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ofif, were It not l!iaf we cannot eoo- Yei.icnlly spare the mom. MR. CRAWFORD. The men win* |r sides over the monied department, sprung from the humbles* walk** in life ; his cradle \va rocked in the plowman’s but ; fbe liardv yeomen of the estate were the oonipnnions of bis childhood ; in the pin e walks f humble mr<i* oetitv slid he (read; poor, friend jess, self taught, when bursting into macho and. lie was thrown upon the great theatre of life to grope bis way. unaided by the wealthy, unno ti ed by the powerful; heir to no one. he stood alone, honesty for his guide, industry for his resource, ilis talents brought upon him the untile of the present incumbent, a* and he w*s taken into his ser vice. The monied concerns of the estate being in great disorder, the manage ment of that branch of its affairs was entrusted to him. He withstood the torrent of paper mom y which Dearly deluged the domain, and sub sti’uted the precious metals in its gfp.d. fi was he who enabled the |)c,..ent lord to pay off ‘.be heavy debt which so grievously harrassed the estate, and that too, at the vey lime that be put an end to all exac tions. He ha* established gome ex cellent regulations in relation to trade and domestic manufactures, In which ommereml intercourse with the neighbors lias been increa se and. and at the game time h? :ne t*cde fabrics are sedulously rtuised. Jsy tliese meacs be has reconciled the interests of two jra! us branches of •be estate ; for whilst no undue prefcrent e ha* been given to the on s . the other is led along info the r * and stream o’’ prosperity —Keen* c t in the disbursement of public li .ies is bat with which his ene m s chiefly reproach him# and it is very true, that where extravagance grows luxuriously, it is his habit sans eerem >oic to strike at its roots, Jr was chiefly through his insfru mentality that the racks nl the train ed bruisers in time of peace were thinned. If is ov ing to his assidu it* that the defaulters for public money have been dragged to the bar of aecotio —He has passed thro’ a long line of difficult trusts, and lips shewed a prnper devotion to the ge crul wed. The arduous duty of devising wavs and means for the support of the estate has devolved upon him, and it is no mean praise to *ay. that he alwavs promptly met the urreot expenses of the’ estab ILhment, while a* the same time he In* mainly dimini died the pubic* deli* without recourse to taxation— vi boiit recourse to any direct calls li‘on the people. A*d that be is m*t ambitious, bis noble disinterest edness on a former occasion dis tii ctly shews—when the hand of the lair lady suite seven years ago was openly extended to him. he magnan imously placed it in the band of him who now p'-gsiesses if, modestly re s’ mi >g the proffered boon to another. The days of nt'cades are past, su pernatural feats belong not to man ; lie whose life has been a life of use fu’ness to bis country, deserves well of that country. *’ The warrior*, name, Tbo* pealed and chimed by all rhe tonjpies of amr. Sounds less harmonious to the grateful mind. Than h s who fashions and improves man kind” MR. ADAMS. lie who has in charge the contro versies which arise between the e 9 late and its neighbors, is another sort of man.— ffrpil up in courts and palaces, the vulgar notions of plow men lie knew not: for lords and la dies were bis playmates, kings and P r inces bis political preceptors. It is believed, that were be to succeed in ‘hr election, all the odious dis. tioctions of rank would be in*uloied Red established at the palace; ple beian faces would rarely fi and admit lance to his presence. If is believed that the labors of the tenantry Mould he increased, ard that the fruits of ifieir toil would be wasted ;in idle luxury. It ig believed that tongues which have spoken ill of ‘1 m would be pirn ked out, and that t>v his eleva'iou the tax gatherer w* uld be made to come upon the sil ft> r of the earth, household troops would guard him. and trained hands Would st our the country —lt is suit! ti at he is a man of fine parts ard Wi ; tes most charming verses. He is, however, rather duil at a trade, living sold seme of the best wild lands for a mere bauble; and then be bought of a neighbor a swampy sterile field, and if is said be paid ir.ost deafly fur his whistle !—lt is bis boast tint with the shafts of Ids wit be has demolished the whole fab ric of democracy, and be vaunts too tfiat upon a ease of emergency (pure ly for expediency sake.) that he who bad for forty years cried *• there is hut ore (i*.d, act? Mahomet is his prophet?*’ in a twinkling became a devout a follower of the cross, acid sung hosannh’s to the true G< and ? NTVafOrRT MARTIAL. A Naval Court Martial was de tailed about a month since, to con vene at this station for the trial of Lieut Iteverlry Kennon. on certain charges preferred against him by Com Porter. Ih* c urt will meet, according to appointment, this day, at ile Navy Ya**d, and will consist of the f Mowing officers : Com. rSAiNisR OGR. President. Cap*. Mr Don* ugh, Ridgklky. J. |). Henley, Reed. r. \ C, J neb, Lieu* Galahfr, Walter F. Jonp.s, F.-q. Judge vidroe fr. In stating the fact ihat a C urt Mai tial is to tie held on Lieut K**n non, we consider it due to that offi cer to say, that the charges prefer red against him ore, as we icarn, founded on certain publications made by him in this paper, and no thing else—This trial tins occasion ed t l, e detention of. C m- Porter, who whs expected to have vailed in the John Adams for Thompson’* Island about the ts* iost. The. same Court, wo understand, is charged with the trial of Vlaster Commandant Si n y Smith, and perhaps some other canes. Notf'dk Herald. The writer of the following let ter, received from New Yoik by a member >f Congress, was a soldier of the Revolution, and is oue of the patriarchs of the Republican party. From the first formation of the two great parlies which have divided this country, to the present mottfcmt, his political course has been with out variableness or shadow of turn ing. At ihe election of Mr. Madi son. in 1808, end at that ol Mr. Monroe, hi 1815, and again in 1820. he whs Chairman of the El ectoral Colleges, in New York, ar.d there i* little, reason to doubt that, ifbis advanced ge will allow of it, he will Again occupy that distin guishrd s<ation in 1824. The views of such h men are surely entitled to respef.—JV* t. Irueligencer. •• Df.ar Sir : I n>f erely congra tulate you on ttie evidence I have of the fi mness of our Republican frierds at Albany. Ihe assembly, I ope, will put tiieir seal to the pro cerdjegs of the Hecate, anti the true friends to the Constitution and Peo ple will oiu e more prevail, and re gular nomination* on- e more put the faeiionlsts to test in the Bu*e. This is an important crisis to which we have arrived, and the ( aucus at Ma*hi*gt n, I trus , will designate, in due time, the Repub lican Candidate, who is to fill the Chair the next lour years. Hither to, Heaven has blessed our patriot ic endeavors, and may it continue its blessings during another Presi dency, and I trust the poiiti. al ship , will be safely moored in the Con stitutional harbor of safety, and in the entire affections of Ihe People of the I nited States, Thi-, Dear Sir, is tlie unfeigned wish of your friend and very hombie servant.” DF.hjnrjtnE, Me have seen the Speech of Gov. Payntkr. to the Legislature of the Staie of Delaware, on the occasion of his inauguration a few days ago. It is a creditable document, the fal lowing passage of which particular ly arresfed our attention, from the interest of the subject to which it relates:— ■Nat. hit. “I cannot omit his opportunity of protesting against the ftvqieut al terations which are made, propo sed, of the Constitution of the Uni ted Stales. That instrument has never yet been amended, except in the first eleven additional articles; and they only expressly guard and secure rights which are generally comprehended within the scope and meaning of the Constitution; or not being parted with, were retained by the people. This subject has been forced upon me, by perceiving the many proposals made in Congress fur< fleeting anew mode of elet ting a President of the Cubed States, it may seriously be apprehended that all the schemas now before CongiA are rather designed to fa vor paPicular candidates, than to promote tbo welfare of die people So maay novelties may be introdu ced. that the whole fabria may be undermined before we are aware of the mischief. And allow me to re mark, gentlemen, that, as long as the nation exists, the wit of man will no be able to devise a system of general government so happy, so well proportioned, so practicable, a9 the present was in iH origin,with the addition of the eleven articles, and particularly for the people of this State, and if it could he restor ed to its primitive purity by abol ishing the twelfth article of the a meudinents, nothing farther would lie required than that it should he administered in wisdom. & in integ rity of heart, without regard to pri vate or local interests, except as they are connected with the general go- and, and a* the happiness of the w hole is promoted.” Shocking Indian Murders. o Arkansaw, (L R ) Dee. 9. A H. Sevier, Fq who return ed ihs* morning from Hempstead and Miller counties, has just com municated to u* the following mel ancholy intelligence: Just before be started, he *aw ad conversed with Mr. I* a a-. Penning ton, (recentlv residing on the Ar kansas,) who belonged to a party of hunters, consisting of twenty one persons, in the employ of M ;j M*- Klmurry, of Cadron, in this coun ty. who were hunting on Red river. Mr. Pennington states, that, about two or three weeks since, the par tv was attacked by a hand of (Lage I dians whom tie supposed to he 200 strong. The men made con siderable resistance, hut they were soon overpowered by the superior numbers of the enemy, and Mr P. thinks that none escaped except him self* lie happened, fortu aely, to be a short dis anee from their camp where the men were collect ed, when the attack was commen ced, ami succeeded in securing his retreat in a neighboring cane-brake, where he remained until the I ;dians had retired. After waiting some time, Mr. P. ventured to the camp (for the pur pose of procuring some provisions to enable him to reach the seiile nrieofs,) and there beheld the man gled remains of several of his com panto .§, murdered, scalped, and stripped; a .and found the camp com pletely pillaged, it was dark when oe returned, and, suspecting that some of Tie Indian* might be lurk ing near him. he did not stop to ex amine the bodies of tns mtrdered companions, but he recognized that of old Moj *r Welborn, from l he upper part f this county. Having found a buff do’s tongue, being the only article of provisions Ike savages had left, he set out for the settle ments on Red fiver. The Indians followed hint two days, and al*o stole a number of hordes from Judge Brice’s company -f Mustang hunt ers, wh< m he fell v with. This outrage took pivre oo Blue River, a tributary of Red R.ver. Previous to tlie atta k, the discovered, from the prairies being on fire, and ther signs, that the In dian* were near them. They also discovered the head of a man (scal ped) sticking or. a p de, in a prairie, whi< h was supposed to have been done by the same party of Indians, in consequence of these signs, a par ty of i'*ur men were 9enf to the In dians, with presents, to conciliate them. This party, however, did not return, and it is supposed they were also murdered; for, while tneir companions were hourly ex* peeling their return, the atta. k was made oo the ca.np, as related a bnve. Our relations with the Indians a long the whole western frontier, from the head waters of the Missis sippi to the Spanish provinces, have, indeed, arrived at a serious crisis; am!, unless some prompt measures are te.ken by the government to check and punish (he growing hos tile disposition of the numerous tribes of Indians on our borders, it will soon be unsafe for a hunter or trader to venture beyond the limits of our settlements; and we even fear, that some of our frontier in habitants may be endangered, from the incursions of these lawless ma rauders, who frequently penetrate, in their hunting expeditious, into the midst of our settlements. An outrage such as the above, would, iu our opinion, authorize the ordering out of the militia of the fer rilorv, to chastise Hie aggressors. But who is to do it? Governor Mil ler is absent in New Hampshire— and Mr. Crittenden, Secretary and Acting Governor, is absent in Ken tucky. Neither of them is expected bad; for several tn-mth*, & we douh* w hether there is any person in the territory, who is authorised to or der out tlie militia. What is to be done in this dilemma ? Another difficulty arises, from the almost total unorganized state of the militia. W hose fault is this? W hat has prevented (lie organization of the militia? Ihe territorial go vernment has been in operation more thun four year*- —militia offi cers are appointed in each county but we doubt whether their ares iwo counties in the territory, in which the militia are regularly mustered. W eare, indeed, placed to rather a critical predi ament, and we hope measures may be speedily adopted, to extricate ns. Uc do not, it is true, apprehend any immediate dan ger—hut the best way to prevent danger, is to have the militia well organized, and prepare to meet it in its worst shape. F, b —Since the above was in type, we are informed that two suns of Mr. Imkean, residing about a mil* below this plane, have just returned They belonged to ahu <- ting party, under the direction of Mr Banique, of Arkansas pout), who were bunting in the neighbor hood of M jor McElmurry’s party. They, also, have been attacked ad plundered by Ihe Indians, and some of their party kilim! We also learn, tha* the imbeans have heard from some us the men beloogiog to Maj ir M c Klmurry % party, wuo wore sup posed to have been killed. THE TILLAGE PRINTER. “Who seeks to please all men each way, And no hunseif offend; He may b-gun his work to-day; But God know* when’twill end ” Vid Epigram. A doctor, a schoolmaster, and a printer, are three as prominent es sentials ?o the establishment of a village of the first Mass, as a ’squire, a tavern, and a hla ksmtth, a" to one ofthe fourth or fifth. The prin ter in the primative times of our country was usually left out, but rioer age and general diffusion of light brought him gradually into the service, and increased his charact er and estimation so mu h, that he ha 9 at last he ome of as vital conse quence as cither of the others. If time allowed of comments of this sort. I might he led to say that ( view this iympf m of the germi? of our countrymen as a trait of great a*d unquestionable promise i t a po fiti al and moral p-iot of view. But with these things I have nothing to do, and therefore leave the subject as I found it. In a respectable village which was g* owing into noli-e, ami which was located not ma >y miles from the Susqtiehauoah, some years ag*, the inhabitants, being stricken with the prevalent sentiment, erected a pre*s, and procured from the city a genuine graduate of the type, to tuke charge ofthe concern. Thi* wa* (he first introduction our hero, YViii Sutton, had to the country. He was young, and withal, an hon est and ingenious youth, of a mild and gentle temper, and but little i-killed in (he intrigue and de option so current in the world, with which hi* hasty transit from the shackles of apprenticeship to tlie p;sl of a publisher and an editor, hud allow ed him no time to shake hands. Flattered by the blaze of what look ed like the opening i.f a splend.d prospect, he, soon after enteretl on liis new duties, relieved the original proprietors of their burden, ami as sumed the responsibility of the con cern himself. To become popular, in other words to please every one, is, per haps, the first aim and the freshest hope of every inexperienced and vir tuous mind. It is so beautiful in theory, and the road appears at first go plain and easy that he never dreams of difficulty iri succeeding in tlse practice.— Will determined therefore to take every body’s ad vice, and wherever advice dashed, to choose the medium between the two extremes. He commenced his paper by giv ing Hie greatest variety possible, & proffering the mo9t liberal terms, as much as to say, pay me when and how you can. People were much pleased With the first numbers, and many good feiks took turn at his word, aud sent in their names, lie set this down ns mp*e future success, and built abundant hopes upon it; hut sundry printed written nod verbal lampoons reused him frrftn his dreaming; o no of his brother printers not f ar ’ ,j llw ; taut had !< st a subscriber or tu® through hi* ngency, and. as his bo dy was cut of reach, his neighbor contented himself with desperate attempt to slip the round Ids character, and ha? g j* to infamy. This was (lie first m>** that honest M ill saw ihrotigh, whit|| staggered his faith and hi* oredulitv. lie rubbed his eyes and looked a[ it a moment, then concluded Iv* if 1 offend hut thi* fellow, whoso motives are broad ar.d palpable, ancj who cannot deceive others, | mflv still accomplish my aim: PH s* down a* a cypher; I’ll s ill he pop. ulttr.—T wo or three weeks Haptrdl ad the buz of a hundred l.usv friends begun to hum u/on his —’oo mu hos tins—ow much off that, and not enough of anotl.r? description of master; he listened— lie was perplexes—it was the medi. um he had been pursuing; h<w should he now act. He at Usi made up his mind; wholly excluded th 6 desciiption of matter that had tii fewest advocates, and increased the quantum of other kinds; ad zen or two were ti!l left complainants,at.d as he could do nothing with them he set them down a* cyphers with (lie printer; with th*£jK epii*n9 he still resolved to bo- Next came in one of his worthy neighbors with a lampoon in big hand for an e *eui v of his, aid po litely request insertion Hut ton sa*> a predicament staring him in the lished it, lie should ihjake a power ful man and a host of Vonuexi *n§ his enemies—he reasoned the mut ter ver with himself, and conclu ded to refuse it an insertion. Tlie author be ame outrageous; he and Isis friends urned their faces againt the printer, and poor M ill was soon compel!* t! to odd at least half ‘ll zen cyphers to his already lengihrrtd row. Before thi* had hedonic rml oo his memory, a flock of bird* flew Reioss hc village, and the opinions of the pe* pie heeume divided on the question whether they were wild duck* or geese Hutton published the fH"t and gave his opinion that they were tin ; the geese party called him a fool, a catch-penny, a *f:"ggle , and a pupy ; ii almost despair he added a dozen and a half cyphers to the account he was keep ing. But when he looked at that account even now, it bore a small proportion to the population of tho country, at and he concluded that ho would at least eventually please a gr‘at maj rity of the people if ho could not succeed in pleasing all. Even in this, however, he was un fortunately disappointed ; election times came on : there were tw* can didates for governor, and Sutton wa* put completely at his wh’send. He ko w neither of the candidates : to the matter of their p ditics, as they were both represented io be plain, honest sterling paints, he could not conjure up an objection, and both pasties demanded his exclu sive assistance, Wha* was to ho done?—He stood neutral a little while, until he found himself rapidly g'ing Oil of favor with h th par lies, Tlie crisis demanded a change of policy. He accordingly made a hold push and with the strong est party, cotnequently he broko with all the others, made a few warm friends, and very many bitter ene mies. Will saw now the blighting of all his prospects ; he did not change his resolution however, hut confined his hopes to the pleasing of the party whose cause he espoused. Surely, he thought as he -vfghed over these vicissitudes, I shall keep these for whom I have made this great sacrifice, in my interests, and insure their good will. But the time now drew nigh,when to please his oreditors, it was neces sary to collect all the money duo from hia customers. He owed for paper, a ?d ink, and rent, and types, and presses; and these must be paid for,— The collector wa* rigged off, and sent on tlie rounds ; two weeks brought him back—with about ten per cent oo his acoounts. and with the uews that Messrs, A. B. and C., &e. including a hundred or two names, wisbud their papers stopped if (hey were to be duaoed in this way. •* Alas,” said M ill, as he sat down in Ills office door, in utter de.?*