a share of public patronage. All colors warranted to stand.

Ladies and gentlemen are particularly invited 10 give him a call. Terre-Hsute. May 14, 1942. 36-6m

J. & D. IHtacGregor,

^COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 1.\)R the sale of Western and Southern Produce, and purchase oi" Merchandise, No. 40, BROADWAY, NKW YORK. Having organized for tlie purpose, ihey are well prepared, fully and faithfully to represent the cash buyer, in the purchase of Merchandise, generally, and to embrace every advantage of ihe Boston market, for tlie purchase of DOMESTIC GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c.. and snle of Produce. Refer 10 JACOB D. EARI.Y. Esq. Terre-Hauie.

WIM.IAM BcRrcn, Esq. Vincennes. JOB* MITCBIXL, Esq

EVNNW

a late oftftsion

IUPT

ROBERT BARNES, Esq. I

I NICHOI.AS MCCABTY, Indianapolis.

Knight's Lyndon.

Mews. W 6l F. KIYHOLDS.& Co. Lafsyeite.

Tiiot.J READ, 8o»& Co. N Orleans

GlLtE«riK

ft,

Jo.FET, I PhiUd-lnhis

ROBDI*. Ti^aLitv dtCo. 1 P"'**dclphi8.

JOB* MAJESTY

Sons,)

""lleiUcaflleiice.

rose. THE PatviMCH® CLASSES.—We have, in the United States, says the Journals of the day, eighty-eight colleges, twelve law schools, and 96 medical seminaries. 30 divinity schools, and somewhere about one thousand academies, more or less sustained^by Legislstive boun- CANAL SCRIP will be takrti tV. for the almost exclusive benefit of the learned pro- QT ATE SCR I and AIL# WU fusions, which do not comprise, probable, one-lwenti- Oat p*r ^°gd^t*nd j| BRASHER, eth part of our population.. We have not a single col- Oct-12,184*-*~w«. a. oiwwjm «, aeminarv or school, for the particular improvement oi the other *M-28ths of our population—the farmers and mechanics—who «pra oar wealth, pay onr taxes, and fight oar battUfr-sltlioagb -w% speak it in the mritof iroth, tbeccmatry would be more benefitted in its wealth, in its morals, and in its politics—&r m&re benefitted—by extending to the laboring class a htga standard of learning, in what especially concerns their ti^p it is from the aid which it now gives to the non-prodocmg classes. It is a republican maxim. that all should pcrticipeta alike in the pnMic bounty. Bat the maxim has not as yet beea adopted by oar L*. gislators-—Cuttimtar.

Cm*kor Produce-

Yrtrk

BURKS, HAYES CO. 1

44 44

A. &. A. LAWRENCE,

Co.» n_.tan

BARXARD, ADAM9&.CO. "°AWA.

Octobcr 7, l843-5-6m.

DOCTOR JESSE AUSTIN PEGO, tendtts his professional services 10 the eiiixens oi Tenc-Haate, snd vicinity, presuming that 20 years servioe in his vocation would warrant a shsre of the public patronage.

Terra* Ha ate. Oct. l-4~6m

male and Canal Scrip.

Wheal. Corn, Oat§ flaxseed W A N E

THE

SkiuMU$,

snhseribw will give the highest nwrkei pnes for

Wheat, Corn, OaU, Flaxseed lumber and

on sfl debts doe him, if delivered soon. AH

persons knowing themselves Indebted 10 me will do well io call snd settle the same by paving in the above named articles, or in

Sc,r.

Old Scrip, New Scrip, Canal

A. HOLMES.

N. B. In my abaenee please call 00 mv bro:her A. P. Holines, who will reeeive and reeeipt for me. Terre-Haafe, Oct. 15-6-3- A. H.. P.

prodncc Wanted.

ALL

persons indebted to Scaroi/r* & PoareanfU). are rewectfally bat earnestly requested, to come forward with as 111 tie dday aa poastWe and settle by payiof

Terre-Haute, Oct. 6, l642--tf IJft of Bewry ttty. ATTENTION, WHIGS! CLAY CLUBSIMjfc*! !t "\f 7 ILL t« pablisbed in an extra New World, on

W Wednesday. Sept. 14th, a full and aeearale life of this disfingaisbed Stateunsn, (whose nasae now ocaneh a prominent place before the American public) with a aw- nd'id full length likeness. It is highlv reeommrwded for general nss sad dwribMioahy the New York Clay iuc tie per hundred Fifty copies for $5 96 for |3t 16 lor $3 8 for $1. and shigh! copies 15 ««ts. In boo* form it wswld east $1 9ft. Ssat bf mad to all psm

die Untied Stales for newspaper psatsfs amif.

8«pt "»7. isa.

a. BiUWK KOTB TABLE.

COXlECfKfiT WSSXLY FBOM THE C1SCIS5ATI fArCRS.

o^.

Life and Trust Co. a a pi Lafeyette, Commercial dt traoklinbkf. aSps Western Reserve Bank. P* Farmers and Mechanics Bank Sleabenfille, pi Colambiarta Bank of New Lfiboa, Bank of Mt. Pleasant, ,* Belmont Bank of St. Claireville, Bank of Marietta, .- •4 Zanesvilla,

Maskintum, Circleville, (aid) -v.s kNorwalk, Dayton. Wooster, S Xen», MaawHon, Geauga,

CoinmSrcial Bank of Scioto, Clintjin Bank of Colamhaa* Post Notes. ,, awM*a»M akv aaoaui MKKS. Mechanics' & Trader*', Franklin Bank of Columbus, Urhana Bank Farmers4 Bank of Canton, Lancaster, Ohio, Bank, Chilicolhe, Hamilton, Bank of Cleveland, .... Commercial Bank of Lake Erie* Miami Exporting Co-, ...... .• Whitewater. Exchange Bank, Cin., Granrille. Wcet Union, Steubenville, new bank, Lebanon. Miami, Ranking Co., .• German Bank of Wooater, Circleville, new bank, a is I^»«isvilleSavings Bank, tran at an

Kentockfi

All Kentucky Banks,

Indiaaa*

Hobba,

State & Scrip, .- King & Woodlturn's checks, Albany Ins. do Charlosiown Savings, do Wood's Exchange at Indianapolis,.

State Bank and Branches, Bank of Illinois & Branches. Bank of Cario,

Stale Bank and Branches, •eastern Banks, Pennsylvania, ••••••,. Maryland, Virginia, Merchants & Mechanics Bsnk Wheeling, North Western Bank & Branches, New Jersey, New York New England Banks, Delaware,

Exchange.

New York, ,• Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia,

1 pre

Slate Bank and Branches, Bank Scrip {Lawrenceburg br.) endorsed by tho Teller. H.

par

2 dia

45 dis

nosala no sale no sala no sa

Illinois.

65 dis 63 dis no sale

Missouri.

v-. par

par a 2 pre 2 pre 5 dis 5 dia 5 dis par 2 pre 2 pro 2 pre

21 pre 2i pre 2* pre

1 2i pr*

Specie.

American Gold, 9 pra* English,' If pro S

NOTB—The par standard in the sbove, is such funds as are received in Bank in paymeatsand deposits.

Dr. C. IVI. Bart,

RETURNS his sincere thanks lo* those who have patronised him sines hisshortaiayi

VE7 here, and would respectfully inform the public that he has taken residence sn the aRkJI corner of Fifth and Sycamore etre*U% north of the Pavillion, wheic he is ready (unless absent on business) to attend to calls in the practice of Botanio Medicines. He would a 11*0 state that ho has fit tad up a coursing room at hit residence, where persons wishing a Thotnsonisn course of medicine can be accommodated. Dr. H. flatters himsell from the experience of seven years in the practice, and over four years of tho timo in ihe Wabash Valley, that he is generally acaunintcd with ihe diseases incident to ihe country, and hopes to merit a portion of ihe public patronage,

Terre-Haute. July 30. 1842-47-^m

STEPHEN O. DODGlt, ATTORNEY ANB CMNftELLOR

AT E,jaw\

Hon. John Fine,

IiVDIANA.

OFFICETERRE-HAUTE,

corner of Ohioand Market strccis.southi east corner of the Public squoie, and adjoiningthe dwelling off.. H. Scott. Esq.

REFERENCES 1 \S

Ogden$burgh, I

Hon .Silas Wright, Jr..

Canton, N.

Hon. Micah Sterling,

Watertovmi

Jas. J. Barclay, Esq.. Philadelphia. Hon.J

II. &roneon, St. AuguilintyElorida. ,v

Oct. 31-8-tf.

GRAFTON F. COOKEKLY^h Attorney at JEair,

MEROM, SULLIVAN COUNTY. INDIANArE TFT ILL practice in Sullivan, Vigo and ihe attyoininfc counties. xEFERENcES

JJINDI.EY. Baowa & EARLY, Terra-Hauio O. & J. M. How*. Bloomingion. Indiana- .... GEOBUK G, FKTTEE & Co., Louisville, Kv.

June II, 1842-40i-ll.

PAY PAY!! PAY!!!

THEpay

subscriber has his books now posted and ready for settlement he requests every one to call an* settle, off old scorcs, and begin the year 1842,wulr a good conscience. I must be paid better and inote-

PTerrlHaute.Jan.l,1842-18-tf

should oe taKen tor vooiiiy i«»", That thaCounty Treaaurerand Collector of this county receive I or county laxrs. State Scrip, drawing six per cent, interest, issued by the State of Indiana of the denomination ol five dollars, at its face, without iw«restr until ihe twsnty-fifth of December next.

WHKREAS by taking Stale Scrip for conjity 1sxes. as shove ordered, in all probability there will ba no other kind of .noney received for taxes Therefore ordered, That ail persons performing any services lor ths county must expect and will be required 10 receive in psyment for aaid services State Scrip, issued by tha Siatt t»f the Indiana of denomination of five dollars, drawing six per cent, interest at iis face, without interest.

A true copy from the records of said ftmrd Is &pt!10-1-V3 W. K. HAMILTON, Auditor.

Collector's Notice!

FOB THE YEAR 1849.

NOTICE

IS HEREBY GIVEN, That I have received ihe Tax Duplicate from the Auditor of Vigo county, Indiana, and am now ready la receive Taxes from all Tax-payers.

I will attend, in person or by deputy, at the foflowinc places in the several Townships, in said eounty, for tho purpose of receiving Taxes, on tha following

^fipney Cmk. at Prairieton, S.-ptember 29ih, 16&2Prairie Creek, at Middletown. Sepiemlwr 90th. Linton, at Hiilip Randolph's,October 3d.

PtersMt, at Gaorge Taylor's, October 4tURiley, at Lockport, Octobcr &th. I^oat Creek, at Silas Common's, October 6ih# Ne«ine. at Tilghman High's. October 7th. Oiter Creek, at William Stevens', Octobcr 8th. Fayette, Clark's Si ore, October 10th. Sugar Creek, at Macksville, October 11th. And from thwtime till the 25th of December next, (except the above days) I wilf be found at my office. 10 the Coart Home at Terre-Hsute. 1 will say that when property is distrained ter Taxw, or where I have u» visit ihe tax-payer at his residence, whether I levy on property or not, the same lees and mileage sre allowed by law as those received by Constables', and wilt b« collected without any reaped to persons.

Tat fotxowim aea Tax SATES or TAXCS *. Far State puipoaea, oa eaeh oaa hundred dollars, twenty cems. ..

F«r Coaaiy purposes, on each on# hundred dollars, fifteen eenta- ,. For Road purposes, on each one hundred doiJare,iiva

each Poll Tax. for State purposes, fifi/^cama For each Poll Tax, for Osnty p«rpea*». fitly cenW {"conformity with the S«toia of Indiana, preaeribin« thedm^of Coomr Trearurer. the Treasurer ofVw &Mir fiv« «he above aoiiae to the taxable ia-

E.DANIELS.

STATE OF IWDIANA, Coanty of rifo,

wS baSluetad under tbeUw of 184HI,

1 n« iftil_J5 whudi make it tltA

andtha'^Sodmenisof 1841-42, which make it tha datv of tax-payers to call on nw. and not ma en thna.

aad

all inr requiremania, wit! ha strictly Ud-

lowed, aod it behooves those who kmm they hsve oa* 10 make their arrangements accordingly. Delajni •radaMeroaa, snd always create trouble for the taxaayerand ihe collector.

N. B. Property sold for taxes is not required to he astandMd, but sells for what bid for it. tTTT N.P.CUNNINGHAM.

Aug. 17, lf«-l-* Trsaaarar of Vigo county,