Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1848 — Page 1

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A H , Bartholome coanty. Y ur communication il tiadcr a !vi. iiieut. Wilt putlUti it if poxsil la J. II., Slu ru, lowi. You'll do, '-ia a horn. We have many noticti nJ communication! to attend to, which "ten men" ttnl do in (even day. To Sportsmen. Our old friend, Sam. Eeck, has on hand just every thing needed by those who delight to throw off" the trammels cf care 'for a aeason," and refresh their menial and physical mm by a stroll through the forest, or to enjoy the beauties of "meandering brooks," fur the purpose of making better acquittance with their respective inhabitant. The philosophy of these matters aside for we are unhappy that our cares and responsibilities prevent our share of the enjoyment of recreation day or night, at least at present, we would recommend that all lov ers of the sport, in any form, call on our aforesaid mend Deck, for any thing in the hunting line from (not old Cess) I ut from the best of rides down to the smallest pistol,' with every accompaniment pertaining to the same. And to old Izak Walton's disciples, we say, go ! Take your choice of his excellent Fiskic Tackle, of which lie has an abundance. L.et us have it! We have learned from a highly respectable source, that a Doctor Lucas, of Terre Haute, a gentleman well known in the community in which he resides, has very recently received from Gen. Taylor, a letter in reply to one torn the Doctor, requesting tho General to correct his official report upon lite subject of the conduct of the Indiana Troops at the battle of Cuena Vista; in which tbe General, in substance, says, " that his report was made upon the facts presented to him, the truth of which he did not then, nor does he now doull!" And "that bo far as that report streets the conduct of the Indiana Troops, he has nothing to correct or retract!"' We especially request our brother editor of the "Wabash Express to answer these questions : Was not a letter received from Gen. Taylor by Lucas ! Hat not the editor of the Express seen that letter ? Was not the letter in answer to one from Lucas, requesting a correction of Gen. Taylor's report 1 And Lave we not given the substance of Gen. Taylor's reply ! If nut, will the Express publish the letter? Give us the letter. Give us both, if you choose. We want Vial letter. Brother Defrees wants it. The people want it. We want it, especially. And if it is nut forthcoming, our charges stand uncontradicted. The letter must speak for itself. Give u the letter. 07-By reference to an advertisement to that effect, it will be seen that the hours of starting on the M. &. I. Railroad are altered. We have a word or two to say on the excellent arrangements of the road under the supervision of the new superintendent, but must defer it at present, for want of space. 07-Several communications, and other articles are unavoidably crowded out to-day. As Col. Sevier has been for several days prostrated with sickness, and will not probably be able to leave Washington for Mexico fur some days to come, the President of the United States deemed it his duty to avoid any delay, and to nominate another commiteioner. Accordingly the nomination of Mr. Clifford went in to the Senate yesterday at 12 o'clock, and it nas promptly confirmed in closed doors. lie goes to Mexico as associate commissioner, and clothed with joint and separate powers. Mr. Clifford is an eminent citizen of the State of Maine, and deservedly possesses the confidence of the administration and the country. He has been a distinguished member of Congress is the Attorney General of the United States, an accomplished member of the cabinet, and familiar with all the measures and views of the government. Jfo appointment could, therefore, be more appropriate. Mr. Clifiord left Washington last night, in company with Mr. Walsh, the secretary of legation ; and takes the southern route for New Orleans, whence he will immediately embark for Vera Cruz. Arrangements have been made to carry out the commissioner at once from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, and thence to the capital ; and similar ones for conveying Col. Sevier, as soon as he is able to travel. (7-. We heard from Col. Sevier last evening. He is decidedly convalescent, and hopes to leave Washington on Tuesday or Wednesday. Union, 19th.

The British Parliament assembled on the 3d ofi Mr. JotrNSON to Mr. Brent. Your last note ends February. The first business was the consideration 'our correspondence, and leaves us where our mieun-

of "the deplorable condition" of tho West India islands. An animated debate ensued, in which it was asserted that the islands in which slavery was still tolerated were "gaining money by slave labor, whilst the English West Indians were losing it by free labor, and had no more money to expend." A most remarkable feature of the debate was, the proposition made by Lord George Bentinck, that in consideration of the debt of 45,000,000 due the English Govern- i ment from Spain, for which the whole island of Cuba stood pledged, the inland should be seized, the mortgage foreclosed, and slavery extinguished forever in the West Indian Achipelago. The Jewish Disabilities Bill, which has occupied a large share of the attention of Parliament, it is thought will pasa the Commons by a considerable majority. Un the very firt night of the seesion, Lord Palmerston, at the instance of Mr. Robinson, the chairman of Lloyd's, admitted tbe" authenticity of tli correspondence which it was rumored had recently taken place between Mr. Bancroft, the American Ambassador, and himself, on the subject of the Navigation Laws. His lordship said "that the American Minister had intimated to her Majesty's Government the disposition of the Cabinet of the United States to go hand in hand with the Government of this country in any relaxation which Parliament and the Government might be disposed to make in our Navigation Laws." Piety. We had a few days since an account of the "Model Artistes," who are prohibited from exhibiting in Baltimore by tbe police for their obscenity, performing before Mr. Clay at his room and that he kissed one of the females ! We now have him in New York at a Ball at the Theatre, and at which place the following scene is described : A Mrs. B-, a very beautiful woman, attempted to pilfer a kiss, but we shall let tbe "Sun" finish the story : "Unintentionally Mr. Clay drew back. (Loud clappin?.) Recovering himself, he endeavored to commit the larceny upon the cheek of the lady, when Ehe in turn dndgd. (More clapping.) 'Let us compromise," Biid Mr. Clay 'agreed, said the lady, and the annexa tion of lips was soon consummated, amidst prolonged clapping of hands. Turning to the gentlemen behind him, Mr. Clay asked what could be expected from a young and beautiful man like him. 'I must pick my Flint and try team, said he. "Thea a Mrs. M k. held up her pretty face, and pouting 'touch if you dare' lips and received a charm ing salute to Mr. Clay at all events. Sentences in Ireland. The entire number of senteures of the heavier class, at Limerick, Clare and Tipperary, are as follows : -To be hanged, 16; trans ported for life. 9 ; for 14 years, 12 ; for 10 years, 0 ; for 7 years, 10. Tho remainder received sentences cf imprisonment for various periods. A Wealthy Steamboat Captain. Capt.Vanclerbilt, the well known steamboat proprietor, has built a splendid house, on 4th street, near Broadway, New York, which has cost $180,000. He is reputed to be worth come millions. Slaughter Upwards of three hundred do have been killed lateiy in the Kensington District, Phila delphia, as preventive of byüropliobia. Brazil. The elections to the representative body of this empire, have resulted in tbe decided triumph of liberal principles. American Bible Soctett. About 2000 copies of the Scriptures have been entrusted to a special agent, 1 . . - l-.-l . t the Rev. Mr. Morris, lor cisinouiion in xuexico. Extensive Tcnnel. On the contemplated rail road between Troy and Bwt.Ki, there will bave to be - n, Ml i a tunnel four miles lonf. Intf route win be twenty mile the- shortest.

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Published every Thursday. Xcw York ICuilronds. From the reports of the various Railroad companies in this State previously given, we have compiled the following table, giving the total expense of repairing and run. ning each road during 1847, and also the total income for the same period: Lspense Income. $104.377 10 098,714 8Ü 350,179 91 157,109 15 393,707 7G 194.751 36 13(i,7c2 97 47.C42 35 43,796 73 40,121 fi3 GOT 90 153,705 60 03,829 06 255,211 09 254,119 03 23,837 14 2,304 47 215-25 23 3.3G9 83 Albany and Schenectady Utica and Schenectady - - $00,310 42 - - Ü234.243 10 - - 124,031 1)6 - -ctoa 17 . - 154.C13 97 - - 50,713 m - - 4J,0O0 00 . . 13,679 32 - - 30,283 72 - - 33,337 14 - - 37,713 13 - - 142.220 42 - - 42,700 03 - 13Ö.2G3 82 Syracuse and Utica - - - -Auburn and SyracuseAuburn and Rochester Tonawanda - -- -- -- - Attica and Buffalo .... DuiTalo and Niagra Falls Saratoga and Schenectady Schenectady and Troy - Renssalaer and Saratoga Long Island ------- Troy and Greenbush - - New York and Harlem New York and Erie 172.970 63 Ilu.Uon and Berkshire ..... 23,500 OO Dußa!jand Black Kock - - - - 1,825 00 Cayuga and Susquehanna - - 21,083 03 Skancateles and Jordan - - - - - 2,554 C4 Pork Packing in the West. The following statistics of Pork packing the present season in tho est, is copied from ilr. Cist s tables, of bogs pack ed for 1347 43. Ohio Cincinnati, 475,000 Warren co., Morrow 2,700 Lebanon 7,2 0 Freeport &0 Franklin 2,300 Waynesville 12,000 Peerrield 1,000 Mason 1,100 Utica" 000 Crossleys 400 Harveysburg 1,000 50,100 Clinton co.t Wilmington5,(T00 Goshen 2,000 Clarksville - 9.000 Antioch 1,200 -17,290 Brown co., Ripley Kentucky Louisville Maysville Indiana Vincennes - Vigo co., Terre Haute17,824 07,200 11,000 ---1,800 43,021 Prairieton 1,030 Burgees Ferry --4,770 -50,041 Illinois Alton 30.500 Lawrenceville 5,1 K'O Missouri St. Louis 55,000 Iowa Burlington 15,000 Laconic Correspondence. The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Herald, gives tbe following correspondence aa having passed between Messrs. Johnson and Brent, prior to tho settlement of their recent difficulties : Mb. Johnson to Mr. Brent. Sir: You called me a liar in court, end I respectlully request a retraction. Mr. Brent to Mr. Johnson. Sir : You charged me in open court, with a violation of the courtesies of the bar, and not only refused to retract, but reasserted it, which called forth the accusation of falsehood from me. 1, therefore, cannot retract. Mr. Johnson to Mr. Brent. Before I enter into an explanation of the language used by me you must withdraw the word falsehood. Mr. Brent to Mr. Johnson. As you 6eem disposed to think an amicable adjustment of the matter may result from a temporary withdrawal of the language used by me -please consider it temporarily withdrawn. Mr. Johnson to Mr. Brent. Dear Sir: I was angry, and you were angry, I 6aid what I didn't mean, and you said what you didn't mean, &c. Hoping that this lucid explanation will be deemed satisfactory, &.C. Mr. Brent to Mr. Johnson. It gives me great pleasure to say that your explanation is entirely satj is factory, and my offensive language is freely withdrawn. iderstandmg found us friends. Ot-A Funeral instead of a Bridal Ceremont. Miss Nancy Bailey, Merrimac, formerly employed in the factories here, visited Nashua last week, for the purchase of her wedding dress, bonnet, and bridal cake, &.C, preparatory for the marriage on Wednesday next. Sue had completed her purchase. and was on her way to the depot, Saturday evening, when the cars left. She therefore returned to the house of a friend, Mrs. Mitchell, on Canal street, near the Jackson Corporation. About half past three on Sunday afternoon, as she 6a t at the window, she threw up both hand, exclaiming, "Why, there is Dr. Drew !" (the name of the young man to whom she was to be married, and who is a resident of Concord, Vt.) Mrs. M. went to another window, but no one was in 6i'ght. At this moment a craeb of glass called her attention to Miss Bailey, who had fallen forward against the window. Help was instantly called, and she was placed upon the bed, but with two gasps she ay a corpse. And when the bridegroom comes, it will be to lay her in the grave, whom ho had hoped so soon to call wife. Miss Bailey was about 2G years of age, and latterly had not been in perfect health. iasnua uasis. The Ricn Man and the Dat Laborer. A mer chant, who is as avaricious as opulent, has recently excited some public attention at London. He had ob tained, at the cheapest possible rate, a poor day-laborer to do some work in his house. This unfortunate man, fatigued with work, represented to the merchant s wife that with so low wages he could not procure a glass of beer to quench his thirst. The compassionate woman gave him a tankard of ale, but the husband learned this circumstance on his return and when he settled with the laborer, retained the value of the drink; the poor man exclaimed against it and raised so great an uproar that the jsolice took him to prison. The next day, when he was called before the Judge, he explained the affair and was dis charged on the payment of two shillings; but the merchant had another account to render to justice; he was condemned to pay fifty pounds sterling as a fine for having sold beer without a licence, and the poor laborer, aa the informer of the oßence, received a third of the sum. Courrier des Etats Unis. Heart-rending Occurrence A child killed bt a lunatic. On Friday last, about 2 o'clock, P. M., a little daughter of Mr. Volney Evans, of Aberdeen, was inhumanly deprived of life, by a lunatic, named Strother B. Reed, while the mother and tho rest of the family were absent. Mrs. Evans had gone to the house of a neighbor, leaving her little daughter asleep in - the cradle, and Reed silting by the fire reading the Bible. After the mother bad left the house, Reed jerked the child out of the cradle by one arm, with such force as to dislocate the shoulder, and then with a broad-axe inflicted five different cuts upon the head, of which the Utile innocent died, in about four hours after. Circumstances, bjth before and after the commission of the horrid deed, leave no room to doubt the insanity of its perpetrator and we learn that he will be speedily sent to the Lmatis Asylum, where he should have been long aiiice. Ky. Flag, The Great Funeral. An i ten. of the immensity of the Adams funeral demonstration at New York, may be judged of by the following from the Sun : "There could not have been less than 350,000 people from the flattery to the Park. It took just two hours and ten minutes to pass the corner of Maiden Lane and Broadway, and calculating the pace at two miles per hour, the funeral would cover over four miles of ground! At the Park tho crowd became concentrated, and the appearance of the hushed assembly, during the recital of the prayer for the dead, .was awe-inspiring.

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INDIANAPOLIS, A "Manifest Destiny" Englishman. The writer cf a series of articles in the London Morning; M. P., who has lone l"?en known as a general abuser of this country and its institutions, has some Yankee notions about progress, some of which are giyen in the extract below. They are somewhat peculiar as appearing- in in English ministerial journal. The writer, referring to the Mexicau claim upon Texas, says : "If I recollect aright, some fifty titles, spread over all parts of the earth, precede the Yo el Rey which the kings of Spain, in marvellous bad writing, put to the public instruments. Jerusalem, the Two Sicilies, Majorca, Minorca, Gibraltar, in short every place that Spain ever claimed, 6he still lays claim to. So is it with Mexico. Texas finally gone, they could not realize the idea. They have not tho courage to fight, or the magnanimity to yield. A handful of men, vexed at their obstinacy, have unwillingly overrun their country, and established themselves in their capital. Unwillingly, for they could not imagine how little resistance there really was to apprehend. Could the Mexican rulers have had strength of mind enough to submit to an unjust demand which they could not resist, they might still have possessed a rounded empire. But if, with Roman magnanimity, they say, fialjuslilia, runt calum, why then let them fold their robes around them and die decently. Fiat Justitiar I he words irresistibly call up a pun of the Mrs. Quickly class, when used in. a Mexican question. "I will not leave you to suppose that I have any peculiar sympathy with the American invaders, more than that they are a people who know what they mean, and are better for the general progress than those who do not know what they mean. They are, like the transition rocks of the geologists, the means of connecting civilized life with barbarism. They are, like the Irish laborers who pull down old houses, or the French laborers who pull down old despotism, leaving a clear space for new architects and rulers to build thereon. If there be a Mexican nation, it is a nation of Indians and Mestizoes, who certainly have no peculiar affection for the descendants of Spanish dominators ; and that may very well account for the little resistance made to the invaders. And, after all, the progress of the mass of the people is the point we have to consider. Mexico was essentially Chinese, stationary ; she could not well be worse off. It is not a Tartar dynasty come to conquer her and live at free cost ; but a progressing people, who will set commerce free from many if not all of its shackles ; who will establish printing presses, and provide school funds, and give a representative government ; who will leave the priesthood free in the exercises of their religious offices, but who will 'civilize from the face of the airth' all their politic! power ; who will work mine and establish factories, and make railways, and extinguish banditti ;a people whose rule will be welcomed by every dispassionate industrious man in Mexico, and whose departure would, after 12 months' trial, be mourned by all but priests and banditti. 0 that an American armv, with a man like Scott, had landed in Buenos Ay res, instead of the coxcomb Whitelock with his misused red coats! Had this been, French and English diplomatists would not now be at work trying to reconcile the discrepancies of barbarian tribes. "One possible dark side there is to this Mexican picture the revival of slavery in Mexico as in Texas ; but I think that will scarcely be, because the Mexican Indian will work. As Irishmen (with due deference to Mr. John O'Connell) have decreased the value of negro slaves in the American States, so will Mexican Indians, and possibly Irishmen, decrease their value in Mexico. At all events, such a course will tend to free Northern America from the evil, and the non-slaveholding Slates will increase in number and in power, finally to put down the Satan of slavery tinder their feet. There is no truth more certain than that the institution of slavery is suicidal. There is a great work for the anti-slavers to achieve; a work the world at a future time would thank them for, in the avoidance of a horrible butchery that sooner or later must take place in Brazil. That work is to edu cate and civilize the children of Brazilian slaves ere the time comes that new and old be at feud, and the revolution of the white men ends in the unrestrained power of blacks." Nat. Int. Yucatan and the United States. The Wash ington Era says, Mr. Sierra, the ogent of the Gov ernmeni of Yucatan, authorized to submit to our gov eminent a proposition for the annexation of that country to our Union, has received, so far, but little encouragement from the administration. Important Contradiction. A Washington cor respondent of the New York Herald thus contradicts several important rumors which have been extensively circulated among the papers, first originating, we be lieve, in that paper. Bait. Hun. " It has been Mated that Mr. Sierra has applied on behalf of Yucatan to be annexed to the United States ; and further, that he has protested against the treaty. He has done neither. No omcial proposition lor annexation has ever come from Yucatan. No proposition, official or otherwise, has come through Mr Sierra. Mr. Robiera did mention, unofficially and casually, that he wished such a measure could be compassed ; but the suggestion never received encou ragernent from this government. 1 here is no fouuda tion for the statement that Mr. Sierra has protested against the ratification or acceptance of the treaty with Mexico." We give a flat contradiction to this. Mr. Sierra has communicatrJ, both to Mr. Polk and Mr. Buchan an, the desire of Yucatan for admission into the Union, and both have received the proposition cold ly ; and, if Mr. Sierra did not present his protest to the Senate, it was not because it was not prepared. He speak what ue know. JVaf. Era. Mr. Eotts, of the House of Representatives, has addressed a letter to the whigs of Virginia, in which he attacks, with great seventy, the course of the late Taylor convention of that State. The chapter on Lightning (the telegraphic accounts from Kentucky and North Carolina which were designed to operate on the nomination of tho Whig Convention of Vir ginia) is singularly pungent and amusing. Mr. B. is c!ear in the impression, that Mr. Clay is a much stronger man, in the Union, than Gen. Taylor, and that he can be elected. Though we happen to differ on this poiut from Mr. Butts, yet there are passages in his letter which we cannot withhold from our readers. He is not always successful in currying out his favorite maxim of 44 head him, or die ;" nor will we undertake to say that he will prove more fortunato on the present occasion. The whigs are the best judges ( f the accuracy of his statistics, and time must determine the sagacity of his predictions? IF. Union, March 14M. Cftr We learn that a disastrous fire occurri a Brookville. Indiana, on Thursday night last. A large building occupied as a store and dwelling in the first story, and the Odd tellow Hall in the second story together with two small frames adjoining a wagon maker s and blacksmith s shop, were entirely con sumed. The Odd Fellows lost books, papers, regalia every tnmg. lhe total loss is a very serious one to the several parties. Cm. Enquirer. Bank Note Altered. We were shown, on yester day, a two dollar note on the State bank of Ohio, al tercd to a ten, and so well executed that it would pass almost any where without detection. It should bo observed that all notes of the State LBank have a human figure on the vignette, for each dollar the bill calls for. This is a certain detection Ohio Statesman. Railroads. The total number of Railroads in Massachusetts is 17, covering? a distance of 8ö miles, and constructed at a cost of 33.902,305. lhe grots receipts in 1Ö47 were $.j,234.U2. ex pen ses 82.099.732; making the net earning 82.5 1. 1D0. The average dividend upm the stock was, therefore, a fraction over six per cent. Three of lhe number realized a profit of ten per cent., and I lib income of two is not stated.

MARCH 30, 1848.

IVativc Americanism, and the Hon. Win. II. Maclay. The sole organ of Native Americanism in the House of Representatives, Mr. Levin, was recently interrupted in a fierce onslaught that he was making against the Pope, the Catholic religion and foreigners. and the following dialogue took place between him and the Hon. Wm. B. Maday: Mr. Mnclay. Will the gentleman allow me to ask question 1 Mr. Levin. Certainly. Mr. Maclay. Whilst on the subject of Jesuitism I would like to propound an inquiry, which, if not now made, I may not have another opportunity to make. I was not present when the honorable gentleman delivered his last speech, and I wish to know if the report of it in the National Intelligencer, is a correct one. Mr. Levin answered affirmatively. . Mr. Maclay inquired if the following extract was correctly reported : "Sir, there has been end there is a titexatjc eQurt now going on to overthrow American rights and Ameri can institutions by the means lo which I have alluded. liiere are those who hear me who know lull well that, a few yean ago, a distinguished German historian delivered a course of lectures before the Emperor of Austria and the nohility of that county, in which he undertook to show that Europe's thrones would remain insecure ao lonr as this exnmDle of free government existed in the United Slates. 1 1 is name was Schierel. In his eight eenth lecture he proceeded to show how to give solidity to the thrones of tyrants, 'bend your reluie population, said he to the United Stales, under the control of Jeeuits They will keep the foreign population seperate and distinct lrom the American, lliey will prevent amalga mation, and a distinct political organization may be form ed. Their ballot-boxes ake litt ope.i! You ARE 1SVITID TO TAKE ruSSESSIOH OF TU Ell! Do this,' Said he, 'ahd the work is done !' " Mr. Levin read the extract, and said it was. Mr. Maclay. I assert thot there is no such pass age in Schlegel's eighteenth lecture, nor in any other. I have the eighteenth and other lectures in my hand, and defy the gentleman to verify his quotation. Again, the gentleman in his speech, speaks of the l epe s having published an encyclical letter against slavery in the United States. Now, sir, there is not one word in this letter in relation to slavery in the United States. The allusion in this letter refers to the slave trade between the States of South America and Africa, and was but a repetition of the sentiment of enlightened men in every section of our country, .North or South, condemnatory of that inhuman traffic. A bolder attempt to palm off misstate ments upon the credulity of this House I have never witnessed. Mr. Levin. I maybe mistaken as to the name of the author, but I will produce the work from which the quotation was made. "Another Voice from the IJattle Field." Extract from a letter to a gentleman in this city from Li. Francis Henry, a gallant and intelligent young soldier who accompanied the Wisconsin troops lo Mexico at the commencement of the last campaign. (His letter is daled'from thecily of Mexico, February 7, 149.) "Finally, now that we are resting from our toils in the capita, the world seems rilled with astonishment at the mighty victories of the American arms; and if the Congress now in session evince a proper feeling, and stand up to the aid of President Polk, matters will be brought to a speedy and successful result ay, there would not be another gun fired. The Mexicans form their opinions of our government by comparisons with their own they have no other standard. They cannot conceive that the opinions of our people give the law in all cases their rulers lead, and they suppose these whom we place in high stations do the ... . ... a r same, lliey confidently expect Messrs. uay oi to. to pronounce against Mr. Polk, and that the latter will be obliged to withdraw his army to combat that of Mr. C. Ridiculous as this may appear, it is abso lutely true in regard to a vast majority of even the best informed Mexicans. Mexico is now in a 6tate somewhat like that of Europe in the feudal agc every man having pretensions as a leader has his clan. Did our pretended philanthropists, who are pouring out the vials of their wrath upon the devoted heads of our little army, protesting against the war as un just and unnecessary, and thus blackening the fair fame of those who have gloriously lallen in battle, and insulting those who still uphold in honor the flag of our country, did they but know how how much blood they have been the cause of shedding, and were sincere in their professions of humanity, they certain ly would adopt a different course. Another Voice from the Battle-field. Under this caption, Mr. Hutter, of the Lancaster Intelligencer, brings up another voice from the fields of Mexico to protest against the mischievous course of the opposition in and out of Congress: Capt. George Nauman, for many years in the regular service, and one of the most gallant of all the actors in the late battles, writes home to his friends in Lancaster, (his birth-place,) as follows: "Mexico is utterly, hopelessly, irrevocably prostrate, and cannot strike another blow ; but her pride and her hopes are not yet subdued. She trusts much to our political differences at home. She fancies that if the whig party gets into porter, we will abandon the country, and even pay her for the mischief she has suffered at our hands. Without intending it, some of our politicians have done us much injury in this unhappy and benighted land. You cannot ima gine the dtep and bitter execrations that are heaped by the army on the heads of Clay, Wtbater, and others, for their speeches against the war." Ireland. Ireland is still the scene of misery and crime. The Special Commission have adjourned, after trying and convictingTi(y persons for various outrages against the lives of property of their neighbors. Sixteen have been found guilty of murder. Outrages cf the most desperate character continue to occur in some sections of this wretched country. It is 6a id thai no lea than ten magistrates have been, themselves or their immediate friends, shot within a few year.i, in a single district. Disease tad destitution are uit diminishing, on the contrary, they are rapidly extending throughout the South and West, and in many districts the mortality is alarming. The entire population of tracts of country along the Western coast are in a frightful state of destitution. Even in the comparatively well-cir-cumstanced counties cf Leinster, thousands are sinking into the grave amongst the class who have hitherto kept themselves independent of the poor-rate. Expensive Suit. A crowning beauty of obdurate litigation has just been developed in Wyoming county. A case which had been three times before the court previous to this, and Lt each time the jury have disagreed. At this hearing tho jury agreed on a verdict for the full amount claimed by the appellee, $3 OS the priocipal and interest of the balance of a note giten for the purchase money of a horse. This suit has been so long pending, and has been tried so many times, .that the costs have accumulated to a very large amount, estimated at $80O or $1000. The payment of the paltry sum of 20 07 would have saved all this hligatiou and its attendant costs. N. Y. True Sun. At a loss rog Society". "Would you believe it, aunt V exclaimed a pale-faced young lady, of the "upper ten," would you believe it ! Uncle Solomon here, tells me that ladies out west actually speak to the tradesmen and retail storekeepers ! They muit be sadly in want of society, tnusn't they !" "Humph, yes," interrupted Uncle Solomon. "They are as badly off for society, my dear, as your father was when he pulled radishes and asparagus for a living, and your mother sold them in the old Fly Market ha, ha society, humph!" Miss Polly Dolly Adaline fainted. The number of deaths in London during the week ending Feb. 5, was 1473, the weekly average being 1107. The excessive mortality is shown in the return of the registrar-general to havo arisen from diseases of the lungj, influenza, scarlatina, typhus, and small pox. The number of births during tho week was 1337.

Volume YII:::::::::Nninl)er 41, From John Donkey. Our Fronuiicinuiento. -It is certainly a great matter for the Mexican nation that they have a few friends in this country to aid them; and if they are not overwhelmed with a sense of their obligations to Tom Corwin, Horace -Greeley, John P. Hale, and the Devil, they are the most ungrateful set of rascals that ever bestrode mules, or smoked cigarettos ; and to none of the worthy company whose names we have just enumerated, are they under greater obligations than to that eminent lover of bran bread and black faces, Horace Greeley. He really follows out their style in his leaders, gives us a touch of 44God and Liberty," and issues his pronunciamento with all the dignity of a Bustamente or Luis Alaman. Mr. Polk has been accused of aiding and comforting the enemy by his pass tu Ssnta Anna; and from the fact that he did not pass Horace Greeley at the same time, we are pretty well satisfied that Mr. Polk's designs were treasonable; for Horace goes to work, like a niosciieto to an elephant, and denounces the whole war not only as a bad war, but as the worst that ever did exist, and a little bit worse than ever could exist ; for, inquires he, very decidedly, and with the air of a man who knows you cannot say him my "Was there ever before a war so steeped in hypoc risy and villainy as this !" Of course, there never was never. In our con duct of this war, we have far surpassed, in wickedness, every nation that ever went to cutting its neigh bor s throats, from the time of Nimrod down. We iavc followed Cromwell's plan in Ireland, and have put to death by the sword thousands of women and children, after they had surrendered. At Vera Cruz, we imitated Marshal Bugeaud, and roasted four thou sand prisoners in a great cave situated somewhere thereabouts. At Cerro Gordo, we put several captive Generals inside of barrels lined with sharp pikes, and, after the manner of the Carthagenians, rolled them down the bill. At Mexico, we improved on the English treatment of the Sikh ; and gave the vanquished foo no choice between death by drowning or the bavonet. Besides that, we accepted the offers made us by the Indian tribes at the beginning of the contest, and, after the manner of Great Britain, pour ed upon the Mexicans a ho6t or savages, giving their women and children to the tomahawk end scalpingknife. Not content with hanging our deserters, we tried the infamous English plan, and flogged them to death literally cutting them to pieces with the cat-'o-nine-tails. All this we did, and more proving con clusively, that there never was before a war so steep ed in villany, and never will be again. Under these circumstances, we concur with Hor ace Greeley in saying "But lei us depose our Santa Annas and Almontes, and all will be speedily adjusted." We are ready to join Horace in his pronunciamen to, at once. So the administration had better take care of itself. Almonte Marcy will have to protect his rear from Don Horatio Greeley and Bon Juan Donkey, (jrod and liberty ! Families of Literart Men. The Quarterly Re view, in discussing an objection to the copyright bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, which was taken by Sir Edward Sugden, gives some very cunou particulars about the progeny of literary men. "We are not," says the writer, 4going to speculate about the causes of the fact, but a fact it is, that men distinguished for extraordinary intellectual power of any sort, rare ly leave mort than a brief line of progeny behind them. Men of genius have scarcely ever done so ; men of imaginative genius, we might say, almost never. With the one exception of the noble Surrey, we cannot at this moment point out a representative (in the male line, even so tar down as in the third generation, of any English poet ; and we believe the case is the same in France. The blood of beings ofthat or der can seldom be traced far down even in the female line. With the exception of Surrey and Spenser, we are not aware of any great English author of at all remote date, from whose body any living person claims to be descended. There is no other real English poet prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, and we believe no great author of any sort, except Clarendon and Shaftesbury, of whose blood we have any inheri tance amongst us. C-haucer s only son died childless; Shakspeare'sline expired in his daughter's ouly daugh ter. None of the other dramatists of that age left any progeny ; nor Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. The grand daughter of Milton was the last of his blood. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift, Arburthnot, Hume, Gibbon, Cowper, Gray, Walpole, Cavendish, (and we might greatly extend the list,) rever mar ried. Neither Bolingbroke, nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor Burke, transmitted their blood. M. Renouard's last argument against a perpetuity in literary property is, that it would be founding another noblesse. Neither jealous aristocracy nor envious jacobinism n:ed be under much alarm. When a human race has produced its 4bright consum mate flower in this kind, it seems commonly to be near its end." Poor Goldsmith might have been mentioned in the above list. The theory is illustrated in our own day. The two greatest names in science and literature of our time, were Davy and Walter Scott, lhe first died childless. Sir Walter left four children, of whom three are dead ; only one of whom (Mrs. Lockhart) leaving issue ; and the fourth (his eldest son,) though living, and long married, has no issue. These are curious facts. Important Facts. The New York Courier gathers the following facts from the report of the Commissioner of Patents at Washington : Ixmioeatior. Tbe number of ptriona arriving in five priocipal poitg, from Europe, in tbe year ending September 30, IS 47, is stated to b 233,793 au incrraie of not less than 82,134 in a year. Add to thi, the immigrants from other porti, and tbe immigiatioo vii piobably not let than 300 000. The following table piesents the compamoo in this lespect of tbe lait two yean t 1S46. 1S47. IvCBEAtE. New Yoik - - 98 843 14.5,890 46 967 Boston - 14.079 20.745 6,666 Philadelphia 7.237 14.763 7,526 Baltimore - - 9.27 12,013 2.631 KewOtleani - 22,143 4J.442 13,291 , 151,664 233,793 82,134 Tbe sales of public lands, principally in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, Louiiaua, Arkausas, Iuwa,aud Wifcotisin, amounted to 2.526.6Ü0 acici. As a pi oof ut tb incrraae of population in the new established Teiritorie, the incteae of the populatiuo of Wisconsin i eivrn, which it a follows : 1830 - - 3,245 1842 - . 46.643 1S36 - - 11.686 1S45 - - 1I7.000 1833 - - 18,149 1846 - 155,277 1840 - - 30,945 1847 215,000 This, of course, is the remit of ii. create of population. Ohio and Indianapolis Raileoad Company. The following gentlemen have been elected officers of this company : Hon. W. G. Armstreng, president. Directors A. Wathen. Dr. S. Meriwether, Wm. D. Beach, Woods Mabury, John D. Shryer, of Jefferlonville; Hon. James Guthrie, Wm. A. Richardson, James Key win, of Louisville; Samuel McCampbell. of Charlestown ; B. T. Irwin, John B. Abbott, of Columbus. Hon. James G. Read, treasurer. James II. McCampbell, Secretary. The material and organization of this board give assurance of efficiency, zeal and energy in the prosecution of the work. Resolutions were passed to reopen the books of subscription, employ an efficient corps of engineers on the route, and obtaiu releases of the right of way. Success to the work, say wo. Louisville Democrat. QrA letter from Mr. J. L. Williams, Engineer of the Wabash Canal, to Mr. Lappan, written under date of Logansport, March 13th, says that boats leaving Cincinnati on tbe 20tii or 21st, may calculate with certainly upon reaching Lafayette without delay. Fatal Mistake. Jlr. Marshall Johnson, a highly respectable citizen of Rappahannock county, (Va.,) was accidentally shot about three weeks since. Being dressed in a thick coat, he was mistaken for a bear, and fired upon by Mr. Madison Fletcher.

Taylor Meeting at Dalilmcre. Baltimore, March 21, 1S43. A large meeting, called ty those friendly o tke

nomination of Gen. Taylor to the Presidency, but composed of all parties, assembled here last night. The meeting was disorderly in the extrem, lrom the beginning, and it broke up as it commenced. lue strongest, or at least the more noisy party were for supporting Gen. Taylor, independent of the regaar nomination. Several speeches were made, but the speaker were hardly heard for the uproar. Reverdy Johnson thought that speaking toBallimoreans was rather an unworthy business. Philadelphia, March 2lt. The Tflprrmnh Lino to New Vnrtc was broken about noon to-day, by the locomotive falling through tl Passaic draw. The cars fortunately uncoupled, and only two men arc missing. Washington, Maich 20th. The President nominated tin? Attorney General as Joint Commissioner to Mexico with Mr. Sevier, and the Senate confirmed the nomination. Pittsburgh, March 21st. The river is falling, with 11 feet water in the channel. Weather pleasant. First State Gun Tor 18-18. There is some later and further news from New Hampshire. The vote of 62 towns stands for Williams (dem.) 11,603. for Berry (allies) 11.G23. Allies ahead, 17; last year, 792. Democratic gamr 765. Gov. Williams's majority last year was 1,112; this year he will have nearly 3,000 ! We have carried governor, legislature every thing. Glorious New Hampshire ! how she emerges from the smoke and dust of one of the hottest struggles that ever shook her mountain soil erect and firm, the impregnable granite column of democracy! It is the first gun for 194S, and the roar is music I Union. Randall Hutchinson, who absconded from Philadelphia, some time since, a defaulter to the mint, in the sum of $24,(XH), was arrested at St. Thomas, West Indies, by Capt. Eckfeldt, of the brig Watson, and brought to Philadelphia, where he has been committed for trial. His surety has paid $5.000 for the defalcation. about $2,000 was taken from his person by Captain E., and a large amount is supposed to be among his baggage. The government will probably be made whole. Santa Anna. How true that the Mexican general is a consummate rascal ; but his rascality does not justify rascality in our officers. However bad he may be, his moral character does not annihilate his legal r-ght to his wardrobe. Louisti'le Journal. The "moral character" of Prentice will never "annihilate" his claims to a wardrobe to which he is justly entitled, for h;8 abuse of our officers and soldiers in Mexico, a suit of tar and feathers. Cin. Enquirer. OThe Americans have just as much right lo enter churches and private houses in Mexico, and rob them of all their contents, as they haveU appropriate the private property of Santa Anna. Lou. Jour. Pkenticf. thinks that the property of his friend, Santa Anna, is just as sacred as church reliques. His friendship is stronger than his logic. Cin. Enq. Pennsylvania and the Tariff of The Pennsylvania democratic convention, recently held at Harrisburh, adopted, among others, the following resolution. It will be recollected that all the Pennsylvania Delegation in Congress except David Wilmot, voted against the passage of that bill. But now a convention gathered from the people throughout the State declare themselves strongly in favor of it. Thus : Resolved, That the Tariff act of 1S4Q has realixed the most sanguine expectations of its aavorates and friends, and as signally falsified all the woful predictions of its enemies. The democracy of Pennsylvania cling to it as one of the crowning measure that have rendered the present National Adminitrtion illustrious on the page of history, and are proud to record it as a demonstration, established by the infallible tests of truth and time, that a restrictive commercial policy, like an expanded national currency, has degenerated into an "obsolete idea." Astronomical Phenomenon. By recent discoveries at the National Observatory, Washington City, and other places, it has been ascertained that the Sun has decreased in volume nearly one-tenth ! and this singular phenomenon has occurred entirely during the past month ! The change took place suddenly, since, according to accurate observations, on the morning of the ldtb ult., it presented its usual volume to tbe vision of the spectator, yet as it arose on the next day,the alteration was easily perceptible, even to the naked eye! Its form, too, is altered. Its latitude has decreased while its longitude has been prolonged. Ledger, Feb. 21. It is the N. Y. Sun. The Judiciary Commutes of tbe Michigan House of Representatives has reported an amendment to the constitution of that State, making the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Auditor, Treasurer, and Attorney General, Masters in Chancery, and Notaries Public, elective by the people. All right and democratic. There are now before the Legislature of Massachusetts projects for no less than sixty-three new railroads. OrThe negro who murdered young Firgcson was hung at Louisville on Friday last week. Business of M. Jf I. Railroad during the week ending March 18. 184S. Outwad 550 passengers f 83 brl whisk; 72 do molaiiesi 37 do oil; 240 bush coali 102 ploughs t 10 kegs I powder; 2 win; 405,000 lbs other freight. Ikwabd bOU paseneeis ; 21 hone; ioou oris ooori 65 laid ; 50 wheat ; 1200 bush do ; 1 1,093 bunh coro ; 3032 do cats; 400 do bran ; 375 do teed; 70 bbd bacon f 45 emptvhhds; 100 do bili 100 ke; 3earloids tao baik i 10,000 feet lumber ; 20,000 staves; 5000 boup poles ; 60 loos hay ; 7 cords wood ; 4500 lbs bcou in bulk j 30,000 lbs other ft eight. AN ORDINANCE, regulating Wood Wagons, and the measurement and sale of Fire Wood. Sectiok 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of Indianapolis, That all Wag n, Can. Mi-d, and other vehicle, loaded with fiievrood fi 'ale, shall occupy the spaces ou h of the Eaoiern and Weitem Mai kr t bouses, repectitly, sod the intersections of Maryland ana Truneuee S'rret, and Maiylaod anJ Delaware Stieets. respectively, until tbe same shall be measured by duly auihuiized meauiersof Wood, appointed by, oi under lhe suihoiity of the City Council. Sec 2. That l.cra and after ibe bitt day of May next, HJ coid wood brought to le told withi i the city lit it, 'hail be two feet, thrre aid a half feet, or foui frei in lenet!, includii'g; one half or the keif, and a Cold hall be computed at in rate of eiut feet in length, fuut fet in b-eadth, and four feet in bright, well itotd nd packed i Protifrd, that if the deficiency in the avrnge length of such erd -t wood h'll not exceed six inches, the same may be measured as cord wood, tha measurer makicg an allowance for the fame, of double auch deficiency, and it shall bt unlawful for any peraoo to sell or offer fur sale any fii wood after tha ! aforesaid, in any other manner than by tbe cmd, and ot cotil the Mine hat been measured, by a proper officer, and hit certificate obtained Iheiefor. Sec. 3. Thai if any person who shall brine; wood withia (be city limits for vale, shall refuse to give bis came to tha proper measurer or his deputy, it shall be tbe duty of auch meauter or his deputy, to take such otTrndiug paity befoie the Mayor of the city to be dealt with as the facta of lbs case may require. Sec. 4. That the City Council shall at tbe next meeting, after the passage of this ordinance, and in the month of May tDOUally thereafter appoint one mrasoier lo measure wood at each of the standi lUeuid, who-e duly it shall be lu measure and inspect all fiie wood biooht lo the said S and-, immediately on its arneal, and to xrani the owner, or poKwur of each load a ceitificate ettiog forth the quaotity thereof, aad date of inspeciioo, and for each and every cord ao in spected and mea.oied, he shall receive at tbe rate nf fie Crntt per coid, and no more, to be paid by the seller, provided, that do lotd iu regit d to feet for mea.uiemeot, shall be deemed to contain leas than a cwid, and in measuring wood, the measurer shall not remove the wood from tho Wagon, Cart, or other vehicle, in which it if offcied. Tbe laid measurer shall also bave power to appoint una or more deputies to assist them, whenever the public eooTeaieoc may iequite i and the measurers together with such deputies as they may appoint, shall befure coteiii g oo tbe duties of tbeir respective offices, take aa cath, or sffiriuatioa before the Mayor, well and liuly to perform the same, aod ahall bo liable to bt removed for good cause, at tbe discretion of tbt City Council. Sec 6. That any person oßVndiof, again! any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall oo conviction thereof before the Mayor, be fined in any sum not exceeding tea dollars, oor les than on dollar with costs of suit. Oidaioed, and established, bis SOlb day of March. A. D 1S48. CHAS. W.CADY, President the City Council Attest, Jfcat es G. JoaDAH, Sec'y ( Approved, Match Uth, IS. ' . HENDEB.SQN, Mayor.