Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1845 — Page 2

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ETtBIAL TICILAUce I ITHt woe t luebtt. IXIIAVftl'OIIK, OCTOIJni O, 1'ol.tic.tl 31ysicrics of Iudiaunpolis. CHAPTER IX. The following note, which we received a day or two ago, will form an appropriate text fur the ninth chapter cf this exposition. Indianapolis, October 5, 1945. Gentlemen: -It becomes my duty to publish in a newsDaoer in this County, the enclosed advertisement. The recent course you have chosen to take in your paper, against mc, and against wnicn in is is noi me time to defend myelf, might in the estimation of ome, justify the withholding even this mite ; but not choosing to be placed in a false position, nor to suffer my motives to be misconstrued, I hare to request that you Will publish the enclosed in your weekly paper, at least three weeks more me day oi saie. Your obedient servant, A. C. PEPPER. Messrs. G. A. &i i P. Chapman. We hare reasons to infer that this note was written for the public eye, as well as for ourselves ; one of which reasons ia the fact that fit accompanied the tecond advertisement sent by Mr. Pepper, and not the first. There are others, which it is not now necessary to mention Though we comply with the request as a business matter, we nevertheless consider the note, in its political allusions, as grossly disreputable and insult ing and for that reason shall not luffcr it to go to the public without a word or two of comment. First, as to the note itself. Col. Pepper evidently supposes that the dispensation of his official favors as an oILcer of the United States, is to be regulated oldy in such a way as will benefit himself personally, by being dispensed in the shape of favors to his personal fr.endaj or as vragts to 6tich as are degraded enough to become his hireling tools or lick'-sj ittles. lie is not mistaken in supposing that we shall not look ou such favors in the light of a "sop to Cerberus." We hall not depute the old maxim that "every man has his price," or that even we might possibly be bought for a price lig enough. Put at any rate, we bave " souls above buttons," as Col. Tepper by this time probably has learned ; and whether we get his ofHcia.1 favors or not, we shall . undertake " to assert our own freedom and our own rights, as well as those cf the petple. If the recent course" which we have taken to wards Col. fepper, is xcrong in any respect, why does he say that this is not the time to defend himself ! We should think, if he has any defence to offer, that be could not offer it too soon. Prudence, or cunning, however, of which qualities he is said to possess a large supply, or the untenable nature of the ground opvn which he stands, may dictate to him the policy of a dignified reserve. Many a doubtful and intrigu ing politician has escaped the moral gibbet by a similar refusal to plead directly to the bfue. The remark that he sends us his advertisements, only because he Joes not choose to be placed in a false position, may not be fully understood by our readers, but a word or two will fully explain it. The Colonel at first deigned to give his official favors to the Journal newspaper, in order to punish us for the expositions which we were making in relation to the Old Junto, of which he himself, fur the past three years, has been one of the ruling spirits, lie could not do this, however, without at once showing to the people that he had, at heart, much more sympathy with Whiggery than he had for Democratic principles. How faf his note will tend to neutralize that "false position, erefy Democrat may judge for himself. We think it only makes the case still stronger against hirri, and that he sends as his advertisements for the sole reason that he does not wish to' lose caste as a nominal Democrat. If we are mistaken in this con elusion, it is an error of judgment on our part, or because he has been onfortunate in the phraseology of his note. Previous to the reception of any cf these official favors, Colonel Tepper had verbally communicated to us through his friends, that if We continued our course " towards him, they , would be withheld. If this was not equivalent to the offer of them as a bribe for tying our tongues, we regard it as a scandalous attempt at intimidation quite as disgraceful, and we should despise ourselves if we should yield to 6uch a threat as much as we should do if we were mercenary enough to take a bribe. There is an important lesson to the people involved in this note of Col. Tepper, the TJ. S. Marshal for the District of Indiana. It develops one of those mystic influences by which editors of newspapers are some times induced to become false to their own principles and to the interests of the people, through a corrupt tree of official power and patronage. We trust that is we are ever weak enough to yield to influences of this riatcrej that they will be of magnitude enough to relieve us from the imputation of meanness if not of baseness. To those unacquainted with the private operations of Col. Fepper at Indianapolis and elsewhere during two or three years past, his present note to us, on which we have commented above may convey the impression as a fact, that it is our recent eourse " towards him f only at which he is offended. We tbrnk, if he made a "clean breast of it," that the people would come to a very different conclusion, and be able to place a much better estimate upon his pollical course. But as he does not Seem to be very communicative we shall venture to make a few devel opments' relating to bis" action as a member and con fidential advir of the Junto, which may initiate the people into the true causes of his present position But before we do this", we desire to pay our respects to W. J. Teaselee, whose case in the natural order precedes that of Col, Teppcr. . Panorama or Western Scenery i We ere inuxh pleased, a few evenings since, witli a series of Westefri panoramic paintings exhibited in this place, and which Were painted by a young man from Terre Haute by the name of Hager. They have been exhibited in various towns on the Wabash, and have elicited many encomiums. Under the Cir cumstances, we consider them well got up, and deci dedly interesting, giving at a glance, ideas of places and scenery-which no written description could fo faithfully do. We advise all to see them. OParmelee is now putting the finishing touchy on a splendid Pianoforte, intended for Miss Lesure of Connersville. It ii an admirable instrument in very respect sweet yet powerful in tone, and elegant as a piece of furniture. All who desire to sec one of the beat pianos yet mads by Par melee, should call at hii room on Pennsylvania street. It will re main here only a day or two longer. Who eSats Tills. Eev. Mr. Beccher ehowed ua the other day tlie largest sweet potatoe we ever sawi Its weight was five pounds, and it was not over six or eight inches in length, it grew on Mr, Aldrige's farm. Speaking of potatoes Mr. Myers has left at our office a black or purple and a white one, both growing on the same root. Mr. M. is not an abolitionist, if bis potatoes are. (rla Boston, the MiT.er Tabernacle has been transformed into a Theatre. Their place of worship in New York is now a horse hospital.

YVIlkcVs Exploring EipcJitioiii In 1312, Congress determined to provide fcr the publication of one hundred copies of an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition under the command of Lieut. Wikes of the United States Navy. Since that time more than ninety thousand Millars have been appropriated, by Congress, to defray , the expense of publishing this great work. The first Bection of a law approved Feb. 20, 1915, provided that as each part of the work shall be completed fifty eight copies of the same shall be delivered to the Secretary of State, to be distributed as follows, that is to iay : To eich of these United States, one

copy ; to the government of France, two copies ; j Great Britain, two copies; Russia, two copieS ; and oneedpy each to Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Pcrtdgal, Spain, Sardinia, Greece, Tuscany, the Ecclesiastical States, the Two Sicilies, Turkey, China, Mexico, New Granada, Venezuela, Chili, Teru, the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Texas, and the Sandwich Islands; and one copy to the Naval Lyceum in Brooklyn New York." If we are correctly informed the work was complet ed during the last summer; yet the state of Indiana has received no part of it. New Hampshire. In 193 towns, so we learn from an extra from tlie Patriot Office, the majority against Woodbury is 941 votes. The remaining towns will probably reduce it a few hundreds. Hale, tlie renegade, gets the abolition vote, and whigs enough to run him close up to the regular whig candidate. Prim thi Cincinnati Enquirer. Tlie Succession Organs of AspirantsDisorgitiiiziii;; Policy. But a very small fraction of the great Republican mass will take exception to the sentiments cf the Washington Union in reference to the establishing of party papers in places for the avowed purpose of advocating the? pretensions of an aspirant to Mr. Polk's successorship. The Union allu les to the proposed resuscitation of ihn ''Indiana Hemoeraf" at Indianapolis, at whose head will fctand the hatne of Lewis Cass, for President in 19 IS. "This," says the Union, of the loth, "in our humble judgment, is wrong, and will give it the name of a "Cass" instead of a democratic paper, and tend to create jealousies and divisions in tlie party, without benefitting the distinguished statesman they design to aid. We have repeat dly said that now is nt the time to agitate the question of succession. We go further, and say at once, frankly, that uo better plan could be devised to injure the prospects of any candidate, than to bring him forward at so early a period. We made this remark to the friend of another distinguished gentleman the other day. And we repeat it here much as wc respect and admire Gen. Caes, it is too early in the day to bring him or any man forward. The present administration has just commenced. The great principles on which it was elected have not yet been fully rarried out. Let us establish them, before We enter into any struggles for the succession. We arc prepared ta use this language towards the friends of any man, (be he whom he may,) who is brought thus early into the field." ll are confidently advised that Sir. Cas himself disapprobates this policy on the part of some of his indiscreet friends ; not only as respects this particular press in Indiana, but all others of its character. This makes no difference, however, with most of that Class of partizans who have, disputed or undisputed, attached themselves and their political fortunes to the skirts of this able statesman. They, in most cases, and instance this one in Indiana are mere adventurers, who have bankrupted their own reputation for honesty and attachment to d-'mocratic doctrines and democratic success, and therefore seek in this prominent and popular democrat, to firm an alliance which will save them from sinking into political oblivion. Many of them we admit, are sincere in their political and per-onal friendships with the General, and are trusty and able democrat; bnt in a majority of cases they are of such character aslo ruin the popularity of the purest and ablest and most loved man in the democratic family. And this General Cass is fully aware of, and as far as he can, we doubt not, will iset his influence against it. It will be more important to himself than the united democratic party if ho succeeds in cutting loose from such an inenbus upon his popularity and aspirations. One feature in these openly declared and also of the half-way Cass organs in the west in Indiana and Ohio, especially is prominent. They are all dis irganizing all loose in political doctrines ''expediency" things clamoring about men and utterly indifferent about measures. This no man can be blind to who observes them. This it is that brings reproach upon the pretended favorite. The men of principle in tlie party, who care nought who their President is, if they know him to be sound in their faith and uncompromising in his labors for the cause and the country, see this political feature and mark it. They see it so frequentJr and so prominently that they cannot resist forming an estimate of the candidate from their knowledge of the men who are his partizans and the presses that are his organs. We admit that it is unjust to estimate the pol.tical sincerity and political and moral worth of Gen. Cass by the standard of the presses that blazon his name, and in many instances the partizans who hang to his skirts ; yet, we declare that such an association has done him infinite harm in Ohio and Indiana, and will continue to weigh him down, as with leaden wings, if it is not severed. Witnessing the connecting of his name and his Presidential pretensions, by some rotten Bank cormorants and adventurers at Akron, Ohio, not long before the late Presidential contest, with our local State politics with a swindling Banking system, then in its inception and now in its progress. What had the name of Cass to do with either rotten or even with "sound and sol vent Hanks, safe to the bill-holder and profitable to the Banker," here in Ohio J Nothing under Heaven but to strengthen the men who thus poached upon his good name and his rising popularity. But, the transaction was marked by the sound democracy, and it took strong hold on their prejudices to the injury of the prominent man who had thus been unwittingly tiSed. We have said before, and we say it again, that Cass deserves to hare better friends we mean those who are 'clamorous in his cause. He has heretofore bad good reason to exclaim, 'Save me from my friends !' With this expression of our view of the matter wc must close with the sentiment of the Washington Union, that ''now is not tho time to agitate the question of the succe-sion" "no better scheme could be devised to injure the prospects of any candidate than to bring him forward at so early a period." fc-The late trial of Wyman at Boston for embeszlement as President of a bank, resulted in his acquittal, from one of those technical niceties or hair breadth distinctions, through which in judicial trials, the greatest criminals are often enabled to escape the awards of justice! , It was contended that although president of tlie bank, and exercising unlimited control over the funds, yet they were not legally in his" custody but iri that of the cashier, who was alone responsible f r their safe keeping, and alone liable in a charge for embezzlement. l'rom such wife-drawn distinctions made by counsel, learned in the law, and admitted by courts and juries to screen the guilty from punishment, tlie law has been compared to a cob web, by which small insects are caught, but through which larger ones break their way and escape. On the result of this trial, tlie Springfield Triweekly Post thus remarks : " The result of this case furnishes another demonstration cf the utility of extensive operations when a course of villany and crime is resolved upon Had Wyman forged a note for the small sum of 5jj(30, or stolen a set of silver spoons from his neighbor's pantry, he would have been in the state prison long g0 but the magnitude of his depredations has proved his safety. The old couplet requires but little variation to apply to such cases i M A little pifering ia a Jangerorjs thing. Dip derp or touch not the foruiJdeu spring.'' O-A bank democrat and a democratic whig" are all the same thing; In New York, bank democrats call themselves conservatives. In Missouri fuey are called softs. Well, they are soft ; hollow and rotten. From the time General Jackson vetoed the United States Bank, the history of this country proves that the moment a democrat becomes tinctured In the least with the bank maina, ho forfeits all claims to the democracy. Chicago Democrat

Sketches of Mexican General. A writer in the Washington lTni gives thb following account of the prominent military men cf Mexico: General Taeedes was at or near Monterey when last heard from ; he is undoubtedly Commander-in-Chief; his rank is general of division, the highest grade in the .Mexican service ; and he is considered as the most distinguished man of his grade. He commenced his service as Lieutenant under tlie old priest, General Morelos, one of the most able generals and purest patriots that tlie revolution produced. Paredes cbmmanded for a long time the body of Lancers who formed the personal escort of that chief, and, in the

fatal battle of Ouantly Anulpas, lost his right arm and saved the life of his chief. After the execution of Morelos, he retired to the mountains, where, among I'll a a a . tncreaiDie aangers and uarusiups, he concealed him self until Iturbide pronounced in favor of the independence, when he immediately put himself and par ty under the orders of that general, and contributed largely to securing that independence which thy have shown themselves to incapable of appreciating. He has been several times elected Governor of the State of Guadalajara, and his administration has al ways been characterized by great moderation, strict integrity, and unwavering firmness. As a military man, he is very popular with his soldiers. About five years since, General Moctenzoma pronounced against the government, and collected an army of three or four thousand men in the vicinity of San Louis Totoei. Paredes, who commanded for the government, being out reconnoitering with his staff and escort, encountered his cntagonist, a short distance from the two armies, and defeated Moctenzoma, kill ing him in a personal encounter, with his lance, which is his favorite weapon. He also put down General Bustamente, the head of the Centralists m Mexico, and has more recently tri umphed over Santa Anna, being the first person who pronounced in his old city of Guadalajara. Paredes is now about fifty years of age, and has always been liberal in his principles. He resided in Philadelphia something like two years, having been expelled from his own country. General Don Mariano Akista, who commands the van of the army, already arrived seven miles from Matamoras on tlie llith inst., is about forty years of 05c lie is a citizen of rsueva Leon, of which Monterey is the- Capital, one hundred and ninety miles west of Matamoras. He i3 a powerful man, being upwards of six feet, and verv muscular. He is very much devoted to agricultural pursuits, having large sugar plantations in the neighborhood, where he has successfully introduced all the recent improvements in sugar-making and refining. Aristo is considered by his countrymen as tlie most talented Cavalry General that they have. He was formerly expelled from Mexico when Colonel of Lancers; and, fiiiding himself i:i Cincinnati without resources, he applied himself to the tin and copper mak inj business, and became, in the five years that he spent in that city, a first-rate workman. lie speaks English very well, and hos always treated tlie Americans with great kindness ; and, whenever prisoners (Texians) have fallen into his bands, with great humanity. He is readily distinguished by being remarkably fair, with sandy hair and moustaches. General Gagna, who appears to be behind these two chiefs, is a General of Artillery, and commanded at San Juan d'Ulloa when it was taken bv the French. He was tried by court-martial for that atTair. The reason that the army is marching in three divisions is undoubtedly owing to the scarcity of water. 1 cannot understand why General Arista has gone to Matamoras; for Camargo, on the same river, 6ixty miles above, is the place where they have generally cantoned their cavalry pasture being very abundant there, and exceedingly scarce in the former place. Trobably he may have gene to Matamoras with the intention of passing his baggage across at that place, in the few boats which he may find ; there being none above that point, and the fords in the river being very dangerous at this season of the year. If we hear that he has gone to Reynoso or Camargo (towns above) we may calculate on his not going into cantonment ontil October, after the raitiy season. "Father of Col. Almonte, lata Minister cf Mexico to this country. Opinions after an Election. The Albany Evening Journal, the leading Vhir orjran in New York, has this to say of Henry Clay, after the battle is over and when hypocrisy and falsehood no longer can avail : " The loss of this State to Mr. Clay is attributable to two distinct and independent causes, one of which is chargeable to his friends in the city of Sew York, AND THE OTHER TO HIMSELF. The patriotic, independent letter cf Mr. Clay, from Raleigh, N. C, against the admission of Texas into the Union, made a perfectly safe issue for us in New York. The Abolition newspapers, and the Liberty Party leaders, endeavored to agitate against us, but the great bodu of the Abolitionists, with a clearer and better view of their duty, were going with the Whigs against Texas and slavery. In an evil hour Mr. Clay wrote a letter to Alabama, saying that Slavery liad nothing to do with the Ttxas question, and that personally he had no objection to its annexation. That fatal letter sealed his fate, and deprived the country of a Whig President. The moment it was received, the issue and its aspects were changed. Locofocos and Abolitionists, inspired with confidence, redoubled their efforts. Ouf Chief, after the respective armies were in the field, had changed front. This lost us our vantage ground. Rut no man faltered. Every Whig though his flint was drawn and his weapon dulled, fought it out with indomitable and unshrinking courage and devotion. That ill-omened letter, to say nothing of the others equally ill-timed and gratuitous, cost us more than the 5000 majority which Tolk received in this State. We present these facts reluctantly, and only in vindication of honest, faithful, never-flinching Whigs, whom malice and falsehood seek to hold responsible fur a calamity produced by the two causes to which we have been forced to advert," This nälly is "the unkindest cut of all." .Illinois Canal. We find in the Ottawa Free Trader of Sept. 12, a long and able letter by the late commissioner, Michael Ryan, Esq., in answer t a publication of Ex-Governor Davis, of Massachusetts The letter is very severe upon Gov. Davis and the Roston Committee, showing cleirly the underhand process by which the affairs of Illinois were sought to be made subservient to the schemes of the last Presidential election. Mr. Ryan shows that tlie canal negotiation was delayed nearly a year, at a loss of 250,000 to the people of Illinois, in order that the plea of aiding the States might have its full force in urging the distribution scheme, which was to have been one of the results of Whig success. As it is, all the patronage of tlie canal is now controlled by that inrluenc t. fcr-If vre may be permitted to perpetrate a bull, we would say that the Messrs. Chapmans, of tlie State Sentinel have killed Morrison's paper before it lived. It is highly probable that not a number of bis paper will ever see the light. This is a most grievous loss to the whig party. Tocsin. The Lawrencebnkgh Murder. Ry the last Lawrericeburgli Register, we learn that the wife of Jackson has confessed that her husband did kill Scrdggin, although the jury acquitted him. She has detailed all the circumstances, that the bullet moulds were thrown in the well, the s'hoes buried arider the house, and that the killing and all the circumstances were fully known to all of Jackson's family, togei tlier with his counsel, at the time of trial." Had Imprisonment for IAfe been the penalty,- this foul murderer would have been convicted, and instead of being at large he would now bo expiating Lis crime in the Penitentiary. So much for Capital Punishment. Greensburgh Repository. Non-committal. The Boston Tost mart says' : The dearest friend we have in the world we never desire to see for more than five minutes at a time in our office. Rusiness is business. ' Trof. Bush. The New York Tribune says :' " We learn that Trof. Bush proposes soon to commenence a series of Lectures on The Fuktre Life, in which he will consider at length the evidence in favor of Swedenborg's revelations on that subject." O-The model of an invention was shown us yesterday for avoiding the friction of the spindles of ßhafla of flouring-mills. - This will prove very important. The improvement consists in the spimJles revolving upoii the friction rollers. Tlie application we believe to be new. :Yr Y Xtws.

Political Patronage. The leading article of the Democratic Review for

this month is a masterly discussion of the subject of Political Patronage. It opens with a statement of the amount of patronage at the disposal of the Federal and State Governments, which is absolutely frightful when we think of all its bearings upon the political character of the people. The writer shows that the General Government of the united States at Washington controls the appointment of about fourteen thousand post-masters, about fourteen thousand deputies, or clerks, about three thousand mail contractors and agents, and about two thousand revenue and lighthouse officers, making in all some thirty-three thousand public dependants, whose duties are local, and whose residences are scattered through every township and village in our country. Every State government has, in addition, a patronage averaging at least two thousand appointments of a similar character making hay-tour thousand, which, added to the thirty. three thousand already mentioned, make eighty-seven thousand men. This is of course en tirely exclusive of all Cabinet officers, State and nation al, and their troops of clerks and dependants ; ot the ar my and navy lists, embracing their thousands ; of the whole diplomatic and consular corps; the registers, receivers, surveyors, and other oflicers connected with the administration of our public land system ; tlie Indian agencict, and of a most potent and, per haps a more numerous class," the jobbers and contrac tors upon public works, and the providers under Government contracts. Exclusive of these last, we find eighty-seven thousand men distributed over our coun try, more or less dependent upon public patronage, or, rather, upon those by whom it is dispensed. Ibis figure includes no women or children. It refers only to to men arrived at their political maturity, and in me vigor of manhood. Supposing every such man to support three persons and this is a moderate estimate of the product of every man's industry in society these eighty-seven thousand would represent th capital, the social and political substance of two hundred and sixty-one thousand inhabitants. Add to these tlie number who are applying for each office in the gift of power, and the aggregate is swelled prodigiously, so that at the beginning of every new administration, more than half a million of men are waiting with feverish anxiety the lottery of executive favor. This statement, we say, is positively frightful, and shows a corrupt condition of civil society, while it threatens more alarming dangers for the future. These points are reasoned out with admirable skill in the articles before us, which sums up the danger of political patronage in this wise : "But it is idle to multiply objections to the prevailing systems of appointment to office. It will be sufficiently conclusive upon all who esteem the end of government to be the welfare of the governed that centralizing power by patronage in the hands of executive officers tends, I. To interfere with and obstruct the fair representation of the public will. 1. By organizing and disposing an army of influential men about the country, interested in perpetuating a particular governmental policy from other motives than public good. 2. By aggregating the people into large parties upon a few quetsions of common interest, by which all minor and local interests are swallowed up, and in the name of party fidelity the citizen is sacrificed to the partizan. II. That it leads to the selection of incompetent and unsatisfactory public officers. 1. Because an Executive can have no adequate opportunity or means to investigate the claims of the various applicants, and 2. He is under continual temptation to select available instruments to serve his own political ends rather than competent officers to serve those of the public. III. That it creates a temptation to multiply offices for the purpose of creating or rewarding political or personal friends. IV. That it tends to bring into discredit the character and reputation of men who have fairly earned tlie confidenoe of the people by their purity and capacity as men and as statesmen, and also V. To lower the standard of the public service by creating an interest favorable to the selection of unscrupulous officers. . VI. That it tends to interfere greviotisly with the liberty of opinion and of discussion by subjecting the political sentiments of all classes to the most unrelenting party tyranny." Rut the most important part of this able argument relates to the question, how the danger of this inevitable corruption may be prevented ! Of course, there is but one conclusion on the subject, which is, that the only corrective is to be found in the principle of Representation. Let all public officers be the direct agents of the people, and not the mere instruments of some superior officer. Nothing could be more absurd than the practices which obtain under our government in regard to the mode of electing public functionaries. A strange inconsistency pervades our whole law in its expression of confidence in the people. Sometimes they are trusted, and sometimes they are not, with the most capricious and amusing want of any reference to a general principle. As Mr. Hurlbut, says in his essay, "They may elect a Governor directly, but must choose electors to elect a President. They may elect a County Treasurer, but not a State Treasurer a Justice of the peace, but not a County Judge. They are permitted to choose a Congressman, but riot a Tillage Fostmaster. This is Worse than absurd it corrupts tlie Executive power, arid fills offices with sycophants and unworthy incumbents. It produces that scramble for spoils, that rush to the Executive chamber, which ßhocks the moral 6enso of the community at every inauguration of a new President or Governor." This question has important bearings upon the projeqt for a Constitutional Convention, now befote the people, to which we mean to advert at another time. In tlie mean time we hope that our readers will read the essay in the Democratic with attention and thought. tfV. 1'. Post. K. LUI I COpVllUCIK Ul Li 1 I KJ, kill IJJJU.J writing from" the I31ue Mountain, relates the follow ing: , .' During the campaign between General Jackson and John Q. Adanu for the Presidency, there was preichiriK at a private house some 8 or V miles north of your village. After the. preacher had been some tifao strenuously holding1 forth, as he thought, tlie object of his mission, he made a short pause, and with his penetrating eyes fixed upon his audience, he deliberately put the question : All who arc. for God ! will hold up their right hands ! Tbe preacher waited some time for compliance, but all was silent as the grave, not one finger was raised. 'Well, says he, 'all who are for the devil, let them raise their hands.' But this ouly made his audience more motionless than before, when he exclaimed W hy none for God ! and uoie for the devil ! who are you for 1 At that request an old brniscr raised up bis head, and cried out at the lop of Ins voice : 'We afe all Jor Jackson I by de law ! fj-It is reported that a person, while digging a well in Franklin countr. Tennessee, a few weekä since, found a human skeleton, at tlie depth of fifty feet, which measures eighteen feet in lenslh ! The frame was entire, and is now being wired together, The principal medical inen of Nashville are said to have seen it, and pronounced it a veritable human frame of enormous size. It is also said that the finder has been offered 3,000 for it, but refused any price until exhibited for twelve months. We suspect such bones, if found, belonged to a less credulous animal than man. The account looks much like those given of human bones said to have been found at various times during tlie last century, from 18 to 3G feet in height; still it reminds us of a human bone Found by us some years since, while exploring some graves of the Pcquid chiefs; which must have belonged to a man eight feet high Suicide. A lad of 13, named John Shields, who had been paying attentions, which it appears were not acceptable, to a girl living in Newark, N. J., shot himselt betöre the door of her father s house, on Saturday nijht. He stood before the door, deliberately bared his bosom, and shot himself through tlie heart, expiring instantly. In one of his pockets was found a paper with these words wrrtten" Charge my death to Miry He was a native of Ocraagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, where hid father holds, a government office, and has had a good education." OrBy rubbing red hot iron with the1 horn of a sheep, it will be coated w ith a durable and shining black, varnish; Mechanics will try thu."

Maryland Election. Col. W. F. Giles. Democrat, is elected in the 4ih Con-

Rresionl Dittrict by 842 majority over Mr. John P. Kennedy, Whig. Mr. Polk majority in the District was 473. Thomas Watkins Ligon, Democrat, is elected in the 3d Congreicionil District, composed of the 16ih, I7ih. 18ih, 19th. and 20th warda or the city ot Ualtimore, end county. L goQ majority in the five wards oi the city is 764. John Kettlewell, EqM a g illant and persevering Demo crat, has been elected sherifT of Baltimore city by a maj. of 1,231 over James Law, Esq., the late popular Whig Ma vor. The whole Democratic ticket for Legislature, Otc, has been elected in Baltimore city and count j. Carrolt Ctuntu. Ligon (Dem.) 1,511: Wethered, (Whig) 1,374. Il9vtard District. Ligon e majority is 13, and the whole Legislative ticket is electeJ. In Frederick eoonty, the whole Democratic ticket is elected by some 200 majority. Cecil .Counttf For Congreis Constable (Dem.) 1,598 ; Wright (Whig) 1.53D. Cecil has elected tho full Democratic Dcgialative ticket. Wright majority in Kent county is only 63. We are indet led for most of the above returns to the Republican and Argus. MOMUO.MKY COUNTY. Three Whigs and one Democrat have been elected to the Legislature. For Conzres Ch a pmau (Whig) 935, Key, (Dem.) 858. H'ashington Union. A slip from Columbus, O., says, Four Congressional Districts heard from all Democratic." Prof. Itromoii's Lectures. We are glad to learn that this gentleman has finally succeeded in obtaining two classes, for the afternoon and evening ; and we cannot too strongly urge those who have any desire for mental improvement to add their names to the list. Information of varied and most interesting and important kinds, is impart ed by Prof. B. in a manner equally pleasing and effective; and we have no hesitation in saying that most people will learn more, on the Subjects treated of, in one of his courses, than they could do by six months reading. Go and see. IStiincs of the HI. and I. Ilatl Koari During the week ending October 4, 13 13. OUTWARD. 161 Fassengers. 80 ,r,00 lbs .Merchandise 2SÖ bis Salt. 17 " Whiskey. 2 " Oil. 2 " Molasses. 2 " Cement. 8 half bis Beer. 2 kegs Powder. 7 Plows. INWARD. 1G3 Tassengers. 4,3G5 bush Wheat. 1:57 " Corn. 53 Flaxseed. 255 " Eran. 031 bis Flour. 190 empty barrels. 15,000 Staves. 1 9,75 ft Lumber. 20 cords Wood. 5.300 lbs other freight. The river has risen slightly and a further rise may be expected, as there was four feet at Pittsburgh on the 12th. Eelow you have a list of the prices of tlie leading articles of produce and groceries in tlie mar ket : Wheat 50 cents per bush. Siijrar 7 a 7J per lb. Corn 25 a 28 Flour CO per bbl. Feathers 20 cts. per lb. Ginseng 23 cts. per lb. Flaxseed ÜOcts per lb. Beans 1 00 per bush. Timothy seed $03 50 do. Cotfee 7i a 81 do Molasses tMi per pall Iron3j cts. per lb. Nails ass'd 41 do. Castings 31 do. White lead Al 55 a 1 75 per keg. Salt 25 a 2G cts per bush Contracts have been made fur Fork at Ä.1 73 here; at Cincinnati some have contracted for heavy loU at 81 00. W. N. J. Outrage- Information Wanted. About the 21st September, Joseph Tice, who was with his wife, travelling Weft, intending to fro to Kock River, Illinois, turned his wife adrift, sick and without money, to the mercy of the world, near Danville, Indiana, and went on, in company with a girl who he had taken from Indianapolis. His wife desires to make his baseness known to the world : and she also desires that any person who may know of his where abouts, now or hereafter, will send her information at Dayton, Ohio, so that ehe may take lerjal measures against him. lie had a long bedded blue wagon, with two bay hordes. He is a low chunky man, light complexion, blue eyes, and about 41 years old. The female's name is Eliza Jane Mans or Mants, formerly from near Columbus, Ind. She is tall and slim, and about 2G years old. 0-Western papers please copy. The Prairie Car. Many of our citizens went, on Saturday last, out on tbe Waverly road, to witneSs an experiment on this new car, invented by Gen. Semple, of this State. Some of them, who came out; were disappointed, in consequence of tlie breaking of one of the iron cogs, of tlie old locomotive, by vthicli the car is temporarily propelled. We examined the car very attentively; so have the most of our citizens ; and the general opinion is, that the experiment is successful. It is so constructed, as to run, without rails, over a common road, tolerably level ; and it is contemplated to run between this city and Alton, over, a route well known to our old hunters, heading Lick, Sugar, and Macoupin creeks, the route being about 20 miles longer than the usual route. But of course, if the experiment succeeds, it will be very easy to build a few bridges rand thus shorten the route. Distance, however, is not so much an object now; The great desideratum is the running of the car in the manner contemplated by its inventor, which we do most confidently believe will be successful. It cannot be expected, at first, that every, thing will be perfect. Experience is a great teacher. It was bo to Fulton, who for many years failed in giving speed to his steamboats. Further experiments on the "prairie car," we have no doubt, will result in giving to it speed, power and safety. III. State Register. Bricks. As there are nearly thirty hundred millions of briclts made in the United States annually, and fifty thousand men are employed in making them, tlie brick-making machine lately invented by Alfred Hall, of Coxsackie, N. Y., and which we have examined, is deservedly recommended to the manufacturers of bricks. One person can rriould with it from 12 to 14,000 per day, which are far superior to those made by band.' In the neighborhood of our Atlantic cities we should think it indispensable. The reason why good red bricks are not made on the Hudson, as well as near Philadelphia, is because the clay contains magnesia and lime, while that of Philadelphia contains oxide of iron, with little or none of these; Cut tlie magnesia and lime may be extracted, and the oxide of iron used ; still, without one of these machines, brick-makers cannot compete with those who have them. The stock of which bricks are made is composed of a clay, loam, sand, marl, silicious earth, &c, and often with clay barely sufficient to cement the other substances, or not more than 30 per cent The metal ic oxides gives various colors, as desired ; copper gives a cream color. Pure clay is white, without tast or grit, and may be made artificially. When the clay will not make brick to etand fire, two thirds or more of saw dust, cut straw or horse manure added to it, will make it durable. These bricks are best to keep out cold iu winter and heat in summer, being bad conductors of heat ; tbey receive nails like wood. N. Y. Sews: 07-The following is from Nile National Register afid a whig at that : Exchanges, both foreign and domeslic, never hate been for a longer period quiet and steady. No changes to notice. This is one cf the unerring exidencei of a healthy condition of trade. Let WELL ENOUGH ALONE." So say we ; let us have no National Bank, which Mr. Clay, and other leaders of whiggery have declared, over and over ajain, could ahne regulate the exchanges. And we have "a healthy condition of trade," too, without the urent Kegulator, or any other Great Fiscally ; and, what gratifies us not a little, we have a perfect, complete and triumphant verification of democratic predictions -Memphis Appeal, Sept. 1G. The Montreal Cathedral. This immense structure contains 1,'JG:) pews, and is capable of holding 10,000 persons. It vfill cost when finished about ÄG00.000, and yet some parts of the interior rive little evidence of grert expense or superior desio-n Some of the picture?, however,' are truly nragniCccnt.

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in Ulis Cliy, OU I fliiav, vjciuivr o, ja.iu a. tiiuar., son of Ii. ant M. S. Tlutme, aged 1 year, 11 months, and 7 days. Ohio Statesman pleae copy. .iiYioun v lvoomvAitn "PJWAVE nmovp.i llifir Put fnmt the Palmar lloue to Iba new SiM. buildup lisely erwled by Mr. NurrU,an4 are now recciviag Um Urgr. Heek of INcw and Iisliionablr Koods ever brtniglit to bia market, coiwuüin ia part of the follow ing 1 Ladies' I)rcs t;ood. 300 pierea new atvle printa ; Black and cukm, Wain and fi-ured Alpca ; Lvnrawe ßrurrd Coburg ; Atichan Patina :

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Rrp. l'ahineii beautiful : Muslin and 1'rarx lVlatn ; Chancrahlfl Cahmw very rieb J Indiana CahnH-na ; French and English Ginrham, ttc fce. White Goods Jaeonett and Cambric Muvli a ; Nmrnook ind 8M do; Plaid and Lace striped do ; Rihop Lawn and IVnuk do ; aunsiriprd Jaconeti ao; Hull Muslin : VicUMia Lawn and Plaid Swias, I.e. &e. Gloves and Hosiery. Lodiea'blark, while, and P.rown CoUon Homo; Infnun.ca'hntefe, larr.ua a ort, luncna, ana pui tioaei Misea and diililren'a cotton, fence and mixed woe4 how ; t r..lnn.m anil 1'hlhH ILnrM and MltlJ ! Latliea'Gloeeaend JJiits, every dracriKkin cooipriaing an excellent assortment. Shawls. Puprr printed and black Cashmere S rnw la ; lllack eni!roidered oo ; French Bncade do ; striped embroidered do t Super net and bonejr comb do ; Weaved wool do ; And common of all kind oricea from 131 f ti to $12 00. Abm.a large stock Woollen Goods ucb as Bmadctolhi of all 4or, Heaver ck4h. Pilot clut ha, Caimeres, aiineUa, Jeans (real variety of Vetinc FlanneU, all colors ana qualities omueaieil net thrti and Dinners, lie. Also, Domestic Goods of all Kinds, And a general annulment of Tiimminr for Ladies and Gentlemen, in abort, a reneml assortment adapted for eiijr and rnontry trade. We respectfully invite wir old customers and the public eenerally to examine our stock; choosing ruber to show the Goods than to make rrel pnmiiars, hirh have betvime rhesprr tlian ttie cheaprst good. IVne call on ALVOKU fc. WOODWARD, JVV 4, J-rru' -Vino EutUinp. 3 . CITY SHOE STORE. Ill AVE now on hand and offer for aale at the CV Skt Store, the laraert, best, and too fashionable assortment of Boot and Shoe ever before hrouylit to the city. The stock I now offer Is entirely new, having been bought late in the season expresly for this market, and a they were purchased before the last advance in price, I am en.ibled to sell them very cheap. The assortment ia very large, em. bracing eveiy variety; fioin a slipper whose minute proportions would scarce cover tlie tiny foot of an infant fairy, to a .Vammetk Boot that would cruh the soul out of an adult Alligator. In a word, do you wish to purchase a neat, durable and cheap shoe can and, examine my assortment, a nd I will sell you a brrgnin. Country Produce, such as Clover seed, Timothy seed. Tow Linea, IVrswax. Tallow and Feathers, taken in payment for Honte and Fhoes at Ca Pricei, and I will pay the highest maiket price in caü forHaieed. 37 J. H. OGLESBV. TO TIIK IjA1II:s. I WOULD invite the attention of I he Ladiei to a" examination of my Fall and Winter Mioe,as the srason is sppmachiug whea it is important to hve a rood article of tbe kind. Tbe assortment Hw offered for their inflection is new and Urge, embracing every varieiy.and is much uperior in style ind make to tny ia tlie CltJ. The follow in, enmnrws part of my assortment : La lieft stiw-iKx undreat Mttrocco Boots ; do do do do Burkina; do do Kwedcalf I'xxits; do do do Rukin ; do do do Strap thoes ; do do Kid welt Fhoes and tiuvkin ; do fine Elack and Colored Gaiters ; do " " " half do; For sale at a very low price at the City Shoe Store. 37 J. H. OOLEgBV. OiiilcniniN V:ilcr Troor Hoof. "tT IIAVK jus received a Urce assortment of Gendemen'a Boots At fresh from the manufacturer, which I will srll fur leas tnonry than the same kind can be had at any other establishment in the cay. Cenl!i'm?n's 1'rinie Calf Wi.le r Proof ßoou. Ctilleinen's Prime Calf Welt Boot, tntlemea's Prime Calf Napoleon ftoots. Gentlemen's Prime Goat Morocco Ilu. Gentlemen's Prune Kip Water Proof Boots. For sale at the City h tore. 37 J. Tf. OCLESBT. A I.U l. ISTIt 4TO Il'S XtlTI t'C "VOTICE is hereby jivrn, that the tindersisned bas beeo appointed 1 silministratur of the estate of Thomas I heeseruan, tile of Marlon county, ftate of Indiana, deceased. All persons having claims) 2a inst s.. itl estate will present them duly auilienlicated for settlement, and those owing the estate will please settle the same without delav. The estate is supposed to be solvent. Oct. 13, iiiS. 37 3w is JCaijK TRICE, AdminittrutT. A IMI 1 A I ST It ATOIt'S S A I.C THE undersigned will sell al public Rile, at the residence of the late Thomas Cheeseman, deceased, in Wayne township, on Satunlay, November 1st, a two biro wagon, one carrmee, ttoraes, cattle sheep, hoes, farming utensils, hooaeboM luinlture.corn in the fiel'., oats in barn, carpenter's toi!s, i.e. fcc. On all ums overt hree dollars, twelvemonth credit will be riven with, approved security. JESSE PRICE, A&muuHrlar. Oct. 13. 1Ö45. 37 3 w is JIAUSIIAIAS SALE. Br virtue of an execution to me directed from the clerk office of the Circuit Couit of the Vmted Stales lor the durk of Indiana, I have levied nptm and will expose to public asle, tw cash in hand, at the Court Houne door in the town of lebanon, Boone county, Indiana, on the tenth day of Movetnber, 1845, between the hours of 10 o'clock, a. m., and 4 o'clock, p. m., the rentt and profits for seven years, of the Mlowing described real estate, vix; Iot9,3. 4, 7 and 8, in bhek 7, and lots I, 4, 6, in block 8. in the town of Lebanon, Boone connty, Indiana, a designated in the original plat of said town ; also, the fülowing real estate in the town of Jamestown, State and county aforesaid, viz : the undivided half of lot No. 4, in black 13, and lots No. 1, 5, and C, in block 14 ; also, part of the s w qr of sec 30, town. 19, range 1 east; also, the e half n w qr sec 12, town. 17. ranpe 2 west. Taken in execution as the property of John Chrisman, Joseph MeLauclilin, and Jihn II. Nelson at tlie sun of Joseph V. Black ley, David E A. Strong and John A. Simpson. And in case the rents and profits hall not tell for a sufficient sum to satitfy debt, intere4 and corts, I w ill Iben and there offer the fee simple rig lit of said real estate for sile. ABEL C. lEPPKR, Oct. 8, 1645. 37 3w Martkul U. S., District Imdumm. IMAUMIAIS .sali:. BY virtue of an execution to me directed from the Clerk's office of the circuit court of the United states In and 6 the district of I ndiana, I have levied upon, and will expose to public sale fat cash in hand, at the court bouse door in the town of Indianapolis, county of Marion, Stare of lodiana.cn the 15th day of .November, 1845, the rents and pro fits for seven years of the following described real estate, vis : Fifty-two and a half feet iS3 I S) of tbe south pan of lots numbered nine and ten, (9 and 10) in square number forty five, (45) a designated on tbe plat cr plan of the town of Indianapolis, fronting on Meridian street, fifty-two and a half (52 13) (eel, and running back the same width through the said lots one hundred and twenty (1J0) feet. And in case the renU and profits shnll not sell fur a sum sufficient to satisfy debt, interest and costs, I will then and there offer the fee simple riirlit of said real estate for sale, bale between tbe hours of ten o'clock,, m-, and four o'clock, p m. ABEL C. PErPEIt, Marshal U. S. Liwtrict, Indiana. OctohtrA, 1I5. 37-3w ts 3IAIIMIA1VS MALI'. BY irtiie of an execution to me directed, from the clerk's office of the circuit court of the United States in and lor the District of Imliana, I have levied apon, and will expose to puolie sale, for cash In hand, at tbe Court House door, in the town of Itanvtlle, Hendricks county, I ndiana, on tlie tth day of November, between the hours of 10 o'clock, A M.and 4 o'clock, P. M ., the following described property, via : Lot No. 1, Block 19, also Lot No. 4, Block SO. as designated on Uia original plat of the town of Danville, Hendricks county, Indiana. Taken in execution as the property of James Maccoun, Henry G. Todd, illtarn L. and Jesse T. Mallixk, at the suit of Kara Fuote and Robert B. Howler. And in case tlie tents and pronts shall not sell for a sufficirnt sum to satisfy debt, interest, and costs, I will then and there otfer the fee simple right of said property lor sale. A. C. PEPPER, Marshal ot Ute V. B. , Di.tr id of Indiana. October 4, 1845. 36 t Nov. 8. ' NOTICE TO TAX-IMYEKS. THE Treasurer and Collector of Johnson County, hereby gives notice, that the Duplicate for the present year is now In hie hands, the amount of taxes charped for the year, 1845, on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property, is, for State purposes, tweutyone rents and seven milis ; for County purposes, twelve and one half cents: for Road purposes, six ce:.ts; on each poll, for lale purposes, fifty cents, and for County purposes, fifty cents. For the purpose of receiving taxes he will attend at the usual places of liol.linz elections in the several townships ia said county, on the following days, vix : At llensley Township, on Monday the 13th September. " L ilian, Tu sdny the lüth " While River, Weiinesdav the 17th w Pleasant, " Thursday the lctit " Clark, " Friday tbe lüih Franklin, " Monday the 2-Jd. ' Blue River, Friday the SOth " M Nineveh, Saturday the 87th lie will nlo attend at I.W oSice iu Franklin except when absent in the several townships until the first day of January next. Each person owing road tnx must produce the Supervisor's receipt in lull for bis Stats and County tax. Wll. BRIDGES, 2!M3w Treasurer and Collector. J. C. Slate of lntliaii:i Jolnisoii Cuimiy. I THB JoHSOS PaoSATB Col'ST. Joseph B. Dobson, Ex. vs. Hannah Katharine McUaughey et al. Petition ts tll Land. TUE defendants, Hannah Katharine MeGauthey, Margaret MeGai'ghey, Nancy Jane Mcliauv, hey, Mary Ann McGaughey and Martha 1 aniline AlcGaughey wrll lake notice that Ihe complainant will, at the next term of the Johnson Prol ate Court, to be held al tbe Court House in Franklin, on tlie second Monday in Noveml er next, apply to said court lor confirmation of the order oi sale heretofore taken in lite premsies, and sir leave to convey tlie premises sold to James Rllchey , the purchaser thereof, and that unless they appear in said court oq the first day of the term More said, and t how t"öd causa to the contrary , the cae will be beard and determined in their absence. Witness Isaac Jones, cleik of said court, this l?lh day of Sept. A. D. 1845. ISAAC J UN ES, Ulk. By Kotij. S. Hick,, Dep, F. M. Fiwch, Sol. for complainant. XI 3 M Territory oi". Wicoiiiu Milwaukee Comity. Btroaa thb Ho. A. ti. Miu.cs, i tub Distbict CocbV. June Term, A. D., I15. tN the malirr öf the (etitkin uf John B. Myers.nn insolvent deblof, to be discharged from his del. It aptvarinc to tlie aatifnction of the court that notice of Ilia prmtency of this nHicatma bus not hera puhlitihed arrotdmg to the furnier Tder nude herein , on motion of Blodget at Walker, solicitors for petit tonrr, it is ordered that all tbe creditors of said iimHrent t e ami they are hereby required to shoar cause, if any they bve, on tlie second Monday in November, A. I., Itflj, before the Mid Ju!;r,at the Court House, in the low n of Mil-i waukpe, why an assiannifüt of (he estate of said insolvent should not be made and tie discharged from Iii dt-bls. It thb Cocbt. (y-Wisconsin Arcus pnWi.bcil at Ma'lisoiT, W. T., and loduui. Sentinel, puldiiilied al Indianapolis, la., wiil pteae publixh the above notice for Id weeks sun esive!y, and fend kflidavft of publication and bill to this oCice Vdraulrt Cuerier. 20-lOw - STOl in: IB. ßTRAYED from the subscriber, in tlie town of Indianapolis, on 3 Monday nisht, the COJ of Septemhei, a dark brown innre, about thirteen liaud l:ieh, vry heary IhiiK, ba a white slip cnmmeneinx near the centre of her forrhead, and gr.iduatfy mrhnnii lo tbe left of her me, her nnne vorn otf.ohort about half way up her neck, an easy trotter, and when reined titttit will pnee a little ; she is baref noted unit her h.mls comudVraiily worn ; any person reluming said mans lo John t;. Urmofl in ImlmnnpiJi, will rrrnve lite reward of five' tMlats, '!d lire thanks tf jtCYLiS JIcLS TOSJt. i awls'

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