Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1845 — Page 1

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL: TUE OFFICIAL UAZETTE OF THE STATE CZy-UJice on Hanois street Xorth of Washington. G. A. & J. P. CHAPMAN, Editors. C7"The State Sentinel will contain a much larger amount of reading1 matter, on all subjects of general interest, than any other newspaper in Indiana. THE SCJ1I-WCEKL.Y EDITION la published every Wednesda y and Saturday, and during tha session of the Legislature, three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at Four Dollars year, payable always in advance. TIIC WEEKLY EDITION

Is published every Thursday, at Two Dollars a year, always to be paid m advance. $1 in advance will pay for six months. $5 will pay for three copies one year. Persons remitting 10 in advance, free of post age, shall have three copies of the Semi-Weekly one year. 2 will pay for six months. $1 will always oe charged for the Tri-Weekly, and 50 cents for the V eekly, during the Legislative sessions. ADVERTISEMENTS, will be inserted three times at one dollar a squire of 8 lines, and be continued at the rate of 25 cents a square for each additional in scrtion. Quarterly advertisements, per square, $5. All advertisements from abroad must be accompanied by the cash ; or no attention will be paid to them. QT-Postage must be paid. The Warehousing System. We have hastily skimmed over an article in the October number of the Southern Literary Messenger, from the pen of "Harry Bluff," who is said to be Lt. Mattet, of the U. S. Navy. The article is addressed to the Memphis Convention, and ably discusses various questions of public interest. Of these, the most prominent and probably the most important, is that of the establishment of the Warehousing System, as it is called, for the benefit of the commercial interest of the country, but especially of the South. By this system is meant the provisions made fur lodging imported articles in public warehouses, at a fair rent, without payment of the duties on importation, till the articles be withdrawn for home consumption. If re-exported, no duty is paid. lt is laid down by Dr. Smith, in one of his justly celebrated maxims on the subject of taxation, that "Every tax ought to be levied at the time and in the manner that is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it." ( Wealth of Sations, vol. iii. page 3G3.) No oue can doubt the soundness of this maxim; and yet it was very strangely neglected, down to l$t'3, in the management of the English customs. Previously to this period, the duties on most goods imported had either to be paid at the moment of their importation, or a bond, with sufficient security for their future payment, had to be given to the revenue officers. The hardship and inconvenience of such a system is obvious. It was often very difficult to find sureties ; and the merchant, in order to raise funds to pay the duties, was frequently reduced to the ruinous necessity of selling his goods immediately on their arrival, when, perhaps, the market was already glutted. Neither was this the only inconvenience that grew out of this system ; for the duties having to be paid all at once, and Dot by degrees as the goods were sold for consumption, their price was raised by the amount of the profit on the capital advanced in the payment of the duties ; competition, too, was di minished in consequence of the greater command of funds required to carry on trade un lcr such disadvantages ; and a few rich individuals were enabled to monopolise the importation of those commodities on which heavy duties were payable. The system had, besides, an obvious tendency to discourage the carrying trade. It prevented that country from becoming an entrepot for foreign products, by hindering the importation of such as were not immediately wanted for home consumption : and thus tended to lessen the resort of foreigners to English markets, inasmuch as it rendered it difficult, or rather impossible, for them to complete an assorted cargo. And in addition to all these circumstances, the difficulty of granting a really equivalent drawback to the exporters of such commodities as had paid duty, opened a door for the commission of every species of fraud. "Harry Bluff" contends that tie same, and even greater evils, have been inflicted upon American commerce, by our defective Custom House system ; and argues strongly that these evils can alone be remedied by the adoption of the warehousing system. He argues, and plausibly too, that it is by this system alone, that the Southern cities especially, can regain that prosperity to which they are naturally entitled, and which they once enjoyed ; but of which they have been deprived by the unfavorable influence of our present revenue laws. "Harry Bluff takes correct ground in our opinion in relation to the payment of duties in cash. He says : 9 "I do not mean to inveigh against cash duties on the contrary, I would have the duties in cash, by all means ; but I would have no monopoly in trade, and as few restrictions as possible upon commerce. The present system makes the importing business of the country a monopoly of the moat odious kind. Instead of exacting the duties when the goods were landed, I would let them go into bonded Warehouses, properly protected and secured, and exact the duties only when the goods leave these Warehouses for consumption at home. With 6uch an arrangement, men of small capital could go into the importing business, competition would become more active and goods cheaper ; consequently an increased demand, an increased supply, increased abilities to buy, larger consumption, a greatly increased revenue ; all, would follow. "The merchant having a capital of $100,000, would not then, as now, have to keep one quarter of it by him, in cash, ready for th Custom-Uouse, and make&3 do the work of SI; for the country mer chant, coming to lay in his assortment, would find it cheaper to buy the goods in bond from the importer, tret the transfer at the Warehouse othce, anu pay au ty himself, if he reside near ; or, if not, remove the whole under bond, say to St. Louis, or Cincinnati, rewarehouse thera there, and pay duties as he with draws them for consumption. By this course, he would save the commission and interest, which the importer now charges for paying the duties for him ; he could carry on the same business with a smaller capital. And thus, the consumer would buy cheaper. This subject will no doubt come before Congress this winter, and we hope that some judicious plan, embracing all the economical features suggested by the experience of Great Britain, and by the wisdom of our own statesmen, will be adopted. Progress of the I tail Road. We learn tliat 20 of the 30 miles of the Rail Road from Edinburgh to Indianapolis is already graded and ready for the mud sills and superstructure. The bal ance is much advanced, and eight weeks of good working weather would complete the whole. There is a sufficient force on the road, and every thing is now progressing finely. One of the most important parts of the work is also done, viz : the foundations of the Bridge across Blue River. On this there re. - mains nothing to do but to place the superstructure and the framing can be got ready while the abut ments and piers are being finished. There will be no delay on this, as the work is out of reach of high waters. There remains no doubt but that the road will be entirely ready for use on or before January 1947. Much credit is due to tbe Company, Engineer, and Contractors for the energy and faithfulness with which all have performed their respective duties. O-The people of New York have voted, by a ma jority of 50,000, to have a convention to reform their Slate Constitution.

Published every Thursday. 31orrison convicting himself of Falsehood. In his second number, Morrison attempts to substantiate bis purity of principle by offering as the evidence of it an editorial article from the State Sentinel of June 6, 1344. The article was a record of the fact, that, on the reception of the news of Col. Polk's nomination, while one of the editors of this paper was blazing away with Uncle Sam's big gun, and doing the labor of a workey out of doors, A. F. Morrison did do a little something on paper, which would carry the news of his Van Buren Conservative " Democracy, (as he calls it,) a little further than even the noise of so big a gun as the Princeton's could reverberate. We never were green enough to dispute the paper Democracy of Morrison on that occasion. The veriest tyro in office-seeking knows very well what effect such apparent prominence gives a politician. It tells as well at a distance, and costs less, than any other kind of demonstration. It is, therefore, a kind which exactly suits the views and feelings of A. F.Morrison. It pats! But here is the article : Frm the Indiana Stale Sentinel fJune 6, 1844. Enthusiastic Meeting. Tha great relief of the painful suspense, increasing with every hour's delay afier the receipt of the first news from the National Convention, we received, on Tuesday evening, tbe result of the harmonious action ofthat august body, in the nomination of Polk and Wright. It was hailed universally ly all section of the Democratic party bere, with tbe greatest enthuiaim e my man proclaiming bis perfect willingness to forget all previoua personal predilec tions, and a determination to sustain the action of tha great Convention with all bia strength and might against the ho?U of the Dsgon of W bigger. A upontaneoua and most enthusiastic meeting was agreed to be held at the Court House at early candle-lighting, and without any other than oral notice, the Democratic citizens assembled n crowds, there to repudiate alt past differences, and to , pledge unitedly on tte altar of patriotism that henceforth ws should act as one man in the great and glorious cause in which we bae enlisted. Gov. Whitcomb waa called to the chair, and delivered a suori anu perunrni auurcss, wnicn was receivea wun : thunder, of appUuse. A. F. Morrison. Esq., was appoin- j 1 . i . : i .1 i l l l i I by Hon. Amos Lane, w ho ably discussed the doctrines of the two parties. He was listened to with profound attention. Tbe meeting was then successively addressed by Mr. Johnson, tbe Democratic candidate for Elector of the 3d district ; by Capt. Cain, T. Kinder, Gen. Drake, and 11. J. Harris. We regret that the crowded alate of our columns, at the late hour at which this notice is written, prevents us from noticing more at length the remarks of the several speakers. They were all, however, distinguished by a spirit of harmony and confidence of certain victory in November, and were responded lo by the great body of the audience with the utmost good feeling ar.d hearty enthusiasm. Duiiog the evening a series of resolutions were offered by Mr. A. F. Morrison, approving formally of the nominees, which were unanimously adopted. Gen. Drake then offered a reaolution commendatory of the nole and self sacrificing course of Mr. Vax Bcrxv, who had authorised Mr. Butler of New York to withdraw his name from the Convention whenever the harmonious ac:ion of the party should seem to require it. The resolution was received with tremendous rounds of applause, which lasted several minutes, and which were finally concluded with a well-meriied round for the mover himself. The Van Buren men present fully apprrciated the highminded and very liberal course of Gen. Drake, who, tho he had been an avowed supporter of Gen. Cass, thus proved that he waa entirely sensible of the admirable traits of Mr. Van Daren, and was ready to accord to him the just meed of praise. While a portion of the Democracy were thua agreeably engaged, others were employed in hailing the nominations by a national salute with Uncle Sam's six Doonder. which roared out its thundering pst.ls in a tone that Struck terror nlo the coons, i wenty-seven rounds, one far each Slate, were fired, with ose vor TiXas. Large bonfires of tarbarrels also added to the excitement of the time, and glo riously illuminated the city. Now it is true, as here stated, that Morrison did, at the meeting spoken of, submit a series of resolutions acquiescing in the decision of the Baltimore Con vention in favor of Col. Polk, as it was arranged that he should do so. That much was quietly yielded to is selfishness, by general assent, for the sake of har mony, and peace, and union. Mercenary support was not to be rejected at such a time ; it was rather to be coveted, maugre the disgust it might occasion. t was well enough, consequently, that we should speak kindly of him ; and we did so, not only for the reason stated, but also because, naturally disposed to give the most generous interpretation to men's motives, we did not know but what it might be possible that we bad been mistaken as to Morrison's. Time, and a very short time, proved we erred in so thinking and saying ; but it was an ingenuous fault, and one for which we hope to be forgiven ! Eut we re-publish this article of ours, for another y . mr 1 . reason, in nis nrst numoer, luorrison maae tne ioilowmg lying statement about us : " After the nomination was made, they openly pro claimed the defeat of Mr. Polk on the ground that " NEW ISSUES" were then made, and that all the Whigs wanted was " new issues." From that day until the announcement of the Democrat, they actively persevered, in every manner in their power, to bring into disrep ute those who advised the nomination of Gen. Cass, and which resulted in the ultimate selection of Mr. Polk ae the candidate The friends of Gen. Cass in various parta of the State, were sorely perplexed with this course of the paper of the party, which from its position was calculated to produce some effect upon tbe public mind, and misdirect public sentiment. The first sentence of this extract, will be stamped as a base r.nd infamous LIE, by every number of our paper from the time of Polk's nomination, and before and since. More than this. Dr. Chables Pakry, now a member of the State Central Committee, was the frst man who brought the news of the nomina tion of Polk and Wright to this town. He communicated it immediately to us, and will testify that on the instant, we expressed unqualified delight, and de clared we should beat the Whigs. This, however, is comparatively unimportant : for every Van Daren man, at least, must feel that Morrison lies. As to the equally base lies about our pretended treatment of the Cass men, the article copied by Mot rison, as well as our articles before and since, give them the lie direct. The article, (which truly ex pressed our feelings on the subject,) shows most con clusively that we were willing to treat the Cass men most liberally. Read again our remarks in relation to Amos Lane, Gen. Drake, Morrison himself, and other exclusive Cass men, and say if they did not evince the strongest disposition on our part to treat them with all possible courtesy and consideration. The sentiment no doubt waa reciprocal for the time beinf . But soon the devilish spirit of heartless self ishness resumed its accustomed sway over Morrison and a few others, and we have no doubt whatever that it led them, ere the consummation of the canvass, to desire the defeat rather than the election of Mr. Polk. 07-Henry Clay, while Secretary of State, wrotO to Mr. Gallatin, then our Minister at the Court of St. James, as follows : Nor is it conceived that Great Britain has, or can, make out, even a colorable title to any portion of the North West Coast 1" Yet in the face of this positive) and sweeping declaration, many of the leading whig papers, true to the old federal spirit, maintain that the claims of Great Britain to Oregon, are superior to our own ! Which is the British party 1

INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 27, 1845.

The Sinking Fund. We have received several calls, from Whig as well as Democratic papers, and lastly from Morrison's concern, to state all we know about the Sinking Fund. We never said vnz knew anything about it; but we did assert that rumors vert rift relative to the secret mismanagement of the concern. These rumors are every day talk. The true condition of the Fund has been a sealed book not only to the public, but to the Executive offices of the State, past and present So 1 we are informed. Like a rotten Bank about to ex-' plode, the balance sheet is all that they condescend to put forth. Every one knofrs how often a dishonest Cashier, after having stolen his thousands, can manage and has managed, to present a fair balance sheet, and deceive even President and Directors themselves, Is it not possible that such a game may be practised in other places ! , We have been informed, and that by one of the Commissioners, that the State is likely to be a large

loser by the knavery or 'individuals, especially in porker grunted moodily in mud his greasy requiem. Marshall and Fulton counties where one rascal aided The larder gruaneth with the burthen of b icon, and another in false appraisement of land?, until their the stall Btaggereth beneath mountains of mutton, pockets were well lined, when they all decamped, leav There is a savour of sauce in the kitchen, and a ing the Sinking Fund in the lurch, and minus, pro- ' smacking of cider in the cellar, and a pageantry of bably, thousands of dollars. That such games are patei in the parlour. Now comelh to the table pudpractised in other counties, we verily believe. Then ding and priest, and goose and guest, and all tilings the lands have to be re-appraised, and agents are ap-! meet for the mandibles of man. Omniverous man! pointed, 6ome of whom, it is understood, have boast- how doth thy foul cravings cause devastation among cd, that their pay equalled a Congressman's, eight the feathery tribe, the four-footed kingdom, and the dollars a day. At all events, it is not to be denied vegetable empire! Drcamcst thou of paradise in thv

that at a late session of the Board, a number of agents were appointed, at heavy salaries, to traverse the State and " look after these mortgaged lands." Docs not every one see that these agents can make good bargains Jor themselves, even it the people ot the State are losers 1 Under the circumstances, os we understand them, we deem it the especial duty of the next Legislature and we ardently urge it upon their attention, to np- . . . .. point an AGEXT, One veil que!tßeZ,lA to give U1M 8ufficient timg. to examine into the matter from beginning to end. He should be clothed with ample powers to perfect the examination. Every one will admit that the Bank examination under N. B. Palmer, Esq., was productive of good, excepting, perhaps, to such interested individuals as A. B. Fontaine, the thieving Cashier. If the Fund has leert man aged correctly, it will bear this examination, and be all the better for it. If it has not, as we are inclined to believe, it is a solemn duty our Representatives owe to the people to right matters at Once ; and in no way can it be so well done, In our opinion, as by the appointment of n. faithful, competent and" unpurchas able Agent, who will fearlessly and faithfully examine its affairs. " They followed the footsteps of Medary of the Ohio Statesman, and like him wanted to "rule or ruin" because Mr. Van Buren was laid aside." This is one of Morrison's imputations against us, as expressed in his own words in the 1st number of his Democrat." To be placed in the same " category" with Samuel Medart is certainly a compli ment equal to our highest nspirations. For fifteen years or more the Democracy, not only of Ohio and t the West, but of the whole Union, received the ben efit of Medary's unconquerable industry and invinci ble energy, and acknowledged his invaluable servicey to the cause. No man daring the eventful 'era u' Gen. Jackson labored harder nor with greater effect. His political enemies, as well as friends, admit this. True as the Damascus blade, he was ever foremost in the fight, and the discomfited hosts of Whiggery evinced his prowess. Ever wedded to principle, he would not temporize with its opposite, even to win the approbation ofthat class, which exists in "all par tics, who are actuated by personal and selßsh ambition alone. That such men should hate him it is not strange. It would be strange if they did not. Morrison's hostility to Medarv is, therefore, easily fathomed. It is the attribute of a depraved and selfish nature to hate that which' is pure and generous. This accounts also for the libel which Morrison now utters against Medary in the hope of injuring us. But the slanderous imputation will fall harmless at Medary's feet Though retired from the van of the battle, and desiring only to be permitted peacefully to wear the laurels won in many a hard fought field ; though he has yielded up the weapons of warfare to others' hands, and his assailants are thus permitted to revile and belie him with impunity ; nevertheless, while there is either a grain of honesty or gratitute in the rank and file of the Democratic party, they will not fail to shield his fame, and do honor to his integrity. Medary's whole political cireer gives Morrison's tlander the lie. fJT-A curious resolution appears in the proceed ings of a Dearborn county meeting which we copy in another column : that endorsing the democracy of Whitcomb and Bright, and also of Amos Lane the chairman of said meeting and of Mr. John P. Dunn. Now it seems to us that this endorsement of Whit comb and Bright's democracy is a work of superero gation. They do not need it, and least ol all in such company. They are contaminated rather than bene fitted by such an association. We suspect the reso lution was permitted to pass as similar resolutions often do, because of the dislike so naturally felt by all men to oppose them in the presence of those in terested. We confess that we dislike, under existing circumstances, to say any thing on the subject; uor should we do so, were we not impelled to do it by the request that the resolution should be published in the State Sentinel. Taking it for granted that the reso lution evinced the real opinion of the meeting, we admit the ri?ht freelv to express it. We have a risrht to our opinion also, and it is not in concurrence with that expressed by the resolution in question (fcrMr. Teaslee has 6ent us a second communication. By the aid of his kind friends, it is quite a creditable one. We are glad for his sake to witness so much improvement. The communication treats of the disorganization which prevailed in the Legislature of 1343. and will be of interest to our readers. We shall publish it in cur next semi-weekly and weekly 07-The Detroit Advertiser has been alleging that the revival of the old wild cat concern, the State Bank of Michigan, is to be ascribed to General Cass stat in? that he is one of the principal stockholders. The Free Press replies : 'Gen. Cass has never 'placed funds in that institu tion for its immediate or remote 'revival, and hence the assertion of the Advertiser is utterly false. In no shape, form or manner is he connected with the Bank, except as the holder ot stock, placed in nis hands without any agency of his own, and by the de preciation of which he has last some six hundred dol lars." . "The Cincinnati Union of the Ith inst says : We understand an agent is now in town, from Europe -who reports that a company of Prussians about 30,000 in number are preparing to immigrate to this country next spring, and the locaVon now fixed upon for settlement is Iowa."

Thanksgiving. Th following witty and alliterative description cf sew x.nglaiid'8 great festival is from an old number of the Boston Evening Bulletin. - - "Now hath arrived the festival proclaimed of yore, when the strait bodied grandfathers of our goodly commonwealth found themselves planted triumphantly in the land whilom enjoyed by heathen savages. Now doth the carnival prevail, and the civil magistrate ordaineth stuffing. Lo ! the farmer fatteneth beeves and swind, and the flosher cutteth up briskets and spareribs, and Jotliam trudgeth to the market town therewith, Now bustling housewives wield the chopping knife, and spread the crust, and spatter the treacle; while duteous Molly brandisheth the carver, dealing death to ducks and diddles across some hickory lojr she also gtiillotineth the patriarchal rooster, slasheth likewise the weasand of dame Tartlet, her age of laying past! His last gobble hath the gray gander gotten, and the fan-tailed turkey bidden farewell to herbage, and the potations of porter, and presumes! thou to moralize amidst thy gormamiizings ! Alas! for thy absorbings, thou shalt suffer tumefaction; and for thy gluttony, there is in store for thee a purgatory of lumbago. A thankful heart should not tc smothered in spirits, nor a grateful bosom crammed with cabbage! "Now, in cities dense, the long expected holiday brings freedom to the lad, and much fat produce into market. Mark the portly merchant from his princely meal outmarching, with gladness resting on his cheek, and poultry in his stomach. Yon happy urchin too, hath been to greet with ready compliments his antiquated aunt; while welcome issues from her lips, and pastry from her pantry. Now belles, all plumed and ribboned, trip to the church, with sober mind intent on piety and pie; to hear the Tiorgan and the Aanthem. "Now, 'tis a merry tine in hall and hovel while tbe nabob gloats with eager eye on viands luscious and far-fetched, the laborer spread i befjre a famished household his little store of gleanings eleemosynary, teaching rudely the rudiments of gratitude. Hail jubilee of innocence ! Long may the virtues of our fathers be remembered with Thanksgiving." 4 I W The MontpllU Depot. The "Union" says this subject has been disposed of by the Secretary of the Navy, after due advisement ; and the following is the result: BIDS FOB WHICH IS AWARDED THE WORK Excavation Sumner and Eastland, (New York and Louisiana,) 9 cents per cubic yard, Embankment Prathcr arid Wilson, (District of Columbia,) 9 cents per $9,000 00 j cubic yard, 19,800 00 20,700 00 Vertical wall M. K. Lawler, (IIlinois,) 3 per perch. Stone E. L. Beard, (Indiana,) .2 63 per perch. 32,934 00 Clearmg ground T. Lyon, (Ohio,) Bricks G. M. Lauman, (Pennsyl 100 00 vania,) aggregate, 3,152 01 Piling east of Wolf river Burke and McManus, (Pennsylvania and Maryland,) aggregate, 39,500 00 2,132 75 20,324 00 Lumber S. P. Ashe, (Tenuessee,) rouadation for 9 buildings G. M. Lauman, (Pennsylvania,) aggregate, $147,673 30 C7The following sound and truthful remarks are from the London Times. It is to be lamented that the Times does not apply the touchstone of its own philosophy to its habitual abusive treatment of America, as well as to political opponents at home. But It is a thousand times easier io, preach than it is to practise. Whoever desires or applauds the establishment of a Tree form of Government ought to to be prepared beforehand for the inconveniences and evils, as well as the advantages and blessings, of such a system. The more recent the experiment, and the smaller the State in which it is tried, the keener will be those personal passions and party contentions which con stitute at once the life and peril of representative institu tions. These sharp weapons are for a time wielded by unsparing and unskilful hands ; experience and use can alone blunt their edge, and adapt them to the more pacific objects of Government. The lesson which men are slowest in learning, and which the majority of politicians never learn at all, is that of respect for their opponents in public life. It is not enough for party men to think their own leaders infallibly right, but their antagonists must be infallibly and invariably wrong ; and there are honest men, in tins and all other free countries, who live and die in this prepos terous conviction. Much more are these delusions of factiSn prevalent in countries where the strife of party is raging for the first time in a Constitutional form. There, not content with political opposition, they acquire the virulence i f personal antipathy ; and truth is alike sacrificed on both sides in the zeal of contending statesmen to cover their rivals with obloquy. Every morning, if we are to believe these novices in political life, the Constitution is violated, and every evening the sun of country 6ets forever. Fortunately, States are tougher uid sterner things than these poli ticians suppose; and, though mistakes and faults without number be committed by the rulers of man kind, it is not often that the predictions of these opponents are conplctely fulfilled, or that they frink under all the disasters they may have deserved. To say that the world is governed with little wisdom, is . .at x 1 a A il an ancient and a respeciarie trutn, out it is a iruui that speaks well for the larger portion 01 mauKina. Suspension of a Minister. The Synod of Cincinnati, (of the new school Presbyterian church,) we observe in tho Watchman, recently held its session at Ripley, during which the case cf the Rev. Mr. Graham, a prominent divine, came up for considera tion, and resulted in his suspension from the minis try. The charges upon which he was arraigned and condemned were four, ae follows : 1. He teaches that according to the Jewish law the slave was not reckoned as a man or woman, but as property. 2. He teaches that the master had the riwht tu hfat the i,lave. and that hardly. 3. He teaches that the master had the rizht to sell the slave 4. He teaches that tho Head of the Church has autho rized the relation between master and slave involving the rijrht of nrooertv not only in the" charter, but m all the laws that he has given for the government of the Church. U. S. Senator fro New Hampshire. Gov Steele has appointed Benjamin W James to supply the place of Levi Woodbury in the United States Senate 03-All the rianets, save Mercury, are now aboTe the horizon at seven o'clock, P. M., and four of them seen with the naked eye, not to be mistaken. Jupiter in the East, Mars in the S. E., Saturn a few degrees West and nearer the r.cnith, and Venus in the S. W4 Herschell is at a point between Jupiter and ilars, but not dieünguisliiblc.

Volume Ys::::::sXuniber 23. IVcw ITOoks. Turner's tnliana Afiiuil Register. This excellent work, edited by C. W. Cadv, Esq., for 1310 is on our table. A large amount of highly important matter, important to every person in the State and to tens of thousands out of it, has heen added to the present edition, including an appendix, containing the names of the mambers of the General Assembly forl345-G; terms of the Circuit Courts for 1946; list of the County OScers elected or appointed in 13 "), with the dates of their commissions; a corrected list of post offices and postmasters; a National Eegisler, and various other matters of importance. It is bound in elegant style by Turner, who has, at great expense, prepared himself with embossing presses, and all apparatus to perform that business in a style to be unsurpassed either east Or west. We recommend the Register to every body as a useful work. Turner has received the following new books : Itirpers Illuminated Bible, No. 41. This brings it down to the 12th chapter of Matthew of the New TesUment, which is prefaced with an elegant engraved Title, printed in cobrs. It also ends the Apocrypha. No. 2, of the Illustrated Wandering Jew. This is to be completed in about IS numbers, and contains cuts which outdo all the Comic Almanacs, and which would put children into fits, besides scaring the very devil. Nos. C9 and 70 of Harpers' Illuminated Shakspeare, commencing Timon of Athens. The engravings in this number are of a superior order. Observaliims in th: East, chiefly in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor, by John P. Durbin, D. D. Two vols. This ii a very interesting work, especially to the Biblical student. It is illustrated with beautiful engravings. He has also a new series of Geographical Maps, a few of which we hive examined, and believe them equal if not superior to any now in use. We ßhall examine tiicm further. Just call and examine Turner's specimens of Unding. A Mosey Article. The N. Y. News notices a new and valuable work recently published at New Orleans. It i3 entitled "A Monograph of the Silver Dollar, good and bad, illustrated with fac-simile figurea of four hundred and twen'.y-fice varieties of dollars, and eighty-seven varieties of half dollars, including the genuine, the law standard and counterfeit ; giving their weight, quality and exact value, and enabling the inexperienced to detect those which are epuricus. By J. L. Riddell, M. D., melter and refiner in the United States Branch Mint, New Orleans, Professor of Chemistry, &.c" The first American dollar of which a specimen is given bears the date of 1795. The dollar of 1333, with the flying eagle, is given. Only one thousand of these were stamped. It is consequently very rare. There have been but few counterfeits of the United States dollar, comparatively few of the coin having been issued ; it being the policy of the government to issue half dollars in preference, as less likely to leave the country. Tiie Spanish and Spanish American dollars possess unusual interest as a study of history. One of the ast 0f tne former is the Spanish dollar of Joseph Na poleon IS 12. Every variety cf the Mexican dollar is given, including miny not commonly met with. The intention of the author has been to make a scientific book, useful especially to the dealers in money as a test of the value of coin, but it also offers materials for a liberal study of history among the works of consequence in this department. Messrs-. Chafmas : I notice that you have, in your list of offices held by A. F. Morrison, Esq., and of those for which he has been acandidate, lallen into an error. The error is a cemmnn one ; but still it is well to be scrupulously exact in these matters, as I have no doubt is your desire. You name him as having been " Indian Commissioner," fitc. This is not strictly correct. II? tcould have been if he coufd ; but as he failed, he found that something could be made, even enough for him to quit his post, as Democratic ed.tor, and accompany the Commissioners. That his object was patriotic, arguing that charity begins at home, none will deny more especially those who saw the proceeds of his labors. I will nut attempt to burden your columns, unless specially induced so to do, with the particulars, as they are very familiar here. My only object was, and is, to correct you, and through your columns, others who are similarly mistaken. . Respectfully, Z. We thank our correspondent for his correction, and would be pleased, as he lias, if we are not misinformed. a full knowledge of the Blanket Treaty, to have him 1 furnish us with the strict truth of the whole matter, We never strike in the dark. Cli;iinp:ij;iic Il.ird Cider. It is well known that a. large portion of what is sold in the West as Champaigne, is nothing but common clarified cider a pure yankee invention. Last week wo were invited, to try some just imported by Dutch Charly," Charles Miyer ; and we have nothing to say but just this : That it is the only genuine article of champaigne we have ever seen in the State of Indiana. The lovers and connoisseurs of that fine and wholesome beverage may take our word for it ; and if it don't prove to be the sparkling eau de rie, set us down as no judge. Mr. Mayer has made arrangements to keep a full supply ; and we verily believe he will do 60, should the demand be any thing reasonable. Let all try it. A Woxderfvl Certificate. "This is to certify that I caught a severe cold no, the cold caught me, by which I became deaf, dumb and blind. I was recommended to use Hodgkins's Cocgh Casdt. One stick enabled me to talk like a book' two sticks caused me to sing like a nightingale three sticks made me 6ee a hole through a mill stone and a whole package rendered me as pliable as india rubber, and as full of gas as a balloon. STRETCHIT LONGBOW." We take oysters ! Flour Speculation. The New York Sun ventures upon a calculation of the cost and charges of exporting flour for the benefit of flour speculators. Il says: Suppose we purchase at $3. Insurance 6 cents ; commission lö cents ; iuterest 6 cents; petty expenses 11 cents. This amounts to 6-39 per barrel, or 2Gs. 7i; freight and Carriage, 27 i ; petty expenses in Liverpool lUi ; commissions, Is. 21 making the cost of a barrel of flour in Liverpool, 31s. 4d. Now if flour is quoted corectly per last advices, at 30 shillings sterling a barrel, it follows if we buy at $f, that we lose Is. 4d. The prire of flour, if at $ j.2ö or $5.50 may allow a smnll profit, but not at $0, unless the crops iri England ore utterly gone, and flour is up to 30s. Then tbe flour on baud will sell at a profit." Thirty-six Horses, raised on Mr". Clay's farm at Ashland, were m New Haven a fe days since to be shipped to the West Indies. ledger. j Why don't be sell thorn in hU -'high tariff home market V

Letter from Juhu Quiiicy Adnrm. The following letter was aJJrt-cd to C. Edwards Lester, the translator of Ceba's Cttize or a Repcbiic." Tiie book is said to be a good one, but Mr. Adams's letter super-excellent. It will be read by old aud young with undivided interest. We copy it from the N. Y. Mirror. . QtiNCY, Mass., 11th Oct. 1S15. . Drar Sir Indisposition has delayed the auswer which should have ben immediate! v returned to your letter of the 23d of last month, which I received, together with the " Citizen of a Republic," by Ansaldo Ceba ; for both I oJer you my cordial thanks, and particularly for the dedication of the book. It is a remark, I believe, of Burke, That liberty inheres in some sensibia object, and that every nation Las formed to itself some favorite point which, bv way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. That the great contests for freedom in England were, from the earliest times, chiefly upon the question of taxing. The most of the contests in the ancient Commonwealths turned primarily on the right of the election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders cf the State. The question of money was not with them so immediate." And, pursuing the same idea, he shows that the question of our Revolution was a contest of liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles and that the champions of liberty in England, for a succession of ages, had taken iufinite pains to inculca:e as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must, in effect, themselves, mediately cr immedialely, possess the power of granting their own money, or 110 shadow of liberty could suls.st. "The colonies," he add-, drew frcm England, as with their life-blood, these ideas and principles. Their love of liberty, as with the English, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing Lbcrty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed; here they felt its pulse, and as they found that beat, they thought themselves pick or sound." The cause of the American Revolution, so far as it was a contest between Great Britain and her colonies, was thus a question of property, a limitation merely of the power of Government to levy money upon the people, by taxation ; it was, in principle, John Hampden's question of chip-money. When the progress of the Revolution changed the principle cf the controversy to a war for independence, and the colonies were called to Torm Coiistituticns of Government, and a federate union for themselve, the question of taxation became but one of many other principles in the organization of Government, invohirg the whole theory of human rights, and all the foundations of liberty staked upon the fabric of the social compact. Perhaps the circumstances alluded to by Burke that our controversy with Great Britain had originated in those ideas of liberty which our fathers had brought with them from England, and Which were concentrated upon the simple point of taxation, has retained an undue proportion of influence in our estimate of Lberty down to the present time. Tiie Italian Republics of the middle ages were founded also upon principles of - liberty differently modified, and indissoluble connected with the right of taxation. Our statesmen, patriots, legislators, and people, are still confined by the ties of language in a great degree to the literature of England. An Italian writer of an age preceding that of tbe civil wars in England, in the seventeenth century, writing on tiie duties of a Citizen of a Republic," wtih the history of Italy added to that of Greece and Rome before him, must have embraced a wider scope in the consideration of liberty and of human rights, than is to be found in the contracted 6phere of the conflicting principle of freedom and cf power in the English writers of the seventeenth century. I shall therefore make it a point to read with attention the work of Ccbai and should my state of health hereafter permit, will freely give you my opinion concerning it. Liberty is still in our counlry a vital question of politics, morals and religicn. A question upon which we have much to learn, and our posterity much to act. The days of my participation in it are passed, but the prayer for its progress and universal prevalence remains to the last moment of my life. I am, dear sir, very respectfully your fellow-citizen and friend. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. A Delightful CorsTEr. The New Orleans Picayune publishes a letter, written by an oEcer of tbe

army at Corpus Christi, the post occupied by General Taylor's army of occupation, in which the following passage occurs : Florida may be the "land of promise," but Texas is the land of varmints." Iu clearing the ground to pitch my tent, 1 killed a water moccasin ; about 3 o'clock in the morning, I was wakened up by the barking of a dog; he had just run a rattle-snake out of my neighbor's tent, when the rattling and tbe barking aroused We 9 rattles captured. 1 again lay down, and when day broke, a yellow necked lizard was cocking his eye cunningly at me from the ridge pole of my tent. I sprang vp, seized my boot to despatch him, when lo! out of the boot dropped a taruntula! Exhausted from fright and fatigue, I sank back into a chair; but no ßooner down than I was compelled rapidly to abandon the position, having been stung in the rear by a Bcorpion ! Besides the above mishaps, we lost a valuable dog by a shark. The dog had jumped overboard from a boat to follow his master to the chore, when the voracious monster caught him. SicxiriCAXT.The Washington Constitution cf the 11th said : Improbability of Wae. The report that the frigate United States is fitting out at Boston for the Mediterranean, seems to discountenance the supposition that our government anticipates any serious difficulty with Great Britain. The Mediterranean would be a most awkward place f r au American squadron, in case of hostilities with that power. A completocul de sac, with Gibraltar and I.?r feels coröSactfiiTg its mouths; our Vessels Would remain uielly blockaded in some of its ports dnrirg the war, or be captured by the superior force of tha -reerny. The Union copied the above paragraph, and ap pended to it the following significant comment : (7-We have ascertained from the department that the frigate United States is not destined to the Mediterranean, and that we have not a single United States vessel, at this time, in that sea. Extent of the Oregon Tee kitokt. On the east, it strikes 300 miles along the Rocky Mountains, on south 300 miles along the Snowy Mountains, on the west 7(;Umiles along the Pacific Ocean, on tLe North American possessions of Russia and England. The 3G'J,000 square miles capable undoubtedly of forming seven States of the dimensions of Massachusetts. Some of the islands on the coast are very large Fufficicnt to form a State by themselves. These ore sit-' uated north of parallel of 43. Vancouver's IfLrd, 2t30 miles in length and fifty in breadth, contains 12.CCO square miles an area larger than Massachusetts ar.d Connecticut. Queen Charlotte'6, or rather Washingtoil's Island, too, 150 miles in lenth and 30 in breadth, contains 4,IX 0 eqnare miles. On both of these Islands, though they lie between the parallels of 43 and 54 degrees, the soil is 6aid to be well adapted to agriculture. The straits ar.d circumjacent waters abound in fish of the finest quality. Coal, of good quality, and other veins of minerals, have been found. For California. D. G. W. Leavirt, the chairman of the Committee of Arrangements of the emigrating expedition to California, which has been organizing in Arkansas for some time past, gives notice, through the columns of the Littlo Reck Gazette of the 27th ult., that, in accordance ttith a resolution passed at a called meeting, held at Napoleon on the Cth uK, the expedition will rendezvous at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the 1st Monday in April next, preparatory to taking up their line cf maixh for the Pacific coast. - Every person starting is expected to be well armed with a rifle, or heaVy Bhot gun ; sixteen pounds of shot cr lead, four pounds of powder, caps, &.c ; two horses or mules for each person, or a wagon and eight cattle for every five persons, tents, ttc. Frontier News. Intelligence has been received at Independence, Mo., by a gentleman from the neighborhood of Bent and SL Varain's Fort, on the Arkansas, of a great drought prevailing over all that district of country. The Arkansas, a large stream usually, was completely dried up, for twenty mile or more, and a person could walk over it at any place. .Much anxiety was felt for the last comp nies of traders to Santa Fe, lest such a deprivation of water at such a time should lead to loss of life imon; iL anicils, if cot the ncn thcnsclves.