Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1849 — Page 1

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Phipps of this citj has received telegraphic despatches from Fort Wayne, which represent the cholera, as prevalent at that plare. Ten deaths are said to have occurred 00 the 21st int. ; eight on the 22 J, and a despatch of the 21th says, 'tholera very bad." Who will bring us a jag of hay on account 1 We need one, and this i a goid time to briug it. First come, first credit! ! Another Gecus ! See advertisement of Crano & Co.'a Groat Oriental Circus in another column. It will bo here on the 13th of Sept. O-The Minnesota election lor a delegate t Congress, and also a Council and House of Representative?, took place on the 15th inst. The Legislatureis o meet at St. Paul 011 the 3d of September next. O-See the advertisement of II. J. &, B. C. Horn in this paper. They effer Cirpeting, Rugs, &c, of very superior qualities and patterns, at prices satisfactory to purchasers. Call and examine. The Toor House belonging to Carroll County, was burned on Sunday evnning, Aug. 12;h, having been seton fire by one of the paupers. Loss to the County S1000. Superintendent's loss not estimated. Aroon the most distinguished officers in the Hun0 o garian army, is the countess Joun Czaky, Colonel of the 13ih Hussars, a lady of talents, charms, and bravery. Her aid-de-camp is her sister, Miss Bujanovles, a very dashing and effective officer. Delegate feom Oregon. The Alta California, of June 23lh, says, an election fur a delegate to Con gress from Oregon had been held, and resulted in the election of Hon. S. R. Thurston, by a majority of 70 votes over all other candidates. Mr. Thurston emigrated from the State of Maine. 0-Wc hope in our next to be able to publish the official vole for Governor, Congress, the Convention, &c. One county only (Huntington) remains to be heard frcm. By the way, the Journal' tables of yesterday morning were remarkably correct! It came within a thousand votes of being correct in several instances ! Pretty well, for the Journal. Or-A great meeting in favor of Hungary, took place recently at Philadelphia. Mr. Dallas presided An Address and Resolution passed amidst the greatest enthusiasm, calling upon the Government W ft to acknowledge Hungarian Independence. Spirited speeches were made by Judges Kelly und Conrad, Col Page. Gen. Smith, and others. (The Lafayette Journal says, apparently witl perfect confidence, that the democratic majority on the joint ballot will be 24. How does it know! Whig papers, claiming for their party as they do, ail the honesty(!) would hardly steal election returns from "locofoco" papers without giving the proper credit and yet we are certain the Journal's figures came from our paper. Be honest. Fire in Wabash. A fire occurred in Wabash, on Wednesday evening the 8th inst., consuming a larg frame building, in which were three dry goods stores two drug stores, several lawyers offices, and the Wabash Gazette printing office. Loss estimated at $10.000. Less than a year has passed since a large fire oc curred in that place that destroyed a large amount 0 property The Great Fight Between Gorman and Watt? A paragraph has been going the rounds statin tha a terrible fight had taken place between Gorman and Watts, the democratic and whig candidates for Con gress in the Gib district of Indiana. It seems from the Washington, la., Journal that the combat was not with butcher knives as stated, but with paper ballots at the polls! The statement was erroneous in this, also : Gorman was said to be badly wounded, where as he comes out unscathed, while Watts was so roughly handled that he is thought to be forever done far! This is decidedly a pleasanter version than the other, and is moreover the correct one. mechanic' 3Xtitu:il 1'rotectloit. We learn that a Division of this Society has been established in '.his city by in Agent duly authorized by the Grand Convention of the M. M. P. of the U States of America. This society, (No. 7,) was duly organized, and the following officers elected II. J. Bradley, W. S. P. Samuel Pelzell, W. J. P. Wm. II. Karns, W. R. S. Samuel Hetselgeser, W. F. S. Wm. Wood, W. T. Wm. Lingenfeld, W. P. John Lingenfelter, I. P. and Emanuel Haugh, O. P. Having received their power and authority from the G. P. of the U. S. in due form, they are legally authorized to hold their meetings and to transact sue business as pertains to such institution. The Society has for its objects, M A more gencial diffusion cf the principles and wiener governing Mechanics aud lb Ait, to elevate our Lie hern in tbeir several callii'gs, od theiebjr five 10 them the jit tit proficiency in their icveral employment. Extending to apprentices under our caie a rood education in all that peilaios I their employ-meats, that berrslter the Mechanic and Artist may bo able to assume a belter station in society than bat ret been awarded to tbem By reodciing to each other that mutual advice and ssis'ance which 1 may need in our avocations, so lar as we may do it without wrong to ounelvei or 1 1 mi net, By a beneficial economy to provide against pecuniary dis tress out ng the sickness oi us meioDeis, and to extend ea and telief to their destitute families. To furni'h erorliymeDl to the brethren who may seed it when poible. and to piotect each otber fiom the encroachment of wealth or power, which may eombiue against them. and to secure, at far aa fouible, remunerating waget for our employment. To cultivate a proper andeistanding between the employe and the employed, theieby rendering mutual tbeir interest! instead of tbe conflicting opposition they have to long and so mocn actuated. AU papers friendly art requested to copy. From tht N. Y. Journal of Commerce, Aug. 13. The Hunkers and Free Soilers of New York No Union. It will be seen by our telegraphic despatches that the two conventions have been unable to agree upon a plan of union, agd that the Hunkers, believing further attempts useless, resolved, unanimously, to adjourn sine die. So we suppose the fight is to continue a while longer. In this the whigs will rejoice; for it secures to them, a while longer, all the offices and honors of the Empire State. It must be highly gratifying to them to behold the disinterestedness of the Lm, rnd their zealous attachment to principle. Mr. Van Buren was strongly in favor of a re-union of the democratic party. In a letter to Dr. Eeekman, dated 11th inst., declaring himself unable to attend the Convention, he said, "Ihave not on any proper occasion, henitated to avow 11 y earnrst desire for the re-union of the democratic party, upon the well understood principle of its illustrious founders. No sincere, disinterested friend of those principle can, I think, fail to see and appreciate the advantages to the country in general, and (his great State in particular, from such re-union ; nor am I advised of the existence of any well foundry and insuperable obstacle to its accomplishment in our own Stale, in a way consistent with the honor of both section?. "Such is obviously the opinion and the wishes of the masses rf which thty are composed; and what is thus desired, though it may be delayed, cannot be ultimately prevented. If these principles are truly represented at the two conventions, and the delegates from each bring into their respective or joint councils, conciliatory, liberal and just feelings, and look only to the trne interest of their common country and of what has been their common cause, there can be, no doubt as to the result.

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Published every Thursday. Ilotiso or lterescntutive 31t ConKress. The following political division of the members elected to the next House of Representatives we beieve to be correct : Already Elected. Dem. Whigs. F. S. Whigs. 1 8 1 1 4 15 1 1 G 4 8 1 1 1 Iaine Vermi-nt New Hampahire 1 2 3 1 1 6 14 a 7 4 10 6 o 8 1 2 5 1 4 7 1 1 Massachusetts Connecticut New York ihode Island New Jersey ennsylvaiita, Delaware Virginia Nortb Carolina South Carolina Georgia Ohio llinois Michigan 1 1 1 ndiana Wisconsin owa Missouri Arkansas Kentucky - 6 4 2 T 102 te. Tennessee Alabama Fex a a lorida - Total - - 102 9 F.S. To be elected Estimate. Dem. Whigs. 1 3 7 1C2 107 R. Island, Aug. 28 - 1 Vermont, Sopt. 4, Massachusetts, Sept. 10, Maryland, Oct. 3,-3 Ohio, Oct. 9; - - 1 Louisiana, Nov. 5, 3 Mississippi, Nov. 5, - 4 Add number elected, - 1015 9 10 Total - 114 The neit House will be composed of 231 voting members the delegate from Minnesota and Oregon Territories (Messrs. Sibley and Thurston) not being entitled to that privilege; of which 110 is a majori ty. Thus it will be seen that the free-soilers will certainly hold the balance of power. Should these members in voting choose candidates from cither of the great parties, according to their political affini ties, four (Messrs. Wilmot, King, Durkec, and Julian) would probably support the democratic nominees. giving that party 113 totes, and the other six blend with the whigs, viz: Messrs. Giddings, Root, Tuck, Allen, Palfrey, and Spregue Taking 113 votes. But it is likely each of the threo parties will make their separate nominations, and, by giving this trian gular character to the conteet, baffle all predictions in relation to the organization of the next House. 7Tne "good work," (as Eugene Sue's Indian brigand called the business of taking human life by a peculiar strangling process,) goes bravely on. Pro scription for opinion's sake continues to be the chief occupation of Taylor' mercenary cabinet, though be fore the election, he most solemnly declared he had no friends to reward, no enemies to punish, had no party purposes to subserve, would not be the Presi dent of a party, nor lend himself to party schemes. A general and thorough system of removals seems to have been determined upon, in spite even of the remonstrance of the whigs themselves, as witness the care of the Connersville, Ind., postmasterahip, published below. This is not an isolated case by any means ; there are hundreds such. But who could expect good faith or upright conduct to be observed where such men as Smith and Parker cive counsel 1 The follow ing is from the White Water Valley, published at Connersville, which is as wholly whig in all its tastes and instincts as any paper anywhere. Wc commend it t the special attention of all who at tempt to justify Taylor or his cabinet : Appointment bv the Postmaster General. Joseph Justice to be postmaster at Connersville, Indiana, tire Henry Goodlander, removed. lu reference to the change in the post-office in this city, we have a few remarks to make. We do not wih it understood that the removal of Mr. Goodlander, who is a democrat, receive ihe endorsement of the whig: parly, or even of one of the prominent members of the whig party ; for such is not the fact. So far as we have heard an expression cf sentiment on the subject, the voice of the whigs was raised in condemnation and regret at the removal. Where a democrat is "honest, capable and faithful," we would not eject him from office merely for opinion's sake. Wc do not so understand the policy of General Taylor's administration and it certainly is not the principle cherished by the whips. So far as we know, or have ever heard, Mr. Goodlander has filled the measure of the. Jeffersonim rule, adopted by General Ta lor: he was Honejt, Capable, and Faithful, and his removal wis uncalled for, uufortunate and illtimed. Through what influence the appointment was obtained wc are wholly at a loss to divine. A petition it is said was circulated in select quarters ; if this I! the fact, the circle must have been very select, for we cannot hear of more than half a dozen men who signed it. It has been charged by the lucofoens that Mr. Parker was instrumental in procuring the removal of Mr. Goodlander that he was advised of his removal prior to the election, and that he acted in bad faith with the people in declaring there would be no change in the post-office at this place. So far as Mr. Parker's agency in the matter is concerned, wc deny, on the best authority, that he had any knowledge of the removal until after Mr. Justice's appointment was received on Friday last; but on the contrary, he was assured by Hon. C. B. Smith, who, it appears has something to do with the appointments in this action of the State, that Mr. Goodlander would not be removed. Relying, therefore, upon the assurances of Mr. Smith, Mr. Parker felt not the least hesitation in denying the charge which the locufuco small-beer-stump-orators were making, that so soon as the election was over. Mr. Justice would receive the appointment of postmaster in this city. As to the qualifications of Mr. Justice, we doubt not he is "honest, capable and faithful." Personally, we entertain for him feelings of friendship, and believe that he will make a good officer. It is not the man to whom we object. But we think that to make the whig party swallow the lie merely to gratify the caprice of a man who has never been more than a "supernumerary" in the whig ranks, and whose political acumen has been considerably sharpened by a 'clerkship at Washington, is more than we are called on silently tu boar. If Mr. Collamer, would, in his appointments for this section consult the good of the whig partv. he had better advise with some other than the individual who recommended the removal of Sir. Goodlander ; for we can assure him that that was an act which the whigs of Fayette county emphatically condemn. The Presidency. At the close of the year 1832, we shall have had three non-slaveholding Presidents, each in o.Tice four years, and eight slaveholding Presidents, whose united terms of office will amount to fifty-two years. As the none-i'avcholders constitute at least twenty-nine thirtieths of the whole voting population, the inference seems pretty reasonable that, not being able generally to find men qualified for the Presidential office among themselves, they have f und it necessary to select from the small class of slave holders who are born with the jus divinum. Nat. 1 Era.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Caleb IS. Smith. Quite a long editorial article appears in the State Journal of August 22J, in defence of the anti-slavery position of the Hon. C. B. Smith, and probably with the entire approbation of that gentleman. We have no disposition to interfere with the melancholy duty which it is the Journal's present province to perform, that of taking enreof its dead and uvundtd; but when it contends that Mr. Smith is not among that clas?, wesuppose we may be permitted to doubt the au-theulii-ity of its statement. The very article to which we allude, proves not only that Smith is wounded, but that he is badly tcinged. He limps terribly ! The first half of the article labors to show the 1 past anU-slavery professions of Mr. emith. What need of that 1 Who disputes them, or who doubts, that previous to the last session of Congress, Mr. Smith occupied the position of an ultra abolitionist 1 Nobody. That truth is just as easily admitted, as another truth, that Smith proved false to those professions last winter at Washington, is easily and cer tainly susceptible of being established. Indeed the tone of this very article in the Journal, demonstrates the great change which has been going on in the mind of Mr. Smith, upon this subject, since the elec tion of Gen. Taylor. How savagely it condemns the fanaticism, folly and dishonesty of the abolition masses, as well as their leaders, Gott, Giddings, Hile &. Co. ! Mr. Smith's defence of his treachery to past pro fessions, may answer to pull the wool over the eyes of whigs who are already mentally blind, but cannot deceive those who have carefully investigated the facts in the case In our paper, during last January, we proved Smith's treachery from the record, so far as his action on the Gott resolution was concerned. But suppose we had not ; and suppose we were willing to receive his present lame apologies as sufficient to jus tify his conduct in that care, how are we to account for his equally treacherous conduct in reference to the bill of Dr. Palfrey ! That bill was similar in in tent to the proposition of Gott, but it teas entirely free from those objectionable features, which Smith allcees were contained in Gott's preamble. Smith dxlged a vote on Palfrey's bill as well as Gott's What plea does he put in here ? But it is not necessary to follow up this matter fur ther at present. A vast majority of the people, who read the speeches of Mr. Smith last winter; cannot doubt as to the position he thought it expedient to aseume in order to secure the place of Postmaster General. If any do doubt, we refer them to those speeches as well as to Smith'? votes, and his refusals to vote, on the slavery question. They are quite as authorilative as any thing which the State Journa may be made to say in his defence. 07-A letter from the Washington correspondent of the Pa. Ledger, in another column, is interesting. especially in i:s allusions to the opinions of the Hon R. J. Walker on the subject of slavery extension. We have no doubt that the position of Mr. W. is correct ly defined by the writer, and we therefore place full re liance upon his statements. By the way, some remarks appeared in the Louis ville Journal a few weeks since, which may not be out of place in this connexion. The object of the Journal was, of course, to excite odium against Walker and Benton, and to stimulate the anti-eman cip&tionists of Kentucky to stick to the whig ticket for theeakeof slavery: Messrs. Walker and Be.von. The Vicksburg Sentinel says that it is reported on good authority that Mr. Walker, late Secretary of the Treasury, has declared his approval of the course adopted and opin ions proclaimed by Mr. Benton that is to say, Mr Walker is in favor of the Wilmot proviso and the application of tue free-soil doctrines to the new terri tories. The Sentinel professed to be greatly surprised that Mr. Walker should take' such ground. In this we differ with the Sentinel. Mr. Walker, in his famous Texas annexation pamphlet, published in 1S44, argued in favor of that measure on abolition grounds. He contended that such annexation would, prepare the way for the emancipation of slaves in the northern tier of elave States. This view was very taking with those men at the North who, professing to have a great many scruples on the sebject of slavery and wishing t euotain ihe Locofoco party, found in Mr. Walker's logic reason why they could with entire propriety do both. Many of these men voted for annexation because they regarded annexation as Mr. Walker did, as a mcasuro calculated to lessen the number cf slave States and to shorten the existence of the institution of slavery in the United States. Mr. Walker, in that pamphlet, proclaimed that slavery could never go beyond the Rio Grande, on account of the unfavorablenem cf the climate and the people to the system. Gen. Gibs quoted this portion of the pamphlet in his famous Nicholson letter to eustaia himself in the position he had assumed, to the effect that nature had passed a Wilmot proviso against the extension of lavery iato California and New Mexico, and that there was therefore no reason why Congress should undertake to do what nature had already done so effectually. We do not think that dir. Walker could experience any very great difficulty in swallowing all the Bentcnianisms in relation to slavery, for his published opinions leave no room to doubt that, if he was sincere in declaring those opinions, he and Mr. Benton have 110 room for fraternal discord on that subject.. There is still another reason why we think Mr. Walker has already taken side with Benton, or is prepared to do so, and that is to be found in the coalition between the Free-Soilers and the Locofocos in the free States. Mr. Benton will inevitably be the Locofbco candidate for the Presidency in 1652, and, should he be elected, Mr. Walker would doubtless desire to take Mr. Meredith's place in the Treasury Department. Moreover, Mr. Walker has oAen in the warm visions of his fancy seen himself in the executive chair of the nation, and he thinks that, if Benton goes into it in 1853, his turn will certainly come in 1857. 0 Railroad Matters. The Pittsburgh and Ohio Company have advertised the letting of their line from Canton to Wooster, on the way to the Indiana line north of us. Their present intention is to extend their line toGallion, 15 miles beyond Mansfield, and 180 from Pittsburgh. They expect the Marion, Bellefontaino and Indianapolis road to meet them there. Before five years there will be a continuous line of railroads from Pittsburgh through to Terre Haute on the western line of Indiana, by the way of Mansfield, Bellefontaine and Indianapolis, leaving1 Cincinnati some eighty miles to the South. Cin. Gatt lie. The railroad from Philadelphia west to Pittsburgh, Wooster, Bcllefontaine, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, and ultimately to St. Louis, is steadily and quickly progressing. Cin. Commercial. We learn that the work is progressing through our State. The S3 miles of bridging and grading between Greencastle and Terre Haute, and the 27 miles between this city and Pendleton, and the 18 miles of clearing off the timber ea6t of Pendleton, is rapidly approaching a completion, many of the sections being entirely finished. The Cambridge, Mass., Chronicle says that a star of the fourth magnitude was d.scovered.at the Observatory on Monday night last week. It is situated in the vicinity of the "Ursa Major," and is supposed to be the same planet which disappeared a short time since. Tbe discovery will nolloubt make a stir in the scientific world.

AUGUST 30, 1849. From tht Cincinnati Enquirer. Ilemovnl oTGcu. Iuue. The Louisville Journal, in speaking of the removal of Gm. Lane, of Indiana, from the o3ke of Governor of Oregon, among other things says : "Ever since Gen. Taylor's election, there has been a good deal of doubt in the minds of many whether he would or would not remove General Lane from the Go- j vernorship of Oregon. We know that some of the ' whigs of Indiana have strongly advised the President j against Ihe removal. Not one of them doubted for an j '1 ! no unci icu iu ws icmuTru, uui mrj wcio in favor or his being let alona as a matter of mere policy. ' They were apprehensive, that, if strict justice should be ' done him, his political friend would manage to get up a great aeai oi locoioco sympathy far luin, and ththe imgiit De lound very troublesome at home. "We knew perfectly well that such considerations would have no influence wlmtever upon the mind of the sternly honest and just old man at trie head of tha Government, and they have had none. Gen. Lane has been removed from the Goveruorshio of Oregon, and J. II. Marshall. Cq , at Indiana, is appointed in his place. Gen. Taylor knew that Gen. Lane, in his adJresses and publications relative to the battle of Buena Vista, was guilty of tbe basest fi lue hoods and calumnies, and of course that he was n thoroughly dishonest and unprincipled man, unfit to hold any office of trust under the. Government, and, knowing thw, his own course was perfectly plain before hi-o. The old hero dares to do and will do what be knows to be right, and leave consequen ce to others. He would as soon retreat from an enemr as keep an unprincipled man in office from an apprehension that he might, if dismissed, b rendered troublesome or elevated into importance by tbe cry of persecution and luaiijiuuill. The morals of the scamp who edits the Journal are plainly indicated in the foregoing. Are they any indication of what are Gen. Taylor's ! Look over the Journal article again, reader, and then reflect that laylor kept Uen. Lane in office Jive months, knowing at the same time, according to the Journal, that he was a thoroughly dishonest and unprincipled man, unfit to hold any ffF.ce of trust under the Gov ernment ; and further, that with all the boast of the Journal that Taylor "dares to do and will do what he knows to be right, leaving consequences to others, he did not dare to remove Lane before the August election in Indiana. Now, was not the apprehension entertained by the Indiana whim, and which the Journal says ''would have no inflence whatever upou the mind of the sternly honest and just old mat: at the head ot the Lrovernment, the Tcry thing that in duced him to keen back all announcement of Gen. Lane's removal until after the Indiana election 7 What humbuggery ! Ejt there is another point that more nearly con cerns a person at all desirous of maintaining- a high. magnanimous, chivalrous character; which is that where the Journal more than insinuate that it was to gratify a revengeful feeling on the part of Taylor, that he removed uen. Lane. On this point we for bear making nny comments of our own, and call the reader a attention to the following remarks bearing on it, from the Washington Union. They are a biting sarcasm on the high and noble qualities claimed to actuate the President of the United States. The Union says : "We informed our readers, in Saturday's Union, that this dislinguithed general the Marion of tha Mtnican war had boen removed. The act itself is must disgraceful to the cabinet and the man in whose name tjiey have perpetrated this dark deed of revenge against an able and popular soldier. Cut we have heard a reason assigned for it, which, if true, renders the prescription of General Lane even more disgraceful to Gen. Taylor than censurable in the obi net. Several of the papers supporting the Administration say that he was removed because Tie had spoken disrespectfully of Gen. Taylor. Of course, the otlence occurred before Gen. Taylor was elected, because Gen. Lane, we believe, left the country for Oregon prior to that event. His removal, therefore, is simply an act of revengethe offipnng of a narrow and ignoble mind. It belittles Gen. Taylor amazingly, and painfully impresses the mind with the conviction that iiis sentiments, as well as his intellectual capacities his morale-' are not up to tbe high station which ha fills. What man of high and chivalnc impulses, after achieving the most sublime of all human triumphs, his elevation to Ihe highest and most dignified office of all the world, would disgrace it and himself by ignoble snd low-minded revenge upon an honored compatriot-inarms who differed with him in opinion, and perhaps had reflected upon him personally ? None : no high-minded man would degrade himself by such conduct, in such circumstances. "How different was tha conduct of Mr. Polk in circumstances somewhat similar ? When he came into the Presidency, Mr. Wise was minister at Brazil. A mis understanding had long eiisted between tbem, growing nut of difficulties which occurred in Congress while Mr. Polk was Speaker, and which many thought would have justified Mr. Wise's recall. But Mr. Polk declined to recall him. lie said ha would be guilty of no act in his high place which would !ok like revenge for former affronts, tie would let Mr. Wise retain his office, and consult his own sense of delicacy and propriety an to his resignation. Mr. Wise did retain it until near the close of Mr. Polk's term, when lie asked to be recalled, and came home. Mr. Wise knew how to appreciate this act of magnanimity. This dignified conduct on the part of the President softened tha asperity- of fetling which existed between him and his Minister, and, we understand, led to a reconciliation between I he in. It was honorable to both parties and creditable to humanity . Cut how different the conduct of Gen. Taylor towards a brave compatriot in-arnif. How degrading is tha malice displayed by the incumbent of the presidency to the great office which he fills ! How illiberal, how low-minded, how ignoble, is this proscription of Gen. Lane a broiher-in-aruis of the President, a brave mnn, a patriot who had rioked his life in many battle-fields for his country. How can the highminded and patiiotie American people fail to be disgusted by acts like this, which bring discedit upon tbe presidency and dishonor upon the country ?" In reference to Taylor's baseness and meanness, the Pennsylvanian says "General Lane wai emphatically "ihe Marion of the war," ind scarcely less distinguished than Taylor himself. What a spectacle i W hilo the traitor Collamer, who voted fr the resolution that sought to cover our arms with disgrace, by recalling our troops before tbe war was over, is holding a "place at the rizht hand of General Taylor while Hudson, the desperate author of mai resolution, is reaping nis inousanns in a lucrative 01fice, also conferred by General Taylor the brave and weather-beaten Lane, in the far-off wilds of Oregon, is lemoved and branded with the brand of this infamous administration. "Why did General Taylor omit to announce this detestable act until the Indiana election had taken place t He showed little of the soldier by this timid and shrinking delay. As it is, he may console himself that Iodiana has done her duty to the country, by rebuking his admin istration without being instigated to it by the removal of her roost cherished son. Uen. L.ane will be vindicated in good time by those who scorn the ingratitude of the present contemptible regency." TATLomsur Repudiated bt ai Original. The Blue ILm's Chicken, one of the first papers to nomi nate Gen. .Taylor for Ihe presidency, and always zealous in his support, thus repudiates tbe course of his administration : We were among the very first to hoist the flag of Gen. Tuylor.T the Presidency, because we thought him honest, independent and capable all admit that but for nur support he would have lost Dt la ware all the independent whigs and democrats for the old hero. We understood from his letters, &c., that be would administer the government with principles of the early Presidents, having no friends to reward no enemies to punieh we have been disappointed, pro scription has been the order of ihe da v. We expect ed the friends of Taylor to supersede the old hands as fast as the commi-fions expired but no sooner, ex ce pt for groes and palpable incompetency or impro priety ; instead f this the guillotine has been at work, in the appointments the best whigs have been reelected, or treated with contumely. The real friends of Taylor been almost mocked at, their re commendations utterly disregarded, and th behests of an unprincipled clique been taken for the voice of Delaware. But Delaware freemen will not tamely bear to be trampled upon. Democratic whigs havo the spirit, the will, and the power to do justice to themselves, when cliques and cabals would rut their feet upon their necks like slaves. Rememler tyrants, your doom is coming ! A man's sentiments are developed by his converta lion; his judgment by w hat he withhelds.

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0 Volume lXu:::::::Nuinkr 12. Corretpond-net of the Public Ledger. Letter from Washington. Election Returns and Causes of the same The lion. II. J. Walker on the Wilmot Proviso and on Slavery. Washington, Aug. 13, 1919. The election returnsTather seem to have taken the administration by surprise. The result in Tennessee was not anticipated, though the administration was not ignorant of the fact that the recent appointments to and removals from office are far from giving satisfaction to the Southern supporters of General Taylor. It cannot be deuicd that the manner in which (ien. Taylor's cabinet lave illustrated the old hero's declaration that he Lad " no enemies to punish and no friends to reward," has disappointed bis friends all over the country. There were thousands of voters throughout the Union who were really sick'of the practice of proscription and appointment to office " for having done hard work in the party," who bcLcved the system radically wrong, leading headlong to corruption and the commission of all manner of political aud social crimes. To these men Gen. Taylor owes his election ; and these men now sec with surprise, and, as we may conclude from recent events, with some degree of mortification, that the number of removals made since March 5th last, is really greater than that made during the name period of time by any previous administration since tbe adaption of the federal Constitution. Gen. Taylor has left for his Northern tour. A blessing attend him. I doubt whether any removals will be made during his absence, and sincerely hope that his journey will not only benefit his health, but every faculty cf his mind and body. A foolißh rumor is going the rounds of the press as regards the opinions of the late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker, on the subject of the Wilmot Proviso. He is reported as having declared in favor cf the proviso. This I know to be entirely unfounded in fact. From the moment of the introduction of that measure, Mr. Walker has uniformly declared that such a, proviso was wholly unnecessary, and should, therefore, not be adopted by Congress, even if the power were clear and undisputed, which it i3 i.ot. Mr. Walker's view of the subject is the same as that expressed by him in his Texas letter of the 6th January, 1814; namely, that "beyond the Dd Norte slavery icill not pass, because it it forbidden by law." He thinks that the law of Mexico, which prohibited slavery in California, is still in force there that sur-h is the local law, and that, therefore, it is in his judgment unnecessary and unwise in Congress to attempt, especially under a much controverted power, to do that by a Congressional proviso, which ia clrarly done already by the local law still in full force and authority. Mr. W. thinks that to enact the Wilmot Proviso in regard to California would be as inexpedient and unnecessary as to apply a similar provifo to the Canadas in case theu should at any time be annexed to the Union. JIr. W. believes that when Territories are annexed to the Union, the pre-existing local laws on the subject of slavery, whether permitting or excluding it, rwnain in force. His view of the subject is, that if Cuba were annexed to the Union as a Territory, slavery would exist there; because it was established by the local law, and that slaves could be taken from the Southern States of the Union and held there as tuch ; but under the local laws of Cuba, and subject to all its provisions, and not under the conflicting lavs tf the several Stales, from uhich such slaves might be taken, as was actually the case on the annexation of the Floridas and Louisiana. In the Mime manner it is his opinion that if the Canadas were annexed as Territories of the Union, slaves could not be taken and held there, because slavery is prohibited by the local law. Mr. Walker was the first to declare, in his letter of the 8th January, 1844, that slavery never would cross the Rio Grande, and to give the reason for this prediction, viz: because slavery was forbidden there by the pre-existing local law, which he believed would remain in force. His views were promulgated nearly six years ago, in his Texas letter, and circulated by millions of copies North and South. Mr. Walker, then, simply retains his old position on this subject. The assertion that slavery would never cross the Del Norte was vehemently denied by all the opponents of Texas annexation. throughout the North. Nay more, it was denounced as a fraud, put forth to obtain the vole of the North for Ihe annexation of Texas. MrW., however, insisted that it was his sincere conviction, and gave that issurance, in the most solemn form, in his Texas letter to the Democracy of the North, openly and with the free knowledge of the whole country. And now, if Mr. Walker, disregarding this assurance, were to advocate the .extension of slavery beyond the Del Norte, would he not stand self-convicted of violating a solemn public pledge, made in his Texas letter, upon the faith of which thousands of Northern Democrats abandoned their opposition to the annexation of Texas, and without which, Texas would never have been annexed to the Union 7 This, as a man of honor, Mr. Walker cannot and will not do; and therefore cannot advocate the extension of slavery into California by stretching over it the local law of some of the Siatcc, or by enabling any State to force slavery upon the people of California, against their almost unanimous voice, and in opposition to the prior law abolishing slavery within its limits. Mr. W.'s desire, from the first, has been to admit California as a Stnte; leaving to the people, in forming their State Constitution, the right (which he thinks none can dispute to any State) to decide whether slavery shall or shall not exist within her limits; avowing, however, at the same time, his own clear and utidotibting conviction that the people of California, in forming their State Constitution, will dec.de, and do die I a re by a provision inserted therein, that slavery shall never be rc-eMablinhed within their limit, by the people of California, will be much more effectual and certain than any proviso, under the disputed power claimed for Congress, and which, even if constitutional, the could reject at any time when a State, in forming or amending her State Constitution. Whatever, then, may be thought, either in the North or the South, of Mr. Walker's views on this subject, as regards the extension of slavery beyond the Nel Norte, they are precisely those openly communicated to the people of the whole Union, in his Texas letter of the 8th January, 1344. From tbe proclamation of Gen. Riley, of June last, to the people of California, issued under the authority of Gen. Taylor's Cibinet, it is obvious that the administration are exerting themselves to induce the people of California to form a State Constitution, with a view to the admission of California as a State into the Union, at the next session of Congress. Indeed, that such is the wish of Gen. Taylor's administration, is distinctly stated in the speech, delivered at San Francisco in June last, of the Hon. Thomas Butler King, a most distinguished Whig member of Congress from Georgia. Is there not, then, muih reason to believe that this slavery question in regard to California, including the Wilmot Proviso, which has caused such a dangerous excitement throughout the Uuioti, will be settled this year in a manner which none can dispute, viz : by the Californians themselves, by inserting a clauae iu their Slate Constitution, forever forbidding the existence of slavery within her limits, and coming thus as a free State into the Union ! - OBSERVER. The Guernsey Jtffersonian, published at Cambridge, Ohio, records the death by accident of two of the citizens of that place within the past week. Mr. Rash. Brown, proprietor of the "Mansion House," while attempting to adjust a trunk on the top of the coach that was standing in front of bis Hotel, and about ready to start, slip ed from the wheel and fell with his head on the ground, badly fracturing his skull. He died in a short time. The other was the Treasurer of the county, Mr. William A bell, who went out in the morning to thoot squirrels with a rifle, when, in getting over tbe fence, the gun went off, tbe ball entered the left breast and passing out through the shoulder, causing instant death. Each leave families to mourn their Ines. James, the nove'est, the New York Express understands, is under contract to write four novels a year, acd they are produced with unvarying punctuality.

IV LI WS Ol' THE DAY. Hon. Stephen Longfellow, a member of the Hartrd convention, died at Portland on Friday last.

aged 73. More than half of the journeymen tailors of Taris are out of work. Laborers on buildings find better employment. There is a great mortality among fowls near and in Cincinnati, and nearly all brought to market one mornurr uied on the farmers hand-. Rev. N. L. Rice, D. D., of Cincinnati, has been elected President of Hinovtr College, to fill the va cancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Seovel. The Famous Madam Restell, alias Lohman was reeased from Blackweil's Island on the 27th of June ast, and is now living in her splendid mansion, ia Chamber street. New York. A Smart Woman. The Princess 'f Orange owns eleven steamers, with which she trades to different ports in EurcLe, going occasonally with her own ventures as supercargo. The Pope gave Col. Neil, the Frenchman who brought him the keys of Rome, "a magnificent eaplet fir his pious wife," and the insignia of ihe "Order of St. Gregory for the brave soldier." Secret Sk:ietiE3 vs. Choleba. The St. Louis Organ says that out (if 1,500 Sons of Temperar.re in that city, only 13 died ofchoka, and that out of 110 OdJ Fellow 8 only 1 died of the epidemic. The Shelby. Ky. Airics says that President Malcomb, of the Georgetown College, having voted for au avow ed Emancipationist, at the late election, was forth with requested by the Trustees to resi?n, which he did without delay. The students of Ihe Uuirersity of Virginia have de termined to erect a monument lo Thomas Jefferson, as a token of their respect for his memory, and their aonreciamn or the benefits which they have derived from his labors. Drtlling Wheat. The Michigan Farmer states that Col. Curtenius, of Grand Prairie, has t-atisfied himself from experiments which have been made in the neighborhood, that wheat eown with a drill, will yield on the average, five bushels more to the acre than that sown broad cast. It is more secure against being winter-killed, and the seed is more sure lo vegetate. Wttlem World, N. Y., August No., 1SVJ." Col. Benton. The Missouri Senator seems to be carrying everything before him in his own State. The Independence Expositor says: 4The people am now fully aroused; they are determined to guard their honor and sustain their faithful Senator. To Repudiate and Expunge are the werd! Repudiate tho action of the Legislature in passing, aud expunge the disgraceful Resolutions from the lcgUlathe journals !" Not Done Yet. The Se!ma Ali. Reporter, (w hig) says that President Taylor will most assckf.ilv veto the Wilmot proviso and all such sinAfChrs. The Boston Atlas siys "there is no doubt t'at fV?r. Taylor Kill cßx his signature to a bill amlaimvg te proviso!" It takes whigs to believe boih of these stateincnte. Boston I'ost. Shameful Imposition. Some scamp, a disappointed office-seeker it i.t supposed, and instigated, it is thought, out ot sheer levenge lor Jailing to get a share -f the spoils, has been detected in vending to the admirers of the "Second Wnthington," at f.fiy cents each, spurious rings, made of white horse hair, represented to be taken from .e genuine tail of "Old Whitey." Shameful ! The public are cautioned "not to buy rings made of white horse hair, said to be made of hair formerly belonging to Old Whitey, unless the vender exhibit a written certificate cf genuineness, signed by the members of the Cabinet." So beware ! Fatal Affray. On Monday morning, Gih inf., in Maysville, Spencer Cj., Ind., Mr. Wm. Torter, Jr. who is represented as having been a worthy and excellent citizen, was killed by James Masterson. It appears a difficulty had occurred between Porter and Thomas Maslerson the latter having threatened lu whip Porter, who drew his knife to defend himself Masterson retired, and Porter was walking towards the house, when the brother, James Ma sterson, threw a large stone and struck Porter on the back of the head, from the effects of which he died on the following day. Masterson immediately fled. The Sheriff of the county has offered a reward for his apprehension. The Homestead. Here is what Thomas Jefferson said in a few words on this subject, a great many years ago. There is more necessity, now, for the new "declaration," than there was then: "When the war is over, and our freedom won, the people must make a new declaration ; they must declare the rights of man, the individual, sacred above all craft in priesthood or governments they mti-t, at one blow put an end to all the trickeries of Engl, sh lew, which garnered up in the charnels of ages bind the heart and will with lies. They must perpetuate republican truth, by making the homeMead of every man a holy thing, which no law can touch, no joggle wrest from his wife and children. Until this is d"i;r, the Revolution will have been fought in vain. Pkosckiption. Major Gaines caused the removal of Mr. Stanton from the Post office in this city, end the people, iudignautat the losaofa worthy and welltried public servant, immedidia'ely rebuked the act, by electing Mr. Stanton to fill the seat of Major Gaines in Congress. Gen. Taylor has now removed the brave Gen. J. Lane from the office of Governor of Oregon, to make room for J. G. Marshall of Indiana; and we know of no better way for the people to rebuke the iiK-ult thau to turn about and elect Gen. Lane to the Presidency in 1SÖ2, over his prosecutor. For one, we 'should bio glad to see it." What say our western brethren! Kentucky t tag. Thf. Canal. Proclamation. It is announced in the official journals that the proclamation of the Sec retary of State, countersigned by Zachary Taylor, against the rumored invasion of Cuba or Mexico, was sent on Monday from Ilarrisburgh by the President. There is a bitter satire in this foolish falsehood, announced, for the purpose of arresting the universal and overwhelming impression that Gen Tatlok is the least noticed and most inconsiderable portion of the Administration. As a distinguished Whig remarked yesterday, after reading Ihe proclamation "it would astonish the President quite as much as it d.d anybily else. Lvery act of the present reckless laten cy only proves the more their utter unfitness to carry on the Government. Ptnnsyhanian. Rescue of American Sailors at Japan. We " learn from the China Mail that the United S ales ship Prtbla has returned from Japan, whither she was despatched by Commodore Geisinger for the purpoai of bringing away some men belonging to the American whaler Lagoda. Iu this dpt. Glynn has succeeded, having rescued thirteen of the whaler's men, and one seaman named MacDonald, who a year ago, at his own request, received his discharge from the Plymouth, whaler, and was put eshore at Matsmai. Shortly after lauding he was made prisoner and conveyed to Nangasaki, where he was kept in close custody, and underwent frequent examinations, but without being aware thnt for many months a number of his fellow countrymen were confined within a siiort distance of bis cell. Neither Captain Glynn nor any of his officers or crew were suffered to land, but otherwise they received no discourtesy; on the contrary, everything they were supposed to want was tendered, but declined, solely because the Japanese would accept of no payment. Fitz Henry Warren writes an apologetic letter to Bennett of the New York Herald, in answer to the lalter's strictures upon the mismanagement of ihe post Ouice department. Fitz writes to Bennett thus : ' "The post master in this city excuses his office, on the ground that the office was in much confusion, in consequence of repairs which were being made in the internal arrangements of the same." Bennett publishes the letter, and holds forth as follows : Now, this is quite amusing. A very funny sort of repairing which puts every thing into "confusion!" Cave Johnson was turned out fur incompetency, and Mr. Collamer was put in not to create "confusion," but to produce order and efficiency. He makes a wretched beginning. Indeed, in the present instance, we can hardly avoid the conclusion, that the blunder was the result of design, Repairs," forsooth! This stale of things can't last long. The management of the post oftcc department is in a wretched condition.