Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1845 — Page 2

ffttftumct State Sentinel. WCERLY CD1TIQ.. trriflAL TlSfXAKCB I THE PRICK P UIUTT. IXI)IAXAPOI.lS, JULY 17, 1S45.

. For Congress, Fifth' District, WILLIAM W. VICK. Isaac Smith Is our authorized agent to abtaih subscribers and receipt for payments for the same, until further notice. JIy Merles f Indiaiiapolis' In relation to this subject, we have received the following : IxEiANArous, July, 14, 1313. Friends Chapman Your article in the Stale Sentinel, relative to the doings in the ''State House cellar, seems to be offensive to some of our citizens, and as they say, O 44cast imputations of negligence on the Magistracy and other conservators of the Peace in our city." For myself, I disclaim all knowledge that said cellar was accessible to any one, except to the proper State officer, for any purpose, until on the examination of some larcenies on Monday morning last, I discovered that some stolen goods were secreted there. Since that time I have diligently examined the reports in circulation relative to these vaults, and find, whatever else may be true in relation thereto, that certainly no accouchement, infanticide, or inhumation, has ever taken place there. A small article to the above effect may be due from you to the public, in which it would rot be amiss to say that the cellar, in future, will be secured against all evil doers, and that the officer in charge had no knowledge of euch diversion from its legitimate purpose. Yours, truly, WM. SULLIVAN, J. P. It is true, as here stated, that our remarks "relative tö the doings in the State House cellar," are offensive to some of our citizens, and the more shame for them. We made no special imputations against any one, however, except those engaged in the "orgies ;" on the contrary we spoke of the disclosures as having just been made, and imputed delinquency ol duty to no one. We said expressly, that "ire spoke of these things to promote further intesliga ft'on." Ner have we a single sentence of what we then said, to tale back nöt one. We intended to provoke investigation, and we arc glad that we have to a certain extent succeeded in so doing. There has been by far too much of a disposition in this community, as in all others, to attack and make a great deal of noise about practices of known unpopularity, while others, much worse, have been winked at, or silently passed over, because men of "respectability" were more or less involved in them. For instance : it will do very well to attack men who occasionally go into the front door of a Coffee-house, for a glass of ice water, dashed with a few drops of pure brandy as an antidote to too much internal cold but if a word should be said about the establishment of Mrs. T -ir, or any other of a kindred nature, derogatory of its fair fame, why a hornet's nest is raised about your ears at once ; and that too by the very men who roll up the whites of their eyes in holy horror at the bare mention of an ice-cream, as well as iced brandy and water or a mint julep. It is time that such humbug should receive a check, and that real iniquity should be exposed. And so far as we are concerned, though we shall not take much pains to pry into the secrets of these mysteries, whenever, by the imprudence of their votaries, they become proper subjects of comment, we shall speak with freedom and without respect to persons or station. We can pardon, on the score of ignorance, improvidence, or natural brutality, as much as any body, so that the course by which it dev elopes its propensities, is not accompanied by the sneaking vice of hypocrisy. We despise that above all other vices, and shall always give it a thrust when we have a good chance td send the shaft home. We shall do this even if all the relations of those involved, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, or cousins, should find fault, or cap the climax of dissat isfaction, by "stopping the paper." Some how or other, we like to give hearty digs to "rogues in ruffles," and "sinners in lawn." As the proverb says : it is not the cowl that makes the friar : though the world too often thinks so, and ought to be unde ceived. What ail idea it is by the wa, that, in exposing past iniquity, fur the purpose of preventing its recur rence, we are to be held as casting imputations of negligence against the conservators of peace ana vir tue! One would suppose, that the very fact of the existence and practice of such iniquity, would be the strongest imputation which could be made. Accord jZ to the moral code of a certain class, however, it is much worse to speak against such iniquity tlian to practise it. We think differently, and speak accord ingly ; and we sincerely believe, that in making the subject one of public discussion", we shall do full as much in checking the evil as those who dare not, for any reason, speak above a whispef. We believe fur ther, that this is the only way in which this evil can be checked. The law cannot reach it, but a correct public opinion can and MUST. So much for preface. Now to the fact stated by our friend Sullivax. We arc glad to learn from him, as we had previously been informed by Mr. Dil 1.6N, the State Librarian, that a thorough investiga tiori has satisfactorily shown to them that the rumors in relation" tr thy State House vaults had been exag geratcd. The truth ii surely bad enough without any such embellishments ; but in their absence, perhaps, the truth itself might never have been known ; eo that we may safely conclude that sctne good has grown out of a little evil. We also take occasion to say, tliat we learn from Mr. Dillon, that he some time ago ordered doors to be made to these vauHs, so that they can be closed By the way, a few days since, lor the first time, we explored these vaults under the escort of the Libra rian. Had we not seen, we never could have bcliev ed in the dismal, dark, and dreary character of those catacombs. They are far more revolting than the most cloomy prison we ever saw. Yet the most revolting of all ; the arches under the north portico. where neither a ray of light, nor a breath of pure air can enter ; where the dampness condenses all around in big drops, and the moat repulsive vermin alone can thrive ; was the den in which human beings volunta ril incarcerated themselves, so that they could pur sue their avocations unmolested. Truly they "loved darknea- rather than light." What a strange haüu Cination of mind must that be, which could induce men and women! thu to inhabit a place Voluntarily in which, had they been forcibly imprisoned, would have been considered an inhuman cruelty far exceed -Dg H the real or fictitious barbaritie of the Spanish Inquisition. flendrick Counlr. W learn that Jacob C. Facght, Lq., is the dein ocratic candidate to represent; the people of Hendrick oünty ia the next Legislature. We hope they will elect him ; for they hare had brt a small show for good sense, taking their members for the' last few years as specimens. Send now a man who can rep resent thenr, and they will stand some chance of pass ing as a cinnmbn sense ebdnly.' The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal" Churc are to hold a meeting in Boston, the Chronicle" of that city sty , to take into consideration the case of Eish op Soule, many members of the Church believing he is disqualified to act longer as a Bidhop on account of hi relation to the southern scccders.

Look Out. It would be a new thing under the sun, were it now to happen that the evidence of a candidate for office should be taken against his competitor. ' Apart from the most discreditable indelicacy of a candidate volunteering his evidence against his competitor, it ought to be remembered that h. is an incompetent witness on the score of interest. From letters received in this town by Judge Wick's friends it would seem that Mr. Foley is practising

most dishonorably in giving currency to false reports against Judge W. at times and under circumstances forbidding the probability of a denial by Judge W. in person. Whether Mr. Foley knows them to be false, we cannot Bay. One thing is certain. He must speak at hazard, for the matters charged are not true, so far as- we have heard them. Judge Wick after the present week will be at home attending Court here, and it will be impossible for him to leave his engagements here to attend to answering charges in person. During the past week one of these rumors (to wit: that Judjre W. had at one time been opposed to the annexation of Texas) reached this place, from Madison county, and the means of contradicting the same were promptly sent to the right place. Should Mr. Foley succeed in producing false impressions in any other quarter adverse to Judge W. we hope our friends will apprise us by letter addressed to Gen. J. T. Drake, or ourselves, and the matter will be attended to. Let the matter charged be plainly stated. Surely it cannot be possible that any Democrat will admit the testimony of a witness so deeply interested as is Mr. Foley against the nominee of the Democratic party a resident i-f this part of the country for near twenty-five years. Whoever heard of a party claiming the-- right to give evidence in his own case 1 Judjre Wick's friends will do well to look a little after these matters. The meanness of a candidate assuming the task of blackening the character of his competitor may not occur to every one. Mr. Foley should remember lhat whenever he assumes to state any sentiment or opinion uttered by Judge Wi at a distant time or place, he is guilty of falsehood if he suppresses any important qualifying expression or disclaimer used at the time of uttering such sentiment, or opinion. Thus should Judge W. say that he loved even the murderer, because his Maker had commanded him to love all men ; it would be falsehood in Mr. F. to report that Judge W. had said that he loved the murderer. We do not state positively that Mr. F. is in the habit of misrepresenting udf e W., but so it is represented from various credi ble quarters. Wc repeat our reprehension of candi date- speaking freely of each other. It is a delicate nd dangerous mode of operating. And we regret at any necessity for noticing this matter should be found to exist. JlDncy-rirgliuir. We had thought that one Doctor Thompson desi rous of being a Congressman so that his extraordinary practice wight not operate on himself as it does on is unfortunate patients, had really f put his nose ui to abolitionism. But the New Yorkers have cone step ahead of the Doctor. He must come up to the scratch, and offer to marry two colored ladies, or his honey Juggling will neither catch blacks or whites Doctor read the following from Grecly's Tribune. Matrimont. -A white erenlleman wishes to marry a iblored lady of education, of religious principles, and wno is wining io reside in a country wnere me acci dent of complexion will not debar her from the wor ship of God in any church or cathedral with the fair est of her sex, and where character, not color, is the passport io society. The advertiser is unacquainted with the colored ladies of this city i be therefore re quests that any lady answering this advertisement will be cand.d and explicit in stating age, pecuniary circumstances, ccc: The greatest honor may be relied on. Address Q. Z. Any white lady who detests slavery and is free from prejudice against color, who may pleäse to answer, will be attended to." The above is certainly in pur estimation, the gross est insült to white women that was ever publicly uttered. Its insolent audacity is wonderful. The "white gentleman" will attend to any white applicant of the requisite qualifications, if he can't find a colored lady " degraded enough to favor his advances ! Yet thi infamous insult to the whole community of white women ia published in one of the most influential Whig papers in the nation, undoubtedly with the ed itor's full approbation, If he is not indeed himself the advertiser. Whether this last conjecture be the fact or not, the advertiser and editor should be flogged un til not a sqtiare inch of hide remained upc'ii their inamous carcasses. Every subscriber to the Tribune vvlib docs not at once discontinue it, should also be ield to be criminally participant with Greeley, and be scouted fro'm decent society. ' The Ca it it I. Some of the State officers ass'tre us that they feel no alarm about the suit threatened by certain water renters on the. canal. They say that all available means have been constantly applied to the advantage of the canal, quite as much ai tha income from it mounts' to, and that, before complaining, it would look quite as well if the renters would pay up their arrearages of some three thousand dollars; The officers say further, that they are prepared to prove, that they have fulfilled on their part every stipulation made in the leases, and do not at all fear the issue of i any legal investigation which can be instituted; Ciiieiiiiutti Uazcttc; This paper has a good specimen of 44 Lying letterwriters," for its " Indianapolis correspondent. we are however' only disposed to faVor him with notice sufficient to rebuke his disgraceful and heartless re marks about Ex -Gov; Kay, which are being copied with avidity by ether papers as truth. E.?n if 11 Baid were ri'ally true, there is nd good reason Why it should be made the subject of newspaper gossip ; and no gentjeman would thus hrfringe upon the cour tesies of life. As for tire writer's' balderdash about the Democratic party, GoV. Whitcomb, and ourselves, we scorn has rcuich as we despise the lying writer. Post Ofliee Discontinued. The Postmastef of this city informs us that the post-office at Clermont, in this county has been dis continued because of the resignation' cf tha postmas ter there "and there being no person recommended" to fill the vacancy." Therefore it becomes his" duty to' "make known to the 'people interested in' tne office," the cause of it discontinuance." It will be the duty of the postmaster1 hcrö toopeir, deliver and account for the mail addressed to the late cilice at Clermont. Those intercetcdf will therefore govern themselves accordingly. Our subscribers who have feceired their papers at that office will please inform us what -ditspotiition to make of their paper.. . - L ''(rj-A man named Hall, one of th most furious abolitionists in Indiana, is the Jocotoco candidate tor Congress in the Richmond district.' And the whole Locofoco party in' that district will support hrm, abolitionism and all." It is only necessary to eiy that the above is from the Louisville Journal, and every body will infer, and justly too, that ths stateracut is false. There is no truth in it.OtFrancis T. Shun, Governor ei' Pennsylvania, pronounced an enlogium on tho character of Andrew Jackson, at Ilarri-burg, on Thursday, jOth ult.'

Beautiful Dedications. D'Israeli's last novel, the Sybil, ia thus beautifully dedicated to the author's wife : ' I would inscribe this volume to one whoso heart ever prompts her to sympathize with the suffering; to one whose taste has often chastened, and whose judgment has ever guided, these pages ; to a most faithful friend, and a perfect wife." " Honorable as this may be acknowledged to be, both to the husband and to the wife, it is in every respect far turpasscd by a similar dedication of the

author of one of the most learned works of the age : Laplace's "Mcchanique Celeste, translated, with a Commentary by Nathaniel Bowpitch, L. L. D." The translator and commentator dedicates this unri valled work as follows : "Trite Translation and Commentary are dediratml, by I lie author, to tlie memory of tin Wile, Mai Howdittm, w hoiternted herwlfto her domestic vocation! with treat jn.lement, unceasing kindncM, and a seal which could not be surpassed ; taking ui-on herself the rare of the family, and tliui procuring for him lite leisure hour to prepare the work ; and a-rurinf to nun, bj her prudent ninnajrement, the means for Its puliation In its present form, which she full- approved; and without her approbation It would not have bee undertaken." This is a most magnificent compliment Our bachelor friend, Dillon, the State Librarian, whose virtue, like that of Ctwar'a wife, is unsuspected, says that it almost tempts him to get married ! The Frcrman." We are somewhat gratified that tho Freeman expects us to notice exery thing, and at its calling our atten tion to a trifling omission a few days since. We give its words But there was another outrage committed on the 4th, which the Sentinel and Journal do not seem to think worthy of notice I mean the several fierce assaults made upon me by an honorable member of the Common Council, and the visit which several of his friends made to the house from which I had moved but two days previous, for the purpo.se of lyrching. me. The matter has not slipped my memory, and will not fir two or three weeks to come. I should not deem it worthy of an allusion if it concerned only the honerable City Father and myself, but as these outrages had their origin beyond him, I trill speak of them, and in lanjrua're that it Will not be difficult to understand. We here learn what wc never knew before, viz : that persons had threatened to lynch the editor. We did know however, that a 44 city father," (in a legal view only ;) had acted very foolish and strangely, by striking the editor and it was said with cause. It was all wrong, however; and he was fined accordingly. But we hope the editor is mistaken in supposing that the person alluded to was set on by any one. . Light! Light! The boys who stole lledderly's Sterine tandles cer tainly possessed judgement and discrimination in a commendable degree that is, if they stole them for their own use, instead of being content with the tal low candles of the State. Ilcdderly has certainly ar rived to a high degree of perfection in this manufac ture ; and now, his Sterine candles not only give a better light, but they burn twice as long as tallow, be sides being much handsomer, elenrier, and better, every way. They last so much longer, that they are actual ly cheaper than tallow candles, though the nominal price of the latter is less. Give them a trial. Dreadful Explosion. iAs the steamboat " Mar quette," Capt. E. A. Turpin, was backing but froüi New Orleans, bound for Cincinnati, all of her boilers exploded at ouce, spreading death and devastation around. As the passengers names had not yet been registered, it is impossible to tell how many were lost ; but the supposition is that not less than forty or fifty persons were either killed instantly,, or so wounded as to leave no hope for their recovery. All that part of the beat forward of the wheels was blown literally to atonic fcne aiterwards sunk so that the water was in the Slate rooms Of the ladies' cabin. The causo of the explosion is yet a matter of conjecture. CoixaDENcx. During the gale on the night of Sunday week, sajs the Howard District Tress, a young hickory tree, in full vigor in the garden of Mrs. Ellicott, was entirely twisted Off at the trunk. The tree having been planted by Mr. George Ellicott and father on the day of Gen. Jeckson's election to the Presidency, it is considered somewhat remarkable that it should be so suddenly destroyed on the night of his decease, The manufacture of figured silk riband, is about to be commenced in Bangor on an extensive scale. No manufactory of the kind has ever yet been tstablislied in this country. One of the parties concerned (Mr. Togel, a Swiss by birth) has effected a great saving in the business, by substituting the power-loom for hand-labor ; and it is said that a loom, constructed on his plan, is capable, with the assistance of a girl of only moderate skill, of weaving thirty-6even ribands at the same time. The persons superintending the machine caü change the patterns at pleasure. Chain of Magnetic Telegraphs. A circular has been published by Henry O'Keilly, one of the agents for Morse's telegraph, in which is developed the grand system of magnetic communication td be established throughout the United States, connecting the Atlantic cities with the valley of the Misissippi and the Great Lakes. The line will be completed to the Susquehanna at Harrisburgh in December and to the Ohio river at Pittsburgh and Wheeling in early spring at farthest. O-Bishop Blanc of New Orleans, refused the use of the large cathedral in that city for the funeral cererrionies in honor of General Jackson. The Courier severely tasks this want of courtesy in the Bishop, and shows a strong and to him unfavorable contrast between his course and that of former Bishops and other prelates of the same diocess. Ox-Carts r. Railroads. Were was almost an emuele in Terra Aux Ikeufs, Louisiana, on the 15th instant. Some of the land-holders of that region, who had been engaged in hauling sugar to New' Orleans in ox carts, supposing that tlicif tiade Vvoülil be injured by the making of the gulf Railroad, proceeded to break up the road, &c. The Governor ordered out the military, but ere they reached the ground the riot ers fled. Order was etlectually restored. Refusing the Tlunder. The New Hampshire House of Representatives, by a Vote of 139 to 70 have adopted resolutions declaring the distribution act unconstitutional, and a violation' of solemn com'p$eur, by w!hich the United States came into possesion of a part of the public lands, and declaring that New Hamp shire never has, and never .will, sanction and approve uic measure, urn uiuc n 1 ner duty 10 condemn ana reprobate it. Stolen Children among the Osages. We learn fronV the St. Louis Republican that the Osage Indians hav. about twenty white children among them, which have been stolen' from their parents in Texas and New Mexico. They oer-ajtionaHy sell them for horses, a gentleman' of Missouri häf rn recently got possession' of a littlo girl, eleven years old, in this way.' Vermont. The Whig State Convention has nominated for Governor, Hon. Vita. Slide ;' forLientciiarit Governor, lion. Horace Eaton; for Treasurer, John SpaldiDg, Esq. A tornado, on1 the 8th instant, did some damage to the Court Howe and other buildings, in Logansport, and to tlie timber aboVe the town. It is said that southern Ohio will turn out a fairer crop of wheat this season than' it has done for many years. A large and beautiful Steam locomotive has been built in Philadelphia for tlie Long Island RaUroad It weifrhs 14 tons, and will travel 43 miles an Lour With ÜU0 passengers.'

Great Fi rev. . Another great fire broke out in Quebec on the 2Sth ult. just one month after the great fire on the 28th of Slay by which fully a third of the city was destroyed. It commenced about 11. o'clock at night in the back premises of M. Trexsier, Notary, St. John's Suburbs, and spread with unrelenting fury until 9 o'clock the next morning, and in its course consumed

about 1300 buildings, rendering homeless at least GCOO persons. Human aid was of no avail. The wind blew fiercely from the northeast. Water could not be obtained to any extent, and even when had was of little avail, owing to the rapid progress of the destructive element. About thirty streets were laid in ruins by this fire alone. A great fire occurred in the woods lying on Dead river. Maine, recently, which, besides consuming eighteen buildings, destroyed a large number of camps with the supplies or lumbermen, completely burning over the Copeland township, (so called,) the J.Ioxy township, and about ten thousand acres on Cold stream. An unprecedented fire" near Lake Champlain, last week, destroyed some S300KX) worth of property. It commenced in a bit of tuft on the farm of Colonel Darnes, at West Moria; New York, and while the men were at dinner, spread through the grass into the woods, and swept over an immense tract with great rapidity. On the rood from East td West Mona it burned down two double saw mills, a dwelling house, a barn, 17,(00 pieces of lumber, and 3,000 logs belonging to Messrs. Darnes and Travis, whoe loss is about $10,000 ; and in a few hours after had traveled eight miles and swept away the saw mill, dwelling and barn, with G.000 pieces of lumber, and tit"-) logs of Hon. N. S. Storrs, whose loss is .x.tHX). Thence it extended to the two mile dwelling and barn of John Ensign, whose loss is s5:"2,000, and swept away five other mills in West Moria and Scroon, of which the value is not ascertained. The entire loss is estimated at over iKK),000. The swiftness with which the flames swept along over the country, gave rise to some exciting scenes. leaves, carried by the smoke and wind, fell at MiddleDury, Vermont, about twenty miles distant. Near the fire the wind blew a perfect i hurricane, and the roaring of the fire is said to have been heard at a distance of several miles. One of the buildings belonging toKutger's college, New Brunswick, New Jersey, was burned on the 22d ult. It was the work of an incendiary, who had pre viously made an unsuccessful attempt to fire the same building. Victim of SCdcction. Yesterday our unfortunate city was again aroused by the report of firearms, which proceeded from the auction mart or Messrs. Benjamin Kending & Co., on Camp street". It appears that a young lady named Henrietta Iilanchard, the daughter of poor but very respectable parents in New York, about nineteen years of age, came to this city about two years since, to reside with a married sister in 1'hillippa street, whose husband Is a merchant. Sometime afterwards, a man named John j farker Tettiway, a negro trader, at least forty years of are, and who lived but two doors from Miss Blanchard, visited her and gained her affections; and, unuii niu itiuai BUH-iuu puuiiou vi uumnjjvi i..ni her seducer. So soon as the misery of her situation opened itself to Miss Ii. s view, she forthwith demanded of him, to whom she had yielded all that is valuable in lifeAer sacred xirtue and affections to iumi nis promise. -111s ne evaueu ; ana written anu ferbül promises from time to time, until she became a mother in March last, were all likewise broken. A few weeks since the infant died, and finding that Tcttiway did not intend to keep his promise, but, instead of which, offered his victim one thousand dollars as hush money, and to go away, her patience forsook her. This "roused the woman in Miss 13. She became almost frantic, and yesterday, being unable to bear her wrongs longer, she sought him in the auction room. He refused to speak with her and was turning away when she shot him in the back with a pistol loaded with a ball ; the ball passing through just above the left hip. Immediately afterwards the poor girl fainted ; but on recovering, said she willingly resigned herself to the laws for what she had done, and was conveyed by Capt. Winters to the prison, on Baronne street, where 6he is now awaiting the result of Fettiway'8 wound. . Last, evening 6trong hopes of his recovery were entertained. S'eto Orleans Rep. 2öih ült'. The same paper of a late date says that Miss Blanchard was discharged from prison on bail, and was conveyed to her friends in the carriage of one of the first citizens of New Orleans. : Robberies öf Tublic Functionaries in Mexico. j Th6 Washington correspondent of the New York J Commercial Advertiser intimates that the frequent robbery of American Ministers is done by the agents, jlesays: 4 4 We were more amused than Surprised here at the story that Mr. Elliott, the British charge d'affaires, was robbed on his way to Mexico from Vera Cruz. Mexican robbers of public functionaries are of old date and always of a mysterious character. Robbery is a part of the system of police in Mexico, and pub lic men have learned to understand it. The object of the robbers is to get possession, for the Government, of the private papers, political objects and instructions of the functionary, arid the Government invariably makes restitution of the money and valuables taken by the robbers, if they unwarily, or ot necessity, take them. uen. Thompson was robbed on his way to Mexico. The Government immediately offered him ample amends, but his papers were not returned. When Mr. Shannon went out, as Minister, he was warned that he would be robbed between Vera Cruz and Mexico, and advised to take no money with him, but to procure a bill, as can always be done, at Vera Cruz, on Mexico. He did so, and was duly robbed. - The Government Offered its condolence, and tendered indemnification to a large amount. When Mr. dishing passed through Mexico, on his return from China, he was stopped by a troop of half military, half savage looking fellows, who demanded his keys, &c. They overhauled every thing. His trunks with specie and public pajiers were examined and locked up again. A box witli papers was taken, and he was then told to proceed. Commodore Porter, when they attempted to rob him, on Iiis return from Mexico, having had some difficulties with that Government, and beiner in no humor for the operation, wheeled his horse upon the captain of the troop and shot him dead, whereupon the rest took to flight. . Cases have been known wherein men of importance have been robbed, according to order, and upon their arrival at Mexico, complained of their large losses, and the Government, though well knowing that the loss was trifling:, have restored the sum claimed. If the Government wishes to gain a man, who has lost but twenty doubloons, they say you must have lost sixteen hundred doubloons, ana if he assents, they pay him arcordfngry. I do not intimate that this has been the case with any of our functionaries." A White Girl held in Slavery rECLARED To be Free. About a year ago we noticed a case before the Supreme Court of Louisiana, in which a girl in slavery,' named' Sally Miller, claimed to be born in Germany and of German parents ; of having come to this country when an infant with her father and mother, who reached here as "redemptioners," arfd died shortly after their arrival. The owner, John F. Miller, alleged that she was bora a slave and his property ; aa such he brought her up, and as such he sold her to Louis lklmont. The girl, it seefris,' lias been a quarter of a century subjected to the degradation of domestic bondage and servile labor before she claimed her release. The Supreme Court last week rendered a judgment in her favor, and ßhe is now free. 31 epical College at Cleveland O. The foundation for a Medical" Cbüegrs his been laid iri' the city of Cleveland and the building is finder contract to be completed by the 25th of Octcbcf next in time for the winter course of lectures. It is to be built of brick, with a stone basement and has five stories. It is to be Burmounted by aiarge dome in thich is to be placed a large telescope belonging to II. L. Smith, Eer. The front of the College is to Be ornamented with four Grecian Dorie columns. New Convenience in a Hoi el. The Dclavan House has just been ojcncd a Albany as a temperance house. Among L'lc regulations advertised is an announcement that social worship will take place every

IV Ii ig Disiiileri-Metlm-M. It is really amusing to witness the attempts of interested men to mislead tho public mind in such a manner as to conduce to their advantage. Nearly all the arguments in favor of a protective, tariff arc dictated, or written by Capitalists engaged in manufactures. Hence their oft repeated arguments to prove to tho dear people how much they are benefitted by high duties; their attempts to demonstrate that high duties do not increase but lessen the price of the do

mestic article, and that the producer of the foreign article pays the duty. How can we account for the tenacity with which a portion of the Whig party clings to the most absurd doctrines, only on the principle of selfishness 1 Look at the articles published in the National Intelligencer, and re-published in the Indiana Journal, over the signature of Madison." His third No. is truly amusing, and yet so barefaced as scarely to justify a notice. I3ut to begin with this very patriotic and impartial Southerner : " Lvery one conversant with commercial and mercantile ailairs knows lhat there exists a supreme law of trade, viz : that supply a'tld demand regulate prices, &.c. ;" and this Mr. Madison is pleased to denominate an axiom. He then proceeds to demonstrate, doubtless very clearly in his own mind, that the tariff of 1-12 did not raise the prices of several articles which he is pleased to select. First, cotton bagging seems to demand his attention ; by his comparison it would seem that that article, since the passage of the black tariff has fallen 33 per cent. Very well, that may be true without the tariff having any agency in its reduction, but the contrary. His explanation is tru'y amusing to a man like myself living in the backwoods. In consequence of increased duties, the' growers of hemp in the West extended their busines, and now they, or those who manufacture it, not only sup ply the cotton planters with bagging and bale rope at much reduced prices, but hemp has become an article of exportation." The article of sugar is next introduced, with a declaration of its immediate decline upon the passage of the tariff of '42, with a similar c planation. Now is it not remarkable that a JU'dine in the price of hemp and sugar should have so slimu late J the growers as to cause, them greatly to extend their business 1 This is a species of logic not under stood in the West, but round about Boston, upon which this very disinterested and patriotic Southerner draws for information, it is no doubt very plain. Stun ulatcd by the prospect of low prices I How then are producers of hemp and sugar benefitted by a high tariff I If these articles have declined in consequence of the tariff, the South and the West, instead of bei ing benefitted, have been greayy injured by it Mr. Madison having accomplished the very " formidable task, solitary and alone," of demonstrating his first nronosition. that the tariff is eminently benefi I . ii ;.n:.. .4 , f :i : :j kiui tu ait luuiiaiuis ui uic buu, hi uic tcir cuuoiu erable decline of hemp in the West, and sugar in the South, now directs his foot-prints towards Boston, whose flesh pots have been rendered more 6avoury by a consciousness of the important services rendered. A table cf prices made out with rreat labor and ac curacy, by a very impartial merchant is forthcoming to prove a great decline in manufactured goods, under the operations of the whig tariff of 1842 proving, . likewise, the Datriotism and disinterestedness of the 1 great manufacturing establishments of the East, in jiavin auvocaicu, suugm biiu sccurea me passage oi ' a lawto compel them to sell their jroods cheaper.Mr Madison compares the value of cotton mods from 1935 to 1845 and comDarin?r the highest Drice. that 0f 1S37, with the price in 1844, (according to his ; table.l there is a tallm? olt ot some 30 Der cent, in value ; and, in a most triumphant manner, this is al set down to tlie beneficial effects of the tariff. From this demonstration it would appear that these Eastern Nabobs and Lords of the Loom, like "the South and West, have not been benefitted very much by the tariff. The " axiom " of Mr. Madison, quoted in the beginning of tins article, must be noticed. Iiis " su preine law of trade, that supply and demand regulate prices," needs some qualification. The amount of money in circulation has something to do with the price as well as supply and demand. If the supply and demand are equal all fluctuations in the price are occasioned by the volume of tlie circulating medium In accounting for any change in the price of an ar tide all the circumstances must be considered. In 1837 (the year of the highest prices according to this table) there was in circulation about $150,00t,(!00 of paper money in 1844, not to exceed one half that amount. The circulation then, since 1S37, has fallen one half. Labor is cheaper now by 50 per cent, than in 1837. Provisions, the raw material, and every thing connected with the production of any manufac tured article has sunk not less than 50 per cent. The constant improvements and experience in tlie produc tion and manufacture of hemp, sugar and cotton, by which labor is saved and the greatest amount produ ced, have materially contributed in the reduction of the price of these articles. Competition, the sole agent of Mr, Madison, less than any cause cnumcrated, has contributed its mite. Coffee, a free article,' has fallen to less than half its former value. Upon a careful examination of the causes, and a comparison of the decline of protected with unprotected articles it will be found that the latter have generally sunk below the former, thus proving beyond a doubt, that the manufacturers of the present time are realizing greater profits upon their investments than in 1637, when prices were highest, and establishing tlie converse of Mr. Madison's position, that the present high tariff has prevented a correspondent decline in the price f the protected articlein other wordsthe higher the duty the higher the price ; and this is what the capitalists understand by protection, their hypocritical cant to the contrary notwithstanding. 11. ILLINOIS, June 24th, 1845. Tb the Editor of the Indiana Stale Sentinel : Dear Sir It is with pleasure that I learn the Hon. Joseph A. Wright has consented to become a candidate for re-election to tlie 20th Congress from , the seventh Congres'sional district in your State. I congratulate mo6t heartily the people of that district and the country upon the prospects of having the able and efficient services of Mr. Wright in the next Congress. Your State may well be proud of your delegation in the last Congress. They were vigilant and faithful guardians of the honor and best interests of the State, and when I say of Mr. Wright that he was the most industrious and attentive member to business in the 2th Congress, I do him no more than justice, and do not undervalue the arduous and indefatigable labors of other members of tlie House. Mr. W. in addition to his great business talent, ranks among the best debaters in the House. And his amiable and gentler manly deportment,. give. him an influence which fev members possessed, and contributed in no small degree to the passage of tlie bills' in which your State was interested. The appropriation for reviving the long neglected National Road, was owing more to the untiring perseverance of Mr. Wright, than to any' other member, and it was no fault of bis, that President Tyler pocketed the bill containing the appropriation for this important work. I am told Mr. Wright has an opponent. I am surprized to hear of any one's becoming a candidate in opposition to a man who has labored es efficiently .and zealously in the cause of his constituents as Mr. W. has done. The successor of Mr. Wright little knows the laoors he will have to encounter, if he thinks of rendering his constituents as efficient service as Mr. Wright has done. If I am not mistaken in the people of the Terre Haute district, they know too well how to appreciate the labors of an honest, talented, and faithful Representative to allow Joseph A. Wright to fail of a re-election to the office he has once so ably and creditably filled. I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, A Member of 2?th Congress. A new counterfeit has made its appearance at Pittsburgh. It js on the North Western Bank of Virginia, at Wheeling denomination &10. The eugraving is coarse; ügbt vignette, agricultural implement and steamboat in the distance. Pay A. Williams dated Wheeling, May f, 1311" immediately over the President's name, and also over that of Cashier. There is no implement on the genuiue notes of this denomination Cin. Atlas.' Democratic Prospects. The Indiana State papers all come to us laden, with pleasing anticipations of a great democratic victory in August 11 -xt Go-a-hcad friend Chapman., We will be close after you iu our elections. Memphis Appeal. There was a rumored failure, in Natches on the 13th inst. of Maj.'Meilkie an extensive exchange broker, the depositary of the funds of a great portion of tlie merchants and business men, which occasioned great excitement. It was subsequently reported that he had paid out all his deposits to a sum within a thousand dollars.

Tlic C.reut Lakes. A writer iu the Cincinnati Atlas furnishes some

interesting particulars of Lc vast extent of our Aorthern likes. It apicara lroin a narrative ox rrofessor Drake, who visited these lakes Vast summer, that they extend over nearly eight and a half degrees of latitude in breadth, and sixteen degrees of longitude in length. The extent of their surfaces is estimated at IK1,000 square miles ; and the area of country drained by them, is computed at 4tH),000 square miles. Their relative sizes are as follows : Ontario C.300 eq. miles Erie 9,000 " St. Clair 300 " Huron 20,400 Michigan 'J4.40O - Superior J2,(XX) The average depth of water in the different Lakes, is a question upon which there is no certain informa tion. Authorities culler, ur. Drake irives it aa illows : St. Clair ' Erie Ontario Superior .Huron and Michigan 20 feet. 84 " 500 900 1000 In our standard works, Lake Erie is usually stated to have a depth of 120 feet. The deepest soundings ave been taken in Iake Huron. Off Saginaw Bay, 1800 feet of line have been sent down without finding bottom. The altitude of these lakes varies Ftep bv step from Ontario to Superior. Lake Ontario is 232 feet above the tide water of the St. Lawrence. Erie is 533 feet above Ontario, and 505 feet above tide-water at Albany. St. Clair is six feet higher tlian Erie ; Huron and Michigan are thirteen feet above St. Clair, and Supe rior lies 4 1 feet above them. This shows the curious fact, that while the surface of Huron is GSi feet above tlie level cf the ocean, ita bottom, at Saginaw Day, is more tlian 1100 feet below the same level. The waters of these lakes, with the exception of Erie and St. Clair, are remarkable for their transparency and delicious flavor. Of Lake Huron, Professor Drake ascertained that the water at tlie surface, and two hundred feet below at the same time place, indi cated precisely the some temperature, to wit, fifty-six decrees. His explanation of this fact is, that the waters are so pure that the rays of the sun meet with no solid matter in suspension to arrest and retain the heat The writer adds : " There is a great curiosity connected with these lakes about 30 miles from Kingston, Dear tlie outlet of the bay of Quinte, in Canada. The writer of this visited it a few years ago, in company with Professor Lyell of London, he pronounced it one of the greatest curiosities of the kind he eer saw. It is what is called in Scotland 'a Tarn or mountain lake. It if situated upon a conical hill about 350 feet high.. Jt is circular -about half a mile in diameter, and occupies nearly the whole surface of the hilh .: " The lake is consequently.. entirety without inlet yet a small stream constantly escapes from one edge 01 it, down me siae 01 the bin, turning tlie wheels of a flouring mill, which has been erected near the summit. The level cf the water in the lake is supposed to be about 350 feet above that of the bay below. As1 there are no high lauds within fifty or sixty miles, or perhaps a greatcrdistance, tlie curious question arises; whence comes the supply for this mountain lake 1 " Trofessor Lyell supposes it to occupy the crater of an extinct volcano, and to receive ita waters through hidden syphons, from a great distance; but did not coincide with tlie popular belief in the neighborhood, that the fountain head was Lake Erie, although it is supposed that they occupy the same level." A Letter wkitten by Gen. Jackson btjt two dats eefore ins death. It has hitherto been supposed that the letter of Gen. Jackson, dated May 16th, to the President, in reference to Gen. Armstrong was the last ever written by the departed Hero ; but the yew Orleans Courier, of the 17th inst., informs us that there is in that city a still later letter from him, written only two days before his death. The Courier says 44 We have seen a letter from General Jackson to his friend. Gen. Tlauche, of this city, dated June C, and postmarked Nashville, June 7. It occupies two pages of letter paper, written and signed in the veteran's well known hand-writing, and without more than the ordinary indication of feebleness and old age. The frank on "the outside is also in his hand writing, and his signature is in unusual bold characters, remarkably uniform and bold. The direction is in the writing' of another. The letter relates chiefly to the General's private business. Near the conclusion he Bays, 44 my healjh'it bad." Its tone, its length, and the character of the hand-writing would induce a person, not acquainted with the circumstances of the case, to doubt that it is tlie work of one so ajred and "enfeebled by a protracted and cruel disease. 44 My health is bad" are almost the concluding words. The effort of writing a long epistle probably caused the weakness which obliged bim to call upon another to subscribe the name of the gentleman to whom it is addressed. The frank, as we said before, is written in remarkably firm characters." Ohio Banks. The new banking law of Ohio is producing its fruits in the creation of banking institutions. The following are the names of the seven concerns to constitute the Bank of Ohio, and also of four of the independent banks, of which there are, however, eight in all : Hank if Okl. , Prt Bamks. Franklin Ilk of Cin'ali, 1 ,000,000 ; CapHml. Bank of ttayton, 174,007 Wc-lrra Rere, 198,662 cxciiange bk, lotumDaa Bank ol Xer', Meubenvilto, lpawaret franklin 15k of Coluoihui, Hank or j pa 11 ja , Commercial bank Cay Bank of Cleveland. 126,028 It is observable that the branch banks are nearly all old concerns with broken or expired charters, which by special grace are allowed to resume their scheming in a new form. The City Bank of Cleveland has been long known as the Fireman's Insurance Company, but has now taken livery as a "free booting" bank. There docs not appear to be any actual disposition to subscribe any new capital, but the opportunity is a good one to turn the assets of the old banks to good account, to make the scum and dregs of years of speculation the basis of renewed credit. No matter how corrupt the interior of these concerns may have been, they have only to apply the whitewash of the new law to their foul vaults, inscribe a new sign over their doors, and they may stand forth, renovated as fresh members of the commercial community. Sixteen of these foul carcases have already, received the spirit of tlie new law, and are crawling forth to prey upon the people of Ohio. V. 1". Aeirj. Query. What is tlie reason that the articles on the Tariff, in tlie National Intelligencer, signed "Madison,' the first No. of which was published in the, Indiana Journal, are not continued in the two last numbers ! Has Mr. Defrees found something rotten in them 1 Do the Whigs intend to play "hide and seek'.' on that question with the people, knowing its unpop-" ularity 1 or has the editor of the Journal discovered that Madison's statements of fact conflicts with his own statements of last fall. By the way,' Mr. Journal, "Madison" states tha 4,(XK) bbls. flour are used for sizing cotton gopds at Lowell. You stated in n. speech last fall that 200,000 barrels were used in one establishment, which you subsequently modified as meaning for one State, thereby proving that each yard of calicoe weighed 8lbs per yard i Do you make any such speeches south T 7bcsiW Four. Air ix Wells. Three men lately perished fa a well, in Adams, Ohio, suffocated .by the gtw.in tlie bottom. Wells and pits frequently contain nftrogen or carbonic acid, especially the latter, whkrb, being heavier than the atmosphere, sinks to tlie bottom. Both are poisonous, and hence such places should never be entered without a very simple precaution. A bundle of straw set on tf5re and lowered to the bottom, will remove tJie ditEcuIty. But a better expedient is discharging a gun three or four times into tho well, loaded with powden .The oxygen from the gunpowder supplies the deficiency in the well. PhL'a. Ledger.' - - Vermont (extkalRjhl-Koap. Every thinj looks prosperous. In Boston jfc?00,0r-0 had b-en subscribed. The books were opened in Burlington and S13,000 subscribed, and it is confidently anticipated fliat it will be increased to Äl(K),000. The amount in Montpelicr has risen to $173,400. It will come up to S'JOO.COO plump and crcry dollar tcitt he paid. understand also that a fc-A towns on the Connecticut have subscribe! $I(iö,000. Barre has opened with S13.000, and can take 50 or 75,(X)0 with ca'e. -Montptlitr rait lot.