Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 41, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 October 1845 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. 03TOB3R 10, 1845. The Indiana American. We have since ihe enlargement of our paper, spared no pains lo redeem ihe promise we have made to our patrons. We have gathered from every qimter that can advantage our readers, the market price of or staple products. We have obtained the aid of regular correspondents,who writing weekly from Cincinnati, New Orleans and elsewhere, contribute greatly to the variety and interest of our columns. We spread before our readers "the advertisements of the most enterprising business men at home and in Cincinnati, who will sell them every article they desire to purchase at the lowest price, and will pay the highest market price for all they have to sell. And so far as original matter and setections are concerned, we do the very fcest in our power. On the whole we think we have done every thing to redeem our pledges, and now we ask our patrons and the public todo theirnart. Sustaina home paper, if you w ish it to continue valuable As the season is now at hand when the produce of the country brings you cash, nav ud vour srbscriptions1 like men and esjoy the luxury of a clear conscience. Such of you as have thoughts and facts at vour command, that are of value lo the public, send us an occasional communica tion. and thus aid us in our labor. In this wav we mi work together for mutual good. IVhitr Slate Contention. The editor of the State Journal proposes the 0th of Jan aary next as theday for holding a State Convention at Indianapolis, to nominate candidates for Governor and Lieut. Gov ernor. All right at least the whigs of this region say so. Count j Seminary. John It. Goodwin. A. B. a native born citizen of this town, auda'a graduate of the Indiana Asbury Universi ty, has been selected bv the Trustees, as Principal of the Seminary i:i this place, and he entered upon the discharge of his duties on Wednesday last. The Northern Indiana Methodist Conference, which w. as in session at Laftyette, adjourned on ihe20ih ult. after a session of six days. They had a harmonious and pleasant conference. The Rev. J . C. Smith was continued as College Agent. Joseph Tarkington, was transferred to the Indiana Southern Conference. The nest Conference to be held at Laporte, Sept. 23d, IS 13. James L. Thompson, Hackaliah Vredenhurgh, Thomas J. Brown, Mi.es lluffaker, Robert Burns, James Scott, end Draper Chipman were superanuated. R03 ester C. Bowley, and Allen D. Beasly, were located at ther own request. Mr. Howland. In copy ing the article from ihe Madison Banner, we do not wish It understood that we arc endorsing the remarks relative to Mr. Howland. Being so partial to him, as a gentleman, on able and zealous lawyer, and as an eloquent and pleasant speaker, that we are ready to make battle against any one (not even ex cepting our next best friend) who should muriate any thing sagainst his honor or usefulness. The character and f tan-ling of a young man just commencing a pro fessional life in this cold and heartless world, are peculiarly'precioiis to him and his friends. Did w e suppose the opinions of a strolling scribbler of sufficient conse - It. T . . quciH-e, we wouiu uou our coal, ana give 'R. S." a specimen or the ' School Mas ter." Metamora On enquiring at the collect or s oiuce oi me u into water I anal, in this place, we can derive some information of the amount of wheat shipped from the various ports on the canal. Of the four points, Brookville, Metamora, Laurel, and Coi.nersville, we were astonished to find that Metamora was shipping more than any other o'mt. This is doing pretty well for a town of such modest pretensions, and which haa made such lit tie noise about its business advantages. But that place is the most convenient for Decatur, a largo i part of Rush, Shelby. &c., to sell their wheal, and Metamora having merchants who are williug to give the highest cent Ihe matket will justify, they will always command a respectable business. Mrs. .Hair's Hole'. This old stand in this place has its old occupant ngain. Mr. Barwick has left it, and Mrs. Adair A sons hare taken possession again. Innocence of Weimopjiein. In the last State Sentinel there is a long yam, copied from the Catholic Advocate, going to show the innocence of the Catholic priest Weinzirpflein, who was sent to the penitentiary from Lvansvtlle for a rape. It contains extracts from depositions of some persons in Missouri, in which Schnioll is teprcscn ted as having acknowledged the innocence of the-priest, .m.l of the plot laid for his conviction. It oil looks like a fish stoty. First -t'ir."---tjjts. The first newspaper ever printed west of the Alleghany mountains was the Pittsburgh Gazette. The first paper printed in Ohio was the Scioto Gaattte. at Chillicolhe. Ohio. The first paper printed in Indiana was the Viuten lie Sum. And all three of these papeis are ytt in successful operation.

Correspondence of the Ind. AmericanCincinnati, 7ih Oct. 1845. Mr. Editor: The whigs of this county J

having a suitable regard to appearances, have Htlenth in convention brought forth a ticket. We feared they would not do this, but would suffer the matter to pass sub silentio. True our valiant foes will be able to defend their Gibralter withoul sweating much for it. But it is better to keop a military front, and preserve the ranks in fighting order. W: II. II. Taylar, Esq., our late postmaster, is the nominee for the Senate. The public are making the matter of politics a regular football, an-J seem to be in a rich humor for fun. A new ticket is announced about every third day in some of the papers. First was a mongrel ticket headed by I revor; tins, next day, was modified, and finally all resigned in a formal manner. Then came out a ticket composed entirely of editors, so far as the Legislature was concerned, Taylor. Vaughan, Drinker, Mansfield, Guil ford. Next came one entirely of Smiths, headed by the omnipresent "John." Then one of Carters, among whom appeared Al fred Georae Washington Carter, a prominent individual among the young unterrified democracy; and to-day still 'another, filled with some of our young bloods, noted for admirable electioneering powers in drawing-rooms and on sofas. Well, it is better to laugh over the matter than break heads about it, as is sometimes done. The debate between Rev. Dr. Rice and Mr. Blanchard. on the quesion ,:Is slaveholding in itself sinful, and ihe relation between master and slave, a sinTul relation?" was closed last evening. It was commenc ed on Wednesday last, and continued du ring the auernoons and eveaings, wuii an intermission of Saturday on account of the health of Mr. B . The debate has been conducted very unfairly, as we conceive, by Mr. Blanchard, who, instead of confin ing himself to the question at issue, took occasion to say everything outside of it, permitted by the w ide ransje of the slavery question, dwelling upon the enormities of the system, drawing pictures of horror, re tailing old 6tbries of particular cruellies traducing his brethren in the ministry who were so unfortunate as not to look through anti-slavery spectacles, and avoiding till the very heel of the discussion all attempts of Dr. Rice to bring the matter to the law and the testimony, the words and doc trines of the bible, and the usages of the primitive apostolic church. Dr. Bailey of the Herald praises him for his adroitness in this unfair proceeding. He, Blanchard, or his friends sent the challenge, proposing to discuss a definite proposition, and he has most obstinately avoided what he himself proposed.and discussed everything except it. The object of the entire proceeding wa9 most undoubtedly to use Dr. Rice as a means of getting their own general views upon slavery to be read at the south. Mr. Blanchard has pinned his vituperative speeches upon the broad coat tails of his Rev. Brother Rice, and is doubtless laughing in his sleeve to think how they will flutter iu southern breezes, and how, hy a neat trick, he will force his mor al ipecac down the throatsof slaveholders. It will all go into the book, which book will circulate widely at the south,and those who read one page must read the other. He cared very little for reputation or vic tory in debate his sole object was to talk abolition to lhoe who otherwise would not hear him. Hence it is that his "adroitness" is praised by Dr. Bailey. We would not object to his course, if it did not involve not only unfairness but absolute insult to his candid and able opponent. It was a deliberate attempt to turn Dr. Rice into a pedlarof abolitionism. They will Tail in this object, however, among all who can reason, for the arguments of Rice, w hether answerable or not, were unansweted. These gentlemen are certainly "wise above what is written" when they w ould alter the constitution of the church and exclude from membership those who were freely admitted in apostolic times. The College of Teachers is now in ses sion here and will continue to sit during the week, several interesting addresses have been delivered. The Mechanic's In stitute has an exhibition this week which is already open at the assemhiv Rooms. Our superior Court Judge Coffin presiding commenced its Tall session yesterday with a docket of about nine hundred and thirty cases. The criminal term of the common Pleas also commenced at the same time. There are about seventy individuals in jail w hose cases are to be considered by the Grand Jury, besides several who are out on bail. Three or four desperate fellows escaped from jail a short time since; among whom was one committed for the murder of the Frenchman in Sausage Row some time since, and of which I informed you when it occurred. The city is overflow ing w ith villains ai:d has been for several months. Larcenies and burglaries are of every day occurrence. The house of Piatt Evans, Esq., the store of John Cochran it Co., on Fourth street, that of a Mr Schmith near the Canal and several boardmg houses have been robbed during the week past. A fatal accident occurred ves tetd.iy morning at a new building on the corner of sixth and Walnut streets, in pro cess of building bv Mr. Crawford. A Car penter by the name of Walker, fell from the third story ,'ipon the joists of the first door and was killed instantly. He left wife and three children. There are some four feet of water in the river now, which is at a stan J. Hour has rather declined the last week, small lots have been sold at S3 10, and some ns Iomt as -vl 05. pros pect rather dull. The citv is very heal thy though sickness has somewhat in creased within two or three w eeks. It has never been more healthy than duting the last summer. Owing to long continued low water coal and lumbet ore scarce and high. Truly Yours. CIVIS, The Canal. e understand the Canal Board at Connersville have appointed Mr Win. Rubottom of Metamora. Canal Direc lor, in the place of Sichird Tyner, de clmed. They also appointed Mr. II. C, Moore general superintendantof the whole line of Canal. The appointment of Mr, Rubottom w e consider a good selection It is the opinion on the upper end of the line, that the rains of the ptesenl week will swell the waters sufficient to fill the dual t Cambridge. At latest accounts the tuibaiice as subsiding Mo mum dis

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New Orleans, Sept. 24lh 1843. Mr. Editor: Since I wrote you last there has been considerable improvement here in business affairs, and New Orleans begins to have, once more the appearance of itself. Cotton, that great Southern sta ple which rules in a great measure the prices of Western produce, is now arriving freely, a" J good, if not better prices, are anticipated this year as were obtained last. The planters are now in the midst of pickingand from the various accounts received, the crops will turn out well in most sections. In some places the worms have made rather destructive work. Wes tern produce is arriving rather more freely but the market is quite dull at quotations the demand is confined principally to the consumption of the city and the adjacent country. Shipping is very scaice, and nothing clearing to relieve the market from the accumulation of surplus stocks which is one great cause of this inactivity. Flour is selling at $3 50, but I have no doubt will advance to $3 75 as soon as vessels can be obtained. The stock of Bacon is rather sinnll, and fine prices are obtained. Hams (plain) 'Jets. Shoulders 71. Sides 81. Lard Sets. Whiskey 20a20i per gall. Mess Pork $10,75 a$17,00 per bbl. very dull. Hay $20u$21 per ton by the load. The city continues as dull and at barren of any thing like news as it is possible to imagine. The most active & stirring parts of community just now, is the mosquitoes. 1 can scarcely write for them, as it takes one hand to keep them off, while I try to write with the other. The man who first discovered that their bills had to be paid when presented was correct in his remark. We have had considerable rain lately, and about ten day9 since one of the hardest show ers visited us that has been seen for a long time. The .back part of the city was comr, letely flooded pedestrain navigation was suspended for theef-ter-noon. Innumerable 3 o'clock dinners suffered for want ot some body lo eat them. The water covered entirely the rails of the N. O. & Carrollton Rail Road, and the locomotive in attempting to go up was precipitated off the track. It is now clear and during the last few days quite cool; insomuch so that winter clothes are not uncomfortable nights and mornings. The city continues remarkably healthy, as regards the yellow fever, the ques tion is now settled for this year there will rone. Thoi-c who have fled the city to escape its terrors can return in all safety. The Board of Health through some egregious blunder, published some two weeks 6ince a bulletin announcing the fever, and doubtless this report has been circulated over the country, out lassure you that there is not now nor has there been this season one single case of the Yellow Fever. If on epidemic were prevailing note the present cool weather would cause great fatality, but as it is there is no better guar antee of its non-appearance. I wrote you in a former letter that the Collector of Customs at this port; appointed by Tyler and continued in office by President Polk, still held the office, contrary to wishes ofthe whole- commu nity. Sine then he has been removed, and Dennis Prieur, a Creole and a good democrat has been appointed, to the satis faction of every Lody. I also stated that all letters for Texas via Xexc Orleans had to be post paid thus far, otherwise they would not bo forwarded. The Tost mas ter general has since then instructed our Post master here to forward letters to Texas the same as to any other part ofthe United States. There is no news of importance from the theatre of war. The last accounts report every thing quiet, and no prospects of a fight. Gen. Taylor still occupies his position at Corpus Christi, and will send home the volunteer companies from this city, as soon as a few more regular U. S. troops arrive there. I was quite amused a few days since, upon reading in some western paper an account of a bloody bat tle having been fought between our men and the Mexicans The time the battle lasted, the number killed and wounded were all given w ith the utmost minute ness. 1 his is the first intimation that we have had of any such bloody battle having been fought. The impression Is here that there will be no fighting at all, and the sub ject causes no interest whatever. The Steam Frigate Princeton arrived at Pensacola on the 20th inst. from Vera Cruz. She brings the intellisence that the Mexican Government had refused to com ply with the demands ofthe French Minister for some private indignities offered htm some months since, and that the minister had demanded and received his pass ports. Gen. Paredes was ot San Luis Potosi with some 10,000 men. He pre tends that he is preparing to inarch on Texas, but it is strongly suspected that his real designs ore against Mexico itself and that he aims at the Dictator ship. While Mexico is thus torn by inward factions there is but little to be feared from her by the United States, even if she was more powerful than she is. It seems France is again agitating the subject whelhersheshall not hilp them to a good catholic mon arch by forcibly placing some ofthe Roy al offsprings of Louis Philippe to rule over them. The convention formed to draw a conBlilntion for Texas have finished their work, and submitted it to the people for re jection or adoption. It is based and copy ed after the constitutions of the other States, wiih some few objections like these: No minister of the Gospel is eligible to a seat in the Legislature, nor is required to do militsry duty, work on the road, or serve on the jury after the adoption of the constitution, all persons guiltv of fight ing a duel or accepting a challenge, shall be ineligible to offices of trust or profit. No corporation shall be created with banking privileges. Quite a prolonged libel suit for damages against one of the city papers, has just been .terminated in the city court. A Frenchman who had whipped one of his negroes most unmercifully, was severely handled in the news papers for his brutal it v. and ho commenced suit, laying his damages at $300. The jury could not acree about a verdict, and the suit was dismissed. A most shocking accident happeued last night on canal street. Col. Milford, very worthy citizen got out of bed about I o'clock in the morning and as is tup1 posed sat iu the indow and fell asleep

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In the morning he was (omul p tly dead having fallen three stories on the pavement. A store on the levee w as also entered last night and robbed of some $120- The thief lu rned out iq be u u'Hiu auj. the money waa-recovered. BROOKVILLE. A travelling correspondent of the Madi son Banner, writing from Logansport, and having passed through Brookville, mikes the following remark about our tow n and citizens: "Takina stage eaily in the morning, I found myself in Brookville by dinner lime. Having more leisure than usual, I yielded to a desire I had always cherished to spend a fev davs iu this place. Enter the town as you mav, you are struck with the ro manlic appearance of its location. The hills which surround it are not so high or bold, as to impress the mind with awe, but by their gentle ascent , and medium height, 3ome yet covered with their native forest, end others in beautiful pasture land, stock ed with fine cattle, thpy afford a view of the picturesque, beyond description. Though the scenery is lovely from any part of town, it is froru ihe summit ofthe hill on the South-Eusternfpart of town that the finest landscape J ever saw, is vis ible. From that point, in addition to the village which is scattered over a large tract, and composed of numerous white cottages, with a few glistening domes of public buildings, you see the windings of the two branches of the river, far up their respective valleys. Along one a canal winds, on which may be seen, at any time, a heavy laden boot, while the valleys themselves, are covered with fruitful fields; and the hills which l ise in modest loveliness around them, add to the picture until you could wish for nothing more. Of the town itself I could say much; for the amount of business done there, far exceeds what I had supposed from reading the few meagre advertisements in Ihe town papers. But as the business men of the town do not seem much disposed to let people abroad know that there is a variety of merchandize and mechanical products there, I will not do it, lest I should offend them. While there, I got a glimpse at Clarkson, the Editor ofthe American; and, sirs, I would not think hirn such a dangerous fellow as he is regarded by some of the corps editorial. True, he has given some of them some unmerciful castigalions, but I would suppose that they deserved them, or at least, he thought so. for, he seemed a personification of good nature. He was just recovering from an attack of sickness w hich seized him the day after the election, ytt I could see no development of character so prominent an the bump of dont-care-a-tivencss, which is certainly conspicuous. The Circuit Court was in session, and I was much pleased to learn that, with the citizens and members of the bar Jud?o Cushing was very popular. The day that I spent in Court was set for tho trial of a young man about 19 years of age, for pas sing counterfeit money. The naturo of the case excited some interest in the com munity, and by the time the trial began. the house was full. Tho testimony was pointed, and proved to the satisfaction of all who heard it, that Ihe act was feloni ous. I he State Prosecutor was John Duniont, well known lo most of your readers as an Attorney. He was assisted by a young man of Brookville, by the name of Howland. The Counsel for the prisoner were Matson, of Brookville, ond Ryman, of L.awrenceburgh. After the testimony was closed, Mr. Dumont addressed the jury in a plain, but pointed manner, as is his custom, and summed up the evidence, so as to leave but one impression of the prison er's guilt, and probable doom. He was followed by Mr. Ryman. As lie is not so well known to your readers, though he sometimes practices in the Jefferson Court. I may say of him that he is recorded as one ofthe safest hands in the eastern part oi the estate, in which to trust such a case. He knew he could not dissuade the jury of the guilt of the prisoner, & his only hope was lo evade, as far as possible, the conse quences, by objecting to the indictment as informal, and thus postponing the final issue until onolher term. Perhaps he could avail something by bew ildering the jury in the labyrinth of technicalities through which he could lead them, and hence he had recourse to that means, evincing a technical acumen that I have never seen excelled. He was followed bv Mr. Matson. who was two years ago the unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in thai dis Irict. iiaviug nearu mutn oi mm as a speHKer I was anxious to hear him, and regretted much that Ihe occasion was one that affor ded so poor an opportunity for him to meet my expectations. The guilt of his client was beyond a doubt, and had I been his counsel, I should have yielded the point without a word. The house was full, as it usually is when it is known he is to speak. He began by a review of the testimony which he admitted was against the young man. That he passed the money he did not doubt. That he lied shamefully when asked about it, he must admit; and that the probabilities that he knew it to be counter feit were strong. I eat where I could see the speaker and the jury, and I observed eviueni markstnaiuy niscatmia au mission of facts, which were against his client, he had prepared every man to receive, unguarded, whatever might follow. Unlike his colleague, Mr. Ryman, he seemed to wish the matter decided immediately, and then followed the most pathetic address to the compassions of the jury that! ever heard. He spoke ofthe extiemeyouih of the prisoner, hit industrious habits hitherto, the feelings of his parents, and, appealing to tho jury as parents, he followed their sons from the parental hearth, lo their yielding to temptation, nnd arrest and trial. The effect was charming. Having wiped my eyes, I looked at the jury, and they were wiping theirs, and many around were in like employment. It was as fine a specimen of eloquence as I ever heard, at the bar. He was followed by Mr. Howand as counsel for the Slate, who is evidently a young man of uporior talents but who will never make a successful speaker until he learns to be less dogmatical. He seemed to be enraged because the young man was guilty, and hi guilt was so apparent. All of this I aitiibute chiefly to his youth and vivici'v When

he becomes Hder be will do better, or fail in business. Much more can be accom

plished with a jury-of old men by the pa thetic tenderness of Matson's tones than by any other means, and it is especially becoming a young man to speak to elderly persons as if they, too, had some undering of facts which were before thern. arge to the jury, by Judge Cushing, perfecMy overset aresolution 1 had made to avail myself ol Ry man's technical acumen, if I should ever be caught in a hard ase. For, unlessl could be tried in another district than Judge Cushing's it would he useless; for, he so clearly unravelled the mystic labyrinth, that ihe bre Jnieriis ofthe case went to the jury. This is no doubt a Judge' privilege, and perhaps his duty, and not adverse to justice; but let it be remembered that with the Irish prisoner, "That is what Fs afeerd of. may it plaze your honor," wheu in such a scrape. Yours, R. S. For the American. Brookville, Oct. 3 1845, Mr. Editor: I om engaged in a work, which I deem of vome importance to the public in general in (his region, and to the Methoiliet public in particular, and have neither lime or inclination to turn aside to controvert doctrines with such an unfair writer as "A Reader," who nets on the maxim of the infidel school of France, 'smite, but hide the hand." If A Reader" had signed bio proper name, I could not toon to contend with him, or any other man, who can embody in his performance so many low, misrepresenting, perverting, and false insinuations as he has done. i ou say the name or the writer is in your possession, thereby intimating, I sup pose, that it is at my service. I will sim ply state, that I have found my benevolent feelings increased, and by consequence my enjoyinent also, by indulging a favor able opinion of my fellows. "A Reader" may be a man whom I have supposed to be a gentleman, and of course think well of him, but as I know "A Reader" who wrote the article over his.signalure in the lasl American is not such, it might lessen my enjoyment to learn his real name, ihereloro you must excuso me for nol seeking lo know it. I leave "A Header" to settle the matter, about which he writes, with that public which he intimates to be in rather a deplo ruble condition, because it does not believe the peculiarties of Calvinism. If "A Reader" be a minister, with all his confidence in the truth of his doctrines, and the array of names in his article, he knows he dare not preach a set of plain undisguised sermons, containing the en tire naked features of his -creed even to his own people, withoul being informed that they have no farther use for his servi ces. II he uoubt this let him try the ex periment. I am surprised that ,"A Reader" begins his array of modern names with lhat v loplady, when he knows, or ought to know, thai the immortal Flelchei has han ded him over to tho shades of a perpetual oblivion. Were I disposed to trifle with the public by gratuitous assertion? nnd in sinuations, I too might present a list of po tent names fully cquol lo "A Reader's' names In intelligence and and piety. But what would there be of argument or use in this course? As you have deemed my pieces worth transfering to your paper, I would have been glad if you had inserted the first part so that "A Reader," and all others might fully understand my views and motives Would it not be well to publish this yet? ALLEN WILEY. News from Maryland! Maryland Election. By the Baltimoro American of Ihursday, we have the returns of the election in that city. In tho 1st dis trict composed of the first fifteen wards of the city. Giles, loco foco, is elected to Congress over John P. Kennedy. The vote stood Giles 5801, Kennedy 42, Dun can, native, 1147. The loco foco ticket for legislature is also elected. It is repot ted that the loco foco is elected in the Cumberland District. Mai viand Election. The result Is gainst us. For Congress parties will stand iwo wings' lour L.OCOS. we suppose Messrs. Kennedy, Welhered, Wright, and Snively to be defeated. Ohio must stop the rolling of this ball. It will not do to lose men of such character from the Na tional Councils. Cin. Gat. From the N. O. Tropic of the 25th. Still Later from Texas. The pilot boat schooner L. N. Hitch cock, Capt, Delcsdcrnicr, arrived here yesterday, 4 days from Galveston. We have received our files of Galveston popers to tho 13th, ond Washington to Ih 1 1th. The Washington Register states that th President hat authorized Col. C. L. Owen of Jackson county, to raise a lorceofone thousand volunteers lo be placed under the command of Gen. Taylor, It is alsoita ted that Maj. Hays is to act in conjunction with Gen. Taylor hereBfler. tCj'Kcntucky Conference. The deter minalionof this body is lo standby the Church, south. The vole stood, 146 aye o nays. e have no Idea that this vote does more than show the individual posi Hon of the members. Bishop Andrew presided, lie gave a statement of his views and of hit case as records the action of the General Conference against him. A resolution was then passed approving his conduct, and lhat of Bishop Soule. &3Governor Edwards, of Missouri, has just let loose six convicts, three of them counlerfeifers, from the penitentiary of that State. We think there were quite enough counterfeiters at large before. About one half of the Missouri convict make their escape from the penitentiary by scaling the walls, and the Governor seems disposed to open the gates to the other half. Iouisvilte Joarnal. An odd arrival. On Saturday tho kcelboat Commercial arrived at our Wharf on tbe Allegheny, from Rochettcr, JV. I'., on her way to Cincinnati. She camo down to Lake Ontario via Gencsseo river to Lake Eric, via. Niagra river and Wclland Canal around the Falls, entered the Erie Extension at Erio, Pa., came o Mcadvillo, and thence, down French Creek and tho Allegheny river, to ou r City-aud will fellow the Ohio "river to Cincinnati-- Pit's. Journal.

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From the Rhode Island Journal. The "Progressive Democracy." The dangerou. form in which the radicalism ofthe day exhibits itself doubly dangerous from the well-established fact that the more ultra the doctrines the more certain they are of the countenance and

ltimate adoption ofthe Democratic party is hardly appreciated by moderate men, who are unable to keep themselves acquainted with the onward tide of Democratic progress. There is in New York a body of ultra Locofocos styling themelves the National Reform Association. These. are the men who first started the Sublreasury scheme, end laid the founda tion !of the Locofoco party, which, al though ridiculed nnd denounced by the Democratic organs at the time of its origin, soon swallowed tho Democratic party, and forced all its worst doctrines into the creeed of Democratic faith. These are the men who first stirred up the rebellion in Rhode Island, and who commenced the anti-rent agitation in New York. Grow n bolder by the success which they have met in their dictation to the radical party, they now avow all the doctrines of open agrarianism. The following extract from some of their publications will show how far they ore prepared to go: 'Every citizen of this State who has gone to the grave landless and in poverty, has gone there a rLt'XDEK ed man; plundered by society of his rights to, a home; and his life, in all probability, greatly shortened by the robbery, lhat few might be surfeited to repletion. Every citizen of ihe State who has now no right to a freehold, is a plundered man of an inestima ble right which belongs to him by virtue of his exist ence. Everyman has an indis putable l ight and title to land enough to lire upon; and no one has a just title to a Joot more than is necessary for the subsis tence of hisjamily, -while another is without land. Land is an inalienable right. PLAN OF RESTORING THE LAND OF NEW YORK TO THE PEOPLE. To secure lo ccery Farmer a Farm. I. No one hereafter shall, under any cir cumstances, become possessed of more than one hundred and sixty acrts of land in this Stale. To secure to every mechanic or profession- . at man a toe. 2. No one hereafter shall, under any cir cumstances, become possessed of more than one lot in a city or village, (the size of which maybe regulated by the cityr tow n authorities.) To abolish at once the Feudal Tenures. 2. There shall be a special court of commissioners, composed of landholders and (poor) lacklandcrs, proportioned to the numbers of their respective classes in the State, who .shall, iu all cases where land is held by a twenty years or more., a life, or a perpetual lease, determine, on principles of equality, (without REGARD TO LEGAL WRONCS,) what (or whether any) compensation shall be paid to the claims full extinguishment of his claim. To abolish Mortgages. 4. The homestead lot or farm shall bo inalienable, except at tho will of tho occupant, and then only transferable to a landless person. To abolish monopolies by never-dying bodies without souls 5. Every corporation, or whatever name or nature, now holding land, shall be allowed five years to dispose of the same to landless persons, under the above restrictions, excepting the lots and buildings oucupied for their business." This in a few years is to be the established Democracy of the country; for this is tho latest and the worst, and in no instance has the latest and the worst failed to be the most successful doctrine in the Democratic party. It follows from Dorrism; and Dorriem is modern Democracy, inevitably; fur the "landless" exceed in numbers the landholders, and the power of the majority to overthrow the rights of landed property is just as plain as those other powers which have been claimed for it in this State. Illinois Cornfields ah Citors. To give the distant reader some idea of tho abundance of tho corn crop in this vicinity, (says the Alton Telegraph) we may state that we were told, a few days since, by a gentleman fully competent to form a correct opinion upon tho subject, that tho quantity of standing corn 'which may be seen from Mound Farm, in Jersey coun ty, under twenty miles from this place. cannot amount to less than five hundred thousand bushels. Nor is this all or the best. From Mr. B. A. Davidson's resi dence, on the bluff, on tho road from Alton to IdwardsvilJc, and about 6cvcn miles from this city, there may be seen, without moving from the eamo spot, by looking on'y in two directions, fields of standing . . i ... .... corn, uic prooauio yield ol wbicb is csti mated at one million five hundred thou sand bushels. Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky. This body met at Harrodsburg on tho 25th ult. It continued itsaessiens until Ihe 28th, when it adjourned to meet in Shelby ville. Besides the usual business, iney approved me action of the general as semblyof the Presbyterian Church con cernmg slavery and a western board of missions. The Presbyterian Herald, speaKing oi meir action, says: "They commended the action of the general asaen.bly on the subject of slavery, and after listening to an interesting address from Rev. Roberts. Finlev.on the subject of African colonization, passed res olutions recommending that collections be taken up in their churches for that object, on or about the 4th of July. The members ofthe synod pledged themselves individ ually to poy over lo Col. A. G. Hodges, of i ranKiort, the collective sum oi five hundred dollars, before the 1st of January, tots . .a . . loiu, tor ine purpose oi purchasing a ship to run as a regular packet between New Orleans and Liberia, to carry outjemigranta ana provisions irom the valley of the Mississippi to ihe colony. A committee was appointed to secure a missionary to the negroes, whose duty it shall be to travel through the State and preach lo the negroes as he may have opportunity, and to endeavor to arouse the churches and ministry to increased exertion upon this subject. Synod erected a new Presbytery, to bo called the Bowling Green Presbyte ry, in tho Green River country "Thespirit of harmony and brotherly affection pervaded pll their deliberation '

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Twenty, eight copies will bo forward ed; 60 that a remittance of Fifty Dollars will command thirty seven copies. ttfPublishers of papers throughout the several States Jand Territories who will give a single insertion to this advertisement (with tliis note annexed) and send one of their papers to this office w ith the advertisement marked therein, shall receive tho WecUy National Intelligencer for one year free of chargeThe Debate, Messrs. Rice and Blan chard of Cincinnati, are engaged In a de bate upon this proposition: ' "Is Slaveholding in itself sinful, and the relation between master and slave a sinful relation?" Blanchard, the abolition champion, af firms and Kice denies. We learn that Rice is doing great good, by opening Ihe eyes of many who have been deluded into the vilest of modern heresies. Blanchard is Ihe beau ideal of en abolitionist, de claiming and whining alternately over the wrongs of the colored brethren, and denouncing and slandering the masters, and especially Kentuckians. Ccvincton (Ky ) Register. JCjBishop SouLtj, of the Meihoduu Episcopal Church, says there has been a decrease of 45,445 members in tho noth ern section of the Church the past year, and au increase of 0,703 in the southern section, while the total increase for the preceding year was 155,000. Ho ascribes it to the contentions that huve agitated the Ch uri h. Sign of a Tedious Winter. It Is are markab'.e fact, lhat bees, this year, so far as we can learn, says the Hartford Times, have almost universally refused to swarm, and in some instances, after filling their hives, they have commenced laying up store on the outsido. Such extraordinary conduct of these weather wiso and provi dent insects, it is thought, indicates a win ter of unusual length and severity. HYMENEAL. Married. In Cincinnati, on yesterday evening, by the Rev. rMr. Blanchard, Mr. Silas Tyner, of the firm t f R. & S. Tyncr of thii place, to Miss Hannah W. Bent, of Vermont, and .lately assistant teacher in the Brookville Seminary. Married -On the 18th of September in Fosey township, oy Andrew j. itoss, rsq Boon Mitton to Susan Franklin. On the same day, by the Rev. Jeremiah Whitney, William A. Gantto Phcbe Ann 8weel. On tho 17th ult. by the Rev. Joab Stout, Alexander Smith to Augusta Ardery. On the 4th inst. by Judge Henry Bcrr y, John Anthony to Catharine Anthony. OBITUARY. Died At Mlamitown, Ohio, on Saturday last, Mrs. Miller, wife of Rev. Mi Ilia des Miller, of the Indiana Conference. Mrs. Miller being truly a wanderer and so journer upon earth, among her last words requested that her corpse be token to Brookville and buried,which was complied with. Died In this towribhip, on Salurduy evening last, of the fever, Mrs. Ann Urdyke, wife of Isaiah Updyke, aged about 22 years. Thus are the hopes and happiness of a husband, parents, brothers and sisters blasted in bii unexpected hour. Mrs. Updyke, up to the time of her fatal at tack, was the picture of health and happiness. She was a good woman, such as was loved by all her acquaintances. Her kindness her social intercourse and virtuous friendship will be long remembered in that neighborhood. We believe she was an ac ceptable member of tLe Baptist church. Died At the residence of Judge Mc Carty, on Saturday last, Mr. John Green, oged about 22 years. Communicated. Died In the town of Liberty, Uniou county, Ind., on the morning of the 2nd inst., Alice Eliza, daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Conwell, aged eight years, six months and fourteen days. She was blessed with intellectual endowments, joined with sweetness of temper, which, if her life had been spared, would have rendered her an ornament to society and a comfort to her parents and friends. As falls the tender leaf in aulumn'a frosts, so fades and falls the lender bud and opening flower of childhood's loveliness. But Alice Eliza has gone to a world of exalted and glorious intelligences-to the bosom of that Saviour, who said, while on earth: "Suffer little children to come unto me." Mourn not, dear father, that she's gone To be a tenant of the sky, Jesus claimed her for his own, Sfee's blessed in immortality. Mother, no more you'll see her smile, Feel her warm hand or hear her voice; She's joined the blessed, and all is well, In heaven's bright beam she'll now rejoice. Brothers, dry the warm tears lhat flow, Your sainted sister death has taken; She's freed from sorrow, pain and woe, She's joined the redeemed in heaven. Sisters, tho' grief your hearts has riten, Alice the blood-washed throng has gained; A crown of life to her is given, Tis heaven's will, O! be resigned. Liberty, Oct. 4, 1845. LTj'DiEp at the residence of her hus band, in Warren county, on. Saturday, thc 20th inst. Mrs. Maby Morrow, wife of ex ; Governor Morrow.