The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-21

eff these views be correct, silver ought to be the standard measure oi property in the United States, and main tained by mint regulations, as the chict material for metallic currency. But if there were no paper medium like that of the Bank of-the United Statess clrcu- latlng freely in all parts Of the Union, and every where convertabie into the standard, at moderate discount, gold coins would be almost indispensabie.,- Withoutthem, every traveller, ,eventrom state to state, and often from one coun- try to another, must either cucumber himself with silver, or be exposed to yexations and endorsements and i'm positions. ."--Enq'arer.
 Hagriso4use,ss for Debt.-" We ob- serve q notice in an eastern paper, oi widow woman, who is confined in jailin Providence, R. I. for the unpardonable sin of owing 6S cents. Her husband lost his life in attempting to save the property of this same creditor from the flames.
 A fact like this, is a startling comment tary upon the disgraceful and inhuman law of imprisonment for debt, andshould not be permittedto pass witha bare re- lation. It IS only one, among the thou isana equally reyoitiHg aid barbaroas instances of adding to the H | sss Iof those, who, by train of unforeseen and unavoidable misfortunes, are previ- ously reduced to extremlties bordering on despair. 1t is q ffuli fuilii development, too, of the extent to which a man will display and exercise tie dark passions Eof his soul, when countenaneed by GUS tom, and the laws of his country. Here is a poor widow, thrown into Ioatf- some prison, whose husband diedin de- lending from the flames the property of the individual, under whose cruelty she suffers, and who, but for the fatal exer- tions of the deceased, might have been. |reduced to poverty, equally abject and helpless. 4 female confined in prison lorsixty~aight cents torn from her child ren, ffaHaiiy and friends Iafbsbed of her liberty; shut from all the social enjoy ments and endearments that make fife valuable; deprived of the means of ex- erting herselffoF individual support, ,anl the ssistenance efher children, and what | is still more appalling, suffering under a calamity worse than all these-the dis grace which is ever attached to con
 finement in jail.
 Such instances, itmay be alleged, are rare. Allowing this to be true, does it do away the suflerings of those fe7p, if they are few, who are doomed to endure such trials? Are not tine miseries of even one individual worthy the sympa- thies ofhis fellow beings, and should not the law be so enacted that the rights and the happiness of no ORG could be trampled upon2 But, they are nos rare; instances exhibiting an equal Restitution of the better traits in the human char acter, are almost every day transpiring, which arc not made public, and there fore are unknown, except to the imme- dlate friends of the parties. 4 few months only have passed, since, in the same town where the above outrage on humanity occurred, a transaction, show ing an equalmalgnity of soul, was made public. 4 poor women, who had been in better Circumstances, with her infant child, was confined in jail, for a sum less than five dollars, by the physician, who attended upon her during her illness, and remained there for weeks, in cold, eonItortless room, subslsting upon the scant charities of such as had a know ledge of her condition. The circar- stances were, finally, made known to the public, and benevolent individual of Charleston, $. C. without disclosins his name, forwarded a sum of money. sufficient to relieve her from iaIl. and supply farther wants.
 Rocheseer Craftsman.
 There is a tradition amoug the Pot tawattanies of the Illinois river, of the existence in past times, of powerful tribe oi indians residing on that river