Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1847 — Page 2

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KTXKHAL VIOILASCC I TBI PBICB Of LIBERTY. iU1A.VU'OH3, OCTOIIEK US, 1S47. Our Terms. The following will hereafter be the permanent terms of the WeeVy Indiana Slate Sentinel: 03Paymenta to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.00 Three copies, one year, 3.00 Five copies, one year, 8.00 Ten copies, one year, 15.00 Twenty copies, one year, 20.00 Semi-Weekly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One copy, 4.00 Three copies, $10.00 One copy during the session, 1.00 Three or more copies, each 75 Messrs Bediext &. Green are agents at Cincinnati for the Indiana State Sentinel. To Correspondents. A. C. D., Rising Sun. Wi d publish those items regularly, aaj t pare no paint nor expense to hare then correct. Not one appears that is net sanctioned tj the 14 Old mm. S. J. Millwright," "near Cambridge city." Did It never occur to you that we could comply with j our request much better if we ould recoroixe your 4w among some four .r five thousand 1 It was not attached to your letter. Democratic Slate Convention. The democrats of the State of Indiana are requested to appoint delegates to reprerent them in a State Convention to be held at Indianapolis on the 8th day of January, 1343, which convention will nominate delegates to the National Democratic Convention for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Also, to take into consideration the appointment of Presidential electors. Fy a vote of the committee, each county is requested to elect its delegates at the earliest practicable period, and not less, if possible, than its representation in the General Assembly. Jt is desirable, however, to have as large a representation as possible. tf By order of State Central Committer. To Me rchants. Those of our merchants who use bills of lading, wagon receipts, cards, ic. ic, are respectfully requested to call at our office and examine specimens and prices. New Boor Store. People who may be in want of elegant, new and useful books, or excellent and well selected articles of stationery, we think will find it to their interest to cell at the new book store, just opened in Bates's block, by Messrs. Hoon & Noble. See their advertisements. Brown, formerly Locofoco member of Congress from Indiana, and for the hut two years an officeholder in the Post Office Department, was sent into Maryland to assist the Locofocos of that State in the recent elections. He travelled about from county to county, making the most violent appeals in behalf of his master, Mr. Polk, and calling on all the faithful to rally to his support. The effect of his eloquence was to increase the whig delegation in Congress and in the State Legislature. This official will not henceforth, we think, be sent on any mure missions of the sort. Louisville Journal. The above statement is false, and no one knows it to be bo better than Prentice, the principal editor of the Journal, for he himself was in tlie neighborhood of Baltimore ot the time alluded to. Mr. Brown made but one speech in Maryland, and that was in Baltimore, while on,a short visit, and at the earnest solicitation of democrats there. In Out district, the w hig were defeated Jot congress, though they ran their fa orite. Hone-shoe" Kennedy. The "effort of Mr. Brown's eloquence" therefore did not do the Whigs so much goad as the Louisville Journal pretends to believe. Brown did skin a few coons on the occasion alluded to, and that's the reason why Prentice feels so tore. Railroad Dividends. The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company have declared a dividend of three per cent, out of the profits of the last six months. 854 Bhares of unpaid Vt. and Mass. Railroad Co. stock, were sold, by order of the Directors, on Wednesday last, at prices varying from 754 to774. Most of it sold at 77, This is an advance of two or three per cent. Western Railroad. The increased receipts on the Western Railroad last week, were $10,300, making the aggregate gain in three weeks past, 33,500. Jour, of Commerce. " Ruiu " of the " same sort " pervades all the principal railroad lines throughout the country. Not long since we stopped for a day or two in Massachusetts, near the line of the Albany and Boston railroad. We should not dare to say how many long trains of burden cars we saw pass to and fro during a day ; at one time as many as nine trains within thirty minutes. They are making the track double as fast as they can from Worcester to Springfield ; and this is needed not only to do the business with facility, but without danger. As careful as the Yankees profess tu be about human life, wc were told, on good authority, that on an average they killed a man every week on these trains. We have just seen a paragraph in an eastern paper, stating the great injury of eight men by a recent collision, on this road. Nothing but a double track can prevent occasional collisions where there is such an immense business, and where the speed is not less than 25 miles per hour. Cincinnati. Cist's Advertiser says, in Cincinnati during the lat rive snd twenty year, business was i.ever more active and profitable than at present. It is almost impossible to pass our great business fares, och is the constant accumulation of packages, loading and unloading on the side-walks. The same is true with rescct to all the great cities of the East. The writer of this recently visited Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and many ether towns of less note, and iii all of them it was admitted that busine was never more active nor more prosperous. In New York, Baltimore and Boston, especially, as well as in Pittsburgh at.d Cincinnati, every body and every thing seems to be driving ahead with a ruth. We never before witnessed such unitTsal activity in any of them. As for the city of New York, if it progresses as rapidly as it is now doing, for thirty years to come, it will be the largest city in worlJ, London, not , excepted. We have seen, and come in contact with thousaud of business men at the east within the last eight we.ks, and of all sorts ot busine, and not a tingle one comp a ned of "hard times.' Our country never wts more prosperous in all things except whig politic and o:ce-seeking. They are every where below par, as they ought lo be ' 0L'rd Palm fRSTOM instructed the Britiwh minister in Mexico, to follow the Government wherever it might go. He is likely to be kept moving pretty rapidly for some month to come. The N. 0. Delta contains a wood cut, representing that functionary in full pursuit of General Santa Anna snd company. fj7"Francis Bruggan, a druggist in Sanduky city, Gli io, has been arretted on a charge of murder, by adritit.ist'ring poison to Conrad Alder, his partner in business. Alder died suddenly and under circumstances which excited suspicion. T Poison was found in the stomach. ' ' fj7"The Tippecanoe Journal and Free Press," published at Lafayette, is offered for sale. Its Iocstion is one of the best in the State. The paper was etritvln''! 10 n( k?en n 'ucwM opera- , ,., , .r P ' wbi?.

QrA murder was lately committed in Waterville Maine, which, by last accounts, was producing a great sensation. A young man named Matthews was found dead with marks of violence upon his person, and poison was detected in his stomach. He was known to have in his possession the evening previous to his murder, 1,500, which, with his gold watch, were gone when the body was found. Suspicions were aroused against Dr. Coolidge, and a part of the money was found secreted behind a board in the Doctor's shed, and the gold watch under the cushion of his sleigh, which was stowed away in a shed. Coolidge was arrested, and the grand jury examined the case. The evidence against the Dr. was strong. It would seem that Matthews was first poisoned, and that the wounds and bruises were inflicted after death. The Doctor forgot tiiat & body will not bleed after the sanguineous system is paralysed by death, as a general rule; and his forgtlj 'ulness in this respect was one of the chief causes of directing suspicion against him.

07Our neW minister at Brazil, Col. Tod, in delivering his credentials, calls the President "His Excellency," while the Emperor in reply gives him the constitutional designation, "the President," thus showiu that.he understood the legal title of our chief magistrate, better than our Envoy ! The following story, from the Alexandria Gazette, is exactly pertinent : In the convention for forming the Constitution of the United States, it was proposed that titles should be given to the high officers of the government, and the proposition met with favor. The discussion of the subject had gone on for some time, when Pr. Franklin arose, and, with great apparent gravity, remark ed "that as this matter seemed to be seriously entertained, aud might be carried, he had to suggest one title which would be new and appropriate it was a title for the Vice President and it was, His Most Superfluous Highness !" There was not much more said about titles after this. Ingenious Mode of Advertising. A curious example of the ingenuity of the advertising spirit is given by the English papers. A mercantile house at Berlin hhs proposed to the various railway companies of Germany to supply all their carriages with silk blinds, gratuitously. They simply propose to reserve to themselves the right of changing the blinds as often as they may please; and they require the companies to engage themselves not to accept, fur 50 years, either for money or gratuitously, any blinds but theirs. Their object is to cover the blinds with advertisements. They already advertise in a similar, but style, in the eastern railroad ears, by means of hand-I J . J bills and cards. At all the principal stopping places. j especially in the neighborhood of New York, a flood of advertisements, of all sorts of things, are scattered among the passengers. A man has no trouble to learn where and how he can spend all his spare change. It was more thou we could do to hold on to enough to get back with Eloquent. Senator Corwin made a speech at Carthage, Ohio, not long ago, in which the following passage occurs, and is given by his admirers as a specimen of his eloquence : "And this Ark of our Covenant, with Vigilance for her Pilot, with Truth, Justice, .Mercy, Honor and Liberty as her crew with God's blessings and protection upon and around her, for their sakes shall ride out, like an Albatross, the pelting ot the pitiless storm, unscathed, and shall float I, er plumuge un ruffled, in peaces for ever !" The Ark of the Covenant afloat ! Cist's Atherli er supposes that the learned gentleman was thinking of Noah s Ark a difference anr school-bur should understand. The "plumage" of the Ark is anew arrangement entirely. Such mixing of figures is in J keeping with the Senator's confused ideas"about this war. Neu Vors. Some difficully was manifested in the recent Democratic State Convention, fur the nomination of candidates, in New York, which may lead to divisions at the polls, and perhaps temporary defeat. Radicalism and conservatism, Wilmot proviso and an-ti-proviso, are the ostensible questions of difficulty, j The St. Lawrence Republican announces the nominations of tho party to which it belongs, as follows : The majority was obtained by fraudulently contestea seats u.e spurious contestants neing allowed to a I it i" a " a . a 1 J a a aal. vote, aim uius was a taction eutiiieu tu ouivoie liieren- . ,. , , T .. , . fc... uine democratic delegates. In the conclusion, this spurious, usuroini faction, were left without a nuo- , rum and thus ended a convention, the like of which has never before been seen in this State, and we trust never will be ajrain. "The R cling Passion." The Ohio Statesman copies the "two yellow fever anecdotes," and appends to them another, which is told of a distinguished member of Congress from Virginia, who was taken ill at Washington, and his disease progressing, his physician expressed apprehensions that he would not recover .ontmuing to grow still worse, he sent for a friend to whom he communicated the apprehensions of. his physician ; and then in a solemn manner, said "Now, my friend, I have a favor to ask if I should die, don't let me be buried at the expense of Con-j - . . . ... , ,, ress,for by G-t is unconstitutional." the fear of being buried at the expense of the government, and thereby causing an infraction of the constitution, so worked upon his disease that he fully recovered, and still lives to guard the constitution with jealous care. "Col. Jefferson Davis has written a letter extolling Gen. Taylor to the 6kies, and endeavoring to make him nut the greatest and the best man in the world. We presume this is in requital for the extraordinary praises bestowed by Gen. Taylor upon Col. Davis and his regiment at Bueua Vita, to do which he was compelled lo disgrace the India nians." Xew Albany Democrat. Daviv, we believe, is Taylor's son-in-law, which is another reason, perhaps, why ho extols the General so highly. " It is a family affair," and they very naturally "help ne another." An exchange paper tellsa tory of a farmer in New York, who, having sold a large crop of wheat at 73 cents a bushel to a shrewd miller, who had seen the telegraphic news of its rise to Si, exclaimed on learning his mistake "Well, neter vas so ttruck vith lightning before " Men are very liable to such strokes who don't take a newspaper which gives the market prices. There are a good many people in the world yet, however, who are "penny wie and pound foolish." Caution to the Ladies. A lady, says the Syracuse (N. V.) Journal, visiting atone of our first families, who wan assisting in making arrangements for a wedding parly a fiw "y inee, narrowly escaped death by tastinjj oil of Almonds. Having uncorked the phial, and merely touched the cork with the tip of the tongue, she was suddenly seized with violent spasm and severe pain, which continued for nearly 21 hours, notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the physicians. We suppose that thee fearful effects were occasioned by the pruxsic acid contained in the oil. Don't Bet. -Remember that any bet or wager on the reult of the election is a disqualification. Attempts will bo made to draw whigs into bets to shut out their votes. Alb. Eie. Journ. 4 'That paragraph is significant ! Wonder if betting would not disqualify the democrats as well as whigs? OrThe New Albany Democrat, not long ago, proved that the Wabash E.xpress was guilty of some scandalous v hiipins.' The Express is so much offended, that it has determined lo cut the Democrat's acquaintance! Orful! 1 As?itAGUS. We wish to obtain one or two hundred Angus roots for trancplnnting, and will pay literally for them, if furnished immediately.

Webster ts. Webster. "I appeal from Philip Another New Manufacturing City. drunk to Philip sober," ?aid one who felt himself ag-! The Hartford, Ct., Times makes some remarks grieved by an unjust judgment. Jn relation to the , about another great speculation among the tnanufacwar and the duty of Ihn citizen during its cuntinu- j turing capitalists, which we copy below. We happen ance, we appeal from Daniel Webster in Springfield ! to know something of the men engaged id this great to Daniel Webster in Philadelphia. In Springüeld, a j work, and know that the scheme will be carried out.

few weeks ago, Mr. W. expressed himself as fol-j lows : ' "Suppose that we have no peace, the armistice broken, the war in renewed progress, and congress assembles. What is to be done! Unless the President shall make out a case, show Congress that no purpose of acquisition, no purpose not directly connected with the welfare of thia Union, is the object and end of this war, we ought In go ogalasl any more supplies to carry it on." In Philadelphia, on the 2d of December last, since when the aspect of our controversy with Mexico has changed in no respect, he expressed himself in the following language : "Nevertheless, gentlemen, the war is upon us our armies are in the field, and our navies upon the sea. Our duty as good citizens is plain. WE MUST MAINTAIN THE GOVERNMENT. AND AID IT IN AN HONORABLE MANNER TO BRING THE WAR TO A SPEEDY TERMINATION. The people demand that every eTort shall be made to effect this end. But while war lasts, while our soldiers are on the land and our sailors on the sea to uphold the flasr of our country, ecery means mast be adopted to tuccor and support them. They bear the commission of their government their duty is obedience to the command of their superiors they are engaged in a foreign service they have done honor to their country." The above is quite as good an example of Webster's himesly as of his patriotism. Webster forgot, by the way, to renew in I. is Springfield speech, the threat which he made at Philadelphia, that he would introduce in Congress resolutions of impeachment against the President. (JjThere is no hope of getting patriotic locofoco eJitors off to Mexico to fight out the war brought on by their "political managen," unless their President rrsorts to a draft which must soon be done if volunteering flags aa.tnuch aa it baa here of lata- When the muster roll come round, not a few of them will be missing from the try pod ; perhaps travelling in search of their health ! 7J. Jtwrnal, Oct. 22. In almost every number of the Journal there is some such slanderous attack as the above upon the volunteers of our State. Itis intimated that "volun-

teering flags" very much of late; and in another parc tea per ,rra nu :n vn m nn tMP : , : ...1..1 , i. . i.nra . ...

, ,1. ..i.., 1 . ,u . . 'not enough volunteers to make out In reimnpnt at A th stan-llv tafBm1,lta ,, ,a in fact as they are unpatriotic in purpose. We yesterday conversed with an officer recently from Madison, and a whig, though not a Mexican whig, and he assured us that them were more voluuteers than were I wamed of l)ian cuuJ bj enroed Vv e consider it necessary, by the way, for some "locofoco editors" to stay at home and show up the traitorous course of such abolition concerns as the Journal, who if they could get the power would let our soldiers starve in the field. When the editors of that concern lake the field under Santa Anna in Mexico, and comj mt "overt acts" as they now give "aid and comfort" I in their own wav, we will promise to be in Mexico l - w without w.'itmo- for . drft A Locofoco Esitor SoLiLoo.ciisa. Plow, eow, harrow, reap and thrash farmer, ami then pay your taxes. hat right h&f a you to enquire how the money is expend d! lnt Jimmy Polk yourccunlry? And mui ot you go :uur "country right or wrougT Plow, sow, harrow, reap and thrssh farmers, and then pay your taxes. What right have you lo complain at pay ing a public debt "lo further the ulterior interests of alaveocracj 1" Wouldn't it be traitorous in you to do 10 while we have free institutions and a democratic administration! Go to, now, and learn obedience to your "political managen." Let the government take care of if elf. If it goes to pieces you are safe enough ! Journal. Q3The Journal intends this irony to apply to some body else ; but in sober earnest, it is a true development of its own avowed doctrine, It asserts that we have spout, at one time, it said, fire hundred millions, in the Mexican war: and it declares at the game time that it would be the grossest injustice for us to compel Mexico to pay one dime of the sum. On the contrary, it wishes to give Mexico thousands of c r t- Tt,: .1 . . acres of the btate of lexas. 1 his is the very way, . . . , , , j j ot course t0 br,1,ff about the rcs,,lts named y the Journal, to-wit : enormous taxes for the payment of the public debt. Let the advice of the Journal be adopted, and there can be no doubt that our farmers ttculcl have plenty of plowing, sowing, harrowing, reaping and threshing lo do for the benefit of the Journal's yellow brcthreu in Mexico. A Poor Disciple -The New York Tribune has the following : Tiuru 1 t SlT IT? V .T)t Nltvl'eai Cfilnrv a -vk 1 nf r, . runreu :n vpw nTn9 u eft noo Chh promising increase, besides the usual perquisites of ive va1-- j Bw v w vt Sita as his station. The salary of the professorship in the r . f r a-.aa UniverMiy 01 Louisiana, to winch he lias been elected, has not yet been fixed, but it will, no doubt, be a liberal one, and the duties of it will in no way inter- . ... - . na,t . r, . . emoluments will not be lexs than 810,000 per annum, . Pretty fair for a minister of Him who had not where i to lay his head. . Of the same clerical gentleman, Park Benjamin's "New World," not long since, related the annexed A f?vv years since, when the Rev. Dr. Hawks, the celebrated Episcopal clergymun, was about leaving New York for the south, he was was waited upon by the vestrymen of a small church iih Westchester coun ty, and urgently solicited to take charge of the same. I I he Rev. Doctor graciously leceived the committee, but respectfully declined the proposal, urging as a chief objection lhat ihe salary, though liberal for the parish which Ihev represented, would be inadequate for his expenses, having a considerable family of small children to educate aud provide tor. One of the committee replied, "the Lord will take care f them; he has promised to hear the youug ravens when they cry, and to provit for them." "Very true," said the rev. g'entleman, '"but he has not promised to provide for the young Hawks." 07-The Indiana Journal expresses itself earnestly against the propositions recently made to the Mexi cans by Mr. Trist, the agent of our government, as the bais of a treaty of peace; and quite os earnestly averts that the counter propositions of Santa Anna, offering us the line of the Nueces, were just and li beral, and all that we have a right to expect. The Journal has two reasons for . thus taking the Mexican side in this case. In the first place it wants "no more territory.;" and in the second, it desires to give up those glorious battlefields of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Euena Viata, &.C., upon which the bones of our heroic soldiers are now bleaching. In our opinion, the man who willingly proposes, as the Journal does, to give up a single foot of those sanguinary fi. ld-t.wouldjustas willingly give to the British Bunker Hill, Vorklown, Trenton, or any of the Gelds upon which the Independence and valor of our country was earned and established. At the battle of Churubusco, Major Mills was killed, his horse having run off with him and carried him Into Ihe enemy's works, where he was lanced after he had surrendered his sword, an act well befitting the cowardly character of the Mexicans. nJana Journal. Nevertheless, the Journal takes sides with these same "cowardly Mexicans," and gives them all the "aid and comfort" it can. - t The latest advices from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland represent the potato crop in those places which usually furnish a large supply as almost a total fsil-cr.

The Fa.'rbankses alluded to are the original patentees j of the platform scale, out of which Ihey made inde-

pendent fortunes, and still carry on the business very extensively at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. They are probably interested in the " new city, though it is

true lhat heavier capitalists in Boston have a con-(am

trolling interest. The Fairbankses, and die rest of federalist, in ahusion to the late election lor Govthese capitalists, so far as we know, are all whigs, !"nor of Pennsylvania, uses the following words : , .i.., I xt r 1 if a "We went into the contest xrilh an a.-aojf perfect ezpetlaand some at least of the real pure New England fede- Uon of tucm,an eIpcctalior, twuM ttponVr belief that ral stripe. More or less of them are as insane on . the people of thi.i great commonwealth wete not 0 utterly the subject of politics, as their neighbors the Miller- i !?,en'blVf D.in,e,"ls " urs,in rdn,,"w?n J ' 0 . tion wbicb had availed eaih and all of those inleteMs an

ites are upon the subject of religious belief; but when thev come to business and monev-makins ODera-1 " anil jmiicyiiiuiri" wuciar or tions, they are sensible enough not to make a practi - col application of their absurd theories on the subject of the tariff, fcc. Yery few Millerites, we believe, firmly as they believed the world ws to be knocked into nonentity on a certain first of April, were willing to dispose of any acres of which-they held the deeds. "Moat Jlns" at' H adlet Fall. A great deal has been (aid and written about the new manufacturing city of Lawkcnce, ou the Men imae, where cify lots " have advanced to 200 per cent, abate par, and mill and factories are going up by the dozen. This i all very well, and we are glad to et to much prosperity trumpeted forth in thoe prominent wbi;; oigins which a short time ago were so full of panic and predictions of ruin. Some of the mot conspicuou of these very whig prophets of evil hare alieadj become so distrustful of their own "gift of prophecy" and so eager to falsify theit owu lugubrious vaticinations, that they are actually founding another of those ' abodes of ruin;" another of those manufacturing cities "at Hadtey Falls, which bids fair to thro w even Lawi enct ioto the shade. This water privilege, all thing coni. lernt, is probabl) the most valuable io the whole country. It includes the whole power lo be obtained by damming the Connecticut river, and is of three times as many spindle-power as that either of Lowell or Lawrence. It is ir. the very heart of the richest agricultural district of New England, and enjoys the advantage of both a watei and a railroad communication with all Ihe great markets of the country. It was stated some time since lhat this property was purchased by the Messrs. Fairbanks. The deed was taken in their name, but the real purchasers are a number of well known Bustou capitalists, who bavesubsciibed two millions towards the work, as a beginning. Tbey have puichased, besides Ihe old dam and water power, a tract for a "city " on Ihe west siJc of the river, two miles long, and extending back one mile from the river, situated on the railroad, about midway between Sptingfield and Not th ampton. One of the last sellers of land to Ihe company, after the plan began to leak out, obtained $20,000 for twenty acres of land necessary to complete the site, which a year since he would have been glad to tell for fifty dollars an acre. The company hare alieady commenced the erection of a gteat and costly dam acioss the liver, and are putting op buildings. Their present capital is sufficient to construct factories with an. aggregate of 50,000 spindles equal to the whole number now in operation at Cabot ville and Chickopee Falls and when thai is exhausted, as much more, or ten limes as much mote if necessary, will be forthcoming. All this does not look much like the ruin so sagaciously foretold by the high tariff whigs. In fact, this indication of high prosperity, in connexion with so many others of the same character, must make Ihe federal pasic makers "sing very small " before the country. It is not the least singular spectacle of the time that those very croakers who croaked the longest and loudet about the ruio which was surely to befal manufacturing io consequence of the taiiff of 1S46, should now be the foremost lo tuth into it and pionounce it by their acts (which speak louder than words) to be the most profitable and prosperous of all kinds of busiuess. The Chickopee Telegraph states that the gigantic plan of the company, who bare the control of the "new city" enterprise at Hadley Falls, contemplates water-power for 56 large cotton mills, 68 by 260 fett, 6 stories bigb. The primary canal, extending in a southwesterly direction, something over a mile in length, is to be 20 feet deep, and 140 feet wide at its head, and bO feet at its teiminu. This canal will furnish water power for about 23 of the mills mentioned. Having accomplished the okject of turning the wheels of these mills, the water ii lo be conducted back to a suitable point, by a parallel canal, and then discharged into another caual, which is to extend about a mile aud a half, following the circuitous coarw or the lirer. Scott's Armistice. In the Indiana Journal of Sept. 20lh appeared the following, which showed very plainly that the Journal was ready cither to approve or condemn the armistice, according as it might turn out to have been directed by Gen. Scott or by the diplomatic agent f our government, Mr. Trist. If Scott had ordered the armistice, it would have been all right ; hut if it had been made at Mr. Trist's suggestion, it was all wrunj of course: Who proposed the Arvistice? This has been made the subject of repeated inquiry. An extract of a letter published in the Washington Union, is said to give the answer. After the hvo battles, Hen. Scott was met with a proposition for an armistice, to give the Mexicans time to bury their dead. This was refused, but in the evening Gen. Scott agreed to an armistice to enable commissioners to meet Mr. Trist and treat for peace. Can any one tell now who proposed the armistice I Journal. Perhaps the following passage in a letter from Vera Cruz to Patria," New Orleans, may relieve the solicitude of the Journal. It professes to give the causes why Gen. Scott asked for the armistice of Santa Anna. The Journal has probably learned by this time, that its whig friend, Santa Anna, deceived Gen. Scott as badly as he deceived the President. This shows the folly of trusting to whig professions or promises anywhere : A gentleman who arrived yesterday, in company with Senor Bermudcz de Castro, Minister of Spain to this republic, assured mc that the persons who visited the American camp at the termination of the action of Churubusco did so on an understanding with Santa Anna. They represented to General Scott that the Provisional President was anxious and disposed to enter into negotiations for peace, but that his situation hindered him from taking the first 6tep, on account of the opposition of the people; but that if General Scott would propose an armistice under the conditions which were adopted, he would enter into negotiations with Mr. Trist, and that he (Santa Anna) wa9 confident that he could put an end to the difficulties. This, then, is what obliged Gen. Scott to take the first step in the matter, when he was able to enter the capital with his army." Grographt. Map-making, as it has been carried on at ihe East during some years past, partakes of humbug to a very considerable degree. As a late instance : a Map of the World, published by Phelps, Ensigns it Thayer, 36 Ann street, New York, though it does not materially differ from other maps in its projection of the continents, has a statistical table headed "National Debts of Europe," in which we read " Mexico,' S. A. $10,000,000." From this one would naturally infer that Mexico was in South America, and that South America is in Europe ! '54.40." In passing the store of our nei2hbors R. C. Wetmore &. Co., we saw them sending off packages of their crockery marked "Oregon," with as little concern as they would send them to Detroit. On inquiry, we learned that merchants from that ("City" make their regular trips to the Atlantic eai ""7 "TV, k ""'V -"7 " k 1 C .. .1 ; . l: Tl . l. . Horn v 1 14 iiiv as a v v. o iivniv rut 1 f Oregon city now contains some 10,000 inhabitants. We learn that goods are sold in large quantities and at good profits by our "Occidental" brethren. They have already opened a trade with the Sandwich Islands, China and Polynesia, besides a growing traffic with whaling ships. X. Y. Jour, of Commerce. 0rSone days since there vas published an account of a suicide by a youup; girl in St. fjuis, committed for being charged with theft. . While in the iery agonies of death she declared ner innocence. Since that sad event the following has made its appearance in the papers: "Her Ixnocence Psoved. The jewelry alleged to have been stolen by the servant girl at St. Louis, Elizabeth Reddick, who committed suicide recently, has been found at the house of her former mistress, and in the very spot where it was placed by her accuccr, who afterwards forgot the circumstances." ft7"Tbe) Xashville Union describes the Taylor meetin that city aJ a complete failure. Bailie P.yton made a speech, and pronounced the old Whig meas - ures obsolete. No other Whig could be found to address the meeting. Thiav was designed to be a great Taylor demonstration, and the result shows that the game is up.'

Correspondence of the State Sentinel. . j Washington, Oct. 17, 1547. j In such-times as ours, when politic, constitute so lare a portion of the public thoueht and public ex-

prep: ?ssion, it may seem strange, at first blush, that an tion, not for President, nor for member of either , inch of Congress, but simply for Governor of a : election branch of Congress, but simply State, should be regarded, and that too, afar off, as an event of the most momentous consequences ; one that is to have a weighty bearing, for weal or for woe. upon the political destinies of the Republic. Yet it is even so. Ihe Philadelphia .North American, the editor of which alwavs arrests rov attention, when 1 casting around for the very 'beau idea? of a administration which acquiied power by a fraud upon their 'hrhu, and hat abued that power to inflict upon them the .net inmii.t n ,in. in :t r t inn whirh in iis whole cor - - . . V . : . . . . a.B.ra.t inniii.a n itfl. in :Lt r t inn whlfh in II WhOl COIl. aact D shown imbecility, piofligacy, and wkkednes an ..,.1.,.,, - - extravagant blondeia; an expectation founded upon the re uiiii.iisuaiivu . li It- II II Lll.UK 11' rl. i. " peated assurances of intelligent fiiends in all parts of the Mate, who were, without exception, confident of a Whig victoiy. We need not say lhat many of Ihe opposing party expected the same result All have been deceived. Causes have been in operation of which no man could appteciate the force, or even the existence, and certaiuly no one could anticipate Ihe effect t and these have been sufficient, and more than sufficient, to counterbalance .not only the positive sttengib of our own friends, but even tbe disaffection which existed io the locofoco camp." With this acknowledgment, made by the ery opposition itself, and that too, after the exciting scenes attendant upon a canvass, have passed by, that the issues were what they are, in the above paragraph, stated to have been, what is the verdict of the jury ! Let us open it, and read, count by count : 1st. When politicians, of either party, said we did not know, in 1844, who and what we were voting for, they spoke without our authority ; and when we heard them speak so we made up our minds that upon the very first suitable occasion, when w could do it without any apprehension of being misunderstood, we would let 6uch men know that, in our opinion, democracy is the same in Pennsylvania that it is in New Hampshire and Alabama. 2d. When another effort is to be made to impress upon our minds a conviction that an administration of our making State or National has assailed each and all of our interests ; has abused its power to inflict upon us the severest injuries ; has in its whole conduct, shown nothing but imbecility, profligacy and wickednenss; made its entire course a series of extravagant blunders, it would perhaps be advisable not to send the very identical newspapers and the very identical men to work out our conversion that were sent to tell us, in by-gone days, that Jackson had ruined the country by putting down the United States Bank ; that Van Buren was usurping the liberties of the people by raising a standing army ; and if Texas was annexed the Union would be dissolved the very nest day. When false gods impose upon us once that is their fault ; if they do it twice that is our fault. 3d. Our government never made war upon Mexico. Mexico made it upon us. We have never stolen from her citizens their ships, money and other property ; the boot was on the other Ifg ; she stole property and money from our citizens, amounting in the aggregate to S&.OOO.OOO. After years of prevarication and evasion wc succeeded at last in obtaining a recognition and acknowledgment of about one third 815,000,000, of what was actually due. The claimants felt most acutely its injustice ; but consid ered it that or nothing, and accordingly agreed to j accept it. lhen 6he had no, money to pay even this pittance with, and begged for time, hhe alleged that she could pay the full amount in 15 years $'50,000 every three months. The claimants, suit seeing that it lima tl.it np riMftiinfT rrroul tn it Slip n.lili. Iltlllpr I

!i- . . .1 ... - a ii,on cm' Guthrie, E. 0. V-i lams, James .Miller, James ( aldtlas agreement, two instalments; and then swore ' ,, ,!. A, , , , , - lhat if we made a certain treaty with one of the inde- ' Major (eneral It. J; Pulow, severely ; Major pendent powers of the earth ehe never would pay JA. H. uiaddc... Br.gad.er Uo;ttr.i j.me shields, ' , n..fl .r !. uvtmrvnU nd ! Assistant Adjutant (.enml r. .N. Iage, A. A. A.

grossly violated our plighted fnitli with Mexico, or with any other nation 1 Never ! Wc have never invaded Mexican territory and spilt the blood of her citizens ; she did this to us and ours. It had certainly come to i beautiful pass that we had not the rijjht to move our army when and where we pleased, so we

kept within our own limits, for fear that Mexico j Simonsoii, J. B ßseke., s. 5might take it in dudgeon; for although a very scri- n; Sl " c7 ' l" oua effort is made by her friends in this country to ,!1I,d k"bert lr. liale, Moses, J. a

trti 1-a na Knlioisa flint rn rmv vUsn hpt Vffn tS xt j.l TV r i :,. ,;.,' Nueces and the Rio Grande, was occupying disputed i ground. Mexico herself has never yet admitted that mv, when oetween the vas occupying disputed ever yet admitted that ) was a bit more - State of Texas ; she did ole State as disputed the strip of country alluded to, puted than all the rest of the State sinrl Brill s4iwa rOsaim tltam urKnla !nts n tUtnutf'A I '

ground; and insists that WO who never received it from j cny, an account oi men vve w ... enuoavor io lay oehcr must either pay her the money for it, or give it f"re ' ers to-morrow, the tohmving order was back. This difficulty between us and Mexico has ssued by General Scott, immediately alter his enfinally assumed the character of a suit at law ; and 1 race ,the PlaI- . U,e ca,mot l,ho"?1' -.' he who is cast must not only pay the principal, but late, or rather very early, hour at which we write. also the interest and costs. omjt to MuTe our rc!lders ll,c f"!lowlf'S 4th. When the people, in any region of cour.try ; Headmasters or the Asmv .... . . f. r . V. . 1 o. . V- . . t MfXICO, Spt. 14, ISii. within the jurisdiction of the United States, but otGrrf 0arca No. 1S4. within the limits of an existing State, see fit to meet J t',der Ihe favor of God, the valoi of this atmy, afier many in convention and form a Constitution and State gov-, rlorious victories has hoisted. the colors of our country in the ernment for themselves, they have an inherent right capital of Mexico, and ou the t.alace of its government, to make just such a constitution as they think proper ; But U.e war is not ended : the Mexican army and govetn- . c It - i r .- . e ment have fled only to watch an oi poitunity to leiuin upon it is for their government, and for toe government of uj in auce. (Ve must, thee, be upon our g.j.d ; dno one else ; it is for their good or thtir etil alone ; panieJ fginient will "lie kept together, and all stand and consequently no one else has a right to meddle upon the aleit. Our feiy is in nuimi v discipline. Let with it. Wc, here in Pennsylvania, have abolished , theie be ua diuokenness, no disoideis, and no suagghng. . slavery, because a large majority of us thought it at Hagglers will be in gte.t darger of assassination, and .i . i i.i . li .i-i. -. iir 1 marauders shal be punished by courK-mai tul. All Hie the tune, and doubtless still think it, an evil. W e ru,M o honr,blv ob,,rd by ,-, e,orious ..my io PuebU, claimed the right and none questioned it, when we mmt be bserved here. The honor of the army anJ tbe wished to exercise it, of abolishing slavery ; and, if; honor of our countiy call for the tu st behavior ou the pait ever a, majority of US should think proper, we shall i of all. Tbe valiant must, to win the approbation of God not only claim the right, but exercise it, of restoring untry, be sobc.,o.dcri, and mTui. "ob' l j i iv I, i -.;i,i. ! biethren in arms will not be deaf to this hasty .appeal fiom slavery ; and holding such to be our own rights the ; ,heir comriuIlder aild f,ietld. Majr General ijuilmm .s same rule requires us to award it to otuers. It is i ,ppointed civil and military euu.nu. of Mexico. true that Congress is bound by the Constitution of the j By command or Major Geneiii Scott. United States to secure to the citizens of each State a I H. L. SCOTT, Ast. Adj. Gen. republican form of government ; hut we hae never j The American S'ar of the 0ih September, in yet heard a jude of any repute say that a slave ' speaking of the execution of the deserters, says that State had not equally ns republican a firm of govern-! 10 of them were hung at San Angel on the 9th ; and ment.as a free St'ate"; or at least that slavery consti- ; immediately afler some ten or twelve wer whipped tuted'the difference, if one existed. ; and branded on the cheek with the letter D. Riley, A most righteous verdict ! and sensibly drawn up. I the chief of the crowd, came in for a dure of the withal. I think I hear the court directing the clerk ! whipping and branding. The next morning four to enter up a judgment upon it. others were executed at Miscoac; and on the 13th, This election "in Pennsylvania carries with it a '30 more were hung upon one gallows at the same moral and an influence of great moment to tin De- ' place. It appears that Pi i ley. according to our inilimocracv of the whole country. The short paragraph ; t"ry las, could not be hung, he having deserted that I have taken for my text, clipped, as it is, from ! frm our army before the commencement of hostilities, the especial organ of the whig party in Philadelphia, i Rumors were rife in Vera Cruz of Santa Anna being shows not only what their expectations in the State j in Pnebla at ihe head of some three hundred men. were; but of what incalculable importance to their j Speaking on this subject, the American Star of Sepparty elsewhere, they seemed aware that their tri- j tember !&d, published in the city of Mexico, says that umph would be: from which, together with the edi-i General Eea with a guerilla force had entered Puebla tor's acknowledgment (unintentional I presume) of j a few days previous, and the force under CaA. Childs the assistance they received from Possum Democrats, j being so mall, he withdrew them to tbe heights comwe may estimate the immense amount of secret means! manding the place, where he was quite secure, and used by them in the conflict. And what a monument j from whence he could bombard the city at will, is the result to the unpur'chasable probity of the stern, - . t. . New Osleass, Oct. 14, 1847. c i i r .i iTvcrfwi" o-niTn Str. -The b ashioD arured here late last night liom vera unterrified democracy of the KE STONL STATE ! Cfuz Tlhefc jf a ' ,molt of MW, by he6r but B0binc How proudly do I associate the graves where rest in I rerT. imnoitant. The chief points a.e that Mexico is in the

,,v -t - ' r peace the ashes of my maternal ancestors on the

e ashes ot my maternal ancestors on the I quiet possession of our army. Seveial or the nuithein Mates ide with the politics of Westmoreland, and ! have declared Santa Anna a traitor, and have pledged Ihemndary valley of Ligonier. ! '" considerable number of troops to be placed , .i , under Paiedes and Busiamente. Tbe whereabouts of Santa brilliant democratic victory, as the one m AnV ot knoWD. Ut w, opposed lo be ia be neigb-

Dutch s the legend This Maryland and the one in Georgia, is attributed by the npposition to the amount of money spent in the can vans by the Administration. This stale old croak is worn out long since. . It no longer produces its anticipated effect. It proceeds as the people have learned to their entire satisfaction from men who measure other people's corn by their own half bushel. G. W. K. White Water Valley Canal. The Connersville 'Spirit of the Valley," of the 21st says The canal is now full of vvuter through to the city, and boats have ere this landed their freight on the wharf of the White Water Canal Basin in Cincinnati. The surplus freight at this place is very nearly all on its way to the western emporium. ' Indeed our town has put on the same business-like garb which was its wont. Our pork packers are all ready for operation, and in a few waeks the "grunters" will be served lip for the smoke house and barrel. C-Eight prisoners broke jail at Clarksville, Tenn., ' on Friday nicht, Oct. 1st, and among thera Moon, 1 who some time ago murdered Rev. Mr Jackson, a j clergyman in that town. He was retaken, however, an hour after his escape, not being able to travel fast, j in consequence of his long confinement. The others ; are itill cr.:xv-ht.

" From Mexico. To the EJitU of the Uni, : I'ETEKsHCr.u. October 0. Ö a ni . our express from the south bnngsthe fo lomnjf

,mP?rlar" nrrowi: lJj Iae batt1- T the l.ith instant says : important news frow Central Scott, giving particulars The New Orleans Delta extra oi At a la:e hour last night t:ie steamship Fashion, Capt. Ivy, arrived from Vera Cruz and Tampico, hav ing left Vera Unix on the 7th and Tampico on the tun instant. Bv this arrival we are placed in possession of letters from our correspondent Mustang from the city of Mexico, as late ns the ii-Uh of September, and hies ot Ihe American Star, a new paper, published by Messrs. Peoples and Barnard, at the capital. Our correspondence, both from the city of Mexico and Vera Cruz, is very voluminous. Tl.e lateness oy the hour at.wl.ich we received it, precludes the possibility of our giving more than one of the graphic letters of our correspondent Mustang, content this morning with a brief synopsis of the interesting news hastily gleaned from the mass of documents in our possession. We have full details if the killed, wounded, and missing, copies of the general orders issued by tl-e commander-iii-chit f from the time of the capture of the city up to the latest date ; Ihe manifesto of Gen. Bravo, addressed to the Minister of War and Marine, descriptive of the o,eratioiis of the Mexican forces at and about Chapultepec on the 12th of September; resignation of the Presidency by General Santa Anna, ' tt cetera all of which we will endeavor to lay before our readers to-morrow. Our loss has been severe the orevious rumors of Generals Pillow, Worth, and Smith being killed, we are gratified to learn, were without foundation. Among the wounded, we regret to see the name of our coteinporary, Mr. Kendall, of the Picayune. We trust, however, h.s wound is but a slight one. The American prisoners, wh were sent from the city of Mexico to Toluca, on the approach of General Scott to the capital, have been 6ent back lo the city of Mexico, still ns prisoners of war, under parole. It is 6a id they were sent by the governor of -Mexico -on his own responsibility. The names of the officers thus liberated on parole, are Captains Clay, Heady, and Smith, Lieut?. Churchill, Davidson, and Barbour, and sixteen privates. The city of Mexico a quiet at the latest dates, though daily reports of the rising t.f the populace, and the. assnssination of our men were rife. Little fear, however, was enterlained by our army of any such attempt; for, as our correspondent remarks, an enemy who could not stai d against u in the field, will not be likely to attack, much less to attempt to overpower us, with the city and its strongholds in our possession. The Mexican Congress were to meet on the 5th of this month at Qtiaretaro. The seven northern States, which some lime since formed a coalition to oppose negotiations for peace, have held a meeting by delegates, and denounced Santa Anna as a traitor and an outlaw ; and at the wine time have passed a resolution pledging each State to furnish three thousand men armed and equipped for the further prosecution of ihe war, and upointrd Generals Paredes and Busiamente to command the troops thus to be raised. The whereabouts of Santa Anna was not known at the capital on ihe 2Sth of September rumors placed him in the vicinity of Puebla. Cols. Dickinson, Baxter, and Mcintosh have died of their wounds; Generals Pillow and Shields are recovering slowly. Our correspondent makes out our total loss to be in killed, wounded, and missing sixteen hundred and twenty-one. We shall publish a complete list to-morrow. Among the names of tho killed and wounded, we find the following : Oßcers killed Major L. Twiggs, Capt. A. Vanolinda, Col. T. B. Ransom, Brevet Lieut. Col. Martin Scott, Lieut. Col. Win. M. Graham, Captain M. E. Merrill. Ojficfrs woundfd Brevet Colonel J. S. Mcintosh, Majors C. A. Waile, Ueorge W. Talcott, John 11. y Savage; Brevet Majors G. Wright, A. Montgomery; Captains R. Anderson, A. Oady, V. II. T. Walker, L. isrnith. I hotiias tiletin. William 11. Irwin, P. M. General M. Lovell, Assistant Adjutant General W. W. ilarkell; voluttterr .Aid-tle-cmnp Oinrjc W ilkins Kendall ; Lieut. Col. Juliti (larland, Major W. W. Loring, Brevet Col. J. E. Johnston, Captains J. H. Williams, James Barclav, C. II. Pearson, D. E. llungerford. Mirichell Danley, I). H. McfLail, J. S. i uckcr. lieorire ruder, J. M. ScantBarnard, and Colonel ; " - We have received the first two , ' I - A rOUÄU I?. Wc have received the first two numbers (the 2."th . ',1C. ' , -., . o. H- t i and September) of the morican Star, published j and 'Äid oepternDerj oi we rnorican Mar, published ' l',e c'y Mexico, bv Messrs. i'eoplcs i. Barnard. ! Tlsey are principally filled with the general orders of j lne commander-in-chief. Alter the capture i'f the i . . c i - i -li i I quid possession of our army. Seveial of the nuithein States boihood of Puebla. Neither Pillow, oitb, nut any of our generals killed Pillow wounded. Our loi in all is said to he 1,621. Congres was to mret on tbe 5th inst. at Querttaro. Yours, Ae., A. D. WOOLDRIDGE, D. P.M. Hod. Cave Johssos. 0rThe commissioners of emigration have presented their first quarterly report to the New York Legislature. It abounds in valuable information. One fact it presents, which will probably surprise many, as it is certainly a new one in the immigration to this country namely : that a larger proportion of the immigrants has come thus far. this season, from Uermany tban from Ireland. The whole number of passengers arrived from May 5 to September 30, inclusive, (six months,) was 101,540, distributed as follows : Germany, 43,203 Italy. Ireland, 40,820 Sweden, 130 119 England and Wales, ,roi fcpain. Holland, France, Scotland, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, West Indies, . Total, 'J.OGtJ Denmark, 51 31 21 C 1 1 J.ÜG3 Portugal, 1.8ÜG Poland, l,f0 East Indies, CI Turkey, 4.7$ Stuth America, 250 101,548