Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1848 — Page 1

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Send in th8 names, friends, as soon as possible, or some will be disappointed in getting full files. We desire to know as near as may be, bow many thousands to print. The time is short. 0- Correspondents must make their communications SHORT; otherwise we cannot find time to read, much less room to publish them. We can't afford an acre of space for the expression of a single idea. Look at the advertisement of Mr. Frink, for an exhibition, at the Court House, on Tuesday evening next. He it highly spoken of in Cincinnati and other papers. Fat Cattle. George Tlant will, on Wednesday, 17tli inst., exhibit some very fine fat cattle on Washington street, to which he invites the attention of every body. He will cut up some of the same beef in market on the following Saturday. C"Mr. Niles has introduced to the Senate a resolution in favor of coining quarter dimes, two and a half cent pieces. We wish that he bad also proposed the coining of gold dollars. We need the quarter dime, erpecially in this section of country, where no cents are in circulation, but we need the gold dollar more. If this could be made a party question, we should soon have the coins specified ; but as long as every body, except a few paper money mongers, would be gratißed to have them, we cannot expect to get them from the politicians in Congres. They have but very little to do with measures of practical utility, their thoughts being chiefly directed to Presidential candidates, and the ways and means by which to keep themselves in office. Copying our statement about Mr. Van Deusen the "Blind Minstrel," the Madison Banner remarks as fallows : "Why did you not publish him at once, neighbors! He served us exactly the same way, which, if you had given timely notice, he could not have done. He ia a very insinuating and artful scoundrel ; and we have some reason to believe that hia blindness ia only assumed to "blind" other people. Pass him round. We did not "publish him at once,' because we were not "at once" satisfied that he was a "scoundrel." We therefore gave him time. But as he is in forgetful of his debts to others as to us, we suppose it can no longer be a question of doubt. 07- The State Sentinel advertises "Möns. F. Charten, the great horse doctor of America, as having cheated that office out of $7,00, and of having "killed at least one fine horse which he undertook to doctor." The same surgeon had a trial here for doctoring the life out of an anitnal, but we believe he escaped the infliction of any penalty. Wabash Ex press. Taylor's Last Letter. Gen. Taylor has sent a letter to his brother-in-law, Capt. Allison, which ap pears in the Picayune. The style of it is a little different from some other recent letters from the same quarter. Major Bliss we know returned to Baton Rouge some weeks ago, and it is not improbable that he had something to do in suggesting and framing this letter. Perhaps it may be the one which the N. Y. Tribune stated had been contrived by the General's friends at Washington. Let it be as it may, we shall copy it in our next semi-weekly paper. Killed by Lightning. We learn from the Madison Banner of the 3d, that Thomas Lawbead was killed by lightning on the previous Monday. His skull was broken, the bones of his right leg badly ßhivered, and the heel of the right shoe torn to fragments. Nevertheless his skin was not broken at any place. John R. CofTman, Jacob Coffraan, Spencer Beach and John Meek were affected by the same stroke, the last very severely, his condition being yet critical. They w ere all employed in Coffman'a brick yard. Woosteb Banc. The Wayne County, O., Democrat states that the directors of the Wooster bank have shipped the coin of that institution to Cleveland. It was done under the pretence of sending cloxer-seed. The object is to sustain the branch back at Cleveland during the run that it is anticipated will be made upon it, and then use the funds to buy up Wooster paper at twenty-five cents upon the dollar. People are willing to be cheated by "respectable gentlemen." Whig Folly. The manner in which the whig leaden in Congress are cow fooling away the public time and money, is partially developed by the following telegraphic report of proceedings in the Senate on the 27th of April : 'Mr. Badger's resolution, previously offered, instructing the Committee on the Library to purchase Brown's Portrait of General Taylor came up for consideration. Mr. Hale of New Hampshire, moved to lay the resolution on the table. The yms and nays were demanded, and resulted in the negative by yeas 11, nays 19. Mr. Cass was present, but did not rote, which fact being noticed, caused laughter. Mr. Hannegan, of Indiana, moved an amendment in favor of adding the Portraits of Washington, Jackson and Scott. After considerable discussion, the amendment was put to vote, and rejected. Mr. Hale moved to amend the amendment, by including the portraits of all American generals. An animated running debate sprung up, in which Mr. Badger, Mr. Hannegan, Mr. Underwood, of Ky., Mr. Allen, of Ohio, and Mr. Dayton, of New Jersey, participated. Mr. Hale moved to lay the resolution on the table, on which motion the yeas and nays were demanded, and resulted in the affirmative as follows yeas 21, nays 15. We can't see why the wbigs were bo very anxious to have Taylor's portrait, to the exclusion of all others, except it be because he is decidedly the ugliest man of the lot. C7Ejr the late fires in Washington, the government has lost the valuable maps and calculations connected with the North Eastern Boundary Survey. It is said there is no way to replace them but by sending to the English government ; but we doubt if we could obtain authentic copies from that corrupPquarter. Death or Senator Ashley. Congress on Saturday, April 20th, after the receipt of a message from the President concerning the affairs of Yucatan, adjounmed on account of the illness of Senator Ashley, who died in the afternoon. 07 Fifty buildings have recently been consumed by fire at Albany N. Y. Incendiaries are busy in most of our large towns. Let us be on our guard. ß7 In a few weck, all unsettled accounts with this office will be left in the hands of an officer for collection. Mr. Vance W. Taylor, of Owen county, was recently killed while engaged in blasting rock.

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Published cyery Thursday. Indianapolis Dellcfbntaine It. Kond. On Monday, the first instant, the books for sulscription to the stock of this road were opened at this place, and on Tuesday evening O. II. Smith addressed our citizens from the porch of the Washington Hall, on the importance of the work. We cannot, in this brief sketch, give the remarks of Mr. Smith at length, as he dwelt at large upon the subject in its different bearings. We can only epitomize his main positions. He maintained that this road was of great importance to central Indiana; that it was but a line, of eighty miles in the great chain of rail-road communication from Boston, New York and Philadelphia to St. ÜR'VVTjpning through central Indiana. He showed by the map, which he exhibited, that the railroad lines from Boston and New York, running northwest to Sandusky, being completed, the immense travel and business from and to those cities, would concentrate at and pass that point. He showed that the rail-road from that point to Bellefontaine, on the direct route, was in operation that the route was direct from Bcllefontaine to Indianapolis, a distance of only 140 miles, and that when that link shall be complet ed, the great chain will be entire from New Ycs-k and Boston to Indianapolis. Of this 140 miles he said Indiana had only about 60 miles to make, and Ohio about 00 miles that the route was one of the cheapest and best in the west, and ran through one of the most fertile countries in the valley of the Mississippi. He showed, by the map, that the route of the road from Bellefontaine to St. Louis was a direct and almost straight route on the line of this rail-road to St. Louis through Sydney, Winchester, Muncie, Anderson, Pendleton, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Vandalia, and that it was greatly the shortest route between New York and Philadelphia and St. Louis. He showed the Chicago route, and the Cincinnati route from Sandusky to St. Louis pointed out the position of those cities, and their distance from the direct and true route through central Indiana. He said that the routes through Chicago and Cincinnati were the opposing and rival routes of the central Indiana route. and he earnestly maintained that the time had now come when central Indiana had to decide whether the immense travel, emigration, and business of the west should pass around or go through central Indiana. He said the centre had the route, the country, the people and the means, and it only required concert and action, to insure, at a very light cost, by a profitable investment, the extension from Bellefontaine of this route through the centre of the State. He 6howed the policy of the people of Cincinnati, by which they had built up that great City of the West, and why it was that they had abandoned the Terra Haute and Richmond route. It was, he said, because Cincinnati now had the road from Sandusky completed, and she would favor no road that would divert the travel from that road before it reached Cincinnati, and therefore the Cincinnati policy was, to favor a direct road from that place to St. Louis ; such would be their course, and central Indiana was called upon, in selfdefence, to give to her own people and to the people, of the eastern cities, an opportunity, at least, of pasTing upon a direct route between St. Louis and Saudusky, through central Indiana, and not to force them round by either Cincinnati on the east, or Chicago on the north. He spoke of the position of Indianapolis, on the line, and said that it was destined, if a proper policy was pursued, to be the great mart of business for the interior centre of this immense agricultural region of country. That it was at about the same distance from Sandusky that Cincinnati was, and upon the same line, 100 miles from the Lakes, and that foods could be brought at as little cost from Boston, New York or Philadelphia, as they could to Cincinnati, when this road shall be completed and that there was no more reason why the people of Indianapolis and the surrounding country, should go to Cincinnati to buy goods than that those of Cincinnati and Ohio should come to Indianapolis to buy them. lie dwelt upon the importance of intersecting the great current of western emigration at Sandusky, and opening the New York, Boston and Philadelphia markets to our farmers; and he asked those who had been talking of a route to Wheeling, wby it was that Cincinrati had not taken that route, as Wheeling was so much nearer Cincinnati than Sandusky 1 He answered, that the Wheeling route would not meet the great current of trade and business from Boston and New York, nor open the markets of those cities to Cincinnati ; and he said the same reasons should operate on the people of central Indiana in selecting their route. He spoke of the Philadelphia route by Pittsburgh, and showed thaf it was a direct route, through Bellefontaine, on the central Indiana route to St. Louis presenting the map, and showing by the lines, that the New York and Bo6ton routes, and the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh route, intersected at Bellefontaine, so as to give the west the choice of routes from Bellefontaine east. He said he did not design to disparage the Peru or Lafayette railroads ; he wished them all constructed, as he was of opinion that these works would aid each other, while they would enrich the farmers of the country. He differed entirely from those who believed that one rail-road to Indianapolis would make the city, but that several would destroy it; he thought the more the better. He earnestly called upon the citizemof Indianapolis to take stock as their ability should enable them, to enable the Company to organize at once, and prosecute the work to completion as soon as possible. Ho maintained that the stock must be good, and referred to other works to prove it. He spoke of the Madison Rail-road showed its importance, and the great benefit it would derive from the construction of the road north. Ha spoke of the Terre Haute road, as being another link of the great chain, and as carrying it to the great valley of the Wabash, upon the direct route to St. Louis. He spoke of the road from Richmond to Indianapolis denied that if constructed, it would be a rival in interest of the Indianapolis and Bellcfontaine Railroad, as its direction was upon the Wheeling route, and the other upon the northern, and although it would cross the road from Sandusky to Cincinnati, yet it would be at a point so near to the Ohio, probably Dayton, that the travel from the north-eastern cities, would be drawn by the suck of Cincinnati, to that place, and would pass around Indiana altogether. He alluded to the rival interest which he bad understood the Richmond route would encounter with the stockholders of the Knightstown and Shelbyville Railroad and the White Water Valley Canal Company, and he urged the great importance there was of Laving a work commenced at Indianapolis immediately, to connect with the Sandusky Rail-road, and said it was the intention of those interested in the Indianapolis and Eellefontaine route, to commence and press the road in continuous sections, until completed to the Ohio line, beginning at Indianapolis, ao as to make the work productive and sife to the itockholden. lie went into the financial policy to be pursued to insure the construction of the road with economy and safety. He closed by urging the citizens of Indianapolis to

INDIANAPOLIS, unite, by subscription to the stock, in securing the construction of the work, and the benefits of this great line of communication to Indianapolis, and through central Indiana. After Mr. Smith had concluded, Mr. Twining, the ' Engineer in charge of the Indianapolis and Lafayette , Rail-road, addressed the people on the importance of senting the claims of that work to their support. The Court or Enquiry. The usual unfairness, if not the dishonesty, of the whig press, has been palpably manifested in the matter of the Court of Enquiry in Mexico, touching the conduct of Scott, Worth, Pillow, &c. In almost any case, it would be very unfair to publish the testimony against an accused person, without giving a word of that in his favor. The experience of every one will establish this fact, and hence the proverb that "one story is good till the other is told.' One instance in Pillow's case demonstrates this. Certain interlineations in the "Leonidas" letter were supposed to be in his hand writing ; the testimony seemed to confirm the supposition ; yet, when that testimony leached New Orleans, the editor of the Delta, (who first published the letter, and afterwards gave tip the "copy" which was before the court,) declared that he himself made those very interlineations. Very few of the whig papers have noticed this fact, though they had published the testimony which bore against the accused. Their object was to disgrace him if they could, and make him as odious as possi ble, and that is the reason why so many of them have copied so much, and so much only, of the testimony as had a bearing against him. We notice this unfairness of the whig papers not because we have the slightest disposition to shield Gen. Pillow from the consequences of any act of folly of which he may have been guilty. We are quite willing that he, or any other general, ehall be condemned after they are proved to be guilty ; and that several of them have been the victims of their own vanity and folly, we have no doubt. We wish that whig papers could be actuated by a similar spirit, though we suppose any such hops is futile. The truth, nevertheless, is, as the Philadelphia Ledger observes, that the facts elici ted by the Court of Enquiry are not very satisfactory or flattering to the army. Gen. Pillow, having been charged by Gen. Scott with having written letters, or procuring them to be written, taking to himself cred it for acts that he did not perform, ia attempting to turn the charge against Gen. Scott, by endeavoring to trace certain published letters relating to military operations to their origin, and to show Gen. Scott's kuowlcdge of the same. The letter lately published by the New York Courier and Enquirer, which at tracted so much attention by the severity of its com mcnts upon the conduct of Gens. Worth and Pillow, has been acknowledged by Col. Hitchcock, attached to Gen. Scott's staff. This letter, it is alleged, does not come under the army order, not having been writ ten within the time prescribed by the regulations. The object of this letter, Col. Hitchcock says, was to correct the errors and misstatement which had been published relative to the operations of the army in the basin of Mexico. The fact, however, that it was written whilst Gen. Pillow was under charges, is made by the latter the ground for some pretty severe interrogatories. He regards it as neither honorable or just that, after charges are made against him, an attempt like this should be made to prejudge public opinion against him. The whole investigation, so far, has been nothing but a miserable exhibition of inflated vanities, petty, jealousies, and illiberal feelings, that advance the parties not a single step in public favor, and detract from their usefulness in the public service. The People of France. The Boston Atlas contains a letter from an intelligent American abroad, to one of our distinguished statesmen, in which, we find the following important paragraph. It gives a far different etatement of the French people from that contained in other letters and papers which have been sent from Europe: I have this morning seen an intelligent friend just from Paris, who says that the spirit of the people is moderate, reasonable, and as firmly opposed to anarchy as to the return of the Bourbons. He denounces the strictures of the Times newspaper as false in regard to the sinister influence of the French clubs. He listened with delight he says, to many harangues of workmen, that would have done honor to the most enlightened legislative body. He considers the .London Sun and Daily News as the beet for correct information and reasonable views of the revolution in progress." Vlaxk. Roads. The western legislatures are passing bills for the construction of plank roads. Having taken some interest in the subject, we are convinced of their superiority to McAdamized roads, lney cost little, if any more, and wear longer. Besides, horses themselves prefer plank roads to any other, and, where plank and McAdamized roads run paral lel, will always taka take the plank, it leu to their own way. Boston Post. It is said, however, that plank roads are bad for cattle. The feet of oxen, when drawing heavy loads, push laterally, and on plank roads, meet with insufficient resistance. St. Louis Union. Might not the oxen bo so shod as to remedy this evil 1 Brig. Gen. Lane left this place on Saturday on the steamer Andrew Jackson, to resume the command of his brigade in Mexico. There will be scampering among the guerrilleros when they learn that "Marion" is in saddle again. EvanstiUe Jour. Id inst. (7- We have confirmatory accounts of the battle fought at Rosalia, sixty miles from Chihuahua. The Americans were victorious, fourteen pieces of artillery taken, and the governor of Chihuahua and a large number of prisoners were taken by our forces. The loss in killed and wounded on both sides is represented as heavy. . t (7- The Acadia brought $250,000 in gold the first wave of the returning tide from the shores of Europe. The intelligence had the best effect in Wall street, which was beginning to feel nervous about the continued export of the precious metals, and the prospect fur the future. The U. S. Senate has discharged Mr. Nugent, the reporter of the N. Y. Herald, who had been imprisoned by direction of that body for refusing to answer certain questions relating to the surreptitious publication of the Trist Treaty. (7- A bill to secure to the State of Indiana the amount of pullic lands originally appropriated for the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal, has passed the House of Representatives at Washington. fj7-A little boy, about 3 years of age, son of David Groves of Aurora, was recently burned so badly as to soon cause his death, while playing in a field in which some log-heaps were burning. f-The returns of tbo Virginia election, so far as beard from, look very favorable for Democracy.

MAY 11, 1848. Slavery in Congress. The recent attempt to carry off some eighty slaves from the District of Columbia, the arrest of the fugitives, the assault upon the National Era anti-slavery paper in Washington city by a mob of rowdies, and the general excitement occasioned by these events, found its way, as a matter of course, into Congress. Ultraiits on both sides, abolitionists and slavery men, made themselves ridiculous by their intemperate speeches. Others displayed better temner and occu pied more reasonable ground, among whom may be numbered the Representative from this district Judge Wick, and Senator Hannegan. The discussion in the Senate was predicated on a bill proposed by the abolition Senator, Hale, for the protection of property in the district against mobs ; and in the House upon resslutions of Palfrey, of Mass., which embraced something like the Wilmot proposition. We shall be glad if we can find opportunity to publish the speeches of Messrs. Hannegan and Wick at length; but at present we are obliged to content ourselves with the following brief sketch of Judge Wick's speech, which is furnished by the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun : The consideration of Mr. Palfrey's resolutions was resumed, Mr. Wick having the floor. Mr. W. disagreed with those who feared slavery discussions. Discussion, conducted in a proper spirit, develops truth. He should vote against the resolutions and amend ments because a case of privilege is not made out." Mr. Giddings a statement disclosed the fact that any menaces of which he had been the subject, were not provoked by anything said by him in discussion here, or by any act in the discbarge of his public duty. The menaces were aimed at certain acts of Mr. G. performed in his personal character. In England precedents could be found making the personal acts of a member of Congress sacred. But such doctrine would not do in this country. The doctrine of privilege is defined and narrowed by our constitution and the fundamental principles of our government. Oa the subject of slavery Mr. Wick assumed and illustrated the following propositions among others : Slavery, in this country, has its origin in acts of unmitigated wrong the stealing of men in Africa. When the wrong was committed the naval interests of this country were solely in the hands of New England. New England, he said, 6tole the negroes. The inhabitants of the Southern Slates, being engaged in planting, became the purchasers of the negroes thus being the receivers of stolen goods, and accessories after the fact. What slaves the north retained were, on the abolition of slavery in the northern states, principally sold at the south. He proceeded to show, that in importing slaves, New England made four profits 1st, on the rum, guns and gunpowder bartered in Africa for slaves; 2d, on the slaves bartered at the south for sugar, cotton, indigo, and rice; Sd, on the cotton, sugar, indigo and rice bartered in England for manufactures ; and 4th, on the manufactures sold at home. Besides this, New England has derived immense profits from the carrying trade, growing out of the slave trade. When by importation and sale of slaves she had filled the south and glutted the market, she began to grow moral, and in progress of time bad taken in' hand the task of reproving, reforming and repentinj of her neighbors, in reference to slave-holding. The present generation of slave-holders, though tho sons of receivers of stolen goods, are not responsible for the existence of slavery among them. Slave-holding may or may not be sin, according to circumstances. Slave-holding is a matter to be controlled by State and local authority alone. The Constitution of the United States forbids Congress to meddle, except to provide means for a master to reclaim a runaway Blave, remedies for interference with him in so doing, and for the prevention of abuses growing out of slavery in the District of Columbia. On that subject the territories areas sovereign as are the states. The increase of the area of elavery cannot increase its volume, in the absence of laws authorizing the importation of slaves, which no one thinks of. If the volume of slavery could be restricted by curtailing its area, such restriction would result from emancipation caused or forced by a crowded slave population. The free states, bordering on the slave states, must, as a consequence of such haaty emancipation, be overrun by an avalanch of colored population. His State was in this category. v The northern states might feel secure from this evil. Not so Indiana. Indiana had legislated to preverl the evil, but such laws would be evaded. He hoped the northern people would so emancipate their slaves as uot to subject his State to such an avalanche. He could not see why this subject could not be discussed calmly. It is a matter of policy, and feeling and reasoning ought to be mutual. He thought the sons of those who admitted that their fathers were thieves ought to be charitable towards the sons -of those who received the stolen goods. In the abolition movement, the abolitionists were the aggressors, and the sons of the pilgrims unjust and uncharitable. The cavaliers, he thought, ought to take the matter coolly. They ought hot to suffer the presentation of a petition, a resolution, or the speech of a man they called a fanatic, to throw them into spasms. He heard threats of a dissolution of the Union. On behalf of the Middle and Western States, he notified the North and the South that they could have no leave to survey a boundary line through or on their borders. The Middle and Western States have been victimized politically, by these slavery or abolition agitations. They were resolved not to be the debatable land" of a civil war. They were the backbone of the body politic, .and were resolved not to be ruined by a dissolution, or by civil war. If they could not hold the north and the south to sureties of the peace, they would unite their powers and pummel both pilgrims and cavaliers. Mr. Giddings followed, in explanation of his course here, on the subject of slavery. He denied that he had ever, by any act of his on this floor, manifested a disposition to interfere with the question of slavery in the several states. His efforts had been directed to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and to prevent its introduction into new states and territories. Mr. Brown, of Miss., after a few remarks as to the extended range which the debate was taking, and the impropriety of euch a discussion at this time, moved to lay the resolutions on the table. The motion prevailed, 130 to 42. Whig Speeches out West. Mr. Lincoln, a whig member of Congress from Illinois, mads a speech a short time since, against the war, and with the usual amount of abuse of our gallant officers and soldiers, a copy of which found its way into Wisconsin to an old customer, who returned it, with the following, written on a blank leaf, to Mr.L. : 'This thing has found its way awiy ont here in Wisconsin. I dare not let my children read it, lest it should corrupt them ; I dare not show it to my neighbors, lest they should suspect me of treason. What, then, can I do with it ! I will send it back to the author. It may be of use to him; he may find some one green enough to give him credit for political honesty. He may find one so idle that he will read it, or as big a fool as I have been to waste his time in giving it all attention required. "If 1 expected to live twenty years, I would preserve it, to show posterity what traitors we had in 1843 ; but, as I am an old and infirm man, I cannot survive so long, and therefore send it back to him who gave it birth. Let him do as he pleases with it. But, for God's sake, don't insult a democrat by sending him a copy." Marriage Regulation. By a doere of the Landreth of the Canton of Glaris, in Switzerland, all the young men are interdicted from marriage before they are 22 years of ige, and the females before they an 20.

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Communication. Messrs. Editors: A reply or reproof came to me through your paper of the 13th of April last, over the signature of "a tax-paying farmer," for a communication which appeared in your paper on the 6th of the same month ; whether or not he misunderstood me in tentionally 1 am not able to say. But with this I wish to inform him and others if any should be like minded with him, that it is not, and 1 hope never will be my design to impugn the honest motives, or to blacken the character of any Philanthropic person. The suggestions which my friend did intend for me have in no wise enlightened me. It any one can show me that it is just to extort from the laborer and bestow it on the indolent, 1 will contess that 1 have learned something that I never knew before. V ill he also tell me that we have no designing men among usl I do again say that this present school tax cannot be based on the principle of equal rights and justice. I will now" relate what I do knuw and which is often the case" with -many families. I know at this tune a mechanic who always had high wages for his labor, and had no misfortune to reduce his estate, yet is very poor. What is the reason 1 I will tell you. Extravagance in all his ways ; that is, in clothing fine ; in eating sweet and fat things all the time &:c. I know also a farmer, that did work very hard when he first began to keep house ; was very poor ; but was 6aving in all his ways, and his supper most always mush and milk; sweets were very seldom on his table. The farmer lost no more time than he could help; the mechanic loitered much time away. Now the mechanic is counted poor, and the farmer wealthy, and both have large families. Can a just man say that the tax paying farmer shall be forced to give his hard earnings to this extravagant spendthrift! But let me turn a little nearer to the subject; we know that all men have an equal right to vote; is it also right that the most worthless shall vote the worthy man's property away ! Shall the worthy old bachelor be made a sport and prey, who never had the pleasure of having a wife and children ! Are such measures and laws in agreement with our liberties and rights! The "tax paying farmer" declares that it is illogical reasoning to charge an thing to the clergy. If he had heard the declarations of some of the Divines in the eastern states, he might, if he is a just man, have more correct knowledge of these D. D's. But they well know when the good man of the house is quiet and asleep, then is the time for the thief to break in. Did you ever hear a designing man publish his scheme ! 1 trow not. But when you tell them their craft, they and their disciples will deny their project, and the one that does speak the truth may expect to be abused by their combinations. This benevolent school system as they call it is the very best bait to deceive the rising generation. My friend "tax payer" must be very much prejudiced in the clergy's favor or he is very destitute of their desire. No doubt among them are men worthy of double honor. But I fear there are but few engaged in this scheme. Let it be borne in mind that when I speak doubtful of the clergy, I mean the designing ones. They also gave it a fictitious name; it cannot in truth be called a free school as long as one reluctant taxpayer is forced to pay. It is one-sided freedom. It is written there were false prophets in times past. But it is not written that there shall be no lalee teachers among us. If my friend would bear in mind with any degree of impression the horrors of apprehending and shedding the innocent blood, he might be a little more clear sighted. Religious teaching or drilling is in the bottom of this scheme ; although it may seem to be carelessly brought along, it is the grand object of their policy. From reports I do know that this school scheme has been an operation of the eastern States. But the advocates of it do not tell us all the full story out. Record tells us that some of them have man aged it so well or so cunning that more than one-half of the educational funds came into their fingers, and several have said, when all our schools are under our control, it will establish our sentiments and influence, so that we can manage the civil government as we please. Pretended kindness and benevolence, and free schools, falsely so called, are now exhibited in order to gull the people. But let us take another view of the subject; are the people more patriotic in the east than they are in the west! Are they more honest there than they are here ! Have they converted their penitentiaries into colleges and their jails into school houses ! Are they all upright that have been well educated ! Are all their teachers truthful and honest men 1 Hare not church and state been connected ; and since our price was paid for our liberty, men, yea, innocent men have been imprisoned for refusing to pay the priesthood. The bait is to give our children learning; but the chief object is to religiously traditionize them and then unite church and state together ; and then it is au easy matter to pass an act to tax the people a Utile for to support some honorable divines. Yea, imprisonment has been in forced to support the clergy, even since our fathers have paid that dear price for our liberty ; and what has been doue may be done again. Let every friend to liberty be on his guard ; our internal improvement yoke is but a trifle to what this may be. It has always been my wish and do6ire that all our children might have a good opportunity to be taught, but is there no way ou a just principle for them to be educated J I think there is ; if they must be taught, if force is to be exercised, is it not more just to make the lazy work and pay for their own tuition, or will you extort it from the industrious! But I now give you the only just plan. It is evident that most all industrious people do hire themselves out in some way or other. It is just that the teacher should be paid, and all sound, able bodied children or parents are able to pay for their tuition if they will. 1 will take every child over ten years old until it can read and write and cypher. I will send it to school three months and give it its boarding and clothing and pay the teacher; then let it do such labor that it is able to perform for three months more; then it may go to its parents again the remaining six months; I also will do all in my power to teach it to be honest and industrious; which is fur better than to know all languages and letters. I also will lecture on the principles of equal rights and our liberties, and on the principles of justice, and I will never ask one cent of taxation for my time of tuition. Then one child can never in truth say to the other my father paid for your schooling. I will also collect a committee to form a law for mine and tbeir government, and never sk the Legislature for a reasonable compensation for drafting the same. But notwithstanding all this, is it.so very pressing that children muet all at once be taught, or do our children get less learning tlian they used to get ! Let those that are in favor of this scheme pay the tax they choose. But let those be at liberty that wish not to pay any. In all kindness please to answer the foregoing. LIBERTY. Bartholomew Co., Haw Creek Townsuip. Fouiuerism in France.- The disciples of Fourier claim the revolution in France as a triumph of Fourierism, and rejoice at the prospect of that country being divided ino phalanxes ! The New York Tribune says Louis Blanc, one of the Secretaries of the new Provisional Government, is an open admirer and eulogist of Fourier, while Lamartine, Ledru Roll in aud other leaders of the people, are emphatic advocates of, a great social renovation. We also find the following from the London Chronicle, of the 22d ult. The Chronicle is stating the grounds of apprehension that a -revolution would be attempted in Paris, and says: "Another and a very serious cause of alarm is with respect to the working (printers)' compositors and pressmen of Paris. They are a very formidable and a very turbulent body amounting to op ward of sixteen thousand men. Hitherto they have taken little or no part in the affair of the reform banquet ; but to-day they have given notice in almost all the printing establishments that they will not be at their work to-morrow, as they have to attend the procession at the Champs Elysees. They are almost all communists and socialists, and I need not remind you that they were the first movers and the principal contributors to the revolution of July." Or-The Ohio Statesman announces the death of Bela Latham Esq., fur many years Pust master at Columbus, and subsequently Bcnk Commissioner.

From the Union. Ou those who have fallcu tu Mexico. The nn will rice, tha ion will stt O'er Anahuic's bills cf gold, As bright, oVr vals or mountain, jet, At if oo warrior slept blow i But asvtr, till bis racs bm run Ia heaven's blue arch, will that licit tvx Hit bcimi displsy O'er hcarU of Doblsr mould, . Tbiu thou who, npt in glory's spell. In ADihuic'i valleys fell, Tba proud, lbs free, tbs bold. Oft ihll the patriot tbither turn His steps ia salutary woe. To deck with bars the mound or srn That maiks the houored duit below. The seasoue ther shall bring Their sweetest stoies of loveliest spring In vernal vest, Wbere, rank to rank, or man to man, Inspired in glory's martial van, They sank to rett. Seasons shall come, and seasons go. And many a bill-flower bad and blow In wild perfume j But never, never, lust to fsme, Ehall memory ceate to bold tbs name Or muk tbs tomb Wbere they who for their country fell, Rett ia the field, or wild wood dell, Wbere winior met. And with tbeir blood, and for nil laws. Sealed honor's, v slot's, rarcDox's cause. H. R. S.

Hontsville, Madison Co., Ind., April 29, 1343. Messrs. Ckapmans Spann : Being a subscriber to your paper, and an earnest seeker after knowledge, I beg leave to ask you a fevr quest ions, and wish them answered in your piper, by some one, if you piease. 1. Why do the friend Quakers, all, or nearly so, claim the name "Whig 1" 2. Why did their forefathers in the time of the revolutionary war reject the name of Whig, and prefer that of Federalist or Tory ! 3. Who was it that opposed the war of 19l2 most warmly, and oppose the present war with Mexim 4. Who was it that from 1321 to 1330 so warmly opposed Gen. Andrew Jackson, in consequence of his being a military man, and iu 1S3G gave their most united and hearty support to Wra. H. Harrison, and gave as their only reason fur so doing, that he was a great general and a brave man ? 5. Why do they oppose measures that have the tendency to unite and strengthen our democratic government 1 You know they extolled Harrison to the ekies for the victory the Americans obtained at Tippecanoe, and condemned Jackson for saving the valley of the Mississippi from the English at the glorious battle of New Orleans, which act immortalized his name with all friends of our glorious land of liberty. A skinned coon said to me the other day, that he had voted for the last whig he ever would in his life. Why, said I ! Eecause, said he, there is too many tories among them. Do you mean the leaders of t'mt party are tories, or do you mean the party in mass ! Neither : but the Quakers are all whigs, and I won't vote with them any longer. That party, the whips, deceived me by the assumption of that name, and I have found it out and am glad of it. Yours, truly, D. P. IIASELTINE. Hoekible Affair at Grafton, N. H. We Mentioned briefly the other day, that the Rev. Eiios Dudley had been arrested in Grafton, N. H., on a charge of the murder of his wife, who was tipped over with her husband in a sleigh, a short time since, and buried without much ceremony. A correspondent of the Boston Mail, writing from Canaan, N. II., April 8, gives the following facts connected with this horrible charge, as he has been ab'e to collect them : About the middle of March, Rev. Mr. Dudley took his wife out to ride, and, after an absence of a couple of hours, he returned to his house, bringing back the lady a corpse. In explanation of the tragedy, he told the family that the sleigh upset, throwing his wife violently against a stump, and causing her death upon the spot. He at c nee proceeded to make a coffin with his own hands, and with as little assistance as possible placed the body in it. The funeral was conducted with haste, and marked by a total absence of all decent preparation and display. The version he gave of the manner of his wife's death appears at first to have been credited; but the manner of her burial, and something peculiar in tho conduct cf the husband after the funeral, aroused suspicions of foul play. At the suggestion of several of the deceased's friends, the lady was disinterred in the early part of this week, and a council of physicians held a post mortem examination upon it. The result was a unanimous opinion among the medical men that the deceased was strangled. This announcement caused an immense excitement in Grafton, where the accused was well known, and, aside from some peculiar leaning towards the doctrine of Millerism, much esteemed and respected. He was immediately arrested and conveyed to this place, where the affair is now being investigated. What adds still more to the mystery of this tragical affair and. the apparrent guilt of the accused, is the fact, which has come out during the examination, of his corresponding, for some time previous to the death of Mrs. Dudley, with a young woman, a school-teacher in this town; and it is rumored that his intimacy with her hss partaken of a far more criminal character than mere letter-writing. She was called as a witness against the prisoner, and is now being questioned before the justice. A son and daughter of the accused have also been upon the stand, and their testimony, as well as that of the echool-uiistre, is represented as ben ring fearfully upon the guilt of the accused. The examination will not be concluded bef re Monday or Tuesday. The most intense excitement prevails in the village, which is filled with people from Grafton and the adjoining towns. Teere Haute and Richmond Railroad. The Directors of the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad Company, recently elected, met in Greencatle on Wednesday the 19th inst., and organized by the election of Chauncy Rose President of the Company, aud adopted an ordinance authorizing the Preside to cmploy a competent engineer to survey and permanently locate the road from Terre Haute to Greenrasile. It is, however, expressly declared in the resolution or ordinances adopted, authorizing the location of that portion of the road, that the mere location thereof shall not be construed or understood to be a determination on the part of the Directors to commence and prosecute the work oa that portion of the road. An ordinance was also passed for the collection of the stock already subscribed, in the following manner: 4,00 on each share is required to be paid on or before the first of July next, and 4,00 on each share every sixty days thereafter, until one-half of the stock is paid. This ordinance does not however effect the stockholders of Hendricks county in any manner whatever their stock not being collectable until the permanent location of the road at Danville. Books for the subscription of stock will be immediately opened in all the counties in the Slate through which the road passes. Wabash Courier. Cheap Postage. Movements are being made in Boston and elsewhere, in favor of a further reduction of the postage on letters and papers. Cheap postage is a powerful auxiliary to the spread of intelligence among the people, and the results wherever it has been adopted, are in the highest degree satisfactory. The New York Sun makes the following comparison of the results in England and in the United States: During the past year 52.173.4S0 letters have passed throuph the Post .Office, producing a revenue of $4,213,157. The expenses during the same time was $4,009.200, leaving a surplus of $213,901. In England, the number of letters forwarded during the year 1S39, was 76,000,000, and 1S47, under the cheap postage system, they amounted to 322,000,000. Should our present half-way reforms be abandoned for the cheaD postage system, and the latter should work as well in this country as it has in England, (which the enterprising migratory character of our people would ensure) there would pass through the Tost Office 220.000,000 letters per year. . At two cents each, this would yield a revenue of $4,800,000, or $537,643 more than at present, and that without making any charge for the transportation of newspapers. "Taxing newspapers is placing a tax on universal knowledge as inconsistent as would be the taxin of scholars at cur public schools and should be promptly abandoned. By this reform the newspaper circulation, from 55,000,000 a year, would be increased 100,000,000 and the Press, the conservator of public liberty and public morals, would have its powcr vastly increased." Q-The w hig meetings in Alabama declare "uaanimously" for Clay.