Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1846 — Page 2

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WEEKLY EDITIOX. ETE19AL TICILAPCC 1 THE MICl OF LI BUTT. IMUWAl'OMS Jl IA 23, IS IG. Democratic Xoiuiiiatious. i'iir Governor, JAMES iV II I T C O ?I II. Fur Lieutenant Governor, l'AUIS V. DUIVMIVG. Our Terms. The following will hereafter be the permanent terms of the Weekly Indiana State Sentinel : fjjrPaymcnts to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.00 Three copies, one year, 5.(0 Fire copies, one year, 8AM) Ten copies, one year, 15. 00 Twenty copies, one year, directed to one person, 20.1X) Semi-lVeekly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One copy, Äl.00 Three copies, 10.00 " The Stale Vcht. Towards the settlement of the immense debt of the State of Indiana, all eyes have been turned for some years. While every honest man, of whatever political party, has spurned the idea of repudiation, without stopping to inquire whether the debt has been incurred ty fair or foul means, or by whom incurred, yet did none, until the present Governor conceived the project, ever advance an idea towards accomplishing the object of avoiding that stigma on the State. For years the State has not paid the interest on her indebtedness. In individuals, this would be considered disgraceful, if not dishonest, except under extraordinary circumstances; and those extraordinary circumstances to which we allude, have overtaken the State. Hence we contended that her neglect to pay arose not from wanton desire, but from inability. This inability but added to the burdens, and in the progressive ratio, that, unless something was done, and dune right, disgrace was unavoidable, cither by open repudiation or neglect. To obviate these difficulties, we know has been a labor of no little intensencss to Gov. Whitcomb. He had the great mass of the State affairs to unravel and place in order (a work of no little labor, as will be learned by reference to the first and second reports of the present Auditor of State, to which we direct especial attention, that the people may partially learn by whom and how they were robbed and plundered) but be had also to originate and perfect a plan by which the State could be relieved without the ruin of her almost entire laboring population. The result of his labor is in the bill of last winter, pointing out the only way in which the State can be relieved from her burdens, paj her debts, and sustain her credit and honor. And remember, that this is all done without increasing the taxes of the people. On the contrary it will induce thousands who have heretofore made Indiana a bridge to cross to the west, and thousands who had the means, instead of selling out and seeking other homes in other States, to remain and settle in our own fertile and beautiful State. This Increase lessens taxation by giving more taxable property, and more labor, on the principle that many hands make light work." The foreign bondholders have accepted the proposi tion, and it is supposed the American bondholders will do the same. A whig legislature, or one opposed to the measure, would throw difficulties in the way, as a matter of course, and all our debt, troubles, and cares, coupled with disgrace, damning at that, would recoil upon our down-trodden people. The measure yet requires to be perfected in some of its details, and who so qualified to do it, as he who fath ers it, and who is familiar with its every part ! "People of Indiana : Will you try such a one in the person of James Whitcomb, or w ill you risk the consequences in one not only unacquainted with its details and opposed to the bill, but who publicly con fesses he never read it! Jos. G. Marshall ! ! ! There can be but one response among intelligent and honorable high minded men. The Rejected Ohio Volunteers. The Whi" candidate for Governor of Ohio, who rejected certain volunteers because they were democrats, and also to please tie Native American faction, rejected three German companies, for which he was politely chas tised by the Secretary of War, finds himself in rather a bad fix in consequence. The Advertiser says that Dr. Duncan returned from Washington on Wednes day evening, bringing us the gratifying intelligence that those companies rejected by Gov. Bartlet namely, the Cincinnati Greys, Captain O'Donnell's company, Cincinnati Guards, Moor's three German companies and the others in fact all the men sworn in will be retained in the service. The members of these companies are called upon to attend at their respect ive places of rendezvous to form before encampment We are not yet advised whether a battalion, legion or regiment, will be formed of these volunteers ; bu we are told that when formed they will be called the Cincinnati Polkers." Polk it to him, say we ; and the Buckeyes will do it, too. Mark that. There has not been a day in two weeks that we have not heard of Whijs who intend to vote for Democratic candidates. We have also heard of a few individuals professing to be Democrats, who are to ote for the Whig candidates in this county. The Whigs need not count this as gain, for we believe they have voted on that side for years. Some we know have done so. Huzza for the genuine Locos ! Out with mules ! "Warm Weather. Tapers every where arc complaining of the heat, and stating that the thermometers rose in different places from 81 to 99 the latter being the highest we have noticed. Here, we had a comfortable week with the mercury ranging from 91 to 102 in the shade, and 113 to 131 in the Sun. We enjoyed it finely ; but it has now got back to 80 to 80, and rain would lay the dust, if nothing else. Some doctors had bad luck for a few days, though their patients are now getting fewer. A fellow, lately discharged from a penitentiary where he bad been confined for horse-stealing, now residing in or near Spencer in this State, has been sending us vulgar and obsceue papers. If we bad lime, we don't know but we would send him back to hi old quarters. We advise the people of Owen to look out for their horses and hen-roosts. P. M. Kent, Zq. the Democratic candidate for Representative from Floyd county, has volunteered and gone to Mexico, and Ctkcs Bradford, Esq. is nominated to fill the vacancy. He will be elected, wo think. CiTT Guards. At an election held by the City Guardi last week, David Wallace was elected Captain. IL F. Miller 1st Lieut., P. K. Land is, 2d do., A. A. Louden, 3d do., and James McCready, Ensign. The locos are for free trade, says the Journal. The loecs hare laid a tariff tax of twenty per cent on Salt, says the same veracious print. Which is the greatest falsehood 1 We learn that Joseph It. Varnum, Jr. has been appointed by the Governor, as Commissioner of Deed fur the State of Indiana, resident in New York city. Congress has agreed to adjourn on the 10th of Au-gutL-

The IVlii? Lie about Capt. Tipton and

the Governor. In various parts of the State, prominent men, as well as Whig editors, are giving circulation to the report that Captain Tipton insulted Gov. Whitcomb at New Albany. Some accounts say that he pulled lis nose; and others that " he shook his fist under his nose. I Ins is part I the oaten or falsehoods concocted and circulated by the olJ Junto here, because Gov. Whitcomb interposed and prevented their robbing the landholders umie'r the infamous land fraud law. Now.weinoirfrom authentic sources that the state ment ia false in every particular. But to place the facts before the people in such a form as to silence the slanders both against Capt. Tipton and Gov. Whit comb we have called on Adjutant General Reynolds, who roomed with Gov. Whitcomb at the time this insult is sä id to have been given, and he authorizes us to say, that Capt. Tipton d.d not, to his knowledge, personally mistreat or insult Gov. Whitcomb in any manner ; but that on the contrary, Captain T. made a call on his Excellency a short time before their depart ure from New Albany, which call was in his presence, and so far as he could perceive, was of tho most courteous character. We are astonished at the reckless meanness that can induce politicians to manufacture and circulate a alschood, that must, if true, disgrace Capt. Tipton in the eyes of every honorable man, for the poor gratification of heaping a little momentary contempt upon our patriotic Governor. The same sort of thing was done at New Albany when Marshall's Daily Bulletin " (of the 17th June) implicated Messrs. McDonald and Austin, two as honorable men as the State affords, and both devoted Whigs, in one of the foulest of frauds, by charging the Governor with imposing on the Bartholomew Volunteers, respecting their provisions, furnished by them, McD. and A., and which were of the best kind and in abundance. And by reference to the Western Democrat of the 25th of June, it will be seen that these men had to resort to the columns of a Democratic paper, with the certificates of the officers of that company and others, to clear their own characters from the malicious falsehoods printed and published in a paper under the control of the leaders of their own party. Can honest wiiig8 act any longer with their party under such leaders ! We hear of not a few in New Albany who declare they will not. The Old Junto will never forgive Whitcomb for preventing the land frauds contemplated by them. The people will remember them, also. Great Fire in TVniitiickct, Mass. The Evening edition of the Journal of Commerce of the 15th, brings us an account of a very destructive fire in Nantucket. Churches, banks, insurance offices, post office, printing offices, the wharves, and stores and dwelling houses, all were swept away. Buildings were blown up, until the powder was exhausted, and water was very scarce. The latter warning particularly applicable here. Goods and property of all sorts were destroyed with the buildings. One hundred and eighty buildings were destroyed, and the fire still raging. Effects of toe New Tariff. We are permit ted to make the following extract of a letter from a distinguished gentleman in Pittsburgh to a member of Longress, dated Olli July instaut: The intelligence of the passage of McKay's bill produced great consternation in this city yesterday. Fig iron fell 2 per ton, and wool 2 cents per lb. in stantly, and a further decline is looked for to-day. ft - M W . J " iVai. imeuigencer. Well done, Old Truepenny ! Got your eyes open at last, eh 1 The higher the tariff the lower the prices, are they 1 What now say the Utile coon pa pers! Are they not awfully alarmed at these 'effects of the new tariff!' Are they not horrified that the purchasers and consumers of iron, ploughs, nails, axes, and other agricultural implements, and that poor people who wear woollens instead of silks and satins, are to be furnished cheaper under the new re duced tariff! How will they manage to crawfish how ! Seriously, is it any wonder that the masses of the people have no confidence in federal whiggery ! It is a standing principle with such leaders to consider the people unlearned aud ignorant ; but we think they will find very few who can gulp such a solecism as "the higher the tax the cheaper the article ;" especially as the Intelligencer's "distinguished" correspondent, in the agony of his soul, cries out, my big profits are all gone ! Remember, Jo Marshall advo cates a high tariff. The President has given permission to Gen: La Vega, and other Mexican officers now in New Orleans to reside, during the months of July, August, Septem ber, and October, in Louisville, Harrodsburg or Lex ington, in Kentucky; or in Cincinnati, Yellow Springs, Dayton, or Columbus, Ohio; and during the Da la nee ot the year at Baton Rouge or New Orleans until otherwise ordered. They are to make to the adjutant general of the army monthly statements as to their residence. It jm intimated by Gen. Scott through whom the permission is granted, that should Gen. Vega desire to visit other parts of the United States, either alone or accompanied by one or more of his Drother othcers, on parole, his wishes will be com plied with. Delightful. To have a conversation in an editor'i sanctum commenced and continued upon the most trifling subjects, especially when he is reading or writ ing. More Delightful. To have forty insignificant questions asked about the neu-s ; what Gen. Taylor intends to do ; your opinion of Generals Scott, Gaines and lhumb. Ne Plus Ultra Delightful. To have one just helping himself to papers, &c. which you have on your table, or if carefully laid aside, to quit the com mon stack laid for such as read, and grab the first. .. Alt these things are delightful in the extreme, and place an editor in a suitable frame of mind for cater ing for his readers. Beautiful Fight. There is a beautiful fight going on between the editor of the Greensburg Re pository, and one Mr. John Trimble, a tolerably bril liant man, but rati) er uneducated, if such a thin" can be possible with a whig! The Repository man publishes his letters as they are written ; whereat Mr. Trimble piles on to him his abolitionism and other little whig peccadilloes. The war waxes warmer and warmer ; and considering the weather, we think there is certain danger of explosion. The Democrats look on and laugh, considering that when certain people fall out, another class get their dues. Mr. T. will find a fight with an editor the almighties, hard fight he ever got in, though, however much he may be wronged. Legal Mcrder. Aliant, Tuesday evening July 14. John Burnett was executed at Schenectady this afternoon, for the murder of Sornberger, in Schoharie county, sometime last winter. He died a dreadful death ; life not being extinct until 20 minutes after the bolt was drawn from the drop. Thus the tragedy end legally. When will lawmakers learn that " the worst use you can put a man to, is to hang him 1" Tue Toor Whig Lie about one Lieut. Luther is completely contradicted and exposed by the Washington Union. Not one word of the whig version is true.

The Graduation Hill. The Senate bill to graduate the price of the public lands lias been amended by the lower House of Congress by the substitution of Mr. Kay's amendment, and passed that body by a vote of 92 to 90. The following is the substitute, in which it is believed the Senate will concur : That all public lands which shall have been offered for sale twenty years or more on the 1st day of December, 1S1G, shall thereafter bo subject to entry at one dollar per acre for the term of five years; all the before described lands then remaining unsold shall be subject to seventy-five cents per acre for another term of five years ; and all such unsold at the end of the last mentioned term may be entered at fifty cents per acre. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the quantity of land which the President of the United States shall hereafter proclaim and offer for sale in any one year shall not exceed three millions of acres. Sec. 3. Arid be it further enacted, That upon every

reduction in the prices of said lands which shall take place by the irraduatinjr process of . this act, the occupants or settlers upon any of the said lands shall lave the njht of pre-emption at such graduated or reduced prices, which right 6hall extend to a period of six months from and after the dates at which the respective graJuations shall take place ; and any land not entered by the respective occupants or settlers within that period shall be liable to be entered or purchased by any other person until the next graduation or reduction in prices shall take place, when it shall, if not previously purchased, be again subject to the rinht of pre-emption for six months, as before, and so on from time to time as said reduction shall take place : Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to interfere with any right which has accrued or may accrue by virtue of any act granting pre-emptions to actual settlers upon the public lands. A United States Senator at -Last! Caucuses by the two branches were held on Thurs day evening last, for another effort to nominate a United btates benator. In the House caucus, James W. Bradbury, of Augusta, was nominated on the first ballot, by the following vote: Bradbury 49; J. Anderson i); W. 13. S. Moor, 3; Hamlin, 2; Lowell ; total, 81. In the Senate caucus, Sir. Bradbury was nominated on the sixth ballot. The ballotini's were as follows : 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. Cth. Bradbury, 11 12 12 Anderson, 8 7 7 Hamlin. 6 6 7 12 13 5 2 10 12 14 1 12 Wells, 1 Lowell, 1 The House voted unanimously to sustain the noin ination. No day fixed lor the election, it win pro bably be within a few days. Thus this important question is at last put to rest. Mr. Bradbury is favorably known to the Democracy of the State of Maine as a gentleman sound in the faith, an eloquent speaker, and of high talents and industry. We have no doubt he will discharge the duties of that elevated office with credit to himself and boior to tho State. Eastern Maine) Argus. .Latest from tlic Camp Official. "Army of Occupatio:, " June 24, 1S40. " Some volunteers have arrived at Brazas Santiago from Tennessee, presumed to be of the twelve months' quota. The volunteers which previously arrived from New Orleans have nearly all moved to Burita, except two regiments in this place. 1 shall bring them up the river as soon as I can procure transportation, which we are impatiently awaiting. The volunteers from Texas are encamped near Fomt Isabel, and are now organizing under the direction of the (jovernor We have no authentic intelligence from the in terior of Mexico. The army at Linarcz is believed to be moving towards Monterey, much reduced in numbers by desertion and sickness. It is rumored that Bustamcnte is at the head of the government, and that Paredes is advancing with a large force to this frontier." Union, July 14. Murder of Col. James L. Schoolcraft. A letter received in the Senate, this morning, by Genera Cass, announces the murder at Sault St. Marie, at the foot of Lake Superior, on the 6th July inst., of Col. J. L. Schoolcraft, a brother of the distinguished and well known traveller and writer of the name, Mr Henry It. Schoolcraft, who is now in this city. The deed was perpetrated by John Tanner, a captive brought up among the Indians, and more than an Indian in the ferocity of his character. This person was a sort of half outlaw, prowling about the place No causes for the act are known or have been 6tated The deceased commanded the militia of the country, was a merchant in large business, sutler to the post, and a man of popular manners and great hospitality And his assassination, by secresy, it seems, has produced trreat excitement in the place. He leaves a widow and family of young children. Union, A New Issue in Nativism. William D. Baker, who is recognized as a leading member of the Native party in Philadelphia, says, in a letter to the Sun o that city : "Let the doors of our Native American Associa tions be thrown wide open, that all may enter, Natives Irish, Germans, Scotch all who are opposed to the insolent demands of the Court of Home, as made to American officers, by the paid emissaries of a foreign power. This proves what waff at first asserted, that the Native party is simply an association of religious fanatics. Louisiana Volunteers. The proportion of vo lunteers, who volunteered for service in the Mexican campaign, is one-fourth, equivalent to 121,000 men from the State of New York, 700,000 from the entire Union. The number actually sent into the field by .Louisiana, is in the proportion of one in five, and three-fifths of her voting population; equivalent to 90,000 men from New York, or the enormous aggregate of 504.000 for the Union : developing a degree of military strength in the Republic that may wel surprise its mends and startle its enemies. Distressing Case. A young lady, who had been a patient in the insane department of the Pennsylva nia Hospital fur two or three years, says the 1'hila deiphia North American, died week betöre last. younger sister, who had for some time attended the picture room, attached to the Hospital, on Spruce street, after returning from the funeral, was SO completely overwhelmed with grief, that her reason was dethroned in about forty-eight hours, and she took the place of her deceased sister in the insane ward. Yesterday morning she expired. She had a widowed mother and only surviving sister, of fragile constitution, to both of whom, it is fearful, this heart-rending blow will be fatal. The Four Children. Under this head, a gentleman writing from Licking county, in this State, (Ohio,) to a paper in this city, details an unusual sight the burial of four beautiful children, all girls, and all these born alive at one birth. One lived six hours, one two hours, and two an hour and a half each. At the interment, he begged leave to open the coffin to public view, and there was presented the most interesting sight ever seen. Four beautiful babes in one coffin. Bide by tide, of equal size and beauty, all of perfect shape. The parents, Henry snd Mary Craft, still live in Licking. Cin. Commercial. The high court of Mississippi, in a Bank case, have just decided that a suspension of specie payments is just and indubitable ground of forfeiture of charter. fj-Foster and his wife Abby have been arrested in Ohio for a breach' of the peace, in haranguing a mob on the Sabbath. Our (the senior's) wife wants soap. Who of our subscribers will bring us some. Indiana- Globe. If your subscribers have none, apply to the whig candidate for Governor. He is overstocked, and applies it wonderfully soft at that. Some one entered the Fulton bank N. Y. and stole $1000 in gold. iV. Y. Tribune. Nothing uncommon. See the great number of Presidents and Cashiers who have done it, from Nick Biddle down.. The Nantucket fire, noticed in another paragraph, destroyed nearly four hundred building s.

rno.u ivasiiigto. WASHINGTON, July 13, 134G. Messrs. Editors : In the Sentinel of the 8th inst. sec an editorial from which I infer that the editor

of the Rushville Jacksonian has seen proper to take special offence at one of my letters to you. You say ie scourges me. That may be ; and all I have to say is, that he "goes it blind," and strikes in the dark, as will appear from the fallowing facts: 1st It is notoriously true, (i. e. it b notorious here, though perhaps not in Rushville,) that on the pasage of the Notice Resolutions, in a form unsatisfactory to the ardent advocates of our lighting title to all of Oregon, up to 51 40, more than a sufficient number of Senators to defeat Democratic action upon the Tariff and other matters, did declare their purpose to vote against a modification of the Tariff, and Whig Senators did boast that from thenceforth every leading measure of the Administration would be defeated. 2d. Your correspondent heard sundry Democratic members of the House at the same time say, in their augor, that the Democratic action ou lue uriu snouia be defeated. 3d. Your correspondent never heard that Senator Bright made any declaration or threat such as is above named. That idea seems to have been first suggested by the Editor of the Jacksonian. The exact contrary has been uniformly understood from Senator B.'s own declarations. If grave statesmen will utter such declarations as are above stated, they can expect no better than that these threats should become public, and especially that the correspondents of the Tress should feel it to be their duty to state the same in their letters. If the editor of the Jacksonian really desires to know whether or not Senator Hannegan made some such declaration or threats as is above stated, he can ascertain that fact by addressing himself directly to that Honorable Senator, whose personal rankness, regard tor truth, and pride ot character will secure to the editor of the Jacksonian, a prompt and pointed answer. The editor of the Jacksonian will be under no obligation to publish the answer, nor will it now be important; because it is clear that if benator Hannegan did make such threat or decla ration, it was the result of momentary excitement. His next votes show this conclusively votes in strict accordance with the democratic tariff creed. And those votes are made the more satisfactory by being accompanied by a very first rate speech. that my statement to you was accurate can be es tablished by the voice of common fame here, as well as by many living witnesses who heard the dcclara tions. Whether one of those declarations or threats may or may not be carried out by Senator Semple, from Illinois, does not yet appear. It is very much feared that he may vote against the democratic tariff, and if so, it will be fatal, unless some other Senator die, be indisposed, or resign. I, for one, hope he will do right, though he has, like others, threatened to do wrong, and reiterated the threat in very strong lanlage within the last lew days, or else his mends misrepresent him. it looks to me as it the editor ot the Jacksonian is gaged to produce certain impressions, at home, rather than to impartially r.ote passing event, and to record them, without reference to men. He is to be a member of the next Congress likely. If so, he will do well to take care how he utters a rash vow here, which he does not intend to perform, for some one of the letter-writers will be sure to hear it, and send it to his editor. To shadow forth events threat ened or promised, is their peculiar province. You can give my proper name to the editor of the Jackso nian, or other person entitled to know. Yours truly, TIMOLEON. Just and Patriotic Sentiments. Just and patri otic must be admitted to be the sentiments, touching the late Oregon controversy and its adjustment, ex pressed in the following answer by Gen. Gaines to an uivuauou, Dy a commmee ui uie citizens oi i miaueiphia, to celebrate the national anniversary with them in that city : "Deeply impressed with the vital importance of hearty union among all parties, in whatever concerns the awful question of war or peace, I have been most happy since the beginning of last month (though for the most part of the time in a state of duress) to find that the wisest and purest men of all parties, known to me in the South and West, as well as in the North and East, fervently rejoice at the late signal triumph over the evil spirit of war, in the maintenance of peace highly honorable to the two nations of the world, not only most capable of doing each other the greatest possible harm, but also the most capable, and who ought to stand foremost in the essential work, of giving civilization and self-government to every part of the human family approachable by steam power. If governed alone by the prospect of acquiring military glory, I would delight more in a war against England than any other nation; because England, though not more vulnerable, is endowed with a degree of military and naval character sufficient to give the highest value to every triumph we could win over her by land or by water. But the most brilliant tro phies of victory, and the highest possible degree of military glory, dwindle into the shade of a shadow when contrasted with the wide-spread evils of war. I am o warrior, not because I ever loved war, or could ever regard it otherwise than as one of the greatest of evils, next to national degradation, but because I have ever fervently loved peace, and because I have known full well that the world is still laboring, as it has been for thousands of years, under the barbarism of habitual disturbers of the public peace, and that all the most astonishing inventions. and improvements in the arts for the present half century applicable to war, tend but to prove the constantly increasing necessity for regarding with redoubled vigilance the essential maxim impressed upon our minds by the beloved Washington ' In peace prepare for war. 44 With perfect respect, your friend, "EDMUND TENDLETON GAINES." What is the Peice of Wheat! We heard an old farmer, who, by the by, was a bank man, ask an individual some days since, this question, to which the man replied nothing. That is cheap, says the old man ; how much will you have at that ! it will afford me a fine opportunity to get the means to pay my extra taxes under this new law. This about put an end to the conversation between two Whigs. We then accosted the old gentleman, and asked him what he would have attributed this state of things to, pro viding the old banks had been suffered to go out of existence, and no new ones started: Here is your wheat, corn, hay, &.c, which is either no sale, or selling at almost nothing. Now what would you have attributed this to if we had no banks 1 Why, sir, I should no doubt have attributed it to the want of banks; my prejudices were so strong some months since in favor of banks and paper money, that it would have been the first and only thing that I would have attributed it to, without doubtWell, sir, what do you think of attributing it to now ! We have some thirty banks In the State, in full blast, and the Auditor of State says they have a circulation of about FIVE MILLIONS, and your wheat is worth about forty cents per bushel : when in 1842 there were but eight banks, and a circulation of less than TWO MILLIONS, and, at the same time of the year, your wheat was worth from 70 to 80 cents per bushel ! What is the cause of this 1 Well, sir, I must confess that my opinion has changed about banks in the last three months, and I am satisfied that it is more for the iuterestof the men that own the banks, than it . is for the people's, that they ask for the charters. Oh dear, what a strange (!) conclusion this Whig has come to, after a life of over forty years: that bankers ask for charters more for their own interest than for the people's Hi Ohio Press. Pity for the Whigs that the tariff had not been repealed at that time. How beautifully they could have got out en that ! Capital Punishment. Treniblin for this "con servative institution" of old times, the advocates of 1 ch king the wicked to death, bestir themselves of late, and print articles in their newspapers and magazines to prove how good it is to strangle, and how grateful the practice to Him who made man in His own image. Monstrous ! As if the Holy God, who, they say, wills that there be no more brute sacrifices, can smile upon these mangling and bloody offerings up of the greatest masterpiece, the best beloved of his works. Urookhjn Eagle. Ay ! why do not some of the sanctified advocates of the death punishment preach a sermon on the good eiample offered in the execution of a child aged ten years ! Such a test would, we should think, afford a most exquisite, eloquent and convincing argument in favor of hanging. JY. Y. yews.

From the New Albany Democrat, July 9. Tlic formation or the Regiments. The formation of the several companies of Indiana volunteers into regiments, has given occasion to a great variety of false and slanderous operations against Governor Whitcomb. For the present, we shall content ourselves with refuting all these slanders in mass, by a simple statement of facts connected with the Governor's action in this matter.

The formation of the companies into regiments was looked to with much interest, mere were a great number of candidates for the field officers, all of whose prospects would be more or les3 influenced by the manner m which the companies should oe united. It was therefore quite natural that some should desire the rejnments to be organized in one way and some in another, while it was morally im possible to please all. Under these circumstances, and indeed under any circumstances, the Governor was desirous that the different companies should agree -i i l 1 A a I amongft themselves and relieve mni irom me necessity of interfering. His first step, therefore, was to call a meeting of tlic Captains, as representatives of their respective corps, and to request them to endeavor to agree and form themselves into three regiments of ten companies each. This course, so far, was per fectly satisfactory to all the Captains present, except that Captain Gibson, a Whig, objected to any agreement of this kind being held binding, unless all the three regiments should be thus formed by voluntary association. He said, in substance, that twenty companies might agree by bargaining backwards and for wards, or otherwise, to form two regiments, and leave the other ten companies scattered all over the State, who would thus be obliged to come together, although they might be very unwilling to do so. To this the Governor replied that if two rejrimeuts were formed by voluntary association, he should consider it as near an approach to a satisfactory arrangement as could probably be made, and as the whole three regiments would then, in effect, bo formed, he should feel bound to organize them in that way. The meeting then separated to meet the next morning. On that morning (Saturday) no agreement having been made, the time was extended to Monday morning. On Monday afternoon, the time having been still extended for the purpose of giving time for agreement, there was another meeting, when it was announced that one regiment was formed, but that it was found impracticable to form another. Still desirous, if possible, to procure a voluntary organization, the Governor extended the time to Tuesday morning, when he would feel himself obliged to interfere, as further delay would be very injurious to the interests of the public and of the volunteers themselves. On Tuesday morning the condition of things remained nearly the same. Only one regiment was formed, and a written protest signed by sixty-four members of the Lanesville Legion, one of the companies presented as making up the regiment formed by agreement of the Captains, was presented to the Governor, pretesting against going into that regiment. Thus, in fact, ten companies had not agreed, for regarding the Captains as the representatives of the wishes ox their respective companies, the regi ment had been made of nine companies, with the Captain of another, while nearly his whole company was protesting against it. Several of the Captains who had thus united, insisted upon this rejriment beinjr recognised as formed. Captains Tipton and Giltson, both at the meeting on Monday evening and on this morning, made warm speeches, and introduced general charges, that politics had been brought into the question, and that persons who were not volunteers had interfered with the view of making political capital. Other Captains denied that they knew of any such interference, and called upon these gentlemen to name the persons who had so interfered. This they declined to do, but when the question was put to them directly, whether they meant to include in these charges members of one political party only, they both unhesitatingly declared that they did not mean so, but that they meant to charge men of both political parties, that they meant to charge one no more than the other. Under these circumstances the Governor very properly declined to consider any regiment as orgauized. Had he done otherwise, it would have been utterly impossible to organize the other two upon a satisfactory plan. The regiment thus formed was widely scattered, embracing the companies from Allen, Cass, Jefferson, Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties. It was manifestly the desire of the privates, and indeed of all the members of the several companies, who had no personal interests in the elections, to have the regiments formed as nearly as possible by uniting companies from adjoining counties, 60 that the men who were best acquainted would be thrown together. Finding then, after three days trial, that the companies could not agree, the Governor announced that it was time to adopt some other course. A resolution was then offered and passed by a majority of all the Captains, requesting the Governor to organize the companies into regiments himself, 44 on the principle of contiguous territory." This he did in the course of the day, but he withheld his final decision until the next day, with the view of still giving the several Captains who were inrluded within the lines drawn an opportunity to exchange one with another, if they thought proper. As laid off by the Governor, one regiment included all the companies on and north of the National road, and the other two regiments, those east and we6t of a line drawn nearly north and south from the National road. He was still desirous, however, to render this division as satisfactory as possible, by allowing any voluntary changes of companies when the wish should be mentioned. Finding, however, that no changes of this kind were likely to be agreed upon, the next day at noon he published his general order, organizing the regiments, and directing the elections for field officers. The above is a plain statement of the facts as they occurred. They were known to a great many persons, and we appeal to all who were present to say whether they are not stated correctly. The great object manifested by the Governor throughout, was to form the regiments according to the desire and will of the volunteers themselves, and we are satisfied that it is only necessary for the facts to be generally known to remove all the impressions injurious to him which may have been credited by the calumnies of his enemies. Oratory. The Cincinnati Advertiser has the following on a young bank whig would-be orator. It is decidedly rich, and bears a remarkable likeness to efforts of the kind on banking and the tariff made by young fledged politicians of the whig school "out west." "A Damper to Eloquence. Amusing scenes occur occasionally in grave assemblies. During the late session of the New Hampshire Legislature, a newly fledged orator rose to make his maiden speech in the House of Representatives. A bill had been brought in to tax bank dividends, and watching his opportunity, the debutant addressed the members : Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Dover, who introduced this bill does not seem to be aware of its inevitable results. He would strip the widow' (roars of laughter; and cries of the widow who! what widow ! not in this public hall, I hope, &c.) "As soon as the tumult subsided in 6ome degree, and the orator could make himself heard, he indignantly proceeded : "Gentlemen need not think to put me down by clamor. Is there no sympathy here for the widow and the orphan I say, sir, that this is worse than stripping. Tut on this tax and I say you drive the widow to her last shift.1 "Here the clamor became so great, that the speaker despairing of a hearing, resumed his seat. It was almost ten minutes before the House could transact its regular business." 03rThe New York True Sun, of the 11th, says : " Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the quiet neighborhood of Hempstead Branch, L. I., was thrown into the utmost confusion by a rumor, (which soon rapidly spread,) that two young married females a Mrs. Flowers, and a Mrs. Jones, the latter only 17 years of age, had eloped with two men, almost strangers to them, the former with a school teacher named George Hudson, and the other with a carpenter named Joshua Eustis. Fortunately .neither of the w omen has any children, and their husbands may, therefore, congratulate each other in getting so easily rid of their bad bargains. Eustis had a horse and wagon belonging to himself, with which he brought his paramour to Brooklyn, and afterwards, as has since been ascertained,) started by the 7 o'clock boat for Albany, leaving his vehicle at S. Carman's 6table. The other runaways also came down in a similar conveyance, and they too, went to Albany. What renders the affair still more singular is, that the men have each abandoned wives of exemplary character, who, fortunately have no children to curse their recreant parents."

From the Jeferio City Inquirer Extra, July 15. Late from Oregon. We have conversed with Mr. Palmer, formerly of Indiana, and Mr. Smith, formerly of Ohio, who passed our city on the steamer liilloon on yesterday evening, on their route from Oregon City, which place they left on the 5th of March last. They travelled through without much difficulty. The Indians on their way were friendly and made no hostile demonstrations against their party, which consisted of eighteen men. They met the first party of emigrants at Fort Larimie, on the 10th of June, under the command of Captain Martin, of Tlatte county, and continued for two hundred miles to meet other parties, having from six to forty wagons. A band of emigrants with 212 wagons were bound for California. The number of wagons accompanying the several parties which they met, amounted to 511, and an estimate of five persons to each wagon was not considered too large. The emigrants were generally in good health and fine spirit. The party under the command of Col. W. H. Rüssel was met 160 miles this side of Fort La-

nmie. There was no truui in me repon oi me uraiu of Gov. Hoggs. A company under the command of Capt. Smith of Iowa, lost loO head of cattle, supposed to have been frightened off by the Tawnee Indians, with the design of theft. A gentleman by the name of Trimble, of Iowa, accompanied by a young man from the same Territory named Harrison, started in search of them. They returned about 40 milfs and found five head of cattle, which they drove back for about ten miles, when they were suddenly attacked by twelve or fifteen Fawnees who were lying in ambush. In the struggle which ensued Mr. Trimble was killed, pierced by three arrows. A gun was fired at him by the Indians, and be was seen fall from his horse. The Indians were in the act of stripping Mr. Harrison, when two of the emigrants appeared and they immediately dispersed, taking with them the horses of Messrs. Trimble and Harrison. Early in the morning of the next day, nine of the party of Messrs. Talmer and Smith went in search of the body of Mr. Trimble. They did not find it, but discovered pools of blood, two bloody arrows, his pocket knife, hat and whip ; all of which circumstances confirmed the fact of bis death. About twenty cf this party, with four wagons, returned to the frontier, guarded by a company of Messrs. Talnier &. Smith. Messrs. Talmcr &. Smith estimate the population of the Territory at about 6,000, and rapidly increasing. There is an abundance of provisions and a surplus of agricultural products. A brisk commerce is carried on with the Sandwich Islands. The barque Toulon, Crosby master, (of New York,) left tho mouth of the Columbia river, bound to the Sandwich Islands, about the 1st of March, and freighted with a full cargo of fish, lumber, flour, &.c. George Abernathy, formerly of New York, is Governor ; John E. Long, of Kentucky, Secretary, and Feter II. Burnett, of Missouri, Circuit Judge of the Territory. The Iowa laws have been adopted as the provisional code of the Territory. A party, among which was one of our informants, had explored the country north of the Columbia river as far as Fuget's sound. The silly tales about its sterility, are grossly false, and have with many others of a similar character been manufactured by the Hudson Bay Company. It is a fertile country, admirably well suited to the production of wheat and other small . I H . 11 1 . gram, its general tcaturcs are roiling tna mounuunous, but interspersed with the most fertile valleys, covered with heavy and valuable timber, with occasional plains and prairies, well watered and the streams abounding in fish. A belt of country from 40 to 60 miles in width, extending around the southern portion of the sound, is of a level character. It is believed that there will be a large settlement of Americans on the north side of the Columbia the present season. The Hudson Bay Company at their fort at Puget's sound, have extensive aud well cultivated farms. Ia December last they slaughtered about 500 head of the finest cattle, fattened entirely on the range." The British brig Modeste, 13 guns and 100 men, has been lying all the winter in the Columbia, at Fort Vancouver. It was supposed 6he would remain there until relieved. The armed British ship America, was at Puget's sound in September last. Several American whalers laid in the straits of St. Juan de Fuca the last winter. So far, they had met with but little success. Mills at present are scarce in the country. There are six grist, and eight saw mills in operation. Dr. McLaughlin's merchant mill, with three pair of burrs, situated on the Willamette, will compare both in the quantity and quality of the flour manufactured by it, with any mill of the same size in the United States. Messrs. Palmer & Smith brought with them between C00 and 700 letters. We have seen the two first numbers of the Oregon Spectator, dated the 5th and 19th of February, and published in Oregon City. It is a neat sheet, and ia edited with spirit and ability by W. G. TVault, Esq. Later from Texas. We copy the following from the New Orleans Bee of the 9th inst : By the arrival of the steamship Galveston we have received our files of papers to the 4th inst. The Galveston left Brazos Santiago for Galveston on the evening of the ult., and reached that city on the 2d inst. Capt. M. K. Snell who arrived at Galveston on board the steamship, has authority to raise from three to five companies of foot. Gen. A. S. Johnson has been elected Col. of the l6t Regiment Texas Infantry E. McLane, Lieut. Col. and Mr. Wells of Nacogdoches, Major. Mr. Forward has been elected to the command of the Galveston Riflemen, in place of Capt. McLane. J. C. Hays has been chosen Col., Walker Lieut. Col. ; and Chevollo, Major of the 1st Regiment of mounted men. The Second Regiment is incomplete, but numbers already about 4U0 men. Gen. Lamar would probably be chosen Brigadier General of the Texas forces. On the 30th ult., says the Galveston News, Capt. Lawrence, three man and a boy, started in a small boat to reach the L. M. Hitchcock, lying outside the bar at Brazos. The boat was capsized and two cf the men and the boy were drowned. One man 6wam ashore, and Capt. L., after holding upon the boat a long time, finally swam to the point of Padre's Island, where Capt Nagle went to his assistance, and brought him off safe. He is much bruised, and greatly exhausted, having remained in the water from four to six hours. As a specimen of the absurd stories circulating about the camp, we may mention that at the departure of the Galveston, a rumor prevailed tliatParedes was at Monterey, with 50,000 men; that his camp covered a mile square, was perfectly impregnable, being protected with two hundred pieces of artillery and that he was determined to await an attack and defend himself to the last. An affray took place on the 29th ult at the camp between two Texas mounted men, in which one by the name of Walker was shot and immediately killed. The high pressure 6teamer Totomac, which left this port a few days since for the Rio Grande, was wrecked, as we learn, in the recent heavy gale about six miles beyond the pass of San Louis. Our information is, that she sprang a leak which continued to Increase until the Captain was compelled to run her on shore. She had about one thousand bushels of coal on board and other freight. Capt. Lumsden and some of his company were passengers. The boat, it is said, will be a total loss, and the freight greatly damaged. The country all around the Rio Grande has been flooded by incessant rains. The Texas Advocate, published at Victoria, says that a good looking Mexican, not long since, went into a settlement above Victoria, and by representingthat horses would sell in Matamoras for the large 6um of 100 each, persuaded some young men to go with him ; since which time they have not been heard of, and it is supposed they have been murdered. It is also stated that about two months ago, some people from the same neighborhood went to Gen. Taylor' camp with several wagon loads of butter, eggs, etc. From the camp they started to Foint Isabel, but have not been heard of since. No doubt is entertained but that they were murdered by the Mexicans on the road. Reports of rather an indefinite character had reached San Antonia, that the Mexicans were concentrating a large force at Presidio de Rio Grande, for the purpose of marching against San Antonia. Tbc report failed to excite much alarm among the Tex ans. Seven companies of Mounted Riflemen from the Red River counties of Texas passed through Austin on the 19th ult. on their way to San Antonio, where they would be mustered into the service of the United States. They are said to be well mounted and equipped, and to be composed of the best class of Texan citizen soldiers.