Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1848 — Page 2

IT r.R" AL VIGILA5CE H THE fHICC OT LIBERTY .IIAAIOI.IS, OCTOHCIl 18, 1N48.

Our Term! The following will hereafter be tho permanent terms of the Widely Indiana Stute Sentinel: frr-PaymeuiH to te male always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.00 Three copies, one year, fi.OO ive copies, one year, 8.00 Ten copies, one year, lf.tl) Twenty copies, one year, Sc'ini-Wcckly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One copy,... Äl.tü I Three copies, $10.00 Ono copy lurincr th session, 1.00 FOU PRESIDENT, GEN. LEWIS CASS, (i I' MIC II KS AS. FO!l VICE PRESIDENT. GEN. WM. O. BUTLER, Of KUSTVCKW rRiisinEYinr ehxtous. tu A TOR I A L. ROBKRT DALE OWKN, of my County. KBKNKZKU M. CilAMBKULAIN, of Elkhart county. DlTICT. 1. KATIIAMKL ALIIKRTSON, of Ilairuon county. 2. CYRUS L. DUNHAM, of Vititin:tn county. 3. WILLIAM M. McCAUlV, of Fianklin county. 4. CH AHI.K II. TKi T, of Wayne county. 5. JAM KS HITCH I'.Y, of Jhr.on county. 6. OKtUtCF. W. CARK, f Lawicr.ce ciuiity. 7. JAM RS M. IIANNA, of Clay county. 8. DAMF.L MACK. of Tippecunoe county. 9. CIIAIIAM N. FITCH, of Cs county. 10. AND UKW J. HARLAN, of (.rant couuty. X!1:A1& I. MINIM CrTIfAT TPS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TAKES PLACE JN INDIANA ON TUESDAY. THE SEVENTH OF NOVEMBER NEXT, (NOT MONDAY., Ufiitccrnt!: Senatorial r.li'cfor, Will addres th. people on the subject of National Politic, at the following times and places: At Spencer, on Monday Octc'r 10. At Uioomington, on Tuesday, October 17. At Nash villi;, on Wednesday, October 15). At Franklin, on Thursday, October 19. At Columbus, on Friday, Oetolsr 20. At Hrownstown. on Saturday, October 21. At Salem, Monday, October 23. At Lexington, Tuesday, Octder 24. At Charleston, Wednesday, October 2.ri. At Manchester, Friday, Octotor 27. At Kiting Sun, Saturday, October 2S. At Vevuy, Monday, October 30. At New Albany. Tuesday, October 31. At Evansville, Thursday, November 2. At Ne'v Harmony, Saturday, No ember 4. Oil. JMi:S IIU'CTIIKY, The democratic candidate- for Elector in this district, will address hin fellow citizens in Madison and Hancock counties, as follows, viz : Iii Madison County. At Andersontown, Tuesday, October 24. At Alexandria, Wednesday, October 2f. At Perkiosville. Thursday, Oc'otor 20. At Pendleton, Friday, Octotar 27. In Hancock County. At Buck Creek School House, Saturday, Oct. 23. At Charlottesville. Mnn4v. October 30. At Rank's School House-, Tuesday, October 31. Kentucky lain Hers 1'iiMtc Mcclini?. Th briff recrl of proceedings of a public meeting held on Saturday night lat, appear in aii'ilher column. The meeting was called hastily, and without concert, and therefore was not so fully attended ns it wouM have been had any notice been given. There will Le a much larger one at the Court House, or eastern Market House, if Court be in session, on Saturday, the 2lst, at 1 o'clock. This meeting will take meaircs to repel indignantly, the foul slanders upon Gen. Lane, and the base libels upon cur volunteers, recently uttered in this city by the broken down political hacks from Kentucky, who have been sent into this State by the! Taylor leaders, to instruct our people how to vote for J President. J It was a matter of the greatest astonishment and j pain to us, that partizan fanaticism would impel even whig3 to not only sit quietly and listen to the foul imputations of those men aguinst Gen. Lane and our Tclunteers, and through them, grossly assail the reputatica of our State ; but aNo to applaud the very men who were bold enough to preach their own disgrace to their own fates ! This certainly, is the very lowest depth ef self-degradation I We are lad lu know, however, that son e ef our citizens arc not disposed to pocket these insulta so coolly, and that they will give proper expression to their indignant feelings at the meeting to be held to-morrow. We hope Iber' will be a large turn-out of the people. The occasion calls for an emphatic demonstration, not so much on account of any party consideration, though that will be important, if the vvhigs continuT to ni.;n;f-st a dispuMiiun of willing ness to diJgrace tl-?rnsfclveä cud the State, by countc-1 nanciug such libf;ll-r3 assaults, for, party considerations all aide, every feeling uf State pride and selfreupect demands that wc should repel the infamous libels ty every matins within our power. Potato Rot Unwholuoms Provisions. There is frrquently brought into tbi city, for sale, Potatoes, whicu are infected w ith the Ret. We lately noticed a large wagon load, which outwardly presented a fair appearance, but not a single tuber of which was sound. Our merchants, as veil os families, should be on their guard against purchasing without due examination. And if o?n is found in a peck, they had better reject the lot. While this calamity falls principally upon our farmers who cultivate this excellent e-eculent, yet by no means ca.i they, or should they, be held guiltless of trilling with the lives of their feliow-rnen, by attempting to sell them to those who are unacquainted with the nature of the disease. Under our laws, it must certainly corne under the head of "unwholesome provisions." Changc of Time. Ky reference to tho advertise rnentcf the Superintendent of the llailroad, ii will be seen that the time ef the tparturc from this city is changed to o'clock, A. M. During the winter months, this ig an excellent arrangement; and with proper energy on the part of the stage lines, will cause passengers no delay in the city, and give them plenty of time for breakfast. These new agents and superintendents cannot b-2 beaten ; and we hope the company will still continue to persevere in the good work. .And thr.t when they have good men, that they will rrlam them. The public will make all straight. (0"The Lexington Observer and Reporter in speaking of the conviction of Doyle, the abductor of ncgroCH, and Li sentence to luenty yerrs confinement in the Penitentiary at hard lalxtr, says : There was a time when we were deeply fearful that this man Doyle, would have expiated his enormous offences by a summary process of popular indignation. Let all now reilect how much better is the peaceful operation of the law, which has for twenty years put him out of the pai of society und out of his power to perpetrate any like enormity upon the community. Deaths. Samuel Goodenow, the whig Senator frt.m Jclforsun county, and John Yarncll, tho democratic Representative cf Grecr.c county, have both died since the August election.

Great Democratic Victory in Ohio! Itosull in IN iiiisylvnnia. Ii )j,j( t is. The result of ihe Stale election in Ohio isasgratifyinS as it was unexpected to iho democracy. We nil, whigs and democrats, knew that the nomination of Taylor had been made by tho whig managers at Philadelphia, in titter disregard of nil principle and all consistency, and democrats had s-upposcd, that perhaps the rank and file of the whig party, would show as little regard to integrity as men and politician, as their leaders had done. So far as

Ohio is concerned, wc are agreeably mistaken. There, at least, a portion of the whis have ehown that they ore not disposed to be WJ, like cattle in tho market, or negroes on a southern plantation, for tho benefit of a class of men whose eolo object is to ust them for their own profit and convenience. Ohio has nobly epurncd the bhacklrH of both Southern Slave Drivers, and their Doughfuco Agents, in the pimpe of olHce-Feekcrs in the Free States, who are willing to sacrifice every thing that is just and right to secure their own mercenary ends. Not even the Taylor whip can make the citizens of the great State of the West succumb tu the disgraceful behests of a set of traitorous politieians, who would wheedle only to let ray. We hail this result as the dawning of a new era, in which the West, Ohi at the head of the phalanx, will manifest her latent strength, and assume tho dented position to which she is fairly entitled by all tho elements of physical, mjral and political power; and in which she will no longer sufler the trampling down of all the great principles of equality, justice and humanity, for the gratification of a few ollice-holders or otlice-srckers, who arc ready at all times to sacrifice every thing else ti the furtherance of their own dastardly, abominable and selfish sch'.mc. The knavish and tho foolish whigs, arc endeavoring t' draw consolation over their unexpected defeat it: Ohio, by declaiming about their supposed triumph in Pennsylvania. This supposed triumph, like the fabled apples of the Dead Sea, will tum tu allies (n their lips. Mark it ! Though some of our fri'.mls look Hgubrious o er the unlookcd for apparent Jrfi"oii in Pennsylvania, rr, on tho contrary, dra'.v strength and cncouinjjeuicnt from it. Even on u suC r jn-rriciul vi-w, the c fleet will be favorable to the ; resent prospects of tho dcnrcracy. Hal Pennsylvania, 83 well ns Ohio, given a decided democratic majority, the presidential flection wmiM have been settled at once and pn'inaturely. The fact, that she I ns given an apparent whig majority, lend that natural and similar encouragement to whig leaders, which would be felt by a culprit under sentence of immediate death, who had received a merciful respite for a few weeks to enable him to repent if I. is sins! He hopes ultimately for a full pardon, though justice forbids he uhould receive it. Tho hope of the whig leaders is altogether fallacious. The encouragement which they are now deluding themselves with, they never wtuld have had but tor the want of wisdom, foresight, faith and selfreliance, in the leading democrats of Pennsylvania, who attempted to employ the roil where they should havo used nason only. Tho rightful consequence ia j that the people have rebelled against them, and as- j aerted their own sovereignty. So nude it always be ! j Rut he who blindly supposes, because the people have voted as tl.cy have, in Pennsylvania, at the re ment more certain to vote against Taylor, than if she, had elected tho winde democratic ticket, under tho circumstances. Is it for a moment to be supposed, that the Van iluren men, who voted for the whig candidates on the avowed ground that they were more uncompromisingly pposed to the principle- of slavery extension than their democratic competitors, and thus defeated the candidates of the party to which thoy had always been attached, is it, we ask, at all reasonable to suppose that such men will not stubbornly support Van Düren in preference to Taylor! They who do thus suppose, know nothing of the fpirit which pervades a considerable portion of the pcoplo at tho east. Not only will the class to which we allude, vote for Van Düren, for the sole purpose of displaying their moral strength, and thus secure Pennsylvania to Cass, but the eiVect will not stop there. Greeley, and other "free soil " whigs of New York only reluctantly consented to support Taylor, in the fear of the otherwise certain election of Cass. Professed democrats were about following in his wake, in consequence of unreasonable and unjust hostility to Cass. They are desirous to defeat him alcve all things; they were becoming hopeless of carrying the State for Van Düren for the purpose of throwing tho election into the House of Representatives; and vere on the point of going over to Taylor as the last means of gratifying their hostility to Cass. The result in Pennsylvania will give the New York barnburners new und unexpected encouragement, and many who otherwise would have voted for Taylor, will adhere to Van Düren, hoping, perhaps vainly, to carry the State in his favor. This is not mere speculation; they have elready commenced a new movement, an! are holding meetings; rnd we know enough of their leaders, and the spirit of perseverance by which they are implied, to know that they v.iP not give u; hope so long as a single plank remains. Look then at the South! How are those States which have been fipposed somewhat doubtful, because of their natural sympathies in favor of a s!avholding candidate, likely to be affected ! When they see our whigs claim the free anil balance in Pennsylvania as a Taylor victory, is it likely that it will encourage them to prefer the chances of getting Taylor through the House of Representatives, to the chances of thus getting Cass, or perhaps Van Ii men J Let Democrats think of these things, and they will clearly sec what a shadow the whigs are deluding themselves with, when they draw consolation from the result of the election in Pennsylvania. We have every tiling to encourage us, in view of the probable result, both in this State tmd in the Union, every thing to stimulate us to perseverance and activity. Credulous whigs, however, will draw comfort from the windy and insincere exultations of their papers and politicians as weil r.s from their constructive and positive falsehoods. L:t us therefore every where be on the alert. It will not lie enough for us merely to carry Indiana, but wc should do so by an overwhelming majority. This is not only necessary to evince jur justifiable indignation against Gen. Taylor and his aiders and abettors in their efforts to scandalize and degrade the State; to reiterate our judgment against a restrictive tnrilf and other illiberal measures, which the whig papers, in their inane folly, are now anticipating will be renewed; but alio, that we may attain to that proud, influential and proper position in the councils of the nation to which we arc fairly entitled, but have never yet enjoyed. Can the Whigs quote a single word from IIenrt Clay endorsing the nomination of General TavlohI What sort of a Whig candidate is a man whom great Whig leades will not endorse ! t iTr'10 rropclIcr GoIi,m was burnt recently on Lake Huron, all hands and passengers supposed to be lost. Thare were eighteen persons on board.

cent election, fur ihe purpose of enforcing principles Legislature, as betvwen the Whigs and Lcos, we ! consent, for near two thirds are from the free Slates, which thev bciivvvd to be right, that they will vide think it probable tho Free Soilers hold the balance of ! 'lt suppose they did, what then? If Cass was Prcsifor Tavlor et the Presidential election will t'nd them- power. Wc will suspend our tables hereafter, till the ,,t'"t ' v,ü ' ' be believes it unconMiior iayior ft We, I rCMUCnuai eil Cllim, Will I.UU Uli in ' t afe comj,tf.e tutionnl, oppt.Hed l. tin; laws of humanity and of (Jod, selves wufuliy mistaken. Pennsylvania is at this mo- rc u a p -. . and repugnant to ihe feelings of a majority if the people

Pennsylvania rircHon. While the returns from Pennsylvania are Coming in, j says the Cincinnati Enquirer, wo think it well to lay : before our readers the füllen inj paragraphs from a ' correspondent of the New York Herald. Tho Whigs ; are claiming great jrains in Pennsylvania, and may, indeed have elected their candidate for Governor, ; things look a good deal like it. Imt this is the result 'of a combination. Whig and Abolition vote. The j Democrats in Wii.mot's district, it will be teen, hae, as w think unwisely, made tip an issue with

WilMot and his immediate importers, which not only operates there but throughout the Stale, against Lonustketii. Wo have no kind of doubt of a plurality, perhaps a clear majority, for Cass and Rutlek in Pennsylvania, in November: In thi State, they have resolved, in Convention, to withhold any separat exhibition of their strength in the election for (Jovernor, so that that election will bo no positive test, us between the parties in the Presidential balloting. The lato movement, however, of the Cass democrats in Wilmot'u district, in the nomination of a democrat in opposition to Mr. Wilmot may epperat hi increase the vte for Johnson, and give him a prospect of nieces. We hear that the whigs and haruburning fre rollers of that disa tree ted democratic region have agreed to fraternize in the election the whig to support Wilmot, in consideration of the barnburners nupporting Johnson. If this bo so, Lnngstreth will loose from 000 to 800 votes in Wi limit's district, on the average democratic vt. And there in ground lor the suspicion that this attempt by tho Chi democrats to superced Mr. Wiltnot will be resisted by the barnburners in other districts, who wull ottnviM have upported the democratic tuuninee for (Jovernor. The whig candnln? for governor ha put himself boldly forward as an nlvate nf fne soil. Ho will secure the abolition vote; he will Mcure (if the information of tho compounding in Wilmot's district he correct) a portion of ihe democratic barnburners; he will secure the iuims of tin native. The (ivernor's election in H17, shows tho following results: Plurality of Governor Shunk, 17,070 Native vote for Reigart, 11,20!) Abolition voto for Lemoync, 1,077 12.SS1 Shnnk'a majority, ö,t 02 Deducting the abolilionists and the natives from the Democratic plurality of '17, and adding them to the Ahigs of MS, and allowing, in other respects, the parties to stand the same, the whigs have to overcome, t. elect their governor, a majority of f,00U against them. Rut Shunk was, perhaps, a more popular man than Longstreth ; then there is, as set forth, the defection of the barnburners, and there are stm decertious in the iron countie-t on the tariiTquclion. Cilorlous Ohio! The Cincinnati Chronicle, whig, of the 14th int. makes the following confessions, which are continued by tho Gazette, of the same date. THE ELECTIONS THE PRÜ11A11LE RESULT. Wc publish all the returns for Governor received. They cannot be relied on as strictly accurate; but taking them as they stand, ami esiiiuaiingmose yet to come in, wo must rcluct,ntty confess our belief that Weiler, Loco, is elected governor f the proml Cmmonwcalth of Ohio. In the countieg beard from, Ford and Weiler are nb ml even ; fourteen counties remaining to he heard from, in which Tod's majority in 1810, was 1U10. The probable state of parties in the Legislature is, Senate tied. House Whig by 4. (J, ornesibW 6 tnaiority The Congressional delegation will probably stand 11 Locos to li Whigs, embracing Giddings m the latter count. Perhaps, also, some of the members of tho State Legislature counted as whigs, sdiould be denomituU-d j Free Soilers. WiiaU-ver the tate of tilings in the I Florid. i. The "Union" thus sums u;i the results of the recent election in Florida. The information received authorizes the assurance that the legislature (whij last year) is n'w democratic by from " to 11 majority, und that Gen. Dayley, the democratic candidate for governor, is elected by at least 400 majority. It may i2 that Mr. Cabell, ow ing to local circumstances, has beaten Gov. Duval, but this is not yet conceded; and the c:nd:d vvhigs m

eloriüa aumit that, with less than i.uuu majority over Suppose ihey should pass such a law, Van Uuren would both the democratic candidates for Congress and gov- sign it, for he thinks that iho will ol the people, as exemor, Cass and Dutler will carry the State. At the pressed hy their representatives in Congress, should be' election in 1S1G Mr. Cabell beat ivain (J'J onlv in the carried out, and that the President should not interpose I whole State, and Mr. Drockenbrougira vote over him ' ,,is negative. There is, as I showed before, only a posin 1615 was lesi thill 100; while Guv. MoIey. i S!l!,ity I1'1 mgrc" W0,'M P sueji a measure ; ml I ' i i . r'n only ul'luce it to fchow that it Van lluren lie elected, a . (democratic,) three month previu.'H, beat Gen Call ;lbllit of 8Ucll H rMuU exist,, but that with Cas. it . (whig) for guvemor upwards of 00 votes; and Air. ' i,,,.,.,,!.!, 1

ijcvy ;ueLicraiic; oeai uojor i uuiam a iiKenurnoer. Florida may be relied upon as giving from 1,U(.H) to 1,500 majority for Cass and Dutler. i . r . v I . n ii i:i i 1 Maryland. The election was for county officers. Vhi:rgpry had but one county to crow over, and that was Frederick, where they claimed a majority of four hundred by t'.lcgraph. This victory turns out to be a victory of the young men, achieved by them without reference to party, and the Daltimore Sun congratulates tho young men of both parties on the result. In Dalt;more the regain ly nominated Democratic candidate for Jshcrilf, beats u boiling Democrat, who was supported hy ihe whigs, lf7 vt.?.? besulos heating another bolting democrat, Fme 700, nnd the joint vote of two whig candidates, 751)7. Cecil county, which went whig in It? 11, now elects a Democratic JSheritf. Ann Arundel, which grve in 1311, a whig majority of IHM, iiov ::lects a Democratic Senator and Sheriff. fj7 Lt. Moor.r, who writes us the following note, was the '2 Lieutenant in Cipl. Os::o:in's company of Clay county volunteers, of the 2d Indiana regiment. It is somewhat tcmarkable that thoc persons eX that regiment who nobly uid their duty, as did Lt. Moore, are yet to bo found acting according to the dictates of honor and of duty, opposing Gen. Taylor, whether they may have been whigs or democrats, while thosefir who have been named as delinquents upon that occasion, are found amongst Tayloi's warmest supporters. These latter have good reasons for supporting Gen. Taylor, however, becaustj be exculpates their olleged cowardice, and lauds them at the expense of the regiment, who fought bravely and w ho ore the real heroes of Iuiena Vista. And in this very thing consists (Jen. Taylor's crime, and this is of what wc complain. If the report in question could be made to fall upon the guilty few, and not upon the innocent, it would be quite a d liferent thing. Rut Gen. Taylor is marked and emphatic in his laudation of the real fugitive's, few in number, while he stigmatizes the regiment with the false charge of cowardice ! Gen. Lane expressed feelings directly the reverse of these, and while denouncing the very fw delinquents as they deserved, defended the mootof the regiment as brave men, who had done all their duty. This is the reason, and the only reason, why two or three of the ofneers of that regiment defend Taylor, and ass-ail Lane, now tiiat the latter is on his way to Oregon, and they can safely d it ! Wkstfikld, III., Oct. 10, 1843. AIkssrs. G. A. &. J. 1. Chapman : You will nJ me the Cuon Skinner, directed to this place. Notwithstanding I was uioler Rough &, Ready ut Ituena Vista, and think him to bo a nice kind of a man, and would like to vote lor him if he entertained my principles visibly, ami if lie had not so uujuelly slandered Indiana. Though I live in Illinois I feel proud of being calh.d an Indiaman, und cannot volu for a man who ha dis.nced tho State 1 love. Yours, with respect itc, JOSHUA MUÜIIE. V. S. There's pry few volunteers in this Stata going for Old Zack and Whitey. J. M. Join CA R. GirniNo-s, made a speech last week in Cincinnati. In reply to a question he said, that the Western Reserve would give Van Ruken from 10 to 15,000 majority. If this bo any where near the truth, Gen. Taylor standi no possible chance in Ohio.

1 lie Sea Ilouto to flic I'ucilic. The following letter gives information on the subject which will Ik? of interest to tloc of oir citizens, who are preparing to yo to Oregon, California and the Pacific Coat. It will bo seen that tho expense is much greater than by land. In any event, we should prefer the New Orleans and Huvana route, to the New York, if we decided in favor of the Sea. Nkw Yoim, Oct. 0, Mr. Jons McDouo At r, Indianapolis hid. Drr Sir: We are in receipt ol your hivor of th !23d nil. Th? first Ktenuirr of thu line inindcd to run from 1'anama to Ihe Northern Prls of the Unit;l Stan-s on the Pacific, lrlt thi Fort on Friday htst, tho m-rond will follow in Noveinbsr and the third in De cember ; and on their respectively reaching Panama will proc:tJ to Sun Francisco. anJ'a tnonlhly coniinuiiicalion between thee places will thereafter be kept up.

In th'cernber next a line of boats wilt bo established to run from hence via N. Orleans to ChagrsM, from whence passenger will cross tho Isthmus to take our boats at i'anama. For eroding Ihe Isthmti billige and goodn should he in packages not exceeding 1501h. in weight. Distance, 20 miles land carriage hewdes 40 to 50 river navizalion. We do not know what tin company running the boats on thin side wilt charge lor pinsaH to Panama. In our hoii i ho parage from Panama to Sau Francisco in Ilia first cabin, every thing found, except winrx and lipjoi, will hu hImmii jJ;Vfr0 earli p'rntn, and in ihe forward cabin from 100 to 12) the usual ship' l ire heiii provided, but not bedding. Children uinh-r 12 )carM of age would in either cabin he half price, and MTvituts fit ward cabin fir. Half a ton measurement (20 cubic h i) of baggngn will be allowed to em li pnnenger free, but tho rat of (relit for extra baggngu or other good ha not yet been filed. When the steamer on both nitlcs arc in operation, pasenger can reach Sun IVunri-co from New York in about 30 days. We are dear ir, vour mnt obedient servants, HOWI.AND 4c ASPINWALI,, Pkii Wm. MAV.nr.A. 0Tho following letter was written by a citizen of Indiana, to a friend in Ohio; and it is mpjcMcd d' us to publish it. We ilo so, though we perhaps should differ a little in some points with the writer. It is generally correct in sentiment, ns we think time will show. Unios Count?, Isi., Oct. lOih, Mil Old Friend I am norry to he'ar you talk liko a barnburner. 1 it ponibh that you arc. in favor of the etc lion of Van Uorcu, who has nblaineit all his political distinctions from the icmo.vatic parly, having moat io Icmnly and repeatedly pledged hmielf to tliem, and who h old be, moreover, bound by honor und couiitency, if they sway him ut all ; but who now permit hirmtelf to h nride tho iimtm tool oft not f men tor tho dc Ktructioii of that p oty which warmed him into lifo ? Ii it hccaiiMU you wniit free noil in New Mexico and ('ahlornia no do I, and would repudialo Cans today if I thought ho would bi tho means of forming a ingle tdave Slate in thetut countries. If I had time and pure, I feci prepared to fdiow that tho.e coimtrivs would bo morn certainly kept freu under Cans than Van lluren, even supposing the latter would carry out the free noiI doctrine, of which wo have, as yet no evidence farther than this, that somr id their measures he would, perhaps, not veto. In his last letters he gay that hin former courxo furuihes him matter of "consolation" now, and even if ho had pledged himself to his new friends, what di curily have we, tliut t f i w man who betrayed the friends of his youth and manhood, would not in hi dotngo betray his new love ? The territory in question i already free territory. So ay Illackstone, Coke, Grotiuü, Vau II, Mansfield, Marshall, Story, Baldwin, McLean, and Uronxon. Slavery wan abolished there by Mexico. These authorities, acknowledged to be the highctit both in Fngland and America, Hay that the ancient laws of a ceded country remain until nuperseded by thou of the new government. This law td Mexico has not been superseded. Again, McLean, Hronsoii, Marshall, Mamditld and others, not fcrgetting (inMinj;, Hay that this can only be done by positive law. Hut loes any one believe that Congreos will ever pass u law Icclanng that slavery may exist there P t,e Senato should nass such a measure, which is hiihlv INo ; it is nnpotfsible in the verv nature ol things. If improbable, the llouo of KepreNeutatives culd never oi una JViniiiiKiu. ii it iiiiioi x iu im uo jihssmi im j would veto that too, for he denies that Congress has; any right to legislate on the subject, und thinks that it is ; calculated to etl'ecl no good object, (the object being al- ! ready secured,) and that it would btj productive ofunne- j cesiarv excitement. We so then that it is as certain as i ..r ir .. n:i i . i. . i i. i any thiuf; human can be, that slavery can never be established there whilst Cas is President, or his views are carried out by the governing powers. On the other h ind, suppose that Van Daren was President. He b licves that Congress has power to pass a wi at,mx r tu JxttII(1 saverv in this lemrorv Y 1 1 ill nl I'roviso. It they have, then thev have, (as all I Out why talk of his chances of ehction ? There ii not one of his friends who supposes that he can be elect-! ed. He possibly may pet one or two Stales, though it is in the highest decree improhable. He cannot then be , elected by the din ct vote tf the people. If it should be , carried into the Ilouie he has not even a remote chance of ucces. The contest is then, in fact, only between . Cas and Taylor; ami have you no choice between; theüo ? Have the tariff, and bank, and distribution, and oilier questions, that onco divided tho parti, lout all ' their importance? True, our opponentstell us they' have become "obsidete." So they assured us in 1Ö4U, hut '-11 revived tbeni ; md though they may bo obsolete ; in 'IS and '49, wo will witness them again revived should Hen. Taylor he elected. I am aware that on the Wil- : mot Proviso he has given u no pledge, for or against; hut on thrsd quejliorm, though lo; nays he In formed no ' opmi ns, lie y-l pledges hiuisell lo permit them Ut leenme laws. Will not the democratic barnburner who : throws away hi vot on Van lluren, and ihu aids indirectly in electing (ion. Taylor, feel, when these measures j arc agah fastened on the country, that there wero more questions I lift n one ut isue in litis contest? I believe that this movement has been mainly pet on j loot and carried thin l ;r by tlee who intend, and have intended all the lime, to ote for Taylor. Good mean- j iug democrats have bieu, unwittingly, induced to play their part to keep up the delusion. W ho does not seethe policy in getting it up, and, moro especially, in making Van Düren the candidate of tho parly ? It was hoped that ho would obtain the votes of the few democrats who were disaffected towards Cass, and that many of his warm personal friends could be rallied to his support. Still farther, it was known that there wero thousands of disatlected whig, who would willingly vote for McLean or Hale i s the candidate ol thnl party, but who would never vote for Van Iluren, whom their inveterate hatred had converted into a monster ; audit was believed that they could thus, however u.uch against their will, bo driven into the support of Taylor. As a proof, witness the daily desertions back to the ranks of Taylor by those who had nworri never to touch him. And many, I have no doubt, will secretly vte for him who openly profess zeal for Van lluren. What then oupht to be the course of thoso who still love democratic principles ? Certainly to vote for Cass, under whom alone we can hope to see them carried out during the next four years. We owe no debt to Van Uuren, whom we once honored, but who has betrayed us. We ought not, gratuitously, to throw our votes away hy cabling them for him. Yours, respectfully, J. B. OrllniiR Heckck, the distinguished German libcralift, is now the lion of the day in New York, notwithstanding the whig rowdies mobbed and shamefully maltreated the German citizens who assembled to welcome him on his arrival nt that port. The Tribune Kays?, he is feasted by the corporation, draggel in procession through the streets by the citizens beset by politicians, and bored to death almost by a variety of other civilities, coming from all quarters. New Yrk was always celebrated for overdoing this sort of thing, and in this instance there is nothing detracting from her reputation. Dy the way, M. Hecker is nhortly tocail a meeting, where he intends to elucidate the principles now at work, revolutionizing Europe. His stay in New York will be brief, as it is his intention to travel South ami Eat, and then return immediately to Germany. Naval. The Pacific squadron, under command of Commodore Thomas A p Citeby Jones, consisting of the Ohio, (ling ship,) Capt. Taylor, Congress, Capt. Elie, Dale, Commander Rudd, Warren, Commander Long. Southampton, Lieut. Com. Thorburn, Lexington, Lieut. Com. Chatard, was at La Taz, July 2Sth. The Congres3, after visiting Mazatlm or San Was, wotlJ rtturn l.o tc

From tfie Albany Argus. lVh) :x i ! ;V Iicm Ioio. Wliv I-. A..o.imm! I'., i.tiul Taylor 1" naively ohKs the Auburn Daily Advertiser, a Taylor whig print.

ie-ause Mj.-h a nomination was not fit lo be made. " says ll.e great D.vmki.. llecuust "(Mineral Taylor is a military man, and a military man mntly" says the same high authority. lecaue "General Tny'lor has had no -inning in civil ojjairs.'" Dec a use "ho has performed no functions if a ciiil nature under the constitution of his country. Rccause 'it was not u ise nor discreet to go to the arn.y for the selection of a candidate for the Presidtney ;" Recause 'it is the first instance in our history in which any mau d' mcrr military character has been pnmosed lor that hiyh olhcr; Decausc it is without preedent or justification from anything in our previous history,' continues the great Kxidundki:. Decausc "his whole course of conduct is insuHing to the whi party," says John Mi.nok Dotts. Recause "he is not a whig candidate," and because, under such a leader, "the whig party is ilmil to certain, inevitable, and disgractjul defeat" adds Mr. Rotts. Pecanse no man can Fay, for no man Knows what (Jen. Taylor's views are on a solitary political principle" says Willis Hall. Dccause Gen. Taylor "has neither by precept nor practice, given to the wrld the hast evidence f even an ordinary acjuaintaucc with a hinglr one of the great questions which agitate the Union. Decause "r A -tunc not den. 'I'ailor's tiewsvn a finglf question of public utility ;" und DeeauM Gen. Taylor's 'much talked of Allison l tter amounts ta nothing at all '," continues Mr. Hall. Decaus" "Gen. Taylor has no claim upon the whig party upon its support or (inteuan''," Faid the Clay whigs in mass meeting ut Vmixhall Garden, New Yrk : Decause, in his Lippard h tter.Gen. Tuvlor d'clarrd that In was not a party candidate, after his nomination nt Philadelphia: In his Charleston News ht:r, that In! would have aecrpttd the. nomination of the 11, dtunare convention on the, savi terms a he did the Philadelphia nomination : In his letter to the Charleston Taylor and Poller Democrat, that he winked ut the proposed i cpit'Ualiun of Mr. I 'ilhuore his co-nominee: In his Richmond Republican Utter, that he avowed Ait dthrminalion to run, whoever inijjht be the nominee of the whig or lemoeratie national conventions respond the wmos Mi(Ti.t.ANF.otrsi.Y. The.se are some ! tin 'whys nod wherefores" which the Auburn Daily Advertier will find sprinkling the whig journals all over the country, by merely looking thiouh its exchanges. Tho Advertiser, we suspect, will lind it a much easier matter to collate than to answer them satisfactorily. They are at its service, if it choi-cs to enter on the task. fjrllarrison Gray Otis, of Dosh n, a prime mover of the old Hartford Convention, appear in the Doston Whig papers and urges his dd friends to vle for Taylor. We hope all who sympathize with his Tory notion will follow his advice. He repotted in the Massachusetts Senate (Oct. 8, ISM,) the bill for the Hartford Convention, which was carried !W to 1. He was a member of Cmgre6S in 1&00, und voted for Aaron Dorr against Jellerson. He bitterly jpos l Madison nnd the war of lölü, and has always be-n a full-blooth'd Federalist. One of the first political speeches we ever heard was a labored defence from him of the Hartford Convention, which even J. Q. Adams denounced as a treasonable a.-serublagc. Why should he not support Taylor 1 All the oid Federalists do it, of course. The "Union" appropriately observes that "this preternatural reappearance of Harrison GroyOtis on the scences of public life is the ghastliest galvanization of j the political dead and damned that we can remember. It is the federal Fariuata, agonized, yet unrepentant, lifting his head to speak from out of the abysses of his doom as from the burning tombs of Dante's Male" bolee! Doston federalism as if in madness and utter despair at Webster's recusancy, and at all the gathering omens of fewift defeat and prostration has called to it aid this feller spirit from the "vasty deep;'' has resolved, "Flectcre si nequco Superos, At heronta movebo:" and behold! THE HARTFORD CONVENTION, again in the bnly and "in its armor as it lived,'' stalks through tho land to electioneer for General Taylor ! Of old, such portentous apparitions of the founders of a fallen d) nas!y, or the chiefs of a fated cause, were often imagined to attend upon the spectacle of its final overthrow and ruin!"

. , , r i xt 1- m I Olis not fir extra servicisfor (ien. Tavlor's natrie is (ftrllorace Greeley, the editor of the N..Tn- nnt lo bc foun(J in t,,e ttK.lllucntei CvuimnS the bune, over whose conversion to Taylor the whigs are ; names f those who have been -alled upon at various now rejoicing, savs in a late number of his pa- : times to render impottant services to t!,e government, per I havnnl changed my opinion of the nomine - , 'on !,K1f rtr,v.u such a Jackson, Harrir , , "fir ' . , son, Ca-s, N-ott. tinme, .Iacemh, and !h. r. That turn of (,tn. layhr. believe it was unwise and am0t r,.ceiv0(J by Gereni! Tavlor, over UNJUST. For Gen. Taylor personally, I have ever and above his tegular pay, when performing only his spoken with respect ; but I believe a candidate could regular and ordinary military duties. Can the honest end should have been chosen more deserving, MORE a,,u intelligent people of this country feel aught else CAPA13LE, more popular. I cannot pretend to sup- t,iali;1 contempt for those unscrupulous and ... ' t,, T r. 'r i unprincipled presses nnd demagogues who have been port him with enthusiasm, FOL I DO NOI FELL . FO Kmv aruj porseveringlv rin-in- the chanW ANY. j iqxm Gen. Cass having received SGii.OÜO 4Q for exHaonce called Taylor a "Journeyman Throat Cut-: tra allowances more than two-thirds .f which waä tcr," and it beems he "has not changed his opinion." , for expenses, and the remainder only for compensji lion for a vatt amount of the reot important extra The latest Roorback is the joint product of Leslie ( service while I he availability military cand:dite has Coombs and the Louisville Journal. It is. that (Jen. J received .$13,yJI f more than that sum for extra Cass w rote a letter to Mr. Clay in 1625-G, congiat- j allowances ; without, ns appears from the published ulating him on the refutation of the charge of "bar-: congressional documents, having rendered any extra gain and corruption." As honest Geo. Krerner, who, J service whatever ! we believe, originated the charge, is now a whig i leader, perhaps he can throw some light on the sub- The jEirnr.soNvir.LE and Colvmlus Railroad. ject. It is remarkable that if such letter was ever j The bids for grubbing and grading of twentv-seveu written, the fact was studiously concealed by Mr. j miles of this road were cl sed on the 4th instant. Clay and his friends, when they were hunting every-' when the Secretary reported thirty-two bids to the where for some endorsement of Mr. Clay's course at j board some for the whole route. The lettings were that time. Let them produce the letter if any such j made on the Tub, at prices lower tleui the estimates, exists. St. Louis Union. whicli were less than for any similar distance of railThe Kentucky 'missionaries" used the humbug; way in the United StMes. The contracts were all about Cas9s letter here, the other dav. Why did i cl "ctors last week the w.rk lo be . . , rn. . : completed by the 1st ot June next, thoy not produce it? That is the question. Tj(e 1(jarJ of direcJory vu(t a C11 of fuur jl)llars n rPl , r per share, payable on or before the 10th proximo, and Ok der of Onn Fr.r Lows.-ri.e annual return of tliafittoen lni, f the lürUJrn of tl.e Grand Secretary shows a great increase of the , tje fout lerIllinali at C .lumbus. should be located Order in he Lmtcd states. Ihe revenue has in- , ,acp( UIJer fülllracU creased 10 per cent Membership t3 per cent. Re- TjU present subcriptio,, is about s2.V,t. 00. An

take!1 j add ' I 4 liei a part of Floridt have made no report. We returns of last year from these' States, and increase as above. Number of Lodges in the United States, 1,757. Initiations, :&,132. Contributing members, HLilVW. Revenue of the Subordinate LoJges, $1,033,21)7,79. Raid for Relief of members, widows and orphan's $345,737 74. Distressing Suicide. The Spirit of Jefferson, states that Mr. John V. Kennedy, a citizen of Harper's Ferry, Va., tok his life on Thursday night last, by taking laudanum. He was about 38 years of age, and leaves a wife and children. Mortification at having broken the pledge, uffcr onco reforming, is supposed to have been the cause. 'Good morning, Gen. Taylor," said an ardent Taylor man of Eaton Rouge. "Good morning, sir," responded theGeneral. "I believe your health is always irond you have a good constitution, have you not 1 " "'Why, yes, I think fo It is one Major Eliss borrowed for me t read, from my friend Peyton, and I think he would bend me the best one he had." Extra Services Gen. Taylor appears, from the record, not to have perhVuied. Extra pay lo the amount of 77,812 he has received. lie pockets now about $7,000 annually. Should he be chosen President, he will derive therefrom one advantage which he appears to need very much he will get his letters without paying the postage. Mi:. Rancroit, our Minister in England, has interposed, it is said, in behalf of Mr. James Bergen, an American citizen, now in prison in Belfast, Irelaud, for supposed connection with the Irish rebellion. It is ssid tint he probably will be permitted to return home.

from the iVaihinglon Union. C;( iirr:il jiss timl ilvtt. 'l;iyhn's ritr.t j II at ncs-t- -I.o. U llii- Iilllie, j " m llial." i The whole amount of the allowance made to

.ucnerai -uiss, while in the publu-fcrvicc, over tii.u It I ...a . 1 111 atove hi regular pny, whicli the whis, wnn nil x iM'i r remarkatije facility ut fignre.s, can n out, is fi!l,lMI 40, unless tl ey report to the new mode of computation, discovered by Mr. Andrew Og!e Stewart, of the House of Eepnt niutives, of adding together the saiiiexim twice. Of the als i e amount wc have clearly slioun, in tie j articles upon the subject published in ti e bnim f the li'Jli nnd 2d li instant, that ,sUi,'.t.)I ,,() was for 1 actual expenses and expenditures incurred by (lencrul , Ca-s in the performance of the dolu s imposed upon him, and bv which he was not then fore benefited otie cent ; thus leaving only 17.('&" IHi ns extra compensation for a large amount of extra services of ll: most important character, exh-ndini; through nearly iiinehMMi years, and the value of which, both to the government and the Indians in his charge, ctiuld scarcely be computed. In our paper of the Dith we showed that, & cording to reports f the projKT iiceounting olfn ers, laid tdorc the House of Repnentiitio at the last session, but which G-n. Tay lor' friends, the whig, would it Miller to be publish d, that nllicer hid received ti;i to tin 1st January last, the very mod'Tite sum of ut least 7I,Sil 01. The itiMin ii ml amounts f each, composing lint Mim, we s:atl in detail, except that for juarters nnd fuel, the value of wh.ch we could not ascertain, but which would mount to ccvern I thousand dollars more. We ha tinc! uhtuincd a hot of General Taylor's present n Mown tiers und their amount p r mouth, ticronlinjj to Ins Int account, which we append for the information and satisfaction of the whigs, who have been so much troubled about the extra allowances to Gen. C sn : Pay and a'.touanccs of (.n. 'Poylur r ;.'. Fay - - - - g'JlMi fiO Allowance for quarters, 8 room, nt $1 " IVO (JO Allowance for lod,8oil of wood ho nll, and I f a trd for four ctvniit, at per rord - - - - G9 33 Allowuncn for ubniftaiice f r m II, nations pi k dat, ut VO cenm t r ration IK) 00 Allowance for four servant, 4 rations per day, nt XfO cent -Allowance for clothing for amc, at ,V uU each Allowance as pay foi same, nt $H card Allowance for forage for tut en hörst euch i!4 (0 10 (Ml V:i tat :; to Milking (V.ll 7.3 being seven thousand trf hundrrd and nin ty-yr? dollars aud ninety-six nuts pt r annum, which Ibis military candidate f r the pres'nh ncy is now in the receipt of, und uppcurs to be detei mined to hold oil to, unless the good peopl cm 1h gnlted, a th ava ila-bility-no-principh. whig putty hpe, into electing hiui to that h gh dlice. The democratic candidate, on being iiomtir.trd, relimuished everything, nnd placed him-elf in ihe hacds of the eople; but nothing tdiort f the jw.H0 per annum, as President, b'ing s cured to the whig candidate, will induce him lo gie op his chrri.-hi d pay and allowances amounting to cnsid raldy umre than the amount received by any of tie hih cub.iu t dlicers f the governuu-nt and lr which, w- opine, he has for some time past been rendering hole other service than writing political letters, each of wnieh, in some way, contradicts or is inconsistent with its predecessor. Whether, if elected to the presidency lie W( uld be willing to dispense w ith his uniform. sword, and the inflexible military habit of command. remains to be tested. His fu dark " servants 'Charles," "Tom," 44 William," and Jan..-," as they are described and named in his account, he would probably prefer to leave behind in Louisians, let some of the Van Düren abolitionists might be die posed to fraternize with them, ami to alford I hem an opportunity of making a journey ttill farther n:rth. The giving up of the seven Imrses would appear to be rather a hard case, ns is n t to be exjxxLed thul such ample means of locomotion at ihe expense1 of the government could be ri'adily nd cheerfully r !iuquished. Dot the losing of the thirty rations a an would be a erious business; the depletion would bj greater than any man with an ordinary constitution could bear. There would be one ctimzolation, however his letters would be free uf postage ; and would not, therefore, have to be sent to the dead-letter flice. Rut, our main object in this article was to exten! the w hig candidates's account of extra allowances a little furl her than we were able heretofore to give it correctly : Amount of extra allowances, over ami above his pay, received by him up to the 1st January last, as stated $74,SC4 04 Amount of came for the succeeding six months ending 30lh June lust, lucort'ing to his accounts ns render and paid ... 12.947 93 $T7,M2 02 Thus we have the respectable amount of ssventy8EVEN THOl'SAND FIO! IT Hl.WThU) ANn TWF.LVi: iuiLLAKS AM TWO CENTS for EXTRA A Ll-OWA N Es ; find ,ncrt'asC subscription on the northern portion is assurc' stltliciently to authorize the additional lettings. In any event the company now feel sure of the iucccps of the work. What have thecitizens f Louisville aud Kentucky subscribed ! About ffty thousand dollars for a work to their own Joor I u. Dem. Jefferson Circuit Court Tue Free Negro CasE. Turner Roberts, a free negro from Indiana, came into this State, and was arrested and imprisoned, under a statute of the commonwealth, usually called the "free negro act." Able counsel wa9 employed and the cae was fully argued before his Honor, Judge Rullock. The Judge on the opening of the court yesterday morning, gave a ng, able and eloquent opinion ; which, we regret to say, was extempore, (not written.) and so pressing are his engagements during term timo of his court, that he will not ba able to furnish a copy for tin press. The law of the Commonwealth is, all free negroes emigrating, or coming into the Stale, shall give bond and security that they will dcjKirt hence w ithin ninety days, nnd never return ; in default of whh'h an order is forthwith made that they be .olJ for the term of twelve month. The division of the Judge sustained the constitulionality of the law, nnd Roberts was imtnedhl ly old for the sum of $7o 50, for the term of one year. We find the following paragraph in the New York Express, of the 3d : Tue Laie Mrs. Maffitt. We are requested t.j correct an erroneous report whi. h has been in circulation in regard to the distase of tins lady, by which typhus fever was assigned as tin cause of lur death. This we are to!d, was not the case, and that tl.e cause was mental excitement growing out f circumstances connected with her marriage with Mr. Matlltt.