Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1847 — Page 1

nnn.Mi'oLis, iECc:rim:ii .1, is47 ("Score of ißt-uucrs and other distinguished men have arrived in town during the past week, and we presume that the General Assembly will commence its session on Monday with a full quorum. We hare been half sick, ourselves, during the past two weeks, which has prevented our paying proper attention to any body or any thing. But if we regain our health, as we expect to do, we shall make up for all deficiencies and delinquencies. In every other respect, except health, we are better prepared than ever before to work with both heada and hands. Free, too, iu all respects; and especially from that doubtful blessing, the State printing, whose place is supplied by much more profitable and less troublesome work. We feel better and richer without it than ever we did with it. We have enough to do, and are free ! Who is worthy to enjoy more 1 C?"Our friend of the whig paper at Crawfordsville, handles a two edged Damascus claymore on his foes, in the last number of the People's Press. -He leaves Iiis mark all around, and we apprehend he has made red flannel sassengers out of the State Stntiuel folks, and left them bleeding at every pore. How is it, Messrs. Chaps can you sit up Ion" enough to be civilly called on when a friend comes to town I No bones broken, we hope merely a little PREss-ing a kind of a sad ironing operation, eh! Wabash Express. Ha! ha! h a! Ehu ! Our friend of the Express has some perception of the ridiculous; that's certain, especially when manifested by his neighbors. But he seems to desire to try hi own speed and b ttom in the same line, under the head of "the official Gazette of the State." He can't throw booktionary with hi whig friend at Crawfordsville, however, and he had better not endeavor to emulate kirn. By the way, Mr. Express, we had really forgotten about that indication of "officiality" glad you have spied out the discrepancy ! You will of course look to see what we have substituted in its place. What do you think of the change 1 Is it not an amendment ! It suits our taste better thai! the old indication, at least. "Can we sit up!" Well, we can't do anything else ! It's our trade !

The temper of the young gentleman editor of the Crawfordsville "Press," appears to berlightly ruffled, judging by the following commencement of an "expectoration" devoted to us, under date of Nov. 2Gth : "fj?-The mendacious editors of the State Sentinel still persist ii pronouncing" our description of the fight between Messrs. Hanncgan and McDonald a gross misrepresentation. "These lick-spittles of fetid party expectoration, have the impudence ;o suppose, that because fortuitous 'circumstances has placed them in a conspicuous geographical position as the misnamed conservators of a metropolitan print, that therefore, ihey are licensed in all attacks upon respectability, where the freedom of discussion militates in the least against the reputation of their party leaders." &x. &.c. And the editor winds up by threatening us with a severe blackguarding! Well, we shall have to stand it, we suppose; but shall endeavor in the mean time to console ourselves with the paragraph of he editor of the "Press," published two or three weeks ago, in allusion to our session pa per 8, in which he spoke of us thus: "The State Sentinel. The editors of this, the best locofoco paper in the State of Indiana, and among the very best in the Union, propose, as usual," &.C. &.C. Michigan Road. We find the following paragraph in the Logansport Telegraph of Nov. 13. Can't something be done upon this end of the road! There is plenty of gravel in the bed of river of which a first rate turnpike could be made for some miles, and then plank, or what we think is better and cheaper, charcoal, might be used. The 6tock would be profitable to the owners, and the road to everybody. Let us Jo something: "We are informed by Mr. B. Spader the treasurer of the Michigan Road company that preparatory eteps will be taken to commence work on the road on Monday next. Owing to the lateness of the season, not much can be done this fall and winter, L t by begining at this time, it will give an early start in the spring. We understand that many persons are in favor of changing the plank road, the one now designed, into a railroad. We hope this will not be done. Much as we are in favor of a railroad from this place to Indianapolis, yet, we would not be willing to change the plank road for the railroad. The people here and on the road will be vastly more benefited by the former than the latter, leaving out of the question the old adage that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." If we persevere and use proper exertion, with a corresponding spirit on the part of our neighbors of Indianapolis, we ßhall have a good road to Indianapolis before two years; whereas, if we change it into a railroad, we may oil grow gray before we sec it completed. We do not wish, how-1 ever, to discou-age the friends of a railroad, we, would do all in our power tu help it along, but let it bs seperate and apart from the former. If a company can be formed and the stock subscribed, we say go ahead, and let it progress, side by side, with the plank road. But to the friends of the plank road we say, stick to it unto death, nor let any illusory notions about a rail or any other road, divert you from it; and you w ill see, that, while others are still talking about railroads, we shall have a good road, with four horse teams loaded with the produce of the country, and coaches rilled with travellers arriving here daily." Compliment to the Kentucky Regiments. We take the following paragraph from the New Orleans National of the 9th ult.: "The two Kentucky regiments, portions of which are now in this city, have attracted universal admiration for their fine appearance; probably no two regiments were ever formed of better material officers and men are of the very chivalry of Kentucky. We have had some hopes for Mexico, but we have now come to the conclusion that when this last lot of Kentuckians get on her soil she will be 'done up. " The Kentucky whig papers copy the above very freely ; but they forget to acknowledge the fact that a large, number ofthe "Kentucky" volunteers are Indianian, whom they prefer to libel rather than to praise. CrThe Madison Banner actually has expressed its belief of the want of " a decent Hotel," in that town ! This is an evidence of public spirit, progres, and improvement, which will be hailed with universal satisfaction by all persons who are annpelltd by the force of circumstances to stop at Madison. Certainly the Banner has assessed a large debt of deep gratitude upon the travelling public, for such a suggestion ; but we hope the Madison capitalists will be governed by their usual prudence and sagacity, and not run into any scheme of wild speculation, unless they can get the State to stand between themselves and all chance of loss ! Q7It is etated by the Madison Courier, that the flat ion on the railroad, between Griffith's and Columbus, is to be removed, and T rail to be put in its place. We are inclined to think that this is a mistake, because "it is said that the Directors recently so revived at a meeting at Indianapolis. We never heard cf any such determination before, and of course must have heard of it had it been adopted. 07-Eighty-five cent per bushel has been freely paid for wheat in this city during t! e pat week ; and the farmers are ru-hing it in as fa?t as they can. Next summer, mark it, we shall have to send to the river to get flour for consumption. New Orleans U. S. Branch Mixt. During the month ending Oct. 31st, 1347, there was coined in the U. S. Brand Mint in New Orleans 300,000 in gold and $50,000 in silver.

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Published everv Thursday. Correspondence of the Indiana Slate Sentinel. Washington, Nov. 24, 1317. A week ago to-day, about an hour after I had mai led my last epistle to you, I laid my eyes upon the resolutions otfered by Mr. Clay on the 13th inst., at his mass meeting in Lexington, tojether with the very brief synopsis of his accompanying speech, that was published with thern. It would be affectation in m.i to say that they had not been looked for with great solicitude. On the contrary, many had expressed to me their abiding faith that they would be found to contain more wisdom than had previously dropped from the lips of an American statesman in all this controversy upon the Mexican war question. It would likewise be affectation in me to say that It was not received here by the federalists with highly delighted feelings; but it was amusing in the extreme to note the different degrees of delight manifested by different individuals; for we have here, in the employment of the general government, a great many federalists from every section of the Union, and of every imaginable phase ; and I think it would have taken a thermometer with some 300 or 4(X) degrees marked upon it, to have developed the different degrees of admiration with which as many of my federal official acquaintances received, read, and digested them. All admit that they are orthodox whiggery : but this is the only point upon which there is unison. The Taylor wing say "the resolutions are certainly the very quintescence of whiggery ; but if we go to battle upon them in ISIS we are. to a moral certainty, a badly beaten party." The McLean wing say "the resolutions are whig to the core; but they are not so dignified and circumspect ns might have been expected from 6i learned a man and so great a statesman as 31 r. Clay." The northern wing, the ralculationists, from the land of dough-nuts and pumpkin pier, think " the doctrines of the resolutions are irrefragable, incontrovertible, unanswerable, and unquestionably good whig doctrines;" but they "cannot, upon the whole, see any thing in them that equals the talents manifested by Mr. Webster, in his speech at the last Massachusetts whig convention." But it was still more amusing to observe the temperature of the Clay column : it would, most undoubtedly, have boiled Mercury, even if it could hnve found a limit there: their expressions of delight fell so fast and thick, and for words seemed so to have ransacked every dictionary extant, that I could not, for the life of me, catch a moment to take a note. Now, to quit large company, if it is all the same to you and your readers, I ill express my opinion of them. The whole rf those words used to till up those eight long resolutions, take but two positions one absolute and the other conditional. The absolute one is, that the whig party is opposed to any acquisition of territory ; and the conditional one that if ice do acquire additional territory, the whig party is opposed to the admission of slavery into it; and this doctrine will be, north and south, adopted by the whig politicians: no divisions, as euch, will exist: individuals who have heretofore supported Mr. Clay, in the south, miy drop him; but their number will not be sufficient to constitute a disaffected portion ofthe whig party. In the non-slave holding states, on the other hand, ho will stand higher with his party than ever. I siy these eight long resolutions take but these two positions : the remainder is nothing on earth but a repetition of the common, low, partizan slang that distinguishes the federal press of the day ; consisting uf abuse heaued upon the administration for not carrying on the war without money, and without the loss of a single man on our part, together with a fair portion of egotism about what Mr. C. would do if the people' would only elect him President: the more full mealing of which is more directly hinted at in his speech, where he drops the very modest remark that he will undertake to end the war in sixty hours. I have never observed any thing, since lien. Taylor wrote himself to death, in the political horizon tint indicated to me any other individual ns the. next whig candidate for the presidency than Henry Clay; and these Lexington resolutions confirm me more and more in that belief. Upon the score even of availability, he is decidedly the most prominent aspirant for the nomination. Even before he put forth these resolutions, no man in his party was so eminently qualified, in every respect, to be its candidate: and now he is still more so. Genu Taylor might run better in the south, or Judge McLean in the north; but where is the man in the whig party that can get its full vote in every section of the Union that Mr. Clay can! He always Aas received this full vote, and always trill ; and no other man in the party can receive it. What other whig from the south can receive the enthusiastic support of northern whigs that Mr. C. does 1 None! And think you that whigs never weigh these matters! Far from it! These Lexington resolutions will, I repeit, elevate Mr. Clay with the whig party of the non-slave holding states, and procure for him, if he lives and enjoys unimpaired health until the convention meets, the whig nomination for the presidency. And need I say that eternal vigilance, union and harmony in our ranks, are the only things that ever hate of ever trill defeat him ! When was the democratic party divided that it did not fall? When was it united that it did not triumph ! G. W. K. Greased Heels A Race and a Fight. Two sivals, suitors for the hand of a pretty Hoosier girl, recently settled their disputes in the most original manner. With the consent of the lady, it was agreed that she should live with them week about the lady to choose which of them should be honored with the first week's visit. The lady, however, declined making any choice, when a foot race was agreed upon to decide who should have the first chance. James Bowman was the winner. At the end of the first week, the lady promptly repaired to the residence of Mr. Robert Clark, her other suitor. After remaining with the latter a week, she did not seem at first inclined to return to her first lover, when a regular fight occurred, which caused the whole party to be arrested. This is one of the richest cases we have seen for a long time. We shall see what disposal the court makes of the matter. West. Iris. We should like to know whereabouts in Hopsierdom this notable affair happened. Fkesentation or Plate. The service of plate in tended as a token of the high respect and regard of the merchants and others of this city, for the private and public character and seYvicea of the late Silas Weight, was last evening presented, pro forma, to his widow, by the Hon. Joliu A. Dix, at the Stuyvesant Institute, before a large audience. Mr. D. pronounced an eloquent eulogy upon the departed states man. The plate is of the richest and most elegant kind; highly wrought, and mostly beaten out of the solid bar. In dollars and cpnts it is valued at about 13,020, and weighs near 50 pounds, comprising 113 pieces. Gen. Dix is to present it in person to Mrs. Wright, at Iter private residence. It is understood that her health ha severely suffered from her severe bereavement. N. 1. Jour, of Comt Nov. 13. AwruL Calamity. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence in a loiter addressed to Wm. C Rives 011 the ltJih January, 1SJ3, say : " In less than twelve months, after the new plan the tariff cf 1310 shall have been in operation, this whole country will be literally surfeited with foreign merchandise; (if it be not ., the revenue will fall short of the wants of the Federal Government.) We shall then owe a debt abroad of millions of dollars, which must be paid in coin. We see the storm approaching like a thunder shower in a summer's day ; we watch its progress but cannot escape its fall." 07-Thc "Democratic Rough and Ready Club" in' New York city, is to be dissolved, General Taylor having written a letter to the President iu answer to one sent him some time since, accompanied by certain resolutions, to the end, that he cannot pledge himself to support the doctrines therein set forth. Abner James has been found guilty, by a Kentucky jury, of murdering Wm. Prewitt. The court refused to allow him until February to settle bjs affairs aud have a last interview with his family. He is to be hung in January.

INDIANAPOLIS, DECEMBER 9, 1847.

r I from the Fht la. Ledger. Opinions of the Press. The opinions of the press, so far it we have seen, are most decidedly opposed to Mr. Clay's proposition to abandon our conquest in Mexico. The New York Courier, commenting on the speech, is not disposed to go so far , with him as to give up all the Mexican territory. I The Courier is for holding on to California, at least. It says : . "Considering the extent of our commerce in the Pacific, all parties unite iu opinion that a port on that side of the continent is absolutely necessary ; and u:ider existing circumstances, the feeling of the country geperally will be averse to the suraender of the iciote of California ; in our judgment, such surrender is not necessary is not demanded by public sentiment and will not be acceded to by the people." The New York Sun says "Politicians may connive, or quake and tremble as they will Wilmot Provisos, Abolition and Disruption of the Union, "are lost in the tremendous shout o'the American people: "Mexico must not shall not be abandoned!" The destiny of Mexico is now in the hands of the people, and the next election turning upon this point, not all the powers on earth can alter their decision. Their determination is made, and neither Henry Clay, nor the combined politicians of the Union can avert it." The New York Herald says "Is it possible that, any man, pretending to be a statesman, claiming to be an American, and willing to stand by his country,. can come forward and calmly propose that all these advantages all this blood and treasure that all these fruits should be abandoned and thrown away, aud that we should call back our armies, evacuate the country, and retire to our own borders without exacting indemnity for the past and security for the future ! We do not believe there is a fraction ofthe people of this country that would sanction such a course of action on the dart of their Government, their President or Congress." The Bulletin, of this city, says : "If Mr. Clay really advocates the abandonment of all our conquests, and that without any indemnification for the expenses of the war, he will find few, but very few, to support him. Such a proposition would rend the whig party into two bitterly hostile factions, and that without conciliating for him the abolitionists or even the Wilmot Proviso men." The New York True Sun says : "Mr. Clay proposes that we should call home our forces, pocket our long list of losses and spoliations, abandon a part of Texas, and give up the contest. In this ho will have but few supporters. To bring about such a state of things, the magic of his name will be wholly incompetent" "The Indiana State Journal the organ of thewhig party, still advocates a high protective tariff and a national bank." Vanderburgh Democrat. This is untrue. In regard to the tariff, the whig party contend that duties should be so imposed as to discriminate in favor of protection to American industry, while the locofoco party wish to discriminate in favor of revenue and protection to British interests. That is the difference between the two parties. . As to a national bank, we believe, with Gen. Jackson, that one could ba so organized as to be free from constitutional objections which would safely act as the fiscal agent of the government in the transfer of its moneys to different points, and at the same time, afford a safe currency to the people. Yet, we are willing to let the question rest until the exigencies of the country shall compel the people to demand the establishment of such a bank. Ind. S. Journal, Nov. 8. If that is not a square backing out from the old doctrines of the Journal, we don't know what could be. But the Journal had not, when it thus repudiated its old notions, seen the following extract of a letter of thanks addressed by Mr. Clay on the 11th of November to Messrs. Gilpin &, Farmer, of Newark, N. J., for the present of a bureau travelling trunk: "I concur entirely in the sentiment you have expressed. "Give us protection a fair, reasonable protection and all the branches of the mechanic arts will prosper, the laborer will be adequately rewarded, and our country placed safe on the road to national prosperity and advancement." I have seen nothing tochange my convictions on that subject. We have enjoyed, undoubtedly, in all the departments of agriculture, and perhaps in some of those of manufactures, a high degree of prosperity tliis year. But the caise of it cannot be mistaken. It was the European famine which threw the balance of trade 60 greatly in our favor, and has filled our public treasury. The circle of another year, I apprehend, will not be completed before We shall witness the sad effects of the repeal of the tariff of 1342, and the passage of the tariff of 134G." No Slaves in California. The "Californian," of the 20th June, contains a strong article against the introduction of slavery into that territory. The editor says that the population are one hundred to one agiinst it, and that the warmest advocates, after a residence of one year, become the strongest opponents of slave labor. He counsels the emigrants against bringing their slaves, and states that several who hare done so have been gkd to get clear of them on an terms. The strongest reason he urges against the introduction of blacks is the following : In California we have an immense population of Indians, w ho were born on the soil and have neither the disposition nor the means of living any where else, and they arc willing and capable of being good servants and laborers they can work much cheaper than an American colored mau, and can live at one fourth the expense. The editor is equally as 6trong an opponent ot the free blacks, and he urges the necessity of laws preventing their emigration to the country. After stating a number of reasons against their settling in the territory, ho says: We have ten other good reasons which we shall give hereafter, but we 6hall certainly use all the influence we may have to procure the passage of such laws as will effectually prevent them from settling among us, whenever there is a law-making-power in California. Or-The Union also publishes a letter, dated Vera Cruz, Nov. 2d, received at Washington from a French gentleman resident in Mexico, (for the accuracy of whose speculations it refuses to vouch,) from which we make the following extract : "A certain European power, who knowe the Mexicans, and thought they would triumph and destroy the enemy, (the Americans,) advanced funds to the government, through its agents ; and now, seeing with what ease the Americans have possessed themselves of the country, and with so small a force loo, it, through its agents, is at work to effect a peace with the Americans, and offers its protection to the monarchical party fur the purpose of forming and sustaining the government it desires to establish. " It is said an English squadron is in readiness and will come down as soon as peace is made, in order to operate before the Mexican army can re-organize to oppose resistance to the monarchical scheme." Pkolific Birth. We learn that a Mrs. Tarr, residing at Elkridge Landing, in this State, a few days' since, gave birlii to three tine children (two boys and a girl,) which are doing well. This must be quite a windfall to the thriving village of Elkridge. Baltimore Sun. We should be rati) er inclined to rer .rd it aa a water fall ! 07-A lady of Berlin, (Minna Warren by name,) lately wrote a novel, in which was a love scene. She said of the heroine and hero : "Her head reposed in the ni"ht o(" his black beard." The head must

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Choice Sayings or the AVliigs. REMEMBER THESE THINGS. Giddings said that our countrymen now in Mexico, are "armed ruffians and murderers!" Corwin 6ays if the President will not recall the troops " I will endeavor to compel him, ond as I find no other means, shall refuse supjdies!" The Xenia Torchlight says: " We are in the wrong. They (the Mexicans,) may appeal with confidence to the God of Battles ; but if we look for aid to any other limn human power, t must be to the infernal machinations of hell !" The Boston Chronotype says : "It would be a sad and wofuljtry but a joy, nevertheless, to hear that the hordes under Srolt and Taylor were, EVERY MAN OF THEM, SWEFP INTO THE NEXT WORLD." The Louisville Journal says: " If there is any conduct which constitutes moral treason, it is an attempt to encourage the country in A WAR AGAINST GOD, as is the case jn a war like that we arc now engaged in." The Detroit Advertiser said, Oct. 23, 1S46 : Funds must be raised to carry on this Mexican war THIS WAR OF CONQUEST AND PLUNDER! The tax-gatherer will soon be at your doors!" " DISGRACE HAS BEEN BROUGHT UPON OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER !" The Charter Oak, a federal paper of Connecticut, has the following : " Your money or your life !" says the brigand to the traveller. Our Government acts the brigand on a somewhat magnificent scale. King Polk out-bandits the professional and anointed bandits of the old world. The Lowell Courier, a federal whig, tory, tariff concern, says " We hold that taking the country between the Rio Grande and the Nueces, is nothing but stealing, and the worst kind of stealing ; at the same time we believe there is not one chance in a million, that that territory will be given up to Mexico, to whom it rightfully belongs and always will belong. We hope she may get it; nay, more : we are willing she should re-annex Texas, Sam Houston and all, and should be glid to 6ee sucli a star erased from our banner." Or-The Boston Atlas, of the 1st instant, has the following : "If the whigs refuse further supplies, it will le because they are the true friends of the soldiers, and would take such measures as would compel thm President to recall them from a tear WHICH HAS BECOME OF SUCH A NATURE THAT NO GENTLEMAN CAN ENGAGE IN IT!" The Atlas is the leading whig paper in New England. Whig Harmony. With Mr. Clay, we are opposed to the annexation of Mexico, that is, of all Mexico; but we are not with him in his opposition to the retention of any portiou of the territory we have conquered from Mexico. We go for keeping Upper California and New Mexico at all hazards. Nashville Whig. Well, you are a good whig and an able whig and an influential whi, but wc lave no doubt, that, upon the question of keeping New Mexico, you differ not only with Mr. Clay, but with nine tenths of the whigs of the Union. Louisville Journal. More of it ; as follows : The New York Courier "cannot doubt that if Mr. Clay had simply provided for retaining a strip of country on the Pacific, so as to secure to us the bay of San Francisco, the whole country would have united in sustaining his position." The Boston Whig is delighted with it. The New York Courier says : "Under existing circumstances, the feeling ofthe country, generally, will be averse to the surrender of the whole of California; in our judgment, such surrender is not necessary is not demanded by public sentiment and will not be acceded to by the people." The Boston Atlas rejoices at what it affirms to be Mr. Clay's opposition to more territory, while the New York Express denies that he takes any such position. Wa3 ever a party so united in sentiment! Whig abuse of Preachers. One of the new regiments of the Tennessee volunteers, just starting from Nashville, was presented with a banner by the people of that city. Rev. C. D. Eliott addressed the regiment on the occasion. He said : " How can an American look upon this scene and not exult ! Before me are brave men, ready and willing to dare any thing to die for the honor of their country. Around me are the fair daughters of Tennessee, with their smiles and beuediclions, easer to cheer and bless their noble countrymen. Thus it should be, and while it is thus, our country cannot but remain free, prosperous and happy. 1 will make you one remark 1 make it as a minister of the religion of your country. Whatever else the future historian may write in regard to this war, he will certainly write, in connection with it, one ofthe brightest pages written in our history, or iu the history of any nation enlightened by the sun it will be this: before each battle we have said to our implacable foe, 'give us peace in the moment of victory, before the echo of our cannons died away, the same give us peace.' No man doubts but this offer has been made iu sincerity. This is seeking peace and pursuing it, and hence is fulfilling the command of God ; and my faith is that no individual no nation obeying the commands cf God, can fail of glorious success in the end. We now entreat you all, when far away in a hostile country, also to have respect for the precepts and commands of our holy religion. From many a consecrated home, and from pious ministers, will ascend daily ardent prayers that God may protect and bless you all. "And now, in conclusion, we, as a minister 01 the religion of your country, with a heart free to the deed and full of its solemn import, do invoke the blessing of the God of Washington upon your Colonel upon you all. Should any fall may He be nigh, in the great Redeemer, to save; and if His will, may you all be restored to your happy homes, and loving fricuds and families." This has aroused the ire of Mr. Greeley of the N. Y. Tribune,' and he breaks forth in the following in famous strain : "If a crew of pirates were to break into a quiet dwelling at midnight, demanding half of the moveables as compensation for the trouble and hazard of getting in, and i:i lively gratitude for their perfect willingness to go out again, and were to pursue the inmates from room to room, shooting, stabbing, and yelling, "give us peace!" we have not a doubt but that they could find some sanctimonious scoundrel to glorify their pacific purpose and invoke God's blessing on their efforts for a consideration." Pope Pius IX. Meetings numerously attended, have teen held in various parts of Great Britain, expressing sympathy with the movements of the Pope, and declaring "their ardent anxiety for the successful issue of the struggle on which he has so nobly entered, for the liberty and independence of the Roman Stales." Last night, says the London Chronicle of October 12, a public meeting of the Roman Catholic inhabitants ofthe city of Londou, was held at the Albion for the purpose of assisting the Pope with their "purse and sympathy" in his struggle in the cause of national and religious freedom. An address was adopted expressive of their love aud attachment to Pius IX. Similar meetings have been called in New York.

Damages for enticing workmen away. In the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, in the case of Levi Brown vs. Wellington Burnett, the jury returned a verdict of $300 for the plaintiff. The defendant was charged with having enticed away two workmen, who were under a written contract to work for the plaintiff five years.

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For the Indiana Slate Sentinel. Sous, from an unpublished Scottish l'ocni. T THE AUTHOR Or GOXZAK. Why rine not with gladness, the harp of the mountain ? Why burns not wnh brizhtntM, the old Beltane tree ? Why weeps in deep sadness, ty Ericht' clear fountain, The flower of (ilenkillery, the pjide of Glenhee I Go k of the eagle that screams on iieu-Ciean ! Go ak of the dun-deer that leaps on the lea ! Glenkillery's brave chieftain lies roll on Culloden, And Ranald, young Ranald, is far o'er the sea. The bird of the air has it nest iu the gieenwooJ, The fox has his hule, and the wolf has hi lair; rtut ruin has seized ou the home of hi childhood, And houseless and homeless he wander afar. Yet oft in his slumbeis, the halls of his fathers. Beam bright to his fancy the land of the free. Where the clouds love to test, on the mountain's roogh breast, Ere they journey afar o'er the islandless sea. But toon will Lord Ranald return to his mountains; I see in the distance his baik on the main ; Rejoice then ye maidens by Erichl's elear fountains. And welcome young Ranald to Scotia again. Let the Beltane be fired on the top of Bcn-dui, Let the clairshach ting loud as it floats on the breeze; Dance, young men and maidens, by meadow and greenwood, For Ranald, young Ranald is stemming the seat. Yet oft iu your joy let the salt tear of sadne, Fall soft like the dew on the I row of Duumore j Remember that soirow is mingled with gladness, And mourn fur tbe chieftain who pcrisheJ pi yore. eep, weep lor the hero who tell at I ull.cen. nil Prince and Ins country from thraldom to fiee. Glenkillery's old chieftain, the bold and the dauntless, As you welcome Loid Ranald from over the sea. Note. Tradition av that the chief of Glenkillerr hav ing falleu in the battle of Cullodeii, his son Ranald fled to nance, to avuia me vengeance 01 tue Knglisn Government. Fer the Sentinel. Our Cause is Just. BT J0H5 W. CHORD. Has the not sought to veil our name, In an etemal cloud of shame f To hide our star of glory bright. In thadous of disgraceful night f lias hc not laughed our rights to scorn, And spurned at peace in every form Has she not cast the biand of fire, To wake our vengeance stir our iie ? Too much nhe staked on meicies given The tueman' soul may not be luven ; 'Tis geneious but cannot brook A haughty word or taunting look : And two bort years have told a tale, That whimpers, with a nation's nail, How strong the arm, that taught of old The lion's jaw to quit its bold. Our country bleeds at eveiy poie, And struggles to be free once more. From charge of daikest, foulest crime That tarnishes the page of time; Insulted liht, in thunder tone, Demands redress but not alone; Our pioudest boast Columbia's name, Demands eiasemeut of the stain That dims her lustre pales ber light In gloom of foul aspersion's night. Then w bit ber shall our vengeance turn ! Back on ourselves to idly burn ? And berc consume, in civil fires, The spirit of our cherished sites ? No! let the bursting No!! resound Through earth and Heaven's deep piofound; We'll aim the angel of our might, In panoply of cocqueiing liht, Anil bid him go with fiery speed. And quickly do the mighty deed To ciush the proud and haughty loe Deluge his laud in blood and woe Infest his seas his cities burn His feitile fields to barrens turn, Until he bows to sacred right, And ceases the unholy fight, That covers us with glorv's plume, But digs for him oblivion's tomb. Bloomingtun, Nov. 26th, 1547. The PorE and the Jews. Since the death of the last Grand Rabbin, Rabbi Beker, which happened 12 years ago, the Jews of Ghetto were unable to obtain from the Pontifical government the permission to elect a successor. Thanks to the spirit of tolerance introduced by the present Pope, the installation of a new Grand llabbin took place a few weeks since. His name is Rabbi Israel Katzan. He was called from the borders of Lake Genesareth, where he enjoyed a great reputation for sanctity and Talmudic knowledge. He was born in Jerusalem, and his genealogy goes as far back as ten centuries of uninterrupted Levitic ancestry. At ten o'clock in the morning, August 23th, in the old synagogue, which is an oblong hall of ancient architecture, covered with a profusion of Hebrew texts, and ornamented with a chandalier in imitation of that of the Arch of Titus, the new Pontiff of Israel, robed with a tunic of purple over which was thrown a black mantelet, tojk possession ofthe chair of the ancient alliance. Scala, the Jewish Syndic, read the act of election, and Samuel Alatri, the address of the community to the newly elected. Several verses from Leviticus were sung in Hebrew by forty young men. Then a prayer composed by the new Rabbin was recited for the prosperity of the Pope. This is a translation of the prayer composed in Psalm-metre in the present Hebrew : "Thog art the Lord of armies, O God! Power and strength are thine. "Thou hast raised the author of good deeds, thou hast eiven us a king who resembles thyself. Who does not eee that light is come, and that Liberty shines on those who were in bondage! In Rome, the Mistress of the Gentiles, the Lord is publicly praised : the praises of the Lord are at tbe Portals of Rome. " The hope of Israel is neither in the sword nor the buckler, it is in the will of Jehovah. 41 Not long since, Israel was a bird that knew not where to place its foot, and behold a branch is stretched out for its repose. ,40 Hills of Italy rejoice! Mercy and Justice have kissed. "The children of Jsracl will combat in the ranks of Italy : They will be as sentinels un thy ramparts. " Let it be told in the distant isles : Let the deeds of the just king be known. " He has opened the gates of the prisons; his hand is extended to the lowest of the people. "lie has kept the scales in equipoise; may his country abound in gold and grain. "For reason comes from Thee, O Lord, and Thou only canst dissipate error. Mr. Clay is once more distinctly in the field for the presidency. His letters, at judicious intervals, keeping hi a "before the people," have not been written for nothing. The Nashville Whig, having undertaken very coolly to shoulder him off the course, by the statement that "Mr. Clay can never again be a candidate for the chief magistracy, unless by the acclamation of all parties," the Lexington Observer warmly repudiates such an idea; Bays that ".Mr. Clay is too good a judge of human nature to suppose he or any other man will ever be called to the presidential chair by the acclamation of all parties;" and that, though "we believe" Mr. Clay has no expectations, nor personally any desire, to be a candidate, and that if ho ever yielded his consent to having his name again brought C-rward, it would be under conditions that would extort from all candid men the conviction that it was a matter of duty on his part to assent to Buch a use of his name.!' Coming from a paper in the immediate neighborhood of Mr. Clay, and as it were by his authority, this may be considered conclusive if, indeed, there were anywhere some simpleminded individuals who supposed that the "high-vaulting Buckingham" of our republic could ever relinquish bis ambitious designs 011 the chief magistracy. The resolutions ot Mr. Clay do not meet with ready assent from all his supporters. The Louisville Courier pertinently remarks, that it cannot understand why that is "unconstitutional and impolitic" in President Polk, which wa all right in President Madisox, and justified by Mr. Clay in his speech on tho Perdido Territory. Those resolutions are such an evident bidding for the Presidency, that they are wholly unworthy of their author's fame. They were probably dictated by advices from New York and Philadelphia, and betray an uncertainty in the mind of their author, as to what should be done. He would first assent to back out from the war, but if Mexico should refuse to stop them, he would fight ?igorouslj but for what ! &. Louis Union.

Telfgrrphic LrspalcUt of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Highly Important from Mexico. Doings at Querefaro Formation of a plot to divide the Stales Arrival of Patterson ct the National Bridge Movements ta establish a Monarchy European Intervention Very late from General Taylor's Camp. Richmond, Nov. 29th, 11 a. m. The Sjuthern mail brings Vera Cruz dates of the lSih instant. A letter from Queretaro states that 71 deputies had ar

rived, and otliers were on their way to the seat of go vernment ; and it was expected the session of Congress would soon commence. The first bupinesn will be the election of a President. For this orlice, Pena y Pena, Almonte, and Herrera are candidates. There was a minor at Queretaro from the Capital, stating that the formation of a plot to divide the two greit States, and annex tliem to the American Union, had been discovered. The Arco Iris says that the Mexican troops now in tire field number 3t 1.000 effective men. Gen. Patterson arrived at the National Bridge without molesta tion. He was visited by a commissioner from Jaranta with proposals of peace. The latter had been defeated at Zenobia, and being tired of war he sought American protection. Gen. Patterson told him to disperse his troops and go to Vera Cruz, and he should not be molested, but he should hang every guerrilla caught. The Spy company left with despatches for General Scott, on the 7th inst. Gen. Taylor would leave Monterey 011 the 6th. The health of Matamorae had greatly improved. Three States had declared in lavor of establishing a Monarchical Government, and a son of lturbide had been selected to take the throne, and ta effect which 14,000 troops had been offered to Gen. Taredes. European intervention was expected, and many Mexi cans say they would rather be annexed to the United Slates of America, than see this consummated. Sill I l.:ifri fVmti Märien. Highly important Jrom Queretaro Herrera probably eif ciea 1' resident names between Vit Ulergy ana authorities of Gaudalaxara. Richmond. Nov. 20th. :i n. m. Bv the tri? Thoenix from Matanzas, the New Orleans Picayune has later dates from Oueretarn. than nreviouW roreived. 1 j The session of congress had commenced, and a majo rity of the deputits voted in favor of Herrera for President. Junta St. Luis went for Santa Anna. The authorities of Gaudalaxara made a rcouisition on the clergy fur money, which being denied, the former ap pealed to arms, ana several uatiics Had Deeu iiU2üt, but the reult was not known. All ports on the Southern border of the republic were blockaded, including Mazatlan. 31 cx Iran A'cws. Letters from the Mexican capital, under date of the 2Gth, state that Snta Anna had fixed his residence at the place designated by the government, and intends to defend himself under the charges brought against him. His only companions in his retirement are his chaplain and Gen. Staboli, with a small force of cavalry, for the security of his person. Gen. Alvarez, with the Öd, 7th and 9th Curassirrs, and other regular troops, has marched in the direction of Cuernavaca. Gen. Reyes also, with the regiment of Hussars and other bodies, both cavalry and infautry, have taken their line of march to Queretaro, to put themselves at the disposition of the supreme government. The Governor of Tamaulipas publishes a communication complaining of the excesses committed by Mexicans under the guise of guerrilleros upon their own countrymen. It calls for the interference of the commandant of the interior States of the east to put an end to these excesses. The Governor has already called upon the National Guard to protect the people, and unless effective measures arc promptly taken, the Governor says the people themselves will rise and defend themselves by force. These pretended guerrilleros are utterly cowardly, says the Governor, and they assassinate and rob without scruple. A suspicious hermopliraditc brig, with a large number of persons on board, was seen to the northwest of Vera Cruz on the evening of the 2d inst., by the propeller Secretary Buchanan. . She first hoisted a white flag and afterwards a Mexican ensign, and ordered the Secretary Ruchanan otTthe land. Commodore Terry despatched the U. S. steamer Scorpion in pursuit' of her. Siie left on the 3d. The Washington hugged the shore in coming over, but saw nothing of her or the brig. A letter is published from Chihuahua dated September 27th, in which it is stated that "according to last accounts from New Mexico, it is certain that 400 Americans are coming here with their property, and are determined to enter peaceably or by force. We are less prepared to receive them than before, but were there a thousand of them they would not enter with their former success." Horrible Suffering ox Ship Board One of the Crew Killed and Eaten. We gave on Thursday morning, a brief account of the sufferings of the crew of the 6chooner Caroline, derived from two of the crew who had arrived at Philadelphia. Capt. Smith, one of the survivors, has since arrived at Boston, and has furnished the Traveller with the particulars ofthe horrible tale : Capt. Smith states that he left Tybee Light, mouth of the Savannah river, October .21. On the 2Gth, took a heavy gale of wind and sprung a leak. By. the disaster, both provisions and water were carried overboard, save that. below, which it was impossible to get at. Thus we were without food or drink. Our only shelter was one berth, which remained of the cabin on deck, the hold being full of water. Three days after, Henry Hughes, one of the crew, went -on deck and never was seen afterwards ; he was probably washed overboard. . O11 ti e 3d inst. tie caught water enough from rain to last twenty-four hours. From that time to the 10th we were totally without water or food, and began to feel as if death was very near us. The gale had lasted eight days. We had nothing to eat for ten, or to drink for six days. We then began to discuss the question of drawing lots to see who should 6uffer death to save the lives of the others. We drew, and it fell to the lot of an Irishman, named Charles Brown, who had S. D. marked 011 his arm. He was a large, athletic man, weighing about 173 or 1?0, had thirped at Savannah, aud was unknown to the rest of the crew. He alone was armed wiih a sheathe knife, which he drew, and declared he would plunge it into the heart ofthe first one who approached to carry out the fatal chance. Upon this the captain retired totl.e cabin, saying he would have nothing more to do with the affair, thinking that they were all near their end. While Captain Smith was below, Henry Rose, a Welch boy, ran into the cabin; exclaiming, that the Irishman was trying to kill him, alleging that the youngest should dio first; whereupon the captain seized an adze, and coming on deck shortly after the boy, saw him seized round the waUt by the desperate Brown, with the intention of making him the victim. At this moment the captain states that he felt gifted with extraordinary strength, stepped fojward and drove the adze twice into the head of Brown, and he fell dead upon the deck. It is supposed by Capt. Smith, from the fact that S. D. was marked upon the arm'of Brown, that he shipped under a feigned name. He was about thirty-five years old. After he was dead, the captain bled and dressed him. His flesh w as partly cut into thin strips and laid upon the deck to dry. But the crew did not hunger for food, water being their chief desire. His blood was used for drink until the morning that they were taken off, when about a pint remained, which had turned black. On the morning of the 13th, early, three vessels hove in sight, one of which, the brig Tampico, Capt. Brown, bound from New Haven to the West Indies, look off the three survivors, viz : William Smith, of Biddeford, Maine, the captain, Horace Smith, of do., the mate, and Henry Rose, of Bangor, tho boy preserved from death by the action of the captain. The two former were transferred to the British schooner Splendid, and arrived at Philadelphia, as stated in the other article. Capt. Smith states that if Brown had submitted quietly to his fate, he would not have had the heart to have killed him. An idea may be formed of the nearness of death, from the fact that the captain! feet and nails both turned black, and his nails have not as yet obtained their natural color. Powers, the sculptor, proposes to furnish the State of Vermont with the statues of Ethan Allen and Thomas Crittenden, for the sum of 20,000. They tta to be placed la the Capitol.