Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1848 — Page 2

3nömtm State Sentinel. ITIRRiL TlftlLADCE IS THE JPajCB OF 1UUTT. "nniAAPOns, aiuii, 27. tsT Our Terms. The following will hereafter be the permanent terms of ij. Weekly Indiana Slate Sentinel: CrPayments to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.00 Three copies, one year, 5.00 rive copies, one year,. 8.00 Tn copies, one year, 15.00 Twenty copies, one year, Ü0.00 Semi-Weekly. (Published three tiroes a week during the session.) One copy, 81.00 J Three copies, $10.00 One copy durin the session, 1.00 ritESIDESTIAl. ELECTOKS. XHATOBIAL. ROBERT DALE OWKN. of Posey County. KBL.NEZER M. CHAMBERLAIN, of Elkhart county. DirraicT. 1. NATHANIEL ALBERIXJN, of Harrison county. 2. CYRUS L DUNHAM, of Washington county. 3. WILLIAM M. McCARTY, tf Franklin county. 4. CHARLES II. TEST, of Wayne county, ft. JAMES RITCHEY, of Johnson county. 5. GEORGE W. CARR, of Lawrence county. 7. HENRY SEC REST, of Putnam county. 8. DANIEL MACE, of Tippecanoe county. 9. GRAHAM N. FITCH, of On county. 10. ANDREW J. HARLAN, of Grant county.

Democratic State Central Committee. LIVINGvrON DUN LAP, DAVID REYNOLDS, JAMES P. DRAKE, CEO. A. CHAPMAN, E. N. SHIM ER, WM. SULLIVAN, CHARLES MAYER. Democratic County Committee. Centre J. P. CHAPMAN, S. W. NORR1S. POWELL HOW LAND. Decatur T). L. McFARLAND. Franklin JACOB SPRINGER. Lawrence J. PERRY, Sa. Ferry H. P. TODD. Pike ADAM WRIGHT. Warren E. N. SHIM ER. Wathington ELIJA H JAMES. Wayne JAMES JOHNSON. Qj A matrimonial affair came off at one of the hotels in this city oa Monday night, which has excited some conversation. The parents of the young lady, it is said, knew nothing whatever of the matter until its full consummation. Another affair of the same kind, we are told, took place on Tuesday morning ; and these are not the only instances of stolen match: within a few months. We allude to these affairs, not with a view to condemn the young folks for getting married, or desiring to do so; but for the purpose of expressing our unfeigned astonishment that respectable clergymen can be found who will aid and abet such transactions, contrary as they must know, to the wishes of parents. It is to them disgraceful in the highest degree. Reminiscences or a. Campaign in Mexico; An Account of the operations of the Indiana Brigade on the line of the Rio Grand and the Sierra Madre ; and a Vindication of the Volunteers against the Aspersions of Officials and Unrfficials. By Isaac Smith, of the late first regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Indianapolis: published by the Author. This is a volume of 201 pages. It gives an interesting history cf various matters particularly interesting to citizens of Indiana. It is an honest and unpretending record of facts, many of which came within the writer's personal knowledge ; and enters at some length into the circumstances connected with the Second Regiment. The unfair and ungenerous course of Gen. Taylor towards that much abused body of brave men, is depicted in such a matter-of-fact style, as cannot fail to carry conviction to every impartial mind. We regret that we have not space at present to speak more particularly of this book, and to give our readers a taste of its quality by a few extracts. We shall endeavor to do this hereafter. In the meantime all w ho desire to read the interesting reminiscences of a volunteer, and all who wish to learn the full measure of injustice which Gen. Taylor has inflicted upon a portion of our citizens, should purchase a copy. The edition is small, and the price low. For sale at the Cooks tores. The "State Sentinel" of Monday, informs its readers that the democrats have elected their Mayor in New York City ; but it does'nt seem to have heard any thing of the Councilmen, nor yet from the cities ot Brooklyn, Albany, and Hudson, in the same State, or from New Orleans in the South. Greensburgh Keposiiory. We consider the municipal elections in New York of more than ordinary importance, because of the weight they carry politically. No other city elec tions attract so much attention or are so important This is the reason why we did not fail to notice the result above alluded to, and we did not see cause to go into detail. The city is democratic, and that i enough. It is true, we believe, that the whips have a reduced majority in the Common Council ; but the reason of this is explained by the N. Y. Ever.ing Mirror, a Taylor paper, as follows : "Mr. Brady ran far ahead of the whig ticket, and Indeed has saved it from a total route, it is true that in consequence of the democrats running two or more tickets in more than half the wards, the whigs have retained the common council, but the average democratic majority in the Tribune's Clay city is nearly three thousand." If the whigs can draw any consolation from this, they are welcome to it. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana has sent into this war five regiments composed of 3,500 men. She has three companies in the 16th Infantry, of 400 men five companies of mounted riflemen, composed of about the eame number, and two companies of dragoons, of 160 men making in all upwards of 540. Add to this the enlistment of last winter, and the number of Indiana troops will not fall short of six thousand. Yet, in consequence of Gen. Taylor's injustice, the people of Indiana are believed to be cowards. CySeventy-seven slaves 38 men and boys, 26 women and girls, and 13 children lately made an attempt to escape from Washington City. They embark ed on Saturday night or Sunday morning, on board a loop, and were followed the next day by a steamer and overtaken. The negroes were committed to prison as runaways, and the white men who coaxed them off, were committed as kidnappers. The affair caused a good deal of excitement at Washington. CHAWrORDSVILLS AND INDIANAPOLIS RAIL ROAD. The folio wing gentlemen have just been elected officers of the Eoard, as we learn from the People's Press, towit: Prof. Wm. TwiiGt President; Alexander Thospson, Secretary ; John Wilson, Treasurer; H. T. Snook and Townsend Griffith, Agents and Collectors. (rA terrible gale occurred on Lake Erie on Tues day the 19th inst. Five vessels were driven ashore near Sandusky, and several steamers and other res sela were injured. We bave not as yet heard of the Joss of any lives. C-The Iowa State Gazette, published at Burling ton, is offered for sale. It is probably the beat es tablishment of the kind in that State, and is offered on "accommodating terms. Mechanics Looking up Joseph T. Robests, well known to the citizens of this County, was admitted on the 21th inst. to practice law. Go it Jo. fjT We are obliged, by a press of other matter, to defer tLa correspondence between G. C. Düna and Gen. Taylor until our next paper.

The Journal untl the General. It is not at all necessary to adduce any evidence to prove the inconsistency of the State Journal in regard to General Taylor. Its course is too fresh in the minds of it readers to be forgotten. AH will admit the fact. 3ut we accidentally looked over a couple of numbers of the Tri-weekly Journal the other day, which contain paragraphs so amusing that we thought them worth reprinting. Many stronger ones might probably be found in the files of the Journal, but we have not time to hunt them up, even if we deemed it necessary, which we do not. The first of the paragraphs to which we refer, is in the Journal (tri-weekly) of August 13th, and was in reply to us, viz: " It the Journal no doubt preferred many a whig that might be named, as well as Tom Corwin, before Taylor; but it desired at present to use Taylor as a -make weight in favor of the desperate cause of whiggery in this congressional district, and forthat reason it made a great show of zeal in his behalf, and took every occasion which offered itself to misrepresent us, and make us appear as his enemy, because we chose to publish facts concerning him, which the public had a right to know, and s me of which it now confesses to be true." Stale Sentinel. However zealous wi have shown ourselves to be for the elevation of Gen. Taylor to the Presidency, the " Sentinel" is informed that it will be greatly increased until that object is accomplished. Journal. The public has already seen how the zeal of the Journal has " greatly increased." We were nearer right as to the editor's disposition than he appeared to suppose ; or he was uot aware how easily ho could change his mind. The same number of the Journal contains more than three columns of matter the purpose of which was to glorify Gen. Taylor at the expense of the administration. In the Journal of July 23th, is an article from which we copy the first and last paragraph, which will indicate the quality of the whole, tiz: "A Grand Mistake ! Gen. Taylor in his " Signal Letter," says that he can never yield himself to "party schemes. The locofoco press look upon this as a bomb shell thrown into the whig camp. They were never more mistaken! In carrying out this resolution, Gen. Taylor will not only evince the purity of his character, but will amply compensate the great Whig party for early bringing him forward for the Presidency. He will compel sate them for the toil of years of devotion to this great principle; a principle which the whigs have always thought should govern an honest administration. Jackson promised it, but Vtent to the other extreme. Van Bureu " walked in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," and his administration was one in which party schemes," and ' the spoils of party," were the governing principles. "The whig party desire a man in the Presidential Chair, who will not lend himself to "party schemes,' but one who will be what Jackson promised, what Van Buren never thought of becoming, what Harrison would have been, what Tyler was not, and what J. K. Polk has come the furtherest from being the President of the whole Country!" The filling up of the article is a scries of declamatory assertions, in the Barnett style, as to the withering curse" of "party schemes," which, it was said, had " infused a deadly poison into the very vitals of the body politic, corrupting every fountain, and sending forth bitterness and premature decay." Such, it was declared, had had been the effect under the administrations of Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler and Polk, and God was invoked to " defend our country from any further exhibition of such party schemes." How it was hoped this might be accomplished, and by what instrument, may be seen by what we have quoted above. It was simply and only by electing General Taylor, who was to be, what none other named had been, "the President of the whole country!" If the Journal was honest in the declarations above referred to, can wo possibly give it credit for the same virtue now, when it repudiates Gn. Taylor on the sole ground that he will not commit himself to the "party schemes" of the whigs!

Gen. Joseph L.anc Correspondence. It will be remembered, that, at the Democratic Mass Meeting, held at Indianapolis, on the 8th of April, resolutions commendatory of Gen. Lane, and inviting him to partake of a public dinner, were adopted, and that a committee was appointed, to correspond with Gen. Lane upon the subject. This correspondence has been handed us for publication. Our readers will regret to learn, that Gen. Lane cannot accept the invitation, lie are especially sorry for this, as we know Gen. Lane to be one of the noblest citizens of this Stale, and we like to see such a man receive the just meed of public approbation. copy. Indianapolis, Ind., April 10, 1813 Brig. General Joseph Lane Sir: At a mass meeting of the democracy of Marion county, on the 8th instant, the undersigned were appointed a committee to carry out the purpose of the enclosed resolutions. It would afford the citizens of Marion county great pleasure that you signify your acceptance of the invitation expressed, to partake of & public dinner, and of the time that will suit your earliest convenience. Very respectfully, Signed, . A. J. STEVENS, J. P. CHAPMAN, J. P. DRAKE, S. W. NORRIS, W. J. TEASLEE. Evansville, 1a., April 17, 1849. Gentlemen : I have had the honor to receive your communication of the 10th instant, enclosing resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the democracy of Marion county, inviting me to partake of a public festivity on such a day as might suit my convenience. In reply, I regret to state, that I am at home ou short leave, and unless it is extended, I must start in a few days for Mexico. I must therefore, gentlemen, decline accepting your invitation. Permit me to say, that lam deeply sensible of the high honor thus offered me, and in terms, thoughunmerited, bo highly flattering, from the democracy of Marion, many of whose names will live in the history of our State as long as time exists. Nothing could have afforded me greater pleasure than to have accepted your highly complimentary in vitation, and I assure you that nothing but the strictest necessity induces me to decline it. With great respect. I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JOSEPH LANE. A. J. Stevens, J. P. Chapman, J. P. Drake, S. W. Norris, W. J. Peaslee, Committee. The Astor Estate. The value of the estate of John Jacob Astor, the Journal of Commerce says, does not exceed $7,500,000, of which about $4,000,000 is- real, and $3,400,000 personal. The real is given in the form of life estates, with power of letting and selling. Mr. Wm. B. Astor has half the residuary personal estate, in his' own right, say $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. He was worth before, it is said, three millions, so that what he received from the present estate as the residuary legatee, will form an aggregate approaching the wealth of his father. Astor, in his will, left Fitz Green Halleck, as wo have stated, who had been his confidential secretary for about twenty years, an annuity of $200, payable quarterly. It is stated in a Philadelphia paper that Mr. Wm. B. Astor has increased the annuity to $1000 per year. The Printers Speaking. The Franklin Typographical Society of Boston, at their regular meeting on Saturday night week, adopted an address to the printers of Paris, congratulating them on the part they hare taken in the late revolution, and sympathizing with their effort for social reform. Several casci of Small Pox have occurred at Attica . In this State. .

Taylor und the Wlii? lrcs. The repudiation of Gen. Taylor by the State Journal has not tended an yet to concentrate the "local" whig press upon Mr. McLean, to whom the Journal at present professes allegiance. On the contrary they are in a worse slew than ever. Haw favorably do the presses on our side contrast with their opponents! Guided by well-defined and popular principles, the Democratic presses, with hardly an exception, instead of quarrelling about this or that candidate, are content to await the issue of a national convention, fully satisfied, that whoever shall be nominated, he will be a Democrat, and entitled to the confidence of the nation.

For the amusement and edification of the reader we make a few extracts from our whig exchanges last received. The Brookville American, (of April 21st.) one of the most zealous Taylor papers, feels bitterly and speaks as follows : "Out at Last. The Indiana Journal, the great Whig organ of Indiana, is out, for tiie time being, for John McLean, for the Presidency. We have always highly prized the importance of having a central political editor, who is capable of creating harmony in the ranks of the entire party, and of inspiring them with zeal and hope of success. In this respect the Journal must be acceptable to all the Whig and Inde pendent candidates for the Presidency; for it has by turns favored about all of them. No one has any right to complain. The editor in his paper of last week comes out boldly for the nomination of John McLean. We wonder how long a time has been al lotted to the advancing of Mr. McLean by this able and unwavering editor 1 He is seldom guilty of tak ing an "unwarrantable course." Per contra, the Lafayette Free Press, which has heretofore shown symptoms of dislike towards Gen Taylor, rejoices that the Journal has seen the error of its ways, and exults that both now occupy the eame ground. The Freo Press, in its exhilaration ex claims : Thank God, the wild and terriflic tornado of Taylorism, which, for a time, threatened to whelm and engulph us as a people, has well ni?h spent its force. A moment of ealm now succeeds the storm and men have time to reflect. The "sober second thought" t that in which there is hope. "We are happy quite happy to find that our good friend and brother of the Indiana State Journal, has got his fill of Taylor-non-committalism: and now thinks that the Whig party owes it to itself, to the country, and to the cause of Truth, Justice and Humanity, to seek for a more suitable exponent of its principles, than the war-worn General can possibly be, under existing circumstances. " The Greensburg Repository seems disposed to bo a little spunky on the occasion, and speaks almost as slightingly of the fugleman at the centre as the Brook villo American ittelf : "The 'Indiana State Journal, after having, for the last year, with a zeal worthy a better cause, urged the nomination of Gen. I ay lor, suddenly tacked aboot, last week, and comes out for Judge McLean, assigning as its reason, that Gen. Taylor declares him-elf a no-party candidate, and that he will not accept a party nomination. Well enough. Better late than never. The eame reasons, however, which the Journal gives, have existed for the last year, and with equally as great force." But the best specimen of flunkeyism yet made is that manifested by the New Albany Bulletin. That paper has all along professed the greatest friendship for Gen. Taylor and confidence in hi principles. At the first word of command, however, it "flops over" just as any mercenary might be expected to do, all the while, of course, pretending to great integrity and regard for principle ! Speaking of the General's determination not to commit himself in favor of the wretched policy of Whiggery, the Bulletin says "But candidly, we would much prefer he would speak out boldly upon the issues, which have and w ill be brought to""bear in the approaching contest, directing the people in bestowing their suffroges upon thia or the other aspirant to that high and responsible station. "If Gen. Taylor is a Whig in sentiment and feeling believing "fhat the principles contended for by them are for the salvation of the country, he should, in justice to the position he now occupies before the people, say so. If he favors Democratic measures, and his sympathies are with that party, it is due to them his opinions should be known. We like to 6ee men expectants of office open, outright in their views, no concealment of their sentiments upon questions touching the public interest. 'We believe in the conservative doctrines of the Whig party. They are co-existent with the constitution under which we live and which we delight to re spect, as the great Magna Charta of our civil and reigious rights. They are worthy the advocacy of all I . . c 1 . . . . iiuuesi, irue inenas to me country, ana henct we think that it is the duty of the National Convention. betöre selecting a candidate, for the Presidency, to know bis views and sentiments upon the leading ques tions, which now divide the great political parties of tne cay." If the Whigs really had any such "doctrines" as the writer speaks of, and they were worthy of public approval, their presses would not be thus jangling about a candidate for; the Presidency, nor would Gen eral Taylor be ashamed or afraid to avow his approv al of them. Robert Walsh. The Washington correspondent of the Pa. Ledger touches up" this gentleman in the right style, Walsh has, for years, been a mere toady of the late corrupt king of tho French, and, as the correspondent of the National Intelligencer, has labored to diffuse notions detrimental to the cause of liberal principles in France and elsewhere. It is high time that our government at Washington should po litely invite Mr. Walsh to resign the office of Consul, which he has so long held as a sinecure. The "Union" a few days ago contained a very able letter, handed it for publication, which, from its style and other indubitable marks of originality, is evident ly written by Dr. iMartin, our late able Secretary of Legation in I'aris, now Charge d Atiaires to Rome, and addressed to Col. King, our late Minister to France, who has sent it on to the Union. It is, by all odds, the best written account of the whole tragedy, and well merits perusal. I never read five colums of the "Union with the same unflagging inte rest, and scarcely nope to do so again, unless it be another letter from the same hand. What I wonder at is simply that, as yet, we have had nothing from the pen of Mr. Walsh, our consul IdT Falis7 and the friend, admirer and worshipper of Mr. Guizot, the exminister and philosopher of the Bourgeoisie. We do not hear that the learned consul accompanied our patriotic minister, Mr. Hush, to the Hotel de Ville, to compliment the new republic, nor do we see in any of . i - u.:. .,ki;.i,..i ....1 . r t i . me xii3 puuimiiciB taiaiuuco ui new uooKs, mention made of "the Biography of Louis PhiUippe a work to which Mr. Walsh devoted every spare hour of his life in Paris, but which, at the present moment, is rather less attractive, considering that ita hero has allowed the curtain to drop before the play was finished. It appears that Mr. Martin, during the three days, perambulated the whole city, and came very near being shot ; our Consul, who lives in the Rue Ricoli, could see the Revolution from his windows: and being rather high, up, and overlooking theTuileries, take a bird s eye view of the same. 07" The Richmond (la.) Palladium, a Clay paper, digs Gen. Taylor in the ribs in the following uncere monious style. We are afraid we shall soon have to defend the old General from the abusive assaults of the whig press! 'A little too much grape Capt. Bragg. .The editor of the Dayton Transcript says seven of the delegates from? New York to the Whig National Convention are Taylor men. Five of the Pennsylvania delegates arc also for old Zack; and there will be four from Ohio. This is all gammon. The editor of the New York Tribune e-ys thero is not a single delegate from that State for Taylor. It is equally certain there is not one from Pennsylvania, and if there should be one from Ohio, he will not reflect the will of his constituents. A little more modtsly and truth 1 Mac."

Public Lands. Mr. Wentworth, member of the

Federal Iluuao from Illinois, has introduced a resolution to inquire into th- expediency of giving away the public land to actual settlers who are landlest, upon condition of settlement and cultivation. We ore glad of it, and hope that the movement will result in something for the benefit of our numerous landless population who arc loitering in our citus and large towns, willing to work, but unable to find employ ment, and otten hungry fur want of money to buy bread. We have long contended for the sale of the public land-, in small quantities, to actual settlers only, and have said that for their benefit, the rich speculators of iho cities should not bo permitted to monopolize land at governmental prices, and force the poor and industrious settler to pay an enormous advance. We now go farther, and say that, the nation would do better by giving these lands to actual settlers, than by leaving numerous bodies of men idle, and large tracts ot Jand uncultivated. Let us consider the case in practical lights. A million of acres of wilderness belong to the nation in Iowa. Of course it produces no food for "man or horse," and no revenue to the treasury. In the course of ten years, it amy be sold to actual settlers, and be placed under cultivation, affording, during the ten years, an aggregate of produce equal to three crops from the whole. Divided Into quarter sections, it will contain 0250 farms, for 6250 families of four persons, or 25,000 souls; and the aggregate of occupation du ring the ten years, will be three years of occnpation by 25,000 souls. Hence the amount of capital furnHied to the nation, is that produced by the labor of 6250 families during three years, and the amount of revenue tarnished to the treasury, the duties upon imported merchandise consumed in three years, by 25,000. souls. Instead of this, let us suppose the whole million bought at once by a eompany of four or five speculators, and the whole eettlement equal to one year's occupation by 25,000 souls. Which is the best for the nation and the treasury J In the first case, the nation gains, at the end of ten years, the price of the land, three entire crops, and duties on three years of consumption by 25,000 souls. In the second case, it gains the price of the land, only one entire crop, and duties on one year of consumption, the ability of the settlers to consume being diminished by the advance on the land demanded by the speculators. Between these two" caseses, the nation has an advantage in selling to the actual settlers, and not to the speculators. We will now suppose another case. The government gives away the land to actual settlers, and thus immediately obtains G250 such eettlers, with their families. At the end of ten years, they will have produced nine full crops, and have consumed merchandise Bubject to duty during ten yenrs, their consumption augmented by their ability to consume, furnishel by their production. . Then they will be transferred from precarious employment and its occasional privations, to constant, productive employment and its comforts. Some of them will be saved from intemperance, the refuge of poverty and despair, and per haps some from crime, produced by the dire alterna tive of crime or starvation ; and the community will not only save the expense of supporting the paupers and punishing the criminals, but will receive a large addition to its capital in the produce of the land Which then is best 1 The sale to speculators, the sale to actual settlers purchasing, or the giving away to actual settlers T We will suppose another cose. By selling to actu al settlers, the government Bells five millions of acres at the end of ten years. By giving away to actual settlers, it places five millions of acres under the axe and the plough in one year. In the first case, many who would immediately become actual settlers under the donation, do not become so till tne end of five, six, eeven, eight, nine years, and in the mean time, produce little and suffer much. In the second case, many who are are immediately transformed into pro ductive cultivators, would have wasted years in idle ness, in privation, or in ill-paid labor for money to buy the land, or would have died of want, or been driven to crime for bread. Our cities and large towns contain thousands, who would gladly go upon the land, it they had means to buy it, and who amid the com petition cf cities and large towns, will never accu mulate such means. In the mean time, the land af fords nothing, their labor affords little to the common stock, and that stock is taxed to support them. A good farm for nothing would save a poor man from thealmhouse; and the community gets a productive farm instead of a wilderness, anda profitable labor er instead of an expensive pauper. Pa. Ledger. fjr We of the West should approve of the meas ure above indicated, not only because of its genera utility, but also of its probablo local benefit to our selves. The more our population increases the less shall we feel the burdens of taxation for the ordinary support of government, and for the payment of inter est on State indebtedness. Enlightened selfishness therefore 6hould induce every WeBtern man to favor the generous policy of the freedom of the public lands, Botts on Taylori6M. We copy below an extract from the famous circular of the famous John M Botts. It is an interesting document ; we regret that we cannot give it full to our readers. It is a most admirable lament over the fallen condition of whig gery. "That there is a design on the part of many (cer tainly not all) of Gen. Taylor's supporters, and pro minent supporters, too, to break up the whig party and its organization, is too apparent to escape detec tion : "We know that among his supporters are to be found members of the whig party, who ever have shared the confidence of the whigs, and are not less entitled to do so now than heretofore ; but we exer eise no more than a common and undeniable right, when we say we think they have been deceived and are in error. Their opinions are entitled, perhaps, to more weight than our own, and, therefore, we have chosen to give General lay lor s opinions on poutica subjects in his own language, that the people, the masses of the party, may judge for themselves, lie lieving, as we do, we should be traitois to the party not to tell what we think or to postpone it until it might be too late. We believe the whig parly of Virginia has been swallowed up by the conservative party, (as is best known to thoso familiar with the secret history of the convention,) and we insist that it must be disgorged, or tho whig party in Virginia is lost forever. Is the old whig party to be sustained or broken up 1 Look at the speech of the Hon. William Cost Johnson, one of Gen. Taylor s warmest friends at the jNew York Taylor meeting. He said : "I my self am a whig, and I believe General lay lor is whig also, EUT NOT A WHIG UPON THE OLD PLATFORM OF WIIIGISM ; though I have fought for those principles till 1 had every button whipped off; and I have become wise enough to drop them When I first started, I went for every question upon tne old platform of whigism." After speaking of al the old issues, he says: "We must get rid of these by taking men, fresh men, who have not the odium of all these questions upon thern, or who can can boldly come out from them and declare that these question aw not now the rule of their conduct." Gen. Taylor has done so ; he has come out from the old whig plat form. Let those who desire to get off this old whig platform dcso ; but, in the language of Joshua o old, "As jor me ana my nouse we will serve tne ljord. Now, the difference between Gen. Taylor and his friend Mr. Johnson, and ourselves, is, that ve do mean to stand upon the old platform, and we can ad vocate the claims of no man who does not stand there with us.". The Bayou Sara Ledger of the 1st instant contains a correspondence between John W. King and Genera Taylor. Mr. King s letter runs through two colums and propounds a serifs of questions to the Genera respecting the power to establish a banking institu tion, a protective tariff, &c., &c. General Taylor gives tho following locomc non-committal reply: Baton Rouge, La., March 2518-13. Sir: Your communication of the 14th instant, requesting of me my views in relation to certain political questions therein set forth, has been duly received and considered. . I regret to inform you, in reply, that I .'eem it to be inconsistent with the position which I have long since assumed in relation to such subjects, to answer definitely your inquiries ; and that even if I desired on this occasion to make an exception in your favor, my great want of time at the present moment would not permit me to give you satisfactory or even intelligible answer to your numerous questions. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant. Z. TAYLOR. To Mr. John Kins, near Bayou Sara.

Law Items. The new ci.de tf practice for New York, as reported by the commissioners, has passed the State Senate by a vote of 23 to 3, and ti e House by a vote of 74 to 9. Thus the old cumbersome and uncertain practice has been swept away. Although the new code cannot be expected to be peifect iu all its d-

tails, it is bated ou sound principles, and will make a far better System than that superseded. Liability of Physicians. It has been decided by one of the New York courts that a physician when once employed to attend a patient cannot withdraw himself without giving due notice to the patient unless the latter rtt'un-s to take his prescriptions. A Righteous Verdict. A verdict has just been" rendered in the Stale Circuit Court of Kentucky, at Lexington, r-f $2,500 and cost?, in favor of Cassius M. Clay, against those who destroyed his printing omce oi ttie irue American in J.340. itus is a righteous verdict. The press is the guardian of the iberty of the people, and should be free from all ty rannous restrictions either of monarchies or mobs. A bill to abolish the death penalty for murder, and substitute imprisonment for life, has recently been in troduced into the Senate of New lork. lhe bill re quires thnt in paesing eentence, the court shall designate whether the prisoner shall be kept at hard labor, or in solitary confinement. Should proof' sufficient be submitted to the court of appeals to satisfy that court, that a person has been wrongfully convicted, a new trial may be ordered, but no pardon shall be ranted until a new trial is granted. Property; of Married Women. The provisions of th? law which has just passed the Legislature of New York, are substantially as follows : Sec 1, provides that the real and personal property of any female who may hereafter marry, or which she shall own at the time of marriage, or the rents, issues, and profits thereof, shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his debts, ana snau continue ncr eoie ana separate property as if she were a single female. cj o ? . . : r Sec. 2. makes the same provision in resDect to fwilia a t l . i males now married, except in relation to debts of husbands already contracted. Sec. o, makes it lawful for a married female to re ccive by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, from any per son other than her husband, and to hold the eame, as if she were single, und all its rents, issues, and pro fits. Sec. 4, runs thus: "All contracts made between persons in contemplation of marriage, shall remain in full force after such marriage takes place. Remarks or Mr. Wick. On the 29th March a joint resolution for the Refund ing of Moneys advanced for the benefit of Volunteers &c. being under discussion in the House, Mr. V 1CK said he was ODDoeed to this measure al together, as enabling a great many persons to dip their hands into the treasury, and commit what was called petit larcenies. A great many respectable men, who would never think ot plundering tne government, WOUIU U JllUULtU IUUU 11 UV IIJIO CUWUlOi'Cincill Hum i j i. .n j j :. L .u:- ww. r.nn. i tho .,.rnm.nl. TI.pb nitvmora were mart A hv I States, individuals, &c, through the impulse of patriotic feelings or ought to have been ; and there was no propriety in refunding it. Nobody stopped to talk about money when volunteers were called for in his State. Money was contributed by some; while oth ers, for a like reason, offered their service as volunteers. The money was offered without any expectation of return. He was obliged to sit here and wit ness a great deal of stealing that he could not prevent ; but he would vote against this scheme lor encourag ing it. Some little of this money might go to Indiana, but she would be as well without it. It was a renec tion on the individuals who had advanced money, to refund it. The state had acted in a great many cases, in a careless, negligent, profuse, hand-over-hand man tier. Individuals who offered money did not do it without a motive. Let that motive bo their compen sation. They might have done it for popularity m the hope of being elected as a sheriff or member of Congress ; and they might be compensated by the hope. He was opposed to the whole resolution, and .would vote against it. But if the resolution should pass he wished it to pass with an amendment (which he sent to the chair) for the compensation of the adjutant gen eral of Indiana, who had discharged, without pay, important and laborious duties in the organziation of volunteers. Mr. W.'s amendment was as follows: And also to make proper compensation to the adju im f y ,,.: ..j .hi,,, tants general of States, for their services in and about iaina bvuciai iuv :,aj;- ti,a raising corps of volunteers, and superintending the g corps same prior to their being mußtered into service, Another Whig in Mexico. The following is ex tracted from a letter written by an officer of the "Croghan Guards," who, previous to leaving ins village, was one of the staunchest and most active whigs. Hear his complaints of his party friends. The letter bears date"Puebla, January 23," and from it we learn that the Guards at that time, were in pretty good health. Sandusky Dem " The last train up. brought a large amount of good news for the Mexicans, in the ehape of resolutions offered in the United States Congress, and extracts from some of your leading newspapers. On visiting the riaza the next day, I found lots of Mexican Um ones peuu .ug papers pnmeu 1 opauu, Thomp8on's (of Indiana) resolutions extracts from bries peddling papers printed in Spanish, containing vv. lifcciiicw au, i.iUUUD, " . " articles taken from American papers. J.he iuexican , . i , T . , . papers state that these men and papers belong to the . , . . ., ?. . ..fit ,it strongest party lu the States, and more of the well 61 V.. 1 .1 - ; r . r meaning part of the people than are in favor of the .vT -Ti nh. - war that Congress will no longer support the army, t .1 1 r if -n ' ill. -7r.and if the people of Mexico will resist the collection v ''.. y . ... . money for the support cj our army, we wiU tiave to leave the country. ..... ... "I think that while we are obliged to garrison tins :.AV fi fim s..i . 1.;,- Hh $ nnn fron, auch city of 00,000 inhabitants with 2,000 troops, such publications might as well be kept at home, or not published at all." Gen. Lane at Evansville. lhe gallant Gen. Lane was received with a great enthusiasm at EvansvUa on Ratnrdnv last. In the course of some remarks main rpnonup tn Iiin welcome, he alluded, according .,. T,.n.;iu r.n,nm,rrin3- "to tha retreat of the 2nd Indiana Regiment at the battle orBuena Vis- ... 1 1 w um " - - . " t. rinrt ft d that hfi Was Convinced that nO nobler and hmver regiment of soldiers was enzaged in that great k,na fK.n tbe InA Raiment : and ha further remarked that the enemy was completely whipped, when the cowardly Col. liowles, commanding that regiment, ordered a retreat. In connection with this eubject, he mentioned the fact, that, through this ill-fated order, the lives of the gallant Clay, McKee and Hardin were sacrificed; but he hoped God would lorgive him lor mentioning the name of thia coward in connection with those noble spirits of Kentucky and Illinois." l,n. Delta, that Georre Washington Dixon sailed from that port on the 7th instant, for Yucatan, as Cc sistinr tnnrl i k a t . 1 gainst the hordes ot naked savages Dy wnom mey . ,i,i tfa l..a trpmenrhuia nrorU. are surrounueo. lie nas issuea a ireuienuous oroc mation to the Yucatecos, in which he calls on that gal 10 9UI 1 VUIIUV.W v r laut race to rally around him as a pioneer of liberty, equality, and fraternity Great Tunnel. The Boston Traveller says an engineer of the Great Water Works Tunnel, at Newtnn oetimntna that the end oi this stuoendoua work.

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twenty-three hundred feet' in length, through solid ledge. In proportion as the structure of a governrock, at a distance of three hundred feet from the sur- ment gives force to public opinion, it is essential that

face, will be reached in about a month. Since the ,-,rtr nnn it w first commenced, nearlv eighteen mntha arrn there has been no intermission of labor, night or day, except such as has been caused by the overflow of water. The French llcsolutioni. Tho Union savs. the resolutions from the Senate. which were unanimously adopted by that body, have! finallv nnaaot the TTnnsn nf Renresuntativaa hv nearU a 'unanimous vote aves 172, nays 2. The two negatives deserve to be held up to tne wunenng scorn ' . . . .. . . 1 "... . nfthi.mnmiinitv. The are Messrs. Root, of Ohio. VI u w v liiuiuM. j - J and Cranston, of Rhode Island. . Tnot disappointed the hopes of the whigs of the has Union. Indiana Journal. It's well the expectations of whiggery are moderate. The whig have managed to get the Governor of Connecticut by a very close vote. They have 6 or 10 majority iu the House last year they had 29. Louisville Dem.

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And as "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," let us all resolve, by upholding and sustaining Democratic doctrines, to continue those measures which none will deny have been so beneficial to us as a State and as citizens. To this end, the Coon Skinner will also be devoted. not doubting that the Democracy will manfully sustain themselves in the coming contest. Terms. Single copy, 50 Ten copies,. $4,50 Twenty copies, 3,L'0 And all larger numbers in proportion. rwH-Cash alwava in advance -v . 1 1 O " " amount of labor by having some person in their viciui ty who will direct the papers, leaving it to us to ;n elope them to one address only. In packages of 20, where this is done, wc will add numbers enough to make it an object, and so for larger numbers. CHAPMAN'S &. SPANN. QT" Will our brother editors please notice ! For the Statt Sentinel. Messrs. Editors. In your paper of the 6:h of April there appeared an article on the subject of the proposed free school system, signed "Liberty." I do not .pretend to understand the details of the law which passed the Legislature at its late session, never hav ing naa an opportunity to examine, uut as to the justice of a tax for the encouragement of common schools, I beg leave to differ with your correspondent. He says that the people agree unanimously that all children should have a chance to be taught, and that this cannot be done without a tax, and that such a tax would be unjust. Now the conclusion is, that a tiling ought most cer tainly to be dotie, and there is but one way by which it can be done, and that way unjust ! Here is logic for you. But another view of the case. If the people aree unanimously that all children should have a chance to be taught, then surely the people ought unanimous- , e .c n . .1 1 Iy to agree, so far as they are able, to use their best ' , ?, , , . , , , . and united endeavors to bring about an end admitted by all to be so very desirable. x. our correspondent seems to be perfectly horrified at the idea of the industrious being taxed for the benefit of the indolent. I presume he would rather see those who happen to have indigent parents grow up in ignorance, vice and immorality, with fair prospects of becoming inmates of penitentiaries or poor houses, or at best of becoming parents of families as indolent and ignorant as themselves. Yes, the very man who is so fearful of priestcraft, is willing to stand aloof and see a great part of the rising generation grow up with minds and sentiments properly calculated to become the subjects of that very priestcraft he so much dreads. Tyranny of every description has ever been most BUCce8kfui where knowledge was not generally difr , b 3 T cnbmit the nnestion to everv candid mind, on . . , ., .. , . which side lies the advantage to our country, our 10- ..... ... bA . J . stitutions, our posterity, and our own honor ; whether . . . ' ' , , ' , . , , in leaving our schools to languish for want of means, . . b , . , . . ... , . or in using our best endeavors to establish a system . . , . . . . . , 1 ..fvi iree bcijoois in wuicii au uia ue iiisirucii-u. 0 I . . . , , , , r I If if mn I nrnvpn thnt the more iinprinratPfi nr. . . nilP ,. f Lriestcraft. tvrannv and demarouism. fof all of 1 r . . . r . u , j Dj " T -n u which "Liberty" has such a dread.) then I will yield the point, and conceds that it is both unjust and tiwise to tax the people for a purpose the consequences of which might be dangerous to our liberties. It is so common a thing when a man fails for ar guments on any political subject, to hear him raise the cry of liberty, that it Las almost become a matter of course. Now I ask in all seriousness, whether it would be I . . .... 1 r t.: inconsisieiu wiui uueny ior me pcupie uuiant m I a I . ! ..... a MoAaiJ Acta 1 jK m t m 1 n-l irk r' rt 1,1 aA UMJir uwu utcoiu, caiauumi a a mm vuiu quire a tax to be paid by themselves ! The subject of education is of such importance to every citizcu of the State, both collectively and indiviauany, umi u "11.1 'F""' 1 many who seem so careless and indifferent about the condition of our schools, and when the only possib.e means for their bench! is proposed, they are ready to exciaim ij;a.u3iuv,i.u.Cu.t,,,r.w. .u w. of its friends, accuse of them of mercenary designs, of intriguing plots for the purpose of triping the peo.1. f mrtnAH And li'har id all this f iv 1 Itf I PIC UI IIJCII UlUUCjr 1UU Tf iiUb 19 Uli 11119 ivi i llUfc surely because they doubt the advantages of education. It must have its origin m a deep-rooted sort or avarice that grudges every cent that it is compelled I ...UitU m tKam rvn n oififiiifw uifri ifaotr n""- r"ut v" liuu"v on ,, One more argument und 1 have done. The followI . . . - 11 aii . in?r is lrom Washingtons farewell Address, ll breathes a spirit of patriotisn that should stimulate ever true American. After speaking of some of tha dangers to which this country was exposed, he says, as the most effective mode of avoiding them "Promote, then, as an object of primary import ance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowpublic opinion ue enngmeueu. I If the common people are slow of apprehension, as our friend "Liberty' seems to think, then 1 would invite the attention of every one to the above quotation both on account of the high source whence it came, and for the good common sense and reason 11 contains. YlUiNUS. Putnam County, Kussel jownsmp, maiana, Apru I . -m . 1 w a 18, 1343. I . Thrilling Situation. Shoottng Deserters r . . f 1...J..J Cm TIT. r K I extract irom a leuer, uaicu vmai6, "1 have lust returned irom a mobi ir.eiaricuojy v I I I m scene, freven eoiuiers weretinci.vu w uyaiu iu Isertion. lnree wvere nrsi orouciii uui aueeung on meir coffins and wero shot. The other four were then J brought forward, kneeled, bandage tied on their ryes tne worus, veaay; prcpem ; nu jjiinwU news it was the poor fellows were reprieved ! The all stood it like majors. One of them fainted when the bandage waa taken from his eye. "No news, only that the troop expected to go tn to Victoria will be sent until further orders."

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