Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1849 — Page 2

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FOR GOVERNOR. JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, or parke couy rv. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. JAMES H. LANE. OF DEARBORX COUXTY. Democratic M::te A r,. rOUTKR. DAVID RKYNOLDS. DR. L DUN LA P. WM. II. M! Kit I SON, GEO. A. CHAPMAN, Oiif i :i I Co in in it tec. DR. A GALL, C. G. WKKliE, N. 1KLT0. FRANCIS KING. GEN. J. P. DRAKE. ITI:irioii County Convention. A C unty Convention of the Democrats of Marion County will b he'd nt the Court Heue in Indianapolis, on SATURDAY, thz 1th of APRIL next, at 10 o'clock, A. 31., f r the purpose of appointing delegate to represent said county in the Congressional District Convention ; and if deemed expedient to nominate candidates for the several unices 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 Judges, and a County Commissioner fr the iid District, composed of Pike, Wayne, Decatur an! Perry townships. The Democrats of the several townships of the county are respectfully requested to nvet at such time as may suit their convenience nnd appoint delegates to repre-ent them in the county convention as above. By order of the County Committee. tf. Coiigi'cvtioiiHl foil volitions. The following tim s nnd daces have been agreed upon by the 1 efoeracy. in the districts nnmed : Is . District Thursday, April 12, at Petersburg!), Tike c unty. 2d. District Saturday, April 21, at Charlestown, Clark county. 3d. District Saturday, 3Iay 5, at Napoleon, RipIcy county. o:h. District Thursday, April 12, at Indianapolis. 6;h District Wednesday, April 25, at Kloornfield, Greene comity. 5th District Saturday, Junie 12, ot Lafayette, Tippecanoe count v. 10th District Wednesday, May 'J3, at Fort Wayne. Centre Township .Marion Coimlv. The Democrats of Centre Township, nre requested to meet at the Court Ho.,c on SATURDAY lh Sst If t 111 1. l t.- ll... . .i r ! of March, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of ap-! riritinrr Ilolo.rnfnj til rpnrpfl'.l unid tfiVVIIshin in the county Convention to be held on April the 7th, and to transact any other necessary atid proper business. It! any other necessary anu proper is hoped that there will bo a general turn out tf. Icrry Township. j The Democrats of Perry township will hold a meet- j jpg at Marrs schoolh'Hiv on the first Monday in j April next at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of appoint- j ing delegates to the approaching Democratic County Convention. t.Ap.2. j O-We are authorized to tay that Joseph A.. V1i4ht. ti e Democratic candidate for Governor, will commence the canvass cn Mondnv, the 30;h of April. : The list of appointments will appear in this paper by j the 10th of Anril thev would have been published! befre now, had not Mr. Etnbrce declined being a! candidate. He is now waiting to furnish his competitor or competitors a .'ist of his appointments, as j lie ia anxious to conduct this canvass face to face with whoever may oppose hirn. ' Tike Township Meeting. It is due tj the Demo- j cratic citizens of Pike Township that wc should say j a word as to the wherefore of the proceedings of a ! democratic meeting, said to have been holden in that j township, appearing in the Indiana Journal. These j proceedings were left at our office on last week after our piper was7 for Wednesday and Thursday, and were consequently laid over. On Saturday, the paper' was overburdened hv the lenthv report of the examinati jn of Mrs. Srnithers, whereby n-.t only the proceeding in question, but very much other matter, was necessarily crowded out; but they would have appeared in the next (thi) semi-weekly and weekly, thereby obtaining a much more general circulation. This much for the information of tho Democrats of Tike. One word fur ourselves. It may be that the citizens of Pike township have delegated Mr. Joshua Lar.gsdale to attend to their business; and if so, we have no right to object. It may be, also, that he assumes to speak and act for them; but we much mistake their nature, if he is to lord it over them as he would over many a wretched victim who i now so situated as not to be able to pay his way." His charge, (for we presume it his although he could not have written it himself) against the Sentinel, may go for whit it is worth; and humbled indeed mut we feel, even if we did not despite ourselves, could we f r a moment allow him to dictate to us in matters connected with our business. This same lately important personage I as also volunteered to take the Hon. Wru. J. Brown under his immediate charge, whether 4,by authority" or i:ot we are not informed. Mr. Brown, himself, is too oM a campaigner, we take it, either to mistake the position of the editors of the Sentinel, r.r, in our opinion, to stand much in need of the excellent and accomplished services of his friend for "in the lamMiafe of the poet," he might well exclaim "save me from such friends." We have felt called upon, und' r the circumstances, to eay thus much, and it is more that we may not be misunderst cd by the democrats of Pike or any other township, than to diprnify w ith a notice one who would pursue the course taken by this Mr. Langsdale, a professed democrat ; nor shall we waver or vary from the true democratic platform in our course now or hereafter. We see no reasons why all the candidates for nomination to Congress should not stand on equal footing until the nomination is made; nor why, when it is made, the successful one should not receive a 1 united and hearty support. And so far as the junior rditor of this paper is concerned as one in that crowd (and lie has been sometime absent from his pout) no j attempt to j ack. Conventions, or to use unfair means to obtain the nomination bhall be used or counteiiinccd. If others, or their friends for them, ee proper to do 5 ), we are humbly of the opinion, tint they will discover, perhaps too late, that 'honesty is the beat policy." O-It is rumored that the appointment of Mr. C. B. Smith as one of the Board of Commissioners to adjo-t Mexican claim?, will not bo confirmed by the U. S. Senate. ----- ----->Among the California emigrants from Cincinnati was a man aged 84! ----- WARNING TO SMOKERS.— A singular case of asphyxia is related in one cf the French journals. A youth of) the name of Lemoine, paid a visit to an uncle, who is a farm laborer in the neighborhood of Havre. This nan occupied a email and ill-vrntilated apartment. Tbe nephrw, at eight o'clock in the evening, went to bed in ihe room. Soon after, the uncle and two comrnnion entered the room, and all fell to smoking. The youth was aeep. At midnight the visitors withdrew, nrd the ti ncle went t j bed. Laying hin band upon his nephew, he found him unnaturally cold, and endeavored to wake him, but without effect. Help was called ; tome faint indications of life appeared, and a phycicnin directed operations fir the recovery of t lie patient. All proved vain ; the next day he expired. A i"t mortem examination was made, and ti e phyMcaii pronounced that he had died of congestion of the brain, caus d by te respiration of tobacco tQ)oke d:rin 6ler.

mcG.-itiglicy :iud II;i iiiirg;!!. The Indiana journal (.f the 2"M March has the following articles which we jive in full as the best refutation of llntnsilvcs, nt:d as slowing the spirit f the thing, the Ii cum trntns f ro ttin. that assumes the conduct i f ti nt s!.. el in the absence of the editor. We forbear rx'cuded comment nt pre-tnt. Read: E. W. McGaighkt, Esq The rejection nf the appointment of tin Seiiilnooi, bs (ii'Vfim r of Mineeo'H, ty lite iiiite, will surprise .ill who are acquainted will him. Mr. M. po.M SM m-t only talents of a high order, but is ii lioneM nul indutrtoiM mau und well qualified lor the place. Why he should he rejected, and E. A. IlASUfcCA , the inlf liur of .Mr. Mc(Ialgiiev hi ability, wild wlin.n lialutH of intemperance alone disqualify lo'ii tor any station, should be unanimously confirmed is a matter that we do n-t und-rstandf nor does it reflect much credit upon the Senate. E. A. IIasnfgan. The appointment of this gentlenun, by .Mr. l'olk, as Minister to Merlin, continues to tie a main r of much astonishment to the whole country. Und .Mr. llanneg.in been a w 1 1 qualified as heUnotoiionsly deficient in every essential qualification, still, the appointment, under the circumstances attending it, would be iin mitrpg. The Louisville Democrat, nnd olh r democratic papers intimate that the appointment was made with the consent of (Jen. Taylor, who was induced to give his consent through the influence of Mr. Crittenden und other prominent wliir. Till cannot be true. They certainly have a too lush regard fr their own characters to compromit ibeiii ly being parlies t such an arrangenitnt. Gen. Tavluk owe it to the principles laid down in hi inaugural address, nnd to the country, to recall Mr. Ilanneg m, and we believe he will do it. The appointment was made for the purpose of pulling nine thousand dollars of tbe people's money into tbe pocket of .Mr. UartnegHii. Let him take it, but do not let hint represent this country at the court cf a civilized nation. It will bo scon that 3Ir. Hannegin is directly charged with ha hits of intemperance. Whatever may have been AI r. Hanucgan's previous course in respect to temperate or intemperate drinking, tint man does not live who dares say he ever indulged to the. extent that manv a leading whig has done nor will we be so far from reported truth, as to say, even of the Hon. Henry Clay himself, the god of whigijery. Rut like that great man, when reformed, is it proper for such men as tne writer in the Journal is it right, honorable or christian-Iifce for any one, to throw up repented-of faults ! Even if all said bj true, which ftv deny, is it t aking a course likely to cause one to persevere in reformed habits by making the clurgc when well known it dots not exist. Now in all candor, we ask this writer in the Journal, which is the worse the man who indulges, or who has indulged, in the use of intoxicating liquors

to his own detriment, or the confirmed blackleg the arÄ.hfi whu devotes his time in hunting victims " I by day, and keeping sober, that ho may be the better enabled to rob them at night at the faro table 1 Tne writer in the Journal has charged Mr. Hannegan as a i drunkard, for the language admits of no other conI structiou. We have not directly charged Mr. McGaughey, "ic.V possesses not only taltnts of a high or ' der. but is an hon"st and industrious tnm a id ice' i Huatijii-J" (in the estimation of tho writer in the? Journal.) with being a "notorious gim'i!tr;" but we do clnrge that we are able to sustain by proof on tho fjüt, that when this "honest" gentleman undertook to represent the people of Rut nam county in our State Legislature, that he cnuIJ, if he icuud, tell who he T,it at the giinbl.ng tables then in this city. We d. not know that Air. McGaughey g; tnbles ut tins d iy Ind 'd, we pray that l.e does not. And it is w in sincere regtet that we conn ss tne writer in the Journal has templed us to allude to such matters. . . . 1 . 1 If this .w?;-jent writer, however wishes to cotnp-ire no! es on these subjects, we shall no avoid his Claris. The balance of his comments, we may if we think it expedient, allude to again, notwithstanding the editor proper of that sheet once declared that "a regard for whig principles forbade the nomination of Gen. Tavlor." f--The State Journal need nt b distressed on Mr. Wright's account, he will tak care of his own case, 1 ,. , 1 . ,, i i . . , fp. and particularly HI the region Ot Parke county. The Journal, judging from indications in several quarters, had much better be looking after the affiirsof its own party. It is :n the eve of dissolution. The following paragraph from the Wayne County Whig gives rather a shady hue to the prospects of the great whig party in Indiana, that party which, but a fe.v short vears ago was wont to march its unbroken columns " . , 1 tr 1 ,1 ... riii to certain victory! How has tbe mighty fallen! 3 . judge Lmoree, tne wmg candidate lor nuvernor, nas declined the nomination. We learn that the, Whig Stato Central Committee will meet on the 311 instant, nt lndi bnnpolis, for the putpese of making a nomination. We would sucgest to the committee that, under present circumstancts, no nomination should be made. We viewed the nomination, at the time which it was inad, as premature. lSo whig f any political standing or s.igaeity will accept a nomination now fr in the hand of the Committee. With the present organizatiau of parties in Indiana, a candidate for (oternor will riot udd anything to the whig strength in the hrtate. On the contrary, we believe it will weaken it. We think if the committee act wisely, they will not attempt to make a nomination, which, it even accepted, must, in the end, prove both injurious and fruitless. We would like to bear an expression ot the whig press on this subject. Wayne County Whig. Hurricane in Kentucky. Tne Louisville papers give the particulars of a very severe etorm on Tbursdiv the 22d inst., which was attended with the loss of life and considerable damage to property. At Shelbyville, not less than ten or twelve buildings, some of them three-story brick dwellings, wero blown down. The chimneys and roofs of every buildin" in the town eutfered to some extent, and its streets were literally covered with the ruins. Much timber along the turnpike, between that place and Louisville, wap blown down. A child was the only person hurt in Shelby ville and it not seriously. One family, when the hurricane commenced raging, run into an out-boue, and had hardly entered before their dwelling was a mass of ruins. Some three or four miles from Bardstown the buildings on Mr. OdJa's place were greatly damaged, and some were blown d nvn. Mr. Newbolt's bouse in the eame neighborhood was blown down, and Mrs. NewI bolt and her child killed. A ncr;ro man belonrrin to WW Mr. Odds was also killed. Several negroes were crippled. At Big Spring, the store of Mr. Leslies, a brick church, and many other houses were blown down. At Biue river island and other places houses were unroofed and the trees on whole acres uf land were uprooted and blown down. At Elizabeliitown and the mouth of Salt river, houses, barns, fences, and trees were blown down. Hail was lying in places an inch and a half deep. We have no desire to enter into a controversy with the New Albany Hu'lctin, as to whether Judge Embree should, or should not accept tho nomination for Governor. That matter is nettled by Judge Euibree declining to run or rather, it was settled by the people of his district, who opposed his acceptance of the nouiination, and whose united voice as expressed to him in every conceivable way for the last two months, left him no choice. We beg leave to say to the Bulletin. however, that when applied to for the use of his name as a candidate f r Governor, Judge Embree did refuse it. This, we assure our friend, is nude on the authority of Judge Embree himself. Evansvilit Journal. The Evansvillo Journal is regarded as Judge Embree'sj organ, and its editor is known to be in hid confidence. There's a lie out about this matter, certain, but rr do not care to decide who told il. Wo know that Judge Euibree did cause a telegraphic despatch to be sent to this city, lefore the whig convention assembled, authorizing the use of his name in that connection, for wc were t' Id so by the gentleman 'i'ho received it.

Osu Kecfer's On tho Cth of December last, lSie, the U. S. ship Constitution, the "crack" chip of our gallant navy sailed from Roston fr the Mediterranean station. Tiie movements of a ship, coinn cti d ns the Constitution is, with the most interesting incidents of the naval history of our coun'rv, would ut all times le

interesting tons; but they are especially so now, as , one of her present subordinate olhVers is the son of , the junior editor of the State Sentinel. The Constitution sailed from Roston, ns above stat ed, with "our re-fer"on board, who promised to write ; to us occasionally 8 description of the sights which be j might sec. We have his "log" up to the 2d of Jnn- . uary, 1Ö4D, the dav of arrival at the Straits of Gib- : raltar. This we do not publish, as it contains only J the monotonous detail of a pleasant passage across the j ocean; and we pass to a letter which may interest some of our readers, dated as follows: j U. S. Ship Comtitctios At Sea, January 1849. , After we entered the Mediterranean we bad ery good ! winds until we were about eighty miles from Gibraltar. I We were then detained off and en for ten days, (after : having :one nearly all the distance m six) by adverse w inds and heavy blows, of which we experienced a great I '"m,?" i- . r ..ik v The first pait of our pasnge was very agreeable. He I stood to the eastward, along tbe Coast of the Dnrhary (

States, until the öth inst., when we made the Island .Mar- between Rutland and Whitehall, itima, a small, rocky island, near the coast of Sicily. , . . . ., TbeMed.terranean here makes a bight, and we altered our T" br'sl ro,,to to Montreal 18 by of way Loscourse to the Southward, (the true course for Tripoli,) ton and Moutpelier, about -101) miles. By filling up and Mood down between tbe Main Land fnot in ight,) j t,;s pap between Rutland and Whitehall, therefore, and the island of Maritima. On the 9th we passed the , ,. , , , , Island of Pdtitellaria.a small island about 45 miles from ! l,c pntJre Canadian travel may be secured between the coast of Tunis, situated in Lat. 3G3 45', N. Long. 12' New York and Montreal, says the Railroad Journal. 00E. Lntil the ISth, we were detained off and on the Cn.'Jicut River Railroad. Coast of Tripoli by strong gales and bead winds. At A 40 CA. MA on the l'Jth of January we made the coast 1,,,s railway extends from Springheid, Mass., nur:h

of 1 ripoh near the city 01 the sauoi name, out we were unab' i to get in that day on account of the light winds. On the 20th at 1 25 V. M. nearly, we c.inie t anchor off Tripoli, about three miles distant. The reason of our anchoring at that distance frcm the City, is that tbeio is no harbour there mnable lor large vessels to enter, without incuring considerable damage in doing so. The fli-alth Officer of ihe City Rive us fiee communication with the shore. Aftr having anchored we saluted the Tiipolit.m Pl.ig with 21 guns (a national ealute) which was returned from the city. On the 21st, the American Consul, Mr. McCauley, the Ca plain and nil the ollicers (among whom was uy sell,) paid their respect to the Grand Pacha of Tripoli. The vii-it was not so grand a might be supposed. The castle in whirh he tesides is nothing extra, although of good size. After partaking of some refreshments and smoking a pipe with Iiis excellency, the Turk, wo took our leave. The city of Tripoli i not a very desirable place : the town is dirty, tbe inhabitants are not only very dirtv, but thry aro negligent nnd lazy. The Jews from hat 1 could observe, are neater, both in drrss and manners than either the Turks or Arabs. The ttoops of the Country nre all Turks, and they were a very fine looking set of men, and very well drilled. The City i filled with them from one end" to the ollipr; thev h ive barracks in every quarter of the city, besides the fortifications of the City, of which there are a number of very good ones. Tii're are but very few cuiiosiiies to ! seen in Tripoli. The most noted is the triumphal arch built by Marrus Pius Antonius on his entering the City Ü00 years before Christ. It is built ol marhle and is covered with carving, Rtnong which is the representation of the ancient Roman she-wolf, Kornau warriors. JLc Slc. There bad been an inscription upon it once, but time has made urh ravages upon i', that it i not now readable. The marble was pr.t.iL.lv trnnsported some distance a there is none around Tripoli. This structure of Ancient triumph, is now a grog-shop, for the modern loafers. 1 did not have an opportunity of visiting the Mosques nor the Jews' synagogues, although 1 desired to do so : but I shall have cppoitunity of doing so 111 Alexandria But very few of t tie inhabitants that 1 saw, wer employed in any manual labor. A great many of the Turks were seated around the si reels on benches, cross legged, Ntiioking what we term bubble bubbles, a Turkish pipe, in which llu smoke is drawn through a vessel of water attached to the nine, before it is inhaled. More than half the population were loafing round the streets doing noihi nig, tk! from the moment we landed we had a crowd of j iroin 100 10 wiv persons toiiuwing us until we leu tne town j acain for the ship. I On the 221 we sailed from Tripoli for Malta, with j I). S. McCauley, Lsq. and his farntly on board, whom we I are going to c.irrv to Alexandria. Mr. McCauley has I been Consul at Tripoli for a great many years; be is now j .appointed Consul General of Lgypt, and is to reside at i Alexandria. j On the 125th we made the Inland Malta but did not get j in until the 27lh on uccount of bead winds. At 8 A. M. i on the !27ih of J;in. wo let go our anchor in tho Harbor I of Viilctn , the principal City in tbe Island of Malta. e lire now lying in quarantine for about a week, and wj Bia rcm;li,,Vr0 a few days afterward and then sail for Alexandria. On returning from Alexandrh we. shall 1 stop here and lay out a quarantine of about twenty days ; winch is required of all vessels coming from tho upper j part of the Mediterranean, before they can enter any F.uropean port. The llarbour Valetta is considered one of the best and most secure h ubors in the woild. It is not wider than a ; good stone's throw, but is of considerable length, and has several ports to it, so that it is able to contain a great number ol vessels, more than it contains now, although I. . ' , , o : there are a great many Tessels here. 1 The citv H o ronsljHrahi izft, and is partly built on j n , , cnsen,ience nf which the houses looking from , the harbor rise one above another which gives the city a j very lofty appearance. The houses are built on the Spanish plan, nnd a great manv of the most superb still standing wero built by the ancient Knights of Malta; but most of their architecture is fut decaying, with the exception of the fortifications, which I suppose have been repair by the I'nglih, and would stand many a hard knock hefore they would he surrendered by them, (lihrallar is ; termed the Key of the .Mediterranean, nnd Malta a part .. . . . ! of the lock, nnd I think very properly. The entrnco of ! the harhor which is very narrow, is commanded by a j very strong fort, and the city is surrounded by a very strong wall, which is well fortified. : The Island is riot very fertile, and is very bill v; there are ; a great many ruins of 1 l.e ancient castles, kc. In old times, I when the pirates made a practice of landing here, the i citizens (which I think we ro the Knights of Malta,) for ; titled the roasts with small towers, erected every mile, j on which they mounted guns for the purposes of prevent ! ing the pirates landing in their boats 1 hesc towers are J still standing, and I siw these when we were coming in. W lien we get pratique, that is, when we are released from 'quarantine, I expect to go on shore and ride round the Island, which is about fourteen miles long and 7 miles tn ; brta.ith, I s li ;i 1 1 then be able to tell you more about the ; strange sights to he seen. To-morrow the 1st of February, wo will bo out of j quarantine, and 1 believe a steamer sails the next day J And as the letters will have to be mailed to-morrow, I j will close this by signing myself as I hope I always havo been, lour affectionate boo, Cm. II. C. IVcw I-'irc Company. At a meeting of the "Independent Relief Fire Engine and Hose Company," on Monday evening, March 20th, it was Ordered, That the Secretary ba instructed to have published in the papers in this city, an acticle informing the publi of the formation of said company, and that such persons as are w illing to join said company be requested to hand their names in on next Monday evening; also, that we will accept the names of such persons as are willing to become contributing memhers. That there may bo no misunderstanding in relation to the matter, we have appointed a committee to contract for a new Engine and Hose Carriage, to whom full power is given to have them completed as soon as possible. The company have named the Engine " Hand-in-IIand," and the Hose Carriage " Friendship." Our motto, Friendship goes Hand-in-Hand." The following arc the officers for the present term : Joseph Little, President, Wm. Vanblaricum, Vice Proidcnt, E. B. Thorne, Secretary, A. Franco, Treasurer, Robt. Ware, N. Teneycke, and T. McNaughten, standing committee. rxli Ward. The voters of the uth Ward will meet at Nicolai' Brewery, on Saturday next the 31st, at 1 o'clock, to nominate a candidate for Councilman in said Ward, irrespective of party. The nomination will be made by ballot, in accordance with the couree pursued last year. MANY CITIZENS. Indianapolis, March 2d, 1949. A SnI!T MlsTAKE.Some of the papers have that Uopgress at its last session voted ßve nnd a half years extra pay to the widows and orphans of deceased oi'llccrs or.d soldiers of the late war, instead of five yturs' hnf pay. Our blundjring neighbor of the Journal first gave currency to the mistake, we believe.

!t:iilro::c!s Opened In 1819.

The f. Mowing is a vry interesting statement from. the American Railroad Journal: Portland and Montreal, Me. 8 miles Sullivan, N. II. 20 (Cheshire, X. II. 10 Vermont Central. 17 Vermont and .Massachusetts. Mass. 21 Connecticut River, Mass. 10 Camden Rranch, S. C. 21 119 miles Road opened Jan. 1. 1319. G121 Total. 6Ö10 miles ,,f railway n operation in the United Siate- on the first day of March, IS 19. Rxilrnad from Xtxo York In JfioUngton, 17. The distance from New York city to Albany by the Hudson River Road is. 142 miles. Jirernbuh to 1 roy. ß Tro.V to Saratov. 31 V?.1"?" .! XX,,U',,:l1,,;r 40 hltehall to Rutland, t. 2t Rutland to Burlington. GÖ Total. yC9 miles. This entire line is completed and in rapid progress ' ' ' . of completion, except the short distance of 24 miles 52 miles, where it connects with the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad, which extends to Brattkborough. From Brattlcborough fo Bellows Falls is 22J miles; and it only requires tbe building of this 22 miles to j complete a continuous railway from New York City to Wells Kiver, Vermont, a distance of 303 miles. Thus it will be seen, that while the wealth and enterprise of Boston have taken the lead in extending her iron roads to the west and the north, thereby diverting a large amount of trad? to her own city, which had previously and naturally gone to New York; that the time is fast approaching, when New York will not only regain her former supremacy as to accessibility, but v ill nlso become a rival for the Connecticut Valley trade above Springfield, and also the travel to nnd from Canada. But all these improvements and vast constructions cheapen the price of travel, increase production by opening for it a daily accessible market, developc new resources in a word, add to the general prosperity. They not only remunerate the few whose capital j builds the roads, but greatly benefit the ynmy who enjoy the increased facilities of trade and travel furn hed by them. For the Sentinel. On rc:itliti;r ttn OIitu:iry notice of ?Irs. J Josephine . Case. And does she sleep in death, and in a land ! .So distant from her early home away! ' Oh guard the sacred spot; let no rude hand Despoil the mantle id her slumbering clav. It seems, since she was bete, but yesterday; ; Her joyous laugh 's still ringing in our ear: ; To us, ns erst, she still seems fresh and gay, ! And -tili the song she sing, we love to hear," ' Although they sometimes start, the big unbidden tear. Our hearts nre filled with grief; yet not for thee, j Thou gentle one! Our bss we know's thy gdin; Thy spirit, like an uncaged bird, is free, I And tar beyond this world of caie and pain; Hut still, our selfish natures strive in vain j To check the falling tear. We're grieved to know ' We ne'er shall see thy sunny smile aigain, ' Nor bear thy voice. Alas! (is always so, i The forest forms arc first, to leave this world of woe! And why do thus our fondest hopes decay? : And why, so oft, nur best abjections riven ? Why are our dearest idols torn a way So soon, from earth's rud torms, 10 dwell in heaven? : They were in kindness lent to us, not given ; And we should learn to kiss the chastening rod. i The darkest clouds across our pathway driven, But turn our footsteps to the heavenly road : And those we love, but go, to lure us" home to God. IUrkisbukgii, ra., March 13, J c 13. Information lVsuitcri. Of Uobcrt W. Armistca.1. wh, deluded from his parents in September, lS17,from Memphis, Term . - . He is a painter by trad. Any information concern- j ing him will be thankfully received by his parents, I who now reside at Batesville, Independence county,! Arkansas. Address, STERLING S. ARMISTEAD. j P. S. All Western papers will confer a great favor by giving the above an insertion. i To the Kditors of the Sentin! : Gentlemen: YoU have informed us how to make' WCt potatoes mealy. Now tell us how to make sick potatoes well, and we will acknowledge you are! Doctors. Mrs. SorniA Greer. Dear Madam We are happy in being ablo to anrer your cjuerv, and we do it thus : Let every good . , , man have as good a man as you have, and we answer w ewer ior 11 inai ins industry and skill will make all sick Potatoes" to equal the splendid specimen of apples accompanying your note. Trillv yours, in the cause. The Editors. P.S. From tho signs amom- the potatoes, we are afraid the " Doctors " are about' We t b t . 0 " . pray iem icr ruu-ess man usuauy attends meir Denevolent elforts. O-The Ohio Legislature have finally passed a bill authorizing the people of the State to vote on the question of calling a convention to revise the constitution of the State. The whigs, after combatting the measure during the whole session in the most obstinate manner, were at last compelled to give way to the imperative demands of the people. The Statesman brings out a big rooster at the head of the announcement of the final vote ! Cheap Oysteks. In consequence of the arrival at j Boston of sixteen schoners leaded with oysters, from Tangier, Va., the price has ft 11 en from three dollars per gallon to sixty-two and a half cents ! (rCflt is said that Mr. Faran, late the able mem ber of Congress from Hamilton county district, Ohio, i will take charge of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and fill j the place vacated by Col. C. H. Buouiiir, appointed to j a seat upon the bench. 07" We have received the Daily Chronicle, a neutral paper, printed at Evansville, Ind., by Mrs?rp. Wright & Te rky : It is a sprightly sheet, and we wish it well. There arc now three dailies in Evansville. 07"Tho journeymen printers of Cjlumbus, Ohio, have presented Hon. A. G. Dimmock, a State Senator and practical printer, with h gold composing rule, as a testimonial of gratitude for his efforts in behalf of the rights of labor. John Van Biren. When John had concluded his argument in the Supreme Court at Washington last month, in the case involving the com titutiontlity of the law of New York taxing e nigrants, he took occasion to address Chief Justice Taney, off the bench, upon the importance of an early decision. 44 1 should not have presumed, your honor," said John, 44 to speak ! noon this matter but for the erent courtesy nnd bind. it , UCiS t,a, J have received from the whole bench, whenever I have had the honor to appear before the Court. The truth is, sir, a speedy determination of the ques tion is desirable in every point of view, but especially with reference to the poor devil who aro now at Quarantine. The cholera i raging among them with fearful mortality, and it would be a consolation to their friends to know t!3 1 they are dying constitutionally."

Ä200.000 of Illinois bonds inw lie under protest

i in the cit of New York. ! Mr. Toucev. the late Af.omey General, has left I Wash ashinrrton. and returned to Connecticut. IVtcr G. Van 13 iron, p linter. ned 45. committed suicide in New V rk.by shooting loms If. A subcrm'i n of ()(' his beet raised for the enuwmeiii.- a , i. i. nnM.j . K. - j Mules nre ell.iejr at ninf tc I 1 1 1 r si pr head at St. 1 i . ft . f r i. . - i i - Lout. 1 lie lUiiimd fr Lalibrnia emigration in-'m creases the price. Mackshmba, a chUT .f the Ottowi Indians, wna frozen to death, a sJiort titne eince, in Ally fin county, Michigan. The later we live in the history of th world, the more scope nnd materials there are for the exercise of genius. The w idow of Ezra Holden, has not received one penny fro her husbands tdiirc of the Saturday Courier, from the day of its sale up to the present hour. The foolish are sometimes silent about trivial thinga from an idea of their importance; the wise from a proper sense of their insignificance." The little slate factory at the Delaware Water Gap turns out annually J',()00 school slates, besides large quantities of roofing slates. Error is sotnetimts so nearly allied to truth, that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. Gun Cotton was u-ed by the Bombay column of the British forces in cannonadinjr Moultan. It is said to have been fearfully tttetivo. , Men are very frequently like tea the real strength and goodness is n"t properly drawn out of them until they have been for a h!irt tune in hot water. What sort of a drum is that which is besl when it cannot be beaten 1 Answer Why a conunuV t, to be sure. A chip was arrested in Cincinnati on Monday and fined five dollars for whittling in church. lie may be truly eaid to have 'paid dear for his whistle. For the most part minds which ripen with rapidity nre imaginative ; while those distinguished for deep or original thinking ore alore in attaining maturity. Capt. Bradley, who murdered Fanny Young in New Orleans and then attempted to commit suicide, was fast recovering from the wounds he inflicted on himself. Within three months after the new law of divorce was adopted in France, there were as many divorces as marriages, and in 18 months, 20,000 divorces were registered. Persons licensed to sell ale, in England, were formerly compelled to lake the sacrament. This we learn from Locke ; see his second and third letters on toleration. A cat of extraordinary intelligence was recently seen feeding a kitten with starch to make it stand upright ! .This reminds us of a maid who drank a pint of yeast to make her rise early. Fanny had often in youth been told She was a tnatchless maid ; Fanny has now, god lack, grown old, Vet matchless still, 'tis said. Tragical. A young ladv, respectably connected 1 in the town of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, N. V., took cedar oil, at the advice of her eeducer, and died in a few minutes in great agony. t kffehson's Notts on Virginia. The, original MS. copy of this celebrated work has recently been recovered, und is now deposited in the Library of! Corgress. It was thought to be irretrievably lost. The Kiss. A lover gazed into the evesof Iiis mistress until she blushed. He pressed her baud to his heart and said : ' My looks have planted roses on thy cheeks ; he who sows the seed should reap the harvest." Gen. Taylor had never seen but one member of Polk's Cabinet before he went on to Washington, and that was Mr. Marcy 20 years ago. Jh had never seen a tingle member of his own Cabinet. bmce the Kentuckinns and Ohioans have concluded to build a bridge across the Ohio river, from Cinciu c nati to Covington and Newport, the price of proper ty in the two latter cities has increased Ti . 1 1 - !. . iv. 1.1 I ine muM neauiuu. mS.,i . . lai.in-, ia.üü,,8, B6 a woman he met yesterday. Grace was in her ßteps, n. ii ' .ti.ts. 1.1 Im . r, ,i Y pma n Ii. In. 'Al Ai.t-att.il III lit I I V, 11 IUI til Leaven 111 uer eves, quo i ner arms a uauy. .-v rosebush with a bud clinging to It, was nothing to the I heavenly loveliness , " " w The I Judge ot The Importance of one Vote. At an election of )t the polls, in the Mt. Carbon district, Schuyl - kill county, Penn., Mr. Joepb George received one

J. f : vote, and there beitig no other all day, he was declared difficulty found his way to th- -treet ; in a few minj duly elected. utes tbe room was enveloped in flames."

J. "l. , " .' T I' r : i 1 f in.M,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,,.,,.,,, l.,,, v. - .. - .. - d. r. , . oes make ö pairs of boots every dav the year round, . . ... ' . r . -0,A u , and is willing to forfeit 2U() that he will make 60! pairs in a working week. Jobn H. JJilIon. ivo,., a distinguished barrister trom ! Dublin, whence he was compelled to fly on account of political difficulties, was, as a matter of comity to a.j kindred nation, admitted a anttorney and Counsel- I lor of the Supreme Court of Albany, New York. j Tersia is at present disturbed by o serious rebellion. . An army sent by Uie Shah to nuppreaj it, joined the insurgents, and it was announced that they would '."arch against the Shah, with the intention of dethron - ing him. The Roman Catholic clergy in the south of Ireland ' nC,said to b5 orally suffering the greatest person1 at distress, tor want of support. Many hive abanj doned their rmri-he: othc.s are known to live on parsnips only. ; A Delicate Announc EMENT.-An English paper has the following delicate announcement: ! U l K,aled ,hat hcr in a condition which ! Ll0,ds 1 Ut a P,,f,i)cct "f hcr Presenting the country be - I ? addlllü"al pr,nce r Pr,nce9I President Jackson took the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution" as he understood it. ! Journal. President Taylor Beems to have taken it without much of any understanding. Ifoston Post. To Stop Bleepinu at the Nose. Dr. Negricr, a French surgeon, eays that the simple elevation of a person s arm win stop uieemnj ai trie nose, ne ex plains the fact physiologically, and declares it a poai tivc remedy. It is certainly easy of trial. Möns. Cabot. This distinguished French politi cian arrived this morning on the Marshal Nev from New Orleans, in company of three hundred and sixty French socialists. He intends founding a community some where in Iowa or Illinois. &7. Ijouis Union. nr nt tho Inst nrti of tlio 1'intmnstnr (-.onir:iI wnt the appointment of Mrs. Maria J. Hornbeck to be ' - w. Postmistress of A Uentown, in place of E. R. Newhard, resigned. Mrs. II. is the widow of the late Hon. John W. IIornbck, and has a large family dependent 011 her fur support. (tkeen. A chap reading in a paper that Mexican files had bten received in this city, went into a hardware gtore nnd asked to look at some of them. Ex. He is the brother of the man who inquired for a pound of Liverpool dates, received by one of the Cunard steamers. Boston Times. Yankee Sullivan has gone to Havana for his health, it is said, instead of to California. The New York Sun says he was accompanied by iiill Wilson, one of ins eeconas , . uie .ate prize ngni. miore leaving ne Edit to loin liyer for a ozonation of S-XKJ to carry him away. 10m ouorcu tfli'U, but lieclinerl advancing a larger sum. Most Charming Office fou Somebody. The Concordia Intelligencer, published at Vidalia, La., says: 4Who will be Live Oik Inspector still agitates the political world. It is an office which is like Fathom's, you have much to get and little to do; the much to get is ngreeable, the nothing to do, to idle folks, is perfectly enchanting." Hon. J. R. Giddings. Arrived in this place, on Thursday last, from Washington, and addressed the people in the evening. He declared publicly and privately, that Old Zack used his rrsonaiinfluenco with members of Congress, in favor of a bill that would allow of the introduction of slaves into California. Old Zack a "proviso" man, eh! Trum. Democrat, Just Comtliment. One of the very last acts of President Polk was to confer upon the son of the everlamented Sltunk the appointment of cadet at West Point, out of the number allotted To him. He accompanied this appointment by the expression of his high regard for the deceased patriot, and tbe hope that the youth might nut fail to follow the example of the father. Pennsylvania.

Revf.rdy Johnson. A Washington corretyondent of t!i Norf. Ik li-nrtin mi ys : " Mr. Reverdy Johnson, I learn. u;i en!cr"'ng on the duties of bin n:lice, retnarked to the clerk and messenger, borb democrats, 'please re:aii j ur fSces. Now,' addd h -l am dt lighted tint I have disposed of nil rny patronage.'" Noktji Carolina Gold The Lincolnton (N. C.)

Kepulicttn of Fbronrv 'J7. ,v: ItnfTu-ds u unalloyed pleasure lo nururice that Mj. G. W. Cai.da et.l. thetab-nfd I-m-x-ratir elect r, operating - -- - - .- Lemon g mine, m l-uion roimiy, on SiTordav. the 10th inst.. gathered op at .-no handful. 1( lbs. of virgin jrold ! We have l-rn informed that it produced him Ihe handsome MJtn t.f .s'.jijh A Great Work. JiH2w l'urnf. son of the famous Bishop of Salisbury, when young, is said to have been of a wild and dis-ipa'ed torn. H'-ing on day found by his father in a very pri..!i humor ' Wht is thi matter with you, lm, said the Bishop, hat are you ruminating on !" A grenter work than your lordship's History of Ihe Kefomntii-n. answered the son. "Ave! what i that !" asked th fither. "The reformation of myself, my lord," replied the son. When a Buckeye girl is kissed, she throws tip her hands and ejaculates, 44 blissful moments, ho-.v they fly rCin'innnii Times. When a Tennessee girl i kissed, fhe exclinf Now put that right back where you got it from.' Tennessee f aper. When a Louisani girl ia kied, she gets miffed, andavs, I'd like to see you do that again I would.' ;V. O. Delta. The Boston Courier states that Mr. John Fagpett of that city, editor of the City Director, has taken great pains to collect the numbers-of Dr. Frnnklin's Poor Richard's Almanac commencing in IT'.Wand terminating in 1756, (twenty-five years.) lie is eaid to bo the only person who has the whole series complete. The "Courier' gives very copious extracts from the Doctor's sayings, which are all in his peculiar vein of wisdom and waggery. Fast. The word fast is as great a contradiction as we have in the language. The Delaware was fast, because the ice was immovable; and then the ice disappeared very fast for the contrary reason it was loose. A clock is called fast when it goes quicker than time. But a man is told to Ftand fast when he is desired to remain stationary. People fast when thpy have nothing to eat ; and eat fast, consequently, w hen opportunity offers. N. P. Willis approves of all the element of dancing except friction. On that he is severe, and under it condemns tbe Polki. Hear him : The Polka as all who have eeen it know is a dance in which a gentleman and lady vigorously rub thempelves together to lively music an amusement which (unless they are certainly to go off as matche) we have endeavored in va 1 u accommodate to our hith erto accommodating Rense of propriety. P.nMARXABLF. Ph!:o:ieon. A lady in Philadelphia, named Flaherty, who has been Pick f r along period of time, and was treated for various diseases, such as heart complaint, spinal irritation, &c, wis relieved of, the cause of her physical distress, but a few days ago, by medicine which expelled a tap'-trom fifty -tiro and a half f'rt hng. Dr. S. Heine was the physician, and administered but four table fpoon of the Medicine, whatever it was, which accomplished the object instanter. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, Uvriting under date of the 23th tilt., savs that George Garlin, Esq., late county treasurer, was arrested the previous evening and held to bail in the stun of thre 1 thousand dollars to answer at the next court for forci bly entering into th court-house of that place and mutiliting the records of he county treaurv for tho purpose of concealing the grossest corruption in office. Tl ere nre more of the officers concerned in this rascally outrage. Lor 1 3 Philiffe's Statf. Carriage. Dan Rice, the j in2 c: Jesters, has procured Ibis kingly conveyance, ! whu !' is now s,nrf"d ,n ,he "rnage depository in j Carondelct street, it having been presented to him, 1 wc understand, by the con nbution of his fr;ends. 1 T 1 : , 7 - 1 es 1 sensation next t-ummer mis nuni rrrnnanx 01 a .: . .1 1 . . r fallen monarch, or the great clown himself, who will traverse the country in this kingly style. X. O. r,. 1 ic. The Cincinnati Gazette relates the follirg in r , . , - . ,1 1. . 1 . . .... i-.i i, oiuilt wi tannic r 1 ! 111. 1 1 hi ill', luii. iir ill tint v. ' " J - i 1 .... , . , , fi- i nit- j ma uug, H incri looK noja 01 nun, nna pmiea nim vom I his bed. He PirnnT on and reü-m to ik at trie nimal j thinkintr him mad. when bin attention was arreted hv 1 a lightrrunnino- to the window he perceived the bonne I Wns on fire. He liastilv fled from his room and with Kmmsg to toE Vy.-X .lory h.. rejehed . r pme for riinT fondI WMIO 'l U rillLIIKII E-VI. Villip ' IUIIL iUl.D 1 ...i -i . , , , , i which was Jut upon and 1 ut in practice at a donation r c parly held not more than a thousand miles off. It ap pears that some of the kissable ladies present actu auv allowed their sweet lips to be tasted ot the rate 0f 'fifty cent, a Jiis.s1j;is nig considerfd a suitable prjCe for the privilege. If we aro not misinformed, onc rrcntleman of the partv took five dollars' Worth. Sandwich Observer. r)r. Schreiber, of Stockholm, has mic -eeiKI in cur. inff JmnkarJ f their bad habits. He folate the , patient. gives him brnndy and water to ilnnk, prepares j ftj hj8 f()()d wjlh brandy and water, and mixes thesa with bis tea and efiW. At the end of a few weeks. j the regimen produces an uncontrollable disgust and , repugnance. A physician ri.m,!,!. however. the operation fr tear of rpop'.exv nnd c conation. One homlm! nd thlr'tv.nine watch cerebral ; congestion, line hundred nnd th:riv-mne soldier j were eo treated with perfect success, A Small. S'jRrLUS. Thn wines for the inauguration j Bli.M Washington, owt ä 1.300 ; the supper 2,0tX) ; lha cards 0f invitation jSttOO, ai.d so on in Tike proip(,rlion fl,r everything else necessary to tho fete, The managers have unanimously resolved whatever surplus tnayremain.it ehall be equally dirided be1 - i tween the to orphan asylums and the ut-d-or noor of Washington Citv." The surplus will probably ue the crumbs from the table about ns much na usually j faljj to the share of the " widows and orphans." The late decision by tho Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of Norris vs. the city of - ; Ronton and of Smith vs. Turner, i eaid by tho Charleston Mercury, to have the eff ct to 'sweep away the Inspection Laws of South Carolina, enacted to - ' prevent the abduction of slaves in Northern vessels; ! ana aiso to -sweep a way an laws jot mc ame aiaiej made to prevent free colored person 'citizens of Massachusetts' from entering the ports and citiea of South Carolina. - i .1 c .1 m j 11 V"""" m ; lA ru .'" m f"1""1" ed bergnehl, full of fossil animilculites. It contains four per cent, of animal matter, for the sake of which the wretched inhabitant-, when hard pressed for food, collect this earth, and mixing it up with a portion of the bnrk of trees ground to powder, ue it a.s food. The town of Richmond, in Virginia, t entirely built on ft bed of siliceous niarl composed of thee creatures, and on the average about twenty feet ia thickness. A Steam Butcher. During a storm on the rail j road between Wilmington and Weiden, N. C, on lha night of the 2f3th ult., a locomotive ran over eleven cows lying near each other on the track, and killed ; tiern au instantlv. Eight were impaled on tbe cow catcher or were under or in front of it, while three had been thrown down the embankment. Thin it accu mulation of carcases was sufficient to stop the train, but it was not thrown off the track, and after tbe impediment was removed, it proceeded on. Phila. Xorth American. An Eloquent Figure. The Mecklenburg Jeffersonian says: 44 Like one of those wondrous rocking stones reared by the Druids, which the finger of a child might vibrate to its centre, yet the might of an army could not move from its place, our constitution is so nicely poised and balanced that it seems to sway with every breath of opinion, yet -u firmly rooted in the heart aud affections of tbe people, that the wildest storms of treason and fanaticism break over it ia vain." The steamboat Woodsman expired & flue near Bayou Sara, on the 2d inst. FifWn persons wero killed, and twenty or thirty scalded severely. There were a large number of passengers on deck, who but for the protection .f some freight which served as a bulwark, would have been scalded. The citizens of Rayou Sara afforded the sufferers all the assistance in their owcr.. The boat was bound for Red River, having on board a preat many emigrants from Alabama, with their etock and slaves. Cri. Eng.

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