Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1847 — Page 2

3nt)gna gtatc Sentinel. WCCKLY KDITIOIV. tTEBNAL TICILAPCK It THE FBlCS OF LIIEHTT. IMHAMI'Ol.l;, Al'IClL. 1, 1H47. this paper are published the Laws, Treaties, and other public Acts of the United Slates, by autltorily of the (internment. Our Terms. The follow inp will hereafter be the permanent terms

cl the Weekly Indiana Stale Sentinel: 07" Payments to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.01 Three copies, one year, 5.10 Five copies, one year, 8.00 Ten comes one year, 15. 00 Semi-Weekly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One copy, 1.00 I Three copies, $10.00 One copy during the session, 1.00 Three or more copies, each 75 I?Sal Advertisements. The undersigned will not publish legal notices in their respective papers without payment being made therefor in advance. JOHN D. DEFKLLS, CHAPMAN'S & SPANN. a. . . Centre Township To the Rally, Brys! -k meeting of the Democrats of Centre Township will be holden at the Court House on Monday afternoon, April 5th, at 3 o'clock, P. M., to choose delegates to a county convention, and to transact such other basinets as may properly come before them. By request of TmcnsMp Committee. tA5 Charter Elcciiou. Eesult of the election held on Saturday last to deirmine whether or not to accept the new charter: NEW. OLD. 1st Ward, 112 ö 2d i-i a 3d " 4th 5th 6th Total. 49 63 110 35 449 1 0 1 9 19 We occasionally amue ourselves in attempting to trace out some of the flagrant inconsistencies of the federal party. To keep pace with thera in all their winding, shufflings, and ground and loAy tumblings, is wholly beyond any merely human ability. We rail-it content ourselves for the present, with a specimen of absurdity taken at random, and by no means as gross as some we could select. In some recent numbers of their newspaper organs ia the West, we notice a great many furious assaults made upon the administration, for recommending a tax upon tea and coffee, as the best mode of meeting the increased expenditures of the government, while at the same time those papers talk most lugubriously about an empty and bankrupt treasury, and are perfectly Tabid that President Polk should withhold his assent to bills making large appropriations of public money for works of internal improvement. Now if it be true, aa they say, thit the treasury is destitute of the . means to carry on the government, with what propriety can they so bitterly dsnounce the administration, for recommending a measure which, it is udmitted on all hands, would go far to rescue the treasury from its alleged embarrassments ! Why should they attempt to make the democracy odious fur having, tj they 'affirm, bankrupted the treasury, and in the same breath declare- their hostility to a measure designed to restore its solvency, and which they cannot deny would be effectuil for that parpose if adopted! At least, before they censure the President so frce?y for his plan of restoring the finances to a healthy condition, ought they not to suggest some measure of their own, which would effect the same object in a less objectionable way ? Bat do they attempt to do this ! Not at all. It is tree, we have a good deal of nonsense and twaddle about restoring the tariff of 1312, as a remedy for all our ills ; but as every well-informed man knows the free-trade, democratic tariff of IS 15 is yielding a larger revenue than the partial, oppressive and iniquitous one which it repealed, the Whig press cannot seriously expect that the people would ever be infatuated enough to adopt the exploded policy of 1312, as a measure of relief. A.id then, to.i, why should such bitter complaints be made, that our roads are not constructed that our rivers and harbors are not improved, out of the fundi of a treasury which the whigs say is bankrupt, and which they do all in their power to prevent being replenished J It is an old saying, that those who dance must pay the fiddler ; and it eemi to us, that if the whig pirty is as anxious as it professes to be, for expenditures on our rivers, harbors and roads, it will be well for them to establish their sincerity, by giving up & little of their squeamishness about an increase of taxes. But while whi'7O gtry remains what it is -a greedy, grasping and reckless party, forever straining at gnats and swallow ing camels we cannot reasonably hope, that it will ever hesitate to put forth and advocate any inconsistency, or cease to blindly grope ils way in any line of tortuosity, so that a partisan purpose, however vile, may be effected. fCy-The Journal of Monday republishes Mr. Clay's Raleigh letter on the subject of Texas annexation, but forgets to state that he took back all he then said in subsequent letters, Which by the way, we think the Journal never published. All the comments necessary to the present publication of the Raleigh letter, may be found in the following : Questions and Answeks. Stand up Mr. Clay. What do you think of the justice of the .Mexican war! Mr. Clay. Why, sir, I Lave felt half inclined to tk for some little nook or corner in the army, in tvhich I might serve in avenging the weongs of 117 COUNTET.' Thea do you think the war "wicked, damnable, Ud onjust !" Mr. Clay. ul have thought I might captcue or slat a Mexican !" What is the western boundary of Texas ! Is it the Nueces or the Rio Grande ! Mr. Clay. "The United States acquired a title to Texas, EXTENDING TO THE Rio G RANEE BT THE TXEATT or Louisiak a."- Mr. City's great Raleigh tpeech, April, 1541. Very well, Mr. Clay ; you can sit down. Ohio Statesman. CrWhen John W. Davis was first mentioned for the Speakership cf the U. S. House of Representatives, the Indiana Slate Journal sneered at and tried to ridicule the proposition. In its opinion, Mr. D. had nut the first qualification requisite to the performance of the duties of that office. He was elect ed, however, and has served with credit to himself and usefulness to the country, and has extorted praise from bis political opponents; and the Journal is silent, of course. Here it an instance of the credit which is considered due Mr. D. by those best qualified to judge of his merits as a presiding officer. The reporters and correspondents cf the public press, in Congress, (so says M." of the Newark Daily,) paid a neat and well deserved compliment to the Speaker of the House, in a brief address to him, recorded on parchment, presented to the Speaker by the veteran reporter of the National Intelligencer, fr. S'-aaibury, in an exceedingly neat and appropriate spet?i. which was responded to by the Speaker. It was a tribute liever before extended to the presiding cilicer of the House. (VCol. Cummins of Ga. declines th appoiatR:ent cf Major (jtzm), Jitelj conferred upon biro,

What our Volunteers think of it. Hie Salem, la., Republican of the 5th inst. publishes the fallowing extract of a letter written by a non

commissioned officer of Capt. Dennis's company of Salem Volunteers, dated January 15, 1947, from the city of Saltillo, in Mexico. It si tows what our brave ! volunteers think of the patriots at home who abuse their own government and take sides with Mexico. " We have read the President's Message and sav "Hurrah for Polk!" He speaks like a patriot. He speaks of the war as every American shov.d speak his words meet with the entire approbation of both whigs and democrats here. But do lit word meet wi h the approbation of all the Americans ! We an swer Am What do you suppose are the feelings of the poor soldier who has kit his native country, his friends and relations to hazard his life to endure all the toils, ihe peril., dangers and deprivations in an enemy's country ! When he looks back and sees his brother, or rather who should have a brotherly feeling for him, denouncing the war calling the soldier a thief, rolbcr, and applying all evil epithets to him that the tongue of a tory could use! doing everything in his power to procrastinate the war, and induce the Mexicans to resist more vigorouly, is it not almost enough to induce the soldier to lace about and retrace his steps, and begin, in his own country, and drive all those white Mexicans out cf the land of the free and the home of the brave! They are unworthy to be called Americans! or be allowed the benefit of American protection. In the days of Washington when Arnold was detected in plotting treason he was chased into the enemy's camp, and his colleague in treachery was hung But in modern days more Arnolds are allowed to do and say every thing in their power against the war and soldiers, and are Buffered to run at Urge unmolested. I would to God that there wns in the United States a Marion, just such a one as Marion of old was, with a company of 'McDonalds' to scour every town, hamlet and valley in the State, and when they found any of those ichile Mexicans, to serve them as Marion did the tories on the Fedee. "Excuse my bad writing and mistake, for I was fergeant of the patrol guard last night, and did not get any sleep." Mr. Benton. The New York correspondent of the Washington Union says that the French paper published in New York, justifies Mr. Benton's requirements in connection with the iffce of Major General. He remarks : Upon the requirements of Mr. Benton before assuming the appointment of major general on which eo much rancorous misapprehension has been expended by the unprincipled mouth-pieces of whiggcry the Courricr des Etats Unis says most justly : "We understand perfectly well that before going to Mexico, with views entirely new, Mr. Benton felt that he must have full and perfect liberty of action to put them into execution. The presence of the generals who have thus far acted upon different views, would be a very serious obstacle in his way. Clearly he was unwil'ing to accept the high post tendered to him, unless he was, at the same time, invested with the powers necessary to enable him to fill it as he could wish. Men of common mind may submit to the control of others, and their views. Those of larger intellects have need of full scope and range for exercise, and to them waut cf entire freedom is generally tantamount to partial failure or total defeat." It is difficult to see how even the most blinded partisan could have found in Mr. Ecnton's course any ground for tie abuse cast upon It by the whig press. The New York Sun, cn the same subject, says "We apprehend that a mistake has been made in supposing that Col. Benton demanded the recall of General Scott, General Taylor, or any other General from Mexico, as indispensable to his assuming the command of the army. We are assured from an authentic source that he never made such a demand, nor at any time anticipated that the Generals should surrender their respective commands, even allowing he accepted the appointment tendered to him. His original plan, which was to unite the sword and the Olive Branch, could not, under existing circumstances, be carried into effect, although approved by the President ; and as the details were not satisfactory to a majority of the Cabinet, he declined the mission alttogether. Ihi original plan included the active services of Scott, Taylor, Worth, and the other Generals." 07"The Philadelphia Ledger justly remarks that the grand source of misery in Ireland is landed aristocracy. Hence while it is almost the most fertile country in Europe, and exceedingly productive, its cultivators, whose labor pr& luces all its crops, live upon nothing better than potatoes, oat-meal and buttermilk, dwell in nothing better than mud cabins, and are clad in nothing better than rags. Ireland exports large quantities of beef, pork, butter, cheese, wool, tallow, mutton, hams, and fine linen. Yet the peasantry who make the butter and cheese, never taste either; who raise the beef and pork, never touch them ; and who raise the flax and manufacture the linen, never wear it. Such are the blessings of landed aristocracy, and cultivation by tenantry on lease. Every man should own the acres that he tills ; and the curse of Heaven seems to have lighted ou every country where this is not the case. Here is the secret of Poland's fall. This is the curse of Hungary and other Austrian States. It u the feudal system, which God's curse has ever followed. We hope that the British Parliament will obliterate it from Ireland. The bill providing for a settlement with Col. Spencer, formerly receiver at this place, which passed the House some weeks ago, has passed Ihe Senate. On a full and fair settlement it appears that the United States was actually indebted to Col. S., and provision is made for restoring to him the whole of the real estate levied upon by the U. S. .Marshal, and paying to him $1,SÖ3 which the government owed to him. Wo rejoice at this favorable turn of affairs, as it not only restores to our esteemed fellow citizon a large amuunt of property unjustly taken from him, and places him in comparative easy circumstances but also removes all stigma frcm his reputation, and places him once more before the world as an honorable man. Fort Wayne Sentinel. O-Col. Spencer above named, was one of the alleged "defaulters," about whom the whig party told so many and such monstrous lies in the infamous "Hard Cider" campaign. (fc-The Washington correspondent of the Pa. Ledger saysThere is rumor here that we are about to have three new newspapers established in this district, one by Dr. Houston, just nominated by the Senate to be Reporter for that body the other by Gen. Duff Green, and the third by a person whose name I have forgotten. The third project will probably fail ; but in regard to the two first ones, the probability is that they will be issued. Dr. Houston, named above, obtained his political "schooling" in the office of the New York Herald, of which he was for some time the principal writer. If they who put their trust in him do not find themselves mistaken in the end, we misapprehend the character of his politics, that's all. Grants or Lands to tue Westekx States. The Speaker of the House of Representatives laid before that body a few days since, the annual report of the commissioner of patents, and a statement from the Land office, from which it appears the following States have received grants of lands amounting to between seven and eight millions of acres. Ohio, 1,978,016 acres. Indiana, 2,3:39,092 Illinois, 1,649,02! Arkansas, 1,339,220 Yet to hear our whig politicians growl, one would suppose that Indiana "never got any thing" from the General Government. O-Barnett declines being a candidate for representative in Floyd county on account of ineligibility. Why be ia ineligible we do not know, though we can imagine several roasoqs, Fitpr J

IVhitf Preaching nul 3Iexicau Practice. From Senator Coricin's Speech. "If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, "line ynu not rncmx in your own country to bury your dead men J If you come into mine ve vill welcome you With BLOODT HANDS AND A HOSPITABLE CEAVE." From the jV. O. ricayune.) One of our letters yesterday stated that Lieut. Miller, an officer of the Ohio volunteers, who was killed at Chichironi, had his heart cut out and hung upon a bush ! We have sincn seen another letter, stating that the body of the brivj but unfortunate Lieutenant Ritchie was horribly mutilated after his death. His heart, too, was torn from him, and afterwards stuck upon a pole by the road side ! New MiiL Routes. By a late law the following new routes were established in this State : From Rock port to Nr burg. Fim Japer, iu Duboii couuty, to Paoli, Orange countj, via HsTiiie. From Leavenworth, Crawford county, via Magnolia, to Jrr, t y tbe piesrnt State toad. From Lvanville, VaDderburgh county, via New Humor y, Indiana, and via Giaytvil! and Albion, Illinois, to Fairfield, Illinois. From Plymouth, Marshall county, to Goshen, Elkhart, county, via the State road between thoe points, t Fum Monticdlo, in White county, via Winamac, Pulaski countj, I3aibrt!, Marshall county, dJ Du er, SL Joseph county, to South Der.d, ia said county. Fiom Dior Village, L;oite county, via Bigelow's Mills, and John Mcintosh', to TassinuD, t'orter couuty. From Marion, Grant county, via E;n, to Huntington, Huntington county. From MiJdletown, lleniy county, via Yoiktowo, to Wheeling, DiUware county.

rom Miitun, Graat county, to llarllora, in lilacklord county. From Lafayette, Tippecanoe county, via Rovil!e, miJdle fold of Wild Cat on the Michigan road, Itichardvllle, Kokomo. to Maiii n. Giant county. From Fiabkfoit, Clinton county, to Canton, Tipton county. Fiom New Tienton, Franklin county, via South Gate Kitrail and Sutnmu', to Nopoleon, Ripley county. Fiom Bowling Green, Clay county, to Point Commerce, Greene county. From Higvrstowo, Wayne county, to Winchester, Randolph county. Krim Auroia, Deaitom county, via Wilmington and Moor's Hill, lo Veisailles, Ripley county. Front Lawreoceburgh, via Wilmington, DilUboro, Hart's Mills. Cross Plain. and Canaan, to MadL'on, Jefleison county. From Vernon, Jenningi county, up the valley of Bi Otter, to Ottei illage. From Cbarlcstown to New Oilean. ; Cr-Speaking of the farewell of members of Congress to the President at the close of the late session, the correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger makes the following sensible remarks : Many a Whig, too, there was that grasped Mr. Polk's hand, admitting that he has united the country at a time of great national difficulty in order to lead her to a bright and glorious future, of which future generations only will appreciate the whole mag nitude and importance. There will be croakers, of course, be lore and alter the peace; so there were croakers in New England when the first settlements in the State of Ohio were attempted by our enterprising pioneers when we extended the empire of civilization and of freedom beyond the Mississippi when Louisiana was purchased Florida obtained from Spain, and Texas annexed peaceably in the midst of the intrigues of r ranee and England, and in tact all European powers, who watch with jealousy, fear and amazement our unprecedented national progress. And wlmt has ben the effect of all these acquisitions on the Union ! Has it not grown stronger in consequence ! Are there row not twenty-eight or twentynine Slatos to one, which might choose to nullify or unite in a Hartford Convention; and would not the united good sense and power of the faithful States crush the one or two disaffected ones in its treasonable objects ? And so it will be afier the annexation of Upper California and New Mexico. Mas. Chase at Tampico. We find in the Harrisburgh Union a letter from a Philadelphia correspondent, giving the following account of Mrs. Chase, who distinguished herself at Tampico: I perceive by our late advices from Tampico that Mrs. Chase, lady of the late American Consul at that place, is reported to l ave behaved in the most gallant manner. I had the pleasure to be well acquainted with that lady, who was a resident of our city, and occupied a house in Second street, below Tiue, for a number of years, belonging to Wm. E. Lehman, where she carried on an extensive dry goods business. She was then Mrs. McClarnon, and was distinguished for masculine energy and considerable mercantile ability. She was quite successful in business, and upon the death of her husband, went to New Orleans, and subsequently married Mr. Chase. When our vessels were approaching Tampico, she ran up the American flag, in defiance of the alcalde and other officers. Some time previous she wrote to Com. Conner, telling him how the place might be taken, the character and depth of the water, accompanied by drafts of the harbor and plans of the town and its fortifications. This information she doubtless obtained from the papers of the late Consul, and it serves to show the importance of these officers, and the propriety of their being men of intelligence and Americans, who will be sufficiently interested in the welfare of our government to make these topographical investigations. Philadelphia may be proud of this lady. 07-Curtis, of the Cincinnati Commercial, a neutral paper with whig sympathies, gives the following dig at Gen. Scott and his whig friends : He has been wildly clung to by the whigs, and elevated at the expense and mortification of older and better, and longer tried officers. The whigs have had him a kind of standing candidate for several years. He has always been committing some faux pas or another, until his hasty soup exposed his vanity. He is now sent to Mexico, (through ichig influence, though done by Tolk,) to regain his standing. He writes his plan of campaign, (a thing a good general never does until the battle is orer.) He suffers this to pass out in one man's hand under a guard of ten men, and his messenger, by his folly, loses his life, when the plan falls into the hands of the enemy. Still the whigs cling to him, and even here now they talk of him as a first candidate. Riley the Deseeter. Mr. Lumsden, of the New Orleans Picayune, now at Tampico, writes to that paper as follows, under date of Feb. 16 : Yesterday the schooner Abby Morton arrived from your city with papers of the 30th ult There was also another arrival last evening from Brazos Santiago, but what news was brought 1 have not learned. The fimous deserter, Riley the roan who fired the "first gun at Fort Brown" came by this arrival. Your readers will remember his disgraceful conduct, as well as the hisses and rebukes he received by Lis old comrades at the evacuation of Monterey. How he was captured I cannot say probably he was spying, if 6uch a wretch could have the courage to act as a spy ; but be that as it may, I hear that he has been sent here to be shot. There is no sympathy for the coward. TWEEDLE DUM ASD TwEEDLE DEE. The following is an extract from the report of the debate in the Senate, March 3d, as given in the Washington pa pers. "Mr. Calhoun said he had never admitted that Texas was the cause of the war, but be remarked it might be the occasion of it. Mr. Davis. I adopt then , the phrase of the Senator ; it was the occasion of it, and I see no difference between cause and occasion." frrThe Tennessee river recently rose higher than it has been since 1912. Waterloo, Eastport, and most of the landings on the river were overflowed; much stock was drowned, corn lost, and fences swept away. Those living in the bottom lands fled to the bills for safety. Another Democratic Victory. An election has been held in the fourth district in New Orleans, to decide a lie between the democratic and federal candidates for the Legislature, which resulted by giving tbe democratic candidate 177 majority. Good t 0T"The barque Victor has) been loaded at New York with 7,0' barrels meal, 150 bags corn, 20 boxes clothing, and other necessaries cf life, to be despatched to Ireland. They are putting similar cargoes into three other vessels,

To rhe Democratic Electors of the fifth Cougrc!ioiial District. Mr Feiends Having had no opportunity for near two years cf personalty meeting any cousiderable portion vf yon, or indicating my desire to, serve you again in Congress, and having been informed, by common rumor, as wtll as by letters and messages from numerous friends throughout the district, that a very systematic plan of operations had been adopted and carried out by (ne aspirant to the position I have recently occupied, having for its object a nomination to Congress ; and it having been represented to me from many quarters that I owed it to my friends to adopt some mode of indicating to you my desire for a rc-nommation and election, 1 accordingly published,

isoon after my return from Washington, a circular, 'expressing thnt desire, and assigning my reasons for fnot taking a tour through the district to see my irienus. In the last semi-wceklv Sentinel I see, over the signature of Judge Peaslee, an address to you purporting to be a response to my circular; one or two sentences of w hich call for a reply. The Judge, in the fcecond sentence of his address, says in substance, that if 1 had been willing to rely upon your action and the action of your delegates alone, without endeavoring to impress it upon your miuds that it was highly improper on his part to seek the nomination before resigning the office which he now holds, he would have been content to leave this matter altogether open for your decision. My answer to this is, that although I disapprove of any one, Judge or no Judge, seeking a nomination by any means other than by making known bis willingness to accept it, and although I am informed that Judge P. has, fur more than two years past, made it no inconsiderable portion of his business, at the courts of those counties within this Congressional district, at which he has presided, to seek, through friend, in'erviews with the active politicians of the several townships in those counties, for the purpose of promoting such measures and arrangements as would be best calculated to secure tbe attendance and action of bis friend at the respective meetings for the selection of delegates; and although such a course is one which experience has shown is calculated to give rise to discontent among the people, and in the end, to produce party divisions and factions in its worst sense; and although, under the influence of an honest conviction of its fatal tendencies, I have scrupulously avoided it myself, and have frequently raised my voice against it, and shall so continue to do; yet had the Judge stopped after a resort to these means, n t only would 1 have remained at home, and kept my tongue still, but my circular would never have appeared. But when rumor from every quarter, and direct information from many, presented the Judge and his special friends to me as industriously giving currency to the idea that 1 was opposed to raising the pay of the volunteers, and as persisting in urging that against me after all excuse for such allegation was taken away, and after it was made clear to every one, having means of information, and possessed of candor, that the effect of my vole on the point named, was to secure to the volunteers a quarter section or land in addition to the few dollars proposed to be granted by the measure against whic i my vote was recorded. I say when these thing came to my ear, I felt it to be my personal privilege and my duty to my friends to avail myself of the facility afforded by the press to throw before you the suggestions contained in my circular. The Judge, in Lis address, seems to understand me as objecting alone to a man seeking a nomination to one office while he holds another, lie does not understand me. The force of my objection is against any one seeking a nomination by personal solicitations, long conversations with individuals, brought up to him by a convenient friend, or sought out for thut purpose. Experience has shown that the toleration and success of such measures are fatal to political parties. Such management is precisely what I had in my mind when 1 used the phrase " wire pulling " in my circular. In such a case the office seeker is the "puller the persons used to bring up or point out active political men to be talked to, are the " wires" and are generally very poor concerns, who are induced to serve in a servile, hnmiliating business by the promise of an office, and are very thoroughly despised by their employer; and the honest gentlemen who are brought up or sought out to be talked to, are frequently induced to feel much flattered by such marks of attention. They sometimes fail to see the selfishness which begets the condescension. Sometimes they are bright enough to see through the matter, and are not enlisted much. The Judge seeks to 6how you that on two former occasions 1 placed myself in the same category which, in my circular, is condemned. This is not candid. In my circular I express the opinion in these words, viz: " Aor indeed do I think that a gentleman holding one ijjice ought to be permitted tu seek a nomination for another office vntil he shall ßrst resign that which he holds, except in a very peculiar case." Now on neither of the two occasions named by the Judge did I ask a nomination from my party while holding another office, at tbe hazard of producing divisions therein. And each of those occurrences present what, in the language of my circular, was 'a peculiar case." There was no nomination in either case. On the contrary, so far as I then knew, or now know, no one was mentioned seriously, as a candidate against Mr. Herod, the whig candidate, except myself. Again : On the first occasion, Col. Kinnard, our representative in Congressdeparted this life. The Governor issued a proclamation appointing an election in about twenty days, as prescribed by law. Two weeks of those twenty days 1 spent in holding courts in Hamilton and Boone counties the last courts, I btlieve in the circuit. This I did partly because of the difficulty of having a successor appointed hastily. Being defeated, I continued on the Bench. On the second occasion, I did not " seek a nomination," for none was made. 1 was the democratic candidate, by common consent. Judge Morrison, by general consent, was agreed upon as my successor to the Bench immediately on my becoming a candidate. He was concerned as attorney in nearly every chancery suit pending in the Marion circuit court, of which there were a great many. - I made known my resolution to resign. At the earnest request of the parties to those chancery suits and their attorneys, and to avoid the expense and difficulty to tho parties which must grow out of a transfer of those chancery cases, in which Judge Morrison was incapacitated to preside, I agreed to and did make my resignation so that it took effect at a future day, before the election, and continued to hold the Marion circuit court until those chancery cases were all decided. To this end the attorneys brought their cases to issue, took depositions, dec, by consent, so as to bring them to a hearing at the then term of court, and in this way immense expense and inconvenience to the parties were avoided. Now I suppose a Judge acting in bis own case, and his peculiar friend?, will 6ee nothing peculiar in these cases. And I suppose all others will see very differently. So also, I suppose democrats will see some difference between a Judge being a candidate against a whig, for two weeks in one case, and for perhaps two months in the other case, and another Judge devoting much of bis time and ingenuity for two or three years to efforts for procuring a nomination to Congress against his brother democrat, being a private citizen, or on public duty, depriving him of using counter exertions, were he capable of eo doing. Perhaps a Judge, in his own case, would fail to see a difference. Whatever position 1 may continue to occupy in the democratic party, I shall continue to raise my voice against seeking nominations. Nominations are the work of the people exclusively. Ouce nominated, it becomes the duty of tbe candidate to advocate his party and its principles, measures, and men. Before nomination, his interference is "only evil, and that conr tinually." With a fixed resolve, now, and at all times, to abide by nominations, I leave the selection of a candidate for Congress in yonr hands. Should Dr. Cook be nominated he will receive my vote with the most perfect good feeling, Should Judge Peaslee be nominated I will give hirn my vote on principle.. Should some other democrat, rot yet much talked of, be nominated, I will go for him strong. And should be nominated myself, shall try to stand it. Very truly and sincerely, W. W. WICK, Wkll Donk. Harnden &. Co. carried to Liverpool $145,000 by the Cambria, made op of small remittances from the poor and laboring Irish in this country to their suffering friends and relatives at home, v v

Good Licks from Drown ! At a large and respectable meeting of the democracy of Erown county, held in Nashville cn the 21th, the Hon. Judge Hoover being in the chair, and S. Chandler, appointed secretary, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted. Resolted, That in the opinion of this meeting, the war now waging in the South was wrongfully and unjustl commenced by Mexico. Resolted, That we approve the course ef the present administration in regard to the Mexican war, and denounce that of our opponents, save those who have taken up arms in defence of their country, as unpatriotic, and calculated to retard the conquest of an honorable peace. Resolted, That we are determined to spare no honorable efforts in sustaining the present administration, as well by the election of our representatives, as by other true, worthy, and laudable means. Resolted, That we approve and heartily concur with the democracy of Marion, that a district convention be held fcr the purposo of nominating the right and proper material for our next representative in the 5th congressional district. Resolved, That the better to secure that end. we propose that the respective counties throughout the district select delegates to represent them in such convention. Resolved, That we concur with the State Sentinel, that said convention be held at Indianapolis on the fifteenth day of May next. Ilesolced, That we the democracy of Brown county, reposing confidence in our own, as well as in the delegates of our sister counties, do hereby give every assurance that we will sustain with heart and hand the nominee of fuch district convention. Resolted, That in the opinion of this meeting, owing to the inconveniences and difficulties oftentimes arising in delegated conventions, in allowing to each county its due number of voters, we would respectfully suggest, that each county in the district be entitled to one vote in such convention for every one hundred democratic voters in each county, there being any fractional number above fifty, that such number be counted and voted upon as if it were a hundred. Resolved, That at our township elections in April next, we shall select from our respective townships a suitable number of delegates for said convention. At the same time and the same place were also adopted (without a dissenting voice,) the following preamble and resolutions: Whereas, We have ever regarded the press in its freedom, as the great bulwark of American liberty ; as the unerring sentinel, by the constitution, the holy ark of our covenant pitched and secured upon the watchtowera of this republic, by which those within and without may ever and anon be admonished and forewarned of the conduct and discussions of those whom they have elevated to power, as well in their midnight councils, as when the sun of day shines upon them, and of those acts and measures enacted and being enacted, and upon which are suspended the security of the lives, happiness, and prosperity of the people, and the stability, endurance and expansion of our much boasted and envied republic : And whereas, the veteran and patriarchal editor of the "Union," a newspaper published at Washington city, because forsooth he permitted to his columns an exposition of facts of the very first moment to his country ; because forsooth, his patriotic soul refrained not to bring to light, and home to every eye, the dark and diabolical deeds of those in whom confidence may have been reposed, but who in the hour of trial proved traitors to their country ; because forsooth, of this his high duty, he was expelled from the floor of the Uuited States

oenaie, ana irom me sanctum or their deliberations. Therefore be it Resolved, That with deep sorrow and regret, we look upon the action of that portion of tbe United States Senate instrumental in the expulsion of ThomItitchie, Esq., from the floor thereof; it being an infraction and palpable violation of our constitutional rights, a death blow to our dear bought liberties, anti-republican in its character, of the essence of alien and sedition law, black cockade high-toned federalism, and unwarranted by the boasted spirit of the age. Resolved, That any infringement upon the freedom of the press any effort to curb or entrammel the outporings of its pages, is unconstitutional and anti-republican, and justly merits the rebuke and unqualified condemnation of the American people. And be it further resolved. That we shall ever regard with emotions of gratification and pride, the amiable, independent and patriotic course of him who fears not to bring to light the secret machinations of combined traitors, and to expose to shame their unhallowed deeds, though their displeasure be incurred and their power be w aged with indignant fury against him. Resolved, That we shall ever approve the highminded and honorable course of Thomas Ritchie, Esq. in bringing to light the acts of the Senate, in calmly submitting to their resolutions of expulsion, and standing by his country's flag in spite of all his enemies can do. On motion, the proceedings of this meeting were ordered to be published in the State Sentinel. JOHN HOOVER, Chairman. S. CitlXDLEB, Secretary. Mr. Chapman : A few days ago in conversation with a gentleman from Morgan county, he informed me that Mr. Parks would not be a candidate for the Senate, and that the democracy of Morgan he thought would nominale Mr. Tackett, the representative from Morgan in,the last legislature I think this would be a good selection ; for a more efficient and sound democrat was not to be found in the legislative halls last winter than Mr. Tackett, the representative from Morgan. y. Requisition for Ten Regiments. -It will bo seen from the following letter, that Col. Curtis, of the 2d Ohio Regiment, and commandant at Camargo, has made a requisition on Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, to serve "six months." Col. Curtis has no authority to make a requisition for troops, but the emergency of the occasion renders this step necessary. The object of securing these troops, is to garrison the posts at Brazos, P.int Isabel, Matamoras and Camargo, and reinforce Gen. Taylor, who at the last dates was in an extremely critical condition : Headquarters, Camargo, March 2d. 1847. Sir I send an officer to headquarters at Washington, making a requisition on the President of the United Slates for fifty thousand six months volunteers. All communication has for several days been cut off, between this place and the army above, and I see no adequate relief this side of New Orieaus. 1 request you, therefore, to call out ten thousand meu of this character of troops, and I anticipate they will be recognized under the call of the President. As fast as any considerable force can be accumulated let them be forwarded to Brazos Santiago. All troops, as far as practicable, should be armed before leaving the United States, and the officers commanding companies, should take in charge ammunition enough to distribute in case of emergency, forty rounds, at least. Very respectfully, your obed't serv't, SAMUEL R. CURTIS, Col. Com'g. To the Governor of Louisiana. .. Gen. Titlor and his friends in the army are saij to have been much chagrined at the orders of Scott, requiring him to take command of Monterey, an interior post; If the rumors, published by us yester? day, should prove oorrect. Gen. Taylor will have reason to rejoice at those orders.. We observe that several Whig papers are endeavoring to cast censure on the Administration for;what Scott did in this matter. They blamed Mr. Polk for not sending Scott to take command of the army, and now that be has done so, they denounce him for superseding Taylor. Such is their consistency I St. Louis Union. Gen. Scott thus far has made singular requisitions on the quarter-master, Gen. Jesup. He commands scarcely 15,0CQ troops, and has already made demands for eighteen thousand pack mules, three thousand wagons, fifty additional transports, and fifty millions of pounds of hay What next, as the frog said when his tail dropped off. Very Sensible Movement. The resolutions from the House of Delegates of Maryland censuring the President of the United States in relation to the Mexican war, were returned to that body by the Senate, with a message declining to act thereon. This was certainly more sensible and praiseworthy than to have wasted the people's money in discussing and passing such resolutions for no other object than political effect. Baltimore Sunt

Later from Europe. ARRIVAL Or THE HIBERKl.t. Fhiladflfhia, March 20 1C P. M. The Hibernia was telegraphed at 5 o'clock this afternoon at Boston, with thirty days later intelligence. She brings Liverpool dates to tbe 4th irurt. Cotton. Prices have revived and the demand wsa active. The demands of speculators for export were slightly favorable to holders. The quotations are Georgia, fair, CUGjd ; Mobile, GjaTd. N. Orleans cotton, 7d. . Corn. Confidence was renewed in the trade. Heavy purchases were made for Ireland. American Meal was selling at llal2 shillings for 79 lbs. American Flour was worth 29a42 shillings per barrel. White Corn is quoted at 69a72 shillings for 430 pounds. I Yellow Corn, 72a73 Ihillings for 4S0 pounds. There was great uncertainty as to the stock onhand. No duties were levied, and the demand closed steady, but not urgent. The money market was unsteady. Things appeared to be tending generally towards a decline. A new loan of j8,000,000 authorized by the Government, was taken by the Rothchilds and Barings at 69. 105 per 10( lal prem. Consuls, eine last advices, CO 3-SaOOl. Exchequer Bills 3a5 shillings premium. The grain quotations received from Boston ly the Telegrapher are rather ambiguous. The above, however, is the best we could make out of them.

In some Parisian gossip translated from the Courier des Etats Uni by the United States Gazette, the following passage occurs : 'One, who thirty years since was the queen of the world, has died in an obscure corner of the globe Maria Louise is dead. If lu-r love was not great, her sufferings have been excessive. Her daughter, whom she had made the first lady of her palace, and who was married to a noble of Milan, is dying hourly of pulmonary consumption under her very eyes. Her son, whom she idolizes, treats her with disregard and scorn. He is a major oT an Austrian regiment Maria Louise has paid the debt of life. May pardon await her." Frightful "Railroad AccirENT. We conversed last night with Several passengers in the great western and passe'nger train on the Baltimore and Obio Railroad, which left Baltimore on last Tuesday morning, and was defined severi hours at Sykesville, 31 miles fron thai c.ty, by, a frightful accident. It was in the morning, as us'-l, when the train approached that village;at a sr- cf 24.miies an hour. The National Kocd crosses the track here,and at the time a five horse team and wagon was about passing over it. The railroad is straight, and both the driver of the wagon" (who was walking) and the conductor of the tram were perfectly aware of theirproximity, but it seems that one or both went on tbe calculation they could pass first, and so both drove ahead. The result was, the Locomotive came upon the team just as the three leading hornes had crossed. The engineer tried to top the train when too late. The iron horse rushed upon the horse of flesh and blood. The cow-catcher struck the off wheel horse, and pitched him with prodigious force some distance from the track, where he lay in agony until an end was humanely put to his sufferings. The wagon bounded off a distance of thirty yards, rolling over and over. The fhree leading horses started off in afright, and ran; but the saddle horse was instantly doubled up under the Locomotive, which, broken aa it was, plunged on, grinding the creature to atoms. When the passengers got out, nothing was left under the Locomotive but its head and a few bones. Its heart 6till palpitating, and entrails still reeking, were scattered along the track. The more fortunate driver, though knocked down and carried away insensible, was not seriously injured ; but the hair-breadth escape with life awfully frightened him. But the mischief did not end here. The machinery on the under part of the locomotive was broken, and some part of it catching tbe track, tore it up completely. For twenty-five or thirty yards, it was wholly demolished. The locomotive ploughed into the ground to the depth of two feet, scattering the rails and timbers in every direction. It was canted over very much, but did not upset, and was nearly; ruined. Singularly enough, the engineer and conductor hung on to the wreck, and the passengers experienced but a gentle shock. No one belonging to the train was injured in the least. The track had to be reconstructed, and another locomotive procured from Frederick before the train could pass on. All this accounts for the failure of the mail, on Wednesday night. Curious Fact. It is very common to hear city soldiers sneered at as too effeminate for a campaign, and not able to endure the fatigue that country soldiers can bear without inconvenience, yet the experience in tbe war with Mexico is just the contrary. While the country soldiers die off in undue proportion, the city soldiers are comparatively free from sickness. The Mississippians, who encamped near New Orleans, lost forty men out of their regiment ; the Pennsylva nians, on the same ground who were from the cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Pottsville, lost not a single man. In the list of deaths among the troops at Santa Fe, not a man of the artillery from St. Louis city died, and but three attached to the battalion from tbe city and county of St. Louis died, whilst many have died from nearly every company of tbe other volunteers ; showing that city Uoops are the hardiest, and the country troops least so. One of the surgeons in the array also refers to this fact as afford ing a singular contradiction to preconceived notions of the relative physicd power of endurance among the two descriptions rf'coldiers Phil. Ledger. The Baltimore Sun contains a long editorial article in favor of a railroad, which shall connect that place with SL Louis. It enters somewhat in detail into the advantages which that city will d rive from such a work, and urges the subject upon the attention of capitalists there. The Baltimore and Cumberland road will probably be extended to Wheeling under tba act recently passed by the Virginia legislature. The Philadelphia papers are also discussing the necessity of extending tkeip proposed railroad to the Ohio riter, so a to cofrtiött jvith St. Louis. The Pittsburgh and Cincinnati papefs, as well as those between Springfield, Ohio,.andliiis :ity, along the projected route, are zealous in the matter. Hence we feel confident that this 'work wirbe undertaken and completed within a few years. The. competition among the different eastern cities, to secure the benefits of our trade, 5 well as the. large amount of capital there seeking investment, will cautse the, stock to be taken. We need have no fears pn that score, if Illinois shall grant the right of way. St. iui s .r?iOT. -r-rt.S The Oregon mail line or ss"lv. tre to run monthly from Charleston, SooV ' C!gTes, touching at St. Augustine Jv1'r - --xcia. The mail will then be "C?Mly by land carriage across the-isthmus, fronj Ciires to Pauama, where it will be received- by 6teira(Jrs. f3r Asjoria, or the mouth of the Columbia rivertouching at Monterey, Sn Francisco, and ther'placea.'t 'Vbe cost is not to kexceed ' S100.000 per- annu.ro. U-inted States post, -masiecs are io oe appoint, a ct istoria ana other. paicls pri the Pacific, fpstage t o "single letter to Cliagres 20 cents, IIa vans. VS'S C9mtBr Panama 30 centsand to the Pacific coast 30 cents. ' i ::?) The steamship Cambria took put ihe'sdm of j4,117, about 20,000, collected in the Catholic Churches of Boston, for the relief ofIrelano A sura amount: ing'to -100,000 .was alsa scnt.rikde up of private remittances of Irishmen "to tftoir friends at home. The whole amount of private, remittances sent frorrj Boston during the . month of February, is $2l6,000f a sum distinct frofn that sent by Bishop Fitzpatrick, stated above. The Cambria also "senf eat, $5,625, which was contributed- ip .Baltimore-- 'NaTkckef, which was nearly destroyed by fire,i(i5(iV&ftonais ago. has seht $2,000 to Cotton for UiJtlSi of Ireland. 1 . r. C'JLv . . ; i - . . Plank Roaq. It-is confemplaled to make a plank road from Rome, in New York, to Tqrin, and 30,000 have been taken up by the citizens of Rome. Oswe-. go has subscribed $20,000, and there appears to be no doubt that the whole amount will be taken up. Here in Indiana we should make charcoal roads among the best and cheapest in the world. Envelopes should not be used fer letters acknowledging the receipt of money. In those instances the whole sheet of paper should be used, is the post mark must be on to constitute a Jegal proof of payment.