Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1849 — Page 1

IN OIAN II'OLIS. OCIODCK 8, 1919. C Edgar A. Poe, ihe poet, died at Baltimore on Sunday last. Fire. The Vernon Times learns that the Brush creek Baptist meeting-house, in the northern part of Jenninga county, was destroyed by fire last week. Naval. The United States steam frigate Mississippi arrived at Leghorn on the 11th, with 1C5 passengers, among whom was Commodore Morgan, commanding the squadron of the Mediterranean.

O-The Madison Courier complains that the Ho tels there don't advertise people where to find them n j 'A ; It is generally thought here that they arc not tror advertising. C-The "Daily Journal," published at Lawrenceburgh, has passed into ihe hands of J. B. Hall, LVq. of the Register. Mr. II. will make it a good paper, and we hope he will receive abundant encouragement. "Noblesville Plaindealer" is lite title of a new paper, of respectable appearance, just commenced at Noblesville, Hamilton county, by P. Lawyer. Neutral in politics. We hope the editor will get rich. Governor or Okegon. The Washington Republic says, that Msjor J. P. Gaines, of Kentucky, has been appointed Governor of Oregon, in the place of Mr. Lincoln, and several others who declined the appointment. Gaines must feel highly honored at being thus made a "Jack-et-a-piucli." The Indianapolis Cjllegiate Instiiute. See the advertisement of this institute in to-day's pper. Mr.-MiLLS and his lady, we are informed, 6tistaiii the highest reputation for acquirements and fitness for conducting such an institution. Parents and guardians will do well to look to the facilities here afforded for securing the right kind of an education for their children and wards. This institution is to occupy the same building and is designed to supply the place of Miss Axtell'a female Seminary, which is discontinued. Professor Nichols ia to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Rev. Mr. McArthnr. (ttrThe New York Journal of Commerce truly re marks, that "the recall of Mr. Clifford, (Minister to Mexico,) is another of three calamities which to often result from a change in the administration. He appears to have discharged his duties with singular fidelity and ekiil. He had done much to heal the wounds of feeling created by the late war, and left Mexico amidst the regrets both of the government and people." The commercial correspondent of the W. Union says: Although the receipts of western produce from the Mississippi and its tributaries have been less in the year 1347, when the famine prices for food in England stimulated the business of the remotest sec tions, the value of that produce has this year exceed ed that of the last by $1,000,000. This sum represents so much additional purchasing power on the part of those who produce for the New Orleans market. . Pacific Railroad. At a meeting held in this city, Sept. 15th, the following gentlemen were ap pointed delegates to the Pacific Railroad Convention, to be held at St. Louis on the 16ih instant, to-wit: O.H.Smith, J. P. Chapman, S. W. Norris, Win. Sheets and J. D. Defrees. How many of these gen tlemen will attend the Convention is uncertain. Mr. Smith will go, unless prevented by some untoward circumstance. Mr. Chapman would like to go, but recent severe illness, and other private considerations, chiefly dependant upon that sickness, may render his attendance inexpedient. Our neighbor Defrees, we suppose, is full of business as editors always are. But Messrs. Norris and Sheets can attend (he Convention very comfortably, and we hope they will du so. "None to Punish." By the Vincennes Sun, of the 6tb, we learn tfiat our venerable friend, Elihu SrouT, Esq., has agnin resumed the tripod, which for nearly forty years he had previously filled with credit to himself and benefit to his readers. We care not, at the present, to comment on the reckless policy of this idiotic administration in the removal of such a man from a paltry office barely sufficient to sustain, .in his declining years, himself and family, and he one of the veteran pioneers of the West; that wll be answered in a voice more potent than newspaper paragraphs! The WESTERN PEOPLE will answer such acts at the BALLOT BOX. I-et the friends of this aged and faithful pioneer evince their sense, by extending to him an adequate j support. Ouio Election. We have no eatisfactorj returns from Ohio, owing to the rascally bad manag men! of j ,i . .1 . a ,i . j, ,!, , i r the ma.N. A telegraphic dispatch dated Cincinnati, Oct. 10, says: The election returns bo far show a ' whiff ffain of two representatives. T Ha.nilt.-n ! county the entire democratic ticket is elected. The judges of five wards disagreed, and m legal return were made. In Butler county the entire independent ticket, composed uf Whigs and Democrats, is ele -ted no regular Whig ticket run. In relation to Hamilton county there is much excitement, and the mat- I ter will again come before the Legislature. Later. The returns from this State op to S P. M. indicate a Democratic gain of three Representatives and one Senator, and a Whig gain of three Representatives. 9 P. M. The returns to this time indicate four Democratic gain of Representatives and one Senator, and four Whig Representatives and one Senatorshowing no change thus far. Franklin Cocntt. Medary of the Statesman brings out his rooster with a flourish over Franklin county, that in which the capital is situated. The whole democratic ticket is elected. Partial returns frjm several counties are given in the Statesman, but not enough to indicate which party bas succeeded in the State. Pennsylvania also voted on the 10th. From the following meagre telegraphic news, we look for good news from the old Keystone : Pittsbcbgh, Oct. 10 12 M. In Alleghany ounIj all whig! are elected except one ABaemblynian, which is so close that the official vote is necessary to decide bis election. 0 P. II. The election returns ahnw that the vote ia unusually small. One democratic assemblyman returned from the county. 7 P. M. The vote throughout the State im very mall. Tbe Democntic Canal Commi-sioner is elected. Erie county allows a Whi; gain. i(AWW T.'.nnrarrn A I fi . f . 1 .

Tlah-r- th v.u. v. .l. . a - i, i "f our dis.'osition to treat other with some degree or Ushers 01 the ISeMr xurlr. rvecorcer has received a 1 , . letter from Dr. Judfon. dated June 20th, in which he frnes, without regard lo mercenary considerations, speaks of Mr. Judtfon's health (the literary Fanny I W e have rimply now to add, that if he possesses any Forrester) as so infirm as ti require her to Uy aside knowledge if present arrangements, express or tinher pen for the present, and of the possibility that ; derHood, he will bligo us by communicating the thorJ,iJ.ne'er re'UmC U aea'a PUrP08 U" "me ,0 U,e pUb,iC Wi"",Ul dcUy o . r . . . . . !fe mest have optics sharp, I ween. bo much tor that poetic enthusiasm, which led a To see what is not to be seen." lovely young woman to marry a thrice widowed old man, merely beeause he was a missionary thus (gj-The Journal states that the Capt. Cutter who has severing every natural tie, and stifling every natural been appointed Naval storekeeper at Portsmouth, N. emotion, for a supposed good altogether imaginary. 1 IL, is not Mrs. Drake's Cutter, but another person of This whole affair is very lamentable, and incur opin-1 the same name, who is qualified for the office. This ion, any thin? but creditable, either to the heart or is rather a left handid compliment to the poet, from head of Mr. Judson. ' his whig friend.

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Published every Thnrsday. Facts for tlie People. We derive the following vcy important facts and statistics, from a recent article of T. P. Kettell, Esq., the commercial correspondent of the W. Union, and the ablest financial writer of the day. There is matday. ter here for the serious reflection of the people of ! Indiana, particularly. In addition to what is said by the writer, just witness the immense and terrible amount of legislation for the benefit of capital, in a single State, which he depicts. The statistics of the legislation of all the other Slates, will show a result differing only in degree. Daily manual labor is the avocation as well as the support of at leat sixteen of the twenty millbmof people in our country. The rights and interests of these misses should be paramount in all legislation. But this is the last thing attended to. Capital demands and acquires super-eminent control, and wields the legislative power with imperial sway. Mouth about our republicanism and equality of rights a we may, we are nevertheless as much the slaves to Mammon as any community in the old world, and our public lands, the. last resource of the depressed, are all that have saved our people from European degradation, poverty, and misery. We hope, that in amending our State Constitution, some check to this monstrous and growing evil may be devised. This will be one of the important mat ters for the consideration of the Convention: In oider to hw to what an extent special privileges art pushed in the old Baj State, we may examine ia Ihe following table, showing ihe number and capital of imtilutioni chattered, exclusive of bank in Mtachuett Charten authorized in Massachusetts. Manufacturing. Failroada. MitcellaneoHa. " . , Total. No. Capital. No. Capital. Nu. Capital. Capital. 183, T3 $ 10,9,000 11 55,675.000 SS $6,172,300 $2,S75,J0O 1SJ7, 138, 61 ,ft05,000 S 050,000 17 820.000 1,325,000 :j is o IT 0 1 13 30 39 4 3d l.lM.COO 3 3,370,000 4 1,610,000 - 2,219,0(10 1 1,240,000 3 100,000 - 2,973,tKK 1 8,MKi,tiU 12 l.,870,IOt) 14 9,6-J),00 30 13,7OU,0u0 - 730,000 a ,00,000 1 1 5O,0oO I 2,4UI,OUO $ s 7.305,000 5 4,450,000 I 7,55,()00 10 0,94000 13 40i,tOO 1,400,1100 01,000 1,140,000 31,500 570,000 435.IRO 118,000 373,000 2,743. iCO t, 37t,0OO 6,880,000 1,871,000 3,4?,000 3,691,500 670,000 10,635,000 13,233,(K:0 S3,717,0tO 17,303,800 15,700,000 1839, 1840, 1841, I 42, 1841, 1844, 1345, 14, 147, 1843, Tot1,404 13,822,000 90 38,037,0(10 123 1,396,800 135,555,(00 This immense um of $135 555 800 represent Ihe mount of capital chartered iiU ;ci ! privilege? in thirteen years, (ay ten niMu.ii jer annum, exclusive of banking and telieiau and charitable chartei. So cnai.leiatile a aum couM not have been collected in Massachusetts and applied to thee purpo-e alone wiihout creating a demand for capital thai would seutbly iuflueoce tbe market. Il will be observed that more than half ha been called for in the last five jeis, when the fedeial government, well as the city of Bivton, hs been a laige boriower. Nothiag like this demand for capital has taken place in other sections, and the consequence ia a comparative scarcity of floating capital in Boston. It will be o' feivcd a indicative f the influence of general piopcitjr upon manufaettne, that in the 6rst year i.f the opeiation of Ihe tariff 0f 1S42, only $100.000 capital wa granted fur manufacturing purposes in the Gist year nf that of 184S, wliirh was to have been so detiuctive to i ( inteieot, $15,S'i9,000 was graiiteJ; (hn i to ajr, in the three firl jears of" Ihe tatiff of 1S42, $1 1,675,000 was applied to manuractuiing purposes. In the Ihtee first years of that of 1846. $41.199.000 was sn applied. What tariff has baJ Ihe create i influmce in piomoiing manufactures? The profits of all coi portions have much improved in the lat few week?; tailtoad dividends have very geoeially increaed. Those of the Erie, at an instance, ai near $80,000 for September, againl tume $63,000 iii July. The suboiding of the cholera has lud a gieat influence upon these woiks. The factory dividends are also eood. and the bauks of New Yuik have maintained their, whilst thoe f Boston ate increased. Tbut the $19 2S0.00O bf capital in Boston for Ihe first six months of this year paid 3 S2 per cent., and for tbe second six months 3 84 pr cen. The $24,157,890 of New York capital paid in the fiist aix months 4.14. per cent and of tbe $1 1,775,040 that ha made second dividend, 3 83 per cent, has been declared. These latter are tbe latgest bank capitals, and they make less thin the average aggregate profits percent. The i ate they have declaied is, however, neatly Ihe same as that of Ihe Boston bauks,alihooeh in Massachusetts tbe If gal rale of interest is 6 per cent., against 7 per cent, in New Yoik. An average of over 3 per cent, per annum is a veiy large rate fur capital in the hands of nooproducers to earn. It is much larger ihan it will yield to an individual who applies it directly aud personally to productive purposes. Capital loaned can yield such pr- fits only wben the labor of many persons is sacrificed for the emolument of its possessor. This accumulative faculty of capital is mauifrst in its increase. The owner f an amount by reinvesting tbe- dividends, rapidly draws iota his possession, through the opeiation of inteiet, moie actual wealth than he could produce by bis own industry, no mattet how skillfully soever it might be ai plid Every hrifty individual tenia ks, as he improves ia substance the immense facility of increase when interest is in bis favoi, as cumiiaied with Lai it was when interest was aiaiott him. Without disputing the iiht of every individual to do the 1 e-t be can with hi own propeity, it may be questionable how far capital shoolJ be tolerated in this ggteive quality, with refe ence to the immunities of lbjr. Tbe laige and unusual piofits now being earned by chartered capital ie evidence, however, of the -ropeiilr of ihe produe ive powets of the couutiy under the financial and ommeicial policy which has been in opeiation for the last three years. 'Ihe ad valorem principle of the taiilf is of all otheis the most judici us, and produeiiva of the most favauble 'SVvS s'SE government. lneextKit ate almost aitogetliei raw pto.luce, and the quantities that gforward depend upon the demand abroad. The impoitations in ihe United States are, on the other hand, confined mostly to Ihe irtums of oroduce sold. If England, having a short harvest, buy an onnsual quantity of food, br (. much mut ,he ot Enli$h g.d i..a in payment of the f Mid. It is u u.Hy the ease that when she wan's fnd, piices of her own good, fall and the U, i.ed Stales consumer gets moie cltn f r hi proJucr in thw double rali i of the lise in f od and fall in fabtic. Thti if a ceitain quality of rloin is woith 104, per piece when flour is worth 5.. and through lailuie in the cro, Hi latter uses t 35s., and the former sinkt i 7 , then tbe Uni'ed States will g-t double Ibe quantity of cloth for Ihe same quantity of fluur. The levenues of tbe government win te e'ea'er, and yet the average tax per piece no more. Thus 2$ piece at 10. ate equal to a barrel "f flour al 25. Five pieces at 7. are equal to a barrel of flour at 35. Al 30 per cent, duty the government leveuues in the latter rase wou'd be 10s. against 7s. in the foimer, and the consumer has the benefit of the fall in pi ice. On Ihe other band, if the pi ice abroad advances, less will be impottid; bccaue, in that cae, it can be moie cheaply furnished at home. The ad valorem duty, operating upon tbe higher invoice value, gives the government iia usual revenue under a lessened impurtationi whereas, in tbe ease of specific dulies, when Ihe quality imported is diminished by too hish prices ab.oaJ, the government loses its revenue and resorts to borrowing In the piesent year ibe invoice valoes and government revenues are both large; Ihe latter piobably moie so than would be Ihe case if the duties were specific. The amount of duties collected is evidence that tb system does not easily admit of fraod or evasion; although the wietched condition of the customs now, tbrongh tbe hot haste with which expeiienced efSceti were dischMged aud ignorant and incapable men substituted, is disastrous to the public interest. The Arrangement. By certain indications in the "Sentinel" it seems to have been arranged among the leaders of the democracy that Dr. Ellis is to be Audiior'iT State, B. Edmornton, Treasurer, and the "Sctilinel" folks Slate Printers. Very well but what will Major Mace, Gen. Drake, and the other hosts of aspirant, pay to itl Slate Journal. Q-The above ia one of those 'cute paragraphs for which the Journal is peculiar. What are the "indicationof "arrangement 1" Will the Journal enlighten those concerned, by adducing fids or logical reasons, and thus the more certainly, at the same time, accomplish the purpose which it sclf-evidently lias in view ! . The editor of the Journal has heretofore had occasion to know somethin? oi our willingness or unwnr lingnesa to make "arrangements" f this kind, and

INDIANAPOLIS, State Officers. We see the names of Dr. Ellis of the Goshen Democrat, Mj. D. Mace of Lafayette, and Gen. Reynolds announced as candidaies for the office of State Auditor, and the names of Gen. Drake and B. R. Edmonston for State Treasurer. All these men are good democrats, and are well qualified to fill the du-tie-of ihe reteclive offices for which their names an- announri'd. For Stale Printer we with the Columbus Democrat s.ty that if the democratic majority of 24 on joint ballot know what they are about, they will give Chapman a lift for that statioii. This we believe is the unanimous expression of the democratic press throughout the Slate. We think that the vote of Washington county is pretty sure for the Chapman next winter. Salem Democrat. Col. James P. Drake is announced as a candidate for Treasurer cf State. We have no doubt but that he would fill the office with ability. Benj. R. Edinonston, of Dubois county, has been named for tbe same station. Delphi Times. Hon. B. R. Edmonstox. We are authorized to say that the Hon. Benjamin R. Edmonstnn, of Dubois county, will be a candidate for the office of State Treasurer, before the next Legislature. Mr. Edmouoton has served a number of sessions in both branches of the Legislature, and so conducted himself as to win the friendship and esteem of his Fei low-members. In politics, we have not in our ranks, a firmer poli tician in the State; not one that would fill that station with more credit to the party and State. ab to claims upon trie party, it there is sucn a thing, we, in the Southern part of the State, certain! could present stronger ones than any other portion of the otate. in at much as we have never aked lor such favors. Cut we present to our friends & man that is well qualified for that station, and whose past eiiott8 in behalt of the great cause entitles htm to some reward at tue hands of the Democracy of the State. We have conversed with manv of our democratic friends in this country, and they ore, so far, unani mously in favor of Air. Edmonton; and we under stand the lamu feeling prevailsin the Southern coun ties generally. It is right for the people of the dif ferent counties to express their opinions freely as to who they wih to fill their State offices; such a course will enable their public servants the better to dis ciianje their duties. And the result will be that nine tunes out of ten, we will have public officers. Paoh Ea.le. Ccltube of Tea, in the United States. We hive heretofore mentioned the experiment making by Sir. James Smith, of South Carolina, (living near Greenfield,) on the cultivation of the Tea Plant. "Is the fall of 1819. about 500 plants were re ceived from China, via London, and in December they were planted in his garden. A considerable quantity of tea seed was planted at the-same time. Notwuhitanding the severe winter and spring, the plants, which were loft to take care oi themselves, were unharmed, and are now in & flourishing condi tion. Several specimens of the green and black plant are in bud. The tea plant buds one year, but does not truit till the next. Next year, Mr. Smith es pec; a to pick tea, although his great object for some time to come, will bo to increase the quantity of bis plants. The tea seed was planted at a wrong season, and did not amount to anything." M. Smith estimates the annual consumption of tea in the United blatesto be eleven millions of pounds in Europe fifty ; total sixty-one millions. China produces over nine hundred millions of pound, of which the Chinese export only about seventy millions An acre of land will produce 547 pounds, conse quently the cultivation of 20,109 acres of land in the fourteen tea-growing States will supply the present consumption ot the untied Slates, lo supply Eu rope wou'd require 91,411 acres of land. He suppoces that there are fourteen of our Stetes that would grow tea, and thai 111,520 acres of land, cultivated as tea plantations, averaging 7,905 for each of the fourteen States, will supply the consumption of the article both for Europe and the United Scales." Kentucky Convention. The Frankfort corres pondent of the Louisville Courier writes thus, as to the cause of his rejection from a reporter's seat : "The pretext for excluding your reporter was that if they admitted him, they would have to admit eve ry body eKe who applied, and that the convention might thereby be crowded and embarrassed in their deliberations. But this was all gammon. There are no other applications, and probably would not have been half a dozen during Ihe session. Vail all this gab About lack of room, &.c, was mere make-beliete, aud nothing more. Had the application been madu by a pro-slavery paper, 1 very much doubt if a word of objection would have been heard from cither of the Jefferson; acd had the individual applying for a seat not borne a prominent part in the canvass which resulted in the disgraceful defeat of Ihe Kentucky Talleyrand for Congress some years since, end had the Courier not recently demanded of the Governor, a proclamation offering a reward for apprehension of a kinsman or said gentleman, I doubt whether the delegate from Nelson, (C. A. Wick IifFe.) would I ave led off against the application wi,h so much fervor and such uncompromising hot.;iliiy." Native Americanism. The same writer says The following Native American resolution was submitted yeslerday by Mr. Garrett Davis, which he afrked to have referred to the Committee of the Whole and printed: Resolved, That foreigners of the following descriptions and clasaee, only shall be entitled to vote for any civil officer, or ahall be eligible tu any civil office, or place of trust or profit under Ihe Commonwealth of Kentucky : 1. Those who, at the time of the adoption of this amended Constitution, hall be naturalized citizens of the Uni ted Statee. 2. Those who, al Ihe time of the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall have declared their purpose to become citizens oi the United States, in conformity to the la we thereof, and who shall have become citizens. 3. Those who, twenty-one years previously thereto, shall have declared their purpose, according to the existing provisions of the lawe of the United States, to become citizens thereof, and who then shall be citizens of the Uuited Slates.. 4. Minors, who shall have emigrated with their parents, or parent, to the United States, twenty one years alter their names, ages, and a particular description of their persons, shall have been entered on the records of the Stale ol Kentucky, or some other of the United States; such foreigners, having also, in esery case, the like qualifications of residence, and on all other points, that are required of native born citizens: and a properly authenticated copy of the record being in all casea required for the verification of the facta. The question was taken and as the result appeared to be doubtlul, Mr. Davis called for the yeae and nays. Several gentlemen expressed the opinion that courtesy required that the proposition should be printed for the convenience of members in its consideration, although sowie of them were not favorable to tho principles which it involved. After a brief conversation, the motion was agreed to without a division. When this resolution shall come to be acted upon by the Convention, we will hear the master speech of the session from the master mind or the Convention If possible I will let you know of it in time for you to come and hear it. The democrats to a man will oppose the principle of the resolution, and so, I think, will a majority oi the whirs. JJut this re mains to be seen. Indigo (Jurious tact. Ihe Indigo plant was a native of South Carolina. It grew spontaneously among its weeds snd woods. More than one hundred years apo the planters there commenced its cultivation. In Ihe year 1723, South Carolina exported to Great Britain 200.000 pounds, and the Parliament granted a bounty of twelve cent per pound to induce its greater cultivation. In 1767, Indigo was one of the staples or South Carolina, and we believe Geor gia also. Now, in 1849. not a singlo pound of ludi go is raised in Smth Carolina, or as far as we know, tn an me oouin. Hon. Abbot Lawrence, the newly appointed Minister to England, sailed from Boston last Tuesday for Liverpool.

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OCTOBER 18, 1849. Universal Suffrage in France aud England. Lamartine, in bis Conseiüer du Peuple, sddresses the French ration as follows upon universal soiffrnge: "Universal suffrage was your coronation. You readied at one leap the utmost limits of popular sovereignty. You have been overwhelmed with political rights and duties. But it has so happened that a wide opening has been left for intrigue and confusion, by the general ticket system. I protested against it, and foresaw that the elections would be of darkness rath er than of broad daylight. When the constitution shall be revised, that scheme will be rectified. J hose who devised it said virtually to the people, You hall be ümg, but on condition of being hoodwinked. On the same topic, La Ret tu des Deux Mundes holds this language : "Universal suffrage, with the general ticket, (scrutin de lisle,) seems to have been invented expressly for the end that the voter can never name those whom he would prefer. No syß'.em could more completely separate the elector from the elected. The voters act at the polls as soldiers manoeuvring in battle; the commander alone knows and sees the object to be ac complished. Ibus, the first merit of the voter is discipline, his great fault independence. The Moderate party in f ranee is obliged to turn this system to the best account, as their antagonists, the tacticians, have uniformly done." The London Examiner, in its comments on univer sal suffrage for Great Britain, recommended by the public meeting of the Parliamentary and France Reform Association, says: 'France has passed at a bound to universal suffrage the most confined and scanty, and we are quite sure that this was a necessity of the political position, and that without it a clamorous anarchical minority would by dint of bluster and violence have obtained an as cendency not belonging to it, and hold the country in incessant disturbance and alarm. But it is to be re membered, that France has the greatest number of small proprietors or any country in the world, and these have ballasted her through her storms. In Eng land at the present moment, universal suffrage (as it is erroneously termed) would enfranchise a vaßt body of ignorant and dependent persons, who would-be driven to the polls like droves f cattle by their landlords. We must not be misled by relying too much on the intelligence and education to be found in towns; there is auu the large rural population, in the highest degree of inaptitude for any functions above the satisfaction of the animal wants. We have our boors as well as our clever artisans. Education if indeed making progress; but yet the present statistics of it show what a vast field remains still to be culti vated, and meanwhile it cannot serve for any safe foundation of an electoral system. One wotd upon the example of France. Mr. C. Lushington truly says that the suffrage (which he miscalls universal") of the adult male njoie'.y of the population has "pre served her from much evil." It has doue so; it has distinctly, and beyond all question and dispute, map ped out the strength and weakness of different coo tending parlies, and has cheered the friends of order by showing them their vast preponderance, i he vio lent minority has not been enabled, by dint of noise and fanfaronade, to pnps itself fjr the majority; a very common deception in troubled times, when there are no means of testing the pretences of parties, and when the moderate contribute to the delusion by their disposition always to undervalue their own strength, and thus, by seeming weak, become the thing they seem. JJut we shall be told to look at the other ex ample, of the United States, with its cheap govern ment and flourishing finances; but there we have to remark this important circumstance, that the education of the people has an extension greater than the suffrage, general as it is. There is uuiversal education. Tke standard doubtless is low, but low as it may be, il would be a blessing to have it here in place of the dense brutish ignorance which possesses a large portion of our rural population. If the suffrage were contracted in the United States, monarchy would not spring from it, and if it were expanded as much as Mr. Feargus O'Connor desires in this country, repub licanism could not be Us offspring, the people of Log land being essentially aristocratic and monarchical, and likely to remain so, unless their so being be pre sumed upon overmuch and imperiously. Another Railroad. The citizens of Indianapo lis aro making a movement towards the construction of a Railroad direct to Indianapolis, (from Cinctn nati) and with every prospect of success. A few years may witness the realization of what were con sidered the vagaries of Ex-Gov. Ray, who insisted that Indianapolis was the centre of the world, and that Railroads would radiate from it in every di rection like the ravs of light. There is method sometimes even in madness. Goshen Dem. Aside from the question of Hay a insanity, it is not a very uncommon thing for the world to infer that men who are ahad of the times are crazy vision aries; perhaps not more uncommon, than the conclu sion, on the other hand, that those who are behind the times, are fools. Who was it, that maintained that all mankind were more or less insane! Perhaps juries are oftener right than wrong in acquitting criminals upon the plea of monomania. ——————— BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI.— The Keokuk, Iowa Weekly Despatch, edited by V. P. Van Antwerp Esq., maintains that the most eligible point for bridging the great river, is not at St. Louis, but veritably and truly, in the neighborhood of the said city of Keokuk. Col. Curtis, a graduate of West Point, and formerly in the employment of Ohio, as an engineer, estimates the cost of the bridge desired by the Despatch at $2,367,760 allowing for leeway, say two million and a half of dollars, and states that the bridge will pay for itself, at this cost, in tolls. The Dispatch says "The route to be passed over, by keeping up the Desmoines from this place, and thence on through Council Bluffs to the South Pass, is as well adapted to a Railroad as probably any on earth for the same distance; there being no streams of consequence save the Missouri, to cross and the face of the coun try generally very level—which cannot be said of any other route before proposed." ——————— Difficulties of Editors. Gen. Morris of the Mirror, who hvi been twenty years at the desk, re marks: "All tbe world" finds fault with editors of every description of periodical especially the daily for a want of independence in remarking upon the doings of the community, in those particulars which come legitimately within the ken or public journalists We wish all the world" would Iry it. We fancy "all the world" would not be slow in discovering that an editor into whose bodily composition enters the usual amount of sensitive nerves, and into whose mental, the ordinary leaven of passion and prejudice sympathy and aversion, might, in the course of the day's catering for "all the world" 's amusement or instruction, find many swaying causes which would prevent the 'Still small voice" of abstract rieht from being heard as often as "all the world" might suppose to be proper. "We have 1.0 doubt General Washing On would have found it harder to satisfy the public as an editor, than he did, as Commander-in-Chief for tbe Continental Congress." 07 We find the following in a New York paper. It was furnished by the TelWic-graph, we suppoee.Our neighbor will te surprised to learn that he is burnt out: Newspaper Office Burnt. A large brick building in Indianapolis, containing the office of tbe Indiana State Journal, besides a variety of other establishments, were recently destroyed by fire. Loss $10,000.

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Volume JX:::::::::Nnmber 19. L.ate from Cnlifornia. The steamrr Falcon arrived at New Orleans from Chagres, and left the next day with seventy-eight pas sengers fr the same port. The Falcon brought $70,000 worth 'of gold, a large mail, and forty-nine passenrrcrs. The dates from San Francisco are to the 1st of September. Lieut. Eeall, U. S. bearer of Dispatches, arrived at San Francisco and proceeded to General Smith's head quarters. Thomas Butler King and Gen. Rilej had been sick, but they were recovering. The Convention to form a Constitution asembled at Monterey on the 31st of August. It is said that the Constitution will be adopted, and a Legislature formed by the 1st of November. Ahe steam ship Panama arrived at Panama on the 22d ulc., with half a million in gold dust and one hundred and fifty passengers. Italy. The correspondent of the London Times says it is rumored that tbe Roman question ia likely to be settled at an earlier period and in a more satisfactory manner than was at first anticipated, the Austrian Cabinet having expressed its approval of the proposition contained in the letter vf the President of the French Republic to M. Edgar Ney. A let'er from Rome of the 8;b instant asserts that the French ultimatum has been reduced to three points a c uncil of State, with a.- deliberate voice for the inteiior; a partial amnesty; a withdrawal of all paper money, by paying all debts hitherto contracted. and thus acknowledging the acts of the Provisional Government. Pius JA. and Cardinal Antoneiu are said still to reist, and to declare that his Holiness will not submit to the appearance of acting under the dictation of any party. Arrival of Frederika Bremer. Tt will be seen by the passenger list of the steamer Canada, that the eminent and universally admired authoress. Miss Frederika Bremer, has at length arrived in this coun try. Her coming creates something of a sensation in literary circle. Already, says a New York letter of lhursday afternoon, ere she has been in the New World half an hour, she is overran with visiters, wel coming her to our shores. M. de Reminer, formerly a banker at Hamburg, and who died lately at Naples, has left by will the sum of 100,000 francs, to lie given to any person who shall discover a remedy for cholera. The execution of thi legacy, should the case arise, is confined to tbe Academy of Medicine at Fans. We'll stake an equal amount that this legacy will never be paid. We should like to know, by the way. who has the custody of the money. (7 The Philadelphia United Stetes Gazette, that was remarkably inclined to peace whilst we were at war with Mexico, is determined on a fight now. Hear him : - "M. dc Tocqueville, the Minister of Foreign Af fairs, must tesigni M. Poussin must be kicked aide; and the French government must apologize, or a rup ture must ensue. Ihe administration here will not advance an inch, or reiract a word ; and if France wisiies war, as there is good reason to suppose she does, the responsibility is on her shoulder. This case admits of no diplomatic cobbling. It is a ques tion of honor in which the United Slates cannot aban don ils high position." Hurrah! Who's afeard ! The Bankruptcy of England. At the late "Peace Congress" in Paris, Mr. S. Gurney, son of the great Gurney whose word was law among the bankers and bill-brokers of England, said that Eng land could not go on long in her present course, with out bankruptcy; for all her means, in times of pros perity, were barely sunicient to sustain her very expensive government and pay the interest on her national debt, and that her people could be taxed no higher, and that tho first season of adversity would bring the crisis. Ihe London limes, certainly good authority upon English finance, says that Mr. Gurney's opinion ought to be decisive, for his knowledge and experience enable him to understand the case. and his habits of thought and action, for he is a Qua ker, exclude all suspicion of rashness. In short, the London Times says ditto to Mr. Gurney. The Qua ker says that England has had peace and prosperity since 1ÖI5, and yet has greatly augmented her national debt. He adds that, the expenses of her arm ament during this period, have been SIOO.OOO.OOO annually, which, in the thirty-five years elapsed since 1315, would have almost pad this debt. It is now about $5.000.000.000, and these payments would have been $3,500,000,000, leaving only $1,500,000,. 000 due, and considering the sinking operation, much less. Now we agree with the Times and Mr. Gurney, and ssy that the present English system cannot be long sustained. Phe English must reduce their ar my, navy and civil government, and let most of their colonies g. They must virtually abolish their no bility, and leave religion to take careof itself. They are losing all influence in Europe, and becoming a minor power; and the time is not distant when, as tiie advocates of free principles in every thing, they will rind their only, and certainly their strongest, ally in the United States. The prophecy that the United States will finally become the protectors of the Fatherland may now offend the pride of its aristocracy. But it will be fulfilled; and so will another their extinction. Englnnd'a follies, not her glories, are waning. Pa. Ledger. Ad valorem Duties. The whigs seem to be determined on altering the features of the revenue act of 1846. They find fault in a special manner with the principle of collecting duties on imported goods in proportion to their value, or, as they are usually called, ad valorem. We cannot, for the life of us, perceive any reason for annulling this mode of collecting the revenue. It strikes us as the most fair and equitable that can be devised, and infinitely preferable to specific duties, or duties levied on goods according to quantity, weight, or measure. In this latter way, a thousand cigars, that wero purchased in Havana for $100, pay no higher duty than cigars that were bought at $10 a thousand. A cask of claret that cost $200 in Bordeaux, will be charged with no more duty at the custom-house than a cask that cost $15 or $20. This plan is manifestly unjust. It favors the rich man because his luxuries are taxed no higher than the poor man's necessaries. Thus tea at $5 a pound pays no more than tea at $50 the same thing of sugar, coffee, wines of all kinds, cigars. Cannel coal at two dollars a barrel pays no more duty than the common quality used by blacksmiths. Mr. R. J. Walker, in one of his reports to Congress, puts the case of a State law, which should exact the same amount of taxation on a marble palace that is exacted from a poor man's dwelling tint was built for $200. Extravagant as this supposed case may seem, it is really in strict accordance with the principle of specific duties. New Orleans Courier. Effects or our Railroad. Although our road is not yet completed the certainty that it will be, is producing results which are the strongest arguments in its favor results which should arouse those who feel an interest in the prosperity of our county, to energetic and prompt action, towards its speedy completion. As an evidence of the effect this great work would have on the value of real estate, if completed, we allude to the recent sale of lots in Miami, a town laid off on tbe line of the road within 10 miles of this place. There were forty six lots laid out and every one sold, at an average of 22 dollars. Some went as high as $50 and $75. We think this should strike our citizens as one fact, of some weight, in making up an opinion with regard to the utility of this road. Miami is destined to be a flourishing little village, as the lots were all purchased by mechanics and others, with the view of locating there permanently. There will be a fine stock of goods taken to the new town by one of our citizens, as soon as they arrive from tbe East. The Miamians should make an effort to get a Tost Office established at their town. Peru Sentinel.

Fron tkt Bottom Post. TVl. Poussin nnd tbe French War M What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of sopefidouabreaikf KinfJohn. Paz Tobiscum! My readers dear! I think it best, tout a Vkeurt, 10 get clear Or benisons while I've a chance to riek 'em; For it seeme If. Poossur, not, having the fear Of cabinet coukfils or fieas in bis ear, Wrote A note. Which Mr. Clayton, Looking irate on, Said The head Of this Frenchman ia nothing but chou! And I'll bet him a sou He'll have to walk Spanish this note's mauvais govt! Good heavens! What could be the cause To icduce the tninistrt of tbe nong-tong-prntes To punch Ilia bunch Of "fives in our noses, Instead of some posies; Remarkable saucy buss, Vox haesil faucibus. Uns chose surprtnante, Stand it we can't. Small bits of jieratus, called Sal, a loaf foavens, His fi ves' may tarn all things to 'sixes and sevens'! Egad! 'Tis too bad ! Whv oisny will think it confoundly hard And be tardy in tendering tin fur Oiard t La Belle France! Who taught us to dance, Knows nought of rotit But is great on bouilti, Fi ieaasee. And, particularly, On Fiddlededoe ! Who sends us Cologne, Brewed of rum and the Rhose, Some Farina, Much cleaner; I don't mean to puff, but "Justilia virtututn Regina! Think of their pares, Cut into quartier. For which we pay Codman, or rather John Parker, From $3 50 to $.6 a rather high mark, ah ! Think of their grace, Think of their lace, Think of their prunes, of their eilks, of their claret, Cliampngno faonie ahammyjwe never can apare it, Though I've found that in sipping the brand they rail Schräder, Coutte guulte, it was nothing but New Jersey cider. Their olives be damned, Whenever I've jammed, Zamm'rf. Their salt skins in my bowels, I've always been

EMSODK. A moment's halt; Talking of salt. Turks Island or Liverpool, Bonaire or Cadiz, Or Attic, to tickle the cars of the ladies, Be off To Long wharf, Go to Oakes, Full of jokes, Near the old pomp, Get some fine, and invite ma to ateak from tbe ruaip.j Oh ! Mr. Clayton, I can't say That General Taylor, is likely to do things tnoitU a tnoitit. 1 1 there must be a war, A thing I abhor, 1 should like a commission and plenty of pay ; For recommendation To your approbation, My dear sir, 1 ran refer To General Tyler! Whom 1 served as rank and filer, In very loose hrrhe, (With very strong stitches,) Tmy tiler! Which swsgcd round my shins, but sav d bursting Moreover, all doubt from your mind to dispel, There are many can tell, I've been hurt on the Seine, and have taken Rochell ! But oh ! Mr. Clayton, Our ships will lose freight on Great many packages, Hard in these slackges! Think of the endurance OI folk on insurance. Curtis and Meriam, Likely to bury 'em ! Batch, Dimmock, Cart wright I fright ! Can't tell where they'll eod, although tbey may start Think of the navy. Chance for old Davy, Commodore Stewart, Biave, old true heart, Commodore Downes, Always ready. Has often bird be, 'Mongst "bloody noses and erackrd croms. We've bad no trouble. Hardly a bubble, For many years. With the mounseers, Not even a fillip with Louis Phillipp ; So don't let 'em bay , Tbey are short at Toulon of good nature to keep The blessings we resp f From peaceable waking and sleep ; These French are hot shallorm, I've met 'em at Dieppe! But if they want to fight, 'od rat 'em, For one, I say, why "UP AND AT 'EM." B. N. ——————— THE MORMON CITY OF SALT LAKE.— A correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette, writing from the Mormon City, on the Great Salt Lake, says it covers more ground than Pittsburg, and contains almost ten thousand Mormons. The whole valley is occupied by the Mormons, who build their houses entirely of sun-dried bricks. They are building a church of stone, which is already one story high, and will be a fine building. They assemble every Sunday morning under a large shed. The society is governed by a president, the twelve, and the seventy. The president and the twelve, occupy the pulpit, and do all the preaching. I went this morning, when the bell rang, to church, where I saw a large assemblage, some dressed quite fashionably, and all clean and neat. A brass band first played a lively tune, and then the clerk rose and read several notices. One man had lost a pocket book—another had had his garden destroyed by cattle breaking into it. He then read off the names of persons to whom letters in the post office were addressed, and several other items of that kind. He then announced that on next Tuesday they would have an anniversary feast, as it was the day of the month on which they arrived at their present snug quarters. He stated that the city would be rousted early in the morning by the firing of cannon and the music of the brass band. A procession would then be formed, which would march out of town, and at two o'clock dinner would be served. The emigrants were all invited to attend. They are very strict in the administration of justice. One of their number stole a pair of boots from an emigrant. He was sentenced to pay four times their value, fined L50, and was compelled to work fifty days on the public roads. One of the men was sentenced to death for borrowing some property from a neighbor and selling it; but finally, owing to the intercession of his family, his sentence was commuted to banishment. When they first arrived they were very much troubled by some Indians, who killed their cattle, and stole from them. They sent to remonstrate with them, and the Indians replied that their president was an old woman, and that they would not mind him. They then sent out a company of soldiers, and killed a few of them, since which time they have not been again annoyed. ——————— Hatti. Soloque, after being declared emperor by an obsequious legislature has had his salary allowance, or civil list, or whatever it may be, fixed at 8150.000 per annum, with $50,000 for pin money for the empress. This is an enormous amount, when the population of the empire and its capacity for paying, are taken into consideration greater than that enjoyed by the Emperor Napoleon and Josephine, extravagant as she was, and greater than that now enjoyed by any sovereign in Europe. His Majesty Faustin I. has of course done what all mushroom majesties do created a nobility, with the customary titles of Duke, Count, Baron, &.c, and he has sent another expedition against the Dominicans. Washing ton Globe. Gold. A correspondent of the London Times says : "It will hardly be believed that the whole quantity of gold currency in the world, taking it its usual estimate of 150,000,000 sterling, would only weigh about 1,150 tons; and that jn bulk a room 20 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 10 feet high, would hold it all." Yet our whigs used to be eternally prating about the awful burdensomenesa of a gold currency, because of its bulk and weight.