Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1848 — Page 2

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To Correspondents. A. D. B. , Ladoga. Your favor wu received, and the paper tent according to direction. We nail a largo package to "our army in Mexico," and it will go with it. The communication will be attended to. "Mc," BIiomington. We it desire your name ; whea we will try and find room for your communication. "Old Gumbo Chaff." Have no room for your efTualon, even were it appropriate to our columns. The MS. is at your dirpotal. T. Your communication is "hard to take," jutt at "thie present sitting." Think we (hall have use for it before "Easter." The "Tract" to which it alludes shall have a thorough review. 'Deo volente." Several articles and communications not here noticed, are unavoidably postponed. (gjr We are requested to announce Abraham Eeatty, as a candidate for constable, at the ensuing April election. Messrs. Editors : Please state that on the coming county Democratic Convention, Jacob Vandeghipf, will be proposed for nomination as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Marion county. MANY DEMOCRATS. 0 Those knowing themselves indebted to this establishment, or to either of the firm individually, by note or account, will confer a great favor by settling immediately. We have waited liberally and generously ; and the unfortunate occurrences in the past few months, occasioned by sickness, have reduced us to the necessity of making this call. We trust that it will be met in the same spirit of liberality and generosity on the part of our debtors. We shall re gret the result, should this notice pass unheeded. C"On Monday night last, some person stole two undershirts from a clothes line on the premises of the junior editor. We notice the fact for the purpose of cautioning the thief against using them, or permitting a iy one else to di so; for they will be pretty certain to communicate the small pox to any one liable to contract that disease, who should wear them. The stolen shirts were the poorest of a lot. of five, and were not worth stealing, even if they had not the small pox. The Telegraph. It setms quite unlikely that we are to have a battery in this city at present, although the wires will shortly pass oier us. This we attri bute now to the conviction of our pople that Mr. O'Reilly's line is net the simon pure, and that difficulty to stockholders may grow out of the lawsuits said to be about to be instituted, or in progress. Let what will be the true cause, Mr. O'Reilly certainly deserves credit for his "go-ahead-a-tiveness," even if he has not acted fairly towards Mr. Morse. Our readers may rest assured, however, that it will not "set us back" any, if it docs not connect with us at present. Wc are within four ot five Lours of main terminating points, and we are able and willing to transmit them the earliest and most correct intelligence by mail, as soon as they can receive it by the eastern papers, if not a little sooner. Important. The demand of the late Small Pox Pamphlet being 60 immense, wo understand that a committee have been appointed, who have, after great sacrifice and labor, agreed with Joseph Lawson, Esq. to distribute the same. He will soon be able, if his animal and panniers do not fail, to commence operations. We understand that the edition is probably large enough ; but should it prove deficient, another 5,000 will be printed, and those not called for will be placed in the Bookstores for sale. The Committee, we learn, recommended to the Council that they ap point agents in the towns throughout the State for the ale of the M tract." The editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette, writing from Washington, says, he hears of another letter from Gen. Taylor, in regard to the Presidency. It confirms, of course, his whig predilections, as such a man is not capable of disguising his sentiments upon any subject when deeming it proper to make them pubhe. If elected he says he shall surround himself with a Whig Cabinet, but in regard to the minor offices, he does not propose to exclude the party opposed to him from a participation in their benefits. Journal. Perhaps the aforesaid editor has heard of the moon being made of green cheese. He may also believe it. If he supposes that democrats are la be caught with euch chaff as the above, he must believe it. Out upon such barefaced nonsense. It became stale in 1S40, when " proscription was to be proscribed." "Report of an Experimental Survey on that portion of the Richmond and Terre Haute' Rail Road, extending from Indianapolis to Ttrre Haute." By T. A. Mob sis, Esq. We have looked over this able pamphlet with much interest; and if we can possibly find room, will shortly Jay before our readers a synopsis of its contents. No short notice can do justice to the subject; and as it is one in which Central Indiana from east to west is particularly concerned, we will endeavor to embody all items of general interest. Illses. or Gen. Taylor. The Baton Rouee Ga zette of the 10th ult., states that Gen. Taylor has been confined to his room, for some days, by a neuralgic affection. We clip the above from the Vincennes Gazette. We should think the late political letters of the General would have stuffed up" any genuine whig. O, .-taw my leg off, if that gets sympathy! Wabash Courier. "No." Every word, hardly excepting a tabular statement, but what has been read. You should do so too. Judge; and also read "Doc. No-6." You need not read he maps, unless you please to examine for yourself." The latter is far more interesting than a whig speech giving" aid and comfort to the enemy." I. O. O. F. Wo have in type a revised Constitp tion for Lodges, recently adopted by several of them. Those Lodges in want can be supplied without delay, ty notifying us. The Presbyterian Church In New Castle, Henry county, came near being destroyed by fire, on Sunday morning lut, Caused by Keeping op wo muca era

General Taylor Never Surrenders!" If the following letters do not prove that he has "surrendered," and that to ultra federal whiggery, in his great desire for the Presidency, then we are inCapable tf judging the true meaning of language. All of his heretofore published letters have broadly asserted that he would not be the candidate of any

party. He has himself, oft and again told the public-J aI & I Z a . a i - I mat no was ignorant oi me great measures wihcii oivide the parties of the present day; and in his eager desire, has sought to create an 1340 rally in his favor by suppressing his political principles, if indeed he had any at the time of his first writing. Some, "more favored than the rest," with deep laid plans, sought their own private interests, should he be the favored one, by addressing him friendly ; while with the old heads of the party they endeavored to hold their own, till time should show which way the wind blew. The first of these letters was recently read at a Taylor meeting in Philadelphia, held on the 22d ult. It is a reply to a letter written by Mr.. Ingersoll, (which he denies having written,) and which was probably written for the express purpose of drawing out the General's opinions. At all events, a it became apparent that Mr. Clay's old and steadfast friends. those who believe he stands the best chance in his life of being elected ; were firmly and manfully endeavoring to again bring him on the track, with a fair chance of success, that portion of the party who go for availability, which the Columbus Gazette says 'should be paramount to all considerations (.f a personal character," were endeavoring to hoodwink and blind the people, and make them believe he was no ultra partisan. As Mr. Clay's prospect brightened, the available s became alarmed ; and something must be done to convince the ultras that Gen. Taylor was as good a whig as Henry Clay. Hence the various correspondence now coming to light ; showing that while Gen. Taylor refuses to surrender to Henry Clay, he can do it easily to the whig party, independent of Mr. Clay or his friends. Indeed, it is only by such action that he is not made to surrender to Clay himself. But we understand that Mr. Clay has written a letter, to be made public when the proper time comes, and he finds himself fairly headed. That time is not far diotant. !' On the subject of the same letter, we copy the following comments from the Cincinnati Enquirer. Speaking of the writer of the letter to Taylor, whoever he may have been, the Enquirer sys that he represents in the "name of Mr. Ingersoll, that he had recently addressed a mass meeting, at which he stated that Gen. Taylor "teas a whig, not indeed an ultra partizan whig, but a whig in principle." All this, says Gen. Taylor, in reply, "is entirely correct ;" and he adds that afier the discussion which occurred in the House of Congress, in regard to the capitulation of Monterey, he can hardly imagine how any one could mistake the complexion op his politics. There is frankness about this avowal that is worthy of the character of the man. It dissolves the doubts that party leaders have sought to gather about his political opinions, until they could accomplish their great purpose of committing democrats to his support, and make, from our ranks, diversion in his favor, under the guise of a no-party candidate;' a man of the people, and not of a party. When the name of Gen. Taylor was first mentioned in connection with the Presidency, we unhesitatingly expressed the opinion that he was a whig in principle,' and that he had been induced to favor the use of his name through the efforts of a set of political camp followers, who were hungering and thirsting after office and power, and had conceived the purpose of accomplishing, through him, their ends. These men are the same that have dictated all his subsequent positions ; and have been clamoring in the ears of the people that he was 'a no-party man a 'Jeffersonian republican,' and all that sort of thing. This was a part of the political plan. The whig party, to which Gen. Taylor belongs, was not regarded as sufficiently strong to carry him, or any other man, a a tchig candidate, from the beginning. It must acquire other strength, and that must be done by a fraud. If Gen. Taylor was, either ignorantly or intentionally, a party to this deception in the beginning, he has now fully unmasked it. He has defined his own position, and exposed the schemes of those who have been laboring to manufacture political capital by the use of his name. He is a whig, and that not alone because whigs have sustained him in Congressional debate, but because, as he says, in this letter, that he considers the views of the whigs, and Mr. Clay in particular, as more nearly assimilated to those of Mr. Jefferson, than their opponents. He need not have told us that he is but little versed in politics, when he puts forth euch a statement. He is either extremely ignorant, or he has learned the role of whig assertions in which this has been prominent so long that the people finding it mere 'faith without works,' have come to utterly disregard it. But the General goes still farther in this letter, and thoroughly throws himself into the embraces of the political schemers and managers. Either by accident or design, he assumes the very position which they desired him to take; though not, perhaps, at so early a day, nor until their plans were more fully ripened, and their diversion from the democratic party made more certain and secure. He not only says, as a proof of his whig principles, that had he voted at the Presidential election of 1944, he would have given his suffrage to Mr. Clay; but that he 'would now prejer seeing him in that office to any man in the Union, certainly much more than' himself. So would the great mass of the Taylor whigs; and a majority of them, most certainly the leaders, have used the name of the old hero, only for the purpose of strengthening the party, and producing that result. How well it will succeed, time must determine. The man who has not seen the workings of this scheme, in recent events, and particularly in Kentucky, has been blind to the 'signs of the times ;' he that will not 6ee it now that it is fully exposed is ready to abandon his own faith, and aid in its accomplishment. The only question among the whig leaders, and that which will prevail at the National Conventions Can Mr. Clay be elected 1 Have we drawn sufficiently upon the ranks of the democratic party in the country, by the use of the name of General Taylor, to accomplish that end V If so, he is the candidate, and General Taylor is out of the way ; except to aid in the result. If not, they will fall back upon the General for bis 'availability, having first committed him as 'a whig in principle Let our friends mark and ponder upon these things." The following is the letter alluded to : IIZADO.OARTERI ASJlT OF OCCUF ATI0N, 3 Ca Mr sua Moptchey, Mexico, Aug. 3, 1847. J Joseph R. In g er soil Dear Sia t I have tbe pleasure to acknowledge tbt receipt of ytur esteemed letier of the 7th nit., in which you say,wI had the honor of being called on last evening to address a mass meeting of the Whigs of the Lily and County of Philadelphia. At that meeting your name was' frequently mentioned to connection with the office of Chief Magistracy. I slated to that meeting, as I had before stated in my place io the House of Representatives st Washington, Ibat you were a whit! -riot indeed an ultra paiti-an whig but a whig in principle. All of tchich it entirely eorrtet and efur the discussion which ocruried in both houses of Congress at tbe last session, growing out of the capitulation of Monterey, in which discussion you thought proper to defend my evw duct in regard to that transaction, heu assailed somewhat, if not entirely on party grounds, io the House of which you were a member fur which you have roy sincere thanks which waa done io such a way by those who disapproved that measures, can hardly imagine how any ont who was present and heard tks spheeckes on that occasion, or read them

after they were published, could well n:itlake the complexion of my politics. . . .1 At the last Presidential canvas, without interfering in any way with tbe same, it wai well known to all with whom I mixed, whigs and democrats, for I had no concealment in the matter, Ibat I waa dreidedly io favor ff Mr. Clay's eleclinn, and would now prefer seeing bim i that office to any! ind.vidu.l in the Union, cett.it.ly much more o at any time .

to myxelf. Independent of hit great talents and. Ionic expelience in government affrin. I consider his views and those of llie whigs, for the mot pait are more nearly similated ' as irgiU political matters to those of Mr. JeUeron than i iheir opponents in whoe political cieeu 1 was rcaied, aud whose opinions in malt.is of täte. I have never lost aiht of, as well as endeavored to confirm to them as near as cir cumstances would permit. My commission as a Lieutenant in the Aimy was conferred ly him, a ahoit time before he retired from' public life. Although no one can ppreciate more liighly than I do the too faviHable opinion I fear you have foimed as regaids my fitneks fur ihe fust civil office in our country (which I con sider. hould I reach it, i rather too much of au experiment.) a well duly grateful for your aid in bringing me so prominently before the nation fur Ihe office in question, yet I cannot peimit the present opportunity to pass by without repealing to you what I have said to others in regaid to the subject of the Presidency which is that I am no politician. Near forty years of my life have been pased in Ihe military service of ihe Republic, nearly the whole of which in tbe field, Ihe camp, or our western frontirr and in the Indian lerritoiy, I may well sy constantly on duty the last two in Mexico, or on its immediate bolder; duiing which time 1 have not passed one night under the roof of a house. You may therefore very readily suppose, under such ciicumtances, I have had but little lime to devote to the confederation o' investigation of gieat political questions or subject', or to their discussion, nor have I attempted to di so or io be mixed up with political men or meauies in any way, not even having voted fur one of our Chief Magistrates tioce I joined the aimy, having for the most part serving or stationed beyond the limits of the States. I mutt aay I have no with for the Presidency, and cannot content to be exclusively the candidate i f a party. And if I am one at all, or lo be made ao at the coming election, it must be borne in mind that I have been, or- will be made so by others, without any agency of mine in the matter. Independent of my wishes, I greatly doubt my want of the necessary qualifications to discharge Ihe dutie propeily of an office which was adoin;d by a Washington, a JcfTrrson, as well as several others of the purest, wieit, and most accomplished fialeimen and patiiots of this or any age or country. I almost tremble at the ihoui(hta of the undeitaking. et if the good people think proper to elevate me at the proper lime, to Ihe highest office in their gift, I will feel hound to serve them, H not Hum inclination, from a punciple M duty, ans win do sp honestly and faithfully to the best of my ability, in accordance with Ihe piinciples of the Constitution, as near as I can do so, at it wat construed or acted upon by our jirti Pretidentt; two of whom at least acted ao conspicuous a part in aiding in completing that instiument, as well as put ting it in operation But very many important changes may take place at home and abroad, between now and tbe time for holding the election for our next Chief Magistrates, o much so as lo make it desirable for the eeneial eood. that aome one with more experience in State affairs, should be selected as a candidate, than myelf ; and could he be elected, I will not say 1 would yield my pretentions, for I have not the vanity lo believe I have any f r that distinguished station, but would acquiesce, not only with pleasure, in such an arrangement, but would rejoice that Ihe republic had one citizen more worthy and better qualified than I am to discharge the important duties appertaining to that position ; and no doubt there are thousands. De thi as it may, if ever I cccupy 'he White House, it must be by the spontaneous movement of the people, wnn out any action of mine in relation to it t without pledges other than I have pieviouly stated a ifricf adherence to the provision! oj the constitution so that I could enter on the arduous and repusiuie duties appertaining to aaia ouice untrammelled; so that I could be the Pjesidentof tbe country and not of a t artv With considerations of great tespect and esteem, I remain your obedient servant, (Siened) Z. TAYLOR We have some liitle'glimmerings of peace. I have this moment received a note from Gen. Wool, commanding at Sallillo, about aeventy miles in advance of this place towaid the city of Mexico, of which the following is an extract t "I have but a moment to lay I have received infoimition through J. Sanchez, that Gen. Scott was still at Puebla on the 17th ult., that the Mexican Congress had convened, and that it had conferred the power on Santa Anna to negotiate for neace. subicct to the aDDroval of Congress, and that an armistice had been proposed." This can be relied on. and must be giatifyiog to all lovers of peace, of which number I profess to be one of its most ardent admirers and advocates. V Z.T. Now see how the following corresponds with the above. In this, he is willing to be nominated by the Whigs, the Democrats or the Natives. The only reason, perhaps, why he did not include the Abolitionists, is that he has too much negro property. Here again, he will not be the candidate of any party. But let the letter speak for itself. At tho Taylor convention which met in Harrisburgh, Pa., it was read as follows: Ratois Rocue, La., Jan. 30th, 1S43. Sia Your communication of the 15th inst., has been received, and the suggestions therein offered, duly considered. Io teply to your inquuies, I have again to repeat, that I have neither the power nor the desire to dictate lo the American people the exact manner in which they should proceed to nominate me for the Presidency of the United Staiei. If they desire such a result, they mut adopt ihe means best suited, in their opinion, lo the consummation of the purpose; and if they think fit to bring me befoie I hem for this office, through their Legislatures, mass meetings or conventions, 1 cannot object to their designating those bodies as Whig, Democratic or Native ; but being thus nominated, I must insist on the condition and my position on this point is immutable that I shall not be brought forward by them as the candidate of their party, or considered as the exponent of their party doctrines. In conclusion, I have to repeat, that if I were nominated for the Presidency by any body of my fellow citizens, designated by any name they might chooe to adopt, I should esteem it an honor, and would accept such nomination, provided it had been mace entirely independent of paily consideration!. I am, sir, your obedieut servant, 1 xter Szek Smith, Eq. Z. TAYLOR. This Peter Sken Smith is an old broken down politician, who has dabbled in every party known in this country; and failing in his eager aspirations for office, aims to secure Gen. Taylor to his purpose, the Anti-renters having been, we believe, the last to discard him. But see what another change comes over the spirit of Gen. Taylor's dream in two short weeks. In a letter to Col. Mitchell of Cincinnati, he is again a uhig, and the whig party may vote for him on their own responsibility ! Bator Rogue, La., Feb. 12, 1S43. Mr Deae Colosel. Your very kind communicaiiuo, and the accompanying newipaper, ha ve duly reached me. In replr lo ihe closing remaiks of your letter, I have no hesitation in stating, as I have stated oft former occasions, that I am a Whig, though nut an ultra one, and that I have no desire to conceal this fact from any portion of the people of the' United States. I deem it but candid, however, to add, that if the Whig party desiie at the next Presidential election to cast their votes for me, they must do it on Iheirown responsibility, and without any pledges from me. Should I be elected to that office, I should deem it to be my duty, and ahould most certainly claim Ihe tight, to look to tbe Coiutitulion and the high interests of our common countiy, and not to the principles of a party, for my rules of action. With my incerest thanks for your expression of friendship, and my best wishes for your success thiough life, I leinain. verv truly, vour friend and obedient servant, , Z. TAYLOR. Col. A. M. Mitchell, Cin., Ohio. Now if the writer of such letters would not make a good Tyler President, we should like to know who would ! , The Weather. February was one of the pleas antest winter months we have ever known in the west. Springlike, dry and dusty, even the w arblers of the forest thought they had gained a month, and all veg etation put forth in joy. March "stepped in," with "I hope I don't intrude!" But like the author of that immortal saying, we find it as unbearable as no doubt Alf friends found him. 4Butt end foremost," as if to py us off for even allowing the "female girls their legal and time honored rights, down comes March upon us, with savage wintry vengeance ! Cold, enow, and no signs of moderation! We can't help it; but we verily believe it is the fault of the rrirla! Their market made, as they had a riffht to e " - make it this year, who blames theui for wishing little cool weather 1 But, are the poor cared fori Is there no suffering amoncstusl Is it not the duty of all to attend to this matter! We think so; and would suggest that no one waits till some committee or other comes round begging. Go and learn fur yourselves ; and bear in mind that a dime when needed, is of more importance than a dollar under different circumstances. John Doskey, the greatest Ass in Christendom. Proof. We shall not cut but of our copy his assinine effusions, wherewith to disfigure our columns and thereby advertise him weekly; and he is such an Ass that ho has not sent us a duplicate 1 We shall endea vor to punish hira some way, as we save one to "pre serve bad meat." Do, don't John, as they say in So. Ca. There are lo a of rogues all the way between us.

Our Book Table.. During the past month, a variety of publications have been laid on our table, which the pressure of business and other cause hare prevented us noticing. We will now do so, briefly. Songs for the People. G.B. Zieber & Co. Philadel-

phia. This work, before noticed, will become popular, We would suggest to the publishers the propriety of se- lecting, as the work advances, Band Music, occasionally in the west, many amateur bands exist; and without competent leaders in many cases. they are dissolved, and their "sweetness wasted on the desert air." Good music would then be a desideratum. Our Feb. Number is "non est," &c. Union Magazine. We never have, and never will comply with all the demands of tho various magazines of this country, in printing enough to pay for a dozen copies of each, and then get trash for our pains. We have received a few numbers ot the 41 Union Magazine," edited by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, and published by Israel Post 140 Nassau et. N. York. Its embellishments are of a fine order so fur as we have seen, and its contents are all that they are represented to be of the first order. Its fur ther conduct will be noticed, should we have the opportunity, and this remark will apply to Godey's Ladies' Book, one of the oldeat and said to be, one of the best magazines for the Ladies in the country. Godey, we know to be the prince of magazines in this country ; and what few numbers we have seen of late, shows that he is not to be headed. In connexion with his Ladies Book, he haa commenced the publication of The Ladies' Dollar Ji'cwspaper. When we say that he his secured the services of "Grace Gree.iwooo" as its editor, editress ?1 we hnve praiaed it sufficiently. But we have one more word to say that if it were not for ano. ther "Grace'' and some nine (or more) responsibilities, that paper should never have the praise it ia now getting. if the Lord spared our life to get to Philadelphia, at 113 Chesnut street, and "gave us favor in the maiden's eyes!" TAe Southern Literary Messenger. Johm R. Thomp son, Richmond, Virginia. No. 3 of Vol. 14 for dlarch, is before u. There is no magazine in the country that we regard with higher favor than this. It is of tbe solid kind; and under its new editor has lost nothing of its usefulnesa or interest. This magazine deserves, and should receive high encouragement in the West. The students of our numerous colleges should be possessed of it. Many of our literary men, and even politicians, would find it to their advantage to have it accessible. We speak not of the work as ti political one in the ordinary acceptation of the term ; but ns a work containing deepstudied articles with which the politicians should be familiar, and which he seldom meets with elsewhere. It may be examined at our rooms. Edinburgh Phrenological Journal, &c., edited by Geo. Combe and Robert Cox. Republished by Fowler, Wells &. Co., New York. This reprint is excellently got up, and to those fond of the study of Moral and Intellectual Science, is invaluable. Of its editors it is unnecessary to speak, as their fame is as co-extensive in this as in the Otd country. Published quarterly at $2 a year in advance. Specimens) may be aeen at this office. American Phrcno.ogical Journal. This is a neat month ly, by the same publishers as the nbove, at $1 per year. It contains "hornt truths for home consumption ;" and we distinctly and ' knowingly" recommend it. The Columbian. Magazine. This excellent magazine we have before noticed. See the advertisement in Semiweekly. Foreign Periodical Literature. This series is too valuable to be passed over with a slight notice. We will endeavor to notice them at length in our next. Camp Life of a Volunteer : By "one who has seen the elephant." We have not had time to read this work ; but from a casual glance at its pages and maps, we doubt not its readers will find it interesting, instructive and amusing. It is said to be a rich, racy and piquant chron icle of the glories of Mexicans and Mosquitoes, Grenadiers and Guerrillas, Stoccadoes and Senoritas, Jungles and Jackaaaea, Rancheros and Revolvers, &c. &c. &c. They can buy it cheap, at Morrison & Talbott's. Sterne's Tristram Shandy. "L d ! 1 cannot look at it ! "What would the world say if I looked at it? "I should drop down if 1 look'd at it ! "I wish 1 could look at it ! "There can be no sin in looking at it? "I will look at it !" Have we then any thing more to say, than that Morri son & Talbott have it for sale ! ! Gen. Taylor and his Staff. Comprising Memoirs of Taylor, Worth, Wool and Butler: Cols. May, Cross, Clay, Hardin, Yell, Hays, and others. Illustrated with engravings. 12 mo. For sale by Morrison & Talbott. Gen. Scott and his Staff. Comprising Memoirs of Gens. Scott, Twiggs, Smith, Quitman, Shields, Pillow, Lane, Cadwallader, Patterson, and Pierce; Cols, and other dis tinguished officers connected with the Army. Illustrated For sale by Morrison & Talbott. The two latter works are admirably got up, and are no doubt entertaining and instructive. We have had no time to examine them carefully, and would recommend to those disposed to purchase and examine for themselves. Illustrated Life of Gen. Scott. This appears to be a compilation from Mansfield's Life of Scott, and may there fore be worthy of reading. We have not had time to ex amine it. " The Great American Idea Universal Liberty," being a discourse delivered in the 2d Presbyterian Church, In dianapolis, on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 25th, 1847, by Rev. S. G. Spees. We can scarcely give an idea of this discourse without copying a large portion of it, which we have not room to do, and we therefore recommend those who did not hear it to call for it at the bookstores in this city. Notices of others must be omitted ibis week. From the Union. The Whig Loan Bill. The Whig majority of the House have persisted in forcing upon the government. in direct opposition to the recommendation of the Ex ecutive, a loan bill in a shape for which no one prece dent can be found in the financial history of this or any other government, after twenty months of war. The whiirs have voted this measure in tho face of their own arguments plainly condemning its form. If not directly intended to cripple the treasury, it is not denied by the whigs themselves that this whig financiering will cause the supply of money to the government to fall just as onerously as possible on the business of the country! It will be seen that Mr. McKay for the minority of the Committee of Ways and Means, proposed as a substitute for the whig bill, the combined stock and treasury-note plan of loan ; with the' addition of a smull temporary war-tax on tea and coffee, to facilitate and sustain the loan, as recommended by the Executive. For this substituto more than four-fifths of the democratic members present gave their votes. But it was defeated by the whigs in unbroken column the vote being, ayes 82, noes 104. Mr. McKoy afterwards modified his proposed substitute, so as to authorize a compound loan of treasury notes and stocks, without the tax on tea or coffee. This, too, was voted -down by the whigs by a majority of one vote. Every democrat present, we believe, voted in its' favor. Every whig present, we believe, voted against it; preferring in a lime of war, to force upon the treasury and the country the issue of a naked six per cent. Stock ! The vote stood 104 to 105. When the bill, as thus framed by the whigs, came out of committee, no opportunity was given to the democrats to record their names in favor of either of Mr. McKay's propositions. The previous question was sprung at once by Mr. Vinton, and the minority were obliged to vote for tho bill as it came from the committee, or to record their names against a measure apparently intended for the relief of the treasury. Under these circumstances, the democrats of the House voted for its passage. Only fourteen votes were given against it all whig aud not a few of them found among the. famous fourteen als given in the House against the passage of the bill of May 13, 1810, recognising the wur as existing "by the act of Mexico," and providing for its vigorous aud cectual prosecution. The city council of New Albany have been instructed by a vote of the people, 597 to 12, in favor of tbe amendment of their City Churter, to subscribe $100,000 stock in the New Albany and Salem Rail Road. This is making better use of tbe money than building Small Pox Hospitala.aud printing compiled pamphlets.

The Cuba Bloodhounds. And what, reader, do you .suppose we are about to say on this subject? We shall not say as much, perhaps, as Gen. Taylor says in the letter we are about to copy. We all remember the hue and cry in 1840, of the awful wickedness of Martin Van Buren for

permitting bloodhounds to be used in the Florida War. Then,. you could make no one believe that it was Gov. Call who authorized their importation and use. Then, none would believe but that Mr. Van Buren had sanctioned the measure. Then, but few would believe that Mr. Van Buren removed Gov. Call for that very act. Then, still fewer pretended to know that Gov. Call turned whig in consequence and went "For Tippecanoe, and Tyler too, Without a why or wherefore." Then, but few knew that the whole measure originated with Gen. Zachary Taylor, and but a still less number ever thought they would be obliged to support him for the Presidency, these facts to the contrary notwithstanding. Suppose we now read what this no-party-peo-ple-whig-democratic-native-ultra-whig-possum-Gene-ral said and recommended, which caused such a thrill and horror throughout the hud among that glorious party ! Here it is, from the official record : " In Senate, Feb. 17th, 1840," communications from J. R. Poinsett, Secretary of War, to Hon. T. II. Benton, Chairman ot the Committee on Military Affairs, to which were referred the memorials on the subject of employing bloodhounds in the Seminole war. "Head Quarters, Ar. my of the &uth, Fort Brooke, July 29th, 1939. Sir : I have the honor to inclose you a communi cation, this moment received, on the subject of pro curing bloodhounds from the island of Cuba, to aid the army in its operations against the hostiles in Florida. 1 am decidedly in favor of the measure, and beg leave again to urge it as the only means of fidding the country of the Indians, who are now broken up into small parlies that take shelter in swamps and hammocks as the army approaches, making it impos sible for us to follow or overtake them without the aid of such auxiliaries. Should this measure meet the approbation of the Department, and the necessary authority be granted. I will open a correspondence on the subject with Mr Everston, through Major Hunt, Assistant Quarter Master at Savanah, and will authorize him, if it can be done on reasonable terms, to employ a few dogs, with persons who understand their management. I wish it distinctly understood, that my object in employing dogs is only to ascertain where the Indi ans can be found, not to worry them. I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, (Signed) Z. TAYLOR, Bt. Br. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding. To Gen. R. Jones, Washington, D. C. The last and saving clause will, no doubt, in the eyes of the office-seeking gentry, be all-sufficient to annul his "decided favor to the measure." But how will it bear the test 1 He only wants the bloodhounds to ascertain where the Indians can be found : " he don't want them ,to worry the Indians " 0 no ! for then the dogs would have the glory ! lie only wants the dogs to act as his agents, and "ascertain where the Indians can be found !' Then when their part fc the duty is performed, "Call off your dogs .'" and let me riddle them with rifle bullets ! ! It is my plan and it must be my glory ! ! Good God ! Can a sin gle individual, who through ignorance of the whole facts voted against Martin Van Buren in 1940, be cause they honestly and honorably entertained feel ings against such a blood-thirsty measure, now support its author 1 We think not. The saving clause renders the whole matter worse in every point of view General Joseph Lane. The last Indiana Journal, by innuendo, charges General Lane with improper, or rather felonious con duct, in suffering Col. Hays to keep Santa Anna' military coat, costing Borne eight hundred dollars, as a trophy of war. The Journal's morality would teach General Lane to deliver up the military articles found in Santa Anna's apartment, after the bird had flown from Tehuacan. The Indiana Journal appears to have great antipathy to General Lane, at a time too, when the whole Union is lisping his praises, as a brave and meritorious officer. Last winter that pa per charged him, in a communication, with being drunk on the battle field of Buena Vista. Is there any reason for this abuse for these charges of rob bery and drunkenness, other than that Gen. Lane is a democrat ? Gen. Lane has been a member of both branches of our State Legislature; and is there a man that has ever heard the charge of intemperance urged or even insinuated against him ; and we ask, in seriousness, even before his bravery was tested at Buena Vista and other fields of Mexico, was there a man in Indiana that ever supposed he would need the aid of the bottle to give him courage. There is no reason that can be urged for the course of the Journal, other than a desire, on the part of its editor, to disgrace our State. But what better could be expected from a paper, that in 1940, said and sung such mournful ditties against employing bloodhounds in the Florida war, that now, in the very last number, when it appears that General Taylor was the author of that system of warfare in Florida, quietly takes back all ita former abuse, and thinks the General was perfectly right in his recommendation of these dogs to the war Department. So far as General Lane is concerned, his conduct stands far above the puny efforts of the Journal to as sail him. The first assaults of the Journal we passed by, as unworthy of notice ; but it is due to the character of Indiana that the course of the Journal should be reproved. The name of Joseph Lane is destined to go down to posterity as one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of our renown, and the day will come when even the editor of that print, reckless as he is, will be ashamed of his puny attacks. They betray a disregard of private justice, which the humblest citizen of our State might demand from the hands of another, and show that the Indiana Journal is willing to blast the reputation of our S'atc forever, if a contemptible parly advantage might thereby be promoted. We are sick of human nature uu witnessing such depravity. Desebters. We give in another column the list of deserters from the 4th Indiana regiment from its organization to the end of the last year. When the dates of their desertion are noticed, we can come to but one conclusion ; and that is, that the efforts of the Mexican editors in the whig ranks in this country proved but too successful. That to that influence these men are thus disgraced, we think no American patriot, nor even the men themselves, can demur. Much rather, for the cakes of these men, would we record their deaths in defence of their country. Years a life-time will not wipe out the stain on their characters made by the official communication. Ceremonies in Honor or Mr. Adams. At a meeting of the citizens of Indianapolis, held at the Court House on last Saturday, Wm. Qüakles Esq., was choHen President, Dr. Dunlap and N. McCarty Esq., Vice Presidents, and Geo. A. Chapman and John D. Defrees, were appointed Secretaries. The object of the meeting being to make arrangements for the purpose of paying suitable honors to the memory of John Quincy Adams, the following committee was appointed to carry out that purpose, lo-wit: Hugh O'Neal, J. M. Ray, Geo. A. Chapman, Mr. Foutz, 0. W. Cady, and John D. Defrees. The Committee will report their proceedings through the newspapers at an early day. WM. QUARLES, Pres I. Geo. A. Chapman,) John D. Dkfkees,) See's. L. DUXLAF, N.M'Carty Prest's

Mrs. Tomkins and the Presidency. [Tomkins sitting in the great arm-chair on one side of the ample fire place. His better half, a respectable old dame, bustling abmit preparing supper.] You believe that Taylor will get the nomination ! did you say that, Tomkins. Well, if he does, I know of one vote he'll not git, that's certain. He's sure of

yourn! Why, didn't I hear you say, out of your own mouth, you'd never vote for a man that had a land in this unjust war : yes, them was your own words, Tomkins, you can't deny 'em, nnd I'm sure I lways thought you was a man of your word. You're a whig and intend to vole for a whig. Good ness 6akes, who didn't know that ; I guess I'd be the ast one to fault you about that. Why, Tomkins, I'd ose the last drop of my blood afore I'd vote for a loy, that I would. But how do you know that Taylor is a whig ! Havn't I beam you say yourself, that it was hard to tell what he was ; and didn't you say he refused to be nominated by any party 1 Taylor's changed, has ho ! Well, if he hadn't, he'd not be ike some I could name. La, me ; what is the world coming to gist to think of putting up a man for Pre sident for killing them poor Mexicans, as had never done any harm to any body ; if it don't beat all I ever hearn tell of in my life. Taylor was obliged lo go where he was ordered. Give the evil one his due, Tomhins, though I wouldn't say it afore a loky ; you know that Taylor was gist as willing to go as Polk was to send Irim, and more than two years ago I hearn you say, that Taylor said the best way to settle with Mexico was to inarch our army to the Rio Grande. The old tarmigant, if it hadn't a bin for him going there w ith his troops, there wouldn't a bin any war, and you said so at the time. I'd belter h'Jd my tongue ! Yes, that's very well for you to say to one that's bin to you what I have, Tomkins, though I say it, myself as shouldn't say it ; you know I've bin a faithful wife to you. That summer, afore Harrison and Tyler was elected, didn't I leave all and go to whig pole-raisings and whig speeches all summer. and when the cold weather sot in wasn't there all the wool, just as it come off the sheep's back, and didn't the children come nigh perishing for clothes that winter, gist because you told me that if Harrison was elected he'd charter a United States Bank, and then money would be plenty, and you could keep them two . farms that I said you'd never be able to pay for when you bought 'em. Harrison died. Well, wasn't there Tyler; and hadn't we done as much for him as we had for Harrison ; and didn't he turn loky and play hob. OIi ! I shall never forget what Nance Brown flung up to me at Sally Burns's quilting, the jade ; I've never liked her since. We was all taking about annexation, and parson Smith said he expected it would bring about a war, and, 6ays I, the villain ; if he does cause war he ought to be hung. Then Nance bridled up and says she, Miss Tomkins, if you don't like the way Tyler's adoing, you whigs hadn't ought to elected him, that's all I've got to say. I gin her such a look; but she didn't mind it, for ehe know'd I couldn't help myself. Oh, dear ! I know it's no use for a woman to say anything when a man gets his head sot ; but it does make me feel bo orful to think what you ußed to be but as parson Smith says, there's nothing on the face of the arth but what will change. Why, Tomkins, when we was first married, you was so tender-hearted you couldn't see me bled, and now you're talking about voting for Taylor, the very man as recommended the Cuba blood hounds to be sot on tho Florida Injins, poor critters. You don't believe a word of it ! Why, Tomkins, you'll deny your own name afore long, at this rate. Didn't I hear you read it out of the Beaver Argus, as good a whig paper you said as ever was printed ! And didn't the editor say that such a man as Taylor wasn't fit for the duties and responsibilities of the commander-in-chief of an army 1 But, la me ! that was afore they thought of putting up Taylor for President ; they'll hush it all up now, I dare say. But if I should live to be a hundred years old I shouldn't forget them words they went right into my heart ; for, thinks I, if them poor Mexicans has got this blood-thirsty wretch among them, they're a gone case, and I guess I said as much to you at the time ; for I knov you said it would take gist such a man to carry on a war against an inno cent aud unoüending people like the Mrxicass. I'm a thoughtless, foolish woman ! Yes, I know some people says that women never think ; but I gist wish that some meu thought as much as some women ; if they did, they wouldn't charge so often. But good sakes, I gist believe Bill Jinkins was half right when he said the whig party was like a flea : put your finger on it, and it wasn't there. Sich twistin and turning from one thing to another is enough to make an honest person sick of the whole set. The lokys, I know, they're as mean as gar-broth ; but when they say a thing once they'll pay it again, and you know what to depend upon. But, my gracious, what's the use of talking ; didn't I hear you read Taylor's letter Mother day, where he said himself that be didn't want to be President at all, and thinks I, that's right ; every one to his trade if it is fighting. Taylor only wanted to be coaxed a Utile, Well, he might a stayed wanting till doom's-day, if I'd a bin the whig party, afore I'd a coaxed him, the old varmint ! Wny, didn't I hear you say that he refused to give any pledges 1 Now, Tomkins, I do hate sich going round the hush as this is. Why didn't he gist come out in the first place, like a man, and say, Pm a whig: I go for a United States Bank, and all the whig measures. By keeping a little dark about his politics he expected to git some laky voles. Oh, that's it, is it ; well, now, Tomkins, I always did hate deceit; and you kiiow I always said, that the reason we never could elect Henry Clay, was because he didn't stick to one thing; fir sometimes, when he was running against Polk, he seemed to be for annexation, and sometimes he was against it; and last year, when he was making that great speech at New Orleans, he said he believed, old as he was, he could kill a Mexican if he had a chance; and now he's gist come out the strongest kind against the war. I know he said that about killing a Mexican to please the lokys ; but as I said before, I always did hate deceit, and mind my words, it will never prosper. Td better mind my own business. Yes, I see you're completely sot agin me, Tomkins ; but say what you will, I'm a whig to the back bone, and when I think how orfully we'll bo beat if we run Taylor, it does make me feel as trembly as a leaf' Oh dear ! I believe in my soul it Ml be the death of me yet. Here Mrs. Tomkins fell iuto a violent fit of hysterics, and the last we saw of Tomkins he was dashing water on her. Sentenced. The wretch, Goodwin, who confined his wife in a pig stye, in Canada, as noticed ia a late number of the Sentinel, and suffered her to perish miserably, has been sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for life, a well merited punishment for so horrible an offence. The Judge, in passing sentence, told him that the jury had been very merciful in not convicting hira of murder, and if he had been so convicted, he would assuredly have been hanged. Col. R. M. Johnson is spoken of as the Democratic candidate for Governor in, Kentucky. Should he receive the nomination, we should not be surprised o see that State wheeling into the Democratic hue forthwith. Makkied, the Whigs and Natives of Kentucky.