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Our CountryOur Country's Interestsand our Country's Friends, II V C. F. CLAUKSON. UltOOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1846. VOL. XIV. NO. 2.

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Introduction and Progress Of Metho- note. Crume's wife was there; and, what dism in Southeastern Indiana. ' was at that time, rather a rare thing, she NO. IX. professed to enjoy the blessing of perfect The fall of 1RI0 completed four years for love, and she was a great blessing to the John ale on the Miami dist rict, and ho meeting, especially to the sisterhood. Who was removed to the Kentucky district, and can remember that intelligent, modest, gifSolomon Langdon, a native of New Eng- ted and holy woman, without thanks to land, succeeded him on the Miami district, God for that providence which permitted with Moses Crnme on the White Water , him to become acquainted with such an an-, circuit, and Walter Griffith on the Enon gel in human form! Although she was a circuit. Crume and Thompson had finish- .small woman, and disfigured by the loss of ed their labors on the undivided circuit ! one eye, yet her person, and features, and with much acceptability and usefulness, ' manners were agreeable, and her spirit of and had gone to conference, having a strong prayer made her uncommonly interesting, hold on the affections of the people whom . She has been some years safely housed high thev left behind; hence, when Crume re- up in heaven, and has left few superiors, or turned to White Water, he found a warm even equals in this world, hsarted and loving people, who received The meeting was attended with much him kindly as an affectionate father; but as of the divine power and blessing, and mahe was not a warm preacher, and being a. nv sout were awakened and converted.

l,ne on the circuit, tnere were some tears that we should have a languid year. Lang don the presiding elder, was an entire utranger to all the people, and he also, was not a very warm preacher, but a very grave, pound and talented di'-ine. The first quarterly meeting for the year was at Manwarring's the 'preaching house for our neigh horhood. Some of ai, however, had to go four mile, or more to preaching, and class nd night prayer meetings. Langdon bei ing a stranger to us, we observed him c!o.-e!y, and I found he was a thoughtful and prayerful man nftiod. His preaching, as 1 have observed, was not warm, but it was well studied, and very evangelical, and directed to the judgment and consciences of the hearers, and admirably calculated to enlighten the enquiring min d, and to console and establish the feeble and trembliug sou!, as mine then was. His permmi on S it-ir li f w is "c t - Revelations xvi, l. from which he showed our perilous condition in this world, and the absolute necessity of constant watchfulness. On Sabbath, he preached from Lamentations iii, from which he exhibited most clearly, God'6 plan of salvation, and presented to the audience the true Methodistie view of the eeonomy of human solvation, and very much disabused the public mind, so far as that mind had been led to think the Me thodists believed thry could save themselves by their own work?. This quarterly meeting was very edifying , but not very successful in the awakening and conversion ef souls. This was the first meeting at which I w;is present where the holy sacrament was administered after I had joined th? Chun h. For fear of eating and drinkin? unworthily, 1 did not lpproach the holy table; and my heart seemed as if it would burst with grief, and my ees p Hired forth fountains of tears; and in th-s midst of my wcepinjr, I thought ofthat passige which says.-'F.sa'i found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." This passage well nig-h drove ma into des' pair. On Sunday evening, there was a meeting near w Here 1 lived, at the house ol Mr. Merrin .Before mentioned. After meo- !

ting, I remained, and told th-) preachers j Judge Dunn, of Lawrenceburgh, and his the distress of my (.oul; and Langdon soon ; excellent wife, had then joined; but I reshowed me that I had wholly mistaken the ' member he was at this meeting, and his

meaning of the apostle, who simply meant : fli.t l.cnil :nl.t nnt cVlntra Mt i n i rwl and purpose of his father Isaac, so as to obtain the blessing of the first born, and that it did not apply to my case in any way: for I did repent of my neglect of duty. I mention this case for three reasons. First, there may be other bouIs as ignorant as I was, who may be troubled by a similar mistake. Secondly, to encourage all such to go to their godly ministers with their difficult cases of conscience. Thirdly, to remind ministers, that they should well understand the holy Scriptures, so as to he prepared to instruct, relieve, and console the ignorant and desponding. I am sure a week's preaching could not have done me the good which 1 deri.ed from tho two or three hours conversation wliich I had with the wen of Gjd who were present on that occasion. In ths spring, the presiding elder sent a man by the name of Holmes to travej- with Trunie on the circuit. Holmes had no f"m.. ily, except a wife, who, for the most part, travel-d with him on the circuit. She "was an almost incessant smoker, and her husband would have to stop frequently at houses to light her pipe. So often had he to do this, that 1 became disgusted with her. as i used to pilot them in strange ways when they first came on the circuit. In the families where they were entertained. she would take the liberty to tell how they fared as to food and lodging at such and such places; and the people justly inferred that as she talked to them about others, sue also taiueu toothers about them, so that her itinerancy was by no means desi ralle to the circuit. I then learned what I hive never forgotten; first, that it is a matter of very great importance for a traveling preacher to have the right kind of a wife for his work; for if he have not, she will blast his usefulness, secondly, I learn ed thaf, although the people may be pleased to see the pieachers wife occasionally, they have no wish that she should become extensively itinerant. Holmes himselfwas rather a feeble man in intellect, but was a very zealous man in prayer and declamation, and was exceedingly popular with the multitude. Ho was. to a considerable extent, useful o i the circuit, and had he been unencumbered, and wisely advised, he might have made a valuable man. What becaino of him after the year ended, I know not: but I was told he did not turn out well. With Crumo at the helm, he snd Holmes were successful, and the year passed off well in every thing but support, which was very small, as was usual in these

early times; and i. would be well if that god medium preachers. Arthur . jmMate of things had passed by at the pres-' Holt, of the Ohio conference, was then en't day, ! commencing to exhort, and delivered, an This year, also, there were two camp j exhortation one night at this meeting. I meetings on the circuit. One was near i fcl om. hosiianev Instate the convic-

iuanwarrintr s. noi lar irom rue one ne a dv i , - f r .i--t,,ii bhaw in the summer of 1509. When it was resolved to have this meeting, we were devout in all our operations. It was en Holme's preaching day, that we met to prepare the ground. After fpreaching, we ! went to the woods, and knelt down on the ground, and Holmes prayed most fervent y, and our hearts were in perfect unison with his in this matter. After prayer, we worited in the fear of the Lord, and made f od preparation for that early day; for we

aj not the lumber to make such comiorta- j -ennon fro, tha lhree sermons of that ado.e estabhshmanu as are nude at the ores-, mirab, d fa Jf Co,. ent tims at many camp m-ietingi. hen , ... . r . ,. th, cam; meeting came on. we hid much I Uni d,d bo,row nuch of h,s mr then' r-unisterial help of the r."ht kind. Ara nj lbsra,nner,ind!?ml were al1 h,s owru '.h; popular aa l useful prerhrs wr Fli- I l"inf- 1 learned the great secret of his Jih Spark. Aje .'.rG sire. wh hl former- pw-er to ilt an audience; for while he iv traveled, but wtt now lorji, John ' "!- ' a nikmj in the preachers' tent to anoth-

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Al meetinff I learned some lesson nf importance. During the first part of the meeting. I viewed the altar exercises, in a ' cool, stoical manner,until my heart became hard, and my mind skeptical, in such a degree, that my soul was as miserable as it could well be out of hell. In the midst of my dreadful distress, Crume came to me j and asked me how I felt? I told him of , my misery, and he invited me to come into the altar, and hear the mourners weep j and pray, and join in prayer with and for . them. With much reluctance, I consented, and the snare of the devil was broke in five minutes, and his poor prisoner released from his misery. Here I learned that a neglect of duty. and cold criticisms on the work of God's grace, were not good for the soul. My wife, although very moral, had never manifested much concern for religion, but now she seemed to be thoroughly broken up, and wppt most bitterly, when the sisters persuaded her to go into the altar, and almost immediately her tears were ' gone, and her heart almost as hard as it ever was. From this I learned, that althouah the altar, crowded with many penitents, is a good place for thousands perhaps the majority of seekers, yet there are some who can be butter composed, and seek ihe Lord to belter advantage eUewheiethanin the crowded altar, wherJ the exercises are so diversifiel: hence I never press persons to go into the altar auainst their inclination. About this time, ' person, in what are called the higher! , walks of life, became religious, and joined the Methodists. I remember one a Miss -Mildred Watts, the daughter of a Bab'.ist preacher, who broke through all the restraints of educational prejudice, and became a most m-?ek, devout and decided j.Methodist. She lived in Kentucky, but hal her membership on this side the river, iff mistake not. She was at this meeting, B!l1 most happy. I do not know Whether feelings were mellow, and his former pre judices giving way very fast. About the same time, or a little before, a most estimable family by the name of Morehead, liv ing near Indian Creek, in Butler county, Ohio, joined, and their house became a preaching place for many years. It was in their ho'.ise, I was licensed to preach in 1813. I may say in a few words, that this camp meeting did more or less good from the Foiks of White Water, where Brookville now is, down to Lawrenceburgh, and even to the shores of Kentucky, a distance of more than thirty miles. There were many objections and caviling against the preaching and doings of this meeting, especially by people of other denominations; but the Church never heeded them, and the cause of God, under the form of Meth odism, still grew and prospered. The second camp meeting for this year was held a'lout four miles from Hamilton, the county town of Butler count j, O., near Four mile creek, on the premises of John Gray, mentioned in my fonrth number. This meeting was the fourth quarterly meeting for the conference year, and I attended it, having been made one of the circuit stewards. Solomon Langdon presided in the quarterly meeting conference with great dignity, and Elijah Sparks, the talented lawyer and preacher, described in my fifth number, was in attendance from Enon circuit, and acted as secretary, and Moses Crume represented the cases of the local preachers, exhortersstewards, and leaders, (for then it was customary to ex amine the leaders,) with so much wisdom, prudenee and piety, that it was a pnvi lege to sit in such a quarterly conference. I well remember, it was objected to one leader, that he did not shut the door when he met his class, and it was voted that he be admonished, and if he did not amend, the'preacher was requested to remove him. This course was sharing the odium with the preachers that sometimes ensues when a leader is removed for not adhering strictly to the rules of Discipline. The public exercises of this meeting were I very interesting. I he preachirrg was oi a superior cast; and how could be it otnerwise, when such master-spirits for talents, piety, zeal and usefulness were in attendance as Solomon Langdon, Elijah .Sparks, John Collins, and others not inferior to - lions of my mind, but it seems to me, that he could have been heard distinctly one mile in every direction, on that still night, He. of course, was not very intellectual, but his exhortion had a poweiful effect on the oeoole. John Collins, however, was - ! the man to melt men's souls. He preachJed from Isaiah lv, 6. a most solemn sermon II have since read Saurin's sermon, and I ; SUQDdse Collins obtained a great deal of j lhe malter 0f lne three divisioas of his

er preacher about the engagedness of the

mourners, the tears ran down his face: hence I am sure the feelings of the man's heart were the secrets of his great power, to move others. This meeting, like the other, wound up with great good to the surrounding country, and the year closed most delightfully. My personal knowleage of the stale of things on Enon circuit that year was very limited, and most of the interesting events of those days must remain forever unknown in this world; for the prominent actors are all gone and there are none to tell their deeds. Langdon, Sparks, Griffith, and the fathers in the societies, are all gone to thei-long homes; and lean only say a few things from sherds of informalion derived from the people in after years when I had no thought of committing any thing of this nature to paper. My information was, that it was a year of great success in the Big Bottom, and Lawrenceburg, on Tanner's creek, the two Hogans, Loglick and Indian creek. In that day, and for many years after, there was not much impression made on Laughery. When I commenced travelling in December, 1816, there was a small and feeble society at the widow Brinton's at the foot of the hill, a little below where Hartford now is. I should have concluded that Griffith went as low down as Madison, were it not that I have interesting written documents informing me otherwise. Walter Griffith was then in the prime of life, and just admitted into the traveling connection on trial, and was full of zeal, and had a most excellent helper in Elijah Sparks who lived contiguous to Lawrenceburg, the only town in the circuit. There were, also, some exhorters who were useful in the lately formed but rising societies. What number of members fell to each circuit when White water was divided, I have no means of ascertaining, so that I cannot give the increase of each circuit separately this year, but I find at the close of the year, there were on the two circuits eight hundred and seventy-three, being an in crease of two hundred and thirty-five, which was a good increase in this new country. The reader should bear in mind the kind of country, (described in a former number,) the preacher had to travel over one on Enon circuit. Mi st of this region, except the Big Bottom, was more sparsely settled than the White Water and Miami regions, and the difficulties of traveling consequently much more. The country being more recently settled, and the people less cultivated, and the accommodations in all respects inferior with the small exception already made. Waller Griffith who was in easy circumstances, and had a most charming and pious wife at home, must have felt it no small cross to be a traveling preacher among these creeks and high and numerous hills; but his bumingzeal and indomitable resolution, sustained by the grace of God, supported him, and he traveled with much cheerfulness, while God owned his labors; and long did his name live with the people of that circuit. Even to this day, there are 6oine who have a fond recollection of the man and his preaching on that new and wild field of labor. ALLEN WILE. Brookville, la., Xorember 13, 1845. Kissed by Mistake. A Cabman in Luck. Quite a funny, and at the same time ludicrous mistake is chronicled in the News published at Charleston, Mass., a mistake in which a fair damsel and a cabman were the principals. The young lady, expected her father from the eastward by the boat that night, sat up for him. Tne old gentleman true to his promise, J came, and w as rolled along from the landing at midnight to his own home in a cab, the driver of which, before letting him out, sprang up the steps and pulled the hall bell. The response was simultaneous, for it up pears the anxious daughter, hearing the sound of the wheels and the footsteps, quickly opened the door, and having no doubts, threw her fair arms around the driver's neck, and implanted kisses alter kisses on his brown, weather beaten face. The father was let out. and .rushed to the support of his daughter, whilepehu, doubtless feeling himself sufficiently recom pensed, drove off with a loud crack of his whip We find the lollowing good one in C. M Clay's True American. A man named Bentlv was a most con firmed drunkard, but would never drink with a friend, or in public, and always bit terly denied when caught a little too steep. ever tasting liquor! One day some bad witnesses concealed themselves in his room, and when the liquor was running down his throat, seized him with his arms crooked and his mouth open, and holding him fast, asked him with an air of trumph "Ah, Bentlv, we have caught you at last voa never drink, ha?" Now one would suppose thatBently would have acknowl edffed the corn. Not he!- with the most crave and irrepressible, he calmly, and in a '."dignified manner." said, "Gentlemen, my name is not Bently !" .4 Slight Mistake.-A young lady out West, who wished to have the one room of a log house appear to the best advantage on a certain occasion, had some trouble in keeping a large dog outside the door. After having turned him out for the third or fourth time, she heard a slight lap upon itiPiloor which she supposed to be the dog's paws, she cried out, "Bose, you old dos. vou may ran as long as you're a mind to: but I wont let you in." Itjwas a cierpaying gyman, who Had just his aJdress to her. commenced It?"A'ady whohad refused to give, after hearing a charity sermon, had her pocket picked as he was leaving the Church. On making ihe discovery, ehe ssid. "if God could not find the wiy into my pocket, it seems the Devil could"

For the American. Capital Punishment. Mr. Editor: I see in the American of the 2Gih ult. an article from Luther, on Capital Punishment, calling on those opposed to him for their "strong reasons." Before giving them, we will examine the article, and see what are Luther's positions. What is the point in dispute, and with whom rests the burthen of proof. "To avoid a bootless controversy," Luiher has "distinctly" stated his "position on the subject." He is, in the first place, ''as much opposed to public executions as any other man can be." He "believes them productive of much evil." Secondly he is

"PPosed t0 punishment by death for any other crime than murder." Thus far he is understood. To be consistent then, he is "opposed" to all inflictions of this penalty not in accordance with the positions here laid down; andean receive, andwill urge nothing as authority for its infliction which does not embrace these conditions; inasmuch as he look upon the exercise of all authority not based upon these priciples, as "productive of much evil." We now come to his "principal reason" in favor of the death penalty, and against its abolition, which "briefly stated is this: No human government has a right to abolish punishment by death in cases of murder." Now certainly none but a Luther could discover in this either a reason or an argument. If the mere assertion of the question in dispute be called a reason either for or against that question, then is this one. Suppose I should assert that every human power has a right to abolish punishment by death in cases of murder, and call this my principal reason against the death penalty, could any sane mind, Luther's excepted, discover in such assertion the semblance of a reason or proof in favor of its truth? Yet this would be as strong as Luther's, which, for strength, he compares to the death of the witness which the barrister j gave as the first of sixteen reasons why he could not attend court, which reason, according to the decision of Ihe judge, precluded the necessity of any others. If Luther's assertion that "no human power has a right to abolish punishment by death, is as strong proof that they have not, as the man's death was that he could not attend Court, then certainly it does preclude the necessity of any farther reasoning on the subject. Butcseing this is only the statement of the question in dispute.which Luther has given, doubtless through mistake, for the arguments thereon, we will pass on to his inquiry: "If then the punishment of murder by death has been instituted by divine authority, and it is yet unrepealed, what human Legislature may dare to repeal it, or change the punishment to any thing else?" We answer none. But the existence of such authority is the very point in dispute, and here we join issue. It devolves upon Luther to prove that, and we invite him to the task. With him rests the burthen of proof. It is his duty to show the authority. Ours to show that it is repealed. And in doing this we expect him to adhere to his positions as defined by himself; for certainly authority for public exe cutions can be of no force or validity with him who makes it "a matter of astonishment that so few Legislatures have attempted to remedy an evil so obvious." But let us see how Luiher proves an unrepealed divine authority for (privately) killing a man. He says: "That such was the divine law. no one will doubt, and that it is yet unrepealed, is virtually admitted by the distinguished Adams." A very convenient method this of getting along with an argument, as it supercedes the ne cessity of proving a point,which it is some times extremely troublesome to do, while it is seldom difficult to find souie one to admit it. Yet I do not conceive that the venera ble Adams has made any such admission as is claimed. He says nothing about a lav, but speaks of the revocation of a "senfence," which, from his language, I would suppose he looked upon as prophetic. Be this as it may, his admission is not author ity with us, so long as we do not admit it. That such a law was given by Moses is granted, except that it did not fulfil Luther's conditions of being executed pnralely, and only upon murderers; that it was repealed we are prepared to prove. If we understand Luther, he places the law inflicting capital punishment, on the same footing with the moral law, as he says it would be equally justifiable to form an association for the repeal of the one as of the other. With this difference howev er that we suppose he would have no ob jection to the public observance of the lat ter. Indeed we would be led to suppose that he considered it a part of the moral law, were it not that we can not conceive how public obedience thereto could be "productive of much evil' A word in reference to the kind and christian spirit which Luther manifests toward us, and we have done for the present. He very charitably calls us "pseudophilanthropists whose sympathy is for the offender and not the offended the murderer and not the helpless and unsuspecting victims of his malice." We admit that we have sympathy even for murderers, and if we have not Luther's sanction r.rf 11 ue tnii we have the sanction ot one who is greater than Luther, who has giv

en us an example of its exercise even io-:j8""- . r , phlegm-cut, fogmatic, blue-eyed, a pasward his own murderers. I .enger in the u'.pe Ann stage.srhped. all If Luther meant what he has said about, eTer the btVt falIt Bllol u tn0 neck, bamour not having sympathy for the offended ; boozled, weak-jointed, sick, used-up. and victims of the murderer, he has sim-

ply done what he is commanded not to against his neighbor. OXFORD. Oxford, O., Jan. 2J, 1846. a Mr Rani .min Frank it.; .m;n Vrnlr. 1;- ffirAnfiM Inrf ' shot h mse f with uo v.. j : linn nn ifm.fl.ir ti 1 1 i. 1 . f.i i s desnai Wlill VI. " 7 ' - I of. Cambridge Reveille.

Hedical Society. i At a meeting held by a number of the ' practising Physicians of the County of Union, at Liberty on Saturday the 27th ofj December 1845 for the purpose of takinci

into consideration the expediency of form-i ing upon the Governor to retnrn a bill ing a County Medic al Society. Dr. G. R. j which passed yesterday afternoon, proviChitwood of Liberty, was called to thejding for a change of venue ir. the case of chair, and Dr. Z. Casterline was appointed a man named Doty, on trial for murder in Secretary. The object of the meeting be-j the Allen Circuit Court; which bill passed

ing briefly stated by the chair. On molion of Dr. Garver. of Billinssville. the following . Resolution was unanimously adopted. Resolved, That we forthwith proceed to

the organization of an association, wSioss jiincouneous towards the Governor, and object shall be the advancement of correctjsetting a bad precedent. It was not propMedical principles, the elevation of the er to interfere with a coordinate deoart-

Profession nnrl tho oclahliatimnt nf s eve' ------ i , "- -j tern of medical ethics, calculated to ensure a more successful co-operation of its members in the discharge of the duties which they owe to community and to one anotherOn motion of Dr. Bell, it was ! Resolved. That this Society shall be called the Union County Medical Society and shall consist of a Presidf nt, Vice President, a Recording and Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, three Censors and members. (A constitution was then adopted and a bill of Fees agree upon.) On motion of Dr. Casterline, it was Resolved, That we go into an election for officers nf the SnripLv which wu nrrnra: i-w.j i..j:.u- -V uiugi j uau, auu i csuncu ill uc cieuiiou 01 the following gentlemen: Dr. G. R. Chitwood, President; Dr. Garver, Vice President; . isasienine, rtecoraing secretary;! Elliott, corresponding Secretary; M. Bell, Treasurer; G. Starbucks D. Trembly f Censors " Crookshank J On motion it was ?ofte4That when we adjourn we do! so to meet asain at Liberty on Monday the 1 12th day of January, at 10 o'clock A. M. j lt was further Resolved that the Presi dent and Secretary sign the proceedings of this meeting, and forward to the Editors of the "Indiana American" and "Richmond Jeffersonian" for publication. On motion the meeting adjourned. G. R. CHITWOOD, Pres't. Z. Casterline M. D. Sect'y. Liberty, Dec. 27, 1845. Robbery. A gentleman by the name of Hector, from Shelby county in this State, was robbed of $400 on the night of Monday last, at the National Hotel in this placeHe retired to bed and left the door of his room unlocked and had his money in bis pantaloons pocket, which he bad left upon a cbair. The robbery is supposed to have been committeJ by two of the pocket pick, ing gentry from Cincinnati, who had foNj lowed some gentleman to this place from4 that city, where they bad been Belling hogs and had been watched by the thieves. XSo news of them has been received, although search has been made in every directionLawrenceburg Reguter. fr-Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Ireland to a friend in Ualurr.ore, dated November 30, 1S45.I suppose you imagine from the newspaper accounts that we shall all starve in Ireland before next harvest. No such thing is feared here, as there is quite a plenty ol provisions in the country if they are left in it. A great deal of the potatoe crop has rotted; but evenif one-fourth of the whole was lost, (which I doubt,) there is yet an average one remaining sound, as, in the memory of nan. there never has been such an abundant one, both as to the quantity planted and the return from the planting. '1 had from thiee English acres of land about eight thousand stone of potatoes (stone 14 lbs ) in quality like flour; nor did I lose eight stone out of the whole of them, having taken timely precautions. The best are now selling in this market at 2id. (o cents per 6tone." Hageritoxen. This beautiful Village sit' uated at the ccntemplated terminus of the White Water Canal, is rapidly improvingand increasing in business, A decided change of feeling with regard to the completion of the canal has been manifested within a few weeks fpast; many new sub scriptions have been added, and a full confidence in its completion is the result. The Company have issued bonds to the amount of $25,000, secured by bonds and mortgages payable in five years. These bonds will certainly meet with ready sale and at (air rates; since the manner in which they are secured renders them perfectly good. Cambridge frtveille. Good Shooting. Mr. Van Valkenburg, of Albany, with a rifle of his own manufacture, made the following unrivalled hits; the target was 15 inches in diameter distance 400 yards number of shots 20, Five of the shots almost forced the centre, and Ibel aggregate of the entire 20 is ony 34 inches from tbj eentre, Drvnkneu Defined We p'eserva the following definition from and 01a maga-i line, for the benefit of prosperity " Drank, a (from drink.) Over the bay, half seas over, high, c irned, cut, cocked half cocked, shaven, disguised, jammed damaged, sleepy .tired, snuffy, whipped, just so breezy smoky, top-heavy, fuddled, groggy tipsey. smithed, swipy, slewed, orank, salted down, how fare ye on the lee lurch, alt sails set, three sheets in the wind, well j under way. spreeing, battered, blowing. boozy , aawea, snuooeu. oruisea, ecrewea - stewed' oaked, comfortable, stimulated,! 00 patoe from, Europe Within the week past fifteen, hundred bushels pf Potaj toes have arrived in this city 'from Englaud. It is said that at the present prices the shippers realise a very handsjme profit

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE. (a eported for the Indiana amebicas.) - II. R. Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1845. Mr. McDonald offered a resolution, call-

in great haste for the purpose of being forwarded by the last mail to Fort Wayne. Messrs, Crookshank, Hall of G., Penning ton, otapp, Thompson, &c thought the ! O ' .adoption of such a resolution wuld be . menlment of the Government, with the view of hastening its action. Mr. McDonald withdrew his resolution, and thereby terminated the discussion. Mr. Layman introduced a resolution providing for the appointment of an Agent to examine into the affairs of the State Bank and branches; which was adopted. Mr. Davis introduced a resolution proi Ainir tnr on o;n n m ar. I .(,1,. T 1 on ine tain. Sir. onered an amendm nnl . V. 1. T .-1 -1.. ... 1 1 1 J -

nciii iuai mc ucgwiaiure win aujourn as ; 11 was also contended that the law wasnasoon as it gets through with the public bu- i constitutional, as that instrument nroiiii

siness, and that the members of this House are willing to legislate for $1 50 per day, if the interests of their constituents re i Ollire it. The resolution and amennmeni .u-..ui. . c i iu uu me louic. j Mr. Lemonds introduced a bill provi - jdmg for the printingof the School laws in (German, read and passed to a 2d reading, i ne tiouse, auer oraering several unimportant bills to a 2d. reading, took up messages ot the Senate; when the act to Drovide for erectins a monument on the I ITippecaooe Ground; which was read twice and I The bill extending the lime of payment to the boi rowers of the sinking fund, being amended, so as to extend its provis-. ions to the aahne, surplus revenue and school funds, was then read a third time and passed. An aitemptto reduce the interests to 6 per cent; failed. Bills passedTo vacate part of State road in Franklin Coi-nty; to repeal laws incorporating town of Lexington; author - izeing people of Fayette to e!ect Semina-

ry trustees; in relation to cases where rec- j cen, passed, and only wants the signa-t ords are destroyed by fire; limiting the j ,ure ' the Governor to become a law. time of commencement of action for the T,ie policy of the measure is doubted by recovery of real estate, limiting lime to 20 some, Mr. Chapman reported from the years; relative to the duty of county Re- Judiciary Committee a bill fixing the salcorder, (and also several local bills not ary f the Supreme Jud-es ai 150i, and

deemed ofinterest to vour readers.) The bill to divorce Sarah Wallace from her husband passed ayes 47, noes 35. The Joint Resolution on the subject of the vacant lands in the Vincenncs land district, also passed. The bill providing Tor the abolishment of capital punishment in certain cases, with an amendment, making the punishment solitary confinement for such length of time as the jury may determine, or imprisonment for life at hard labor, having been taken from the table on motion of Mr. Baker. Mr. Thompson opposed the amendment, j Mr. Crookshank was opposed to capital punishment, and therefore favored the amendment. The object of punishment was to deter persons from committing crime; and soMlary confinement, in some cases, misht have a good effect. Mr. Osborn of L.. had assented to this amendment under the belief it would add strength to the bill. He hoped the infliction of Judicial murder would, ere long, be blotted out from our Statute book. Mr. Cookerly opposed the amendment. He was in favor of imprisoning murderers for life, and he moved an amendment to that effect; and solitary confinement for such length of time as the jury, in their discretion, may determine. Mr. Baker said man was a social being, and instances have been prooven, where solitary confinement produced insanity. He therefore favored the last amendment. Mr. Julian believed there was strength enough in the House to abolish capital punishment: and he hoped ni disagree ment about mere details, would prevent the passage of a law to abolish that relic ot abatbarous age. Before any decison was had, the House adjourned. Election of a Bane Director. The two branches of the Legislature were occupied with closed doois, from 2 till 41 o'clock, in ballntting for Bank director; which 'lesulted lin the re-election of Gen. Jacob Walker of Tipnecanoe, and the election of Jno. F. Carr, Esq., of Jackson county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. A.C. Pepper. The vole between Judge Isaac Dunn and Mr. Carr was very close in the House 50 to 47, and in the Senate. Judg Dunn twice received a majority. The gentlemen elected are both Democrats. Judge r. A I,.a..,I..Ii. .,r I LMinn s experience ouu m..cusc financial affaira would have made him a valuable accession to the Directory of the! Bank; but Democrats, notwithstanding; their professedal horrenceof Bank., seem ; tf . Mrrnwiiiing u auiiui naxr -t - 1 : . -1 . . t hina ih uandlin their management, where they i . . 4 rt triai m a n 1 tw o rr. 1 can prevent .1. Gen. W alter a very Clever and liberal politician. 1 he H ,use adjourned to the first day of nesrt year. of Mr Fulie" k Solution IT l I 1 I J 4 1 On motion , .., . .j,.,, .t nnon until

tomorrow ' he regretted they had .been, reduced; but Gir Pcsishmbit. ! w' -e democrats favored the nieau,r-. The House aorain resmed the considera-' many whig, nol to be outdone, voted Vr tion of the bill abolishinsr Capital punish-, j it, and hence m passage by o large a oia,rncnt, the pending amendment being, that jurity. punishment shall he by bird labr in the I On the other Imiid. it was argued that, penitentiary for life, and by solitary coa- j although the Kalaries might be too iW. still finement, at the discretion of the jury. ftj lne state was in debt, it was necessary

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Crnokehank and others, which were appropriately referred. Mr Crooksha&k. reported back, n re. oin mended the indefinite postponement of the bi!l ii repea 1 the law confining voter to their own townships. o far as Owen and Boon are concerned. This cave rise to protracteJ debate between M-sers. Haze, ngg. Fuller, Clements. lVnnir.s'ton ,nj Thompson in opposition to the xis1:n'-' law and Messrs. Crookshank and Vandeveer in" vindication of the expediency nd policy of a uniform law, as a means of preventing fraud and pipelayin? in election. Tk

1 . - - -- lauer Cent'eman maintained the law had. i""'-" ihucii gowu, ana snouid not be altered without the greatest necessity. Tba report was concurred in, ayes Ti7, noes 34. Mr. Pennington moved a reconsideration: when the debate again reopened. A motion of Mr Clements to recommit to a Select Committee was lost . The arguments used for exchange, were that sonae counties were peculiarly situated, having creeks and rivers that overflowed, and prevented voters from going to particular precincts, whilst there might be no difficulty in ?eti ting to the county seats. It w as also arjgued that the opinions of the people, ia a ! " . W Jliy CKangtJ i eo couniies. were aoverse a:.o.vra citizens to I vote at whatever precinct t'iiv i.h.-,...! 1 , . , ... 3 ' vu. ! that the voter shall vote withir. tl e cour.tv (not tne township.) w here he resides. A:c I m .it- urn wo i it-n-tii lain on nit iat. i - -.-. . . Tl. k:ll ..... !.. , .. - ' . '"""i'S0" 'ron Coinrnittee of Wi ys -Means reported a bill Mibiectinr erh . , - . , , ool J ReaJ and passed ,0 ,.,J c" j Mr. M'Donald introduced a bitl to ceSne powers of judges when acting on writs of ; i aneus corpus: and Mr. Kiley reported one ; m relation to deeds and uvjitgaes, making i d"')' 10 record within :!u dajs, which ' wa" indefinitely postponed. i II. 1 . ... ' 1,r- arnan reportec a am respecting t apprentices; res-J end p&eeed iu a J. rea,iiinrr. , mittee on lllG state Prison, made a renor." j (accompanied by the evidenced ject, commenting, with much' on the subeevert'tv on : the cruel and unkind treatment of the pris-. oners bv the Superintendent, The House tLcn adjouriicd. j ; IndiaxaPolis, Jan. 1. 1845. j Dear Sir: In ihe Senate, to-d3y, the 1 bil1 granting Mr. Lew is, of Jackson Co , l,,e Priv''"ge of selling clocks without li zircon juages ai jrvj, ana recomand rer mended its passage. This bill gave rise to quite an animated discussion; and was advocated by Messrs. Chapman, Davit, Morphy, romerojr, Hey burn, Lone, ond Barbour; and opposed by Messrs. Buell, Miller, Edmonson, Read ar.d Roskhill; but was finally laiJ on the table, when the Senate adjourned, and transacted no business in the afternoon, except that of electing Bank Directors. Messrs. Chapman, Davis, &.c., argued in favor of increasing the salary with much' ability, contending that, the salaries now attached to those t flices.wcre not sufficient to induce able lawyers to leave a lucrative practice for the purpose of accepting them; and that, as almost eveiy one had some interest in the correctness of judicial deJ cswns, it was important not only to get the ablest men on the bench, but, after their services are secured, to pay them such salaries as might enable them to devote their entire time and talents to the duties of their offices. Where judges were paid poorly, it was conlended thai they were frequently compelled to attend to other business in order to frcure a living for themselves and their families a course thai must necessarily in some degree, cause a neglect of their judicial functions, and lliere-by superinduce ill considered action upon points submitted to their decisions. In reply to the cry of economy, it was argued that true economy was best consulted by paying officers and others a just compensation according to the amount of talent and skill required in auy pursuit; and t'at, t. the poor man, especially, who could seldom afford to pay the expense attendant upon an appeal from a wrong decision, it wai of vast of paramount importance that the Circuit Court bench should be filled with able and upright judges; and that, if the confiJeiice of the people in its ability, be once destroyed, the Supreme Conit (already overburdened with business) will be fiiled with appeals, and lawyer's fees, and officers' costs ba increased to a fearful exte ;t. Mr. Pomeroy very truly said that, if we can, by holding out suitable inducement, secure able, impartial, and competent Cir cuit Judges, we will, in eff.'ct, bring a Supreme Court a Court of last resort to every man's door; otherwise, we may expect to see a la,rge portion of Circuit buiness carried ud to Indianapolis for r ;ver- .... ,!,, m ln,.nrim - " ... ..... " '"'Climate part.es be'YtTa, also admitted by Mr. B.rbonr that mPMllr.f .,,,.: rfiaIar:es ,wo Vears I " ' ' agu was determined by hi political friei.Hs, in c a uc in, in order ta mamifaciure Uiv. ; aM ,( he votC(1; j m (irder nol Q be out.. , . . h p should now Tole for rU i sina the salaries to a proper standard. j "ad never hearl the r,p'emPlain of i tne salaries ol luoges oeing loonign, and ... . . ..icioiti nt noid eennomv. and A that judges should patticipate in that gen- , i...:.. l, l.oj hppn nnnliir1 l " -o. i tne aiianes oi mi -nv - ' w . w - a