Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 15, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 April 1846 — Page 2

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V.mrt:jfcr ef tAf fidS-ir-torr isfi-mf. ttASRixnios, .March l10. I perceive, in th last number of the "Ccrrret, published in Baltimore, a very favorable, notice, by the editor, of Lou s F. Tasistro. Ksq. This, and an old paper published :il Cleveland. Ohio, called the F.'aifi Dealtr," and dated Oct. 9, 1541, w liich lies upon my table, remind me of the manner in which this same Mr. Tassistro ha? been treated by Mr. Polk, now that the litter is President. In the paper I refer to is an account of affieat political meeting held nt Cleve land. October .1, l41,in fiver of the cause ft Polk and Dallas. The account says that the meeting was ably and eloquently atforessed, among others, by Mr. Gansevort Melville, New York, Col. McReynolds, of Detroit, Hon. Uobhert Kantoul, of Boston, Gert'l Lewis Cass, of Michigan, A Ten Eyck, of Detroit, and Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro speech on the occasion, the Plairi Dealer gave quite a glowing account. Of the persons named above, who spoke en the occasion, all save one are in office. Gen. Cass is a Senator in Congress. Mr. Memlla is Secretary of our Legslion at is United States ssachusetts. ColIndian A-ent in ' ck has been apLondon. Mr. Kantoul District Alt irney for Mas onel McKeynoIds is sub me west. 3ir lea L,yck has been an pointed Commissioner to the Sandwich Island. Mr. Tasistro, who then held an office under John Tyler, has been turned ou. of it, and has no chance of being restored to that or any other place! In addition to what Mr. Tasistro did for Polk tnd Dallas, in the campaign of 144, by travelling through New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and to Tennessee, and making ardent speeches in each, he, 1 learn, alter having been nominated by Mr.' Tyler as Charge det .1 ffa ire to Ntples, consented to have the nomination withdrawn, and that of Win. II. Polk, brother of the President sent to the Senate in it? etead. I know j that NY m. II. Polk was grateful for this act, and it is said that the President professed to be. It ia further slated that Mr. Tasistro wsb assured, that he should be appointed to akighly respectlable Consulship, and in the meantime should hold on to the office which he then lilted that he receiv ed this assurance from the President and Mr. Secretary Robert J. Walker and that he had hardly been ia New York fortyeight hours, congratulating himself and his family upon their future comfortable situaation in life, before he was dismissed from the office he then held! Is not INGRATITUDE ono of the worst of sins'. Even Messrs. Buchanan and Mason, of The Cabinet, cannot have influence enough to get Mr. Tasistro restored to oliice. They have tried and failed.' General Cass does no; get him appointed and nobody perhaps can, while the man who imitites Tyler's weaknesses, and follows in his footsteps to a, nnst conspicious unpopularity, is President of the United Slates.' Yenly, ingrat ilude is a grest rin! Capt. Ramsey, of tho Xavy, and two o: three of his eons, young men nearly grown, came near losing their lives this rn rning about (5 o'clock, by the hand and knife of a man named Tucker, of Madison, Ky., who was laboring uuder a fit of mania portu. It appears that as Tucker was passing the dwelling of Capt. Kaaisey, on ths Avenue, near the Capitol, the servant opened the door, w hen Tucker rushed upon him, following him up stairs, and inflicting seven wounds with a knife which he possessed. At the top of the first flight of eUirs, the servant got out of the waywhen the i;ia.d;uan rushed into the front roomtnd commenced an altack'upoa Capt. Ramsey, cutting him in three places, two immediately unOer the left eye, and one near the U.rou. Wlnlj the sciilile was going on. the Captain's sans came dawn from a chainher ah 've, and j imr ed to their father's ass;stanee; but Tucker cut them also, and severely wounded both before he could be efr Mally controlled and '"secured. Capt. Ramsey knocked the msdir.m down once, bit refined to take his life, and calleA upon his sons duringthe sculilj.not Mdesj atch but secure the man. They itid so with commends! I ; determination. Tucker was Uken to the Ja.l, where he n w is. Kf re ha le t Capt. Ramsev's h use, he threw soma seventy-five dollars all about the fl vi's. I called t ses the Capt in early this nurn.ng. and was glad to find that he a id his nous and the servant are cons d red oat ot .iiriTr th.-iti.vK suut:r iimeu iroiu lao wounds thev have re. vel ved. POTOMAC. Correspondence fialt. Patriot. Washington, March 31st. SENATE. Many petiii ns and memorials were presented. Mr. ALLEN m ivH that theSenale meet hereafter at eleven o'clock. The proposition was discussed bv several Senators, and rejected aves 13, navs 31. " The Oregon resolutions w ere then taken up. Mr. CASS took the floor and is making an able speech, i:i reply to some of the ad' vocaies of compromise on lhe49;h parallel. His language and manner are fine. Galleiies crowded, lie condemns what he calls a ' fast and loose" course, no matter how high the mvi may be in power who flays iu He says he has never had any idea liiat England will come back wiih our ; wn o;Ter of the 49i !i parallel. Mr. C. still speaking. house- j A resolution was offered to put an end 1 to the debate on the Sub-Treasnrv bill, now i tefore the Committee of the Whole and to meet hereafter at eleven o'clock. The ' TW resolution was adopted. t The Housethen went intoommiita..r! the W hole, and took up the Sub-Treasury ! feiil. Mr. CHAPMAN condndeJ the snetvh m favor of the bill which he commenced ! vesterdav. i Mr. J. R. IXGERSOLL then took the floor, an.l is now speaking against the bill. There is very little interest feit on the subject not more than twenty members being in the Hall. Married. At Mullbr rry Hill, Pickaway k.o. un:o, on i uesday ihe 21th ult. by the Rev. D. Whiicomb, James Whitcomb, Governor of the State of Indiana, to Mar'tha Anx Hi rst, daughter of the late Wm. Renick, Esq , of the former place. Horrible. At Louisville, Ky, a German named Joseph Jockel in a fit of insanity & during the absence of his wife, killed Jiis own little son, about three years old, by outunhis throat from ear to ear with a j razor, and then put the body in a tub and ! Md it under the bed. Jockel attempted to j cm hi own threat, but wis prevented by ttie nrtjhriors. '

A Villain wlla a charmed Lifs. Na.-hville has been a scene oi a bloody j tr-gWv and disorireful moli violence. Mr.

E. Z. C- Jii l-ou recently a citizen ol micinnali. an j one of the eJiH-s of the V c.; tern ' Lfcerarr Reviev, was thecausen anu one ni in- eiitiervm in m c.riiiun:iii. . A Nashville, correspondent

of tlic Cmcin-Iwnce

natiHerald gives he'followinj p-irticulars j under date ot March loth: ! "For some tune past rumors of psin-j fully delicate nature have been in ciroula- j tion in regard to a lady of this city, which j coming to the ers of her husband induced j nim to searcn lor iiib s'jurce irom ur.iuv Pm,n,!,J. IIa irA thn. to a Mr I E. Z. C. Judson. a man grown .......riow,; of late. Thev met vesterd.y near the Af- j rienn church Ar ll.a meeting resulted in the death of the lady's husband, Mr. Robert I Porterlield. It s-iems. that Judson haJ been down near the Sulphur. Spring, prac tisingwilh.hispUtols, and was returning when he met Mr. Porterlield. The ht.cr it is said, Sred twice without effort: -In.!son once, hitting his victim in the forehead. and inflicting a wound of hicb he died last night. Judson was arrested and taken to the Court House for examination before f ,k- p.,, aim. immp.li. ately as the matter became known a large crowd gathered ia and about the Court House, and symptoms of violence be;n to be manifested A brother of the decca d, justly excited against the murderer of his brother, went in., to the Court room and shot at Judson a number of timse. Judson ran out of the door, Porterfield followed and shot several times more as he weut down the steps. Judson kept on, and leaching the door of the City Hotel Porterfield placed a pistol at his head and fired but Judson dodged, and escaped with only the loss of a lock of hair. Whilst he was dodging 'about others shot at him loo, but he had the good fortune to escape. When in the Court House for examination, some of the crowd were for shooting, oth ers for hansrii'g him, and outside was ths cry "fetch him out to us." To continue my narration. Escaped from the crowd. Judson secreted himself in the Hotel, and when after a search of some 13 or 2l minutes, he was discovered, a rush of hundreds of people was made, for him. Ab he assayed to escape again,'he fell from the third story of the Hotel into the yard, and fainting to be dead or dying, the crowd permitted the Sheriff, and his poss-; to con. vey hitu to prison. But for this deceit, he would have been doubtless lorn to pieces." The Nashville correspondent of the Ga zette gives the subsequent horrible proceed ings of the mob. Iast night about I o c ock, finding) that he was still alive, the mob i roke in ! to thi jail m li ned au I aliticst naked, they threw him into lha street t he hung. He begged for a minister, which was denied him ha feared not death, but requested to be shot, and begged that if there was any gentleman present that he would shoot him. They look him lo the square aid run him up overlhe rail of an awning post, the rope broke ii he fell, when he was taken back to jail, where ha lies to die nunc time during the night. Mr. Porterfield was buried this afternoon. Take it a!l in all, it is worthy of the reign of Terror in France. If there ever was a scene of this kind which surpassed this one in horror, we resMy have never real of it. And though the proceedings of the moa were illegal an.l criminal, yet there was more palliation for their conduct thin is usual in su-h cases. then practising with pistols to ensure a' deadlv aim noon her liS'wn,ln. tl.o,,

crowning all, by mur lerin? him. was a tran I V,Iv,)'UV,l nV V th?S3 -D;es'-M,'s- ! of wickedness and villainy, calculated toex- ! Mic,,aci B'tght. for and vi Constderacite and arms the (elinis of anv comma-1 "," ?f lhe S'J'" W,H. to n.e paid by

nitv ; r ,.i...T i .wi. ...j, mo .... .i o-.. uhimt nun jitiiiLciiuit:, : To first sirikc a man to his heart by the I story of his wi'e'n dishonor and then for the lying destroyer of his-happiness in shoot him deliberately through the head i a refinement of cruelty as unusual as it is dastardly btse. The wonderful' manner in w hich the scoundrel escaped all their shots, and lived through his fall from the third story and his hanging, seems as strands as ticvon. Days without Nithts and Wights withoutDays. Dr. Baird is delivering an interesti".' course of lectures at Hartford, Ct., of one of which the Times has the following no - j There is nothing that strikes a stranger j more "forcibly, if he visits Sweden at the ; season of ths year when the .days are lorn ! gst, than the absence of night. Dr. I. i had no conception of it before his arrival J He arrived at Stockholm, from Gotten ; burg, 4tX "miles distant, in ihe miming. . ana in the afterneon went to sei l.nmo j menus nad rot taken notes of time and 7 - returned aoout midnight, it was as liht as it is here half an hour before sundown. ou could see distinctly. But all was quiet in lha streets; it seemej as it the in- . a . . ; naunants had gone away, or were .lead , .o sogus oi me stores closed. The sun j in June goes down at Stockholm a little' i before 10 0c!ock. There is agr-atillu-j ruination all nin-ht, as the sun na.-es ron-.a ! the earth towards the north polo, and the! refraction of its rays is such, that vou can ! see to read at midnight. Dr. B. read a letI tor in the forest near Stockholm, at mid-! j night, without artitiicial lig'.it. Th-reis! j a mountain at the head of the Gulf of Both j jnia, where, on the 21st of June, the sun t ! docs not go down at all. Travellers go up ! t-ic iu e II. A Steamboat ffoes nr. from j Stoc'iolm for the purpose of carrying those j who are curious to witness the p!inonteniOn. It only 'occurs one niglt. The sun goasdown to the horizon, vou can see the who'ei'x-o r ;, beglnarle """ ,l Aui,.v..,i.r... j m . " -", ore In in w. i S 1.1 .t!:trwt!!?:- i above th-Kori " " es I lhe there know it is midnight, they ' ! etc iu eun oegin lo rise. ! those high latitudes, from " a 1 iif Is It r rrna . Chan-res in I 1 5C "'s" latitudes, from summer to win- ! ' 0 grm' lhat w! "an have no con-1 c'Pon oi tticnt at all. In the winter time Ihe san diss;ppears and is not weeks. Then it comes up and shows its face. After, it remins for ten, ti-teen. or twenty minutes, and then descends. And finally, it does not sot at all, but makes almost a circle round the heaven. Dr. Baird was asked how they managed in reMrJ to hired persons., and w hat li.ey considered a Jay.' He could not say. but supposed they worked by the hour, nd twelve hours would be considered a day's work. Birds and an usual . t. n?!t0mc ref al their ! tWv learn;.! ir?.?" ...w utiit. u II L iiipv ft .I ar.fi -a: , fun goes oou or n.V U e.n lake to the trees about 7 o clock, P. M., and stay there until the sun is weil up in the morning, and the people get mto the habit of late rising, too. The hrst morning Dr. Baird awoke in StockUolra, he was surprised to see the eun shining into his room. He looked at his watch. L I) 111 rF!K( WhAlho. ,Ka , ' - j w. m.au ,na ,oun1 " was only 3 o'clock; and the nexi nmi ne awoke, it was 5 o'clock, hut tuere wre no persons in the streets. The

"-'- are u .t i. tha iu.t of ncu.g so soon H.o Swedes m the cities arc not very in di. - tnous, owing, probably, to the cnmaW

Corrrr.lowrft no-o f he Ildtann Journal. .Ullso, March l, lC. EJ,7,,r Several weeks have passed .Mr . , .,.) i ..,i l ..,, ,r;i m ". . " " ten von Dreii- blue iiau h UVL utcn n multitdu of engagements liiat occupies my tiibe. However, I have not forgotten you, or the Journal either, and will try and keep you advised of matters and thing in this portion of the Slate. Dj not suppose that husiness or its engagements, makes us fori . sict our dnty as citizens, for in the midst of t aU. we t.H fia l.me to Ih.ak of the hrrt nexl 10 reQeclo.i the importance of the nex election. e feel ae V ;B """" "" ":"' we J", . a ul ' " l" j Pe'9",,al ,nltresl ,,,e ,rPf"'1' w'1' .not U9 b though we were dis?M.t0 e leel too that our 8 "hy of our votes and that ,"le he c,'ms. '. b ll,e, ,'v'"' "&Mt K W Reoiu.. Lib moral worth, high ! wntinunt and elevation of character, j""l'e h,,n toour enthusiastic admiration. We feel that it is Joseph (i. Mkshll, verus Jas hitcomb, and th 6clfT would our ,e,?1,n?? d as lb T about he many queMons involve make us nothing ved in the nxt Gubernatorial election, nothing about th-t Stale dv-ht. nothing about taxation. nothing about Wabash and. Erie ranal Iand6, nothing about the Ju.liciiry , we know the men who are opposed and that is sufficient for us. I suppose the canvass has already commenced, as Mrshal!has addressed the people already on tho subject of the next election, on one or two occasions. In Jackson county, two weeks ago, he addressed a large assemblage of the people, and I am informed by those who are acquainted with the county, that although the majority for Polk was about three hundred, it will' moat probably vote for Marshall. Last week, in Jennings county, he was called out vet force a.i. addressed the peop'e in the court house. It appears th it a young man from Ripley county, overflow ng with patriotism and Democracy, and who is well known in said cou-.ity of Ripley by ihe name of Isaiah W, Robinson, as any other, conceived the idea of addressing the people in relation lo Democracy. State debt, Whitcomb, and a'.l thai sort of thing. The young gentleman after sundry flourishes about being "unexpectedly called upon," went on to say that he was unable to do justice to the ciusc in hand, and deplored the uiulouted fact of his inability to enlighten tho people upon it in such long and dying cadence., tint mvny eiir.pleminded people present, (before ho cbed his speech really believed him. As it was, Hosannas were sung over th State debt bill and the fact that u was tig.ted by a pen msde from ihe q.iill of an eagle! AnJ the said Isaiah, being entirely exhausted, s it down. j IS est upon the stand .came. Micbael G. j Bright, our Agent of State, duly elected by j i Democratic Legislature and qualified as I such, lie i9 the same man who luxnriates on a salary of JlvidO, per. annum, and charges the additional 6um of JI.30 as his expenses for a trip to New Y rk tnadeduring the warm mouths of summer, once a year. Every fool knows that lor $:W0 he can make the trip, for which he fleeces the State to the time of I3S0. Bright is in himself a dcliniticu of a contract, viz; An agreement to d j or not to do a thing for a coiiDifV.if'V?.'!, and if l.e nntv lives until his sk,n be0,"es eomewhat transparent, I have d""bl 1,1,1 "e w;" "ad through It i lite otale c; inuiam. eve. am Ik ,1 anu bound, This little loible of Blight's is o well known, even to the little boys in he sireet, that when he is spouting about the State debt bill, &c, they maliciously ask him to state tkthe consideration." The meeting, however, drew to a close, and the orators of the evening, having inn with no opposition in their argument, retired to their beds flushed with victory. I he next night however, was Marshall's. j and there was displayed tho vast difference hetweeu tho loity genius who stands on the platform of his country, and that other class, lhai thrive by low cunning and exist in the sunshine of party. Those who heard him on that occasion, will not mmn ; forget it. It was one of Mirshall's migh- ! ty efforts, that fell like the club of Hercuj les, crushing all opposition. Such a speech as mat one in every county m Indiana, and ten to one on the result. The house was I crowded, an anxious rm d nrpdisnnsoH ; against liitcomb, fo his conduct during the winter, and when Marshall closed, it was amidst a storm of annUiisc. Tl. ' i . ' -fi-rcn was reniei" with wit. argument, ann j eloq ience. H:s friends are highly elated -,il -r,vc him i whafelse ennh! "in nis enenues abashed. Jennin2 count v a generous majority. Indeed. Ise could Southern Indiana do. lie lt ho nn" n t liar KritvKiAct r r r. ....-...(.. t and soundest politicians. Aaain and strain l.ave they listened to his sti rring eloquence and witnessed his political integrity. Ag-tia and again have.tli.-y feltfhis influence when their interests was confided to his keeping, nnd now they will testify at the ballot box their estimation of the man. Voars, TAG I IDS. In porta nt from Me.rico.The following paragraph from the Evening Gaz. Jcomes, as we happen t. know, says ihe Courier and Enquirer, from peifecily reliable source: its information is certainly of interest. We are indebted to a aemleman who ar u,7 ,r0:n uavana, via. , in the short passage of eight oays, for the following important intellirived hOrA 1.. A . m C IV grille. Th ea at Havana on the evening oflhe22J ull from Vera Cruz. P . 83 e ff0m lhe 16ih uU '"e'" "- op mat uay, ana oy tne P18111 we arn that a great change had UK"n place in the state of our relations w'ih Mexico. It appears lhat Paredes has been indn ced to alter his tone, owing to strong manifestations exhibited against a war w ith the C. Mates, and that Mr. Slidell. our Minis ter, had been duly notified that the Gocernmeni vere ready to consider tht proposi tions ne naa to make on behalf of our Government, and thai there existed no doubt hut that the matter would be speedily adjusted. Arista and the iroon under hi. COfnnd. hd Pronounced against Paredes ana the war party. Cin, Gaz. Deplorable Suicide. Yesterday morning M. J. D. Saunders committed suicide at his residence near this city, by shooting himself through the head, leaving a family and numerous friends to lament his untimely end. Mr.jS, was wealthy, and extensively and favorably known throughout the city. -He has been subject to aberraiionofmini for some time past. Cin.

M ERIC A N.

DHOOSvVILLU, INDIANA FRIDAY, APRIL 10, J346. Justice Election. 0. Monday last the election was held to fill the vacancy of Jusiice of ihe Peace, occasioned by ihe resignation of Jas. Wallace. Mr. Francis Grasmnck was elected by the following vote, to wit: Francis Grasmuck, 108 Thompson Stout, 144 Consl-Mes. The following is a list of the Constables elected in Fianklin County Jon Monday last, to wit: Posey 7WnAp.-Yinccnl Brown, Saml. Wilson. iAiurel. Noah Palmer, and James Schofield. Bath. Jesse Mountgnmery, li.tm Murphy. White Water. Stephen A. and XVilLowrey, Wm. B. Cox, and Isaac Soper. Ray. Wm. Hutchinson and Jas. Chambers. Highland. Wm. Chapman, L. Harding. Springfield. -Charles Simpson, John Siralton. Salt Creek James M. Watkitu, Moses Card. Fahfi''ld.y.M. Moore, and John J. Loper. UrookciUe. J. O. Si. John, Jacob Bly, John Gant and Isaac Jones. The Christian Advocate. The Grand Jury of Wood Co. Virginia, have presented the Western Christian Advocate, as an incendiary publication, under a law of that State, passed March 3d 1816, providing for the suppression of incen diary publications. Political fJJe. In the Madison Banner, we find an article from Gdn, Milton Slapp, declining the office of representative in the next Legislature, and all offices or public stations for the future. Mr. Slapp has been an active man in life, and has held various public stations. And notwithstanding the general impression lo ihe contrary, we believe he has discharged every trust with an honest heart. But his estimation of the honors and pleasures of office so well accord with the sentiments we have always held, that we gather it up as an item to confirm us in our former opinions. We could never conceive or appreciate that principle in man which impels him to do and sacrifice so much for office. If a man has a large family, and can obtain an office with a large salary there is something lait dable and no&ie in his fair efforts to obtain it for the money. But the glory, honors, blandishments, distinctions, fame, powen &c. &c, w hich are said to go with office, could never reveal themselves tons. We despise an office seeker! We hate (righteously) the man, his actions, the principles which prompt him to action, and all his soft duplicity and mock politeness. There are few objects more despicable in our estimation than a candidate going about our county electioneering for the Legislature, or some of the county offices. We can in imagination always see inscribed on their foreheads "Two lazy to work!" We may be a little ultra upon this subject, but the people of this county have so often heaid out opinions upon so many subjects, tliey can make due allowance for our strong prejudices. Vl!tnl.n .r...:.. I . . or nonor : ' tnere " onicff holding? The office deprives every man of his independence of thought, word, action and locomotion it often diives him from home and from domestic happiness. In office he may strive and toil day and night, with an aching head and wear) heart, to discharge his duties to the satisfaction of his constituents, and all he will receive in return will be curses distortion of his actsand intentions and be the bye word for abuse by the vile and the vsgabond. For all this sacri fice of domestic peace and public abuse this mental anxiety and sacrifice of private business, what, we ask again, does the offic holder receive? There is no honor in ihe station, for he reason, tha'. e ple have long since ceased to elect the best men to public stations. The modest, he good man is neglected, while the brawling demagogue is promoted. It is evident lhat every man's election is owing to the fact, that he has less regard for truth, industry or morality. Mr. Stappsays: "It is my present intention never again toenter publiclife. Experience of sixteen years' service in your State Legislature has convinced me lhat there is no profit, no honor, and above all, no pleasure or solid enjoyment in being a public servant; but on tne contrary, that such a life is well calculated to lighten the purse, and to deprive us of that peace of mind and sound pleasure by one's own fireside, and with one's own family, which is so necessary for his happiness in this world and to piepare him for eternal happiness in the world to come." Lawsuits Among the Baptists. The Rushville Jacksonian, says: ''This respectable denomination of christians have divided in some churches in this county within a year or two past, on questions if not novel in themselves, are such as have at least b?en the cause of manu facturing new names for their respective parties. They are known and usually de signated as the "Means" and -A parties. As is usual in rh .,..k l0n, H.,,n!!.h nrna , I ton,,la8U1ts have grown up ,n reference '

to the property, aud two are now pending in the Rusii Circuit Court, between these parlies in the Little Blue River Church.

These suits are creating considerable interest among the people in the neighbor hoods surrounding these difficulties and will doubtless bring a gteat number of spectators to Court to witness the trials. Both parties seem desirous to get ready for trial at the next term, and if they shall succeed, it will be the most interesting one we have had for some lime. Both claim to be the real orthodox "Regular Baptist Church'' and upon ihe solution of this important question, will pethaps, depend the event or result of the suits. In order to determine this, we suppose Rabbi's of the church w ill be summoned lo testify, commentators will be read, and confessions of faith expounded; after which the lawyers will doutnlet.9 be able to shed much light upon this much mooted and abtruse question. We shall note the in null iiuic tus til of this trial and when it is teresting points over let our readers know the result." Cor. Marshall. By a letter directed to Messrs. Matson and Holland, we learn the Hon. Joseph G. Marshall, the Whig candidate for Governor of Indiana, will visit Brookville, aud address his fellow citizens here, on Monday the first day of the Dearj born Circuit Court. We have no means at hand of knowing when the Dearbot a CourTTft White Water Canal For the Indiana American. C. F. Clarkson, Esq: I presume lhat you and your readers are not aware that a new power is gradually developing itself in ihe State, and affecting to perform the I double funciiona of a Legislature and a Court of Jusiice. It is a thing of primary importance thai the people should know by whom they are governed; it is equally importunt that they should be advertised of the laws which It is the good pleasure of their rulers to establish. The new power to which I advert, ii the White Water Valley Canal Company. That body, after having received from the State as a free gift, a put lie work upon which the people had expanded over a mil lion ul dollars, arrogates to itself great credit for the public spirit and energy ith which il has pushed the extension of that work to its northern terminus. This public spirit has, to be sure, been made illustrious by some very brilliant financial operations. The wretched laborer who has toiled under a burning sun, and exposed himself freely to ihe diseases of the country, for the riomt'naZ pay of fram 8.$ to 10.$ per month, has iead the evidences of this public spirit upon the engraved paper of this Company, and has no doubt felt duly thankful for that energy which has paid him his pittance in promises whose value has fluctuated between the extremes ol from 40 to 80 cents upon the dollar. The public has seen and duly appreciated the evidences of this self denying public spirit, this patriotic energy. They have yet to learn, perhaps, that the company is extending its protection over them and providing them wilh new laws, and erecting for their convenience new tribunals o! jus tice. J he charier by which this Company nas us existence, proviaes, inai in cases where individuals are injured in their real property by the making of the Canal, they shall call upon the Company for indemnity by the means of an arbitration. The claimant is lo appoint one arbitrator, the Company another, these two a third; who, after inquiring into the matter, are to report their award in writing to the Secretary of the Company, whose duly it is to record ihe proceedings of the arbitrators, and in cases of appeal is to bt recognized as a Justice of the Peace for the purpose of certifying to the appellate Court a transcript ot their proceedings. Persons the least informed upon legal topics nave neara inai sucn a aistiction is made in the law as renders some actions local others transitory-, and lhat among the former are such actions as are founded upon injuries to real property. The effect of this distictton is to make all local actions triable in the county w here the injury is done, for the obvious reason, lhat wherever an injury is done to properly local and permanent, there is the most convenient place of calling together and examining the witnesses who are best acquainted with the nature and extent of the injury. This reasonable and useful rule seems very objectionable to the company. Thev have endeavored to evade its operation on the ground that their charter constitutes their Secretary a Justice of the Peace for ihe purpose of preparing transcripts on appeal; and that inasmuch as that officer resides in Connersville, he must certify' appeal papers io tne rayeiie Circuit Court, no matter upon what part of the line the injury may have been done. Accord ingly in several cases from this County, ap peals nave neen sent, at the company's in stance, to the t ayelte Circuit Court. But lhat conn knew too well t'te rule of law governing such cases, and dismissed the appeals; a proceeding afterwards sustained by the judgment And opinion of our Su preme Court, to which tribunal the Company carried the question. Not content with the termination of this sagacious attempt, the company has passed an order which is quite equivalent to an amendment of its charter, and which, as I conceive, goes the full length of making a new law for the people of this valley and of constituting a new court to enforce that law. This order provides lhat in all cases when damages are claimed against the company, the arbitrators selected, after they may have personally inspected the property said to be damanified,sAa.7meer at the office of the Secretary of ihe Company, and upon being duly sworn ( by the Secre tary?) shall proceed, at sati place, to hear any testimony that may be advanced by the parties; and argument of counsel, and then make out and return to the Secretary thr ir award. Here then the opinion of the Supreme Court is fully reversed, and notwithstanding the local nature of such actions, the parties, their counsel and their train of w '. st assemble at the bar of this company, and perform their functions nnder the eye of the Secretary. Throughout

the whole line of tht canal from Cambridge City to Lawrencebargh this law extends; the Legislature of the Stale, the Circuit

and Supreme Courts dwindle into insigni ficance before a company which dictates and administers the law of the land. Whether, in cases w hen parties are pliant enough to regard this order in council, the company will contend thM the question of jurisdiction is waived, and that appeals must go from trials in Fayette County, to the Fayette Circuit Court, remains to be disclosed. In the mean time e hope our new law makers ill provide for the pub-licati-jii of their enactments, that the pub lic may he guilty of no violation of the company's code. Your oht. servt. J. D. HOW LAND. April 4ih IS If), for the Indiana American. Capital Punishment Mr. Edit or: I had reasons to suppose that my friend Oxford would not leave the subject, which has recently received his attention, in its present state. I did, indeed, believe that the arguments in my I lad npr nniinivrAhl- fiml thjit tfiiv l" - ' - - - ... j N1 MMed..0 position I had taken, j mat there is now in force acjrt tfair.requi ring murderers to be punished with death. I however suppose, that if his fondness of controversy, prevails ouver hu love of the truth; he would make some show of defence,and attempt an answer to my last article. Or, should ha be convinced thai he was wrong, and that to abolih Capital Punishment, by legislative enactments, would be wrong, I suppose he would be willing to acknowledge his error, either director indirect: such I thought would the proper course, if ihe discussion had been undertaken, in view of ariiving at fwfA, rather than to discomfit an oppanenlsuch I think would have been my cours, had he convinced me of the error of my position. Yell will not assume lhat he is fully satisfied with the correctness of my views; though I must believe that his confidence in his former notions must be somewhat shaken; as he seems not to have looked at the enactment of the law in question, as being prior to the Mosaic institution. His whole defence has been upon the ground that all the authority for capital punishment was found in the law of Moses. Having in my last shown the error of this view I need not repeat in here. But, as in the course of the discussion, he alluded to several collateral questions, lo which I promised to attend w hen the main question should be settled, I will now notice some of them, assuming that he is done, as to the question heretofore consideted, whether he grants my position or not. First, he says: '"Ifwe understand Lu ther, he places the law, inflicting capital punishment on the same footing with ihe moral law." Now if he uses "moral law" as defined by Webster; '"a law which presciibestomen their religious and social duties" I reply, I do. If he means by it, (which I suppose is the case) the decalogue I still say I do. And again I repeat that I regard efforts to abolish capital punishment as no less objectionable than efforts to abrogate any, or all of the laws of the decalogue. Trne, some may do it inorantly, and thus escape the wioroZ wrong of their actions, while yet they offend against the law of God. Perhaps this declaration may surprise some. But have I not shown that the law, "whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be bhe.l." was given by Jehovah, with such an adjunct, as to make it perpetual in its obligations? Let il be shown that man does not yet bear the image of God, as much as he did in the days of Noah, and it may be shown that the law in question is not perpetual. Now if it is the case, lhat God gave this law for us, is there any reason that his voice, when accompanied by the thunders of Sinai, should beany more authoritative, than w hen heard u.ider the law of promise, on the plain of Ararak? I can conceive of none, and therefore I have thus spoken. It was because many persons, professed believers in the bible, were aiding in the pseudo-philanthropic scneme oi abrogating a divine law, that I j cauea public attention to it. Oxford attempted lo show the incorrectness of my position, read me a homily on a "kind and christian spirit." by which I hope to profit, and at last leaves the subject without attempting toauswer roy arguments, in favor of the binding obligations ol Ihe law in question. Should he return to ihe task, or should any other person be more successful than he has been, I will abandon my ground as soon as I am convinced of my error. It is hardly worth while to take any further notice of public and private executions, than I did in my last, unless he shall insist. So lhat, for the present I will close this discussion, by recommending, all who reverence God's law, to oppose the repeal of this article of the sacred code. It may become ihe duty of him who min isters aiine altario inform his hearers t.pon this subject. This will no doubt arrav a species of opposition which has already been used with some success. It m cause the scorner to rail against religion as being opposed to improvements. Be it so. Such nevertheless, is ihe law of God, and ifinforcing ihislaw arrays opposition it will be no more than is arrayed against every law. The wisdom of the world has ever set at naught the authority of God. nnt mat ..w. li.Atr - I : - on uj, iiscii as ueing supreme, it n seen now in Owen's effort to despise all biblical teachings, and model society upon his own notions of propriety. Consonant with this, was the enunciation of the passage of the recent law upon this subject by an editor known as a despiser of sacred things. He hailed it as a glorious law, and boasted thai Indiana was in advance of the world in humanizing the laws. His boast is not unfounded. 1 know of no other law j making power since the davs the French resolution, thai felt authorized lo humanise a divme law or pretend to say that the au thority of God should m. looser be rearded. Yet, I doubt not. manu of ihiup who advocated Ihe law, did it, not knowing thet rorce or the law annulled. For, if one whoso business it is, (judging from his manner of writing) io enquire into such things could be so much mistaken as my friend Oxford has been, it is not strange that men whose lives had been spent in politics rsther than in searching the scriptures, should be ignorant nf the sjme thing. The question may arise, what we are lo do as citizens and christians. I feel hardly prepared to dictate, though I can see but one thing for us to do. Let our voice be heard ncainst the innovation until the law of God is 3gin acknowledged. L et not

the taunts of such epithets as barbarous unhumane, contrasted with humane, civilized &c, deter us from duty. Letusep. lighten the public mind and dare to a right. LUTH HR.

Another Peep Into the Committee Room, &c. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot. Washington, March 30, 1S46. Two triors of a trivial nature occurred in my letter last week, describing the scene in the room of the Post Office and Post Roads Committee, which I hasten to correct. One was that the Lowell ii.anufac. turers exhibited substantial cotton cloth aj 4 cents per yard. It should have been 5j cent?. The other was respecting the price of some Manchester prints exhibited h Mr. Homer. The price should have been 91 cents in Liverpool, instead of 10 cents in this country after the duty was paid Also, that they were not "Job Goods," as I understood them to be. The American goods of th? same stamp and quality can be had in New York at II cents, on time. So much for the corrections. I visiied the Committee rooms again to day. and saw still more to convince me of the utility of the Tariff, and that an increase of du ties do not, when competition & improvemeats in machinery flourish, enhance the price of manufactured cloths. For example, Mr. Edmonds exhibits in the Committee Room, a black cassimere, manufactured at Lowell, which in 1S42, under the low Tarirl, cost 2.12 per yard. The same clo.h manufactured at the same place, last year, was pneeu ai ?i ao per j ard. Another kind, cost in 1842 from 1 80 to $1 85 per yd. Now, the same quality ot goods can be furnished in New Y'ork at 1 40. Another piece still, that sold forl 70 in '42 now brings but $1 30. There were sonic specimens of fanry cassimeres exhibited, of American manu. facture called Paris Diamonds. Thev were very durable and beautiful. Five thousand pieces of them were sold in 1S42 for$l SO to SI 00 per yd. Now they bring but 1. Another similar article, called l'aris Cords sold in 1842, for 1 C2. Now it sells fur not over I per yard. Another article, called Silk Codrinjton made of silk and wool, 6 quarters wide. & of beautiful color and dress, fur gentlemen's summer wear, was priced, different qualities, from 2toS2 75 per yard. I have seen no English ai licit equal to it. In the article of satinctts, the Americans beat the British most effectually. Two specimens were exhibited, the American one being considered by all present at least 7 cents in the j ard better than the Englishand yet both articles were priced, the English at Liverpool at 2$ cents, and the American at New York at 3S cent. In all ihe articles I examined and compared. I found but one of the British specimens tht could be purchased cheaper in Liverpool, without including the Tariff, than the same kind and quality could be purchased in New Vi.. k r.r Losiun, or Philadelphia. The exception w as abroad cloth priced at 1 75 to $2 00. How, then, if our go"ds of all kind?, are as cheap in the U. States, as the same kind and quality of goods are in England, are our people to get them chtaper by breaking down the present revenue Tariff? I would like to have some of the hair fplitters and metaphysicians attempt to solve this problem. A good deal of interest was exhibited in the Senate to day. Gr i. Housio i took hi? seat. He is a Sue looking man, as you know. Tall, 6tout and splendidly made, and with manners as graceful, eay and captivating as those of Gen. Jackvm used to be. The heioof San Jacinto is somewhat broken, and his head i. quit grav, almost white. S;ill he looks wel!, and moves with an nil and trace i lint very few men possess. In driwi ig for their S.-nv toMnl terms this n. rr.::ig three I aii! heii s placr d in t!:o box one for 4ih Mairh, 1847, tico forthe4ih f March, I,4'J, and three for 4th March. 1831, Gen. Houston drew No. 1, and G-:i. Rusk No. 3. Another thing aJded interest to the day's proceeding. Mr. Webster defined his pos:tin on the Oregon question. And still another. Mr. Fairfield came out with the Navy Department estimates for increasing the Navy by an addui.m of 75 frigates, steam war vessels, slo;ps-of-war & schooners, at an expense of some $22,000,000. He growled, lhat the substance of them should have found tl.eir way into the newspaper.; but since that was the case, lis thought it best for the hole to go before the public. What he most feared was that they would bring the Navy into disrepute! He had no fears about his friend Cancroft, of course, far he insisted that the Secretary of the Navy hd not sanctioned these estimates! As a specimen of the historian's most fulsome and stilled style, read Mr. Bancroft's letter to the House Committee on Naval Affiirs, dated Sth Januar)'. ''It beats bob i tan.-' j he communication of the old Com manders, accompanying i?, is a plain, common-sense document. But the Secretary's is not. It is any thing ehe but such a paper, as you will see when it is published. The Sub-Treasury is up ;n full blast in the House. So you may expect political speeches, criminations and re-ciiminations in abundar.ee for some time loconie. Wonder what Gen. Cass will say in his neech to-morrow that war is ine liable? We shall see! POTOMAC. Correipondcnceoj the Salt. Patriot. Wass;:..t is, Apiii 1. 1?4G. The scene in lUe Senile to-day, between Mr. Benton and Mr. liannegan was in the highest degree enlivening ogreeabla and entertaining. Mr. Benton poured broadside after broadside ints tha very centre of the Cass ves sel. The 54 40 men were borne down up on with great force and directness the Whigs looking on in the back ground and for a time it 6eeined cs if the forty-nine would annihilate all opposition. But the great Miesounan ceased firing at last. Air. Cass was not present but another galiantj?y four fattier was on the put. .Mr. Hriijueajj ws there, but little dawsged, aad - i into glowing, fiery action As ii.. j the tire of the Missourian, the ftfiy-four fortyites in the galleries bet up ibeir applause in great style. The officers on il-j '?cck t f the Senate api peared alarmed. Mutiny seemed determined on. But the fighting at last ceased, and the combattants hauled off for repairsIn the course of his remarks, Sir Ben ton playfully alluded to the celebrated expression imputed to Mr. Cass, that "war was inevitable," and then declared his own belief to be that peace "is inevitable." I intended to say eomothing.in my letter of las: evening of lha speech delivered yesi