The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 1, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 May 1824 — Page 7

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The'la-t Brattleboro' Vegsenger'con-

The brightest gem&gt nature duth.im-,

The well knowji signup in the time of

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Ihe prize whicH merit never yet has

The pr won ... 'f The miser's treasure, and tlie batTge of (MVS, ~i f, i/-l The wife's ambition^ an'd thc parson's

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T^y flie particular request of tire author, we insert the following supposed solution of the above riddle

F1 nM iiiF'. American SEVTINCL." A marble ow.sMoug has stood, The noblest work of art. A ysinia the hri^fitest £Cf,mJ

That nature does imp.a t, A Venus the essential point -v To adorn a law vers-ca«e The well known signal. Venus !?,*'»

I'o all ,in time ol peace. \7. Vimis, the ploughman prompts delights. i#' ChfiifcfuJ to «Irivp his plough,

Hie sohiier lor a I enus fights, 1 °r I cans 'overs vow. And Venns the planet seen, letween the earth and Sun. Thou

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the I enus prize and queen.

IV ich merit never won. Jn emcr Shy lock's treasures lay JM ier the bad^e of ews.

The wife of a young Venus sighs, Ambitious then to see her rise, And bring thc pars m's dues, 31 nobler spirit clearlv can define, hat Vc"U3, correspoudi with cverv liuef Adieu fair -pirit of the skies, rhough worlds revolve between us Thv lessons lead me to Ihe prize, it

»'he Verms of Mc-lici. f.Miss SewarU. •. ,•

KXKt'U I .\ OF Joll At an early hour th morning, fhpeople b.-«an to asse, ble in the Park Jor the purpose of catching a look aJohnson when lie should h*brought fort and also fo accornpan him to the plar. of execution I he whole police efah J'^hnient, excepting one justice and our mar-hal, together with, from 50 to 8' special constables, were upon dutv aim the troops under the command ofCul Spicer, paraded at Oo'clock. The crowcontinued to assemble in the Park, and in ii road way, aniil twelve o'clock, a jyhich time, the whole of Bn»a.lwa%. iron, Murray street, to Canal Street .. and one half of the Park in rear, am' in 'ront, was fi'Ied to a degree that was never before witnessed. It presented as it were,

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peace, V- (lied himself, shook it off, and,looked The ploughman's prompter when he

solid mass of living flesh—

.• men, women_ and children, of all colors and description Phr crowd, however

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appointed, lor Johnson vva^ taken out in rear. number of gentlemen, ineluding, some ofli, ers, $c. on the invi tation of tlie Sheriff, were in Hridwell. and as Johnson was taken into the hack yard from the cell, went thither with him. 'ltnson w«sclad in a white flowing dress, »d^ed with black, with a cap of the same When he entered tlfe yard, he appeared perfctly unconcertHUl and the only time that he had been seen trembling was whpfi the haltei $as adjusted upou hia neck just befort'

1 s3i» t- ,i r* r" leaving prison. Johnson had repeat- .' edly lequestcd that no addresi should

Miss SEWARD'S RIDDLE,- made b* any of the clergv. either

thc Ma orat

Mr Putnam I he newspapers in- sidered it to be his duty, on lira) ing

».v *°rin us that the la'e celebrated English with the unhappy man for the lalt timt, 1#?- poetess, Miss AVN SMVARI,

left a rid-

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premium of fifty

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pounds sterling to the person who should verend gentleman dealt plain!' with sohc it. lleic is tae riddle I'm. th-' nor of his remarks, ev Jent'v The nob'»st objccts in the w^rlcs of art

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part, dress, and the fervant prayer which Thc jv»«t cssentialin a lawyer's case, M°''

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.. Now if yournoMe spirit ran divine, A corresponding woid for every line, JBy all these lessons clearly will be shown

An ancient city of no small ronewn.

All Kurope has tried in vain for sfveral ye.ii's to obtain the nvi/» .Tko •&T>fol»l and nonor of the discovery have been reserved for the iN'otv World and for a littie corner of Vermont* You v\ 'will be furnished with the solution for 'your p-iper in the conise of the next

Sprin i'nd the proper measures have airevJy been taken to obtain the reward from ihn e.vecuiors of Miss Seward'* 4-\viil in England.

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I'tt'e emotion, but he soon ral-

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drives the ploug.h. Ihe military arrangement wis not The soldi r's duty and the lover's vow. f°

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l'he procession moved up Broaflwhv to lioiidstrrefj

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REMARKS and hisiddreas

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tha he had little hopeol-a"~^ai gc

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d, Johnson oncp or twice «vin-

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prison, and to the s}tes of

prison, and to the s|tes of

tlie pi ison yard. Indeed fromTjie im men»e crowd and from the greai.number of carmen who had been suffered tocrowdin with their horses antlcarts, filled with people, we at one tinw feared that many would inevitably berrush ed to death.— I lie .shrieking of t!a silly females, some of them with infants, on the approaching of the light hoJrnen. itnd who could not move unlessJborne along by tlie crowd was dist^Iing ... However, toe diftTcnltic# wfeij£\ jn measure surmounted by a quartcf past 12, when the Sheriff, and his sta ', artd the procession moved off for theblace ofesecu.ion. In the wagon withjoliu»n, were a ft umber of the clenivamong whom were the Ilev, Mr.ljlijl. vie, ami the Itev. Mr. Cruleii Jk, the two selected for the occaioLbv himself. *:!',•

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of the multitude, that they wereoHe hour in pe. forming tlii distance. «^hey arrived at the place of e.\«c.uti.ou ,ai lj uunejjtes pa.st one o'cloQk-

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ting-out fi-om the wai,W J^|, •lu.nd at the steps uf-riwijAilows. ,vjU tne appropriate service read by t\ irv: Mr. Ondmlonk,

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xtraneou* piafcr oft'f/td by the Hev -lr. 0^1 vie. Ii ii tiien ascede.l the steps, ccompanitd by^the Sheriff & Mr' Lowndes, wit!),whom he spoke gome oin. utes.—After the adjTJMtiuMit ope, he kissed both of thir handtrough lus^.ct'p wfien, the drop fell, id at a Quarter- before two o'clock, was .launched into eternity, and iit-d with scarcely a stru«H ^roin ad that we have seen and •ecn able ascertain, Johnson was per•ctly steeled against every feeiin of niteuce or contrition to thr Ust.^lle vas a very ignorant, and sr uio ik ra her a stupid man. His Ian ,'iage I.as been stran^elv unfeeling iml •ontradiciory. To soine he has con'Ssetl the murder over and over a^ain. otiiers, for the last few weeks, ano ven up to the ti.i.e of his death, hi ts maintained that he was only ah oessary to the crime, and that th. eed was perpetrated by Jerry, bile to others still, he has graspeij th* tble, and solemnly attested that he as not guilty of the muider. Bu iere are many, many citcumstnnceshow that he was not alone in'guilt —and 'hat it was not Jerry but anther, assisted him, and whom he was 'etermined to screen. When Dr. •ranford went in to see him last eve nng, Johnson looked up with total uti concern, and said—"Well old Dad, yn you think I stand it very weil.'*' l-o 'he sheriff he said this morruii"'— •'Mr. Wendover, I hopejou won't have '/lis job to do over again, you are too Wding a man!" VVe note these expies dons as specimens of his general deportment, and as evincing the callousness of his feelings. Indeed his family svem to be much like him. We •^aw a letter from iiis wife and dauo-h-

ter, recivcd from New burg, on 'l\u*swl.ich

day, which was of a piece with his whole conduct. In this letter they both talked with a business like unconcern, about their farming opera-

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The follwing'ii thcTubsfaTcc'Jf ter as nearly as we can recollect

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Jt-i written you

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Mt rs, but have not received any from if you can, I wish vou to w-.ite '«c or get some one\o write for you

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want to receive a letter from you before you die. The children a.e all well and so is the cattle. We have dragged the stones from thc field

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Mr. T.~Wghatfe sowed thc fipld/wif^ clover and mothy, and we have made? the fein.c ourselves.—-1 have bougjht the plough as wrote you for 87—the barn will be up upon Monday next—my dear husband, I love you as well as ever I did—1 want to see you before you die, but it is so far 'that I do not feel, able to come. I pray night and morning and every day, that God would have mercy on your poor soyj* farewell A men-—^\Tnffi. [Then the daughter writes in her"'*own name.j Mother is almost sic! with crying. Mr. A. B. C. &c. talk of going down to see you. I hope you wont let them see vou. I hey say, up here, you are going to make a speech. You don't know what folks ty about you, when thev come here. I hope you will not make any dying speeches, to be^ printed in books when you are dead, for there is enough now printed in tlie papers, to take half a day to read,~I. hope vou will keep a close mouth—you have said too much. P. and D. the children

all send their love to you, and pray for vou night and morning." This letter was signed by the daughter—the letter continues in the same hand writing, as from the mother, which go^s on to request him to pray to (-rod and die innocent, as I believe you are—and keep your mouth shut."

The last paragraph by way of a P. S, refer* try tin-ir Having buill mtrteuce round the barn and beloiethe door.

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Kentucky. J'roducis.—It is estimated that the export of Stock alone from Kenturky, during the past year a mounts to $$1.414,GiM principally in horses, mules, hogs, and beef cattle.

Mr. Waterman, of Washington ci ry, advertises an invention by which a man may wall upon Hie water twelve miles an houH Oh dear._

Hurtfurd Convention.—The Hon II G. Otis, is at'empting in a series of numbers now publishing in the Boston Centinel, to wipe from that body the

'dium that so justly attaches to it.— Vain attempt! he /night as well endeavor to obliterate the stigma from the character of Arnold—or make the con duct of Hull appear honorable, as to prove that the Hartford Convention was an assemblage of just men made ••.effect!*' The advice to Suncho, is, in our opinion, well applied by one of 'he Boston editors to this prominent member of that infamous body—The more you stir

an ship of Thomas .. fed rescued an FreWfch brig •froi^i Mona I^issage.

OLD A Eli S.

'Cow Tn.x.—In Russia no person can be admitted into a school, be bound an apprentice to a trade, nor be married. who has not had the cow pox or -mall pox. ^ueh regulations have driven the small-pox from the kingdom l,20(yft)0 were vacinated in a few

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La Fayette—The Paris Journal du Commerce asserts, that M. La Fayette will not come to th U. States, unless ill hopes of freedom for Fiance shall first bccome extinct. .,* a

AMERICAN COTTONS—-The Providence journal states, that brown cotton sheetings and shirtings, of fine thread, but poor sto«k,are imported into this country, where they are bleached, and thus obtain the stamps of American bleachers The goods are then brought into thc markets as American, and, on account of the superior durability of American cloths obtain fhe preference. Purchasers may distinguish between the superior cloths by observing, that the former are always stamped with the names of the maker ami bleacher, while the latter are only stamped with that of the bleacher. *v

The U.-S. brig Spark, Captain NTewton, was r.t Mantanzas, about 24th ult. Ihe S. had run down along all the Islands and through the old Bahama Channel, touching at St. Thomas and the Island of Mona—at the latter place Captain Newton doutroyed an establishment, that no dobut has once been the rendezvous of pirates—a strict search was nulae for the inhabitans, but without success—a number of articles were found, such as charts, &c and all the papers of the brig Willliam Henry, of Boltimore, together with a medicine chest lull ofei^tWcine, sup. posed to belong to. said brjg-^-the boats that were foub|,/ iogetfMM»- with the house were destroyed.

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The Col. brig 9iHibIitt¥'"wi spoken £6th ult. off the DimIhi*

ed Shot Keys had ^ecent.'y mat prizes.

,^it is statef that«%riaffnumbei people of coloul havf-arrived at! I'llomas frotinifife

iJicucc'Dy the5 olution.

MExrco_Bri^Acci»^i Mexico, we Wai that thefts (ftf cent a tumult tWe, comm^trcei Uen. Lobito, with a

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congress to change the ministri put the Europeans out of or»ce* having found his er or, submitted others refused to succumb, an two officers of ihe army were ai ded, tried, and condemnd to$U pan onefl ihe next dav.

For, Safe.

THE O.X JllL£ Jlnd two thirds of thd

steam Disrifi"

ihe Still two££ears, they are operation The above proper/^ be sold at a reduced price for cas for part of the purchase and approved security for the balancc for further information enquire of

Jn u. Tr 1833'.

JOHN WIJALEN. on the premises*

Henry Mar rick,

•J I (ATTORNEY AT LAW) Continues to practice in the sever al courts of the first Judicial circuitHe keeps his office at Washington, Daviess county, wherehe he may at all times be found excepting when absent at court.

Conveyancing punctually attended to and correctly executed on moderate ter»tt*.

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THE public are hereby notlftoj that the Subscriber continues to carry on the

Halting Business Of-f

At his old stand in the Borough of Washngton Daviess County.— Where he' keeps a constant supply of Ladies Fur Konnets and Ladies and Gentlemens Hats in assortment. 1 hose who wish, can be accommodated with such articles bv applying as a-^ bove. Furs, or Cash will., Lt itttiv inpayment.» 0

JAMES CALHOON.

Jan. 1 1835. ".V N. B. A lad from the conntry whft"' can come well recommended, will be taken as an apprentice to the above J" business.

A Great Bargain I

LAftD FOR SALE

THE undersigned offers for sale TWO TRACTS OF FIRST RATE

LAND,-

JOHN FLINT*.

NOTICE TO MANUFACTURER'S^

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lying in the forks of White River Daviess County Indiana, One Tract of

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with 50 Acres improved 100 bearing I Appletrres, good Springs.—The other I ract, has about 20 ACRES under 4 cultivation, good' MILL SEAT, and well Timbered—both lying about six miles from Washington, The price will be in conformity with the times— A W aggon and Ilorses will be received in part payment and the terms otherwise made easy. A

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H. D. WHEELER, of Vincennes, respectfully informs the citizens of Vigo and the adjacent counties that he has on hand Wool Carding Machines of S a superior quality which he will sell low and will continue to make Woo! and

Cotton Carding and Spinning Machines of fhe best quality on very low terms-*— Also, all kinds of turned and finished it' Iron work. Mill Irons &c."

Terro-Haute April 27, 1824—Srm3.