Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1846 — Page 4

3nMatw State .Stntmcl. 1VERKLY EDITION. ETEB5AL TI6ILAHCE II TFI FBICE Of tltttTT. L1)IAI'()L1S, JAUAUY I, IS 16.

TIic Stiiull Aotc Law. Tbe Legislature tf 131C-11, granted to the State -Bank the privilege of issuirj small uotes, under certain restrictions. Tl.e grant of this right is contained in two acts. The first wad approved Feb. 6, ls-ll, and the second, v. hich is aa amendment of the first, was approved Feb. 15, ld-ll. TLe Cth section of the act of Feb. 0, is as follows : " It shall be lawful for the State Eank of Indiana to üiue and circulate nJtcs of a denomination less than five dollars to aa amount not exceeding one million of dollars." This provision in the same and a subsequent section, is guarded by five provides or conditions ; and the Eank bad no rk'ht to issue small notes, under the Statute, only in compliance with the terms of each and all cf t!.e pro iso. Two of the couditiens are as follows : First : That this priti'ege shall be subject to the control of the General Assembly, from and after the 28th of January, 1344." Second : " The Bank shall pay into the Treasury of State, one per centum for the amount cf notes under the denomination of five dollars, hereby authorized to be issued, to be paid in three annual instalments, beginning with the current year." The 7th section of the Act of Feb. 15, is as follows: " That tLe privilege of issuing notes of a less denomination than fivo dollars, granted tie Eank by this General Assembly, to, and the same is hereby enlarged, so a to ran from the 1st day of January, 1841, through a period of fivo years ; and the trouble and responsibility of the State Eank, in managing and collecting the fundi herein provided for being converted into Bank stock, shall be deemed and taken as in full consideration of the one per centum, required to be paid by the Eank to the State, on the amount of small notes, which the Bank has been by the General Assembly authorized to issue ; and cotliinz in said Act authorizing the Bank to issue small notes, shall le to cor.strued as to authorize the taxation of any Lank Etock, which has not been heretofore subject to taxation." Here we see that the Legislature first granted a privilege, and by a sul sequent act enlarged it. Tbe privilege was to issue small note. Iso one will con tend that the Bank had. or has the right to issue Email notes independently of one or both of those acts. The provisions of the Act of Feb. C, authorized the Bank to issue small note, upon the payment of the one per centum tax. Whether that provision to issue small notes is limited as to time, is now unnecessary to enquire. We shall see that it is a matter cf no importance; The Bank w as bound to accept of it, if at all, with certain conditions. This it refused to do, and never issued one note under the Act of Feb. C. It refused to pay the one per cent, tax, or bonus. The Act of Feb. 13, enlarged the privilege. How 1 So as to run from tl.e first day of January, IS 11, and (so that) the trouble and responsibility of managing and collecting the funds, should be in full consideration of the one per cent. tax. Here is an exclusive and valuable franchise conferred, and a tax remitted. The first oC'er having been rejected, the second was accepted. The Bunk issued all her email notes under the Act of Feb. 15, and the provisions of the 7th section of that Act, a cpire by their own limitation on the ist uay oi January, ioiw. poiut The Legislature first said to the Eank, you may issue aiuau uuica iu any amount iiui eitctui i uuc i . , ,, , . . milium ui uuiiiiis, upon tunuiiiuu uiai juu pay nuu the Treasury one per centum upon the amount authorized tobe issued, in three annual instalments; and, we reserve the right, at the end of three year?, to make such other regulations as we think proper. The Eank replies, we will not accept of that ; make another and better proposition. The State then proposes that the Eank may issue the Eame amount of small notes for the period of five years, and that the Bank shall assume the trouble and responsibility of managing and collecting the funds therein provided for being converted into Bank stock, to-wit: the surplus revenue, sinking, college, and taliiic fund; and the State Bank school fund; and this trouble and responsibility shall be in full consideration (compensation or satisfaction) for the one per centum required in the first proposition. The Bank accepts the last proposition, issues the notes, and takes charge of the funds to be converted into Bank stock. Now we think that the Bank had no right to issue small notes, except by he provisions of the 7th section of the Act of Feb. 15. Eut if the 6th section of the Act of Feb. 6, is still open for the Eank's acceptance, then it must pay the one per cent, tax or bo- , nus as required thereby. We think the first Act is not still open for the Bank's acceptance. The Bank has exercised the right of choosing ; it refused the fir3t offer and accepted the second,, and must abide by the choice. In doinj thL, the Bank assumed the responsibility and trouble of collecting and managing the public funds. The 12th section shows that the responsibility the Bank assumed was, not to bo liable for the then existing securities, Lut for the trouble, care, and diligence required in collecting and managing the fund-. This responsibility the Bank assumed w hen the small notes were issued. According to this view of the law, the right to issue small notes expires with the five years, and the board of Bank directors is bound to show that it Las undertaken the collection and management of the various funds ; that it has used due diligence in such collection and management ; and, so far as the board ha3 managed the funds under the law cf 1341, it must how that .the funds have not been diminished one cent by want of care or diligence, or by any charge for the trouble or expense in the collection and management of them. The right to issue small notes was in full consideration for all such services. The Chapmans cannot drive us into the attidude of Bank defenders. Morrison's Bank Organ. That is quite cool, indeed ! Especially when the same paper containing the above extract, contains columns in the Bank's defence, from the head and tail of the Royal Family. . But suppose the quotation above to bo in earnest and true. Has A. F. Morrison found out any thing against the Bank that he does not desire to be its defender ? 44 Straws show," it is said, 44 which way the wind Llow3." He probably begins to 44 smell a rat ! All at once, he does not wish to. be a "defender " of the Bank I ! Is he afraid of the 44 rattlesnake" article ? Has any thing been 44 let out " at his bank, or ia the Royal Parlors I Morrison ! A. F. Morrison ! refusing to be defender of the Eank! ThatttiV make Senator Todd laugh right out ! Saw our let's CO o off! tyou phase! . Reports are prevalent cf a new revolutionary movement in Mexico that Parades was marching towards the city of Mexico from St. Louis Totosi, with 6000 men that the ground of his prcnuncia' mento is that the Mexican Government is likely to agree to the annexation of Texas with us, and that the movement is supposed to be the r.c?ult of fortijn influence.

, . .. t . - i I ling got by the sweat of the brow, m far better than limit the time during which the Bank might issue ,i ci ,u. : , j,- . . 6 a d.shoncst one got by intrigue, swindling, cr by the small notes, the mention of five years in the second 1 ,.,,, p . j- r . .. . .. . , ,. . , . y .. turn of a card or d.ce. We enjoy it better, at all Act does not hunt the time. Let us examine this -nr ,vll0a .. , ... , , , , , eent3. p or does such honest. thou?h hard, labor.

Public Debt Join! Committee. The joint committee bn tha i'ublic Debt, to whom Mr. Butler's communication, in behalf cf foreign bond-holders, was rcfcrreJ, have not yet closed their labors. This committee L composed t f 21 members, 12 appointed by each branch of th? Legislature, and taken from the twelve judicial circuits into which the State is divided; thus eraboJying, as nearly as could be, the sentimeut of th-j eatire people cf the State. The subject referred to them isons of the greatest interest, and involve the hopes of the psopla of the entire State. The committee, it is understood, have

had five meetings fr conference with Mr. Butler, during which ha has had fall opportunity of laying the great object of his mission before them, and submitting such propositions for adjustment as seemed to him best adapted to effect the object. It was useless to submit propositions beyond the ability of the Peo- ! pie of Indiana to meet; and the subject is one in volved in great difficulty, in every respect la which it may be viewed. It is understood that the conference on the part of the Agent of the Bondholders was closed at the meeting held in the Senate Chamber on Friday last, when the last and modified proposition was submitted by Mr. Butler. The first proposition was acted on by the committee on Thursday, and rejected. It is needless to Ray that th i final report of the committee on the proposition now pending before them, is looked for with intense interest by the people of Indiana. It will te an auspicious beginning of the New Year, if Jhe Legislature shall, at its present session, adjust the Tublic Debt, and reinstate the credit and honor of the State. It was in the session of lSoWG, just ten years ago, when Whiggcry flourished that the foundation of all this difficulty was laid. It will be a happy thing if in IS 13-G the breach shall be healed if Democracy shall point out a path from the Slough of Despond, and re'.urn to Indiana her wonted prosperity. Hank Favors. The Royal Family try to make it appear that we have been applicants for bank favors Lere, and have been refused. This is not true. We did, indeed, while at Terre Haute, have several not.es discounted, which were all paid ; and bitterly have we lamented that we ever went thus far. Here, our note to inJi xidualsr for Uje payment of a portion tf the debt cf the old Democrat establishment has been put in bank, and it has been paid. Also, we have, in one instance, anticipated a. payment from the Sinking Fund, to the amount of about one hundred dollars, the money being in the bank, and paid interet-t therefor. If the Roya Family know cf any other applications cf ours to the bank, let them name them. We allude to this matter, not because it is worthy of notice more than their other filse charges, but because it affects us in a more tender point- Could the Family have got us in their clutches by means of in debtedness to them, we might now be in a fair way U b3 placed in the same predicament of some others whom we could name. Lets and corner lots, farms and homesteads, even if purchased for us by our fathers ; noy, our very weekly earnings might have gone to enrich those who never toiled, and to have paid for Extra Regalias and Wine Fartics, fur the J?OVl Family trt entertain Iho'r rlimma 'Ja lm !ivn - ,w j , e " . , I been too independent or them m these matters, and hence their hostilitity. We believe that an honest in any way tend to make us rogues. It does not smack of robbery or larceny ; and has no tendency to .., ., u ,, , , make us commit such crimes. e have no doubt. however, even although the Royal Family would, if they could, control the Branch Bank here, and they Lave some considerable influence in it at this time, that our note would pass much quicker than A. F. Morrison's. Eut we ask for no such favors; at least at present. We have an income, small though it be, with which we intend to pay our debts, without either swindling the banks, or threatening to do so; and without, after paying our employees, depending on a anie of poker to tcin bad; their earnings. We desire not this warfare ; but lies, either direct or by implication, shall not go uncontradicted. The Public Lnndf. The Report of the Commissioner of the General LandO.Ece is one of the best, practical documents issued from that office since Wbitcoaib'a administration of it. We regret that we are unable to publish it entire, or even to notice its recommendations in full. Among the most important may be named tho classification of the public land, which the Commist 6ioner says, can, with an inconsiderable additional force, be completed in six months. This measure would be of the greatest benefit to the actual settler. He recommends that land brought into market hereafter should graduate through these classes in such a manner a3 to continue subject to sale five years - - . , z J Si 23 ; five more at 1 ; five moru at 15 cects ; five more at 50 cents ; five more at '20 cents ; and all the residue remaining unsold af.er passing through this series of graduations should vest forever in the States. This will constitute, Le siys, a species of sliding scale which will glean and clean out districts, and give the new Slates, within a reasonable time, the control of the land within their limits. It will vest 4-Jl,3i9 acres in Ohio ; 1,233,103 in Indiana ; 3,903,10 1 ia Illinois ; 2,207,223 in Missouri ; 4,146,873 in Mississippi; 1,141,605 in Louisiana; 4,510,693 in Alabama; and 27,420 in Michigan. We will endeavor to refer further to this report. Election of Bank Bikectoks. On yesterday, the Legislature elected Directors of the State Bank on the part of the State. Gen. Walker was re-elected to serve four years, and John F. Carr, Esq. to "fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation cf Col. Pepper. They are both Democrats. Ojr On Tuesday Mr. Clymcr reported an apportionment bill from the Hoube committee. We understand that some delay was occasioned by an equal division of the committee on certain propositions, that finally the matter was left to a sub-committee consisting of Mr. Clymer. and Mr. Stewart of Fayette, who agreed to report the bill now before the House. Cr The analysis of the vote in Houm on the iimistion tf Texas, shows this result: Of the 141 aye, 120 are Democrats, 20 Whigs and 1 Native. Of the 50 nays, 43 are Whigs, 5 Natives, and 3 Democrats Messrs. Preston King, Whcaten, and Wood of N. Y. The Indiana Delegation voted as follows; Yeis Cathcart, Henley, Owen, Tettir; T. Smith, and Wick. . Navb McGaughey and C. B. Smith. A writer in the Journal of Commerce says the recent activity in the docks aid naval stations in England, has no reference to any new occurrence, or an anticipated war, but is in accordance with the recommendation of Sir Robert reel, a year ago. He then obtained an appropriation for the repair and completion of military works for the defence of England the first appropriation for the purpose which has been mace fur eleven years.

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A Single Hem under the Bankrupt Law. The New York Express publishes the following : We have been favored by S. W. Metcalfs, Esq., Clerk of the U. S. District Court, with the following interesting statement of the aggregate debts owing by persons who petitioned for the benefit of the bankrupt act in this city, the professions or trades to

which they belong the highest and loweat amount . . - a I V.

of schedule, &c. The statement has been compiled t7l and 72, containing Timon of Athens and Corio with immense labor by Mr. Kingberry, an experi- i4nu3 enced and very able clerk in the office. The whole 1 MJ Qe hic M 9 No. 4 cont4inin? Tex. amount, it will be perceived, is upwards of tlJ!v T- , T , jo , 000,01)0. The largest estate in bankruptcy was that j Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and South Caroof Mr. Glover, being upwards of 3,000,000 but a j Itna.

large proportion of it was bonds given for foreign merchants, which had become outlawed by the bta tute of limitations. The next estimate was that of Messrs. Joseph, being about 1,000,000. The as sets from the various estates were exceedingly tri fling. ' Whole number of bankrupts petitioning, 2 ICG do petitioning against, b4 Whole number 2550 Number discharged iJlGO Not yet discharged 390 Opposed by creditors 85G They describe themselves as follows t Merchants Agents SI Clerks 4(5 Physicians 20 372 Lawyers 19 161 Odice-holders 13 85 Auctioneers 12 47 Laborers 11 40 Victuallers 11 4C0 Mc hanics No occupation Brokers Farmers Gentlemen Other occupations Residing in the city of New York 1D00 " out of the city 6G0 There are 40 petitioners whose debts are each under $1,000 There are are2'i8 petioners whose debts are each over 100.C00 ' There are 12 petitioners whose debts are each over 1.OC0.C0O The total amount of indebtedness is about 120,560,415 The largest amount in one petition is about 5,781, COO The lowest amount in one petition is about 253 25 Thus we see that in one judicial district, under the Bankrupt Law passed by the WHIG CONGRESS of 191142, over one hundred and twenty miliums of dollars of dtbts tens repudiated yet some of the same bankrupts live in fine houses, and fare sumptuously every day.' Look Oct. From certain demonstrations, for which there may be one hundred and sixty reasons; and from the barking threats current cn the street on Tuesday and since, we expect to Bee the next Royal Family Gazette represent a Great Conflagration. It will charge us, " individually and collectively," with most of the crimes in tho calender. If Morrison keeps his promise, he will charge us with having murdered two men, stabbed a woman, violated others, with arson, ( perUps ; ) gambling, (no not gamb ling,) except, perhaps, a bet of three dollars on the election, w here he held the stakes, (and which is not a fraction of what we won from our good whig friends ;) and with cords on cords of what will bo naturally occur to the prolific wind of the family so deeply versed in the law and trials criminal. Well. We promise that we will not go to the Bluffs, on a fishing excursion, either now or when the Grand Jury is m 'session. We have stood many a lick before now from those accustomed to oppose us ; and in general we only noticed those of men. We may perhaps be en abled to bear up under this terrible coming shower of froth. However, as Morrison's wrath may lead him to be careless or forgetful, we suggest to him w hether he has thought of republishing, in a rc-vamped style iso peculiarly his own, Nigger Barnett's charges against us, and perhaps our true charges against that splendid genius, reversed! Major Dunn, one of the' ' family, tried his hand at it ; and if a copy is wanting and cannot be obtained from the Journal Office, we may possibly condescend to furnish it ourselves; Go ahead, old boy. We are too old campaingers to throw away shot. The locker is yet well supplied. Consistency. Several cf the small fry of whig papers are nearly in convulsions, because Congress chose to give fair and remunerating prices for the public printing, and rejected the offer of certain rats to do it under regular journeymen's wages. But these same sticklers for what they call economy, have never opened their lips about the arrangement made a few years since by a Whig Congress, by which forty thousand dollars extra were put in the pockets of Gales and Beaton ; and thry say as little about the Ohio Legisktuie, which has violated a solemn contract with the State Printer, because he was a democrat, and given it to a whig, at increased prices. The case is altered, as the lawyer said. Verily, these men are honest ! (5-The Martinsville Journal will find, on proper examination, that its article headed 44 Del.nquen1 Lists," i wrong in point of fact in every particular. At the very time it was complaining that 44 an effort waä being made in the Legislature, to take from the local presses the patronage of their respective countips nml trnnaflpr it tn ttn nrptwa rf ;b onnitnl " tbo at1 . , r.t , .1 .u .real state of the matter was just exactly the reverse; f-jr Mr. Dowling had introduced a proposition in the House to authorize the publication of a portion of the Sinking Fund advertisements in the local papers cf district immediately interested. Shocking! The whig editors are getting very generally out of humor with " villanous saltpetre," especially since war is talked about. They were in the eame fix last war. But we have not heard of one so terribly alarmed as our little friend Grubbs, of the Indiana Courier, who, even goes against the boys firing squibs on holydays, and besides calling it a Ead Practice," urges the law to step in to keep the awful smell of powder from h 13 delicate olfactories ! Hold on, John ; we vouch your town boys shan't hurt you farther than tho smell, except perhaps, your feelings, by preparing themselves to flog your British friends. Back Numbers. We must again inform our friends that our back numbers of the paper have long since been exhausted. We cannot possibly 11 crdrs for them. We hope that all will see the necessity hereafter of having the paper regularly, or of sending for the session papers in season. We regret tint we cannot supply them ; but so it is. Facts tor the Vzopls:. We have a considerable number of the pamphlets oa the TariiF, entitled Facts for lite People," which we would like to dispose of to our friends. Gentlemen of the Legislature desirous of furnishing their constituents with one of the best treatises of the diy oa the subject of the Tariff, can be supplied at cost. The Ixdiana Cockier got into euch a terrible stew, fret, sweat, and fright at Judgi Wick's late letter, ia our paper, intimating the probability of war, that after lettiug ofF his small amount of gas, he must certainly havo been flat. For in his same paper, be publishes a ichig letter, saying that there is great danger of war, all reasonable persons admit," &c. It is supposed that the editor has one out entirely now. 07" A report was made in the Senate on Monday last, in favor of winding up the Lafuyette and Michigan City branches of the State, on some charges cf special rascality." We suppose there is no' cause for alarm to any body ; too many similar rcpurt3 have J heretofore ended in smoke.

New Books. Turner has just received another lot of new books, among which are: The Illuminated and Pictorial Bible, No. 43, containing the Gospel according to Mark and part of Luke.

The Illuminated and Illustrated Sbakspeare, Nos Love and Mesmerism, by Horace Smith, Esq., one of the pleasantcit writers of the day. The Jew, a novel ; being No. 31 of Harper's Libra ry of Select Novels. The Whiteboy : a story of Ireland in 1S22 ; by that very agreeable writer, Mrs. S. C. Hall, whose name alone is a sufficient recommendation. Only a Fiddler ! and O. T ! translated from the German by Mary Howitt. Very pleasant tales. A Sequel to Webster's Ele uentary Spelling Book ; or a Speller and Definer ; containing a selection of 12,000 of the mo-t useful words in the English lan guage ; intended to be U6ed as a spelling book and a Dictionary. By Wm. G. Webster, son of tbe late Noah Webster, LL. D. This is one of the best common school dictionaries, ever published, and we should be glad to see it introduced generally into our primary schools. A glance will satisfy every teacher of its utility. The Life of Mozart, including his correspondence ; by Edward Holmes, author of A ramble among the Musicians of Germany ; " forming the Cth volume of Harper's New Miscellany. This book will be read with interest by all ad.nircra of genius, as well as the lovers of music and its great Masters. Aids to English Composition, prepared for students of all grades ; embracing specimens and examples of school and college exercises, and most of the higher departments of English Composition, both in prose and verse. By Richard Green Farker, A. M. This id one of the beet books ever published on tho subject of which it treats a subject, which, though of as much or more importance to students than any other, is the most neglected, especially in the West. We cannot recommend it too strongly to those who desire to improve or perfect themselves in the art of composition. Criticism. We have been much edified and amused this week, by reading two criticisms on Reid's Gulzar. The one is by Terkins, of the Jcffersonian ; the other by Clark son, of the Indiana American, which, by the by, are perfect antipodes to one another The critique oT Mr. Terkins, if not all praise, appears w nave ucen wriuen wuu u.B r. o. ...cuu,.. . i i : :.. .i r e.: and ives an accurate and honest description of the leading incidents of the work, as therein found. Chrkson opens in seeming candor, and attempts to give his views of the quality of the production ; but ha writes with a pen dipped in gall. Terkins declares his esteem for the author quotes the opening stanzas of the poem says that the verse is graceful and flowing the imagery rich, and the sentiments delicate and beautiful ; and suggests that; the lovers of song, at least, ought to patronize it for its own excellence, and from local pride that so fine a work is produced among them, &.c. &.C Clarkson, on the other hand, ridicules the poetry laughs at tho characters sneers at the plot and incidentsdeclares that the taste and style of the work is bad and asserts that his ear wras pained by the har.-h lines and ill-rhyming terminations with which it abounds, whilst his fingers would involuntarily tin - . . . , gle to count the irregular syllables, as they came rushing upon him. He also quotes from the poem several couplets, to prove his assertions, and to show that it is neither prose nor poetry, sense nor nonsense ; and then very obligingly leaves his readers to decide for themselves what it is, after telling them what it is not. Either the one or the other cf these critiques must be unjust which, we think the public can easily judge, from the feeling that is evidenced in tbe dif ferent criticisms. Eut let us enquire, what is poetry 1 Does it consist only, as IMr. Uarkson would have it, in plot, m incident, in beauty of style or elegance of diction, and in the-exact number of feet which serve to make complete Thymes ! Most assuredly not : although these are necessary, in a great measure, to constitute a poem of the first order. The Novelist, and Dramatist, look to their plot as the chief object of their piece; the Historian to the accuracy of Lis facts, and perspicuity and elegance of his narration ; but Poetry has its own language, its own imagery, its own thoughts and diction; for it is a universal maxim, j that the chief gratification afforded from this kind of; writing, arises from the beauty of the thmights ; and the true test isthat which, to competent judges, affords the appropriate pleasure of Poelry. Ungrammatical epressions, in a book, may or may not bo the fault of the author; but although they are, still they do not destroy the poetry. They may pain the accurate grammatical ear, like the ill-rhyming terminations ; but these ore faults which all poets have been more or less charged with, and are the faults which Horace, in his " Art of Poetry," says he is not angry with, as they only tend to show human frailty or a careless hand, and ought to be excused, when the beauties are more in number. A poet of the present day, and one of no small fame, writing of the duty of a.poct, says that it is to keep alive the fealty of the heart, and to reuse the despised, even when it lias been banished by the usurping intellect ; and with the sweet persuasion of a song, to awaken all the holiest feelings of the soul which had their existence in the days of our youth, ere the cold world had, as with the breath of winter, nipped them in their bloom, leaving in their stead the frozen flowers of intellect, brilliant and beautiful it may be to the eye of the stranger, but cold and unfeeling as the winter palaces of the Czar. Such was the action of the worli on the heart of Napoleon, making it almost as cold and feelingless as the polar iceberg; yet the evening bell of his native village, as its simple Bounds 11 mournfully oa the ear of the world's conquerer, awoke in his bosom the early sympathies of his youth, and made him weep like a child. Does the heart then feel any of those holier emotions iu reading the Gulzar of Pteid ! Docs the work inculcate virtue and discourage vice! Does it speak of the beautiful in the language of beauty, and appeal to the heart for the truth of its affections 1 Is the tear of sorrow ever found to 6tart from its fountain at the recital of the wrongs of innocence, or does the feeling of anguish thrill the bosom" at the triumph of crime! If they do, then the work has accomplished what poetry intended, and although as a finished production, it may not compare with the Lalla Eookli of Moore, yet tha Gulzar is a poem of no mean order, and tlie future will award it that place in the rank of genius, which the present may refuse to allow. The critique of tho Journal accords more with our opinion of the merits of tlie poem, when they say that 44 it much resembles Lalla Rookh in style, and in our judgment not much inferior to that, tho beat of Moore's productions." " " ' (7-. ' (7 An attempt was recently mado to rob the Bank at Fort Wayne, but tlie robbers got scared and ran.

For the Indiana Slat Sentiatl. A Gallop on Hie Gia ml Prairie. . BT Ha. IAAH T. BOLTOR. Away we go on the boundlen lea, . Like uncaged biid on tbe deep blue tea As blithe, as fearless, as wild and free, On the Grand Piaiiie. Away, away on our coursers Gee', Where the Ria is preen, the air i awe t, Wbeie tbe eaith and fkv like lovers nu ft, Oa the Grand Piaiiie. Pow we are leaving the fiet trees j Fit irj a Ion,; like the fairy breeze, Alidat budJing flowers and bumming bee. On the Grand Piaiiie. Now Sol comes up in his pioud anay Look, look at those g ilden cluN that lay Like shilling curls on the brow of day, O'er the G.and Praiiie. It is as if morning, fesh and fair. Threw back hertiesses of yellow bair. To breathe tbe balm of the fragrant air. On the Grand Prairie. And there, see there is a shining stream, - Laughing along in the morning beam A chaitn, a pell, poet's dieatn, Is the Grand Prairie. On, on we tpeed, there is nought Id sieht, But the bending sky, so blue and bright. And the glowing, apaikling sheen of light. On the Grand Praiiie. It seems to me that an angel band Parsed o'er (he earth with a magic wand, And waved (he beauties of faiiy laud To tbe Grand Praiiie. Oh ! nisht, bow glorious night mmt be, VVhrre there is no mountain lower or tite, To cunctal the bUze of her jewelry, Ou (he Grand Praiiie. When she dons her veil of üilTery hue j When I he moon is bright, the sky is blue When tue stars like ai gel eyes look through On the Gi and Piaiiie. Tell not of your kill, so wild and hi-h. Mountains that rise to the bright blue sky I'd lather live and I'd rather die On the Grand Praiiie. Keep, keep the city, the burgh, (he town, Where the air is dump, the liht is brown Give me a 'pot where the aun look down On the Grand Praiiie. S.ek ye the mirth that the beat t beguiles ? You'll find it not in your maible tiles ; It dwells where the lips aie wreathed in smiles On the Guml Piaiiie. Want ye the happines truth impart j Clear head, strong arms and noble hearts ? Come ye away from your crowdtd maits To the Grand Piaiiie. Sigh ye for the lore that true hearts prize t The kindly feelings that acorn disguite Then come where the soul looki through the eyes, On the Grand Praiiie. Would you see women as fresh and fair As wild flowers in (heir beauty are Come, come from the sultry city 'a glare, To the Grand Praiiie. The oppressors tread may never stain The gloiious soil of this lovely plain, For liberty holds her court aud teign On the Giand Prairie.

Awful Tragedy in Alabama. One of tho most horrible tragedies ever enacted in rnl lifV r-.nrril in D.illna rnmitv. Al.iiuimn. nn llio J ' ' fc , of which the "Alabama Independent " give the following account. We weih recollect the bank robbery which was the prelude to all these dreadful crimes. It occurred but a few years ago Our readers will remember Tho. C. McKean, of Ban robbing memory. Previous to his outbreaking deprtda tiotia, McK. occupied a fair standing in community, bem ff a highly respectable family, and a man of insinuating ad dress. II succeeded tn obtaining the aftVtions of young and artless school girl, in Marion, Perry county and in Opposition to tbe wihes and advice of her friends ran off with and married her. This voung and suspect ing girl tru the daughter of Mr. J. K. C. Poole, of Per ry county. And amid all tbe hardships to which ber connection with such a man as McKean sut jecteJ ber, she remained firmly attached to him, and rouIJ not be prevailed upon to leave him, until tbe comm ssion cf th I Columbus Bank robbery, from which time she has never seen him. Beinir intelligent and remarkably beautiful, anil j her friends having detei mined to procure her a divorce from ; her unfortunate marriage, she soon become an object of ' conejder.ble attraction, and many have been the suitor. I for her band. Among these was the unfortunate Bethel Holmes, a gentleman highly respected and esteemed in Dallas county, bre he resided. On the eveninir. of Sat; urday the 29th Nov., at the house of Col. Wm. H. Richardson, who had married the sister of Mrs. McKean, and where this unhappy lady was spending a portion of her time, Holmes perpetrated the horrid deed. It seems, that Holmes and Mrs. McKean were left alone in the parlor, and it is presumed that receiving a final rejection of his suit, he was seized with an unaccountable phrenzy,and shot Mrs. McKean with a pUtol, the ball entering her heart, and then immediately shot himself. Col. RicharJson had been out of the room but a short time when the report of the pistol induced him to return. He found the unfortunate lady already dead in her chair, and Holmes staggering in the fljor he aUo died soon after. Neither having spoken after the fatal deed, the par ticular matters that led to the denouement were not knwn- The8e ,lhe fc" we h"eK b' en e"e 10 I gatlier cobcerning the transaction which has fchocked an , enlire cornrouni,y, and filled a large circle of friends and . relations with heartrending anguish, for both the unfortunates were greatly beloved. The Mobile Herald of the 9th, gives an extract of a letter in which are full and more correct particu lars. M It seems from what we learn from other sources, lhat Holmes meditated this double murder for weeks. The ' I.IIap r a v . A ff Ar .1 1 rt liar An Kafiip.l.a ITnlmaj Ar.!A. 1 his horge Afler h wa3 brought outf be' toJ the semnt girl to go op and tell ,1rs. -McKean that he wished to sneak with her in the parlor. She came down and he closed lbs door. Tbe girt remained ouuide and listened at the door. . fc-he heard him ask her if she was willing to promise to marry him. She answered she had already requeaied him never again to mention tbe sut j--ct to her, for she would never marry htm: Immediately after the heard her exclaim, 'Lord have mercy on my soul,' and at tbe same moment a report of a pistol ; then another and another, and a fall. She then opened the door, and saw him fall on the floor. The pistol had fallen oat of his hand, and he was feeling to find it to lire again ; she screamed to the boy who was holding the horse at the door, that Mr. HolmesahaJ shot himself. She rsn in and brought out the pistol, fearing that he would get hold of iL Unfortunately .Mr. IL had gone to the- gin-house, and -1rs. H. had also gone out in the yard somewhere. Two or three gentlemen happened to be riding by ou horseback. They dismounted and came into tbe house at the same moment that Mn end Mit. R. got there and all went in together. At fir.t they did . not sea Mr. JcKeen the was sitting up in a rocking chair; she was shot right through the temples, (instead of the heart,) and from her position he mul have held her with one hand, and shot her with the other. lie then, it is supposed, aimed at bis own tenple, but pointed too high; for, ths ball glanced from the upper part of his head and lodged in the ceiling above. He then fired again, but too low for the temple ; the ball entered below the check bone, tearing his face all to pieces. They neither of them spoke, jlrs.tcKeen lived an hour and a half; he lived about three hours. On his person two letters were found, one directed to Major .Poole, begging pardon for tbe act he had committed, and requesting him lo have both bodies Uid in one grave. " Congressional Anecdote. During Mr. Jefferson's administraäon, syrup was provided in the capitol for tlie refreshment of the members of Congress. This was furnished and charged under the head of stationery. The National Intelligencer tells us that a member who did not like the bevcrape, jocosely remarked that he should be very glad if the officers of tlie House would provide a little whiskey for those w ho pieferred it, and charge it to the account of fuel. Handsomely Done. The members of Congress, rude and reckless as some of them are, appear at times to be swayed by a universal feeling of what is right and becoming we may even My beautiful. An instance occurred during tlie allotment of tlie seats among the numbers, aud is described by cue of our correspondents in a letter. It happened that the name of Mr. Adams was almost the last drawn, and more than a hundred members could have chosen the very eligible seat which he has occupied for several years; vet though many would have been very glad to have it, all paseed it by, from respect to his supposed wishes and convenience, until, at last, his name was called and, with a smile cf grateful satisfaction, the venerable ex-President again tock possession of hitold quarters. Apvice to Merchants and Gikls. Ot'cver refuse a good ofljr for a better market The firtt certainty tlie latter only hope.

LAWS OF IKDIANA. JJV ACT regulating the jurisdiction tf the Juit ices tf th Pratt in the counties of Lakt aAd Porter. Sr.c. I. Be it enacted by the General AsumUy oftkt Stare cf Itdiamt, That an act entitled an act to regu!ate the juitsdiclioo of Justices of the Peace in the counties of Lake aud Potter, approved Jaouary 13, 134j, be, and tbe same is hereby i pealed. Sec. 2. . That the jurisdiction of tbe Jat'.tces of the Pecee

j in said eoontie of Lake aud Poiter.tball be regulated in a!l c ac, Dy ine pro tstons ot the Ketiea t-vwe oi issj. rrorUed, that all suits now commenced shall not be affected ty tbe passage I this act. Sec 3. This act to be in force from and al'er its pasa;e, t.d publication in the Indiana State Sentinel and th filing f copy of this act in tbe cleik ctSce of the counties of Lake and Poiter, and it is hereby made tbe duty of the Secretary of State to forward certified copies tt eiecf to tbe clerk of the ciicuit of each of said counties of Lake and Porters JOHN S. MMOSSOS, Speaker cf the House of Repretentdtires. GOULOVK S. ORTH, 1'retUtnt cf the Senate. Approved December 22, 1S15: JAMES WHITCOMB, GcreTHor cf Indiana. S!att ff Indiana to wit : I, John H. Thompson, .Secretary of State, do beieby certify thai the foregoing is a tiue copy of the oiiglnal roll on tie in my ollice. Jo testimony whereof. I hare he react j ret my l. s. band and affixed the Seal of the State at Indianapolis, this 30th day cf December. A. D. 1S45. JOiiN H. THOMPSON, Secretary tf State. Fiee. We regn t to rtate that the steam Eour mill, owned by Mr. Leor.ard, 5 miles south west t.f Bloommirton, w as consun.ed by fire on Saturday night last. Origin of the fire unknown. li'.tmnirglon ILralJ, Dec. 21. Frt'C Post O f!i ccs for the Stale Sentinel. Marion Cturty. Piketon, Clermont, Allitcntille Webb's Farm, Ucrmantown, Cumberland, New Bethel Uridijrport, Augusta. Hendricks County. Hampton, Plaii.firlJ. IJ.Iieille. Slilraville, Danville, Xrw Winchester, 13re Uaburg, pringtown, North Salem. Hamilton County. WealfielJ, Xub!ekvi!Ie,Strawtowr, Cicero. litone County. Lebsnon, Thornleviville, Roytllon, 'ameatown. Eale Village, Northfield. AJorg-an County. Monrcsville, Monrovia. Hancock County. Greenfield, Sugar Creek, Charottesviile, Philadelphia, Eden. Johnson County. CirrenwooJ, Franklin, Far West. Shelby County. Pleasant View, fchelbyville, Morristown. GOOns AT COST. rjpflE iubüfri!eni, wishing to dipoe of llieir entire stock of -B. el prevkms to tlieir eprins urcha.ea. now 'ff-r tlne remaining on band at Con d I'.aai.oa for ca-b oaljr. Many ctHitui and lerahle good, are yet irnimiiing, w Itirli makes the idoceuteiit to purchasers gteater than ever before mtt with ia Ibis Their Kork ennMst in part of the following rwdpt tlack and blue cloths luruier price 9i O-l now wiling al St 75 Io do " 5 (.0 " 3 75 Do to " 4 50 ' 3 37 Fancy Caa.imeres " " 1 75 " 1 25 Ulack Atpieas a 50 " " 40 IVi and cokirrd finer qiiatitie nlmut mute dim-nunt. French Ginchain former (wire :t7c new tl'.iriR at 2jC. L'axliinere, De Inline and ollirr drei gund at coat. Hi:iu b of every driw-ri(MMi, - - - do Iraver pxl i.f all kmJa, .... do Jaeniieii Inserting coat J-ie Rönnet Ribbons from 1) to jc great discount . (iUivea, lliery, Ftnc s, Collnr, Homins and Trimming!, at coat. 2 I yard Caliati, a fine Tarif t v, at cM.. Als, Flannels, Caiiietu, Jeans, coat be Clotbs, Domestic Goods, ac, tc. We are aware that mane flaming bill are iamied, headed "Selling cfl at Curt," merely to dereive the public, witiKHit standing up to Uie text ; therefore we have tiauted tlie prices of our gnd a far as pmsUile; our o'ject ia to eil. and we hate adopted dim cuurxc ia order to hve all new gYioda at the conimencenienl of lite aeaaun. Without having goods ling on the alielve from year to vrnr. ( all and eiauime the goods. ALVUIIU Ac WOODWARD, P5-tf 4, Norm 'a blots. A 'v Common School Dictionary. JL'ST publish d, a revved and greatly improved edition of the Sequel to Wtbsler's Eleimntcry Spelling Book, or A Speller and D finer ; Containing a selection of about 12,00 1 of the mm useful words in the Fngtiül) language, with their definitions; intended to be uwd as a Spelling Book and a Dictionary. By Wiluim G. Whitii, son of the late Noah Webster, LI. II. The otjecl of this Definer Is to prevent to the scholar a selection of such word, and their definition, aa are in general ve, and such a are met with ia schiol Reading Hook. The oilier word generally found in school dictionaries, are (Mintled as of little bene lit ia a common school education, and only tending to lumber up the nnud at a great expense of time. School dictionaries iisuilly contain alout thirty thoucand words. A child I hit ia compelled to ler.rn and recite the meaning of every word, as it is alphabetically arranprd, will be likely to retain aller all, only such word, and their definitions, a are found in the read, ing lesions lor schools, and such as are used in ordinary conversationHence Ihn advantace claimed Cor this selection which we now offer to the notice of those interested in the cative of education. It is so arranged that k may be nted both aa a Spelling Bouk and a a Dictionary. It is the opinion of many intelligent teachers, mbn have acquainted themnelve with the plan of this hook, t lint it only need to be generally known, to be universally adopted, a an indiapenaable work to follow the Spelling Book, or to be osed in lieu of both Spelling Book and Dictionary. cImioI Committees, uperiiitendenu,or Teac bers, who may wish to examine tlii book, w ill be furnUlted with copies free of expense. For sale by 8 AMU EL TURN ER. Teachers and other are invited to call and e x angine. 65-3in sali: of school, lad In .Tliimi County, Iiidi:m;i. TOTICU is hereby given, that the school bind, being section nura1' ber sixteen, (1G) in congressional township number twenty six, (26) north, range nuniiier lour 14) east, it Hale in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, 3 miles &. S.W. from IV ru, the county Ktnf said county, w ill l-e offered for sale by the nnderaipned on Tueeday the lOllt day of February, A. D. 1646, between loa hours oi 10 o'clock, A. M. and 4 o'clock F.M.onsaid day ,al tbe dtwr of the Court A nee, (to wit, the Presbyterian Church, now naed aa a Court House,) in tbe town of Pent, in aaid county, in sepaiate kasof 40 acre, (aome a lew hundredths of an acre over, aud some a few less.) according to a divuion of tbe proper lrut4eea of said uro nehip, and surveyed by the proper county Surveyor, a plat of which will be exhibited on the day of sale. The aforesaid rale will be made sulject to the following condition, to wit : One fourth of the puichae money to be paid on the day of sale, I egal Interest (7 percent pel annum) fut the residue for one year in advance, and the residue in twenty-live years from such tale, with with like ink-re annually in advance. Fern. Miami county la., I J. M. DEFKF.KS, Auditor M.C. Dec 6, A. D. 16 tj. H. MEMDENHAL.,. Heboid Com. 5?-9w Miami County. Stale or Indiana Hendricks County. Iedick9 Pbobats Coiht. Samuel J. Enrnninper and Robert M.Megee, AdminMraiuratrf' the estate of William Mepee, deceased, vs. VYiliiam AlcAuley and Jane, Iiis wife, Ellison Me-ee, Allen Hess anj Sarah, his wile, Elizabeth Megee, Georeaan liurk, William II. Iturka, Frances Jane Ilurks, EliKHlieth liurk, Mary J. Burka aud Joun J. Burks, keir ot said estate. Petition It tfll Real Eitatt. rgIIE above named William McAuley and Jane, bis wife, Ellison JL Alegee, Elii'ilelh Me -zee, William II. linrks. Trances Jane Burks, Elizabeth Burks and .Mary J, Rurka, who are non reside niaof this Slate, are hereby notified that, at Üia November term. lt-t.S. of Mir said Hendricks Pnihate Court, tlie said Samuel J. Enauiiifer and Knbert At. Mefree. administrators as aforesaid, filed in said court their petition, allowing tlie insiithcienty of the personal profierty to pay and saiwfy 1 Im debu ouUlaiidinc; against said estate, and prayiuc lor an order to sell certain real ebite of which tlie said William Älege died seized, to it ; the north half of the north ear t quarter of section 3, township 15 nortii, of ranca one west ; and that tue said petition will be heard and determined by said court on tbe Drrt tiny of the next term to be boiden at the Court House in Danville ou tlie second Moaday in Feh nary, in the ear lP-lli, when and where Ibey can atleud and oppora U luey Uiink pritj er ao tn do. Attest, JOSHUA D. PARKER, Clerk. f-ft-Swmtf feLuie of Iiitliaiui -Il'iilriclis County. Green Richardson . Joel Richardson. t'artig Jtttacimnt. FETVE defendant, the said Jl Richardson, is hereby notified that JL on Um 2öüi day of November, let'i, the said Green iticlmrdüon sued onl of the office of Stephen C. Crawford, Jurtire of I lie Peace In end fut tlie county of 7viiiliick, in Ilm ttule of Indiana, a ru of Foreign Auathiiienl,hy virtue of w hich lliecutn of $21 81 in rash.tuu been seized upon and taken as money U-Uw-ing to tbe raid defend ant, and that mid wrk is still pending and undetermined. Uivea ander my hnnd and seal Ibis liHU day of lK-crmlx-r, 164.". 60-3.visU S. C. CRAWFORD, J. T. $i:itc of In.liaiia IIcsuliicK. County. A 'J' lbs November term of the wnlrieks 1'robate Court, A. D. , 2. ItiS, said court declared tbe etUleof William Mesee, deceased, to be probably inauivent. Tlie creditor are therefore required to fiW tliew claims asaina the ert.He for allowance in the said I'r4ale Court within ten moi.tlis from tlie dale here.if, or they will in be entitled topayment. SAMUEL J. S.MINGEj,J ROBERT M. WEGEE, Aam' Danville, Dec, 10, 1845. 60-3wifT The State of Imli-tiia Marion County. PSOBITB Cot t OP (AID CotUTT, DcCKMBKa TtlM, 184j. Adam W right and Samuel Fraizer, executors of the Iji h ill. and lestameut of Jesse Fraizer, deceased, vs. Ualsor Fix and Abigail Fix, hw wife, lephen Sv eet and Martha Sweet, his wife, UrnJ.iiinn Glover and Mourning Glover, hi wife. Caleb bleelh ana mrali leeth,lus wife, Jacob Wiotou and Jane Wiolou, bis wife, John Fraizer and Marjaret Frafzer. Pet ttum fur tht rait tf Real Etlatt rip HE said Margaret Fiaizer, who is not a resident of the Ftata l of Indiana, is hereby notified that lha alve named Adam Wriglitand aniutl Fraizer, executor of the last wiil and lestameut of Jesse Fraizer, rieceased, have fiied tlieir pHilion in the above entitled eae, in the con it aforesaid, airamsi tier aud Uta outer defendants above named, that the same will be heard tin the tirx day of the next term of said court, to be held at tlie Couil House in 1. diniiapolis, nn the third Monday in FeUuary nejt, Kv order of tbe Court. Attest, . 63-3wis R. B. D'TXCA V, Clk. AD.mISTXATlt'S AOTICU THE undersigned has taken out letters of administration oa th estate of Eydut lianas, deceamd, and will proceed tare It the personal property thereof on the l.'Ah day of January i.ext. at her bile residence, ronftifting ol Itornes. cattle, sheep, ktr, h(iehoiJ and kitchen furniture, firming utensil, &c. &e. Tlx having claims aeainsl said eiate will please present them, properly arranged, for settlement. Tbe efltale la supponed tob solvent. Deceinlrr SO, 1813. Cj-Uw is RUDL&T HAX.VA, Aiiin. AXOTIIEIt AltlllTAT. TnElafMir-horeeitm from the I epot , on Saturday laPt,broticlil a fresh supply of Tea mi Cafu Britmia f:u,o( new and beautiful styles. AIm a larje aswtflment of fine doib plated and llrnania Custm-t, of all soitsand sizea; pin led eakeand liuii flaskets; 8, 10, and 19 Inch double plated Cd!eji'cli; chamber do., with assorted snnflVriand Trars lo match ; aUonlver-pteJ Tumblers, ot cups. This assort menl Ularjre, and has been selected with eaie, every article being perfect, and of Dm very best quality, and will be sold at New Vü price. The Public are mel respectfully invited lo call and see lor i.enielvcg. W. II. TAI.noTT, - 47 .lemttrf Siort, Oppnnt '. Hall. PATH VI' -LITTTEIt I5aLXCXS. UST received, a Hw Patent Letter Balances with pencil. pen and toothpick attached; thry are tbe most convenient and u.efn1 pencil now in use. Every buMiicss man ought lo avail u.uixeK of this opportunity and get one: (bey will be auld at rtuiadtlniiia. prices al W. II. TALHorVSi u