Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1845 — Page 1

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Sir: I have just received your paper of the 22d inst, in which you take exception to an editorial in the New York Sun of the 4th inst., which editorial, alluding to a communication on our public debt published by me in that paper a day or two before, says, that I "strenuously and uniformly opposed the illdigested aud reckless system which has overwhelmed Indiana in so grievious a burden of debt, that I was considered the leader of the opposition" to that System; and, further, that I "was the author and introducer of the bill which finally arrested its progress. This, you say, is not true ; and, you add, " as it appeared in the same paper that published a communication from Mr. Owen on the State debt, it would not be unreasonable to infer, that it met his approbation." Though I am, in no sense, responsible for this editorial, the substance of which, from the wording, seems to have been gathered from some contemporary, yet your inference is so far just that I was in New York at the time, saw and read the article soon after it appeared ; and, had it been substantially inaccurate, it was my duty as an honest man, to publish a disclaimer, which I did not do. I am sorry this matter has come up, in this connexion. I purposely avoided, in my communication, all allusion to my own course, that unimportant personalities might not be introduced to embarrass a question so vital as this, touching the redemption of our State credit. But, since you have thought it worthwhile to assert, that I was a strenuous supporter, rather than opponent, of our Internal Improvement system ; and since, if this were true, I am placed in the situation of permitting, and my friends who may have copied the parapraph, of claiming, credit which belongs not to me at all, I trust I shall not be chargeable with egotism, if I offer a few words in reply. I say, then, that, in substance, the Sun paragraph is strictly true. As to being "the leader of the opposition," it is not for me to make any such assertion ; that is a matter of 'opinion ; but I have been so often taunted as such, in days when the anti-internal improvement men stood in a hopeless minority, that I suppose if I get a trifle of credit for it now, it is but a fair equivalent for a little of the abuse I encountered then. What was meant, dunng the three sessions that I served in the Legislature by the terms anti-internal improvement men," "anti-system men," and similar epithets ? If you are in the least familiar with the legislative history of that period, you know, that these and all similar terms meant, in the universal parlance of the day, "classifiers ;" that is, men who desired to classify the public works ; to take up one or two of these only at a time and drop all the rest, until we should see how these first succeeded. Afterwards, when it became evident, that classification, strictly so called, could not be carried, the term "modifier" was substituted; applying to those who sought to check the system ; to modify its plan of management ; to curtail the annual expenditure ;. to cut down the board of Internal Improvement ; and to arrest the operations on the more hopeless works. . This was finally effected by the so-called "Modification bill;" of which by and by. There was not to be found in the Legislature, at the time I obtained a seat there, one single individual, who proposed, or who thought it practicable, to repeal the entire system. By the "Mammoth Bill," passed, as you admit, before I was a member, the eystem was considered to be irrevocably fastened upon us. We all submitted to this necessity. "We thought only of restricting its growth and lessening its burdens. There were, then, but two parties in the Legislature ; 'System men" and 'classifiers." A member had to belong to one or other cf these two parties ; or supposing him to have proposed entire repeal, he would have stood "solitary and alone," a party all to himself. The classifiers were universally termed and held to be, by friends and foes, anti-system men ; opponents of internal improvement. ; They were, in our Legislature at least, its only opponent?. Had their plan succeeded, it would not, indeed, have destroyed the system ; it would not have averted all the evil that has fallen upon us ; it WoiiM not have wholly saved the State from the biirJen of debt ; but, in its practical effects, it would have arrested, probably, threefourths of the works ; it would have kept back, and thereby ultimately saved, three-fourths of the expenditure; that which it commenced it would have completed, so that revenue would have been, at this Oay, derived from it. In a word, it would, in - all human probability, by wholly changing the headlong course of policy which the inteinal improvement men had adopted, have preserved, untouched even by suspicion, the fair fame arfd credit of our State. One who, from first to last, perseveringly advo- " cated the policy of classification, may, then, in the very strictest sense of the expression, be called a 'strenuous and uniform opposr of the ill-digested and reckless -system, trbich has overwhelmed Indiana with so gnevou3 a burden of debt. And such I was. The very first classification resolution ever introduced i?to' oyr House of Representatives bears date the l&h of January 1337 ; that was during my first session. It was proposed by Joseph A. Wright, a member of the late Congress. I refer you to the vote upon it in our House Journal for 1B3Q 1, at page 'JJ. The vote stood G3 to Ü9. And, in that small minority of twenty -nine, you will find my vote recorded. At the next session the proposal to classify was re newed by a member from Wayne county. Allow me, in illustration of the stand taken by myself and other classifier?, to quote a few words iroin my remarks or? a motion to lay that proposal, on the table, as I cut them from a file of the Indiana Democrat, of December 1337. After expressing the opinion, that we could not now destroy the system, without ruin, or something like it, to Indiana ; and that the question was, how we should go on, whether with prudeut and cautions, or with rash and headlong step; I added : 'It is a weighty matter, surely, sir ; a matter worthy of all the care and thought and calculation we ran bestow upon it ; a matter in deciding which no local or sectional feelings should find a place or an influence. To me, sir, to every man among us, who, like myself, es pect to live and die in Indiana, and who hopes to see his children grow up citizens of the Slate to each and all of us who may be thus situated, it 13 a question involving our dearest interests, l4w we shall proceed with the Great System. Who, sir, can look on with indifference, and know, that questions are agitated, on the decision of which may depend, whether his children shall pay the government a tax almost equal to the income of the property they own, whether on their own farms they shall lire, as it were, but as renters or whether they shalf enjoy the prosperity in which we ourselves still rejoice Are we sure, that such a question is not involved in the mode cf conducting, for the futare, our system of Internal Improvement ; yes, in the discussion of the very proposal regarding ct-AssiriCATics, which, by this motion to lay on the table, it is now proposed unhesitatingly to thrust aside, as a subject too frivolous even to mrit inquiry." " At thh sfion, also, I introduced a bill which ch&Ttgcd thi chiractcr of the' Madison railroad botwetn Indiir.apolis and Lnfayette to a Macadamized road-, and provided fr a eingla instead of a doublo

BY O. A. & J. r. CIIAP3IAN.' track between .Madison and Indianapolis. This bill became a law. Thouih miking but a iliirht change. it is worthy of mention, as being the very first breach ever made on the integrity of the original system. In my remarks on the engrossment of this bill (tor which see the fibs of the Democrat for February, 1833) you will find the Following paragraphs : which dehne, distinctly enough, the position of the opponents of the ystem ; and exhbit al3o the taunts with which they were assailed : lIt is too late to talk about receding now. That was the question before you, sir, atid those who serv ed with you, in the session of G. You assumed the re? pen? ibility ; you decided that question : be your decision for good or evil, it is made, and cannot be recalled. W e have put our hands to the plough, and may not look back. We have spent, not thousands, not hundreds cf thousands we have spent millions already. The sj-stem is fastened upon us, in spite of ourselves. You remember, perhaps, the old story of Sinbad the sailor ; how, deceived by his humanity, he took a deformed eld wretch upon his back ; how the creature twined its legs around its victim, and when, the luckless sailor sought to cast it off, clutched him by the throat, till he was fain to desist; and how, at last, he freed himself , from this strange load by giving the pld fellow an extra cup of wine. Sir, Sinbad's case is ours ; with this difference, that we cannot rid ourselves of the burden by administer ing an intoxicating draught ; and, further, that if we do not let the old man get the upper hand of us, we may chance, after carrying him about a few rears, to make him a good, profitable servant at last. "Ihe day of nullification, then, is gone by ; but are the days of prudence and forethought past also ? Is there manliness is there common sense, iri saying, that we will shut our eyes on the prospect before us ! Are the breakers ahead so frightful, that wq will not even look upon them. Shall the vessel of State drift on, her helm deserted, her crew below in the cabin, listless, improvident; eating and drinking, even if to-morrow they die ! "And when some among us undertake the laborious task cf examining our present condition, of estimating our probable expenditure, of calculating our future resources, it is somewhat too much that those who, meanwhile, have sat with folded hands, and shrunk from the labor of such inquiries it is somewhat too much, I say, that they should now taunt us, as they have, with the epithets of "croakers, prophets of evil, birds of ill omen, overshadowing, with raven wing, the bright prospects of the future." (These were the expressions applied, by Lane of Montgomery, to me.) We have not, as we very justly might, accused thcra of indolence and indifference. We have but fulfilled a duty which they have neglected ; and they; of all others, should refrain from blaming us on that account." ... At the eloRi of tbti tan epsision a meeting of the classifiers, or modifiers, as they were then beginning to be termed, of both branches, was called ; and I was appointed chairman to prepare an address on the subject to the people of the State. I wrote the address. It was unanimously adopted, and signed by 48 members. You will find it in the Indiana Dtmocrat bf February 23, 1838. It reiterated the same opinions already given. At last, during the third and concluding session of my ccrvke in the State Legislature, the modification party, after a severe struggle, Obtained a majority ; and ultimately fuccceded in carrying the well known "Modification Bill ;" a bill re-organizing the entire system, re-modelling and reducing the board, restricting the annual expenditure, and providing for the transfer of lettings from unpromising works. This bill was drafted and introduced by me; and became a law with cry slight amendments on the original drafi. You will find the remarks on its engrossment by consulting the files of the Democrat for January 1939. I have these remarks now before me. They commence thus : ' It behooves ' any cne who proposes a change so radical and important as that incorporated in the bill which I -have introduced into the House, to ofier very good and sufficient reason for that change-" I then proceeded to review the condition and future pecuniary prospects of the SUte, showing the bt'rdens that awaited us, and the dangers in which we stood f and said, in conclusion : " Sir, I have done. If, unwittingly, I have colored too highly the picture of our present situation ; if I have erred in estimating the amount of our future burdens ; if I have too anxiously anticipated the difficulties that be befo. e us ; if I have confided too little in the growing resources of the State; at the least, no one will rejoice more than myself to be pointed to my error ; or to be taught by experience, that my fears were groundless and my warnings out of place." , , The bill in question was the first that ever "arrested the progress of the System ;" and tue editor of the Sun stated but that which the journals and debates of our. House record, when he said that I was its author and introducer. To rebut all this evidence, that, in the various plans to arrest and alter the "ill-digested and reckless system," which has brought Indiana to her present condition, I took an active part, what do you oppose 1 The fact, that, during my first sessional approved and voted for whnt was usually called the "calf bill;" a bill, that would have added two millions to the eystem ; and that I then expressed the opinion, that such an addition m?ght be made, without endangering the credit of the State. In the first place, I reply, that this accusation against me is an accusation jequally .against every classifier then in our Legislature ; every one of them having voted for the bill in question. If, for this vote, I am to be set down as a friend of our Internal Improvement System, there was not a member, in either branch, who was its opponenf. ' v.. Eut, in defence of the classifiers and in my own, I remind you, that, at that time, the friends of the system constantly asserted, and its opponents took it for granted, that it was to cost but ten millious of dollars. We supposed, that, in adding ttro, we were but making it tucthe. Air our calculations were founded upon that erroneous supposition. Upon it alone was based the opinion expressed by me ii advocating tie 44 calf bill "and quoted by you against me, that we need not anticipate serious difficulty. So soon as I discovered that we had been misled, and ascertained what the cost of the proposed works actually was, that opiu'on was immediately changed; and the opposite opinion again and again expressed. as those who served with me in the Legislature well know. And if you still put it forth as just cause of accusation against me, that 1 did not eaTiier probe this matter to the bottom, my reply is, that when, at the next session, I collected and l?id before the House official documents, then first brought togetner, showing that the probable ccst of the eystem would be double what had been first asserted, so new and startling were these truths to most of my colleagues in the Legislature, that hardly a member would believe I was not crossly exafirirerating, or1 had not wholly erred in my calculations ; and it was not until these were backed bv a pubseaucnt report cf the Chief Engineer, fhfft they thtained full credence. It mu.n be remembered also, that most of those who Voted for the " calf bill." I for one voted also, at the very same session, for classification ; tad had the works been classified and that bill passed, no evil, in

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practice, could have resulted from the addition. The added works would, doubtless, have been placed in a remote class ; the expediency of commencing which would have been a question for our descendants to determine. It was generally supposed, also, tliat the passage of the "calf bill" would compel classification: and that, in all probability, would, in effect, have been its consequence. If so, how .much tf good to the State mighjt have sprung from that bill ! Beyond all this, it must be admitted, we then employed the argument, the great injustice of a system of Internal Improvement was, the unequal advantages it bestowed on particular sections ; and that tliC State would better and more cheerfully bear a system costing twelve millions and satifying all sections, than a partial system costing ten. And I am free to confess that, with my present experience, I think that argument a faulty one. No system of Internal Improvement can satisfy a whole State ; and that is one chief reason why a State should not engage in any euch. But, in justice to myself and to thoee v ho voted ns I did, it is proper to say that we offered, at that very time, to give up all claims to any works for our own sections of country, if the Internal Improvement party would but cut down their system to one half its dimensions. And this brings me to speak of the extract from a speech of mine, as given by you, and purporting to be from the Indiana Journal of December 27, 1830. . - No such consecutive extract occurs in any speech of mine. To such extracts, even disjointed, can all have been copied from the Indiana Journal of Dec. 'SI. Tot they are not only cut off, so as to garble arid destroy the sense, but are actually from two diiTerciit speeches ; both of which, I know, never appeared in any paper. The txo first paragraphs veur near the beginning of che speech ; the six next lines near the end of that speech ; the eight lines following are from another speech altogether, and the two concluding paragraphs are still from a diflerent part of that other ppeech. And yet, these arc all strung together you without asterisk or any other indication that they are not an extract cut fairly from a single speech. But this is the least part of the injustice. The eight lines of which I Lave said that they occur , in, a second speech, are to be found in that speech; imme-r diately following that oficr to give, up our claims to which I have above referred, and indeed are actually dependent for their sense on their intimate connection with that proposal ; yet the proposal itself you have wholly omitted. It reads as follows : ' Does the voice of the people that voice which has been called the voice of God does that voice indeed call out to us, throughout the land, "Go back!" If this be true, if this warning voice does indeed so call to us, let us obey it. Let us go back. Let us repent in sackcloth and ashes. If we do not altogether give up our ten millions scheme, let us, at least, prune it, cut it down, lop off the. Central Canal at White rivr, the Wabash and Krie Canal at Tippecanoe,"and so on. Arc you prepared to make these curtailments to eut doicn the flan, say lo fitz millions 7 If you are, I, for one, will rest satisfied icilhout an additional dollar ; satisfied, at least, to have taken from the shoulders of. mv constituents, one half the burden they are now called upon, unbenefitted, to bear." And then I went on to say, as you have quoted, that X did not believe the voice of the people was for going back, but that their feeling was : " Since you have I began, go et and prosper." This was, unfortunately, j büt too true. The people had become infected with the infatuation cf the day. The popular vote elected Wallace, the system candidate, ever Dumont, the advocate of classification. The facts and figures, to which others of the opposition party as well as myself, invited their attention, were disbelieved or disregarded ; our warnings availed nothing. Clearer views came too late ; and before we succeeded in locking the stable, the best horses were ttolen therefrom. I pray you here to observe, that I am laying no claim to especial merit for my opposition to this system, however confident I am, that classification reform would have savtd from reproach and temporary insolvency our State. I resided in a county not immediately benefitted by thatsycteni, and tbefefore, to some extent, out of the blinding atmosphere. If any merit I have, it is, that I may have examined with more etrictccss and industry, perhaps, than some of my colleagues, the statistical details trhih disclosed our actual condition ; and may thus have been enabled to predict, in what then seemed the tone of an extrava gant alarmist, but is now acknowledged to bo the voice of sober reality, the embarrassments that have since overtaken our State. I beg you also to remark, that, in the communica tion to which the Sun's paragraph alluded, I scrupulously abstained, net oply from making personal, but even party capital ; and this I did, lest, in that case, the suggestions therein contained might by some be viewed through a distorted medium. . Yet you cannot be ignorant, that there was material in abundance at iny command, for such purpose. You must know well, that, during the entire period through winch the Internal, Improvement raa,nia prevailed, our State Government, through all its department,' tfas Whig; that three-fourths, at the very least, cf all the leading supporters of the system, the whole system and nothing but the system " were Whigs ; that every merr.ber but two, of the Board of Internal Improvement, were Whigs ; and that every member, without a single exception, cf the Board cf Fund Commissioners (through whose extreme imprudence the State lost three millions cf dollars) were Whigs. You cannot imagine, that I bad either forgotten or overlooked such facts as these. Aud your political experience must convince you, that one half that evidence is sufficient, at any time, to fasten on a dominant party the responsibility of a particular policy, no matter whether, in all votes on the details of that policy the party lines have been drawn with uniform strictness orAco?. . . . . But it wa; not as a party tf.an, it was as a citizen of Indiana, that I desired to speak of her debt and her conduct, and the means of restoring her credit. It seems to me of far less importance to decide, who brought her Jntnher difficulties, than to determine, how she shall get out of them. " . ? That party and those men who shall cheerfully bestir themselves to bring about her honorable extrication, under some plan- that shall not badly burden her citizens, will merit and receive the confidence and gratitude of the State. And if any suggestions of mine, now or iicrcatter, may cnar.ee to comriDute, how remotely soever, towards an object so vitally important, it will be to me a subject of lasting grati fication. 1 am, ixr, . - Your fellow citizen. ROBERT DALE OWEN. Mcrdek. On the evening of the 23cl of April, at St, Louis, a most diabolical act was perpetrated, by a man cam I'd Martin Walters, upon the person of Mrs. Riley, a wife of a pedlar and neighbor to Walters, whereby an unoffending female was deprived almost instantly of life. It seems that Walters was intoxicated, and for some slight cause sought a rar rel with the deceased. From words he soon proceeded to blows, and wound up by burling his victims from a balcony to the pavement betow by which fall her neck was broken and her body shockingly mangled. What makes the matter worse is, that the poor woman was in a delicate Etate of health!.' Walters was arrested.

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Mrs. Candle's Curtain Lectures. tECTCKE VI. ' On Mr'. CluJle's Shirt Bullms. There, Jlr. Caudle, I hope you're in a little better temper than you were this morning 1 There you needn't begin to whistle : people don't come to bed to whistle, h'ut it's like you. I cant speak that you don't try to insult me. Once, I ed to say, you were the be.-t creature living : now, you get quite a. fiend. Do lot you rest 1 No, I won't let you rest ! It's the only time I have to talk to vou, and you shall hear me. I'm put upon all day iong : it's very hard if I can't speak a word at night ; and it isn't often I open my mouth, goodness knows ! 'Because once in your lifetime your shirt wanted a button, you must almost swear the roof off the house ! You didn't swear 1 Ha, Mr. Caudle, you don't know what you do when you're in a passion. You were not in a passion, wern't you ! Well, then, I don't know what a pasidbn. is--and I think I ought by this time. I've lived long enough with you, Mr. Caudle, to know that. "It's a pity you havn't something worse to com plain of than a button off your shirt. If you'd so;ne wives, you would, I know..,. I'm sure I'm never without a needle-and-thread in ny hand, , What with you and the children, I'm made a perfect slave bf. And what's my thanks 1. Why, if once in your life a button's off your shirt what do you cry 'oÄ' at 1 I say once, Mr. Caudle ; or twice, or three times, at most. I'm sure, Caudle, no man's buttons in the world are better looked after than your's. I ordy wish I'd kept the shirts you had when you were first married" ! I should like to know where were your buttons then ? "Yes, it is worth talking of! But that's how you always try to put me down. You fly into a rage, and then if I only try to speak you won't hear me. That's how you men always will have all the talk to yourselves ; a poor woman isn't allowed to get a xvord in. "A nice notion you havb of a wife, to suppose she's nothing to think of but her husband's buttons. A pretty notion, indeed, you have of marriage. Ha ! if poor women only knew what they had to go through ! What with buttons, and one thing and another ! They'd never tj.e themselves up to the best man in the world, I'm sure. What would they dc'J Mr. Caudle ! Why, do much better without you, I'm certain. "And it's my belief, after all, that the button wasn't off the shirt : it's my belief that you pulled it off, that you might have something to talk about. Oh, you're aggravating enough, when you like, for anything ! AH I know is, it's very odd that the button should be off the shirt ; for I'm sure no woman's a greater slave to her husband's buttons than I am. 1 only say, it's verv odd. ... . ; "However, there's one comfort ; it can't last long. I'm worn to death with your temper, and shan't trouble you a great while. IIa, you may laugh ! And I dare say you will laugh I I've no doubt of it ! That? your love that's your feeling ! I know that I'm sinking every day, though I say nothing about it. And when I'm gone, we shall see how your second wife will look afier you buttons! You'll find out the difference, then. Yes, Caudle, you'll think of me, then: for then, I hope, you'll never have a blessed button to your back. "No, I'm not a vindictive woman, Mr. Caudle ; nobody ever called me that, but you. What do you say 1 Nobody ever knew so much of me t That's nothing at all to do with it. Ha ! I wouldn't have your aggravating temper, Caudle, for nines of gold. It's a good thing I'm not as worrying as you are or a nice house there'd be between us. I only wish you'd had a wife that would have talked to you ! then you'd have known the difference. Dut you impose upon me, because, like a poor fool; I say nothing. 1 should be ashamed of myself, Caudle. "Arid a ptetty example you set as ä father ! You'll make your boys as bad as yourself. Talking as you did all breakfast-time about your buttons! And of a Sunday morning too ! And you call, yourself a christian ! I should like to know what your boys will say of you when they grow up ? And all about a paltry button off ope of your wristbands : a decent man Wouldn't have mentioned it Why won't I hold my tongue ! Because I won't hold my tongue. I'm to have my peace of mid destroyed I'm to be worried into my grave for a miserable shirt-button, and I'm to hold my tongue ! Oh ! but that's just like you men ! "But I know what I'll do for the future. Every button you have may drop off, and I won't so much as put a thread to em. And I should like to know what you'll do then! Oh, you raiist get soimbody else to sew 'cm, must you ! That a pretty threat for a husband to hold out to a wife ! And to such a wife as I've been, too ; such a negro-slave to your buttons, as I may say ! Somebody else to sew 'cm, ch ! No, Caudle, no ; not wllc I'm alive ! When I'm dead and with what I have to bear there's no knowing ho-r soon that may be when I'm dead, I say oh ! what a brute you must be to snore so ! "You're not snoring ! Ha ! that's what you always say; but that's nothing to do with it. You must get Bomhbody e!se td sew 'cm, must you 1 Ha ! I should n't wonder. Uh no ! I should be surprised at nothing now ! Nothing at all. It's what people have always told me it would come to and now the buttons have opened my eyes ! But the whole world world shall know of your cruelty, Mr. Caudle. After the wife Iv'e been to you. Somebody else, indeed, to sew your buttons ! I'm no longer to be mistress in my house ! UaCaudle! I wouldn't have upon my conscience what yoif have, for the world ! I wouldn.t treat anybody as vou ticat no, I'm not mad ! It's you, Mr. Caudle, who are mad, or bad and that's worse ! I can't even so much as speak of a 6hirt-button, but that I'm threatct ?d to be made nobody of in my own house! Caudle, you've a heart like a hearh "stone, you have t To threaten me, and only because a button a button" "I was conscious of no more than this," says Caudle, in his MS., 'for here nature relieved me with a 6weet, deep sleep." Tenacity of life in a Cat. Ori the closing cf navigation of the Canal late last fall, a number of trame sackinir-boltoms belonging to a canal(boaVwe?9 stored in the storeheuse of S. 'ft Kendrick, in (ho rear of our office. On the opening of navigation about a w eek since, when the articles were about to be removed, a cat was -ffi'hovred confined among them, alive, although emaciated to a akt-feton,: tSer4 being scarcely anything left of her more than the skin and bones. When or how she came there is not known. The sackings-being stowed snugly with their frames rnmnnrt lf0 h'it a small snace between each canvass; but between two of them she was found. She had endeavored to tear her way out from her prison without success, though she hed made an opening through 1 rf tht Imttom. When first discovered she was scarce able to stand or walk. For upwards of finir mnnth dia must have existed without food or nourishment of any kind, other than the shred of canvass whicli she had torn in ner enons to escape, or ta sustain life. A more remarkable length of abctirna from frwl nnd .tili holding on of life, we 01111VUVV w i. wu m O t have never heard of by this part of the animal kingdom. It is said a cat has nine lives ! If this is so, in tUia .son rmr rm must llVVe Put to the test her Ali VJV.) " ' ' " 1 full quota, in surviving such a length of time, and .' . .. , .i ! j .u -C bahunor in tne ena me lingering ueaui vi siwvauuu. Perl Byron Ilcrald, Tuesday.

Volume IVs:::::Xumber 43. From the London Punch. John Polk was put to the bar charged with robbing the Mexican minister of a favorite dog, named Texas, the circumstances of the case Pon Bernardo Murphy stated to be these : some months since, John Polk, said his Excellency the dog, (a very large animal, spotted black and white, that üed to run under his carriage,) subsequently a fellow named Houston, a countryman of Poik's,.who had been in bis Excellency's service, absconded with t.'ie dog, and he had hat day seen it at Greenwich Fair, whither he had gone in company with Chevalier Eunscn. The animal was tied to a van, belonging to the prisoner, and from which he was arguing and psalm-singing to the company at the fair. Policeman, X 21, said Please your wepship, there has been more picking of pockets round that 'ere psalra-singinr man, than in any part of the fair. Mr. Aberdeen -Silence, Policeman. What has that to do with the complaint ! The Mexicm Minister continued, in a very agitated manner, "I instantly recognized my dog, and gave the scoundrel yonder in charge of a policeman." "Scoundrel!" the prisoner cried, (a very sanctimonious looking fellö'T, who held the dog in his arms) "Am I in a Christian land, to hear myself called by such names ! An we men ! Are we brethren ! Have we blessings and privileges, or have we not ! I come from a country,- the not en lightened,! the most religious, the most freest, honestcst, punctualist, on this airth, I do." Mr. Aberdeen, (with a profound bow,) You are an American, I suppose ! , :. . . Polk I thank a gracious massy I am ! I can appeal to every thing that is holy, and, laying my band upon my heart, declare I an an honest man. I scorn the accusation that I stole the complainant's dog. The dog is my dog mino by the laws of heaven, airth, right, nature, and possession. Don Bernardo Murphj, very much agitated,' here cried out How yours ! I can Bwear to the animal. I bought hira of you. - ' , Polk You did. It's as true as I'm a free born man. Don Bernardo A man who was an old servant of yours comes into my services and 6teals the dog. Polk A blesseder truth you never told. , .r Don Bernardo And I fiad the animal now again In your possession. Polk (cudding the dog) Yes, my old dog yes, my old Texas, it like to come back to its old master, it did! Don .Bernardo (in a fury) I ask your worship, isn't this too monstrous 1 Mr.. Aberdeen Your Excellency will permit me to observe ihat we have not yet heard Mr...Polk'8 defence. " In a Biitish court, justice mvst be ehown, and no favor. .. , : . Polk I scorn a defence. Th& dog rptur'ned to me by a lor bf ratür its wicked to fly against a lor of natur. If I sold the dog, ; and by the irresistible attraction of cohesion j and the eternal order of things, he comes back to . me I .to blame ! It's monstrous, heinous, reglar blasphemy to say so. Mr. Aberdeen appeared deeply struck by the latter observation. j, : Polk (continued) I didn't eteal the animal. Steal ! a man of my character to be called a thief! I annexed him that's all. Besides, what jurisdiction bas this here courtl what authority has any court , on airth in a question pure American ! My bargain with Don Bernardo Murphy took place out of this country the dog came back to me thousands of miles away herefrom. Mr. Aberdeen In that case I really must dismiss the complaint. Allow me to state my opinion Mr. Polk, that the dog is yours ; I have no business to inquire into questions of annexation as you call it, or of robbery as his Excellency here (very rudely, I must think) entitles your bargains. I entreat rather that gentlemen so respectable should live together in harmony ; , and and I wish you both a very good morning. Mr. Polk then left the office whistling to his dog, and making 6igns of contempt at Don J3ernardo Murphy, who slunk away in a cab. Jle had not been gone an hour when Policeman X 21, came into the office and 6aid "Flease your worship, the Yankee annexed your Worhip's walking stick in the passage." Mr. Aberdeen (sternly) Mind your own business, fellow, Mr. Polk as perfectly welcome to the 6tick. Presently another member of the force, O'Regan by came, entered and swore the incorrigible Tclk had stolen his beaver hat. Mr. Aberdeen (good humordly) Well, well, I dare say the hat wasn't worth twopence halfpenny; and it's better to lose it than to tquabble about it at law. ' j . O'Regan left the Court grumbling, and said it wasn't no in Temple's time. , The Troglodytes. The Taris Globe states that during the course of lectures on Natural History, delivered by M. Geoffroy de St. Hilaire at the Jardin des riantes, Paris, the lecturer presented tp his audi-, tors several individuals, (not living) cf tin Phitcsian race, known by the name of Troglodytes. If we consider the organization of these beings, their form, their facial angle, the disposition of tiieir eyes', we cannot but be struck by their resemblance with the human face. The Troglodytes, as tiieir name indicates, in fact, live in caverns in the forests of Kigr tia, or in huts covered with leaves. The negroes call them 44 men of the woods." They are classed by sci entific men amongst the monkey tribe. To see them it might be doubted w hether they are not negroes reduced to the state of brutes, or whether negroes are not themselves Troglodytes of a superior race. ( "Poor, but Honest.' The newspapers and other equally great authorities, make use of this phrase in biographical notices, "he was borü öf jwör'b-n honest parents !" Toor, but honest; that is to infer that the parents ought to have been dishonest because they were poor; but that in the particular case tbey were imnoct cnlta nf tlie! .AntortV. Thi commcn chrase 'i'1-- - j j is an insult to the condition cf ninety-nine men put of a hundred, and an indignity to human nature, I here might be, considering the manner in which many fortunes are acquired, some little shade of meaning in saying of the heir of fortune, "he w.as horn of rich but kist parents r" but the "poor but honest" phrase. is atrocious. Let it be reformed altogether. Pk ü. Ledger. Old Horses. The Spir.il of jhe Timesy says, that there is a very spirited and handsome roadster in this city that is forty-three years old ; that Mr. Wincoop of Catskill, has three, horses with which be does the work upon his farm, whose respective ages are thirtysix, thirty-eight and forty, making in the aggregate one hundred and fourteen years ; and that our best trotters have performed their greatest achievements after their attaining the age of fourteen. . Aromatic Beer. Take 20 drops of the oil ofj spruce, 20 do. wiutergreen, 20 do sassafras. . Pour 2 quarts of boiling water upon the oils, then; add 8 qts. of cold water, li pints of yeast. Let it stand two hours, and then bottle. The world is governed' tcb much."

DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES mid Measures. A simple and frugal Government, confined within strict Constitutional limits. . A strict construction of the Constitution, and no assumption cf doubtful powers. No National Bank to swindle the laborin population. No connection between the government and banks. A Diplomacy, asking for nothing but what is clearly right and submitting to nothing wrong. pubLc debt, either by the General Government, sity CXCept fjr ohiect3 of WS1 neccNo assumption by the fipnpral n . .u-

debts of the States, cither directly or indirectly, by a . mspuvwTOw me puDuc lands. A Revenue tariff, discriminating in fat rf iv poor consumer instead of the rich capitalist. o extensive system ot Internal Improvement by the General Government, or by the States. ' A constitutional barrier against improvident State loans. . The, honest payment of our debts and the wrrod preservation of the public faith. a graauai return from a paper credit system. No grants of exclusive charters and rtriviWo. h special legislation, to banks. . . so connexion between Church and State. No proscription for honest opinions. Fostering aid to public education. A "progressive" reformation of all abuses. Plating Po(i,)ker. A rrry amusing sketch of a great game of rc(l)ker, which in now being played by several distinguished personages, the stakes being enormous, is given in the New 'York Mirror. The Mirror says : The players are John Bull and Jonathan. ..A mutual friend of the parties, one Mr. John Crapp?aii was invited to be precnt and witness the garfte. The first hand, Jonathan raked down the tin. The deal was with Bull. Jonathan got afss)ce3- and tens. Bull Queen and knaves. The brogs were enormous. The gme was proceeding with perfect coolness and harmony. 3Ir. Crappeau requested Bull to step with him. for a moment to the lower oniof the room, where the follovviqsr colloquy cusued. Crappeau." Tht fellow is stealing the stakes. SirÄ" . - UuU. Looking half grave, half drolL Mr. Crappeau, are you serious !" Crappeau. "Serious!",. I saw him ! saw him with my own eyes ! He took a Mexican doubloon when you stepped to tie up "your budget.' " Bull." You saw him ! Crappeau. ' Distinctly." Bull." So did I." Crajpeau. "And Monsieur was not in a passion!'.' BuU.- Looking fierce, Crappeatl ! between ourselves no gammon if you please." Crappaau. 44 Gammon !" Bull " Yes, sir, gammon. . You and I are not chickens, Crappeau. The world knows iW, I reckon. We, too, I think, have begged a triSe before now ia the way yoy call stealing.' ." Crappeau. " Monsieur is facetious.!' Bull. Savage, Crappeau, who assented tö that triangular game upon Toland ! Who has placed & belt round the Globe.! Who was it that ' , . Crapyeau. Interrupting. - .' A belt, monsieur ! Ball. 44 Yes, sir ! A belt of colnnies-a chain cf dependent Empires on which the sun never sets!" looking grand. Cr eppea u. " Ah : 4I see!, Monsieur' is rich. Monsieur can afford. 10 lose the gold. Monsieur is one grand amiable temper." Bull. 44 1 thank my honesty and my religious education! I am rich. The gold is nothing. The point, Mr. Crappeau, is caste. If we lose that, we lose all, Crappeau." Crappeau. Monsieur," bowing! Bull." You will do me a favor !" Crappeau, 44 1 shall be too happy,' bowing. : . BuU.r" That fellow, looking towards Jonathnn is a greenhorn." Crappeau. Bowing and smiling. . - : Bull. lle has thrown the gauntlet at me ! to me .' Yes, sir, he has challenged me ton game about which he knows nothing, and about which I . know everything. Mr. Crappeau will oblige me by keeping the tallies. IH your queer phrase, Monsieur,, he has stolen a doubloon. Good he will take another and another- good." - . Crappeau. 44 Monsieur will leave the" Bull, a little impatient, Mr. Crapivcau ! you will be pleased to note each piece taken, And now, sir, slapping him on the shoulder, I will bet you the rofek of Gibraltar against a pair of gloves, .that for every single dpubloon that fellow 'steals, I will steal Crappeau. and amiable "- "Monsieur is one exceedingly droll -they adjourn to the table. Female Costume in Lima. "The eye will be arrested by the many females stepping along with measured and majestic tread, habited inü.e celebrated saya-y-manto. Although its description has engaged many pens, to prevent the trouble of reference, I will attempt to give an idea of it. v The saya is an elastic silk petticoat, stitched in very narrow plaits upon a foundation of calico : this petticoat is. generally of black, but sometimes of blue or brown, silk ; it embraces the waist closelyj and falls loosely to the feet ; the manto is a black hood, which passing from beneath the band of the petticoat, is drawn up over the shoulders and head, cover iug all the upper part of the person, except the eye; pne hand is engaged beneath the manto, holding it across the facei w hile the other, particularly if it is handsome, or has a rich jewel oa it, may be allowed to steal through a narrow opening in the manto, and through this same opening falls the fringed or embroidered ends of a rich and bright-colored silken shawl. The 6aya nevenfalls so low as to conceal the satin shoe and sJk ttockiugs which every Limenian female wear3, or more than poor she must be who does not. Attracted by an ankle neatly covered with a new-looking glossy silk stocking, the Observer will be somewhat surprised upon raising his ?ye to the figure above, to see a negro or Indian market girl, or else a person in a shabby and tattered saya-y-manto. Habited in this costume, the, lady is thoroughly disguised from all father, husband, or brother and the feeling of immunity from discovery gives a daring boldness td thejne eye fixed in searching brilliancy upon the passvr-by, and leaves him in most annoying perplexity whether it is the familiar recognition of some acquaintance, or the impudence of an impenetrable disguise. The first feeling is that every eye, looking thus familiarly, rn'ist belong to 6ome one well known to us. The saya-y-manto, when first seen, makes the impression of an attractive and picturesque costume, but pue. soon wearies of its universal sameness, nnd sighs for the variety aud display of taste permitted in our female dress, to say nothing of the honest exposure of bright and beautiful faces. : " I had this forcibly illustrated one evening in walking upon one of, the fashionable Almeda or public walks.- I had passed Tapada after 'Tapada, as these mysteriously disguised ladies are called, stepping majestically along, when just before me I saw a lady in European costume, wearing a rich maroon velvet bonnet, and with her were two handsome and elegantly dressed, merry little girls, whom she regarded with the proud joy of a fond mother. I then saw and felt the contrast between the European and Limenian female costume; the effect upon morality of the latter is self-evident. . . - - A Wife. Our friond Weld, of the Philadelphia. Saturday Evening Post, in the course of a touching written article in relation to the death of Mrs. Wilms,says she was the companion of Jier husband's literary labors' cs. well .as of his domestic liyyi. "When application rendered his eyes dim, hand weary, she was his amanuensis, writing down the beautiful and delicate images, many of which she had indirectly, if not directly suggested. When absent the was bis regular daily correspondent. Losing her is 1 t . it.. . ä..lj Ines At.more than nan ms nie mure uu uuuui ucately sensitive Ihari hiacan imagine.. May a kind Frovidence alleviate him under the present loss, by the hope of a futuremtrtting. An Ancient CoCplO A gentleman named Ford and his wife, are now living, jn Woodford countv, Ky. .. k v,.,.. i;wt tntrptbr CI years. Mr. Ford was " " " " ' ----- - . . , , T- J nlrt when mamea. ana iira. r t-,, 17 M. Thev were both well nd hearty. . " . . Cost or Flogcins a Circtman. lhe trial or Ferdinand Kcnnett, Esq., for an wu t upon the Rev. John .. imn, 01 uw,iu.uu ..','7 1 Church, was conciuaea at ou tuu n Tlie jury brought in a verdict of 23 dama ges.