Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1846 — Page 2

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WEEKLY EDITION. ETCKüAL TiaiLAKCE It THE MICE OT LIBEBTT. ItUUKAPOLIS, JAXUAIIY 15. IS4C. Democratic IVouiiaatious. For Governor, JAJIES irillTCOJXH. For Lieutenant Governor, PAI11S CJ. UCA.MXC. O-The State Conventions of the two great parties have both been hclJ, and candidates for the two principal Executive offices Lave been nominated. If we may anticipate the end by the beginning, we may be ore of an eaay victory. The Democratic Convention was one of the most enthusiastic, the Whig Convention one of the most depressed, that it has ever been our good fortune to behold. Whitcomb was nominated for re-election by acclamation, w ithout a single dissenting voice : the whig, full of doubts and fear?, finally agreed upon Sir. Marshall, because each men as O- II. Smith and Ex -Governor Bigger would not subject themselves to the odium which the certain defeat of the Wbi party would have inflicted upon them. For it is a custom with the Whig party always to attribute their reverses to the unpopularity or unfitness of their candidates. We well recollect the sneering cut which the Journal gave theee leaders of its party for their refusal imputing it to selfishness and cowardice; but we think they only gave evidence of superior wisdom in thus refusing to be sacrificed. The coming contest, we think, will be a cool one. The people will calmly investigate the course of Gov. Whitcomb's administration, and decide accordingly. It is in view of this investigation and decision, that we make the positive prediction cf success to our party in Augutt. We know that Gov. Whitcomb has administered our affairs as prudently, honestly and successfully as perhaps any other man in the country could have done. In the face of the greatest obtsacles, he has dune much good, and so far as we have knowledge, no harm. This is saying a great deal, if the weight which we intend thera to imply be given to our worcU. The peopl never did descit a faithful servant, and will not now. Paris C. DrxxiNG of Monroe county, who was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lt. Go vernor, is a gentleman of much talent and energy of character. He did good service as a Tolk elector during the last canvass. He is far the superior of Mr. Orth, the young gentleman nominated by the Whigs for the same office. Mr. Dunning will make himself known to the people before the August election. 07" Joseph G. Marshall, of the Deep Diggings, and G. S. Orth, of Lafayette, are the Whig nominees for Governor an! Lieut. Governor. They will be beaten of course. We shall pay our respects to them as occasion may require. It is but just to say that Marshall is a man of talents. Supreme Judges. The Governor sent a confidential communication to the Senate on Saturday. It is rumored to be a nomination of Thomas L. Smith and Samcel E. Tekkins for the vacant seats of the Supreme bench. We hope that rumor tells the truth about it, for both these men are as good as any that can possibly be named, and belter than some. While they are firm in politics, there is no bitterness about them. Tiiey would execute their official duties ally and impartially, and to the satisfaction of both Whigs and Democrats. We are sure of this, and we Lope that Governor Whitcomb will adhere to these nominations. 07" We publish to day, by the particular solicitation of the writer, a communication from one of the oldest democrats in the State relative to the conduct, in certain particulars, of one of the editors of the State Sentinel. The editor in question considers that he is entitled to no special praise, for his course on the occasion alluded to. He but did his duty, and would Lave done wrong if he had done otherwise than did. In order that the reader may understand correctly that part of the article which alludes to the appoint-' - i monf rF m f...! sTÄ 4.. i- . - ry . MUUU wuiimro oy ue aiaie vonven-j uuuurl ";1U' ",a PrPer 10 8iaie inal arter ai ,nuuiwulur "am comuiiuee was passed, a list ot j 1 i.t'1,,1 ,1 F-p--u uieuiuur. was reaa wmcn naa oeen prepared v.. :1- T ! 1 1 r 1 rw. .... f uj mi. Aurri-jua ana nis inenas. inis list was not adopted, the Convention preferring to make its own selections. J. P. Chapman, among others was nominated, and approved of. A. F. Morrison was also nominated, and was rejected by the Convention, by a large majority. Morrison of course instead of walking out of the convention, and bidding it good evening, as we should have done under similar circumstances, began to make a fuss, claiming as good a right to be put on the committee as Mr. Chapman bad. To put a stop to all difficulty, Mr. C. positively dedined serving on the committee, and after some debate was excused. By the particular request of Morrison's friends, the vote rejecting him was then reconsidered, with the previous understanding that his nomination should be withdrawn. Mr. Morrison crowded himself into that Convention, (according to his usual custom.) against the well known wishes of the Democratic party in this county. By some sort of hocus-pocus, he procured tbe opportunity to write a portion of the Address. This was contrived for the purpose of making it appear that he still had the confidence of his party. But when the question on his merits was 'directly submitted to the Convention, the result was as we have stated : he was voted out. Mr. Morrison, by the way, has had some severe things to say about the Bloomington resolution against him. We think our friends there can safely fall back upon this action of the State Convention for justification. - Tue Infityettc Courier. The editor of the Lafayette Courier has devoted nearly two columns to our short and hasty notice of his paper. We freely admit that the notice in question was penned before we had fairly examined any single number, and was founded mainly on what we had heard. We admit, also that, while we felt not the least ill will to the new paper, and did not mean in any manner to injure it or the Democracy of Tippecanoe county, by inuendo or otherwise, we were unfortunate in the selection of terms, and the construction of sentences. .The only wonder is, that we do no worse in these respects. If our brethren of the press generally could realize oue week of our multifarious annoyances during the winter, connected with out incessant and urgent business, the whole superintended by ourselves, they wo'uLJ willingly overlook any little dereliction of the kind. We hope our friend will be satisfied with our disclaimer. The Mails. It must, we think, be owing to ex ceeding bad roads, that the mails have been so irre "gular for the last several week, especially east of Columbus, Ohio. And it is a little singular, too, to see, that while they fail, fresh oysters arrive regularly and promptly. si . CThree negroes were bung in Virginia a week y for ao outrage on a female.

' COjmi'MCATIOSS. Messes. Chafmans : When I see men standing ia the position you occupy, willing to forego personal promotion, for the sake of union and harmony in the

great Democratic family, I always feci like thanking thera for the sacrifice, and I feel like placing your conduct in contradistinction to those, whose every act has been to force themselves upon a party who do not need their services. I allude to the course pursued by one of your firm, Jacob Tage Chapman, when he had received the unanimous anction cf the Democratic State Convention, as a member of the State Central Committee, and whr n tlie name of Alexander F. Morrison was rejected, by a large majority cf the Convention, in stepping forward and withdrawing his name as a member of said committee How different would have been the course of Mr. Morrison had he stood in your posit ii 11 1 lie would have surrendered nothing for the harmony cf the party, as his course for the last few months sufficiently indicates. What has been that course 1 Knowing that General Cass had many warm and devoted friend' in Indiana, he took advantage of this feeling, by endeavoring to array the friends of that distinguished Statesman against the Indiana State Sentinel, by, in the first place, urging, that its editors were opposed to his election to the Presidency ; and, in the next, issuing proposals for a paper, pledged, under all circumstances, to his support against the known wishes and feelings of many of the earliest friends of Gen. Cass in Indiana, who were opposed to an agitation of the question, as to the successor of Mr. Tolk, at so early a period. His first partner, who is a pood Cass man, seeing the injury that would be done to his favorite candidate, withdrew from the concern at an early period, before the paper was published, and left .Mr. Morrison to seek other associations. Mr. Chamberlain, a Whig, hns a b-xk establishment in this place, w here the pubLc printing was executed, previous to your election ts Slate Printer. This establishment was brought into requisition, and a paper was at length published by Morrison, under the firm of Morrison &. Spann, the latter a partner of Chamberlain ; and what has been his course since the establishment of that paper ! Knowing that a large majority of the Democrats of Indiana, and of Marion county in particular, were opposed to the establishment of another Democratic paper in your cit, the effort of Morrison has been to take advantage of the popularity of your paper, so as to result to his advantage, by having his paper placed on an equality with yours. He endeavored in the county Convention of Marion county, without success, to have his name placed as one of the Delegates to the State Convention, when your love of the harmony of the party induced you to withdraw the name of George A. Chapman, who had been reported by a committee as ot;e of the Delegates to that Convention, so that he could have no excuse for his complaints. And what has been his course since that period 1 By the dint of a bald and hardened effrontery, he wormed himself into the deliberations of the Democratic State Convention, and got his name placed upon a committee to write an address to the people; and, watching the current of affairs, was permitted to write a portion of that document, and threw a fire-brand into the Convention, that came near ending in the destruction of the peace and harmony of that body, by an effort to commit the Convention, in advance, on a great question, now pending before the two Branches of the Legislature, tha details of which the great majority of the Delegates knew nothing about. And what has been his course in reference to this great question! When Mr. Butler made his first proposition to the Legisla ture, through the Governor, it was no 6oouer laid be fore the Senate, than Morrison was found acting with those who opposed a compromise. He took the ear liest occasion to publish the speeches of Ellis, IIolloway, Murphy and others, who opposed an arrangement, and endeavored to throw contempt on the agent of the bond-holders. His paper was quoted by them as the only one in the city that bad the independence to oppose Mr. Butler. Cut he is called, and is, in some respects, a crafty politician, and seeing that the compromise bill had many tery zealous friends, as any proper arrangement should have, which had in view a restoration of the public credit of the State, he turns a complete somerset, and gets himself on the committee to prepare an address, for the sole purpose of bolstering up his waning popularity and his press, va uvio i i ,11 w esau uvu a. e r b n0jing himself forth as the champion of the bill now pending before the Legislature, and the fate of which he iatimated would be determined in a few sLort weeks -endeavoring, in a covert manner, to 0 commit the Convention in favor of a bill, details and all, that nine out of ten of the Delegates knew nothing about ; and which the Convention, under the circumstances, very properly refused to adopt. Now, Messrs. Editors, I consider Alexander F. Morrison an unsafe pilot, to guard the interest! of the great Democratic family. You will not contend that your course has always been just as it would have been had you known the end from the beginning of every event. But this much I know and believe, that as the organ of the great Democratic party of Indiana, you will ever be found willing to pursue that course which the majority will approve. You have been unfortunately situated, in several respects, during the past two years. The State Central Committee was a perfect blank, so far as effective operations were concerned. Morrison was a member of that committee, as well as one of your firm, and there was no concert of action. Indeed the meetings were scarcely ever attended, except by some two or three members, and consequently you were compelled to look to divided counsels for advice and support. You believed that your paper should not hoist the name of any Frcsideutial aspirant, at this early period, and in this, I believe, a decided majority of the friends of Gen. Cass in Indiana have concurred. You have taken the ground, that the organ of the party at Indianapolis should not act in this particular, except under the advice of a Convention of the State, or its State Central Committee, and you have always been willing to comply with their request, or at once abandon your position as the organ of the Democratic party. Messrs. Editors, I happen to know more of the circumstances attending your efforts in the cause of Democracy in this State, than many others, and you must excuse mo for detailing some of them. The member of your firm who has been elected Printer to the State, commenced the publication of a Democratic paper in that dark region of Whiggery, the county of Vigo, and in the city of Terre Haute. You nobly battled there for several years, in one of the strong-holds of the enemy, until at the beginning of the memorable year 1340, you divided, and J. P. Chapman established another paper in the city of Evansville, that did good service in that memorable campaign. But our party fell, under the overwhelming torrents of hard-cider and Whiggery, and you, gentlemen, were left, with many other poor devils of printers, with several thousand dollars of accounts entirely worthless, owing to the great re-action in the times, caused, iu no small degree, by tbe success of Whiggery. The Indiana Democrat, at Indianapolis, which went down early in the campaign of IS 40, and which had been temporarily revived during the canvass by those having no permanent interest in the concern, was entirely suspended in 1641, and the Democrats of Indiana were left entirely without a paper at the seat of government. You were invited to occupy the ground,

and having a large quantity of printing materials of

the best quality, you came here in the darkest period of Democracy in the State. For the first two or three year you had but a limited patronage; but industry, energy and perseverance sometimes overcomes obstacles apparently insurmountable. You are both gocd practical printers, and by laboring early and late yea were soon able to publish a paper far superior to any ever issued ia Iudiana. Your t was the first daily paper in Indianapolis, and by the superiority of your report of the proceedings of the Legislature, and your always being in advance of other papers in the early publication of news, you succeeded In obtaining a handsome support, derived not so much in consequence of your truly radical Democratic principles, as from a desire, on the part of your subscriber', to ob tain the earliest news of the day. You were finally elected printers to the State, and have made large expenditures in fitting up an otSce to enable you faithfully to discharge the duties of that station. The effort of Morrison now is, if the Demcrats succeed next summer, either to compel the majority in tho Legislature to elect him State printer or defeat an e.V-ction. No one believes, that knows Morrison, that I13 is engaged in a pnper, except from a motive of this kind, or to promote his personal advancement in some other particular , and he is bo uncertain in bis course, in relation to State matters, at least, or the men he may support, that no one knows what morning ha may wake up, finding him having turned a complete somerset in relation to the men and measures he may support. James II. Lane, I believe, fully appreciates him in this particular, as well as others I shall not notice. Messrs. Editors, I was early recognised as a friend of Gen. Cass, during the last canvass, in preference to Mr. Van Euren. I was fearful that the prejudices against Mr. Van Buren in the west would prevent his election. I favored Gen. Cass because I believed him to be a good Democrat, and I know him to be a brave defender of his country in the hour of danger. I still love the man, for I again find him on the watch tower of his country's liberties, telling us to be pre pared for the worst, should war come, in defence of our rights and national honor. But much as I love the man, I love my principles more, and will ever le found yielding to the will of the majority, with regard to men principles arc eternal and should de supported at all hazard. I came up as a delegate to the late Convention, without knowing or caring who were Cass men, or who were for any other Democrat for President, in my preferences to fill important offices. My question was, is he a Democrat, will he defend the principles I love so dearly ! Is he honest and capable 1 Those answered, I cast my vote, and I hope ever to be found thus voting and acting. A DEMOCRAT. Democratic Editorial Sleeting. At a meeting of Democratic Editors of the State of Indiana, held at the Capitol on the 9th of January, 13 IG, J. P. Chapman of the State Sentinel was called to the chair, and Solon Turman, of the People's Friend, appointed Secretary. On motion of J. R. Jones of the Vincennes Sun, the following creed of principles and measures was unanimously adopted, to wit : DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND MEASURES. A strict construction of the Constitution, and no assumption of doubtful powers. A Diplomacy, asking for nothing but-what is clearly right and submitting to nothing wrong. No connexion between the government and banks. An ad valorem revenue Tariff. No public debt, either by the General Government or by the ctatcs, except For objects of urgent neces sity. No assumption by the General Government of the debts of the States, either directly or indirectly, by a distribution ot the proceeds ot the public lanes No extenive system of Internal Improvement by theueneral Uovernrnent, or by the btates. A constitutional barrier against improvident State loans The honest payment of onr debts and the sacred preservation of the public faith. A gradual return from a paper credit system. No grants of exclusive charters and privileges, by special legislation, to banks. No swindling corporations. No connexion between Church and State. A preference for democrats over whigs for every office. Acquiescence in the rule of the majority in all cases of party discipline. No proscription for honest opinions. Fostering aid to public education. A "progressive" reformation of all abuses. On motion of D. R. Eckles, of the Greencastle Patriot, Resolved, That we recommend to our democratic brethren of the press tbe adoption of the foregoing creed. On motion of Mr. Covington of the Madison Cour ier, Resohed, That we recommend to the Democratic Editors of this State, to meet annually, on the 8th of January, at Indianapolis. On motion of Mr. Bascom, Resohed, That the proceedings of this meeting be published. J. P. CHAPMAN, Pres't. Solon Tubman, Sec'ry. State Bane of Alabama. We copy the following from the Huntsville Advocate cf the 19th inst: From November 29, 1944, to November 29, 1845, this bank has collected, including interest, 2:34,907; and of bills of exchange purchased here and at Decatur it has collected, $209,507 5G. Its expenses for the year have been ö,303 59 ; indebtedness of members of the Legislature 10,115; amount of notes burned this year of all the banks $1,204,650; circulation ,522,420; notes discounted $1,332,616; bills of exchange $1,123,462; real estate $72,193. The collections of this bank under the late law are very small in comparison with what is owing it, amounting as above to only $234,907, with interest ! But the cashier, to swell the amount and make a good showing of collections, jumbles up the $209,507 received on the bills of exchange bought last year at the Decatur and Huntsville banks, which were never mingled with the old extended busines of the banks, and which had to be paid at matuaity or be subject to damages of 30 per cent. By this means, the cash ier seems to run up tho collections of this bank to $144,414!! Wc do wish the Legislature would probo that old crazy concern, and let us see what is the reason that no intelligible or fair statement ever emanates from it. Important Law Suit. Mr. C. G. V. Comyges of Lawreticeburgb, is the holder of one hundred thousand dollars of Indiana's Internal Improvement bonds. On Saturday last Mr. Ryman went to Connerevtlle and demanded of the White Water Canal Company, all the water rents and the profits cf the White Water Canal from this place to the Ohio river at Lawrcnceburgh, in payment of the interest due on said bonds. The Company refusing payment, on Monday last he filed a bill in the Franklin Circuit Court, to subject said tolls and water rents to the payment of the interest already accrued and to accrue on said bonds, and such others as may see proper to come in and contribute to the expenses of the suit. Brooktiilt American, Expulsion of a Pheacher. Mesmerism and Seduction. The Methodist Episcopal Conference, now in session in New Orleans, has expelled the Rev. H. H. Shropshire, who last year travelled the St. Helena Circuit, from the ministry. He was charged with the flagrant offence of having attempted the seduction of! a young lady upon whom be was practising some Mesmeratic experiments in July last. He fully confesecd his guilt, and did not attempt to justify his conduct, bishop Soule, President of the Conference, strongly reprehended the practice of Mesmerism, and admonished his hearers to avoid it as one that was dsigraceful, degrading, and ruinous to those who meddled with it.

vEljc 3nbiana legislature.

Reported for the Indiana Slaie Sentinel. SENATE. Satcbd.it, Jan. 10, 1846. The Senate assembled. Trillions were presented ty Messrs. Zsnor, Akin, Handy, Todd, Marphey, sod Davis, and appropriately referred without reading. Mr Murphey presented a petition signed by 134 ciiizeus, praying a change in the statute requiring negroes to givs security for good behavior on entering tbe State, and also cbsnging the law in reference to giving testimony in courts ; laid an the table. Mr Winchell presented a petition relates to taking op colored fugitws from s'avery. Mr Ellis moved to lay it on the table; did sot pre vail. Mr Lgan moved to refer it to the judiciary commite. Mr Berry of M. said, be hoped this petition would be 10 referred ; he thought it should receive a full investiga tion. The crest press of business now before the iuJiciary committee, will prevent that committee devoting the time necetssry to its proper examination. He thought it should be referred to a select committee of its friends, where it could receive tbst full, free, and impartial consideration the peti'.ione rs desired it should have. Mr Pomeroy wished it understood that he riad no feel ings, no sympathies with the abolition rr,? It u opposed to their peculiar views, and bad uniformly opposed them at home ; and was understood to be opposed to the party by all his constituents his nearest relatives voted against him in consequence of his opposition to Ike aotislavery party. He wished his views on this subject undertod. Äs a member of the judiciary committee, he bad reported against a Pimnar petition. Mesin. Head and EJmonion alvocated its reference to a select committee. Mr Murphey said, gentlemen speak as though this wss a local snbj 'cl he considered it a matter of general im. Parlance ; it proposeJ a radical change in our State laws, ile considered that a report from tho jjdicisry committee would command more ir.fljence than one coming from a select committee. The judiciary comotiltes was tbe most sppropriste place to refer this petition. Mr Morgan of D. here roan to a point of order; when the debate wis decided out of order by the chair, under the rule that requires a petition not to be debated or decided on the dsy of its being first read, unless when tbe Senate shall direct otherwise, but shall 11 on the taMe, Mr inchell presented a petition sgainst slsvehofders holding cfliecs, and if any such are now officeholders that they be dismissed immediately ; laid on the table. Also, on the sutject of groceries ; referred to a select committee. Reports from Standing Committee: Mr Chspraan of L., from the committee on the judiciary, reported a bill sulhorizing the erectkn of suitable buildings for a Lunatic Asylum. Mr Davis, from tne same committee, reported back the bill amending the statute in relation to the duties of supervisors in Csss county; passed to the third reading. Mr Berry of M., from the same committee, reported bark the bill defining the power of Judges acting on writs of haben corpu t passed to a third reading. Reports (ruin the same committee of a local nature were made by Messrs. Pomeroy, Henry, Ellis, Davis, Dar hour, Lhapman of L., II olio way, and paed to a third reading. Mr Todd, from the committee on education, reported back the bill far the relief cf Ilenjamin Powell ; passed to a third reading. Mr Edmonson, from the committee on corporations, recorled back the biil incorporating tbe Indiana Stats Medipal Society ; passed to the third reading. Also, reported back the bill to incorporate the Ohio and Indianapolis Rulrosd, with the usual amendments; concurred in. Mr Davis moved to change the southern termination from JefTersonville to New Albany. Quite an animated discussion occurred between Mr Read and Mr Davis. While the questionwss y et pending, The Senate adjourned. AFTERNOON SESSION. Bi'ls on. the third reading. For the relief L. .Vorely, a contractor on the Madison and Indianapolis Rail road ; passed. To transfer the duties of School Commissioners of Daviess county to the Treasurer thereof ; passed. A joint resolution on the sulject of vacant public lands in Indiina; passed. The joint resolution on the sulject of the reservoir in Mercer county, Ohio ; passed. For the relief of William Johnson ; passed. To incorporate the llagerstown .lusical Society; passed. To incorporate the town of .1 fount Cat met. The bill amendatory to the several acts incorporating the town of Indianapolis ; passed. For the relief of Der jimtn II. Scott, of Miami county ; passed. To amend the Revised Statute of 1843 in relation to thi validity of protests by Bank officers; failed. ,"r. Ilemman moved to take from the table the bill in relation to tbe State Penitentiary ; which was agreed to. The bill provides for leasing the State prison to Mr. BottorfT, for ten years. Mr. Howell moved to strike out all after the resolving clause and insert a substitute. Tbe bill was finally leferred to the Judiciary committee with certain instructions. Mr. Todd reported back the bill from a select committee to divorce Frederick Hartzell and bis wife ; which was read the requisite number of limes and passed. Reports from Select Committees. Mt. Todd reported a bill in relation to retailing Spiritous Liquors in .1arion county. The bill gives tbe legal voters of the county power to authorize the sale or not. in their respective Townships. Ordered to the third reading. Mr. Davis reported back the bill amending the act incorporating the city of Niw Albany ; ordered to the third reading. Mr. Hardin reported back the bill amending the Revised Statutes of 1843, as far as Johnson county is concerned ; passed to tbe third reading Mr. Hamer reported back the bill to incorporate tbe White river navigation company ; ordered to a third readMg. The Senate then on motion of Mr. Chapman of L went into secret session on tbe nominations of the Governor to fill the vacancies in tha Supreme Court. The Hon. T. L Smith and the Hon. . E. Perkins, nominated. The Senate postponed the consideration of the con firmation until Tuesday next, at two o'clock, P. M. .Mt. Cbenowith introduced a bill to appoint commissioners to make partition of the real estate of Stephen Collettof Vermillion county referred ii a select committee. Several reports were made from select committees. The Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF RLTRESENTATIVES. Satubdat, January 10, 1846. The bill to authorize the State to take possession of the White Water Valley Csnal was reported back from the Committee on Canals, dec., and laid on the table. Mr. Stapp, from tbe committee on the Slate Bank, reported the answers of the Cashier of tbe State Bank, in relation to the Branches discrediting the certificates of deposits of each other, dec; which were spread upon the journals. Mr. Leyman reported a bill for the relief of Rufus A. Lockwood ; which was read twice and referred. Mr. Hall of Gibson, from a aelect committee, to which lbs joint resolution removing tbe Superintendent and clerk of the State prison wss referred, reported that there is no just cause of complaint against said Superintendent aud Clerk, and therefore recommend, that the resolution be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Riley gave his views, at length, in opposition to the postponement of the resolution, when . the question waa taken on an indefinite postponement, and decided in the affirmative, ajes 03, noes 21. A select committee reported against attaching a part of Hendricks to Marion; which was concurred in. Mr. Stanfield reported back the bill to authorize the Slate Bank to issue bills of a less denomination than five dollars, without amendment, and tho bid was ordered to be engrossed. Mr. Arnold reported a bill to vacate a part of State road in Bartholomew; which was read three times and passed. By Mr. Jackson, a bill for the relief of Jacob Brisber; which was read three times and ordered to be engrossed. Mr. Cornelius reported against the repeal of the law forming: the new county of Ohio ; which passed to a second reading. . , The bill taxing the school lands after ten years waa ordered to be engrossed. - By Mr Wilson, a bill to define the channel of Turtle creek; passed to a second reading. By Mr. Frrd, a t ill to incorporate tbe Fort Wayne and Cambridge City Railroad Company ; which was twice read and referred. Mr. Leyman, from the select committee, on that subject, reorud back the bill authorizing Nicholas McCarty to build a mill dam across White river, with a recommendation in favor of its passage. The bill was ordered tobt engrossed.

By Mr. Wilson, a bill to locate a road ia Noble county ;

read three limes and passed. By Mr. Julian, a bill to incorporate the town of llagerstown ; read three limes and passed. ' By Mr. Slceth, a bill amending the act authorizing Joseph Quinn and James Norvell to erect toll bridges; read three times and passed. By Mr. Porter, a bill to authorize the re-survey of a school section in Harrison ; reaJ three times and passed. The Public Delt, Xf r DAnrn tt f .n.irt (Vilm ttl eWt eammittee nn 1 that eurj-ct. reported back the bill to provide for the funded debt of the State of Indiana, and for the completion nf I tbe Wabash and Erie canal to Evansville, with sundry amendments; when Mr. OsSorn of Laporte moved, that the amendments , be ordered to be printed, and that the bill b laid on the table, and that the bill be mid, the special ial order of the dar for Monday nest. The amendment proposed by the committee are to tbe 6lh, 8th. 9th, 12, 18th and S2d sections most of them amendments of the bill, in order to make the provisions more definite and belter understood. The committee also propose to add three additional sections. Tbe first, or 23d section, when added to tSe bill, provides, that Trustees shall have the right to locate and construct such feeders, feeder dams, tide cuts and reservoir?, as may be necessary to supply said canal with water, and may take such timber, stone, or other materials as may be necessary for the construction of said csnal, by making; to tbe proper owners reasonable compensation therefor, on the same terms and in the same manner as the Superintendent of said canal is now authorized by law to do; and the word ""canal " wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean and include all its feeders, feeder dams, side-cu'a and reservoirs. The 2J or 24th section provides for furnishing in tbe late prison or county jiil and by fine, all persona who shall wilfully and maliciously injure the canal, by destroying locks, culverts, &c. The 3d, or 25ih section, makes the act to take effect and be in force aa soon as the subscription mentioned in section six shall be made, and ten per cent, thereon paid to Trustees elected Mr. Clymer reported a bill legalizing the establishment of State and county roads in Elkhart; which passed to a second reading. Mr. Cookerly gave rotire that he would move for a committee on trust funds of the Slate. Mr. Haiflrieg introduced a bill for the relief of John Patterson of Boone county ; read three times and passed. By Mr. Vandeveer, for the relief John Davis, of Orange ; paFSfd to a second reading. Dy Mr. Seawright, regulating tbe duties of the supervisors of Clinton; read twice, and amended by adding Carroll, end ordered to be engrossed. By .lr. Lanins, to secure to Ohio county a share of the common school and surplus revenue fund; read twice and ordered to be engrossed. By .Mt. Nofsinger, a bill to extend the time of holding probate courts in Parke; which was read twice and referred, with a view of adding Harrison and other counties. By Mt. Cruikshank, for the relief of the widow and heirs of Thomas ilurphey, deceased ; read three times and passed. By Jr. Meeker, relative to certain lots in Indianapolis ; passed to a second leading. By Mr. Rousseau, regulating the lime of holding probate courts in Greene county ; read three times and passed. By Mr. Mickle, relative to water at the summit level of the St. Mary's ; read twice and referred. By Mr Clements, for a road from Troy to Hillsborough ; read twice and referred. By Mr Dowling, for the relief of Henry Manse!, See; read three tiroes and passed. Ky Mr Turner, fr the relief of Jacob Ensminger ; read and passed to a second reading. By Mr Taber, extending the time of payment to purchasers of canal lands five years from October next; read twice and referred to a select committee of Messrs. Taber, Smith, Slater, and Clymer. By Mr. Kergus n, to provide for a settlement with the Superintendent of the State Prison; read twice andrefprreil. i By Mr SUter, to exempt certain lands from taxation for corpora' ton purposes in Lawrenccburgh j read and passed to a second reading, By Mr Blakewell, for the relief of Mary Aun Bruner; read three times and passed. By Mr Endecott.to repeal an act, &c; passed to a seeond reading. By Mr Lanius, to legalize the proceedings of the boarl of trustees of Rising Sun, Ohio county ; read three times and passeJ. By Mr Jackson, to legalize the acts of Daniel B. Redmari ; read three times and pasted. The bill of the Senate, authorising the trustees ef the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Asylum to purchase land not exceeding 30 acres tor a sum not to exceed $3000, for a site for the erection of an Asylum, &c; was read a first and second times, and, on motion of Mr Clymer, referred to the committee on education. Several bills of the Senate were read, referred to committees, and passed to the future action of the House. On motion, the House adjourned. AFTER5007I SESSIO.f. Ii Ms t$c. Passed. To provide for the distribution of certain public documents. To divorce Cyntbiana Devault and P. A. Huffman from their husbands. To provide for the erection of a monument on the Tippecanoe Battle Ground. Relative to the northern division of the Central canal. Respecting leases of water power. To revive and amend a certain act therein named, giving further time for certain companies to go into operation. To vacate 16 lots in Harrison ville. Joint resolution for the completion, See, of the Cumberland road. To locate a road in Fountain and Warren. To abolish the road tax in Daviess. To amend the act relative to school fund in Lagrange. To incorporate the Richmond and Miami Railroad Com pany all of the Senate, Also, bills of the the House, to authorise the auditor of Madison to sell school section. Joint resolution transferring book to State University. "To vacate part of Independence, St. Joseph county. To authorise John Carter to relinquish part of saline lands. To repeal a certain act, &c, relative to Miami Indians. To authorise the commissioners of Carroll to make a certain appropriation. For the relief ef Thomas Daniels, Jce. To authorise Samuel J. Hager to build a mill dam in Fulton. Joint resolution relative to Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad. To amend the act incorporating South Bend. Supplemental to the act incorporating South Bend Manufacturing Company. Relative to fees of auditor of Monroe. To an-end Revised Laws in relation to allowances of sheriffs. To legalize the judicial acts of John F.Merrill of Huntington county. Joint resolution for the reduction of the price of public lands to actual settler. Joint resolution extending the provisions of an act therein named. Declaring a road therein named a State road. Authorising tbe commissioners of Henry to reduce the width ef roads. Legalizing the acts of Probste Judge of Wells. For the relief of Henry D. Smith. For ibe divorce of Robert Hemphill. For the relief cf Indiana Young. For the relief of James 8. Mays of Knox. Eor tbe relief of E.J. Peck. To proviJe for a free turnpike in Steuben. To amend Revised Laws in relation to county treasurers requiring him to muke oath in relation to funds roceived. In relation to the corporation of Dublin. For a road in Bartholomew, Decatur, and Jennings. In relation to the several acts respecting New Albany and Vincennes road all of the House. ' Several bills were read a second lime, ordered to be engrossed or referred to committees. Petitions were presented by Messrs. Yocum, Cameron, Bowers, Teil ford, Henton, (from Kcsciusko and Fulton relative to boundary of county.) Webber, Ford, (abolition petition,) Henry and Carr; which were referred. Mr. Lowe from the Judiciary committee, reported a bill to change the manner of doing probate business and to re-organize the Circuit Courts abolishing tbe probate courts, as at present constituted, and giving the business to tbe Circuit Courts, and establishing three new Circuits. The bill was lead a second time, and, on motion of Mr. Vandeveer, laid on the table. By Mr. Baker, providing for the payment of Engineeis, &c. for surveying the Ohio and Erie canal from Terre Haute to Evansville ; read twice and refened. Mr. Cookerly, from the committee appointed to investigate the conduct of tbe commissioners of the Sinking Fond, made a long report on that subject ; which was laid on tbe table. Mr. Bowman reported a bill to pravids for the damages on tbe Wabash and Erie canal to be paid in par funds; which passed to a second reading. Mr. Webber offered a resolution in relation to a firs Engine at Indianapolis ; which was adopted. By Mr. Stanfield, a joint resolution in relation to Col. John Spencer, former receiver of public monevs at Furl Wayne; read three limes and passed. . By Mr. Lemmond, providing for the annual publication

of the Farewell Address of General Washing-on, with

the Governor's message ; which was twice read. Mr. Hall of Gibson favored the joint resolution. This had been the practice in Pennsylvania f.r many years. The joint resolution was read a third time and passed. By Mr. Stipp, a joint resolution, rclauve to the signers of the Declnration of lud peodence ; read twice and ordered to be engrossed. Br Mr. Hazchicg, joint resolution in relation to com pensation to one ot the commissioners of a lunatic asylum. for expenses in assisting similar institutions. By Afr. Hazelrigg, relative to s change iu a State road in Boone county j resd three times and passed. On motion of Mr. Hazelrigg, the bill to repeal tbe art confining voters to their own townships, ao far as Boons and U wen are concerned. Mr. Vandeveer moved that the but be ind. finitely post iponed; wnicn motion prrvai.ru, ayes .jo, nur d. Doned ; On m .lion ot Mr, stick e, it was resoiveu, mar. do new bill shall be introduced, after Thursday next, except by a majority of two thirds. Mr. Jackson introduced a bill to amend the road law in Tipton county ; which was read three times and passed. The files of the House being coa;p!ctety cleared, on motion, the House adjourned. Terrible Diaslcr. We have received-through the eastern papers, and als-o in a slip from the Zanesville Courier, intelligence of a most destructive steamboat accident. Tbe particulars, as far as we have them, are jjiven below. The Belle Zane was, we believe, owned in Zanesville. Charles Bo wen, E-q., whose death is recorded, was a member of the Legislature of Ohio, three years since, and secured the respect of. all, by his intelligence and worth. The Courier States that letters have been received at Zanesville from the ecene of the disaster, and that twenty-five are reported to be lost. From the Xev Orleans Times, Dec. 23. LOSS OF THE STEAMER EELLE ZANE. Terrible Disaster. The Steamer Helle Zane, from Zanesville, and Bound for New Orleans, struck upon a snag on the 13th instant, twelve miles below White River. The B.Ue Zane had on board over ninety human being?, including passengers aud crew. The former had retired to rest, the accident occurring in the mid . & . - a . . a 1 - a dle of the night. The weather wts bitter cold, and when the boat struck they were not only awakened from sleep, but found the steamer sinking so rapidly that they had scarcely time to rush, undressed, upon deck, & few protected by blankets seized from the bed. To add to the horror of the scene, the cabin separated from the sinking hull, involving a mass of human brings in a watery grave, or leaving them exposed upon a floating wreck, to almost perish with cold. Those persons who were so fortunate as to remain upon the floating cabin were saved. The names of those who were lost have not been obtained, further than those of Air. Bowen, wife and child, cf Zanesville, Ohio. The steamer Diamond picked up at two points on the Arkansas side, sixteen of the sufferers, and carried them tö Napoleon, where the remainder cf those who had escaped had already assembled. The passengers, from the best information they can give, represent the loss of life to be near forty persons. Among the passengers their were live ladies, four of whom were saved. The United States mail from Louisville Memphis, and the way mail from the Ohio river, were lost. Also, the cargo. Besides Mr. Bowen and family noted above as lost, Mr. llobcrt Byrnes, cf Newport, Ky., died after reaching the shore. Among the passengers saved is Mr. John P. Nessle, of Albany, N. V. Gulzar." We have beforo us a neat little book of poetry, by Jon Ö. KrtD, entitled " Gulzar." It is an octavo of two hundred pages, elegantly bound in cloth, and printed in the most superb style, on excellent paper. It ia . LI' L.J I rw t A . . I J ! . J I puuusnvu dj 1 unier, uavisana inner, aiiu primca vj the Messrs. Chaptnans, at Indianapolis. With the author, Mr. Ueid, we are personally acquainted, and tho' we never read poetry, our sincere respect for him, induced us to äit down and peruse his book to the end. We confess it lias created in us, to some extent, an appetite for verse. Mr. Keid is a Scotchman, and was educated in that country. Some six years ago hs immigrated to this, located at Liberty, Indiana ; read law with Judge Perry, now of our city ; was admitted to practice betöre naturalization, by special act of the Legislature, and is now a resident attorney of growing reputation, at Liberty. The main poem (for the volume rontains a dozen Gazelles, translated from the Persian Poet, llafiz,) is a Persian Tale, and "Gulzar" is the name of a beautifut Princes, the daughter of Aga Mohammed, and an important character in the Tale. She was " pining away on'a bed of sickness," and her disease had baffled the ' skill of the most learned physicians. " In the anxiety and despair of the King, " he ordered proclamation to be made over his kingdom " announcing her sickness, " and offering a reward equal to the ransom oi a Prince, to him who should restore to health and happiness his only child. " Days past, and at length an aged DervUe presented himself at tbe King's gale he is from afar he makes known his errand, his skill restores to health and happiness tlie fading young Princes. A splendid entertainment is then given by the King ; the Princess and Nobles, the beauty and bards of bis kingdom are there. - It continues for daa and for nights; routs revelry, and song; trials of strength, skill horsemanship, See, take place among the nobility ; but in all the merriment and glee, the Princess Guzlar is joy less her eye wanders over the crowd that it may rest upon her favorite, tlie noble Abbaa Mirza, bat it wanders in vain her sickness bad been love delayed. As the dance and song went gaily round, and tbe eons of song one after another tried their skill ; M at length ilumza ?erVfe' "Wi -TW,1' 5. 'l" "d bowing humbly to the throne on which the Shah was sitting lie took in his band a small harp that hung on one of the golden pillars of the ball, swept his fingers across its chords as with the touch of a master, and thus began;" " O ! who has gaz'd on Babylon, The city of the btazen gates And seen bright gleaming in the Sun, Her gilded domes and minarets ? " The poem then proceeds through seven cantos, the songs ot tbe aged Dervise, with a prose introduction In each. The Tale closes, also, in a few pages of prose. A thrilling interest is maintained throughout, and it closes most beautifully. The scene is obssrved, is laid in Persia, and, as of course, the history, theology, imagery and associations of the poem, are all oriental. The verse is graceful and flowing, tbr imagery rich, and the sentiments delicate and beautiful. We have seen no numbers of this work here ; but we hope our city will be supplied, and that our citizens, the lovers of song at least among them, will patronise it, for its own excellence, and from local pride that so fine a work is produced among us. It would make an elegant Christmas or New Year's present, to lay upon a lady's pat lor table. We should add that many learned notes are appended to each canto, giving much valuable information relative to the history, manners, customs, &c.f of Persia. Jrfer. soman. We haie men in our country, in every party and sect of politics and religion, that are called prudent and aafe men. They usually spring from poverty, rather by meaness than talent, and become rich, cut all their relations and acquaintances less wealthy than themselves. They are generally officers of some church, and of sundry benevolent societies, to which institutions their charity will shine, as we are told charity should, conspicuous above all other virtues ; while at the same time they have, perhaps, a mother or a sister, elsewhere, daily eating the bread of another's bounty. They are overbearing to the poor, while from tbe rich they bear all things. They like low taxes, but liberal monopolies ; sound currency, but high interests ; and are always ready, whether in religion or politics, " To compound the sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Offences against property they think much more serious than those against the person. Capital punishment they believe necessary to the very existence of man in society, and imprisonment for debt indispensable for bis prosperity and virtue. They foresee anarchy in every fopular demonstration, and public ruin in every reform. 11 short, they bear the same relation to society that the vistnerta does to matter. They have alwavs to be over come, before there can be any progress. They are the natural enemies of the philanthropist and reformer, and the most incessant vigilance is necessary to gutxd agnibel their machinations. Democratic Review. L.00I1 Forward. One year the nearer, wife Are we to death : Time, love, that meeteth life, Gainers our breath. Let not thy dear face own Looka of distress : If days of love are gone, Sorrows are less. Look forward cbeeriiy, Hope to the rust! Would st tlMu live wearily, Cling to the past.