Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1849 — Page 2

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DLUOCItATIC NOMINATIONS. FOR GOVERNOR. JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, OF PARKE COUXrV. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. JAMES H. LANE, I OF DFARIiORX COi:TY. I Democratic State A. G. rOUTER, DAVID RKYNOLDS. DR. L. DUN LAP, WM. H. MORRISON', GEO. A. CHAPMAN, Central Committee. DR. A. GALL, C. G. WKHUK, N. POLTO.V. FRANCIS KING, C.KN. J. V. DRAKE. Itlurioti County Convention. A C?unty Convention of the Democrats of Marion County will bo held at the Court House in Indianapolis, on SATURDAY, the "tth of APRIL next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., fur the purpose of appointing delegates to represent said county in the Cimgretsional District Convention ; end if deemed expedient to nominate candidates for the Feveral otlices tobe filled by the people of Mir ion county at the next August election, to-wit : a Senator, two Representatives, a Clerk of the Circuit Court, two Associate Judgeß, and a County Commissioner for the 'M District, composed of Pike, Wayne, Decatur and Perry townships. Several members of the County Committee think, that while it would be well to appoint delegates to the District Convention at the time above specified, it would be best to defer the nomination for State and county otlicers, to a later period, say the IlOth of June. The Democrats of tho several townships of the county are respectfully requested to meet at such time as may suit their convenience and appoint delegates to represent them in tfie county convention as above. By order of the County Committee. tf. Congressional Conventions. The following times and places have been agreed upon in the districts named : 1st. District Thursday, April 12, at Petersburg!), Pike county. lid. District Saturday, April 21. at Charlestown, Clark county. 5th. District Thursday, April 12, at Indianapolis. Centre TownshipMarion County. The Democrats of Centre Township, are requested to met at the Court House on SATURDAY the of March, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of appointing Delegates to represent said township in the county Convention to bo held on April the 7th, and to transact any other nec-?ary and proper business. It is hoped that there will be it general turn out. tf. IIcD. V. J. Drown. W. W. Wick. ti.J J.P Chapman, Et,.. the Jun. of the Ute Sentinel, re caniilatu lor the nomination for Congress ia hs 5th Congiesiional distiict, ubject to the deciin f the Pernocia'ie Oitrict Convention. Hither of the bore gentlemen woulj represent the pertple of that Distiict, fjithiully and at.lv. Shault the young rrowr" be selected. lok uut for pjrt ! The way t!ie olj cock trill make the fur fly, will be a caution to the aoimal cieat i on. Jacks an ian. J. P. Chapman, one of the editors of the State Sentinel, it peken iii a? a candidate for Connies in the Mauoa dMuct. ll the district U Jjome i to be repreientei by a loco, we j vrouM as soon ee Chapman pocketing the "Jime at auy cue the. Wo kaow of no locofoco more woithy. Decatur Gazette, vhig. Leap irti the pit, Chap; you'll win. We are ia for you tiong over iu thi district. Sew Londm Pioneer. Vi'e copy to-day a few additional notices in favor of J. P. Chapman as a candidate for Congress in this district. With these, we shall cease, unless we shall meet with euch us may seem to demand comment. We are aware that in copying bo many as we have, we are subjected to the imputation of indelicacy, selfpraise, and perhaps selfishness ; and possibly it would do but little good for us to plead, not guilty, to any count in Ihia moral indictment. Rut we hive various reasms to justify us in adopting the course we have pursued, eome of which we wish to state for our justiricatiun. Araon thce, we do not rnt-an to include those which would make it desirable to us, personally, to see J. T. C. successful. Thee are more of a private than public nature, and probably would but ! llttiC interest tho people. There are others ol more general interest and importance. In the first place, we were willing to make a Jem. onstration in favor of the corps editorial generally. Editors need not be told, though the piibuc are far from realizing the truth, that of all vocations there is not one which requires surh unceasing toil, tr which makes greater demands upon the mental and physical faculties, than that tf an editor who is a zealous and true advocate of the cause which he may j espouse. Ail other consideration?, personal comforts, Focial eie, the ju.t reward- of toil, all. are made to yield tu the pressure of the conflict in v!i ich' he engages. Let Ii im be ever m generous ineenti-j ment, let him perform unrequited rvjre, in a thousand ways, fur the general good, regardless of party viewg, let him be repeatedly crucified for the errors or ignorance of other, and it will avail him little or nothing. Do the be-t he can, the mot thnt he can anticipate as the reward of his L'oors, is the unsubtantial, and too frequently jealous praise of his party, while all the rest of the world scorn hirn as a knave and ecoundrel ! Often and again has Jihe iron entered ourbouls," as wc hive listened to the speeches of thallovy derna-; (fnnpii. ahn li.iv :rivl nil thoir rnl L nnwlffh'fi t from newspapers, and their 'arts of oratory" from the comic almanac, and who made it their business to abue the. "lying editors,' as they cull them. Till j within a year or two, it seemed to us that, with very j few exceptions, editors were generally regarded as a J really degraded class, with little or no claims fori merit of any kind, and whose chief employment should be, to put 'dogs in oiFicc." We arc net eorry ! to believe that they are beginning to think that "the; fault is not in their stars, but in themselves, that they j are underlines," and that the time is near, when they ! wiil not only rcepect themselves, but be therefore en- j i titled to the resoect nd consideration of others. Whether J. 1. Chapman shall receive the congressional nomination in this district or not, is comparatively but of little consequence. The mention of his name in this connexion, however, we hope, will have the effect to induce the people to look a little oftener than heretofore to the corns editorial, in the selection of men for the transaction of legislative business, especially in the General Assembly. This should be desirable, not only because the most of them are as well qualified far such business as individuals of any other class, but for another reason, to-wit : it would give them knowledge which it is very important they should possess, so that they in return could diffuse that knowledge among the people ; we mean a practical acquaintance with the business of law-making, and if you please, with tho chicanery of legislation. We have been careful observers of our own legislature during the past eight winters, and we know, and we think many of our readers in this city will agree With us, that members of no other profession have excelled the editorial cla ss who have been elected to that body, either in general intelligence, prompt business habits, or integrity of purpose. We speak of editors, in this case, without distinction of party. We have thought, and we will say here, that if the people of this State should determine to hold a ConTention for the revision of the Constitution, that it would be highly desirable to have a "good sprinkling f cdilr i i1 We can name, if necessary, t dozen, without regard to politic, whom we should Yb extremely glad to see in ucb & convention. 1

Such considerations as those was one reason why wc were willing that J. P. C.'s name should bo used as it has been. Another, partly incidental, ond to encourage that feeling of esprit da corps which should exist so far as it may, honorably, operated upon our minds in copying those notice. Perhaps few editors in this State have received harder blow.-, nor more of them, than has fallen to our lot. These we have returned with some viuor. A contest thus continued

I with but little intermission for more than ten cars, , and while new generation has been coming upon I the stage, must inevitably beget for the actors a cer tain decree of personal odium, which it is extremely bard to eradicate or correct, and w hich, therefore, to sensitive minds, is the more disagreeable. Now we ore not very "thin-skinned," for these conflicts have almost case-hardened us, even if we are not, indeed, hard cases. We are not fearful of the hostility of others, when we think we are rijht, nor are we much concerned at the bitterness which is engendered by prejudice and ignorance ; but still, it is morn pleasant to be respected and loved, than to be hated and reviled; and besides, one who is very bitterly hated or suspected, can accomplish but very little good, let him try ever so hard. It was n t more, therefore, to aid "Page" in getting the nomination for Congress, than to let the people see that notwithstanding partizan conflicts, our editorial cotemporaries, of all parties, were willing t d him justice as a man and as a citizen. We confess that in this aspect of the case, theso commendations have been grateful to us. They are like mi oasis in a sandy dcert ; and while they do not aflfoct political relations or opinions in the least, wc trut they will aid in chocking that personal asperity, ;.nd in expanding that self-respect, and re(pect for the profession, which we earnestly desire should exist and which we hope yet to see. HriTORi is Coürlss. There are a few K'Jiton in Coogiesi, all of whom, we veutuic ti sy, ate epjil in talent ai'd piactical iiiJmtiy l.i any other cUu of men in that tniJy. We ee al-othe name of J. P Chapman, one of the editois f tnc Slate Sentinel favoiMy spk n of a llie prohaMe dem.cratic candidate in the Indianapolis Dilrtct. Of all demo-ciat-i ia that Distiitt, he ii our ch ice. He is guilty tif one in, however, fjr which it will be dilficult for in to extend tu hirn a pardon. He hast by hi U, devoted, ao i enclitic allegiance to hi patty, m ule (IHK.VT MEN of porne whom Ihe Almighty never intended foi such. And allh'wti 1'iovidence may frown upon him for placing vessel of dishonor i'l huQurable place, yet there U a laige debt of giatitude due hirn, a inuiety which can only Le p.u l by electu hi;n to Cuiiic-. Hut if he opposes (ten. Taylor's Adminitiati'n, we cannot divine how Chapman, r any other bud of the feather, will ever bieak into Congress. Hut as we have aiJ before, if a lespectable man cannot be elected in that district, then we will text take Chapman Drookvillt American, Taylor U'hiq. This is a singular paragraph, indeed, but its author is himself a curious compound, and frequently gives utterance to notions rather hard to analyze. If we have been guilty of the sin imputed to us, we plead a venial judgment, for Providence, for some wise purpose, has permitted, if not sanctioned, the means and the ends. If however it b true and who can tell ? that we have done violence to the intents of the Almighty, and the idea seems tu us almost blasphctnous, quite sure are we that the punishment has followed quickly upon the heels of the odenco, or that it will yet surely overtake us. Again; we demur to the judgment of the 4,American,M because it makes us the scape-goat for the sins of the community, as well as our ow n, if sin has been committed as alleged. We are but individuals among the mass, and should be held responsible only for our just sharo of iniquity ! Is the trumpeter alono responsible f r the charge of the cavalry! ; but sets others in motion, by the command of his superiors; ire have labored to make "great men" by the direction of the people only ! They and ie, may sjrnetimes have been mistaken ; but seldom, if ever, wilfully so. We presume tho people arc willing to assume the responsibility which beiongs to thorn. According to the "American" notion of "resprctilUily" we presume that no one can be respectable in its estimation, unless ho be a "Taylor whig," Taylorism being primirily essential. We imagine that a very large number of persons will venture to disagree with this notion of ths "American." Among thee dissentients, perhaps may he reckoned the Editor of the "Richmond Palladium," who is quite as strong a whig, and a good deal ni re of a C!ay i.ian than the editor of tho "American." One might infer from ti.ee authorities tint "respectability" and "gentility" have but little in common. The "Palladium" has the following: IivDMHAPor i trTiucT. W. J. Hwwt ha published a letter in tue Sta'e Sentinel, advertising his paity that he H willing to e(ve '.hern in Cungre, and manifeii some ar.xiety to be the car.diJate of hi party. V. V. Wick l 13 published a letter to the same rnpMt. I he people, however, talk of the junior editor of the SenUael as their favorite. We have no riht to interfere in the business of that party, but were we i loco t we aie a Whi;;, we would vaxtly defer PaueChaprmn to cither i f the oiheri. He is an ultra p.irtizan, but never füllet to he a gentleman. His qualii.cation are uperior to either Hiownor W ick, and he would exert more influence. He has done much t elevate other men bnd the party should now reward him. We should, however, be pleaded toee a ood Whi; elected if it were possible ; but we fear the district is hopelessly Ijcwfoco. Richmond Fall t' dium. While we would acknowledge and reciprocate the friendly terms in wheh J. P. is spoken of by the "Palladium," we of course, in his behalf, disclaim altogether the "superiority" accorded to him over TJessrs. Wick or Hrown. lie makes no such pretensions far himself, nor do we make them for him. Candidate tort Congkf.ss. The names of Jndge Wick, J. I'. Chapman, W. J. Urown.and others have been mentioned as candidates for Representative in Congress from this district, and at the proper time their respTiive claims will doubtless be presenten for tho consideration of the Democracy of the district. It is proper that the claims ot all may be taken into the account to state that the attention of the Democracy iu this quarter seems to be turned toward Dr. James Ritchey as a suitable candidate for that Rtation. The successful and arduous campaign through which the Doctor passed the last summer as elector has placed him in a very conspicuous position in the district. It is understood that he will leave the disposal of his claims to the Democracy of the district. We copy the abvo from the Franklin, Johnson connty, Examiner, of the !L'(Uh in?t. While we mav very naturally be supposed to desire tho nomi nation of ."Mr. J. P. Chapman, not only one account of personal connexions, hut also because we should be quite willing to make him an example for the benefit of the editorial fraternity in this State, we at the Bamo time would like to have it understood as it should be, that wc are in no degree unmindful of tho merits of others, among whom conspicuously stands Dr. Ritchey. He Ins been a faithful laborer in the democratic cause, and is perhaps ns deserving as any other man of any favor, which it may bo in the power of tho Democratic party to confer upon him. No politician in the district has labored harder than Dr. Ritchey, and his chief reward has been, the satisfaction which he, in common with all other democrats, has derived from the triumph of our principles. Should tho Doctor have the preference of the people, none will support him with more zeal than wc shall do. 0-Another New Methodist Church is to be built immediately in this City. It is to be located west of the Canal, at the point where the Michigan road crosses the Canal. The mechanics of the city are invited to submit bids on Monday next, ÜGih inst. The Trustees propose io let the contract for tho building on the 29th of February, but as there ia no euch day this year, Wednesday the 23th will probably be fcelectcd. (7-Dort touch notes on the Canal Bank at Clevetand, Ohio. Thev are, or toon will be, worthiest.

A Sic It Gold Digger. We recommend the following extract from a letter from a young man formerly a compositor in this office. He went with the New York Regiment of volunteers, and went to the region of gold dust, and dug, and washed, and collected the yellow stulf. S, Y. Paper. California, Region of gold dust,) Out-of-doors, Nov. 20,1313. Dear Lees. Here 1 am in the gold region, dig1 - l r . rift.

LlL JIIVü IIU1ITJI, WUC1I A Ulli UUIt. 1 IKUJ Ul IMIU 1 ti aboul fivo pounds whicll 8ewe.t up ,n bags, and tied to a belt whicll I hud arounu my body. I ging nue a nailer, when l am able, i nad at one th.lll!ht I hllil enmirrli mid ulni-trwl fiir Snn Fr;l nrisro ! but 1 tound ere 1 Ind got hair the way. my excessive shaking from the fever and ague had shook out oil the dust through the interstices of the canvas, o I l bought leithern bags with the dust I had loft, and shook myself back to the gold dust grouud again. You have seen the Shaking Quakers, at Lebanon at their worship. Put o shovel in their hands and make them lean and thin, hungry and ragged; and you may guess what the gold 'diggers arc in Cali fornia. W hen you are to weak too shake, you can lie down, and when you are too pick to lie or stand, why you can die ; nobody cares. The more there is sick, the better the prospects tor the well. Give me digging ot the cae, and a steak at the j Franklin House, at dinner time, and you may dig for the dust" with a hungry stomach and back as bare as a beggar. The way they wash the dirt in this vicinity is to telect the one that has the ague the worst the bowl in hands is shaken beautifully. Your old clothes, and broken victuals, would be a godsend. Can't you ask the hands in the otlice to make a collection to make up a package of cat olT duds, and send them on ; and I promise you all the dust I can gather in a mouth. I have got the dust but unfortunately have gut teeth, a stomach, and a back which tho dust cannot help. If I can only get to w ork at the cae again before I get to a ir.jit', give me joy. Men's faces grow longer than their lives very shortly here. Tho good book tells us man's life is but a npan, and there's not a face in a mile of me but is twice that length. .My respects to the hand. Yours, &LC J.P. The late speech of Calku 11. Smith, in the House of Representatives of the United States, excusing the encroachments of slavery, is aid to be the counterpart of the one delivered by Mr. Thompson only a little more so ! We have an idea that his Quaker constituency, when they get a chance to give him a shot, will knock his Congressional plumes from him for that act. hifayette J-mma!, ichig. Altogether a mistak", gentleman! The quakers, who are lories, can very easily dispense with their anti-slavery professions for the benefit not only of a whig congressman, but for a military slaveholding President. No matter h w clean nd smooth their outsides may be, they are mttrti at heart. OtjThe Now York Commercial Advertiser notices that a paragraph is industriously travelling the rounds of the American newspapers, mentioning the"impor tant discovery by a Kooky Mountain Traveller," of a settlement of white men, descendants of the Anglo Saxon race, w hom the Trapper found as hestates, 'on the shores of the racilic." The Advertiser says: "Wo mean to let our country friends into a bit of a secret. The paragraph, copied by the N'. V. Herald a week or two since, originally appeared in the Oregon Spectator, about a year ago. It is a mere fiction a myth and was written as a "skit" at tho Government of the United States for its neglect of the Oregonians; its lailure to provide them with a government, to eernl troops for their protection, iVc. The settlement of white men, is Oregon.' So the long sought subjects of Southcy'ß famous epic, Medac, are still iu the womb of the unrcvealed future. Oy-The State Journal of the 21st inst., contains an acrimonious and most unjust communication from Wni, (i. Coffin, Esq., of Tarkc county, in relation to the Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana, which we arc requested to copy. Wo decline to comply with the request, for tho reason that we know his assertions are of the wildest character, havinrr no foundation in fact, and because we believe that Mr. iouiu uimsew, on reiiecmm, win uo; iiearwiy csnanieu of his display of partisan hate and personal ill-will. ir ii .i I , ... , i ? V. e would not have believed it possible for that ren - to tlcmaii to mike such a M Judy" of himself. - .'7The Union says Mr. I'or.K and his family, ac - companie.l by a few friends, will leave Washington r J ". on tho oth of March, the day ntier the inauguration of (len. Tuyh'r, pass through Richmond, Va., take the Southern route to New Orleans, thence ot Nashville, whero we believe he lias had a new and elegant private residence erected and furnished for his reception. Mr. Polk delivers the helm of State to the whigs with the proud reflection that when it passes from his hands Ihn rimntrv ,n: n .l,rr. r,f r.rnoritu ...1 J J ii- & net's unpreceoeriieu in ii iiiMiiry ; runuuaiu v tu me country be if tien. Taylor can hand it over to his , , suaissur u. a line manner. (pTLleri. Taylor is reported to have said, nt Madison, Indiana, in speaking of the 11 uttering manner of his reception, that if the Indianians at Duena Vista had given Santa Anna ns warm a reception as they (the people of Mndison) had given him (Taylor) on the occasion of his present visit, he would have had n cause to complain of them. That will do. The general had better say no more about the matter : he makes it decidedly worse every time he speaks of it. The Porn. Recent advices from Rome inform us that the Roman people teems to have lost all reverence for the Pope, as nn ecclesiastic no less than as a prince The spiritual anathemas which he had hurled against them, have been treated with complete contempt. He demands the intervention of Austria to reseat him i in temporal power; Sardinia and France strongly remonstrate against this measure, ami his future fortunes teem to be extremely precarious. 07-Tho letter from Panama, which appears in another column, will prove interesting to all our readers, and especially so, perhaps, to those who arc touched with the Cal'fornia fever. This letter was not intended for the public eye ; but a friend of ours who j had the privilege of seeing tho manuscript, was so much interested in it, that he procured leave to make the extracts which we give. It gives a more graphic account of the journey from Chagres to Panama, than any other letter we have recently read. In the event that Mr. Clayton declines, we guess Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, will be Secretary of State. Cih. (iazetlc We guess the Secretary of Stato will be a Southern man and a slaveholder. (7- The Cin. Chronicle understands that Judge McLean has telegraphed his friends of the Ohio Legislature, d'xlining the nomination for U. S. Senator. Thomas Ewing was nominated in his etead. Telecratii Case ref.okf. Judge Catron In Chamhers. The Judge after argument, upon objection by the counsel of Mr. O'Rielly, declined hearing the motion of Morse and others against O'ltielly aud others, f r on injunction. He considered that, upon a proper construction of the patent act of lS'.W, taken in connexion with the rules of practice in equity prescribed by the Supreme Court of the United States to the Circuit Courts, the bill should have been filed prior to the motion. iat. IntelL, Wednesday. To take Ink out of Linen. Editor's and clerk wives will learn with pleasure, eays the Model Courier, that to take a piece of tallow, melt it, and dip the spotted part of tho linen into the melted tallow, the linen may then be washed, and the spots will disappear, without injuring tho linen.

CO .11 IM UÄI CATED.

It Will hf rrrri orlofl Hint, in lloepm!ilr Insr. Lin. , ... , , Dougal's very interesting letters to her mother. Panama, January", Mi dear Mother : We I ell New Orleans on Monday evening, the Itilh of December la.st, in 1 he ship Falcon, I I .1 1 1 ,1 0il. ,, t ÄS ifoUre tlemen went ashore in the lon-boat to make arrangei..nu .. I ....Cr... ).. I,,. ...... .....r.i ahmil rl:iv , lilit, several open boats, towtd by negroes almost naked, ;came to ilia Knp. Thy were engaged nearly all day in "king r.tl the baggage ; and about four o clock in the attertiuon, we got into th life-boat, and were rowed to shore, being completely drenched with salt water. Tho town of Cliagres, whero we landed, contains about a hundred houses built of cano standing upright, with roofs thatched with palm very airy mid cool, but without auy other comforts. We maid nil night, and got supper and breakfast, at the Alcalde's, fur which he charged us x dollars. The inhabitants bleep in hammocks, cook over a little fire made between round stone!, and season every thing with garlic. They number seven or eight hundred, and are all black. Such a race ot people I never want tu see again a dirty, savage set. TeM your black tenants for me, that thny don't know how well they are oil. If they could only see their colored breth ren in Central America, they would be happy at home. We had ono irent, however, at Chngres that 1 Khali al ways remember. Just outside of tho town is an old fort, built on a kind of rocky peninsula, up to which wu climbed by means of stone steps, all overgrown with grans. The fort must have been a magnificent one iu its day, and impregnable almost three side of it being sur rounded by wuler. It is taid to have been built by Cortes, and to he thren hundred years old. It beara the mark ol great age. trees are growing on it, und tho sixty brass cannon there are very much worn by time, It h the first ancient ruin I over saw, and 1 shall never forget my feelings when treading on that ground, once inhabited by a race of beings now extinct. lSesides, the view from there of tho surrounding country is the most beautiful I ever beheld. We saw the mu set from that ancient ruin, and then retraced our steps to the village, whero we had a baro cot and nothing tlee on which to rost. So much lor Charres. We left it next morning about ten o'clock in a lillle canoe or dugout (a large log hol lowed), about twenty leet long, a part of which was thatched over with leaves to protect us from the rain and nun. Into this boat we nut our ba"!-ir. with that of a young man who accompanied us, and then got in our I no o selves the roof just high enough for my head when I sat on the bottom of the boat. We staid three nights and three days nod a half in this bout, with three negroes to work it. The lirst day and night they rowed ; hut alter wards the current became so rapid that they had to take long poles and push ua up the river. It rained almost in-ce-sanlly, and was exceedingly warm. We saw seven or eight large alligators, n fight between n cougar and an alligator, several wild monkeys in the woods, and an ar madillo. Just imagine our canoe tied to a tree on a dark r.uny night, in a dens wilderness, with no habitation near, the wild beasts howling around us, and three big, avago negroes iu tho boat. Don't you think our sleep must have been sweet? We Mopped every time wo could find cny thing to eat, a:.d I got pomelhing cooked up that tasted very sweet to me. Who ever thought th.it I Fhould cook in Central America ? 'Tis strange, but truo. We arrived tho third day, about noon, nt a negro village named (iorgona, and hoped to ret mules there lo take us to this city ; but finding the roads were ho bad, arid the prices so high, we concluded to go on to Cruses, another little town six miles further, where we arrived the same evening at sun-down. It was then mining in torrents, and when we got up to our Hotel, I was as wet an 1 could be It cost us thirty-eight dollars to get that distance. Wo etnid one day find two nights at Cruses, at a dollar and a half apiece (very cheap for this country.) Transports for ourselves and bntrgnge ocrop the moun tains (eighteen miles) being procured at n cost of sixtyeight dolhirs, and Mr. McDougal having put me on a mule and little Sue on a man's back, our party started. Hut how shall I undertake to describe tho road from Cruses. I believe it would tie imposnible to convince you that euch a road could exist. Sometimes we went almost perpendicularly up twenty or thirty feet over Ptnooth rock, with hero and there a kind of a little step made just large enough (or tho mule's f ot, and the water running over that; whilst on each t-ide, so close as to touch, rose solid rocks higher than our heads. In ono of these places, my poor mule lost her foothold, clipped, and fell; he plunged to regain her feet but failed; und then slipped down tho precipice to a place where she could etand. 1 got off, and walked some distance through the water. Abcut one-third of the road is just like this. The rest is full of largo round htones, over which no horse from the States could ever go. In porno places, the path for the mule's feet is not a foot wide. Indeed, I can give you no idea of this road. Your imagination could never picturo any thing eo horrible and dangerous. Talk of the roads in Indiana ! I would have given any thing for just one mile of the worst part of the Crawfordsville ! rCKul to riesti'')(,it:lf Wo got over it, however, withi out anv broken bones, for which we have great reason to , be thanklul ; but never Miall one ol my Irienda come 1 this rouie to California if I can prevent it. Heinde the , great fatigue and danger, the exneno is enormous. Tho ' . -n . .. i . mm . i natives will not turn round without money. Ihev often j charged a dollar for a cup of coffee. In firt, at every ; tum it is money, money. I do not nay that I am sorry I 1 came ; but I do say that if any one ever gets mo over ,slmu!H 'V"' , ,a! i Zty 1 the only redeeming trnit in the whole smart. ly redeeming trnit in the whole trip is the hcencry. About a mile before you enter this city, there is nothing but beauty on every eide. To our right was a high, cone-shaped mountain, and bark of it were other similar ones, while near them wero numerous hills ail covered with trees with their rich green foliage ; and here and there an old ruin, with trees inside of it and vines covering it, might bo pceu through the trees. On the left, were sloping hills covered with green crass, and cattle grazing over them ; nnd in tho distance was a largo Wll'ltO fHrm-llOUSC PUrrOUilded With COm-fields. In front, we ,aj ju view various ancient ruin, the spires of . u,0 churches ol Tanarna, aud tho great 1'acihC. In Iho meantime, we. were winding along through a beautiful j gras-y plain, nnd crossing a clear, pebbly bottomed "' . i. iv .i : iii - . i . i .1 i. i i.reeK. .nulling couiu no more ueiiuiuui. 1 1 aimosi com pensated us for the difliculties and dangers of the jour ney. Wc have, at lnt, thank heaven, reached this ancient city safe nnd well. January 13. You see we are at Panama yet, nnd what is more, are likely to bo here lor sume time, as our fchip (the California) has not been heard from ince the left ISew lork. Ilut it is healthy here, and wc are comforta bly eituated. Wo have two rooms with Inrjrft doors but no windows ; indeed, I have not seen a glass window since I left the Mississippi. If you could peep into ono ol our rooms, you would think I had turned Catholic Over one of the doors is the Virgin Mary in the act of prayer, with a crown on her head; over another, is a picturo of the V irgiu with our Saviour in her arms : nnd in tho centre of the ceiling there is another of a similar kind. On a book-case in ono corner, is a cross with our Saviour on it, but that h covered with a cloth ; and when we first came, there was a waxen image of the Virgin surrounded with flowers under a glass shade, but that has pince been removed from th? room. I saw a Spanish funeral yesterday. There we;j men pluying on violins, Utiles, clarionets, guitars, nnd tamborincs,, in front. Then followed four men carrying the body (that of nn infant) on a bier covered with scarlet cloth. That was all. January 14. I add a few lines to this long letter to conjure you not to let nny one of our friends come this route to California, unless ho h.is a good constitution, a largo sharo of patience nnd perseverance, a great deal of courage moral nnd physical and a very full purse. These are absolutely necessary to get along. They have, too, on the Chagres river, a species of cholera, brought on by exposure, drinking the water, and eating tha fruit. Wo lost ten of our company by this diseasu, which generally terminates fatally in a short time sometimes in a few hours. In this city it is extremely warm. I can ttcnrcely realize that it is mid-winter. At home, you aro all mnfiled up in your cloaks nnd furs, or sitting around a large fire; whilo hero we can hardly keep comfortable with tho doors wide, open and our summer clothes on. I do not liko this climato at all : it is too debilitating. We are compelled to slay in tho houne all tho time, except early in the morning or late in tho evening. Your affectionate daughter, J. M. McD. Remarking on the case of Fanny Kemble llutlcr, and her husband, the Mobile Herald says: 44 We lay it down as a maxim, that a wife's unhappincss is occasioned by her husband's lack of skill. Almost nny woman will be a tolerable sort of a helpmate, if her lord bo a tolerable sort of a man ; and, therefore, we are disposed to make him responsible always for the family dissensions. llutlcr, we are sure, was unfit to manage such a wife as .Miss Kenihie. He could not comprehend such a creature; or, comprehending, had no sympathies in common with her. She was far above him ; and while worshiping the ideal among the 6tars, he had only skill enough to see that ehe was looking upwards. His propensity was to look down among tho things crawling on the ground." Loafeks. Different nations havcdifXerent kinds of loafers. The Italian loafer spends his time in sleeping; the Turkish loafer in dreaming; the Spanish in praying; the French in laughing; the English in swearing; tho Russian in gambling; the Hungarian in smoking ; the German in Drinking; and tho American in talking politics.

tain John McDoucral of our city, with his lady and; singular diplomatic affair, the truth of which we very j The Washington Union of the 30th i.1t. brings us child, bid us all god bve, and set out for California. ! much doubt, for we do not think that our minister e Anthem CT!To S , Z Mr" T. f b , r ,r m,0 n would ho fir forget Iiis pos t on as to meddle with the P" by Mr. I alhouu i address! to the South; .Mr. The following are extracts from one of Mrs. Mc- . Btr,Sp.f . c ri ,imWftV?r ,niirh ie miaht Rerrien issues his man.lcsto to the people of the

Singular Diplomatic Affair. j

AcorresDondentof the New York Herald, writing I fr,m Il,r, I in Tt i nit mnntinne Ihn trillnwmf, ,...., .... b sympathize with the Hungarian cause. If ha did, he got just such a reply as he might expect. One day last month, Kossuth, the Hungarian (iencral commanding the insurgent troops, employed a naturalized American citizen of Hungary to proceed to the American Clnrg.; d' Alf ires at Vienna, Mr. Stiles, with a letter to that gentleman, requesting him to address a letter to the (ieneral commanding the i AuMriau army in Hungary, ond solicit, in the name of humanity, a suspension of hostilities, that on arrangement might be made for nettling the unfortunate war. Mr. Stiles accordingly wrote the Austrian General, and otfered his intervention to aid in accomplishing this desirable end, and sent his despatches to the Aus trian ian fieneral by this naturalized Hungarian Amenan. giving him a courier passport. This bearer of despatches proceeded to the Austrian can army and delivered his despatches to the commanding (jenera; Thefieneral asked him who he was, when he replied that he was a Hungarian bv birth, hut now a naturalized citizen of the United States. The Auetrian General then raid to him : 1 jjive oil ten davs to leave tho Austrian tcrritories: at the exniration of which time, if von are to i be found within my reach, you shall have a enug home for your future residence.' i This naturalized Amoriran immediately left Aus tria and came to Berlin. Some time after this, the Austrian General addressed a communication to our charge at Vienna, Mr. Stiles, with this laconic reply: "Austiia, eir. never treats by negotiation with rebele Iowa. The auditor's report to the Legislature of Iowa furnishes the following interesting statistics : 1 he aggregate value of taxable property in Iowa (according to the assessor's returns for ISIS) amounts to about $15,0!0,0K, nearly $3,000.000 more than in 1817. The following are the most important items : Acres of laud, ".310,704 their value with improvements, ,$S,031,0W; value of town lota and improvements, .s;',J,(HW,12 ; value of capital employed iu merchandise, $040,917; value of mills, manufacto. I ries, distilleries, carding machines, and tanynrds, $;J37,t."" ; horses over two years old, 27 ,959 value, $99',910; neat cattle over two years old, 72,3 10 value. &72o3'J0 : sheen over six months old. 114.023 v-inn LclU1 h,,,, i v mnntlia ..Id ITOdlT , nleaM,r0 c,rri,c, ß.tKW value. $4S1,5"?S; watches, 3,112 value, 30,722; pianofortes, '.Y.i value, l.r9."; all other personal property over SsltU), $110,417; value of gold and silver coin and bank notes in actual possession. 183,420 ; amount of notes, mortgages, &c, $191,08. Disunion in Nourn Cakomna. The following res olution, adopted on the 20th in the House of Commons, North Carolina, on motion of tho lion. Edward Stanly, shows thai Mr. Calhoun cannot expect much support in that old State: Resolved, That we believe the people of North Carolina, of all parties, are devotedly attached tJ the Union of the United States; that they regard it as a main pillar in the rditice of real independence ; the support of tranquillity at home, or peace abroad; of safety ; of prosperity ; and of that very Jiherty thev so highly prize; that they cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable at'achrnent to it, and that they watch for its preservation with jealous nnxiety; that they believe it is the duty of their public bervants to discountenance whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and to repel indignantly every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.' " This resolution, we are happy to say, passed by yeas fG, nays Iii. Verdict in a Costi.t Case. In the cae of Many vs. Sizcr, for the infringement of a patent for manufacturing railroad car-wheels, tried at Roston bef re the United Slates Circuit Court, the jury, on Tuesday, returned a verdict for plaintiff, assessing the damage at $1,703 75. The Boston Times says: " Mr. Webster was for the plaintiff, and we are! informed that his fee and contingencies, in event of

his client being succcssfi!, was to be $3,000. Mr. j North but show an unbroken front and manifest her Choate is to receive.it is said, $1,000. The dam- ,,teril determination to preserve California and Newages nnd expense will amount to about $IW,00(l; and i .Mexico free from the blighting cure of slavery, and the value of the patent right is estimated at $100,000. 1 t1Cl?e fanatics will quail aid rower, like "awiopp. d The hearing has lasted nearly a month. We believe dog." As Col. Denton told thorn h?t session, the there is little doubt but that an appeal to a higher j r,un who talks of d.sx.Ka.g this Union is a fool a court will follow the decision." fit subject for the mad house!" The duty of Northern Webster at the same time was pocketing his per ' men is plain and simple. Slavery must not be cxdiem as a U. S. Senator. I tended over these territories. They are free now, ; they came to us free, and evcrv consideration of ju$Rr.NAlORIAL ELECTION OF HcnhV CLAY. Tho tico demands that th.-y should remam free. Louisville Chronicle a very decided democratic paper, 1 confirms the general belief that Mr. Clav returns to j lli.i:in ,v., Feb. 7, 13-19. the U. S. Senate, in defiance of the Tavlok leaders j 7 the Editor tf the I)ii'y Americm : in Kentucky. The statement of the Chronicle is j Dear Sic : My attention was called a day or two ago curious, and we give it as follows: j to a piece in your paper, renting to the fallowing exMr. Clay has forced himself upon the state for j tract from lien. Jackson' latt a ill and tc.tament: however much the Louisville Journal and the Lexing-1 "The gold Im presented to me by the corporation ton Reporter mav attempt to create the impression of the city of New York. th? large m!vt vase prothat it is the wish of Kentucky that Mr. Clay should j scnted me by the ladies of Charleston, Nutti Carolina, return to the Senate of the United States, they can ! m' native State, w ith the lire piuuro representing deceive no one. the unfurling of tho American l.'annrr in the city of From the very moment that he was seriously -Mexico, presented to m by the citizens of South ppoken of as a candidate, there was an intense feel- : Carolina, when it was refused to be accepted by the ing of alarm and terror amongst tho friends officii. 1 U. States I leave in trttt ti my son, A. Jackson, Jr., Taylor throughout the whole State. Tho Louisville i wh directions that bhould our happy country be not Couritr took strong ground ugainst him Mr. Uirbour, j blessed with peace, an event not always to Le expected, a whig member of the Kentucky Senate, declared in j he will at the end of the war or end of the conflict, his place that he would not vote for a man ! present each of said articles of inestimable value to who would go to Washington determined to 4,rule or j the patriot residing in the city or State from which

rum and some ot the Taylorites of the Legislature ... . . ... !- held it in hcrious consideration to attempt to defeat him, w hich was only thwarted, as far as we can learn, by the determination of a majority of the democrats, in case such a contingency should arise, to vote for Mr. Clay, being well satisfied that the devil will be to pay the moment he takes his scat in the Senate. Toadyism. We see it chronicled in the whig papers that the cabin in which Thomas Corwin was born is standing in Rourbon County, Ky., and that an old lady who owns it, declared lately that it should not be altered while ehe lived 44 for Tom Co rtcin was born here." 44 As ehe spoke," the narrator eays, 44 1 could see the patriotism Hash in her eye." We take it, then, hI.o is a Mexican woman; or, otherwise, her patriotism, like black Tom's, must be all in her eye. Ciu. Fstiq. Tho Ranking Capital of Kentucky is $10,000,000, of which the Rank of Kentucky has $5,000,0)0 ; the Northern Hank, $3,000,000, ; and the Rank of Louisville $2,000,000. These Ranks are all iu Louisville, but have branches nt the principal points through the State. Propositions are now before the Legislature to establish thrco new Ranks; one the Southern Rank of Kentucky, with six or seven branches, and the other two Independent Ranks. Nr.t;noKs in Canada. According to a census taken one year since, the entire black population of (Janada is 5,571, being 4,107 more than in 1S42. So the lato statements of 15 or 20,00' 1 slaves having escaped there from the United States are all moonshine 3,000 is the utmost limit. The majority of males over females isGI5 accounted for on the reasonable supposition that those slaves who do escape are mostly men. This disproportion is found chiefly in the districts of Gore, London, and western, nearest to and most convenient of access from the United States. Louisville Dem. The editor of the Cleveland Plaindealcr thus "offers terms" to the newly inaugurated Whig Governor of Ohio: "Now, Governor, give us jour bones! We have pelted you somk we have drummed on your old figurehead not a little, in hopes to catch some faint echo from the inner regions ; 4but all for naught. Now we propose, a parley. You are no longer a candidate, but the Governor of this great State, and like a good republican, as we are, we bow to the majority of the people and count ourself your loyal novereign." The Methodist Rook Concern. Comparatively few persons have any idea of the amount of business transacted by this great concern. About ono hundred and fifty persona are employed in the establishment, which produces yearly about 240,000 books for youths, and 250,000 large works intended for general readers, besides 6,400 copies of the Quarterly Review, and 5,2fK,000 sheets of newspapers.

From, the Ruhville Jacksoninn.

The Southern AddroM. The Dtitr of United States. We have read both carefully and muet (ay they are nothing ele but n rehash of the speeches heretofore delivered by Southern gentlemen. The same stale cry of n:jr"'.iuTi upon Southern rights is again raised. The North is agsin insultingly told that she, royher-liko, l.as invaded and trambled upon the rights and interests of her filter Slates in the South ; that she has not even the innnarninity of the midnight robber, who spares the victim after he his emptied his purse, but that we more ruthless and barbarous to pati?fy the cravings of an inordinate lust for power, would degrade, crush and annihilate the Southern people; and lastly that, in order to ottain our ends, we have committed aggressions, 'aliko inconsistent with the true spirit, intent and purje our constitutional compact. (Lernen "ddrets ) These are tho oifeuces, men ol the .North, with which d charged. Need we deny the truth of tho ! statements ! is it neeeary ior us , ui ... a p.. a jot not guilty"! No, the men that dratted theso address, knew that every one of the accusations, j wa infamously fa.se ! S,i long ns impartial History j ri'c,J ae.pusjtions of Louisiana, lor.da and j fc vc xc; lff wi 7,nnc"ry Mr the North to justify herseif in this behalf. Die History ot tlie past nails tue statements o tl.eso ! Southern fanatics to the counter. To that History the North will appeal. Its impartial pages will do her justice. Mes-rs. Calhoun aud llerrien may rack their brains aud put into requisition all the powers of their mighty intellects, to prove that the North has encroached upon the South, but the former, pointing to the History of tho Union, will by it repel the accusation. Louisiana, Florida, Texas, acquired by the United States, by treaty and annexation, all of them, slave States ! Can the South ask any moro than this! Has tdie not received enough! Jjutsays Mr. Cuihouu. The territories immediately in controerpy New Mexico aud California were acquired by the common isacrilice and elf rts of nil the States," and he then argues that the people of the Southern States, being equals t-hould not wi uebarred trom immigrating to those territoriesv Mr. Berrien follows in the tame wake when he says, tiifse territories were acquired by the common treasurers and united efforts of all the Stales," oura is a federal Govern ment" the members of which, are all equal equal in rights and cquil in dignity." 44 the exclusion of the Southern States, ond their citizen", from their full share iu territories thus declared to bel ong to them in common with the other States, would, therefore, bo to deprive them of a right it would derogate from thoir equality," &lc. Now what does this gasconade? amount to i e admit the torce ot the argument that the territories we have acquired, by the late war, belong as much to the South ns the North, and that tho Southern people have a right to go and nettle there. loes the North deny this 1 lins admitanco bet 11 rtTufusrd to any Southern man! No, wc say, you are perfectly free to 0 to California, on the tamo conditions and governed by the Fame laws, that Northern immigrants are. You can take the tame property, enjoy the same privileges. Is this not fair? Is this not justice! Messrs. Calhoun and Ilerrien claim for the people of the South nothing ehe but justice, yet thy really demand for the South more than they are willing to uccord to the North. Let us Mit this matter to the bottom. These gentitmeu admit that the institution of slavery is a 4poculiar institution," local in its character. What do they a-ik That this "peculiar institution" of theirs shall b" spread over California und New .Mexico. They are not willing to settle there with the same privileges that Northern men enjoy, but they are highly indignant because they will not be allowed to enjoy ' privileges "peculiar" to themselves! It is nothing but sheer folly for Sinthern gentlemen to talk about the North wishing to exclude the people of the South from an equal participation in these territories. We say to them, you are cquaU, iu this Covernmcnt, with us; California and New Mexico belong as much to you as to us; you can go th''re, whenever you pleae, but you go on the same conditions, with the same property, subject to the same laws. You have no right to ask higher privileges than we enjoy. for we are all equal. We repeat it, can the SjuUi ask any more than thi. and ought the North to yield i nMV mure 1 v ft thousand times, no! Let the ! ,ney v,'erc presented who snould be adjudged by hi l ..it - I . countrymen, or the ladies, to have been the most valiant iu defence of his country and our country rights." The above is taken from the original copy of tho will. In reply, I will add 1 have recently written to a friend at Washington city, requesting him to make publication in his valuable paper of the above clause in the will calling upon the various newspapers in the city and State of New York, and also to the city of Charleston and State of South Carolina, to give public expression to the subject and point oui through the ladies and their countrymen the distinguished and deserving patriots to receive the eaid articles of inestimable value and I do asure you, sir, nothing will a ford me more pleasure than to fulfil the bacrcd trust reposed in me. Please request other newspapers to copy. 1 am, respectfully, your friend, A. JACKSON, Jr. The Demagoi;uk. A prominent leader of tho Whig party said to us not long since, 44 wo expected you would nominate Joe Wright, and we put on Judge Embrec to match him. He's demagogue enough for Joe !" Exactly so, and this eminent qualification secured hirn the nomination. Having played his game with sufficient adroitnes to secure a Feat in Congress, he spends his lime in hatching up divers nnl sundry gull-traps, lo catch fools at the next August Election. Having xmoused three hundred and twenty-three Dollors of Extra Mileage himself, he Ins become wonderful zealous in the cause f Mileage Reform, ond introduced various propositions for retrenchment and reform to take elfect afier his own opportunities for 4,stealings in" have expired. To muke himself a little mure conspicious, he delivers a lengthy exhortation to congress, but forgets to say a word about refunding to the Treasury the amount of his acknowledged peculations. We have no fears that the nftw born zeal of tho would-be-governor w ill rat hn.i up, but we think it w ould have had less the appearance of the demagogue if he had made his abounding discoveries of congressional corruption, before he pocketed those three hundred and twenty-three dollars. He will visit u on th htuuip of course, will roll up his eyes at Congressioiial extravagance, and point to his own resolutions, votes and speeches in favor of economy, nil for the sake of the votes of the dear people. It is well to understand him in advance, to know whom we are to deal with, and to be fully prepared for all such mouthing demagougues. He underrates the intelligence of the people if he expects to ride into power on that hobby. (S osheri Democrat. Iowa Lkiislaturl. This body adjourned on the 15th ult. In the record of its doings, we find that 1 has passed an act exempting a homestead worth five hundred dollars from execution on all debts contracted after the fourth of July next.