Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1845 — Page 1

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUE OFFICIAL UAZETTE OF TUE STATE

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ADVERTISEMENTS, will be inserted three times at one dollar a square of 8 lines, and be continued at the rate of 23 cents a square for each additional in sertion. Quarterly advertisements, per square, $5. All advertisements from abroad must be accompanied by the cash ; or no attention will be paid to them. (fcPostasre must be paid. Bbow.nstow.t, Ixd., Oct. 13, 1845. Dm Sm I haa vour prospectus for the fifth o!nme of tha State Sentinel. You request loma one in each town in the 8(ata to act as agent in procuring sub scriptions for your paper. I believe you bare no agent in this (Jackson) county. I am willing to eiert what little influence I may possess with my fellow citizens in behalf of your paper. A club of twenty is in process of formation in this town and no Joubt will be formed. Questions are frequently asked me to which I am not able to return answers, and which I propound to you. Are you willing that eld subscribers, where terms for which they he aubscribeJ and paid, has or is about to expire, shouIJ become a party to the club and receive the Sentinel according to the terms proposed 1 (I) Are you willing to send your paper, a part to one office and a part to another in those neighborhoods where it will require the union of the territory surrounding two post offices to make op a club ! (3) The people of this county have not as yet patronized th press to any considerable extent, but will do so when they have become initiated in the mysteries of taking newspapers. The new Democratic paper does not meet with any encouragement in this portion of the State. Nobody wishes or prays for its success but the whigs, and you know that the good book telle as that the prayer of the wicked prevaileth not. Let your course be onward, and it will be successful. Tear off the mask from the (oaves-and-fUhea-bank-inocoIated-democrats, who prowl around the capital, seeking their own aggrandizement, and where democracy is measured by their interest. Id olden times it was asked, "can any good thing come out of Nazareth 1 with much more propriety it may be asked, can any good democrat come out of a bank 1 Aa well nvght you look within the walls of brothels and dens of pollution for the good and virtuous. Whatever 1 can do for yon will be done cheerfully and gratuitously. Yours, truly, E. (1) Certainly. (2) Yes. We are obliged to friend E. for the interest he manifests in our behalf ; and will take this occasion to return our thanks to our many friends who have so nobly seconded our efforts, by obtaining us a large increase of subscribers. There is room for more subscribers, and every one received will urge us to renewed exertions. Mr. Merrill nml J I. Dunn. We published last week, the compromise of their lawsuit by Messrs. Dunn and Merrill. On further inquiry we learn that the suit had been pending about eighteen months, that the Plaintiff made no effort to bring the cause to trial, that the Defendant relied on Pleas of Justification alone, but that wearied out with the delay and having no longer any interest in maintaining the charge, was willing to end the matter by withdrawing it, rather than continue an unprofitable, polecat, contest. Mr. Dunn appears to have been easily satisfied when he does not insist on the incorrectness or untruth of the charge but merely that it shall be withdrawn or TAKEN BACK, though as to this, the Capital Letters are of his own manufacture. We learn from Mr. Merrill himself, that he still possesses Dunn's letter, in which Dunn wrote to him, "J wlmit DID MISLEAD the State Board at the Nov. session in regard to this matter, and I dose so from the bet of motives. I kneio if all was known, it would make a great noise," Src. 07"After the publication of our last paper, we were informed by the Governor that the statement, incorporated in our reply to Amos Lane, to the effect that Mr. Senator Buell had used the threatening language attributed to him to the Governor, was an error that Mr. B. had not made the threat spoken of to him. We stated how we obtained the information ; but we may have been mistaken as to the particular point in relation to the Governor. It was nevertheless notorious to the Democratic members of the Legislature, that Mr. B.'s attitude was such as we stated it to be to others, if not to the Governor himself. So it will be seen that this error by no means exonerates Mr. Lane's relation and friend from the main burden of the charge. We make this explanation thus early, in order to if possible escape being bored by the reams of letters which we should no doubt otherwise receive from Mr. Lane, his precocious sons, and all their first, second, third and fourth cousins. fJ7"Several respectable Whig papers have declared themselves in favor of the pursuance of an honest course, by the Whig party, in the next legislature, in relation to the election of a U. S. Senator. The Harrison Gazette, does not coii.cide will those views, and thinks it would be better for its party to make it a matter of bargain, to obtain the passage of laws favorable to Whiggery in other respects. This is an honest avowal in favor of dishonesty, to say the least, and the Editor should be promoted. 0- Martix Schmall publishes a card in the Evansville Courier, in which he says he intends ' to investigate and expose the pretended disclosures," as he calls it, and which appeared in one of our late papers. Should he successfully do bo, we shall give him a chance to be heard through our columns. Mean time, we shall wait patiently. 07 The Martinsville Journal announces a candi date for the office of enrolling clerk of the House of Representatives at the next session. That ofSce was unfortunately abolished two years ago, and the can didate therefore. will stand rather a poor chance for election. Maine Election. Anderson's majority for Gov ernor will be 2,000 ! The Senate will stand 23 Democrats to 3 Whigs. As far as returned 59 Democrat and 37 Whigs a're elected to the House; and a great majority of the districts and towns yet to choose are Democratic. Baltimore Citt Election. The Democrats have plncted 17. the Whi?. 3. members of the Lower House of the City Council. The Democrats have 9, the Whigs 1, in the Upper House. A xTi-Tt exters. John Van Steenbtrrgh, a youn man about 21 years old, has been found guilty, in Delaware county, N. Y., for the murder of under sheriff Steele. Others are to be tried as principals or accessories. fcrThe Grand Jury of Washington county, Ohio, has indicted the Virginians who kidnapped three negro stealers a short time ago, and a requisition has been made on the Governor of Virginia, who wi!l probably refuse to surrender them.

Published cverv Thursday. The Stolen letters. We have received, from our friend Coleman, at New York, a copy of "Mackenzie's pamphlet," containing the stolen letters, and about which the Whig papers are just now making so much fuss. It consists as the N. Y. News observes, "mainly of personal history, and gossip relating to a large number of individuals more or less connected with the politics of the last thirty years ; a narrative of come events known to be true, commingled with much of partial statement and positive falsehood, of unfounded surmises and calumnious inventions. As a whole, it ia a tissue of malignity and mendacity, utterly unworthy of credit or contradiction, as all of it which depends upon the unsupported veracity of its author, has been pronounced to be by the unanimous sentiment of the community." "The letters, by which this mass of fabrications is designed to be supported, When separated from the lies and libels in which they are set et en with the numerous suppressions of passages, and, perhaps, interpolations, and with all the embellishments of italics and ca'pitals, amount, it seems to es, to very little. We have carefully read those of a few amon? the most prominent of the sixty persons from whom let ters are published ; and find in them nothing which their authors need to regret. There.are nineteen from ex-President Van Bcren ; and they present him very favorably. In an intercourse familiar and confiden tial to the last degree, and in which the most trifling personal matters are 6tated with the unreserve of the freest conversation, they exhibit no intrigue, or craft. or duplicity, but the greatest sincerity and directness 1 high and ever present self-respect, and a manly and independent bearing. There are seven letters from Secretary Makcy, which, sensible, amiable, and marked by the pleasant vein of humor which belongs to that gentleman, win upon the reader. There is one from Gov. Wright and tiro from Mr. Flagg: which even Mackenzie's genius for detraction seems to have abandoned as incapable of perversion, and has left undistinguished by the staring capitals which give a certain typographical effect to harmless passages in other letters. There are thirty-four from Mr. B. F. Butler ; in only two or three of which written twenty-six years ago, when that gentleman was for a short time connected with the Washington and Warren Bank has the malignant ingenuity which has fabricated this volume of calumnies been able to find materials fur invidious criticism ; and in these only by suppressing others which explain them by garbling passages of those which ere given and by totally misrepresenting the occurrences to which they relate to readers who have no knowledge of the truth or means of correcting the falsehood." The Hartford Times notices the subject as follows : The letters are the free, friendly and unreserved communications of friends, covering a period of twen ty years, which were locked up, and to procure which: locks were broken, and confidence disregarded. Among others, Mackenzie boasts that he found love-letters ; letters on business of the most private character ; and such as were of a political nature, or from political men, he hastened to publish. The concentrated hatred of the miscreant teems most violent against Benjamin F. Butler, who, something over a quarter of a century ago, he being at that time a young man of twenty-two or three, was for about a year president of the Washington and Warren Bank. It was a county institution, very much weakened, and, as was the custom of those days, was annoyed by frequent runs from the city banks. Mr. Butler appears to have sustained himBelf very well, at a period when banks and banking were les understood (hau at present. He writes freely ,"and without reserve, to a man of his own ase, who Lad Studied with him, and been for three years an inmate of his office. Mr. Hoyt, who was the recipient of these letters, and who was guilty of neglect in leaving his papers where fellows like Mackenzie could be tempted to plunder them, foiled as a merchant soon after the last war. He immediately commenced the study of the law in the office of Messrs. Van Büren and Butler was an assiduous student, attentive and laborious. His deportment and good conduct was such as to obtain the confidence of the . gentlemen witJi whom he studied. Some inkling of his early life a disposition to speculate, it seems by these letters led him, like others, to embark in stocks, Georgia gold mines, John Van Buren, the son of the President, who for several years, on coming of age, pursued a wild career of speculation, was a free correspondent of Hoyt s. It was in the period of bloat and United States Bank contests that John came upon the stage. The speculators were of course glad to involve him, and he was enticed into stock transactions, and village-lot speculations, until he found himself overwhelmed. Those who had lured him on some of them, undoubtedly, in the hope of involving his father at length demanded payment. He applied, as was expected ; but instead of getting advances, he was advised of bis course and its consequences, and that his best step would be to close forever this career, with assurances that, in such case, he should be extricate. He adopted it; surrendered to his creditors all his property, and received advances from his father of several thousand dollars, which he paid over to them, and became square with the world. Faithful to his promise, he abandoned speculation and took to his books; became a laborious student; acquired much reputation in his profession ; became a man of business, and was a few months since elected attorney gneral of the State of New York. The wretch Mackenzie has seized the wild, specuating letters of John Van Buren, when comparative ly a boy, and which should have been destroyed when received, and published them, r or what good or hon orable purpose ! They are the careless, reckless let ters of a thoughtless youth, and not of the maturer and thinking man. Of course, all the letters of Mr. Van Buren to his old student are published or all which they suppose could make difficulty between him and any other per son. These letters, written without care or thought that he should ever see them again, only elevate the character of that eminent man. Tbey do credit to his head and heart. We do not remember to have seen these letters copied into the columns of our gos eiping and scandal-loving neighbors. ihey preferred gathering up and gloating over the hasty scrawls of a thoughtless youth ; and those who have indulged in it, would not hesitate to commit any other crime, if they could escapo detection, provided they thought they could injure any one from whom they differ. So soon as morbid curiosity is satisfied, redection com mences; and the man whom the Whigs have slander ed beyond any others, (unless it be Mr. Jefferson and Gen. Jackson,) the wise, sagacious statesman, excel lent man, and good patriot, Martin Van Buren, will ! be more esteemvd, respected, and regarded trom this thievery and their criminal efforts to injure hint. As for Mackenzie, he is too despicable for comment ; and his associate scoundrels, who keep out of 8ht, are nd better than him.elf. It is not surprising that they try to save their characters, by secreting their names. Ohio Election. A slip from Columbus gives the following : Faiffield county, dem. all round. Pickaway, about 120 dem. mai.. Knox. 400 to 500 dem.. Guernsey, small dem. maj. Belmont, whig, 400 to 500. Muskingum GOO to bOO; Ross, the same; Licking, some 400! Shame! Delaware, abont 400. From the Empire, it would seem that the whig maj. in Montgomery will e about 400. In Preble county ihe whig raaj. is 56 less tlian at last election. In Franklin county, the vote falls off near 1000. The whig majority is largely reduced. We have not sufficient returns to give us any idea how the Statrj has gone; but in all probability the whigs will have a majority. From a hasty glance, we think we may have the lower branch of the Legislature.

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INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 23, 1845.

Jtlaryl.iiiil Election. The Baltimore table of the popular vote in the several districts :

Democrat, Whig. Native. 1st District, . 2330 3W1 2d District, CT89 6V03 3d District, 592 1 5030 4th District, 504 49G2 1147 5th District, Stttt 37lS 6th District, 3579 3735 29,339 27,271 1,147

The Legislature. The following is the result of the election fur members of the House of Delegates, by which it will be seed that there is a majority of four for the Whigs, which, with their majority in the Senate, will make nearly twenty on joint ballot, HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

1845. 1911. W. D. W. D. Baltimore city, 0 5 0, 5 Baltimore county, Ö 5 0 5 Montgomery, 3 1 4 0 Frederick, 0 5 2 3 Washington, 2 3 Alleghany, .0 4 0 4 Caroll, 4 0 4 0 Cecil, .U4 04 I Kent, 3 0 3 0 Hartford, 0 4 4 0 Queen Anne's 3 0 3 0 Charles; 3 0 3 0 Calvert, 12 3 0 Prince George's, 4 0 4 0 Talbot, 0 3 3 0 Anne Arundel, 2 3 5 0 St. Mary's, ' 3 0 3 0 Caroline, Ü Ö 3 0 Dorchester, 4 0 4 0 Somerset, 4 0 4 0 Worcester, 4 0 4 0 43 39 61 21

Trnl Ii from a Whiff. Speaking of the election of a U. S. Senator, the Bloomington Herald of Oct. 11, says : "No party can encourage factions in the ranks of its political opponents, without inciting like factions in its owri. To d ly a democrat, not the choice of his party, is elected to office by the aid of whig votes; and the next day, when the whigs have power, we find some political factionist pushing himself forward, encouraged thus to act; from the hope that the democrats to avenge themselves, will elect him because he is not the choice of his party. Thus it is that neither, party can elect the most acceptable to it, and men of inferior ability are elevated to office. Nor does this policy, as has been the result in the elevation to power of moderate men, whose course will be to restrain party excess for as the Indiana State Journal has truly observed, "they become the more ultra in order to propitiate the wrath of their political friends." But another evil consequence also results. When the best talent of a party men who combat for principle find they are pushed aside, and others elevated to office, whose sellishness led them to thwart the will of their party, and who are of inferior ability they withdraw themselves from politics. Thus the affairs of Government falling into the hands of corrupt, intriguing and selfish men, are mismanaged; and by Üiat mismanagement odium is brought upon the whole party." . I'. S. Senator. The selection of an individual to fill the important station of United States Senator from Indiana, rendered vacant by the expiration cf Albert S. White's term, seenis to occupy no inconsiderable 6hafe of the attention of the Democratic press throughout the State. Every section of the State has its candidate, and every candidate his supporter. Some are advocating the claims of their favorites almost solely on local grounds because he lives in the North, or in the South, the East, or the West. Others again, speak of the talents and capacity as the first recommendation to the office. The latter, we think will be the ground on which our representatives at Indianapolis will ultimately make the selection. And it ought to be. The people of our own State th people of the Union, who have bid Indiana such a hearty welcome into the Democratic ranks expect to see the office of Senator filled by one of her most gifted sons, one of her giants in intellect. . While we have the opportunity, it is our duty to fill the office with one who will do honor to the State, who will reconcile all sectional preferences, and who will be fully able to cope with the most talented in the Senate Chamber. We have every confidence that our Representatives will make a proper selection, when the time arrives. To their hands the people have committed the task, which we trust they will execute free from" the dicta tion or intrigue of designing" men. Ihe discussion at present coins on relative to the claims of the different candidates, will be productive of much good. It will tend to harmonize and con centrate public sentiment, before the Legislature meets, and enable the members to see their way clearly before casting their votes fraught with such important results. Mw Harmony statesman, kept. 20. Xativc 9 Views from a. Whig quarter. Nativism says the Ohio Statesman, is nothing but Whiggism run to seed. Some Whigs despise nativism, others love it, cherish it, and do all they can to to advance its principles it is a question of time, merely, as to the triumph of this latter portion of the Whigs ; and it will be well for voters of foreign birth to consider whether they can consi-tently have any connection with a party which affords any countenance to the narrow and contracted spirit of nativisra' which alms to reduce them to a condition of political servitude. A late number of the New York Express, a well known and thorough-going Whig paper, says : Again, tee argue, thai a Negro, bond or free, native to the soil, attached to the soil, trained to the country t and of the country, is better qualified to exercise with discretion the right of suffrage, than a peasant from the Scheldt or the Rhine, or from the huts, hovels or bogs oj Ireland. And again : Sambo and Scipio of South Carolina better understand the value of d tte than Pt O'Muliifan, fresh from Tipperary, or Ilms der Thunder bludgeon, just from the fields of Mynheer on the Scheldt. We contend then, that where the door of suffrage is thrown tride open, Africa has equal riglds, as tcell as Europe, and that is all: The Native American, the first paper published in Philadelphia to advocate Nalivism, has expired for want of patronage. We hope that every other paper of the kind will soon meet a similar fate. II. C. Wright, a native American," is abusing his country through the columns of the Glasgow Argus. In a communication in that sheet for August 29, he rails against the fame of Washington ; and we suppose a portion of the Scotch English public reads with avidity such language as this toward one whose mem ory has been held in almost universal reverence : "Washington lived and died a slaveholder ! This one black spot upon his name, like the plague spot upon the human body, will spread as the nature of the crime of elaveholding is understood, until it pollutes and deform all that seemed fair and honorable in his character. He will stand upon history as a slaveholder, and this, like the crime of a convicted felon, will be all of his character which the purified vision of mankind will be able to see." . Here U what the New Yoik Courier and Enquirer, one of the leading whig papers of that State, said about the present tariff, just after it became a law : Our tariff ia too high fr tho best intereta of the country hiah-r.far higher than Mr. Clay approves ; and beyond all question, public opinion will compel its mod meat io a."

All Indian State. The Choctaws have elected one of their Chiefs as a Representative in Cong ress. His name is PiUhlyn. He is said to be a man of intellect and of commanding influence among his people. The election of a territorial Representative by the Choctaws is regarded as a step towards the organization of an independent goverumtnt ara.in the Choctaws and the neighboring tribes, with View to ultimate admission into the Union. The aecomplishmeüt of this design would work aa important change ia our Indian policy, and would tend to bring about a new sort of, relation between our Government and the red men of tho West. The Choctaws are among the most civiiucd of the Indian tribes; they have, to some considerable extent, made themselves familiar with agricultural pursuits and with habits of a settled mode of life. The want of these habits has hitherto been the great obstacle in the way of bringing the Indian tribes into friendly associations with us. The general feeling of the American people has always been well disposed towards the admission of the Indians to all the privileges of our government and institutions ; but the traditions and habits of their forefathers, and their attachment to hunting in preference to any occupation of regular industry, have had too strong a hold upon these children of the forest. No attempts to civilize j them have yet had any complete success. The preI sent movement, however, coming from the Indians themselves, seems to promise well. A Represeuta- .... -rt:-. 1 1 - it . . iivc ui lue awnginai race Billing in uie ureal loun will constitute a living bond of consociation to draw MW uituuvu, both races into friendly coalescence. And who, of . ii Li. -.i mi : r bji mai man assemuie in me capitoi, win nave a oeticr ugui iu ii uiere uian me son ui roe son ; The territory which Pitchlyn will represent in Congress is said to contain some eighty thousand Indian warriors. They consist of many tribes and fratrments of tribes, most of them having once dwelt on this side of i the Mississippi. The lands which they now hold are guars nteed to them by the Government of the United States in consideration of the surrender by them of lands which they once occupied in the States. As a measure of policy nothing would be more advisable than a friendly union with these tribes. The frontier ! would need no bayonets nor armed regulars as a defence against Iudian aggressions if the policy were once found to be practicable of fraternizing the tribes as the settlements of white men advanced towards them. The Albany Argus, referring to this subject, strongly urges this policy. "It seems to us," says that journal, "that the admission of the Indian State into our Union, with a full community of privileges to them, as much as to the white citizens of our country; would tend !o make them fast friends, not from fear of our army; but from love and respect for their white brethren of the United States. It strikes us that this is the true way to turn the edge of the Wea; puus that sagacious men fear may yet be used against our countrymen. The North American Indian in character is noble, and, a3 all history shows, peculiarly grateful and true to his friends. He hates with the same warmth that he loves. The influence of members (elected by Indian voters,) residing at Washington, and participating in all the proceedings of Congress, and thus acting as the natural and proper guardian of Indian interests, would be a constant source of confidence to the tribes, in the justice and propriety of any legislation which might affect them. Such political and social ties would be the best and most enduring guaranty of permanent peace and friendship; and would be better than a standing army of thousands of soldiers." Gen. JnckMm's Will. In Gen. Jackson's will, the following significant passages occur. They cannot be printed too often : " I bequeath to my well beloved nephew, Andrew J. Donelsun, &c, the elegant sword presented to me by the State of Tennessee, with this injunction : that he fail not to use it wA- necessary in the itipport and protection of our glorious Union, and the prtttection of the Constitutional rights of our beloved country, should they ever be ass.uUd by foreign enemies or domestic traitors. This bequest is made as a memento of my high regard, adectiou and esteem for hnn as a high-iniuded, honest and honorable man; " To my grand-nephew, Andrew Jackson Coffee, I bequeath the elegant sword presented to me by the Ride Company of New Orleans, commanded by Capt. Beal, as a memento of my regard, and to bring to his recollection the gallant services of his deceased father j Gen. John Coffee, in the late Indian and British war, under my command and his gallant conduct in the defence cf New Orleans in lsl4 and 1315, with this injunction : that he wield it in protection of the rights secured to the American citizen under our glorious Constitution, against all invaders whether foreign foes or intestine traitors. "I bequeath to my beloved grandson, Andrew Jackson son of A. Jackson, jr. and Sarah; his wife the sword presented to me by the citizens of Philadelphia, with this injunction : thit he will always use it in defence of the Constitution and cur glörioüs Union and Jor the perpetuation of our republican system, remembering the motto, " draw me not without occasion, sheathe me not without honor." 'The pistols of Gen. Lafayette, presented by him to Gen. George Washington, and by Col. William Robinson presented to me, I bequeath to George Washington Lafayette, as a memento of the illustrious personages through whose hands they have passed, his J other, and the Father of His Caunlry. " The gold box presented to me by the Corporation of the City of New York the large silver vase presented to me by the Ladies of Charleston, South Carolina, my native State with the large picture representing the unfurling of the American Banner, presented to me by the citizens of South Carolina, when it was refused to' be accepted by the United States Senate I leive in trust to my son, A. Jackson; jr., with the directions that should our happy country not be blest with peace an event not always to be ex pected he will at the close of the war or end of the conflict, present each of said articles of inestimable value to that patriot residing in the city or Slate from whence thev were severally presented, who shaU be ndiudned bu his countrymen or the ladies to have been the most valiant in defence of his country and his country's right" Editorial Lights and Shadows. Forney, ia his valedictory, ia retiring from the Lancaster Journal, says : 'There is probably no situation in life, which is a more varied scene of care and pleasure, than that of the editor of a public print, lie is a target tor many a poisoned arrow he is the object; and often the vie urn or many an unmaniy spue ae is vjtcn w u ungraciously treated by those he has served, (though the last has not been my case,) yet, notwithstanding I. 1 - L- -fl ' JI.. 1 all these, there is gradually ebtabiisnea between mmself and his newspaper, a decree of affection a feel mor of kindred a silent couhdence mat bind mm closely to its fortunes, and awaken in him an mdescribable interest in its weltare. öueü, at least, is mv experience of editorial life. Althouzh there are few who have seen harder struggles, or have oftener experienced the bitter tempests of political rancor yet thero is something in the long lritercou'ree between myself and this paper something in the fact, that for nearly riih'e years, I have been holding converse with its readers that briglitens me memory oi me pasi, and obliterates all other and unpleasant recollection Cuba. Should Cuba ever pas3 from the hand ol Snain and not be erected into aa independent Repubhe.- savs the Detroit tree rress, u must oeiong iu iue . . i-k a. t. 1 aaL.. United States. 115 land nas ner eye upon mat iair island, as she had upon Texas, aud has made efforts to purchase it. To tint proud nation, or to France, Cuba can never belong, but at the expenSa of a long war, tad an imnians' sacrifice of blood and treasure. To the Urrited States it naturally bsloags,' and we go 6trongly for its purchase. A handsomer drenched crowd of people we never saw since the days of Adam. Indiana Paladium. Fcrlups you was iu th3 .irk, then, m Noah's time.

Volume Ys::::::sXuniler 13. Twenty-ninth Congress. The political construction of the 20th Congress, which meets at Washington on the 1st Monday in J December next, is now ascertained, almost to a unit. The beriate at present comprises 24 Whigs and 25 Democrats, not including Senator Woodbury of New Hampshire, who will no doubt resign, if he has not done so already, havin? been appointed to a scat on ! the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vacancy will however be filled with a Democrat, as will also the vacancies in Virginia, Indiana, Mississippi and Tennessee ; both branches of the Legislature in eacH of those Stated being democratic. The full Senate will therefore comprise 24 Whigsand 30 Democrats. Democratic majority 6. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The States are arranged in the order in which the elections were held.

20th Congbess. Olq Congress IV. Native. D. IV. 0. 1 2.3 I j 1 6 5 5 3 13 1 1 6 2 5 4 4 8 10 2 12 12 12 8 13 0 12 1 7 1 1 9 4 21 10 21 4 114 3 3 9 8 1 1 1 2 11 3 .3 14 3 12 4 4 2 28 7 3 ft 5 5 6 5 0 3 6 4 5 1 Ö 1 6 2 4 6 78 6 132 . 74 142

Louisiana, f Illinois, Missouri, Vermont, Maine, Georgia,! Pennsylvania, Ohid, . S. Carolina; Arkansas, New York, Jew Jersey' Ulirhicmn. ' D ' Massachusetts,! nat.r xciaware. Rhode Island, N. Hampshire.t Virginia, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Carolina, Alabama, Maryland, fOne vacancy. ElecteJ this year, for the first time, by singt districts. Showing a Whig gain of four members, and a Democratic loss of ten, compared with the old Conpress vhen elected'. Sundry changes were subse-1 quently made, nio6tly in favor of the Whigs. There remain to be elected 8 members, viz. four from Mississippi, one from Florida, and one (to fill vacancies) from each of the States of Louisiana, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. There is no doubt of the election of 4 Democrats from Mississippi, (äs the choice is by general ticket,) 1 in Louisiana, and one in Florida. If the vacancies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are filled at all, they will be filled with Democrats. Leaving these two places out of the account, the House will be divided politically as follows : . Democrats, 133 Whigs, 13 Native, 6 2-Ä o Two vacancies perhaps, Total, 2-J4 Democratic majority over Whigs, CO; do. over Whigs and Natives, 51. On joint ballot, over the Whigs, CÖ ; over all opjositi')n, 60. Of the members of the last House who v)ted against Gen. M'Kay's bill to reduce the tariff of 1342, frtyfive have been re-elected ; and of those who voted for it, 57. Majority for reduction re-elected, 12. N. Y. Journal tf Commerce. The Bubble Of 1837. 1S3S. The present generation will long remember the hotbed speculations of 1"?37 and a-. A spirit adverse to making money in the usual modes, was rife through out the land. Iu Cincinnati we escaped the bubble and its explosion in a great measure. Milvaukie and J'ffersonvil'e trlay be said to have been safety valves to us in this respect It was a common occurrence of that period for a man who had made lortunate investments, mougn owning but a tew nunarcds the aay ueiore, to oe considered worth as many hundreds of thousands the day after. Like all mama of the sort, the decline of these brilliant prospects was generally as rapid as their rise. One or two individuals who understood tne sub ject better, and did not suffer their judgements to be carried away into the impracticable or uncertain luture, managed, however, to make hay while the 6un 6hone, and to make it to some purpose. Let me narrate a case of the kind. Isaac C. Elston, of CraWf rdsville, Indiana, enter ed the section of land on which Michigan City has since been laid off and built. The laud, of course, cost a trifle, comparatively. He then went on to New York, where he laid it off as a town plat ; had it lithographed and adverticed for sale. There was no' decep tion in the case. This was the only port on the L.ake which Indiana could ever have ; and of course all the power and patronage the Sta te could direct to that quarter, it was sure to acquire. The residue of the narative I will give in Mr. E.'s own words, premising that having understood he had laid out a town there, which he yet bad on hand, I was advising him to sell while he had a chance lett, tor 1 could assure mm, 1 saw that building Tadrriors in the wilderness had had their day, and now or never was his time. He listened .. .... j. .t.. very patiently, but with the air ot a man mat does pot need advice, and then told me as follows; " I went on to New York, as you know, and hard ly got duatters in the City Hotel there till the specu lators were all around me. They bad seen the lithographs and were keen to buy, but most of them wanted to buy on credit, or at best, pajr d fifth down. I ... . ... 4 & - I told them tins did not suit me, mr 11 mere was money to be made by waiting for it, I could afford to wait as well as any others, finally, two or three uanic di rectors proposed to me to ffive four hundred thousand dollars for my city, one half down, the residue in one and two years. I replied that I was determined not to Bell unless I sold for cash, for if I had to wait, I knew that I could make more money out of it before my payments came due, than any amount I could get in the way of purchase. We talked a good while, and at last I offered to sell them the undivided half for two hundred and fifty thousand dolllars, aud the company, finding me resolute, and fancying they could make more out of it, by keeping me still interested in the project, accepted the last proposal, and gave me a check for that amount- I drew it out of bank in rouleaus of American gold, packed it up securely, and took it out with me to Crawfordsville, where I have since built as fine a house as any in the State. The great body of the money is still as safe as the d.iy I got it. My wife has a roll of one thousand eagles, which she claims as hers, in her own custody ; and now. mv dr fellow, if I never get a cent for my share of Michigan City it will never break me. But the truth is. this is none of your humbugs, and the place must become of vast importance ; and if I have no other use for the money when the company get tired of their purchase, if they ever do, I shall be ready to buy back from them, at a fair discount If I had not been a hard money man, I should have sold principally on1 credit, pocketed perhaps $20,000, and taken notes for nearly $000,000 more of which I should never have received one cent. But my specie currency notions brought me out." Cist's Advertiser: Pittsbukgii Factory Girls again. These young Amazons have had a general row at Pittsburgh. A few of them attempted to return to work, but the vast majority of them still refuse either to' work themselves or to suffer others to do so. This latter class turned out in ereat concourse, and by force, took temporary possession of most of the Factories and compelled those who had recommenced1 work to quit, and join the majoritv. W!en thy had got through this operation, Wa.Wned to the Tabernacle'here they received the money collected to sustain them the strike.

Tar in. Yott are in favor of a tariff for revenue 1" "Certain'y. What do you mean by a taruT for revenue!" A tariff which will bring in no more reveno theo Iba winu of ibe govrtanitnt require" ! am in favor of ihaL No republic should impose a tax twyond iu actual wanla." "But doii we want all the money which the present tariff paja in!' CertaiiilT we wtat it particularly if we are t ficht in Texas."

Well, then, the present Uriff is a revenue tarifl, Sup posa we reJuce the Uriff 50 per cent !" "Well, what Iben n j fr Must e not import twice the quantity of good to lure aa much money as e' have under the liatinv tariff" Certainly. "Well, then, we hall import twice aa much (od as we want or can tell, and then we overtrade, and ran in debt to EnlabJor aril to any one never get paid tbe bank a expaud to nt the exreae of importation, and then we burst up aa we did ia 1836." "We must be pruJcnt, that's all; the tariff muit be redaced to the revenue etandard ; we mul fallow our par- " . ilh all mjr heart, if it's a party queiüen." Sunday Time. ITiis dialogue would approach t!ie truth much more closely if it ran as follows : "You are in favor of a tariff for revenue !" "Certainly." 'What do you mean by a tariff for revenue !" "A tariff levied with the exclusive object of obtaining a sufficient Bum for the support of an economical government, in a manner to be the least burdensome to the people, and iuterfere the least with their private concerns." ,. I am in favor of that a republican government should confer no special privilege." "But don't we want all the money which the present tariff pays in !" "Certainly ; and want about gS.fJOO.COO per annum more." "Well, theni the prescht tariff does not yield enough !" "No. The consumption of goods is so far diminished by the high tax that the revenue is diminished." "Suppose we reduce the tariff to 50 per cent, all round I" "Well, what then ! "Must we not import twice the quantity ot goods to produce as much money as we have under the existing tariff!" "Certainly." "Well, then we shall import twice as rcu'ch goods as we want, and then we overtrade," etc. 'That is an . entire fallacy. It may happen, in one year or six months, owing to large bank credits, that people buy more goods than they can sell, or consume more than they can pay for. When, however, poods are cheap, the consumption increases, and when it does so healthfully the imports may swell to any conceivable amount, and their only effect will be to enhance the exptrts of produce in payment. An import of S33,0'JO,()t0 gave this year $27,(XX,eO0 0f revenue. With a low tax $l(5,liO0,U0O of import would have given $30,000,WJ0 revenue. The remittances of the proceeds cf these imports would have creäted a demand for and raised tle price of farm produce all over the country, probably $30,000,000 iu addition to the value of the exports. It is on this j principle that all the manufacturers of England peti tioned for a removal of the tax on tea, sugar, ccfice and all foreign produce, because experience has taught them that to promote the consumption of that produce in England h the only mode of obtaining pay for their own sales out of England. What then is the result ? Is it not that every man enjoys double the quantity of the comforts of Lfe for tie same amount cf labor thaMie would if a tax equal to the cost of the article is charged him fur the consumption V "Why yes, that setnis clear, but where is he to get employment 1" "That is a natural question to ons who does not reflect that if by the removal of taxes the quantity of all the goods in the world is doubled, just double the employment v 111 be necessary to pro duce them, and that therefore double the number of people will be required to produce them. Let ua take the case of the Lowell factories. They reported as follows : ... 1812. 1M4. . ImeremM. Dttrts$. Yard Cka nuK 73,3,400 71,141 ,600 8äd,2U Ferna If rnijWojed, 6,630 5,345 I.CF5 Wages paid, 320 485,t9j 2C3.W5 Now, these people made 74.141.C00 yards of cloth, on which the tax is 6 cents per yard, and to do it they employed 5,340 girh. ftovv, if that tax was removed the consumer would pet two yards for the same money that he now pays for one. The consumption would be doubled, and their concerns would sell 1-14,-2S3,J00 yards, which would employ 10,G1W fjirls to make it, and their wages would amount to $971, DIM. I at the same rates as uow.tliey have beea reduced li per cent, since the new tariff. Now let ns see bow this would operate. The capital of these factories is S3,900,f CO and yields 20 per tent, dividends, which amount tb $l,730,( 00. Now if they sold double the quantity of cloth it would cost $183,993 more for wages, and JL3,0t;0 more for cotton. These two items make 713,093, which deducted from actual dividends leaves 1WX3,003 as the dividends cn 900,000, cr 12 per cent. The government tax, therefore, has no other effect than to deprive consumers of 74,000,000 yards of cloth, throw 5,315 drls out cf employ, destroy the consumption of 22,t'$0,0C0 lbs. of cotton or send it to England to be consumed, and to put the cost of the cotton and , the M ages of the girls into the pockets of four or five inordinately wealthy stockholders in factories." "This is certainly a new view tf the matter to me. The tariff advocates Üiat it is to proriiote employment, but I see aires 3y that the cheaper goods are the more they will be consumed, and the more there is consumed the more must be made.' N. Y. Ntvs. fJ-The following is a table of exact distances from Natchitoches, Louisiana, to Washington, Texas, as ascertained by actual measurement : . Miles. From Natchitoches to Fort Jesup, 25 Fort Jesup to Alford's, 131 Alford's to Sabine River, 1 1 i Sabine (Gaines's Ferry) to Milam, 7 Milam to San Aurrustine, 19 Sao Augustine to the Attoyac Rivet; Attoyac to Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches to Douglas, Douglas to the Angelina River, Angelina to the Nethes River,' Nerhes to McLane's, McLane's to Master's, Master's to Crocket,' Crockett to Parker's, Parker's to Spring and Lake, Spring and Lake to Trinity River, Trinity (Robins's Ferry) to Mitchell's, Mitchell's to Lake, Lake to Rivera's, Rlvefs's to Pine Spring, Pine Spring to Roan's, Roan's to Fanthrop's, Fattbrop'a to Washington, White Water Canal. the Brookville American of Oct 3d says : "We have heard it whispered that the Canal Company have agreed to give to Lawrenceburgh that portion of the White Water Canal between Harrison and Lawrenceburtrh, if they will agree a take it and keep it in repair, it is aiso saiu uiai twra.nnugu will accept it on condition that the Company will keep up the dam at Harrison." What Rascautt Next ! The Brookville. (Ia.) Democrat says ihat the White Water Canal Company have refused, or soon will refuse, to receive their own ti in payment of Tolls and Water rents. if they do venture sui h a reckless effort to pilfer from the public, they will have done nothing more than most other companies of the kind, that were suffered to put out for circulation Ü eir ou protnttes to fill the place of moru y ; but we doubt if the Legistture of that State will tolerate them in the villany of the act." It is singular that the new postage law prescribe, the amount of postage on letters carried lesa or more than ÖC0 miles, but says nothing about those which are carried just 300. According to the Directory rrej hv the To.t Office Department there arc tlgh- ! teen Tost OÜV, which ar. ju m r,om in , Washington. Are lei-is to uu i charged with five or ten ctnts T