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Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23


 E'atat Occurrence.-An attempt was made. one night last week. to force an entrance into the dry good store of Nlr. Sarivrr, in Hano-- yer. Penn. by boring hole in the shutter SD. as to admit of the introduction nf the hand to remove the bolt. A clerk who slept in the store, hearing nnise. got up and loaded gun. and at tfe moment the rohbrr had suc- ceedrd ;n making room for his hand. and was about to draw il,e bnli. the clerk discharged his gun al the opening 'Fha discharge, hap- pears, was made with fatal aim. On exami- nation shortly after, the feErss body of a man was found outside immediately under the window. He had a wound in the head which, itwas evident, must have caused instant dpath. The deceased was an entire stranger known to pope of the inhabitants. Mir. King, the clerk. immediately surrendered himselfto the civil authorities. And ihe court, being then in session at York, he was carried there for trial. He was tried. at once. on an indictment for mans!aughter, and acquitted,
Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

The Albany Argus discusses the constitn- tionality of Bank Ofthe U. $. You cannut keep thase collar presses to the point. There is no charter asked for. It is. "has ihe Pres ident po,Oer to seize upon the public monies, md dispose cf them as he pleases ?' he has he power. say SD; if he has not the power, why not declare it, like honest men and frtetDcn should do! Why this shrinking and dodsing from the true ques.mn ?--Noahs Star.
Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

Erfsasire Bunk Rebbery.-The Bank of Philadelphia was entered yestcrday,-it is supposed with false keys,--and robbed lso far us yet ascertained) of sixty-three thousand dollars. The drpredafors are said to have taken away the exchange nnies. and the Phil adelplia Bank notes under the denomination Of hundred. The nolss of higher value were left untouched. No specie is missing.
 Pkilad Nat. Gax.
Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

ChGrlestoa, Jan. 4.-Inteliigenee was this morning received, of the demise of Colonel William Coiesw0rth Pinckney, Of Waterloo rough, (S. C.) Col. P. was one ofthe Rep1b- the House of Representatives, in the Legisla- lure of this State.
Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

Baaks! Baaks ,!---On Wednesday last. being the first day for petitions, applications were presented to the Legislature of this State for forty-one new Banks. four of them to be located in this city.-N. Y. JoGr. Com.
Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

Mmrder-We are informed that on the lst instant, a quarrel took place at Farnham, l.. C.. between one Archelns Welch, Jr. and John Bowker, a taveinkeeper; and during a scuffle that ensurd, man hy the name of Truax interfered. when Welch drew a pocket knife and stabbed Truax in the bowels, in such manner that he survived but about an hour. Several persons were present, hut in the confusion which ensued. Welch was suf. fered to escape; and we cannot learn that he has yet been taken. He was seen on the eve hing of that day retrea,ing tot the woods, arm ed with rife. The parties were young men and nrighbors. and the act precerded from Rum Drinking, to which we understand Welch had been long habituated.
 ss.eSs Use. Sc. Aibans yf.I paper.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

The following description of a school clock given by the Philadelphia Intelligent Ger, IS indeed a curiosity :-
 4 Curiosity. y.--In the Ladies' Institute, of this city, conducted by the Rev. k. ". Cushman, in Arch,near Seventh street, there is clock, which for the ingenious round of duty that it Is made to perform, will con- pare with any curiosity of the present day By ninvention of Mir. Gushman, this clock is made to ring bell, calling the scholars together in the morning, and when they are assembled, 1t presents them with the word study" on the upper part of the dia.-- Wheathe morning shalf over, the bell strikes again, and the word ''recess,n takes the place of 'sstudy." By vote of the schol- ars, 1t was decided that not a whisper should be made in the school hours, except during this recess. While that word presents it. self, three minutes only, the school is in a buzz; but when study returns, implicit obe- dience follows. Several other words are presented by the same arrangement and the effect Is admirable. Its advantages are seen in the perfect order which remains in the Institute ; an Establishment, by the way, supposedly none in this city for the excel lence of its conduct, and the thorough edu- cation of the scholars there instructed.-- All the departments are sustained by the most competent teachers; the philosophical apparatus costly, and extensive, and the la- bours of the President unceasing. We hope this Institute enjoys what it deserves a rich degree of favor and patronage.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

West Iadies.-Extract of letter from a gentleman in St. Thomas, to his cores pondent in New Haven, dated August l5, 1894 There have been some famous do- ings in St. Kits. The negroes have all turned out. There is vessel down from that island this morning, which brings the news that after great deal of trouble, they have been brought into subjection again, with the exception of about 300, who are still in the mountains. Those who have been taken were severely hogg- ed, so much so that some died under the lash. Others were sent to Bermuda as convicts, and l believe there are some to be shot. Fourteen of them were killed the other day. It appear they had assem- hled within range of the guns of the fort, from which they were greeted with a salute in the shape of two bomb shells, which killed fourteen, and dispersed the remain def.i,'
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03
A CA. R ID.

GSOHE time since, there was publica~ " tion, which made it's appearance in the .arkdnSts GdzeHe, Tn relation to an engages ment which was said to have taken place between the United States Dragons, and the Pawnee Indians. The rumor on which the publication was found -di, has provef, to be untrne. l regret exceedingly that the Editor of the Gazette has placed me in an attitude in which it becomes my duty to yindicate myself. My only wish is, that the public may kaow the part which have acted in giving publicity to thatsru- nor. I will, therefore, briefly state what heard and related on that subject. visited Fort Gibson some time last spring, and was an entire stranger at that place. left the Fort the same day, and stayed all night at a house five miles from the Fort. The next morning, from a conver- sation between several gentlemen, to me, strangers, learned that there had been an engagement between the United States Dragons and the Pawnee Indians l; that in the engagement the former lost s men. and the latter so; that the Dragons were bringing in l50 prisoners; and that had been brought in the day before While was at the Fort, saw two Indians at the residence of Governor Stokes, who from their appearance, I supposed might have been two of the prisoners, and so stated. On my return home, being asked the news at Fort Gibson, and what from the Dragoons, did state, and perhaps in the presence of AIr. Reeves, that the above statement was related in my hearing, and that presumed from the appearance of the two Indians, they were part of the prisoD- i CTS. lis vas .ssy statement, for the srnt!. or falsehood of which, l never vouched, but related the circumstances as I heard them. And l suppose it was upon hearing this, that the fruitful imagination of the Gazette Editor was called into action. 1 When the public detected and exposed his falsehood, he endeavors to sake shelter under cover of minister of the gospel, and make me the author of his fiction. I never did assert the statement as true, but merely gave 1t as ther rumor of the day. l have said this in justification to myself, and solely because Mir. Woodruff has en- deayored to give character by associaiing his name with Mr. Reeyes.-I could never consent to yindicate my character for i truth, against the attack of a puppy who 1 has more than once in the public prints been published as a perjured scoundrel, and challenged to the proof, and who dared not make an issue.
 WILLIAM WOLSEY. Fayetteville, Sept. Is, 1884.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

House of Commons, the brave, flashing op- ponent of the habitlal tnrtIlosifies and sol yelsms of British Legislation, and the elo- quent champion of freedom and enlight- enment of his countrymen. But 90 sell dom does he rise at all in the House, that many manufacturer, whose name has ne- yer travelled across the Atlantic, except as i $ stamped afoa h;;s merchandise, CT even some petty lord, says more and does more than the renowned author of Pelham and Eugene Aram.
 l have often said to myself, what a pity that a man gifted as Bulwer is, should not make the house in which he sits, and the country in which he lives, feel the power of his gen. jus, as he might exert 1t in behalf of the true and simple principles of political freedom; the opposite of which he so freely condemns in his writings. But the thing IS utterly ifrl- possible. He lacks that highest of human attributes--moraI courage; the bravery to do what we feel and know to be right, in de- fanee of petty considerations.
 The truth is, that Bulwer, like others of the common political tribe around him, is feontroled by the social influence of this corrupt and corrupting metropolis. Instead of rising up in the dignity of man of gen. jus, superior to the littlenesses of his times, and pursuing fearlessly the high and true interests of his country, he yields to the poison of the atmosphere in which he lives, and suffers himself to be awed--yea, polit- ically paralyzed by the aristocratic class amongst whom he Is now admitted, whom he has dashed in his writings, and for whom, when heis alone in his closet he perhaps feels contempt
 absolutely grieve to see what he is, and think what he might, and ought to be.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

.abase oj the Fraahiag Pripi!ege.--Among deaths by Cholera at Huron Ohio, was that of Charles Robinson, Esq. lawyer from Vermont. The examination of his effects, by his Physician and other respectable cit izens of Huron, brought to light new species of political corruption. Among his papers, they found forty sheets of blank letter paper, bearing He fraak of he Hon. Afr. Ptamnler, .M. c. from .aigfsissiasiipri. Political letters, addressed to Mir. Robin son, by various correspondents, and all franked by the same member, were also discovered. And It was ascertained that Mir. Robinson before his death, had put in, and taken out of the Post Office, several letters, al bearing the same frank. Robin- son, if is evident, vas a political emissa- ry and this disgraceful abuse of the frank ing privilege was resorted to, to lessen the expences of his mission.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

Bal,rer. The subjoined extract of a letter from correspondent of the United States Gazette, has possessed us with a clearer idea of Bulwer's personal appear ance and character, than any thing we have yet read, of which he was the subject.
 Bulwer appears to be about thirty or thir- ty-fve. He has a remarkably slender, erect person, of ordinary height, and face. pale and thin, without the appearance of i'll health, blue eyes, not at allremarkable for the, exnressiyeness. a large nose, a project ;ng mouth, a small chin. light hair, and enor-i nous red whislsers, make Up his features. His style of dress is that of careless ar istocratic dandy: and his style of counten- ance rather indicates the propriety of his dress than the man of genius, which he real ly is.
 I expected to see him stand UP in the
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

4 negotiation between the authorities of the General Government and the Wyan- dot Indians, is now on foot, for the pur- chase from the Indians of the Wyandot Reservation. in Ohio, embracing 146,2l6 acres of superior soil, the only lands in the State having an Indian title. The Govern
 nent offers te give the Wyandots the same amount of land, west of the Mississippi, as they have in Ohio; to give them the amount their lands sell for, reserYing 70 cents per acre only, to defray expense on sales, &c.; furnish each warrior with ri- fle; furnish each family with sufficient number of blankets; furnish the Indians with one years provisions; be atsthe ex- pense of removing them, and pay five per cent on the amount of sales for twenty years; then pay the Indians the balance, af- fer dedueing the TO cts. per acre, or invest 1t for thei. use. Batt. .4mer.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

Prophecy and falflmept. Judge Story, of the U. s. Supreme Court, writes in his published long before the publication of the Post Office frauds, that ''IF EVER THE PEOPLE ARE TO BE COR RUPTED, OR THEIR LIBERTIES ARE TO BE PRosTRATEp, THIS EsrABLIs iasENTs V II.I. FURNISH THE MOST FAeILE MEANS, AND BE THE EARLIEST sEMpIoYED TO ACCOM- PLIsH THE PURPOSE ]. Attfe time of its first publication, this prophetic sentence of the sagaeioas commentator ea our institil- lions, was passed unnoticed, but the sur prising fuIflment of the prediction brings it to our obseryation.--Horoeste Spy.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

A German Prince having in a dreai, seen three rats, one fat, the other lean. and the third blind, sent for celebrated Bohe- milan gypsey and demanded an explana- ton. The fat said the sorceress, is your prime minister; the lean rat your people; and the blind ra. yourself.'
 Old Mdid "A lady who has attained the
 age oi t,ef.sy-sssylr 3ss tss,, ts, without h.::n. married fool, a knave, gambler, Or a drnnkard.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

4 aas,r projeci.- General Green, of the Washington Telegraph, has announced his intention to open an institution at the seat of government for the education of apprenti- ces to the printing business. His plan is to take 200 students, who are to be divid- ed in classes, one to compose on the Tele- graph certain number of hours in the day, and on several literary and scientific works; the remaining hours 10 study. Their edu- cation IS to be perfect, and they are 10 be first rate compositors and proof readers; to be fed and clothed, and the surplus of wages laid by for them at the end of their apprenticeship. The Typographical Soci- etY have protested in strong language
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

The riots at Madrid had not been re- newed-numbers had been arrested. The number of monks who fell victim to the meb's fury amount to from fifty to sixty.- The public feeling was directed only against the friars, as the regular priesthood during the greatest excitement appeared among the mob in their religious robes, when they were respectfully treated and drew forth the usual tokens of yeneration.
 The devastation and havoc committed by the Cholera at Madrid was immense ;; high and low, alike fell victim to it. The alarm is very great; no accounts of the cases or deaths are given to the people they are left in entire ignorance as to it's increase or decrease, 800 cases day, and 260 deaths within the same time were known. To the latest dates by informa- ton from letters, the mortality had fallen to 100, physicians were few, and many died before one could be obtained. The death carts go about the city collecting the re- mains of the poor who are thrown in pro- miscuously, scarcely covered with few tattered rags. The daily scenes that are witnessed are represented as appalling in the extreme.
 The course of the disease is, however, less agonizing, it is said, than if was at Lon don or Paris. Vomiting and diarrh@a were always attendant, and numbers died from mere exhaustion, without the painful spasms and cramps which have invariably marked the character of the disease att other places. " Y. Star.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

WILD MAN.--A wild man has lately been found in the midst of the woods and mountains of Hartzwald in Bohemia, who it is presumed must have been there from his infancy. He appears to be about 50 years of age, but he cannot articulate sim gle word. He bellows, or rather howls, his voice being like that of dog He runs on all fours, and the moment he perceiyes a human being, chambers to the top of tree like an ape, jumps from branch to branch with surprising agility When he sees a bird or other game, he pursues It, almost always with success. He has been brought to Prague. but all attempts to tame him have been truitless indeed, he appears in- capable of acquiring the habits of civilized life.-Paris Papers.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

against what they conceive is amonopoiy, which may finally seriously injnre their in- terests, by affording labor on cheap terms. There can he no doubt that for time it may injure the interests of journeynen, but 1t IS like all improvements that cheapen la- bef; they cannot be prevented, and in free country man has right to carry any legal gal ire;eee.t F ee. into execution -E,re Sfar.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

The name of John Mclean was honor- ably introduced at the Morris County Whig Meeting on Saturday as the candidate of the Working men for the Presidency. Had Judge Mclean been continued in the Post Office by Gen. Jackson, the nation would have been the gainer probably a million of dollars. .Nelcar.k Das. .qdp.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

K North Carolina existed as a separate State ornation, for upwards of eight months after the Federal Government commenced its operations under the present constitution, and Rhode Island for near fourteen months, and both, had they seen it, might have con- tinued to do so up to the present day.
 Geo. Hines
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

Instruction 10 thc Virginid .Members- The Jackson men in Virginia having been gloriously defeated at the polls. are for try ing the matter over again, in tho form of in- structions they say that the sense of the people has not been fairly ascertained; ]; that the personal popularity of the members elect, and other influences, intewened to bias the election. Well, supposed the game should be played over, will the pop ularity of no Jackson man be brought to bear upon the issue? Will 10 hope--no fear-no persuasion--no glofy-no grog- no misrepresentation---no humbug- enter into the renewed contest? Suppose 1t played out, and instructions should be ob- tained, will these be any fairer test of en- frightened public sentiment than that ahord- ed by the election lately held? Our notion Is, that when party IS once fairly beaten, they ought to '' siay beatsis ; until t comes to the time to try it over again.
 Watcbman.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

DIED-ln this town. on Tuesday night last. sNaiy Van .1istoa, infant daughter of Col. Chester Ashley.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03
TuFg STATES

The following is the order in which the thirteen States ratified the federal constitu-
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03
Kaorrille. Sentember IT.

The President of the U. States, accom- panied by his private Secretary, Col. Do nelson, passed through this town on Mon- day morning last, for Washington city, stop ping at tie Hotel barely long enough for breakfast, having travelled fifteen miles by ten o'clock. He is in much better health than when we saw him here on his way 10 the Hermitage. Indeed, he seems 10 be in perfect health, and in the exerclse of his usual bodily vigor. Many of our citizens met the President about two miles off and accompanied him to town. After break fast he visited Judge Whites family-re- maining there but short tlne, he set out on his journey, escorted by a number of his old acquaintances. Register.
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

GEoReIA.-We regret to observe in leading Georgia journal (and one of the sUnion0 party, toe, a deliberate proposi- ton to take possession of the lands now occupied by the Cherokee Indians with in that State by main force. The reason for this conduct Is most unblushingly sta ted to be that the Supreme Court having decided against them, and inc highest siate Court having also decided that the holder Of Cherokee lands under the lottery dis tribution of the State, cannot take possess sion of his lot while an Indian resides on it, there is no resource left but to poreeed efficiently in the business. A more sum- mary and equally defensible ground would be-We want the lands of the Cherokees, and are able to take them.-sNeto York err
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

dom terminates fatally; not a case of. vel low fever has occurred. The interDents during the month of July amounted to 256, and ln August to 270, a large number Of which were eolored persons, and many children. For some days the mornings and evenings have been cool and pleasant, and rains have been frequent Should this weather continue, t is the tth,a general :n pressIon that the season will pass off with little or no sickness. ~. 0. pop.
 The ladies of Philadelphia, finding that balloon sleepes do not keep them out of the mud, have adopted more effectual method of elevating themselves Mfr. Elliott, of that city, recently had number of appli- cations from ladies for permission to as- cend with him in his balloon. He granted one of them-whereupon the editor of the United States Gazette hoped they might have peaceable voyage together, and com meuded to them the good old injunction, "see that ye tall not out by the way"
 Four of the prisoners taken in Arkan- sas between this and Memphis, last June, by the citizens of our county, broke Gov ington jail on Friday night last, and made their escape. itandoiph Recorder.
 ".Measares not Mea."-Mauied at Washington, on the l7th instant, Mir. Josi- ah Peek, to Miss Aurelia Buskel.
 The Height of Politeness. ou abus- ed me-" said an enraged debtor to his creditor, s'yon abused me--you sent ne a dunntng letter." "Nay, friend" reioined his cool companion, "you deceive your self-I sent thee but a billet-d9e.n
The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-03

1T,o1to haze c Gold and Silver fay n. Destroy a national bank in- z ! '.n,soding it, and let 600 state '', hsre now 549!--issue paper ad .Fs !,ha,,t ns, control. 0. Wkig.
Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-10-30
TENS.

VERY REMARKABLE.--The New-York Ga
zette SAYS, that a RainboD was seen in Newly ork
on Sunday morning, soon after sunrise! We
hope it portends PEACE, ifnot harmony and good
will, at the approaching election.
I A gentleman of Albany, recently ascertained,
by actual measurement, the exact perpendicular
height of Niagara Falls. Ills manner of taking
the height. was witnessed by several gentlemen,
who certify to the facts stated. The height. as
thus ascertained, is One Hundred and Fifty iSht
feet four inches.
/ A Dinner was given by the citizens Of Peters,
burg, Va, on the 9TH instant, to MIR. Leigh, the
distinguished Senator from that State. Governor
Tyler was present.
TIE North Carolina Watchman states, that a
company of negroes have occupied caves in the
neiahborhoUd Of Petersburg, ever since the msur-
rection Efforts are being made for their arrest.
! The paper mill of Gen. John p. Whitcomb, in
Harvard, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
I loss $4,000 ID
1t is said that Judge Duval has determined to
resign his seat on the bench ofihe Supreme Court
of the United States.
/ A public meeting Of citizens has been held in
Philadelphia, to devise means to remunerate Mr..
James Robb. for the loss he sustained by the Into
riot in Noyamensins
Il The u. s. Frigate unned States. it is stated IN
the English papers, in trial Of skill, (sal'lng on
windy in the Archipelago, beat the whole British
Squadron.