Weekly Messenger, Volume 5, Number 227, Vevay, Switzerland County, 7 May 1836 — Page 1
93.
PRINTER'S RETREAT, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1S3G. VOL,. V. NO. 22(.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED thc fertile banks of large rivers are usually inBY WILLIAM! C KEEA. jhabited by numerous tribes of men, the calm TERMS For fifty-two numbers, three jand tranquil surface of the river invites them ixi.vvRs,if not paid until the expiration of the jto crossover, the interests of commerce keep year two dollars and fifty cents, if paid UP a continual intercourse, the river is early within the year and two dollars, paid i.i passed, and both banks must be united under
advance.
No subscription received for less than six months, unless paid in advance. Subscribers, who receive their papers by private post, to pay 25 cents postage. No paper discontinued until all arrearages jyTe pa an(l notice to stop it sent to the of fiee in writing. Advertisements inserted, at the usual rates. Except persons advertising eloped companions? when $5 will be demanded for a female,." $3 fora male' Pprv produce, delivered at tiiis office, or such othtr Dlare as ma be aSrccd UP-
taken in payment..
'AM BOAT BURi
1 he steam boai niar an Thrsa
class of boats, passed this , .;c On Fnnightlasl,on her way to Louisv. ,n within day night, at about 10 o'clock, wh... jn about 40 miles of Louisville, she took fire
the lady's cabin, and was entirely destroyed by Ljcj the devouring clement. We understand she .
had about 400 tons of freight; whether any of it was saved, we have not heard. No lives were lost. The captain of the Free Trader, who passed her remains while yet burning, states that the river was literally covered with burnin? and smoking timbers, and that the wood, for three miles on the river, were cn fire.
Nations become luxurious they are invaded by a neighboringtribe; some of the vanauish-
ea iau in Dame, ana their place is supplied by the conquerors.
The kingdom retains its ancient boundary, II 1 A , I ...
iiiiu iiws mereiy susiaineu a cnange oi inhabitants, together with the havock and distress
which a state of war occasions. Fears have been expressed that France and Spain would be united under one empire! Europe was in arms many years to prevent it. The Pyrenees have made it impossible. The union of Russia and Siberia is dreaded? When Siberia possesses a large population.
she will no longer be under the dominion of
Kussta. The empire of Rome may be cited as an instance against this theory, but, on examination, will be found to yield it support. It required all the ferocity of the Romans, aided by their naval power and their permanent national council, to subdue the nations around. On the decline of their high fortunes, their empire was broken into its original limits. NAVAL POWER. "War is the trade of barbarians." "The whole art consists in assembling a force superior to that of your adversary." A great naval power is enabled to do this by seizing on the small detached portions of the world, and
on large kingdoms which have not yet arrived
at their full power, and which have become imbecile. This is easier, to such a power, because all countries are easily approached by sea; nature has made few impervious coasts.
barrier. An individual ascCas a um'nB.?S ""ended that man should make use of the
one government. Never has the Gangef, the Nile, the Danube, or the Rhine, seen hostile nations in possession of the opposite shores. The small stream which divides Spain and Portugal is a more lasting boundary than the Tagus would be if it flowed in the same direction Where Lusitania and her sister meet, Deem ye what bounds the rival reamla divide Or ere the jealous queens of nations meet, Doth Tago interpose his mighty tide? Or dark Sierras rise in craggry pride? Or fence of art, like China's vasty wall? A'o barrier wall! no river deep and wide! No horrid crags! no mountains dark and tall! Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul. But theie between a silver streamlet glides. And scarce a name distinguished ths brook. Though rival kingdoms press its verdant sides
3. &
is and Oceans.
w'C ...
1
These form a decided
quent bourn. ,r
Thev varv .V incir Powcr
;.K;n -X i.rts accor-
to restrain nations """" F-. the
ding to their breadth , ' '
i 1 1 1 rr mill oi n in iiic roi ,. "
but he returns to dwell in the 2ilT "J peasant cf Hungary fears to ascend lc
which overleoks his native plain.
BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRES.
The limits of empires are controlled by two
causes,thc physical geography of the soil, and the power f man, the iirst is eternal, and the last variable: thus, in examining history, we
find that the tirst produces the most permanent
effect. Nations often war against those eternal lim its. which are pointed out by nature.
The Turks and Persians have, in modern times, renewed the ancient contest between
th Romans and Parthians, and have fought
for several centuries, without gaining perma nentlv nc square mile of territery.
The ancient Grecian fought for a thousand
years, and their small republics, at the termin
ation of the contest, retuned their ongina "boundaries.
Eneland and France have amused them
selves by wars, which may continue to the end
. A 1 i.
boundary to numDr OI canons; but the effect of u,Blclon at sea wiU be no'
d hereafter. . j
-'lltr0 VI III
4. JVji,
pe.
al
vessel in distress, from Scarborough, in a life celebrated gen. John Coffee of Benton mem
boat, met their death.
Human depravity. A roan by the name of
omun, oi rawiord county Indiana, has been sentenced to prison, to await his trial at the
next circuit court of that county, for commit ting a rape upon his own daughter, aged a
bout 15. This is only another instance, to
prove the debasing and corrupting tendency
oi arueni spirits wnen u&ea to excess, inis
man, who once occupied a high and respectable station in society, has from the too free use
of the intoxicating draught, degraded himself
to the level ol the brute creation, and brought upon himself disgrace and ruin. There being no iail in Crawford countv.
he has been sent to this place for safe keeping. Si nee his confinement, he has become, or pre
tenas to De, mentally deranged. Investigator. The citizens of Buffalo manifest a disposition to persevere in the determination to erect a monument in that city to the memory of the gallant and lamented Perry. The committee
appointed heretofore for that purpose, recent
ly held a meeting and appointed certain gentlemen to act as sub-committees on subscrip
tions, on finance, cn building and on corres
pondence. Stephen Champlain is Treasurer of the board.
ory. Patriot,
"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations which had else. j Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." j 5. Detcrts. I have mentioned the wars be
tween the Turks and Persians, which are car
ried on across the deserts of Mesopotamia. The ancient kings of Egypt made frequent ex
peditions to conquer the Arabs dwelling on the
sands of Africa, but they defied their armies.
Ali Pacha has exerted himself m a similarway, with the same success. A desert forms a safe barrier to China. A desert and the rocky mountains form a boun
dary to the United States of America on
land. I. The surface of the earth thus separated
into certain natural divisions, which may be
called natural kingdoms. Every island, is a
natural kingdom. Every part of the world,
which is surrounded by strongnatural bounda
of time, without joining, under one sceptre, ries, is a kingdom. It is impossible to conquer the vmevards of Burgundy and the valleys of lone half of these divisions. In waging war
England. A with them, you must complete a total conquest,
lxander invaded the east, but he could ;or return. IN o arms could conquer half China
not enlarge the confines of Macedonia. The Tartars and native Chinese once made
Boiwparte subdued Europe, but France is ja treaty of partition; nature declared its execu-
not now more extensive than formerly.
it ion to be impossible.
Tamerlane overcame Asaia, but it was not' Nor could the plains ot England be divided
in his nower to unite the fire-worshippers of between two kings. Canute and Edmund
Persia with the sons of Confucius, nor could 'drew an imaginary line through the centre.
lie ioin under one empire, the shepherds ofiThe treaty could not be observed.
Tartarv and the agriculturists of India. When nations occupy part of natural king
When these Dhantoms of universal empire doms, ther must advance or recede. The
perish, nations resume their ancient limits. kingdom f Prussia must be bounded by new
( Vmnner them, exterminate them, destroy the 'acquisitions, or she must recede. This is the
memory of their existence as a people; still reason why she is constantly armed.
the new kingdom will have the same limits as
the old. A nation, subduing those by which it is surrounded, resembles a river overflowing its banks; the flood gradully subsides, and the Ftrearr. returns to its ancient channel. When
2. Small natural kingdoms in the vicinity
of those which arc larger, often lose their inde-
nendence
Small islands are always subdued. N one
could new erect the standard of empire on the
..,wc; hnnlrs nl barbarians invaded the island ot Jthica, or become King oi me lonu
minions of imnerial Rome, did thev uniteinate islands. We see this rule exemplified
f the north with the olive 'in the history of Great Britain. The British
...v- I.i , . -. -
irardens of the south?
When England was conquered successively by the Romans, Snxons, Danes, and Normans, Sid they surround, with one rampart, Italy, 1 1- VT Ami wA irt1 1- r it
OaXOliy, 1JCI1II1I IV, nuiiutiimj in ijiiji.iv. . The decisions of nature soon cut asunder the . artificial arrangements of man. The barriers erected between communities of men vary in strength; let us examine them in theirorder:
. Forests. In the infancy ol man, the gloom of a forest often deters him from entering within its shade. The Ilcrcynian forest divideJ many of the ancient tribes of Germany, nA it :nfluence is still perceptible in that
country. The divisions of some of the counris nrnfrhind are derived from the same
mi svf Inlinnc in Amprira
source. Many uk' " " are divided by thick woods, and this is one reason why civilized nations have large rboun-j daries than those which are savage. ' .'. Rivers. In the first ages of man, rivers are V real boundary; they prevent the passage of arn ies. They are now used as a bounda- . thev afford a definite line, about
whirh-there can be no dispute. Europe, Asia,
kl, afford numerous examples. A
t;nm,i,r rrt takes nlace irt regard to them; a
small stream is a better division between natisiric tVian a river The Danube would
k not form a'fine of demarcation between Russia and Turkey, but that there is a sparse population on its banks. France has fought to
obtain the boundary of the Rhine; she must
either advance to the mountains beyond, or
retire to the next range of hills in her present
torrilorv. The reason of this law is obvious:
GCeait." fnuum-Kj uic BUIIien licit illiuiucllous apperance of countries the most distant under one scet?re' If we examine te reason of this law which
nations within cJan 'mits, we shall
Sndit .af'ses from similarity "pi habits and feelings, which at the same time le3ds them to hoTtilities ail around. ......
The Indians of America war with all pai
icir own tribe. . . .
In the highlands cf Scotland, each clan was
accustomed to combat all those who lived in
he neighboring valley. Denon has civen a correct and vivid des
cription of the combats which take place be.i r i-- xt:i : : -
twecn tne villagers ui iuc nuc. uh mhuuins the reason. "They know not; but their
ancestors had been accustomed to ngtw, and it would b improper to break so laudable a custom."
Even in civivilited countries, this hostile
oirit is shown- Wherever two villages, ol
nearly equal size, are situated within ten miles of each other, rivalry takes place and they
would occasionally combat, but they are restrained by the laws. Cities within one hundred miles of each other, have the same spirit
of enmity.
If we examine the map ot Europe, wc perceive that Great Britain, France, Spain, Hol-
and, Switzerland, Bavaria, Denmark, Sweden
and Austria, are natural kingdoms. Norway
lias always been in vassalage, because her pop
ulation is much scattered. Turkey, Asia, Minor, and Egypt, are joined by the power of a
fleet, as they were under the treek empire
Persia has its ancient limits. China has hd
the same from time immemorial. The Arabi
ans subdued Asia, but they retain their sway over nothing more than their original sandy deserts. Ilindoston is a natural empire, too
weak to defend hersell. America is arrang
ed in natural divisions.
Thus, on the surface of the world, man has little to change the decrees of the Almighty
power whose hat governs the universe
Cows, &c. Mr. Holmes: For the benefit of new beginneis in farming or stock rearing, permit me to observe, that cows generally carry their young forty weeks sheep 20, and
female swine 16. If this calculation is made,
very little variation will be found to be con
sidcrable variation reckon how you will.
And in the other Animals named, there may be some in particular ones, age, &c. I make these remarks because I have noticed that in this slate, nine months is reckon
ed for a cow, which contains but 39 weeks, of
course more overrun than fall short of the
time calculated on.
An English lectures on Anatomy suggests that a man, by sunounding himself with receptacles ef hydrogen gas, as a sort cf balloon jacket, mr.y acquire sufficient specific levity (o fly hy means of wingi attached to his arms. Chrraio G'tc.
Theannexed letter from the assistant inspec
tor general of the army of Texas, confirms the intelligence of the distressed condition of that country: To the editor of the Mobile Register. HEAD QUARTERS. Velasco, Gth March, 1S30. Sir I deem it my duty to my fellow citizens to inform our brethren in the United States of our perilous condition at present. Last night an express arrived with the news, that one division of the Mexican army, 1000 strong, meeting the small force under lierf. Thornton, had driven them in, nnd arc now in full march for the intciior of Texas. CnL
Travia is beseiged in Sf. Antonio, with little provisions and a garrison of only 150 men, and we hourly expect an attack on this point of the coast, from the Mexicans by sea, under Ugarthchca, 3500 strong. We have in the the field now about 700 men to oppose this force. There is here under my command, only 120 men, when we expected at least 2000:
and it is thought the Mexican army is within a few days march of us.
lhe families at a short distance from us are
flying before the enemy, and ha e left their stock, their houses and crops to the mercy of the tyrant, who is in person at the head of his army.
e call on you by the sacred ties of country, language, habits and kindred, not to desert us in this our hour of danger. Delay for a time :uid we my Lc lost wc want immediate aid, and men and arms. Do not be deaf to our requests, but come forward as you have heretofore done and say, 4for ward to the res
cue.'
Potato Bhb.i. The manner of making this bread is simple and easy: boil good potatoes, properly drain off the water as soon as
I have the honor to bo, yourob't. servant. GEO. W. POE, assi t. inspect, en. of the army of Texas. Items. Memorials are in circulation in Brooklyn
and New York, praying congress so to alter lhe naturalization laws as to extend the term of residence required to foreigners previous to being admitted to citizenship, to til years. The uumber of idents in the University of Virginia, according to the catalogue of 1835-15, is 216. Mr. Samuel C. Logan the highly respecta-
jblc merchant of Lexington, who was wounded
In the late affray, in which he had interfered
they have boiled sufficiently, let them remain in the warm kettle to dry, take off the skin, put them in a mortar and pound the meal fine, to which add a little fine salt. Previous to a a i ; ii. . 1 1 '
puumg in i..e ,ea 10 ra.se ""Ilufus Lane, travelling on foot from Louisvslh, the potato meal thorough y with the flour, nf- ,'f -2 M) . . ,
i - l i- l r i t
oniy as a peace matter, aieu oi nis wounus on Tuesday last. We learn from the Bardstown Herald, tha'. on the 1st inst. a young man of the name ol
terwards pursue the usual process of making
bread from flour.
islands contain five natural kingdoms ; England
Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland. Wars took place among the Saxon monarchs of the
heptarchy for four hundred years, until the
valleys of England were united under one
monarch. She then united to hersell lhe smaller natural kingdoms, by which she is surrounded in the order of their respective strength. The powerful empire of Austria subdued
the smaller divisions by which she is surroun
ded.
3. Where natural kingdoms have a certain
size, it is difficult to conquer them.
Nothing but the fury ot religious dissension
could have subjected Bohemia, with her or cular rampart of mountains, to foreign pow er.
I Let us now consider how the power of man
modifies these laws. There is scarcely any
law known amonz nations but force. The
power of empire ebbs and flows like the tide
1 he savage tribes of Britain were easily de
feated by the cohorts of Rome. At another pe
riod, their descendants conquered the veteran
troops of France, led on by their emperour. Nations melt From power's high pinnacle, when they have felt The sunshine for a while."
Wholesale capture, cf Pirate vessels. The
It is with little souled people, as it is with
narrow neck'I bottles: the less the' nave in
them the more noise they make in pouring out. C. T. Cnkus.
white men, near the suburbs ofBardstown. Mr. L. is represented as an honest and industrious young man. We understand that the tolls on that part of
the Chesapeake and uiuo canal winch is completed have averaged eight hundred dollar per day since the opening of the Canal this spring. This looks like a good beginning.
NEAR FORT GIBSOF, A. Tj. March 11, 1S3G. J
vi rri I1I1WH i f vv i iir vi;u. mimiiihi an i in iiv r
1- ' " J 7 J O . - - . , . .
(urn nn in thi nnnrter. nnd I know at home ucuiues m iiidi .uiinri ionic
... r , , i j : ii. -
an interest is felt for the far west, and forn presumption ui i.nu ss u a uocrnor.
A distinguished citizen of Florida writes to the Charleston Mercury; attributing (lie dif-
these who defend her frontiers.
Things in this quarter look as if we were to have trouble ere long with the Indians on the Grand Prairie. An express arrived at head quarters a few days since, announcing to gen. Arbuckle that the Camanches and Pawnees had murdered
all the traders at Coffee's trading house, on
j avacourant,ioinein peptcmDcr, contains Ued River in lhc Pawnee country. One man
uic iwrrdiiTc itau.viu.i, uiau uv uiuci onjy escapcU; he la9 arrivcd here, and des of the government,against the pirates of Lant Lribed the maSsaci c as dreadful, 50 or 60 a
'aIaa vwl (ha lAilthaacr Aocf rv I ItArriA I
& tie tt vtij lucssiuif i Ibutchorcd
. - J 1 -i
returned to eunjermassing wunout uie loss oi Jt W;S near Coflee?. trading housc that the
a man, alter laMngMxieen large piraie vessels, ,rcatv ,ast d Caman.
and destroying lorty-seven others. Lleven ol ches and Pawnees, but owing to col. Dodge the principal chiefs lost their lives in the sev- nt iwl-m(T thmrrU, in im,.
sral skirmishes, and a hundred and ninety- t wns lorn u anJ 'fabaquina, a fierce nnd ima n,tiD.e rF I Airs ann M :i n 1 1 ri n'rp 1.l . . .
viii v.v- . v.. v. v. - Untnwl :im.nnrh( irnrnnr U"imn1 irn I nlh'n
ivered from slavery. and his men to leave their countrv. his not com-
nlvincr has been f-ilnl in tbpmull Our mrn
Instinct VI plants. Dr. HanSOOtC Says It a wl1Q MW Cam:lnrbeR lastsnmm.pdrsrrih
vessel ot water be placed within nine incnes them as a ,,ercc war iike race.0f mcn,wcll
oi a cucumper vine,mai in iweniy-iour nours mounted and armed with a lance and shield
time, the vine will alter tne direction oi us Thev are a wanUcr:n!r tribe. and we may look
i j i.i .in : 1 4i . o i
orancnes, anu noi nop u i.uui u wiuwu ror lhem aU next summer without even cross
with lhc water, and il a pole be placed at a ther ,raiK There -s no doubt )at the considerable distance from an unsupported hjnited States W1n re8cnt these murders, and
vine, tne orancnes 01 which are proceeding in wiU march from herc as soon as lhc grass
a j: .i: r a a a i i
a contrary uireciion irom mac rowaras me
pole, the vine will in a short time alter its coarse, and not stop till it clings round the
pole. But the same vine will avoid attaching
itsell to low vegetables near it.
Five, hundred thousand dollars worth oi whips are annually made in the town of West field Massachusetts. Many persons arc employed especially females, inweaving and platting. A screw manufacturing company has been formed at Schenectady, which it is expected will turn off fhc hundred gross per day of wood screws of all sizes, from a half an inch to
three inches.
A French paper calls attention to the fact
that in the month of August next, the city of
Rome will number 2,do-1 years suite its touudution. According to a table furnished the New
ork transcript by JMr. Nickels, the city
pector
in-
a nil m Kor K 1 1 1 1 j 1 i it r,; rrli..il in f 1 1 - i f-
y VHV lUlllll'V. I l-uiiuillJ . I I Lll U III 11MIW
citv in lo.?4 was oi,nnu in t ie lollowing
ear L'iGO, showing an increase in . single.
The Wioni of Rome, the peasants of Swit
zcrland, the infantry of Spain, the chivalry of
France; thecrossbowmen ot ingiana,anu ine battalions of Sweden, have, in succession giv en law to Europe, and then retired to their native land. The process of conquests is usually this.
will admit of our horses living on it. lhe
whole regiment of dragoons will concentrate and be ioined by the 7th infantry, now at
FortGibson. Chili Mcintosh, the Creek V ar-
rior. swears vencreance acainst the 1 awneer
and Camanches. and he will no doubt add 0
Storms on the coast of En eland. Manv lives or TOO warriors to our command. AY e arc
and much property were lost on the coast and making every preparation, and we shall get
in various parts of England during the gales off, I suppose, by the isi iiay,or soon i.
irom tne loth to the lytn oi February, lhe lien. ArbucKie naspui runuiMuum
shore was filled with wrecks some of them repair, and mounted field pieces in the block
i . ' ... i 1 1 ..... i i.
thrown a great distance Irom the sea. At houses, so that snouia oBrneignoors ever make
Spurn. Yorkshire, the water was three feet an attack, they will nnd things in better prei
decD in the cottactes. Llcvcn men out fifteen, aration than nt poor major Uade a command
who volunteered to go to the assistance ot a( r. . xnc gen. vonce spoken or, is. tn,c
ear of 3S . In a single ward, the l JtliJi t
buildings were put up in 1j. In the same . 3 -i i u..:i
year twelve new umnui's nuc uum.
The public treasury. The New York Star
states that one fourth part of the whole capi
tal of the Manhatan bank, one the pet banks
n that city belongs to an Lnghsh nobleman.
That this bank held on the 1st of February,
three millions and sixty teven thousand dol-
ars of the people's money, which at legal in
terest will produce $21 1,0U0 aimu illy. Of
this annual interest then, the raiglish nobleman would receive as his portion ol the 'spoils' about 70,000 dollars.
Instead of being allowed to lie idle in net
banks, or its uses, as in case this go to increase
the wealth ol the 'noble of other land, would it not be infinitely better to divide the surplus
money now on hand among the several slates:
to be by them applied in some mode s-alulary
to the interests of the whole people: The Arkansas Advocate says, that lhe territory desires, without a dissenting voice, to enter the Union as a rlave state.