Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1848 — Page 1

INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL 22. 1848.

To Correspondents. K. H. B , Flcat ac.t View. Tb tarai of subscription of A. II., A.J., and J. L.haa xpirJ, which account! for lksir not receiving their papera. J. N.,Wincheter. The othr X X arrived ufeljr. Tlew aay to B. McC. that there ia no fault In pari or the potto (Tit a hare. We cannot account lor the failure, eicept from the late high water. P. H. L., Andereon. Did not get your letter till the aecond day after It waa left. We have not had a printed form left for month. We make them oat a yon do Irom the law. Will no tic your other Htm in another place. THAT WOOD LA1Y !! Notice is hereby given to all those who sell and deliver Wotd in Indianapolis, that a public meeting will be beld on Monday the 1st day of May, ia the Court House in Indianapolis, to adapt measuses concerning the sale and delivery of Wood in said City. The meeting to take place at ten o'clock A. M. April, 20th, 1319. MANY CITIZENS. County Convention. The Democratic County Convention, for the nomination of candidates for the August election, will take place on the last Saturday in May, (27th.) at 10 o'clock, A. M. Let every township send delegates. ISaltimore Convention. We understand that the time fixed for the meeting of the Democratic National Convention, at Baltimore, to be the fourth Monday, 22ii of May. Fatal Accident. A man by the name of Olris, apparently about 30 years of age, was suddenly killed by being run over by -the downward passenger train, on Wednesday, April 19th. He jumped off the front platform tf the train a few moments after the Locomotive was detached for the purpose of switching off, to let the train run into the depot at the top of the hill at Madison in so doing he stumbled and fell immediately in front of the baggage car, which passed over him together with two passenger cars, killing him instantly. He was almost an entire stranger in this country, having recently emigrated from England. It is understood that he was a carpenter by trade and thtl it was his intention to settle in this city that he has left a wife and two children to mourn his loss. Sad Accident. Mrs. Jane, the wife of Henry F. West, Esq., died on Wednesday morning last, in consequence of being very badly burnt, by her clothes taking fire, the previous night, while she waa attending upon a sick child. Mr. J. P. Waddell, (who boarded at the same house, Mr. B. Brown's,) badly burned one of his hands, while endeavoring to afford assistance to the unfortunate lady. Her husband was absent, at Richmond, but being sent for, arrived in time to par ticipate in the funeral rites. He has the sympathy of the whole community in his bereavement. 07 Just as our paper goes to press, we learn that a child of the Rev. Mr. Ames, about 4 years of age, is dying from the effects of a burn caused by her clothes taking fire. She was playing with other chil dren in a lot where stubble was being burned, and the progress of the flames was so rapid as to render all aid unavailing. The passed week has been a sad one for Indianapolis. We can only sympathize with those who mourn. Would that we could do more ! Gen. Taylor's Postage. We find the following in the New Orleans Picayune : "We are informed that every mail that reaches Baton Rouge, from every quarter, is filled with letters to Gen. Taylor. So overwhelmed is the old hero by his correspondence, that it is net only a herculean labor to read it, but bis postage tccourit is actually eating into his substance. Now, nine out of ten of the letters which the General receives concern the writers more than they do him ; and for each one to pay the postage upon his own epistles would be a slight tax upon the luxury of correspondence, whilst the aggregate amount is a severe assessment on one pocket. Tbe object of a national correspondence should be spared this expense, else the gratitude of the people impoverishes the object of their attachment." The office-seekers are persecuting the old general as badly as they did Gen. Harrison. They not only eat into his substance" in the way of postage, but will expect to be paid by liberal rewards, should the General ever become President. That Letter. Our neighbor, the Journal, has not felt disposed to accede to our request, that it would publish the letter of its editor to General Taylor, which elicited tbe reply recently published. The Goshen Democrat, however, appears to have got possession of a copy of Mr. D.'s letter, and presents it as follows. Does the Journal admit the genuineness of this copy ! The Editor of the Indiana State Journal to General Taylor. Indianapolis, Feb. 15, 1913. Dear General : I have the honor, as you are no doubt aware, of occupying the exalted position of editor of the Indiana State Journal, tbe organ of the whig party of the State, from which all the country presses derive their cue, with the exception of that incorrigible old sinner. Major Semans, of the Tippecanoe Journal, and the editor of a 6 by 9 sheet in Brookville, unknown to fame, but whose name is said to be Clarkson. From tuy long intimacy with the working of tbe wires of our party, as well as from the disastrous result of the election of 1344, 1 have learned this important lesson, that one available candidate is worth as many embodiments as can stand this side of Araham's bosom. - The fact is, Henry Clay never did carry Indiana, and never can. I admire the splendor of his talents, his superhuman intellect, and his untiring devotion to bis country, but with such a leader the State is lost, and the State printing gone to the devil. I have - therefore hoisted your name for President at my mast head as our most available candidate, and have assured the Abolitionists of the State, that your large plantations are entirely conducted by white laborers, ... it " r .1 ana mat no smeu oi wool is louna upon tneir persons. There is a little matter, however, which it is necessary you should straighten up. I mean your report of the battle of Buena Vista,' in which it is conceived you did a serious injustice to the Second Recipient of Indiana Volunteers. It will be necessary for you to smooth over this affair somewhat, either by charging the difficulty to the cowardice or mismanagement of the officers, or the Hoosiers will lay you out as cold as a wedge. If you can manage to give Joe Lane a side wiper, it well help us amazingly. You must keep these thing3 to yourself, General, for you know the true policy is to lie low for black ducks, and lie long for tbe Presidency. God and Liberty ! Please accept assurances of my distinguished consideration. JOHANNES, &.c. Wayne Co. Recoed. We would direct the atten tion of whig printers to an advertisement in another column, offering the establishment of the Wayne County Record for sale. Tbe reputation of the Re cord is as good as' that of any local paper in the State, and the opportunity of purchasing is worthy of the at tention of those desirous of engaging in such busi ness. C-The Journal of yesterday contains a corres pondence between Mr. Geo. G. Dunn and Gen. Ty Jor, in reference to the 2d regiment. Gen. Taylor till declares that the men fled, and that he has seen nothing to induce him to think he did them any In justice in his report- We shall copy this correspond ence hereafter. fvrThe more e read of Lamartine, the great republican leader of France, the more we admire the man. He is a noble man in every sense of the word; and we trust that his efforts in favor of liberal prin ciples will be as successful, as they art honorable to -.m

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Published every Thursday. Social Reform in France. Principles of social or industrial reform and reor ganization are as much involved in the recent French revolution, as questions of a merely political character. In reference to these the Washington correspondent of the Pa. Ledger has the following : The London correspondent of the Intelligencer, in giving a succinct account of the Revolution, from day to day, not indeed with a graphic power of an eye witness, such as Mr. Martin, but from the newspapers, as they herald the news to the world, expresses his misgivings at certain manifestations of socialism and communism, in the midst of the political changes of the day. Permit me to say that these very manifestation show that the Revolution of 1848 will not be a mere political claptrap not a mere change of one master for mother; but that the new rulers, called to the stage of history, will seriously occupy themselves with the great problem of tbe age immediate and urging in Europe, but equally unavoidable in this country the Organization of labor on a fair, equitable, just and philosophical basis. That problem must be solved sooner or later, and it shows no ordinary degree of moral courage to venture upon its solution at a time when the social elements are out of joint when the coercive power of the government is positively equal to zero. We learn that Emil de Girardin, the proprietor of the newspaper La Presse," has been induced to take his whole numerous personale, down to the paper folders, into partnership, in order that they may share equi'ably, and according to the work done by each member of the company, the profits of their labor; instead of hiring each man at the lowest price his species of labor commands in the n.arket, and thus measuring his food and raiment, means of comfort and education of each man, not by the necessity conditions of his moral and physical being, but by the demand and supply merely, as every other species of marketable commodity. The idea that labor, the price of it, is to be regulated not only in regard to capital, but also with a view to the physical and moral condition of the laborer, forces itself upon the present organization of society with such imperative justice that to disregard it would betray a very dull appreciation of the philosophical principles of freedom. The whole society of state is but a partnership on a large scale with mutual rights and guaranty's, and to introduce the same reciprocal obligations between the laborer and the employer, is marking a distinct improvement in the condition of mankind. Our whale fisheries are carried on entirely on the principle of association, and they have eminently prospered under it. There is no reason why the same or some similar organization should not prevail in our cotton manufactories, iron foundries, &c. There is nothing so monstrous in all this as to make us despair of the Republic. Where there is universal suffrage there must be universal education to sustain, but it is physically impossible for the latter to exist without the comparative ease and comfort of the laboring classes. If you degrade the latter to mere cogs and spokes and wheels in a machinery, you will always require a coercive force to govern them. I cannot refrain here from bringing once more to the notice of the readers of the Ledger, the views of Mr. Secretary Walker the only member of the cabinet, who, perhaps, would venture on either boldly conceiving or expressing them. I quote from his last Treasury Report, page 24. 'The energetic American freeman can and does perform far more effective labor in a day than what is called by the restrictionists the pauper labor of Eu rope;-and, therefore, the employer here can pay more for a day's toil to our workingmen. Measured by the day, the wages here may be higher than in Europe ; but, measured by the work done on that day, there is but little difference. And when all our capitalists (as some already have) shall find it to be their true interest, in addition to the wages paid to the American workman, to allow him voluntarily, because it augments the profits of capital, a iair interest in those profits, and elevato him to the rank of a partner in the concern, we may then defy all competition. This is tbe same principle, illustrated by uniform experience, proving that he who rents his farm, builds his house, sails his ships, or conducts any other business upon shares, realizes the largest return, and that he who works by the job produces more in the same time than the laborer whose wages are paid by the day. The skill, energy and industry, the interest and pride in success, the vigilance and perseverance that will be manifested by our intelligent workingmen under such a system, will far more than refund to capital such reasonable participation in its profits, and enable such American establishments to supply all the nations of the world. The introduction of this system will be voluntary, because it is most just and beneficial to all parties. It is the participa tion of all our people in the government, that is one great cause of our prosperity ; and the participation of our workingmen in the profits of our industrial establishments would exhibit similar results. Our whale and other fisheries present strong evidences of the success attending American industry, where our intelligent freemen the workingmen of the concern, stimulated by a just participation in the profits have driven from the most distant seas the whale ships of most other nations, and nearly monopolized this pursuit. The intelligent workingmen of our country are far better prepared for the adoption of this truly republican system than those of any other nation; and this elevation of the toiling millions of America to a just participation in the profits of that capital which is made fruitful only by their industry, will yet enjoy as great a triumph as that unfettered trade and untaxed and unrestricted labor with which it ought to be, and certainly yet will be, proudly associated. Under this system, the laboring men, whilst they receive the full wages heretofore allowed them, would also participate, to a reasonable extent, in the profits, as an addition to their wages, and a most powerful and certain stimulus to render their labor more productive, and thus increase, for the benefit of all concerned, the capitalist and workingman, the profits of the establishment. What is called the pauper labor of Europe is already inferior to our labor, but would be rendered still more powerless to compete with us when labor here participated with capital in the profits. When we reflect that the working freemen of the Union must constitute the great mass of the people whose votes will control the government, and direct the policy of the nation, the superior comfort, education, intelligence, and information necessarily resulting to them from this improvement of our social system, is important to the successful progress and perpetuity of our free institutions, and must be grateful to every republican patriot and lover of mankind." No reasonable man will, in the above, see any thing disorganizing and destructive ; but on the contrary, organizing and constructive of society, making it morally and physically capable of that self-government which it is the boast of our institutions really and substantially to establish. The social question may not be as pressing in this country as in Europe, because labor is still eagerly sought by capital ; but that dues not change the rtlatixt position of labor and capital, though it may render its effects less visible. In Europe it is a question of life and death to the masses, and one which must be solved, before any government can be said to be established on a firm basis. We shall presently see how long England will be able to defer its solution. Col. Tuos. J. Power, who was placed-on the Pennsylvania Taylor Electoral ticket, has come out in a letter to the Editors of the "Beaver Star," in which he uses the following emphatic language : Since, however Gen. Taylor has defined his position, and came out a decided Whig, I cannot sustain him, but will give the nominee of the Baltimore Convention my cordial support The Whig members of the New York Legislature, in caucus, recently passed a resolution declaring Mr. Clay to be their first choice for the Presidency. The Whigs of Nashville, Tenn., have avowed a similar preference in public meeting. We have received the first number of the Ohio Campaign Statesman. It is very neatly executed. and filled with interesting and valuable matter.

INDIANAPOLIS, Lmxt Items. Probably in no city of the Union is there a set of such unmitigated rascals, in any profession, as prowl about the purlieus of the Law Courts of New York, lying in wait to pounce upon scoundrels of less degree, whom they regard as their lawful prey. A recent incident, among many others, of this kind, is thus related by the N. Y. Corre?pondent of the Wash ington Union : A brace of outsiders," that hans on to the bar of Ulis city, nave been trying & "sharp practice " upon the most extensive scale. They were retained professionally, by a Hollander, who it seems had fled to this country with some 30,000 of other people s money, and had been beld to bail in a trover suit for the amount. By terrifying his guilty mind on one hand with the most alarming ideas of the severity of our laws against debtors, they got from him 15,000 to settle the suit; and by artful misrepresentation to the plaintiffs lawyers on the other hand, thit the money was nearly all gone, that it was belter to take a part than lose all, &c. they obtained a settlement of the suit for 3,500 ; pocketing for their trouble the whole of the balance, $13,509. Both parties soon found out how they had been cheated, and the two lawyers have been arrested. Theirs was certainly a very practical fashion of illustrating the fable of the monkey and the oyster. Keen shavers they must have been, too, to cheat their rogue of a client on one side, and the lawyers on the other. The Supreme Court of New Jersey has finally and satisactorily disposed of "the New York cases," thirty-three suits instituted against Cornelius W. Lawrence, for damages on Account of the destruction of goods in stores blown up by his order when Mayor of New York, to stop the ravages of the great fire. The Court decided that the actions could not be maintained, because the damages were the result of an unavoidable necessity. Important Decision. A case of some importance to the community was recently decided in the Boston court of common pleas. A trader made his entries on a slate, which eniries were transcribed to the daybook by his clerk at irregular intervals. The clerk not being able to testify to the item charged any fur ther than that they were correctly transcribed, the court ruled that the defendant could not be permitted to swear to the correctness of his book, because tbey did not contain the original entries. Marriage Certificate not Evidence. In the Supreme Court of Boston, exceptions were sustained in the case of Commonwealth vs. Samuel Morris, for adultery, on the ground that it was incompetent to prove the marriage of Morris by the marriage certificate. This is a decision of some importance. Right to Hold Real Estate. It is stated that a bill will be immediately introduced into tlk- Jew York Legislature to authorize any person to hold real estate in the State who may pay for the same. It is said that large amounts of French capital and many French citizens will avail themselves of this liberal law. From the Union of April 14 A. " Resolutions of Sympathy Passed. We are happy to state, that, after several hours' discussion in the Senate, yesterday, upon the resolutions declaring their sympathy with France in tbe establishment of republic, they were passed unanimously, by 32 ayes. YEAS Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison, Atberton, Bell, Bradbury, Breese, Butler, Cass, Clarke, Crittenden, Davis of Mississippi, Dickinson, Dix, Douglass, Downs, Felch, Foote, Hale, Hannegan, Houston, Johnson of Maryland, Johnson of Georgia, Lewis, Mason, Moore, Niles, Kusk,Spruance,Turney, Underwood, Westcott li-Z. NAYS None. The following is the resolution, as modified, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved by the Senate and House of Repräsenta tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That, in the name and on behalf of the American people, the congratulations of Congress are hereby tendered to the people of France, upon the success of their recent efforts to consolidate the prin ciples of liberty in a republican form of government. ÖEC. i. And be xl further resolved, That the Presi dent of the United States be, and he is hereby, re quested to transmit this resolution to the American Minister at Paris, with instructions to present it to the trench government. Several of the whisrs declined to vote, upon the ground that it was premature to express any sympa thy with France until her National Assembly has con vened, and a constitution has been formed, and a republican government established. But the decided majority of the Senate acted wisely, in our opinion, in giving the promptest expression to their sympathies in favor of regenerated France. Mr. llannegan, who delivered an eloquent speech yesterday in support of the resoluions, stated that they would be immediately transmitted by express to Boston, for the purpose of going out in the Cambria, which sails on Saturday. We understand that they will be sent off this morning by express from the btate Department to ISew York, to go out in the new steamer United States, which leaves New lork to morrow. We cannot doubt that the same patriotic and liberal sentiments will be promptly expressed by the House of Representatives, so as to be transmitted to the national assembly of France by the next steamer. General Scott. Never did military men appear before the world in an attitude more imposing and honorable than did our officers after the glorious bat ties at the city of Mexico; and never did men appear smaller than some of them nave done since. Gener al Scott, by his suspicious and irascible temper, has made a beautiful mess of it. His improper and un dignified order, making a gross and personal insinua tion against General Worth, was the origin of per plexing difficulties. His correspondence with the War Department, and with Mr. Tnst, exhibits the same undignified, jealous, and suspicious disposition It is truly mortifying that so splendid a campaign should have ended so unworthily. The highest officer who has signalized himself so much by his military achievements, assumes but a low grade as a man of sense and dignity. A partisan press labors to make General Scott appear blameless; and tbe effort is even made to excite sympathy, as if he had been misused in beinrr required to attend a court of inquiry. The only reason urged, however. Tor his exemption from responsibility to the law, is that he has fought successful battles. He is covered with military gfory. therefore he must not submit to the law like common men. This is the whole cry, and it will not do in this republican country. General Scott will be hon ored for his services, and condemned r bis follies The latter are neither few nor small. Louisville Democrat. Arrest of a Baptist Clergyman on a Charge or Murder. Rev. Enos Dudley, has been arrested in Camden, N. II., on a charge of the murder of his wife. About five weeks ago he took his wife a sleigh riding, and brought her back dead. In explanation of the tragedy, he told his family that the sleigh up set, throwing his wife violently against a stump, and causing her death upon the spot. She was hastily buried it is said. At the suggestion of several of the deceased s friends, the lady was disinterred, and council ot physicians held a post mortem exarnma lion upon it. lhe result was a unanimous opinion among the medical men that the deceased was stria gled ! VVThe Cleveland Plaindealer statas that the in debtedness of Joseph S. Lake, to tbe Wooster bank is about four hundred thousand dollars, and that his entire liabilities are over one million. What his means of payment are is unknown, as no statement has been made, and none is like to bt. Impudence. It is reported tSat Gen. Dumas who accompanied Louis Philippe to England, has returned to Paris, in order to solicit Irom the government pe . c . . I -.I. c :i CUniary Kiliane tor iu uiioii iiiunj.

APIilL 27, 1848, The leitest from Mexico. The schooner Creole arrived at New Orleans on the 7th instant, from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the 30th ultimo. A mail reached that place on the 29th, bringing dates from the capital of the 35th, and Puebla of the 26th. We glean our intelligence from the Picayune. Gen. Valencia died at the capital on the 25tn, of apoplexy. This officer, it will be recollected, was in command at Coutreras and Cher.busco, and was charged by Santa Ansa with producing the disastrous results, to the Mexican army, of those battles. The Mexican Congress had not assembled, nor is there any information of a quorum being present at Querctaro. The Monitor is very severe upon the ab sent members. It eays tbe questions they are called to decide are of life or death to the country, and asserts that an egotism out of measure, or a very reprehensible cowardice, can be the only motives which detain these men, who abandon their country in the iour of danger, and when its destinies are confided to them. The uews from the interior does not favor the pros pect of peace. Letters from San Luis and Guadalaara agree in stating that the spirit of revolution was fomenting, and assuming a serious aspect. It is said to be headed by Pa redes, aided by Santa Anna and the monarchists. The Governor of San Luis had dis patched a commissioner to negotiate a permission for Pa redes to reside at Queretaro. In Guadalajara the monarchists are very bold. The high clergy protects them, and it is supposed that Father Barajas is the 6oul of this plot. Uen. Kea denies the report put in circulation that he has pronounced against the present gevernment. lhe diligence that reached Mexico on the 23d was robbed about two leagues from Puebla, and at one or two other points on the route. It met with a party of Texans, who reported that they had had a fight with the robbers at Agua del Venerable, in which they lost one of their companions. On reaching the place the passengers saw the dead Texan lying in the middle ot the road. A body of troops had left the capital to clear the road of the robbers between that point and Puebla. Col. Hays and his force had been dispatched to Vera Cruz for a like purpose. I he authorities of lanepaulta have called on Gen. Butler for protection against the Indians. La Reforme, published at .Puebla, notices the ru mor that our army is about to retire, and says "all we know is, that yesterday 17,000 rations were caused to be deposited here." This same paper notices re ports of Gen. Scott s departure for home, but there is nothing 6aid about it in the. papers at the capital. lhe court of inquiry was still proceeding with the case of General Pillow. Major Burns, who claims the authorship of the Leonidas letter, was under examination as a witness. Beyond this we have no details. The papers of the interior are full of accounts of assassinations and robberies. Cin. Enquirer. Later. The steamship Ohio has arrived at New Orleans, bringing late dates from Vera Cruz. The guerrilleroa are still troublesome betweea Vera Cruz and the capital. The general impression now seems to be that the Mexican Congress at Queretaro would ratify the treaty as it passed the American Congress. The brig, Commodore Stockton, was wrecked near Magdalena. The crew were saved. Paredes, aided by the clergy, is busily engaged in fomenting a revolution in favor of a monarchy. I he trial ot Lien. Pillow is still progressing. Santa Anna had chartered a brig to take him to the island of Jamaica. Gen. Scott and Mr. Trist were hourly expected at Vera Cruz, when the Ohio left. Accounts from Yucatan gives the most horrible de tails of the Indirns burning towns, and murdering the inhabitants. The people are panic struck, and the savages meet but little resistence in thsir murderous work. OAio Statesman. Foul Play in the Whig Ranks. We once heard of a physician who took his own medicine and died ! The representation of the John Donkey the whig "party between two bundles oi hay Clay and Taylor, is very well exposed in the following, from the Cincinnati Atlas. ANOTHER GREAT FRAUD CONTEMPLATED. WHIGS LOOK OUT ! ! In 1824 Mr. Clay lost the electoral votes of Louis iana, North Carolina and New York in part by a concerted combination among his opponents. Bat for this he would have been one of those candidates re turned to the House of Representatives, and most pro bably would have been elected President instead of Mr. Adams. In 1840, he was the first choice of nine-tenths of the whigs in America, and if he hat been nominated at the Harrisburg Convention, all now admit he would have been elected by a triumphant majority. But by means and combinations well understood by those who were present at that convention, he was defeated. The result was Gen. Harrison for one month and John Tyler, an "available" candidate, for the following three years and eleven months as President of the United States. In 1844, he received, by many thousands, the largest popular vote in every State in the Union, ever given before to any human being, and yet by the basest frauds in New York. Pennsylvania, Georgia and Louisiana, be lost all those States ; whereas, the vote of New York alone would have elected him. To all these repeated outrages he and his friends have submitted without a murmur, and vet his ene mies arc not satisfied. During the recent session of the Whig State Convention in Richmond, Virginia, & palpable, wilful lie was telegraphed from Louisville, Kentucky, and another, from Raleigh, North Carolina, both meeting in Richmond, and were there announced by a distinguished member of that Convention, with an additional one as to the slate of feeling in the Kentucky Legislature, against Mr. G lay; by which that convention was induced to take proceedings which Hon. John M. Botts avers would not havo been taken had the truth been told. All this is not enough. A deliberate purpose has been formed at Washington by certain guerrilla politicians of both parties regardless of principle and looking for power, place and plunder, to pack, the whig convention at Philadelphia on the 7th of June, against Henry Clay ! Yes, a Whig Convention, against the great leader and head of the whig party who has done more for the cause, and the country, than ten times tbe number of all his enemies could do, were they to live a thousand years. Circulars ore being written for this purpose through the Locofoco States, and a member of Congress from Kentucky, has dared to make the attempt upon old Kentucky the true hearted faithful Banner State of whiggery in 1844. If denied, I refer to the whig delegates and substitutes appointed to the National Convention. Has not each one of them received such a letter from a whig member of Congress, whose first official act lost winter was to abandon his post in the House and desert hit party by which means a true whig candidate for Postmaster was defeated, and a rabid Locofoco elected by a majority of one. A LIVING WITNESS IN KENTUCKY. Qj We give the following extract from a letter written by an officer in Mexico to a whig friend in this city : "We have received the President's message, and also Mr. Clay's great anti-war speech; the latter is not thought much of by any one out here, cave Mexicans. Upon its reception, a meeting of a society here, (I forgot the name, but I believo they call it the Philanthropic Society any how, it is composed of the wealthy and influential Mexicans,) after several speeches, elected Messieurs Clay. Botts, Webster, Calhoun, and Corwin, honorary members, midst loud applause. As anxious as every one is for peace, this speech nf Clay's, I fear, will retard one. General Scott said a few evenings since, in my presence, that Mr. Clay's, Webster's and Cortcin's speeches had done more harm to the American army than ten thousand Mexicans in arms." This last statement ia corroborated by another letter in our possession, from the city of Mexico. Louisville Dem.

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From f Ac New Orleans Delta of March 30. Renewal of the Quarrel Uetween Gen. coli ana Uen. ortli tr'urtticr l'roceedings or the Court of Inquiry. On the third day of the meeting, March 17, Gen. Scott submitted to the Court tbe following document: "In reference to the construction put by the court on the orders of the President of the United States, under which it is assembled that only the conduct of Maj. Gen. Scott, Major Gen. Pillow and Brevet Lieut. Col. lAtncan, as set forth m the written accu sations against them, respectively, is to be inquired into, and not that of liv t Major Gen. Worth, against whom there was also a written charge laid before the President of the United States. And, m reference, also, to the letter of Bv't. Maj. Gen. Worth to the Court, withdrawing his appeal or accusation against wie saia ocou, out leaving us venom, mainiy on tne ground that the President had done him the said Worth, 'full and ample justice.' " The said Scott several times essayed to address the Court, but was as often stopped and requested to reduce his remarks to writing: with that decision or request of the Court, he now succinctly complies as follows: "Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Court Here, in the Capital of Mexico, conquered by the American arms under my command, I find myself but a prisoner at large the chief criminal before this Court. Deeply wounded, my military pride is cast down into the dust not by the public enemy, 1 ut by the long arm ot power from home. All that could be done in that quarter, to injure, to degrade and humble me, here and elsewhere, has been accomplished. But, sustained by the Almighty arm feeling myself strong in conscious rectitude strong in mind and body strong in all the means of self-defence, I bid defiance to my accusers. 1 shall not plead the letter withdrawing the appeal against me, in bar of trial. Nay, I challenge the writer of that letter to come forward add do his worst. But, no doubt, he thinks and with reason that he has done his worst. Here, in view of the enemy, he has causeJ me to be struck down from the high and honorable command of a most gallant and triumphant army. He has caused me, First. To be pre-judged and punished at home, and then to be brought forward to be tried again, while he, my junior, hits been pre-acquitted and reworded. The President has, we are exultingly told, done him 'full and ample justice. Yes, sir, in double measure : justice to his pride, and justice to his vengeance. Let him, Mr. President, go forth rejoicing, in the plenitude of Executive favor. Without envying him his honors, I shall, at the end of this Court, have done with him forever. Again, Mr. President, I repeat, rrry attitude is that of defiance." Gen. Worth rose and begged permission to make a few remarks, but was interrupted by Gen. Scott, who stated that as he was not before the Court he had no right whatever to address it. The President remarked that such irregularities could not be permitted ; upon which, Gen. Scott desired the President not to address his remarks to him at the same time looking towards Gen. Worth, as if they should have been intended for him, Gen. W. Monday, R.arch 20th, 1843. The Court met at the usual hour; present all the members. The case of Major General Scott being before the Court, General Worth submitted the following paper which, after deliberating with closed doors, the Court decided not to entertain : Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Court Having without reservation, in my letter to this Court, dated the 14th instant, and for reasons the) ein stated, withdrawn my charges against Major General Scott, it is with feelings of deep regret, that I find myself called upon, again to allude to this subject; but the paper this day presented, and read to this Conri, renders it my duty to do so. General Scott says I have caused him "to be prejudged and punished at home, and then to be brought forward to be tried again, while he, (meaning General Worth,) my junior, has been pre-acquitted and rewarded. If General Scott means to say, that his government has "prejudged" and "punished" him, he either misstates or misunderstands its action. It will be seen by reference to the facts already before the public, that the General-in-Chief attempted to stiffie my accusations, by shifting himself, by an exercise of power, from the position of an accused, to tLat of a prosecutor, which if permitted, would be to establish a precedent of service, most fatal to the rights of every member of the profession, as guarantied to the humblest by the rules and articles of war. I appealed to the Government for protection against what I conceived to be injustice on the part of Major General Scott towards 'myself as I had an unquestionable right to do and for that I was arrested. This court has been ordered to investigate tbe facts, in reference to the matter of my appeal. The usages and interests of the service, as well as the rights of the parties concerned, required that Major General Scott should be suspended from command, pending the investigation. Where then, is to be found the "pre-judgment" and "punishment" so bitterly complained of! Certainly not in the action of the Government and even if found there, wherein am I responsible for it! But, if General Scott moans that public opinion has "pre-judged" and "punished" him, still less can I be held accountable for the decision of that tribunal it judges men according to their acts. Public opinion is a severe, but upright judge, before whom, "the innocent have nothing to fear the guilty nothing to hope." As regards my own case, I have not been "pre-ac quitted," ner have I been "rewarded." The charges of Major General Scott against me have not been dismissed, nor do I desire that they should be. I am prepared to meet not ouly the specific charge preferred against me, but also that "other probable matter," wherewith I have been menaced. But, as the charge preferred against me, by Major General Scott, was based upon my appeal to the Government against the injustice of that officer towards myself, the Government, in accordance with law and justice, has suspended the accusations against me, until those previously preferred by me shall have been disposed of. In reference to the "reward" spoken of by Major General Scott, he can only mean by assignment .to command according to my brevet of Major General, by the President of the United States. If correct in this conjecture, the allusion is most unfortunate; inasmuch as the President, by this act, only did, in accordance with law, what Gen. Scott had done in violation of it, nearly one year before the propriety of which act, on tbe part of Gen. Scott, I at the time repudiated. General Scott has been pleased publicly to announce that at the end of this Court be shall "be done with him (me) forever." Be it so. I have the consolation of knowing that the ties of friendship, formed from intimate personal and professional association, and atrengthened, for thirty-five years, by mahy reciprocities of kindness and obligation, have not been broken asunder by any act of mine. Very respectfully submitted. W. J. WORTH. Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Mexico, March 17, 1343. After considerable discussion, the Court in the meantime being cleared, the Court decided "that further proceedings in this case be stayed, until a report be made to, and instructions received from, the War department." A Difficult Case. The Quakers in Virginia seem to be placed in a peculiar relation to tbe laws of Virginia. The Yearly Meeting of Baltimore, to which they belong, has charged all its members tu educate the free colored people. The laws of Virginia forbid it; and the Friends have addressed a memorial to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, asking liberty to pursue the advice of their Yearly Meeting. If liberty is not given, we do not know what course the Friends will take. The Courier des Etats Unis, a French paper printed in New York, tates upon the authority of a private letter, that Louis Philliffk has resolved to take up his residence in tbe United States.

Taylor's Letter. In Gen. Taylor' Indiana Journal letter, we notice that for the purpose of justifying his report of the battle of Buena Vista, against the Indiana Volunteers, he now says that his report was "founded upon my (his) own personal observation on the field, and upon the official statements of my (his) subordinates." It would be nothing but just that he should tell the

public what it was that he seen himself and wmu part of it came from others! This is important to enable the public to judge between him and the Indiana volunteers. We have understood uniformly, that when the 2d Regiment was ordered to and did retreat. Taylor had not yetjreturneJ from Saltillo, whither he had gone, taking with him for a guard to his person, the Mississippi regiment, who were to have sustained the 2d Indiana Regiment, without supplying their places bv others. And it is notorious, that the court of inquiry after a patient hearing of the whole case. have staled the facia to be diocrent Irora what iayior pretends to be the truth. But the tnot unblushing effrontery of the whole affair, is his charge agan.at all the officers of the Indiana Brigade, for they all so ar as we know, felt alike and acted in concert on ihn subject. Hear him: "and I would say that all might have been well had not many of the officers agitated that subject in a manner greatly to injure the rtglmeat and involve the credit of the fctate, wnicn l ery much regret." Yes, he very much regrets, no doubt, that the officers of Indiana, agitated the matter that they asked for an investigation ! He great ly regrets that Indiana would not tamely pocket tne insult, and by fondling upon the oppressor's hand. save the credit of the State. Indiana has no credit that she would condescend to save in that way. The officers asked nothing but a fair trial, before officert to be chosen and designated by himseif, who should hear the sworn testimony of the eye and ear witness and decide accordingly; but he refused to order the court martial, and by thus attempting to conceal tbe truth he would ask the public to believe that he was trying to save the credit f the State. The truth seems to us rather to be. that the only regret he has upon the subject is that he has not succeeded better than he has, iu degrading the 2d Indiana Regiment, and through them the Slate they represented. It is General Taylor, and not the Indiana omcers, who has wronged and injured the Regiment, and involved the credit of the Slate ; and it is tbem, and not him that very much regrets it. The character of Indiana is ßfe in their hands. To them Indiana committed that sacred trust, and faithfully and gal lantly have they acquitted themselves of the task. It is not against them, but against Gen. Taylor him self, that they have just cause of complaint God save the credit of Indiana, whenever it shall be com mitted to the safe keeping and tender mercies ot Zachary Taylor!! The 2d Indiana Volunteers ask no concealment and desire no sympathy from their enemies They bid them defiance. When Indiana ceases to be able to take care of her own honor, then and not till then, will she commit its keeping to any one, and much less to a man, who did all in his power, against the gallant Brigade she sent into the service of the United States. Indiana Patriot. Affairs in Rome. His Holiness honored the consul of the United States with a private audience on Saturday, 12th instant, to receive the address of a large number of the citizens of New York to the Sovereign Pontiff, expressive of their respect and admiration for the character of one who has done so much to promote the cause of liberty in the Pontifical States, and in Italy generally. Major Smith, of New York, the bearer to Rome of this address, was presented to bis Holiness, who expressed his warmest thanks to the citizeua of New York, -and his earnest wish for the continued prosperity of the whole American people. Roman Advertiser, Feb. 19. Manufacturing Pkogeess. A new cotton factory has gone into operation at Graniteville, South Carolina, near the Charleston and Hamburgh Railroad. It was projected in 1345, the capital, $300,000, was promptly subscribed, and in October, 1346, the corner stone was laid. It is now ready for machinery. It is to run 7,240 spindles, and 300 looms, to make yard-wide sheetings, JJO inch shirtings, 3-4 yard drills, from No. 14 yarns. It will use 4.900 bales cotton annually, turn out 14,000 yards cloth per day, and employ 600 people. Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages A bill has been introduced into the Legislature of Maryland, having for its object the establishing of a system of a regisleration of births, deaths and marriages. A short time since, the wife of Mr. M , of the dockyard police, Devonport, was safely delivered of four children making six with whom she has presented her spouse in eleven months. Morris Canal. The receipts of this Canal during the past three years, have amounted in the aggregate, to 147,231,55, and the expenses of transportation and interest, 139,125 35. Excess of expenses. i $41,843 80. The Canal is is 101 mi es long, extend ing from Jersey City to Delaware Kiver. Its cost to the present owners is stated to be $1,542,242, including its present indebtedness of a little over 500,000, chiefly payable in 1856. A Centenarian. Died in Buffalo, on the 6th inst.', Ezekiel Lane, at the great age of one hundred and two years. He was the first white resident of that city, and built the first house in 1784. He lived, says the Advertiser, to see that single hut multiplied to over fee thousand buildings, and more than forty thousand people in a city of which himself and family were the first sole inhabitants, lie was a sol, dier of the Revolution. Freedom and a Fit out. The Cincinnati Chronicle notices the arrival there, from Augusta, Georgia,, of a colored woman and her twelve children, recent-, ly set free by "the last will and testament" of a wealthy old man of that place. The woman was his favorite servan, and besides giving her and her children their freedom, he has aleo bequeathed them between $40,000 and $50,000. Clay vs. Clay. Cassius M. Clay has addressed a long communication to the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer, elicited by the recent letter of the Hon. Henry Clay announcing himself a candidate for the Presidency. Cassius ia very severe upon Henry, ard winds up by saying "Henry Clay can never be President of these Slates." Planting Trees. The Spaniards are infinitely more careful than any other nation in planting trees; for it rarely happens, when a Spaniard eats fruit in a wood or in an open country, that be docs not set in the ground the pips or stones ; and hnce, in the whole of their country, a vast number of fruit trees of all kinds are to be found. 07-The majority of Havemeyer, the democratic candidate for Mayor of New York, is 1027. He is of the radical or Barnburning party, and his frif ods charge that numbers of the conservatives voted against him and thus reduced his majority. Leonard, tbe democratic candidate for Almshouse, commissioner, is elected by a majority of 3232. Suicide. Mr. Irwin, who recently challenged Mr. S. S. Prentiss, committed suicide in New Orleans, on the 3d, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. Irwin was nearly connected with Mr. Clay' by marriage. Well Said. Bishop Griswold, an Episcopal bishop, at an ordination, once said, "Brethren, when your minister preaches politics, tell him he is out of his place, if be persists in it, send Aim home. Tell him you have nothing more for him to do." Honor to the Brave. The Virginia Legislature previous to adjournment, voted swords to 05 officers, who have either distinguished themselves or feil ia the campaigns of Mexico. The Government have directed that the new Marin Hospital, opposite New Orleans city, should be appropriated to the sick and disabled soldiers returning from Mexico. Complimentary. At a recent examination of Law Students at Rochester, the judge iniimaled that a majority of them were numbsculls, but to spare their feelings, he would admit them all to the bar. fjr- Martha Christian has been convicted before the court of Wood county, Virginia, of teaching a female slave to read tbe Bible, and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years in the Penitentiary ! A Fat one for Somebody. There is a girl in Carroll county, Md., who weighs 413 pounds. A large rib for some one. Who speaks ! Gen. Taylor has said that "nature has extended over Mexico a proviso against slavery, that no legis lation can strengthen or modify." Boston Post.