Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1846 — Page 1

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL: THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF TUE STATE (grQfice on Illinois Street, Xorlh of Washington. G. A. fc J. P. CHAPMAN, Editors. CTTbc State Sentinel will contain a much larger amount of reading matter, on all subjects of general interest, than any other newspaper in Indiana. THE SOI I-WEEKLY EDITIOX la published every Wednesday and Saturday, and during the session of the Legislature, three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at Fuur Dollars a year, payable always in advance. THE WEEKLY EDITIOY I published every Thursday, at Tico Dollars a year, always to be paid in advance. 81 in advance will pay for six months. $ will piy for three copies one year. Persons remittinz $10 in advance, free of Host

age, shall have three copies of the Semi-Weekly one accomnani oy lie cash ; or no attention will be paid to them. (Postage must be paid. Mexico. The Washington Union of the 2Gth, has Üiö following . " We can state, upon competent authority, that the report is not true, that Mexico has refused to negotiate w ith the government of the United States until we shall withdraw our armies from her territory and our fleets from her coasts. This report is absolutely destitute of foundation. The government of that republic has determined to refer the President's overture, to open negotiations for peace, to the constituent Congres3 of .Mexico, which will assemble in the begiuning of December (we believe the 6th.)M Navai.. As the U. S. steamship Princeton was about leaving Vera Cruz on the 6th inst. for Fensacola, she spoke the U. S. steamship Spitfire, with Commodore Perry on board. The S. left New York on the evening of the 29th ult., and consequently made the passage between the two points in less than eight days a performance that proves her to be a very fine sailer. Com. Perry is to take command of the Gulf squadron in place of Com. Conner, who is said to be in failing health. To this cause is attributed, by offi cer in the squadron, certain miscarriages in the Gulf ; which have been a source of chagrin to the whole navy Wabash and Ehie Canal. The tolls on the Indiana, Wabash and Erie Canal, so far this year, show a considerable increase over the corresponding months in 1S45. At Lafayette, during March, April, May, June, and Julj, 1345, the aggregate tolls amounted to gl-599 63. During the same mouths of 1346, they are given in the Lafayette Journal at 28,24180, being an increase over last year of nearly 100 per : aent. 1 he tol!s this year on the finished portion of . the canal, it is said, will amount to about 10 0,(C0. Disgraceful. Are the Indiana Whij editora ! aware of the disgrace they are heaping on our gallant volunteers, by their yarns on Lt. Governor Dunning J Can their hired scribblers among them not see the shame they bring on themselves by making themselves drinkers cf baldacd whiskey and water at fite dollars a gallon ! When can that party ever stop biting their own noses off! 31ore Government Pkoperty Lost. The steamboat Ohio, for Fort Leavenworth, laden with about seventy-five tons of government stores for the army, comprising three hundred cases of arms and accoutrements, a lot of tents, about twenty wagons, and a quantity of groceries and other stores, struck a snag in the Mississippi, near Arrow Rock, about two weeks ago, and went down in eight feet water. The Late Gale. The Norfolk papers still continue to record disasters at sea by the gale of the 8th instant. It is stated in the "Newbemian," published at Newbern, North Carolina, that of the twenty vessels lying at or near Ocracoke, eighteen were driven ashore and one driven out to sea. Several lives are said to have been lost during the gale, and fears are entertained that few if any of the vessels can be got off. Mexican Barbarity. An officer on the Rio Grande says that on an average one dead body per day floats past his encampment. A man seen one day among his friends in the streets, is suddenly missed to-morrow. Mexican revenge and national bate is no doubt at the bottom of it. If the Mexicans persist in this vile course, we shall be compelled to civilize them in a different manner. fj7-The receipts of Flour and Wheat at tide-water by way of the Erie Canal, from the commencement of navigation this season up to the 7th instant, were 1,590,292 barrels, of the former, and 915,23 bushejs of the latter. This is equal to an excess of 600,456 barrels, so far during the present year, over the corresponding period last year. Prize Mosey. An advertisement appears in the New York Sun, notifying the officers and crew of the United States ship Yorktown to call and receive their share of the prize money, on the barque Pons, lately captured on the coast of Africa. The prize money amounts to thirty thousand dollars. O-The natural resources of America, if fully developed, would afford sustenance, according to an estimate in the Encyclopedia Britanica, to 3,600,000,000, a number five times as great as the entire mass of human beings existing at present upon the globe. To Thistees. Great preparations are making among the printers in Rochester, N. Y., to observe in a fitting manner the birth-day of Franklin. The desim isto invite members of the craft from the whole United States; also veterans ia the art from Europe. 07-We hope no one will fail to read the article in another column, from the Washington Union, in relation to the Miami Indians. It embodies Tacts of the greatest moment to the citizens of Indiana. Maise. As far as beard from, 34 Whigs and 40 Democrat, are elected to the House. This includes 2 Whigs in Thomaston, 1 in Buxton, 1 in Brunswick, and 1 Democrat in Standish, elected at the second trial. Many vacancies yet remain to be filled. The court trying the kidnapping case in Columbus Ohio, set aside an empannelled juror, because he had the day before expressed au opinion that three of the associates were'a pack of d d asses." Tr.LEGRArns. It is stated tfrrt there are only 173 roilea of Telegraph in operJpn in England, and already there are 12G9 miles in -successful operation in the United States. - . . . " - (7-The Michigan Central Railroad has noa ly been sold, as 'provided fvr by an act of the Legisla ture. (r-James G. Eirney fteclines being a candidate for the Presidency any longer, the prospect for his elecioa being very remote.

'"7,; ,r:V i , 1U."U" ' Letusfollow for a moment cur thoughts in their evcr considered the law the best that can be made i be charged for the Tn-Weekly, and 50 cents fur the , puo'ic press of the State. The salutary influence cx- . . .. . , . , , ' the bencSt of thos uhm .r fn,,,,,,. i w..n. .1...: r :,.: : I ... .i i.u , .... various winding to tl.- irp.-1nrl rpirinn. f i,'u,e mc.ii ui mosewnoare untortunate enoucti

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Published everv Thursday. Editorial Convention. It will be recollected by so many of the Editorial Fraternity es met at Indianapolis in January last, that it was resolved these Conventions should be held annually; and that the Indianapolis Editors were to be considered a committee to have a Dinner or Supper prepared to give eclat to the annual occasion. IU.il.. Tn.i; ..V.- r.i:.. k . C ..vtn. .. ..u....t..9 Olivia iiui i.irS.Hirn , r .....- -.w the subject. We propose to our brethren here to take the subject into immediate consideration. And we further orooose .hat Mch .n.l nerv nn thrnnrrh. J " ' out the State -who can and trill be here, signify the same tlirniio-h thpir rpsiwtii-A nnwn Wa nm pose Saturday, the 13th day of December, as the time. Whoever offers on amendment, should do so early. D - .- r r-t. . fif tlio rnstnma in N'stu Vorlr fotlffoo 1,t rn 1 tn rr . half the boots are imported into this city, except by some a dozen Whig hatters and shoemakers to meet wauts of their fastidious Whig customers, and by some fifty or a hundred wealthy Whig gentlemen, who order them from abroad for their own and their families' use. The same talking supporters of home mechanics," are the exclusive importers of ready made clothing, because, as the New York Tribune (a Whi paper) says " they are silly people who like the reputation of buying articles that have come a great way in search of a purchaser." It is also stated by that officer, that three-fourths of the merchants who " flood our country with the products of the pauper labor of Europe," to the great terror, -yarenlly, of the talking Whi protectionists, are also members 01 me wnig party; and he thinks that all thcge VGLT facts thee .stubbprn and indisputable facts ought to silence the tongues and stop the pens of all the loud-talking and hard writing Whig protectionists in the country. And iff think so too. Omo Congees-MEX. The Ohio Statesman gives the following list of the democratic nominees for Congress. Nominations are yet to be heard from in the 12th, 14th aud lGth districts: First district, James J. Farran ; 2d, Elijah Vance; 3 p. A. Cunningham; 4th, William Kershner; 5th, William Sawyer ; 6th, Rodolphus Dickenson ; 7th, Thomas L. Ilamer; 8th, Le Grand Cyington; 9th, Augustus L. Tcrril ; ICth, Samuel Medary ; 11th, John K. .Miller ; 13lh. Thomas Itichey ; 13th, Wil- . Hi!, fli. Frma IRlli T) A I JiO.ui ill 11 aav t la J I u a x a 1 iv y vu Starkweather; lüth, R. T. Ranney; 2üth, Zenas Blish ; 21st, Josiah Harris. The Road to Fortune. A London letter-writer mentions that a brother of Major General Tollock, the hero of Afghanistan, has been elevated to the Chief Judgeiip of the Supreme Court of Bombay, with a salary of 6000 sterling per year. Upon this he , adds: "Thus are now settled the whole of this ex traordinary family of three bothers, the sons of a saddler the other being the Chief Judge of the Court of Exchequer here, with the same amount of salary. It is a singular rise for one family, and for men who were destitute of all interest, save that which was created by their commanding abilities and proverbial amiability." Intense excitement prevails at Manayunk, says the Pcnnsylvanian, among the male and fe :iale operatives, owing to the attempt of one of the manufacturers to reduce their wages. Several meetings have already been held, at which strong resolutions have been passed against the person alluded to, and against the pretext he makes for his conduct. The meeting on Saturday last was composed of many hundreds. It appears that none of the other manufacturers have as yet entertained the idea of reducing the wages of their hands. Wanting Workmen Back again. The proprietors of the Cotton Mill, in Schuylerville, N. Y., who reduced the wages of their hands, a week or two since, says the Schuylerville Herald, twenty-five per cent., are now, and Lave been for several days, endeavoring to induce them to return to their work, at the old wages ; but they are too late, as most of them are engaged to work in other mills. The Whig Ticket. Tho probable and the most available ticket for the whigs in '43, will be, it is said for President, John McLean, of Ohio; Vice President, Willie P. Mangum, of N. C. So says a cotcmporary. And we should like to inquire how they are to dispose of Gen. Scott, and Henry Clay 1 Are they to be drowned in soup and cologne 1 No matter what they make their ticket of ; we shall have the fun of crowing over its defeat. Nova Scotia. A commission under the great seal of England has been received in this province, authorizing the omission of state oaths in future, and di recting that the oath of allcffiance and the oath of office only be administered hereafter to all persons holding any office of honor or profit in New Brunswick. The obnoxious oaths of supremacy and abjuration are henceforth a dead letter. fj-The Library of Cambridge College consists of fifty-one thousand volumes, besides eight or ten thousand pamphlets. The department of American History is supposed to be the largest in the world, containing five thousand volumes. The oldest work on American history known to exist, is a letter from Columbus, translated from Italian into Latin, and published in 1492. Horrible Outrage. A negro man named Charles, slave of Mrs. Ann A bell, on the Patuxcnt river, Maryland, forcibly entered the dwelling of Mrs. Evans, a widow lady living near Clark's mill, on the night of the 6th ultimo, and outraged the person of her daughter, Mrs. Davis, in the most shocking and brutal manner. He was arrested and committed to jail. Rather Large. The Ohio State Journal says that there is a woman in Pickaway county, in that State, who weighs 464 pounds! She cannot dispone of herself in less than two chairs, and would fill three pretty well. She usually sleeps in a large chair that she had made for that purpose, not being able to sleep in bed. The New York Tribune, of Sept. 15Ui, siys, that within the three preceding business days not less than 120(XiO hnshela of wheat, rve. and corn, were bouffht jin market for onc,balf Qf which w wheat. For "export," eh 1 The Green-castle Chronicle will never believe that. The receipts at the New York customhot'so during last week are estimated at $360,000.

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INDIANAPOLIS,

Musings nt Twilight. i Ti,c CMray Laws. Tis evening the bewitching hour of evening. How From the Salem Ar, Sept. iö. delightful to spread the airy wings of fancy, soaring We do think that some of our contemporaries rcnas on eagle's pinions far away beyond the busy scenes er themselves ridiculous in the eyes of the public, find nleasurp nfth fporhl cw1n4a An recti t frAm im. by the course they pursue in regard to the present

perplexing care, of life, and whilst the cool breeze, of : j , uwung an paying ruuna, iciuiougni unonoiea roam u er luiure s oroau aomain. - peans ana goio, ana wnere irom the spicy region lnlinlr tliA nprfnmprl air in nil its in-oKinu. iniK

1 , "tl - , Ü . i 7 V U V ,are not,one 01 1 ose who would wish I Wlth fruits of golden hue, and flovraof.to.seeourethrenatlndianaHUmonoHizeallthe

! surpassing bcautr and fragrance: and to the West J with I v - v z its lakes, its beautiful prairies of tall wavin s, bending in respectful deference to the mild . 1 crrasa . . breezes oi Heaven. But return ye wandering thoughts: cannot ye speak the beauties of your own New England J its i i . i. vaies anu nius us tocks ana ruis s leu me, on ten ' : .l " i , .i - tt i . me. is there a happier clime than this ! Here is the home of ouf ancestors, where happiness, peace and "BieS anJ 111 II its rocks and rills ! Tell me. oh tell prosperity shine around our path, and cheer us on war in the round of life. These are thoughts that sometimes intrude upon the sun-set hour. Can ye, who'love an hour of solitude in imagination, picture a season more lovely, or more in congeniality with your feelings, than a calm summer evening, where all is peaceful, all is hushed, the glorious sun . has withdrawn his resplendent beams, throwing over the face of nature a mantle of pure evening twilight, while above you is spread the broad blue and boundless expanse of Heaven 1 It is the hour too, for meditation and reflection ; when in the past we sec bright and beautiful visions flitting across the mind's eye, then suddenly some dark gloomy shadow arises to chase away the bright and glittering ray. Thus it is with all ; at one time the sky all cloudless, then darkness and gloom. But we must not forget it leads us to appreciate the many blessings bestowed upon U9, and to turn our erring feet from the dark path of vice. S. D. F. For th Slat Sentintl. Having travelled in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, a good deal for the last five or six years, have travelled in the lines of the Messrs. J. &. P. Voorhecs, &.c., and also in the lines of the Messrs. A. L. &. W. L. Riss & Co., and I find all of their several lines well conducted, having no reason to complain. . I would not trouble you, Messrs. Editors, if I had not seen an article in the Dayton Journal, and copied from the Dayton Journal, into several of the whig papers in Indiana, with an ardent desire to injure the stage line of the Rosses. I can say, disinterestedly, that the stage lines of the Rosses are well conducted in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as I have travelled in their lines in all of these States, and find their accommodation is good, and their fare reasonable. As to their lines in Kentucky and other States, I do not know anything about them, but one thing is certain, tint no reasonable min will complain at the prices, or the accommodations as furnished by the Rosses upon- their several lines: and it will be remembered that the Voorheeses charged for a single scat in their stages between Wheeling and Cincinnati, when the Ohio river was frozen over last winter, the small sum of twenty-five dollars only three times the amount of the regular fare. The Journal also complains that the Rosses are the political favorites of the Postmaster General. I think there i, no better evidence of the Rosses fulfilling their contracts satisfactorily to all, (except to the few such whigs as the editor of the Journal and small fry the Brookville American.) than to have the confidence of such a man as Cave Johnson. My opinion is, that if the Voorheeses could get the Rosses out of their way, the travelling public would bCjCoTnpelled to pay twice as much stage faro in the West as they do at present. I hope, therefore, that the stage lines of the Messrs. R.'s will be sufficiently patronized to compete with the monopoly of the Messrs. Voorheeses. I hope the public will think of these things, and recollect that they paid about twice as much stsge fare in Indiana previous to the Rosses getting several routes in Indiana, than they have since. You that are interested, look into it. Yours,'&c, L. Corn Meal Missionary in England. Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, is now in England, and, if he writes truly, he is certainly doing some good promoting our com interest. In one of his recent letters he says : "I have just got out An Olive Leaf, from the Housewives of America to the Housewives of Great Britain and Ireland, or Receipts for making various articles of food of Indian Corn Meal,' containing all the receipts I received before leaving home from our kind female friends in different parts of the Union heaven bless them ! I have had 2,000 of these Olive Leaves struck off, and intend, in the first place, to send a copy to every newspaper in the realm. I shall have a thousand, all of which I shall. put into the hands of those I meet on the road. I have resolved to make it a condition upon which only I consent to be any roan's guest, that his wife shall serve up a johny cake for breakfast, or an Indian pudding for dinner. 1 was invited yesterday to a tea party which comes off to-night, where about thirty persons are to be present. I accepted the invitation with the johnycake clause, which was readily agreed to by all parties. So to-nigl.t the virtues of corn meal will be tested by some of the best livers in Birmingham." Old Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State Democratic Convention, held last week at Faneuil Hall, Boston, adopted the following resolution : "Rested, That with all the advantages of f kill, ingenuity, perseverance, economy, and untiring industry which distinguish the American operative over all others, it is a libel upon our national character, which ought to be repelled as an insult by every Yankee mechanic, that we cannot compete with England, France, Germany, or the world, in our own markets, unless they are compelled to sell their goods beside ours, with a tax which enhances the cost of the foreign article more than fifty per cent. ; aud therefore those who deny that fifty per cent, will protect Amerienn labor, grossly slander the working men of the United States and instead of being the exclusive protectors, are the sole revilcrs of the boue and muscle, the head and brains of the people." A Malignant Ttphoid Fever prevail in the Roanoke Valley, Va., particularly in Halifax, Prince Edward, and Charlotte counties.- The people are praying for frost. . At Sonora, on the bay of San Francisco, a quick silver mine has been opened by a New Yorker, and another by a Massachusetts man. Both are in successful operation. The lost commander of the U. S. surveying brig Washington was George M. Bache, an efficient officer.

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OCTOBER 8, 1846. 'fJf .v.. . ,u,ulu .u lucojiicctuuuri i u.uuiuiv and a copy of the paper sent to each county clerk for me inspection ot all persons in We have br to w ncs, ex-! re' gard to what portion of the press it would injure or ' . c . ... r i . J . ' printinj in the State, nor are we like many selfish j binSs who Wüuld rob them of thcir last ce,,l's wort!l ' PÄU;? I wit alter years of toil, for which we know they have l t "er years or toil, for which we know thev been but poorly paid. We wish to see our presses . at the seat of government well sustained, and will tne ast t0 murmur about the few crumbs they may , P1CK .up; . 0I,.?Ü !iun2er PInch u9- " 18 lne ,n' i ! 'z . F...v.. . i. trest of the local press to have them well sustained. If the publi8hin;J ofPthe estr ,islt . " sum of money, and it could be divided amongst the local press without injury to the people, there would be more reason in their complaints. If the proceeds arising from the estray list were distributed to the different presses throughout the State, it would pay to each one about seven dollar, per year. This is truly a small matter for a highminded and independent editor to be continually harping about. We are poor, and need all the patronage we can get, but we will never have any upon such terms. From the fogantporl Pharos, Sept. 16. The Wabash Express is in favor of publishing estray notices in a paper in the county in which the animal is taken up, or in the nearest paper ihereto, instead of, as is now done, sending them to Indianapolis for publication, and asks the opinion of the papers on the subject. A considerable number are in for the proposition of the Express some furonej'eason, and others for another. We are sorry if is so, but we cannot agree with them. A change in the mode of advertising, like that proposed, is not, in our opinion, desirable. The end for which the publication is made, would not be as effectually attained by a change. As the law now stands, a person losing a horse can, by going to the county clerk's office, ascertain whether it has been taken up in any county in the State. We think a change should not be made, unless it is to have the notices published in the local papers as well as at the capital. If they are to be published in but one paper, we think the public interest demands that the law should remain as it is. From tkt Creencaslle Patriot, Sepi. 17. We have for sometime noticed that the "Wabash Express," Tippecanoe Journal," New Albany Bulletin," and several other papers, are growling, at a wonderful rate, because the publication of the list of Estrays is made in the Indianapolis papers. We think the law is that far right. If a horse strays from central Indiana, and is taken upon the Wabash, the owner may, under the present law, be able to find him. Whereas if the publication was made in the county paper, the Express for instance, it would scarcely ever be seen out of the immediate neighboihood. We hope these fellow sufferers are not so bard run as to desire the change of a law, because it might throw a few dimes into their clutches. Better have a paper established firmly, and a mere pecuniary desire will not then be so apt to influence an editor's action. Madam Jumell. We recently made 'mention of the insult offered at Saratoga to Madam Jurnell. The following from the correspondent of the Charleston News describes the affair more fully : Yesterday Saratoga was the scene of what some term a most disgraceful outrage, while others hold to a very differeut opinion. But, de gustibus non est disputandum. The facts are as follows: Madam Jumell, once the wife of Aaron Burr, is now here wjth a turn out consisting of four grey horses and a barouche with a scat behind, &c. She has several times rode out with her footman seated behind the carriage, and all four of her horses ahead, no one however took any notice of it. Yesterday her carriage and four stood in front of the hotel one hour. On each of the nigh horses a postillion was mounted dresced in livery with broad gold bands around their hats. During the time the carriage was in waiting a dense crowd had collected around. She had no sooner started off in her carriage, and at the very instant she passed the corner of the hotel, than she encountered another turn out exactly like her own, with the exception that it had white postillions and footmen, and the four horses were a shade lighter, while the solj occupant of the carnage was a shade darker, he being nothing more nor less than the Negro Tom Campbell, and away they both went in gallant style amid a deafening cheer from the assembled multitude. On reaching Congress Spring, the negro's carriage had distanced the Aladam's. At this point Madam Jumell's carriage turned round, and up she came again. But Black Tom was not to be outgeneraled in that manner. His postillions wheeled his carriage round in a masterly style, and away he went up Broadway again. Black Tom standing erect in hi ; open carriage, displaying a shining row of ivory from ear to ear, and as he passed the different hotels, gracefully acknowledging the cheers he received by bowing to the assembled multitude, or holding his beaver in one hand, while with a white handkerchief in the other he saluted the bystanders on the sidewalks. In this manner they drove up Eroadway, and turned do A n Church street. About one hour afterwards they were 6een coming down Congress street, the horses attached to both carriages neck and neck. : Turning the corner they both came up side and side to the hotel, black Tom's postillions having managed to get their carriage on the inside, Madam Jumell was compelled to drive round to the side door. Such is a plain, unvarnished statement of the facts. It has created a great excitement here. Several gentlemen have been employed by Madam Jumell to ferret out the persons jho furnished the negro with money to hire the horses, and paid him and his postillions for their services, and the affair promises some rich developments. To-day Madam Jumell has again rode out, drawn by four greys with her mounted postillions. She provided herself, as 1 am told, with a six barrelled revolving pistol. New Cocnterfeit. A counterfeit two dollar bill on the Indianapolis branch of the State Bank of Indiana, was shown to us yesterday, as having just been put in circulation here. It is tolerably well executed, new in appearance, dated April 20th, 1311; letter B, made payable to II. Bates, signed Thos. H. Sharp, assistant cashier, J. Morrison, Pres t. The distin guishing marks, are the large figures 2 on the face of bill, scarcely perceptible; on the genuine they are plain. In the word two on the left of this bill, the t and w join ; in the genuine they do not touch The letter B on the right, is in contact with the shade lines of the centre figures; i the genuine there is a narrow space between tbem. St. Louts Republican. John Armstrong writes from New Helvetia, Upper California, that Mr. Larkm, U. S. Consul at Monte rey, is a bad character ; that on his passage from Boston he seduced the wife of Captain Combs, who died on the coast before the arrival of tho paramours ; that he robbed William Weare while asleep ; that he was the prime mover in having the Americans tsken prisoners in 1310, and assisted Castro in Iiis escape ; that he demands two dollars of emigrants for useless passports ; and that he is utterly incompetent, and a Mexican besides. The branch mint in Dahlonega, Georgia coined, in the month of August, 7,6?3 half eagles; 1,803 quarter eagles, amounting to $i'J,5'Jj 50. It is supposed all out of American gold.

Volume Vf:::::::::Xumbcr IG. TIic Uliatul Iudi:ms rmlsratlcii Indian Irhts. From the Waihinglon Unlc.i. A fortnight ago we noticed, in a western newspaper, a statement of some difficulties in the way of the immediate emigration of the Indiana Indians and knowing this to bo a subject of deep interest to the enterprising people of that State, as well as to the whole west, we had intended, ere this, to have investigated the subject, and to have furnished the result of our inquiries to the public. The demands upon our attention from other quarters have delayed us somewhat in the preparation of an article on this subject but as we have been at sorn pains to get at the truth of the rumors afloat in rela ion to it, and have collated some facts that may be new to the publie, in regard to the operations under the Miami treaty of 184ü-'41, we shall occupy, hope profitably, a small portion of to-day's paper upon Miami affairs. We regret to have to tate, that it is true that these people lately resolved, in full council, to persist in tl.eir refusal to remove from the lands on which they reside, in the State of Indiana, and which they sold to the United States in 140. This result, it is believed, has been brought about by a few individuals who set up claims against the Indians for private debts contracted ince the ratification of the treaty, and whidi they thereby expect to coerce the government to pay or in some way secure. But we shall allude to these creditors and their debts in another part of this article. By a glance at the treaty of 1S40-'41, it will be seen that the government gave a fair, and by some considered exorbitant, price for the lands of the Miami tribe, and that liberal and ample provisions were also made for their comfortable removal to and settlement in the country west of the Mississippi. This treaty was fairly and voluntarily made, and they professed to be well pleased with all its details; and faithfully promised to perform everything that was stipulated to be done on their part. The five years within which, by this instrument, it was agreed the Miamies should remove, expired nearly a year ago; and at their urgent request tue period for their departure was prolonged by the President and War Department until May last, at which time every assurance was given that they would commence the work of removal. I he government, in view nius tmcerstanding, made contracts for wagons, teams, and provisions in due season, and the contractors were ready in May to transport the Ind. ans to their new country. The government has paid to.lhe tribe every dollar as yet due by the terms of the treaty, and have made ample arrangements for thcir comfortable reception and subsistence west; and still they linger obstinately on the lands they have sold! and the public has a right to inquire, and should be informed, how this wanton -delay in thcir removal has been produced. The government of the United States, while it is solemnly bound to carry out faithfully all treaty stipulations on its part with our red brethren, must insist upon, and enforce, if necessary, a compliance by the Indians with their part of the contract ; and the obligations of treaties, which are declared to be the supreme law of the laud, must not be disregarded. The public interest the welfare of the Indians the rig! ts of the States all demand the faithful execution of these treaties. And our treaty With the Miamies must not be made an exception to this necessarily inflexible rule. But it seems tltat a class of persons, before alluded to, have contrived to acquire sufheient influence over these people to induce them to violate their voluntary and solemn engagements with the government, and to discard all considerations of good faith and national honor. These creditors demaud the payment cf the debts due by individual Indians, out of the annuities belonging to the tribe at large before the removal; and, strange to tell, the chiefs in council have been prevailed upon, not only to give their assent to such paymeut, but make this a pretext for refusing to emigrate ! It is the we!I-considercd policy of the government not to interfere between Indian debtors and their creditors, except to prevent positive fraud. This policy was adopted and expressed by the legislative branch of the government more than three years ago, and it has since been thoroughly established by the executive departments. And it must be borne in mind that the debts of the Miami Indians referred to, were created after it w?as known that the tribe had to remove, and that these credit-accounts were made with a full knowledge of the views of Congress, and the well-known policy of the department, and in express violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Jocal laws of Indiana. Nor does it need an argument to exhibit the wisdom and justice of this nou-interferencc on the part of the government. We need go no further than to refer to the accounts presented to the commissioners after the ratification of Hiis Miami treaty of 1340-'41, to show a necessity for the rule. . These were individual accounts, but were liquidated out of the general funds of the tribe. The aggregate of these debts, created within the two years inuViediately preceding the making of the treaty, was staU'd by the claimants, at some $200,000; and for a period of less than three months, (from the date of the treaty until its ratification,) the accounts; against a few individuals, (the whole tribe number-j ing only about. 125 families.) for goods &c, sold within this brief period, amounted to a modest aggregate of nearly 300,(J0( ! Some curious facts in relation to these accounts are mentioned in the report of a former Secretary of War upon the subject. In speaking of these accounts, the circumstances of the sales, &.c, he remarks: 44 So one can look at the nature of the debts contracted, after the making of the treaty, the frivolousness of many of the articles sold, the extravagant quantities delivered at one time to the same person," without being satisfied that "advantage was taken of Indian folly and inexperience," and he goes on to give some pregnant instances: 44 Extravagant guard-chains, in one instance, charged at 93" 44 enormous quantities of ribands, as in one case, $308 worth sold to one squaw !ind 'large quantities of coats and cloaks in one instance "fourteen delivered to one person within about a year," Stc. And these accounts exhibit other queer detail. On a single day there was sold and delivered, a3 would appear by the voucher, to a squaw, whose name was not to be found on the pay-roll, and who consequently must have been the mere dependant on some head of a family, a quantity of goods, for which the modest sum of upwards of S3,50 was charged! A dissipated and vagrant individual, whose family consisted of three persons besides himself, between the 2Sth November, 1840, and 19th January, 1311, purchased goods charged at within a fraction of $7,100 ! A female, whose annuity money was drawn by the head of the family to which he belonged, and who had no one to provide for but herself," is charged with nearly $6,01,0 for store goods, within a period of less than two months ! and the abstracts exiiioii many instances of dependent, vagrant Indiaus receiving from their accommodating mercantile friends, goods, in some instances all delivered in a single day, charged at sums varying from $1,000 to $7.000! Some idea mav be fairly formed of the individual accounts crea ted since the ratification of the treaty, the payment of which by the government out of the Miami annuities is now importunately demanded by the creditors, from the veritable items we have here civen. And no reasonable man will wonder that, when the subject of this recent demand of the Miami creditors, was sub mitted to the President of the Uuited States, who had a lull knowledge oi the nature auu cnaractcr o iue former accounts from which we have quoted, he promptly decided that the government should in no way interfere between the Indians and thcir creditors, except to protect the former from positive fraud and of this decision, and of the determination of the War Department to adhere to it, under all circumstances, the Miamies were duly advised. But the golden hope still remaining to these creditors, that by influencing the Indians through what means or appliances it is not necessary to inquire to violate their compact with the government, and to assert an obstinate, doed refusal to comply with thcir solemn and voluntary, and oft-repeated promises, in recrard to removal, the President and Secretary of War would be forced into an agreement to apply the annuity moneys of the tribe to the liquidation of ibo small bills against individual Indians, and thus abandon in this case the wise and weU-cetablishcd policy of the govcrnmrnt,

and reverse the decision made tipn tLe direct application rf these creditors L'.is gulden hope, it would appear, was cuSkicully inducing and dazzling to these worihv cnditors, to mike th?m report to every rtinVe' of ptrsuasinn and argument tint might be ruticfjlJy addressed to Indian cup.dity and in.U-rilny for ihi accomplishment of thcir own mercenary ends. And tl eir cffirts have been Lut unfortunately too mucj

a ceisful the Indians, as we stated in our second para' i ii grapn, Lavmg made known thc.r purpose not to remove until the demands of their meritorious credit tors are liquidated, or the amounts claimed by them assumea ty the government or secured. Or, in other words, that the moneys belonging to the whole tribe 6hall be applied and paid over by the government in satisfaction of individual accounts created by the extravagant, profligate, and vsgrar.t members of theniritin a tl... .1 1. ...... ) .1. . T f. . I imnuii, tuv tpcc auu loss iuu to ir.e ui&uiitsi injustice t the trugul, lionet, and meritorious por tion of the trite. Need we say that the President and the Department will never sanction, by any act of theirs, uch an inexcusable misapplication of the means of the tribe, or authorize or tolerate such palpable and wanton iijusticc id this or in any thef case ! In view of this truthful history of Miami affair, it affords us sincere gratification to state that we bavd ascertained that all the efforts to thwart the purposes of the government in its plans of removal, and to wrong the poor pons of the forest, will certainly fail of thc.r inteuded effect, and that the Work of emigration will now go forward. In their new country this people will again become prosperous aud happy ; the liberahty of the government ha, secured them the mean to provide comfortable tenements to educate their children, and to furnish the tribe with all the comforts which the most favored" community could desire. The annuities alone wJI give to every man, woman, and chile in the nation nearly $10( each, and will furnish an average of over 8100 to each family. Another council will assemble shortly, (of has already been held,) at which it is hoped the got eminent will be able, through its agents, to succeed in inducing these people to look alone at thcir own interest, and, as the only means of promoting' it, td resolve at once to remove voluntarily and immediately; and thus avoid the ruinous and mot disastrous ronse-4 quences to themsehe, which would inevitably follow their continued repudiation of the treaty stipulations and the violation of their plighted faith. If honest and truthful persuasion should unfortunately fail, and malign influences still prove superior to all prudential and honorable considerations in their minds, the government is determined to compel their removal. In the event of a repeated rcfial to emigrate immediately, the presence of a well-appointed military force in the nation will convince these avaricious creditors that their hopes of a golden harvest, by such means as they have resorted to in this case, must prove as delusory and unsubstantial as the false promists they have made to thtir poor Indian dupes. And, for their own safety, these interested intermed dlers against the goiirnnicnt will soon join in urging the Indians to a peaceable surrender of the lands uport which they are now little better than trcspafsert. We learn that the Adjutant General of the army has a'reaily ordered one or tHro companies to repair to the neighborhood of Fort Wayne, towards which point they are now probably on their march? but it is not supposed that any active operations, on their part, will be at all required, as their presence alone must accomplish the faithful prosecution of the liberal plan of-emigration, ljng since projected, and now ready to be executed. The frequent allusions to the settlement of the Mi, ami lands in the western newspapers, the passage of a law at the last session extending pre-emption privileges to the occupants on these lands, and the fact that the country has already been surveyed, and is fast filling up witli a hardy, industrious population, have given so general an interest to the subject of the removal of the Miamies, thai we will be pardoned for the unexpected length of this article. The Romance of Astronomy. Our friend of h4 Cincinnati Observatory, gives in the Atlas, of Thursday, the substance of an article in Schumuckcr'a Astronomical Journal, by Dr. Maedlor, of the Dorpat Observatory, in which tLe learned Doctor professes to have discovered tle Civtrul Sun cf the Astronomical Universe I This discovery, in the 1 .nguage of the newspapers, is certainly very woudeiful, if true. This discovery Le announces in the following language: 44 1 therefore pronounce the Pleiades to be the central group of that mass of fixed stars limited by the stratum comios!ng the milky way, and Alcyene as the individual star of this group, hich, among all others, combines the greatest probability of being tho true Central Sun' This is probably the reason why Job thought so highly of the Pleiades. It raOier favor, the Water Theory of the Geologists, inasmuch' as the Pleiades have, from all Antiquity, been supposed to preside over the rains ! Dr. Meadlor has made the following calculation: As a rough approximation, he deduces the period of revolution of our sun with all its train of planets and comets, about the grand centre to be eighteen millions luo hundred thousand years. 44 The ascending node of the orbit is (1940) in 236 deg. 53 min. of longitude, and the sun will reach this point A. D. 154,0HJ or in about one hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and sixty years." This is certainly a ery moderate space of time for one gentleman to be travelling round another! If Phaeton ever did undertake to drive the chariot of the Sun, he hud most empirically ' a time of it." Next, afier the discoverer of the Elixir of Life, we shall have the most profound respect for Dr. Meadlor! Certainly it is rmt impossible that our Syeteni may form part of a greater one; but there are many things to be demonstrated and made clear, before credit can be given to such an annunciation as this. Cincinnati Chronicle. MaZATLAS, (California,) August 17 : Commodore Sloat arrived off this port throe days ago in the Levant; he remained but one day and then proceeded to Panama on his way home, leaving Captain Stockton in command in California, which had' all passed quietly into the possession of the American forces. It is the general belief that this coast will be blockaded by the end of next month. The Warren left here in June, with despatches from the government for the commodore; supposed to be orders about a blockade of this coast. When Commodore Sloat left Monterey she had not arrived but could not have been out more thau fuur or five days after be sailed, so that if Captain Stockton carries these orders into effect his ships will probably be here in September. Mckder at a Cawp Meeting. We learn that a most unprovoked and cold blooded murder was perpetrated at a camp meeting in the north eastern part of this county, on Sunday night last, says the Memphis Eagle, of September 10, upon the person of Mr. Winston Goldsby, son of Miles W. Goldsby, Esq., by a man named Forbes. The murder was committed within ten feet from the altar, and while the meeting was engaged in prayer. Goldsby, we learn, was sitting at the time near the altar, with his head leaning upon a walking stick, u hen Forbes approached him and spoke to him. (Johlsby immediately arose ai.d extended his hand apparently in a greeting manner to Forbes, who instantly plunged a knife into him killing him cm the ppot. Mr. G. was a peaceable young man, and highly esteemed. Forbes was immediately arrested and lodged in prison. We learn there had been some misunderstanding previously between the parties. Wesley Flavel, of Philadelphia, whilst iutoxicaledoti the night of the 2Uth instant, threatened to shoot his wife. In attempting to run down stairs to procure & gun, he fell and broke his neck. This is the same man who, about a year ago, killed his neice whilst attempting to shoot his wife, whom he also slightly wounded. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for thU act, and afterward pardoned by Gov. Porter, on condition that he would leave the country. Failing to comply, he was re-arrcstcd, but soon after discharged the Supreme Court having decided that the condition was unconstitutional. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, who went to the war, has been compelled to return, disabled by ill beallh. Star, Not so. Mr. Trcntice did not go, or intend to go, within smell of gun-powder, but to a medical watercure establishment in the iutcrior of Louisiana, for the ben' fit of his health, or rather for the relief of a serious physical disability.