Weekly Messenger, Volume 5, Number 230, Vevay, Switzerland County, 28 May 1836 — Page 1

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XKW SEKIBP, tO. 103. PRINTER'S RETREAT, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1836. VOL. V. NO. 230.

puivri:i and rrnum:i) BV WILLIAM C. KUE. THRJIS For liy-tvo numbers, tiiuef. iMU.i.!i,if not paid u nil the expiration of the year two ikm.hs and fifty cents, if paid within the year and two doi.l.vks, paid i.i advance. No subscription received for less than six mnths,unless paid in advance. Subscribers, who receive their papers by private post, to pay "25 cents postage. No piper discontinued until all arrearages

are paid, a id notice to stop It sent to the of h v. in writing. Advertisements inserted, at the UMial rates. Except persons advertising eloped companion, when S. will be demanded for a female, and for a male. CO" j proved produce, delivered at this of fice, or such other pi ice as may be agreed up on, taUen in payment. LllVERTV, ID. April SO. EXECUTION OF ISAAC HELLER. alius ISAAC YOUNG. At nn early hour of this morning, OOth the ttrecU and public houses of our village were crowded with strangers ard vi i ors from every part of the adjoining country. One inacquainted with the cause cf su;h an assemblage would by the more causual survey of tlie mixed and variously occupied multitude that surrounded him, h ire concluded that some more t tan an ordinary incident in the history of human affairs whs about to happen. There, together, in strange incongruity, might liaveheen seen the commingling of the sex age on its li en hling staff, and youth, with its firm "clastic, step all seemingly actuated lv the same motive all business was suspen ded curiosity foi the time seemed to have taken possession of every mind, The crowd increased in numbers until thousands were conirrciratcd. when About twelve o'clock, as il by a-simultaneous impulse, the whole multitude directed its course to the goal, from whence a man arrayed in black, apparently about 2? years of age was brought forth in custody cf the officers of justice. It was Heller, the murderer of his wife and family, and the hour of his execution had come. At one o'clock, surrounded by a guard, and preceded by a band of music, lie was conveyed to the place of execution. A number of clergymen attended him on the scaffold, one of whom, the reverend mr. Ball, after an appropriate prayer by the reverend mr. Beswick, preached an impressive sermon. The prisoner then addressed the crowd for the space of about twenty-five minute. His voice was loud and clear, and his manner bore every o - . . . . .1 i.. indication of composure. He gave a short history of his life condemned the crime lor which he was about to sutler, as one of the most aggravated and horrible that human na ture could perpetrate spoke in the highest tvTins. of his wife a d family, and warned the crowd in a most impressive manner, to avoid even ihe first inducement to crime to shun it as they would their deadliest enemy, and not to sutler themstlvcsashehad been, to be drawn from the path of virtue to the siaffld by listening to the suggestions of the evil one. He expressed a hope that lie had received pardon from his God for the crime he had committed. Although,' e-aid hi - crime wasas p e.t lit was unnafor -l a id though his follow beings might refuse to pardon him, yet he be lieved in the blood ol Christ there was lorgiveness for him. Throughout his whole ad dress he was listened to with the most pro found attention: and when at the close, he gave in a clear and loud voice his last solemn farewell" to the vast crowd that surrounded .him. perhaps there was not one bosom that did not heave a sigh in commiseration for his .unhappy fate. A few minutes befoie three o'clock,' the sheriff" conducted him to the fatal platform, where he waited in firm composure until it fell. and launched him into eternity ieriiaDS the deed for which he suffered stands unparalleled in the annals of crime. Yet he has now stoned for his offence--justice is sati6e4, ani mil not his fellow beings be also let the crave close over him, but let not hi fate and the solemn warning he gave on the scaffold be forgotten. It speaks to all in the language of fearful admonition, butespecialk othc self conhdent it teaches the impressive tn:h, that there is no situation in life, however hig.1? and seemingly secure, that can give a certain insurance against the power of temptation. It is supposed from the be-t estimate thot between In and six thousand persons were present at the execution. h is the drst execution that has ever been in this county.and it is senoytly hoped that it will be the last. From the Cincinnati Gazette. THE ORDER OF THE DAY. Th follow in ? extract is from a letter, by a member of congress, dated April 20th. It ex i j ,i,ArVir a new rule was intrrkdnrprL in the house of representatives, giv ing the appropriation, bills precedence over :xh other business. It exptains, 100, iu- ua

made of that rule; so that our readers may understand, why it is that so much time is consumed, in motions to suspend the rule. The

manner in which this lever has been used, in reterence to the Michigan question calls for particular attention. 4i ou have seen, that as long n go as the middleof January, under the mock apprehension of a French war, we resolved that appropriation bills should take precedence of all othci business,after the morning hour, excepting Fridays and Saturdays, which belong to Whittlesey's docket. Very well, we have been since the war-cloud blew over, about half the time, calling ayes and nays, to get rid of this order, and getjip other indispensable business, but in vain, except when 'the party' wills it, as in the case of the New York fire bill.' Thus they use the order, to keep down every thing they do not like two-thirds being required to suspend a rule of business. Early in the session, the senate passed and sent to us, a bill settling the Ohio boundary. e have a majority for it, but two-thirds are not Anxious enough about it to slip the collar and vote to take it up. Thus it lies on the speakers table; and when the way is clear of previous matter, may come up in the morning hour only. To-day we come to bills cn the speakers table, in the morning hour's business. nd in the meantime, the senate, after they got a majority of the 'party,' in the absence of Webster and Goldsboroui. passed another bill, providing the same boundary, and admittino- Mir-hio-an into the union, snh modo. SmM.-ht belnpin the chair, (sneaker lolk ho. ins? iiu the chair takes ud the last named bill. The bill settling the boundary alone having been on lus table about two weeks before that which be called up. Upon this, Vinton raised a question of order, alledging that the first bill from the senate had been called up, and at his instance,and that of Thomas,of Maryland,

without locsing its place, was not disposed ofMease,d' bsii l'ie young woman retained

r nnv w.t v tvhirh farts, pvcrv honr in tp "tu : i-rr. k. nn Th sneaker, ad interim. (Speight) decided against him. inton appealed, and spoke on the ..,.: k., r.J. m;.,..t.e. fK hn, 1 ..l..nr1 tho nn or rl flio rlaw nnt lkirr I 1 . . . . ... .Wn.V.ll i.vmorrow momin-r. The manouvie, as vou will see, is to effect the admission of Michigan, by coupling il with the settlemcnt of the boundary,'in the same bill, and .b,.s comnel those who feel so much interest in settling the boundary, to vote the admission, rather than fail in the settlement of the boun dary. Ir this way, choaking us to death, or compelling us to swallow poison. 1 he bill they wish to take up is, as many believe, a most nernicious and dangerous act. The Michigan convention made the "straijr line boundary, a pan oi men cunsuiuwon, anu eretted thenselvesmto astate.electcd senators, A:c. by a state legislature. e go on to provide, that if a legislature, to be assembled next nmmer, shall agree to alter the constitution to suit the new boundary, the president, by proclamation, is to lead mem poiueiy into me . ...... - . . . -1 1 i union. o inai meir representative win oe here to vote for I nn, when it is necessary. I5y such means, the party act openly, and hope to e e:t a president, and call him the free choice of fie people. I hey avail themselves of our solicitude to aviod civil war, to compel usto give a vote fir a measure, which on its j . ..... ii merit, we condemn, ami wiiicn also compels . in fact, to give avoie 10 miuuicn, rnvum

it so happen, that the election comes into theas picked lives; but, as dr. Casper observes,

houe lor this is the sole aim anu ena 01 me ... 1 1 . r il . hill. A llADliii ix 1 wivin. There can now be no longer any doubt, that Van Buren wishes to make a religious

. ..... r high toned federalist, and catholic, to he chief msticc of the federal union, the admis - sion of Michigan into the union withan article

party in politics. His letter to the I ope 01 ne gather from Dcparcieux s and the AmsterRome, the appointment of Roger B. Taney, dam tables that the mortality of those from

in her constitution giving loreign catholics the age of 10, there are 78 married men. I he rirht to vole without being naturalized, arejdifference becomes still more striking as age

among the signs of the times. To cap the chrmx, the partizans ot an liuren issued me following handbill at the late election. hat w 11 the freemen of Pennsylvania say to such

a dishonest demagogue: we appeal 10 an live, there are nine lienedicts. 1 he same promen who love the country, who are for keep- portion very nearly holds good with respect

i-ig church and state separate to all men, catholic as well as protestant, to frown upon the unholy attempts of Van Buren to make a religious party in this country. Uarvlbill posted vp in JNcw ForA, atAe ce ecc"OtIiusiime! to your posts, or you will lose amenca! iy perseterautc tuu iii-t utiumc ITS RULERS, by negligence you will become its slaves, lour own country was lost by submitting to ambitious men. This beau liful country you may gain by being firm and united. Yeur religion may here have THE 4 ci.l.vnPVPV r,nA . l.r lli P.nnMI,ioirin x NATE. By your perseverance this may be come A CATHOLIC COUNTRY. i Clin. Intel. - -1 111 XSbW urleas, npru It ra mrrpniU rumored Yesterday thai

t,. rnmnaniM of IT. S. troons lately sent fromlana bids fair to rank with the first of the wes

Jefferson barracks to Fort Jesup to protect the

western frontiers, had deserted to the Texian'mense acquisition to her wealth and popula army. This is not improbable, as they had tion the present season.

some lour or live weefcsp-t made overtures to the provisional government of lexas, to be received into the regular army of that country. It is also said that Matagorda was deserted and destroyed by the Texian3, and that they have resolved to abandon the whole country west of Brazos, at least for the present. Bee. GALLANT CONDUCT ON THE PART OF A FEMALE. On Saturday night last, an attempt was made to rob the house of mr. James Webster, at Natland, near this town. One of the ser vant girls had been a little later than usual in seeking her pillow, in consequence of a parting interview with her lover, who next day was about to leave the neighborhood for a distant part of the kingdom. Some time during the evening a noise, and of the breaking of glass, was heard, which excited a little alarm, but led to no investigation, i he moment hav ing arrived when the lover must leave, he was accompanied a lew yards from the door by the young woman. On her return to the kitch en, the first, sight she beheld was a bulking fellow, with soot-begrimed face, and with a lighted candle in his har.. walking towards t,,e '"tenor part ol the house, un neaung a foot- the fellow stopped, turned round and star mi-Jed upon the young woman who had so mop portunely intruded upon his midnight labors ,n a moment, however, he made a dart towards the door, as if to escape, to prevent which the girl laid hold of him, and called out lustily. struggle ensued, and the noise having reach ed the ears of the young woman's sweetheart, he returned J the sound of his footsteps naturally increased the sable visitor's efforts to be fast hold of his clothes. At length, however, the fellow broke away, leaving the hinder I . r i i a ' t : P" OI .ms neiner. g"1 ,n .ine Psiu" l & "V'T. keous conduct. 1 he lover and the young wo min nrnnncon irti'intr Ii:ica In thp Inlt. Whn '' I' ',i- "w 7 another or two of the gang, came from their ",U,,,S - " pursued a short way, but we are sorry that neither then nor since have any of them been "pprencnuea, ana put on me roaa 10 ,.u s.g nal punishment which their crime so richly I merits. Kendal Mcrcuru. EFFECTS OF MAftft'lAGE ON THE DURATION OF LIFE. Some vurv c urious facts on this subiect are stated bv dr. Gasper, in a paper of his lately published at 15erhn. It had been long ago vaguely asserted that bachelors were less long lved t,an married men. Hufeland and De Di.rcieux were of this opinion, and Voltaire observed thatthcre were more suicides among those who had given hostages to fortune than amoi,g those who had. Odier, however, wa I . . ' . . lhe tirst who set on loot the inquiry with ex actitude, and he found. (Bibl. lit itatinique, isi 4. that.inthe case offemales, the mean du ratj0n of life, for the marriee woman of '23, was a)ove 3ti vcars. while for the unmarried ht was 20i. At 30 there was a difference of four years in favor of the married; and at 35, j - - 1 1 two years, and soon. II may oe saia, pernaps, thai married lemaics ought 10 oe consiuereu . . . , . . this is far from being generally the case, especially in the middle and upper classes of sociwhere a livelihood is procured by labor, that importance i3 attached to the bodily heath and vigor of the female. With regard to men I - . . . 30 to 45 years, of age is 24 per cent for the iunmarned, while it but 18 lor the married and that for the II bachelors who attain the advance at the age of CO, there are but $'2 unmarried men alive for 1 married , at t u, 1 1 bachelors lor 2 married men, and at iU, lor (the three bachelors who may chance to be ato the female sex; 7'2 married women, or example, attain the age of 15, while only 52 un married reach the same term of life. M. Cas I per, in conclusion, considers the point as now incontestably settled that in both sexes marinage is cuiiuucivc 10 loujjuTiiy Med. Gaz. IMMIGRATION. W 1th the TCllim Ot SDrinP emierationto the west, has commenced in good earnest. Everv day movers are passing our - streets. And the steam boats and other crafts that navigate the Ohio river are represented as literally crowded with emigrants seeking . . . I .1 r,M 0 1 nomes in me west. JL.ei iiremminci mere are - millions of am., nf first rate land vet unocr 11 pied in the fertile antJ beautiful west. I Thnncnnta ar nrpndin' their Wav fn lliic state. ..F.nvnrpd with a rich SOtf. a hardv and W.X .. m -J .w enterprising population, and the-adoption of .1 . .. ' . J liberal system of internal improvement, Jndi tern states. She will doubtless receive an im-

K7 Mysterious. L formation Wanted.

From the Catskill Messenger, of April Silst, we learn that a box containinglhe remains of a being, were recently found in the:

Shinglekill creek, near the the village of Caption of Mr. Harrison is but a clue to the "en-

to. ine Dody which was much decayed, had eral system of oilicial fraud ar.d villainy. As been severed in the middle, and its head, early" as 18:21, it was ascertained, that the hands and feet cut off, as also the legs and steamboats alone in th Mississippi, district arms. It aDDearS that On the 30th of Sent Jdid or should nav intn lliri Imcr.Wol fr.-1 ..1.,..,

last, mr. Samuel Everett, keeper of the toll it - -1 gate on the Susquchannah turnpike, two miles above Cairo, found standing at the gate in the morning, when he arose, on the Cairo side of the gate, a one horse wagon and hoise thereto harnessed. No owner appearing, and after waiting some time, the horse appearing much exhausted, and badly galled, mr. Everett unharnessed him andputhimup,supposing to be sure, that anjowner would sooner or later ap pear and claim his property. This not being the case, he was advertised in this paper for; several weens, nut no owner has ever appeared from that day to this. He is a serviceable though not elegant horse dunish bay with white spots on the back and romp, similar to many Arabian horses. The wagon is a square box, painted black, with good spring seat which we believe, mr. Everett, told us was cushioned but of this we are not positive, as it is some time since. There was also in ihe bottom of the wagon a mat. " The harness was good corresponding with the style and condition of the wagon. Who the owner of the horse and wagon is. and w-hy,and by whom it should have been left at that place, are matters equally mysterious. " ' We trust the above will be generally copied, as the circumstances related of the wagon, seem necessarily to be connected with the discovery of the remains, which probably, are those of some unfortunate traveller who has been waylaid and murdered. .V. Y. Star. B. I. HARRISON GENERAL COR RUPTION. During the congressional session of 18'2930, an act was passed, authorizing the appoint ment ot surveyors and inspectors of six western ports with more extensive powers .than those previously appointed. These six ports, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, St. Louis, and Natchez, were made a part of tne district of Mississippi, and their surveyors an4 inspectors were empowered to receive provisional entries ofsuch goods, as were destined for New Orleans, and to take bonds in their respective districts for the duties. Their several custom houses were made branches of the custom house at New Orleans, and the amount of their duties was to be ascertained at the latter place, and, after being entered on the bonds, to be paid into such bank, as should be designated by the New Orleans collector, subject to his control, and not to be received by the surveyors and inspectois, they being merely agents between the N. O. collector and the importers. We have not been ahie to lay our hands on the law, be believe, that we have here staled. Mr. B. I. Harrison has a right to collect hospital money hut not duties; yet he has collected both, and is, we understand, a defaulter for both, to the extent of the whole atnount collected. The number of steamboats

which take out their enrolment and licenses at -(N fr J,vc 'on 3'cars to collect whatever athk port, and which of course pay hospital mount of duties and hospital money they pleamoney here annually, is at least fitly, and the sct'' without making a single return or accou: -

tverage sum, paid by each, cannot be lc.-s, and is we presume considerably more, than thirty dollars. This low estimate gives, f.r live years, the sum of s7,.()0 for hospital moncy alone. Let nn official investigation be inslituted, and we have no doubt, that the amount will be found to exceed that sum, not one dollar of which has ever been accounted for. The amount of duties, illegally rtceive.l hy

Mr IT-.,.,-: .t k . f . ' i i . .same suue oi iiungs wouia nave continued on iur. llan ison, and, as he confesses in his late- . , .

card tntlu- nnMir. :,nrr., ; .1,1 l.'.c ... c k ...i enough is known, from the items or four mercantile houses alone, f I w. amAimt iri.'i.lip.i I.I i .. I 4i i ii

uusuiidi x eu inousanu uona s would ! i " . . .i t . , i i i , . , . . ,. Kentucky statesman, that a catastrophe wasbe a moderate estimate: and every do ar of. . r j i - , . . vji .. f.,1,1,. :n,H thru onlv hoie now is to

this as well as the hospital money has bceiil . . - - , pocketed by the surr. y. r and .n-;p. ct. r. -

Aot a larlh.ng Has been transmitted e.lhcr to (f r;.( cive 0 i(s ,icaj the blows of th New Orleans or to W ashington. j fIffm:nR sword of lhc people's vengeance Thus an oflice, bestowed as the reward of c tell them, that they are doomed to n lerripolitical services and from no other cr.nsideia- l,c (reappointment. There is a free press in tions whatever, has, by the connivance of . the country, and it will ring through the land those, whose duty it was to see, that due re- the damnation of the guilty. Luuinillc Jourturns and remittances were made quarterly, ',IW. been permitted to be prostituted to individual or party purposes for twenty quarters, during which time a sum of fifteen or twenty thous- I ' 'ne rail road lid has been signed by and dollars and perhaps double that amount the l.ovei nor of New Wk and is now a law. has been withheld from the treasury by one,11 provides fora loan of three millions of dolpctty officer, among the fifty thousand, who l us to the company to be furnished in in ,-fal-

are fattening upon the public substance. It is not Mr. Harrison alone or parliculaily, that we are determined to reach in this matter: he is small game, and has only nibbled at the corner of the loaf he is but a imi.naw, that has seized a single cruinb, whilst myriads of raveuinij sharks were prowling around with

jaws like yawning caverns, hungry and insa" liable as the grave, and ready to seize what, soever might fall m their way.

Ther must now h flr,ri, t.,uv ,.f the procedines of the Government's western officers. A tale of horrible corruption and guilt remains in lp d-vlnn(1 Tim )air "vt miw m- uw. imiui iuim duuiu $b,UUU per year. ' 1 he sum now paid by steamboats is at least $nZ,UUrJ-pcr year, and the" whole amount, paid "by them up to the present time, cannct he less thafi one hundred and five thousand dollars. This 'vast'amount, we repeat, has" been paid in -the" distiict of Mississippi; and, wherever it ma y have gone it must be drawn from its "hiding'-plrfcesV By the letter of the New Orleans collector, which we published on Monday, it appears,' that nowing has been . i i received bv him from any of the western ports nothing from Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville. Nashville. St. Louis or Natchez. From the same letter, we learn, that the whole amount of hospital money, which he acknowledges having received from steamboats since 1817, is" lint sl5,r2S 97, . leaving at the" very loes"t "calculation, the tremulous sirmr of ninety thoiismtd dollars unaccounted (or a sum, that would have been amply sufficient to alleviate the distresses of all the sick and disabled boatmen of the west. There is hot' merely something wrong among the office holders: their whole Denmark is one mass .of rottenness. . We earnestly call upon the friends of right and justite at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, -Nashville, St. Louis and Natchez, to set investigations on foot, similar to that, which has resulted in such melancholy dcvelopements Tiere. If the books of the surveyors and inspectors of those ports cannot exhibit a better state of things than those of Mr. Harrison, and give the lie to tl c. New Orleans collector, let the whole truth, however monstrous and startling. be. known at once. The matter must not be hushed up or permitted to sleep. Not only the public morals but the vital interests of a suffering and mcst meritorious class of citizens are at stake; ; nd thcihalls of congress must be made to echo and re-echo with the story of their wrongs. The hirelings of the administration must not think to absolve their masters from the deep guilt of these most nefarious proceedings. They need not think, by the sacrifice of so insignificant a personage as B. I. Harrison, to wash white the scarlet sins of the still greater offenders, who have encouraged him in his crimes. His defalcation was" well known at the New Orleans custom house and at the F. .S. treasu ry department, after the expiration of the lu st quarter, when he neglected to 'transmit his quarterly accounts, according to law, as it can be now; and, if such defalcalions in the small ofliccrs are passed over in silence, we may readily conjecture what must be the condition of things where millions are the figures instead of thousands. According to the declarations of the New Oilcans col.lector for the whole of the rich and almost ! boundless valley of the Mississippi, although jc quired by law to make quarterly returns to ue transmitted from New Orleans to the treasury '"ccrs at Washington, have been suffer,m ,or a solitary farthing. J he public funds of all this mighty icgion of country have been f kettcd by licensed plunderers, whilst the government knowing or at legist bound to lu,ow a'1 the circumstances and the full ex1(1,1 01 mc pillage, has looked on without a murmur, rejoicing to behold its vassals reap- " such gulden harvests for their partisan services. Had not Mr. Clay instituted his i M 7.?. 1 ' '". , V nate,me I . 1 K: : .1. t t 4.1 . .1 l,1,,tu"ul ,j ,l,e goveinmeni, ciuring me nexc

.. . 1 1 . live ear?, as during the live last, would have i estimated, but ,r J , ,, " & , 11s aid b three Ml''''l"t'" ",c rnt,re public revenue of the west 11s pan j iree )(. Ufc . jjie CpQ of political freebooters, c, to shew, that rr, , . ,. c ' ' , r, , ., . v.i 1 he hirelings of power saw, however, alter cds that ofthei,, ,K , - - ; r.i.

five year, as during the five last, would have ..the energetic and decisive movement of the ... ... , r .i...:. ;; , .1 n,., Mlieill lilt IISH'I UILII IIILII1I7 1IIU iu, , . . v (hnislinLr fonVard the Louisville nig- -. "j me progress oi me .,. i in-ni.iu I- to exieiHi irorn ine jiinisoii i:i i at Albany to Lake I jie, b.L'ing p. ii. ill 1 with that (" nal. It will be a va! ' be its influences upon I hi Empire stale. prosycrh'y f lhe